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News Brief: Democratic Debate, Stone Sentencing, German Shooting
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Mike Bloomberg stepped onto the debate stage last night for the very first time, and his Democratic rivals wasted no time trying to take him down.
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
No time at all. This is Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.
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ELIZABETH WARREN: A billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians - and, no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump. I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg.
GREENE: The debate last night was broadcast on NBC. And that attack from Warren was just the beginning.
MARTIN: We've got NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson with us this morning. Hi, Mara.
MARA LIASSON, BYLINE: Hi there.
MARTIN: Based on that clip from Warren, candidates had some fairly damning ammunition to throw at Bloomberg last night.
LIASSON: They certainly did. For people who were expecting this debate to be a kind of big fight between the only two candidates with the resources to run the kind of national race we're about to enter - that's Mike Bloomberg and Bernie Sanders - that was not the biggest fight.
LIASSON: Mostly, it was everybody else against Mike Bloomberg. He took more attacks from the other candidates, led, as you heard, by Elizabeth Warren. And this was the first chance that Democrats had to see Mike Bloomberg as a candidate, not as a television commercial. And surprisingly, he was defensive. He was underwhelming. His campaign seems to have recognized that. They actually issued a statement last night saying, quote, "he was just warming up. We fully expect Mike to continue to build on tonight's performance" when he appears at the next debate. But he didn't seem to command the stage or vault over the charges to present his own biography and vision.
And there were some tough exchanges between Sanders and Bloomberg. Here is one of them.
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BERNIE SANDERS: When we have so many people who go to work every day and they feel not good about their jobs, they feel like cogs in a machine, I want workers to be able to sit on corporate boards as well so they can have some say over what happens to their lives.
HALLIE JACKSON: Mayor Bloomberg, you own a large company. Would you support what Senator Sanders is proposing?
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: Absolutely not. I can't think of a ways that would make it easier for Donald Trump to get reelected than listening to this conversation.
LIASSON: So if that was a general election, that would be a pretty strong argument. But this is a Democratic primary. And when it came to closing arguments, which are the chance for candidates to give a 30-second version of their vision, Mike Bloomberg's was pretty technocratic. He said the country needs a good manager who can build a team with experience and credibility. He didn't give his biography or a big vision or an agenda.
MARTIN: What about Bernie Sanders? I mean, he's enjoying kind of a cushy lead right now. Does he benefit when all the other candidates kind of pile onto Mike Bloomberg?
LIASSON: Yes, he certainly does. He had a good night because the debate didn't seem to have been a game-changer. There were some moments where he got flustered and looked thin-skinned when Bloomberg needled him. But for the most part, it was a circular firing squad of candidates going after each other.
And one of the undercard fights was Amy Klobuchar versus Pete Buttigieg, who clearly cannot stand each other at all. They spend precious minutes going after each other instead of uniting as centrists against Sanders. And for those center-left Democrats who are fighting for reelection in competitive districts and states who are hoping to have someone at the top of the ticket that can help them - in their opinion, it's not Sanders - they certainly didn't get anything out of last night's debate. So, yes, Sanders comes out with his front-runner status not seriously challenged after the first time he stood next to the only other candidate with the resources to go against him.
MARTIN: Just briefly, on Elizabeth Warren - I mean, she needed a strong performance. Her last debate, she didn't really get a lot of speaking time. That changed last night. But what is her path right now?
LIASSON: Well, I don't know what her path is, but she said that she had her biggest fundraising night last night. Remember; she ran in Iowa and New Hampshire as a unity candidate, and that failed. She went back to being a fighter against pretty much everyone else. She, along with Biden and Klobuchar and Buttigieg, still looking for a breakout moment. They clearly don't think the time is ripe yet to unite around a center-left alternative to Sanders.
MARTIN: All right. NPR's Mara Liasson. Thanks, Mara.
LIASSON: Thank you.
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MARTIN: President Trump's longtime friend Roger Stone will be sentenced today.
GREENE: And let's just remember the buildup to this day and all of the controversy. President Trump weighed in, saying that Roger Stone should get a more lenient sentence. Then the Justice Department revised its sentencing guidance in this case, and the entire prosecution team quit in protest. There were more tweets from the president. There were questions about Attorney General William Barr's independence. And then finally, Barr does a TV interview and says the president's tweets make it impossible for him to do his job. And since then, more than 2,000 former Justice Department officials have called on the attorney general to resign.
MARTIN: NPR justice correspondent Ryan Lucas is in the studio. Hi, Ryan.
RYAN LUCAS, BYLINE: Hi there.
MARTIN: All right. So all this back-and-forth about the sentencing of Roger Stone - in the end, though, it all comes down to the judge, right? It is her call to make today.
LUCAS: That's right. The decision on how much time Stone spends behind bars is up to Judge Amy Berman Jackson. And she'll take a look at a whole range of things to make her call on Stone's sentence. Only one of those factors is the sentencing recommendation from the government that has been the source of so much controversy over this past week. The Justice Department attorneys who prosecuted the case recommended seven to nine years, as David referenced. The attorney general overruled them to ask for a lighter sentence, although the department deferred to the judge on how long that should be. But long story short, yes, the call here is the judge's.
MARTIN: Remind us what Roger Stone was convicted of.
LUCAS: So the case against Stone is actually part of the Russia investigation that was brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. Last year, Stone was indicted on seven counts - obstruction, witness tampering and lying to Congress. And in November, a federal jury here in D.C. found him guilty on all seven counts. The charges tie back into Stone's efforts during the 2016 campaign to get in touch with WikiLeaks about the thousands of Democratic emails that it had ultimately released during the race. The case against Stone - fun fact - was the last individual - he was the last individual charged as part of Mueller's investigation.
MARTIN: So the president has tried to make this personal, as he often does. He's attacked Judge Jackson on Twitter. You've done a lot of reporting on her. What have you learned about her experience that could inform how she's going to approach the decision today?
LUCAS: Well, I've spent hours in the courtroom with her. She's handled several of the Mueller cases, including Paul Manafort's case here in D.C. These are extremely high-profile cases, and she's handled them with a pretty patient and steady hand. I have also spoken to a number of people who either know her or have tried cases in front of her. They say that she's very smart, she's well-prepared and very much in command of her courtroom. And they tell me that she won't be intimidated. She will be transparent in her thinking and make her decision on Stone's sentencing based on the facts of the case and the law.
MARTIN: So Judge Jackson gives her decision today, and then what? Roger Stone goes to prison? That's it?
LUCAS: That's normally how this would work, yes. But, of course, there's been speculation for a long time - since Stone was actually indicted - whether the president would ultimately pardon him. Trump has certainly made clear that he thinks that Stone's a good guy and that he's gotten a wrong deal and been horribly mistreated. The president's feelings about the Mueller investigation writ large are certainly clear. He feels that it's been a witch hunt. Trump has been asked repeatedly about whether he would pardon Stone. He hasn't said yes, but he pointedly also has not ruled it out.
MARTIN: Has not said no. All right. NPR's Ryan Lucas for us. Thanks. We appreciate it.
LUCAS: Thank you.
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MARTIN: All right. We're going to turn to Germany now because there's been a mass shooting in the town of Hanau. Eleven people are dead, including the suspected shooter. German media reports that an online video and a written confession linked to the suspect indicate that he may have had a far-right motive.
GREENE: That's right. According to these media reports, there's this confession. And the suspect writes that certain races need to be eliminated. Germany's prosecutor's office has reportedly taken charge of this investigation, and they will be holding a news conference later today. German police said they found the suspected shooter dead at his home address. And they also found a second person dead there.
MARTIN: All right. From Berlin, we've got NPR's Rob Schmitz on the line. Good morning, Rob.
ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE: Good morning, Rachel.
MARTIN: All right. So this just happened last night. Obviously, details are still sketchy. But what can you tell us right now?
SCHMITZ: Well, we know that last night at around 10 o'clock, a gunman opened fire at a hookah bar, and then at another one in the city of Hanau outside Frankfurt. He killed at least nine people and injured several others. Clientele at both bars are predominantly Turkish and Kurdish Germans. And after the shootings, the suspect then returned to his apartment, and that's where police found his body and the body of his 72-year-old mother. Police believe the suspect is a 43-year-old German citizen who's a resident of Hanau. Authorities in the German state of Hesse say they're investigating the crime as a probable right-wing extremist terror attack.
The interior minister of the state of Hesse, Peter Beuth, held a short press conference this morning about the shooting. And here's what he said.
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PETER BEUTH: (Speaking German).
SCHMITZ: He's saying here that flags throughout the country will fly at half-mast today and that his deepest sympathies are with the families of the victims. And he wishes the injured survivors quick and full recoveries.
MARTIN: So what can you tell us, Rob, about these reports from German media that there was this letter that the suspected shooter left behind and some kind of video?
SCHMITZ: Yeah, authorities haven't confirmed this yet, but several German media outlets are reporting that police found a written confession at the suspect's home in which he wrote that certain races need to be eliminated. They're also reporting that he left a video indicating he was a racist and had right-wing extremist views.
MARTIN: I mean, obviously, Germany has been trying to manage far-right-wing expression for...
MARTIN: ...Generations. But it's gotten worse over the last few years, hasn't it?
SCHMITZ: Yeah. Right-wing extremism here in Germany has been on the rise since 2015, when Chancellor Angela Merkel made the difficult decision to allow hundreds of thousands of migrants from war-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa to find refuge here. After that, there were a string of terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists, and then that was followed by terror attacks by right-wing extremists.
According to government data, the number of right-wing extremists here in Germany has risen by a third last year alone. German intelligence now suspects there are more than 32,000 of them, and half are considered potentially violent with a high affinity for firearms. And this attack comes after another shooting in Berlin four days ago, and it comes four months after a right-wing extremist shot and killed two while trying to attack a synagogue in the city of Halle.
MARTIN: Just briefly, is the German government or authorities trying to approach this problem in a different way?
SCHMITZ: Well, gun laws in Germany are among the most stringent in the world. And the government right now is planning an overhaul of its domestic intelligence and law enforcement agencies in an effort to crack down on right-wing extremism. So we'll see more about this in the coming months.
MARTIN: All right. Rob Schmitz, international correspondent in Berlin. Rob, we appreciate your reporting on this. Thank you.
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One of the major concerns for parents of kids with disabilities has always been what is available for them once their school life is over.
, every student is entitled to 24 semesters of schooling in the public system. At the end of that period, parents of students with disabilities can request an additional period of time at school (starting with one semester) but they have to be able to prove that this will help the student to achieve independence. In addition, it needs approval up the bureaucratic chain - it's not something that a school principal can authorise. Queensland
When I retired from the Principalship five years ago, there was also a scheme which, on parental application, provided resources to allow the student with a disability to transition effectively to life after school. For some, this meant full or part time employment, but for most (we're talking students with severe impairments in special schools) it meant placement in some kind of life enhancing activity.
The job I do now means that I'm not personally involved in this phasing from school to beyond, unless students on my caseload are of the appropriate age. As is happens, for the first time in five years that I've been doing this work, I now support two students in bush schools with disabilities who will be leaving school in the next two years.
I therefore set about brushing up on the latest and greatest of what is available for this particular cohort so that I could do the best job possible with these two.
Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that in the five years since I've been out of the full-time harness, the scheme I referred to has been rationalised out of existence. This has occurred because these transition services have been privatised.
In effect, the agencies given the contracts will not help students with high level support needs, because they're paid on results (employment placements) and like it or not, there are a group of students who because of profound and complex impairments simply cannot perform paid work.
So as a community, we have actually gone backwards in terms of support for this vulnerable group and their parents. Youngsters from rural and remote locations (the kids I work with) are further disadvantaged because there is almost no local infrastructure (day occupational centres - respite care - itinerant care services) available.
It's bizarre that in the headlong rush to outsource everything (with the possible exception of executive government) the very basic needs of people with disabilities have been swamped by the ideology that demands that there is a market solution for everything.

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Acclimatization in children is a natural adaptive process that occurs in all children with a sharp change in living conditions. The condition is characterized by a variety of symptoms: capriciousness and tearfulness, difficulty falling asleep, an increase in body temperature to subfebrile figures. Digestive disorders, respiratory symptoms, allergic reactions are often noted. Acclimatization treatment includes non-drug measures to observe physical activity and daily routine during the rest period. Less often, symptomatic agents are prescribed – antipyretic, antidiarrheal, antihistamines.
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Acclimatization in children occurs when traveling to the sea or to other places of recreation where the climate and / or time zone differ from the usual living conditions of the child. The adaptation process includes unpleasant symptoms that are not dangerous to life and health, but can spoil the rest, especially if the trip is short-term (up to 10 days). Sometimes, against the background of acclimatization, poisoning or other diseases occur in children, which complicates the diagnosis and treatment of a pathological condition.
The intensity of the manifestations of acclimatization in children is due to the imperfection of the mechanisms of adaptation and thermoregulation, insufficient development of immunity, more complex and prolonged habituation to new living conditions. Among the risk factors are early childhood (up to 3 years), the presence of a history of frequent respiratory diseases, chronic pathologies of internal organs or congenital diseases. The appearance of symptoms of acclimatization is caused by:
- Climate change. Children suffer the worst from subtropical conditions, when high air temperature is combined with high humidity. When traveling to countries and regions with a temperate climate, the uncomfortable symptoms of acclimatization are less pronounced and addiction occurs faster.
- Time zone change. Pediatricians claim that switching the arrows for more than 2 hours negatively affects the condition of children and knocks down the usual regime. After returning home, you have to rearrange your daily routine again. Interestingly, the child adapts faster to trips to the east (with the clock moving forward).
- Unusual loads. Prolonged bathing in cool sea water, insolation and long walks – all this causes severe fatigue in children. Loads aggravate the symptoms of acclimatization and lengthen the period of adaptation.
- Changes in diet. An important factor is the use of new unusual products, which is usually observed when settling in all-inclusive hotels, where there is no opportunity to cook food for a small child on their own. Exotic fruits are particularly dangerous, which can provoke allergies.
Signs of acclimatization develop immediately after arrival in a new area or after 12-24 hours. The condition manifests itself in various symptoms, so parents cannot always adequately assess them and are often mistaken for a respiratory disease or intestinal infection. One of the first symptoms of acclimatization is a change in mood or behavior. Children become irritable, tearful, restless, some of them develop apathy and drowsiness.
Dyspeptic disorders are common symptoms of acclimatization. A decrease or lack of appetite, unwillingness to eat even favorite dishes are likely. Nausea is characteristic, there may be one or two vomiting. Among the typical signs, stool disorders are distinguished by the type of diarrhea, but sometimes a change in the climatic zone provokes constipation. An older child may complain of abdominal pain and discomfort.
As a rule, in the first days of the trip there is an increase in temperature to 37-37.5 ° C. Subfebrility is accompanied by weakness, capriciousness, general malaise. The child looks sleepy, and when changing time zones, on the contrary, there are difficulties with falling asleep, night sleep is intermittent with frequent awakenings. These signs may be supplemented by nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat and other respiratory phenomena.
The duration of acclimatization in a child is from 2-3 days to 1 week. In often and long-term ill children with weakened immunity, addiction lasts up to 10 days. Symptoms reach their maximum intensity in the first few days after arrival, and then gradually decrease as the child’s body adapts to the changed climatic conditions.
After returning from the trip, the children begin the reverse process – reaclimatization. In a few weeks, the body gets used to other conditions, so after returning home, you need to go through an adaptation period again. Often it proceeds much easier: the symptoms are limited to a slight lethargy and capriciousness, after the change of time zones there are sleep disorders: usually the child falls asleep more difficult, sleeps restlessly, wakes up at night.
To confirm acclimatization, it is enough to identify specific symptoms. Special examination of the child is not required. Laboratory and instrumental diagnostic methods are sometimes used for possible intestinal infection or other disease that has similar symptoms. In this case, you need to take a blood test, urine and feces, according to the indications, do an ultrasound or radiography.
To reduce the symptoms of acclimatization in children, parents need to strictly adhere to the daily routine and diet that was before the trip. It is unacceptable to drastically change the frequency of meals, put the children to bed too late, etc. Water and food are of great importance, so for the first time on a trip it is advisable to take products familiar to the child, especially for children under 3 years of age.
In most cases, the rest takes place in a hot climate, so you should have a bottle of water with you. Small children need to be watered regularly (every 30-40 minutes) at least one sip at a time to prevent dehydration. On the first day of the trip, the child needs to buy and cook dishes that he has tried at home. In the absence of dyspeptic symptoms of acclimatization, the diet is gradually expanded, adding no more than 1 new vegetable or fruit daily.
When resting on the seashore, you can not immediately take the child to the beach and spend the whole day there. Pediatricians recommend taking a walk along the coast and around the city for the first 1-2 days to give an opportunity to get used to a different climate. Only after the acute symptoms of acclimatization disappear, sea bathing and sunbathing are allowed. For small children, it is optimal to stay on the beach until 10 am and after 5 pm.
Medical treatment is carried out after consultation with a pediatrician. Going on vacation, you need to agree in advance on ways to communicate with your doctor so that you can communicate online. There are no specific means for the treatment of acclimatization, symptomatic drugs are used. They improve well-being, eliminate unpleasant manifestations, so the child will be able to adapt to a new place faster and easier.
The drugs are selected based on what symptoms are found in the child. If the body temperature rises above 38 ° C, antipyretics are prescribed. To eliminate dyspeptic disorders, enterosorbents, antidiarrheal drugs are given, if necessary, they supplement treatment with intestinal antiseptics or antibacterial agents. If the symptoms of acclimatization are accompanied by allergic reactions, antihistamines are indicated.
Prognosis and prevention
If you follow the recommendations of pediatricians when planning a trip and during your stay on vacation, acclimatization will take place without serious consequences. To reduce the likelihood of unpleasant symptoms, you need to prepare in advance. Prevention includes careful hardening of children for 1-2 months so that they get used to the sun and water of different temperatures. If the rest is in a different time zone, a week before departure, they begin to shift the sleep and nutrition regime.
It is necessary to carefully approach the choice of a vacation destination for a trip with a child. For a short vacation (no longer than 7-10 days), it is advisable to go to the resorts of your country or regions with identical climatic conditions. If you plan a 2-3-week trip, you can think about exotic countries. It is advisable to spend short weekends in the country or in suburban complexes that are no more than 2-3 hours away from home.

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Marked by the cultural heritage of Louisiana, Cajun Bands incorporate a unique blend of string and wind instruments into an assortment of folk tunes you can’t help but dance to. Even if you aren’t from the Big Easy, you can still find Cajun bands near you in Wyoming.
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SCARBOROUGH may have been the victors in the old boys battle with Hull City, but there was really only one winner on a great day.
Brian France, who became Scarborough Athletic’s first manager in 2007, was forced to retire from the game mid-way through last season after suffering a head injury during a game.
Over 400 fans and a host of players from past and present made their way to Bridlington’s Queensgate to show their support for a man classed by many as a non-league legend.
And what a thriller it was, as the youthful Boro lads pulled clear in the second half to secure a 5-3 success.
Boro may have had the younger legs, but they were more than matched in the opening period by an experienced Tigers line-up, bossed from the middle of the park by Brian’s son-in-law Dean Windass.
Even former Premiership ace Windass was shown to be mortal in the first few minutes, and most of East Yorkshire heard his response when he was nutmegged by Dave Hartas.
It was the ex-Boro heroes who grabbed the lead with 15 minutes played, as former attacking partners Tony Hackworth and Michael Coulson linked up for the latter to dink beautifully home.
At the other end it was all about Windass, as he burst through, but dragged his shot wide.
That proved to be a loosener for Windass, who made no mistake minutes later. The striker collected on the edge of the box and smashed home past a stranded Jon Hyde.
Windass then took advantage of Hyde’s misjudgement as he ran beyond the keeper, into the box where he stooped to head home on his knees from a yard.
Boro did level things up just before the break, as Ryan Blott wriggled free on the left and drilled in a cross, Windass put the ball in the net for the third time, but this one was in the wrong end.
Chris Senior and Martyn Ferrey should have moved Boro ahead at the beginning of the new half, before the Seasiders did grab the initiative.
Ged Dalton burst through from midfield and squared to last season’s Boro top-scorer Blott, who finished in typically calm fashion.
Centre-back Michael McNaughton was the next to go close, as he rifled over, then Dalton saw his effort well saved by former Scarborough FC keeper Gavin Kelly.
With 15 minutes remaining, the game was wrapped up when Coulson fed Dalton, who took a touch and drilled home.
Then Hackworth showed more of creaive flair to release Senior, who floated the ball delightfully into the top corner.
The Tigers did roar once more though, as Mike Smith lofted a fine lob over stand-in keeper Steve French, completing a fine afternoon of action.


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For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon, yet it is a force that continues to shape the world. Decades after China abandoned Maoism, the chairman's ideas remain central to the People's Republic and the legitimacy of its Communist government. As Julia Lovell discuses here, Maoism influenced the course of the Vietnam War and the international youth rebellions that conflict triggered, and brought to power the murderous Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Far from being a relic, this strangely alluring ideology aided anti-colonial resistance movements in Africa; inspired terrorism in Germany and Italy; and prompted wars and insurgencies in Peru, India, and Nepal.

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Nurse Practioners are RNs who have specialized graduate education and licensure. They must be supervised by a physician, who does not need to be present, but authorizes a wide spectrum from interviewing and examining to treating routine problems. They may be on call 24 hours a day. Working in offices, clinics or healthe care facilities, either independently or on a healthcare team, they diagnose and treat acute illnesses, infections or injuries. They may order and interpret diagnostic tests, labs or xrays. They analyze patient histories, symptoms, and examinations. They prescribe medications as legally authorized. They may focus on disease prevention or health advocacy. They educate patients about management of illness, both acute and chronic, with specific attention to the patient’s situation. Their recommendations consider safety, efficacy, and cost.
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Tesla resolves the battery issue which is one of the biggest limitations that electric cars face today is batteries. These have been improving over the years, but still have reduced capacities and very high load times. This has been an idea linked by Elon Musk, who seeks solutions
The idea of current developments is to achieve a longer service life and also greater autonomy. With Tesla working in this area, the company recently announced a breakthrough. Created a battery that can be used for over 1 million kilometers.
Elon Musk May Have Durability Problem Resolved
The news now revealed is still far from the market, but promises a true revolution for electric vehicles. From what is described, this new battery will be able to make about 1.6 million kilometers without requiring any special maintenance.
Apart from this long service life, it is known that its durability could be equally high. The researchers who presented it speaks for a lifetime of about 20 years, which is three times the current batteries.
This news was revealed in an article published in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society by Jeff Danh. This is an academic at the University of Dalhousie, Canada, who also manages Tesla’s battery research group.
According to the published study, the new battery has a lithium-ion cell. It also has a new active cooling system and features a state-of-the-art crystal and electrolyte. Batteries kept at 20 degrees only lost 4% of capacity after being charged 3400 times in 2.25 years.
Batteries Required for Tesla Taxi Robots
When in April Elon Musk revealed that he wanted to put a fleet of taxi robots on the roads, he said he would need better batteries. This may be the answer needed to secure the needs of these robot taxi cars and secure them for the future.
This may well be the step Tesla needed to take for greater autonomy. Above all, this will help in the independence of suppliers and the durability of your car batteries.


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Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County (Riley, J.), rendered August 10, 2006, convicting him of assault in the second degree, reckless endangerment in the second degree, and leaving the scene of an incident without reporting, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.
ROBERT A. SPOLZINO, J.P., FRED T. SANTUCCI, RUTH C. BALKIN and CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, JJ.
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's challenge to the legal sufficiency of the evidence is unpreserved for appellate review (see People v Hawkins, 11 NY3d 484; CPL 470.05). In any event, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution (see People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620, 621), we find that it was legally sufficient to establish the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Moreover, in fulfilling our responsibility to conduct an independent review of the weight of the evidence (see CPL 470.15; People v Danielson, 9 NY3d 342), we nevertheless accord great deference to the jury's opportunity to view the witnesses, hear the testimony, and observe demeanor (see People v Mateo, 2 NY3d 383, 410, cert denied 542 US 946; People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490, 495). Upon reviewing the record here, we are satisfied that the verdict of guilt was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Romero, 7 NY3d 633).
To the extent that the claims of ineffective assistance of counsel raised in the defendant's main brief and supplemental pro se brief involve matter dehors the record, they may not be reviewed on direct appeal (see People v Murchison, 4 AD3d 376). Insofar as we are able to review the defendant's claims, defense counsel provided meaningful representation (see People v Benevento, 91 NY2d 708).
The sentence imposed was not excessive (see People v Suitte, 90 AD2d 80, 86).
SPOLZINO, J.P., SANTUCCI, BALKIN and CHAMBERS, JJ., concur.
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Spoilers. I’ve tried to avoid names as much as possible, but there are spoilers.
This is going to be a difficult book to review in that I’m not sure if I’ve just finished one book or two or three. This edition includes two novels that were originally published separately (as Crown Duel and Court Duel) and a short story that was published first in this edition. That short story I can set aside as wonderful, fluffy fluff but with perhaps the best use of page formatting and white space that I have seen in a long while. The very bottom of the last page reads (and I’m truncating the sentence to avoid spoilers):
“[…] and kicked the door shut behind us.”
Because the line goes to the very bottom of the page, there’s no indication that this is the end of the story till one turns the page and sees two blank, white, facing pages staring out at the reader like the shut doors, saying “what happens now is not your business.”
Just excellent. Though I’m not sure if that was providence or plan. It would be a difficult thing to plan so well.
Now to the meat of this book:
The first book, the original Crown Duel, begins with a rebellion led by a brother and sister, a count and countess of a small, rural, and isolated province in the greater kingdom of Remalna, ruled by a tyrannical king, self-important and uneasy it seems to me on the throne, leading by threat and fear, imposing brutal taxes on lower classes, and occasionally arranging “accidents” for detractors, family of detractors, and potential detractors. The sister is captured by the general of the opposing army after her brother gives into fear and breaks the war code of conduct. She is humiliated, escapes and is hunted, is captured again, and is rescued, sets out to get vengeance, and has her worldview turned on its head when she discovers that she and her brother have not been alone in plotting the overthrow of the king. Mel wins allies through her righteous intentions, refusal to surrender or to be cowed, and her willingness to learn.
Mel is a sword-wielding heroine deprived for the majority of the book of sword, privilege, or the usual trappings of a hero. Most of the book she spends injured, ill, and on the run. Her true power is in her ability to invoke empathy and sympathy through her personality and through the just nature of her cause.
The second novel sees the rebellion ended, the tyrant dead, her brother a member of the royal court, and Mel being invited into that court as well, where battles are fought for social popularity and against faux pas, games of which she is ignorant, though she is a fairly quick study. There she negotiates social patterns, cliques, and party planning.
Both books pulled some pretty stunning twists. Smith uses a close first person, and Mel is a poorly informed narrator if not an unreliable one. She tells her story I think as truly as she can, but she is ignorant of many of the characters feelings and intentions, and some of those characters drive the larger plot of the novel more than does Mel.
In the first novel, Mel claims to be entirely uninterested in the opposite sex—and truth be told, she has little time for such diversions, even when she finds a knight to rescue her. But she doesn’t trust the knight, who has ostensibly opposed and hunted her throughout the novel, and later she believes that he kills her brother. This story does not much read as a romance to me, though Smith makes clear that there is frisson when Mel exchanges glances with one particular character—though the nature of that thrill and recognition remains unclear.
In the second book, Mel still purports to be uninterested, but she arouses the interest of several men at court, including a notorious and popular flirt. She has to evaluate her feelings and her beliefs about love and relationships, and does so while corresponding with a mysterious suitor whose gift-giving she demands become a real relationship—if their only conversations are carried out through written letters.
This whole series reminded me of a fantasy Pride and Prejudice with a backdrop of political uncertainty (not a conscious parallel, Smith says, but she admits that there might have been some influence from Austen). The second novel in particular harkens to the social drama of Austen’s book. Mel’s stubborn dislike based on previous, false conclusions in particular harkens to Elizabeth’s as does her eventual reversal of her conclusions because of a letter and her opposite’s upright actions. Ultimately, this story is a romance, albeit a slow one and one which, as the romance builds, washes the reader in action and subterfuge.
The world was interesting, well-crafted, and beautifully described. The first book in particular has elements of a journey novel as Mel is chased and dragged across the country. I spent some time wishing for a map, which I ultimately found after finishing the novel, but I was able through the text alone to place most of the important places within a larger setting and when I did misunderstand, those misplacements didn’t affect the plot.
Smith carefully crafts a feminist heroine and a feminist story. Mel never pretends to be anything other than female, and she feels no need to adopt traditionally masculine performance to be powerful—even when she’s been most stripped of power and needs a disguise. Moreover, Smith carefully, wonderfully maintains gender balance among her background characters. I particularly noticed the female guardswomen, stable hands, and servants, marked by the feminine pronoun more than anything else. It was a very subtle feminism, and very much appreciated because for being a nonissue it was all the more powerful.
I have long known of this book as having produced a favorite character of two my friends’. His name is Vidanric. I read almost the entirety of the first book looking for this character that I expected to love as well. I need to take a moment to compliment and thank my friends for using Vidanric’s first name exclusively when discussing him. “Only polite,” and I was allowed to make my own assumptions (184).
Smith, Sherwood. Crown Duel. New York: Firebird-Penguin Putnam, 2002.
This review is not endorsed by Sherwood Smith, Firebird Books, or Penguin Group. It is an independent, honest review by a reader.


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Senior fellow Richard Reeves has published an article on TruthDig about the Millennial Generation and the effects that the economic environment has had upon them. He also references CCLP senior fellow Morley Winograd's book Millennial Momentum. You can read the post here. You can watch a recent conversation with Winograd, co-author Michael Hais, and CCLP director Geoffrey Cowan here….
USA Today published an article citing Senior Fellow Morley Winograd and co-author Mike Hais about the 2012 presidential election. Winograd postulates that Obama will not be able to rely on the young constituents who helped to put him in the White House, due the tumultuous year Obama has faced against his opponents in the House and Senate….
Senior Fellow Morley Winograd and his co-author, Mike Hais, were quoted in a recent article in Forbes, "Why America's Young And Restless Will Abandon Cities For Suburbs." Winograd and Hais state that the reason more Millennials are abandoning the urban for the suburban lifestyle is due to the rising housing costs of owning property in cities….
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Crowds of mourners have gathered to say farewell to local hero and “great man” John White.
The veteran, who died last month, worked as a security guard at Preston Market and helped hundreds of people across the city.
Crowds lined the streets of Preston on Wednesday to say goodbye to their friend, before final respects were paid to the man known as “Gadget”.
Buglers played the Last Post and veterans lowered their flags as John’s coffin, draped in a Union Flag, was carried into Preston Crematorium.
There was standing room only for the service, led by Vicar of Preston Father Timothy Lipscomb.
He said: “We have come to say goodbye to a great man.
“A man much respected by the people of Preston and the surrounding area, a man who was there for all of us.
“Those of you who know the market know it was a safer place because of John, because he really, really cared.”
John, who was 61, was in the Royal Green Jackets and then the Ulster Defence Regiment as part of his 17 years of continuous service, before becoming a security guard.
Fr Timothy said: “I think it’s such a tribute to him that practically the whole of Lancashire Constabulary are here today in some form or another and he would have loved that.
“Looking around, so many of you represent the whole of life in Preston and that’s such a tribute.
“There aren’t enough great characters in our lives and he was one of them, and for that reason alone he will be sadly missed, but for so many other reasons too.
“It is clear that people have been very kind and generous in John’s memory, and I know between you, you have done a fantastic collection for this funeral.
“And I gather, also, funds have been raised by comedians at the Guild Hall and, in Gadget’s memory, a plaque is to be instated in the market with his name on it.”


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This nest was constructed for ArtScene 2015. The concepts that form this installation are inspired by Field Guide: James Prosek’s Un/Natural World. Brenda Brokke and Leatha Koefler create nest installations that represente home, safety, and family.
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Well hello there! Isn’t it a lovely day?
With a steam cup of the goodness of ground coffee beans it all up with a fresh mind to write something down. Looking outside the window while the suns still soaring with its presence, it reminded me of my official visit to the charming suburbs of Oakville. Being a city person, it’s hard for someone like me to get acquainted with smaller areas. And this got me thinking, there must be those who just dwell this city life with distaste.
No pun intended, however, what I felt was that despite the big-city charms of Toronto there are some of the amazing places you can decide for a living.
It’s hard to settle when you are unaware of the neighborhood.
Toronto is surrounded by an amazing landscape. The small regions, however, relay a peculiar intriguing to your mind when you think of settling into a place.
I always knew where I wanted to settle and what sort of place I would love to live in – a studio loft, with minimum to no effort at all. Likewise, while I waited in the seat of Oakville airport limo, chauffeur put my overnight bag in the back, I decided to take a good look around the suburbs of Oakville to let you decide which area you would like best to settle down.
Oakville is Charming – A Welcome Surprise
Are you still with me?
So glad you could make it to this section of the article without dozing off. Those who are unaware of the geographical location, Oakville sits on the shores of Lake Ontario, with best picturesque harbors. Here are some of the best shopping districts and dining areas of the Greater Toronto Area. So let’s take our time to look at some of the beguiling neighborhood of Oakville;
The old charm of Old Oakville is straight from a fairytale (or that’s what I thought) when I first visited the area. This downtown area is a total Deja vu experience for you with historical homes, great harbourside (like you see in the romantic movies) and the attractions are eye captivating like the Native Art Gallery. I saw the locals enjoying a lazy Sunday morning on the lawns and enjoying outdoor brunches.
Another closer neighborhood of poetic Bronte changes my perspective to live in suburbs. While Old Oakville is your ideal suburb locality, Bronte, on the other hand, lay true to this marina roots. Place is conjured up with estates as far as the eyes goes, with modern condos and glitzy lake houses. The vibes of rolling beaches, lighthouses, and the Heritage Waterfront Park paints a lively picture of Bronte with alfresco dining and amazing views.
As the Oakville airport limo moved, I came to my next pit stop of the day to tree-lined boulevards of Morisson, I mused with the thoughts of taking my parents here. My father is close to retirement and he always talks about moving to someplace peaceful, and the headgear Morrison just seems the choice as per his liking. The with most prestigious postal codes, it’s an ideal place for summer barbecues and teatime soirees. If I was ever asked to describe this area in a word I will say Hamilton, Ohio.
It’s the luxury styled glade of Oakville, you will fall in love with. And being a city girl, it touched some part of me that would consider moving with a big family (someday!).
And then there is the renowned Glen Abbey with its Glen Abbey Golf Club. While I got to have a quick look I know that’s a haven for all the dads who love to play golf. And they don’t even need any excuse to play it all day long!
It’s a raving beautiful landscape with the perfect blend of high-class taste.
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, 25, of Ashburn, Virginia was a professional football cheerleader for the Washington Redskins, but she says the seasonal flu shot she received this past August has ruined her chance of having any happiness in her life.
Doctors say that she has a rare neurological disorder, that started just a few days after her seasonal flu shot.
The first symptom, she says, was that whenever she tried to eat, she would pass out, and then eventually she started to have twisted movements when she walked or stayed still.
The weird thing about Ms. Jennings condition is that she can walk backwards with no spasms. She must also walk up and down stairs backwards, as it is too dangerous for her to walk forward.
She is also able to run normally, and can even talk while she's running, something that is very difficult for her to do otherwise.
Her doctors say she is suffering from dystonia, a rare side effect of seasonal flu vaccinations for which there is no cure, but in a Fox News
interview, Leigh Vinocur, M.D., of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, said her condition may possibly be "psychogenic", meaning it isn't caused by the vaccine.
This comes at a time when the U.S. government is attempting to calm concerns that people have with getting a flu shot this season.
According to Fox News, recent polling shows that 44 per cent of those asked in October plan on getting this years vaccination. That number is down from 53 per cent in September.
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to Generation Rescue, Ms. Jennings said she would like people to think carefully, educate themselves on vaccine side effects and to look seriously at natural remedies for flu and H1N1 before they accept a seasonal flu shot.


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More than two years of work and planning culminated in a very special naming ceremony for the Bo-Kaap community at the weekend.
On Saturday, the area was officially named Bo-Kaap, shedding its Dutch names of the past. Although it has been known as Bo-Kaap to its residents, officially different parts of the area were referred to as Schotschekloof, Stadzicht and Schoone Kloof.
When, on Monday October 10, the Minister of Arts and Culture, Nathi Mthethwa, gazetted the name change, it was the result of a community-driven process.
The Bo-Kaap Civic and Ratepayers’ Association first lodged an application 18 months ago with the Western Cape Provincial Geographical Names Committee to officially rename the area (“It’s almost officially Bo-Kaap,” Atlantic Sun, November 19 2015; and “Minister makes Bo-Kaap name official,”Atlantic Sun, October 20).
In addition to the name, the new boundaries of the area were also officially recognised by national government. The civic association said the renaming was about reclaiming its home and preserving its identity.
On the day there were speeches from various people in the community as well as government officials. There was also traditional entertainment provided by the Seven Step Minstrel Group and the Cape Malay Choir as well as a symbolic 4km walk around the historic neighbourhood at the Bo-Kaap Doekmal event.
A doekmaal (also referred to as doepmal) is a Muslim naming ceremony.
Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom said the area symbolised something special in the history of the country. “There are a number of things that make it a very important tourism site, but the historical importance goes far beyond that. This is where the slaves who came here more than 300 years ago lived, and this is where families continue to live through tumultuous changes such as the Group Areas Act. It embodies the rich history in our country and the cultural diversity of the country.”
He said it was a special place in the history of the country and that it was “becoming a special tourism site because it tells an important story”.
Mr Hanekom said the people who were least spoken about in the country were the ones who suffered the most and did not choose to migrate.
“We often think about the slaves that were taken out of Africa to other parts of the world, but we don’t sufficiently remember the people that came to South Africa as slaves and the hardships that they went through.”
He said the renaming event was about moving from a past that you could not change and remembering where the people were asserting their identity as part of a bigger South Africa.
Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim Patel, who also attended the event on Saturday, said that the Bo-Kaap had a very rich and deep history. “Bo-Kaap also has existing challenges, and the renaming was about claiming ownership of the area and of its future. It has the potential of tourism based on its location, but there is also the threat of gentrification.
“We’ve seen it across the world, where people with money essentially buy up properties and destroy a culture and a way of life.”
Mr Patel added that they hoped to marry the imperatives of economic development with the opportunities of maintaining the cultural richness of the area.
Nkosikhulule Nyembezi, who is a member of the Western Cape Provincial Geographical Naming Committee, said the renaming process had been inclusive and that several meetings had been held with the community.
“It was not an easy process. Not everyone agreed, but, as committee members, to be listening to the views and seeing how the community reached consensus has been an exemplary process. We can take this example to other communities who are doing the same process of name changes. A name is very important in restoring dignity.”
Osman Shaboodien, chairman of the Bo-Kaap Civic and Ratepayers’ Association said the official renaming of the area was very significant to the area’s residents. “We are here for values that we have stood for for 300 years.
“The name Bo-Kaap is not accidental. This name came from the soul and it came from our hearts. Our parents and their parents before them called it Bo-Kaap. What we are doing now is not only reclaiming our home but our name. We did not want to have a slave name.”
Mr Shaboodien said that Bo-Kaap was fighting a battle to survive as a community.
“Not only are we lured out every day by offers for our homes, we also have a City policy that encourages development.”
Mohammed Groenewald, who is also a member of the civic sssociation, said the name change and new boundaries were very significant. “Bo-Kaap was known by three or four names. We chose the name Bo-Kaap and it is after 300 years that we have lost our slave name.
“We chose a name that we, as a community, are passionate about, and it was always the name that our forefathers referred to it by.
“When we walk on these cobbled streets, we must know that each street has a story to tell. It was a story of hardship.”
Mr Groenewald said the threat of gentrification and making sure the local community benefited from the tourism and film industries were some of the challenges that lay ahead.


A photo from open sources On the eternally cold Siberian peninsula of Yamal an unusual geological object is located – a large crater of obscure origin. After much debate, Russian scientists seem to found a reasonable explanation for the formation of the Siberian depression: according to researchers, it was formed as a result of powerful emissions methane from melting permafrost. The air at the bottom of the crater contains unusually high concentrations of this gas – about 9.6%. To such scientists concluded as a result of studies conducted on July 16 2014 during the expedition. Leading author of works, Andrey Plekhanov, archaeologist from the Arctic Research Center in Salekhard, reports that usually the concentration of this gas is not more than 0.000179%. Hypotheses on the origin of a crater whose diameter is about 30 meters, were very different: so deep According to experts, a hole could be formed by gas explosions, and meteorite fall, and even alien activity. But Plekhanov and his team believe that the history of the formation of the Siberian crater much more prosaic. In all likelihood, she is associated with the abnormal heat that was observed in the summer seasons of 2012 and 2013 years. The temperature at that time kept above the average as much as 5 ° C. As temperatures rise, permafrost thawed and released jets of methane, which was previously trapped in icy land. Scientists reported these findings. in an article published in Permafrost and Periglacial Processes Other researchers believe that everything can be blamed. be global warming. According to scientists who did not accept participation in the Plekhanov expedition, two hot seasons are not enough in order to melt permafrost and provoke so powerful methane release. Over the past 20 years, frozen at a depth of 20 meters warmed up at about 2 ° C – this could cause gas release. According to Plekhanov and his colleagues, such craters may become more common in areas permafrost, as the region gradually heats up more and more and more. In Siberia, large methane gas fields are now hidden in the ice, forming the so-called gas hydrates. Being frozen, methane remains stable, but when heated the internal strength of permafrost decreases and it loses the ability to retain gases within itself. Usually gas hydrates occur at depths of at least 100 meters. Exact depth Siberian crater is unknown. When Plekhanov and his team tried to measure depth using a camcorder tied to 50 meter rope, the camera never reached the bottom. But the video shows that the depth of the reservoir located at the bottom of the crater, is about 70 meters, reports Plekhanov. To confirm their hypothesis, geologists will need to visit the Siberian crater yet times and measure the concentration of methane in the air trapped in it walls. Plekhanov also said that recently Siberian reindeer herders reported the discovery of a similar hole near the Yamal crater. And although its presence has not yet been confirmed by scientists, they are already fear that high methane emissions could be harmful local industry.


Jury orders 40-year term for rap-label owner
Updated 6:32 am, Tuesday, October 29, 2013
SAN ANTONIO – Jurors handed a local rap-label owner a 40-year murder sentence Monday as his second trial concluded for the fatal shooting in 2011 of his best friend and business partner.
Anthony Johnson, 23, was found guilty of murder in April by the first jury, which couldn't reach a punishment decision. The murder conviction stood as his punishment-only retrial began last week in the 290th state District Court.
The finding, which would have meant Johnson couldn't reflect coolly on the situation because he was provoked, would have limited the range of punishment to between two and 20 years in prison. Murder usually carries a maximum sentence of life.
The jury, however, rejected the sudden passion argument after less than four hours of deliberations.
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In April, the previous jury deliberated 14 hours during the punishment phase, remaining deadlocked 11-1 on the issue of sudden passion, before Judge Melisa Skinner declared the partial mistrial.
During closing arguments Monday morning, Hoyle asked jurors to consider a range of punishment between 10 and 15 years.
“This was a one-time dispute between friends that neither of them knew how to handle, and they let it get out of control,” he said.
Assistant District Attorney Wendi Wilson-Ortiz disagreed.
“Yes, he was angry. He was mad at the world and he took it out on Rome that day,” she said. “But that's not sudden passion ... That's just anger.”
Ngande, aka “Romey Rome Beatz,” had three younger brothers who all wrote letters that were read aloud to Johnson by a victim-assistance coordinator after the sentencing.
“You never apologized. Do you even feel bad that you shot and killed your so-called best friend?” wrote Ngande's 16-year-old brother, Frank. “You're just a killer and a liar.”


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Elle Taylor, 24, who works at a further education college in Llanelli, received the jab from staff nurse Laura French at West Wales General Hospital’s outpatients department on Wednesday morning.
“I feel honoured,” she told i. “I feel excited for the NHS and the world that this is another step in the right direction into what will hopefully be a safer community and world for us all.”
Taylor has been caring for her grandmother during the pandemic, saying it “has been difficult trying to keep her spirits and hopes up”.
“It has been very difficult as she has found it hard being completely isolated as I didn’t see her as much for the first few weeks of lockdown last year,” she said.
Taylor said she only found out on Tuesday evening that she was to be the first Briton to receive the Moderna jab in the UK.
She feels positive, saying the vaccine makes her feel safer around her grandmother.
“She has had her first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine and will be going for her second vaccine on Saturday,” she said.
“I feel a lot safer being around her now we’re both in the process of being vaccinated and I’ll feel safer being able to go shopping for her or taking her to appointments.
“It’s a big positive step forward in being able to care for her safely.”
The UK has bought 17 million doses of that vaccine – enough for 8.5 million people.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he was “delighted we can start the UK rollout of the Moderna vaccine in west Wales today”.
He added: “The UK Government has secured vaccines on behalf of the entire nation and the vaccination programme has shown our country working together at its best.”
Wales Health Minister Vaughan Gething said: “This is another key milestone in our fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.”
Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Tuesday that the Moderna jab would be deployed “around the third week of April”.
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the first batch of Moderna vaccines arrived in the country on Monday and will be delivered over the coming months.
It has not been confirmed when the rollout of Moderna will begin in Northern Ireland.
More than 31 million first doses of either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines have been administered in the UK, according to Government data up to 5 April.


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The restaurant looks simple, but do not be deceived. The food is great!
We had chicken quesadillas accompanied with warm black beans & tomato salsa and the fried grouper reuben.
The quesadilla was huge and filled with lots of chicken and grilled veggies. The grouper reuben was topped with homemade coleslaw, Swiss cheese and served on marble rye bread with tomato, lettuce and dill pickle spear garnish. Delicious!
They also had unsweetened ice tea, which for some strange reason, is not always available.
You are definitely paying a premium for the location, but well worth the money.

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Goat Cheese Is The Ingredient Missing From Your Summer Burger
When summer is in full swing and you're crushing burgers daily, it's always a good move to mix it up with a new burger recipe to keep life fresh. Something exciting, unexpected, and totally stuffed with goat cheese. This recipe is quick and easy to assemble and holds the keys to creamy, crispy, pan fried to perfection.
Goat Cheese Stuffed Burgers
Makes 4 1/2 pound burgers
- 1 pound ground chuck
- 1 pound ground sirloin
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/3 cup goat cheese
- 1 large, ripe avocado, sliced
- 1 large heirloom tomato, sliced
- 4 burger-sized lettuce leaves
- 4 tablespoons mayo
- 4 brioche buns
Divide the beef into 4 equal, 1/2 pound portions. Flatten the beef into small discs, about an inch larger than the width of the burger patties, and divide the goat cheese between the burgers, placing the cheese into the center of the discs. Carefully form the beef into a small balls, closing off any corners and sealing in the goat cheese. Using the palms of your hands, carefully reshape the beef into burger patties. Season both sides of each burger with salt and pepper, and set aside.
Heat a large pan over medium heat, split the brioche buns, and toast each halve until golden brown. Set aside.
Heat a large cast-iron pan (or heavy bottomed skillet) over medium-high heat and melt the butter. Fry the burgers for 4 to 5 minutes per side, until a nicely browned crust forms on the outside, and the beef is cooked to desired doneness on the inside.
Build each burger with 1 tablespoon of mayo, a stuffed beef patty, 1 slice of tomato, a few avocado slices and top that bad boy with lettuce.


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Title: The Purchase: A Novel by Linda Spalding
Published August 6, 2013: Pantheon
Genre: historical novel
About the novel:
Winner of Canada's 2012 Governor General's Award for Fiction
In this historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the family’s values and beliefs are sorely tested.
In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed and shunned by his fellow Quakers when he marries his young servant girl to help with his five small children, moves his family down the Wilderness Road to the Virginia/Kentucky border. Although determined to hold on to his Quaker ways, and despite his belief that slavery is a sin, Daniel becomes the owner of a young boy named Onesimus, setting in motion a chain of events that will lead to tragedy and murder, forever changing his children’s lives and driving the book to an unexpected conclusion.
A novel of sacrifice and redemption set in a tiny community on the edge of the frontier, this narrative unfolds around Daniel’s struggle to maintain his faith; his young wife, Ruth, who must find her own way; and Mary, the eldest child, who is bound to a runaway slave by a terrible secret. The Purchase is as hard-edged as the realities of pioneer life.
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Daniel looked over at the daughter who sat where a wife should sit. Cold sun with a hint of snow. The new wife rode behind him like a stranger while the younger children huddled together, coughing and clenching their teeth. The wind shook them and the wagon wounded the road with its weight and the river gullied along to one side in its heartless way. It moved east and north while Daniel and all he had in the world went steadily the other way, praying for fair game and tree limbs to stack up for shelter. “We should make camp while it’s light,” said the daughter, who was thirteen years old and holding the reins. But Daniel wasn’t listening. He heard a wheel grating and the river gullying. He heard his father – the memory of that lost, admonishing voice – but he did not hear his daughter, who admonished in much the same way.
Some time later the child pulled the two horses to a halt, saying again that they must make camp while the sky held its light. The new wife arranged dishes on the seat of the wagon, and the child, whose name was Mary, pulled salted meat out of a trunk at the back. It was their fifth day on the road and such habits were developing. By morning there would be snow on the ground, the fire would die, and the children would have to move on without warm food or drink. They would take up their places in the burdened wagon while Daniel’s fine Pennsylvania mares shied and balked and turned in their tracks. A man travelling on horseback might cover a hundred miles in three days, but with a wagon full of crying or coughing children, the mountainous roads of Virginia were a sorrow made of mud and felled trees and devilish still-growing pines.
The children, being young and centered on their own thoughts, were only dimly aware of the hazards of the road and of the great forest hovering. They hardly noticed the mountains, which were first gentle and then fierce, because all of it came upon them as gradually as shapes in an unhappy dream. The mountains only interrupted a place between land and sky. The forest got thicker and darker on every side. They had, within a few weeks, watched their mother die, given up home and belongings, landscape and habits, school and friends. They had watched people become cold to them, shut and lock doors to deny them entrance. How were they to understand? There were other wagons leaving Pennsylvania and going south and west, but none were so laden with woe as the one that carried the five children and the widower and his new bride.Excerpted from The Purchase by Linda Spalding. Copyright © 2013 by Linda Spalding. Excerpted by permission of Pantheon, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
About the author:
Linda Spalding was born in Kansas and lived in Mexico and Hawaii before immigrating to Canada in 1982. She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, Daughters of Captain Cook, The Paper Wife, and (with her daughter Esta) Mere. The Purchase received Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award and its Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Spalding lives in Toronto, where she is the editor of Brick magazine.
Visit Linda's website at http://www.lindaspalding.com/.
Thanks to Wiley Saichek, Marketing & Publicity Consultant, for the excerpt and author and book information.

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"The Rose" - Sung By J.T. - Tribute To Conway Twitty.
My friend, J.T., brought me this audio that he made of himself singing "The Rose". He recorded himself over Conway Twitty's version of "The Rose". I had this music video made for him. Please let us know what you think. He is a big boy so he can take it. Thank You.
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Möchten Sie als Ihre Standardwährung festlegen oder nur für diese Sitzung behalten?
Very nice place to stay. Excellent facilities including outdoor pool. Happy hour and breakfast were top notch. Room was very comfortable. Very reasonable price. Found out that I could have saved $15 by booking directly with hotel instead of using Kayak.
Red lion was easy to find, had a nice pool area and the rooms were small but had a cozy feel to them. Our room was very well cleaned so I was happy about that!! The hotel was close enough for us to check out tucson for the first time! Breakfast- ew it was awful, eggs had a powder taste and hard bacon didn't even taste real. I ended up having juice and we went somewhere else for breakfast. Checking in- the girl didn't say hello. I work in customer service should be main priority to make the guest feel welcomed. Then I told her I had reserved a room online she looked it up had me sign a paper without telling me any details to the paper. I read the paper (yes fast) and they charge 50$ to everyone that will come off of your bill at checkout. I didn't know I wasn't told about it. I talked with a different front desk girl and she said oh yeah we do that. Ok...... now it's been 4 days and my bank account goes from the total with the 50$ included withdrawn to credit account to withdrawn again. Why would they put back in the full amount to take it out again. Just credit my account 50$ and be done. Overall if they stepped their customer service and told guests about this fee and fixed breakfast we would come back. But we are going to the Hilton next trip
Nice area. Stores and food was close. None.
Rooms very outdated and smelled horrible..
I want to thank Kevin, an engineer over at the Westin. He was able to get my car started after I had trouble starting my car. Staff was friendly and helpful I had some noisy neighbors, the first night which made it difficult to sleep. It took until 2:30 am for me to call to complain to the front desk to get the security staff to do anything about it.
Hiden charges for valet parking and a 25/day resort charge
The facilities were beautiful. However, the cost was high to stay there. The trails, golf courses and restaurants were great. We enjoyed our stay. The family pool right outside the main building has no "closing time". Now, we were there during spring break; however, individuals including children were still out playing "very loudly" in the pool at 1:30 a.m. You received many complaints while we were there but it continued the entire time of our stay. That should be corrected. You should not be a major resort with pools that do not have closing hours and quiet time. Also, on our bill at checkout was a $25.00 charge plus $3.01 tax for everytime we charged to our room. This is ridiculous and was never disclosed to us when we checked in. I could have used my credit card and not been charged.
Staff was friendly and helpful at every turn.
This is a very nice hotel, with a great location in the foothills. The service was excellent and facility was very well taken care of. The pool area could have been a bigger with more accommodations, as it filled up with no room for someone not getting down early and claiming spots. Not ideal for people wanting to be active then relax by the pool.
Grounds, walking path Location Unpretentiousness Pools Tennis courts Good wi-fi Rooms need higher watt bulbs for reading $20/day "resort & wi-fi fee"....just add it to room rate!
I love the efficiency and friendliness of the staff. I love that no one pushed us into a sales meeting like so often happen at Wyndham resorts. There was a bit of dog hair (cat hair? on the floor of the unit...like it had not been vacuumed thoroughly in between guests.
Being in a spot so well taken care of with great views everywhere you look, the perfume of flowers and the song of birds is wonderfully relaxing. The staff is very friendly as well. Lighting in the room could be better.
The food was good, beautifulbpool,rooms!!! The hotel was vwey stinky due to the smoky casino in the center of everything. You cannot go to lunch or dinner (was down for a conference) in the hotel without having to walk through the smoky casino. As a non smoker i suffered from headaches due to this fact.
*Great location for doing things in southwest Tucson. *Cheerful check in service (however they couldn't tell me if I was pre-paid or not). *In-room dining experience (selecting breakfast off doorknob menu) was excellent and right on time. *Room was clean and nice smelling. *No restaurants have pizza (but in-room dining does). *Was not interested in the Casino ...so didn't like the cigarette smoke leaking into the hotel lobby. *Not 100% sure of this but the pool looked only to be a maximum of 3ft deep? *Was not able to check out via TV from room (even though was told you could). *Never received hotel bill via email.
They spent great deAl of money on the place but the quality is just not there. Room is large but Ac is noisy. They have a nice place but wish they went all the way you can see the cost cutting in the showers dacore. Would stay again and felt it was a good value. Toilet seat coming off. Ac was noisy
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Divest for Human Rights, Divest Terror
Over the past months, we have witnessed the Syrian regime murder more than 1,500 civilians who want nothing more than freedom and democracy. For the past several years, we have watched similar scenes in Iran. Therefore, it may come as a shock to know that through our investments, millions of Americans are unwittingly investing billions of dollars in companies that enrich regimes that sponsor terrorism and abuse the human rights of their own citizens. As we approach the tenth anniversary of the attacks on 9/11, now would be a most fitting time to put an end to this situation.
It is time to recognize that there is an inextricable link between state sponsorship of terrorism and the abuse of human rights. Brutal regimes like Iran and Syria that torture and murder their own children do not hesitate to supply thousands of rockets and missiles to Hamas and Hezbollah to fire at children in Israel. Accordingly, the U.S. government has imposed tough economic sanctions on these regimes.
U.S. law prohibits most American companies from doing business with countries designated by our State Department as state sponsors of terror. The list currently includes Iran, Syria, and Sudan. (However, Sudan may soon be removed from the list due to the recent peace deal.) Whereas some companies do receive special licenses from the U.S. Treasury to do business in these countries based on humanitarian grounds, no American oil companies are allowed to work in the energy sectors of Iran, Syria, or Sudan. There is a good reason for this strategy.
Iran gets most of its government revenues from the production and sale of oil and natural gas. Yet, absent the help of foreign companies, Iran is incapable of exploiting its own natural resources. Although Syria does not have nearly the large oil reserves that Iran does, oil is Syria's largest export and it is also dependent on foreign companies to run its oil fields. Therefore, if we want to pressure Iran and Syria to end their abuse of human rights and sponsorship of terrorism, we must put pressure on foreign companies to get out of the energy sectors of Iran and Syria.
What can we do as investors? According to a 2010 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), there were 41 non-U.S. companies working in Iran's energy sector. A similar report by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies identified several more companies. If we look at the holdings of our portfolios, the very least that we can do is to divest our holdings of these foreign companies that work in Iran's energy sector. It is no coincidence that several of the same companies that work in Iran also do business in Syria.
We should also be aware that international stock mutual funds are very problematic to say the least. Far too many of these funds have significant holdings in foreign companies engaged in the energy sectors of Iran and Syria. Since American oil companies are not allowed to work in these countries, our domestic stock mutual funds do not have this problem.
We must recognize that our investment decisions do have moral consequences. Investing in companies doing business as usual with Iran and Syria legitimizes the flagrant abuse of human rights and undermines the sanctions of our own government. Furthermore, as Americans, we should not be indirectly helping Iran to develop the oil wealth it uses to supply weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the insurgents in Iraq, who kill and wound American soldiers. Christopher Holton, director of the Divest Terror Initiative of the Center for Security Policy wrote on his website, "In a unified front, we should all be saying this is my money and it will not go to support terror."
Since the terror attacks on 9/11, some 20 states -- including my home state of Indiana -- have adopted Divest Terror laws requiring their state pension funds to divest from holdings in companies doing business with state sponsors of terror. As investors, we can follow the courageous example of these 20 states and join the war on terror and struggle for human rights.
The great German human rights activist Dietrich Bonhoffer, who resisted Nazi oppression, said, "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil." Through divestment, we can end our silence. We can give our investment advisers a simple message: "I do not want my hard-earned money invested in foreign companies -- or international mutual funds -- that help Iran and Syria to develop the wealth they use to sponsor terrorism and abuse the human rights of their own citizens."
Together with a group of friends, Bob Feferman helped to initiate and support Divest Terror legislation in the Indiana General Assembly authored by State Rep. David Niezgodski that was signed into law by Governor Daniels in 2009.


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Measuring Drug Metabolism
Drug metabolism is a key function of the human liver and is largely accomplished via the activity of P450 cytochromes and other enzymes within hepatocytes. Understanding drug metabolism pathways is critical to defining the availability of therapeutic agents and identifying toxic metabolites. CDI’s hepatocytes exhibit P450 activity that is sustained for over 7 days in culture. In addition, functional P450 induction in response to known inducers has been demonstrated.

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Double vaccinated people are also less likely to pass on the virus to others.
Those who are fully vaccinated are three times less likely to be infected with COVID-19, finds a landmark study.
Findings from the latest report of REACT-1, one of the country’s largest studies into COVID-19 infections in England, have been published today.
Over 98,000 volunteers took part in the study in England between 24 June and 12 July to examine the levels of COVID-19 in the general population.
The findings indicate that double vaccinated people in the most recent round were estimated to have around 50 to 60% reduced risk of infection, including asymptomatic infection, compared to unvaccinated people.
The REACT programme says its findings confirm previous data that the vaccine offers a good level of protection.
Professor Paul Elliott, director of the REACT programme from Imperial’s School of Public Health, said: “These findings confirm our previous data showing that both doses of a vaccine offer good protection against getting infected.
“However we can also see that there is still a risk of infection, as no vaccine is 100% effective, and we know that some double vaccinated people can still become ill from the virus.
“So even with the easing of restrictions, we should still act with caution to help protect one another and curb the rate of infections.
Analysis by Imperial College suggests double vaccinated people are also less likely to pass on the virus to others.
Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said: “Our vaccination rollout is building a wall of defence that means we can carefully ease restrictions and get back to the things we love, but we need to be cautious as we learn to live with this virus.
“Today’s report shows the importance of taking personal responsibility by self-isolating if you are contact traced, getting tested if you have symptoms and wearing face coverings where appropriate.
“I urge anyone who has yet to receive a vaccine to get jabbed and take up both doses – the vaccines are safe and they are working.”


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The Hillary Clinton New York State primary team came to Brooklyn today and quickly scored the Shirley Chisholm Democratic Club’s endorsement.
The Central Brooklyn political club is named for political trailblazer Shirley Chisholm, the first black congress member from Brooklyn, the first woman congress member from Brooklyn and the first black woman from a major political party to run for president.
“We are proud to stand with Secretary Clinton and endorse her for President of the United States of America. Hillary Clinton has a strong plan to continue to build economic opportunities for all Americans, while combating social and racial injustices. For decades, she has been a strong advocate for children and families, beginning with the Children’s Defense Fund. She continues to be a strong voice around the issues of Healthcare Reform and Women’s Rights issues,” said Blondell Lighty, President of the Shirley Chisholm Democratic Club and community activist.
Flatbush Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte, Chairwoman of the Shirley Chisholm Democratic Club, said she was delighted to celebrate Women’s History Month with endorsing Clinton, while also honoring the legacy of our Club’s namesake, the Honorable Shirley Chisholm.
“We believe Secretary Clinton embodies the ideals and principles for which our club stands,” said Bichotte.
Erin Stevens, New York State Political Director, Hillary For America Campaign, stated “Hillary Clinton is honored to receive the endorsement of the Shirley Chisholm Democratic Club. She will be a President who breaks down the barriers holding families back and builds ladders of opportunity across underserved communities.
“Too many families are working harder, but still not getting ahead. Yet Republicans still want to strip workers of their hard-won rights and keep stacking the deck for those at the top. Hillary Clinton won’t let them. She will work to give families a raise, strengthen our economy by creating good-paying jobs, close tax loopholes so corporations pay their fair share, and take on the gun lobby to reduce violence in our communities. Hillary for New York is proud to stand with the Shirley Chisholm Democratic Club in their fight to elevate the standard of living for all,” said Stevens.
The New York State Presidential Primary is slated for April 19.