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That's what I saw when I looked out the window this morning - GREEN!!!!!! You have no idea how good that felt. The snow is melting pretty quickly, and the grass is peeking through. Actually by now, it's more than peeking. It's been in the 40s the last few days - a far cry from the below-zero temps we had for so long!
Spring is definitely in the air. We played outside today for probably 4 hours. It was warm enough to be out with just a sweatshirt, and I even walked down to the grocery store this afternoon - both things we haven't done for months.
The winter was long and cold, but actually not as bad as I was expecting. Yes, it's a lot different than winters in Georgia, but it's beautiful just the same. To look out over all the fields and see nothing but white is actually quite amazing to me. And there were days when it really looked like a winter wonderland when the dew had frozen on the trees and they were completely covered in ice, yet the sun was shining. To know that the same God who made the snow also made the beautiful green that they will be in just a few short weeks. This is truly some of the most beautiful land I've ever seen. You can see for miles and if you're out in the mornings just as the sun is coming up, it's absolutely breathtaking. It really makes me wonder how someone could deny that an awesome God created this. There is no way something this beautiful just happened.
Did I miss the winter in Georgia? Sure - parts of it. But I can honestly say now that having lived through (and survived!) a Minnesota winter means that I will appreciate spring and summer more and more. I can't wait to get outside and plant flowers and maybe even a vegetable garden. I can't wait to take the kids to the lake and watch them swim and play. And I know that when fall is here again and we're at football games and the pumpkin patch, winter will be just around the corner. But, now I know I can handle that too. I look forward to our second year here and enjoying God's beauty in all the seasons!


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Degenerate Art at the Neue Galerie in NYC
Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937 is an exhibition of work banned and surpressed by the Third Reich. It's being shown at the Neue on the Upper East Side in NYC until June 30th. I think we should see it sometime in April. Like sometime In the second week of April.

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Paromita Dey (Actress) Biography
Paromita Dey (Actress) Biography : Paromita Dey is an Indian actress, writer, singer, and radio jockey. She started her profession as a theater artist. Paromita also worked as a fashion producer for several brands. In 2015, she was seen in a supportive role for the web series Tumse Na Ho Payega. Recently, she acted in the Ullu web series, Wrong Turn.
Paromita Dey also known as Paromita Pari or Dimple Girl. She is an actress, model, and internet celebrity from Kolkata. She is a multi-talented woman who began her career at the age of ten in a Bengali TV show in 2008.
Since then, she has worked on more than 50 TV shows, web series, movies, music videos, and brand commercials. Her popular web series include Hostel Daze, Missing Condoms, The Bonkers, Lips Don’t Lie, and Crackdown.
Paromita has also hosted numerous Hindi and Bengali TV shows, events, and sporting events such as the IPL. She is also well-known on social media platforms such as Instagram, where she regularly posts her stunning images and videos.Apart from all this, She is also a food stylist, fashion producer, Emcee, actor, theatre artist, chef, painter, art director, dancer, set designer, writer, composer, and singer.
Paromita Dey was born and brought up in bengali family of Kolkata, West Bengal, India on 11th June 1989. She is 32 years old as of 2022. At present, she is staying in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India with her mother and father.Paromita Dey (Actress) Biography
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|Real Name||Paromita Dey|
|Profession||Writer, Actress, Singer, Dancer, TV Host, Radio Jockey|
|Date of Birth||11 June 1989|
|Age||33 (As of 2022)|
|Family||Father: Ashoke Dey|
Mother: Mamata Dey
|Affairs/Boyfriends||Yet to be updated|
|Husband||Yet to be updated|
|Children||Yet to be updated|
|Educational Qualification||Graduate in Journalism|
|School||GD Goenka School, Kolkata|
|College||University of Calcutta, Kolkata|
|Hobbies||Singing and Reading Books|
|Birth Place||West Bengal, India|
|Hometown||West Bengal, India|
|Current City||Mumbai, Maharashtra, India|
|Height (approx.)||Height in centimeters- 155 cm|
Height in meters- 1.55 m
Height in feet inches- 5’08.
|Weight (approx.)||42 kg|
|Bra Size||28 inches|
|Skin Colour||Indian White/ Fair Skin|
- Paromita is one of the highly educated actresses in the industry. She has a graduate degree in Journalism and Mass communication, apart from this she is also a professional Singer, Dancer, and Radio Jockey.Paromita Dey (Actress) Biography
- She started her career in 1999 at the age of 10 as an RJ (Radio Jockey) and gain huge experience in storytelling and dialogue delivery at such a young age.
- After working as an RJ for 1 Year she joined a local city-based theatre as a child artist and worked there for 5 years.
- Form She started working as a Lead actress in Bengali TV Show, Film and worked in several Bengal music videos.Paromita Dey (Actress) Biography
- From 2017-2020 she worked in many Hindi TV Series like ‘Crime Stories Hindi’ and Youtube videos.
- She also hosted many TV shows, Reality Show, Live Events as an anchor. As an anchor, she also Hosted IPL cricket match.
- Form 2019-2022 she has achieved a new height in her career and worked in more then 20+ Hindi, Bengali web series. Here is the list of some of the popular web series.

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There is a lot of talk in OER circles about discoverability. Much of it deals with metadata schemes and other technical details that may seem arcane to some. Here’s a real-world story of discoverability. Over the past couple weeks, I have
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adventures abound in Norway
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A glacier clings to a crease in the mountain that rises high in a
bright blue sky. Glacial waterfalls cascade upon slanting forests.
An icy river rambles through a rocky ravine. White glacier, green
mountain, cascading waterfalls, blue sky—all this is reflected
onto a mirror-smooth fjord that winds its way through the mountains
from the Norwegian Sea
Welcome to Stryn, Norway.
Located in the heart of fjord Norway, the town of Stryn (pop. 3,000)
ranks among the world’s most picturesque destinations. But
it’s more than just another pretty place. The mountains, valleys
and glacial lakes of the Stryn region (which includes Stryn, Loen
and Olden) allow for a wealth of adventure activities. There’s
kayaking, canoeing, horseback riding, hiking, glacier walking, and
skiing—in winter and summer.
On a warm, sunny day in June, I took a one-hour bus ride from Stryn
town to the Stryn Summer Ski Center. For much of the trip, I was
the only passenger aboard the tour bus. I sat in the front seat,
staring through the windshield at glacial lakes, snow-capped mountains,
and tiny wooden holiday cabins with roofs covered in thick grass.
Twenty minutes from our destination, the bus stopped to pick up 5
teenage snowboarders at Folven Camping, the most popular campsite
in the area. Each of Folven’s 35 cabins accommodate up to 12
guests. The campsite provides additional space for tents and camping
Our bus continued along the winding highway with only an occasional
passing car to interrupt the view. We climbed eventually to the Old
Strynefjell Mountain Road, a 16-mile long snow-rimmed path that used
to be cleared by hand in the 1940s when summer skiing got its start.
(In winter, the Old Strynefjell Mountain Road is impassable due to
snow. Even if it were possible to navigate, the Summer Ski Center
building is closed and buried to the roof in snow.)
Summer skiing is made possible by a glacier. The Jostedalsbreen,
or Jostedal Glacier, covers an area of 300 square miles, making it
the largest in continental Europe. At it’s highest point, Lodalskåpa,
the Jostedal Glacier looms 6,700 feet above sea level. One of its
glacial tributaries, the Tystigen, provides the snow base upon which
skiing is possible from June to August.
I could not have picked a better day to hit the slopes. A bright
midsummer sun hung high in the cloudless sky. The warm air tempted
me to ski without a jacket, as was the case with a few courageous
locals. But the mountain air can cool significantly as the chair
lift climbs. Even on warm summer days.
As the lift took me above 2,500 feet of vertical runs, glacial lakes
came into full view. I saw valleys flecked with snow. Mountains stretching
to the horizon.
At the top of the lift, the temperature dropped nearly 15 degrees.
That when my problems began.
I am not a good skier. In fact, you could say that I’m a lousy
skier. Before Stryn, I had only skied on 4 or 5 occasions—the
most recent, about 20 years ago.
My dismount from the chair lift was clumsy, although not catastrophic.
On unsteady Rossignols, I snow-plowed toward the second-stage t-bar
lift, wary of 6-year-old Norwegian kids who flew past me like blond-haired
As a dozen skiers had done before me, I waited for the approaching
t-bar to make contact with the back of my thighs and carry me to
the top. But somehow I lost my balance, grabbed the moving t-bar
with one flailing hand, clutched my ski poles with the other, and
was dragged from behind the t-bar instead of being propelled by it.
A couple of hundred yards later, at the top of the lift, I collapsed
in a heap among a group of skiers.
Had this been anywhere but Norway, laughter might have echoed between
the mountain peaks. True to the cool Norwegian demeanor, however,
my slapstick arrival barely registered a glance.
After gathering myself, I snow-plowed down the Catwalk. This path
leads to a 5-mile cross-country trail, a series of downhill runs,
and a snow park with jumps for snow boarders. Chest heaving, knees
wobbling, my body aching from numerous wipe outs, I cartwheeled to
the bottom without breaking my neck and collapsed in a patch of sun-sloshed

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Border Security Force Director General KK Sharma said on Friday that India has identified 140 “vulnerable locations” and launched a campaign against criminal gangs that help Rohingya Muslims enter India from Bangladesh, PTI reported. He said additional security personnel and surveillance gadgets had been deployed at 140 border posts along the 4,096-kilometre-long Indo-Bangladesh border to check their entry to India.
“We are also in touch with our sister agencies, the intelligence agencies, to identify and take action against the touts...because these people cannot come on their own,” Sharma said. “There are organised criminals on both sides who help them cross over to India. So we are mounting a campaign against the touts.”
The BSF concluded its bi-annual talks with the Border Guards Bangladesh on Friday and made plans to keep vigil on the “spillover effect of Rohingyas crossing over to India”.
“We are both aware that the issue is very serious as a large number of Rohingyas have entered Bangladesh,” Sharma said while addressing the media along with Border Guards Bangladesh chief Abdul Hossain. “The Border Guards Bangladesh has ensured that the movement of Rohingyas is regulated, and they have mounted some check posts on various routes to ensure that they do not cross over to our side.”
In August, the Indian government announced it was planning to deport all 40,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees living in the country. Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju had said Rohingyas were illegal immigrants.
On September 18, the Centre told the Supreme Court in an affidavit that the continued illegal immigration of Rohingyas to India had “serious national security ramifications and threats”.


The New Yorker published a letter I wrote last week, in response to a Malcom Gladwell article arguing that only the magical thinking of “batty geniuses” could have unraveled the Enron scandal.
It would be vain to re-publish the letter here except that the issue being debated is screwing up the high-technology industry: we’re drowning in so much spin that it’s hard for anyone to tell which companies are doing something real. What high-tech journalists need to sort through it all is not Malcolm Gladwell’s brain transplant, just the money, time and latitude to pursue tough stories.
In fact, Gladwell’s gimmick journalism — which began when he started selling books & speeches to corporate America — is usurping the diligent search for facts because it’s cheaper and easier to do. Newsrooms are being starved for resources even as the people they have to contend with are spending more money on PR than ever.
Every time Redfin launches a new market, I visit a newsroom spooky with empty desks and talk to a reporter overwhelmed with assignments. Newspapers’ new corporate parents talk about “content” as if journalism were no different from this blog post, which is slanted, written quickly, and has an agenda other than truth.
The reason we should all care about this, even those of us who don’t care for journalists, is because the Enron scandal demonstrates that a capable press is crucial not only for the operation of a free country, but a free market. Without journalists who have the resources to really dig into a business — as opposed to simply presenting quotes from two different sides — more companies will swindle the public.
Not that any amount of complaining will change anything. When the issue came out with this letter and other protests, I anxiously waited for accolades and arguments to come pouring in. Only my twin brother wrote me an e-mail, asking if I’d seen the Christy Turlington photo on page 2?
All of which made me feel silly for being so excited to get published in the first place. I got the call while visiting a bankruptcy judge in Brooklyn, from what sounded like a scrupulous, dignified British lady, and was nearly overcome because I have tried so long to get into the New Yorker, and because I was still recovering from a humiliating smackdown by Allan Dalton.
At that moment, I jostled into a young man wearing a very stiff red baseball hat and a red leather jacket, who angrily claimed I had broken his glasses. He held up a pair of glasses that looked as if they had been caught beneath the skidding wheels of an 18-wheeler and demanded $200. “How about $20?” I said. He went for it. The money safely exchanged, neither one of us cared to acknowledge what had really happened.


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A woman's life was saved at Vithalwadi station by an alert railway police constable after she began falling into the gap between the platform and the train.
"The woman was attempting to board an Ambernath down train at 2:21 pm on Wednesday when she slipped and was being dragged by the train," the Kalyan railway police station senior inspector Mukesh Dhage said.
According to the police, Rushikesh Mane, a police naik, quickly pulled her onto the platform before she could fall into the gap.
Mumbai Diary: Thursday Dossier
Mumbai: Engine failure on express train disrupts suburban train traffic
Kalyan-based brick kiln owner, aide held for kidnapping bonded worker
CR to operate two-hour night block between Kalyan and Ambarnath stations
Thane: Around 200 persons held for unauthorised travel in reserved compartments
"The woman told police her 9-year-old daughter had already boarded the train and, therefore, made this risky attempt," Mukesh Dhage added.
As per the railway police, the minor girl and her mother were later united.
Meanwhile, a man was held on Thursday from North Dinajpur area of West Bengal for allegedly murdering a woman in Bhiwandi.
The decomposed body of the 36-year-old woman, identified as Madhu Prajapati, was found in Ganesh Nagar and a murder case was filed due to the presence of multiple wounds, Senior Inspector Rajendra Pawar of Kongaon police station said.
"A probe zeroed in on Shabbir Dilawar Sheikh, who was held from North Dinajpur in West Bengal. Sheikh and Prajapati stayed together and the former killed her since he suspected her character," the police official added.
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I have an old Bible with this marriage recorded in it. If this is your family contact me and i will give you the Bible.
Stephen N.Gurney, of Chesaning, Mich.
Flora Ma Rogers, of Chesaning,Mich.
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Stephen N. Gurney born in town of Huron
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Loyalty means something to Jered Weaver, now an Angel through 2016
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Jered Weaver endeared himself to a legion of sports fans, if not his agent, on Tuesday when he acknowledged granting a considerable hometown discount to sign a five-year, $85-million contract extension with the Angels.
The 28-year-old right-hander and two-time All-Star, who grew up in Simi Valley and played college baseball at Long Beach State, would have become a free agent after 2012.
With another standout season like the one Weaver is having—he’s 14-6 with a major league-leading 2.10 earned-run average—he might have been in line for a contract like the seven-year, $161-million deal CC Sabathia signed with the New York Yankees before 2009.
Angels fans were skeptical Weaver would remain in Anaheim after he became a free agent because Weaver’s agent, Scott Boras, prefers his clients go to free agency, where they can earn maximum dollars.
The relationship between Boras and Angels owner Arte Moreno has also been strained since negotiations with free-agent first baseman Mark Teixeira broke down before 2009. But when the Angels approached Weaver about a contract extension a few weeks ago, Weaver instructed Boras to get the deal done, even if that meant leaving at least $30 million on the table.
“How much more money do you need?” Weaver said, eliciting roars from a few hundred fans on hand at Angel Stadium for a news conference to officially announce the deal. “I’ve never played this game for money. I play it for love and for championships.
“There comes a point in time when you do have to deal with the business side of things, but I don’t think money had anything to do with my decision. I could have gotten more, whatever, who cares? I’m here, and that’s all I care about.”
Boras was out of town and not at Tuesday’s news conference, but he was quoted about Weaver in Tuesday’s editions of USA Today.
“He knows his value,” Boras said. “He knows not becoming a free agent would cost him millions and millions of dollars. But the necessity to stay home was compelling.”
Did Weaver, who is 78-45 with a 3.30 career ERA in six seasons, go against the advice of his agent to sign with the Angels?
“Scott is who he is,” Weaver said. “A lot of people know him to go out there and get the most, but I told him money wasn’t an option for me. I’m very secure with what I have here. It was my decision. He showed me what options are, I told him I wanted to be an Angel, to stay in Southern California and be comfortable, and he worked with that. It didn’t take too much twisting of arms to get this done.”
In a later interview, Weaver was asked why he is different from so many professional athletes who hold out for top dollar, regardless of loyalties to the team they are with.
“It’s the way I was brought up,” Weaver said. “If $85 million is not enough to take care of my family and other generations of my family, then you’re stupid. I play baseball for the love of the game, for the competitive part of it.”
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Wonder and the Births of Philosophy 1. Repetition: Martin Heidegger 2. Openness: Emmanuel Levinas 3. Relation: Jean-Luc Nancy 4. Decision: Jacques Derrida Postlude: Possibility Notes Bibliography Index
Western philosophy's relationship to "wonder" is deeply ambivalent. On the one hand, wonder is said to be the origin of all philosophy. On the other hand, it is associated with a kind of ignorance that ought to be extinguished. This study argues that by endeavoring to resolve wonder's indeterminacy, philosophy has secured itself at the expense of its own condition of possibility.Strange Wonder locates a reopening of this primordial uncertainty in the work of Martin Heidegger, whose "wonder" oscillates between a shock at the groundlessness of things and an astonishment that things nevertheless are. Mary-Jane Rubenstein traces this double movement through the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jacques Derrida, tracing wonder as an awesome, awful opening that exposes thought to devastation as well as transformation. Insofar as wonder reveals the extraordinary through the ordinary, Rubenstein argues it is crucial to the task of reimagining political, religious, and ethical possibilities.
Mary-Jane Rubenstein is assistant professor of religion at Wesleyan University, where she teaches in the fields of philosophy of religion, modern Christian thought, and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies.
One of the most gripping and timely accounts of Continental Philosophy... The reader can only come to the end of this book astonished. -- Catherine Keller Modern Theology In all, the book offers a new understanding of an influential sector of twentieth-century philosophy. -- Jonathan Malesic Journal of the American Academy of Religion ...passionately argued and engagingly written. -- Paul A. Macdonald Jr. Scottish Journal of Theology a fun read. -- George Pattison Reviews in Religion and Theology


In Georgia, coronavirus throws hurricane plans into turmoil
ATLANTA (AP) — Emergency officials in some Georgia coastal counties are nervously bracing for this year’s hurricane season amid new dangers posed by the coronavirus to people who would require help evacuating.
“If we have to evacuate, it’s going to be a nightmare,” said Ty Poppell, director of the Emergency Management Agency in McIntosh County south of Savannah.
Poppell said putting evacuees on a bus and maintaining six feet of space (two meters) around each person to help prevent potential exposure to the virus would be a big problem.
As of mid-May, the county was still working to update its hurricane response for the virus, Poppell said. Hurricane season officially starts Monday, and forecasters are expecting a busier-than-normal season.
In neighboring Liberty County, emergency management director Larry Logan said he didn’t have enough shelters to maintain social distance in case of a mass evacuation. He was concerned that fear of contracting the virus at a shelter would lead more residents to ignore any evacuation orders.
“This is going to be all new. It’s going to be a trial and error thing,” he said.
State officials are looking at hotels and motels as a sheltering option and “striving” to have smaller shelter populations, the Georgia Emergency Management & Homeland Security Agency said in an email.
Motels and hotels can be helpful in isolating COVID-19 patients or people suspected of having the virus.
Every shelter would screen evacuees for the virus during registration, Georgia’s emergency management agency added, though it did not elaborate on how that would be done. It received federal guidelines for sheltering on May 15, it said.
“We also ask that Georgians begin formulating plans for themselves, their families and pets now, in the event an evacuation is necessary in the future,” the agency said in its email.
Other county officials said they would require masks for any evacuees and had enough supplies to provide them.
Glynn County also planned to reduce staffing at its emergency operations center during a hurricane to try to prevent them from being too close to each other, which would raise their risk of contracting the virus. Some people would instead work remotely, said Alec Eaton, interim director of the county’s emergency management agency.
Chuck White, the emergency management agency director in Camden County, noted that counties rely heavily on the Red Cross and other organizations for help housing residents and providing other support.
He said the virus has taken up much of county officials’ time while also making it difficult to gather in groups for discussions about responding to a hurricane. So counties have fallen behind in getting residents ready and running hurricane drills.
“That reduces our level of preparedness,” he said.


Sabin wrote:I don't think anybody's mentioned it yet, but if there's a movie this trailer reminds me of, it's Black Hawk Down.
In what possible way does it resemble BLACK HAWK DOWN? Do you mean the real life stories are similar or the movies themselves are similar? BLACK HAWK DOWN was a relentless action film. Ridley Scott's style for the entire film was loud and kinetic, which is exactly what the story needed. There was very little in terms of plot twists, dialogue, or character development. It was about realistically portraying the visceral horror of being in battle.
ZERO DARK THIRTY on the other hand looks closer to a spy procedural. It seems it will be going through how the CIA and military intelligence tracked down Bin Laden. It actually seems more like a mix of ARGO and THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, going through the slow process of gathering the information necessary to fight terrorism. To me, it actually looks like the exact opposite of BLACK HAWK DOWN, both in the writing and directing.
It was pointed out somewhere else, but it actually reminds me of the Showtime series Homeland.
Here is the trailer for BLACK HAWK DOWNhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUJ6cxWdZwA
Here is the trailer for Homelandhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4-KYAWPKzY
It seems redacting text in trailers is popular these days.
It will be interesting to see how general audiences react to this film. On the one hand, the killing of Osama Bin Laden united this country for a few days in a way I have not seen since 9/11. On the other hand, after the celebrations died down, folks who hate the President realized how much this would help his re-election. Republicans, Fox News, and other conservatives started working to undermine Obama's triumph. They even went so far as to accuse the President of giving Kathryn Bigelow sensitive information. These attacks forced the film to push its release date until after the election. I am not sure if all the folks who do not like Obama are going to boycott the film, or if their interest in seeing how it all went down will override their dislike of the President.
However this film does at the box-office, I think the Academy will respond well. I think nominations for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, Sound, Sound Editing, are pretty good. The big question is if there are any likely acting nominations. Supporting Actress for Jessica Chastain seems like the best possibility, but it is hard to tell. She appears the most of anyone in the trailer, but then does not say a word.
I know I am certainly looking forward to it. The quality of the trailer certainly has me confident in the quality of the film.
"When it comes to the subject of torture, I trust a woman who was married to James Cameron for three years."
-- Amy Poehler in praise of Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow


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May 15 2020
This Week in Forensic Science
No one has hours to scour the papers to keep up with the latest news, so we’ve curated the top news stories in the field of Forensic Science for this week. Here’s what you need to know to get out the door!
COVID-19 Could Spark ‘Digital Justice’ Transformation in Court System (Forensic – 5/8/2020)
A report from the University of Surrey (UK) is shedding light on the impact of a new “video booking tool” used for first-appearance remand hearings in court.
NIST Helps Expand Genome Sequencing of Marine Mammals (Los Alamos Daily Post – 5/8/2020)
Researchers will soon have access to the full genomic sequences for 23 marine mammal species preserved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), thanks to an ongoing collaboration between NIST and a scientific consortium called the DNA Zoo.
Lockdown Slows Wildlife Forensics (Mongabay – 5/11/2020)
- The COVID-19 associated lockdown has slowed wildlife forensic work, delaying wildlife crime investigations.
- Scientists are working through obstructions such as delayed dispatch/reception of samples, transport of essential chemicals, and processing samples. There is also the possibility of a fund crunch.
- In a post-COVID-19 scenario, scientists stress on more vigilance on personnel safety and collection, storage/packaging, and transport of samples.
Colorado Court Rules STRmix is ‘Relevant and Reliable’ Practice for Interpreting Likelihood Ratios (Forensic – 5/4/2020)
The Colorado District Court for Eagle County has ruled that STRmix– sophisticated forensic software used to resolve mixed DNA profiles previously thought to be too complex to interpret– “is a relevant and reasonably reliable practice for interpreting likelihood ratios under 1,000 with low quality samples.”
Pennsylvania State Has Reduced its Rape Kit Backlog to 94 (Forensic – 5/11/2020)
“While important progress is being made, I’m concerned that nearly 100 victims of sexual assault are still waiting for their evidence kits to even be sent to a lab,” said Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale during a press conference last week. “These brave victims underwent grueling physical exams not only for the sake of their own cases, but also to potentially help protect others from being assaulted.”
The 94-kit backlog is a 62 percent decrease compared with the end of 2018, and a 90 percent decrease compared with the end of 2017.
Signature Science Becomes First Private Laboratory to Implement STACS® Casework (Signature Science – 5/11/2020)
Signature Science’s casework laboratory joins public DNA crime laboratories across the country in implementing the intuitive laboratory information management system.
Canada: DNA Discovery Lends Weight to First Nations Ancestral Story (The Guardian – 5/10/2020)
The last of Newfoundland’s Beothuk was thought to have died in 1829 but new research indicates the bloodline did not die out – as Mi’kmaq tradition has always maintained
Two New Forensic DNA Standards Added to the OSAC Registry (NIST – 5/12/2020)
National forensic science organization approves standards for interpreting DNA mixtures.
Genetic Genealogy Technique Can Separate Mixtures (Forensic – 5/13/2020)
Using whole genome sequencing, Fitzpatrick and her team sequenced the DNA mixture, then subtracted out the sequence created from the DNA of the victim. The result was a sequence for the suspect, which they ran through Identifinders’ bioinformatics pipeline to create autosomal SNP data for just the suspect. Fitzpatrick uploaded that data to GEDmatch, worked the genealogy and received a match for 67-year-old James Zastawnik, who police promptly arrested for murder.
Your DNA on Ancestry Sites: What Could it be Used for in the Future? (ABC.net – 5/14/2020)
What are the implications of a tiny scrap of our DNA being added to government databases, and possibly being used against us in a court?
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Federal – OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard
For the private sector, President Biden's September 9 action plan, Path Out of the Pandemic, directed the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to develop an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to require all employers with at least 100 employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or else subjected to weekly COVID-19 testing before coming into work. The ETS was released on November 4, 2021. Numerous states and other entities pursued various challenges to this vaccine mandate.
On January 13, the U.S. Supreme Court (pending further review before the Sixth Circuit, stayed the OSHA ETS. In reaching its conclusion, the Supreme Court held that: "Permitting OSHA to regulate the hazards of daily life—simply because most Americans have jobs and face those same risks while on the clock—would significantly expand OSHA’s regulatory authority without clear congressional authorization."
Following that decision, the Secretary of Labor issued a statement, which provides that: "Regardless of the ultimate outcome of these proceedings, OSHA will do everything in its existing authority to hold businesses accountable for protecting workers, including under the Covid-19 National Emphasis Program and General Duty Clause." Thereafter, on January 25, OSHA announced that it is withdrawing the ETS, effective January 26, 2022. "Although OSHA is withdrawing the vaccination and testing ETS as an enforceable emergency temporary standard, the agency is not withdrawing the ETS as a proposed rule. The agency is prioritizing its resources to focus on finalizing a permanent COVID-19 Healthcare Standard."
On February 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted the government’s motion to dismiss the multi-district litigation challenging the ETS. The case was dismissed as moot, in light of the agency’s withdrawal of the ETS.
Federal – Federal Contractors
As part of the Path Out of the Pandemic, the president issued an executive order mandating vaccination for some employees of some federal contractors. The new order supplements an earlier July 29 directive and eliminates the testing option for those who are not vaccinated unless they receive an approved exemption. Like the OSHA ETS, numerous states and other entities pursued various challenges to this vaccine mandate. After various courts issued preliminary injunctions precluding the implementation of the mandate, enforcement of the mandate is currently enjoined nationwide.
Federal – CMS Requirements
On August 18, the White House issued a Fact Sheet announcing that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would develop new regulations requiring nursing homes to require that all of their workers be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to continue receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding. In conjunction with the release of the OSHA ETS, on November 4, 2021, the Biden administration and CMS issued an interim final rule requiring healthcare worker vaccinations to be completed by January 4, 2022. Like the other federal mandates, numerous states filed legal challenges to the CMS mandate. Ultimately, on January 13, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted the injunctions issued by those district courts. CMS issued updated guidance, explaining that "health care providers subject to the Omnibus Health Care Staff Vaccination rule in the 24 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming) covered by this decision will now need to establish plans and procedures to ensure their staff are vaccinated and to have their employees receive at least the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine."
The deadline for full compliance in Kansas and Missouri is March 15, 2022, requiring that all covered facilities must ensure that 100% of staff have received the necessary doses to complete their vaccine series (at least receive dose two in a two-dose series), or have been granted a qualifying exemption, or been identified as being entitled to a temporary delay as recommended by the CDC. CMS has consistently updated its materials to include implementation guidance and timelines. If you have questions, please reach out to our employment law practice group.


Agency chief Willem Rampangilei says the grave will be 10 meters by 100 meters (33 feet by 330 feet) in size, and can be expanded if needed.
The majority of Palu's inhabitants are Muslim. "I assure all help from India to Indonesia to combat the disasters", Swaraj said. A 25-year-old woman was found alive during the evening in the ruins of the Roa-Roa Hotel, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency, which released photos of the her lying on a stretcher covered in a blanket. He said that could have triggered the tsunami, which also could have been created by an underwater landslide. "People here need aid - food, drink, clean water".
Pope Francis has led the faithful in prayer for the people of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi hit by a strong quake and tsunami. Officials had estimated about 50 people could be inside.
"We have not received comprehensive reports yet because communications are cut".
Experts said the long, narrow bay running into Palu, a city of 380,000, squeezed the tsunami into a tight space, likely making the waves more unsafe.
But Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, a geologist with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, said the Sulawesi event is more complicated.
"There are several health facilities and hospitals in Palu". More than 830 people have been confirmed dead, a lot of them in Palu.
Jokowi said Sunday in the hard-hit Sulawesi island city of Palu that the city's airport "is not 100 percent ready for landing".
The official deathtoll arrived to 844, but thousands more are feared to be dead. The other tragedy is that more than 48,000 have been forced to leave their houses and telecommunications are still not working. Another 11 people are confirmed dead in the regency of Donggala.
PALU, Indonesia-The toll from an natural disaster and tsunami in Indonesia soared on Sunday to 832 confirmed dead, with authorities fearing it will only climb as rescuers struggle to reach outlying communities cut off from communications and help.
Nugroho said 61 foreigners were in Palu at the time of the disaster. Three visitors from France and one from Malaysia are missing. The survivors were to be evacuated to the Sulawesi city of Makassar in the island's far south.
Earlier authorities had put the death toll at 384.
The Red Cross said it had heard nothing from the Donggala region.
The regencies of Donggala, Sigi and Parigi Moutong - with combined populations of 1.2 million - had yet to be fully assessed.
The tsunami was triggered by a strong quake that brought down buildings and sent locals fleeing for higher ground as a churning wall of water crashed into Palu, where there were widespread power blackouts. Residents were also seen making their way back to badly damaged homes to try to pick through whatever belongings they could salvage to take away.
A British quake expert has now warned there may be more devastating earthquakes to come.
When the building's roof collapsed, Agung jumped from the tower. The owner of the hotel said that up to 60 people were believed trapped in the rubble.
The death stood at 405 on Sunday, but that was expected to rise as rescuers made it to hard-to-reach areas on the island of Sulawesi.
Dozens of injured people were being treated in makeshift medical tents set up outdoors.
Dr Ford was lauded for her testimony and her bravery by various Democrats and by a large number of supporters around the world. Other Republican senators followed Graham's lead in supporting Kavanaugh.
His regained form has drawn more viewers this year, but whether he'll help thwart the sport's decline remains to be seen. He said the last hole was a "blur", and it remains the last Ryder Cup that both Molinari and Woods played.
Past rapprochement efforts were often stalled after an global standoff over the North's nuclear ambitions intensified. South and North Korea are reported to have started removing landmines from along their heavily defended border.
Trump told the annual gathering: "They do not respect their neighbors or borders or the sovereign rights of nations". Bolton said the USA would be equally hard on Iran's "enablers". "America in Syria, the presence is illegal", he said.
Mourinho is under increasing pressure after seeing United collect just 10 points from their opening seven Premier League games. A win against Valencia would put us in a commanding position in the Champions League with two wins from two matches.
If you want a faster charge rate, be prepared to pay $49 for the charging head and at least $19 for the cheapest one-meter cord. Several complaints about the XS and XS Max failing to charge have also been posted on Apple's discussion forum on its website .
President Donald Trump ordered the additional FBI investigation Friday at the request of the Senate Judiciary Committee . If all Democrats vote against Kavanaugh, two Republicans would have to do the same to block his confirmation.
Trudeau tweeted he reached out to the chief executives leading Canada's Big Five banks to "touch base on NAFTA negotiations". The Canadian dollar surged to its highest since May against the USA dollar, gaining around 0.5 percent from Friday's close.
Mr Trump reimposed the sanctions after quitting the Iran accord in May, and called on United States allies to comply. Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih told reporters in Algiers that he does not influence prices.
Around 330 law enforcement officer from local police to the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been searching the park . Investigators are still seeking to understand if criminality was involved or if Maddox's disappearance was an accident.
Tesla shares jump after Elon Musk settles with SEC
Tesla in recent years has become one of the most valuable American auto maker, with its stock worth more than $50 billion. The settlement, reached on Saturday, comes after Musk initially rejected the charges, claiming they were "unjustified" .
'Captain America' Reed relishes Ryder Cup villain's role
I think it makes no difference to us at all. "It would always be great playing Poults", Reed said, not backing down at all. He failed to win a match in his most recent Ryder Cup , going 0-3-1 at Medinah when Europe rallied to win on the last day.
Chair of Australian public broadcaster quits in meddling row
On ABC's 7.30 program, Mr Milne described the week's events as a "firestorm" and said he "wanted to provide a release valve". Acting center-left opposition leader Tanya Plibersek, demanded an fully independent investigation into what happened.
Adultery no longer a crime in India
In 1985, the then chief justice had upheld the validity of the adultery law. "A husband is not the master of his wife". Women having affairs could not be prosecuted, but they also couldn't file a complaint against cheating husbands.
Passenger jet overshoots runway, crashes into sea
A passenger plane heading to Papua New Guinea is believed to have overshot its runway, landing in a lagoon in Micronesia. Witness Bill Davis told Yahoo7 News that all the passengers were evacuated quickly, a few of whom had minor injuries.


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Tales of the Walking Dead just gave the fandom a fantastic new chapter in the life of Alpha, former leader of the Whisperers. Samantha Morton reprised her role as Alpha in the third episode of Tales of TWD. This story gave an interesting twist to one of the most feared villains from The Walking Dead series.
This article contains spoilers for Tales of the Walking Dead season 1, episode 3, “Dee.”
The episode began with the voice of Alpha stating, “Let me tell you how I died.” Hearing that voice again gave viewers chills, knowing who it belonged to without even seeing the character. This episode was written by Tales of TWD showrunner Channing Powell who also wrote the flagship series episode “Omega,” which tells Lydia’s (Cassidey McClincy) remembrance of events early in the outbreak.
During interviews at SDCC, Morton shared that she was shocked at the twist in Alpha’s story and reminded fans that everything they have learned about Alpha and Lydia up to this point has been from the POV of a scared, young child. Not all of those memories prove to be true.
Tales of the Walking Dead – Dee
In this episode, Alpha is known as Dee, and she and Lydia (Scarlett Blum) take refuge with a group that lives on a river boat. The group is led by a woman named Brooke (Lauren Glazier), who begins questioning Dee’s parenting, which doesn’t sit well with her.
Dee doesn’t trust anyone and is very observant, noticing two occasions when she believes signals are being sent to people on the river bank and she was right. One of the men has a crew who tries to take over the riverboat. Dee’s true nature comes out, and she skillfully kills one of the men by slitting his throat. She escapes with Lydia in a dinghy.
This puts the pair in the woods to fight the element and the undead. She begins to show Lydia how to survive in this world, but she is young and doesn’t want to kill the walkers. This will eventually lead to Dee knowing she must kill the both of them as they can never survive.
Then she hears whisperers that Lydia believes are coming from the trees. A group slowly reveals themselves to the pair whispering for Dee to “spare her.” The Whisperers emerge led by a woman who introduces herself as Hera (Anne Beye). This is when viewers learn that Alpha wasn’t the one who started this group.
Throughout the episode, viewers see and hear Alpha telling her stories as she stands in a cave with heads on pikes and large strips of human flesh hanging from above. She tells of how she killed her father, and he deserved it. Of being stuck in the basement with Lydia’s father, Frank, and how she went mad and killed him. This is also where viewers hear her say, “I was keeping myself from my nature. But that, that was the end of Dee and the beginning of me.”
As viewers watch, they see that Alpha took the skin of Hera to make her flesh mask.
The story shows that Alpha was always Alpha; she just suppressed this side of her when she needed to. This episode also reveals that Lydia had a very skewed memory of her father and mother during the early days of the outbreak. It was an amazing backstory of a character viewers thought they knew, not realizing there was much more to the story.
More details about Alpha: Tales of the Walking Dead sheds new light on Alpha’s story
Tales of the Walking Dead returns to AMC Sunday, September 4, with episode 4, “Amy/Dr. Everett.”


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Donald Trump made it clear at the beginning of his campaign that he wasn’t going to follow the normal rules or tone of politics. We’re keeping track of all the ways his presidency veers from the norm in terms of policy and rhetoric.
Day 239 Sept 15
Trump is still blaming “both sides” for Charlottesville violence
When it comes to the white supremacists who marched on Charlottesville last month, President Donald Trump still thinks some of them were alright — that there were some “bad dudes” among the counterprotesters.
Taking questions on Air Force One on his way to hurricane-ravaged Florida on Thursday, Trump reiterated, again, his belief that “both sides” shared responsibility for the violence that took place in Charlottesville. The comments came the day after Trump met with Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina for a meeting on race relations.
“Especially in light of the advent of antifa, if you look at what’s going on there, you know, you have some pretty bad dudes on the other side also,” Trump said, adding, “in fact, a lot of people have actually written, ‘Gee, Trump might have a point.’”
Sen. Scott wasn’t surprised. “He is who he has been, and I didn’t go in there to change who he was,” Scott, the first African-American elected to the Senate since Reconstruction, said. “I wanted to inform and educate a different perspective. I think we accomplished that. To assume that immediately thereafter he’s going to have an epiphany is just unrealistic.”
Trump’s been widely condemned and faced major fallout for repeatedly blaming both sides in Charlottesville, drawing a moral equivalency between the marchers and the counterprotesters. Two corporate advisory panels had to be disbanded after CEOs resigned from them over Trump’s comments, and GOP leaders, like Paul Ryan, and members of his own Cabinet, including economic adviser Gary Cohn and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, have condemned the “both sides” comments.
Day 237 Sept 13
Steve Mnuchin wanted to use a military plane for his honeymoon, but he had a good reason
Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin asked for a military aircraft worth roughly $25,000 an hour to fly him and his wife around Europe for their honeymoon in June, sources told ABC News, because he apparently needed “access to secure communications.”
The former Goldman Sachs banker, reportedly worth $300 million, ultimately decided that it was “unnecessary.”
A spokesperson for the Treasury Department told ABC News that Mnuchin needed the aircraft because he’s a member of the National Security Council.
“The Secretary is a member of the National Security Council and has responsibility for the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence,” the spokesman said in a statement. “It is imperative that he have access to secure communications, and it is our practice to consider a wide range of options to ensure he has these capabilities during his travel, including the possible use of military aircraft.”
Mnuchin is already under investigation for a recent trip to Kentucky where, amid official meetings, he and his wife watched the solar eclipse from atop Fort Knox. The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Inspector General is reviewing the trip “to determine whether all applicable travel, ethics, and appropriation laws and policies were observed,” the office told the Washington Post.
— Alexa Liautaud
Day 236 Sept 12
Trump keeps inviting dictators to the White House
President Donald Trump gets along well with autocratic leaders — and the scandal-ridden Malaysian Prime Minister is the latest to get a White House welcome.
Prime Minister Najib Razak visited Tuesday after Trump invited him back in August to strengthen diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Malaysia. Najib is also staying at Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C., on the Malaysian government’s dime. (Trump is being sued over maintaining his financial stake in the hotel.)
Najib, known to silence and imprison those critical to him, even journalists, is a target in the Department of Justice’s largest criminal kleptocracy case ever. Investigators are looking into him for laundering $1.7 billion in Malaysian government funds through U.S. financial institutions, including jewels, a Picasso painting, and rights to a pair of Hollywood comedies.
The last time Trump met with Najib, over a round of golf a few years back, Trump signed a photo of the two of them “to my favorite prime minister,” according to the New York Times.
Trump’s warm feelings toward Najib are par for the course. During a visit to the White House, Trump told Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the Egyptian leader who’s “disappeared” dissents, that he has “a great friend and ally in the United States and in me.”
Trump also invited Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to the White House, although Duterte rejected him. During a friendly phone chat in April, Trump congratulated Duterte for his “unbelievable job on the drug problem.” Duterte’s crusade against drug use has left thousands dead.
Trump’s lawyers were preparing for Kushner’s resignation this summer
After some of Donald Trump’s lawyers decided they wanted Jared Kushner out of the White House, their aides reportedly drafted a statement explaining his resignation — just in case, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Back in June, Trump’s lawyers were reportedly worried about Kushner’s ties to Russia amid the multiple investigations into the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. And Kushner’s multiple, highly publicized meetings with Russians had put him under the scrutiny of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who’s leading one of the investigations in the Trump campaign’s ties to the Russians.
But Trump himself wasn’t convinced Kushner had done anything wrong, and he’s since restructured his legal team, pushing out longtime lawyer, Marc Kasowitz in favor of John Dowd, a prominent Washington white-collar lawyer.
“I didn’t agree with that view at all. I thought it was absurd,” Dowd told the Wall Street Journal. “I made my views known.”
Dowd said he thinks Kushner’s “a great asset, real gentleman, a pleasure to work with.”
Kasowitz, meanwhile, denies any of this every happened. In a statement to the Wall Street Journal, he said, “I never discussed with other lawyers for the President that Jared Kushner should step down from his position at the White House, I never recommended to the President that Mr. Kushner should step down from that position and I am not aware that any other lawyers for the President made any such recommendation either.”
Day 235 Sept 11
Trump has picked 41 men and 1 woman to be federal prosecutors
After picking just three women to serve on his 23-person Cabinet, President Trump isn’t doing any better with his U.S. Attorney nominees. Of the 42 people he has nominated so far, only one is a woman, BuzzFeed News reported.
Ninety-three U.S. attorneys serve as the country’s lead federal prosecutors, heading offices across the country. When Trump abruptly asked for the resignations of all Obama-era U.S. attorneys in March, it left 90 of those 93 spots in district offices empty.
While these positions have typically been held by men, Trump’s picks are extraordinarily, overwhelmingly male. For comparison, 12 of President Obama’s first 42 nominees for U.S. Attorney were women.
Trump’s sole female nominee is Jessie Liu, for the top job at the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington, D.C. Liu is an attorney at the U.S. Treasury Department as of this year, after working at several private D.C. law firms for the past decade. According to Liu’s bio at one of those firms, her work focused primarily on defending government contractors against investigations. She also worked as an attorney in the Justice Department Civil Rights Division under President George Bush.
Only three of Trump’s 42 U.S. attorney nominees have been confirmed by the Senate so far, so it could be a while before Liu takes the helm.
Bannon heads to China after comparing it to Nazi Germany
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon is headed to China this week to speak at an investor conference hosted by a state-owned Chinese brokerage firm. But that didn’t stop him from comparing Beijing to Nazi Germany.
“China right now is Germany in 1930,” Bannon told the New York Times. “It’s on the cusp. It could go one way or the other. The younger generation is so patriotic, almost ultranationalistic.”
“A hundred years from now, this is what they’ll remember — what we did to confront China on its rise to world domination,” he added.
Bannon’s expected to call for tougher American policies on China at the event, which will focus on “American economic nationalism, the populist revolt and Asia,” a spokeswoman told Bloomberg.
The former White House chief strategist, who abruptly left his role in August, gave a bombastic interview just days before he left that lambasted members of the Trump administration for “wetting themselves” on trade disputes with China and being duped in a “sideshow” over attempts to recruit Chinese help on dealing with North Korea.
Some speculate the interview sealed his ticket out of the White House.
In 2016, Bannon predicted an American war with China within a decade and has long argued Beijing’s trade policies and land-seizures in the South China Sea have harmed American workers and imbalanced global stability. Many of Trump’s stances on China since taking office have reflected a similar hard line, including an executive order to investigate alleged Chinese intellectual property theft.
The animosity cuts both ways though. State-owned newspaper China Daily ran a cartoon in February that implied Bannon was a neo-Nazi force behind Trump’s global ambitions.
— Josh Marcus
Bannon on Comey firing: biggest mistake “in modern political history”
Steve Bannon hasn’t gone quietly since leaving his role as White House chief strategist in August. Just days later, he promised to go “to war for Trump against his opponents — on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America.”
Bannon, however, seemed to go after his former boss instead of his enemies on CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday. Bannon criticized Trump’s firing of former FBI Director James Comey as the biggest mistake “in modern political history.”
“I don’t think there’s any doubt that if James Comey had not been fired we would not have a special counsel,” Bannon added.
Despite Trump’s resistance, Mueller’s wide-ranging probe has so far investigated some of Trump’s top advisers and the president’s own financial empire. In the last few months, the investigation has also grown in intensity, including raiding the home of Trump’s former campaign chair, Paul Manafort, and looking into whether Trump helped his son, Donald Jr., lie about a meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who offered dirt on Hillary Clinton as part of the Russian government’s effort to get Trump elected.
The damage from firing Comey hasn’t stopped there either. The former FBI director testified before Congress in June that Trump had requested his loyalty and asked him to “let” his inquiries into former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s Russia ties “go,” which raised concerns that Trump obstructed justice.
— Josh Marcus
Day 230 Sept 6
Trump’s campaign is selling $45 gold medals with his face on them
Only a handful of Americans will ever receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor a U.S. citizen can receive. But thanks to President Trump, the similar-sounding “presidential medal” can now be had for the low price of just $45.
That’s right: You, too, can buy a presidential medal, courtesy of the Trump Make America Great Again Committee, a joint fundraising committee for Trump’s re-election campaign, Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. The gold medal features Trump’s face and a promise to “Make America Great Again” (which encircles an American flag, of course).
Neither Trump’s reelection committee nor its Federal Election Commission–listed treasurer immediately returned VICE News’ request for comment about when Trump started selling the medals, but records from the Wayback Machine — an archive of most of the internet — show that the presidential medal webpage first appeared online Wednesday. Trump’s campaign also released a YouTube video on Wednesday meant to highlight the resurgence of American manufacturing but also shows workers creating medals with Trump’s face on them.
The video ends with a link to Trump’s campaign gear site.
The new commemorative medal won’t quiet critics’ cries that Trump is “licensing the presidency” — accusations that surfaced again last week when Trump wore one of his campaign’s $40 “USA” hats to tour Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. While profits from campaign merchandise ostensibly go to the campaign’s pockets, not Trump’s pockets, no other president has ever launched a re-election committee so quickly.
— Carter Sherman
Trump won’t stop lying about American taxes
Donald Trump is spreading inaccuracies about American taxes again.
In a Wednesday morning tweet, the president called the U.S. “the highest taxed nation in the world.” It’s a claim he’s made a few times in the past — and he was wrong on those occasions, too.
In fact, the U.S. places somewhere near the middle or bottom of the OECD countries using typical tax metrics, according to 2015 data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Other major economies like the U.K., Germany, and France have higher taxation rates.
Trump will discuss one of his major campaign talking points in North Dakota on Wednesday: tax cuts. House Republicans are returning to the Hill this week to begin work on a tax-cut bill to benefit businesses and rich people.
Trump will undoubtedly bring down the hammer (or at least send out some strongly worded tweets) to push the plan through Congress. Since his repeated efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare derailed, he’s in need of a legislative victory.
— Rex Santus
Trump “has grounds” to decertify the Iran nuclear deal
In just over a month’s time, President Trump will again have to decide whether he believes Iran is living up to its side of the nuclear deal struck in 2015. Twice he has gone against his own instincts and recertified the deal, but if Trump’s ambassador to the U.N. is to be believed, he will not ignore his gut a third time.
In a speech given to conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, Nikki Haley stopped short of saying outright that she thinks Trump will decertify the deal on October 15 — an agreement which gave Iran billions of dollars in global sanctions relief in exchange for severely curbing its nuclear activities — but Haley did say that should the president take that route, he would be within his rights.
“I’m not making the case for decertifying,” Haley said. “What I am saying is should [Trump] decide to decertify he has grounds to stand on.”
Haley laid out two avenues by which Trump could void the nuclear agreement.
The first is on national security grounds. The legislation Congress passed on reviewing the Iran deal requires the president to certify that the deal is vital to the national security interests of the U.S. every three months. On that basis alone, Trump could decertify the agreement.
The second is based on the fact that Iran continues to test technology capable of carrying a nuclear warhead — in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231. Haley also said Iran was still supporting terrorism, conducting arms-smuggling, and violating travel bans — all reasons for Trump to pull the plug.
But Haley also said that should Trump fail to certify the deal, it did not automatically that mean the U.S. would pull out of the agreement. Under the law, Congress would have 60 days to consider whether to re-impose sanctions on Iran.
“Congress could debate whether the nuclear deal is in fact too big to fail,” Haley said.
The president has long opposed the deal struck by the Obama administration, calling it “the worst deal ever negotiated” during the election campaign.
— David Gilbert

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Country singer Hunter Hayes gave iTunes the green light to put his second studio album "Storyline" up for pre-order today, March 11th. At the same time, a command was instructed to Apple's digital platform to liberate a track from the album called "Wild Card" and make it purchaseable for all Hunter Hayes fans around the world. Got $1.29 to spare? Then, thead to iTunes now and buy "Wild Card" (or free stream below).
"Wild Card" is the opening track on "Storyline" (out of 14 songs) and it's an upbeat country-rock number. Perfect opener if you ask me. It's very "album track", but it's good nevertheless. Hunter Hayes sings "Wild Card" to his timid girlfriend. The pace of the song is very fast and Hunter delivers a catchy chorus.
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Not even the second vice president of the Government, Pablo Iglesias, nor the representatives of your group, United We Can, have applauded this Tuesday the speech of King Felipe VI in the institutional act for the 40th anniversary of the coup attempt on 23-F held this afternoon in Congress.
The members of United We Can at the Table of Congress, Gerardo Pissarello and Gloria Elizo, have avoided applauding the words of the monarch and Nor have they stopped when passing in front of Felipe VI.
The spokesperson for United We Can in Congress, Pablo Echenique, has also attended the event.
The king’s speech
Felipe VI has come to Congress between shouts of “long live the king! and long live Spain!”“and in his speech he praised the role played by his father, Juan Carlos I, to make the coup attempt on 23-F fail.
Iglesias has not applauded this speech and will not attend the institutional lunch organized by Congress to commemorate this anniversary, a lunch in which the Government will be represented by President Pedro Sánchez and Vice President Carmen Calvo.


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|* Caravaggio Supper in Emmaus 1595-1600|
Emmaus moments. What are they? Well, here is one that came to me in a darkened room, in the heart of London, on one memorable day.
Its a room full of people, shadowy shapes in the gloom. No-one speaks. No-one moves. All are turned towards the one source of light a blaze of colour from one canvas* on the wall. What we see is a scene from scripture, a moment of recognition, where the risen Christ is suddenly known to two disciples in a wayside inn on the road to Emmaus a flash-point of stunned surprise. One disciple flings his arms wide in wonder. The other jerks forward and stares.
Only the Christ seems quite unmoved at this moment, glancing down as he breaks a loaf of bread. Hes a young man, clean-shaven, healthily human. Were attracted, and yet baffled by his downcast eyes, wanting to read his expression, hear him speak. But all we see is his right hand raised in blessing over the table - an open hand, loosely flexed, pointing out of the picture towards us.
In the end, its the hand that speaks, in this picture. As the eye travels round the scene, past those startled figures, to the still centre which is the Christ, it comes to rest on this hand, raised to bless. And is held there. Its this gesture that stopped us in our tracks. That holds this darkened room with such power. That arouses this gut reaction, not just to the beauty and passion of the painting, but to its claim on us to respond. What goes on here is, like prayer itself, beyond words a response of the whole self eye, heart, and brain. In a way what goes on in this room is a reflection of the picture itself, of the Emmaus story. Where, in a flash of recognition, something of the divine is made known to us.
On that day it came to me by way of a picture that sense of the infinite goodness that we call God. Another day, it might be a face, a voice, a memory, an event that speaks of something more. And I learn to ask myself, what is this something more? Is it once again that wordless gesture? A welcome, without compulsion? An invitation, without condition? Graciously made, eternally there? Ours to take, or to leave? His invitation to life and to love?
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Reckless driving can encompass many different behaviors on the road, including driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol and road rage. Some forms of reckless driving amount to criminal behavior and lead to the driver facing criminal charges. Additionally, when reckless driving causes innocent victims to become injured, the victims can pursue a legal claim against the driver whose recklessness caused their injuries.
Advocating for Victims of Reckless Driving in Arkansas
Have you or your loved one been seriously injured in a reckless driving accident? If so, you may be entitled to compensation for your medical expenses, lost income, and pain and suffering. Attorney Tim Reed Has helped many victims of reckless driving hold the reckless driver accountable and move forward with their lives by obtaining the compensation they need and deserve. Don’t hesitate to contact the Reed Firm today to schedule an initial consultation and learn more about how we can advocate for your rights.
What Constitutes Reckless Driving?
Reckless driving involves a driver operating a motor vehicle that completely disregards other people’s or property’s safety. Recklessly driving a vehicle is more severe than negligently driving a vehicle. Negligence involves the failure to use reasonable care. Recklessness involves a more willful disregard for people’s safety. Reckless driving can also result in criminal charges in Arkansas. Still, regardless of whether the driver who caused your injuries has been charged with a crime, you still have the right to pursue a civil claim against the driver.
Types of Reckless Driving That Can Cause Car Accidents
When a driver engages in reckless behavior, he or she is more likely to cause a devastating accident. Reckless driving often involves high speeds and a lack of judgment and ability to control the vehicle, making it more likely that severe injuries will occur.
Driving Under the Influence of Drugs or Alcohol
Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol is a common form of reckless driving and criminal activity. When a driver is impaired by drugs or alcohol, the driver’s reaction time is slower, and the driver may be more likely to engage in dangerous behavior like swerving in and out of a lane, turning the wrong way down the street, or failing to stop at a stop sign. Any amount of impairment can result in injuries to innocent people. If you have become injured in a drunk driving accident that wasn’t your fault, it’s essential that you reach out to an attorney as soon as possible. Your attorney can begin gathering evidence which may include a chemical test for intoxication to prove that you are entitled to compensation for your injuries.
Aggressive Driving, Including Road Rage
Road rage and aggressive driving continue to cause devastating car accidents in Arkansas. Road rage happens when a driver drives in an overly aggressive way. In many cases, drivers who engage in road rage are angry at other drivers, but not in all cases. Some common examples of road rage that can lead to devastating injuries include the following:
- Excessive speeding
- Tailgating too closely to the vehicle in front of them
- Weaving quickly and dangerously In and out of traffic, such as changing lanes and improper passing
- Yelling obscenities or threats at other passengers or motorists
- Braking or accelerating inappropriately or abruptly
- Intentionally hitting another motorist, pedestrian, or bicyclist
- Brandishing a weapon toward another driver, such as a knife or gun
- Intentionally colliding with another pedestrian, motorcyclist, or bicyclist
- Causing motorists to run off the roadway
- Chasing another driver at high speeds or in a dangerous or reckless manner
- Causing an accident intentionally and leaving the vehicle to start a physical altercation
Distracted driving is usually considered a form of negligence, but it can rise to the level of recklessness. When a driver willfully disregards the safety of others on the road, they are engaging in reckless behavior. For example, suppose a driver is watching a movie on his or her phone while driving on the freeway. Due to the hazardous nature of watching videos while driving, this behavior will likely rise to recklessness. Texting while driving, staring out the window, and being distracted by GPS, cell phones, or other passengers can constitute reckless driving. It only takes five seconds for a distracted driver to check a text message and drive the length of a football field, resulting in a collision.
Failure to Obey Traffic Rules
Many traffic laws are intended to prevent people from engaging in reckless behavior and decrease the number of car accidents. When a driver fails to obey an established local or state driving law or regulation, doing so can be an example of negligence per se and make it easier for plaintiffs to recover the compensation they need and deserve.
Recovering Compensation After a Reckless Driving Accident
There are two main ways to recover compensation after being injured in a reckless driving accident. First, victims can pursue a claim from the at-fault driver’s insurance policy. Insurance agents may try to offer you a far too-low settlement. Working with an attorney can help you level the playing field because your attorney can negotiate aggressively with the insurance adjuster for a fair settlement amount. You can also pursue a claim in civil court against the party or parties whose recklessness resulted in the car accident that caused your injuries. You only have a limited amount of time to file a claim, so the sooner you speak to an attorney, the better.
Contact a Skilled Reckless Driving Attorney
If you have been the victim of a reckless driving accident in Arkansas, it’s crucial that you understand your legal rights and options. You may have the right to pursue a claim with the reckless driver’s auto insurance policy or a lawsuit in civil court against the driver who caused your injuries. Attorney Tim Reed can help you negotiate with the insurance company or develop a strong personal injury case. He will work with medical and financial experts to carefully value your claim to recover compensation for medical bills, property damage, lost wages, and pain and suffering. Contact the Reed Firm to schedule your free case evaluation.

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Religious liberty has been an integral part of the OSCE process. From the Helsinki Final Act, to the Vienna and Copenhagen Concluding Documents, the OSCE participating States have affirmed time and time again that religious liberty is a fundamental human right. The freedom to profess and practice a religion alone or in community, the freedom to meet with and exchange information with co-religionists regardless of frontiers, the freedom to freely present to others and discuss your religious views, and the freedom to change one’s religion have all been enshrined in the OSCE documents. Participating States have also committed to eliminating and preventing discrimination based on religious grounds in all fields of civil, political, economic, social and cultural life. Noninterference in the affairs of religious communities, such as selection of personnel, is also central to the OSCE understanding of religious liberty. Religious education in any language is protected along with the right for parents to ensure religious education of their children in line with their own convictions. Participating States have also pledged to allow the training of religious personnel in appropriate institutions.
This document features excerpts of the religious liberty commitments entered into by the participating States to the OSCE. Decisions of OSCE participating States are adopted by consensus and are politically binding on all of the participating States. Resolutions of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly are adopted by majority vote of the Members of Parliament participating in the annual meeting.

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Ireland, South Africa
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My name is Marie. I'm 18 jears old and I finished school in June 2018. I come from Munich in Bavaria, in south of Germany. I like gardening and other outdoor activities. Before I start my studies in engineering or maybe biology I like to make some experiences in foreign countries. I think to work in another country is a very good possibility to learn about life and language. I have never been to Ireland but it seems to be great. Particulary the nature must be wonderful.
I want to learn more about gardening and working on a farm. I`m very motivated to learn new things. I´m atlethic and enjoy working outside. I worked as a babysitter for more than five jears.
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Sullivan's Labradors - Missouri Labrador Retriever Breeders
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We've raised AKC Yellow Labs for the past 11 years and have produced superior pups. Our Labs adore my husband - he's definitely Master around here! They have over 5 acres to run and a nice big pond to train in. Our Labs have champion bloodlines - both show and field champs and they're smart, handsome and eager to please. Past pups have been trained for field competition, dock dogs, tracking dogs (one placed with Nebraska state troopers, one with ATF), guide dogs, and many as hunting companions and all around family dogs! We have a written hip/eye guarantee and many references. Of course dew claws are removed and pups have 2 vaccines before they leave us. My husband's philosophy is that every man should be able to own an exceptional Lab at a fair price.
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“The Right-Of-Way for the construction of highways over public lands, not reserved for public use, is hereby granted.”
The Revised Statute 2477 Right Of Way is a human right granted by the U.S. Congress in 1865. It recognizes the fundamental right to travel across the Earth over unclaimed land. Part of the Mining Act of 1865, it allowed the construction of roads, trails, bridges, canals, railroads, and other recognizable paths known as “Highways.”
Construction of an RS 2477 highway was established by repeatedly using the same path over the earth until a visible way was created. The courts have ruled that animal trails, foot paths, bridleways, and other recognizable paths fall under the term “highway” and are RS 2477 rights-of-way.
An RS2477 right-of-way must have been constructed on public lands that were not claimed under the various homestead and mining laws. Construction on an RS 2477 right-of-way must have began before the land was withdrawal from public entry.
RS 2477 was a grant that was authorized upon the passage of The Mining Act of 1865. It did not require authorization, documentation, or recognition of any kind.
The Blacks Law Dictionary defines a Right-Of-Way as the following:
“The right of passage or of way is a servitude imposed by law or by convention, and by virtue of which one has a right to pass on foot, or horseback, or in a vehicle, to drive beasts of burden or carts, through the estate of another.”
The first right-of-way laws were enacted by the Continental Congress in 1777 regarding railroads and navigable rivers in response to King George III declaration of Proclamation Line. In 1785, the Land Ordinance was enacted and established the Public Land Survey System, and a mechanism to dispose of newly acquired western lands. It wasn’t until the Reconstruction Era that RS 2477 became law.
In response to state laws that prohibited land use rights to newly freed slaves, multiple mining and homestead laws were enacted to encouraging western expansion from poor Colonists and newly freed slaves. Among those laws was the Mining Act of 1865 from Senator William Morris Stewart from Nevada.
Senator Stewart was a mining legend, and a fearless man who served as governor of California before serving 29 years in the US Congress representing Nevada. He spent his entire adult life as a lawyer litigating mining disputes and developed the first mining laws during his governorship of California. He was a fundamental contributor to the Reconstruction Era as the author of the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution.
FLPMA repealed the original RS 2477 statute. However, three separate sections of FLPMA declare that Revised Statute 2477 rights-of-way shall not be terminated, and all actions by the secretary shall be subject to these rights.
The Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) states:
“Nothing in this Act, or in any amendment made by this Act, shall be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, right-of-way, or other land use right or authorization existing on the date of approval of this act.”
FLPMA 701(a), 43 U.S.C. 1701 note (a).
“All actions by the Secretary concerned under this Act shall be subject to valid existing rights.”
FLPMA 701(h), 43 U.S.C. 1701 note (h).
“Nothing in this title shall have the effect of terminating any right-of-way or right-of-use heretofore issued, granted, or permitted.”
FLPMA 509(a), 43 U.S.C. 1769(a).
1865 – The Mining Act of 1865 is written and introduced by Senator William M. Stewart from Nevada.
1870 – An amendment is proposed to grant special rights for the Sutro Tunnel in Nevada.
1870 – The founder of The Mining Act of 1865 opposes the proposed amendment and provides valuable insight into the legislative intent of RS 2477.
1976 – The Federal Land Policy Management Act, otherwise known as the BLM Organic Act, established the Bureau of Land Management multiple use mandate and repealed the Mining Act of 1865.
1995 – The RS 2477 Settlement Act was introduced to settle disputes between the states and the Federal Government concerning RS 2477 roads, but failed to become law.
1992-1997 – The US Congress include prohibitions in the annual Appropriations Act to prohibit federal agencies from establishing any rule or regulation pertaining to the validity, recognition or management of RS 2477 rights-of-way without the express authorization of the US Congress.
1997 – The Comptroller General issued an opinion that made section 108 of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act permanent law.
2003 – The Government Accounting Office issued a second opinion re-enforcing Decision B-277719 concerning a memorandum of understanding between the State of Utah and the Bureau of Land Management.
It is essential to become familiar with Revised Statute 2477.
This memo expands on the 1988 Policy Statement of Interior Secretary Donald Hodel on RS 2477 rights-of-way. It gives the State Directors (SD’s) of the BLM more specific examples and interpretations of that policy statement. Like the Hodel memo, it is of value both because it reflects the long-standing position of the BLM in dealing with these rights of way and also illustrates what a radical departure from that policy Interior attempted in issuing its draft regulations in 1994.
Determine If You Are Being Mislead Or Lied To! The attention given to RS 2477 rights-of-way has been accompanied by misinformation spread by anti-access environmental groups and federal bureaucrats. Sometimes this is because they do not understand the issue themselves. Often, however, it is a clear and deliberate effort to deceive. The following are the […]
Revised Statutes 2477 (R.S. 2477) states, in its entirety: “Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the right of way for the construction of highways over public lands, not reserved for public uses, is hereby granted.” 8 of the Act of July 26, 1866, 14 Stat. 253, later codified at 43 U.S.C. 932. This […]
This is the text of the memorandum approved by Interior Secretary Donald Hodel in 1988. It is significant for two reasons. First, it summarizes the status of RS 2477 interactions with the public lands states and counties and reflects both past administrative actions and many court decisions. Second, as such, it illustrates how extreme the draft regulations issued by the Department of Interior just six years later really were and just how far they departed from previous policy and precedents.
Opponents of public access to the public lands–primarily environmental activists but also some federal bureaucrats who find RS 2477 rights-of-way “inconvenient”–are actively spreading myths and misinformation about RS 2477. Some of the most common are reproduced here along with the truth.
RS 2477 (which is an abbreviation of “Revised Statutes 2477”) was passed in 1866 and is a very short law, only one sentence long. It states, in its entirety, that “the right-of-way for the construction of highways over public lands, not reserved for public uses, is hereby granted.” Defining some of the terms and phrases […]
RS 2477 is a statute adopted in 1866 to facilitate the settlement of the West by encouraging the development of a system of roads and trails. The name “RS 2477” is an abbreviation of “Revised Statute 2477.” That name, in turn, comes from the placement of the original law in a reorganized version of the […]
I. UNDER R.S. 2477 CONGRESS OFFERED A SELF-EXECUTING GRANT OF RIGHTS-OF-WAY. 3 II. PERFECTED R.S. 2477 RIGHTS#2 VESTED AS PROPERTY RIGHTS. 5 III. STATE LAW PROVIDES THE BASIS FOR DETERMINATION OF THE EXISTENCE AND SCOPE OF R.S. 2477 RIGHTS-OF-WAY. 6 IV. ALL VALID EXISTING R.S. 2477 RIGHTS-OF-WAY WERE PERFECTED NO LATER THAN THE REPEAL OF […]
The Federal Land Policy Management Act allows the Secretary to issue a Recordable Disclaimer of Interest in Land that forfeits the federal governments interest in the right-of-way.
The Recordable Disclaimer of Interest in Land provides a process for the federal government to forfeit all rights to a RS 2477 right of way and other lands. States and Counties can use this process to solve RS 2477 disputes but is not the most efficient remedy.
The Following was published by the Bureau of Land Management in Utah and gives insight on how to implement a cooperative agreement between local governments and federal land managers as described in the Bureau of Land Management Memorandum Of Understanding with the state of Utah. The BLM acknowledges that other interested states and counties may […]
The Department of Interior entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the state of Utah concerning assertations to RS 2477 rights-of-way. The Government Accounting Office later determined this memorandum was in violation of their previous decision B-277719 which prohibits any agency of the federal government from issuing any rule or regulation pertaining to the recognition, validity, or management of RS 2477 rights-of-way.
USA VS Garfield County, otherwise known as the Burr Trail, set the current precedent for RS 2477. This section covers the key documents of the case.
TABLE OF CONTENTS I. STATEMENT OF MATERIAL FACTS II. ARGUMENT A. INTRODUCTION B. NPS HAS NOT ESTABLISHED UNDISPUTED MATERIAL FACTS C. NPS HAS NOT SHOWN A LEGAL BASIS FOR ITS ASSERTED RIGHT TO INTERFERE WITH NORMAL MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE EXISTING DISTURBED AREA ON THE BOULDER-T0-BULLFROG ROAD. 1. NPS ignores explicit statutory limitations on its authority a. CRNP legislation b. NPS Organic act […]
Defendants Garfield County, Louise Liston, D. Maloy Dodds, Clare M. Ramsay, and Brian B. Bremner (hereinafter referred to collectively as Garfield County) hereby reply to the United States’ Opposition to Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss.(1) INTRODUCTION Plaintiff has stated general rules of law but ignored the specific rules that apply in this case, thus missing the […]
Originally written and published by Garfield County in Utah. Edited and republished by Kevin Allard with Arizona Backcountry Explorers. NOTE: The Boulder-To-Bullfrog Road (commonly also called the Burr Trail Road) in Garfield County in southern Utah has been the focus of RS 2477 litigation for more than a decade. During that litigation, many very important legal […]
July 30, 1996 CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. STATEMENT OF FACTS: THE ALLEGATIONS OF THE COMPLAINT III. DISCUSSION A. Plaintiff Has Failed to Give the Requisite Notice under the Utah Governmental Immunity Act7 B. Plaintiff has Failed to Allege the Necessary Elements of a Trespass Claim7 C. Plaintiff’s Complaint Relies on an “Authority” which has no […]


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|There's a lot of this - comforting - going on|
It seems that there's comfort to be found in talking about it. The talk is now turning to taking action. Not vengeful action for there is nothing to be done there, but rather, action to ensure this kind of violence does not affect another child, family, or community again. In my circle, people are resolute in the commitment to seeing that it doesn't happen again and that is comforting.
Comfort has been important in the last few days. I've been grateful to find comfort in my family. CAL is home and the house feels complete again. The stunningly patient and mighty fine SML made a lasagna last night and that warm comfort food, which is even better the second day, has done a yeoman's job in providing comfort. I'm grateful to be surrounded by my family right now.
I've not had a lot of snark in me since last week's massacre. There's been a great deal of introspection. I've been thinking of the families who lost their loved ones. I've been thinking of the 'first responders' who have born the brunt of the horror of this. I've thought much of the clergy who have been tasked with comforting the mourning families. Regardless of the many faiths they represent, this cannot be an easy task and they have been in my thoughts and prayers. Their stories are compelling. Jeff Benedict wrote of the experience of a Stake President from my church who rushed to the Parker family in Newtown as they learned of the loss of their daughter Emilie. Regardless of your faith background, it is a beautiful read. Read it here. I am in awe of what these men and women of God are doing as they serve those who are hurting so much.
It's comforting to know there are so many who are responding to the urge to do good in the face of this horror. Get on the #26actsofkindness bandwagon. Do something good, do something nice for someone else. Just because.

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2009 GMC Yukon Problems
RepairPal has identified the most common problems with the 2009 GMC Yukon based on complaints from actual vehicle owners. We'll tell you what the problem is and what it'll take to fix it.
The upper dash may crack, most commonly on vehicles in warm climates and exposed to a lot of sunlight. The common repair is to replace the upper instrument trim panel. Information on a technical service bulletin or extended warranty is not available at this time.
The power door lock actuators may become slow to operate or stop working completely and require replacement.
Illumination of the Check Engine Light can be caused by a loose or worn gas cap.
The inside and outside door handles are prone to breaking.
The GMC Yukon uses a throttle position sensor (TPS) which commonly fails and causes:
- Check engine light illumination
- Reduced Power message
- OBD trouble code P2135
This issue is related to the throttle position sensor, and can be caused by faulty wiring to the TPS, bad connection at the TPS, or a failed TPS.
To correct this issue, the wiring harness, connector, and throttle position sensor must be inspected, tested, and/or replaced. The most common cause is a faulty TPS.
The inside door handles are prone to breaking.
One or more fuel injectors may become stuck closed causing an engine misfire and the Check Engine Light to illuminate. Our technicians tell us that this problem can be caused by some fuel additives. There are special procedures which may be able to restore the affected injector. If this fails the affected injector must be replaced.
The spark plugs should be replaced every 100,000 miles. Our technicians recommend replacing the spark plug wires also at this time.