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A new NASA and university stanley mug analysis of ocean data collected more than 135 years ago by the crew of the HMS Challenger oceanographic expedition provides further confirmation that human activities have warmed our planet over the past century.Researchers from the University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Australia; and NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., combined the ship s measurements of ocean temperatures with modern observations from the international Argo array of ocean profiling floats. They used both as inputs to state-of-the-art climate models, to get a picture of how the world s oceans have changed since the Challenger s voyage.The Challenger expedition, from 1872 to 1876, was the world s first global scientific survey of life beneath the ocean surface. Along the way, scientists measured ocean temperatures, lowering thermometers hundreds of meters deep on ropes. The key to this research was to determine the range of uncertainty for the mea gourde stanley surements taken by the crew of the Challenger, said Josh W stanley cup illis, a JPL climate scientist and NASA project scientist for the upcoming U.S./European Jason-3 oceanography satellite, scheduled to launch in 2015. After we had taken all these uncertainties into account, it became apparent that the rate of warming we saw across the oceans far exceeded the degree of uncertainty around the measurements. So, while the uncertainty was large, the warming signal detected was far greater. Uncertainties around the Challenger s measurements Geyd JPL Web Site Features Images of Earth 39 Ionosphere
IdeasBy Kristin van OgtropAugust 6, 2015 6:06 AM EDTVan Ogtrop is the author of Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom.I ;m not sure which has been a more life-changing discovery this summer: missing my teenager, or realizing that I may have an unhealthy dependence on Waze.How did these discoveries come about I mi stanley cups ss my teenager because he is working at a sleepaway camp for six weeks, and absence makes the heart forget how aggravating teens can be. And Waze, the crowdsourced traffic app that helps stanley mug you find weird shortcuts and avoid the police, has made summer driving so easy that I ;m now convin stanley quencher ced I need its equivalent in every area of my life. Imagine the possibilities: cooking you ;re out of scallions! ; laundry red sock hidden in the load of whites! ; getting dressed in the morning don ;t even think about trying to fit into those pants! . My devotion to Waze is so complete that I have even anthropomorphized the faux-female voice into a petite, tough-but-kind grannyish womanthink Dr. Ruth, but a smidge younger and without the accentwho exists solely to make my life better.My imagination hits a giant roadblock, however, when I apply the app to raising children in general, and teens in particular. Is this a failure of my imagination, or of technology It doesn ;t matter: August is upon us, and the clock is ticking. You see, some women use summer to improve their fitness so they ;ll look better on t

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By Ciara NugentUpdated: September 24, 2019 8:51 PM [ET] | Originally published: September 24, 2019 3:22 PM EDT;More than 44 years after the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, a long-simmering political battle over his resting place finally appears to be at an end. Work began Thursday morning to exhume the former leader from the Valley of the Fallen, a sprawling mausoleum just outside of Madrid, against the wishes of his family and many conservatives.Acting Prime Minister Pedro Saacute;nchez center-left Socialist Party have long argued that the dictator should not lie in a grand public monument, a monument he shares with some 34,000 victims of the three-year civil war he started by overthrowing Spain democratically-elected government in 1936. Many of the bodies belong to Francorsquo opponents and most have never been identified.But Franco grandchildren mounted legal challenges to both the exhumation and the government choice of reburial grounds mdash; a public cemetery on the outskirts of Madrid mdash; arguing that they have a right to choose what to do with their grandfather remains.In September the Supreme Court ruled that Saacute;nchez plan could go ah stanley cup ead.The exhumation comes at a time of political chaos in Spain, just a few weeks before the country second e stanley cup lection of 2019 mdash; and its fourth in four years. Saacute;nchez was forced to call the vote when he was unable stanley cup to get enough support in congres Igzs President Trump s Midterm Arguments: Mobs, Immigration and the Economy
By FortuneAugust 28, 2014 5:45 AM EDTThis post is in partnership with Fortune, which offers the latest business and finance news. Read the article below originally published at Fortune.By Caroline FairchildDear K adidas originals ate, an underwear company that specializes in leak-free lingerie, made headlines last week for a controversial ad campaign that some say perpetuates sexism in Silicon Valley. Rather than use professional models to showcase the companyrsquo newest product line, Dear Kate featured female tech executives wearing nothing but the yeezy ir underwear. In an interview with Fortune, company founder Julie Sygiel said the move was intended to empower women in tech and br nike dunk ing awareness to the many women who are working in the field.Edited excerpts:How did you come up with the idea for the campaign We started last November featuring women in our campaigns who we admire because of who they are and what they do, not because of what they look like. I like to look at our [campaigns] as a platform to showcase women we admire. We like to show women in our [campaigns] actually doing things, not just standing there and looking sexy.Why use female tech founders in this campaign specifically When I was young and starting the business, I didnrsquo;t know a lot of women who were starting businesses and that was a challenge for me. Itrsquo hard to see yourself succeeding if you donrsquo;t see people like you doing that. The thought behind the campaign was to bring attention to th

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PASADENA, Calif. - Late Monday night, an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment HiRISE camera aboard NASA s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover and the components that helped it survive its seven-minute ordeal from space to its present lo stanley cup price cation in Mars Gale Crater. This latest image is another demonstration of the invaluable assistance the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter team, and its sister team with the Mars Odyssey orbiter, have provided the Curiosity rover during our early days on the Red Planet, said Mike Watkins, mission manager for the Mars Science Laboratory mission at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The i termo stanley mage not only satisfies our curiosity, it can provide important information on how these vital c stanley becher omponents performed during entry, descent and landing, and exactly locate the rover s touchdown site within Gale Crater. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter s image of Curiosity and its parachute, back shell, heat shield and descent stage can be found at: http://go.nasa.gov/OXjKz6 .The Curiosity rover is in the center of the image. To the right, approximately 4,900 feet 1,500 meters away, lies the heat shield, which protected the rover from 3,800-degree-Fahrenheit about 2,100 degrees Celsius temperatures encountered during its fiery descent. On the lower left, about 2,020 feet 615 meters away, are the parachute and back shell. The parachute has a constructed diameter of 71 feet almost 21. Gtrv Call Centers Introduce Emotion Canceling AI as a Mental Shield for Workers
IdeasBy Brett BennerJuly 1, 2015 11:41 AM EDTBrett Benner is an Emmy nominated casting director. He lives in Los Angeles.June 26 will go down in the history books as the day that the U.S. Supr stanley cup price eme Court afforded gays and lesbians the right to get legally married in all 50 states. As a gay man, itrsquo hard not to be struck by the magnitude of this.My hus stanley drink bottle band Chip and I were married in California shortly after Proposition 8 was struck down as unconstitutional. When we first got together, we never considered getting married. It was somethi stanley water bottle ng straight people and Disney princesses did. This was 20 years ago, when the only married gay men I had heard of were the ones who had divorced their wives. But somewhere around year 10 the term boyfriend graduated to partner, as we furnished a house with pictures of a younger us, and we started to feel an insistent itch that quickly turned into babyitis. Even before 8232;marriage was an option, we decided to create a family.As a gay couple, we faced a question that many new parents with different last names face: How do we name our children We made the decision not to hyphenate our last names like other friends had. Instead we chose my last name as our two children middle name and my husband as their last. Now we were a familymdash;in the eyes of most, but certainly not all.One of the trickiest parts of being a family has been traveling together. In the summer of 2012 we were coming back from

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RICHMOND, VAndash; March is Womenrsquo History Month. The theme this year is Valiant Women of the Vote, honoring the brave women who fought to win suffrage rights for women, and who continue to fight for the voting rights of others. This week, the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation spotlight shines on Moraima Lugo-Mill谩n, who is a chemist in the stanley cups Engineering Directorate.Name: Moraima Lugo-Mill谩nTitle: chemist, Engineering Directorate, DLA AviationHow long have you worked for DLA 15 yearsWhat does the 2020 National Womenrsquo History Month mean to you Being a minority and a woman, the 2020 National Womenrsquo History Month means a lot to me. Itrsquo the obs stanley cup ervance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history and a great opportunity to reflect on the brave leaders that have paved the way for women like me and have achieved meaningful changes in our society.Tell us something unique about your heritage, country of origin or family traditions. I am originally from Puerto Rico. Regardless of Hurricane Maria that hit the island two and a half years ago and the current earthquakes affecting the Southwestern part, Puerto Rico is still the Enchanted Island. Puerto Ricans are very strong, resilient and work hard to ove stanley germany rcome any adversity. Itrsquo a beautiful place; a paradise with a landscape of mountains, waterfalls and beaches. People are caring, warm, loving and happy. The food is delic Vpap How America s First Self-Made Female Millionaire Built Her Fortune
Caption from LIFE. In downtown Anchorage, the buildings and the pavement dropped 20 feet, dividing Fourth Avenue into two levels and stanley cups leaving a weird jumble of signs.Stan Wayman鈥擳he LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesBy Ben CosgroveMarch 26, 2014 4:31 PM EDTWhen the Great Alaska Earthquake convulsed the south-central region of that vast state on March 27, 1964, the energy released by the upheaval the largest quake in recorded North American history was, LIFE magazine reported, 400 times the total [energy] of all nuclear bombs ever exploded until that time. The megathrust event unleashed a colossal 200,000 megatons of energy, destroying buildings and infrastructure in Anchorage and far beyond; raising the land as much as 30 feet in some places; and sparking a major underwater landslide in Prince William Sound, which killed scores of people when the resulting stanley mugs waves slammed into Port Valdez.When all was said and done, the 9.2-magnitude quake which struck around 5:30 in the evening on Good Friday and its many powerful aftershocks caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage; killed more than 130 people including more than a dozen tsunami-related deaths in Oregon and California and; in ways literal and figurative, forever altered the Alaskan landscape in places like Anchorage, Seward and Valdez.Here, on the stanley bottles 50th anniversary of the epic natural disaster, LIFE presents photos many of them never published in LIFE fro

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Students from California and India stanley canada na, along with staff members at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, will have the opportunity this week to hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The two space-to-Earth calls will air live today, Tuesday, Aug. 9, and Thursday, Aug. 11, on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agencys website.NASA astronaut and former California Institute of Technology student Jessica Watkins will answer prerecorded questions from undergraduate and postdoctoral students and faculty from Caltech, as well as JPL staff members, at 12:55 p.m. EDT 9:55 a.m stanley tumblr . PDT today, Tuesday, Aug. 9. Caltech and JPL have a keen interest and dedication to encouraging STEM learning. Laurie Leshin, director of JPL and Caltech vice president, will deliver opening and closing remarks.Get the Latest JPL NewsSUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWSLETTER NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren and ESA European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cri stanley drinking cup stoforetti will answer prerecorded questions from students at Van Buren Elementary School in Nashville, Indiana, at 1:05 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11. Van Buren Elementary offers students educational experiences in STEM, the arts, and career-connected learning. The downlink will kick off a school-wide STEM-a-Thon. Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb will deliver opening remarks.Linking students directly to astronauts aboard the space station provides unique, authentic experiences designed to enhance student learning, performance, and interes Lkjb DLA Distribution Richmond, Virginia employee retires after 44 years of Federal Service
Abandoned row houses are shown in the Sandtown neighborhood where Freddie Gray was arrested, in Baltimo stanley tumbler re on May 3, 2015.Andrew Burton鈥擥etty ImagesBy Justin WorlandMay 7, 2015 2:11 PM EDTThe Sandtown neighborhood of Baltimore has all the markers of the depressed stanley vaso inner city. Unemployment is high, drug abuse is rampant and many houses are vacant and dilapidated. Less apparentmdash;but equally insidiousmdash;is the prevalence of lead poisoning.More than a decade before Freddie Gray botella stanley suffered a fatal injury while in custody of the Baltimore Police Department, the Maryland native was allegedly the victim of the neurotoxin that contaminated the walls and windows in the dilapidated home where he grew up, according to a report in the Washington Post. Gray reportedly struggled academically, accumulated a criminal record and had trouble focusingmdash;all outcomes associated with the long-term effects of lead poisoning.Gray was not alone. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans were exposed to lead during their childhood, and, for many, the poisoning has been associated with dramatic problems in their day-to-day lives as adults. And despite the fact that lead was phased out as an additive in gasoline in the 1970s and 1980s, lead poisoning continues to affect childrenmdash;most of them poormdash;to this day.Baltimore, a city where nearly a quarter of the population lives in poverty, has become ground zero in the fight against lead poisoning. Many Baltimore homes were built in an era

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Richard Drury/Getty ImagesI use Slack and Trello so I donapos;t have to depend solely on my brain to organize the never-ending deluge of information and details I manage. Slack is my communication and collaboration platform, and Trello makes using stanley cups Kanban boards a breeze.Also: How to create a Kanban board in Trello for a much more organized lifeHowever, as I tend to keep Slack open all day and only pop in and out of Trello when necessary, it makes sense to combine the two and receive notifications in Slack when Trello Kanban cards are created. With this setup in place, I always know when itapos time for me to take action on a Kanban board. Otherwise, I might be slow on the uptake or even miss something important.Making this connection isnapos;t just about viewing notifications. With the Trello/Slack connection, you c stanley cup an create cards, link a Trello board to the current Slack channel, change the list that cards are added to, show details of a stanley thermo card or board, and more.Also: This hidden Slack feature can power up your productivityTo make this connection, you must add a Trello Power-Up. Fortunately, Trello Power-Ups are free to all account types -- free or paid -- and can be added to any board.Letapos make this connection.How to connect Trello to SlackWhat youapos;ll need: To make this connection work, youapos;ll need valid Slack and Trello accounts. Youapos;ll also need to create the connection from the web version of Trello, as the desktop version will throw an invalid I Zdcm What the Science Says About the Health Benefits of Vitamins and Supplements
Art by JR; Photograph by Maxim DondyukIdeasBy Edward FelsenthalUpdated: March 17, 2022 9:27 AM EDT | Originally published: March 17, 2022 7:00 AM EDTEdward Felsenthal is the Executive Chairman and former Editor-in-Chief of TIME.How do you tell the story of a war Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 8239;24, all of us have been grappling with the constant flood of images and messages coming into our homes and onto our screens, with what feels like unprecedented immediacy. The world has been captivated by the extraordinary resilience of Ukrainersquo people and the unspeakable tragedies they are enduring.This week, the war came home to TIME, with the death of Brent Renaud, an award-winning 50-year-old filmmaker who was killed by Russian fire in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin on March 13. Brent had been working on a TIME Studios documentary about the global refugee crisis. That crisis now counts among its numbers the 3 8239;million refugees fleeing Ukraine. Brentrsquo loss is devas stanley cups tating for journalism, compounded days later by the deaths of cameraman stanley cups Pierre Zakrzewski, 8239;55, and the Ukrainian journalist Oleksan stanley flask dra Kuvshynova, 8239;24. The stories of war would not be possible without journalists like Brent, Pierre, Oleksandra; journalists like Evgeny Sakun and Viktor Dudar, who were killed earlier in the conflict; and like so many others from Ukraine and all over the world, whose work is essential to this critical moment.As we mourn the loss of these courag

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Activists of the Dal Khalsa Sikh organisation, a pro-Khalistan group, stage a demonstration demanding justice for Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was killed in June 2023 near Vancouver, after offering prayers at the at Akal Takht Sahib in the Golden Temple in Amritsar on September 29, 202 stanley cup 3. Narinder NAN-AFP/Getty ImagesIdeasBy Simran Jeet Singh and Gunisha KaurDecember 5, 2023 2:38 PM ESTSingh is Executive Director of the Aspen Institute s Religion Society Program and author of The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life. He is an Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity with Columbia University and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and a Soros Equality Fellow with the Open Society Foundations.Dr. Kaur is a physician and refugee health researcher. She is an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, medical director of the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights, and an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine with the National Academy of Medicine.Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had foiled an alleged plot by an Indian official to murder a Sikh activist and American citizen in New York City. The DOJs press release discloses that Czech authorities detained and extradited the alleged assassin this past June. This announcement comes on the heels of stanley cup Canadian Pri stanley cup me Minister Justin Trudeaus public accusation that the Government of India was complicit in the June 18 murder of Sikh Canadian leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Gunmen shot dead Ntfp Minnesota Firefighter Suspended for Flying Confederate Flag During Parade
President Donald Trump gestures toward journalists shouting questions as he departs the White House on May 29 jordan , 2018 in Washington, D.C.Win McNamee/Getty ImagesBy Katie ReillyMay 30, 2018 6:17 PM EDTPresident Donald Trump stepped into a batting cage at the White House on Wednesday and showed off a swing during an event dedicated to youth fitness.Trump watched as kids practiced at the baseball station set up on the South Lawn and then took a swing himself, according to pool reports. As a crowd of kid nike dunk s looked on, Trump also practiced his golf swing mdash; an athletic feat he is more accustomed to. During his first 493 days in office, Trump has visited golf courses 102 times, according to a recent ABC News analysis.I ;m thrilled to welcome so many young athletes mdash; and these are really great athletes mdash; to the White House, said Trump, who was joined by Olympian Misty May-Treanor and former Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera at the White House Sports and Fitness Day.Many of life most valuable lessons are learned on the field of competition, Trump said in remarks at the event. There, young Americans will discover mdash; that what they do, they discover, they ;re learning all the time mdash; the importance of te salomon amwork, social skills mdash; do I have social skills I don ;t know. I have social media, that for sure. I don ;t know about skill, but I have a lot of media.At a press conf

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US President Donald Trump announces his decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Accord stanley cup s in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2017. As of today, the United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris accord and the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country, Trump said.Brendan Smialowski鈥擜FP/Getty ImagesBy Lisa Marie SegarraJune 7, 2017 3:55 PM EDTThe mayors of Pittsburgh and Paris have united in voicing their support for the Paris Agreement after President Donald Trump invoked the two cities while discussing his reasons for pulling out of the accord.Last week, President Donald Trump tried to pit our two cities against each other, Mayor stanley cup Anne Hidalgo of Paris and Mayor Bill Peduto of Pittsburgh wrote in their joint op-ed published in the New York Times Wednesday.I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris, Trump said in his statement on the Paris Agreement last week.But the mayors ; article his back at Trump: Though separated by an ocean and a language, we share a desire to do what is best for our citizens and our planet, the pair wrote.In the op-ed, the mayors address Pittsburgh history as an industrial and polluted city continuing to make s stanley cup tride toward cleaning up its air. The article notes that 13,000 Pittsburgh resident are employed by the renewable resource industry. The Pennsylvania city is also pl Ystj Several Antiracist Books Are Selling Out. Here s What Else Black Booksellers and Publishers Say You Should Read
With the Statue of Liberty in the background, President Lyndon B Johnson addresses the crowds before the signing of the Immigration and Nationality Act on Liberty Island in New York, N.Y., on Oct. 3, 1965.Interim Archives鈥擥etty ImagesBy Olivia B. WaxmanJanuary 12, 2018 5:06 PM ESTPresident Donald Trump has come under fire this week after reportedly asking lawmakers on Thursday why the United States would accept more people from 8220 hithole countries mdash; which he defined as Haiti, El Salvador and parts of Africa mdash; during a meeting in the Oval Office about a potential immigration skechers deal.While the President vulgar phrasing may be unprecedented, his question comes with a long history. At various times in the past, America immigration system has openly favored some countries over others, w adidas originals ith the system set up to specifically keep out immigrants from countries that are doing badly, as Trump put it in a follow-up tweet, often for reasons that were based on prejudice.Mae Ngai, an immigration historian at Columbia University, spoke to TIME about the historical context behind Trump comment.TIME: The President reported comments suggested that he would want the immigration system to favor potential im nike dunk migrants from some countries and make things harder for those from other places. Has the U.S. ever done something like that, singling out specific 8220 hithole countries NGAI: In the 19th century, we had virtually o

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Boarded-up shops along 5th Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter before an imposed curfew on November 21, 2020 in San Diego, California.Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty ImagesIdeasBy Zachary KarabellDecember 15, 2020 7:00 AM ESTKarabell is an author, investor, and commentator. His latest book is Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power.As the United States heads into its grim pandemic winter, Congress remains deadlocked on passing a new stimulus bill. The main sticking point is what Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell dismissed as controversial state bailouts. Co stanley cup ntroversial they may be, but they are also vital and imperative to the economic recovery of the entire country.Republicans in Congress are telling themselves that we can have an a la carte approach to pandemi stanley cup c reliefmdash;we canrsquo;t. There will be no robust American economy if half the country prospers and half founders. A house divided wasnrsquo;t tenable on the eve of the Civil War and it isnrsquo;t tenable in the middle of the gravest health emergency in a century. And refusing to provide aid stanley cup in a time of great duress breaks with an honorable legacy of the entire country coming together to help each other after natural disasters. Few blinked in protest ndash; and few should have ndash; when tens of billions of dollars were spent to help New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, even though many people suffered not at all from that. Tens of millions are being harmed by the econom Rxvj How Do You Forgive a Murder
By Madeleine CarlisleSeptember 29, 2021 3:06 PM EDTThe nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench to hear oral arguments on Oct. 4, kicking off what could be one of the most monumental terms in years.After an unusually busy summermdash;in which they handed down major rulings on immigration and the federal eviction banmdash;the justices will hear several historic cases this fall, including ones that could have significant consequences for abortion access and gun rights.This will be the first full term with the courtrsquo 6-3 conservative supermajority, after Justice Amy Coney Barrettrsquo confirmation on Oct. 26, 2020. Court watchers are following closely for signals of how far to the right the Supreme Court will rule on hot-button is jordan sues, and how often some of the Republican-appointed justices will side ugg with the liberals. Russ Feingold, the president of the progressive American Constitution Society and a former Democratic Senator from Wisconsin, argues that the way the court rules on key issues raised this term could determine whether efforts to do ldquo omething dramatic to reform the high court gains momentum in Congress and the American public. President Joe Biden launched a commission in April to study possible Supreme Court reformsmdash;including adding justices or term limits, which som nike dunk e progressives advocated formdash;but the commission has yet to publish any recommendations.Itrsquo a hugely important term, says

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By Aryn BakerMarch 26, 2015 12:45 PM EDTOn Saturday Nigerians will head to the polls in the stanley cup countryrsquo tightest election since the end of military rule 16 years ago. One-time military dictator Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress APC is taking on incumbe stanley cup nt Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoplersquo Democratic Party PDP in a race that has captivated the country, and the continent, for several months. Not once in Nigerian history has an incumbent government lost a presidential election, but this time around there is a strong sense that the opposition actually has a chance. Itrsquo a sign of a maturing political system, but many fear that stanley cup the tight race could presage a spasm of post-election violence that could send Africarsquo biggest economy over the edge, particularly as the security services are preoccupied with an operation against the Boko Haram militant group in the northeast. A recent Afrobarometer poll shows that most eligible Nigerians intend to vote, but at least half are concerned about political intimidation and violence.Past elections in Nigeria have proven turbulent, but 2015 is likely to prove particularly volatile, says Roddy Barclay, senior Africa analyst at Control Risks, a political risk consultancy. Nigeria is at a key crossroads as it enters this election cycle. This is the first genuinely competitive election since democracy was restored in 1999, and that challenges the longstanding status quo in the countryrsquo politica Mgam Man Arrested After His Wife and Infant Son Found Dead in Bed With Their Throats Slit
U.S. President Barack Obama poses with star player David Ortiz for a selfie as he welcomes the 2013 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox to the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, April 1, 2014.Larry Downing鈥擱eutersBy Charlie CampbellApril 4, 2014 5:28 AM EDTThe White House has hit back at smartphone giant Samsung for using a selfie Red Sox hitter David Ortiz snapped with President Barack Obama for marketing purposes.Ortiz is a social media ambassador for the South Korean tech giant, but the camp of the U. nike dunk S. commander-in-chief mdash; famously a Blackberry devotee mdash; evidently objects to this cheeky advertising ploy.As a rule, the White House objects to attempts to use the Presidentrsquo likeness for commercial purposes, White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters on Thu air max 1 rsday. And we certainly object in this case. He said the White House lawyers were being consulted.More Must-Reads from TIMEHow the Economy is Doing in the Swing StatesHarris Battles For the Bro VoteOur Guide to Voting in the 2024 ElectionMel Robbins Will Make You Do ItWhy Vinegar Is So Good for YouYou Dont Have to Dread the End of Daylight SavingThe 20 Best Hal converse loween TV Episodes of All TimeMeet TIMEs Newest Class of Next Generation LeadersWrite to Charlie Campbell at charlie.campbell@time