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Title: Bay Area Labor May Day March & Rally
Location: Embarcadero, SF
Start Time: 10:00
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The SFLC, in coordination with other Bay Area CLC’s (Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo), is organizing a March & Rally for May Day. We will be recreating the 1934 march up Market Street. Therefore, the idea is to march in unison, 4
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Goal: Each Labor affiliate union will recruit a minimum of 20 people to participate, with a goal of 2,000 people total. Every affiliate contingent should wear their union t-shirts, jackets, etc. and carry their union banner and flags. All marchers should look as uniform as possible.

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Am I the Daughter?
She was adopted by the devil-like count. Before dying, Hailynn lived her whole life being confined in a hut. When she opened her eyes she was 8 years old. She returned back in time right before she was to be adopted by the count. Hailynn wanted to ask God... What was it that she had done wrong?!?!

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The Denver Broncos have placed a one-year tender on exclusive rights free agent offensive lineman Jake Rodgers, according to a report from The Athletic’s Nicki Jhabvala. Players with two or fewer seasons in the NFL become ERFAs when their contracts expire.
Because the Broncos have the exclusive rights to Rodgers, he will not be eligible to sign with another team. ERFA tenders are worth the league minimum, which is $750,000 for a second-year player like Rodgers.
Rodgers (6-6, 320 pounds) spent time with seven NFL teams before landing in Denver last spring. After starting the year on the Broncos’ practice squad, Rodgers was promoted to the active roster and served as a backup swing tackle/guard for 13 games.
In his lone start at the end of last season, Rodgers was penalized once and was credited with allowing half a sack, according to STATS LLC. He will compete for one of the team’s backup spots on the offensive line this offseason.
Denver also placed ERFA tenders on returner Diontae Spencer, wide receiver Tim Patrick, cornerback Shakial Taylor and safety Trey Marshall. We are tracking all of the Broncos’ free agency moves here.

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Advanced Search Abstract Unlike many temperate marine species that alter spatial or depth distributions in response to environmental change, tilefish Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps has such specific habitat requirements that off the coast of New England, USA, it is restricted to the normally warm-water, upper continental shelf slope, where it excavates and occupies burrows.
Intens of millions of adult tilefish died suddenly following the intrusion of lethally cold Subarctic water into the tilefish habitat.
Here we show that the same climate driver implicated in the event the North Atlantic Oscillation: NAO has also affected commercial tilefish landings throughout most of the 20th century by altering slope water temperatures and likely the tilefish's reproductive success.
We also show that this temperature—landings relationship broke down in the s coincident with dramatically increased exploitation. Reconstructions of decadal to millennial scale variations in slope water temperatures explain why no mass mortality occurred following the negative NAO anomaly, despite being similar in magnitude to the NAO anomaly that preceded the event.
In the context of climate change, responses should be most strongly reflected in those species exhibiting narrow physiological ranges of tolerance and occupying ecosystems fixed in space, such as lakes Williamson et al.
In contrast, as a consequence of their relatively wide range of temperature tolerances, temperate marine species have generally been observed to adapt to changes in ocean temperature by shifting their spatial distributions on a variety of time-scales Perry et al. La Sorte and Jetz, For this reason, temperate marine species are less likely to be constrained by changes in the quality or quantity of habitats in response to changes in climate regimes than species with more restricted or specific local habitat requirements.
Here we revisit the s environmental events off the Mid-Atlantic Bight and southern New England region of the USA linked to the near extinction of tilefish Lopholatilus chamaeleonticepsa species with very specific and localized habitat features at its northern range limit.
We then examine the ongoing influence of ocean climate on the regional tilefish population to illustrate how ocean climate has influenced fishery landings over much of the past century.
The tilefish is a large-bodied, burrowing, highly sedentary species of tropical origin Able et al. Given their size up to 23 kgthe high quality of their flesh, and confirmation of their apparent abundance by scientific surveys, the development of a fishery for tilefish was immediately promoted by the fledgling US Fish Commission that might compensate for the serious decline of other coastal and shelf fisheries Collins, ; Tarr, View large Download slide Depiction of the mechanism leading to the thermal alteration of the tilefish habitat off the coast of southern New England.
Three years later, in the spring oftilefish experienced one of the largest mass mortalities ever recorded for a vertebrate species Collins, ; Bumpus, ; Reed et al.
Transatlantic vessels reported an estimated 72 million to 1. Given the excellent condition of the dead fish and the coincident unusual southern occurrence of drifting ice and other environmental anomalies Tarr,the cause of the rapid, synchronous and widespread die-off was hypothesized to have been an unusual intrusion of cold water, lethal to the sedentary, warm-water-adapted tilefish, onto the upper shelf slope Collins, Intensive annual surveys of the former tilefish habitat followed without success, and the species was provisionally placed on a list of extinct animals.
Tilefish have been commercially exploited along their narrow shelf-slope range since that time. View large Download slide Long-term variations in tilefish landings and climate indexes.
The estimates of virgin biomass lost are based on extrapolations from the numbers and extent of dead tilefish reported at the scene Collins, ; Tarr, On a longer time-scale, examination of ice cores from Greenland has shown that the NAO index was at its lowest in years during the s Appenzeller et al.
Climate reconstructions and oxygen stable isotope analyses of long-lived bivalves collected from the region of the tilefish habitat corroborated the presence of extreme cold water conditions on the Mid-Atlantic Shelf in the early s Marsh et al. These findings led Marsh et al. Enhanced resolution of the timing and spatial structure of contemporary atmosphere—ocean connections associated with the NAO have revealed a 1—2 year lag between negative NAO anomalies and cooler slope-water conditions off the coast of New England Marsh et al.
This insight, together with an increased knowledge of the extreme specificity of tilefish thermal and substrate habitat requirements Able et al. View large Download slide Representation of possible mechanisms through which the NAO influences tilefish population dynamics.
Material and methods Biological data Due to their burrowing behaviour Able et al. We largely confined our analyses to the first six decades — of the landings time-series, during which the fishery was artisanal, largely carried out by longline and some small trawlers, with no restrictions on landings or spatio-temporal closures.Collin Zeng HMS Challenger Journal of a Scientist November 17, The weather is terrible.
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Republican Brooks Wicker to run for Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District
10/06/2011 07:56 AM
Brooks Wicker, a financial advisor from Louisville, announced Thursday morning that he would seek the Republican nomination for Congress in the 3rd District next year for the chance to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth.
Wicker finished last in a four-candidate Republican primary in 2010 with just more than 6 percent of the vote.
Wicker said in a press release issued just before 9 a.m. that he wants another crack at unseating Yarmuth.
“Time after time, John Yarmuth has voted for higher taxes, an increased national debt, and has done nothing to create jobs,” Wicker said. “As a CPA and small businessman, I look forward to discussing how to improve our local & national economy, the importance of creating jobs, and much more.”
Yarmuth announced on Pure Politics last month that he planned on seeking a fourth term next year.
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Her upcoming mini album, Me?, will be released on July 31 at midnight, along with the music video for the single.
The teaser just released has a dark feel to it – we could be seeing a new side of Yenny with this solo project.
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Police are citing 58-year-old Pamela O’Brien for animal neglect among other charges, after they found the animals stacked in cages in her garage. Investigators say the conditions were deplorable: the animals were underfed, their drinking water was dirty, and the bottom of each cage was lined with six-ten inches of feces.
Police say O’Brien has been cooperative and signed the animals over to SafeHaven Humane Society in Tangent.
Police say without SafeHaven’s help, they do not know where they would have been able to bring the animals.
Now, the humane society is doing everything it can to care for the animals it was not expecting, but SafeHaven is asking for outside help. It is requesting any bedding, rabbit or guinea pig food, or even volunteer help. As of Friday afternoon, 50 of the animals had been adopted. SafeHaven is still looking for new homes for the rest of the animals, or even temporary foster homes.
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|Sri Lanka Handbook, 6th edition|
The island of Sri Lanka conjures up images of tea plantations, white-sand beaches backed by coconut palms, and statues of reclining Buddhas. Whilst the pearl-shaped isle does offer all these things, the real Sri Lanka is much richer: Our 6th edition Sri Lanka Handbook will help you travel beyond the tourist trail, from Kandy's Temple of the Tooth to the remote, lagoon-fringed shores of the east.
|Recife & Northeast Brazil Handbook, 3rd edition|
The northeast is one of the most interesting, diverse, unspoilt parts of Brazil. Whether you're exploring colourful, colonial Olinda; the imposing cliffs of the dramatic coastline; vibrant, artistic Recife; or the rich folk heritage of Pernambuco, this guide will help you uncover every corner of Brazil's most alluring region.
|Salvador & Bahia Handbook, 3rd edition|
Colourful Portuguese mansions, gilt-covered baroque churches, the martial art dance of capoeira and a thriving music scene: Salvador is a treasure-trove of Afro-Brazilian culture and beautiful colonial streets. The joys of Bahia extend far beyond the city, though - with fantastic cuisine, beaches backed by coconut palms, and plunging waterfalls. From the rituals of candomblé to the rhythm of samba, this guidebook will help you make the most of your visit to this exotic region.
|Western Brazil Handbook: Iguaçu - Amazon - Pantanal, 1st edition|
Home to the world's grandest waterfall, the finest wildlife-viewing area in the Americas, and the mighty Amazon, Western Brazil is a vast, dramatic and spectacular destination. From the lush and thunderous Iguacu Falls, to spotting ocelots, macaws and anacondas in the Pantanal, to the best ecolodges in the rainforest; this Handbook will help you pick the most rewarding places to discover in this diverse region.
|Kolkata & West Bengal Handbook, 3rd edition|
No visit to India is complete without some time spent in West Bengal, a cultured corner of the subcontinent. Wonderfully fertile lands fed by the great Ganga River are home to terracotta temples, hill stations and bustling cities. From the cool air of Darjeeling to the mangrove forests of Sunderbans Tiger Reserve, we cover all the top attractions in this unique region, plus lesser-known sights off the beaten track.


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Sustainability is a major priority for the fastener manufacturer, ARNOLD GROUP. This is particularly true for e-mobility and electric vehicles where lightweight engineering is critical.
In fact, sustainability, e-mobility, internationalization, lightweight engineering, and digitalization are currently the company’s five defined strategic areas of focus. ARNOLD has focused its experts on determining the specific carbon footprint of each product by examining the whole value chain and cumulating the emissions of all supply-chain members.
To this end, ARNOLD has launched the ACO2-Save initiative. The program provides active support to customers in reducing CO2 emissions by designing and using fasteners and cold-formed parts in a sustainable manner.
At the beginning of product-development phase, an accompanying CO2 calculation is carried out. So, when a customer requests ARNOLD to make a part, the product carbon footprint can be determined using a specially developed CO2 calculator, after which optimization can be carried out jointly.
The objective at the end of the development process is to have a technically high-quality product that is cost and CO2-optimized. The design process includes the following steps:
- CO2-optimized engineering through digital forecasting tools
- Analysis of CO2 optimization by potentially making a change in the production technology or in the joining technology
- The use of innovative joining elements or systems
As one example, a special screw made of aluminum — with a volume of 8,733 mm3 and a weight of 23.58 g per piece — was previously produced by traditional machining. For production, a turned part blank was used that had an initial volume of 25,630 mm3 and 69.2 g per piece.
After an ACO2 Save analysis, this part was changed over to a formed part from the Conform Next product line. The result: after optimization, the forming blank has a volume of only 9,135 mm3 and a weight of 24.82 g per piece. In addition to the significantly optimized cost due to less material being used in cold forming, this has a considerable impact on the product carbon footprint of the special screw.
Now, if we consider the global developments in the automotive industry, the weight of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles has risen in recent years. Specific to Europe, it has increased from approximately 1,268 kg in the year 2000 to 1,360 kg in 2010 and about 1,420 kg in 2020.
The trend toward and demand for more hybrid and electric vehicles is likely to intensify because an EV weighs on average 300 kg more than a vehicle with a conventional engine due to the weight of the battery alone.
However, thanks to ACO2-Save and the associated changes to production technology of the “special” fastener, the CO2 emissions caused by this screw during production were reduced by as much as 45 percent.

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Modanifil is an analeptic drug manufactured by the corporation Cephalon, and it is marketed most commonly under the brand names Provigil and Alertec, among others. Although health care providers utilize this drug to treat sleeping disorders, it has also been used experimentally for the treatment of other conditions, such as attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD). The effectiveness of modafinil for ADHD is debatable among experts, and potential risks associated with taking this drug have prevented its widespread use as regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In 2006, after the success of modafinil for ADHD was observed in a number of studies, the FDA found the drug unfit for use by children. The most alarming reason for the discontinuance of modafinil for ADHD was the potential for the development of Stevens-Johnson syndrome among users. In addition to ADHD, this drug has been experimentally used in the treatment of conditions such as bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia, and Parkison's disease as well as others.
Before a person takes a new drug, it is important that he or she weighs the potential risks against the suggested benefits. This same method is often used by the FDA when assessing the uses for new drugs before they enter the market. In the case of modafinil for ADHD, the risks of adverse side effects and development of Stevens-Johnson syndrome proved too great to allow for this drug to be a suggested treatment of attention disorders in youths.
Stevens-Johnson syndrome refers to a skin disease of mysterious origin, commonly believed to come about due to medication reactions. This disfiguring condition causes the epidermis and dermis to become unattached following cell death and can also cause a number of accompanying mental ailments due its aesthetically compromising nature. Taking modafinil for ADHD has caused the onset of this disorder in a number of studies. The potential danger of using this analeptic drug for ADHD outweighs the proven benefits, and although it may be effective, it is likely not worth the risk of failure.
Analeptic drugs refer to stimulants of the central nervous system. The central nervous system is the control center for most higher functions, including alertness, so stimulating this portion of the nervous system can act to "wake up" the body, often countering the dangerous side effects of sleep disorders. For this reason, modafinil has experienced more widespread use in the treatment of sleep disorders than ADHD.
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He replaces John Brett, who becomes chairman of the financial planning and investment firm whose parent company is full service law firm Anderson Strathern.
Clark, who was a director and head of financial planning at RBS-owned Adam & Company, said: “Over the last few years, John and the team have established the firm as a key player in the financial planning and investment market in Scotland. It’s in a unique position to offer high quality services to the law firm's clients and the wider market It’s a great privilege to be joining the business as Chief Executive and I’m looking forward to working closely with John Brett.”
Brett joined in 2016 from Aberdeen Asset Management. Anderson Strathern Asset Management has grown since its foundation in 2010 to £250 million under management with more than 300 clients.
He said: “Getting someone of Graham’s calibre on board is a real coup for Anderson Strathern Asset Management. He brings strong expertise in financial planning, investment management and risk management, coming in from one of the country’s top private banks. He’s a first-class fit for the business, its team and its clients.”
Anderson Strathern Asset Management has also hired James Glass Glass joins from Pannells Financial Planning in Edinburgh as a chartered financial planner. He will work closely with fellow chartered financial planner Anna Gratwick and financial planner Neil Cameron in a 19-strong team which is expected to grow in 2020.
Clark said: “We’re really pleased to get James on board to further strengthen a team that already provides the best end-to-end services in the market. Strong financial planning and multi-asset solutions characterise the requirements of our client base, set against a backdrop of regulatory change and some current economic uncertainty. We’re confident we have just the right team in place to guide our clients through the financial thicket.”

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Fivesquares Development is Whitman-Walker's development partner for their site located on one of the last remaining large development parcels on DC's 14th Street Corridor. The project will house a mix of uses in its developable envelope of over 160,000 square feet. The project received unanimous approval from the DC Historic Preservation Review Board on June 2, 2016.
Apartments, Retail, and Office delivering Summer 2019.
Fivesquares has been designated by WMATA to develop a Transit Oriented Development community on five acres located at the Grosvenor Metro Station.
Located in Logan Circle at the corner of 11th and M Streets NW, 10Eleven is a condominium project with 71 units, a rooftop terrace, and 4,200 square feet of ground floor retail. Each facade has been designed to complement the surrounding buildings in the Historic District. Delivered 2017.


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Amidst a highly controversial election, our editorial staff at The Record decided to use the headline “Making Amerikkka Great Again” above a centerpiece photo of President-elect Donald Trump in our Nov. 9 issue. This wasn’t a typo.
After seeing many of the responses, criticisms and backlash to the headline, we admit that the headline could have been handled more appropriately. The negative response it received caused a divide among some students, alumni and staff, rather than insighting a thought-provoking analysis of the election.
The headline could have been crafted to communicate the reality of racism and bigotry without distracting readers from its message. We received many spirited complaints. Some criticized our journalistic ethics to write the headline. Others criticized its placement. One passionate emailer even said they hope the Ku Klux Klan kills us.
For those questioning the placement of a Page One editorialized headline, this has been done before by some of the country’s most respected newspapers. Just last December, the New York Times ran a Page One editorial calling for a greater regulation on guns. In April, the Boston Globe published a parody front page that showed a satirical view of a Donald Trump presidency. The fake page included headlines like “Deportations to Begin” and “Markets Sink as Trade War Looms.”
White nationalism had a part in Trump being elected. There’s no denying that. That’s what we wanted to address. This is not a bias assertion. When the results trickled in late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, Record editors realized that white America is far less inclusive and less open-minded than we thought it was before Election Day.
This headline does not reflect the opinions of SUNY Buffalo State, although we do feel it represents the opinion of many of its students. In doing this, we realized we were going to draw attention to our publication.
We are aware that Trump is not directly associated with the KKK. However, we find the fact that the KKK wanted to endorse Trump alarming, and the fact that Trump wouldn’t denounce the KKK immediately even more alarming.
There are some students on our campus that are genuinely concerned about their well-being now that Trump has been elected. To say that these issues will subside now that the election is over is absurd. At 4 a.m., when the headline was written, we felt it served as a reminder to our readers that these issues aren’t going away. However, we admit the headline could have been written without inflicting any fear.
The First Amendment provides Americans with the right to express their opinions, as well as publications to print headlines of their choice. We respect everybody’s opinions and their right to them.
With that being said, we realize Trump, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama are calling for unity of our nation. While our headline could have expressed a more neutral or supportive approach to the idea of unity, we wanted to express the turmoil from this election.
This isn’t to say that we don’t support unity of the country. We do hope that President-elect Trump will lead our nation in a manner that truly does make America great for everybody.
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Apple is sparing no expense on its upcoming original video programming, with some of its eye-catching shows reportedly costing as much to produce for a season as a big-budget movie.
Citing unnamed sourced, The Wall Street Journal in a report published two days ago said that the Cupertino firm is spending to the tune of fifteen million bucks per a single episode of its upcoming sci-fi show, titled “See” and featuring “Aquaman” star Jason Momoa.
In the case of Apple’s ‘See,’ the cost has neared $15 million for each roughly 60-minute episode, according to a person familiar with the matter. That is more than the cost of a typical independent feature film.
The figure basically matches the per-episode budget for the final episodes of HBO’s popular “Game of Thrones,” proving Apple isn’t shying away from writing big checks for its top shows.
The competition is prompting newcomers to shell out between $8 million and $15 million per episode, significantly more than what the average TV show used to cost. For a single season, after including marketing and other expenses, the total can easily exceed $150 million—or roughly what it costs to put a new ‘Spider-Man’ movie in theaters nationwide.
But how come the studios are willing to burn that kind of money on TV shows?
With massive casts, exotic filming locations and copious special effects, budgets have ballooned to amounts once considered unfathomable for a TV show. One driving factor, executives say, is that high-profile TV shows are offered up next to theatrical films available to stream on the same service, so original programming can’t risk looking like B-material next to the movies.
Okay, but what’s up with the proliferation of sci-fi and fantasy content on streaming services?
Since every new major streaming service is eyeing the international market, they also need programming that will play in any language or culture. Fantasy shows, taking place in an imaginary world, are easier to sell to foreign audiences.
‘Big, expensive Marvel movies cross borders in a way parlor dramas do not,’ said Michael Lombardo, a veteran TV exec who was president of programming at HBO until 2016.
Aside from “Aquaman” star Jason Momoa—who plays a fearless warrior, leader and guardian, named Baba Voss—Apple has also signed up actress Alfre Woodard for the upcoming fantasy series. “See” is set centuries in the future after a virus has wiped out much of Earth’s population and left survivors blind. Apple previewed the series at its services-focused event, showing off a few promising scenes that set the tone for the whole thing, with Momoa’s character ready-set for battle alongside dozens of actors.
The sweeping vistas prominently featured in “See” were filmed in the fields and forests of British Columbia. Variety in a report from a year ago described the upcoming show as “an epic, world-building drama set in the future.”
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For the past few days, all I have been reading is one politician after another is resigning or apologising for sexually inappropriate behaviour in the past. It started with Patrick Brown stepping down as the Progressive Conservative of Ontario Leader after two anonymous women had alleged that he sexually harassed them when they were younger. Then it was Kent Hehr, an MPP (a federal politician), and Daisha’s Kang. Since #Metoo broke, I’m surprised the movement didn’t hit Canada faster. There’s ‘misogynist older men’ in Canada too, who make women feel uncomfortable with silly flirts and grabbing them by the waists and butts. Instead of trying to help the powerful to be more just though, we are ousting them, and we will never let them truly learn how to make the right decisions. People have to resign when the feminist mob focuses on them because if you don’t, you’re every buzzword under heaven.
That is what amazes me. People never think about how much power the mob has. When the swarm decides they must bring someone to justice, it is swift and without any mercy. Some people say while the movement is good, I.e. people are seeking legitimacy they believe another group has denied them for a long time and now they are opening up and causing a dialogue about how men have objectified them, there is the possibility of going overboard. I suggest that Andrew Coyne, the writer of this article, to realise what he is saying. Anytime a group of people seeking justice has been given power, be it the French Revolution or Soviet Revolutions; it has always created tyrants and tyranny, like Napoleon or Stalin. There is a changing of the guard happening right now, as predicted by Yuri Bezmenov.
So we have the perfect storm. We have a group of people out for justice, women – half the population, who are against men – half the people, because men have been oppressing women for centuries now. Now, women are rising against their ‘oppressors’, demanding justice for the ‘pains’ they have taken over the centuries. When I first heard the news about Patrick Brown, I was practical – make a woman the leader of the PC party in Ontario. That way you will never hear about inappropriate behaviour. And then I had another thought – isn’t that exactly Yuri was talking about, destabilise the nation through feminism and social justice, and create a crisis, the #MeToo movement, and then everything gets turned over. We are in the middle of a Marxist back ‘revolution’, and things are going to turn for the worse.
Hearing nothing but condemnation from Andrea Horwath, leader of the NDP party in Ontario, and Kathleen Wynne, while praising the anonymous women who came forward, because they were ‘so brave’ is exactly what I expect for this feminist Marxist society. Of course, Prime Minister JT had to chime in as well, praising the women and telling people to listen and believe. I am glad to hear that the Conservatives in Ontario have named Vic Fedeli as interim leader, and he plans to make this leadership permanent. I think he will do quite fine for Ontario, using the work the PC party has already done. I can see what this is going to be in Ontario right now. This years election will be the Liberals and the NDP beating the already dead horse of Patrick Brown’s sexual indiscretions – hoping they come out on top. That reminds me of a particular meme.
Just think of it, the two female leaders are going to continually talk about the former PC leader who allegedly got two girls drunk on two different occasions, and tried to make a move on them while he was a federal MPP. Just think, how small of people they will be to talk about that one person, beating that dead horse. Which is why Vic Fedeli was a breath fresh air, he focused on ideas when CTV news interviewed him. He wants to introduced the tax cuts for middle class people, and I hope he also means tax cuts for the ‘rich’ one percent and corporations to help pay for that $14/h minimum wage Kathleen Wynne forced on the province. Yes, I am a factory worker, and while I financially benefit from the pay raise, I am angry that Kathleen Wynne would mismanage the economy to the point of starting a war between the ‘one percent’ and the ‘ninty-nine percent’. Want to hear something fascinating about the ‘one percent’ – they only take home about 1 percent of the average annual income of the business, and the workers take about 95+ percent of the income. That is at least according to my calculations when I looked at how Kathleen Wynne criticised Tim Horton franchise owners for ‘reducing’ benefits for employees.
In fact, when people were polled at CTV news, with over 1700 respondents, 64 percent of people think the PC party will do better now that Patrick Brown has resigned. I have to admit, I didn’t like him that much. I think the PC party will do much better, especially if they don’t bow down to the cult of ‘progressivism’. We need a PC leader who will also tell PM JT that he cannot impose a Carbon Tax on an already broken Ontario economy. I loved how Fedeli said that Quebec won the bid for the first Google data centre in Canada because Ontario has the highest electricity prices in Canada. So I don’t think this is going to hurt Ontario or the conservative movement at all.
It’s time to stand up for a better Ontario and better politicians. I don’t believe in an ‘old boys club’, and I laugh when I hear about stuff like that now, but I can almost predict that Kathleen Wynne will use this in the coming months, to try to save the shitty government she and Dalton McGuinty created, but to no avail. Ontario residents want a more fiscally conservative government, and we are going to have it. Sex allegations, like the ones that the two anonymous women who ‘came forward’, are weapons now – but it will not derail the voters. We need someone to fix Kathleen Wynne’s mess, and hopefully, that is Vic Fedeli.
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|Title:||Physicochemical characteristics and microbiological quality of senescent plantain products|
|Authors:||Adi, D. D.|
Kwofie, E. M.
Simpson, B. K.
|Publisher:||Taylor & Francis|
|Citation:||Cogent Food & Agriculture, 4, 1441596|
|Abstract:||Senescent plantains have relatively very rapid deterioration rate compared to plantains at other ripening stages. In Ghana, they are used for products which are consumed either as a snack or a main meal. This paper presents results of a study conducted in five regions of Ghana to investigate processing of senescent plantain products and evaluate their physicochemical characteristics and microbial quality. Survey data were collected on product types and processing methods. Freshly prepared products obtained from respondents were packaged in Ziploc bags and transported in a clean ice chest to the lab for physicochemical and microbial analyses. Samples were stored in the refrigerator (5°C) prior to analyses. Products made by respondents include Apitsi or Apiti, Bodongo, Akankyie, Ofam, Kumaku, Agbetenya; which were either baked or steamed. There were variations in cooking methods, time, type and quantity of ingredients used to produce these products. The products had relatively high moisture (47.63% − 68.42), appreciable crude fat (0.06% − 9.50%), crude protein (1.66% − 7.87%) contents and were good sources of energy (129.64 kcal/g − 241.19/g). The products were slightly acidic, with pH ranging from 4.53 to 5.38. Aerobic plate count, yeast and mold, coliform and E. coli ranged between <10 to 1.7 × 105 CFU/g; 0 and 3.9 × 105 CFU/g; 0 and 1.5 × 102 CFU/g; and 0 and <10 CFU/g, respectively. The bacteriological quality of samples A to I are more superior than samples J and K. Product standardization is required|
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bake tart or pie crusts longer that you think they should be baked. Your crust should be a deep caramel as opposed to a light goldenrod. This is because the golden color lets you know that the sugar from the crust has caramelized, which give it that sweet, yet crisp taste.
Season meat very sparingly to begin with and add more during the cooking process. You have to use caution when seasoning certain meats, such as meatballs, meatloaf and hamburgers. Don’t cook the entire meat directly after seasoning it. Instead, make a small piece in the shape of a patty and initially cook that first. After you have done this, you can decide if you need to change the seasoning or cook it.
Many individuals enjoy cooking with apples when it is cooler outside, but if stored improperly, they will no longer be usable. Air that is warm or dry will cause apples to spoil, so it is important to place them in a plastic bag, knotted loosely and keep them in a cool place. Make sure to check on them regularly, as one rotten apple means the rest are soon to follow.
Are you aiming to reduce the amount of fat and calories you consume in your mashed potatoes without having to give up taste or texture? If so, consider replacing a certain amount of the potatoes with cauliflower. Because cauliflower has a pretty bland taste, it blends well with the potatoes and enhances the flavors of the other ingredients. When they’re mashed, cauliflowers have the same appearance and consistency as potatoes, too. Adding a little cauliflower can take calories out of your favorite mashed potato recipes and add in a little vegetable goodness, too.
Quickly cooking veggies is preferable to slow-cooking methods. Taste and nutritional value suffer when vegetables are slow-cooked. These cooking techniques will yield vegetables that are healthier and taste great as well. Only cook vegetables as much as you have to, in order to preserve their taste and nutritional value.
Regardless of what you cook, it is always better to use fresh ingredients as opposed to those that are dried or frozen. Use fresh ingredients as much as you can, because they add better flavor to your dish and tend to be a lot cheaper.
Have you had difficulty in determining how long to grill your meat? It’s always good to use a high-quality meat thermometer to ensure you correctly cook the inside. For meat that is more than 1.5 inches thick, close the lid of the grill to decrease the amount of time that the meat takes to cook.
Burger patties often stick to the frying pan or grill during cooking and fall apart when you try to flip them. To avoid this possibility, you can apply a light coat of vegetable oil to the grill before cooking.
By doing this, fruits can stay fresh all through the year. This also gives you access to seasonal fruits that might otherwise not be available at the time you want them.
It’s necessary for a cook to organize all cooking supplies. An unorganized kitchen is an unhappy kitchen. You will have difficulty finding what you want to make your delicious recipes. Consider storing similar things together. For example, you want to organize your spices such as parsley and basil in one cabinet.
There are many herbs that have a strong smell that will stay on your cutting board. Mark your chopping board using indelible ink in order to keep track of which side you used.
If you’re cooking mac and cheese, always follow the instructions on the box exactly as they’re written. This ensures that the macaroni is cooked to perfection and that the cheese is the right consistency to blend well with the pasta. A solid spoon should be used when serving the macaroni masterpiece. Use pepper to add a little spice to your macaroni and cheese.
Use a paper towel to blot your ground meat before cooking it. You should remove excess moisture from ground beef prior to cooking. When ground meats are cooked, excess moisture can be released. It will sizzle away. This can cause the meat to become steamed instead of seared as it should be.
If you are planning a complex meal, reduce your stress by doing the prep the night before. Make sure you have all your ingredients before you start cooking, and that you shop and measure them so they are ready to go. When it’s time to cook, you won’t have to think about anything else.
You should save some water from the pan in which you cooked the pasta so that you can add it to the pasta sauce later. Reserve a small quarter cup portion of the water you cook the pasta in after you cook it. The water should be added to the sauce and pasta mixture. The pasta water contains starch, which will give your sauce a thick creaminess.
When chopping fresh herbs, try shaking a small amount of salt on your cutting board first. This adds flavor to the herbs and helps to keep them from sliding off the cutting board. Do not add more salt as you are cutting the herbs. The salt will stick to the herbs and make their flavor stronger.
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The mall’s central gallery is the magnificent Canyon, a breathtaking corridor that lies under an extended retractable skylight, where visitors can easily traverse the entire span, from the Crystal Lagoon to the mall’s central plaza. The plaza itself is designed to be an attraction, with a grand gathering area and a massive water feature overlooking the nearby canal. More than a hundred restaurants, cafés, and food kiosks are placed throughout the mall, many of which have terraces designed to overlook the events held in Meydan One plaza.
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Aldo Zilli's version of a classic Portuguese dish with delicious cod and succulent prawns. The original calls for salt cod so if you can get hold of some, even better.
In a large deep saucepan, heat the olive oil and pan fry the garlic and onion for 1 minute over a medium heat. Remove from the heat.
Peel and slice the potatoes into 2cm (3/4 in) widths, peel and roughly chop the tomatoes and slice the chorizo sausage.
Add the potatoes, tomatoes and chorizo sausage to the pan, along with the paprika, bay leaves and oregano. Pour in enough chicken stock or water to cover the ingredients.
Return to the heat and simmer for 45 minutes before adding the cod. Then cook for another 10 minutes, add the prawns and cook for another 5 minutes,
Serve scattered with chopped parsley and with a drizzle of the extra virgin olive oil.
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Ag-Tech Accelerator? How Trump Is Pushing Farmers To Silicon Valley
President Trump's hard line on immigration is spurring a surge of high-tech investment, as farmers scramble for new ways of coping with labor shortages and slumping profits.
Finding people for the sometimes back-breaking tasks of planting and harvesting crops has become more and more difficult in the U.S., where the industry has relied on cheap immigrant labor for generations. Since taking office in January, Trump has compounded the problem with actions to limit foreign workers. But that's also encouraged some investors to bet that growers will increasingly need new tools to cut costs and boost productivity.
In the first quarter of 2017, a surge of cash has poured into agricultural technology companies, including some big-time investors such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Sam Altman's Y Combinator. Startups received $200 million through 29 deals, the most of any quarter since researcher CB Insights began tracking the data in 2012. Other recent backers include venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems Founder Vinod Khosla and Alexandria Real Estate Equities Chief Executive Officer Joel Marcus.
"With the new administration and the emphasis on deportation and immigration, that has really heightened things," David Slaughter, a professor of biological and agricultural engineering at the University of California in Davis, said in a telephone interview.
Technology isn't new to agriculture. Since John Deere invented the steel plow in the early 1800s, farming has embraced new tools from tractors that use global positioning systems to genetically modified seeds. But even though much of the $400 billion U.S. farm economy is mechanized, fresh produce and dairy remain heavily dependent on human labor. Much of that comes from immigrants, both documented and unauthorized.
Even before Trump arrived, worker shortages were intensifying because former President Barack Obama had stepped up deportations. There's also been a decline in arrivals from Mexico, traditionally the main source of migrant workers. More than half of U.S. farm workers are undocumented, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated 2.6 million jobs were on domestic farms in 2015.
As labor supplies tighten, American farmers are increasingly under financial stress because of low crop prices and global surpluses. The USDA estimates farm income will drop in 2017 for a fourth consecutive year, the first time that's happened since the 1970s. The Bloomberg Agriculture Subindex has dropped 33 percent in the past four years.
Meanwhile, farmers are trying to figure out how they will provide enough food to feed the planet as populations grow over the next few decades. Harnessing data is still one of the biggest challenges to boosting crop yields, Sam Eathington, chief scientist at Monsanto Co."s Climate Corp. unit, said in a March interview at one of the company's research labs in Woodland, California.
The United Nations estimates that the world's population is set to expand 35 percent by 2050 to about 10 billion people. Climate change has left arable land subject to extreme weather events like drought that place an emphasis on water, chemical and fuel use.
That's drawing more interest in new farming technologies such as autonomous tractors, plant sensors, drones and data-management software that will probably generate $240 billion in revenue by 2050, according to Goldman Sachs. Farmers will be forced to adopt new technologies at a faster rate, the bank said.
At the same time, investors who found success in the tech boom are hunting for the next opportunity, Slaughter said.
Tech veteran Mark Kvamme co-founded Columbus, Ohio-based Drive Capital in 2012 with an eye toward investing in the Midwest. FarmLogs, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company that gives farmers data about the health of their fields, is one of the projects Drive Capital is backing. In January, the firm helped raise $22 million in a Series C round of financing.
"In Silicon Valley, nobody understood farming," Kvamme said in a telephone interview. But now, more investors are looking at the industry as another type of "data science," where gains and losses are quantifiable, he said.
So-called ag-tech started drawing more attention from investors after a big takeover was announced in 2013 by Monsanto Co., the world's biggest seed maker, said Jesse Vollmar, chief executive officer and co-founder of FarmLogs. Vollmar grew up on his family's farm in Michigan and started the company out of Y Combinator in 2012. Monsanto paid $930 million for Climate Corp., which specializes in agricultural data.
With farmers looking for any advantage to protect shrinking profit margins, they're more open to adopting new methods of growing and selling their crops, said Aki Georgacacos, managing director and co-founder of Avrio Ventures LP, an investment firm that focuses on food and agriculture companies.
In March, Avrio was part of a Series A round of financing that included Monsanto Growth Ventures, the company's venture capital segment. The financing raised $6.5 million for FarmLead, a company that allows farmers to sell crops online.
Also in March, Arable Labs, a company that's selling a Frisbee-shaped tool that can be mounted on adjustable rod in fields to collect data, raised $4.25 million. Fred Bould, who designed Alphabet's Nest learning thermostat, also designed the Arable device.
Ceres Imaging said Wednesday that it raised $5 million in a Series A financing round, led by Krishna Gupta's Romulus Capital. The company provides farmers with aerial spectral imagery and data to check the health of crops, by placing sensors on airplanes that then fly over growing areas.
Bob Payne, who grows crops including almonds and barley in northern California, is the type of farmer investors are hoping to reach. Payne uses a computer application called Agworld to help manage his operations. His Deere & Co. tractors are equipped with GPS, and a few years ago he bought a fixed-wing drone. Last year, his drone helped him spot a virus forming in his fields that he estimates would have cost him $140,000 in losses.
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House Hunting in … Romania
A Touch of the Hamptons North of Bucharest
$1.7 MILLION (1.5 MILLION EUROS)
This three-bedroom villa is on the southern shore of Lake Snagov, a well-liked weekend retreat about 20 miles north of Bucharest, the capital and business heart of Romania.
The property is three quarters of an acre and features a two-bedroom, 860-square-foot loft above the storage; a free-standing, 250-square-foot studio unit; and an extended picket dock, boat storage and pontoon for enjoyable on the lake.
The three,500-square-foot essential home, accomplished in 2009, was constructed with bolstered concrete and brick, with an orange ceramic roof and a white facade. The entrance door opens to a lobby, with a small bed room instantly to the left. Straight forward is a bigger inside corridor with a winding staircase, built-in bookcases and a double-height ceiling. Continuing by way of that second corridor, a broad doorway results in the lounge, which has a whimsically designed hearth with firewood storage constructed into the wall.
Inspiration for the house’s inside décor got here from the sellers’ time in residing within the United States, mentioned Dana Barbu, an agent with the Bucharest-based actual property firm Regatta, which has the itemizing.
“They are fairly cosmopolitan, and so they’ve lived in a number of nations,” Ms. Barbu mentioned. “Now they dwell in France. They have been impressed by the Hamptons, Long Island and British seaside cottages.”
A research with built-in bookshelves adjoins the lounge. The mixed eating space and kitchen is on the appropriate aspect of the home. The kitchen has high-end home equipment, a butcher-block island and a subway-tile backsplash.
In the rear of the home is a big sunroom with vaulted ceilings and glass doorways that open to a two-level wooden terrace overlooking the yard and Lake Snagov.
A sunroom within the rear of the home opens to a two-level deck overlooking Lake Snagov.CreditCosmin Dragomir for The New York Times
Up an oak staircase are two massive en suite bedrooms with vaulted, beamed ceilings, wide-plank flooring and balconies. The main bedroom is about 430 sq. ft, awash in cool grays and whites, with stained pine flooring, a chandelier and a hearth seating space. The grasp rest room has a soaking tub, stand-alone glass bathe and a glass door resulting in a balcony. The second bed room, break up into two sections, serves as a sleeping and play space for youngsters.
Snagov, which has a inhabitants of round 7,00zero, is a leisure vacation spot for vacationers and Bucharest residents alike. It sits between Bucharest and the ski and mountain locations farther north, making it a handy base for ventures in each instructions, Ms. Barbu mentioned. It is in style with water-sports fans, because of the lake, which isn’t broad however stretches about seven miles in size. Snagov Club, a four-minute drive from the property, has a resort, a number of eating places, kayak and bike leases, and a pool and spa. Henri Coanda International Airport, simply north of Bucharest, is about 20 minutes away.
“There is a cult of property in Romania, and most of the people need to personal a home,” mentioned Eduard Uzunov, the proprietor of the Regatta company, in an electronic mail. Home costs in Bucharest have grown between 5 and 10 % a yr for the final two years, he mentioned, because of excessive demand largely pushed by reasonably priced credit score.
Prices are rising at the same charge throughout Romania, however after a interval of regular features — a rise of about 12 % in 2016, adopted by a 10 % enhance in 2017 — the market slowed in 2018, with costs rising by solely 6 %, based on a fourth-quarter report from Analize Imobiliare, an actual property market analyst, and Imobiliare.ro, Romania’s major on-line actual property promoting portal. Dorel Nita, the pinnacle of knowledge and analysis for Imobiliare.ro and the report’s creator, concluded that the slowing charge of development is an indication that the market is stabilizing, after the quickly rising costs of earlier years resulted in a cool-down in demand.
Damian Galvin, the founding father of Bucharest-based White Mountain Property, mentioned his company has seen the quantity of gross sales decline throughout Romania over the previous yr for a number of causes, together with emigration by potential patrons and “uncertainty” in Romanian politics. But in Bucharest, he mentioned, demand has remained regular as a result of the return on rental properties makes funding engaging.
The main bedroom, with about 430 sq. ft, has vaulted ceilings and a hearth seating space.CreditCosmin Dragomir for The New York TimesThe grasp bathtub has a soaking tub, a glass bathe and a glass door resulting in the balcony.CreditCosmin Dragomir for The New York Times
In Bucharest, condominium costs within the fourth quarter of 2018 averaged round 1,300 euros a sq. meter (about $137 a sq. foot), based on the report. (Property transactions are sometimes finished in euros, slightly than the Romanian leu, though Romania hasn’t formally adopted the euro but; the nation joined the European Union in 2007 and is anticipated to undertake the euro in about 2024.)
Mr. Galvin pointed to a “regular development” of wealthier Romanian expatriates “shopping for funding rental property in most main cities because of the unusually excessive return on funding,” which he mentioned is round 6 to 7 % yearly.
Bucharest’s priciest properties are within the metropolis heart, town’s northern neighborhoods and the northern suburbs, brokers mentioned, with flats within the prosperous Herastrau part averaging about 2,560 euros a sq. meter ($269 a sq. foot).
Prices of luxurious properties in and across the metropolis vary from 150,00zero euros ($170,00) for a one-bedroom to greater than 2 million euros ($2.three million) for a penthouse or villa, mentioned Alexandru Ispir, proprietor of the Bucharest company Otho Estate. Mr. Uzunov put the vary for luxurious flats at 200,00zero euros ($226,00zero) to three million euros ($three.four million), including that luxurious homes can fetch as much as 15 million euros ($17 million). But for 900,00zero euros ($1.02 million), you should purchase a four-bedroom penthouse with a shared pool in Bucharest’s most sought-after northern neighborhoods, Mr. Galvin mentioned.
Bucharest presents worth in comparison with different Eastern European capitals, brokers mentioned, with costs per sq. meter roughly half these in Budapest and Belgrade, Serbia.
Who Buys in Bucharest
The space close to the historic metropolis heart is in style with overseas buyers, who typically purchase older buildings and convert them into resorts and leases, Mr. Ispir mentioned. In 2018, 15 to 20 % of his company’s patrons have been overseas — principally from France, Spain and Sweden — and fewer than 5 % of them have been shopping for for private use, he mentioned.
Mr. Uzunov mentioned his company’s overseas patrons in 2018 primarily got here from France, Holland, Greece and Israel.
A protracted picket walkway results in the lakeside boat storage, with residing quarters above.CreditCosmin Dragomir for The New York Times
Citizens of nations exterior the European Union are normally permitted to purchase buildings in Romania, however not land. However, they might lease the land at no cost, so long as the construction exists, mentioned Radu Catalin Pavel, the managing companion of the legislation agency Pavel, Margarit and Associates, in Bucharest. An particular person may type a restricted legal responsibility company in Romania and purchase the land by way of the corporate.
Hiring a professional lawyer to carry out due diligence is important, Mr. Pavel mentioned, as “there are nonetheless tens of hundreds of properties which were nationalized by the Romanian state and haven’t but been returned to the house owners.”
Buyers ought to seek the advice of a Romanian actual property lawyer about whether or not there are unresolved claims by the house owners or their descendants, he mentioned.
Romania tourism: romaniatourism.com
Bucharest museums: muzeulbucurestiului.ro/en/museums
Snagov Club: snagovclub.ro
Languages and Currency
Romanian; leu (1 leu = $zero.24) and euro (1 euro = $1.13)
Taxes and Fees
The property taxes on this residence are about 880 euros ($1,00zero) a yr, Ms. Barbu mentioned.
Dana Barbu, Regatta, 011-40-21-232-90-12; regatta.ro
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The US House on Nov. 15 easily passed tough new Syria sanctions that would box in both President Barack Obama and his successor, Donald Trump.
The voice vote comes despite discreet pressure from the Obama administration to make it easier for the president to waive the sanctions. A Democratic congressional aide told Al-Monitor that bill writers declined to do so, in part because of concerns that Trump might use that authority to avoid enforcing the law.
"I am sensitive to the fact that there have to be some waivers, because presidents have to have a certain kind of authority," bill sponsor Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., told Al-Monitor. "But I am unhappy with waivers all the time that you can drive a Mack truck through. I think at some point Congress has to say what it feels and, as a co-equal branch of government, have as much of a say as the executive."
One Republican aide told Al-Monitor that Democrats actually signed off on the bill's waiver language before the election, when Hillary Clinton was the runaway favorite to win. And, indeed, Engel has long been pushing for tougher penalties on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with his bill first clearing the House Foreign Affairs Committee in July.
Still, Trump's victory has caused concern on both sides of the aisle that the president-elect may be even more reluctant than Obama to turn the screws on Assad and his Russian supporters.
"I’ve had an opposite view of many people regarding Syria," Trump told The Wall Street Journal after his election. "My attitude was you’re fighting Syria, Syria is fighting [the Islamic State (IS)], and you have to get rid of [IS]. … Now we’re backing rebels against Syria, and we have no idea who these people are.”
Assad for his part called Trump a "natural ally" Nov. 15.
"If he is going to fight the terrorists, of course we are going to be [an] ally, natural ally in that regard with the Russian[s], with the Iranian[s], with many other countries," the Syrian president told Portugal's RTP state television.
Republican leaders in Congress responded with a clear message that they want to see more action against Assad, not less.
"Republicans and Democrats recognize the need to isolate the Assad regime for its continued atrocities against the Syrian people," House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said in a statement ahead of the Nov. 15 vote. "I’m glad the White House has stopped blocking these critical sanctions, which are a necessary response to Assad’s crimes against humanity.”
The president-elect has also caused heartburn with his praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin throughout the election. After the two men spoke by phone Nov. 14, Russia renewed its air campaign in Syria.
"The Obama administration’s last attempt at resetting relations with Russia culminated in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and military intervention in the Middle East," Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., said in a Nov. 15 statement, without ever mentioning Trump by name. "At the very least, the price of another ‘reset’ would be complicity in Putin and Assad’s butchery of the Syrian people. That is an unacceptable price for a great nation."
Engel's bill would impose financial and travel sanctions on foreign persons who knowingly provide support to the government of Syria or its military and intelligence services. He made it clear that Russia was a main potential target of the legislation.
"I am very concerned about the destructive role Russia is playing and has played in Syria," Engel said. "And I feel that they ought to be challenged, that we cannot simply let them get away with this."
Engel said he hoped House action would prompt the Senate to follow suit. To date, no one in the upper chamber has introduced companion legislation.
House Democrats stalled consideration of the bill in September when the White House urged them to give a newly minted cease-fire time to work. Since its failure, the administration has focused on getting broader waiver authority written into the bill, to no avail.
"The administration retains a wide range of authorities to sanction the Syrian government and we believe those authorities are best exercised in a targeted manner at a time of our choosing reflecting the situation we see on the ground," a State Department official told Al-Monitor in an email. "We also continue to examine the sanctions option in concert with our European partners and other likeminded countries.
"At this time, we are not seeking additional authorities from Congress, nor would we welcome the requirement to impose broad sanctions that could risk unintended consequences, including potentially for our own partners or allies and possibly for the humanitarian situation in Syria. As we have long said, sanctions are stronger when coordinated with our partners in Europe and beyond to achieve the maximum effect coupled with off ramps we can utilize should we achieve a change in behavior from the sanctioned party."
Many if not most sanctions bills contain a broad national security waiver that gives the president near unfettered ability to conduct foreign policy. Engel's bill by contrast only allows the president to waive sanctions if progress is being made on a political settlement or if certain conditions are being met, including: an end to barrel bombing and other air attacks on civilians; restoration of aid to besieged areas; release of political prisoners; and an end to attacks against medical facilities and other civilian targets by the Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies.
"I know all administrations, be they Republican or Democratic, would like the Congress not to get involved," Engel said. "But I feel strongly that we need to get involved."
Editor's note: This article has been updated since its initial publication.