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baccarat sure win formula OTTAWA — Canada will not offer a temporary resettlement program for people fleeing Lebanon, as it did for Gaza and Ukraine, because the government’s focus must remain on Canadian citizens, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says. Miller was testifying about the government’s immigration plan before the House immigration committee on Monday when his fellow Liberal MP Salma Zahid asked about Lebanon. “I have one constituent who within days lost his brother, his wife and three children in one Israeli bombing,” Zahid said. Canada had a program that allowed nearly 300,000 Ukrainians to come here on a temporary basis while the war in Ukraine continues. The government offered a similar, but much smaller program for Gaza residents with family connections in Canada. That program was capped at 5,000 applicants, with approximately 250 people actually travelling here. Zahid said she has a large Lebanese community in her Scarborough riding, and its members want to know why they are being left out. “The community is beside themselves with anger and grief. They see the help we have provided to people fleeing the war in Ukraine. They see the program to bring the extended family of Canadian citizens and permanent residents in Gaza to Canada for temporary safety,” she said. “Will you commit to doing the same for the extended families of Lebanese Canadians?” Miller said he also has a large Lebanese population in his riding and has heard the same concerns, but that Canada can’t open up a program for non-citizens while there are still many Canadians and permanent residents in Lebanon who could need help to flee. “Our focus needs to remain on them and the resources necessary to evacuate them should the situation get worse,” Miller said. Israel has bombed Lebanon during its campaign against the militant group Hezbollah, and the country’s health ministry has reported more than 3,000 people have been killed. The Canadian government has issued an advisory warning against any travel to Lebanon, and has encouraged Canadians who are there to leave while commercial flights are still available. While the government has flown out hundreds of Canadians on special flights, Global Affairs estimates there are between 40,000 and 75,000 Canadians living in Lebanon. Miller said the government continues to encourage those people to leave, but for now it has to focus its efforts on Canadian citizens and permanent residents. He said he hopes there is an end to the conflict soon. “I think everyone would agree that the best way to ensure their safety is to make sure there’s a ceasefire,” he said.

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MONTREAL - The Ottawa Charge got contributions from six different goal scorers in a 6-1 pre-season win over the Boston Fleet on Thursday in the Professional Women's Hockey League. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * MONTREAL - The Ottawa Charge got contributions from six different goal scorers in a 6-1 pre-season win over the Boston Fleet on Thursday in the Professional Women's Hockey League. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? MONTREAL – The Ottawa Charge got contributions from six different goal scorers in a 6-1 pre-season win over the Boston Fleet on Thursday in the Professional Women’s Hockey League. Emily Clark, Stephanie Markowski and Anna Meixner had a goal and an assist each, while Katerina Mrazova, Mannon McMahon and Shiann Darkangelo also scored for Ottawa (1-0-0). Emerance Maschmeyer made 36 saves playing all 60 minutes and Tereza Vanisova pitched in with two assists at the Verdun Auditorium. Lexie Adzija replied for Boston (1-1-0). Starter Cami Kronish stopped 10 of 12 shots, while Klara Peslarova denied 12 of 16 in relief. PWHL mini-camp play in Montreal wraps up Friday when Ottawa takes on the Montreal Victoire (0-1-0). Boston beat Montreal 3-1 on Wednesday. — FROST 4 SIRENS 3 (OT) TORONTO — Mae Batherson scored twice, including the overtime winner, and the Minnesota Frost beat the New York Sirens in exhibition play. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Brooke McQuigge, with a goal and an assist, and Melissa Channell-Watkins also scored for Minnesota (2-0-0), which won the inaugural Walter Cup last season. Nicole Hensley stopped 10 of 11 shots and Lauren Bench saved nine of 11 while splitting duties at Ford Performance Centre. Paetyn Levis had a goal and an assist for New York (0-0-1). Brooke Hobson and Elle Hartje also scored, and Corinne Schroeder made 19 saves. The Sirens take on the Toronto Sceptres (0-1-0) on Friday. Toronto fell 3-1 to Minnesota on Wednesday. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 21, 2024. Advertisement AdvertisementInside Scottish Premiership club’s new £80m stadium plans hit by major setbacksUS farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportation

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A single underwater cable supplies Beaver Island with its power. Storms, which are becoming increasingly frequent and severe with climate change, have knocked out the lights for days. A maritime accident once cut electricity for months in the 600-person island 30 miles off the coast of western Michigan. What if water surrounding Beaver Island could be the key to delivering the small island with more reliable — and clean — power? Backed by a $3.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, researchers at the University of Michigan are working with island residents to explore converting wave energy into electricity. If they’re successful, naturally occurring waves would make the remote community more resilient to climate change and mitigate climate change-fueling carbon emissions. Remote islands with compromised grid reliability are early candidates for nascent wave energy converters. Once the technology is established and costs drop, the renewable power source is expected to complement solar and wind power in urban coastal communities as well, said Vishnu Vijayasankar, a doctoral candidate leading the university’s efforts. Vicky Fingeroot, a Detroit native, began traveling to Beaver Island in 2006. “I never thought about energy or how we got it when I bought my first piece of property here back then,” she said. It wasn’t until she moved to Beaver Island full time in 2021 and experienced her first power outage that grid reliability crossed her mind. A strong storm took down multiple overhead power lines that carry electricity ashore from the underwater line. More weather was on the way, so plane and ferry services were paused. There was no way on or off the island. The local line worker who knew how to turn on the backup generator was attending an out-of-town funeral. “It was the perfect storm, no pun intended,” said Fingeroot, who was on the board of trustees for one of the island’s two townships. Left without power for several days, her community’s vulnerability was suddenly thrust in front of her. “What about the elderly who need oxygen? What were they going to do? And are there warming centers?” she recalled worrying. When the emergency diesel generator was finally turned on, it powered only the two main business roads on the north end of the island. Many residents on the island’s southern end had to rely on personal propane generators until the lines were repaired. Both diesel and propane generators are polluting technologies. The generator had been installed after an outage in winter 1999 that lasted over three months. The lake froze over, inhibiting service technicians from reaching the underwater power cable, which had been nicked by a tugboat anchor. The island had expressed interest in exploring renewable energy sources then, but the technologies were new and still expensive, said Beth Croswhite, who has lived on the island for over four decades and served in local government. The 2021 outage, an influx of clean-energy funding under the Biden administration and dramatic decreases in the cost of renewables revived conversations about renewable energy. Beaver Island was one of 12 communities selected to reenvision its energy grid with support from the Department of Energy. Much of the focus in the program so far has been on solar power. The community also was approached by researchers at the University of Michigan seeking to explore wave energy as an additional carbon-free power source. In the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, remote communities are exploring tidal energy as well. Tides — changes in water level caused by the gravitational pull of the sun and moon — are too small in the Great Lakes. But waves, which are caused by strong winds and changes in atmospheric pressure, are abundant in the fall and early winter. Originally from India, Vijayasankar couldn’t believe how much wave activity Lake Michigan had when he first visited in October. “I went (to the shore) during October and there was a crazy amount of waves. I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ I was worried that our device might not be able to withstand Lake Michigan,” he said. At the most basic level, a wave energy converter uses the rise and fall of the water to move a motor. That kinetic energy gets run through a generator that converts it to the electric energy needed to power homes and businesses. Wave energy converters are less common than wind turbines and solar panels, largely because of design challenges. One design makes floating buoys that bob up and down with the crest and trough of the waves. Another depends on the crest of the waves to compress air in a chamber, forcing it up through a turbine that spins. Every model comes with pros and cons regarding myriad issues, including but not limited to storm resiliency, energy generation and marine life safety. In the design phase of the Beaver Island project, anticipated to last two years, the university researchers are hosting dinners and creating a survey to ensure their blueprint is accepted by residents. A preliminary survey showed that residents were most concerned about marine life safety, signaling to Vijayasankar that he should nix designs with exposed turbines. Researchers also will have to address resident concerns about the seasonality of waves. They’re typically stronger during the colder months until the lake freezes over. Wave energy likely will be a complement to the solar power Beaver Island is also exploring, Vijayasankar said. There may be lots of waves on stormy days when the sun isn’t shining, for example. Large-scale batteries — which scientists are racing to perfect — could help store excess wave energy produced by passing storm systems for later use. “The end goal is to make us sustainable, and I don’t see us doing it with one thing. I see us doing it with many things,” Fingeroot said. “This wave energy project, there’s certainly an openness to it.”

and Tom Schwartz are raising a toast to their business Schwartz & Sandy's. The is set to close at the end of December, the reality-TV personalities revealed in separate Instagram posts on Monday. Neither Sandoval nor Schwartz disclosed the reason for the closure. "This hasn't been an easy choice for my partners and me, but other priorities and commitments have taken hold," . "While this business venture has been an incredible stepping stone in my life, one I will always cherish, I look forward to exciting new endeavors." : "Sad as hell to post this. I'll do a more sentimental post down the road. Just wanna keep it upbeat and throw some parties to close out the year." In addition to thanking the bar's "incredible staff" for its "endless commitment to making Schwartz & Sandy's a place of everlasting memories," Sandoval shared that the LA locale will continue hosting events through its closing date, which was not announced in the post. Sandoval and Schwartz, who star on the Bravo reality series " in 2021. The pair also co-founded in West Hollywood with . In March 2023, Schwartz & Sandy's was caught in the with "Vanderpump Rules" co-star , a close friend of his then-girlfriend . At the time, Sandoval wrote on social media that he would be "taking a hiatus out of respect for my employees (and) partners." "The allure of being associated with reality TV has hidden what is an amazing spot and location for LA locals as well," Sandoval concluded his Monday post. "I highly recommend you check us out, especially if you haven't yet. Let's get together one last time."Flau’jae Johnson reacts to Kim Mulkey's sideline behavior at LSUArguments about past presidents shape the nation’s understanding of itself and hence its unfolding future. In recent years, biographies by nonacademics have rescued some presidents from progressive academia’s indifference or condescension: John Adams (rescued by David McCullough), Ulysses S. Grant (by Ron Chernow), Calvin Coolidge (by Amity Shlaes). The rehabilitation of those presidents’ reputations have been acts of justice, as is Christopher Cox’s destruction of Woodrow Wilson’s place in progressivism’s pantheon. In “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn,” Cox, former congressman and former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, demonstrates that the 28th president was the nation’s nastiest. Without belaboring the point, Cox presents an Everest of evidence that Wilson’s progressivism smoothly melded with his authoritarianism and oceanic capacity for contempt. His books featured ostentatious initials: “Woodrow Wilson Ph.D., LL.D.” But he wrote no doctoral dissertation for his 18-month Ph.D. He dropped out of law school. His doctorate of law was honorary. But because of those initials, and because he vaulted in three years from Princeton University’s presidency to New Jersey’s governorship to the U.S. presidency, and because he authored books, he is remembered as a scholar in politics. Actually, he was an intellectual manque using academia as a springboard into politics. His books were thin gruel, often laced with scabrous racism. His first, “Congressional Government,” contained only 52 citations, but he got it counted as a doctoral dissertation. He wrote it while a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, yet he only once visited the U.S. Capitol 37 miles away. “I have no patience for the tedious toil of ‘research,’” he said. “I hate the place,” he said of Bryn Mawr, a women’s college that provided his first faculty job. He thought teaching women was pointless. Cox ignores the well-plowed ground of Wilson’s domestic achievements — the progressive income tax, the Federal Reserve. Instead, Cox braids Wilson’s aggressive white-male supremacy and hostility toward women’s suffrage. His was a life defined by disdaining. For postgraduate education, Johns Hopkins recruited German-trained faculty steeped in that nation’s statism and belief in the racial superiority of Teutonic people. Wilson’s Johns Hopkins classmate and lifelong friend Thomas Dixon wrote the novel that became the silent movie “The Birth of a Nation.” Wilson made this celebration of the Ku Klux Klan the first movie shown in the White House. During the movie, the screen showed quotes from Wilson’s “History of the American People,” such as: “In the villages the negroes were the office holders, men who knew none of the uses of authority, except its insolences.” And: “At last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan ... to protect the Southern country” and Southerners’ “Aryan birthright.” Wilson’s White House gala — guests in evening dress — gave “The Birth of a Nation” a presidential imprimatur. The movie, which became a national sensation, normalized the Klan and helped to revive lynching. Though the term “fascism” is more frequently bandied than defined, it fits Wilson’s amalgam of racism (he meticulously resegregated the federal workforce), statism, and wartime censorship and prosecutions. Dissent was “disloyalty” deserving “a firm hand of stern repression.” Benito Mussolini: “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” Wilson: “I am perfectly sure that the state has got to control everything that everybody needs and uses.” Wilson created the Committee on Public Information to “mobilize the mind of America.” The committee soon had more than 150,000 employees disseminating propaganda, monitoring publications and providing them with government-written content. The committee was echoed in the Biden administration’s pressuring of social media to suppress what it considered dis- or misinformation. Cox provides a stunning chronicle of Wilson’s complacent, even gleeful, acceptance of police and mob brutality, often in front of the White House, against suffragists. And of the torture — no milder word will suffice — of the women incarcerated in stomach-turning squalor, at the mercy of sadists. “Appropriate,” Wilson said. An appropriate judgment from the man who dismissed as empty verbiage the first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence. Historian C. Vann Woodward, author of “The Strange Career of Jim Crow,” said white-male supremacy was the crux of Southern progressivism. Wilson’s political career demonstrated that it was not discordant with national progressivism’s belief that a superior few should control the benighted many. John Greenleaf Whittier, disillusioned by Daniel Webster’s support of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, wrote of Webster: “So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn / Which once he wore!” True, too, of Wilson. Will writes for The Washington Post. Get local news delivered to your inbox!

It’s often claimed, I’m not sure on what authority, that the Beatles’ arrival in America, three months after the assassination of President Kennedy, in some unquantifiable way lifted the spirits of a depressed nation, allowing it to move forward into the light. Perhaps reliving it in 2024 will bring similar relief, though of course, some will just long for the past. It’s a thought repeated by Paul McCartney himself in a delightful new-old documentary “Beatles ’64,” premiering Friday on Disney+, in what, after “The Beatles Anthology” in 1995 and “Get Back” in 2019, might be seen as an infrequent Thanksgiving tradition. The film, produced by Martin Scorsese and directed by David Tedeschi, is the latest repurposing of footage shot by Albert and David Maysles , when the band crossed the pond to appear on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in February 1964. The Maysles’ footage was originally used for the BBC documentary “What’s Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A.,” and formed the substance of the 1991 “The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit.” (Bits and pieces have appeared in various Beatles docs over the years; it is foundational stuff.) But there is more of it here, interspersed with new interviews with McCartney, Ringo Starr and fans and friends who participated in the moment, along with archival interviews with George Harrison and John Lennon and some needless social context from Marshall McLuhan and Betty Friedan. Happily absent are later-generation pop stars testifying to the band’s genius, or worse, singing their own versions of Beatles songs. Not even the Beatles testify to their own genius. “You must be kidding with that question,” says McCartney, when a reporter asks about their place in “Western culture.” “It’s not culture, it’s a good laugh.” The action unrolls mostly in and around New York’s Plaza Hotel; in Washington, D.C., where they performed their first American concert; and on trains traveling back and forth. Other stops and dates on the trip — a second Sullivan broadcast from Miami Beach, a concert at Carnegie Hall — are filled in with photos and interviews. The Maysles, who five years later would direct what is largely considered the greatest of all rock ’n’ roll documentaries, “Gimme Shelter,” were founding members of the fly-on-the-wall “direct cinema” movement, the domestic cousin of ciinéma vérité. Shot in 16mm black and white, the footage has a paradoxical immediacy lost to a world in which, by one count, 14 billion color images are posted to social media every day. Coincidentally or not, the style and even scenes in the Maysles film are echoed in “A Hard Day’s Night,” which began filming a month later. (“This is what our movie will be like,” says John, looking out at the passing scenery. “The train days.”) Nowadays rock groups are the producers of their own massaged, glossy documentaries — Bruce Springsteen has a “written by” credit on this year’s “ Road Diary” — where even the revelations are carefully chosen and measured out. Yet once it was the custom to let cameras in to catch what they might. Out at the Peppermint Lounge, presaging a similar scene in “A Hard Day’s Night,” McCartney and Lennon and a dancing Starr are clearly, happily inebriated; they don’t have their guard up yet, or handlers to get between them and the camera. (The Beatles organization was surprisingly small; you could fit the whole operation in a van.) In their Plaza suite, they smoke cigarettes, read newspapers, watch themselves on TV and mess with the film crew, forcing them through the fourth wall: “There’s a woman there, you see,” says McCartney, “with a little microphone, see, and she daren’t talk.” They listen to Pepsi-branded transistor radios, fence with disc jockey Murray the K , who insinuates himself into their inner sanctum. (“I’ve never quite understood how he did that,” says George, looking back.) In a train car packed with press, they clown — Harrison in a porter’s uniform, carrying a tray of cans of 7-Up (“It’s me!” he tells the camera, coming in close and doffing his cap), Starr with a dozen cameras and camera bags slung around his neck, Harrison lying in an overhead luggage rack, slating the film. (McCartney sits it out: “I’m not in a laughing mood, even.”) Meanwhile, fans, mostly teenage girls (some carrying their schoolbooks), crowd the barriers at the Plaza Hotel, penetrate its halls, press their faces to the windows of the limousine carrying the band to the Sullivan show, and chase it down the street. In their strong New Yawk accents, of a kind that may have vanished from the Earth, they attempt to explain their love for the Beatles, and particular Beatles. They were exotic — not merely English, but thanks to the influence of their arty German friends Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voormann, they were continental. With their combed down “long” hair and Cuban heels, they look like the future. (And had more than a little to do with what the future would look like.) At the same time, they were working-class kids from a city still recovering from World War II, with a deep love for Black American pop music, which they reintroduced to white America. (They were curators as well as creators.) Smokey Robinson, who had met them in England and whose “You’ve Really Got a Hold On Me” they covered, calls them the “first white group that I had ever heard in my life ... say, ‘Yeah, we grew up listening to Black music.’” The late Ronnie Spector, another friend, recalls taking the band for barbecue in Harlem, where they basked in the luxury of being ignored. That would only become harder. I daresay we know more about the Beatles than any other pop band in history — their music, their less than private private lives, their fab gear, where they were and what they were doing nearly every day of their eventful career. (Mark Lewisohn‘s excellent, engaging “Tune In,” the first of a projected three-volume group biography, which doesn’t even get to 1963, runs nearly a thousand pages; it’s also available as a 1,728-page extended version.) Imagine if we had that much on, say, William Shakespeare, not just a couple of probable, probably posthumous portraits, but photos, video, interviews and documents numbering in the hundreds of thousands — not to mention books by everyone who knew him even slightly. It would kill the Who Really Wrote Shakespeare business, but there’d be so much more to parse. (Incidentally, the Beatles played Shakespeare, the “Pyramus and Thisbe” section of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” in their 1964 TV special “Around the Beatles.”) They spring eternal: “Now and Then,” the “last” Beatles song, which digitally combines all four members, is currently nominated for two Grammys, 54 years after the band disbanded and 44 after Lennon, who wrote and sings it, was shot. They will be listened to and discussed and studied for years to come, long after I’m around to know whether my prediction is right. Beatlemania may be done, but somewhere a child is singing the chorus to “Yellow Submarine.”