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Dog missing for 12 years reunited with owner after being found 1,130 miles away If dogs could talk, Dutchess would have quite the story to tell.
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Girl, 15, charged with murder in stabbing on Washington DC Metro train A 15-year-old boy who was stabbed Friday on a Washington Metro train near the U.S. Capitol has died and a 15-year-old girl has been charged with murder, D.C. police said Saturday.
October 13, 2019 at 06:30AM
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Apple「iPhone 7」の未使用品がイオシス各店やイオシス通販サイトでセール中。NTTドコモ向けのストレージ32GBモデルで、保証期間は6か月。価格は ...
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Paul Batura: Record-shattering marathon run should inspire us all to do the impossible History is made by determined men and women who shake their heads when they hear the word "impossible." Eliud Kipchoge joined their ranks Saturday when he became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours – a stunning achievement that seems like something only a comic book superhero could do.
October 13, 2019 at 02:08AM
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October 12, 2019 at 07:52PM
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PerBordeaux: added details about the life of Luc Tack, who is a Belgian businessman
Luc Tack (born 1961) is a Belgian businessman.
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October 12, 2019 at 10:50PM
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Southern California fire destroys dozens of homes before winds die down Santa Ana winds that drove fires through two Southern California areas have died down but flames that destroyed dozens of homes continue to rage.
October 12, 2019 at 05:42PM
Haiti Protesters March to Affluent Suburb to Await President's Resignation
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Arthur Jean Pierre contributed to this report in Port-au-Prince.
Thousands of protesters were in the streets of Haiti's capital Friday, marching toward the affluent suburb of Petionville where they say they will wait for the President Jovenel Moise's letter of resignation.
"Jovenel can't remain in the country, he has to go!" a protester yelled as he made his way up the mountain from the Champ de Mars neighborhood, not far from the National Palace in Port-au-Prince.
"We don't have a problem with the man — we don't know him — we have a problem with the system (of government). We're fighting for a new society and a better life," a protester marching in the downtown area of Carrefour Aeroport said. "We have to rid ourselves of this economic morass."
The opposition and anti-corruption groups called for citizens nationwide to fill the streets to continue pressuring the president to resign. They blame him for failed leadership, a fuel shortage, high inflation and rampant corruption.
"The police know where we're heading," opposition Senator Nenel Cassy told VOA Creole as he marched uptown. "We have protesters coming from different areas of the capital and we will merge at Place St. Pierre (in Petionville). And if they (the president) don't bring us his resignation letter, we will head up to Pelerin."
Cassy said the opposition has sent word to protesters coming down the mountain from Kenscoff, an agricultural town, to stop when they get to Pelerin 9, and wait there for a signal to continue down the mountain to the president's home.
A week ago, when protesters tried to make it to Petionville, they were dispersed by security forces firing tear gas.
Asked by VOA Creole what they plan to do if they are allowed to reach Moise's home, opposition leader Andre Michel skirted the question.
"I don't think we'll have a problem," Michel said. When pressed, however, about whether they planned to resort to violence, he said, "Listen, we are a Republican opposition, we are a Democratic opposition, functioning within the confines of the Constitution of the Republic. Everything we do, we always invite the police (to come along)."
When VOA Creole arrived in Petionville around midday, two armored police trucks were blocking the main road leading to the president's neighborhood. A large crowd was gathering in the middle of the street.
#Haiti security forces have blocked the road leading up to President @moisejovenel's neighborhood, Pelerin, an affluent suburb of the capital. Meanwhile, some protesters have reached #Petionville, another affluent suburb. Video by @VOAKreyol Matiado Vilme pic.twitter.com/zNGbiDes4m
— Sandra Lemaire (@SandraDVOA) October 11, 2019
"We're at the edge of the abyss," a protester told VOA Creole, likening the current political climate to that which existed in the 1960s under dictator Papa Doc (President Francois Duvalier) whose Tonton Macoute henchmen terrorized the nation.
"When the government reaches this stage, it means it's reached the end. This is an uprising, not a protest," the protester said.
Haiti has been plagued for months by an increase in violence, a fuel shortage, high inflation, double-digit unemployment and food insecurity.
Weekly protests have negatively impacted businesses, schools and tourism.
Moise has taken steps toward resolving the crisis. Last week, he named several new Cabinet ministers and formed a special commission tasked with facilitating a national dialogue to negotiate an end to the crisis — an idea backed by the international community.
"This is a situation that requires political wisdom," former Prime Minister Evans Paul, a member of the commission, told VOA Creole. Describing the current political climate as "extremely serious," he said the root cause of corruption dates back to long before Moise took power in 2017.
"We're all part of the problem, so let's put our heads together to be part of the solution," Paul said.
But the opposition and their supporters refuse to back down and say they will accept nothing less than the president's resignation.
October 12, 2019 at 09:46AM
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iPhone本体の発熱を抑える素材を採用した、RazerのiPhone 11シリーズ用ケース「Arctech Pro THS」が登場。TSUKUMO eX.にて税抜4980円で販売中だ。
October 12, 2019 at 10:07AM
US Not Alone in Restricting Asylum Eligibility
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Victoria Macchi and Patsy Widakuswara contributed to this report.
NEW YORK - U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to dramatically curtail claims for asylum in the United States — cheered by the administration's supporters and condemned by immigration rights advocates — is unprecedented on America's southern border but not unique on the world stage.
Europe in particular has imposed restrictive rules for asylum-seekers that predate this year's flurry of activity in the United States.
Recent months have brought sweeping changes in how the U.S. handles asylum claims at the border. Those changes are expected to preclude asylum for the vast majority who seek it.
Washington has forged pacts with Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, designating them as asylum destinations where claims are to be filed before protection is sought in the U.S. The accords work hand-in-hand with a Trump administration policy, temporarily greenlighted by the U.S. Supreme Court, stipulating that non-Mexicans must seek asylum in a third country they transited on route to the U.S. border before filing a claim in the U.S.
The result, according to critics, is a de facto asylum ban that forces people to file claims in some of the most impoverished and violent nations in the Americas.
"No one is seeking protection in countries from which everyone is fleeing," said Helena Olea, an international human rights lawyer and Alianza Americas human rights adviser.
For his part, Trump on Thursday proudly touted his immigration agenda at a political rally in Minnesota, saying, "My administration is taking historic action to secure the border. We have reduced illegal border crossings by over 60% since May, and we are building the wall [between the United States and Mexico] faster than anyone ever anticipated it could be built."
For all the attention the White House's border initiatives have drawn, the United States is not alone in forging regional asylum deals in which nations share responsibility for processing claims filed by people fleeing persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations.
The "safe third" model
It has been 29 years since the European Union adopted its first "safe third country" asylum initiative, known as the Dublin Regulation. In its present-day form, any migrant who requests asylum at an E.U. country's borders, having entered from another E.U. country (or Norway or Switzerland), is refused entry.
The procedure was intended to share the burden of asylum-seekers among nations party to the 1951 Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
As the Syrian refugee crisis has worn on, leaders representing some of the involved nations have grown weary of burden-sharing responsibilities. Denmark, a member of the E.U., declined to participate in the Malta Agreement, a stop-gap effort to expedite screenings and redistribute migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea. The pact was signed by Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Malta in September.
On Oct. 4, Italy signed a decree designating 13 non-E.U. countries across West Africa and Eastern Europe as "safe countries of origin." The move gave Italy greater discretion to examine and reject asylum claims from those countries.
The U.S., meanwhile, has had a "safe third country" agreement in place since 2004 — with its northern neighbor, Canada. Like its recently signed agreements with Central American countries, the U.S.-Canada pact requires asylum-seekers who transit through either country to seek protection there first, regardless of their preference for an ultimate destination.
Economic migrants
In its interim final rule — the basis for the current U.S. asylum ban — the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) questioned whether some "aliens genuinely fear persecution or torture, or are simply economic migrants seeking to exploit our overburdened immigration system."
Trump has long said that U.S. immigration law contains loopholes for economic migrants.
That sentiment, too, has reverberated among right-wing voters in Europe opposed to accepting asylum-seekers in their countries. In January, Italy's then-Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said his country had taken in "too many fake refugees."
Some see a more complicated dynamic — "mixed flows" of people fleeing both violence and economic distress — at a time of heightened migration overall.
"In the U.S. now, and Europe during their crisis, the entire human rights apparatuses were never designed to actually deal with that level of people," said Cristobal Ramón, immigration project senior policy analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center. "[They] crumbled under the weight of all this."
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) New York director, Ninette Kelley, says the agency has been working on a "holistic approach" with partners in the Central American region to address asylum capacity.
"We need to invest in trying to help the governments get control of their countries and impose law and security in accordance with human rights principles and, at the same time, reinforce asylum systems along routes so that we don't see this mass exodus in an unmanageable way for any country," said Kelly.
Funding asylum pacts
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, planned efforts to increase regional asylum capacity include $47 million in aid to Guatemala through the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
"The goal is to build the shared capacity to extend asylum protections in partner countries in the region and ensure that those who need protection from persecution for political, racial, religious, or social group membership can seek them as close to home as possible, without putting themselves or their family in the hands of dangerous smugglers," Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan wrote in prepared remarks for an immigration policy conference that was interrupted by protesters.
According to UNHCR's 2018 Global Trends Report, 3.5 million people were awaiting decisions on their asylum applications by the end of 2018, while an additional 1.7 million had submitted new claims.
The U.S. was the world's largest recipient of new individual applications (254,300). Peru, with a population one-tenth the size of the U.S., received 192,500 claims, followed by Germany (161,900), France (114,500), and Turkey (83,800), according to UNHCR.
In Turkey — where 1 in 22 people is a refugee — a March 2016 deal with the European Union determined that Syrian refugees on the Greek Islands could be returned to Turkey. In exchange, Europe would accept Syrian asylum-seekers already in Turkey.
Like the U.S.-Central American pacts, human rights activists have decried the E.U.-Turkey deal. Human Rights Watch reported in July that Turkish officials have been forcibly returning Syrian asylum-seekers to Syria, under the pretense of voluntary return.
The Bipartisan Policy Center's Ramón says the U.S. should learn from the experiences of other nations that have sought to redirect flows of asylum-seekers.
"If there isn't any capacity [in Central American nations], they [asylum-seekers] will likely just look at the situation, and say, 'You know what? I'm not being processed. I'm going to try to go back to the United States,' or in some cases, [they] may go back home," Ramón said.
October 12, 2019 at 05:14AM
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October 11, 2019 at 04:00PM
Pet turtles linked to salmonella outbreak across 13 states, CDC says
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Pet turtles linked to salmonella outbreak across 13 states, CDC says A salmonella outbreak that's sickened at least 21 people across 13 states is linked to pet turtles, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this week.
October 12, 2019 at 12:25AM
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October 11, 2019 at 01:00PM
US Calls Out Turkey, Slams Syrian Incursion as ‘Very Big Mistake’
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US Calls Out Turkey, Slams Syrian Incursion as 'Very Big Mistake'
U.S. diplomats are pushing back on Turkey's incursion into northeastern Syria, labeling the military maneuver a "very big mistake" that could have significant consequences on the security situation in the region and beyond.
The criticism from Washington, echoed by European officials and members of the United Nation's Security Council, came as Turkish artillery and war planes pounded Kurdish positions on the Syrian side of the border for a second straight day Thursday, forcing thousands of civilians to flee.
Turkey, in a letter to the United Nations, said its response would be "proportionate, measured and responsible."
But top U.S. officials warned that even if Ankara can make good on such assurances, the consequences of its incursion into Syria are dire.
"This was a mistake for Turkey to do," a senior U.S. State Department official told reporters late Thursday.
"The Turks have given us general guidelines of where they want to operate and what their military goals are," the official said. "We think they're all a bad idea."
Urged Turkey to rethink operation
U.S. President Donald Trump, criticized for essentially giving Turkey a "green light" to proceed with the military operation by ordering U.S. special forces operating near the border to pull back, also pressed Ankara to rethink its decision.
....We have one of three choices: Send in thousands of troops and win Militarily, hit Turkey very hard Financially and with Sanctions, or mediate a deal between Turkey and the Kurds!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 10, 2019
"I hope we can mediate," he later told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, adding, "Turkey knows where I stand."
Ankara is targeting Syrian Kurdish fighters it views as terrorists, but which most of the West consider to be key partners in the fight against militants from the so-called Islamic State terror group.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday claimed more than 100 "terrorists" have been killed, referring to the Kurdish fighters. He also warned he would send Syrian refugees to Europe if the European Union refers to Turkey's operation as an "invasion."
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is expected to meet Friday with Erdogan in Istanbul. And top State Department officials have voiced hope that renewed efforts to "find our way to a cease-fire" could pay off, noting that Turkey previously has been willing to negotiate with the Kurdish groups it has targeted with its current military operations.
Some U.N. Security Council members, though, went further Thursday.
"We call upon Turkey to cease the unilateral military action as we do not believe it will address Turkey's underlying security concerns," Germany's Deputy U.N. Ambassador Jürgen Schulz said on behalf of the Security Council's five European members plus Estonia, which will join the council in January 2020.
"Renewed armed hostilities in the northeast will further undermine the stability of the whole region, exacerbate civilian suffering and provoke further displacements, which will further increase the number of refugees and IDPs [internally displaced persons] in Syria and in the region," he told reporters while flanked by his colleagues.
'Maximum restraint'
Russia, which objects to the presence of the U.S.-led coalition against IS in parts of Syria, said, "All sides should exercise maximum restraint."
Russian ambassador Vassily Nebenzia also signaled Moscow might block a unified statement from the 15-member Security Council if it fails to address "other issues that are in the Syrian file."
Meanwhile, the mainly Kurdish fighters in the region appealed Thursday for help to "save our people from genocide."
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said it "confronted an incursion attempt" by Turkish forces in Tal Halaf, and also a cell of Islamic State fighters in an area south of Ras al-Ayn. Kurdish official Diyar Ahmed said the area was surrounded by Turkish forces.
"Turkish planes have been striking from the air. At the same time, their heavy weapons haven't stopped, they aren't stopping in firing on the village, and civilians have been both wounded and lost their lives," Ahmed said.
Also Thursday, the U.N. Refugee Agency warned that civilians are now in harm's way, with tens of thousands of people on the move to escape the fighting as weather conditions worsen.
U.S. officials have sought to make clear that Turkey will bear full responsibility for protecting civilians and ensuring that no humanitarian crisis takes place.
'Will have consequences'
"Failure to play by the rules, to protect vulnerable populations, failure to guarantee that ISIS cannot exploit these actions to reconstitute, will have consequences," U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft said.
In Washington, senior U.S. officials warned Turkey against engaging in ethnic cleansing and warned the Turkish military to avoid "indiscriminate artillery, air and other fires directed at civilian populations."
"We're not seeing significant examples of that so far but we're very early [in the Turkish military campaign]," a State Department official who briefed reporters said, adding, "we're very, very concerned."
In the U.S., where both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have been critical of President Trump's handling of the situation and of Turkey's action, a group of Republican lawmakers announced their intent to introduce legislation to sanction Ankara.
"President Erdogan and his regime must face serious consequences for mercilessly attacking our Kurdish allies in northern Syria," Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, said in a statement.
Information from Reuters was used in this report.
October 11, 2019 at 11:59AM
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Pravin Rai Mahal was build by prince Indrajeet in 1618 for his love interest - Pravin Rai, who was a beautiful poet and musician in [[Orchha]], [[Madhya Pradesh]]. It is a state protected monument.<ref></ref>
== Architecture ==
The palace has three stories with a central hall on the second floor with multiple paintings and depictions of various moods of Pravin Rai. There is a garden attached to it.
== Legend of Pravin Rai ==
It is said that Emperor [[Akbar]] called upon Pravin Rai in her court after hearing about her beauty and poetry. Pravin Rai reached the court and said a couplet,
''"Vinit Rai Praveen ki, suniye sah sujan. Juthi patar bhakat hain, bari, bayas, swan"''
It translated to - '0h you great and wise! Please hear the plea of Rai Praveen. Only someone from a low caste, barber or scavengers would eat from a plat that was partaken by someone else'. With this, she indicated that she was already in love with Indrajeet. Akbar was impressed from this and she was sent back to Indrajeet with respect.<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
== References ==
== Architecture ==
The palace has three stories with a central hall on the second floor with multiple paintings and depictions of various moods of Pravin Rai. There is a garden attached to it.
== Legend of Pravin Rai ==
It is said that Emperor [[Akbar]] called upon Pravin Rai in her court after hearing about her beauty and poetry. Pravin Rai reached the court and said a couplet,
''"Vinit Rai Praveen ki, suniye sah sujan. Juthi patar bhakat hain, bari, bayas, swan"''
It translated to - '0h you great and wise! Please hear the plea of Rai Praveen. Only someone from a low caste, barber or scavengers would eat from a plat that was partaken by someone else'. With this, she indicated that she was already in love with Indrajeet. Akbar was impressed from this and she was sent back to Indrajeet with respect.<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
== References ==
October 11, 2019 at 11:59AM
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October 11, 2019 at 01:00AM
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October 11, 2019 at 02:03AM
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October 11, 2019 at 01:00AM
Andrew Brunson, ex-imprisoned pastor in Turkey, says 2016 prison dream 'has happened'
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Andrew Brunson, ex-imprisoned pastor in Turkey, says 2016 prison dream 'has happened' Pastor imprisoned in Turkey for his Christian faith, Andrew Brunson: "My goal is about declaring who Jesus is and not getting involved in politics, but this is the dream God gave me, and I think it's relevant to what's happening now."
October 10, 2019 at 10:49PM
Nunes to ask State Dept. about 'strange' and irregular' requests to monitor US journalists in Ukraine
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Nunes to ask State Dept. about 'strange' and irregular' requests to monitor US journalists in Ukraine Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said Wednesday that he intends to ask the State Department for more information about "strange" and "irregular" requests allegedly made by ousted U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch to monitor the communications of U.S. journalists in the country.
October 10, 2019 at 07:31PM
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Claude Jaupart, born on 22 May 1953, is a French [[Geophysics|geophysicist]] and a member of the [[French Academy of Sciences]] (since December 2008).
== Biography ==
Professor of geophysics at the University of Paris-Diderot, and a researcher in physical [[volcanology]], he is one of the world's leading specialists in natural hazards of geological origin. He was appointed a member of the Institute, French Academy of Sciences, Section of Universe Sciences. By a presidential decree of 12 January 2011<ref> [https://ift.tt/2p4vz23 Décret du 12 janvier 2011 portant nomination du directeur de l'Institut de physique du Globe de Paris], consulté le </ref>, he succeeded [[Vincent Courtillot]] as head of the Institute of Earth Physics in Paris.
Claude Jaupart's work focuses on the thermal structure of continents, the characteristics of the internal movements of our planet responsible for continental drift and the modalities of [[Volcanic Eruptions|volcanic eruptions]].
== Prizes and awards ==
=== Prices ===
* 1993: Wager Award from the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)
* 1995: Silver medal from the CNRS, Fernand Holweck Prize from the French Academy of Sciences.
* 1998: Winner of the Mergier-Bourdeix Prize of the French Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
* 1999: Prestwich Medal from the Geological Society of London.
* 2003: Daly Lecture, VGP Section, American Geophysical Union.
* 2004: Ketin Lecture from the [[Istanbul Technical University|Technical University of Istanbul]].
* 2006: Birch Lecture, Tectonophysics Section, American Geophysical Union.
* 2007: Holmes Medal of the European Geophysical Union.
* 2008: Member of the French Academy of Sciences<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>.
* 2010: Member of the [[Academia Europaea|Academia europaea]]<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>.
* 2015: Harry H. Hess Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
=== Distinctions ===
* CIRES Distinguished Lecturer, [[University of Colorado Boulder|Univ. Colorado]], 2003.
* Daly Lecture, VGP Section, American Geophysical Union, 2003.
* Ketin Lecture, Istanbul Technical University, 2004.
* Birch Lecture, Tectonophysics Section, American Geophysical Union, 2006.
* Virgil and Mildred Barnes Distinguished Lecturer, Univ. Texas at Austin, 2011.
* Bentor Lecture, Univ. [[Jerusalem]], 2017.
* Vernadsky readings, [[Moscow]], 2018.
=== Serving the community ===
* Fellows Committee, American Geophysical Union, 2010-2012.
* Hess Medal Committee (President), American Geophysical Union, 2002-2003.
* Hess Medal Committee, American Geophysical Union, 2000-2001.
* VGP Fellows Committee, American Geophysical union, 2014-2016.
* VGP Fellows Committee, American Geophysical Union, 2004-2008.
* VGP Fellows Committee, American Geophysical Union, 1998-2000.
* Science Advisory Board, [[Centre national de la recherche scientifique|Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique]], France 1996-2000.
* Executive Committee, Deep Carbon Observatory, Global Community International Program,
* Sloan Foundation and Carnegie Institution of Washington, 2009-2018.
* Scientific Committee, IFCPAR (Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research) 2015-2019.
* Organizer and Lecturer, Advanced School on Scaling Laws in Geophysics:
* Mechanical and Thermal Processes in Geodynamics,
* The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 23 May - 3 June 2011.
* Reading, CIDER Cooperative Institute, University of California, Berkeley, July 2013.
* Lecturer, Advanced School on Physics of Volcanoes, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 17 - 21 October 2016.
* Fellow, American Geophysical Union.
* Fellow, European Geosciences Union.
== Scientific work ==
=== Six main themes. ===
(1) Measurements of surface heat flux, calculation of the Earth's heat balance and its secular cooling rate.
(2) Structure and thermal evolution of the crust and continental roots. Determination of the heat flux at the base of a continental root. Causes of the distribution in time and space of granitic massifs in a province. Mechanisms for stabilizing the continental crust. Consequences of the unstable nature of continental roots.
(3) Convection in the Earth's mantle. How the movements and distribution of temperatures within the Earth are affected by the large variations in viscosity that prevail there and by the presence of continents.
(4) Ascension of magmas and placement of magmatic reservoirs in the continental crust: at what depth and how magmatic reservoirs are formed, role played by the construction of a volcanic building on the surface.
(5) Crystallization and differentiation of [[Magma|magmas]]: convective exchanges between the layers where crystallization occurs and the interior of a reservoir, competition between sedimentation/flotation of crystals and movements of the carrier magma.
(6) Physics of [[Types of volcanic eruptions|volcanic eruptions]]: importance of gas leaks through the walls of a conduit, importance of coupling between flow at the surface and in an eruptive conduit, effects of compressibility on lava flows, effects of fragmentation and fragment size distribution (pumice and ash) on the behaviour of eruptive plumes in the atmosphere.
=== Some publications ===
* Brandeis, G. & Jaupart, C., The kinetics of nucleation and crystal growth and scaling laws for magmatic crystallization, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 96, 24-34, 1987
* Pinet C. & Jaupart, C., A thermal model for the distribution in space and time of the Himalayan granites, Earth Planet. Sci Lett. 84, 87-99, 1987
* Jaupart, C. & Vergniolle, S., The generation and collapse of a foam layer at the roof of a basaltic magma chamber, J. Fluid Mech. 203, 347-380, 1989.
* Jaupart C. and C.J. Allegre, Eruption rate, gas content and instabilities of eruption regime in silicic volcanoes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 102, 413-429, 1991
* Davaille, A. and C. Jaupart, Transient high Rayleigh number thermal convection with large viscosity variations, J. Fluid Mech. 253, 141-166, 1993.
* Jaupart, C., and S. Tait, The dynamics of differentiation in magma chambers, J. Geophys. Res. 100, 17615-17636, 1995.
* Guillou, L., and C. Jaupart, On the effect of continents on mantle convection, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 24217-24238, 1995.
* Kaminski, E. and C. Jaupart, The size distribution of pyroclasts and the fragmentation sequence in explosive volcanic eruptions, J. Geophys. Res. 103, 29,759-29,779, 1998
* Pinel, V., and C. Jaupart, The effect of edifice load on magma ascent beneath a volcano, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A, 358, 1515-1532, 2000.
* Milelli, L., L. Fourel and C. Jaupart, A lithospheric instability origin for the Cameroon Volcanic Line, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 335–336, 80–87, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.028, 2012.
* Jaupart, C. and J.-C. Mareschal, Post-orogenic thermal evolution of newborn Archean continents, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 432, 36-45, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.09.047, 2015. Jaupart, C., S. Labrosse, F. Lucazeau and J.-C. Mareschal, Temperatures, Heat and Energy in the Mantle of the Earth. In: Gerald Schubert (Editor-in-chief), Treatise on Geophysics, 2nd edition, Vol.7, Oxford: Elsevier; p.223-270, 2015.
== Bibliography<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> ==
* On the mechanisms of heat transfer in the Earth: conduction and convection, [[Thesis|Doctoral thesis]], University of Paris Diderot - Paris VII, 1982.
* De l'Existence de couches stagnantes à la base des chambres magmatiques convectives, with Geneviève Brandeis and Claude Allègre, Paris, CNRS: Institut national d'astronomie et de géophysique, series "Bulletin PIRPSEV", 1984.
* Les volcans, Paris, Flammarion, coll. "Dominos", 1998.
* La physique et la Terre, chapter: Physique des éruptions volcaniques, Ed. Belin - CNRS Editions, pp. 14-33, 2000.
* Volcans (sound recording-Audio CD), Paris, De vive voix, "sciences à écouter" series, 2001<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>.
* Volcanism: cause of death and source of life, chapter: Why and how volcanoes are formed, under the direction of Patrick de Wever, with Michel Guiraud, Jean-Christophe Komorowski... Paris, Vuibert: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, pp. 13-26, 2003.
* Au-dessous des volcans, lecture given at the CNAM in 2000 as part of the "366 conferences for the year 2000" operation, VHS cassette from the "Université de tous les savoirs" series, Vanves, service du film de recherche scientifique, France 5, 2004<ref>Le texte de cette conférence est édité dans le volume 4 ''Qu'est-ce que l'Univers'' de la collection « Université de tous les savoirs », sous la direction d'[[Yves Michaud (philosophe)|Yves Michaud]], aux [[Éditions Odile Jacob]], 2001, p. 414-428</ref>.
* Heat generation and transport in the Earth, with Jean-Claude Mareschal, Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridge university press, 2011.
* 5 young researchers of the future, presented by their elders, Paris, Éd. le Pommier, coll. "Promesses de la science le Pommier ! », 2013.
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== Biography ==
Professor of geophysics at the University of Paris-Diderot, and a researcher in physical [[volcanology]], he is one of the world's leading specialists in natural hazards of geological origin. He was appointed a member of the Institute, French Academy of Sciences, Section of Universe Sciences. By a presidential decree of 12 January 2011<ref> [https://ift.tt/2p4vz23 Décret du 12 janvier 2011 portant nomination du directeur de l'Institut de physique du Globe de Paris], consulté le </ref>, he succeeded [[Vincent Courtillot]] as head of the Institute of Earth Physics in Paris.
Claude Jaupart's work focuses on the thermal structure of continents, the characteristics of the internal movements of our planet responsible for continental drift and the modalities of [[Volcanic Eruptions|volcanic eruptions]].
== Prizes and awards ==
=== Prices ===
* 1993: Wager Award from the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI)
* 1995: Silver medal from the CNRS, Fernand Holweck Prize from the French Academy of Sciences.
* 1998: Winner of the Mergier-Bourdeix Prize of the French Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
* 1999: Prestwich Medal from the Geological Society of London.
* 2003: Daly Lecture, VGP Section, American Geophysical Union.
* 2004: Ketin Lecture from the [[Istanbul Technical University|Technical University of Istanbul]].
* 2006: Birch Lecture, Tectonophysics Section, American Geophysical Union.
* 2007: Holmes Medal of the European Geophysical Union.
* 2008: Member of the French Academy of Sciences<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>.
* 2010: Member of the [[Academia Europaea|Academia europaea]]<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>.
* 2015: Harry H. Hess Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
=== Distinctions ===
* CIRES Distinguished Lecturer, [[University of Colorado Boulder|Univ. Colorado]], 2003.
* Daly Lecture, VGP Section, American Geophysical Union, 2003.
* Ketin Lecture, Istanbul Technical University, 2004.
* Birch Lecture, Tectonophysics Section, American Geophysical Union, 2006.
* Virgil and Mildred Barnes Distinguished Lecturer, Univ. Texas at Austin, 2011.
* Bentor Lecture, Univ. [[Jerusalem]], 2017.
* Vernadsky readings, [[Moscow]], 2018.
=== Serving the community ===
* Fellows Committee, American Geophysical Union, 2010-2012.
* Hess Medal Committee (President), American Geophysical Union, 2002-2003.
* Hess Medal Committee, American Geophysical Union, 2000-2001.
* VGP Fellows Committee, American Geophysical union, 2014-2016.
* VGP Fellows Committee, American Geophysical Union, 2004-2008.
* VGP Fellows Committee, American Geophysical Union, 1998-2000.
* Science Advisory Board, [[Centre national de la recherche scientifique|Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique]], France 1996-2000.
* Executive Committee, Deep Carbon Observatory, Global Community International Program,
* Sloan Foundation and Carnegie Institution of Washington, 2009-2018.
* Scientific Committee, IFCPAR (Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research) 2015-2019.
* Organizer and Lecturer, Advanced School on Scaling Laws in Geophysics:
* Mechanical and Thermal Processes in Geodynamics,
* The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 23 May - 3 June 2011.
* Reading, CIDER Cooperative Institute, University of California, Berkeley, July 2013.
* Lecturer, Advanced School on Physics of Volcanoes, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 17 - 21 October 2016.
* Fellow, American Geophysical Union.
* Fellow, European Geosciences Union.
== Scientific work ==
=== Six main themes. ===
(1) Measurements of surface heat flux, calculation of the Earth's heat balance and its secular cooling rate.
(2) Structure and thermal evolution of the crust and continental roots. Determination of the heat flux at the base of a continental root. Causes of the distribution in time and space of granitic massifs in a province. Mechanisms for stabilizing the continental crust. Consequences of the unstable nature of continental roots.
(3) Convection in the Earth's mantle. How the movements and distribution of temperatures within the Earth are affected by the large variations in viscosity that prevail there and by the presence of continents.
(4) Ascension of magmas and placement of magmatic reservoirs in the continental crust: at what depth and how magmatic reservoirs are formed, role played by the construction of a volcanic building on the surface.
(5) Crystallization and differentiation of [[Magma|magmas]]: convective exchanges between the layers where crystallization occurs and the interior of a reservoir, competition between sedimentation/flotation of crystals and movements of the carrier magma.
(6) Physics of [[Types of volcanic eruptions|volcanic eruptions]]: importance of gas leaks through the walls of a conduit, importance of coupling between flow at the surface and in an eruptive conduit, effects of compressibility on lava flows, effects of fragmentation and fragment size distribution (pumice and ash) on the behaviour of eruptive plumes in the atmosphere.
=== Some publications ===
* Brandeis, G. & Jaupart, C., The kinetics of nucleation and crystal growth and scaling laws for magmatic crystallization, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 96, 24-34, 1987
* Pinet C. & Jaupart, C., A thermal model for the distribution in space and time of the Himalayan granites, Earth Planet. Sci Lett. 84, 87-99, 1987
* Jaupart, C. & Vergniolle, S., The generation and collapse of a foam layer at the roof of a basaltic magma chamber, J. Fluid Mech. 203, 347-380, 1989.
* Jaupart C. and C.J. Allegre, Eruption rate, gas content and instabilities of eruption regime in silicic volcanoes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 102, 413-429, 1991
* Davaille, A. and C. Jaupart, Transient high Rayleigh number thermal convection with large viscosity variations, J. Fluid Mech. 253, 141-166, 1993.
* Jaupart, C., and S. Tait, The dynamics of differentiation in magma chambers, J. Geophys. Res. 100, 17615-17636, 1995.
* Guillou, L., and C. Jaupart, On the effect of continents on mantle convection, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 24217-24238, 1995.
* Kaminski, E. and C. Jaupart, The size distribution of pyroclasts and the fragmentation sequence in explosive volcanic eruptions, J. Geophys. Res. 103, 29,759-29,779, 1998
* Pinel, V., and C. Jaupart, The effect of edifice load on magma ascent beneath a volcano, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A, 358, 1515-1532, 2000.
* Milelli, L., L. Fourel and C. Jaupart, A lithospheric instability origin for the Cameroon Volcanic Line, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 335–336, 80–87, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.028, 2012.
* Jaupart, C. and J.-C. Mareschal, Post-orogenic thermal evolution of newborn Archean continents, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 432, 36-45, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.09.047, 2015. Jaupart, C., S. Labrosse, F. Lucazeau and J.-C. Mareschal, Temperatures, Heat and Energy in the Mantle of the Earth. In: Gerald Schubert (Editor-in-chief), Treatise on Geophysics, 2nd edition, Vol.7, Oxford: Elsevier; p.223-270, 2015.
== Bibliography<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> ==
* On the mechanisms of heat transfer in the Earth: conduction and convection, [[Thesis|Doctoral thesis]], University of Paris Diderot - Paris VII, 1982.
* De l'Existence de couches stagnantes à la base des chambres magmatiques convectives, with Geneviève Brandeis and Claude Allègre, Paris, CNRS: Institut national d'astronomie et de géophysique, series "Bulletin PIRPSEV", 1984.
* Les volcans, Paris, Flammarion, coll. "Dominos", 1998.
* La physique et la Terre, chapter: Physique des éruptions volcaniques, Ed. Belin - CNRS Editions, pp. 14-33, 2000.
* Volcans (sound recording-Audio CD), Paris, De vive voix, "sciences à écouter" series, 2001<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>.
* Volcanism: cause of death and source of life, chapter: Why and how volcanoes are formed, under the direction of Patrick de Wever, with Michel Guiraud, Jean-Christophe Komorowski... Paris, Vuibert: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, pp. 13-26, 2003.
* Au-dessous des volcans, lecture given at the CNAM in 2000 as part of the "366 conferences for the year 2000" operation, VHS cassette from the "Université de tous les savoirs" series, Vanves, service du film de recherche scientifique, France 5, 2004<ref>Le texte de cette conférence est édité dans le volume 4 ''Qu'est-ce que l'Univers'' de la collection « Université de tous les savoirs », sous la direction d'[[Yves Michaud (philosophe)|Yves Michaud]], aux [[Éditions Odile Jacob]], 2001, p. 414-428</ref>.
* Heat generation and transport in the Earth, with Jean-Claude Mareschal, Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridge university press, 2011.
* 5 young researchers of the future, presented by their elders, Paris, Éd. le Pommier, coll. "Promesses de la science le Pommier ! », 2013.
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Newt Gingrich: The coup against Trump began the day he was elected -- This is not an impeachment process
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October 10, 2019 at 05:00PM
Razer、ゲームプレイ中でも温度が上がりにくいiPhone 11用ケース
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'''Melissa Leilani Larson''' is a writer and playwright based in Salt Lake City, Utah. [[Mormon literature]] critic Michael Austin described her as "one of the true rising stars of Mormon literature."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Her plays commonly feature women in leading roles, and some center around the faith of members of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]].
==Education and career==
Larson is from [[Hauʻula, Hawaii|Hau'ula, Hawaii]].<ref name="mormonartist" /> Her mother was Philipino and her father was English/Swedish. Her family moved to Salt Lake City when she was twelve years old.<ref></ref> She received a Bachelor's in English from [[Brigham Young University]] (BYU) and an MFA from The Iowa Playwrights Workshop. She names [[Helen Edmundson]], [[Sarah Ruhl]], [[Richard Greenberg]], [[Timberlake Wertenbaker]], [[Lillian Hellman]], and [[Oscar Wilde]] as some of her favorite playwrights.<ref name=mormonartist/> Larson has contributed to LDS Church History's ''Saints: The Standard of Truth''.<ref name=aml/>
==Plays==
Larson won the [[Association for Mormon Letters]] (AML) 2009 award for drama for ''Happy Little Secrets''.<ref></ref> Her 2010 play ''A Flickering'' featured a filmmaker and actress who are friends, and was set in the early 1900s during the silent film era. Critic Katie Roundy found the live piano music and title cards occasionally distracted from the main action, but that the play left her "wanting more."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> ''A Flickering'' was a Trustus Playwrights Festival finalist.<ref name=planb/>
After a successful stage adaptation of ''Persuasion'', BYU commissioned her stage adaptation of ''Pride and Prejudice''.<ref name=mormonartist></ref> The adaptation was a finalist in the 2014 Association for Mormon Letters award for drama.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> ''Salt Lake City Weekly'' gave ''Pride and Prejudice'' a "Best Modern Jane" headline, stating that Larson's adaptation felt "fresh without resorting to gimmickry."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> At the Utah Theater Bloggers Association, the play was spotlighted in a 2014 roundup under "Excellent New Plays."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Reviewer Zach Archuleta wrote that the adaptation was "a worthy addition to the canon of adaptations."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Barta Heiner directed both plays.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
Larson co-wrote a musical adaptation of [[Silas Marner]] called ''The Weaver of Raveloe'' in 2013, and the play was produced in 2014.<ref></ref> She participated in Plan-B Studio's lab for playwrights,<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> and ''Pilot Program'' was her first play shown there.<ref name=planb>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> At ''The Utah Review'', reviewer Les Roka stated that ''Pilot Program'' focused on the living room drama of the imagined future LDS polygamy. Les Roka described it as "a compelling tableau of social messages and contemplation of religious identity that resonates with the depth of exploration suggested in the works of Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg and Gerhart Hauptmann." <ref></ref> The play won AML's 2015 award for drama<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
Her 2016 play ''The Edible Complex'' was written for elementary school students and has actors taking on the roles of Larson's favorite foods.<ref> Plan-B Theatre Company |url=https://ift.tt/325SkRG |publisher=Plan-B Theater Company |date=2 September 2016}}</ref> The play addressed eating disorders.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> ''Sweetheart Come'' was a 2016 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist. Critic Palak Jayswal wrote that the play "encourages empathy while breaking the stigma about isolation and unhappiness."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
==Films==
Larson collaborated with Garrett Batty on the script for [[Freetown (film)|''Freetown'']] (2016), a movie about six Liberian LDS missionaries fleeing the country in the [[First Liberian Civil War]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref name=freetown></ref> ''Freetown'' won the 2016 Utah Film Award for Best Feature Film<ref></ref> and the 2015 Ghana Movie Award for Best Screenplay.<ref name=freetown/>
The film ''Jane and Emma'' (2018) focused on the friendship between [[Jane Elizabeth Manning James]] and [[Emma Smith]], examining racial issues in the early LDS church.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> It appeared on a list of films that fulfilled ReFrame's criteria for gender-balanced and racially diverse films.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Sales from the film's opening night were matched by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' foundation and the Bonneville Charitable Foundation and given as a donation to the NAACP Salt Lake Branch.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Larson studied the journals of both women in writing the script, and stated that the film is "not about preaching to people. It's about these two women and their relationship."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Mariah Proctor at ''Meridian'' magazine wrote that the film "issues an invitation to a conversation" about the two women and their relationship to each other and the LDS Church.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> ''Jane and Emma'' won the Feature Film award at the LDS Film Festival, as well as the Audience Award in the same category.<ref></ref> The film was also a finalist in the 2018 Narrative Film category at the Association for Mormon Letters.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
==Other awards==
''Martyrs' Crossing'' was a IRAM Best New Play. ''Standing Still Standing'' won a Mayhew award. ''Lady in Waiting'' was the winner of the Lewis National Playwriting Contest for Women.<ref name=planb/> Larson won the 2003 award for drama for ''Wake Me When It's Over''.<ref></ref>
Larson received the Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters in 2019. The award citation stated that Larson "offers herself as a witness to both the pain and faith of her fellow Saints when their obedience to God pushes them up against the limits of their endurance."<ref name=aml>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
==Publications==
Her plays ''Little Happy Secrets'' and ''Pilot Program'' were published together in a book called ''Third Wheel'' in 2017 by BCC Press.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> "Little Happy Secrets" has been adapted into audio format.<ref name=mormonartist/><ref></ref>
==References==
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[[Category:American women dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:20th-century American women writers]]
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[[Category:American women of Filipino descent]]
==Education and career==
Larson is from [[Hauʻula, Hawaii|Hau'ula, Hawaii]].<ref name="mormonartist" /> Her mother was Philipino and her father was English/Swedish. Her family moved to Salt Lake City when she was twelve years old.<ref></ref> She received a Bachelor's in English from [[Brigham Young University]] (BYU) and an MFA from The Iowa Playwrights Workshop. She names [[Helen Edmundson]], [[Sarah Ruhl]], [[Richard Greenberg]], [[Timberlake Wertenbaker]], [[Lillian Hellman]], and [[Oscar Wilde]] as some of her favorite playwrights.<ref name=mormonartist/> Larson has contributed to LDS Church History's ''Saints: The Standard of Truth''.<ref name=aml/>
==Plays==
Larson won the [[Association for Mormon Letters]] (AML) 2009 award for drama for ''Happy Little Secrets''.<ref></ref> Her 2010 play ''A Flickering'' featured a filmmaker and actress who are friends, and was set in the early 1900s during the silent film era. Critic Katie Roundy found the live piano music and title cards occasionally distracted from the main action, but that the play left her "wanting more."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> ''A Flickering'' was a Trustus Playwrights Festival finalist.<ref name=planb/>
After a successful stage adaptation of ''Persuasion'', BYU commissioned her stage adaptation of ''Pride and Prejudice''.<ref name=mormonartist></ref> The adaptation was a finalist in the 2014 Association for Mormon Letters award for drama.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> ''Salt Lake City Weekly'' gave ''Pride and Prejudice'' a "Best Modern Jane" headline, stating that Larson's adaptation felt "fresh without resorting to gimmickry."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> At the Utah Theater Bloggers Association, the play was spotlighted in a 2014 roundup under "Excellent New Plays."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Reviewer Zach Archuleta wrote that the adaptation was "a worthy addition to the canon of adaptations."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Barta Heiner directed both plays.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
Larson co-wrote a musical adaptation of [[Silas Marner]] called ''The Weaver of Raveloe'' in 2013, and the play was produced in 2014.<ref></ref> She participated in Plan-B Studio's lab for playwrights,<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> and ''Pilot Program'' was her first play shown there.<ref name=planb>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> At ''The Utah Review'', reviewer Les Roka stated that ''Pilot Program'' focused on the living room drama of the imagined future LDS polygamy. Les Roka described it as "a compelling tableau of social messages and contemplation of religious identity that resonates with the depth of exploration suggested in the works of Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg and Gerhart Hauptmann." <ref></ref> The play won AML's 2015 award for drama<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
Her 2016 play ''The Edible Complex'' was written for elementary school students and has actors taking on the roles of Larson's favorite foods.<ref> Plan-B Theatre Company |url=https://ift.tt/325SkRG |publisher=Plan-B Theater Company |date=2 September 2016}}</ref> The play addressed eating disorders.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> ''Sweetheart Come'' was a 2016 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist. Critic Palak Jayswal wrote that the play "encourages empathy while breaking the stigma about isolation and unhappiness."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
==Films==
Larson collaborated with Garrett Batty on the script for [[Freetown (film)|''Freetown'']] (2016), a movie about six Liberian LDS missionaries fleeing the country in the [[First Liberian Civil War]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref name=freetown></ref> ''Freetown'' won the 2016 Utah Film Award for Best Feature Film<ref></ref> and the 2015 Ghana Movie Award for Best Screenplay.<ref name=freetown/>
The film ''Jane and Emma'' (2018) focused on the friendship between [[Jane Elizabeth Manning James]] and [[Emma Smith]], examining racial issues in the early LDS church.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> It appeared on a list of films that fulfilled ReFrame's criteria for gender-balanced and racially diverse films.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Sales from the film's opening night were matched by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' foundation and the Bonneville Charitable Foundation and given as a donation to the NAACP Salt Lake Branch.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Larson studied the journals of both women in writing the script, and stated that the film is "not about preaching to people. It's about these two women and their relationship."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Mariah Proctor at ''Meridian'' magazine wrote that the film "issues an invitation to a conversation" about the two women and their relationship to each other and the LDS Church.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> ''Jane and Emma'' won the Feature Film award at the LDS Film Festival, as well as the Audience Award in the same category.<ref></ref> The film was also a finalist in the 2018 Narrative Film category at the Association for Mormon Letters.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
==Other awards==
''Martyrs' Crossing'' was a IRAM Best New Play. ''Standing Still Standing'' won a Mayhew award. ''Lady in Waiting'' was the winner of the Lewis National Playwriting Contest for Women.<ref name=planb/> Larson won the 2003 award for drama for ''Wake Me When It's Over''.<ref></ref>
Larson received the Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters in 2019. The award citation stated that Larson "offers herself as a witness to both the pain and faith of her fellow Saints when their obedience to God pushes them up against the limits of their endurance."<ref name=aml>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
==Publications==
Her plays ''Little Happy Secrets'' and ''Pilot Program'' were published together in a book called ''Third Wheel'' in 2017 by BCC Press.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> "Little Happy Secrets" has been adapted into audio format.<ref name=mormonartist/><ref></ref>
==References==
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:American women dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:20th-century American women writers]]
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African Women in Tech Working to Close Digital Divide
Women from across Africa are meeting at the annual Women in Tech Africa Week, hoping to bring more women into the tech industry and combat inequalities in technology use and access, especially for economic empowerment.
Francesca Opoku remembers having to physically send workers to deliver messages or documents when she started her small social enterprise in Ghana 10 years ago. Today, she works to keep up with fast-developing technology to grow her business that produces natural beauty products. She also trains women she works with in financial literacy, such as using simple mobile technology to manage their money.
"As a small African business, as you are growing and as you aspire to grow globally and your tentacles are widening, the world is just going techy," Opoku said. "Business in the world is going techy. It's especially relevant in small business. It's the best way to make what you are doing known out there."
She was at the launch of Women In Tech Africa in Accra, with events in six other countries including Germany, Kenya and Zimbabwe. Opoku said she wants to learn more about how she can use technology to make her business grow and to ensure she is not left behind in the technology divide.
Across Africa, this divide means women are 13% less likely to own a mobile phone and 41% less likely to use mobile internet than men.
Women In Tech Africa founder
Ethel Cofie, founder of Women In Tech Africa, an NGO that started in 2015, said addressing this gap is crucial. Her network of 5,000 women across 30 African countries is pushing the conversation about women in technology and leadership.
"There is a huge gender gap, and that is part of the conversation," Cofie said. "When we are out here showing the world we actually exist, are doing things, what it does is, it provides avenues for us to support other women. One of the things Women in Tech has done is work with the Ghanaian Beauticians Association and Ghana traders associations. Even though these women are not necessarily as educated, they also need to be able to use tech to build their businesses."
Cofie says the digital gap between men and women in Africa is a consequence of poverty and economic disparities. Men usually have higher incomes, and better access to mobile phones and internet data.
Education
Increasing digital access starts with education. At the G-7 summit this year, members pledged to work with developing countries to promote inclusion, equity and access for girls and women to quality education, including Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
Faiza Adam, a network engineer, started Girly Tech this year to inspire underprivileged Ghanaian girls into STEM careers. She's training young girls in web development, programming and robotics in Accra.
"Imagine where girls don't embrace tech, then in five years to come, we have only males who are in the tech space — there is no diversity," Adam said. "So, in the decision making, they tend to use the male, male, male ideas instead of female. So, when we have inclusion, or there is diversity — I bring my idea, and the guy also brings his idea from the male perspective — we come together and solve societal problems."
Cofie and Adam both say more women in tech will mean more problems solved in their own communities. But Cofie adds that half the battles — like the gender divide — could be overcome with the right policies in place.
October 10, 2019 at 03:33AM
Diplomacy Aims to Unite Kurds, Damascus Against Turkish Advance into Syria
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As Turkish forces began a military operation in the north of Syria, Kurdish SDF leaders scrambled for possible support from the Syrian government in Damascus to help fend off a full-blown Turkish invasion. Kurdish leaders also called on Russia to act as an intermediary in possible talks with Damascus.
Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Arab media that Turkish planes had conducted at least four airstrikes on the town of Ras al- Ayn and that many civilians were fleeing the region for safer areas. Turkish forces, he added, also were shelling the town of Tal al Abyad with long-range artillery.
Amateur video on social media showed Kurds in a number of towns across northern Syria protesting the Turkish attack, and other videos claimed to show Kurds rushing to join military units to fend off what they feared was an impending Turkish invasion.
A Kurdish SDF military commander told a gathering of the group's militiamen that he was declaring a region-wide call-up of all those able to fight. He also said there is proof that Turkey has helped the Islamic State terrorist group dozens of times with weapons, safe-passage and other tactical support in various parts of northern Syria.
In a tweet Tuesday, the commander alluded to a possible SDF alliance with Syrian government forces. Saudi-owned al Arabiya TV reported Wednesday that Kurdish leaders in northern Syria were calling on Russia to act as an intermediary in a possible rapprochement between the SDF and Damascus, following the decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw some forces from the region.
Mohammed Kheir Akkam, a member of the Syrian parliament, told Arab media that Damascus "could come to the aid of the Kurds, but on the condition that they expressed their loyalty to the government, rather than other outside forces," alluding to the U.S.
However, Hilal Khashan, who teaches political science at the American University of Beirut, told VOA that he doubts such an alliance would occur.
"The Syrian Army moved into [the northern Aleppo border town of] Afrin last year, but pulled out immediately after the Turkish Army closed in," he said. "In the unlikely event that they cooperate, their combined forces are no match for Turkey's."
October 10, 2019 at 02:00AM
To Require Truth in Labeling of Agricultural Products that Are Edible by Humans
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'''To Require Truth in Labeling of Agricultural Products that Are Edible by Humans''', also known as '''Act 501''', is a law passed in the US state of [[Arkansas]] that restricts the terminology that can be applied to substitutes of animal-based foods.<ref name="Mole"/> It also prohibits using the label "rice" for any food product that is not "the whole, broken, or ground kernels or by-products obtained from the species ''[[Oryza sativa]]'' L. or ''[[Oryza glaberrima]]'', or wild rice, which is obtained from one of the four species of grasses from the genus ''Zizania'' or ''Proteresia''". Arkansas produced nearly half of all the rice grown in the US in 2018. It was signed into law in March 2019.<ref name="Review">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> The legislation was proposed by [[David Hillman (politician)|David Hillman]].<ref name="Mole"/> Hillman stated that the use of meat terminology by producers of plant-based products is done to confuse consumers, sayin, "the only way they can get people to try their product is to confuse them".<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> The law stated that only products that derived from animals could be referred to as meat or using meat terminology.<ref name="Mole"/> The penalty for breaking the law is a US$1,000 fine per violation.<ref name="Review"/>
In July 2019, the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] of Arkansas, [[The Good Food Institute|Good Food Institute]], and [[Animal Legal Defense Fund]] filed a lawsuit on behalf of [[Tofurky]], a brand that creates meat replacement products from wheat protein and tofu.<ref name="Mole">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
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In July 2019, the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] of Arkansas, [[The Good Food Institute|Good Food Institute]], and [[Animal Legal Defense Fund]] filed a lawsuit on behalf of [[Tofurky]], a brand that creates meat replacement products from wheat protein and tofu.<ref name="Mole">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
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October 10, 2019 at 12:49AM
UN: Unlawful Anti-Drugs US Air Strikes Killed 30 Afghan Civilians
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UN: Unlawful Anti-Drugs US Air Strikes Killed 30 Afghan Civilians
The United Nations said Wednesday recent U.S. airstrikes on alleged drug-processing facilities in Afghanistan that killed more than 30 civilians, including children, were "not lawful."
The casualties occurred last May in western Farah and adjoining Nimroz provinces where the U.S. bombed more than 60 sites, identifying them as drug-production plants, according to "extensive fact-finding" into the incident by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). The report said investigators have confirmed 30 deaths and at least four injuries in Farah.
"UNAMA has received reliable and credible information to substantiate at least a further 37 additional civilian casualties [30 deaths and seven injured], the majority of whom were women and children. It is working to further verify these civilian casualties," the report said.
The U.S. military swiftly disputed the charges, questioning the methods and credibility of the sources used by UNAMA.
"The precision strikes against Taliban methamphetamine labs and Taliban combatants in the early hours of May 5, 2019 accurately targeted and struck sources of Taliban revenues used to fund ongoing indiscriminate violence against innocent Afghans," the military noted in a written statement.
In addition to imagery collection during the precision strikes, the U.S. military conducted "exhaustive assessments" of the facilities and surrounding areas after the strikes, it explained.
But UNAMA insisted in its report that the victims inside the facilities were non-combatants because they were not involved in hostile activities and were entitled to protection against such attacks.
"However, according to international humanitarian law, including international customary law, facilities that contribute economically or financially to the war effort of a party to a conflict are considered civilian objectives," UNAMA insisted in its report.
U.S. forces also have targeted drug-production facilities in Afghanistan to try disrupt what is believed to be a major source of revenues for the Taliban.
UNAMA emphasized in its report, however, this was the first time it has received reports of a large number of civilian casualties resulting from such an operation.
American forces launched counter-narcotics airstrikes between 2017 and 2018 in opium-poppy producing southern Afghan provinces where the Taliban controls large swaths of territory. Critics say however the campaign has had little impact and ave drawn strong criticism from Afghan farmers who mostly rely on earnings from poppy cultivation to support their families.
October 09, 2019 at 09:17PM
Most Republicans Back Trump on Impeachment, But a Small Number Are Voicing Concern
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Most Republicans Back Trump on Impeachment, But a Small Number Are Voicing Concern
Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio is one of the few Republicans lawmakers to openly rebuke President Donald Trump for asking the new Ukrainian president in late July to investigate one of Trump's major Democratic rivals, former vice president Joe Biden.
"The President should not have raised the Biden issue on that call, period," Portman told The Columbus Dispatch on Monday. "It is not appropriate for a president to engage a foreign government in an investigation of a political opponent."
Portman's views are a relative rarity among the 252 Republican members of Congress. For the president to be impeached and removed from office, 20 out of 53 Republican senators would need to join with the Democrats and vote to remove him.
For Portman, that's a step too far for now.
Portman said despite his differences with Trump, who recently urged both Ukraine and China to investigate Biden, he did not view Trump's conduct as an impeachable offense. Trump so far has commanded overwhelming Republican backing as he battles against the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry that was sparked by the phone call between the U.S. and Ukrainian presidents.
However, a small but growing number of Republicans are favoring an investigation as more details of the scandal emerge, according to a VOA review.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who served in Republican President George W. Bush's administration, recently criticized the state of U.S. foreign policy and blamed Republicans for being "terrified" of criticizing Trump.
Powell said during a televised lecture moderated by CNN columnist Fareed Zakaria that "Republican leaders and members of the Congress . . . are holding back because they're terrified of what will happen [to] any one of them if they speak out." What they fear, he said, was losing their primary elections if Trump forces came after them. The four-star general suggested that losing a primary would not be "such a disaster."
In all, about 16 prominent Republicans including Portman and Powell have publicly raised concern about Trump's conduct or defended the House Democrats' right to seek answers to questions about Trump's efforts to enlist foreign countries to investigate Biden and his son, Hunter -- who did business in Ukraine and China during his father's tenure as vice president. Here is a summary of the 14 other Republicans who have spoken out.
Congressman Mark Amodei: "Let's put it through the process and see what happens."
The Nevada House member initially suggested that the impeachment inquiry is justified, but later pulled back. In a call with the Nevada Independent, Amodei stated he was "a big fan of oversight, so let's let the committees get to work and see where it goes." Later Amodei emphasized that "In no way, shape, or form, did I indicate support for impeachment." He said that he would base his vote on whether he found "credible evidence" that Trump "broke a specific law."
Senator Ben Sasse: "Americans don't look to Chinese commies for the truth."
The Nebraska senator wrote to the Omaha World-Herald after Trump suggested China investigate Joe Biden for corruption. "If the Biden kid broke laws by selling his name to Beijing, that's a matter for American courts, not communist tyrants running torture camps," Sasse wrote. The senator called the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry a "partisan clown show." In contrast, he said the Senate inquiry is "working to follow the facts one step at a time." Sasse previously said the whistleblower complaint against Trump that triggered the impeachment probe contained "real troubling things" and that Republicans "ought not just circle the wagons." However, he has not made a judgment on whether Trump should be impeached.
Senator Susan Collins: "The president made a big mistake by asking China to get involved in investigating a political opponent."
The Maine senator took issue with Trump's comments on the White House lawn that China should investigate Biden for corruption. Collins said she had no comment on the current evidence for the impeachment inquiry. She said she hopes the impeachment inquiry will "be done with the seriousness that any impeachment proceeding deserves." Collins said she was preparing for the likelihood that the House would send articles of impeachment to the Senate. Collins told the Bangor Daily News that she plans to act as a juror as she did in the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick: Law Enforcement should look into the case and report to Congress
The Pennsylvania House member does not support the House's impeachment inquiry. Instead he suggests allowing law enforcement to evaluate the case. "Whether or not law enforcement matters and investigations should be initiated or closed are decisions that should be made by law enforcement and law enforcement alone, not by politicians," Fitzpatrick said in a statement. Fitzpatrick was an FBI agent assigned to anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine in 2015 at the time Joe Biden was vice president and his son was working in Ukraine.
Senator Mitt Romney: "The President's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling."
The Utah senator and former presidential candidate issued a statement on Twitter after President Trump suggested China could investigate Joe Biden for corruption. The senator tweeted: "When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated. President Trump struck back at the senator in a series of expletive tweets saying Romney "choked" in the 2012 presidential election and tagging one tweet '#IMPEACHMITTROMNEY.'
Congressman Will Hurd: "We need to fully investigate all of the allegations addressed in the letter."
The Texas congressman said the House should investigate the allegations in the whistleblower's report. On CBS' 60 Minutes, Hurd emphasized he wanted to understand "the motivations and intentions" of those involved in the phone call. "What I want to do is understand the truth," said Hurd. He is on the committee leading the investigation into the whistleblowers complaints. Hurd called the impeachment inquiry "wordplay" used by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to "placate some of the extreme wings of her party."
Congressman John Curtis: Says he has the "utmost confidence in the investigative tools Congress has at its disposal."
The Utah House member released an official statement saying that he is "closely monitoring" the formal inquiry and that he was pleased that Trump released the transcript of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Senator Chuck Grassley: "No one should be making judgments or pronouncements without hearing from the whistleblower first."
The Iowa senator issued a statement saying the whistleblower who revealed Trump's call should be heard out and protected. Grassley did not offer an opinion on whether Trump should be impeached. Instead he said that "uninformed speculation wielded by politicians or media commentators as a partisan weapon is counterproductive and doesn't serve the country." The senator said that media reports on the whistleblowers identity "don't serve the public interest." Grassley is the chairman and co-founder of the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus.
Congressman Troy Balderson: "At this moment we don't have all the facts."
The Ohio House member told Spectrum News that he believed in "full transparency," in the impeachment inquiry. Balderson said the allegations against the president are "serious and concerning." The representative said he looks forward to "reviewing all available information so Congress may address the situation based on the facts presented to us." Balderson narrowly won his district's special election thank to an endorsement from Trump and former governor John Kasich, a moderate Republican.
Congressman Steve Stivers: "These are very serious allegations, and I'll be monitoring the situation closely."
The Ohio House member's spokeswoman told The Columbus Dispatch that Stivers "has concerns about the president's call with the Ukrainian president, but has been encouraged by the amount of information that has been disclosed in the past couple of weeks."
Jeff Flake: "35 Republican Senators" would convict Trump if the vote were a secret ballot.
The former Arizona senator suggested that many GOP senators want to break away from Trump but are concerned about backlash from voters. Flake made the comment in response to political consultant Mike Murphy's statement on MSNBC that he had been told by an anonymous Republican senator that 30 Republican senators would impeach Trump if their vote was secret. "There's a lot of fear of what it means to go against the president," said Flake, a critic of the president, "but most Republican senators would not like to be dealing with this for another year or another five years."
Trump's Republican primary challengers have also weighed in on the inquiry, varying from supporting an investigation into potential wrongdoings to suggesting the president could be convicted of treason.
Mark Sanford: "Very troubling charges" against Trump.
The former South Carolina Governor and 2020 presidential candidate appeared on CNN's State of the Union to address the House's impeachment inquiry. Sanford suggested a congressional censure of Trump might be more appropriate, but did not outright say impeachment proceedings would be wrong. He favors Congress leading an investigation into potential wrong doing.
Joe Walsh: "Donald Trump is a traitor."
The former Illinois House member and 2020 presidential candidate appeared alongside Sanford on CNN's State of the Union to address the House's impeachment inquiry. "He [Trump] stood on the White House lawn ... and told two additional foreign governments to interfere in our election. That alone is impeachable." said Walsh. The presidential candidate said if he was still in Congress, where he served one term, he would vote to impeach Trump. Walsh said he did not consider the president's actions to be treasonous.
Bill Weld: "It's treason, pure and simple."
The former Massachusetts governor and 2020 presidential candidate, appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and suggested that Trump's phone call to the Ukraine president could go beyond impeachment. "Talk about pressuring a foreign country to interfere with and control a U.S. election, it couldn't be clearer, and that's not just undermining democratic institutions," Weld said. "That is treason. It's treason, pure and simple. And the penalty for treason under the U.S. code is death. "That's the only penalty."
October 09, 2019 at 08:20PM
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October 09, 2019 at 06:33PM
Document reveals Ukraine had already reopened probe of Hunter Biden-linked firm months before Trump phone call
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Document reveals Ukraine had already reopened probe of Hunter Biden-linked firm months before Trump phone call Fox News contributor John Solomon claimed a new document he obtained showed Ukrainian officials opened a new probe into the firm linked to Hunter Biden months before President Trump's phone call with that country's leader.
October 09, 2019 at 06:35PM
In the Event of Impeachment, Trump Counts on Republican Senate to Save Him
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A new public opinion poll shows support is building for the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry now under way in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The latest Washington Post-Schar School poll found 58% of those surveyed now support the impeachment inquiry, while 38% oppose. That is a shift of 21 points in those supporting the inquiry from a previous poll in July. A total of 49% of those who support the inquiry said Congress should impeach U.S. President Donald Trump and remove him from office, while 6% of that group oppose his ouster.
A new Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday shows voters support the inquiry by a margin of 52% to 45%. The survey also shows voters remain split on whether President Trump should be impeached. Forty-five percent say he should, and 49% oppose the idea.
House Democrats are considering whether the president may have committed an impeachable offense by trying to enlist help from Ukraine and China to investigate Democratic presidential front-runner and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Showdown with Congress
The jump in support for impeachment comes as House Democrats battle the White House for documents and testimony in a probe that seems to be moving quickly.
Several analysts say the likelihood is growing that the Democratic House may be headed toward making Trump only the third U.S. president in history to be impeached.
"These are extraordinarily serious allegations," George Washington Law School analyst Paul Schiff Berman told VOA. "I am not sure there has ever been a time in our history where we have had a president who has conducted foreign policy for his own personal political gain."
At the White House, Trump remained defiant and lashed out at Democrats.
"What they did to this country is unthinkable, and it's lucky that I am the president because a lot of people said very few people could handle it," Trump told reporters late Monday. "I sort of thrive on it. You know why? Because it is so important."
Trump has denied any wrongdoing and said his focus was fighting corruption, not politics.
On Tuesday, the impeachment probe took another turn when the State Department ordered the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, not to appear before Congress to answer questions about the Trump administration's dealing with Ukraine.
The Democratic chairmen of the key House committees involved in the impeachment inquiry announced they intend to subpoena Sondland to testify.
The Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, California Congressman Adam Schiff, said the latest move by the administration appear to be "part of the White House's effort to obstruct the inquiry and cover up President Trump's misconduct."
Schiff also vowed to reporters that Democrats remain focused on allegations that the president abused his power in his dealing with Ukraine.
"This is one of the few impeachment inquiries in the history of our country. It goes to the core of whether the president abused his office to seek political help in his re-election campaign and did so to the detriment of our nation's security."
Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has said he was focused on rooting out corruption in Ukraine, not domestic politics.
The process
Eventually, Democrats may move to impeach Trump over his dealings with Ukraine in the House of Representatives where they have a majority.
But it would be only the beginning of a lengthy and unpredictable process, according to Brookings Institution analyst William Galston.
"If there are articles of impeachment voted in the House of Representatives, which in the U.S. system serves as the sort of prosecutor making the case. But the real jury is the Senate of the United States, and there it would take a two-thirds majority to remove President Trump from office."
If the House impeaches Trump, that would lead to an impeachment trial in the Senate where the 100 senators would effectively act as jurors on the articles of impeachment passed by the House.
But unlike the House where Democrats hold a majority, Republicans control the Senate by a margin of 53 to 47 seats. Democrats actually hold 45 Senate seats but can usually count on the votes of independents Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine.
Senate firewall
In the House, it only takes a simple majority vote to pass articles of impeachment. But in a Senate trial where the president's fate would be decided, there is a two-thirds majority, or 67 votes, required to convict the president on any article of impeachment, which would lead to his removal from office.
"That would mean that 20 Republican senators out of 53 would have to join with the Democrats in order to carry out that act," said Galston. "That requires a much broader coalition of support across party lines than we have seen so far."
Trump sees the Republican majority in the Senate as his firewall against removal from office.
"And then we will get it to the Senate, and we are going to win. The Republicans have been very unified. This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country," Trump told reporters outside the White House last week.
Trump's campaign has been raising millions of dollars off the Democratic impeachment effort, and some analysts believe the impeachment drive could help mobilize his supporters in time for next year's presidential election.
But neither side really knows how an impeachment battle will play out in the 2020 campaign, though it is likely to add fuel to an intensive battle for the White House, and experts are predicting a huge voter turnout.
Recent history
The last impeachment trial in the Senate came in 1999, when President Bill Clinton was acquitted of charges related to his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Clinton and Andrew Johnson are the only two presidents to have been impeached and then acquitted in Senate impeachment trials.
Richard Nixon was the focus of an impeachment inquiry in 1974 over the Watergate scandal. But he resigned the presidency before he was impeached after Republican congressional leaders told him he was likely to be removed from office if there was a Senate trial.
October 09, 2019 at 06:07PM
Bella Thorne celebrates 22nd birthday with bikini photos: 'It's my birthday b---h'
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Bella Thorne celebrates 22nd birthday with bikini photos: 'It's my birthday b---h' Bella Thorne is ringing in her 22nd birthday with throwback beach photos, selfies and a day at the amusement park.
October 09, 2019 at 11:33AM
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October 09, 2019 at 11:00AM
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Todd Chrisley, wife Julie settle $2 million Georgia tax-evasion case
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Todd Chrisley, wife Julie settle $2 million Georgia tax-evasion case "Chrisley Knows Best" stars Julie and Todd Chrisley have reached a settlement after allegedly failing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in income taxes to the state of Georgia.
October 09, 2019 at 09:43AM
White House Refusing to Participate in Impeachment Inquiry
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The White House says it will not participate in what it calls the unconstitutional impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
White House lawyer Pat Cipollone sent an eight-page letter to House Democratic leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who are looking into whether Trump broke the law by urging Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Cipollone accuses the Democrats of violating "fundamental fairness and constitutionally mandated due process."
He says they are denying Trump the opportunity to question witnesses and see the evidence they are using to decide whether he should be impeached.
"All of this violates the Constitution, the rule of law, and every past precedent," Cipollone wrote, adding that inquiry is baseless, partisan, and an attempt to toss out the results of the 2016 presidential election.
A whistleblower complaint about a July 25 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy helped trigger a House of Representatives impeachment investigation of Trump last month.
The White House has demanded Pelosi bring the impeachment inquiry to a full vote before the entire House of Representatives if the committees want any cooperation from Trump officials.
But there is no rule preventing the House from looking into allegations of illegal activity of a president before deciding whether to bring actual articles of impeachment to a vote.
The White House letter comes after another move by the Trump administration that Democratic leaders call obstruction.
The State Department refused to let U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland answer questions from House committee members Tuesday.
Sondland had flown from Europe and was willing to appear. But his attorney, Robert Luskin, said Sondland "is a sitting ambassador and employee of State and is required to follow their direction."
Luskin said Sondland was "profoundly disappointed" at not being given the chance to talk.
Subpoena
The Democratic chairs of the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight Committees have now subpoenaed Sondland to testify.
Trump tweeted that Sondland would have appeared before a "totally compromised kangaroo court where Republican rights have been taken away, and true facts are not allowed out for the public to see."
Sondland, a Trump donor, was one of several diplomats who advised the Ukrainian leadership about how to carry out Trump's demands after his July phone call with Ukraine's Zelenskiy. During that call, Trump urged Zelenskiy to investigate Biden for alleged corruption tied to his son, Hunter Biden's job with a Ukrainian gas company
According to a U.S. intelligence whistleblower, Sondland and other diplomats exchanged a series of text messages in which the diplomats wondered why roughly $400 million in badly needed aid to Ukraine was frozen.
Reports say there was a five-hour-long gap between text messages, during which Sondland telephoned Trump.
The next message assured one diplomat there was no "quid pro quo" of any kind with Ukraine, followed by Sondland writing, "I suggest we stop the back and forth by text."
Democrats want to know what happened in those five hours and why the text messages came to a sudden halt.
Also at the heart of the inquiry is whether Trump was freezing the aid in an exchange for a Biden investigation.
Trump alleges that when Biden was vice president, he threatened to hold up loan guarantees to Ukraine unless it stopped a corruption probe of the gas company where Hunter Biden worked.
Hunter Biden was not the target of that investigation, and there has been no evidence of any wrongdoing by Joe Biden or his son.
October 09, 2019 at 08:39AM
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