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008dd57a-485a-b869-148b-50c12134b3ff | ['3f758df3-7a91-4534-a6c8-a701e23540e9'] | Many companies have adopted PDF in a big way, as it makes it hard for casual users to modify documents. There are lots of ways on every platform to work with PDF documents, and Amazon has included a very good one with the Kindle Fire HDX.
Image: <PERSON>/ZDNet
Tablets are tailor-made for working with PDFs, especially w... | 75979f71-25d0-37d6-c902-bc8cd10747ff | ['3f758df3-7a91-4534-a6c8-a701e23540e9'] | REDMOND, WA; April 1, 2006- Apple Computer CEO <PERSON> celebrated the boutique computer maker’s 30th birthday with a surprise press conference held in the Redmond Holiday Inn this morning. Having the press conference in Microsoft’s back yard was no doubt intended to fire a shot across the bow of the Redmond software g... |
79fa3236-cdea-2eef-164d-ffb84fcaac60 | ['3fdee414-7863-add8-cf2c-8bc4f0ef132c'] | Entrepreneurs are bombarded with how-to advice on crafting a great mission statement for their companies. But if I wanted to relieve the pain and suffering that so many entrepreneurs experience while building great companies, I’d make them focus on the creation of a great personal mission statement instead.
And I don’t... | 561191d7-3c5a-fc78-2b74-531544c27280 | ['3fdee414-7863-add8-cf2c-8bc4f0ef132c'] | The gut-wrenching decisions and night sweats every founder can appreciate are well presented in <PERSON> book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things. He tells his dramatic personal story of leading startups Loudcloud and Opsware through tough times. He shows us the skills and expectations we have for company founders as lea... |
278986ba-deab-be8d-81a5-357e2bda8e3a | ['3ff524e3-a2d1-108b-e990-c87368168e4e'] | Warner Bros. is riding the wave of immigration anxiety with its latest remake.
And the cycle continues. The story that can be interpreted a million different ways seems to be on the road to getting just as many remakes. Yes, that’s right, Warner Bros. has announced yet another version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers,... | 0c303de4-0eba-3f1e-d018-c005434e9702 | ['3ff524e3-a2d1-108b-e990-c87368168e4e'] | All hail the king of high concept comedy.
No, <PERSON> and <PERSON>’s next project is not a Guys and Dolls remake. It’s something even more ambitious. Comrade Detective spoofs the police procedural. The comedy series is presented as a remastered edition of a Cold War-era Romanian buddy cop show with <PERSON>, <PERSON>,... |
88c2d277-3f52-b314-1265-a0a207c4fac8 | ['40088b44-e98f-0e9e-87c5-8c0fc87404dd'] | “I mean, ‘Algerian special forces’ is something of a contradiction in terms,” <PERSON> said. “I think when these things happen somewhere on the other side of the world, you hope that the highly trained elite forces will come to the rescue. And that belongs to a very select group of nations. I mean, if you remember that... | 14b36872-4b62-6397-c630-0db5e44f6d93 | ['40088b44-e98f-0e9e-87c5-8c0fc87404dd'] | “Because <PERSON> [has] this ideological vision of America as a superpower too big for its britches,” <PERSON> replied. “He wants to cut it down to size.”
<PERSON> rejected the idea that advanced military technology can entirely make up for <PERSON>’s proposed defense cuts.
“That’s the kind of argument you always hear,... |
ee1fa984-2e27-3d12-b639-0d4d0108e742 | ['4012486d-f886-6fc7-dccd-b05657cd4e1e'] | Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered what they believe is a temple, estimated to be up to 5,000 years old, at the site of El Paraíso, north of Lima.
Inside the ruins of the ancient room, which measures about 23 feet by 26 feet (7 meters by 8 meters), there's evidence of a ceremonial hearth, where offerings may have be... | 46303a64-7fd2-e212-d739-18fe8aba75ac | ['4012486d-f886-6fc7-dccd-b05657cd4e1e'] | Spouses don't become more alike in their personalities as their marriage progresses, contrary to perceptions.
Rather, spouses often seem similar in character because they start out that way, a new study suggests. People tend to pick their partners based on shared personality traits, researchers say.
The findings are pu... |
6d0c7367-fe58-e73a-c17e-3fd64a063c00 | ['404049c5-3e37-6bec-d60a-7ef993df3299'] | A person’s identity is contingent upon a motley of circumstance; the way we perceive each moment in time’s passing accumulates, molding a sense of self so that we can claim a space in the intersection of a tangible and philosophical universe.
Consciously or not, it’s an arduous task that each one of us undertakes in or... | e1443bfd-d487-b188-7fc4-e321ec9510ea | ['404049c5-3e37-6bec-d60a-7ef993df3299'] | “I can’t accept this; I don’t deserve to have this. I just can’t do it.”
A year ago to the day, I realized I could no longer go outside safely. People whispered and stared like I was a freak show, mothers gulped shock and breathed sickened glares at my family, students at the university reviled me. I vividly remember o... |
4eb3566f-ed7d-e899-ed8d-c7f855dd7d53 | ['40432237-b1ff-d282-fa38-ab1615a2f80e'] | Nintendo continues to push its Switch hybrid console and its party-pleaser game, Arms. And you’re seeing this all over your TV.
GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from 10 million smart TV screens, to bring you a monthly report on how ga... | 82e9f855-0140-2614-339e-d87427e1a5d5 | ['40432237-b1ff-d282-fa38-ab1615a2f80e'] | Y’all really like watching commercials for PlayStation games, as Sony has again has more TV ad impressions than any other video game publisher in the U.S.
GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than seven million smart TVs, to bri... |
bf6e142c-b3fa-0e33-3f55-5e3be10bd1ac | ['40463881-6025-43c2-008e-771fa2f7fc41'] | Vin Diesel has embraced his baldness. And it's doubtful Michael Stipe spends much time browsing for toupees. But not all of the 40 million American men with follicularly challenged scalps are going quietly into that bald night. They're raging — with Rogaine, among other things.
Men who want to hang on to their hair hav... | 675f4c4e-0b74-73c5-e4e4-b9ae15a3b51d | ['40463881-6025-43c2-008e-771fa2f7fc41'] | The product: The human spine is an amazing piece of equipment: On request, it can sway gracefully or withstand thousands of pounds of force. But that versatility comes with a price. At some point, just about everyone suffers significant back pain, and ends up searching for relief.
Back pain usually fades with time, but... |
fca87918-54b9-a48f-e8b6-a1efbdbf1c31 | ['4134093a-0c31-acd7-1d8e-873780c0ea08'] | At dawn on the last day of the NFL draft, the Virginia Destroyers held a draft of their own.
Potential picks didn't need tickets nor did they need to go out and buy an expensive suit. And the venue didn't quite meet the spectacle known as Music City Hall.
Still, hundreds of players from across the country formed a line... | 314011d3-8157-2c97-e897-1decddaac2ea | ['4134093a-0c31-acd7-1d8e-873780c0ea08'] | WILLIAMSBURG -- William and Mary found answers for <PERSON> on offense and the boards, but the question of how to slow down the Patriots' offensive attack still lingered in Tribe coach <PERSON>'s mind after Saturday's 85-67 loss before 3,074 at Kaplan Arena.
"They've got so many weapons offensively that they are so har... |
3824d76b-ca88-123d-7dd6-cda27fce9416 | ['41393ece-4ca7-22e0-4c87-2b06144bd79f'] | It didn’t seem a union made in Heaven. “There were periods of black despair,” says <PERSON>, the head of Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company, discussing his dozen years with actress <PERSON>. Especially when they worked together the marriage was a kind of battleground. <PERSON> explains: “Domesticity and professionalis... | 0e45b83d-4acf-6fe4-ca3a-5931be5e1cd8 | ['41393ece-4ca7-22e0-4c87-2b06144bd79f'] | They call her the “Iron Maiden” (for the 17th-century torture device), and few observers of <PERSON> relentless drive for power in Britain wonder why. Four years ago she stage-managed the ouster of her own Tory party leader, Prime Minister <PERSON>. Last month she challenged the Labor government of PM <PERSON>—and brou... |
3c2be2c5-3b63-8d07-a59f-b0b7107c20ef | ['414a3143-1333-dfd3-183b-d3f03244b50b'] | Anyone who has been sick can appreciate the joy of a good night's sleep, but in a large institution like a hospital, there are necessities of running the establishment that can disturb a patient's peace. All the more so with all manner of electronic equipment, cell phones, alarms, intercoms and such like, that produce ... | 6fb66d05-b36d-51a1-ff53-a73c21d66514 | ['414a3143-1333-dfd3-183b-d3f03244b50b'] | Good news for wine drinkers the world over. New research is showing the properties of a chemical present in red wine, known as resveratrol, does indeed have anti-aging properties.
It was always postulated that resveratrol had benefits, but the question was proving the mechanisms involved and moving beyond the realm of ... |
5cad19a7-cacd-d2dc-d8f3-aca4bb07d9bc | ['418d8bef-b7d5-6a64-b347-42c4817bd301'] | With the passion of a preacher, <PERSON> is on a mission to save the soul of a sport by spreading the gospel of baseball in a place it once flourished — America's inner cities.
"When you look at the College World Series, you may see one African-American kid," says <PERSON>, who works with the Batter Up Foundation. "So ... | 275aacee-7261-0154-716c-eaaa92416614 | ['418d8bef-b7d5-6a64-b347-42c4817bd301'] | As Americans live longer, it seems we are also living better, meaning, we are healthier and more likely to stay active. But it turns out there is a hidden danger in that. There is information in a new government report that could save your life.
<PERSON>, 83, and her husband <PERSON> have lived for 57 years in their ho... |
7c7420ab-38e9-dd24-1332-9e54759e244b | ['41c1d9a4-fe9c-0df6-330a-db0750bb881d'] | LESS than a third of people from non-English speaking countries who migrate to Australia on skilled workers' visas are gaining work in their fields and many of them are adding to the skills crisis they were brought in to solve, a study has found.
Those who graduated from Australian universities and were assessed as com... | e90ac191-7715-e592-0616-ace7bb90dfe7 | ['41c1d9a4-fe9c-0df6-330a-db0750bb881d'] | A SENIOR academic has written an open letter to the University of Sydney's most senior staff, calling on them to act on allegations of plagiarism by one of its deans, which sat as an "untreated stain on the conservatorium's character and reputation".
Associate Professor <PERSON>, who is deputy chairman of the universit... |
4bbcadda-1730-d955-283e-50d91f40952e | ['41d47e47-f17f-64a4-af98-984acd4d66f1'] | Hurricane season officially starts on June 1, and the Carolinas are no strangers to rain, wind, and waves hammering the coast.
Although those areas are most at risk, predicting how these storms will affect inland areas is very important. Winds and heavy rain can still lead to damage…or death.
The Peeks Creek mudslide i... | 0ea24864-0889-ae4b-e226-f3892cc21a0c | ['41d47e47-f17f-64a4-af98-984acd4d66f1'] | Greenwood resident <PERSON> has a family that knows what to do to stay safe when tornado sirens sound.
“The siren actually is fairly close to our house. They know to automatically go downstairs, get in the middle of our hallway, and grab a blanket on the way past.”
It turns out that there others who have a different at... |
be84feb9-b1f9-84c2-36b5-ccfbc98807a0 | ['42244fa9-e6c1-55f2-09bf-495aa1870fbd'] | “Before, there were many fish,” says fisherman <PERSON> as he pulls a dried up crab from his net. A few years ago he could just walk out into the surf and pick up crustaceans with his bare hands, he tells me. “Now, nothing.”
He blames the palisade of new luxury condominiums that rise on the coastline behind him. Built ... | 1fdb8346-edc6-a695-b354-ae8a14f88e80 | ['42244fa9-e6c1-55f2-09bf-495aa1870fbd'] | Thanks to more than a trillion dollars of prospective investment-led by China's $800 billion Belt and Road Initiative linking countries stretching between East Asia and Europe-the Silk Road is rising again. The series of once-legendary pathways connecting cities, from Kashgar to Paro to Constantinople, which originated... |
1bbf22ea-1059-f998-cffd-0d93cd52e009 | ['42355d5a-7ed1-39a6-70bd-3183458718ee'] | “Picnic Garden, my neighbourhood in Tiljala, is off Ballygunge Place,” is my first line. “From the overbridge across Bondel rail gate, drive straight till you find a temple in the middle of the road. Take the left arm. Drive past theshop and from the next crossing, take left—there’s a Trinamool Congress party office on... | dfe178ff-81f8-547a-ae70-d6bc43f078f1 | ['42355d5a-7ed1-39a6-70bd-3183458718ee'] | He promises to give me “something extra” as we begin the interview in the lobby of a hotel on Kolkata’s Park Street. In the city for the Kolkata Literary Festival (8-13 January), he’s been giving several interviews.
Two stacks of his just-released novel, Land Where I Flee, and the 2012 collection of short stories, The ... |
6dbe2081-8efe-c7b2-755e-2105de3f244d | ['425999d3-9c11-ae67-6638-84ce79f478df'] | Windhoek — Moody's Rating Agency has downgraded Namibia's credit rating, saying the country's financial standing suggests it would be unable to raise enough funds to pay its debts in coming years.
The United States of America-based rating agency downgraded Namibia's long term senior unsecured bond and issuer rating to ... | 9b464e81-679b-3c52-4435-2f581e72fd42 | ['425999d3-9c11-ae67-6638-84ce79f478df'] | Windhoek — The Namibian communication regulator has thrown open the competition doors, effectively granting permission to new entrants to set up shop and compete with MTC and TN Mobile, while sharpening its regulatory teeth.
Competition in the mobile market could come from South Africa's much-touted MTN that together w... |
e790e3e1-575e-2655-0f3e-72a0b6458ef5 | ['427e3725-b56d-da3c-474c-1e2d7bfce07c'] | The April 1 auction of more than 5,000 Titanic artifacts a century after the luxury liner's sinking has stirred hundreds of interested calls, with some offering to add to the dazzling trove already plucked from the ocean floor.
Auctioneer <PERSON> said his New York auction house, Guernsey's Auctioneers & Brokers, has h... | 44f5e7d5-d065-8946-a2e0-f561347687fb | ['427e3725-b56d-da3c-474c-1e2d7bfce07c'] | When the turret of the USS Monitor was raised from the ocean bottom, two skeletons and the tattered remnants of their uniforms were discovered in the rusted hulk of the Union Civil War ironclad, mute and nameless witnesses to the cost of war. A rubber comb was found by one of the remains, a ring was on a finger of the ... |
4dff77a7-f134-1697-ca73-6ce97d339a49 | ['42c1231b-1759-5cfa-e58e-f52cbd9e08f8'] | Cybersecurity offences are Australia's leading economic crime, with an average cost to affected businesses of $276,000. Payments fraud is one of the fastest cybercrime growth categories and was estimated in a KPMG study to be measured at a $442 million impact across a six-month period in Australia. Despite the scale an... | e8f7c498-abb0-661d-22ac-4a18277c2bea | ['42c1231b-1759-5cfa-e58e-f52cbd9e08f8'] | Here are six areas for businesses large or small to consider when preparing their cybersecurity plans. 1. No business is immune In today's digitised world, any business is susceptible to cyber attack and open to risk of payments errors or fraud. A common misconception is that most cases of fraud sit outside the busines... |
029dca69-6912-8931-fb9f-cab990ca22eb | ['42c4b12e-5122-c805-f4eb-293b924e39fb'] | Maybe if we're short at left-back I could play <PERSON> there?
The quality of television football coverage is regularly slated by fans, and rightly so. Commentators drone on uninterrupted save for the occasional clunky switch to their carefully scripted spontaneous remarks. Pundits jettison their years of experience an... | 0ac2530b-ad76-cd20-9695-9618110d7e37 | ['42c4b12e-5122-c805-f4eb-293b924e39fb'] | The warm welcome for last summer's <PERSON> review was tempered by a degree of cynicism from practitioners towards how the laudable core theme, to "reform the child protection system from being over-bureaucratised and concerned with compliance to one that keeps a focus on children", would be put into practice at a time... |
87af2d2a-c50e-430e-7d43-511d103e1b9f | ['42c966bb-3ce8-e583-1365-4b288745e1b1'] | European Union leaders gather in Brussels Thursday in a last-gasp effort to save the euro currency. But it will be the EU itself, as a political union that can take collective decisions, on the operating table.
The summit promises to be tense and one of the most potentially divisive ones in recent memory, in large part... | 7a6b70cd-a12f-0386-9e51-0018e96d4c36 | ['42c966bb-3ce8-e583-1365-4b288745e1b1'] | The capture of <PERSON> represents a test for Libya’s new leaders as they face pressure to surrender him to a war-crimes court in the Netherlands.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, acting on a request by the United Nations Security Council, issued an arrest warrant in May for Mr. <PERSON>, the eldest son o... |
e751aea4-06f2-5d13-f5f7-3df8a9d52b4c | ['42cd46b8-f9e4-73fb-8e1b-8fc9f5532062'] | SAN JOSÉ — The Netherlands is today the world’s second-largest destination for Costa Rican exports and one of the top foreign investors in Costa Rica. As such, the Royal Netherlands Embassy in San José now oversees all Dutch diplomatic activity in Central America (with the exception of Belize and Panama).
<PERSON>, Hol... | f54dae7d-1696-4f4f-28fe-40b36783828f | ['42cd46b8-f9e4-73fb-8e1b-8fc9f5532062'] | WASHINGTON, D.C. – Hondurans don’t have it easy lately. For years, their Tennessee-sized country of eight million has suffered the world’s highest homicide rate: 90.4 killings per 100,000 inhabitants in 2012, according to the United Nations, and a frightening 169 per 100,000 in San Pedro Sula, its second-largest city.
... |
da74a148-dee6-87b1-8fa8-c022b0710234 | ['42eea8e8-2933-66f9-ce7c-ce9657af43c5'] | Who do you call?
Intellectual property lawyers.
What they say
<PERSON>:
Let’s assume <PERSON> uses the services of a patent agent. The agent would confirm the invention is both new and inventive by performing a prior art search. He may review published patent applications, issued patents, scientific journal articles, a... | d5b5a5d2-490b-6f65-fed9-852e6f16f2a0 | ['42eea8e8-2933-66f9-ce7c-ce9657af43c5'] | What they say
<PERSON>
If the parties marry and title registration of the property shows that both <PERSON> and her dad are joint and equal owners, only 50% of <PERSON>’s house will become family property. The other 50% is still owned by her father, so it wouldn’t be included in the calculation.
But, notwithstanding th... |
c9fac2a5-0ef0-2d6b-1398-bee2e5e6a1a1 | ['4314e443-3cb2-cd7c-5f80-30985eeb11b2'] | Former Wildwood Mayor Gary DeMarzo was not surprised at the actions of town police officers who hit a woman during an arrest on the beach Memorial Day weekend.
He says the police department has a history of violence.
DeMarzo, a former Wildwood police officer himself, reached out to NJ Advance Media with claims that the... | f5dc4abb-2cd9-a768-4b1c-b918599c7882 | ['4314e443-3cb2-cd7c-5f80-30985eeb11b2'] | The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has lifted swimming advisories at several New Jersey beaches after they tested for high levels of fecal bacteria in the water earlier this week.
On Monday weekly beach water tests found that 10 beaches showed high levels of bacteria usually found in animal or human ... |
b9b6f436-56c7-69c5-0306-1da3b6968111 | ['4334f74f-182a-e715-b8fb-546bf336e80c'] | By <PERSON>
A funeral service for <PERSON>, the chairman of construction giant - Roko Construction Ltd, will be held today at All Saints Cathedral, Nakasero, starting at 1pm.
<PERSON>, 82, died on Thursday last week at The Surgery, a clinic in Kololo, a Kampala suburb. He had been admitted there after complaining of an... | 317876cd-6736-f317-ce1f-d796f0c014a2 | ['4334f74f-182a-e715-b8fb-546bf336e80c'] | By <PERSON>
When one mentions Kikoni, the first thing that comes to one’s mind is the students of Makerere University. Many reside there. However, 40 years ago when one said they stayed in the suburb, they were perceived as very low income earners or a loiterer. Since most of the houses were built with mud and wattle, ... |
8272c7dd-fda0-c47c-f1c0-e6e1c1b1f8f3 | ['433d6061-3b3b-1eb8-c6e9-23fc18e121c8'] | LONDON (Reuters) - The developer of the tallest skyscraper in London’s financial district faces a legal challenge that could force it out of business after a dispute with the tower’s builder, a source close to the process told Reuters.
Contractor Brookfield Multiplex launched a legal claim for about 16 million pounds (... | 047792ea-bac1-d636-f40f-0f9cd07b50d4 | ['433d6061-3b3b-1eb8-c6e9-23fc18e121c8'] | LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - A stake in one of Britain’s best-known shopping centres may be sold for about 430 million pounds ($687 million), as the owner taps demand from overseas buyers for the country’s best real estate, sources said.
Capital Shopping Centres is exploring the sale of a quarter stake in the Trafford Sho... |
f4e3d446-65d1-482d-091e-7e4866ee64d7 | ['434165a2-c64c-fe9b-efae-44e6f1365033'] | We invaded to get <PERSON>, ousting the Taliban was an afterthought.
"We went to Afghanistan to make sure it would never again be a safe haven for al-Qaeda."
Prime Minister <PERSON>, statement to Parliament, October 19, 2010
No we didn't. In early October 2001, shortly after the terrorist assaults which became known as... | 58e7cbaf-a769-d0ed-dfca-29e21a76197f | ['434165a2-c64c-fe9b-efae-44e6f1365033'] | The Arab world is consumed by hatred, religious extremism, an ignorance of the outside world and self-righteous victimhood. Its failure to undergo a reformation, its insularity and xenophobia, and its stunted economic development has produced a deformed political culture that oscillates between radical nationalism and ... |
3e0bbac0-db3d-b3c6-a8dc-e0c8b8d76871 | ['4346bf1c-9e9c-9a27-6745-87c51eb43de4'] | Since its inception in 1998, the eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY)-owned service PayPal has dominated the world of online payments. But just like every other business idea on the web, this market is not safe from e-commerce giant Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN).
Amazon has recently begun working on its own payment service with the idea that... | 4e13ed16-e03a-7a06-bf40-d9bf1b83c2bb | ['4346bf1c-9e9c-9a27-6745-87c51eb43de4'] | Every four years, the World Cup generates enormous attention around the world. In recent years, it has even captured the elusive American market with a blitz by the U.S. Soccer Federation and others to popularize the sport. In the United States alone, it was reported that 25 million viewers tuned in to watch the Americ... |
c4cdf9c6-6f50-1ed9-bb5a-8dc4a945488a | ['4368a608-ca47-4e0a-689e-09b68991f84b'] | MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Albemarle Corp, the world’s top lithium producer, has agreed to pay $1.15 billion to form a lithium joint venture with Australia’s Mineral Resources, a week after regulators rejected plans to expand its operations in Chile.
Albemarle will take a 50 percent stake in the venture that will own and op... | 731a0cd4-9baa-2dbd-c009-8e8bd326fa53 | ['4368a608-ca47-4e0a-689e-09b68991f84b'] | LONDON (Reuters) - Copper was up half a percent on Friday, boosted by a euro rebound against the dollar and bargain-hunting after it hit 4-1/2-month lows this week, but analysts said that a seasonal slowdown may mean prices could fall again before summer.
A worker checks a shipment of copper inside the plant at the cop... |
31b24322-a99c-c034-6e49-0eca6a47b3f8 | ['437cbbe9-26a0-b269-5a37-3ae8fe9e8acc'] | Assam police say separatist militants behind machine gun attacks on two villages in Kokrajhar and Baksa district
Separatist militants opened fire with automatic weapons on Muslim villagers in remote north-east India, killing at least 10 people and wounding four in two attacks, police have said.
Rebels from a faction of... | 36222fc6-78f8-8409-35f4-950201552213 | ['437cbbe9-26a0-b269-5a37-3ae8fe9e8acc'] | This article is over 5 years old
Meghalaya state's fascination with interesting names is clear with one look at the ballot for state elections
<PERSON> is running for election in India. So is <PERSON>.
The tiny north-east Indian state of Meghalaya has a fascination with interesting, and controversial, names and the bal... |
87eede08-8b2d-d08b-d472-5732df964681 | ['43a7690c-8cab-72e2-00b9-fda58d11d034'] | Over a decade-plus in journalism, I’ve probably written more about Canadian national defence issues than anything else.
Defence literacy is horrifically low in Canada. It’s not an issue the public is engaged in, and a few notable exceptions aside, it’s not something the media spends much time on. No doubt it’s a chicke... | c0a8d64d-e113-a873-4aec-bb25a234107c | ['43a7690c-8cab-72e2-00b9-fda58d11d034'] | I make a point of trying not to base columns too much about little, micro-Twitter controversies, but I can’t resist today — it’s brief, I promise. An American journalist, <PERSON>, recently published a column about <PERSON>, the man just nominated by U.S. President <PERSON> to join America’s Supreme Court, replacing th... |
31efa29c-1e77-cc2f-a80f-a99f2328a6c3 | ['43f0e043-52be-29db-8903-238681543934'] | A record crowd of more than 42,000 turned out on Saturday to watch a wrestling dual meet in Iowa, a place where the ancient sport means something more
It was 5am in tiny Eau Claire, Wisconsin on Saturday and the bus was already started and roaring, ready for the trip to the hallowed ground. Five hours, 282 miles ahead ... | 78d0d2a9-c91a-1125-5ebf-09d47db9a685 | ['43f0e043-52be-29db-8903-238681543934'] | As the Stanley Cup holders opened their title defense amid a euphoric home crowd, the silence about the <PERSON> rape investigation was deafening
You couldn’t miss the protest Wednesday night on Madison Avenue in front of the United Center, where the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks were about to open their seas... |
c9b8ad35-6f0d-8372-ab4d-f72719c54c74 | ['44066ff6-a934-a4e9-699c-3366b684273b'] | Multitasking: A Powertone workout with my toddler in tow (Picture: <PERSON>)
<PERSON> is taking part in Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life – a series of 5k, 10k and Pretty Muddy women-only fundraising events and will be blogging about her progress. She is challenging herself to her first run ever with the 5k.
I’m lots ... | 2a233039-b405-703a-3fa8-3863de44a0e3 | ['44066ff6-a934-a4e9-699c-3366b684273b'] | Running outdoors is a great way to get motivated (Picture: Supplied)
<PERSON> is taking part in Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life – a series of 5k, 10k and Pretty Muddy women-only fundraising events and will be blogging about her progress.
Six weeks ago, I never imagined how inspired and energised I would feel thanks ... |
cd36361d-ecf5-4f4b-dd5f-00a883213ed2 | ['441f0dc2-f7bd-92c6-54cf-5284ddde41ec'] | The campaign to divest from fossil fuel companies aims to create a stigma around the industry, writes <PERSON>.
Divesting from companies that produce fossil fuels continues to be one of the key demands of the climate change movement. To date, there have been some very major institutions and funds that have begun to div... | 2e53e68c-5d7d-8911-365a-2b9bd00be7a3 | ['441f0dc2-f7bd-92c6-54cf-5284ddde41ec'] | THE economist <PERSON> said that every person needed a white linen shirt to be equal, because that's what they required in order to appear in public without shame. The details of <PERSON>'s example have obviously dated, but the basic point still holds: being able to appear in public and be recognised as an equal is a n... |
8cbfa11a-12b3-2df7-a91b-9dfb74c2b285 | ['449609ea-c8f1-9335-0689-08d153e1dd29'] | Spurs Fan: I Was There When We Became 'The <PERSON>'
As I remember it, we were on the Spurs special returning from Elland Road, Leeds. The team had just put in a goliath performance to come away with a 2-1 victory but the train was in a sombre, almost wake like mood. The fact that one side of the train had had its glas... | 6e5f7081-c1aa-4a74-c12b-841db2373fec | ['449609ea-c8f1-9335-0689-08d153e1dd29'] | <PERSON> might've stuck his oar in but I was there when Spurs became the Yid Army on a train back from a 2-1 victory at Leeds in 1978...
Spurs Fan: I Was There When We Became 'The Yids'
As I remember it, we were on the Spurs special returning from Elland Road, Leeds. The team had just put in a goliath performance to co... |
e81b9bff-f6c5-3aea-4297-84c53dccaff0 | ['44a04d13-5bbe-e263-e793-001c5f88b0ca'] | CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. - Pothole season is coming soon, and people in Christiansburg have a tool to get its holes filled up faster.
The town has a public works request form available on its website. The form directs complaints such as potholes and dead animals on roads straight to Christiansburg Public Works.
"It certainl... | fd72c5ca-6dcb-0e15-5675-65f5969fc8d7 | ['44a04d13-5bbe-e263-e793-001c5f88b0ca'] | FINCASTLE, Va. - Animal abusers in Virginia could soon face more jail time for their crime.
Virginia lawmakers voted unanimously in favor of a bill to increase the punishment for injuring a cat or dog by making it a felony with a five-year maximum prison sentence, the same as it would be if the animal dies. The bill, w... |
849e81b1-3ca1-75ce-ed08-358c711388ec | ['44e83459-e2dc-7acd-85f6-af0ce1d02002'] | The New York City Council is investigating mental health services and violence on Rikers Island and in other city jails as recent media reports have renewed the public's interest on this topic. At a recent oversight hearing conducted by the council, mayoral officials, union leaders, corrections officers, civilians work... | 7fdee7ec-4886-e453-4c19-2667e9af5e4f | ['44e83459-e2dc-7acd-85f6-af0ce1d02002'] | The recent in media coverage of the abuses of law enforcement and corrections department staff elicit a range of emotions, particularly among those of us working in the criminal justice system who hear about and witness these incidents on a daily basis. On the one hand, the gut-wrenching depictions of violence -- of De... |
5f9d6cb9-c71d-f68b-096b-3212a707706d | ['45249e6d-9337-177d-5058-77e02b04021a'] | We know what’s coming. In all but the warmest parts of the country, our gardens soon will be wracked by frost then blanketed in snow, marking the end of the gardening season. Or is it?
If you’re smitten by grasses, like Bluestem Nursery’s <PERSON>, you know the value of leaving ornamental grasses standing in the winter... | 69b0a29a-c10a-7b5a-94f2-375b2c770194 | ['45249e6d-9337-177d-5058-77e02b04021a'] | Hydrangeas have become mainstays of late summer and fall gardens. In one nursery catalogue alone, I counted 38 different types of these flowering shrubs. That’s a far cry from 1962 when “Annabelle” was introduced and could be seen growing in most gardens. Back then, and even now, when we say “hydrangea” we often think ... |
bd68f357-812b-6c85-d78e-6fa3b5de0f8b | ['45857c04-b311-8c0d-9364-80c753a2c035'] | For Evangelicals--and I'm among them--<PERSON> and the Bible are high on the priority list. Not just evangelicals but all Christians believe <PERSON> is the Savior, and that the Bible tells us about him.
But watching how these two priorities come together--watching how <PERSON> read his Bible (the Christian Old Testame... | 4fe98135-f04c-1f8d-8d42-b21d55160112 | ['45857c04-b311-8c0d-9364-80c753a2c035'] | The Apostle <PERSON> wrote much of the New Testament and charted a course that Christians have been following (and fighting about) ever since. For many Christians--especially for conservative evangelicals--<PERSON>'s writings form the core teachings of their churches, from settling church squabbles to the centrality of... |
97f8be26-2aaf-a8db-67cb-867fdedde018 | ['45af2c54-8d06-ebe9-2094-89b20595114a'] | A veteran from St. Cloud has pleaded guilty to making false statements to receive benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and stealing government funds.
According to court documents, <PERSON>, 68, of St. Cloud, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, applied for and received VA benefits for five year... | ce1f8d69-451d-12ca-63e5-e8519b5bccab | ['45af2c54-8d06-ebe9-2094-89b20595114a'] | Two teenage victims were bitten by sharks at New Smyrna Beach on Friday, according to Volusia County beach patrol officials.
Officials said there was a surfing contest taking place at the beach, so there were a lot of people in the water.
The first bite occurred just before 2 p.m., officials said. The victim was a teen... |
7752f477-3ff2-4db9-8fe0-226a79e5c769 | ['45bf1d35-e5ad-50ce-6712-58bafd453520'] | <PERSON> and boyfriend <PERSON> were the picture of domestic bliss as they took a stroll through New York's Tribeca neighbourhood on Saturday with their beloved pooches.
Having been together for more than a year now, the couple's relationship appears to be going from strength to strength, their easy, natural rapport wi... | 6b1cf06e-0653-6ee3-d254-4fb8c124062c | ['45bf1d35-e5ad-50ce-6712-58bafd453520'] | Pregnant <PERSON> conceals her growing baby bump behind grocery bags
as she stocks up on healthy organic produce following prenatal workout
<PERSON> and <PERSON> proudly announced her second pregnancy on July 15.
And while the stunning 33-year-old happily embraced her growing figure during an outing with her husband in... |
3fabcc08-bfe8-0862-1cf9-1a3c0d9dd81b | ['45f7d74f-1e81-b9eb-6232-6dac9e7d4e47'] | CleanMaX Solar, a provider of solar power to companies through rooftop and grid-connected solar installations, plans to raise $100 million, a top company executive said.
In the past, Warburg Pincus and International Finance Corp., the World Bank’s private-sector investment arm, have invested as much as $100 million in ... | 1162ba4a-6715-4a42-ee47-8956fbff83f1 | ['45f7d74f-1e81-b9eb-6232-6dac9e7d4e47'] | Mumbai: Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd (TPREL) is planning to bid for setting up two solar power projects in Maharashtra totalling 400 megawatts (MW), two people in the know said.
The company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Power Co. Ltd, plans to bid for two separate projects of 150MW and 250MW. “TPREL may invest ... |
2c92fd72-4c33-2293-84df-d8f2dbc9a436 | ['467aff22-e6d3-81ad-85c7-b3f9e4436f1c'] | The Dallas Mavericks had a great bounce back year. After going to the playoffs for 12 straight seasons from 2001-2012, the Mavericks failed to make the playoffs in 2013. But that didn’t mean this team was going into rebuilding mode.
The <PERSON> pickup may have been one of the smartest and impactful moves from last yea... | d5c13aa1-2efe-c21f-9f65-701b61915488 | ['467aff22-e6d3-81ad-85c7-b3f9e4436f1c'] | The Dallas Mavericks are close to signing <PERSON>.
According to <PERSON>, the Dallas Mavericks have offered the former Houston Rocket a three year deal worth $45 million. The Mavericks are making this move in regards to the Rockets offering <PERSON> a max contract of four years, $88 million.
The Houston Rockets now ha... |
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<PERSON>, president of Telepictures Productions, knew before "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" aired it would be a success. He just didn't anticipate the show quickly evolving into a national phenomenon.
When Telepictures went shopping for a talk show, Mr. <PERSON> knew Ms. <PERSON> was the right person for the j... | 38438b09-0d63-281a-2621-bb0c4efe1c1d | ['467d5ec1-c713-3827-8237-b3348bda5a5e'] | When nbc president-CEO <PERSON> named <PERSON> to the newly created post of VP-diversity, he said he got his first pick for the spot.
"She was the very best person we could put in the job," Mr. <PERSON> said of the VP-news director of NBC-owned WNBC in New York.
Ms. <PERSON>, who retains her VP-news director title, wil... |
55cc96c8-e8ee-13eb-2523-30bad7a6caf9 | ['4697fd1b-7872-5a79-f68a-47e04c5380f5'] | Arbroath may have made a blistering start to the League 1 campaign but Gayfield gaffer <PERSON> is adamant his side will be big underdogs at Dumbarton this afternoon.
The Gable Endies backed up their opening-day derby demolition of Montrose with a 3-1 win over Stranraer at home last week and are sitting proudly at the ... | 0752b1e0-cfd3-30e2-1417-4a0e8baabdcf | ['4697fd1b-7872-5a79-f68a-47e04c5380f5'] | Dundee United’s <PERSON> is hoping the club’s fans can help make it a feel-good Friday night to remember when league leaders Ayr roll up at Tannadice next week.
The Tangerines negotiated a potential banana skin on Tuesday evening when they beat part-time Alloa 4-2 at home to move to within three points of the Honest Me... |
d8c94412-e533-99b3-10a7-619e2a1194be | ['46de3b3e-6080-0338-1af1-dfb1fda96a3b'] | WARRNAMBOOL has snapped Ballarat’s 11-game winning streak in the men’s division one section of the Ballarat District Soccer Association.
<PERSON> (North United) and Forest Rangers’ <PERSON> lock horns in their BDSA divison one match at Morshead Park.
The underdogs triumphed 1-0 in a pulsating affair at Morshead Park’s ... | d2e82be8-d98e-c801-7508-a03102da2a6f | ['46de3b3e-6080-0338-1af1-dfb1fda96a3b'] | BALLARAT Red Devils are extremely confident everything will be in place for the club’s iconic first National Premier Leagues Victoria home game at Morshead Park.
The Red Devils will face off against powerhouse South Melbourne for the second time in four weeks on Saturday but will have to negotiate a huge week of constr... |
868afa3e-f590-5501-559c-37009d51dcc7 | ['46f12de3-b670-ff8c-6310-526f0cfe715a'] | Despite their convenience, on-ear headphones pose a problem. While the best of them do a fantastic job passively or actively drowning out the noise of outside world — i.e. screaming children, the blaring whistle of a passing train — they often mute the entirety of what’s going on around you. ONvocal’s Mix360 is looking... | cd3995b6-3444-ee66-36b4-a7799cc2c318 | ['46f12de3-b670-ff8c-6310-526f0cfe715a'] | What happens when you run out of furry felines from which to dub your latest operating system? Well, you opt for the next best thing — an iconic surf haven off the northern California coast.
Apple had more up its sleeve than the new, Haswell-powered MacBook Pro models, powerhouse Mac Pro and the thinner, sleeker iPad A... |
592c2bf3-68fd-64cc-71b8-413f7fcd64db | ['46f81569-9b65-9091-6f9a-a62b78cf7319'] | Dear Secretary General <PERSON> and the Party’s Central Committee:
We listened to your speech on July l, 2001 and have since then carefully read it again in the past few days. We have many opinions in regard to your “July First” remarks. According to the Party’s Basic Statute, as well as the sections on Democrat Centra... | 3dc98168-fbbc-e6e4-a1a4-d126fa43af30 | ['46f81569-9b65-9091-6f9a-a62b78cf7319'] | A Letter to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Distinguished members of the central committee:
In his speech at the meeting celebrating the Eightieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Comrade <PERSON> openly called for admission of owners of private enterprises to membership ... |
2d62e492-24ec-e8ca-ad16-cc1ed68b0f63 | ['470cff47-d15e-b28c-5276-423b3f2c3967'] | Editor’s Note: This piece by Wellesley College professor <PERSON> was originally published on CNN.com and discusses <PERSON>’s Brookings Economic Studies Working Paper “Transparency in College Costs.“
Suppose you are car shopping and all cars have sticker prices of $60,000.
Most people are eligible for a discount, perh... | ef731ca1-5a3e-2522-1195-87d5c34fd929 | ['470cff47-d15e-b28c-5276-423b3f2c3967'] | The need for mentoring programs is indisputable. Over 30 percent of children live in households headed by a single parent (or no parent), a rate that has doubled over the past forty-five years (see figure 4-1). Six in ten African American children live in households of this type, which actually reflects a slight declin... |
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While Buccaneer fans may be ringing in 2017 without playoffs to look forward to, 2016 was still a big year for the franchise. Here, we take a look at the ten best moments of the 2016 calendar year.
2016 was a rough year in many ways, but for the Buccaneers, things seemed to turn around for t... | be589873-e3b5-8b7c-5777-d6383cffbd07 | ['47367fed-b87f-83c9-a39a-620772851330'] | With our Buccaneers play of the year tournament unfolding, we take a look at the most emotional play of the year. Of course, I’m referring to <PERSON> against the Seattle Seahawks.
The Buccaneers made a lot of really big plays this season. But there wasn’t one that meant as much as <PERSON> interception in week 12 agai... |
087368a8-faa7-c207-0b1e-9d6e35173792 | ['474ee1a9-d554-35fd-47e7-33ad10ec16d4'] | In our last review of ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP), we took the opportunity to reduce our exposure to the company. This was primarily due to a diminishing risk reward profile following the stock’s price gains and the outlook for generally flat production. Given that the stock price has since pulled back considerably, howe... | 5de82f4b-2250-cd41-9719-98eafd0cf062 | ['474ee1a9-d554-35fd-47e7-33ad10ec16d4'] | Over recent weeks, extreme currency movements have been the main theme of financial markets. The currencies of the world’s two largest economies, the US dollar and the Japanese yen, have been beacons of light. In just the last three months or so, every other major currency has declined sharply against the dollar and th... |
0a984a81-0129-026a-bd22-35be113cb5b7 | ['477c09b4-1d3d-2610-5ff0-687326ee69c1'] | A U.S. Small Business Administration loan program for businesses that have lost an essential employee to active military duty has become more accessible and helpful for borrowers.
The changes to the Military Reservist Economic Injury Disaster Loan, a direct working capital loan, come in response to the Small Business D... | 9fc5a885-faa2-30cd-77ad-82843198c9fe | ['477c09b4-1d3d-2610-5ff0-687326ee69c1'] | Evans Bancorp said Thursday that fourth-quarter profits fell 37.3 percent, after fees fell and it set aside more for loan losses.
The Angola-based parent of Evans Bank reported earnings of $505,000, or 18 cents per share, down from $805,000, or 29 cents per share, in the same quarter a year ago.
Not including identical... |
7aac0bb0-f1a1-f6a1-745f-3c54abd052d4 | ['478c9af4-e68c-cedf-85ba-a8ce1fd0a86f'] | The importance of treating people with HIV with antiretroviral drugs is greater than ever, British Columbia researchers say, after they discovered a significant drop in new HIV diagnoses when more people were treated with the drug cocktails.
The notion that treating HIV can reduce the chances of the disease spreading -... | 3905bc4a-dc34-bd91-5bef-635c047508e6 | ['478c9af4-e68c-cedf-85ba-a8ce1fd0a86f'] | There is a word you will likely not hear uttered in Finance Minister <PERSON>'s budget speech on Thursday: health.
There may be passing references to the health of the economy, and a little braggy reminder that Ottawa has boosted health transfers to the provinces. But don't expect new initiatives or any leadership on t... |
62cd998f-eb9f-7e2a-1eae-36fc368aeffb | ['47b6a0f7-0e45-0869-f260-642dc07f6304'] | Syngenta's Gramoxone is one of the most widely used herbicides in the world (AFP)
A herbicide developed by Swiss firm Syngenta, Gramoxone (paraquat), is being blamed for health problems in Burkina Faso.
The West African country is calling for the product to be placed on the Rotterdam Convention list of extremely danger... | fe9471e5-4146-7b5f-85fa-a8197a3197ce | ['47b6a0f7-0e45-0869-f260-642dc07f6304'] | This content was published on August 24, 2011 1:37 PM Aug 24, 2011 - 13:37
What would you rather have: Swiss francs or gold? (Keystone)
Gold, a safe haven just like the Swiss franc, is breaking records and should continue on its upwards spiral, expert <PERSON> tells swissinfo.ch.
<PERSON>, vice president at Geneva-base... |
d9f62b76-4fef-7635-89b8-28fdb4d4280d | ['47d96c61-e204-015e-130f-40afb55b7d15'] | Reports have it that <PERSON>, a stringer with the Independent Television (ITV), was murdered on the night of February 12, 2008 in Mahanje, Mbozi District, some 75 kilometres from Mbeya City.
By <PERSON>
<PERSON>, a reporter with Radio Kwizela in Kigoma, went missing, and on January 3, 2013 his body was found dumped in... | 5ec42e39-2525-e217-1da9-960f53a87f4a | ['47d96c61-e204-015e-130f-40afb55b7d15'] | By <PERSON>
<PERSON>, a reporter with Radio Kwizela in Kigoma, went missing, and on January 3, 2013 his body was found dumped in a thicket in Mhange Village, Kakonko District.
Reports have it that <PERSON>, a stringer with the Independent Television (ITV), was murdered on the night of February 12, 2008 in Mahanje, Mboz... |
ca224686-9955-726b-c730-6e9b0f75a0a3 | ['48463caf-5b81-41fa-beae-e32995ea4883'] | We live in fascinating times. On the one hand, it is OK to detail the most intimate aspects of a woman's reproductive health in congressional testimony and to demand "free" birth-control pills from employers and/or the government. It is also OK to label those who object to such public displays of personal choice and st... | 3180b680-52ac-0739-f8ed-f647e4347a5e | ['48463caf-5b81-41fa-beae-e32995ea4883'] | Saying Maryland has a balanced budget is akin to believing Lady Gaga is a natural blonde.
For years and multiple administrations, gubernatorial legerdemain shifted hundreds of millions earmarked for roads, schools and other programs into the general fund to fill its empty tank. Debt was issued to pay for those projects... |
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If you’ve seen <PERSON>’s recent film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, or you’ve been talked out of seeing it by friends, or by this website, chances are you have a low opinion of the recent travails of one of Marvel Comics’ best-loved characters. Well, let this reviewer tell you now that the game X-Men Origins: Wolverine ... | da271e04-d17b-a672-164b-efa9307c2708 | ['485198e4-7bd6-43f0-c546-3c0d92b5386d'] | 0
E3 is too much for one man.
Today marks my second-ever year at E3, and let’s just say that this show rocks you. It rocks you something good. Even last year’s convention – which everyone told me was ridiculously tame compared to previous years – was overwhelming. This year’s, which has been heralded as a near ‘return ... |
43941286-4826-4cc5-7dbc-4f225c679ef3 | ['488c6012-c033-9807-406b-3b15e77552fb'] | But now that the old behemoths of the news are in decline, the unified public they assembled is fading too. Neither the broadcast networks nor the newspapers have the reach they once did, raising concerns about whether the press will be able to serve its classic function as a watchdog over government. That problem also... | 5d01bec7-cd73-6d7e-3591-b34717fa71c2 | ['488c6012-c033-9807-406b-3b15e77552fb'] | When a party chooses its presidential candidate, it also chooses its party leader in the election. This year the Democrats face an unusual situation. <PERSON> isn’t just an outsider to the party establishment; he’s not even been a member of the party, and has long excoriated it in unsparing language. Although the media... |
52628a66-808b-965e-46e7-cd18244580dd | ['48b1aba8-2a3e-a66e-4605-edcce3300720'] | Three words to shake the nation: Kardashian Christmas special.
According to the Huffington Post, the special episode of “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” will not feature yuletide greetings from Lamar Odom, which is a shame because Lamar could have provided the “snow,” but it will feature an awkward soon-to-split Kris ... | f07f610a-3650-f69a-2c20-921df4925167 | ['48b1aba8-2a3e-a66e-4605-edcce3300720'] | Even children can’t escape Ryan Seacrest. The ubiquitous TV host has sold his idea for a kid’s game show to Nickelodeon, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Go Viral” will have kids watching viral videos and competing by guessing outcomes and gauging each vid’s popularity with the audience.
“Viral elimination challen... |
a883c4dc-1fa7-5a0d-87d2-e5596e6f38b4 | ['48bcceaf-56b7-c6cc-774b-233d99e2ff9a'] | For a year now, the storefront at 2435 18th Street, Northwest—the former home of Toledo Lounge—has been shuttered, its glass front covered in paper. In the intervening months, Black Squirrel owner <PERSON> kept her new concept a closely guarded secret. Over the holiday weekend, however, <PERSON> debuted a cafe and bar ... | db1d5a13-4890-5e99-4e22-28be31c0d3e6 | ['48bcceaf-56b7-c6cc-774b-233d99e2ff9a'] | For one day only, Uber gets into the ice cream delivery business. Photograph courtesy of Shutterstock
Fancy something frozen and sweet? High-end car service Uber—nemesis of the DC Taxi Commission—has deployed a fleet of six ice cream trucks to deliver treats to customers today. The trucks will be traveling around Dupon... |
37be72d5-88c9-4f56-963f-666bb8af8c2e | ['48ca7afa-bb90-9334-3903-9b83d3890ff4'] | As Olean’s <PERSON> looked down at his mother and coach, <PERSON>, from the champions’ podium at the boys swimming state finals yesterday, the two couldn’t have imagined a much better ending.
“That felt amazing because that was a dream come true,” said <PERSON>, a senior. “I’ve strived to do that since I was 4 years ol... | 942f0c98-3cd4-6022-12be-6e0038df260a | ['48ca7afa-bb90-9334-3903-9b83d3890ff4'] | Whenever Christian Laettner returns to Buffalo, he tries to make the most of it.
Laettner, a local legend beginning with his 2,066 career points at Nichols School who went on to earn national recognition playing for Duke, the 1992 Dream Team and 13 seasons in the NBA, returned to Buffalo to host his Christian Laettner ... |
3f76cb63-1c61-40d3-7536-a4b5d5d3d54a | ['48f285c9-764b-6e43-374e-0c128a0a4de7'] | This Saturday sees a national day of protest against 400 planned library closures - but will Edinburgh be affected?
Tomorrow writers will lead a protest to the Scottish parliament on national Save Our Libraries Day. See a map of national events here.
<PERSON> Photograph: <PERSON>
Gruffalo creator <PERSON> and fellow ch... | 3103e15a-e555-7ba0-30e2-8f6e5f18ea10 | ['48f285c9-764b-6e43-374e-0c128a0a4de7'] | * Calls for patience as full service returns * Residents say rats are appearing at bins * More snow forecast for Thursday
Bin collections in Edinburgh have fallen severely behind schedule due to the recent heavy snowfall. Many bin lorries have been unable to get into snow-filled streets and collection staff redeployed ... |
de64b252-adac-091d-4039-e882a0f1ccc7 | ['4930a5b2-3a0a-1ebe-9799-10226cb8c226'] | The CIA's top lawyer never approved sending a veteran agency officer to New York, where he helped set up police spying programs, the Associated Press has learned.
Such approval would have been required under the presidential order that Police Commissioner <PERSON> said authorized the unusual assignment.
Normally, when ... | 72c738ce-efcb-2211-d953-d1811a7cb027 | ['4930a5b2-3a0a-1ebe-9799-10226cb8c226'] | When an admitted al-Qaida operative planned his itinerary for a Christmas 2009 airline bombing, he considered launching the strike in the skies above Houston or Chicago, the Associated Press has learned. But tickets were too expensive, so he refocused the mission on a cheaper destination: Detroit.
The decision is among... |
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The other morning <PERSON> arrived at his l... | 7e71d527-24c2-44c5-3d83-c8d5ca3112fa | ['493c315b-09d5-e77e-e5b1-a266d16ff391'] | When I was a kid it was all about the commies. They were always hiding in the bushes, waiting to destroy our precious freedoms. They had missiles pointed at major American cities. At any given moment, they could “bury us,” as former Russian President <PERSON> once threatened.
In Catholic school, we had to do periodic a... |
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Link Mexican writer <PERSON>, dies aged 83. Photo: Reuters
<PERSON>, the politic-ally engaged Mexican novelist and irrepressible bon vivant who stood at the forefront of Latin American letters for more than half a century, has died at a hospital in Mexico City. He was 83.
Mexico... | bcdb6a42-8e7a-10bd-c838-5b636e763e83 | ['493cc33e-62b9-ea5b-b966-6cb467e361ee'] | <PERSON>
A Life
<PERSON>
Alfred A. Knopf: 646 pp., $37.50
"Everyone has three lives," <PERSON> once told <PERSON>. "A public life, a private life and a secret life." With little help from the novelist himself, who merely "tolerated" him for years before embracing him as his "official" biographer in 2006, <PERSON> has p... |
02b9966a-36af-8883-61ba-58a2bdbd7c50 | ['4956d39c-051b-77ef-5155-474a448c6fe9'] | <PERSON> is pretty frustrated with the way things have gone south for the Panthers.
<PERSON> stood tall in net for Florida on Wednesday night, but he watched his defense crumble around him as the Blackhawks scored three goals in the third period of a 4-0 victory in Chicago.
On Tuesday, <PERSON> gave up just one goal to... | 359cd227-a8f0-af8f-318d-f4b85e4b581d | ['4956d39c-051b-77ef-5155-474a448c6fe9'] | — <PERSON> scored 16 points to lead the United States to an easy 87-46 victory over Canada in the second round of the women's FIBA World Championship in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
The U.S. (4-0) remained undefeated after going 3-0 in pool play, and will continue second-round play against Belarus (2-2) in Ostrava today.
C... |
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FEATURES: 4 bedrooms, 3 bathroom, 2 car parking ADDRESS: 207 Nicholson Parade, Cronulla FOR SALE: $3,000,000 - $3,200,000 AGENCY: McGrath Real Estate CONTACT: <PERSON> <PHONE_NUMBER> INSPECT: Wednesday 5pm – 5.30pm, Saturday 12pm – 12.30pm Cu... | b18ded69-f035-8da9-3d3f-bbd5aae19d80 | ['497a4025-6c6d-6c1f-c7cc-c087cfe934a8'] | multimedia, photos-and-video, Sutherland Shire, Domain, Caringbah South, 2a Daphne Street, Location Real Estate
Exuding distinguished street appeal in a premium waterside locale, this statuesque, stylish residence is the embodiment of classic solid double brick and concrete construction. Sitting on an approximately 575... |
ebc76766-c903-be36-5b06-f96384fb0f24 | ['498f809b-8227-de58-623a-d74c9f0948fb'] | This year’s festival theme was “Twinstock—Groovy in Twinsburg!” No matter their age, almost all the twins in attendance dressed alike. Two sets of twins carried matching signs in mock protest of the Vietnam War. A pair of women dressed in pink genie-garb inspired by the popular '70s TV series I Dream of Jeannie.
Though... | 6acff980-4f25-bca0-1e4b-e954cc6a5e1e | ['498f809b-8227-de58-623a-d74c9f0948fb'] | This is one party where virtually no one shows up alone. Two thousand sets of twins packed into the small city of Twinsburg, Ohio earlier this month to celebrate their twin-ness at a three-day festival called Twins Days. Throughout the weekend, twins marched in the “Double Take” parade, competed in look-alike contests,... |
6d22bcca-893d-fb70-0f42-1d5c4ceab121 | ['49c628fa-e9d9-dfb4-2101-400efe4b71a8'] | In late July, the Martinez City Council voted unanimously to place a measure on the November ballot proposing a half-cent sales tax dedicated to improve, maintain and repair roads and streets in Martinez.
This will be Measure D on your November ballot.
Last week, the City Council held a special meeting to review the dr... | b5b913c6-a42d-5e7b-c164-28fba4f6c826 | ['49c628fa-e9d9-dfb4-2101-400efe4b71a8'] | Every year all transportation agencies in the nine Bay Area counties are required by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to adopt a Short Range Transit Plan (SRTP).
This plan is the blueprint for each and every transit provider such as BART, County Connection, Muni, AC Transit, etc., for the next 10-15 yea... |
6c356db9-4de7-f1b9-435e-40e750e68f02 | ['49e902e1-836d-5600-f46e-a789c9407028'] | It is no secret that the LGBT communities have become the 'hunted' ones in Malaysia, with the police and religious authorities hounding them like poachers.
COMMENT
Should Malaysians feel offended that their leader <PERSON> is more concerned over American president <PERSON>’s support for same sex marriages than worrying... | e7204702-0a0b-a888-3bb1-e9fb63b47606 | ['49e902e1-836d-5600-f46e-a789c9407028'] | The '<PERSON>' blackmail being employed by BN does not warrant any obligation on the part of the rakyat to support <PERSON>'s leadership.
COMMENT
Barisan Nasional’s unexpected defeat in the 2008 general election has failed to educate the ruling government on ‘eating the humble pie’.
On the contrary, the coalition has b... |
8d824b3c-6431-1742-a326-9b22af26cda1 | ['4a011032-cc2b-20f5-7fa9-14dcc4325489'] | <PERSON> has had a wide-ranging and wildly successful career, spanning over half a century. He’s been a magician, comedian, screenwriter, actor, director (on both stage and screen), novelist, playwright, and musician, to name just a few bullet points on his impressive resume. But those of us who have followed him throu... | b2e32b6c-10c2-2b7b-ea11-f01abdd71dc9 | ['4a011032-cc2b-20f5-7fa9-14dcc4325489'] | This article first appeared on QuietRev.com
<PERSON>, otherwise known as Introvert Doodles, is our newest regular contributor! Watch this space for more illustrated tips for you and the introverted littles in your life.
Q: My introverted 10-year-old daughter was invited to her first sleepover. She wants to go, but she’... |
91705999-fa4e-6b69-e57b-515ae572f107 | ['4a1571f6-b4b3-3b08-3162-8300824968eb'] | SPAIN sparkled their way into their first World Cup Final last night thanks to a rare, rare goal from <PERSON>.
<PERSON> scored the goal that won Spain a place in the World Cup Final
It was a just reward for <PERSON> men, who repeated the scoreline of their Euro 2008 victory over the Germans.[>
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They also put the thr... | c6a99776-fcc5-e30d-2bd0-1386ae95e4a8 | ['4a1571f6-b4b3-3b08-3162-8300824968eb'] | ALL-ACTION <PERSON> has revealed how a week’s break gave him the boost he needed to give his all at the World Cup.
Holland World Cup star <PERSON> needed a week to recover from a heavy season at Liverpool
England boss <PERSON> claimed his men flopped in South Africa because they were exhausted.[>
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But <PERSON> is sti... |
25bed260-8046-6144-04de-6d1eb172e5b9 | ['4a6f1a3d-d01a-afcd-01c4-4697f0aefb6a'] | Murder. Paedophilia. Prison. Asylum seekers.
These are just some of the thorny subjects explored by Crouch End author <PERSON> in his debut novel, Klarkey's War, to be released on March 16.
Mr <PERSON>, 40, of Rectory Gardens, has already enjoyed a successful career as a fashion entrepreneur, having opened The Laden Sh... | ba6a08a1-16db-bfcf-e04b-57f458fb07a9 | ['4a6f1a3d-d01a-afcd-01c4-4697f0aefb6a'] | Former deputy council leader <PERSON> resigned from his post as High Barnet ward councillor on Tuesday, questioning the integrity of leader <PERSON> and criticising his 'socialist housing policy'.
His action comes hot on the heels of the resignation of <PERSON>, who quit his post last week as chairman of the Chipping B... |
82ebd0e7-e367-0323-15ab-55b791f18365 | ['4a8b2b52-4822-ab96-dffa-7ff01e41b3bf'] | Twenty years ago, Florida spearheaded a school choice movement that changed the face of public education.
This took strong action, steadfast resolve and the unyielding commitment of several generations of state leaders.
Real and lasting change is not for the timid.
Handout <PERSON> <PERSON> (Handout)
Now, it is time to... | ab625938-2c50-1fbb-a6c1-ac6b81eeacd2 | ['4a8b2b52-4822-ab96-dffa-7ff01e41b3bf'] | The Sun Sentinel recently editorialized that Amendment 8 should be removed from the ballot, taking the position that voters are not smart enough to understand what they are voting on.
I have a higher opinion of my fellow Floridians. The State of Florida has requested the Florida Supreme Court quash a lower court order ... |
ea4e0239-6bb7-ee33-f924-8f6970458b6c | ['4adbc58b-c541-eefb-517e-40834cda59b1'] | Dana Point As the glass gate opened to the new maritime pier and 300-foot-long dock along Dana Point Harbor's Ocean Institute, hundreds of children flocked to the capstan, pushing the wood wheel around and around. They darted into the biological diversity lab, touching starfish and sea slugs in the correct “two-finger”... | 5a638d01-ce7f-cfb9-1b17-a0b63e09a55a | ['4adbc58b-c541-eefb-517e-40834cda59b1'] | Buyers were on the move at this year's Lido Boat Show on Sept. 26-29 where more than 160 boats were on display off Lido Marina Village in Newport Harbor. And while attendance numbers were up almost 30 percent over last year, show dealers noted higher boat-buying interest in the crowd as well.
“One dealer said it felt l... |
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The legal team of infamous Mexican drug trafficker <PERSON> has temporarily stalled his extradition to the United States in a move that may be part of an attempt to secure a deal with US prosecutors.
On June 28, a Mexican judge accepted two injunctions filed by <PERSON>’s lawyers appealing the May decisions by tw... | 7ae3bafa-2c21-1f55-1655-319cb942c44c | ['4b7a1f36-3a3d-2c97-e0e8-c87afd76b2f4'] | SHARE
Colombian authorities’ announcement that another important mid-level commander of the Urabeños was killed over the weekend indicates the government continues to exert pressure on the criminal group, although top commanders have so far eluded the massive security operation targeting them.
Colombian National police... |
94fcde2a-f930-1dae-7aee-e08206d1036a | ['4b7b0020-5da6-7d0c-6431-288ed82c9f08'] | "Nostalgia's always big in a recession," says a character in <PERSON> new novel – and, in The Guts, <PERSON> has served up a good-sized helping of it. Billed as "the return of <PERSON>", it takes up again, 20 years on, with the teenage svengali who decided that Dublin needed a white soul band, and named them the Commit... | 0c1d3c75-f724-cd92-7755-3ec5a5d5209a | ['4b7b0020-5da6-7d0c-6431-288ed82c9f08'] | "I can do it any way you want," <PERSON> tells a reality TV producer in his debut, the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. "I can do it funny, or maudlin, or just straight, uninflected – anything. You tell me. I can do it sad, or inspirational, or angry. It's all there, all these things at once, so it's u... |
e67abdbc-446d-3999-fecd-731e83be91c7 | ['4ba98a95-a8bc-43f3-7ee6-cb610acbe225'] | MINNEAPOLIS (CN) – A class action filed by Minnesota disability service providers claims the state’s plan to cut funding for those services will hurt thousands of people who rely on them for housing and jobs.
The Minnesota Organization for Habilitation and Rehabilitation (MOHR) and the Association of Residential Resour... | 67132800-35e8-94f5-2750-bdecb6cd9d56 | ['4ba98a95-a8bc-43f3-7ee6-cb610acbe225'] | MINNEAPOLIS (CN) – Environmentalists accuse the federal government of ignoring the effects of proposed mining operations on the Superior National Forest’s designated habitats for the threatened Canada lynx, northern long-eared bat and gray wolf.
The Center for Biological Diversity, Earthworks and Save Our Sky Blue Wate... |
a8a2fc5d-a57d-24bf-ece6-2879bc9396ab | ['4bce94cc-4e6b-2e95-785f-5cd4a2a873ae'] | It was heartening to hear President <PERSON> identifying reconciliation and development as the priorities of his new government. However, it is crucial that both processes should unfold with the active involvement of Sri Lanka's citizenry, rather than being imposed from above by an omnipotent state. We seem to already ... | e7e7040d-2a71-2927-4279-9fa5ae644427 | ['4bce94cc-4e6b-2e95-785f-5cd4a2a873ae'] | US secretary of state, <PERSON>, caused a furore in Sri Lanka recently when she noted that rape had been used as a tactic of war in "Bosnia, Burma, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere" while speaking on the unanimous adoption of the US-sponsored UN security council resolution 1888, which recognises sexual violence as exacerbating... |
c13af42a-e49c-3f1e-c407-3971383e4eee | ['4bf23aac-df10-6687-2c32-cff0205a1c40'] | The latest in the Chick-fil-A saga is a petition that has surfaced online, written by Gallatin freshman <PERSON>. In the past we’ve brought you news of the conservative chain, and how to avoid eating their homophobic chicken. Now <PERSON> is hoping to change the Chick-fil-A, housed in Upstein, from an avoided eatery to... | 0563f711-0371-af67-9218-63429979aabf | ['4bf23aac-df10-6687-2c32-cff0205a1c40'] | The maddening silence of the sixth floor quiet area, the dulling boredom of the stacks—these must be broken by the gift of music. And sometimes one iTunes library is not enough. When you’re coming down from Adderall and realize you’ve been listening to the same three songs for two hours, someone else’s music can be a r... |
e5f653dc-19e7-041e-fa10-612af8362581 | ['4bfbcdea-e9b0-2c4c-67b7-6d582c855d6f'] | In the wake of Australia’s World Cup triumph, Toyota is toasting the success of its ‘Celebrating Celebrations’ marketing campaign. The adverts, which played throughout the Cricket World Cup broadcast, were rolled out across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Vine.
‘Celebrating Celebrations’, created by The Gemba Group, w... | 95f1de8c-277b-4d66-e8e1-1e61c4fb0a0b | ['4bfbcdea-e9b0-2c4c-67b7-6d582c855d6f'] | Toyota has launched the latest iteration of its long-running Legendary Moments campaign with yet another comic recreation of a memorable moment from AFL’s rich history.
Joining the likes of <PERSON> and <PERSON> as legends immortalised in the series is Essendon speedster <PERSON> and his epic dash down the wing in the ... |
d568b613-12d4-9e31-5bfc-d3de2009b3ed | ['4c1c0a7c-6db4-dc73-9fd1-3212ac696163'] | The late erudite Israeli foreign minister, Abba Eban, was quoted widely for once having said "the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity" for peace. The same could apply recently to the Americans.
The United States signed a deal to give Israel $3.8 billion a year over the next 10 years beginning in 2018... | aaf4d192-69c7-e88b-fbc8-ee6ff2881ac9 | ['4c1c0a7c-6db4-dc73-9fd1-3212ac696163'] | THERE'S FEAR that Govans is dying. Those with a direct stake in the North Baltimore community along venerable York Road are fighting to keep it alive. Yet they have little ammunition.
The homeowners and shop owners get jolted by every little scare, which they see as another nail in the Govans coffin. The latest came in... |
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Red Bull unveils new car for 2013 F1 season
Published: February 4 2013 - 8:43AM
Defending Formula One team champion Red Bull on Sunday unveiled the ''evolutionary'' RB9 car that they hope will carry <PERSON> to an extraordinary fourth double world title this year.
The 25-year-old ... | 93c3a774-ea0d-ff07-4959-b6482b02c6b9 | ['4c45280c-876a-7cb6-f006-6e9c63cf02d6'] | <PERSON> on Thursday confirmed what many close observers suspected when he announced that he will be leaving Red Bull and Formula One at the end of this season to switch to sportscar racing with Porsche's LMP1 team.
<PERSON>, who will be 37 in August, has been expected to make a move ever since his Red Bull teammate, t... |
37a8e26f-1d00-41c9-8706-04f351154481 | ['4cae4a37-b7ef-4d29-cf40-a595d9930a77'] | April 10-12 — No preschool story time.
Second Tuesday of each month — Sign up in the children’s room to join our Lego club. For ages 5-12. The club meets at 4:30 p.m.
April 11 — 6:30-8 p.m., Teen Anime Club. Join us for anime, manga, cosplay, and Japanese culture. Teens in grades 6-12 do not need to register for the an... | f9d61e61-35e9-b41e-07ef-7f0195a8308e | ['4cae4a37-b7ef-4d29-cf40-a595d9930a77'] | The Bucyrus Chapter of the Guardian Angels said they were shocked by the recent news that an elderly Galion man they helped locate a few weeks ago was the victim of a homicide.
<PERSON>, 68, was missing for four days when Galion Police accepted an offer to help by the Guardian Angels, led by <PERSON>.
“First, I would l... |
c7afda15-1be8-3874-e64c-244ffff38f83 | ['4cb80218-5031-960f-1449-031bc4a5f2af'] | They were buried in a patch of land that was left unmarked and largely forgotten for decades.
But now the “Old Colored Cemetery” is on its way to becoming a Branhilda Richardson Knowles Memorial Park. It’s now under construction.
Its centerpiece will be a statue of Knowles, a midwife to many blacks in Deerfield and bey... | e54b4885-9a4a-8f5e-b138-242f806bc477 | ['4cb80218-5031-960f-1449-031bc4a5f2af'] | If those pesky iguanas have pushed you to the limit, there’s a solution: You could kill them.
Just do it humanely.
You can shoot them with a pellet gun, stab them in the brain, even decapitate them if they don’t suffer. But don’t freeze them, drown them or poison them, or you could end up behind bars.
South Florida’s i... |
1f462c50-ba6c-d6fb-bffa-9fb635d17e42 | ['4cc41c5e-9936-eed6-6001-887e933c063f'] | Helpful autumn reminders
At the beginning of autumn, with falling leaves, foggy mornings, fresh apple cider and of course, Halloween, we are reminded of a few changes that we need to make in our daily routines.
-- As we drive around our community: During darker mornings, watch out for kids at the school bus stops; reme... | 7dbc93fd-cf01-2f4c-5ea9-359663c210ca | ['4cc41c5e-9936-eed6-6001-887e933c063f'] | King City police chief reminds residents of rules for Fourth of July, golf carts, curfews
Since the last edition of the Regal Courier, the police department has seen an increase in the number of calls for service in King City. It appears that many of the calls involve domestic issues.
One of the resources available to ... |
c95a2a3b-0978-e308-4d7d-77c23279cafb | ['4cd3f5f6-f77f-5d35-9038-1642d7d06d44'] | Higher revenue and fair value gain on investment properties gave Frasers Centrepoint (FCL) a lift for the full year.
Net profit for the 12 months to Sept 30 came in at $689.1 million, 15.4 per cent up on the $597.2 million recorded last year, the group reported yesterday morning.
It racked up a fair value gain of $215.... | 03625c53-5d34-f5ab-6f03-77cdde775a80 | ['4cd3f5f6-f77f-5d35-9038-1642d7d06d44'] | SINGAPORE - Japanese restaurant group RE&S Holdings has priced its initial public offering of 38 million shares at 22 Singapore cents a share.
RE&S is offering 38 million shares, with 35 million shares being placed and three million shares for public subscription.
The offer price represents 11.6 times its earnings per ... |
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I’m going to cut straight to the chase — it’s silly to judge people. It’s silly because we are all pretty much equally terrible. And I do say we, because I’m certainly guilty. I judge people like it’s the career I won’t have after graduation. As for terrible, I live in an all-freshmen dorm, s... | a4d49a61-eda6-08ca-88fd-1f3ccec86e58 | ['4d4cd035-18c1-4490-3b7f-ba93137034f1'] | Hang on for a minute...we're trying to find some more stories you might like. Close
Greetings, culture lovers! This weekend, I got a library card from the Evanston Public Library. It was a magical experience.
Surrounded by actual, real-live people, instead of frazzled college students, I wanted to give each one of them... |
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(I WHISH THIS WAS A JOKE)Out #plogging (picking rubbish when jogging, so "rubbishing" in english..hehe) BUT this is a CHALLENGE!😃🚮⬇️ Let's save the oceans, our earth- 1 bag at a time! 💪 Bin Bag Challenge - #binbagchallenge We all remember the famous and viral "Ice Bucket Challenge" to rai... | 5a596f65-f80f-b4bd-17d1-b90ee57b8dd9 | ['4d5a5c31-304e-63e9-7ef3-3ce2907e661d'] | View this post on Instagram
A gray-haired man wearing a white collared shirt, red tie, and black jacket walked slowly toward us from the Brighton Pier. Cigarrete in hand, he inspected what we were doing. . “Hi! How’s it going?” we asked him as he stood closer. . “I’m having a smoke break and curious what you are doing,... |
f58f0797-5a91-02ac-3f87-15a86602e0aa | ['4d6fb893-d0d8-84cc-512a-af50e002f7a2'] | Jewish activists in Scotland have started a campaign to support the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors across the world, saying the trauma of the extermination camps continues to haunt the descendants of those who suffered there.
<PERSON>, 29, from London, said he heard constant tales of the Holocaust as he grew up, ... | 7639de02-9563-d236-f93b-ee929f5b7496 | ['4d6fb893-d0d8-84cc-512a-af50e002f7a2'] | The children's drug Ritalin has a more potent effect on the brain than cocaine, a study has found.
Using brain imaging, scientists have found that, in pill form, Ritalin - taken by thousands of British children and four million in the United States - occupies more of the neural transporters responsible for the 'high' e... |
8418e11d-f8c7-1de9-835b-6fcebbacc811 | ['4d7e9055-9c35-64ad-36f0-86b9c6e1ce7a'] | The election is over, and as we head into the holiday season, a lot of families are dreading the awkward conversations that may hover over the dinner table. Of course, families can take their time mending burnt bridges, but in the workplace, productivity can suffer as a result of higher stress.
Keeping drama out of the... | c931661e-45a8-4cf1-0175-1344c44a8259 | ['4d7e9055-9c35-64ad-36f0-86b9c6e1ce7a'] | Each new revelation of physical abuse, maltreatment, and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by American and British soldiers shocks international public opinion, leaving officials to scramble desperately to contain the damage. US Secretary of Defense <PERSON> warns that more documentary evidence of wrongdoing at Abu... |
0e21d201-770b-cad0-c72a-152e8eb6f2f5 | ['4dba3d98-506c-75a4-7541-e50a7b7a8c51'] | Connecticut shootings
On Dec. 14, a 20-year-old gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and brutally shot and killed 20 young schoolchildren and six of their teachers before taking his own life.
At the time of this writing, children are still being buried in Newtown. We’re hearing the usual m... | bedfd97b-5653-0b98-92f7-d947d91f27de | ['4dba3d98-506c-75a4-7541-e50a7b7a8c51'] | Last month, the country was shocked to learn that a gunman shot and killed 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn. The tragedy sparked yet another so-called “national conversation” about gun control, igniting predictable passions on both sides of the heated debate. While National Rifle Association leadership recommended ar... |
37d507d7-f4b5-b47e-85c9-e039cf99c27d | ['4dbc8c7c-91b9-3d3d-25dc-4b51682b5962'] | Summer is here, and with it scads of heat-beating pool time for kids across the country. With all the fun, though, comes risk. Accidental drownings are a major cause of death and injury in the United States, a problem particularly acute among children. To help those responsible for keeping kids safe in the water, Dr. <... | a31965d5-36e2-6c8f-d7d4-285e83097ade | ['4dbc8c7c-91b9-3d3d-25dc-4b51682b5962'] | NFL teams are known for doing anything the rules allow (and a few things they don’t) in an effort to gain an edge, and they’re certainly not afraid of experimenting with new technology.
That includes the St. Louis Rams, who recently gave Google Glass – the semi-sci-fi, still slightly confusing eyewear – a test run for ... |
3767b454-d3c6-be80-e9a7-6a744a1bb341 | ['4dc87506-e78f-f4ec-7bb7-96e8abf717fb'] | Photograph by Flickr user <PERSON>.
With today’s unexpectedly pleasant weather, a lot of people are wondering when the cherry blossoms will appear.
Wonder no more, Washingtonians. This morning, the National Park Service released its peak bloom prediction in a media conference at the Newseum.
The peak bloom date will li... | 5efeead4-9630-e46f-7b55-da62e2835610 | ['4dc87506-e78f-f4ec-7bb7-96e8abf717fb'] | There are lots of other places besides the jammed-up Tidal Basin to see cherry blossoms. We rounded up some of our favorite off-the-beaten-path spots.
Photograph by Flickr user <PERSON>.
Come cherry blossom season, whether you’re a novice or a hardened veteran, the swarms of people along the Potomac can be pretty overw... |
e9be9887-f1f2-6a33-9354-69424fe30797 | ['4dfbc8e9-cd52-a1bc-0de3-5981c9217204'] | Researchers say tropical regions of richest diversity are most at risk of losing frogs, toads, newts and salamanders
If the current rapid extermination of animals, plants and other species really is the "sixth mass extinction", then it is the amphibian branch of the tree of life that is undergoing the most drastic prun... | 62087d54-339c-3555-da68-0afe0684a2c5 | ['4dfbc8e9-cd52-a1bc-0de3-5981c9217204'] | Our ancestors' move from hunter-gathering to farming happened gradually rather than abruptly, food residues found in 6,000-year-old cooking pots suggests.
Evidence from pots found around the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe shows farmers at the beginning of the Neolithic period continued to cook the same types of food for... |
6e978a12-e6a8-2f75-7652-c6752e1129dc | ['4e25ca01-286e-4d73-4223-1c57046c7d83'] | Stocks soared last week, rolling up their biggest advance since 1992. Analysts said investors were buying on news of improving corporate profits and hopes that the economic soft landing was about to touch down.
But in the two weeks just prior to that, the stock market tumbled, at one point registering its biggest one-d... | 8c49c3f1-cf67-b66a-50c3-3c35ae2c5775 | ['4e25ca01-286e-4d73-4223-1c57046c7d83'] | Recovery? What recovery, wage earners may well be asking.
In four years of what economists describe as an economic expansion, corporate profits have risen nearly 60 percent.
But the latest U.S. Department of Labor survey found that wages and benefits rose only 2.9 percent in the last year -- less even than the annual 3... |
a04c32f0-add0-5ef9-8aac-7be47d93f348 | ['4e895fec-9758-63db-7a7e-bdaec8f4219d'] | <PERSON>" In the first round of the CIF Southern Section Central Division playoffs, the Paloma Valley Wildcats were a dark horse.
Friday night, the team seemed to make its case to be favorite heading into the Central Division semifinals with a 56-14 win over Ontario Colony.
The Wildcats opened the game with a 9-play, 6... | ae97ad7a-fedb-ddc0-6d53-ab10da33f70f | ['4e895fec-9758-63db-7a7e-bdaec8f4219d'] | MURRIETA â" Vista Murrietaâs perfect season rolled on Friday night, as the Broncos put away West Covina South Hills in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Inland Division playoffs, 34-6.
South Hills seemed to know it was in for a big challenge, as it opened the game with an onside kick. Vista Murrieta (11-0)... |
bb9c97a3-1308-02a3-7847-0806cb9b976b | ['4ea07e41-3d80-1b3a-dbdc-1aec11cff234'] | Regrettably, divorce is becoming an all too commonplace event in Canadian society.
Statistics Canada reports that more than 100,000 individuals a year go through divorce and 43 per cent of marriages are expected to end in divorce before they reach their 50th anniversary.
A similarly sad reality accompanying the divorce... | 677d41c5-ab44-4ef8-e202-bff03b256a79 | ['4ea07e41-3d80-1b3a-dbdc-1aec11cff234'] | Excuses, excuses! People come up with all kinds of excuses for any number of reasons or occasions: the dog ate my assignment; the cheque's in the mail; I'll clean the driveway when it stops snowing.
The same principle applies to Canadians contributing to their Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs). Canadians now ... |
b3a117ad-0821-133a-508b-abd8dc3800cf | ['4f060118-856e-34e1-b16c-c34f0fd9a50a'] | Food Network's late-night lineup is filled with cooking competition shows, but the latest, "Beat Bobby Flay," has something that makes it different: simplicity.
"What makes it unique is that it's really straight forward," <PERSON> says. "I feel like a lot of times all kinds of competition, not just food shows, but just... | 07c53f4e-7ace-5968-17ea-22802cad3f45 | ['4f060118-856e-34e1-b16c-c34f0fd9a50a'] | How many people can say that they've played two characters also portrayed by the legendary <PERSON>?
Tony Award-winner <PERSON> now can, having played Frankenstein's Monster in both the film "Van Helsing" and Broadway's "Young Frankenstein," and now he's taking on the <PERSON> in "Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Chris... |
dddbbf6a-f049-c516-a440-74256bcfff54 | ['4f166ea0-cd63-9c21-ebd0-abd176d5930e'] | The City Council asked Sen. Thomas K. Norment and Del. William K. Barlow to help spare the city, the College of William and Mary and libraries from further state cuts.
Williamsburg and agencies in the city that provide services to residents, including the library system and social services department, have lost $912,45... | eed6c396-aef9-5d8f-fcd0-37cd0602535f | ['4f166ea0-cd63-9c21-ebd0-abd176d5930e'] | The people have spoken and they want more details from the Williamsburg-James City County School Board before moving forward with a $45 million referendum for a third comprehensive high school.
Size, location and what programs are going to be offered inside the bricks and mortar were the main topics of concern voiced b... |
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