As a consequence, Oklahoma is grappling with a teacher shortage that has forced school districts to cut curricula and deploy nearly 2,000 emergency-certified instructors as a stop-gap measure.

The certification seeks make sure that tourism is regulated to “generate wealth, productivity and opportunities for all, while environmentally, economically and socially sound,” according to Trade Minister Maria Lorena Gutierrez. 
These are the new destinations:
1. Santa Rosa de Cabal (Risaralda)
2. Jericó (Antioquia)
3. Monguí (Boyacá)
4. Finlandia (Quindío)
5. Pijao (Quindío)
6. Salento (Quindío)

Employees fear Google's involvement will "irreparably damage" its brand.

"We believe that Google should not be in the business of war," says the letter, which is addressed to Google chief executive Sundar Pichai.

"Therefore we ask that Project Maven be cancelled, and that Google draft, publicise and enforce a clear policy stating that neither Google nor its contractors will ever build warfare technology."
Google confirmed that it was allowing the Pentagon to use some of its image recognition technologies as part of a military project, following an investigative report by tech news site Gizmodo in March.
A Google spokesperson told the BBC: "Maven is a well-publicised Department of Defense project and Google is working on one part of it - specifically scoped to be for non-offensive purposes and using open-source object recognition software available to any Google Cloud customer.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al-Khalifa said it was not yet known how much of the oil could be extracted. The scale of the find, however, is about to make it a big player in the global market, significantly boosting its economy and raising its profile in the region, where it plays a smaller fiddle to its giant neighbour, Saudi Arabia.

Bahrain has backed Saudi Arabia in a diplomatic row with their neighbour, Qatar, which holds the world’s third largest gas reserves. The split among Gulf Co-operation Council countries has all but paralysed the workings of Opec, the 14-member association of petroleum exporting countries.

Among airlines, “Airbus told us they need a customer and they need a market - and we can offer them both,” he said. “Of course they need a bigger market and more customers. But someone has to start.”

Norway, a mountainous country of 5 million people with towns beside remote fjords, would be ideal for electric planes which can accelerate faster than conventional planes and so need shorter runways, he said.
“It could be that we are presenting a tender within a year or two to the market to commercialize electric aircraft,” Falk-Pedersen said, adding that such a tender might be for 5 to 15 planes of between 12 and 50 seats.

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Deborah Lowe, 53, allegedly had sex with the boy while he was 15 and 16. She wrote the card and sent him more than 100 messages after her role at the school moved beyond being that of someone who could assist him.

On the first day of her trial yesterday, it was claimed she and the boy twice had sex at her house and had repeated telephone sex. She allegedly pretended to be his aunt so that she could get him a job and drive him to work in her car, giving them the chance to engage in further sexual activity. She also agreed to pay for him to have a tattoo.

Justin Hayhoe, for the prosecution, said Ms Lowe, of Elmsbed Caravan Park, Poynton, Cheshire, carried out the offences while in a position of trust. “It was suggested by the defendant she could collect him, take him back to her home and they could engage in sexual intercourse, and that’s exactly what took place when he was a 15-year-old pupil.”

Minshull Street crown court, Manchester, was told that the alleged of fences occurred between April 2015 and June 2016, continuing after the boy left school.

She sent the card, signed “love, the slut”, in April 2016 when the boy was still a pupil. I tread: “I’m a mess! You have blocked me and I don’t know what I have done. Who else can I be a slut with? I would never ever upset, hurt, harm or make you unhappy so please tell me what I have done. Is it my fat old arse? It’s my birthday and I’m so sad.”

Police were involved when the boy’s mother discovered the card. Mobile phone data was said to have shown that on March 16, 2016, Ms Lowe called him at 8.40pm for 32 minutes and on March 21 she called him at 11.15pm for 33 minutes.

Mr Hayhoe said that she sent the boy 68 texts in March 2016 and 76 in April, and it was this “that caused him to block Deborah Lowe on social media”.

He said that after her arrest Ms Lowe did not answer police questions but gave a prepared statement. She accepted that she had been involved in a sexual relationship with the boy, but said it started when he was 17 so she was no longer in a position of trust as he had left school.

Mr Hayhoe told the jury: “The issues are at what point did this relationship commence? At 15, as the boy would say, or 17, as the defendant would say.”

He said it was the crown’s case that sex began when the boy was 15 and at school and that although he was not “forced or coerced” he was too young to consent by law.

On other occasions, although the boy had reached the age of consent, Lowe had broken the law because she was a teacher and in a position of trust.

“The relationship was not forced but the nature of the relationship — teacher-pupil — made it unlawful,” Mr Hayhoe said.

Ms Lowe, who dressed all in black and arrived at court wearing large sunglasses and pearl earrings, faces one charge of sexual activity with a child and five of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust. She denies all the charges. Neither the school nor her alleged victim can be identified. The trial continues. 

“The Vice President is honored to represent the United States at the 8^th Summit of the Americas at President Trump’s request,” said a spokesperson for Pence in a written statement Tuesday. “He looks forward to promoting policy that will lead to an even stronger U.S. economy and working with our close allies in Latin America to collectively hold undemocratic actors in the region accountable for their actions.”
It is well known that Trump is not a popular figure in Latin America, and a 2017 Gallup poll showed a 16% approval rating in the region. It will be interesting to see how Vice President Pence manages the situation at the summit, and how the other countries react to him.