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Make champagne popsicles this #MemorialDay: https://t.co/1m6ceESqnS— Ivanka Trump HQ (@IvankaTrumpHQ) May 28, 2017
On Memorial Day? WTF?
Make champagne popsicles this #MemorialDay: https://t.co/1m6ceESqnS— Ivanka Trump HQ (@IvankaTrumpHQ) May 28, 2017
The Ministry of Justice has vowed to take action in favour of a petition demanding a stalled bill on gay rights be enacted. The Constitutional Court of Taiwan ruled in favour of same-sex marriage on May 24 and now calls to follow suit in Thailand may be gaining strength.
Pitikan Sithidej, director-general of the Rights and Liberties Protection Department at the Justice Ministry, said he received the petition to set the wheels in motion again on May 17 and will push for getting the bill approved at the earliest possible date.
The petition has been signed by nearly 60,000 people and was organised by the website Change.org. It backs same-sex marriage rights and other equal benefits for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people and couples. The proposed law has been in a state of limbo since it was introduced in 2013.
In light of the recent stabbing deaths of two men in Portland by a white nationalist — and constant local street brawls between neo-Nazi groups and anti-fascist protesters — the chairman of Portland's GOP party said he would consider hiring armed right-wing militia members as bodyguards to protect Republicans on the street.
In an interview with the Guardian, Multnomah County GOP chair James Buchal said that disputes between conservatives and progressives have many Republicans considering "abandoning the public square" which worries him.
"I am sort of evolving to the point where I think that it is appropriate for Republicans to continue to go out there," Buchal explained. "And if they need to have a security force protecting them, that's an appropriate thing too."
According to Buchal — a perennial GOP candidate for office — he's not sure that conservatives can entrust their fate to the police or first responders and proposed using far-right militia members as bodyguards.
"Yeah. And there are these people arising, like the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters," he stated, adding, "We're thinking about that. Because there are now belligerent, unstable people who are convinced that Republicans are like Nazis."
Dear President Trump,
Their names were Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche and Ricky John Best. One was a recent college graduate. The other was an army veteran and father of four. I wish we would hear you say these names, or even just tweet them. They were brave Americans who died at the hands of someone who, when all the facts are collected, we may have every right to call a terrorist. A third brave man, Micah David-Cole Fletcher, was wounded in the knife attack.
This story may not neatly fit into a narrative you pushed on the campaign trail and that has followed you into the White House. They were not killed by an undocumented immigrant or a "radical Islamic terrorist." They were killed in an act of civic love, facing down a man allegedly spewing hate speech directed at two teenage girls, one of whom was wearing a hijab. That man seems to have a public record of "extremist ideology" – a term issued by the Portland Police Bureau.
This "extremism" may be of a different type than gets most of your attention, or even the attention in the press. But that doesn't make it any less serious, or deadly. And this kind of "extremism" is on the rise, especially in the wake of your political ascendency. Most people who study these sorts of things do not think that is a coincidence. I do not blame you directly for this incident. Nor do I think other people should. But what a President says, who he has around him, and the tone he sets can set the tone for the nation at large.
Perhaps Portland, Oregon is off your radar. It is, after all, a rather liberal place. It's even a "sanctuary city." But it is still an American city. And you are its President. Two Americans have died leaving family and friends behind. They are mourned by millions more who are also deeply worried about what might come next.
I hope you can find it worthy of your time to take notice.
"You're lucky someone doesn't pop one of you." A Montana voter said that to a CNN crew Thursday night, the day after Montana's new Republican congressman-elect, Greg Gianforte, body-slammed a reporter who was asking him about President Trump's health care plan. . . .
While attacks on journalists are becoming more common, the era of trickle-down political lawlessness is well under way for all Americans. Hate crimes in metropolitan areas rose 20 percent in the last year, fueled by an election that was engineered by men like Steve Bannon, who have branded multiculturalism a disease and fact-based journalism a scourge. In New York city, anti-Semitic incidents rose a staggering 94 percent in the last year, according to the NYPD.
Republican Greg Gianforte defeated Democrat Rob Quist in a special election Thursday for Montana's lone congressional seat, a six-point victory that should horrify you because he won with the full support of the GOP after body-slamming and punching an American reporter—and many of our political institutions, especially the media, are too paralyzed to impose a meaningful consequence on him or his enablers.
Gianforte, a true coward, didn't admit any wrongdoing until his victory speech, at which point the risks of playacting decency pertained to his criminal case—the police have charged him with assault—rather than the election. "When you make a mistake, you have to own up to it," Gianforte said. "That's the Montana way." I suspect some Montanans would object to the notion that you only apologize once it's politically safe to do so.
For it was already beyond dispute on Wednesday night, thanks to audio of the attack and a witness account from a Fox News reporter, that Gianforte had attacked the Guardian's Ben Jacobs. That's when the process of public accountability began. In a healthier political culture, the condemnation would have been nearly unanimous, and the context of the incident would not have been a matter of controversy. What we witnessed instead was a political media — confronted with a one-sided assault on its most basic freedom — rendered by its own constructs largely incapable of identifying the threat with any precision.
As this morning's headlines attest, Republican Greg Gianforte won yesterday's special congressional election in Montana. One of the noteworthy and little-noticed effects of his assault on Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs was, according to NBC, Gianforte raised $100,000 overnight online. One supporter told CNN the assault charge against Gianforte left her only "more ready to support Greg."
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos says she has no problem with states that allow schools to discriminate against LGBT students while receiving federal funds, and believes that the federal government should not intervene.
Elton John and long time co-writer Bernie Taupin have made some of the most famous pop songs of the 20th century. Many of the pair's biggest hits came during a highly productive period in the early 70s, with songs including Tiny Dancer, Rocket Man and Bennie and the Jets. This period of work formed the basis of a competition which saw three entries win the opportunity to make a video for each of these three songs. Released before the hegemony of the MTV, Elton John asked YouTube to help cement the legacy of these tracks with official music videos.
At a special screening in Cannes, Elton and Bernie viewed the winning entries, as chosen by themselves and an expert panel including Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins. The winners included: Max Weiland's live-action take on Tiny Dancer; Majid Adin's animation for Rocket Man; and Jack Whiteley and Laura Brownhill's choreographed interpretation of Bennie and the Jets. Each winning entrant presented their work with a few words. . . .
Adin, who just about made the screening due to an initial refusal for travel documents, drew on his experiences as an Iranian refugee travelling to the UK to influence his sombre and poignant animation. He called the experience "dreamy", and that his "English teacher would be proud". A fine art university graduate working in animation production, Adin travelled across Europe during the 2015 refugee crisis, spending time in the infamous Calais Jungle camp before being granted asylum in the UK and now rebuilding his life as an artist in Britain. He partnered with animation director Stephen McNally to realise his vision for this achingly powerful and human story.
"What I appreciate about it is it's clear that the students want to express their commitment to tolerance and the values that they believe a Catholic University ought to uphold, and that this administration is not compatible with those values," Buttigieg said. "And at the same time, I think they found a very respectful way to do it."
Buttigieg added he does "respect the office of the vice presidency, too," and each student should make his or her own decision on the walkout, but the way demonstrators chose to protest was an appropriate to speak out against the Trump administration.
"You go to a university in order to form your conscience and they're expressing their conscience in a way that I really respect and admire," Buttigieg said.
"The New York Times," Graham continues, "says many of those who walked out were wearing their LGBT rainbow or flag pins in protest. To get up and walk out on the Vice President of the United States of America, who was gracious enough to come speak at their graduation, that's just insolent! Maybe they need to take another class before they graduate—one on civility and respect. What do you think?"
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"This country is so fortunate to have a Vice President like Mike Pence. He's a great man and a strong leader who isn't afraid to speak the truth. I thank God for him."
Donald Trump's election has led to such a steep rise in fundamentalist Christian evangelizing and religious bigotry in the U.S. armed forces that the matter is reaching the level of a "national security threat," according to information shared exclusively with Newsweek by an organization that represents and advocates for secular and minority religious views in the military.
The number of complaints from servicemen and -women in the Army, Air Force, Marines and other service branches to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has doubled in number since November 2016, according to lawyer Michael "Mikey" Weinstein, a former Air Force officer who founded the organization.
Many of the recent charges are coming from members of minority religions, including Roman Catholics, Jews and Muslims, and from atheists. Among the complaints: military family and marital therapy programs are being infused with Protestant Christianity, which would go against the U.S. Constitution; open anti-Semitism; anti-LGBT statements, posters, symbols and bullying; openly anti-Muslim teachers and Islamophobic attacks; a rise in on-base evangelizing; and increased pressure on recruits or lower-level personnel and service members to convert to fundamentalist Christianity.
The Christian right's willingness to see Trump as a savior for their cause—if not a messianic figure, despite his living as an urban libertine who has had three wives and a history of lewd acts and statements—continues to grow. His selection of an evangelical as vice president, plus the appointment of at least nine evangelicals to his Cabinet, have apparently soothed any concerns the religious right had with his personal life.
A sinkhole has opened in front of President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club, according to an email alert from the Town of Palm Beach.
The sinkhole is just west of Mar-a-Lago's southern entrance, where workers are gathered.
The 4-foot by 4-foot hole is in front of the club and appears to be near a new water main on Southern Boulevard, the alert said. Utility crews from West Palm Beach secured the sinkhole and likely will be doing exploratory excavation today.
|A sinkhole has opened near President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach. Eleanor Roy / Daily News
The protesters will have plenty of time to think about the extensive charges filed against them — and perhaps that is the prosecutors' intention. The first trials are not expected to start until March 2018. "In my mind, that violates their right to a speedy trial," Flores-Williams said.
"Having serious felonies like this hanging over you is an incredible burden on your life," he said. "Chances are that at a certain point, they'll either roll on each other or we'll see plea agreements regardless of their guilt or innocence."
This Week host George Stephanopoulos noted during an interview with Chaffetz that a senior official in the White House was reportedly a person of interest in the investigation into Russia interference in the U.S. election.
Chaffetz, who has announced he is leaving Congress on June 30 for a rumored position at Fox News, said that he was more interested in the person who leaked the news.
"I want to see that this person is prosecuted," the outgoing Utah Republican insisted. "I think the president makes a very good point. No matter who's in the White House, you cannot have the type of leaking of information, sources, methods, classified information. I don't care who it is, Democrat or Republican, you cannot have that happen."
"Not only do you need to wall them off, you probably need to put some handcuffs on them and put them in jail," he added.
You will notice that Trump's main nemesis is still the press, which he has villainized since he began his campaign. One suspects that this started out as shtick, building on the thousands of hours of talk-radio research that his lieutenant at the time, Sam Nunberg, provided to him. Beating up on the press is a staple of right-wing media and it gets a huge response from conservative crowds. But up until he started the campaign Trump had always reveled in media attention and went to great lengths to draw it. In fact, he considered himself a member of the club. But over the course of time the hatred has obviously become very real and very personal. He loathes the press and considers it the source of all of his problems.
Obviously, he isn't the first president to feel this way. Richard Nixon famously kept an enemies list which included a large number of journalists. But Trump is taking this in a dangerous direction. The New York Times story about James Comey's memo rightly focused on the fact that the president may have tried to obstruct justice by taking the FBI director aside privately to ask him to let Trump's disgraced former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, off the hook. But Trump said something else in that meeting which has received less attention:
Alone in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump began the discussion by condemning leaks to the news media, saying that Mr. Comey should consider putting reporters in prison for publishing classified information, according to one of Mr. Comey's associates.
Comey never told me the details of the dinner meeting; I don't think I even knew that there had been a meeting over dinner until I learned it from the Times story. But he did tell me in general terms that early on, Trump had "asked for loyalty" and that Comey had promised him only honesty. He also told me that Trump was perceptibly uncomfortable with this answer. And he said that ever since, the President had been trying to be chummy in a fashion that Comey felt was designed to absorb him into Trump's world—to make him part of the team. Comey was deeply uncomfortable with these episodes. He told me that Trump sometimes talked to him a fashion designed to implicate him in Trump's way of thinking. While I was not sure quite what this meant, it clearly disquieted Comey. He felt that these conversations were efforts to probe how resistant he would be to becoming a loyalist. In light of the dramatic dinner meeting and the Flynn request, it's easy to see why they would be upsetting and feel like attempts at pressure.
They may make a few gestures toward accountability in the face of bad poll numbers, but there is not a hint that any important figures in the party care enough about the Constitution or the national interest to take a stand.
The point is that given the character of the Republican Party, we'd be well on the way to autocracy if the man in the White House had even slightly more self-control. Trump may have done himself in; but it can still happen here.
WikiLeaks cable Robert Mueller delivering highly enriched stolen Uranium to Russia in 2009 https://t.co/X3Ea2m6kS5 h/t @apblake pic.twitter.com/yhC91B2IBK— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 18, 2017
The material was seized in a nuclear smuggling case in Georgia (the country), and the Russian Federation wanted to analyze the material to double-check where it may have come from. A law-enforcement matter, and it's likely the US wanted to make a point to Russia that it's serious. You don't get more serious in law enforcement than the head of the FBI.
Lithuania's Parliament marked the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia this week.
Marked on May 17 around the world, IDAHOT raises awareness of persecution and hate crimes faced by lesbian, gay, bisexuals and transgender people around the world. . . .
The day is heavily marked in countries that are already progressive on LGBT rights, but it is also making inroads in places where there is still a way to go on LGBT equality.
Lithuania has lagged behind on equality, with no legal recognition for same-sex couples, no gender recognition for transgender people, a ban on same-sex adoption, and generally negative social attitudes.
However, progress is slowly being made, and the day was marked this week with celebrations in the country's Parliament in Vilnius.
But two asylum seekers from Chechnya have been granted asylum in Lithuania, reports the Russian Interfax news agency.
Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has confirmed that the two men have been granted asylum there after fleeing persecution in Russia.
He said that the Lithuanian Government had "issued visas to two people from Chechnya who were persecuted because of their sexual orientation".
"We have consistently raised these issues both within the EU and in the parliamentary structures of the Council of Europe – regarding the possibility of helping and, if necessary, granting asylum," he added.
A Sephardic melody, sung in Judezmo, played on period instruments. Founded in 1990, the Ivory Consort here performs music of three faiths, Christian, Muslim and Jewish, from medieval Spain and Portugal.
To me it feels like [Republicans] have fallen prey to a Donald Trump cult.They are ceding their loyalty not to the constitution, not to the country, not to their constituents but to this president of their party but who wasn't even a Republican until a few years ago. They' so desperate to want to play, to want to be invited to dinner at the white house that they are willing to remain silent in the face of a president who is attacking our institutions.
I thought what James Clapper said yesterday, that our institutions are being attacked both externally and internally, was spine chilling. And it's something that we should take so seriously. This president started off by attacking the Intelligence Community. He has tweeted against judges. He has tweeted intimidation to Sally Yates on the day of her testimony. He has tweeted a veiled threat to the former FBI Director.
So I have to ask Republicans over and over again. What is it going to take for you to wake up and recognize your duty is to country and not to this one man. How far does it have to go? What does he have to do for you to wake up and speak up and do what you need to do?
The Economist's own analysis was even more scalding than the snarky tweets. The magazine declared: "The impulsiveness and shallowness of America's president threaten the economy as well as the rule of law." The article goes on to compare Trump to a modern-day Henry VIII, which is never a good thing: "Donald Trump rules over Washington as if he were a king and the White House his court. His displays of dominance, his need to be the centre of attention and his impetuousness have a whiff of Henry VIII about them. Fortified by his belief that his extraordinary route to power is proof of the collective mediocrity of Congress, the bureaucracy and the media, he attacks any person and any idea standing in his way."
TW: So this interview was in the Oval Office. What did the atmosphere there feel like?
DR: It's kind of like being in a royal palace several hundred years ago, with people coming in and out, trying to catch the ear of the king. That's the feel at the Trump Oval Office. He likes to be surrounded by his courtiers.
TW: Your magazine described it as being a little bit like Henry VIII.
DR: There is a "Tudor court" side to it. And the role of some pretty senior figures, including cabinet secretaries, was to chime in and agree with whatever the president had just said, rather than offering candid advice.
There was a moment with Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary.
We were talking [to Trump] about China and currency manipulation. On the campaign trail, Trump was very ferocious about [calling China a currency manipulator.] [In our interview], he said, "As soon as I started talking about China being a currency manipulator, they cut it out." Actually that's not true. China [stopped manipulating the currency] two or three years ago.
What was striking was, when he made that point, Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, chimed in and said, "Oh yeah. The day he became president, they changed their behavior!" And factually, that's just not right. It's quite striking to see a cabinet secretary making that point in that way.
MSNBC is not a "liberal" news network. It is a for-profit vehicle of global telecommunications giant Comcast. Comcast is not in the news business, it is the "you" business. MSNBC, especially NBC News and MSNBC chairman Andy Lack, has made clear the network is in business to sell its viewers to advertisers. Period. What programs it produces and what journalists it employs are merely a means to a desired end: profit. And squeezing out liberals in order to attract more conservatives is MSNBC's game plan.
Case in point: Network executives, it appears, are preparing to cancel "The Last Word," hosted by Lawrence O'Donnell, who has been on the network since MSNBC's inception. O'Donnell's show is the network's second-highest rated show, after "The Rachel Maddow Show."
According to a report by Yashar Ali at HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post), part of the reason may be that Donald Trump has been trying to get MSNBC to cancel O'Donnell for years.
A new study published in the journal Neuropsychologia has shown that religious fundamentalism is, in part, the result of a functional impairment in a brain region known as the prefrontal cortex. The findings suggest that damage to particular areas of the prefrontal cortex indirectly promotes religious fundamentalism by diminishing cognitive flexibility and openness—a psychology term that describes a personality trait which involves dimensions like curiosity, creativity, and open-mindedness.
These findings are important because they suggest that impaired functioning in the prefrontal cortex—whether from brain trauma, a psychological disorder, a drug or alcohol addiction, or simply a particular genetic profile—can make an individual susceptible to religious fundamentalism. And perhaps in other cases, extreme religious indoctrination harms the development or proper functioning of the prefrontal regions in a way that hinders cognitive flexibility and openness.(Emphasis added.)
The authors emphasize that cognitive flexibility and openness aren't the only things that make brains vulnerable to religious fundamentalism. In fact, their analyses showed that these factors only accounted for a fifth of the variation in fundamentalism scores.
Trump hired the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius to send a letter to Lindsey Graham about his finances which stated that that "Trump's last 10 years of tax returns do not reveal "any income of any type from Russian sources" with some exceptions.
The phrase "some exceptions" has caused quite a stir. The lawyers have offered no documents, including Trump's tax returns as proof of their findings.
Experts on white-collar financial crime like Jack Blum, have already said, "There's no substance to it. The letter is just another puff of smoke. It has no meaning at all. It's just another way to not answer the question."
But there's another part to this equation that is just as troubling. As the Washington Post reports, "Her law firm was honored by Chambers & Partners' 2016 Chambers Europe guide as Russia Law Firm of the Year.
Trump won the popular vote, #withfewexceptions— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) May 12, 2017
The pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron has vowed to unite a divided and fractured France after winning a decisive victory over the far-right Front National candidate Marine Le Pen in the country's presidential election.
Macron, 39, a former economy minister who ran as a "neither left nor right" independent promising to shake up the French political system, took 66% to Le Pen's 34%.
His victory was hailed by his supporters as holding back a tide of populism after the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's victory in the US election.
Addressing thousands of supporters in the grand courtyard of the Louvre, the vast Paris palace-turned-museum, Macron said he would defend France and Europe. He said Europe and the world are "watching us" and "waiting for us to defend the spirit of the Enlightenment, threatened in so many places".
U.S. far-right activists helped amplify a leak of hacked emails belonging to leading French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign, some researchers said on Saturday, with automated bots and the Twitter account of WikiLeaks also propelling a leak that came two days before France's presidential vote.
The rapid spread on Twitter (TWTR.N), Facebook (FB.O) and the messaging forum 4chan of emails and other campaign documents that Macron's campaign said on Friday had been stolen recalled the effort by right-wing activists and Russian state media to promote hacked documents embarrassing to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton last year.
Going to be awkward at 5/25 Nato summit when Merkel, May, & Macron have to switch to non-classified topics when the US president joins them— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 7, 2017
In the few days since President Trump issued his Executive Order on National Monuments, many legal scholars have questioned the legality of his actions under the Antiquities Act. Indeed, if the president attempts to revoke or downsize a monument designation, such actions would be on shaky, if any, legal ground. The Conversation
But beyond President Trump's dubious reading of the Antiquities Act, his threats also implicate a suite of other cultural and ecological laws implemented within our national monuments.
By opening a Department of Interior review of all large-scale monuments designated since 1996, Trump places at risk two decades' worth of financial and human investment in areas such as endangered species protection, ecosystem health, recognition of tribal interests and historical protection.
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A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that, in the words of NBC's Carrie Dann, "a record number of Americans say that the government should do more — not less — in order to solve the nation's problems."
This is a major change from the 1990s, when most Americans felt that government "does too many things better left to businesses and individuals."
There has even been a significant shift in the last two years alone. In 2015, 50 percent of voters thought the government should do more. Today that figure is 57 percent. 46 percent of those polled that year thought government did too much. That figure is now down to 39 percent.
The financial crisis of 2008 awakened many people to the risks posed by the private sector, and to the need for government services in the wreckage created by Wall Street greed. The Occupy movement triggered an important national dialogue about inequality and the increasing diversion of national wealth to a privileged and powerful few.
The Bernie Sanders presidential campaign gave a political voice to this movement during the 2016 campaign. Even Donald Trump was forced to get into the game. He promised to repair American infrastructure and create millions of jobs, said he would renegotiate job-killing trade deals, and insisted that he would not cut Social Security or Medicare.
Myth 3: The Country Should Be Run Like a Business
Related to the above two myths is the idea that the best person for the presidency is not only a political outsider, but one with experience running a business. Again, this is pretty bizarre. Businesses and governments do very different things to create jobs, providing mandated services is very different from serving voluntary customers for profit, and the federal government can print money and run debts over a very long time period while that might prove fatal to a business. But this, too, was one of Trump's rationales for running for office; he made money in the private sector (at least in some years), so he'd be good for the government's bottom line.
Desiree Fairooz, the woman who laughed during Senator Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing as Attorney General of the United States, has been found guilty of disorderly conduct and disrupting a Senate confirmation hearing, and she now faces up to one year in prison. Two other women, who are also a part of Fairooz's protest there, are also facing up to one year in prison, so we may have three women in the United States going to prison because they had the audacity to laugh during Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing.
They laughed because the soon-to-be Attorney General made a statement talking about the fact that the preservation of equality and equal rights in the United States was always going to be one of his main focuses, something that everybody understands is not true, so Desiree Fairooz laughed at that.
Calling it "one of the world's most painful decisions," FBI Director James Comey says he believes he made "the right choice" when he notified Congress in October that the Bureau found Clinton emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop. Comey told Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein that he told his agents in October he "can't consider for a second" the implications of telling Congress of the new emails. He claimed he had to make the notification without regard to the election because taking into account what could happen in any case would destroy the mission of the FBI.
Comey says he was immediately stuck between two choices, speaking or concealing. He claimed that not notifying Congress in his mind was "concealment." Therefore, he said, he had no choice but to inform Congress.
Senator Feinstein Wednesday told Director Comey he could have easily notified Congress in a classified setting, thereby not making information public – and not affecting the outcome of the election.
Sean Hannity and his lackey Bill Shine blocked me from Fox because I blocked Sean's insane effort to become @realDonaldTrump WH COS— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) May 3, 2017
Roger, with all due respect, I NEVER EVER ASKED to be considered for any WH job, nor would I ever have accepted, nor is that my skill set. https://t.co/P1yczkqL8a— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 3, 2017
Ben Carson does not like the creature comforts, at least not for low-income Americans reliant on the government for a helping hand. As he toured facilities for the poor in Ohio last week, Mr. Carson, the neurosurgeon-turned-housing secretary, joked that a relatively well-appointed apartment complex for veterans lacked "only pool tables." He inquired at one stop whether animals were allowed.
At yet another, he nodded, plainly happy, as officials explained how they had stacked dozens of bunk beds inside a homeless shelter and purposefully did not provide televisions. Compassion, Mr. Carson explained in an interview, means not giving people "a comfortable setting that would make somebody want to say: 'I'll just stay here. They will take care of me.'"
oh my god the Mulvaney conference call, via @maddow pic.twitter.com/YPZr1tZfRo— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) May 3, 2017


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- Modern, centennial farmhouse: 2000 sq. ft, 3 bedroom, 2 ½ bathrooms
- Located on 1.8 acres of land with 250 ft of frontage on Dyer Lake
- Dyer Lake: This 60-acre private lake is surrounded by trees and is a tranquil nature lover's lake with a lakeside campfire pit. Natural vegetation meets the crystal clear water making it a great habitat for nature. It doesn't have a sandy beach or a firm lake bottom. There is a complimentary row boat and kayaks to explore the lake. It's a low-motor lake so it is quiet and peaceful and is located directly across from a lightly traveled dead-end road.
- For a larger lake experience: Bass Lake's public boat launch is ½ mile down the road. Silver Lake's public boat launch is 5 miles away. Long Lake's public beach is 6 miles away. Traverse City and the Grand Traverse Bay are 10 minutes away.
- Bring your bikes! Less than 1 mile down the road is the trail-head to the South Long Lake Forest Natural Area, a 280-acre land conservancy with a trail system for biking and hiking.
- WiFi, cable TV
- Air conditioning: each bedroom and the main floor have window units
- Whole house fan cools home off with fresh air
- Fully equipped kitchen with refrigerator, stove/oven, dishwasher, coffee maker, toaster
- Cable flat screen TVs in the living room, over the fireplace and in the finished basement
- Washer and dryer
- Living room: gas fireplace, flat screen TV, comfortably seats 8 people.
- Dining room with large table, seats 8 people
- Finished basement with TV room and laundry
- Bedrooms are on the on the second floor.
- Bedroom #1 has one king size bed, full size futon, and master bathroom
- Bedroom #2 has one queen bed
- Bedroom #3 has two full size beds
- Bathrooms: 2 full bathrooms on second floor
- ½ bathroom is on the first floor
- Covered porch with rocking chairs, facing the lake
- Hardwood and tile floors main rooms, carpeted bedroom floors.
- Deck facing the backyard with table/chairs and charcoal grill, overlooking the small apple orchard with the forest in the background.
- Large attached garage
- Quiet area with homes on large lots
- 250 ft of lake frontage
- 2 campfire pits: one on lake side and one in the back yard.
- Campfire wood is provided
Memorial Day Weekend: May 24, 2019 – May 26, 2019
Flat fee: $900
Late Spring: May 28, 2019 – June 7, 2019
Nightly rate: $300
Early Summer 1: June 8, 2019 – June 14, 2019
Weekly rental only, changeover day: Saturday
Weekly rate: $1,400
Early Summer 2: June 15, 2019 – June 21, 2019
Weekly rental only, changeover day: Saturday
Weekly rate: $1,900
Summer: June 22, 2019 – Aug 9, 2019
Weekly rental only, changeover day: Saturday
Weekly rate: $2,800
Late Summer 1: Aug 10, 2019 – Aug 16, 2019
Weekly rental only, changeover day: Saturday
Weekly rate: $2,400
Late Summer 2: Aug 17, 2019 – Aug 29, 2019
Weekly rental only, changeover day: Saturday
Weekly rate: $2,000
Labor Day Weekend: Aug 30, 2019 – Sep 1, 2019
Flat fee: $1,200
Fall: Sep 2, 2019 – Oct 28, 2019
Nightly rate: $250
*Rates do not include the 6% MI Use Tax.


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Students want watch leader who shot teen arrested
ORLANDO, Fla. — College students around Florida rallied Monday to demand the arrest of a white neighborhood watch captain who shot an unarmed black teen last month, though authorities may be hamstrung by a state law that allows people to defend themselves with deadly force.
Students held rallies on the campus of Florida A&M University in Tallahassee and outside the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center, where prosecutors are reviewing the case to determine if charges should be filed. The students demanded the arrest of 28-year-old George Zimmerman, who authorities say shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last month during a confrontation in a gated community in Sanford.
Zimmerman spotted Martin as he was patrolling his neighborhood on a rainy evening last month and called 911 to report a suspicious person. Against the advice of the 911 dispatcher, Zimmerman then followed Martin, who was walking home from a convenience store with a bag of Skittles in his pocket.
Zimmerman's father has said his son is Hispanic and is not racist. Zimmerman has claimed self-defense.
"I don't think a man who exited his vehicle after the 911 dispatcher told him to stay inside the car can claim self-defense," Carl McPhail, a 28-year-old Barry University law school student, said at the Sanford rally.
The 70 protesters at the Sanford rally chanted "What if it was your son?" and held posters saying, "This is not a race issue." Many carried Skittles.
Martin's parents and other advocates have said the shooter would have been arrested had he been black.
"You would think that Sanford is still in the 1800s claiming that this man can call self-defense for shooting an unarmed boy," said restaurant owner Linda Tillman, who also was at the Sanford rally.
The case has garnered national attention, and civil rights activist Al Sharpton and radio host Michael Baisden planned to lead another rally Thursday in Sanford.
But prosecutors may not be able to charge Zimmerman because of changes to state law in 2005. Under the old law, people could face criminal charges for killing someone in self-defense if they did not first try to run away or otherwise avoid the danger.
The changes removed that duty to retreat and gave Floridians, as the law is written, the right "to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force," if they felt threatened. The changes also meant people could not be prosecuted in such instances.
Prosecutors can have a hard time making a case if there is no one else around to contradict a person who claims self-defense, said David Hill, a criminal defense attorney in Orlando. Thus far, Sanford police have said there is no evidence to contradict Zimmerman's claims.
"If there is nobody around and you pull a gun, you just say, `Hey, I reasonably believed I was under imminent attack. Hey, sorry. Too bad. But you can't prosecute me,"' Hill said, somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
Gun control advocates said the case is emblematic of permissive gun laws in Florida, which was among the first states to allow residents to carry concealed weapons. Florida was the first state to pass a "Stand Your Ground" law, which has been dubbed a "Shoot First" law by gun control advocates. Currently, about half of all U.S. states have similar laws, said Brian Malte, legislative director of the Brady Campaign, which describes itself as the nation's largest organization dedicated to the prevention of gun violence.
"It's coming to dangerous fruition," Malte aid. "There are more states like Florida."
This story was written and provided by The Associated Press Wire. (Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Allabout Squares Square Dancing
Allabout Squares Square Dancing
Glenburnie Hall, Glenelg Hwy Mount Gambier, SA 5290
0417 509 144 Andrea
PO Box 713 Mount Gambier, SA 5290
7:pm-9pm - Thurs nights (except school holidays).
Club Caller - Andrea Braun
Alternative venue used on some occasions, please call prior to attending
Fees Apply
Venue hire
Glenburnie Hall
No experience necessary
Tea, coffee & cordial provided. Plate of food for supper appreciated. Wear comfortable shoes.
- Square dancing is fun and friendship set to music.
- New classes beginning Saturday 5 April
- Come along and try an exciting new activity
- Any queries please call Andrea on 0417 509 144
Last updated: 04/01/2017
Information provided by: Grant District Council
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In my off-campus time, these are some of my hobbies and interests.
I love travelling and getting to know the world I live in. Having visited around 16 countries across 4 continents so far, I realized travel widens our knowledge, our perspective of life and the world, and ultimately helps meeting amazing people and collecting memories for a lifetime. As a fanatic of temples, ruins, Buddhist heritage, nature and other ancient/mystic places, I find Asia a particularly interesting travel destination over the years. Even business travel can be a good opportunity to meet or re-encounter with a new place rather than an obligation :)
Me at the Singapore jungle (the real one, not the better-known concrete one here)
I couldn't live in a world without books. Be it narrative, technical, self-improvement, travel or even cook books, it is infrequent not to find a book (or rather a pile of them) besides me or on my bedside table. Outside academic and professional books, I also enjoy self-improvement, motivational, mystery and thriller titles, a clear example of the latter being Dan Brown's novels, and consider myself a big fan of "A Song of Ice and Fire" saga by George R.R. Martin (the novel series that inspired the well-know TV series "Game of Thrones"). My absolute favorite Spanish writer is Eloy Moreno: all of its books are just wonderful, addictive and brutally touching : I wish they can be translated to as many different languages as possible to reach out to the world. In addition, as a passionate traveller, more and more "Lonely Planet" guides are gradually taking over my room!
Coffee and a book: my ideal rainy weekend afternoon
"There is something of the marvelous in all things of nature" (Aristotle)
Some activities I enjoy in nature, and try to do whenever I can, are hiking, trekking, picnics, photography, or just getting away from the city bustle to unwind and relax. Some people prefer sea and some others may prefer mountain or forest. I enjoy all of them! Recent amazing experiences include open water scuba diving (being surrounded by countless marine life species is indescribable) and hiking in an Icelandic glacier.
Glacier hiking (or how I attempted and failed to climb The Wall)
This not only applies to the language (which I am presently learning very slowly) but also most aspects of Japanese society, heritage and culture in general: I enjoy some anime and manga series (despite not really know too many of them), reading about Japanese culture or watching documentaries that immerses their spectators into this intriguing, yet fascinating part of the globe.
Some "kawaii" (cute) Daruma figuresA rookie's attempt on Japanese calligraphy
Although played far less than on a daily basis, I am a big fan of videogames, particularly Nintendo classics, some epic RPGs and retro (8 and 16-bit) titles. Board games do also sound like a good evening plan with friends.


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Welcome to Creative Mobile Support Center Need Help? No Worries! Our Support Team has you covered Our office hours are Monday to Friday 9:00 - 17:00 EET (Eastern European Time) that's 2:00am - 10:00am EST (Eastern Standard Time). We strive for excellence in our communication with our players and the community, you can expect to get a response on your ticket within 2 working days (48 hours).
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How do I get a baby animal?
Posted by Anton Kozlov on 20 July 2017 10:06 AM
Once you have achieved a certain Zoo Status and have two adult animals in the same habitat you can raise a baby animal. Tap on the habitat, then tap on the pink paw button and follow the instructions to raise a baby animal in three stages. Some visitors will want to buy baby animals for Zoo-tokens and experience. Don't take too long in making a decision, because the buyer will leave after a certain amount of time.


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This Week's Biggest Gainers
Hillary Clinton
The Park Ridge native earned an impressive victory over Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary.
Chris Williams
The Bears first-round draft pick, an offensive lineman, became the latest player responsible for protecting whoever the hell the team has playing quarterback this year.
Nick Hill
The Southern Illinois quarterback was picked up by the Chicago Bears.
Rashard Mendenhall
The star University of Illinois running back and Chicago native was drafted in the first round… by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Lee Elia
The former Cubs skipper was celebrated on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his infamous curse-filled tirade on Cubs fans.
This Week's Biggest Losers
Barack Obama
Amidst the growing Rev. Wright kerfuffle, the Illinois Senator was soundly defeated in the Pennsylvania primary.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Pundits and columnists everywhere criticized the reverend's ongoing undermining of the Obama campaign.
David M. Hall
The Lake County judge was busted for a DUI and in the process was pepper-sprayed by police.
Alfonso Soriano
After being placed on the disabled list with a calf injury, the Cubs highly paid outfielder suffered severe criticism from sportswriters and jocks, especially as the team succeeded offensively in his absence.
Jerry Springer
The Northwestern alumnus was invited to give the commencement address at the NU School of Law and was met with wildly unhappy student petitions and blog posts.


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QUINCY — Mike Reynolds can guarentee one thing when Class 3A regional play begins next week.
The Galesburg boys basketball team will meet any challenge.
Five weeks ago, the Silver Streaks suffered their worst loss of the season, falling by 37 points at home to Quincy. Friday night, with the Blue Devils looking to make it nine straight WB6 victories to close the season, the Silver Streaks nearly ruined the moment.
Galesburg trailed by only one point with 4:28 to play in regulation before Quincy point guard Aaron Shoot took control. Shoot outscored the Silver Streaks 13-4 from that point forward, helping Quincy earn a 51-41 victory at Blue Devil Gym.
"When you have a guy like Shoot, who is the best player in the league, at least the guy who has played the best in my opinion and our coaches' opinions, you can control the ball," Reynolds said. "When you can control the ball, you can control the game. That's a great feeling as a coach."
Reynolds and the Silver Streaks have had that before. Andrew Anderson and Nicholas Fields tried to do that Friday night, but when a bevy of shots don't fall, it's tough to control anything.
Galesburg went 15 of 51 from the field (29.4 percent) and 2 of 16 from 3-point range (12.5 percent).
"That's one of our worst shooting games," Reynolds said. "Quincy has a lot to do with that. They get you playing a little faster than you want to."
The Blue Devils didn't shoot it all that well themselves, going 17 of 54 from the field (31.5 percent) and 6 of 19 from 3-point range (31.6 percent).
But in the fourth quarter, Shoot went 5 of 5 from the field and 6 of 6 from the free-throw line, scoring 16 of his 23 points.
"I kind of got tired of the game being that close," Shoot said. "I wanted to do everything within my power to kind of separate, whether that meant creating for my teammates or creating for myself."
After the Silver Streaks' Cornell Dotson made a pair of free throws with 4:28 to play and cut the deficit to 38-37, Quincy's Collin Tenhouse thwarted the next two Galesburg possessions. He picked up a steal off a Jirehl Brock deflection and got the ball into the hands of Shoot, who beat Fields off the dribble and scored on a drive down the right side of the lane.
Another deflection in the backcourt ended up as a Tenhouse steal, and he fed Shoot for an uncontested layup and a 44-37 lead that forced Reynolds to call a timeout with 3:37 to play.
And Shoot did the rest. After Galesburg (21-10, 5-5 WB6) cut the deficit to three, Shoot scored on a backdoor layup off a Brock feed from the high post. He scored through contact of a drive to the basket and completed the three-point play.
He capped it with a pair of free throws with 25 seconds left and walked off the floor with the rest of the seniors to thunderous applause.
Anderson finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds, while Dotson had 10 points off the bench and sophomore forward Jaylin McCants had seven points and 10 rebounds for the Silver Streaks.
Too many missed opportunities — Galesburg had eight offensive rebounds in the first half but only seven second-chance points — kept the Silver Streaks from seizing control. If those shots falls in the postseason, Reynolds knows he has a dangerous team.
"We're not going to play anybody as good as Quincy, but other teams in our sectional play good teams, too," Reynolds said. "It's not like we're going to roll out there and scare anybody, but I like our chances. I'm sure seven or eight other teams in our sectional do, too."


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I published my first book, The Men I've Almost Dated, two years ago and many people are surprised when I tell them it wasn't about intuition, energy or life purpose. It was about relationships and more specifically, my relationships with men. It shared my story of realising who I was, leaving my 15-year relationship and then navigating dating, sex and men (with hilarious and mortifying results).
People say it makes them feel a myriad of emotions as they laugh, cringe, want to cry, feel a bit more accepting of themselves (and their experiences), and feel hopeful too.
It took a lot of personal courage to birth that book into the world because it included a lot of personal details about my life. I knew some people might judge me because of my decisions and no one likes to feel judged. I guess that might be why I used this as my author pic. You'll notice I'm not looking at the camera – I was still shy, still hiding a little and afraid of putting myself out there completely. Still unsure if I had the personal strength and groundedness to stand in my power and know I would be okay, regardless of what anyone else said or thought about my work.
Today my pics feature me looking straight down the barrel of the camera. I no longer let my fear of what others might think control me or my actions. I know what I'm here to do and listen to my intuitive guidance to help me move towards living my Soul's Mission. Along the way I meet incredible like-minded women who are traveling the journey with me. Some become clients, others trusted mentors who go above and beyond because they have traversed the same road and want to help me to be successful and, in turn, help the women I'm called to serve. I am grateful to every single one of them.
Nights for Spiritual Beginners is my signature program to help women live their Soul's Mission, kick their indecision to the kerb, harness their intuitive power and begin moving forward with purpose and clarity.
There are only five spots still available for my January program. So if you're ready to stop sitting on the sidelines of your own life, please get in touch.
Let's map out a plan to help you move forward today!


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A comprehensive summary of today's judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Join us Wednesday, September 6, at 12 noon (ET) for an Agricultural & Food Law Consortium webinar: "Water Law Update." Details available here.
JUDICIAL: Includes CWA, environmental, urb & ag, biosecurity, and food safety issues.
MICHAEL KLEINMAN, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF AUSTIN, Defendant, 1:15-cv-497-RP, 2017 WL 3585792 (W.D. Tex. August 18, 2017) concerned alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA), stemming from a construction project completed by the City of Austin. Plaintiff sought an injunction requiring City to "take remedial measures to remove a sediment bar and to prevent further discharge of construction material into the Colorado River." Plaintiff argued City conceded liability under the CWA and City argued plaintiff "lacks standing to sue under Article III and the CWA, and that it is immune from liability under the CWA because of permits it held at the relevant time." Court found plaintiff has standing and noted evidence suggested City's "construction material is likely to continue washing into the river." Summary judgment for defendant denied.
In SIERRA CLUB, et al., Petitioners v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent, Duke Energy Florida, LLC, et al., Intervenors, No. 16–1329, 2017 WL 3597014 (D.C. August 22, 2017), environmental groups challenged ruling of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approving "construction and operation of three new interstate natural-gas pipelines in the southeastern United States." Plaintiffs argued the agency's assessment of the environmental impact of the pipelines was "inadequate." Court found FERC's environmental impact statement "did not contain enough information on the greenhouse-gas emissions that will result from burning the gas that the pipelines will carry." Court granted plaintiff's petition for review and remanded for "preparation of a conforming environmental impact statement."
In LYNN COOKE ANDREWS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. TOWN OF WALLINGFORD, et al., Defendants, No. 3:16-cv-01232 (JAM), 2017 WL 3588571 (D. Conn. August 21, 2017), plaintiffs built a pond on their farm without first applying for a wetlands permit and town officials issued cease-and-desist orders. Plaintiffs sued, arguing town violated their "constitutional right to farm the land." Issue for court was whether plaintiffs "waited too long to come to federal court." Plaintiffs argued statute of limitations had not expired because "they continue to be subject to the ongoing effects of the town's enforcement orders that prevent them every day until now from using their farm pond as they wish." Court noted plaintiffs "were aware of their injury more than three years" before filing their suit and found their claims were barred by statute of limitations. Case dismissed.
In COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee v. Frederick W. KARASH, Appellant, No. 1440 WDA 2016, 2017 WL 3587046 (Pa. Super. Ct. August 21, 2017), a water conservation officer stopped and boarded appellant's boat to conduct a license check and was issued a citation for not having enough personal flotation devices. Appellant filed a motion to suppress evidence arguing the officer "did not have reasonable suspicion or probable cause to conduct a stop." Trial court ruled the officer had the "power to stop and board any boat without probable cause for the purpose of inspection for compliance with safety rules and regulations." Issue on appeal was "whether the stop of a boat without reasonable suspicion or probable cause on a Pennsylvania waterway violates the Fourth Amendment." Court noted the Commonwealth "has not demonstrated that it is unable to set up a system of inspection similar to what is done on roadways, and consistent with other states," and concluded the stop violated the Fourth Amendment. Reversed.
CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY; CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; SIERRA CLUB; HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES; ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND; UNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MARGARET A. HAMBURG, Commissioner, United States Food and Drug Administration; U.S. FOOD & DRUG ADMINISTRATION, Defendants-Appellees, ELANCO US INC., Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee. No. 15-17510, 2017 WL 3601726 (9th Cir. August 22, 2017) concerned allegations that Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the use of animal drugs violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). District court dismissed the case after finding that plaintiff failed to satisfy the Administrative Procedure Act's (APA) exhaustion requirements. Appellate court agreed with lower court finding that the FDA "should be afforded an opportunity to apply its expertise to assess plaintiff's claims in the first instance 'prior to possible judicial intervention.'" Appellate court directed the district court "to stay further proceedings to allow [plaintiff] to comply with the FDA's citizen petition requirement." Vacated and remanded.
REGULATORY: Includes USDA, APHIS, EPA, GIPSA, and NOAA rules and notices.
Rule provides summary descriptions of significant and not significant regulations being developed in agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in conformance with Executive Orders (EO) 13771 "Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda," 12866 "Regulatory Planning and Review," and 13563 "Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review." Details here.
Notice USDA has submitted information collection requirement(s) to OMB for review. Title: National Visitor Use Monitoring, and Customer and Use Survey Techniques for Operations, Management, Evaluation and Research. Details here.
Rule APHIS seeks comment on potential revisions to the licensing requirements under our Animal Welfare Act regulations to promote compliance with the Act, reduce licensing fees, and strengthen existing safeguards that prevent any individual whose license has been suspended or revoked, or who has a history of noncompliance, from obtaining a license or working with regulated animals. Info here.
Notice APHIS will request approval of an information collection associated with the requirements for the interstate movement of regulated articles to prevent the spread of citrus black spot. Info here.
Notice APHIS will request a revision to and extension of approval of an information collection associated with the regulations for the importation of certain fruits and vegetables into the United States. Info here.
Notice APHIS will request approval of an information collection associated with the requirements for the interstate movement of fresh, mature Kaffir lime, curry, and bael leaves for consumption from areas quarantined for citrus greening and Asian citrus psyllid. Info here.
Rule EPA is approving a portion of Alabama's State Implementation Plan (SIP) revision submitted by the State of Alabama, through the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. Info here.
Rule EPA is proposing to approve the State Implementation Plan revision, which the State of Iowa (the state) submitted to the EPA on May 26, 2016, for attaining the 1-hour sulfur dioxide (SO2) primary National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for the Muscatine nonattainment area. Info here.
Rule EPA is proposing to revise the MACT standard for back-end CPVs at existing affected sources based on hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions test data for back-end CPVs at existing sources for this source category submitted by petitioners. Info here.
GRAIN INSPECTION, PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ADMINISTRATION: Notice GIPSA will request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve a 3-year extension of a currently approved information collection for the "Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements under the United States Grain Standards Act (USGSA) and under the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (AMA)." Details here.
Rule NMFS published a final rule on July 25, 2017, to implement management measures described in Amendment 37 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region. Info here.
Rule NMFS implements accountability measures (AMs) for the recreational and commercial sectors for the Florida Keys/East Florida hogfish stock in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) for the 2017 fishing year through this temporary rule. Info here.
Notice of Approval for the South Slough, Oregon National Estuarine Research Reserve Management Plan revision. Details here.
Notice that the British Broadcasting Corporation Worldwide Americas, Inc., has applied in due form for a permit to conduct commercial or educational photography on Weddell Seals in Antarctica. Details here.
Notice NMFS has received a request from the United States Air Force, Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) 96th Test Wing (AFMC) for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to conducting testing and training activities in the Eglin Gulf Test and Training Range in the Gulf of Mexico over the course of five years. Info here.


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The amount of tax you pay can be expressed in two different ways, marginal tax rate and average tax rate. While marginal tax rate is the tax rate paid on the last dollar you earn, your average tax rate is simply calculated as your total income tax divided by your total taxable income.
This is an important distinction, since your marginal rate doesn't give you an accurate view of what your actual tax rate is. Your marginal tax rate might 32%, but you aren't paying 32% in income tax on all of your income. You're only paying that amount on the income that is above the threshold for the next bracket below.
Instead of relying on the marginal rate to get a clear picture of the tax you are paying on your entire income, consider your average tax rate.
What Is Your Average Tax Rate?
Your average tax rate is likely to be much lower than your marginal rate. When first looking at your marginal tax rate, you might think that you are paying a great deal, but when you figure your average rate, the story changes. All you have to do is take the total amount you paid in income tax, and divide it by your total taxable income.
When figuring your own example, you will need to pay attention to your province, as well as the federal tax. Here is an example of someone in Alberta who makes $44,000 per year, and pays $7,480 in taxes. The marginal tax rate in this case is 25%. If the Albertan sees a raise, and now makes $49,000, the new tax bill is $9,030, and the new marginal tax rate is 32%. It seems as though it might be a big change, but it's really not. As an average tax rate, the percentage would be calculated as:
- $7,480 divided by $44,000 = 17.0%
- $9,030 divided by $49,000 = 18.4%
So while the marginal tax rate increased by 7%, the 32% rate is only taxed on the final $4,299. The average tax rate only went up by 1.4%. That's not a big jump, and it's worth noting that it makes paying taxes more affordable than might be surmised when just looking at the marginal tax rate. The total tax bill went up $1,550, which was affordable in terms of a $5,000 raise.
How To Use Average Tax Rate
At first glance, knowing your average tax rate is not really as useful as knowing your marginal tax rate. This is because your marginal tax rate gives you a set goal when it comes to reducing your tax bill. With marginal tax rate, you can look to reduce your taxes by eliminating the highest rate of taxes you pay. It also lets you know what you'll owe in taxes on the next dollar you earn.
The only real benefit of knowing your average tax rate is that you can see how much of you money is paid in federal and provincial taxes. This can help you create a budget showing how every dollar of your gross income is spent, and not just your net income. Understanding your average tax rate is more about figuring out where your money is going, and planning what you can expect to pay in taxes.
When putting your budget together, you should know your average tax rate so you can get a feel for how much you will be setting aside. Just as you plan for expenses like groceries, utilities, insurance, and gas, you should also plan to pay taxes. You can figure out how much will go to taxes (and what you will have left over) as part of the rest of your financial planning. Including your taxes, benefits paid, CPP, and other items not always considered part of your budget can be a great way to truly see where all your money goes.
Once you know where the money is going, you can make other plans. You should use your knowledge of your average tax rate in conjunction with your marginal tax rate. Your knowledge of your marginal tax rate can help you make plans to more effectively use your money to reduce your tax liability, while your knowledge of your average tax rate can help you look to the future and plan your budget. Used together, you can more effective decisions that will ultimately help you use your money in a wiser manner.


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All residence are expected to vacate their rooms 24 hours after their last exam or by 5pm May 13 unless they are participating in graduation.
We ask that everyone demonstrate a high degree of respect and courtesy during finals week to allow others to study. Quiet hours for finals week begin at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, May 5th. At all times it is expected that floor communities will maintain a quiet environment conducive to studying. The priority is for students to be able to study in their rooms.
Change your address - Do you receive bank, credit card, and/or insurance statements? Maybe you have subscribed to and receive DVDs, books and/or magazines? Or, your family and friends send you personal letters? Please contact any person or business/organization who regularly sends mail to you and change your address with them prior to checking out for the summer. Changing your address with them directly will allow your mail to be sent directly to you instead of having the University forward your mail. This saves time and potential problems with delayed or misdirected mail. The University will not forward magazines, catalogs, bulk mailings, or any other non-first class mail.
Packages delivered by UPS, FedEx, and other couriers will not be accepted, forwarded or held for pick up; but instead will be returned to sender. Should any First Class mail be received for you, after you check out, it will be forwarded to the permanent address you have listed with the Registrar's Office. If you want your First Class mail sent to a different address over the summer, be sure to change your mailing address located in the "Personal Information" in the My Southeast Portal.
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Fisheries Minister Dr. Mohamed Shainee on Sunday has claimed the Maldives government will attempt to negotiate with European Union to stop them from placing selective sanctions on key political figures.
The EU adopted a framework for targeted sanctions including asset freeze and travel ban on key government officials over the worsening human rights and political situation in the archipelago.
Foreign Affairs Council during its sit-down in Brussels adopted the framework for targeted restrictive measures against persons and entities responsible for undermining the rule of law or obstructing an inclusive political solution in the Maldives as well as persons and entities responsible for serious human rights violations.
"This decision makes it possible, if the situation does not improve, to impose a travel ban and an asset freeze on relevant individuals and entities," a statement said.
Meanwhile opposition has criticized ruling party and Maldives government regarding EU's decision.
Fisheries Minister claimed local entrepreneurs were targeted with blackmail over EU's sanction list to extort money. Dr. Shainee claimed EU sanction list does not include any local businessman or political figure.
Dr. Shainee claimed he found success in holding dialogue with EU member countries, while he accused opposition of misleading facts regarding the island nation in front of international communities for political motives.
EU decided placing targeted sanctions after Maldives government refused to comply to its request of lifting the state of emergency earlier in February as well as arbitrarily arresting several dissenting political figures.


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OKLAHOMA CITY - One person is dead after a drive-by shooting in NE Oklahoma City Friday evening.
Police say a white van was traveling on Lincoln Blvd. near NE 33rd St. around 10:30 p.m. when another vehicle drove past the van and fired three to five shots into the vehicle.
A backseat passenger, an adult male, was hit by the gunfire.
He was transported to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
"They were telling me it was my cousin's nephew," said Rochelle Clark. She says she got a call Saturday night.
"First, I got a call from my sister last night asking if we were okay. And I was like, 'huh?' And she was like, 'well, you sleep, but there's a lot of police on the corner and it looks like they have you all's street blocked off," said Clark, who didn't know at the time it was her relative who had been killed.
"It's sad when anybody gets killed," said Clark. "I mean, all this killing, it really needs to stop. But, that's the world we live in."
Police say right now, they do not have a description of the suspect.
If you know anything, give police a call.


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In my experience, these are the screenwriting competitions and film/TV fellowships that are worth entering/applying to.
Are Screenwriting Competitions Worth It?
by Angela Bourassa (@angelabourassa1) I want to make it clear up front that I am someone who co-founded and co-runs a screenwriting competition. I'm also a writer who has entered a lot of screenwriting competitions and had mixed experiences. A few years back, I won the LA Comedy Festival screenwriting competition. I got a check... Continue Reading →
LiveRead/LA: The Best Screenwriting Contest You've Never Heard Of
by Angela Bourassa (@angelabourassa1) As an aspiring screenwriter, you're bound to sign up for online classes and get script coverage from a few different sources. You'll visit websites like this one, and you'll inevitably end up on some mailing lists. If you're like me, you probably get incredibly frustrated by just how much spam you... Continue Reading →
How to Know When You're Ready for an Agent
The team over at Scriptshadow has written a helpful article about the old Catch-22 of the screenwriting business: you can't get an agent without having sold something, and you can't sell anything without an agent. Scriptshadow offers some thoughtful advice on how to get an agent, but I wanted to focus in one one particular... Continue Reading →
Ask LA Screenwriter: Getting Read Without Going Broke
Today's question comes from Maria: What should I do if I want someone to read my script? The problem is that I don't have enough money to enter contests or go to festivals. Btw: I don't live in LA. This is a big challenge faced by people trying to break into the screenwriting world, including... Continue Reading →
Recommendation: The ISA
The International Screenwriter's Association is a great free resource for aspiring and working screenwriters.


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For most of us, a new role in life presents a variety of challenges and some surprises, too. Advice from someone who's already been there can help get us through the rough spots. In the case of university students, who better than seniors to offer the benefit of their experience?
This week, Ali Karanfilci, a fourth-year Management student, gives advice as to how this year's freshmen can make their university lives a bit easier and less complicated.
When I was in eighth grade, I asked my father if I could leave school and join our family business in agriculture. At that point, I was actually playing a crucial role in my father's business; I was helping him by maintaining some financial accounts. I had seen how to make money, and I was learning this well; I had quite a bit of money in my pocket, and this was adding to my self-confidence. However, the first thing my father said to me was that I had to complete my university education before becoming a part of his business. He was never against the idea of me working in my village, but he was against the idea of me working there just like the others did. According to him, education would transform my style of thinking and furnish me with better communication and problem-solving skills. For the first time, I realized that education was not for making money, but for improving yourself.
The second reason I give importance to university education is because it helps you understand the rapidly changing world and also teaches you how to adapt to these changes. But before you start understanding the world, you need to know yourself better: your strengths, weaknesses, interests, etc. University life helps you answer many of the questions you have about yourself. The courses in different disciplines, the friends from different cultural and personal backgrounds, the clubs focusing on different activities – these will provide you with enough opportunities to understand yourself in a better way.
And after finding yourself, you will be ready to find the job most suitable for you, the one that will satisfy your intrinsic passion. Once you find that, you will become different and maybe begin to change the world in a good way.


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The MoVI Pro is the newest gimbal stabilizer from Freefly.
The MoVI Pro allows you to mount a camera package (up to 15 lbs) and shoot smooth handheld footage.
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Addressing Inequality Critical To Ending AIDS
The Guardian: It isn't lack of drugs preventing us eradicating AIDS, but inequality
Lilianne Ploumen, Dutch minister for foreign trade and development cooperation
"…It's time that we as governments, together with our civil society partners, tackle the discrimination that prevents those infected with HIV from seeking and finding assistance and treatment. … The task of giving these people a voice and eradicating AIDS rests largely on the shoulders of governments. … So I call on world leaders to place women above cultural beliefs. Recognize their rights and tackle their disadvantaged position. Recognize the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Allow sex education. Give the poorest of the poor access to care and therapy. Do not give in to religious objections to condoms. Leave no one behind. That's what we all promised to do when we pledged our support for the global goals last year. Let's practice what we preach" (6/9).


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Botanical nameLaurophyllus capensis
Common NameIron Martin, Ystermartiens
Evergreen shrub or small tree up to 6m, resinous, densely leafy. Bark charcoal-grey to brown, smooth. Leaves alternate, elliptic to oblong, glossy-green, margins toothed, leaf-stalk up to 2cm long; flowers small, white to yellowish, male in terminal panicles, female in dense, antler-like structures formed from bracts; male and female flowers on separate plants.
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Thoughts and Reflections on Scripture
Friday, March 21st, 2014Related Song
I really love to sing; there's something so freeing about singing. It feels like the singing voice is somehow connected to a primordial, ancient wire, deep within my chest. I feel a connection to something bigger than I am, something older than I am, something true, and right, and good.
I'm sure it's partly to do with the sudden increase of oxygen as I breathe deeply to belt out my praise. It may have something to do with the psychology of group participation, since my brothers and sisters next to me are experiencing many of the same emotions. Whatever the physiological reasons, as I vocalize, it's almost as if something awakens within me.
I suspect that singing might be our true species vocalization- before words, even. I imagine our earliest ancestors joining in song as they stare into the fire, slowly becoming aware of the beauty and the complexity of the world around them.
So how appropriate, then, to sing to the Lord! Is there any better use of our vocal cords? The expression of our intellect and our emotions, our mind and our heart; the use of our tongue to glorify our great God, to tell of his glory, to testify to those around us that he is greatly to be praised, and revered above all "gods;" there is nothing more natural, nothing more beneficial.
It's one more important reason to go to church. Like a log on a fire, burning alone, the hermit-Christian will find his spiritual flame flickering, perhaps even extinguishing altogether. We must gather together, to share the flame of faith, to be part of the great, unified conflagration of spiritual awakening!
So sing along with Psalm 96 today! Open your mouth, sing out your praise! Ascribe to the Lord glory, and strength; tell the nations that the Lord is king!