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Ranks are standardized throughout the US Military. Enlisted ranks go from E1-E9, officer ranks go from O1-O10. It's just each branch calls each one differently. In the Army an O3 is a captain and an E7 is a Sergeant First Class, while in the Navy those two ranks would be Lieutenant and Chief Petty Officer. There's no real need to change the names. There would be very little to gain. Plus, a lot of the nanes are tradition and based on history of those armed services.

Can you grow up in Westchester County and not be considered comfortable financially? Upstart Democratic Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says yes, and the Yorktown High School graduate's brutal honesty remains a cornerstone of her campaign strength. The 28-year-old Ocasio-Cortez is blasting cynics questioning her working class roots as "a girl from the Bronx," following the revelation she moved to upscale Westchester County when she was age 5, as reported here by Daily Voice. John Cardillo, a host of Newsmax's "America Talks Live," shared a picture of Ocasio-Cortez’s childhood home in Yorktown Heights, claiming she lived there until she went to attend Brown University. (The winner of the Congressional primary actually attended Boston University.) “This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University,” Cardillo tweeted. “A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling.” Ocasio-Cortez fired back at Cardillo, saying she did not attend Brown University or any other Ivy League school. “Try Google," Ocasio-Cortez said. Since her upset win, Ocasio-Cortez has received national -- and international -- media coverage. She appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press," on Sunday and on CBS's "Late Show With Stephen Colbert." Asked about President Trump, who tweeted about her upset win, Ocasio-Cortez pointed out he's a native of Queens, and her district includes part of Queens as well as the Bronx. "I don't think he knows how to deal with a girl from the Bronx," she told Colbert. Watch the video of the interview here. Ocasio-Cortez explained in a statement to DailyMail.com on Sunday that her family scraped together money for a small home in Yorktown Heights, so she could go to public school there, but that her father and other family remained in the Bronx. She lived in the Bronx's Parkchester apartments before moving to Yorktown Heights to attend a better public school than what was available in the Bronx at that time, according to her campaign website. The self-proclaimed Democratic socialist is running as a Democrat in New York’s 14th Congressional District, which encompasses the Bronx and Queens, after defeating 10-term U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley last week. “My mom scrubbed toilets so I could live here & I grew up seeing how the zip code one is born in determines much of their opportunity,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote, noting that she grew up partially in a working-class neighborhood. "A major part of my story, and what I've shared with my neighbors throughout this campaign, is that I grew up between two worlds,' Ocasio-Cortez said. "At a young age, my entire extended family (aunts, grandparents, etc) chipped in on a down payment for a small home in Yorktown so I could go to public school there. My mom was as a house cleaner for other people in the town so we could get by," she said. Click here to sign up for Daily Voice's free daily emails and news alerts.

Tensions were palpable in Saturday's great pumpkin weigh-off in Warren, R.I. Steve Connolly has spent the summer feeding his pumpkin liquid fish and manure. Connolly's orange beast weighs nearly 1,800 pounds and he's hoping that's enough to edge out last year's champion grower.

The invasion of Iraq was prompted by supposed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons along with the possibility of a nuclear threat.

Intraarterial administration of urokinase using Tracker microcatheter was performed in 11 patients with acute cerebral infarction caused by embolic occlusion of the internal carotid or the middle cerebral artery. Recanalization was observed in seven cases (64%) following the fibrinolytic therapy, and the time until recanalization from the start of the treatment was on the average 2.8 hours. Recanalization was seen in five out of six cases that received superselective infusion of urokinase, while it was seen in two out of five cases that received selective infusion. This study suggests that superselective infusion of urokinase is an excellent therapeutic method for embolic occlusion of the cerebral artery.

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The nation's state budget crisis is having a significant impact on public colleges. Funding cuts mean the schools have to increase tuition fees and drop services. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

founded in 1794 two years before tennessee became the 16th state it is the flagship campus of the university of tennessee system with ten undergraduate colleges and eleven graduate colleges it hosts almost 28 000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries in its 2020 universities ranking u s news world report ranked ut 104th among all national universities and 44th among public institutions of higher learning seven of its alumni have been selected as rhodes scholars james m buchanan m s 41 received the 1986 nobel prize in economics ut s ties to nearby oak ridge national laboratory established under ut president andrew holt and continued under the ut battelle partnership allow for considerable research opportunities for faculty and students also affiliated with the university are the howard h baker jr center for public policy the university of tennessee anthropological research facility and the university of tennessee arboretum which occupies of nearby oak ridge and features hundreds of species of plants indigenous to the region the university is a direct partner of the university of tennessee medical center which is one of two level i trauma centers in east tennessee the university of tennessee is

When I read one of the reviews that stated that this supplement changed their life, I was immediately excited because this supplement has changed my life as well! I started taking this supplement as a part of my diet plan (Ideal Protein). I took it to help me with bowel movements. Lucky for me, not only did it improve my bowel movements, it fixed my insomnia problem. I had insomnia and could not fall into deep sleep for years. Within 2 weeks of taking this supplement, I was sleeping like a new born baby! In addition, I became more relaxed and my anxiety completely disappeared!! It did not stop there...my menstrual cycle is regular now and I no longer have muscle twitches. TOTALLY CHANGED MY LIFE!<br /><br />I was soo excited about the improvement in the quality of my life, so I quickly spread the news to all my family and friends. I worked like wonders for all of my family members. The results from my friends was a mixed bag. I think that for the people that have a true magnesium deficiency, this is a miracle supplement. For those that may not have a true magnesium deficiency, this may not be the magic bullet for them. I hope that this review was helpful. I was compelled to spread the word about this supplement because it has truly changed my life!!!

Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary October 7, 2017 Daily Reading from the USCCB: Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29 This is a song of liberation for the Israelites living in exile, in which Jerusalem bewails and consoles her captive children. First the prophet reminds the Jews of their situation. They are dispersed in the Gentile world and are sick with nostalgia for Jerusalem because of their sins. They acknowledge their sinfulness and their infidelity. Then Mother Jerusalem speaks. She finds herself desolate, a widow bereft of her offspring. Yet she promises that she will be mindful of them. She will save them from disaster and restore them to enduring joy. We, too, are in a state of desolation because of our sinfulness. But God promises also to us final freedom and joy. He will be mindful of us. He will bring us home again.

Chuck Berry is well known for playing the guitar. That is one of the instruments that he can play. I'm trying to figure the rest out myself. For those on this answer, i wish y … ou luck for trying to find them.3 people found this useful. .IncaBlue.ll Chuck's legendary recordings were made using a Gibson ES-350T with P90 single coil pickups. When he became popular again in the mid 60s he switched to variations of the Gibson ES-335 which he continues to use to this day.

Patents are territorial rights. If EP patent is not being filed or protected in US then you are free to do production and sale in US market.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Aug 14 (Reuters) - A man said to have harbored Nazi sympathies as a teenager before a failed bid to join the U.S. Army was due in court on Monday to face charges he plowed his car into protesters opposing a white nationalist rally in Virginia, killing a woman and injuring 19. The bail hearing for James Alex Fields, 20, arrested on suspicion of murder, malicious wounding and hit-and-run charges, was set to unfold in Charlottesville as the U.S. Justice Department pressed its own federal hate-crime investigation of the incident. Authorities said Heather Heyer, 32, was killed when Fields' car slammed into a crowd of anti-racism activists confronting neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan (KKK) sympathizers, capping a day of bloody street brawls between the two sides in the Virginia college town on Saturday. More than 30 people were injured in separate incidents, and two state police officers died in the crash of their helicopter after assisting in efforts to quell the unrest. The fatal disturbances began with white nationalists converging to protest against plans to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, the commander of rebel forces during the U.S. Civil War. President Donald Trump's reaction to the clashes - the first major domestic crisis he has faced since taking office - ignited a wider political firestorm at the weekend. Democrats and Republicans alike criticized Trump for waiting too long to address the violence, and for failing when he did speak out to explicitly condemn white-supremacist marchers widely seen as sparking the melee. Trump was specifically taken to task for comments on Saturday in which he denounced what he called "this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides." Under mounting pressure to take an unequivocal stand against right-wing extremists who occupy a loyal segment of the Republican president's political base, the Trump administration sought to sharpen its message the next day. The White House issued a statement on Sunday insisting that Trump was condemning "all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred, and of course that includes white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi, and all extremist groups." Vice President Mike Pence took an even tougher line against white nationalists in remarks delivered late on Sunday during his trip to Colombia. "We have no tolerance for hate and violence from white supremacists, neo-Nazis or the KKK," Pence said. "These dangerous fringe groups have no place in American public life and in the American debate, and we condemn them in the strongest possible terms," he said. Virginia police at the weekend offered no motive for the man accused of ramming his car into the crowd. Derek Weimer, a history teacher at Fields' high school in Kentucky, told Cincinnati television station WCPO-TV that he remembered Fields harboring "some very radical views on race" as a student and was "very infatuated with the Nazis, with Adolf Hitler." Weimer also recounted Fields being "gung-ho" about joining the Army when he graduated. The Army confirmed that Fields reported for basic military training in August 2015 but was "released from active duty due to a failure to meet training standards in December of 2015." The Army statement did not explain how he had failed to meet training standards. Fields was being held on suspicion of second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and a single count of leaving the scene of a fatal accident, authorities said. (Reporting by Ian Simpson in Charlottesville; Additional reporting by Jeff Mason, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Lucia Mutikani in Washington, James Oliphant in New Jersey, Bernie Woodall in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and Jon Herskovitz in Austin, Texas; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Mary Milliken, Andrew Hay and Paul Tait)

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actually it is cheaper and less stress. The benefits well lets see.... no gang colors, no high cost nikes or any other expensive name brand tennis shoes, clothing that sets people apart financially, the fact that girls will be dressed modestly, along with boys having their pants up around their waist. That people a judged by who they are not what they wear, popularity comes from how a person is not how they look. There are so many things great about uniforms, including less laundry, better educations, it has been pr oven that in schools where uniforms were worn that the learning levels increased. I don't get how anyone would not want uniforms, but that is just my opinion. I have seen the benefits and am so excited at the prospect that my kids will be wearing them next year.

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May Pen. For the settlement in Belize, see May Pen, Belize. May Pen is the capital and largest town in the parish of Clarendon in the Middlesex County, Jamaica. It is located on the Rio Minho river (Jamaica's longest), and is a major market centre for the Parish.

The man, known only as "AO" in court documents, is required to show up for counselling and to protect future sexual partners. Officials maintain they are not trying to criminalise sexual activity but to protect public health. The man could face fines or jail time if he does not comply. About 50,000 people in the US are newly infected with HIV every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). About 16% of the 1.1 million people living with the virus do not know they are infected. AO tested positive for HIV in 2008 and spread the virus to at least eight people in 2010-14, according to court documents viewed by local news media. He had done so despite receiving HIV counselling - including how to practise safe sex - five times, the Seattle Times reports. In a statement, the King County Public Health department said it had only sought a cease-and-desist order against an HIV-positive individual once before, in 1993. "We're not trying to criminalise sexual behaviour here," Dr Matthew Golden, director of public health at the county's HIV programme, told the Seattle Times. "We are trying to protect the public's health. And we're trying to make sure that everyone gets the care they need, including the person involved in this."

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens reads from a prepared statement as he announces his resignation during a news conference, Tuesday, May 29, 2018, at the state Capitol, in Jefferson City, Mo. Greitens resigned amid a widening investigation that arose from an affair with his former hairdresser. Greitens said his resignation would take effect Friday. The Jefferson City News-Tribune via AP Julie Smith

On Wednesday, a federal judge in Fort Worth hears arguments over whether to suspend the Affordable Care Act also known as Obamacare. Twenty states, led by Texas, are bringing a fresh court challenge.

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my mother's friend has an uncle who lives in Europe and is a personal friend of J.K. Rowling. u might have heard of him Jack Rausae, recently, she let something major slip to him. He will die at the hand of...... Ron! think about it every time they were in peril, ron tried to get them in more trouble even die but it never worked and we never suspected a thing!

chlorophyll is green because that was the part of the spectrum that was left when plants evolved. The bulk of the spectrum was already being harvested by other photosynthetic life. there is actually a wide variety of photosynthetic pigments chlorophyll is just one of many. You may want to check out the purple earth hypothesis. Sauce

The Montgomery Police Department is conducting a homicide investigation after a man was killed early Saturday. MPD and Medics responded to the 2000 block of E South Boulevard around 1:30 a.m. regarding a subject shot. Police say they found Sidney Johnson IV, 30, suffering from a fatal gunshot wound after arriving on the scene. Copyright 2018 WSFA 12 News. All rights reserved.

Catalan bears varying degrees of similarity to the linguistic varieties subsumed under the cover term Occitan language (see also differences between Occitan and Catalan and Gallo-Romance languages). Thus, as it should be expected from closely related languages, Catalan today shares many traits with other Romance languages.

Children across Scotland are getting in the Christmas spirit to try and win £1500 for their school. Popular children’s author Sam Hay is challenging youngsters to come up with a new Christmas classic story, for a chance to win some brilliant prizes in the fourth annual Write Christmas competition. The competition, backed by cartridgesave.co.uk is open to children between four and 11 years old and split into three age categories. To enter they need to channel their inner Dickens to write a short story or poem (max 200 words) inspired by winter or Christmas. The entry that Sam, author of the ‘Undead Pets’ series of books, judges to be the best across the entire competition will win £1500 for their school to spend on books or writing equipment, in addition to a Christmas stocking full of festive treats worth £50 for themselves. Two runners up will each secure £250 for their school and a festive goody bag. The top 50 entries from across the UK will also be made into a printable, free to download book, to be released in December 2017. Entries must be submitted by November 17 and children, parents and teachers can get hints and tips from Sam, plus full details of how to enter at Write Christmas 2017 . Sam Hay believes the competition is a great step towards unlocking children’s creativity. She said: “I’m very excited to be judging the Write Christmas story competition for a fourth year running. It’s a great opportunity to get kids all over Britain writing and showing off their fantastic imaginations. I’m always so impressed by their creativity and originality. “Christmas has been the inspiration behind some all-time classics including Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ and the much-loved ‘The Nutcracker’. It’s a time for magic, excitement and wonder. I can’t wait to read this year’s stories and poems!” Ian Cowley, managing director of cartridgesave.co.uk, added: “Children’s imaginations never fail to amaze. We’re proud to invest in the best young writing and provide them with resources to help stimulate their creative minds at Christmas and beyond. Compiling the Write Christmas printable e-book is one of the highlights of our year.” Last year’s Write Christmas winner was Edwin Walker, aged 10, from Comely Park Primary in Falkirk, who captured the judges’ attention with his “unusual and clever” story written in the form of a police report, that detailed how someone broke into a little girl’s house on Christmas Eve, left sooty footprints on the carpet and stole mince pies and milk. Useful information: The competition has three categories: 4-6, 7-9 and 10-11 years old. There will be one overall winner across all categories. The winning school will receive £1,500 to spend on books or writing materials and the winning child will receive a goody bag worth £50. Two runners up will win £250 for their school to spend on books or writing materials, as well as a goody bag each. The best 50 entries from across all categories will be selected to appear in the printable e-book. Poems and short stories (200 words or less) must be entered by a parent, carer or teacher, who can give permission for the story, name and age of the child to be included in the book. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Closing date for entries is November 17 2017.

Yosemite Packing List. Your trip with Four Season Guides is sure to be one you never forget, but a big part of having lots of fun is being well prepared! Even though we provide the camping equipment essentials, there are a few things we want to be sure you don’t forget! Hiking boots – well broken in!! Mid-weight boots with ankle support are best.

These are covered with chocolate that provides a sweet counterpoint to the peanut butter. It is a very filling bar with a nice texture (rather than to waxy one most protein bars have)and is not sickly sweet. It is a nice morning snack that gives a great boost of energy and sneeks in a couple more hours before you have to stop for lunch. If I could give them 10 stars I would.

I think it is normal to have dreams about anything. what could potentially be abnormal would be your reaction to those dreams. What you have to do is realize it is a dream. Don't over-react. But you may want to explore your attraction to women. It is possible that your subliminal is telling you something.

The United Nations' World Food Program says it is running out of food supplies in North Korea, and the country faces increased suffering as a result. The group is appealing to foreign food donors for help. Agency representative Masood Hyder says the agency will be forced to reduce the number of North Koreans it feeds, from 6.5 million to around 100,000. NPR's Rob Gifford reports.

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Internationally, the torch and its accompanying party traveled in a chartered Air China Airbus A330 (registered B-6075), painted in the red and yellow colors of the Olympic Games. Air China was chosen by the Beijing Committees of the Olympic Game as the designated Olympic torch carrier in March 2008 for its long-standing participation in the Olympic cause. The plane traveled a total of 137,000 km (85,000 mi) for a duration of 130 days through 21 countries and regions.

By . Rebecca English . PUBLISHED: . 17:28 EST, 24 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 18:30 EST, 24 October 2013 . The Archbishop of Canterbury says he has no objection to Prince George converting to Buddhism. The Most Reverend Justin Welby, speaking one day after he led the christening of the future Supreme Governor of the Church of England, said the prince is ‘perfectly entitled’ to change his religion should he so choose. The remark is likely to alarm traditionalists. However, it is in keeping with Prince Charles’s oft-repeated claim that he wants to be seen as ‘Defender of Faiths’ instead of ‘Defender of the Faith’, to reflect Britain’s multicultural society. The Most Reverend Justin Welby, (right) who led Prince George's christening, said he has no objection to him converting to Buddhism . The Archbishop of Canterbury chose to urge George's parents and godparents to help the future monarch (pictured in the official portrait at Clarence House) to 'make sure he knows who Jesus is' The Archbishop was asked by Channel 4 News what his reaction would be if George, the third in line to the throne, wanted to leave the Church of England to become a Buddhist. He replied: ‘He’s perfectly entitled to be that, and we’ll cross that bridge if we ever get to it. Who knows?’ The remarkable statement came just  24 hours after he conducted the young prince’s christening at the Chapel Royal in St James’s Palace. Indeed, the Archbishop had chosen in his address to urge George’s parents and godparents to help the future monarch ‘make sure he knows who Jesus is’, imploring: ‘Speak of him, read stories about him. Introduce him in prayer.’ His latest comments will concern many within the Church, who consider the Archbishop to be a leader who seeks to be ‘all things to all men’. The Archbishop's comments will concern many within the Church, who consider him a leader who seeks to be 'all things to all men' He made the comments to Channel 4 News when asked his reaction if George, wanted to leave the Church . Prince Charles has already caused controversy within the Anglican Church by floating the idea that he could adapt his future title to embrace other religions. The prince, who has a particular fascination with Islam, believes that by calling himself Defender of Faiths he will unite the different strands of society at his Coronation. Earlier this year the Mail told how Prince William is not a regular churchgoer. Although the 31-year-old future king was confirmed into the Anglican faith in 1997, he is understood to attend services of worship just a ‘handful’ of times each year. Most of these are linked with official engagements or come on special occasions in the Christian calendar such as Christmas, or social occasions such as weddings and christenings. Sources say William and his wife ‘rarely, if ever’ go to church privately on a Sunday morning, or at any other time. A senior aide admitted: ‘I’m not aware that he goes every week.’ While William is not alone in failing to attend – barely 8 per cent of those who go to church regularly are men of a similar age – his stance is in strong contrast to other members of the Royal Family. The Queen is a devout Christian with a deep sense of religious duty, who attends Church on a weekly basis . The Queen is a devout Christian with a deep sense of religious duty, who attends Church on a weekly basis. And for all his much-publicised interest in other faiths, Prince Charles is also a regular churchgoer. A spokesman for the Prince of Wales said he frequently attended Sunday service at a church close to Highgrove, his Gloucestershire residence, as well as in Scotland and Norfolk. Prince Charles said he may be known as Defender of Faiths after he becomes King . The monarchy has a unique relationship with the Anglican Church. The sovereign holds the title ‘Defender of Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England’. The monarch has been known by the title Defender of the Faith ever since it was bestowed on Henry VIII by the Pope in 1521 for his early support for Roman Catholicism. Any change would, however, require Parliament to amend the 1953 Royal Titles Act, which came into law after changes were made for the Queen’s Coronation in the same year. In his or her coronation oath the . monarch also promises to maintain the Church – a vow that the present . Queen takes very seriously. Archbishops . and bishops are appointed by the monarch on the advice of the Prime . Minister, who in turn considers the names selected by a Church . Commission. They in turn . take an oath of allegiance to The Queen on appointment – as do parish . priests – and may not resign without receiving royal authority. The . Archbishop of Canterbury has courted controversy before, notably for . describing the naming and shaming of bankers in the wake of the . financial crisis as ‘lynch-mobbish’. In July the former oil executive said it was wrong to single out bankers for causing the worst recession for generations.

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I managed to find the Bishop's version by unearthing! the Rosenblatt's 1962 Principles of neurodynamics, Page 110 book, so the Wikipedia's version must be the alternative one. It is worth noting that the book also has a chapter on error back-propagation (page 292), which resembles the Wikipedia version, but I think it is not exactly the same.

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Um, last time I checked... The world cup was for soccer. And I don't think that the Red Sox play soccer. If you mean the world series... Then problably. But what do I know? I hate baseball. It's America's slowest sport, also known as the only sport you can play in a coma.

founded in 2008 the team plays its home matches at the m a chidambaram stadium in chennai after serving a two year suspension from the ipl starting july 2015 for the alleged involvement of their owners in the 2013 ipl betting case along with rajasthan royals the super kings returned to the league in 2018 winning the championship in the comeback season its third overall to tie mumbai indians for the then record for most ipl title wins the team is captained by mahendra singh dhoni who has led the team to three victories since 2008 and coached by stephen fleming the super kings have lifted the ipl title thrice in 2010 2011 and 2018 and have the best win percentage among all teams in the ipl 61 28 they hold the records of most appearances in the ipl playoffs ten and have made it to the playoffs in each season they have featured in the league being the only team to do so they also have made into a record eight finals out of ten seasons making them one of the most successful franchises in the ipl in addition they have also won the champions league twenty20 in 2010

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Chinese Catholic bishop Peter Shao Zhumin was seized by authorities in May, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said. The cleric's family has been given no information on the reasons for his removal or his current whereabouts. Relations between the Vatican and China have been strained by disputes over who can appoint bishops in the country. Mr Burke said he was "profoundly saddened" by the situation involving the detention of a bishop from his diocese in Wenzhou, in China's southeastern Zhejiang province. He said the incident was detrimental to efforts to reach an understanding with the Chinese authorities on the status of the Church in the communist state. "The Holy See hopes that Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin may return as soon as possible to his diocese and that he be allowed to carry out his ministry in peace," Mr Burke said. Catholics who have been seeking news of the bishop fear that he may be being pressured by the authorities to pledge his allegiance to the Communist Party instead of the Vatican. The news comes amid recent reports that the Vatican and Beijing are drawing closer to reaching an historic agreement governing the selection of bishops for 10 million Chinese Roman Catholics. There are currently about 100 Catholic bishops in China, with some approved by Beijing, some approved by the Vatican and, informally, many now approved by both. An agreement between the Chinese government and Pope Francis on who has the authority to appoint bishops in the country would be a positive step towards re-establishing diplomatic relations between China and the Vatican.

Chrissy Houlahan has done a lot with her industrial engineering degree over the last 30 years including serving in the Air Force, working in the aircraft manufacturing industry, being the COO of a sports apparel company and even teaching high school chemistry. Houlahan says her science, technology, engineering and mathematics – or STEM – background has allowed her to be fluid in her career by helping her tackle everyday problems through a unique lens. "Somebody with a technical background might think in a little bit different than the way, for instance, that a lawyer would think," Houlahan says. This was one of her biggest motivators for running for office in Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District, she says. "I think a person with a technical background could be really useful in Washington," says Houlahan, noting that Congress is called to pass laws on issues the Founding Fathers would have never thought imaginable. "Anything from cybersecurity, biosecurity, information technology and privacy issues are all things the government now has the responsibility to be worried about," she says. "Those are all things that scientific and technical backgrounds can be used for." Now she has the chance to prove her theory. Houlahan won her congressional House race this month, defeating a Republican opponent who is a tax lawyer and businessman. She is one of the nine STEM-related professionals – one senator and eight members of the House of Representatives — voted into office during the 2018 midterms. All are Democrats except for one Republican and the cohort includes an ocean scientist, an aerospace engineer, a software engineer and a biochemist. According to the latest congressional profile, released before Election Day, only about seven percent of the 115th Congress reported they have some kind of STEM background. Occupations that are typically associated with people running for office — lawyers, career politicians, business men and women — were the most frequently listed. There's a reason there are not a lot of STEM professionals in Congress, says Shaughnessy Naughton, founder of 314 Action, an advocacy group that helps candidates with such a background move beyond advocacy and into action. Naughton started the group — named after the most widely known mathematical ratio — in 2016 in response to concern about the Trump administration's attacks on science, especially the president's stance on climate change. And 314 Action helped eight of the new STEM professionals get elected to Congress in the recent elections. Naughton says while there are procedural hurdles for anyone trying to break into politics, scientists also face cultural barriers. "Scientists and physicians and STEM professionals often think of science as above politics, or their profession is above politics and therefore they shouldn't be involved in politics," says Naughton, who staged an unsuccessful campaign for Congress herself in 2014 and then again in 2016. "And I think we see the results of that attitude by just a real dearth of people with scientific backgrounds and the often misplaced priorities that are put forward [by Congress]." 314 Action spent more than $2 million endorsing 13 candidates in the midterm elections. Eight of them won their races, while the five candidates who did not still made tremendous gains in promoting STEM backgrounds as a way to talk about local issues, says Naughton. "I think it's important because we would have a policy more based in facts and evidence," Naughton tells NPR. "But I also think we would have a more collaborative approach to governing if more scientists were at the table." Through trainings and financial support, 314 Action helps STEM professionals-turned-candidates promote their experience and skill set in their run for office. Congresswoman-elect Dr. Kim Schrier says the group helped her use her experience both as a pediatrician and a Type 1 Diabetes patient to connect with voters. Last week she become the first Democrat to ever represent the 8th Congressional District of Washington state. "It gave me the ability to speak to the issues that other candidates just don't have and an expertise that I can really bring to Congress to help fix our broken medical system," say Schrier, who decided to run because Republicans in Congress kept trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act. "And that directly affected patients like me with pre-existing conditions," she says. Schrier hopes to bring a unique voice when topics such as health care, the pharmaceutical industry and prescription drugs arise in the next Congress. Congresswoman-elect Elaine Luria says her being a nuclear engineer connected with voters on issues that deeply affect in the 2nd Congressional District of Virginia such as global warming, tourism, aquaculture and offshore drilling. Her district includes Virginia Beach, the Norfolk Naval Station and other parts of that city – which is starting to grapple with increased flooding as sea lev

His first spell in charge was in 2013 and lasted just seven months. The 54-year-old replaces Henryk Kasperczak, who was sacked in April, after Tunisia were knocked out of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in the quarter-finals He led Tunisian club Esperance to the 2011 African Champions League title and has also spent time in charge of the Kuwait national team. Maaloul's fist competitive game will be at home to Egypt in a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. Niger and Swaziland are the other two teams in Group J for the qualifying campaign to reach Cameroon. Tunisia are currently joint top with DR Congo of Group A in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup on six points after two matches as they aim to reach the finals for the first time since 2006. Guinea and Libya are yet to score a point.

"Making aliyah," or returning to Israel, is usually a cause for celebration among Jews. But recently fear has pushed many Jews to leave France — a record 7,000 departed last year. And that was before the recent Paris attacks that included the killing of four Jews at a kosher grocery store. Jean Marc Illouz, a former senior correspondent for French television, who is also Jewish, says he's been pushing back against what he calls ridiculous comments on the Internet about anti-Semitism in France. He says Americans seem to think it's a resurgence of Nazism. "You see people are thinking of anti-Semitism in terms of World War II and coming from the French," says Illouz. "It has nothing to do with the French. It has nothing to do with the mainstream Muslim French thinking. It has to do with imported terrorism." Illouz believes today's anti-Semitism stems from radical Islam brought to France by imams and jihadists espousing a hard-line doctrine from places like Saudi Arabia. He says the vast majority of French Muslims want to be integrated into French society, and many are. But, he says, the radicals' message is corrupting a small, angry minority. "You have a number of poor young people who have a problem much bigger than money," he says. "It's a problem of identity. Because they're neither Algerian, nor do they feel they are full-fledged Frenchmen. So in that gap, the jihadis found the way to put their lever." Illouz, whose family comes from Algeria, says Jewish families like his lived there peacefully with Muslims for centuries. His family came to France in the late 1950s, among the nearly 1 million Europeans who fled the violence of the Algerian war of independence. Today, these Sephardic Jews from Algeria and other North African countries make up 70 percent of the Jewish population in France. American Rabbi Tom Cohen has been in France nearly 25 years. His synagogue helps to bridge what he calls the cultural gap between French and American Jews, who are 95 percent Ashkenazi, meaning their origins are in Eastern Europe. Today there are soldiers guarding Cohen's synagogue around the clock. They even sleep there. He says his congregants feel confident the French government wants to protect them. After the Paris attacks, Prime Minister Manuel Valls urged French Jews not to leave, saying France would not be France without them. Cohen agrees. "There's some inherent anti-Semitism that's been in France, just like in the United States. And there are inherent philo-Semites, people who love Jews," he says. "This is, after all, the first country that enfranchised Jews with citizenship." That was in 1791, during the French Revolution. Cohen says since then there has been good and bad, but Jews have always been part of the fabric of French society. France has the world's largest Jewish population after Israel and the U.S. He says today's threat is something completely different. "We're dealing with a part of the Muslim community, and it's a small percentage," he says. "But it's a very large community, so even a small percentage is a large number of people, who have been radicalized, and this is the new anti-Semitism that has infested some of the Muslim world unfortunately." Back at his apartment, Illouz plays a video of his son's recent bar mitzvah on his cellphone. "I do not see why a few people with an imported ideology inside of France, inside of Islam, French Islam itself, would push us out," he says. "I think this is ridiculous." Illouz says he understands why some Jews may be feeling anxious, but he sees no reason to leave France.

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(CNN) -- The announced pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears -- the 16-year-old children's television star and younger sister of beleaguered pop star Britney Spears -- is casting new light on how states deal with the thorny issue of consensual sex among teens. Jamie Lynn Spears, shown in September, stars in the popular Nickelodeon series "Zoey 101." Spears, the star of Nickelodeon's "Zoey 101," told OK! Magazine that she's pregnant and that the father is her 18-year-old boyfriend. There has been no public talk of criminal prosecution in the case. Consensual sex between the two may well have been legal, depending on where and when it took place. But critics of the nation's statutory rape laws say that laws that are ignored in some cases can be used to put other teens in prison and land them on sex-offender registries. Watch CNN's Sunny Hostin on what the law says » . "You have a disturbing disparity in how these laws are enforced," said Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University. "I have no problem at all with nailing adults who sleep with children, but I have a problem with the prosecution of teenagers in consensual relationships. "What this case should focus the nation on is having a more evenhanded approach to these cases." Watch a psychologist talk about how Spears' pregnancy could lead to parents talking to their kids about sex » . In Louisiana, where Spears lives, it is a misdemeanor for someone age 17 to 19 to have consensual sex with someone age 15 to 17 if the difference between their ages is more than two years. In California, where she sometimes tapes her television show, it's a misdemeanor to have sex with someone younger than 18 if the offender is less than three years older. Someone more than three years older could be charged with a felony. According to OK! Magazine, which first reported the news Tuesday, Spears said the father of her baby is longtime boyfriend Casey Aldridge. Turley said most states have similar laws but rely on prosecutors to be selective in enforcing them. But that's a recipe for legal problems, he said. The issue drew international attention when a Georgia teen was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. In 2005, Genarlow Wilson was tried for the rape of a 17-year-old girl at a hotel-room party. While he was found not guilty of that charge, he was convicted of aggravated child molestation for the act with the 15-year-old -- even though he was less than two years older. Georgia law, which has since been changed, required a mandatory 10-year sentence on the charge of aggravated child molestation and required Wilson to register as a sex offender when he was released. Under the revised Georgia law, the act now would be a misdemeanor. Now 21, Wilson was released from prison in October -- after serving more than two years -- when the state Supreme Court ruled his sentence was "grossly disproportionate to his crime." "The current laws leave too much to prosecutorial discretion," Turley said. "We saw in the Wilson case how prosecutorial discretion can lead to grotesque results." He said statutory rape prosecutions of teens are more common in Southern states and small towns than they are elsewhere in the country or in big cities. B.J. Bernstein, Wilson's attorney, argued throughout his case that Wilson was imprisoned for an act that, while perhaps morally questionable, probably is going on among teens everywhere. "If you prosecuted, even with misdemeanors, all those cases, you'd clog up the justice system with kids having sex," she said. "It's a social issue -- and it may be something that parents don't want to happen or wish wouldn't happen at that age -- but it shouldn't be a crime." Spears, who turned 16 on April 4 and says she is 12 weeks into her pregnancy, told the magazine she plans to raise her child in Louisiana, "so it can have a normal family life." Nickelodeon released a statement saying the network respects Spears' decision "to take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation." E-mail to a friend .

Road work will shut down lanes on SR 1 near Milton and Nassau starting this week. Hot mix paving on SR 1 in both directions between Paynter and Cave Neck Roads near Broadkill River and Red Mill Pond will start tomorrow, Tuesday, April 18 and will run through Friday, May 5, pending weather. Work will be done 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday each week. Daytime lane closures will be in effect, as construction crews will be working close to the roads.

The New York Police Department has one person in custody in relation to an explosive device detonating Monday morning. The New York Police Department has one person in custody in relation to an explosive device detonating Monday morning. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says women who accuse someone of sexual misconduct deserve to be heard, even if it involves President Donald Trump. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says women who accuse someone of sexual misconduct deserve to be heard, even if it involves President Donald Trump. The Latest: Kristen Bell sips coffee to try to stay warm before announcement of 75th annual Golden Globe Awards nominations. The Latest: Kristen Bell sips coffee to try to stay warm before announcement of 75th annual Golden Globe Awards nominations. APNewsBreak: The Pentagon says that transgender individuals will be allowed to enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1, bowing to growing legal pressure despite staunch opposition from President Donald Trump. APNewsBreak: The Pentagon says that transgender individuals will be allowed to enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1, bowing to growing legal pressure despite staunch opposition from President Donald Trump. Three women who have previously accused President Donald Trump of sexual harassment are sharing their stories on NBC's "Megyn Kelly Today." Jessica Leeds, Samantha Holvey and Rachel Crooks told of alleged harassment by Trump spanning decades. Three women who have previously accused President Donald Trump of sexual harassment are sharing their stories on NBC's "Megyn Kelly Today." Jessica Leeds, Samantha Holvey and Rachel Crooks told of alleged... BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana private investigator pleaded guilty on Monday to misusing Donald Trump's Social Security number in repeated attempts to access the candidate's federal tax information during the presidential campaign. Jordan Hamlett, 32, faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine following his guilty plea in federal court. Authorities have said Hamlett failed in his attempts to get Trump's tax returns through a U.S. Department of Education financial aid website. The Lafayette resident was indicted in November 2016 and had been scheduled to start this week, but the judge originally assigned to the case died on Saturday after a brief illness. U.S. District Court Judge John deGravelles has not yet scheduled Hamlett's sentencing hearing . Defense attorney Michael Fiser had argued Hamlett didn't have any "intent to deceive" and simply tried "out of sheer curiosity" to discover whether Trump's tax information could be accessed through the government website. Every president since Jimmy Carter has released tax returns in what has become an American tradition during presidential elections. Trump has refused to release his. Federal agents confronted Hamlett two weeks before last November's election and questioned him in a Baton Rouge hotel lobby. At the time, the agents didn't know if Hamlett had been successful, and they feared a public release of Trump's tax returns could influence the election, according to a transcript of court testimony earlier this year. Treasury Department Special Agent Samuel Johnson testified in March that Hamlett immediately took credit for his "genius idea" to seek Trump's tax returns from the financial aid website. Johnson also said investigators asked Hamlett if he was familiar with Anonymous, an internet hacking group. "At that time, Anonymous had been established as people that have released some of President Trump's personal identifying information and things of that nature," Johnson testified. Federal prosecutors had asked to bar Hamlett's lawyer from presenting a trial defense that that he was acting as a benevolent "white hat" hacker. Brady, a senior federal judge who died Saturday at a Baton Rouge hospital, ruled last month that Hamlett couldn't testify that he had a "good purpose" in attempting to test security flaws in the website. Fiser said Hamlett had tried to call and notify the IRS about the flaws last September, on the same day he tried to electronically access Trump's tax records. Fiser said Hamlett liked to test security systems for weaknesses in his spare time and would notify system administrators if he found a system vulnerable to a security breach. Hamlett once discovered a security flaw that allowed for public access to the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office's "raw" reports on open investigations and exposed personal information about police officers. "Hamlett tipped the sheriff's office to the flaw and was met with thanks and appreciation, not an arrest," his attorney wrote in a recent court filing. After his indictment, Hamlett was arrested again in August for allegedly violating conditions of his pretrial release. Prosecutors said he committed "numerous violations," including hacking into email and social media accounts of a man at the request of the man's wife.

After weeks of railing against the Black district attorney leading the prosecution of the white police officers charged in the killing of Rayshard Brooks last month in Atlanta, a member of the Georgia congressional delegation is taking his criticism a step further – officially calling on the Justice Department to open an investigation. Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., on Wednesday formally asked Attorney General William Barr to open a probe into what Collins described as "the egregious abuse of power" by Paul Howard, the Fulton County District Attorney. Collins goes on to accuse Howard of being driven by "political pressure" when his office brought charges against the arresting Atlanta police officers involved in an altercation with Brooks, who was Black, before he was shot and killed on June 12. Five days after the shooting, Howard's office charged Garrett Rolfe with felony murder and 10 other counts. Rolfe faces a possible sentence of life without parole if convicted. The other officer, Devin Brosnan, was charged with aggravated assault and other lesser crimes. Brosnan remains with the Atlanta Police Department, while Rolfe was fired shortly after the shooting. "The timing of these charges – prior to completion of the investigation and prior to presentment before a grand jury – combined with other factors strongly suggests that DA Howard is allowing political pressure to influence his handling of the investigation," Collins wrote in his letter to the attorney general. He added the district attorney "should be immediately removed from his position" if Howard does not believe grand juries should exist in cases where law enforcement officers are defendants. "I ask that you engage any and all Department of Justice resources you consider appropriate to ensure that these officers are treated fairly under the law," Collins said. Neither the Fulton County District Attorney's office or the Justice Department responded to NPR's request for comment. As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution points out, Howard faces a runoff election next month for a seventh term as district attorney. The letter from Collins, a fourth-term congressman and son of a former Georgia state trooper, appears to go further than his previous calls that Howard recuse himself in the case. Collins is running for the U.S. Senate. His note to the Justice Department comes a day after Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., who was appointed to that seat in December and is running against Collins, herself wrote a letter. Loeffler, told WNBA officials she was "adamantly opposed" of the league embracing a Black Lives Matter platform when the season tips off later this month. The senator, who is also a co-owner of the WNBA franchise the Atlanta Dream, added she was "incredibly disappointed to read about efforts to insert a political platform into the league." The league said the season is dedicated to social justice reforms and to highlight women like Breonna Taylor and others who the WNBA said are "the forgotten victims of police brutality and violence." Taylor was shot and killed in her home by Louisville police executing a late night search warrant in March. The WNBA and the players association announced this week that for the entire season players will wear warmup shirts with both "Black Lives Matter and "Say Her Name" displayed on it. Loeffler suggested instead that the league should put an American flag on all player jerseys, as well as licensed apparel for coaches, players and fans. "The WNBA is based on the principle of equal and fair treatment of all people and we, along with the teams and players, will continue to use our platforms to vigorously advocate for social justice," WNBA commissioner Cathy Englebert said in a statement. Both Loeffler and Collins have done interviews on Fox News in recent days praising Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp for calling up the National Guard after a recent uptick in violence in the Atlanta area over the 4th of July weekend. A third candidate is also running for the Senate in the fall. Rev. Raphael Warnock, the pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the same church where funeral for Rayshard Brooks was held last month, is running as a Democrat. Warnock delivered the eulogy at the funeral.

2: Language commentator GEOFFREY NUNBERG discusses good and bad accents in the movies. Actor KIRK DOUGLAS. The star of "Lust for Life," "Paths of Glory," "Champion" and Stanley Kubrick's epic, "Spartacus," about a leader of slaves revolting against Republican Rome. (REBROADCAST FROM 8/22/88). Actor TONY CURTIS. In 1960 he starred in "Spartacus." A restored version of the film was released in 1991 that includes previously cut scenes, including one where Lawrence Olivier --as a general-- tries to seduce his slave, played by CURTIS. (REBROADCAST FROM 4/19/91).

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Mining was important in Thuringia since the later Middle Ages, especially within the mining towns of the Thuringian Forest such as Schmalkalden, Suhl and Ilmenau. Following the industrial revolution, the old iron, copper and silver mines declined because the competition from imported metal was too strong. On the other hand, the late 19th century brought new types of mines to Thuringia: the lignite surface mining around Meuselwitz near Altenburg in the east of the Land started in the 1870s, and two potash mining districts were established around 1900. These are the Südharzrevier in the north of the state, between Bischofferode in the west and Roßleben in the east with Sondershausen at its centre, and the Werrarevier on the Hessian border around Vacha and Bad Salzungen in the west. Together, they accounted for a significant part of the world's potash production in the mid-20th century. After the reunification, the Südharzrevier was abandoned, whereas K+S took over the mines in the Werrarevier. Between 1950 and 1990, uranium mining was also important to cover the Soviet Union's need for this metal. The centre was Ronneburg near Gera in eastern Thuringia and the operating company Wismut was under direct Soviet control.

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South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba died Sunday at age 76. In a letter of tribute, Nelson Mandela said, "Her music inspired a powerful sense of hope in all of us." <em>Talk of the Nation</em> remembers her with a 1988 recording of <em>Mosadi Ku Rima</em>.

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Editor's note: This interview contains a homophobic slur. Growing up as a member of the Westboro Baptist Church, Megan Phelps-Roper was taught that God hated gay people. The church, which was founded by Phelps-Roper's grandfather, Fred Phelps Sr., became infamous for picketing the funerals of U.S. soldiers — whose deaths it believed were a punishment for America's sins and its tolerance of homosexuality. Phelps-Roper began protesting at funerals when she was 19, though she started picketing at a younger age. "We held signs that said, 'Thank God for dead soldiers.' 'Thank God for IEDs.' 'God hates you,' " she says. It wasn't until a few years later, when she began running the Westboro Twitter account, that she began to truly question the church's hateful teachings. Many Twitter users responded angrily to her, but others seemed sincerely interested in creating a dialogue. "They started asking questions and digging into our theology. ... As they were able to find these contradictions and present them to me," Phelps-Roper says. "I understood that we could be wrong about something. ... That was the beginning of the end for me. I had this unshakable faith and it had been shaken." In 2012, Phelps-Roper decided to leave the Westboro Baptist Church. She says it "was devastating" to think about what leaving would mean for her and her family. "Ex-members are seen as the worst of the worst — even worse than gay people, or Jewish people, or any other anybody else the church considers sinners." Her new memoir is Unfollow. Interview Highlights On how the church justified its homophobic teachings Westboro would quote this passage from the book of Leviticus that, for them, shows that the definition of "love thy neighbor" is to rebuke your neighbor when you see him sinning. And if you don't do that, then you hate your neighbor in your heart. Because you are watching this person go down this bad path that is going to lead them to the curses of God in this life, and hell in the world to come. And you failed to warn them. You didn't give them the opportunity to repent, to share with them the truth of God. On how the church interpreted and quoted the Bible We read the whole Bible, cover to cover, over and over again. ... It wasn't that we read selective parts of the Bible. It was that we interpreted it in this very selective way. Gramps [her grandfather, who founded the church] would say, "The love of God is reserved for the penitent." That was us. Everybody else was proud of their sin and hell-bound. And we were the only ones doing the work of God. ... [Quoting the Bible] was proof that we were not doing this of our own selves. This wasn't because we had this inherent hatred for gay people, or other people, and that we were looking to the Bible to justify it. It was that we derived our positions from the Bible, and because it came from outside of us, from this source that we considered divine, then as long as it was in [the Bible], then it was absolutely justified. ... We were supposed to be able to use the Bible's words to explain what we were doing, and if we couldn't do that, then we shouldn't be doing it. On protesting at the funerals of U.S. soldiers I went to my mother right before I was set to go protest my first soldier's funeral and asked my mother: "I need to understand why we're doing this." ... My mom starts the conversation in the book of Deuteronomy, this passage where God says, "I set before you this day a blessing and a curse — a blessing if you obey me, and a curse if you won't." And she said, "Can we all agree that a dead child" — that's how my mom referred to these the fallen soldiers, as children, because many of them were my age and younger, and I was only 19 — "Can we agree that a dead child is a curse from God and not a blessing?" ... It's these passages where there is an explicit connection between sin and punishment. And specifically, as Westboro would put it, when a nation has institutionalized sin against God, God responds. One of the weapons in his arsenal is to kill their children in battle. So we saw it as a loving thing to go to these families and say, "If you don't repent, you will also likewise perish." On how she met her now-husband on Twitter, and how he helped change her mind about the church His first tweet was kind of nasty, mean. But immediately his tone shifted. I think he expected, like many people expect, that Westboro was full of hillbillies and rednecks. And to meet somebody who is, as he would put it, intelligent but misguided — he was really shocked by that, that a smart person could truly believe these things in the 21st century. And so he started asking questions. Some other people on Twitter were making more theological arguments. His were more emotional, kind of forcing me to look at the human impact of what we were doing. We'd always been dismissive of the idea that what we were doing was truly hurtful to anybody. They were just being dramatic. They were worshipping their fee

By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 23:08 EST, 8 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:51 EST, 9 January 2013 . Back on track: The mother of Misty Nunley, pictured, said her 33-year-old daughter was putting her life back together . The mother of one of the four women murdered in an apartment in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said her daughter was working to get her life back on track when she was killed. Misty Nunley's mother, Cheryl Nunley, said her 33-year-old daughter had befriended Rebeika Powell, one of the victims, and had been staying with her on and off in the crime-ridden apartment building for the past week. She said she called her daughter nearly every morning to check in, and spoke to her Monday just hours before the women were found dead. 'She had positive people back in her . life,' Cheryl Nunley told The Associated Press, holding back tears while . sitting with family and friends in a tiny apartment a few blocks away . from the crime scene. 'She's not perfect. She ran around . with some people she shouldn't have been running around with, but she . was getting her life back together.' Misty Nunley was found murdered on Monday, along with Powell and Kayetie Melchor, 23 - twin sister who were both mothers of young children - and Julie Jackson, 55. Also in the apartment was a 3-year-old boy who is believed to have witnessed the entire shooting. He was unharmed. Detectives and officers were 'beating the bushes' to figure out what happened, police spokesman Leland Ashley said Monday. He . added: 'Right now, we have no clear-cut suspect. I don't want to strike . fear in the community tonight, but we do have an individual or . individuals who murdered four people. Do we know if there was a motive, . like a jealous lover? We don't know that. We can't say if it was random . or if someone knew [the victims].' Relatives and neighbors have told Nunley's family there may have been a romantic spat between one of the women who lived at the apartment and a boyfriend or ex-boyfriend. Police wouldn't comment on those rumors. Tragic twins: Rebeika Powell, left, and Kayetie Melchor, right, were shot to death on Monday . Murdered: The bodies of Rebeika Powell, left, and twin sister Kayetie Melchor, were found in the apartment building with two others . Mystery: Police have not yet determined a suspect or a motive in the killings, which occurred in a crime-ridden area of Tulsa . Mothers: Both of the twins had young children when their lives were tragically cut short on Monday . In an interview with CBS News, Rebeika and Kayetie's grief-stricken father, Larry Powell cried out: 'My life's gone. My kids are gone.' According to reports, police and EMS . workers were called to the apartment near 61st Street and Peoria Avenue . at 12:36 p.m. after an unidentified person stumbled across the corpses. At the run-down apartment complex, . bed sheets or cardboard hang as improvised draperies in many windows . behind a black wrought-iron gate. The . guard shack is empty and signs read 'Curfew 10 p.m. for everyone, . everyday' and 'Photo ID required to be on property.' Three of the units . are burned out and boarded up with plywood. Riverwood . has long been plagued by crime, and Tulsa police say there were two . murders in the Fairmont Terrace Apartments in 2012. Innocent: Police lead two children to a police car after an unidentified 4-year-old was found unharmed among the dead bodies of four women . On scene: Sgt. Dave Walker, head of the Tulsa Police Department's homicide unit, leads an investigation into the mysterious deaths . Heartland: Police told reporters that such violent crimes as uncommon to the Oklahoma city . Residents say gunfire and break-ins are part of the pattern of their everyday lives. 'We're in the eye of the storm,' says Charles Burke, a 48-year-old construction worker. 'You're on your toes. You can't be too careful.' Neighbor Jamie Kramer, a 28-year-old mother of two young children, has lived at the apartment complex for 10 years. She said the crime seems to come in cycles and that things had been pretty quiet for several months until Monday. 'It escalates and goes back down, it escalates and it goes back down,' she says. 'Usually, it's bad when it gets hot.' Mystery: Officers have canvassed the area for witnesses but have yet to determine a motive or lead . Neighbor Ladawn Mack, a 25-year-old cashier, says she's used to seeing police cars in the street, and that Monday's quadruple homicide is enough to make her take extra precautions. 'We have a house alarm and I've always had a gun for my home,' Mack said. Resident Alexis Draite, 20, recently moved to Tulsa from Oklahoma City, believing it to be safer. Her strategy for staying alive: 'Lock the doors, lock the cars and don't stay outside longer than you need to.' 'The victims were shot multiple times,' Tulsa Police Officer Jillian Roberson told NBC News. Police immediately began canvassing the area trying to find any witnesses to the crime, aside from the child who is believed to have been in the residence when the shooting occurred. Anyone with information on the case can contact Crime Stoppers at 918-596-COPS.

Pearly King and Queen. Pearly Kings and Queens, known as pearlies, are an organised charitable tradition of working class culture in London, England.

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Randy Johnson was on the verge of joining the Yankees in a three-team, megadeal that also includes Shawn Green and Javier Vazquez, a source told the AP on Thursday.

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Starting Monday, a new traffic light on Regina's Arcola Avenue in Regina will signal buses to enter the driving lane before the rest of traffic. The light is aimed at improving transit efficiency and should get riders downtown somewhat quicker. The light is for westbound traffic near the Ring Road northbound exit intersection. A camera will detect Regina Transit buses at the intersection and activate a fourth light at the intersection, a single white line. This will allow the bus to go ahead while the rest of the traffic obeys the red light. Traffic light patterns will go back to normal once the bus goes through the intersection. Arcola Avenue is one of Regina's busiest streets, with about 45,000 cars daily between the Ring Road and University Park Drive.

The man accused of ramming a car into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville was photographed that morning holding a shield with the emblem of a white supremacist group. The man accused of ramming a car into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville was photographed that morning holding a shield with the emblem of a white supremacist group. A protester holds a sign during the Stand in Solidarity with Charlottesville candlelight vigil at the State Capitol. MADISON (WKOW) --- Love and peace was the message Sunday night during a candlelight vigil and rally on the steps on the State Capitol in Madison to show support for the city of Charlottesville. It was part of a national vigil to honor the victims one days after white supremacist rally turned violent. Several hundred people filled the steps and spilled onto the lawn. Many held signs of love and unity. Others gathered in a circle and sang solidarity songs. Several local leaders spoke at the vigil including Mayor Paul Soglin and Alder Maurice Cheeks. Both men said the violence we saw in Charlottesville has not place in America. Many at the vigil said they were outraged at the tragic events happening in Virginia. But for organizer Derek Barsaleau with the Wisconsin Progressive Alliance, this was more than just a protest. “I was a pretty prominent member of the alt-right myself. through life experiences, self reflection, and life changing experiences in the military, I was able to turn myself around and realize, I woke up one down and realized it was all wrong,” Barsaleau said. During the rally, a young man started yelling statements that advocated violence. He was quickly drowned out by boos from the crowd. Barsaleau said he was not part of any group that helped organizer the vigil. In addition to the Wisconsin Progressive Alliance, the event is also being hosted locally by: Indivisible Stoughton Student Coalition for Progress - Madison Indivisible Madison DPW Progressive Caucus Women's March On Madison: Next Steps Madison Area Harry Potter Alliance Democratic Socialists of America - Madison College Democrats of UW-Madison Democratic Party of Dane County

History of the Road Stud History of the Road Stud They originated in the UK in 1933 and today are used all over the world. The simple road stud, or as they are commonly known, the Cat's Eye was invented by Percy Shaw, a road mender from Halifax, and are now used as a safety device on over 90% of Britain's roads. Their invention came about from a remarkable piece of observation when Shaw noticed after the removal of tram-lines in the nearby suburb of Ambler Thorn, he had, unwittingly been using the old polished strips of steel to navigate. The name "cat's eye" comes from Shaw's inspiration for the device: the reflection from the eyes of a cat apparently when driving home one foggy night. That is when he clicked onto the idea of using a simple reflective device buried in the road surface to guide drivers along dangerous roads. Having seen how cars were becoming more and more popular and that as more and more people wanted to travel at night they would need more and more help to do so safely. In 1934, he patented his invention, but to actually design something which was not only bright enough to light the road but also withstand the impact of the cars driving over the top of it. In 1937 he won the government contract to mass manufacture the stud and what we still see today on our roads was born. Shaw made the device from two pairs of reflective glass spheres - the 'eyes' - which are traditionally set into a white rubber dome, mounted in a cast iron housing. The clever thing about the road stud is its ability to clean itself by using a fixed rubber wiper which effectively 'washes' the reflectors as they are pushed down when a car drives over the top of the device using rainwater which has collected in the base, making the stud's effectively way ahead of their time in terms of recycling as well. At its peak, Shaw's company Reflective Road studs made over a million studs a year, exporting all over the planet, and while these days they are available in a range of colours and can be solar powered or hard wired the basic principle remains the same. What do the various types of Cat's-Eyes mean? On UK roads today there are various types of road stud all of which have different meanings: The original Cats Eyes are white studs that separate lanes or the middle of the road. Red studs warn motorists that they are close to the left edge of the road. Amber studs warn drivers of the central reservation of a dual carriageway or motorway. Green studs signify the edge of the main carriageway where rest-areas and access roads exit the main road. Green/yellow studs warn drivers that there are temporary adjustments to lane layouts, e.g. where roadwork’s are taking place.

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Nearly a year after its release, The Gaslight Anthem's The '59 Sound is still winning converts one at a time: Released with little fanfare, it took off at a pace that seems glacial amid so many instant phenomena. Often compared to Born to Run-era Bruce Springsteen — or maybe Jimmy Eat World performing Replacements songs — the New Jersey band sounds best on car radios during long drives, when gutty rock 'n' roll benefits most from an air of life-and-death profundity. There's no shortage of life, death or profundity in "The '59 Sound," a mile-wide, top-down, hook-laden beast of a summer anthem. But as swollen and adrenaline-infused as it is, it's really a song about the last music each of us gets to hear in our lives — and, by extension, what it means to die young without having to "hear the rattling chains in the hospital walls." It's that air of tragedy that makes "The '59 Sound" seem like more than a simple rock barn-burner: When Brian Fallon sings, "Ain't supposed to die on a Saturday night," he captures the way a summer night behind the wheel can positively burst with youthful abandon, ever-present danger and fragile promise. With almost overpowering intensity, the song does exactly the same. Listen to yesterday's Song of the Day, and subscribe to the Song of the Day newsletter.

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10 October 2015 Last updated at 17:42 BST The famous Cold War nuclear warplane crossed Woodford Aerodrome near Stockport, where it was made in the 1960s, at about 15:20 BST. It will be grounded later this month after engineering backers withdrew support. Huge crowds gathered at vantage points to catch a last glimpse.

Demi Lovato: I Almost Went Back to Rehab for Eating Disorder in Summer 2013, Wilmer Valderrama Called Me Out on It. Demi Lovato is stronger than ever following her 2010 three-month rehab stint for emotional and physical issues, but getting there hasn't been easy.

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On Monday, Jack Gantos won the Newbery Medal, the highest award in children's literature, for his novel Dead End in Norvelt. He's also written the Rotten Ralph series for kids, several novels ... oh, and a memoir about the 18 months he spent in a federal penitentiary on drug-smuggling charges. (We don't know if that one had pictures.) We've invited Gantos to play a game called "Oh, darling! Take me in your arms!" Three questions about Harlequin romance novels. PETER SAGAL, HOST: Now, the game where we invite on interesting people to try and hold their interest, it's called Not My Job. This week, author Jack Gantos won the highest award in children's literature, the Newberry Medal for his novel, "Dead End in Norvelt." He's written several other novels in the Rotten Ralph series for kids, and he's written a memoir about his 18 months in the federal pen on drug smuggling charges. We don't know if that one had pictures. Jack Gantos, welcome to WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!, a pleasure to have you. (SOUNDBITE OF APPLAUSE) JACK GANTOS: Thank you. Thank you for the introduction. SAGAL: So we're excited, first of all, congratulations on the big win, the Newberry Medal, that's quite an honor. One winner a year, it's just fabulous. GANTOS: Yeah, it is. SAGAL: So I was reading your book and it's about a kid named - let me check - Jack Gantos. GANTOS: Yes. SAGAL: Who is growing up in a town called Norvelt. GANTOS: Yes. SAGAL: In Pennsylvania, which is a real town where you yourself grew up. GANTOS: Yes. (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) SAGAL: I mean, is this book autobiographical? We can only assume, since the character is named after you and growing up where you grew up and when you grew up there. GANTOS: Yeah, yeah, all those three things point to autobiographical. (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) SAGAL: Yeah, they would. We referred to the drug smuggling. Can you tell us that story? GANTOS: Yes. I was on my own in twelfth grade. I lived in a welfare motel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And then I was going to go to college to write books, but I drove up to the University of Florida. It looked just like my high school, a giant football facility with a small academic institution, like... (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) GANTOS: So I decided not to go and write novels in St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. And I could work all day and drink all night, but I didn't feel fulfilled until I ran into these really nice British guys who had a boat with 2,000 pounds of hashish on it. And they said we're looking for a nice kid. I said, "I'm nice." They said we'll give you $10,000 to sail it to New York. That's four years of private school back then. I said "sure." I didn't know how to sail. I ran aground in the harbor. (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) SAGAL: Meaning the harbor leaving, or the harbor arriving? GANTOS: Both, actually. (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) GANTOS: We got to New York. We docked it. And then we used to sell them. We would put big duffel bags full of hashish installed in shopping carts and go through the streets of New York City and deliver them to apartments. (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) SAGAL: This sounds like the perfect crime, Jack. I can't imagine... (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) SAGAL: ...how you ever got caught. GANTOS: Yeah, well, you should have seen the surveillance photos. SAGAL: Wait a minute; you are pushing a stolen shopping cart down the streets of New York with a duffel bag filled with hashish? (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) SAGAL: And I'm imagining you're running across another young woman doing the same thing. And you're like, "Hello, who are you?" And she's like "I'm Judy Blume; who are you?" (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) (SOUNDBITE OF APPLAUSE) SAGAL: And you're like "Maybe we'll meet again someday at the Newberry Awards." GANTOS: Well, the whole thing was rigged from the beginning because the British guys used American counterfeit money to buy the hashish in Morocco and then Secret Service got involved because there was all that bad money floating around. So they followed the boat. And then once I got on it, then they had aerial surveillance of the boat across the Atlantic Ocean. And so they had been watching it all along. All they were waiting to do is catch everybody. So then once we sold all the hashish, I moved into the Chelsea Hotel, a fine establishment for any writer. SAGAL: Yeah. BRIAN BABYLON: No drugs there. (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) GANTOS: And then after that, I got paid, I got $10,000 in ten-dollar bills. God, it was beautiful. SAGAL: Yeah. GANTOS: And then the FBI came in, the Secret Service came in, the Customs officers came in and I went out the back window of the Chelsea Hotel. But the guy who owned the boat went down to the lobby. He got popped and I made it to the train station and took a train down to Florida, where I... BABYLON: Now, did they pay you in fake money? GANTOS: You know, I never knew. BABYLON: See? (SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER) SAGAL: This is the most exciting interview we've ever had. So you're in the train. GANTOS: I'm on the train.

A veteran Palestinian peace negotiator lashed out at President Trump Tuesday, saying the Middle East conflict “won’t be solved by the tools of real estate men.” The remarks by Saeb Erekat came as the White House is expected to unveil its long-awaited plan for peace in the region, which has been preemptively dismissed by the Palestinians. Erekat added that the White House “should be run by great men, not real estate men.” Trump has expressed high hopes of resolving the longstanding conflict and has referred to a potential agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians as “the ultimate deal.” The president’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner and Middle East peace envoy Jason Greenblatt met with leaders of Israel, Jordan, Qatar, Egypt and Saudi Arabia last month to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza and the administration’s proposals for a peace deal. During the trip, Kushner criticized Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an interview with the Arabic language Al-Quds newspaper. “The global community is getting frustrated with Palestinian leadership and not seeing many actions that are constructive toward achieving peace,” Kushner said. “There are a lot of sharp statements and condemnations, but no ideas or efforts with prospects of success.” Palestinian leaders have refused to meet with the Trump team since the president recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December. Jerusalem is an emotional issue at the epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the time, Erekat accused Kushner and Greenblatt of trying to topple the Abbas-led West Bank autonomy government and dismantle the U.N. aid agency for Palestinian refugees. Erekat also told Israel’s Channel 10 that the American negotiators are “not neutral” and predicted the peace plan would fail. On Sunday, Erekat also said the Palestinian Authority will continue its payments to the families of jailed or slain Palestinian militants, after Israel passed a law this week withholding millions in taxes it collects for the Palestinians which are allocated for that purpose. The Israeli move deepened a budget crunch for the Palestinian government already hit hard by U.S. cuts in aid. Israel has long pushed for the Palestinians to halt the stipends — which benefit roughly 35,000 families of Palestinians killed and wounded in the conflict with Israel — and has said the practice encourages violence. Among the beneficiaries are families of suicide bombers and other militants involved in deadly attacks. The stipends total approximately $330 million, or roughly 7 percent of the Palestinian Authority’s $5 billion budget in 2018. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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By . Sam Adams and Sam Webb . PUBLISHED: . 03:05 EST, 10 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:51 EST, 10 April 2013 . Regal: Princess Letizia of Spain at the Children's Literature Awards in Madrid. Her appearance comes just days before a book with details about her alleged secret abortion is published . The author of a book that will damage the Spanish royal family with allegations Princess Letizia had a secret abortion has defended writing it. David Rocasolano accuses the wife of the heir to the throne of having an abortion and then covering it up in Goodbye, Princess, which is out on Monday. In an interview with Spanish website Vanitati, Mr Rocasolano says he is just outlining 'the facts I lived' and claims it is not a personal attack on the princess. He said: 'Perhaps this book will only bring me problems. 'I do not know why I wrote ... Every day I think of a different reason. 'Think what you want. What I think is clear is that Goodbye, Princess is not a book written against a person. 'It is not a book against Letizia nor do I hold any grudge. 'It is a book against an institution, if you want. Or maybe against the institutions of this country.' The book includes intimate information about Princess Letizia life before she married Crown Prince Felipe in 2004. It . claims she had an abortion in 2002 - before she . met the Crown Prince - and that she tried to cover this up before her . engagement was announced. Princess . Letizia, a former newsreader and divorcee, allegedly asked for . paperwork detailing the abortion to be destroyed, according to the book. Mr . Rocasolano said he was asked by the Princess and Prince Felipe to carry out the task. The abortion is alleged to have taken place at a time when terminations were still illegal in Spain - unless . there was abnormality or the mother's life or mental well being were significantly threatened. The book, Goodbye Princess, was written by her cousin, David Rocasolano . He is also candid about his desire to make money from the book. When asked if he wrote it for money, he asked his interviewer: 'Do you love doing this interview for art's sake?' Despite the book's publication in a few days Spain's Princess Letizia appeared calm and relaxed when she appeared at a literary awards ceremony in Madrid yesterday. Dressed in a chic black pantsuit and a scoop-neck embellished camisole and heels, the Princess greeted attendees and spoke to the audience at the El Barco de Vapor' Children and Youth Literary Awards in the Spanish capital. The publication comes at a difficult time for the . royal family after Princess Cristina - Crown Prince Felipe's sister - . was implicated in a fraud case. The Princess's cousin is unrepentant about the book and the allegations it contains . The book is believed to portray the Princess as an 'obsessive' person who is suspicious of her relatives. It . claims the Princess, 40, thought one of her family had been leaking . stories about her to the press and that she told some of them she was . pregnant with a boy in 2005 - when she was actually pregnant with a girl . - to test this out, according to the Telegraph. Princess Letizia was criticized by some in Spain when she married Crown Prince Felipe as she was a divorcee and a commoner. Demands have been made for an investigation into the allegations - which could further damage the royal family's public image. A spokesman for the family said it had no comment to make on the book. The potential embarrassment Princess Cristina, 47 - one of King Juan Carlos's three children - will be called in for questioning later this month, a court in Palma de Mallorca has announced. She . will be quizzed over claims her husband Inaki Urdangarin, 45, and his . former business partner Diego Torres, 47, embezzled cash from public . funds. Support for having a monarchy in Spain has fallen to a historic low of 54 per cent, according to a poll published in January, the Telegraph reports.

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