Key West visitors always flock to the town�s favorite tourist spots � Mallory Square, Duval Street, Ernest Hemingway�s home, and the Southernmost Point Buoy � to snap photos and record memories.

But apparently, not students visiting from China. For some reason, they seem to like taking pictures of military facilities in Key West.

The latest � a pair of Chinese nationals attending the University of Michigan � were arrested over the weekend and appeared in federal court in Key West on Monday on a charge of entering a U.S. Naval property for the purpose of photographing defense installations.

At their first appearances in Key West federal court on Monday, the two defendants asked Magistrate Judge Lurana Snow to appoint lawyers to represent them.

But since both said they had about $9,000 each in a U.S. bank account, the judge required them to contribute $7,500 each to the cost of their defense.

In a similar case, another Chinese student, Lyuyou Liao, was arrested the day after Christmas on a charge of entering the Truman Annex at the Naval Air Station for the purpose of photographing defense installations.

At a detention hearing before Judge Snow on Monday, prosecutors described Liao as a 27-year-old college student in St. Louis, Missouri, who had a full scholarship from the Chinese government.

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For many employees, the workday starts by swiping a plastic ID card to enter the office. But employers can�t always be sure who�s holding the card.

That humble ID badge is starting to be replaced by biometric identification systems, microchip implants and tools that monitor workers� gaits or typing habits�technologies that might not only make workplaces more secure and easier to navigate but also generate personalized health and productivity data.

It�s easy to see why some employers are already using technologies like face and iris scans, which are more difficult to spoof than standard plastic ID cards. Cameras scan and record the faces of employees and temporary contractors, allowing the workers to bypass turnstiles. Companies can easily reconfigure existing office cameras with facial-recognition technology. When a person leaves a job, the employer can tag the person�s face so cameras block re-entrance.

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The gun-control group responsible for a 2018 march on Washington, D.C., raised the vast majority of its funds from undisclosed donations over six figures, a recently released tax document shows.

The March For Our Lives Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organization launched in the aftermath of the deadly 2018 shootings at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, is bankrolled almost entirely by large donations in excess of $100,000. The group reported $17,879,150 in contributions and grants over the course of 2018, its first year of operations. Ninety-five percent of those contributions came from 36 donations between $100,000 and $3,504,717�a grand total of $16,922,331.

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*A letter to the young people of Hong Kong*

By Andre Vltchek

Friday, January 03, 2020

给香港青年人的一封信

作者 安德烈·弗尔切克

2020年 一月三日 星期五

安德烈·弗尔切克是前苏联出生的美籍小说家、诗人、政治评论员、记者、摄影家和电影制作人。费尔切克曾是一位战地记者，足迹遍布十多个战火地区，从波斯尼亚到秘鲁到斯里兰卡，从刚果（金）到东帝汶。

Now
that your city has been in flames for more than six months, your
families divided, and no end to the violence is in sight, I have decided
to write this

A 13-year-old girl in Missouri is warning others about a store-bought face mask she recently used that she said made her face feel like it was on fire.

Lauren Moore and her friends often use store-bought facial masks at sleepover parties, and she said she used one that was left over during winter break, including a “Yes To” grapefruit brightening unicorn mask.

“It had caught my eye specifically because of the shiny packaging and how like kiddish it sort of looked, so I thought it might be fun to try on,” Lauren told WDAF-TV.

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OCEAN CITY � The beach equipment rental business remains lucrative, judging by the results of a recent auction of the parcels in the downtown area.

During Monday�s Ocean City Mayor and Council meeting, City Clerk Diana Chavis announced the results of December�s beach equipment rental parcels in the downtown area south of 27th Street. The town�s beach equipment rental franchise parcels, or informally beach stands, are auctioned in a three-year cycle with geographic areas including the north end, the middle and the south end.

In December, most of the south-end parcels from 27th Street south to the Inlet went up for auction. A total of 34 parcels were included in the section and the contracts for six of them were renewed for another three-year term at an annual fee of 10% greater than the initial term. The remaining 28 parcels were auctioned, and with spirited bidding for most, the town�s revenue for the south section will increase by nearly 67%.

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Hunter Biden is the legal father of a 17-month-old, according to an Arkansas judge ruling on Tuesday.

Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer said that DNA testing determined that Biden is the father of Lunden Roberts’ child with ‘near scientific certainty.’

A new birth certificate will be issued naming Biden as the father of NJR and the case will remain open while the rest of the issues are resolved between the two.

Judge Holly Meyer, who took over the case after Judge Don McSpadden recused himself on New Years Eve, asked Biden’s lawyers on Friday to send over papers that redacted the name of the child, whose gender is being kept secret.

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The four leading 2020 Democrats have demanded more refugee resettlement in American communities, but their own home towns have taken little-to-no refugees over the last decade.

Former Vice President Joe Biden of Delaware, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg have each vowed to massively increase the flow of refugees from abroad into the United States if elected.

Their homes in each of their states, where they have residences, have largely passed the burden of refugee resettlement onto neighboring states and communities.

For example, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware � where Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, have a vacation home � has resettled zero refugees between 2009 and 2019. Delaware, in fact, has resettled only 82 refugees since 2009, a figure that makes it one of the least likely states in the nation to resettle refugees.

In Wilmington, Delaware, where Biden�s primary residence sits, less than 50 refugees have been resettled in the last decade.

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Singapore is a choice country to many wildlife, for work and for play or to escape high taxes. Singapore passport is highly in demand and highly desirable. What do these mean in terms of supply and demand? The simple principle of demand and supply is that when demand is high and supply is low, price will go up and up.

But daft Singaporeans cannot understand this. This is why there is an open leg