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Good morning. Children may transmit the virus after all. The economy contracts sharply. But first a breath of fresh air: innovative ways that people have moved activities outdoors.
Outdoors innovation
A family performing in a neighborhood of Grand Rapids, Mich., in early July.Dave Kagan
If you’re looking for a pick-me-up — to be inspired by human ingenuity in the midst of a whole lot of bad news — today’s newsletter is for you.
My colleagues and I were energized by the ideas. They made us want to move more of our own activities outdoors — and made us hope that more companies, government agencies and other organizations take similar steps.
One of our favorites will resonate with many parents, children and teachers: It’s an attempt to hold school in a way that’s both safe and in person.
Aspire Scholar Academy is a once-a-week school in Provo, Utah, for students ages 12 to 18 who are otherwise home-schooled. It usually operates out of a church, but the school’s leaders were not persuaded that indoor classes would be safe this fall, even if everybody were wearing masks.
So a school vice president traveled to local Costcos and bought 33 canopies. Students will attend classes under them, on the church grounds. Teachers will use a public-address system.
“The kids don’t want Zoom,” Vanessa Stanfill, a member of the school’s board, says. “They want to be together.” The school has told parents that students will need sunblock and (eventually) snow pants, and it plans to incorporate the surrounding nature into lessons.
A small, once-a-week school obviously has an easier task moving classes outside than a large public school. But before you dismiss Aspire as irrelevant, remember that many New York City schools moved classes outdoors during the tuberculosis outbreak of the early 1900s. (A recent column, by The Times’s Ginia Bellafante, has some wonderful old photos.)
Among the other innovative ideas we heard from readers:
A ceremony for new American citizens held outside a federal courthouse in Boise, Idaho.
A cabaret troupe in Grand Rapids, Mich., that drives to people’s homes and puts on performances in driveways and yards.
A California psychotherapist seeing clients in a forest, with chairs eight feet apart.
A Pennsylvania company that sells gazebos and that now holds staff meetings outdoors in — where else? — a gazebo.
“Kids don’t get visibly sick very often, and even when they do, only rarely go on to have complications or to die,” my colleague Apoorva Mandavilli explains. “But many people have — wrongly — extrapolated this to mean that kids don’t get infected.” They do, she added, and they may also pass the virus to others, which is only logical: “Kids are adept at spreading other kinds of viruses, including the flu, so why not this one?”
As usual, it will be important to see if more research confirms these findings. But the study offers one more reason that reopening schools will be complicated. (This Times map of the U.S. shows where reopenings would create the greatest risks.)
Herman Cain, the former pizza executive and Republican presidential candidate, died of complications from the virus, at age 74. Cain had posted a photograph of himself, without a mask, attending President Trump’s indoor rally in Tulsa, Okla., last month; it is unclear when he contracted the virus.
Herman Cain attended President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla., last month without a mask.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
2. Trump’s empty threat
Trailing in the polls and facing bad news on the economy and the virus, President Trump on Thursday suggested delaying the Nov. 3 election. Nothing in the Constitution gives presidents that power, and other Republicans shot down the idea.
I asked Jonathan Martin, a Times political reporter, how to make sense of the threat. His answer:
“We should not dismiss, or even minimize, a sitting president who suggests delaying the election. But it’s important to view Mr. Trump’s remark in the context of his longstanding refusal to acknowledge failure, a pattern that predates his entering politics. Should he lose, he will likely seek a rationale. Any uncertainty about the balloting affords him an opening to raise questions about the election’s legitimacy, regardless of whether he challenges the results.”
In a Times Op-Ed, Steven Calabresi, a conservative law professor who opposed Trump’s impeachment last year, called the tweet “fascistic.”
3. Climate change victims
A flooded road in Jamalpur, Bangladesh, this month.Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters
In the latest disaster to hit Bangladesh, torrential rains have flooded at least a quarter of the country, inundating nearly a million homes. Two months ago, a cyclone slammed Bangladesh’s southwest, while a rising sea has submerged villages along the coast.
Scientists project that severe flooding will intensify as climate change increases rainfall in Bangladesh. It’s a story that reflects the unequal burden of climate change’s effects: The average American is responsible for 33 times more planet-warming carbon dioxide than the average Bangladeshi. “Those who are least responsible for polluting Earth’s atmosphere are among those most hurt by its consequences,” Somini Sengupta and Julfikar Ali Manik write.
In December, 2018, Iceland-based photographer Ben Simon Rehn trekked to Madagascar to test a new camera for Olympus. While on assignment, the photographer captured some spectacular images of the lush African island’s wildlife. Striking close-ups of chameleons show the reptiles’ pebbled skin texture and unique coloration, and a portrait of a Sky-Blue Reed Frog shows the amphibian’s shimmering bronze-toned eyes and sleek yellow and blue skin
Prior to Rehn’s career as a photographer, he was a high performance athlete, which shows in his ambitious location shoots in remote, rugged locations. In addition to his editorial work, Rehn seeks to raise awareness about environmental issues and the impact of mankind on the earth. Follow along with the photographer’s travels on Instagram and Behance and take an in-motion look at the landscapes he explores on Vimeo.
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Good morning. Biden leads Trump by 14 points in The Times’s first poll. Many of last night’s primaries remain too close to call. And Fauci says the next two weeks will be crucial to fighting the coronavirus.
Why the virus is winning
Nick Oxford for The New York Times
We know how to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
I know it doesn’t always seem that way. And, yes, there is still a great deal we don’t know about the virus. But there is also a consistent set of lessons, from around the world, about how to reduce the number of new cases sharply.You should wear a mask if you’re going to spend time near anybody who is not part of your household. You should minimize your time in indoor spaces with multiple people. You should move as many activities as possible outdoors. You should wash your hands frequently. And you should stay home, away from even your own family members, if you feel sick.
Government officials, for their part, can slow the virus’s spread by encouraging all of these steps, as well as by organizing widespread testing and competent tracing of people who are likely to have the virus.
The past six months have repeatedly shown the value of these steps. Countries and regions that have taken them have either avoided outbreaks or beaten them back. Look at South Korea and Vietnam. Or many places that were hardest hit in the pandemic’s early waves: China, the New York metro area and much of Western Europe. Or New England and the upper Midwest.
Over the last few weeks, however, the virus has begun spreading across the southern and western U.S., as well as in some other countries. And there’s no real mystery about why. Many people have stopped following public-health guidance. They have gathered in restaurants, bars, churches, gyms and workplaces (sometimes because their employers pressured them to do so).
Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, told Congress yesterday: “The next couple of weeks are going to be critical in our ability to address those surges that we are seeing in Florida, Texas, Arizona, and other states.” If the surges aren’t reversed, they will create a much larger pool of people who have the virus and can then spread it to others.
Whether the U.S. succeeds during this next stage is not a matter of epidemiology or lab science. It’s a matter of political will. It does not even require severe new lockdowns in most places.
As my colleague Apoorva Mandavilli, a science reporter, says: “There are ways to be responsible and socialize, but people don’t seem to be able to draw the line between what’s OK and what is not. For too many people, it seems to be binary — they are either on lockdown or taking no precautions.”
FOUR MORE BIG STORIES
1. Biden has a huge early lead
Joe Biden has a 14-point lead over President Trump, according to the first New York Times/Siena College poll of the general election. Biden leads by wide margins among younger and nonwhite voters — and he is running virtually even among voters over age 45 and white voters, two groups that Hillary Clinton lost in 2016. Here are the age trends:
By The New York Times | Source: New York Times/Siena College poll
“What’s new,” Jonathan Martin, a Times political reporter, told me, “is Trump’s collapse with voters who Republicans have traditionally relied on, namely whites with college degrees. The president’s inability to project unifying leadership in response to three crises this spring — the pandemic, collapse of the economy and racial unrest — has sent his support tumbling.”
Recent polls by other organizations have found, on average, that Biden leads by 10 points. The best news for Trump: The election is still more than four months away.
2. Election results
The Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville’s only open polling station on Tuesday.Timothy D. Easley/Associated Press
Election Night is different during a pandemic. Many results remain unknown, because absentee ballots continue to arrive for days. With that caveat, here’s what we know about last night’s primaries:
Several progressive Democrats are doing well in House primaries in New York State. In the race I focused on yesterday, Jamaal Bowman holds a substantial lead over the incumbent, Eliot Engel. Mondaire Jones leads in a suburban district north of the city. Ritchie Torres — the first openly gay elected official in the Bronx and “a potential national star,” according to Dave Wasserman of The Cook Political Report — seems on pace to win. And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez easily dispatched her more moderate opponents.
Two Republican House candidates opposed by President Trump — one in North Carolina, one in Kentucky — won their primaries. The North Carolina winner was Madison Cawthorn, a 24-year-old investor.
In Kentucky, Amy McGrath and Charles Booker are in a tight race to become the Democratic nominee who will face Mitch McConnell.
Saudi officials effectively canceled this year’s hajj, one day after restricting the journey to people already in the country. Because of the coronavirus, only about 1,000 people will be permitted to make the pilgrimage to Mecca, compared with the 2.5 million who did so last year. The announcement sent waves of sadness across the Muslim world.
In other virus developments:
The European Union is preparing to block Americans from visiting when borders reopen on July 1 because the U.S. has failed to control the virus.
The governor of Texas, who has resisted another lockdown, urged residents to stay home after the state posted a record number of new infections.
4. Where overhauls could change policing
The increased scrutiny on policing has uncovered a growing list of cases where procedural changes might have prevented problems.
A white police officer in New Jersey who was caught on video pepper-spraying a group of black youths had a long history of violence — and had worked in nine different police departments. How is that possible?
More recently, a Michigan man was arrested based on a match from a facial recognition algorithm that was flawed. Our colleague Kashmir Hill has a gripping story about the case.
Here’s what else is happening
Mourners gathered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Tuesday for the funeral of Rayshard Brooks.Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Activists, politicians and celebrities gathered in Atlanta yesterday for the funeral of Rayshard Brooks, who was fatally shot by the police.
Major League Baseball has set a plan for a 60-game season. “Think of it as forced competitive balance,” our columnist writes, “when even the worst teams can dream of getting hot for nine weeks and stealing a playoff berth.”
Top Justice Department officials intervened to seek a more lenient sentence for the Trump ally Roger Stone, a former federal prosecutor is expected to tell Congress today.
Lives Lived: Shirley Siegel was no stranger to discrimination. After graduating fourth in her class at Yale Law School in 1941, she was rejected by 40 male-dominated law firms. But she went on to become a top civil rights lawyer. She died at 101.
For many people, it’s hard to know how seriously to take this year’s political polls, because in 2016 they showed Hillary Clinton as likely to beat Donald Trump. So we wanted to offer a quick look back: What did polls get wrong four years ago?
A short answer — as The Times’s Nate Cohn has written — is that many surveys of crucial Midwestern states in 2016 did not include enough voters without college degrees. These voters are less likely to respond to polls, and polling firms failed to make the needed statistical adjustments. Because most of these non-college voters backed Trump, the polls underestimated his support.
Notably, most national polls did weight their samples by education — and national polls were quite accurate. They showed Clinton winning the popular vote by a few percentage points, which she did.
Pollsters tried to solve this problem in the 2018 midterms (with only partial success), and they are trying to do so again this year. But it’s not easy to predict who will vote, which means that the polls may suffer from the same problem in 2020 — or from a different problem.
On the other hand, if one candidate is beating the other by more than 10 percentage points — Biden’s current lead over Trump — polling errors probably won’t be big enough to matter. For more: Nate offers more thoughts on 2016 and 2020 in a new article.
· Dr. Fauci: Next few weeks critical to tamping down US virus spikes.·
Scarce medical oxygen around world leaves many gasping for life.·
Police officer involved in Breonna Taylor’s fatal shooting fired.
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Trump-backed House candidates lose in Kentucky, North Carolina.
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Dr. Fauci: Coming weeks critical to reduce US spikes; Scarce medical oxygen worldwide leaves many gasping for life
The U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert has said the next few weeks are critical to tamping down a disturbing coronavirus surge in America.
Despite controversy over Trump’s comments that testing is finding too many infections, Fauci told a congressional committee that testing hasn’t slowed — and the country will be doing even more.
Fighting for Breath: The pandemic is prompting soaring demand for oxygen. But in much of the world, medical oxygen is expensive and hard to get — a basic marker of inequality both between and within countries. It’s in short supply from Peru to Bangladesh.
Across Africa, only a handful of hospitals have direct oxygen hookups, as is standard across Europe and the United States. And most medical facilities lack even the most basic equipment needed to help patients breathe. Lori Hinnant, Carley Petesch and Boubacar Diallo have this exclusive report.
Global Latest: China appears to have tamed a new outbreak of the coronavirus in Beijing, once again demonstrating its ability to quickly mobilize vast resources by testing nearly 2.5 million people in 11 days. But elsewhere in the world, cases are surging.
· India reported a record daily increase of nearly 16,000 new cases.
· Mexico also set a record with more than 6,200 new cases.
· South Africa has recorded its highest daily death toll of 111 people.
White police officer involved in Breonna Taylor’s fatal shooting in Kentucky fired
AP FACT CHECK
Sober science weighs in on Trump’s virus take
The U.S. government’s top public health leaders on Tuesday shot down assertions by President Donald Trump that the coronavirus pandemic is under control and the U.S. is excelling in testing for the virus.
North Korea says its planned retaliation against South Korea for stalemated relations and anti-Pyongyang activism has been suspended by leader Kim Jong Un. Analysts say North Korea, after weeks of deliberately raising tensions with threats of military action, may be pulling away just enough to make room for South Korean concessions.
A magnitude 7.4 quake centered in southern Mexico has killed at least five people, swayed buildings in Mexico City and sent thousands fleeing into the streets. One person was killed and another injured in a building collapse in Huatulco. There were also deaths in Oaxaca. There were further reports of broken windows and collapsed walls.
For years, labeling Israel an apartheid state was used primarily by its strongest detractors to describe its rule over Palestinians who were denied basic rights in occupied areas. For the most part, Israel successfully pushed back. But as Israel moves closer to launching annexation — perhaps as soon as next month — as part of President Trump’s Mideast plan, the term is becoming part of Israel’s political conversation.
By the time Major League Baseball returns in late July, it will have been more than four months since teams last played. The season is now going to be a 60-game sprint to the finish, held in U.S. ballparks without fans and featuring some unusual rules.
Coronavirus Updates: E.U. may ban Americans when it reopens
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The European Union may ban Americans from traveling there when it reopens its borders, the New York Times reported, as coronavirus cases surge in the United States. European countries are working to agree on two lists of acceptable travelers as they finalize plans to reopen on July 1, and the U.S. isn’t on the drafts, the Times reported. The number of daily new cases remains at a far higher level in the U.S. than in Europe, where stringent lockdowns have helped slow the spread and reactions to resurgent outbreaks are swift.
As cases continue to spike across dozens of states, along with hospitalizations, the president’s continued claim that additional testing is to blame (it is not) is increasingly at odds with Republican allies in the hardest-hit states, where governors are beginning to change their tunes.
Income is a major predictor of coronavirus infections, a federal analysis found, along with race. The analysis supports the commonly understood pattern that the black community is harder hit by covid-19, but its findings on poverty add another layer of vulnerability. The infection rate among those with low incomes is “drastically higher” than everyone else in the analysis, said Seema Verma, administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Trump has told aides he supports another round of stimulus checks, saying that he believes it will help the economy and boost his reelection odds. But leading congressional Republicans and some senior White House officials remain skeptical of more payments. The differing opinions in conservative circles could make the next stimulus package, scheduled to be taken up in July, difficult to pass.
Many of us are aching to go on vacation, but still concerned about the health risks. “Contactless” travel is a buzzy term right now among those itching for a trip, but is it even possible? By The Way reporter Natalie B. Compton planned and executed a “contactless” adventure to find out. You can read about how her trip turned out here. (And there’s more advice on driving vs. flying this summer in the Q&A below.)
Good morning. Facebook and Twitter take actions against Trump. Climate change is making babies sick. And the Supreme Court issues its second left-leaning decision in a week.
DACA lives on
Supporters of DACA outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday.Drew Angerer/Getty Images
When this country started hearing a decade ago about Dreamers — people who came to the United States as small children without legal permission — many of them were in their teens or early 20s. These Dreamers are now full adults, with careers and families, and many have spent years anxiously wondering whether they would be thrown out of the only country they’ve really known.
“It feels amazing,” Vanessa Pumar, 31, an immigration lawyer who came from Venezuela at age 11, said. “I have been holding my breath. It feels like I can finally breathe.”
Marisol Montejano, who’s 36 and received a math degree this week from a California university, used the same word: “I feel like I could breathe.” Montejano planned to tell her two children that “it’s going to be OK.”
Joana Cabrera, who is 24 and came from the Philippines at age 9, said, “I’m actually still shaking.” Cabrera added, “I’m unbelievably happy, because I was expecting the worst.”
The decision was the second this week in which at least one conservative justice — Chief Justice John Roberts, in this case — joined the court’s four liberal members to issue a left-leaning ruling. Immigration is proving to be one of the issues (along with L.G.B.T.Q. rights) on which the court is not reliably conservative. Last year, a majority effectively blocked the Trump administration from adding a question about citizenship status to the 2020 census.
Yesterday’s decision was a narrow one, holding that the administration did not follow the proper procedures for terminating President Barack Obama’s policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, of allowing Dreamers to stay. Trump quickly suggested that he still planned to end the policy.
But, as The Times’s Miriam Jordan told us, “There’s nothing the Trump administration could do fast enough to get rid of the program before the election.”
Many Republicans may be quite happy about that, anyway. “Polls show extraordinarily broad support for giving legal status to the Dreamers,” said Julie Davis, a Times editor who’s written a book about Trump’s immigration policy with her colleague Michael Shear, “and being on the wrong side of that issue is the last place Republicans want to be five months before an election.”
The dissent: Justice Clarence Thomas argued that Trump had the power to end DACA and the majority of justices were trying “to avoid a politically controversial but legally correct decision.”
Gonzales explains: “Within a year, DACA beneficiaries were already taking giant steps. They found new jobs. They increased their earnings. They acquired driver’s licenses. And they began to build credit through opening bank accounts and obtaining credit cards.”
FOUR MORE BIG STORIES
1. Social media vs. the president
Facebook and Twitter both pushed back against Trump’s use of inflammatory material yesterday. Facebook removed advertisements by the Trump campaign that prominently featured a red triangle that the Nazis used to classify Communist political prisoners during World War II. The ad used it in connection with antifa, a loose collective of anti-fascist protesters.
Twitter added a warning — an exclamation point with the label “Manipulated Media” — to a Trump tweet that featured a video of two toddlers running down a sidewalk. The video, which included a headline about a “racist baby,” had been made to look like a CNN segment.
“As someone who has celebrated Juneteenth for a long time, I think we need it now — not in lieu of the freedom, justice and equality we are still fighting for — but in addition, because we have been fighting for so very long,” Veronica Chambers, an editor who spearheaded the project, writes.
More Confederate pushback: Nancy Pelosi ordered portraits of four House speakers who served the Confederacy to be removed from the Capitol. And the Southeastern Conference threatened not to hold future college sports championships in Mississippi unless the state removed the Confederate battle emblem from its flag.
3. Another bleak jobs picture
Another 1.5 million Americans applied for state unemployment benefits last week, a sign that the coronavirus pandemic was reaching deeper into the economy even as the pace of jobs cuts slowed.
“Layoffs that happened at the beginning of this likely were intended as temporary,” said Martha Gimbel, a labor market expert. “But if you’re laying off people now, that’s probably a long-term business decision.”
4. The limate’s effect on pregnancy
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Higher temperatures caused by climate change and increased air pollution have raised women’s risk of giving birth to premature, underweight or stillborn children — and hurt African-American babies most. That’s the finding of a newly published paper, which reviewed data from 57 studies collectively analyzing nearly 33 million births in the United States.
The chief executive of AMC Theaters prompted a backlash after saying moviegoers would not be required to wear masks when AMC theaters reopen next month. The executive, Adam Aron, said, “We did not want to be drawn into a political controversy.”
Chinese officials said today that they had indicted two Canadians on espionage charges. The move escalated a conflict that began after Canada arrested an executive of the Chinese technology giant Huawei in 2018.
Lives Lived: “We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when.” Vera Lynn, the “Sweetheart” of the British forces in World War II, sang those lyrics and many more to the troops and to embattled Londoners in the Blitz. In the darkest days, her voice was as familiar to Britons as Churchill’s. She died at age 103.
FIVE OVERLOOKED POLITICAL STORIES FROM THE PAST WEEK
By Ian Couzens, @iancouzenz
Politics production assistant
Nebraska governor says he’ll withhold federal money from counties that require masks –– June 18. Local governments in Nebraska can encourage people to wear masks, but the governor does not believe people should be denied access to government buildings for failure to wear a mask, and said any locality requiring them will not receive funds from the CARES Act meant to help fight the coronavirus. Why it matters: The mandate means counties are reluctantly dropping mask requirements meant to prevent the spread of COVID-19. — The Los Angeles Times
Trump campaign makes pitch for fourth debate with Biden amid declining poll numbers— June 18. Just months ago Trump threatened not to participate in any of the three previously scheduled debates. Why it matters: The Trump campaign believes the best way to ding Biden’s strong poll numbers is to get him to make more public appearances. — TheWashington Post
How the White House agenda for managing space traffic got jammed up— June 19. Space Policy Directive-3, signed by the president in 2018, was meant to improve U.S. tracking of objects in space, reassigning that responsibility from the Department of Defense to the Commerce Department. But Commerce has not yet been given full authority nor resources, and has no budget for the mission in fiscal year 2020. Why it matters: As access to space becomes easier and less expensive, orbits are becoming crowded, creating the need for more space traffic management to prevent major accidents such as satellite collisions. — Politico
California judge blocks Betsy DeVos from withholding relief money from undocumented students — June 17. DeVos tried to implement restrictions on which college students could receive emergency coroanvirus relief money, limiting it only to those who qualified for normal federal financial aid and excluding undocumented and foreign students, as well as those with poor grades, defaulted student loans or small drug convictions. Why it matters: DeVos’ directive would exclude hundreds of thousands of students from accessing funds Congress chose not to restrict, and while the rulings in California and Washington apply only to those states, the policy is on shaky ground nationally. — The Washington Post
U.S. senators unveil bill to curb foreign espionage, influence on campuses— June 18. The “Safeguarding American Innovation Act” is meant to give the U.S. State Department more authority to deny visas to foreign nationals seeking access to sensitive information and technologies related to national and economic security. Why it matters: The bipartisan group of senators behind the bill say it will help prevent foreign governments from accessing research and vital intellectual property developed at universities. — Reuters
Five Takeaways From John Bolton’s Memoir
“The Room Where It Happened” describes Mr. Bolton’s 17 turbulent months at President Trump’s side through a multitude of crises and foreign policy challenges.
Fiona Hill, John R. Bolton’s former Russia adviser, during a House impeachment hearing last year in Washington.Credit…Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times
John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser, plans to publish a damning book next week depicting President Trump as a corrupt, poorly informed, reckless leader who used the power of his office to advance his own personal and political needs even ahead of the nation’s interests.
The book, “The Room Where It Happened,” describes Mr. Bolton’s 17 turbulent months at Mr. Trump’s side through a multitude of crises and foreign policy challenges, but attention has focused mainly on his assertions that the president took a variety of actions that should have been investigated for possible impeachment beyond just the pressure campaign on Ukraine to incriminate Democrats.
Mr. Bolton, who did not testify during House proceedings and whose offer to testify in the Senate trial was blocked by Republicans, confirms many crucial elements of the Ukraine scheme that got Mr. Trump impeached in December. He also asserts that the president was willing to intervene in criminal investigations to curry favor with foreign dictators. And he says that Mr. Trump pleaded with China’s president to help him win re-election by buying American crops grown in key farm states.
Here are some of the highlights:
An offer of firsthand evidence on the Ukraine matter.
If Mr. Bolton’s account is to be believed, it means that Mr. Trump explicitly sought to use taxpayer money as leverage to extract help from another country for his partisan political campaign, a quid pro quo that House Democrats called an abuse of power. At the time of the impeachment hearings, Republicans dismissed the accusation by saying that the witnesses offered only secondhand evidence. Mr. Bolton, by contrast, was in the room.
Mr. Bolton says that he and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper tried eight to 10 times to persuade the president to release the aid, which Ukraine desperately needed to defend itself against a continuing war with Russia-sponsored forces. The critical meeting took place on Aug. 20 when, Mr. Bolton writes, Mr. Trump “said he wasn’t in favor of sending them anything until all the Russia-investigation materials related to Clinton and Biden had been turned over,” referring to Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Bolton otherwise confirms testimony offered by his former Russia adviser, Fiona Hill, that he objected to the “drug deal” being cooked up by Mr. Trump’s associates to force Ukraine to help and that he called Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer who was hip deep in the affair, “a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up.” He writes that he suspected that Mr. Giuliani had personal business interests at stake and adds that he had the matter reported to the White House Counsel’s Office.
“I thought the whole affair was bad policy, questionable legally, and unacceptable as presidential behavior,” Mr. Bolton writes. “Was it a factor in my later resignation? Yes, but as one of many ‘straws’ that contributed to my departure.”
Explaining a lack of testimony, and placing blame on Democrats.
As the book nears publication and details spill out, many congressional Democrats quickly assailed Mr. Bolton for not telling his story during the impeachment proceedings and instead saving it for his $2 million book.
Mr. Bolton explains his position in the epilogue, saying he wanted to wait to see if a judge would order his former deputy to testify over White House objections. House Democrats opted not to pursue the case, fearing endless litigation. Once the House impeached Mr. Trump over the Ukraine matter, Mr. Bolton volunteered to testify in the Senate trial that followed if subpoenaed.
But Senate Republicans voted to block new testimony by him and any other witnesses even after The New York Times reported that his forthcoming book would confirm the quid pro quo. Some of those Republican senators said that even if Mr. Bolton was correct, it would not be enough in their minds to justify making Mr. Trump the first president in American history convicted and removed from office.
Mr. Bolton blames House Democrats for being in a rush rather than waiting for the court system to rule on whether witnesses like him should testify, and he faults them for narrowing their inquiry to just the Ukraine matter rather than building a broader case with more examples of misconduct by the president.
“Had a Senate majority agreed to call witnesses and had I testified, I am convinced, given the environment then existing because of the House’s impeachment malpractice, that it would have made no significant difference in the Senate outcome,” he writes.
Singling out episodes of “obstruction of justice as a way of life.”
The other episodes that Mr. Bolton says the House should have investigated include Mr. Trump’s willingness to intervene in Justice Department investigations against foreign companies to “give personal favors to dictators he liked.” Mr. Bolton said it appeared to be “obstruction of justice as a way of life.”
He singles out Halkbank of Turkey, a state-owned financial institution investigated for a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade American sanctions on Iran. At a side encounter during a Buenos Aires summit meeting in late 2018, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey handed Mr. Trump a memo by the law firm representing Halkbank, “which Trump did nothing more than flip through before declaring he believed Halkbank was totally innocent.” He then told Mr. Erdogan “he would take care of things.”
President Trump with President Xi Jinping of China last summer in Osaka, Japan.Credit…Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Mr. Bolton also mentions ZTE, the Chinese telecommunications giant that was convicted of evading sanctions on Iran and North Korea and then faced new penalties for further violations during its follow-up consent decree. During a conversation on trade with President Xi Jinping of China, Mr. Trump offered to lighten the penalties.
“Xi replied that if that were done, he would owe Trump a favor and Trump immediately responded he was doing this because of Xi,” Mr. Bolton writes. He called himself “appalled” and “stunned” by the idea of intervening in a criminal investigation to let a sanctions buster off the hook. In the end, at Mr. Trump’s behest, the Justice Department accepted a $1 billion fine and lifted a seven-year ban on buying American products, an act of lenience that saved the company from going out of business.
A new allegation in the book accuses Mr. Trump of “pleading” with Mr. Xi to help him win re-election by buying American agricultural products, which would help the president in farm states. Mr. Trump did not deny it when asked about the matter on Wednesday night by Sean Hannity on Fox News, but Robert Lighthizer, his trade representative, did on his behalf earlier in the day, saying it was not true.
Describing a toxic environment inside the administration.
Over a long career in and out of Republican administrations in Washington, Mr. Bolton has rarely shied from giving his opinions, usually born of strong conservative national security convictions that have made him one of the capital’s most outspoken hawks advocating the use of military power and sanctions.
While he agreed with Mr. Trump on issues like getting out of the nuclear accord with Iran, he found himself repeatedly trying to stop the president from making concessions to other rogue states or making an ill-considered peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan while pushing for a more robust use of force against outliers like Iran or Syria. He considered Mr. Trump’s diplomacy to be folly.
To Mr. Bolton, Mr. Trump’s decision to meet North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, in Singapore was a “foolish mistake,” and the president’s desire to then invite Mr. Kim to the White House was “a potential disaster of enormous magnitude.” A series of presidential Twitter posts about China and North Korea were “mostly laughable.” Mr. Trump’s meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Helsinki was a “self-inflicted wound” and “Putin had to be laughing uproariously at what he had gotten away with in Helsinki.”
Mr. Bolton also describes an environment inside the administration marked by caustic infighting in which various players trash one another in a contest for the president’s ear — and the president trashes all of them.
When Mr. Bolton took over as national security adviser in 2018, John F. Kelly, then the White House chief of staff, disparaged the departing adviser, H.R. McMaster, by saying, “The president hasn’t had a national security adviser in the past year and he needs one.” Mr. Pompeo, the book says, disparaged Nikki R. Haley, then the ambassador to the United Nations, calling her “light as a feather.”
Battling over what is deemed classified information.
The Justice Department has gone to court to stop the book from being published, arguing that it has classified information in it and that it was not cleared by a prepublication review required of former government officials like Mr. Bolton.
In fact, according to his lawyer, Charles J. Cooper, Mr. Bolton participated in an extensive back-and-forth over the book and agreed to all of the revisions mandated by the career official who reviewed it or came up with acceptable alternatives. Only when the review was over did another official, Michael J. Ellis, a political appointee, step in to review it all over again at the instruction of Robert C. O’Brien, Mr. Bolton’s successor as national security adviser.
If there is classified information still in the book, it is hard to figure out what it might be. There are not references to secret intelligence programs or espionage sources and methods. But Mr. Trump insisted this week that every conversation with him was “highly classified” and therefore could not be disclosed, an assertion that goes far beyond tradition.
In his epilogue, Mr. Bolton says that in a few cases, “I was prevented from conveying information that I thought was not properly classifiable, since it revealed information that can only be described as embarrassing to Trump or as indicative of possible impermissible behavior.” One example is the direct quote of what Mr. Trump said to Mr. Xi about helping him win re-election.
For the most part, though, Mr. Bolton explains in the epilogue that the career official who reviewed the book merely made him take quotation marks off things that the president said and otherwise generally left them in. And so Mr. Bolton offers a guide to readers: “In some cases, just put your own quotation marks around the relevant passages; you won’t go far wrong.”
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On this edition for Saturday, August 17,
pro-government and pro-democracy demonstrators face off in Hong Kong, and a
retired police officer is coaching some of the growing number of seniors who
use medical marijuana in Arizona. Also, Syrian residents who built a library
amid the rubble of war, and what may come of peace talks between the U.S. and
Taliban. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.
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In places around the world, supplies of groundwater
are rapidly vanishing. As aquifers decline and wells begin to go dry, people
are being forced to confront a growing crisis. Much of the planet relies on
groundwater. And in places around the world – from the United States to Asia,
the Middle East, Africa and Latin America – so much water is pumped from the
ground that aquifers are being rapidly depleted and wells are going dry.
Groundwater is disappearing beneath cornfields in Kansas, rice paddies in
India, asparagus farms in Peru and orange groves in Morocco. As these critical
water reserves are pumped beyond their limits, the threats are mounting for
people who depend on aquifers to supply agriculture, sustain economies and
provide drinking water. In some areas, fields have already turned to dust and
farmers are struggling. Climate change is projected to increase the stresses on
water supplies, and heated disputes are erupting in places where those with
deep wells can keep pumping and leave others with dry wells. Even as satellite
measurements have revealed the problem’s severity on a global scale, many
regions have failed to adequately address the problem. Aquifers largely remain
unmanaged and unregulated, and water that seeped underground over tens of
thousands of years is being gradually used up. In this documentary, USA TODAY and
The Desert Sun investigate the consequences of this emerging crisis in several
of the world’s hotspots of groundwater depletion. These are stories about
people on four continents confronting questions of how to safeguard their
aquifers for the future – and in some cases, how to cope as the water runs out.
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As a result of President Donald Trump’s trade wars
with China and other countries, US farmers are seeing a surplus of perishable
goods stuck in limbo and increased prices for equipment. In good years, cargo
trains moving west along the flat, sweeping grasslands of North Dakota’s plains
are a sign of money rolling in. Today, as tariffs from America’s largest
foreign soybean market — China — threaten to upend the industry, many trains
sit idle. “There are no shuttle trains leaving. There is no nothing,” said Joe
Ericson, the 38-year-old president of the North Dakota Soybean Growers
Association. “They can’t get rid of the beans.” In conversations with more than
50 farmers, producers and agriculture experts in five states representing each
of the five food groups, one trend was clear: The once-deep ties to President
Donald Trump have frayed over the past year. But they remain intact for a small
majority of farmers CNN spoke with ahead of the critical 2018 midterm
elections. Democrats, who see an opening with Trump’s trade war, will likely
struggle to make inroads with these voters. The President gives all of them
plenty to complain about. They grumble about his tweeting — that’s not their
style — and what his trade war has done to their bottom lines. But if the
President’s re-election were held tomorrow, most of them would back him. They
trust Trump, and many believe Democrats don’t understand or largely ignore
their way of life. Still, Trump’s deep support in rural America, which helped
propel him to the White House in 2016, is being tested. The wheat farmers,
soybean growers and pork producers confront a growing trade war that is forcing
them to re-evaluate their ties to the President’s Republican Party and openly
question whether his mantra to “Make America Great Again” came at the expense
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Carole Cadwalladr is the journalist who brought the
Facebook/Cambridge Analytica story to the mainstream. Despite suffering online
abuse as a result, she continues to campaign to get Facebook to reveal more
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Imagine that in
order to have a great life you have to cross a dangerous jungle. You can stay
safe where you are and have an ordinary life, or you can risk crossing the
jungle to have a terrific life. How would you approach that choice? Take a
moment to think about it because it is the sort of choice that, in one form or
another, we all have to make.
~ Ray Dalio (Artwork by: Mike
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Rajasthani
paintings: Radhe Krishna paintings are quite prominent in Rajasthani paintings.
Rajasthani paintings started around 16th – 19th century in western India. Ever
wondered how the Rajput kings and queens looked like and what cutlery they used
during their elaborate dining? Rajasthan paintings are also known as rajput
paintings and they are quite famous for the miniature paintings. The bani-thani
paintings/ ragini made of plywood and vegetable colour is quite popular
worldwide. The Bhani-thani paintings are created with attractive emboss work at
the border using fabric pearl colors & water proof solution of Papier Mache
for the antique look. Rajasthani paintings tell us a lot of tales from the
epics ” The Ramayana” and “Mahabharata”. Stories of love
and affection of Radhe Krishna are shown in a number of paintings. You can also
see a simple life of the rajasthanis portrayed in these beautiful traditional
Rajasthani paintings. In this post we have included 50 Beautiful and
Traditional Rajasthani paintings.
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Less than an hour’s drive south of Hungary’s capital
Budapest, Central Europe’s last and only wandering sand dunes surprise the
traveller. These dunes are some 600 feet high and in continuous motion, shaping
a landscape one would only expect in Africa. Spring storms whip up giant clouds
of fine sand that darken the sun and loom over the low Kecskemet plain.
Italian photographer Massimo Listri has spent decades traversing the globe to document
the spectacular architecture, sculptural elements, and furnishings of historic
libraries. His new book, The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries, includes
views inside such rarefied locations as the Palafoxiana Library in Pueblo,
Mexico and the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, France. Listri also
includes descriptions and histories of each library. The 560-page tome is
published by TASCHEN and available on Amazon
and the TASCHEN website.
Klosterbibliothek Metten, Metten, Germany
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, France
Biblioteca do Convento de Mafra, Mafra, Portugal
Stiftsbibliothek Admont, Admont, Austria
Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbria, Portugal
Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen,
Switzerland
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, Italy
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Ing’s Garden:
Black Swallowtail Butterfly
Photographs by
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts on Monday, August 19, 2019
Kai, our grandson, and his mother, came to visit us
on Monday, August 19, 2019
during the afternoon. Kai went to the backyard garden; he saw a Black Swallowtail Butterfly. He called me and his mother to see the
butterfly. This black swallowtail
Butterfly was quite big and stayed about twenty minutes. But the butterfly was so active moving around
the garden and jumping to different butterfly bush flowers. It went from one to the other so often that
it made it difficult to capture the photographs.
In December 2014, I incorporated black swallowtail
Butterfly photographs that I took during summer 2014 into my peace project. The finished artwork for the Essex
County 4-H Scholarship Awards is shown below.
Finished artwork of the Peace comments from Essex County
4-H Scholarship Awards’ attendants on “What does Peace mean to you?” organized
by Marissa Blodnik and Greg Walker on Saturday, November 15th, 2014
at Paul Robson Center, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
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In 2018, Scotland, Iceland and New
Zealand established the network of Wellbeing Economy Governments to challenge
the acceptance of GDP as the ultimate measure of a country’s success. In this
visionary talk, First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon explains the
far-reaching implications of a “well-being economy” — which places
factors like equal pay, childcare, mental health and access to green space at
its heart — and shows how this new focus could help build resolve to confront
global challenges.
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Mother and Child Vol.
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separated at the Southern border. Sugarlift
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Colossal.
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Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he’s ever visited:
Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television,
you’ll discover the splendid monuments of Iran’s rich and glorious past, learn
more about the 20th-century story of this perplexing nation, and experience
Iranian life today in its historic capital and in a countryside village. Most
important, you’ll meet the people of this nation whose government so
exasperates our own.
If you’re like us, you love the
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going to be turned into energy. Your body has to work with different forms of
food in different ways. In this episode of Crash Course Anatomy &
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respiration, atp, glycogenesis, and how insulin regulates our blood sugar
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Shop a Curated Art Collection to Support Immigrant
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Aurora australis: Where to view the southern lights
and how to photograph them
If you’ve spent any time at all on a
social media, chances are you’ve stumbled across some serious #TravelInspo in
the form of swaths of ethereal-looking green and pink lights in the night sky.
While the northern hemisphere —
we’re looking at you, Iceland, Norway and friends — may have a monopoly on the
northern lights, there is no need to travel all that way if seeing the aurora
phenomena is on your bucket list.
We have the southern lights,
otherwise known as aurora australis, right here in our own backyard.
For the weather uninitiated, ABC
Weather reporter Kate Doyle said the process could be compared to that used in
neon lighting.
“The sun excites atoms of gas
in the same way electricity is used to excite the atoms of gas in a neon
tube,” she said.
“When the excited atoms come
back down to earth, as it were, they release their energy in the form of
mesmerising light.
“You could say the aurora
occurs when the sun gets excited and busts out the party lights.”
Tasmanian photographer, Luke
Tscharke, has been taking regular snaps of the state’s solar activity from
Bruny Island, less than an hour’s drive south of Hobart.
“The clearest air in the world
also provides for some of the clearest skies, and when the clouds stay away it
provides an unobstructed view into the cosmos,” he said.
“There is little that can
compare to nights such as these.”
Surrounding light pollution, and its
more northerly location, can make it harder to see the aurora australis in
areas like Breamlea in Victoria, but if there is enough cosmic activity and the
aurora is big enough, you might just be in luck.
I produced the artwork above and below for Mother’s Day
in 2015. I happened to view these artworks again; I still like them.
So, I decided to post them again for this Mother’s Day on Sunday, May
12, 2019. I took some of photographs of cherry blossom in the spring of
2015 at Branch Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey and I incorporated the
Japanese prints to form the artwork for this special day as we remember
motherhood.
The Carrières
de Lumières showcases the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), who painted
during the last 10 years of his life more than 2000 paintings, now scattered
throughout the world. On the 7000 sqm Carrières, this new visual and sound
creation traces the intense life of the artist fascinated by the warm and
colorful colors of Provence.
The clouds, suns and portraits of Van Gogh’s greatest masterpieces come alive
on walls over 15 meters high and reveal the artist’s singular style. The
exhibition evokes Van Gogh’s immeasurable, chaotic and poetic inner world
through his most iconic canvases, from the Starry Night (1889) to the
Sunflowers (1888) to his famous Bedroom painted in Arles. 1889.
Through a thematic tour, discover Van Gogh’s immense production which
evolves over the years. The sun of Provence, which revolutionized its way of
painting, illuminates the gigantic space of Quarries. The expressive
brushstrokes and daring colors are revealed on the walls of Quarries,
highlighting a permanent dialogue between the shadow and the light.
Travel through the different stages of his life
and travel to the heart of his early works to the sunny landscapes and
nocturnals of the South that revealed the artist we know today.
The visual and musical creation produced by
Culturespaces and realized by Gianfranco Iannuzzi, Renato Gatto and
Massimiliano Siccardi, highlights the chromatic richness of the greatest
masterpieces of Van Gogh, set in motion thanks to the advanced technical
equipment AMIEX ®.
Thursday on the NewsHour, the occurrence of another school shooting intensifies the debate about safety in the classroom. Plus: IPO values for ride-share companies, why some sports stars shun President Trump, an interview with House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler about the standoff over the Mueller report, how the Netherlands is reducing waste and “To Kill a Mockingbird” on Broadway.
Wednesday on the NewsHour, a
showdown between the House Judiciary Committee and the Trump White House is
heating up over the Mueller report. Plus: Iran says it will stop abiding by the
provisions of a 2015 nuclear agreement from which the U.S. withdrew last year,
what we’re learning about President Trump’s tax returns, Democratic
presidential candidate John Delaney and inside a megafire.
Humans pushing 1 million species to brink of extinction, says UN report
On this edition for Sunday, May 5,
rocket attacks and airstrikes in a renewed Israel-Gaza conflict, the battle
between the legislative and executive branches over the Mueller report, why an
Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to grow, and
musician Joe Jackson celebrates his 40th anniversary tour. Hari Sreenivasan
anchors from New York.
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Daniel Kish has been blind since he
was 13 months old, but has learned to “see” using a form of
echolocation. He clicks his tongue and sends out flashes of sound that bounce
off surfaces in the environment and return to him, helping him to construct an
understanding of the space around him. In a rousing talk, Kish shows how this
works — and asks us all to let go of our fear of the dark unknown.
This talk was presented at an
official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.
Click looks at how social media is
being used in the Indian elections. We explore the latest wave of AI techniques
being applied to art and go to Japan to see how one company is hoping to make
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Some scientists say the earth’s
climate changes constantly and naturally, but the vast majority of them believe
the current rise in global temperature is man-made, and could be catastrophic
for the planet. But is all this but a case of extreme ‘climate alarmism’?
Climate change sceptic Richard Lindzen is challenged on his view that concern
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independent manner. By doing so we promote understanding between cultures and
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Michigan-based photographer Vincent Brady uses an
elaborate 4-camera rig and lots of software to capture what he calls Planetary
Panoramas. These are somewhat similar to the tiny planet videos we’ve seen the last few months, but the results are
quite a bit more dramatic. He shares about his technique:
While experimenting with different
photography tricks and techniques back in 2012, I was shooting 360 degree
panoramas in the daytime and long exposures of the stars streaking in the sky
at night. It suddenly became clear that the potential to combine the two
techniques could be a trip! Since the Earth is rotating at a steady 1,040 mph I
created a custom rig of 4 cameras with fisheye lenses to capture the entire
night-sky in motion. Thus the images show the stars rotating around the north
star as well as the effect of the southern pole as well and a 360 degree
panorama of the scene on Earth. Each camera is doing nonstop long exposures,
typically about 1 minute consecutively for the life of the camera battery.
Usually about 3 hours. I then made a script to stitch all the thousands of
these panoramas into this time-lapse.
You can learn more about how Brady
makes these and see more of his photography over on his website.
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The Last Day Posts of Ing on Google+ Site April 1, 2019 Part 2
Google + closed their operation on April 2, of this year, 2019. It is more than one week now. The more time goes by, the more I miss people who followed my google + site, and people that contributed their time to post their work in different communities. I decided to present on my website, the contents of last day of posts on my Google+ site, which I had been shared from other members of my community and other Google+ communities.
It is to remind me of human interaction and relationships around the world. Even though I did not see them in person, communication and participation with their ideas, and work, can interconnect our feeling of kinship. I wish all of them the best, and hope we may meet again in the future. The lesson one learns is that we need more interactions and communications between all humans around the world to be able to find kinship with one another. This communication can help reduce human conflict and war that occurs around the world, now, and in the future.
(28th meeting) Intergovernmental Conference on marine biodiversity of areas
beyond national jurisdiction – Second session (25 March -5 April 2019)
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grateful for another week I wish you all to win I also want to thank the affection of your unconditional love relevant and tell you how important they are to me
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To Google+ Family: Thank you for sharing all your creative and wonderful posts. Good luck for the future. May peace be with you and your family always. All the best, Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts ingpeaceproject.com – IngPeaceProject.com | Let there be peace on Eart Finished “Peace” artwork 14 Shadow of peace and Essex County 4-H Scholarship Awards’ attendants, comments on “What does Peace mean to you?” organized by Marissa Blodnik and Greg Walker on Saturday, November 15th, 2014 at Paul Robson Center, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. Finished artwork, after the written comments by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts Links to Ing’s Peace Project and Essex County 4-H Scholarship Awards page, and Finished Artwork of Essex County 4-H Peace Comments page: https://ingpeaceproject.com/2014/11/28/ings-peace-project-and-essex-county-4-h-scholarship-awards/ https://ingpeaceproject.com/2014/12/07/finished-artwork-of-essex-county-4-h-peace-comments/
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The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever……… #friends#art#life#time#music#love
“Puesta de sol en la Alhambra” – Rafael Dueñas
Rafael Dueñas, nace en Granada en 1971. Artista polifacético que ha volcado sus preferencias por la ciudad de Granada y en especial por la Alhambra, sus palacios, fuentes, jardines, etc. y por la recreación libre de escenas basadas en sus cuentos y leyendas.
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‘…do let’s continue to support each other and to seek brotherly love’, wrote Vincent to his brother Theo in 1877. If you had to name someone who never stopped believing in Vincent, that would certainly be Theo. Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Theo van Gogh (1887) #VanGoghBelieves#VanGoghMuseum#Amsterdam#VincentvanGogh#VanGogh#Art
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Google+ is no longer available for consumer (personal) and brand accounts
From all of us on the Google+ team,
thank you for making Google+ such a special place.
What happened to Google+?
In December 2018, we announced our decision to shut down Google+ for consumers in April 2019.
Other Google products (such as Gmail, Google Photos, Google Drive, YouTube) were not shut down as part of the consumer Google+ shutdown and you can continue using those products. The Google Account you use to sign in to these services will remain. Note that photos and videos already backed up in Google Photos will not be deleted. Learn more
What happened to my Google+ content?
We are in the process of deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts and Google+ pages. This process will take a few months to complete, and content may remain through this time. In the meantime, if you previously created content on Google+, you may be able to download and save your remaining Google+ content and delete your Google+ profile. You may also be able to view and delete your remaining Google+ activity.
If I also use Google+ with my G Suite account, for example at work or school, how will I be impacted?
Google+ for G Suite will continue as a way for people across an organization to have discussions. Learn more about how we’re continuing our investment in Google+ for G Suite.
If you’re not sure if your organization uses G Suite, you can check here. G Suite customers may see some changes to Google+ features related to the consumer Google+ shutdown. You can find more details here or you can talk to your G Suite administrator to learn more.
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Di-Octo. All stainless steel kinetic wind sculpture. Silent operation. 25’6?h x 10’w x 4’6?”d (7.8m h x 3m w x 1.4m d) 1,600lbs (725kg)
Artist Anthony Howe (previously) continues to amaze with his gargantuan kinetic sculptures powered by wind or motors that cycle continuously through hypnotic motions that resemble something between the tentacles of an octopus and an alien spacecraft. Weighing up to 1,600 lbs (725kg), each artwork is first built digitally to test how it will move and react to the force of wind once fabricated in the real world. Seen here are three new sculptures titled Di-Octo, In Cloud Light III, and Switchback. You can see more recent work in his portfolio.
All photographs © Ben Simon Rehn, shared courtesy of the artist
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