Meanwhile, the US-led coalition shut down on Tuesday an Iranian-made drone operated by regime forces, in the second such incident after coalition also shut down on June 8 a pro-regime drone. He did not specify, though, whether contacts between the USA and Russian forces are maintained through a channel established in accordance with the memorandum on preventing mid-air incidents and ensuring flights safety.
The seizing of the city by Maute and its allies on the island of Mindanao is the biggest warning yet that the Islamic State is building a base in Southeast Asia and bringing the brutal tactics seen in Iraq and Syria in recent years to the region.
While she'll attend discussions on topics including counter-terrorism, defence co-operation and migration at the two-day summit, she will be asked to leave immediately after she's addressed leaders on Brexit at the end of Thursday's dinner.
The brutal reality is that the conflict in Yemen is an Iran-Saudi proxy war, and the new crown prince one of its architects. Trump and the crown prince additionally "discussed efforts to achieve a lasting peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians and ways to further deepen economic cooperation between the United States and Saudi Arabia ".
Crowley chairs the House Democratic Caucus, and he says it's important to remember that Democrats in those four races were trying to flip Republican strongholds, districts handpicked by the White House as President Trump tapped members of Congress to serve in his administration.
Having called a snap election in the hope of securing an increased majority to deliver Brexit in a "strong and stable" way, Mrs May acknowledged that the outcome was "not the one I hoped for". However, the DUP warned that a deal to win the support of its ten MPs was "certainly not imminent" and that the party "can't be taken for granted".
Duterte set a three day deadline earlier in June, when the military initially estimated it would take just a week to clear militants from the city. A U.S. -joined President Rodrigo Duterte on his official visit to Russian Federation which began on the same day of the attack. The crisis erupted on May 23, when militants from the ISIS-affiliated Maute clan rampaged through Marawi, after the army raided the local hideout of Isnilon Hapilon, the leader of ISIS-affiliated militant group Abu ...
As expected, a Republican also won Tuesday's special election in SC to replace Rep. Mick Mulvaney, now President Trump's budget director. Trump supporters reveled in their victory on Twitter. For many, who spent much of their free time over the past six months volunteering for Ossoff's campaign, it was the finale of their first experience being outspoken and politically involved in a community that's known for being deeply Republican.
Il primo , molto più pratico, li vede fare i conti con una bicicletta e cita il caso del MoMath Museum of Mathematics di New York, il secondo pare sia un normale studio di una funzione . Gli studenti dello Scientifico hanno 6 ore di tempo per risolvere uno dei due problemi e rispondere a 5 quesiti del questionario . Per quanto riguarda la durata, invece, le cose variano a seconda degli istituti scolastici.
His Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt met Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Tuesday and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner was due in the region on Wednesday. Former Presidents of the US Bill Clinton, Barack Obama , and George W. Bush tried to achieve the Israeli-Palestinian peace process but all failed.
It said that although firms based in the United Kingdom and those from other non-EU countries would be able to gain some market share in the short term, they would not be able to benefit from the situation in the long run. "That's been an important issue". Afterward, the 27 other leaders will meet without May to assess the issue themselves. "It's time for action and certainty.
South Sudan descended into war after President Salva Kiir fired his deputy, unleashing a conflict that has spawned armed factions often along ethnic lines. Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau made the announcement while on a four-day trip to South Sudan . Acute malnutrition remains a major public health emergency in several parts of South Sudan , with surveys showing Global Acute Malnutrition prevalence above the World Health Organization's emergency threshold of 15 ...
But on Tuesday, Trump sent a tweet suggesting Xi's efforts had not borne fruit - a message he reiterated before supporters in Iowa. Many raised concerns regarding the health and condition of those still imprisoned in North Korea, and for the people who live there.
Papermaster underlined the company's enthusiasm and ambition, noting that the move had been five years in the making, so it was keen to make a success of it. The firm had revenue of $984 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $984.40 million. During the same period a year ago, the firm earned ($0.12) EPS.
They were the three pills that Cosby told police he gave Constand . He says their sexual encounter was consensual. According to Constand , she was suffering the effects of a significant trauma when she first reported the sexual assault to law enforcement.
Il progresso è al centro del tema di attualità partendo da una citazione di Edoardo Boncinelli (" Per migliorarci serve una mutazione "). "Nel nostro istituto, i ragazzi si sono orientati per lo più sugli argomenti riguardanti la tecnologia".
The news comes following the death of USA student Otto Warmbier on Monday - just days after he was returned to his family in an unconscious state last week after being released by Kim Jong-un's officials for "humanitarian reasons". In an interview Wednesday with CNN in Seoul , Bae said he was threatened a few times during his 735 days in a North Korean prison but never tortured.
Al liceo Scientifico invece per la prova di matematica il primo problema riguarda "le situazioni in cui sia possibile pedalare con una bicicletta a ruote quadrate , citando il caso del MoMath Museum of Mathematics di New York ". Per superare la prova è richiesto di risolvere almeno un problema e di rispondere ad almeno cinque domande. La traccia si focalizza su tre argomenti a noi cari, che abbiamo spesso trattato su queste pagine: una start-up, una piattaforma web ed un servizio ...
He told the crowd that he wants rich people in those positions because they don't need the money, and therefore their sole concern is with working for America. So far it works in his favor precisely because everyone realizes on some plane of their consciousness that it's motivated by horrendous prejudice, and that means his staunchest supporters are nodding along like, "damn, I hate poor people too, so glad someone finally had the BALLS to say it".
Trump has been counting on China to use its economic leverage with the government of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as American concern grows over the North's acceleration toward having a nuclear missile that can strike the USA mainland.
Trump's tweets , particularly his use of the word "if" while describing Russian interference, appear to cast wider doubt over whether or not he believes Russia tried to sway the election. "We wanted to make sure that we were instilling confidence in people that we could conduct a free and fair election", Earnest said. The president has come under harsh criticism by some who claim he threatened to undermine the investigation by firing Comey.
Sterling dipped below $1.26 for the first time in more than two months on Wednesday, deepening this week's losses on signs that Prime Minister Theresa May is still struggling to find the support she needs for her government in parliament.
Mr Collomb said the vehicle was carrying explosives and attempted to ram a police convoy in an "attempted attack" on security forces. Mr Collomb said that the attempted attack shows the threat France is facing is still very high and justifies its ongoing state of emergency , which was first introduced following the November 2015 attacks in Paris .
President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday for the first time that he's being investigated for his role in firing Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey , calling the probe a " witch hunt ". Mueller took over the DOJ Russia probe after a chain of events set in motion by Trump, Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions . An official confirmed to Fox News that Trump was referring to Rosenstein in the statement.
L'Italia può "continuare a contare sulla solidarietà europea" sul fronte della crisi dei migranti, ha intanto rassicurato proprio Juncker. Lo ha detto il premier Paolo Gentiloni nelle comunicazioni in vista del Consiglio Ue in Aula al Senato.
However, he shed his stocks and securities, the report indicates. The disclosure does not reveal when the investments were sold. The disclosure was made in forms released by the Office of Government Ethics. Trump received $7 million in royalties from his several bestselling books - including between $100,000 to $1 million from " The Art of the Deal " - and a $84,000 pension from the Screen Actors Guild.
Il Centro di allerta nazionale ha subito escluso un rischio tsunami, anche l'evento sismico è stato così forte da essere stato avvertito anche in Salvador. Il 12 Giugno scorso, infatti, un terremoto di magnitudo6.4 ha fatto tremare Grecia e Turchia. La protezione civile turca (Afad), aveva spiegato che l'epicentro era in località di Karaburun, nella provincia di Smirne.
Furthermore, the bill cuts more severely into Medicaid than the House version did, though it would allot more time for phasing out the ACA's Medicaid expansion. Under Obama's law, " many of those people would have gotten much more generous plans", she said. Starting in 2020, that threshold would be lowered to 350 percent under the Senate bill - but anyone below that line could get the subsidies if they're not eligible for Medicaid .
Public records researcher Tony Webster obtained a horde of documents and videos late Tuesday related to police officer Jeronimo Yanez's killing of Philando Castile . Images show Diamond Reynolds and her daughter in the back of the police vehicle after the shooting. And although police reform seems a long way off, one can only hope that - if nothing else - the death of Philando Castile will make officers elsewhere think twice before racial profiling someone.
In between, he coached the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League and the Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts of the NFL. He guided the Sun Devils to seven Western Athletic Conference Championships, part of posting a winning season in 19 of his 22 seasons as head coach.
It was a sharp escalation in an area that is essential in operations to secure Iraq's borders and potentially advance toward Deir el-Zour. The U.S. has conducted three airstrikes over the past month against those forces as they entered the deconfliction zone and moved towards At Tanf.
Some people won't like the open-world setting, others maybe will, but this is probably a breath of fresh air that the franchise needed, especially considering how old it is. Dynasty Warriors 9 has an unknown launch date for PS4 (recent comments suggest 2018 at the earliest) and is confirmed for a western release. Trigger Attacks will allow players to start an explosive combo.
Abortion rights groups say these laws encroach on women's reproductive rights , as they give a fetus legal protections while inside a mother's body. Lawmakers were aiming to pass a "fetal homicide" bill, a type of bill that stipulates a murder or manslaughter charge for causing the death of a developing fetus after a certain point in the pregnancy.
Another first to the carmakers credit will be making the complete 1.6L diesel engine in India as now it does not have any product that is powered by this specific diesel motor in the local market. It also does its own machining of connecting rods, which are procured from Sanjo Forge, located in the Neemrana industrial belt of Rajasthan. Overall, it is yet another instance of Indian manufacturing and quality attaining top-notch global standards.
Dominique Heaggan-Brown was acquitted by a jury that deliberated for two days and concluded that he was justified when he shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith last August 23 after a traffic stop. Smith - who had a "lengthy arrest record" - was lying on the ground when he received another shot that killed him. It may have thought the fact that Smith threw his gun away just before being killed gave it hope of obtaining a conviction.


By Matthew Holmes, Joseph Brayne, Steven Narloch, Isaac Stronge, Callum Sutherland and Jacob Findell
It’s a tale of sliding teams this week. Bolton, Salford and Stockport are threatening to slide away from the play-offs, whilst Wigan and Rochdale have been stuck in a permanent slide out of their respective leagues. Surely there has to be a bright spot across Greater Manchester’s footballing scene…
Ipswich Town unceremoniously ended the Wanderers’ 13-match unbeaten streak at home with a comfortable 2-0 victory. A disastrous penalty miss from Dion Charles before the break, as the game lay in the balance at 1-0, proved the death knell for Ian Evatt’s side.
Bolton still enjoy a six-point cushion in the play-off positions, but fans are justifiably nervous about the rocky form of late. Securing just one win in League One in their last five matches, the Wanderer’s have struggled from a worrying mix of fatigue and creative defecits.
Vice-captain, Gethin Jones, is keen for the squad to return to the scorching form of early February that saw The Whites knock five goals past both Peterborough and MK Dons. Speaking after the Ipswich loss, Jones said: “We’ve had some really rough patches here, especially when we were in League Two in that first few months and came out of it promoted.
“We need to need to keep at it and a few of the older lads need to speak to the younger ones and keep them calm and get the confidence back into them.”
An away-day to Hillsborough Stadium awaits Bolton on this Friday before an extended break. Bolton fans are in for a treat when they visit The Owls fearsome fortress – an arena that has has boasted a season average attendance of nearly 25,000.
Darren Moore’s Sheffield Wednesday are in blistering form, sitting three points clear at the top of the table with two games in hand. Josh Windass and Michael Smith are providing the attacking spark, Moore is adeptly game-managing and the fans are playing their hand – Wednesday are a club destined for the Championship.
After slumping to defeat against table-toppers Burnley last week, Wigan produced a more positive last night against in form Coventry City.
The midlands club are now unbeaten in eight games after yesterday’s clash at the colossal DW Stadium. However, goalscoring is still a concern for the Latics, who had to rely on a late Callum McFadzean own goal to salvage a point.
It does not get any easier for Wigan this weekend either as Shaun Maloney’s men travel down to 10th place Watford. The hornets are looking to push for the play-offs after last week’s appointment of Chris Wilder at the helm.
Athletic moved up to 23rd after last night’s draw, but still sit five points from safety. Form in front of goal needs to improve if they stand a chance of survival.
It’s the hope that kills you. After an unexpected, and much-needed, victory against high-flying Stevenage, Rochdale fell back down to Earth last time out with an away defeat at Grimsby.
They weren’t outplayed, as the 1-0 scoreline suggests. But the Mariners weren’t in sparkling form heading into it, so it has to be seen as an opportunity wasted when opportunities are now at a premium.
A return to the Crown Oil Arena represents a small ray of hope, as Rochdale prepare themselves for the visit of Swindon, a team sitting slap bang in the middle of the table.
Swindon haven’t won in three games, so you can put your money on them returning to form against League Two’s bottom side, but Rochdale need to use everyone (mainly me) writing them off as the fuel for an unlikely great escape.
Stockport County finally found their scoring boots once more last weekend, through current top scorer Kyle Wootton, but could still only manage a 1-0 victory against a struggling Colchester side.
The opposition is likely to put up a much fiercer challenge this weekend, as the Hatters welcome promotion pushers Mansfield to Edgeley Park.
Sitting just four points behind County with two games in-hand, they will be eager to plug the gap and breach the play-off places.
With Mansfield having travelled to 4th placed Northampton on Tuesday (Mar 14), in a game they lost and had a man sent off, County will fancy their chances entering the game the fresher side after having a fixture-free midweek.
There is no doubt that County will need to improve on their recent attacking form if they’re to capitalise on what could turn out to be a depleted Mansfield team.
One of Salford’s ownership group, Gary Neville found himself roundly mocked by Crewe Alexandria’s fans last week as the Ammies allowed a 3-2 lead in the 85th minute of the game to become a 4-3 defeat by the full time whistle.
The two sides put on a real show on Friday night, though Salford certainly had the better of the chances and will count themselves unlucky to have returned empty handed.
This was however yet another game in which they have failed to follow up a positive result with another. This inconsistency means Salford now look certain to drop out of the play-off places, especially with Mansfield lurking in eighth, a single point behind and with two games in hand.
Fortunately though for Salford, the teams around them in the play-offs also seem incapable of putting runs of form together. Stockport and Bradford are still just three points ahead so even if the Ammies’ form does not improve they may snag a play-off spot almost by default.
Next weekend will see Neil Wood’s men hosting Doncaster, a tough test but a game that they will be hopeful of winning, especially at the Peninsula Stadium.
It is very much Altrincham on tour at the moment as the Robins are away once again for the sixth match in a row, the seventh time in eight matches.
Following two victories in four days at York, one in the FA Trophy and the other in the league, Altrincham now travel to Hampshire for a match at Eastleigh.
It has been a mixed bag of results for Alty of late with them struggling to put a run of victories together, a familiar theme for their season.
They will be buoyed by the fact that on-loan striker Joe Hugill contributed with a goal on Tuesday night against tough opposition.
Eastleigh come into the fixture sitting just inside the playoff positions. They lost this week to high-flying Notts County.


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one. Skip RMDs for 2020
As a wealth planner, I’m sensitive to how buyers react in a unstable current market. It is really hard to hold viewpoint in the middle of a disaster, especially when there are so several unknowns. At the same time, the present-day situation has designed a number of potential tax-preparing opportunities. The down current market, the passage of the CARES Act (Coronavirus Help, Relief, and Financial Stability) in March 2020, and the establishment of the Protected Act (Location Each individual Neighborhood Up for Retirement Improvement) in December 2019 present a number of techniques for buyers to handle their taxes now and in the potential.
Technique: Take benefit of a CARES Act provision making it possible for you to stay away from getting necessary bare minimum distributions (RMDs) for 2020. If you took RMDs in 2020, you can roll back these amounts by August 31.
How to do it: If you are scheduled to choose your distribution quickly by our RMD Provider, you can terminate any remaining distributions for 2020 at vanguard.com by adhering to these ways:
- Log on to your account.
- From the menu, pick out My Accounts and find Retirement contributions, distributions & RMDs.
- Beneath Retirement summary, pick out Necessary bare minimum distribution.
- Depending on your account kind, find both Adjust RMD provider choice or Delete.
- If you selected Adjust RMD provider choice, find the Calculation only technique on the upcoming webpage. Or if you selected Delete, just pick out Post on the upcoming webpage.
- Reactivate your RMD in 2021.*
Who might advantage: Anyone topic to RMDs (who does not depend on the distribution for revenue). This includes:
- People who turned 70½ prior to 2020, or
- Heirs of an inherited IRA/Roth or retirement plan account topic to RMDs.
If you turned 70½ final yr and delayed your to start with distribution to April one, 2020, you were being necessary to choose two distributions this yr, but now you can waive equally withdrawals.
Specifics: The CARES Act includes a 2020 RMD waiver, an crucial provision to several buyers who have noticed their retirement account values dip considerably in comparison with December 2019, when 2020 RMDs were being calculated. Using distributions throughout a down current market could necessarily mean locking in those current market losses. New retirees are usually stunned at the tax implications of RMDs, which can have an affect on taxes on rewards like Social Stability and Medicare sections B & D rates. The CARES Act presents aid, at minimum in the small time period. It also provides an opportunity to hold your property invested in the current market so your portfolio has the opportunity to advantage from a recovery.
Possible risks: If you can pay for to waive your RMDs, there’s very little draw back. Of study course, leaving your money invested instead of getting distributions carries usual current market risks.
two. Make investments in a Roth IRA (if you qualify) in 2019 and 2020
Technique: Select a Roth IRA about a common IRA, if you qualify. Acquire benefit of reduced tax rates and the extended deadline for 2019 contributions, which is now July 15, 2020.
Who might advantage: Investors with acquired revenue who are eligible to contribute to a Roth IRA. To contribute the optimum amount ($six,000 $7,000 if you are 50 and older), people should have a modified adjusted gross revenue (AGI) of fewer than $139,000. Partners qualify with a modified AGI of fewer than $206,000. In 2020, your revenue could be lessen owing to layoffs and furloughs relevant to the COVID-19 outbreak. It is not constantly real looking to believe about investing for the potential in the midst of a world-wide disaster. On the other hand, some buyers who don’t qualify below usual situation might be able to choose benefit of the opportunity to invest in a Roth.
Specifics: If you are striving to make your mind up among a Roth vs. a common IRA, believe about irrespective of whether it helps make a lot more feeling for you to fork out taxes now (Roth) vs. afterwards (common). If you foresee earning a lot more and paying greater revenue taxes in the potential, you might want to think about a Roth. A lot of people today will experience greater taxes just after the TCJA of 2018 (Tax Cuts and Careers Act) sunsets at the stop of 2025. In addition, the Protected Act altered stretch IRA regulations for several non-husband or wife beneficiaries to a ten-yr payout. The result: Your revenue taxes will possible be lessen in 2020 than your own and your heirs’ revenue tax rates in the potential. Maintain in thoughts that a Roth IRA gives a lot more versatility than a common IRA does. Withdrawals of contributions are tax- and penalty-totally free anytime—you don’t have to hold out right until you are age 59½. To withdraw revenue-tax-totally free earnings, you should hold out right until you have achieved age 59½ and have held the account for at minimum 5 several years.
Possible risks: A Roth is a versatile retirement account. On the other hand, due to the fact potential tax guidelines can constantly modify, I advise diversifying your portfolio with a combine of tax-deferred and Roth accounts in addition to taxable accounts.
3. Change your common IRA to a Roth IRA
Technique: Change a common IRA to a Roth IRA to choose benefit of lessen revenue and lessen taxes in 2020.
Who might advantage: People invested in a common IRA, which includes retirees who don’t have to choose an RMD in 2020 owing to the CARES Act, as effectively as buyers who are nonetheless working and earning revenue previously mentioned the Roth threshold.
Specifics: When you transform a common IRA to a Roth IRA, you are getting a distribution from a common IRA, paying taxes at your ordinary revenue charge, and then opening a Roth IRA with the remainder. When you do a conversion, you are not topic to an early withdrawal penalty, even if you are below age 59½. This kind of conversion is most useful to buyers who could experience substantial RMDs in the future—Roth IRAs (with the exception of inherited Roth IRAs**) aren’t topic to RMDs. Converting to a Roth can also assistance you acquire tax diversification, due to the fact you don’t have to fork out taxes on Roth earnings when you withdraw them in retirement.
Possible risks: There’s a likelihood you could stop up paying a lot more taxes now than you would have if you’d still left the money in a common IRA. You might want to think about the adhering to variables:
- Timing. Existing current market volatility helps make it virtually extremely hard to know the very best time to transform, but now might be a superior time if your retirement account values are down. A lot of buyers stagger many conversions all through the yr.
- Legacy preparing. Acquire into account your heirs’ revenue tax situations—under the Protected Act, they might be topic to greater revenue taxes than you are. Cash flow taxes compensated on a Roth conversion can be deemed “additional gifts” designed to your heirs, and the taxes you fork out lower the gross amount of your estate, which could maximize the wealth you pass on to your heirs. Consult with a capable tax advisor about your own situation.
- Motivation. In the previous, you could undo a Roth conversion—also acknowledged as recharacterization—through the extended owing day of your tax returns. Which is no extended the case. Once you transform a common IRA to a Roth IRA, you just cannot reverse it.
Maintain factors in viewpoint
I’m in the glass-fifty percent-full camp who thinks volatility is short-term, and the marketplaces will get well at some point. In the meantime, I’m seeking for expenditure opportunities in the present-day current market, employing the information I have, to make the very best of a challenging situation.
*If you terminate an automatic distribution this yr, you’ll have to reactivate it in 2021 to assistance assure you choose your full RMD for upcoming yr. Ordinarily, there can be a 50% federal penalty tax on any RMD amount that’s not dispersed. If you’d like to terminate your RMDs this yr but quickly restart them in 2021, call us at 800-662-2739 on business days from eight a.m. to eight p.m., Eastern time. We’d be joyful to assistance you or response any inquiries you might have.
**Beneath the Protected Act, heirs frequently have ten several years to deplete their inherited retirement strategies, which includes Roth IRAs.
All investing is topic to danger, which includes the possible loss of the money you invest.
Diversification does not assure a income or safeguard from a loss.
Withdrawals from a Roth IRA are tax-totally free if you are about age 59½ and have held the account for at minimum 5 several years withdrawals taken prior to age 59½ or 5 several years might be topic to ordinary revenue tax or a ten% federal penalty tax, or equally. (A individual 5-yr interval applies for each individual conversion and starts on the to start with working day of the yr in which the conversion contribution is designed).
We advise that you consult a tax or economical advisor about your unique situation.

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Blackfoot Man Sentenced to 24 Years in Federal Prison Following Convictions for Distribution and Possession of Child Pornography
POCATELLO – Danny Henderson, 42, of Burley, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for possessing, distributing, and receiving child pornography, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also imposed 15 years of supervised release. Henderson pleaded guilty on February 10, 2016.
According to the plea agreement, on June 5 and 6, 2015, Henderson sent fifteen images of sexually exploitative images of minors via Twitter Direct Messaging, receiving in exchange eighteen images. A subsequent search of his residence revealed several computers with numerous sexually exploitive images of minors. Henderson admitted that he possessed the images, knowing the images contained visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and also knowing that production of such visual depictions involved the use of minors in sexually explicit conduct. Henderson was previously convicted of lewd conduct with a child under 16 in 2002.
The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc. For more information about internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab “resources.”

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Big Laurel Creek bumps its way to the French Broad River and scoops out a series of pools just right for a family trip. At the top is a basin scaled for the little dippers. About one-half mile farther down is a good looking pool with a nice sand beach and two-thirds of a mile farther on is a steep, deep place with a famous rope swing that’ll make kids over 12 go nuts…but that’s on the following page.
Paddlers call the middle spot Suddy Hole. It’s a head-high drop, below which is a hydraulic that boaters consider dangerous at higher levels. Best safety rule is that, if you see lots of foam in the water, from which the feature likely gets its name, then stay out. Another good measure of safety is look for a small beach downstream. It’s a crescent of sand at the top of a quiet pool, one of the few streamside places on Big Laurel where you can stretch out.
The creek drains 130 square miles and residents may not be too discriminating about what they toss into the creek. I found more than a couple of auto parts that’d floated downstream and a week earlier a local environmental group had collected more than one dozen bags of trash in the three miles between the highway and the confluence with the French Broad. Nevertheless, it’s a venerable summer gathering place and none of the locals I spoke to expressed concern about the healthfulness of the water.
The walk in is mild, most of it along an old rail grade that closely parallels the creek.

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The money comes from the $45 billion organization Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan started last year to advance human potential and equality. The project will bring together teams of scientists and engineers “to build new tools for the scientific community” Priscilla Chan said on stage at an event in San Francisco.
Part of the $3 billion will go to a $600 million investment in Biohub, a new physical location that which will unite researchers from Stanford, Berkeley, and UCSF with elite engineers to find new ways to treat disease.
The USA spends 50x more on treating people who are sick than curing diseases so people don’t get sick.
Cori Bargmann, a neuroscientist from The Rockefeller University and the new head of Chan Zuckerberg’s science program, came out to explain how the $3 billion will be spent.
The majority of deaths are caused by heart disease, infectious disease, neurological disease, and cancer, so those are the areas where the program will concentrate its efforts.
The CZS will focus on building “transformational technologies” that could drive significant leaps in treatment and prevention. Zuckerberg said “It’s actually pretty easy to imagine what new tools we need to develop to make progress on the four major disease categories”.
The $3 billion investment will be spent over the next decade. For some perspective, it’s worth noting that the fiscal 2016 budget for the National Institutes of Health is more than $31 billion.
SOURCES- ChanZuckerberg Initiative, TuckCrunch
Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.
Known for identifying cutting edge technologies, he is currently a Co-Founder of a startup and fundraiser for high potential early-stage companies. He is the Head of Research for Allocations for deep technology investments and an Angel Investor at Space Angels.
A frequent speaker at corporations, he has been a TEDx speaker, a Singularity University speaker and guest at numerous interviews for radio and podcasts. He is open to public speaking and advising engagements.


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No matter how often you apply sunscreen, prolonged sun exposure can wreak havoc on your skin. The result: Photoaging. The technical term for sun damage, photoaging occurs "when the ultraviolet light from the sun and or tanning beds permanently damages the structures of the skin," says Margarita Lolis, MD, a board-certified dermatologist at Schweiger Dermatology Group in New Jersey. Signs include brown spots, wrinkles, broken capillaries, and uneven skin texture (oh my!)—and the delicate skin under your eyes is one of the first places these concerns can start to show up. One of the best ways to repair photoaged skin in this area is by using an undereye cream, which is where Isdin's K-Ox Eyes ($97) swoops in.
The formula heroes four key ingredients: vitamin K, haloxyl, eyeliss, and hyaluronic acid. "Vitamin K stimulates the creation of collagen and blood vessels, which helps with wound healing," Dr. Lolis says. It also has antioxidant activity, fighting free radicals and environmental stressors, adds Elaine F. Kung, MD, a New York-based dermatologist. Meanwhile, haloxyl promotes firmness and reduces discoloration, eyeliss (a plant-based peptide) reduces puffiness and improves elasticity, and hylauronic acid draws water into the skin barrier to deliver plumper, smoother, more-hydrated skin. These ingredients work in tandem to reduce the appearance of dark circles, combat puffiness, and even out skin tone.
Given this, it's no surprise that Isdin shoppers rave about the results the cream delivers. "I really love this eye cream. Once I apply it on my skin, [it] absorbs it right away. I have noticed that my dark circles are less noticeable," says one customer. Another notes, "I love this product. Saw visible results within the first two weeks and incorporated [it] into my skin-care routine seamlessly,"
The cream comes in a 0.5-ounce tube (perfect for taking with you on the go) with a built-in cooling ceramic applicator. To use it, apply a small pump of product, roughly the size of a grain of rice, onto your fingertips. Rub the product between your fingers and gently dab under the eye.
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Poland has confirmed reports that 21 wild boars have died near the German border as a result of African swine fever.
The outbreak happened in western Poland, the country's agriculture minister said on Wednesday (4 December).
Government officials have now installed a 34-mile fence around the infected area, the Associated Press reported.
Local hunters have also been given the go-ahead to kill all wild boars near the town of Zielona Gora, it added.
Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski, the agriculture minister, said ASF has not been found in livestock.
He noted how there has been more than 2,000 swine fever cases found in wild boar this year alone in Poland, with the vast majority near the Ukrainian border.
However, the most recent outbreak takes the disease ever closer to neighbouring Germany, one of the EU’s biggest pig producers and a major exporter.
It comes as the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) warned that no countries are safe from the spread of African swine fever.
Dr Monique Eloit, General Directorate of the OIE, said the world is 'facing a threat that is global'.


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There comes a time in self-publishing when an author will decide that the old covers just aren't cutting it. They want—NEED a change.
Now, for most, it doesn't matter. The expense of hiring a new cover designer, or even rehiring the old one, is too much to consider. Especially when there are more than one or two covers to redo.
Then there are those of us who try to do absolutely everything ourselves. I'm one of those control freaks. I do my own covers. Over and over and over again.
This time, however, I finally nailed it. Without further ado, it's time for the OFFICIAL COVER REVEAL!
Here they all are, my lovelies. These are the ones currently published. There is a new cover for Spellbound too (the book that has been removed from publication and renamed Entangled), and there are two completed covers for two unreleased Regencies in this series. I will share those when the time comes. wink, wink
That is all for today, my lovelies. I just wanted to share my new covers with you. They've been changed everywhere here on the website, as well as in stores. Amazon finally updated the books' pages to reflect the new covers. I'm considering changing all the paperbacks too, but I haven't made a final decision on that yet. We'll see.
Thanx for stopping by! Much love! ♥
Wanna see 'em in the stores? Here are the links...
My former author blog still exists and has a lot of Regency related posts, as well as story excerpts. Click HERE to check it out.
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I am . . .
♥ My Lady Coward
♥ Entangled (Spellbound)
♥ Forgotten, and other Heartless tales
Sable's Morbidly Dark Regency World:
• Crossing the Channel*
• Unwilling Protector*
• Assassin's Keeper
• The Dragon's Birth
• The Fold
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Lampard is expected to become the eighth England player to reach 100 caps in the crucial World Cup qualifier with Ukraine in Kiev.
It will be another milestone in a magnificent career that has seen the 35-year-old win three Premier League titles, four FA Cups and captain Chelsea to glory in both the Champions League and Europa League.
The doubts expressed so early in his career have all been answered.
But Lampard has never forgotten them, especially one particular afternoon when he accompanied then manager Harry Redknapp to a fans' forum in Romford and found himself the subject of a pointed attack from the relative of a player who had just been released.
"I'll never forget it," said Lampard.
"Everyone has their opinions. He voiced them at a young kid. I thought that was wrong.
"I know exactly who it was but there are no individual gripes.
"He's probably quite tough anyway being from east London.
"But some people do forget it was tough, or they try to change history and say it wasn't like that.
"It was. I had the nepotism one thrown at me regularly there and as a kid I found it quite hard to deal with.
"Certainly that day I did."
Any idea Lampard was getting an easy ride because of his dad was misguided anyway.
Even now, Frank senior is never scared of offering an opinion.
"He won't praise me for the big things I do but he will have a go at me for not tracking a runner or doing the basic dirty work," said Lampard.
"He will ask me if I have been doing my sprints in the week.
"I am 35 for God's sake. I just humour him nowadays.
"Dad put that work ethic in me, though.
"As a youngster, he always made me very aware of my weaknesses. He would go on about my pace, getting in the box, scoring goals.
"He let me know there was no easy way to get there. It was extra runs, extra hours practising shooting and finishing. It became ingrained in me.
"In my younger years he probably bullied me into it a bit.
"I didn't always like it but I can't thank him enough for it now."


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Belgrade, January 18, 2012
SERBIA – EU
JEREMIC TO MEET WESTERWELLE ON MONDAY
BELGRADE, Jan. 17 (Tanjug) - Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic announced he will meet his German colleague Guido Westerwelle in Brussels next Monday and stressed that Belgrade communicated intensively with Germany."We work closely together and communicate intensively with Germany. We are trying to find common ground," Jeremic stated commenting on Berlin's negative stand on Serbia getting the status of a candidate for EU membership during the EU summit back in December.To Serbia, that ground is clearly outlined, Jeremic pointed out, adding that the government's "red lines will not shift.""I hope it is going to be possible to reach an agreement wthin that ground. If it is not possible, we will move on, but the priorities are known," he told TV Prva.This government will not change its policy on Kosovo or its stand regarding UN Resolution 1244, Jeremic remarked, adding that the policy was based on the Constitution and parliament decisions."Those who wish to change the Kosovo policy will have an opportunity to suggest that to the people of Serbia in the next few months, and if they gain support for it, then they will be able to do it. Until then, there is no policy changing," Jeremic stated.When it comes to Resolution 1244, "there is no room for compromise and neither will there be any," he emphasized.Resolution 1244 can only be rescinded by the UN SC, and there is no majority agreement within the council to do something like that, nor is there support from Russia and China, two permanent members of the council, the minister explained."Many say that reality needs to be acknowledged when it comes to Kosovo, and Resolution 1244 is an important part of that reality," he concluded.
MAAS: REQUIREMENTS FOR CANDIDACY CAN BE MET
BELGRADE, Jan. 17 (Tanjug) - Ambassador of Germany to Serbia Wolfram Maas said that the conditions for candidate status set by the EU Council to Serbia can be met until the next Council meeting and underlined the significance of an agreement on regional representation of Pristina. In a statement to Tanjug, Maas pointed out that noone requires of Belgrade abandonment of the UN Resolution 1244. Maas estimated that, with the necešary goodwill, it is pošible to fulfill the set preconditions so that in Marc, the EU Council can decide in favor of the status of Serbia.A statement by Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic at Monday's ambašadorial conference that it is pošible that Serbia will not get EU candidate status in Marc if it is required to abandon the UN Security Council Resolution 1244, Maas said he has not heard that someone demanded that from Belgrade.Maas said that he knew only that Pristina and Belgrade have different views on the resolution, and that Pristina, unlike Belgrade, perhaps attaces more significance to some other documents.In his opinion, the problem of different views can be overcome.We expect normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina. It is a long-term goal, the Ambašador of Germany said.
KOSOVO AND METOHIJA
STEFANOVIC: KOSOVO REPRESENTATION MUST BE BASED ON RESOLUTION
KRALJEVO, Jan. 17 (Tanjug) - The issue of Kosovo's regional representation should be solved as soon as possible, but the solution can only be based on UN Security Council Resolution 1244, head of Belgrade's team in the talks with Pristina Borislav Stefanovic reiterated.At a forum organized by the Democratic Party in Kraljevo Tuesday night, he stressed Pristina is already represented in 96 percent of regional organizations and it is important that the plaque which stands in front of their delegation say "Resolution 1244," and not something that would prejudice Kosovo's independence.Stefanovic announced an agreement between insurance companies is expected by the end of January, so people will no longer have to pay car insurance when crossing the administrative line.He also said the referendum, at which people in four municipalities in northern Kosovo will vote whether they accept the Kosovo institutions, is unnecessary as it achieves nothing.Stefanovic also underlined that the agreements reached with Pristina in no way violate the Serbian Constitution or undermine the country's integrity.He said it is good the talks are facilitated by the EU and not the Security Council, which has allowed the UNMIK Mission to go from 7,500 members in Kosovo to 74.The Security Council also approved all reports by its representatives which have enabled Kosovo to have its own license plates, police and customs."If EULEX had not been brought to Kosovo, there would be nobody standing between (Kosovo's Prime Minister) Hasim Taci and the Kosovo Serbs," Stefanovic said.He said the "both Kosovo and EU" policy is not simple, but that Serbia cannot give up either.At the end, Stefanovic said he is pleased the forum was held in Kraljevo and that he was able to give additional explanations about the dialogue with Pristina in the city which has become the new home to over 20,000 Serbs from Kosovo since 1999.
REEKER: NO PARTY CAN TAKE LAW INTO ITS OWNS HANDS
PRISTINA, Jan. 17 (Beta) - U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Philip Reeker said in Pristina that no party had a right to take the law into its own hands. Commenting on protests organized by the SelfDetermination Movement held last week at crossings towards central Serbia, he said in an interview with Kosovo state TV that this was not an acceptable way to express opinions and that the movement's aim had been to limit freedom of movement and free trade. Reeker described the protest as unacceptable and welcomed what he called a "professional police response." Commenting on the north of Kosovo, he said that no changes of borders, partitions, or exchanges of territories in the region were possible. Reeker went on to say that Serbs in southern Kosovo were citizens of a free and democratic Kosovo and would be integrated with Kosovo society. During his twoweek tour of the region, which lasts until Jan. 26, Reeker will also visit Belgrade, U.S. Embassy sources told. The U.S. official, who started his tour with a visit to Turkey on Jan. 12, visited Kosovo on Jan. 16, from where travel to Macedonia, followed by Serbia. Reeker will end with a visit to Austria Jan. 26.
UK AMBASSADOR: SERBIA MUST END PARALLEL BODIES IN KOSOVO
PRISTINA, Jan. 16 (Beta) - The UK will not oppose dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina about a plan proposed by Serbian President Boris Tadic if Belgrade fulfills existing conditions and eliminates parallel government structures, the British ambassador in Pristina, Ian Cliff, stated on Jan. 17. Cliff said that the UK would not oppose Tadic's plan for Kosovo because the proposal was in accordance with the Ahtisaari plan. Tadic recently presented a fourpoint plan for dealing with Serb monasteries in Kosovo, guarantees for Serbs living in enclaves, Serbian state and private property in Kosovo, and the matter of northern Kosovo. Cliff said the plan was a good one because all four issues were already covered in detail by the Ahtisaari plan. He added there was always room for dialogue and that "we should not forget that Ahtisaari's plan enables the Serb community in Kosovo to maintain special ties with Belgrade," Cliff said. The British ambassador in Pristina said that, before going on to the new plan, both sides should continue their current talks in Brussels, implement existing agreements and make progress in regional cooperation.
RUSSIA CONDUCTING OWN KOSOVO ORGAN TRAFFICKING PROBE
MOSCOW, Jan. 16 (Beta) - Russia could be able to prove that the authorities in Kosovo are illegitimate and might have links with organized crime and illegal trafficking in human organs, Moscow media reported on Jan. 17.They said that a trial in Kosovo of individuals charged with illegal transplantations and smuggling of human organs is nearing completion, and that the perpetrators allegedly acted under the patronage of local officials. "Russia is conducting its own investigation and some significant evidence has been collected. The Russian Foreign Ministry insists that the State Prosecutor's Office surrender this evidence to the EU, but this has not yet taken place," the media added. By request of the Foreign Ministry, the Investigation Committee of Russia initiated a criminal investigation in 2011, and found several victims of illegal transplantations, whose testimonies could be of significance for the outcome of the trial in Pristina, Russian media reported.
NATO MILITARY COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS KOSOVO
BRUSSELS, Jan. 16 (Beta) - The NATO Military Committee will convene in Brussels on Jan. 1819 to review the situation in Afghanistan and Kosovo, a statement released by NATO headquarters said.Top NATO military commanders, including Erhard Drews, and EULEX chief Xavier Bout de Marnhac, will discuss Kosovo on Jan. 19, BETA learned from NATO Military Committee media representative Tom Monballiu. Monballiu said that, depending on how the discussion went, a statement could be released with information on other NATO operations in the world. He stressed that the present plan was to have Gen. Knud Bartels brief reporters on Jan. 19 on the Military Committee's conclusions.
KACIN: THESE PROTESTS ARE PROMOTING ISOLATION OF KOSOVO
PRAGUE, Jan. 17 (Tanjug) - Vice Chair of the European Parliament (EP) Delegation to South-East Europe Jelko Kacin qualified attempts of the Self-Determination movement to block entry of Serbian goods in Kosovo as a provocation by the movement's leader, Aljbin Kurti, stressing that such actions are contrary to the European values.Kacin said in a statement for Radio Free Europe that Saturday's action was a provocation by Aljbin Kurti, in which protesters were manipulated.He underlined that the event is similar to the one which took place a few months ago in north Kosovo when Serbs blocked magistrate roads.According to Kacin, the Self-Determination's protest under the motto 'Serbia will not pass through' promotes blockage of interstate relations, and is therefore quite the opposite of the basic values of the EU.These protests are promoting isolation of Kosovo, and their goal is to thwart Kosovo's EU efforts, he said.Kacin believes that this action seems like a gesture of Self-Determination's solidarity with Serbs' barricades in north Kosovo.I do not want to draw a parallel, but just to explain how this action could be viewed. It was counter-productive both for Kosovo, and Aljbin Kurti and his Self-Determination movement, Kacin concluded.
SERBIA – REGION
SERBIA SENDS PROTEST NOTE TO MONTENEGRO
BELGRADE, Jan. 17 (Tanjug) - Serbia sent a protest note to Montenegro on the occasion of the recently published text by writer, columnist, and current adviser to the Montenegrin parliament speaker Andrej Nikolaidis, Tanjug learnt at the Serbian government.Reactions to Nikolaidis' text arrived from Belgrade and Podgorica almost simultaneously.Serbian Ambassador in Podgorica Zoran Lutovac sent the protest note to the Montenegrin Foreign Ministry, while the Serbian Foreign Ministry voiced its protest to the Montenegrin Ambassador in Belgrade Igor Jovovic.To mark the 20th anniversary of the constitution of Republika Srpska (RS), Nikolaidis published a text in which he expressed regret over the fact that Bozidar Stanisljevic did not use the weapons discovered in the Banja Luka's sports hall Borik.It would have been a civilisational breakthrough if Stanisavljevic had used the dynamite and guns he hid in the hall where head of state, spiritual leaders and artists were celebrating the 20th anniversary of RS, had he been a dissatisfied worker who realised that national and religious antagonisms are only a mask under which the elite is concealing fundamental antagonism present in every society, the one attached to the class, Nikolaidis stated in the text published on internet portal Analitika.Political leadership of Serbia and RS and the leaders of the Serbian Orthodox Church were gathered for the ceremony to mark two decades of RS existence in the Banja Luka hall Borik.
BIH PROSECUTION DECISION SHOWS SELECTIVE JUSTICE
BELGRADE, Jan. 17 (Tanjug) - The decision of the Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Prosecutor's Office to stop the investigation against Ejup Ganic and 13 more suspects in the Dobrovoljacka case in Sarajevo shows that justice is being implemented selectively which does not contribute to the reconciliation in the region, Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric told.Pointing out that the Serbian Prosecutor's Office is continuing the war crimes investigation in the Dobrovoljacka case, Vekaric noted that it is much more clear now why the BiH Prosecutor's Office kept refusing to sign the Agreement on mutual transfer of evidence which would make it possible for the evidence of both sides to merge and thus close the crime cases more promptly.The BiH side demonstrated that it lacked the wish to provide its evidence in the Dobrovoljacka case but the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's Office will continue investigating, Vekaric stated and noted that the decision of the BiH Prosecutor's Office does not contribute to paving the path to reconciliation in the region, especially not to ensuring justice for the victims.The BiH Prosecutor's Office stopped the proceedings against Ejup Ganic and 13 more suspects in the Dobrovoljacka case in Sarajevo on Tuesday because the findings did not establish existence of any elements of crimes in the actions of the indictees.Seven individuals were killed and 14 more wounded in the attack in the Dobrovoljacka Street in May 1992.The investigation into the action will go on since there is grounded suspicion that a war crime was committed because the victims were targeted by open fire after they had been disabled to fight and were seated in an ambulance.In keeping with the BiH Criminal Procedure Code, the decision on interruption of the investigation can be appealed before the office of the chief prosecutor, the Prosecutor's Office released.
DACIC CONFIRMS SEVERAL STATE OFFICIALS THREATENED
BELGRADE, Jan. 17 (Beta) - Interior Minister Ivica Dacic confirmed that several state officials had received threatening messages, stressing that the reports were being checked and that matter was being taken extremely seriously. "The security of state officials and public figures whose lives are in danger is regularly tended to. These reports need to be given the utmost significance and taken into account when making security estimates," Dacic told B92 TV, stressing that was no other country in the world had so many people who had been assigned security personnel. He stressed that according to agents, threatening messages and letters "are a daily occurrence" and that police were cooperating with the Security and Information Agency and Military Security Agency to ensure that state officials stayed safe. Some outlets reported that police had been tipped off on a plot to assassinate President Boris Tadic, Patriarch Irinej, Dacic and Police Director Milorad Veljovic.
LAVROV: MOSCOW CALLED CLOSURE OF TRUBUNAL ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS
MOSCOW, Jan. 17 (Tanjug) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Moscow that Russia stands ready to offer Serbia assistance in connection with the case of Vojislav Seselj, who is in The Hague Trubunal, and once more criticised the work of the court, stressing that Russia has on several occasions called for its closure.From the contacts with the Serbian side, it is known that Seselj is not complaining about his position, Lavrov said at a press conference, adding that Moscow is ready to offer adequate assistance, in line with the agreement on legal assistance reached with Serbia.Recalling that Russia has been urging for quite a long time that the Tribunal should be closed, since, as he put it, the court has fulfilled all its functions in not so impeccable manner, Lavrov drew attention to the existence of double standards when it comes to the cases of Bosnian Serbs and Muslims.In that context, he pointed to the case of former president Slobodan Milosevic, who died in The Hague Tribunal.We all know the fate of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, even though doctors were asking the judges to provide him with the necessary medical treatment and we know that many defendants, mostly Serbs, are being severely treated, with no justification for such an attitude, and trials against them last indefinitely, Lavrov said.The Russian foreign minister recalled the Medicus case, an investigation into illegal trade in human organs in Kosovo, stressing that Russia would seek the case to be tried to the very end.Lavrov noted that the issue had first been raised in a book by former Hague prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, titled "The Hunt: Me and War Criminals", where she had first spoken about the "black transplantology" in Kosovo, adding that the people had been kidnapped in 1999 and 2000 in Kosovo and taken to Albania where their organs were removed. Dick Marty wrote a report on the issue, which is now being discussed in the UN at various levels. The Russian foreign minister is giving a press conference in Moscow, summing up the results of last year's work. Media interest for the conference is very high, with a total of 300 journalists from 160 foreign and local media accredited, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.


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Brooklyn Born Chocolate
Brooklyn Born® Chocolate was founded in 2005 as a Brooklyn-based private label confectionary manufacturer offering fine chocolates in fully tailored custom packages. Our company thrived by developing strong local business-to-business partnerships with Fortune 100 companies, luxury hotels and resorts, gourmet markets and specialty food stores within the New York City area.
Executive Pastry Chef Jean-François Bonnet chooses only the finest all natural ingredients for Brooklyn Born® Chocolate’s premium product line. Chef Bonnet’s signature confections blend exotic fruits, spices and herbs with all-American ingredients, including peanuts, crispy rice and graham crackers.
Our staff is as special and diverse as our products. Many members of the Brooklyn Born® Chocolate family are given a second chance through community based programs such as Strive, Goodwill and The Fortune Society. Each and every Brooklyn Born® Chocolate employee understands that he or she is an integral part of our growth and our success.
As Brooklyn Born® Chocolate approaches it’s tenth anniversary, we look back and celebrate our unwavering dedication to quality, our development of a Brooklyn Born® Chocolate company brand line, and last but hardly least, our ongoing dedication to establish new B2B partnerships on a local and national level.

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The Odyssey Dance Theatre is out of this world, and you can experience the magic when you get Odyssey Dance Theatre tickets to watch the talented slew of dancers come waltzing right onto center stage! Tickets to see this company of professional dancers live are available now, so get ‘em today and secure your seat in the audience when the Odyssey Dance Theatre comes to town!
Utah-based dance organization Odyssey Dance Theatre employs a handful of the nation’s most gifted dancers in a theatrical dance masterpiece, and this slew of artists always has dancing on the mind! Odyssey Dance Theatre made its New York debut in 2007, and ever since then the company has danced on stages around the globe, including performances in Beijing, China during the 2008 Summer Olympics.
When it comes to dance performance tour tickets, one name stands above the rest: Odyssey Dance Theatre. This Utah-based organization employs the nation’s best dancers as magnificent entertainers and graceful performers, and now Odyssey Dance Theatre is putting on a performance near you, so get tickets to the dramatic dancing extravaganza today!

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April 12, 2004
The following story was written by Jenffer A. Jay from Whitehorse, Yukon. Jenffer has been going to Yukon Learn ever since 1985 when it was known as Project Wordpower. Jenffer has been writing stories and songs for many years and also draws her own comic strip called "Miss J and the AM". Her stories and cartoons have been printed in the Learner to Learner Newsletter. She enjoys volunteering at many Yukon Learn events including the PGI Golf Tournaments.
Peaceful music of a relaxing night down at the lake
With the wildlife singing to you, as you watch the sunset
Feel one with your world
And as you fish for the lake trout, you float around the lake
It is your time to relax and let the troubles of your world float away with the sound
of the lake
In the morning, you feel good and fresh and ready for the day.
[This story was taken from the Yukon Learn website, in the Story of the Month section.]


Re/code is reporting Apple’s acquisition of Beats Electronics may not be finalized until next week. Original rumors pegged the deal to close this week at the earliest, although there’s been no word from either company on the issue. “Apple’s planned deal to buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion may not be finalized until next week, according to people familiar with the transaction. That’s a longer timetable than some people expected as recently as a few days ago,” reports Peter Kafka.
Beats deal may not come until next week
By Nick Guy


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text: When Thomas is sent to his room for showing off and making a mess in his mother's kitchen, he climbs out the window and has a dangerous adventure on the river, in a story based on the common sequence of anger followed by the realization that, even with discipline, home is best. Thomas is either a boy-shaped opossum or some sort of animal-headed boy, a puzzle symptomatic of the book's logical shortcomings: he behaves like any imaginative, and therefore mischievous, boy; but the details in both text and illustrations are a blend of fantasy and reality. Banished to his room on a lovely spring afternoon, he escapes to make a raft with the help of pocketknife, twine, and chewing gum to support the mast. The landscape where Thomas has his escapade, while a decorative blend of delicate line and watercolor hues, is also a blend of ordinary and fantastic flora and such details as a stylized stone wall that would probably topple in the real world. Nonetheless, this small book is a nice piece of design, with amusing vignettes decorating the text and cheerfully escaping the bounds of the frames. Thomas falls off his raft, is rescued by Mr. Badger, sneaks back to his room, damper but not much wiser, and is given another bath. At best, he's hoodwinked his mother who thinks an afternoon's reading has taught him a needed lesson. Young readers may enjoy the irony--and the easy text--but this is slight fare.

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PRINCETON, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Members of the Mercer County Commission assembled on Tuesday for the commission’s Regular Session meeting at which a proposed leash ordinance was considered once again.
Such an ordinance has been vigorously pursued for many months by Commissioner Greg Puckett, who has brought variations on the proposed law before the commission several times – the most recent instance after which the commissioner declared the ordinance to be, “dead.”
Commissioners Buckner and Archer have long taken issue with what has been characterized as a lack of enforceability as pertaining to the ordinance. Following a reading of the ordinance itself in its most recent form on Tuesday, both Buckner and Archer remained distinctly silent when the time came for a seconding of the motion to be heard in order for the ordinance to pass.
When asked if the ordinance should be brought before the commission at a later date, Archer indicated that the ordinance would still likely be unacceptable in its current form at a later date. Puckett then declared that he would not be bringing the proposal before the commission again until such a time as he was asked to do so.
With regard to a lack of enforceability, Puckett claims that he has spoken with law enforcement and that the ordinance would be enforceable. Archer, conversely, asserts that his most recent interactions with such officials gave indication that the ordinance would in fact not be enforceable.
Despite appearing outwardly frustrated as a result of what has become a prolonged and ultimately futile undertaking, Puckett appears to have come to terms with the decision of his colleagues not to pursue the leash law ordinance at the present time.

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Priceline Forecast Disappoints as China, France Travel Slowsby
Shares fall most in six months, wiping out 2016 gains
TripAdvisor also falls after missing analyst profit estimates
Only one week back into his old job, Priceline Group Inc.’s Interim Chief Executive Officer, Jeffery Boyd, has his work cut out for him.
Shares in the online travel giant tumbled the most in six months Wednesday after it projected second-quarter earnings that fall short of analysts’ estimates, blaming an earlier Easter holiday, costly new advertising campaigns and weakened demand for travel to France and China. Similar issues with international travel and greater investments affected TripAdvisor Inc., which tumbled in extended trading after reporting earnings that missed estimates.
Priceline said its second-quarter profit won’t be higher than $12.50 a share compared with the average analyst estimate was $14.92, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The main reason for the dip in the forecast is the fact that Easter, and the corresponding travel bump, came in the first quarter whereas it usually falls in the second, Boyd said in a phone interview. That shifted around $40 million in profit to the first three months of the year, he said.
Boyd, who ran the company from 2002 to 2013, was thrust back into the CEO role when Darren Huston resigned last week after the company said he broke its code of conduct by having a personal relationship with an employee. Boyd will be challenged to keep up growth at Priceline as global economic weakness, consolidation among hotel companies and competition from disruptors like Airbnb Inc., threaten the online travel industry.
The impact of the Easter shift was bigger than analysts had expected, Mandeep Singh, an analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence, said in an interview. Still, there are other factors playing into the weakened outlook, such as continued declines in the average daily rates travelers pay at hotels, he said.
“Pricing-wise all these guys are suffering,” Singh said. “They’ve been making it up with higher volumes, but in the second quarter it looks like you won’t even have higher volumes.”
Priceline shares fell 7.5 percent to $1,253.04 at the close in New York. The decline wiped out the year’s gains, leaving the stock down 1.7 percent since the beginning of January.
Continued trepidation by tourists to visit France after the November terrorist attacks in Paris is having an effect on revenue, Chief Financial Officer Daniel Finnegan said on a conference call. Travel to China, another key destination, is also weak because the country’s pollution problems are dissuading potential visitors, Boyd said on the call.
“These are big destinations,” Singh said. “When you think about France and China, they get a lot of tourists every year.” Priceline generates about three-quarters of its revenue from outside of the U.S.
New advertising campaigns to “refresh” the Priceline.com and Booking.com brands will also eat into profit, Boyd said.
Priceline’s outlook overshadowed a first quarter that was generally positive, with gross profit up 21 percent from a year earlier to $10.54 a share, the Norwalk, Connecticut-based company said in a statement. That compares with an average analyst prediction of $9.66 a share, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Sales were $2.15 billion, slightly higher than analysts’ projections for $2.12 billion. Room night reservations grew 31 percent in the quarter, Priceline said.
Watch Next: Priceline CEO Huston Resigns Effective Immediately
TripAdvisor reported first-quarter profit of 32 cents a share on revenue of $352 million, the company said in a statement, falling short of the average analyst estimate of 46 cents and $370.4 million. The Needham, Massachusetts-based company fell as much as 12 percent in after-market trading.
TripAdvisor is building its own internal booking system to let customers who use it for hotel reviews reserve their rooms without leaving the website. Investment in that platform hurt the company’s hotel revenue.
“We understand that the deceleration in our first-quarter results and first-half growth rates may be unsettling to some,” the company said in the statement. “We are willing to accept these short-term headwinds to position ourselves for longer-term gain.”


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GIMP is a great graphics editor, which can be made even better with the addition of a few extensions. Normally this takes a while, as the program has no built-in way to find or install them - but you could always just install GIMP Extensions, which adds more than 50 in a single operation.
GIMP Paint Studio equips the program with additional brushes, patterns, palettes and more.
Plugins include Adaptive Contrast Enhancement, BIMP (Batch Image Manipulation Plugin), Cartoonizer, Focus Blur, GIMP Mask, Image Registration, Liquid Rescale, PAL & VHS, and Save for Web.
Bundled Scripts include AnimStack, Fake HDR Effect, GIMP FX Foundry and Split Studio 3. There's more file format support (APNG, DDS, JPEG XR, WebP). And there's even animation support via GIMP Animation Package. (The full list is available at the GIMP Extensions page.)
You don't have to install all of these, fortunately. If you have some already, or just want to decide for yourself, then the installer allows you to select the extensions you need, and the ones you really don't. And whatever you've selected will then be installed with a click.
Version 2.8.20131021 changes include:
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?G'MIC is now installed in the user profile because the included version of libstdc++-6.dll was creating errors with other plug-ins (web-page, help-browser, file-pdf-load) during GIMP 2.8.6 start-up when installed to GIMP installation dir
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There’s been a lot of novels written about the second world war. I especially have liked the ones that feature strong women characters like Code Name Verity, The Nightingale, and The Alice Network. This is another.
Kiernan, author of The Hummingbird and The Curiosity, handles this historical fiction beautifully. The characters in the book are well drawn, with apprentice baker Emma at the center. Though heartbreaking and brutal as the stories of war can be, the dignity and triumph of the spirit in hard times is evident and makes the book still an uplifting one.
Set in France during the occupation, Emma silently and stealthily finds ways to alleviate the suffering in her coastal village. With quiet calm but with brilliant resistance, she fights back by blessing her villagers in a myriad of ways. Emma is a baker and is given a ration to bake loaves for the Germans. By grinding straw, and adding it to the flour, she is able to bake two extra loaves which help to feed hungry neighbours and that’s not all. Even under the watchful eyes of armed soldiers, she risks her life to build a clandestine network of barter and trade that sustains the village and thwarts the occupiers. But much more importantly than food or supplies, Emma brings hope.
“When you don’t know what to do for yourself, do something for somebody else.”
Hugely predictable yet surprisingly compelling, this humorous and adequately inspirational unsentimental romantic novel is a ‘feel good’ read. It reminded me a little of Me Before You by Jojo Moyes because it struck a similar tone. A good one to bring to the cottage or pack in your carry-on. Even as the bestseller headline screams “Unforgettable love story in the darkest of circumstances!” this is not great literature, but I give it credit for readability and almost making me miss my stop on the subway. For this genre, it is well done.
The flyleaf describes the storyline best:
“Margaret Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her: a fiancé she adores, her dream job, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in one tumultuous moment. In the hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Margaret must figure out how to move forward on her own terms while facing long-held family secrets, devastating heartbreak, and the idea that love might find her in the last place she would ever expect.”
“Our nation’s history of racial injustice casts a shadow across the American landscape. This shadow cannot be lifted until we shine the light of truth on the destructive violence that shaped our nation, traumatized people of color, and compromised our commitment to the rule of law and to equal justice.”
From one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time, this is an unforgettable true story about the redeeming potential of mercy and a call to fix a broken system of justice. Bryan Stevenson founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending the poor and wrongly convicted on death row. This book reads like a John Grisham novel, it is hugely compelling and engaging. It is a moving and personal account of stories of courage and integrity that will keep you riveted. I listened to the audio version which is narrated by the author himself. This is a great interview with the author:
If we think problems such as slavery and racism are any better in 2018, we are fooling ourselves. Stories of police violence and racial profiling tell a different story, which is why this is such a critical and important book. Some people even refer to mass incarceration of black people in America as contemporary slavery.
Walter McMillian was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a young white woman who worked as a clerk in a dry clearing store in Monroeville, Alabama. There was no tangible evidence against Mr. McMillian. He was held on Death Row prior to being convicted and sentenced to death. His trial lasted only a day and a half. Three witnesses testified against Mr. McMillian and the jury ignored multiple alibi witnesses, who were black, who testified that he was at a church fish fry at the time of the crime. The trial judge overrode the jury’s sentencing verdict for life without parole and sentenced Mr. McMillian to death.
Anthony Ray Hinton, another one of Stevenson’s clients, just released a book called The Sun Does Shine, which Oprah Winfrey has endorsed and has already hit mainstream book outlets like Costco. It is a memoir of how Hinton was falsely convicted and released after 30 years. How he talks about a lifetime on death row is truly remarkable.
Wayne Johnston has been an author on my radar to read since his most popular novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams about Newfoundland was published. Unbeknownst to me, when I chose this latest of his novels to begin with, it actually completes his Newfoundland Trilogy with The Custodian of Paradise in between.
As historical fiction, this trilogy tells a social and political tale of a nation as it grows and becomes part of Canada. This final instalment has a compelling opening scene where a kid comes home from school during the first snowstorm of the year to find the door locked, the car gone, and his parents vanished. How Ned, an only child, copes with this weird event, become the foundation of the story and echoes throughout.
The author has some very clear themes about the possibility of healing from tragic and mysterious circumstances–how one can cope and perhaps overcompensate for a rough start, and how family secrets can undermine an otherwise firm foundation. Can a personality be warped by loss and is there any hope for redemption? Echoing the title, motifs of first snow (obliteration) and last light (impending darkness) reverberate.
I must say that though the writing was beautiful and I was interested in the outcome, the novel felt a bit overwritten and moved very slowly at times. And I didn’t find much redemption in the ending–though surprising and clever, it left me feeling a bit bleak and wondering about the point of it all.


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Here is a link to this page: http://www.jah-rastafari.com/forum/message-view.asp?message_group=4322&start_row=1
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5/10/2011 8:32:08 AM
This is something that slipped I mind a while ago, but an Idren brought this website to I attention last month that has books giving testimony from Nyahbinghi Icients as well as other books that would be of interest to the Idren here. It has been a busy time so it slipped I mind to share the site here until I checked I mail this morning and found the books I ordered a month ago and forgot about. I have already read two of the books and they contain plenty of knowldege and wisdom about RastafarI and the Nyahbinghi Order.
Blessed love and guidence.
5/10/2011 2:27:14 PM
Give Thanks for the site. I'll have to check out some of the books.


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text: In case you were wondering where they stood on the issue, the U.S. House of Representatives has issued a formal condemnation of the shooting at Santana High School near San Diego. The vote was unanimous. (Whew!) The House proclamation also “encourages the people of the United States to engage in a national dialogue on preventing violence.” Well, why didn’t they think of that before now? Since someone has to start our dialogue, here goes: (1) How about ending school compulsory-attendance laws so that wacko killer types are not required to be there? (2) For that matter, how about ending government schooling entirely so that defenseless victims are not forced to be there? (3) How about a totally free market in education so that young people, with the guidance of their families, will be free to seek their own particular hopes and dreams in the manner that best suits them rather than being forced into an artificial, government-concocted pressure cooker? By separating school and state, coercion-caused tensions would diminish, leaving everyone better off. And then we could talk about privatizing the postal service.