"We regret that our marital relationship has come to an end and we have agreed not to make any other public statement on this subject," read the announcement. The split comes on the heels of a report on Sunday in The New York Post's Page Six that the former candidate for New York City Comptroller was seen at the apartment of Lis Smith, his former spokesperson who is now the communications director for mayor-elect Bill de Blasio.
The split comes on the heels of a report on Sunday in The New York Post's Page Six that the former candidate for New York City Comptroller was seen at the apartment of Lis Smith, his former spokesperson who is now the communications director for mayor-elect Bill de Blasio.
Last month, an Alabama county judge sentenced a man convicted of raping a young teen several times to probation and treatment, but no jail time. When the victim of the rapes came forward, Limestone County Circuit Court Judge James Woodroof’s surprising sentence generated outrage from the public, and an appeals court ordered Woodroof to re-sentence Austin Smith Clem. But on Monday, Woodroof once again handed down a sentence that included no prison time.
But on Monday, Woodroof once again handed down a sentence that included no prison time.
"We are probably in peak oil today, or at least in the foot-hills," Dr. Richard Miller said recently at a talk in London. According to the Guardian, Miller "prepared BP's in-house projections of future oil supply for BP from 2000 to 2007," and is bringing peak oil back into focus at the end of a petroleum-soaked year. He says that oil production has already peaked in 37 oil-producing countries, and that global production is declining at about 3.5 million barrels every year. Continued reliance on oil, and the coming shortage, will do nothing less than "break economies." [...] Bottom line being, oil companies and governments are jazzed on new technologies and extraction techniques like fracking and tar sands—Exxon and co are running shiny ads touting domestic energy production—but none of that changes the fact that oil is running out. We're getting better at scraping the bottom of the barrel, but you can only get so much.
Bottom line being, oil companies and governments are jazzed on new technologies and extraction techniques like fracking and tar sands—Exxon and co are running shiny ads touting domestic energy production—but none of that changes the fact that oil is running out. We're getting better at scraping the bottom of the barrel, but you can only get so much.
When a few canoes carrying a group of Wiyot tribal members to Indian Island cross the choppy waters of Humboldt Bay [California] in March, it will not look as if anything particularly special is happening. The nondescript, flat, marshy 275-acre island sits beneath a bridge upon which traffic whizzes by on busy Route 255. But what will take place will be remarkable: 153 years after Indian Island was the site of a brutal massacre of the Wiyot, it will bear witness to a ceremony of rebirth and testament of survival for a people brought to the brink of extinction. [...] A posse of white settlers sneaked through the darkness one night in 1860 and murdered more than 50 [as many as 250] Native American women and children, mostly with axes and hatchets.
The nondescript, flat, marshy 275-acre island sits beneath a bridge upon which traffic whizzes by on busy Route 255. But what will take place will be remarkable: 153 years after Indian Island was the site of a brutal massacre of the Wiyot, it will bear witness to a ceremony of rebirth and testament of survival for a people brought to the brink of extinction. [...]
A posse of white settlers sneaked through the darkness one night in 1860 and murdered more than 50 [as many as 250] Native American women and children, mostly with axes and hatchets.