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With corporate earnings witnessing traction, the current market valuation multiples should broadly sustain, Jayant Manglik, President, Religare Broking told Moneycontrol’s Sunil Shankar Matkar in an interview. He also said that good monsoon will be one of the factors that will support growth and that new highs could be made in the second half of 2018.
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The market has been highly volatile due to the movement in crude oil prices and rupee. Do you expect it to remain range bound or it could cross previous highs by second half of 2018?
We believe that the upward movement of crude oil prices could increasingly face challenges on the back of continued rise in US oil production and the recent measures by Saudi Arabia and Russia to counter potential shortfalls in oil supply. This will put a reign on the depreciating rupee also. Further, with corporate earnings witnessing traction, as evident from the March quarter earnings season, the current market valuation multiples should broadly sustain. Also, we believe a good monsoon will be one of the factors that will support growth. In wake of these factors, we do believe that new highs could be made in the second half of 2018.
How do you read March quarter earnings season? Some experts say the worst may be over for earnings and recovery should start from current year. Do you think FY19 will see revival in earnings or is there a chance of downgrade in earnings?
Q4FY18 results have been a mixed bag, depending upon the sector which is being considered. However, on an aggregate basis, the results season has been largely in-line with expectations on the revenue front. On the Net profit front, it was largely the provisioning by PSU Banks, which impacted the overall profitability. On the margins front, while sectors like Autos witnessed some pressure on account of the higher raw material prices with global metal prices being firm, FMCG companies largely managed to improve their margins.
Going forward, consensus earnings growth expectations are at over 20 percent for FY19 compared to the sub-10 percent growth witnessed in FY18. While we remain optimistic of earnings growth gaining further traction, we do believe that some downgrade to FY19 earnings is possible. However, notwithstanding the limited adjustments on this front, we do not expect this factor to be the only deciding factor for the market.
Will FY19 turn out to be a year of largecaps more than midcaps & smallcaps in terms of returns?
The recent correction in the mid-caps and small-caps space, which has been triggered partly because of the SEBI re-allocation dictum for Mutual Funds, has brought many quality companies back in the valuation comfort zone. Also, considering that over the past decade, the Mid-cap and Small-caps indices have outperformed the Nifty most of the times on a calendar year basis, the probability of generating higher returns over a period of time is also greater. However, investors must bear in mind the higher risks and volatility associated with investing in this space.
Crude has dipped sharply from 3-1/2-year highs of $80.50 a barrel touched recently. Where do you see crude prices heading?
Recent volatility in oil prices can be justified by simple economics of demand and supply. Prices rallied sharply due to supply disruption from Venezuela and Iran over concerns of renewed sanctions by the US. However, prices eased by around 8 percent from their recent highs, when Saudi Arabia and Russia discussed raising OPEC and non-OPEC oil production by 1 million barrels per day (bpd) to counter potential supply shortfalls. Though some minor rebounds cannot be ruled out, but we expect prices to head lower closer to the $70/barrel mark. The void in supply is filled by the oil giants which will cater to the near term demand, keeping a check on oil prices.
Do you see inflationary pressures due to higher crude oil prices and can retail inflation cross 6 percent in May or June?
We expect the retail inflation prints to be considerably higher for May and June not just on account of the higher crude oil prices but also because of the very low base effect of May and June last year.
Do you expect a hawkish stance from the RBI in June policy. Do you see any rate hike in FY19?
In wake of the expected rise in retail inflationary pressures on account of the rise in global crude oil prices coupled with the depreciation in the rupee and also the impending higher minimum support prices, we do believe that the RBI would become relatively hawkish, which will be reflected in a probable change in its policy stance too to begin with.
Almost all PSU banks reported losses in Q4 on higher provisions following new norms by RBI. Do you think the worst is over for PSU banks and FY19 would be a year of stability in earnings or there is more to come?
A: We believe that the worse could be over for PSU banks in terms of NPA provisioning. However, the provisions over the past quarters have eroded the capital of PSU banks, which will continue to impact their lending ability. The PSU banks losing market share can be partly attributed to this, a trend which we expect to continue in the foreseeable future. Going forward, we believe additional recap by the government and/or faster resolution of NCLT cases would help rebuild PSU banks’ balance sheets. However, for now, we would remain cautious and await clarity on these fronts.
Could you list out five stocks to bet on if monsoons turn out to be as good as expected this year?
Swaraj Engines: Buy | Target – Rs 2,426 | Return – 24%
Swaraj Engines (SEL) is engaged in manufacturing of engines for fitment into M&M’s "Swaraj" tractors. It derives ~97 percent revenues from sale of tractor engines. The domestic tractor industry has witnessed a significant turnaround over the past two years, helped by two successive years of normal monsoon. This is well reflected in SEL’s strong financial performance in FY17 & FY18. Going forward, in its initial forecast, IMD has predicted normal monsoon in 2018 as well. This would keep the demand for tractors buoyant and result in healthy volume offtake for SEL. We expect SEL’s net revenue and PAT to grow by 15 percent & 16 percent CAGR over FY18-20E, likely to be driven by good monsoon & new launches.
Symphony: Buy | Target – Rs 1,965 | Return – 28%
Symphony holds leadership position in organized Air Coolers market, commanding market share of >50 percent. Good monsoon would certainly increase the spending power of consumers, especially in the semi-urban and rural areas, Symphony’s key markets. This would result in improved demand for air coolers and boost the company’s volume growth. GST implementation will help the company to strengthen its market share further in the coming years. We expect healthy growth momentum in revenue and profits to continue over the next 2-3 years. New product launches in premium category and operating leverage should provide cushion to margins. We remain positive on the company considering its market leadership, cash rich and debt free status, superior return ratios and high dividend payouts.
Nilkamal: Buy | Target – Rs 2,231 | Return – 31%
Nilkamal holds leadership position in Material Handling and Moulded furniture segments, which are key revenue & profit growth drivers for the company. The growth in these segments is largely linked to the macro revival and improved consumption. Good monsoon would boost the consumer spending and propel the demand for company’s products across its segments ‘plastics and retail (@home)’. We estimate Nilkamal's consolidated revenue and PAT to grow by 10 percent & 19 percent CAGR over FY18-20E. Operating leverage and some stability in the crude oil prices should result in gradual uptick in margins.
Supreme Industries: Buy | Target – Rs 1,473 | Return – 15%
Supreme Industries (SIL) holds leadership position in the organized domestic plastic piping market and is the second largest player in moulded plastic furniture. Further, it has a strong presence across other segments of plastics like packaging products and industrial products. We expect the company to be a beneficiary of good monsoon as it would drive the consumer spending. We expect SIL's consolidated revenue to grow by ~14 percent CAGR over the next 2-3 years, led by demand revival, steady capacity additions and enhanced product offerings. GST transition would clearly yield benefits over the medium-to-long-term.
Prabhat Dairy: Buy | Target – Rs 230 | Return – 30%
Prabhat Dairy (PDL) is an integrated milk and dairy products company, catering to both institutional (B2B) as well as retail (B2C) customers. The company’s growth prospects look bright, given the robust outlook of dairy sector, PDL’s plan to grow its business into new segments, product innovation in consumer business and strengthening distribution reach across India. Good monsoon would result in better productivity yield and boost the company’s volume growth and improve its margins trajectory. We expect PDL’s net revenue & PAT to grow by 13.5 percent & 18.6 percent CAGR over FY18-FY20E. With the company’s plans to reduce debt and improve working capital cycle, we expect a marked improvement in its return ratios also.
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The Sensex and Nifty closed higher with auto stcoks leading gains on the indices. While the Sensex rose 205 points to 33,455 level, the Nifty rose 56 points to 10,322. TCS, M&M and Lupin are the top gainers on Sensex. Here are the key highlights, which affected the market today.
3:30 PM: Maruti Suzuki India recorded top turnover on BSE at Rs 576.03 crore. The stock closed 1.11 percent or 100 points higher at 9141.35 level on BSE.
3:09 PM: Market breadth is marginally positive with 1,440 stocks rising against 1,257 declining on the BSE.
3:06 pm: Lupin 2.30 percent, M&M (2.10 percent) and Coal India (1.91 percent) are the top gainers on Sensex.
1:30 pm: Maruti Suzuki stock hits fresh life-time high of 9,167.
1:00 pm: Aurobindo Pharma (2.16%), M&M (1.97%), Lupin (1.84%) top gainers on Nifty.
12:40 pm: Sensex rises 100 points to 33,352, Nifty at 10,292 in afternoon trade.
12:00 pm: Property developer Unitech rose as much as 19.2 percent after a court allowed the government to take over management control of the debt-laden company on Friday.
11:30 am: "If BJP wins, it's definitely good for the markets, but unless they win by a landslide like they did in Uttar Pradesh and surprise everyone, markets (NSE index) should remain rangebound in the 10,000-10,500 levels," said RK Gupta, managing director at Taurus Asset Management Company.
10:56 am: Geojit Financial Services Chief Market Strategist Anand James said, "... Investors would also prefer clarity from Gujarat elections before strengthening their bets."
10:49 am: Oil prices fell on Monday as last week's rise in the US rig count pointed to a further increase in American production that could undermine OPEC-led efforts to tighten markets. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $57.14 a barrel at 0418 GMT, down 22 cents, or 0.4 percent, from their last settlement.
10:40 am: According to Epic Research CEO Mustafa Nadeem, automobile space will continue to perform well as the year-end sale will increase the sales and further news of hike in prices in the
coming month will improve the margins.
10:36 am: Axis Bank shareholders have approved mobilization of Rs 11,626 crore through sale of shares and warrants to a group of investors, including Bain Capital and LIC, the bank said. The lender will mop up Rs 9,063 crore through share sale and Rs 2,563 crore from sale of warrants.
9:50 am: Unitech (17 percent), Aegis Logistics (4.81 percent), and Thermax (4.47 percent) are top gainers on the BSE.
9:40 am: India's foreign exchange reserves rose by $1.2 billion to $401.92 billion in the week to December 1, RBI data showed. This is the fourth consecutive weekly rise since November 3 amid steady dollar inflows. Gold reserves too rose by $36.5 million to $20.703 billion.
9: 35 am: Driven by hopes of an economic recovery and lack of alternate investment avenues, investors continued to pour money into mutual funds in November. As per data from AMFI, investors put in Rs.1.26 lakh crore in mutual funds, driving industry assets under management to an all-time high of Rs.21.79 lakh crore.
9: 25 am: The Indian Railways has registered 5% yoy in its freight traffic to 747.70 million tonnes during April-November as compared to the same period last year. Passenger traffic registered a growth of 5.22% during April 1-November 20 over the same period last year.
9: 20 am: European markets closed higher on Friday after the UK reached a Brexit deal with EU. US markets closed on a positive note with Dow Jones and S&P ended at record high on the much better than jobs report. Now the eyes will be on FOMC two day policy meeting that begins on December 12 and Trump's speech on Wednesday on proposed tax bill.
9:15 am: The benchmark Sensex rebounded 417.36 points last week to reclaim 33,000-level to finish at 33,250.30, while the broader Nifty ended above the key 10,250-level to conclude at 10,265.65.


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Real Sociedad Pounds Deportivo 5-0
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain  Real Sociedad turned the page on Friday on the departure earlier this week of star defender Iñigo Martinez with a 5-0 rout over relegation-bound Deportivo.
The win brings Sociedad to 26 points from 22 matches, enough for the 14th spot in La Liga, while Depor, with 17 points, languish in 18th.
With some supporters still grumbling about the transfer of Martinez to regional rivals Athletic, Sociedads first victory of 2018 couldnt have come at a better moment for the 15,626 people who came out to San Sebastians Anoeta stadium on a cold, rainy night.
The hosts dominated from the start, but possession didnt lead to goals and the fans got nervous when Depor began to generate offense as the match clock approached 30 minutes.
Just then, however, Willian Jose scored to make it 1-0 for Sociedad.
Asier Illarramendi boosted the advantage to 2-0, connecting on a direct free kick in the 61st minute.
Minutes later, Deportivo had a chance to narrow the deficit with a fine shot by Lucas Perez, but Sociedad keeper Gero Rulli stopped what looked like a sure goal.
Sergio Canales settled the contest with a goal in the 75th minute and Aritz Elustondo  Iñigo Martinezs replacement  scored in the 82nd to bring the tally to 4-0.
Illarramendi got his second of the night in the final minute of regulation, sparking pandemonium in the stands.

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A selection of work from early 2017
Top to bottom — Kentizan for Personal Work, Jordan Coourt, Joey Bada$$ for Rolling Stone, USA Investors for Institutional Investor, Why Humans Build Upwards for TIME, 3 Seasons style guide & EMI Top 40 Hip Hop chart cover.


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NEW YORK CITY (AP) — The Weinstein Co. filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday with a buyout offer in hand from a private equity firm, the latest twist in its efforts to survive the sexual misconduct scandal that brought down co-founder Harvey Weinstein, shook Hollywood and triggered a movement that spread out to convulse other industries.
The company also announced it was releasing any victims of or witnesses to Weinstein’s alleged misconduct from non-disclosure agreements preventing them from speaking out. That step had long been sought by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who filed a lawsuit against the company last month on behalf of its employees.
The Weinstein Co. said it has entered into a “stalking horse” agreement with an affiliate of Dallas-based Lantern Capital Partners as part of its bankruptcy protection filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. That means Lantern has agreed to buy the company, subject to approval from the court.
The company made the filing about two weeks after negotiations to sell the company to a group of investors fell apart. Lantern, which had been one of those investors, has now offered to buy most of the assets of the company and keep on its employees, the Weinstein Co. said.
Other bidders also could emerge, particularly those interested in the company’s lucrative 277-film library, which includes award-winning films from big-name directors like Quentin Tarantino and horror releases from its Dimension label. Free of liabilities, the company’s assets could increase in value in a bankruptcy.
The movie and TV studio becomes the first high-profile company to be forced into bankruptcy in the nationwide outcry over workplace sexual misconduct. Dozens of prominent men in entertainment, media, finance, politics and other realms have seen their careers derailed, but no other company has seen its very survival as tightly intertwined with the fate of one man as the Weinstein Co.
In more fallout over the scandal, New York’s governor directed the state attorney general to review the 2015 decision by the Manhattan district attorney’s office not to prosecute a 2015 case involving an Italian model who said Weinstein groped her.
Weinstein, who was fired as CEO of his company in October, has denied any allegations of non-consensual sex.
Hanging in the balance is the fate of more than 100 employees and several lawsuits filed by Weinstein’s accusers.
Under bankruptcy protection, those lawsuits will be halted and no new legal claims can be brought against the company. Secured creditors will get priority for payment over the women suing the company.
However, the lawsuit filed by Schneiderman’s office will not be automatically halted because it was filed by a law enforcement agency.
The bankruptcy process also will bring the company’s finances into public view, including the extent of its debt. Negotiations to sell the company to a group of investors led by businesswoman Maria Contreras-Sweet fell apart earlier this month after the buyers claimed they discovered up to $64 million in undisclosed liabilities, including $27 million in residuals and profit participation. Those liabilities come on top of $225 million in debt, which the buyers had said they would be prepared to take on as part of a $500 million acquisition deal.
The Weinstein Co. already had been struggling financially before the scandal erupted in October with a news stories in The New York Times and The New Yorker. Brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein started the company in 2005 after leaving Miramax, the company they founded in 1979 and which became a powerhouse in ’90s indie film with hits like “Pulp Fiction.” After finding success with Oscar winners “The Artist” and “The King’s Speech,” the Weinstein Co.’s output and relevance diminished in recent years. The company let go 50 employees in 2016 and continuously shuffled release dates while short of cash.
Several other executives and all but three members of the board of directors also have left the company. Last year, the studio sold distribution rights for the movie “Paddington 2” to Warner Bros. for more than $30 million.

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French oil services firm CGG files for bankruptcy
PARIS, June 14 French oil services firm CGG said on Wednesday it had filed for bankruptcy in France and the United States as part of financial restructuring to reduce its debt burden.


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Question: The Latest: China cuts off host of imports form NKorea

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and U.S. relations with China (all times local):
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China has announced that it will cut off imports of North Korean coal, iron ore and other goods in three weeks under U.N. sanctions imposed over the North’s nuclear and missile programs.
China, the isolated North’s main trading partner, has been reluctant to push leader Kim Jong Un’s regime too hard for fear it might collapse. But Beijing is increasingly frustrated with Pyongyang and supported a U.N. Security Council ban on Aug. 5 on coal and other key goods.
The Chinese customs agency said Monday that it will stop processing imports of North Korean coal, iron and lead ores and fish at midnight on Sept. 5.
The announcement follows an escalating exchange of angry words between Kim’s government and the Trump administration in Washington. The latest U.N. sanctions are intended to block North Korean exports worth $1 billion — a significant share of total exports valued at $3 billion last year.
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Even as he seeks Beijing’s help on North Korea, President Donald Trump is poised to seek a trade investigation of China for the alleged theft of American technology and intellectual property.
Trump is expected to sign an executive order Monday asking his trade office to consider the probe. In the midst of a 17-day vacation, Trump plans to leave his New Jersey golf club and return to Washington to sign the order.
There is no deadline for deciding if any investigation is necessary. Such an investigation easily could last a year.
In a phone call Friday, Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for backing the recent U.N. vote to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea, and the leaders reaffirmed their commitment to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula. But Trump also told Xi about the move toward a possible inquiry into China’s trade practices, according to two U.S. officials familiar with that conversation. They were not authorized to publicly discuss the private call and spoke on condition of anonymity.

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Question: Underwater waterfall and 12 other Mauritius must-sees

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(CNN) No one needs help finding a beautiful beach in Mauritius, but there's tons to explore away from the water as well.
For a small nation, Mauritius overflows with scenic hikes through the mountains, holy pilgrimage sites, amazing food and historic areas that trace the island's globe-spanning history.
Underwater waterfall
Just off the coast of Le Morne, on the island's southwest, Mauritius offers a spectacular illusion.
Sand and silt on the ocean floor run off in a way that makes it look like they're pouring down a waterfall -- or like the entire island is being sucked down a vast drain.
It's really just the flow of underwater currents that create the dramatic image. The ocean water is spectacular from the shore, but to see this particular view requires a helicopter ride. Tours are set up just for that.
Chamarel Colored Earth
Chamarel's colored sands are caused by lava turning into clay minerals.
On an exposed hilltop inside a park, the earth takes on magical rainbow hues of purple, red, violet, green, blue and yellow.
The colors are most vibrant at sunrise, and they appear to shift during the course of the day as the sun moves and clouds pass overhead. Nearby, a narrow waterfall plunges over a cliff, and the Black River Gorges National Park nearby protects what remains of the island's original rainforest.
Photography Museum
Down the only pedestrian street in Port Louis, across from the Municipal Theatre, lies one of the city's hidden treasures.
The Photography Museum is the culmination of Tristan Bréville's lifelong passion for cameras, and his personal collection of one million images documenting the history of Mauritius.
Only a relative few are on display. Among the jewels are a collection of daguerreotype images that are the first photos taken anywhere in Africa.
Photography Museum , Rue du Vieux Conseil, Port Louis; +230 238 5737
Dhal puri at the Central Market
Stack of snacks: Roti flat breads at Central Market
The Central Market in Port Louis underwent a makeover a few years ago, which cleaned up the building and left intact the colors, smells and flavors that define Mauritian cuisine.
Market stalls overflow with chilies, dragon fruit, rose apples and towers of vegetables.
Toward the center is a food hall where vendors serve up fresh juices and the definitive local street food, dhal puri. It's yellow split peas wrapped inside a roti flat bread and served up with chili to taste.
To figure out the best, join the longest line.
Central Market, Farquhar Street, Port Louis, Mauritius
Le Pouce
The mountain known as Le Pouce overlooks Port Louis. It's not the tallest peak in Mauritius, but its location next to the capital makes it the most iconic.
Ascending to the top takes about an hour. On the way down, walking all the way to the city center takes two or three hours.
Near the base, in Moka, is The Creole House in Eureka. The colonial home has undergone a gorgeous restoration, and the restaurant prides itself on serving the best Mauritian food.
Eureka , La Maison Creole, Moka, Mauritius; +230 433 8477
Grand Bassin
Sacred lake: Grand Bassin
When the volcanoes that created Mauritius died out, one of the craters filled with water and became a lake known as Grand Bassin.
It's also known as Ganga Talao, a name that links the water symbolically to the Ganges River in India. The waters here have taken on a similarly religious significance, with a shrine to Lord Shiva dominating the lakeside.
"Grand Bassin is a lake which is considered to be one of the most sacred places in Mauritius, especially for the Hindu community," says Sarvesh Unuth, an English teacher visiting the lake.
He says it can get crowded, visited by more than half the island's population in a few weeks during the Shivratri festival celebrated annually in honor of Lord Shiva.
On other days, it's a place of tranquil reflection with a microclimate cooler than the rest of Mauritius.
Blue Penny Museum
A museum dedicated to a single stamp may not seem like the most riveting attraction, but the Blue Penny Museum presents an engaging overview of Mauritian history.
The museum centers on two of the rarest stamps in the world: the red penny and the blue penny. Both were issued in 1847 by the British colonial government.
Only 500 were printed of each, from a single plate. The last one sold at public auction in 2011 fetched more than £1,000,000 in London -- the highest price ever paid for a stamp.
The Blue Penny Museum showcases rare examples of the stamps, but only for 10 minutes at a time. The museum also presents artwork, coins and engaging passages from Mauritian history as a hub for seafarers crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Gardens
SSR Botanical Gardens: Lovely lily pads.
Famed for its truly gigantic water lilies, the SSR Botanical Gardens are a favorite picnic spot for Mauritians who spread out beneath the tropical canopy.
Not all the plants have been labeled, but anyone wanting to know the stories of the flora can hire a guide at the entrance.
In addition to the towering palms, the gardens include many of the plants that produced the spices that brought Europeans battling into Asia for trade in new flavors.
The 18th-century Church of St Francis of Assisi faces the gardens, built for the wealthy landowners of the day.
Champs de Mars Racecourse
The racecourse occupies an outsize importance in Mauritius.
Where some countries would use a a stadium or a park for grand national events, Mauritius uses its racecourse. Established in 1812, this is where the country declared independence from Britain in 1968.
But it remains in use for horse races from roughly April through November, when the weather is cooler and crowds pack into the grounds to place bets on the weekend.
In the stands, high society mingles in their finest clothes, but the grounds are generally free and open to everyone.
Labourdonnais Orchards
The Domaine de Labourdonnais estate was founded in 1774.
This grand plantation home was painstakingly restored in 2006 and transformed into a museum to capture the way of life of the great Mauritian landowners.
The Château de Labourdonnais runs (mandatory) tours of the home, but also offers delicious meals at its restaurant and a shop filled with organic products made from fruits grown in the orchards. The distillery produces rum from sugar cane grown on the property.
La Place d'Armes
The main esplanade through Port Louis commands attention, lined with royal palms and old cannons that run from the revitalized port to the French-colonial Government House, the oldest building in Mauritius.
It often feels hotter here than anywhere else on the island, but in the morning, the boulevard makes a nice stroll and a good central point for exploring the colonial buildings on other streets like Rue St. Georges, where the architecture is glorious -- whether faded or restored.
Le Morne
A haven for escaped slaves: Le Morne.
The mountain at Le Morne only opened to the public last year, allowing visitors to explore the site of one of the world's most significant communities of escaped slaves.
Le Morne Heritage Trust Fund 's offices are in the nearby village of Le Morne, where visitors can meet with guides who explain the significance of the mountain.
With cliffs on three sides, the mountaintop provided an easily defensible site for maroons, as the escapees were known, who recreated traditions of mainland Africa and gave birth to a new form of music, sega.
Aapravasi Ghat
Nearly 500,000 indentured workers were brought from India to Mauritius between 1834 and 1920, not only to work on the local plantations, but to be sent throughout the British colonies.
When the buildings at Aapravasi Ghat first began processing new arrivals from India, the system was meant to show the superiority of "free" laborers after the abolition of slavery.
The depot at Port Louis was the first step in what became a global system of migration. The buildings are best experienced with a guide, available for free, who can give a better insight into the experiences of the people whose lives were changed here.

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From the stunning views on the Wild Atlantic Way to the Northern Lights and everything in between, Ireland has some of the most breathtaking sights on earth.
To celebrate International Day Of Happiness, we put together a list for you.
Whether you're looking to explore the country or venturing to Irish shores from overseas, here is the ultimate checklist of must-do attractions.
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Weekly Game of Thrones recap show where we nerd out about zombies, dragons and all things Westeros.
This week we’re joined by Erin and Kathy B to talk about how flammable the Lannister army turned out to be in the latest episode “Spoils of War”

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Question: HuffPost and Vocativ are latest media outlets to get hit with layoffs

HuffPost and Vocativ are the latest media companies to get hit with layoffs.
HuffPost's union, the Writers Guild of America East, was notified Wednesday that 39 members employed at HuffPost were let go "as part of a corporate-wide layoff in connection with Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo," according to a statement tweeted by Michael Calderone, HuffPost's senior media reporter. Verizon (VZ, Tech30), which owns AOL and HuffPost, just bought Yahoo.
Laid off workers will receive a "collectively-bargained severance package that includes two months' salary plus a week of pay for each year of service and continued health benefits," according to the statement.
Tim Armstrong said on CNBC Wednesday that about 2,100 people at AOL and Yahoo will lose their jobs as a result of the merger -- roughly 15% of the workforce.
39 HuffPost layoffs, per our union: pic.twitter.com/thN5fs4oWF — Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) June 14, 2017
According to multiple sources, the 39 employees who have been let go at HuffPost include at least six in the company's Washington, D.C. newsroom, as editor-in-chief Lydia Polgreen aims to reshape that bureau.
Polgreen joined HuffPost from the New York Times (NYT) in December, succeeding the site's co-founder and namesake, Arianna Huffington. Since then, Polgreen has left her mark on the organization, overseeing a major site redesign and formally changing its name from The Huffington Post to HuffPost.
The layoffs announced Wednesday include several veteran reporters, among them David Wood, who won the site's first and only Pulitzer. Employees in New York and Washington anticipated the layoffs, but one source said there was shock that so many reporters were affected.
One especially notable journalist laid off is David Wood, who won HuffPost's first and only Pulitzer. From 2012 https://t.co/dQKmGrDLK5 https://t.co/BT5m7V90gu — Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) June 14, 2017
Polgreen, who traveled to Washington this week to deliver the news, is expected to address both newsrooms on Wednesday afternoon.
Vocativ, a tech news site, was also hit with layoffs on Wednesday. It let go of its entire text editorial staff -- roughly 20 people -- so the site can shift its focus to video content.
"As the industry evolves, we are undertaking a strategic shift to focus exclusively on video content that will be distributed via social media and other platforms," a Vocativ spokesperson said in a statement. "The tremendous success we've experienced since our launch in both long- and short-form video has positioned us well for this evolution."
Some Vocativ employees took to Twitter to talk about the layoffs.
"Had a wonderful time at Vocativ, but we've all been laid off," tweeted Kevin Collier, Vocativ's senior privacy and security reporter. "Floored by response to this; thanks so much."
Floored by response to this; thanks so much.
If you're hiring anything else (sports/tech/science), hmu—I know great unemployed journos now. — Kevin Collier (@kevincollier) June 14, 2017
The news at HuffPost and Vocativ come just one day after Time Inc. announced that it will eliminate 300 positions through layoffs and buyouts.
Related: Time Inc. cuts 300 positions
Other media outlets have seen major developments with their workforces with the New York Times announcing a long-anticipated buyout program last month and ESPN cutting a number of its most familiar faces as part of a larger layoff of 100 on-air personalities and writers.

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Under the agreement, the Marketing Solutions group — which accounts for three-fourths of Acxiom's revenue and develops software that helps companies and their brands manage large volumes of data — will be folded into IPG's properties. What's left of Acxiom will remain independent but will change its name, headquarters and focus.
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Question: Uganda House committee approves Age Limit Bill

Although the main report has made its recommendations, they are not final.
However, sources have told the Monitor that on account of the disagreements, especially on the proposed amendment to Article 102 (b) of the Constitution, there will be two reports — the main report and the minority report.
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A Ugandan parliamentary committee has approved changes aimed at scrapping presidential age limit.
Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee members endorsed the most sweeping constitutional changes since 2005, with 18 votes— taking a significant leap forward as 10th Parliament seeks to increase presidential term from five to seven years.
Referendum
Although Article 105 (1), which provides for a five-year presidential term, was not among the proposed constitutional amendments, the Monitor understands that a polarised committee retreat on Friday approved a seven-year presidential term and recommended a referendum.
President Yoweri Museveni has since backed a seven-year term and the age limit removal.
But as “a bargain chip” in the dramatic endorsement of the removal of age limits, the ruling National Resistance Movement members, according to committee sources, backed the Opposition demand for the restoration of the term limits in the Ugandan constitution.
The terms limit was removed by MPs in the 7th Parliament in 2005 to allow President Museveni contest for a third term in office during the 2006 elections.
NRM MPs
Although Opposition MPs have welcomed the proposed restoration of the term limits in the constitution, they have accused NRM MPs of trying to appease a bigger part of their voters who had warned them not to tinker with the Constitution.
The debate on the proposed restoration of term limits, however, became controversial after committee members failed to agree on whether a president who has already served two or more terms under the current legal regime, should be allowed to “count afresh” and even contest under the new political dispensation.
The matter was left to the House to decide.
“It’s obvious the NRM MPs are trying to bury their heads in the sand like an ostrich…they are hunting for an enticing excuse in exchange to appease voters who rejected the amendment to Article 102 (b),” Masaka Municipality MP Mathias Mpuuga said.
Expressing fears that the proposed restoration of the term limits might not sail through Parliament, Mr Mpuuga and other Opposition lawmakers told the Monitor that the trade-off is mere window-dressing, and that “the same people who removed the term limits are still around and their appetite for power and patronage seems to grow.”
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Mr Mpuuga said: “The issue at hand is about cultivating a culture of respect for laws of the land... the two most important Articles [102 (b) and 105 (2)] that acted as safeguards of nascent democracy were never tested but seen as roadblocks warranting removal, without addressing why they existed in the first place. This is absurd.”
The ruling party members backed by “friendly” independents used their numerical strength in the committee to endorse the removal of age limit from the 1995 constitution in spite of the dissenting views from minority legislators led by Busiro East MP Medard Lubega Ssegona, Bugweri MP Abdu Katuntu and Kumi MP Monicah Amoding (NRM).
At least seven committee members— including Opposition chief whip, Ssemuju Ibrahim Nganda and Kampala Central MP Muhammad Nsereko— were conspicuously absent.
Some of the absentee MPs were attending the 8th Inter-Parliamentary Games in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Voting
Since Thursday, members of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee have been holed up at the Lake Victoria Serena, Kigo, to write their report ahead of the anticipated Second Reading of the Raphael Magyezi’s Constitutional (Amendments) Bill, 2017 on Tuesday.
However, sources have told the Monitor that on account of the disagreements, especially on the proposed amendment to Article 102 (b) of the Constitution, there will be two reports — the main report and the minority report.
Although the main report has made its recommendations, they are not final.
The Committee of the Whole House chaired by Speaker will debate the two reports and vote on each of them— including the controversial proposed amendments— before a final decision is made.
Although there were reports in the corridors of Lake Victoria Serena Hotel that those who voted in favour of the removal of the age limit from the 1995 Constitution pocketed Ush100 million ($28,000) each as part of a Ush300 million ($84,000) deal, the Monitor could not independently verify these claims.
In backing the removal of age limit caps, the 18 MPs branded Article 102 (b) as “discriminatory” and insisted that the choice should be left to the voters since under Article 1, power belongs to the people.
Consensus
The members also argued that there are many leaders all over the world who are above 75 and that many prosperous countries like the US don’t have age restrictions.
On the other hand, in the draft minority report, those against the removal of age limit asked their colleagues to account for the views of Ugandans who rejected the proposed amendments and insisted that there should be qualifications for leadership positions since the law provides for academic and citizenship qualifications.
They have also argued that discrimination is under Article 21 (3) and age is not one of them.
Without delving into the details of the two reports, Mr Oboth Oboth, the committee chairperson said: “We have concluded report writing; we have two reports— majority and minority— because there is no unanimity in the matter. It’s a controversial matter you cannot have consensus.”
Once the report(s) signing process is done, Mr Oboth Oboth told the Monitor that the two reports will be officially presented to the Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and then a decision will be made at that level to schedule the Second Reading of the Constitutional (Amendments) Bill on the order paper.

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A Ugandan parliamentary committee has approved changes aimed at scrapping presidential age limit.
Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee members endorsed the most sweeping constitutional changes since 2005, with 18 votes— taking a significant leap forward as 10th Parliament seeks to increase presidential term from five to seven years.
5-YEAR TERM
Although Article 105 (1), which provides for a five-year presidential term, was not among the proposed constitutional amendments, the Monitor understands that a polarised committee retreat on Friday approved a seven-year presidential term and recommended a referendum.
President Yoweri Museveni has since backed a seven-year term and the age limit removal.
But as “a bargain chip” in the dramatic endorsement of the removal of age limits, the ruling National Resistance Movement members, according to committee sources, backed the Opposition demand for the restoration of the term limits in the Ugandan constitution.
The terms limit was removed by MPs in the 7th Parliament in 2005 to allow President Museveni contest for a third term in office during the 2006 elections.
NRM MPs
Although Opposition MPs have welcomed the proposed restoration of the term limits in the constitution, they have accused NRM MPs of trying to appease a bigger part of their voters who had warned them not to tinker with the Constitution.
The debate on the proposed restoration of term limits, however, became controversial after committee members failed to agree on whether a president who has already served two or more terms under the current legal regime, should be allowed to “count afresh” and even contest under the new political dispensation.
he matter was left to the House to decide.
“It’s obvious the NRM MPs are trying to bury their heads in the sand like an ostrich…they are hunting for an enticing excuse in exchange to appease voters who rejected the amendment to Article 102 (b),” Masaka Municipality MP Mathias Mpuuga said.
Expressing fears that the proposed restoration of the term limits might not sail through Parliament, Mr Mpuuga and other Opposition lawmakers told the Monitor that the trade-off is mere window-dressing, and that “the same people who removed the term limits are still around and their appetite for power and patronage seems to grow.”
7 MEMBERS
Mr Mpuuga said: “The issue at hand is about cultivating a culture of respect for laws of the land… the two most important Articles [102 (b) and 105 (2)] that acted as safeguards of nascent democracy were never tested but seen as roadblocks warranting removal, without addressing why they existed in the first place. This is absurd.”
- Advertisement -
The ruling party members backed by “friendly” independents used their numerical strength in the committee to endorse the removal of age limit from the 1995 constitution in spite of the dissenting views from minority legislators led by Busiro East MP Medard Lubega Ssegona, Bugweri MP Abdu Katuntu and Kumi MP Monicah Amoding (NRM).
At least seven committee members— including Opposition chief whip, Ssemuju Ibrahim Nganda and Kampala Central MP Muhammad Nsereko — were conspicuously absent.
Some of the absentee MPs were attending the 8th Inter-Parliamentary Games in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
VOTING
Since Thursday, members of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee have been holed up at the Lake Victoria Serena, Kigo, to write their report ahead of the anticipated Second Reading of the Raphael Magyezi’s Constitutional (Amendments) Bill, 2017 on Tuesday.
However, sources have told the Monitor that on account of the disagreements, especially on the proposed amendment to Article 102 (b) of the Constitution, there will be two reports — the main report and the minority report.
Although the main report has made its recommendations, they are not final.
The Committee of the Whole House chaired by Speaker will debate the two reports and vote on each of them— including the controversial proposed amendments— before a final decision is made.
Although there were reports in the corridors of Lake Victoria Serena Hotel that those who voted in favour of the removal of the age limit from the 1995 Constitution pocketed USh100 milion each as part of a Shs300m deal, the Monitor could not independently verify these claims.
In backing the removal of age limit caps, the 18 MPs branded Article 102 (b) as “discriminatory” and insisted that the choice should be left to the voters since under Article 1, power belongs to the people.
CONSENSUS
The members also argued that there are many leaders all over the world who are above 75 and that many prosperous countries like the US don’t have age restrictions.
On the other hand, in the draft minority report, those against the removal of age limit asked their colleagues to account for the views of Ugandans who rejected the proposed amendments and insisted that there should be qualifications for leadership positions since the law provides for academic and citizenship qualifications.
They have also argued that discrimination is under Article 21 (3) and age is not one of them.
Without delving into the details of the two reports, Mr Oboth Oboth, the committee chairperson said: “We have concluded report writing; we have two reports— majority and minority— because there is no unanimity in the matter. It’s a controversial matter you cannot have consensus.”
Once the report(s) signing process is done, Mr Oboth Oboth told the Monitor that the two reports will be officially presented to the Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and then a decision will be made at that level to schedule the Second Reading of the Constitutional (Amendments) Bill on the order paper.


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Question: Marquette Professor Asks: Is Wisconsin Too Tough on Crime?

At the end of 2016, Wisconsin housed over 22,000 prison inmates, according to the Department of Corrections. Similar to other states across the nation, the number of inmates in Wisconsin has ballooned since the 1970s, rising nearly tenfold over the past four decades.
In his new book, Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough-on-Crime Era , Marquette law professor Michael O’Hear chronicles the current state of mass incarceration in the nation by profiling the policies and laws that have been enforced across the Badger state. In this eye-opening account, O’Hear draws out lessons from the Wisconsin experience to tell a broader tale of the current state of the American justice system. Largely as a result of controversial policies including mandatory sentencing and “three strikes” laws, prisons—in Wisconsin and elsewhere—have grown overcrowded, taxpayers have shelled out millions to fund aging facilities, and inmates and their families have suffered untold miseries. Wisconsin Sentencing in the Tough-on-Crime Era is a political and social history that shares a dynamic story of national criminal justice trends as well as statewide efforts at prison reform.
O’Hear was editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities and served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal . After practicing civil and criminal litigation in Chicago, he joined the faculty at Marquette University in 2000. O’Hear will speak at Boswell Book Co. at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 17.
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Question: Under New Leader, Gambia Cancels Withdrawal From International Criminal Court

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As Gambia's new president Adama Barrow settles into his new role, he is also taking steps to resuscitate international ties cut off by his predecessor Yahya Jammeh, including membership to the International Criminal Court and the Commonwealth of Nations.
The tiny West African nation has now formally informed the United Nations that it is reversing its request to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, made by Jammeh last October.
The new government issued a statement announcing its reversal on state television, Reuters reported. "As a new government that has committed itself to the promotion of human rights ... we reaffirm The Gambia's commitment to the principles enshrined in the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court," the government said.
Jammeh's withdrawal from the ICC had not yet taken hold — according to the terms of the Rome Statute, a state's withdrawal goes into effect a year after initial notification.
At the time, Gambia had accused the court of being biased against Africans, with one government minister going so far as to describe it as the "International Caucasian Court," as The Two-Way reported. Gambia, like South Africa and Burundi, accused the court of ignoring crimes of non-African nations and took steps to withdraw late last year. Here's more from our previous reporting:
"Every person tried by the ICC since the treaty creating it was adopted in 1998 has been African. "Other war crimes trials have been carried out by ad hoc tribunals created after a specific conflict, such as those created for Yugoslavia and Cambodia, or for the Nuremberg trials conducted after World War II."
Clément Capo-Chichi, Africa regional coordinator with the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, told The Associated Press that the move is a "crucial victory for victims of grave crimes and the rule of law."
Barrow's road to the presidency was extremely tumultuous. In December's presidential election he defeated Jammeh, the leader of Gambia for 22 years. But then Jammeh refused to step down, eventually resulting in West African military troops crossing Gambia's borders. After Barrow was sworn into office in neighboring Senegal, Jammeh eventually succumbed to massive international pressure and left the country.
He fled to Equatorial Guinea – incidentally, a country that is not a member state of the ICC.
Now, the new Gambian government is also receiving high-profile diplomatic visits and pledges of international support.
U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson paid Barrow a visit Tuesday, which the BBC describes as "the first to the Gambia by a British foreign secretary." On the agenda: Gambia's request to rejoin the Commonwealth of Nations, an international organization comprised of 52 nations that were once British colonies.
The former leader pulled Gambia out of the Commonwealth in 2013, according to a statement from the organization. Now, a Commonwealth spokesperson said it welcomed the move: "We looked forward to the country's eventual return because it was part of our very close knit family and our doors have always remained open."
The European Union has also declared a "new chapter of relations with The Gambia." It froze assistance nearly three years ago, according to the BBC. But last week, EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica traveled to Gambia and announced a $79 million package of immediate support.
Jammeh had a dismal human rights record. Barrow appears to be taking steps to change that pattern. As Reuters reported, "police opened their first investigation on Monday into unresolved deaths and disappearances under Jammeh."
In a recent press conference, Barrow also stated that he intends to convene a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to address human rights violations of his predecessor.
He was also candid about the scope of obstacles he faces: "There was a government here for 22 years. 22 years is a long time. And we are able to change the government after 22 years, so obviously there will be a lot of challenges. To look at all the system, and make a complete overhaul. I think that is a big challenge to my new government."

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Question: [PICS] Selena Gomez Throws The Weeknd A Birthday Party For $30,000

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The Weeknd is one lucky guy! Not only does Valentine’s Day fall on the same week as his 27th birthday, but generous girlfriend Selena Gomez just threw him an insanely costly party for $30,000! Read on to find out how the crooner celebrated!
What’s better than Valentine’s Day and your birthday? CELEBRATING THEM AT THE SAME TIME, of course. With V-Day on Feb. 14 and his 27th B-Day on the 16th, The Weeknd was due for a serious party. Selena Gomez treated her man and his friends to a day at Dave & Buster’s arcade in Hollywood — a pricey bash that reportedly cost her $30 THOUSAND. The “Good For You” stunner rented out the place for The Weeknd, Travis Scott, 2 Chainz and MORE to enjoy, according to TMZ.
His birthday party could’ve been perfect, except there was one major thing missing. AND THAT’S SELENA! The brunette beauty unfortunately had to skip out on the fun because of New York Fashion Week, yet she still picked up the expensive tab at the end of the night. The Dave & Buster’s festivities were popping off from 11pm to 2am, all the while Selena was having fun in the Big Apple with her closest friends. Her credit card, though, stayed behind in LA to pay for everything The Weeknd’s heart desired.
Dave & Buster’s has got to be one of The Weeknd’s favorite places to hang out by now, considering he took his lady there once before. Just a few weeks ago, Selena and the Grammys performer had a blast with pals French Montana and Jaden Smith inside the arcade. That was the second time we saw the lovebirds out in public together, after they were photographed flaunting PDA outside the Giorgio Baldi restaurant in Santa Monica. Selena must also be a Dave & Buster’s expert at this point since Justin Bieber also took her there! Who knew an arcade would become a celeb hot spot?
HollywoodLifers, are you surprised that Selena spent $30K on The Weeknd’s birthday?!
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Question: Furnished Quarters to Host Bideawee Pet Adoption in Jersey City April 27th

JERSEY CITY, NJ--(Marketwired - April 18, 2017) - Furnished Quarters, the leading provider of temporary furnished apartments in the Northeastern United States and beyond, is collaborating with animal welfare organization, Bideawee, to host a pet adoption event in Jersey City, New Jersey.
The event will take place at the entrance to the Grove PATH Station (PATH Plaza), just steps from Furnished Quarters' residences at apartment buildings Grove Pointe and Marbella. Meet adoptable dogs and cats of all ages and sizes on Thursday, April 27th from 4 to 7pm. Bideawee's Mobile Adoption Van will be on site for passersby or pet-seekers to get to know these adorable four-legged friends. There will be giveaways for both people and pets at this special community event.
"We have a company-wide appreciation for animals, inviting our guests to bring their beloved dogs and cats with them when they stay at our locations," said Steve Brown, CEO of Furnished Quarters. "That's why we are honored to work with Bideawee to help find welcoming homes for these pets with our guests and neighbors."
"Identifying great families for our pets is so important and we rely on adoption events to get the word out and find our rescue animals good homes," said Dolores Swirin-Yao, President/CEO of Bideawee. "We thank Furnished Quarters for their support and assistance with our upcoming adoption event. They clearly share our enthusiasm for rescuing animals!"
About Furnished Quarters
Furnished Quarters provides stylish, fully equipped temporary furnished apartments, both nationally and globally. The company, established in 1998 in New York City by brothers Steven and Gary Brown, is the largest independently owned and operated supplier of short-term housing in the Northeastern United States, with a focus on New York City and Boston. Corporate clients have one-call access to over 40,000 furnished rentals worldwide that are sourced, vetted and managed by Furnished Quarters' Global Solutions Center. Additionally, the company's Q&A Residential Hotel in Lower Manhattan offers hotel-style stays in full-sized apartments. Pets are welcome in most Furnished Quarters apartments, and at Q&A Hotel. For more information visit furnishedquarters.com.
About Bideawee
Bideawee, which means "stay awhile," in Scottish, is one of the country's oldest and most respected animal welfare and pet adoption organizations. Founded in 1903, Bideawee's mission is to be Greater New York's leader in rescuing, caring for, and placing homeless cats and dogs with people who love them. Bideawee provides an array of high touch services including adoption centers, animal hospitals, pet therapy programs, and pet memorial parks that serve pets and pet lovers on their lifelong journey together.
Bideawee is a not-for-profit 501(c) 3 humane animal organization and 100% of Bideawee's funding comes from private sources. Bideawee operates in New York City, Wantagh, and Westhampton. For more information, visit: bideawee.org.
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Out and About: What’s Happening the Week of 12/11
Holiday events abound, many of them, to support great causes
Addie Graham-Kramer, president of The Event Company, joins us every Monday with insight into some of the events happening in and around the region. Check out what’s happening the week of December 11! Further details are listed below for each event.
Tuesday, December 12, Albert and Gage’s “One More Christmas” at the Washington Pavilion, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, December 13 – 22, Art Moms and Friends Holiday Pop Up
Thursday, December 14, Ceili Dance at the Old Courthouse Museum (Irish music and dancing)
Thursday, December 14 – 17, Christmas at the Cathedral at St. Joseph’s Cathedral
Saturday, December 16, 2nd Annual Ugly Sweaters for Survivors Party
Sunday, December 17, Kaydyn’s Wonderland Winter Formal at Sioux Falls American Legion


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Question: Man detained in Germany on suspicion of financing terror

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A 16-year-old girl, her boyfriend and another man have been charged with terrorism offences over what police suspect was a plot to attack the Eiffel Tower.
The girl, named only as Sara, and her 20-year-old boyfriend, Thomas Sauret, both converts to Islam, were charged with making and possessing explosives found at the couple’s home.
They were also charged with criminal association for terrorist purposes, along with Malik Hammami, 33, a convicted drug dealer and thief who is suspected of assisting them.
Police believe their arrests in the southern city of Montpellier on Friday foiled an “imminent” attack.


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Question: Korean unity at Vatican? Not so fast, but pope cheers anyway

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Pope Francis thanked the athletes for their exhibition “which was a show of the will for peace, the two Koreas together.”
Taekwondo athlethes from South Korea perform for Pope Francis during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
South Korean taekwondo athletes have performed for Pope Francis, after a planned show of Korean unity at the Vatican fell apart when the North pulled out at the last minute.
Pope Francis didn’t seem to notice or mind, thanking the athletes Wednesday for their exhibition “which was a show of the will for peace, the two Koreas together.”
South Korea’s World Taekwondo organization, the Seoul-led international body, said last week that a demonstration team from the North withdrew from the performance over the U.S.-South Korean military drills.
The performance had been planned to ceremonially open the World Taekwondo’s Grand Prix competition this week in Rome.
The South’s team performed for thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square and featured a young girl releasing a dove in a sign of peace.
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Pope Francis says he would like to visit China
China and the Vatican are close to reaching a historic deal regarding the appointment of bishops, according to media reports.
An agreement could be signed in a few months, said a senior Vatican source. If reached, it would be a breakthrough in relations for both parties.
But what exactly is in the pipeline and what would it mean for the country's 10 million Catholics?
What are relations between China and the Vatican like?
Ties between two have long been strained by disputes over who can appoint bishops in the country.
China first broke off diplomatic ties with the Holy See in 1951, and many Catholics were forced to go underground during former communist leader Mao Zedong's rule, emerging only in the 1980s when religious practices were tolerated again.
Today, Catholics in China face the choice of attending state-sanctioned churches approved by Beijing or worshipping in underground congregations.
The underground churches recognise only the Vatican's authority, whereas the Chinese state churches refuse to accept the authority of the Pope.
There are currently about 100 Catholic bishops in China, with some approved by Beijing, some approved by the Vatican and, informally, many now approved by both.
Image caption People praying at an underground church
Relations between both parties appear to be thawing.
Last year, Pope Francis made his thoughts about China known, saying that he would like to visit China "as soon as they send me an invitation". The pontiff also added that he hoped there was the "possibility to have good relations with China".
Chinese and Vatican officials have met at least four times since 2016 over the issue of the appointment of bishops, state media report.
What is in the agreement?
Under the agreement, the Vatican would be given a say in the appointment of future bishops in China, a Vatican source told news agency Reuters.
For Beijing, an agreement with the Vatican could allow them more control over the country's underground churches.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Father Dong Guanhua has been kicked out of the Chinese Catholic church for calling himself a bishop
Globally, it would also enhance China's prestige - to have the world's rising superpower engaging with one of the world's major religions.
Symbolically, it would the first sign of rapprochement between China and the Catholic church in more than half a century.
The Vatican is the only European state that maintains formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan. It is currently unclear if an agreement between China and the Vatican would affect this in any way.
What will this mean for the country's Catholics?
There are currently around 10 million Roman Catholics in China.
It's not certain how such an agreement will affect the community, though some are sceptical.
Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong had on Wednesday criticised the Vatican for its attempts at diplomacy with China, accusing the Church of forcing bishops to retire in favour of replacements picked by Beijing.
"Do I think that the Vatican is selling out the Catholic Church in China?" he wrote on Facebook. "Yes, definitely."
Others however, are slightly more hopeful.
Father Jeroom Heyndrickx, a Belgian priest who has spent 60 years trying to help Chinese Catholics, said that he believed China was "ready to have a dialogue."
"For 2,000 years in China, the emperor was emperor and pope at the same time," he told the BBC. "But China has changed and the Church has changed and this is what constitutes a new opportunity for this dialogue to succeed."


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Question: Democrats seek balance between base's demands, election wins

Pennsylvania's Conor Lamb and Alabama Sen. Doug Jones, the new miracle men of the Democratic Party, offer a clear model for how to run in Republican territory: Focus on economics, not guns, immigration or President Donald Trump.
But that won't be easy when much of the party is whipped into a fervor over those topics.
As the party barrels into primary season, its biggest success stories star Democratic moderates who have run strong in Trump country. But much of the energy in the party is on the left, where an active base is calling for single-payer health care, a $15-an-hour minimum wage and bans on certain weapons and ammunition. Finding the balance between the base's demands and winning general elections is Democrats' new mission as they look toward the November midterms.
The challenge will greet Democratic candidates across 75 targeted GOP-held districts that Trump won in 2016, as well as the 10 Democratic senators facing re-election challenges in states Trump won.
U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) (L) participates in a mock swearing-in ceremony as Jones' wife Louise (R) and son Carson (2nd L) look on at the Old Senate Chamber of the U.S. Capitol January 3, 2018 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images
To be sure, most of those districts are friendlier to Democrats than Jones' Alabama, which Trump won by nearly 30 percentage points, and Lamb's southwest Pennsylvania House district, where Trump won by nearly 20 percentage points. Lamb maintains a lead of fewer than 700 votes. That race has not been called.
The questions of tone, emphasis and policy nonetheless hang over Democrats' mission to flip the 24 GOP-held seats they need for a House majority and their path to reverse Republicans' 51-49 Senate advantage.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who is in line for a second stint as speaker if the Democrats are victorious in November, says the dangers of competing — and sometimes unhappy — factions are overblown.
"It's not a question of ideology. We all believe in working families, that's what unifies us," she told The Associated Press. "In order to win, it has to be an economic message."
U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a weekly news conference March 1, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images
Republicans acknowledged Lamb's strong performance this week in Pennsylvania as a wakeup call. But they also insist Lamb and Jones, who won his Senate seat last year, were unusual candidates. They competed in special elections where turnout is unpredictable, ran against flawed Republican nominees and, importantly, emerged unscathed from primaries.
Some top Democratic recruits face serious primary battles.
In southern New Jersey's 2nd District, where Republican Frank LoBiondo is retiring, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee touts state Sen. Jeff Van Drew as "a bipartisan consensus builder" who wins his majority Republican legislative district easily. Trump won the congressional district by almost 5 points in 2016; LoBiondo got 59 percent of the vote.
Yet liberals hammer Van Drew as a National Rifle Association supporter and abortion-rights threat. Van Drew has backed certain abortion restrictions as a legislator. His loudest critics support retired teacher Tanzie Youngblood, who supports gun restrictions and abortion rights.
"Progressive activists have to save the party from itself, otherwise we'll be represented by Republicans masquerading as Democrats," Youngblood said on her campaign Facebook account this week. Democratic leaders, she said, "are out of touch with the base of the party."
Lamb could be headed for a similar squeeze. Because of a new, court-ordered congressional map in Pennsylvania, he will need to start campaigning in a newly drawn district that is less Republican than his current one. There are already two declared candidates in that race, including a prominent local attorney who is to Lamb's left on guns and health care.
Alabama's Jones downplays those kinds of fights, insisting at a recent national party fundraiser that "it's time to find the common ground." Jones didn't hide his support for abortion rights but emphasized "kitchen-table issues" at every opportunity and pledged to work with anyone, even Trump. Since joining the Senate, he's voted with Republicans to end a government shutdown that liberal activists wanted but stuck with his party in voting against GOP-backed abortion restrictions.
A less strident approach, he said, "will lead us to the kinds of victories that I believe we're on the verge of having in November."
Democrats stress that may not be true in every race, dismissing concerns that some policy positions may be too liberal to sell in November.
US Rep. Tom Perriello(L) D-VA, speaks to voter Charles Bailey during a campaign rally at Tonsler Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on October 10, 2010. STR/AFP/Getty Images
Tom Perriello, who ran for Virginia governor as a liberal in 2017, said, "People are coming to realize that we have misunderstood how mainstream progressive thinking is." He lost a primary to Ralph Northam but pulled Northam to the left on some issues, including minimum wage. Northam won the general election by 9 points anyway.
Perriello noted that "the Republican civil war" hasn't exactly abated.
Recent GOP history shows Democrats the very double-edged sword at issue. Republicans were fueled by the tea party rise in 2009 and 2010, winning a wave election that gave them the House and many statehouses around the country. But tea party nominees also cost them winnable Senate seats during Barack Obama's presidency — Christine O'Donnell in Delaware in 2010, Todd Akin in Missouri in 2012. And those tea party nominees who captured the House in 2010 have often upended the GOP's ability to get major legislation through.
Those dynamics now leave Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan the target of aggressive attacks from two Democrats who want to oust him in his southern Wisconsin district, where Trump won 53 percent of the vote.
United States Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, speaks during the Friends of Ireland luncheon at the United States Capitol March 15, 2018 in Washington, DC. Pool/Getty Images
"Paul Ryan has shown no leadership," says Cathy Myers, a teacher and Ryan's local school board representative who is in a Democratic primary fight with union worker Randy Bryce.
Of course, Myers and Bryce both embrace a litany of liberal positions that leave national party leaders only cautiously watching the race, despite having identified Ryan's seat as a target.
"With all due respect to the national party, the first thing I have to do is look to my district and find out what they care about," Myers said, insisting her approach can defeat the speaker. "People want authentic candidates, and they want leadership."
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Associated Press writer Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed to this report.

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Regardless of their politics, those who have served in elected office alongside Morgan Carroll will tell you she's one politician who doesn't flinch. Now the chair of the state Democratic Party, Carroll is a veteran of the campaign trail who carved out a reputation as a dogged warrior. After years in the legislature, where she was known as a forceful voice for her caucus and her party platform, she now brings her combat skills to a new calling that also will require her to be a unifier. Have Democrats closed ranks since 2016's smackdown between the supporters of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton? And what are the party's prospects in a state where unaffiliated voters outnumber either Democrats or Republicans? Carroll takes on those and other questions in today's Q&A.


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Question: Molecular switch drives powerful movement by opposing twisting helices

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Plants are capable of producing powerful movement that is initiated at the molecular level. This fast motion is often supported by helix-based architectures, for example in vetches or orchids that spread seeds by explosive opening of their pods. Researchers now demonstrate in the journal Angewandte Chemie that these biological strategies can be re-engineered by interfacing molecular switches with man-made materials.
Inspired by the evolutionary strategies that support the movement of plants, the team headed by Stephen P. Fletcher at the University of Oxford (UK) and Nathalie Katsonis at the University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands) joined together two strips of liquid-crystal elastomers into a pod-like casing. Light-triggered re-arrangement (isomerization) of a "molecular switch" incorporated in the material drives the twisting of the two valves in opposing directions, until the casing bursts open from strain.
"This is a man-made material in which the collective action of molecular switches produces powerful movement at the macroscale", says Katsonis. "A slow and continuous movement will produce work over a large period of time, hence it offers low power density. If you confine work over a short period of time, you get more power." With this plant-like molecular device the scientists demonstrate that it is possible to program molecular materials to perform complex tasks. Says Katsonis: "Ultimately and in the long term we hope that life-like materials could promote a transition towards adaptive, energy efficient, and sustainable materials."
The design of the pods involves cross-linked liquid crystals, because they are capable of directional (anisotropic) shape transformation. Using a two-step photo-polymerization process, the researchers created a thin film of liquid-crystal elastomer consisting of bars with alternating low and high ordered liquid-crystalline states. Then, strips are cut out of this film. When irradiated with UV light, the molecular switches integrated in the elastomer isomerize from their straight to their bent form. This causes the highly ordered bars to shrink along their long axis—much more than the disordered bars do, resulting in a difference in length between the bars.
The angle at which the film is cut determines what happens macroscopically: strips cut at 0° or 90° to the long axis bend without a twist when irradiated. Cuts at 45° or 135° result in helical strips that wind under illumination—with opposite directions of twist. The researchers brought two mirror-image strips together. Under irradiation, the pod bends along its long axis, then forms a tube along its transverse axis, in which the mirror-image helices work against each other and strain accumulates, until the pod pops open from stress. "The accumulation of strain in tubular architectures is an elegant engineering strategy that is common in nature, and here it allows to amplify the action of a few dynamic molecules, and transforms it into powerful movement."
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More information: Sarah J. Aßhoff et al. High-Power Actuation from Molecular Photoswitches in Enantiomerically Paired Soft Springs, Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2017). DOI: 10.1002/anie.201611325

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Some of the most effective treatments against viral infections and cancer belong to a class of drugs called nucleoside analogs. These are essentially faulty versions of molecular building blocks that can slip into cells and get incorporated into DNA, effectively throwing a wrench into the machinery that viruses and cancer cells to make copies of themselves.
Such compounds, which include chemotherapeutic agents like 5-fluorouracil and gemcitabine, popular HIV drugs like AZT, and potent hepatitis B treatments like acyclovir, have dramatically changed the outcomes for millions of people afflicted with life-threatening illnesses.
Duke University scientists have now modeled the complex shape and movement of biomolecules to make an animation depicting how nucleoside analogs and natural nucleosides are transported into cells. The heart of the system is a specific molecule aptly named the concentrative nucleoside transporter, or CNT. The scientists' movie shows CNT slowly moving its cargo like an elevator, stopping at various points across the cell membrane before reaching the other side.
Their findings, published early online in Nature, provide important structural information that could be used to design smarter, more specific anticancer and antiviral drugs.
"Our study is the first to provide a visualization of almost every possible conformation of this transporter in motion," said senior study author Seok-Yong Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry at Duke University School of Medicine. "By understanding how this transporter recognizes and imports nucleosides, we may be able to redesign drugs that are better at getting inside specific cells like those harboring cancer or a virus."
The video will load shortly Duke scientists built this 'ribbon diagram' model of how anticancer and antiviral drugs can be transported into cells by a structure called a concentrative nucleoside transporter (CNT -- yellow helices). Movement of the transport domain of the CNT conveys drugs across the cell membrane with an elevator-type motion. Credit: Marscha Hirschi, Duke University
The blueprint for every living organism lies in the twisted strands of DNA buried within cells. These strands are comprised of four nucleotide "bases" - G, A, C, T, arranged along a backbone of sugars and phosphate molecules. Every time a cell grows and divides, it has to make more copies of those original strands of DNA. Hence, active cells are constantly importing more building blocks to replenish their genetic material, especially the essential nucleosides, which are like a nucleotide base without a phosphate attached.
Fifty years ago, scientists designed the first nucleoside analogs, molecular mimics that muck up this DNA construction supply chain in order to incapacitate rapidly growing and particularly needy cancer cells and viruses.
Like their natural counterparts, nucleoside analogues are carried across the cell membrane by special proteins called nucleoside transporters. In this study, Lee's group sought to capture one of the most common transporters, known as the concentrative nucleoside transporter or CNT, as it traversed the membrane.
Marscha Hirschi, a graduate student in Lee's lab, used a technique called x-ray crystallography to create an atomic-level three-dimensional picture of the protein. She then took a series pictures of CNT in different conformations to produce a kind of time-lapse video of the transporter in action: first, as it is ready to capture the nucleoside uridine on the surface of the cell; next, as it moved across the membrane in stages; and finally, as it released the uridine inside the cell.
"We found that there is a region on the protein called the transport domain that acts like an elevator, shifting into different conformations as it transports cargo up and down across the membrane," said Lee. "Other studies had shown that many transporters move in this way, but ours is the first to record nearly all of the stages of the elevator model. This more detailed understanding could provide a platform to the future development of drugs that are more selective and efficient."
Lee says that transporters responsible for importing a variety of different molecules, such as neurotransmitters, metabolites, and ions, use mechanisms similar to CNT. Thus, the new findings could have implications that reach beyond viral infections and cancer to a number of different clinically relevant physiological processes.
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More information: Visualizing multistep elevator-like transitions of a nucleoside transporter, Nature (2017). nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature22057