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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-2243-46 Source : https://jpeg.ly/Kw3cz Flash News : https://pastebin.com/tzHnmhhN Biden last Talk : https://pasteio.com/xZigxd6CXOBb Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://rextester.com/ILKN40907 Other Sources : https://rextester.com/KYOJZN8537 https://ibit.ly/YNGdm https://yamcode.com/raw/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-213744 https://rentry.co/rsn5d https://jsfiddle.net/m23vobun/ https://jsitor.com/wrQHTwc9T3 https://rentry.co/hb3y2e https://rextester.com/LMPUN8802 https://rentry.co/kdmuu3 https://rentry.co/uc83u https://jsitor.com/sLiT-gkkP2 https://ibit.ly/kYkh7 https://rentry.co/sczkx https://rextester.com/MZM39021 The Palestinian prime minister said in an interview Thursday that the Biden administration must now "walk the walk" and take specific steps toward what has been an elusive two-state solution, including by applying pressure on Israel. Mohammed Shtayyeh spoke to The Associated Press as U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met in Tel Aviv with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to discuss the course of the Israel-Hamas war, now in its third month. Gallant said Israel's aim of destroying Hamas will take several more months. "Now that the United States has talked the talk, we want Washington to walk the walk, meaning that we need specific measures to implement the two-state solution, not only believe in the two-state solution," Shtayyeh said in an AP interview Thursday. The United States has shielded Israel against growing international calls for an immediate cease-fire, but is publicly disagreeing with its close ally on a post-war scenario. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late Wednesday: "We are continuing until the end, there is no question. I say this even given the great pain and the international pressure. Nothing will stop us." Later Thursday, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan in his talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and other senior Israeli officials spent time discussing the "phasing" of Israel's operations, including how the Israelis expect the fighting to play out in the weeks ahead and going into January, according to a senior Biden administration official. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House. The official added that the U.S. and Israeli officials agreed that there would a point in which there is a shift from the current high-intensity operations to a more targeted surgical operations on high-value targets, specific military infrastructure, and other narrower targets. The talks also covered the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Heavy fighting has raged for days in Shijaiyah and other areas in and around eastern Gaza City that were encircled earlier in the war. Tens of thousands of people remain in the north despite repeated evacuation orders, saying they don't feel that anywhere in Gaza is safe or fear they may never return to their homes. Israel has drawn international outrage and rare criticism from the United States over the killing of civilians. More than 18,400 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled territory, which does not differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths. Israel says 113 of its soldiers have died in its ground offensive after Hamas raided southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people -- mostly civilians -- and taking about 240 hostages. -- Biden reassures families he's committed to freeing American hostages held in Gaza. U.S. AND ISRAELI OFFICIALS DISCUSS PHASING AND STRATEGY OF MILITARY OPERATIONS IN GAZA WASHINGTON -- White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan in his talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and other senior Israeli officials on Thursday spent time discussing the "phasing" of Israel's operations, including how the Israelis expect the fighting to play out in the weeks ahead and going into January, according to a senior Biden administration official. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House. The official added that the U.S. and Israeli officials agreed that there would a point in which there is a shift from the current high-intensity operations to a more targeted surgical operations on high-value targets, specific military infrastructure, and other narrower targets. The official pushed back on reports that the Biden White House wants to see major operations completed by the end of the month, but declined to provide a timetable. The talks also covered the humanitarian situation in Gaza, the ongoing threat of attacks on vessels in the Red Sea coming from Houthi rebels in Yemen, and the posture of Iranian proxy groups through the region. The official said Sullivan during his talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Friday is expected to focus on the Palestinian security forces, efforts to rein in Israeli settler violence targeting Palestinians in the West Bank, and revitalizing the Palestinian Authority. The U.S. is exploring having security personnel associated with the Palestinian Authority help restore public safety in Gaza if Israel is successful of removing Hamas from control of the territory. The official said Sullivan and other officials have discussed the prospect of having those associated with the Palestinian Authority security forces before Hamas took over the territory in 2006 serve as the "nucleus" of post-war peacekeeping in Gaza. The official said it was one idea of many being considered for establishing security in Gaza for Palestinians. The official said those talks are taking place with Israel, the Palestinian Authority and regional partners. U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER WILL MEET WITH PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan will visit Ramallah tomorrow to meet with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, according to a Biden administration official. The official said Sullivan and Abbas will discuss ongoing efforts to promote stability in the West Bank, including through efforts to confront terrorism, support for the Palestinian Authority Security Forces through the U.S. Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority, ongoing efforts to revamp and revitalize the Palestinian Authority, and initiatives to hold extremist settlers accountable for violence against Palestinians. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the yet-to-be formally announced visit. NETANYAHU SAYS RED CROSS SHOULD PRESSURE HAMAS INTO ALLOWING OFFICIALS TO CHECK ON HOSTAGES JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued with the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross during a meeting Thursday to discuss the fate of over 100 Israeli hostages believed to be in Hamas captivity. Netanyahu called on Mirjana Spoljaric to put more public pressure on Hamas, which has refused to allow the Red Cross to visit the hostages or deliver medicines to them. The hostages were captured in an Oct. 7 cross-border attack by Hamas. Spoljaric has publicly called on Hamas to allow visits to the hostages and to release them immediately. She is in Israel meeting the country's leaders and relatives of the captive Israelis. "You have every avenue, every right and every expectation to place public pressure... on Hamas," Netanyahu said in a video of the meeting released by his office. "It's not going to work," Spoljaric replied, saying public pressure would only harden Hamas' positions. Earlier, Israel's foreign minister, Eli Cohen, said: "If the Red Cross does not carry out its mission of providing life support and giving medicines to the kidnapped, it has no right to exist, and this is our demand from the Red Cross." U.N. OFFCIAL URGES ISRAEL TO ALLOW MORE ACCESS TO GAZA AS MANY FACE STARVATION UNITED NATIONS - A top official for the U.N. food agency is urging Israel to allow more access to the Gaza Strip and ensure security to deliver desperately needed aid, pointing to a survey during the recent seven-day pause in fighting that found half the territory's population starving. Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Program, told a U.N. press conference Thursday that commercial trucks should also start to return to Gaza where supermarkets and other stores are empty. This would enable WFP to resume its pre-war cash voucher system which enabled Palestinians in Gaza to buy food and other essentials, he said. Skau, who visited Gaza over the weekend, said the situation is "increasingly desperate and chaotic," with the U.N. unable to deliver food to the central or northern parts of the strip where Israel is conducting military operations. "The grim reality is also that nine out of 10 people are not eating enough or not eating every day and don't know where the next meal is going to come from," he said. People are desperate, frustrated and angry, and in Rafah in the south when there are aid deliveries, they try to grab as much as possible, "and this is becoming an increasing problem -- that there is a breakdown in law and order," Skau said. He echoed U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths' warning that the humanitarian operation in Gaza is on the brink of collapse. SANDERS' SENATE RESOLUTION WOULD TRACK HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN GAZA WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is introducing a resolution that would require the State Department to report on potential human rights violations by Israel's military actions in Gaza. The resolution from Sanders, who is pushing President Joe Biden to support the UN call for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, would have the U.S. look into "credible allegations" of human rights violations, "caused by indiscriminate or disproportionate" military operations by Israel. It's unclear if the resolution would have enough support to pass in the Senate. But as Congress debates a national security aid package, Sanders' resolution registers mounting concerns from a sizable number of Democrats in Congress who want the Biden administration to ensure Israel is limiting civilian casualties. Some lawmakers have said U.S. aid must be conditioned on reducing the civilian deaths. TURKISH PRESIDENT TELLS BIDEN CEASE-FIRE IS POSSIBLE IF U.S. WITHDRAWS 'UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT' OF ISRAEL ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a telephone conversation with Joe Biden during which he told the U.S. president that a quick cease-fire for Gaza would be possible if Washington withdrew its "unconditional" support for Israel. During the call on Thursday, Erdogan also said that ensuring a lasting cease-fire in the region was the United States' "historic" responsibility, according to a statement from the Turkish presidential communications directorate. "The deepening and prolongation of Israel's attacks may have negative regional and global consequences," the statement quoted Erdogan as telling Biden. The two leaders also discussed Sweden's bid to join NATO which has been held up by Turkey and Hungary as well as Ankara's request to purchase F-16 fighter jets, according to the statement. Earlier on Thursday, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called on the United States not to block United Nations resolutions for a cease-fire in Gaza. COMMUNICATION SERVICES DOWN ACROSS GAZA DUE TO ONGOING FIGHTING RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian telecoms provider Paltel said Thursday all communication services across Gaza have dropped due to ongoing fighting, cutting the besieged territory off from the outside world. "We regret to announce a complete cessation of all communications and Internet services with the Gaza Strip, due to the ongoing aggression," Paltel said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. Communication services in Gaza have dropped at least three times since the Oct. 7 start of the Israel-Hamas war, triggered by a deadly Hamas attack on southern Israel. Paltel is the leading Palestinian telecommunications company, used by people in both the Israel-occupied West Bank and Gaza. PALESTINIANS URGE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO TAKE STEPS TOWARD TWO-STATE SOLUTION RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian prime minister said in an interview Thursday that the Biden administration must now "walk the walk" and take specific steps toward what has been an elusive two-state solution, including by applying pressure on Israel. Mohammed Shtayyeh spoke to The Associated Press as U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met in Tel Aviv with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to discuss the course of the Israel-Hamas war, now in its third month. Gallant said Israel's aim of destroying Hamas will take several more months. The United States has shielded Israel against growing international calls for an immediate cease-fire, but is publicly disagreeing with its close ally on a post-war scenario. Washington eventually wants to see the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza under a unified Palestinian leadership, as a precursor to Palestinian statehood. Israel's right-ing government opposes Palestinian statehood and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects any role in Gaza for the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority, a West Bank-based autonomy government. Shtayyeh said Thursday that it's time for the United States to deal more firmly with Israel. "Now that the United States has talked the talk, we want Washington to walk the walk, meaning that we need specific measures to implement the two-state solution, not only believe in the two-state solution," he said in an interview. He said it's time for the Biden administration to shift its policy from "carrots to Israel to non-carrots." Sullivan is to meet Friday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. BRITAIN WILL IMPOSE TRAVEL BANS ON ISRAELIS RESPONSIBLE FOR ATTACKS ON PALESTINIANS IN THE WEST BANK LONDON -- Britain says it's imposing travel bans on Israeli settlers responsible for attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, that extremist settlers are "undermining security and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians. Israel must take stronger action to stop settler violence and hold the perpetrators accountable." The Foreign Office had no immediate details of how many people were covered by the ban. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a similar travel ban the previous week, targeting "individuals believed to have been involved in undermining peace, security or stability in the West Bank." While the world's attention has been focused on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank have surged at an unprecedented rate, according to the United Nations. ISRAEL RELEASES FOOTAGE OF MEN IT SUSPECTS TO BE MILITANTS CAPTURED IN NORTHERN GAZA TEL AVIV, Israel -- The Israeli military has released footage showing dozens of men with their hands above their heads walking in a straight line out of a damaged building. Four of the men can be seen carrying assault rifles over their heads and setting them down in the street, along with what appeared to be several ammunition magazines. The military said Thursday that the men had exited the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza after troops battled militants in a nearby building. It described all of them as suspected militants, without providing evidence, and said they were taken for interrogation. The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said 70 medical workers and patients were detained when Israeli forces raided the hospital earlier this week, including the hospital director. The United Nations humanitarian office said the hospital had 65 patients, including 12 children in intensive care and six newborns in incubators, at the time of the raid. It was not immediately clear if the military and the Health Ministry were describing the same event. Israel accuses Gaza's Hamas rulers of using hospitals and other civilian infrastructure for military purposes. It uncovered what appeared to be a militant tunnel underneath Gaza's largest hospital, Shifa, after raiding that facility last month. MISSILE FIRED FROM REBEL-CONTROLLED YEMEN MISSES A CONTAINER SHIP IN BAB EL-MANDEB STRAIT A missile fired from territory controlled by Houthi rebels in Yemen missed a container ship traveling through the crucial Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Thursday, a United States defense official said, the latest attack threatening shipping in the crucial maritime chokepoint. The attack saw the missile splash harmlessly in the water near the Maersk Gibraltar, a Hong Kong-flagged container ship that had been traveling from Salalah, Oman, to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters. The official's comments came after the British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which monitors Mideast shipping lanes, put out an alert warning of an incident in the strait, which separates East Africa from the Arabian Peninsula. Maersk, one of the world's biggest shippers, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Thursday's attack marks just the latest in the seaborne attacks attributed to the Houthis as part of their pressure campaign over the Israel-Hamas war raging in the Gaza Strip. ___ Associated Press writer Jon Gambrell contributed to this report. TURKEY CALLS ON THE UNITED STATES NOT TO BLOCK UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTIONS FOR A CEASE-FIRE ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called Thursday on the United States not to block United Nations resolutions for a cease-fire in Gaza, as it did on Friday. "We expect the United States not to further obstruct the decisions of the United Nations Security Council," Fidan said. "Currently, only the United States stands between a cease-fire and the massacre in Gaza." The Turkish minister also said he would travel to Norway on Friday as part of a joint Arab League and Organization of Islamic Cooperation delegation to press for a cease-fire. In Oslo, he would meet with representatives from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Fidan said. IRELAND'S PRIME MINISTER OPENS EU SUMMIT BY CALLING FOR AN ISRAEL-HAMAS CEASE-FIRE BRUSSELS -- Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said Thursday that the European Union is losing its credibility because of a lack of a strong position in the war between Israel and Hamas, urging his counterparts to call for a humanitarian cease-fire. Speaking at the start of a EU summit in Brussels focusing more on Ukraine, Varadkar said the EU should condemn "terrorism perpetrated by Hamas," but also call for justice for the Palestinian people. The 27 EU countries have long been divided in their approach to Israel and the Palestinians. At their previous meeting in October, EU leaders called "for continued, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian access and aid to reach those in need through all necessary measures, including humanitarian corridors and pauses for humanitarian needs." Despite its limited political leverage, the 27-nation bloc is the world's top aid supplier to the Palestinians. The EU has little influence over Israel -- the United States is its staunchest ally -- but remains the country's biggest trade partner. HEZBOLLAH SAYS 100 OF ITS MILITANTS HAVE BEEN KILLED SINCE OCT 8 BEIRUT -- Lebanese militant group Hezbollah announced the death of another one of its fighters, marking the 100th militant killed since clashes began with the Israeli military along the tense Lebanon-Israel border on Oct. 8. The clashes have intensified in recent weeks but have remained mostly contained to handful border towns, forcing thousands of local residents on both sides of the tense divide to flee. The Lebanese government, United Nations peacekeepers, and international governments have scrambled to keep the war in Gaza from spilling over into neighboring Lebanon. Israel and Hezbollah fought a monthlong war in 2006 that ended in a draw. Israel considers Hezbollah as its most direct threat, estimating that the Iran-backed group has some 150,000 rockets and missiles aimed at Israel, as well as drones and surface-to-air and surface-to-sea missiles. IRAQ ARRESTS SUSPECTS A WEEK AFTER AN ATTACK ON THE US EMBASSY BAGHDAD -- Iraqi security forces have arrested suspects in a rocket attack launched on the sprawling United States embassy complex in Baghdad earlier in December, an Iraqi army official said Thursday. Iraqi military spokesperson Yahya Rasool said in a statement that some of the suspects in the Dec. 7 attack were connected to the Iraqi security services and that "a number of individuals" were arrested. He said investigation and search efforts are ongoing to identify and arrest other suspects. Since the beginning of the Iraq-Hamas war on Oct. 7, Iranian-backed Iraqi militias have launched dozens of rocket attacks on U.S. military facilities in Iraq and Syria, in addition to the Dec. 7 embassy attack. An umbrella group calling itself the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has claimed most of the attacks, which it has said are in retaliation for U.S. support of Israel in the ongoing war in Gaza. The attack on the embassy did not cause injuries or major damage and did not provoke a military response from the U.S., but it has put the Iraqi government under increasing diplomatic pressure from Washington to crack down on the militias. ___ This story has been corrected to show that Yoav Gallant is the Israeli defense minister.....

mofaruque/RoBERTa_base_inquiry_classification

mofaruque

transformers

text-classification

--- license: apache-2.0 language: - en metrics: - accuracy library_name: transformers pipeline_tag: text-classification --- ## Inroduction Intent classification is an important natural language processing (NLP) task that involves categorizing user queries based on the intent behind them. This details the runners up solution for the 2023 Data Mining Contest focussed on intent classification. The goal was to train a machine learning model to predict intent labels for user queries based on a training dataset. The data consisted of a training set (`train.csv`) with example queries and intent labels, a test set (`test.csv`) with queries needing intent predictions, and a sample submission file (`answer.zip`) ## Solution Overview The solution leveraged transfer learning with the RoBERTa language model. The key steps included: - Fine-tuning [RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach](https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/tree/main/examples/roberta) base model for sequence classification - Training on GPUs with data parallelism for 20 minutes - Achieving 100% validation accuracy indicating a robust model - Generating intent predictions on test queries for submission ## Technical Details ## Data The data used for this project consisted of: - **Training data**: 18k training instances with 150 user queries labeled with one of 150 possible intent classes - **Validation data**: Small subset of training data used for evaluating model during training - **Test data**: Set of unlabeled queries to predict intents for after model training The training and validation data was loaded from a CSV file containing the queries and corresponding integer intent labels. ## Model Architecture The **Hugging Face** implementation of [RoBERTa](https://huggingface.co/roberta-base) was used from the `transformers` library. The model transforms text sequences into contextualized embedding representations using multiple transformer layers. For intent classification, a classification head was added on top consisting of: - Dense layer with tanh activation - Linear output layer with 150 units and softmax activation The output units correspond to scores for each of the 150 intent classes. `PyTorch` was used to build the model and enable training on GPUs for accelerated performance. ## Training The key training hyperparameters used were: - **Batch Size**: 760 - **Learning Rate**: 1e-5 - **Epochs**: 64 The AdamW optimizer was used along with gradient norm clipping for stable optimization. Data parallelism via PyTorch's `DataParallel` module was used to train across two `NVIDIA RTX 3060 (12GB VRAM each)` GPUs simultaneously. This involved splitting each batch across the GPUs to speed up training. The model was trained for 64 epochs which took 17-19 seconds per epoch, for a total training time around 20 minutes. The average training loss decreased from 5.005 after epoch 1 down to 0.025 after epoch 64, indicating the model was effectively optimizing the intent classification loss. ## Results After fine-tuning RoBERTa for intent classification, the model achieved **100% accuracy** on the validation set. The model achieved **96.6%** accuracy on the validation set. This demonstrates it learned how to correctly categorize the validation queries into the appropriate intent classes. # Saving and Loading the Trained Model ## Saving the Model After training the RoBERTa model for intent classification, the final model parameters were saved to disk so the model can be loaded later for inference. . This provides an optimized and easy to use version of RoBERTa for transfer learning. The model was saved using the `save_pretrained()` method: ```python from transformers import RobertaForSequenceClassification model = RobertaForSequenceClassification(...) model.save_pretrained("saved_roberta_model") ``` This serializes the Transformer model to disk including the vocabulary, labels, architecture config, and learned weights. ## Loading the Model for Inference To load the saved RoBERTa files back and use it to make predictions: ```python from transformers import RobertaForSequenceClassification, RobertaTokenizer model = RobertaForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("saved_roberta_model") tokenizer = RobertaTokenizer.from_pretrained("saved_roberta_model") text = "user query text here" inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt") outputs = model(**inputs) prediction = argmax(outputs.logits) ``` For inference, the trained model was used to predict intents on a set of unlabeled test queries. Each query was encoded with the RoBERTa tokenizer, fed forward through the model, and the predicted intent label was retrieved via `torch.argmax` on the output. The intent predictions were written to a text file for analysis. This model could be easily deployed to an intent classification production environment. ## Conclusion In this project, transfer learning via fine-tuning RoBERTa was highly effective for intent classification. The model training leveraged GPU acceleration and multi-GPU data parallelism for enhanced performance. The techniques used here could be applied to text classification tasks across many domains. ## For more details, follow the github repo Github repo link: https://github.com/mo-faruque/RoBERTa_base_inquiry_classifier.git

refdgerd/Surrey-RCMP-share-news-about-breakin-by-writing-a-poem-4c-updated

refdgerd

--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/f3909705 Source : https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-3215-12172023-213613 Flash News : https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-3341-12172023-211017 Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-205436 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://jsitor.com/Fa-U0PLzZ0 Other Sources : https://jpeg.ly/4plhV https://ibit.ly/4bC_L https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-212509 https://pastelink.net/38zq1k4q https://yamcode.com/kennedy-says-wants-update-3332-41 https://jpeg.ly/YulCb https://rentry.co/3mw8y4 https://rentry.co/on7ck https://yamcode.com/raw/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-210655 https://rentry.co/rkhkw https://ibit.ly/tuiP2 https://tech.io/snippet https://rentry.co/kunff https://paste.ee/p/IHWA7 Kenneth Merritt, one of two suspects accused of committing a violent carjacking in Beverly last month, turned and looked into the gallery as he walked into Judge Thomas J. Hennelly's courtroom in Bridgeview Friday. Looking back were two dozen neighbors of the Beverly family he allegedly robbed at gunpoint, some of whom had attended his pretrial detention hearing last month. The turnout, organized by Ald. Matt O'Shea, 19th, was an effort to show community support for the victims, Beverly resident Meg Massaro said. "This type of crime can happen to anybody. If we don't take a stand against these heinous and violent, repulsive acts, nothing gets changed," she said. Merritt, 26, and his co-defendant, Damarri Conner, 20, pleaded not guilty to the 20 felony counts each of them faces. The men are accused of holding Michele Pettiford and her husband, Jeff Pettiford, at gunpoint while robbing them and stealing the family's 2012 Audi sedan. Michele Pettiford had just pulled her car into her backyard garage after picking up her 12-year-old daughter from volleyball practice when she was attacked, her husband told the Tribune in November. Video of the armed robbery captured by surveillance camera drew widespread attention. Two weeks after the first attack, the couple's other car was stolen from in front of their house, apparently using keys that had been inside a purse stolen in the carjacking. The Beverly neighbors who came for Friday's hearing waited an hour and a half to watch the brief arraignment. When the case came up, they crowded into the small courtroom's wooden pews, filling the seating area. Massaro said she thought of her own grandchildren when she first heard of the carjacking. Video of the attack shows thieves shoving Michele Pettiford to the ground and holding at gunpoint the woman and her husband, who ran outside to help after hearing his daughter scream. "I'm sure that was the only thing going on in their heads, they didn't want anything to happen to their children. And yet, they're all going to be traumatized for a very long time," Massaro said. Both defendants were ordered detained at an earlier hearing and will remain in custody. The two men will be represented by court-appointed public defenders, Hennelly said. Prosecutors previously said Merritt's face was clearly visible in surveillance footage tying him to the attack. Police found clothing in Conner's closet identical to the outfit worn by the other assailant, who was masked in the video, prosecutors said. Merritt, 26, has been convicted of five felonies, including for possession of a stolen car, armed robbery and burglary. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2017 and paroled in 2021, according to Illinois Department of Corrections records. Conner, 20, was awaiting trial on an aggravated use of a weapon charge when he allegedly robbed the Pettiford family. The crime rate in Beverly is among the lowest in Chicago, according to Police Department data. The number of violent crime victims in Beverly is down 18% this year compared with the same period last year, though the total number of vehicular hijacking victims is up to 14 this year compared with 10 from the same period a year ago. After Friday's hearing, O'Shea met with members of the community to talk about what took place and tell them about attending the next scheduled court date, a video hearing set for Jan. 8. Talking to reporters, O'Shea praised cooperation between police and Beverly residents. Nine officers involved in the arrest were named "Officers of the Month" at a ceremony Thursday hosted by the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation. The turnout from the neighborhood was intended not only to show support for the family but also send a message to the court, O'Shea later told reporters. "We want to see justice for this family," he said. "However many court dates it takes, we will be here." Jeff Pettiford was out of town for work and unable to attend the hearing Friday, which had been rescheduled, he said. He commended his neighbors for supporting him and his family inside the courtroom and back at home. "The community has been there from day one, and they still keep showing up," Pettiford said. "I have no idea how we would be without it. It's why we live where we live, the people around." The criminal justice process has been frustrating, he said. But he thinks the cooperation between police and residents in Beverly and the support he's seen from his community could be an important way to combat crime. "I don't know what the answer is to the larger problem in Chicago and really the country," he said. "But you're looking at some of it." About a month and a half after the attack, the Pettifords are doing better, he said. But their recovery isn't complete. The family had felt safe in the home they've lived in for 15 years, Pettiford said, but now his wife is afraid to go into their backyard at night.....

mlc-ai/Llama-2-70b-hf-q4f16_1-MLC

mlc-ai

Entry not found

gdrfqg/Wholeprocess-peoples-democracy-benefits-all-of-Chinas-people-Khmer-Times-43-updated

gdrfqg

--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://jsbin.com/fizipezipa/edit?html,output Source : https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-5214-12172023-213206 Flash News : https://jpeg.ly/RN6zO Biden last Talk : https://ibit.ly/1g_OW Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/143ec099 Other Sources : https://rentry.co/kh5f3 https://jpeg.ly/R1wW- https://etextpad.com/vefbpm8ion https://rentry.co/q3p2g3 https://ibit.ly/I6V42 https://rentry.co/68di3 https://rentry.co/yzrwpm https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-2435-48 https://rentry.co/b4h5o https://ibit.ly/mTO21 https://ibit.ly/xJ9oK https://jpeg.ly/3Yvo4 https://jpeg.ly/TXek5 https://rentry.co/wrwk7 A woman carries an assault rifle as she and a friend walk a dog in downtown Tel Aviv on Nov. 11, 2023, in Tel Aviv, Israel. A month after Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks, the country's military has continued its sustained bombardment of the Gaza Strip and launched a ground invasion to vanquish the militant group that governs the Palestinian territory. (Christopher Furlong\/Getty Images\/TNS) Israeli children, long free to wander, are now routinely chaperoned. Gun license applications are up by a factor of eight. Self-defense classes are oversubscribed. Since Hamas operatives crossed into Israel on a killing and kidnapping spree on Oct. 7, a society that enjoyed 15 years of calm and rising prosperity remains haunted by scenes of slaughter. Israelis have been left traumatized by the fear that thousands of terrorists on their borders will try again -- and that their security services might again fail. "This is a natural reaction to the shock we are going through," said David Passig, professor of future studies at Bar Ilan University, of the way ordinary citizens are rushing to arm themselves. He has had a weapon for 35 years that was kept locked away, he said, except for mandatory practice sessions. "Now I'm walking around with it." The political impact of this anxiety is likely to be profound, even if it has yet to fully play out. National security has long been the calling card of Israel's right. Yet it was the right, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that failed to stop the invasion that killed about 1,200 and led to the abduction of 240 others. Polls show disillusionment with Netanyahu and support shifting to the more centrist opposition leader Benny Gantz -- part of the newly formed War Cabinet. But there's little appetite for compromise with Palestinians, as so many abroad have urged. The nation's dark mood reflects a level of threat unknown to the Israeli public for many years, said Dan Orbach, a military historian at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The number of people applying for gun licenses over the past two months has soared to 260,000, with the volume of new requests each day exceeding those received each week before the war began. Although the country has widened eligibility, the criteria for approval remain strict. As of the last week of November, 26,000 new applications had been approved while 16,000 people were rejected as unfit to carry a firearm. Tara, a young woman who lives in Jerusalem and asked that her full name not be used, is one of many who procured a gun license. Since Oct. 7, "I am way more paranoid," she said. "If I am at a red light I don't turn my back on anyone." In a society with a history of communal tensions that long pre-date October's attack, some are concerned about the consequence of more civilian weapons. Although the percentage of the population toting guns will still be far lower than many other countries -- hovering near 2 percent, compared with 32 percent in the U.S. -- womens' groups and those calling for peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Israelis have said they're worried the uptick will lead to greater violence. Opposition lawmaker Idan Roll said by phone the issuing of new weapons requires close monitoring, regulation and education. "Weapons in the right hands save lives," said Public Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has made arming civilian groups a flagship policy. His ministry has distributed weapons to more than 850 so-called rapid-response teams. Last month, the U.S. exacted a promise that assault rifles sent to Israel wouldn't end up in the hands of settler groups in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank, where there's been an increase in violence documented by the United Nations. Within Israel, buildings are routinely equipped with bomb shelters to protect from missiles shot by outfits including Hamas, which is considered a terrorist group by the United States, Canada and the European Union. But when thousands of rockets were fired on Oct. 7, reports spread of those who turned to unlocked shelters only for armed Hamas operatives to burst through the doors, leaving them with nowhere to run. Now, Israelis want to know that they can secure their own safe rooms. New products are appearing for the purpose -- some on the commercial market, while others are homemade. In the small community of Tzelafon in central Israel, the head of the local council, Isaac AbuKarat, came up with a makeshift device to lock thick, cumbersome doors, and began to make copies with his neighbors. "We installed them in 60 homes," he said of the jerry-rigged pieces of wood which act as a lock. In the weeks after Oct. 7, some people feared that some Hamas operatives had headed north, and in Tel Aviv hotlines were overwhelmed by calls about suspicious characters. El Halev Israel is a nonprofit organization that runs empowerment self-defense classes. On the back of soaring demand it started Zoom lessons, consulted those who'd worked in war zones, and adjusted classes for female sexual-violence victims to be relevant to men, said Adi Wimmer, the executive director. Lawyer Neomi Shenitzky is one of hundreds of people to have joined one of the newly-formed Neighborhood Watch teams, a grass-roots effort that has since been embraced by the municipality, which provides them with specially marked hats and shirts. In her suburb of Nahalat Yitzhak, the teams patrol the streets from 8 p.m. to midnight, either on foot or bicycle. They carry flashlights, walkie-talkies and personal weapons. There are 50 such groups in the Tel Aviv area with about 1,500 volunteers. Similar teams have sprung up elsewhere as well, often backed by municipalities. All of these developments have produced some calm -- except in Israeli Arab towns, where residents suffer from even greater anxiety than their Jewish counterparts, according to a poll by the Israel Democracy Institute. A number of Israeli Arabs were killed and kidnapped in the Oct. 7 attacks. Roll, the lawmaker from the opposition Yesh Atid party, said that allowing more citizens who pass government scrutiny to carry guns is necessary to help people to feel safe. The government may revoke the licenses once peace is restored, he added. No one expects that to be soon. "The fear and vulnerability will follow the society for some time," said Orbach, the Hebrew University historian.....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://ibit.ly/SWgqp Source : https://jpeg.ly/tImXH Flash News : https://jpeg.ly/wQVNv Biden last Talk : https://ibit.ly/FX0mk Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://ibit.ly/ArOwE Other Sources : https://ibit.ly/5NJhs https://ibit.ly/54TKU https://jpeg.ly/Bg6TQ https://ibit.ly/TY2xh https://jpeg.ly/khYUc https://jpeg.ly/fLKWu https://jpeg.ly/PLCxL https://ibit.ly/RWQJI https://ibit.ly/wwboq https://ibit.ly/Nh8T0 https://ibit.ly/VvOEk https://jpeg.ly/cv1IQ https://jpeg.ly/KjUuM https://jpeg.ly/5-6oH SEATTLE (AP) -- A Washington state man in jail awaiting trial in one murder case has been charged with three more killings, and prosecutors say he lured all four victims by asking them to help dig up buried gold. Richard Bradley Jr., 40, was charged in May 2021 with first-degree murder in the death of 44-year-old Brandi Blake, whose body was found buried in a sprawling park in the town of Auburn, Washington. In the last two weeks, prosecutors have filed three more murder charges against Bradley, The Seattle Times reports, in the shooting deaths of a father and adult son in May 2021 and in the 2019 death of a man whose remains were found near Blake's grave. Bradley's defense attorney, Peter Geisness, did not immediately return voice and email messages on Saturday. Bradley is scheduled to stand trial next month in Blake's death. He has not yet had the opportunity to enter a plea on the other murder charges, according to online court records. Senior Deputy Prosecutor Thomas O'Ban II wrote in court documents that Bradley is accused of using the same scheme in each of the deaths -- allegedly telling the victims he needed their help digging up a stash of stolen gold, taking them to a wooded area and killing them before stealing their vehicles and whatever possessions were inside. Charging documents say Emilio Maturin was 36 when he was last seen alive in July 2019. His girlfriend reported him missing two weeks later. According to court documents, she told detectives that she overheard Bradley telling Maturin that "he needed help digging up some buried gold in Auburn." Maturin initially was skeptical, she told detectives, but allegedly went along anyway. Maturin was in the habit of taking large amounts of money with him whenever he left the house, according to the court documents, and he had roughly $15,000 in cash when he left that day in his recently purchased BMW. The girlfriend tracked Maturin's cellphone to Game Farm Park in Auburn and went to look for him but got scared and left, according to charging documents. Several hours later, Auburn police found an unregistered BMW parked near a large field at the park and waited for the driver to return. When they attempted to stop the driver, the car took off. Bradley was arrested after a car and foot chase and charged with eluding police, according to charging documents. Michael Goeman, 59, and his son Vance Lakey, 31, were shot to death in March 2021, and their bodies were found on an unmaintained road not far from the park. Goeman received a large inheritance just before he and his son were killed, according to court documents. Bradley was considered a person of interest in the deaths at the time. He was charged that May with second-degree arson after prosecutors said he offered a man $1,000 to set fire to the father and son's impounded SUV. On Thursday, prosecutors added two counts of second-degree murder. Blake went missing in early May 2021. She had won $20,000 at a casino and, like Maturin, was known to carry large amounts of cash, according to court documents. Investigators found her body in a shallow grave at the park later that month -- as well as three human ribs about 30 feet (9 meters) away. Bradley was charged that same month with killing Blake, who died of blunt force injuries. The ribs were later matched by DNA to Maturin, and Bradley was charged with murder in Maturin's death on Dec. 5 of this year. Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Join our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox Email address Submit....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://jpeg.ly/26uyk Source : https://rentry.co/hskqw Flash News : https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-3544-12172023-210249 Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/raw/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-211908 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/raw/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-210244 Other Sources : https://rentry.co/ccz4v https://rentry.co/i3y5u https://yamcode.com/china-president-says-wants-update-25087 https://yamcode.com/raw/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-210916 https://rentry.co/r8k98 https://ibit.ly/TimOE https://rextester.com/OFX28563 https://ibit.ly/NLLWF https://rextester.com/XZDM53557 https://ibit.ly/OjFeE https://paste.ee/p/LcVcg https://tech.io/snippet/lmQbFv5 https://pastelink.net/kpny503p https://rextester.com/EJSPC28470 The carbon tax is marked by political original sin. And Canada may not have enough forgiveness, understanding or grace to save it. Politicians seeking election and re-election know it's best to govern according to the Santa Claus principle: Put the toys in the front window; keep the matter of how they were paid for in a backroom under poor lighting and with irregular visiting hours. The carbon tax, beloved of eggheads such as your humble correspondent, is designed to do the opposite. It sends you a regular bill, day after day, and hides the toys in the attic. Other carbon-reduction tools, though often more costly, have the political virtue of being opaque, unknown and unseen. The carbon tax's original political sin is this: It is transparent, easy to understand and highly visible. For Canadians accustomed to government by Santa Claus, the carbon tax looks like the opposite: Saint Nick running a year-round collections agency. He'll tax you when you're sleeping, he'll tax when you're aware, he knows if you've been bad or good, so use less carbon for goodness sake. As I wrote in a previous column, the Trudeau government has done a terrible job of explaining how the carbon tax works. The federal levy operating in eight provinces is revenue neutral, with the money rebated back to Canadians on quarterly basis, but more than 40 per cent of Ontarians are unaware that they're receiving rebates, according to a recent poll. Cash is being direct-deposited into their bank accounts, and they have no idea. Fully eight out of 10 Canadians will get a rebate cheque bigger than their carbon tax payments. But that truth lives in a witness protection program, residing in a postal code somewhere between unknown and unbelievable. Just so we're clear, the carbon tax is a good idea if our goal is lowering emissions in the least costly, most efficient manner. It's impossible to argue against reducing pollution by putting a price on it, unless you're prepared to reject the idea that prices matter. That prices matter is not just some textbook theory. It's something we all experience, and act on, every day. Stores have sales because prices matter. You chose your home based on what you could afford, because prices matter. If you want to go to Florida in early January but the cost of airline tickets is sky high, you'll consider alternate dates, flights and destinations - because prices matter. And thanks to decades of high taxes on gasoline in Europe, the average European owns a vehicle that uses a lot less gas per kilometre than the average Canadian. Because prices matter. What failed to get plugged into the economic equation is how much prices can also matter politically. People expected to respond to economic incentives by changing their economic behaviour can also respond by changing their political behaviour. They can, for example, vote to get rid of the carbon tax. Something similar happened in the late 1980s with the introduction of the GST. It replaced an existing tax that, among other defects, harmed our economy by raising the price of Canadian exports. But the highly visible GST replaced a tax that was invisible to consumers. Ignorance had been bliss. The GST survived, but the Chrétien Liberals and the Harper Conservatives both made political mileage by running against it. It's not a coincidence that the province where carbon pricing has generated the least opposition is the one province using a form of carbon pricing that is opaque, unseen and profoundly mysterious. I'm talking about Quebec's cap and trade system. The pricing happens behind a curtain, through companies purchasing and selling emissions credits. That pushes up gasoline prices, same as a carbon tax. Since 2013, Quebec's don't-call-it-a-tax system has raised $7.9-billion. Unlike the feds, Quebec isn't rebating the money to taxpayers. There are many ways to lower emissions. In the United States, the Biden administration is relying on a mix of regulations and subsidies. The subsidies are expensive. At US$7,500 for each new electric vehicle, if 10 per cent of new car sales next year are electric, that will cost American taxpayers around US$13-billion. One per cent of families are getting a subsidy, today. The other 99 per cent are paying for it, eventually. An insight of behavioural economics is that people feel the pain of financial loss more intensely than the pleasure of financial gain. Humans are highly intelligent, but we're far from perfect calculators. Which is a problem for the carbon tax. I want it to survive. I can see why it might not.....

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owanr/Sentiment-roberta-base-inter-sorted-model_annots_alpha0.0_whole_1e-05

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--- license: mit base_model: roberta-base tags: - generated_from_trainer model-index: - name: Sentiment-roberta-base-inter-sorted-model_annots_alpha0.0_whole_1e-05 results: [] --- <!-- This model card has been generated automatically according to the information the Trainer had access to. You should probably proofread and complete it, then remove this comment. --> # Sentiment-roberta-base-inter-sorted-model_annots_alpha0.0_whole_1e-05 This model is a fine-tuned version of [roberta-base](https://huggingface.co/roberta-base) on the None dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set: - Loss: 2.3196 ## Model description More information needed ## Intended uses & limitations More information needed ## Training and evaluation data More information needed ## Training procedure ### Training hyperparameters The following hyperparameters were used during training: - learning_rate: 1e-05 - train_batch_size: 1 - eval_batch_size: 1 - seed: 42 - optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08 - lr_scheduler_type: linear - num_epochs: 3 ### Training results | Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | |:-------------:|:-----:|:-----:|:---------------:| | 2.476 | 1.0 | 5628 | 2.3196 | | 2.571 | 2.0 | 11256 | 2.3196 | | 2.453 | 3.0 | 16884 | 2.3196 | ### Framework versions - Transformers 4.35.2 - Pytorch 2.1.0+cu121 - Datasets 2.15.0 - Tokenizers 0.15.0

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://tech.io/snippet Source : https://jpeg.ly/HfgjI Flash News : https://ibit.ly/TEQVk Biden last Talk : https://ibit.ly/SrYdj Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://ibit.ly/j3YDW Other Sources : https://ibit.ly/Y4NOb https://jpeg.ly/UDwQE https://ibit.ly/RgYnX https://jpeg.ly/W43NM https://jsitor.com/TLsfK0IGeU https://ibit.ly/6XX3i https://pastebin.com/1AzY8Jkv https://jpeg.ly/K1KhV https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/6df62fb8 https://tech.io/snippet/hGXcf1u https://ibit.ly/7Ol-s https://jpeg.ly/iJgkc https://ibit.ly/muQjQ https://ibit.ly/gvLov Trump told his MAGA groupies that migrants from 'all over the world' are 'poisoning the blood of our country' - a phrase he copied from Hitler. At a rally in New Hampshire, former President Donald Trump stood in front of a crowd of MAGA Republicans and said that illegal immigrants 'poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world'. Although he didn't elaborate on how migrants are 'poisoning' mental institutions and prisons - Trump's words resemble those of Adolf Hitler, who famously used the same phrase in his book Mein Kampf. 'All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning,' the German dictator wrote in his 1925 manifesto. Trump told his MAGA groupies that migrants from 'all over the world' are 'poisoning the blood of our country' - a phrase he copied from Hitler At a rally in New Hampshire, former President Donald Trump stood in front of a crowd of MAGA Republicans and said that illegal immigrants 'poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world' Trump's words resemble those of Adolf Hitler, who famously used the same phrase in his book Mein Kampf: "All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning' Trump also told his followers: 'We've got a lot of work to do - you know, when they let, I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that - we've got a lot of work to do.' It's unclear where he got this figure from because the U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that three million migrants have crossed the border in 2023 - not 15 or 16 million, as Trump claimed. He elaborated that the migrants had 'poisoned' mental institutions and prisons 'all over the world' - not just in South America and not just the 'three or four countries that we think about'. Trump said immigrants are 'pouring into our country' from Africa, Asia and all over the world. He even claimed that 'nobody is even looking at them, they just come in'. The former President then incoherently ranted: 'The crime is going to tremendous, the terrorism is going to be, terrorism is going to be... and we built a tremendous piece of the wall and then we're going to build more and the election was rigged. 'We didn't do it but I figured they'd just throw it up - it was all built, it was all ready to be just hoisted up. The exact wall that the border patrol who are incredible, Brandon Judd and all of the people at border patrol - that's exactly what they designed.' By the time Biden took office in January 2021 only 452 miles of wall had been constructed and only 40 miles of that wall was brand new, most of it replaced old fencing - so Trump's claims that the wall was 'all built' are not accurate. This 458 miles is a fraction of the 1,954 mile border between the US and Mexico, POLITICO reported. This isn't the first time Trump has been likened to the leader of the Nazis - Hillary Clinton made a direct comparison between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler as she claimed the former president winning in 2024 would lead to 'almost unimaginable wreckage' for America. She drew parallels between how the Nazi leader became a dictator and what she claimed were Trump's 'dictatorial, authoritarian tendencies' which would lead to the 'end of our country as we know it'. Trump told his fans that immigrants are 'pouring into our country' from Africa, Asia and all over the world. He even claimed that 'nobody is even looking at them, they just come in' The former President then incoherently ranted: 'The crime is going to tremendous, the terrorism is going to be, terrorism is going to be... and we built a tremendous piece of the wall and then we're going to build more and the election was rigged' Trump used the same phrase back in October - prompting former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera to denounce the former President for claiming migrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country,' and expressing his shock at the 'extraordinary, hateful, Hitler-like quote.' Trump drew astonished backlash from critics after making the remark in an October video interview where he repeated his prior claims that migrants are criminals, insane, terrorists and diseased. 'Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they're terrorists,' Trump said in the interview with The National Pulse, a right-leaning website. 'It's poisoning the blood of our country. It's so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have,' said Trump, the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination. Rivera, a veteran journalist and commentator, slammed the comment as 'disgusting' in a post on X, adding: 'Not only does it harken back to the Nazi-era, it is also part of the shameful, vile, centuries old tradition of claiming falsely that immigrants carry diseases.'....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://jpeg.ly/0iIKP Source : https://etextpad.com/0wqhnptdov Flash News : https://pasteio.com/xVjYwjl7GoDW Biden last Talk : https://rentry.co/em7d3 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://rentry.co/5nc3m4 Other Sources : https://yamcode.com/kennedy-says-wants-update-1133-43 https://rentry.co/fs6qve https://etextpad.com/f6jq2cupmz https://ibit.ly/atEED https://justpaste.me/Ey1J https://rextester.com/YMO14398 https://jpeg.ly/pOK28 https://tech.io/snippet/EERiCXy https://jpeg.ly/tm4Ex https://jsitor.com/awvsWpQRHQ https://paste.ee/p/FY6ox https://rextester.com/SGV21211 https://yamcode.com/holland-says-wants-update-2132-37 https://rentry.co/a4b5k The conclusion of COP28 with a statement that considers a "transition away" from fossil fuels is being celebrated by some and chastised by others in the environmental arena. Ultimately the reluctance of countries to commit to "phasing out" of fossil fuels came down to cold feet on what would happen with energy security. Could we actually electrify our lives without these fuels within a realistic timeframe for averting a 2 degree rise in average temperatures? The reason why nuclear power has figured prominently in the COP28 declaration as noted in my previous article, pertains to a key concept in energy planning that has largely been neglected by the media. The concept of "power density" -- the rate of energy transfer per unit volume of fuel -- is crucial in understanding our energy choices. This point has been admirably advocated by the Canadian-Czech energy analyst Vaclav Smil in his numerous books on the topic. Smil is famously known as Bill Gates's favorite nonfiction author. Building on his work, Jesse Ausubel from Rockefeller University has calculated that uranium in a light water nuclear reactor is at least four orders of magnitude, ten thousand times, denser than coals, oils, and hydrocarbon gases. A fast breeder reactor involving thorium would multiply the ratio another hundred times or more. One may wonder why there is continuing controversy about the economic viability of nuclear power and even controversies over its carbon emissions. There should be no doubt that the closing of nuclear power plants in the US is going to make our emissions targets harder to achieve -- this is acknowledged even by environmental activist and scholar Leah Stokes in her notable book Short-circuiting Policy about special interest groups in U.S energy policy using the heuristic of "narwhal curves". The energy density calculations can also be impacted by the conversion needs of one form of energy to another for ultimate delivery. This is particularly the case with mobile fuels. Hydrogen as a fuel in aircraft is three times more energy dense than conventional jet fuel but its production energy and carbon footprint is still highly variable. "Grey hydrogen" uses methane as feedstock and hence production process has carbon emissions, which can be partially addressed through nascent carbon capture and storage technologies of what is often termed "blue hydrogen." The so-called "green hydrogen" which Saudi Arabia is claiming as its central fuel in the half-trillion dollar, 1 million population futuristic city of Neom on the Red Sea would be produced through solar and wind power linked electrolysis of water. Thus, the overall energy density for this city would thus be very low but perhaps if there is vast barren land on which these solar and wind farms are constructed it is still ecologically efficient. As the world begins to consider energy choices for decarbonization, the metrics of "power density" and its corollary "energy density" have the potential to be a key metric of keeping us real.....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://ibit.ly/HYtb0 Source : https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-4121-12172023-213408 Flash News : https://rentry.co/cnutv Biden last Talk : https://etextpad.com/8qyoxjvadl Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/a5203d7f Other Sources : https://etextpad.com/fcwwp0x6im https://jsbin.com/hiwacisula/edit?html,output https://rentry.co/4eswd https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-214436 https://rentry.co/iq54p3 https://jsbin.com/cazidumimi/edit?html,output https://jsitor.com/5QU0WMzu10 https://jsbin.com/huxufeqaha/edit?html,output https://jsitor.com/HMp-KMbxH2 https://pastebin.com/37Ee7vvF https://ibit.ly/m1F9I https://jpeg.ly/B0YO_ https://etextpad.com/juukjcoge2 https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/b91c18de {{ #verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ \/verifyErrors }}{{ ^verifyErrors }}Something went wrong. Please try again later{{ \/verifyErrors }} A state commission selected a basic design concept Friday for a new state flag for Minnesota to replace a current banner that is considered offensive to Native Americans, but will need more time to add the finishing touches. The final choice came down to two templates. The panel went with one bearing a stylized dark blue shape of Minnesota on the left with an eight-pointed white North Star on it, then either horizontal stripes or a solid field on the right. The commission then decided to consider variants on that theme when it reconvenes Tuesday, including an asymmetrical Minnesota that looks more like the state's actual shape, and either a solid light blue field on the right, or adding a green stripe along the bottom to symbolize the state's agricultural heritage. "Let's marinate these for a couple of days. I think it's important," said the chair of the commission, Luis Fitch. "And then let's hear what the public and the people of the state of Minnesota have to say." The second-place finisher featured a pair of curving "swooshes" -- one white and one light blue -- symbolizing the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, against a dark blue background with a North Star in the upper left corner. To some people, the swishes also looked like loons, the official state bird. But the panel's members opted for the design with straight, simple lines. None of the designs that made it to the final round generated a surge of public enthusiasm beforehand. Fitch acknowledged that as he urged his colleagues to think about what design might be accepted by future generations. "We're not going to be able to make everybody happy," Fitch said. "The whole idea since Day One for me was to make sure that we can do a flag that unites us, not separates us." Minnesota's current flag includes the state seal against a blue background. The seal depicts a Native American riding off into the sunset while a white settler plows his field with his rifle leaning on a nearby stump. The imagery suggests to many that the Indigenous people were defeated and going away, while whites won and were staying. Not only do the state's Dakota and Ojibwe tribes consider that offensive, but experts in the scientific and scholarly study of flags -- known as vexillology -- say it's an overly complicated design. Guidelines from the North American Vexillological Association say flags should be simple but meaningful, with just a few colors, easily recognizable from a distance, and without seals or lettering. Ideally, a child should be able to draw it. The group ranks Minnesota in 67th place out of 72 U.S. and Canadian state and provincial flags. Minnesota's design dates from 1957, an evolution from the 1893 original. The commission -- which includes members of the state's tribal and other communities of color -- was tasked with producing new designs for the flag and seal by Jan 1. Unless the Legislature rejects them, the new emblems automatically become official April 1, 2024, which Minnesota observes as Statehood Day. The commission settled earlier in the week on a new seal featuring a loon and the Dakota name for Minnesota: Mni Sóta Makoce, which can be translated as "where the water meets the sky." Minnesota is joining several other states in redesigning outdated flags. The Utah Legislature last winter approved a simplified flag design that still includes a beehive, a symbol of the prosperity and the industriousness of the Mormon pioneers who settled the state. Mississippi voters in 2020 chose a new state flag with a magnolia and the phrase "In God We Trust" to replace a Confederate-themed flag that had been used by Ku Klux Klan groups and was widely condemned as racist. Other states considering simplifying their flags include Maine, where voters will decide next year whether to replace their current banner with a retro version featuring a simple pine tree and blue North Star, as well as Michigan and Illinois.....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://rentry.co/yqzhs5 Source : https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-2444-35 Flash News : https://rextester.com/EKBW56992 Biden last Talk : https://rextester.com/IYVGJ25992 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://ibit.ly/WDotR Other Sources : https://pasteio.com/xgrwTa2HGlVz https://yamcode.com/raw/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-211717 https://jsitor.com/h8iMjDW2b0 https://rextester.com/AME42329 https://rextester.com/OAA23421 https://etextpad.com/atszmg0pov https://ibit.ly/YPbZd https://ibit.ly/s3Qme https://rextester.com/EXU55133 https://jsbin.com/wufupazoko/edit?html,output https://yamcode.com/ https://pasteio.com/xUIflN7XAgKx https://jsitor.com/16HIa7OUIv https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-4431-12172023-205702 (Reuters) - General Charles Q. Brown, the top U.S. general, will join Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for meetings in Israel in the coming days, the Pentagon said on Thursday. It will be the Air Force general's first trip to the Middle East since becoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Major General Patrick Ryder told a press conference. "While in Israel, the secretary (Austin) will meet with the prime minister and minister of defense to underscore U.S. enduring support for Israel's right to defend itself from terrorism, reinforce the importance of taking civilian safety into account during operations and the critical need to increase delivery of humanitarian assistance," Ryder added. Austin will leave for his Middle East trip on Saturday and will also visit Qatar and Bahrain. (Reporting by Idrees Ali; Editing by Leslie Adler and Jonathan Oatis)....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://jpeg.ly/uzavG Source : https://rentry.co/87cs5 Flash News : https://jpeg.ly/lqVLy Biden last Talk : https://ibit.ly/m8t35 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://tech.io/snippet Other Sources : https://ibit.ly/jmHam https://jpeg.ly/G2qi4 https://jpeg.ly/pl6BW https://pastebin.com/NHXC23wp https://jpeg.ly/SV530 https://rentry.co/6yiz2 https://ibit.ly/2SGIc https://pasteio.com/xUVc9Ppb0d9U https://pasteio.com/xYnktPrQgQPc https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-4453-12172023-213107 https://rentry.co/mhvri https://rentry.co/75yu3 https://rentry.co/ks7tv https://yamcode.com/obama-says-wants-update-4343-29 Editor's note: What is the difference between Chinese and Western systems of government? What is the secret to the success of China's whole-process people's democracy in realizing the national goals of achieving economic development and social progress? John Milligan-Whyte, chairman of the America-China Partnership Foundation, shared his thoughts during the Understanding China Conference hosted by the China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy. The article reflects the author's opinions and not necessarily the views of CGTN. Recently I talked with an open-minded European friend and told him about the development of China I observed. China has developed a very successful socialist democracy, which was designed to overcome the inefficiency of other forms of democracy. In my opinion, this is a progressive, representative and responsible government. This form of democracy is called whole-process people's democracy. It is a form of democracy with Chinese characteristics that focuses on the people. It has always been obvious to me that China could not, would not and should not copy foreign systems of government not designed to meet the needs of its people. The whole-process people's democracy in China has pragmatically combined and successfully implemented three things, which in my opinion, has never happened before. The first is the idealism of "socialism," the second is the idealism of "democracy," and the third is China's tradition of meritocratically selected government administrators, which is a tradition of thousands of years in order to achieve China's 1.4 billion people's shared national goals of achieving economic development and social progress. The practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics has demonstrated that it has achieved economic development and social progress at a speed, scale and size of global impact that is unprecedented in history. A World Bank study confirms that China's economic growth is driving global economic growth and leading to global poverty alleviation. In the past 40 years, 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty in China. And China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty. China is currently the world's second-largest economy. It is estimated that it will become the world's largest between 2028 and 2033. I think China's whole-process people's democracy is a successful implementation of the ideals of a "government of the people, by the people, for the people" that does benefit all of China's people. The words originally defining "democracy" in ancient Greek are "people" and "power." There is not an American and European monopoly on defining what "democracy" is. My European friend and I talked about the originality of China's democracy. China's socialist democracy addresses deficiencies in other forms of democracy. For example, America's "liberal democracy" was designed for a capitalist society and is controlled by and mainly benefiting a minority of extremely wealthy and therefore powerful Americans. China's socialist whole-process people's democracy has different goals and results. A recent Princeton study revealed that U.S. politics is dominated by elites and interest groups. Its public policy outcomes are controlled by the large political campaign donors' preferences, and whoever donates the most during campaigns is the most powerful. A Harvard study points out that America has a "limited process democracy" with elections in which citizens have the right to vote. But billions of dollars are required to fund election campaigns resulting in less than 1 percent of Americans controlling U.S. politics, which serves the wealthy and large corporations often at the expense of working- and middle-class Americans. If we want to understand the success of China's democracy, we must understand its practice at the grassroots level. The whole-process people's democracy proposed by President Xi Jinping has actually become a successful socialist alternative to "democratic" governments in the U.S. and Europe and other "non-democratic" systems. The astonishing economic development and social progress that socialism with Chinese characteristics has provided for 18 percent of the world's population in China are important 21st-century realities. As a political philosopher who studies human history, I think what's happened in China is a demonstration of the success of socialism with Chinese characteristics in creating economic and social development that is changing the modernization of developing nations.....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://ibit.ly/8EEqj Source : https://jpeg.ly/cPk37 Flash News : https://ibit.ly/jcR5u Biden last Talk : https://ibit.ly/vwn2j Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://jpeg.ly/3b2Wr Other Sources : https://jpeg.ly/Yl3f4 https://notes.io/wtqGp https://jpeg.ly/H79tw https://jsfiddle.net/3newksry/ https://ibit.ly/kyAms https://ibit.ly/DY0fU https://ibit.ly/Sx-tR https://justpaste.me/Ex68 https://ibit.ly/fMQIF https://jpeg.ly/T-8Vt https://jpeg.ly/dPLEe https://pastebin.com/p2JgR6NB https://jpeg.ly/4OCfG https://jpeg.ly/6pwPV OTTAWA -- RCMP say an Ottawa youth has been arrested and charged with terrorism-related offences that allegedly targeted Jewish people. The Mounties say the young person arrested Friday was charged with facilitating terrorist activity by communicating instructional material related to an explosive substance. The youth is further charged with knowingly instructing a person to carry out terrorist activity against "Jewish persons." Police say no further information about the suspect can be released due to their age. RCMP have arrested five young people on terrorism-related offences since June 2023. In a news release, the national police force says they are seeing a concerning trend of violent extremism and terrorist use of the internet, including among young people, and are asking adults in authority positions to watch for early warning signs of radicalization. Those include dehumanization of others, extreme anti-government attitudes and clear statements of intention to carry out violent acts. Politicians, police forces and advocacy groups have been raising the alarm about a reported rise in hate crimes against Jewish and Muslim communities since Hamas's Oct. 7 deadly surprise attack in Israel, prompting that country's military offensive in Gaza. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 16, 2023. The Canadian Press....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://rentry.co/2q7db Source : https://jpeg.ly/9Szlm Flash News : https://yamcode.com/raw/china-president-says-wants-update-25116 Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-213223 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-5215-41 Other Sources : https://jpeg.ly/XaVSx https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/f738930d https://jsbin.com/bonisesopu/edit?html,output https://pastelink.net/lbz81g0d https://paste.ee/p/2Ufgx https://tech.io/snippet/abLpycP https://rentry.co/3q6kpp https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-1544-12172023-212828 https://rentry.co/gc3uxv https://ibit.ly/3yd0g https://pasteio.com/x7xmWrgBeFqR https://ibit.ly/IodUK https://jsfiddle.net/f9a34w2g/ https://pastelink.net/b82ou0eh Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he expects that if former president Donald Trump, the front-runner for the GOP nomination, were to lose the first Republican voting contests, in Iowa and New Hampshire, he won't accept the results. Trump never publicly accepted his loss in the 2020 election and has been indicted in two separate cases related to his alleged efforts to thwart the peaceful transfer of power. "He will say it's stolen no matter what. He will try to delegitimize the results. He did that against Ted Cruz in 2016," DeSantis said, referring to Cruz's victory in the Iowa caucuses. In remarks to reporters in New Hampshire Friday, DeSantis pointed out Trump had also tried to discredit the Emmy Awards for years after his show, "The Apprentice," failed to win any awards. "I don't think there's been a single time he's ever been in competition for something, where he didn't get it, where he has accepted [it]," DeSantis added. "I think that that's to be expected, but I don't think people are gonna buy it." DeSantis and the rest of the GOP field trail Trump by double digits in both Iowa and New Hampshire polling. In a response, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said DeSantis "is acting out on his Lincoln Project fantasies and doing his best impression of a Never Trumper by reciting Democrat talking points peddled by Crooked Joe Biden and his campaign." "When Ron's political career is finished in a few weeks, he can start moonlighting as a Democrat surrogate because he's showing everyone his true colors," he added. In 2016, although he won the Electoral College, Trump complained without basis on Twitter that he had also "won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally" because there was "serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California." Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes that year. In the federal indictment related to the last presidential election, Trump is accused of participating in a scheme to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power after he lost to Joe Biden. Trump and six unindicted, unnamed co-conspirators are accused of knowingly spreading lies that there was widespread "fraud in the election and that he had actually won," ultimately leading to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. Trump denies any wrongdoing. And in the state indictment, Trump and 18 others are accused under Georgia's RICO law of coordinating an effort to thwart proper certification of the state's 2020 presidential election. Trump denies the allegations in this case, too. When DeSantis was in Congress, he was a staunch Trump ally and initially remained so after he was elected governor in 2018. For some time, DeSantis would not clarify if he believed the 2020 election was rigged, as Trump does. Asked in June 2022 about it, DeSantis pivoted to touting that Florida had "the best-run election in this state [than we've] probably ever had." But as a presidential candidate, he has not echoed Trump's contention that the election had been rigged. "Of course he lost," DeSantis said of Trump in an interview with NBC News in June. And in August, DeSantis said, "I've said many times that the election is what it is. All those theories that were put out, did not prove to be true." He has criticized changes to mail ballot laws implemented by states during the pandemic and leading up to the 2020 election. But when asked by voters about the possibility of fraud in the 2024 election, he often says he'll take advantage of each state's specific ballot access practices, like ballot harvesting, and mail and early voting, even though he has criticized them in the past. "That is not the way an election should be run," he said earlier this month in Iowa. "But if that's the law, I'm doing all of that. I'm not going to let the Democrats harvest ballots and us just complain about it. I'm not gonna fight with one hand tied behind my back."....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://pastebin.com/nxKYL2XZ Source : https://yamcode.com/holland-says-wants-update-4155-47 Flash News : https://yamcode.com/kennedy-says-wants-update-2444-36 Biden last Talk : https://rentry.co/5wugu Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://rentry.co/cnudf Other Sources : https://ibit.ly/C8_fl https://jsitor.com/fQK1OFKiVC https://yamcode.com/raw/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-213523 https://yamcode.com/kennedy-says-wants-update-5215-41 https://yamcode.com/hilary-says-wants-update-3545-12172023-210519 https://pastebin.com/w34DTC6v https://jpeg.ly/GZusV https://jsfiddle.net/3L2th6d5/ https://rentry.co/p854g https://jpeg.ly/AHkAr https://yamcode.com/raw/ https://yamcode.com/hilary-says-wants-update-1521-12172023-213043 https://jpeg.ly/37hCO https://jpeg.ly/rEndw A tarp covers a portion of a homeless person's tent on a bridge overlooking the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles, on Thursday, Feb. 2. The United States experienced a dramatic 12% increase in homelessness as soaring rents and a decline in coronavirus pandemic assistance combined to put housing out of reach for more Americans, federal officials said on Friday. Jae C. Hong\/Associated Press file WASHINGTON -- The United States experienced a dramatic 12% increase in homelessness to its highest reported level as soaring rents and a decline in coronavirus pandemic assistance combined to put housing out of reach for more Americans, federal officials said Friday. About 653,000 people were homeless, the most since the country began using the yearly point-in-time survey in 2007. The total in the January count represents an increase of about 70,650 from a year earlier. The latest estimate indicates that people becoming homeless for the first time were behind much of the increase. A rise in family homelessness ended a downward trend that began in 2012. "For those on the frontlines of this crisis, it's not surprising," said Ann Oliva, chief executive officer at the National Alliance to End Homelessness, an advocacy group. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge said the data underscored an "urgent need" to support proven solutions that help people quickly exit homelessness and that prevent homelessness in the first place. Advertisement Going back to the first 2007 survey, the U.S. then made steady progress for about a decade in reducing the homeless population as the government focused particularly on increasing investments to get veterans into housing. The number of homeless people dropped from about 637,000 in 2010 to about 554,000 in 2017. People walk through the homeless encampment at Harbor View Memorial Park in Portland where, at left, workers construct a section of fence on Friday. Gregory Rec\/Staff Photographer The numbers ticked up to about 580,000 in the 2020 count and held relatively steady over the next two years as Congress responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with emergency rental assistance, stimulus payments, aid to states and local governments, and a temporary eviction moratorium. Jeff Olivet, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, a federal agency, said the extra assistance "held off the rise in homelessness that we are now seeing." He said numerous factors are behind the problem. "The most significant causes are the shortage of affordable homes and the high cost of housing that have left many Americans living paycheck to paycheck and one crisis away from homelessness," Olivet said. Within the overall rise, homelessness among individuals rose by nearly 11%, among veterans by 7.4%, and among families with children by 15.5%. People who identify as Black make up about 13% of the U.S. population but comprise 37% of all people experiencing homelessness. People who identify as Hispanic or Latino make up about 19% of the population but comprise about 33% of those experiencing homelessness. Also, more than a quarter of the adults experiencing homelessness were over age 54. Advertisement HUD said that rental housing conditions were "extraordinarily challenging" in 2022, with rents increasing at more than twice the rate of recent years. It noted that the trend has subsided since the January count. Such relief could show benefits when volunteers and housing officials around the country begin the next homeless count in just a few weeks. Officials also noted that President Joe Biden's budget for this fiscal year has recommended guaranteed vouchers for low-income veterans and youths aging out of foster care, among other investments designed to reduce homelessness. More than half the people experiencing homelessness in the country were in four states: California, New York, Florida, and Washington. While about 28% of the nation's homeless are estimated to be in California, its increase was only about half the national rate. New York's homelessness went up more than three times the national rate, according to HUD's report. New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Colorado along with New York saw the largest percentage increases in homelessness. In all, the number of people experiencing homelessness increased in 41 states and the District of Columbia, and decreased in just nine states. A man pushes items while a homeless encampment is being cleaned up in San Francisco on Tuesday, Aug. 29. Jeff Chiu\/Associated Press file Dave Giffen, executive director of The Coalition for the Homeless in New York City, said the cost of rental housing soared after the pandemic. "So when we saw the pandemic-era protections go away, we did start to see homelessness starting to increase again. We saw more people being evicted, housing instability," Giffen said. "But then all of that got kind of masked by the sudden, very rapid influx of new asylum seekers, and that is a crisis for which the city and state were more unprepared to deal with." Advertisement Starting in the summer of 2022, New York City's homeless shelter system has been overwhelmed by waves of international migrants who are being bused into the city from southern U.S. border states. More than 150,000 migrants have been in the city's shelters for some time. Mayor Eric Adams has pleaded with the federal government for aid to help defray the cost of housing migrants, which he says will run into the billions of dollars over the next few years. He has chastised the governor of Texas, for arranging to bus migrants out of that state to New York. Adams, a Democrat, has also asked for legal and bureaucratic changes that would allow migrants to get work permits more easily. HUD did not get data that enabled it to separate the specific impact of migrants and asylum seekers on homelessness, but some communities indicated it did affect their increase. The Biden administration has provided more than $1 billion in grant funding to cities and states to fund critical needs for migrants. It's also identifying potential federal land and buildings that can be made available for shelter and other services for migrants, said a senior HUD official not authorized to publicly discuss the report. HUD also sought to highlight improvements and noted that some communities bucked the national trend. Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the surrounding region, for example, saw a 49% drop from the 2022 count to this year's. Chattanooga increased efforts to more rapidly connect people to permanent housing and boosted efforts to prevent people from becoming homeless. Other communities highlighted for a drop were Dallas, which experienced a 3.8% decrease, and Newark and Essex County, New Jersey, which saw a 16.7% drop. Houston has closed numerous homeless encampments across the city and saw a 17% reduction in unsheltered homelessness. San Jose, California, and Tucson, Arizona, were also cited for improvements. Send questions\/comments to the editors. " Previous International court rules against Guatemala in a landmark Indigenous and environmental rights case filed under: homelessness Related Stories Latest Articles....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://jsbin.com/moqozitece/edit?html,output Source : https://ibit.ly/l9I53 Flash News : https://jsfiddle.net/cLp87652/ Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/raw/hilary-says-wants-update-3242-12172023-212058 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://ibit.ly/Wdol_ Other Sources : https://jpeg.ly/BATbc https://ibit.ly/huxfe https://jpeg.ly/rbPZz https://jpeg.ly/SCqeA https://jpeg.ly/A75qf https://jsitor.com/4y0UhgvGCH https://rentry.co/ixryso https://ibit.ly/0PKD3 https://rentry.co/5wo5d https://tech.io/snippet/5LQdLhf https://ibit.ly/uFn9z https://ibit.ly/egZgc https://rentry.co/mzo9k https://rentry.co/mtmo3 Click here to get Khmer Times Breaking News direct into your Telegram JN.1 is the fastest growing variant in the U.S., making up more than 1 in 5 new coronavirus infections, according to CDC estimates. Dec. 14, 2023. JN.1, which is a close relative to BA.2.86, is the fastest growing variant in the U.S. According to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, JN.1 was responsible for more than 1 in 5 new coronavirus cases in recent weeks. "We continue to see this COVID virus change," CDC Director Mandy Cohen said during an event on Tuesday. "In August of this year, we probably saw one of the larger changes to the COVID virus at that time, and what we've seen lately in the last couple of weeks is an offshoot of that August variant." The August variant Cohen referred to is BA.2.86, also known as "pirola." When the strain emerged, organizations like the CDC and the World Health Organization were warning that its high number of mutations made it one to watch. But now, it appears that JN.1 could be more of a problem. "Even though BA.2.86 and JN.1 sound very different because of the way variants are named, there is only a single change between JN.1 and BA.2.86 in the spike protein," the CDC said in a recent update on the strain. The new strain was first detected in the U.S. in September. Since then, it has grown to represent an estimated 15%-29% of new infections, according to CDC data. The agency expects that JN.1's prevalence in the U.S. will continue to increase. COVID-19 tests and treatments are expected to work on JN.1. So far, it doesn't appear to cause more severe disease, but it does seem to have advantages over the other strains. "The continued growth of JN.1 suggests that it is either more transmissible or better at evading our immune systems," the CDC said. Despite this, the CDC assesses that "at this time, there is no evidence that JN.1 presents an increased risk to public health relative to other currently circulating variants." What Symptoms Does JN.1 Cause? As of now, it's not known if JN.1 causes different symptoms from other strains. "In general, symptoms of COVID-19 tend to be similar across variants," the CDC said. "The types of symptoms and how severe they are usually depend more on a person's immunity and overall health rather than which variant causes the infection."....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://rentry.co/742b9y Source : https://ibit.ly/dduGA Flash News : https://rentry.co/oubph Biden last Talk : https://rentry.co/w9nxga Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://rextester.com/YZYIL20910 Other Sources : https://pasteio.com/xtNia3SvKqHO https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-4154-30 https://jsbin.com/huvadelifi/edit?html,output https://rentry.co/9fgkh https://jpeg.ly/i3SyM https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-5333-12172023-212908 https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/96f0b2b0 https://rextester.com/RJNS48062 https://tech.io/snippet/M3D9A98 https://searchtech.fogbugz.com/default.asp?Suggestions.1.262346.0 https://pastebin.com/15zpaMTY https://rextester.com/XODBA29252 https://pastelink.net/zw25t8jz https://jpeg.ly/XUFr9 MANILA, The Philippines: In a worrisome turn of events, the Chinese coast guard once again targeted Philippine vessels in the South China Sea. The incident unfolded near the Second Thomas Shoal, where Philippine navy-operated supply boats and coast guard escort ships were delivering crucial supplies to Filipino forces stationed on a marooned navy ship serving as a territorial outpost. During the altercation, the Chinese coast guard employed high-pressure water cannon blasts, severely damaging the engines of the Philippine supply boat M\/L Kalayaan and causing it to be towed back to the Philippines. The incident placed the lives of the crew in peril. Additionally, the BRP Cabra, one of two Philippine coast guard escort ships, suffered mast damage from the water cannon blast. Another supply boat faced a collision with a Chinese coast guard ship but still managed to deliver supplies to Filipino marines at Second Thomas Shoal. Drone footage and photographs depict two Chinese coast guard ships targeting BRP Cabra and a smaller supply boat with close-range water cannon blasts. "The systematic and consistent manner in which the People's Republic of China carries out these illegal and irresponsible actions puts into question and significant doubt the sincerity of its calls for peaceful dialogue," a Philippine government task force that deals with the territorial disputes said in a statement. "We demand that China demonstrate that it is a responsible and trustworthy member of the international community." China's coast guard responded by asserting that it had acted in accordance with laws and regulations. While it did not provide specifics about its actions, China accused the Philippines of ignoring warnings and intentionally colliding with a Chinese coast guard ship, shifting the blame entirely to the Philippine side. Foreign diplomats in the Philippines, including those from the United States, the European Union, and Japan, strongly condemned China's actions. The U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, MaryKay L. Carlson, expressed solidarity with the Philippines in denouncing China's repeated "illegal and dangerous actions against vessels." China has long been involved in territorial disputes in the South China Sea, and its actions have drawn international criticism. It has rejected legal rulings that invalidate its claims to certain areas in the region and insists on its right to defend its sovereignty. Tensions continue to simmer, with the Philippines reaffirming its commitment to exercising its legal rights in its maritime zones.....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://jsitor.com/ Source : https://yamcode.com/raw/hilary-says-wants-update-3344-12172023-213517 Flash News : https://yamcode.com/ Biden last Talk : https://rentry.co/o9tte Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/raw/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-212509 Other Sources : https://notes.io/wtqKq https://jpeg.ly/iCdqT https://ibit.ly/grlSy https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-2412-43 https://rentry.co/3uph4 https://yamcode.com/raw/obama-says-wants-update-4214-39 https://tech.io/snippet https://yamcode.com/obama-says-wants-update-4134-43 https://yamcode.com/hilary-says-wants-update-3332-12172023-210832 https://yamcode.com/ https://rentry.co/35dp4 https://jsbin.com/maniduguna/edit?html,output https://yamcode.com/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-213523 https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-3522-12172023-213136 Click to expand Image A pharmacy during the ongoing Israeli ground offensive in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, December 7, 2023. © 2023 Adel Hana\/AP Photo Karim celebrated his 18th birthday this week. His father fears it will be his last. Karim, who lives in the Gaza Strip, has Type 1 diabetes; his body does not produce enough insulin, which regulates blood sugar. His medical insulin may run out next week and without it, he risks potentially life-threatening complications. On October 9, an Israeli airstrike hit a mosque near Karim's family home in al-Shati camp in northern Gaza, killing three.......

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://jsbin.com/mubaweyehi/edit?html,output Source : https://pasteio.com/xb1bQk8Dq5fU Flash News : https://ibit.ly/0sWgk Biden last Talk : https://rentry.co/2u679 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/kennedy-says-wants-update-2435-48 Other Sources : https://rentry.co/74hd4q https://ibit.ly/2tdj1 https://jpeg.ly/VKtcZ https://yamcode.com/raw/obama-says-wants-update-5534-31 https://jpeg.ly/KOvhJ https://paste.toolforge.org/view/364a37e1 https://jsfiddle.net/90dmn6zb/ https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-210922 https://rentry.co/hzqmf https://rentry.co/2bigxm https://jpeg.ly/sL6ZN https://jpeg.ly/BnRh5 https://pasteio.com/xf9oQOobHrhV https://rentry.co/5rpt3 Hon. Nnamdi Ezechi represents Ndokwa\/ Ukwuani Federal Constituency of Delta State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives and he is the Chairman of the House Committee on Nigeria\/South Korea Parliaments. In this interview with PHILIP NYAM, he speaks on the 2024 budget, insecurity and the state of infrastructure in his constituency President Bola Tinubu, a week ago, presented a N27.5 trillion budget proposal before the National Assembly. How do you look at the estimates? I don't have any issues with the budget as presented by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and what the Federal Government intends to do in 2024. My major worry is whether these budgets, be it at the state or federal level, will ever impact on the lives of the common person. If you check, every year, federal and state governments present budgets to the Assembly but things seem not to be improving. But in this budget of Renewed Hope, I believe it will impact the lives of the common Nigerian and that is only when we will say the budget has worked. There is widespread insecurity across the country. Do you see this budget making any impact in this area considering the fact that the security sector has the lion share? In the area of security, as titled Budget of Renewed Hope, I am praying and hopeful that the unacceptable insecurity in our nation will be tackled head on. And it is only when the security situation in this country is reduced to the barest minimum, then we can say, yes the budget has worked. But whereby a reasonable billions of naira are voted for security and people are maimed, killed and kidnapped everyday, we will not say the budget is working. Now, people no longer travel even for short distances because of the fear of the unknown. This calls for serious concern and the government needs to act fast. On the issue of kidnapping, you will agree with me that Abuja is the seat of power and I have had cause to raise motions on the state of insecurity. In fact, no part of the country is devoid of security challenges. This bothers me as a lawmaker and I constantly complain to the president that the only thing Nigerians can hold the government to high esteem is only when their challenges are met and tackled head on. If this government can secure the lives and property of Nigerians, we will applaud it. But because ordinary Nigerians cannot travel; people cannot do their businesses freely, then a radical decision needs to be taken. A member of my constituency was kidnapped and even people from other parts of the country, who live with her in the same neighbourhood were also affected. In fact, 17 people were kidnapped in total. And till today, as I speak with you, the only thing we heard from them was one person who called and was speaking Hausa that we should come to a bush in the Kuje area of FCT and take them. This is FCT and not Asaba; these things ought not to happen. I'm not saying this because my constituent was kidnapped, but I'm saying Nigerians lives are in serious danger. This is the same country where my father worked in different parts of the country and he used to tell us how he travelled by road to any part of the country- Kaduna, Kano, Sokoto and all that without any problem. But today, you can't beat your chest and say you're travelling from Lagos to Yobe or Kano or Niger without thinking about confronting bandits or terrorists. Just a few days ago, kidnappers stormed the Apo area of Abuja and kidnapped people and made away without over ten victims and are demanding N10million. And the security agencies are aware. This thing is happening in FCT. I don't think the economy can grow in this state; so, Mr. President needs to tackle the problem of insecurity. Even lawmakers; how many lawmakers can travel by road now? Or how many can travel to their constituencies without security? Except in Delta state because of what the governor is doing. I don't think any lawmaker will dare say he or she wants to travel to Lagos by road. I travelled to Abia state and I know how intense I was praying and whenever I told those calling me that I was on my way to Abia by road, they would shout. But this is a problem that we should not leave it for the president alone; all of us must speak out and tell ourselves the truth. In the last eight years, Nigerians suffered more than ever before and that must not be allowed to happen again. The 2024 budget is tagged budget of Renewed Hope as you rightly said. But being a deficit budget, do you see any hope in this budget? With the presentation and title of the budget, Renewed Hope, it sounds so hopeful. I also believe that there is hope. Although it is a deficit budget, I believe there will be positive change if it is judiciously implemented. Nigerians often complained that the lawmakers have always failed in their oversight function and that is why budgets are never well implemented. But Speaker Abbas has assured that there will be a paradigm shift and is even involving the public in the budget process. What is your take on this? For me and as a lawmaker, my understanding of the leadership style of Speaker Tajudeen Abbas is that of sincerity and total commitment. And he has advised lawmakers to take their oversight activities very seriously. Remember, yesterday, we began the town hall meeting, which is part of the process. All the stakeholders who spoke there at Transcorp Hilton said they were surprised that they were invited to make their inputs in the budget. This has not happened before. So, the speaker meant well for Nigerians; he is a man that believed that Nigerians must have a say in the budget. And if you listened carefully to his speech during the budget presentation, you will see how explicit and open he was- encouraging Nigerians to be part of the process. He has also charged all committees, especially appropriation. I am also a member of the appropriation committee and he has charged us to be scrupulous and do a thorough job. We have held a lot of meetings and I see how all members are committed to improving the lot of Nigerians through this budget. In one of your motions, you lamented about the sorry state of infrastructure in your constituency. Is there any inkling that this budget proposal can redress some of your complaints? For now, I cannot say but within one week, I should be able to give you more detailed information. My own plea to the president is that the Ndokwa\/Ukwuani federal constituency, which is one of the richest federal constituencies that produces oil and gas should be given its due in Nigeria. I stand to be corrected. In short, in my village Okpa; Okpa has one of the richest gas reserves in the whole of Africa. Now if you go to Ndokwa east where I come from, you will also discover that the eleven-oil prospecting multinational are operating in the constituency. You can't find it anywhere in this country. So, what is the reward for being major contributors to the nation's economy? The bulk of this challenge is that by the time we begin to involve equity in everything we do, in line with budgeting, Mr President would say, these people deserve attention. But the thing is, we are making Nigeria better but Nigeria is making our people suffer. The country at large has never recognized the Ndokwa people. Take for instance, appointments into the NDDC Board. For the past decade, Ndokwa has never produced even a member of the Board of NDDC. But this is the statutory right of the people because we are the richest in the Niger Delta region. We are even supposed to produce the MD of NDDC or chairman. But we have none. This is not fair. One of the qualities that I continue to thank my people is that they are not violent and hostile. If you see what Ndokwa hosts, you will be shocked. There is no federal constituency that hosts these oil and gas facilities in the whole of Nigeria. Is like the government recognizes those who are hostile but we don't do that in my constituency- there is no illegal oil bunkering; no vandalization of oil pipelines. Imagine having over 600 oil wells in one federal constituency. And we are begging for a road to be constructed for us. Oil was found in the early sixties but go to Okpa, my place; there is no road. The only road you can see is a track road- the olden roads. There is nothing to show that the Federal Government has recognized this federal constituency for being the highest contributor to the nation's economy. There is no federal presence. There is nobody from the constituency that is heading a federal parastatal and if you go to the oil companies, it is even worse. Despite this, the people remain peaceful. With what Ndokwa is hosting, if it decides to shut down this nation today, it is very easy but like I said, we are not violent people; we are peaceful people. The simple truth is that Ndokwa is underdeveloped and has been abandoned by the federal government. Look at the motion I sponsored on building coastal roads. We should not have been asking for coastal roads if the right thing was done by the federal government. Ndokwa is generating power, electricity yet there is no light in Okpa. The light in Aso Rock is being supplied from Okpa, my village. We are generating 960 megawatts. Look at the projects they embarked upon since 2018. So, I'm appealing to Mr. President to look in the direction of the Ndokwa federal constituency and I believe that with the Renewed Hope budget of this administration, we will be remembered this time around. In terms of constituency projects, what have you done for your people in the last five months? I should be among the 30 members who have been able to build a market in their first three months of being in the House of Representatives. I am just waiting for the commissioning. The essence of that market is, you go to Kwale- Utabube, is a metropolitan town where different tribes reside and while I was in the village I used to pray that God would give me an opportunity to build the market because if you wanted to buy something, you must cross the expressway. But this market has come to solve the problem, and everybody is happy. I also put a lot of my constituency and I will be empowering them. I did not contest elections because I wanted to live big, but I came here to positively impact the lives of my people because I do not like what was going on. Since God has given me this op....

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis declined this week to say whether she or her team has been in touch with U.S. Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, who has filed federal charges in an election interference case against Trump in Washington. She also raised the possibility that more of Trump's 18 co-defendants in the Georgia case could take plea deals, further paring down the number who could go on trial with him. Willis is seeking an August trial date for Trump and his co-defendants, a time frame that would put the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination in court defending himself in the months, weeks and even days leading up to the November general election. Trump's lawyer has said that if Trump is the nominee, that would be "the most effective election interference in the history of the United States." People are also reading... Steve Cahalan: Holmen gets shoe store, Bangor an art studio La Crosse man charged with child pornography possession Holmen man faces drugs charges after La Crosse traffic stop Woman dies in rear-end crash into dump truck in Vernon County, authorities say Trempealeau County officers respond to life-threatening accident Rural Holmen man dead after farm accident La Crosse Central senior student and school board candidate told not to shoot videos on campus La Crosse police identify fatal stabbing victim; defendant's preliminary hearing Dec. 18 La Crosse man charged with battery after altercation resulting in broken hand La Crosse murder victim stabbed 15-20 times, prosecutors say Former Ground Round restaurant owner to convert Winona location into Pizza Ranch Journey comes to an abrupt end for wandering Wisconsin elk Sparta, Tomah students form Seven Rivers Figure Skating club La Crescent police say social media threats to area came from 600 miles away Police still searching for Black River Falls woman missing since Nov. 23 kayak trip Willis brushed off that idea, pointing out that prosecutors all over the country are always investigating people for various crimes and that they do not stop doing so just because someone runs for office. "If the prosecutor finds that they violated the law, they have an ethical duty to bring forth charges and so this is a silly notion to me that because one runs from office that your criminal case would stop," she said. Willis has alleged that Trump, lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and others participated in a wide-ranging scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election after voters elected Democrat Joe Biden as president. Four of the 19 people charged have pleaded guilty after reaching deals with prosecutors. Trump, Giuliani, Meadows and the others remaining have pleaded not guilty. Willis and her team have said they want to have a single trial for the rest of the defendants. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the case, has expressed skepticism about the idea of trying too many people at once. He said earlier this month that even 12 people at once could be a stretch. Willis disagrees with the judge on that. "My answer would be it's whittled down now to a size we can try, but I don't know that all 15 will be at the table once they get through the process," she said. Prosecutors and defense attorneys have been exchanging evidence. Pretrial motions for most of the defendants are due early next month. National Georgia election worker tearfully describes fleeing her home after Giuliani's false claims of fraud By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio As they sift through that evidence and once the judge rules on what is permissible for trial, some defense lawyers may advise their clients that a negotiated plea is in their best interest, Willis said. Asked whether she expects that Trump will spend time behind bars in Georgia once the case runs its course, Willis declined to speak about any particular defendant. But she noted that the indictment includes serious charges, including alleged violations of the state's anti-racketeering law, that carry significant prison time. "You can look at the statutes that we charged. It's a very serious case," she said. "And there are consequences to violating serious laws." The case is one of four criminal prosecutions brought against Trump this year, and it has significant overlap with the indictment brought in Washington by Smith. Willis would not say whether her office had been in contact with Smith, but she seemed to indicate that she had no reason to seek help from him. "A woman in Georgia is able to get evidence, look at the evidence and make charging decisions, and we can actually do it all here in the state of Georgia," said Willis, a Democrat who is up for reelection next year. Some Republicans have suggested that her case against Trump is politically motivated. She has been involved in a caustic back-and-forth with U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a close Trump ally. Jordan has demanded that Willis turn over documents, including any communications with the Justice Department or federal executive branch officials related to her investigation. National Judge pauses Trump's 2020 election interference case while he appeals his immunity claim By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press Closer to home, legislators in Georgia passed a law this year creating a commission to discipline and remove state prosecutors. Willis said she finds it "very interesting" that while the law was framed as a way to go after prosecutors who were improperly refusing to prosecute certain crimes, some Republicans tried to use it to target her, "someone who actually did their job, that did bring forth cases." Georgia's Supreme Court last month refused to approve rules for the commission, preventing it from acting, for now. Additionally, a state Senate subcommittee is looking into the problem-plagued Fulton County Jail, where Trump and his co-defendants were booked and processed shortly after they were indicted. One co-defendant, Harrison William Prescott Floyd, spent several days at the jail after failing to negotiate a bond agreement before surrendering. A look at the 19 people charged in the Georgia indictment connected to Trump's election scheme Key people in the Georgia election fraud case Donald Trump Rudy Giuliani John Eastman Mark Meadows Sidney Powell Kenneth Chesebro Prosecutors have said Chesebro, an attorney, worked with Republicans in numerous swing states Trump lost, including Georgia, in the weeks after the November 2020 election at the direction of Trump's campaign. Chesebro worked on the coordination and execution of a plan to have 16 Georgia Republicans sign a certificate declaring falsely that Trump won and declaring themselves the state's "duly elected and qualified" electors. Jeffrey Clark Jenna Ellis Ray Smith A Georgia-based lawyer, Smith was involved in multiple lawsuits challenging the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. He also gathered witnesses to provide testimony before Georgia legislative subcommittee hearings held in December 2020 on alleged issues with the state's election. Robert Cheeley A Georgia lawyer, Cheeley presented video clips to legislators of election workers at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta and alleged the workers were counting votes twice or sometimes three times. He spoke to the lawmakers after Giuliani. Michael Roman A former White House aide who served as the director of Trump's election day operations, Roman was involved in efforts to put forth a set of fake electors after the 2020 election. David Shafer Shawn Still He was one of 16 Georgia Republicans who signed a certificate falsely stating that Trump had won the state and declaring themselves the state's "duly elected and qualified" electors. Still was the finance chairman for the state GOP in 2020 and served as a Georgia delegate to the Republican National Convention that year. He was elected to the Georgia state Senate in November 2022 and represents a district in Atlanta's suburbs. Stephen Cliffgard Lee Prosecutors say Cliffgard Lee, a pastor, worked with others to try to pressure Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman and her daughter after Trump and his allies falsely accused them of pulling fraudulent ballots from a suitcase during the vote count. Lee allegedly knocked on Freeman's door, frightening her and causing her to call 911 three times, prosecutors said in a court filing last year. Harrison William Prescott Floyd Also known as Willie Lewis Floyd III, he served as director of Black Voices for Trump, and is accused of recruiting Lee to arrange a meeting with Freeman and Chicago-based publicist Trevian Kutti. Trevian C. Kutti Prosecutors allege Kutti, a publicist, claimed to have high-level law enforcement connections. They say Freeman met with Kutti at a police precinct, where she brought Floyd into the conversation on a speakerphone. Prosecutors say Kutti presented herself as someone who could help Freeman but then pressured her to falsely confess to election fraud. Cathy Latham Scott Graham Hall An Atlanta-area bail bondsman, Hall was allegedly involved in commandeering voting information that was the property of Dominion Voting Systems from Coffee County, a small south Georgia jurisdiction. Also charged in the scheme were Powell, Latham and former county elections supervisor Misty Hampton. Misty Hampton She was the elections director in Coffee County. Hampton was present in the county elections office on Jan. 7, 2021, when a computer forensics team copied software and data from the county's election equipment. She also allowed two other men who had been active in efforts to question the 2020 election results to access the elections office later that month and to spend hours inside with the equipment. Read the Trump indictment in Georgia Your browser does not support the iframe HTML tag. Try viewing this in a modern browser like Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Internet Explorer 9 or later. Love 0 Funny 0 Wow 0 Sad 0 Angry 0 Tags Wire Dcc Lee-national Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox! Sign up! * I understand and agree that registration on or use of this site constitutes agreement to its user agreement and privacy policy.....

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--- license: apache-2.0 base_model: facebook/deit-base-patch16-224 tags: - generated_from_trainer datasets: - imagefolder metrics: - accuracy model-index: - name: smids_5x_deit_base_rms_001_fold1 results: - task: name: Image Classification type: image-classification dataset: name: imagefolder type: imagefolder config: default split: test args: default metrics: - name: Accuracy type: accuracy value: 0.7863105175292153 --- <!-- This model card has been generated automatically according to the information the Trainer had access to. You should probably proofread and complete it, then remove this comment. --> # smids_5x_deit_base_rms_001_fold1 This model is a fine-tuned version of [facebook/deit-base-patch16-224](https://huggingface.co/facebook/deit-base-patch16-224) on the imagefolder dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set: - Loss: 0.6839 - Accuracy: 0.7863 ## Model description More information needed ## Intended uses & limitations More information needed ## Training and evaluation data More information needed ## Training procedure ### Training hyperparameters The following hyperparameters were used during training: - learning_rate: 0.001 - train_batch_size: 32 - eval_batch_size: 32 - seed: 42 - optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08 - lr_scheduler_type: linear - lr_scheduler_warmup_ratio: 0.1 - num_epochs: 50 ### Training results | Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | Accuracy | |:-------------:|:-----:|:-----:|:---------------:|:--------:| | 1.1051 | 1.0 | 376 | 1.0840 | 0.3356 | | 0.8654 | 2.0 | 752 | 0.8754 | 0.4841 | | 0.7982 | 3.0 | 1128 | 0.7992 | 0.5843 | | 0.8215 | 4.0 | 1504 | 0.8640 | 0.5509 | | 0.8937 | 5.0 | 1880 | 0.7446 | 0.6678 | | 0.7292 | 6.0 | 2256 | 0.7760 | 0.6361 | | 0.6914 | 7.0 | 2632 | 0.7052 | 0.6694 | | 0.6499 | 8.0 | 3008 | 0.7542 | 0.6511 | | 0.6981 | 9.0 | 3384 | 0.6919 | 0.6912 | | 0.6852 | 10.0 | 3760 | 0.6488 | 0.6995 | | 0.5929 | 11.0 | 4136 | 0.6360 | 0.7162 | | 0.6018 | 12.0 | 4512 | 0.6410 | 0.7212 | | 0.578 | 13.0 | 4888 | 0.6824 | 0.7078 | | 0.5646 | 14.0 | 5264 | 0.6123 | 0.7546 | | 0.5813 | 15.0 | 5640 | 0.6611 | 0.7479 | | 0.5334 | 16.0 | 6016 | 0.6911 | 0.7012 | | 0.4401 | 17.0 | 6392 | 0.6234 | 0.7362 | | 0.5629 | 18.0 | 6768 | 0.5782 | 0.7412 | | 0.5062 | 19.0 | 7144 | 0.6504 | 0.7329 | | 0.444 | 20.0 | 7520 | 0.5828 | 0.7696 | | 0.4995 | 21.0 | 7896 | 0.5919 | 0.7446 | | 0.4251 | 22.0 | 8272 | 0.6276 | 0.7629 | | 0.4812 | 23.0 | 8648 | 0.6155 | 0.7462 | | 0.4775 | 24.0 | 9024 | 0.6984 | 0.7179 | | 0.4597 | 25.0 | 9400 | 0.6577 | 0.7295 | | 0.4394 | 26.0 | 9776 | 0.5934 | 0.7429 | | 0.4129 | 27.0 | 10152 | 0.6066 | 0.7563 | | 0.4098 | 28.0 | 10528 | 0.5792 | 0.7579 | | 0.4483 | 29.0 | 10904 | 0.5708 | 0.7613 | | 0.3862 | 30.0 | 11280 | 0.5970 | 0.7679 | | 0.4253 | 31.0 | 11656 | 0.6053 | 0.7546 | | 0.4815 | 32.0 | 12032 | 0.5808 | 0.7479 | | 0.3892 | 33.0 | 12408 | 0.5698 | 0.7613 | | 0.35 | 34.0 | 12784 | 0.5670 | 0.7563 | | 0.3952 | 35.0 | 13160 | 0.5921 | 0.7696 | | 0.4191 | 36.0 | 13536 | 0.5999 | 0.7863 | | 0.3174 | 37.0 | 13912 | 0.5845 | 0.7679 | | 0.3864 | 38.0 | 14288 | 0.6529 | 0.7496 | | 0.4036 | 39.0 | 14664 | 0.6327 | 0.7679 | | 0.4274 | 40.0 | 15040 | 0.5923 | 0.7646 | | 0.357 | 41.0 | 15416 | 0.6017 | 0.7863 | | 0.348 | 42.0 | 15792 | 0.6309 | 0.7763 | | 0.2967 | 43.0 | 16168 | 0.6418 | 0.7679 | | 0.3292 | 44.0 | 16544 | 0.6405 | 0.7780 | | 0.3428 | 45.0 | 16920 | 0.6600 | 0.7813 | | 0.3127 | 46.0 | 17296 | 0.6429 | 0.7780 | | 0.2979 | 47.0 | 17672 | 0.6618 | 0.7813 | | 0.3209 | 48.0 | 18048 | 0.6803 | 0.7796 | | 0.2866 | 49.0 | 18424 | 0.6856 | 0.7880 | | 0.2611 | 50.0 | 18800 | 0.6839 | 0.7863 | ### Framework versions - Transformers 4.32.1 - Pytorch 2.1.0+cu121 - Datasets 2.12.0 - Tokenizers 0.13.2

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://rentry.co/7m376 Source : https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-211157 Flash News : https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-212106 Biden last Talk : https://pastelink.net/pdk1zkk9 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://jsbin.com/lotuqebitu/edit?html,output Other Sources : https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-215243 https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-212352 https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-1343-12172023-205825 https://pastebin.com/hFA4PMsf https://yamcode.com/raw/ https://yamcode.com/raw/obama-says-wants-update-4411-30 https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-213010 https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-3314-12172023-205026 https://jpeg.ly/31x4X https://rentry.co/vqxm2 https://jpeg.ly/fAAfZ https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-5151-40 https://pastebin.com/nWzZR4ML https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/818f665d WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Dec. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. ARQT, an early commercial-stage company focused on developing meaningful innovations in immuno-dermatology, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the new drug application (NDA) for ZORYVE (roflumilast) topical foam, 0.3% for the treatment of seborrheic dermatitis in individuals 9 years of age and older. ZORYVE foam provides rapid disease clearance and significant reduction in itch, with nearly 80% of individuals achieving the primary efficacy endpoint of IGA Success and just over 50% of individuals reaching complete clearance at Week 8 in the STRATUM trial. ZORYVE is a once-daily steroid-free foam and the first drug approved for seborrheic dermatitis with a new mechanism of action in over two decades. "We know from dermatology clinicians and those living with seborrheic dermatitis that there has been a real struggle with disease clearance and treatment adherence due to lack of efficacy, difficulty treating certain body areas, inconvenient treatment regimens, and concerns about safety with long-term use," said Patrick Burnett, MD, PhD, FAAD, chief medical officer at Arcutis. "ZORYVE foam is a once-daily, steroid-free topical treatment that can be used anywhere on the body, including hair-bearing areas, with no limitation on duration of use. We are proud to deliver meaningful innovation through this approval of ZORYVE foam, and to offer a new topical treatment that effectively clears and controls the disease and can simplify its management for the millions of adults and adolescents living with seborrheic dermatitis." Seborrheic dermatitis affects more than 10 million people in the United States, and is a common, chronic, and recurrent inflammatory skin disease that causes red patches covered with large, greasy, flaking yellow-gray scales, and persistent itch. In individuals with darker skin tones, inflamed areas may not appear red, but instead can appear pink, slightly purple, or lighter in color than the surrounding skin. It occurs most often in areas of the body with oil-producing (sebaceous) glands, including the scalp, face (especially on the nose, eyebrows, ears, and eyelids), upper chest, and back. Hair-bearing areas make applying topicals like creams, gels, and ointments difficult. "In the STRATUM trial, ZORYVE foam provided rapid disease clearance as early as Week 2 and significant itch relief in as little as 48 hours. In addition, almost 80% of patients achieved treatment success at Week 8. While multiple factors contribute to seborrheic dermatitis, inflammation and skin barrier dysfunction play key roles. ZORYVE has been shown to effectively reduce the signs of inflammation, redness, and scaling in patients with seborrheic dermatitis, and with its unique formulation, ZORYVE foam effectively delivers the drug without disrupting the skin barrier and has been shown to be safe and tolerable. ZORYVE foam is thus ideally formulated, having the potential to become the new standard of care for seborrheic dermatitis treatment," said Andrew Blauvelt, MD, MBA, clinical investigator at Oregon Medical Research Center, and investigator on the STRATUM trial. Beyond the appearance and irritation of physical symptoms, seborrheic dermatitis is associated with a decrease in quality of life and may negatively affect emotional well-being, self-esteem, and day-to-day life, including sleep and work. People with seborrheic dermatitis, and especially adolescents and school-age children, may suffer from social stigma, negative self-image, and low self-esteem associated with very visible skin diseases like seborrheic dermatitis. "Approximately 10 million people in the United States have seborrheic dermatitis, but until today, there have been limited treatment options. We are thrilled with this FDA approval and are excited to bring to market a new, highly effective steroid-free topical formulation that can be used anywhere on the body," said Frank Watanabe, president and CEO of Arcutis. "Our commercial team is ready and poised to launch ZORYVE foam very soon, and we are committed to ensuring affordable access to ZORYVE foam to those who may benefit from this novel treatment." Arcutis intends to make ZORYVE foam widely available via key wholesaler and dermatology pharmacy channels as a new treatment option by the end of January 2024. The Company is dedicated to responsible pricing and affordable access to therapy. The ZORYVEDirect Program helps patients access their prescribed Arcutis medication. For patients with seborrheic dermatitis who have been prescribed ZORYVE, this patient support program helps patients navigate the payer process, assists patients with adherence, and includes the ZORYVE Direct Savings Card Program, which can help reduce out-of-pocket costs for eligible commercially insured patients. Arcutis will also continue to offer the Arcutis Cares patient assistance program (PAP) that provides ZORYVE at no cost for financially eligible patients who are uninsured or underinsured. Management will host a conference call on Monday, December 18 at 8:30 a.m. EST. A live webcast of the call and presentation material will be available on the "Events" section of the Company's Investor website. An archived version of the webcast will be available on the Arcutis website after the call. ZORYVE Foam Clinical Data The approval is supported by positive results from Arcutis' Phase 2 and pivotal Phase 3 trials in seborrheic dermatitis. The STudy of Roflumilast foam Applied Topically for the redUction of seborrheic derMatitis (STRATUM) and the Phase 2 (Trial 203) were parallel group, double-blind, vehicle-controlled studies evaluating the safety and efficacy of ZORYVE foam 0.3% in seborrheic dermatitis. Together the two studies enrolled 683 adults and adolescents ages 9 years and older. The STRATUM study met its primary endpoint, with nearly 80% of ZORYVE foam treated individuals reaching Investigator Global Assessment (IGA) Success rate at Week 8 (79.5% ZORYVE foam vs 58.0% vehicle; P<0.0001). In Trial 203, 73% of individuals treated with ZORYVE foam achieved IGA Success (73.1% ZORYVE foam vs 40.8% vehicle; P<0.0001.) IGA Success was defined as an IGA score of "Clear" (0) or "Almost Clear" (1), plus a 2-grade IGA score improvement from baseline at Week 8. Improvement with ZORYVE foam was seen early, with roflumilast demonstrating a statistically significant improvement compared to vehicle on IGA Success at Week 2, the first timepoint assessed in STRATUM. In addition, 50.6% of individuals in the ZORYVE foam treated arm reached complete clearance (IGA=0) at Week 8. The STRATUM study also demonstrated statistically significant improvement over vehicle on all secondary endpoints, including itch, scaling, and erythema (redness). More than 60% of individuals achieved a ≥4-point reduction in itch at Week 8 as measured by Worst Itch-Numerical Rating Score (62.8% roflumilast foam vs 40.6% vehicle; P=0.0001), and significant improvements in itch were also reported at Week 2 and Week 4. Individuals treated with ZORYVE foam reported a 28% improvement in itch from baseline in 48 hours (compared to 13% on vehicle nominal P=0.0024). In addition, more than 50% of individuals treated with ZORYVE foam achieved an erythema (redness) score of 0, and more than 50% achieved a scaling score of 0, at Week 8. Treatment with ZORYVE foam demonstrated a significantly larger improvement in patient reported outcomes as early as Week 2 as measured through Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI), with improvements maintained through Week 8. ZORYVE foam was well-tolerated with a favorable safety and tolerability profile during up to 52 weeks of treatment. Incidence of Treatment Emergent Adverse Events (TEAEs) was low and similar between active treatment and vehicle, with most TEAEs assessed as mild to moderate severity. There were no treatment-related Serious Adverse Events (SAEs). Overall, the most common adverse reactions occurring in ≥1% of subjects in the combined Phase 2 and Phase 3 study populations were nasopharyngitis (1.5%), nausea (1.3%), and headache (1.1%). A Media Snippet accompanying this announcement is available by clicking on this link. About ZORYVE ZORYVE (roflumilast) topical foam, 0.3%, is indicated for treatment of seborrheic dermatitis in adult and pediatric patients 9 years of age and older. Another formulation of ZORYVE, roflumilast cream 0.3%, is approved by the FDA for the topical treatment of plaque psoriasis in individuals 6 years of age and older. Both ZORYVE foam and cream are topical formulations of roflumilast, a highly potent and selective phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE4) inhibitor. PDE4 is an intracellular enzyme that increases the production of pro-inflammatory mediators and decreases production of anti-inflammatory mediators. It is an established target in dermatology. INDICATIONS ZORYVE cream is indicated for topical treatment of plaque psoriasis, including intertriginous areas, in patients 6 years of age and older. ZORYVE foam, 0.3%, is indicated for treatment of seborrheic dermatitis in adult and pediatric patients 9 years of age and older. IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION ZORYVE is contraindicated in patients with moderate to severe liver impairment (Child-Pugh B or C). Flammability: The propellants in ZORYVE foam are flammable. Avoid fire, flame, and smoking during and immediately following application. The most common adverse reactions (≥1%) for ZORYVE cream include diarrhea (3.1%), headache (2.4%), insomnia (1.4%), nausea (1.2%), application site pain (1.0%), upper respiratory tract infection (1.0%), and urinary tract infection (1.0%). The most common adverse reactions (≥1%) for ZORYVE foam include nasopharyngitis (1.5%), nausea (1.3%), and headache (1.1%). Please see full Prescribing Information for ZORYVE foam and full Prescribing Information for ZORYVE cream. ZORYVE is for topical use only and not for ophthalmic, oral, or intervaginal use. About Arcutis Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. ARQT is an early commercial-stage medical dermatology company that champions meaningful innovation to address the urgent needs of individuals living with immune-mediated dermatological diseases and conditions. With a commitment to solving the most persistent patient challenges in dermatology, Arcutis has a growing portfolio that harnesses our unique dermatology development platform coupled with our dermatology expertise to build differentiated therapies against biologically validated targets. Arcutis' dermatology development platform includes a robust pipeline with multiple clinical programs for a range of inflammatory dermatological conditions including scalp and body psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis, and alopecia areata. For more information, visit www.arcutis.com or follow Arcutis on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X. Arcutis cautions you that statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on the Company's current beliefs and expectations. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the potential of ZORYVE foam to simplify disease management for care of seborrheic dermatitis, potential of ZORYVE foam to become the standard of care in seborrheic dermatitis treatment, and the Company's expected timing and plan to commercially launch ZORYVE foam by end of January. These statements are subject to substantial known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially different from the information expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results to differ include risks inherent in our business, reimbursement and access to our products, the impact of competition and other important factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of our Form 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 28, 2023, as well as any subsequent filings with the SEC. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements in this press release. We undertake no obligation to revise or update information herein to reflect events or circumstances in the future, even if new information becomes available. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, which is made under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.....

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gdf2h1gfh2/Second-person-arrested-in-Sunday-robbery-shooting-c5-updated

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-3245-37 Source : https://jpeg.ly/30Lmn Flash News : https://rextester.com/EXTB3627 Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/raw/china-president-says-wants-update-25132 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/kennedy-says-wants-update-5532-46 Other Sources : https://jsbin.com/vawohetino/edit?html,output https://jpeg.ly/_BEq1 https://rextester.com/IUMP98465 https://jpeg.ly/frxFO https://yamcode.com/obama-says-wants-update-4444-41 https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-3155-12172023-213714 https://ibit.ly/QBv79 https://rentry.co/fnq4g https://yamcode.com/holland-says-wants-update-1445-40 https://rentry.co/mgbz3 https://rentry.co/s6coy https://pastelink.net/tuv3s6db https://jpeg.ly/3s7_H https://ibit.ly/C_myK Four alleged Hamas members suspected of plotting terror attacks in Europe were arrested on Thursday by German and Dutch police, federal prosecutors said. Three of the members, two Lebanese and one Egyptian, were taken into custody in Germany, with the fourth member, a Dutch national, booked in the Netherlands, according to Berlin's federal prosecutor's office. That nations' police did not publish the suspects full names, as per their law, identifying them only by first name and last initial: Abdelhamid Al A, Ibrahim El-R, Mohamed B and Nazih R. Officials believe the suspects were planning attacks on Jewish Institutions in Europe, which comes amid warnings over the rise of terror risks across the continent and in the US due to the Israel-Hamas war. "The protection of Jews is our top priority," German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in a statement while touting the vigilance of German and Dutch police. "We use all constitutional means against those who threaten the lives of Jews and the existence of the state of Israel." German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said his nation has seen an increase in attacks aimed at Jewish people and institutions since Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7 and killed more than 1,200 people. He described the plot allegedly hatched by the three terrorists in Germany as "shameful and shocking." "We must therefore do everything we can to ensure that Jews in our country do not have to fear for their safety again," he said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted that the arrests also come after Dutch police booked three other people suspected of plotting a different terror attack. "Thanks to an intensive and comprehensive intelligence investigation, today Denmark security and enforcements [sic] arrested 7 terrorist operatives acting on behalf of the terrorist organization Hamas, and thwarted an attack aimed at killing innocent citizens on European soil," the prime minister's office said in a statement of the arrests in the Netherlands and Germany. There was no direct link between the two sets of arrests, the Danish Intelligence Agency told CNN. The European arrests come just a week after the FBI warned that America was facing the highest risk of a terrorist attack in years following Hamas' Oct. 7 invasion. "The threat level has gone to a whole 'nother level since Oct. 7," FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I have never seen a time where all the threats are all elevated, all at exactly the same time." While the FBI has yet to find any evidence that Hamas "has the intent or capability to conduct operations inside the US," Wray warned that supporters or sympathizers of the terrorist group could launch attacks on the group's behalf.....

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gdrfqg/Netanyahu-Israel-committed-as-ever-to-war-after-soldiers-mistakenly-killed-3-hostages-gg-updated

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://etextpad.com/y82rtuebga Source : https://rentry.co/kfefd Flash News : https://paste.ee/p/aRZvD Biden last Talk : https://rentry.co/26a66 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://rentry.co/7dr8ir Other Sources : https://yamcode.com/obama-says-wants-update-5534-31 https://yamcode.com/raw/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-210922 https://rentry.co/ve72b https://ibit.ly/d9pVy https://rentry.co/oan69 https://rentry.co/ud398 https://rentry.co/6rgfm https://yamcode.com/raw/china-president-says-wants-update-25074 https://ibit.ly/Ej5yY https://rentry.co/w2zo8 https://rentry.co/xheo9 https://ibit.ly/9TnJY https://ibit.ly/S8a2Z https://yamcode.com/raw/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-212735 WASHINGTON - An Israeli airstrike killed a U.S. Agency for International Development contractor in Gaza last month, his colleagues said in a statement Saturday. The U.S. development agency noted the death and urged greater protection for humanitarian workers in the fighting there. Hani Jnena, 33, was killed Nov. 5 along with his wife, their 2-year-old and 4-year-old daughters, and her family, the U.S.-based humanitarian group Global Communities said. An internet-technology worker, Jnena had fled his neighborhood in Gaza City with his family to escape the airstrikes, only to be killed while sheltering with his in-laws, the group said. His employer was an on-the-ground partner for USAID, the U.S. agency said. The Washington Post first reported the death. In a final message to a colleague, Hani had written, "my daughters are terrified, and I am trying to keep them calm, but this bombing is terrifying," Global Communities said. It was a rare report of the killing of someone with U.S.-government ties in the more than two-month war between Israel and Hamas. Numerous workers with local and international aid agencies, including more than 100 U.N. workers, have been killed in Gaza as Israel bombards areas crowded with civilians and battles with Hamas fighters on the ground. Health officials in Hamas-run Gaza say more than 17,000 people have been killed, two-thirds of them women and children. Israel's offensive is in response to an Oct. 7 Hamas assault in Israel that killed about 1,200 people. USAID employees had been prominent in recent open letters by U.S. government employees objecting to U.S. policy in support of Israel's continued offensive, including President Joe Biden's decision not to join many other governments in calling for a cease-fire. In an email, USAID spokesperson Jessica Jennings said Saturday, "The USAID community grieves the deaths of the innocent civilians and many humanitarian workers who have been killed in this conflict, including courageous individuals like Hani Jnena." "In providing assistance and advocating for greater safety for civilian populations and the humanitarians who serve them, we are doing our utmost to honor the dedication, fortitude, and compassion of all humanitarian workers who have been killed," Jennings said.....

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refdgerd/Man-of-identities-and-escapes-over-5-years-didnt-get-away-this-last-time-KBAK-fe-updated

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://yamcode.com/raw/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-214712 Source : https://pasteio.com/x6OdvPMmUtkL Flash News : https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-5321-50 Biden last Talk : https://jsfiddle.net/yk59ehoj/ Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://pastebin.com/nfyMD3jT Other Sources : https://pastelink.net/vrgk6ynu https://rentry.co/xuagc https://yamcode.com/holland-says-wants-update-1234-43 https://ibit.ly/CzFOt https://rentry.co/mugty https://paste.ee/p/0qVQ6 https://rentry.co/wgoyq https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-215331 https://rentry.co/hbg3v https://jpeg.ly/dVwt2 https://pasteio.com/ https://ibit.ly/kxlHs https://yamcode.com/holland-says-wants-update-2242-37 https://pastelink.net/w2mjcmb6 Canada's UN vote in favour of a humanitarian ceasefire "a small step in the right direction," a Muslim advocacy group says. Prominent Muslim organizations have been lining up to take credit for Canada's vote at the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. Capitalizing on this, they are also using the vote as an opportunity to appeal for donations. "While this act (UN vote) is overdue, it is a small step in the right direction and a testament to our collective advocacy efforts," Taha Ghayyur, Executive Director, Justice For All Canada, said in an email to supporters. "You sent millions of emails; you made thousands of phone calls; you marched in the streets. From Parliament to the courts, from our homes to the public square and everything in between, our community came together like never before to stand up for Palestine," wrote Stephen Brown, CEO of the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM). But behind the scenes and far from the limelight, the real work to affect policy change is being done by a number of ad hoc networks consisting of dozens of influential Liberal insiders, some with varying degrees of access to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and members of his cabinet, New Canadian Media has learned. A handful of professionals, mostly doctors and lawyers, have been urging the prime minister to act decisively to end the cycle of violence and take steps to bring about a lasting peace in the Middle East. Using WhatsApp and other platforms, these Liberal insiders have been meeting on a regular basis ever since the conflict began to brainstorm a range of political strategies. "During the first week of Israel's war on Gaza, Trudeau's response was okay, but then it got so horrible and one-sided that many of us were beginning to lose our minds," said a prominent Muslim lawyer who asked not to be identified. He said that in late October a handful of Muslim professionals in Ontario held an in-person discussion with Prime Minister Trudeau and "we expressed our point of view and he appeared to listen." "During the meeting we reminded the prime minister of his humanity and his excellent anti-Islamophobia initiatives. We said that Canada can't play a vital role as a peacemaker in a rules-based order unless it was willing to condemn terrorism in all its forms," said another Muslim lawyer who was at the meeting. But when Trudeau refused to sufficiently condemn the carnage in Gaza, a number of Canadian Muslim professionals grew increasingly outraged. In early December, the CBC reported that a network made up of 400 members sent a formal letter to Liberal Party president Sachit Mehra, announcing that they've decided to exit the Laurier Club. Sir Wilfrid Laurier established the Laurier Club in 1918 when he sent out 600 letters to community leaders and business professionals asking for their financial support. The Liberal Party today relies on the club as a critical source of funding. As the death toll in Gaza and the occupied West Bank began climbing as Israel launched an all-out assault to retaliate against Hamas' horrific attack on civilians on Oct. 7, one network of Liberal insiders began discussing a number of strategic options including an exodus from the party to a demand for the resignation of Trudeau, a move that could trigger a leadership race when the party has been down in the polls. "It's a live debate. Some want Trudeau gone today. Some want to see if he improves by March. There is no consensus as yet," a long-time Liberal supporter told New Canadian Media. After Canada's vote at the UN General Assembly, the lawyer who asked not to be identified, said that members of his network agreed to stand down and not escalate their demands until the new year. But as Israel's war against Hamas continues unabated, it could spell trouble for Canada's major political parties going into the new year. Members of three GTA mosque executives who have served their communities for decades say Muslims have never been this unified around a single issue as they are in their condemnation of Israel's bombardment of Gaza. According to current census reports, Canada's Muslim population is approximately 1.8 million with the majority of Muslims residing in southern Ontario, Alberta and Quebec. "There are a total of 50-70 ridings in Canada where Muslims can make a difference," says Umair Ashraf, executive director of The Canadian Muslim Vote (CMV), a non-profit and non-partisan organization that has been working since 2015 to encourage Muslims to participate in the electoral system. Liberal, Conservative and the NDP party strategists are well aware that in at least 10 ridings in the Greater Toronto Area, the Muslim vote can determine who wins the seat and who ultimately will form a majority in the House of Commons. In the riding of Mississauga-Erin Mills, a seat currently held by Liberal MP Iqra Khalid, there are an estimated 25,000 to 28,000 Muslims, the highest demographic concentration in all of Canada. "Between 2015 and 2019 there was a significant dip in civic participation by Muslims attributed to the fact that there is a high degree of trust in the Liberal Party," Ashraf said. However, in the last 60 days CMV has been observing a noticeable erosion of that trust. People are expressing disappointment and openly saying that the Liberals have betrayed the community, he said. It is extremely difficult for anyone to provide an accurate read of how things would likely play out if an election were to be held in the new year. Many believe that if the war in Gaza drags on and the body count continues to rise, it could reshape the Canadian political map. Just back from meetings in Vancouver, Ashraf says the Muslim community appears to be fractured. "There is no consensus on how to engage the civic space and there is no real leadership to provide direction," he says. "Among the 18-30 age group there is now a great sense of apathy when it comes to politics," Ashraf says. "Driving the apathy is the fact that people are not seeing a return on their investment in the civic process." More worrisome to Ashraf and his team at CMV is how to encourage the younger age group of Canadian Muslims to remain committed to the process of civic engagement when their gut is telling them that it is a waste of time and effort.....

gdf2h1gfh2/GOP-voters-like-Trump-because-he-wont-compromise-Pew-poll-c4-updated

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://etextpad.com/j6eypsewzp Source : https://rentry.co/ob5vw Flash News : https://etextpad.com/tuhmud6nn2 Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/holland-says-wants-update-3334-30 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://rentry.co/tvrby Other Sources : https://etextpad.com/cebnfg7gmb https://yamcode.com/raw/obama-says-wants-update-5351-43 https://yamcode.com/ https://ibit.ly/yudDW https://rentry.co/mvtza https://rentry.co/8qkv6 https://yamcode.com/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-213437 https://yamcode.com/holland-says-wants-update-2221-40 https://jsfiddle.net/vuo69nqs/ https://yamcode.com/china-president-says-wants-update-25104 https://rentry.co/cg5dr https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/7ca9c8cc https://ibit.ly/wHJPJ https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/b2a0e7c1 (OAKLAND, Calif.) -- Police have opened a hate crime investigation after a 9-foot-tall menorah was destroyed and thrown into a lake in Oakland, California, during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The vandalism occurred around 1:30 a.m. local time on Wednesday, according to the Oakland Police Department. There is no update on any suspects at this time, a police department spokesperson told ABC News Thursday. The Chabad Jewish Center of Oakland inaugurated a new menorah Wednesday night in the place where it said the original was "brutally desecrated." Hundreds attended Wednesday night's lighting, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta. "Too many people have been attacked and targeted and hurt and harmed because of who they are, where they're from, who they love, how they pray, and that is wrong," Bonta told the crowd. Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao said she asked Oakland Interim Police Chief Darren Allison to investigate the incident as a hate crime. "I want to be very clear that what happened was not just an attack on Oakland's Jewish community but our entire city and our shared values," she said in a statement. "We stand together against hate, against antisemitism and against bigotry in any form." This year marked the 18th annual lighting of the menorah at Lake Merritt, which Thao called a "long-standing and important symbol for Oakland's Jewish community." The last night of Hanukkah is celebrated Friday. Rabbi Dovid Labkowski with the Chabad Jewish Center of Oakland told San Francisco ABC station KGO that he found pieces of the menorah scattered about. Parts of the menorah were also pulled from the lake on Wednesday. "I would never imagine that the menorah, which is a symbol of light, would be something that someone would want to destroy it," Labkowski told KGO. The destruction of the menorah was also "accompanied by hateful graffiti," the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Bay Area said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, while sharing a photo of graffiti that said in part "you're on f -- -- alert." "I know the air is toxic these days and it just shouldn't be that way. We should be better than that," Labkowski told KGO. Federal and local officials nationwide have warned about tensions from the ongoing war in the Middle East between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas spilling over into the United States. The war appears to have incited intensifying waves of antisemitism, Islamophobia and other hate incidents across the country. The Chabad Jewish Center of Oakland said in a statement following Wednesday night's menorah lighting that it was "so inspired by the powerful show of Jewish pride, strength and resilience." "What happened last night was horrible. But we are stronger than hate. We have outlived all the haters and have amazing Jewish holidays to prove it," the statement continued. "In the face of antisemitism, we stand stronger and prouder and we will only increase in spreading light." Muslim groups, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations' San Francisco Bay Area office, also condemned the destruction, with Executive Director Zahra Billoo saying, "We are profoundly saddened and outraged by the vandalism of the Lake Merritt menorah. Such an act is not only an attack on the Jewish community but an affront to all who stand for religious freedom."....

refdgerd/The-Republicans-who-lowkey-criticized-Trump-and-then-publicly-backed-him-3e-updated

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-5211-12172023-211125 Source : https://rentry.co/uxnqc Flash News : https://jpeg.ly/Q0jx5 Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-1343-12172023-205825 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/raw/ Other Sources : https://jsfiddle.net/h5rdnLx9/ https://ibit.ly/22umN https://yamcode.com/ https://yamcode.com/raw/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-215022 https://yamcode.com/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-214031 https://ibit.ly/fd3G- https://paste.ee/p/EgIRW https://yamcode.com/raw/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-210326 https://paste.ee/p/2slWo https://pasteio.com/x0yKiCURdAbR https://yamcode.com/raw/hilary-says-wants-update-1521-12172023-213043 https://ibit.ly/Lg6pL https://pastebin.com/FkUkUDF8 https://jpeg.ly/aToo7 The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that former President Donald Trump can remain on Michigan's 2024 Republican primary ballot. The court upheld previous rulings from two lower courts that rejected an appeal trying to remove Trump from the ballot. The group Free Speech For People, representing Michigan voters, had argued that Trump should be disqualified from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars those who engaged in insurrection or rebellion from holding federal office. However, the Court of Appeals said the challenge was "not ripe" procedurally and did not rule on whether Trump specifically fell under the 14th Amendment clause. The court said determining if Trump was disqualified was irrelevant to his placement on the primary ballot at this time.....

douddakzze1521/GoLocalProv-News-National-Weather-Service-Issues-High-Wind-and-Coastal-Flood-Watches-a3-updated

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://ibit.ly/-OdZW Source : https://paste.ee/p/wU5cD Flash News : https://jpeg.ly/7nTo3 Biden last Talk : https://jpeg.ly/N7vC2 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://ibit.ly/-Isc_ Other Sources : https://jpeg.ly/LSO-v https://ibit.ly/YSqWB https://ibit.ly/QHFBb https://etextpad.com/ecbxcnyh9t https://jpeg.ly/vlCI2 https://jsbin.com/zocegilaho/edit?html,output https://ibit.ly/oq3G7 https://jpeg.ly/bm4wq https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/47d6fb26 https://tech.io/snippet/ENdVECO https://jsbin.com/bijugolapo/edit?html,output https://jpeg.ly/icFac https://searchtech.fogbugz.com/default.asp?Suggestions.1.262348.0 https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/398987ef Homs province: SOHR sources have reported that two young men from Al-Ashqar family from Al-Saan Al-Aswad in the northern countryside of Homs were released, after mediation by dignitaries from Talbiseh city and a delegation of tribal elders. The two young men had been kidnapped by a group of drug dealers to exert pressure on their relatives in north Syria to release two young men who were arrested in "Euphrates Shield" area, one of whom was handed death sentence. On December 7, SOHR sources reported that members of an armed group in military uniform stormed two houses in Al-Saan Al-Aswad village in the northern countryside of Homs, where they kidnapped two members of "Al-Ashqar" family. The kidnapping by this group, which is affiliated with the Lebanese Hezbollah and led "Jaafar Jaafar," aka "Abu Al-Zain," comes after the kidnapping of a drug dealer known by his initials as M. H. by an opposition faction, when he was in northern Syria. According to SOHR sources, a lawyer called "Jamal Al-Ashqar" argued the case against the drug dealer who was then handed death sentence, so relatives of the drug dealer kidnapped two relatives of the lawyer with the aim of starting negotiations and exert pressure on the lawyer to mediate and release the drug dealer.....

Nacer253/Nacer

Nacer253

Entry not found

gonxatroll/ppo-Pyramids

gonxatroll

ml-agents

reinforcement-learning

--- library_name: ml-agents tags: - Pyramids - deep-reinforcement-learning - reinforcement-learning - ML-Agents-Pyramids --- # **ppo** Agent playing **Pyramids** This is a trained model of a **ppo** agent playing **Pyramids** using the [Unity ML-Agents Library](https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ml-agents). ## Usage (with ML-Agents) The Documentation: https://unity-technologies.github.io/ml-agents/ML-Agents-Toolkit-Documentation/ We wrote a complete tutorial to learn to train your first agent using ML-Agents and publish it to the Hub: - A *short tutorial* where you teach Huggy the Dog 🐶 to fetch the stick and then play with him directly in your browser: https://huggingface.co/learn/deep-rl-course/unitbonus1/introduction - A *longer tutorial* to understand how works ML-Agents: https://huggingface.co/learn/deep-rl-course/unit5/introduction ### Resume the training ```bash mlagents-learn <your_configuration_file_path.yaml> --run-id=<run_id> --resume ``` ### Watch your Agent play You can watch your agent **playing directly in your browser** 1. If the environment is part of ML-Agents official environments, go to https://huggingface.co/unity 2. Step 1: Find your model_id: gonxatroll/ppo-Pyramids 3. Step 2: Select your *.nn /*.onnx file 4. Click on Watch the agent play 👀

gdrfqg/Thousands-protest-in-HPs-Sirmaur-demanding-implementation-of-Hatti-tribal-status-law-5h-updated

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://rentry.co/f97zzt Source : https://rentry.co/zax4t Flash News : https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/3d6d7c30 Biden last Talk : https://rentry.co/7nixu Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/raw/obama-says-wants-update-2345-44 Other Sources : https://jpeg.ly/ffcw2 https://jpeg.ly/6u8qZ https://jpeg.ly/rv_Gf https://jpeg.ly/zuwrN https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-2153-48 https://rentry.co/xaq7vx https://yamcode.com/hilary-says-wants-update-5112-12172023-214809 https://jpeg.ly/KDoy_ https://rentry.co/4b7vf https://jpeg.ly/tco09 https://yamcode.com/raw/obama-says-wants-update-4343-29 https://jpeg.ly/RG05a https://jsbin.com/suhaxelacu/edit?html,output https://rentry.co/7qiwe Click here to get Khmer Times Breaking News direct into your Telegram Cambodia and Japan have vowed to continue to strengthen and expand their cooperation in the field of national defence, especially in mine clearance, joint exercises in disaster relief, human resource training, and study tour programmes for Cambodian military trainees in Japan. The commitment was reaffirmed by Cambodian Prime Minister Dr Hun Manet and Gen. Yoshihide Yoshida, Chief of Staff, Joint Staff for Japan Self-Defence Forces (JSDF), during their courtesy meeting in Tokyo Saturday, on the sidelines of the ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit for the 50th Year ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation. Gen. Yoshida expressed his gratitude to the Royal Government of Cambodia for the warm hospitality to him and the JSDF delegation during their official visit to Cambodia in February 2023 and pledged to tighten further the friendship and cooperation between the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) and JSDF. In 1991, Cambodia was a country that received UN peacekeepers, but now the Kingdom has sent its blue helmet troops to fulfill peacekeeping missions under the UN umbrella in various countries, particularly in the field of demining and humanitarian aid, he said, stressing that this is a good lesson and experience that can be learned from Cambodia. For his part, Dr Hun Manet recalled that during his tenure as Commander of the Royal Cambodian Army, he himself had enhanced the relations between the two countries' Armed Forces, leading to the signing of a TOR aiming to bring their friendship to a higher level, especially to promote practical cooperation activities to be active and vibrant with a long future.....

camenduru/cef-out

camenduru

Entry not found

aarnes/T5_base_questioner

aarnes

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gdf2h1gfh2/Sundas-Foundation-team-calls-on-IGP-52-updated

gdf2h1gfh2

--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-5445-32 Source : https://rextester.com/SYIWQ18762 Flash News : https://rextester.com/FLWB33522 Biden last Talk : https://paste.ee/p/dpUnq Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://rentry.co/63g4i Other Sources : https://pastelink.net/zmavyb9d https://jsitor.com/aP8XB7D2fM https://tech.io/snippet/wmE5uES https://etextpad.com/ikw72hu8h8 https://jpeg.ly/i2k7U https://jpeg.ly/Ve0Bk https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/7cac1c74 https://rentry.co/gs4wf https://rentry.co/96pch https://ibit.ly/izya1 https://pastebin.com/nqz6AnY3 https://rentry.co/5xznf https://etextpad.com/ne1ti5a5tu https://jpeg.ly/uGk3- (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Merck's drug belzutifan for a type of kidney cancer. The drug, branded as Welireg, is used to treat patients with renal cell carcinoma who have received prior treatment. Renal cell carcinoma is a disease in which cancer cells are found in the lining of very small tubes in the kidney. In 2021, the drug was approved for cancers associated with Von Hippel-Lindau Disease, a rare, genetic disorder in which non-cancerous tumors grow in certain parts of the body. (Reporting by Christy Santhosh; Editing by Maju Samuel)....

refdgerd/Matthew-Perry-Died-From-Effects-of-the-Drug-Ketamine-Autopsy-GV-Wire-Explore-Explain-cg-updated

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://yamcode.com/raw/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-205257 Source : https://jsbin.com/rovapixapu/edit?html,output Flash News : https://yamcode.com/ Biden last Talk : https://jpeg.ly/MQurQ Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-220139 Other Sources : https://pasteio.com/xSW8V7pqh1gh https://rentry.co/hbumu https://rentry.co/xwcfd https://pastelink.net/sigbhimx https://yamcode.com/ https://jsbin.com/rajoforuze/edit?html,output https://yamcode.com/raw/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-215510 https://yamcode.com/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-205257 https://yamcode.com/kennedy-says-wants-update-5145-40 https://jsbin.com/qepifelolu/edit?html,output https://ibit.ly/NeSPe https://pastebin.com/JFUe4xZz https://yamcode.com/raw/china-president-says-wants-update-25090 https://jsitor.com/GIllaTqMa1 Castigating chief minister (CM) Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu led Congress government for blaming the previous ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the poor fiscal health of Himachal, state party chief Rajiv Bindal on Friday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi government has released a total amount of ₹3, 378 crore under the various heads for development of state in past one year. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has allocated a substantial sum of ₹3,378 crore to the state from December 11, 2022, till date" claimed Bindal in statement issued here on Friday. Bindal highlighted that during the financial year 2023-24, the state has received a total of ₹1,603.8 crore from the Central government. Out of this, over ₹1,140 crore has been provided to the state between December 11, 2022, and March 31, 2023. However, Bindal clarified that these figures do not encompass funds dedicated to social development and public welfare schemes such as Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, Ayushman Bharat, National Nutrition Mission, and education campaign. The allocated funds, as outlined by Bindal, fall under various categories, including state disaster fund, district magistrate projects, compensation for revenue losses, special assistance to the state, elections, rural and urban local bodies grant, national disaster relief fund, and assistance in the form of loans. Bindal revealed that the Union ministry of home affairs approved additional financial assistance of ₹633.73 crore from the National Disaster Response Fund for Himachal Pradesh on December 12. Taking a dig at the opposition, Bindal accused the Congress government of habitually disseminating false information and denying the financial assistance provided by the Centre. He emphasised the significant impact of the allocated funds on the state's development and urged Congress leaders to acknowledge and appreciate the Central government's support. "The figures that we shared today are not small, and the Congress leaders should be grateful to the Central government for sending this amount. The Congress party will get nothing by misleading the public," said Bindal.....

owanr/SBIC-roberta-base-inter-frequency-model_annots_alpha0.0_whole_1e-05

owanr

--- license: mit base_model: roberta-base tags: - generated_from_trainer model-index: - name: SBIC-roberta-base-inter-frequency-model_annots_alpha0.0_whole_1e-05 results: [] --- <!-- This model card has been generated automatically according to the information the Trainer had access to. You should probably proofread and complete it, then remove this comment. --> # SBIC-roberta-base-inter-frequency-model_annots_alpha0.0_whole_1e-05 This model is a fine-tuned version of [roberta-base](https://huggingface.co/roberta-base) on the None dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set: - Loss: 1.1768 ## Model description More information needed ## Intended uses & limitations More information needed ## Training and evaluation data More information needed ## Training procedure ### Training hyperparameters The following hyperparameters were used during training: - learning_rate: 1e-05 - train_batch_size: 1 - eval_batch_size: 1 - seed: 42 - optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08 - lr_scheduler_type: linear - num_epochs: 3 ### Training results | Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | |:-------------:|:-----:|:-----:|:---------------:| | 1.202 | 1.0 | 12516 | 1.1768 | | 1.228 | 2.0 | 25032 | 1.1768 | | 1.209 | 3.0 | 37548 | 1.1768 | ### Framework versions - Transformers 4.35.2 - Pytorch 2.1.0+cu121 - Datasets 2.15.0 - Tokenizers 0.15.0

refdgerd/Minnesota-edges-close-to-picking-new-state-flag-to-replace-design-fh-updated

refdgerd

--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/3fa3c1c7 Source : https://yamcode.com/holland-says-wants-update-2343-42 Flash News : https://pastebin.com/Caijdmj7 Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-212921 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://jpeg.ly/62vEl Other Sources : https://jpeg.ly/YPnf1 https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-4121-12172023-213408 https://ibit.ly/vkF4r https://jpeg.ly/9V6oN https://pastebin.com/9X8ejadV https://ibit.ly/JI8a8 https://jpeg.ly/u0jEZ https://rentry.co/hddma https://jpeg.ly/N1IJy https://pastebin.com/M1PQYuVf https://jsfiddle.net/4tbx9c6v/ https://jpeg.ly/kjjwb https://paste.ee/p/JVB4M https://pastebin.com/NAV1B4Qz JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (TND) -- A man who had to be tackled by deputies, then chased, and became a fugitive for three years, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges -- and yes, he's behind bars. Rohan Conrad Campbell signed a plea deal and confessed he used a fake account and Washington state driver's license at a cellphone store in Florida on Aug. 5, 2017, and left with multiple cellphones. Ten days later, he returned to another store to get phones he ordered using another victim's identity, but an employee recognized Campbell and called the Clay County Sheriff's Office. Campbell gave a deputy a counterfeit driver's license in the identity of a third victim, but he didn't hang around. "As a deputy was talking with him, Campbell ran, but was tackled," the feds reported. "Campbell then got up and fled but was later apprehended by the CCSO after a pursuit." Authorities said a joint investigation determined "Campbell set up numerous fraudulent accounts, using counterfeit identification documents in the identities of various victims, and obtained thousands of dollars' worth of cellphones at multiple stores in Florida." Campbell, who is from Jamaica, was arrested on May 31, 2018, but that wasn't the end of his story. He was released on pre-trial supervision. "Campbell fled the jurisdiction in August 2019," the feds revealed, "and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Campbell remained a fugitive for more than three years until law enforcement arrested him in early 2023." One question not answered is a booking photo taken during Campbell's time as a fugitive, reportedly in Lake County, Fla., on Aug. 17, 2022. That was for resisting an officer without violence and theft of state sales tax, plus failing to appear in Marion County, Fla., for these four charges: grand theft, uttering a forged instrument, possession of a fictitious ID, and another resisting an officer without violence. He was released almost two months later, on Oct. 6, 2022. Now, Campbell, 49, could get 20 years in prison for wire fraud and two more years for aggravated identity theft. Plus, he agreed to pay back the $4,207 he made while committing the crimes.....

douddakzze1521/Israelism-Review-Jews-Push-Back-in-Controversial-but-Important-Documentary-dd-updated

douddakzze1521

--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://ibit.ly/z4qTb Source : https://ibit.ly/b91zl Flash News : https://pastelink.net/c90gqvqr Biden last Talk : https://notes.io/wtqPp Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://ibit.ly/gqhQ8 Other Sources : https://pasteio.com/xUtmuRSqTPC0 https://jpeg.ly/05OEo https://jpeg.ly/wbomj https://ibit.ly/jzjpk https://jpeg.ly/gejPd https://jpeg.ly/KrzGJ https://jpeg.ly/Dkbhn https://jsfiddle.net/0tefLm5h/ https://jpeg.ly/YG35H https://ibit.ly/i4-Bm https://paste.ee/p/QIQ0C https://jpeg.ly/ZUlhA https://ibit.ly/EtjdJ https://ibit.ly/0x3T9 WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Israeli airstrike killed a U.S. Agency for International Development contractor in Gaza last month, his colleagues said in a statement Saturday. The U.S. development agency noted the death and urged greater protection for humanitarian workers in the fighting there. Hani Jnena, 33, was killed Nov. 5 along with his wife, their 2-year-old and 4-year-old daughters, and her family, the U.S.-based humanitarian group Global Communities said. An internet-technology worker, Jnena had fled his neighborhood in Gaza City with his family to escape the airstrikes, only to be killed while sheltering with his in-laws, the group said. His employer was an on-the-ground partner for USAID, the U.S. agency said. The Washington Post first reported the death. In a final message to a colleague, Hani had written, "my daughters are terrified, and I am trying to keep them calm, but this bombing is terrifying," Global Communities said. It was a rare report of the killing of someone with U.S.-government ties in the more than two-month war between Israel and Hamas. Numerous workers with local and international aid agencies, including more than 100 U.N. workers, have been killed in Gaza as Israel bombards areas crowded with civilians and battles with Hamas fighters on the ground. Health officials in Hamas-run Gaza say more than 17,000 people have been killed, two-thirds of them women and children. Israel's offensive is in response to an Oct. 7 Hamas assault in Israel that killed about 1,200 people. USAID employees had been prominent in recent open letters by U.S. government employees objecting to U.S. policy in support of Israel's continued offensive, including President Joe Biden's decision not to join many other governments in calling for a cease-fire. In an email, USAID spokesperson Jessica Jennings said Saturday, "The USAID community grieves the deaths of the innocent civilians and many humanitarian workers who have been killed in this conflict, including courageous individuals like Hani Jnena." "In providing assistance and advocating for greater safety for civilian populations and the humanitarians who serve them, we are doing our utmost to honor the dedication, fortitude, and compassion of all humanitarian workers who have been killed," Jennings said.....

gdrfqg/Japan-Asean-summit-to-advance-security-cooperation-Khmer-Times-52-updated

gdrfqg

--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://rentry.co/qsvxo Source : https://yamcode.com/kennedy-says-wants-update-2153-48 Flash News : https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/7b30a87b Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/raw/china-president-says-wants-update-25071 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://jsfiddle.net/xqm4kba9/ Other Sources : https://ibit.ly/8jEGK https://rentry.co/xih6t https://rentry.co/vm3ggq https://rentry.co/irpqw https://rentry.co/w2dzo https://pastelink.net/zd19n5wi https://jpeg.ly/LPQEU https://rentry.co/a4sq9 https://ibit.ly/j72sP https://jpeg.ly/JnoLD https://ibit.ly/jFxr3 https://paste.ee/p/sVEBW https://rentry.co/b8etx https://paste.ee/p/79KDp According to Wikipedia, a death is suspicious if it is unexpected and its cause are medically or legally unexplained. Family members of late Pastor Prosper Ugboke have called on the Police and other legal bodies to invite and question the overseer of his church over the circumstances that led to the death of their son. According to the family members, the late 30-year-old Prosper was with the Senior Pastor of the Flame House International Church, in Nnewi, Anambra State headed by Pastor Ifeanyi Mbonu before he was hypnotized and eventually died mysteriously. It would be recalled that, a national daily (name withheld) published a report on August 26 this year that the late Prosper jumped down from a two storey building and died after he was jilted by his lover whom he had spent so much on. In an exclusive interview, mother of the late Prosper, while calling for justice, said all she wanted is for the truth over her son's death to prevail. She said: "My son never had any mental challenge. I felt so bad when we saw the report that my son, a Pastor, died because of a woman. They should tell me what really killed my son. "I am sure he died after he went to that man's house. Pastor Ifeanyi Mbonu must tell us what he did to my son because he knows what we do not know. I want the Police to help investigate the matter". Also, elder sister to the late Prosper, Uchechi Ugboke, while calling on the Police and other relevant bodies to invite and investigate Pas- tor Ifeanyi Christian Mbonu, disclosed that whosoever hurriedly spoke to journalists did so to cover up their evil act. She said: "The family source they claim spoke to the press is not true. The person's name was not mentioned. The person even said Prosper was dumped in the evil forest, claiming the way he died was abominable. That is also not true because we have pictures and clips of his (Prosper) burial. He was buried in our family land. In our tradition, the corpse of a young unmarried person, whose parents are still alive, is not buried in the family compound. He was buried in the community land in our home- town, Neru Nmuchieze in Umunochi Local Government Area of Abia State. "Prosper is my kid brother. We discovered after he went to the University as a student, he met this man called Pastor Ifeanyi Mbonu, from Anambra State. The name of his church is Flame House International, Nnewi." She told our correspondent that, Prosper was very intelligent and gained admission into University of Nigeria, Nsukka, (UNN), Enugu State in 2011 but two years after, he called that we should forgive him that he had been having carryovers. She continued: "I was surprised, and so I asked him what was going on with him? He replied that, he does not understand. And when we got to know he was with Pastor Ifeanyi, my mother warned him that she was not comfortable with him and that if he wants to continue as a Pastor, no problem but he should not be under him. "He did not listen. That was how I saw him last and the next thing was for Pastor Ifeanyi to bring Prosper's corpse for burial. He brought the news that my brother jumped through the toilet window from a two-storey building." She added that, the burial service was even conducted by the General Overseer of the Flame House International two weeks after he died. In her submission, the late Prosper's fiancée, who did not want her name mentioned, said she suspects that Pastor Ifeanyi Mbonu did something to Prosper before he died. The bereaved fiancée, who is also the Church Administrator said: "Every claim in that newspaper report is false; he did not commit suicide. To be honest with you on how he died, I was the closest person to him, and he confided in me on some issues. The whole saga happened few days after a church program when Pastor Ifeanyi called for a pas- tors' retreat at Nnewi, Anambra State, which necessitated that all of us, Pastor Prosper and I and other pastors attended. "I did not jilt the late Prosper. Our wedding plan was still ongoing until his mysterious death. I stood by him because I had a job. Prosper did not sponsor me. Rather, it was I who supported him through his education. My dad sponsored my education up to the University and not Prosper". While narrating all that transpired prior to Prospers death, she said, Pastor Ifeanyi's wife who just gave birth to a baby invited her to their house for post-maternal care(Omugwor.) So, she was already in the house when Pros- per came from Enugu for a retreat in Nnewi. Accordingly, she said: "At this period, Pros- per no longer stayed in his family house in Nnewi but lives with Pastor Ifeanyi. And so, on Sunday, we were all in the church but be- cause I was so exhausted with work, I decided to take a nap. But within just few minutes, I opened my eyes and I saw my fiancée's eyes were very red. This happened to him after sitting on a particular chair. I don't know what took him to that seat. Formerly, he used to stay with the Pastors but he was made to sit on it, like close to the altar and Pastor Ifeanyi. I had never seen his eyes so red. I was just looking at him. Then, Pastor Ifeanyi gave him the microphone. The next and only thing he said was demons are here and started praying in tongues. "After the service, when we got home, I realized there was a friction. No free communication between Pastor Ifeanyi and Prosper. The next day (Monday) was Board of Directors' meeting and when they returned, the whole atmosphere changed. I was in the kitchen helping the pastor's wife when Prosper walked in speedily and called my name, three times. "I had to rush into the room. When I asked what the problem was, he said I should just pray for him. I held him and prayed. "When he left, I saw and asked Pastor Ifeanyi what was going on. He said that Prosper has mental issues. He told me he (Prosper) is going to go through three temptations in life and the final temptation is when he would want to leave the church but he would not be allowed to leave. "It was then Prosper walked in. He warned that I should be careful and mind how close I get. So, I told him what the Pastor Ifeanyi said and he went straight to him saying, 'I am trying to save you and your ministry from a woman, I am not under any demonic influence. I have seen that you are not a good man. I am trying to protect your vision and you are going after a woman." She added that, it was at this moment that the Pastor's wife walked in and asked what the issue was. Prosper told her. He was trying to protect papa over a woman and he is telling his fiancée that he is under a demonic influence. "I will leave with my fiancée\....

owanr/Sentiment-roberta-base-intra-sorted-model_annots_alpha0.0_whole_1e-05

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--- license: mit base_model: roberta-base tags: - generated_from_trainer model-index: - name: Sentiment-roberta-base-intra-sorted-model_annots_alpha0.0_whole_1e-05 results: [] --- <!-- This model card has been generated automatically according to the information the Trainer had access to. You should probably proofread and complete it, then remove this comment. --> # Sentiment-roberta-base-intra-sorted-model_annots_alpha0.0_whole_1e-05 This model is a fine-tuned version of [roberta-base](https://huggingface.co/roberta-base) on the None dataset. It achieves the following results on the evaluation set: - Loss: 1.6811 ## Model description More information needed ## Intended uses & limitations More information needed ## Training and evaluation data More information needed ## Training procedure ### Training hyperparameters The following hyperparameters were used during training: - learning_rate: 1e-05 - train_batch_size: 1 - eval_batch_size: 1 - seed: 42 - optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08 - lr_scheduler_type: linear - num_epochs: 3 ### Training results | Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | |:-------------:|:-----:|:-----:|:---------------:| | 1.872 | 1.0 | 5628 | 1.6811 | | 1.861 | 2.0 | 11256 | 1.6811 | | 1.845 | 3.0 | 16884 | 1.6811 | ### Framework versions - Transformers 4.35.2 - Pytorch 2.1.0+cu121 - Datasets 2.15.0 - Tokenizers 0.15.0

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://yamcode.com/raw/hilary-says-wants-update-5342-12172023-212754 Source : https://rextester.com/ASNVL14544 Flash News : https://rextester.com/AZV69805 Biden last Talk : https://rentry.co/2iid23 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-3455-12172023-215140 Other Sources : https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-5434-33 https://pastelink.net/bgxx4z2f https://rentry.co/8bf266 https://rentry.co/u9rhx4 https://yamcode.com/raw/china-president-says-wants-update-25104 https://yamcode.com/ https://tech.io/snippet https://rentry.co/bx28h https://jpeg.ly/L1SSz https://pasteio.com/xfvT6PqwNhJy https://pastebin.com/fHcbpZTK https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-3544-12172023-210249 https://searchtech.fogbugz.com/default.asp?Suggestions.1.262336.0 https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-211244 In the southern city of Rafah, relatives are mourning the deaths of at least 27 people killed in Israeli strikes on two houses there. TEL AVIV, Israel -- Israel's defense minister said Thursday it will take months to destroy Hamas, predicting a drawn-out war even as his country and its top ally, the United States, face increasing international isolation and alarm over the devastation from the campaign in Gaza. Yoav Gallant's comments came as U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Israeli leaders to discuss a timetable for winding down major combat in Gaza. Israeli leaders repeated their determination to pursue the military assault until they crush the militant group for its Oct. 7 attack. The exchange seemed to continue a dynamic the two allies have been locked in for weeks. The Biden administration has shown unease over Israel's failure to reduce civilian casualties and its plans for the future of Gaza, but the White House continues to offer wholehearted support for Israel with weapons shipments and diplomatic backing. Aside from small adjustments, Israel has changed little in what has been one of the 21st century's most devastating military campaigns, with a mounting death toll. Meanwhile, Israel's president joined the ranks of high-ranking Israeli officials to speak out against a two-state solution after the war in Gaza. In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Isaac Herzog said it is not the time to be talking about establishing an independent Palestinian state when the country's pain from Hamas' Oct. 7 attack is still fresh. "What I want to urge is against just saying two-state solution. Why? Because there is an emotional chapter here that must be dealt with. My nation is bereaving. My nation is in trauma," said Herzog. Herzog spoke a day before a meeting with Sullivan. The Biden administration has said that after the war, efforts must be renewed to restart negotiations aimed at establishing a Palestinian state alongside Israel under the leadership of the Palestinian Authority. Herzog, whose position is largely ceremonial, is a former leader of Israel's Labor Party, which advocates a two-state solution with the Palestinians. The prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Mohammed Shtayyeh, said it's time for the United States to deal more firmly with Israel, particularly on Washington's calls for postwar negotiations for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "Now that the United States has talked the talk, we want Washington to walk the walk," Shtayyeh said in an interview with The Associated Press a day before he and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are to meet with Sullivan. Sullivan was to visit Ramallah for the meeting, where the men will discuss ongoing efforts to promote stability in the West Bank, according to a Biden administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. A deadly Hamas ambush on Israeli troops in Gaza City this week showed the group's resilience and called into question whether Israel can defeat it without wiping out the entire territory. The campaign flattened much of northern Gaza and drove 80% of Gaza's population of 2.3 million from their homes. Displaced people have squeezed into shelters mainly in the south in a spiraling humanitarian crisis. Gallant said Hamas has been building military infrastructure in Gaza for more than a decade, "and it is not easy to destroy them. It will require a period of time." Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio "It will last more than several months, but we will win, and we will destroy them," he said. After talks with Sullivan in Tel Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he told Israel's "American friends" that the country was "more determined than ever to continue fighting until Hamas is eliminated -- until complete victory." White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Sullivan talked with Netanyahu about moving to "lower intensity operations" sometime "in the near future." "But I don't want to put a time stamp on it," he said. Earlier this week, President Joe Biden said Israel was losing international support because of its "indiscriminate bombing." U.S. officials have been telling Israel for several weeks that the country's window is closing for concluding major combat operations in Gaza without losing even more support internationally. Meanwhile, the Palestinian telecommunications provider Paltel said Thursday that all communication services across Gaza were cut off due to ongoing fighting, severing the besieged territory from the outside world. The military released footage Thursday showing Israeli troops leading a line of dozens of men with their hands above their heads out of a damaged building it said was the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the north Gaza town of Beit Lahia. In the video, a commander said militants fired on troops from the hospital and that troops were evacuating those inside while detaining suspected militants. Israeli troops have held the hospital since Tuesday, according to the Health Ministry and U.N. During that time, 70 medical workers and patients were detained, including the hospital director, they said. Several thousand displaced people sheltering there were evacuated after the raid, and the remaining patients -- including 12 children in intensive care -- will be taken to Gaza City's Shifa Hospital, the Health Ministry said. Israel's air and ground assault, launched in response to Hamas' unprecedented attack into southern Israel on Oct. 7, has killed more than 18,700 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. Thousands more are missing and feared dead beneath the rubble. The ministry does not differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths. Multiple strikes hit Thursday in the southern cities of Khan Younis and Rafah, residents reported. After an early morning strike in Rafah, an Associated Press reporter saw 27 bodies brought into a local hospital Thursday. One woman burst into tears after recognizing the body of her child. "They were young people, children, displaced, all sitting at home," Mervat Ashour said. "There were no resistance fighters, rockets or anything." Tags Dcc Wire Lee-national Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox! Sign up! * I understand and agree that registration on or use of this site constitutes agreement to its user agreement and privacy policy.....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://jsbin.com/konidetika/edit?html,output Source : https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-215510 Flash News : https://pastelink.net/hg8nu5oh Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/obama-says-wants-update-4133-42 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-3145-12172023-220042 Other Sources : https://rentry.co/r4zhu8 https://yamcode.com/raw/ https://yamcode.com/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-214327 https://jsbin.com/rurulicufo/edit?html,output https://yamcode.com/hilary-says-wants-update-3412-12172023-215101 https://yamcode.com/ https://pastelink.net/12rrsbii https://jpeg.ly/Pn3q7 https://jsitor.com/07ZnNe-HpQ https://etextpad.com/pnszxmqysp https://pasteio.com/xIcByLf6uRAD https://yamcode.com/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-205953 https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-5551-12172023-211254 https://rentry.co/vska4 RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli troops mistakenly shot three hostages to death Friday in a battle-torn neighborhood of Gaza City, and an Israeli strike killed a Palestinian journalist in the south of the besieged territory, underscoring the ferocity of Israel's ongoing onslaught. The deaths were announced as a U.S. envoy tried to persuade the Israelis to scale back their campaign sooner rather than later. The hostages were killed in the Gaza City area of Shijaiyah, where troops have been engaged in fierce fighting with Hamas militants in recent days. The soldiers mistakenly identified the three Israelis as a threat and opened fire on them, said the army's chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari. He said it was believed that the three had either fled their captors or been abandoned. "Perhaps in the last few days, or over the past day, we still don't know all the details, they reached this area," Hagari said. He said the army expressed "deep sorrow" and was investigating. Hamas and other militants abducted more than 240 people in the Oct. 7 attack that triggered the war, and the hostages' plight has dominated public discourse in Israel ever since. Their families have led a powerful public campaign calling on the government to do more to bring them home. Demonstrations in solidarity with the hostages and their families take place nearly every day. Late Friday, hundreds of protesters blocked Tel Aviv's main highway in a spontaneous demonstration calling for the the hostages' return. Israeli political and military leaders often say freeing all the hostages is their top aim in the war alongside destroying Hamas. Still, in seven weeks since ground troops pushed into northern Gaza, they have not rescued any hostages, though they freed one early in the conflict and have found the bodies of several others. Hamas released over 100 in swaps for Palestinian prisoners last month, and more than 130 are believed to still be in captivity. The three hostages were identified as young men who had been abducted from Israeli communities near the Gaza border -- Yotam Haim, 28, Samer Al-Talalka 25, and Alon Shamriz, 26. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called their deaths an "unbearable tragedy" and vowed to continue "with a supreme effort to return all the hostages home safely." In southern Gaza, the Al Jazeera television network said an Israeli strike Friday in the city of Khan Younis killed cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa and wounded its chief correspondent in Gaza, Wael Dahdouh. The two were reporting at a school that had been hit by an earlier airstrike when a drone launched a second strike, the network said. Khan Younis has been the main target of Israel's ground offensive in the south. Speaking from a hospital bed, Dahdouh told the network that he managed to walk to an ambulance. But Abu Daqqa lay bleeding in the school and died hours later. An ambulance tried to reach the school to evacuate him but had to turn back because roads were blocked by the rubble of destroyed houses, it said. Dahdouh, a veteran of covering Israel-Gaza wars whose wife and children were killed by an Israeli strike earlier in the war, was wounded by shrapnel in his right arm. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Abu Daqqa is the 64th journalist to be killed since the conflict erupted: 57 Palestinians, four Israelis and three Lebanese journalists. Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour told a General Assembly meeting on the war that Israel "targets those who could document (their) crimes and inform the world, the journalists." "We mourn one of those journalists, Samer Abu Daqqa, wounded in an Israeli drone strike and left to bleed to death for six hours while ambulances were prevented from reaching him," Mansour said. The Israeli army did not immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment about Abu Daqqa's death. Israel's offensive has flattened much of northern Gaza and driven 80% of Gaza's population of 2.3 million from their homes. Displaced people have squeezed into shelters mainly in the south in a spiraling humanitarian crisis. The offensive has killed more than 18,700 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza. Thousands more are missing and feared dead beneath the rubble. The ministry does not differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths. Its latest count did not specify how many were women and minors, but they have consistently made up around two-thirds of the dead in previous tallies. While battered by the Israeli onslaught, Hamas has continued its attacks. On Friday it fired rockets from Gaza toward central Israel, setting off sirens in Jerusalem for the first time in weeks but causing no injuries. The group's resilience called into question whether Israel can defeat it without wiping out the entire territory. Israelis remain strongly supportive of the war and see it as necessary to prevent a repeat of the Hamas attack, in which militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians. A total of 116 soldiers have been killed in the ground offensive, which began Oct. 27. U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has expressed unease over Israel's failure to reduce civilian casualties and its plans for the future of Gaza, but the White House continues to offer wholehearted support with weapons shipments and diplomatic backing. Israeli airstrikes and tank shelling continued Friday, including in Khan Younis and in Rafah, which is one of the shrinking areas of tiny, densely populated Gaza to which Palestinian civilians have been told by Israel to evacuate. Details on many of the strikes could not be confirmed because communications services have been down across Gaza since late Thursday because of fighting. In meetings with Israeli leaders on Thursday and Friday, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan discussed a timetable for winding down the intense combat phase of the war. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told Sullivan that it would take months to destroy Hamas, but he did not say whether his estimate referred to the current phase of heavy airstrikes and ground battles. "There is no contradiction between saying the fight is going to take months and also saying that different phases will take place at different times over those months, including the transition from the high-intensity operations to more targeted operations," Sullivan said Friday. Sullivan also met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss Gaza's postwar future. A senior U.S. official said one idea being floated is to bring back Palestinian security forces driven from their jobs in Gaza by Hamas in its 2007 takeover. Any role for Palestinian security forces in Gaza is bound to elicit strong opposition from Israel, which seeks to maintain an open-ended security presence there. Netanyahu has said he will not allow a postwar foothold for the Abbas-led Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The U.S. has said it eventually wants to see the West Bank and Gaza under a " revitalized Palestinian Authority " as a precursor to a Palestinian state -- an idea soundly rejected by Netanyahu, who leads a right-wing government that is opposed to Palestinian statehood. Palestinian officials have said they will consider a postwar role in Gaza only in the context of concrete U.S.-backed steps toward statehood. In the meeting, Abbas called for an immediate cease-fire and ramped-up aid to Gaza, and emphasized that Gaza is an integral part of the Palestinian state, according to a statement from his office. It made no mention of conversations about postwar scenarios. The 88-year-old Abbas is deeply unpopular, with a poll published Wednesday indicating close to 90% of Palestinians want him to resign. Meanwhile, Palestinian support for Hamas has tripled in the West Bank, with a small uptick in Gaza, according to the poll. Still, a majority of Palestinians do not back Hamas, according to the survey. Jeffery reported from Cairo and Frankel from Jerusalem. Associated Press journalists Aamer Madhani in Washington, Elena Becatoros in Athens and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed. Full AP coverage at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war.....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://rentry.co/q76scs Source : https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-3332-12172023-215621 Flash News : https://yamcode.com/raw/ Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/holland-says-wants-update-5151-40 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://jsbin.com/yoyinorusi/edit?html,output Other Sources : https://paste.ee/p/ti1oE https://rentry.co/ybfks https://tech.io/snippet https://rentry.co/qcxcmv https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-3332-41 https://yamcode.com/raw/china-president-says-wants-update-25102 https://paste.ee/p/a06Nf https://rentry.co/uhsw3m https://yamcode.com/ https://pastebin.com/sZz4nrj7 https://yamcode.com/raw/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-214436 https://yamcode.com/kennedy-says-wants-update-5531-39 https://ibit.ly/atgFd https://yamcode.com/raw/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-215243 But as Trump continues to flex his power to animate the GOP electorate, they're now quick to stand in line and by his side as they seek an all-important endorsement or consideration for a position in a potential future administration. That dynamic has recently come to a head in an Ohio congressional district, where Republicans are battling against longtime Democratic incumbent Rep. Marcy Kaptur to take a district that state GOP lawmakers drew to kick her out. After J.R. Majewski lost to Kaptur in 2022 after he campaigned on disputed claims that he served on combat duty in Afghanistan, some Ohio Republicans wanted a former state lawmaker, Craig Riedel, to gun for the seat. Last week, however, an audio tape surfaced of Riedel calling Trump "arrogant" and vowing that he wouldn't endorse him. Not a great look if you want Trump's coveted endorsement. And for good measure, a purported message from Majewski -- who is running again -- calling Trump an "idiot" has also made the rounds in the election. At this point, it seems to be a time-honored tale. Here are seven of the more memorable instances of Republicans who have amplified anti-Trump messages -- only to later reel them back. 1. Kevin McCarthy In perhaps the most dramatic example of the dynamic, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy criticized Trump's role in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol only to show up at Mar-a-Lago before the month was up to make amends with him -- complete with a photo of the two together. "I've been very clear to the president -- he bears responsibilities for his words and actions," McCarthy told Republican lawmakers after the riot. "No if, ands or buts." "I asked him personally today: Does he hold responsibility for what happened?" he said further. "Does he feel bad about what happened? He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened, and he'd need to acknowledge that." Now, despite Trump not helping save his speakership, McCarthy has endorsed his 2024 run. 2. Mike Johnson The Louisiana Republican who made a stunning rise to the speakership this fall wasn't a fan of Trump in 2015, when he wrote on Facebook that Trump was "a hot head by nature" that he was afraid "would break more things than he fixes." "The thing about Donald Trump is that he lacks the character and the moral center we desperately need again in the White House," he wrote on Facebook. He has since endorsed Trump's 2024 campaign and said that his statements were made before he personally knew the former president. 3. Elise Stefanik Stefanik was once a moderate House member who thought Trump was a "whack job." As Trump was making his first run for the White House, she said that his rhetoric was "tapping into the fear today of our security situation" and that his proposed Muslim ban was "not who we are as a country." Now the chair of the House Republican Conference, Stefanik is one of the chamber's fiercest defenders of Trump, having strongly embraced his false claims of election fraud. 4. Tucker Carlson and Fox News pundits In Dominion Voting System's lawsuit against Fox News, legal documents revealed that Tucker Carlson was a harsh critic of the former president in private and that other pundits on the channel disagreed with Trump's claims of election fraud. "We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can't wait," the prominent conservative commentator texted an unidentified recipient. "I hate him passionately." By arguing for overturning the election, Trump's lawyer was "lying" and a "complete nut," Carlson texted Laura Ingraham, another pundit. Carlson, whom Fox later fired, interviewed Trump in counterprogramming for the first Republican presidential debate earlier this year. 5. Ted Cruz As one of Trump's biggest competitors in 2016, Cruz was an early and frequent target of the rapidly rising candidate's insults on the debate stage and what was then Twitter (now X). And Cruz responded in kind, calling him a "sniveling coward," a "big, loud New York bully," a "pathological liar" and more. "He combines it with being a narcissist, a narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen," he said about Trump. "Donald Trump is such a narcissist that Barack Obama looks at him and says, 'Dude, what's your problem?'" But now, the Texas senator wants you to know that the back-and-forth was all just primary politics. 6. Kristi Noem The South Dakota governor, cited among the right as one of the strongest female governors in the country, was skeptical about Trump's first run for the presidency -- especially when he began calling for a Muslim ban. "He's not my candidate," Noem told a local radio station in 2015, when she was still in Congress. "People came to this country for religious freedom, so I believe his statement was un-American. And I don't agree with it." Noem had originally endorsed Marco Rubio in his 2016 run, before backing Trump in the general. Once upon a time in 2017, the hard-charging, election-denying gubernatorial candidate turned moderating Senate candidate shared a meme on her Facebook page that depicted Trump as "not my president" around the time of his inauguration. "Will you be protesting the inauguration?" she wrote. "If so, which of these suggestions will you adopt? Will you boycott TV coverage? Wear black? Donate money the ACLU, NAACP or Planned Parenthood? Use the hashtag #NotMyPresident? Will you unfollow Donald Trump?" For what it's worth, Lake -- who has openly said she voted for Obama and has donated to Democrats -- has stated throughout her campaign that the message written from her former position as a news anchor, when she would ask questions on social media to engage audiences.....

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--- datasets: - yuvalkirstain/pickapic_v2 --- # Diffusion Model Alignment Using Direct Preference Optimization Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) for text-to-image diffusion models is a method to align diffusion models to text human preferences by directly optimizing on human comparison data. Please check our paper at [Diffusion Model Alignment Using Direct Preference Optimization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12908). This model is fine-tuned from [stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0) on offline human preference data [pickapic_v2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/yuvalkirstain/pickapic_v2). ## Code *Code will come soon!!!* ## SD1.5 We also have a model finedtuned from [stable-diffusion-v1-5](https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5) available at [dpo-sd1.5-text2image-v1](https://huggingface.co/mhdang/dpo-sd1.5-text2image-v1). ## A quick example ```python from diffusers import StableDiffusionXLPipeline, UNet2DConditionModel import torch # load pipeline model_id = "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0" pipe = StableDiffusionXLPipeline.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.float16, variant="fp16", use_safetensors=True).to("cuda") # load finetuned model unet_id = "mhdang/dpo-sdxl-text2image-v1" unet = UNet2DConditionModel.from_pretrained(unet_id, subfolder="unet", torch_dtype=torch.float16) pipe.unet = unet pipe = pipe.to("cuda") prompt = "Two cats playing chess on a tree branch" image = pipe(prompt, guidance_scale=7.5).images[0].resize((512,512)) image.save("cats_playing_chess.png") ``` More details coming soon.

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://rentry.co/3sinf Source : https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-3151-37 Flash News : https://yamcode.com/ Biden last Talk : https://rentry.co/38ym7 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://rentry.co/mrti9 Other Sources : https://rentry.co/wccqs https://ibit.ly/POt9R https://justpaste.me/ExGB2 https://pastelink.net/cdoh7voo https://ibit.ly/rxgyu https://rentry.co/qnuoc https://rentry.co/ha63i https://pastebin.com/Hf6zCXqf https://ibit.ly/MkFHx https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-3151-41 https://rentry.co/cxoty https://rentry.co/zsur5 https://jpeg.ly/rsc_F https://rentry.co/hz9dib Three Israeli hostages who were mistakenly shot by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip had been waving a white flag and were shirtless when they were killed, military officials said Saturday, in Israel's first such acknowledgement of harming any hostages in its war against Hamas. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a nationwide address that the killings "broke my heart, broke the entire nation's heart," but he indicated no change in Israel's intensive military campaign. "We are as committed as ever to continue until the end, until we dismantle Hamas, until we return all our hostages," he said. Anger over the mistaken killings is likely to increase pressure on the Israeli government to renew Qatar-mediated negotiations with Hamas over swapping more of the remaining captives, which Israel says number 129, for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. A senior Hamas official, Osama Hamdan, reiterated that there will be no further hostage releases until the war ends and Israel accepts the militant group's conditions for an exchange. Netanyahu said Israel would never agree to such demands. Israel's account of how the three hostages were killed also raised questions about its soldiers' conduct. Palestinians on several occasions have said Israeli soldiers opened fire as civilians tried to flee to safety. Hamas has claimed other hostages were previously killed by Israeli fire or airstrikes, without presenting evidence. An Israeli military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to brief reporters in line with military regulations, said the hostages likely had been abandoned by their captors or had escaped. The soldiers' behavior was "against our rules of engagement," the official said, and was being investigated at the highest level. The hostages did everything they could to signal they weren't a threat, "but this shooting was done during fighting and under pressure," Herzi Halevi, chief of the military's general staff, said in a statement. Halevi added: "There may be additional incidents in which hostages will escape or will be abandoned during the fighting. We have the obligation and the responsibility to get them out alive." The hostages, all in their 20s, were killed Friday in the Gaza City area of Shijaiyah, where troops are engaged in fierce fighting with Hamas. They had been among more than 240 people taken hostage during an unprecedented raid by Hamas into Israel on Oct. 7 in which around 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians. Speaking at a rally in Tel Aviv, Rubi Chen, father of 19-year-old hostage Itay Chen, criticized the government for believing hostages can be retrieved through military pressure. "Put the the best offer on the table to get the hostages home alive," he said. "We don't want them back in bags." The Israeli military official said the three hostages had emerged from a building close to Israeli soldiers' positions. They waved a white flag and were shirtless, possibly trying to signal they posed no threat. Two were killed immediately, and the third ran back into the building screaming for help in Hebrew. The commander issued an order to cease fire, but another burst of gunfire killed the third man, the official said. Israeli media gave a more detailed account. The mass circulation daily Yediot Ahronot said that according to an investigation into the incident, soldiers followed the third man and shouted at him to come out, and at least one soldier shot him when he emerged from a staircase. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said the soldiers who followed the third hostage believed he was a Hamas member. Local media reported that soldiers earlier saw a nearby building marked "SOS" and "Help! Three hostages" but feared it might be a trap. Dahlia Scheindlin, an political analyst, said it was unlikely the killings would massively alter public support for the war. Most Israelis still have a strong sense of why it is being fought and believe Hamas needs to be defeated, she said. "They feel like there's no other choice," she said. The killings emphasized the dangers hostages face in areas of house-to-house combat like Shijaiyah, where nine soldiers were killed this week in one of the war's deadliest days for Israeli ground forces. The military has said Hamas has booby-trapped buildings and ambushed troops from a tunnel network it built under Gaza City. On Saturday, the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum asserted that another hostage, 27-year-old Inbar Hayman, had been killed in Gaza. The group gave no details. Hamas released over 100 hostages for Palestinian prisoners during a brief cease-fire in November. Nearly all freed on both sides were women and minors. Talks on further swaps broke down. Hamas seeks the return of all Palestinian prisoners. As of late November, Israel held nearly 7,000 Palestinians accused or convicted of security offenses, including hundreds rounded up since the war began. The war has flattened much of northern Gaza and driven 85% of the territory's population of 2.3 million from their homes. Only a trickle of aid has been able to enter Gaza. Israel has said it would open a second entry point at Kerem Shalom to speed up deliveries. The offensive has killed more than 18,700 Palestinians, the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Thursday. It does not differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths. It was the ministry's last update before the latest communications blackout in Gaza. "Now 48 hours and counting. The incident is likely to limit reporting and visibility to events on the ground," said Alp Toker, director of NetBlocks, a group tracking internet outages. The war has been deadly for journalists. Mourners held funeral prayers for Samer Abu Daqqa, a Palestinian journalist working for broadcaster Al Jazeera who was killed Friday in an Israeli strike. The Committee to Protect Journalists said the cameraman was the 64th journalist to be killed in the conflict: 57 Palestinians, four Israelis and three Lebanese. In devastated Gaza City, resident Assad Abu Taha reported "violent bombardment" Saturday. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem asserted that two Christian women at a church compound in Gaza City were killed by Israeli sniper fire and that seven other people were wounded. The women were identified as a mother and daughter. Gaza has a small Christian community consisting of about 1,000 people. There was no immediate Israeli comment. The United States, Israel's closest ally, has expressed unease over Israel's failure to reduce civilian casualties, but the White House continues to offer support with weapons shipments and diplomatic backing. Israel and the U.S. remain far apart on who should run Gaza after the war. Washington wants to see a unified Palestinian government in Gaza and the West Bank as a precursor to eventual Palestinian statehood. A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict enjoys broad international support. Netanyahu reiterated Saturday that Israel will retain security in a demilitarized Gaza and that a Palestinian state would pose a threat to Israel. "I am proud to have prevented the establishment of a Palestinian state," he said. U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was traveling to Israel to continue discussions on a timetable for winding down the war's intense combat phase. But Netanyahu and military leaders vowed to continue until "complete victory," which the prime minister noted will take time.....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/c3b4d014 Source : https://pastelink.net/5u07f4rv Flash News : https://jsbin.com/nequzefaya/edit?html,output Biden last Talk : https://paste.ee/p/RJySX Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://rentry.co/yoffh Other Sources : https://rentry.co/kfha3 https://yamcode.com/raw/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-205417 https://rentry.co/3q65x https://rentry.co/gd2q6 https://rentry.co/mb8gr https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/849cf262 https://ibit.ly/2FITE https://jpeg.ly/DTbj8 https://jpeg.ly/XkbAo https://ibit.ly/FrBNu https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-211908 https://pasteio.com/x4kSNY3Fpmmb https://yamcode.com/obama-says-wants-update-3435-38 https://rextester.com/OVIW54129 A Melbourne father and his two teenage sons have been accused of causing $1 million worth of damage to almost 90 buildings across the city by firing marbles at windows using slingshots. Police say the 49-year-old and his sons, aged 15 and 16, allegedly used the marbles to damage the windows of businesses in multiple suburbs including Bentleigh, Collingwood, Cremorne, Docklands and St Kilda. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: A father and their two sons from Melbourne's southeast face almost 300 charges over an alleged vandalism spree. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> The 87 incidents in which the trio were allegedly involved took place between September and December this year, with the majority occurring in October and November. It's believed the total damage bill will exceed $1 million. One building alone has $150,000 worth of glass that needs replacing. On Wednesday morning, police executed a search warrant at a home in Cheltenham and arrested the man and his sons. They were charged with 274 offences between them, including 258 counts of criminal damage and three counts of reckless conduct endangering serious injury. During a search of the property police also allegedly discovered a small cannabis crop. The group were charged with six offences relating to the cannabis crop, while a 52-year-old woman, believed to be the teen's mother, was also arrested at the property and released with intent to summons in relation to the crop. Six firearms, four extendable batons and four slingshots were seized, while two firearms licences were suspended. The 49-year-old man was released on bail to appear in Melbourne Magistrates court on Tuesday, December 19 and the teenagers were bailed to appear in a children's court at a later date.....

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refdgerd/Victoria-driver-who-attempted-to-hit-protester-with-his-car-officially-charged-dc-updated

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-5211-12172023-211125 Source : https://yamcode.com/hilary-says-wants-update-3344-12172023-213517 Flash News : https://yamcode.com/obama-says-wants-update-3523-52 Biden last Talk : https://pasteio.com/x6ZSOwVlNnw4 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/3ea415b9 Other Sources : https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-214242 https://rentry.co/vvk7wq https://etextpad.com/hzekr0l8x9 https://yamcode.com/raw/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-220616 https://rentry.co/drye3n https://yamcode.com/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-214912 https://jpeg.ly/WhPvD https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/4a5f5e94 https://paste.ee/p/bX74N https://jsbin.com/vosirajavi/edit?html,output https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-4512-12172023-220335 https://yamcode.com/china-president-says-wants-update-25116 https://rentry.co/oaa366 https://pastebin.com/yu7VqAi9 The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner said in the autopsy report that Perry also drowned in "the heated end of his pool," but that it was a secondary factor in his Oct. 28 death, deemed an accident. People close to Perry told investigators that he was undergoing ketamine infusion therapy, an experimental treatment used to treat depression and anxiety. But the coroner said the levels of ketamine in Perry's body were in the range used for general anesthesia during surgery, and that his last treatment 1 1\/2 weeks earlier wouldn't explain those levels. The drug is typically metabolized in a matter of hours. The report says coronary artery disease and buprenorphine, which is used to treat opioid use disorder, also contributed. The amount of ketamine detected "would be enough to make him lose consciousness and lose his posture and his ability to keep himself above the water," said Dr. Andrew Stolbach, a medical toxicologist with Johns Hopkins Medicine who reviewed the autopsy report at the request of The Associated Press. "Using sedative drugs in a pool or hot tub, especially when you're alone, is extremely risky and, sadly, here it's fatal," said Stolbach, who noted that both ketamine and buprenorphine can be used safely. Perry was declared dead after being found unresponsive at his home in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. Investigators performed the autopsy the following day. The actor had taken drugs in the past but had been "reportedly clean for 19 months," according to the report. Perry had played pickleball earlier in the day, the report says, and his assistant, who lives with him, found him face down in the pool after returning from errands. The assistant told investigators Perry had not been sick, had not made any health complaints, and had not shown evidence of recent alcohol or drug use. Postmortem blood tests showed "high levels" of ketamine in his system, which could have raised his blood pressure and heart rate and dulled his impulse to breathe. Buprenorphine, commonly used in opioid addiction and found in therapeutic levels in Perry's blood, could have contributed to the breathing problem, the autopsy said. It comes in a pill or film that dissolves under the tongue. The report said his coronary artery disease would have made him more susceptible to the drugs' effects. Perry was open about discussing his struggles with addiction dating back to his time on "Friends" in the 1990s. "I loved everything about the show but I was struggling with my addictions which only added to my sense of shame," he wrote in his 2022 memoir. "I had a secret and no one could know." A woman whose name is redacted in the autopsy report told investigators that Perry had been in good spirits when she spoke to him a few days earlier, but had been taking testosterone shots which she said were making him "angry and mean." She said he had quit smoking two weeks earlier. The woman said he had been receiving the ketamine infusions for his mental health, and that his doctor had been giving them to him less often because he had been feeling well. Ketamine is a powerful anesthetic approved by U.S. health regulators for use during surgery, but in the past decade it has emerged as an experimental treatment for a range of psychiatric and hard-to-treat conditions, including depression, anxiety, and chronic pain. While not approved by regulators, doctors are free to prescribe drugs these alternate uses if they think their patients could benefit, and hundreds of clinics across the U.S. offer ketamine infusions and other formulations for various health conditions.....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://jpeg.ly/H8b-E Source : https://ibit.ly/Du3hA Flash News : https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/dfd07dd9 Biden last Talk : https://ibit.ly/0EcDq Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://pastebin.com/ Other Sources : https://jpeg.ly/omWIW https://ibit.ly/JJf-m https://ibit.ly/X9XQ3 https://ibit.ly/eZ3-g https://jpeg.ly/jmXtp https://pasteio.com/x5mAGEXJyuW9 https://jsitor.com/1ByyX87knJ https://jpeg.ly/UhX-d https://jsfiddle.net/s3mu17at/ https://jpeg.ly/mwCBx https://jpeg.ly/uuwPO https://jpeg.ly/LM9p6 https://jsfiddle.net/o5nd4mwx/ https://paste.ee/p/EvVAy The difficult weather could hit starting on Sunday night. Rain, mainly after 8 pm. Patchy fog. Low around 50. Southeast wind 6 to 11 mph increasing to 12 to 17 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 32 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three-quarters of an inch possible. HIGH WIND WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE SUNDAY NIGHT * WHERE...Portions of southeastern Massachusetts and northern and southern Rhode Island. * WHEN...From late Sunday night through Monday evening. Rain. The rain could be heavy at times. Patchy fog. High near 61. Windy, with a southeast wind 24 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 55 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible. COASTAL FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE MONDAY MIDDAY HIGH TIDE... * WHAT...One to two feet of inundation above ground level possible in low-lying areas near shorelines and tidal waterways (5.4 to 8.2 feet Mean Lower Low Water). * WHERE...Southeast Providence RI, Eastern Kent RI, Bristol RI, Washington RI and Newport RI Counties. * WHEN...Surrounding hours of the Monday midday high tide. A chance of rain, mainly before 11pm. Patchy fog before 8pm. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. Breezy, with a southwest wind 16 to 21 mph decreasing to 9 to 14 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. A chance of rain, mainly after 9 am. Partly sunny, with a high near 45. Southwest wind 9 to 14 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%.....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://yamcode.com/obama-says-wants-update-2544-46 Source : https://yamcode.com/raw/obama-says-wants-update-2151-40 Flash News : https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-4525-12172023-214150 Biden last Talk : https://jpeg.ly/nQhzw Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/ Other Sources : https://jpeg.ly/GL-ab https://jsbin.com/roruxoxaxi/edit?html,output https://jsitor.com/ubk_cFc0QO https://ibit.ly/LDHbQ https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/311db422 https://jpeg.ly/rGJs0 https://jsbin.com/lefeceleto/edit?html,output https://ibit.ly/VTSTa https://jsitor.com/DkTQWjaVv4 https://jpeg.ly/VblKN https://yamcode.com/raw/ https://notes.io/wtqJb https://jsbin.com/bimucibemo/edit?html,output https://rentry.co/pq5qc NAHAN (HP), Dec 16: Over 5,000 demonstrators participated in the 'Hatti Akrosh Maha rally' in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district on Saturday to demand implementation of Hatti tribal status law, the protest organisers said. Leaders of Kendriya Hatti Samiti, an organisation of the Hatti community, announced that they would further intensify the agitation as the Himachal Pradesh government is not addressing their demands. The next 'Hatti Akrosh Maha rally' would be soon organised in the Anj Bhoj area of the Trans-Giri track, the leaders said. The Hatti tribals predominantly reside in the 154 panchayats of the Trans-Giri area in Sirmaur district. More than 5,000 members of the Hatti community, including youth and women, gathered at the PWD rest house ground at Shillai in Sirmaur on Saturday morning in in traditional attire, members of Kendriya Hatti Samiti said. After holding a public meeting, the protesters marched towards the office of the sub divisional magistrate (SDM) to raise their demand for the implementation of Hatti tribal status law (schedule tribe) order, (second amendment) act, 2023, for the past four months, they added. Addressing the gathering, Ami Chand Kamal, president of Kendriya Hatti Samiti alleged that the Congress-led state government was sitting on the Hatti tribal status law for the past four months. The gazette notification was issued by the President of India in this regard on August 4, 2023, after a constitutional amendment by the Parliament. Marching with beats of drums and traditional musical instruments such as 'dubantu', 'hulak', and 'ransingha', Hatti agitators carried placards and raised slogans demanding immediate implementation of Hatti tribal status law. The protesters handed over two memorandums to Shillai SDM, addressed to the governor and chief minister of Himachal Pradesh. Former MLA and BJP leader Baldev Singh Tomar who took part in the protest said the Hatti agitation started in 1968 when the Centre had declared Jaunsar-Babur as a Scheduled Tribe area but left out the Trans-Giri area which was a part of Jaunsar Babur. Kundan Singh Shastri, general secretary of Hatti Samiti, alleged that the state government was ignoring the concerns of their community and warned of growing anguish among Hatti youths against the state government. Shastri said over 10,000 job vacancies have been announced by the Union and state governments but the Hatti youths are not able to apply in the tribal quota. He reiterated the organisation's appeal to Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu to immediately intervene in the matter and ensure that tribal status certificates are issued to all Hatti youths so that they can avail of the reservation benefit in the ongoing recruitments. (PTI)....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-4523-36 Source : https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-4512-12172023-220335 Flash News : https://rentry.co/9ciya Biden last Talk : https://ibit.ly/MiFdZ Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/kennedy-says-wants-update-4313-47 Other Sources : https://yamcode.com/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-220102 https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-5555-12172023-212451 https://jsbin.com/gatofodoqu/edit?html,output https://jsfiddle.net/xzap0sgm/ https://jsbin.com/sutemegabi/edit?html,output https://ibit.ly/iVK9G https://jsitor.com/ https://jsitor.com/fGBTJWD7vw https://rentry.co/ixmm8 https://jsbin.com/nekazopopo/edit?html,output https://jsbin.com/hocoxamafo/edit?html,output https://jsfiddle.net/rz0asn3L/ https://rentry.co/ahx7a https://tech.io/snippet/TdYrn6h TOLEDO, Iowa (AP) -- A Santa figure saved an Iowa fire department's nativity scene from being shut down following complaints that the display might violate the U.S. Constitution. The display in the central Iowa city of Toledo was moved to a retired firefighter's nearby lawn last week after an atheist group raised concerns that the Christian depiction at the public fire station violated the First Amendment's prohibition on government agencies favoring one religion over others, Cedar Rapids station KCRG-TV reported Friday. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1984 ruled that manger scenes are allowed on government property depending on the context of the displays during the Christmas season and whether they have a secular purpose. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio During a City Council meeting Monday, fans of the 15-year-long nativity tradition at the Toledo Fire Department pitched adding a Santa figure to keep the display on public ground. People are also reading... College football: Wartburg fights to finish, stunned late in National Semifinal loss to No. 1 North Central Amazon agrees to take over Cedar Falls industrial land for future distribution facility Deer hunting is out of control High School Wrestling: IAWrestle Individual Boys' and Girls' rankings Landlords group, Dahlstrom push for different College Hill visions Police ask for help in locating missing woman Halladey found guilty of murder in Reinbeck girlfriend's death Arrest made in weekend shooting that led to man's hospitalization Man who fled hospital with gunshot wound to head is arrested Proposal for private Christian school in Waverly rejected by board Hannah Luce: At 23, foundation director shows 'amazing grace, professionalism, competence' College Football: No. 3 Wartburg will have hands full with No. 1 North Central Man expected to live after being shot multiple times Sunday in Waterloo High School football: The 2023 Courier All-Iron Man football team Waterloo father arrested for broken bones suffered by infant son The city confirmed that the nativity scene, plus Santa, is back up at the station. Eastern Iowa Atheists founder Justin Scott said he's satisfied. "I don't believe there's any ill intent by the city of Toledo," Scott told Des Moines station KCCI-TV. "I think it was just something that was nice, it was a nice gesture by a nice family. They put it up and nobody bothered to notice that it was actually a constitutional violation." For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, KCRG-TV. 0 Comments Love 0 Funny 0 Wow 0 Sad 0 Angry 0 Tags Dcc Wire Ap State Iowa Nativity Santa Fire Department Atheist Freedom Of Religion Constitutions Church And State Politics Religion U.s. News General News Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox! Sign up! * I understand and agree that registration on or use of this site constitutes agreement to its user agreement and privacy policy.....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://yamcode.com/hilary-says-wants-update-4314-12172023-210456 Source : https://yamcode.com/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-214619 Flash News : https://ibit.ly/3Y4zt Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-2343-42 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://rentry.co/xg56uf Other Sources : https://yamcode.com/raw/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-215328 https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-3341-12172023-211017 https://yamcode.com/holland-says-wants-update-4212-38 https://jsitor.com/iTcwHWszjl https://jsfiddle.net/7dt6Lzp8/ https://pastelink.net/dxf2quf9 https://jsitor.com/ui_Fk9uxvK https://yamcode.com/ https://yamcode.com/kennedy-says-wants-update-1343-43 https://paste.toolforge.org/ https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/9a249c97 https://jpeg.ly/I1G-O https://tech.io/snippet/iEkNdJH https://jsbin.com/gugosogene/edit?html,output Washington- Several new European and American rockets are set for blast off in 2024, at a time the aerospace industry faces a shortage of launch vehicles fueled by the rise of satellite constellations. Here are the maiden flights space watchers can look forward to next year. The Ariane 6 rocket, which carries Europe's hopes for space autonomy from the United States and Russia, is set to make its inaugural voyage between June 15 and July 31, after four years of delays due to the pandemic and other difficulties. The project was launched in 2014 in response to the rise of SpaceX's Falcon 9. Building on Ariane 5, Ariane 6 should be half as expensive as its predecessor thanks to new production methods. With a planned 28 launches even before its first flight, the rocket, available in two versions, will carry payloads to both geostationary orbit (11.5 metric tons) and low Earth orbit (21.6 metric tons), using reignitable upper-stage engines. Once launched, the challenge for Ariane Group will be to successfully ramp up its output. "It is a real industrial challenge to go from building two to nine launchers per year," said executive president Martin Sion. Banned from flying since December 2022 after the failure of its first commercial flight, the Vega C rocket manufactured by Italian space company Avio, is supposed to launch again in the fourth quarter, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). The unavailability of Europe's premier small rocket forced the ESA to rely on the US company SpaceX to launch several European scientific and GPS satellites. The accident was caused by the failure of a rocket motor nozzle, forcing a redesign. United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has developed the Vulcan Centaur rocket to replace its Atlas V and Delta IV launch vehicles. After getting past the first few flights, ULA will begin recovering and reusing the first stage boosters. This and other innovations make the Vulcan platform "much more affordable" than its predecessors, ULA CEO Tory Bruno told AFP. Vulcan Centaur will be able to carry up to 27.2 metric tons into low Earth orbit, comparable to Falcon 9. The first launch of Vulcan Centaur is scheduled for early January. This ambitious mission will carry a private lunar lander which could become the first American spacecraft to land on the Moon since the end of the Apollo program.....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://ibit.ly/4wtQ4 Source : https://yamcode.com/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-213831 Flash News : https://rentry.co/2efnm Biden last Talk : https://rentry.co/5g4kb Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://rentry.co/bhcpa9 Other Sources : https://rextester.com/HBAFAP47115 https://paste.ee/p/xNzMV https://rentry.co/m34xr https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/a30c7a2b https://pastebin.com/B1SkkFZ8 https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-4331-48 https://rentry.co/8qowc https://yamcode.com/raw/obama-says-wants-update-4533-36 https://rentry.co/5zks9 https://rentry.co/vvvup https://etextpad.com/hvupsxfstw https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-1524-12172023-204809 https://rentry.co/d257t https://yamcode.com/raw/china-president-says-wants-update-25143 "I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire (1694-1778) When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he included in it a list of the colonists' grievances with the British government. Notably absent were any complaints that the British government infringed upon the freedom of speech. In those days, speech was as acerbic as it is today. Yet, if words were aimed at other colonists or at Parliament, all words were lawful. If they were aimed at the king -- as Jefferson's were in the Declaration -- they constituted treason. Needless to say, Jefferson and the 55 others who signed the Declaration would all have been hanged for treasonous speech had the colonists lost the Revolutionary War. Of course, the colonists won the war, and, six years afterward, the 13 states ratified the Constitution. Two years after ratification, the Constitution was amended by adding the Bill of Rights. The first ratified amendment prohibited Congress from doing what the colonists never seriously complained about the British government doing -- infringing upon the freedom of speech. James Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, insisted upon referring to speech as "the" freedom of speech, so as to emphasize that it preexisted the government. If you could have asked Madison where he believed the freedom of speech came from, he'd have said it was one of the inalienable rights Jefferson wrote about in the Declaration. Stated differently, each of the signatories of the Declaration and all the ratifiers of the Bill of Rights manifested in writing their unambiguous understanding that the freedom of speech is a natural right -- personal to every human. It does not come from the government. It comes from within us. It cannot be taken away by legislation or executive command or popular will. Yet, a mere seven years later, during the presidency of John Adams, Congress enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts, which punished speech critical of the government. How could the same generation -- in some cases the same human beings -- that prohibited congressional infringement upon speech in the First Amendment have enacted a statute that punished speech? To some of the framers -- the Federalists who wanted a big government as we have today -- infringing upon the freedom of speech meant silencing it before it was uttered. Today, this is called prior restraint, and the Supreme Court has essentially outlawed it. To the antifederalists -- who believed in limited government -- the First Amendment prohibited Congress from interfering with or punishing any speech. Adams' administration indicted, prosecuted and convicted antifederalists -- among them a congressman -- for speech critical of the government. When Jefferson won the presidency and the antifederalists won control of Congress, the Federalists repealed the speech suppression parts of the Alien and Sedition Acts on the eve of their departure from congressional control, lest it be used against them. During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln locked up thousands of journalists in the North who were critical of his war efforts. During World War I, President Woodrow Wilson -- whom my alma mater Princeton University is trying to erase from its memory -- arrested students for reading the Declaration of Independence aloud or singing German beer hall songs. Lincoln argued that in wartime federal power trumped free speech, and Wilson argued that the First Amendment only restrained Congress, not the president. Both arguments have since been soundly rejected by the courts. In the 1950s, the feds successfully prosecuted Cold War dissenters on the theory that their speech was dangerous and might have a tendency to violence. Some of the victims of this torturous rationale died in prison. None of their speech produced violence. It was not until 1969, in a case called Brandenburg v. Ohio, that the Supreme Court gave us the modern definition of the freedom of speech. It unanimously held that all innocuous speech is absolutely protected, and all speech is innocuous when there is time for more speech to rebut it. The same Supreme Court had just ruled in Times v. Sullivan that one of the purposes of the First Amendment is to encourage and protect open, wide, robust, even caustic and unbridled speech. The speech we love needs no protection. The speech we hate does. The government has no authority to evaluate speech. As the framers understood, all persons have a natural right to think as we wish and to say and publish whatever we think. Even hateful, hurtful and harmful speech is protected speech. Yet, in perilous times like the present, we have seen zealots use Congress, the police and public opinion to block the speech that they hate. Speech has a corollary -- the right to remain silent. Last week, Congress berated college presidents for not speaking out against what Congress calls hate speech. Who cares what Congress thinks about speech or hatred? This is not the function of Congress. One woman's hate speech is another woman's melody. The whole purpose of the First Amendment is to keep the government out of the business of speech and silence. If a college president remains silent in the face of caustic speech, that's none of the government's business. Punishing speech and punishing silence is the most dangerous business because there will be no end to it; and it will be generated by the political winds. The reason we have a First Amendment is to prevent the majority from infringing even infinitesimally upon the speech of an unpopular minority. The remedy for hateful or threatening speech is the voluntary choice of the individual. It can be more speech; it can be silence; it can be indifference. But in a free society -- which we once had in America -- it can never be anything compulsory or tailored to please the government. When that happens, all freedom is lost.....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://rentry.co/ottyy Source : https://ibit.ly/ghyiG Flash News : https://yamcode.com/obama-says-wants-update-5413-30 Biden last Talk : https://ibit.ly/56mZx Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/raw/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-204057 Other Sources : https://justpaste.me/Ey1R https://ibit.ly/QDEio https://rentry.co/v26sod https://ibit.ly/WN3_X https://jpeg.ly/lixIw https://yamcode.com/raw/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-212345 https://jsitor.com/X3YeNf0ixF https://ibit.ly/y8DY9 https://pastelink.net/l5j4u9rq https://rentry.co/psguap https://justpaste.me/EyRp1 https://tech.io/snippet https://jsitor.com/yKcxN3NAOY https://rentry.co/yhxgv Click here to get Khmer Times Breaking News direct into your Telegram Southeast Asian and Japanese leaders in Tokyo Saturday committed to strengthening "maritime security cooperation\....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://paste.ee/p/nUCd0 Source : https://pasteio.com/x1yJBcL46rEz Flash News : https://yamcode.com/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-220154 Biden last Talk : https://pastelink.net/1qphiawy Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://rentry.co/tgakq Other Sources : https://pasteio.com/xlXsUVxt2oBJ https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-1234-43 https://rentry.co/yz2wuw https://pasteio.com/xfh2GFvsHGBz https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-214712 https://paste.ee/p/9DhMu https://jsfiddle.net/kp94q6xb/ https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-4434-42 https://ibit.ly/JQtt5 https://yamcode.com/raw/ https://rentry.co/gikf6 https://yamcode.com/holland-says-wants-update-3252-31 https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-3145-12172023-220042 https://yamcode.com/obama-says-wants-update-4342-40 After nearly two full weeks, VicPD have laid charges against a man who was caught on camera driving his car at a peaceful protester. The protester was one of hundreds gathered at the BC legislature to call on the government to advocate an immediate ceasefire in Palestine on Sunday, December 3rd. The driver saw the protest and drove his vehicle across traffic and up onto the sidewalk where he almost hit the protester. He then exited his vehicle and got face-to-face with another protester who did not engage while the driver shouted aggressively at him. Soon after he began showing aggression toward the protester, nearby VicPD officers who were on hand for the rally brought him to the ground and arrested him. As of Thursday, December 14th, he has been officially charged with one count of assault with a weapon and one count of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle. Related: VicPD arrest driver after attempting to hit 'Free Palestine' protester this weekend (VIDEO) Protesters who were present at the time of the incident have been publically calling on VicPD for these charges to be laid against the driver since the altercation, while being hopeful he would also be charged with a hate crime and resisting arrest. Police say he is currently being held in custody as he awaits a court date. According to VicPD, now that this matter is before the courts, further information cannot be provided.....

douddakzze1521/Ron-DeSantis-Sides-With-Man-Who-Destroyed-Satanic-Temple-Statue-At-Iowa-State-Capitol-db-updated

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://jpeg.ly/BQV2z Source : https://ibit.ly/AG9Zl Flash News : https://ibit.ly/X0pNT Biden last Talk : https://ibit.ly/-bV0y Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://etextpad.com/xb0xrqmxp4 Other Sources : https://notes.io/wtqYx https://jpeg.ly/7Twqt https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/73fade10 https://jpeg.ly/thw1T https://jsitor.com/nuzcJbsInK https://jsitor.com/VtxKYttU2V https://jpeg.ly/A5Lzq https://ibit.ly/eSvQS https://pastelink.net/587n4e0l https://tech.io/snippet/12kHkbM https://ibit.ly/euWrt https://jpeg.ly/j-DK8 https://justpaste.me/Ey7x https://pastebin.com/ZWks31Tn In a recent and notable shift, Harvard College has seen a 17% drop in early applications for its Class of 2028, marking a four-year low. Amidst the backdrop of controversy surrounding elite universities, particularly in their handling of antisemitism, these figures reveal a changing landscape in college admissions. This decline in applications contrasts with the pandemic-driven surge in 2020, when Harvard received over 10,000 early applications. However, the specific reasons for this recent decrease are not entirely clear but occur during a time of significant challenges, including antisemitic policies and a landmark Supreme Court decision. RELATED: Nearly 75% Jewish College Students Have Witnessed or Been Victims of Antisemitism Since Oct 7 While early applications are down significantly, Harvard's acceptance rate increased. The university accepted 692 students out of 7,921 applicants, resulting in an 8.7% acceptance rate, a slight increase from last year's 7.6%. The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling, declaring the affirmative action admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina unconstitutional, has likely influenced the admissions environment. While this ruling has had significant implications for the admissions strategies of elite universities, it is unclear how much the decision impacted applicans or admission rates. In contrast to Harvard's experience, Yale, Duke, and Columbia have seen increases in their early applications. Yale reported a drop in its acceptance rate to a two-decade low, while Duke received a record number of early applicants. Even the University of Pennsylvania, embroiled in its own antisemitism controversies, observed an increase in early applications. The university's Early Decision program had 8,500 applicants, 500 more than the prior year, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported. Harvard's troubles extend beyond application numbers. The university has been criticized for its response to the October 7th Hamas terror attack. We Stand With Israel: Click here to help. Harvard President Claudine Gay's handling of these issues, particularly her testimony before Congress, was seen as inadequate. She was asked, "whether calls for genocide of Jews would violate the university's rules." Her response led to calls for her resignation, although Harvard's top board has since expressed its unanimous support for her. The impact of these controversies on student decisions is significant. Aly Beaumont, owner of Admissions Village, a college coaching service, noted, "Two top students drop Harvard from their application list for regular decision after the school's handling of events on campus following October 7th." Another student, initially applying to UPenn, "considered pulling her application from the Ivy League school, but reconsidered after President Liz Magill resigned," Beaumont added. It is clear that the actions of these elite universities are under scrutiny by prospective students, alumni and donors alike. Penn may be up because their president stepped down contrary to Harvard. There is not enough data to know for sure but there is satisfaction in witnessing some potential backlash for their shameful stances.....

refdgerd/Questions-over-Tshabangus-source-of-money-45-updated

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--- language: - en --- [/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gray/MRB7XITFLRH2DIYX24FXUKPP74.jpg)]() read the full article here : https://pasteio.com/xhJO10j0J44R Source : https://rentry.co/zcy2r Flash News : https://yamcode.com/raw/china-president-says-wants-update-25128 Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/raw/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-213223 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://etextpad.com/9vg5qvx8r6 Other Sources : https://rentry.co/khs3f9 https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-214336 https://rentry.co/hu646 https://yamcode.com/raw/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-221049 https://tech.io/snippet/WzTSKv9 https://jsbin.com/picocazuva/edit?html,output https://ibit.ly/FGnhY https://yamcode.com/kennedy-says-wants-update-5345-27 https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-4515-36 https://notes.io/wtqYr https://jsfiddle.net/y4aoks1q/ https://etextpad.com/ipix1hddey https://rentry.co/9yp7c https://yamcode.com/raw/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-212604 RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli troops mistakenly shot three hostages to death Friday in a battle-torn neighborhood of Gaza City, and an Israeli strike killed a Palestinian journalist in the south of the besieged territory, underscoring the ferocity of Israel's ongoing onslaught. The deaths were announced as a U.S. envoy tried to persuade the Israelis to scale back their campaign sooner rather than later. The hostages were killed in the Gaza City area of Shijaiyah, where troops have been engaged in fierce fighting with Hamas militants in recent days. The soldiers mistakenly identified the three Israelis as a threat and opened fire on them, said the army's chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari. He said it was believed that the three had either fled their captors or been abandoned. "Perhaps in the last few days, or over the past day, we still don't know all the details, they reached this area," Hagari said. He said the army expressed "deep sorrow" and was investigating. Hamas and other militants abducted more than 240 people in the Oct. 7 attack that triggered the war, and the hostages' plight has dominated public discourse in Israel ever since. Their families have led a powerful public campaign calling on the government to do more to bring them home. Demonstrations in solidarity with the hostages and their families take place nearly every day. Late Friday, hundreds of protesters blocked Tel Aviv's main highway in a spontaneous demonstration calling for the the hostages' return. Israeli political and military leaders often say freeing all the hostages is their top aim in the war alongside destroying Hamas. Still, in seven weeks since ground troops pushed into northern Gaza, they have not rescued any hostages, though they freed one early in the conflict and have found the bodies of several others. Hamas released over 100 in swaps for Palestinian prisoners last month, and more than 130 are believed to still be in captivity. The three hostages were identified as young men who had been abducted from Israeli communities near the Gaza border -- Yotam Haim, 28, Samer Al-Talalka 25, and Alon Shamriz, 26. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called their deaths an "unbearable tragedy" and vowed to continue "with a supreme effort to return all the hostages home safely." In southern Gaza, the Al Jazeera television network said an Israeli strike Friday in the city of Khan Younis killed cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa and wounded its chief correspondent in Gaza, Wael Dahdouh. The two were reporting at a school that had been hit by an earlier airstrike when a drone launched a second strike, the network said. Khan Younis has been the main target of Israel's ground offensive in the south. Speaking from a hospital bed, Dahdouh told the network that he managed to walk to an ambulance. But Abu Daqqa lay bleeding in the school and died hours later. An ambulance tried to reach the school to evacuate him but had to turn back because roads were blocked by the rubble of destroyed houses, it said. Dahdouh, a veteran of covering Israel-Gaza wars whose wife and children were killed by an Israeli strike earlier in the war, was wounded by shrapnel in his right arm. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Abu Daqqa is the 64th journalist to be killed since the conflict erupted: 57 Palestinians, four Israelis and three Lebanese journalists. Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour told a General Assembly meeting on the war that Israel "targets those who could document (their) crimes and inform the world, the journalists." "We mourn one of those journalists, Samer Abu Daqqa, wounded in an Israeli drone strike and left to bleed to death for six hours while ambulances were prevented from reaching him," Mansour said. The Israeli army did not immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment about Abu Daqqa's death. Israel's offensive has flattened much of northern Gaza and driven 80% of Gaza's population of 2.3 million from their homes. Displaced people have squeezed into shelters mainly in the south in a spiraling humanitarian crisis. The offensive has killed more than 18,700 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza. Thousands more are missing and feared dead beneath the rubble. The ministry does not differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths. Its latest count did not specify how many were women and minors, but they have consistently made up around two-thirds of the dead in previous tallies. While battered by the Israeli onslaught, Hamas has continued its attacks. On Friday it fired rockets from Gaza toward central Israel, setting off sirens in Jerusalem for the first time in weeks but causing no injuries. The group's resilience called into question whether Israel can defeat it without wiping out the entire territory. Israelis remain strongly supportive of the war and see it as necessary to prevent a repeat of the Hamas attack, in which militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians. A total of 116 soldiers have been killed in the ground offensive, which began Oct. 27. U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has expressed unease over Israel's failure to reduce civilian casualties and its plans for the future of Gaza, but the White House continues to offer wholehearted support with weapons shipments and diplomatic backing. Israeli airstrikes and tank shelling continued Friday, including in Khan Younis and in Rafah, which is one of the shrinking areas of tiny, densely populated Gaza to which Palestinian civilians have been told by Israel to evacuate. Details on many of the strikes could not be confirmed because communications services have been down across Gaza since late Thursday because of fighting. In meetings with Israeli leaders on Thursday and Friday, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan discussed a timetable for winding down the intense combat phase of the war. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told Sullivan that it would take months to destroy Hamas, but he did not say whether his estimate referred to the current phase of heavy airstrikes and ground battles. "There is no contradiction between saying the fight is going to take months and also saying that different phases will take place at different times over those months, including the transition from the high-intensity operations to more targeted operations," Sullivan said Friday. Sullivan also met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss Gaza's postwar future. A senior U.S. official said one idea being floated is to bring back Palestinian security forces driven from their jobs in Gaza by Hamas in its 2007 takeover. Any role for Palestinian security forces in Gaza is bound to elicit strong opposition from Israel, which seeks to maintain an open-ended security presence there. Netanyahu has said he will not allow a postwar foothold for the Abbas-led Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The U.S. has said it eventually wants to see the West Bank and Gaza under a " revitalized Palestinian Authority " as a precursor to a Palestinian state -- an idea soundly rejected by Netanyahu, who leads a right-wing government that is opposed to Palestinian statehood. Palestinian officials have said they will consider a postwar role in Gaza only in the context of concrete U.S.-backed steps toward statehood. In the meeting, Abbas called for an immediate cease-fire and ramped-up aid to Gaza, and emphasized that Gaza is an integral part of the Palestinian state, according to a statement from his office. It made no mention of conversations about postwar scenarios. The 88-year-old Abbas is deeply unpopular, with a poll published Wednesday indicating close to 90% of Palestinians want him to resign. Meanwhile, Palestinian support for Hamas has tripled in the West Bank, with a small uptick in Gaza, according to the poll. Still, a majority of Palestinians do not back Hamas, according to the survey. ___ Jeffery reported from Cairo and Frankel from Jerusalem. Associated Press journalists Aamer Madhani in Washington, Elena Becatoros in Athens and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed. ___ Full AP coverage at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war. Najib Jobain, Jack Jeffery And Julia Frankel, The Associated Press....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://rentry.co/yacx2 Source : https://yamcode.com/china-president-says-wants-update-25147 Flash News : https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-5343-45 Biden last Talk : https://rentry.co/hwufr Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/china-president-says-wants-update-25133 Other Sources : https://rentry.co/zdtcg https://ibit.ly/JsvMz https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-2132-37 https://jpeg.ly/sKLd0 https://yamcode.com/raw/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-214734 https://jsfiddle.net/hd7fzn8c/ https://paste.ee/p/h3Rus https://rentry.co/m6otr https://yamcode.com/obama-says-wants-update-2121-39 https://jsitor.com/0EyiWPFgQs https://yamcode.com/obama-says-wants-update-4544-37 https://rextester.com/LVL27441 https://pastelink.net/t9iz1v8m https://pastebin.com/N4FMpKz8 ATLANTA (AP) -- The apology letters that Donald Trump-allied lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro were required to write as a condition of their plea deals in the Georgia election interference case are just one sentence long. The letters, obtained Thursday by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through an open records request, were hand-written and terse. Neither letter acknowledges the legitimacy of Democrat Joe Biden's win in Georgia's 2020 election nor denounces the baseless conspiracy theories they pushed to claim Trump was cheated out of victory through fraud. "I apologize for my actions in connection with the events in Coffee County," Powell wrote in a letter dated Oct. 19, the same day she pleaded guilty to six misdemeanors accusing her of conspiring to intentionally interfere with the performance of election duties. "I apologize to the citizens of the state of Georgia and of Fulton County for my involvement in Count 15 of the indictment," Chesebro wrote in a letter dated Oct. 20, when he appeared in court to plead guilty to one felony charge of conspiracy to commit filing false documents. A spokesperson for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who brought the election interference case, did not immediately respond Thursday to a request for comment on the contents of the letters. Powell and Chesebro were among four defendants to plead guilty in the case after reaching agreements with prosecutors. They were indicted alongside Trump and others in August and charged with participating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally keep the Republican in power. The remaining 15 defendants -- including Trump, lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows -- have all pleaded not guilty. Each of the four who reached a deal with prosecutors received a sentence that included probation but no jail time. They were also allowed to plead guilty under Georgia's first offender law, meaning that if they complete their probation without violating the terms or committing another crime, their records will be wiped clean. The letters written by the other two defendants to plead guilty -- Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis and bail bondsman Scott Hall -- were longer and more specific. Ellis read her letter in open court on Oct. 24, tearfully telling the judge that she looked back on her involvement in challenging the election results with "deep remorse." "What I did not do but should have done, Your Honor, was to make sure that the facts the other lawyers alleged to be true were in fact true," she said. "In the frenetic pace of attempting to raise challenges to the election in several states, including Georgia, I failed to do my due diligence." Hall, who pleaded guilty Sept. 29, wrote in his five-paragraph letter to the citizens of Georgia, "I owe you an apology." "I wish I had never involved myself in the post-election activities that brought me before the court," he wrote, explaining that he got involved after observing what he thought were some irregularities. Powell was initially charged with felony racketeering and six other felony counts. Prosecutors allege that she conspired with Hall and others to access election equipment without authorization and hired computer forensics firm SullivanStrickler to send a team to Coffee County, in south Georgia, to copy software and data from voting machines and computers there. The indictment says a person who is not named sent an email to a top SullivanStrickler executive and instructed him to send all data copied from Dominion Voting Systems equipment in Coffee County to an unidentified lawyer associated with Powell and the Trump campaign. Chesebro was initially charged with felony racketeering and six other felony counts. Prosecutors allege that he unlawfully conspired with Trump and lawyers associated with his campaign to have the group of Georgia Republicans sign the false elector certificate and to submit it to various federal authorities. He also communicated with Trump campaign lawyers and Republican leaders in other swing states won by Biden to get those states to submit false slates of electors as well, prosecutors alleged. Ellis pleaded guilty to one felony count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings. She had been charged with violating the state's anti-racketeering law and soliciting the violation of oath by a public officer, both felonies. The indictment in the sweeping case details a number of accusations against Ellis, including that she helped author plans on how to disrupt and delay congressional certification of the 2020 election's results on Jan. 6, 2021, the day a mob of Trump supporters eventually overran the U.S. Capitol. And she's accused of urging state legislators to back false, pro-Trump electors in multiple states. Hall pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor counts for his role in accessing Coffee County elections equipment.....

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douddakzze1521/What-is-ketamine-c5-updated

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://ibit.ly/5LOdK Source : https://jpeg.ly/ys2KB Flash News : https://jpeg.ly/efSey Biden last Talk : https://ibit.ly/naIVs Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://pastebin.com/DnZYvF1w Other Sources : https://jpeg.ly/Bhvke https://jsbin.com/wefamaxewu/edit?html,output https://jpeg.ly/_AzwA https://jpeg.ly/jkhCQ https://etextpad.com/ww8vevz4zl https://etextpad.com/z5hvxv2oav https://jsbin.com/kuyutitiwi/edit?html,output https://ibit.ly/EdqR2 https://jpeg.ly/I_P1A https://pastebin.com/6pF3tJbA https://jpeg.ly/GH77Y https://ibit.ly/8xBAh https://jpeg.ly/_5UC_ https://pastelink.net/4hikjgl4 Around 30,000 bluebottle stings are reported every year along the east coast of Australia (and that's just the reported stings) Also known as the Portuguese Man-o-war (Physalia sp.), bluebottles cause painful stings and are found throughout Australian waters (and both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans). If you or your child are stung, symptoms may include pain, welts, redness swelling, and blistering to the stung area, and less commonly headache, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and occasionally collapse. Here is the first aid specifically for bluebottle stings (not other jellyfish): You can repeat this cycle for up to 2 hours. Seek medical help if pain is not relieved. A cold pack may help with the pain until hot water is available. So... why not vinegar? You may have heard that vinegar is the recommended treatment for jellyfish stings - this is in fact the current recommended treatment for box jellyfish and 'tropical' jellyfish stings. For bluebottle stings though, vinegar doesn't help and MAY INCREASE the person's pain. Stinging cells on the tentacles of jellyfish are called nematocysts, and they essentially shoot venom into the skin, like tiny harpoons. Research shows that vinegar can PROMOTE nematocyst discharge in bluebottle stings. The Australian Venom Research Unit says that the purpose of applying vinegar to jellyfish stings (in TROPICAL WATERS, not bluebottle stings) is to prevent the firing of undischarged nematocysts. Vinegar will not decrease pain, or diminish the effects of the venom. And despite what happened in that Friends episode, don't pee on a sting either. Instead, follow the steps above for the most effective and recommended treatment. More research is being done in this area, so stay tuned for updates.....

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refdgerd/Applesauce-Pouches-May-Have-Been-Intentionally-Contaminated-With-Lead-FDA-41-updated

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://etextpad.com/lvkjrg8cyn Source : https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-210828 Flash News : https://paste.toolforge.org/ Biden last Talk : https://tech.io/snippet/cjT67bo Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-5445-44 Other Sources : https://yamcode.com/raw/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-220139 https://yamcode.com/raw/hilary-says-wants-update-5313-12172023-221236 https://paste.ee/p/cZCfI https://yamcode.com/china-president-says-wants-update-25149 https://jsbin.com/mofovadihu/edit?html,output https://yamcode.com/raw/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-215909 https://etextpad.com/weiytshkdj https://yamcode.com/raw/china-president-says-wants-update-25137 https://ibit.ly/_aAlP https://pastebin.com/ZXeSKC2f https://pasteio.com/xQEjr0k0JWZD https://yamcode.com/raw/china-president-says-wants-update-25149 https://jpeg.ly/V84Uz https://ibit.ly/1KOMV OTTAWA -- RCMP say an Ottawa youth has been arrested and charged with terrorism-related offences that allegedly targeted Jewish people. The Mounties say the young person arrested Friday was charged with facilitating terrorist activity by communicating instructional material related to an explosive substance. The youth is further charged with knowingly instructing a person to carry out terrorist activity against "Jewish persons." Police say no further information about the suspect can be released due to their age. RCMP have arrested five young people on terrorism-related offences since June 2023. In a news release, the national police force says they are seeing a concerning trend of violent extremism and terrorist use of the internet, including among young people, and are asking adults in authority positions to watch for early warning signs of radicalization. Those include dehumanization of others, extreme anti-government attitudes and clear statements of intention to carry out violent acts. Politicians, police forces and advocacy groups have been raising the alarm about a reported rise in hate crimes against Jewish and Muslim communities since Hamas's Oct. 7 deadly surprise attack in Israel, prompting that country's military offensive in Gaza. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 16, 2023. The Canadian Press....

Humor-Research/humor-detection-comb-47

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mlc-ai/RedPajama-INCITE-Chat-3B-v1-q4f16-MLC

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danlindb/a2c-PandaReachDense-v3

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stable-baselines3

reinforcement-learning

--- library_name: stable-baselines3 tags: - PandaReachDense-v3 - deep-reinforcement-learning - reinforcement-learning - stable-baselines3 model-index: - name: A2C results: - task: type: reinforcement-learning name: reinforcement-learning dataset: name: PandaReachDense-v3 type: PandaReachDense-v3 metrics: - type: mean_reward value: -0.23 +/- 0.11 name: mean_reward verified: false --- # **A2C** Agent playing **PandaReachDense-v3** This is a trained model of a **A2C** agent playing **PandaReachDense-v3** using the [stable-baselines3 library](https://github.com/DLR-RM/stable-baselines3). ## Usage (with Stable-baselines3) TODO: Add your code ```python from stable_baselines3 import ... from huggingface_sb3 import load_from_hub ... ```

refdgerd/Defence-minister-top-military-brass-pay-tribute-to-fallen-soldiers-on-Vijay-Diwas-22-updated

refdgerd

--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://rentry.co/3gkra Source : https://ibit.ly/F1RY- Flash News : https://yamcode.com/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-204112 Biden last Talk : https://pastelink.net/zf67hajs Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-3311-31 Other Sources : https://pastelink.net/n51blkcv https://tech.io/snippet/FC7PyLY https://jpeg.ly/FtMb4 https://jpeg.ly/cF1qG https://yamcode.com/raw/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-204729 https://jsfiddle.net/7sLuat40/ https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-2242-37 https://ibit.ly/_b_CR https://rentry.co/yc7sb https://yamcode.com/china-president-says-wants-update-25137 https://tech.io/snippet/VMhpuq6 https://yamcode.com/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-220615 https://rentry.co/rnxd9 https://pastelink.net/ssaxjin2 Tshabangu, who triggered the controversial by-elections held yesterday in Matabeleland and Masvingo after recalling CCC councillors and Members of Parliament, has spent thousands of dollars ostensibly fighting opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's imposition of candidates. Questions are being asked about self-imposed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu's source of money to pay some of the country's top lawyers for their services in a string of court cases and booking them in hotels. Tshabangu, who triggered the controversial by-elections held yesterday in Matabeleland and Masvingo after recalling CCC councillors and Members of Parliament, has spent thousands of dollars ostensibly fighting opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's imposition of candidates. But many believe he is doing it on behalf of the ruling Zanu PF, which is desperate for a two-thirds parliamentary majority. The former MDC-T official on Friday caused the courts to disqualify from elections all the MPs that he recalled on the basis that their recalls meant they were expelled and no longer belonged to CCC party. Investigations by The Standard established that Tshabangu, who had all along been based in Bulawayo, has 'relocated' to the capital where he is spending time and thousands of green dollars fighting for the control of the CCC. His legal team comprising some of the country's top legal minds are booked at top hotels whenever they travel to Harare for court hearings and at times spend up to a week in Harare. The hotels where they have been staying charge an average US$150 for bed and breakfast per person. Over the months, Tshabangu has stayed in top hotels in Harare for days although his source of income remains unclear and he does not control the CCC purse. In a press statement released on December 5, Tshabangu's legal team confirmed their stay in hotels. "On the 4th of December 2023, after a High Court attendance, our client and his legal team returned to the Harare hotel where they are booked," the press statement read. Tshabangu's legal team includes top lawyers Lewis Uriri, Kucaca Phulu, Nqobani Sithole, and Kholwani Ngwenya. Phulu, Sithole, and Ngwenya as well as their driver Alfred Dzirutwe are based in Bulawayo and they travel to Harare for the court cases. Phulu is a former Nkulumane MP and first CCC official to come out in support of Tshabangu. He is also a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member, a party that split from the then MDC led by the late Morgan Tsvangirai. A senior lawyer privy to the case said Tshabangu may have been charged not less than US$20 000 in legal fees these past weeks alone. This excludes the hotel bills. Tshabangu has also managed to pay the nomination fees for all his candidates in the by-elections held yesterday. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) charged US$1,000 per candidate. Tshabangu's spokesperson, Khaliphani Phugeni said he was unaware of his principal's source of income. "I honestly do not know his source of income," Phugeni said. "I have never come across it." Self-imposed CCC interim treasurer general Mbuso Siso could also not shed light on their source of funds. Siso, an ally of Tshabangu who also contested the elections as one of the CCC double candidates in the August elections in Bulawayo ward, however, said they owed their legal team thousands of dollars. "We have a huge bill for legal fees that eventually has to be paid," Siso said. He did not disclose the figure, but said they would source the money from sympathisers and well-wishers to settle the legal bill. In a previous interview, Tshabangu claimed he was receiving donations from people living in the diaspora. CCC activists have accused Tshabangu of being funded by the ruling Zanu PF party and disgruntled senior opposition party members. Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa denied claims that the party was supporting Tshabangu with money. "Zanu PF categorically denies any involvement in the financial affairs of Mr. Tshabangu or his legal team," Mutsvangwa said. "We have no interest in funding the internal squabbles of the CCC." In November, Tshabangu demanded that the government disburse the party's share of the political parties grant directly into his personal account. He wrote to the Justice ministry claiming the CCC as led by him, was entitled to a share of the public purse due to its performance in the August elections. He instructed the exchequer to release the funds into his stewardship, specifying a CBZ account for the disbursement. However, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said the government would not release the funds until the dispute was settled in court.....

gdf2h1gfh2/Boost-Your-Productivity-with-Coworking-Spaces-to-Prevent-Burnout-ed-updated

gdf2h1gfh2

--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-1532-51 Source : https://notes.io/wtqUQ Flash News : https://rentry.co/wxnep Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-210051 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/raw/obama-says-wants-update-1144-43 Other Sources : https://jpeg.ly/lMHvm https://yamcode.com/raw/kennedy-says-wants-update-4112-35 https://rentry.co/y6nm2 https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/6633f4c9 https://notes.io/wtqAm https://rentry.co/8sgfz https://rextester.com/DAAT46058 https://jsitor.com/06Dg0hQAVm https://jpeg.ly/uRupx https://ibit.ly/J33yr https://rentry.co/33ibs https://jsbin.com/zibaxaxika/edit?html,output https://ibit.ly/Ph_I2 https://rentry.co/xbnix As the 2024 primaries approach, Texas voters are poised to cast their ballots in eight statewide races, featuring contests for several state judges, a railroad commissioner, and a U.S. senator. All offices on the ballot are currently held by Republican incumbents, setting the stage for a highly competitive electoral season. Texas will conduct both Republican and Democratic primaries on March 5, determining the candidates who will vie for these crucial positions in the November elections. Community Impact has compiled a comprehensive list of candidates running for statewide offices in 2024, with each party given five days after the filing deadline to submit complete lists to the secretary of state's office, as per the Texas Democratic Party. Note: The Texas Railroad Commission oversees the regulation of the oil and gas industry, coal and uranium surface mining, natural gas utilities, among other responsibilities, and does not govern railroads. Presiding Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: The elections, including these pivotal statewide races, are expected to shape the political landscape in Texas for the coming years. As candidates finalize their campaigns, voters will play a crucial role in determining the direction of the state's governance. Stay tuned for further updates as the election season unfolds.....

douddakzze1521/Aussie-TV-star-now-truly-unrecognisable-ec-updated

douddakzze1521

--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://paste.toolforge.org/view/24b23c8a Source : https://ibit.ly/06VRU Flash News : https://ibit.ly/Hz-YG Biden last Talk : https://ibit.ly/jk3W5 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://ibit.ly/zCIly Other Sources : https://pastebin.com/ https://tech.io/snippet https://paste.ee/p/YE7Sl https://jpeg.ly/d_r7T https://pasteio.com/xV9fejRr2RMm https://jpeg.ly/zxlYI https://ibit.ly/zKCFW https://notes.io/wtqTB https://ibit.ly/qw0sM https://jpeg.ly/1Sf13 https://etextpad.com/am3hkmkhli https://pastelink.net/w3h0dehx https://ibit.ly/QHk_O https://jsbin.com/deyunevagi/edit?html,output Moringa leaves are loaded with vitamin A, B1(thiamine), B2(riboflavin), calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, phosphorus and zinc. Moringa is an excellent source of vitamins and minerals. Moringa, also known as the drumstick tree, is one of the most nutritious plants in the world. It contains remarkable amounts of vitamins such as vitamin A, B1(thiamine), B2(riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B6(folate), and vitamin C. It is also a rich source of minerals like calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, phosphorus, and zinc. Moringa leaves are also rich in iron -- the amount of iron in moringa leaves is three times more than in spinach. Due to these reasons, moringa has recently gained popularity as an essential ingredient in everyday diet. It is a medicinal powerhouse that possesses antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and antidepressant properties. In a new post on Instagram, nutritionist Lovneet Batra has explained the benefits of consuming moringa powder and ways to include it in the diet. PromotedListen to the latest songs, only on JioSaavn.com Take a look: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nutrition.by.Lovneet (@nutrition.by.lovneet) From reducing inflammation to repairing liver cells and increasing haemoglobin levels, check out the health benefits of moringa powder here: Moringa leaves contain an antioxidant - quercetin that may help regulate blood pressure numbers. It also regulates chlorogenic acid, which is good for your blood sugar levels. It accelerates the repair of liver cells. This is because moringa powder contains a high concentration of polyphenols which reduces the degeneration of the liver cells.It helps reduce inflammation. Moringa can increase blood haemoglobin levels. Looking for ways to add moringa to your diet? Nutritionist Lovneet Batra has also listed five ways to do so. Take a look: Stir a spoonful of moringa powder into your waterSprinkle it on your favourite foods like a bowl of soup or salad.Give an added health kick to your smoothie by emptying half a teaspoon of moringa powder into your drinkYou can add it to any curry or home-cooked dish,Give it a delicious spin by baking it along with cookies or cake. You can add moringa powder while mixing the dough or ingredients of your sweet treat. As you make your cup of tea with lemongrass or ginger or cardamom, you can do the same with moringa leaves as well. Add some fresh moringa leaves while preparing your tea. Disclaimer: This content including advice provides generic information only. It is in no way a substitute for a qualified medical opinion. Always consult a specialist or your own doctor for more information. NDTV does not claim responsibility for this information.....

Nourrr/pegasus-x-base

Nourrr

transformers

text2text-generation

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mlc-ai/RedPajama-INCITE-Chat-3B-v1-q4f16_1-MLC

mlc-ai

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gdrfqg/Redefining-Earths-Timeline-The-Advent-of-the-Anthropocene-Epoch-23-updated

gdrfqg

--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://rentry.co/qc8hn Source : https://rentry.co/a3xi9d Flash News : https://tech.io/snippet Biden last Talk : https://jsfiddle.net/zLs97uoq/ Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-4533-32 Other Sources : https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-3123-12172023-212146 https://rentry.co/qw6vn7 https://pastelink.net/jqz0qwz4 https://jpeg.ly/6zCy8 https://rentry.co/i93yn https://pasteio.com/xNWSy5lkIjFc https://rentry.co/dorsb https://jpeg.ly/IWVz9 https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/18cd1525 https://rentry.co/7xcs2 https://jsbin.com/kuneviwohu/edit?html,output https://yamcode.com/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-203850 https://rentry.co/gv2nd https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/7248ede9 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated sixty years ago. If he had lived and won a second term, the Israeli Palestinian conflict would have evolved differently. Possibly the path toward Israeli apartheid and genocide in Gaza could have been avoided. In his short time in office, Kennedy changed US foreign policy in significant ways. As documented in the book JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it still matters, JFK resisted the CIA and military industrial complex in the policies he set regarding the Third World and Soviet Union. The Vietnam War, assassination of Indonesia's President Sukarno, and continued hostility to Cuba and the Soviet Union would not have happened had Kennedy lived and won a second term. Less well known, Kennedy's policies also challenged and opposed the military and political ambitions of Zionist Israel. At the time, Israel had only existed for thirteen years. It was still evolving and the course was not totally set. There was significant international resolve to find a compromise solution regarding Palestinian refugees from the 1948 Nakba. When Israel attacked Egypt and seized the Sinai peninsula in 1956, the Eisenhower administration demanded Israel withdraw from the captured territory. They complied. At this time, in the early 1960's, prominent Jewish voices criticized the racism and discrimination of the Israeli government. Israelis like Martin Buber assailed Ben-Gurion and noted that "At the inception of the state, complete equality with the Jewish citizens was promised to the Arab population." Many influential Israelis realized their long term security and well-being depended on finding a just settlement with the indigenous Palestinian population. In the United States, the Jewish community was divided and many were anti-Zionist. The American Council for Judaism was influential and anti-nationalist. The racist and militaristic character of Israel was not yet set in stone. Nor was American Jewish support for Israel. When Menachim Begin came to the United States in 1948 he was denounced by prominent Jewish leaders including Albert Einstein. They said Begin, who later became Israeli Prime Minister, was a "terrorist" who preached "an admixture of ultra-nationalism, religious mysticism and racial superiority." Many American Jews had mixed feelings and did not identify with Israel. Others supported Israel but on the basis of there being peace with the indigenous Palestinians. There are four key areas where the Kennedy policy was substantially different from what followed after his death. Kennedy was not biased in favor of Israel The Kennedy administration sought good relations with both Israel and the Arab nations. Kennedy aimed to extend US influence throughout the Middle East, including with nations friendly with the Soviet Union and at odds with NATO partners. JFK personally supported Arab and African nationalism. As a senator in 1957, he criticized the Eisenhower administration for supporting and sending weapons to France in their war against the Algerian independence movement. In a 9,000 word presentation to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he criticized "western imperialism" and called for the US to support Algerian independence. Algerian President Ben Bella, who France had tried to assassinate and considered far too radical by many in NATO, was given a huge and impressive welcome to the White House. Kennedy changed the previous frosty relations with the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) led by Gamal Abdel Nasser. For the first time, the US approved loans to them. Kennedy wrote respectful letters to the Arab presidents before he welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Ben Gurion to Washington. The Arab leaders could see the difference and responded with appreciation. Those who claim there was no difference with Kennedy ignore the fact that Egypt's Nasser, Algeria's Ben Bella and other nationalist leaders saw a big difference. In 1960, when Kennedy was campaigning for the presidency, he spoke at the Zionists of America Convention. He made complimentary remarks about Israel but also expressed the need for friendship with all the people of the Middle East. He said the US should "act promptly and decisively against any nation in the Middle East which attacks its neighbor" and "The Middle East needs water, not war; tractors, not tanks; bread, not bombs." Kennedy frankly told the Zionists, "I cannot believe that Israel has any real desire to remain indefinitely a garrison state surrounded by fear and hate." By maintaining objectivity and neutrality on the Israeli Arab conflict, Kennedy wanted to steer the Jewish Zionists away from the racist, militaristic and ultra-nationalistic impulses which have led to where we are today. Kennedy wanted the Zionist Lobby to follow the rules The second difference in Kennedy's policy is regarding Zionist lobbying on behalf of Israel. Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), organizations that promote or lobby on behalf of a foreign government are required to register and account for their finances and activities. Under Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the Department of Justice (DOJ) instructed the American Zionist Council (AZC) to register as agents of a foreign country. AZC is the parent organization of the American Israel Public Affairs Council (AIPAC). As documented in detail here, on 21 November 1962, the Assistant Attorney General wrote to them "the receipt of such funds from the American sections of the Jewish Agency for Israel constitutes the (American Zionist) Council an agent of a foreign principal.... the Council's registration is requested." The emergence of Israeli political influence was also scrutinized in the Senate. Under Senator William Fulbright, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held hearings in May and August 1963. They revealed that tax free donations to the United Jewish Appeal, supposedly for humanitarian relief in Israel, were being channeled back to the US where the money was used for lobbying and Israeli public relations. Attorneys for AZC stalled for time. On August 16, 1963, a DOJ analyst reviewed the case and concluded, "Department should insist on the immediate registration of the American Zionist Council under the Foreign Agents Registration Act." On October 11 the DOJ demanded that AZC register and "Department expects a response from you within 72 hours." On October 17, a DOJ memorandum reports that attorneys for AZC pleaded for not being required to register as foreign agents. They offered to provide the required financial disclosures but that registering as a foreign agent "would be so publicized by the American Council on Judaism that it would eventually destroy the Zionist movement." As indicated in this discussion, political zionism was not yet dominant in the American Jewish community and was actively opposed by the American Council on Judaism.and other Jewish groups. Kennedy supported Palestinian Rights A third difference is regarding Palestinian rights. Although he was only 44 when he became president, Kennedy had more international experience than most US presidents. In 1939 he spent two weeks in Palestine. In a lengthy letter to his father, he described the situation and difficulties. He wrote, "The sympathy of the people on the spot seems to be with the Arabs. This is not only because the Jews have had, at least some of their leaders, an unfortunately arrogant, uncompromising attitude, but they feel that after all, the country has been Arabic for the last few hundred years .... Palestine was hardly Britain's to give away." In comments that are still true, Kennedy remarks how the Jewish residents are divided between "strongly Orthodox Jewish group, unwilling to make any compromise" and a "liberal Jewish element composed of the younger group who fear these reactionaries". His analysis is sympathetic to both Jewish and Arab peoples and addresses the difficulty but necessity to find a compromise solution. In the early 1960's, the US State Department was not locked into a biased acceptance or approval of Israeli policies. The US supported UN Resolution 194 resolving (in paragraph 11) that "refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible." This has become known as the "right of return". On November 21, 1963, the day before Kennedy's assassination, the New York Times has two news stories which exemplify the discord between Washington and Tel Aviv. A report from the United Nations is titled "Israel Dissents as U.N. Group Backs U.S. on Arab Refugees". It begins, "A United States resolution calling for continued efforts to resolve the predicament of the Palestinian Arab refugees was approved tonight 83 to 1... Israel cast the single negative vote....The issue centers on a 1948 resolution whose key section, paragraph 11, concerns the future of the Arabs who were displaced from their homes by the Palestine conflict. They have been living in the lands bordering Israel .... The revised United States text calls on the Palestine Conciliation Commission to 'continue its efforts for the implementation of Paragraph 11'." The second NYT story is titled "U.S. Stand Angers Israel". It reports from Jerusalem that "Premier Levi Eshkol expressed extreme distaste today for the United States' position in the Palestine refugee debate....Israel's anger was conveyed 'in the strongest terms' to the US Ambassador .... The Israeli Government is upset about the American resolution before the UN Political Committee and by American maneuvers over the issue." Israel was angered and objecting because the Kennedy administration was trying to resolve the Palestinian refugee situation including the right of return. Kennedy tried to stop the Israeli nuclear weapons program The fourth and biggest contention between Kennedy and the Israeli leadership was regarding their developing nuclear weapons. This issue was kept so secret that crucial documents and letters have only been released in recent years. President Kennedy was a strong advocate for stopping nuclear proliferation. After the 1962 Cuba missile crisis, he realized how easy it would be to intentionally or accidentally trigger a catastrophic nuclear war. If nuclear weapons were allowed to spread to more countries, the risks of global catastrophe would be all the greater. It was also predicted that if Israel acquired nuclear weapons capability, they would become more aggressive and less likely to reach a compromise agreement regarding Palestinian refugees. When intelligence indicated that Israel might be trying to build a nuclear weapon at Dimona in 1962, Kennedy was determined to find out if this was true, and if so to stop it. This caused an intense diplomatic confrontation between JFK and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. The proof of this has recently been revealed in the exchange of letters between President Kennedy and Prime Minister Ben-Gurion and his successor Levy Eshkol. They are all labeled "Top Secret" or "Eyes Only". It is important to see the sequence and some details to understand how intense this showdown was. These communications are all from 1963. (Note to reader: skip ahead to the next section if you become tired of the detail in the following exchanges.) In March the US State Department instructed the US Ambassador to inform the government of Israel (GOI) that for "compelling reasons" the "USG seeks GOI assent to semi-annual repeat semi-annual visits to Dimona, perhaps May and November, with full access to all parts and instruments in the facility, by qualified US scientists." (underline added) On April 19 the State Department instructed the US Ambassador to Israel to "press" for an "affirmative reply" to the earlier request for semi-annual inspections of Dimona. On April 26, Israeli PM Ben Gurion replied to President Kennedy. He evaded the issue of nuclear facility inspections and instead expressed his concern regarding a recent proclamation from Egypt, Syria and Iraq. He compared Egyptian President Nasser to Germany's Hitler. On May 4 JFK responded to Ben Gurion's concerns and underscored the US commitment to Israel and peace in the Middle East. He told the Israeli leader he is much less worried about an "early Arab attack" than the "successful development of advanced offensive systems". On May 8 a Special National Intelligence Estimate concluded, "Israel intends at least to put itself in a position to be able to produce a limited number of weapons" and that "unless deterred by outside pressure [the Israelis] will attempt to produce a weapon sometime in the next several years." The analysis predicted that if Israelis had the bomb it would "encourage them to be bolder in their use of the conventional resources both diplomatic and military in their confrontation with the Arabs." On May 10 US State Department sent an "Eyes Only Ambassador" telegram to the US Ambassador to Israel. The ambassador was instructed to remind the Israeli leadership that they have previously agreed to the bi-annual inspections. The telegram also says Israeli concerns about Arab development of a nuclear bomb "are not valid" because there is nothing comparable to the "advanced Israeli program." The tensions between the Kennedy administration and Tel Aviv caused the Israel lobby to escalate pressure on the White House. This is revealed in a May 11 TOP SECRET State Department memo regarding "White House Concern with Arab-Israeli Matters". It begins, "In recent weeks, as you are aware, it has become increasingly clear that the White House is under steadily mounting domestic political pressure to adopt a foreign policy in the Near East more consonant with Israeli desires. The Israelis are determined to use the period between now and the 1964 Presidential election to secure a closer, more public security relationship with the Unites States, notably through a public security guarantee and a cooler, more antagonistic relationship beween the United States and the UAR [United Arab Republic]." This is a highly interesting memo showing Israeli influence in US foreign policy and electoral politics. It further shows Kennedy's effort to mitigate this influence while standing firm on the goal to stop nuclear proliferation. On May 12, 1963 Ben Gurion wrote another long letter to President Kennedy. Again evading the US request, Ben Gurion gives a distorted history including the claim that Palestinian refugees left Palestine "at the demand of Arab leaders" . He again compares Nasser to Hitler and suggests the danger of a new Holocaust. He says, "Mr, President, my people have the right to exist ... and this existence is in danger." On May 19 Kennedy responded to Ben Gurion emphasizing the importance he placed on not allowing the spread of nuclear weapons. "We are concerned with the disturbing effects on world stability which would accompany the development of a nuclear weapons capability by Israel." Kennedy underscores the "deep commitment to the security of Israel" but says the commitment and support "would be seriously jeopardized" if the US is unable to obtain reliable information about "Israel's efforts in the nuclear field." On May 27 Ben Gurion responded to Kennedy saying that the nuclear reactor at Dimona "will be devoted exclusively to peaceful purposes". He counters Kennedy's request for bi-annual visits starting in June by suggesting annual visits "such as have already taken place" starting at the end of the year. The condition is significant because the previous "visit" to Dimona was restricted in time and space. On June 15 Kennedy wrote to Ben Gurion after he had received a scientific evaluation of the minimum requirements for a nuclear site inspection, After welcoming Ben Gurion's assurances that Dimona will only be devoted to peaceful purposes, Kennedy issued a polite ultimatum. "If Israel's purposes are to be clear to world beyond reasonable doubt, I believe the schedule which would best serve our common purpose would be a visit early this summer, another visit in June 1964, thereafter at intervals of six months." He specifies that the "visit" must include access to all areas and "sufficient time be allotted for thorough examination." On June 16, the US Embassy in Israel reported that Ben Gurion resigned as Israel's Prime Minister. This was a huge surprise; the explanation was that it was for "personal reasons". It is likely that Ben-Gurion knew the contents of the forthcoming letter from Washington (received at the embassy the day before). The impact of his resignation was to stall for time. US Ambassador Barbour suggested waiting until the "cabinet problem is worked out" before sending JFK's near ultimatum to the next Prime Minister. Kennedy did not wait long. On July 4, he wrote to new Israeli Prime Minister Levy Eshkol. After congratulating Eshkol on becoming new Prime Minister, he goes straight to the point "concerning American visits to Israel's nuclear facility at Dimona." Kennedy says, "I regret having to add to your burdens to soon after your assumption of office, but ..." He then goes on to request inspections as was requested in the letter to Ben-Gurion and that "support of Israel could be seriously jeopardized" if this is not done. On July 17, Eshkol wrote to Kennedy that he needed to study the issue more before responding to Kennedy's request for visits to Dimona. US Ambassador Barbour added that Eshkol verbally conveyed that he was "surprised" at Kennedy's statement that US commitment to Israel might be jeopardized. Indicating Israeli defiance, Eshkol told the US Ambassador "Israel would do what it had to do for its national security and to safeguard its sovereign rights." On August 19, Eshkol wrote to Kennedy re-iterating the "peaceful purpose" of Dimona and ignoring the request for a summer inspection. He proposed the inspection take place "toward the end of 1963". On August 26 Kennedy wrote to Eshkol accepting the visit at year end but emphasizing it needs to be done "when the reactor's core is being loaded and before internal radiation hazards have developed." Kennedy set these conditions because they were essential for determining whether the facility could be used for developing a nuclear weapon. On September 16 State Department prepared a Memorandum of Conversation with a counselor from the British Embassy. There was joint concern but agreement that Dimona would be visited and inspected "prior to the activation of the reactor." After the Assassination of JFK on November 22 After Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) became president, US mideast policy changed significantly. From the start, LBJ told an Israeli diplomat, "You have lost a very great friend. But you have found a better one." The Israeli publication Haaretz says, "Historians generally regard Johnson as the president most uniformly friendly to Israel." The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs writes "Lyndon Johnson Was First to Align U.S. Policy with Israel's Policies" and "Up to Johnson's presidency, no administration had been as completely pro-Israel and anti-Arab as his." On the crucial issue of Dimona inspection, the Israelis ignored JFK's condition and the reactor went critical on December 26. When the inspection occurred three weeks later, they could not inspect the areas that had been irradiated. A handwritten comment on the report says, "We were supposed to see this first!" We do not know what would have happened it JFK had been in the White House but given the intensity of his effort, and deep convictions regarding the dangers of nuclear proliferation, it would not have been ignored as it was under LBJ. Under LBJ, relations with Egypt deteriorated. The US stopped providing direct assistance loans and grants to Egypt. The US became increasingly antagonistic to President Nasser, as desired by the Israel lobby. US support for a resolution to the Palestinian refugee issue decreased and then stopped. The Department of Justice efforts to require the American Zionist Council to register as foreign agents became increasingly weak until they were dropped under LBJ's new Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. The sequence of exchanges includes: On December 11, 1963, the AZC attorney wrote to the DOJ saying, "Our client is not prepared to register as an agent of a foreign government." Instead, he proposed to provide "voluntarily" the required financial information. In January and February 1964, there were more exchange between AZC and the DOJ. AZC expressed concern because the American Council on Judaism publicly said that AZC was acting as "propaganda agents for the state of Israel and that the Jewish Agency was being used as a conduit for funds for the Zionist organization in the United States." In summer 1964 Nicholas Katzenbach becomes Attorney General. Negotiations continued. DOJ staff noted that AZC was "stalling" and not providing acceptable information despite the increasingly special and favorable treatment. In spring of 1965 the DOJ accepted that AZC was NOT required to register as foreign agent. Their financial information was kept in a unique expandable folder. In November 1967 the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) applied for a federal tax exemption. The US Treasury Department granted it, backdated to 1953. Increasingly aggressive and uncompromisingZionist Israel The successful development of nuclear weapons added to Israel's aggressive actions and unwillingness to resolve the Palestinian refugee crisis. With intelligence information provided by Washington, Israel made a surprise attack on Egypt, Syria and Jordan in June 1967. The "Six Day war" was a crucial turning point in Middle East history. Israel quickly defeated the unprepared combined armies. In the West, public perception of Israel changed overnight. The mythology of Israeli military (and general) superiority was created. Among the American Jewish population, doubts and concerns about Israel evaporated and support skyrocketed. Israeli leaders arrogance and deceit is exemplified by the attack on the USS Liberty during the Six Day War. The communications navy vessel was monitoring the air waves in the eastern Mediterranean when it was attacked by Israeli aircraft and boats. Thirty four US sailors were killed and 172 injured. Amazingly, the ship managed to stay afloat. The plan was evidently to sink the ship, blame it on Egypt and consolidate US support and hostility to Egypt and the Soviet Union. Lyndon Johnson over-ruled the calls for help from the vessel, saying "I will not have my ally embarrassed." The deadly incident was covered up for decades. We do not know for sure what might have happened had JFK not been assassinated. It is possible that Israel would have been stopped from acquiring the bomb. Without that, they may not have had the audacity to launch the 1967 attacks on their neighbors, seizing the Golan, West Bank and Gaza Strip. If the Zionist lobby had been required to register as foreign agents, their influence would have been moderated. Perhaps Israel could have found a reasonable accommodation with Palestinians in one or two states. Instead, Israel hardened into an apartheid regime committing increasingly outrageous massacres. As Kennedy warned in 1960, Israel has become a "garrison state" surrounded by "hate and fear". The assassination of John F Kennedy ensured Zionist control of Israel, suffering for Palestinians and permanent instability.....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://yamcode.com/macron-says-wants-update-1544-12172023-212828 Source : https://jsbin.com/lahojafego/edit?html,output Flash News : https://yamcode.com/raw/china-president-says-wants-update-25109 Biden last Talk : https://yamcode.com/kennedy-says-wants-update-2115-39 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://etextpad.com/tdxmmjyu5w Other Sources : https://yamcode.com/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-205810 https://yamcode.com/raw/hilary-says-wants-update-4242-12172023-215702 https://yamcode.com/raw/ https://yamcode.com/raw/hilary-says-wants-update-3412-12172023-215101 https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-1234-44 https://jsbin.com/piwafugaji/edit?html,output https://yamcode.com/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-221403 https://yamcode.com/trump-says-wants-update-12172023-215156 https://yamcode.com/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-220331 https://paste.ee/p/XQfYR https://tech.io/snippet https://pastebin.com/ https://yamcode.com/china-president-says-wants-update-25117 https://yamcode.com/trudeau-says-wants-update-12172023-221049 New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): In a landmark development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tarik, have revealed an ambitious proposal to recreate a historic maritime voyage, reviving ancient trade routes between India and Oman. The leaders fondly recalled the rich history of maritime trade that facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas for centuries. "PM Modi and Sultan of Oman recalled the long history of maritime trade between India and Oman, enabling the exchange of goods and ideas across millennia. They reflected on the significant role played by dhows in facilitating trade and cultural exchanges, contributing to a longstanding and enriching history of interaction between the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Peninsula, especially Oman," a joint statement read. The tentative plan outlines a journey that would see the ship setting sail from the port of Mandvi in Gujarat to Muscat, with the anticipated timeline set for sometime in 2025-26. Further voyages to other regions are also under consideration. The leaders appreciated a proposal by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, to recreate a maritime voyage of a stitched ship, crafted with ancient knowhow in India. The tentative plan is for the ship to sail from the port of Mandvi in Gujarat to Muscat sometime in 2025-26, followed by further voyages to other regions, the joint statement added. Both leaders expressed confidence that this maritime voyage would "spotlight the ancient and historical connections between India and Oman, thereby strengthening the bedrock of mutual trust and people-to-people ties between the two nations," the statement also read. At the invitation of the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, Sultan Haitham bin Tarik, the Sultan of Oman, paid his maiden state visit to India on December 16, 2023. Sultan Haitham bin Tarik was accorded a ceremonial welcome at the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi. President Droupadi Murmu hosted a banquet dinner in honour of the Oman Sultan. This visit is of special significance as it marks the Sultanate of Oman's Sultan's first visit to India in over 25 years since the late Sultan Qaboos' visit in 1997. His Majesty's visit follows the visit of the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, to the Sultanate of Oman in February 2018, the joint statement also said. PM Modi and Sultan Haitham bin Tarik held closed consultations followed by delegation-level talks on Saturday. The meetings were marked by great warmth and friendliness. The two leaders expressed satisfaction at the excellent state of bilateral relations, which have stood the test of time, evolving into a strong and enduring partnership built on historical ties, mutual trust and respect, and shared interests, it added. The two leaders noted with satisfaction the continued exchange of high-level visits, which have helped achieve progress in the various areas of cooperation. Both leaders also held discussions on the entire gamut of bilateral cooperation, including political and security cooperation, defence, trade, energy security and renewables, healthcare, education, culture, and people-to-people relations. On the sidelines of the visit, an India-Oman Joint Commemorative Postage Stamp was released, symbolising the long-standing cultural and people-to-people relationship between the two countries. The Joint Postage Stamp depicts traditional folk dances, artfully showcasing the cultural heritage of India and Oman and will be cherished by both philatelists and art enthusiasts in both countries. Sultan Haitham bin Tarik also expressed his gratitude to India for extending an invitation to the Sultanate to participate in the G20 as a special guest country. He also appreciated India for the successful organisation of the G20 Summit and two editions of the Voice of Global South Summit, acknowledging India's role in facilitating a platform for global cooperation and discussions on critical international issues. The Sultan of Oman also commended India and Prime Minister Modi for the remarkable achievement of India's G20 Presidency in bringing together and uniting countries with diverse worldviews and priorities to culminate in the adoption of the landmark New Delhi Leaders' Declaration, according to the joint statement. During the ongoing visit, as many as six MoUs were signed. Both leaders expressed their confidence in the ample scope for the further development of bilateral relations. Sultan Haitham bin Tarik thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the warm and generous hospitality of the government and the people of India. His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik also extended a cordial invitation to Prime Minister Modi to visit the Sultanate of Oman, the joint statement read. (ANI)....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://jpeg.ly/X9l3c Source : https://ibit.ly/lPviq Flash News : https://jsbin.com/lefudiyoja/edit?html,output Biden last Talk : https://jpeg.ly/yGQL8 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://jpeg.ly/Pk3Xm Other Sources : https://paste.toolforge.org/view/57a7bff3 https://jpeg.ly/DwY2s https://etextpad.com/gya40ad0kj https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/516a7ea7 https://jpeg.ly/9NcO8 https://paste.ee/p/MBtYD https://jpeg.ly/acuud https://ibit.ly/jCBV2 https://pastebin.com/GL3m8sE9 https://ibit.ly/8Tfsq https://jpeg.ly/WYXNO https://ibit.ly/B5Dbx https://jsitor.com/rY0j6BxvCW https://justpaste.me/EyTe Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) jumped to the defense of a former Mississippi congressional candidate charged with vandalizing a controversial satanic display put up at Iowa's state Capitol building. "Satan has no place in our society and should not be recognized as a 'religion' by the federal government," DeSantis wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday. "Good prevails over evil -- that's the American spirit." The Satanic Temple received permission earlier this month to set up a shrine on the first floor of the Iowa State Capitol for two weeks. According to the Des Moines Register, such statues are permitted under state rules governing religious displays in the building. The shrine included an altar with the temple's "seven fundamental tenets" and its seal surrounded by electric candles, along with a statue depicting the goat-headed pagan idol Baphomet. In a Facebook post on Thursday, the Satanic Temple wrote that the statue was "destroyed beyond repair" and showed the damages in a video. Michael Cassidy, a 35-year-old Navy veteran and former Mississippi House candidate, was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief for the statue vandalism, the Des Moines Register reported. On his campaign website, Cassidy describes himself as "a Christian conservative who loves our nation and is committed to preserving the blessings of liberty bestowed upon us by the Founding generation." Cassidy told The Sentinel that he destroyed the statue to "awaken Christians to the anti-Christian acts promoted by our government." "I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged," he said. "My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted." If convicted, he could face a sentence of up to one year in prison and a $2,560 fine, the Des Moines Register reported. Several groups, such as Turning Point USA, jumped to Cassidy's defense by donating to a crowdfunding campaign created by The Sentinel to pay for his legal funds. The campaign has surpassed its goal of $20,000. DeSantis condemned the statue and backed up Cassidy, even vowing to chip in to pay his legal fees. Lucien Greaves, co-founder of the Satanic Temple, had told the Des Moines Register earlier this week that the intention behind the display was to give other religions more representation in public forums rather than to offend Christians. He later condemned the vandalism and called it a "hate crime" on his social media. As the satanic display made national news, it quickly became the center of a free speech debate as mixed reactions and criticisms poured in from lawmakers in Iowa and across the country. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) described the display in a press release as "objectionable" but maintained that "In a free society, the best response to objectionable speech is more speech." Rep. Jon Dunwell (R-Iowa) echoed similar comments in a lengthy statement on X, saying that as "a follower of Christ," he found the display was "objectionable" but that the application process for state Capitol displays (which are open to anyone) "do not discriminate on the basis of religion or ideology." Other lawmakers were adamantly against the display and called for its removal. Iowa state Rep. Brad Sherman (R) wrote a letter last week asserting that the "disgusting display" violates the state's Constitution. During a CNN town hall on Tuesday, DeSantis criticized former President Donald Trump's handling of the Satanic Temple and blamed him for a rule that gave the group religious tax-exempt status in 2019. "It very well may be because of that ruling under Donald Trump that they may have had a legal leg to stand on," he said. "My view would be that's not a religion that the Founding Fathers were trying to create." When asked about DeSantis' comments on Thursday, Greaves told CNN that the Florida governor's words were a "display of cowardice from a politician who wants to play ignorant."....

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--- language: - en --- []() read the full article here : https://rentry.co/p5d9w Source : https://yamcode.com/raw/holland-says-wants-update-5552-41 Flash News : https://jsbin.com/simifimehi/edit?html,output Biden last Talk : https://etextpad.com/eertgga7b6 Russian Ukrain Breaking News : https://pasteio.com/xlG9EIbim4Yt Other Sources : https://jpeg.ly/vMvzd https://rentry.co/3m5nh https://pastelink.net/p0rx5po1 https://ibit.ly/501rv https://yamcode.com/raw/macron-says-wants-update-4514-12172023-214450 https://etextpad.com/ecthgbccwd https://rentry.co/7w2u8 https://yamcode.com/biden-says-wants-update-12172023-211615 https://pastelink.net/7wivzhfc https://yamcode.com/obama-says-wants-update-5351-43 https://tech.io/snippet/hnw3DYj https://tech.io/snippet/bpU5WfI https://paste.feed-the-beast.com/view/f332fb96 https://jsitor.com/IbNgdIDXcT In a noteworthy development on Capitol Hill, Senator Bernie Sanders, representing Vermont, has taken a bold stance by sending a letter directly to President Joe Biden. The missive, dated Tuesday, advocates for a substantial reduction in the proposed military aid to Israel, amounting to over $10 billion. Sanders aligns himself with the United Nations's plea for an immediate ceasefire, injecting a new layer of complexity into the ongoing discussions surrounding international relations. Sanders, known for his outspoken views on foreign policy, brings the spotlight onto the substantial military aid package earmarked for Israel. The senator argues that redirecting these funds could be instrumental in fostering peace and stability in the region, echoing the sentiments expressed by the United Nations. This move by Sanders has ignited a fresh wave of debate within political circles, with proponents praising the senator's commitment to diplomacy and critics questioning the potential ramifications on the longstanding U.S.-Israel alliance. The proposed reduction in military aid serves as a testament to Sanders's consistent pursuit of a more restrained approach to international conflicts. While the letter to President Biden does not directly call for a complete cessation of aid, Sanders emphasizes the need for a substantial cut. This stance aligns with the senator's broader vision of reshaping U.S. foreign policy to prioritize diplomatic solutions over military interventions. The significance of this development lies in its potential to reshape the dynamics of U.S. involvement in the Middle East. By urging a substantial reduction in military aid, Sanders challenges the status quo and sparks a crucial conversation about the nation's role in fostering peace in conflict-ridden regions. As Sanders's letter makes its way into the hands of the President, the discourse on U.S. foreign policy takes an intriguing turn. The call to trim military aid to Israel underscores the senator's commitment to diplomatic solutions and triggers a broader discussion on the nation's role in promoting global stability.....