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Ray Parlour believes Arsenal won't block club captain Thomas Vermaelen's prospective move to Manchester United.
The Belgian defender has agreed to join the Red Devils this summer, according to reports, with Louis van Gaal's side now just needing to agree a transfer fee with the north London club.
Vermaelen would become the latest in a long line of players to join one of the Gunners' rivals, after seeing Bacary Sagna, Robin van Persie, Samir Nasri and Gael Clichy all leave the Emirates in recent seasons.
But Parlour claims it will be very difficult to stop United from landing their man.
"Thomas Vermaelen wants to play football," he told the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast show. "Last year he couldn't get in the Arsenal side because Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny were superb at the back. Kieran Gibbs has improved so much he couldn't even play him at left-back.
"When you get to a situation where a squad member wants to move, sometimes the player has more sway than the club itself.
"If he wants to play football, and an offer comes in from a club like Manchester United, then it's hard for the club to say, 'no, you can't go there, we want to sell you to a club in Italy or Spain'.
"He was doing the captain's notes last year in the Arsenal programme but not getting in the team. I can't see that changing anytime soon. He wants to play first team football."
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By Louise Taylor, Guardian:
Cesc Fábregas has joined Chelsea where he will be expected to become a cornerstone of José Mourinho's reconstructed team next season.
The Spain midfielder, currently with his national side in Brazil, returns to the Premier League after Barcelona accepted an initial £27m offer from Stamford Bridge with £2.5m in add-ons based on appearances.
Arsenal declined to exercise an option to buy back the former captain they sold to Barcelona three years ago but are due a sell-on fee which may end up being £2.5m.
Chelsea sign Cesc Fábregas from Barcelona in major transfer coup | Football | The Guardian
By Jack Wilson (Daily Star):
Brendan Rodgers is set to cash in on striker Fabio Borini this summer to finance a double deal for Southampton pair Adam Lallana and Dejan Lovren.
Borini spent last season on loan at Sunderland, and recently stated his intent to make a mark at Anfield on his return. However, Rodgers is set to rule out a Merseyside stay for the Italian after deciding to move on the £10.5m man.
Ashley Cole is also on Rodgers' radar. The left-back is weighing up a move to either Barcelona or AC Milan after finalising his exit from Chelsea.
Arsenal are plotting a move for Mario Balotelli - and they could part with Joel Campbell to get him. The Gunners are willing to hand Balotelli a huge contract at the Emirates.
Manchester United will be forced to wait before concluding a £7m deal for Arsenal captain Thomas Vermaelen. The Gunners won't sanction his exit until they have secured a replacement for the Belgium international.
Louis Van Gaal looks set to complete a deal for another defender, however, after offering Atletico Madrid's Miranda a bumper contract. Van Gaal wants the £24m-rated Brazilian to partner Vermaelen in a new look Old Trafford defence.
United defender Alex Buttner is set to quit the club, with Luke Shaw set to move to the club this summer. Buttner is second-choice to Patrice Evra, and doesn't want to slip further down the pecking order when the Southampton man arrives.
Chelsea and United have been given a huge boost in their pursuit of Bayern star Toni Kroos. The German international says he's no closer to signing a new deal with the Bundelsiga giants, promoting speculation he could quit the Allianz Arena.
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BBC Sport - Louis Laing: Nottingham Forest sign Sunderland defender
Nottingham Forest have signed defender Louis Laing on a free transfer from Sunderland on a one-year contract, with an option for a further 12 months.
The 21-year-old, who spent time on trial at Manchester United in April, made just one senior appearance for the Black Cats, as a substitute in 2011.
Laing's only other Football League experience came at Wycombe where he played 11 games on loan in 2012.
The centre-half will join Forest when his Sunderland deal expires on 1 July.
Ander Herrera: Manchester United 'on the verge' of completing £29m move for Athletic Bilbao midfielder - Transfers - Football - The Independent
Manchester United have agreed to meet Ander Herrera's release clause and are close to signing the midfielder, according to multiple reports in Spain.
Radio station Cadena SER say Old Trafford bosses are keen to tie up a deal for the 24-year-old midfielder before June 30 as his buy-out clause rises from €36m (£28.7m) to €40m (£31.9m).
Marca claims Herrera is already in England and has signed a four-year deal at Old Trafford worth around £2.4m-per-year, while Radio Bilbao and El Larguero say the deal will be announced today.
United were close to signing Herrera last summer but could not get a deal done on transfer deadline day.
Herrera can play in centre midfield or behind the striker and weighed in with five goals and five assists as Athletic qualified for the Champions League, finishing fourth.
There has been much talk on BBC Radio 5 Live and TalkSport about Luis Suarez leaving Liverpool, and that there is a minimum fee release clause in his Anfield contract. His latest biting incident at the World Cup has added fuel to this fire.
A move to Spain looks most likely, with Real Madrid and Barcelona being linked with the toothy one.
Assuming FIFA don't place a domestic ban on him, he will sign for Real Madrid.
Luke Shaw has joined Man Utd.
BBC Sport - Luke Shaw: Man Utd sign Southampton defender for £27m
Southampton and England defender Luke Shaw has signed for Manchester United for £27m, rising to £31m depending on success.
United initially made a bid of £27m for the 18-year-old left-back in May, but the offer was rejected.
Shaw told the Saints he wanted to move to United at the end of last season.
Shaw became the youngest player to feature at the 2014 World Cup when he played the full game in England's 0-0 draw with Costa Rica.
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Arsenal rumours, by Tom Bryant (Guardian):
Football transfer rumours: Arsenal in for Rémy, Balotelli and Mandzukic? | Football | theguardian.com
Arsène Wenger wants two more strikers in the next month or so, having ushered "strikers" Nicklas Bendtner and Ju Young Park to the door marked "Do One". He has apparently decided Loïc Rémy, Mario Balotelli and Mario Mandzukic are as good as anyone.
The Milan chairman, Adriano Galliani, though has begged to differ. Like an aged grandfather attempting to get to grips with modern life, Galliani has been talking to his club's website. After repeatedly asking it "to do the googles", he has finally given up and said Balotelli is going nowhere.
Undeterred, Wenger will turn his attention to the fallout from the Starvin' Luis Suárez affair. Should the Liverpool striker be about to depart for Barcelona or Real Madrid, then Wenger will chase Alexis Sánchez, Karim Benzema and Alvaro Morata around Spain in an unseemly fashion. He's also on the lookout for a new midfielder, and thinks Lars Bender might be his man despite having a £15m offer last summer slung back in his face like a wet fish. Next, he'll head to Newcastle to lure Mathieu Debuchy down south. Alan Pardew will ask for Carl Jenkinson and a sack of cash in return.
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IMPORTANT CORRECTION: This ordinance is not yet law — it passed its initial hearing, but a second reading and passage is required before it becomes city law. Thank you to a staffer from the city of Sunnyvale communications office for providing the correction.
On Tuesday, the Sunnyvale City Council passed a cyclist anti-harassment ordinance, sponsored by the Sunnyvale Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee.
The Sunnyvale ordinance is modeled after a similar ordinance passed last year in Los Angeles, which makes it unlawful to intentionally force or attempt to force a bicyclist from a roadway with the intent to injure or distract the bicyclist simply because they are bicycling.
The Sunnyvale measure was approved by the council passed its initial reading on a 6-1 vote, with council member Jim Davis dissenting. No one spoke in opposition, and Davis didn't explain his negative vote. The council motion also directed staff to publicize the new ordinance in order to put on notice any motorists who may be tempted to react with aggression when they encounter cyclists.
If this ordinance passes, Sunnyvale becomes the second Bay Area city with a bicycle harassment ordinance on the books. Berkeley passed a similar law last February.
Want to pass this in your own city? Feel free to contact Sunnyvale BPAC member Kevin Jackson for advice, and ask your city's BPAC to take this on. Comment below and I'll pass your message along to Mr Jackson.
Actually, Council has NOT passed the ordinance. This was the first reading of the proposed ordinance. The must be a second reading, most likely at the next Council meeting, after which time, if passed, it would go into effect 30 days later. — City of Sunnyvale Communications Office.
It's so gratifying to see the ordinance I worked on in LA making inroads in the bay area. Providing bicyclists with the tools to defend themselves against actions that are already illegal, while letting them bypass a criminal court system that is often overburdened and historically unsympathetic to bicyclists' travails, is really a win-win for everyone.
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Dean Smith (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Senator Cash. Can the minister advise the Senate how the coalition government's border protection policies ensure that fairness is a cornerstone of our refugee and humanitarian resettlement program?
Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I thank Senator Smith for his ongoing interest in border protection. It is a fact that Australia runs one of the most generous humanitarian settlement programs globally. However, the sad truth is that, in any one year, less than one per cent of the world's 10.5 million refugees will be resettled. In any one year, over nine million people will miss out.
Let me relate to the Senate but one story, that of a 10-year-old refugee, as reported by the UNHCR. This 10-year-old refugee and the millions like her are the ones that the former Labor-Greens government deliberately turned their backs on when they dismantled the former Howard government's strong border protection policies. This is the story of Halima from Somalia:
"One morning my mother took me, my sister and my baby brother and left our house. It took us three weeks to walk here."
Holding her baby brother, 10-year-old Halima queues to receive her vaccinations at the Liboi Reception Centre for Somali refugees on the Kenyan/Somali border.
It took us three weeks to walk here. My mum carried some food and we also begged in the villages we passed. We got here two days ago. They have taken our names and given us food. We have to wait here for about a week for our papers to be checked and then a truck is coming to take us to our new home. My sandals broke on the way here. I am wishing for new sandals."
Halima and her family are now living with some 280,000 Somalis in three massive refugee camps in the Dadaab region of eastern Kenya.
The places in our humanitarian program are precious, and that is why this government will restore integrity on our borders.
Opposition Senators:
Opposition senators interjecting—
Order! When there is silence on my left we will proceed. Wait a minute, Senator Smith; you do not have the call. I will give you the call. You are entitled to silence.
Mr President, I have a supplementary question. Can the minister explain to the Senate how previous border protection policies provided an unfair playing field for those genuine refugees seeking to come to Australia through legitimate channels?
The policies of the former Labor-Greens government were directly responsible for the unfair playing field in relation to genuine refugees seeking to come to Australia. Labor and the Greens deliberately outsourced the management of Australia's border protection to the people smugglers, who then sold places in our humanitarian settlement program to the highest bidder. We saw one of them last night on the ABC's 7.30 program, a Mr Arash Sedigh, who admitted that the reason he had come illegally to Australia—he had tried two times—was that 'his skilled migration visa had been refused'. So he wanted to come to Australia by boat so he could get a job. There is nothing fair about those policies. (Time expired)
Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Can the minister advise the Senate what impact the coalition government's border protection policy will have on those refugees waiting in UNHCR camps around the world?
Unlike under the former policies of Labor, which were supported wholeheartedly by the Greens, these refugees will have a chance of obtaining one of the very precious places in Australia's Humanitarian Settlement Services program. The fundamental difference between the policies now implemented by the Abbott government and the former policies of the Labor-Greens government is that every one of those 13,750 precious places in our program will go to refugees languishing in UNHCR camps—refugees like 10-year-old Halima from Somalia, whom the former government, supported wholeheartedly by the Greens, deliberately turned their backs on. There is nothing compassionate about a policy of deliberately turning your backs on people who are languishing in UNHCR camps. (Time expired)

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Ryu Hyun-jin of the Toronto Blue Jays struggled in his first game of the season, leaving the mound early.
In a home game against the Texas Rangers at Rogers Centre in Toronto on Sunday, Ryu allowed five hits including one home run, and two walks, giving up six earned runs while striking out four batters in three and 1/3 innings.
Ryu Hyun-jin of the Toronto Blue Jays pitches in a home game against the Texas Rangers at Rogers Centre in Toronto on Sunday. /AP-Yonhap
The Blue Jays were leading the game 6-1 until the third inning but things went wrong in the fourth and Ryu was pulled from the game early, eventually leading to a 12-6 loss.
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Hunt for Biden tapes in Ukraine by Trump allies revives prospect of foreign interference
Petro Peroshenko, then president of Ukraine, hugs Vice President Joe Biden in 2015. (Matthias Schrader/AP)
Paul Sonne,
Paul Sonne
National security reporter focusing on the U.S. military
Rosalind S. Helderman,
Rosalind S. Helderman
Reporter focusing on political enterprise stories and investigations
Josh Dawsey and
Josh Dawsey
Reporter covering the White House
David L. Stern
July 1, 2020 at 11:02 p.m. UTC
President Trump's allies were in pursuit of a tantalizing prospect last year: tape recordings of Joe Biden speaking to Ukrainian officials while he was vice president, conversations they believed could help them damage Biden's current bid for the White House.
The previously undisclosed hunt for tapes of Biden and other recordings in Ukraine, described by several people who were involved, came as the president's personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, was casting a wide net for material to undermine Trump's political rival — a scheme that ultimately helped set in motion the president's impeachment.
"We would have loved to get the recordings, but we never did," Giuliani said in a recent interview.
Now, with just four months to go before Election Day, that material is surfacing in Ukraine and being touted by some of the president's backers in the United States, including his eldest son in May.
Last week, a Ukrainian lawmaker who was once affiliated with a pro-Russian political party and has met with Giuliani released 10 edited snippets of what appeared to be Biden's official vice presidential phone calls in 2016 with Petro Poroshenko, then the president of Ukraine. It was the second cache of recordings the lawmaker, who studied under the KGB in Moscow in the early 1990s, has released since May.
The recordings show that Biden, as he has previously said publicly, linked loan guarantees for Ukraine to the ouster of the country's prosecutor general. The tapes do not provide evidence to back Giuliani's long-standing accusation that Biden sought to have him fired to block an investigation of a gas company that had hired his son Hunter.
The authenticity of the audio files, which appear heavily edited, could not be verified. The Ukrainian government is investigating how they were obtained. Biden's campaign has said they are part of an effort to concoct conspiracy theories to smear him. Poroshenko has gone further and called them fake.
Still, the material was quickly seized upon by One America News, a favorite network of the president that has featured pro-Trump conspiracy theories and in June debuted the first installment of what it said will be a series of reports featuring recordings of Biden.
Russia. Ukraine. China. Bolton account highlights pattern of Trump welcoming foreign political help
Both Giuliani and Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian American businessman who served as his fixer in Ukraine, confirmed that they sought tapes of Biden last year. Giuliani said he received assistance in his pursuit from a source within the State Department, who he claimed pointed him to the dates of certain conversations between Biden and Poroshenko by accessing an official U.S. government archive.
Giuliani told The Washington Post that he did not know the recently released recordings were coming before they were posted online in May. But in a recent interview with OAN, the former New York mayor claimed to be aware of other tapes that were "far more damaging," saying, "I would hope that those tapes are put out also."
On their own, the audio snippets that have been released do not significantly change what was already known about Biden's diplomacy toward Ukraine, where he led a U.S. and European effort to back Poroshenko's pro-Western government in the face of a Russian invasion and destabilization campaign. And other than from OAN, they have received little attention.
But the efforts to promote the recordings in Ukraine and the United States — and pledges by other Trump allies to release more in the coming months — suggest a new push by foreign forces to sway American voters in the run-up to the 2020 election, one welcomed by the president's personal lawyer.
On June 30, former vice president Joe Biden explained how he thought President Trump should've responded to reports of Russian military action against the U.S. (The Washington Post)
The developments further illustrate Trump's willingness to benefit from foreign intervention in U.S. elections, even after being impeached on charges of pressuring Ukraine to launch investigations into his political rivals. In an interview last year, the president said that if a foreign country called offering information on his opponent, "I think I'd want to hear it." His former national security adviser John Bolton alleges in a newly released book that Trump last year asked the Chinese president to help him win reelection. The White House has denied Bolton's account.
Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, declined to comment on the Ukraine tapes. The campaign has so far not focused on the recordings in its attacks on Biden.
Andrew Bates, a spokesman for Biden's campaign, said, "All the president's men, both within our country and outside of it, have been constantly trafficking in objectively false, malicious conspiracy theories targeting Joe Biden since before he even entered the race. And their efforts have invariably fallen apart — because the American people know Joe Biden, his character and his values."
Giuliani has been interacting on and off with the Ukrainian lawmaker who has been releasing the clips, Andrii Derkach, since meeting him in Kyiv in December, the former New York mayor told The Post. In an interview, Giuliani described the former member of Ukraine's Russian-leaning Party of Regions as "very helpful" and said that they talked many times about Ukraine.
Derkach, who is the son of a former KGB officer and says in his official biography that he attended the now-renamed Higher School of the KGB in Moscow, also appeared on Giuliani's podcast in New York in February. Since then, Derkach has said his U.S. visa was revoked.
Giuliani, who has worked as Trump's unpaid personal attorney since 2018 and was recently tapped by the president to negotiate with the presidential debate commission, said he would be concerned if Derkach had obtained the tapes from the Russians.
But, Giuliani said, the lawmaker "doesn't seem pro-Russian to me."
Asked about Derkach's background, Giuliani said: "I don't depend on his credibility. I depend on the credibility of his documents."
Derkach declined to be interviewed. In a statement, he said allegations that he is working in the interests of foreign intelligence services are attempts to pressure him into stopping his activity. "There is not a single confirmed or reliable fact of my illegal activity or wrongful connections," he said.
Asked whether he discussed the tapes with Giuliani during their meetings, Derkach did not answer directly. "We discussed available information on international corruption and the need to investigate it in the United States," he said.
Foreign interference redux
The hunt by the president's allies for the Biden tapes and their subsequent release have echoes of the 2016 campaign, when Trump publicly asked Russia to find emails of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Trump later said the comment was a joke, even as GOP operatives mounted a serious but unsuccessful operation to obtain her emails from hackers claiming to have them.
Democratic emails stolen by Russian intelligence officers were ultimately released through WikiLeaks, as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III detailed in his report. The sequence of events sparked a nearly two-year investigation, multiple congressional inquiries and federal charges against 12 Russian military intelligence officers.
U.S. intelligence officials have warned that Russia could reprise its 2016 efforts to influence the race for the White House in 2020.
In January, the Ukrainian gas company whose board used to include Biden's sonsaid that it had been hacked by Russian spies, raising fears the Kremlin could be intending to release stolen material to sway U.S. voters in coming months.
Giuliani said he would welcome new material about Biden in Ukraine, but he said he wasn't aggressively seeking it, as he had been last year. Any new revelations, he added, should not be dismissed even if Russia may be involved.
"The strange thing is what the Russians put out last time — it may have been illegal how they obtained it, but it was all true," Giuliani said.
Michael Carpenter, a Biden foreign policy adviser and former senior Defense Department official, called the tape snippets that Derkach is releasing "a KGB-style disinformation operation tied to pro-Russian forces in Ukraine whose chief aim is to make deceptive noise in the U.S. election campaign to advance the interests of their oligarchic backers, the Kremlin, and the faltering Trump campaign."
Ukrainians with a variety of competing political and personal agendas have claimed to be releasing or publicizing the Biden tapes,moves critics say align with both Russia's and Trump's interests.
Ukraine's political wars are getting nastier. They could grow worse as the U.S. election nears.
In addition to Derkach, they include former Ukrainian prosecutor Kostiantyn Kulyk, former Ukrainian diplomat Andrii Telizhenko and Ukrainian gas tycoon and former lawmaker Oleksandr Onyshchenko, who all have interacted with Giuliani or his associates. Some have promised more leaks are coming to help Trump later in the year.
"This summer, there will be more release of conversations, with full transcripts," said Telizhenko, who said he speaks regularly with Giuliani in between aiding various Ukrainian tycoons, some of them with Russian interests. Telizhenko said he is working independently from Derkach, noting: "I'm going to release everything all together when the time is right."
Onyshchenko told The Post that the tapes that have been released are his, part of a cache he said he obtained from Poroshenko aides.
He told the Russian state news service Sputnik in late May that his lawyers and Giuliani's team had "exchanged hundreds of emails," and that he has handed over materials about Biden, which he said Trump's allies will make use of in the fall.
"Because of the coronavirus, they are waiting," Onyshchenko told Sputnik. "But in September, closer to the elections, they will begin to use them more." He told The Post the materials were being given to the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security Committee, which is pursuing an inquiry into Biden's activities in Ukraine.
A spokesman for the committee did not respond to a question about whether the panel has received such tapes or plans to use them.
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Like Derkach, Onyshchenko is a former member of the now-defunct Party of Regions, a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. He has been waging a multiyear campaign against Poroshenko since fleeing Ukraine on corruption charges he says are fabricated.
Onyshchenko has said that he has tried to tell U.S. authorities about his corruption accusations against Poroshenko various times. Poroshenko references Onyshchenko twice in the leaked calls with Biden, telling the vice president that the exiled lawmaker holds a Russian passport and is working in Russia's interests to destabilize Ukraine. Biden appears in one snippet to reassure Poroshenko that the FBI is not working with Onyshchenko.
When asked for comment on Poroshenko's accusation that he's advancing Russian interests, Onyshchenko said the former Ukrainianleader accuses everyone who is against him of doing the Kremlin's bidding. Onyshchenko said he is speaking out because the former Ukrainian president "destroyed my life."
While the recordings released in Ukraine have received little attention in most mainstream U.S. news outlets, they are being heavily promoted by One America News, which has more than 700,000 followers on Facebook and some 900,000 on Twitter.
Carpenter, the Biden adviser, has accused OAN of being "the preferred conduit for Kremlin disinformation in the 2020 cycle."
One of its correspondents, Chanel Rion, traveled around Europe last year with Giuliani to film Ukrainians who made accusations against Biden, many of them unproven or spurious.
In a program that aired last month, Rion said she had received 10 hours of recordings related to Biden from the "Ukrainian secret service" and "a source who was present during some of those recordings." She said she would be pursuing the story "well past the summer and into the fall."
The Department of the State Guard, Ukraine's version of the Secret Service, said in a statement that it "does not make any recordings and has never recorded any conversations of the state guarded public officials."
An OAN spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment. In its stories, the network has suggested that accusations that Russia is promoting the allegations against Biden are efforts to distract from the story.
'We knew about these tapes'
Biden made five trips to Ukraine during the last three years of the Obama administration and held at least 70 phone calls with Ukrainian leaders, as The Post previously reported. Most of his calls were with Poroshenko in an effort to shore up the fledgling pro-Western government against Russia.
The recently released recordings, which Derkach has said he obtained from "investigative journalists," appear to feature conversations the two men had at the time. But if they are authentic, it is unclear who made them.
It is possible Poroshenko aides taped the calls he had with Biden. Russian intelligence agencies have intercepted the phone calls of U.S. officials in Ukraine in the past.
In an interview in May, Parnas said he and his colleague Igor Fruman were told by sources in Ukraine of the Biden-Poroshenko recordings, along with a number of other recordings Ukrainians claimed existed of Americans, including embassy officials in Kyiv.
"We knew about these tapes," Parnas said.
Parnas and Fruman were arrested in October and charged with making illegal campaign contributions, including from foreign sources, to Republican candidates and political action committees. They both pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial.
After his arrest, Parnas turned on Giuliani and Trump, saying the president had blessed their endeavors in Ukraine. The White House has dismissed his claims as false.
Parnas told The Post that he and Fruman discussed the recordings with then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko and Kulyk, a former Ukrainian prosecutor who has been working with Derkach and appearing alongside him at news conferences releasing the recordings.
In a statement, Lutsenko said he "never discussed, provided or promised to provide any recordings to Giuliani or his colleagues." Kulyk declined to answer directly, dismissing the question as lacking credibility.
Parnas said that at one point during a trip to Kyiv in spring 2019, he anticipated being provided copies of some of the recordings to bring back to the United States. But, he said, Ukrainian officials did not ultimately hand them over at the time.
After the trip, Parnas said, he and Fruman discussed the elusive recordings with Giuliani at strategy sessions they held at the BLT restaurant at the Trump International Hotel in Washington.
Victoria Toensing, a conservative lawyer who attended some of those sessions, said she did not recall the discussions but did not dispute that Parnas may have told the group about tapes.
"Lev is a fast talker," she said. "He was always telling us, 'There is Biden stuff.' It would go in one ear and out the other."
'It was like a breeding ground': Trump hotel's mix of GOP insiders and hangers-on helped give rise to impeachment episodes
Giuliani was particularly interested in obtaining tapes of calls that Biden made to Poroshenko in early 2016 to feed his claims that the former vice president used his office to protect the business interests of his son Hunter, according to Parnas.
Giuliani has asserted without evidence that Biden pushed for Ukraine's prosecutor general to be fired because Hunter Biden was serving on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company owned by a former government minister whom Ukrainian authorities were investigating.
In fact, at the time, Biden was serving as the lead voice in a coalition of U.S. and European officials, including top Republicans, who were sharply critical of the prosecutor general's office for failing to go after high-level corruption cases and thwarting the probe of an episode in which lower-ranking officials were found with diamonds and cash thought to be bribes.
Among the cases that the United States argued had not received enough attention: an inquiry into the owner of Burisma.
In late 2015, Biden delivered a blunt message to Poroshenko: Unless the prosecutor's office got a new leader, a $1 billion loan guarantee for the Ukrainian government wouldn't be forthcoming. The prosecutor general agreed to resign.
In the recordings that Derkach released, Biden can be heard urging Poroshenko to fire the prosecutor general. At one point, Poroshenko defends the top prosecutor, saying there was "no information" he had done anything wrong, but said he asked for the prosecutor's resignation as part of his promise to the U.S. vice president.
In an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria last month, Poroshenko said that Biden never brought up Burisma in their many conversations. "My absolutely clear answer: No, never," Poroshenko said.
Ruslan Ryaboshapka, who served as Ukraine's prosecutor general until March, conducted a full audit of all the criminal cases in Ukraine involving the company and told The Post he found no evidence of illegal acts by Biden or his son.
The gas tycoon and the vice president's son: The story of Hunter Biden's foray into Ukraine
Giuliani told The Post that his pursuit of the Biden-Poroshenko calls was aided by someone inside the State Department.
"A guy at the State Department who gave us a lot of information" consulted the archive of conversations between American leaders and their counterparts overseas to identify three conversations in February 2016 during which Biden mentioned the prosecutor general's name in conversations with Poroshenko, he said.
"He didn't show it to us but told us they existed," Giuliani said of the State Department official. "He said, 'I guarantee there are three conversations on February 15, 17 . . . one of them is quite lengthy. It's between Biden and Poroshenko. There are transcripts of them, but they are classified.' "
Giuliani declined to name the State Department official. A spokeswoman for the State Department did not respond to requests for comment.
Giuliani said last year that he regularly kept the president abreast of his efforts in Ukraine, but it is unclear whether Trump knew about the hunt for the tapes.
When pressed in May if he specifically mentioned the recordings to the president, Giuliani declined to comment.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment on whether Trump knew his lawyer was seeking tapes of Biden in Ukraine.
But one witness during the House impeachment hearings said that Trump made an allusion to tapes of the former vice president.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine expert who served on the National Security Council, testified that he heard Trump refer to recordings of Biden during his July 25, 2019, phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the conversation that set in motion the impeachment investigation.
According to a rough transcript of the call released by the White House, Trump told Zelensky: "Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it."
Vindman testified that his own notes, which he took while listening to the call, show that Trump added, "There are recordings."
That phrase was not included in the call's official transcript. Vindman testified that he notified his superiors of the omission when the transcript was circulated internally for review, but that no changes were made.
Vindman was uncertain what Trump meant by "recordings," his lawyer said recently.
At the time, his description of Trump's mention of "recordings" on the call was widely assumed to be a reference to the tape of a public speech Biden delivered in 2018 bragging that he had held up loan guarantees to Ukraine until the prosecutor general was fired.
Tom Hamburger contributed to this report. Stern reported from Kyiv.
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Canon EOS EF 70 - 200mm f/2.8 L USM IS Astrophotography Tests
Image 1 - Comet Machholz passes by the Pleiades. Shot with a Canon EF 70-200mm F/2.8 L USM IS zoom lens at 200mm at f/2.8 with a Canon 1D Mark II digital camera. Click the mouse cursor in the image to see the sections of the image that were enlarged below.
Image 1 shows the full frame from an original processed raw frame. It was opened in Canon's Digital Photo Professional v 1.5.03 with the following settings:
Brightness Adjust: 0
White Balance Adjust: Click White on the sky background
Dynamic Range Adjust: 0 (-9.0), 4095 (3.8)
Tone Curve Property: Linear
Color Adjustment: Shot Settings (none)
Convert and Save: 16 bit TIFF
Color Profile embedded: Adobe
Sharpening: None
The Image was opened in Photoshop CS and the mid-tone gamma was adjusted to 3.18. No other adjustments were made to the image.
For display on this web page, the images were re-sized using bi-cubic resampling. No sharpening was applied. The files were then converted to sRGB color space and saved with a JPEG quality of 8.
The original high-resolution file was opened in Photoshop where it was enlarged to 100 percent and cropped for the following examples of the lens' performance on a star field.
Image 2 - Center of frame, 100 percent enlargement.
Even in the center of the frame of Image 2 we can see that the stars exhibit a blue halo from chromatic aberration in the lens when used wide open at f/2.8 at 200mm focal length.
Also note that the stars are not circular in Image 3, which they should be, and as seen in the previous examples shot with the 300mm f/2.8 and 400mm f/2.8 L series USM IS lenses, the brightest core of the star is not centered, but offset to one corner, with a large diffuse halo around it, that is not chromatic aberration.
These particular stars were chosen very near the exact center of the frame. because they display a varied range of brightness.
Image 4 - Top right corner of frame, 100 percent enlargement.
Stars in the corners of the frame of Image 4 exhibit lateral chromatic aberrations, as well as astigmatism.
The lateral chromatic aberration can be see here in Image 5. It is caused when all three color planes in the image are not brought to the same focus.
Image 6 - Lower left corner of frame, 100 percent enlargement.
Here in Image 6, in addition to astigmatism and lateral chromatic aberration, a diffraction effect can be seen, which is curious since the aperture diaphragm was not stopped down, which usually causes these effects.
Diffraction effects can be easily seen around the brightest star in the frame in Image 7.
Image 8 - The Pleiades, enlarged 100 percent.
Mis-shapen stars in the Pleiades are seen in Image 8.
Lens: Canon EOS EF 70 - 200mm f/2.8 L USM IS working at 200mm
F/stop: 2.8
Exposure: single 3 minute exposure
In-camera Noise Reduction: Off
Exposure start: 10:16:55 PM EST
Location: Maxwell, NJ
Temp: 45 degrees F
Dew: 0
Transparency: 8
Seeing: NR
Autoguider error: NR
Notes: Lots of clouds around
Update 3/3/2005 Examples of the stellar aberrations seen here in the Canon 300mm f/2.8 L USM IS and Canon 400mm f/2.8 L USM IS lenses were sent to the Canon lens development group in Japan. According to a reply received by Rudy Winston, one of the top technical support people at Canon USA, the Canon lens development group feels that the lenses are performing within specifications, and that the images show results they'd expect in shooting this type of subject with those lenses. They don't feel there's anything wrong with these lenses that the service department would be able to fix. Winston went on to say that "with the introduction of the EOS 20Da, there's a clear recognition that astrophotography is increasingly important to Canon." And that "it's safe to assume they're aware that the > generation of super-tele lenses need to be beefed up to be able to perform well in this very challenging field." It appears that the high resolution and linear data-recording capabilities of these digital cameras are now able to detect lens aberrations that were previously hidden when the lenses were used with film. In my opinion, these lenses are not usable for high-quality long-exposure deep-sky astrophotography when used wide open unless the photographer is willing to clip a significant amount of highlight detail in the stars. It is more understandable that the performance of the zoom lens would be less than perfect when used wide open because of its much more complex optical system. Fixed focal length lenses have always been preferred for astrophotography for exactly this reason.
© 1971 - 2022 Jerry Lodriguss
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Q: MySQL cluster unattended installation I would like to install MySQL cluster without manual intervention. I tried following the steps on the official guide but couldn't quite get it to work.
What I have so far...
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
sudo apt-get install -y debconf-utils

# set mysql configs
echo "mysql-apt-config mysql-apt-config/select-server select mysql-cluster-7.6" | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo "mysql-apt-config mysql-apt-config/select-tools select Disabled" | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo "mysql-apt-config mysql-apt-config/select-preview select Disabled" | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo "mysql-apt-config mysql-apt-config/select-product select Ok" | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo "mysql-community-server mysql-community-server/root-pass password $SQL_ROOT_PASS" | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo "mysql-community-server mysql-community-server/re-root-pass password $SQL_ROOT_PASS" | sudo debconf-set-selections

# Add apt repository
wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.8.13-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.8.13-1_all.deb

Using debconf-set-selections I'm able to correctly set the selections. However, upon executing sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.8.13-1_all.deb, I still get the installation screen prompting to select the packages. Am I missing something?

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Roam the skies of New York City in this epic flying dinosaur simulator game that lets you enjoy all the aspects of being an everything-eating vicious dino! Fly through the golden rings of the prehistoric time and be on the watch for other prehistoric time animals that you can eat for lunch.
Flying car games or other flying animal games are fun but nothing compared to this flying dinosaur simulator. The car flight games are too boring and with the other animal flight games you can not eat everything that you come across. But most of all, this dinosaur flight simulator in the prehistoric New York City is full of action-packed vicious dino flight missions that you will definitely enjoy!
Become the most feared epic flying dinosaur that the world has ever seen by eating other vicious dinosaurs and flying through the golden rings of the prehistoric time. Enjoy this perfect dinosaur flight simulator!


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package com.rockwellcollins.atc.agree.codegen.ast.expr;

import com.rockwellcollins.atc.agree.codegen.ast.MATLABAst;
import com.rockwellcollins.atc.agree.codegen.visitors.MATLABAstVisitor;
import com.rockwellcollins.atc.agree.codegen.visitors.MATLABExprVisitor;

public abstract class MATLABExpr extends MATLABAst {

	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	@Override
	public <T, S extends T> S accept(MATLABAstVisitor<T, S> visitor) {
		return accept((MATLABExprVisitor<S>) visitor);
	}

	public abstract <T> T accept(MATLABExprVisitor<T> visitor);

}

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Q: SharePoint appredirect.aspx redirects with POST I have a provider-hosted app built with MVC deployed in SharePoint Online.  I have a controller, Tasks, and an action, Details.  If I navigate to the details page for a particular task (/Tasks/Details?taskId=3) from either a bookmark or saved link for the first time, it goes to the host site, then redirects to the app, as it should.  However, as you can see in the following picture, what starts as a GET request becomes a POST request after the redirect.

Has appredirect.aspx always redirected with a POST?
Currently the only way I can load the page is if I allow POST requests.  Is this the only way?

A: If you want to use the SharePoint app model then yes, you must allow posts.  SharePoint sends authorization & authentication data to your app via post.  Your app needs that data to generate a client context.
Take a look at the tokenhelper.cs file and/or the landing page code behind & you should see the post data processing


Grilled or baked russet potatoes topped with your favorite flavors—perfect for any festive party!
Preheat grill or oven to 400°F.
Thinly slice potatoes length wise to 1/4 inch thick, discarding ends.
Place on grill or prepared baking sheet in single layer and cook for 10 minutes on each side. Top with your favorite toppings: Bruschetta: 2 medium tomatoes diced, 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil leaves, 2 cloves (1 teaspoon) of minced garlic and 1 tablespoon of olive oil.
Toss together in a bowl and spoon on top of potatoes.
Optional: Add chopped chicken to Bruschetta topping. Mediterranean: 1 (6 oz.) container of feta cheese, 1 (2.25 oz.) can sliced olives drained, 1 medium tomato diced (optional), salt and pepper to taste.
Toss together in a bowl and spoon on top of potatoes. Creamy Greek Yogurt with Lemon and Herbs: 1/2 cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt, 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill, juice of 1/2 lemon, salt and pepper to taste.
Mix together in a bowl and spoon on top of potatoes.
Garnish with dill sprigs. Baked Potato: 1/2 cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt, 1/4 cup shredded reduced-fat cheddar cheese, 2 tablespoons plus 1 tablespoon fresh chives chopped.
Mix all ingredients except 1 tablespoon of chives in a bowl and spoon on top of potatoes.
Garnish with remaining chives. Pico de Gallo: 1/2 cup pre-made Pico de Gallo or mix 1 medium tomato diced, 1 small onion finely chopped, 1 green onion chopped, 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic, 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro, salt and pepper to taste.
Mix all ingredients in a bowl and spoon on top of potatoes.


The entry for Ebdon in Howard Colvin's Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840, 2008, shows that he worked for Henry Holland in the 1770s as did Soane. After travelling in Italy, Ebdon set up practice for himself and, when commissions were sparse, worked as occasional draughtsman to Soane. A.T.Bolton's The Works of Sir John Soane, F.R.S., F.S.A., R.A. (1753-1837), , Appendix C has the following note on Ebdon -'Employed as a draughtsman 7 to 21 March, at Albion Place, Cambridge Scheme. 22-23 April, Great Scotland Yard. "2 large drawings left unfinished." Acc. 14 March, 1792 [a letter sent by Ebdon to Soane from 62 Titchfield Street]. June, 1793, writes saying he is going north. Memo. 3 March 1791, Albion Place. "At the rate of £200 per ann. the hours of business to be 9; if more, to be paid for, if less deducted." singed Christopher Ebdon. He was a pupil of James Paine. He appears also to have been employed previously in Nov., 1789 and July, 1790.' Ebdon's drawing style, as seen here, was competent but without flair. The drawings show the same design except that in the perspective, the portico has a Tivoli-style bucranium and garland frieze and a statue on the apex of the pediment that were not executed. Soane had intended stucco for the elevations but this was not carried out and the red brick was left bare. As was the convention, the several chimney stacks were omitted from the drawings.
Datable to 1787 in accord with drawing 9, see note on hand below.


Your position:Home > News > Industry News > LED lights made UAV?
Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley are testing a project called "Lightcense", who developed a license to better control the drone operator. Researchers used bright, colored LED lights to form a rectangular array, and then the light group is bound to the bottom of the uav. LED lantern flickers in a unique way, law enforcement officers can according to different flashing mode search without man-machine database, and then find the corresponding information of main machine.
LED license can be used by a mobile phone application, or law enforcement officers will be equipped with the camera to decode, but also with the naked eye identification.
Researchers first used the Robotics 3D UAV, and they installed a high brightness electronic LED light group at the bottom (see photo). During the day test, the license plate of the naked eye recognition distance can reach one hundred meters, if the smart phone equipped with an ordinary zoom lens, then the recognition distance can be extended to 150 meters.
In addition, the researchers also developed a special camera for law enforcement officers to read the license information. Not only that, they also basically completed the transformation of the design of a license, the use of a hard box of smart phones and smart phones to load LED lamp set of licenses, standard aircraft positioning beacon, as well as the battery. In the future, this device can become a standard component of all UAVs, but also in the case of strong external protection, even if the crash it can continue to run.


3/29/05 Epps v. Asset Acceptance LLC Case filed against Asset Acceptance for violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Click here to see a copy of the complaint.
Epps v. Asset Acceptance LLC: On 3/29/05, we filed a case against Asset Acceptance for violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Read the complaint..
The Bob Saks family of dealers is a staple of the Detroit business scene. For years, this dealer has engaged in spot deliveries of vehicle. Finally, after years of engaging in this conduct, a former finance manager has spilled the beans and outed the illegal practices going on at the Bob Saks Toyota dealership.
Bob Saks Toyota's dealer agreement with Toyota Motor Credit.
Adams v. Equifax, Collectco, HSBC, and Direct TV: On 10/11/05, we filed claims for improper credit reporting and collection relating to Direct TV account. Read the complaint.
Minnick v. Equifax. Alicia Fluellen: Read the PDF.
Corn v. Fannon Family Automotive, L. L. C., 4/24/06: Read the complaint.
Shaffer v. Universal Fidelity, L P: On 4/14/06, we filed FDCPA and EFT claims for improperly removing funds for consumer's bank account.
Givan v. Bank of America, Bankcard et al, 4/7/06: Read the complaint.
Whitaker v. Richard J. Boudreau, 4/7/06: Read the complaint.
Whitaker v. Auburn Pontiac: On 3/16/06, we filed Equal Credit Opportunity Act violations by car dealer for failing to send adverse action notice. Read the complaint.
Parker v. Orchard Chrysler Dodge Jeep, Inc. and WFS Financial, Inc., 3/10/06: Read the complaint.
Nissan v. Hecker: On 3/9/06, we filed FDCPA complaint for debt which is not owed. Read the complaint.
Walker v. Lynn M. Olivier, P.C., Lynn M. Olivier, Paul T. Olivier, Jr., Monty Schuster, Rebecca Kreisher, David J. Vink, and Mollie McCarroll: On 2/10/06, we filed FDCPA claim for misappropriation of payments on debt. Read the complaint.
Michelle Franco v. Robert W. Bird, and Ryan & Reed, Inc.: On 12/2/05, we filed Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and Michigan Collection Practices Act complaint. Read the complaint.
Judith Clark v. Account Services Collections, Inc. 05-cv-73568.: On 9/16/05, we filed this Fair Debt Collections Practiced Act case against Account Services Collections, Inc.
Sheila Pawlak v. Auto One Car Sales, Inc. and Universal Warranty Corporation. 05-cv-73571: On 9/16/05, we filed this case involving allegations of a forged certificate of title.
Stonier v. Flagstar Bankcorp, Incorporated, 05-cv-73480.: On 9/9/05, we filed Fair Credit Reporting Act claims for impermissible access filed against Flagstar Bankcorp, Incorporated. Read the complaint.
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// Package install installs the apps API group, making it available as
// an option to all of the API encoding/decoding machinery.
package install

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/golang/glog"

	"k8s.io/client-go/1.5/pkg/api"
	"k8s.io/client-go/1.5/pkg/api/meta"
	"k8s.io/client-go/1.5/pkg/api/unversioned"
	"k8s.io/client-go/1.5/pkg/apimachinery"
	"k8s.io/client-go/1.5/pkg/apimachinery/registered"
	"k8s.io/client-go/1.5/pkg/apis/apps"
	"k8s.io/client-go/1.5/pkg/apis/apps/v1alpha1"
	"k8s.io/client-go/1.5/pkg/runtime"
	"k8s.io/client-go/1.5/pkg/util/sets"
)

const importPrefix = "k8s.io/client-go/1.5/pkg/apis/apps"

var accessor = meta.NewAccessor()

// availableVersions lists all known external versions for this group from most preferred to least preferred
var availableVersions = []unversioned.GroupVersion{v1alpha1.SchemeGroupVersion}

func init() {
	registered.RegisterVersions(availableVersions)
	externalVersions := []unversioned.GroupVersion{}
	for _, v := range availableVersions {
		if registered.IsAllowedVersion(v) {
			externalVersions = append(externalVersions, v)
		}
	}
	if len(externalVersions) == 0 {
		glog.V(4).Infof("No version is registered for group %v", apps.GroupName)
		return
	}

	if err := registered.EnableVersions(externalVersions...); err != nil {
		glog.V(4).Infof("%v", err)
		return
	}
	if err := enableVersions(externalVersions); err != nil {
		glog.V(4).Infof("%v", err)
		return
	}
}

func enableVersions(externalVersions []unversioned.GroupVersion) error {
	addVersionsToScheme(externalVersions...)
	preferredExternalVersion := externalVersions[0]

	groupMeta := apimachinery.GroupMeta{
		GroupVersion:  preferredExternalVersion,
		GroupVersions: externalVersions,
		RESTMapper:    newRESTMapper(externalVersions),
		SelfLinker:    runtime.SelfLinker(accessor),
		InterfacesFor: interfacesFor,
	}

	if err := registered.RegisterGroup(groupMeta); err != nil {
		return err
	}
	api.RegisterRESTMapper(groupMeta.RESTMapper)
	return nil
}

func newRESTMapper(externalVersions []unversioned.GroupVersion) meta.RESTMapper {
	// the list of kinds that are scoped at the root of the api hierarchy
	// if a kind is not enumerated here, it is assumed to have a namespace scope
	rootScoped := sets.NewString()

	ignoredKinds := sets.NewString()

	return api.NewDefaultRESTMapper(externalVersions, interfacesFor, importPrefix, ignoredKinds, rootScoped)
}

// interfacesFor returns the default Codec and ResourceVersioner for a given version
// string, or an error if the version is not known.
func interfacesFor(version unversioned.GroupVersion) (*meta.VersionInterfaces, error) {
	switch version {
	case v1alpha1.SchemeGroupVersion:
		return &meta.VersionInterfaces{
			ObjectConvertor:  api.Scheme,
			MetadataAccessor: accessor,
		}, nil
	default:
		g, _ := registered.Group(apps.GroupName)
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unsupported storage version: %s (valid: %v)", version, g.GroupVersions)
	}
}

func addVersionsToScheme(externalVersions ...unversioned.GroupVersion) {
	// add the internal version to Scheme
	if err := apps.AddToScheme(api.Scheme); err != nil {
		// Programmer error, detect immediately
		panic(err)
	}
	// add the enabled external versions to Scheme
	for _, v := range externalVersions {
		if !registered.IsEnabledVersion(v) {
			glog.Errorf("Version %s is not enabled, so it will not be added to the Scheme.", v)
			continue
		}
		switch v {
		case v1alpha1.SchemeGroupVersion:
			if err := v1alpha1.AddToScheme(api.Scheme); err != nil {
				// Programmer error, detect immediately
				panic(err)
			}
		}
	}
}


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Statement on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
This is the statement I sent to the media tonight. -J.D.
Jim Daly statement on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
I am greatly encouraged by the President's nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court created by the untimely death of Justice Antonin Scalia last year. President Trump included Judge Gorsuch on his list of potential justices during his campaign, and he kept his promise to choose a candidate from that list. This stellar list of potential jurists was thoroughly vetted and recommended by such well-known and trusted organizations as the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society.
Judge Gorsuch's biography is impressive. A graduate of Columbia University, Harvard Law School and Oxford University, he worked in a private law practice from 1995 to 2005, at which time he joined the U.S. Department of Justice as a Deputy Associate Attorney General and worked there until 2006, when he was nominated by President George W. Bush- and confirmed by a voice vote in the Senate – to be a judge on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where he has served ever since. He also clerked for Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy. His judicial record while at the Court of Appeals appears to fit the mold of the late Justice Scalia – a constitutionalist who adheres to the text and original understanding of the law or constitutional provision at issue rather than creating new law based on his own policy preferences.
As a family ministry concerned with the sanctity of life, marriage, and religious freedom, we are optimistic that Judge Gorsuch will continue to protect our cherished liberties, and earn the entire country's respect as a member of our nation's highest court.
Judge Gorsuch promises to strictly interpret the Constitution and our nation's laws and not make new law from the bench. It's our hope that he will follow in the late Justice Scalia's footsteps in boldly standing up to the whims of culture and have "the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world."
During the past eight years, I have met with President Obama, a man who often said that elections have consequences. To those inclined to block this nomination, I would remind them of our former president's own words and encourage them to extend to the 45th president the same privilege they sought for the 44th.
We call on the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a prompt and fair hearing on the nominee, and for the entire Senate to hold an up-or-down confirmation vote as soon as possible thereafter. We urge all thoughtful Americans to pray for Judge Gorsuch as well as for the senators who will exercise their constitutional responsibilities with regard to the confirmation of this nominee.
Topics: Current Events Tags: news, policy, pro-life, religious liberty January 31, 2017 by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's Curious Calculus on Children
When it Comes to Abortion, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Robert Menendez Embrace Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals"


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// Third-party
var Ishmael = require('ishmael');
var View = View || Ishmael.View;
var PutStuffHere = PutStuffHere || require('putstuffhere');

var StoryListView = function(templateName, aName, cb) {
	// We'll subclass `View`, and use the `#list` element of `list.html` as our template.
	View.call(this, 'templates/list.html#list', aName, cb);
	// Add a simple instance variable to hold our headlines.

	this.stories = [];
	this.registerClass('StoryListView');
};
StoryListView.prototype = Object.create(View.prototype);
StoryListView.prototype.constructor = StoryListView;

StoryListView.prototype.createSubviews = function() {
	var self = this;

	self.randomView = null;
	// This method is in charge of creating any necessary subviews based on the view's state. You can be clever here and reuse existing views, but for now, we'll just wipe them out…
	self.removeAllSubviews();
	// …and recreate them.
	for (var i = 0; i < self.stories.length; i++) {
		// We're going to create a new view based on the `#story` element in `list.html`
		var aView = new View('templates/list.html#story');
		aView.locals = self.stories[i];
		self.addSubview(aView);
	}
};

StoryListView.prototype.close = function(aControl, aControlEvent) {
	var self = this;
	var storyView = aControl.superview;

	var storyIndex = self.subviews.indexOf(storyView);
	if (storyIndex > -1) {
		self.stories.splice(storyIndex, 1);
		storyView.removeFromSuperview();
	}
};

module.exports = StoryListView;


You'd think that there's no hope for Vader, but just like Luke Skywalker never gave up on his father, we're not going to give up on the Sith Lord's ability to be adorable. Even the most nefarious baddie in the entire galaxy can be turned to the cute side. And now, with this Star Wars Darth Vader Stuffed Figure Backpack, we have proof.
This officially licensed backpack comes in the shape of the villainous character from Star Wars. He measures 17 inches tall and comes with plenty of great details. He has a black, faux leather face, complete with his iconic helmet. He also has faux armor pieces and a cape. The back has adjustable shoulder straps and a zipper pouch, so you can take the tiny Darth with you wherever you go!
We recommend wearing this backpack with a Luke Skywalker outfit. That way, you can help train in the art of adorableness in a wacky parody of The Empire Strikes Back training scenes.


A fantastic place to visit for sun worshippers and history lovers alike, Athens really is a must-visit destination on your cruise itinerary.
We've got access to great deals on a huge number of cruises visiting Athens, from Mediterranean cruise deals to worldwide trips lasting several weeks.
Take a look at some of our latest Athens cruise deals here, or read on to learn more about this fantastic city near the Aegean coast.
Greece's capital, Athens is a thriving modern city that also happens to be a hotbed of culture. Alongside fine dining and some great places to shop, you'll also find stunning ancient monuments and museums showcasing the city's great history.
A top place to visit for most people is Parthenon, an ancient temple that has served many purposes in its time – it has been a treasury and even a Christian church. It's perhaps the most iconic reminder of Greece's illustrious history.
The National Archaeological Museum is also a must-see, holding a huge collection of Greek antiquities dating back to pre-history. This is just one of many fascinating museums in the city.
The National Garden of Athens is a great place to get away from the bustle of the city and the busier tourist spots. There are more than 500 species of trees and plants there, and it's completely free of charge to visit.
Cruise lines currently offering trips that visit Athens include Cunard, Holland America Line and Norwegian Cruise Line.
You can see some of the latest cruise trips visiting Athens on our Mediterranean cruises page. You'll find more by using the search tool on the page.
This trip begins with a flight from Australia to Greece, where you'll enjoy a hotel stay in Athens. Your cruise visits Nafplion, Mykonos, Rhodes, Ephesus, Volos and Istanbul. You'll then fly back to Australia.
After a flight from Australia, you'll stay in Rome and cruise on to Katakolon (Greece), Athens, Izmir (Turkey), Istanbul, Naples and back to Rome, before your return flight to Australia.
Following your flight from Australia, you'll embark on a cruise from Venice which visits Athens, Kusadasi (Turkey), Istanbul, Mykonos, Naples, Rome, Livorno, Provence and Barcelona.


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Confusion over bandh call at Nagaon; normal life affected
By Correspondent - 15 Sep 2010 12:00 AM GMT
NAGAON, Aug 29 - Amidst confusion over a 12-hour bandh call given by Khilanjia Oikya Mancha, the normal life was affected here today. Some offices remained opened but banks and other financial institutions were closed. Although regular classes in educational institutions began in the morning but later a half holiday was declared. Likewise, vehicular movement to and fro Nagaon town was affected after the morning hours.
Business establishments were also opened in the morning but later some youths, whose identities are yet to be traced, forced the businessmen to close their shutters.
Deputy Commissioner Shamsher Singh called for a citizens� meet, where representatives of political parties, student bodies, mediapersons and prominent citizens were invited. The meeting appealed to the people to maintain peace and harmony.
In the meeting, representatives of khilanjia organisation said that they had not given a call for Nagaon bandh today. Administration assured to inquire into the matter.
Meanwhile, another person Monoranjan Das, brother of Raju Das, was arrested by the Nagaon Police from Jagiroad area. With his arrest, the total number of arrested persons in the Nagaon incident has gone up to five.
The licence of the tractor agency allotted to Raju Das was cancelled by the company for his controversial role in the Nagaon incident. Two persons are yet to be apprehended.
It is alleged that a huge amount of public money of Nagaon Municipal Board was misused by Das Metal Craft in the name of repairing and supplying of garbage carrying vans. This was disclosed by social activist Alok Bhattacharjya. People have demanded a probe into the incident.
Khilanjia organisations have also alleged that Raju Das�s firm was involved in misappropriation of a huge amount of government money in the name of distributing subsidized tractors by selecting fake beneficiaries.
Moon Bora, the pro-talk ULFA activist and his accomplices, who were arrested in the Nagaon incident, were released earlier. Injured Moon Bora, who was released from GMCH on August 28, stated before mediapersons that they were invited by Raju Das on that day for flood aid but later he with his friends physically assaulted them. They were aiming to kill him, he alleged.


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Ted Cruz Birth Certificate Suggests Moral Crusader's Mom Unmarried At Birth
What Ted Cruz's Canadian birth certificate shows might not be a headline if not for the GOP presidential candidate's many speeches about the decline of America and it's family values. His mother's name is not listed as Cruz, but that of a previous husband, whom she divorced seven years earlier.
Cruz's father is listed as Rafael Bienvenido Cruz, but his mother is listed as Eleanor Elizabeth Wilson. The candidate's full name is given as Rafael Edward Cruz.
The search for the Cruz's birth certificate became relevant to the 2016 presidential campaign after frontrunner Donald Trump raised questions about the Texas senator's constitutional eligibility to be president, since he was born in Canada and his family did not move to Texas until he was four. Cruz did not officially renounce his Canadian citizenship until 2014 when he was seeking the U.S. presidency.
Reporters with the McClatchy newspaper chain wrote they could find no record of when the Cuban Cruz, who was working at the time as a geophysical consultant in Calgary, Canada, oil fields, and his mother got married. They divorced in 1997.
Both father and son Cruz's have built careers off of sermons about morality, sometimes railing against unmarried mothers. The irony is not lost on journalists and political opponents who opposed the Texas senator's presidential ambitions.
The reporters tracked down his mother's first husband, Alan Wilson, in an effort to solve the mystery of why his name was listed on the birth certificate as Eleanor Elizabeth Wilson. They divorced seven years earlier.
Wilson, who still lives in London, England, where they were married more 50 years ago, said he was unaware that his ex-wife's son was Ted Cruz, the presidential candidate. "I'll be darned," he told a McClatchy reporter. "No kidding. That is Eleanor's son? I had no idea."
Wilson also said he was not the father of another son born to her in 1965, two years after their divorce. Ted Cruz, in his book A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America, wrote that the crib death of his older brother is what broke up his mother's marriage to Wilson.
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We have established 13+ 30m X 30 plots from 600m to 2300m in elevation. Inside these plots we are identifying, counting, and measuring the trees, as well as conducting complete species inventories. We do this twice a year with students in the school. Approximately 100+ students visit the plots in October and another 100+ in May.
We welcome the public to help monitor our plots including inventorying species so that we can know when new species arrive. We also welcome other schools sharing our plots in order to contribute to this long-term research. But mostly we want to share our methodology so that other schools will launch their own Local Environmental Transect Surveys. We would like to see schools worldwide doing their own LETS Study ______ (fill in your town).
The results so far are in our Excel spreadsheets and in iNaturalist and will be shared on lets-study.ch. However, we are looking for ways to open up our data for others to use as they wish.


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Summer/Winter School
Imperial College London——Data Science Summer School
Date: 2020-07-22 Course duration: 2 weeks
I. Programme Description
Data Science is successfully adding value to all the business models by using statistics and deep learning to make better decisions. A growing number of companies are now hiring data scientists to crunch data and predict possible situations and risk for businesses.
This summer school is designed for students studying any degrees in their undergraduate studies at a well-recognised university in China, with an interest in data science. Students will be introduced to the concept and develop an understanding of data science and hear from industry expert on data science applications.
• Learn the concept of Data Science;
• Develop an understanding of data analysis, AI and visualization;
• Learn about data science products;
• Understand the real-world applications in data science and hear from industry expert;
• Develop creativity and design thinking through a design workshop;
• Get an insight into data science entrepreneurship and hear from an entrepreneur his journey in setting up a data science company;
• Develop valuable professional skills in business model innovation, communication and presentation;
• Work as a team on a data science project;
• Visit the state-of-the-art 360 data observatory and see demonstrations of latest data science research;
• Visit London's Silicon Roundabout Tech City;
• Visit the Museum of Brands to learn brand evolution challenge and customer profiling;
• Practice and improve their English language.
In addition, students will have an opportunity to make new friends, get to know student ambassadors from Imperial College London through social activities and discuss opportunities for future study and experience what it is like to study in a world class university.
II. Project Introduction
46 academic hours spread over 2 weeks covering lectures, workshops, tutorials and project work.
Students will be allocated into 2 classes with differentiated level of complexity in final projects, to work on a group project towards a project presentation on the last day of the programme.
There will also be cultural and social activities organised by Imperial student ambassadors.
The entire programme will be taught in English.
III. Supervisor
The summer school is directed by Prof. Yike Guo and taught by a multi-disciplinary teaching faculty from the Data Science Institute and other departments.
Professor Yike Guo
Co-Director of the Data Science Institute
Professor of Computing Science
Bio: Yike Guo, is a Professor of Computing Science in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. He is the founding Director of the Data Science Institute at Imperial College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), Member of Academia Europaea (MAE), Fellow of British Computer Society and a Trustee of The Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Professor Guo received a first-class honours degree in Computing Science from Tsinghua University, China, in 1985 and received his PhD in Computational Logic from Imperial College in 1993 under the supervision of Professor John Darlington. He founded InforSense, a software company specialized in big data analysis for life science and medicine, and served as CEO for several years before the company's merger with IDBS, a global advanced R&D software provider, in 2009. He was then the Chief Innovation Officer of the IDBS until 2018. He also served as the Chief Technical Officer of the tranSMART foundation, a global alliance in building open source big data platform for translational medicine research.
He has been working on technology and platforms for scientific data analysis since the mid-1990s, where his research focuses on data mining, machine learning and large-scale data management. He has contributed to numerous major research projects including: the UK EPSRC platform project, Discovery Net; the Wellcome Trust-funded Biological Atlas of Insulin Resistance (BAIR); and the European Commission U-BIOPRED project. He was the Principal Investigator of the European Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) eTRIKS project, a €23M project building a cloud-based informatics platform, in which tranSMART is a core component for clinico-genomic medical research, and co-Investigator of Digital City Exchange, a £5.9M research programme exploring ways to digitally link utilities and services within smart cities.
Professor Guo has published over 250 articles, papers and reports. Projects he has contributed to have been internationally recognised, including winning the "Most Innovative Data Intensive Application Award" at the Supercomputing 2002 conference for Discovery Net, the Bio-IT World "Best Practices Award" for U-BIOPRED in 2014 and the "Best Open Source Software Award" from ACM SIGMM in 2017.
IV.Requirements
All students are expected to be studying an undergraduate degree at a well-recognised university in China. Students with basic knowledge of coding skills will be advantageous.
All students are required to have a good command of English and if it is not their first language, they will need to satisfy the College requirement as follows:
•a minimum score of IELTS (Academic Test) 6.5 overall or equivalent.
• TOEFL (iBT) 92 overall
• CET-4 (China) minimum score of 550
A Skype interview is required for all students. According to the foundation and professional background of students, students will be allocated into 2 classes with differentiated levels of complexity in final projects.
Students who wish to improve language skills and enrich cultural experiences can apply for a one week intensive language course prior to the summer school. For more information, please check the relevant files.
V. How to Apply
We are pleased to present this programme from the selected universities. For further information or to discuss the proposal, please contact:
• Pei (Patch) Huang : patch@behemon.com
• Email: icdsi.programme@gmail.com
£3050.00
2 weeks of quality courses
30 professors in class
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Thank YOU for participating in the Lunch Bag Freebie sponsored by our dear friends at The Green Bag Lady project!
I will be contacting the winners directly by email but I thought I would post them here as well. If you are a winner and haven't heard from me yet, please email me your mailing address so we can get your winnings out to you.
I also wanted to share with you this video made by my 12 year old friend on Child Labor. Yes, you read me correctly... she is TWELVE! Note that almost all of the images of child labor are of textile plants in the USA! Yes, it is easy to think of other countries (China, Bangladesh, etc.) when you think of child labor but the fact is that here in the good ol' USA textile mills were notorious for such labor practices. Take three minutes and watch Margaux's video. I think you will find it and the images of textile mills fascinating.
Note: I am happy to report that ALL Harmony Art organic fabrics are made under strict fair-trade standards (as defined by the Global Organic Textile Standards). We are committed to having our fabrics be a part of the solution, not the exploitation of people or planet.
First of all, Happy Valentine's Day to all of you sweeties! Thanks for being Harmony Art Organic Design readers!
Here is something sweet for you! Harmony and Green Bag Lady have teamed up to bring you a great freebie: Organic lunch bags. Yup. Made from Harmony Art organic fabric.
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This house / villa of 176 m² (about 1892 ft²), built in 1900, on 3 levels, with a land size of 892 m² (about 0,22 acres) contains 7 rooms including 4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 shower room and 2 toilets. Heating : individual fuel oil. Others : fireplace.


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NC State football report card vs. Maryland: Who got a D as Wolfpack struggled in Mayo Bowl?
CHARLOTTE – NC State football ended its season with a 16-12 loss to Maryland on Friday afternoon in the Duke's Mayo Bowl.
The Wolfpack (8-5) finished a win short of its fourth nine-win season in the last six years and remained without a bowl game victory since 2017 while failing to score a touchdown against the Terrapins.
Here's how we graded the performance.
RECAP:What went wrong as NC State football falls flat in loss to Maryland at Duke's Mayo Bowl
FAB 5:Fab 5: NC State football will miss these seniors most next season
Offense: C-
Sure, the Wolfpack were missing key pieces including two All-ACC linemen and a handful of skill position players, but too much was put on quarterback Ben Finley in his second career start. Finley threw the ball 48 times while the running game produced a meager 27 yards on 18 attempts. Chris Dunn scored all 12 points on field goals as NC State squandered its best touchdown-scoring chance with three throws from the 2-yard line in the second quarter. Finley also threw two picks, including the final pass of the game to Darryl Jones which was picked off by Maryland's Jakorian Bennett. The offense went 5 of 18 on third-down conversions and was held to under 300 total yards.
Defense: B+
The defense has been the backbone of NC State's success this season and the final game was no different. The Wolfpack defense held Maryland to 16 points and forced starting quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa into two interceptions and under 100 yards rushing. The trio of linebackers, Drake Thomas, Isaiah Moore and Payton Wilson combined for 32 tackles, three sacks and 8.5 tackles for a loss. Thomas and Moore are gone next season with Wilson still waiting to decide if he'll return, transfer or head to the NFL.
Special teams: A+
Dunn, the recent winner of the Lou Groza award for the best placekicker in the country, scored all of NC State's points for the second time this season. Both games ended in a loss.
Coaching: D
Give credit to Dave Doeren for keeping MJ Morris out of the game and protecting the future at quarterback instead of risking his health. Besides that, it's hard to find a lot of compliments, particularly on the offensive end of the field. NC State could've found some creativity, especially on their rare opportunities near the end zone, that may have sparked the offense and lifted Finley's confidence. It became obvious in the second half that the offense didn't have enough to win, and the coaches didn't do enough to change that outcome.
Overall: C-
The outcome of this game doesn't change much about the future, but like mayo (at least for some people), this loss will leave a bad taste in the mouths of fans heading into the offseason.


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Q: Button border thickness doesnt change from code behind XAML
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xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">

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Private Sub MainWindow_Loaded(sender As Object, e As RoutedEventArgs) Handles Me.Loaded
    Button1.BorderBrush = Brushes.Red
    Button1.BorderThickness = New Thickness(5)
End Sub
End Class

When you run the codes above you will see that;
Button1 border brush changes to red which is okey.
Button1 border thickness doesnt change to 5 which is not okey.
This issue is look like unsolved:
Button border thickness from code behind

A: Like Erno de Weerd said in the comments it could be a template issue. I've been burned by this several times starting out.
The answer to this question is very useful
It talks about using the {TemplateBinding} expression when binding in a controls template


Buffalo, New York – Aleron Group, a global workforce and business solutions company, continues to expand its market presence with the acquisition of TalentRISE, a Chicago-based firm specializing in executive search and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), effective February 15, 2019. With the acquisition, TalentRISE becomes part of a growing family of Aleron brands that includes Acara Solutions, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, and Viaduct, among others.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 18, 2018 -- Hueman People Solutions, a nationally-recognized recruitment company, has won the Gallup Great Workplace Award, a global recognition that honors thriving organizations dedicated to optimizing employee engagement. Hueman is among 39 leading organizations in the world to receive Gallup's highest honor this year.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 28, 2018 -- Hueman People Solutions, a nationally-recognized recruitment company, has acquired Agency a la Carte, a leading staffing and recruiting firm specializing in marketing communications and creative services. Founded in 1994, Agency a la Carte has served a variety of clients throughout Northeast Florida including EverBank, Adecco Group, Acosta Sales and Marketing, Regency Centers, Stein Mart and more.


Shocking.. Alia Bhatt did this to Sidharth in public!
New Delhi, Nov 15: Siddharth Malhotra and Alia Bhatt have been in the news after their debut in Karan Johar's 2012 movie, Student Of the Year and the gossip about the two's relationship has been in the headlines ever since!
Even though the two have never confirmed their relationship, their public affection cleared many doubts. Earlier reports about them falling apart because of Sidharth's closeness with Jacqueline dominated the internet in no time! However, it was later cleared by the three that nothing of this sort is true.
Recently, Alia and Sidharth were spotted hugging and greeting each other in a warm manner at Lokmat Awards in Mumbai on November 14. Alia was seen donning in Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla ensemble, Sidharth, on the other hand, was seen looking dashing in dark blue and white attire.


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Garden from the ground up
Walker bought the Swiss chalet-style house from the neighboring brick company in 1940 for $2,000. Walker's son, Alan Walker, said the property was pretty, with streams running through it. But it was also treeless and without landscaping, and was a dumping ground for ash.
"There wasn't an evergreen tree on the place," Walker said.Over time, that changed.
"It was my vitamin pill," he said.
Walker said he would come home from the office mad at the world but could go into the garden and forget what was troubling him.
He developed his yen for plants when, as a child, a nearly fatal case of rheumatic fever forced him to stay in bed for three months. He and the nurse who took care of him would comb through seed catalogs.
During the Great Depression, Walker's father and uncle lost everything in their general store business, so Walker began selling chickens and potatoes to Penn State fraternities.
"They called me the big butter and egg man from Bigler," said Walker, a 1935 Penn State graduate.He started out studying pre-medicine, which required two years of German.
"After flunking German I twice, I decided I didn't have the bedside manner," Walker said.
So he stuck with coal after college, and found success first brokering and then mining as Bradford Coal.
True colors show
After Walker bought the house, he began to work on both the home and the property. Alan Walker told the story of his mother's request: She wanted an indoor bathroom installed before they moved in.
Alan Walker said one of the first projects was channeling the stream that made the yard swampy. He compared living on the property to "growing up in Disneyland."
With help, the projects continued from there.
"This is what we call our English garden. This has a little bit of everything," Ray Walker said on a tour.Tulips with striped leaves decorated one section.
"These are little red riding hoods," he said. "They'll be red, and they're beautiful."
The marble statue "Venus at the Bath" stands near the swimming pool. Ray Walker said it was carved in Paris and had belonged to the great-grandson of Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt before it ended up in a pawn shop in New York City. Walker bought it to add to the Grecian motif of the swimming pool area.
Past the pool, a woodsy section filled with hemlocks leads to the "secret garden" built on some of the dirt pile created when two railroads were merged nearby.
"I took what they had left and made it into a garden," Walker said.
Another section of the garden has a log cabin that had been in Ansonville and was the site of a shoot-out during the Civil War. According to the account, an indentured soldier in the war went AWOL. He and the Union troops sent to get him had a skirmish at the log cabin. Walker bought the farm where the cabin stood for coal and moved the cabin piece by piece to his gardens.
"I wanted to try to preserve the old artifacts of the area," he said.
Nearby stand spectacular "Greek" ruins with waterfalls that were created from conglomerate rock.
While Walker remembers one spring showing when snow covered the ground, this year's forecast doesn't include snow. That means visitors will be able to enjoy the flowers along with the other features, including quotations Walker has included in the landscape.
"Happiness is not a station you arrive at," reads one, "but the manner of traveling."
Anne Danahy can be reached at 231-4648.
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