Tidewater Midstreams proposed Pipestone gas plant gets regulatory approval
Tidewater said last November that the project is supported by agreements with two anchor tenant customers, which include two 5 year take-or-pay gas handling agreements.The company added that it is finalizing commitments with several other producers for the remaining plant capacity, and is also evaluating a phase two expansion to increase capacity at its Pipestone Montney complex.Based on the proposed construction schedule, operations are targeted to start up in mid-2019. Tidewater said that Phase One is estimated to cost approximately $210 million. CALGARY, A.B. – Tidewater Midstream announced today that it has received approval from the Alberta Energy Regulator to build its proposed Pipestone Montney Sour Deep-Cut Gas Processing.The Pipestone Plant is proposed to be built in the Pipestone area near Grande Prairie and is designed to process approximately 100 million cubic feet/day of natural gas.“Tidewater is pleased to receive regulatory approval for this plant which will benefit producers in the prolific Montney play,” said Toby McKenna, Vice President, Business Development and Commercial of Tidewater. “We are well positioned to construct the Pipestone Plant in order to meet an in-service date of mid-2019.”
In its 2019 labour market update, PetroLMI says about 12,500 jobs are at risk this year due to factors including low commodity prices, a decline in capital spending and uncertainty about getting oil and gas to market.It says workers in oil and gas services will face the highest employment risk in 2019, while the pipeline sub-sector is the only category that is expected to register slight growth.Provincially, it says British Columbia is poised to lose the fewest jobs while Alberta is expected to lose the most.“Until such time as additional export capacity becomes available, the employment outlook for Canada’s oil and gas sector will continue to be impacted,” said Carol Howes, PetroLMI vice-president. CALGARY, A.B. – A new report says direct employment in Canada’s oil and gas sector is expected to fall by more than 12,000 jobs this year.PetroLMI says the workforce is forecast to drop to about 173,300 in 2019, a decline of 23 percent from 226,500 in 2014.It says the oil and gas labour market shrank quickly in 2015 and 2016 following a commodity price collapse and remained relatively flat through 2017 and 2018.
New Delhi: If the rural and urban divide among voters is any indicator of poll outcome, the cities in Uttar Pradesh are the main culprits in bringing the voters turnout down in the state. Uttar Pradesh saw 59.52 per cent turnout, way below the record national average of 67.10. A breakdown of the state’s 80 seats show that voters apathy was evidence in all the major cities of the state while rural areas witnessed brisk polling. Ghaziabad Assembly segment, a strong urban conglomerate in western Uttar Pradesh saw 53.28 per cent polling and in neighbouring urban centre of Sahibabad 49.5 per cent of voters came out to vote. Noida adjoining the national capital saw 52.35 per cent voting. Also Read – Personal life needs to be respected: Cong on reports of Rahul’s visit abroad This is in sharp contrast to many rural segments of western part of the state where polling was above 70 per cent. Khatauli Assembly segment in Muzzafarnagar saw 72.16 per cent voting. Behat Assembly segment in Saharanpur saw 73.78 per cent polling. Among the big cities in the state, Kanpur saw a turnout of 51.48. Arya Nagar, part of Kanpur, saw only 48.63 per cent and 49.20 per cent of votes were polled in Kanpur Cantt. Allahabad, now known as Prayagraj, saw 51.70 per cent polling. Within the city, only 40.25 per cent voted in Allahabad South. Also Read – Firms staying closed 10 days a month due to recession, govt doing nothing: Priyanka Gandhi Allahabad West, which is part of Phulpur Lok Sabha seat, saw 42.38 per cent voting and Allahabad North, also under Phulpur, was even below 40 per cent at 38.98, one of the lowest in the state. State capital Lucknow also saw only 53.30 per cent polling with lowest being in Lucknow Cantt where only half of the voters came out. Similar trend was witnessed in smaller cities like Bareilly where poll percentage barely crossed 50 per cent.
German Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich have reportedly offered Chelsea’s Callum Hudson-Odoi an £85,000-a-week contract in a move considered to convince him to leave the Stamford bridge.The teenager has strongly been linked with a move to Bayern since the start of the month as his deal with Chelsea will expire at the end of next season.Chelsea recently offered the youngster a new contract in the region of £70,000 a week but with Bayern Munich’ latest offer, it is yet unclear if the player will remain with the English side.
Match Preview: RB Leipzig vs Bayern Munich Boro Tanchev – September 14, 2019 RB Leipzig will have the chance to prove their title-winning capabilities when they host Bayern Munich today at 18:30 (CET).Sports mole reports that Hudson-Odoi has only played 51 minutes of Premier League football for the Blues during the 2018-19 campaign and is believed to be frustrated with what he perceives to be a lack of action at Stamford Bridge.Chelsea are currently playing in the Europa League. A move to Germany will see the youngster feature in the UEFA Champions League.
Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsApp New Gun Crimes unit under construction, says TCI Police Commissioner Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsAppTurks and Caicos, May 8, 2017 – Providenciales – A moving protest through Providenciales as Pastors and Believers in Christ paraded in an anti crime march on Sunday. From the down town area to the First Caribbean round about, there was a stand by the church to see the scourge of crime reduced, to see the violence and armed offenses abated. We spoke to organizing pastors. “The march is to really bring an awareness to the community at large on what is going on, and stemming from this march, we’re going to have some town hall meetings where we go in different communities and help to assist them in being watchmen for their neighbors, and also putting together some neighbor watches so that they can keep an eye on the community and get some of these crimes nipped in the butt, because it is getting worse, it is escalating and it’s time for it to stop.”#MagneticMediaNews#Pastorsmarchagainstcrime#seesomethingsaysomething Recommended for you Editorial: Stop Likin’ Man! Related Items:#magneticmedianews, #Pastorsmarchagainstcrime, #SeeSomethingSaySomething Car-jacking, armed robberies, TCI Police hands full with new gun crimes
KUSI Newsroom San Diego City Council’s rules committee approves March 2020 ballot measures SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The San Diego City Council’s Rules Committee voted Wednesday to send roughly a half-dozen proposed March and November 2020 ballot measures to a second committee review session.The committee considered 16 proposed initiatives during the meeting. Approved proposals will be drafted by the city attorney’s office and then brought back to the Rules Committee, save for one, and then sent to the full council for final approval to place them on the ballot.The committee voted 3-2 in favor of one of the highest-profile proposals, a $900 million bond proposed by the San Diego Housing Federation to build affordable housing for military veterans, homeless families, seniors and disabled people.The housing federation initially planned to put the bond on the 2018 ballot but elected that June to push it 2020. The proposed bond initiative as approved by the committee would be placed on the November ballot.“The only way we can effectively address homelessness is to build more supportive housing,” said City Councilwoman Barbara Bry, who voted in favor of the initiative. “This is housing the private sector can’t build, doesn’t make economic sense for them. This is housing the public has to build.”Councilman Mark Kersey opposed putting the proposal on the ballot because of his prior support of a hotel tax increase to fund a convention center expansion, homeless services and infrastructure improvements and argued it would be bad politics to hold public votes on both in the same calendar year. The council voted 5-4 in April to place the hotel tax hike initiative on the March 2020 ballot. August 1, 2019 Posted: August 1, 2019
KUSI Newsroom, 00:00 00:00 spaceplay / pause qunload | stop ffullscreenshift + ←→slower / faster ↑↓volume mmute ←→seek . seek to previous 12… 6 seek to 10%, 20% … 60% XColor SettingsAaAaAaAaTextBackgroundOpacity SettingsTextOpaqueSemi-TransparentBackgroundSemi-TransparentOpaqueTransparentFont SettingsSize||TypeSerif MonospaceSerifSans Serif MonospaceSans SerifCasualCursiveSmallCapsResetSave SettingsThe committee unanimously approved a proposal from City Attorney Mara Elliott to allow the city’s Community Review Board on Police Practices to retain its own independent legal counsel. Currently, the city attorney’s office is the board’s chief legal counsel. The committee chose to send the proposal to the council’s Public Safety and Land Use Committee instead of bringing it back to the Rules Committee for a second review.The committee also unanimously approved two changes to the way in which San Diego Unified School District board members are elected and how they can be removed.Currently, board members participate in a by-district election during the primary. But in the general election, voters from across the SDUSD choose between the top two finishers in each district.The ballot measure would change the general election to a by-district system to mirror the primary election system. The committee supported putting the proposal on the November 2020 ballot.“This is not a partisan issue, this is just an equity issue,” said Councilman Chris Cate, noting support from Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego. “This is how we treat elected officials in this region: no better or worse than each other.”The second change would allow the council to remove district board members if they are convicted of a felony or serious crime, if they are determined to be physically or mentally incapacitated, or if they are found to be in dereliction of official duties.Currently, the council can only take such an action for the mayor, council members and the city attorney under the city charter. The proposal is expected to be placed on the March 2020 ballot.The proposal is something of a response to the scandal surrounding district board member Kevin Beiser. In March, four men accused Beiser of sexual misconduct and abuse.Although Beiser has maintained his innocence, he has not returned to his job as a teacher at Castle Park Middle School and remains in his position due to the board’s inability to vote for his removal. The board could only vote in favor of a resolution calling for his resignation, which it did in April.The committee also approved a proposal from Councilman Scott Sherman to move the responsibility for the city auditor appointment process from the mayor’s office to the council’s Audit Committee. Currently, the mayor appoints a city auditor candidate to serve a 10-year term.Under the proposed initiative, the Audit Committee would recruit and choose three candidates for the city auditor position. The council would then choose one of the three candidates to serve as the city auditor.“I am thankful to my colleagues on the Rules Committee for supporting this common sense solution to a flawed process,” Sherman said in a statement. “I look forward to working with all stakeholders to draft an acceptable charter amendment for the March ballot.”Proposals that are approved in committee a second time are scheduled to go before the full council in October and November. The city attorney’s office must file approved ballot measures with the county Registrar of Voters by Dec. 6 to be placed on the March 3, 2020, ballot. Categories: Local San Diego News, Politics Tags: Decision 2020 FacebookTwitter
The Crime Lab’s work on sexual assault kit testing is funded from two sources. Over the course of 2016 and 2017, DPS was the recipient of a $1.5 million in federal Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) grants that will conclude in 2020. In 2017, the inventory found 2,979 previously unsubmitted, untested victim kits; in 2018, that number is down to 2,568, according to the annual report released by the Department of Public Safety. A former Alaska State Trooper Sergeant, Michael Burkmire, has began working on the backlog of state sexual assault cold cases. The Crime Lab anticipates testing through all the kits will take 3-4 years due to the size of the inventory, limited number of qualified labs, and high demand for SAK analysis service. Facebook0TwitterEmailPrintFriendly分享The state has already reduced the turnaround time for testing sexual assault kits, and the Crime Lab hopes to keep reducing that number.
That funding goes to support the testing and investigation of previously unsubmitted, untested kits from Alaska State Trooper cases. All 577 viable AST kits have been submitted for analysis; results have been received for 340, and the remaining results are expected to be received by March of 2019. Earlier this year, the Legislature allocated $2.75 million in capital money to DPS to test kits from the other 47 police agencies across the state. In both cases, the Crime Lab is using the funds to have the kits tested as quickly as possible by a private lab, with results returned back to Alaska for analysis and potential entry into CODIS, according to the report from DPS. DPS Commissioner Walt Monegan: “Survivors of sexual assault deserve justice, and our ongoing efforts to test kits are a critical component in ensuring that victims receive that justice. DPS has made great strides to address the backlog of untested, unsubmitted SAKs; with the creation of the SAK website and SAT, we are doubling down on our commitment to secure justice for victims. They deserve no less.”
Nelson: “We know all of our schools are safe, all the occupants, and all of that. We want to ensure there isn’t any hidden structural damage or anything that might cause a major repair.” The Kenai Peninsula was very fortunate to not have as severe of damage as seen in the Anchorage area, but officials are still working to survey borough buildings to ensure continued safety. According to Nelson they are coordinating the assessment of damage for potential assistance to individual property owners. If you have damage to private property, report it as soon as possible to the Office of Emergency Management at http://www.kpb.us/emergency.
Facebook0TwitterEmailPrintFriendly分享The 7.0 earthquake struck at 8:29 a.m., on Friday, and caused property and infrastructure damage. Almost a week later and agencies are still working to assess just how much damage was caused. Dan Nelson, Emergency Manager with the Borough Office of Emergency Management: “The borough is right now doing its recovery process, which mainly includes going back and doing full structural assessments of all of our facilities and schools.” 
Developing content for multiple devices “takes place as far upstream as possible,” according to Jerry Beilinson, deputy editor of Hearst’s Popular Mechanics. “One of the things we try to do is not look at our content in terms of reusing or reworking but using it in multiple ways,” he adds. “With the earthquake in Japan last year, we had 20 articles online and in print we ran a ‘best of the Web.’ With the tablet, we have all those assets to work with. We put links to Web content in the app. Since we program the iPad app ourselves, we have the capability to say ‘we want to do this.” With illustrations, Popular Mechanics often has assignments that encompass print and tablet formats. “We will assign the art as a 3D illustration that can be created as a 3D object in the app that can be looked at from all sides but also use one frame of that for our print illustration,” says Beilinson. “It’s important to not come into this process saying, ‘OK, we’ve done print, we’ve done web, now we have to do this other project and repurpose it, we want to look at it at the beginning.”The iPad app, which Hearst codes in-house, is Popular Mechanics‘ most high value app, says Beilinson. “That’s a monthly edition of magazine. We also do one for Android that’s optimized for a seven-inch screen. That doesn’t have all the capabilities of the iPad app but is similarly designed specially for that device.” All Hearst magazines are on Zinio and the Nook, offering “multiple versions depending on the technology you are using,” says Beilinson. “In addition to the story-specific enhancements, the iPad app has a news feed–not quite an RSS feed–but a news feed from the website. In addition, we are developing a number of standalone apps. We’ll have a couple out in the next month or two, and a number launching in 2012. One of the benefits of doing a monthly app is being able to develop things that help us to develop standalone apps later on.”More on this topic Browser, Not Apps, Still Biggest News Channel on Tablets David Carey: Bullish On Magazines, Prospects for E-Subs and E-Commerce Amazon Tablet Revealed: Kindle Fire Zinio Digital Newsstand Now Available on Android Technology Chris Wilkes Hearst Claims More Than 300,000 Paid Circ. On Tablets and E-ReadersJust In BabyCenter Sold to Ziff Davis Parent J2 Media | News & Notes TIME Names New Sales, Marketing Leads | People on the Move Four More Execs Depart SourceMedia in Latest Restructuring Editor & Publisher Magazine Sold to Digital Media Consultant Bonnier Corp. Terminates Editor-in-Chief for Ethics Breach This Just In: Magazines Are Not TV NetworksPowered by Last month Hearst claimed more than 300,000 paid circ on tablets and e-readers across all its magazine brands (and those it acquired earlier this year from Hachette). Hearst also claims it’s the only magazine publisher to have its titles for sale on every device currently in the market.Creating digital editions for different devices requires dedicated infrastructure. Hearst announced it would convert all of its magazine websites to HTML5 through the fourth quarter and into 2012, starting with GoodHousekeeping.com. The newly revamped site is now compatible with the majority of all commonly used devices.”We sell all of our titles through the Zinio and Nook stores and soon on the Kindle Fire as well,” says Chris Wilkes, vice president, digital editions and audience development with Hearst Magazines Digital Media. “We sell nearly half our titles in the Apple Newsstand today and will have our complete roster there by February 2012 at the latest and I will welcome Amazon’s sales in November.”Zinio, Nook and Amazon all share a similar unified approach, says Wilkes. ” Their storefronts are unified and their reading experience is unified. This makes it somewhat simpler for a publisher like Hearst to work with because we can focus 100 percent on our content,” he adds. “It can also be simpler for a consumer. With Apple, there’s a unified storefront but the reading experiences are completely independent by magazine. There’s an additional investment by publishers to create and maintain those experiences and on the positive side, there are certain marketing flexibilities and experience customizations we can execute to make our digital magazines as enjoyable for our consumers as possible.”
Coast Guard members and other federal workers who had been furloughed or were working without pay during the partial government shutdown are getting their backpay this week.But there is still uncertainty for many contractors who were hit with stop-work orders, procurement delays and missed pay.“To get out of the mess, you have to unravel it on a contract-by-contract basis,” said David Berteau, president of the Professional Services Council, a trade group that represents a variety of federal contractors, according to Politico. “What can only take five minutes to stop can take days to start again.”The 35-day shutdown delayed $18 billion in spending, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report released Monday.“Some of those private-sector entities will never recoup that lost income,” the report said. ADC AUTHOR
7 In the leadup to the eighth ever Women’s World Cup, there’s been a lot of hype surrounding women’s football. Record crowds and ticket sales have set the stage. Even Hermione Granger’s on the hype train.Enlarge ImageLook! It’s innocent young me kicking a football 10 years ago. Stefan Postles/Getty Images I’m really happy I get to reference Harry Potter. I’m also really happy women’s football has plowed through years of toxicity to get to where it is now. I feel for the players, because I’m not just a budding young journalist. I’m a women’s footballer. My “This is Anfield” plaque beams off the wall in my cluttered childhood bedroom. The early morning practices, the disappointments, the wrecked ankles — I understand what those players have been through. In a way, their success is my dream come true.Let’s go back to late ’90s Canberra, Australia.Travel, trophies and happinessI was the only girl in the local under 8’s football team. I dreamed of playing for Liverpool in the English Premier League, and was naively unaware a women’s version existed. The first girl playing with Harry Kewell and Steven Gerrard! Bend It Like — *shudder* — Bisset.I ended up doing quite well. I made various junior state teams and experienced my first tour representing “Australian school girls” overseas: Scotland, Ireland, England and, trip highlight, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales.The cool experiences kept on coming. I played for Canberra United in the W-League, the premier women’s football competition in Australia. Four seasons in, we won. We qualified for the World Club Championship and played top teams in Japan. I scored one of my two goals ever for Canberra United.Read more: Women’s World Cup 2019: Tournament schedule and how to watch live without cableIt got even cooler, literally. My Czech coach used her contacts to secure my first contract with a team overseas. Where did I go? As far away from Australia as possible. Finland! I spent three of my eight and a half months there acclimatizing to sub-zero temperatures, midday darkness, sleet and exotic white flakes of what bilingual locals call “snow.”Then summer unfurled. I traveled to Paris and Barcelona for the first time, my team won the equivalent of the FA Cup, I continued experiencing Finnish life with the loveliest host family — “Hi, Martta!” — and I tasted salmon soup. That soup alone made the trip.In other words, as football careers go, I did OK!Work, study and sadnessHere’s the bit where I go through all the not-so-great stuff about being a “pro” footballer. I keep putting “pro” in quotations because the money I did make largely came in the form of allowances or the now-minimum W-League wage of AU$10,000 ($7,000, £5,500). Playing women’s football was not a career when I was growing up. Share your voice Comments Tags Back to me running around those dew-encrusted fields in Canberra’s winter. One backroad away from the stark LEDs lighting up the mist — my dad. Reading a newspaper in our car under the cover of darkness. His reading material of choice had to last him 90 minutes before he drove me back home, where I’d be greeted with the healthy meal my mum had spent her post-work evening cooking. As my ravenous, unthankful self scoffed it down, I naively ignored another thing: how hard football would be without my parents’ assistance.
Air Pegasus, a grounded domestic carrier has been a issued show cause notice by aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for failure to carry out air operations. The airline has 15 days of time to respond to the notice, which was issued on October 5.The Bengaluru-based carrier has not operated since July 27 owing to huge losses and the airline’s failure to pay rentals to aircraft leasing companies. The lenders have already approached the aviation ministry to take back their ATR planes to their countries.”Capability to operate services is one of the conditions to secure flying permit. However, all three aircraft of Air Pegasus are grounded and its capability (to run the services) has degraded,” an aviation official was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India.However, on the contrary, the Managing Director of the airline told a publication that the carrier plans to re-start its operations in from the next month. “We are not in receipt of a show-cause notice from DGCA. We intend to re-start our operations. We are hopeful of regularising issues and to start operations by early November,” Shyson Thomas, MD, Air Pegasus, was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times.The carrier, which has 3 aircraft in its fleet operated to seven destinations in South India since it began operations in April last year. According to section 15(2)(b) of Aircraft Rules 1937, the DGCA may cancel or suspend the license of an airline until a period it thinks fit, if it is satisfied that the holder of the permit has failed to establish a safe, efficient and reliable service.
.Gas supply through pipeline connections was an electoral pledge of both Awami League and BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) in the last city corporation polls at Rajshahi. In face of public demand, the city corporation at that time began laying pipelines in a hurry, incurring Tk 1 billion in costs. Then within two years the task came to a halt, within only 40 thousand among a population of 850,000, receiving the facilities.One week prior to the RCC polls on 15 June 2013, the task of laying gas pipelines began. To hurry the work up, floating a new tender was skipped and the old contractor was appointed for further work on the project.AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, Awami League candidate and mayor at the time, lost the RCC polls, while BNP candidate Mosaddeq Hossain Bulbul won. Just after two years of the election, the gas connection work was stopped in June 2015. City dwellers say the connections had been given at that time due to political interests and it had been halted now because it serves no political interests.About 9,155 residential houses got gas connections within two years along with eight factories and one CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) station. Around 300 corporate institutions did not get connections while 30 more factories have applied.About 21,000 applications were submitted seeking gas connections and 1,300 demand notes were issued. Nearly 550 domestic consumers had installed the wiring necessary for the pipeline, costing them Tk 40-60 thousand, but they did not eventually receive the connections.A resident at Raninagar in the city, Habibur Rahman, said wiring had cost him Tk 40 thousand, but the gas company was now dillydallying over the connection.Another resident Jalal Uddin from the same area said he spent Tk 35 thousand for the purpose but gas company employees left without setting the connection. Jalal Uddin visited the company several times, but he has simply been asked to wait.The Rajshahi city dwellers have long demanded gas connections. Rajshahi Rokkha Sangram Parishad and Rajshahi Gas Andolan Parishad have led public demonstrations in this regard. Over a hundred thousand people signed a memorandum addressed to the prime minister. People joined in strikes and human chains, demanding gas connections.Both Awami League and BNP pledged to provide pipeline gas during the RCC elections. The present mayor Mosaddeq Hossain Bulbul has claimed that this work has been stalled due to BNP’s victory. If Awami League would have won, it would have continued giving the gas connections, he said.Former mayor Khairuzzaman denied the allegations, saying there was no political reason other than the gas crisis. If it had been so, then connections would not have been provided for two more years after the polls, he added.Jamat Khan, general secretary of Rajshahi Rokkha Sangram Parishad said, gas connection crisis once again proved that the northern region was always neglected. Gas pipelines were laid in Bogra district first, despite Rajshahi being a division city. There are 20 CNG filling stations at Bogra, but Rajshahi faces a crisis.The president of the Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Md Moniruzzaman, said economic development would not be possible in the northern region if industries at Rajshahi did not have gas supply. Only a very few had gas connections.General Manager (Marketing) of Pashchimanchal Gas Company Ltd Kamruzzaman said, everything depended on government decision.According to RCC, about 850,000 people dwell in Rajshahi, while only 40,000 among them have domestic gas connections.
US-Bangla plane crash survivor Kabir Hossain. Photo: UNBUS-Bangla plane crash survivor Kabir Hossain, who is undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), has been kept on life support since early Saturday, reports UNB.“One of the US-Bangla plane crash survivors has been kept on life support since Friday midnight,” said DMCH police outpost in-charge sub-inspector Bachchu Miah.“Kabir Hossain’s condition is very critical and he needs life support,” DMCH burn and surgery unit coordinator Samanta Lal Sen said.Earlier on Monday, Kabir was brought back to the country from Nepal and admitted to the DMCH.On 12 March, at least 49 people, including 26 Bangladeshis, died as an aircraft of US-Bangla Airlines from Dhaka to Kathmandu crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport in the capital of Nepal.Among the survivors – Mehedi Hasan, Saiyada Kamrunnahar Swarna, Almun Nahar Annie and Sheikh Rashed Rubayet and Shahreen Ahmed-were undergoing treatment at the DMCH.
Share J. Scott Applewhite/AP via NPRThe House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on February 5th 2018 to release a Democratic rebuttal to the GOP’s memo on the Russia investigation that President Donald Trump declassified last week.The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously Monday night to release a Democratic rebuttal to the GOP’s memo on the Russia investigation that President Donald Trump declassified last week. The document now goes to Trump, who has five days to decide whether to declassify it. The Democratic document aims to counter the Republican memo, which accuses the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) of abusing their authority in monitoring a onetime Trump campaign associate. A White House spokesman said Trump would “consider” the Democratic memo’s release just as he had the Republican document. Earlier Monday, Trump traded insults with the top Democrat on the Intelligence panel, Representative Adam Schiff of California. Trump resorted to his occasional name-calling on Twitter, labeling Schiff “one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington.” He added that Schiff “must be stopped.” Schiff quickly shot back: “Instead of tweeting false smears, the American people would appreciate it if you turned off the TV and helped solve the funding crisis, protected Dreamers or … really anything else.” White House spokesman Raj Shah took a more measured approach, saying consideration of a release would “allow for a legal review, national security review led by the White House counsel’s office.” House Speaker Paul Ryan has said he supports the release of the Democrats’ memo, if sensitive intelligence information is removed. The Senate’s Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, urged Trump to back the public release and said refusing to do so would show the president’s intent to undermine the Russia investigation. On Sunday, Republicans as well as Democrats said Trump was wrong to assert that the GOP-produced memo cleared him in the Russia investigation. Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating possible collusion between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and Russia as well as whether there have been efforts to obstruct the investigation. Trump tweeted over the weekend that the memo “totally vindicates ‘Trump’ in probe” even as “the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on.” But that statement found no echo from four committee Republicans who appeared on the Sunday talk shows. Lawmakers also said the memo should not impede Mueller. “I think it would be a mistake for anyone to suggest that the special counsel shouldn’t complete his work. I support his work. I want him to finish it. I hope he finishes it as quickly as possible,” said Republican Representative Chris Stewart of Utah. Schiff has branded the GOP memo “a political hit job” and has questioned whether House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (Republican-California), had coordinated with the White House in drafting the document seized on by the president to vent his grievances against the nation’s premier law enforcement agencies. “The goal here is to undermine the FBI, discredit the FBI, discredit the Mueller investigation, do the president’s bidding,” Schiff said. “I think it’s very possible his staff worked with the White House.” Nunes was asked during a Jan. 29 committee meeting whether he had coordinated the memo with the White House. “As far as I know, no,” he responded, then refused to answer when asked whether his congressional staff members had communicated with the White House. He had previously apologized for sharing with the White House secret intelligence intercepts related to an investigation of Russian election interference before talking to committee members. Trump also praised Nunes in a separate tweet Monday, calling him “a man of tremendous courage and grit, may someday be recognized as a Great American Hero for what he has exposed and what he has had to endure!” The memo released Friday alleges misconduct on the part of the FBI and the DOJ in obtaining a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page and his ties to Russia. Specifically, it takes aim at the FBI’s use of information from former British spy Christopher Steele, who compiled a dossier containing allegations of ties between Trump, his associates and Russia. The underlying materials that served as the basis for the warrant application were not made public in the GOP memo. Even as Democrats described it as inaccurate, some Republicans quickly cited the memo — released over the objections of the FBI and Justice Department — in their arguments that Mueller’s investigation is politically tainted. The memo’s central allegation is that agents and prosecutors, in applying in October 2016 to monitor Page’s communications, failed to tell a judge that the opposition research that provided grounds for the FBI’s suspicion received funding from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Page had stopped advising the campaign sometime around the end of that summer. Steele’s research, according to the memo, “formed an essential part” of the warrant application. But it’s unclear how much or what information Steele collected made it into the application, or how much has been corroborated. Republicans say a judge should have known that “political actors” were involved in allegations that led the DOJ to believe Page might be an agent of a foreign power — an accusation he has consistently denied.
Fans can follow Louisville Softball on Twitter (@UofLsoftball), Facebook (/LouisvilleSoftball) and Instagram (@UofL_softball). UofL returns 13 letterwinners from last season and welcomes seven newcomers to the 2020 squad. Print Friendly Version The complete 2020 softball schedule will be released in the fall. Complete NFCA Announcement About Louisville SoftballIn 2019, The team amassed a 35-23 overall record and a 12-12 mark in ACC play for a third place finish in the league’s Atlantic Division and fifth in the overall conference standings. The Cardinals achieved several milestones in head coach Holly Aprile’s first season at the helm, highlighted by the 14th NCAA appearance and sixth regional final as the Cardinals completed their 20th year as a program. NFCA Division I Leadoff Classic presented by RawlingsFriday, Feb. 712 p.m. vs. Ole Miss2:30 p.m. vs. BaylorSaturday, Feb. 810 a.m. –vs. Texas State3 p.m. vs. Mississippi StateSunday, Feb. 910 a.m. vs. Missouri LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of Louisville softball team will open the 2020 season at the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division I Leadoff Classic presented by Rawlings as announced by the NFCA today.The Cardinals will take on 2019 NCAA participants Missouri and Ole Miss, along with Baylor, Mississippi State and Texas State in their opening weekend Feb. 7-9 at the Eddie C. Moore Complex in Clearwater, Fla. Story Links
(Phys.org) —A new study conducted by a team of American and Greek researchers has found that the people of the ancient Minoan civilization living on the island of Crete most likely came from Europe. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the team says mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) evidence contradicts the long held notion that the people of the long lost civilization came from Africa. Evidence of the great Minoan civilization first came to light in 1900, when an excavation by Sir Arthur Evans discovered the Palace of Minos on the island of Crete. Noting similarities between artwork discovered there and in parts of Egypt, Evans suggested it was possible the early inhabitants of the island came from Africa. Since that time, others have concurred, while some suggest the Minoans more likely came from the Middle East, or even from Europe. In this new study, the researchers turned to mtDNA for the true answer.The team took samples from skeletal remains of over 100 early denizens of the island that had been found in a cave by other researchers. They then compared the mtDNA from those samples with samples taken from people living in the modern world, as well as with some samples from other old world inhabitants. Citation: mtDNA study shows Minoans came from Europe not Africa (2013, May 15) retrieved 18 August 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2013-05-mtdna-minoans-europe-africa.html One of the buildings in Knossos restored by British archeologist Sir Arthur Evans. Knossos was the major civil center of the Minoans. Credit: Getty Images © 2013 Phys.org Explore further Illustration of the Bull-leaping Fresco from the Great Palace at Knossos, Crete. Credit: Getty Images
More information: A European population in Minoan Bronze Age Crete, Nature Communications 4, Article number: 1861 doi:10.1038/ncomms2871AbstractThe first advanced Bronze Age civilization of Europe was established by the Minoans about 5,000 years before present. Since Sir Arthur Evans exposed the Minoan civic centre of Knossos, archaeologists have speculated on the origin of the founders of the civilization. Evans proposed a North African origin; Cycladic, Balkan, Anatolian and Middle Eastern origins have also been proposed. Here we address the question of the origin of the Minoans by analysing mitochondrial DNA from Minoan osseous remains from a cave ossuary in the Lassithi plateau of Crete dated 4,400–3,700 years before present. Shared haplotypes, principal component and pairwise distance analyses refute the Evans North African hypothesis. Minoans show the strongest relationships with Neolithic and modern European populations and with the modern inhabitants of the Lassithi plateau. Our data are compatible with the hypothesis of an autochthonous development of the Minoan civilization by the descendants of the Neolithic settlers of the island.Press release Journal information: Nature Communications War was central to Europe’s first civilization, contrary to popular belief An analysis of the test results indicates that the early inhabitants of Crete were likely farmers who settled on the island long before the appearance of the Minoan society. This suggests that the Minoan civilization most likely came about as a result of the evolution of the early farmers. No evidence of African ancestry was found.The Minoan civilization existed for approximately 1,200 years, vanishing around 1500 BC. Some suggest their sudden disappearance was due to a volcanic eruption and tsunami, while others say it was more likely the inhabitants of Crete were wiped out be an invading army. In any case, the Minoan civilization is considered to be first advanced civilization of Bronze Age Europe—the people there left behind huge buildings, impressive artwork and mysterious hieroglyphs. It appears likely the early farmers were part of a wave of immigrants coming from the Middle East and Anatolia to Europe looking for land to farm.As for the similarity between artwork found in Crete and Egypt, the researchers suggest it was most likely the result of trade between the two civilizations. This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only.
by NPR News Eric Deggans, Glen Weldon, Linda Holmes 8.28.19 5:00am It’s an old tradition that endures, even amid the year-round deluge of programming brought to us by the age of streaming. It is the fall TV preview.Turns out fall is the perfect time to refocus on television after a summer filled with vacations and outdoor distractions. So our pop culture team collected the coolest TV shows coming your way over the next few months as a guide through the madness. We haven’t seen all of these programs yet, but we’ve learned enough to know they’re worth checking out.Whether you’re excited by an updated Jim Henson classic, the backstory behind a legendary rap group or a continuation of the most beloved graphic novel in comics history, there’s something here for you. Here’s our list of the most interesting shows coming this fall. Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix) Friday, Aug. 30Perhaps the most notable thing about this 10-episode series, a prequel to Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s 1982 fantasy film, is what it isn’t. It isn’t a digitally animated CGI spectacular; it relies instead on practical, painstakingly constructed animatronics and old-school hand-puppetry. (Director Louis Leterrier notes that there will be some green-screen work, but the series aesthetic is definitively one of puppets over pixels.) Artist Brian Froud is once again on the production design, so the Skeksis species, and its scuttling crablike enforcers, will be back to supply a new generation with the same nightmare-fuel mixture that kept their parents and grandparents up. — Glen WeldonWu-Tang: An American Saga (Hulu) Wednesday, Sept. 4This 10-episode limited series unfolds as a taut, suspenseful take on the formation of the legendary rap group Wu-Tang Clan, as the members choose music over a life in competing drug gangs in New York during the 1990s crack epidemic. One reason it’s so dramatic: The story is fictionalized for maximum effect. Viewers see The RZA (aka Bobby Diggs, played by Moonlight’s Ashton Sanders), inspired by the murder of a friend, gathering compatriots like Method Man, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, GZA and Ghostface Killah into a group that stacks beats instead of bodies — revolutionizing the rap world in the process. — Eric DeggansUndone (Amazon) Friday, Sept. 13BoJack Horseman alums Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg have created one of the most ambitious new series on TV, exploring the thin line between mental illness and mysticism in a visually stunning story. Using rotoscope animation, filmed performances by flesh-and-blood actors are traced over and transformed into textured visuals. (Think movies like A Scanner Darkly or Tower.) Rosa Salazar shines as Alma, a depressed, sardonic 20-something who begins seeing visions of her late father (Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk) after a near-fatal car accident. Purdy says she based Alma’s circumstances on her own struggles with mental illness; her series explores race, culture, gender, family and sanity in a singular way. — Eric DeggansCountry Music (PBS) Sunday, Sept. 15It’s surprising that Ken Burns — a master of the authoritative American documentary — has taken this long to chronicle the rise of country music, after shaking the world with gigantic projects on jazz, baseball and the Vietnam War. But now he’s on the case with a 16-hour opus, weaving talks with 80 musicians into a surprisingly emotional and myth-busting look at a core American art form. Sure, you’ll see Dolly and Merle and Willie. But you’ll also hear about the music’s early days in southern Appalachia, its life in the honky-tonks of California and why Nashville became the industry’s epicenter. — Eric DeggansAmerican Horror Story: 1984 (FX) Wednesday, Sept. 18Anthology series are by nature uneven, season to season, and Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story is no exception. Frankly, even individual AHS seasons have a tendency to fly off the rails in their back halves, but for some of us, that’s a feature, not a bug. This time out, the setting/genre is 1980s slasher flick, as teen summer campers are terrorized physically by a knife-wielding maniac and aesthetically by headbands and hair volumizer. AHS alums Billie Lourd, Emma Roberts, Cody Fern and John Carroll Lynch will be joined by fresh blood in the form of freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, Glee’s Matthew Morrison and Pose’s Angelica Ross. This season, camp isn’t just the show’s sensibility: It’s the setting. — Glen WeldonBetween Two Ferns: The Movie (Netflix) Friday, Sept. 20Not a lot of details have been forthcoming about this feature-length adaptation of a Web series that features a tetchy, bored Zach Galifianakis interviewing A-list celebrities on a D-list talk show set. But that’s fine. The formula is simple, and the reported guests — including Keanu Reeves, Peter Dinklage and David Letterman — are solid. Plus, the film will be written and directed (with Galifianakis) by Scott Aukerman, who co-created the viral Web series. — Glen WeldonMixed-ish (ABC) Tuesday, Sept. 24Kudos to Black-ish creator Kenya Barris and star Tracee Ellis Ross for finally realizing there is a sitcom’s worth of entertainment in the backstory of Ross’ character, matriarch Rainbow Johnson. Mixed-ish picks up in the 1980s, when ‘Bow was a tween and federal authorities shut down the commune where she, her siblings, her white father and her black mother were living. The result is a sidesplitting fish-out-of-water story narrated by Ross, Wonder Years-style — a look back at her struggle to fit into a mainstream school at a time when biracial children weren’t particularly common or understood. — Eric DeggansEmergence (ABC) Tuesday, Sept. 24Fargo TV series alum Allison Tolman shines as another plucky police officer; this time, she’s Jo Evans, a recently-divorced police chief who shelters a mysterious young girl who survives a plane crash without injury. As a succession of strange types show up trying to grab the kid (who can’t remember her past or the accident, of course), I’m more interested in Clancy Brown, who plays Evans’ crusty dad, and Scrubs alum Donald Faison, who impresses as her sympathetic ex-husband. Can this ragtag group figure out what’s going on before it’s too late? — Eric DeggansCarol’s Second Act (CBS) Thursday, Sept. 26Patricia Heaton (The Middle) stars as Carol, a woman who decides to become a doctor after she has raised her kids. Heaton is a sitcom staple, but what will also sell the show to keen-eyed comedy enthusiasts is that it comes from creators Sarah Haskins and Emily Halpern, who also made the wonderful short-lived series Trophy Wife and co-wrote the film Booksmart. They’re about as good as it gets at writing warm, funny, unusual comedy about women, and seeing them with a show on-air again is a heartening sign. — Linda HolmesPerfect Harmony (NBC) Thursday, Sept. 26By now, TV fans are used to seeing West Wing alum Bradley Whitford play smart, self-involved know-it-alls with hearts of gold. But he’s still affecting here as Arthur Cochran, a former Princeton University music professor who decides to help a small-town choir pull together more than their vocal harmonies. Think Pitch Perfect meets Mr. Chips, as Cochran impatiently coaches these singers — including Pitch Perfect alum Anna Camp — to better performances onstage and in life. — Eric DeggansThe Politician (Netflix) Friday, Sept. 27The first series to emerge from superstar executive producer Ryan Murphy’s megadeal with Netflix centers on a high school kid who is pathologically focused on getting elected class president — because he sees it as the first step in getting elected president of the United States. Along the way, he joins forces with a sickly kid who may not be what she seems and has a secret affair with a hunky, popular guy — who is running against him for class president. Murphy sets this all in an opulent, upper-middle-class environment that feels less like a typical high schooler’s world and more like the setting of a high-end soap opera. — Eric DeggansGodfather of Harlem (Epix) Sunday, Sept. 29Forest Whitaker is alternatingly empathetic and super-scary as New York gangster Bumpy Johnson, who was determined to free his operations from domination by the Italian mob after he returned from a stint in prison. This is basically an old-fashioned organized crime story but told from the perspective of black gangsters — with the added appeal of Vincent D’Onofrio as Italian boss Vincent Gigante and Nigel Thatch’s spot-on performance as Malcolm X. — Eric DeggansWatchmen (HBO) October TBAThe latest from Damon Lindelof, co-creator of Lost and The Leftovers, is a visually stunning show based on the legendary 1986-87 comic books about borderline psychotics in superhero garb, Watchmen. (This show isn’t related to the 2009 movie adaptation, which had a different ending.) HBO’s show picks up in an alternate 2019; liberal President Robert Redford has been in office since the 1990s, prompting a group of white supremacists to target police in Tulsa, Okla., in the same way black people were victimized in 1921. To troll earnest liberalism in today’s Trumpian times, while also continuing one of the most beloved stories in comics history, is a serious gamble. But if anyone can carve out a new story while confusing culture warriors and avoiding the ire of fanboys (and girls), my money’s on Lindelof. — Eric DeggansBatwoman (The CW) Sunday, Oct. 6With Arrow wrapping up with a brief eighth and final season this fall, a dark and broody space will open up in The CW’s superhero schedule. Enter: Ruby Rose’s Batwoman, who first burst into the network’s so-called Arrowverse in a series of crossover episodes in 2018. The premise: Batman has abandoned Gotham, leaving Rose’s Kate Kane to protect its people as Batwoman. The fact that Rose identifies as gender fluid, and the character of Kate Kane is a lesbian, seems a significant step forward in making the various Arrowverse Earths look a bit more like our own. — Glen WeldonBack to Life (Showtime) Sunday, Oct. 6Got a Fleabag-shaped hole in your heart? Find yourself hankering for a funny/uncomfortable/quietly devastating tale of a woman attempting to get her life together and failing consistently, albeit with verve and elan? In Back to Life, Daisy Haggard plays a middle-aged, middle-class woman who returns to her sleepy English coastal town after 18 years in prison for — well, that’s something the series doles out gradually. Her parents put on a brave face, but the local townsfolk aren’t the forgive-and-forget types. Haggard sparkles as a woman striving to ensure that her past choices can be put behind her for good, even as she struggles with how much everything she knew has changed. — Glen WeldonNancy Drew (The CW) Wednesday, Oct. 9The network that brought back the Archie comics as the moody, soapy teen drama Riverdale does the most logical thing imaginable, turning next to that most famous literary girl detective, Nancy Drew. Creator Josh Schwartz has a long pedigree in angsty teen TV, going all the way back to his creation of The O.C. in 2003. And in Nancy Drew, he has an iconic character who solves mysteries and whose streak of independence and sharp mind have always been part of her appeal. It’s a natural fit for TV — you could say she was Veronica Mars before Veronica Mars was. — Linda HolmesModern Love (Amazon) Friday, Oct. 18This anthology adaptation of The New York Times column that often inspires both swooning sighs and exasperated ones boasts an enormously impressive cast: Anne Hathaway, Cristin Milioti, Brandon Victor Dixon, John Slattery, Tina Fey, Dev Patel … it’s a stacked show on-screen. It’s got a solid pedigree off-screen, too: It’s led by John Carney, who made Once and Sing Street, both of which are fine examples of translating joy and love to film without shutting out melancholy. Almost all anthology series are uneven, but that means they almost always have high points worth seeking out. — Linda HolmesSid & Judy (Showtime) Friday, Oct. 18The biopic Judy, which stars Renée Zellweger as legendary performer Judy Garland, hits theaters three weeks before this documentary airs on Showtime. But where the Zellweger film focuses on the last year of the singer’s life, Stephen Kijak’s documentary examines Garland’s turbulent relationship with her third husband, Sid Luft, who helped engineer the comeback that led to A Star Is Born. — Glen WeldonSlow Burn (Epix) Sunday, Nov. 24Slate’s Slow Burn is by no means the first podcast to get turned into a television series, and it won’t be the last. But this six-episode TV adaptation of an eight-episode podcast series will document something specific that we tend to collectively forget about historical events: namely, how haltingly, slowly and frustratingly they play out. This season will tackle the Watergate scandal, which stretched on for two years, only very, very gradually building up enough momentum to topple a president. The best parts of the podcast series focused on colorful if too-little-remembered figures like Martha Mitchell and Sam Ervin; here’s hoping there’s room to squeeze them in. — Glen WeldonCopyright 2019 NPR. 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