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We can sum up New Year's Eve in Las Vegas in one word: Crazy. And we mean crazy in a good way. The entire Strip is shut down to traffic and it becomes like one giant block party for you and 300,000 of your closest drinking buddies. At midnight, the casinos launch a choreographed fireworks display that makes the Times Square ball drop look like child's play. Inside, the showrooms rock with the hottest entertainment and the nightclubs are packed with celebrities and partygoers who are dressed to impress. Book your room now and get the scoop on New Year's Eve parties and events in Vegas below. Other New Year's Eve Parties & Events The breathtaking 360° view of the glittering Vegas panorama from the top of the Stratosphere Tower is unparalleled. Combine that with the full immersion experience, the world-famous Grucci fireworks spectacular, and you have something truly unique. The iconic property is taking guests to new heights as they couple their Tower views with fireworks and unforgettable parties including an amazing, one-of-a-kind Skyline Spectacular New Year’s Eve party 108 floors above the Strip, a special, five-course dining menu at the award-winning Top of the World Restaurant and a DJ-fueled after-party to keep the celebration going well into New Year’s Day. With a variety of Tower Party packages to choose from, including packages that feature open bars, there is something special and truly memorable for everyone. The fun doesn’t stop when the Tower parties end. Guests are able to keep their New Year’s Eve celebration going until 5 a.m. With a heart pumping after party. The great entertainment lineup includes live dancers, a custom light show, DJs with the hottest mix of House, Top 40, EDM and more. Nov 24, 2017. Of the 10 best places to visit for New Year's Eve where round-trip airfare is less than $400. 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They both offer open bar, a killer view for the fireworks, and of course, a midnight champagne toast to go along with that kiss you’ve been dreaming of since last year. Here’s your chance to up your game and take it to the next level. Like your dad always said, “Are you a chump or a champ?” We’re champs and we’re ready to walk into the New Year like the high roller we are, are you with us or not? Revel in a sophisticated Vintage Vegas New Year's Eve celebration at Ron Decar's Event Center. A live band with singers and dancers, lavish buffet and a champagne toast will accompany a perfect view of Stratosphere's fireworks. Raise your glass in classic Vegas style, tickets start at $125. New Year's Eve Las Vegas 2017 - 2018 Tips New Year's Eve in Las Vegas -- the mere concept can make one tingle with anticipation at the prospects: carte blanche to enjoy the finest drinking, dining and dancing in the Entertainment Capital of the World with 300,000 of your closest friends and more celebrities than a year's worth of TMZ. The key to making New Year's Eve 2017 - 2018 in Vegas successful is planning ahead. So if you're choosing to join the masses ringing in 2018 in Sin City, make like a Boy Scout and be prepared with these tips: • Book early. Hotel rooms sell out early and prices can soar for the holiday, so make sure to book your room as soon as possible to get the best prices and your first choice of accommodations. • • Traffic can be challenging in Vegas on a regular day and when you throw in hundreds of thousands of extra people to the mix for New Year's Eve, it can be downright nasty. If you're planning to party on the Strip, get there early, even if you're going to attend an event or party within a casino. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police shut down Las Vegas Boulevard (better known as the Strip) between Sahara Avenue and Russell Road to cross-traffic as early as 6 p.m. If you need to travel across the Strip (east-west), use the Desert Inn super-arterial (which runs under the Strip). For north-south travel (parallel to Las Vegas Boulevard), try Frank Sinatra Drive to the west or Koval Lane to the east. • Don’t feel like getting behind the wheel? Who are you kidding, you probably shouldn’t be on the road anyway. RTC, the local bus system, is providing free rides for everyone who plans on drinking till after the ball drops. They’ll be driving 39 fixed routes from 6 p.m. To 9 a.m., so you can have all the fun you want without having to worry about a permanent smudge on your record. Now we don’t want to sound like your parents, but there's no excuse for you to be that busted hussy your friends have to bail out of CCDC. So, drink to your heart’s desire and make this a New Year’s Eve you’ll never forget because there are more than a few alternatives to get home safely. • • If you decide to stay on the Strip, the best ways to get around on New Year's Eve are by taxi, walking or using the Las Vegas Monorail. If you have a car and want to park in a hotel garage, you might want to choose one that's near one of the ends of the Strip rather than in the middle. It'll be easier to get out once you decide you've had enough and want to head back to your hotel. But please make sure you have a designated driver. You do want to live to see 2018, right? • • In the 1960s Petula Clark sang: 'Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty. How can you lose? Things'll be great when you're Downtown' about New York City. Well, this may not be the Big Apple, but the party that takes place in downtown Las Vegas under the dazzling lighted canopy of the Fremont Street Experience rivals that of New York's Times Square and is broadcast on just as many stations. You can party all night to the sounds of several popular live bands and watch fireworks on a gigantic Viva Vision LED screen. • • If you're not a fan of huge throngs of people dancing or huge throngs of people standing around drinking then don't pick a club, Las Vegas Boulevard or the Fremont Street Experience as your New Year's Eve headquarters. A lot of the shows in town do something special for the occasion, too, so you could catch a Broadway show and then toast another year with a bunch of like-minded people. • • This is Vegas and while the sun is almost always shining during the day and the temperatures can be quite pleasant, it is still the desert and it does cool off quite a bit at night, so be prepared if you're going to join the party outside on the Strip. Bundle up and save your cute little black dress for the indoor parties. On the other hand, don't forget to drink plenty of water. • • Be aware that if you're trying to get into one of the jam-packed hotels on New Year's Eve, you could run into some technical difficulties. A number of Strip hotels, in an effort to keep the crowds inside within occupancy limits set by county officials, will allow only those with proof they are guests of the resorts to enter the properties during the height of the festivities outside. • • Know your role. Unfortunately your mom is not a Las Vegas nightclub operations manager, so if you decided to go the club route for New Year's, you're not going to be treated like a celebrity unless you are a celebrity. Enjoy it for what it is and look forward to going back to the office or school and telling everybody you rang in 2018 with Kim Kardashian. We won't tell anyone that she stayed in the VIP area while you struck out with a group of USC co-eds, don't worry. • • Be yourself, unless 'yourself' is someone who makes boneheaded decisions and puts everyone else in danger. A lot of people look at Las Vegas as a place where bad behavior stays isolated, but we assure you, some things are inescapable. Hundreds of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers will be out on the Strip in full force for New Year's Eve, so if you decide Sin City is the perfect place to get drunk and assault somebody or get drunk and drive, those stupid ideas will follow you home. And probably back here for a court appointment and jail time. You want a New Year's kiss, right? You know who's not getting a New Year's kiss? The guy sitting in the drunk tank or the girl checking into the emergency room. Keep the partying peaceful and everyone will have a good time. • • Get high. If you took that to mean something other than getting to the highest possible elevation you can, then we look forward to seeing you getting arrested on the local news. Fireworks ringing in the New Year here are a great New Year's experience. But if you're sausaged between a bunch of people and bunch of tall buildings on the street, you're not going to see much, so check out places like the tops of parking garages or other buildings for the best view. Do not climb a lamppost. Those people make the news (and the trip down to the police station) every year. • • It's officially 2018. The last firework has exploded, the final piece of confetti has drifted to the ground and your hangover has started to kick in. The city will begin to clean up the streets almost instantly, but that doesn't mean the party is over. You may want to head indoors, whether it's to get a bite to eat at one of several 24 hour cafes inside the hotels, to join the party at a nightclub or to seek little old fashioned Las Vegas fun in the casino. The Strip does not typically reopen until well after midnight, so if you're in a hurry to leave, you will want to heed our earlier advice on New Year's Eve transportation and travel. Otherwise you may as well plan on spending the first few hours of 2018 stuck in a traffic jam. UPDATED 11/01/17 12:51 a.m. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Eight people were killed and more than a dozen were injured after a truck plowed into several people on a bike path in Lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon. A suspect was shot by police and is in custody in what officials called an act of terrorism. “This was an act of terror,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio, “a particularly cowardly act of terror, aimed at innocent civilians, aimed at people going about their lives who had no idea of what was about to hit them.”. This is a very painful day in our city, but New Yorkers will not be changed by an act of terror. — Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) The suspect was identified as 29-year-old Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov. He is believed to be from Uzbekistan and had a Florida driver’s license. The incident began at 3:05 p.m. When a rented Home Depot truck entered the bike path at Houston Street along the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan, police said. The truck rammed several people on the path from behind and ultimately crashed into a school bus at Chambers Street. Two adults and two children – students – were on board the school bus and were injured, one student critically. A man came out of the truck after striking the school bus wielding what appeared to be two weapons. The weapons turned out to be a paintball gun and a pellet gun, O’Neill said. Witnesses told the NYPD the suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is great” in Arabic when he jumped out of the truck. Meanwhile, a federal law enforcement source told CBS News a note was found in the suspect’s truck that made reference to ISIS. LOWER MANHATTAN TERROR:||. New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill called it a “tragedy of tremendous magnitude.” “The dead and injured were just going about their days, heading home from work or from school, or enjoying the afternoon sun on bicycles,” he added. Among those killed were five people from Argentina, one person from Germany, and one from Belgium. The Argentinians were identified as Hernán Diego Mendoza, Diego Enrique Angelini, Alejandro Damián Pagnucco, Ariel Erlij and Hernán Ferruchi. An additional Argentinian, Martín Ludovico Marro was recovering at Presbyterian Hospital. “We know this action was intended to break our spirit. But we also know New Yorkers are strong, New Yorkers are resilient, and our spirit will never be moved by an act of violence, an act meant to intimidate us,” de Blasio said. “We will respond as we always do: We will be undeterred.” “There will extensive addition deployments of NYPD officers this evening and throughout the days ahead,” de Blasio said. Aug 31, 2017 President Trump, as early as Friday, is expected to announce plans to end the Obama administration program that gave a deportation reprieve to hundreds of. The went on Tuesday night as usual, though participants said a heavily armed police was visible. The crime scene was large — stretching up and down the west side of Manhattan in the shadow of the World Trade Center — the investigation is being conducted jointly with the FBI, officials said. “There will be a very, very thorough investigation,” de Blasio said. “People should go about their business knowing that the NYPD is out in force.” “The new terrorist tactic, which they’ve called for publicly, are these lone wolves who commit an act of terror,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “This is all very preliminary, it’s only been a couple of hours, but at this point there’s no evidence of a wider plot or a wider scheme but the actions of one individual who meant to cause pain and harm and probably death and the resulting terror, and that was the purpose.” Students at Stuyvesant High School and the Borough of Manhattan Community College were horrified as they looked out classroom windows and saw the attack unfold. “To know that this can happen any time, any day, it’s really scary,” Shakeema Carter said. Counter-terror teams with heavy weapons and tactical gear were deployed to Port Authority locations in New York and New Jersey after the incident, the Port Authority Police said. “It is just out of vigilance, out of caution,” said Cuomo. “The truth is New York is an international system of freedom and democracy. That’s what we are. And we are proud of it. That also makes us a target for those people who oppose those concepts,” Cuomo said. “We’re not going to let them win. And if we change our lives and we contort ourselves to them then they win and we lose.” Police swarmed the location and urged people to avoid the area. The West Side Highway was closed in both directions from 34th Street to Chambers Street following the attack. To check current traffic conditions. A rented Home Depot truck was used in the incident. As CBS2’s Tony Aiello reported, the truck was rented at a Home Depot in Passaic. On Tuesday night, police were at the store and had surrounded a vehicle in the parking lot. — 168 Genessee St. In Paterson is believed to be where he lived, at least part time with his wife and two young children. They saw at the scene. “A vehicle drove straight down a bicycle path heading south in Manhattan just mowing everything down,” witness Greg Ahl told 1010 WINS. “It looks like a vehicle drove down the bicycle path and ran everything over.” New York City activated its Unified Victim Identification System in the wake of the incident. People who are concerned about the welfare of someone who may have been affected by the incident and they can not be reached are urged to call 311. From outside New York City, you can call (212) 639-9675. Images from the scene showed a flatbed truck with a smashed up front end. Video from the scene showed several mangled bicycles along the bike path. “I noticed along the bike path a bunch of wrecked bicycles and as I drove it was just more and more completely and totally wrecked bicycles and people mulling around to the side. I must’ve seen 30 or 40 bicycles like that,” Ahl said. “I saw a lot of debris, like car parts of something in one of the piles of bicycles but it was a lot,” Ahl said. Students at some schools in the area were told to shelter in place during the incident. “Today there was an act of terror in close proximity to several schools in lower Manhattan,” said Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña. “We stand with the entire city as we mourn this senseless loss of life. We are grateful to the first responders and school staff who work tirelessly to help keep our schools and communities safe. Ongoing guidance and trauma counselors will be provided across schools to those in need tomorrow.”. We must not allow ISIS to return, or enter, our country after defeating them in the Middle East and elsewhere. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) “We must not allow ISIS to return, or enter, our country after defeating them in the Middle East and elsewhere. Enough!”, Trump wrote. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders says “our thoughts and prayers with all those affected.” Other local and national organizations and dignitaries also offered condolences. “Today our city and our nation are stunned and horrified by another act of senseless violence,” said Cardinal Timothy Dolan. “While details continue to emerge, one thing is clear: Once again, no matter our religion, racial or ethnic background, or political beliefs, we must put or differences aside and come together in faith and love to support those who are injured, pray for those who have died as well as their families and loved ones, and work towards greater respect and understanding among all people so that heinous and evil acts like this become a thing of the past.” The U.S. Department of Justice also released a statement following the attack: “”The New York field office of the FBI, the NYPD and other members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force are investigating this terrorist attack in the heart of New York City. The Attorney General was briefed by Director Wray this afternoon. The Department of Justice will work with its partners in law enforcement and the intelligence community to thoroughly investigate this matter. Our deepest condolences go out to the victims of this vicious terrorist attack and our hearts are with all the people of New York.” Suspect Saipov came to the U.S. From Uzbekistan in 2010, According to CBS News national security analyst Fran Townsend, extremist organization called the IMU, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Townsend reports. Established in 1998, IMU moved from being an affiliate of al Qaeda to ISIS in 2015, Townsend said. Both al Qaeda and ISIS have talked about car attacks. According to Townsend, investigators will be looking into whether he was motivated by IMU or other extremist groups and if he had any contact with him — which is one reason they will be searching Saipov’s electronic devices. Saipov doesn’t appear to have an extensive criminal background, CBS News’ justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues reports. Both the FBI and the NYPD are “digging” into Saipov’s background, Pegues reports. That Saipov was a driver for them and had passed a background check. He has been banned from the app. Uber has been in contact with the FBI and law enforcement. The FBI asked that anyone with information (800) CALL-FBI (225-5324) and select option 1. Tipsters may remain anonymous. I hope you guys like this video and learned little bit about my college roomies and I. Make sure to like and subscribe. My social media: Instagram: @Melinafedele7 & @fedelemakeup Twitter: @Melinafedele7 Emma's Social Media: Insta: @emmaagottorff Carly's Social Media: Insta: @Carly_dennison Rae's Social Media: Insta: @Raecardillo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make sure to subscribe & like! Watch my Fall makeup look here: Watch my DESI X KATY Dose of colors makeup tutorial here: Watch my College Get ready with us here: Watch my College white dorm room tour here. MANILA, Philippines – Asian fans of Miss Universe 2017 were excited when it was announced the Philippines' Rachel Peters and Indonesia's Bunga Jelitha are roommates at their hotel in Las Vegas, USA. The Philippines and Indonesia are two Asian countries with the biggest Miss Universe fan base. The Philippines has won the pageant 3 times, while Indonesia has yet to win its first crown. Rachel and Bunga posted their first selfie together on Instagram stories. Rachel Peters and Indonesia's Bunga Jelitha are roommates in Miss Universe 2017. Screengrab from Instagram stories/@rachelpetersx The two also shared photos with their fellow candidates, USA's Kara McCullough and Saint Lucia's Louise Victor. A post shared by Bunga Jelitha I (@bungajelitha21) on Nov 14, 2017 at 10:01am PST Rachel flew to Las Vegas on Saturday, November 11. Since she arrived, she has had her first live Facebook interview with South Africa's Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, Zambia's Isabel Chikoti, and Ireland's Cailín Ní Toibín, where they got to know each other through a series of questions. Rachel hopes to become the 4th Miss Universe from the Philippines, while Bunga hopes to repeat the success of her fellow queens and, who was crowned Miss Grand International in 2016. – Rappler.com. Jul 17, 2017. Events Home » **Sex In The Summer In The City 2017** Roomies by Dane Campbell| Polyandry by Audery Naomi Smith| Bless This Unholy Union by Viola Bennett » **Sex In The Summer In The City 2017** Roomies by Dane Campbell| Polyandry by Audery Naomi Smith| Bless This Unholy Union. Noun, plural roomies. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. Cite This Source. Examples from the Web for roomie. Historical Examples. She should have either kicked him out or dragged him around the house while she got her roomies. One day last fall I was working in my office when my desk phone rang. It was a reader of The Catholic Astronomer, calling me with a question. He asked why the Vatican Observatory blog was full of discussion on black holes or whatnot, when there was something much more momentous to talk about. It turns out that the momentous thing to which my caller was referring was an arrangement of celestial bodies that will occur this year (2017) on September 23. On that date, according to various Internet sources, the heavens themselves will be a tableau of Revelation 12: A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth. She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. On September 23, 2017 the sun will be in the zodiac constellation Virgo—“ a woman clothed with the sun”. The moon will be at the feet of Virgo—“ with the moon under her feet”. The ‘nine’ stars of the zodiac constellation Leo, plus three planets (Mercury, Venus, and Mars), will be at the head of Virgo—“ on her head a crown of twelve stars”. The planet Jupiter will be in the center of Virgo, and as the weeks pass after September 23 Jupiter will exit Virgo to the east, past her feet, so to speak—“ She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth”. Jupiter is the largest of the planets, the “king” of the planets, so to speak—“ She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod”. Must this not be a sign of something momentous, like the Internet sources say? Results of a Google image search for September 23, 2017 and Revelation 12. Note that this and all images in this post can be enlarged by clicking on them. Jan 25, 2017. On September 23, 2017 the sun will be in the zodiac constellation Virgo—“a woman clothed with the sun”. The moon will be at the feet of Virgo—“with the moon under her feet”. The 'nine' stars of the zodiac constellation Leo, plus three planets (Mercury, Venus, and Mars), will be at the head of Virgo—“on. Tonight's Sky: December 2017. Nov 21, 2017 In December, the northern hemisphere is treated to a view of Perseus, Cassiopeia, and the Geminid meteor shower. Now, I know that the readers of this blog are diverse. People with interest in astronomy are a diverse group! And you all will have diverse reactions to this question. Some of you are probably saying right now, “what a bunch of nonsense!” Others of you may be thinking that my caller had a good point, and you would like to learn more. Fortunately, I am a community college professor! Community college people are the ‘A-Team’ of the academic world (as in B.A., Hannibal, and the crew from the T.V. Show and the movie—who are tougher than anyone else and able to save the day using duct tape, PVC pipe, and a butane lighter). We thrive on diversity! No question phases us! We know that there are a lot of smart people out there who have not had much formal education in a topic like astronomy, and that interest in questions like this reflects a basic interest in astronomy combined with interest in religion and scripture. My caller was familiar with the Stellarium sky software. He could call up the skies of September 23, 2017 on Stellarium and see for himself that this celestial arrangement was a real thing. His was a reasonable question. Scientists need to be able to answer questions people have like this one, without treating the questions as nonsense, because the questions will not go away just because they are dismissed. And thus before long I was having a nice conversation with the caller, and I ended up telling him I would look into his question, and write a post on this topic. But I said it was unlikely to be the post he was looking for. He was OK with that. Green arrows show the “nine” stars of Leo. Blue arrows show the planets Mercury, Venus, and Mars. Red arrow is Jupiter. Violet arrow is the moon (shown enlarged). The sun is at Virgo’s shoulder. First, in one year, thanks to the Earth’s annual orbit, the sun travels the entirety of the ecliptic, and thus passes through every one of the 12 constellations of the zodiac. The sun is in Virgo every September. Second, in one month the moon goes through its cycle of phases, and travels the entirety of the ecliptic, and thus passes through every constellation of the zodiac—all owed to the period of the moon’s orbit being one month. Therefore there is always a day or two every year when the sun is in Virgo and the moon is just to the east of Virgo (just past the “feet”). So, the celestial “woman clothed with the sun with the moon at her feet” is as common in September as is the U.S.’s Labor Day. But what of the crown of twelve “stars,” comprised of three planets and the nine stars of Leo? The response to this question is another question—why nine stars in Leo? There are many more than nine stars in Leo. Those nine are just brighter ones that are often depicted as comprising the general outline or shape of the constellation. But in fact there are scads of stars in Leo and surrounding the “head” of Virgo. Two depictions of Leo outlined with ten or eleven stars rather than nine. The depiction on the left is from an astronomy book for children; the depiction on the right is from an old National Geographic atlas. And yes, multiple planets being at Virgo’s head while Jupiter is in Virgo’s center and the moon is at Virgo’s feet is somewhat unusual. But it is not that unusual. The period of Jupiter’s orbit is a little less than twelve years, and therefore Jupiter will be in Virgo (with the sun there, too, and the moon at the feet) once every eleven or twelve years. So the sun in Virgo, the moon at Virgo’s “feet”, and Jupiter in the constellation are regular occurrences. This leaves the planets at the “head” (the number depending on the number of stars granted to Leo) as the determining factor in making a “momentous” celestial arrangement. Indeed, while various Internet sources speak of the specific celestial arrangement here as being “unique in human history” or “once in 7000 years”, in fact it is not unique to September 23, 2017. This basic arrangement happened before—in September 1827, in September 1483, in September 1293, and in September 1056. These are all shown at the end of this post. I only searched back one thousand years, from 2017 to 1017—there are undoubtedly other examples outside of that time period, and probably a couple examples that I missed within that time period. No doubt someone could go diving into the history books to scrounge up some events from 1827, 1483, 1293, and 1056 that the September skies of those years supposedly foretold. That’s the way it is with astrology. A person reads his or her daily horoscope and finds that it says “obstacles will be placed in your path today.” Then, that person picks those instances of getting stuck in traffic, or in a long line at the grocery store, or wherever, and says “hey, that horoscope was right,” when of course we all encounter such things every day. It is true that astrology—reading the heavens for signs—is something astronomers used to believe was valid (or, my guess is that many of them pretended to believe it was valid, because it paid the bills). But astrology has been found to have no more scientific basis than Harry Potter’s wand. It doesn’t work (something that does not seem to hinder its popularity). If astrology had anything going for it, astronomers would not need to go begging for money to fund astronomical research. We could just use our astronomical knowledge to divine which way the stock market was going, invest accordingly, become “astronomically” wealthy, and fund astronomical research from our surplus. As it is, watching the heavens for signs of what is to come is a waste of time. And it is doubly a waste of time because “signs in the sky” appeal, for some reason, to all sorts of people out there—all of whom can use Stellarium to find this or that momentous “sign” signifying whatever they want to signify. And that is why astronomers ignore the seemingly momentous celestial arrangement of September 23, 2017, and talk instead about black holes or whatnot. The Vatican Observatory Research Group (VORG) operates the 1.8m Alice P. Lennon Telescope with its Thomas J. Bannan Astrophysics Facility, known together as the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), at the Mount Graham International Observatory (MGIO) in southeastern Arizona where sky conditions are among the best in the world and certainly the Continental United States. Related Links • The Vatican Observatory Foundation is the fundraising arm of the Vatican Observatory. The VOF is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization incorporated in 1986 in the state of Arizona to support the scientific and educational endeavors of the Vatican Observatory, including the maintenance and modernization of the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT). • Ramblings of a Fermilab physicist and space science lecturer. • Astronomy and Space Science - Education and Outreach. Some additional information concerning the movie shown above: The CONCEPT OF TIME in modern Astrology in the begin of the 21st century goes beyond old fashioned mechanistic and psychological models of the past - despite nowadays many people only know so called Cookbook Astrology, thinking something like 'That person is born with sun and planets in those Zodiac signs, that's my his character is that and that'. The modern point of view was establishes by Astrologers like Dane Rudhyar in Paris, Tad Man in New York and Copenhagen, Otto Kayser in Austria, Dennis Ellwell in the UK and Robert Hand in the USA. From their point of view the human being is not static, but changes itself since his date of birth. Regardless of the prognostic method an astrologer is working with, i.g. Transits, secundary or tertiary progressions, directorates, solar, lunar, rhythmic inductions, it has always to be compared with the Radix, the birth chart - and vice versa. The human changes his face just like the solar system changes its constellation every second. One approach to understand the concept of time in Astrology is the visualization. Dane Rudhyar, the founder of humanistic astrology and close fried to Henry Miller, rather never interpreted a person's birth chart, but despite that his 1936 published book 'The Astrology of Personality: A Reformulation of Astrological Concepts and Ideals ' is still modern nowadays. In the late 70th of the last century the astrologer and architect A.T. Mann made an exhibition in NY and published the book 'The Round Art' showing paintings both of Tibetan Mandalas, Horoscope charts and planetary space models. In the begin of the 80th Otto Kayser, also an architect and astrologer, presented and worked with Mann's visual model in Berlin. End of the 80th the British astrologer Dennis Ellwell published the book 'Cosmic Loom', presenting his idea of time, that planetary constellations and events in the future could influence the present and the past. In 1990 Robert Hand presented his idea of modern astrology saying he is not that of that Zodiac Sign, nor the planetary transits or progressions, but a 'process, developing in time'. Later at the World Astrology conferences in Luzern/Switzerland astrologers from the USA the first time presented computer programs to print the complete visualization of radix and transit charts for the whole live of a person a VHS tape. Other astrologers working with a visual point of view are Astrid Fallon, former head of the Belgium association of Astrologers, and Peter Neubäcker, Munich/Germany. 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The DA prosecutes crimes in Philadelphia, helping to determine whether justice is delivered to victims and how many people end up in prison every year. The choice in front of voters is as important as ever: Current District Attorney Seth Williams has been by the feds of seeking thousands of dollars’ worth of bribes and stealing from his own mom. Voters will also choose Philadelphia’s next city controller, judges, and election board workers on Tuesday, as well as vote on two ballot questions. Don’t worry if you haven’t paid close attention to these races — it’s why we created this election guide and an for each candidate in the district attorney race. It’s a ruthlessly honest, easy-to-understand explanation of the candidates’ pros and cons. Here are your choices. The offices: • • • • • District Attorney The basics: There are seven Democrats running in Tuesday’s election to succeed District Attorney Seth Williams. Republican Beth Grossman is unopposed in the GOP primary. Philadelphia’s district attorney is in charge of one of the biggest prosecutor’s offices in the nation, investigating and prosecuting crimes in the city. The winner of the general election may be Philly’s district attorney for decades: There are no term limits for the position, and former District Attorney Lynne Abraham served for almost 20 years. Democrats: Teresa Carr Deni The basics: 69. Former Municipal Court judge for 21 years. Previously was a criminal defense attorney and worked for the City Solicitor’s Office, the Office of Housing and Community Development, and the Board of Revision of Taxes. Photo courtesy of Teresa Carr Deni’s campaign The case for Deni • Compared to the rest of the DA candidates, she has a pretty moderate platform. Some of her positions are pretty progressive: She wants to “all but dismantle” the city’s civil forfeiture system, which enables the DA to seize some people’s assets even if they haven’t been convicted of a crime. She wants to cut back on the use of cash bail. She also promises to “take a more restorative approach” to small-time drug dealers, and divert drug addicts from the criminal justice system. But she has tough-on-crime planks in her platform, too: She believes the penalty for smoking marijuana outside should be raised, and that the names of police officers who shoot civilians should not be immediately released. She also would not stop seeking the death penalty, though she says she’d ask for it only in the “most heinous cases.” (Read our extended Q&A with Deni.) • She has a good reputation among many of the city’s progressive lawyers. They say she’s independent-minded and shouldn’t be judged by her most notorious moment on the bench (see below). • She’s the only woman running in the Democratic primary and has a history of fighting for women’s rights. In the 1970s, Deni in Philadelphia called Alexandria Books. She was also active in the women’s movement. That past could help her shake up a DA’s office that many see as a good-ol’-boys club. • She’s one of only two candidates who have never been a prosecutor. The DA’s office has been mired in controversy under Seth Williams. Perhaps Deni is right when she argues that her lack of experience means she’d be able to create a brand-new culture there. The case against Deni • She once called the alleged gang rape of a prostitute a “theft of services.” In 2007, Deni dismissed sexual assault charges against a man who reportedly raped a prostitute with others at gunpoint. She at the time, “She consented and she didn’t get paid. I thought it was a robbery.” The case hit the national media, and women’s groups rebuked Deni. The case was later refiled, and the defendant pleaded guilty to rape charges. Today, she she would probably make a different decision and has learned more about sex trafficking. • She has no experience prosecuting cases. How will she be able to lead one of the biggest prosecutor’s offices in the country? • She’s fairly moderate. With Jeff Sessions in the Attorney General’s office, is that what Philadelphia needs? • She got her start in the Democratic machine. She worked as the Democratic City Committee’s legal counsel, and befriending ward leaders helped her win her a place on the bench. Is someone like that the right person to be the DA in city where numerous elected officials have ended up in handcuffs? Joe Khan The basics: 41. Attorney at Spector Gadon & Rosen, P.C. Former prosecutor for the District Attorney and U.S. The case for Khan • He has a progressive agenda. Khan says he wants to revamp the civil forfeiture system, eliminate cash bail altogether, and stop prosecuting most low-level drug cases. He promises to spend more resources than Williams did on prosecuting child abuse. And he plans to create a task force aimed at reducing lead poisoning by using child endangerment laws and other statutes. On one major issue, he is not so progressive: He would not rule out asking for the death penalty. (Read our extended Q&A with Khan.) • He spent a decade in the U.S. Attorney’s Office and six years in the District Attorney’s Office. Khan got his start in the DA’s family violence and sexual assault unit, where he prosecuted the so-called and many other lesser-known alleged sexual predators. He also worked on the federal government’s political corruption cases in Allentown. That experience could help him clean up an office currently led by a man who is and who was for not firing prosecutors who exchanged racist, pornographic emails. • He’s got an all-American backstory. As the Philadelphia Inquirer, “Khan’s father was a Muslim immigrant from Pakistan who came to this country and fell for an Irish Catholic native of the city. They married and moved to a Jewish neighborhood in the Northeast.” If elected DA, Khan promises to vigorously defend Philly’s “sanctuary city” status. • Even though he has a liberal platform, Khan is probably less likely to face a revolt in the DA’s office than, say, Larry Krasner. That’s partly because Khan has years of experience as a prosecutor, so assistant district attorneys see him as one of them. • He’s been endorsed by former Gov. Ed Rendell, the and Gold Star father Khizr Khan. Other supporters include the Philadelphia chapter of the National Organization for Women and former congresswoman Allyson Schwartz. This cherished event is the longest continuously running outdoor musical festival of its kind in North America and will celebrate its 56th Anniversary August 17-20, 2017 at the Old Pool Farm. Known to present superstars and rising stars alike, plans for this year's summertime extravaganza are well underway! The event is. Considering all that has happened in Philadelphia over the past several years, it is difficult to find a single statistical indicator that best captures the state of. The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is the first and largest cancer research organization in the world. The Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization was founded in 1907 by a group of 11 physicians and scientists interested in research 'to further the investigation and spread the knowledge of cancer.' The case against Khan • He cut his teeth in the very DA’s office that he wants to reform. Can you drain the swamp if you’re from the swamp? • He wouldn’t rule out seeking the death penalty. Khan he would pursue the death penalty only in “extreme cases.” Larry Krasner The basics: 56. Criminal defense and civil rights attorney. Former public defender. The case for Krasner • He has what is seen by many as the most progressive agenda in the race. He promises never to seek the death penalty, never ask for cash bail for nonviolent offenders, and never seize someone’s assets if they are not convicted of a crime. He vows to beef up the city’s drug courts and expand opportunities for drug addicts to be diverted out of the criminal justice system. He also says he won’t bring cases that are based on illegal frisks and searches. Krasner has been with moving the entire field of Democratic district attorney candidates to the left. (Read our extended Q&A with Krasner.) • He’s represented Black Lives Matter, Occupy, and activists at the 2000 Republican National Convention and 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. After hundreds of RNC protesters were arrested and charged — an incident that came to be known across the country as an attack on civil rights — Krasner get nearly all of them acquitted. • He’s brawled with the Fraternal Order of Police. Want a DA who will stand up to cops if necessary? Krasner has “sued law enforcement or the government more than 75 times on behalf of clients,”. Krasner represented ex-Eagles player LeSean McCoy after he allegedly got into a fight with two undercover cops. Krasner Seth Williams to stop calling a group of narcotics officers as witnesses after they were charged by the feds with corruption. (They were later acquitted.) • He’s one of only two candidates who have never been a prosecutor. Like Deni, he says that his lack of experience in the DA’s office is a good thing. All of the other candidates,, worked as prosecutors under district attorneys who furthered the War on Drugs and contributed to “mass incarceration”: “These other candidates have been a part of the problem. They have done nothing to change the problem, but now all of a sudden in this race, when the popular view on criminal justice has shifted they’re the biggest reformers you’ve ever seen.” • He’s put together a political alliance of diverse groups, much like Jim Kenney did in the 2015 mayoral race. Krasner has been endorsed by the powerbroker Marian Tasco, Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity, Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters, Liberty City LGBT Democratic Club, Our Revolution, and Council members Cherelle Parker, Maria Quiñones-Sánchez and Helen Gym, among others. He’s also won the support of national figures like Black Lives Matter activist and leftist actress Susan Sarandon. The case against Krasner • Krasner has zero experience as a prosecutor. If elected, Krasner would oversee one of the biggest prosecutor’s offices in the nation. Every year, there are hundreds of homicides in Philadelphia and even more rapes, assaults and other violent crimes. Would Krasner really be able to go from defending violent criminals to fighting them in court? Will he be soft on crime? • Some police officers and assistant district attorneys loathe him. Fraternal Order of Police president John McNesby it’s “hilarious” that Krasner is running for DA. A dozen former assistant district attorneys urging voters not to cast a ballot for Krasner. (A group of sexual assault survivors criticizing the ADAs’ letter and “the way that our traumatic experiences are being used to demonize Larry Krasner without our consent.”) While it’s unclear whether these law enforcement officials are representative of the majority or a vocal few, it seems likely that there will be some kind of showdown with law enforcement if Krasner wins. • He’s extremely progressive. If you’re a moderate on criminal justice issues, Krasner probably isn’t your guy. • A PAC by George Soros, the billionaire and Democratic donor, is backing Krasner. While Krasner cannot coordinate with the political committee — meaning that he couldn’t make Soros’s money go away even if he wanted to — Krasner. “The reality is the conservatives and Republicans have been using super PACs for a very long time,” he said, “and progressives and liberals have to play the rules of the game as the game exists now.” Rich Negrin The basics: 50. Former managing director under Mayor Michael Nutter. Previously a city prosecutor and ethics board member. The case for Negrin • Negrin has a liberal platform, especially for someone endorsed by the police union. If elected, he says he’ll retool the civil forfeiture program and transform the cash bail system: “We’re criminalizing poverty, meaning that nonviolent offenders and drug offenders are spending hours and months in jail awaiting trial,” he says. Negrin promises to never seek the death penalty; at the beginning of the campaign, however, he of supporting Gov. Tom Wolf’s moratorium on capital punishment. Negrin also the city’s arbitration system, which is supported by the police union, “broken.” On some issues, Negrin is more of a moderate: For instance, he won’t say whether cash bail should be ended for nonviolent offenders and has stop-and-frisk in the past. (Read our Q&A with Negrin.) • If elected, he would be the city’s first Latino DA. Negrin is a first-generation Cuban-American. Currently, Philadelphia Latinos are one of the most underrepresented minority groups in the city and state government. • Negrin understands firsthand the scourge of gun violence. At 13, he his own father gunned down in the street. He says that’s what drove him to become an assistant district attorney years ago. He also served as a board member of the anti-gun violence group CeaseFirePA. • He was a founding member of the city’s ethics board. In a DA’s office that has been led for the last seven years by Seth Williams, who has, that experience could help him clean house. • He has both prosecutorial experience and managing experience in city government. Negrin that, in a DA’s office desperately in need of change, “this is no time for on-the-job training.” He worked as a city prosecutor for five years and as Mayor Michael Nutter’s managing director for six years. In his latter gig, he oversaw several departments, the city’s 311 system and the anti-violence program Philly Rising. • He’s been endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police,, Guardian Civic League, National Black Police Officers Association and millennial PAC Philly Set Go, among others. Negrin his credibility with police officers and other stakeholders makes him better able to achieve reform than his opponents. Being an insider does have its benefits sometimes: Mayor Jim Kenney in large part because of his relationships with City Council members and other leaders. The case against Negrin • Negrin has been endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police. As a mayoral candidate, the FOP also backed Kenney, even though he promised to end stop-and-frisk. After winning the election, Kenney and said he would only “reform” stop-and-frisk. Will Negrin flip-flop on similar issues? And if cops break the law or oppose his reforms, can Negrin be trusted to stand up to them after the FOP helped get him elected? • In the past, he’s said positive things about stop-and-frisk. In 2015, Negrin that “Latinos are safer today” because of stop-and-frisk. During the DA’s race, Negrin has stressed that he supports only constitutional frisks and searches. • Negrin faced criticism for his handling of Occupy Philly activists in 2011. As the city’s managing director, Negrin oversaw the protests at City Hall. Some denounced him because police arrested activists after they refused to leave. Negrin maintains that he did not order the arrests and his critics “extreme voices.” • He won’t say whether or not cash bail should be eliminated for nonviolent offenders. Negrin months ago, “It’s tough to make that final decision without talking to the experts.” Since then, a spokesman has said that he has “no problem” personally with ending cash bail for nonviolent offenders, but wants to first make sure that the city’s stakeholders who have been working on the issue are on board. Hasn’t he had time during the campaign to figure that out? • He has experience in the DA’s office. Will someone from the system truly reform the system? John O’Neill The basics: 35. Former city prosecutor. The case for O’Neill • He has a progressive agenda. O’Neill wants to “significantly” reform the civil asset forfeiture system, eliminate cash bail for nonviolent offenders, and beef up such diversionary programs as the city’s drug treatment courts. He also wants to expand the city’s crime-fighting Focused Deterrence program and ensure that victims of sexual assault and domestic violence have an assistant district attorney assigned to them from the moment they encounter law enforcement. When it comes to the death penalty, he is more moderate: He would not rule it out. (Read our extended Q&A with O’Neill.) • He has 10 years of experience in the DA’s office. He might be young, but O’Neill has spent a decade prosecuting sexual assault and homicide cases as an assistant district attorney. • He’s the only millennial in the race. At 35, O’Neill would be one of the youngest elected officials in the city. Philadelphia has few millennials in office and an awfully thin bench for new leaders. • He’s been endorsed by eight building trades unions, the firefighters union, Congressman Brendan Boyle, City Councilman Bobby Henon, City Controller Alan Butkovitz, City Commissioner Lisa Deeley and state Rep. Ed Neilson, among others. • He’s a friend to labor. In addition to being endorsed by several unions and, a super PAC tied to electricians union boss John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty, O’Neill to appoint a labor “liaison” if elected DA. “When you have situations, for example, when someone illegally classifies a job the wrong way so that they can rip off their workers it only makes sense to have a DA’s Office that supports the law,” he says. The case against O’Neill • John Dougherty and his union have not directly endorsed O’Neill, but Doc’s fingerprints are all over the race. Local 98 helped finance the super PAC Building a Better Pennsylvania, and it’s highly, highly unlikely that without Dougherty’s consent. Does Philly really need another DA with ties to Doc? When Dougherty was accused of punching a non-union electrician, Seth Williams to the Attorney General’s office, saying his “long-standing professional relationship” with the labor leader forbid him from handling it. The FBI is Local 98’s payments to summer camps for Williams’s daughters. The feds are also Dougherty’s taxes, finances, and involvement in Kenney’s mayoral campaign. Local 98 supported Kenney via Building a Better Pennsylvania. • Building a Better Pennsylvania is now backing O’Neill. Like Krasner, O’Neill can’t coordinate with the political committee and therefore can’t force them to stop it from spending money. But O’Neill the super PAC after it began airing pro-O’Neill ads, saying only, “I don’t know who they are.” This came less than two months after O’Neill of super PACs, “I don’t think they should be involved.” • He wouldn’t rule out seeking the death penalty. Like Khan’s, this is a part of O’Neill’s platform that is less than progressive. O’Neill says he would ask for capital punishment only in “very extreme cases.” • He has experience in the DA’s office. How much change can an insider bring? Tariq El-Shabazz The basics: 53. Criminal defense attorney. Previously District Attorney Seth Williams’s number two and a city prosecutor. Courtesy of Tariq El-Shabazz’s campaign The case for El-Shabazz • He has a progressive agenda. El-Shabazz wants to end cash bail for nonviolent offenders and promises never to seize assets from a person who has not been convicted of a crime. (He says he would “freeze” assets during court proceedings, however.) He also wants to make the probation and parole system more expansive, create day reporting centers, grow the city’s diversionary programs, and increase diversity in the DA’s office. He vows never to seek the death penalty; however, like Negrin, he at the start of his campaign of supporting Gov. Wolf’s moratorium on capital punishment. (Read our extended Q&A with El-Shabazz.) • He’s been on both sides of the courtroom: He has experience as a prosecutor and a criminal defense attorney. He an assistant district attorney for six years and Seth Williams’s top deputy for seven months. He was also a founding partner of the firm El-Shabazz & Harris. • While in the DA’s office, he worked on the well-known Lex Street murder case. Prosecutors set four defendants free after deciding that they didn’t do the crime. Four others were charged. “[Because of] the questioning and the back-and-forth, we were able to make the determination that these guys were innocent,”. “It showed me that the system actually works.” • He’s the only African-American running for district attorney and says he understands firsthand what it means to experience injustice at the hands of law enforcement officials. He in the past. • He’s been endorsed by the Laborers District Council, Transport Workers Union Local 234, City Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, City Councilwoman Cindy Bass and City Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr. The case against El-Shabazz • He has money problems. El-Shabazz currently has $137,187 of tax lien judgments filed against him in the city’s Common Pleas court. (His campaign that he paid off $74,000 of those debts, but that the payments aren’t reflected in the court’s record because the liens haven’t been fully satisfied.) His law firm was several times because it allegedly failed to pay rent. And in 2010, El-Shabazz was because he did not pay more than $25,000 in tuition and other incidentals for his daughters. The DA manages a $52 million budget. Could El-Shabazz handle that given his messy financial past? • A petition for a protection-from-abuse order was once filed against El-Shabazz. It was later withdrawn. “Why it was filed, I can’t explain that,”. “Because it was withdrawn and sealed by the court, then there’s not much that I can comment on in terms of the substance. But the fact that it was withdrawn and sealed should be information that I think people can kind of gather what that was about.” • According to a City & State report, El-Shabazz did a poor job representing some defendants, in particular a man named Anthony Brown, who was convicted of homicide. “Two federal judges have agreed that El-Shabazz did fail to adequately represent Brown,”. “A string of incarcerated men told similar stories: that El-Shabazz took their cases and their money, then seemed to vanish. Court records show that the defense attorney missed court dates and, in some cases, misstated facts to judges to excuse his absences.” After the article was published, El-Shabazz • He was a prosecutor and Seth Williams’s right-hand man. From September 2016 to February 2017, El-Shabazz as the top deputy to Williams, who is now not only facing corruption charges, but also has been for not revamping the DA’s office as substantially as promised in his campaign. If El-Shabazz couldn’t achieve major reform as number two in the DA’s office, could he really get acheive it as number one? Michael Untermeyer The basics: 66. Real estate developer. Former city and state prosecutor. The case for Untermeyer • He has a progressive platform. Untermeyer wants to end cash bail completely and replace it with a “points” system, which determines if a pretrial defendant should be released based on their likelihood of skipping trial, potential danger to the community and criminal record. He also promises to strengthen the unit that investigates possible wrongful convictions, expand the city’s diversionary programs, and revamp the civil forfeiture system by only taking forfeitures above a certain value. Some of his positions are more moderate: For instance, he would not rule out the death penalty and says it isn’t always necessary to secure a conviction before seizing someone’s assets. (Read our extended Q&A with Untermeyer ) • He has years of experience as a prosecutor. He worked in the DA’s office for four years, where he prosecuted domestic violence cases. He was also in the Attorney General’s office for 11 years, where he had a position in the civil forfeiture unit. • He has some of the most detailed policy papers in the race.. • He’s been endorsed by the wards led by state Sen. Tony Williams and Sheriff Jewell Williams. The case against Untermeyer • He was a Republican in a past life. For decades,. Then he ran as a Republican in the and. He changed his party registration back to Democrat in 2014. When he was toying with the idea of running for DA last year,, “Only a Democrat can win this office.” That doesn’t sound opportunistic or anything. • He’s a self-funded millionaire. Does government really need more of those? Untermeyer has almost $1 million of his own money into the race. That triggered the city’s “millionaire’s provision,” which raises the limit on campaign contributions in the DA’s election. • During his 2011 campaign for City Council, he aired an ad that his opponents called racist and sexist. Untermeyer has since apologized for the advertisement and removed it from YouTube.. • He wouldn’t rule out seeking the death penalty. Like Khan and O’Neill, he says he would seek the death penalty only in the “most heinous” cases. Republican: Beth Grossman The basics: 49. Former city prosecutor and chief of staff at Philadelphia’s Licenses & Inspections department. The case for Grossman • She has a center-right platform. Grossman is a passionate defender of the city’s civil forfeiture program, arguing that it can and should be used to seize drug dealer’s homes and boost quality-of-life throughout the city. She supports cash bail. She believes in seeking the death penalty in “certain cases.” On other issues, she takes the same position as some of the Democrats in the race: She wants to divert drug addicts who are charged with simple possession into treatment programs and opposes charges for those found with small amounts of marijuana. For low-level drug dealers who have addiction issues, she says she would also consider requiring treatment instead of imprisonment. (Read our extended Q&A with Grossman.) • She was a prosecutor for almost 20 years. She has served in every unit in the DA’s office. From 2007 to 2015, she led the city’s public nuisance task force, where she dealt with abandoned properties, dumping, nuisance bars and out-of-state landlords. She also was in charge of the city’s civil forfeiture program at that time. She says that seizing people’s assets enabled her to fight the opioid crisis and rid the city of drug houses. “A neighbor called to thank me for getting rid of a drug house next door to him. He told me that he could now sit on his porch again,”. “Enjoying the basic joys and comforts of one’s home without crime negatively affecting his or her safety and quality of life is something that everyone in Philadelphia should be able to do.” • She isn’t part of Philadelphia’s Democratic machine. She that a Democratic district attorney can’t ever truly take on City Hall, and that the Democratic Party’s monopoly on the city has allowed corruption to fester. If elected DA, she says she would focus on making the office more ethical. • She’s been endorsed by the millennial PAC Philly Set Go and the Philadelphia Black Republican Ward Leaders Caucus. The case against Grossman • She was in charge of the civil forfeiture system in Philadelphia. During her time as public nuisance task force chief, the city’s civil forfeiture program was lambasted nationally. Journalists have reported on in which parents and grandparents have had their homes seized because, unknown to them, their children were dealing drugs. Earlier this year, a lawsuit claiming that Philly’s civil forfeiture program is unconstitutional. The practice of civil forfeiture has been criticized by liberals and conservatives alike in recent years, with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas it “has led to egregious and well-chronicled abuses.” • She was a Democrat in a past life. She she switched her party registration to Republican in 2013 because she was tired of seeing local Democrat after local Democrat get tossed in jail. “I think we need a better political balance in the city because when it’s so one-sided, it creates an unhealthy imbalance and people tend to get into trouble.” • She to say whether or not she voted for President Donald Trump. Declining to answer such questions is typical of politicians. • She worked in the DA’s office for decades and defends much of the status quo. If you want the next DA to dismantle cash bail or the civil forfeiture system, Grossman probably isn’t the right candidate for you. City Controller The basics: Rebecca Rhynhart is challenging incumbent Alan Butkovitz in the Democratic primary for city controller. Republican Mike Tomlinson is unopposed in the GOP primary. The city controller is the lead auditor of Philadelphia. Usually, this is what’s called a “committee person’s race”: Because so few people pay attention to it, it’s often decided by the Democratic machine. Rhynhart has put up a pretty good fight, though, and a commissioned by her campaign showed her closely trailing Butkovitz. Democrats: Alan Butkovitz The basics: 65. Incumbent city controller for 11-plus years. Formerly a state representative in Northeast Philly. The case for and against Butkovitz: Some of Butkovitz’s most well-known work includes his reports on the,, and in the sheriff’s office. He is perhaps best known, though, for his with former Mayor Michael Nutter. If reelected, Butkovitz says his priority will be to keeping working as the city’s “watchdog.” Butkovitz is an unabashed part of the Democratic machine: He is a ward leader, and the Democratic City Committee is endorsing him. Rhynhart that Butkovitz is beholden to the party and often doesn’t investigate problems until they’ve already been covered by the press. He’s also been accused of being politically opportunistic, such as when he opposed Nutter’s Actual Value Initiative during the 2013 campaign. Butkovitz a passionate defense of his time in office, pointing out that he’s stood up to such machine Democrats as Sheriff John Green. Butkovitz has been endorsed by the, City Council President Darrell Clarke, Philadelphia AFL-CIO, Building Trades Council, District Council 33, District Council 47 and Neighborhood Networks, among others. Rebecca Rhynhart The basics: 42. Former chief administrative officer under Mayor Jim Kenney and budget director under Mayor Michael Nutter. Previously worked at Bear Stearns. The case for and against Rhynhart: If elected, Rhynhart would be the first female city controller in Philadelphia. She her priorities include making the office more transparent and saving taxpayers millions of dollars. Rhynhart has plenty of financial experience: She was Nutter’s budget director for six years and oversaw several departments as Kenney’s chief administrative officer. During Rhynhart’s tenure, the city’s bond rating. Rhynhart also the city’s “reverse bidding” process and its paperless system for contracting services. Butkovitz has criticized Rhynhart for working on Wall Street and not doing more to fix the pension system and while she was in city government. Rhynhart has shot back that Butkovitz is blaming her for issues she had no control over or had little time to address. Rhynhart been endorsed by the, Black Clergy of Philadelphia & Vicinity, former Gov. Ed Rendell, Laborers’ District Council and Millennials in Action, among others. Republican: Mike Tomlinson The basics: 60. Corporate accountant. Previously a high school teacher. Mike Tomlinson| Courtesy of Tomlinson’s campaign The case for and against Tomlinson: Tomlinson worked as a corporate accountant for many decades. He argues that he’s the only true outsider in the race: After all, Butkovitz is a party insider and Rhynhart is a government insider. Tomlinson his top goals include strengthening the underfunded pension system and auditing the school district. As a Republican, Tomlinson would face an uphill battle in the general election. Judicial Races The basics: There are dozens of judges up for election on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Superior Court, Commonwealth Court, Court of Common Pleas, and Municipal Court. The Pennsylvania Bar Association and Philadelphia Bar Association extensively rated and interviewed the candidates and, respectively. The contenders who were not recommended by the Bar Associations are as follows: Bill Caye, Irene Clark, Deborah Cianfrani, Rania Major, Shanese Johnson, Mark Cohen (yes, ), Vincent Melchiorre (you might remember him from questioning whether he actually lives in Philadelphia), Danyl Patterson, Terri Booker, Crystal Powell, Bill Rice, and Sherman Toppin. Some media outlets and political groups have made endorsements in the judicial races, including the, and. The and also have helpful guides to the candidates. Election Board Workers The basics: These are the workers stationed at each polling place Philadelphia. They oversee the city’s elections, enforcing voting rules, helping voters use the voting machines, and readying the polling place for Election Day. Specifically, a Judge of Elections and Inspector of Elections will be on the ballot. The has a guide to the races as well as a list of and candidates. Ballot Questions The basics: Philadelphians will see two ballot questions when they enter the voting booth Tuesday. They are broken down into plain English. Follow on Twitter. The 2018 Philadelphia Escape Triathlon now combines the Sprint and Olympic distance races into one fantastic day of racing on Sunday, June 24. 2018 will mark the 14th year of this annual event, featuring two days of activities including a multi-sport expo and bike check-in on Saturday, June 23. On Sunday, June 24 starting at 6:00 a.m. Will be our pro event with a $20,000 prize purse followed by our age group Olympic distance race (1500m swim, 24.8 mi bike and 6.2 mi run) and an Olympic distance AquaBike race (1500m swim and 24.8 mi bike) starting at 6:45 a.m. The day of racing will finish with a Sprint distance race (800m swim, 12.4 mi bike and 3.1 mi run) and a Sprint distance AquaBike race (800m swim and 12.4 mi bike) beginning at 8:15 a.m. Fairmount Park will once again host this scenic, challenging course, which takes participants through some of the most historic and picturesque sections of Philadelphia. The is always a balance between the national legacy and the promise of a fresh start. It is common for the speaker to try to set himself apart. Nevertheless, when Donald John Trump stood for the first time as the 45th President of the United States in a light rain to deliver his address,. Trump’s message was not on the order of John F. Kennedy’s torch passing, or Ronald Reagan’s declaration that government is the problem. It was not even a 21st century version of Andrew Jackson’s attack on corrupt and incompetent Washington. In 16 mostly harsh, mostly confrontational minutes, Trump laid out a view of America’s destiny and place in the world that would alienate his predecessors dating back to Theodore Roosevelt and beyond. It may go down as one of the most consequential—or one of the most misleading—speeches in the history of presidential inaugurations. Early on Inauguration Day 2017, some older unrelated images of crowds were passed off as depictions of the Trump inauguration. Jan 19, 2017 The Battle Hymn Of The Republic, verses 1,2 and 5, as performed at 45th President of the United States, Donald J Trump's pre-inauguration party, January. Newly sworn into office, Trump announced a U-turn in the foreign policy that has defined America’s place in the world for more than 70 years. And while he was at it, he savaged the record and the motives of a large number of the men and women seated around him on the West Front of the Capitol. For all his reputation as a builder, he entered office as a wrecking ball. His choice of Vice President Mike Pence and his Cabinet appointments have been sharply conservative, but President Trump’s first message to the world was as radical as they come, and as populist as a pitchfork. If he truly means what he said (always a pertinent question for a fellow who once said he enjoys being compared to P.T. Barnum), Washington is about to become even more rancorous. And the world is in for some very big—and entirely unpredictable—changes. “For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry,” he said as the rain began to fall. “Subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military. We’ve defended other nation’s borders while refusing to defend our own, and spent trillions of dollars overseas while America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay. “We’ve made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has disappeared over the horizon,” Trump summed. “From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it’s going to be—always—America First.” Diverting from his prepared speech, he repeated the phrase: “America First.” The words were discredited for generations of American leaders by their linkage to the movement that campaigned, in 1940 and 1941, to cut off U.S. Aid to Great Britain in its desperate struggle against Hitler. Republicans and Democrats alike shared the conviction that America First was the slogan that preceded disaster, and ceded the world stage to tyrants. After World War II, the U.S. Fully embraced the role of democracy’s guardian, safeguarding its allies and spreading prosperity. It became common to speak of the president not just as a national executive, but as “leader of the free world.”. Now here was Trump, amid the marble and flags and grandeur of American power, giving no sign that he wanted that title. Instead, the old phrase was made new again—not by a protesting fringe this time, but by the man in charge, a man who sees America as a crippled victim. Maybe it was all a bargaining chip. Maybe after he renegotiates a few trade deals and duns NATO members to pay their fair share, Trump will pronounce the U.S.-led world order fully fixed and better than ever. As always, it was disorienting to attempt to gauge his sincerity. In the same speech, after all, he had this to say about the former presidents and members of Congress who had come to consecrate his new powers. “For too long, a small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left, and the factories closed,” he said. “The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.” There were two competing tribes in America, us and them. “Their victories have not been your victories,” he said. “Their triumphs have not been your triumphs. And while they celebrated in our nation’s Capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.” Then, minutes later, he stepped out of the rain to celebrate with those same ravagers at a gala lunch in Satutuary Hall. In response to a toast, purred the language of permanent Washington: “Whether you are a Republican or Democrat, it doesn’t matter, we’re going to get along.”. A president can be lawfully created in the most humble, private circumstances. On a summer night in 1923, Vice-president Calvin Coolidge was awakened by his father at his family’s rustic Vermont farmhouse. A telegram had just arrived: President Warren Harding was dead. The elder Coolidge, a notary public, administered the oath of office to his son in the pre-dawn darkness with just four witnesses. “The oath was taken in what we always called the sitting room, by the light of the kerosene lamp,” Coolidge recalled in his memoirs. Everything else is symbolism. A little grain of legal business—passing authority from one person to another—is wrapped and tassellated in pomp as huge as the Capitol dome and as small as the morning’s White House breakfast. The ritual aims at a purpose, and the purpose is to heal a nation that has laid its divisions on the table. An inauguration reminds us that our elections are not wars, they are intra-squad scrimmages. There may be some eye-gouging involved, but after the whistle blows we all retire to the same locker room and brace ourselves, together, to meet the world. This is why President Obama welcomed Trump and his wife Melania for coffee before they rode together to the Capitol. It’s why three former presidents—representing both political parties—traveled to Washington to sit respectfully on the in the rain. Jimmy Carter, at 92, returned to the spot where he took the oath 40 years earlier. He has been a former president longer than anyone in American history, and he looked as if he might go on indefinitely. Bush was relaxed and informal. His ailing father remained in Houston, having written Trump that a trip might put him “six feet under.” (As a hero of World War II, a veteran diplomat, and the architect of the post-Cold War global design, the elder Bush certainly might have fallen faint had he witnessed Trump’s speech in person.). More subdued was Bill Clinton, who sat pensively beside his stoic wife. Hillary Clinton amassed nearly 66 million votes against Trump—the largest total ever for a losing candidate. Eight years ago, she sat on this spot to watch the man who narrowly beat her for the Democratic nomination take the oath. Now she was nodding and forcing an occasional smile through an even more excruciating ordeal. Trump’s narrow victory over Clinton was a particularly bruising clash—so the incoming chief executive had plenty of wounds to heal. But through the frantic weeks of his transition, Trump continued to practice the us-against-them politics that won him the job. His petulant Twitter feed chattered with denunciations of U.S. Intelligence agencies, various media outlets, actress Meryl Streep and civil-rights icon Rep. His opponents reciprocated, maligning Trump’s motives and disputing his legitimacy. Polls taken in the days before the event suggested that the tone had taken a toll: Trump’s approval rating was the lowest on record for an incoming president. He appeared to have lost ground with the public since Election Day, a reversal of the typical trend in which incoming presidents gain in stature. Only near the end of his speech did he make a gesture towards unity—and this only after he had indicted Washington and denounced the world. “When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice,” Trump declared. “The Bible tells us, ‘how good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.’ We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.” Never mind the predations of the ruling class he had just described. “When America is united, America is totally unstoppable,” he said. But it was only a gesture. Trump’s rallying cry was resentment: resentment of foreign governments and industries, resentment of elected leaders and faceless elites, resentment of the empty factories and haunted cities that define the American landscape as rendered by its new leader. “American carnage” is how he tallied it all up, in a phrase as dark as any spoken by an American president. Even Franklin D. Roosevelt, who gave voice to the “ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished” of the land, only painted “one-third of the nation” in those terms. To hear Trump, the entire country is a wreck. Many among us were the wreckers. Security was tight—some 28,000 law enforcement officers prepared for every possible threat, from rioting protestors to a terrorist attack. And the crowd was huge by historical standards. Event organizers expected about 800,000 witnesses—more than three times the number that turned out to watch Ronald Reagan take the oath in 1981. But compared to the recent inaugurations of Barack Obama, the turnout was modest. It was no more than half the audience that swarmed the National Mall in 2009. Indeed, much of the buzz leading up to the day had to do with the people who would not be attending. More than 60 Congressional Democrats announced they would boycott the swearing-in ceremony. The Hollywood A-list gave it a pass. Professors on campuses across the country organized counter-Inauguration “teach-ins” to inoculate their students against Trumpism. There was even pressure on a group of Girl Scouts to withdraw from the Inaugural parade. Trump himself had to be talked into honoring the entire ritual. He was not convinced at first that all the ceremony was necessary. “Do we have to have a parade?” Trump asked during an early planning session. How about two or three balls, instead of 14? One certain thing about Trump: he’s not much for tradition. At a pre-Inaugural musicale on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, he speculated that it might be the first time anyone staged a concert at that venue, seemingly unaware that it’s an every-four-years thing. He was eager to get inside the Oval Office, behind the desk and down to work. The sooner America saw the businessman-President barking orders and sending heads rolling, the better. Only in the last few weeks before the Inauguration did he come around to the importance of the ceremonial day, the historical gravity, the message it sends. From the moment the President-elect arrives at the White House door and is welcomed inside for an awkward breakfast, until the moment when that same person, duly sworn, steps down from the parade grandstand to walk through the same door into a place now called home, the entire Inauguration Day is a ritual. It honors and strengthens the conviction that what we share is bigger than what divides us, and what we decide, in our elections, matters more than any person or any party. “George Washington knew that the inauguration of the second president was more important than the inauguration of the first,” Inauguration chairman Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri observed in a preview of his own ceremonial remarks. That was the moment when America’s founders delivered on the promise of a government larger than its leader. “And historians say that the third inauguration was even more important,” Blunt continued—for that was the first passage of power from one party to its rival. It was then that Thomas Jefferson delivered the first healing inaugural address. “We are all Republicans. We are all Federalists,” he said. The American experiment, it seemed, could survive the sort of factionalism that meant murder and war in other places and other times. “We’ve been doing this longer than anyone in the world,” Blunt mused, and the durability of this civic respiration—inhaling the hot breath of factional politics, exhaling common purpose, however temporary—moved Ronald Reagan, in his 1981 Inaugural address, to call the ceremony “both commonplace and miraculous.” Even when Trump came to see the need for this American sacrament, he wanted to keep it short. The picture he sought to plant in the national mind was Trump-in-command. As he spoke, government painters were already at work, remaking his West Wing. If Trump did not want to be stranded on a reviewing stand waving to high school marching bands in the gloaming of a winter evening, he must complete his own parade up Pennsylvania Avenue briskly. Which would only be possible if he poked his fork into the customary lunch with Congress shortly after noon. Which could only happen if his speech was crisp and tight. It was all something to be managed and put in the rearview mirror. This was his thought process. His role, the one he cared about most, was destroyer—not steward—of the status quo. He could imagine himself this way because he was something new. He was famous in a way that politicians are not, tabloid famous, reality TV famous. It is Trump’s conviction, now vindicated by the Electoral College, that fame, properly managed and wielded, equals power. It’s no easy thing to reconcile that conviction with the idea that power, in America, is bigger than any individual. But Trump submerged his own ego in the idea of an empowered populace. “The forgotten men and women of our country,” he promised “will be forgotten no longer.” This message, and the nationalist jingo that Trump has married to it, has been a long time coming. It was spawned by the culture wars, stoked by the Great Recession, and spread by the winds of technological disruption. We the People have often been leery of political establishments, but rarely have the insiders looked so feckless in the face of global pressures, and never has it been so easy to communicate their perceived failures. Trump Inauguration begins at: Trump Full Inauguration Oath/Speech begins at: Trump Inauguration Parade begins at: Donald Trump, now the 45th president of the United States, promised that he would work tirelessly for every American and vowed to put 'America first.' 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