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from Council on Foreign Relations (cfr.org)
China’s Massive Belt and Road Initiative
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the most ambitious infrastructure investment effort in history. But is it also a plan to remake the global balance of power?
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China’s Massive Belt and Road Initiative
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is the most ambitious infrastructure investment effort in history. But is it also a plan to remake the global balance of power?
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from iFIBER One News
Final defendant in 2016 murder of Quincy woman found guilty Thursday
A jury has found Gustavo Tapia Rodriguez guilty of murdering 31-year-old Quincy resident Jill Sundberg. Following a trial dating back to Jan. 28, a jury returned from deliberations Thursday with a guilty verdict against Tapia Rodriguez for first-degree murder with multiple aggravators including armed with a firearm, acting with deliberate cruelty, drive-by shooting and kidnapping; and one count of second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. A sentencing date has not been set. Tapia Rodriguez is facing life in prison. Closing arguments were presented to the jury on Wednesday, the 14th day of the trial that included testimony from two co-defendants - Julio Cesar Albarran Varona and Ambrosio Mendez Villanueva - both of which previously reached plea deals and were sentenced to 18 years in prison for their role in the execution-style murder in December 2016. All three defendants and the two material witnesses were in the country illegally. Tapia Rodriguez and Fernando Marcos Gutierrez, a material witness in the Sundberg case, are also charged with first-degree murder in the killing of a 21-year-old man just two weeks before Sundberg was murdered.
State dairy officials put livestock losses at $4 million from February blizzard
The value of the more than 1,800 dairy cattle that perished in a south central Washington blizzard earlier this month has been placed at $4 million. State agriculture officials made the monetary determination this week and say the figure does not include milk production losses. Farm Service Agency program specialist Gerri Richter told the Capital Press that seven dairy farms have already submitted claims for lost livestock to the agency’s office in Yakima, and that more reports are expected soon. State dairy producers are required to give notice of any lost animals within 30 days of their demise to the agency’s Livestock Indemnity Program, whose general protocols return 75 percent of an animal’s market value. Steve George, an issues manager for the state dairy federation, told station KING that as many as 15 farms around the area of Sunnyside lost cows during the fierce winter storm on Feb. 9, with one reporting the death of 600 livestock alone.
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from philorthodox blog
The Affirmation of Saint Louis (1977) is the foundational document of the Continuing Church. The Affirmation distinguishes the Continuing Churches from earlier Anglican bodies, such as the Episcopal Church prior to 1976, which were vaguer and deliberately more ‘comprehensive’ in their doctrine and moral teaching than are the Continuing Churches. The Affirmation also distinguishes the Continuing Churches from neo-Anglican bodies (such as the Anglican Church of North America, ACNA) and from modernist Anglican bodies (such as the Episcopal Church after 1976). The Affirmation is the foundation of and is embraced by the 2017 agreement of the so-called G-4 Churches (Anglican Church in America, Anglican Catholic Church, Anglican Province of America, and Diocese of the Holy Cross) to establish full communion (communio in sacris) amongst themselves.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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