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f895c081-5620-263f-e7c5-f37f9eb83085 | ['b2b83844-707a-e02b-7f84-9c6f129cd9ba'] | (CNN) — <PERSON> says she followed all the rules when caring for an Ebola patient. So how did the Texas nurse contract the deadly virus?
“I have no idea,” she told CNN. “I go through it almost daily in my mind: what happened, what went wrong. Because I was covered completely every time. I followed the CDC protocol. … I... | 79165736-fa67-fdad-add3-0ca2447116f3 | ['b2b83844-707a-e02b-7f84-9c6f129cd9ba'] | (CNN) - As US officials scramble to track down hundreds of parents who were deported without their children, attorneys are sparring over a key question: Should deported parents be brought back to the U.S. as part of reunification efforts?
Government attorneys argue that's taking things too far. But ACLU attorneys say i... |
73670cf3-ab15-c0e1-ab37-369dd1e54ad1 | ['b2c786c4-e309-f05b-de01-1b9bd65bd7d0'] | Ocean Township, NJ – The Gallery on Grant will present the works of visual artist <PERSON> at a special exhibition running August 23 through October 29. The Gallery is located adjacent to the lobby of the Axelrod Performing Arts Center at 100 Grant Avenue in Ocean Township. Entry is free to the public and everything on... | 5bfe3e77-8be8-5b27-6cc9-c7a3543f3376 | ['b2c786c4-e309-f05b-de01-1b9bd65bd7d0'] | DEAL, NJ - Continuing a tradition of support to community-based, independent cinemas, <PERSON> and Columbia Records have once again partnered together to offer a widely acclaimed <PERSON> film. On Sunday, May 1 @ 8:30 and Monday, May 2 @ 7:30 pm the Axelrod Performing Arts Center, 100 Grant Avenue, Deal will show a spe... |
6a2b21bb-1023-1cf5-ba68-c5f7db0b0a5a | ['b2d100ac-b64d-ed4c-fcd0-b2e69342bcf7'] | Born in Cumbria in 1975, <PERSON> grew up on the edge of the Solway Firth and in the city of Carlisle. He has written four collections of poems, The Brink (2003), Little Gods (2006), The Havocs (2012) and Jackself (2016), and a novel, Talk of the Town (2009), which is a coming-of-age murder mystery set in Cumbria. He h... | a8f1f45a-4e70-1b4f-5072-90f8d386cb0e | ['b2d100ac-b64d-ed4c-fcd0-b2e69342bcf7'] | When my days were all nearly all my own, I used to keep to a routine. Turn up at the page. Achieve something, a little something, before the afternoon crept in with interesting stuff on the radio, a walk in the air, that first glass of wine … I’ve written prose and poetry, and I found that a routine was essential for t... |
225727fb-7f99-cf2c-d3ee-3a32f7029e8c | ['b2d6f7b5-007a-b0a6-b7fa-ce3d9f44044c'] | FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A Fort Wayne man was charged this week with beating and molesting his girlfriend’s 1-year-old baby.
<PERSON>, 27, of 3031 Broadway was charged this week in Allen Superior Court with Child Molesting, Battery Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, Neglect of a Dependent, Unlawful Possession of a Fi... | b494877b-6b9c-bf28-b04a-c4c3366398e7 | ['b2d6f7b5-007a-b0a6-b7fa-ce3d9f44044c'] | Related Coverage Former Massachusetts teacher admits to raping a teen
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – On March 16, Fort Wayne Community Schools sent out a letter informing parents that two staffers had been removed from classrooms at Wayne High School due to two separate incidents.
According to court documents filed March 17... |
4007db80-4fae-9426-f7f7-4be08ced070b | ['b2f5304b-8317-ffc9-7f59-cdd8d3798867'] | As a popular mummy blogger, <PERSON> knows how to take an artfully posed family snap guaranteed to get her fans double tapping.
But she's not afraid to share the more a more candid glimpse of the realities of motherhood, as her latest post proves.
When the mother-of-four, from Dallas, Texas, and her brood piled on to h... | 6a7bfce0-01b2-9936-e09e-d57c6ea48291 | ['b2f5304b-8317-ffc9-7f59-cdd8d3798867'] | A student whose dramatic weight loss left her with an 'apron stomach' and 'breasts like flattened watermelons' now has the body she's dreamed of - after her mother paid for her $20,000 skin removal surgery.
<PERSON>, from Las Vegas, who ballooned to 315lbs (22st 7lbs) after bingeing on cake, McDonald's and pizza, manag... |
040af808-a78f-1db7-782e-d7b0833f4409 | ['b3566f0e-5311-82fb-8035-a03a85261b10'] | Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by iStock.
<PERSON>, a 66-year-old resident of southern Maine, began working as a young teenager, eventually securing a job with her local public school system. She worked for 29 years as the administrative assistant for the district’s adult education program. After a surgery require... | 31b3b4cb-9130-317f-266e-b0aa50d2b163 | ['b3566f0e-5311-82fb-8035-a03a85261b10'] | So, you've made that big first step of landing an internship, maybe even at your dream company. These days, it's almost a prerequisite for a job, and it's certainly the best way for college students to gain relevant work experience and make themselves marketable to future employers. Plus, it gives you a great, low-comm... |
0d387120-d4b6-de1d-2d61-4ce589ff08c5 | ['b3972327-ad70-24bb-e000-4ea6b8f8383b'] | How wonderful when a grandmother can sit with her granddaughter and read the same children's book she used to read as a little girl. This Christmas it happened with the Italian classic Il Primo Libro di Susanna (Susanna's First Book) by <PERSON>.
It's a simple, sweet story: <PERSON> visits the zoo with her little dog U... | e0619c87-74e7-c3e8-a326-86e36c9b6b45 | ['b3972327-ad70-24bb-e000-4ea6b8f8383b'] | When she'd appear on CNN International reporting live from Moscow, I remember thinking, What a formidable journalist.
More than a dozen years later, I am happy to report I still find her formidable. But this time, my thoughts are very much, What a formidable mother.
<PERSON> -- author of Flirting with Danger: Confessio... |
a2912830-ca7f-faa9-59d7-651a06d3f739 | ['b399e613-0a55-882a-8e6f-1e8f0bb12289'] | Whether it’s coming alive in September, being able to read each other or getting into a scoring frenzy, the Knights (3-3) know what it means to be resilient and never give up.
After losing to Miami in a preseason game and then opening the season with losses to ranked opponents, now No. 6 Duke and No. 8 North Carolina a... | 5d175edd-6ef9-be34-ae48-2ed4e0eb485e | ['b399e613-0a55-882a-8e6f-1e8f0bb12289'] | ORLANDO, Fla - Former University of Central Florida football player and current Kansas City Chief offensive guard <PERSON> has decided to sue UCF for using his image and name without compensation or his permission.
The former Knight that first joined UCF as a true freshman back in 2006 became a big threat on the gridir... |
96571773-06f1-de27-2c7f-58c43376055c | ['b3a84bab-60aa-6ce4-ea11-a16c88e09819'] | It's been a few weeks since my last post, and that's partly because we've had a jam-packed schedule this summer. Most recently, my little brother flew here from New York for a three-week visit. Neither <PERSON> or I could take any time off from work so we tried to schedule all of our activities on the weekends and even... | 85a46f2a-8384-1414-8006-5e4e4614fdbf | ['b3a84bab-60aa-6ce4-ea11-a16c88e09819'] | CAMP FOSTER — Students at E.C. Killin Elementary School explored a wide variety of career fields March 29 during the school’s career day.
More than 40 active-duty and civilian volunteers presented main aspects of their professions to students throughout the day. Students rotated from one classroom to another, learning ... |
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Preparing himself for the mega-event in April, AKON has sent a message to Prime Minister <PERSON>.
In the message AKON sent to <PERSON>, he said that he is excited to come to Pakistan and perform at the World Soccer Stars 2019, being organized by Touch Sky Group.
AKON will headline a blockbuster year for Pakista... | 247c1f18-8ef3-245c-e61c-3c053a56cc98 | ['b42839aa-a74b-1423-6632-2aca77b59fb4'] | Share:
Nearly a year has passed by since the images of a lifeless <PERSON>, washed up on a shoreline, surfaced on the internet. The images shocked the world and broke many hearts. But the question is: how much has really changed in Syria since then? Recently, another little soul, <PERSON>, swathed in dust and his own b... |
1d42bfc7-2a9d-e282-0044-fd8a9f6dc029 | ['b444fbd7-e44b-6ddd-cc1e-8d9f5d69568c'] | This is a unique moment in history, when God has given us the means to dramatically reduce hunger and poverty.
The pangs of hunger can be
so painful and physiologically destructive, especially for children. Yet hunger also produces a more intangible pang — that of stigma and shame.
Ironically, stigma is not just confin... | 8026310c-2374-b25a-cc2d-ac9bcc3c471a | ['b444fbd7-e44b-6ddd-cc1e-8d9f5d69568c'] | For millions of American Jews, the official end of the summer season brings with it an important new beginning. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year,
ushers in the holiest period of the Jewish calendar.
Called the Days of Repentance, the 10 days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur allow Jews around the world to celebrate a ... |
101fdeef-b45e-abe4-c77e-aba7c349174a | ['b44f4072-cc28-1878-5703-4fbdd2311104'] | The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) is pulling the plug on three Chinese companies accused of carrying out illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in West Africa waters, demonstrating an increased intolerance by authorities towards Chinese vessels involved in IUU.
In a statement issued by Greenpeace Afr... | f07a1ef1-b8e6-939d-c772-6d14a2c5117f | ['b44f4072-cc28-1878-5703-4fbdd2311104'] | The management of Intels Nigeria Limited (INL) has said that contrary to allegations, that the company does not owe the Oil and Gas Export Free Zone Authority (OGFZA) and its operations do not violate the OGFZA Act.
INL in a statement described the allegations as “false and malicious,” adding that it had meetings with ... |
08741c69-9216-61ae-8b9f-65fcfe64f942 | ['b4610758-e7fd-95d1-07a0-0f0dba82187d'] | The NRDC Action Fund just released a book called Reckless: The Political Assault on the American Environment, about the House Republican majority that cast more than 200 votes against environmental safeguards last year.
We aren’t the only ones dismayed by the rise in GOP extremism. Republican leaders are too.
This week... | 13055a7c-ca4a-f24f-4a5d-6da96e1beb75 | ['b4610758-e7fd-95d1-07a0-0f0dba82187d'] | Anyone who wants to create a cleaner, healthier, and more stable environment for their children has a reason to celebrate today. The Environmental Protection Agency has issued the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from new power plants. This is a major public health and environmental breakthrough, and every smart p... |
c0bceee2-0a89-0706-9dc0-4c70f62e2b15 | ['b47c23ee-fd62-8360-347a-835878ae1498'] | Eight months after it opened in New York, the La Jolla Playhouse-launched musical “Come From Away” continues to go strong on Broadway.
The latest evidence: The show, which had its world premiere at the Playhouse in June 2015, has just broken the box-office record at Manhattan's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
“Come From Awa... | 509383d3-ab4a-7afa-ad1e-c0a1b18b3ead | ['b47c23ee-fd62-8360-347a-835878ae1498'] | The La Jolla Playhouse-birthed Broadway musical “Come From Away” is hitting the big screen — not to mention winging its way to the West Coast again.
An L.A.-based film production company announced today it will produce and finance a movie adaptation of the fact-based show, which won a Tony Award this year for director ... |
f1776efc-d3f0-dea2-25e3-1f06730d9d47 | ['b4a05e8f-1155-3b5c-b0b9-986dc7801772'] | Why Last Season Will Be Liverpool's Best For A Really Long Time
Despite ultimately finishing with no silverware, there is no doubt that last season was a huge success for Liverpool. <PERSON> was in devastating form, <PERSON> adapted very well to his role as a deep-lying playmaker and <PERSON> emerged as one of the best... | 3002bdd2-faa7-7984-ddaa-1984a2aa176e | ['b4a05e8f-1155-3b5c-b0b9-986dc7801772'] | <PERSON> was a wonderful servant for Arsenal from the moment he arrived from Auxerre; solid, dependable and virtually unbeatable in the air, his departure on a free to Manchester City will be a big blow to Arsenal next season. The <PERSON> deal has yet to be confirmed by either club (which is a situation that will chan... |
515061cf-e11b-48a9-b6dd-a54722ed81f2 | ['b4c353f3-9d12-9d7f-8855-c8497c62b4fe'] | Project leaders say they had butterflies in their stomachs as crews hoisted the nearly 2,000-pound cupola 60 feet into the air, to be installed on top of the New Canal Lighthouse. Organizers say it marks a key point in the rebuilding process, after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the building seven years ago.
The cupola is... | f1bd9234-34c6-d2ee-ffd5-af335d3176a3 | ['b4c353f3-9d12-9d7f-8855-c8497c62b4fe'] | Assessor says more than 60,000 assessments were sent out this year
New Orleans property owners lined the walls of City Hall Thursday, hoping to address their latest property assessments. However, some property owners who called WDSU say the process hasn't been easy.
"The city of New Orleans is a hard place to live righ... |
e51de0c1-053f-a98d-8ada-a75334cbc1bb | ['b4c3ca0b-60eb-f0b9-87f6-0fefe3d61e99'] | news, local-news
IN a blow to the region's renewable energy generation prospects, Greenpower Energy Limited (ASX: GPP) has announced that its will not pursue its geothermal energy exploration project at its Mount Ridley site near Esperance. Last year Greenpower secured a state government co-funded drilling grant of $12... | 49aea8e3-5bbb-a698-75de-c68aa3334847 | ['b4c3ca0b-60eb-f0b9-87f6-0fefe3d61e99'] | news, local-news
MEMBER for Eyre <PERSON> has called for a review of Royalties for Regions funding, saying the program needs to be more balanced in terms of allocations. This follows Dr <PERSON>' call last week for the regional development portfolio to be given to a Liberal member. Dr <PERSON>, along with fellow Libera... |
6db0fafc-027a-4973-a139-a6d1dac54c25 | ['b4c5d78a-b369-fb83-4d71-ae68f8fce91c'] | LOS ANGELES A man dressed in a bulletproof vest and fire-resistant pants was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after a smoke grenade, gas mask, leg irons and weapons were discovered in his luggage, federal authorities said Tuesday.
Boston-bound <PERSON>, 28, was arrested Friday on suspicion of transporting ... | b7286840-6b2a-8c64-5c3f-8288ab6e662d | ['b4c5d78a-b369-fb83-4d71-ae68f8fce91c'] | A former member of the so-called Billionaire Boys Club who served jail time after being convicted of killing his father is wanted by authorities for a San Francisco hit-and-run accident that killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said Thursday.
<PERSON>, 52, is wanted on misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in the death of <PE... |
c1124544-4440-ecf0-0373-aacf1d458b8e | ['b5504e6c-a41a-74ce-eb32-525b8e77a9a2'] | View Comments During the regular 2017 session I ended up introducing more bills than I did in my freshman year.
It has been an honor to serve you in the Legislature this past session and I wanted to take a moment to fill you in on some of what has happened.
During the regular 2017 session I ended up introducing more bi... | 3ed9954c-71c0-e461-bae7-72c6be08b8ed | ['b5504e6c-a41a-74ce-eb32-525b8e77a9a2'] | View Comments Representative wants readers to be informed about some costs with the Transportation Package.
As we are midway through December and Christmas is upon us, I wanted to write a few things preparing you for what's coming in 2018.
I feel it's important to tell you about some of the taxes and fees related to Ho... |
2e3983f9-399b-f04e-49bc-b5d42e638645 | ['b5976c00-506f-46a8-510e-1f37758625a2'] | <PERSON>, 22, grew up in London. A model and actor, she stars in the romantic comedy Love, Rosie, out on 22 October, and recently finished filming the sci-fi thriller Insurgent, out next year. Earlier this year, she attended the Oscars and the White House State Dinner with her boyfriend, the actor <PERSON>. She lives b... | 63f5f3fd-7aed-9240-89bc-c8a27c6d9a14 | ['b5976c00-506f-46a8-510e-1f37758625a2'] | Each week, the Guardian Weekend magazine's editorial team choose a picture, or series of pictures, with a powerful or surprising story to tell. This week, their choice is <PERSON> look at closed Russian science towns built for developing atomic bombs and ballistic missile testing
Award-winning photographer <PERSON> is ... |
a37e356c-c80b-1c83-0611-eeb29fca1683 | ['b597a67c-d9d9-680d-2f21-05c3562d4f91'] | The people started gathering as early as 5am for President <PERSON>'s rally at Mucheke Stadium B Arena on Friday last week.
And by mid-afternoon, thousands had filled the open space, perhaps one of the largest crowds for a rally so far, as the country moves towards the harmonised elections on July 30.
The dancing, the ... | ac1013a4-40d8-de28-251e-055488cdb6c7 | ['b597a67c-d9d9-680d-2f21-05c3562d4f91'] | Photo: Daily News
Chinese President <PERSON> (file photo).
column
This week we publish a chapter from Chinese President <PERSON>'s book titled "Up and Out of Poverty".
The chapter titled "Economic Chorus" is based on a speech President <PERSON> made in 1988 when he was working in Ningde Perfecture, then one of Fujian P... |
4014944e-4272-e667-367d-43b6f66f39c4 | ['b5af07ab-8c00-8ca5-0a34-1150643e8cf9'] | “Thank you, good night!”
Those words, uttered in Italian (“ Grazie, buonanotte!“) from a balcony at Castle Gandolfo on Thursday, were the last Pope <PERSON> spoke in public as shepherd to the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.
Hours later, two members of the Swiss Guard closed the wooden doors of the papal summer res... | 092bb163-3858-2757-806a-55bc8e8fbf6e | ['b5af07ab-8c00-8ca5-0a34-1150643e8cf9'] | VATICAN CITY As a person of faith, the work I do as a journalist is more than just a job. To me it is both a vocation (in the spiritual sense of that word) and, in some sense, a ministry.
But I'm all too aware that not everyone would agree that journalists fulfill any sort of higher calling.
Happily, on Saturday I lear... |
885d4880-33d6-261b-693c-cf9cb23f7582 | ['b5ea06af-de56-4d86-6d10-241472642428'] | RICHMOND — Richmond is getting closer to updating franchise agreements with companies that own and operate the network of pipelines running under city streets.
The City Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance that creates a uniform method for issuing franchises, something the city lacked before. It also sets term limi... | 614778b6-8022-fa33-ca9a-cf993b238f5c | ['b5ea06af-de56-4d86-6d10-241472642428'] | RICHMOND — Richmond city leaders gave final approval Tuesday to a new medical pot club ordinance, formally capping the number of medical marijuana dispensaries allowed at three.
Medical marijuana dispensaries are restricted to regional commercial districts, which are the big shopping hubs at Hilltop Mall and Pacific Ea... |
3c80a54b-322b-4261-16ff-7b6aba7cc799 | ['b62402f1-e43b-53db-83be-fc9ac2fe1189'] | <PERSON> / NOOR FOR TIME Down but not out A defaced <PERSON> portrait at an opposition office in Libya
The number of people who have died on the streets of Libya remains a mystery, as is the degree of <PERSON> direct responsibility for their deaths. No one knows how long <PERSON> will last or how much blood will have t... | e74445b3-635f-e063-e7a2-77f0728e781d | ['b62402f1-e43b-53db-83be-fc9ac2fe1189'] | The attack by rebel forces on El Salvador's second-largest military base on Tuesday says much about the situation in that republic. It also sheds light on attitudes and policies in Washington, where wishful thinking and short-term political considerations have completely replaced serious analysis with regard to Central... |
bfe97fb3-760b-0975-0be3-0c4fbc960f3c | ['b63c8bff-8812-345a-ed8b-7e9fc2c22b73'] | <PERSON> and <PERSON> each had a goal and an assist to lead the Nashville Predators over the Ottawa Senators 3-1 on Tuesday night.
<PERSON> also scored for Nashville, and <PERSON> made 33 saves. The Predators had lost their previous two games in shootouts.
<PERSON> scored and <PERSON> made 27 saves for Ottawa, which ha... | 9f035d0f-cf2a-ea57-67ef-3eed3c0192ab | ['b63c8bff-8812-345a-ed8b-7e9fc2c22b73'] | NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Predators' amazing, improbable playoff run finally is over.
After capturing the hearts of Nashville's country music stars and tens of thousands more in and around Music City, Nashville's season ended at the hands of the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-0 in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final.
Not many gave Nas... |
b6f86e21-0020-c010-5154-264b4ad0eb93 | ['b65337c5-2075-c466-b528-50faa5f45379'] | Some biotechnology firms have had one heck of a 2013 thus far: Clovis Oncology Inc. (NASDAQ:CLVS) presented monster data for their cancer drug at ASCO and saw its' shares explode as much as 130% overnight. Pharmacyclics (NASDAQ:PCYC) shares have risen over 100% over the past 12 months on the heels of its cancer compoun... | 68f8a50e-3814-1040-a263-23c618c45952 | ['b65337c5-2075-c466-b528-50faa5f45379'] | HALO data by YCharts
On June 17, 2013 I published an article titled "Halozyme Firing On All Cylinders: Should Investors Get Behind The Wheel?"
Well, that question was met with a resounding yes only 11 days later as Halozyme (NASDAQ:HALO) would receive a positive opinion from the EMA for their drug Herceptin SC, an upda... |
e3ca4385-e3af-0f82-7270-302e017b173d | ['b6973ead-2787-329b-0f8a-b5bde9520bc1'] | You report that Britain's nuclear weapons strategy "will be subjected to unprecedented independent scrutiny by a group of senior defence, diplomatic, scientific and political figures" (Commission to examine case for nuclear weapons, 9 February).
This is a welcome development, and I am reassured by the facilitating role... | ae12c5ff-ee4d-93a3-a542-85f4a84c464c | ['b6973ead-2787-329b-0f8a-b5bde9520bc1'] | Last Sunday's revelation, published in The Observer, of a 'top secret' US memo, supposedly showing that the NSA has eavesdropped on members of the UN Security Council in recent weeks for insights into their negotiating positions on Iraq, is shocking. But perhaps not for the reasons that might first come to mind.
While ... |
1af1771d-b29e-e6b1-31e3-7576fe7e70cf | ['b6b5c5e0-ddeb-01b2-0885-f31b4f5a0028'] | Sure, buy a liquor store. Ha, Ha.
But wine can be an investment since it is a commodity and the value of highly prized wines fluctuates and can even be tracked on the Internet and in The Wine Spectator. A recent incident brought this topic to my attention. Last week we held an arboretum tour, wine tasting and dinner fu... | 029b3b74-6587-317d-2e84-4e71ad5fa296 | ['b6b5c5e0-ddeb-01b2-0885-f31b4f5a0028'] | We all remember the <PERSON> tale about the tailors who fashioned the emperor a new set of clothes. The garments, according to the crafty fabricators, were not visible to the ignorant or uneducated, but could only be seen by those with exquisite taste. The emperor, as well as the general populace, not wishing to be vie... |
e7ad98ec-c0e1-d456-53c9-68ed7255f13b | ['b6e63d85-fae5-6b55-0c43-e68037b8c876'] | All of us have promised that we won’t forget. But have we learned?
Have we learned that unity among people is fleeting and doesn’t just happen? That it must be sustained intentionally by leaders and each one of us? That divisive demagoguery, both in office and over the air waves, weakens the ties that bind us?
Have we ... | fa730978-84e5-f21c-c955-c8c917401fc5 | ['b6e63d85-fae5-6b55-0c43-e68037b8c876'] | A few years ago, I worked for a women’s rights NGO, mobilizing men and boys both to stop violence in their communities against women and girls and to advocate for gender equality. Though the funding ran out for my position, and I no longer work for the organization, I haven’t stopped. Why?
Because.
Because, according t... |
b262dbd5-1fed-2f72-3ff5-e8fc248b2102 | ['b6e65388-1b76-f6cb-5da9-9cf996f5acf1'] | Virginia Politics
Since Election Day, Democrats at the national level have moved sharply left. Virginia Democrats, meanwhile, are trying to get to the right of Republicans.
Or are they?
Lawrence H. Framme III, who chairs the Democratic Party in Virginia, has been lashing out at GOP elected officials as big spenders, bu... | 296b6421-bc3a-70d3-03bc-08b68c9d1cc9 | ['b6e65388-1b76-f6cb-5da9-9cf996f5acf1'] | Republicans
Is it crazy to think that Virginia could find itself in a fiscal mess resembling California's? Let's look at what brought on California's problems and see if there are any parallels here.
In recent decades, Californians developed a political culture that treated fiscal conservatism as a selfish impulse. Res... |
8d9709dd-96cd-53c6-9ec7-eeccd69e512a | ['b729e6c9-31ac-177f-46ca-9eb3955ed89d'] | Congratulations, Sarah Carlson, for completing the 2014 Bank of America Chicago Marathon as a member of Team Imerman Angels! Sarah Carlson and 130 other Team Imerman Angels runners helped raise $210,000 in funds beneffiting Imerman Angels missions to provide one-on-one cancer support for cancer fighters, survivors and ... | d558e694-622c-5f71-f441-ce1f9d035471 | ['b729e6c9-31ac-177f-46ca-9eb3955ed89d'] | The Long Grove Business and Community Partners (LGBCP) is proud to welcome new additions to their array of charming shops, exceptional full service restaurants and fast casual dining, including businesses supporting art, and gourmet food. New openings in Long Grove include Epilogue gallery and Galena Canning Company. P... |
72a44e77-9bae-72b7-bb99-5bafb8701066 | ['b785f5ca-7f22-1776-84b1-e92f50704c7f'] | Google Mobile Ads Blog
YouTube will now let people viewing clips on the site by way of their mobile devices skip video ads after 5 seconds, the same way they can when watching clips on a desktop or laptop computer.
The video site said in a blog post today that its TrueView ads -- launched for PCs in December of 2010 --... | 5649a4fe-cc7d-4e51-25ef-30c59dfe60f2 | ['b785f5ca-7f22-1776-84b1-e92f50704c7f'] | <PERSON>
If you're using Microsoft's online email and file-storage services, you'll now get a special heads-up if your accounts are hit by state-sponsored hackers, a warning that you should take additional steps to secure your accounts.
The world's biggest software company had already been telling people using Outlook.... |
9c4dc94f-87b2-d651-a738-0e62f44edd80 | ['b793bc98-213c-755d-f1dc-101d563c952d'] | PONTIAC, Mich. (WXYZ) - What is the truth behind the two Pontiac School Millages on the ballot next month?
Finding out is the the goal of a town hall meeting Monday night. It is happening at the Newman A-M-E Church in Pontiac at 7 o’clock. Organizers of the event say panelists and attendees will discuss the pros and co... | 9a0cf125-d95e-4cc8-e326-97bd193a1855 | ['b793bc98-213c-755d-f1dc-101d563c952d'] | The MDEQ says after talks with Detroit Bulk Storage, the company has stopped taking in shipments of petroleum coke.
7 Action News told you about the giant piles near the Ambassador Bridge of the oil by-product earlier this year. It is created by Marathon Oil, then sold to Koch Carbon, and stored by Detroit Bulk Storage... |
b1c0518a-9621-9ede-7ee0-690ed91fdf46 | ['b7ce5fc8-b569-8fc0-c581-e6cfb901b17a'] | In early September, some of the people seemingly best placed to help Costa Rica reduce emissions from transportation — the Achilles heel of the country’s carbon neutrality goal — held a forum at the Jade Museum in downtown San José to talk about how to do it.
On the panel was the author of a bill that would cut taxes o... | f8e0271e-1ee8-a633-3f98-318facdeff92 | ['b7ce5fc8-b569-8fc0-c581-e6cfb901b17a'] | Costa Rica’s annual car show, ExpoMóvil, kicked off its 10-day event Thursday, offering consumers special financing deals and a chance to inspect nearly every new car and motorcycle on the market here in a pleasant, easily walkable space. Recreational vehicles and heavy machinery are also on display — and for sale.
“Un... |
2b8b10d7-f9ce-3c63-5d60-eff6b543fe9f | ['b7e68a60-f704-ce98-3b6b-d8b90d259388'] | The video, made by a charity for young people, was initially inspired by an article in The Economist, which suggested there were ‘minor’ forms of FGM
A youth-led charity has had online success with a music video that rejects claims that there are “minor” forms of female genital mutilation (FGM). Integrate UK created #M... | 058d9d74-3e10-7f6d-10ab-d5de87e1daff | ['b7e68a60-f704-ce98-3b6b-d8b90d259388'] | Since opening in 2007, Acton clinic has seen more than 1,000 women and houses experts in the field of female genital mutilation
A London clinic for women who have undergone female genital mutilation is being forced to close after the local council withdrew funding from March 2017.
The Acton African Well Woman Centre wa... |
d805cf59-dde0-c202-7682-909f5f8dbff5 | ['b807a7dd-bd9b-a382-9b71-6c58c339a56f'] | He won plaudits for playing <PERSON> in two blockbuster thrillers.
But <PERSON> has been axed from the all-action role – because he simply doesn’t measure up.
British author <PERSON>, who wrote the books on which the films are based, says that at 5ft 7in <PERSON> is far too short to play the former US military policema... | 9dafd3fc-58ba-00c1-ebea-009431450c12 | ['b807a7dd-bd9b-a382-9b71-6c58c339a56f'] | <PERSON> once fought off a sex attack in a lift – by a man she had just interviewed, she has revealed.
The former This Morning presenter, 61, said the assault happened when she worked for the ITV regional franchise Television South in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
She said: 'I remember doing a television show when I ... |
d97d6dc4-4951-4b65-6524-62e8c8fb2064 | ['b80878b1-1e66-ecce-7bf7-54fd3b99c7a2'] | 'He's my hero because of two films he made: Ninotchka, and To Be or Not to Be'
On the wall of <PERSON> office, as an interviewer for the Paris Review observed, "in gilt letters eight inches high is the question HOW WOULD <PERSON> DO IT?" Everyone should have that question on their wall.
<PERSON> was born in 1892 in Ber... | 14ab76ac-a270-9392-cb15-a4ce16e6a1d3 | ['b80878b1-1e66-ecce-7bf7-54fd3b99c7a2'] | The other day, I was reading a secondhand copy of <PERSON> book of criticism The Psychological Novel. <PERSON> was most famous for being the biographer of <PERSON>. In this book, however, his concerns were more theoretical: he wanted to trace a history of that strange entity - the psychological novel.
Early on, he quot... |
553e52e9-c5be-da7f-d84a-6bd076718067 | ['b80fe7cd-241e-1825-44dc-c453767a7a69'] | The huge mound blocked a major route leading in and out of Austrey, a small village in Atherstone, Warwickshire. <PERSON> had to take an alternative route to work after the rubbish obstructed her commute on Monday. The 32-year-old, who works in Loughborough, said flytipping has become so bad in the area her partner eve... | bde48458-baea-3a1a-7f91-82d9d02971b9 | ['b80fe7cd-241e-1825-44dc-c453767a7a69'] | UK low-cost carrier EasyJet's push to force the pace of next-generation narrowbody development is being widely viewed as an attempt to set aviation on a strictly sustainable course.
EasyJet has revealed its own "eco-friendly" aircraft design, which it says uses existing technologies that could halve carbon dioxide emis... |
1f158d67-4666-4ac3-3df7-96c8c44b95d4 | ['b8104049-ecca-b246-deb5-950ca11010af'] | The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 blasted apart the country’s political structure and left behind widespread chaos, but Iraqis may be slowly digging out of the wreckage, says ex-CIA official <PERSON>.
By <PERSON>
Iraqi politics are in turmoil — nothing new here. Not surprisingly, the post-invasion order is taking a lon... | 060e6408-c9e0-2744-84f2-03e1d9e86a93 | ['b8104049-ecca-b246-deb5-950ca11010af'] | So-called “free trade” in textiles has led retailers to seek out the cheapest labor and to neglect safety measures, factors in a devastating Bangladesh fire in 2013 that killed more than 1,000 workers, recalls <PERSON>.
By <PERSON>
It was three years ago in April that the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed wit... |
d7ae7bfa-fc2e-6795-7762-930d217a619b | ['b814acc0-aded-10f2-57a1-609fb905d856'] | Most Popular
We run, I'm proud to say given the landscape, a growing branded-entertainment and alternative-marketing agency. That said, we continually face the same challenges as other agencies when looking to work with new clients. In spite of its popularity, no one really knows what branded entertainment actually is ... | fa50d024-3e4c-25b7-5aa7-f147d732232e | ['b814acc0-aded-10f2-57a1-609fb905d856'] | Ask anyone who runs an agency, especially a boutique agency, and they'll tell you that the most challenging aspect is new-business development.
Developing an account, growing the business and expanding your services once you've established a client relationship is relatively easy. Provide good client service, good valu... |
a3a79acc-3138-953b-e378-37967d26a81b | ['b81ad974-684a-6309-2dde-99d8dc7215a4'] | This morning was both a Farallons morning and an almost-full-moon morning. From my vantage point midspan on the GGB, the Farallon Islands floated on the western horizon while, just north, the almost-full moon sank in to the Pacific Ocean. Awesome. It was a not-so-subtle reminder that we are denizens of a water planet, ... | ebe03ab9-9ef2-a0eb-721f-f9ac705f0768 | ['b81ad974-684a-6309-2dde-99d8dc7215a4'] | Join the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition on Wednesday June 15 at their 2011 Golden Wheel Awards to celebrate SF’s increasing number of people who have ditched the car and are using pedal-power instead and the unique planning efforts behind making the city even more biker-friendly. The event takes place in the War Memor... |
7c08b0b0-f8f7-9a74-48f4-5b681a78021b | ['b81ce602-e59c-4ad6-f09d-d368df8361b8'] | Township Productions will host the Session Five Bi-monthly Poetry Project on 9 October at Goethe Institut Namibia, under the theme 'A voice from my thoughts -feeling the Word.
The session will kick off at 19:30 and will challenge poets to share their thoughts and give strength to the word be it spoken or written.
The a... | 02768144-3e1a-2248-86ee-ce0150011375 | ['b81ce602-e59c-4ad6-f09d-d368df8361b8'] | Amos Meerkat Pre-school Training Programme recently received N$500,000 from FirstRand Namibia Foundation Trust.
The Amos Meerkat Pre-school Training Programme hosted a Monitor's Workshop last month to equip the Monitors with the necessary skills that would assist them in carrying out their responsibilities.
Through the... |
d1b4b19f-982b-4b58-94d3-e9927bdc448b | ['b89d53d0-e62d-0381-73ec-394cdb3c0d24'] | In several posts recently I have discussed the harmful demands the right is engaging in related to the so-called "fiscal cliff" created by the original <PERSON> tax cuts (set to sunset en masse), the artificial debt ceiling (used by the GOP to exact promises of spending cuts during a recession along with extension of u... | 8413e66e-0ebb-724b-e5e9-36c0c28c7ed7 | ['b89d53d0-e62d-0381-73ec-394cdb3c0d24'] | Keynesian economic theory is the only theory that has gotten much of what's gone on in the last few decades correct, but of course the GOP market fundamentalists, in reliance on the unrealistic assumptions of most freshwater economics, still claim that all we need to do is starve the beast more, cut taxes and regulatio... |
c0823507-70c7-26ab-648c-d643cc9cab08 | ['b924f2c0-17f0-f09b-9c68-8fea002b9f3d'] | I’m part of the generation that grew up on the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Vietnam War and Woodstock. Those were revolutionary and uncertain times; and we were going to change the world.
In many ways, we have. But now, my fellow baby boomers and I are reaching retirement age – the first generation of boomers is now eligib... | 6de3594c-27e3-7858-f561-19f98537df4e | ['b924f2c0-17f0-f09b-9c68-8fea002b9f3d'] | OC Preferred will offer a wide range of services including gym, dental, vision and hearing benefits. north Orange County residents can receive one-on-one personal attention at its two Medicare Information and Vitality Centers in Anaheim (927 S. Brookhurst St.) and Santa Ana (2022 E. 17th St.).
I'm part of the generatio... |
a0fccdbc-65a0-f5e9-8cbf-65c3f9730876 | ['b98f6db7-4b4f-53e6-753a-13c22344d5ab'] | I know that preventive home maintenance is the grown-up way to save money in the long term and keep rats out of my pantry in the short term. All my friends from Shangri-La tell me so. And let’s face it, they’re the only people on the planet who practice preventive home maintenance.
But I’ll grant for the sake of argume... | 49bd68f8-61d1-6d88-3213-c4f38c13edeb | ['b98f6db7-4b4f-53e6-753a-13c22344d5ab'] | For tax payments, “nudges” have helped municipalities increase revenues and decrease collection-related costs. For energy consumption, “nudges” have helped homeowners save money and utilities preserve capacity.
But in health care, the technique has been slower to catch on.
First described by the pioneering economists <... |
49f46d1c-1451-ceec-5589-9db081263556 | ['b9a22370-2cfb-eab7-51ef-f9b0ddfb302a'] | One woman has cleaned house for the other for a decade. This proximity would seem the only connection between the two, as their financial circumstances and every aspect of their backgrounds are totally different. So is the way they deal with their lot in life. This is the focus of “Mrs. Dexter and Her Daily,” the stati... | c1762352-88f8-ece8-a76b-32458ce9a764 | ['b9a22370-2cfb-eab7-51ef-f9b0ddfb302a'] | As soon as rights became available to <PERSON> “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?” Canadian theaters jumped on the bandwagon, with Ottawa’s GCTC snagging the national premiere. Montreal’s Centaur Theater and Edmonton’s Citadel Theater will follow close behind.
Presenting a Tony Award-winner by one of North America’s premier ... |
b0e5476f-34e7-9305-3b4b-82fe6e2f317c | ['b9a3c69f-869b-7519-829f-76ef64798873'] | AUSTIN (KXAN) — Senate Bill 179, also known as David’s Law, is named after 16-year-old <PERSON> of San Antonio who took his own life in January of 2016 after being harassed online.
Texas lawmakers Tuesday afternoon will hear testimony from <PERSON>’s family and other families impacted by cyberbullying. “<PERSON>’s Law”... | 4e844e2c-03b8-3785-e959-ed0305d313c1 | ['b9a3c69f-869b-7519-829f-76ef64798873'] | AUSTIN (KXAN) — After a full closure on Tuesday, school districts are now monitoring the weather to determine what should happen Wednesday. While precipitation has moved out of the area, temperatures will remain below freezing through Wednesday morning, which could create an icy situation.
As school district officials ... |
1242e229-2fcd-c71c-02c0-cf9ed9a04fbe | ['b9be94b7-b170-c5f1-b797-74acd2ed14d2'] | SHIRLEY, N.Y. — A Long Island mother was overcome by smoke as she tried to save her three young children from a fast-moving fire, and everyone in the house died, authorities said Saturday.
The blaze, at a small home in Shirley, about 60 miles east of New York City, was reported by startled neighbors at about 10:15 p.m.... | 1e49477b-fa62-8da7-8394-1b06b31c5959 | ['b9be94b7-b170-c5f1-b797-74acd2ed14d2'] | NEW YORK — High-ranking chowhound <PERSON> dropped to one knee and proposed to his longtime girlfriend before Friday's annual hot dog eating contest, then packed away 61 franks and buns to hold onto his coveted mustard yellow winner's belt.
The San Jose, California, man fell far short of his record last year of 69 dogs... |
6bd8e979-8e46-8144-eb67-e698c0904fe1 | ['b9d17c03-e6ac-d429-c488-e339f40b4eff'] | Mobile messaging represents an oft-unsung yet powerful worldwide trend. WeChat has over 400 million users; WhatsApp has over 300 million; Viber hit 200 million a few months ago, and dozens more boast user bases in the tens or hundreds of millions on various app stores worldwide. The volume of conversation on each is st... | ee59650d-049f-aab8-2407-6658ed46ec6b | ['b9d17c03-e6ac-d429-c488-e339f40b4eff'] | The Glastonbury Festival temporarily creates the third biggest "city" in South West England every year as almost 200,000 people flock to a bucolic corner of Somerset. Fourty-four years since its first incarnation, the festival has changed utterly from a small gathering to a meticulously planned behemoth. To some, a ter... |
2eaa2b18-9024-eae9-b274-9875f5e8765a | ['b9e29f94-ba93-423f-28a5-a8505458ebba'] | Much has been written about the impending "new New Deal" that President-elect <PERSON> will usher in come Jan. 20.
Two magazines -- The New Yorker and TIME -- have run feature pieces accompanied by caricatures of <PERSON> in <PERSON> likeness, complete with top hat, spectacles and cigarette holder. <PERSON> himself sai... | b1f4144e-6614-3e09-7a9a-aa8e08273e7d | ['b9e29f94-ba93-423f-28a5-a8505458ebba'] | <PERSON> is now the president of the United States, but his nearly two-year campaign for the office is far from dismantled.
Armed with a treasure trove of 13 million e-mail addresses, 4 million contributors and 2 million active volunteers, the <PERSON> team -- regarded as one of the most powerful grassroots organizatio... |
ab4a7d82-1985-aa6e-d117-92626cbfa115 | ['b9f165f7-b98f-8b8f-721b-ad2f5c84afb5'] | With inconvenience caused to the common man by demonetisation, many are expecting the government to increase tax exemption from R2.5 lakh to R4 lakh. (Source: Reuters)
The Indian economy was growing at a rapid pace, with a GDP growth of around 7.6%, and with the introduction of GST was expected to grow at even a faster... | a5d3f2a0-6074-e931-48de-0ae5ad09cb16 | ['b9f165f7-b98f-8b8f-721b-ad2f5c84afb5'] | GST law clearly states that GST would be payable if there is a supply of free goods or services to an employee exceeding the sum of Rs 50,000.
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) laws have tried to address several ambiguities that prevailed under earlier tax laws leading to unnecessary litigation. One such provision which... |
550385e7-417a-e5d8-e5a5-34a2967ab3d0 | ['b9f26921-2577-ab9c-0f85-991970ff86dd'] | Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands – Toward the goal of attracting more visitors and expanding its sports tourism image, the Marianas Visitors Authority will host the Saipan Tropical Ekiden on Aug. 29, stretching its legs with the popular Japanese relay race. “Ekiden” writtenin Japanese combines the characters for “stati... | e830318a-a3dd-3cad-b326-cd22e50cc4a5 | ['b9f26921-2577-ab9c-0f85-991970ff86dd'] | Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands – The 2nd Annual International Festival of Cultures will be held for six consecutive Saturday evenings in Saipan beginning on Aug. 22, 2015.
The festival will be held Aug. 22 & 29 and September 5, 12, 19, & 26 at Paseo de Marianas in Garapan and will celebrate the cultural diversity of ... |
97a5c66d-c0df-eb6b-1724-c06be013e864 | ['ba0f932a-0640-449c-b948-4587597610b2'] | The debut of Diet Coke 25 years ago was a splash heard around the world. A troupe of Rockettes pranced before a giant soda can on stage at New York's Radio City Music Hall in front of 6,000 people. Little did the company realize, however, the important part it would play in changing the way Americans eat and drink.
It ... | fe45404d-aa07-8fe4-2942-9748b3b26ca1 | ['ba0f932a-0640-449c-b948-4587597610b2'] | A videotape in which President <PERSON> discussed a 1975 assassination attempt by a follower of <PERSON> was made public this week.
"It fills in the last gap of the case and explains from the president's perspective what it was like to have someone attempt to assassinate you," said <PERSON>, secretary of the Eastern Di... |
a3cc82d1-6b43-b2ef-4078-711bc443322c | ['ba213776-885a-e9e7-ee50-b4dea7da21d2'] | Using wood in design is nothing new. Keeping it natural – without a stain or a single stroke of paint – isn’t new, either. However, a growing number of designers and woodworkers are putting the natural aesthetics of bare wood center stage, to great effect.
In the home-design world’s very recent past, paint was everythi... | bfc9fa41-6fce-4ccc-4bb3-752d58b14993 | ['ba213776-885a-e9e7-ee50-b4dea7da21d2'] | A revolution is taking place in Los Angeles, defining the city as a capital of international design.
That was apparent at the Los Angeles Design Festival — the jam-packed month of exhibitions, home tours and shows with Dwell on Design and INTRO/LA emphasizing the international design presence in Los Angeles and the mak... |
b964412a-65f3-e850-fd6d-a81288ff211e | ['ba2ff0a2-2749-b0b7-809c-755247bcb642'] | In a campaign for Ohio treasurer that produced more light and less mud, <PERSON>, the young Libertarian candidate, probably wouldn't get a second look. That would be a mistake -- especially in light of glaring deficiencies that make both major-party candidates unattractive options.
<PERSON>, 28, has the best profession... | 555e354d-c3d1-d6cf-5d0c-e1e8e372f167 | ['ba2ff0a2-2749-b0b7-809c-755247bcb642'] | Art + wine
The only good thing about winter in Northeast Ohio is that it makes us really appreciate summer. And one of the best things about summer is getting a bit of a makeover this year. The three-day Little Italy June Art Walk today through Sunday is getting a value-added Little Italy Street Festival from noon to 5... |
99a6d5fc-ec6f-2290-ba14-fe371db4d604 | ['ba45379e-d391-943e-195d-76e46e992f66'] | SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - <PERSON> kept watching cars speed down the main road less than half a mile from where he is raising two daughters - so he asked the city of San Diego to add a traffic light.
He was elated when he got a letter from the city saying it studied the intersection of Governor Drive at Lakewood Street in Uni... | 0d224e37-70ae-6189-8432-70d59716c90c | ['ba45379e-d391-943e-195d-76e46e992f66'] | SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - California's historic drought may be over, but it left thousands of dead trees in its wake.
Many of them are languishing at Balboa Park. But a plan to give the park a fresh start is gaining steam.
"We've lost a lot of trees, you can see many many stumps here," said <PERSON>, who runs the Balboa Park ... |
fcc48e3e-27ef-7358-eeed-5975d227ba8a | ['ba6532ed-486d-96f6-a931-a34ee89c5547'] | I get that <PERSON> death is a big deal, and mostly a good thing. I was around for the 9/11/01 attacks, had friends at the World Trade Center and Pentagon that day (thankfully none hurt), and watched with reasonably mature eyes the sense of tragedy here in the US after that day and the events that unfolded in the Middl... | 9da6bafa-5349-81b2-1c23-681f23070ab9 | ['ba6532ed-486d-96f6-a931-a34ee89c5547'] | It’s very enlightening to see my U.Mass. colleague <PERSON>’s succinct account of the centrality of demographics to the Palestinian/Israeli and Lebanese conflicts. I share her view of the problems that can arise when governments divide people and treat them differently based on their religion. The political scientist <... |
6d9c14cc-4b79-c225-e926-7f1e3644c37f | ['ba6bd2ba-a812-2817-3458-882b63cdedc6'] | A humble physician who cares deeply for his patients is getting some well-deserved praise, friends and co-workers said.
Dr. Arturo Blanco, who volunteers Tuesdays treating migrant farm workers and the poor at Caridad Center west of Boynton Beach, was named the recipient of Sun-Sentinel Co.'s 2007 Publisher's Community ... | dd110efb-d773-ae4d-b45d-4b87d7280664 | ['ba6bd2ba-a812-2817-3458-882b63cdedc6'] | Some agree: having a college campus would be great for Wellington.
But the Village Council could still say no thanks.
Plenty of questions need to be answered before the council decides if it will hand over 63 acres earmarked for a park to Palm Beach Community College
The village staff wonders whether the college will h... |
617b67c3-27ef-7ba6-6596-14d05b8f071d | ['ba79b740-a4dd-d2f5-0ac7-8d0efede20cd'] | After an amicable divorce, I moved next door to my ex-wife and kids and downsized from a 4,200-square-foot house to an 850-square-foot bungalow. The storage realities of my new home mandated some serious editing: retaining the things I loved the most, ditching the duplicates, and giving away the rest.
Esquire
That’s wh... | ab2c22d9-a492-018c-6740-c1215aac2c3c | ['ba79b740-a4dd-d2f5-0ac7-8d0efede20cd'] | Facebook's head of market development <PERSON> -- author of the men's style blog Focus on the Donut -- gives his tips for hitting an awards show in style.
For the latest on what industry men should have during Oscar awards season, THR checks in with fashionable exec <PERSON>, Facebook's head of market development, who ... |
8b609a28-8559-4e0e-45e5-12f41ec2f972 | ['ba84f32b-bc30-2f8e-e17a-eec507ff63f7'] | We've been wondering for a long time what the hell is up with <PERSON> style. The clothes, the hair — it's a lot to take in. So when we caught him at the GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday, we started small and just asked about the hair. <PERSON> acknowledged that <PERSON> went silver first, but the real reason for his sil... | aca76587-ba83-dada-6330-2a9d49815f02 | ['ba84f32b-bc30-2f8e-e17a-eec507ff63f7'] | On Saturday, a gaggle of 11-year-olds gathered in the Samantha Thavasa store on Madison Avenue for a tea party sponsored by Christian Dior Beauty to raise money for New Yorkers for Children. Host <PERSON>, Samantha Thavasa designer, socialite, and Dior beauty ambassador (she has her own shade of lip gloss), said every ... |
54a40762-92a3-a81c-8452-aee38ff8ee43 | ['bb00c832-3b30-5033-81a2-efdb48618157'] | Editor’s note: This guest column is written by Shantanu Surpure, partner at Economic Laws Practice, a Mumbai-based law firm specialised in venture capital, private equity and cross border transactions. Yashojit Mitra and Devyani Singh, associates at ELP, assisted in writing this article. The above guest column is meant... | 6675bdd5-8443-7bc9-a487-ee066409e768 | ['bb00c832-3b30-5033-81a2-efdb48618157'] | The Indian Premier League (“IPL”) has been mired in controversies over the award of the Kochi franchise. The Rendezvous Consortium won the Kochi IPL franchise for $ 333 million last month. The IPL chairman and commissioner <PERSON> revealed the shareholder ownership of the Kochi franchisee last week. Mr. <PERSON> claim... |
a6051f03-5d8f-a377-354d-8216eb7eb333 | ['bb6e2d3d-6ad7-a656-17af-5024fe49cbd2'] | <PERSON> and <PERSON> are no more. Are you surprised? We aren’t. We knew their reconciliation was over before it began. Their <PERSON> press footage fooled no-one! According to them, they split again because of being too busy with their careers. Now, if you look to your left, you’ll see a steaming pile of B.S. played i... | 1498caed-2719-4f51-5547-ebe0b3bcff56 | ['bb6e2d3d-6ad7-a656-17af-5024fe49cbd2'] | Last week, we gladly lost <PERSON> and <PERSON> to a fed-up DWTS fandom. This week, however, the show was marred by an injury (<PERSON>), a presidential debate, and no elimination. The shortened one-hour episodes might have a lasting impact on the competition, as the scores are added from last night, tonight, and the t... |
bb9a3aa5-1a0b-b57e-3072-4119a67f21a8 | ['bb7a6689-0824-7907-f845-bc2d4d0430b9'] | You stand on the trapdoor and make your peace with the world. Your friends look on with hideous schadenfreude. And then — blam!
The hatch is released and you plummet downwards, arms crossed at the wrists, legs crossed at the ankles, and there’s water gushing everywhere as you hurtle on into a vertiginous spiral that co... | fdf0bfd4-d5ff-45f2-00f5-188bda8dc7ff | ['bb7a6689-0824-7907-f845-bc2d4d0430b9'] | Like any man in his 40s, I secretly wish I was <PERSON>. So when the chance arose to go on a tour of Los Angeles, visiting the shooting locations for the Oscar-nominated movie A Star Is Born, I leapt at it like a terrier springing after a Frisbee.
And that was how I found myself on stage at the legendary Greek Theatre ... |
b86518a6-d771-8039-7371-aa556676f2c4 | ['bb8fa79f-ba50-d0af-fbb0-1f12c901b95b'] | <PERSON> in 1897: the crufix above his desk is testament to his conversion
A new exhibition charts <PERSON> journey from 'Decadence to Catholicism'
<PERSON>: Artist and Aesthete National Portrait Gallery, until March 6
Oscuramento: The Wars of Fabio Mauri Hauser & Wirth, London, until February 6
A small exhibition of p... | 0bb27476-4496-7f80-ae23-62f9f4ac1903 | ['bb8fa79f-ba50-d0af-fbb0-1f12c901b95b'] | Under the Same Sun: Art From Latin America Today
South London Gallery, until September 11
In what remains of middle-class Argentina, everyone is an artist. There is a studied indifference – or a contained pride, at being good at self-expression – when oils are displayed, or a poem excavated from a superannuated laptop.... |
0e568347-ec29-fad2-563a-ca9cf4108e36 | ['bbaa42f1-79d7-7149-b585-b30c806dd5c8'] | The ‘Scotland the Best’ author has been touring the country for 25 years in search of its finest places. Here’s his pick of beaches and seaside villages
Making a feature of Scotland’s less-travelled coast is a responsibility and a challenge. Even its quieter corners are seeing a tourist boom. Much of the rural north-we... | 0fae694f-37ca-246d-f99e-9397083f6504 | ['bbaa42f1-79d7-7149-b585-b30c806dd5c8'] | What's the best pub in the Highlands? The most scenic walk on Skye? The most romantic hotel? <PERSON> has the answer to all these questions and more
BEACH
1 Pete's Beach, Durness
The one, of many great beaches on the North coast, I've decided to call my own. The hill above it is called 'Ceannabeinne'; you find it 4.5 m... |
af68b34f-b5fd-a69c-4239-2c3d964d83bd | ['bbd11f33-1e0d-030d-900a-685e1866d64e'] | During the election last fall, Western New York was a battleground for control of the State Senate. By returning control of the Senate to the Republicans, the voters sent a clear message that they were tired of the region being ignored by Albany and sick of the inaction on the issues that truly matter jobs, taxes and s... | df92d1c0-9d23-7fcd-b4a2-b999e593dd77 | ['bbd11f33-1e0d-030d-900a-685e1866d64e'] | Year after year, the New York State Senate has passed a simple, straightforward package of bills that would help combat auto insurance fraud, put hundreds of millions of dollars back in the pockets of New York's families, save lives and make our roads safer.
The Buffalo News even called our legislation "a powerful trio... |
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That customized iPhone case, pair of sneakers or even Mini Cooper dashboard may have been made with a 3-D printer.
HP Inc., trying to speed the shift toward personalized goods like these, unveiled a cheaper line of 3-D printers on Monday. The Jet Fusion 300/500 series ... | 62232e42-f0bd-8b17-ef82-63e373cdd6aa | ['bbd9934c-5f8e-ba17-4910-06aad9872107'] | It’s official. The Chinese government appears to have banned Winnie the Pooh. Apparently, the cartoon bear looks too much like President <PERSON>–something few may have noticed.
Earlier this week, we learned that Beijing also partially blocked WhatsApp messages in the country because they’re encrypted. A popular workar... |
ee45f474-1aaf-7240-8fb1-1006d24972b3 | ['bbe1bd8f-c066-d7d1-edec-7cf81f82dfe5'] | The curator <PERSON> has had the bold and lovely idea of interspersing paintings, drawings and sculptures by <PERSON> with paintings and drawings by <PERSON>, in a compact exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Arcadian Painters, he bills the pairing, his working premise being that the veteran American artist (who ... | e9386b0b-ada6-cf31-8919-744225caa444 | ['bbe1bd8f-c066-d7d1-edec-7cf81f82dfe5'] | <PERSON> is the man we all currently love to hate - a high-living banker, too status-obsessed to care that the operation he runs is sliding towards disaster. The bank in this case belonged to the <PERSON>, de facto rulers of 15th-century Florence. They appointed <PERSON> manager of their head office in 1463, a year or ... |
308da2ce-2350-b0d1-6021-5397edb1fb31 | ['bbf5b53e-19a8-e55b-8d0d-dcb0f7906226'] | Spain looks ready to lose its title of perennial underachiever in the World Cup. The Spaniards routed Ukraine, 4-0, Wednesday in Group H, getting two goals from <PERSON> and one spectacular strike from <PERSON>.
Tunisia and Saudi Arabia, the other teams in the group, each took leads in their match before <PERSON> equ... | e74e358d-9954-fbae-58ae-22ed16abde26 | ['bbf5b53e-19a8-e55b-8d0d-dcb0f7906226'] | Voters failed to overturn Portugal's strict abortion law Sunday because of low turnout at the polls, but the prime minister nonetheless vowed to relax the restriction through legislation in the conservative Roman Catholic country.
With nearly all the votes counted, almost 60 percent of voters approved the referendum ... |
6054ff5f-3400-bad7-ecca-ae08b1434e1f | ['bc3b0dfb-7073-f713-aae0-3d9320a8a245'] | Unlike500 companies, the owner of a private company doubles as decision maker, a trait that allows such companies to move quickly and flexibly in China's fast-growing economy. Over the past 10 years, Pan has seen small importers expanding from a million dollars in sales to a half billion.
China's growing middle class, ... | 26542ab9-52ab-b93c-291b-74a2505b7830 | ['bc3b0dfb-7073-f713-aae0-3d9320a8a245'] | Starbucks, on the other hand, only asked me one question about my interest in coffee. They didn't give me the time to express myself about how much
The Container Store does this extremely well. They basically just hire their best customers. Similarly, Apple employees knew a lot about the product and got jazzed about he... |
68c51e22-06c0-27d0-ca92-9f512ef51a42 | ['bc4f4231-6a19-666f-db4e-790fedca8f13'] | × Expand <PERSON>
Madison's number of small-batch food producers is growing. This year, add Lala's Nuts to that list. The nut-confection business, started by food lover <PERSON>, fits her slogan -- "Get a little nutty."
<PERSON>, 24, graduated from UW-Madison with a major in dietetics, which combines "biochemical, phys... | 40d58cf9-074a-a47e-4ea6-6e7c562dab2c | ['bc4f4231-6a19-666f-db4e-790fedca8f13'] | × Expand <PERSON> Eagle Heights Community Gardens has space available for both UW-Madison students and other growers of the community. It is located right off the bike path at 3016 Lake Mendota Dr.
F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture is a student garden organization within and funded by the University of Wis... |
d00240a5-d52f-b3db-dee8-1fa6b89ca85b | ['bc5a7e0c-abb5-9dba-91b1-7705719877b4'] | Shame on Burger King for moving to Canada? Or shame on us for being unresponsive to businesses and job creators?
The current debate about corporate inversions has once again brought out the tired, progressive-socialist rhetoric railing against corporate profits. Burger King, Chiquita, and other iconic American brands a... | 23110b44-9512-eedc-d1b3-98e9e6cd9667 | ['bc5a7e0c-abb5-9dba-91b1-7705719877b4'] | Is <PERSON> a traitor or courageous patriot?
If your primary focus is our Fourth Amendment right to privacy, you likely feel <PERSON> is vindicated in his actions, which resulted in the disclosure that the government was collecting metadata on Americans and might nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
If your primary fo... |
129f4b04-a77c-a6a5-3b78-40824c571733 | ['bc8a4da3-17d2-f6ff-27ca-8b1c7f01ee4e'] | After nearly two years of litigation, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has announced a one-time dividend (i.e., stock split) that will occur on April 2, 2014, for shareholders as of the record date of March 27. A new series of non-voting Class C shares are expected to begin trading the next day, April 3, and will assume the origin... | 6a25f7b6-7742-b2bb-fbe1-5ce9374b0173 | ['bc8a4da3-17d2-f6ff-27ca-8b1c7f01ee4e'] | Brought public in a leveraged buyout and massively indebted, SEAS is grossly overvalued for a company of its maturity and compared to peers with less forward looking risks.
SEA's Blackfish fiasco is increasingly likely to affect the year's earnings and outlook and may present an excellent short opportunity.
Sea World I... |
9131d0d3-d337-fdd2-9d5c-2cc34555d545 | ['bcb3f5d5-b189-8b64-4995-77b128b21eac'] | Overweight children with fatty liver disease sharply reduced the amount of fat and inflammation in their livers by cutting soft drinks, fruit juices and foods with added sugars from their diets, a rigorous new study found.
The new research, published in JAMA in January, suggests that limiting sugary foods and drinks co... | c63e74aa-a4c8-3927-6912-ee03d60a8d21 | ['bcb3f5d5-b189-8b64-4995-77b128b21eac'] | Dr. <PERSON>, whose groundbreaking study of the amino acid L-dopa in the late 1960s helped establish it as a leading treatment for Parkinson's disease, died on Jan. 1 at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y. He was 86.
The cause was lung cancer, said his daughter <PERSON>.
Dr. <PERSON>'s work was largely an outgrowth of research... |
4e76c4b1-bfe6-266f-1f76-e2aaa83a3984 | ['bcdcbeb0-15d9-4c79-f423-c4381c1fe3ff'] | If anti-incumbency is a phenomenon, Rajasthan is the proof. Since 1993, no state government has been re-elected: the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has ceded power to the Indian National Congress after each of its five-year stints, only to regain it after five years. Pre-poll surveys suggest that this pattern will contin... | 6a554c25-58fa-9e88-41a6-b62521a70c40 | ['bcdcbeb0-15d9-4c79-f423-c4381c1fe3ff'] | New Delhi: In 2014, after a long struggle for statehood, Telangana held its first state elections. Now it will go to the polls for the second time in what will be a referendum on <PERSON> (KCR), the chief minister, and his Telangana Rashtra Samithi’s (TRS’s) performance as the state’s first government.
A Mint analysis ... |
a7db3a69-e1be-530e-3779-8a7d3b3528d8 | ['bce5396a-9a30-0122-8410-767896794241'] | Argentina's cash-strapped state oil company said it was "advancing swiftly" toward a strategic partnership with Chevron Corp., the U.S. oil major, designed to help boost flagging output and unlock the country's vast Vaca Muerta shale resources.
"We discussed, concretely, different co-operation alternatives. Chevron is ... | 2e7eda59-7e5a-5098-f73e-70c4bb0dba5c | ['bce5396a-9a30-0122-8410-767896794241'] | Thank you for your help!
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<PERSON>, the world’s oldest and biggest tequila maker, has launched its long awaited IPO.
The company, known officially as Becle, said in a filing with the Mexican stock exchange that the issue was for up to 17.5bn pesos ($853.2m), i... |
189e42e3-088e-3db2-125b-15228ece44a5 | ['bd0b2a93-094e-9876-997c-adfa6917659a'] | Keen to avoid overcrowded buses and tubes and arrive to work brimming with endorphins? Here are some tips to cycling to work, safely and stylishly
Have you ever noticed how cheerful your cycling colleagues are when they arrive at work in the morning? That’s because their commute is quicker and cheaper, they are full of... | 6d4b8771-8f4d-0c95-c188-81f46175c9b3 | ['bd0b2a93-094e-9876-997c-adfa6917659a'] | There's no telling what will come out of <PERSON> mouth on stage. That's the joy of having Tourette's, she says
<PERSON> had a lousy night out three years ago. It had nothing to do with the entertainment – the comedian <PERSON> – and everything to do with the audience and the venue's staff. <PERSON> has Tourette's Synd... |
0a4b1b00-de4a-fc4b-c000-b5c5f9c6fb50 | ['bd1caa7e-4ebf-62e1-ef96-b8d27ea867b2'] | You know what’s great? Sex
And then, on the flip side, there’s this / boner killer:
Sexuality education professional <PERSON> recently performed a critical analysis of ‘Teen Sex by the Book,’ which is currently part of the Special Religious Education (SRE) curriculum for secondary public schools.
Just to quickly recap,... | 3cbfe7e4-ba49-2120-76f5-a8bedf05a615 | ['bd1caa7e-4ebf-62e1-ef96-b8d27ea867b2'] | A sexologist and a ‘sex symbol’ walk into an office…
More specifically, it was our office and Dr <PERSON> and <PERSON> who came on in. As part of the excellent IQ forum series they’ll join a panel of legends in Sydney tonight, laying down their points on sex and its related products, to debate whether ‘Chastity will sa... |
16fa078d-923e-fc92-5ef3-c660a77314ca | ['bd3ea9e0-342f-97ae-a64b-a93f805cf2bc'] | While two of Scotland's best known landmarks, the two bridges over the Forth, will be celebrated this year there is a third crossing which is a distant memory: a tunnel in the rock cut by the coal mining industry
Scotland loves a bridge. And this year it is dedicating a festival to three historic spans over the Firth o... | e934ba0b-a885-da61-83e5-1ca1add60203 | ['bd3ea9e0-342f-97ae-a64b-a93f805cf2bc'] | It is a design classic which dominates the skyline of East Lothian like a medieval cathedral, but later this month Cockenzie power station will shut down: it should be fully preserved for future generations, its iconic chimneys included
I love Cockenzie Power Station. As far as I am concerned, it does not have a best s... |
8f78aebe-17f0-b377-72fe-e9ae2aa97f2e | ['bdc69353-9147-608f-65b0-b4c682ab6cdf'] | Death toll from ice storm rises to 27, including many from carbon monoxide poisoning as residents try to heat freezing homes
Utility crews from Maine to Michigan and into Canada worked on Wednesday to restore power to more than half a million homes that were left in the dark by last weekend's ice storm, which has been ... | 28475699-26e7-a711-694d-f0cf85b2c98e | ['bdc69353-9147-608f-65b0-b4c682ab6cdf'] | <PERSON>, 47, attracts marriage offer and offer to bail him out, prompting authorities to increase bail to $250,000
The man who spent nearly three decades in the woods of Maine before his high-profile arrest earlier this month has attracted a marriage proposal and a stranger's offer to bail him out, prompting authoriti... |
54c5da9a-a050-96d8-2c69-9e81a9ace794 | ['bdebe880-76b8-a914-8d79-f8b75e827a6e'] | US start-up Social Cord has created a simple way for bands, brands and writers to get paid for premium content via Twitter or SMS.
If you are a fan of a band or blogger, you simply register your mobile phone number via a simple web form. As is standard for mobile sign-ups, you will be texted a PIN. After entering the P... | 11049221-4f21-77c4-d8b4-260d77c26938 | ['bdebe880-76b8-a914-8d79-f8b75e827a6e'] | Judging by the euphoric reaction from the second-seeded Olathe Northwest softball team, it looked as if the Ravens were hoping to avoid third-seeded Lawrence High in Tuesday’s regional championship game.
Thanks to a come-from-behind, 6-5 victory by sixth-seeded Topeka High over LHS in the regional opener, the Ravens ... |
f5f5b7b1-f075-d641-9dd3-5f13b6d8131c | ['be017ebc-6482-3cbf-ad7b-905b1b0ea5ce'] | OSCAR Pistorius last night held a private memorial service for the model
girlfriend he shot dead.
The Blade Runner, 26, was joined by around 20 family and friends to say
prayers for Reeva Steenkamp, 29.
But Pistorius was accused on social network sites of staging a bizarre
publicity stunt after his spokesman released a... | ee69a0af-f832-43b7-50e3-83fba36d1561 | ['be017ebc-6482-3cbf-ad7b-905b1b0ea5ce'] | OSCAR Pistorius had two boxes of a herbal sex booster in his bedroom the night
he shot his girlfriend dead, it emerged last night.
The Blade Runner’s lawyers claim “testosterone” found by cops was really the
herbal remedy testis compositum.
The product is advertised as a muscle recovery aid but can be used for lack of
... |
496432f4-4945-ba2e-632a-61959d851e07 | ['be114b2e-9ea9-7053-81d9-fde2a33e416c'] | How did birds manage to survive when an asteroid caused the dinosaurs' demise? Can you really tell from fossils if a bird was able to fly? Why are modern birds so incredibly diverse? The answers to these burning bird questions-and more-will surprise and delight you during a fascinating evening of delving into prehistor... | b524c6fa-45f2-628c-d6ae-c49664cb64d4 | ['be114b2e-9ea9-7053-81d9-fde2a33e416c'] | The same woman who helps you avoid prickly traffic situations weekday mornings will enable you to get up close to a porcupine on Tuesday night, May 12, during a special presentation at The Parrot Club's monthly meeting in East Hartford. <PERSON>-the voice of traffic on radio stations WTIC AM and WZMX FM-is also a passi... |
72277f8c-4368-9b66-84c1-ab75274146df | ['be3a5d01-feec-5dea-4de2-598984685382'] | While no one can control the weather, we do have control over building practices.
Hurricanes are the destructive force of nature that Florida expects each fall much like we in Oklahoma expect tornadoes during the spring. In 1992, Hurricane Andrew damaged or destroyed more than 125,000 Florida homes and left about 250,0... | 87d37bef-ee7c-d9ce-df89-e9ce34f863bc | ['be3a5d01-feec-5dea-4de2-598984685382'] | Oklahomans always rise up when faced with a challenge.
That was evident against in 2015. Tornadic activity was limited but the number of earthquakes – although most were light in intensity – soared. State officials and Oklahoma’s energy industry are hard at work to minimize the damage. At the Oklahoma Insurance Departm... |
c15a6494-95ce-22a3-e058-45c95f1c76f1 | ['be44d48f-49b5-d064-7ad4-bcaef9d0199f'] | On the eve of the big breakthrough for women in the 1997 general election, when female MPs broke the magical 100 barrier, I was in Ethiopia, running a workshop on behalf of the British Council on women in politics. On my way to Addis Ababa airport to catch a flight home to London, I made a pilgrimage to the grave of su... | c2fa6b62-5f41-555c-37bf-201d214cb128 | ['be44d48f-49b5-d064-7ad4-bcaef9d0199f'] | Today is the anniversary of a United Nations security council resolution that, if fully implemented, could change the dynamics of war and peace. Eight years ago, the UN security council voted unanimously to pass resolution 1325, their first ever resolution to address the impact of war on women, and women's contribution... |
73a56894-9f55-51b1-24f9-2d972f4fb52a | ['be4fd7d7-ac0b-ebb5-b84f-16e230d3e9fb'] | Written by <PERSON>, CNN
While early 20th-century Hollywood film posters peddled romance and glamour, Russia steered away from the easy marketing of celebrities, and focused instead on creative design.
Spurred by the Bolshevik uprising and the previous era of autocratic rule, Russia's avant-garde artists believed creat... | 2e9ecb43-7814-12ef-2499-5e872f0b13ff | ['be4fd7d7-ac0b-ebb5-b84f-16e230d3e9fb'] | Written by <PERSON>, CNN London
During the 1970s, a span of work from a group of revolutionary, sex-positive female artists was deemed too sexually explicit to be put on show. At the time, art dealer <PERSON> famously said of video art pioneer <PERSON>'s pieces that played on physical sensuality: "America is not ready ... |
d483551d-d500-9446-c38d-083210fcb064 | ['be544c4c-3406-b0eb-4c2a-1adb465fc2e0'] | Ex-Miss Mexico <PERSON> was the star attraction at the bash
If the invite says 'Miss <PERSON>' herself is going to be splashing around in a twopiece, even the laziest men in town would miss their Sunday siesta and get into their swimming trunks.
April's second Sunday saw the opening of the best pool parties in town, ho... | 89064c74-f402-4965-548d-9c3193563acd | ['be544c4c-3406-b0eb-4c2a-1adb465fc2e0'] | THE GOOD LIFE: <PERSON> for 25 years of <PERSON>
Man of the moment: <PERSON>
Designer <PERSON> celebrated a quarter of a century - his 25 years in fashion - in his trademark style by kicking off his Spring Couture 2012 collection 'The eternal lightness of being - to love, to hold, to kiss' at DLF Emporio's atrium on Sa... |
c15886d0-69ff-79b1-885d-2f6c3acf43f3 | ['be5ba4c1-73ed-84fe-de9f-939e1a32bb17'] | The beach at the south end of Hilton Head Island in South Carolina is as broad and as smooth as a six-lane highway, with breakers gentle enough for a baby. Given the normal rapacity of shorefront developers, it is a setting for environmental disaster. Yet today, 18 years after <PERSON> began building his Sea Pines Plan... | 64d55ea8-afd4-c64d-6359-993a375ebe7b | ['be5ba4c1-73ed-84fe-de9f-939e1a32bb17'] | This Saturday, when Harvard plays football with Yale for the 100th time since 1875, most of the world will breathe a weary “Who cares?” After all, The Game, as venerable Ivy types like to call it, isn’t the college game’s oldest rivalry—Princeton vs. Rutgers has that distinction. Nor is it played with the kind of semi-... |
9171f6bc-ea32-dd8f-8b5d-9f1e4ef3cde0 | ['be5cc071-fa23-2718-46bc-e38837d6d8e9'] | PARIS — Scores of striking Air France pilots took their protest to the streets on Tuesday, demonstrating in full uniform outside of France's National Assembly to demand government intervention to end an eight-day standoff.
Parent company Air France-KLM says about half of all Air France flights have been cancelled since... | 74d1dfb4-f2a7-2488-9e07-03b61f88bae6 | ['be5cc071-fa23-2718-46bc-e38837d6d8e9'] | PARIS – Members of California rock band Eagles of Death Metal on Tuesday revisited the ravaged Paris theater where they survived a massacre by Islamic extremist suicide bombers.
Solemn and silent, they came to the now-shuttered Bataclan theater in eastern Paris, whose facade has become a shrine to the at least 89 peopl... |
8a9a5204-4cce-a7e2-65be-f35cc8b4efc0 | ['be62c845-1790-1a7f-d5f6-53236ec464a0'] | <PERSON> — The first foreign visit of the new French President <PERSON>, after a now habitual trip to Berlin, was to Gao in northern Mali as head of the French military.
The visit was an attempt to be seen as paying attention to the efforts of French troops in operations in northern Mali and other states of the Sahel r... | 3a3b14a6-978d-746a-2911-584e4b9854a9 | ['be62c845-1790-1a7f-d5f6-53236ec464a0'] | The election on 9 May 2017 of <PERSON> as president of the Republic of Korea may have applied the brakes to a dangerous increase in tensions between the two Korean States, the USA, China, Japan, and Russia. <PERSON>, 64 years old, formerly a human rights lawyer, has long been a political figure having come in second in... |
4430508e-fbc0-765e-3fd5-1fe975c2598e | ['be87150a-a261-40a7-3e09-b1ddb00b6773'] | Punjab Nahi Jaungi actor discusses turn to silver screen, the method to his acting and forthcoming projects
ISLAMABAD: The multifaceted compere-turned-actor, <PERSON> is on top of his game. After positively establishing himself as the likeable boy-next-door on the small screen, he’s come to a point where he’s no lon... | bee30a92-4ed7-5153-acbc-5a94a6b286e6 | ['be87150a-a261-40a7-3e09-b1ddb00b6773'] | Increasing currency in circulation has caused worst kind of inflation
KARACHI: Inflation refers to an increase in the general price level. There are several causes of inflation: a rise in demand-demand pull inflation and a rise in cost-cost push inflation etc. But the most dangerous of these is the inflation caused... |
33ad9c9b-7a02-1a01-0ec1-afee454808d8 | ['be8be21f-ad98-4826-accf-edc420e0c660'] | There are parts of Eighth Grade that are harder to watch than the bloodiest, goriest, final battle scene of any action movie. I cannot even remember how many times I wanted to disappear into my seat in the theater because the moment on the screen was all too real. But that wasn’t just my reaction, it was everyone else’... | 8a836dee-688c-adf5-80b9-fa14f7c49213 | ['be8be21f-ad98-4826-accf-edc420e0c660'] | Filmmaker <PERSON>, who just received tons of buzz at Sundance for his latest movie, The Report, has been brought in to rewrite the next <PERSON> movie, according to The Playlist. Having worked on such films as The Informant! and The Bourne Ultimatum, <PERSON> is no stranger to the action and mystery genres relevant to... |
0403766a-c868-184d-0faf-b84de86a5662 | ['be955ba9-7ffc-3009-1f9f-07de4e3f64c9'] | Patience at the plate paid off for Fredonia.
The Class B-2 champion Hillbillies drew 11 walks, including four in the bottom of the seventh inning, to dethrone CCIAC I rival and reigning overall Class B champion <PERSON> (B-1), 8-7, before an estimated 400 fans on Thursday at Gowanda High School.
Fredonia (19-5) advance... | e8040f40-5cb8-89c1-a9b7-b550eeabc353 | ['be955ba9-7ffc-3009-1f9f-07de4e3f64c9'] | Section V's dominance in girls lacrosse continued Saturday.
All three Rochester-area representatives earned sound victories over their Section VI counterparts in the Far West Regionals before an estimated combined crowd of 1,200 at All-High Stadium.
Penfield beat Lancaster, 15-9, in Class A, Canandaigua topped Hamburg,... |
75a7f525-e22d-b4a1-560d-3c63a650a8d6 | ['bea05f5e-41fe-045a-fdf9-13d92b36250f'] | Following the Cambodian premiere of <PERSON> new film First They Killed My Father in Siem Reap, Cambodia Saturday, co-screenwriter, rights activist and author of the book that inspired the movie, <PERSON>, spoke to PEOPLE about what it was like working on set, the challenges of portraying the Cambodian genocide on film... | 4d48ba3a-731f-4f49-f666-d79437f89d8b | ['bea05f5e-41fe-045a-fdf9-13d92b36250f'] | (CNN) - Australian police have broken up a criminal gang accused of stealing thousands of tins of baby formula worth one million Australian dollars ($720,000) from stores over the past year and shipping them for sale in China.
Six people, including four members of the same family, have been arrested on suspicion of inv... |
45ab4f6e-578e-85ce-6726-c579122efa52 | ['beb36b6f-3727-2994-6d3b-43e0b2cd872a'] | Vanuatu tennis player <PERSON> can't wait to experience a home crowd after coming out of retirement to compete at the Pacific Mini Games.
Photo: RNZI / <PERSON>
This will be Games number seven for the 34-year-old, who was also a long-time representative for Pacific Oceania in the Davis Cup.
He hung up his racquet after... | 4dbb73fc-fe32-6d17-34ff-91dd9cb350b4 | ['beb36b6f-3727-2994-6d3b-43e0b2cd872a'] | The Pacific Games Council says including Australia and New Zealand is part of a long-term objective to strengthen the Pacific Games.
The Trans-Tasman neighbours were invited to take part in four sports at the 2015 Games in Port Moresby, increasing to eight for the 2019 edition in Samoa.
Photo: ONOC
Australia and New Ze... |
fb564969-f7bd-66aa-41fa-c61a5d9e390b | ['beb956a4-dc9b-504f-e946-5ac3a68042fd'] | <PERSON>
The rapid advance of coalition-backed forces toward the Houthi-controlled port of Hodeidah, one of the militia’s most valuable strongholds, heralds a new milestone in Yemen’s war. Yemen’s joint forces stationed on the Red Sea coast were able to take over large amounts of land as the militia shifted between ret... | fbb0771f-822a-e798-c6a1-698f117dd79e | ['beb956a4-dc9b-504f-e946-5ac3a68042fd'] | <PERSON>
Civil war has exacerbated toxic ‘us versus them’ mindset, but it is important to remember that, at the core of everything, it was the prolonged disintegration of social cohesion that caused the nation’s regional fragmentation. <PERSON>
Disclaimer: Views expressed by writers in this section are their own and do... |
a5826f2f-0bfd-41a0-907c-a437f927b3f9 | ['bec6da79-fcc7-c937-9d41-acff16b935a7'] | Ontario Premier <PERSON> is pictured as he speaks during his unofficial swearing in ceremony in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 29, 2018. REUTERS/<PERSON>
TORONTO (Reuters) - Populist leader <PERSON> was sworn in as Ontario’s new premier on Friday, ending 15 years of Liberal rule in Canada’s most populous province, and ... | 91384dad-65ab-8dc0-b85a-fc23fdb57043 | ['bec6da79-fcc7-c937-9d41-acff16b935a7'] | TORONTO (Reuters) - Populist leader <PERSON> was sworn in as Ontario’s new premier on Friday, ending 15 years of Liberal rule in Canada’s most populous province, and he promised to drop a program aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Ontario Premier <PERSON> is pictured as he speaks during his unofficial swearing... |
65928031-da7c-5e36-8ed3-c31e796a6e16 | ['bed6a76e-7872-0821-ddd1-49dee5d4bf06'] | First, Princeton University Press issued the book, Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District. Then it issued the news release recalling the book.
"Turns out I wasn't a cop at all, and I made it all up," joked <PERSON>, the author and an assistant professor of law and police science at John Jay Coll... | d52602b9-36ba-df11-db23-9d41a92b7044 | ['bed6a76e-7872-0821-ddd1-49dee5d4bf06'] | "The Wire" certainly made Charm City look like it was going to the dogs. With good reason. Turns out the acclaimed HBO series had close ties to canine Baltimore.
I reported last week about "The Wire" crew's adventures with neighborhood pit bulls, and about how HBO cut checks to have the dogs taken away.
That news elici... |
0e275fd5-3bae-ae69-6ec1-fcd54cf5955f | ['beeee2fb-dd2c-f4f3-1b20-9b00ac42337a'] | Muslim veiling is once again at the top of the news in Europe. Bans on full-face veils being considered or already in place, whether nationwide, at the municipal level, or applied in public buildings and transportation, undermine Muslim women's autonomy and religious freedom. Arguments put forward to support these bans... | e61b0dee-1f3c-afbf-5cb6-be589fe6de5e | ['beeee2fb-dd2c-f4f3-1b20-9b00ac42337a'] | Tomorrow, the House of Commons will vote on a counter-terrorism bill which the government claims offers significant "practical safeguards" to ensure the protection of the rights of those accused of terrorism. It doesn't. Despite all the consultations and concessions, the government's proposals remain unnecessary, dispr... |
206c553c-70da-9d44-47a2-a3799d90db4e | ['bf2cad8f-d1d6-4020-ab18-d44070a0408d'] | <PERSON>/Getty Images for Vital Voices Global Partnership <PERSON> speaks during Vital Voices Global Partnership: 2017 Voices Against Solidarity Awards on Dec. 4, 2017.
<PERSON>/Getty Images for Vital Voices Global Partnership <PERSON> speaks during Vital Voices Global Partnership: 2017 Voices Against Solidarity Awards... | d61448e2-a65f-f3f5-8d2e-dfcf63168996 | ['bf2cad8f-d1d6-4020-ab18-d44070a0408d'] | <PERSON>/Getty Images Former U.S. Presidents <PERSON>, <PERSON> and <PERSON> attend the trophy presentation prior to Thursday foursome matches of the Presidents Cup.
<PERSON>/Getty Images Former U.S. Presidents <PERSON>, <PERSON> and <PERSON> attend the trophy presentation prior to Thursday foursome matches of the Pres... |
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