US winter has shrunk by more than one month in 100 years

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Scientists find that climate change has helped push first frosts later across the country

The length of the US winter is shortening, with the first frost of the year arriving more than one later than it did 100 years ago, according to more than a century of measurements from weather stations nationwide.

The trend of ever later first freezes appears to have started around 1980, according to data from 700 weather stations across the US going back to 1895 and compiled by Ken Kunkel, a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information.

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Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier – The New York Times

The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, was the first to hire the firm that conducted opposition research on Donald J. Trump — including a salacious dossier describing ties between Mr. Trump and the Russian government — website representatives told the House Intelligence Committee on Friday.According to people briefed on the conversation, the website hired the firm, Fusion GPS, in October 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump. But The Free Beacon told the firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.

Poland to Richard Spencer: keep out

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The American far-right leader plans to address an extremist rally in Warsaw next month, but the Polish foreign minister says ‘he should not appear publicly’

The Polish government has expressed strong objections to plans by American white nationalist Richard Spencer to speak at a far-right conference in Warsaw in November, but did not say if it would prevent him from entering the country.

Foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski described Spencer as someone “who defames what happened during World War II, defames the Holocaust.”

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Canada judge says sexual assault victim may have been ‘flattered’ by the incident

WTF Friday – ashamed of way too many men who are not even human.

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Judge Jean-Paul Braun suggested that a 17-year-old girl might have welcomed the advances of a 49-year-old taxi driver who allegedly assaulted her

A judge in the Canadian province of Quebec has come under fire after remarking in court that a 17-year-old who said she was sexual assaulted was a “little overweight but has a pretty face” and that she may have been a “bit flattered” by the attention.

The comments, which came to light this week, were made by Judge Jean-Paul Braun in May as he heard allegations of sexual assault against a taxi driver, Carlo Figaro.

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Where Does the Ebola Virus Hide Between Outbreaks? – UCSF News Services

Interesting how many different ways the story on Ebola is being used to promote profit, reputation, status and not knowledge. Ebola does not hide but that’s a catchy headline that helps promote a professor and his university. Deadly diseases are “quiet” or not killing hundreds and thousands of people in an epidemic or pandemic mode when the natural system is in balance. When a local or regional balance is disrupted by natural processes or human activity, an outbreak occurs. So where it hides or waits until called forth to rebalance the system is not as important as the triggering action. We can do something about deforestation, monocultural agriculture or dams but do not because that’s business and it is easier to pretend disease outbreaks are just freaks of natures that are not connected to humans causing the imbalance.

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Where Does the Ebola Virus Hide Between Outbreaks?
UCSF News Services
You might be thinking, “Isn’t Ebola carried by bats?” In a recent episode of UC San Francisco’s Carry the One Radio, DeRisi – a UCSF professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and co-president of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub – revealed that the evidence …

Trump says reports Clinton team funded scandalous Russia dossier ‘a disgrace’

And his son’s meeting to buy stuff on Clinton from the Russians was what? He wants to fog everyone’s mind so that when we find out how much he has gotten for selling out his country, we’ll just say huh?

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Donald Trump latches onto revelations tying Hillary Clinton to a dossier of allegations about his ties to Russia, saying it is a “disgrace” Democrats helped pay for research that produced the document.

Firm restoring Puerto Rico’s power threatened to quit, mayor says | World news | The Guardian – “#TraitorTrump’s people are all about graft and greed at other people’s expense.”

Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz had demanded greater transparency over the $300m deal secured by Whitefish Energy, a tiny two-year-old firm based in the Montana home town of the US interior secretary, Ryan Zinke.

Source: Firm restoring Puerto Rico’s power threatened to quit, mayor says | World news | The Guardian

Whitefish had only two full-time employees when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on 20 September, killing more than 50 people and knocking out power to the whole island. The company has since contracted more than 300 workers, but three-quarters of the US territory remains without electricity.

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