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captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> brangham: good evening. i'm william brangham. judy woodruff is away. on the "newshour" tonight, we are on the ground in hong kong as protests move from the streets to inside a main government building, and police heuse tear gas to disperse crowds. then, president trump makes history crossing into north korea. what his embrace of longstanding adversaries means for u.s. foreign policy. plus, exiting the stage-- from money raised to barnstorming key battlegrounds, the state of the democratic race for the white house after the first debates. and 25 years after the fall of apartheid, how south africans are working to heal the lingerg scars of racial hatred. >> the kinds of entrepreneurs we work with, are deeply aware of what inequality can do in this country. spite these difficulties, what
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>> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and individuals. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbe station fromrs like you. thank you. >> brangham: this has been a day of spreading protests and rising tensions in hong kong,2 years since britain handed the city back to mainland china. acorvists took their demands democracy to the very heart of hong kong's government today, before police regained control. foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin reports from hong kong.
>> reporter: this is the seat of power inong kong and tonight it's been defaced, occupied, and abandoned. there are actually no protestors here left here. ( breaking glass ) but over the last 18 hours, protestors broke into this building through heavy glass, and occupied this space. they believe that legislators here were tryingo push through a very controversial and unpopular extradition law, that would allow hong kong to extradite suspected criminals to the mainland china. but their fears are larger than that. they fear tndhat the indece that hong kong has enjoyed for years, is being eroded. and just a few minutes ago i spoke to one of those protestors and he was unrepentant for the violence. >> some may say we broke in the
>> reporter:o then why is it rth it? >> reporter: there are people within this movement who say that this was a mistake, and you needed to stay pceful in order to make your point.on what's your se to that? te >> rep a few minutes after they left the chamber, the protestors came out here and we saw a real clash with police. police fired tear gato try and disperse the crowd. and, for now, it seems to be have working. we're actually retreating with way from thers legislative council.t so iems like, for now, the police have won the battle.
but these protestors say this is a war, and they will fighting it. oney'll keep fighting until the chief administraarrie lam steps down, until she withdraws fully the extradition bill. and they say they will continue om fight the feeling that hong kong is losing sof its independence. and they will keep going on that hhalf. i'm nick schifrin g kong. >> brangham: hours later the leader of hong kong's government, carrie lam, condemned the protestors and praised the police response. in the day's other news, activists in sudan now say at least 11 pple were killed sunday in clashes with security forces. it happened during mass protest demandinansition from military to civilian rule. hundreds oprotesters returned to the streets today, to grieve the dead. they carried the bodies wrapped in cloth and held hands while channg. sudan has been in turmoil since longtime ruler omar al-bashir was ousted in april. at least six people died today in afghanistan's capital when
taliban fighters detonated a powerful truck bomb. more than 100 others were hurt. the blast in kabul sent a cloud of smoke over the diplomatic district. officials say the bomb went off near the afghan defense ministry. police ultimately killed the five attacrs in a ten-hour gun battle. the bombing came three days into a new round of peace talks between the u.s. and the taliban. iran officially announced today that it has breached the limit on low-enriched uranium that was set in the 2015 nuclear deal. the iranian government had already warned it would sharply increase uranium enrichment. in tehran, foreign minister mohammad javad zarif said his country had to respond to biting u.s. sanctions: >> ( translated ): only by illustrating authoritye put the us in their place in negotiations, even if talks ar needed. we never accept yielding to pressure, but if someone respectss, they will enjoy our respect in return. we will make the world talk to
us only with respe, never threats. p said iran is "playi with fe." more on this after the news summary. u.s. nd u.s. customsorder patrol opened an investigation today into offensive online posts by current and foer border agents. "pro publica" and others reported they made racist and sexist remarks about migrants and lawmakers in a secret "facebook" group. democrats in the u.s. house condemned the posts, after inspecting a detention site near el paso, texas-- and as trump supporters heckled and shouted. >> that was a vulgar, disgusting and vile page. that shows, unfortunately, that there are many within c.b.p. who've become desensitized to the point of being dangerous to the migrants in their care-- ( crosstalk ) --and to their co-workers. >> brangham: some of the online
posts also mocked a father and young daughter who died last week trying to cross into texas. today, those two were buried in their native el salvador. in japan crews resumedci comm whaling for the first time in 31 years. today a fleet five vessels left a northern japanese port. they returned later with two whales as their initial catch. japan engaged in so- "research" whaling after 1988, when the intnational whaling commission banned commercial catches. now, tokyo has witi.rawn from thc. entirely. u.s. economic expansion is now the longest ever recorded, starting its 11th yearhis month. the recovery has sent unemployment to long-time lows and raised overall household wealth-- but it has also left the richest americans holding a greater share ofational wealth than before the great recession. opec members decided today to hold down production for nine b more months in to shore up prices. and on wall street, stocks rose
on the weekend news that the us and china are resuming trade talks. the dow jones industrial average gained 117 points to close at 26,717. the nasdaq rose nearly 85 points. and the s&p 500 added 22. and, the city of guadalajara, mexico is recovering after a eakish hailstorm on sunday. the hail piled as much as five feet deep in places. officials called out soldiers to help clear away the hail, while families played in the icy streets. there were no reports of injuries. still to come on the "newshour," what president trump's friendly approach to adversaries means for u.s. foreign policy; where tie 2020 democratic presid hopefuls stand after last week's debates. and much more. >> brangham: as we menoned earlier, iran declared that it
is now making more low-enriched uranium thant agreed to in the 2015 nuclear deal. the white house responded by saying that it would continue its "maximum pressure" campaign on the regime until tehran changes course. this comes amid increasing nsion with iran, after the iranians shot down an american drone two weeks ago and president trump nearly launched a retaliatory strike. for more on what today's announcement means for iran, the i'm joined by karim sadjapour. he's a senior fellow in the middle east program at the carnegie endowment for international peace. welcome back. >> great to be here. >> brangham: help us explain the significance of irangn blo past this low enriched uranium threshold. te i think just as the u states builds revving against iran with economic sanctions, iran builds leverage against the united states by reonstituting its nuclear activities or escalating in the region. so i think it was predicted and predictable that iran would
eventually start to increase its stockpiles of low enriched uranium. it will start to reduce its cooperation with international weapons inspectors. i don't think this should be confused that iran is making a mad dash towards a nuclear weapon. this is a very calibrated ease qulaition. essentially, what iran is trying to do is create internation divisions rather than international unity. >> brangham: as you mentioned,th is something of a two-pronged strategy to both sort of test the limalits of the nd how far they can get away with that, but, also, if you believe u.s. intelligence, to disrupt the flow oeoil as saw the damage to the tankers coming out of the persian gulf. is it your sense that this approach is going to work for the iranians? are they going to get their goal? te i think the iranians are probably trying tt president trump's resolve. i mean, we've seen in other contexts, for example, venezuela, president trump, after a while, started to question the wisdom of soe of his hard line advisors like john
bolton and i think the iranians feel if they continue to resist and continue to show theorld that there are going to be costs for america's pressure campaign against iran, that, at some point, trump may start to question the wisdom of his approach. >> brangham: and the iranians said we have to do this because the u.s. pulls out of the deal and imposes these sanction a that's really biting on the iranian economy and we want the europeans to step up and fill the gap do you think the europeans will try to fill thatu and help iran? >> it's very difficult for europeans because, essentially u.s. sanctions force companies and countries around the world to make a very sime ple cho do you want to do business with america or iran? so even though the europeansre sympathetic to iran, they believe that it is the trumpmi stration which violated the nuclear deal and is provoking iran to escalate. for major european companies, you know, their business in iran
is minusculepared to the business in the united states and, so, i think the europeans really have limited ability to save the iranian economy from its downward spiral. >> brangham: so you touched on how the president mightbe getting cold feet about further escalation, but play it out, maw do youne that the u.s. will respond? we heard the president say the iranians are playing with fir what do you imagine happens next? >> i think we'a re in ngerous situation because president trump has simultaneously provoked an eas cay lower tykele with iran while also making it clear to the rld that he doesn't want conflict, that, you know, conflict is not good for his reelection campaign in the united states. and, so, it could leato an iranian miscalculation, iran believing that they need to react to u.s. pressure, they need to counterescalate, and they may be altogether in few free punches because the united states doesn't want war. we're in a dngerous dynamic and
it's really driven up by the differing interests nation states, america and iran, but two very different leaders, 73-year-old donald trump and 80-year-old iranian supreme leader ayatollah khamenei. >> brangham: how does this play in iranian destic politics? what constituency are they tryiwh to satisfy? are the demands there? >> it's an important question, and one of the things we seen reported much is the state of the iranian economy and popular frustration iran. in fact, the iranian government has been prohibiting reporting i fran because i think there's growing frustration, there's tremendous economic discontent. this is a country which has one of the world higst resources of oil. they went from exporting 2.5 million barrels a day of oil and now down to 300,000 barrels a day. with the passage of tim a hot snurm iran, there's going to be
growing pressure on the ree to simply do a deal or at least negotiate with the united states, especially when presidt trump is make making it very clear he wants to negotiate with iran. >> brangham: in that sense the president's strategy thus far may pay the dividends the president wants. >> that's assuming it doesn't ensnare the united states into some type of a conflict situation which very few people in the united states airan want. so i think it's going to take tremendous discipline and also require the united statesto send a clear signal to iran about what is america's end game because, currently, you have a president trump who has consistently told the iranians he just wants a deal,ns negotiatbut you have a national security in john bolton who sent the opposite signal who has advocated for military streaks and regime change in iran. so thanian regime needs to be clear about, you know, what is america's end game. you really have -- you kno you have a u.s. president with no clear strategy, an iraan
supreme leader with only onegy clear strahich is resistance against america. >> brangham: karim sadjapour,ay as a thank you very much. >> thank you. >> brangham: president trump returned last night from a whirlwind trip to japan, for the g-20, and an historic visit to south korea-- and for a brief moment, north korea. as john yang tells us, mr. trump's particular style of diplomacy, with american allies and with adversaries, was on full display. ( cameras clicking ) >> reporter: from "fire and fury," to a historic first stepm president trbecame the first sitting american commander in chief to set foot inth korea. talk of war from two years, now long replaced by smiles, as mr. trump and kim jong-un shook hands sunday. they then met for nearly an hour in the heavily-fortified demilitarized zone that has separated the two koreas for 66 years.
today, north koreastate media hailed the impromptu sumant in >> ( ated ): the top leaders of north korea and the united states agreed to keep in close touch in the future, and resume and push rward productive dialogue for achieving a new breakthrough in the denuclearization o korean peninsula and in bilateral relations. >> reporter: before embarking for the d.m.z. sunday, mr. trump took credit for making the hastily organized visit happen.w the third time the waders had met face-to-face in >> president obated to meet and chairman kim would not meet him. the obama administration was begging for a meeting. they were begging for meetings constantly and chairman kim would not meet with him and for some reason we have a certain chemistry or whatever. >> reporter: former aides to mr obama shot bacin unison that he never sought a meeting with e north ko leader. a new round of talks are expected to begin in the next few weeks with l groups, which will lay the
groundwork for any future, higher-level negotiations.em their last a at nuclear talks broke down iu.february. th had been demanding the north completely dismantle its nuclear program. but "the new york times" reported the u.s. may now settle for a nuclear freeze. the president's national security aiser john bolton was quick to dismiss that claim. he took to twitter calling the arptcle "a reprehensible att by someone to box in the president," and added, "there should be consequences." meanwhile,ack overseas, the north's neighbors welcomed signs of progress. from china... >> ( translated ): >> china has always been committed to realizing denuclearization, maintaining peace and stability on the peninsula and resolving issues through dialogue. >> reporter: ...and even japan... >> ( translated ): >> the japanese government considers this meeting an opportunity to restart u.s. and north korea's process.
japan welcomes and supports this meeting. >> reporter: president trump's meeting with kim was the latest in a series of recent attempts toengratiate himself with s of the world's most- authoritarian leaders. miat was on full display at this weekend's g-20 sin japan. he playfully told russian president vladimir putin not to ddle in the 2020 u.s. election... ...and assured turkish president recep tayyip erdogan that theu. won't impose sanctions on turkey for buying russian "s-is 400"le defense systems. mr. trump also had praise forow the saudi prince, mohammad bin salman-- in spite of his ile in the murder of saud journalist jamal khashoggi last october. s t at the same time, the president contin take aim at some of america's greatest allies-- like german chancellor angela merkel, whom he's ngiticized for not doing more to boost defense spen he also dealt a setback to japanese prime minister shinzo abe, after criticizing decades-old security treaty with japan as "unfair." for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang.
>> brangham: for more on thend prosons of working with controversial world leaders, we turn to ambassador william burns. he worked in the u.s. foreign service for 34 years, was s. ambassador to russia and to jordan, and he helped lay the groundworkor what became the 2015 iran nuclear deal. he details his career book, "the back channel" which is just out. ambassador burns, welcome. ambassador burns, welcome back to the "newshour". >> brangham: great to be with you. >> brangham: we've seen a encapslation of the president on the world stage giving a very warm embrace tado rsaries and enemies, we might call them, and very cold shoulder and criticism of a allies. what do you think of the president's approach. >> i think it's o a mistake. while relationships matter in diplomacy andtoou have eal with the leaders, when you have
to engashate youelf with autocrats and acting dismissively toward allies and friends, that's a misuse, i think,f america's influence in the world. what sets us apart from russia and china subpoena our capacity to draw in alliances and mobilize coalitions of countries. >> brangham: withomeone like kim jong un, i mean, the president made this historic visit yesterday to orth korea, stepping over, which no president has ever done, andt e presideeps saying, my relationship, just as you describe it, is my perresonal tionship with kim jong un that is going to move negotiations forward. what do you make of tht approach? >> i think personal relationships have to be connected to realistic strategies and, so far, what th president ne and what are effectively three summit eeetings with kim jong un long on showmanship and symbols and short on substance. so the real test now is how do you use that personalco relationship tnect to the hard-nosed business of diplomacy and actually producing somethinn terms of limiting
north korea's nuclear missile prograand ultimately hoping to achieve full denuclearization. >> brangham: do you thstk with this recent meeting this weekend and announced plans for ongoing talks at we are onhahe path to >> reporter:. i hope that's the case, bit e mains to be seen. i mean, i think tst is going to be whether the president and, you know, his advisors ae able to pursue a realistic strategy. i don't think there's a chance in the world that, in the foreseeable future, kim jong un is going to fully denuclearize. so the question is can yotake steps toward that ultimate goal and, if you set aside the irony of what i'm about to say, you can take a page from our clear negotiations with the iranians anere we first did an interim deal which frozerolled back their program, introduced quite intrusive verifation and monitoring procedures in term for very limnited sactions relief, we preserved the bulk of a that leverage for the comprehensive talks.m it ns to be seen whether that strategy is one
president trump pursues. >> brangham: let's talk about a man you know very well, vladimir putin. we saw that meeting with president trump and and putin ts weekend where the president seemed to ush off election meddling and holding russia's feet to fire about tha the president argues his relationship with putin is paying dividends. what do u think? >> i don't think it's the right approach and i think to vladimir putin it appears to be an effort to ingashate. if you could have seen the cartoon balloon coming out of putin's head at the moment it would have read what an eay mark because to him those are signs of weakness. a brangham: your own former boss, president obd to deal with the iranians for the iranian nuclear deal. if theoal is worthy, isn't
this sometimes what presidents just have to do? >> i think is dealingh autocrats in some ways comes with the territory, but i think you have to avo. tra you've got to avoid the trap of thinking that the object of the exercise is just to get along,tr avoid thp of trying to engraishate yourself. you have tobe careful not t pull your punches on american s values or concerns, that going to get you anywhere, and i think you also have to understand that a lot our leverage comes from our alliances and par partners in te world and you have to draw on those to deal with autocrats. you have to do it with your eyes open and do it in a hoard -- hard-nosed way. >> brangham: the pre argues his efforts helped foster those negotiations and he needs to be tough on our allies to make them, in the case of n.a.t.o., pay more on their nding.e sp he argues he is moving american values. maybe it doesn't look the wa the diplomatic community likes it to look but that he is moving
our s lues in hiown way. >> the president is right to push some of our n.a.t.o. allies to spend more on defensehe's t the first president to do that, just as he's right to push against some of our rivals,ike china, to push against their predatory trade and vestment practices, but how he does it is cportant. so in the case ina, you would want to comake common cause with partners and allies like european union and japan andshare concerns about chinese behavior. >> brangham: to the developments in iran, you were right at the beginning and lped forge the opening that led to this nuclear deal. iran annarounced today the breaking one part of that with regards to low enriched uranium. what do you make of this development ? >> i think it's an unfortunate step. sadly, i think it's entirely predictable a little more than year ago president trump decided to abandoned our compliance with
the iranian nuclear deal. i think it could lead to greer collisions down the road. i think we're embarked on agy straf coercive diplomacy which so far is all coercion and no diplomas si. >> brangham: ambassadoll ms, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you so mu. >> brangham: stay with us. t coming up "newshour," education and entrepreneurship-- south africans work to undo thet lasting devastn of apartheid. and, just in time for the holiday weekend, our guide to the very best books of the summer. heading into this holiday week, the democratic presidential candidates were out in full force. as yamiche alcindor reports, major themes from the first debates-- including race, criminal justice and immigration-- made their way onto the campaign trail. ( cheers and alause )
>> reporter: at san francisco's pride parade ts weekend, california senator kamala harris sought to build on hakout performance at last week's debate. >> we remember those who have fought for civil rights. for equality. >> reporter: harris' campaign has announced it raised an eye- popping $2 million online... in the 24 hours following the thursday debate where harris criticized former vice president joe biden for his past opposition to busing students to desegregate public schools. but since, harris has been the target of online attacks, that have questioned her racial identity, as the daughter of a jamaican father and indian mother. on saturday, president trump's son donald trump jr retweeted and then deleted a tweet latet saturdayclaimed "kamala harris is not a black american. she is half indian and half jamaican." a flurry of harris' 2020 ic competitors quickly came to her defense. biden wrote on twitter that "the same forces of hatred rooted in
the birtherism movement, which donald trump fueled against candidate and then president barack obama to question obama's citizenship and race, were now being used against harris. and new jersey senator booker tweeted that harris "didn't have anying to prove." utl that comes as south bend indiana mayor petegieg is dealing with tough issues of race and equaly in his city in the aftermath of a shooting of a black man by a white police officer last month.tt ieg attended a prayer event in south bend today, after participating in a peace walk with city and faith leaders over the weekend. e challenge we face n south bend is symptomatic of nation distrust whether mistrust between communities of colors and police departments or ch bigger pictures of consequences of systemic racism. >> reporter: the mayor h been one of the few democraticat candid to speak of how his faith guides his progressive values. but on saturday, massachusetts
rren madelizabeth some of her most personal and public comments on her faith, at also at the event, hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard and minnesota senator amy klobuchar, who pushed for racial and gendei equalitheir remarks. meanwhile, social justice over gration policy remained centerpiece of former housing and urban development secretary an castro's campaign thi weekend. castro visited a migrant center t,holding children in clin texas, where he again called to decriminalize crossing the border. texas congressman beto o'rourke also rallied support a visit to the clint facility over the weeken after clashing with castro over immigration in the debate. o'rour also visited shelter in ciudad juarez, mexico, where he criticized a new trumpon administraolicy that requires migrants to wait in mexico while applying for asylum in the u.s. >> ( translated ): they are waing weeks, months, even years possibly to get justice in our system in the united states. >> reporte speaking in
spanish, o'rourke called the administration's "remain in mexico" pocy "unlawful" and "inhumane." and that brings us to politics mo bay. i'm jointamara keith of npr. she also co-hosts the "npr politics podcast." and carrie budoff brn of "politico." thanks, ladies, for being here. i want to first show you a new cnn poll. it's looking at support the 2020 democrats have and comparing it to that of a month ago. joe biden is down 10%. senator harris is up 9%, senator waen is up 9%. i should mention black voters s strongport joe biden in this poll at 36%. tamara, what tuning of these numbers? >> i checked in with a bun of democrats who've i've interviewed in the last several months by the debate. i said what do you guys make of its? did it change e way yo're thinking about the candidates? the responses i got are pretty well reflected in foul and one big quonesas been, for a
very long time, will joe biden's lead be du part of the case that his campaign has been making and that voters have sort of bought into is is idea that 'sa's electable, he's inevitable. a number of democratic voters said as soon as that ini'vetaability seems less real he could seet in his numbers. we're see ago hit in his numbers after the debate. >> this is one of the first polls we're seeing after the ofbate comparing to a month ago. what do you thinthe numbers? >> two things, one, the race is wide open, as tamara side. biden is firmly at e top, but it is tenuous. at the same time, we're seeing solidification of the top tier. it's about fiveandidates -- e biden, sanders, kamala harris and elizabeth warren firmly in that group -- and then, of course, buttigieg with ge fundraising numbers
solidify him in the position of the potier. t wood open but we're seeing the solidification around the top tier andlong those i think it's anybody's game. >> i want to talk about senatn harristhe issues with her race. i have been talking to civil rights ledeaders andocratic voters who are saying these attacks in question of w she's black enough are simply racist, birther-ism 2.0. they're trying to make the distinction of people kidnapped from africa, did your boat land in jamaica or the united states, it's very offensive to people in this country. what do you make of the fact that donald trump, jr. is making these attacks. >> it's not just donald trump, tr. who deleted the tweet and insisted i was jsking a question of whether it's true. it's also katrina pierson, a spokesperson for the campaign, that says kamalharris isn't real african-american, in one of her tweets. and this is part of a pattern of
essing to, in a way, depr african-american support for someone who is potentially a very strong val to president trump. you know, in the leadup to 2016, the trump campaign, at the same timehey said they were trying to win over african-american voters were also taking that seemed to have depressed the african-american vote and turnout. so they don't quite know how to deal with kamala harri yet. one aide i talked to said she hadn't been polling that well.yo know, she doesn't have a nickname yet. so as they're trying to figurede out how to with her, now these tweets. >> tamara is talking about the trumcampaign relly trying to figure out how to deal with senator harris. i'm also hearing that in my own reporting. carrie, what does thisell you about the broader approach of how he might deal with harris ab she mighome higher in the polls? >> i think it's an open question now. as tamara sai she doeot
have a nickname yet and that is a big part of when we ow people strike, you know, sort of t note in trump's world. at the same time, flects an uncertainty about how to address her and to deal with her. but i think what we saw over the ekend and the reaction from the field, it is very much an echo of 2016, the strategy is very similar. there is a candidate who can bring out the obama coation at was so successful for two terms in electing president obama, kamala harris is seen as somebody who could possibly d that, right? so that poses a very deep threat to the president because hillary clinton wasn't able to do that. so if you get some independents who are no longer on board withe trump comwith the obama coalition, that is a real concern for the trmp -- for trump-world and you see it reflected in conversations with politico and eland you see the reaction from the field,
whether exactly la or somebody else, they aredr. whether kamala or somebody else, that that is very problematic for the democratic party. >> baton rouge rolled out fundraising numbersthat made a lot of people talk. he raised $24.8 billion in second quarter ending june 30th. what do those numbers tell you about how the race is shaping up? >> by any standard, that's a lot of money. we're hearing at this point a background that this is going t large comurm for the field but, again, we don't know. pete buttigieg came out with 7 million the first qua kamala harris came out a few days later, raised more. pete buttigieg has been good about working the media.he ot the headlines as the big fundraiser of the quarter when
others surpassed him. so huge number particularly for the mor of south bend, 30-something years old, but let's see how the rest of the field does and we can stack it up then. >> what do theumbers tell you about the energy in the democratic field? >> act blue which is the fundraising platform for democrats said they had a record day yeterday so pete buttigieg has big numbers. we're expecting other numbers to me out that will also be big, and simply the numbers that act blue is talkingtbout means tha there are a lot of democrats willing to spend a lot of money on politics or a lot of democrats willing to spend little bits of money on sevecarl idates. >> it should say you're talking about candidates spending a lot of monerey. ths also a candidate possibly talking about his campaign on the lawn and thinking of president trump ande july 4 and lincoln memorial. my week is already feeling long. what are you looking at wen you look at your week, carrie? >> well, i am, like you,
yamiche, wondering how the fourth of july will play out here in washington with it movingrom a very nonpartisan event to trump putting his stamp on it in a very personal way and what that does to the day. i'll be looking at it closely. >> tamara, you're at the white house with me. are you also looking at president trump? >> i am watching the fourth of july. he announced a short time ago there will be tanks, thoug likely stationary tanks. spe real question is he frequently giveseches in non-political settings that turn into political speeches. the white house promises this is not bua political speect can he resist. he didn't resist at the bow boy scouts or another july 4 event in 2017, so does he keep it nonpolitical. >> these are days you think people aren't paying attention in the meia, but this is such a
new thing, think about the attention 's going to get jus for stepping out and doing this, even if it's nonpolitical, he's getting a huge platform on the fourth of july a wrapping himself in this. as i saw over the weekend, ever the showman. >> ever the showman is a good way end politics monday. thank you tamera keith of npr and carrie budoff of politico. >> thanks. >> brangham: this year marks the 25th anniversary of democratic rule in south africa-- and the end of the brutal apartheid era. t many challenges remain among them, providing equal education to all south africans. special correspondent fred de sam lazaro reports on two unusual efforts to improve black education. >> reporter: it's not a yoga studio but a university, the maharishi institute, with a business model and curriculum as unlikely as its founder
>> this is what we do at the maharishi institute >> reporter: 51-year-old taddy blecher trained as a statistical analyst in the insurance. busine but after south africa transitioned from apartheid or racial segregation, he says he felt compelled to address its abysmal legacy in black education.da in africa's most advanced economy, just 37% of youth have the equivalent of a high school diplomaes >> the realin south africa, even 25 years into freedom or democracy now.re pretty sta there's between 52-54% youth employment. so these youth get extremely disillusioned, often violent and angry. >> reporter: maharishi recruits begin with intense five week orientation that stresses self discovery and harmony.ow a fo of the indian guru who preached meditation, blecher says its improves concentrationo vation and reduces the high stress that dominates most students' lives. >> in our intake this year and last year, not a single one of these students who've got grade
12 is actually at gr level. not one. we don't care how low a person is, uh, we believe that person because of their drive could climb evert. >> reporter: for students the early steps of that climb can seem, well, foreign. >> i mean i'm black and, um, i'm catholic, and i'm like, at is this meditation? >> reporter: nontokozo ndlovu is a senior marketing major fro soweto, the impoverished black township that bears many scars from the anti apartheid movement. this monument is to the 500 people killed in a 1976 protest itions in the schools >> what happened was thousands and thousands of students from tdifferent schools came o fight oppression >> reporter: today, the hurdles for black college aspirants are academic and financial. ndlovo, raised in a lower middle class family, says she could tsver afford to go anywhere but maharishi, which cbout $170 a year-- a fraction of the
average university tuition in soh africa >> i'm able to pay this amount because i work within the institutand i'm able to get to school every day also. >> reporter: ttion is subsidized thanks largely to partnerships with major corporations that receive tax breaks to aid so-called black empowerment programs, as well as on-campus businesses thaalso liploy students. >> extra salt, gand chips? >> reporter: between classes here in johannesburg, students mpwork in call centers on , taking orders for large restaurant chains. then, at 4:00 p.m., seniors go online for some classetaught at the u.s.-accredited maharishi university in iowa, where the day is just beginning. more than 18,000 have graduated, blecher says, with impressive results. w have an 80% graduation rate and 95% job placement rate. >> reporter: he r ys a key to ccess is discovering their passions then turning them into a vocation-- something eblack south africans wer historically never allowed to
do. the racially defined apartheid system may have ended 25 years ago, but educators will tell yoh some of the stereotypes it engendered are still very much alive. among the most pervasive is that blacks are, by nature, n entrepreneurial. patmanabhan pillai says it's a stereotype that is deep ingrained among non-white south afrins themselves. >> we need to recognize that oppression and internalized opprsion is a part of who we are as a people. >> reporter: 56-year-old pillai, whose ancestors came from india, runs a social business called life co. it invests in sustainabl businesses like wind farms and uses the profits for programs to train entrepreneurs, assisting people like nonthanthla joye to develop their ideas into sustainable businesses. >> we have cauliflower here, we've got thyme here >> reporter: joye's busiss
started out of necessity. as she recovered from cancer treatment d couldn't work, she invented a low-cost way to grow organic vegetables. >> when i started this, i was hungry. i had no food, i had no job, i had nothing. the only way i could feed myself was to grow vegetables in my garden. >> reporter: the idea-- an urban garden that needs very little space-- spread to her neighborhood. >> it means these three bags can be able to feed plus/minus 10-12 ople. >> reporter: joye now has a twork of more than 50 farmingnd co-ops achools. ♪ ♪ >> the kinds of entrepreneurs we work with, are deeply aware of what inequality can do. yospite these difficulties, what can you do to buil life, your community, your enterpris and so on. >> reporte the key message from both pillai and blechers to pass their knowledge and
skills forward. >> so our idea is around connectedness that everybody needs to help somebodylse. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: that, he says is key to improving the education and socio economic status of black south africans-- and bringing some harmony to what remains one of the world's most unequal-- and violent-- societies. ♪ ♪ for the pbs newshour, i'm fredam de sazaro in johannesburg, south africa. >> brangham: it is that time of year-- as many head out on vacation, along with their sunscreen, they pack a good jeffrey brown is here now with a roundup of some of the best summer reads, part of our arts and culture series, "canvas."
>> this is a time of the year when many catch up on their reading while away on vacs ion. leok at some interesting reads for this summer. for that we're joined by maureen accordingen, npr, a professor at georgetown uversity and author of "so we read on, how the great gads by came to and why it endures." and carlos lozada, nonfiction ok critic for "the washington post," won the pulitzer prize in criticism this year. first off,gr conulations. >> thank you very much. art us off with two or three fiction picks. >> my first pick would be "ocean wong," a vietnamese poet writer. won a lot of awards for volumes, "night skies with exit rounds."t the title of his debut
novel is "on earth were briefly george." it's abimmigrant story, semi-autobiographical. wong was born in vietnam and came to this country when about two years old. i it's figurthe form of a letter by a young man written t his mother anhis mother is illiterate. she works in a nail salon. d really, it's a novel that you read because to hav -- becaf the language. wong's use of language is spectacular. it's a small book. i found myself taking a long time to read it becausei kt rereading pages. jill simmonsel nov"the body in question." i think jill simmons is a novelist under the radar in terms of litcerary tion. she's been writing for a long time. this is a wonderful novel, again short. it's about two jurists on a
vequestered trial for murder, and they start hing an affair. so simmo does a great job in terms of catching people's personalities and, you know, kind of the emotional energy int ury room and in the motel where everyone is sequestered. 's really a novelout guilt, the murder as well as the guilt of the two elicit lovers. >> carlos, you're our nonfiction guy here. start us off with a couple of those. i saw a list. it's politics. >> i work at "the washington st." what can i do. one i want to high light is called audience of one. donald trump, television and the fracturing of america, by james poniwozik. when we think of president trump and television, we think of howb much he watches and his the meld with fox news and like. this is a book that looks at how trump has embodied and benefited from some of the big shifts in television programming over the
years, t rise of popular anti-heroes and theise of polics in tv. the "new york times" treats plump as the most important character in television. the next book is "theses" tru by jill lapor, the historian and new york writer. 's one volume looking at the self-evident truths of the declaration -- human equality, natural rights -- looks at whether we've lived up to the >> i talked to her on the program. idefinitely worth readng. maureen, you have a couple in the mystery category. >> summer mysteries, they go together like gin and tonic. the first one would be james elroy, this torm. ybody who's read elroy knows that he writes -- he writes himself like astorm, like a
hurricane. eth set in 194n2, jauary '42, in l.a. of course,ia rainstorm coming into the city, a body i unearthed in griffith park from an older crime. you've got japanese citizens being interned. you have fifth columnists in the city. it's over the top, crazy, barbara stanwyck makes a cameo, loads of historicaligures. but what elroy is doing is writing this epic of l.a this is his fifth novel in his l.a. series, and it's really about the corruption that's general all over the city. so that's -- that's a fabulous one. and then ruth ware is a brish writer, a relatively new discovery for me, anyway, andr she has beening these mysteries that are sort of deaf any demorier type mysteries that
are a gothic tradition. her latest is "the turn of the key" and indebted to "the turn of the screw" by ry james, a governess in an isolated mansion. the mansion is a smart house, so it's technologically up to date and seems to be watching her, ts of unseen forces are watching her as well. >> okay, carlos, you picked a novel and a book of poetry. o yes. the bopoetry is called "citizen illegal" by a young mexican-american poet, and it's just funny and touchg at the me time, and it really grapples with some of thele coty and absurdity of identity today. a lot of it is set ichicag where he's from. there's a poem called mexican heaven which is memorable. ve watched him recite . and the novel i want to high light is a couple of years old now,ut i wish it had gotten
more attention than it did. it's called american war biomar elikad and massage an american civil war set late in this century. it's a climatear, a reources war. you have internally displaced peoples,limate refugees, youth radicalization. florida is now the florida sea. the capital has mov inland to columbus, ohio, which always the sign of dystopia when the capitol is in ohio. red ame blue ica have ceased to be election night constructs and are real physal and political realities. >> that's a few books for the immer. we have to leavethere for now, carlos, maureen, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> brangham: parents often struggle with the right way to set limits for their kids: how much tv is ok? what about online video games? how late can they stay out with their friends?
it can also be tough to know just how to answer their pointed questions about the worlt, toni also part of ourva "c series, author karen russell shares her humble opinion on why children need to hear the truth. >> the first morng i took my two-year-old son to daycare, i erived with a box of carefully labeled blankets ara clothes; enough diapers, i felt, to last him until college. i was so anxious i almost didn't notice the man lying on the snowy ground beside us. shards of ass haloed his bare head. my son looked up to me, the satellite tower, waiting to receive my signal: whadid i make of this grandfather, sleeping in rags on concrete? was this normal? was i concerned? should he ? how do we tell the story of suffering to our children? some people might advise: don't say a word, lady. it's way too early. a parenting website told me to
shift the focus from the stranger's pain to my son'sri secuty." first and foremost, you must reysure your child that the are safe." that reassurance is getting harder to give in portland,eg oron, where family homelessness is on the rise and one in four people spend over half their salary on rent.ta i unde the impulse to reassure our kids that nothing is wrong; to say, "it's very sad that some people don't have homes, but you are safe." but this is a ghost town of a sentence.o the subject? even the feeling of sadness is floating there, unclaimed.th children heapassive voice. unless we give ourselves an active rolto play in these folding crises, kids will absorb our quiet acceptance of we status quo. they won't know thcan be agents for change, or even that chge is possible. every sunday my parents drove my friends and i to volunteer at a shelter, five nutes by car and rlds removed from our miami home.
i can't recall a word they said to me now, but i do remember my father laughing with a homeless veteran. i remember my mom helpinn another woth her groceries. my parents reassured showing me i wasn't crazy to feel disturbed by the sight of other families livinhe street. something was wrong, but there was also something to beone. the world our children inherit is deeply unjust-- and they know it. but we can show them that we have the power to revise it. somewhere tonight, a mother is explaining to her children why they have to leave their hom for a shelter; why they are sleeping in their car; why theyn ger have a bed to dream on she doesn't have the luxury of curating her words, or shielding them from the most painful truths. i wonder how she is answering their questions. >> brangham: and that's thene hour for tonight. i'm william brangham. join us on-line and again here tomorrow night. for all of us the pbs newshour, thank you and good
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A new wrinkle in continuous blood glucose monitoring comes before an FDA advisory committee on Thursday, with accuracy, durability, and safety issues expected to take center stage.
The device -- Eversense CGM, made by Senseonics -- is a small (3.5 by 18.3 mm cylinder) fluorescence-based glucose sensor, implanted subcutaneously under local anesthesia in the patient's upper arm, where it stays in place for up to 90 days. It's paired with a small transmitter, applied as a patch over the implanted sensor, that relays readings to a smartphone app providing real-time glucose information including readings, trend data, and alerts to hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia.
Senseonics' proposed indication is for glucose monitoring in adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
Compared to the usual wear-time of 3 to 10 days for most other CGMs, the Eversense system would be a unique addition to the current market. The sensor would still require self-monitoring of blood glucose twice daily for calibration, however -- a burden that Abbott's FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System was recently able to do away with.
Another novel feature of the Eversense CGM is its inclusion of a drug component -- a dexamethasone acetate silicone collar attached to the end of the sensor, intended to reduce inflammation that otherwise degrades the glucose recognition element.
Senseonics is asking the FDA for approval based mainly on results from two relatively small trials: one with 35 patients (PRECISION) and another with 90 patients (PRECISE II), neither of which were randomized, blinded, or controlled.
In briefing documents, FDA staff raised questions about the design of these studies, especially the pivotal PRECISE II trial, which left the system's accuracy during the first month uncertain. It was clearly not especially accurate on the first day of sensor wear, and accuracy was not checked again in-clinic until day 30, when it did appear to be good.
"Because of the long delay between successive in-clinic accuracy sessions (30 days), it was not clear when the system performance improved from the level of accuracy observed on day one to that observed on day 30," FDA staff complained in an executive summary. In contrast, they noted that other CGM devices underwent multiple accuracy checks during the first week in their clinical studies.
But other findings from PRECISE II did indicate acceptable overall accuracy for the device. Mean absolute relative difference was 8.5% (95% CI 8.0%-9.1%) from the 15,753 unique readings -- significantly lower than the pre-specified accuracy threshold of 20%. Overall, 87% of readings with the Eversense system were within 15 mg/dL or 15% of reference, the briefing document noted.
PRECISE II data also indicated that 91% of about 100 implanted sensors functioned through the full 90-day study. Three failed during the first two months, and six others stopped working between 60 and 90 days.
Most notably, the system was able to alert the user to 96% of hypoglycemic events and 98% of hyperglycemic events. However, 16% and 7% of these were false positives, respectively.
Similar results were reported in the supplementary PRECISION clinical trial, with a mean absolute relative difference of 9.6% achieved in the 36 patients overall, while 85% of all readings were within 15 mg/dL. This trial also measured plasma dexamethasone concentration, which reported all levels at 90 days of wear were below the 0.05 ng/mL quantification limit among those with one device implanted. However, 66% of patients who had two sensors implanted had detectable levels of plasma dexamethasone within the first week of placement.
With respect to safety, there was one serious procedure-related adverse event reported in the PRECISE II trial, related to sensor removal, where the device had to be removed by a surgeon under general anesthesia. Senseonics determined this was caused by the sensor being placed deeper than recommended. There were an additional 14 procedure-related adverse events, which mostly included topical events at the injection site, such as pain, discomfort, bruising, and erythema.
There were no serious adverse events reported during a European trial (a version was approved in Europe in 2016). In total, there has been one serious adverse event in 206 participants in the three trials.
Importantly, though, Senseonics has altered the product's design after conducting those trials, including new analytical software, revisions to the sensor's end cap (which sometimes broke off during the trials), and redesigned tools for implanting the sensor. FDA officials will ask the advisory committee to discuss whether these changes render the previous trial data irrelevant.
Senseonics has promised a post-approval study, repeating sensor insertions through 2 years among 175 individuals.
Following the discussions, panel members will be asked to vote on whether the Eversense system is safe, whether it's effective for the proposed indications, and whether the expected benefits outweigh the risks. The FDA is not obliged to follow its advisory committees' recommendations, but it usually does.

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My understanding is that LAC and LC are not concerned about AMICUS bib records matching the form found in the LC/NACO AF. If you’re using copy in OCLC from LAC, you should control the access points against the LC/NACO AF and not worry that AMICUS isn’t in synch. At least, that’s how I understand what we are expected to do. The different authority records will theoretically at least cluster in VIAF, which is why I think LC and LAC decided that NACO didn’t have to follow the LAC form.
As for establishing the RDA form, you should take into account whatever information you find about the form of name by which a person is commonly known or the form used predominantly, which may indeed be different from the form that LAC originally used. (Actually the same is true of LC/NACO forms – if a person becomes commonly known by a different form of name since the authority was created, it may be appropriate to change the authority record to reflect that change.)
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Descriptive Cataloging Manual (DCM) Z1, under 1XX Headings, says "As of August 2012 LC and PCC catalogers creating RDA name authority records are not required to search Library and Archives Canada (LAC) to determine the form of the authorized access point for either personal or corporate names." I think I remember that being mentioned during RDA/NACO training. However, in establishing or editing an authority record for personal and corporate names under RDA in the LC/NACO authority file for Canadian authors and bodies, I worry that incongruence will result. Do we just not worry about that? Any thoughts?
I found an authority record for a particular author in Canadiana Authorities. All six bibliographic records for that person in the AMICUS Catalogue use that established name. I wish to set up an LC/NACO record. However, the current Canadiana access point was based on the first item cataloged, but it appeared in only that one publication. The most frequent form appears as a cross-reference in that authority record. We wish to upgrade an 'abbreviated' Library and Archives Canada bibliographic record in OCLC. If the NACO record is established per RDA rules, then the 100 in the NACO record will match a cross-reference in the Canadiana database and vice versa. And furthermore, the AMICUS bibliographic records would not match the LC/NACO authority record nor any updated records in OCLC WorldCat that ought to match the NACO record.

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Meta-analyses have compared the nutrient content of both organic and nonorganic foods. However, the impacts of such variations on human nutritional biomarkers still need to be assessed.
The postprandial chylomicron (CM) triacylglycerol (TG) response to dietary fat, which is positively associated with atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease risk, displays a high interindividual variability. This is assumed to be due, at least partly, to polymorphisms in genes involved in lipid metabolism. Existing studies have focused on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs...
Background: Dietary guidelines can be derived from dietary patterns known to be healthy such as the traditional Mediterranean diet. They can also be deduced by translating a set of nutrient recommendations into food combinations. However, the latter may vary depending on the decisions made by different expert committees.
Background: Prolonged postprandial hypertriglyceridemia is a potential risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. In the context of obesity, this is associated with a chronic imbalance of lipid partitioning oriented toward storage and not toward β-oxidation.
Background: The dietary guidelines targeted at reducing cardiovascular risk lead to largely heterogeneous responses in which genetic determinants are largely involved.
Background: Increased consumption of dietary fiber is widely recommended to maintain or improve health, but knowledge of the relation between dietary fiber sources and cardiovascular disease risk factors is limited.
Background: Complement component 3 (C3) is a novel determinant of the metabolic syndrome (MetS). Gene-nutrient interactions with dietary fat may affect MetS risk.
Background: Epidemiologic studies link Mediterranean-type diets to a low incidence of cardiovascular disease; however, few dietary intervention studies have been undertaken, especially in primary prevention.
Background: The extent of fat emulsification affects the activity of digestive lipases in vitro and may govern digestion and absorption of dietary fat.


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Victorians were fascinated with how accurately photography could copy people, the places they inhabited, and the objects surrounding them. Much more important, however, is the way in which Victorian people, places, and things came to resemble photographs. In this provocative study of British realism, Nancy Armstrong explains how fiction entered into a relationship with the new popular art of photography that transformed the world into a picture. By the 1860s, to know virtually anyone or anything was to understand how to place him, her, or it in that world on the basis of characteristics that either had been or could be captured in one of several photographic genres. So willing was the readership to think of the real as photographs, that authors from Charles Dickens to the Brontës, Lewis Carroll, H. Rider Haggard, Oscar Wilde, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and Virginia Woolf had to use the same visual conventions to represent what was real, especially when they sought to debunk those conventions. The Victorian novel's collaboration with photography was indeed so successful, Armstrong contends, that literary criticism assumes a text is gesturing toward the real whenever it invokes a photograph.
About the Author: Nancy Armstrong is Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Desire and Domestic Fiction and coauthor of The Imaginary Puritan.
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I just spent a couple of days in the Hospital (not Mayo), and it really hit me just how unhealthy the food was. For a place that's all about getting people healthy, they completely ignore one of the most vital components of health. I'll admit I'm pretty weird in that I pay an inordinate amount of attention to nutrition. But you would think that hospitals would lead in this area.
I know of at least one hospital that has gone the healthy food path, but I'm guessing the vast majority do not. Does anyone else out there think this makes any sense at all?
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@mickj When I was in my local hospital, pre-transplant, the amount of food they gave me was enormous! I don't think it was too unhealthy, but there was just too much of it. When I went into Mass General for my transplant the food was more reasonable, but it was pretty bad. I was in there for a few days after my transplant and the doctors kept asking me if everything was OK. I told one that everything but the food was OK, the food was terrible. He said, "best hospital in Boston, worst food". I would have to agree with that.
Hello @mickj I read your note with interest! I worked for a hospital for several years as their fundraiser. We often ran reviews of care, staffing, experiences, etc. that the patients had at the hospital to help us better understand our needs. Every year — every one — the biggest complaint was the food! This was true of the patients, families, and visitors!
We offered healthier options, etc., and those were not liked either. What finally made the most people happy? When we rented out a space to the local McDonald's franchise owner who put in a mini shop.
I think institutional food is always a very tough area to please folks! I need only think back to my dorm food in college. Everyone complained about it, Then I visited my niece at college and the offerings, compared to what I had, were amazing and diverse….and all the kids were complaining about the food! It really made me smile!
Hey @Scott. The point I was getting at is that hospitals are a place to treat ailments and improve health. But the food that's offered is actually unhealthy. It makes no sense at all. Hospitals should be leading the charge toward healthy eating. And as many have come to learn, healthy eating and great tasting are NOT mutually exclusive.
Hi @mickj I understand your point for sure! I agree hospital food should be healthy. I was just pointing out, in the case of the patients, etc. of one hospital when that was what was offered the complaints went up. Sometimes I think when you aren't feeling well, a food treat often seems to help. At least that is when I tend to buy more DQ cones myself 🙂

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A recently published study finds that the Fathers and Sons program improved nonresident African American fathers’ ability to talk with their sons about avoiding risky behaviors, such as early sexual initiation and violent behaviors during late childhood and preadolescence.
The Fathers and Sons program, developed by Dr. Cleo Caldwell, strives to improve the parenting confidence and skills of nonresident fathers and prevent youth violent behaviors. The program is currently being implemented as one of six community interventions in the Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center and was developed as a core project of the Prevention Research Center of Michigan.
The program involved African American fathers and their 8-12 year old sons. The study is featured in the July/August issue of Child Development.
“After improving fathers’ communication about risky behaviors, aggressive behaviors in their sons decreased,” Caldwell said. “An improvement in fathers’ parenting satisfaction increased their sons’ awareness of their father’s involvement in their lives. This connection was then linked to an increase in the sons’ intentions to avoid violence in the future.”
The program, funded with a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is a partnership involving U-M-SPH, the local health department and several community based organizations in Flint, Michigan.
For more information, see UM News Release: http://www.ns.umich.edu/new/releases/21556-fathers-can-help-sons-avoid-trouble-even-if-they-aren-t-under-the-same-roof

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Reports reaching Pulse Business suggest that customers have fallen on the company's property in Wa, which include, buses, trucks, air- conditioners, bulbs, stationery, electric and electronic appliances belonging to the company.
Duped customers of Microfinance company, DKM are scrambling over property belonging to the company.
Reports reaching Pulse Business suggest that customers have fallen on the company's properties in Wa, which include, buses, trucks, air- conditioners, bulbs, stationery, electric and electronic appliances belonging to the company.
Officials from the Sunyani District Magistrate’s Court earlier supervised the customers to break into the office of the company to seize the assets.
Reports also have it that buses belonging to DKM's Transportation business has been the main target for customers.
The court, in its judgements, gave the order for the detention and preservation of TV sets, office equipment, vehicles and other items belonging to the company in its storerooms and offices or houses of the CEO or employees of the company.
The officials said after obtaining judgements in their favour, some of the customers had filed the necessary writs to get the authority to seize items belonging to the company for auctioning.
At a garage on the Sunyani-Abesim road, four DKM-branded buses had been parked waiting for valuation and auctioning.
The owner of the garage, who pleaded anonymity, said some customers of the company had brought the buses, with registration numbers GR 5630-15, GR 5632-15, GT 4527-15 and GN 5604-14, for valuation after they were seized.
Sources say other vehicles belonging to the company have also been parked at garages within the Sunyani municipality after their seizure.

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Dermocystidium. koi is an uncommon fish disease affecting koi although there are reports that other species may be affected. As its name suggests, Dermocystidium is a disease that affects the skin of koi and can be found on the gills, fins or body. It causes raised swellings varying in size from 1-2 cms to large lesions up to 10 cm. The lesions are pinkish to red and vary in shape from circular to long elongated ovals.
There is minimal inflammation around the lesion. Because of the presence of both spores and hyphae it is currently believed to be a fungal infection, although some authorities class it with the protozoa. As the lesion swells, the epidermis covering the swelling gets progressively thinner, at which stage it is sometime possible to see the white hyphae inside. These give the swelling a whitish, cloudy look. When the lesion matures, it ruptures spreading thousands of spores into the water. These are the infective agent.
It is not known how the spores infect fish, whether they have to find entry into the epidermis, either by way of an open wound, or whether they are able to burrow under the skin. The main diagnostic feature is a microscopic examination of hyphae from a lesion. These are filled with hundreds of spores of 8-12 µm diameter – about the same size as a red-blood cell. Each spore has a large central fluid-filled vacuole that displaces the nucleus to one side.
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There is no known treatment. Direct applications of malachite green and potassium permanganate sealed into ruptured lesions with waterproof paste have had no effect against the spores. Similarly, using a long-term bath of malachite green had little effect on either the spread of the disease or the spores in ruptured lesions. Surgical removal of smaller, shallow lesions was effective, but the majority of lesions did not lend themselves to surgery, because of location and shape.
Infectivity and re-infection
It is infective and likely to affect very large numbers of fish. When the lesion ruptures the lesion left, which can be substantial, seems to heal fairly well and quickly, leaving little sign of the infection. It seems to be a spring-time disease, lasting some 6-8 weeks. It has been reported that re-occurrences can sometimes happen in previously infected ponds.
Although Dermocystidium does not seem to be fatal in most cases, it does bring with it a very real threat of secondary infections. Antibiotic treatments and regular cleaning of the wounds will help prevent secondary infections and aid recovery. It is also important, as with all diseases, to maintain optimum conditions to prevent stress causing additional complications.


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Fuel cost fears lead to probe into £7bn acquisition
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a full inquiry into the £7bn acquisition of Morrisons by US investment group Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
The decision follows the CMA announcing an initial enforcement order last October.
The inquiry will consider whether the deal, which was the result of an auction following a bidding war between CDR and Fortress and was decided on a 1p margin, will result in a “serious lessening of competition” with a focus upon petrol prices.
A similar investigation came about following the purchase of Asda by the Issa brothers and TDR Capital, with the investigation ending when the brothers agreed to sell 27 petrol station forecourts to address concerns over prices at the pumps.
This latest phase builds on the October action which stopped CD&R from integrating its existing 900 forecourt petrol station business, MFG, with Morrison’s 300 stations.
Petrol prices have been a crux for a number of supermarket deals with the earlier Sainsbury’s and Asda merger in 2019 abandoned when the CMA concluded the deal would lead to price rises.
The initial enquiry will now accept comments and responses from interested parties until 10 February after which the CMA has until 24 March to announce its decision on whether to refer the merger to a phase 2 investigation.
Andrew Taylor a partner at Aldwych Partners noted he was sure that CD&R would have expected this situation and will have “identified the site that will need to be sold”.
He added however that the inquiry may be prolonged as a result of reports such as those published in the national press last year about reduced competition at the pumps.
Explaining: “I don’t think this will prevent the CD&R/Morrisons deal from going through, but it might make the review process a bit tougher than it otherwise would have been.”

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That’s the word from Joe, who admitted in an interview that he’s warm to the idea of a family get-together. Just don’t hold your breath on it happening anytime soon.
When asked if the band might ever reform, Joe told Pride Source: “I would say so. Nick and I have a few ideas to work with other artists who we really like. There are a couple of artists out there that we think are really incredible that we’d like to work together with. And then, there’s always down the road. We don’t really ever wanna say never to anything just because there could be something that comes along our way that we might say, ‘You know, let’s try working on this song together.’ It’s tough to say that we’ll never do it because who knows.”
The siblings’ Joe, Nick and Kevin emerged in 2005 and came up with a golden generation of Disney Channel babies that included Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez. The bros announced their split back in October 2013,
And what would get the band back together? “Time itself,” apparently. Joe added, “Seeing where things will lead us. It’s easy to say we’re done and that we’re never doing it again, but then we both look at each other and go, ‘We obviously get along.’ And who knows – years from now we could be like, ‘All right, let’s make a record.’ It could easily happen.”
Nick played a medley of his biggest solo hits at the American Music Awards last weekend: “Chains” (No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100), “Levels” (No. 44) and “Jealous” (No. 7).

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By Malachi Motano
The over 200 residents of Nkururu villagers are suffering from a disease with Anthrax like symptoms after consuming meat from some sick animals.
According to the locals, they slaughtered their animals after a strange disease claimed parts of their herds but the meat was cleared by a local veterinary doctor who inspected the animals.
Nkururu is a small village with about 800 residents in total located in Tharaka Nithi County however, 200 of them are said to be presenting symptoms like those of a patient suffering Anthrax disease.
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In the recent past the members have lost several livestock to a strange disease hence those surviving were being slaughtered for meat but not before inspection by a veterinary doctor.
Already health workers in the area are trying to deal with the problem meanwhile the members now want the county or national government to step in and help end the disease


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IOT-BASED EVAPOTRANSPIRATION ESTIMATION OF PEANUT PLANT USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORK
ESTIMASI EVAPOTRANSPIRASI TANAMAN KACANG TANAH BERBASIS IOT MENGGUNAKAN DEEP NEURAL NETWORK
The water availability in soil strongly influences crop growth by sustaining photosynthesis, respiration, and the maintenance of plant temperature. The water availability will decrease due to crop evapotranspiration (ETc) which is influenced by reference evapotranspiration (ETo) and crop coefficient (Kc). During water shortage, Kc is strongly influenced by soil evaporation coefficient (Ke) and basal crop coefficient (Kcb) which can be calculated using the Blue Red Vegetation Index (BRVI). The purpose of this study was to apply and evaluate a new method of estimating ETo, Ke, and Kcb at a research site using a Deep Neural Network (DNN) with minimum requirements. The results of the ETo estimation using DNN shows a good output with a determinant coefficient (R2) being 0.774. Meanwhile, the estimates of Ke and Kcb show excellent results with the determinant coefficient (R2) being 0.9496 and 0.999 respectively.
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Ask folks on the set of “Parks and Recreation” what they like best about the place and, immediately, they’ll say, “the murals.”
Filling the walls of Pioneer Hall, they depict various moments in the history of Pawnee, Ind. “A Lively Fisting,” “The Pawnee Zoo” and “The Trial of Chief Wamapo” are among the most politically incorrect paintings you’ll find. Staffers say they can be replaced – with other, equally offensive – paintings to give the appearance of more hallways.
A salesman in Pawnee, for example, is tied to a stake near the mall in one. In another a pioneer man is seen punching a woman. In a third, a man is selling his child to Native Americans for food.
As she walks through the set, Amy Poehler giggles. “They’re bad,” TV’s Leslie Knope says. But that’s the point.
“Parks and Recreation” isn’t around to celebrate the accomplishments of city government. It’s here to expose them. When producers created the show, they wanted to avoid one problem they encountered with “The Office” – real people. Because it’s set in Scranton, Pa., “The Office” frequently heard from residents whenever writers offered a discouraging word. With “P&R,” there’s no real Pawnee to consider.
So, when the set designers decided to include photographs of past civic leaders, they used ones of staff members. In Poehler’s TV office (she’s a mid-level bureaucrat in the parks and recreation department), she has pictures of real celebrities (Larry Bird, Madeleine Albright, Hillary Clinton) and faux relatives (Pamela Reed plays her mom). There’s also a photograph of Poehler as a child, sporting yarn-tied pigtails.
In department head Ron Swanson’s office, boxing and food posters fill the walls. Meanwhile, at his assistant April’s desk, you can find plenty of office supplies – and a stack of business cards. Even though she doesn’t need them, “I’ve got cards,” Aubrey Plaza, who plays April, says with a big smile.
Down the hallway, you can find the workspace of April’s boyfriend Andy (played by Chris Pratt). It boasts his shoeshine stand (and, yes, he is pretty good at shining shoes), copies of his band’s CD, candy and a host of photographs. Like the other characters’ offices, it bears the extra work of its stars. Pratt, Plaza, Poehler and others take care in making the set as personal as possible.
“That’s what’s great about being a part of the inception of a show,” says Rashida Jones, who plays Leslie Knope’s best friend Ann. “You get to suggest things. When I was on ‘The Office,’ I was a guest star and I always felt like an outsider. But that was to be expected – they all sit in one room.”
Here, there are many nooks and crannies. Jones’ house, for example, is on an entirely different stage. In the city government space, she warms to the courtyard. “It looks so real,” she says. “They’ll even bring in pigeons.”
And the murals? “They’re so offensive...and we have to pass them every day.”
For the recent Harvest Festival, cast members went to Pierce College where a corn maize and other locales had already been constructed. “We never would have been able to build that,” says Executive Producer Michael Schur. “It’s a massive, sweeping, giant tractor-and-corn-maize festival. We shot that episode out of sequence because if we had, the week that we would have been shooting it was like 148 degrees here and the actors would be dead now.”
(The festival’s star – Li’l Sebastian, the miniature horse – however, is in a corral just outside the set. And, yes, he is a hit with visitors.)
For “Parks and Recreation,” the Harvest Festival represents a shift in the show’s tone. For Leslie, it’s a chance to prove what she’s able to do as a government employee. “Leslie’s realizing her big dream of building a park is so much harder than she thought it was,” Poehler says. The festival is a way for her and others “to save their jobs.
“The people that work together in this department are a community. They start to bring people into their community and relationships happen, but in a very real way.”
Because the series didn’t start airing its third season until January, producers had the ability to tweak episodes after they had been shot.
“We got every episode – from the conception to the editing – exactly the way we wanted it without any time pressure, which is an incredible luxury,” says Schur.
Even better? Time fosters creativity.
When writers were trying to create Pawnee’s stories, they realized a place with bad karma (and awful murals) would also have sister cities around the world.
“The running joke is that all of Pawnee’s sister cities are sites of just horrible tragedies in the world,” says actor Adam Scott.
“Someday if the show is a huge success,” he says, before Poehler interrupts. “We get to go to Pyongyang.”


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There I was again, reeling off the list of foods which my son, Julian, had to avoid because of his allergies to peanuts, nuts, shellfish, chick peas, split peas and soy. He was 6 years old at the time and we were dining at a restaurant, one of many during a week-long vacation in Florida. As the waiter strode back and forth to the kitchen, double-checking ingredients, Julian’s disappointment rose as his menu choices were ruled out. Fed up with this scene, I struggled to maintain composure.
My “oh woe is me” voice kicked in: “What a pain this is to deal with. Why does he have so many food allergies? And, why am I always the one asking about his food?” It was the last question that really hit home. I realized that, similar to reading ingredient labels, Julian had to learn how to ask questions himself about restaurant meals.
Kids learn best when you involve them, so my husband and I encouraged Julian to ask basic questions – “Are there peanuts in this?” We graduated to the more complicated questions as he matured: “Do you use the same grill to cook shellfish and steak?” “Do you make the French fries in the same fryer used for foods such as deep-fried shrimp?”’
We found that by taking precautionary steps, we could go to restaurants together safely. Following are the main points we found helpful when dining out with a food-allergic child:
Plan ahead. When possible, call the restaurant at a time that is convenient to speak to the chef or manager. They can point you to the safe meals on the menu. (Stick with simple items with fewer ingredients and fewer coatings, sauces and dips.) Try to dine at off-peak hours as staff will have more time (and patience) to check on menu items. The highlight of the meal – the dessert tray – will be off-limits for most food-allergic children. So to avoid disappointment, let your child take a special dessert or treat to the restaurant so he feels included.
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