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2ncourage
2018-09-02 02:55:55 UTC  

Separating a person’s address for voting and licensing purposes "would cause confusion and lead to different addresses for people who thought they had changed both," he said.

Students can easily change their license and registration address to one on or near campus by visiting their local clerk or a Secretary of State branch office, he said. Also, Johnson sends a mobile election office to 18 college campuses around the state each election cycle to answer students' questions and allow them to register to vote at the address they prefer, he said.

The suit alleges that former state senator and congressman Mike Rogers, a Brighton Republican, was behind the 1999 law that requires most college students to vote where their parents live.

"The legislative history of Rogers' Law shows that, at the time the law was proposed, legislators were well aware of the disproportionate and disenfranchising impact its matching-address requirement would have on young voters, particularly college students, and that it was intended to have that very impact," the suit alleges.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/08/31/college-democrats-michigan-voting-laws/1155854002/

2ncourage
2018-09-02 03:13:21 UTC  

New format for Bridge Walk

Though the bridge closure will be the same as it was in 2017, the walk itself will be significantly different because bridge officials will no longer be providing buses to return walkers to their starting points, once they have crossed the span.

In February, the Mackinac Bridge Authority approved a new walk format under which walkers can start from either side of the bridge and either turn around at the midway point or arrange for transportation back to their starting point.

A third option — for those who start early enough and walk briskly — is to walk all the way across the nearly 5-mile span and all the way back.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/08/30/mackinac-bridge-labor-day-walk/1143157002/

2ncourage
2018-09-02 03:21:32 UTC  

The bilateral training is part of a rare, monthlong tour by the Kaga and two guided-missile destroyers that will see them make port calls in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. As a part of the dispatch, which began Aug. 26 and will run through October, the vessels will also conduct joint exercises aimed at bolstering combat skills and improving cooperation with each country’s navy, according to the Defense Ministry’s Maritime Staff Office.

The office said late last month that the MSDF would also train with the U.S. Navy.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/01/national/japanese-helicopter-destroyer-trains-u-s-aircraft-carrier-disputed-south-china-sea/

2ncourage
2018-09-02 03:28:43 UTC  

What lessons can be learned from these cases?

Some guidance can be found in a 2013 Justice Ministry paper titled “Research Into Indiscriminate Cases of Mass Murder and Injury.” The 198-page report examined 52 instances in which an individual seriously injured and/or killed people they didn’t know without a clear motive in an attempt to learn from them and hopefully prevent similar attacks.

The report classified the attacks into five separate motives. Forty-two percent of the cases were fueled by a grudge, while 19 percent were driven by anger or envy toward a group or entity. Seventeen percent wished to escape society by being incarcerated, 11.5 percent wished to commit suicide or be killed in the act and 9.6 percent simply wanted to kill.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/01/national/media-national/examining-motives-behind-mass-murder-japan/

2ncourage
2018-09-02 03:32:03 UTC  

NASA has relied on Russia since retirement of the space shuttle in 2011 ended U.S.-controlled access to the space station. Congress and President Donald Trump’s administration have touted the commercial program’s importance to ending that reliance, especially as diplomatic relations between the nations have deteriorated.

A Soyuz flight planned for April 2019 “will complete the fulfillment of our obligations under a contract with NASA related to the delivery of U.S. astronauts to the ISS and their return from the station,” Borisov said at the Energia Rocket and Space Corp., reported by TASS, Russia’s official news agency.

In September 2014, NASA awarded Boeing and Elon Musk’s SpaceX a combined $6.8 billion to revive the U.S.’s ability to fly to the station. SpaceX plans to fly Demo-2, its first test flight with a crew, in April 2019, and Boeing’s Crew Test Flight is now slated for mid-2019, according to a new schedule that NASA released Aug. 2.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/01/world/science-health-world/russia-stop-flying-u-s-astronauts-international-space-station-april-increasing-pressure-nasa/

**Åli̊čeȰn✨Q̣̇✨**
2018-09-02 11:42:19 UTC  

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