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http://time.com/4643147/ss-palo-alto-california-snap/

>The pier leading to the tourist site has been closed

>Record waves over the weekend snapped a section of the famous World War I-era cement-ship, the S.S. Palo Alto, moored in California’s Monterey Bay.

>The stormy surf, which reached the record height of 34-ft according to the National Weather Service, broke the section nearest to the shore. It also caused the pier on Seacliff Beach, which was constructed to link the ship to the beach, to temporarily close, ABC7 News reports.

>The boat was part of an emergency fleet of 24 ships made out of ferroconcrete and commissioned by Emergency Fleet Corportation during World War I, the Washington Post reports. Ferroconcrete, which a mix of concrete and steel, was considered a low-cost material to produce than steel. But by the time shipbuilders completed the 420-ft S.S. Palo Alto, the war was over.

>Its first voyage was to the Seacliff beach in 1929, where it became an amusement ship, before becoming a fishing pier, then an artificial reef for marine animals. Its disintegration over the years was hastened during winter 2016 storms, that cracked the rear half of the ship open.

>“Here in the Monterey Bay, we’ve seen very large surf, with very little break in-between, and it’s that repeated beating down by the ocean that seems to be having the biggest effect on the ship this year,” State Parks public safety superintendent Bill Wolcott told ABC7 News.

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>> http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/08/world/gallery/eco-bad-habits/index.html
> 11 everyday items you should stop using right now

I always thought that people looked pretentious using inferior chopsticks when civilized reusable forks and spoons were available. Now I see that chopsticks are:

> treated with chemicals that can cause respiratory disorders

Now they're not only still inadequate and pretentious but more prone to asthma and other respiratory illness (flu and in-flu-enza): and just to flaunt their mindless cult-ure or to look cool.

What's the chance that hundreds of millions of people are going to change when most are so careless that they're obviously subconsciously suicidal or at least have a I-couldn't-care-less attitude?

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38711953

>>US storms: At least 16 dead in Georgia and Mississippi

>>Eight of the deaths occurred in Cook County. Officials have confirmed that seven people killed there were at a mobile home park apparently struck by a tornado overnight.

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>Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will take on an advisory role in Donald Trump's administration regarding cybersecurity issues, the President-elect's transition team said Thursday.

>"Rudy Giuliani will be sharing his expertise and insight as a trusted friend concerning private sector cyber security problems and emerging solutions developing in the private sector," Trump's transition team said in a statement.

>"In addition, from time to time because of the changing nature of this problem, it is contemplated that the President-elect will be hosting a series of meetings with senior corporate executives from companies which have faced or are facing challenges similar to those facing the government and public entities today, such as hacking, intrusions, disruptions, manipulations, theft of data and identities, and securing information technology infrastructure," the statement read.

>"No consensus advice or recommendations resulting from group deliberations or interaction is expected or will be solicited," it added.

>Giuliani, already an informal adviser to and surrogate for Trump, will not be given a title for the role.

>The former New York mayor had been a consistent advocate and spokesperson for Trump throughout his campaign and had, in the days following the mogul's win, been expected to be rewarded with a cabinet or cabinet-level post inside the administration.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/giuliani-to-serve-as-cybersecurity-adviser-to-trump/ar-AAlNN8s

What a fucking joke.

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Majority of 230 protesters arrested on Inauguration Day will face 10 years in prison and $25k fine as US attorney says they will be charged with felony rioting
230 people have been arrested and six police officers injured in the D.C.protests against President Trump
Many any of those arrested will reportedly face up to a 10 year prison sentence and $25,000 fine
A violent rampage started two blocks from the White House in McPherson Square and along K Street
A limo was set on fire after destructive demonstrators threw a flare into its shattered windows
Police with shields lined up and blocked the parade route as riots broke out around the city
Officials have used tear gas, pepper spray and flash bang grenades on the mob
Windows have been smashed at Starbucks, McDonald's and Bank of America buildings
Broadcaster Larry King said the windows of his SUV were smashed by protesters while he was in studios

Video of Some of the violence with Cobra theme music
https://youtu.be/Mm01v7kEFhU

Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4144360/Anti-Trump-protesters-face-10-years-prison.html

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/15/texas-teacher-who-had-sex-almost-daily-with-13-year-old-student-gets-10-years-in-prison/?tid=pm_national_pop

>A former Texas middle-school teacher who was impregnated by a 13-year-old student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

>Alexandria Vera, 25, was facing up to 30 years behind bars after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child in November. She admitted to police that a relationship that started with Instagram messages between her and the boy blossomed into a romance — one that the boy’s family approved of.

>A judge in the 209th District Court in Houston said during Vera’s sentencing hearing on Friday that he does not believe the former English teacher is a danger to children or a classic pedophile, the Houston Chronicle reported. But Judge Michael McSpadden said he wants to send a message to the community by giving Vera some prison time.

>“We want our educators to teach our students,” McSpadden said, according to the Houston Chronicle. “We want them to keep their hands off students.”

>Vera, an eighth-grade teacher at Stovall Middle School in Houston, was arrested in June and initially charged with continuous sexual assault of a child, which carries a maximum of life imprisonment. Her sentence was capped at 30 years after she pleaded guilty.

>Vera told police that she met the boy during summer school in 2015. She said she initially resisted the boy’s advances until sometime last fall, when she agreed to hang out with her student.

>Prosecutors say Vera and the teen had sex almost every day for nine months. She told investigators that they love each other, according to court documents. During the relationship, Vera told her neighbors that the boy was her brother, according to KHOU, a CBS affiliate.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/national-park-service-trump-tweet.html

>The National Park Service said on Saturday it regretted having retweeted two Twitter posts, including one comparing the size of crowds at President Trump’s inauguration on Friday with President Obama’s in 2009.

>After retweeting the posts at issue, both of which originated from nongovernment accounts, the agency stopped its Twitter activity for several hours on Friday and Saturday.

>“Out of an abundance of caution, while we investigated the situation involving these tweets, the Department of Interior’s communications team determined that it was important to stand down Twitter activity,” Tom Crosson, a National Park Service spokesman, said in a statement. The Park Service is part of the Interior Department.

>According to CNN, the Interior Department circulated an email to employees on Friday saying that representatives of the Trump administration had ordered the shutdown.

>The Park Service resumed posting messages to its Twitter account by midmorning on Saturday, apologizing for the “mistaken” retweets.

>In his statement, Mr. Crosson said the two retweets “were inconsistent with the agency’s approach to engaging the public through social media.”

>The messages in question, which the Park Service deleted, included one from Binyamin Appelbaum, a reporter for The New York Times, that showed side-by-side aerial photos of the National Mall during Mr. Obama’s first inauguration and Mr. Trump’s on Friday.

>Based on similar photos, a crowd-size expert made an initial estimate that Mr. Trump’s inauguration drew a crowd on the Mall about one-third the size of the one at Mr. Obama’s event. Mr. Trump had predicted an “unbelievable, perhaps record-setting turnout” for his inauguration.

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http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/the-clinton-foundation-is-dead-but-the-case-against-hillary-isnt/

>While everyone's been gearing up for President Trump's inauguration, the Clinton Foundation made a major announcement this week that went by with almost no notice: For all intents and purposes, it's closing its doors.

>In a tax filing, the Clinton Global Initiative said it's firing 22 staffers and closing its offices, a result of the gusher of foreign money that kept the foundation afloat suddenly drying up after Hillary Clinton failed to win the presidency.

>It proves what we've said all along: The Clinton Foundation was little more than an influence-peddling scheme to enrich the Clintons, and had little if anything to do with "charity," either overseas or in the U.S. That sound you heard starting in November was checkbooks being snapped shut in offices around the world by people who had hoped their donations would buy access to the next president of the United States.

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/23/foxconn-american-factory-plans-trump

>Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn has appeared to back away from claims it is preparing to build a $7bn factory in the US.

>News of the plant, which could create some 30,000 to 50,000 American manufacturing jobs, first surfaced last year after a meeting between now President Donald Trump and the Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, head of Japanese telecom and tech investment giant SoftBank.

>“There is such a plan, but it is not a promise. It is a wish,” Foxconn’s chief executive officer, Terry Gou, told reporters on Sunday. Gou added that he wanted guarantees of inexpensive land and electricity before the company made its investment and warned against US protectionism, according to Reuters.

>Trump promised to bring jobs to the US and repeatedly singled out Apple for its use of Chinese manufacturers – Foxconn among them – in stump speeches across the country during his campaign.

>The US president has taken an aggressive stance toward China, saying the country has “stolen” American jobs. He has repeatedly threatened to impose tariffs on goods imported from the country.

>But Foxconn’s Chinese holdings are vital to its interest. The company is one of Apple’s largest suppliers and China is now Apple’s largest iPhone market. Gou, the company chairman often referred to in the press as “Taiwan’s Donald Trump”, is likely to run for president of Taiwan in 2020, according to multiple reports. The executive ardently favors unifying China and Taiwan, which would further his own business interests – Foxconn owns manufacturing facilities, which have been heavily criticized for their harsh working conditions, in the city of Shenzhen in China’s Guangdong province.

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>The FBI and five other law enforcement and intelligence agencies have collaborated for months in an investigation into Russian attempts to influence the November election, including whether money from the Kremlin covertly aided President-elect Donald Trump

>The agencies involved in the inquiry are the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Justice Department, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and representatives of the director of national intelligence

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article127231799.html

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-humana-aetna-antitrust-idUSKBN1572BF?il=0

>A U.S. judge blocked on Monday health insurer Aetna Inc's proposed $34 billion acquisition of smaller peer Humana Inc, raising the stakes for rival Anthem Inc as it battles to clear a $54 billion deal to buy Cigna Corp.

>The ruling is the latest sign of antitrust authorities having grown more assertive under U.S. President Barack Obama, whose term ended last week. His successor, Donald Trump, and a Republican party-controlled legislature are seeking to undo much of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, that reshaped the U.S. healthcare industry, including insurance practices.

>The U.S. Justice Department had filed a lawsuit last July to block Aetna's acquisition of Humana and Anthem's acquisition of Cigna, arguing that the two deals would lead to higher prices. Anthem and Cigna are now also waiting for a judge to rule on whether their merger can proceed.

>Judge John Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said the proposed deal would "substantially lessen competition" in the sale of Medicare Advantage plans in 364 counties in 21 states that the Justice Department identified in their complaint, and in individual insurance markets on the Obamacare exchange in three Florida counties. Aetna said it was considering an appeal.

>Bates dismissed Aetna's argument that there was plenty of choice for consumers because Medicare Advantage, which is managed by insurance companies, competes with traditional Medicare for the elderly and disabled, which is managed by the government.

>"In that (Medicare Advantage) market, which is the primary focus of this case, the merger is presumptively unlawful - a conclusion that is strongly supported by direct evidence of head-to-head competition as well. The companies’ rebuttal arguments are not persuasive," Bates wrote in a 158-page decision.

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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/charleston-church-shooting/dylann-roof-tells-jury-there-nothing-wrong-me-psychologically-n703091

> "And the point is that I'm not going to lie to you."

So this two-legged animal will murder anyone but has some ethics about lying; or has a single clue as to what is truth or lie, good or bad. Everything about this guy is a lie, cause there walks a mindless animal on two legs.

There is "Everything" psychologically "wrong" with this guy. This guy could be the picture for the definition of psychologically wrong. Only a severely sick population would listen to the filth and lies out of this guy's mouth.

Better to lock this monster in a cage and weld it shut until death.

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http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/23/technology/china-vpn-illegal-great-firewall/

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/01/23/world/asia/ap-as-china-internet-controls.html

>BEIJING — China is beefing up a campaign to root out services that circumvent the government's internet censorship with a 14-month-long "clean-up" of the internet industry.

>The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a directive that it forbids the operation of virtual private networks (VPNs) or leased lines that allow users and businesses to access blocked overseas websites without government permission.

>Between now and March 2018, authorities will enforce the regulations with inspections of cloud-hosting and content-delivery services, an industry that has shown signs of "disorderly development," the ministry said Sunday.

>The new enforcement measures are the latest steps in the Chinese government's efforts to cement its grip over the domestic internet and closely control what information may be accessed by the country's 731 million internet users.

>President Xi Jinping's administration has championed a vision of "internet sovereignty" in which governments have the right to wall off their nation's cyberspace from unwanted elements as if it were physical territory.

>The censors' reach has extended beyond websites.

>Earlier this month, China's top internet regulator said it would begin regulating mobile app store offerings after it found apps that disseminated information it considered illegal or a danger to social stability. The announcement came weeks after Apple removed apps by The New York Times from its app store in China in response to a government request.
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Angered that her pregnant sister refused to return a weave, a Florida woman allegedly pummeled her sibling, according to cops who arrested the accused assailant on a felony battery charge.

Police allege that Aryanna Ieasha Reed, 25, battered her sister Tyteahni, 24, during a confrontation Saturday afternoon at the victim’s Jacksonville apartment.

As detailed in a police report, Tyteahni told investigators that Reed had called her to demand the return of the hairpiece, which Reed had given to her sister as a Christmas present. When Tyteahni refused to return the weave, Aryanna “came to the victim’s apartment and confronted her.”

Tyteahni again “refused to give it to her because she had it on her head and didn’t want to go to work without it on her head.” At that point, the sisters began scuffling, with Reed attempting to snatch the weave off Tyteahni’s head. Reed then allegedly began raining punches down on her sister, who is a month into her pregnancy.

Police noted that while Tyteahni appeared uninjured, “She said that she was very sore and was going to the hospital to get her and her unborn baby checked out.” During a police interview, Tyteahni’s five-year-old daughter said that Reed came to the family’s home and “beat her mommy up.”

http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/pregnant-sisters-weave-fight-763905

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UK to leave single market, says Theresa May.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38641208

>We are a European country — and proud of our shared European heritage — but we are also a country that has always looked beyond Europe to the wider world. That is why we are one of the most racially diverse countries in Europe, one of the most multicultural members of the European Union, and why — whether we are talking about India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, countries in Africa or those that are closer to home in Europe — so many of us have close friends and relatives from across the world.