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Prince Charles takes lead at Remembrance Day service as Queen Elizabeth watches from balcony

WATCH Prince Charles takes center stage at Britain's Remembrance Day

Prince Charles laid his nation's wreath at Remembrance Day services as Queen Elizabeth stood by her husband Prince Philip’s side and observed from a balcony.

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It was announced by Buckingham Palace last month that Queen Elizabeth asked the Prince of Wales, the heir to the throne, to take on the symbolic duty for the country to honor the country’s war dead.

The Prince of Wales lays a wreath on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning. We will remember them. #RemembranceSunday pic.twitter.com/vRz5QVVp72

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Earlier this year Prince Philip, 96, retired from public duties and the monarch, who is 91, expressed her desire to stand by Prince Philip’s side during this important annual event in the royal calendar. While Prince Philip has stepped back from day-to-day royal duties, he has still on occasion joined the monarch for official engagements.

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Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip observed the service from the Foreign and Commonwealth Balcony overlooking the Cenotaph, with Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Sophie Wessex. the wife of Prince Edward, watched from a second balcony. All of the queen's children laid memorial wreaths as did her grandsons, Prince William, who served 7 1/2 years in the Royal Air Force, and Prince Harry, who served 10 years in the military including two tours in Afghanistan. Prince Philip’s equerry laid a wreath on his behalf

Today The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry both laid a wreath in The Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph.#RemembranceDay #WeWillRememberThem pic.twitter.com/rzKlHn6YM8

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Prince William, Prince Harry and Princess Kate also honored the nation's heroes at the somber ceremony. The younger generation of royals have been increasing their public duties in a subtle changing of the guard. The Duchess of Cambridge, who is pregnant with her third child after Prince George, 4, and Princess Charlotte, 2, and Prince William recently moved back to Kensington Palace to pursue royal duties full time.

The Duchess of Cambridge watched the service from a balcony of the nearby Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
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Charles had previously laid a wreath on behalf of the monarch when she was out of the country, but this was the first time he has done so while his mother, Queen Elizabeth, was present.

Later this week on Nov. 20, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary, a milestone not reached by any other monarch in history. The family has decided to mark it privately with a small celebration, according to royal sources, who said, “Any celebration will be a private, family affair. There will be no public event.”

The queen is the United Kingdom’s longest-serving monarch, surpassing Queen Victoria, with Prince Philip having stood steadfastly at her side throughout her historic reign. During her Golden Jubilee in 1997 marking her 50 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth paid tribute to Philip, saying, “He has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years."

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Trump Russia: US 'in peril over president's stance'

Two former US intelligence chiefs say Donald Trump's stance on Russian meddling in last year's presidential election is putting the US at risk.

The US president sparked uproar by suggesting he believed Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin when he said there had been no interference.

The two leaders briefly discussed the allegations at an Asia-Pacific summit.

US intelligence has long concluded Russia tried to sway the vote in Mr Trump's favour.

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"Every time he [Putin] sees me he says I didn't do that, and I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it," Mr Trump told reporters.

"I think he is very insulted by it, which is not a good thing for our country."

Mr Trump also disparaged key figures in the US intelligence community who concluded in January that Russian meddling had taken place, including former national intelligence chief James Clapper, ex-CIA director John Brennan and sacked FBI chief James Comey, whom he called "political hacks".

Mr Trump has since sought to mollify critics of his comments following uproar at his apparent defence of Mr Putin.

Ex-intelligence chiefs go on the attack

Mr Clapper said he was alarmed by the president's comments.

"Putin is committed to undermining our system, our democracy and our whole process," he told CNN.

"To try to paint it in any other way is, I think, astounding and in fact poses a peril to this country."

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Appearing alongside him, Mr Brennan, said he found it "puzzling" why Mr Trump was not more explicit in condemning the Russian president when it represented a "national security problem".

Referring to Mr Trumps criticism of him, Mr Brennan said: "Considering the source of the criticism, I consider that criticism a badge of honour."

Soon after, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin rejected suggestions from both men that Mr Trump was being "played", saying he was focused on tackling difficult issues like North Korea and Syria.

Why the row matters

Questions surrounding Russia's role in last year's US elections and allegations of collusion involving Donald Trump's campaign team have dogged his presidency.

US intelligence agencies believe Russia tried to help Mr Trump win the presidency by hacking and releasing emails damaging to his opponent Hillary Clinton.

While Russian hackers are widely suspected of involvement, there has been no conclusive link to the Kremlin.

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Special counsel Robert Mueller is currently investigating whether there were any links between Russia and the Trump campaign. Both deny there was any collusion.

Last month, former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to having lied to the FBI about the timing of meetings with alleged go-betweens for Russia.

Mr Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and an associate were also placed under house arrest on charges of money laundering as a result of the Mueller inquiry, but the charges do not relate to the election.

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Puerto Rico faces cash shortfall after Hurricane Maria

Puerto Rico's struggling government warned on Tuesday that it will face a cash shortfall by the end of the year and will seek billions of dollars in additional federal funds to help it cope with the expenses caused by Hurricane Maria.

Officials said the devastating storm imposed enormous emergency costs while causing an estimated 50 percent drop in the U.S. territory's collections of taxes and fees, worsening an 11-year recession.

"The severity of the storm dislocated the island's economy," said Gerardo Portela, executive director of Puerto Rico's Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority. "The lack of electric power has further deepened the crisis."

Portela said it was not yet clear how much it will cost to rebuild Puerto Rico, but he said the island suffered an estimated $45 billion to $95 billion in damage. So far, U.S. Congress has approved nearly $5 billion in aid to the island.

Tens of thousands of people have left Puerto Rico, thousands of businesses remain closed and the island's power company is generating only 30 percent of its normal output. In addition, some 20 percent of people remain without water.

Puerto Rico's government said it will see an estimated reduction of $1.7 billion in cash as a result of reduced collections, with an additional estimated $1.18 billion reduction in power and water income, with those two agencies currently running on cash reserves. Portela said Puerto Rico will inevitably face a cash crunch.

The warning was issued at a meeting organized by a federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico's finances. Board executive director Natalie Jaresko said hurricane recovery expenses are substantial and that not all will be paid by the federal government.

"We need to work with every single possible resource," she said.

Jaresko also stressed the need for specific numbers on how many Puerto Ricans have left the island to get a sense of the economic effect. Some experts have said the island of 3.4 million people could lose more than 10 percent of its population by 2019, with nearly half a million already having left as a result of the crisis.

"We need to look at what this post-hurricane Puerto Rico reality is," Jaresko said. "We need to provide services, but only for the population that remains on the island."

Jaresko also said the board will hold three public sessions in upcoming weeks to get a better understanding of the hurricane's effects on the island's economy and other sectors.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Monday that the conditions in Puerto Rico are "alarming" more than a month after the storm hit.

"The hurricane has aggravated the island's existing dire situation caused by debt and austerity measures," the office said in a statement.

That assessment contrasted with comments made by Michael Byrne, Puerto Rico's federal coordination officer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, who said at Tuesday's meeting that his agency was seeing a turnaround in Puerto Rico. He noted that more than 1 million people on the island have registered for assistance.

"This is going to be one if not the largest efforts that we've ever undertaken based on the estimates as the damages continue to reveal themselves."

As reconstruction efforts continue, contracts awarded to companies in Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland are receiving greater scrutiny.

Jaresko said any local government contract worth more than $10 million must be turned over to the board for review, and even lesser contracts also could be reviewed.

Puerto Rico's government said this week it would scrap a $300 million contract awarded to Whitefish, a small power company based in the hometown of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that had only two full-time employees at the time when the storm hit. The contract is being audited at a local and federal level.

The board also has appointed retired Air Force Col. Noel Zamot to oversee power reconstruction efforts.

The void left by Whitefish crews could lead to an increase in the amount paid to other companies helping restore power in Puerto Rico.

On Tuesday, a spokesman for the U.S. Corps of Engineers told The Associated Press that the agency issued a notice of intent to increase a contract awarded to Fluor Corporation from $240 million to $840 million.

"(The agency) is looking at several acquisition strategies to speed up grid restoration efforts," spokesman Jeff Hawk said. "This is one of them."

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Turning 30 means taking everything seriously. No more acting like an overgrown child. For some people turning 30 can be like turning to crisis because they know that they can’t act like carefree birds anymore and that it’s time to take everything seriously. With this urge of responsibility comes the panic of living their life to the fullest. Did they have enough life experiences when they had the chance? Here we have a list of all the things you should do before turning 30.

11. Find a Hobby:

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Playing video games, painting, model making, knitting or just watching TV, find a hobby that would totally serve you the purpose of personal satisfaction and pleasure. When you are tired and just want some personal time, your hobby will give you that peace of mind you might be looking for.

10. Travel Foreign Land:

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Before you start your life or get serious about your career, at least once visit a foreign country. It will give you new life experiences, new lessons and change your perspective of things more than you can think of. Travelling changes a person and it will change you too.

9. Save Money:

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You don’t have much expenditure right now, even if your earning is low, you can still save a small amount of money. Saving now will give you a sense of responsibility and it will be easier to manage money and save up in your 30’s for life experiences when things get tough because you’ll already know how to save up money.

8. Spend Time with Friends and Family:

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You might be busy right now in giving your life a kick start getting new life experiences but in doing so, don’t forget about your family and friends. Once you get distant, it would be hard to fill the gap later in life and trust me, you do need your friends and family with you during your rise because they’ll be the ones to help you rise again after your fall.

7. Get out of your Comfort Zone:

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Do things that you think aren’t meant for you. Things that might make you uncomfortable or even scare you but how can you be sure if you have never tried it before? So take the plunge and go skydive, eat that sushi, go to that concert or go on that road trip across country. Anything you’ll do will just add up into the adventure of your life experiences.

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6. Get into your Family’s Ancestry:

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You still have time to get in touch with your roots, know about your family’s ancestry, you never know what interesting facts and connections you might find. Getting to know your family better would change your perspective and give you new life experiences.

5. Go to that Restraunt you always wanted to try:

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You might be waiting for that special day or to have enough money to easily spend on that high end restaurant you always wanted to visit. Make it your goal and visit that place now. Experience that dining style, the exclusive dishes and that special treatment. Why wait for it?

4. Learn Cooking:

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You cannot spend your entire youth on ramen or take away. Learn cooking as homemade meals are healthy and they can help you connect more with your family and friends if you cook food for them. It will also add up to your life experiences and give you a sense of accomplishment.

3. Travel Alone:

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Travelling alone will wake your survival skills up. You will have more life experiences from the adventures, hardships and struggles of traveling alone than you could ever learn in your entire 20’s.

2. Develop Healthy Habits:

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Earlier you start caring for your health, it would get better for your later life. How you spend your youth will affect your body in the long run so exercise, eat healthy and get fresh air.

1. Read Books by your Favourite Author:

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Reading books expands your horizon and increases your imagination and creativity. Books take you to another world, another adventure while sitting right there on your couch. Spend your free time reading books by your favorite authors, as it will help you grow as a person and give you life experiences you could only think of.

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EU preparing for possible collapse of Brexit talks – Barnier

The EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, says he is planning for the possible collapse of Brexit negotiations with the UK.

Mr Barnier was talking to French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche days after giving the UK a two-week deadline to clarify key issues.

Failing to reach an agreement was not his preferred option, he stressed.

The UK's Brexit Secretary David Davis has said it is time for both sides "to work to find solutions".

On Friday, Mr Davis insisted good progress was being made across the board, and that the negotiations had narrowed to a "few outstanding, albeit important, issues".

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Discussing the likelihood of the talks collapsing, Mr Barnier said: "It's not my option, but it's a possibility. Everyone needs to plan for it, member states and businesses alike. We too are preparing for it technically.

"A failure of the negotiations would have consequences on multiple domains."

Mr Barnier has asked the UK to clarify its stance on its financial obligations to the EU if future trade talks are to go ahead in December.

But Mr Davis has made conflicting remarks, suggesting the UK would not have to give a figure for a financial settlement before it could move on to talks about a future trading relationship.

Speaking to Sky News on Sunday, he said: "In every negotiation, each side tries to control the timetable. The real deadline on this is, of course, December."

Mr Davis was referring to the next EU summit which will take place in Brussels in December.

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He said British taxpayers "would not want me to just come along and just give away billions of pounds".

He added: "We've been very, very careful, and it's taking time and we will take our time to get to the right answer."

His comments followed a sixth round of talks between Mr Davis and Mr Barnier in Brussels.

Speaking after the talks on Friday, Mr Davis said any solution for the Irish border could not be at the expense of the constitutional integrity of the UK.

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Jeff Sessions sued by 12-year-old girl with epilepsy who wants to legalize medical marijuana

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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is being sued by a 12-year-old Colorado girl suffering from epilepsy who aims to legalize medical marijuana nationwide.

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Alexis Bortell, along with her father and other plaintiffs, including former NFL player Marvin Washington, filed suit in the Southern District of New York against the attorney general as well as the Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Many states now allow use of marijuana for at least some medical reasons. The lawsuit filed in July seeks to make medical marijuana legal across the U.S.

"This lawsuit stands to benefit tens of millions of Americans who require, but are unable to safely obtain, Cannabis for the treatment of their illnesses, diseases and medical conditions," the suit states.

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Alexis, whose family moved to Colorado from Texas to take advantage of the state’s legalization of recreational and medical marijuana, had been suffering since she was 7 from a form of epilepsy that cannot be safely controlled with FDA-approved treatments and procedures, the lawsuit says.

As a result, she often had multiple seizures a day. "Nothing she tried worked," the suit states. When her family finally tried a form of marijuana, the girl found "immediate relief from her seizures."

"Since being on whole-plant medical Cannabis, Alexis has gone more than two years seizure-free," the suit says.

The suit contends that Alexis won’t be able to return to her native Texas where she hopes to attend college because she would be subject to arrest if she continued to use marijuana to control her seizures.

ABC News reached out to the Justice Department for comment on the lawsuit but did not get an immediate response.

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Study suggests women less likely to get CPR from bystanders

Women are less likely than men to get CPR from a bystander and more likely to die, a new study suggests, and researchers think reluctance to touch a woman's chest might be one reason.

Only 39 percent of women suffering cardiac arrest in a public place were given CPR versus 45 percent of men, and men were 23 percent more likely to survive, the study found.

It involved nearly 20,000 cases around the country and is the first to examine gender differences in receiving heart help from the public versus professional responders.

"It can be kind of daunting thinking about pushing hard and fast on the center of a woman's chest" and some people may fear they are hurting her, said Audrey Blewer, a University of Pennsylvania researcher who led the study.

Rescuers also may worry about moving a woman's clothing to get better access, or touching breasts to do CPR, but doing it properly "shouldn't entail that," said another study leader, U Penn's Dr. Benjamin Abella. "You put your hands on the sternum, which is the middle of the chest. In theory, you're touching in between the breasts."

The study was discussed Sunday at an American Heart Association conference in Anaheim.

Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart suddenly stops pumping, usually because of a rhythm problem. More than 350,000 Americans each year suffer one in settings other than a hospital. About 90 percent of them die, but CPR can double or triple survival odds.

"This is not a time to be squeamish because it's a life and death situation," Abella said.

Researchers had no information on rescuers or why they may have been less likely to help women. But no gender difference was seen in CPR rates for people who were stricken at home, where a rescuer is more likely to know the person needing help.

The findings suggest that CPR training may need to be improved. Even that may be subtly biased toward males — practice mannequins (they're not called "woman-nequins") are usually male torsos, Blewer said.

"All of us are going to have to take a closer look at this" gender issue, said the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Roger White, who co-directs the paramedic program for the city of Rochester, Minnesota. He said he has long worried that large breasts may impede proper placement of defibrillator pads if women need a shock to restore normal heart rhythm.

The Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health funded the study.

Men did not have a gender advantage in a second study discussed on Sunday. It found the odds of suffering cardiac arrest during or soon after sex are very low, but higher for men than women.

Previous studies have looked at sex and heart attacks, but those are caused by a clot suddenly restricting blood flow, and people usually have time to get to a hospital and be treated, said Dr. Sumeet Chugh, a cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles. He and other researchers wanted to know how sex affected the odds of cardiac arrest, a different problem that's more often fatal.

They studied records on more than 4,500 cardiac arrests over 13 years in the Portland area. Only 34 were during or within an hour of having sex, and 32 of those were in men. Most already were on medicines for heart conditions, so their risk was elevated to start with.

"It's a very awkward situation, and a very horrifying situation to be one of the two people who survives," but more would survive if CPR rates were higher, Chugh said.

Results were published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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Rural areas at risk as water levels drop in massive aquifer

The draining of a massive aquifer that underlies portions of eight states in the central U.S. is drying up streams, causing fish to disappear and threatening the livelihood of farmers who rely on it for their crops.

Water levels in the Ogallala aquifer have been dropping for decades as irrigators pump water faster than rainfall can recharge it.

An analysis of federal data found the Ogallala aquifer shrank twice as fast over the past six years compared with the previous 60, The Denver Post reports.

The drawdown has become so severe that streams are drying at a rate of 6 miles per year and some highly resilient fish are disappearing. In rural areas, farmers and ranchers worry they will no longer have enough water for their livestock and crops as the aquifer is depleted.

The aquifer lost 10.7 million acre-feet of storage between 2013 and 2015, the U.S. Geological Survey said in a June report.

"Now I never know, from one minute to the next, when I turn on a faucet or hydrant, whether there will be water or not," said Lois Scott, 75, who lives west of Cope, Colorado, north of the frequently bone-dry bed of the Arikaree River.

A 40-foot well her grandfather dug by hand in 1914 gave water until recently, she said, lamenting the loss of lawns where children once frolicked and green pastures for cows. Scott's now considering a move to Brush, Colorado, and leaving her family's historic homestead farm.

"This will truly become the Great American Desert," she said.

Also known as the High Plains Aquifer, the Ogallala underlies 175,000 square miles (453,000 square kilometers), including parts of Colorado, Wyoming Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas. That's one of the primary agricultural regions of the U.S., producing $35 billion in crops annually.

Farmers and ranchers have been tapping into the aquifer since the 1930s to boost production and help them get by in times of drought.

However, overpumping has dried up 358 miles of surface rivers and streams across a 200-square-mile area covering eastern Colorado, western Kansas and Nebraska, according to researchers from Colorado State University and Kansas State University.

If farmers keep pumping water at the current pace, another 177 miles of rivers and streams will be lost before 2060, the researchers determined.

"We have almost completely changed the species of fish that can survive in those streams, compared with what was there historically. This is really a catastrophic change," said Kansas State University conservation biologist Keith Gido, one of the authors of a report on the aquifer published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

If all pumping stopped immediately, it would still take hundreds of years for rain-fed streams and rivers to recharge the aquifer, Gido said.

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The 3 C’s of Life: Choices, Chances, Changes. You should settle on a decision to take a risk or your life will never show signs of change. Millionaires who follow the three C’s in life believe that the best and most industrious blockages to your growth in life normally originate from a solitary source—yourself. Here are some basic, down to earth approaches to give yourself an ideal way of carrying on with a decent life. To take a risk in a guided direction, first, we need to settle on a firm decision of how are we going to carry on and act during issues and battles. Second, we have to get a handle on that each decision has two great sides and no awful ones.

First is a true decision that will prompt success and good uprightness, second is the mixed up decision that will lead us to wear an identification of “prime decision creator.” Mistakes let us develop in a way that bona fide decisions never will.

How would we know whether stealing is awful in case we’ve never been caught? How might you clarify love if you’ve never been in love? How might you disclose how it feels to be drunk if the person never drank? A few things should be fouled up to get a handle on the life lesson out of them. That is the manner by which flawlessness is accomplished and that is the means by which importance of life turns out to be a consistent risk. Here are three C’s in life that is tried and tested by millionaires and you should follow too if you want to succeed.

1. THE FIRST C: CHOICE

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We should go past the cutoff points. Presently I can stand up, go to my roof and murder myself. That is the most exceedingly terrible decision I could make. But, the fact of the matter is that is likewise a choice, though an exceptionally harmful one. The second choice I can make is to picture and think how I will make another plan of occasions and dispatch my new item to my kindred clients. That would be exceptionally gainful one.

“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response” – MILDRED BARTHEL

Joy and choice of the three C’s resemble magnets. On the off chance that I go past the breaking points (as said in the main passage) it implies that my past decisions were all poisonous that prompt that dangerous thought. I would never discover joy in the event that I always settle on terrible choices. I would likewise never discover consistent satisfaction in case I move from poisonous choices to genuine ones. The fact is, we as a whole have choices to make, and those choices lead specifically to the individual we will become.

Extra advice is to settle on the choice YOU and your cognizant believe is correct. Not Tommy’s cognizant, not Rita’s cognizant, but rather yours.

2. THE SECOND C: CHANCES

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“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take”

Taking risks is a fundamental part of a remarkable identity. It’s simple when we say: “go do that” rather than doing it without anyone else’s help. At the point when the time comes to take your chance, we switch the questioning portion of the brain and deliver a result that brings about “scratching our heads” about it. For me actually, the “screw it” motivational factor has dependably worked. Before we take our chances of the three C’s we can feel an undetectable fringe of “won’t do” and “will do.” We will discover real community, our ideal love, our ideal jobs and our ideal friends that suit our character, just in the event that we take shots and risk time (in a decent way.) The main exercise in futility is the time when we don’t do anything profitable.

Thomas Edison took 10.000 chances and created the light bulb. Nothing will come in our lap in case we sit staring us in the face. Take your chances!

3. THE FINAL C: CHANGES

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Since the world revealed gigantic advancement in the previous 100 years, we live in a domain where a change of the three C’s gives us chance to rise or fall. Changes are additionally a risk we can’t keep away from. Particularly in an innovative circle, the world is advancing each stimulating second. Also, I truly don’t have the foggiest idea about any firm or office that doesn’t depend on change. But, that is by all account, not the only change we need to concentrate on. We additionally need to concentrate on the mental change.

Mental change takes a great deal of time committed in a guided direction. We can’t expect a change in one day, especially not mental. Changes depend on habits. If we need to change and be flexible, we need to relinquish the negative behavior patterns that back off our framework. It might seem like a “3 stages simple rule” yet it’s way off the mark to simple. We always depend on inebriated conscious and settle on wrong decisions. To change our life, we have to utilize the three C’s above and make a life we’ve generally envisioned.

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Putin manipulating Trump with flattery, ex-director suggests

A day after being criticized by President Donald Trump, a former CIA director questioned whether Russian President Vladimir Putin was manipulating Trump with flattery during the president's lengthy trip to Asia.

Trump's trip was meant to be centered on trade and North Korea, and on Monday, he will talk with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has overseen a bloody drug war that has featured extrajudicial killings. But Trump remains dogged by things he has said, and not said, about Russia.

He tried to have it both ways Sunday on the issue of Russian interference in last year's presidential race, saying he believes both the U.S. intelligence agencies when they say Russia meddled and Putin's sincerity in claiming that his country did not.

"I believe that he feels that he and Russia did not meddle in the election," Trump said in Hanoi, Vietnam.

"As to whether I believe it, I'm with our agencies," Trump said. "As currently led by fine people, I believe very much in our intelligence agencies."

But just a day earlier, he had lashed out at the former heads of the U.S. intelligence agencies, dismissing them as "political hacks" and claiming there were plenty of reasons to be suspicious of their findings that Russia meddled to help Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Former CIA director John Brennan, appearing Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" with former national intelligence director James Clapper, said Trump was deriding them in an attempt to "delegitimize" the intelligence community's assessment.

"I think Mr. Putin is very clever in terms of playing to Mr. Trump's interest in being flattered. And also I think Mr. Trump is, for whatever reason, either intimidated by Mr. Putin, afraid of what he could do or what might come out as a result of these investigations," Brennan said.

Clapper called the threat from Russia "manifest and obvious."

"To try to paint it in any other way is, I think, astounding and, in fact, poses a peril to this country," he said on CNN.

Brennan said Trump's ambiguity on Russia's involvement was "very, very worrisome from a national security standpoint."

"I think he's giving Putin a pass and I think it demonstrates to Putin that Donald Trump can be played by foreign leaders who are going to appeal to his ego and play upon his securities," Brennan said.

Questions about whether Trump believes the assessment about Russian election-meddling have trailed him since January, when he said for the first time, shortly before taking office, that he accepted that Russia was behind the election-year hacking of Democrats that roiled the White House race.

A special counsel's examination of potential collusion between Moscow and Trump campaign aides so far has led to indictments against Trump's former campaign chairman and another top aide for crimes unrelated to the campaign, and a guilty plea from a Trump foreign policy adviser for lying to the FBI.

Multiple congressional committees are also investigating.

Trump told reporters traveling with him to Hanoi on Saturday that Putin had again vehemently denied the allegations. The two spoke during an economic conference in Danang, Vietnam. Trump danced around questions about whether he believed Putin but stressed Putin's denials.

"Every time he sees me, he says: 'I didn't do that.' And I believe — I really believe — that when he tells me that, he means it," Trump said, arguing that it makes no sense for him to belabor the issue when Russia could help the U.S. on North Korea, Syria and other issues.

In Hanoi on Sunday, Trump also pointed to sanctions the U.S. has imposed on Russia as punishment for election meddling. "They were sanctioned at a very high level, and that took place very recently," he said. "It's now time to get back to healing a world that is shattered and broken."

Trump was originally slated to depart Manila for Washington on Monday. He added a day to the schedule amid criticism that he would have missed the final summit.

In addition to meeting with Duterte, Trump is expected to attend the Association for Southeast Asian Nations conference on Monday to urge allies to pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program. And he is expected, in meetings with other leaders, to push his agenda for bilateral, rather than multinational, trade agreements.

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Associated Press writers Darlene Superville and Ken Thomas in Washington contributed to this report.

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