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Pence refuses to validate Clinton’s ‘deplorable’ label in denouncing David Duke
Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence on Tuesday reiterated his refusal to label former KKK leader David Duke as “deplorable” not to validate Hillary Clinton’s term used to attack Donald Trump’s supporters.
“Donald Trump and I have denounced David Duke repeatedly. We have said that we do not want his support and we do not want the support of people who think like him,” Pence said at a press conference following a meeting with House Republicans on Capitol Hill. “The simple fact is that I am not in the name-calling business. My colleagues in the House of Representatives know that I believe that civility is essential in a vibrant democracy and it’s never been my practice.”
Pence came under fire for refusing to to use the term “deplorable” during an interview with CNN on Monday.
“There are some supporters of Donald Trump and Mike Pence who ― David Duke, for example, some other white nationalists ― who would fit into that category of deplorables. Right?” CNN host Wolf Blitzer asked, referring to Clinton’s emarks rover the weekend that half of Donald Trump supporters can be put into a “basket of deplorables.”
“Donald Trump has denounced David Duke repeatedly. We don’t want his support and we don’t want the support of people who think like him,” Pence replied. When pressed if he’d call Duke “deplorable,” Pence said, “No, I’m not in the name calling business.”
Donald Trump again disavows David Duke following ex-KKK leader’s robocall endorsement
Donald Trump once again disavowed David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who is urging Louisiana voters to send him to the Senate and Trump to the White House.
“Mr. Trump has continued to denounce David Duke and any group or individual associated with a message of hate,” his campaign told Politico this week after it emerged that Duke mentioned Trump in a campaign robocall.
The robocall cites what Duke, who is seeking the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate, depicts as the threats of immigration, gun control and black advocacy.
“It’s time to stand up and vote for Donald Trump for president and vote for me, David Duke, for the U.S. Senate,” he says in the call, which was first reported by BuzzFeed.
Trump rejects Clinton’s charges of racism, ties to KKK
Donald Trump on Thursday came out swinging against Hillary Clinton for her recent attacks in response to his personal outreach to minority voters, and labeling him as a racist, suggesting it’s an attack on “decent people” supporting the Republican ticket.
“The news reports are that Hillary Clinton is going to try to accuse this campaign, and the millions of decent Americans who support this campaign, of being racists, which we are not,” Trump said at a campaign rally in New Hampshire. “It’s the oldest play in the Democratic playbook. When Democratic policies fail, they are left with only this one tired argument. It’s a tired and disgusting argument, It’s the last refuge of the discredited politician.”
“Voters are used to the old game where failed politicians like Hillary Clinton falsely smear Republicans with charges of racism. Republicans then back down,” Trump continued. “Democrats then continue to push policies that are devastating to communities of color. To Hillary Clinton, and to her donors and advisors, pushing her to spread her smears and her lies about decent people, I have three words. I want you to hear these words, and remember these words: Shame On You.”
According to Trump, Clinton is trying to shift the conversation because she can’t defend her record. “What does she do when she can’t defend her record? She lies, she smears, she paints decent Americans as racists,” he said. “She bullies voters, who only want a better future, and tries to intimidate them out of voting for change.”
The Republican presidential nominee was referring to a new“>welcomed Trump’s statement. In a statement to Jewish Insider, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said, “It’s a good sign and an important, clear rejection of hate. We hope that in the months ahead Mr. Trump and all the candidates will live up to this welcome statement.”
Former KKK leader David Duke to run for Senate
David Duke, the anti-Semitic former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, announced he will run for Senate in Louisiana.
Duke is a registered Republican, and will run in that party’s primary for the Louisiana Senate seat being vacated by Republican David Vitter, according to the Associated Press. Duke served one term as a state representative more than 20 years ago and has run unsuccessfully since then for higher office.
“Thousands of special interest groups stand up for African Americans, Mexican Americans, Jewish Americans, et cetera, et cetera,” Duke said in a message announcing his candidacy. “The fact is that European Americans need at least one man in the United States Senate, one man in the Congress who will defend their rights and heritage.”
Duke supports Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, which has landed Trump in controversy. Earlier this year, Trump demurred when asked to disavow Duke’s support, before disavowing it — claiming he had misunderstood the original question.
Trump ‘totally disavows’ David Duke, condemns anti-Semitism
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, on Thursday disavowed anti-Semitic comments made by white supremacist leader David Duke, saying, ”Anti-Semitism has no place in our society.”
On Wednesday, Duke blamed Republican Jews for attempting to block Trump from becoming the nominee during his radio program. “I think these Jewish extremists have made a terribly crazy miscalculation because all they’re going to be doing by doing a ‘Never Trump’ movement is exposing their alien, their anti-American, anti-American majority position. … They’re going to push people more into an awareness that the neocons are the problem, that these Jewish supremacists who control our country are the real problem, and the reason why America is not great.”
“Antisemitism has no place our society, which needs to be united, not divided,” said Trump.
The ADL welcomed Trump’s statement. “While no one should associate Mr. Trump’s own views with David Duke’s hatred, it is vital for political leaders to use their bully pulpit to speak out against bigotry,” ADL’s Greenblatt said in a follow-up statement. “We think it is important that Mr. Trump denounced the anti-Semitism of David Duke and has made clear that he disavows anti-Semitism.”
Iran’s Zarif defends Holocaust cartoon contest by invoking U.S. acceptance of KKK
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif defended the regime’s decision to host a cartoon festival on the Holocaust in June 2016 by schooling the United States of America on hate.
Two hate crimes in Los Angeles spur strong Jewish response
Two hate crime incidents involving spray-painted, anti-Semitic graffiti occurred within the span of less than a week earlier this month — one at Adat Shalom and the other at Pacific Palisades Charter High School.
On March 9, synagogue leaders at Adat Shalom, a West Los Angeles Conservative congregation, discovered the word “Nazi” spray-painted in two places on the synagogue’s exterior walls.
And on March 13, the discovery of graffiti disparaging Jews as well as Blacks, Asians, Hispanics and gays at Palisades Charter High School and on adjacent city property shook up the local community to such a degree that hundreds of people responded on March 14 in protest.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has identified a suspect in its investigation of the first incident, although no arrest had been made as of press time, according to LAPD Det. Robyn Salazar. Meanwhile, police have arrested two teenage Palisades Charter High School students believed to be responsible for the tagging at the school and surrounding area, according to Los Angeles School Police Department (LASDP) Sgt. Cheron Bartee. LAPD declined to provide the name of either suspect.
The arrest of the teenager — whom police declined to name — followed a peaceful demonstration at the school that drew hundreds of participants, said Bartee, who is Jewish. She described Monday’s protest, which was covered in various media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, as “300 peaceful protestors voicing their concerns about racism.”
Bartee said there is the possibility that more arrests in connection with the Palisades incident will follow.
“[The suspect] admitted to spray-painting these racial slurs at night. And he claims there are two additional suspects outstanding,” she said.
The vandalism, Bartee said, “had stuff against Jews, Black and Hispanic people,” as well as Asians and the LGBT community.
Matt Davidson, executive director at Kehillat Israel, a Reconstructionist synagogue located about a half-mile from the school, said the temple alerted its community about what took place at the school via a mass email with the subject line: “No tolerance for hate.” The synagogue, in response to the incident, increased its security, he said.
“We’re just going to be extra vigilant, making sure we’re secure and safe here, like we always are,” he said.
Kehillat Israel board of trustees member Laurie Haller was involved with an effort to clean up the spray-painted words in the Palisades, according to Davidson.
“We sent [the email] out yesterday morning,” Davidson said. “I was hesitant at first because I didn’t want to create more [concern]. I want to make sure our congregation feels safe and secure, and I didn’t want to be alarmist, but we wanted to commend Laurie for being quick to act and make the statement that there is no tolerance for that.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), meanwhile, was notified of both incidents, according to its regional director, Amanda Susskind. She praised the response of law enforcement with regards to both incidents, and she said the ADL is planning to offer educational resources to students at Pacific Palisades in response to what took place there.
“One of the short-term responses seems to be a rally,” Susskind said, referring to the demonstration that unfolded Monday at the school. “In the longer term, we will be providing resources for training — resources and assembly programs.”
Bartee, who has been working with LASDP for 17 years, said she is disappointed by what occurred in the Palisades and hopes it was caused not by hate but by immaturity.
“It’s never nice to see these kinds of things. Unfortunately, with this, I think a lot of times the kids are just being immature and stupid and aren’t meaning to be this hateful. I think it’s just being stupid and immature,” the LASDP sergeant said. “I’m hoping.”
Adat Shalom Rabbinic Intern Nolan Lebovitz, who is the grandchild of Holocaust survivors, said the incident at Adat Shalom reinforced the fact that anti-Semitism still exists, even in unexpected places.
“As a grandchild of four survivors of the Shoah, it is shocking and horrifying to see the word ‘Nazi’ painted on the walls of our beloved Adat Shalom Synagogue. At the same time, it is a reminder that hate in general, and anti-Semitism in particular, is still a reality — even in West L.A. in 2016,” Lebovitz said in an email. “I am proud to say that the Jewish People is stronger than graffiti, our Torah is more powerful than hate. I invite the entire Jewish community to join with Adat Shalom and live their Judaism proudly in defiance of such hatred.”
The graffiti at both locations has since been cleaned up.
“We wanted to get rid of it,” Adat Shalom President Liz Bar-El said, “and move on.”
Greenblatt: Trump helped racism raise its head
Donald Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail and his failure to outright condemn white supremacists and the KKK has mainstreamed their racist views into the political conversation, ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt suggested on Sunday.
“We are already seeing racism raise its head, right now, through social media and other means. We have also seen white supremacists express some degree of delight and satisfaction that their recruiting is up during this campaign,” Greenblatt told Israel’s Channel 1 on Sunday.
“The fact of the matter is, his failure to reject and repudiate their racism, their anti-Semitism, and their hate, with the same clear terms that he has used in the presidential debates, that he has used in his rallies, or that he has used about the other candidates, that lack of symmetry in the way he talks about white supremacists and racists, has helped to mainstream them into this political conversation,” he explained. “And that’s what we find so problematic.”
Asked if he’s worried about a Trump presidency, Greenblatt said, “I have no idea what a Trump presidency would bring. But I certainly don’t like what a Trump candidacy is bringing out in terms of these white supremacists.”
Trump addressed the issue during a Sunday morning interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” program. “How many times do I have to reject? I’ve rejected David Duke. I’ve rejected the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan from the time I’m five years old I rejected them,” he told host John Dickerson. ” I say to myself, how many times do I have to reject or disavow?”
“I don’t like any group of hate. Hate groups are not for me,” Trump added.
Donald Trump cites Jewish groups in bizarre explanation for not disavowing KKK
Donald Trump, entering the fifth day of defending himself against his equivocal response on CNN to an endorsement by David Duke, said the former Ku Klux Klan head was a “bad man.”
The characterization Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” is about as direct as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination has been so far in disavowing the white supremacist who expressed support for him.
But Trump had to add a wrinkle. Having previously blamed a faulty earpiece for failing to condemn Duke, he this time said he couldn’t just come out and condemn groups generically because — what if they were Jewish?
“And the one question that was asked of me on CNN — he’s having a great time — he talked about ‘groups of people.’ And I don’t like to disavow groups if I don’t know who they are. I mean, you could have the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in ‘groups,’” he said.
The thing is, though, in the original encounter on CNN Sunday, Trump clearly understood that interviewer Jake Tapper was not referring to just any groups, but to white supremacist groups in particular. How do we know this? Because Trump said so.
“Well just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke, okay, I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So I don’t know, I don’t know. Did he endorse me, or what’s going on, because, you know I know nothing about David Duke, I know nothing about white supremacists. So you’re asking me a question that I’m supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about,” he said.
Tapper pushed back, saying, “But I guess the question from the Anti-Defamation League is, even if you don’t know about their endorsement, there are these groups and individuals endorsing you. Would you just say, unequivocally, that you condemn them and you don’t want their support?”
Trump again demurred. “Well, I have to look at the group. I don’t know what group you’re talking about. You wouldn’t want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about. I’d have to look. If you would send me a list of groups, I will do research on them, and certainly I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong. But you may have groups in there that are totally fine and that would be unfair, so give me a list of the groups and I’ll let you know,” he said.
Even in the unlikely event Trump had never heard the term “white supremacist,'” “white” coupled with “supremacist” is kind of self-explanatory. Now, Trump is making it even weirder by suggesting that when Tapper said “white supremacist,” the candidate heard “Jewish philanthropy.”
Hillary Clinton draws contrast with Donald Trump on tone
Hillary Clinton celebrated a resounding victory in the Democratic presidential primary on Super Tuesday at a hometown rally at the Jacob Javits Center in New York on Wednesday.
In a pivot to the general election, Hillary drew a stark contrast between herself and Republican presidential front-runner, Donald Trump, on tone and vision for the future. “This is one of the most consequential presidential elections we’ve had in a long time,” Hillary told the crowd of over 5,000. “The other side has a very different vision of what our country should look like and how we should treat each other.”
Without mentioning Trump and Rubio by name, Hillary decried the rhetoric, the finger pointing and insults flying between the candidates in the Republican primary. “Maybe some people think that’s entertaining. But I can tell you, this is serious business,” she stated. “It really matters when you run for president what you say. And, boy, does it matter you are the president about what you say and how the rest of the world hears you.”
“We are going to wage a campaign that is about the future and about bringing us all together,” Hillary promised.
Also speaking at the rally was NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, who assailed Trump for not condemning David Duke and the KKK at the first given opportunity. “I am sorry, I can’t this out of my system: why did it take Donald Trump so long to figure out that it’s the right thing to do to condemn the KKK? Why did it take him so long to think that David Duke was not a good person?” de Blasio asked rhetorically.
Attendees, consisting of labor union workers and local supporters, were upbeat about the chances of Hillary taking a big lead in the Democratic race against Bernie Sanders and the prospects of her winning the general against a Republican like Trump. “We have this one shot to put up the strongest candidate to stop the party of Trump, Cruz and Rubio,” Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Jewish Labor Committee and the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union, told the crowd.
“Hillary is the best placed to fight Donald Trump. I think she will be able to call him out over his rhetoric and, ultimately, she is going to win,” Oz Ben-Ami, a Manhattan resident and a supporter of Hillary, told Jewish Insider.
Ben-Ami said that while Trump’s recent comments on Israel or refusal to outright condemn the KKK don’t seem to affect his support in the Republican primary, in the general election, “a lot of voters are not going to give him that kind of support.”
Farrakhan praises Trump for not taking Jewish money, repeats claim that Jews behind 9/11
Donald Trump won praise from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan for not taking Jewish money in his quest for the White House.
Farrakhan, who has made frequent anti-Semitic comments, lauded Trump during a sermon Sunday in Chicago, according to the Anti-Defamation League website the following day.
The praise from Farrakhan comes on the heels of a controversy in which the Republican presidential front-runner failed to immediately disavow the endorsement of David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader.
According to the ADL, Farrakhan said the billionaire Trump is “the only member who has stood in front of Jewish community and said I don’t want your money. Anytime a man can say to those who control the politics of America, ‘I don’t want your money,’ that means you can’t control me. And they cannot afford to give up control of the presidents of the United States.”
Farrakhan, 82, stopped short of a full endorsement, however, stating: “Not that I’m for Mr. Trump, but I like what I’m looking at.”
The ADL said Farrakhan’s sermon also blamed Jews, whom he referred to as the “Synagogue of Satan,” for the Iraq War and 9/11 terror attacks.
Referring to former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Farrakhan said, “These are people sitting in the Pentagon, planning the destruction of Muslim nations.”
“Wolfowitz had 10 years now, to plan how they’re gonna clean out the Middle East and take over those Muslim nations. They needed another Pearl Harbor,” Farrakhan said, according to the ADL. “They needed some event that was cataclysmic, that would make the American people rise up, ready for war … they plotted a false flag operation, and when a government is so rotten that they will kill innocent people to accomplish a political objective, you are not dealing with a human …”
Farrakhan continued, “George Bush, and those devils, Satans around him. They plotted 9/11. Ain’t no Muslim took control of no plane.”
Blaming the Jews for 9/11 was nothing new for Farrakhan, who said in a 2015 sermon that “it is now becoming apparent that there were many Israelis and Zionist Jews in key roles in the 9/11 attacks.”
Meet the ‘Jewish Batman’ who saved the KKK from an Anaheim mob
Is Brian Levin a hero? It depends who you ask.
For three long minutes on Saturday, Levin was all that stood between an angry, violent mob and some Ku Klux Klan demonstrators in Anaheim, California, in Levin’s retelling of the episode.
A former New York Police Department officer who is now director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, Levin was on hand to document the KKK rally, as he has many other extremist demonstrations over the years.
But he quickly found himself a part of the action when a violent melee greeted the arrival of the KKK members in their oversized SUV.
“There was a mob stomping on a Klansman who had fallen or was pushed to the ground,” Levin said in his breathless recollection of the confrontation, which made headlines around the country after three people were stabbed and 13 arrested.
“There were football player-sized people kicking him in the face and the abdomen. I crouched over him so he wouldn’t be kicked, and I said, ‘Do not hit this man.’”
When asked how he was able to hold off the assailants, who he said were wielding a wooden plank and a metal rod, Levin said he used the authoritative voice he honed during five years of service on the NYPD in the late 1980s.
“I don’t know if I would call it heroics,” Levin said.
White supremacist website Daily Stormer dubbed him the “Jewish Batman.”
Levin is no fan of the Klan, but this wasn’t the first time he has come to the aid of a white supremacist in distress, he said, recalling a similar incident in 1998 in Warren, Ohio.
After the cops arrived and order was restored, someone asked one of the KKK members how it felt to have his life saved by a Jewish guy.
“He said thank you,” Levin said.
Super Tuesday 2016: How each candidate hopes to trump Trump
Heading into Super Tuesday, the most significant political act may not have been a rabble rousing speech or a surprise endorsement, but a tweet.
On the eve of the biggest day in the presidential primaries for both parties– with 11 states apiece and about a quarter of all delegates up for grabs — Hillary Rodham Clinton retweeted a blunt plea by her Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to stop Donald Trump, who he called a “hatemonger.”
America's first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the KKK.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 28, 2016
Echoing the message were Trump’s leading Republican rivals, Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as well as Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 candidate — who all issued statements.
The extraordinary unity of opposition to Trump, within and across party lines, was galvanized by the real estate billionaire’s failure to unequivocally disavow the endorsement of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Yet, Trump remains the GOP front-runner, and Super Tuesday is largely about who will emerge to challenge him.
Here’s what each candidate hope his or her campaign to have achieved by Wednesday.
Trump said he plans on sweeping the Super Tuesday contests, but a rout may not be in his best interests. If he cedes Texas to Cruz and if Ohio Gov. John Kasich performs well — he hopes to come in second behind Trump in Massachusetts — Trump keeps them in the race and keeps his opponents from uniting behind a single anti-Trump candidate. Rubio, who has been garnering most of the GOP establishment endorsements, would like to be the last man standing, but if he is still feeling the elbows of Cruz and Kasich by mid-March, Trump’s ascension looks inevitable.
Cruz faces the most immediate challenge. Texas is one of the states running a primary on Tuesday, and Cruz has suggested he would drop out if Trump bests him in the state he represents as senator. Cruz started strong by winning in Iowa, but has not been able to pull off even second place in the other three February nominating states. He pulled ahead of Trump in Texas polling in recent days after running neck and neck for weeks.
Rubio has shown promise in the four February contests by coming in second behind Trump in Nevada and South Carolina, and a strong third in Iowa, where Trump came in second and Cruz won. (Rubio floundered in New Hampshire.) But he is under pressure to show he can win a state, and has been campaigning hard in the South, where he has the backing of South Carolina’s popular governor, Nikki Haley. Eight of the 13 states in GOP primaries Tuesday are in the South.
A Southern win could boost Rubio’s numbers in Florida, which goes to the polls on March 15, and where Trump is working hard to kill Rubio’s chances once and for all. Polls now show Trump leading Rubio in Florida by double digits.
Kasich is not counting on any wins on Tuesday, but hopes to turn in respectable enough performances to last through March 8, when Michigan goes to the polls, and March 15, when Ohio votes. He is counting on wins in both states. In Michigan, Kasich is running fourth in polls, and in Ohio, his home state, second. Trump is leading in both states.
Ben Carson, the former neurosurgeon, trails last among the five Republicans most polls, but is sticking out the race for now.
Sanders’ Vermont is among the states going to the Democratic polls on Tuesday, and it may be the only state where he pulls out a win. He has campaigned hard in recent days in the states where he appears to have the best chance of an upset, and where he can appeal to the struggling whites who are most receptive to his messaging about income inequality: Massachusetts, Colorado, Oklahoma and Minnesota. Sanders’ best chance is in Oklahoma, where he is in a virtual dead heat with Clinton. If he takes the state, he could credibly claim a win in the South, where Clinton otherwise is dominating.
Clinton leads substantially throughout the South. A Clinton sweep of the eight southern states, where African-Americans and Latinos are major components of the Democratic vote, would help make her point that she is the better Democratic candidate to inspire minority voters in the general election.
Clinton also appears to be leading Sanders in Massachusetts; a loss in a neighboring state could wound Sanders, who became the first Jewish presidential candidate to win a primary last month when he won New Hampshire.
Anonymous begins to reveal names of alleged KKK members
Last week, a group identifying itself as the online hacktivist collective “Anonymous” vowed to release contact information identifying 1,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan, timed a year after the group first began targeting the KKK in the wake of the Ferguson, Missouri, protests.
On Monday, the group followed through, publishing its first batch of information: an (unverified) list of 57 phone numbers and 23 email addresses allegedly belonging to KKK members. Multiple Twitter commenters questioned the veracity of the information shortly after its release, reporting that many of the numbers belong to businesses with no clear link to the Klan.
Keep reading the story at Huffington Post.
Suspected Kansas City JCC shooter says he targeted Jews
The white supremacist suspect in the shootings of three people at two Jewish institutions in suburban Kansas City said he wanted to “be sure I killed some Jews before I died.”
Frazier Glenn Miller, who also goes by the name Frazier Glenn Cross, told the Kansas City Star in an interview published Sunday that he decided in March to carry out the April attacks on two Jewish sites in the city after he became so sick with emphysema that he thought he would soon die.
“I was convinced I was dying then,” Miller, of Aurora, Mo., told the newspaper in his first published interview since the April 13 attacks.
He went on to say, “I wanted to make damned sure I killed some Jews or attacked the Jews before I died.”
Miller is suspected of killing William Lewis Corporon, a retired physician, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, in the parking lot of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City in Overland Park, Kan., and then shooting to death Terri LaManno, a Catholic mother of two, in the parking lot at Village Shalom, a Jewish assisted-living facility a few blocks away, where she was visiting her mother.
None of the three victims were Jewish.
Miller, a former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon, told the newspaper that he conducted reconnaissance missions of the Jewish Community Center and Village Shalom in the days before the shootings.
“Because of what I did, Jews feel less secure,” he said. “Every Jew in the world knows my name now and what I did. As for these … white people who are accomplices of the Jews, who attend their meetings and contribute to their fundraising efforts and who empower the Jews, they are my enemy, too. A lot of white people who associate with Jews, go to Jewish events and support them know that they’re not safe either, thanks to me.”
He told the newspaper that he regretted killing “the young white boy.”
Miller was charged in April with capital murder and first-degree premeditated murder. The capital charge carries a death sentence; the premeditated murder charge could result in life in prison.
He had served three years in prison on weapons charges and for plotting the assassination of Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
3 slain civil rights workers to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Three civil rights workers killed in Mississippi in 1964 while registering black voters will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom 50 years after their deaths.
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner are among 19 recipients of the highest civilian honor awarded by the United States. President Obama will present the awards at the White House on Nov. 24.
The three young men were shot by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at the beginning of Freedom Summer, a historic voter registration drive in which hundreds of people worked to register blacks to vote.
Chaney was African-American; Goodman and Schwerner were Jewish.
Other Jewish recipients of this year’s medals include Abner Mikva, Robert Solow and Stephen Sondheim.
Mikva, a former federal judge and Illinois congressman, mentored Obama as a young lawyer and often made Obama’s case to the Jewish community after he launched his political career. He also served as White House counsel for President Bill Clinton.
Solow received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1987. His research in the 1950s through the 1970s transformed the field, laying the groundwork for much of modern economics.
Sondheim, one of the country’s most influential theater composers and lyricists, has won eight Grammy Awards, eight Tony Awards, an Academy Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Gov’t shutdown bad for Jews, but also bad for Klan
The Forward reports:
For Jewish organizations dealing daily with federally funded programs, the shutdown’s impact could be much more than a scheduling nuisance.
“The longer this goes on, the greater the impact will be,” said William Daroff, vice president for public policy at the Jewish Federations of North America. He explained that agencies relying on government funding for their programs, mainly those treating elderly and people in need in the community, can shift funds for a while to cover for the lack of government dollars. But the longer the shutdown continues, the harder this task becomes. There is also no certainty that the government will cover retroactively these funds, although in past shutdowns that has been the practice. In a memo to federation on October 1, Daroff warned that “impact on the programs and services that Federations and affiliated agencies provide may be drastic and severe.”
Now, the good news: As it is for most other Americans, the government shutdown is also bad for the Ku Klux Klan.
The New York Times reports:
A Ku Klux Klan rally became a casualty of the U.S. government shutdown on Tuesday when National Parks officials told the white supremacist group the event would have to be canceled.
The KKK had been granted a permit for what it dubbed a First Amendment demonstration on Saturday at Gettysburg National Military Park, but park officials said it could not take place because all National Parks have been closed.
Finally, a feel-good government shutdown story (until you read to the part about all National Parks being closed).
Security prep for Memphis Klan rally seen as national model
Cantor Ricky Kampf descends from the bimah, adjusts his prayer shawl and strides up the aisle, cutting through the cavernous sanctuary to greet the familiar out-of-towner.
“Y’all here for the shindig?” Kampf says at the Baron Hirsch Synagogue here as he grasps the hand of Paul Goldenberg, the burly former cop who runs the Secure Community Network, the security arm of the national Jewish community.
The shindig in question is a Ku Klux Klan rally planned for later that day, March 30, in downtown Memphis. For months, Goldenberg has been in constant contact with the Jewish community leadership in this Mississippi River port city, as well as with local and federal law enforcement, in readying for any possible attack.
It's a security template that SCN, an arm of the Jewish Federations of North America and of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, wants to replicate across the United States.
“It’s not just dealing with the immediate challenge, but as we do in Jewish life, we try and prepare for the next situation, how to deal with these things on a regular basis, so they’re prepared for it,” Steve Hoffman, the co-chairman of SCN, tells JTA. “The best security preparation in the Jewish world is vigilance without panic.”
A persuasive, kinetic presence, Goldenberg crisscrosses the country meeting with Jewish community leaders and local law enforcement. But training in Memphis is accelerated because of the Klan rally, a protest of the decision to rename parks that until recently commemorated Confederate heroes — notably Nathan Bedford Forrest, a founder of the Klan.
Ahead of the rally, leaders from every Memphis Jewish institution receive a crash course in security training, including presentations by the Department of Homeland Security and the Memphis Police Department's SWAT team: Develop a communications plan, secure exits and entrances, and above all, be aware.
“The Jewish community and any community, faith-based organizations, we see them as part of the homeland security enterprise,” Bill Flynn, a deputy assistant secretary of DHS, tells JTA.
In the end, the Klan rally is a bust. Barely 60 Klansmen show up on the rain-soaked steps of Shelby County courthouse. A leader uses a megaphone to address klatches of men and women — some robed in white and red, others not — who respond with shouts of “White Power!” It's over in less than an hour.
But law enforcement officials still have reason to be concerned — not with the Klan itself, which makes a point these days of being law abiding — but that an outlier attracted to the rally could break off, drive 20 minutes east and target one of the seven synagogues in Memphis.
“The United States is into a four-year resurgence both of anti-government and white supremacist groups,” said Mark Pitcavage, the director of fact finding for the Anti-Defamation League. “This resurgence started in early 2009 following the election of Barack Obama and the economic crisis. There has been an upsurge in violent activity as a result of that.”
A report published in January by Arie Perliger, the director of terrorism studies at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, showed violent attacks emanating from the far right rising from below 200 per year at the turn of the century to more than 300 by the middle of the decade. Attacks spiked in 2008, Obama's election year, to more than 550 before dropping to 300 in 2010. In 2011, the number rose again, to more than 350.
In Memphis law enforcement circles, the threat is described in shorthand. “West Memphis” refers to the murder of two policemen in the Arkansas town across the river in 2010 by two affiliates of the anti-government “sovereign citizen” movement; “Washington state” is the placing of a bomb at a Martin Luther King Day parade site in Spokane in 2011; “Schmidt” is Richard Schmidt, a Toledo, Ohio, man arrested in December in possession of a small armory and a hit list including the names of leaders of the NAACP and the Jewish federation in Detroit.
In each of the cases, and in many others, the attackers are loners likely influenced by the rhetoric of extremist groups.
“In general, the FBI considers lone offenders to pose the most significant threat of violence within the extremist movement,” Eric Sorensen, an analyst with the FBI’s Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit, said in a March 13 conference call with the Memphis Jewish community leadership.
On the Saturday morning of the Klan rally, Goldenberg surveys Memphis synagogues, nodding approvingly at recommendations heeded — guards at each exit — and groaning at those ignored. A playground remains unprotected by shrubbery or a fence.
“We don’t want people seeing our kids,” Goldenberg says.
A patrol car checks streets near the synagogues. Fathers in yarmulkes walk their toddlers to Sabbath services seemingly unperturbed by plans for an extremist rally. A woman at a synagogue entrance holds out to Goldenberg the panic button hanging from her neck; one squeeze and the police are alerted, just as Goldenberg had recommended.
“Good work,” he says, and she shoots back a gratified grin.
Goldenberg says that communal officials who graduate from the training he organizes with law enforcement officials are “force multipliers.” John Cohen, the deputy counterterrorism coordinator at DHS, says that making a targeted ethnic or religious community a partner in its own protection is “our basic model” of homeland protection.
Such partnerships, however, make civil liberties groups nervous.
The American Civil Liberties Union has said that urging civilians to report suspicious activities could lead to abuses that it contends are already inherent in law enforcement reporting of such activities. Programs encouraging such reporting make it “far more likely that both the police and the public will continue overreporting the commonplace behavior of their neighbors,” the ACLU said in an analysis in January.
Even among Memphis Jews, not everyone is enamored of Goldenberg's strategy. Ronald Harkavy, a lawyer, philanthropist and community patriarch, isn't happy to run into Goldenberg at the Anshei Sphard Beth El Emeth Congregation.
“I’m one of those who say do nothing” when the Klan comes to town, he tells Goldenberg, his accent and broad smile thick with a cold gentility. “That’s been fine for over a hundred years.”
Goldenberg shrugs and Harkavy turns away. Another congregant leans in and whispers, “We’re thankful for all you do.”
Having completed his tour of Jewish Memphis, Goldenberg heads downtown to meet the Memphis Police Department’s liaison to the Jewish community, Stuart Frisch, an Israel Defense Forces veteran. Frisch ferries Goldenberg to a white van functioning as a command center. Goldenberg leaps in and admires a monitor feeding images from public and privately owned security cameras. The streets are empty.
The police ensure the Klansmen do not encounter anti-Klan protesters. In 1998, violent clashes at another rally traumatized the city. Memories of that day took up several pages in the morning edition of the Commercial Appeal, Memphis' main daily.
Between beat cops and SWAT team members, there is more security personnel — much of it African-American — than there are Klansmen. The megaphone-audio is so poor, the rain driving down so hard, that much of the grand wizard’s speech — apart from the punctuations of “White Power!” — is reduced to a muffled “wawawa.”
Goldenberg and his friend head out in search of lunch. The day is a success: The Jewish community in Memphis is aware and engaged with law enforcement. The Klan have come and gone. No one is hurt.
Breaking off from a dissipating anti-Klan rally, an African-American woman strides through the rain, arms outstretched.
“Wash away the sin!” she cries out. “Wash away the stench!”
Michigan St. student says attack at party was anti-Semitism
A Jewish student at Michigan State University said he was attacked at an off-campus party in what he is calling a hate crime.
Just before the assault, which broke his jaw, Zach Tennen said his attackers asked him if he was Jewish, according to reports.
Tennen, 19, a resident of suburban Detroit, said he answered in the affirmative. He told WDIV-TV in Detroit that his attackers also “were making Nazi and Hitler symbols and they said they were part of the KKK.”
Tennen was knocked unconscious during the attack, which took place early Sunday morning near MSU’s East Lansing campus. The assailants stapled his mouth shut through his gums.
Others at the party watched as Tennen called a taxi to take him to the hospital. His mouth was surgically wired shut.
His family has called the Anti-Defamation League regarding the assault. Tennen plans to return to classes in a week.
The university in an email statement referred all questions about the police investigation to the East Lansing Police Department, as the incident occurred off campus.
“Michigan State University’s Student Affairs and Services office has reached out to the family of the student who said he was assaulted in East Lansing to provide the academic and other support the student needs,” the statement also said.
Canadian Jewish Congress seeks charges against Muslim website
A Jewish group is seeking hate crimes charges against a Toronto-based Muslim website that featured a video address by former U.S. Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Duke’s video was scrubbed April 13 from Casmo.ca, the site for the Canadian Shia Muslim Organization, but the Canadian Jewish Congress is pursuing charges under Canada’s hate crimes laws.
In its letter to police, the Canadian Jewish Congress calls for a probe of Casmo.ca, which describes itself as the “national platform of Shia Muslims in Canada.”
The CJC pointed out that the 12-minute video, in which Duke espoused conspiracy theories about “Zionist running dogs,” remained on the site for two days after it was exposed by the National Post newspaper. For a brief period on April 13, a second Duke video was posted to the site.
“The decision to remove the video two days late doesn’t hold much water,” Bernie Farber, the CJC’s CEO, told the Post. “In fact, they put up a second video and I can only assume they were getting some inside pressure, not the least of which was a police complaint.”
Duke, a former KKK grand wizard, played a key role in helping to spread the Klan through Canada.
On the site, the Canadian Shia Muslim Organization says it “supports multiculturalism” and “interfaith dialogue.”
In an editorial, the online journal The American Muslim accused the group of joining “the Muslim lunatic fringe.”
Campus hate — while down — is still a problem, wailin’ on Palin
Quiet War at UCI
However we commend The Journal for running [Brad] Greenberg’s review of the situation on American campuses. It was a comprehensive piece that included differing views about the problem’s severity, and was of great service to Journal readers who are concerned about the issue.
We disagree however with the professors’ strategic recommendations and the elitist tone of their letter. Minimization or denial will not solve the problem, nor will denigrating off campus groups who share concern about the immediate and long-range impact of campus anti-Zionism. The 20,000 faculty members who felt it necessary to form an organization, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) to combat imbalance and poor scholarship about the Middle East conflict certainly cannot be accused of being “amateurish,” promoting “shoddy research” and “propaganda,” and of not understanding the campus or “academic freedom.”
SPME’s roster includes highly acclaimed professors and Nobel Prize winners.
There is a crying need for united action so Jewish students and faculty can proudly support Israel, not only in Hillel buildings, but also in classrooms, faculty offices and on campus quads. Jewish campus institutions have a vital role to play in this effort, but they may be constrained by sensitive campus affiliations. Independent organizations also have an important role because they are freer to express student and faculty concerns about abuses, intimidation and propaganda-like distortions.
If the five academics collaborated with other well-intentioned groups, they would find them much more reasonable, open-minded and sophisticated than their letter implies.
Roz Rothstein, Executive Director
Roberta Seid, Education Director
Palin and the Jews
In response to your recent article, “Sarah Palin and the Jews” (Sept. 5), please count me as one reader who was shocked and sickened by the nastiness and pettiness of Sarah Palin’s speech [at the Republican National Convention].
If insulting community organizers, making snide remarks about Sen. Barack Obama’s popularity and mocking the location of Obama’s acceptance speech make her presidential material, then America is in serious trouble.
I was shocked by your flattering treatment of Gov. Sarah Palin. After picking through the trivia and smears for substance, you conclude that she “has genuinely warm relations with her Jewish constituents … and appears to have a fondness for Israel.” However, you present no evidence that she has genuinely warm feelings about Jews or genuine fondness for Israel.
Furthermore, you brush off her wearing a Pat Buchanan button when he visited her town “as a courtesy.” Come on! Would it be acceptable for her to put a sheet over her head as a courtesy if the Ku Klux Klan paraded through her town?
I hear Jews around America saying that they are voting for Sen. John McCain because he is good for Israel. Democrats are better for Israel than McCain could ever dream to be, but now that Gov. Sarah Palin is on McCain’s ticket, there are more pressing matters at hand.
Palin recently said that the war in Iraq is “God’s task.” She’s even admitted she hasn’t thought about the war much … just last year, she was quoted as saying, “I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq.”
Palin wants to teach creationism in public schools. Creationism is not going to be taught from the Tanach; it will be from the New Testament — how can we allow that?
I hope that the Jews of Los Angeles will stand up against Palin so that she will not be able to continue on her path toward ruining our country.
As a retired Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) middle school teacher, I was elated to read about the New Los Angeles Charter School (New L.A.) that will be opening this month (“P.S. Tikkun Olam,” Aug. 29).
Given the poor academic performance and high dropout rate throughout much of the LAUSD, it is imperative that parents have meaningful options, such as New L.A., to assure that their children receive quality instruction in a safe and nurturing environment.
Unfortunately, both the LAUSD and United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) have misplaced priorities. LAUSD’s insular district office personnel are often insensitive to the real needs of on-site administrators, school faculties and students. Meanwhile, the teachers union (UTLA) spends much of its resources blocking sorely needed reform.
It was the union that stood in the way of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s plan to create 100 additional charter schools in Los Angeles. Little wonder that New L.A. received almost three times as many applications as it has openings.
Anything that can topple the status quo is welcome relief. On behalf of the children of Los Angeles, todah rabbah and yasher koach to Matt Albert and his crew for putting forth the effort and accepting the risk associated with starting the New Los Angeles Charter School.
Leonard M. Solomon
Singles Comic Strip
Never Mind Amy the Date (“True Confessions of an Online Dating Addict,” Sept. 5). Amy’s comic strip should get dumped. Three words sum up that inert strip: worst comic ever.
Seriously, with all of the amazing Jewish comedic minds out there in Hollywood and beyond, can’t you find one real cartoonist to create something funny? Maybe you can poach a guy from HEEB.
Ed. Note: We like it. Judge for yourself.
The D.I.S.C caption in the Sept. 5 issue (page 41) should have read "Dr. John T. Knight, Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon, D.I.S.C. Spine and Sports Center," instead of "Dr. Robert S. Bray Jr., CEO and Founder, one of the country's preeminent neurological spinal surgeons."

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The Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Department received the GOLD Award at the 2023 Excellence in Economic Development Awards last week for their Regional Workforce Development Innovation Program. The Chamber-led San Angelo Regional Workforce Development Innovation Program consists of four industrial workforce development programs:
- SME PRIME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers – Partnership in Response in Manufacturing Education) projects linking local manufacturers with students;
- Fabricators Recruitment Day – A day in which a local steel fabrication company interviews over 90 students;
- Manufacturing Days – Each October the SARMA (San Angelo Regional Manufacturers Alliance) Organizes events and factory tours for students from Angelo State University, Howard Community College and the San Angelo Independent School District (SAISD);
- Aermotor Windmill School – A 4-day event attended by students throughout the United States to learns kills for maintenance and construction of wind-powered water supply systems.
“Your dedication, innovation, and commitment to fostering economic growth and prosperity stand as exemplary models to the entire international economic development community. Your efforts have not only shaped local and regional economies, but have also had far-reaching impacts, inspiring others to follow in your footsteps,” said IEDC. “The IEDC Excellence in Economic Development Awards program serves as testament to your achievements and underscores the critical role you play in advancing economic development on a global scale. Your vision, passion, and leadership have had a profound impact on communities, businesses, and individuals, leaving a legacy that will continue to benefit generations to come.”

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The NFL season has finally seen a couple of winless teams pick up some big wins in week 4. However, it also showed that the NFL plans for coping with the Covid-19 pandemic had to be put into place as well with some of the players coming down with the virus before playing this week. Those players who did get sick will definitely make it a challenge later on this year for the teams who have to make up the games later on this year.
Now, one thing that did show up for some of the teams, outside of the coronavirus outbreak was the fact that some teams had a lot of injuries they had to deal with. One of the biggest teams to face a lot of injuries was the Jacksonville team. They ended up having a lot of star players go down with injuries, but the big news coming to Week 5 is the health of Nick Chubb who ended up leaving the Browns game this past week.
With week 5 the games do have the potential to bring a lot of impact to the game. However, one thing that is going to really be noticed is how the teams are able to come to the game here. The season is long, but by this week a lot of the teams are starting to settle into their game plans and know what to do. What else will make this game interesting and can make an impact on the NFL picks this week is the firing of the Houston Texans head coach.
Buccaneers at Bears
Thursday night football will take place at Soldier Field. The Buccaneers are the road team here and will have a chance to showcase their offensive talent yet again this week. Tom Brady has continued to have some great games, like the last game where Brady threw for 369 yards and 5 touchdowns. Now, the Buccaneers defense does need to improve some if they are going to have a chance at the playoffs, but with the Bears that should be easier than what the Buccaneers faced with the Chargers.
The Bears ended up playing good in their last game, but came up short against the Colts. Some of that comes from the defensive lapses in the games as the Bears were unable to stop Rivers. Now, the Bears defense will have some problems here as Brady is quite a bit better than Rivers and that can make it a challenge here for the Bears. Not to mention, the Nick Foles led offense for the Bears played flat and did not look overly impressive on the day.
In this game the Bears are going to have a challenge as the passing attack from Tampa Bay will be able to take advantage of a weaker Bears defense. Throw in that the Bears offense is questionable at best and it will be hard to see that the Buccaneers defense will be tested like they have been in the past. Look for this game to tilt to Tampa Bay with them covering the spread fairly easily.
Panthers at Falcons
The Panthers look to have settled down for the year like we mentioned before. The Panthers opened the season with a horrible start that seen them drop to an 0-2 mark to start the year off. Now, the Panthers have recorded 2 straight wins and in the last game the Panthers offense showed up big by getting a total of 444 yards, but the impressive part was the defensive effort that kept the Cardinals to only 262 yards. Now, the good news is the signing of Teddy Bridgewater is paying off for the Panthers as he performed really well in the last game.
This year the Falcons have been a team that has disappointed everyone in how they have done. The Falcons have lost all their games this year and that includes losing most of the games in the first half and never being able to battle back. That includes the last game for the Falcons when they were trailing Green Bay at the end of the first half and never could battle back and only ended up with 16 points total.
Heading to this game the Panthers will come into the game without Christian McCaffrey who is injured. However, the Falcons are without playmaker Julio Jones most likely. Look for that to make a difference in how both of these teams prepare, but with the division rivalry match here both teams come in amped and ready to play. The Panthers, though, look like a team with better depth and that helps bring the Panthers home with the win as the underdog.
Chargers at Saints
Los Angeles ended up losing their last game. Granted, it was to a newly rejuvenated Buccaneers team it was still a loss and one the Chargers almost avoided. The good news is the Chargers were able to see how well the new draft pick in Herbert should work out against a fairly decent NFL caliber defense. Now, what else is interesting for the Chargers is the loss did allow them to see that their defensive secondary can keep a pro bowl caliber quarterback in check.
New Orleans finally was able to get a good game from Drew Brees. Brees looked fairly impressive in the last game with 246 yards and 2 touchdowns, and was finally able to move the ball like he used to. The Saints defense, though, struggled in the game against a Lions defense and that could really be tested again by an upcoming rookie quarterback who is looking to make a bigger name for himself and his team.
The difference in the game here will come from which version of Drew Brees shows up in the game. If the version shows up that has played good before, then the Saints have a chance of winning, but even then the Saints defense has to play good. Look for this game, though, to be dictated by the young rookie quarterback who is able to set the pace in the game and keep Brees off the field.

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Complex systems are ubiquitous, and practically all branches of science ranging from physics through chemistry and biology to economics and sociology have to deal with them. In this book we wish to present concepts and methods for dealing with complex systems from a unifying point of view. Therefore it may be of inter est to graduate students, professors and research workers who are concerned with theoretical work in the above-mentioned fields. The basic idea for our unified ap proach sterns from that of synergetics. In order to find unifying principles we shall focus our attention on those situations where a complex system changes its macroscopic behavior qualitatively, or in other words, where it changes its macroscopic spatial, temporal or functional structure. Until now, the theory of synergetics has usually begun with a microscopic or mesoscopic description of a complex system. In this book we present an approach which starts out from macroscopic data. In particular we shall treat systems that acquire their new structure without specific interference from the outside; i. e. systems which are self-organizing. The vehicle we shall use is information. Since this word has several quite different meanings, all of which are important for our purpose, we shall discuss its various aspects. These range from Shannon information, from which all semantics has been exorcised, to the effects of information on receivers and the self-creation of meaning.
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It might be the most difficult thing you’ll ever do, but it’s important to advocate for yourself during an emergency room visit. If possible, ask all the questions you can think of and make sure to get answers before agreeing to have any procedures done. And just because you’re at an in-network facility doesn’t mean you’ll always be treated by an in-network doctor, so make sure to talk to whoever is providing the care if you can. Obviously this isn’t possible if you’re incapacitated, but if you can, you should make clear what your health insurance does and does not cover. This can help you avoid an unexpectedly large bill later. If you do end up with a huge emergency room bill even though you have insurance, contact your provider and ask if there are any programs available for bill reduction.
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There are many factors that go into determining your car insurance rates. Some, like your age and gender, are out of your control. Others, like where you live and your marital status, are somewhat in your control. Finally, there are several factors that affect your auto insurance rates, like the insurance company you choose to work with, your driving record, your credit score, the kind of car you drive, and the amount of coverage you choose, that are completely within your control.
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Let's use the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy as an example to illustrate the differences between collision and comprehensive. Within that storm, let's consider two events that might have happened: 1) a heavy tree branch fell on your car, or 2) you swerved to avoid a falling tree branch and wound up crashing into a tree. In the first event, you had no control over when or why a tree branch would fall on your car. This kind of accident would get reimbursed under your comprehensive policy. In the second situation, you were driving the car and ultimately swerved into the tree, which makes it a collision, and collision insurance therefore pays for the damages. Events like the hypothetical ones stated above are why it's important to differentiate between the two types of coverage.
Humana is a great option for consumers in some parts of the United States, as it's only available in 22 states. If you happen to live in one of those states and are over the age of 45, you're likely going to see lower premiums than with other insurance companies. In our tests we looked at policies for single non-smokers in five different places. We found the premium rates were lower across the board than many other companies we tested, particularly for seniors.
In a best-case scenario, you’ll never have to use your car insurance. After all, making a claim on your auto insurance means you’ve suffered some sort of loss, and no one wants that. However, going through life without ever having a fender bender or other damage to your car is unlikely. In some cases, you’ll be making a car insurance claim after a harrowing experience, like a serious accident. After going through something like that, you want to be sure your insurance company isn’t going to make things worse.
Car insurance helps provide financial protection for you, and possibly others, if you are involved in an accident. Auto insurance for your vehicle is usually required by all states. Review our state car insurance guides to see the different laws and auto insurance minimum required coverages. You can customize your auto policy to fit your needs. There are different coverages and limits you can choose to create your auto insurance policy. Check out our car insurance coverage page to learn more about each type of coverage.

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Recent data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed Australians are borrowing more money for property than ever before.
It was recorded that a rising 5.6 per cent to $24 billion is the total value of new loan commitments for housing reached a record high in November 2020. The amount was almost a third higher than it was in November 2019, just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amanda Seneviratne, the ABS’ head of finance and wealth, revealed most of the money was allocated in for homes that already existed.
According to her, “loan commitments for existing dwellings rose 5.9 per cent and were the largest contributor to the rise in November’s owner-occupier housing loan commitments.”
She added the value of construction loan obligations surged to 5.6 per cent in November, skyrocketing to 75 per cent since July. This follows the June’s enactment of the Government’s HomeBuilder grant as a nod to COVID-19.
“Other federal and state government incentives and ongoing low-interest rates also contributed to the continuing growth in new housing loan commitments.” She explained.
The number of loan commitments for first home buyers rose 3.1 per cent to 13,905, marking a stratospheric rise of 42.5 per cent since the start of the year. A huge spike in home loans also marks a return to form for the Australian property market, which was remarkably resilient throughout the worst of the pandemic.
Given this fact, it seemed that the lack of accessibility to view and purchase properties merely rested ordinary trade until vendors, agents and buyers could begin working as normal.
As per, Tim Lawless, Corelogic’s research director, “the number of residential property sales plummeted by 40 per cent through March and April but finished the year with almost 8 per cent more sales relative to a year ago as buyer numbers surged through the second half of the year.”
The director asserted that although the unpredictability is prevalent, housing values showed notable resilience, falling by only 2.1 per cent and recovering with strength throughout the final quarter of 2020.


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By Michael D'OnofrioPHILADELPHIA -- A violent start to 2020 has prompted Philadelphia City Council members to schedule a hearing on gun violence this week.Councilman Curtis Jones called on officials and residents to “not regurgitate...
'If they want to keep their jobs, they need to do the right thing,' advocate says as Harrisburg sits on gun violence bills.
I share my story because I refuse to accept that it’s normal that 100 Americans are killed every day in this country.
In remarks prepared for delivery, the Democratic governor challenged Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate to break months of gridlock.
By Celeste TrustyAll Pennsylvanians want to feel safe in their homes and communities, and reducing gun violence is a concern echoed across the Commonwealth.Pennsylvania needs proactive, proven solutions to gun violence that prioritize public...
Several speakers are already lined up to present, including Baldwin grad Tim Hindes, the creator of the Stronger than Hate logo, which was designed after the October 2018 Squirrel Hill synagogue shooting.
February 1-8 is National Gun Violence Survivors Week, a week that amplifies and honors the individual stories of America’s gun violence survivors
The first forum, which discussed the issue of gun violence in Pennsylvania, was joined by a 5-member panel of experts that weighed in on the issue.
The full House could vote as soon as February on legislation sponsored by Rep. Todd Stephens, R-Montgomery. Critics say it would not reduce violence
City Council will attempt to use a new strategy to force state officials to enact gun regulations or allow Philadelphia to put in place its own.

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It's cold here in the Webmonkey offices, Adobe has unveiled a web browser. No, Adobe isn't really getting into the web browser game, but it does have a few tricks it would like to show off to the world. Adobe's new demo web browser exists solely to demonstrate the company's proposed CSS Regions layout tool.
If you'd like to check out the demo browser, head over to Adobe Labs and download a copy. Be sure to open up the included sample pages to see how the HTML and CSS is structured.
Adobe has been working on CSS Regions for some time, trying to develop a set of CSS layout tools that make it easy to build complex, print-style layouts on the web – think text that flows around circular regions, or text structured into shapes. If Adobe can convince browser makers and the W3C to get onboard with the idea, web design might be about to make a huge leap forward. Or backward, depending on how you look at it.
Adobe's CSS Regions proposal is a back-to-the-future effort to bring some of the layout tools print designers have enjoyed for years to the web.
While web developers have hacked together grids and other print-style layout tools for years, such tools are essentially hacks and limited in their capabilities. But that will change in the near future. The W3C is currently toying with no less than four new grid-based standards designed to handle multi-column text, wrapping text around images and other fancy layout techniques. We've looked at the Flexible Box Model, Template Layout (based on Mozilla's XUL syntax), and Grid Positioning modules before, but so far none are finalized.
Adobe's CSS Regions is the new entry in the list of layout schemes under consideration. Adobe submitted its CSS Regions proposal to the W3C early this year and it has subsequently been split into two separate but related drafts, the CSS Regions Module Editor's Draft and the CSS Exclusions Module Editor's Draft.
CSS Regions shares some similarities with the other proposals (and from what I can tell would play nice with them if multiple proposals end up becoming finalized specs), but goes a good bit further, by abstracting sections of an HTML page into "regions."
Regions can be both positive and negative space. In other words, you can write CSS rules to flow text into a region – say, as below, a pie graph – or around a region (as in the image of Arches National Park at the top of this post).
Among the interesting layout tools in the CSS Regions proposal are Story Threading, Region Styling and the arbitrary shapes and exclusions concept. Story Threading allows text to flow in multiple disjointed shapes (not just columns) which you can define in CSS and HTML. That means you could easily flow two side-by-side columns of text around an image or a pullquote the way print magazines often do.
The second interesting element is Region Styling, which allows content to be styled based on the region it flows into. For example, if the first few lines of your text fall into one region, you could style it with a different font than the rest, which falls in a different region. Curiously, this part of the proposed Regions spec is not currently implemented in Adobe's demo browser.
The arbitrary content portion of the draft spec is what allows the layout shown in the screenshots above – flowing content into or around arbitrary shapes.
Lest you think that Adobe is simply trying to improve the web – which may well be true – nevertheless, it's worth bearing in mind Adobe's own agenda. We suspect it's no accident that the company has used WebKit to power the CSS Regions testing browser. WebKit is, after all, the engine that powers the iPad's web browser.
With Apple banning Flash from its iOS devices, Adobe has little in the way of iPad-friendly tools to offer its big magazine clients. Given that publishers are betting heavily on the iPad's ability to save their business model, the more iPad tools Adobe can offer, the happier magazine publishers will be. By rolling CSS Regions into WebKit for a demo, Adobe is already one step closer to a toe-hold on iOS devices.
Still, in this case, assuming the W3C pushes forward with the Regions spec, and that browser makers include support in future releases, what's good for Adobe may end up being good for the web as a whole.
Of course whether or not multi-column layouts on the iPad (or any other web browser) are a good idea is open to debate. Multiple columns combined with scrolling often makes for a reading nightmare. Certainly in the hands of poor designers the results will be ugly, but that doesn't mean the tools themselves are to blame.

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The Quantum Computing event: D-Wave will be hosting its annual Qubits Worldwide Users Conference virtually from Oct 5-7.
Qubits is an excellent opportunity to connect with other innovators involved in quantum computing! There is no cost to attend.
Qubits 2021 will feature:
Speakers presenting their latest work on quantum applications in manufacturing and logistics, financial services, biotech and pharma, energy, materials science, machine learning, and much more. Confirmed speakers include experts from Paypal, Mastercard, E.ON, GE, Menten AI, Accenture, NEC, Multiverse Computing, and many more.
Educational sessions and tutorials for developers with all levels of quantum experience, from those who are new to quantum to those with advanced knowledge.
D-Wave speakers discussing our quantum roadmap and the latest development tools.
See the agenda at https://www.qubits.com/schedule
Oct 5, Quantum for Business: D-Wave technology updates, user talks on their application work in finance, energy, life sciences, manufacturing / logistics, and retail.
Oct 5, Evening: Japan conference
Oct 6, Developer / Researchers program: Quantum research, software development tools, benchmarking, developer panel discussions
Oct 7, Quantum Programming Tutorials: Introduction to quantum programming


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By Kane Wu in Hong Kong and Eyk Henning in Frankfurt
China’s appliances maker Midea Group is close to announcing a takeover offer for German industrial robot maker Kuka AG, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that could become one of the largest unsolicited approaches of a foreign company by a Chinese buyer.
Based in Southern China’s Guangdong province, Midea could announce its offer for Kuka as early as Wednesday, two of these people said, adding it is prepared to pay a 30% premium to Kuka’s three-month average share price.
Such an offer would value Kuka at roughly EUR4.4 billion euros ($5 billion) according to The Wall Street Journal’s calculations.
Another person added that Kuka is aware of Midea’s interest in increasing the stake and would consider an offer.
Another person said that Midea is looking at increasing its stake to above 30%, but doesn’t necessarily seek to gain more than 50% or buy Kuka altogether.
Midea wasn’t available late Tuesday, while a spokeswoman for Kuka declined to comment.
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Woman arrested on 2nd DUI charge after striking state police car
An East Greenwich woman was arrested and charged with driving intoxicated after her car allegedly struck a state police cruiser in Providence.
State police say troopers were helping a disabled motorist on Route 95 95 North near the Smith Street overpass just after midnight and their two cruisers were blocking a lane.
Officials allege 20-year-old Nicole DiLello drove around the first cruiser and hit the second one, which then struck the disabled vehicle.
No one was hurt.
An open bottle with a suspected alcoholic beverage was found in her car.


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There are more sequins, feathers, glitter, wigs and platform shoes than you can shake a stick at in the touring musical production “Priscilla Queen of the Desert” which opened this week at the Sacramento Community Center Theater. There were dancing paintbrushes, twirling cupcakes, all sorts of flying things, and every animal unique to Australia, from kangaroos to frill-necked lizards, all dancing and singing their way into the audience’s hearts.
“Priscilla” is the musical version of the 1994 movie about three drag queens traveling across Australia’s outback in a big bus on their way to a gig in Alice Springs. The book is by Stephan Elliott (who wrote the original screenplay and directed the film) and Allan Scott, and the music is the most eclectic assortment of covers you can imagine. Everything from Dionne Warwick to Madonna to The Village People to Giacomo Puccini … and John Denver? … among others. There is even a brief salute to ABBA.
The story focuses on Tick/Mitzi (Wade McCollum) and his desire to travel across the outback to meet his 8-year-old son Benji (Shane Davis), whom he has never seen. He brings along two friends, the flamboyant Adam/Felicia (Bryan West) and former drag queen, now transsexual Bernadette (Scott Willis). The three will get an act together to perform in Alice Springs, at a club owned by Tick’s estranged wife Marion (Christy Faber).
The three travel in a bus they name Priscilla, which is so much a part of the story that it’s surprising it didn’t get its own curtain call. It is a bus of many colors, conceived and designed by Brian Thomson, with an interior decorated like a tacky desert motel. The electrified bus moves, rotates and becomes a video screen for some amazing light shows.
This high-energy show is one sizzling production number after another, each bringing thunderous applause from the audience, but while the plot follows that of the movie, the intensity of the glitz robs the story of the poignancy that made the movie special. There are moments of introspection and of tenderness, a sweet love story developing between Bernadette and Bob (Joe Hart), the mechanic who repairs Priscilla and then comes along for the ride, and the emotional meeting of Tick and Benji, but it felt as if the soul of the piece was missing.
However, nobody in the audience was missing anything, as everyone thoroughly enjoyed the 500 or so costumes, 60 wigs, 150 pairs of shoes (nobody can wear a pair of impossibly high heels like a drag queen!) and more than 200 hats and headdresses — there are 65 wig changes, the fastest one taking about 15 seconds.
And there’s a flying Greek chorus, too. The “Divas” (Emily Afton, Bre Jackson and Brit West) who pop in or are lowered down from the flies in a rotating collection of amazing costumes to accompany the stars in such numbers as “It’s Raining Men,” “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and “MacArthur Park.” It’s “flying by Foy,” the most prolific theatrical flying service in the world, the company that elevated stage flying to a modern art form.
The three hero(ine)s of this production face homophobes and bullies and their own fears and insecurities, but as their bond of friendship deepens, they maintain their dignity throughout and triumph in the end … looking simply fabulous, of course.

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Stronger chemicals management and the right to a healthy environment: Canada’s cornerstone environmental law has been modernized
June 14, 2023 – Ottawa, Ontario
Today, Bill S-5, Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act, received Royal Assent. This is a landmark step in keeping the environment and Canadians safe and healthy.
The Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA) is one of Canada’s core environmental laws to fight pollution and protect the environment and Canadians from its effects. CEPA provides the tools to address a wide range of pollution sources, including from chemicals, biotechnology products, vehicles, engines, fuels, hazardous wastes, and environmental emergencies. Over the years, actions under CEPA have:
- Prohibited the manufacture, import, and sale of six single-use plastic items, a significant step forward in our comprehensive strategy to prevent plastic waste and pollution.
- Prevented the release of plastic microbeads from toiletries that wash down household drains and contribute to plastic pollution in oceans, rivers, and lakes.
- Banned asbestos and products containing asbestos, as exposure to asbestos fibres is known to cause cancer and other diseases.
- Taken action on BPA (bisphenol A) by banning the manufacture, importation, sale, or advertising of polycarbonate baby bottles that contain BPA.
This is the first set of comprehensive amendments to CEPA in over 20 years, to:
- Better protect vulnerable populations who are most impacted by pollution.
- Advance Indigenous reconciliation by confirming the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples including free, prior, and informed consent, and the role of Indigenous knowledge in decision-making related to the protection of the environment and human health, and by adding new reporting requirements.
- Require a new Plan of Chemicals Management Priorities, increase the assessment of cumulative effects of exposure to multiple chemicals, and develop a Watch List to support the shift to safer chemicals.
- Promote the development and implementation of scientifically justified alternative testing methods and strategies to reduce reliance on vertebrate animal testing.
- Incorporate an environmental purpose into the Food and Drugs Act (FDA) so that environmental risks resulting from drugs can be managed and so that a modernized environmental regulatory framework for drugs can be developed under the FDA.
The amendments also, for the first time at the federal level, recognize the right to a healthy environment in Canada when administering CEPA, providing a solid foundation on which to continue taking action across the country on delivering a strong, healthy future for everyone who calls this country home.
“The world has changed in the last 20 years, and as of today, Canada’s cornerstone environmental law has changed with it. The modernization of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) responds to a changing global chemicals landscape and consideration of new science. We’ve made changes to ensure that we have the best possible tools to safeguard the health of Canadians and their environment from a wide range of substances. By affirming that every individual in Canada has a right to a healthy environment, CEPA will help protect vulnerable populations and contribute to a stronger, more resilient Canada. All parliamentarians contributed to these amendments, and we will continue our work in the future.”
– The Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change
“Keeping Canadians safe and healthy requires policies that are supported by the most recent scientific evidence because everyone deserves to live in a healthy environment. With the passing of Bill S-5, we are placing even greater focus on protecting the health of all Canadians from harmful chemicals, especially those who are more susceptible or highly exposed to environmental and health risks. As we begin the implementation process, we will use the latest science and methodology to reduce risks to Canadians and the environment.”
– The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health
“The global chemicals landscape has changed, and scientific capacity has improved in the more than 20 years since CEPA came into force. Since that time, CEPA has enabled important programs, such as the Chemicals Management Plan, to reduce risks and better protect Canadians and the environment from exposure to harmful chemicals. Through Bill S-5, stronger action will be taken on chemicals that may cause cancer and genetic mutations or interfere with reproduction.”
– Adam van Koeverden, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health
“The two Houses of Parliament spent nearly 50 hours studying this legislation in committee, looked at more than 100 written briefs, and heard testimony from over 80 witnesses representing civil society, academia, industry, and Indigenous organizations. This work resulted in 24 amendments by the Senate and 27 clauses amended by the House of Commons. In my opinion, while more work always remains to be done, parliamentarians have delivered a much-needed piece of legislation that will help advance Canada’s environmental stewardship.”
– Senator Stanley Kutcher
On February 9, 2022, the Government of Canada introduced in the Senate Bill S-5: Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act to modernize the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA).
CEPA is one of the key federal laws that protects Canadians and their environment from pollution. It also implements Canada’s obligations under numerous international environmental agreements, including the Stockholm Convention (persistent organic pollutants), Minamata Convention (mercury), Basel Convention (transboundary movements of hazardous wastes), the London Protocol (marine dumping), and the Rotterdam Convention (prior informed consent for trade in various substances).
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Lasry, at an appearance before the Milwaukee Press Club and Rotary Club of Milwaukee Monday morning, said he and Edens have begun interviewing for a president to run the entire Bucks organization.
Ron Walter, the Bucks long-time executive vice president, had been the top executive under Herb Kohl but left the team after Lasry and Edens bought the Bucks. Mike Burr, the team’s chief financial officer, also is leaving the organization.
“We’re trying to find someone who has had that job in the NBA or in baseball or football — somebody who’s got that experience,” Lasry said.
Lasry said he and Edens are in “no rush” to hire a team president.
“We want to find someone who meets what Wes and I want,” Lasry said. “Somebody who we believe is going to help build the franchise.”
Lasry also disclosed that the Bucks “just hired a CFO.”
He said he could not say who it is but that the Bucks will probably announce the identity of the new CFO “in the next couple days.”


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Tekturna is a medication used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension) in adults and in pediatric patients weighing 50 kg or greater who are at least 6 years old. Its active ingredient is aliskiren, which is a direct renin inhibitor that works by decreasing the production of angiotensin II, a substance that can cause blood vessels to narrow and increase blood pressure.
Tekturna is contraindicated in patients with diabetes who are receiving angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors) because of the increased risk of renal impairment, hyperkalemia, and low blood pressure.
Uses and Dosage
Tekturna is available in the form of tablets that should be taken by mouth as prescribed by your doctor, usually once daily. You can take Tekturna with or without food but choose one way and take the medication the same way with every dose.
The appropriate dosage of Tekturna will depend on your medical condition and response to treatment. It is important to follow your doctor’s instructions carefully and not to adjust your dosage on your own. However, the usual recommended starting dose of Tekturna is 150 mg once daily for the treatment of hypertension in adults and children ages six and older who weigh 50 kg or more. If blood pressure remains uncontrolled, the dosage may be increased to 300 mg once daily. Follow your doctor’s instructions carefully and do not adjust your dosage on your own.
Avoid taking Tekturna with high-fat meals since they may decrease the absorption of the drug. Additionally, do not take Tekturna with fruit juices (such as apple, grapefruit, or orange) since they may also affect the drug’s absorption.
Common Side Effects of Tekturna (Aliskiren):
Serious Side Effects of Tekturna (Aliskiren):
- Chest tightness
- Difficulty breathing
- Feeling unsteady
- Irregular heartbeats
- Little or no urination
- Loss of coordination
- Loss of movement
- Severe stomach pain
- Severe weakness
- Slurred speech
- Swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat
- Tingly feeling
Form and Strength
Tekturna (Aliskiren) is available in the following forms and strength:
- 150 mg
- 300 mg
- Tekturna can cause harm to a developing fetus, and it should not be used during pregnancy. Women of childbearing potential should use effective contraception during treatment with Tekturna and for at least one week after stopping treatment.
- In patients with diabetes who are receiving angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors), Tekturna is contraindicated due to an increased risk of renal impairment, hyperkalemia, and low blood pressure.
- Tekturna can cause low blood pressure, especially in patients with renal impairment, volume depletion, or sodium depletion. Tekturna can also cause acute kidney injury, particularly when used with other high-blood pressure medications.
- Tekturna can increase potassium levels in the blood, especially in patients with renal impairment or in patients taking other potassium-sparing medications or supplements.
- Use with caution in patients with hepatic impairment: Tekturna should be used with caution in patients with mild to moderate hepatic impairment, and it should not be used in patients with severe hepatic impairment.
- Tekturna should be used with caution in patients with renal impairment, particularly in those with severe renal impairment or end-stage renal disease. It may not be appropriate for use in patients with a creatinine clearance below 30 mL/min.
- Elderly patients are more likely to experience low blood pressure when taking Tekturna, and they may be more sensitive to the medication’s effects.
- Tekturna can increase potassium levels in the blood, and it should not be used in combination with potassium supplements or potassium-sparing medications such as spironolactone.
- Rarely, Tekturna may cause allergic reactions such as angioedema, which can cause swelling of the face, tongue, lips, and throat.
- Tekturna can interact with NSAIDs such as ibuprofen or naproxen, which can reduce its antihypertensive effects or increase the risk of kidney damage.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Is Tekturna (aliskiren) safe to take during pregnancy?
No, Tekturna (aliskiren) is not recommended for use during pregnancy. It may cause harm to an unborn baby.
Can Tekturna (aliskiren) be used with other blood pressure medications?
Yes, Tekturna (aliskiren) can be used in combination with other blood pressure medications but should only be done under the close supervision of a healthcare provider.
Can calcium supplements interact with Tekturna (aliskiren)?
Yes, taking calcium supplements can interfere with Tekturna (aliskiren) and other medications used to treat high blood pressure. Talk to your healthcare provider before taking any new supplements or medications.
Can Tekturna (aliskiren) be used to treat other conditions besides high blood pressure?
No, Tekturna (aliskiren) is only indicated for the treatment of high blood pressure in adults.

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Mumbai: To contain the delay in officers joining their new departments after their transfer, the Maharashtra government has issued stern directives, including discontinuing the official’s service record until he complies with the order.
Once a transfer order of an official is issued by the General Administration department (GAD), it will be imperative on the concerned department to take immediate cognisance of it, a GAD official said.
“If at all the order is not complied with, the concerned department will have to submit the GAD reasons for not doing so. The GAD will then take suitable action,” the official said.
“If the GAD is bypassed and a report is directly submitted to the Chief Minister, the report’s cognisance will not be taken,” he added.
As per the official, if the concerned department does not relieve the official who has been transferred, the GAD will supersede the particular department and issue his relieving orders.
“From the date of issue of order, until the concerned official joins the new department, the official’s service record will be discontinued and this will be recorded in his service book,” the official said.
He further said the records of discontinuation of the official will be deleted from his service book only if the new department gives satisfactory reasons for the delay in joining the new assignment.
“Any reason from the officer’s previous department will not be considered,” added the official.
He also said once the order of transfer of an official has been issued, the official will not receive his salary from his previous department.
“His salary will be released only by his new department. If at all the salary is released by the previous department, the immediate officer releasing the salary will be held responsible,” he said.
The official said once the GAD issues a transfer order, the official will not need to take a relieving order from his department and it would be binding on him to join his new department immediately.
The official who does not abide by the order of the GAD will be liable for a departmental inquiry,

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The first Monday of May is usually a time when Hollywood and fashion intermingle. Celebrities try their best to channel the theme of the MET Gala event. Last year’s MET Gala which was tagged “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” had celebrities like Rihanna nailing the catholic regalia down to a T. While Rihanna’s outfit may look odd in the regular fashion sense, she is actually one of the best dressed of 2018 MET Gala because she slew the theme. She looked resplendent in her full-on gorgeous pop outfit.
Rihanna is not the only celebrity that takes these fashion events seriously though. Many celebrities who attended this year’s MET Gala, themed “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” were able to reveal the campy genius in them. Camp, in this sense, referring to an exaggerated, wonderfully eccentric and theatrical costume.
Here are celebrities who perfectly interpreted the MET Gala 2019 theme and still managed to look sane and stunning:
If not Lady Gaga, who else? Remember the raw beef dress she wore to 2010 MTV Video Music Awards? That was a campy outfit and she slew in it. MET Gala was undoubtedly intentional about making her a co-host of this year’s event. The ‘Shallow’ musician understands the meaning of eccentric and over-the-top fashion. See how she steals the spotlight with her dramatic pink and black multiple outfits.
Lupita Nyongo is a sight to behold. The neon rainbow top, pink star maxi skirt and crown of gilded picks she is garbed in gives her a queenly-in-an-eccentric way appearance.
The legendary blues musician stepped out in all her majesty, looking like she’s not a day older than 30-something in her glimmering, shimmery gown and crown of gold feathers.
While Ciara’s dress is not that exaggerated as it looks like something you can rock to a dinner party with a little modification of the short train attached to the dress, her hair totally is.
Cardi B, if not for any other thing, deserves an A for effort. A ball gown with a train that’s up to ten feet long is definitely not your everyday wear. It’s got people making funny comments like “can I take a nap under Cardi B’s dress,” and “Cardi’s gown needed an entourage.” And Cardi didn’t stop there, she topped the red gown with Thom Browne headgear that looks like an hijab.
Although it seems like Tiffany didn’t stress herself about getting a sensational camp dress for the event, the zebra print tuxedo suit she showed up in does scream camp. It is a suit but you can’t wear it to business events because its design is over-the-top—and Tiffany rocked it well with a feathered fedora hat.


LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) — Newport Softball captured its first-ever District III Class 2A championship, 8-5 over Brandywine Heights.
The title game, played at Millersville University, was back and forth until the Buffaloes scored four runs in the fifth inning.
Newport got on the board first in the first inning. Brandywine struck in the second scoring three runs to take the lead.
Newport’s offense woke up to score two runs to tie things up at 3.
Brandywine’s last lead of the game came in the fourth inning, when the Bullets jumped ahead 5-3. It was all Newport from there, scoring four runs in the fifth.
Newport now moves on to the PIAA State Softball Championship which begins Monday, June 5.