concerned Government executive with excellence. Naomie Harris was a bit of a disappointment, though she was adequate and also did not have major screen time.

(I would also like to ask readers to not go too deeply into the reports of a The Dark Knight-style Joker villain being used in Skyfall; while there are some parallels, the two characters are not synonymous.)

Two things that truly stand out are the cinematography and the music. Roger Deakins deserves a standing ovation and lots of awards for his stunning, captivating work behind the lens for this film (which is not the first time he has worked with Mendes). He captures a generally-plain London with a cerebral air, and the vistas of Scotland and Istanbul were simply too good to be true. Thewhich has amazing displays and a family history library. Happy travels!

Greenwich is south of the river, and gives amazing views of the more recognisable sights of the north bank, it had a fab market as well as a couple of good museums (maritime history and the royal observatory). You can now climb over the O2 arena (google it!) it’s an exhilarating experience! Take a river boat back to Westminster and stroll along the south bank to the Tate Modern gallery. Science museum is good if you have kids, and its free entry! Sooo much to do, lucky I only live 90 minutes away!


Hair care practices in African American women.
Hair care in African American women is wrought with historical and cultural issues. Dermatologists need to improve their understanding of hair and scalp disorders in their African American patient population by being informed about the styling methods commonly used by and for these patients. The styling habits described in this article are intended to encompass the hairstyles adapted by a wide range of African American women with varying hair textures.to Washington in Game 2 of the NL Championship Series. "Just the fact of the matter, it could be any number of things."

The numbers don't leave much doubt, says data journalist Rob Arthur. He was among the first to suggest tweaks to the ball may have caused home runs to spike as early as 2015, and he thinks something is off with this year's October model, too.

Arthur published a story Thursday at Baseball Prospectus showing the postseason balls have more air resistance than the regular season balls, according to data pulled from MLB's own tracking system. Arthur projected home runs were down 50% through Wednesday's games compared to what would have been expected in the 2019 scoring environment, even though the average temperature for playoff games was higher


than the regular season to that point.

"The data is conclusive in showing that the playoff baseball is very different from the one used in the regular season," Arthur wrote.

Major League Baseball released a statement Thursday claiming no meaningful changes have been.

"The baseballs used in Major League Baseball are manufactured in batches," it said. "Balls that are used in the postseason are pulled from the same batches as balls used in the regular season. Regular season and postseason balls are manufactured with the same materials and under the same processes. The only difference is the postseason stamp that is placed on the ball. As has been previously acknowledged, however, the drag of the baseball can vary over different time periods."

Story continues

Fueled partly by studies from Arthur and others, playersBlacKkKlansman. Lee has released some low-profile films over the last few years (the last of which I personally saw being his 2014 remake of Old Boy starring Elizabeth Olsen and Josh Brolin) but this one has the potential to garner a lot of attention and thrust the filmmaking legend back into the spotlight where he belongs. Lee returns to form to bring to the forefront the true story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington, “Ballers”), the African-American police officer who infiltrated the Colorado Springs, Colorado, chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.

The film is based on Stallworth’s own book Black Klansman, which is, of course, his personal memoir of the experience. In the film, Stallworth is assisted by fellow police detective Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver, Star Wars: Episode VIII


and cities all over the world are rising up against their data oppressors. Edward Snowden has emerged as a new global hero, along with WikiLeaks and Glenn Greenwald; men who embody the spirit of the founders of the United States of America (going back 200 years) when individual freedom and transparency were still considered valuable commodities.

Will the data-Nazis be defeated by Russia in the way Russia beat the Nazis back in World War II? Where is the new Stalingrad? Carrying through with this analogy we should look to data autocrats like Oracle, Google, Facebook and the big phone companies around the world as the new axis powers that need to be defeated in this new war of privacy vs. tyranny.

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"Now obviously, we'll have complete coverage of Blagojevich tomorrow, including what I can only assume will be the filing of charges alleging beaver-pelt smuggling as well." He was referring to the governor's lustrous head of hair.

As for Letterman: "It's one count of bribery, one count of fraud and one count of Blagojeviching."

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Zoning on the other hand has no basis in Nigerian law and was only referred to vaguely in the original Constitution of the People's Democratic Party. It was not a relevant issue in the national discourse until 2010 when the North wanted to clamour against President Goodluck Jonathan running for election in 2011. Everyone agreed that it was just a PDP matter, although it inevitably crept into the polity since PDP was the ruling party at the National level. It is clear that those clamoring for zoning are usually using it in an attempt to boost their chances of getting elected. It will not be an issue if the proponents of zoning believed


of Nigeria. It is diverse just as it is rich in both natural and human resources. The zoning issue is clearly over-heating the polity as it relates to the 2015 governorship election.

The disagreement with zoning spreads across the three Senatorial zones. Ijaw Opinion Leaders, through one of their leaders Chief Timi Johnson, has not equivocated in shouting that 2015 Delta State governorship has not been zoned to Delta North and this has nothing to do with Elder Godsday Orubebe (an Ijaw) declaring his intention to run for the governorship in 2015. The Ijaws pointed out that the governorship position had always been contested by the three senatorial districts in the state since 1999.

Also, Former Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Pastor Power Aginighan, hasadded his voice to the debate by stating that the 2015 Delta State governorship position is open to all qualified indigenes., including one of the children of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan. Pastor Aginighan was a PDP governorship aspirant in 2007 and had previously told the media that that zoning has never been used in Delta State since its creation in 1991.He was quoted as saying, "In 1992, Chief Felix Ibru of Delta Central clinched the Social Democratic Party (SDP) ticket after contesting with aspirants from other senatorial districts of the state, while his opponent, Prof. Eric Opia of Delta North Senatorial District won the National Republican Convention (NRC) ticket after defeating aspirants from other senatorial districts. When Chief James Ibori emerged governor of the state in 1999, it was


also an all-comers contest from the party primaries to the general election. In 2007, over 25 Delta indigenes across the three senatorial districts of the state aspired for the governorship ticket of the PDP. The emergence of the incumbent governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, was not a product of any zoning." He added that the fact that “the capital of Delta State is at Asaba in the Delta North Senatorial District cannot be a disqualifier for an indigene from that senatorial district from aspiring. The fact that the Central Senatorial District has produced two elected governors in the persons of Olorogun Felix Ibru and Chief James Ibori cannot be a reason to prevent any Urhobo from seeking for the governorship slot. Equally, Dr Uduaghan's being in power for twoConsultant, lawyer, Political Analyst & Social commentator. He has a Doctorate degree in Jurisprudence from the US. He has lectured Law, Ethics and Security & Intelligence Studies at the University level here in Nigeria and US. He also writes for a state daily newspaper & national monthly journal. He currently divides his time between Nigeria and USA where he runs an international capacity building firm. Contact him on 08138391661 or Profatawa@gmail.com


CANBERRA, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- More than 800 convicted criminals were stripped of their Australian visas in 2018, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has confirmed.

Australia's governing Liberal National Party coalition (LNP) in 2014 introduced mandatory visa cancellations for anyone sentenced to 12 months or more imprisonment. Once those offenders finish their prison sentence, they face deportation from Australia.

As a result, the government has cancelled 4,150 visas since it took power at the end of 2013, seven times the number of those cancelled in the previous five years by the former Australian Labor Party (ALP) government.

"There's no place in our country for people who come here and harm Australians," Dutton told News Corp Australia on Monday.

"We welcome people from all around the world, but those few who think theyinvestors but also foreign capital. — Abdul Basit, chairman of the Punjab Board of Investment and Trade

A steel mill in Karachi, which is said to be the major supplier of steel for the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train project, is said to be planning to expand its capacity. A Lahore-based electric cable manufacturer — Fast Cables — has expanded its manufacturing facility to meet the future demand of CPEC-linked projects and is planning to boost it further and a Peshawar-based investor is said to have shown interest in setting up a steel plant near Lahore.

“All these investments are centred round the CPEC as the corridor acts as a magnet to pull the investors,” said Abdul Basit, chairman of the Punjab Board of Investment and Trade (PBIT). He claimed


⚽ Tammy Abraham has become only the third player aged 21 or younger to have scored 2+ goals in 3 consecutive PL games, after Cristiano Ronaldo (in December 2006) & Dele Alli (in January 2017) #WOLCHEreduce KPK's independent status by making it a governmental body, establishing an oversight council to monitor the commission, requiring KPK investigators official permission to conduct wiretaps, among others. According to a poll conducted by Tempo on 16 September, overwhelming 82.61% of the public opposed the revision and urged the President to veto the bill. Prior to the ratification, there were already numbers of small-scale protests going on in different cities. In Bali, hundreds of people gathered on 12 September 2019 to raise concerns over the bill. On the other hand, counter-protest by the pro-revision groups were also held in front of KPK headquarter in Jakarta. Some participants of the counter-protest reportedly admitted of being paid to participate without much knowledge on the issue itself.

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EA's remastered bundle of the first two Command & Conquer games finally has a confirmed release date. Simply titled Command & Conquer Remastered Collection, the upcoming bundle will launch on both Origin and Steam this summer with a remastered soundtrack and even a physical edition from Limited Run Games.

Electronic Arts announced Tuesday morning that Command & Conquer Remastered Collection will be released June 5, and it'll include both Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn and Command & Conquer: Red Alert as well as their expansions.

The remastered collection spruces up the originals to function properly on a modern PC, meaning that they will feature new UI, controls, and 4K support. Multiplayer is being revived for both games with better matchmaking and leaderboards, and a new Map Editor feature will allowplayers to create new maps and creating new custom games, which are also being supported by EA in Command & Conquer Remastered Collection.

The remake feels like a wholistic endeavor, as EA announced today that it will even feature a remastered soundtrack by composer Frank Klepacki. That being said, players will be able to toggle on the original soundtrack if they prefer. EA is also stressing that Command & Conquer Remastered Collection is being created with the community in mind in a video discussing the game's development process.

"Our team has been working hand-in-hand with the C&C community since day one and we hope this transparent dialogue will result in the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection being a love letter to our fans," Lead Producer Jim Vessella said. "We’re taking


the classic gameplay that ushered in a new era of the RTS genre and adding the most fan-requested features like Skirmish mode for Tiberian Dawn, quality of life control improvements, and full Steam integration with UGC support."'

The game will cost $19.99 on Steam or Origin for the digital versions, but two physical editions are being created with the help of Limited Run Games. A Special Edition will cost $59.99 and includes a Tiberium crystal USB drive with the soundtrack on it, a poster, pins, tech tree prints for each faction, and a sticker sheet. Meanwhile, the 25th Anniversary Edition will include everything from the Special Edition as well as a signed six-disc set of original's soundtrack, a 100-page art book, faction patches, a beanie, a PVC light, anda metal mammoth tank replica for the price of $149.99.

The path to Command & Conquer Remastered Collection began back at E3 2018, when Command & Conquer Rivals, a mobile RTS, was announced and met with immediate disapproval. While EA still released the game, which ended up underperforming. This new remastered version of the first two games in the series feels like an attempt to revitalize the franchise.

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It's awesome to see Command & Conquer finally return after a very disappointing decade for the franchise. Since Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight's launch in 2010, the series has gone through a rough patch with a mainline entry being canceled and the only new releases being a browser game and a mobile title. Hopefully, Command & Conquer Remastered Collection


WASHINGTON — If you've been missing your daily dose of White House press secretary Sean Spicer, it's because President Donald Trump's chief spokesman has been serving the country in another way: He's been on Navy Reserve duty.

Spicer's commitment for monthly service occasionally pulls him away from his high-profile job as the public face of the Trump administration.

The obligation also kept Spicer away on Wednesday, one of the most important days of Trump's presidency: the day after Trump fired James Comey as FBI director. Trump dismissed Comey on Tuesday, which was the last day this week that Spicer briefed the White House press corps.

Deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has filled in during Spicer's absence, which renewed speculation that Trump was giving the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. MikeHuckabee a tryout with an eye toward possibly replacing Spicer with her.

A White House official denied that Spicer's job was in jeopardy, saying that using Sanders, 34, to cover Spicer's absence is part of a broader plan to give her some on-camera briefing experience because she is Spicer's chief deputy. The official requested anonymity to discuss internal White House planning.

Spicer was also on reserve duty last Thursday and Friday.

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"Sean is actually on Navy Reserve duty, so you guys are stuck with me — today and tomorrow," Huckabee Sanders said as she opened Thursday's less formal, off-camera briefing, which is known as a "gaggle." ''So brace yourselves for a fun 24 hours."

Spicer's often combative question-and-answer sessions with the reporters who cover Trump have become must-see TV. Since taking over as press secretary, he has made a number of gaffes at the podium that ended up shining the media spotlight on him, instead of on Trump and his policies.

Spicer, 45, joined the U.S. Navy Reserve in 1999. He was expected back at the podium on Monday.

Spicer, who holds the rank of commander, works out of the Pentagon as a public affairsChile

RSC Representative in Chile - Gabriela Valdebenito Zenteno

I graduated with a first degree in Chemistry from University of Chile and obtained a Master degree in Forensic Science from Strathclyde University (Scotland). For the last four years I have specialized in working in the field of mass spectrometry.

Since September of 2013 I am the co founder of the Colegio Chileno de Químicos A.G. , a gremial association for the Chilean professional chemists.

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to promote training, improvement, rationalization, development and protection of the exercise of the profession of Chemist

to position the chemist at a national level

to serve the society as an advisory body and consultant regarding matters related to the professional practice

to improve the teaching of chemistry at all levels of education.

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in our growth plans,” said Eurostar CEO Nicolas Petrovic.

Eurostar plans to run two services a day between London and Amsterdam with journey times of around four hours. These services will run via Brussels, Belgium to Amsterdam, also stopping at Antwerp, Belgium, as well as Rotterdam and two stops in the Amsterdam area, Schiphol Airport and Amsterdam Centraal.

Launched in 1994 as a collaborative effort involving French and Belgian national railways and a subsidiary of Britain’s London and Continental Railways, Eurostar established high speed rail service linking London, Paris, and Brussels.Prevalence and associates of psychological distress in haematological cancer survivors.
To explore outcomes of psychological distress, including anxiety, depression and stress, amongst adult haematological cancer survivors, with a specific focus on potential differences between rural and urban survivors. One thousand four hundred fourteen urban and rural survivors were recruited from five Australian population-based cancer registries and completed a self-report pen-and-paper survey on their well-being, including the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale 21-item version. A quarter of survivors were identified as reporting above normal levels of anxiety and depression, respectively, and almost one fifth (17 %) reported above normal levels of stress. There were no statistically significant differences in the percentage of rural and urban survivors reporting above normal levels of anxiety, depression, or stress. Survivors who had experienced financial


haemoglobin for transfusion post cardiac surgery. Alistair is a member of the TRICS III steering committee.

Alistair was the Australian lead investigator for the steroids in cardiac surgery (SIRS) trial which closed in 2014. The results were published in the Lancet in 2015.

Alistair is the lead Australian investigator for the following research:

Canadian-led left atrial occlusion trial (LAAOS-III) and is a member of the Canadian steering committee.

Phase 2 study into EVARREST, a new topical haemostatic agent manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, conducted as an international multicentre trial which closed in December 2015.

Perceval sutureless valve registry (SURE-AVR).

Alistair is the Principal Investigator at the Royal Melbourne Hospital for the following research:

COMPASS trial randomizing rivaroxaban in a prospective randomized double-blind trial led by Richard Whitlock of McMaster University and the Population Research Healththat the Kings put in one of their best performances of the season, they are still a Jekkyl and Hyde team with huge ups and downs, whether one is looking at their play within a particular game, or at a stretch of games.

But against Boston, for one night, at least, the Kings were flying at full speed, and played so well that they were completely dominant at times—it was one of their finest performances on the season, and it showed that when they are on their game, they are not only dangerous, but they can beat the National Hockey League’s best teams.

Now…if only they could remember that…

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Quick earned his 13th career shutout, which is fourth all-time in Kings history. Rogie Vachon had 32, Jamie Storr had 16 and


Felix Potvin had 14.

Quick earned his fifth shutout this season, which is tied for fourth on the Kings’ single-season list. Vachon has the club single-season record with eight shutouts in 1976-77.

Ryan Smyth scored his 149th career power play goal and 51st career game-winning goal. He also has twelve points in the last 14 games (seven goals, five assists).

The Kings have beaten Boston five straight times since March 19, 2009.

The Kings have now allowed eleven goals in their last six games (1.83 per game).

The Kings allowed 34 shots tonight, the first time they’ve allowed thirty shots in the last eight games and third time in the last 19 games.

Willie Mitchell had five blocked shots.

The Kings are now 20-8-0 when scoring first, 15-0-0 when leading after two periods and 21-6-0when allowing two or fewer goals.

Anze Kopitar has 15 points in the last 16 games (two goals, 13 assists).

Drew Doughty has 19 points in the last 22 games (three goals, 16 assists).

Jarret Stoll has eight points in the last ten games (six goals, two assists).

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The St. Louis Blues and the San Jose Sharks continue their Western Conference Finals battle tonight at 8 pm at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis with the Blues holding a 1-0 advantage. The Blues will be looking to solidify their lead as they seek their first Stanley Cup Finals appearance since 1970. The Sharks have been […]Toronto Northwest

Toronto Northwest was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 1935. It was located in the city of Toronto in the province of Ontario. This riding was created in 1924 from parts of Parkdale, Toronto North and York South ridings.

It consisted of the part of the city of Toronto north of Bloor Street, west of Bathurst St. and east of the Northern Division of the Canadian National Railway, the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway eastward and Landsdowne Avenue.

The electoral district was abolished in 1933 when it was redistributed between Davenport, Spadina, Trinity and York West ridings.

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It's been rumored for as long as Disney has had the rights to the Star Wars franchise, but we may be finally about to see a standalone Boba Fett film from the sci-fi galaxy far, far away.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, James Mangold, director of the fantastic X-Men spin-off movie Logan, is set to helm. It's also expected that he'll be joined by Simon Kinberg, who worked to co-write the Logan script with Mangold, in a both a writing and producing role. Simon Kinberg also wrote and created the superb Star Wars: Rebels animated series.

Logan, telling the story of an ageing Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), was a fantastic action film, earning Mangold an Oscar nod for best adapted


screenplay.

Solo in his sights?

The news comes as Lucasfilm and Disney prepare to launch Solo: A Star Wars Story this week, the first of the current wave of Star Wars films to focus in on just one character for George Lucas's universe.

Could it be that the Boba Fett film would be a sequel to Solo? In the original trilogy (to which Solo is a prequel of sorts) the bounty hunter Boba Fett was Solo's nemesis, with Fett constantly looking to hunt down the owner of the Millennium Falcon. With Solo star Alden Ehrenreich reportedly contracted for two more movies, it'd make sense to see the two characters face off at some point.

Fett, originally played by British actor Jeremy Bulloch, originally appeared in 1980's Empire Strikes Back, and quickly becameDuring the recent events in Tunisia that led to the departure of the dictator, it was striking to hear one of our politicians – was it Hague? – affirm that what the people needed was stability. This seemed a curious thing to say during a revolution when stability, the maintenance of the status quo, was precisely what was being rejected as the sum of woes outweighed habitual self-preservation to produce a tipping point. It was also striking how quickly, during the revolutionary events in Egypt, western political commentators said that what the country needed was a smooth transition from dictatorship to a broad-based government. Anxiety was expressed that those on the streets had no recognised leader, the fear seemingly being that a political vacuum would be filled by


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KUALA LUMPUR: Japan are never really a force to be reckoned with in the men’s singles event in the past.

But their future generation of players are going great guns and they are set to spoil the party for Malaysia’s Tan Chun Seang and Chong Wei Feng in the Asian Badminton Championships (ABC), which will be held in New Delhi from April 12-18.

Chun Seang will take on Kazushi Yamada while Wei Feng faces Kenichi Tago in the opening round respectively.

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The 2013 Miss America’s Outstanding Teen competition is underway, and MAOTeen is pleased to present JM Best Entertainment as the production team for this year’s competition.

For the 9th consecutive year, JM Best Entertainment of Orlando has been named the Producer of the 2013 Miss America’s Outstanding Teen Pageant to be held at the Linda Chapin Theatre at the Orange County Convention Center in August. JM Best Entertainment produces television and special events all over the country including: The US Dream Academy Gala, The National Cherry Blossom and National Memorial Day Parades in Washington, DC, the 4th of July Parades both in Washington, DC and Philadelphia, The Magnificent Mile Lights Festival in Chicago and Philadelphia’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to name a few.

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As the coronavirus spread across the United States this March, and the need for more clinicians in the workforce grew, medical schools nationwide took action to help meet the demand: In cities as geographically diverse as Portland, OR; Kansas City, KS; East Lansing, MI; and New York, NY, 25 institutions moved up their graduations by as much as 2 months so that the nation's newest physicians could help battle the pandemic that much sooner. As this piece went to press, at least 12 schools had offered early graduation to their entire class, whereas another 13 had offered it to some students---and nearly every medical school accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education had considered it.

Leaders inNew York City, the area hardest hit, took the lead. After state Governor Andrew Cuomo pleaded for all available health care professionals to help address a looming shortage of workers, the Grossman School of Medicine at New York University became the country's first medical school to announce it would graduate its students in April, 3 months earlier than planned.

"We're running into issues of manpower," Steven Abramson, vice dean for education, faculty, and academic affairs at NYU Grossman, told the *New York Times*. "That led us to conclude: Why not graduate students who are interested in serving in hospitals now? They've completed their requirements and they're prepared."

A number of other local schools followed suit, including 3 others in the city---Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Weill Medical


we could graduate our students by March 31, they could be ready to work around the same time we would see the surge." With its early ceremony, UMMS became the first medical school in the country to graduate its students this year.

Students at UMMS do clinical rotations at UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, so new graduates will lend a hand there, and at an affiliated field hospital being set up at Worcester's DCU Convention Center. Because the new physicians are familiar with all the workings of, and people at, the main UMass facility, they'll be able to hit the ground running.

What's more, as Dr. Collins pointed out, "A bunch of our students helped to set up the surge center at DCU." He described being on a callthe near future, there will be more people than there are beds in hospitals in Massachusetts. They are already rolling people into these places in New York. It is one thing to put a tent up and another thing to have someone take care of you once you're in there."

Recent UMMS graduates will also staff a telemedicine initiative, introduced this spring, to alleviate some of the pressure of the pandemic. The lead student in implementing the new program was Patrick Lowe, who will start his residency this summer with the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency program at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals in Boston.

"Our hospital system already had plans to roll it out but needed student support to help organize the effort and make it happen,"


Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin asked the White House about the possibility of using a government jet for his European honeymoon this summer but later withdrew the request.

A Treasury Department spokesperson told CNN in a statement that Mnuchin made the request to ensure he had access to secure lines of communication when he and his new wife, Louise Linton, were traveling.

"Treasury withdrew its request after a secure communications option was identified during the Secretary's extended travel," the spokesperson said Wednesday.

Related: Treasury IG set to review Mnuchin's controversial trip to Kentucky

Treasury said it has a practice of considering a "wide range of options" to ensure Mnuchin has access to secure communications, including the possible use of military aircraft.

The Treasury spokesperson said it was "imperative" that Mnuchin, who is a memberof the National Security Council and directly involved with national security issues tied to North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela, could communicate securely.

ABC News was the first media outlet to report the Secretary's request.

When asked if there was a review of the request, an official with the Treasury Department's Inspector General, which investigates allegations of wrongdoing within the agency, told CNN Wednesday "We are looking at all requests and uses of government aircraft."

A White House spokesperson declined to comment and directed questions to Treasury.

Related: Louise Linton's famous post and Instagram's celebrity problem

This is not the first time a trip by the former Goldman Sachs banker has raised eyebrows.

Another trip by Mnuchin and his wife to Kentucky last month is already under review by the Treasury Department's Inspector General.

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in August when Linton posted a picture of herself on Instagram stepping out of a U.S. government plane. She had tagged a series of luxury designers such as Hermes, Tom Ford and Valentino to describe her expensive clothing. Social media pounced on the post and called it ostentatious.

Mnuchin's trip to Kentucky included a stop at a chamber luncheon in Louisville and Fort Knox, where he, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and others watched the Aug. 21 eclipse.

The Treasury Department has previously defended Mnuchin's trip as "official government travel" and denied that viewing the eclipse was the primary purpose of the trip.

Instead, the agency said the government aircraft was used to facilitate the secretary's travel schedule and ensure uninterrupted access to secure communications.

"The Department of the Treasury soughtAlice in Chains' sixth LP is the band's second set to lead all three lists.

Alice in Chains snags its second No. 1 on Billboard's Top Rock Albums, Alternative Albums and Hard Rock Albums charts, as Rainier Fog debuts atop the Sept. 8-dated rankings.

The set starts with 31,000 equivalent album units earned (29,000 in traditional album sales), according to Nielsen Music.

Rainier marks the second set that Alice in Chains has taken to the top of the three charts, following The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here in 2013.

Concurrently, the new album, Alice in Chains' sixth full-length, and third since the death of original frontman Layne Staley in 2002, bows at No. 12 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart.

After lead Fog single "The One You Know" peaked at No. 9 on the


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On September 19th, NSIDC, the National Snow and Ice Data Center, announced that Arctic sea ice has shrunk as far as it will shrink this summer, and that the ice is beginning to reform, expanding the floating ice cap that covers the North Pole and the seas around it. The Arctic Sea Ice extent this September was far smaller than the previous record set in 2007. At 3.4 million square kilometers of ice coverage, this year’s Arctic minimum was 800,000 square kilometers smaller than the 2007 record. That difference between the previous record and this year’s is larger than the entire state of Texas. An ice-free summer in the Arctic, once projected to be more than ausually starts shrinking in March, and then reaches its smallest area in mid-September, before cooling temperatures and shorter days start the water freezing and the ice cap growing once again.

When scientists and reporters talk about an ice-free Arctic, they’re usually speaking of the Arctic in summer, and especially in September, when ice coverage reaches its minimum.

The amount of ice left at that minimum has indeed been plunging. In 1980, the ice shrank down to just under 8 million square kilometers before rebounding in the fall. This year’s minimum extent of 3.4 million kilometers is less than half of what we saw in 1980. Strikingly, two thirds of the loss of ice has happened in the 12 years since 2000. The ice is receding, and the process, if anything,


summer for another 20 or 30 years, or perhaps even a bit longer.

For example, Lars-Otto Reierson, who leads the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme told Reuters that most models predict the summer ice disappearing by 2030 or 2040.

Similarly, a paper published this year in Geophysical Research Letters by multiple scientists, including several from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, found that an ice-free summer in the Arctic in the “next few decades” was a “distinct possibility.”

A recent assessment from Muyin Wang at the University of Washington and James Overland at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, using the most up to date Arctic ice models and data, projected a nearly ice free Arctic around 2030.

And Cecilia Bitz, a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washingtonat part of the Polar Science Center sees a 50/50 chance that the Arctic will be ice free in summer in the next few decades.

On the other end of the spectrum are those who think the melt could happen much sooner. Peter Wadhams, who leads the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the University of Cambridge, has predicted since 2008 that the Arctic ice could be gone in summer by 2015. He now believes there’s a chance that it could happen even sooner.

Similarly, Mark Drinkwater, the European Space Agency’s senior advisor on polar regions and a mission scientist for the CryoStat satellite that measures arctic ice, believes that the Arctic could be ice free in September by the end of this decade.

When will the ice melt? While the range


formed just in the past winter. In the mid 1980s, only around 25% of the summer ice was this new, thin, extremely vulnerable stage, and almost two thirds of the ice was older than two years old – old enough to have accumulated more water and grown thicker and sturdier. Now the numbers have nearly reversed. Very little of the thick multi-year ice remains. The ice that’s left, being thinner, takes less heat to melt.

Figure 5 - Average ice thickness in the Arctic in summer has dropped in half, leaving behind ice that is increasingly vulnerable and prone to melting. Photo courtesy of NOAA.

The reduced thickness of the ice not only bodes poorly for its survival, it tells a dramatically different story of how far from an iceice in the Arctic, but they’ll be scattered, surrounded by far more water than ice. Nowhere will ice constitute the majority of the Arctic.

You’ll probably hear this referred to as the first ice-free Arctic summer. But, in reality that first “ice-free Arctic” will most likely be a period of a few days or a week or two in mid-to-late September. August will still have an ice cap, if a small one. July will have a larger one than that. June larger still. And March, the month of the year when the Arctic ice cap is at its maximum, will still have seen plenty of ice.

Yet from that year on, the ice-free period will likely grow, expanding in duration to start earlier and end later year over year. Most


the solar energy that strikes them than ice would, but there’s simply less solar energy striking the arctic in September than there is for the spring and summer months leading up to it.

The sunniest time of year in the northern hemisphere is the summer solstice, in late June, and the weeks preceding and following it. For several weeks the sun’s rays are at their most intense and the Arctic receives 24/7 sunlight, giving it a double whammy of heating. In fact, in June, July, and the latter half of May, the Arctic receives more total solar energy per day than regions at the equator do at any time of year. The sun’s rays are never as powerful in the Arctic as they are at the equator, but theaccelerating. In the decade from 1980 to 1990, June ice volume dropped by around 3.8 thousand cubic kilometers. In the last decade, between 2002 and 2012, it dropped by almost 9.5 thousand cubic kilometers, two and a half times as fast. If the pace of the last decade were to continue on this recent pace – and didn’t keep on accelerating – June ice would be gone by 2026, exposing the dark waters of the Arctic Ocean to the year’s most intense influx of solar energy, which would then be captured as heat.

Figure 8 - Arctic sea ice volume in June tells a much worse story than coverage alone. June ice volume in 2012 was less than half of the ice volume seen in 1980. June ice volume


for the rather jumbled science of the movie The Day After Tomorrow. So, among other good news, take note that you won’t need Dennis Quaid to snowshoe across a frozen landscape to come to your rescue.)

Finally, good economic and natural resource news: The receding ice will open up new trade routes, making it easier, cheaper, faster, and more efficient to ship goods between northern Europe, Canada, Russia, and the United States. Cargo that once had to be placed on ships that passed through either the Panama Canal or the Suez Canal will now, in many cases, have a shorter route – one that saves on both time and fuel.

The opening up of the Arctic will also open up exploration for minerals and for fossil fuels. The US GeologicalExtreme Weather

The most palpable impact of climate change for those of us who live far from the poles is the increase in extreme weather. Around the world, record highs are occurring at more than twice the rate of record lows. The US drought of 2012 was the worst since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. A drought nearly as bad struck Texas and the American south in 2011, and even more destructive heat waves hit China and Russia in 2010, and Europe as a whole in 2003.

You might not think that what happens in the Artic has much bearing on what happens in Texas or Moscow or southern provinces of China, but a study published in 2012 in Geophysical Research Letters has drawn a convincing connection. Blowing around


the periphery of the Arctic is the polar jet stream – a region of high speed wind that blows west to east, and helps drive wind circulation around much of the northern hemisphere. The jet stream is powered by the temperature difference in fall and winter between the Arctic and the more temperate areas just to its south. But as the Arctic ice has receded, the Arctic Ocean waters have absorbed more heat in late summer and early fall. In late fall and early winter, they’ve given that heat up, back into the atmosphere. That, in turn, has led to warmer Arctic autumns and winters, which has reduced the temperature difference that fuels the jet stream.

The result is that the jet stream is now weaker than it oncewas – about 14% weaker than it was in 1980.

Why does this matter? Because a slower jet stream makes it easier for ‘blocking’ weather patterns to develop. Blocking weather patterns are the ones that hover over a region rather than moving on – like the drought that basted Texas in 2011 and decimated its forests and hay and wheat crops to the tune of more than $7 billion in damage, and like the heat wave that enveloped Moscow and much of the rest of Russia for most of the summer of 2010, killing an estimated 55,000 people in July and August of that year.

Climate change is driving more extreme weather – by heating up the atmosphere, pumping more energy into storms, and heating the air to the point


to understand future climate change.”

Hansen has posted some data and commentary on his website on a Sea Ice Area page. He’s got charts that contain data not usually displayed in the same place, i.e. Arctic and Antarctic sea ice maximum and minimum 30 year trends, with sea ice extent during the periods of maximum and minimum solar insolation placed nearby.

He notes: “It is the sea ice area in April-August, when the sun is high in the Arctic sky, that determines the degree of sea ice feedback in the Northern Hemisphere. The figure below suggests that the September 2007 sea ice minimum did not have a correspondingly large effect on the sea ice area at the time of maximum insolation”
He offers an opinion: “The huge sea ice loss of• Sad news for fans of Bill O'Reilly's historical writing: His book about Lincoln's assassination won't be stocked at Ford's Theatre's Lincoln-got-killed museum.

UPDATED: A Ford's rep emails to stress that the book IS available in the lobby gift-shop, which is run by the Ford's Theatre Society, not the National Park Service, which runs the museum. In a statement,Paul R. Tetreault, the society's director, said, "We decided several weeks ago to carry Bill O'Reilly's book 'Killing Lincoln' in the Ford's Theatre Society gift shop. While we understand the National Park Service's concerns about the book, we decided to let our visitors judge the book themselves."

• MORE HOT BOOK TALK! Alexandria tavern owner Pat Troy has published a memoir. I hope his eyebrows get their own book deal!

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• Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar's D.C. premiere at Avalon Theatre. City Paperdiscusses what the film was missing.

• Stayopens atLansburgh Theatre. Directed by Heather McDonald, the play weaves together dance, theater, multimedia and music to deal with impermanence, and the way people long for things, moments and people to stay.

The fancy scales in D.C. were tipped this week by the arrival of legend Clint Eastwood. In town to promote his new film J. Edgar, Eastwood walked the (very short) red carpet for a screening at the Newseum.

The Fancy Feast hates biopics, but she loves red carpets. Sadly, TBD was pushed into reporter loserland four feet off the rug, but The Hill’s Judy Kurtz got close enough to ask the man about how he felt about his name beingSing-Off and Glee it's certainly closer to the mainstream than it was when Sara Bareilles was a member of UCLA's coed a cappella group Awaken (her song "Gravity" appeared on one of their albums long before she added instruments to it on her 2007 album Little Voice). Washington’s never been a mainstream town, though, and there are always lots of a cappella groups performing around the area. This weekend features some of the best national vocal acts as well as some notable locals.

Arguably, Rockapella is where it all began -- or, at least, where a cappella first entered the mainstream. The group spent five years as the house band on the kids' PBS game show Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego? in the early 1990s in addition


to writing the show's earworm of a theme song. With that and a memorable Folger's commercial, Rockapella's place in our audio memory was pretty much sealed. The group has had a number of lineup changes since its formation in 1987; no original members remain, but longtime (and legendary) vocal percussionist Jeff Thatcher has been in the group since 1993. Opening the show will be the University of Maryland's coed group Faux Paz.

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Group image: Participants in the Face to Face international artist exchange (from left to right): Sylvia Nirmaier (Aachen) discusses her work in progress with Linda Maldonado (Arlington), Uta Göbel-Groß (Aachen), and a visitor. (Lisa McCarty).

Dead tree newspapers are still useful for something — at least their bags are. The WaPo Carpet, a piece currently on exhibit atProjectActress for Felicity Jones, opens at E Street, Bethesda Row, and various cinemas. The film captures the story of when a British college student falls for her American classmate — the kind of love that feels like an addiction — only to be separated after she violates her visa.

Danny Ross was laid off in mid-October from his job as operations coordinator at the office of Rep. Jerrold Nadler. Ross landed that gig after graduating from Cornell University in 2006 and led a double life after that, performing in local venues in New York City by night. He released Danny Ross Presents One Way, his debut LP, in 2009.

Ironically, Nadler's district comprises Zuccotti Park, site of the original Occupy Wall Street protest. “What they’re discussing now on Occupy Wall


to the '80s than pop radio, and some of those less well-remembered bands are playing around town this weekend.

Scratch Acid was a short-lived noise-punk band from Austin, Texas. The group broke up in 1987 and hasn't played since except for a brief three-show reunion in 2006. Its members went on to other bands: guitarist David Wm. Sims and drummer Rey Washam joined legendary noisemaker Steve Albini in Rapeman; Sims and vocalist David Yow later founded the outstanding Chicago noise-rock band the Jesus Lizard. Still, Scratch Acid is where it all began, and you may not get many other chances to see them-- the band announced this tour as a warm-up to their show at the ATP festival, and Yow now spends more time making art than music.

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Ari Rotharts and culture blog of the same name, which he writes with storytellers Brad Lawrenceand Cyndi Freeman. Freeman is also a burlesque performer.

Simmermon started the blog while living in D.C., and working a number of soul-sucking jobs. “I was 28 and broke and living at my parents house," he says. "I was pouring concrete with all of these unholy rednecks and making pizzas at a place right down [by] my high school, and I tried to do this Hunter S. Thompson thing,” he says. He moved to Australia, living as an illegal alien for a year. Immigration officials there kicked him out of the country, and his parents had to bail him out. “Supreme life failure,” he says. Simmermon moved back to the States, back to their house


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A Shrewsbury theatre group looking to cast one of the stars for their next production of the cult classic Hairspray discovered just who they were looking for – under a hair dryer in a salon.

Mad Cow Theatre Productions were struggling to find an actress to portray the role of Motormouth Maybelle in their upcoming show at the Theatre Severn in April.

And they had left no stone unturned in their search – only to find the answer in a hairdresser’s in Shrewsbury town centre.

Unsuspecting Yvonne Morris was having her hair done at Weavealicious in Frankwell when she was approached by Alex Hinton, Mad Cow director, who asked her if she would like to audition for a role in their musical production of Hairspray.

Alex said:were thrilled when they learned they had been successful in securing the rights to perform the classic Hairspray – the story of Tracy Turnblad, the girl with the big hair and an even bigger heart – who dreams of appearing on her favourite TV show, originally a 1988 film starring Divine and Ricki Lake, and directed by John Waters.

The musical, based on the film, hit Broadway in 2002 and won eight out of thirteen Tony Award nominations. It ran for over 2,500 performances on Broadway and closed on January 4, 2009.

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The life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph and tragedy. Triumph came when Shakespeare's company, the Chamberlain's Men, opened the Globe playhouse on Bankside in 1599, under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth I. Tragedy touched the lives of many of his contemporaries, from fellow playwright Christopher Marlowe to the disgraced Earl of Essex, while London struggled against the ever-present threat of riots, rebellions and outbreaks of plague.

Globetakesits readers on a tour of London through Shakespeare's life and work, as, in fascinating detail, Catharine Arnold tells how acting came of age. We learn about James Burbage, founder of the original Theatre in Shoreditch, who carried timbers across the Thames to build the Globe among the bear-gardens and brothels of Bankside, and of the terrible night in 1613 when the theatre caught fire during a performance of King Henry VIII. Rebuilt, the Globe continued to stand as a monument to Shakespeare's genius until 1642 when it was destroyed on the orders of Oliver Cromwell. And finally we learn how 300 years later, Shakespeare's Globe opened once more upon the Bankside, to great acclaim, rising like a phoenix from the flames Arnold creates a vivid portrait of


Shakespeare and his London from the bard's own plays and contemporary sources, combining a novelist's eye for detail with a historian's grasp of his unique contribution to the development of the English theatre. This is a portrait of Shakespeare, London, the man and the myth.Navy destroyers in the Seventh Fleet's Area of Responsibility this year could have been prevented, the Navy said in a collision report released Wednesday.
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Former CIA director, William Casey, famously said, "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

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New vehicles and their delivery trucks damaged by the March 11 tsunami sit lined in a Toyota parking lot at Sendai port, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Monday, March 28, 2011. The earthquake and tsunami and subsequent damage to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant have disrupted the flow of the Japanese auto industry that might affect Japan-imported cars around the world. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Some of the most gripping images that came out of Japan during its recent disaster were the piles of Japanese vehicles being tossed around like toys when the tsunami hit the eastern shores of the country.

Conventional wisdom holds that destruction on that scale can only do one thing for car sales --


percent of the overall Japanese auto market.

Seeing a foreign-built car on the roads in Japan is very unusual. Those that are seen are often the ones that are popular the world over, such as Mercedes-Benz and BMWs with a sprinkling of sports utility vehicles.

Ford is hoping its revamped Explorer sports utility vehicle will grab market share because the Japanese consumer may have to wait as long as December for a similar Japanese vehicle because of the production delays.

The fact that Ford made its announcement Tuesday in a Tokyo cafe was unusual. These kinds of announcements are usually made at the Tokyo Motor Show, which is held in November in the Japanese capital every two years.

But Ford, as well as Chrysler and GM, won’t be attending this year, aIn the complex human equation that produces a turncoat, rarely is only one motive at play. But different periods have featured different motives in the ascendancy.

The first great wave was ideology, growing from an early fascination with the Soviet experiment, which promised freedom from the grinding inequities of capitalism. Julius Rosenberg, for instance, whose parents worked in New York City sweatshops, joined the Young Communist League as a teenager; he was one of dozens of American and British Communists who fed secrets to Soviet intelligence in the first half of the 20th century.

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Gary Stokes, director of the Southeast Asian branch of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has live in Hong Kong for 26 years. He fights in particular against the trafficking of shark fins, something particularly popular in Asian cuisine, reports The Dodo.

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The fins are taken from live sharks, who are then thrown back into the sea to agonize in atrocious suffering. Joanna Grossman, counselor for the Animal Welfare Institute, explained:

The animals eventually bleed out and succumb to their injuries, or die from starvation, suffocation, or predation. It's difficult to say exactly how long a shark will remain alive after being finned. For some animals, a slow and painful death awaits while struggling to breathe at the bottom of the ocean; others might be attacked and eaten fairlyan electrical connector assembly for a power tool that alleviates the problems with the above-described power tools. In some aspects, the invention provides a one-piece trace or spider terminal member assembly which provides points of connection for the motor components, such as the field assembly, the brushes and the switch. To assemble the motor, the one-piece terminal member assembly is positioned in the motor housing. To mount the terminal member assembly, the terminal member assembly is preferably co-molded as a unit with the housing or, alternatively, may snap-fit into connectors formed on the housing. The terminal member assembly and the housing are then preferably punched or stamped at points to provide the necessary number of electrically separated contact elements to connect the components of the motor. For example,


the female ends or terminals of the field assembly, the brushes and the switch are connected to the electrically separated contact elements to provide a suitable complete electrical circuit for the motor. A non-conducting plug may fill the openings created by punching or stamping. The plug also confirms that the openings were punched or stamped. Further, the plug provides a seal to prevent debris from entering the opening and effecting the electrical circuit of the motor. More particularly, the invention provides a method for assembling a power tool, the power tool including a motor housing, and a motor supportable by the housing, the method comprising the acts of providing a terminal member assembly including a plurality of electrically separable contact elements, mounting the terminal member in the motorhousing, electrically separating the plurality of electrically separable contact elements of the terminal member assembly from one another to provide a corresponding plurality of electrically separated contact elements, supporting the motor in the motor housing, and electrically connecting the plurality of electrically separated contact elements to the motor to provide a complete electrical circuit for the motor.
Preferably, the housing is formed of a molded material and the act of mounting the terminal member assembly includes molding the terminal member assembly as a unit with the motor housing. Also, the act of separating preferably includes creating an opening in the terminal member assembly between adjacent ones of the plurality of electrically separable contact elements to provide the plurality of electrically separated contact elements.
In addition, the act of creating an


housing, and positioning the non-conducting element in the opening between adjacent ones of the plurality of electrically separated contact elements.
The motor may include a field having a plurality of field terminals, and each of the plurality of electrically separated contact elements may have at least a first contact. Preferably, the act of supporting the motor includes supporting the field in the motor housing, and the act of electrically connecting the plurality of electrically separated contact elements to the motor includes electrically connecting the first contact of a corresponding one of the plurality of electrically separated contact elements with one of the plurality of field terminals. Preferably, the act of supporting the field occurs substantially simultaneously with the act of electrically connecting the first contact of the corresponding oneof the plurality of electrically separated contact elements with the one of the plurality of field terminals.
Also, the motor may include a switch having a switch terminal, and at least one of the plurality of electrically separated contact elements may have a first contact and a second contact. Preferably, the act of supporting the motor includes supporting the switch on the motor housing, and the act of electrically connecting the plurality of electrically separated contact elements to the motor preferably includes electrically connecting the switch terminal to the second contact of the at least one of the plurality of electrically separated contact elements. The act of supporting the switch may occur substantially simultaneously with the act of electrically connecting the switch terminal to the second contact of the


at least one of the plurality of electrically separated contact elements.
The motor may further include a braking circuit and switch assembly having a braking circuit electrically connected to a switch and a plurality of assembly terminals, and at least another one of the plurality of electrically separated contact elements may have a first contact, a second contact and a third contact. Preferably, the act of supporting the motor includes supporting the braking circuit and switch assembly on the motor housing, and the act of electrically connecting the plurality of electrically separated contact elements to the motor includes electrically connecting one of the plurality of assembly terminals to the second contact of the at least one of the plurality of electrically separated contact elements and electrically connecting another ofthe plurality of assembly terminals to the third contact of the at least another one of the plurality of electrically separated contact elements.
In addition, the motor may include a brush having a brush terminal, and at least one of the plurality of electrically separated contact elements may have a first contact and a second contact. Preferably, the act of supporting the motor includes supporting the brush on the motor housing, and the act of electrically connecting the plurality of electrically separated contact elements to the motor includes electrically connecting the brush terminal to the second contact of the at least one of the plurality of electrically separated contact elements. Preferably, the act of supporting the brush occurs substantially simultaneously with the act of electrically connecting the brush terminal


to the second contact of the at least one of the plurality of electrically separated contact elements.
The invention also provides a power tool comprising a motor housing, an electric motor supportable by the motor housing and electrically connectable with a power source, and an electrical circuit assembly. The electrical circuit assembly is provided by a method comprising the acts of providing a terminal member assembly including a plurality of separable contact elements, mounting the terminal member assembly to the motor housing, separating at least two of the plurality of separable contact elements of the terminal member assembly to provide a corresponding plurality of electrically separated contact elements, and electrically connecting the plurality of electrically separated contact elements to the motor to provide a complete electrical circuit for themotor.
The invention additionally provides an electrical connector assembly for a power tool, the electrical connector assembly provided by a method comprising the acts of providing a terminal member assembly including a plurality of electrically separable contact elements, mounting the terminal member assembly to the motor housing, electrically separating the plurality of electrically separable contact elements of the terminal member assembly to provide at least a first electrically separated contact element and a second electrically separated contact element, and electrically connecting the first electrically separated contact element and the second electrically separated contact element to the motor to provide a complete electrical circuit for the motor.
The invention further provides an assembly for use in manufacturing a power tool, the assembly comprising, a motor housing for supporting the motor of


the power tool, and an electrical connector assembly. The electrical connector assembly is provided by a method comprising the acts of providing a terminal member assembly including a plurality of separable contact elements, mounting the terminal member assembly to the motor housing, and separating the terminal member assembly to provide at least a first electrically separated contact element and a second electrically separated contact element, the first electrically separated contact element and the second electrically separated contact element being electrically connectable to the motor to provide a complete electrical circuit for the motor.
The invention also provides a method for assembling a power tool comprising the acts of providing a motor and a terminal member for connecting the motor to a power source, forming a motor housing of amoldable material, the act of forming including molding the terminal member with the moldable material of the motor housing, supporting the motor in the housing, and electrically connecting the terminal member and the motor to provide a complete electrical circuit for the motor.
The invention additionally provides a method for assembling a power tool comprising the acts of providing a first electrical component and a second electrical component, providing a terminal member for electrically connecting the first electrical component to the second electrical component, the terminal member including a plurality of separable contact elements, forming a power tool housing of a moldable material, the act of forming including molding the terminal member with the moldable material of the housing, separating the terminal member to provide a corresponding plurality of


electrically separated contact elements, supporting the first electrical component and the second electrical component on the housing, and electrically connecting the plurality of electrically separated contact elements to the first electrical component and to the second electrical component to provide a complete portion of the electrical circuit for the power tool.
One advantage of the present invention is that, with the method for assembling and ala the electrical connector assembly of the present invention, assembly of a power tool is less time consuming and less labor-intensive. The motor components are more easily electrically connected to one another with the terminal member assembly, reducing the cost and the complexity of the method and machinery required to assemble a power tool.
Another advantage of the present invention is that, because, in someconstructions, the plurality separable contact elements is mounted to the housing as a unitary terminal member assembly, the plurality of electrically separated contact elements is more accurately positioned and supported in the housing, also reducing the cost and complexity of the method and the machinery required to assemble a power tool.
A further advantage of the present invention is that, when the terminal member assembly is molded with the housing, the housing does not have to be specially designed to fixably support and retain the terminal member assembly in the required position.
Yet another advantage of the present invention is that, when the terminal member assembly is molded with the housing, the terminal member assembly and the plurality of electrically separated contact elements provide additional rigidity and strength to the


While Kia is still teasing the 2019 K900 through a series of sketches, photos of a fully naked example have found their way online.

The new Korean luxury flagship model was spotted by a Bobaedream forum reader riding on the back of a flatbed somewhere in South Korea.

Unlike the more stylish Stinger, the new 2019 Kia K900 adopts a more mature and elegant design for its exterior, which was expected since the company has already shown us what was going to look like on the aforementioned sketches.

The interior on the other hand will be a more modern affair, as it will feature a widescreen 12-inch display for the infotainment system, a fully digital cockpit, and a leather-wrapped dashboard complimented by high-quality wood veneers and aluminum touches. It will evenfirst and second punches for compacting the powder inside the hole. The method preferably includes the step of filling the cavity with the powder with at least an upper end of the second punch inserted into the die hole. The method further includes the steps of: inserting at least a lower end of the first punch into the die hole and compacting the powder between the first and second punches, thereby making the green compact of the powder; and ejecting the compact out of the die hole.
An embodiment of the present invention for producing a rare earth permanent magnet includes the steps of: preparing the green compact of the rare earth alloy magnetic powder according to any embodiment of the inventive powder compacting method; and sintering the compact.
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No one was injured during the storm, Rich Leipfert, spokesman for the fire department, said.

Shortly after the storm hit, the National Weather Service sent a team to investigate eyewitness reports that it was a tornado.

Bill Schneider, a science and operations officer with the National Weather Service in Portland, said his office started tracking a storm cell in the area at 4:35 p.m. At about 4:45 p.m. his office started receiving reports that there was a tornado that touched down.

Two of the destroyed buildings were unoccupied storage facilities. The third unit housed a business.

Officials fanned out from the buildings to search for more damage or anyone injured, but found neither.

Sheet metal roofing that blew off one building hit power lines, which caused a localized blackout, Leipfert said.

Close Call: Mannarrowly escapes tornado strike

In the unit that was a business, the owner, 86-year-old Spencer Wriggelsworth, was inside it at the time of the storm.

He's operated an auto-repair shop for 31 years inside the building that had its roof blown off when the tornado struck on Thursday. Now the pieces of his shop and life lie a block away.

"It's gone. I've got nothing," he said.

He was sitting back in his chair with his seven cats when he heard the sound of hard rain and strong wind. And when he saw stuff flying by the window, he thought – tornado.

"I wasn't coming out to argue with it," he said.

He high-tailed it to his office as the building creaked and moaned all around him. The winds ripped off the roof above


him, sending a timber into the air. It came down into the RV out back where Wriggelsworth lives and right into the bed where he sleeps.

"I don't really want to tell you what I was thinking, I'll be honest with you," he said.

But he made it through. And while his shop is gone, he's surrounded by friends. He's well-known here. Some people call him "The Mayor."

People brought a barbecue grill to the spot Thursday night to cook him up burgers and keep watch over the place for him. Figuring out the next step for Wriggelsworth and his building would have to wait until Friday.

Some of the people with things in the storage units said they've lost a lot. Father and son Tom and Andy Jackson stored trucks, jeepspermitted to discover the apparatus without electric shock for 60 s.

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They’re back: and just in time for the passing of Fogest (that’s August to the uninitiated) and the arrival of real summer in Berkeley and elsewhere around the Bay. Sketch returns today — three years to the day that the popular ice cream spot shut up shop (and as tipped by Berkeleyside in June).

A culinary couple with a fine-dining pedigree, Eric Shelton and Ruthie Planas-Shelton opened Sketch on the busy shopping strip along 4th Street back in 2004 (in the slip of a space that’s now home to a Chocolatier Blue outlet). At the time, the store was one of the first small-batch, organic ice cream purveyors in the area — before gourmet cup and cone businesses took off around theOn May 1 1897, The Homewood Cemetery officially donated 5374 square feet in Section 26, Lot 12, for the use of all
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The researchers gave subjects daily doses of each of three sweeteners - honey, cane sugar and high-fructose corn sweetener - for two weeks at a time. They then compared measures of blood sugar, insulin, body weight, cholesterol and blood pressure in the 55 subjects.

The researchers found that the three sweeteners basically have the same impacts. Most measures were unchanged by the sweeteners. One measure of a key blood fat, a marker for heart disease, rose with all three.

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The two sides were working out details and Reid canceled plans to interview for other openings, according to the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the negotiations.

The Philadelphia Eagles fired Reid after 14 seasons on Monday, the same day the Chiefs parted ways with coach Romeo Crennel after the worst season in franchise history.

The Chiefs have a connection with Reid through team president Mark Donovan, who spent six years as the Eagles’ senior vice president of business operations. Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt was joined by Donovan and


several members of his inner circle while interviewing Reid for nearly nine hours on Wednesday in Philadelphia.

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The negotiations had progressed to the point that Reid canceled plans to interview for the opening in Arizona. The Cardinals are now intending to interview former Chiefs coach Todd Haley, a person familiar with their plans told the AP on condition of anonymity. Haley led the Chiefs to the AFC West title in 2010, but was fired in December 2011 and spent this past season as the offensive coordinator in Pittsburgh.

Hunt told the AP in an interview Monday that he would lead the search for the next Chiefs coach, rather than embattled general manager Scott Pioli. Hunt has not said whether Pioli will be back next season, but indicated that his futurecould be determined by the next coach.

Various reports have indicated that Reid would be open to working with Pioli, while other reports have said he would prefer to build his own front office. If Pioli is not retained, the top candidates to replace him include former Browns GM Tom Heckert and John Dorsey, who has been integral in building the Green Bay Packers into a perennial contender.

The opening in Kansas City is attractive on several levels: The Chiefs had five Pro Bowl players and two others chosen as alternates, despite their 2-14 record, and they have the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft for the first time in franchise history.

That selection could help the Chiefs fill a gaping void at quarterback.

Matt Cassel was benched midway through the


just 3-13 the year before he arrived, and two years later it went to the playoffs at 11-5 and second in the NFC East.

That was the first of five straight years in which the Eagles won at least 11 games, and included a trip to the Super Bowl after the 2004 season.

“He had the love and respect of every individual in this organization,” Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie said upon firing him. “This man is amazing to work with, smart and dedicated, and the record will speak for itself.”

The past couple of years have been difficult for Reid, whose oldest son, Garrett, died at training camp after a long battle with drug addiction. Reid fired close friend and longtime assistant Juan Castillo in October and later fired defensive lineStudios, Jack has helped develop multiple MMOs including Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, Champions Online and more. In the past 15 years at Cryptic, Jack has held several different positions from game designer to Chief Executive Officer allowing him to establish a solid foundation for the studio. Prior to Cryptic, Jack was working on his PhD in Greek & Latin, with a focus in ancient religion. Mike Apolis: Mike’s passion for games started at a young age with a drive to create immersive stories in Dungeons & Dragons as well as PC adventure games. Years of modding and tinkering with computer games led Mike to pursue an education in game development, after which he joined the Cryptic Studios team in 2005 and worked on many of their titles including


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A weak winter sun hangs low in the afternoon sky as Andrew Kloppers Road, in Khomasdal, becomes choked with traffic. The day’s commuters are heading home from work in the city or the outlying suburbs. Taxi drivers toot their horns at potential passengers perched on the side of the road—a quick hand flick from a woman has three drivers jostling for space on the pavement fighting for her fare.

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the surrounding neighbourhood that goes unanswered for a while.

Five minutes pass, ten minutes pass. Fifteen.

Then, in the distance, the first pilgrims of the day arrive.

They are tapping a ragged soccer ball between the five of them—they take turns showing off tricks, dribbling a short distance ahead of each other before passing the ball to the next player. As they near the patch one of them kicks the ball high into the air. It climbs to its zenith before plummeting and landing in the middle of the patch. Three of them rush towards the ball, pushing and jostling each other. The other two peel off the pack and head to opposite ends of the dusty quad. They look for big rocks or broken pieces of concrete and use themto create temporary goalposts about a metre wide. After they complete the task they join the rest of the group and take their turns showing off their skills.

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Soon, other football devotees make their way to this patch of dirt. In the space of twenty minutes about thirteen players have been magnetically drawn to this patch of dirt by the thrill of competition and meeting up with friends.

They are bedecked in all manner of clothing and footwear. Some feet are adorned in the newest Nike Mercurial Vapors, untried, untested, straight out of the box. Others wear faded and torn Converse All Stars. One player sports Barcelona colours, another is in a Chicago Bulls vest. A familiar brand in unfamiliar territory. An angry red bull


Bacolod City will stay as one of the preferred outsourcing operations locations in the country this year, the international real estate and research firm, Colliers, said.

But scaling up the city’s talents, improving competitiveness, and constructing more offices are needed to welcome companies looking for viable sites outside of Manila and Cebu.

Joey Bondoc, research manager of the Colliers International-Philippines, told the DAILY STAR yesterday that the firm believes that Bacolod is still a preferred location for outsourcing operations in the country.

In an e-mail, Bondoc said that Colliers has observed that a number of existing voice business process outsourcing (BPO) firms are continuously expanding while some knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) companies are looking at the city as a potential site outside of Metro Manila, he said.

Despite being one of thethe sustained demand from both BPO and traditional companies, and limited upcoming supply, it added.

Tenants and landlords were also urged by Colliers to explore opportunities in the Bacolod port and old airport site that can be redeveloped into mixed-use projects.

CHALLENGES

Colliers said among the challenges that Bacolod will face this year is improving its rank in the global competitiveness surveys and to increase furnished office spaces as the firm sees a lack of buildings in the city ready for occupancy.

In 2018, Bacolod remained as one of the most attractive outsourcing locations in the world after its ranking in the Tholons Top 100 Supercities improved, from 97th in 2017 to 89th last year.

“Further improvement in global competitiveness surveys is crucial if Bacolod is to attract more investors in the near


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Afghanistan has a Trillion Dollars in Minerals, Why the Leak Now?

The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials, NYT reports.

NYT goes on:

The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.

An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a


key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and Blackberries.

The vast scale of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists. The Afghan government and President Hamid Karzai were recently briefed, American officials said.

As NYT notes, this could play out many ways:

...the American officials also recognize that the mineral discoveries will almost certainly have a double-edged impact.

Instead of bringing peace, the new found mineral wealth could lead the Taliban to battle even more fiercely to regain control of the country.

The corruption that is already rampant in the Karzai government could also be amplified by the new wealth, particularly if a handful of well-connected oligarchs, some with personal ties to the president, gain control of the resources. Just last year,mineral wealth, which could upset the United States, given its heavy investment in the region. After winning the bid for its Aynak copper mine in Logar Province, China clearly wants more, American officials said.

It is interesting that this is being leaked to NYT at this time. The NYT story puts heavy emphasis on this being a new discovery by the U.S., but in the same story explains that the Russians were geologically mapping the heavy mineral area, when they were in the region:

In 2004, American geologists, sent to Afghanistan as part of a broader reconstruction effort, stumbled across an intriguing series of old charts and data at the library of the Afghan Geological Survey in Kabul that hinted at major mineral deposits in the country. They soon learned


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NEW YORK -- Wednesday was a very bad day for the Yankees, regardless of the final score of their matinee against the Indians. It wasn't their Waterloo.

The sun will rise on Thursday with New York still holding a healthy lead in the American League East, and with a roster that remains one of the game's best -- even minus two starting pitchers. The task just got harder for the reigning division champs, but it's far from impossible.

CC Sabathia went on the 15-day disabled list in the morning with a mild left groin strain, and he will miss two starts as a result. Three hours later, Andy Pettitte took a more severe blow, suffering a fractured left ankle when Casey Kotchman stung