Question: Describe symptoms of a traumatic breakup and mental health conditions associated with it.

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"Can a breakup cause PTSD?"
Zocdoc›Answers›Can a breakup cause PTSD?
I feel as though I'm suffering from PTSD but no one believes me.
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder which is triggered by a traumatic event in your life. There is no absolute list of traumatic events that can and cannot cause PTSD. Therefore, a traumatic breakup could cause PTSD. The question is whether you are having symptoms of PTSD that can specifically be tracked to this breakup. PTSD causes symptoms that include unwanted flashbacks of the event in question, anxiety, difficulty sleeping, and nightmares. The symptoms must last longer than 30 days after the event for it to be called PTSD. The symptoms of PTSD and other anxiety disorders are sometimes difficult to distinguish. In addition, PTSD overlaps with many other symptoms of depression. In many cases, people with the diagnosis of PTSD also have diagnoses of depression. Traumatic breakups almost always cause disturbances in mood that can look like depression, anxiety, PTSD or other mental problems. If your breakup happened very recently, then you may be experiencing normal human emotions associated with the event. If the breakup happened many months ago, then you should be evaluated for one of the mentioned mental conditions. I suggest that you schedule an appointment with your primary care physician. He or she will listen to your description of your symptoms and determine if there is cause for concern. If there is, then you may warrant referral to a psychiatrist.
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Question: What are the details on the revised version of the health care reform bill?

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Democrats unveiled their revised version of health care reform Tuesday, offering a proposal that includes a government-funded health insurance option, requires both individuals and employers to participate, and taxes the wealthy to help cover costs.
President Obama has urged Congress to work quickly on creating a health care reform bill.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, said the bill is intended to repair a "dysfunctional" health care system that is draining the U.S. economy while leaving 46 million Americans without health insurance.
"We are going to accomplish what many people felt wouldn't happen in our lifetime," he said.
But House Republicans slammed the Democrats' bill and pledged to try to amend it as three House committees begin considering the legislation later this week.
Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Missouri, said the bill "without any question will kill jobs, will limit access to health care, will raise taxes and will lead to a government takeover of health care." Blunt said he will offer an amendment requiring all elected federal officials, including Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, to enroll in the new public insurance option.
Republicans and some fiscally conservative Democrats also question the cost of health care reform. An earlier draft of the House Democrats' bill carried a price tag of $1 trillion over 10 years.
The Congressional Budget Office said the revised house bill also would cost $1 trillion. However, a senior Democratic House committee staffer said the CBO analysis only covered costs without factoring in cost-saving measures worth $500 billion over 10 years or the revenue from tax surcharges on wealthy Americans, estimated to raise more than $500 billion over a decade.
According to the CBO, the bill would cover 97 percent of Americans by 2015.
The bill includes tax surcharges on Americans in the top 1.2 percent of income. It proposes a 5.4 percent surtax on couples earning more than $1 million, a 1.5 percent surtax on couples with income between $500,000 and $1 million, and a 1 percent surtax on joint incomes over $350,000 or individual income over $280,000.
Anticipating Republican complaints that the tax surcharges would harm small business owners who report their income as personal, Democratic sponsors said the measure would affect less than 5 percent of all small business owners.
A statement Tuesday from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups opposed some of the bill's proposals, calling for market forces and employer autonomy instead of mandated participation by businesses.
"Exempting some micro-businesses will not prevent this provision from killing many jobs," the statement said.
The House bill now goes to three committees for debate and revision before consideration by the full chamber. The Senate also is considering health reform measures that contain some of the House bill provisions.
Obama has said he wants both chambers to pass their respective proposals before Congress goes on its August recess as part of a timetable to get a final bill to his desk by the end of the year.
House Republican Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia argued that the current economic conditions mean Congress should take its time on a major overhaul of the health care system.
"There's no need for us to be rushing into passing legislation before the end of this month at the potential cost of, really, millions of jobs," Cantor said Tuesday.
A CNN-Opinion Research Corp. survey released July 1 found that a slim majority -- 51 percent -- support Obama's health care plans, but most worry that their costs would go up, and only one in five think their families would be better off.


Question: Tell me more about the JEDI project.

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“We are at an advanced stage,” André Loesekrug-Pietri, the mind behind the project, told EURACTIV in an interview. He conceded that the tech ecosystem in Europe is incapable of retaining its own talents, who prefer to try their luck in the US, where the culture of maximum risk has brought groundbreaking advances.
Like the 60-year-old DARPA, an agency of the United States Department of Defence responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military, JEDI will base its approach on meeting key development challenges rather than prescriptive specifications.
From its foundation in 1958, DARPA’s mission has been to fill the gap between academic work and the incremental innovation done by the military. Without DARPA, the world would have probably not seen projects that led to the creation of the internet, Global Positioning System, driverless cars, stealth, SpaceX and Siri.
The idea also for JEDI is to develop dozens of operational prototypes every year within timeframes of months rather than year, which is currently the case.
Projects will not last more than two years. By striving to get a prototype, it will be simpler to get investors and industrialists that would eventually be interested in producing and marketing the innovation.
“JEDI aims to encourage a winning mindset through a radical step change in term of risk-taking, project funding and speed of execution. The goal is to regain our technology leadership and thus restore our strategic and economic independence,” Loesekrug-Pietri added.
So far, France and Germany are behind the initiative. But the aim is to gain the interest and trust of the other 25 EU member states.
Unlike DARPA, however, the European sister will not function as an agency, but rather as a very lean, agile and responsible structure.
The permanent structure will be kept to a minimum, say the initiators. Ten project managers will each coach one or more selected funded projects full time. They will be seconded for a period of two years – renewable once – from leading research centres.
The human capital factor here is crucial, explained another firm supporter of JEDI, Jean-Paul Palomeros, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander. Like DARPA, the goal will be for JEDI to be perceived as a career booster, thus attracting the best talents.
“We are ready to go: the 10 programme managers have been identified and so are the technology priorities—AI, cybersecurity, components, computing power, biotechnologies, energy storage and nanotechnologies.
But JEDI will work hard to eliminate ‘stovepipes’ through cross-fertilisation between disciplines.
The provisional budget is estimated at €235 million for 2018, the launch year, with €228 million for project funding and €7 million for operating costs. But the aim is to go up to €1 billion a year once the initiative gets going.
In comparison, DARPA has around 220 employees and an annual budget of $3 billion. It employs 100 project managers to oversee some 250 R&D projects in six specialised fields, including biotechnology, information innovation and microsystem technology.
To bring on board other countries will not be easy. When Macron proposed the initiative, Carlos Moedas, EU Research commissioner, said the idea was identical to the European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot with a total budget of €2.7 billion for three years. But most EIC tools have a strong focus on close-to-market innovation.
The goal is to stay ahead of the game rather than follow others – US and China. Time is the essence, insisted Loesekrug-Pietri, stressing that technology development cycles are getting shorter and shorter.


Question: Have you heard about the recent study on restorative yoga for weight loss? Are there any DVDs out there that you would recommend for this type of practice?

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This news may confuse and/or disappoint many people searching “yoga for weight loss” or those already enrolled in a sweaty vinyasa-thon to shed a few pounds in the new year. As it turns out, it may be restorative yoga that you really need to lose weight and feel better, according to a new study.
The 48-week study, conducted by Maria G. Araneta, PhD, MPH, of the University of California, San Diego, found that regular restorative yoga was a better means of losing weight and maintaining it than stretching exercises.
The study involved two groups of women, one doing restorative yoga versus a second doing stretching exercises. The yoga group had a mean age of 55 and the stretch group a mean age of 54, and all participants had metabolic syndrome as defined by International Diabetes Foundation (IDF) criteria. The participants started out with semi-weekly classes and then weekly classes during the first 12 weeks. After that it was bi-weekly until the 6-month mark. For the final weeks, almost another whole 6 months, participants were asked to continue their yoga or stretching on their own with classes only once a month.
By the end of the study, both groups had lost weight, but the restorative group lost 2.5 times the amount of subcutaneous fat (the kind found right under the skin that, in excess, is unhealthy) than the stretch group and managed to maintain the loss while the stretch group regained almost half of what it lost by the end of the study.
How can this be? The researchers are still looking for the definitive answer, but a strong theory points to cortisol levels. During restorative yoga, students hold poses for up to 5-10 minutes using multiple props for support and maximum relaxation. When the body is relaxed, stress is reduced and levels of cortisol (the stress hormone known for helping to increase stored abdominal fat) go down. This can also be referred to as the Relaxation Response.
Yoga has already shown promise for people with diabetes helping to steady blood sugar and maybe trim extra weight. Don’t go throwing in your yoga mat towel just yet. This isn’t to say that aerobic exercise isn’t a good way to stay healthy, in fact, the study’s main author stated that rather than a replacement, restorative yoga is a “complementary, ancient practice.” But it can mean that people who were intimidated by yoga based on body size or ability, those who are possibly obese, can have a more accessible way to practice yoga and reap the benefits of the gentle movements when another option might not be practical.
I hate to disappoint those acro-yogis (no, I actually LOVE to lord it over them–having been formerly obese, thankyouverymuch; and made to feel less than by those acro-snobs), but restorative yoga burns more than half the number of calories per hour than does acro-yoga … so, suckit!!!
Visceral fat is the dangerous fat for metabolic syndrome; subcutaneous fat is more easily shed and does not affect the organs (sub= under; cutaneous= referring to skin). I think no kind of yoga practice really addresses visceral fat as well as does aerobic strength and toning–the upright-done kind. possibly with light weights; which uses primarily the large muscles of the body (i.e., legs) and makes you breathe rapidly–whether deeply or shallowly. That is strict cardio: not Ashtanga, not power yoga, not acro-yoga, etc. ….
Any recommendations for restorative yoga on DVD?
How about Barbara Benagh … ?
and try to find something associated with Judith Hanson Lassiter (book, class, workshop) if you could.
I appreciate the prompt suggestion.
You didn’t get many suggestions on what DVDs to get, so I thought I’d throw my hat in the ring–Big Yoga® is an adapted yoga program for anyone challenged by extra weight, stiffness, injury or neglect. the Flex-Ability DVDs is an excellent starting point, then Hatha 1 is more challenging.
Another suggestion for Ann: any DVD put out by Jillian Pransky, an expert in restorative yoga (and one of my teacher mentors, I’m proud to say). If I’m not mistaken, that’s her in the photo!
While I am a huge fan of restorative yoga, real weight loss occurs with cardio vascular training. Restorative yoga specifically helped with metabolic syndrome which is a huge endocrine system issue which is why the reduced cortisol helped with weight loss. If you are like me and eat too many cookies restorative is just not gonna do it.


Question: What happened to the town of Minamisanriku after the earthquake?

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The small port town of Minamisanriku, which is located in the Miyagi Prefecture, close to the epicenter of Friday’s 8.9-magnitude earthquake, is a popular tourist destination, and has been utterly devastated by the quake and resulting tsunami.
Saturday in Japan, Kyodo News Agency reported that 9,500 out of 17,000 residents were unaccounted for in the fishing community, as the area has been one of the hardest hit by the disaster. Government officials stated that the fate of the missing was still unknown more than 24 hours following the earthquake, as there has been no contact those who are missing. Local authorities are unsure if the residents fled in the wake of the quake, or if they were wiped out by the destruction.
Minamisanriku is located along the Pacific coastline, and its economy relies mostly on tourism and commercial fishing, where its hauls include silver salmon, kelp, shark fin, tuna, abalone, oysters and scallops, according to CNN.
The confirmed death toll had exceeded 680 on Saturday night, but is expected to grow even higher in the following days. Early Sunday morning in Japan, Kyodo News reported that the number of those missing or dead could exceed 1,800, not counting the number from Minamisanriku.


Question: Give an explanation of Vladimir Putin's plans to run for the Russian presidency in 2018. Respond in detail.

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Vladimir Putin has confirmed that he will seek another term in office in next year’s presidential election.
“Yes, I will run as a candidate for the Russian presidency,” Putin said. He was meeting with workers at the country’s historic manufacturer, GAZ (Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod), in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod on Wednesday.
"Our country is its people, people like you," the Russian leader said, addressing workers and veterans of the plant. "It's workers, scientists, engineers, designers, teachers and doctors," Putin said, adding that with the "active involvement" of its people, Russia "can deal with any, even the most complex challenges it faces."
"Russia will go only forward and no one will ever stop it," he added.
Earlier in the day, the president attended the Russian Volunteer 2017 award ceremony in Moscow, where he asked the audience whether they would support his decision to run. The answer was seemingly a unanimous "Yes."
"When I make [the decision], I will certainly keep in mind our conversation today and your reaction," Putin said. He added that "the motive behind [this very responsible decision] can be only the desire to make people's lives in our country better and make the country itself more powerful and protected."
The upcoming election on March 18 will be the fourth in Putin’s political career. He held the office of president for two terms from 2000 to 2008, and served as prime minister from 2008 to 2012. Putin then won a third term as president in 2012.
Earlier, Russian media reported that he may run as an independent candidate. The Russian president enjoys a high approval rating, with over 82 percent of Russians supporting him according to a poll conducted by state-run VTSIOM in late September.
Several other people, including an unprecedented number of women, have announced their candidacy. Liberal-Democratic Party head Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Communist Party’s Gennady Zyuganov, the liberal Yabloko party’s Grigory Yavlinsky, journalist and singer-songwriter Ekaterina Gordon, celebrity and activist Ksenia Sobchak, and business ombudsman Boris Titov have all announced their plans to run.


Question: Describe how French president Emmanuel Macron's visit to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises was met with criticism from opposition politicians.

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France's President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday urged his compatriots to moan less, saying the country would be better off if they emulated wartime leader Charles de Gaulle.
Macron -- on a visit to the northeastern village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, known as the home and burial place of the former president -- made his comments after speaking to a pensioner who complained he only had a small pension.
"The grandson of the general (Charles de Gaulle) told me a little while ago" that his grandfather's rule was: "You can speak freely, the only thing we should not do is to complain."
"I think that the general had the right idea. The country would be different if everyone did the same," Macron said.
"We don't realise how lucky we are. We are seeing more and more elderly people in our country in good health," he added.
Reacting on Twitter, leader of France's far-right National Rally -- formerly the National Front -- Marine Le Pen, wrote: "Those who complain don't do it just for the fun of it but because they are the victims of non-stop tax rises and endemic insecurity."
Marcon's comments came a week after the government unveiled billions of euros in tax relief for businesses and households, alongside more budget cuts.
Pensions and welfare benefits will be shaved further in the 2019 budget -- Macron complained in June that France spends "a crazy amount of dough" on social programmes.
In August, he also came under attack from the opposition after he described the French as "Gauls who are resistant to change" during a trip to Denmark.
Macron made the comments in an exchange with French expatriates in the Scandinavian country, which he admires for its economic model that mixes a strong social security system with rules allowing companies to easily fire workers.


Question: Describe the podcast episode "Long Delays".

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Is SETA really just local SETI? It makes sense to me, and to Alan Penny, coordinator of the UK SETI Research Network. We talk to Dr. Penny about the future of SETI. Then, we talk to another Scottish astronomer Duncan Lunan about the scientific mystery of the Long Delay Echoes. Are the LDEs from a Bracewell Probe?
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Musician Rich Kosak talks about starting his KISS Tribute Band Mr. Speed 22 years ago, meeting the real KIIS, being on The World's Greatest Tribute Bands, doing the KISS makeup, their fans and a special live acoustic performance. We played "Rock and Roll All Nite" by Mr. Speed. In Moments With Michael, you get to know the PodCast Of 1000s host Michael as he tells you his favorite joke.
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Citing legal pressure, last December one of the most popular unauthorized IPTV providers in the UK announced that it would only serve existing customers moving forward. That has now developed into a full shutdown, leaving customers and resellers of the service high and dry. While many are quite rightly annoyed, more experienced users understand how these things work.


Question: Please provide a summary of Constantin Gheorghe Banu. Respond in 3 sentences.

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Constantin Gheorghe Banu (March 20, 1873 – September 8, 1940) was a Romanian writer, journalist and politician, who served as Arts and Religious Affairs Minister in 1922–1923. He is remembered in literary history as the founder of "Flacăra" review, which he published in two editions, alongside Petre Locusteanu, Ion Pillat, Adrian Maniu, and, later, Vintilă Russu-Șirianu. A best-selling magazine for its time, it functioned as a launching pad for several writers of the Romanian Symbolist movement.


Question: What can you tell me about the movie Crazy Rich Asians?

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'Crazy Rich Asians' secrets revealed!
Entertainment Weekly's latest cover story goes behind the scenes of next summer's buzziest film.
Crazy Rich Asians fans, check it. Entertainment Weekly's latest cover story goes behind the scenes with an exclusive look at next summer's buzziest film, which features a rare all-Asian principal cast that includes Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Harry Shum Jr., Ken Jeong, Gemma Chan and Awkwafina.
Based on the hugely popular bestselling novel by Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians follows Rachel Chu, a Chinese American economics professor who accompanies her boyfriend Nick back to his hometown of Singapore for his best friend's wedding. That's when she realizes Nick's family is not just rich -- they're crazy rich. He is perhaps the most eligible bachelor in Asia, and every single woman in his ultra-rarefied social class is incredibly jealous of Rachel and wants to bring her down.
"This is about a girl going somewhere that's foreign to her, to really find out who she is," Wu, who plays Rachel, tells EW. "It's just such a beautiful story, to show an Asian American immigrant going back to Asia and finding the things that overlap and connect us all, things like family, things like love."
Since Crazy Rich Asians hit shelves in 2014, fans have been clamoring to see big screen versions of Rachel, Nick and the rest of the Young clan. A movie adaptation seemed inevitable, though not without the usual eye-rolling Hollywood pitfalls us Asian folk are used to seeing. Kwan remembers one early meeting with a potential producer who asked him to reimagine Rachel Chu as -- surprise, suprise! -- a white woman. Actually, absolutely nobody should be surprised by this. But the author wasn't having it.
"I was like, 'Well, you've missed the point completely," Kwan recalls to EW. "I said, 'No, thank you.'"
As you will probably hear many times from now until next August, this is the first Hollywood studio film in years to feature an all-Asian cast, and the significance -- as well as the importance of delivering a hit -- isn't lost on director Jon M. Chu. Can you blame him for feeling a little bit of the #repsweats?
"There's the feeling that if you don't make a great movie, then all of this is for nothing," Chu says. Still, as EW puts it, this is not Crazy Rich Asians Who Will Solve All of Hollywood's Representation Problems. It can't be. It shouldn't have to be. "We need many stories," Chu says. "We need another rom-com that's totally different from Crazy Rich Asians. There just needs to be more."
That's the thing, isn't it? Crazy Rich Asians wouldn't have so much scrutiny and hype around it if we didn't have to wait a decade or two to see another movie like it. No one movie should have to shoulder the representational responsibility of being "the one." There has to be room for more films, different films, and frankly, room to fail.
For now, Crazy Rich Asians is what we've got, so excuse us for being kind of excited.
Crazy Rich Asians is scheduled to hit theaters on August 17, 2018.
More on Entertainment Weekly's cover story here.


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BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, bittorrent client.
BiglyBT is the continuation of the Vuze/Azureus open source project first created in 2003, and is being actively developed by the original coders.
We've kept all of the features you love, while dropping the ones you probably don't (such as ads and third party software).
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Question: "Nice to know I'm getting a new more informative interface for the hardware.. Which is still running great. With the trees bare, I can see planes in Canada again.. I really appreciate and like this new client version and also the update for PF Radar - a massive improvement. Many thanks to the Support team for providing this."

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Today we are really pleased to announce the public test release of 3.5 for Linux armhf (Raspberry Pi).
A lot of work has gone into making this release and we've added some great new features.
Web pages now look a lot more like planefinder.net and a lot less "developery", why should your local web view look rubbish!?!
Photos - the client now shows the latest photo we have for an aircraft.
Extra data - We now source some data from inside the Plane Finder systems and return them to you! This means that without having to mess around with an SQB file we will give you the aircraft type, registration, flight number and the route!
API Key - For those that like to expose their client to the internet or a different hostname you can now create and add an API key.
If this all goes well there will be a formal release after the holidays! In the mean time you can download it manually here!
Nice to know I'm getting a new more informative interface for the hardware.. Which is still running great. With the trees bare, I can see planes in Canada again..
I really appreciate and like this new client version and also the update for PF Radar - a massive improvement. Many thanks to the Support team for providing this.
Is this on a Plane Finder Radar or a Radarcape?
Please can you explain "not working anymore"?
We have never supported MLAT on the Raspberry Pi I'm afraid. Only Plane Finder Radar and Radarcape.
MLAT can be done without a GPS but we decided not to do it as it can be very inaccurate.
This was a bug on the server side we have fixed.
Your installation was not generating MLAT data but was getting the results for "free".
MLAT data is available on planefinder.net or you can buy a Plane Finder Radar from our shop.
Also, setting your client installation to a Radarcape as I suspect you are doing when it's not installed on a Radarcape will simply start triggering our blocking!
This is, because beast-splitter provides data in Radarcape format .......... - better to use Beast format?
Yes, as technically it is all Beast format and you certainly don't have a Radarcape!
Thanks, I have re-enabled the client.
We do use MLAT ourselves but found the accuracy of non GPS systems to be really bad so we don't use these at all. We had a working system and were not happy with the compromises that we had to make.
This is why we designed our own receiver with a <50ns accuracy (around 15 metres) and this way we get some great MLAT plots!
Ok - understand the reason and Your position.
Don`t get me wrong - my words was not meant as criticism on Your system and decisions!
Would Planefinder use my data for MLAT calculations if I add Adafruit GPS HAT to my Pi2?


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The 1995 Rio de Janeiro motorcycle Grand Prix was the eleventh round of the 1995 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 17 September 1995 at the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet.


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U.S. Men's National Team head coach Dave Sarachan has added some potent experience to the group of prospects in the MNT’s next generation, calling 24 players to Tampa to prepare for the Kickoff Series matches against two more top-25 opponents in South American foes Colombia and Peru.
The final home match of the Kickoff Series pits the MNT against 21st ranked Peru on Oct. 16 at Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn. ESPN2, UniMas and UDN will broadcast live beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Fans can follow both matches on U.S. Soccer's official Facebook, Twitter (@ussoccer_MNT) and Instagram (@ussoccer_MNT) accounts.
All six of the MNT opponents in the Kickoff Series are in the Top 25 of the FIFA World Rankings. Having fallen to Brazil (3) before shutting out Mexico (15), the U.S. will close out the series away to England (6) and Italy (20). The six-match set will provide the aspiring young U.S. side with top-level competition at the start of their four-year journey toward the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The MNT welcomes Christian Pulisic into the fold for the first time as a 20-year-old, the 2017 U.S. Soccer Male Athlete of the Year having missed out on the September camp through injury. Joining him are a pair of 12-year veterans in Michael Bradley and Brad Guzan, both returning after a year-long absence. Bradley ranks fourth all-time in appearances for the Men’s National Team and is tied for second with assists (22). Guzan ranks in the top five among MNT goalkeepers with 58 caps (fifth), 30 wins (fourth) and 18 clean sheets (fifth), and is currently minding the nets for MLS Supporters Shield leaders Atlanta United FC. This will also be the second camp in 2018 for John Brooks, who last year moved to VfL Wolfsburg on a record transfer fee for a U.S. international.
After strong tests against Brazil and Mexico in September, the USA will face two more challenges against Colombia and Peru this month. Both took part in the 2018 FIFA World Cup and will bring at least half of the squads that went to Russia for their matches against the MNT.
Highlighting Colombia’s squad are 12 World Cup players, including midfielders James Rodríguez (Bayern Munich) and Juan Cuadrado (Juventus), forwards Radamel Falcao (Monaco) and Carlos Bacca (Villarreal) as well as Atlético Madrid defender Santiago Arias and Napoli goalkeeper David Ospina.
While youngsters are getting their opportunity with the MNT, many of them are rising to the senior team after advancing through U.S. Soccer's development pathway. A total of 12 players have been on the final roster at a Youth World Cup, while 16 have come through the U.S. Soccer Development Academy.
As of Oct. 1, 2018, the roster carries an average age of 23 years, 168 days, while 15 players are 23 years and under.
The October MNT roster averages 18 caps, with 17 players holding less than 10 appearances.
Having missed out on the MNT’s September camp due to injury, Christian Pulisic has returned to the field in fine form for Borussia Dortmund, recording two goals and two assists in the club’s last four matches across all competitions.
The 24-player roster is punctuated by the returns of long-time MNT veterans Michael Bradley and Brad Guzan, who make their first camp appearances since October 2017.
Having made his MNT debut in 2006, Bradley ranks inside the top 10 for all-time appearances (140; fourth), assists (22; second-tied) and goals (17; ninth-tied).
Another 2006 debutante, Guzan ranks in the top five among MNT goalkeepers with 58 caps (fifth), 30 wins (fourth) and 18 clean sheets (fifth).
Sixteen players return from the MNT’s September camp, while 12 took part in the USA’s 1-0 win against rivals Mexico on Sept. 11 in Nashville.
One of 15 players to make their senior-team debuts this year, Antonee Robinson leads the MNT with two assists, providing helpers to Tim Weah (May 28 vs. Bolivia) and Tyler Adams (Sept. 11 vs. Mexico).
Midfielders Tyler Adams and Wil Trapp lead all players on the roster with six MNT appearances in 2018. The pair has only missed out on the 3-0 win against Bolivia on May 28 in Chester, Pa.
Last seen during the MNT’s 1-1 draw with France back in June, 18-year-old Josh Sargent has had a strong start to his competitive tenure at Werder Bremen, leading the club’s reserve side with six goals in 10 matches.
The Peru match will grant midfielder Kenny Saief a return to the site of his MNT debut, which came on July 1, 2017 in a 2-1 win against Ghana in East Hartford, Conn.
Andrija Novakovich joins Amon in leading the MNT’s European contingent with four goals scored this season with Fortuna Sittard in the Dutch Eredivisie.
Three players earn their first MNT call-ups: defenders Reggie Cannon and Ben Sweat and midfielder Jonathan Amon.
The trio will join September camp returnee Aaron Long in looking for their first international caps during this month’s friendlies against Colombia and Peru.
A right back in the midst of his second MLS season, Reggie Cannon has appeared in each of FC Dallas’ 30 matches, adding a goal and three assists for the Western Conference leaders.
Similarly, left back Ben Sweat has been a stalwart for New York City FC in 2018, appearing in 27 of 32 matches to help the club clinch a third-consecutive postseason berth.
Also in his second season with Nordsjælland, 19-year-old winger Jonathan Amon has recorded four goals in eight matches across all competitions for the Danish side this campaign.
Four players took part in the MNT’s last meeting with Colombia, coming in the Third-Place Match of Copa America Centenario on June 25, 2016: Bradley, Pulisic, Wood and Yedlin.
Twelve players have been part of a final U.S. roster at a youth World Cup: Kellyn Acosta, Tyler Adams, Michael Bradley, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Ethan Horvath, Matt Miazga, Christian Pulisic, Josh Sargent, Zack Steffen, Wil Trapp, Tim Weah and DeAndre Yedlin.


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The Forum was a vocal group organized by Les Baxter whose members were Phil Campos, Riselle Bain and Rene Nole who would marry Campos.


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This Mod is Discontinued Until Further Notice!
O.R.E is a advanced ore-generation mod brought to you by the "Acronym Coders" group. The mod was build from scratch to fill the gap left behind from the CoFH world generation. Our goal with this mod is to provide the users with a simple user friendly but also powerful tool to completely customize and tailor fit their world gen to fit their needs or themes for their Minecraft world.
Disable vanilla ore spawn (modded coming soon™).
Add your own custom ore generations using JSON.
Select form 3 different pre built generator models for ore spawning [Clusters | Veins | Geodes].
You can read more about our generator models here at out Wiki.
This mod requires B.A.S.E to function.
B.A.S.E is the fundamental library used by the "Acronym Coders". The mod contains all the base functions for our mods but also provide the user with a powerful interface where you can create custom materials and ores using a simple JSON file. Check out B.A.S.E for more info.
O.R.E also ships with a embed mod named World-Stripper made by EwyBoy. The mod allows for easy debugging your custom world gen by stripping away all the terrain. You can read more about how World-Stripper works here.
Can we have a 1.7.10 version?
We will not be backporting the mod.
We instead recommend CoFHCore's Json Oregen System which is far more complete than this would ever be if backported to 1.7.10.
Is this still under development? And does it work to "regen" ores in terrain that never had ores? In specific, I want to use this to make maps with mostly stone underground, and use this to generate some ores after design.
ps. is "A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. C.O.D.E.R.S." an acronym? Because that would be lovely.
Given the current alpha-state of the mod, would you recommend waiting for it to mature further before putting it to work, or can it be used if one works around any rough edges?
At the current state I'd wait and hold off.
I do want to warn that the mod is in Alpha and will be going through a recode sometime in the future due to things being currently broken.


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James Rust (1798 – 24 July 1875) was a British Conservative politician.
Rust was first elected Conservative MP for Huntingdonshire at a by-election in 1855—caused by the succession of William Montagu to 7th Duke of Manchester. He was again elected at the 1857 general election, although the vote unusually resulted in a triple return with his fellow incumbent Conservative MP Edward Fellowes securing the same number of votes as the Whig cricketer John Heathcote. After scrutiny, Heathcote was declared unduly elected a few months later. Rust held the seat until the 1859 general election when he did not stand.


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BLACK HOLE SUN The 2017 Great American Eclipse was visible across all of North America. This image captures the moment of totality from Casper, Wyo.
2. Showing Einstein was right is not so simple.
Physicists chased the moon’s shadow to redo the iconic experiment that showed Einstein’s theory of general relativity was correct (SN Online: 8/15/17). In Einstein’s view, the sun’s mass should warp spacetime enough that the positions of stars should appear to be slightly different during an eclipse. During the May 1919 solar eclipse, British astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington took photographs that proved Einstein right.
During the 2017 eclipse, almost a century later, amateur astronomer Donald Bruns of San Diego made similar measurements with modern equipment and came to the same conclusion as Eddington: Stars visible during the eclipse were all askew. Bruns published his results in Classical and Quantum Gravity in March.
Schaefer had enough trouble that he thinks it may have been impossible for Eddington to get the precision he claimed. The earlier astronomer may have hit upon the right answer by luck, not because he actually measured it.
3. Infrared light will help measure the corona’s magnetic field.
Some eclipse experiments didn’t revolutionize our understanding of the sun on their own, but will enable future ones to pull back the veil. One of these was the first infrared observations of the sun’s corona, the shimmering halo of hot, diffuse plasma that is only visible in its entirety during a total solar eclipse. The shape and motion of all that plasma are guided by magnetic fields, but the corona’s magnetic field is so weak that it has never been measured directly (SN Online: 8/16/17).
Previous studies suggested that infrared wavelengths of light might be particularly sensitive to the corona’s magnetic field. So two groups chased the August 2017 eclipse in airplanes to get some infrared observations. Amir Caspi of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and his colleagues took the first infrared image of the entire corona.
Flying in another aircraft, Jenna Samra of Harvard University measured the corona in five specific wavelengths, one of which had never been seen before. Comparing those results with observations taken from the ground in Casper, Wyo., (where I watched the eclipse) showed that those wavelengths are bright enough that a telescope now under construction in Hawaii will be able to help map the corona’s magnetism (SN Online: 5/29/18).
4. Figuring out what heats the corona will take more work.
Almost every experiment aimed at the eclipsed sun last August had some bearing on the biggest solar mystery of all: Why is the corona so hot? The solar surface simmers at around 5500° Celsius, but the corona — despite being farther away from the solar furnace and made of much more diffuse material — rages at millions of degrees.
One year after the Great American Eclipse, scientists are still scratching their heads. Caspi’s team searched for waves rippling through the corona, which could distribute energy far from the solar surface. Those waves could also help comb out magnetic tangles in the corona and explain its well-ordered look (SN Online: 8/17/17).
In a complementary measurement, the group in Wyoming saw signs of neutral helium atoms in the corona, says solar physicist Philip Judge of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. Those uncharged atoms probably represent cool material embedded in the corona (SN Online: 6/16/17).
Similar cool spots have been seen during earlier eclipses, although it’s hard to imagine how the cool atoms survive in the searing heat, like ice cubes remaining solid in hot soup. But collisions between charged ions and neutral atoms could help convert ordered motions, like Caspi’s waves, into coronal heat.
The results so far are interesting, but inconclusive, Caspi says. “It’s certainly possible we will get some very interesting results from this set of observations alone,” he says. But for such a big problem as coronal heating, eclipse observations may play a supporting role to more direct measurements, such as those that the recently launched Parker Solar Probe will make (SN Online: 8/12/18).
5. People are already looking to the next eclipse.
A survey done by researchers at the University of Michigan found that eclipse watchers sought more information about eclipses and the scientific questions involved an average of 16 times in the three months following the event.
Several research groups are planning observations for the next total eclipses, visible in South America in July 2019 and December 2020 (SN: 8/5/17, p. 32). Caspi and Samra’s teams both hope to fly through those eclipses in aircraft again.
And amateurs and pros alike are preparing for the Great American Eclipse version 2.0, which will cross from Texas to Maine in 2024.
“Everybody’s eyes are on 2024,” Caspi says.


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Jean-François de Neufforge (1 April 1714 – 19 December 1791) was a Belgian architect and engraver, known for his "Recueil elementaire d'architecture", a book of architectural engravings.
Jean-François de Neufforge was born on 1 April 1714 in Comblain-au-Pont, close to Liege, to a family of gentry whose fortunes had declined by the time of his birth due to the revolutions and religious wars that had ravaged the low countries. He had one brother and one sister.


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Pennella exocoeti is a large ectoparasitic copepod, a specialist parasite of flying fish. The adult female copepod clings to the fish's gills or skin and feeds on its body fluids.


Question: What can you tell me about Conwy railway station?

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Conwy railway station serves the ancient walled town of Conwy, Wales, and is located on the Crewe to Holyhead North Wales Coast Line. There are through services to Chester via Colwyn Bay, Rhyl, Prestatyn and Flint in one direction and to Bangor & Holyhead in the other. After arrival at Chester, most trains go forward to either Crewe, Cardiff or Birmingham International.
The station was opened by the Chester and Holyhead Railway on 1 May 1848; it was closed as part of the Beeching cuts on 14 February 1966 but reopened on 29 June 1987 as a request stop. Upon reopening, the Welsh spelling "Conwy" was adopted, in contrast to the Anglicised form "Conway" used until closure in 1966.


Question: Write a poem about un-feeling someone.

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a clean glass. You never found me.
with black soil and rotting on the ground.
stripped of my quiet multitudes.
even the floorboards were candles.
I’ll blot a circle of lipstick off my shirt and cringe at the physicality.
The sun goes out and under.
I am fighting everything to un-feel you.
JOHN LEONARD is a writer of fiction, poetry, and essays. He received a BA in English from Indiana University South Bend where he minored in Creative writing and is currently studying to receive his Masters. His previous works have appeared in Analecta, Tributaries, and The Jawline Review.


Question: Discuss the collaboration between Uniqlo and Jonathan Anderson.

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 Discuss the collaboration between Uniqlo and Jonathan Anderson.

LONDON, United Kingdom — Japanese apparel giant Uniqlo is collaborating with Jonathan Anderson. The Irish designer, who is creative director of Loewe as well as his namesake London-based label, joins a roll call of major designers and other figures who have previously collaborated with the brand, including Jil Sander, Carine Roitfeld and Inès de la Fressange.
Speaking to BoF, John C. Jay, Fast Retailing's president of global creative, said of Anderson: "He is both a connoisseur of tradition and yet he defies tradition... The British tradition of dress — sweaters, trench coats — all of these things are very interesting to us, so how do we take that essential and give it a fresh spin? We need help with that, we need someone to develop it. And someone with his eye and his talent, it's extraordinary." Uniqlo may not consider itself a fashion brand, but designers like Anderson "help us redefine what a basic is. Let's rethink that. That's why we need their talent," continued Jay.
Anderson, 33, rose to prominence on the London Fashion Week schedule as a provocative menswear designer. He launched womenswear in 2010 and was appointed creative director of the Spanish leather goods brand Loewe in 2013. The designer's collaboration with Uniqlo sees him return to the high street for the first time since 2012, when he designed two limited edition collections of clothing and accessories for British retailer Topshop, both of which sold out within hours of launch.
Uniqlo parent Fast Retailing expects to post record operating profit in the year to August 2017.


Question: Describe the Blue Ledge Mine. Respond in 31 words.

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The Blue Ledge Mine is an inactive underground copper mine that has been classified as a Superfund Site by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) due to high concentrations of heavy metals.


Question: Describe the National Nationwide League Division One in Nigeria. Respond in 2 sentences.

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National Nationwide League Division One (formerly called Nigerian Amateur League) is the third level of club football in Nigeria. Every year, up to eight teams are promoted to the Professional Division One.


Question: Provide an explanation of current proposals in the European Union to make changes regarding bi-annual clock changes.

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 Provide an explanation of current proposals in the European Union to make changes regarding bi-annual clock changes.

The minister who is responsibile for time has an open mind on proposals to end the bi-annual change between summertime and wintertime, according to the Department of Justice.
The changes could become a thing of the past from next year under proposals announced by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
At present citizens in all 28 EU countries move their clocks an hour forward on the last Sunday in March and switch back to wintertime on the final Sunday in October.
Under the proposals announced by Mr Juncker in his State of the Union Address today, the last mandatory change to summertime would take place on Sunday 31 March 2019.
After this, individual member states who wish to permanently switch back to wintertime could make one final clock change at the end of October next year. This decision would be made by April 2019.
"Clock-changing must stop," Mr Juncker said in his statement.
The European Commission has said it will encourage consultation between neighbouring counties to ensure a co-ordinated approach between member states.
They say that in a recent survey, 84% of the 4.6 million respondents were in favour of ending the seasonal clock changes.
The survey received more responses than any other public consultation organised by the European Commission.
It was carried out after members of the European Parliament backed a motion calling for an assessment on the issue.
The Commission proposals must now go to the European Parliament and the Council for their agreement.
A spokesperson for the Department of Justice has said they "will study the commission proposals in consultation with relevant departments and other stakeholders and make a recommendation to Minister Charlie Flanagan."
They added that Mr Flanagan has an open mind on the issue.
The proposals have been welcomed by two Fine Gael MEPS, Deirdre Clune and Sean Kelly.
In a statement, Ms Clune said: "According to a recent public consultation 88% of Irish people voted to stop changing the clocks and almost 80% said they have a negative overall experience with the clock changes each year."
Mr Kelly, who is a member of the European Parliament Working Group on the bi-annual Clock Change, said he was pleased Mr Juncker's proposals bring the end date for clock changes forward from 2021 to next year.
Mr Kelly said the Austrian Presidency of the European Union have "signalled a willingness to move quickly on this issue too, and will raise it at the next Council meeting later in the month."
"This will bring important benefits to EU citizens," he said.
"In the consultation, citizens attributed negative health impacts, road accidents and increased energy use, and so this change will bring important benefits in this regard."
Clock changing was established at the start of the last century to save energy during times of war.
It was broadly ended before being re-introduced during the oil crisis of the 1970s.


Question: Explain the regenerative capabilities of the liver and why it is important.

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Better Understanding Why the Liver is a Highly Regenerative Organ – Fight Aging!
In adult mammals, the liver is the most regenerative organ, capable of significant regrowth following injury. Why is this the case? Researchers here point to a small subset of liver cells in mice that are distinguished by telomerase expression, and while mice and humans have quite different telomerase and telomere dynamics, indirect evidence suggests that a similar population may exist in our species. Significant telomerase expression is the characteristic of stem cells that allows for unlimited replication: telomerase acts lengthen telomeres, the caps at the ends of chromosomes that shorten with each cell division. When too short, cells enter senescence or destroy themselves. Lacking telomerase, the vast majority of cells can only divide a set number of times.
This segregation between a few privileged stem cells and the vast mass of restricted somatic cells is the primary strategy by which multicellular life keeps the incidence of cancer to a manageable level. Mutations occur constantly, and evolution requires mutation, even when harmful to individuals, but it is much harder for mutational damage to cause somatic cells to run amok, given their inherent limitations. Unsurprisingly then, researchers are interested in the source of the liver's regenerative capacity not just to improve on it, or to find ways to regenerate other organs, but also to gain insight into the origins and peculiarities of liver cancer.
A subset of liver cells with high levels of telomerase renews the organ during normal cell turnover and after injury, according to researchers. The cells are distributed throughout the liver's lobes, enabling it to quickly repair itself regardless of the location of the damage. Understanding the liver's remarkable capacity for repair and regeneration is a key step in understanding what happens when the organ ceases to function properly, such as in cases of cirrhosis or liver cancer. "It's critical to understand the cellular mechanism by which the liver renews itself. We've found that rare, proliferating cells are spread throughout the organ, and that they are necessary to enable the liver to replace damaged cells. We believe that it is also likely that these cells could give rise to liver cancers when their regulation goes awry."
The liver's cells, called hepatocytes, work to filter and remove toxins from the blood. The liver is unique among organs in its ability to fully regenerate from as little as 25 percent of its original mass. Stem cells and some cancer cells make enough telomerase to keep their telomeres from shortening. Mutations that block telomerase activity cause cirrhosis in mice and humans. Conversely, mutations that kick telomerase into high gear are frequently found in liver cancers. Telomerase is a protein complex that "tops off" the ends of chromosomes after DNA replication. Without its activity, protective chromosomal caps called telomeres would gradually shorten with each cell division. Most adult cells have little to no telomerase activity, and the progressive shortening of their telomeres serves as a kind of molecular clock that limits the cells' life span.
Researchers found that, in mice, about 3-5 percent of all liver cells express unusually high levels of telomerase. The cells, which also expressed lower levels of genes involved in normal cellular metabolism, were evenly distributed throughout the liver. During regular cell turnover or after the liver was damaged, these cells proliferate in place to make clumps of new liver cells. "These rare cells can be activated to divide and form clones throughout the liver. As mature hepatocytes die off, these clones replace the liver mass. But they are working in place; they are not being recruited away to other places in the liver. This may explain how the liver can quickly repair damage regardless of where it occurs in the organ. You could imagine developing drugs that protect these telomerase-expressing cells, or ways to use cell therapy approaches to renew livers. On the cancer side, I think that these cells are very strong candidates for cell of origin. We are finally beginning to understand how this organ works."
@ Cuberat: since the liver is the first and ultimately last line of defense for filtering out toxins from the body, it can face adversity at any time. Thus, it makes sense that it's very regenerative if, say, a kid ingested some poison that killed a bunch of hepatocytes.


Question: What measures stand between Trump and disaster?

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How Long Can the President's Aides Restrain Him?
The president may have been dissuaded from firing Robert Mueller, but the episode makes clear how little stands between the president and disaster.
Thursday’s revelation that President Trump tried to fire special counsel Robert Mueller in June 2017 is important, but not shocking. Around the time of the attempted dismissal, Trump surrogates were raising the idea in public, and news reports said he was considering the move. The White House was careful to say that while the president was not considering a firing, he certainly would be within his rights. The following month, he implied in an interview with The New York Times that he might fire Mueller if he poked into personal finances.
What is a little surprising is that Trump backed down. White House Counsel Don McGahn reportedly refused to carry out the firing, and threatened to resign instead. Trump decided not to act. Or is it that surprising? This is at least the third occasion on which Trump has tried to force the hand of an aide, and then acquiesced when he was told no.
In spring 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was under pressure to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian interference into the election, after it became clear he had omitted several contacts with Russians during the Trump campaign from his disclosures to the Senate during the confirmation process. Trump sent McGahn to try to convince Sessions not to recuse himself. But although Sessions had not yet announced it, he had already decided he needed to step away, the Times reported: “After Mr. Sessions told Mr. McGahn that career Justice Department officials had said he should step aside, Mr. McGahn said he understood and backed down.” That enraged Trump, who has continued to periodically blast Sessions’s recusal in interviews, but the president did not fire Sessions or McGahn, and in fact he reportedly rejected a resignation letter from the attorney general in May.
Earlier this week, Axios reported that Trump had also sought to have Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe fired. The president is fixated on McCabe, a holdover from James Comey’s directorship whose wife ran for state senate in Virginia as a Democrat. According to Jonathan Swan, Sessions pressured FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom Trump appointed to replace the fired Comey, to dismiss McCabe. But Wray refused, so Sessions backed off and told McGahn. Again, Trump has not pushed the issue.
That’s three cases in which Trump has backed down when told no. Another, marginal case is that of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Like Sessions, he’s been subject to a barrage of public criticism from the president. In the same interview in which he implied he might fire Mueller, Trump referred to Sessions’s “deputy he hardly knew, and that’s Rosenstein, Rod Rosenstein, who is from Baltimore. There are very few Republicans in Baltimore, if any.” (In fact, Trump nominated Rosenstein, who is a Republican.) The Times story on the attempted Mueller firing reports that Trump also considered firing Rosenstein. But that hasn’t happened either.
Trump has shown a notable aversion to firing anyone—he was slow to actually dismiss campaign aides, preferring to marginalize them until they left; he has not axed Sessions, despite the frequent complaints; National-Security Adviser Michael Flynn was not fired when Trump learned he had lied to Vice President Pence, but only after The Washington Post reported that fact. And he has blasted other senior officials, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Gary Cohn, his chief economic adviser.
But these cases also suggest that Trump’s impetuousness can be somewhat controlled by simply telling him no. The White House counsel seems to have grasped that by June. “Mr. McGahn also told White House officials that Mr. Trump would not follow through on the dismissal on his own,” the Times reported. Since then, there seems to be a greater willingness by staff to contradict Trump.
But when Trump contradicted the administration line in reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, he was instead obliged to walk back that view in another tweet nearly two hours later. When he nearly struck a deal with Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on immigration, Chief of Staff John Kelly and senior adviser Stephen Miller reportedly put the kibosh on it, calling Schumer to say there was no deal.
If it is the case that Trump’s furies can sometimes be easily channeled, that also raises a more troubling question: How little stands between the president and a much greater disaster? A Mueller firing would have likely been a political disaster, and perhaps even a constitutional crisis. It would not, however, involve war. How thin is the line that protects the country from Trump impulsively launching a military strike? As unsettling as Trump’s warnings of “fire and fury” against North Korea were at the time, the thought that the only thing preventing a sudden strike might be resignation threats by top advisers is even more worrisome. A president whose decisions on pivotal issues can be so easily derailed is not a president whose judgment is reliable.