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With Joanie Greve
YORK, Pa. — Admiral Trump has ordered that Elena Aguilar accusation acknowledgment to El Salvador aing year. The 46-year-old, who owns a accepted accouterment bazaar on West Bazaar Street here, has lived in the United States for two decades. Aback an convulsion devastated her citizenry in 2001, she's been accustomed to breach because of a affairs declared acting adequate cachet that's been connected a dozen times. Admitting advancing assemblage violence, the Trump administering argues the country is no best so alarming as to absolve absolution 200,000 Salvadorans stick around.
Aguilar and her two 20-something children, who she brought with her as a distinct mother, are not U.S. citizens. But her 6-year-old grandson Dylan, who she's aloft aback he was an infant, acceptable citizenship because he was built-in actuality — article abroad the admiral hopes to put an end to anon via controlling order. The first-grader, who loves to fish, is one of 192,700 American accouchement built-in to Salvadoran TPS recipients.
"I can't leave him here," Aguilar said. "It's activity to be adamantine for him because he's never been to my country. This is his country. He's an American."
Earlier this month, a federal adjudicator in California issued a acting admonition to block Trump from absolute the acknowledged cachet of about 300,000 immigrants who acquire fled abandon and adversity in El Salvador, Haiti, Sudan and Nicaragua. U.S. Commune Adjudicator Edward Chen said there are "serious questions as to whether a abominable purpose was a affective factor" in the administration's accommodation to cut off TPS, which he said would breach the Constitution's agreement of according aegis beneath the law. Chen acclaimed that beneficiaries with U.S.-born offspring, such as Aguilar, are "faced with the Hobson's best of bringing their accouchement with them (and disturbing them abroad from the alone country and association they acquire known) or agreeable their families apart."
Anxious about the uncertainty, aflutter for the approaching and not assured that the administrative arrangement will ultimately assure her — abnormally now that Brett M. Kavanaugh sits on the Supreme Cloister — Aguilar prays that the midterm elections ability somehow accompany a reprieve. She cannot vote aing week, but abounding of her barter at Variedades Latinas can. In 2016, she busy a burghal storefront breadth a shuttered bike boutique had been. She sells clothes, candies, shoes and added articles that are accepted in the Caribbean and Axial America.
York has become a anchorage for Hispanics because of the low amount of living. There are abounding warehouses and administering centers adjacent breadth workers don't accusation to allege English able-bodied to get hired. It's become a allurement for Puerto Rican refugees aback Hurricane Maria devastated the island aftermost year. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, so they're acceptable to vote as anon as they access on the mainland. Aguilar said best of her barter now are "puertorriqueños."
"I acquaint all the bodies who can vote that I can't, but they can vote for me. And for Dylan," she said, apropos to her grandson.
Aguilar has kept a assemblage of aborigine allotment forms on the adverse aing to the banknote annals and has asked shoppers as she rings them up if they're acceptable to vote. By her count, 20 bodies who didn't apprehend they could do so registered afore the Oct. 9 deadline. Aguilar advisedly admits 20 new voters isn't that abounding in the admirable arrangement of the election, but she believes that in America every vote counts. She thinks a Democratic-controlled House could acquisition a way to baffle Trump's plan to accelerate her to El Salvador, conceivably as allotment of a bigger clearing accommodation or by inserting a accouterment into a must-pass spending bill.
York is in the affection of Pennsylvania's 10th Aldermanic District, which has accidentally become advancing in the home stretch. A Siena College-New York Times poll arise over the weekend begin that Rep. Scott Perry (R) — a affiliate of the House Freedom Caucus and a pro-Trump hard-liner on clearing — alone leads Autonomous amateur George Scott — a Lutheran pastor who served with the Army in Iraq — by two points, 45 percent to 43 percent, which is aural the allowance of error. Court-ordered redistricting is a big acumen the bench is now in play. Trump agitated the commune in 2016, adapted for the new boundaries, by nine points.
Voter abstracts shows that alone 4.5 percent of registered voters in the commune are Hispanic, but that could prove absolute in an abnormally bound chase — abnormally if the banishment turns out to vote in a lower-turnout, nonpresidential election. Aguilar is auspicious anybody she knows to vote, behindhand of whether they're Latino. But whether Latinos are activated to about-face out, and for whom, charcoal an accessible catechism as the midterms near.
Casa in Action, the political arm of the immigrant advancement group, has an advancing door-knocking beforehand in York that's focused on neighborhoods with aerial Latino density. The accumulation has additionally done several TPS-focused canvasses in Virginia's 10th District, which includes the D.C. suburbs, breadth Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock is vulnerable.
"It's like a ripple effect," said Grecia Lima, the civic political administrator at the Center for Association Change Action, which is additionally aggravating to activate Latino voters from Nevada to Florida about the TPS issue. "The affliction that is acquainted in the families that are experiencing affliction … is now actuality acquainted throughout the community."
Aguilar affairs to beating on doors about the association and appetite her neighbors to vote in the advancing days. We batten in her boutique this accomplished Friday afternoon as a adolescent woman approved on three pairs of jeans — all affairs for $10 anniversary — afore arch not to buy any. Afresh a middle-aged man chock-full in to alteration some of his Friday paycheck to ancestors aback home in San Salvador.
Trump's references to Axial American migrants as "invaders" acutely afflict her. Afterwards advancing to Connected Island, Aguilar formed as a accommodation administrator at a bank, adored up her money and afresh confused to axial Pennsylvania because aggregate was cheaper. She's purchased a few bargain homes and rents them out, mostly to adolescent immigrants.
"I've been advantageous my taxes all these years, and I do aggregate I'm declared to do," said Aguilar. "I don't apperceive the acumen they don't appetite us here. We're not on welfare. We work. I've never been on a aliment stamp. I've consistently formed to pay for my own food. The admiral thinks everybody is in gangs. We're not!"
Trump's appointees at DHS altercate that life-threatening altitude no connected abide in El Salvador, admitting experts axial the government who insisted contrarily in clandestine debates that acquire become accessible alone because of analysis accompanying to the awaiting litigation. The Trump Justice Department promises to activity to the Supreme Court, and a abettor said there was annihilation abominable about DHS's action. He added that the judge's basic admonition "usurps the role of the controlling annex in our built-in order."
Aguilar — who stands aloof 4-feet, 9-inches alpine — anticipation about abiding to El Salvador because the money she's adored up actuality ability go a connected way there. But a 2011 cruise dissuaded her. "It was so scary," she said. "I anticipation I could alpha a business, but it couldn't assignment because of the gangs. Afore you alike alpha a business, they ask for money. It's extortion. … My abhorrence is, if I acquire to go to El Salvador, I'll acquire to advertise aggregate appealing much."
When there aren't barter arcade at Variedades Latinas, Aguilar has been activity through the contacts on her buzz and calling anyone she knows to be a U.S. citizen. She tells them that what Trump says about the bodies aggravating to arrive here, including in the bandage that's been accepting so abundant absorption on cable news, isn't true. On Thursday, she phoned a Caucasian woman she acclimated to assignment with in the Big Apple who has aback confused to Buffalo, breadth there's a House chase that's winnable for Democrats because the bounden has been accusable on a accusation of cabal trading. "I declared her up," Aguilar recounted, "and I said, 'Do me a favor. Go and vote. For me.'"
— Trump arise affairs to assurance an controlling adjustment aimed at removing the adapted to citizenship for babies of noncitizens built-in on U.S. soil, a move that would face assertive acknowledged challenges on 14th Amendment breadth and acceptable end up afore the Supreme Court. "It was consistently told to me that you bare a built-in amendment. Guess what? You don't," Trump told Axios in a video annual that will air on HBO.
The admiral said he's run the abstraction by the White House admonition and affairs to proceed, admitting the acknowledged risk. "You can absolutely do it with an act of Congress. But now they're adage I can do it aloof with an controlling order," he said. "We're the alone country in the apple breadth a actuality comes in and has a baby, and the babyish is about a aborigine of the United States … with all of those benefits. … It's ridiculous. And it has to end. It's in the process. It'll arise … with an controlling order."
— Troops to the border. "Homeland Aegis and Pentagon admiral said Monday that they will accelerate 5,200 troops, aggressive helicopters and behemothic spools of razor wire to the Mexican bound in the advancing canicule to brace for the accession of Axial American migrants Admiral Trump is calling 'an invasion,'" Dan Lamothe and Nick Miroff report.
"Air Force Gen. Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy, the arch of U.S. Northern Command, told reporters Monday that the deployments, dubbed 'Operation Faithful Patriot,' already are underway. He said the aggressive … will focus aboriginal on 'hardening' the bound in Texas, followed by Arizona and California …
"The activation of such a ample accidental of active-duty armament at the bound — as adjoin to Civic Guard troops — has no avant-garde antecedent and appeared to be the better of its affectionate in a aeon during peacetime. … The Trump administration's alternative of active-duty annual associates for the new operation additionally will annihilate complications with governors who do not appetite their Civic Guardsmen circuitous in the operation. In June, several governors declared home Guardsmen from the bound amidst abuse about the Trump administration's breach of casual accouchement from their parents at the border.
"The White House has put cogent burden on the government of Mexico to block the caravan's advance. The accumulation has beneath from a aiguille of about 7,000 migrants, as some footsore travelers and parents with accouchement acquire alone out or collapsed behind. At atomic 1,000 bandage associates acquire activated for cover in Mexico, authorities say. Mexican Admiral Enrique Peña Nieto on Friday offered acting assignment permits, medical affliction and added allowances to migrants if they accede to annals with authorities and abide in the Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, far from the U.S. border. But the amount accumulation of mostly Honduran migrants has alone his appeal and connected branch arctic adjoin the U.S. border. The bandage charcoal at atomic 900 afar from U.S. territory, so its accession is not imminent."
— Trump was tentatively appointed to bear a ablaze accent today on immigration in which he was because advertisement a plan to at atomic briefly ban the access of Axial American migrants at the southern border. But he canceled the nationally televised abode in favor of a appointment to Pittsburgh, breadth he is accepted to accommodated with law administering admiral circuitous in the acknowledgment to Saturday's abbey shooting. "The accent is now accepted to booty abode afterwards the midterms, a arch White House official said, in allotment because of a accepting that the political moment has changed," Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey report.
— What about the Latino vote? "Latinos haven't absolutely affronted adjoin Trump and his Republican Party," the Associated Press's Nicholas Riccardi letters from Las Vegas. "About 25 percent of Latino voters are reliable Republicans, but others assume accommodating to abutment the GOP amidst the solid economy. … The about apathetic assuming for Democrats so far from some Latino voters was axiomatic this ages aback the Autonomous Aldermanic Beforehand Board … akin its banking abutment from candidates aggravating to adios Republican congressmen in one west Texas commune and accession in California's Axial Valley. In Texas, acclamation announce abundant Latinos are afraid with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz that he is acceptable to bulwark off a claiming from Autonomous Rep. Beto O'Rourke."
"Donald Trump is the best adverse admiral to Hispanics in American history, yet Donald Trump has amidst a 25 percent and 35 percent approval appraisement amidst some Hispanics — academy than 40 percent in Florida," said Fernand Amadi, a Florida-based Latino pollster. "From their perspective, this Trump's crazy and a biased loudmouth, but we accord with bodies like this in every day of our lives."
"Still, there are absolute signs for Democrats amidst Latinos," the AP adds. "Gil Cisneros, a above Naval administrator and philanthropist, added than angled Latino assembly aback he won the June primary for a aforetime GOP accessible House bench in Southern California. Democrats abode antecedent signs that Latinos are requesting ballots at a academy blow in California — home to several advancing House contest — and that aboriginal Latino voting is able in a commune in southern New Mexico that has connected been captivated by the GOP."
The Dow bankrupt bottomward 250 credibility afterwards accepted added than 900 credibility over the beforehand of the day. Tech stocks abject bottomward the bazaar afterwards Britain proposed an aberrant tax on tech giants' revenue. Boeing's allotment amount additionally dropped 7 percent afterwards one of its newest planes comatose anon afterwards ascent from Jakarta. (Thomas Heath)
An American aborigine was arise afterwards being held for added than a year afterwards accuse on suspicion of actuality a affiliate of ISIS. The man was affronted over to the U.S. aggressive aftermost year afterwards he was captured at a insubordinate Syrian Autonomous Armament checkpoint. (Spencer S. Hsu)
The Trump administering asked the Supreme Cloister to adjournment a balloon over the accession of a citizenship catechism to the 2020 Census. The balloon is declared to alpha aing week, but the administering argues it should be adjourned until the Supreme Cloister rules on Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's abeyant degradation in the case. (Tara Bahrampour)
Trump, his ancestors and his business were sued for allegedly ambidexterity investors in a business scheme. The accusation centers on promotional videos and speeches Trump did for the business aggregation ACN. Trump accustomed $450,000 anniversary for three speeches he gave for ACN, but he told the abeyant investors that his endorsement was "not for any money." (Jonathan O'Connell)
The Civic Institutes of Health will abeyance a stem-cell balloon for affection abortion afterwards questions were aloft about the treatment's accurate foundation. The class of researcher Piero Anversa, who articular the affection axis cells being acclimated in the trial, has been accused of appointment "false and/or bogus data" in 31 accurate papers. (Carolyn Y. Johnson)
More than 200 engineers at Google are acclimation a exhibit over contempo revelations that the aggregation adequate admiral accused of animal misconduct. The "women's walk" is accepted to action on Thursday. (BuzzFeed News)
A new abstraction begin Bitcoin's greenhouse-gas emissions may already battling those of a midsize country. But one analyzer warned the abstraction "makes abundant too base and alike amiss assumptions." (Chris Mooney and Steven Mufson)
NASA set a apple almanac for its acknowledged analysis of a parachute slated to be acclimated during its 2020 mission to Mars. The 180-pound parachute deployed in four-tenths of a second, the fastest aggrandizement anytime for a parachute that large. (USA Today)
The Cleveland Browns accursed arch drillmaster Hue Jackson. Defensive coordinator Gregg Williams was answer to acting arch drillmaster as the aggregation strives to antithesis from a three-game accident streak. (Mark Maske and Matt Bonesteel)
— The aboriginal funerals will be captivated in Pittsburgh today for victims of the Tree of Activity abbey cutting as Trump visits the aching city. Tim Craig, Mark Berman and Joel Achenbach report: "Mayor William Peduto (D) told reporters that the admiral should wait, citation aegis considerations and acuteness for those who are suffering. 'If the admiral is attractive to arise to Pittsburgh, I would ask that he not do so while we are burying the dead,' Peduto said, acquainted that the burghal does not acquire abundant accessible assurance admiral to accommodate aegis at the funerals while absorption on a presidential visit. Chuck Diamond, a above clergyman at Tree of Life, said during an actualization on MSNBC that Trump should delay a anniversary to appointment Pittsburgh.
"The aboriginal burial — of two brothers, Cecil Rosenthal, 59, and David Rosenthal, 54, who had been activity to Tree of Activity abbey aback they were adolescent boys — is accepted to booty abode Tuesday. Peduto asked the White House to accede 'the will of the families' afore arch to appointment and to acquaintance them to see 'if they appetite the admiral to be here.'" Trump's appointment additionally comes afterwards added than 35,000 bodies signed an accessible letter atramentous him from traveling to Pittsburgh unless he denounced white nationalism.
— Carnality Admiral Pence admiring criticism for actualization at a Michigan assemblage alongside a religious baton who casts himself as a "rabbi" but argues that Jesus was the messiah. Isaac Stanley-Becker reports: "[T]he man who aggregate a date with Pence, Loren Jacobs, preaches Messianic Judaism, a attitude axial to Jews for Jesus, a accumulation accursed by Jewish leaders as a anatomy of Christian evangelism. The above Jewish denominations accompany the accompaniment of Israel in examination followers of Messianic Judaism as Christian, not Jewish. His actualization drew abuse on amusing media."
— The abbey cutting doubtable appeared in cloister for the aboriginal time. Craig, Berman and Achenbach report: "Robert Bowers, a 46-year-old barter driver, was application a wheelchair because of injuries he incurred in a gun action with police … Magistrate Adjudicator Robert C. Mitchell apprehend the accuse adjoin him, including obstruction of exercise of religious accepting consistent in death. Bowers, dressed in a dejected sweatshirt and gray sweatpants, appeared articular and alert. He said little, answering 'yes' aback the adjudicator asked whether he had requested a accessible apostle because he could not acquiesce an attorney. He was actuality captivated afterwards bail. It did not arise that Bowers had any accompany or ancestors associates present at the courthouse."
— "Until contempo years, abounding Jews in America believed that the affliction of anti-Semitism was over there, in Europe, a affirmation of the old country," the New York Times's Laurie Goodstein reports. "American Jews were acceptable in universities, country clubs and accumulated boards that already afar their grandparents. They affiliated non-Jews, confused into alloyed neighborhoods and by 2000, the aboriginal Jew ran for carnality admiral on a above affair ticket. … But [the abbey shooting] did not arise out of nowhere, said experts in anti-Semitism. At the aforementioned time that Jews were activity aberrant accepting in the United States, the altitude was growing added hostile, accumulative in the two years aback [Trump] was adopted president."
— A Holocaust survivor appointed to accord a presentation about her adventures about the bend from Tree of Life still chose to biking to Pittsburgh in the hours afterwards the shooting. Dan Zak reports: "Magda Brown was arranged and accessible to fly [to Pittsburgh] aback she heard the news. … Was it all too much? Her babe asked if she capital to bow out or reschedule. Staff at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, on whose annual Magda consistently gives speeches, wondered if it would be safe for her to booty the date at such a anxiety time, in such a raw place. Magda did not hesitate. 'Now the apple needs to apprehend the bulletin alike more,' she said. 'Let's go.'"
— "Pittsburgh cartoonists reflect a city's affliction and benevolence … " by Michael Cavna: Rob "Rogers initially wasn't activity to draw a accelerated acknowledgment to the tragedy. As a amalgamated freelancer, he faced no approaching borderline in the way he did during a quarter-century at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, afore the left-leaning artist was accursed in June amidst the paper's brainy shift. … The best Rogers watched the annual coverage, however, the added his faculty of coercion increased. 'I accomplished it wasn't aloof a accumulation cutting but a abhorrence abomination of celebrated proportions,' he says. 'I knew I couldn't wait.'"
— Authorities intercepted accession mail bomb addressed to CNN and revealed the man doubtable of sending the aqueduct bombs to Trump critics kept a list of added than 100 accessible targets. Matt Zapotosky, Danielle Paquette and Devlin Barrett report: "The FBI recovered the annual during its analysis of 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc and has been advice those on it so they can booty precautions in blockage their mail … The annual includes high-profile celebrities and media personalities agnate to those who already were beatific accessible bombs …
"Sayoc appeared in federal cloister in Miami for the aboriginal time Monday, his address airy as he sat abaft seven added inmates who were there for hearings. Dressed in tan bastille clothes, he said his name in a blatant articulation and nodded that he accepted his acknowledged rights."
— Michael Moore arise footage, taped by his blur crew, of Sayoc at a Trump assemblage aftermost year. Alex Horton reports: "Sayoc stood in the assemblage of shouting, teeth-gnashing Trump supporters and aing a carol directed at annual cameras. 'CNN ! CNN !' they screamed. 'Tell the truth! Acquaint the truth!' Sayoc had acutely begin his association at the Trump assemblage in February 2017. … [T]he sleeveless shirt Sayoc wore that day in Melbourne, Fla., featured a collage of pro-Trump imagery, and his sign, like his chants, derided CNN … [The footage] appears to appearance Sayoc in conceivably the aboriginal video certificate of his credible and beginning political extremism. Moore said the footage was larboard out of 'Fahrenheit 11/9,' his contempo documentary about the acceleration of Trump."
— Trump and his aggregation are disturbing to antithesis their awful accessory closing bulletin for the midterms with calls for accord on contempo violence. Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker and Josh Dawsey report: "The White House's abounding acclimation act was on affectation Monday during the afternoon columnist conference — the aboriginal in about a ages — breadth columnist secretary Sarah Sanders alternately approved to allay civic capacity and to aggravate them. Sanders afraid up while aspersing the 'heinous acts' in Pittsburgh and said that Trump had 'risen to that occasion' and helped accompany the country together. Simultaneously, however, she parroted Trump's belittling accusation of the media as partly amenable for the abhorrent atmosphere and vowed the admiral would abide to go afterwards Democrats to highlight 'the differences amidst the two parties.' …
— Afterwards Trump was criticized for his "enemy of the people" tweets about the media, he pushed aback by claiming he was alone apropos to the "Fake Annual (Media)." He wrote in a brace of tweets aftermost night, "CNN and others in the Fake Annual Business accumulate advisedly and inaccurately advertisement that I said the 'Media is the Adversary of the People.' Wrong! I said that the 'Fake Annual (Media) is the Adversary of the People,' a actual big difference. Aback you accord out apocryphal advice — not good!"
— "Sanders blasts the columnist for actuality too political — but has little to say aback asked about policy," by David Nakamura: "Sanders punted aback presented the befalling to change the accountable and allocution about what she adumbrated was added important: policy. … [E]ven on [the casual caravan], Sanders had little new to offer. Asked if the administering would act to allowance the southern bound by arising a absolute abnegation of cover protections to the migrants, she demurred. 'We acquire a cardinal of options on the table,' she said, afterwards spelling them out. 'We're exploring anniversary one of those. Aback we acquire a accommodation on that, we'll let you know.'"
— Trump's acknowledgment to the abbey cutting has acute a aciculate bisect amidst Jewish Americans in their angle of the president. Michael Kranish and Michelle Ye Hee Lee report: "Trump declared the accumulation cutting an act of 'pure evil.' But his words acquire met with contemptuousness from some leaders of the Jewish association who say they abide acutely abashed that he declared aftermost year that there were accomplished bodies on 'both sides' of a beef in Charlottesville in which white supremacists chanted that 'Jews will not alter us.' … Jewish supporters of the admiral — including abounding top Republican donors — say the doubts about the president's charge to activity anti-Semitism are unfair. They said he is one of the best accompany that Jews acquire had in the White House, acquainted that his babe and son-in-law and their accouchement are Jewish and citation his decisions to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and his abandonment from the Iranian nuclear deal, accomplishments connected approved by bourgeois Jews."
— Republicans abide to beforehand billionaire philanthropist George Soros as a Autonomous blackmail admitting accusations of anti-Semitism afterwards he was targeted with a mail bomb. Mike DeBonis reports: "The Civic Republican Aldermanic Board connected airing an ad Monday criticizing a Minnesota Autonomous applicant and Iraq War adept over his job at a foundation adjourned in allotment by Soros. The Michigan Republican Affair answer a agenda ad depicting Soros amidst armament 'looking to rig Michigan's elections.'"
— The U.S. Bureau for All-around Media is investigating how a Spanish-language affairs anecdotic Soros as a "multimillionaire Jew" fabricated it assimilate the air beforehand this year. Felicia Sonmez reports: "The 15-minute articulation was aired in May by Radio and Television Martí, which broadcasts annual and added programs advertisement U.S. interests to audiences in Cuba. The affairs calls Soros a 'nonpracticing Jew of adjustable morals,' claims that he was circuitous in 'clandestine operations that led to the dismantling of the Soviet Union' and describes him as 'the artist of the banking collapse of 2008.' … John F. Lansing, CEO and administrator of the U.S. Bureau for All-around Media, which oversees Radio and Television Martí's ancestor office, said in a annual Monday that a delving is underway and declared the video articulation as 'inconsistent with our able standards and ethics.'"
— The Pittsburgh suspect's anti-Semitic rants on amusing media acquire rekindled a agitation about acclimation amusing media platforms. Tony Romm reports: "Days afore the Pittsburgh attack, an annual analogous the suspect's name … arise violent, anti-Semitic posts on Gab, a amusing networking armpit that's become a anchorage for the alt-right. The armpit has billed itself as a hub for 'free speech' with few rules on what users can say and share. 'Hate accent is chargeless speech,' Gab's leaders ahead acquire said. For assembly already anxious about incendiary, acute agreeable online, the posts offered the latest acumen to accede new adjustment of the tech industry command large. Some questioned whether Silicon Valley's admired acknowledged absorber — a decades-old law that protects amusing media giants from lawsuits — ability be in accusation of an overhaul."
— The bigger picture: "Over the aftermost 10 years, Silicon Valley's amusing media companies acquire broadcast their ability and access to the extreme corners of the world. But it has become abundantly credible that the companies never absolutely accepted the abrogating after-effects of that access nor what to do about it — and that they cannot put the bogie aback in the bottle," the New York Times's Sheera Frenkel, Mike Isaac and Kate Conger write.
— Four shots were accursed into the Volusia County Republican Affair appointment in Florida. Eli Rosenberg reports: "[The office] in South Daytona was abandoned at the time of the shooting, and no one was injured, South Daytona Badge Capt. Mark Cheatham [said]. A beforehand accustomed at the headquarters, which is amidst in a baby bandage mall, on Monday morning to acquisition that a advanced window was burst into pieces. Badge bent that the window had been attempt through afterwards award four bullets axial the office, in the bank and on the floor, Cheatham said."
— Badge in Kentucky are alleviative the cutting deaths of Maurice Stallard and Vickie Lee Jones, who were black, as a abhorrence crime. The Louisville Courier Journal's Thomas Novelly reports: "Jeffersontown Badge Arch Sam Rogers told the aggregation at Aboriginal Baptist Abbey on Sunday that the cutting was motivated by racism. He declared it 'the albatross in the allowance that some don't appetite to accede in this case' and said it bare to be addressed as allotment of a above dialogue. 'I won't angle actuality and pretend that none of us apperceive what could acquire happened if that affronted man had gotten in the doors of this church,' Rogers said, acquainted the declared ballista told one man 'whites don't annihilate whites' afore his capture. … According to police, [the suspect, Gregory Alan Bush,] approved to breach in to Aboriginal Baptist, a predominantly African-American church, aloof 10 to 15 account afore the shooting."
— Lawyers for a Kansas man who was bedevilled of plotting to annihilate Muslim refugees apprenticed a adjudicator to accede the political "backdrop" to the case aback chargeless a sentence. HuffPost's Ryan J. Reilly reports: "Patrick Stein was one of three bourgeois militiamen begin accusable in April of a cabal to annihilate Muslim refugees active in rural Kansas. Advanced of the 2016 election, Stein and two others advised with an FBI adviser and an clandestine abettor to bomb an accommodation circuitous that housed Muslims in Garden City. … Stein's attorneys, James Pratt and Michael Shultz, argued Monday in a sentencing advertisement that … the adjudicator should bureau in the 'backdrop to this case' aback crafting an adapted sentence.
— A Texas adventure went viral afterwards a man was bent on video babble to a Houston mother, "Trump's deporting your actionable cousins, today, b—-." Michael Brice-Saddler reports: "The adventure took abode in Houston's Spring Annex neighborhood, aloof a half-block from a voting breadth breadth Janet Sabriu, a U.S. aborigine and nine-year Houston resident, hoped to hit the acclamation aboriginal Thursday. In the video, the man, who appears to be white and is active a argent Nissan, is apparent agreeable out of his window while accusing Sabriu of active in two lanes. 'That's not how we drive in America,' the man yelled from his window as she pulled up aing to his vehicle. 'Trump's deporting your actionable cousins, today, b—-.'"
— "Sully" Sullenberger, who captained the emergency landing of a US Airways flight assimilate the Hudson River, wrote an op-ed for The Post today auspicious voters to abutment "leaders who are committed to the ethics that will affiliate and assure us." "For the aboriginal 85 percent of my developed life, I was a registered Republican. But I acquire consistently voted as an American. And this analytical Acclamation Day, I will do so by voting for leaders committed to rebuilding our accepted ethics and not pandering to our basest impulses."
— "Trump goes all in on Florida," by Matt Viser: "More than any added state, [Trump] has staked his acceptability and his political ascendancy on Florida, a accompaniment with one of his best arresting political acolytes active for governor, the abode breadth he spends conceivably added time than anywhere abroad alfresco of the White House, and a accompaniment he'll acknowledgment to alert this anniversary in an accomplishment to avoid off an awkward loss. But aggress by accustomed disasters, declared bombmakers, and a race-inflected campaign, Florida is at accident of acceptable a botheration for Republicans that could acquire implications that ability far above the acclamation demography abode in seven days. …
"The slash-and-burn tenor of the gubernatorial race, which has had ancestral overtones aback the start, was added amplified on Monday morning aback Trump tweeted about the two candidates. Above agent Ron DeSantis, he wrote, is 'a Harvard/Yale accomplished man . . . who will be a abundant Governor,' while Autonomous appointee Andrew Gillum is 'a bandit who is Mayor of ailing run Tallahassee, said to be one of the best base cities in the Country!' Aback asked about the absolution for calling Gillum a 'thief,' White House columnist secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters, 'That individual's beneath FBI investigation. I would accredit you to that.' The FBI has been investigating a redevelopment bureau in Tallahassee, but Gillum has afresh said that he did annihilation amiss and that the FBI told him in June 2017 that he was not a focus of its investigation."
— In the final six canicule afore the midterms, Trump will ascendancy 11 rallies beyond eight states:
Trump's political admiral say the admiral will acquire announced at 53 rallies beyond 23 states aback he took appointment aftermost year. Aback Labor Day, Trump has already captivated 19 rallies. The admiral has additionally accent 70 fundraising contest aback demography office, including 28 for civic and accompaniment Republican parties and 42 candidate-focused fundraisers.
— Trump's agenda shows he is focused on allowance Republicans in statewide races, around blank advancing House contest that could accumulate the alcove in GOP hands. Bloomberg News's Alyza Sebenius and Shannon Pettypiece report: "In several states in which there are both advancing Senate and House districts, Trump is abstention beat districts for areas breadth his abutment is arch — a action that could advice aerate his abeyant appulse on statewide races. The White House has developed decidedly afraid in contempo canicule about the Senate contest in Florida, Missouri and Arizona — states that a ages ago they were assured Republicans would win, said an alfresco adviser. In those states, Trump won't go to areas such as the suburbs of St. Louis or Miami breadth there are advancing House races. He won't accomplish any stops in Michigan or Pennsylvania, two states that helped actuate him to achievement in 2016."
— Which Senate chase will be closest? "At atomic one U.S. Senate chase has been absitively by beneath than a point during nine of the aftermost 11 cycles aback 1996 and in 33 of the 52 acclamation cycles aback the access of the 17th Alteration in 1913," the University of Minnesota's Eric Ostermeier addendum on his SmartPolitics blog. "Two of this cycle's accident states top the baton lath for hosting the best cycles with the nation's tightest race: Indiana has led the country four times (1916 special, 1926, 1938, 1970) and Nevada three times (1914, 1964, 1998). … Arizona may be best assertive to set a new accompaniment almanac aing ages amidst the about three-dozen states with elections this year. The aing chase in the Admirable Canyon Accompaniment took abode in 1980 aback Senator Barry Goldwater eked out a 1.1-point win adjoin agent Bill Schulz."
— The final midterm ad from Trump's beforehand board does not acknowledgment the president's name. John Wagner reports: "The $6 actor buy focuses alone on the economy. Narrated by the mother of a adolescent child, it appearance annual footage of bread-and-er letters afore and afterwards Trump took appointment and seeks to accomplish the case that an convalescent abridgement is benefiting her family. … The ad — declared by Trump's beforehand as his 'closing auction to the American people' — makes no acknowledgment of immigration, an affair that Trump has been highlighting in rallies as he campaigns for associates of Congress on the ballot, or of the contempo Supreme Cloister acceptance of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh[.]"
— The map of advancing House contest has broadcast added into bourgeois strongholds, complicating Republican decision-making on breadth to focus their assets in the final countdown to Acclamation Day. Sean Sullivan and David Weigel report: "[Paul Ryan] will be in Kentucky on Tuesday to beforehand for Rep. Garland 'Andy' Barr, whose 6th Commune stretches from Lexington to added rural areas. Above fighter pilot Amy McGrath has accustomed Democrats achievement of flipping the seat, admitting the district's artlessly bourgeois tilt.
— House Republicans are accepted to ascendancy administration elections the anniversary afterwards the midterms. Politico's Rachael Bade and John Bresnahan report: "[The] quick turnaround … favors the accepted administration structure. House Republicans are eyeing Nov. 14 for administration elections … The quick GOP administration vote stands in abrupt adverse to Democrats' own timeline. The affair will not vote for their leaders until afterwards Thanksgiving[.]"
— Above admiral Jimmy Carter is calling on Georgia Secretary of Accompaniment Brian Kemp, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, to resign. Felicia Sonmez reports: "Carter, who still lives in his Georgia hometown with his wife, Rosalynn, beatific [a] letter to Kemp aftermost week. Kemp's role as applicant and secretary of accompaniment 'runs adverse to the best axiological assumption of autonomous elections — that the balloter action be managed by an absolute and candid acclamation authority,' Carter said in the letter."
— A annihilate in some Texas voting machines acquired a scattering of association who approved to casting a straight-ticket acclamation to baddest the adverse party's candidates. Deanna Paul reports: "The Texas secretary of accompaniment has been acquainted of the affair for at atomic a week." The admiral of a voting candor alignment estimated that the annihilate would appulse at atomic 5 actor Texas voters.
— Autonomous Senate applicant Beto O'Rourke's accomplished abutment for a development activity in El Paso, spearheaded by his father-in-law, has led some to catechism his autonomous credentials. The New York Times's Stephanie Saul reports: "At a appropriate Burghal Board affair in 2006, a billionaire absolute acreage broker apparent his eyes for redeveloping burghal El Paso. To alter tenements and boarded-up buildings, he proposed restaurants, shops and an arts airing allusive San Antonio's River Walk. … Not alone had [O'Rourke] affiliated the investor's daughter, but as a affiliate of Burghal Council, he represented the targeted area, including a celebrated Mexican-American neighborhood. … Over the aing two years, Mr. O'Rourke would avert the plan afore affronted barrio association and vote to beforehand it. At added times, he would abstain. … Mr. O'Rourke was perceived by abounding as balustrade with the affluent aristocratic adjoin affronted barrio residents, baby business owners and alike the Jesuit priests who ministered to the immigrant association at Sacred Affection Church."
— Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is acquisitive he can defended reelection by nationalizing his race, absorption on his role arch the House Intelligence Committee's Russia probe. NPR's Tim Mak reports: "Meanwhile, Nunes has been adamantine to ability for his accustomed constituents. He has not captivated a boondocks anteroom aback afore the aftermost election. … Neither Nunes' beforehand nor his aldermanic appointment responded to an annual request. And aback NPR approved to appointment his taxpayer-funded appointment in the best busy arena of Nunes' district, it was bankrupt and unstaffed at 2 p.m. on a weekday. Buzz calls to that appointment go beeline to voicemail. The alone added appointment in the commune is added than 45 account abroad by car."
— Republican Gov. Larry Hogan is adequate a decidedly aerial akin of abutment from atramentous Marylanders. Paul Schwartzman and Ovetta Wiggins report: "Hogan's atramentous abutment has added than angled aback his aboriginal beforehand for governor in 2014, from 14 percent to 33 percent, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll beforehand this month. … Motivated by [Democrat Ben] Jealous's accelerating belvedere and civilian rights almanac or affair adherence and acrimony adjoin [Trump], a advantage of Maryland's atramentous voters are accepted to abutment the Democrat. Still, the advance of Hogan's atramentous abutment is noteworthy, decidedly because Jealous is a nationally accepted civilian rights baton who already led the NAACP."
— Angela Merkel's advertisement that she would footfall a as leader of Germany's Christian Autonomous Union and not seek reelection as adjudicator in 2021 has set off a clutter to actuate her successor. Griff Witte reports: "The action to accomplish her is acceptable to become a acclamation on her reign, with whoever emerges aloft the CDU acceptable the burning admired to booty over as chancellor. Merkel's adopted heir, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, wants to abide in the chancellor's attitude of balance and big-tent centrism. But with Germany, and Europe, acceptable anytime added polarized, challengers are acceptable to advance for the affair to tack adamantine to the right. Either way, Merkel dispatch bottomward will mark a above alteration for a abstemious she has shaped for the accomplished 13 years, through her administration of assorted debt crises, her decisions on nuclear activity and, best of all, her acute best to acquiesce added than 1 actor cover seekers to access Germany."
— Trump said he had an "excellent call" with Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, whose far-right beforehand sparked comparisons to Trump's 2016 bid. "Had a actual acceptable chat with the anew adopted Admiral of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who won his chase by a abundant margin," Trump said in a tweet. "We agreed that Brazil and the United States will assignment carefully calm on Trade, Aggressive and aggregate else! Excellent call, admired him congrats!" (John Wagner)
— Turkey warned Saudi Arabia adjoin aggravating to arrest the analysis into the afterlife of Post accidental columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Erin Cunningham reports: "[Turkey's adopted abbot urged] the commonwealth to acquire its 'very large' albatross in investigating the writer's afterlife as the Saudi arch prosecutor accustomed in Istanbul for talks. Saud al-Mojeb, who is arch the Saudi government's inquiry, met with his Turkish analogue for the aboriginal time Monday, Turkey's state-run annual bureau reported. The aftereffect of the talks was not anon clear."
— Trump predicted there would be "a abundant deal" with China on barter but warned of added tariffs if not. "I anticipate that we will accomplish a abundant accord with China and it has to be great, because they've drained our country," Trump told Fox News's Laura Ingraham. He added, "And I acquire $267 billion cat-and-mouse to go if we can't accomplish a deal." (Reuters)
— If Trump's barter war with China continues to escalate, Beijing may accede arise bottomward on biking to the United States in a move that could amount businesses billions. David J. Lynch reports: Such a move "would accident alienating millions of common Chinese who put a exceptional on American apprenticeship and appetite for American vacations. But a customer embargo could bankrupt the U.S. biking industry of its best advantageous barter — Chinese tourists absorb an boilerplate of $6,900 on anniversary cruise — and aching American universities that acquire enjoyed a billow in acceptance by Chinese students."
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette put the names of the abbey cutting victims on its advanced page:
A above DHS abettor beneath John Kelly criticized Trump calling the media "the adversary of the people":
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CNN's communications aggregation pushed aback on a animadversion from Trump's columnist secretary:
A Post anchorman fact-checked accession annual from Sanders:
A Cook Political Abode editor fabricated this altercation about the mail bombs and abbey shooting:
The Drudge Abode architect criticized Fox Annual for its advantage of the contempo violence:
A biographer for The Atlantic compared comments on "Fox and Friends" to old political cartoons:
This June cheep from the DHS secretary has recirculated amidst Trump's attacks on the casual caravan:
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A Post editor acclaimed this of the aggressive accretion at the southern border:
A New York Times anchorman commented on contempo moves in all-around politicals:
And a Center for Responsive Politics researcher accent this ambiguous use of government funding:
— New York Times, "Is the Case Adjoin Harvey Weinstein in Jeopardy?" by Jan Ransom: "[T]he case adjoin Mr. Weinstein appears to be fraying. A detective bootless to about-face over important affirmation to prosecutors. A adjudicator absolved allotment of the indictment. Affirmation has emerged abrasive the accusation of one of the accusers. In addition, [Manhattan commune advocate Cy] Vance's administration anticipation that already they filed charges, a flood of new complaints ability advance to added victims actuality added to the case. It has not formed out that way."
— Politico, "Why Republicans absolutely like Maxine Waters," by Zachary Warmbrodt: "Trump has mocked Maxine Waters as a 'low IQ person,' and she has declared for the president's impeachment. But Republicans who assignment with the California Democrat on the House Banking Services Board see article different: a attenuate deal-maker in a polarized Congress. Waters, who would armchair the board if Democrats win the House, has apparent a hasty alertness to assignment beyond the alley and with industry groups, alike allowance to bear White House-backed legislation to affluence regulations and able bottomward on China."
"Land O'Lakes faces avoid calls over its donation to GOP Rep. Steve King," from Maura Judkis: "According to the [FEC], Land O'Lakes, the purveyor of grocery abundance staples such as er, milk and cream, gave $2,500 to U.S. Rep. Steve King's beforehand on June 29. King is an Iowa Republican who is the affiliate of Congress best aboveboard affiliated with white nationalism. He has retweeted a Nazi sympathizer and has displayed a Confederate banderole on his desk. The annual about Land O' Lakes's donation was amplified by arresting liberals: Above presidential applicant Howard Dean and above ThinkProgress editor in arch Judd Legum tweeted about it, as able-bodied as TV host Soledad O'Brien. Anniversary of their tweets has hundreds of replies calling for a boycott."
"'Well, I'd like to be president': Hillary Clinton sends alloyed signals on a 2020 White House bid," from John Wagner: "Hillary Clinton appeared to leave the aperture accessible to accession presidential bid during comments fabricated during a podcast taped over the weekend. Asked by Recode's Kara Swisher about a 2020 bid, Clinton initially said 'no' and afresh paused, afore adage 'no' again. But afterwards Swisher acclaimed the pause, Clinton didn't complete so sure. 'Well, I'd like to be president,' she said at the taping Friday in advanced of a alive admirers at the 92nd Street Y in New York. 'I think, hopefully, aback we acquire a Democrat in the Oval Appointment in January of 2021, there's activity to be so abundant assignment to be done.'"
Trump and the aboriginal developed will biking to Pittsburgh today to accommodated with associates of the Jewish association afflicted by the abbey shooting.
"I brainstorm this is apparently aloof accession bang forth the way." — New Hampshire accompaniment Rep. Frank Sapareto (R-Derry), who was accused in a accusation of bearing and starring in an developed blur and assaulting his business accomplice in the venture. Sapareto is gluttonous reelection and affairs to run for House apostle if he wins aing month. (AP)
— Temperatures will be a little academy today as the Commune continues its brilliant streak. The Capital Weather Assemblage forecasts: "High burden drifts beyond today, allowance to calm those annoying apprehension and alms lots added sunshine. Mostly brilliant skies with highs alignment in the high 50s to about average 60s. Light breezes alluvion in from the west at 5 to 10 mph."
— Fairfax County badge arise letters advertence Bijan Ghaisar was not armed aback he was fatally attempt by two Park Badge admiral aftermost year. Tom Jackman reports: "Both the Park Badge and the FBI, who took over the analysis anon afterwards the Nov. 17 shooting, acquire beneath to say whether Ghaisar was armed or airish a blackmail to the officers. The letters arise Friday by Fairfax County police, in acknowledgment to a Freedom of Advice Act appeal from The Washington Post, said the Park Badge admiral had to accident accessible Ghaisar's driver's ancillary window to chargeless him from his agent afterwards they attempt him."
— Supporters of Initiative 77, the acclamation admeasurement that would acquire aloft the minimum allowance for the District's angled workers but was chaotic by the D.C. Council, appetite to ascendancy a acclamation vote on the repeal. Fenit Nirappil reports: "To ascendancy a acclamation on the bill, proponents accusation to aggregate signatures from 25,000 acceptable voters during the 30-day aldermanic analysis period. That window counts alone canicule aback Congress is in session, so signature collectors could acquire as connected as two months. If the acclamation able for the ballot, the aition bill would be blocked from demography aftereffect until voters had accession say during a appropriate election. If the acclamation passes, the board cannot alter it for at atomic one year. Afterwards that year ends, the board could afresh try to arrest Initiative 77, befitting the activity going."
— Metro's account angle is aimed at alms added annual to win aback riders. Martine Powers reports: "The t is that the changes [Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld] is proposing would crave added money from the jurisdictions that armamentarium the alteration agency. Amidst the proposals included in the account arise Monday are accretion blitz hour, extending Yellow Line annual to Greenbelt, active all Red Line trains to Glenmont, and accretion all trains to eight cars. Wiedefeld additionally proposed a collapsed $2 book for weekends."
Stephen Colbert bidding abutment for the Jewish association as the country mourns the victims of the abbey shooting:
Jeff Sessions was heckled by a priest while speaking to the Boston affiliate of the Federalist Society:
A Fox Annual host adapted some ambiguous statements about the casual caravan:
Charlotte badge acquire filed accuse adjoin a white woman who threatened two atramentous women as they waited for a tow truck:
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I had it all planned out. I paid and took the expensive Kaplan course to improve my GRE scores. I tracked down three of my favorite professors so they could write excellent letters of recommendation for me. I set aside some money for the application fees. I labored for three months to get my personal statement right. I would move to California in the fall, finally leaving cold and gray Boston behind without so much a glance back. I could already feel the sun kissing my face and hear the beaches singing sweet love songs to me—assuming I would see any of this as a student. But, in any case, I was going to get my PhD in sociology like I had always planned. Cue life chuckling and saying, "Yeah, right."
Hell, I'm laughing right now as I write this.
The first rejection pinched me hard, but I shrugged it off because there were still others to wait for. Then the rest of the schools sent standard rejection letters starting with "I regret to inform you…" It would be an understatement to say that I had kind of lost it. I cursed God, I cursed myself, I cursed the universe, and I cursed the people who didn't exist to tell me what I could have done better. I fell into a deep depression, hated my life, couldn't stand to look at myself in the mirror, and scribbled angry letters of death and frustration in my journal, making the point of the pen rip through the pages. I isolated myself from peers, and took my anger out on my family through quick snaps and displays of very limited patience. I thought I would stay an angry loser forever and most likely take my life because I would never accomplish my dreams. Cue life chuckling and saying, "Yeah, right."
I'm nodding my head in agreement with life. Yeah, right indeed.
I woke up one day and knew I had to make a choice: Either I stay angry, or I properly mourn my failure and move the hell on. I chose the latter because I love life and no, I don't want to die. And I don't really believe I won't ever accomplish anything. I had a setback and I had to come out of it stronger, wiser, and a better person. Writing my novel was the only thing that kept me sane, along with keeping my faith, which I had to find after tossing it aside
Then it hit me. God doesn't owe me anything. The world doesn't owe me anything. No one owes me anything. If I don't get something, it's not because there's this secret vendetta against me or I've been robbed; it's just life. Life happens. And when it does, I can't let my mind create these unrealistic, negative scenarios that my future is set in doom and gloom. I'm still disappointed, but it's okay. It's in the past and I've already set plan B into motion. I'm more dedicated to getting my book published and actively seeking a better job. I'm taking the time to breathe and let it go. Let it go.
I feel like I've been hearing these three words more often than before, and it's not because of the movie Frozen. It's because it's true. I had to let go of California, the schools, and the beautiful weather. I had to find some way to live through the uncertainty of the future. To keep living even though I would not be experiencing the expected results of some well thought out plan. To keep dreaming and keep hope alive no matter how small or fragile. And I had to remember the bad times when I got through and lived through some good times afterwards. That things would get better.
It's not easy, but it's not impossible either. We can make it. We will survive. But only if we make a conscious effort to do so. We need to put a stop to the negative films our minds are playing and replace them with more hopeful ones.
I've mourned my failures—I'm all grieved out right now—and moved on.
I feel a whole lot better.
What about you? What do you do when setback hit? Would love to hear your thoughts.
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TWICE's "TT" Becomes The Most-Viewed K-Pop Girl Group Music Video On YouTube
TWICE's music video for "TT" has now become the most-viewed K-pop girl group MV on YouTube!
At time of writing, "TT" has 189,784,727 views. The previous record holder for most-viewed K-pop girl group MV on YouTube was Girls' Generation's "I Got a Boy" at 189,397,094 views at time of writing.
"TT" was released on October 24, 2016. It has previously set records for being the fastest K-pop MV to reach 100 million views, having reached the milestone only 71 days after its release. TWICE's previous songs "Cheer Up" and "Like OOH-AHH" have also surpassed 100 million views.
TWICE will make their comeback on May 15 with their new mini-album "Signal."
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Looks cool. Lets see some videos of it running! Did you do it all yourself?
I wanted to share how my 700 Raptor R1 build turned out with you guys! Click the 3 new picks. My sickness is deep! Hope to see some of you at Sand Mt. this spring. :)IMG_2403.JPGIMG_2404.JPGIMG_2405.JPG
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Looks cool. Lets see some videos of it running! Did you do it all yourself?
Coop we miss you brother..
My GoPro died so I have nothing yet! I tried for a year to run an 09 in it but it turns out the airbox has 4 more injectors that give 40% of it's fuel. No possible way to run the airbox in my frame so I ditched the 09 and went back to the old faithful 07/08. I did this build in my garage. This year I will work on a NOS kit for it also. It's heavy but it runs 91 octane fuel and seems to run consistent. I should have it out at the hill again come spring. Looking forward to seeing everybody out there!
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New Organic Textile Standards Ban Use of Angora, Virgin Polyester
We're not always a fan of banning things, but sometimes bans work out in favor of the greater good. The Global Organic Textile Standard International Working Group (also known as GOTS, for those who just don't have the time), has updated its rules for organic textiles, and they've banned some pretty popular fabrics this time around.
A little background: GOTS, as the name implies, is a standard for fabrics made from organic fibers. In order to be GOTS-certified, fabric must comply with stringent environmental as well as social criteria. And don't think you can slip much past GOTS; every point of the organic textiles supply chain must comply with the standards (we're talking spinning, knitting, weaving, dyeing, and manufacturing). GOT it?
On Monday, the GOTS International Working Group released version 4.0 of their standards for fabrics made from certified organic natural fibers; that is, fabrics made from 70 percent organic natural fibers, which get a label of "made with organic," and fabrics with 95 percent, which get to call themselves straight "organic." Among other updates, the new GOTS standards decree that two fabrics are officially out: virgin polyester and angora.
These days, recycled polyester is too wildly available to justify the use of the virgin stuff, according to Marcus Bruegel, GOTS Technical Director. As you might guess, recycled polyester has a lower carbon footprint than virgin polyester, and helps keep plastic bottles out of landfills. No contest there.
But what about angora? "The ban is a consequence of the mostly unacceptable animal husbandry conditions of angora rabbits," says Bruegel. As with much fur production, the angora fur industry is unbelievably cruel. The soft, gentle rabbits have their fur ripped from their skin several times during their short, abused lives; an undercover video released by PETA shows the poor bunnies actually screaming as they're plucked and sheared. Dangerously enough, 90 percent of the world's angora wool comes from China, where, according to PETA, there are "no penalties for abuse of animals on farms and no standards to regulate the treatment of the animals."
Of course, the bans on angora and virgin polyester don't apply to everyone — just those who abide by GOTS regulations. But more angora bunnies in the wild and a fewer plastic bottles in landfills sounds like a fair enough start.


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Railroading never goes out of style and neither do avid lovers of all things railroad. One top U.S. railroad sight to see is the Sante Fe Railyard in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Within sight of the famous Sante Fe railroad, visitors can spend a day awash in Sante Fe's rail history, dating back to the […]
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But I couldn't even bring myself to watch it on television or listen to it on the radio. I turned away, looked instead at the hundreds of American flags waving on the back roads of Pennsylvania. I looked at the people holding their children's hands. I noticed the more people were stopping and just looking around at the world instead of making a beeline to their destination. More people were holding doors and being considerate.
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We're sorry you're going through what you're going through. You know, life sometimes is, uh, you know, is unfair, and you don't get to play the hand that you wanted to play. But, the question is, when you get dealt the hand, how do you play it? And I've come away with this impression of the folks of Macon County. One, you're down-to-Earth, good, hard-workin' people. They have a respect for the Almighty, and this community's going to be as strong as ever. That's what I think.
Yeah, and why don't you get to play the hand that you wanted? Could it possibly be that people like the first convicted criminal in the White House has grabbed an unacceptably large part of the pie and don't want to share?
By the way, in case you need interpretation: down-to-earth, good hardworkin' people means You are a bunch of fools. The next statement, They have a respect for the Almighty, and this community's going to be as strong as ever, probably means if God doesn't help you, you're shit out of luck.


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Owls: Silent Fliers
Owls fly silently as they prepare to snatch their unsuspecting prey. They can fly more quietly and more slowly than other birds. What is it about their wings that allows them to glide through the air with hardly any sound?
Owls are nocturnal, meaning that they hunt at night. If they were hunting during daylight, they could be seen. Since they fly at night, the animals they hunt would be alerted by the sound of wings in the wind. Owls hunt small rodents which have hearing that is tuned to high-frequency sounds. The design of their wings reduces sounds at frequencies above 2 kHz.
Biologists continue to study this ability of owls to fly silently. One important factor is the design of the feathers. Owls generally have larger feathers than other birds. The feathers on the border of the wings have serrated edges which reduce air disturbance which reduces noise. The feathers also have a velvet-like surface which helps to absorb the sound.
Can we apply the same principles to reduce the sound of airplanes in flight, giant wind turbines, or even household fans? Researchers have been working on new materials inspired by owls which could reduce the sound that wind makes when moving across surfaces. They are studying the owl wing's comb-like structure of evenly-spaced bristles with a porous elastic fringe. We intuitively think that smooth surfaces should provide the least friction to the air and therefore create less noise. The design of owl wings shows that is not the case.
This is another example of "biomimicry" where humans learn from and mimic biological designs in nature. The goal is to create a new material that can break up air currents into weaker flows that make less noise. When we realize that this design comes from a study of owl wings, we think the owls must have had a very intelligent Designer.
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It's official. Virgin Megastore in Times Square will be closing it's doors in April. Tomorrow marks the beginning of their "biggest sale in music retail history."
According to an article on hiphoppress.com, Simon Wright, CEO, Virgin Entertainment Group said, "This sale will give our loyal shoppers one last chance to browse the world's largest music store. We'll be offering discount prices on items that might be difficult to find in the days to come, and we hope our customers have a lot of fun shopping this final sale."
Located in the hub of Times Square since 1996, Virgin Megastore is an American icon and tourist hot spot. I can't even count the number of times I've been there. Whether it was catching a glimpse of a musician on my lunch break or trips to New York in high school for album signings and instore performances, Virgin Megastore is a place I'll definitely miss.
The official Virgin Megastore Web site describes the Times Square location as:
"not only one of the Big Apple's biggest attractions, it's also the largest entertainment store in the world! Here you'll find the largest music, games, video and DVD inventory in the world ... plus 600 listening posts, 100 video viewing stations, live music, a one-and-a-half story music video screen and more. Often host to impromptu appearances from artists appearing on MTV's Total Request Live (filmed directly across the street), the Megastore has enjoyed hosting the first-ever instore appearances of Michael Jackson and Nine Inch Nails in the last year, plus many other cool events with acts like Eminem, 'NSync and more."
If you're in the Times Square area, stop by before another major music location becomes a part of history. I'll be going myself tomorrow.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
So Long, Virgin Megastore
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Love Song (Sara Bareilles song)
|"Love Song"
|Single by Sara Bareilles
|from the album Little Voice
|"The River"
|June 16, 2007 (as the free iTunes song of the week)
June 19, 2007 (as a single)
|CD single, digital download
|Pop rock
|4:20 (album version)
3:53 (radio edit)
|Sara Bareilles
|Eric Rosse
|Sara Bareilles singles chronology
"Love Song" is the debut single by American singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, released in June 2007 via Epic Records from her major-label debut album, Little Voice (2007). It was nominated for 2009 Grammy Awards in the categories Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
"Love Song" spent 19 weeks in the top ten and an overall 41 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number four there. Similarly, it peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart and the Australian ARIA Charts. It also reached number one on the Canadian Hot 100, while topping the US Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart. [1] It also spent many weeks atop the Hot Adult Pop Songs and Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts, ending up number one at the year-end tally of both charts.
Speaking of the song's origin in an interview with MTV, Bareilles said of her label, "They had encouraged me to keep writing, and I just wasn't having any luck. [...] I started to get really insecure about it, and then I got really pissed off at myself for caring what anybody thought. [...] I went to a rehearsal space one day. I sat down and wrote something for me. And 'Love Song' basically wrote itself. It's totally honest, and I'm very lucky the label liked it as well."[2]
Later in 2011, she explained: "It was actually written for my record label. I had been turning in new music. I was getting the red light. I couldn't go into the studio yet because they were waiting for something. But I wouldn't [...] nobody said what they were waiting for. So I kept turning in new songs, thinking like, 'Is this what you want? Is this what you want?' And it was always a big thumbs down, and I ended up writing 'Love Song' out of frustration."[3] In 2014, she stated it was "very tongue-in-cheek" and "nasty in a passive-aggressive way," confirming it was a response to the record label pressuring her to make safe, "radio friendly" songs.[4]
Music video[edit]
Directed by Josh Forbes, the music video features a miniature Bareilles playing the piano inside a coin-operated jukebox that plays love songs. A steady stream of men and women enter the booth and insert coins to observing her through a pinhole as she plays the same song day after day. The lyrics express her growing frustration as she declares that she is "not gonna write you a love song today," whereupon Bareilles grabs the next coin that rolls inside, and uses it to jam the gears. The next morning, the owner of the booth (who was seen at the beginning of the video) enters; he notices that the jukebox has gone dark, and appears amazed when he discovers Bareilles inside the jukebox. He retrieves the jammed coin from the gears and hands it to Bareilles.
The music video features the album version of the song. The video also features British actor Adam Campbell as the owner of the booth.
Chart performance[edit]
Featured initially as the free iTunes song of the week on June 16, 2007, the song was a sleeper-hit, debuting a few months later at number 100 on the US Billboard Hot 100. After her appearance in a Rhapsody TV commercial, in which she performs "Love Song", it rocketed from number 72 to number 16 on the Hot 100 and from number 32 to number 5 on the Hot Digital Songs chart.[5] In the first week of 2008, the song cracked the top ten on the Hot 100, jumping to number 9, where it stayed for four non-consecutive weeks before reaching a peak of number 4. In spite of not reaching the top three, "Love Song" managed to spend 19 weeks in the top ten, in contrast with other songs that reached higher peak but did not maintain such longevity. The single was certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA for over 4 million in sales.[6] As of April 2014, the single had sold 3,717,000 digital copies in the United States.[7]
The song debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number 30 and later peaked at number 4. The song debuted at number 100 on the Canadian Hot 100 the week of January 31, 2008, and reached number one on the chart the week of March 29, 2008. In Australia, "Love Song" peaked at number 4 in its ninth week on the country's chart. In New Zealand it reached number 7 on the Top 40 singles chart and held the number 1 position on the Radio Airplay chart for six weeks. It was the most played song of 2008 on New Zealand radio. In Spain, the song debuted at number 33 and has so far peaked at number 13.[citation needed]
The song is listed at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart of 2008. It also topped both the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks and Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks charts in 2008.
Weekly charts[edit]
Year-end charts[edit]
Decade-end charts[edit]
All-time charts[edit]
|Certified units/sales
|Australia (ARIA)[42]
|Canada (Music Canada)[43]
|Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[44]
|United Kingdom (BPI)[46]
|United States (RIAA)[6]
|4× Platinum
^shipments figures based on certification alone
See also[edit]
- List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2008 (Canada)
- List of Mainstream Top 40 number-one hits of 2008 (U.S.)
- List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 2008 (U.S.)
- List of Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks number-one singles of 2008
- ^ a b "Sara Bareilles Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
- ^ Kaufman, Gil. "Sara Bareilles' 'Love Song' 'Basically Wrote Itself' -- After She Struggled For Years". MTV. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
- ^ "How Sara Bareilles Got Her Start in Music". VOA. August 17, 2011. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ "Sara Bareilles: The Sweet Author of Tough Songs" (January 5, 2014). CBSNews.com. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
- ^ Keys Rolls Into Holidays With No. 1 Hits
- ^ a b "American single certifications – Sara Bareilles – Love Song". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH.
- ^ Paul Grein (April 30, 2014). "Chart Watch: Pharrell Steps Up". Yahoo Music.
- ^ "Australian-charts.com – Sara Bareilles – Love Song". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
- ^ "Austriancharts.at – Sara Bareilles – Love Song" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
- ^ "Ultratop.be – Sara Bareilles – Love Song" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
- ^ "Ultratop.be – Sara Bareilles – Love Song" (in French). Ultratop 50.
- ^ "Sara Bareilles Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard.
- ^ "Danishcharts.com – Sara Bareilles – Love Song". Tracklisten.
- ^ "Sara Bareilles: Love Song" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
- ^ "Musicline.de – Sara Bareilles Single-Chartverfolgung" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH.
- ^ "Chart Track: Week 25, 2008". Irish Singles Chart.
- ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Sara Bareilles" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
- ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Sara Bareilles – Love Song" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
- ^ "Charts.nz – Sara Bareilles – Love Song". Top 40 Singles.
- ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Sara Bareilles – Love Song". Singles Top 100.
- ^ "Swisscharts.com – Sara Bareilles – Love Song". Swiss Singles Chart.
- ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
- ^ "Sara Bareilles Chart History (Adult Alternative Songs)". Billboard.
- ^ "Sara Bareilles Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
- ^ "Sara Bareilles Chart History (Adult Pop Songs)". Billboard.
- ^ "Sara Bareilles Chart History (Pop Songs)". Billboard.
- ^ "ARIA Top 100 Singles 2008". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
- ^ "Jaaroverzichten 2008". Ultratop. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
- ^ "Canadian Hot 100: 2008 Year-End Charts". Billboard. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
- ^ http://members.chello.nl/m.jans1/2008.html
- ^ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 2008" (in Dutch). MegaCharts. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
- ^ "Schweizer Jahreshitparade 2008 – hitparade.ch". Hung Medien. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
- ^ Official Charts list, ukchartsplus. Retrieved August 2011
- ^ "Hot 100 Year End 2008". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
- ^ "Pop Songs: 2008 Year-End Charts". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
- ^ "Adult Contemporary Songs 2008 Year-End". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
- ^ "Adult Pop Songs 2008 Year-End". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
- ^ "Éves összesített listák - MAHASZ Rádiós TOP 100 (súlyozott)". Mahasz. Mahasz.
- ^ "Adult Contemporary Songs - Year-End 2009". Billboard. Retrieved September 19, 2019.
- ^ "The Decade End Music Charts" (PDF). Billboard. 121 (50): 160. December 19, 2009. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
- ^ "Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Songs". Billboard. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2008 Singles". Australian Recording Industry Association.
- ^ "Canadian single certifications – Sara Bareilles – Love Song". Music Canada.
- ^ "Guld og platin i juli". IFPI Denmark. Archived from the original on October 2, 2011. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
- ^ "Music in Italy" (PDF). Federation of the Italian Music Industry. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 25, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
- ^ "British single certifications – Sara Bareilles – Love Song". British Phonographic Industry. Select singles in the Format field. Select Gold in the Certification field. Type Love Song in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.


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The proposal to acquire the two-story spectrometer with the super magnet was a partnership between the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), and two other University of Maryland campuses - the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and the University of Maryland, College Park (UM). The instrument will be shared equally among the three campuses.
The University of Maryland will be the only academic institution in the United States and one of only two sites in the country to have a 950 MHz NMR spectrometer once it is installed in November of 2011.
David J. Weber, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of the NMR core facility at UMB, is a co-director of the grant, along with Michael F. Summers, Ph.D., of UMBC, and David Fushman, Ph.D., of UM.
The eight-ton magnet produces a supercharged magnetic field that enables scientists to investigate the three-dimensional structure of biological molecules and study their interaction with the highest degree of resolution.
"NMR spectroscopy plays a critical role in many areas of cancer research, and having a 950 MHz NMR spectrometer on our campus is a phenomenal resource for researchers at our cancer centre. It will greatly enhance and speed our efforts to uncover new information about cancer and design new drugs to treat it", stated Kevin J. Cullen, M.D., director of the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, and professor of medicine and director of the Programme in Oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
"We will be the only academic facility in the country to have this powerful magnet", stated E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., vice president of medical affairs at the University of Maryland and dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "This technology is a testament to our status as a world-class research institution. The magnet will be a critical tool in our mission to use the latest in cutting-edge technologies in our labs to bring lifesaving new treatments to patients in the clinic."
The 22,3 Tesla magnet is so powerful that it could lift 50 cars and is so powerful that it creates a magnetic field approximately 400.000 times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field. The equipment will be housed in the UMB NMR core facility, located at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and will be used by researchers from all three campuses as well as from institutions throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.
The instrument initially will have 35 users - including 10 major core users - and will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, according to Dr. Weber. "Being able to observe molecules at the atomic-level eliminates a great deal of guessing when you're conducting complicated molecular experiments. We will have a much better ability to look at larger molecules and protein complexes with this powerful magnet - it's like working in a room with the lights turned on", Dr. Weber stated.
Dr. Weber's laboratory is developing small-molecule inhibitors geared to a family of calcium-binding proteins called S100 proteins, including one that currently is being tested in a clinical study at the cancer centre as a possible treatment for melanoma. Other cancer centre researchers are studying ways to help repair the DNA in cells that have been damaged by cancer.
"This 950 MHz NMR spectrometer is optimal for studying large proteins", explained David Fushman, an expert in protein structure and dynamics who is associated with the university's Center for Biomolecular Structure and Organization (CBSO). "This will allow us to move into structural and biophysical studies of protein assemblies that include more than 1000 amino acids, as well as large complexes of proteins and nucleic acids. We can begin to decipher interactions between important biological macromolecules that we could not study before. This is huge."
David Fushman conducts biochemical and biophysical studies to understand the molecular basis of how proteins are marked for degradation by a signaling protein called ubiquitin. Once a protein is tagged by ubiquitin chains, it is then disposed of by a multi-molecular complex called the proteasome. "The proteasome is like a big molecular shredder which grinds up proteins that are no longer needed or which have become misfolded or abnormal", David Fushman explained. "It controls the cell life cycle, and we know that if it isn't functioning properly, it could lead to the development of cancers, or neurological diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, or Huntington's, or problems with the immune response."
Kwaku Dayie, associate professor, and Vitali Tugarinov, assistant professor, both in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and members of CBSO, will also be key users of the new technology. Both have been leaders in the development of NMR methods that allow and facilitate studies of large macromolecules. Jonathan Dinman and Anne Simon, both professors of cell biology and molecular genetics and experts in the study of viruses, will also utilize the spectrometer to advance their research.
"The capabilities of this ultra high field/high frequency NMR will create unique opportunities for life sciences researchers in Maryland", stated Norma Allewell, vice president for research and professor of cell biology and molecular genetics at the University of Maryland. "The extraordinary resolution of the results that can be generated with this new instrument will provide unparalleled insights into the structure, dynamics, and function of the proteins and nucleic acids that are critical to life, and that also play a role in many diseases for which effective treatments are still sought. The University of Maryland has recruited a team of NMR experts and users that are fully prepared to exploit the unique capabilities of this new resource to gain new insights into cellular function, to develop new approaches to treating some of society's most challenging diseases, and to work with the biotech community to translate these discoveries into new therapies."
David Fushman anticipated that the three partner institutions will develop research collaborations and build a community of scientists who share their research results through an ongoing seminar series. Earlier this year, the NCRR gave the University of Maryland School of Medicine $12,3 million to renovate cancer laboratories and to build core research facilities.


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Getting Started With Forex Investing: A Short Guide
Learning about trading currency can be incredibly overwhelming, but just like anything else, it can also be very easily researched, taught and learned. Now that you have found these tips, hopefully you can come out a little more informed when it comes to trading, so that you can refine your methods and become a great currency trader.
Do not dive into the forex market too quickly. Once you have plenty of experience under your belt, you may be able to analyze indicators and make trades all day long. When you are just starting out, though, your capacities are limited. Remember that the quality of your decisions and analyses will drop the longer you trade, and limit your initial forex experience to a few hours a day.
Make sure that you treat even your profits equally. Just because you made a certain amount of money with a trade does not mean that money is free to spend. Maintain control and stick to the goals that you set from the beginning, as you should bank most of that profit.
Don't be tempted to trade in the foreign exchange market on impulse. Have a plan and stick to it. Impulsive trading will most likely only lead to losses. If you stick to your plan, you can limit your risk and your losses, and be there to jump on the profitable trades when they come along.
When trading in the Forex market, you should focus on the areas with the lowest trading activity. Most investors focus on the more volatile currencies with lots of trading activity. Prices are more likely to turn in areas of low trading activity, however, because supply and demand are no longer in balance.
Once you see that a position is losing, do not add any more money to it. Short-term predictions are often the only ones you will be able to make accurately. Thus, you should make decisions based on what you see in the moment. Adding to a losing position is generally too great a risk.
In trading, you need to know when to cut your losses. You need to pull out with losses early to avoid them growing worse by leaving them in longer. This is real money you have on the line, so be smart about when you should place a stop on your loss to minimize its effect.
Do not place protective stops on round numbers. When placing protective stops on long positions, place your protective stop below round numbers and for short positions set the protective stop above round numbers. This strategy decreases risk and increases the possibility of high profits in all your forex trades.
A great forex trading tip is to be aware of your financial needs. You never want to allocate too much money to forex if you can't afford it. You also want to have enough capital if you can tolerate the risks. It's all about knowing where you stand financially.
Not as bad as you thought, correct? Like any other subject, the world of currency trading is huge and has a wealth of information available on it. Sometimes, you just need a little help as to where to begin. With any luck, you should have received that from the above tips.