A Thursday filing with Notice House, a United Kingdom registry of private companies, announced the “termination” of Weisselberg’s director appointment. An additional cessation filing dated the same day also indicated the “termination” of his position as “a person with significant control,” which is a designation given to a major administrative leader at a company. It was not clear from the documents who had initiated the terminations. The end of his positions at Trump International Golf Club Scotland, which is a holding company that owns Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf resort, comes just one week after Weisselberg and the Trump Organization received a 15-count indictment including charges of grand larceny, tax fraud and conspiracy, ultimately neglecting to pay over $800,000 in owed taxes....

The man, William Simmons of Fort Myers, was bitten on Monday while walking in the Wa-Ke Hatchee Park in Lee County, Florida, with the gator causing serious injuries to his left arm, according to local NBC affiliate WFLA. Following the attack, the man was helped by an unnamed person through the densely wooded area to an access road located nearby, before he was transported to a local hospital by the emergency services....

Chinese media outlets reported 96 cases of brucellosis were confirmed as of December 7, following an outbreak at the Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Gansu province. According to China Daily, the bacteria was identified at a hospital in Lanzhou on December 2, when four students were diagnosed with the illness. The labs affected by the outbreak have since been closed, with the Lanzhou Institute launching an investigation into the incident at the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute in Harbin, China....

“For every time that someone in the church has hurt you because of who you are or who you love, we are deeply sorry; we hurt with you, and we are committed to pursuing God’s love and justice with you,” the letter, posted Thursday to ApologyLetter.info, says. A faction of the North Alabama Conference attempted to get the United Methodist Church (UMC) to officially end its anti-homosexuality stance, endorse same-sex marriage and open up deaconship to LGBT people....

Conducted by Pew Research Center, the survey found 46 percent of Americans saying they lack confidence in Biden’s ability to negotiate with the Asian country. The percentage of Americans who said they have no confidence in Biden to deal with China was the most across several other foreign policy issues. According to the poll, 32 percent said they have no confidence in the president’s ability to improve relations with the nation’s allies, while 39 percent said the same for Biden’s ability to effectively deal with the threat of terrorism....

The announcement was but the latest in a string of recent North Korean moves to improve its standing ahead of critical six-party talks on the peninsula’s ongoing nuclear crisis. Already this year, Pyongyang has opened its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon to an unofficial U.S. delegation, signaling both a nuclear capability and a willingness to deal it away. It also has proposed a nuclear “freeze” and–to applause in Beijing and Seoul–telegraphed a willingness to engage in another round of intensive diplomacy....

It took me a while to grasp this. On the morning of March 18, when I read an advance text of Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race, I told my wife that it was well written but contained no eight- to 15-second sound bites to counteract the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.’s greatest hits. Under the old rules, a 37-minute speech full of complex ideas didn’t stand a chance against the excitement of “good TV....

The contrast is already stark. Obama is 46 and looks 40; McCain is 71 and looks closer to 80, though he’s got more energy than someone half his age. Their matchup would represent the largest age gap between major-party presidential candidates in American history. The campaign would pit change vs. experience, fresh vs. tested, green vs. gray. Once their niceties about one’s heroism and the other’s inspiration are dispensed with, Obama would try to make the Arizona senator look like a hypocritical, clueless and warlike geezer, while McCain would suggest that the Illinois senator is a naive, liberal and dreamy kid....

This article discusses the structure and function of the alveoli. It also describes some of the medical conditions that can affect alveoli. What the Alveoli Do Alveoli are the endpoint of the respiratory system. When you breathe, the air moves through different parts of your respiratory system as follows: You inhale air into your mouth or nose. The air travels down the trachea, also called the windpipe. The air travels through airways called the bronchi and into the lungs....

By most accounts, California Adventure is a $1.4 billion disaster, a victim of the recession that coincided with its February 2001 debut, the downturn in international tourism after the September 11 attacks and, most of all, the fact that everything about it is pretty dreadful. Though its central theme–lauding the great state of California–is perfectly commendable, the park is essentially a glorified state fair. Who wants to pay $45 bucks a pop to see crop-growing and a tortilla-making demonstration?...

Here’s my personal list of particulars: Universal Internet access. Every kid should have access to a computer and the Internet. It’s a no-brainer: anyone without computer skills in this century is at a lights-out disadvantage. Anyone who can’t get on the Net is left out of the critical global conversation of our time. And how can you research anything without Google? While nothing can replace a flesh-and-blood teacher, computers are essential tools for learning, and every kid should be able to use one in his or her quest for knowledge....

Short for certified financial planner, this is the most common appellation used by general planners. CFPs must have three years of experience and take college courses or study at home for a two-day, 10-hour exam. More than 27,000 planners have earned the credential, which is issued by Denver’s CFP Board of Standards. This signals a certified public accountant (CPA) who’s also a personal financial specialist. A PFS must have at least three years of experience and pass a six-hour exam....

Fair enough. We get het at the drop of a hat. The most persistent theme of Bill Clinton’s profoundly inconclusive 100 days in office has been the desperate search for conclusions, the tendency to see triumphs and cataclysms in the most routine ceremonies of governance. The desperation is understandable: Clinton is tough to read, at once accessible-he hugs, he weeps, he feels our pain-and yet mysterious. Is all that gushy, charming, lip-biting a pose?...

For 37 years Jack was the soul of this magazine, and the owner-proprietor of its best-stocked mind. He called himself a “cultural journalist.” He came in 1963 as an art critic, but he could write about videogames, Magic Johnson, Truman Capote or Radio City Music Hall–which his advocacy helped save from demolition. His 1963 story on Jack Ruby’s shooting Lee Harvey Oswald began: “It was as if Damon Runyon had written the last act of a tragedy by Sophocles....

This reconstruction fills the dramatically darkened final gallery of “The Royal Tombs of Sipan,” the first American exhibition ever devoted to the little-known pre-Incan civilization called the Moche. The show, which opened last week in Los An at UCLA’s Fowler Museum of Cultural History,’; stars artifacts from three 1,700-year-old burial chambers that constitute “the richest tombs ever excavated in the “Western Hemisphere,” says cocurator Christopher Donnan. They are also among the richest discovered anywhere since Howard Carter peered into the tomb of King Tutankhamen in 1922....

Now without Maclaren and club legend Thomas Broich, the club have gone for experience with their recruits in a bid to return to the A-League summit. 2016-17 finishing position: 3rd Coach: John Aloisi INS AND OUTS Ins: Massimo Maccarone, Eric Bautheac, Fahid Ben Khalfallah, Corey Gameiro, Mitchell Oxborrow, Peter Skapetis, Emilio Martinez. Outs: Thomas Broich, Jamie Maclaren, Brandon Borrello, Tommy Oar, Nathan Konstandopoulos, Manuel Arana, Kye Rowles, Cameron Crestani, Joey Katebian....

Students from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds were particularly impacted, while those attending private schools were most likely to have grades that remained unchanged. A total of 35.6 percent of marks were adjusted down by one grade, 3.3 percent were brought down by two, and 0.2 percent came down by three. Nearly 160,000 people have now signed a petition demanding the government ensure that there is “no marking down” of grades and that more weight is given to teachers’ assessments, “as they are better placed than an algorithm to judge us as individuals....

An Important Book that you admit you haven’t read: “David Copperfield.” I feel a little guilty about that. I’ve read other Dickens. The book you most cared about sharing with your kids: I should say all these deeper things, but frankly my favorite is “The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little My,” by Tove Jansson. We discovered it when we were in Finland. It’s just an awful lot of fun....