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MACKINTOSH BUILDINGWhile the building of The Glasgow School of Art is rightly associated with the innovative work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh during the late 1890s, early 1900s, the origins of the School predate this by some 50 years.

The School was originally founded in January 1845 as Glasgow's Government School of Design. Forty years later in 1885 Francis Newbery became headmaster and under his energetic direction the Glasgow School of Art and Haldane Academy (as it was then known) expanded so considerably that a new larger building was required.

In 1896 an architectural competition took place for the building of a new Glasgow School of Art on a site offered to the School's directors by the Bellahouston trustees. Working to a budget of just £14,000, the Glasgow firm ofHoneyman and Keppie submitted a design from the hand of one of their junior draughtsmen, Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Sympathetic to Mackintosh's intentions, the design was praised by Newbery and after being independently assessed by the educational authorities in London, was finally accepted.

It was clear, however, that there were insufficient funds available to complete the building as both Newbery and more importantly as Mackintosh had intended it. Somewhat reluctantly it was decided that work should proceed on the central and eastern half of the building only and that construction of the west wing would be entirely dependent on securing additional funds. Building work commenced in 1897 and by December 1899 the first phase of the School had been completed including the Museum, the Headmaster's Room and Board Room.

It took


Newbery and School's Board of Governors a further eight years to secure the financial means to complete Mackintosh's scheme. In the meantime, Mackintosh was invited back by the School to rework his original drawings and a series of alterations and extensions were made including the provision of a new second floor of studios and additional workshops accommodated into a sub-basement floor.

Work started on the second half of the building in 1907 and by December 1909 it had been completed. In total contrast to the earlier austere facades to the south and east, the west wing with its dramatic design and dominating windows heralded the birth of a new style in 20th century European architecture. Internally the most dramatic of interiors was reserved for the Library with its decoratedbalcony and central cluster of electric lights.

A century on, Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art remains a functional working building as he always intended it to be. Significantly, the issue now facing the School is that aside from its educational role, the Mackintosh building is increasingly seen as a important architectural monument in its own right and is a listed building protected by statute. Also, with an ever-increasing interest being shown in the work of Mackintosh himself and Glasgow in general, the building has become a favoured destination for a growing number of cultural tourists, so much so, that in excess of 20,000 visitors a year are accommodated on regular guided tours.

Balancing the needs of a working art school, a heritage building and a tourist attraction all under the


one roof remains far from easy but the School has a duty to all three. It remains committed to preserving the original fabric of the building and works closely with Historic Scotland, the government agency charged with overseeing the protection of Scotland's built heritage. It continues to recognise the important role that the School now has in the important cultural-tourism sector. Above all, the Mackintosh Building continues to service the needs of its students and staff and as it enters the 21st century, it is surely something that Mackintosh himself would have wished.great Ken's Pizza than just the sauce though. The dough recipe is also critical and I sure wish I still had it. The pans were also key, as was the oven, which was gas-fired and kept at 425 degrees F. The dough was machine rolled to a certain thickness, but the thickness was adjusted by weighing the dough. The pans had about a half inch high edge, but it was turned outward at about a 45 degree angle and they were just under a 1/16" thick. Once you ran the dough through the rolling machine and draped it over the pan, you lifted it around the edges to settle it into the pan with no stretching or air gaps under the edge. You then rolled a large rolling


handle two ovens. Three was a challenge for one person and four would require two for everyone except maybe Ken Selby. Later, Ken started feeling the pressure to expand the product line and include hot sandwiches, garlic bread, spaghetti and rigatoni. With all the crap in the ovens on a busy Friday night after a high school football game, it was difficult to run even two ovens well.

As for what spices are in the sauce and what gave it the zest, I think much of it came from the tomatoes, but there was definitely some red pepper of some sort in the sauce. There was dried onion and garlic, parsley and oregano, salt, black pepper and probably basil. There was more than these, but I don't know whatthe product line and include hot sandwiches, garlic bread, spaghetti and rigatoni. With all the crap in the ovens on a busy Friday night after a high school football game, it was difficult to run even two ovens well.

As for what spices are in the sauce and what gave it the zest, I think much of it came from the tomatoes, but there was definitely some red pepper of some sort in the sauce. There was dried onion and garlic, parsley and oregano, salt, black pepper and probably basil. There was more than these, but I don't know what the other ingredients were. Most importantly though was the interaction of the sauce and the cheese as it got golden brown and gave up both it's moisture and stringiness.


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in Australia
Grand Central Hotel, a.k.a. Grand Central YWCA, Grand Hotel, Grand Central Coffee Palace, at 379 Wellington St. in Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia State Heritage-listed

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Ames House, 44 Mortimer Street, Camden borough of London, built in 1904, designed by Beresford Pite, the first "major" YWCA building of the YWCA in London, which had operated from 1857, a Heritage site.
Queen Mary Hall and YWCA Central Club, a Grade II listed building, built during 1928-32, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, on Great Russell Street, also in Camden borough of London

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YWCA building, 268 Madras St., Christchurch.  Built in 1914.  A category 2 historic place (#1951).  Demolishedthe referendum, and reports later suggested this was what cost him his job. He offered a clearer explanation.

As the crowds were celebrating on Sunday night in Syntagma Square, Syriza’s six-strong inner cabinet held a critical vote. By four votes to two, Varoufakis failed to win support for his plan, and couldn’t convince Tsipras. He had wanted to enact his “triptych” of measures earlier in the week, when the ECB first forced Greek banks to shut. Sunday night was his final attempt. When he lost his departure was inevitable.

“That very night the government decided that the will of the people, this resounding ‘No’, should not be what energised the energetic approach [his plan]. Instead it should lead to major concessions to the other side: the meeting of the council


Some people will never forgive him for strangling a nascent recovery by reopening negotiations. And others will blame him for whichever harsh fate awaits Greece this week.

But Varoufakis seemed unconcerned. Throughout our conversation he never raised his voice. He came across as imperturbably calm, and often chuckled. His conservation wasn’t tinged with regret; he appears to be treating the loss of power as ambivalently as he treated its acquisition.

Now he will return to a half-finished book on the crisis, mull the new offers publishers have already begun to send him, and likely return to the University of Athens after two years teaching in Texas.

By resigning and not signing a deal he abhorred, he has kept both his conscience free and his reputation intact. His country remains locked in2015/16. In 2016/17, Spurs built on this success and finished 2nd, their highest finish in 54 years. With the influx of cash, Spurs earned a massive 58% increase, totalling £149.8m (£55m more than the year before)!

Spurs witnessed a few moderate increases in other areas, specifically domestic cup profits, due to Spurs advancing to the semi-finals of the FA Cup (the far more profitable domestic cup), which was worth an increase of £2.6m from the previous season, and a £2m increase in merchandising revenue (which I attribute directly to this sexy thing). Finally, Tottenham received a £5.9m increase in corporate sponsorship and hospitality. I believe this does NOT include our revised sponsorship deal with AIA, which was set to enter into force in 2017/18 and last until 2022. It


2016/17, Spurs qualified for the Champions League. Spurs had a very poor showing, and after not advancing out of their group, parachuted into the Europa League, and followed with another extremely disappointing performance, getting eliminated by Gent. Despite this generally miserable return to the Champions League, Spurs earned £44.6, a £25.9m increase on the previous year.

This is actually quite encouraging, as it provides us with a great example of what the Champions League revenue floor looks like. Having topped our group (with five wins and a draw, in which each win is worth £1.3m, and draws worth £300k) and unluckily been knocked out by Juventus this season, Spurs are certainly set to earn substantially more than £44m this upcoming season. Furthermore, Spurs look set to qualify for thethe next highest paid director in the Premier League (Ed Woodward at £2.9m), especially when Levy’s 29% ownership stake in the club also confers significant wealth. However, if anyone deserves a share of Tottenham’s newfound fortunes, it is Daniel Levy.

The second expense is the real kicker: the new stadium construction. In 2016/17, Spurs spent a remarkable £315m on building their new stadium, having spent £115m in the previous year. This was financed in by a £400m loan acquired in 2017, as well as £200m in profit generated by the club over the previous decade, and likely from the record profits earned this season. Daniel Levy has repeatedly said that Spurs’ footballing operations will not be affected by the new stadium expenses, and with the record incoming revenue, there


is to any of the other top 6 (Arsenal at £199m, Liverpool at £208m, Chelsea at £220m, and both United and City at £264m). While Spurs still have considerable room for growth, especially as revenue will continue to grow over the next two years, it would also be naïve and ill-advised to double the wage bill overnight. Spurs must gradually grow into their new skin.

However, with Daniel Levy operating in the shadows of the other top 6 financial giants for so many years, it will be interesting to see how he adapts to life in light, since under his leadership, he has turned Tottenham Hotspur into a financial giant.

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Galveston Light winds allowed access to deep reefs in East Bay and lower Galveston Bay. Good catches of trout were taken on live bait and soft plastics jigged on the bottom. Matagorda Waters in the surf have been green, but bumpy in the morning hours. East Bay has held good trout for drifters tossing live shrimp under a popping cork.


It’s going to be a blast. Come for the wild ride because this lineup has never happened before and may never happen again.

Thanks to the brilliant Jon Troutman for making this awesome event poster.

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And thanks to the Minnesota State Arts Board for making all this possible.

Steve Woodward is a fiscal year 2014 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

My AWP itinerary includes a healthy dose of time at the Graywolf booth at theYork Central and Hudson River Railroad, was extended through the West Bronx and along the Harlem River to connect with the Hudson River Railroad. The segment north of Mott Haven Junction became part of the Hudson Division. With the opening of the line, most passenger trains were rerouted into the new Grand Central Depot via that line along the northeast bank of the Harlem River and the New York and Harlem Rail Road, which was also part of the New York Central system. The station served as a transfer point for the Putnam Division of the NYC until service ended on that line in 1958, and the station also served as a change point where electric locomotives were swapped for steam.

The NYCRR's long-distance passenger trains, including the Wolverine,


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1930 – Aino Kukk, Estonian chess player and engineer (d. 2006)
1931 – Isabel Colegate, English author and agent
  1931   – Philip Baker Hall, American actor
1932 – Bo Goldman, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer
1933 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel and astronaut (d. 2000)
  1933   – Karl Lagerfeld, German-French fashion designer and photographer (d. 2019)
1934 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
  1934   – Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (d. 1985)
  1934   – Jim Oberstar, American educator and politician (d. 2014)
  1934   – Larry Sitsky, Australian pianist, composer, and educator
  1934   – Mr. Wrestling II, American wrestler
1935 – Mary Oliver, American poet (d. 2019)
1937 –referred the case to a "third judge". Khehar said he has no doubt whatsoever in his mind, that the October 6 letter addressed by the 11 MLAs to Governor H R Bhardwaj was by itself sufficient to conclude that they had suffered disqualification envisaged under paragraph 2 (1) (a) of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution.The MLAs had said in their individual letters to the Governor that they got disillusioned with the functioning of the B S Yeddyurappa government, expressed lack of confidence in it and withdrew their support to it.Striking a different note from Justice Khehar, Justice Kumar held that the Speaker's order was in violation of constitutional mandate and suffered from perversity and, therefore, cannot be sustained.He also referred to the same October six letters by


the MLAs in which they had said there has been widespread corruption, nepotism, favouritism, abuse of power and misuse of government machinery in government's functioning.According to Justice Kumar, expressing want of confidence in the chief minister, or withdrawing their support or demanding change of leadership of the legislature party or threatening to vote against him on the floor of the House did not amount to an unconstitutional act.Nor was it an unconstitutional act to complain to the Governor that the Governance cannot be carried on in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution or the governor asking the chief minister to prove his majority on the floor of the House, the judge said.The person who triggered this action cannot be called a defector, he said. "These actions doit is purely an internal fight in the party fought publicly," Kumar said."The dissent within the party has come out in the open. It is not a case of unprincipled and unethical political defection."He observed that expression of no confidence in the leader of the Legislature Party would not constitute an act of a member voluntarily giving up membership of a political party.The 11 MLAs and five Independents were disqualified by the Speaker on the night of October 10, a day prior to the trust vote sought by chief minister B S Yeddyurappa. The Speaker had declared the confidence motion carried by a voice vote which the governor had dubbed as unconstitutional and recommended President's rule.A day later, the governor, however, gave a second opportunity to Yeddyurappa to


prove his majority in the House on October 14. The government won the vote of confidence with 106 MLAs voting for it and 100 others against.The petition by five independent MLAs would be decided by a new division bench on November 2. The court had said earlier that the October 14 trust vote was subject to its verdict on the petitions by independents.consider additional incentives at today's meeting based on recommendations of the Delaware County Industrial Development (CREED) Board and Delaware County Economic Development. CREED funds are used to promote industrial development and support business capital investment in the county.

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towards the north, while its southern half is totally devoid of gas. Both of these characteristics are due to ram pressure stripping acting approximately in the direction opposite to the cluster center.

The joint analysis of the stellar/gas kinematics and the stellar populations properties shows that, while the spheroid is generally old and characterized by a monotonously declining star formation history, the formation of the ring stars began early on, with an average SFR low and constant until $\sim$ 600 Myr ago, then there was an increase in star formation activity during the last 500 Myr due to ram pressure upon cluster infall.

Both gas rich minor mergers and accretion of gas along a filament can in principle be at the origin of the ring, but the lack of anyWashington state.

Biden continued his surge on Super Tuesday, marking a comeback from his rocky start in the primary season. The former vice president is projected to win in several states that voted Tuesday, including Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSenate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden Hillicon Valley: DOJ indicts Chinese, Malaysian hackers accused of targeting over 100 organizations | GOP senators raise concerns over Oracle-TikTok deal | QAnon awareness jumps in new poll Schumer, Sanders call for Senate panel to address election security MORE (I-Vt.) came out on top in his home state Vermont, as well as Colorado, Utah and California.


Poynings, who married firstly Thomas Clinton, 8th Baron Clinton (d.1517), by whom she was the mother of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln (d.1585), Lord Admiral of England, and secondly, as his second wife, Sir Robert Wingfield (d.1539), by whom she had no issue; Margaret Poynings, who married Edward Barry or Barre of Sevington; Mary Poynings, who married Sir Thomas Wilsford or Wilford; and Rose Poynings (born 1505), who married a husband surnamed Lewknor.

By his father's marriage to Isabel or Elizabeth Scott (d. 15 August 1528), daughter of Sir John Scott (d.1485), Marshal of Calais, and sister of Sir William Scott, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, he had a half brother, John Poynings, who died young. His stepmother, Elizabeth Scott, was buried in Brabourne church, where she
Southeast Asia is home to roughly 630 million people, who combined produce a GDP of around 2.4 trillion dollars. It is also a region beset with complicated territorial squabbles, stemming from border to sea-lane disputes. There are many fault lines in this region, and none are more volatile than the South China Sea, a misnomer by some accounts but also a fragile zone of conflict on the precipice of conflict.

As an economic and military juggernaut, China is beginning to realize the challenges it faces in the 21st century. One is energy and the other is territory, hence when 80 percent of Chinese oil imports flow through the Strait of Malacca and into the South China Sea, and when competing nations contest the nine-dashed line, it is clear that


should China ever decide to blockade vital sea lanes that account for 33 per cent of world sea-borne trade. The city state should plan ahead by being politically active and invested in this dispute, most usefully by positioning itself as a mediating force with the explicit intention to avert and possibly stave off both possible economic sanctions and naval confrontations in the region.

A financial hub for most of Southeast Asia, Singapore has the financial means to pursue this path. For instance, it could create a Regional Maritime Forum, where important political actors from the principal claimant countries can converge to deliberate on a preliminary treaty that would codify a unified position towards the ongoing disputes.

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Venus in Fur opened Off-Broadway at the Classic Stage Company on January 13, 2010. The play was originally set to close on February 21, 2010, and was extended to March 7, 2010. The cast featured Nina Arianda and Wes Bentley with direction by Walter Bobbie.[1] The play relaunched the career of Wes Bentley.[2][3][4][5]

The play opened on Broadway, produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre beginning in previews on October 13, 2011, and officially on November 8, 2011. Nina Arianda reprised her role as Vanda and Hugh Dancy replaced Wes Bentley, with Walter Bobbie directing. The production ended its limited engagement at the Friedman on December 18 and resumed performances at the Lyceum Theatre on February 7, 2012, in a limited engagement through June17, 2012.[6][7][8] The Broadway production received two Tony Award nominations, including for Best Play and Best Actress in a Play.

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Thomas Novachek is the writer-director of a new play, an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Furs by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, which inspired the term Masochism. He is on the telephone lamenting the inadequacies of all the actresses who showed up that day to audition for the lead character, Wanda von Dunayev.[10][11] Suddenly, at the last minute, a new actress, Vanda Jordan, bursts in, the exemplar of every fault he has decried: needy, crude, compliant, desperate. She convinces him to read through his play, she as Wanda and he as Severin von Kushemski.[10][12] During this reading, Vanda shows astonishing insights into the novel and her character


and the balance of power shifts as the actress establishes total dominance over the director, exactly as in the novel.

Other nominations were the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Costume Design (Anita Yavich),[14] the Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Play, and the Tony Award for Best Play.[15]Public Policy
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Rumor: Next Battlefield is Bad Company 3, Says EA DICE Dev

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Bad Company 3 is the game releasing this year as part of EA’s flagship shooter series, Battlefield. The news comes from a person who is believed to be an EA DICE developer and posted on Twitter, revealing the name of 2018’s Battlefield game.

Since the Tweet, his account has gone private. It is to be noted that he was not only followed by many of EA DICE developers but also the official Battlefield account. However, a current EA DICE developer doing something like this is highly unlikely.

When developing the game there is a strict NDA in place and breaking it could lead to serious consequences. It is absurdalready had at the very least two going ahead of them in Wentz and Goff.

With up to three possible quarterback needy teams before the Chicago Bears in Cleveland (the previous favorite to land Wentz), the Dallas Cowboys (as the aging and beat up Tony Romo future replacement), and the San Francisco 49ers (with the trade demand by Colin Kaepernick), as well as the Rams being a potential trade partner to move up for one (most thought for Paxton Lynch) before this trade as a possible fourth. This already increased the Bears options of choice.

Those three teams are still possibly looking for the quarterback of their future and in some cases present. There are teams behind them like the New York Jets for example and New Orleans Saints that


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And talking of investment - can you buy unit and then build the house on its place? I am afraid when you have bought unit the only thing you can do is to watch it dating and losing its appeal and value.However, the only thing which would not let you to build many units in place of a house - is couple of signatures on a piece of paper. Most of the units these days built on the places where houses were. Wasting money on units at the time when major cities running out of land - it is financial insanity. People in their right mind do not buy units.

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Precita Eyes Muralists Association and Center, established in 1977, founded by Susan and Luis Cervantes and other artists in San Francisco’sMission District, is a multipurpose community based arts organization that has played an integral role in the city's cultural heritage and arts education. One of only three community mural centers in the United States, the organization sponsors and implements ongoing mural projects throughout the Bay Area and internationally. In addition, it has a direct impact on arts education in the San Francisco Mission District by offering four weekly art classes for children and youth (18 months through 19 years) and other classes for adults. These classes and community mural projects enable children and youth to develop their individuality and confidence through creative activities and to experience unifying, positive social interaction through collaboration.

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NEW YORK – Kim Jong Il's recent visit to China was a gentle reminder that the road to Pyongyang leads through Beijing. China is the only power that has remained engaged with North Korea, through many ups and downs, whereas Russia, Japan, the United States, and South Korea have all come and gone.

By keeping a door open to North Korea's leaders, China is making a substantial contribution to regional peace. This is bold diplomacy—for which China is given little credit—at a highly sensitive moment.

Nevertheless, China’s "leverage" over North Korea is in part illusory. Kim's visit should be evaluated in terms of Chinese-North Korean relations as they are, rather than as others might wish them to be. Doing so reveals the role left to America and South Korea toengage the North in order to revive the denuclearization process and repair inter-Korean relations.

Three widespread misconceptions distorted the coverage of Kim's visit to China. The first misconception is that he desperately sought Chinese aid to prop up his regime in the face of seething discontent after botched currency reforms. But, although North Korea’s latest economic travails have shaken the leadership, the regime has weathered worse. And the economic relationship between China and North Korea is driven as much by material interests and economic factors as it is by concerns over geopolitical stability.

Indeed, trade overshadows aid, and China—led by its border provinces—is now North Korea's main trading partner and source of foreign investment. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced a major trade package during his trip to Pyongyang last November,


perhaps on the order of $10 billion. North Korea recently established the State Development Bank and Taepung International Investment Group (headed by a Korean-Chinese businessman), charged with attracting foreign investment.

There has also been renewed interest in developing the port city of Rason near the China-Russia-North Korea border as a special economic zone. Although North Korea has doggedly stood behind its outmoded model of state control and central planning, Kim's visits to the boom cities of Dalian and Tianjin reflect his tentative but ongoing interest in alternative ways to achieve "strength and prosperity" for his country.

The second misperception is that Chinese President Hu Jintao offered Kim a "big package" of aid in exchange for returning to the Six Party Talks on North Korea's nuclear program. Hu no doubt lookedChina should continue to lead the effort to encourage reform and opening of the North Korean economy, with help from international financial institutions.

The US, moreover, should actively seek a path back to the Six Party Talks, resisting both the fatalistic idea that North Korea can never be persuaded to roll back its nuclear program and the dangerous notion of simply waiting for the North Korean regime to come begging, if not collapse.

South Korea undoubtedly faces the biggest dilemma, and the way forward will have to await the conclusions of the investigation into the sinking of its warship and the deaths of its sailors. But one way or another, President Lee needs to find a way to get inter-Korean relations back on a peaceful track.

John Delury is associate director


of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations, director of the North Korea Inside Out Task Force, and director of the China Boom project.

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* A month ago, a Manhattan South narcotics sergeant was suspended after owners of a club raided accused him of stealing from their register. Footage inside the club shows the sergeant going behind a cashier and picking an unidentified item off the ground.

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Out of around two hundred and eighty thousand votes cast in the November election for North Carolina’s Ninth Congressional District, the Republican Mark Harris prevailed over the Democrat Dan McCready by a margin of nine hundred and five. Harris, a former senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Charlotte, scored victories in only two of the eight counties in the district, which runs along the border with South Carolina. Both were Republican strongholds, rural and sparsely populated, but they were enough to put him over the top. As Harris celebrated his victory on election night, he said, “I have to say, as I look at that map tonight, thank God for Bladen and Union County.”

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The North Carolina State Board of Elections, which has twice refused toin the region, including the county sheriff and the head of the local Republican Party, both of whom were connected to a local Republican political consultant named Leslie McCrae Dowless, Jr.

Dowless’s name appeared in the affidavits submitted, in November, to the North Carolina State Board of Elections by a lawyer for the state’s Democratic Party, and statistical analyses have revealed alarming patterns in Bladen and neighboring Robeson County, where Dowless also operated, including a disproportionately low return rate of absentee mail-in ballots from minority voters, who are more likely to vote Democrat. Earlier this week, the investigative blog Popular Information reported that it had obtained a hundred and sixty-two absentee mail-in ballots, of which a hundred and thirty were witnessed by eight people, some of whom are associated


did not immediately respond to calls for comment.)

According to court documents obtained by The New Yorker, allegations of electoral fraud against Dowless date back to at least 2014, when Dowless was involved in potentiallyillegal efforts to get Jim McVicker elected as Bladen County sheriff. A sworn statement submitted, in September 2017, by Jeffrey S. Smith, the owner of two video-sweepstakes businesses—a controversial enterprise involving playing video games to win cash prizes—describes a scheme in which Smith at least partially funded Dowless’s ballot-harvesting efforts. According to the affidavit, in September 2014, the head of the Bladen County Republican Party, Landon Bordeaux, who was helping run McVicker’s campaign, told Smith that the current sheriff was planning to raid Smith’s establishments. But if McVicker were elected, Bordeaux allegedly suggested, Smith wouldand his campaign accounted in its campaign records for the cash contributions for Mr. Smith,” Dowless states in the affidavit.

While Smith was sidelined by the damage to his business, Dowless was just expanding his operation. In the 2016 election cycle, Dowless worked for Todd Johnson, an insurance salesman from Union County, who was running in the House Republican primary against Harris and Robert Pittenger. According to the Washington Post, Johnson received two hundred and eleven mail-in votes, compared to just four for Harris and one for Pittenger, who ultimately won the race. But, during the 2016 election, Dowless was not just helping other candidates—he was also running as the incumbent vice-chairman of the Soil and Water Conservation District board, a nonpartisan elected position.

According to Patsy Sheppard, a local


Stephen Merchant has been transformed into the serial killer Stephen Port, in the first official look at his character in The Barking Murders.

Sporting a vacant glare and side-swept fringe, the acclaimed writer and director is noticeably different without his signature glasses, as he takes on the role of the so-called 'Grindr serial killer.'

Stephen will appear alongside actress Sheridan Smith, who will play the mother of one of Port's victims in the drama, which will also star Rufus Jones, Stephanie Hyam and Leanne Best.

Sinister: Stephen Merchant has been transformed into the serial killer Stephen Port, in the first official look at his character in The Barking Murders

According to Digital Spy, Stephen said about his role in the series: 'This is a story that can't be ignored – how fouryoung lives were lost and their families' brave attempt to uncover what happened.'

'This factual drama will shed light on their story, so it's a privilege to be a part of telling it with the brilliant combination of Jeff Pope, Neil McKay and the BBC.'

This glimpse comes after a teaser image for the drama released last week showed Sheridan in character for the first time.

The actress will play the grieving Sarah Sak, the mother of Port's first victim Anthony Walgate.

Murdered: Stephen will play the role of the so-called 'Grindr serial killer,' who is currently serving life in prison after murdering four men in East London

Written by Jeff Pope and Neil McKay, the award-winning team behind The Moorside and Appropriate Adult, The Barking Murders will go beneath the headlines to


shed new light on this story by telling it from the point of view of the families of Stephen Port's victims.

Alongside Sheridan, the previously-announced Stephen Merchant and Jaime Winstone, the cast will also include Rufus (Stan and Ollie), Stephanie (Bodyguard) and Leanne (Line Of Duty), as well as Samuel Barnett (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) and Robert Emms (Cleaning Up).

On casting, Jeff Pope said: 'Neil McKay and I are delighted to be working with Sheridan Smith again, who brings such honesty and passion to every character she plays. Stephen Merchant didn't hesitate when we asked him to play serial killer Stephen Port and we are so grateful that he has agreed to take on such a difficult and challenging role.'

Embattled: Meanwhile Sheridan Smith will play the grieving motherusing dating apps including Grindr leading to him being dubbed The Grindr serial killer.

Between June 2014 and September 2015 he abused and killed them using date rape drug GHB before dumping their bodies in the street or his local graveyard in Barking, east London.

Star-studded: It has now been confirmed that Bodyguard star Stephanie Hyam (left) and Cold Feet's Leanne Best (right) will also appear

Suave: Rufus Jones has also been confirmed as part of the drama's cast, ahead of its premiere in 2019

With each of the murders Port tried to cover his tracks and he even wrote a fake suicide note for Daniel Whitworth and stuffed it into his hand,

He was sentenced to serve a whole life term for his crimes in November 2016, joining a list of killers


including Fred and Rose West, the Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Robert Black, and Mark Bridger who were handed this sentence.

The serial killer, who worked as a cook in a bus garage canteen, was finally caught in October 2015 after the family of his fourth victim Jack Taylor carried out their own research and showed police the striking similarities between Mr Taylor's death and the previous three murders.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct launched an investigation after Scotland Yard admitted 'missed opportunities' to catch serial killer Port.

Its report, which includes an assessment of 17 officers, will be published after the victims inquests later this year.

Victims: (L-R) Daniel Whitworth, 21, Jack Taylor, 25, Anthony Walgate, 23, and Gabriel Kovari, 22, were killed by Stephen Port in 201423, could play Wednesday if he passes his physical, according to the Denver Post.

"He's a guy that's put up some good numbers in college and in the American [Hockey] League, but hasn't had a real good opportunity yet in the [NHL]," coach Joe Sacco told the newspaper. "With the adversity we're facing right with some injuries, he gives us some more depth up front."

The Avalanche are without captain Gabriel Landeskog, who suffered a head injury playing against the San Jose Sharks on Jan. 26, and unsigned free agent Ryan O'Reilly. They likely will get back David Jones, who missed two games with a knee injury. On the blue line, the team is without Ryan Wilson (ankle) and possibly Erik Johnson (foot).

"With the shortened season, we thought we'd be


him." "Writing his Forefathers' Eve 113 years ago he was already scheming how to insult the Soviet Union on the very anniversary of the October revolution." "But he miscalculated." "The People's powers that be saw through his scheming:" "No room for such subversive literature on the national stage!" "What seems incredible to us is a simple logic of history he envisaged himself, writing:" ""Hands fighting for the people, the people themselves will cut off." "The names dear to the people, the people will forget." "Everything will pass." "After the fight, the storm, the effort, quiet, ignorant, little men will inherit."" "Little ignorant men appropriated the heritage of culture of this country, because, in their arrogance, they counted on ruling the people's hearts and minds." "But we see ittheir dirty dealings." "Those who summoned the meeting of the writers of Warsaw were not interested in obtaining explanations concerning the taking off of The Forefathers's, but to fuel a fight against the leadership of our Party, against the government, against the people's power." "Both in the preparations for the meeting of writers and the course it took and in the inciting of the academic youth to riot, one of the leading roles was played by Adam Warczewski." "His true name is Janusz Wajner." "One of the instigators, he attacked everything dear to the heart of every true Pole." "The time has come to say clearly:" "For such troublemakers and renegades as he, there's no room in the ranks of creators of national culture!" "No room in the


workers, almost a 1,000 college students," "200 employees of the press and publishing houses, filmmakers, actors, writers." "And also many officers of the Polish People's Army and of the Security Service (SB)" "Subtitles by Jerzy Siemasz"some others had had with the previous owner! all concerning a triangle of grass opposite the front of the property, which upon checking is not even on our land, it seems to be classed as public highway! The farmer who owns the hill fields needs better access to the hill track opposite and the water gushes down the hill track in times of heavy rain and can make the road impassable. Some more things to check out then!!

On our way back to Hovel for a cuppa Dad and James decided to nvestigate the triangle of discontent! They discovered that the old ditch and pipework and drainage grate, which should have taken the mountain track water under the road was so silted up and unmaintained that nothing was draining


wanted to explore the attitudes toward suicide among professionals at mental health outpatient clinics in Stavropol, Russia and Oslo, Norway.

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Stavropol is a city located in the North Caucasus in southern Russia, with a population of about 400 000 inhabitants. The Russian Orthodox Church, Islam and Buddhism are important in the area. Suicide is considered as a sin in most religions, especially in the Russian Orthodox Church and Islam. Religiosity, psychodynamic understanding and collaboration with professionals from other countries were difficult in Soviet times.

Similar to the rest of Russia, Stavropol has experienced great changes from the Soviet era to date. In all of Russia, the suicide rates fell in the first perestroika period, but increased again to peak at 42 per 100 000 per year in 1994.and has a population of about 600 000 inhabitants. The Protestant Church, which was a state religion in Norway until 2012, considers suicide as a sin, but is less judgmental than the Russian Orthodox Church and Islam. Its basic attitude is to help suicidal patients and support relatives after suicide \[[@CR24]\].

Suicide rates increased in Norway during the last part of the 19th century, to peak in 1988 at 16.8 per 100 000 per year, decreasing to 10.8 in Norway and 11.4 in Oslo in 2008--2012, representing 1.3 % of all deaths \[[@CR25]\]. The suicide rates differ within Norway, with higher suicide rates recorded in the north.

As a result of the increase in suicide rates, Norway created a national program for suicide prevention in 1993, as well as first national


plan in 1994. National Centre and Regional Centres for suicide research and prevention in the four health regions of Norway were established. In 2008, national guidelines for suicide prevention in mental health care were released and implemented \[[@CR26]\], and a new national plan for suicide prevention was established in 2014 \[[@CR27]\].

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In Russia, mental health care services underwent large changes after the Soviet era. Traditionally, most psychiatric treatments were carried out in large hospitals with biological orientation and little focus on psychotherapy. Physicians and psychiatrists were responsible for deciding on the treatment, whereas nurses and unskilled professionals had practical, but not formal, responsibility. Psychologists were barely involved in in-patient treatment and currently have no formal responsibility.

During recent decades, Russia has been modernizing its healthto participate. Forty-two per cent of the questionnaires were collected from professionals working in private outpatient clinics or alone, 32 % from psychiatric hospitals and 26 % from a psychotherapeutic conference, where a few professionals from other parts of Russia completed the questionnaire. The inclusion period was from January to March 2011. The questionnaires were unnamed and analysed in Norway.

In Oslo, the questionnaires were collected from all four health regions, which cover different socio-economic statuses, to obtain a general picture of the Oslo outpatient clinics. Forty-seven per cent of the questionnaires were collected from Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and 53 % from District Psychiatric Centres in Oslo. Department heads were asked to facilitate the study by distributing the questionnaires via internal mail and during staff meetings, and encouraging staff members to


at the Department of Acute Medicine Oslo University Hospital, Norway. And as a special adviser at Regional competence Centre on Violence, Traumatic stress and Suicide prevention, Eastern region of Norway.

ØE is senior advisor at the Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Norway. He is also professor emeritus at the Department of Behavioural Sciences in Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.

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We declare that the study is performed in line with the declaration of Helsinki by contact with the Norwegian Regional Etic Committee of Health South East before performing the study, and by following the advice from the Oslo Universitysocial control imposed on Central American communities in the eras of dictatorship and civil war. For many women (cis- and transgender), sexual violence — or the threat of it — has become the central component of what it means to live in gang-controlled territories governed by repressive states. In Central America today, state repression, gang violence, and gender-based violence are inseparable from each other. Transgender women from the Northern Triangle are caught at the very center of this web. The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Tijuana has its roots in the mass incarceration and counterinsurgency policies of the United States. Just as state-sponsored use of rape as a tool of social control during Central America’s civil wars brought the widespread use of sexual violence to the Northern Triangle, so


and children who have fled El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras are running from gang violence and state repression. Recent studies from North American institutions show that for many Central Americans, it is impossible to escape gang violence without leaving their countries of origin. In July, then–US attorney general Jeff Sessions announced that people targeted by domestic and sexual violence in their home countries, as well as people targeted by gang violence, are no longer eligible for asylum in the United States. While domestic violence as the basis for asylum has been hotly contested since the late 1990s, Sessions’ announcement reverses important gains won by women in the 2014 case Matter of A-R-G-C, which established that Guatemalan women who could not leave abusive relationships were indeed eligible for asylum.people were killed, and over a hundred thousand additional women were raped and tortured. Ninety percent of the victims of sexual violence were indigenous women in rural areas. Rather than just an expression of the excesses of individual soldiers, rape was used as a systematic and conscious tool of social control. The certainty with which army and paramilitary units would use rape in rural campaigns struck a particular kind of fear into the hearts of rural communities, men along with women. The strategy of the Guatemalan army, many of its units trained by the US, was to terrorize whole communities into compliance with the state out of fear of what would happen to the community’s women if they did not. For the military, compliance was not enough —


civil war (1979–1992) killed 75,000 people. The United States spent $6 billion on this war, trained Salvadoran troops, and provided them equipment and intelligence. The war ended with a peace treaty signed in Chapultepec, Mexico, which dismantled both the police and the armed forces, and established a Truth Commission to study the war crimes committed. The Truth Commission found that 85 percent of the deaths could be attributed to the armed forces of El Salvador and the death squads affiliated with them. One example illustrates the nature of warfare carried out by US-trained forces. In El Mozote, Morazón Province in northeastern El Salvador, the Atlacatl Battalion murdered between seven hundred and nine hundred villagers. The soldiers were methodical; after locking everyone down for almost a day in theirhouses without food and water, the men were dragged out and executed. Women and children were herded into a church, where they were dragged out a few at a time, raped, and then killed with machetes, bayonets, or gunshots. The Atlacatl Battalion was trained by the US military, and its commander, Domingo Monterrosa, was being groomed by the US at international warfare academies. Right-wing paramilitary death squads, most notoriously ORDEN in El Salvador, were given hit lists and intelligence by that country’s armed forces. Back then, lists were typewritten and communication was relatively slow. Today, death squads that include police officers, military officers, and right-wing civilians use WhatsApp and Facebook, and rather than targeting suspected communist insurgents, they target suspected gang members. Throughout the civil wars of the


1980s, Honduras’s right-wing government allowed the US to use their country as an “unsinkable aircraft carrier.” The Soto Cano Airforce base, in particular, was used to wage irregular war on the Nicaraguan Sandinistas. Thirty thousand deaths are attributed to the Nicaraguan Contras and the US military that supported them; their presence in Honduras also destabilized that country. More than one and a half million Central Americans fled to the United States during this time, with their children. Many future members of Mara Salvatrucha arrived in the United States as children traumatized by the violence they had seen. Smaller numbers arrived as perpetrators of such violence, and given their training in systematic torture techniques, it is not surprising that some of those people became notorious gang leaders. Ernesto Deras,for example, arrived in the Pacoima California in 1990 after having fought in a US-trained Rapid Response battalion. He arrived at the height of gang tensions in Los Angeles and also at the height of the crack epidemic. His penchant for machetes as a weapon of choice, signature beheadings, and tactical know-how garnered from a war zone soon landed him at the head of the Fulton Street set of Mara Salvatrucha. This set was known for widespread use of rape and torture. While the ink on El Salvador’s peace treaty was still drying, the US Department of Justice began sending planes loaded with gang members to San Salvador. Four thousand such gang members were deported to El Salvador at the close of their civil war. From the end


of that war until now, more than eighty-one thousand criminals have been deported from the United States to El Salvador. Prior to these deportations, Barrio 18 and MS-13 did not exist in El Salvador. (There were smaller and unaffiliated street gangs.) Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 infected El Salvador first and then spread to the rest of the Northern Triangle. Upon returning to El Salvador, these deportees entered a society suffering intense PTSD. In 1993, almost a year after the United States began pumping gang members into El Salvador’s feverish but recovering corpus, the Salvadoran Parliament gave blanket amnesty to all perpetrators of war crimes during the civil war. No one, from the highest ranking military officers to the guerrilla forces of the FMLN, would be held accountablefor any crime. Thus began the culture of impunity that has a major impact on gang violence today.

1980s and 1990s: Mass Incarceration and the “Managerial Revolution” in Gang Structure In the collective memory of Angelinos who were young in the 1980s, the rise of mass incarceration started during the 1984 Olympics, when street sweeps began to clean Los Angeles of undesirable youth so that Ronald Reagan could project a positive image of this city of the future that would shame his Cold War rivals. Under the leadership of Sheriff Wes McBride, Los Angeles had begun keeping gang lists of hundreds of thousands of young people. Prisoners were segregated by gang affiliation, effectively giving different gangs “coercive jurisdiction” over prison units, in the words of Benjamin Lessing. In the


a crime. The state had begun to define gang membership and keep rosters for sets and cliques. The role of the state in reifying gang structures has intensified ever since. While the repression on the streets during the 1984 Olympics may have captured the public imagination, the rise of mass incarceration had quietly begun earlier, in the mid-1970s. Best documented by Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, this insidious movement in American society was the ruling class’s backlash against the Civil Rights Movement and the War on Poverty that resulted from it. Through the “war on drugs” and frantic prison construction, elites sought to maintain systems of white supremacy by blaming poverty and struggle on crime, and then locking up a generation of working and underclass people topay for those crimes. Incarceration rates in the United States increased tenfold between 1973 and 2013. Less well known is the leading role that liberal California politicians played in constructing this carceral state. The 1980s in California also brought, in the words of Mike Davis, a “managerial revolution” in gang organization. The main cause of the revolution in the structures, size, and activities of gangs was the rise of mass incarceration in the US in the 1980s. The American prison system shaped the gangs that we know today, especially Mara Salvatrucha, into the mirror image of its hierarchical and authoritarian structure. In California’s prisons in the 1980s, the Salvadorans learned the organizational ropes from the Mexican Mafia, which had been using the prisons as their base of power


since the 1950s. In addition to learning codes, rules, and structures in prison, informal youth gangs consolidated themselves into a federation using the name Mara Salvatrucha, and added the number thirteen after the “MS” in deference to the Mexican Mafia (“la Eme” or number thirteen in the alphabet). Before being locked up, the maras were loose cliques of young Central Americans in the Los Angeles area who needed to protect themselves from the much more organized Bloods and Crips as well as the established Latin street gangs. Their main activities were hanging out and engaging in petty crimes. They dressed like rockers and tried to hold on to a modicum of Salvadoran pride, while still assimilating to the US. All of their members were minors. In prison, however,everything changed. They became a professional organization. Jaime Martinez, who came to the US from El Salvador as a teenager in the late 1970s and served a thirty-year sentence for gang-related crimes, told me, “Prison is like college. The higher level you go, the more you learn about criminality.” In “Inside Out: the Challenge of Prison-Based Criminal Organizations,” a study written for the Brookings Institute in 2016, Benjamin Lessing looks at prison systems in Central America, Brazil, and the United States and concludes that incarceration has the bizarre effect of making gangs more powerful. In California and in El Salvador, prisons “help prison gangs establish authority outside of the prison.” Because of the near-certainty that a gang member will do jail time, common sense dictates to a gang


major activity of MS-13 and Barrio 18. According to the Salvadoran attorney general, 84 percent of all extortion operations run from inside the prison system. In addition, inmates are required to register their gang, clique, and rank with the penal system. Just like in the United States, where gang lists are kept by law enforcement officials, the Salvadoran state has become involved in the business of officially recognizing gang structures and members. This official status has the unintended consequence of legitimizing the status of gangs as the enemy of the state and hardening gang structures. As they begin to rival state power, the gangs also mirror it; in El Salvador gangs operate much like the paramilitary death squads that they are forced to learn from. Former gang member,Gangs cannot exist absent an enemy; the police and military, as much as rival gangs, fill the role. In return, gangs justify ever-increasing foreign funding to intensify the efforts to militarize the police and arm them to the teeth. Gang violence, and high levels of repression against young people, always goes hand in hand with sexual violence against women. Every nineteen hours, a woman is killed in El Salvador, and every three hours a sexual assault happens. Seventy percent of the victims are children. Gang members are often the perpetrators, and police across the Northern Triangle rape women with impunity. But in cultures shaped by recent memories of femicide, domestic rape and violence are also pervasive, and perpetrators go unpunished. In Honduras, for example, 95 percent of sexual


violence goes unpunished. Mano Dura policies have stayed constant even though El Salvador has been democratically ruled by opposing sides of the civil war and, theoretically, of the ideological spectrum. (From the end of the civil war to 2009, the country had been ruled by ARENA, the same party that was created and ruled during the civil war. From 2009 until the present, it has been ruled by representatives of the former rebels, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN.) Nowhere in the Northern Triangle is there a simple conflict where security forces line up on one side and gang members and drug dealers line up on the other. Many government officials and members of the police and military are deeply involved in both the gangs and thedrug trade (gangs and drug cartels overlap and collaborate but are two different entities). Central American deportees report that by the time they reach home, rival gang members and cartels have been informed about their imminent deportations. This can only happen because government officials collaborate deeply with the gangs and cartels, while simultaneously waging a war of “social cleansing” against some gang factions and against young suspects. As the US was intervening in Central America by encouraging client states to adopt repressive social policies that they invented in the belly of the beast (“tough on crime” policies in English, Mano Dura in Spanish), they leaned on their history of counterinsurgency warfare in the region to support an outright coup d’etat in Honduras in 2009. Advised by John Negroponte,


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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Monday removed Anthony Scaramucci from his role as White House communications director just days after the New York financier was named to the job – a move made at the request of new White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, according to two people with knowledge of the decision.

Scaramucci’s brief tenure in the role had been marked by turmoil as he feuded publicly with former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. Scaramucci’s arrival at the White House prompted former press secretary Sean Spicer to resign in protest.

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The abrupt decision signals that Kelly is moving quickly to assert control over the West Wing, which has been characterized by interpersonal disputes and power struggles during Trump’s six months in office.

The retired Marine general, who was sworn in Monday morning, was brought into the White House in the hope that he will bring military-style disciple to Trump’s staff. He has been fully empowered by the president to make significant changes to the organization, White House officials and outside advisers said.


“He made the washbasin of copper and it base of copper, from the mirrors of the women who gathered at the entrance to the Ohel Moed.” – Shemos 38:8

The Torah specifies that the washbasin in the Mishkan was made of copper taken from the mirrors that the women brought as donations. Rashi explains that by telling us wherethe copper came from the Torah is teaching a significant lesson.

Moshe Rabbeinu was appalled by the idea of using the mirrors in the Mishkan because they were used to enhance a woman’s beauty, which is a source of yetzer hara. Yet Hashem said that not only should they be used, they were the most precious of all the items that were donated. In fact, the very reason Hashem wanted them toThe myth of the liberal media "shambles on" like one of the undead, even in the Age of Trump.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton warned us that "you can put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the 'basket of deplorables.' Unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up."

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Clinton was pilloried for that observation by the professional, "serious" and "respectable" voices of the American chattering class. Many in the media declared her to be an "elitist," out of touch with "ordinary people."

Of course, the Trump-supporting "white working class" was to be empathized with and understood because of its understandable rage at "the system," which Clinton's words encapsulated and legitimated. Her "deplorables" comment was certified, at least in retrospect, as a reason why


she was defeated by Donald Trump in a white rage uprising, in which an army of the deplorables lifted him into the White House.

Even in the fourth year of Trump's regime, there are still voices both on the left and right who summon Clinton's "deplorables" insight as a diagnosis for her 2016 defeat. presidential contest to Donald Trump. In their obsession with the supposedly redeemable "white working class," many liberal or left-leaning analysts and commentators use that episode as a teachable moment to illustrate what the Democrats must avoid doing if they are to defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

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If anything, Clinton's comments about Trump's human deplorables were overly generous. Trump's reign has encouraged a wave of lethal hate crimes and other violence against nonwhites, Muslims, Jews,gays and lesbians. Trump's foot soldiers have engaged in acts of political violence and terrorism against Democrats and others deemed to be the "enemy." Trump leads a political cult, whose members are so devoted to him that that truth no longer exists. Only the dictates and fantasies of Donald Trump matter. Trump's followers encourage and support his assault on the rule of law, the Constitution, democracy and human rights. Trump's followers are co-conspirators and human truncheons in his white supremacist campaign against the full and equal rights of nonwhite people and America's multiracial democracy.

What Trumpism has wrought in the last three years proves the wisdom of Hillary Clinton's warning.

Leading voices in the mainstream news media, of course, have offered few if any apologies for their unfair treatment of


Clinton, either in response to her truth-telling about Trump's movement, specifically, or their coverage of her in 2016 more generally. "Hillary was right, and we were wrong" are forbidden words for most editors, commentators and political reporters.

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For too long, the American mainstream news media has normalized Trump's behavior, hoping that he would become "presidential." It's still struggling with how to confront a president and his spokespeople who are habitual liars. Only in rare moments has the mainstream news media been willing to state the plain fact that Donald Trump has shown himself through his words, personal behavior and public policy to be an authoritarian, a fascist, a demagogue and a white supremacist.

Hypocrisy and cowardice — and of course the profit motive – drive this behavior. There are manyexamples.

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On Monday of this week, Trump unleashed a torrent of hatred and threats against Muslims as well as the Democratic Party's leaders and voters. On Twitter, he shared an image of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as "Muslims" — wearing a hijab and turban, respectively, standing before the Iranian flag. The caption said that Pelosi and Schumer were coming "to the Ayatollah's rescue." Trump's obvious message is These Democratic leaders — both political moderates and strong supporters of Israel — are traitors who hate America and love Iranian terrorism.

Trump also shared an image of a person supposedly killed by the Iranian government. The caption said that Nancy Pelosi "supports this mullahs' crime."

The collective message is that the tens of millions of Americans who


support the Democratic Party are also traitors. Trump's lies about Pelosi, Schumer and Democratic voters also contains a slur against the roughly 4 million American Muslims — a group that Trump and some of his closest advisers have repeatedly demonized, suggesting they should be barred or expelled from the United States as likely terrorists.

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White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, who has held no briefings for the press corps during her entire tenure, then attempted to "clarify" Trump's hateful threats. Here's Anushay Hossain at CNN:

Instead of trying to apologize for her boss's tweets ... Grisham went on Fox News and defended Trump's decision to amplify the tweet, stating he did what he did to make a point. "I think the president is making clear that the Democrats have beenparroting Iranian talking points and almost taking the side of terrorists and those who were out to kill the Americans," she said. "I think the president was making the point that the Democrats seem to hate him so much that they're willing to be on the side of countries and leadership of countries who want to kill Americans."

Trump was even clearer in expressing his disdain and hatred of the Democratic Party, its leaders and its voters at a rally in Toledo, Ohio last week, describing Democrats without qualification as "vicious, horrible people."

Considered as a whole, Trump and his minions' behavior is part of a larger strategy of stochastic terrorism and political violence whose language is designed to encourage political terrorism and other forms of violence against virtually anyone


apologize for his threats and slurs. Once again, Trumpism is the normalization of political deviancy and American authoritarianism, aided and abetted by the mainstream news media.

Media critic Eric Boehlert locates the above dynamic relative to a larger context. In a recent email to Salon, he explained:

The problem is that the media's constant normalization of Trump is now in its fourth year, which means as his behavior gets more dangerous and hateful and radical, there's no proper way to describe it, and to warn about it, within the mainstream press. News outlets have committed themselves to downplaying his outrageous behavior, whether it was the disturbing wheezing and slurring of words that marked his national address on Iran last week, or Trump literally depicting Democratic leaders as Muslim-looking Iranian sympathizers,on the Holocaust with a headline like "Jews and others in spirited dispute with the Nazi Party and Hitler."

But there is something even worse and more insidious and malicious than the abandonment of objectivity to the weakness and amorality of "neutrality." This supposed neutrality is actually enabling Donald Trump and his movement's assault on democracy and freedom. Too much of the "liberal media" has in fact chosen a side: the side that is against democracy, decency, progress and the rule of law; the side that is on the wrong side of history, and even the wrong side of reality.


restricting travel between the capital city Ulaanbaatar and the provincial capitals between Feb 23 and Feb 27, 2020, after which a 1 week extension was implemented.[@bib21] The intensity and importance of these measures during Tsagaan Sar cannot be underestimated and their enforcement is a major achievement given the cultural and symbolic importance of this national holiday. Such domestic travel restrictions were again put in place after the first confirmed COVID-19 case was announced.

Another notable early stage response to the COVID-19 outbreak was the closure of all educational institutions, at all levels, throughout the country, with traditional teaching replaced by distance learning approaches. In January, before there were any confirmed COVID-19 cases in Mongolia, the SEC ordered the closure of all kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, universities, vocational schools,went to work for 4 days without developing symptoms. He then travelled by train to a provincial mining camp on March 7, 2020. He reported malaise and a runny nose to the camp physician with a temperature of 38·0°C. The provincial response team was notified, and a nasopharyngeal sample was sent to Ulaanbaatar for testing. After confirming the first case, the SEC restricted his domestic movements and he was placed in a quarantine camp.[@bib21] Contact tracing identified several close contacts who had travelled to distant provinces who were subsequently traced and isolated in their respective locations. The National Centre for Communicable Diseases confirmed on March 16, 2020, that all 181 primary contacts of this patient tested negative and were being observed for symptoms in quarantine camps. Subsequently, 190


described a timely and apparently effective response of a large lower-middle-income country neighbouring China to the COVID-19 pandemic. Multidisciplinary cooperation, early engagement, and guidance from the WHO Mongolia office, have enabled the health authorities to successfully undertake early risk management. Early border controls, so far, have been one of the most effective preventive measures taken, resulting in the remarkably low infection rates in some countries and states such as Mongolia and Taiwan.[@bib48] Both have taken similar pre-emptive actions, on the basis of lessons learnt during the 2002 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak, which enabled the establishment of early detection and quarantine systems.[@bib49] Taiwan set up its National Health Command Centre, which was ready to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak by applying early policies and suspensions, as well asone of these comets will be passing quite close to our home planet a little later this month.

The comet in question was initially discovered back in December 1948 by a Japanese amateur astronomer, Minoru Honda, who discovered eleven additional comets between the early 1940s and the late 1960s. A few days after Honda’s discovery, two members of a comet-hunting team based at the Skalnate Pleso Observatory in then-Czechoslovakia, present-day Slovakia, Antonin Mrkos and Ludmilla Pajdusakova, independently discovered the same comet. The comet thus goes by the rather cumbersome name of Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova, although for obvious reasons this is usually informally shortened to H-M-P, or, more formally, the comet is referred to by its official designation, 45P.

Comet 45P has an orbital period of close to 51Ž4 years, and has been


seen at almost every return since its original discovery. It comes closer to the sun – approximately 50 million miles – than do most short-period comets, and on several returns has become bright enough to be visible in relatively small backyard telescopes. On the previous return, in 2011, it passed only 5.6 million miles from Earth, however the comet was located deep in southern skies at the time, and the approach time also coincided with the full moon and with widespread cloudy weather throughout the southern hemisphere, so this cometary encounter was not as widely observed as it otherwise might have been.

On its present return Comet 45P was closest to the sun on this past New Year’s Eve. For a couple of weeks prior to that, and fora week or so afterwards, it could be detected low in the southwestern sky after dusk, and actually became bright enough that it could be detected with binoculars. After that it sank into the twilight and disappeared from view as it has raced on ahead of Earth in their respective orbits, and earlier this week it passed almost directly between the Earth and the sun.

Having pushed on ahead of Earth, Comet 45P is now emerging into the morning sky, and by the end of this week will already be rising before the beginning of dawn. Over the course of this coming week it travels northwestward through the constellation of Aquila, the eagle, the northern part of the constellation Ophiuchus, somewhat to the north of the bright star Rasalhague,


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Herps, especially amphibians, are particularly susceptible to climate change, as temperature tightly controls many parameters of their biological cycle-above all, their phenology. The timing of herps' activity or migration period-in particular the dates of their first appearance in spring and first breeding-and the shift to earlier dates in response to warming since the last quarter of the 20th century has often been described up to now as a nearly monotonic trend towards earlier phenological events. In this study, we used citizen science data opportunistically collected on reptiles and amphibians in the northern Mediterranean basin over a period of 32 years to explore temporal variations in herp phenology. For 17


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The final was scoreless through both the first 90 minutes and after extra time. In the ensuing penalty shoot-out, Patrick Vieira and Davor Šuker missed for Arsenal, while Galatasaray's Ergün Penbe, Hakan Şükür, Ümit Davala all converted past goalkeeper David Seaman. Gheorghe Popescu then scored the winning kick to win the UEFA Cup for Galatasaray.

Galatasaray had won an impressive treble that season, also winning the 1.Lig and the Turkish Cup.

Honours
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Winners (1): 2000
European Cup / UEFA Champions League:
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Semi-final (1): 1988–89
UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League:
Winners (1): 1999–00
European Cup Winners' Cup / UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:
Quarter-final (1): 1991–92

‡ Galatasaray was one of the eight teams in the group stage of the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League, however, UEFA does not consider


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The Annapolis briefing was part of a larger effort orchestrated by Gov. Martin O'Malley, a Democrat, to build support for a state-level economic stimulus program aimed at reversing the recent job loss trend in Maryland.

The governor's plan involves recasting Maryland's backlog of transportation projects as a component of a massive state-funded public works program that his administration says could put tens of thousands to work.

O'Malley said Monday that he would consider funding the program with a 15-cent increase to the state's gas tax, currently set at 23.5 cents, along with other revenue increases. Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown echoed that message Tuesday: "Job creation and infrastructure investment — the two go hand in hand," he said.

The administration tapped these county leaders to speakin part because they'd previously testified in favor of increasing the gas tax. Each came prepared with a list of projects in their districts that would be possible with the increased funds.

Rawlings-Blake, a Democrat, said more money would make possible a $26 million project to widen Hawkins Point Road, a planned $16 million reconstruction of the Harford Road bridge over Herring Run and safety improvements to Reisterstown Road, Park Heights Avenue and Druid Park Drive.

The mayor also noted that nearly a third of the city's bridges are in dire need of repairs and only two-thirds of the city's streets are in "acceptable condition."

Isiah "Ike" Leggett, the Democratic county executive in Montgomery County, said he's been advocating for a higher gas tax for the last five years. He said


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Event 51: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em

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November 5, 1768 | TreatyTreaty of Fort Stanwix After expressing their "apprehension" regarding the failure of colonists to strictly observe the 1765 boundary line between Indian Territory and the British colonies, continued negotiations produced this treaty. It describes in detail the line between the Six Nations, tribes of the Ohio, various dependent tribes, and the thirteen seaboard colonies. The agreement effectively closed off legitimate settlement of the Ohio Valley. However, it was ignored by many colonists who migrated west and squatted illegally on Indian lands. The inability of colonial authorities to effectively prevent these illegal settlements west of the boundary aggravated the situation between the various tribes of the region and white settlers along the frontier.

March 1, 1784 | ReportResolutions from the Committee for the Western Territory, March,1, 1784. With Jeremiah Townley Chase and David Howell, Thomas Jefferson issues recommendations for the division and government of the western edges of United States territory. The preferred boundaries of future states are laid out and vaguely classical and Indian names are given the various regions. Congress did not adopt the Ordinance as Jefferson submitted it, primarily rejecting the abolition of slavery in the region and Jefferson's nomenclature. As passed by Congress, it became the Ordinance of 1784.


of a bell tower, ensnaring a new host in the form of the hapless Eddie Brock is sublime, bringing something to live previously on seen in a single flashback comic panel.

However, when it comes to the two on two superhero smackdowns at the end, the movie sprints in a desperate attempt to weave all of it’s chaotic plot strands together, maybe hoping that it would get a part 4 so it could finally iron everything out. Alas, we’ll never know as Sony eventually moved into it’s even more poorly judged Andrew Garfield reboots. It’s telling that the previous two Spidey films ended on Peter Parker joyously swinging through the skyline of New York, whooping and looping as he goes, while the third film ends with Peter and MJTexas seems out of hurricane danger early

The Texas hurricane season is over.

It seems preposterous, really, to write that. After all, the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season just reached its historical peak intensity last week, and the season officially lasts until Nov. 30.

And yet all of the available evidence suggests Texas is very, very unlikely to get struck by a hurricane during the remaining two and a half months of the Atlantic season.

None of the reliable hurricane models are forecasting a tropical threat to Texas in the next 10 days.

After Sept. 24, during a given year the historical odds of Texas getting hit by a hurricane are 1-in-50 — meaning it's happened three times in the last 150 years.

On top of that, the region already has experienced one cold front


were far from widely accepted among liberals. Salon and Mother Jones, both left-leaning outlets, were sharply critical of the idea that the GOP stole Ohio in 2004. Prominent Democratic strategists and candidates weren’t whipping up fear of touchscreen machines going into the 2006 and 2008 elections.

Among Republicans, though, ideas about stolen elections are much closer to the center of the party than the fringe. There is a persistent and widely accepted narrative that voter fraud is a pressing threat to democracy — even though investigation after investigation has turned up conspicuously little evidence that this fraud is actually happening.

There is a widely accepted narrative that voter fraud is a pressing threat

Right-leaning outlets help spread anecdotes, such as the story about the Philadelphia precincts where every voter voted forPresident Obama, but the idea that Democrats and their allies are trying to steal elections — particularly by manipulating votes in large cities with nonwhite populations in otherwise largely white swing states — has been orthodoxy among top Republican officials for more than a decade.

The Justice Department under George W. Bush was obsessed with voter fraud. John Ashcroft, the attorney general, lost his Missouri Senate race after a day of electoral chaos in which Democrats tried to keep polling places open in St. Louis for a few extra hours so that voters improperly purged from registration lists or forced to wait in long lines could vote. Missouri Republicans accused St. Louis Democrats of trying to steal the election. Missouri Sen. Kit Bond asked the FBI to investigate "a


smaller scale to ensure that what was produced in the restaurant was approachable and could be reproduced at home. All recipes have been scaled back to serve eight to 12 people. "We had thousands of menu items to consider when choosing recipes for the cookbook," Anders said. "Our goal was to select dishes that resonate with guests. The challenge was scaling them back to a size that works for cooking at home."One fan favorite that Anders was sure to include was the shrimp and calamari, which has been on the menu for 10 years. "We've included the original recipe for the shrimp and calamari that was developed before I even worked for the restaurant," Anders said. "I changed the recipe a few years ago, and it was noticedExploring the mind of lifelong summer resident John Johnson.

At fifty-one years old with a thick beard and inquisitive eyes, John Johnson has a sage air about him. He props himself gingerly on a stool in his barn at the Almanack Arts Colony, which was co-founded by his sister India Blake. “Tweaked my back surfing,” he sighs. For the last two weeks, Johnson and his wife and children were sailing around the Abacos where they made stops to surf and free dive. If you emailed him during that time, his automatic reply read: “Greetings from off the grid…For the next two weeks, I’ll be under sail or underwater, possibly even under the influence, and checking email once a week at best.” Even his email was intriguing.

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your family, did you find it difficult to define yourself in your own right?

JOHNSON: Living in a shadow requires feeling external pressures. My parents, especially my mom, were relentless in reinforcing the idea that I could do anything I set my mind to. They had incredible faith in me. Maybe they had the burden of a family legacy in mind, but I also think they were reacting to the fact that I really struggled when I was a kid and was deeply unhappy in school, basically until college. They had this skinny, nerdy, dreamy kid who was not fitting in and feeling down on himself. Their strategy was to reinforce the idea that I’d have options, with a lot of love, but also through brute force of repetition.“One of the roles I auditioned for was ‘Terrorist No 2’s girlfriend,’” Aizzah Fatima admits, laughing. The former Google employee, in London with a one-woman play, had dreamed of being an actor since seeing her first play at 13. But growing up in a Pakistani American family in Mississippi, it seemed an unlikely ambition. And it wasn’t until she moved to New York to study that she joined the American Academy of Performing Arts – only to find herself immediately typecast after finishing her training.

“I was truly disheartened by the kinds of roles that were out there,” she tells me, as she prepares for the first of her two UK dates. It’s hardly the first time a “brown” actor has complained about stereotyping: Dev Patel and Nabil Elouahabi


in the play – it’s funny, political, sexy and thoughtful.”

When she first began taking the play to festivals in New York, she was aiming it at a non-Muslim audience. “I felt there was a lack of understanding of Muslim Americans and that we never see the female experience.” Now she has toured the world with it – from Canada to Turkmenistan – the audience reaction has made her keen to use it to spark a discussion among Muslims themselves. “I realised there was such a lack of dialogue within the community about these issues,” she says.

“In New York after the show, a 16-year-old Bangladeshi American girl came up to me. She had seen the show with her mother, who didn’t speak any English and had divorced her fatherbecause he was abusive.

“She said to me: ‘Have you figured out how to live between the two cultures by yourself?’ Which I found heartbreaking, because it told me she had no one to turn to and was struggling with these issues herself.”

Fatima is now planning to tour the show, along with workshops and Q&A sessions, around college towns in the US. Thanks to a stint at the Edinburgh festival she is collaborating with a film-maker to turn the play into a movie, and has been offered roles in plays and films – none of which, she promises, involve playing the girlfriend of a terrorist.

Dirty Paki Lingerie is at the Leicester Square Theatre on 24 October, and at Rich Mix on 25 October


in the race lead, Copeland's biggest fear on this night would come to fruition, as the yellow lights would flicker as he came down the back stretch.

Lining up in double file formation for a green-white-checkered finish, Copeland would see Croft get the jump on him when the race resumed, and he would now be in the second spot. Trying to get back around Croft on the final lap, Copeland would come up short and end his night in the second spot.

"We had a car that was good enough to win, but circumstances late changed the race a little bit, and we came up short," Copeland added. "These guys have gotten this car better and better each night out, and it has me really excited for Stockton Dirt TrackRico Abreu in his first round of action in the shuffle, Copeland would line up 10th in the 35-lap feature event. On an extremely slicked off Thunderbowl Raceway, Copeland would spend much of the night battling for a spot in the Top-10.

Racing with Willie Croft, Tony Gualda, and Mason Moore at times during the 35-lap affair, Copeland would take the checkered flag with an 11th place finish.

Making the long tow back to Placerville Speedway to take part in Saturday night's weekly opener at the track, Copeland would time the F&F Racing entry in fourth fastest amongst the 20-cars checked into the pit area.

Finishing third in his heat race, Copeland would move into the nightly redraw where the six pill would place him in the third row for the


event.

"It was a pretty decent night overall," Colby Copeland said. "I felt good all night, and it was a good second showing for us."

Kicking his night of in qualifying time trials, the Roseville, CA wheelman would time the Econo Lube-n-Tune & Brakes/CRV Carbon Solutions backed sprinter in second fastest in his qualifying group.

Lining up in the second row of his heat race, Copeland would finish third and transfer to the feature event, and with a little luck on his side would also earn a spot in the Dash based on his qualifying time.

With his car not coming to life in the Dash, Copeland would be credited with a sixth place finish and grid the field from the sixth row in the 40-lap feature event.

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Colby Copeland Picks Up A Pair of Second Place Finishes With Bandit Racing

PETERSEN MEDIA: The Arizona based Bandit Racing team made the tow to central California over the weekend for a weekend of racing with Colby Copeland, and the results were again strong as Copeland picked up a second place finish on Friday night at the Keller Auto Speedway in Hanford, CA before picking up a second place finish on Saturday night in Tulare, CA with the King of the West Series.

Checking in at the Keller Auto Speedway in Hanford, CA on Friday night for a 360ci event, Copeland got the night started out by timing the King Racing Products/BR Motorsports/MVT No. 18w machine