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Bet the Farm by Staci Hart
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Librarian Laura's Review of Bet the Farm Olivia "Livi" Brent left the family farm many years ago, opting for life as a city girl in New York with her aunt, while she earned a degree. She never thought she'd see the day when she had to return under such sad circumstances. Her grandfather, Frank, "Pop"… Continue reading Bet the Farm by Staci Hart
Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland
Review originally published in Library Journal, July 2020. The determined daughter of Jewish bakery owners in Atlantic City, Florence Adler, 20, starts the summer of 1934 swimming, as she trains for an upcoming trip to France to swim the English Channel. When the siren of the sea's life is cut short in tragedy, Esther and Joseph… Continue reading Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland
Breathless by Jennifer Niven
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I've been a Jennifer Niven fan since reading All the Bright Places. If you haven't read that one yet, please read it! But don't watch the Netflix film first...trust me, the book is better. ALWAYS. Anyhow, I've read all of her other books, and this new one is now my favorite! I listened to it… Continue reading Breathless by Jennifer Niven
And They Called it Camelot by Stephanie Marie Thornton
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Originally published in Library Journal, March 2020. Thornton's novel is an intimate portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis through the best and worst of her legendary life. A writer for the Times Herald at age 23, she marries war hero turned Congressman, Jack Kennedy, devoting herself fully to him through surgery and serious illness, years… Continue reading And They Called it Camelot by Stephanie Marie Thornton
What You Wish For by Katherine Center
What You Wish For releases on July 14, 2020. As with all of Center's novels, I found this book compelling from the very start and ended up reading it mostly in one sitting. Center has a way with connecting characters to her readers, building empathy and investment from the outset. This particular book really hit… Continue reading What You Wish For by Katherine Center
Love Starts Here by Traci Borum
Jill McCallister, a seasoned mystery author with a bad case of writer's block, is having a hard time coming up with an idea for a new book, which is due to her editor soon. Thinking it will refresh her brain and help her to reset and hopefully spark new ideas, she asks her for a… Continue reading Love Starts Here by Traci Borum
If You Must Know by Jamie Beck
About the Book Sisters Amanda Foster and Erin Turner have little in common except the childhood bedroom they once shared and the certainty each feels that her way of life is best. Amanda follows the rules—at the school where she works; in her community; and as a picture-perfect daughter, wife, and mother-to-be. Erin follows her… Continue reading If You Must Know by Jamie Beck
The Second Home by Christina Clancy
Christina Clancy's debut novel will have readers both intrigued by and invested in the well-loved Cape Cod summer home and the members of the Gordon family who faithfully traveled there each summer long after the final pages end. Fans of J. Courtney Sullivan and Jennifer Weiner will delight in this novel, releasing June 2, 2020.… Continue reading The Second Home by Christina Clancy
The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
The Happy Ever After Playlist is a stand alone romantic comedy with all the feels you want in a romcom. For further enjoyment, it can be read as a follow-up to Abby Jimenez's first book, The Friend Zone, which features Kristin and Josh. The Happy Ever After Playlist is the story of Sloan, Kristin's best… Continue reading The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
Don't Go Stealing My Heart by Kelly Siskind
About The Book She wants to steal his Van Gogh. He wants to steal her heart. Some people would call Clementine Abernathy a criminal. She considers herself a modern day Robin Hood, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. Not exactly on the up-and-up, but she knows what it's like to lose… Continue reading Don't Go Stealing My Heart by Kelly Siskind


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The ThunderWolves prepare for the upcoming season at their first practice Aug. 13. Photo by Dustin Cox.
The Colorado State University-Pueblo ThunderWolves will start their season in a game against Central Washington Sept. 5 at 5 p.m.
The Pack will be returning 16 starters from the 2014 NCAA Division II National Championship team, which includes six on a defensive unit that finished first in NCAA Division II in scoring defense.
CSU-Pueblo's leading tackler is back for the 2015 season. Senior inside linebacker Joe Rosenbrock will again help to lead the defense after he totaled 107 tackles, 61 of them solo, last year as a junior.
Another returning player to watch this season is senior running back Cameron McDondle, who set a ThunderWolves single season record with 2,014 rushing yards to finish third nationally in 2014.
The Pack is also returning three of the four top receivers this year. Kieren Duncan, who is the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Preseason All-RMAC selection and led the team in reception yards last season, will guide the receivers this season.
Coming into Saturday's game, the Central Washington Wildcats are coming off of a 7-4 record under second year head coach Ian Shoemaker. The Wildcats tied for second in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference with a 4-2 mark and were pegged to finish third in the GNAC Preseason Coach's Poll.
Central Washington has welcomed back their top quarterback, running back, and two of the top three receivers from last season. The junior quarterback Jake Nelson threw for 2,702 yards and 23 touchdowns with 13 interceptions last season.
The contest between the ThunderWolves and Wildcats will be the first time they have played each other. With the ThunderWolves entering the season ranked No. 2 in the preseason poll, they are pegged to win.
Since 2011, the Pack has won 48 games and is well known for home victories with 22 consecutive wins. CSU-Pueblo has won each of its season openers and all seven home openers since the program returned to the school in 2008.
Following the fall camp, the ThunderWolves have named Malcolm Ruben as the starting quarterback for the home opener.
The game will be broadcast on the channel Altitude 2 nationally.
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Orphanages in Cambodia are often operated without government's knowledge and therefore tens of thousands of children are invisible to the system. More than half of residential child care centers in Cambodia are unregistered and completely off government's radar according to a new report by the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY) and UNICEF Cambodia.
Chinese President Xi Jinping's right-hand man has urged North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to realise the consensus on denuclearisation he reached with US President Donald Trump in Singapore in June.
Is China changing its strategy towards North Korea?
As China withdraws, Russia advances: what's up with North Korea?
Should China turn its back on North Korea?
Chinese Foreign minister Wang Yi told his Japanese counterpart that China opposes "unhelpful" unilateral sanctions on North Korea but will work within the United Nations to formulate a necessary response to its fifth nuclear test.
bbChina's Commerce Ministry on Tuesday banned imports of gold and rare earths from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and exports to the country of jet fuel and other oil products used to make rocket fuel, a move in line with new United Nations sanctions on Pyongyang.
Is North Korea Fed up With China?
The United States and China have reached an agreement on a new United Nations Security Council draft resolution aimed at punishing North Korea in the wake of its recent nuclear test and for violating previous resolutions, a Security Council diplomat told.
China will back a U.N. Security Council resolution to make North Korea « pay the necessary price » for recent rocket launches, its foreign minister told Reuters on Friday, adding the goal was to get Pyongyang back to the negotiating table.
China is in a position to put decisive pressure on North Korea, but it has demonstrated that it's not prepared to do that.
China will not step in to save neighbouring North Korea if the Pyongyang regime collapses or starts a war, a retired People's Liberation Army general said, possibly signalling waning patience in Beijing with its wayward, nuclear-armed ally.
China says it's against referring ally North Korea to the International Criminal Court over its human rights record.
China-North Korea relations have been strained since Pyongyang conducted its third nuclear test in February 2013. Chinese president Xi Jinping has yet to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, even though he has held two summits with South Korea's president Park Geun-hye.
Beijing's contingency plans for the fall of Kim Jong-un have apparently been leaked to the media. What does this mean for Pyongyang's relations with its only major ally?
China is rejecting the charge of a U.N. human rights inquiry that suggested Beijing was aiding and abetting crimes against humanity by returning defectors to its ally, North Korea.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday that China will never allow chaos or war on the Korean Peninsula, as tensions in the area featured high up the agenda of his Beijing talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
While North Korea has encouraged increased inward investment since Kim Jong-un came to power in 2011, and China–North Korea economic engagement has expanded, Chinese investors taking the plunge investing in North Korea face challenges at each step of the way.
As the crisis in Syria unfolds, a less noticed problem has been the widening gap between China and the United States about how to handle another "rogue regime"—North Korea. After signs of growing cooperation with the U.S. earlier this year, China has reverted to a heavy emphasis on dialogue as a solution to the DPRK nuclear issue. The United States should redouble its efforts to ensure that Beijing continues to adequately pressure Pyongyang.
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South Korea and China have maintained trade with North Korea as a means of enhancing their prosperity and security.


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Lewis Hamilton is leaving Mercedes "ready for curveballs", according to team chief Toto Wolff, over his £120m contract dilemma.
The Brit has not yet signed a new deal with the team that he won a record-equalling seventh Drivers' Championship with last season amid speculation of a retirement from motorsport.
There is confidence, though, is the F1 team that the 36-year-old will sign on for another three years at £40m per season.
But Wolff, who has been at Mercedes for seven years with Hamilton, does not share in his team's confidence.
Speaking toAutosport.com , the F1 chief said: "It doesn't worry me at all, because I will always respect Lewis's decisions.
"Whether this is staying with us for a long time, or whether that means leaving the sport and pursuing different interests. I think we need to be ready for all kinds of curveballs being thrown at us.
"But at the same time, we talk a lot, and we are very transparent with each other. I think there is more to achieve together."
Wolf did go on to praise Hamilton's driving skills, which saw him overtake Michael Schumacher's record of career Grand Prix wins for 95.
He added: "It's not one dimensional.
"Formula 1 has always been about best man in best machine wins. The best man means the quickest driver, and the most intelligent driver.
"[He is] the one that understands how the dynamics in a team works, its technical ability, and on the other side seeing himself in the right context within the organisation and not like a solar system where everything revolves around the sun
"Equally, the organisation around the driver needs to be on its absolute A game in order to deliver performance in the various areas.
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"This is a business without a silver bullet, contrary to what most people think – even within the industry.
"It's a business around marginal gains where everything needs to be in the right place for a team to be successful."
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Global petition urges China to release Tibetan singers
(TibetanReview.net, Dec18, 2013) Globally popular singers such as Peter Gabriel (Genesis), Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien (Radiohead), Serj Tankian (System of a Down) and Tjinder Singh (Cornershop) are the first to sign a petition launched Dec 16 by London-based campaign group Free Tibet, urging China to release eight singers jailed in Tibet for songs celebrating Tibetan culture and calling for freedom, reported looktothestars.org Dec 16.
Singers Lolo (30), Chakdor (32), Pema Trinley (22), Kalsang Yarphel (38) and Shawo Tashi (40) were arrested or sentenced in 2013 while Ugyen Tashi (25), Achok Phulsung (33) and Choksal were jailed in 2012. Two other singers – Trinley Tsekar and Gongpo Tenzin – were arrested in Nov 2013, after the group had put together their campaign petition.
Eleanor Byrne-Rosengren, the campaign group's Director, has said, "Music is a vital part of Tibet's resistance. Singers such as Lolo not only keep alive a culture that China is trying to erase but their songs articulate the aspirations, fears and courage of a people who remain proud and defiant after 60 years of occupation."
Writers, artists, singers, and educators have especially been targeted by the Chinese authorities after a wave of protests against Chinese repression swept the Tibetan Plateau in Mar-Apr 2008, leading to massacres and brutal security measures by the Chinese government.
The group has cited an Apr 2013 US State Department report as saying China had implemented "severe repression of Tibet's unique religious, cultural and linguistic heritage by, among other means, strictly curtailing [Tibetans'] civil rights".
Free Tibet plans to get more signatures on the petition, including from musicians, from all over the world in the coming days.
The petition is addressed to China's justice minister Wu Ailing and the group will make a decision later in the year about when would be the most effective time to hand it in
The petition says, in part: "Singing songs in your own language about the issues of concern to your own people is not a crime. China claims to protect Tibetan culture but by imprisoning these musicians it is suppressing that culture, as well as violating the human rights of these individuals . . . I urge you to ensure that all artists in Tibet and all Tibetans are free to express themselves without fear of arrest, imprisonment or any other form of punishment."
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Breaking the Rules at the Westsound Potluck - Issue #11
From the moment I walked into the kitchen of the Yurt, I could tell that something was wrong. Sachi moved around in a quiet sulk that told me she was crestfallen. This was not a tearful or sad kind of emotion, but a feeling of personal failure with a touch of confusion. After a brief discussion, I learned that a pan of cornbread, a favorite in our house, was showing signs of rebellion. Despite baking the normal length of time, it was not close to done, as evidenced by its liquidy center. When it comes to cooking, there is no room for failure in Sachi's mind. It hits hard.
In isolation, a rebellious cornbread would be no cause for concern. It would be whipped into shape and eaten in due time. But the stakes for this cornbread were considerably higher.
Our neighbor, Grant, has lived on Orcas Island for 25 years and has become a sort of island guide for us. From the very first time we met him, he encouraged us to go to "the potluck" where we could meet neighbors. And we did. We've attended a handful and become well-versed in potluck activities on Orcas Island.
Our community is Deer Harbor and the potlucks are organized by the Deer Harbor Community Club, of which we are now members. What Grant calls a potluck is actually a community meeting with food. But I suppose all potlucks are, in one way or another.
This one has been gathering for decades and we learned there were some basic rules to follow. You bring a dish to share, plus your plates and utensils and a bottle (or two) of wine, if you'd like. Show up early.
Usually, the evening begins with a few words from the community club president that might include a fundraising update and news about the club's projects, like fixing a bathroom door, or parking lot maintenance. This particular club has taken on bigger projects like purchasing and paying off the tiny building that houses the Deer Harbor Post Office. The club's purchase in 2009 helped make the rent more affordable and prevented the USPS from closing it.
Just before the announcements end, the president asks about guests and new attendees. On our first potluck, Grant raised his hand and we all stood together to be introduced as Lee and Sachi, new part-time neighbors from Seattle. We waved, smiled and sat down. Being from Seattle isn't remarkable, as most in attendance likely lived in the city at some point. But Seattle does bring with it a bit of baggage. I'm sure most were just happy to hear we're not from California.
These introductions serve as a reason for community members to introduce themselves and ask what we do. For people like us who are not retired, it's not easy to support yourself on a small and relatively expensive island. How people make it work is a constant source of discussion and speculation. We, as we tell people, own a business that operates through a website. All we need is an internet connection to manage it. They nod. It makes sense and they've heard it before. We are part of the new generation who has choices that weren't possible until recently. We are those people, from Seattle.
Grant, as it turns out, also goes to the potluck of a neighboring community called West Sound and he kindly peer pressured us into going to this potluck, too. From the beginning, it felt a bit strange. This wasn't our community or our club. Technically, anyone is welcome, but did it really feel right? We knew Grant would be a worthy ambassador and we looked forward to the evening. We would bring cornbread, a perfect potluck item.
It was this cornbread and this event that made Sachi so crestfallen. The cornbread had been in the oven 10 minutes longer than it ever had before and was still not close to done. We debated what to do as the potluck drew nearer. The edges were fine, but toothpick after toothpick showed an uncooked center. A few more minutes, we said. It was like the oven was losing temperature as the pressure grew in the kitchen.
We soon started to realize that we were facing a number of decisions with hard stops at about 5:45pm — when we had to leave to arrive on time. Do we arrive without food? Do we go at all? We paced and inspected the cornbread. We debated. The minutes ticked by with no good answers. Eventually, we cut out one piece and could see that the entire center was still uncooked. The idea of showing up at a new potluck without food seemed like a violation of potluck code and a terrible first impression to make in West Sound.
Grant texted that he had arrived and was saving our seats. It got to be 5:50 by the time we made the call. We would not attend the potluck. With that decision made, we had to tell Grant, who we knew would be disappointed. I texted him and sure enough, he insisted we come anyway. "Everything will be just fine — nobody cares", he said.
In the end, we thought, "What the hell…" and left the Yurt just before 6pm with plates, utensils, wine, glasses and without a shared dish. We were about to break the rules.
We pulled into the gravel parking lot next door at the Orcas Island Yacht Club, which sounds a lot fancier than it is, to see the lot full. We quickly stepped out of the car and walked up the ramp to enter the building. I hoped we could slip in unnoticed.
I carefully reached for the handle and tried to open it as quietly as possible. Of course, stuck a little and rattled as I opened it, causing the entire room of thirty people to look our way. Our timing was perfect — we interrupted the community president's announcements. Not only that, but we were new, from a different community, and arriving with plates and no food. Who shows up late to a potluck without food? People from Seattle, apparently.
We ducked our heads, and sheepishly found Grant and our saved seats just as the announcements wrapped up. On that night, the subject that engaged the club most was the potential to show the animated movie, Coco, on an upcoming Saturday evening near Halloween. The exact date and time for the showing was a source of confusion that lasted far longer than we expected. It was like watching aunts and uncles get through a disagreement over dinner. Is Saturday the 3rd or 4th? No one seemed to be sure.
After a bit of hunger-induced groaning, light heckling and introductions of new attendees, we all drank wine and enjoyed a fine meal of baked chicken, pasta salads and apple crumbles. It seemed that Grant was correct. No one seemed to notice or care that we arrived late to the potluck, from a different community, or without food to share.
In fact, in what would become a pivotal moment, the newcomer introductions shined a spotlight on a handful of attendees who were our age and new to Orcas Island as well. One of these new people, Erika, noticed that my wine glass was emblazoned with the logo of her employer, a small non-profit organization called the SeaDoc Society. We also met Tony and Zoe, who were in the process of moving from Seattle to the island. We talked for a bit, exchanged contact info and agreed to get together soon. It felt finding the start of our little community on Orcas Island.
We imagined, sometime in the future, hosting our own little newcomer potluck with a working oven, Sachi's cornbread, and slightly less pressure.


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John Boehner, the 53rd Speaker of the US House of Representatives, joined the Squire Patton Boggs public policy team during the autumn of 2016. Speaker Boehner serves as a strategic advisor to the firm's clients in the US and abroad and focuses on global business development.
Speaker Boehner led the US House from January 2011 to October 2015, a time during which he navigated some of the most difficult legislative challenges of the modern era and forged strong relationships with business and government leaders throughout the world. A former small businessman who entered public service because of his desire to remove barriers to economic growth and private-sector job creation, Speaker Boehner is respected on both sides of the political aisle for his efforts to find common ground on major policy matters without compromising on principle, and for his belief that individuals of competing viewpoints can "disagree, without being disagreeable" to each other.
Also known for his candor, Speaker Boehner provides strategic advice and consulting to clients on all aspects of domestic and international policy, drawing from his decades of experience both in business and at the highest levels of the US government.
Prior to entering public service, Speaker Boehner spent years running a small business representing manufacturers in the packaging and plastics industry. After witnessing first-hand some of the challenges businesses encounter with government, he gradually entered the political arena, driven by a desire to help make government less intrusive and more accountable to the people it serves. He represented the people of Ohio's 8th Congressional District in the US House for nearly 25 years, leading the reform-minded "Gang of Seven" in the early 1990s that closed the scandal-ridden House Bank and forced a series of institutional changes in Congress, including measures requiring the House to be subject to annual independent audits of its financial records.
Speaker Boehner put his small business experience to work for constituents in 1999 by taking over the chairmanship of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, the congressional panel with jurisdiction over the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and matters of private-sector health care and retirement security policy. In this role, he crafted and successfully advanced measures dealing with employer-sponsored healthcare, pensions, stock options and other employee benefits.
Speaker Boehner's effectiveness in bridging the gap between government and the private sector on the subcommittee paved the way for him to become chairman of the full House Committee on Education and the Workforce in 2001. During his five years as chairman, Speaker Boehner developed a reputation for bringing Republicans and Democrats together in support of major policy initiatives and solving big legislative puzzles in areas ranging from education policy to pension reform.
Elected by his colleagues as US House Majority Leader in 2006, Speaker Boehner went on to serve as the top Republican leader in the US House for nearly a decade, becoming House Minority Leader following the 2006 elections and leading his party to majority control of the House in 2010, focusing the GOP agenda on economic growth policies and invoking his business roots with the rallying cry "Where are the Jobs?"
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This year's death penalty bombshells — a de facto national moratorium, a state abolition and the smallest number of executions in more than a decade — have masked what may be the most significant and lasting development. For the first time in the modern history of the death penalty, more than 60 percent of all American executions took place in Texas.
Over the past three decades, the proportion of executions nationwide performed in Texas has held relatively steady, averaging 37 percent. Only once before, in 1986, has the state accounted for even a slight majority of the executions, and that was in a year with 18 executions nationwide.
But enthusiasm for executions outside of Texas has dropped sharply. Of the 42 executions in the last year, 26 were in Texas. The remaining 16 were spread across nine other states, none of which executed more than three people. Many legal experts say the trend will probably continue.
Indeed, said David R. Dow, a law professor at the University of Houston who has represented death-row inmates, the day is not far off when essentially all executions in the United States will take place in Texas.
The rate at which Texas sentences people to death is not especially high given its murder rate. But once a death sentence is imposed there, said Richard C. Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, prosecutors, state and federal courts, the pardon board and the governor are united in moving the process along. "There's almost an aggressiveness about carrying out executions," said Mr. Dieter, whose organization opposes capital punishment.
Outside of Texas, even supporters of the death penalty say they detect a change in public attitudes about executions in light of the time and expense of capital litigation, the possibility of wrongful convictions and the remote chance that someone sent to death row will actually be executed.
"Any sane prosecutor who is involved in capital litigation will really be ambivalent about it," said Joshua Marquis, the district attorney in Clatsop County, Ore., and a vice president of the National District Attorneys Association. He said the families of murder victims suffered needless anguish during what could be decades of litigation and multiple retrials.
Over the last three years, the number of executions in Texas has been relatively constant, averaging 23 per year, but the state's share of the number of total executions nationwide has steadily increased as the national totals have dropped, from 32 percent in 2005 to 45 percent in 2006 to 62 percent in 2007.
The death penalty developments that have dominated the news in recent months are unlikely to have anything like the enduring consequences of Texas' vigorous commitment to capital punishment.
A Supreme Court case concerns how to assess the constitutionality of lethal injection protocols. While it is possible that states may have to revise the ways they execute people, executions will almost certainly resume soon after the court's decision, which is expected by June.
Similarly, New Jersey's abolition of the death penalty last week and Gov. Jon Corzine's decision to empty death row of its eight prisoners is almost entirely symbolic. New Jersey has not executed anyone since 1963.
And while the total number of executions in 2007 was low, it would have been similar to those in recent years but for the moratorium, if extrapolated to a full year.
There do seem to be slight stirrings suggesting that other states might follow New Jersey. Two state legislative bodies — the House in New Mexico and the Senate in Montana — passed bills to abolish capital punishment, and in Nebraska, the unicameral legislature came within one vote of doing so.
Texas has followed the rest of the country in one respect: the number of death sentences there has dropped sharply.
In the 10 years ending in 2004, Texas condemned an average of 34 prisoners each year — about 15 percent of the national total. In the last three years, as the number of death sentences nationwide dropped significantly, from almost 300 in 1998 to about 110 in 2007, the number in Texas has dropped along with it, to 13 — or 12 percent.
Indeed, according to a 2004 study by three professors of law and statistics at Cornell published in The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Texas prosecutors and juries were no more apt to seek and impose death sentences than those in the rest of the country.
There is reason to think that the number of death sentences in the state will fall farther, given the introduction of life without the possibility of parole as a sentencing option in capital cases in Texas in 2005. While a substantial majority of the public supports the death penalty, that support drops significantly when life without parole is included as an alternative.
Once an inmate is sent to death row, however, distinctive features of the Texas justice system kick in.
Texas courts, moreover, speed the process along, said Jordan M. Steiker, a law professor at the University of Texas who has represented death-row inmates.
Indeed, the Supreme Court has repeatedly rebuked the state and the federal courts that hear appeals in Texas capital cases, often in exasperated language suggesting that those courts are actively evading Supreme Court rulings.
The last execution before the Supreme Court imposed a de facto moratorium happened in Texas, and in emblematic fashion. The presiding judge on the state's highest court for criminal matters, Judge Sharon Keller, closed the courthouse at its regular time of 5 p.m. and turned back an attempt to file appeal papers a few minutes later, according to a complaint in a wrongful-death suit filed in federal court last month.
The inmate, Michael Richard, was executed that evening.
Judge Keller, in a motion to dismiss the case filed this month, acknowledged that she alone had the authority to keep the court's clerk's office open but said that Mr. Richard's lawyers could have tried to file their papers directly with another judge on the court.


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RuPaul and Michelle Visage Dish on "Drag Race U.K.": "People Are Going to F*cking Love It"
"I predict we will be doing this English edition of 'Drag Race' for many years to come."
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LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 07: TV personalities Michelle Visage (L) and RuPaul attend the 2017 MTV Movie And TV Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on May 7, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
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Harry and Meghan might have just welcomed a new addition to their Royal Family, but another British baby is about to be born: RuPaul's Drag Race U.K.
RuPaul and his best squirrel friend, Michelle Visage, were recently in London for a month filming the British version of Drag Race. Aside from Graham Norton and Alan Carr being announced as resident judges for the new series, not many details have been revealed about Drag Race U.K.—but that didn't stop Ru and Michelle from teasing what fans can expect.
On the latest episode of Ru and Michelle's podcast, What's the Tee?, the two kiki about many different topics, including the time they spent across the pond.
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"I think people are going to be thrilled," Michelle said.
"When [the fans] see this show, they are going to flip," Ru added. "I predict we will be doing this English edition of Drag Race for many years to come."
Michelle goes on to explain how Drag Race U.K. has a "different tone" and "an Englishness, a Britishness about it."
"It has a charm the American one doesn't have," she continues. "I think people are going to fucking love it."
As if we weren't excited enough already!
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Discussion in 'Military Biographies' started by liverpool annie, Feb 1, 2009.
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These are brave soldiers and aviators we know very little about ! can anybody enlighten us ?
D.C.M. for Bersham soldier
Lance Corporal Joseph Evans Roberts, of the London Regiment, and son of Mr Isaac Roberts, Bersham, has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Some time ago we published a stirring story of his rescue of an officer while under fire, and his bravery has now been recognised.
Extracts taken from Wrexham Advertiser, June 10 1916
Hero wounded twice but carried on fighting
How a Broughton soldier met his death in the present great push provides a stirring narrative of British pluck and bravery. The hero concerned was Pte. Hywel Price, of the RWF, and a native of Bwlchgwyn.
Pte Price was wounded, but after having his wound dressed, he returned to the trench. He was again wounded, and stubbornly refused to be conveyed to safety, he again returned to the fray. The third time, however, he was fatally wounded, and died in a short time. The deceased soldier was recommended for gallantry.
Extracts taken from Wrexham Advertiser, August 5 1916
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Pte T Jones, RWF, of Colemere-street, Wrexham, has just been awarded the Distinguished Service Certificate on which is inscribed the following "On 10th July 1916 in Mametz Wood, this man with three others maintained a gallant defence against a counter attack by the Germans when other troops had fallen back. This gallant action saved a critical situation, and he was a fine example to his comrades."
Extracts taken from Wrexham Advertiser, October 6 1917
Ruabon Naval Officer's daring deeds
Naval Flight Commander Howard Saint of the Royal Naval Air Service has been decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross. The official record of the deeds which merited this high honour is as follows: "For conspicuous bravery in attacking superior formations of enemy aircraft on 21st and 23rd September last. He has also shown great courage in attacking enemy troops and aerodromes with machine-gun fire from very low altitudes."
Extracts taken from Wrexham Advertiser, November 10 1917
liverpool annie, Feb 1, 2009
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Captain H J T Saint DSC flew Sopwith Triplanes and Camels with No 10 Sqn RNAS, and was credited with 7 victories between 9 August and 20 October 1917. After the War he became Chief Test Pilot for the Gloster Aircraft Company, and was responsible for development of the Gamecock fighter.
Dolphin, Feb 2, 2009
Apparently he has quite a few relatives looking for him Gareth !
I've been looking for Bernard Lewis' web site ... I thought I might find some information there ... but all I can find is information about his book !! ... I don't have the new site in my favourites !! ( well ... it's not so new now !! )
If somebody could post it I'd be grateful !
EDIT .... well I've found him ... of course he's Swansea not Wrexham !!!!!!!!
http://swanseabattalion.net/
Found this ....
Flight Commander Howard John Thomas Saint
Born 20th January 1893 in Ruabon, North Wales.
Pre-war, Saint was a student at Manchester University.
Held the rank of Chief Petty Officer with the Royal Naval Armoured Cars, and was commissioned as a Sub Lieutenant in August 1915.
Undertook flying instruction in 1916.
8 Flight B Squadron 5 Wing (later No.5 Squadron RNAS) flying bombers from September 1916 to 24th July 1917.
No.10 Squadron RNAS from 26th July 1917 to 26th October 1917.
Claimed 7 victories with No.10 Squadron RNAS.
Martlesham Heath serving as a test pilot until the end of the war.
Holder of Commercial Licence No.1.
Commercial pilot for Air Transport and Travel until 1922.
Regularly competed in air races. In June 1919, Placed 5th in the Victory Aerial Derby around London (6th on handicap) flying an Airco DH9B. In September 1919 won a race around Holland.
Rejoined the RAF in 1922, serving as a test pilot at the Royal Aircraft Factory.
Joined the Gloster Aircraft Company in 1927 as Chief Test Pilot. In 1934 the Gloster Aircraft Company was acquired by Hawker Aircraft Ltd., and Saint was replaced by P.E.G. Sayer, Hawker's Assistant Chief Test Pilot. Saint moved on to test machines for George Parnall and Company Ltd. This employment lasted just one year as Parnall and Company was acquired by Nash & Thompson Ltd. in 1935, the new company being concerned with the design and manufacture of aircraft gun turrets.
Worked for the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough as a Flying Control Officer, until his retirement when he lived at Hove, Sussex.
Distinguished Service Cross gazetted on 2nd November 1917


Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by VaNcHeR, Sep 16, 2011.
I have HTC Desire A8181 Alltel CDMA.
Previously I had Android 2.1, Wi-Fi and BT worked well. Then I updated firmware to 2.3 using this. Yeah, I know, that was stupid decision, but I'm total newbie in Adnroid. I bought it only to try this OS, to try some software and so on. So after that Wi-Fi and BT stopped working at all. Are there any ways to bring them back to life? I don't want to call with this phone, I even don't need BT. The only thing I need is Wi-Fi.
Problem solved. I found official firmware. Everything works fine now, but what about Android 2.3?
wait did you have your cdma desire actually booting and mostly working after the 2.3 ruu ??


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HomeMass ReadingDaily Mass Readings - 24 November 2015 - Tuesday
Daily Mass Readings – 24 November 2015 – Tuesday
Tuesday of Week 34
Saint Andrew Dung-Lac and companions, martyrs
First Reading: Daniel 2: 31-45
31 "In your vision, O king, you saw a statue, very large and exceedingly bright, terrifying in appearance as it stood before you.
32 The head of the statue was pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs bronze,
33 the legs iron, its feet partly iron and partly tile.
34 While you looked at the statue, a stone which was hewn from a mountain without a hand being put to it, struck its iron and tile feet, breaking them in pieces.
35 The iron, tile, bronze, silver, and gold all crumbled at once, fine as the chaff on the threshing floor in summer, and the wind blew them away without leaving a trace. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
36 "This was the dream; the interpretation we shall also give in the king's presence.
37 You, O king, are the king of kings; to you the God of heaven has given dominion and strength, power and glory;
38 men, wild beasts, and birds of the air, wherever they may dwell, he has handed over to you, making you ruler over them all; you are the head of gold.
39 Another kingdom shall take your place, inferior to yours, then a third kingdom, of bronze, which shall rule over the whole earth.
40 There shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron; it shall break in pieces and subdue all these others, just as iron breaks in pieces and crushes everything else.
41 The feet and toes you saw, partly of potter's tile and partly of iron, mean that it shall be a divided kingdom, but yet have some of the hardness of iron. As you saw the iron mixed with clay tile,
42 and the toes partly iron and partly tile, the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.
43 The iron mixed with clay tile means that they shall seal their alliances by intermarriage, but they shall not stay united, any more than iron mixes with clay.
44 In the lifetime of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed or delivered up to another people; rather, it shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and put an end to them, and it shall stand forever.
45 That is the meaning of the stone you saw hewn from the mountain without a hand being put to it, which broke in pieces the tile, iron, bronze, silver, and gold. The great God has revealed to the king what shall be in the future; this is exactly what you dreamed, and its meaning is sure."
Responsorial Psalm: Daniel 3: 57, 58, 59, 60, 61
57 Bless the Lord, all you works of the Lord, praise and exalt him above all forever.
58 Angels of the Lord, bless the Lord, praise and exalt him above all forever.
59 You heavens, bless the Lord, praise and exalt him above all forever.
60 All you waters above the heavens, bless the Lord, praise and exalt him above all forever.
61 All you hosts of the Lord, bless the Lord; praise and exalt him above all forever.
Gospel: Luke 21: 5-11
5 While some people were speaking about how the temple was adorned with costly stones and votive offerings, he said,
6 "All that you see here–the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down."
7 Then they asked him, "Teacher, when will this happen? And what sign will there be when all these things are about to happen?"
8 He answered, "See that you not be deceived, for many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and 'The time has come.' Do not follow them!
9 When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified; for such things must happen first, but it will not immediately be the end."
10 Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
11 There will be powerful earthquakes, famines, and plagues from place to place; and awesome sights and mighty signs will come from the sky.


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Principal Investigators: James Marcin, M.D., MPH; and Peter Yellowlees, M.D., MBBS
Co-Investigators: Murat Pakyurek, M.D.; Bibiana Restrepo, M.D.; and Jeffrey Hoch, Ph.D
Funding Agencies: Health Resources and Services Administration, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth
Award: $1,049,960
Period: September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2021
Researchers are partnering with five rural Indian Health Services clinics that are currently part of UC Davis' existing rural network to evaluate the impact of adult and pediatric tele-behavioral health consultations on patient-centered outcomes. The study also addresses the economic efficiency of tele-behavioral health consultations.
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Use of Home-Based Telemedicine to Improve Healthcare Utilization and Outcomes in Pediatric Patients with Poorly Controlled Type 1 Diabetes
Principal Investigator: Stephanie Crossen, M.D., MPH
Co-Investigators: Nicole Glaser, M.D.; and James Marcin, M.D., MPH
Funding Agencies: UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) KL2 Program
Award: $307,061
Period: October 1, 2017 to May 31, 2019
The overarching goal of this project is to determine whether telehealth interventions for pediatric patients with diabetes can ultimately help reduce A1C levels. Patients receive telehealth visits every four to eight weeks depending on their A1C levels. Before each visit, the patient sends their glucose meter data electronically to the physician for evaluation. This project also looks at the time and cost-savings involved in providing telehealth visits versus traditional in-person visits.
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Funding Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Award: $2 million
This program provides critical physiatry care for children with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, spinal cord injuries and other disabilities using telehealth. It involves installing secure teleconferencing equipment in schools in San Joaquin, Butte and Fresno counties. Physiatrists remotely guide screening and write the appropriate prescriptions and referrals. In addition to providing care, the grant also supports research to determine which approaches provide the greatest benefit for children and their families. The study examines three cohorts: physiatrists providing care in person; non-physiatrists providing care in person; and physiatrists using telemedicine. The group will assess whether telehealth improves quality of care, increases patient-centeredness and reduces costs.
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Principal Investigator: James Marcin, M.D., MPH
Co-Investigators: Nathan Kuppermann, M.D., MPH, FAAP, FACEP; and Julia Magana, M.D.
Collaborating Agencies: North Coast Emergency Medical Services Agency and Sierra-Sacramento Valley Emergency Medical Services Agency
Funding Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration, Emergency Medical Services for Children, State Partnership Regionalization of Care
Period: June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2020
TACTICAL aims to expand pediatric quality improvement, telehealth and a standardized data collection program to rural and underserved California communities. The goal is to ensure that evidence-based emergency medical services are delivered to children in both the pre-hospital setting as well as at receiving emergency departments, and that ongoing education and quality care are provided. In addition, the program implements a standardized facility recognition program for pediatric emergency care and establishes a data collection and monitoring system.
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A Randomized Trial of Tele-Emergency Care for Seriously Ill Children
Co-Investigators: Nathan Kuppermann, M.D., MPH
The goal of this research project is to determine the impact of an existing tele-emergency care network on quality of care, appropriateness of care utilization, patient safety (medication errors), and cost effectiveness compared to telephone consultations from the perspective of a health care system. The study will focus on pediatric patients at more than 15 rural and underserved hospitals sprinkled throughout California. Researchers aim to demonstrate how an existing tele-emergency network can benefit rural and other community hospitals as well as the children they serve.
Telehealth for Lower Extremity Vascular Insufficiency and Diabetes
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Evaluating Implementation of Comprehensive Assessment and Telemedicine Consultation to Prevent Amputations for Patients with Lower Extremity Ulcers in Rural Health Clinics
Principal Investigator: Misty Humphries, M.D.
Funding Agencies: Society for Vascular Surgery Foundation and American College of Surgeons
This research project uses telehealth to remote clinics to increase access and quality for patients with lower extremity vascular insufficiency and diabetes.
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Optimizing Pregnancy and Infant Outcomes in Drug (OPIOID) Addiction
Principal Investigators: Shannon Clark, M.D., and Kara Kuhn-Riordon, M.D.
Co-Investigator: James Marcin, M.D., MPH
Funding Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
Award: Up to $200,000
Period: One Year Starting in 2019
The goal of this one-year planning project is to establish a consortium of five rural hospitals to work collaboratively with opioid specialists at an academic hospital to develop a telementoring and capacity building program (based on the Echo® program) aimed at increasing rural providers' ability to care for pregnant and parenting women with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and their newborns. The hospitals included in the consortium are on the front-lines of the rural opioid epidemic, serving rural and underserved communities in both Northern California and Nevada. Efforts will be focused on increasing and improving treatment and recovery practices in these rural communities.
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Music & Poetry That Stirs the Soul: A Retrospective
Over the history of this show, we've been incredibly blessed to not only have hundreds of guests in the physical and now virtual studio for conversation but also live performances from a wide variety of acclaimed artists, many of whom are icons in their chosen form of creation and expression. The performances have ranged from unaccompanied to fully sound-designed spoken word, to a capella or instrument-accompanied live music. Many of these performances represented moments of emotion and awakening, connection. It's been a kind of magical ingredient for me, as a lover of spoken word and music, to be able to share these with you over the years.
So we decided to do something a little different as a sort of offering to you as we bring this year to a close. We culled through years of tape and pulled together today's live performance super-cut for you, sharing a lineup of 11 artists, spread out over nearly 7 years of performances in the studio. Some, short and sweet, others longer-form and profound. All will make you feel, smile and, even just for a moment, transcend time and space and just be present in feelings. So excited to share these performances with you.
You can find the full episodes of each guest included in this montage:
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Cleo Wade: https://tinyurl.com/yc8we3lu
Mark Nepo: https://tinyurl.com/ybqu2crc
Jimmie Vaughan: https://tinyurl.com/ya4svdu4
Morgan Harper Nichols: https://tinyurl.com/y9m35fp9
Ali Handal: https://tinyurl.com/yall7ltb
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A 1946 Washington, D.C., tram rides off into the sunset. While vintage streetcars may never again be a primary means of getting around, we are happy to see cities preserving this chunk of mass transit history.
After nearly going extinct in the '60s, vintage streetcars are returning to the rails in downtowns from Philly to San Francisco. These electric-powered trams are so painstakingly restored, they make classic T-Bird owners look like chumps. Here's what it looks like when mass transit goes retro.


The 2009-10 academic year is now a memory, but it also provides the chance for PTAs to review the months with appreciation for the support and hard work that took place.
At Glendale High School, the PTSA has announced its gift to the school thanks to sales of concessions during football season and generous donations from members throughout the year. About $11,000 was available at the school year's end to benefit Glendale High students through four avenues. A PTA gift for $2,500 will benefit publication of the student newspaper, The Explosion, while $1,500 is going toward the Fall Pep Rally to kick off the semester and start of football season.
In addition, $1,000 is restricted toward the school's Student Welfare Fund which assists students wishing to participate in academic, sports, technology or arts programs. Finally, $6,000 is earmarked for Teacher Micro-Grants intended to enhance the academic experience of students at the school.
With summer, many activities become legal for parents like eating ice cream while barefoot or squirting a favorite person with a hose. Richard Lucas, Wilson Middle School principal, offers parents his suggestions for summer activities in the Wilson Knights June newsletter to help make their children's time fun, safe and productive.
"Summer is a great time for all, but some concentration on the new school year should be encouraged because months off without any focus on reading or education could make the upcoming school year difficult," he writes.
While parents may decide to relax rules about the number of hours children watch TV, use the computer or play video games, Lucas suggests they should also encourage children to read books.
Summer also signifies changes for PTAs as new officers continue the work while outgoing volunteers move to new challenges. Appreciation is extended to PTA and school representatives who contributed news to this column: Christina Burt, Horace Mann Elementary liaison; Andrea Crissman, College View PTA outgoing president; Janice Hanada, Cerritos Elementary principal; Linda Junge, John Muir Elementary principal; Kathy Lo, Verdugo Woodlands Elementary outgoing liaison; Laura Rubinstein, Glenoaks Elementary PTA outgoing president; Sydney Swainston, Glendale High PTSA President; Helena Williams, Wilson Middle School PTSA outgoing president; and Kristin Pardo, RD White Elementary PTA outgoing historian.
Summer school is in session with classes running through July 29.
As we jump into summer vacation, 2010-11 PTA President Janet Lazier reminds us to "make the most of each and every day" as the PTA is already planning an exciting array of activities and events for the new school year. If you are looking for ways to volunteer at Verdugo Woodlands, please contact her at jslazier@aol.com.
Are you hoping to de-clutter your home this summer? Consider setting aside your gently used items for the Woodlanders are Volunteers for Education Yard Sale for Education planned for the fall season. School Liaison Kathy Lo suggests that you can clean out your closet while helping a good cause. Proceeds from all donated items support such programs as music, art and technology at Verdugo Woodlands. If you have questions, contact WAVE Co-Presidents Michele Long at sugar@ix.netcom.com or Ester Moran at egmoran@gmail.com.
College View's Extended School Year program runs Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. June 28 through Aug. 5 with the exception of July 5 in observance of Independence Day. Fun activities are planned around a different theme each week, including a patriotic parade, bowling trip, Valentine's animal show and the annual pinewood derby race.
Edna Karinski covers the Glendale High cluster PTA. Email Ekarinski@aol.com.


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Q: AngularJS directive initialized before resource is loaded I have an upload directive which creates a upload url from "task.id" which is bound with:
scope: { id: "=" }

When my controller fetches data from server using angular resouce it takes some time and in that time my directive gets initialized and my id is undefined because there's no task from server yet.
I tried solving this by specifying "resolve" in my route config but unfortunately angular resouce does not provide any promise.
Is there a nice and clean solution to this?

A: In your directive you could do "watch" do react when your scope.id is updated.
scope.$watch('id', function(){
    //Now have your directive do something, like call a server.
});

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/*
 * get performance data of the page with weibo.com cookies
 * if a mobile useragent is specified, the change the view port to simulate a mobile screen
 *
 */
var require = patchRequire(require);
var system = require('system');
var login_cookies = require('weibo_cookies');
var casper = require("casper").create({
    viewportSize: {
        width: 1280,
        height: 800
    }
});
if (casper.cli.args.length < 1) {
    casper.echo("usage: casper automation_monitor_with_cookies.js <url> <type> <usr> <harPath> <ua>")
    phantom.exit(0);
}
var url = casper.cli.args[0];
var usr = casper.cli.args[2];
var opt = {
    type: casper.cli.args[1],
    harPath: casper.cli.args[3],
}
var ua = casper.cli.args[4];
if (ua) {
    var Agents = new Array("Android", "iPhone", "SymbianOS", "Windows Phone", "iPad", "iPod");
    for (var i = 0; i < Agents.length; i++) {
        if (ua.indexOf(Agents[i]) > 0) {
            casper.options.viewportSize = {width: 640, height: 1136};
            break;
        }
    }
}

casper.start();
var monitor = require(casper.cli.options['casper-path'] + '/monitors/core');
login_cookies.getCookie(usr);
casper.then(function() {
    monitor.startMonitor(opt);
})
casper.then(function() {
    if (ua) {
        this.userAgent(ua);
    }
    this.open(url);
});

casper.run(function() {
    setTimeout(function() {
        monitor.report();
    }, 30000);
});

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The U.S. dollar had momentum in the first half of 2017, but it's been all downhill since then. In fact, the U.S. dollar is off to its worst start in 21 years and it looks like it could get worse.
The U.S. dollar Index, which measures the U.S. dollar against a basket of foreign currencies, is at $0.8904 and has fallen roughly 3.1% since the start of 2018. Since the start of January, the Pound Sterling has advanced 5.2% against the greenback and the Euro-to-Dollar rate is up 4.2%. Even the Canadian dollar has strengthened compared to the U.S. dollar, up 1.4%.
On January 20, 2017, the day Donald Trump entered the Oval Office, the U.S. dollar index was at $101.19; since that day, the greenback has cratered 12.6%. By comparison, since January 20, 2017, the Pound Sterling has advanced 14.6% while the Euro-to-Dollar rate has soared 18.0%. The Loonie has been on a bit of a rollercoaster since Trump ascended into the White House, but it's still up 7.3% since January 20, 2017.
But concerns about Trump's economic policies are outweighing solid economic news on the home front. For example, President Trump recently imposed a massive 30% tariff on imported solar panels and washing machines. The tariffs are mostly meant to hurt China that has been sending in cheaper solar products for years.
On top of that, continued political discord in Washington, concerns about Russia's meddling in the U.S. election, and the Federal Reserve's monetary policies could trigger additional losses for the U.S. dollar.
Outside the U.S., the greenback is falling because the global economy is strengthening. In 2017, the Eurozone, the world's largest economic region, had one of its best years economically in a decade. In the U.K., the economy is doing better than expected.
Even the stock market is pointing to additional losses for the U.S. dollar. Keep in mind, investors flock to the U.S. dollar when stocks start to sell off. That's because the greenback is seen as an economic safe haven; it is, after all, attached to the strongest economy in the world. But despite the selloff of stocks in early February, the U.S. dollar continues to hover near multi-year lows.
This has many income starved investors wondering if there are better places to park their money.
The U.S. economy is churning out solid economic data, but that doesn't necessarily translate into a stronger U.S. dollar. In fact, in spite of decent economic conditions, the U.S. dollar continues to fall. And there are a lot of economic indicators that suggest the greenback has further to fall before it rebounds. This opens a world of possibilities for currency traders. Especially those enrolled with Learn-To-Trade.com.
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Learn-To-Trade.com is Canada's oldest and leading provider of stock market trading courses and can teach investors of every skill level how to profit no matter what the markets are doing.
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import re
import random
import sys
import traceback
import ast
import operator
import time
import json
from simpleeval import SimpleEval, DEFAULT_OPERATORS, DEFAULT_FUNCTIONS, DEFAULT_NAMES
from . import euphutils

from . import logger

log = logger.Logger()

# functions and operators that can be used in ${math} syntax
EVAL_FUNCTIONS = DEFAULT_FUNCTIONS.copy()
EVAL_FUNCTIONS.update({'bool': bool, 'repr': repr, 'to_json': lambda x: json.dumps(x), 'from_json': lambda x: json.loads(x), 'len': len, 'mention': euphutils.mention, 'unwhitespace': lambda x: re.sub(r'\s', '_', x), 'time': time.time, 'eval': None})
EVAL_OPERATORS = DEFAULT_OPERATORS.copy()
EVAL_OPERATORS.update({ast.Not: operator.not_, ast.In: lambda a, b: a in b, ast.NotIn: lambda a, b: a not in b, ast.Is: operator.is_, ast.IsNot: operator.is_not})

# init pseudo-regex; i.e. if a bot has this as the regex string, its response
# will be triggered on the bot's initialization
INIT_TRIGGER = '(+init)'

class Parser:
    def __init__(self, parse_string, dbginfo=None):
        temp = ''
        self.array = []
        self.parse_string = parse_string
        self.dbginfo = dbginfo or 'N/A'
        self.variables = {}
        regex_mode = True
        i = 0
        while i < len(parse_string) and re.match(r'\s', parse_string[i]):
            i += 1
        while i < len(parse_string):
            if regex_mode:
                arrow_match = re.match(r'\s*->\s*', parse_string[i:])
                if arrow_match:
                    i += len(arrow_match.group(0))
                    regex_mode = False
                    if i >= len(parse_string):
                        self.array.append([temp, [0, '']])
                    else:
                        self.array.append([temp])
                    temp = ''
                else:
                    temp += parse_string[i]
                    i += 1
            else:
                temp = self.parse_response_string(parse_string[i:])
                self.array[-1].append(temp[0])
                i += len(temp[1])
                temp = ''
                whitespace_match = re.match('\s*', parse_string[i:])
                if whitespace_match:
                    i += len(whitespace_match.group(0))
                regex_mode = True

    def load_array(self, array):
        self.array = array

    def get_init_messages(self):
        for raw_regex_string, response_data in self.array:
            if raw_regex_string.lower() == INIT_TRIGGER:
                messages = self.parse_entry(response_data)
                # just in case someone is relying on groups[0] existing
                self.variables['groups'] = ['']
                yield from messages

    def get_messages(self, content, sender):
        for raw_regex_string, response_data in self.array:
            if raw_regex_string.lower() == INIT_TRIGGER:
                continue
            regex_string = ''
            i = 0
            while i < len(raw_regex_string):
                if raw_regex_string[i:].startswith('${'):
                    i += 2
                    # parse the variable name as if it was part of a response
                    parsed = self.parse_response_string(raw_regex_string[i:], 3)
                    i += len(parsed[1])
                    variable = next(self.parse_entry(parsed[0]), '')
                    regex_string += re.escape(variable)
                else:
                    regex_string += raw_regex_string[i]
                    i += 1
            try:
                regex = re.compile(regex_string, re.IGNORECASE)
            except re.error as e:
                log.write('Bad regular expression {!r} ({!s}), ignoring. ({!s})'.format(regex_string, e, self.dbginfo))
                continue
            match = regex.search(content)
            if match:
                messages = self.parse_entry(response_data)
                self.variables['groups'] = list(match.groups())
                self.variables['groups'].insert(0, match.group(0))
                groups = tuple(reversed(match.groups('')))
                groups = tuple(zip(map('\\{0}'.format, range(len(groups), 0, -1)), groups))
                for message in messages:
                    for backreference, group in groups:
                        message = message.replace(backreference, group)
                    yield message

    def get_regexes(self):
        return list(map(lambda entry: entry[0], self.array))

    def parse_entry(self, parsed_data):
        if parsed_data[0] == 0: # concatenation
            if len(parsed_data) == 1:
                return
            element = parsed_data[1]
            remainder = parsed_data[2:]
            remainder.insert(0, 0)
            if type(element) is str:
                result = None
                for result in self.parse_entry(remainder):
                    yield element + result
                if result is None:
                    yield element
            else:
                element_result = None
                for element_result in self.parse_entry(element):
                    remainder_result = None
                    for remainder_result in self.parse_entry(remainder):
                        yield element_result + remainder_result
                    if remainder_result is None:
                        yield element_result
                if element_result is None:
                    for remainder_result in self.parse_entry(remainder):
                        yield remainder_result
        elif parsed_data[0] == 1: # random choice [a,b,c]
            element = parsed_data[random.randint(1, len(parsed_data) - 1)]
            if type(element) is not str:
                for result in self.parse_entry(element):
                    yield result
            else:
                yield element
        elif parsed_data[0] == 2: # multiple response {a,b,c}
            for element in parsed_data[1:]:
                if type(element) is str:
                    yield element
                else:
                    for result in self.parse_entry(element):
                        yield result
        elif parsed_data[0] == 3: # dynamic variable ${variable}
            variable_name = parsed_data[1]
            if type(variable_name) is not str:
                variable_name = next(self.parse_entry(variable_name), '')
            evaluator = SimpleEval(names=self.variables.copy(), functions=EVAL_FUNCTIONS, operators=EVAL_OPERATORS)
            evaluator.names['variables'] = evaluator.names
            evaluator.functions['eval'] = evaluator.eval
            try:
                yield str(evaluator.eval(variable_name))
            except GeneratorExit:
                pass
            except Exception:
                yield '[Error: {0}]'.format(''.join(traceback.format_exception_only(sys.exc_info()[0], sys.exc_info()[1])).strip())

    def parse_response_string(self, data, datatype=0):
        parsed = [datatype]

        # possible expression types:
        # 0 = concatenation
        # 1 = random choice [a,b,c]
        # 2 = multiple response {a,b,c}
        # 3 = dynamic variable ${variable}
        start = {'[': 1, '{': 2, '${': 3}
        end = {0: ';', 1: ']', 2: '}', 3: '}'}

        startchars = tuple(start.keys())
        endchar = end[datatype]
        i = 0
        separate = True
        separatable = {0: False, 1: True, 2: True, 3: False}[datatype]
        allow_nesting = {0: True, 1: True, 2: True, 3: False}[datatype]
        while i < len(data):
            if separate and re.match(r'\s', data[i]):
                i += 1
                continue
            elif data[i] == endchar:
                if separate:
                    parsed.append('')
                return (parsed, data[:i + 1])
            elif allow_nesting and data[i:].startswith(startchars):
                startchar = next(char for char in startchars if data[i:].startswith(char))
                expression_type = start[startchar]
                i += len(startchar)
                subparsed = self.parse_response_string(data[i:], expression_type)
                i += len(subparsed[1])
                if separate or parsed[0] == 0:
                    parsed.append(subparsed[0])
                    separate = False
                else:
                    if type(parsed[-1]) is list and parsed[-1][0] == 0:
                        parsed[-1].append(subparsed[0])
                    else:
                        parsed[-1] = [0, parsed[-1], subparsed[0]]
                continue
            elif separatable and data[i] == ',':
                if separate:
                    parsed.append('')
                separate = True
                i += 1
                continue
            elif data[i] == '\\':
                i += 1
                if re.match(r'\d', data[i]):
                    # This backslash is for a backreference. Insert the backslash literally.
                    if type(parsed[-1]) is str and not separate:
                        parsed[-1] += '\\'
                    elif parsed[0] != 0 and not separate:
                        if type(parsed[-1]) is list and parsed[-1][0] == 0:
                            if type(parsed[-1][-1]) is str:
                                parsed[-1][-1] += '\\'
                            else:
                                parsed[-1].append('\\')
                        else:
                            parsed[-1] = [0, parsed[-1], '\\']
                    else:
                        parsed.append('\\')
                        separate = False
                # Insert the character after the backslash literally.
                if type(parsed[-1]) is str and not separate:
                    parsed[-1] += data[i]
                elif parsed[0] != 0 and not separate:
                    if type(parsed[-1]) is list and parsed[-1][0] == 0:
                        if type(parsed[-1][-1]) is str:
                            parsed[-1][-1] += data[i]
                        else:
                            parsed[-1].append(data[i])
                    else:
                        parsed[-1] = [0, parsed[-1], data[i]]
                else:
                    parsed.append(data[i])
                    separate = False
                i += 1
                continue
            else:
                if type(parsed[-1]) is str and not separate:
                    parsed[-1] += data[i]
                elif parsed[0] != 0 and not separate:
                    if type(parsed[-1]) is list and parsed[-1][0] == 0:
                        if type(parsed[-1][-1]) is str:
                            parsed[-1][-1] += data[i]
                        else:
                            parsed[-1].append(data[i])
                    else:
                        parsed[-1] = [0, parsed[-1], data[i]]
                else:
                    parsed.append(data[i])
                    separate = False
                i += 1
        if separate:
            parsed.append('')
        return (parsed, data)


What We Want Is Disco! is taken from the Ibiza Disco Stars Album Sampler courtesy of PornoStar Records. This is just 1 of the 8 unreleased tracks on this sampler taken from one of the summer's hottest Disco compilations out in August, 2012.
Adult music have the pleasure to present to you 'Let The Music Play' – the remixes.
Funky yet soulful at the same time, Steven Stone smashes out this one with the help of Wendy Lewis called New Lady.
New one from 24 year old Norwegian producer Finnebassen. This is Deep House music at it's near best! The Second Chances & New Romances E.P's are quite simply the most popular releases on Noir Music and by now they kinda define their own sound which differs slightly from the other single and E.P releases on the label. Touching Me, which is available on Volume 4, is so sensual you can easily get lost in the moment while playing this no matter where you are. Absolutely loving this right now!
Not out till later in the year, this is the new jam from Jonny Montana & Craig Stewart featuring the wonderfully sounding Christa on vocals. Very chilled and relaxing this song that could easily be listened to while sipping ice cold drinks on a sun drenched beach.
Hot new signing LOSH from Turkey, rocks a monster cover of the Sade classic with Denmark's Ann Mimoun giving a stellar performance on the vocals.
Danny J Lewis drops a new track for our ears which is available for purchase at the end of the week.
No words, just play, listen and enjoy!