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[applause] well, thank you and welcome everyone to a very exciting day for the inaugural launch of our project called chinese handcuffs. In case you didnt pick one up on your way and we had these for everybody on the way out, which has become the emblem of this project. The socalled childs game in which you voluntarily immobilize yourself. This is one product that actually was made in china but i look for one that was made in china. Because i think it is critical for us to start to recognize wha...

Angeles times, the New York Times and the miami harold. Allow me to start our discussion tonight with a simple proposition that in a democracy such as ours if freedom of the press is jeopardized then democracy itself is jeopardized since one is intimately linked to the other. During the president ial campaign of 2016 donald trump routinely criticized the press humiliating a number of reporters, bullying others, challenging the very concept of freedom of the press as written into the First Amendm...

And she wrote to me and said, ive wanted nothing more than to find a new fulltime job and i dedicated every day to that mission. Im asking you to advocate for me and the millions like me who need our extended Unemployment Benefits to make ends meet. I just want everybody to understand, this is not an abstraction, shes are not statistics. These are your neighbors, friends, family members. It could at some point be any of us. Thats why we set up a system of Unemployment Insurance. The notion was e...

Diplomatically in iraq. Gennaro odiernos comments were part of the hourlong speech on the future of the u. S. Army. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the National Press club. My name is Angela Greiling keane. Im a reporter for Bloomberg News in the 106 president of the National Press club. We are the worlds leading professional organization for journalists committed to our professions future through programming with events such as this fostering a free press worldwide. For more information ab...

The issue of statelessness among syrian refugee children . Ill take that and get back to you on that. I know statelessness is one of the unhcrs key mandates, fighting statelessness. And its something we pay a lot of attention to globally. And i dont know the answer so ill get back to you on that. Thank you. So lets use this opportunity to give a shoutout if weve failed to to private sector efforts to try to help in this refugee situation. I understand ikea is trying to develop a new shelter, i d...

Opportunities with the export of our crude. Thank you. This is an issue of great interest to us. My question is about the white paper and the extent to which it was produced in coordination with input from other members of the committee. And if not, what reaction have you gotten from our members of the energy and Natural Resources committee . Do you get a sense there is a sense of consensus around this issue or that you are aligned with other members . As with my energy 20 20 which i advanced la...

Bitcoin DeFi protocol Sovryn introduces hackathon offering $500,000 in financial assistance to blockchain developers.

FRYEBURG, Maine — The Eastern Slope Regional Airport wont be seeking a long-term lease this year after all.  At last Julys Fryeburg Town Meeting, the ballot question that got the most scrutiny from the public was No. 34, calling for a 99-year lease for the airport authority. It was the only question to fail (274 for, 374 against, with 30 blanks). Some said they were concerned by the authoritys management of land at the airport, as the authority had come under state scrutiny for clear-cu...

CONWAY — Local police are asking for the publics help in investigating several catalytic converter thefts. Catalytic converters are emission control devices that contain rare and valuable metals that are also used in industrial applications and electronics. "The suspect(s) appear to be specifically targeting older vehicles and Ford trucks. We believe this is due to the high scrap value," said Conway police in a Jan. 1 Facebook post. "The places that were hit were commercial business where ...