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Donald Trump Speaking to Voters in New Hampshire; Trump, Bush Hold Dueling Campaign Events. Aired 7-8:00p ET
[19:00:08] ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR: OUTFRONT tonight, breaking news, Donald Trump, at a rally in Keene, New Hampshire. The republican front-runner, you see him there, a wide lead in the latest polls out today. He's speaking out live in his first appearance in New Hampshire since he took an anti-Muslim question from a supporter. That sparked national outrage. He's speaking live and we're going to listen in.
DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And by the way, nothing to do with this but we're going to get rid of the regulations that are mounting up on a daily basis. It's ridiculous. Regulations that are going to go by the wayside. There will be some but they'll be meaningful, they won't be the nonsense that every single day is happening. Every single day. The plan will provide major tax relief for middle income and most other Americans. Major tax relief. It will totally simplify the tax code will grow the American economy and all of this will add up to a point where we're not going to be increasing our debt.
If anything, if it really kicks in like I think it might where the economy grows, we'll start reducing our debt and reducing it bigly, which I want to do. And, again, it's -- I know the people I'm running against and I know Democrats and Republicans. They can't do this, folks. I'm really good at it. Who's better at debt than I am? Who's better? Is there anybody?
I've had borrowing so big and I worked it out perfectly. The companies bigger, stronger than ever before and that's what you need. You need somebody with whatever the hell that is, whatever that craziness is up there. You need that. You need that. You can't just be a politician, all talk, no action. They talk. They wouldn't know what to do with China. Carl Icahn, a great entrepreneur. Everybody knows Carl Icahn. He came out yesterday. He said Trump is the only one that knows what he's talking about. And he's great. And I'll get him involved. I'll say, Carl, you handle China. And you know what I'll do, just walk away. Don't worry. We'll do very well. We'll do very well.
We're going to come out great. We're not going to have a $400 billion deficit. That will go away very rapidly. And we'll get along. China doesn't even like us. You know, these countries, they rip us off. They don't even like us. With me, I'll stop the rip-off and they'll like us. Can you believe it? Hard to believe but that will happen.
So in the plan, we're going to cut the individual rates from -- and this is very important. Number one, we're cutting down from seven brackets to four and the rates are going from 25 to 20 to 10 and to zero. When somebody is not making enough to live, what's the purpose of them doing lengthy returns, going to get help from H&R block who we intend to put out of business because it's so ridiculous. So ridiculous. In order to pay -- I mean, these people need help. They are not doing well. So what's the purpose? Plus, the bookkeeping it will be a tremendous percentage and some are not paying now anyway but they have to go through this process. It's brutal. So, we're going to simplify but think of it, 25 percent, 20 percent and 10 percent and that's a major reduction.
Some people said, it's too big of a reduction. Some of the great geniuses that haven't made a dollar in their life. But not a dollar. They haven't created one job. Well, I think it's too much. The only dollars they get is from their mouth. Then, if you're single and earn less than 25,000 or married and jointly earn less than 50,000, you will not pay any income tax. Okay? You won't. If that's the way it is. What's the purpose of that? And by the way, everyone agrees and they can't get it done. We eliminate the AMT which is alternative minimum tax. We eliminate it.
We end the death tax. It's a double taxation. It's a double taxation.
I mean, a lot of you as an example in New Hampshire, you have a store, you have a little building. You leave it to your kids. Your kids get a tax bill and have to pay 35 and even 50 percent in state taxes. Now they mortgage up the business. The bank ends up taking it over because they have to pay the estate taxes and you've been paying taxes all the while. It's double-taxation and it has to end. So many businesses have been destroyed by the death tax or estate tax, as people like to call it. But so many businesses. So it's very important.
[19:05:8] Our plan reduces and/or totally eliminates most of the deductions in loopholes available to special interests who, by the way, are supporting Bush and Rubio and most of them -- and Hillary, big league Hillary, big legal Bush. You know, Bush is going to spend $100 million on ads. That money comes from friends of mine. They are friends. Some are enemies. Some I don't like. Actually, many of them I don't like. But when you see an ad, every time you see an ad from Rubio or Bush or Hillary, remember, that money is coming from special interests and lobbyists. And when they want something done in a year from now, two years from now, if they ever get in -- BURNETT: All right. This is Donald Trump live at a campaign
rally in New Hampshire. Now, Jeb Bush is holding a dueling town hall just about 50 miles to the east of Donald Trump. Donald Trump has already taken a couple of stabs at Jeb Bush. Our reporter Sara Murray is in the room with Donald Trump right now. We're going to get more as he wraps up the speech. We expect him to take questions which is significant everyone because the last time he had -- this is the first time he's had a town hall in New Hampshire since he was asked a very hateful question about Muslims which he chose not to challenge at a town hall in New Hampshire. So, he's going to be taking questions, expected to at least. We're going to bring back to you live.
In the meantime, as these two town halls are going on, I want to go now to our panel of guests, spokesman for the Tea Party Leadership Fund Katrina Pierson, a Donald Trump supporter, republican strategist and former RNC communications director Doug Heye and our political commentator S.E. Cupp.
All right. Good to have all of you with us. Let me just start with you.
DOUG HEYE, FORMER RNC COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: Thank you.
BURNETT: Doug, he came out swinging here talking about polls. That's the Donald Trump we all know. Right, live speech, he's going to come out with the polls. And today he had the ammunition. The latest poll out today, USA Today, Suffolk University, he's solidly in the lead, he's up six points since July. At the same time, as you see Jeb Bush falling. You can see these numbers. He is a significant lead in this poll. Are you surprised?
HEYE: I'm not surprised. This is the candidate that we're talking about the most. And the candidate we've been talking about the most for weeks and even months now. We've also seen other polls that have seen him possibly plateau where we've seen Ben Carson is rising, Carly Fiorina is rising, Marco Rubio rising. Trump is always going to say that he's number one and he's in a comfortable position but there's enough going on right now where he needs to follow what Satchel Paige said which is, be careful when you're looking behind you. Somebody may be gaining on you.
BURNETT: And there are gains, of course, someone Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson gaining. But S.E., one person not getting is Jeb Bush. And as we said, these two town halls are going on live at this hour as we're covering them. Here's what Donald Trump just actually said about Jeb Bush's town hall.
TRUMP: They are expecting 125 people. We have 3,564 people. We have closed circuit. It's amazing. It's great. And it's always like this.
BURNETT: I mean, S.E., look, this is the Donald Trump we know, right? Bragging about the size of his crowd versus Jeb's crowd. But Jeb Bush has had a lot of trouble here, at least in this latest poll. I mean, do you buy into what this poll says about Donald Trump so solidly on top? S.E. CUPP, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: No. I think Doug is
right, that he's probably plateauing at this point. You know, look, Donald Trump has proved a lot of prognosticators and pundits wrong, so I want to hedge everything I ever say about Donald Trump. Because you never know what's going to happen. But I do think that he talked a bit of a beating after the debate and then after that rally where he took the question about Muslim-Americans, I think he suffered a bit and people are sort of seeing the Trump show exposed as maybe not as serious and substantive as some people thought it was going to be, in addition to entertaining.
And so, you know, Jeb, I've talked to Jeb personally and what Jeb says onto the campaign trail and to everyone else is that he's in it for the long haul. And, you know, the one criticism I would have for Jeb is that he's very dismissive of the power of Trump's campaign. He has said before that this isn't going to last. Who wants an entertainer? A president has to be a leader. And I think the message for Jeb is, you can be a serious substantive person but also be charismatic and appealing and maybe even entertaining when the time calls for it.
BURNETT: Yes.
CUPP: So, you know, I would hope that Jeb could take a little bit of everything from all of the candidates who have some really winning attributes out on the GOP side.
[19:10:05] BURNETT: Interesting. Because as you point out, Jeb Bush dismissive of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton was not dismissive to me last night at all. Even when Donald Trump called his wife the worst Secretary of State in American history. Bill Clinton still smiled and said, well, he's wrong but he's really good at what he does and he could be the nominee. Katrina, the same poll that puts Donald Trump on top today from USA Today in Suffolk asked voters to give one word that described Donald Trump. Okay? This is the front-runner. Here were the words. Some variation of one of the following, idiot, jerk, stupid or dumb. Those are words Donald Trump uses to describe people at times but they are not words that we would usually associate with a front-runner for the White House.
KATRINA PIERSON, SPOKESWOMAN, TEA PARTY LEADERSHIP FUND: Well, not usually. But now you have a front-runner for the White House that does not come from what a lot of the establishment folks would believe. So, of course they are calling him names because their candidates like Jeb Bush are tanking in the polls and these polls show a number of things, that one of which being the outsiders are definitely going to be on top. It's not going to be your mainstream person that ends up the nominee even though the polls say that Donald Trump is the most unfavorable but we're talking about an economy on fumes and global chaos. They don't want your, you know, Nobel Peace Prize in charge. They want somebody that's going to stand up and fight for the American people and that's why Trump stays on top.
CUPP: Katrina, let me just ask Katrina, I mean, the same voters that you would say are putting him ahead in the polls are the people who are calling him dumb and stupid and idiot. That's not coming from the establishment. That's coming from the same people populating the polls that you like for Donald Trump.
PIERSON: Well, I think that it comes from a wide range of those in the poll. That particular poll only had 400 of the 1,000 that even participated in that part of it. However, this is also a number of things that are about to happen. You're going to have people drop out throughout the next couple of weeks who aren't going to make it to the next debate and those people have to go somewhere and we're going to see exactly who those people go to.
BURNETT: All right. We're going to take a brief pause here. All of you are going to stay with us. We're watching both of these town halls. Jeb Bush obviously taking questions from voters right now. Donald Trump anticipated to do so shortly and we're going to be taking that live when that happens. We also have a special report out of Melania Trump, super model, businesswoman, the question is now, is she Donald Trump's secret weapon? A special report on Melania ahead.
[19:15:40] BURNETT: Breaking news at this moment, dueling campaign events from Donald Trump and Jeb Bush both in New Hampshire tonight. We're standing by for Donald Trump to take questions from voters. And we're going to bring that to you live. The last time he took questions in New Hampshire of course was when he appeared to agree with or that anti-Muslim hateful question from the voter. One person not in the crowd tonight, though, behind Donald is his wife Melania. The former model is rarely seen on the trail. But tonight, trump tells CNN that is all about to change. For the first time since her husband launched his campaign, Melanie Trump is speaking out.
Joe Johns is OUTFRONT.
JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The latest incarnation of the Trump family, Donald, youngest son Barron and Melania Trump on the cover of "People" magazine. Relaxed and smiling, it's a far different Melania Trump that the woman who famously rode the Trump tower escalator back in June with her billionaire husband for that stunning announcement.
TRUMP: So, ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running for president of the United States.
JOHNS: But since that quick kiss, the first lady of the Trump state has been noticeably absent from her husband's side, except for a date night at the US open serenated by a pours of boos and an appearance at the first republican debate. The "People" interview appears to signal that Melania is about to join the campaign. The five-foot-eleven former model has graced all of the usual covers, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar even posing topless for British GQ. But she also is a businesswoman with her own line of skin care products and a jewelry collection in her name.
MELANIA KNAUSS-TRUMP, WIFE OF DONALD TRUMP: I'm designing for women across the country. JOHNS: Born 45 years ago in the former Yugoslavia, she wants
Americans to know she is more than just Donald Trump's third wife telling "People," I am my own person. I'm not a yes person. I tell my opinions and I was always like that. So I think he likes that. Adding, "Even if you give him advice, he will maybe take it in but then he will do it the way he wants to do it."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you like what she had to say? Do you agree?
TRUMP: Well, I think it's probably true. Look, I mean, I have my own mind. I do listen to a lot of people and then it goes through that and I do what I think is right.
JOHNS: An immigrant and now a naturalized citizen, Melania says her view on the immigration issue is in line with her husband's. "I went through a long process to become a citizen," she says. "I think people should follow the law." Melania and Donald Trump married in 2005. Barron was born 14 months later. And while he's been raised bilingual, he speaks to his grandmother in Slovenian, Melania sounds like a Trump. When you come to America, you speak English. Barron made his CNN debut five years ago on "LARRY KING LIVE."
LARRY KING, HOST, "LARRY KING LIVE": Is he a little Donald?
MELANIA TRUMP: He's bossing everybody around the house.
KING: Has he fired anybody yet?
MELANIA TRUMP: He did, yes, actually, he did. He's firing the housekeeper and the nanny many times.
JOHNS: If she is joining the campaign, Melania sounds like a reluctant warrior saying she's "not ready to get political yet. It's a long road. We will see."
TRUMP: Melania, she'll make a very beautiful first lady, I can tell you that.
And a great first lady.
JOHNS: Joe Johns, CNN, Washington.
BURNETT: And OUTFRONT tonight, the senior editor at "People Magazine," Charlotte Triggs. And Charlotte, I mean, this is incredible. These pictures. You got to talk to Melania, you saw Donald at home. What was their home like?
CHARLOTTE TRIGGS, SENIOR EDITOR, "PEOPLE MAGAZINE": I mean, their home is everything that you would think it would be. It's covered in marble and gold and crystal chandeliers and angels on the ceilings. It's the epitome of '80s decadent, really. BURNETT: I mean, angel on the ceilings. I mean, what was
Melania Trump like?
TRIGGS: You know, she's a very interesting woman. She's very soft spoken, she supports her husband. She doesn't like to contradict him but she says that she's not a "yes" person. And when you talk to her about certain things, it's very clear that she has her own opinion. She says that, you know, you can try to tell her husband anything to give him advice but he's going to do what he wants to do and any of the outrageous things he says, that's really his opinion.
BURNETT: So what was he like at home? Right. I mean, you would at least see this Donald Trump on the campaign trail unafraid to lobby insults around, talks about his polls. I mean, this is -- was he a different person when he was with his wife and his nine-year-old son?
TRIGGS: You know, he's very relaxed. He was really accommodating and, you know, very confident and, you know, he's the person that he is but he was willing to answer absolutely any question and as they were together taking the pictures, you know, he was very attentive to his son, he went got him a little tie for the photo shoot, he wanted to make sure that his wife liked her pictures. And, you know, they were a very sweet family.
[19:20:18] BURNETT: So she's not been on the campaign trail as she does. As you point out, she's got her own business, a jewelry line. She talks about traveling all the time.
TRIGGS: Yes.
BURNETT: Is she going to start playing a bigger role in this campaign?
TRIGGS: You know, it's unclear whether she's going to play a role in the campaign per say but right now she says that she's not really ready to get political. The only thing that she actually spoke about in terms of political issues was immigration. Because she's a naturalized citizen herself and she says that agrees with her husband that people should have to go through the official channels.
BURNETT: So, she was, that topic did come up and she --
TRIGGS: Yes. We asked her about that.
BURNETT: And she defended him.
TRIGGS: Yes. She defended him. She has to spoke about speaking foreign languages because her son is bilingual. He speaks Slovenian on the phone with her grandmother all the time. She says that she believes that, yes, you should speak multiple languages, it's good for you to know but in America you should speak English. She agrees with him.
BURNETT: All right. Well, thank you very much, Charlotte. I appreciate it.
TRIGGS: Thank you so much.
BURNETT: Katrina Pierson, Doug Heye, S.E. Cupp are back. This is a side S.E. that we have not seen from Donald Trump.
CUPP: Yes.
BURNETT: Melania certainly would be a very unknown campaign factor. Right? I mean, is it possible she could help him?
CUPP: Yes. Putting aside a lot of the criticisms about Trump which I think are justified, you cannot say that he doesn't have a very impressive family that loves him immensely.
BURNETT: That's right.
CUPP: I've met some of his children. I mean, if you talk -- forget about Melania. If you talk Ivana, his wife before Melania, she is, you know, very vocal about her support for Donald Trump, both as a father and a president. This is really an incredibly tight-knit successful, impressive, well-spoken, articulate happy family considering how many, you know, marriages there were, how much money there is, how much excess there is. I can speak from experience, they are very down to earth, his children, and I think any one of them would be an excellent surrogate on the campaign trail for Donald Trump talking about any number of issues.
BURNETT: I mean, it's interesting, Katrina, I just want to play what Donald Trump just said a moment ago at this town hall about women. And by the way, you know, S.E. Cupp is completely right. I mean, the women in his life are all incredibly articulate, confident women. Here's what he had to say about women tonight.
TRUMP: Nobody respects women more than I do. And two weeks ago, I was making a speech, and I said, I respect women, I cherish women, I do I cherish women. And Hillary said, we don't want to be cherished. We want to be respected. I said, I said that. I think you want to be cherished, too. It's better than -- it's everything. You want to be respected, you want to be loved, you want to be cherished, you want to be everything. I think. Am I right, women, or wrong?
BURNETT: But there are some though who would see that as demeaning?
PIERSON: Well, there are probably some insecure women that would see that as demeaning but I think what S.E. said is right. The women closest to him, the ones that would know his true heart and nature towards women, they appraise him. They adore him. Even his previous wife as S.E. mentioned, he has been very, very good to the women around him, even women who work for him that I have myself been in contact with. They all praise Mr. Trump and his treatment of women. So I really don't think this demeaning concept around Trump and women is going to work, particularly when Melanie does hit the campaign trail. BURNETT: It's going to be interesting to see what will happen.
I mean, you know, as somebody who covered Donald Trump back when I was a business reporter for a long time, there are a lot of women who work for him who are very strong women. It will be very interesting to see as they come out what their stories are and how this all plays. Be sure to watch Don Lemon's interview with Miss Donald Trump tonight at 10:00 on CNN.
And OUTFRONT next, our panel is going to stay with us, and Jeb Bush as we said, dueling town hall. Also in New Hampshire tonight, his poll numbers have been sinking. Can the onetime presumptive nominee hang on? We're going to bring you Jeb Bush live from New Hampshire in a moment.
[19:28:00] BURNETT: At this hour, dueling preside campaign events in New Hampshire. You're looking at live pictures, Donald Trump is on the Left. Jeb Bush is on the Right. They are both with voters. Events just 50 miles apart. Now, we brought you Donald Trump. We're going to take his voter questions when that happens. I want to now though listen in to Jeb Bush who is taking questions. Here is Jeb Bush.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What are you going to do to help? Are we going to let Putin run this world? He's a dictator. I mean, he cannot have the world stage and that's what's been happening. That is what's happening today.
JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Yep.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So, I would like to know your views --
BUSH: First of all, my heart goes out to your family and I applaud the fact that you're acting on your heart to take care of them and that should be applauded by everybody in this room.
I have a personal story in this that's similar and that is, my daughter-in-law, my precious daughter-in-law, is Iraqi. And she's an Iraqi Christian, she was born in Canada. Her parents are Iraqi. And the slaughter of Iraqi Christians goes on. As we pulled back, ISIS has formed and there's no mass in Mosul anymore after what -- since 500 or something there's been Christianity consistently there and it's gone. And I asked her how I could help and it was hard to find actually people that were actually interested in this. This is a place where -- back to -- and how we act, this is normally what we do unbelievably well. We act on our heart, we organize it well, we take care of people, typically with support of government but it's normally with organizations that do great work.
And the Knights of Columbus was a place, by the way, that ending up being, where they had a matching program and we raised a lot of money to help. And so I have a personal connection to this because it's not dissimilar. And I think, look, I'm not going to go through the litany of why this refugee crisis has taken place. Simply put, put aside our role, our lack of role because I think it did have a corollary role of the plan in this. But Assad is a brutal dictator. He barrel bombs his innocents in his -- he kills them. He's destroying communities, 200,000 plus people have died. Ands people are leaving not just because they are immigrants looking for a better life. They are leaving because, if not, they will die. It's that simple.
And we have to play a role in providing support and it's hard to do this far away in terms of screening and all those things. We need to make sure that we don't have people that hate America in our midst but I think we are duty bound to support and even supporting refugees, which I think is appropriate in some scale. We need to be part of the strategy to deal with taking Assad out and taking ISIS out.
And in 45 days --
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Forty-five days ago, I gave a speech at the Reagan library with a strategy to do just that. And I didn't say that it could be done in, you know, like great bravado, you know, we'll just like -- you know, watch the shows and we'll just this and it will all happen and, you know, I mean, this is like -- we've created a mess and the mess was hard to deal with and we made it worse by our lack of leadership, now, we have to create a strategy. And I think the strategy starts by creating a serious alternative to both ISIS and Assad.
A Sunni-led but not -- you know, a multiethnic, multi-religious group with the support of the neighborhood, with Jordan, with Turkey, with Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf countries. We should be leading this effort to train an alternative and create safe zones so they can operate. Those same places may be places where refugees could stay as well.
And what I advocated, which has been extraordinarily more complex, by our lack of action, lack of strategy, is a no fly zone. I think what we should have done was to tell Assad, no more barrel bombs. We'll wipe out your airports. We'll wipe out your airports.
ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR: All right. You're listening to Jeb Bush at a town hall answering a voter question about Vladimir Putin and Syria, talking about what he would have done differently. It was an emotional question and he also now is talking about his Iraqi daughter-in-law. We're going to have a lot more on that in just a moment.
But, Trump, just moments ago, took a shot at Jeb Bush.
DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: They ask Bush, what do you think of Rubio? He comes out and he's talking about Bush. What do you think of Rubio? He's my dear friend. He's so wonderful. I love him so much.
So they ask Rubio, what do you think of Bush? Oh, he's my dear friend. Wonderful. Just wonderful.
They hate each other. They hate. Trust me, I know. They hate so much -- they hate more than anybody in this room hates their neighbor.
But it's political (EXPLETIVE DELETED). Do you understand? It's true.
BURNETT: And that's the Donald Trump that voters have come to know.
As we showed you earlier, Trump also called out Jeb Bush for having a smaller crowd tonight, but Bush tells CNN that he is not worried. He gave an interview, a rare interview to our Dana Bash and she's OUTFRONT.
BUSH: Whoa.
DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The irony of Jeb Bush being labeled low energy is that he's a tireless campaigner.
BUSH: Each and every day I wake up and enjoy my heart with excitement. Yes, Mr. Trump, with high energy.
BASH: Barnstorming the early contest states with a break neck schedule. But some worried backers tell CNN all that effort makes that declining support with voters even more alarming.
(on camera): One of your significant donors told me, it's as if we keep investing in a company and as a shareholder we're not seeing any sales.
BUSH: Who is that?
BASH: What do you say?
BUSH: Who is that person?
BASH: I don't want to say.
BUSH: Yes, he doesn't either, I guess.
Look, the fact is, we've got a plan, we're executing on the plan. I'm convinced that I'm going to win the Republican nomination. I'm going to do it in a way that will actually make it possible to win the general election as well. BASH (voice-over): Once the front-runner, Bush has lost 50
percent, half of his support nationally since July. Even here in the Granite State where Bush was leading in June, he's now tied for fifth place, according to a CNN/WMUR poll last week.
The result: Bush aides are spending a lot of time trying to reassure anxious donors and supporters what Jeb Bush himself told us -- be patient. That Bush rivals may be generating buzz, but Bush is building a nationwide infrastructure team to keep him alive through the GOP contests well into the spring.
BUSH: Patience. That's my first part of the strategy.
[19:35:00] The second part would be, more patience.
BASH: But the long haul does not lead to victory unless Bush can actually win Republican delegates. To do that, even Bush campaign advisers admit the central thesis of his campaign has to work, that he can shed the Bush baggage and convince voters he is the Washington outsider they're looking for.
BUSH: I think people want authenticity. They want someone who has the leadership skills to turn ideas into reality. I got to do that as governor of Florida. I can do it as president of the United States. And I'll convince people of that.
BASH: But even some Bush backers worry the problem is fundamental. Republican voters are looking for excitement and change. Endurance is one thing. Electricity is another. Something Jeb Bush is lacking.
BUSH: I'm the tortoise in the race -- slow, steady progress each and every day.
BASH: Often voters leave Bush events impressed but not excited. Bush aides insist that's OK. Voters are now letting off steam by backing Donald Trump and other first-time politicians. But when it comes time to pull the lever, they'll go for the adult in the room.
BUSH: Ultimately, this is not about the loudness. It's not about entertainment. We're not auditioning for some kind of show here. We're running for president of the United States.
BASH: And, Erin, as I speak to you, I'm going to be a little quiet because as you see behind me, this is quite an intimate gathering of Jeb Bush and voters here in New Hampshire. He has been answering questions for the past 45 minutes or so, a lot of substantive issues.
But I should say, you played the fact that Jeb Bush is speaking at the same time as Donald Trump going into tonight, I asked Bush why voters should come here and not go to Trump. His answer was, if they want to be entertained, they can go to Trump. If they want to learn about how to deal with problems that are facing voters in New Hampshire, they should come here -- Erin.
BURNETT: Dana, thank you very much.
Forty-five minutes of voters questions in substance, you heard a little bit of that, talking about what his policy would have been, very different than what you heard from Donald Trump.
Donald Trump just wrapping up his event. He's going to be taking questions but he's making news on Syria that is important to share.
I want to go straight to our Sara Murray who was in the room with Donald Trump.
Sara, what is it that he said?
SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICS REPORTER: Hi, Erin.
So, he was talking about the refugee crisis and in the midst of how he would deal with foreign policy and he said if he were president, he would send all of the Syrian refugees back home. That's actually got quite a big response from the crowd. A number of people stood up and gave him a standing ovation. It was actually one of the loudest rounds of applause he got throughout his entire stump speech. And even more popular lines tonight than his plan to build a wall along the border with Mexico, which is usually his biggest line of stump speech, Erin.
BURNETT: So you're saying the biggest applause, Sara, came from the line of sending the refugees home. That's pretty incredible and obviously significant -- something new that Donald Trump has not said before. We're going to talk about that with our panel as we take a brief break.
We're going to come back as these town halls continue. Donald Trump about to take questions, Jeb Bush taking substantive questions. Both in New Hampshire tonight.
We'll be right back.
[19:42:01] BURNETT: All right. Doug Heye is back with me.
Donald Trump at this town hall in New Hampshire, about to take voter questions.
And, Doug, you heard what he said, that he would send the Syrian refugees back to Syria. You just heard our reporter say that's what he got the most applause for in that room when Donald Trump said there were more than 3,500 people. That's the kind of headline, though, that will get noticed by a lot of people. That's a very controversial thing to say.
DOUG HEYE, FORMER RNC COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: Absolutely. I'm troubled by the audience's reaction on that. But also, it's not surprising that Donald Trump would say that he wouldn't take any in, not because what he would say about minorities in the past, but in Donald Trump's mind, he's going to create some Middle East Xanadu just by a sheer cult or force of personal. So, why would he need to take any Syrian refugees in?
And that's the real dichotomy we saw with what he has said and what Jeb Bush just said earlier. Jeb Bush offers specifics. He offers clear policies.
With Trump, what we get are name-calling and conjecture, and that's about it and ultimately that's going to be Trump's downfall.
BURNETT: But, Doug, briefly, the people in the room responded to it. I mean, that's a key thing. They responded to it. That's what they wanted to hear.
HEYE: Yes. Look, again, I think that was a troubling reaction from the audience. When we see the images of people who are really suffering, families suffering, of a child who is dead and has washed upon a shore, you know, that's when the American people usually step up and I'm convinced a majority of our party would certainly do so.
BURNETT: All right. Doug Heye, thank you very much.
HEYE: Thank you.
BURNETT: And as Donald Trump talking about Syria, Jeb Bush talking about Syria at this moment, we have major news from that country. Pouring gasoline on a fire is how an angry secretary of defense today, Ashton Carter, described Russian's bombs in Syria today. The United States caught completely off guard as Russian planes attacked.
Barbara Starr is OUTFRONT with me tonight.
And, Barbara, President Obama and Putin meet and then Russia does this behind America's back. I mean, this seems bizarre.
BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: You know, Erin, it certainly is. That was the question I asked Defense Secretary Ash Carter earlier today. It has been a day of military drama between the United States and Russia.
STARR (voice-over): The first Russian combat camera video of their airstrikes in Syria. Russian warplanes struck near the city of Homs in western Syria, an area where anti-government forces are operating, not ISIS, the terrorist group Russia claimed it was going after.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter had been assembling a military team to talk to the Russians about how to keep U.S. and Russian pilots safe when they fly near each other.
But earlier Wednesday, the U.S. embassy in Baghdad got a sudden visit from a Russian general. (on camera): So, a Russian general shows up this morning at the
embassy in Baghdad and apparently reads you -- your people a note saying airstrikes are going to begin in one hour. Is this not a little bizarre?
ASH CARTER, DEFENSE SECRETARY: This is not the kind of behavior that we should expect professionally from Russian military professionally, and that's one reason why I think it's a good thing to have an avenue of communication that is less unprofessional than a drop-in.
[19:45:07] STARR (voice-over): The Russian general giving just one-hour notice, strikes were to begin and telling the Americans to keep their aircraft out of Syrian skies.
CEDRIC LEIGHTON, FORMER NSA DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR TRAINING: The Russians are using this opportunity to basically do their best to shove the U.S. out of the Middle East and they are doing it literally and figuratively right in front of our noses.
STARR: One of the areas the Russians hit, north of Homs where several factions, including the al Qaeda affiliate al Nusra and other anti-Assad groups are fighting the regime.
The State Department trying to diffuse rising military tensions between the U.S. and Moscow but only going so far.
JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE: The United States and the coalition will continue our ongoing air operations as we have from the very beginning.
STARR: Russian Vladimir Putin says his military was invited into Syria by Bashar al Assad, the Russian leader clearly ready to prop up Assad.
VLADIMIR PUTIN, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): We will support the Syrian army only in its legitimate fights specifically against terrorist groups.
STARR: For now, little mention of ISIS, the U.S. priority.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Putin's ambitions are blindingly obvious, my friends. He wants to prop up Assad, play kingmaker and any transition undermine U.S. policy and operations and ultimately expand Russian power in the Middle East.
STARR: But even with everything that has happened, Defense Secretary Ash Carter says he is still assembling a team of military personnel to sit down and talk to the Russians. How both sides can keep their pilots safe, how both sides can share information as they conduct military strikes inside Syria -- Erin.
BURNETT: Barbara, thank you very much. Pretty stunning how Barbara reported that it happened. Russian general just walks into the American embassy in Baghdad.
All right. OUTFRONT next, Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, she claims she met with the pope, receiving a rosary from him, a very detailed read-out of the meeting. The Vatican will not deny it. Why?
[19:51:17] BURNETT: Tonight, Kim Davis says she met the pope. She is the Kentucky clerk who went to jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples and she now says she met Pope Francis during his recent trip to the United States. According to her lawyers, they were specific, they said the meeting happened while the pope was in Washington D.C. and the Vatican is not denying the meeting took place.
Alexandra Field is OUTFRONT.
ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Pope Francis cheered by the masses during a U.S. tour packed with public appearances but he also found time we're finding out for a private visit.
KIM DAVIS, KENTUCKY COUNTY CLERK: It was really very humbling to even think he would want to, you know, meet me or know me.
FIELD: Kim Davis, the Kentucky County clerk jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, says she and her husband Joe spent time alone with the pope in Washington D.C.
DAVIS: I put my handout and he reached and grabbed it and I hugged him and he hugged me and he said, "Thank you for your courage."
FIELD: Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi isn't commenting on the visit, saying only that he won't deny that the meeting took place. And Davis' attorney won't say how the visit came together.
MATHEW STAVER, FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, LIBERTY COUNSEL: There is speculation how did she get in and out without being seen by the media tht was surrounding the Vatican embassy. I will say the bigger issue is not how or how it happened but it did happen.
FIELD: The couple left with rosaries blessed. The meeting leaves a lasting impression.
JOHN ALLEN, CNN SENIOR VATICAN ANALYST: I think what it does is reframe the narrative about Pope Francis a bit. I think up to this point, the narrative has been this is a progressive maverick sort of shaking up a deeply traditional church and that's all true. But I think what's been missed is that while he's changing the tone, he's not changing the content of the church's message.
FIELD: It wasn't the pope's only private visit, along with meeting church sex abuse survivors during his stay in the U.S., he also met with the Little Sisters of the Poor, plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Obamacare's mandate for employees to be offered free contraception.
None of those meetings were on the schedule but reflect the broader public messages. On his return trip to Rome, reporters asked specifically about public officials who refused to carry out their duties as a matter of conscience, the pontiff reaffirmed his support but made no mention of the county clerk saying, "I can say the conscious objection is a right part of every human right. It is a right," a message from the Holy Father further fueling Kim Davis' fight.
DAVIS: He told me before he left, he said stay strong. That's great encouragement. Just knowing that the pope is on track, you know, with what we're doing and agreeing, you know, kind of validates everything.
BURNETT: You know, if this happened, I think this changes a little bit the visits, so many people, right, the pope was so ecumenical, so communitarian, as Bill Clinton used the word to me last night, I mean, certainly, the White House would have had an issue with this. Have they said anything?
FIELD: Right. You got sort of a polarizing figure here many this country, Kim Davis, a lot of people who are supporting her, a lot of people who are against her, that seemed to be outside the pope's message but the question was put to the White House today, what does the president think of the fact the pope would meet with Kim Davis? His press secretary said there wasn't a specific comment on the meeting itself or whether it happened with the details of the meeting, but he did bring back around the point the pope was here to talk about religious freedom and said that's a conversation that the president engaged him when the pope was in Washington.
[19:55:05] But he reaffirms the president's point which is this, that religious freedom doesn't grant the freedom to deny fellow Americans their basic constitutional rights. So, of course, he's pointing back the rule of law, and what was established by the Supreme Court over the summer, that is the right of all Americans to marry.
BURNETT: That's pretty incredible and, of course, I guess no surprise given it would have been so controversial and the Vatican is refusing to confirm or deny. But with all the details out there from Kim Davis, it seems at least to me it pretty clear, that it did.
All right. Thank you very much, Alexandra Field.
And we'll be right back.
BURNETT: Thanks so much for joining us tonight. Don't forget to watch Don Lemon's interview with Donald Trump. That is tonight at 10:00 Eastern. Thanks so much. "AC360" starts now.


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Peter Ambuofa was an early convert to Christianity among Solomon Islanders who established a Christian community on Malaita, and a key figure in the history of the South Seas Evangelical Mission (now South Seas Evangelical Church, SSEC).

Peter Ambuofa was from north Malaita and worked in Queensland as a kanaka labourer. He converted to Christianity and was baptised at Bundaberg, Queensland in 1892.

When he returned to the Solomon Islands in 1894, he established a Christian community at Malu'u. At first he was shunned by his relatives, who thought he had brought a strange devil (akalo) with him. He was left to die of hunger, not allowed to move freely; but an old woman, taking pity on him, offered him roast taro on market days, and he was also able to take fruit from a wawao tree nearby and take water from a well he dug nearby. A traditional story also counts that he had a hen which laid an egg for him whenever he prayed.

In another story, some relatives of his tried to shoot him while he was praying, but as they attempted to shoot a thick smoke came up and ruined their aim. Later, when the smoke cleared, they tried again, but the triggers did not work. They went off to shoot a fruit, and the guns worked fine, so they came to believe that Ambuofa's spirit was more powerful than their own, and accepted Christianity as a result.

Peter Ambuofa was uneducated and had some confusions regarding Christian teaching, so he solicited help from the Queensland Kanaka Mission to help teach his flock, and in response, in 1904, Florence Young led the first party of missionaries to the Solomon Islands in 1904. Eventually this led to the creation of the South Seas Evangelical Mission.

In March 1994 a special celebratory service was held at Bundaberg in honor of the centennial of Ambuofa's return to the Solomon Islands, which 1300 members of the SSEC attended.

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Solomon Islands Protestant missionaries
Protestant missionaries in the Solomon Islands
Year of death missing
People from Malaita Province
Year of birth unknown
Converts to Protestantism from pagan religions
Solomon Islands Pentecostals
Solomon Islands evangelicals
Solomon Islands expatriates in Australia
Pentecostal missionaries

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I am Antoine,I live in Quebec Canada, I am an aircraft maintenance engineer for Air Inuit, I work in remote northern canada in Kuujjuaq, on my time off down south, I work on my Defender 110 2001 TD5 that I imported from Europe. Trying to keep it running and make it llok nice, I really enjoy such a basic truck with almost no electronics.
I have some issues that I need some advice because I never encountered such thing. I will try to help the community, I know all the extreme cold weather issues you can find, I ran that td5 at -44 no problem !
bon Jour from rainy capital of England Manchester. Welcome to loonyzoo and feel free to ask for information via the series 90 110 defender section. Quick question as your from French Quebec and a Aircraft maintenance. There was a TV programme that was over here a few years back. ICE PILOTS. On the show was a fellow French female pilot. Sound daft do you know her?
must admit is always fancied working for these airports in Canada after seeing a few of the programmes. Not that I can blow my own trumpet I have been in the royal air force 1981 to 1990. Worked at nimrods in Scotland as a supplier and with helicopters in the Falklands and Belize.


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Discover the latest news on the European Space Agency's Earth Observation activities. Learn all about new data availability and how ESA's missions are performing.
News - Data Release news
Improved Aeolus wind data now available
ESA's Aeolus mission continues to advance weather forecasting with further data improvements, thanks to a third reprocessing campaign.
News - Success Stories
Drones join the campaign to validate Aeolus data
In June and September 2022, the Askos component of the Joint Aeolus Tropical Atlantic Campaign (JATAC), organised by ESA and its international partners, was expanded with new ground-based, drone and radiosonde measurements. The main objective of this campaign was to calibrate and validate Aeolus satellite observations.
Aeolus third Reprocessing Campaign Data published
Data from the Aeolus 3rd reprocessing campaign, covering the sensing period from 31 August 2018 to 16 June 2019, relevant to the first period of operations of the ALADIN Flight Model A instrument is available for browsing and download.
Space data help to unravel the complexities of Earth's atmosphere
As the impacts of the climate crisis intensify, scientists are using ESA's Earth observation archives to investigate atmospheric processes and their influences on the planet's changing environment.
News - Events and Proceedings
Exploring the prevailing achievements and future directions of Aeolus
A tight-knit community of European remote sensing experts converged on the Italian island of Sicily last month to discuss how the strong success of ESA's Aeolus mission is shaping scientists' understanding of the winds that sweep across the planet.
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What is Aeolus VRE?
Learn more about the the Aeolus Virtual Research Environment (VRE), the latest extension to the VirES for Aeolus service, in this infographic.
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Launch of Aeolus VRE
The Aeolus Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is a cloud service, which provides users with a web-based development environment in the form of a JupyterLab workspace.
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Aeolus satellite testing planned for 1 March
Aeolus L2A data production is expected to be impacted due to a planned satellite test on 1 March 2022.
Dust aerosol campaign validates Aeolus data
Prepared, implemented and executed by a consortium of French universities and research institutions, under the umbrella of the French Space Agency (CNES) and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Clouds-Atmospheric Dynamics–Dust Interactions in West Africa (CADDIWA) campaign took place on Sal Island in Cape Verde, from 6 to 25 September 2021.
Askos campaign validates Aeolus data
From July to September 2021, the European Space Agency (ESA) organised the Joint Aeolus Tropical Atlantic Campaign (JATAC) in Cape Verde.
New Aeolus infographic
Learn more about ESA's youngest Earth Explorer - the Aeolus mission - in our latest infographic
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Q: Is this extension of Goldbach's conjecture obviously false? Goldbach's conjecture is:

Every even integer greater than $2$ can be expressed as the sum of two primes.

Extension of Goldbach's conjecture is:

Every number from $p\mathbb{Z}$ greater than $p$ can be expressed as the sum of $p$ primes

where $p\mathbb{Z}=\lbrace 0, \pm p, \pm 2p, \pm3p,\dots\rbrace$.
You can find a counterexamples?
For example if $p=5$:

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*$10=2+2+2+2+2$

*$15=3+3+3+3+3$

*$20=2+3+3+5+7$

*...

*$100=47+2+17+17+17$

Who can make this programming?

A: Suppose Goldbach is true.  Let n be your candidate number.  Then either n is even or odd.  If even, then it is the sum of 2 primes.  If odd then n - 3 is even so n is the sum of 3 primes.  In no case would you need more than 3 primes.

A: First of all we will assume that the Goldbach's conjecture is true, so given an integer  $n=kp$ with $k\geq 4$ ($k=3,2$ are easy), we will prove that $n$ is the sum of $p$ primes.
If $p=2,$ it's the Goldbach's conjecture and it's true, so we can assume that $p>2$.
Case 1 If $n$ is even, let's write
$$n=\underbrace{2+\cdots+2}_{p-2}+(n-2(p-2)),$$
and because $(n-2(p-2))=(k-2)p+4\geq4$ and it's even, then it can expressed as the sum of two primes. Hence, $n$ is the sum of $p$ primes.
Case 2 If $n$ is odd, let's write
$$n=3+\underbrace{2+\cdots+2}_{p-3}+(n-2(p-3)-3),$$
and because $(n-2(p-3)-3)=(k-2)p+3\geq4$ and it's even, then it can expressed as the sum of two primes. Hence, $n$ is the sum of $p$ primes.
So we proved the following statement:
$$\text{Goldbach's conjecture} \implies \text{Extension of Goldbach's conjecture}$$
But Goldbach's conjecture is a particular case of the extension of Goldbach's conjecture (when $p=2$), hence:
$$\text{Goldbach's conjecture} \iff \text{Extension of Goldbach's conjecture}$$
Conclusion The extension of Goldbach's conjecture as you define it is equivalent to the Goldbach's conjecture itself, and hence no one will ever find a counterexample or prove it unless (s)he solves Goldbach's conjecture.

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In the early years the firm was a meeting point for those transporting their goods from the North West of the province to the docks in Belfast. Horses were fed and rested before the final journey to the docks.
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DNR commissioner: Connection to outdoors critical to health, conservation
Credit to Kirsti Marohn at MPR News: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/06/18/dnr-commissioner-connection-to-outdoors-critical-to-health-conservation
Bucks such as this wide-racked whitetail will be the target of deer hunters across the Minnesota on Saturday, Nov. 4, when the state's firearms deer season opens. (Photo/ Minnesota Department of Natural Resources)
The commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources told a group of lake advocates on Tuesday that it's her personal mission to connect more people with the outdoors.
Sarah Strommen spoke at the "Water Connects Us All" conference in Walker, Minn., organized by the nonprofit Minnesota Lakes and Rivers Advocates. The two-day conference focused on challenges facing the state's natural resources, including climate change, aquatic invasive species and threats to water quality, as well as possible solutions.
Strommen highlighted Minnesota's changing demographics, noting that the state's population is getting older, more urban and diverse. But she said youth and families aren't using state parks and other recreation facilities as much because of a lack of time or experience, concerns about safety or language barriers.
Strommen said people's connection to nature is critical for the long-term protection of the state's natural resources, its economy and residents' well-being.
"The reality is that people who work to protect these resources, the main factor that motivates people is that personal connection or personal experience," she said.
Strommen also said there's a wealth of research showing the mental and physical health benefits of spending time in nature. Even just a few minutes a day spent in an urban park can lower stress and anxiety levels, she said.
Referring to the increased use of technology among kids and teens, Strommen said she was glad her son was fishing at their nearby family cabin while she was at the conference.
"I feel really fortunate that my kid is outside right now. He's not on the screen," she said. "But that is not the norm. I'm very well aware that I am raising a child who does not match the activities of his peers."
But Strommen said there is also growing concern about obesity and interest in a healthy, active lifestyle. People's motivation for using parks and trails is changing — with exercise now a leading reason, Strommen said. She said the DNR is trying to reach those people to promote activities like stand-up paddle boarding, fat-tire bike events and trail runs.
Strommen said the DNR also is updating older state parks and facilities while keeping hard-to-reach groups in mind, by adding things like Wi-Fi and better access for people with disabilities.
"I know that's like the worst thing for some people to hear is that you can access Wi-Fi in our campgrounds," she said. "But the reality is there are a lot of people that cannot leave their job if they can't connect. And if they don't feel like they can leave their job, they just won't go camping, and they won't take their family."
How to Plan a Minnesota Family Reunion Vacation
There's nothing like getting the family together again. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins, and the whole rest of the extended family. Of course, getting everything organized can be a hassle, especially if you don't know where the host the reunion at. So today let's see how to set up a family reunion up here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, following these five steps:
Formulating the Family Reunion
Hosting a large gathering like a family reunion takes time, and you'll want to be prepared. It's good to make sure you're not the only one planning this out, so be sure to communicate with the rest of your family in planning out a reunion. This means speaking to them in-person, over the phone, online, mail, etc, in order to notify them that you want to plan out a family reunion, and if they would be interested in attending. Even if some family members may not attend, it's still important to send out an invite to them anyway so they don't feel left out.
Allocating Duties
It's important to delegate certain tasks to others when planning out a family reunion, otherwise it's very easy to get overwhelmed as one person running the whole show. This means making sure you get the whole family to pitch in, with some of them being responsible for managing entertainment, finances, food, reservations, etc. Speaking of reservations, when booking a location to host a family reunion at, such as a resort, it's important to have reservations up to a year in advance. In the northern Minnesota area, there's plenty of resorts to book a family reunion at, such as White Birch Resort. Sometimes you can even get solid off-season deals at resorts!
Managing Time
When booking your family reunion, you'll want to decide how long you want the reunion to last, be it a couple days or a couple weeks. Regardless, knowing what time frame you want to work under will help a lot in planning out the rest of the events you want to have at the reunion. For example, it's recommended to have a longer stay at a resort you're hosting a reunion at if your family is out-of-state, or even out-of-country. That way they can enjoy more experiences offered and get more value out of the time and money spent at the reunion.
Inclusive Activities
As said before, it's crucial to try and send invitations to everyone you want to have attend so they don't feel left out. But besides that, it's also important that all the events and activities at the reunion are ones that a vast majority of your family will enjoy. If you have family that enjoy outside activities like hiking, fishing, swimming, and more, then booking a resort with tons of nature around it is a fantastic idea. Of course, it's always good to mix up activities too, such as having movie nights, going bowling, visiting historical landmarks, etc. Knowing the location you're going to be at during your family reunion will help a lot in planning out events, such as finding catering services and local businesses you want to visit. So be sure to factor in your family's demographics to make sure it matches with the culture of the geographics your reunion will be at.
Linking-Up
Now once you actually get your family reunion situated after several months of coordinating, you're going to want to meet and greet with everyone as they arrive. If your budget is big enough, you can even do things like give out welcome bags or t-shirts. It's also best to show everyone a schedule of events to keep things organized for all the activities planned at your family reunion. Having a great start to your family reunion will help provide a solid foundation for setting the right atmosphere. Then with a nice base to start the family reunion on, all it takes it maintaining momentum and you'll be able to create wonderful memories with your family at your next reunion.


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Waiting for Wednesday, Volume 2, Issue 9
I'm sneaking this posting in between some massive data entry(ing?) at my new gig. You wouldn't believe how much data needs to get entered at this place. It's amazing. With all the entering of the data. Truly skews on the side of staggering, if I were to be honest about it.
My grand scheme today, you see, was to try and type a paragraph here and there, you know, throughout the day, so I wouldn't have to come home after being stuck in traffic and have to write from scratch. Well, that first (and ridiculous) paragraph aside, I managed to not write anything else.
Besides all of the data, of course.
So here I sit, on my kitchen counter, typing away on my laptop. Which brings me to my next point. I finally broke down and got wireless Internet (it's a long story that basically involves Alex and his crippling fear of emerging technologies), and yes, I've even allowed myself to use my newly Internet-y laptop to perform basic online functions such as checking email and blogging.
But I still don't trust this "YouTube" thing I've been hearing about. Probably just a fad, anyway. From what I've been told, all that's on the site are Mega Man videos with some guy talking over all the funny sound effects.
There's just no learnin' some folks, I suppose.
So far, so good with the wireless. The whole system has had to be restarted twice, but other than that, I think I may have officially gotten it to do its thing.
Using my fancy wireless laptop thing, I checked the Diamond site to see what's shipping today, and I was a little surprised to find that there's just a whole lot that I'm looking forward to picking up. Bad for my wallet, good for my weekend downtime.
Oh, and before I launch into this week's Waiting for proper, I wanted to mention a radio show I caught this past weekend. Yep, I said, "radio show." Anyone who's a fan of The Howard Stern Show (and likely those who are not) know that Stern made the move from regular (or, as he calls it, terrestrial) radio to Sirius Satellite Radio a few years ago.
As a devoted listener since I was in high school, I made the move along with Howard and the gang, and I have to say--the shows they've put on since their Sirius debut have been some of the very best radio they've ever done. Love him or hate him, it's impossible to deny Stern's impact on broadcasting, and personally, anyone who can drive censors that crazy is someone I have admiration for.
Anyway, on Sirius (now Sirius/XM Radio, as the two companies merged), Howard programs two channels--Howard 100 and Howard 101. Both channels feature wall-to-wall Stern goodness and a variety of different shows.
Well, on Saturday, I was finally able to catch an episode of GEEKTIME!, a show hosted by Stern regulars and on-air talent dedicated to all the things we love most. Like comics and gaming and TV shows with plots no one can follow and movies with big blue aliens.
The show runs for two hours on Saturdays on Howard 101, and even if you despise Stern, you'd be doing yourself a favor by checking this show out. Of course, since it's on Satellite Radio, the show is very blue, as they say, and if you're not big on cursing and such, I'd steer clear.
Me? I don't mind the cursing.
As I was driving in my car Saturday, I happened on 101, trying to catch a replay of the Stern Show from the previous week. I stumbled upon GEEKTIME!, and I am really glad I did. It was...kinda surreal, actually...listening to people on the radio talk about Brian Bendis and Blackest Night and Toy Fair.
They featured a segment with Wizard Magazine editor Mike Cotton, and he came on to discuss the latest in comics news, including the shake ups in DC editorial and the status of Marvel's Captain America movie.
It was certainly the most mainstream venue in which straight-up geeky stuff was discussed that I can think of, aside from the occasional segment on G4. It was like an incredibly well-produced podcast, and it was just so refreshing to hear people talking openly about things that you and I would talk about, were we ever to run into one another.
So, yeah. If you have a Satellite Radio, be sure to check it out.
With that, it's on to this week's list of books. First and foremost, I think the number-one seller this week (and, possibly, this month) will be Ultimate Comics: New Ultimates, issue one, from mega-stars Jeph Loeb and Frank Cho.
This is a book that's going to sell for several reasons. Either you're a Loeb fan, or a Cho fan, and you'll buy whatever they put their names to. Or maybe you're just an Ultimates fan--and, considering the numbers each of the previous Ultimates series have done, many of you are--and you've been patiently waiting for a return to their stories.
The preview art that Marvel has released looks amazing, there's a lot of online buzz about the book, and all of these elements make for a sure-fire hit. And with Jeph Loeb these days, half the people are going to love the title, and the other half are going to say horrible things about the title on the Internet.
Here's the solicit information from Marvel (SPOILER WARNING FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT YET READ ULTIMATUM):
If only a few super heroes survived the Ultimatum -- who is left to become the next super powered team to be reckoned with? The NEW Ultimates! With Thor gone, Loki takes his revenge unleashing the worst of Asgard on Earth. Iron Man must gather the heroes for their biggest Ultimates adventure yet. But who has made the final cut? And who can't be trusted?
The Ultimates face evil once again and you'll never guess the new enemies they'll find...or should we say old friends? Superstar creators, JEPH LOEB and FRANK CHO (in his Ultimate Comics debut!) bring you the new face of the Ultimate line in NEW ULTIMATES: THOR REBORN!
(END SPOILERS)
I've said before that I'm really enjoying the landscape (sorry, bad pun) of the Ultimate Universe, post-Ultimatum, and I'll be checking this story out when I get to my shop. A word of advice, though. Because Frank Cho is on art, it'll be a big seller to customers who may not even read Ultimate books. Cho has a huge fan base, and I suspect copies are gonna go quick.
Next up, we have a really exciting offering from DC with their first issue of the First Wave line of comics. From Brian Azzarello and Rags Morales, First Wave, issue one, ships with the promise of all the pulpy adventure anyone can ever hope for.
Here's the blurb from DC, which explains what's up better than I ever could:
DC's shocking new pulp universe is finally unveiled! In the shadows of the War, the roots of the Golden Tree cabal grew deep into the heart of a fallen world...and the leaders at the heart of this secret organization see no place in their utopia for heroism.
Doc Savage, struggling with the loss of his father, has been blind to their advance — until now. Central City's mysterious Spirit has caught wind of their plans as well. But whose side have the Blackhawks chosen? What is the Red Right Hand? And where is the Batman?
There was a Doc Savage/Batman one-shot last fall from Azzarello and artist Phil Noto, and if you can find it, that book is well worth your time. These books take readers back to a time when Batman hit the streets at night fully armed in the very beginning of his "career."
You can't go wrong with Azzarello on Batman, and you certainly can't go wrong with Azzarello on a crime book, so I'm going into this series with high, high expectations. I'm confident that the creative team will deliver.
Finally, we have a unique book from Dynamite Entertainment and writer Kevin Smith, featuring another legend of the pulps. With the upcoming Green Hornet film starring Seth Rogen coming down the pike, Dynamite has locked Kevin Smith up to adapt his much-talked-about and abandoned Hornet script to comics.
And Dynamite doesn't stop there. They plan to expand the Hornet universe in comics, and deliver new stories to (what they hope will be) a legion of new readers. Here's the blurb from the publisher about this first Hornet issue from Smith:
The Green Hornet is back and Dynamite is the new home for the avenging hero and his faithful sidekick, Kato! Joining Kevin Smith in bringing his unproduced screenplay to life is artist Jonathan (Black Terror) Lau as they present the one and only origin of the Green Hornet and Kato. This is the comic book version of Kevin smith's unproduced Green Hornet film and Dynamite is the only place to get in on the action. It all begins here!
Sounds cool, and with Smith's name attached, I'll definitely check it out. Speaking of which, on Diamond's Previews site, the book is listed as "Kevin Smith Green Hornet," which is an indication of how amped the publisher is for the book.
And that's about--hey wait! There's one more, must-read book on the list this week. I skipped over it the first time I went through Diamond's site this week, but I noticed it over at Marvel's site, and it's a book I'm definitely in for.
From the Occasional Superheroine herself, Valerie D'Orazio, comes a Punisher one-shot that I've been anxiously waiting on since it was announced.
Here's the solicit from Marvel:
The Story: A lurid tell-all book leads the Punisher on the trail of a hitwoman marked for death. Who is Butterfly? And will the Punisher be her salvation, her temptation, or her damnation? Author Valerie D'Orazio and artist Laurence Campbell unload a full barrage of mayhem in this blood-soaked one-shot.
Val was kind enough to include Exfanding on her blogroll, even though our blog was but a couple of weeks old. And, though it probably seemed like a small gesture on her part, it was a very big deal for Nathaniel and me.
So, please support an author who has supported Exfanding, and buy this book!
So, yeah. That's just the tip of the iceberg today, but since I've done nothing but inundate you all with information, I'll stop there. Go out. Buy. Read. Enjoy. But answer this before you go--what are you Waiting for?
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Britain's prime minister thought LOL meant 'lots of love'? So what?
Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, testifying at an inquiry into phone hacking, suggests that David Cameron wasn't quite au fait with texting lexicon. She could have done without the smirk.
Rebekah Wade, lover of laughter. Daily Telegraph Screenshot Chris Matyszczyk/CNET
The Atlantic Ocean was experiencing rough waters this morning.
This, many suggest, was due to the sheer power of the guffaws that were being emitted from Britain's shores after it was revealed that the nation's prime minister, David Cameron, seemed unclear what it means when you write "LOL" in a text.
The Guardian reports that former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, in giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry into News Corp.'s phone hacking, revealed that Cameron send her texts regularly.
She also revealed that he kept signing them "LOL", in the belief that it meant "lots of love."
Asked how he would sign off his texts, she said: "He would sign them off 'DC' in the main. Occasionally, he would sign them off 'LOL', lots of love, until I told him it meant 'laugh out loud' and then he didn't sign them like that any more."
What was beautiful was the superior smirk with which she said this. It was as if she was attempting to explain that the prime minister is just a silly public school boy with little grasp of modern mores -- which is why he needs the media to guide him through.
And yet perhaps she unwittingly also revealed the sad, constricting nature of technological communication. There is a cool way to do it and an uncool way to do it.
If you still use AOL, you are little short of an imbecile. If you don't Square and Foursquare, you're not worth sharing a ginger tea with. And if you still listen to, ugh, the radio rather than Pandora, then you are a prime candidate for a clinical trial.
There's something vaguely authoritarian these days about how the tech community -- in a cahooting gaggle with gullible teens and all of us desperate to be sexy -- is trying to set the appropriate standards of behavior and language.
It's cool to text at the dinner table. It's cool to abbreviate any word or phrase, as long as you follow the prescribed dictionary. It's not cool to use Hotmail.
So the British Prime Minster decided for himself that "LOL" means "lots of love." He wished to express his deep affection for an editor who had helped him into power and with whom he rode horses along very posh countryside.
Instead of accepting the conventional interpretation with a snigger, mightn't someone stop to admire the fact that, at least in this one area, the British prime minister actually thought for himself?
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Authors: J. L. Merrow
Tags: #Nightmare
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BOOK: Fall Hard
Eventually Lewis had to nudge. "You're walking me down the front path, and I need you to tell me what you're seeing."
"Oh. Right. Of course. Sorry, I got lost in there." Jasper's body tensed again, and his left eye twitched.
Lewis instinctively reached out to take his hands. Damn. Hadn't meant to do that. Still, Jasper's breathing slowed again, so maybe this was just the way it needed to be. Some people relaxed best when in physical contact with someone else. Lewis worked on keeping his arms and hands supple and limber, so as not to transmit any of his misgivings to Jasper.
"That's fine. Just talk me through what you're seeing in your front garden now."
"The garden? Oh, it's nice. Erm, pretty. Lighter. I've pruned the trees, and the ground underneath them is covered in soft moss, with daffodils bobbing around in the breeze. It's how it used to be. When I was little."
"And the front of the house?" Lewis prompted when Jasper fell silent again.
"It looks good. The curtains are all open. The windows gleam. All those green stains are gone. You can see into the rooms. You can actually see inside."
"You're going to walk me up to the front door now. What colour is it?"
"Red," Jasper said, decisively. "A rich, warm burgundy kind of red."
"Sounds cheerful." And worlds away from the scuffed and peeling navy it was at the moment. "How do you feel, waiting by the door to show me inside?"
"I'm… I'm nervous. But just a little. Happy nervous. Not like I was the first time you came inside. I think I must be… Yes, I'm excited." Jasper's words came in a breathless rush, like he couldn't believe what he was feeling. "I'm going to open the door now. The lock turns easily, and the door opens all the way inside."
"What can we see now? What furniture is inside your hallway?"
"A hat stand. Somewhere for you to put your coat, and the table by the door's still there, but it's just got a bowl on it for my keys and wallet. Nothing else. I've got one of those wire baskets on the back of the door to catch all the letters and junk mail. But I don't get much of that anymore."
"Why's that?"
"I filled in a form and took it to the post office." Jasper's eyes sprang open. "I did that. I really did it. Last week. I meant to tell you when you got here, but I forgot."
"That's great." So they were making some progress after all, at least in terms of stopping new paper coming into the house, anyway. "That's a really good step to take. Now, I want you to tell me what you see on the floors and the walls."
"The floor is polished marble. It really is, you know? It's under there somewhere. Kind of cold, but there's a colourful carpet to soften it. One of those Persian rugs, all warm colours and patterns."
"And the walls?"
"Covered in books."
"In books?"
Jasper smiled then. A cheeky little smile tugging at the corners of his lips. It suited him. "Books. Everywhere. But they're on shelves now. And I know where they all are. They're all ones I'm looking forward to reading. Fiction. I've moved unread fiction down to the hallway."
"Okay, so you're starting to decide where you want things to end up. That's great. What about the lounge? What's it like in there?"
"There's a sofa and a couple of armchairs. Brown leather. And the fireplace is working again. I've got logs burning in there. It's cosy. Other than that…it's bookshelves again. Floor to ceiling on every wall but the outside one. I've got the old books in here. Leather-bound ones. Looks really classy with all those rich colours and the gilt on the spines. You can smell them. That sweet, old-paper fragrance." Jasper opened his eyes again and gave Lewis a fiercely defiant look. "I'm still going to need lots of books around me."
"That's fine. No one's saying you shouldn't have your favourite things around you. I like the idea of bookshelves. What kind are they? Built in or freestanding?" The more detail in which Jasper could picture this, the better he'd be motivated to work towards it. That was the theory, anyway. If Lewis were being brutally honest with himself, though, he was just enjoying listening to him talk. The way Jasper's face lit up when he pictured his house in working order again—that was magical.
"The shelves are wooden. Built in. I must have hired a carpenter, because I don't know how to do all that kind of thing. Can barely rewire a plug. Should have learned, really, but by the time I was old enough, Dad had died."
Lewis's heart melted at the plaintive tone in Jasper's voice, but it was time to steer him away from negative thinking. "Okay, it's fine to get help with the things we can't manage ourselves yet. Carpenters need customers too. But tell me more about the room. When do you use it? What do you like to do in here?"
"I come in here every morning after breakfast to drink my coffee and read a book. I like to sit in the armchair by the window. There's good light there. And in the evening… In the evening, I spend time in here with my…my…"
"Your friends?" Lewis prompted. Jasper needed a social life.
"With my boyfriend," Jasper said, his eyes springing open. "With you."
Lewis stared, his heart hammering wildly, as Jasper leaned forward and cupped his jaw. He should move. Back away. Laugh it off.
He should do something sensible and act like the therapist he was.
But he was flesh-and-blood too, and he wanted this. God, how he wanted it.
Lewis's id told his superego to go take a long walk off a short pier.
Jasper's lips touched his. Tentative. Soft and searching.
Lewis moaned and opened his lips to deepen the kiss.
Fall Hard
Some memories are better off lost in the mist…
Eight months ago, British academic Paul Ansell lost his lover—and all the memories of their time together—in an accident at Iceland's Gullfoss Falls. Returning to the misty island country to resume his study of the bloodthirsty Viking Egil Skallagrimsson is tough as he struggles to pull his life back together.
First, there's his colleague, Mags, who treats him like glass, and summer student Alex, who peppers him with discomforting questions. Then there's Icelandic jet-boat driver Viggo, a tattooed, modern-day Viking who won't say much about how they know each other. Leaving Paul to wonder if their volcanic attraction is fuelled by a desire to make a fresh start, or desperation to forget the past.
As more fragments of his lost memories fall into place, Paul is unsure if he can trust himself, much less anyone around him. And he begins to suspect his accident was nothing of the kind.
Warning: Contains a modern-day Viking whose boat has V8 engines for oars, and a harsh land of hot springs and hotter passions that won't forgive any false steps.
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I'm a little behind on reviewing this month's Beauty Heroes box, (I've been busy with a cute boy 😉 ) so be warned: you can only purchase it through today, March 20th at the special Beauty Heroes membership price! To be honest, I didn't think that this month's box would be "for me"; boy, was I wrong. I've tried the Innersense line before, and they truly make some of the best clean haircare products out there (past review here), but whenever I read the word hydrating on a haircare product, I personally think of greasy, roots, limp hair, no body, no volume. Again, I was SO wrong, like, I've never been more wrong about a product, ever.
hydrating cream hairbath and conditioner, I predicted I would look like I fried a chicken in my hair… WRONG. You guys, picture your best hair day, ever. Volume at the roots, hydrated ends, and smooth, super-shiny strands that smell beautifully. I am not exaggerating. I am totally obsessed, and I'm so excited that I finally found hydrating haircare products that actually lather and give me guaranteed-good-hair. Also included is a product that I was already familiar with and love: Sweet Spirit Leave In Conditioner. This is the best Clean leave-in conditioner I've tried. I use it on Annabel, too, (little girls and their tangles…) and she loves it. It moisturizes and detangles hair extremely well, but some added honey creates body and hold. It's also great for reviving a day-old hairstyle or taming flyaways and static; just spray a little on your palms, rub together, and run hands through hair for an instant refresh. And, it smells so, so good. I personally like to alternate between using the regular conditioner and the leave in conditioner; I don't feel the need to use both on my super-fine hair.
This month's Sidekick is Innersense's Harmonic Healing oil; it's a multi-purpose product that can be applied onto the hair and scalp as a hair oil to treat dry hair and soothe dry scalp before washing or warmed on the hands and fingered through hair to tame frizz and add shine. It can also be used to treat dry skin patches on the body or for men as a beard oil. I like using the oil as a deep conditioner; I work it through my hair from roots to ends when it is dirty and then hop in the shower. I rinse thoroughly with warm water and wash and style as usual.
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Okręg wyborczy Chesham and Amersham powstał w 1974 r. i wysyła do brytyjskiej Izby Gmin jednego deputowanego. Okręg obejmuje miasta Chesham i Amersham w hrabstwie Buckinghamshire oraz okoliczne wsie.

Deputowani do brytyjskiej Izby Gmin z okręgu Chesham and Amersham
1974–1992: Ian Gilmour, Partia Konserwatywna
1992–2021: Cheryl Gillan, Partia Konserwatywna
2021–: Sarah Green, Liberalni Demokraci

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Roman camps at Greensforge
A Scheduled Monument in Kinver, Staffordshire
Longitude: -2.2025 / 2°12'8"W
OS Northings: 288529.218911
OS Grid: SO863885
Mapcode National: GBR 1BH.MYN
Mapcode Global: VH918.SK0K
Entry Name: Roman camps at Greensforge
English Heritage Legacy ID: ST 36
Civil Parish: Kinver
Church of England Parish: Wordsley
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Roman camps and forts at Greensforge.
This record was the subject of a minor enhancement on 11 June 2015. The record has been generated from an "old county number" (OCN) scheduling record. These are monuments that were not reviewed under the Monuments Protection Programme and are some of our oldest designation records.
The monument, which falls into three separate areas of protection, includes a complex of Roman camps and forts situated between the valley of Smestow Brook on the west and valley of Dawley Brook on the east. Two double-ditched rectangular forts sit on a plateau between the two streams and have been identified through aerial photography. The southern fort covers an area of up to 1.6 hectares with outworks to the north and east, occupying a prime defensible position. The northern fort is of similar size and has an annexe and an outwork. Limited excavations have indicated a Claudian-Neronian date for the two forts. Between the two forts cropmarks have revealed two camps which appear to be earlier than both forts. The larger of the two camps is represented by its north east and section of its south east side and its north north-east ditch appears to change direction at a central causeway. The smaller camp is defined by the cropmark of a ditch within the north west corner of the larger camp and may have covered an area of up to 0.4 hectares.
About 320m north east of the northern fort, the corner of another camp has been identified, presumably crossed by the Roman road to Water Eaton. This site has not been positively identified and is not included in the scheduling. To the west two larger rectangular temporary camps form part of a separate scheduling. Further assessment is required to ascertain the relationship of the various sites identified in this important Roman stronghold.
Roman camps are rectangular or sub-rectangular enclosures which were constructed and used by Roman soldiers either when out on campaign or as practice camps. Most campaign camps were only temporary overnight bases and few were used for longer periods. They were bounded by a single earthen rampart and outer ditch and in plan are always straight-sided with rounded corners. Normally they have between one and four entrances usually centrally placed in the sides of the camp and often protected by additional defensive outworks. Roman camps are found throughout much of England, although most known examples lie in the midlands and north. As one of the various types of defensive enclosure built by the Roman Army, particularly in hostile upland and frontier areas, they provide an important insight into Roman military strategy and organisation. All well-preserved examples are identified as being of national importance. Roman forts served as permanent bases for auxiliary units of the Roman Army. In outline they were straight sided rectangular enclosures with rounded corners, defined by a single rampart of turf, puddled clay or earth with one or more outer ditches. Some forts had separately defended, subsidiary enclosures or annexes, allowing additional storage space or for the accommodation of troops and convoys in transit.
The majority of forts were constructed between the mid-first and mid-second centuries AD. Some were only used for short periods of time but others were occupied for extended periods on a more or less permanent basis. In the earlier forts, timber was used for gateways, towers and breastworks. From the beginning of the second century AD there was a gradual replacement of timber with stone. Roman forts are rare nationally. As one of a small group of Roman military monuments, which are important in representing army strategy and therefore government policy, forts are of particular significance to our understanding of the period. All Roman forts with surviving archaeological potential are considered to be nationally important.
The Roman camps and forts at Greensforge survive well and will contain important archaeological and environmental evidence relating to the Roman military strategy and occupation of the period.
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Two Roman camps near Greensforge
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