In the midterms this week, Democrats took control of the House of Representatives, picking up between 35-40 seats, in an election dubbed "The Year of the Woman." A history making 100 plus women will head to the House next session, as Democrats celebrated their upcoming check on Trump for the first time since he took office. As the week ended, senate races in Florida and Arizona and governor races in Florida and Georgia were still undecided, as Trump and his allies stoked false claims of voter fraud and interference by Democrats.
Americans did not get a chance to catch their breath, as the next day Trump took a major step towards ending the Mueller probe, forcing out Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and installing a crony who has been critical of the probe, and talked of starving it of funding to end it. Grassroots activists mobilized with protests nationwide to "Protect Mueller." Post-election reporting indicated Trump is "depressed" ahead of possible indictments coming soon from the Mueller probe, including possibly of his son, Donald Jr.
In Tallahassee, Florida, Scott Beierle, 40, shot and killed Nancy Van Vessem, 61, and Maura Binkley, 21, and injured five others at a hot yoga studio, before killing himself.
Beierle had recorded numerous misogynistic and racist videos, and had been accused of touching women's buttocks without their consent. He expressed his disgust at women online and urged 'incels' to fight back.
In an extensive article, the New York Times Magazine reported on the rise of white nationalism, and how U.S. law enforcement failed to see the threat coming, and now do not know how to stop it.
White nationalism is no longer on the fringes, but has entered the political mainstream. A report produced by the Brennan Center for Justice calls out the DOJ for its "blind spot" when it comes to domestic terrorism and hate crimes.
On Saturday, at a campaign rally in Florida, Trump bragged about sending the U.S. military to the border, as troops began putting up chain-link fencing topped with barbed wire earlier in that day.
Trump also said it's "a little suspicious how those caravans are starting," insinuating, without evidence, that the Democrats were behind it.
WAPO reported Trump's military deployment, along with National Guard forces at the U.S.-Mexico border since April, could cost $200 million by the end of the year. Trump has asked the military to slash next year's budget.
NYT reported that according to analysis of data, the Trump regime has sharply lowered financial penalties against banks and big companies accused of malfeasance, mirroring the regime's deregulatory agenda.
Under Trump there has been a 62% drop in penalties imposed by the S.E.C., and a 72% decline in corporate penalties from the Justice Department's criminal prosecutions.
On Sunday, without citing evidence, using his position as Georgia's Secretary of State, Brian Kemp's office announced the Democrats were under investigation for allegedly trying to hack the state's voter registration files.
Trump appeared with Kemp at a campaign rally, but neither made mention of the investigation. Late Sunday, a spokesperson for Kemp said a person named Rachel Small had allegedly talked about trying to hack Kemp.
On Monday, NBC and Facebook said they would stop running a 30-second inflammatory ad by Trump's political team that featured Luis Bracamontes, saying it was racist. Both had run the ad over the weekend.
On Monday, HuffPost reported hundreds in armed militia groups are headed to U.S.- Mexico border following Trump stoking fear of the "caravans," sparking concern from the U.S. military.
On Monday, in a statement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department plans to monitor voting and investigate voter fraud, without specifying what fraud-related issues the department will be looking for.
In another tweet, Trump accused CNN of airing "Fake Suppression Polls" and engaging in"false rhetoric," although he provided no evidence or explanation of what he was referring to.
On Monday, the Des Moines Register reported DOJ personnel will be sent to a county in northwest Iowa, which has a large population of immigrants, to monitor the vote.
On Monday, WAPO reported that members of Russia's lower house of parliament will be in the U.S. to help certify the integrity of the midterms, ensuring that the vote lives up to international democratic standards.
The news was first reported by Russia-state media outlet Tass, which said two member of parliament will be examining cybersecurity, gerrymandering, voting rights, and campaign financing in the U.S.
On Monday, Trump told reporters he "probably" will not be meeting with Vladimir Putin this weekend in Paris as scheduled, saying instead they will meet at the G20.
On Monday, Vanity Fair reported Trump has been working to absolve himself of any blame if the GOP loses the House. Trump claims he has brought crowds and excitement, and it would be worse without him.
A West Wing official who testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee said with Mueller likely reporting his findings shortly, that other than Trump, Roger Stone and Donald Jr.will face the most exposure.
Concern is Mueller will be able to prove that Donald Jr. perjured himself to investigators when he said he did not tell Trump beforehand about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
On Monday, in an apparent last-minute pitch to women who polls show overwhelmingly support Democrats this election, Trump brought Ivanka, Kellyanne Conway, and press secretary Sarah Sanders to a rally in Indiana.
On Monday, watchdog group CREW reported Ivanka's fashion brand won first trial approval for 16 new trademarks from the Chinese government in October, the largest number in a single month since Trump took office.
On Monday, Fox News host Sean Hannity, who said in a tweet that he would not appear on stage with Trump, campaigned on stage with him in Missouri the night before midterms.
CNN Business reported Fox News staffers have anonymously expressed outrage over Hannity's rally appearance, saying "a new line was crossed," and "I am so f — -ing mad." Hannity was supposed to interview Trump.
On Tuesday, WSJ reported Taiwanese supplier Foxconn, which Trump has used as an example of bringing jobs to the U.S., is considering bringing Chinese workers to Wisconsin due to the tight U.S. labor market.
A report by the Lexington Herald-Leader found that Kentucky has fewer coal jobs than when Trump took office, shrinking from 6,550 jobs in the first quarter of 2017, to 6,381 this past quarter.
On Tuesday, Le Monde reported Dmitri Rybolovlev, the Russian oligarch who purchased a mansion from Trump in 2008, was detained in Monaco, and is under investigation for corruption and influence peddling.
On Tuesday, voting irregularities were reported in several states. Several states extended voting hours including two precincts near Spelman and Morehouse College in Georgia, and Harris County in Texas.
On Tuesday, in the midterm elections, Democrats took back control of the House, while Republicans kept control of the Senate. As of Saturday, Democrats had picked up 35 House seats, with more counts pending.
In an election some dubbed as the "Year of the Woman," for the first time in history, there will be more than 100 women in the House, including the first Muslim American (two) and Native American (two) women.
A total of 34 new women won House seats, 33 of whom are Democrats, beating a previous high set in 1992, with close races still to be decided. Most of the women replaced incumbent men.
They join 66 House women who were re-elected. There will be at least 100 women in the House next session, the largest number in U.S. history. The party gap is large: Democrats 87, Republicans 13, with races pending.
Democrats also did well at the state level, flipping seven governorships, six state legislative chambers, and more than 300 state House and Senate seats.
Democrats also added control of the trifecta — the legislative chambers and the governor's office — in seven more states: Maine, Connecticut, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, and New York.
With Democrats having 26 senate seats in play to Republicans having just 8, Democrats won 8 of the 10 senate seats in swing states, with the final two, Arizona and Florida, still undecided by weeks end.
WSJ reported following midterm success, and after another mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, California, the Democrats plan to pursue the most aggressive gun-control legislation in decades.
In the midterms, Democrats beat at least 15 House Republicans with an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association, while the candidates elected to replace them all scored an "F" NRA rating.
Trump insiders fear the White House is not set up to defend itself from the Democrat House onslaught. Trump reportedly is thinking what they could they release about him, and how does it work politically for him.
Insiders also reportedly say Trump is "very depressed" about Donald Jr. possibly facing indictment. According to three sources, Donald Jr. has told friends he could be indicted as early as this week.
Trump also said the Mueller probe is a "hoax," and "a disgrace, it should have never been started because there was no crime," saying the only reason he has not fired Mueller is because it might make him look bad.
On Wednesday night, the White House revoked Acosta's press credentials. Press secretary Sanders accused Acosta of "placing his hands on a young woman" who was trying to take the microphone as the rationale.
On Thursday, reporters and new organizations of all political leanings slammed the White House for barring Acosta. The White House Correspondents' Association also condemned the move.
On Thursday, a CNN executive accused the White House of using a 'doctored' video to justify revoking Acosta's press credentials.
On Wednesday, at Trump's request, Sessions resigned as attorney general. Sessions's resignation letter reads, "Dear Mr. President, At your request, I am submitting my resignation." The letter is not dated.
WAPO reported Sessions received a call from Chief of Staff John Kelly on Wednesday morning telling him Trump wanted him to resign. Sessions wanted to finish the week, but Kelly said Wednesday would be his last day.
A DOJ official said Whitaker would assume authority over the Mueller probe, and that his role will be subject to the normal review process for conflicts.
Trump has told advisers that Whitaker is loyal and would not have recused himself in Sessions' shoes. Rod Rosenstein went to the White House that afternoon for what an official said was a pre-scheduled meeting.
Whitaker has said in the past the Mueller probe has gone too far, should be given a budget "so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt," and that the finances of the Trump family should not be under scrutiny.
On Wednesday, Reps. Jerrold Nadler, Adam Schiff, and Elijah Cummings, along with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, sent letters to top White House officials demanding that they preserve records following the firing of Sessions.
On Wednesday, Guardian reported Whitaker was paid to sit on the advisory board of World Patent Marketing, which was ordered in May to pay a $26 million settlement as part of a vast scam of aspiring inventors.
Emails filed in federal court show from August 2015 Whitaker used his role as a former federal prosecutor in a threatening email to a customer of World Patent, who had complained to the Better Business Bureau.
On Thursday, CNN reported Trump had already begun reviewing with his lawyers the written answers to questions from special counsel Robert Mueller when he fired Sessions.
Roger Stone continues to be a focus. On Thursday, Mueller's team is set to appear in court to defend its authority as another one of Stone's former associates aims to quash a subpoena for grand jury testimony.
As Mueller's team begins to write its final report on the Russia probe, the White House is looking to hire as many as two dozen lawyers for the counsel's office as Democrats take control of the House.
On Thursday, George Conway and Neal Katyal, Obama's former solicitor general, wrote in an op-ed that Trump's appointment of an acting attorney general, bypassing the Senate, is unconstitutional and illegal.
On Thursday, NYT reported in a 2014 interview, Whitaker said the courts "are supposed to be the inferior branch," and criticized the Supreme Court's power to review legislative and executive acts.
On Thursday, CNN reported Whitaker has close personal ties to Sam Clovis, who has been interviewed in the Mueller probe. Whitaker was Clovis' campaign chair in 2014 when he ran for state treasurer in Iowa.
On Thursday, "Protect Mueller" demonstrators took to the streets in cities and towns across the country to protect the Mueller investigation, after the departure of Sessions and appointment of Whitaker.
According to protest organizers, progressive groups were able to mobilize about 100,000 people at approximately 900 nationwide "rapid response" rallies just one day after Sessions' resignation.
On Friday, CNN reported that the backlash to the Whitaker appointment has caught the White House by surprise and raised concerns about his ability to remain in the post if he remains in the headlines.
On Friday, speaking to reporters, Trump tried to distance himself from Whitaker, saying "I don't know Matt Whitaker," and "I didn't speak to Matt Whitaker" about the federal probe into Russian election interference.
On Friday, Vox reported Whitaker privately advised Trump last year on how the White House might be able to pressure the Justice Department to investigate the president's political adversaries like Hillary Clinton.
At the same time, Whitaker, as chief of staff to Sessions, was advising him and Rosenstein on how to counter Trump's demands that the DOJ open an investigation into whether the FBI "infiltrated or surveilled" his campaign.
In two days, Trump has aggressively attacked three Black women reporters: PBS's Yamiche Alcindor, Phillip, and Ryan. In an op-ed Ryan wrote of Trump long track record of publicly insulting Black women.
On Friday, the WAPO Editorial Board wrote that even as legal experts spar over whether his appointment without a Senate confirmation is constitutional, Whitaker is unfit for the job.
On Wednesday, the Trump regime rolled out a rule that will exempt employers from providing insurance coverage for birth control if it conflicts with their religious or moral beliefs.
The rule, which will take effect in 60 days, would roll back an Obama-era birth control rule which required employers must cover all forms of contraception under Obamacare.
On Wednesday, Patrick Casey, head of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa, whose members marched in Charlottesville in 2017, posted a picture on Twitter of himself standing in front of the White House.
In the tweet, Casey writes, "Evropa has landed at the White House!" The group's motto, "You will not replace us," echoes the "Jews will not replace us" chants of white supremacists in Charlottesville.
On Thursday, lawyers for Christine Blasey Ford said she is continuing to receive death threats. Dr. Ford has had to move four times, and has been unable to return to her job as a professor at Palo Alto University.
On Thursday, the San Francisco Court of Appeals ruled that the Trump regime must preserve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program begun under Obama.
The ruling rejected the regime's claim that ending DACA was not reviewable by the courts. The regime took the unusual step of asking the Supreme Court to review the case before the appeals court had ruled.
Trump is reportedly planning to deny asylum to migrants from Central America, whom he dubbed the caravans. The new rules draw upon the same authority he used to ban travel from Muslim countries in his Travel Ban.
On Friday, in a setback for the Trump regime, a federal judge blocked construction on the 1,179-mile Keystone XL oil pipeline, saying the regime failed to follow established rules and procedures for decisions like these.
The judge said the Trump regime failed to present a "reasoned explanation" for the move and "simply discarded" the effect that construction would have on climate change.
On Friday, WAPO reported that in former First Lady Michelle Obama's new memoir she says she will never forgive Trump for advancing the false birther claim about her husband, which endangered her family.
Trump was also agitated that the Florida and Arizona senate races, which appeared to go Republican on election night, still had outstanding votes to be counted and were undecided.
Trump appeared to be referencing a Fox News segment discussing a lawsuit by the Arizona GOP on Wednesday over the counting of mail-in ballots, which was later settled Friday, allowing the votes to be counted.
On Friday, Sen. Marco Rubio, in a series of tweets, suggested "democrat lawyers are descending on #Florida" to steal the election. He also referenced Broward County. Trump thanked him in a tweet.
On Friday, standing on the porch of the Governor's Mansion for a press conference, Scott accused "unethical liberals" of plotting to steal a U.S. Senate seat from him.
On Friday, Hannity said on his show, "This is a disgrace that they get to do this election in and election out," adding "somebody needs to go to jail here, if this keeps happening." Scott nodded along as Hannity spoke.
On Saturday, the Florida secretary of state, Republican Ken Detzner, ordered recounts of the senate and governor races, an unprecedented review of two major races.
On Friday, WSJ reported Federal prosecutors have gathered evidence of Trump's central role in hush payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, which violated campaign-finance laws.
In August 2015, as a presidential candidate, Trump met with David Pecker, chief executive of AMI. Pecker offered to use the National Enquirer to buy the silence of women about their sexual encounters with Trump.
The Journal found that Trump was involved in or briefed on nearly every step of the agreements. He directed deals in phone calls and meetings with Michael Cohen and others. Cohen, Pecker, and Trump no longer speak.
Cohen, who Trump called "my attorney" in April 2018, pleaded guilty to campaign-finance violations. Federal prosecutors who investigated Cohen are now examining business dealings by the Trump Organization.
Nine people have died, hundreds of homes have been destroyed, and hundreds of thousands have been evacuated in a spate of wildfires this week as a result of the Camp Fire in the area of Paradise, California.
On Friday, Trump traveled to Paris for ceremonies to honor the military in World War I as part of Armistice Day. He was scheduled to attend the military parade, after his plans to hold one in Washington were scuttled.
Macron has warned his fellow European nations that they can no longer rely on the U.S. to defend them. His latest remarks came after Trump decided to pull out of a key 1987 nuclear treaty with Russia.
On Saturday, Trump canceled a visit to the U.S. military cemetery outside Paris at the site of a 1918 battle in which U.S. and French forces fended off German troops during World War I, due to rainy weather.
The battle, in which more than 1,800 died, looms large in the history of the U.S. Marines Corps. Chief of staff John Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, his wife, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit instead.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Emmanuel Macron did attend ceremonies for their fallen at cemeteries outside Paris.
On Saturday, Trump named seven who will receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom award. The group includes Miriam Adelson, wife of Sheldon Adelson, both of whom gave $56 million to GOP Super PACs this cycle.
On Saturday, NYT reported that the 5,600 American troops who were rushed to U.S.-Mexico border by Trump have little electricity, will receive no combat pay, and face holidays away from home.
Military morale is an issue. The deployment orders last through mid-December, meaning the troops will miss Thanksgiving, and have little to do beyond providing logistical support, unless Trump declares martial law.


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Eel River, Humboldt County, California.
Eastern Mojave Vegetation Eel River, Humboldt County, California.
Major California river, draining northwest from the Snow Mountain area to the Pacific Ocean just south of Eureka.


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The Cedar Berry tree is a needle bearing tree and an evergreen that lives in the American Southwest. It is a tough, hardy competitor able to persist on poor soil where other trees can not. It ranges in size from that of a shrub to up to 30 feet tall if it has enough water and better soil. "Out West", its common name is the " Single-Seeded Cedar Berry" tree. There are two kinds of Cedar Berry trees. One kind has the female flowers on it and the other kind has the male flowers on it. The flowers on the female trees produce a small waxy seed pod with a single seed in it. That is the part which we use. Under the stomach and liver is a carrot shaped organ/gland called the pancreas. It empties its digestive juices from its blunt end into the small intestine. This is very important to the digestion. When the pancreas itself gets sick, you need a no nonsense remedy. We use the seed and its pod from the Cedar Berry tree for that purpose. This remedy was found out of sheer desperation by Dr. John Raymond Christopher from Utah after much prayer and fasting. His search was for something to repair a pancreas that had "bad cells" in it. This is a very serious condition because the pancreas is the main digestive organ and normally eats up any "bad cells" that occur in the body. You can imagine the panic, if the organ you rely on to eat up malignant "bad cells", is itself being eaten up. In practice he proved the value of this remedy of the Single-Seeded Cedar Berry and shared it with all of us. Along with this remedy, he gave us the wisdom to restore the function of the pancreas so the pancreas will eat up the "bad cells" in itself and anywhere else in the body. DOSAGE: 1 teaspoon per meal.


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Saluting a career in softball that began in the early 1950s, Belleville's Cliff (Sonny) Belch is among the Class of 2017 inductees to the Ontario Amateur Softball Association Hall of Fame.
A gala ceremony was held Saturday in Burlington to usher in the OASA shrine's newest members.
Starting in 1953, Belch held just about every post imagineable in the local and provincial softball scenes — coach, manager, umpire, convener, secretary, treasurer, executive board member, tournament organizer among them. His yeoman contributions to softball in Belleville, and Ontario, was recognized in 2004 when he was inducted into the Belleville Sports Hall of Fame.
Belch, born in Belleville in 1933, is a former recipient of the OASA's prestigious "Mr. Softball" Award and received a life membership in 1988 for meritorious service to the provincial association.
Belch was formerly recreation director and later, Chief Administrative Officer, of Belleville. He is also a former city councillor.
Canada's three-match tour of England ended Saturday with a 69-19 loss by the senior women's national rugby team at Twickenham Stadium.
Canada dropped all three games to powerhouse England, including by scores of 79-5 and 49-12 in the previous two encounters.
Canada fielded a young side filled with first-time senior internationals, including Belleville's Sara Svoboda who started at flanker in all three contests.
Among the few veterans dotting the Canada roster was Belleville's Cindy Nelles, who scored the lone try for the Canadians in the series-opening 79-5 loss. Canada was dealt a severe blow when Nelles was forced to leave Game 2 early with a concussion and was unable to play in Game 3.
Trenton's Ty Shemko, a member of the Belleville Bulldogs Rugby Club, kicked a penalty and three converts for the Kingston St. Lawrence Vikings in the recent OCAA men's gold-medal rugby match. Vikings lost a cliffhanger to the host Oakville Sheridan Bruins, 31-29, in the provincial college final.
The Loyalist Lancers women's volleyball team suffered its first loss of the 2017-18 OCAA season, dropping a tough 3-2 decision to the host Algonquin Thunder Friday in Ottawa. A day later, the Lancers rebounded to sweep La Cite Coyotes, 3-0. Lancers are 7-1 on the season.
The Loyalist men fell to 1-7 after losing 3-0 to both Algonquin and La Cite on the weekend.
ON DECK: Friday at Peterborough S.S. Fleming, 6 p.m. (women); 8 p.m. (men).
Former Belleville Bulls forward Scott Simmonds of the Guelph Gryphons was eighth in OUA scoring following weekend contests. Simmonds had 7-10-17 scoring totals in 14 games for Guelph. Former Bulls team captain, Brett Welychka of the Carleton Ravens, was in the top-15 with 4-11-15 numbers after 14 games.
Another ex-Bull, Alex Basso, was third in scoring among OUA defencemen with 6-8-14 totals in 10 games for the Ryerson Rams.
• Senior — PECI 99, Trenton 20; Quinte 89 (Jack Whitley 29) St. Paul's 47 (Josh Lamoreaux 17); Centennial 47 (Chase Bourgoin 14) Bayside 28.
• Junior — PECI 62, Trenton 24; Quinte 62 (Colin Gilroy 13) St. Paul's 40 (Steve Jones 13, Ryan Angelo 10); Centennial 53 (Blake Douglas 22) Bayside 38 (E.Martindale 14).
The Raldane Welding peewee AE Belleville Bulls clipped Peterborough 5-4 in a weekend rep hockey game. Nicholas Hibbert (2), Davin Osmond, Brody Beaubien and Braeden Davis scored for Belleville; Reese Nugent, Owen Bird, Hibbert, Osmond and Beaubien earned assists. Braeden Reid posted the W in net.


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WATCH: Kim Kardashian announces new criminal justice project at the White House
KKW 2.0 - by Alice Murphy
Kim Kardashian West returned to the White House on Thursday to speak at a criminal justice event in the East Room.
WATCH Kim's speech here (you go, girl):
Addressing an audience of White House officials and supporters of the First Step Act, the reality TV queen turned prison reform advocate announced a new administrative policy aimed at easing financial pressure on former inmates looking for employment.
"I am so happy to announce today that we have a ride-share partnership, where formerly incarcerated people will be gifted gift cards so that they can get rides to and from job interviews, to and from jobs and family members. That is so important, so needed," Kardashian, 37, said.
The project has been launched with the support of President Donald Trump, who praised Kardashian's decision to study law saying: "She's going to be one of the most successful lawyers, I hate to tell all my lawyers back there!"
Trump also remembered Kim's famous father, Robert Kardashian, who was a member of O.J. Simpson's legal team during his trial for the murder of Nicole Brown.
"I knew her father and I know she has good genes. She's been a good friend and her husband has been a good friend of mine."
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Kim's rapper and fashion designer husband Kanye West is a vocal support of the Trump administration and has been credited for securing African American support for the controversial politician.
Last year, the KKW Beauty founder met with President Trump in the Oval Office to petition for the pardon and release of 63-year-old great-grandmother Alice Marie Johnson who had been imprisoned for a low level drug offense since 1997.
Trump commuted Johnson's life sentence and granted clemency one week later, the sixth time he has done so since taking office, Harper's Bazaar notes.
Kim Kardashian West addresses the East Room
Attorney and non-profit founder Van Jones told Vogue that Kardashian's appeal for Johnson's release was "the most effective, emotionally intelligent intervention I've ever seen in American politics", Yahoo News reports.
Before speaking at Thursday's event, the reality star sat between Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner who she worked with last year on the passage of the First Step Act.
The First Step Act provides a support framework for second chance hiring, increasing former inmates chances to thrive after leaving prison.
Jared Kushner, Kim Kardashian and Ivanka Trump on Thursday
In April, Kim announced her intention to take the California state 'baby bar' in 2022, meaning she will skip the traditional and time-consuming route of going to law school.
According to The Washington Post, California, Vermont, Virginia and Washington do not require a law degree as a prerequisite for taking the bar.
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Last year I registered with the California State Bar to study law. For the next 4 years, a minimum of 18 hours a week is required, I will take written and multiple choice tests monthly. As my first year is almost coming to an end I am preparing for the baby bar, a mini version of the bar, which is required when studying law this way. I've seen some comments from people who are saying it's my privilege or my money that got me here, but that's not the case. One person actually said I should "stay in my lane." I want people to understand that there is nothing that should limit your pursuit of your dreams, and the accomplishment of new goals. You can create your own lanes, just as I am. The state bar doesn't care who you are. This option is available to anyone who's state allows it. It's true I did not finish college. You need 60 college credits (I had 75) to take part in "reading the law", which is an in office law school being apprenticed by lawyers. For anyone assuming this is the easy way out, it's not. My weekends are spent away from my kids while I read and study. I work all day, put my kids to bed and spend my nights studying. There are times I feel overwhelmed and when I feel like I can't do it but I get the pep talks I need from the people around me supporting me. I changed my number last year and disconnected from everyone because I have made this strict commitment to follow a dream of mine - It's never too late to follow your dreams. I want to thank Van Jones for believing in me and introducing me to Jessica Jackson. Jessica along with Erin Haney have taken on the role of my mentors and I am forever grateful to them both putting in so much time with me, believing in me and supporting me through this journey. This week I have a big torts essay due on negligence. Wish me luck ✨⚖
The mother-of-four - who shares daughters North and Chicago and sons Saint and Psalm with Kanye West - started an apprenticeship with a criminal justice law firm in San Francisco during the summer of 2018.
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For a basic Point of Sale (POS) system, most software companies offer similar features. Beyond that, software companies can be very different…some better…some worse. Some software companies offer a ton of features which on the surface seem important, but as you dig a little deeper, only add more work. Other software systems don't offer special features you feel you need to properly run your business. If the features are implemented in a way that's too confusing, you'll get extremely frustrated. Not one particular software is going to fit your business to a "T" but there are enough choices that you should get very close. Make a list of the features you have to have and ask the software vendor if their product can be adapted to fit your unique needs.
2.) Is there a contract of any kind?
Before buying software make sure to ask about software AND support contracts. Some companies won't have a software contract, but they will make you sign a support contract for 6 months to a year. This means if you aren't happy with your software or if you need to close down your store (hopefully not, but it's happened!), you will be required to continue paying your monthly support fees.
3.) What are the fees for tech and hardware support?
Each software vendor has very different support policies. Make sure you have their policies outlined clearly. One company may charge a monthly or yearly fee, while another may offer you 30 days free and then begin your support charges. Some may not even offer support. Ask about hardware support too. Many companies will support their software, but won't support hardware. You have to go to a third party (often charging an avg. of $75 – $100 per hour). Other companies have special prices for specific devices. Getting help with receipt printers, label printers, barcode scanners, computers, etc. is essential for a smooth operation. Make sure you understand what to expect from your software provider beforehand.
4.) Does it cost to get upgrades?
Several of the software vendors currently available will charge you to upgrade to the newest version. This is one big difference between software that is downloaded/installed on your computer vs. software that is available via the web. Web based software updates everyone immediately to the most recent version when it is available. Installed software may not upgrade with new features or bug fixes for anywhere from 6 months to a year.
5.) How does your data get backed up?
If your computer gets a virus, lightning strikes, or it just crashes for some unexplained reason, make sure you have backups of your data that do NOT reside on your computer. Whether you purchase web based or installed software, make sure you understand how your data is backed up, how often it is backed up and what it will cost you.
6.) Does the software offer integrated credit card processing and if so, what are their rates?
If the software integrates credit card processing this makes the point of sale easier and less time consuming. If you don't use an integrated credit card processor, you will need a separate process to run credit cards. Either way, make sure you compare rates of different credit card processors to make sure you are getting the best rates possible.
7.) Do they offer night and weekend support hours?
Unfortunately, not every problem you experience will happen from 9 am to 5 pm. Find out if the vendor offers night and weekend technical support and if there are any extra fees to access support at that time. You also want to make sure they offer both email and phone support because email support alone may not get you the quick turn around time you need. Another question to ask… what is the average response time for a customer support request?
8.) Does this software work best for one or multiple locations?
You may be surprised at how well your business takes off and other locations become necessary. Plan for the future before buying software. Some vendors will say their software supports multiple locations but you need to take a look at what they actually provide. Can the store owner view inventory in one location from another? Can you transfer inventory from one location to another? How are customers and consignors managed between locations? Dig in and see what multi-location really means to each software vendor.
9.) Are you charged per terminal or per location?
If you plan on having more than one terminal in your store, you'll want to know what the costs will be. Some software vendors charge per terminal, others charge by the number of store locations. Usually, if the software company charges per terminal, there is a reduced fee for extra terminals, but it still adds up.
10.) How much does their hardware cost?
Hardware can be one of your biggest expenses when opening your shop, so you want to get the best hardware available for the best price. Don't be tricked into thinking you have to order the hardware from the vendor you have chosen for your software, but do find out what types of hardware are supported. For some comparison shopping, check out hardware prices at SimpleConsign and label prices at BarcodeWarehouse.
11.) Why have customers left them and chosen other software providers?
Most people ask for referrals, but did you ever think to ask why customers have chosen to leave a provider? Remember, every company is going to have customers that leave so don't let their answer scare you, but a software vendor's answer to this question will tell you how involved they are with their customers and how they view themselves as a provider. Speak with other businesses who are using their software, join social media sites that have consignment/resale groups and ask questions through LinkedIn groups. Just because a business has been around for a long time doesn't mean they are the best at what they do.
12.) Are there any start-up costs or maintenance fees?
Some vendors may have a few fees that you have to pay to get started or to maintain their service. When buying software, be sure you ask what they are.
13.) What type of training is provided for you and your employees?
If this is your first software system or you are considering a change, there is always a learning curve. Make sure you know what type of training is provided for you. Will the training be provided for everyone in your business? Is there a fee to participate? Is the training live so you can ask questions?


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T-Pain's 'Epiphany' Is On Vinyl For The First Time
You Can Finally "Buy U A Drank" On Wax
By VMP Staff
In 2005, a distinct R&B singer took a piece of audio software, his incredibly buttery voice, and a whole bunch of attitude, and became one of the mid-aughts biggest pop stars; so big, Jay-Z made a song about trying to kill him off. In 2007, that singer released his masterpiece, an album that entered the charts at No. 1, spawned multiple hit singles, and cemented Auto-Tune's place in music history, the singer's impact on the way music has sounded since undebatable. That album has woefully never been released on vinyl.
The singer, of course, is T-Pain, and the album is Epiphany, his 2007 album featuring hits like "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')," "Bartender," and "Church." The album was never released on vinyl, until Vinyl Me, Please came along, and today, we released the first vinyl edition of the album. Coming on red 180gram vinyl, and 2LP, you can get the album right here, right now. We expect the album to ship by mid-March.
In the meantime, you can re-listen to Epiphany below. And seriously: This album changed modern music in ways we're still dealing with. Respect the greatness:
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New Study Shows Past Research On Rising Ocean Temps Built On Faulty Science
Chris White Tech Reporter
January 05, 2018 7:20 AM ET
Ocean temperatures have risen only 0.1 degree Celsius over the last five decades, according to a landmark study some scientists argue could change the way researchers measure the ocean's temperature levels.
Each layer of water in the ocean has vastly different temperatures, so determining the average temperature is nearly impossible without glossing over important data. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego decided on a different model – they measured the ratio of noble gases in the atmosphere, which are in direct relation to the ocean's temperature.
Geoscientist Jeff Severinghaus, an academic at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, measured values of the noble gases argon, krypton, and xenon in air bubbles captured inside ice cores in Antarctica. Krypton and xenon are released into the atmosphere in known quantities as the ocean warms, according to the study, which was published Thursday in Nature Journal
"This method is a radically new way to measure change in total ocean heat," Severinghaus said in a post on the Scripps website. "It takes advantage of the fact that the atmosphere is well-mixed, so a single measurement anywhere in the world can give you the answer."
Severinghaus measured values of the noble gases argon, krypton, and xenon in air bubbles captured inside ice cores in Antarctica. Krypton and xenon, which are remarkably stable regardless external factors, are released into the atmosphere in known quantities as the ocean warms.
Much of the previously available information used to determine ocean temperatures during the past thousands of years has come from records produced by organisms that lived during those times and were subject to a complex array of external biological factors. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other major organizations that measure ocean temperatures rely on these methods to make their determinations.
The ratio of these gases allows for a much more effective and exact calculation of average global ocean temperature, according to Severinghaus and his team of researchers at Scripps. They discovered that xenon and krypton are well preserved in ice cores and can, therefore, provide temperature information that scientists can use to study many other aspects of the earth's oceans.
"Our precision is about 0.2 ºC (0.4 ºF) now, and the warming of the past 50 years is only about 0.1 ºC," he said, adding that advanced equipment can provide more precise measurements, allowing scientists to make better calculations going forward. His fellow researcher made similar remarks.
"The reason this study is so exciting is that previous methods of reconstructing ocean heat content have very large age uncertainties, [which] smooths out the more subtle features of the record," said co-author Sarah Shackleton, a graduate student at Severinghaus' lab.
"This is the first time that we've been able to see these subtle features in the record of the deglaciation," she added. "This helps us better understand the processes that control changes in ocean heat content."
Severinghaus' findings are potentially very significant and "remarkably interesting," Cato Institute scientist Patrick Michaels told The Daily Caller News Foundation. It tells academics who study the effect average ocean temperatures have on global warming that"we are living in a world that won't warm at the same rate as those seen in the U.N. climate models"
Ocean temperature levels have caused a great deal of debate in recent decades. Many scientists believe hotter and cooler oceans could lead to dramatic shifts in not just global temperature levels but also hurricane frequency.
A study in 2015, for instance, predicted that the Earth is about to undergo a major climatic shift that could mean decades of cooler temperatures and fewer hurricanes hitting the U.S.
Scientists at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom predicted at the time that a cooling of the Atlantic Ocean could cool global temperatures a half a degree Celsius and may offer a "brief respite from the persistent rise of global temperatures."
This cooling phase in the Atlantic will influence "temperature, rainfall, drought and even the frequency of hurricanes in many regions of the world," says Dr. Gerard McCarthy. The study's authors based their results on ocean sensor arrays and 100 years of sea-level data.
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Cyprus, an island slightly larger than Co. Cork, and with a population of just over half a million, became independent in 1960 after a short, nasty, guerrilla campaign. In four years several hundred British soldiers and locally employed Cypriots were killed, nine EOKA ( Cypriot Resistance) fighters were hanged with many more dying fighting up to 40,000 British soldiers.
A bad situation was made worse by British blunders and ineptitude. They sought initially to crush EOKA by savage repression (enforced by a military Governor), deported the inspirational Cypriot leader Archbishop Makarios to the Seychelles and flew the EOKA leaders to British prisons, where they teamed up with IRA prisoners. EOKA were even gifted their own Kevin Barry, 22 year old Michalis Karaolis, hanged amid protests in May 1956. As with Barry, the hanging of Karaolis proved a watershed, enflaming passions and compromising possibilities of a political solution.
The Cypriot insurgents drew inspiration from Ireland's earlier struggle. The similarities are obvious, even if the ultimate aim of many was not independence but Enosis – union with Greece. Fears over this among the 20% Turkish minority led to bloody clashes with the Greek majority before and after independence and eventually to partition of the island and Turkey occupying the northern half.
Public sympathy in Ireland for the rebels was, unsurprisingly, considerable, particularly as Britain seemed to be repeating in Cyprus the mistakes made in Ireland a generation earlier. Yet ,as Dr O'Shea shows ,Irish involvement was not one-sided, the complicated situation reflecting Ireland's relatively recent separation from Britain.
The British Empire may have been in decline but its bureaucracy and military still held many high ranking Irish, including the head of the Foreign Office, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, an early advocate of the partition of Cyprus. On Cyprus, Chief Justice Hallinan, who sentenced Karaolis to death, was from Cork, while the Attorney-General, James Henry, who refused clemency to all nine who were hanged, was the son of Denis Henry, Irish Attorney –General when twenty four IRA members were executed between 1919 and 1921.
Many other Irish were involved at various levels in the British judiciary and administration plus hundreds in the army. These included Brigadier Butler from Rathgar, and a number of other senior officers , while several Irish regiments served tours of duty during the "Emergency." Not surprisingly many Irish ordinary soldiers served, having emigrated during the decade after 1945; some were casualties, some were decorated.
Aengus Finucane was a big man, not just physically. For decades a towering figure in Ireland's aid and assistance efforts for the poor of the developing world, he died of cancer aged 76 in 2009. His name will forever be synonymous with Concern, the Irish aid organisation he headed for sixteen years.
This is his story, interwoven with that of his forty year association with Concern. Deirdre Purcell, prolific journalist and author, has compiled it from scores of interviews with those who knew and worked with Aengus, including many prominent political and business figures. Sadly, most of his personal papers and correspondence, painstakingly assembled and sorted by his brother and fellow priest, Jack, were destroyed by accident soon after Aengus passed away.
The story is remarkable. Aengus Finucane was ordained in 1959 in a different Ireland, where the Church was supreme and where hundreds of young Irish men and women flocked to the religious life and, within that life, to serve overseas in the "Missions." Aengus and brother Jack were among around 900 Holy Ghost (now Spiritan) priests sent out as Missionaries, mostly to Africa, and Nigeria in particular, spending eight years in pastoral work. The job was learned on the hoof, nothing in their training having prepared the young Irish priests for their new life.
Then, in 1967 Nigeria's oil –rich province of Biafra, where most of the estimated 300 Spiritans were located, attempted to secede. It proved a defining moment. The resulting civil war saw an increasingly severe encirclement and blockade of Biafra, leading to widespread malnutrition and starvation, particularly among children. The television images of starving Biafran children struck a chord in Ireland, with several ad hoc groups formed to supply aid. One such was "Africa Concern" formed in early 1968 by Fr Raymond Kennedy, another Spiritan priest, and members of his family.
A heroic aid operation was mounted by several Irish relief organisations , a ship acquired and supplies flown in to the embattled province. There to receive them at Uli airstrip were the Finucanes. The first legends about Aengus began. But it was to no avail. Despite international aid, after almost three years and a million civilians dead, chiefly from starvation, Biafra surrendered. The Spiritans were imprisoned briefly and then expelled.
Internationally, part of Biafra's legacy was the formation of Medecins sans Frontieres. In Ireland Biafra proved a catalyst in terms of public awareness, via TV and the other media, of the poverty and suffering of hundreds of millions of their fellow humans elsewhere, whether from natural or man-made catastrophe. Concern widened its net, dropping "African" as it got involved elsewhere. Trocaire, Goal and an impressive Irish government development cooperation programme emerged as the years passed. In terms of total assistance Ireland moved steadily up the league table of donors.
The question he asked in debates about immediate welfare relief or sustainable development programmes was equally simple: How could the poorest, the most unfortunate, be assisted, a helpful reality check in terms of achieving results. He became the logical choice to succeed as Concern's chief executive in 1981. Shortly afterwards his predecessor was found to have embezzled funds. Aengus Finucane went on the road, staking his personal reputation in a host of public appearances to regenerate belief in Concern. It worked. Trust was restored. The funds were ultimately recovered .
The Eighties and Nineties saw a succession of horrific international humanitarian crises – Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda. Concern and Aengus Finucane were to the fore throughout. There are harrowing chapters reliving the horrors of each one, recounted by those who were there. His acumen and awareness that publicity was the key to persuading the public to donate was reflected in his message, hammered home to visiting Irish journalists in Ethiopia in 1984: report back what is happening. In Somalia he seized upon the tremendous publicity value of a visit by President Robinson and worked with her to secure government approval for the trip.
Energetic, committed and gregarious, he was excellent at making friends in the right places. Under his stewardship, Concern acquired an international fund raising and leveraging capability. But his hectic lifestyle began to take its toll on his health. Bizarrely, it was a simple accident with a pen , which infected his arm with a necrotising water-borne bug , which caused most damage and enforced extended sick leave.
This proved a turning point. Methods and attitudes were changing and Aengus, at retirement age, moved on to become honorary president of Concern US. The role gave him a new lease of life as he mingled with, and opened the wallets of , numerous wealthy Americans. His final odyssey was to Haiti, where Concern is now heavily involved.
Purcell's book is packed with fascinating anecdotes and extracts from interviews with journalists and others, including his successors in the job. Some are amusing, some make for grim reading but overall they contribute to a well-rounded portrait of someone who strove to make the world a better place.
"Not merely had people forgotten, but they'd forgotten that they'd forgotten." This, from the opening page of Kevin Myers' powerful book, was his comment in 1979 on the derelict state of the Memorial Gardens at Islandbridge.
Here are three different but complementary books on the four year conflict which impacted heavily on Ireland, leaving roughly 40,000 young Irishmen dead, with many thousands more wounded or scarred mentally from their experience. By comparison 1400 were killed in the War of Independence, and at most several thousand in the Civil War. Yet until recently Irish participation in the Great War was airbrushed out – except in Northern Ireland – and the dead and their sacrifice ignored or discounted.
Happily this has now changed, as epitomised most recently by Ambassador Dan Mulhall laying a wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. This is due at least in part to the indefatigable efforts, over many years, of Kevin Myers to focus public attention on the issue and challenge the policy of official neglect. His book, a compilation of articles and lectures delivered in recent years, with one piece going back to 1980, reflects this. Myers points up the scale of volunteering in the first years of the War across all creeds and political affiliations and then recounts the ebbing of support after 1916 and the subsequent re-writing of history.
Several chapters on the impact of the war on different counties help bring into focus and humanise what was a mini-holocaust, with an average of one hundred Irishmen dying each day the war lasted, including two of the very last casualties. Taking two examples, almost four hundred Sligo men died during the conflict, while the figure for Kerry was 718, with 340 from Tralee alone. Again, all classes and creeds were affected. The impact on small communities across Ireland was huge, yet afterwards the dead were unacknowledged, those returning ignored or even pilloried. In Sligo, for example, the only annual commemorations were for the nineteen IRA men slain in the War of Independence. Selective amnesia about the Great War became the norm.
The horrors of the trenches, the squalor, the terrible deaths of the Irish are described in detail in Myers' characteristically unsparing prose. Some of the multiple deaths among families are recounted, again across the classes. There are separate chapters on Francis Ledwidge and Robert Gregory, the Irish Airman immortalised and romanticised in Yeats' poem.
The chapter on Gallipoli corrects a few of the myths but the reality remains equally shocking. The fate of the Dublin Fusiliers attempting to storm the Kiritch Tepe Sirt ridge, as recounted by Myers, is particularly memorable. The cull on that hillside included, among the Pals of the Footballers (drawn from the IRFU), a TCD professor of law and the chief botanist from the Botanic Gardens, killed with the others in a bayonet charge uphill against machine guns.
Tom Kettle and Emmet Dalton feature also in Turtle Bunbury's excellent " Glorious Madness," which is a fitting complement to Myers' work. The title is a quote by Woodbine Willie, a chaplain of Irish descent, later a noted pacifist, who dispensed bibles and cigarettes to the troops, and who later wrote there were "no words foul and filthy enough to describe" war.
Glorious Madness is splendidly illustrated with fascinating period photographs and reproductions . It comprises a collection of detailed anecdotes on scores of the more prominent Irish involved in the war , including chaplains and airmen, together with accounts of some of the battles and skirmishes in which they participated. Of particular note is Tom Barry, who fought in Iraq, honing the skills he would later impart to training the West Cork Flying Column after 1919.
There's even a chapter on Captain "Hoppy" Hardy, British ace escaper, later ace interrogator, who earned notoriety subsequently as the probable torturer of both Kevin Barry and Ernie O'Malley and as the murderer of comedian Brendan O'Carroll's grandfather in 1920. Hardy escaped Collins' hitmen on Bloody Sunday.
Brendan Kelly's book is a reminder that many returned from the front physically unscathed but mentally shattered. Written by one of Ireland's most eminent psychiatrists, the book charts the treatment of 362 shell shocked soldiers in Dublin's Richmond War Hospital between 1916 and 1919.From the anecdotes in the final chapter, including one quoting Gay Byrne on his father's nightmares, it is clear that many thousands more were profoundly disturbed and haunted throughout their lives by that terrible conflict.