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READ MORE The pace of economic growth in Canada slowed in the third quarter as business investment spending moved lower and the growth in household spending slowed, Statistics Canada said Friday. The Canadian economy grew at an annualized pace of two per cent in the third quarter compared with 2.9 per cent in the second quarter, matching the expectations of economists, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon. The overall move came as spending on non-residential investment in buildings and engineering structures fell 1.3 per cent, as investment in the oil and gas sector slowed. Machinery and equipment investment by businesses fell 2.5 per cent. Meanwhile, the growth in household spending slowed to 0.3 per cent in the quarter, compared with 0.6 per cent in the second quarter. The drop came as spending on durable goods fell 0.7 per cent, with spending on vehicle purchases falling 1.6 per cent. Spending less on new homes, renovations Total residential investment also fell 1.5 per cent as s...

READ MORE Canadian politicians weigh in on the signing of a renegotiated NAFTA agreement in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this morning.  There’s much more work to do in lowering trade barriers and in fostering growth that benefits everyone.  But reaching a new free trade agreement with the United States and Mexico is a major step for our economy. Canadians got here because Team Canada was driven by the interests of the middle class.  Free and fair trade leads to more and better-paying middle-class jobs for more people.  And the benefits of trade must be broadly and fairly shared.  That is what modernizing NAFTA achieves, and that is why it was always so important to get this new agreement done right. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Canadian Press) “The Americans are counting their victories in what they got from Canada and Trudeau is counting his victories in what he didn’t have to give away… This deal includes a cap, a limit to ...

READ MORE For a month’s time, Ny-Ålesund will be home to the rocket team behind NASA’s VISIONS-2 mission, short for Visualizing Ion Outflow via Neutral Atom Sensing-2. They have ventured to this extreme place for an up-close look at atmospheric escape, the process whereby Earth is slowly leaking its atmosphere into space. Understanding atmospheric escape on Earth has applications all over the Universe — from predicting which far off planets might be habitable, to piecing together how Mars became the desolate, exposed landscape it is today. VISIONS-2 is scheduled to launch no earlier than Dec. 4, 2018. Led by Doug Rowland of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, VISIONS-2 is a sounding rocket mission, a type of suborbital rocket that makes brief, targeted flights into space before falling back to Earth just a few minutes later. Sounding rockets are unique among scientific spacecraft for their superior dexterity: They can be carted to remo...

READ MORE HPV infections caused an estimated 266,000 deaths from cervical cancer worldwide in 2012, according to the World Health Organization. Routine screening by Pap smears or HPV DNA tests has reduced death rates in developed countries compared to less developed regions of the globe. Still, an estimated 12,200 United States women are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year. Highly efficacious vaccines against HPV infection exist — including the recently approved Gardasil 9, which immunizes against nine genotypes of HPV known to cause cervical, vulvar, vaginal and anal cancers, and genital warts. But the vaccine needs to be given before a person becomes sexually active, since it has no therapeutic efficacy against existing HPV infections. “Safe, effective and inexpensive therapeutic agents are urgently needed,” said N. Sanjib Banerjee, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at UAB and lead author of the vorinostat study. Epithelium of ano...

READ MORE As the elder Mr. Bush watched troubles envelop the eight-year presidency of his son, however, what had been a source of pride became a cause of distress, friends said. The contrast between the two President Bushes — 41 and 43, as they came to call each other — served to burnish the father’s reputation in later years. As the younger Mr. Bush’s popularity fell, the elder Mr. Bush’s public standing rose. Many Americans came to appreciate the restrained, seasoned leadership the 41st president had displayed; in an opinion poll in 2012, 59 percent expressed approval. Democrats, including President Barack Obama, praised the father as a way of rebuking the son. It was a subject Mr. Bush avoided discussing in public but one he finally addressed in conversations with Jon Meacham, his biographer, in a book published in 2015. Mr. Bush was quoted as saying that his son’s administration had been harmed by a “hard line” atmosphere that pushed ...

READ MORE In his 1989 campaign for the presidency, Mr. Bush, a former oil executive, promised to be the “environmental president.” He vowed to strengthen the Clean Air Act and to find common ground between economic and environmental interests. After taking office, he appointed a professional conservationist to head the Environmental Protection Agency. Paradoxically, a major environmental catastrophe, and one of the largest oil spills in American history, occurred during Mr. Bush’s tenure in the White House. In March 1989, the Exxon Valdez supertanker ran aground on Bligh Reef, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska. The spill damaged 1,500 miles of coastline, killed hundreds of thousands of marine mammals and birds, and devastated local communities. This $20 bill, dirtied with the oiled fingerprints of a worker on the cleanup effort , is just one of hundreds of objects linked to the spill that the Valdez Museum has collected. Exxo...

READ MORE D’Mitrik Trice recorded 20 points and seven rebounds to help No. 22 Wisconsin post a 72-66 victory over No. 14 Iowa in the Big Ten opener for both teams on Friday night at Iowa City. Ethan Happ had 13 points, seven rebounds and five assists before fouling out for the Badgers (7-1, 1-0 Big Ten). Brevin Pritzl added 12 points off the bench and made the 3-point basket that put Wisconsin ahead to stay. Tyler Cook scored 19 points and collected a career-best 15 rebounds for the Hawkeyes (6-1, 0-1). Jordan Bohannon and Luka Garza added 11 points apiece for Iowa, which shot just 39 percent from the field and made 6 of 24 of its 3-point attempts. Pritzl buried the go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:35 remaining to give the Badgers a 63-61 lead and Happ scored in the interior with 51.9 seconds left to make it 65-61. The Badgers shot 48.2 percent from the field, including 8 of 24 from 3-point range. Trice made four 3-pointers. No. 9 Michigan State 78, Rutgers 67 After spending the week on ...

READ MORE (Reuters) – Lindsey Vonn will probably delay her retirement to compete at next year’s World Cup stop at Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies, the Olympic alpine skiing champion said on Friday. Vonn had planned to retire at the end of the 2018-19 season, but her plans have changed after she injured herself in a high-speed crash last week. The fall will keep the American out of the season-opening downhill this weekend at Lake Louise, where she has enjoyed more success than at any other venue on the World Cup circuit. “I’ve announced already I’m retiring after this World Cup season, so to miss my favorite stop on the tour is devastating,” she said in a YouTube video. “I’m probably going to have to come back next year and just race Lake Louise.” Vonn, 34, said she hyper-extended a knee, sprained a ligament and suffered a bone bruise in her fall. “I’m going to be back shortly, probably be able to race in a few weeks,...

READ MORE (Reuters) – Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who presided over the end of the Cold War and routed Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army but lost a chance for a second term after breaking a no-new-taxes pledge, died on Friday at the age of 94. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, who lived longer than any of his predecessors and possessed one of the most impressive resumes in American political history, died peacefully at his home in Houston, according to a source close to the family. His death at 10:10 p.m. Central time (0410 GMT) was first announced in a brief statement issued by longtime spokesman Jim McGrath, who said funeral arrangements had yet to be scheduled. No further details about the circumstances of his death were immediately available. He was the father of former President George W. Bush, who served two terms in the White House during the 2000s, and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who unsuccessfully sought the 2016 Republican nomination for pr...

READ MORE BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will wrap up a global summit on Saturday with high-stakes talks expected to determine whether they can begin defusing a damaging trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. With the United States and China locked in growing disputes over commerce and security that have raised questions about the future of their relationship, Trump and Xi are due to sit down for dinner at the end of a two-day gathering of world leaders in Buenos Aires. The first day of the G20 summit offered glimmers of hope for progress between Washington and Beijing despite Trump’s earlier threat of new tariffs, which would increase tensions already weighing on global financial markets. But on the eve of what is seen as the most important meeting of U.S. and Chinese leaders in years, both sides said differences remained, and the outcome of the talks were uncertain. This year’s summit has prov...

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READ MORE WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday delayed a decision on whether to block U.S. House Republicans from compelling former FBI Director James Comey to testify next week in secret about his actions on investigations leading up to the 2016 presidential elections. Judge Trevor McFadden, who was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President Donald Trump, said he wanted to review the case over the weekend before making a ruling and scheduled a follow-up hearing for Monday at 10 a.m. He also told Comey’s attorney, David Kelley, to submit a follow-up brief to help inform his opinion by Sunday afternoon. Friday’s hearing came about after Comey’s lawyers this week asked the court to quash a Nov. 21 congressional subpoena ordering him to appear before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee for a closed-door deposition and stay the congressional proceedings. Comey’s lawyer argued his client will only agre...

READ MORE WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon received a request on Friday from the Trump administration to extend its deployment of troops to the U.S. border with Mexico beyond a Dec. 15 authorization date to the end of January, officials said. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who is expected to sign off on the extension of the mission, strongly hinted earlier this week that such a request by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was in the works. President Donald Trump ordered the deployment shortly before November congressional elections as a part of an effort to crack down on illegal immigration, as waves of thousands of migrants escaping violence in Central America trekked toward the United States. Border security is a major issue among voters in Trump’s Republican Party. Critics, including opposition Democrats in Congress but also some U.S. military veterans, have derided the troop deployment as a political stunt. Democrats have threatened to investigate the deployment...

READ MORE “The findings are important, because if the health of cells in culture reflects the health of the same cells in a human brain, we may be able to create a better model for studying psychotic disorders,” said the study’s senior author, Bruce M. Cohen, MD, PhD, director of McLean Hospital’s Program for Neuropsychiatric Research (PNPR). Cohen said such a model could give researchers a greater capacity to find genetic and biochemical targets in the brain. Using these targets, he said, “could enable us to develop novel and more effective interventions for psychotic disorders.” For their work, Cohen and his colleagues, including first author Donna L. McPhie, PhD, director of the Cellular Neuropsychiatry Laboratory in the PNPR, drew on studies showing that altered pathways of brain development can be found across most cases of schizophrenia and that inaccurate connections and “leaks” in signaling between nerve cells are a feature of many...

READ MORE A team of researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and NOAA Fisheries tested their newly developed fishery risk assessment method on groupers and snappers in the Florida Keys to determine if these tropical reef fish are being managed sustainability. The new approach developed by UM Rosenstiel School Professor Jerald Ault and colleagues uses fish size-structured abundance data to evaluate fisheries sustainability status, instead of the traditional “catch-per-unit effort” method that requires long-term information collected by fishers to assess the health of a fishery. The researchers then applied the length-based assessment to six key species in the Florida Keys region — black grouper, red grouper, coney, mutton snapper, yellowtail snapper and hog snapper — to evaluate the sustainability status of the fisheries. They found that only one species — coney — was within the sustainable range w...

READ MORE A prominent Mé​tis leader says NDP MP Romeo Saganash “tainted” his private member’s check to orchestrate Canada’s laws with a UN Declaration on a Rights of Indigenous People when he forsaken a F-bomb in a House of Commons progressing this year. Mé​tis National Council President Clément Chartier pronounced he recently deserted a ask to supplement his name to a minute of support for Bill C-262, that is now before a Senate. “This is [UNDRIP], it’s ostensible to be a lofty document, and it is,” pronounced Chartier, in an talk with CBC News. “To have it discontinued by a potty-mouthed member of Parliament, it’s tainted.” Saganash, who is Cree, caused a stir during a exhilarated doubt duration sell on a Trans Mountain tube in Sep when he pronounced Trudeau didn’t “give a f–k” about Indigenous rights. Chartier voiced his views Friday ...

READ MORE The Liberal supervision is not creation most swell on whittling a down a reserve of veterans’ incapacity claims, notwithstanding a promises to do so. Updated total from Veterans Affairs Canada, expelled Friday to  CBC’s   Power Politics , uncover a series of former soldiers watchful for over a year to have their applications processed is now aloft than it was in 2017-18. The statistics uncover that, as of Nov. 30, there were 3,356 veterans whose claims have taken some-more than a year to be put by a system. That’s an boost over a 3,110 cases reported in a final bill year. Veteran Affairs Minister Seamus O’Regan on Wednesday, Dec 6, 2017. (Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press) Responding to a  CBC  News story on Monday about a initial set of numbers, Veterans Affairs Minister  Seamus   O’Regan  claimed an investment of $42 million by a Liberal supervision and a successive employing of 470 staff members were creatio...

READ MORE In a interim, brave practitioners of Jedi ways and other Force-sensitive beings can demeanour to a tiny shade and appreciate Virginia Tech researchers for a recently grown practical existence technique called Force Push. Force Push gives a users a ability to pierce lost objects with Yoda-like calm, nuance, and concentration regulating an proceed for remote intent strategy in VR. “You fundamentally lift a intent in a instruction we wish it to pierce to, only like in Star Wars when a Jedi masters try to pierce an intent that’s placed remotely, they can lift or lift it,” pronounced Run Yu, Ph.D. claimant in a Department of Computer Science and a Institute for Creativity, Technology, and a Arts. Yu is initial author on a recently published essay in Frontiers in ICT detailing a research. It’s as elementary as regulating pointed palm gestures to push, pull, or whirl objects. Users occupy their unclothed hands regulating a healthy gesture-to-action mapping fo...

READ MORE Now, a SLAC/Stanford group has perceived essential appropriation to ensue with dual projects to rise probable treatments for tumors — one regulating X-rays, a other regulating protons. The thought behind both is to blast cancer cells so fast that viscera and other tissues don’t have time to pierce during a bearing — most like holding a singular solidify support from a video. This reduces a possibility that deviation will strike and repairs healthy hankie around tumors, creation deviation therapy some-more precise. “Delivering a deviation sip of an whole therapy event with a singular peep durability reduction than a second would be a ultimate approach of handling a consistent suit of viscera and tissues, and a vital allege compared with methods we’re regulating today,” pronounced Billy Loo, an associate highbrow of deviation oncology during a Stanford School of Medicine. Sami Tantawi, a highbrow of molecule production and astrophysics and a a...

READ MORE Long before many Americans had listened of Mr. Whitaker, a Federal Trade Commission had been scrutinizing his connectors to World Patent Marketing. The association had betrothed investors remunerative obvious agreements though instead brazenly ripped them off, according to a agency. Its review stirred a sovereign decider to close down a organisation in Mar 2017, and it was after fined scarcely $26 million. Mr. Whitaker served on a company’s advisory house from 2014 to 2017 and played a executive purpose in a selling scheme, a newly disclosed files showed. He was paid scarcely $10,000. The Justice Department did not respond to a ask for criticism on a F.T.C. files, though in a past, Kerri Kupec, a dialect spokeswoman, has pronounced that “acting profession ubiquitous Matt Whitaker has pronounced he was not wakeful of any fake activity. Any stories suggesting differently are false.” On Friday, Representatives Jerrold Nadler and Elijah E. Cummings, a approaching...

READ MORE “We couldn’t have a clearer contrariety with a values-based care of @RepRaulGrijalva to strengthen a world for a children than @SecretaryZinke ’s toxic, special seductiveness agenda,” Ms. Pelosi wrote. Mr. Zinke has changed to lessen or remove mixed Obama-era environmental manners on oil drilling and spark mining, while overseeing a largest rebate of sovereign land insurance in a nation’s history, including an bid to condense a distance of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. And he has staffed a group charged with overseeing a nation’s open lands and inhabitant parks with a horde of tip officials who are former oil lobbyists — particularly his deputy, David Bernhardt, a former oil lobbyist who once represented Halliburton, a oil and gas services association run by Dick Cheney before he became clamp president. Mr. Zinke’s ethics have also come underneath scrutiny, amid sovereign investigations into allegations that he abused ma...

READ MORE The New York Mets are interruption ways with fan favorite Wilmer Flores. For real, this time. New York reportedly inaugurated not to proposal a agreement to Flores on Friday, pardon a approach for a 27-year-old infielder to turn a giveaway agent. Flores found his approach into Mets’ science on Jul 29, 2015 when he schooled during a diversion that he would be traded. Flores became rarely romantic and was seen tears while personification in a infield. But a understanding that would have sent him to a Milwaukee Brewers fell detached when New York lifted health concerns over outfielder Carlos Gomez and corroborated out of a trade. Two nights after after meditative he had played his final diversion for a franchise, Flores strike a thespian walk-off homer in a 12th inning as a Mets kick a Washington Nationals 2-1. New York went on to play in a World Series, descending to a Kansas City Royals. Flores batted .262 with 68 homers and 253 RBIs in 581 games over 6 seasons with a Met...

READ MORE (Reuters) – Many tip athletes, confronting a universe outside championships in Doha that do not start until late September, will be competing less, if during all, during a indoor season, coaches and contestant member have told Reuters. Typically scheduled for August, a 2019 worlds were changed to Sept 27-Oct. 6 to equivocate a misfortune of Doha’s heat. But a composition could have ramifications stretching all a approach to Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics. “With a prolonged deteriorate in front of us, and a subsequent integrate of years with a universe championships and a Olympics, we consider many people are going to error on a side of counsel and substantially sight by a indoor season,” pronounced Renaldo Nehemiah, representative for universe 100 meters champion Justin Gatlin. “If they contest during all, they might run in an eventuality only to mangle adult a routine of training.” World 60m record hilt Christian Coleman pronounced as most in ...