query_id stringlengths 4 64 | query_authorID stringlengths 6 40 | query_text stringlengths 66 72.1k | candidate_id stringlengths 5 64 | candidate_authorID stringlengths 6 40 | candidate_text stringlengths 9 101k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
f23d6181-c5bc-332b-35b2-d73bbd970be5 | ['d9ab541a-ad84-4bfb-d36a-d0f7b700482f'] | THE rekindled rivalry between Melbourne Tigers and South Dragons has been further topped up for the next National Basketball League season with the Tigers taking on <PERSON> as assistant coach.
<PERSON> has been a head coach in limbo since his eight-season stint with the Townsville Crocodiles ended in 2006 after he was... | 05358e2c-be7d-a936-be22-82bc8ec7d9be | ['d9ab541a-ad84-4bfb-d36a-d0f7b700482f'] | 'I WISH these geldings would stop winning," Melbourne Racing Club chief executive <PERSON> said yesterday after the castrated Whobegotyou won the million-dollar Caulfield Guineas, the "race that makes sires".
No doubt world racing's richest man, Sheikh <PERSON>, would agree. He ran second and third with his beautifully... |
38567290-a567-ec03-0108-9da4f94bb9ca | ['d9de732b-6148-4473-596f-78ef97a566f9'] | ABOUT 20,000 farmers in Eastern Province have been supported and trained by the Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) through its integrated soil fertility management programme.
The project is aimed at increasing and sustaining agricultural productivity, food and income security for smallholder farmers.
Accordin... | 0a22ec11-3eb9-9dc6-014f-6e58340f863c | ['d9de732b-6148-4473-596f-78ef97a566f9'] | The Luanshya Municipal Council (LMC) has embarked on a K1.5 million peri-urban road rehabilitation project after the council's engineering department concluded a road survey.
Luanshya Mayor <PERSON> said the project was aimed at opening up new areas for agriculture activities using locally generated resources.
Mr <PERS... |
73f5546c-2b47-7de4-1dbb-18ef9a5c1226 | ['d9ea8b5b-2a74-5cbb-99cc-4495ed4abab9'] | WASHINGTON, June 18, 2009 – As protestors in Iran demonstrate the power of social networking, Defense Secretary <PERSON> today called the freedom of communication afforded by communications technologies “a huge strategic asset for the United States.”
Meanwhile, speaking to reporters at today’s Pentagon news conference,... | 175df459-78e4-7c69-a2ae-1028e7c8778a | ['d9ea8b5b-2a74-5cbb-99cc-4495ed4abab9'] | ANKARA, Turkey – Iran’s nuclear program continues to put security in the Middle East at risk despite international pressure to halt its efforts, Defense Secretary <PERSON> said here today.
“Iran is in violation of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and I think there is a very great worry that if Iran … proceeds with ... |
d04e8997-2f00-1bfa-7bc6-821420c5d2c1 | ['da1e484d-694d-4e79-b5a9-b765fd6f6d08'] | Join our newsletter to get more stories like this
From movies and TV shows to books and video games, fictional aliens are ubiquitous in popular culture.
Sometimes they’re our enemies, sometimes they’re our friends and sometimes they’re just ambiguously neutral.
Often the most engaging element of a science fiction story... | 6ab6c104-1a44-a7e2-868f-0b7f28e2abb8 | ['da1e484d-694d-4e79-b5a9-b765fd6f6d08'] | Join our newsletter to get more stories like this
Travelling can be the most rewarding experience. By getting to see the world you’ll feel more incorporated and part of a larger community.
Plus there’s plenty of wonderful things to see out there! Not to mention being stuck at home is a real drag.
But one thing that oft... |
ccab4539-2728-d499-1434-f864c951e237 | ['da294e7d-fb2b-d603-077c-dd2070e41af9'] | The Saratoga County Independence Party announced its endorsements for this year’s elections on Tuesday, and it is backing Republican Mayor <PERSON> for reelection over Public Safety Commissioner <PERSON>. The party is led by <PERSON> of Clifton Park.
More recently, <PERSON> of Saratoga Springs, who came in third two ye... | 97842ea0-c141-0d15-0a28-34f59bab93cd | ['da294e7d-fb2b-d603-077c-dd2070e41af9'] | SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — An "Old Reliable" who fought for years in World War II will graduate from high school Saturday, two months after turning 100 years old.
<PERSON>, attended a one-room schoolhouse as a kid until eighth grade and then worked on his family's dairy farm in the town of Saratoga until the military plu... |
42c5327e-09c2-e668-f1b9-a629f8376ac0 | ['da5cf46c-a96b-cfee-5187-e04eabf49892'] | Music is a universal language that resonates and unites people from different backgrounds, capable of building new comradeship and friendships while strengthening existing ones. Throughout the world, people think and speak in different languages while looking at life through various views. Having a common appreciation ... | 8ad74ba6-57e5-b255-062f-b8f9212bf4ae | ['da5cf46c-a96b-cfee-5187-e04eabf49892'] | Twenty Marines and sailors with 7th Communication Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force arrived at Hikarigaoka Nursing Home in Kin Town in the early morning of Sept. 7 to help prepare for the upcoming district festival the next day. The U.S. service members, who live on Camp Hansen, worked together with the nursing... |
32a587bb-289b-363d-f614-a3d6eea12fb7 | ['da9d9dfd-d873-d854-fbb1-56ba1f37830a'] | Faced with the MPAA's dreaded NC-17 rating, film-makers voluntarily self-censor so as not to be ignored come Oscar time – but now they're fighting back
Blue Valentine director <PERSON> had two nightmares as a child. One was that his parents would get divorced, the other that nuclear war would break out. The first happe... | fc0f6e18-d75e-d552-cb77-b0b05862fb71 | ['da9d9dfd-d873-d854-fbb1-56ba1f37830a'] | Having two of your novels turned into films is remarkable. Seeing both films released on the same day is amazing. That they're cross-cultural, lesbian, romantic dramas makes it extraordinary.
But such is the experience of novelist turned film-maker <PERSON>. The World Unseen, which opens tomorrow, is a poetic love stor... |
fed6d21c-86a4-7663-8160-7c09de17bdbe | ['daa4d5f6-968a-6f42-ad3a-3cd0f2e28545'] | Photo: Pexels
tap water drought
<PERSON> — The world's largest functioning fog collection project is setting an example for other projects globally.
Growing up on Mount Boutmezguida in southwest Morocco on the edge of the Sahara desert, <PERSON> never imagined that the fog enveloping the nearby peaks would change her l... | 75267c8d-15f4-a94e-20f4-69c35139ccd6 | ['daa4d5f6-968a-6f42-ad3a-3cd0f2e28545'] | SIDI IFNI, Morocco (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Growing up on Mount Boutmezguida in southwest Morocco on the edge of the Sahara desert, <PERSON> never imagined that the fog enveloping the nearby peaks would change her life.
For hours every day and often before sunrise, <PERSON> and other women from nearby villages wo... |
bf3f259a-135c-03f9-86ac-d7f423ee55cd | ['db1cafe2-b6d0-e4fa-bffc-57455cc6c019'] | On his first day in the Donbass region of Ukraine in 2010, photographer <PERSON> met a man with tuberculosis of the bowels.
“He was lying naked on a hospital bed and staring at the ceiling,” <PERSON> recalled. “A week later, I was with him in the last hours of his life. He could not move and talk; his body was like a s... | 7f0198d1-8f2a-043b-b4af-a974db6406b4 | ['db1cafe2-b6d0-e4fa-bffc-57455cc6c019'] | Editor’s note: This is the first post in a series highlighting photographers commissioned by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta for its “Picturing the South” collection. New work from <PERSON>, <PERSON> and <PERSON> will be exhibited at the museum beginning in June.
British photographer <PERSON>’s previously unseen “Up ... |
d82a98df-74ad-2594-c178-31ff71bda35e | ['db319195-02d8-ded3-480a-728d8824d97e'] | <PERSON> and <PERSON> recently shared the news that they are done with their show Fixer Upper. Us Weekly shared the details about this couple and the rumors that they are moving on from the show for something else that will give them more money.
The original report came from New York Post’s Page Six and they said that ... | 270b1d84-339d-c465-8cde-33715a2b6239 | ['db319195-02d8-ded3-480a-728d8824d97e'] | It is now official that a Gilmore Girls reboot is happening, and everyone wants to know why <PERSON> is not going to be part of it. <PERSON> was a huge part of the show and it going on without <PERSON> is just not going to be the same. E! Online shared the news that <PERSON> is now speaking out and saying that they did... |
761a42c2-2a33-c30b-4c6f-243a58926324 | ['db556578-fe14-7d77-852a-44994ac58b96'] | The iconic Star Trek originally had just a three-year span as it followed the adventures of the crew on the USS Enterprise as they travelled through space to go where no man has gone before. The series brought such memorable characters as <PERSON> <PERSON>, <PERSON> Captain <PERSON> and the <PERSON>.
Star Trek: The Nex... | 2f895241-4190-f1dd-9aac-46f67da2bc79 | ['db556578-fe14-7d77-852a-44994ac58b96'] | The power of science fiction is unparalleled in its ability to garner a legion of fans fascinated with other worlds. As the last episode in the revival of The X-Files airs tonight on Channel Ten, we look from artificial intelligence and extra-terrestrial life to interstellar travel and space warfare to find 10 of the m... |
3823d69d-718f-9e23-de09-7b3cbd6afcde | ['db76093f-b1fd-aefc-99fa-34535c0f9afd'] | It's time to rethink social media in marketing.
Why, you might ask? After all, you're gaining traction. Your Facebook page has millions of likes and your team says engagement is at an all-time high. Your analytics dashboard says "viral conversations" on Twitter are generating heaps of positive sentiment about your bran... | b0a2039e-739a-8d15-9887-558e5908fe5c | ['db76093f-b1fd-aefc-99fa-34535c0f9afd'] | Most Popular
It's time to rethink social media in marketing.
Why, you might ask? After all, you're gaining traction. Your Facebook page has millions of likes and your team says engagement is at an all-time high. Your analytics dashboard says "viral conversations" on Twitter are generating heaps of positive sentiment ab... |
003e11f7-5718-e2c6-111e-5880a7b62472 | ['dba59151-dcec-1152-ed01-f3967d3421f1'] | Data analytics has had a lot of bad press lately: when people think of data mining they are as likely to think of big brother as of big data.
Revelations about the National Security Agency (NSA) are just the latest in the long list of people using data for questionable ends. Why would any charity in its right mind want... | 642cdc1d-acdb-cf33-4512-e213ee18ea93 | ['dba59151-dcec-1152-ed01-f3967d3421f1'] | Come to grips with Google's powerful advertising tool, writes <PERSON>.
If you're a business owner, chances are you've been cold-called by an IT boffin pitching to fine-tune your Google Adwords. You don't use Adwords? Tsk, tsk, tsk.
So, what's this Adwords caper all about and does your little business really need it? M... |
25a8c934-adb8-0678-3c31-931f794f4be3 | ['dba7be40-be99-faed-b097-e55bb505e58d'] | Jersey swaps have become commonplace in the NFL, with the league’s stars following the lead of soccer players and trading uniforms after games.
Seahawks cornerback <PERSON> tweeted a photo of a few of his jerseys on Wednesday. It’s highly impressive.
<PERSON>’s collection includes jerseys from <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERS... | 5c70320c-3eaf-8b5f-e25c-f9d6522d6b70 | ['dba7be40-be99-faed-b097-e55bb505e58d'] | For the last 18 years, the Broncos have held an annual employee recognition day to honor team staff, from grounds crew members to stadium personnel. Players don’t attend the event, but this year one member of the Broncos decided to show up: <PERSON>.
<PERSON> joined more than 200 team employees at Thursday’s service re... |
b7e2bc00-16b4-1ecb-259f-74a57e6818a7 | ['dbb003c5-db81-33e8-894a-5e53304876bc'] | Introduction and Product Specifications
DDR3; it's the future of desktop system memory, plain and simple. However, it's far from becoming the mainstream standard. As it stands now, there is little benefit to DDR3 as high costs and latency makes DDR3 a less attractive option in its current state. It's a familiar story. ... | 57fbf5a8-99e5-ef67-3aad-d14c9b8b6a20 | ['dbb003c5-db81-33e8-894a-5e53304876bc'] | Good morning all. Well, the trek is finally over and I am now a resident of North Carolina. It definitely isn't like New York. Things are cheaper, slower and much warmer. We are looking at a heatwave for our first week here, topping 90 ! This will take some getting used to, but I think it was a good move. I got up a li... |
b291ae6c-fdda-ffe8-26de-e6e48c8e0354 | ['dbd15ef1-b3d5-4cf9-7f6d-22d832dee9af'] | Ballarat’s junk has been tagged as a potential antique hot spot by an Australian production company.
Shine Australia is sourcing filming locations for an adaptation of the reality television show American Pickers, broadcast on 7mate.
The hosts of the show, known as “pickers” search through garages, attics and houses in... | 4b0b597e-a6d9-33cf-e8f5-c86f1b9c3c52 | ['dbd15ef1-b3d5-4cf9-7f6d-22d832dee9af'] | Protective Service Officer booths on Melbourne's railway stations are being targeted by vandals, who are expressing their contempt with explicit graffiti.
About 20 of these booths, also known as “pods”, are graffitied every month, according to Metro. The Belgrave and Frankston lines were the worst hit, in a string of a... |
65f40188-ed63-a52d-8398-25b991e87777 | ['dbd1d133-c0ae-7a56-1783-c37e8f7d6f2f'] | "It's no age to die," says the doctor who helped to save thousands of mothers and babies in the states of Jharkhand and Orissa. The NGO of which he is co-founder says its approach - which puts women centre stage - works even in the poorest areas.
It is just getting light in Chakradharpur, a small village in the eastern... | c3355544-a93d-966c-ce4c-114c0dc17df2 | ['dbd1d133-c0ae-7a56-1783-c37e8f7d6f2f'] | Dr <PERSON> says, "Human beings have two main instincts; the instinct of self-protection and the instinct to reproduce." And she should know – she has carved out a career matching infertile couples with women willing to "rent their wombs". Beginning with a couple of surrogacies a year in 2003, <PERSON>'s Akanksha clini... |
9070a9a4-2efe-b234-cd92-205655f2cb2a | ['dc10a413-afc4-8890-9bc3-1acf9903cefb'] | By
This post is the latest in <PERSON>’s fantasy baseball position primer series. To see his primers for all other positions, click here. Other primers: C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF
Stock Watch: Rising
<PERSON>, Tampa Bay Rays
<PERSON> had exactly one start last season, but in that one start he showed the look of the nex... | 9dea41ba-6f74-493e-286f-14f727812074 | ['dc10a413-afc4-8890-9bc3-1acf9903cefb'] | By
This post is the latest in <PERSON>’s fantasy baseball position primer series. To his primers for all other positions, click here.
Catcher Stock Watch
Rising:
<PERSON>, Detroit Tigers
<PERSON> burst onto the scene last season to form the best catching tandem in the majors with <PERSON>. His role in the Tigers offens... |
9bd7e370-580e-a83e-2c0c-9330eea7b4d2 | ['dc16cd1b-266d-3168-a650-b1521ddb0b82'] | <PERSON> was diagnosed with the form of autism following his arrest last week []
<PERSON>, 19, who may face up to 70 years in jail in America, was diagnosed with the form of autism following his arrest last week.
Yesterday <PERSON>, of Wickford, Essex, appeared at Westminster magistrates court facing charges that inclu... | cc338045-e99a-2202-9dd1-91b7f42c17c8 | ['dc16cd1b-266d-3168-a650-b1521ddb0b82'] | The scaffolded archway to the site is impenetrable to all outsiders
The scaffolded archway to the site, manned by self-appointed “protesters” with two-way radios and dark looks, is impenetrable to all outsiders other than the occasional smiling community police officer. That is, unless you know another way in. Not far ... |
d38308d9-b606-f7bd-34ca-7d36e3b1e676 | ['dc33999f-d65d-5257-bfba-f76a34e33921'] | A prominent official under former Mayor <PERSON>'s administration told me that shrinking Detroit "betrays who we are." Instead, he said, we should be doing the opposite of right-sizing.
"How did Philly grow?" he said. "It grabbed up the suburbs. How did LA grow? It grabbed up the suburbs. Think about it: Detroit is old... | 3be6008e-4efe-06f6-66f4-569e92348414 | ['dc33999f-d65d-5257-bfba-f76a34e33921'] | There are some things about the new horror movie It Follows that only people from Detroit will understand. Still from It Follows © 2014 - RADiUS/TWC
Right from the start of the horror movie It Follows, I recognized my hometown of Detroit—or, more precisely, a suburban residential architecture native to the place. As th... |
6f65da52-42f0-6538-fb0d-3f5a60420818 | ['dc78d73b-1efd-5721-695a-b1eb4cc01d9c'] | My husband came into my life like a sun and showered me with a golden light I had not known before. The moment we met, we recognized each other and without wasting too many precious moments, reunited after a much-too-long hiatus. Of course, I knew when we started that our time together would be too short no matter what... | 18abf8ca-9edc-1d3b-0b3c-45a73e5751dd | ['dc78d73b-1efd-5721-695a-b1eb4cc01d9c'] | When I woke up one morning a few weeks ago and saw the photos of more than 100 desecrated graves at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia, I felt bereft.
In the 18 months since my husband died, I have been a frequent visitor to his grave, finding solace in the sanctity and peace of the cemetery. On the morning after th... |
574d52bc-cf1e-a985-9885-c9ef21144ccc | ['dc86fa27-dacb-d7e5-c607-0d23a331fa70'] | The acclaimed British documentary filmmaker has released his latest film in unusual, forward-thinking circumstances.
Commissioned for the BBC, and quite radically for a major filmmaker’s work, it premiered on and will only be available through their online iPlayer service.
While the Sundance Film Festival and various a... | 170fa20c-ca71-d779-8771-cf7b95e0d92b | ['dc86fa27-dacb-d7e5-c607-0d23a331fa70'] | “If at a certain point you were into arthouse movies when you’re young, <PERSON> was your best friend,” my friend <PERSON> tells me the other day, and I can put it no better way. The German filmmaker secured a legendary reputation early on for the successive one-two hit of his widely regarded masterpieces Paris, Texas ... |
c580e847-2858-f39b-b42b-f708407dc878 | ['dd182fbc-f51f-f790-1dda-8fe38d1b4e26'] | Bitcoin crossed $10,000 for the first time this week.
While everyone was paying attention to $10,000, the important number was $11,400, according to Fibonacci resistance.
The charts suggest bitcoin's surge could continue after a rough patch.
This week we saw Bitcoin breach the $10,000 mark and continue in a near-vertic... | d2c1afec-df22-80b3-d6b8-9a67d45f2341 | ['dd182fbc-f51f-f790-1dda-8fe38d1b4e26'] | The US Dollar has experienced a prolonged and material decline in 2017.
The DXY index has dropped from 102.80 (2 nd January) to 91.33 (8 th September), which roughly represents an 11% loss.
This decline has come in 7 consecutive monthly black candles, an extremely rare occurrence and a substantial move for a major curr... |
62e60dcc-8142-2f85-c73b-87d799f9b7ce | ['dd736723-fd55-ebc3-bdab-30a36d98c06a'] | Is that foundation you bought last fall still safe to wear? What about the lipstick you found in an old purse? We consulted some experts to find when cosmetics and other personal care products - often little more talcum powder, minerals and coloring - really should make their way from the bathroom counter to the wasteb... | b0f7d240-c063-e05b-1944-9878ada85155 | ['dd736723-fd55-ebc3-bdab-30a36d98c06a'] | In a disturbing report dated from August 3—just more than a week before white supremacists gathered on Charlottesville for an event that killed anti-racism protestor <PERSON>—the FBI was busying itself with a report to that manufactured threats from on so-called “Black Identity Extremists” (BIE):“The FBI assesses it is... |
7f8e6867-6448-ec24-88fc-debfc445a4f1 | ['dd988c42-0426-c5a3-b832-3512f9191ee1'] | Federal authorities are holding 603 people in custody as a result of the FBI's sweeping terrorism investigation, including members of <PERSON> Al Qaeda organization, Atty. Gen. <PERSON> said Tuesday.
<PERSON> provided the first detailed picture of the detentions in the largest federal probe in U.S. history.
The Justice... | 9f48d984-605e-958a-4c3c-ee9d170b971b | ['dd988c42-0426-c5a3-b832-3512f9191ee1'] | Five years have passed since <PERSON> was hauled before a grand jury, but time has not dimmed the trauma.
"I had a car accident one time, and I kept having nightmares about it. This was like that," <PERSON> said recently. "The only reason I knew I could live through it is because after I buried my father, I knew I coul... |
94fbca38-a32a-5b47-6eda-507d15bbf14a | ['dd9bedb3-d49d-1e72-9bfc-612d011bb22b'] | GREENVILLE, S.C. – A local environmental non-profit plans to fight Duke Energy’s plans to install a 40-mile transmission line that would stretch across the Carolinas.
Upstate Forever placed a full-page ad in The Greenville News on Sunday, taking aim at the adverse environmental and economic impact it claims the transmi... | d13a0677-d383-940b-9f55-e3a98a65337c | ['dd9bedb3-d49d-1e72-9bfc-612d011bb22b'] | DUNCAN, S.C. – More than a week after the Confederate flag outside the state house in Columbia furled, the West Spartanburg chapter of the NAACP is now targeting Byrnes High School’s mascot name, calling it a symbol of “racial hatred,” and “pain.”
The group met Monday night at 6 PM at St. John Baptist Church in Wellfor... |
1db87645-bf57-e082-4165-372ef6d861d9 | ['dddf67a8-3e29-7ed8-da41-2a5967e2ba31'] | <PERSON> / Panos Pictures A picture of the late North Korean leader <PERSON> is displayed on a television in Pyongyang
In 2007 and 2008, photojournalist <PERSON> visited North Korea by infiltrating a communist solidarity delegation. In the first of a three-part TIME.com series, he reports on the elaborate ruse that is ... | 7e886dda-a7f7-299f-2f6d-84f27b1b1d97 | ['dddf67a8-3e29-7ed8-da41-2a5967e2ba31'] | <PERSON> / Panos Pictures Executives at a factory in Pyongyang.
In 2007 and 2008, photojournalist <PERSON> visited North Korea by infiltrating a communist solidarity delegation. In the final story in his three-part TIME.com series, <PERSON> recounts the almost-invention of the North Korea Chocolate Company.
On the final... |
e6017ac0-4252-8688-4c92-20cacda73724 | ['ddf60e0f-3b31-4b6b-faae-f9721f3acd07'] | <PERSON> / WireImage
What’s an NHL champion team to do after winning its second Stanley Cup in three years? Go to Las Vegas to celebrate, of course!
The Los Angeles Kings and their shiny and silver Stanley Cup made their way to <PERSON> and <PERSON>’s new restaurant Crush in MGM Grand on Thursday night, then walked ove... | 22bf8356-155a-1c2b-2e3d-b715cd5e106c | ['ddf60e0f-3b31-4b6b-faae-f9721f3acd07'] | Hip-hop legend <PERSON> kicked off the return of Ditch Weekend in style at Palms Pool at the Palms on Friday afternoon. The Grammy-nominated rapper — in a black Hermes tank top and jeans and black Louis Vuitton aviator sunglasses — talked about the <PERSON> fight at MGM Grand on the arrivals carpet.
“I want <PERSON> to... |
20a57425-4475-366a-0ca0-b8f974c6f84c | ['de11a4d2-bb4d-54cc-2aed-bbce40a4cbe1'] | Since its implementation, the GST had always had its set of issues, the most worrying among then was the dwindling revenues from tax collection. (Image: Reuters)
India Economic Survey 2018: The Economic Survey 2017-18, which was released in Parliament on Monday ahead of the Union Budget 2018, which is to be presented b... | eeae324d-6d4b-1978-683f-5b0ff029e99e | ['de11a4d2-bb4d-54cc-2aed-bbce40a4cbe1'] | <PERSON> Patanjali Ayurved looks to take on HUL, and is keen to surpass the FMCG major’s turnover in the near future.
<PERSON> effect: Ruchi Soya Industries shares surged by more than 4.4% intra-day on reports that <PERSON>-led Patanjali Ayurved has increased its bid on the edible oil manufacturer, in the slugfest whic... |
0b556650-7664-5cbe-8df4-334e4c63c605 | ['de228155-753b-c0be-b0b8-5f8fceef6543'] | Like the honest girlfriend that tells you too much information, I am here to advise you about the trials and tribulations of long distance dating. Trust me on this one.
1) Avoid the “psycho girlfriend” stereotype. Trust is essential; this seems like an obvious point, but most young women forget that trust should be eff... | 90066178-1243-a124-71dc-fd490b061058 | ['de228155-753b-c0be-b0b8-5f8fceef6543'] | After <PERSON> and her baby bump’s recent appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show I couldn’t help but ponder: why would the very pregnant starlet (we’re talking nine months along and already having small contractions preggo) be wearing such high heels? “I’m in like eight inch heels,” <PERSON> claims, “I should be ticket... |
274710bf-ac36-615e-a2ba-9380e9bdeda0 | ['de3b8901-4d35-a14a-ad21-0740e3000319'] | TALLAHASSEE — Florida State football coach <PERSON> doesn't think the results of a school code of conduct hearing on sexual assault allegations against quarterback <PERSON> will result in expulsion or suspension for the sophomore Heisman Trophy winner.
<PERSON>'s reason: "I know the facts of the case," he said Monday d... | 6380fc47-7d91-c5ec-40ba-a75d98c02c93 | ['de3b8901-4d35-a14a-ad21-0740e3000319'] | <PERSON> put it succinctly: "There's a new ranking in town."
<PERSON>, the former chairman of the Jacksonville host committee for Super Bowl XXXIX and now the chief operating officer of the College Football Playoff, seems as excited as any fan for the first top 25 ranking produced by the CFP selection committee, compos... |
1a4b9261-439f-a07b-6224-a7746d1524fc | ['de40138d-7de4-28f1-1b79-328f49a6a48e'] | Stunning Strictly Come Dancing star <PERSON> wants us to let go of the past. Move on. Not get dragged down. It’s her mantra for finding calm and happiness. And it’s a mission she’s on herself – which is perhaps why she doesn’t want to rake over one very painful aspect of her life.
For anyone wondering, <PERSON> has hun... | d6c52f46-1134-227c-6990-9a0018971692 | ['de40138d-7de4-28f1-1b79-328f49a6a48e'] | With double wishbone suspension, an 'intuitive liquid-crystal instrument console' showing speed, time and outside temperature, and a nippy top speed of 8mph, the sporty TGA Vita mobility scooter is a snip at £3,995. A chrome finish costs extra.
If you think invalid carriages - as they are legally known - are glorified ... |
79559cdf-de0f-a3b2-ee92-ad129f666bfb | ['de6a133f-a4c4-2869-aa68-53a60a0107a8'] | Brave — the first female hero from the blockbuster dream team Pixar — opens this weekend and will more than likely stomp the box office competition.
My five-year-old daughter and I will be first in line to see Brave. (My husband will be there too.) Why? Well it’s because it just looks awesome and yes, also, because it ... | 01f75d73-cb13-fa2e-f526-b9dd1a9a48f0 | ['de6a133f-a4c4-2869-aa68-53a60a0107a8'] | Veep gets off to a great start in series premiere on HBO. <PERSON> in a word? GREAT.
Why is it so fun to see <PERSON> swear while simultaneously navigating politics in heels and a nice red dress? We always knew there was a lion under <PERSON>’s sometimes wacky demeanor. <PERSON> was not your average mom either. There’s... |
90c15cc7-9936-caca-7657-accab25dd56c | ['ded5a689-5906-61cb-8a6a-b2bf6af71b9f'] | YONGSAN GARRISON, Republic of Korea -- The Religious Retreat Center, located 2.5 miles from U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan, was decommissioned during a solemn ceremony, Nov. 21.
The RRC served military members and their families for decades, and will continue serving the Area II community from its new home at the South Pos... | d24f2502-12ad-623c-5744-094b3dd0be7a | ['ded5a689-5906-61cb-8a6a-b2bf6af71b9f'] | BUPYEONG-GU, Republic of Korea -- Bupyeong-gu Korean American Friendship Council members assembled for its quarterly meeting in Korea to enhance ROK-U.S. relations in the Area II military community, Nov. 27.
Col. <PERSON>, garrison commander of U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan, <PERSON>, mayor of Bupyeong-gu, and their respe... |
f1036206-c3bd-b2eb-9efa-26ea43569a94 | ['dee3a7e9-55cd-2ffa-6745-cf9c933306ac'] | At a wildlife sanctuary in western Colorado, a three-year-old sandhill crane nicknamed "Baby" is listening to talk radio. It's not the words that have Baby's attention, it's the sound of the human voice. Baby, standing three feet tall and weighing 13 pounds, is a bird with an identity problem.
"This is a bird that does... | a76254d4-ada8-27dc-7312-1892448c3309 | ['dee3a7e9-55cd-2ffa-6745-cf9c933306ac'] | It looks like a pike on steroids. But, the northern snakehead, a non-native fish with a voracious appetite, is one fish no one wants in the neighborhood.
This week, fish biologists were alarmed to learn that a Chicago-area fisherman caught a snakehead in his net while fishing in Lake Michigan's Burnham Harbor.
"I hope ... |
2d0dc070-ebd3-c55f-043e-636f28843953 | ['df2faaae-b355-f1fe-a5d9-0492bbc8e330'] | FOLLOWING serious cajoling by the US, the European Union and arm twisting by Arab governments, the Palestinians entered what was to be nine months of negotiations with Israel. The Palestinians, who had forgone demands for Israel’s compliance with previous signed agreements before starting new negotiations, were promise... | 41326e61-07a6-dbbb-5d9a-981603841470 | ['df2faaae-b355-f1fe-a5d9-0492bbc8e330'] | <PERSON> could change American electoral history for the better. Before explaining how, let’s first explore the politics and predicament of the 2016 Republican primary election.
About six weeks ago, I projected that <PERSON> would win the Republican nomination. That was before the traditional Republican leadership came... |
fe08c0b0-6dcc-acce-59b9-7b85a78ec8b5 | ['df3245e3-cf2b-3b7f-889f-b3755f0aba71'] | The Isham-Terry House, built in 1854, is a time capsule of the genteel lifestyle of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This historic Hartford landmark is steeped in stories, and maybe spirits? Staff and visitors have reported strange occurrences over the years, gathering a significant amount of paranormal folklore... | ce23e8f5-7aab-ed97-b2c6-22596e88b3d5 | ['df3245e3-cf2b-3b7f-889f-b3755f0aba71'] | Connecticut Landmarks' Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden will host a holiday Wreath Making event on Friday, November 28th and Saturday, November 29th, at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm. Make a gorgeous holiday wreath using greens, pinecones, dried flowers, & natural materials. Back by popular demand, George & Carol McCleary, site ... |
e6c6fdcb-34f0-f642-a8f8-a78b6cdc4fc5 | ['df530e1b-8cf0-b081-ffec-f6f5a0c67ac8'] | President-elect heads to his club in Jupiter in what aide calls ‘last-minute trip’ ahead of New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago club
President-elect <PERSON> ditched his press pool once again on Saturday, causing frustration among journalists on hand to ensure the public had knowledge of his whereabouts by travelling wi... | d941276d-ddf7-4190-d0f9-4183eabfbd27 | ['df530e1b-8cf0-b081-ffec-f6f5a0c67ac8'] | The White House on Saturday called Pakistan’s release of a militant wanted by the US as the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai massacre of 2008 a “step in the wrong direction” and said a refusal to re-arrest him would damage bilateral ties and Pakistan’s international reputation around the world.
Pakistani court orders r... |
5673eca1-a749-9f93-380c-67399e3dd6c2 | ['df6649c3-e186-1b0c-83de-4c7f937bf833'] | First lady <PERSON> marked a lot of firsts.
She was the first woman to share the details of her mastectomy via photographs and public statements, helping to open a national conversation about breast cancer. She was the first president's wife to hold a news conference, establishing the role of first lady as a serious po... | 6ccbb829-c63e-cbd3-3ef4-746686d16c6c | ['df6649c3-e186-1b0c-83de-4c7f937bf833'] | Standing Wednesday in the state Capitol with Gov. <PERSON>, <PERSON>, director of computer science education, talks about the increase in high school students taking computer science classes. - Photo by <PERSON>
The number of Arkansas high school students taking computer science classes is up by 30 percent, Gov. <PERSO... |
d0a83297-21c8-8a1b-15ff-f95a962de111 | ['df973f86-7f6e-6be3-d794-3c2ec53ef5d1'] | Courts have appreciated that even distributed denial of service attacks can be legitimate form of public protest. <PERSON> on the insane U.S. law used to criminalize them and other forms of online activism.
Confrontational activism is a conversation with power. Activists take a stand, and the response of the state or c... | d2736afe-c260-b0cd-a707-3bd9d2958b32 | ['df973f86-7f6e-6be3-d794-3c2ec53ef5d1'] | Insider threats, otherwise known as frustrated grown-ups with real jobs, also constitute a significant challenge for information security. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on a survey which showed that 71 percent of IT managers and executives believe insider threats present the greatest risk to their companies... |
fd7094ce-7213-1b5c-d78a-a7a3f5b16ac2 | ['dfb44794-801e-11ba-0625-b88a655d4b76'] | Who Will Write Our
History?
Rediscovering a Hidden Archive From the Warsaw Ghetto
<PERSON>
Vintage: 524 pp., $16.95 paper
<PERSON> was an inveterate optimist who, in 1930s Warsaw, believed that Polish Jewry had a future. Neither warnings from colleagues nor pleadings from in-laws persuaded the historian and political a... | 020d2d7f-1e54-3547-2e8f-e711ddc72ae0 | ['dfb44794-801e-11ba-0625-b88a655d4b76'] | Nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, is it possible to discover new information about the lives of those who perished? According to <PERSON> haunting new book, "Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film," the answer is "Yes … but hurry."
What ignites <PERSON>'s obsession with his family's ... |
fd0925f1-1670-4b46-6b93-f0c661d25884 | ['dfb99c97-e140-fb8a-2449-18522e189eed'] | The city has taken a significant step toward relieving traffic congestion in Denbigh by awarding the first of two contracts for construction of a road project that will connect Eastwood Drive and Bland Boulevard.
The City Council unanimously approved last week a $4.4-million contract for the first phase of the project.... | 8d3091ec-7421-9968-77fb-6b4341d70310 | ['dfb99c97-e140-fb8a-2449-18522e189eed'] | The Town Council decided Tuesday not to buy a vacant and dilapidated apartment building in the historic downtown area, although residents complained about the building a month ago.
Councilwoman <PERSON>, chairwoman of a special committee appointed to look into the matter, said the town would assume a financial risk by ... |
0dfa7bf3-b817-b910-5b90-5fb13ee1a5cf | ['e011154d-a8a9-f821-9704-d7aa53862307'] | In recent weeks, some members of Congress have suggested that the cost of guaranteed health coverage for all Americans is too high. They are willing to delay the goal of universal coverage for an indefinite period of time, and to settle this year for a bill that makes only incremental changes in our health care system.... | 77657455-aaf3-007e-a35a-99fcaa7cd698 | ['e011154d-a8a9-f821-9704-d7aa53862307'] | IMAGINE a young couple, planning their wedding, making the arrangements for a new life together, thinking about the changes that married life will bring. Under todays tax laws, one of the unexpected -- and unwelcome -- surprises awaiting them comes when April 15 rolls around.
Because of the combined effects of the prov... |
54ef2593-4871-09f1-9a3d-b494b36b9e2e | ['e0444181-eab6-6795-33fa-38f751a2ad82'] | Georgetown University was awarded a $280,675 grant over three years from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, starting the Chesapeake Information and Research Library Alliance (CIRLA) Fellow Program to train and employ 13 librarians from diverse backgrounds.
The university will receive the award in collaborati... | e9003806-40ea-eabe-fa44-418099542246 | ['e0444181-eab6-6795-33fa-38f751a2ad82'] | Andreas Jeninga/The Hoya New Zealand playwright <PERSON> spoke Monday night in McNeir Hall. <PERSON> advised students to be open to audience reaction and rewrites.
New Zealand playwright <PERSON> delivered a sincere and humorous lecture about the “ins and outs” of playwriting last night in McNeir Hall.
<PERSON>, speaki... |
ca79438a-5b8b-8b20-9256-cbf0ddb1d5ff | ['e04ca361-77d4-0345-fa76-6397c04631ae'] | Podcasting - Stock image Credit: arinahabich/iStock
Most Popular
If you have been sitting on the sidelines watching the decade-long growth of podcasting, prepare to be blown away in 2017.
After little more than a decade of experimentation and maturation, podcasting has hit its stride. Recent years have seen the medium ... | 45cf55f2-ecd1-4cb0-b2e5-a8908b43d8e9 | ['e04ca361-77d4-0345-fa76-6397c04631ae'] | Most Popular
When was the last time you were so engrossed with an ad that you rewound it to hear it again? No? Never? Not even once?
There's a revolution taking place, and the traditional media giants have yet to realize it. Podcasts are transforming advertising. Podcast producers have become pioneers in creating a dif... |
109bf24a-d731-656d-c57f-ed17440e6b43 | ['e058ca6d-5c43-7e3e-1e77-4c096f9c891c'] | Danger zone At 364 metres, Mount Tibrogargan should just be a scenic hike, the sort grandfathers pack lunches for, right? Wrong. Tibrogargan is just like nature generally: beautiful, yet potentially dangerous if you don't watch out ... sometimes dangerous even when you do watch out. I had begun climbing late on Thursda... | bdfa8790-9fda-a573-b644-f27fd3347826 | ['e058ca6d-5c43-7e3e-1e77-4c096f9c891c'] | Supermarket giant Coles will change the name of an in-house brand of biscuits amid claims it is racist.
Coles Spokesman <PERSON> said the name of the "You'll Love Coles" brand of chocolate and vanilla biscuits, called Creole Creams, will be changed as part of the company-wide rebranding of Coles products.
The name of C... |
024d9879-4858-bc73-35bb-0367eb9b23bd | ['e0ab0f19-93ee-0498-7f23-4f659583077a'] | The early days of hip-hop come alive in all their beautiful, vivid detail at the newly opened "Hip-Hop Revolution: Photographs by Janette Beckman, Joe Conzo, and <PERSON>."
The exhibition presents captivating images from the early years of a now-global culture rooted in the streets of New York, through the work of thre... | 6560eb41-ede9-adfc-baf0-7ed93b0f3335 | ['e0ab0f19-93ee-0498-7f23-4f659583077a'] | The New-York Historical Society is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the globally cherished Madeline books with an exhibition devoted to the cheeky French schoolgirl and her creator, <PERSON>.
Immigrating to New York City in 1914, <PERSON> sketched the first incarnations of <PERSON> at Pete's Tavern in Gramercy; a fa... |
a166de9d-d5cd-14be-5309-f198cf8db91d | ['e0cf719f-0243-b284-9923-808749874667'] | Afghanistan <PERSON> diary Manning 'speed bumps' against the Taliban Photojournalist <PERSON> endures attacks on border outposts, false alarms and French pranks in his fifth diary extract from Afghanistan First Sergeant <PERSON> on the look-out during a drive from the forward operating base in Bermel to Malakshay comba... | e54ac500-50d6-069e-026e-1d03cc9e29a4 | ['e0cf719f-0243-b284-9923-808749874667'] | The raid, May 2006
All around me men who had been sleeping soundly seconds before were now throwing on their body armour and helmets and grabbing their weapons and packs. I grabbed my cameras and chased after them while trying to control my breathing, a trick one of the guys had taught me to counter the effects of the ... |
5a0d0e12-6d07-92d2-251c-1563e54b951e | ['e11a4c19-e3ae-b9c5-36d6-126ee03c8d6a'] | I discovered the work of Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist <PERSON> through his installation Jock Strap (a work in progress) (link NSFW), for which he sat nude in a men's locker room and knitted himself a jockstrap out of wool. <PERSON>'s fascinating work spans installation, sculpture, fiber, photography, vide... | 2b142a71-1496-b9ec-eecb-d195c2a2aa99 | ['e11a4c19-e3ae-b9c5-36d6-126ee03c8d6a'] | WARNING: This post contains sexually explicit language. Please read on at your own discretion.
This blog post originally appeared on NightCharm.com.
<PERSON> and <PERSON> writing How to Have Sex in an Epidemic. Mr. <PERSON> is on the left, and Mr. <PERSON> is at the typewriter.
How to Have Sex in an Epidemic is, for me... |
4160be26-2afc-88f5-3b5e-ce9de3b00411 | ['e179a1c9-83f3-efe2-1d3c-0e149d4aa318'] | Trying to better relate to voters, he's "gotten personal" in recent weeks -- and that means talking about death. A lot.
Reuters
LEESBURG, Va. -- <PERSON> speeches start out upbeat. He thanks the crowd. He bashes the president a bit. He talks about his five-point jobs plan. And then the deaths begin.
There is the story ... | 4bf19a33-8243-4475-e0cd-59b2a130636f | ['e179a1c9-83f3-efe2-1d3c-0e149d4aa318'] | It passed the House and Senate with bipartisan support, but liberals and conservatives alike found something to loathe in the final agreement. <PERSON> once had a name for this kind of legislation: "Crap sandwich." The House Speaker used that pungent phrase to describe the 2009 financial rescue bill -- which he then pr... |
09c0c4ad-d88b-bfe8-0595-ed5642504d71 | ['e17bcf38-e4f7-c8d3-1e22-6516abb406f0'] | <PERSON> is widely regarded as one of the most important photographers of the American West. Born in Orange, N.J., in 1937, <PERSON> moved to Colorado at 15 with his family. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he watched as suburbs emerged and chronicled the growth of tract housing, strip malls and gas stations against ... | 57e8c128-bb88-9d85-d7f8-db5de3e93d09 | ['e17bcf38-e4f7-c8d3-1e22-6516abb406f0'] | <PERSON>, who resigned unexpectedly Aug. 10 as chair of the British Columbia Arts Council (BCAC), says she had to step down in order to speak freely about her concerns over arts funding in the province.
In an interview with The Globe and Mail, <PERSON> cited the failure of the <PERSON> government to consult with the Co... |
0b197f02-d6cf-ced6-75ef-ec1cdf458716 | ['e1b9b550-5e69-942f-8756-87033a738ac1'] | <PERSON>: As year begins, embrace Semester Online, MOOCs
Close Modal Window Hang on for a minute...we're trying to find some more stories you might like.
Close
Close Modal Window Email This Story Send email to this address
Enter Your Name
Add a comment here
Verification
Send Email Cancel
Last August, a Medill professor... | 4fb7a55a-cb7c-580d-7455-15615bdb95cb | ['e1b9b550-5e69-942f-8756-87033a738ac1'] | I applaud the recent appointment of Mark Presnell as director of University Career Services. He will give UCS a new face and work hard to help students navigate the hostile terrain of the job search process.
I came to Northwestern in part because I thought it would give me an excellent professional foothold. Yet althou... |
23df975e-4c1e-cab4-b01f-d2f4d4188780 | ['e1db1afc-21ba-fce4-e5c4-bd1abd384c24'] | If I was facing one of the <PERSON> sisters in today's women's singles final with the game that I had at my peak, I would like my chances of winning. Being able to move like I used to and hit the ball as I did, I think I could be the superior player. I played doubles with <PERSON> in Japan last year, practised with her... | b2247391-13d9-23a0-ce70-3808089f6a78 | ['e1db1afc-21ba-fce4-e5c4-bd1abd384c24'] | Thankfully, I don't see as well as I used to, so don't notice the wrinkles that appear overnight. I think God planned it that way. I am 57, but feel like I'm in my 40s; I certainly don't act like I am in my late 50s.
My best features are my full lips, my hazel eyes and my hands. I have big hands but slender fingers and... |
655536e6-07f9-7e9a-2bef-c06c3e464455 | ['e1f899a9-2a51-cef1-a489-2a55791039ed'] | Supporters of bills that would regulate carbon in Oregon rally on the steps of the Oregon capitol building. Credit: <PERSON>/EarthFix
This story originally appeared on OPB/EarthFix.
In the wake of last week’s <PERSON> administration announcement that the United States will pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement, state... | 3fd20b50-ab4b-27bb-103b-fdf8845c4439 | ['e1f899a9-2a51-cef1-a489-2a55791039ed'] | Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that Oregon should not have sold off a chunk of land four years ago.
The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that the state should not have sold off a piece of the Elliott State Forest to a Eugene-based timber company four years ago. The state sold the land in 2014 after environmental groups... |
6133cecf-6a8b-d6b3-77ea-cb9d4b396ad4 | ['e25f6eea-c37c-8018-e0e8-a30ee5751508'] | Oh boy, if you thought selfies are only a phenomenon that happens on terra firma, then Houston, we have a problem: selfies have infiltrated outer space!
Already a member of an elite group that has travelled into space, American astronaut <PERSON> one-upped his pioneering peers by being the first person to post on Insta... | baf397db-2481-3c02-c205-8112ed1484f8 | ['e25f6eea-c37c-8018-e0e8-a30ee5751508'] | The capabilities of today’s tablets and smartphones have inspired people to take an active interest in videography. In many cases, you don’t always need a lot of expensive camera equipment to obtain good results – there’s a huge array of modestly-priced accessories online tailored to your specific mobile device. For th... |
8f2153b3-5983-098a-545e-3c9d5b922328 | ['e2713bc1-5a66-eee9-6d10-892798913b16'] | People often ask, “What is the most commonly overlooked travel discount?” My answer is inevitably AAA. Formerly the American Automobile Association, the not-for-profit federation of affiliated motor clubs in North America provides roadside assistance, insurance, and other benefits. But lesser known are AAA’s broad sele... | fe3f2804-62d4-165c-3005-79993e932f56 | ['e2713bc1-5a66-eee9-6d10-892798913b16'] | When you think about destination ski markets, the western mountains of North America tend to dominate people’s minds. Folks across the country flock to places like California, Colorado, Utah and British Columbia to experience some of the best snow around.
Unfortunately, this popularity also means that prices get driven... |
b4e04c67-282d-a2d5-b758-5df1e91d0496 | ['e2862adb-5378-afb7-0812-6b6c3228551a'] | Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision in <PERSON> v. FEC has brought a lot of speculation about the likely growth in the role of big donors now that overall limits on donations to parties, PACs and candidates have been demolished. But what effect will the ruling have on the share of campaign contributions coming from men ... | 1af32bb8-5d80-a2ff-c7db-d92dc0803079 | ['e2862adb-5378-afb7-0812-6b6c3228551a'] | The first in an occasional series illustrating some of the resources available on OpenSecrets.org.
As we enter the 2014 election cycle, we will be regularly updating our profiles of House and Senate races and candidates. For an example of the kind of data OpenSecrets.org can provide, let’s take a closer look at two sen... |
8d8fcc7d-9a87-4313-eedf-d43c1f192537 | ['e28f2814-66f6-a40f-d4d6-66234c8b5a21'] | Public discussions of religion and homosexuality provoke intense moral and political anxieties. In fact, “gays v God” is a popular theme that seeps into TV shows, novels, and even legislation. Such a dichotomy, however, is unhelpful. Presenting faith and (homo)sexuality as sparring partners in some ill-defined boxing m... | 64e880fc-8930-de7c-4d44-a0b0630f09eb | ['e28f2814-66f6-a40f-d4d6-66234c8b5a21'] | Rising rates of HIV infection in Australia have unsurprisingly generated concern. Figures released by the Kirby Institute on Monday show that 2012 saw the biggest increase in new cases of HIV for 20 years. NSW had a 24% spike of HIV notifications (408 new cases), most of them arising between men who have sex with men. ... |
cebe3710-9c6d-9e22-74c8-48b5e32ad258 | ['e29c45b2-23b0-bc3a-1458-b50523e602d1'] | With our senses heightened, we blindys are a force to be reckoned with. There are perks that improve everything from sex to sleuthing
On the first day of 1995 in Baghdad’s central hospital, a group of nurses huddled together in tears: “When shall we tell <PERSON> that God has given her a blind son?” This was <PERSON>’s... | b25f1620-a3b3-c662-4d4d-cc55d3e70995 | ['e29c45b2-23b0-bc3a-1458-b50523e602d1'] | Another day, another bombing. This time, Brussels, the European administrative capital. Within minutes of the attack, the scaremongers came flying out of the blocks. This time they did not come straight for the “Muslamic infidel”. From Ukip to <PERSON> to columnists at The Telegraph, they were out to promote their Brex... |
1f4ba8d6-78fb-2dc2-9a2b-2166880340f1 | ['e2b24416-3212-68e7-8580-494f6aeb229d'] | During financial literacy month, Canada’s top money bloggers are sharing their best piece of advice.
Many parents want to leave as much cash and property as they can to their children. However, there are tax, probate and inheritance traps that can cause missteps.
The most common mistakes, which are often accidental and... | 5131ed1b-1c43-e562-a4ea-bd40b648cc28 | ['e2b24416-3212-68e7-8580-494f6aeb229d'] | As a Chartered Accountant, I cannot provide specific investment advice. However, the saga I am going to relate can only be construed as a cautionary tale in investing. I don’t think that any of you can construe this as advice.
The saga began in the fall of 1996 when I was made aware of a biotech stock out of Calgary ca... |
f308c8fe-a0b2-8d25-4a1b-e91c4ec39aa3 | ['e2b8a275-dc3c-fde5-0b09-295a01e07777'] | <PERSON> is president of EnviroEconomics. He is an adviser on climate policy to governments, environmental non-governmental organizations and industry.
For business leaders, managing the carbon exposure of their Canadian operations over the past year must have been a dizzying affair. Reading the tea leaves of a continu... | 0fa393f4-a52a-890a-1aba-6d877951f261 | ['e2b8a275-dc3c-fde5-0b09-295a01e07777'] | Carbon policy is messy and complex. And the stakes are high as Canadian governments of all political stripes continue to struggle with it.
The federal greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations in place so far are adding future costs to vehicles and electricity — on the order of $32 billion between now and 2035.
Federal and prov... |
b3b02cf8-5aa2-347c-98e5-27cc167d2b5e | ['e2c67372-1168-7ade-80f2-bbc7ee700d2f'] | With restive Tibetan areas swarming with troops and closed to scrutiny from the outside world, China's government turned up efforts Saturday to put its own version of the unrest before the international public.
Information barely trickled out of the Tibetan capital Lhasa and other far-flung Tibetan communities, where... | 6e9a8159-0af7-d917-ce7a-0f1f8bc99f82 | ['e2c67372-1168-7ade-80f2-bbc7ee700d2f'] | <PERSON> has wiped out one of the TBA slots in the New York Yankees' creaky pitching rotation, earning a job for now after spending most of the last 61â2 years in the minor leagues.
<PERSON> won his second straight start since the Yankees brought him up from the minors, pitching a career-high seven innings and gettin... |
59dfb706-bbf3-4b18-b7ca-ad323152ff33 | ['e2dabd4b-87b1-5056-1756-e3a35a38cbc3'] | Do you sleep with the TV on or your laptop screen lit up? Turn it off, pronto. According to a new study in Molecular Psychology, nighttime brightness could lead to depression.
In the study, researchers separated hamsters into two groups: one group experienced a standard light/dark cycle, while the other group was expos... | 9d58346f-0b80-3fc0-302a-03b87a4fb2e4 | ['e2dabd4b-87b1-5056-1756-e3a35a38cbc3'] | Good news for anyone who hates number crunching: You don’t need to add or subtract a thing to get slim. “Instead, focus on food quality, portion size and the timing of your meals,” says <PERSON>, Ph.D., director at the Center for Obesity Prevention and Education at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. If you obsess over calories,... |
f105937f-08b8-71af-b301-1d6fde64bc0c | ['e310c1a5-e29e-ab01-1d13-ad0d0e4e59e2'] | The UK has managed to retain a white version of the Lobster Telephone that <PERSON> created in 1938 after the National Galleries of Scotland came up with the necessary money to add it to their collection.
On Monday, the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) made the exciting announcement that they had finally managed to... | c6bb5ff5-6c61-70b2-acb0-bc591ee8dd61 | ['e310c1a5-e29e-ab01-1d13-ad0d0e4e59e2'] | Proving that music and passion are always in fashion, <PERSON> music has stopped panhandlers and loiterers in their tracks.
Rite Aid stores across America, from New York to Los Angeles, have come up with a highly creative method for stopping vagrants and panhandlers from loitering around their shops, and it is by blast... |
6c795543-47b1-e2e1-4322-ebf7a4279004 | ['e3196daf-08b4-c07c-a548-793e3debdd5a'] | ‘Based on wide-ranging meticulous research, <PERSON> utilises the case of the downing of MH17 as a prism to refract the political corruption of state-directed oligarchic capitalism in Ukraine coupled to the self-interest of a neo-liberal driven European Union. He offers a masterly analysis of the complex domestic perso... | 4a26f5ae-1ac6-be0f-2d06-81d845d2b4f7 | ['e3196daf-08b4-c07c-a548-793e3debdd5a'] | Towards Kiev’s Veto
The Dutch government, soon to be given charge of the investigation, ruled out any dealings with the insurgency. After foreign secretary <PERSON> at the UN called local volunteers ‘thugs’ on 21 July, falsely accused them of robbing the victims’ corpses, the option of negotiating with the insurgents w... |
40a6e7a2-217e-81a4-1c17-f577f7aef964 | ['e36bb69a-9778-cdb4-77b1-58d2bcbc3dc3'] | The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) says it is has received an application to open auction floors in Mashonaland West Province in a bid to decongest the traditional Harare auction floors.
Tobacco sales floors have constantly been overwhelmed with (tobacco) farmers from across the country during the selling ... | 7e6f412b-d416-f152-fd27-485238ae2474 | ['e36bb69a-9778-cdb4-77b1-58d2bcbc3dc3'] | Real estate agents should be high on alert as they are vulnerable to money launderers seeking to clean ill-gotten wealth from illicit deals, the Reserve Bank Zimbabwe has warned. IN AN interview with The Herald Property recently, RBZ Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) manager Mr <PERSON>, said the real estate sector is ... |
6aa20141-e956-2b17-1162-f9fbde440327 | ['e37c843f-bf29-7d03-1c77-acd4ed153c10'] | UNDETERRED: <PERSON> believes homeopathy works for her/ Wenn.com []
Now imagine that the store, when asked why it was selling such products, replied that it continued to do so simply because people seemed happy to buy them. Such a chain would surely be a laughing stock. Why would a consumer ever trust it again? Yet thi... | 04cffaf4-661f-5fa0-8787-893e8e1e9e60 | ['e37c843f-bf29-7d03-1c77-acd4ed153c10'] | <PERSON>
The 39-year-old man being escorted through the Bolivian forest could barely stand up, let alone walk, and his lungs wheezed and bubbled as he struggled to breathe. His clothes were stained with sweat and blood while, beneath a mess of black mangy hair, his exhausted eyes staring at the ground were barely disce... |
76092038-fb3c-df16-d4bd-ed19d22ed6a8 | ['e39c2adc-0af5-b8c4-56b3-e5926a727299'] | WASHINGTON — In the Pentagon’s newly expanded Special Operations office, Assistant Secretary of Defense <PERSON> is working to implement the U.S. military’s highest-priority plan: a global campaign against terrorism that reaches far beyond Iraq and Afghanistan.
The plan details the targeting of al-Qaida-affiliated netw... | 2b6e9d78-fce2-6bb6-5d97-fb00ca9219ec | ['e39c2adc-0af5-b8c4-56b3-e5926a727299'] | As the United States brings tens of thousands of troops home from Afghanistan this year and attention shifts from the battlefield to care for the wounded, there is another group of veterans the country must not forget.
Thousands of Afghan interpreters who have risked their lives alongside U.S. forces in Afghanistan now... |
85198ef8-336f-e06d-2ae3-25e53c6a715f | ['e3edd824-1d1e-5eab-a41e-560658f5fc0a'] | <PERSON> isn’t your average book nerd.
He has an engineering degree, owns a pair of CrossFit gyms and can share war stories from numerous deployments over more than a decade as an intelligence officer in the Marine Corps and Reserves.
But <PERSON>, 39, would rather talk about classical literature any day.
Rebootcamp Re... | 67fcf477-1528-940a-1198-62e7510c6417 | ['e3edd824-1d1e-5eab-a41e-560658f5fc0a'] | A controversial Republican proposal from last Congress to eliminate a student loan forgiveness program for public servants, including military service members, may be off the table.
Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill this week, the new chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, Rep. <PERSON>, D-Va., sai... |
4e4bc5f3-b372-ea39-8f26-e0d0708e0f58 | ['e427e94e-755c-c281-5384-ff2bf68cf60a'] | Ecuador’s leftist ruling party candidate <PERSON> celebrated a narrow victory Monday following a contentious presidential run-off election, preserving the small, Andean nation’s status as one of South America’s remaining populist strongholds.
As <PERSON>, 64, pledged to build on the polarizing, populist policies of out... | b32c9fed-dcb4-812f-28dc-ded51d1ec0be | ['e427e94e-755c-c281-5384-ff2bf68cf60a'] | At least 40 people were killed in twin bombings in the Syrian capital of Damascus and airstrikes in the northwestern city Idlib on Wednesday, the sixth anniversary of the Syrian civil war.
In rebel-controlled Idlib province, airstrikes killed at least nine people, including children, according to the Britain-based Syri... |
20838184-43bc-4be5-ab0d-adee95798470 | ['e43aa6af-5a05-1d73-05d6-e21a319cb820'] | The U.S. Labor Department proposed granting temporary permission to five banks to continue managing certain U.S. pension funds after convictions of the banks or their units, potentially allowing the banks to move beyond their legal troubles over objections by some Democratic lawmakers.
The department proposed so-called... | 0917ceaa-51db-d0ef-854f-d4780e4f3ec7 | ['e43aa6af-5a05-1d73-05d6-e21a319cb820'] | SHARE THIS ARTICLE Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email
A group of lawyers in a Kentucky lawsuit is pressing to shed light on information that Wall Street managers have fought for years to keep under wraps.
The move seems to be a warning that lawyers supported by former class-action kingpin <PERSON> intend to use hardball t... |
03c535ee-befe-70eb-57a7-d6654791b4f7 | ['e4794338-2498-1532-a930-64ecbafc2ff0'] | Editor's note: This Stocks Under $10 alert was originally sent to subscribers Nov. 20 at 3:59 p.m. EST. It's being republished as a bonus for TheStreet.com and RealMoney.com readers. A couple of twists in the plot have sent shares of Imax ( A couple of twists in the plot have sent shares of IMAX ) tumbling over the pas... | 3230bdb6-6a01-dd90-b481-5858d9cba825 | ['e4794338-2498-1532-a930-64ecbafc2ff0'] | The anticipated economic slowdown from higher energy prices and rising interest rates has taken a bite out of discount retailers, most notably in the dollar-store arena. Dollar General (DG) is a leader in this segment and is trading 33% off its 52-week high of $20.65 a share back on July 21, 2005.
But does the recent d... |
5f906462-7cae-8673-bd45-c22d851507d4 | ['e4ab0521-42f4-0b9b-7f5e-1e84493d5c32'] | I recently was briefed by the VP-marketing at a global company on a product launch that was critical to its future. His knowledge at that stage was patchy, with very few details. Yet, hours later, we were able to find out everything we needed to know through chat rooms, blogs and fan sites.
This raised two interesting ... | 66c01e43-e81f-17a8-6fbd-d17ad7c0221b | ['e4ab0521-42f4-0b9b-7f5e-1e84493d5c32'] | The 19th century surgeon <PERSON> is familiar to doctors around the world for his dark and poetic description of shock as “the machinery of life... rudely unhinged.” For anyone who has cared for a patient in such a state, the phrase is cruelly apt. Dying of shock is neither quiet nor ordered nor painless. On the contra... |
40bc3821-37b1-46ec-5e52-997950d5fdad | ['e4d5c34f-9003-91dc-411b-9f4d30d3099d'] | I made this recipe up one night after my kids ate honey-mustard chicken somewhere and now it’s a weeknight family favorite. Truly, it comes together in no time! I grill mine, but you can also bake it in a 400 degree oven for 10 minutes. Just put it in a well-oiled baking dish and forget about using the aluminum foil. W... | 4a3f0746-29c5-cd90-2927-6efe66382dc0 | ['e4d5c34f-9003-91dc-411b-9f4d30d3099d'] | Children and adults alike will flip for these homemade cheese crackers. With just 6 ingredients, they are a snap to make, yet a great alternative to packaged crackers. The flakey dough and mild cheddar flavor makes them the perfect complement to cheese, fresh fruit, and a plate of veggies. (They’d also be delicious wit... |
29086e2d-1701-7ea8-8887-4edf08188e31 | ['e4d68e37-0248-afb4-cdc4-683a06308f31'] |
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – With Halloween only a couple weeks away, parents and local residents are a bit concerned with the infamous clown phenomenon happening nationwide and many are hoping this all ends soon before the situation gets really out of hand.
Creepy clowns…they’ve been taunting people all around the country... | 8bbb5159-2e80-3232-e39f-e6cf7ceef6db | ['e4d68e37-0248-afb4-cdc4-683a06308f31'] | LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Michigan State University announced today that it plans to fund a college prep program for the Lansing School District, despite a loss in federal funding due to a mistake while applying for the grant.
For the past 50 years, the Upward Bound Program has helped hundreds of Lansing High School stud... |
ce563d52-92ac-4e24-3ae5-bdfcb8ae44eb | ['e4e5a13f-2443-812d-320f-6cb2f3a2430a'] | opinion
In the last two weeks the attention of the entire world has been focused on the storms in the Americas, starting from the dire predictions that preceded the coming of Hurricane Harvey to its touchdown and the rise of Hurricane Irma and its thunderous journey into the Caribbean. Clear pictures conveying the dept... | 9a2f20a0-fea0-3a10-a503-8d93834dac96 | ['e4e5a13f-2443-812d-320f-6cb2f3a2430a'] | opinion
"Although the crude oil which nature has endowed the Nigerian nation with is found and drilled mainly in the South-south," a friend wrote to me recently, "almost all the Nigerian oil barons and moguls are from the other regions of the country. What are you guys doing to push the figures into the public domain?"... |
57f51733-3fbf-fec2-4956-39acb2c84697 | ['e4e95795-8b10-2edb-eb96-74b990acd64e'] | “I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women—I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. [I] grab ‘em by the p***y.”
As everyone knows by now, presidential candidate <PERSON> spoke these words into an "Access Hollywood"... | 3b941f93-9044-1914-4e5f-5f5f4959bc47 | ['e4e95795-8b10-2edb-eb96-74b990acd64e'] | The atheist "Reason Rally" that will take place in Washington on Saturday, March 24 symbolizes the growing strength of atheism in American culture and politics. Events of this kind are meant to get our attention and to generate media interest and articles such as this one.
So as people prepare to gather on the National... |
3a5520f0-cc36-89a3-58b7-e021e2329959 | ['e51adacb-9f27-bb0a-7a35-34f01cae4214'] | NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- For a guy who sang so many sad songs, <PERSON> left behind a lot of laughs.
There was more humor than sadness at <PERSON>' funeral Thursday at the Grand Ole Opry House as thousands gathered in Nashville -- some arriving hours before sunrise -- to pay their respects to the man whose voice has defined... | 07fe74b6-2071-81ac-9144-875b4de98bfa | ['e51adacb-9f27-bb0a-7a35-34f01cae4214'] | It's getting harder and harder for <PERSON> to leave home.
She recently started the 50-plus-date U.S. leg of her "Blown Away" tour (she plays Nassau Coliseum Nov. 30), and that means months and months away from her husband, <PERSON>, a star with the NHL's Nashville Predators.
The two spent much of their early relations... |
a0311cec-2141-91ef-12f7-e9aa77ed0687 | ['e5231e23-ff9a-86b1-f878-f4de7675c06c'] | American Apparel Inc. and ousted Chief Executive Officer <PERSON> were sued by shareholders over claims directors ignored <PERSON>’s misconduct that violated the company’s sexual harassment and discrimination policies.
The lawsuit cites a June 18 letter by directors suspending <PERSON> as CEO and describing how he auth... | 86e6a7ac-28f3-8215-8174-2bcd5bef702e | ['e5231e23-ff9a-86b1-f878-f4de7675c06c'] | A former U.S. Secret Service agent charged with stealing more than $800,000 in bitcoins while investigating the Silk Road Internet drug emporium tried to change his identity after reaching an agreement to plead guilty, prosecutors said.
A federal judge on Monday ordered <PERSON> to submit to electronic monitoring and a... |
1e43b4dd-5bc5-8a94-111e-39fc4533bff7 | ['e5d43e0f-6e5f-86af-b7e8-3eaf9b2fbda1'] | As I approached Lake Manzanita, otherwise known as the Manzanita parking lot, I realized my plans, along with several cars, were sunk. It clearly wasn’t a good day to park and ride the bus. Silly me — I hadn’t checked the tide charts!
So I decided to take the ferry at Larkspur Landing. Of course, Highway 1 was also und... | e75f4fad-7a38-b758-f1ee-e043bd1251d9 | ['e5d43e0f-6e5f-86af-b7e8-3eaf9b2fbda1'] | Marin has a rich history of challenging the forces of overdevelopment.
Indeed, without the efforts of concerned community groups and determined individuals, the Point Reyes National Seashore would not exist.
Those lands and the Marin Headlands would be covered with a multitude of housing projects.
Today, we’re at the t... |
5b9efce9-f304-d044-d0d8-732b9dc18ef5 | ['e5e3bafa-6779-09ff-36d6-3cc1ed93406c'] | COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – As <PERSON> makes the switch from quarterback to receiver for Ohio State, he is feeling it in his legs.
The two-time Big Ten player of the year at quarterback said he’s been monitored running four miles during a practice.
“Oh my God,” he said Sunday during Ohio State media day. “I can barely run a... | aa07996f-ca61-ea40-806d-84f24ae0b17a | ['e5e3bafa-6779-09ff-36d6-3cc1ed93406c'] | COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – <PERSON> was unusually quiet, save for one big block using his right shoulder that’s been surgically repaired twice.
It wasn’t a flashy touchdown like the two he had in No. 1 Ohio State’s first game, but the play against Hawaii helped build confidence for the former quarterback who’s faced several... |
90d10904-fbb5-ded6-27f1-2e79ef55a367 | ['e5f25619-d97b-3a15-6733-8c19ba1e9bc5'] | Your street should be more than a road. <PERSON> looks at how to reduce the noise of traffic and increase the noise of play in your neighbourhood
“People are growing much more aware of the impact of traffic, including air pollution and crowded residential streets,” says <PERSON> from the Campaign for Better Transport. ... | cb2b1ed9-c022-c1e6-f75a-e2819d73b1fa | ['e5f25619-d97b-3a15-6733-8c19ba1e9bc5'] | For generations, San Francisco has been home to the rest of the country’s misfits, whether free-loving hippies or leather-daddy gay men. San Francisco could be counted on to welcome the "freaks," the sexual deviants. The city told them, “Don’t pay attention to what the rest of them say. Here is where you belong.”
But a... |
fb3aaccf-9925-df9a-032b-ef54a8269a98 | ['e5f3d741-a3c0-3d2b-3f13-e723b1c2c718'] |
<PERSON>/Saudi Gazette
JABAL AL-NOOR, or the Mountain of Light, is one of the most famous hills on earth. Its historical importance lies in the fact that the first verses of the Holy Qur’an were revealed to the Prophet <PERSON> (peace be upon him) inside a cave at the summit of this hill on the outskirts of Makkah.
Ar... | df92bc21-3264-774d-35e2-3565594fa06b | ['e5f3d741-a3c0-3d2b-3f13-e723b1c2c718'] |
<PERSON>/Saudi Gazette
ONE of the three oldest markets in the Arab world, Dilmajaz is located 21 km east of Makkah. The local authorities have neglected the market and did not give it the same privilege and attention given to Souk Okaz, which has been developed by Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SC... |
58b0594e-cfd8-6562-f79a-eb68d4ed92d7 | ['e5f7debd-b7f8-ff69-36f7-65fefbc6e4b3'] | It’s the last week of 2009, and the new year begins on Friday—a great time to make some resolutions. About forty-four percent of Americans make New Year’s resolutions; there’s something about that fresh year stretching out in the future that makes it an auspicious time to attempt a change.
If you want a boost in keepin... | 072219be-2637-106c-68b3-cd5c8cd4f5ef | ['e5f7debd-b7f8-ff69-36f7-65fefbc6e4b3'] | Many of my happiness-project activities are aimed at my resolution to Be a treasure house of happy memories . Studies show that thinking back on happy times elevates mood, and observing and preserving memories is one of the most satisfying ways of bringing order to life.
My mother started a memory-keeping tradition a f... |
1cce3942-4ff3-c20e-cca3-a4cdb5fc0f20 | ['e5f8bcba-60be-bd1a-553b-80d3b01af5e0'] | May install anti-boar fencing to ward off animals soaring in numbers
A children's playground has been left looking like a 'battleground' after wild boar began grazing on the land.
The animals have repeatedly churned up the ground and left the site unsafe and dangerously uneven.
Council leaders are now considering insta... | e097a874-b723-210a-cedb-ef1ac028b32d | ['e5f8bcba-60be-bd1a-553b-80d3b01af5e0'] | Two disabled brothers have allegedly been refused membership to a bowling club because they made other players feel 'uncomfortable'.
<PERSON>, 38, and his brother <PERSON>, 33, who both have Down's syndrome, went to a taster bowling session at a village club in Elloughton, East Yorks, but allegedly were soon told they ... |
b178e8a0-81d7-a586-e257-b758bf1c821a | ['e5f8ff26-4cf2-6cca-3943-0ba5d6661696'] | The temperatures are beginning to drop and the leaves are starting to change, which means fall is finally here. While the peak summer vacations months are behind us, it’s convention season, so corporate travel is keeping airfare and hotel prices high.
So, can you still find a good price on travel?
The short answer is y... | 853b634d-fbcd-a409-68d7-2643efb0e3ec | ['e5f8ff26-4cf2-6cca-3943-0ba5d6661696'] | Travel deals and upgrades: they come in all shapes and sizes.
As a seasoned hotel guest and a travel industry veteran, I’ve spent many years learning what makes hoteliers and travel operators tick, and especially how to get on their good side.
Simple tricks, or even how you treat staff, can turn an average stay into so... |
0a6800a8-e82e-3c47-b229-cf77ebad8e0b | ['e626629a-b214-94e3-8813-07159e4996ba'] | Years of medical training can never prepare you for your role in someone else’s tragedy and its emotional impact
The most important part of every night shift is matching your scrub top to your bottoms. Odd shades, bad luck. Match for the best chance of success.
I’m full of superstition because fate doesn’t follow conve... | 25df408e-c730-cb43-1f7b-c95fb00ab684 | ['e626629a-b214-94e3-8813-07159e4996ba'] | It is the day after the New Year weekend. People all over the country are dusting off the last of the mince pie crumbs and dragging themselves painfully back to work. Offices are re-opening, schools filling up for the first time in a few weeks.
Not here. We never closed. We arrive in work – business as usual once again... |
100f5b20-eea6-4f44-594b-8b5cb872ae95 | ['e663de43-45cb-c65a-306b-5fc5400c104a'] | The owners of a piggery in Young say they are considering taking further action against the people who placed hidden cameras in their pig sheds.
The camera's were accidentally discovered by a worker about a month ago at Blantyre Farms, outside of Young.
"We were mortified, so rattled to think that someone has been into... | 17496158-95a1-b71b-ba60-13cb89e65168 | ['e663de43-45cb-c65a-306b-5fc5400c104a'] | Researchers have developed a test that dramatically reduces the diagnosis time for Johne's disease in sheep and cattle.
Researchers say they've reduced the diagnosis time for Johne's disease in sheep and cattle.
The new test is called High Throughput Johne's, or HJT, and it reduces the time of diagnosis from three mont... |
2e1e7b83-53a9-7916-ef9b-93dbca0efa03 | ['e71d8cb4-399a-040b-e651-9b46102b4381'] | Friday's shooting at LAX will likely generate another conversation about increased security at transportation hubs while spurring debate over the balance of safety, convenience and civil liberties, security experts said.
<PERSON>, a security expert at UCLA and author of a book on “lone wolf” terrorist attacks, said LAX... | b99ad29e-ea6c-8825-2fbb-c39efd48a738 | ['e71d8cb4-399a-040b-e651-9b46102b4381'] | SAN PEDRO Through the stoop-inducing corridors, under exposed pipes on the ceiling and down narrow stairs, the 70-year-old USS Iowa is showing her age.
There's the chipped paint, the clutter of dusty radio boxes and video monitors on bunks where sailors used to sleep on those long sea journeys during World War II, the ... |
b25532a7-7ac6-406c-eb48-b5c7f47f08d9 | ['e7405ec6-7873-6d67-c327-0b09deaa79df'] | COMMENT Parliament’s term is five years. Article 55(3) of the federal constitution states: ‘Parliament unless sooner dissolved shall continue for five years from the date of its first meeting and shall then stand dissolved.’
Because the current Parliament had its first meeting on April 28, 2008, it shall automatically ... | b82bb64c-6d36-7437-6d44-76ef7d66efac | ['e7405ec6-7873-6d67-c327-0b09deaa79df'] | One episode is as public and open as one can get - indeed that is the complaint - the terrible haze. The other is secret and confidential - and the lack of transparency is one of the complaints - the negotiations with the United States over the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)...
COMMENT Two events which curr... |
b42862b9-27d7-200d-1df2-0fb0bdaae93b | ['e76b76b5-d485-20dd-93c6-e8bfbe9a628b'] | A potential capital improvement project in the Iroquois School District would include about $14 million in upgrades, but it likely won’t be presented for voter approval until late 2015.
Superintendent <PERSON> said a building conditions survey identified $40 million in “fix-it items” but the district cut nearly two thi... | 5467884e-3a70-d259-e0df-90112f996e5e | ['e76b76b5-d485-20dd-93c6-e8bfbe9a628b'] | North Collins town officials want residents to participate in a community planning survey that will be used to help steer the town’s development over the next 15 to 20 years.
At Wednesday’s meeting of the Town Board, Councilman <PERSON> stressed the importance of the survey, noting it gives residents an opportunity to ... |
e05d6e68-0e91-f651-0166-9fbcb6b13bd2 | ['e780c5fe-31c8-eb7f-f031-ca1ccbc7e020'] | Paramedics treat a Syrian child who was wounded during airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces in Ghouta. Credit:AP
There are hundreds of thousands of ordinary men, women and children at risk of annihilation in Eastern Ghouta. Under international humanitarian law, the warring sides in Syria are obliged to p... | c2df2206-eb14-4da1-b946-5dac56a74b4b | ['e780c5fe-31c8-eb7f-f031-ca1ccbc7e020'] | There are hundreds of thousands of ordinary men, women and children at risk of annihilation in Eastern Ghouta. Under international humanitarian law, the warring sides in Syria are obliged to pause fighting to let them escape. Five-hour windows are simply not enough, especially if not respected. They are obliged to let ... |
c0c410ed-c17a-f35c-2a60-630a10b62696 | ['e7847d11-98c3-83d2-7ba4-1a284571d5cf'] | Following Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) one becomes accustomed to a quite a volume of commentary that does not hold up to scrutiny from some of its detractors, often delivered with an intense tone. It's best to take this with some humor. Last week we saw the attempt to persuade the public of unfavorable prospects for Tesla reach... | 6b34e0e4-0d00-7020-3e83-9fbbde09dd85 | ['e7847d11-98c3-83d2-7ba4-1a284571d5cf'] | Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) and New York Times writer <PERSON> have presented conflicting accounts of a drive he took in the company's new Model S electric car this January.
On a blog post early this morning on the company website, Tesla Motors CEO <PERSON> has presented far more details of the firm's account of what oc... |
6f8b1872-f0f8-50ca-3eb5-c64b5b3b4b04 | ['e7895381-7faa-e394-0875-5e6add6b5269'] | ROSE TOWNSHIP, MI -- The Michigan State Police are asking for the public's help in identifying more information related to the shooting death of 31-year-old <PERSON>.
<PERSON> was shot and killed on Saturday, July 30 around 2 p.m. in the area of 11240 Fish Lake Road in Rose Township in Oakland County.
Troopers said <PE... | 751ea6e9-ff7c-dd5e-2197-d83b8834bfe9 | ['e7895381-7faa-e394-0875-5e6add6b5269'] | FLINT, MI -- The Small Business Administration has approved Gov. <PERSON>'s request for aid to businesses in Flint and Genesee County affected by the water crisis.
The SBA announced Friday, Feb. 5 <PERSON>'s request for low-interest disaster loans for businesses affected by the Flint water crisis, according to a news r... |
ee6bf707-7788-57c9-8c0d-187f15383bb0 | ['e79420df-e304-b685-a360-5bed0ae32483'] | Liquid Nitrogen in “Dragon’s Breath” Snack causing burns and breathing problems
Newark, NJ – Warning. A popular snack is causing health concern in the medical community for its potential to cause serious injury to the mouth, throat/ esophagus and stomach if ingested. New Jersey Poison Control Experts recommend avoiding... | e9dc3c01-5e23-01a5-4343-8d066950015f | ['e79420df-e304-b685-a360-5bed0ae32483'] | UPDATE: Several New Jersey residents found themselves hospitalized this weekend for carbon monoxide exposure. The culprit: their gas generator. Carbon monoxide poisoning is a serious and deadly threat during severe weather. Do NOT under any circumstances bring gas generators indoors or leave them near open windows, doo... |
44e44ed3-1738-8a11-8f4b-da0040f9a1b8 | ['e7a59b88-55ea-a0fa-3ca4-fae6c0463bbb'] | Our modern day romance with alcohol started ten million years ago when apes developed a taste for fermented fruit, scientists say.
This ability to 'booze' became ingrained in the human genome as it proved incredibly advantageous for our ancestors.
This is because they could more easily take part in everyday bonding rit... | d2fecbde-3899-ee01-e3bb-8eecf9c545b4 | ['e7a59b88-55ea-a0fa-3ca4-fae6c0463bbb'] | Amazon now offers live television channels via its Prime Video service in the UK and Germany, for an extra cost.
Users will be able to subscribe to up to 40 popular channels such as ITV, Discovery and Eurosport individually, without paying for a bundle.
The move is competition for rival services Netflix and pay-TV oper... |
2201a473-89a9-4ff4-71aa-387f44ca2c24 | ['e806f1c8-d107-ca2e-206e-33ec226058ce'] | 0
<PERSON> and <PERSON> Go to the Movies was made for a very specific audience, composed primarily of those in academia. This documentary looks at the influences of early cinema on Cubism, specifically focusing on artists <PERSON> and <PERSON>. Appropriate for cinéphiles, art lovers, and historians, the film is unlikel... | c54252f4-4352-aee6-10e0-6965cc6a5862 | ['e806f1c8-d107-ca2e-206e-33ec226058ce'] | 0
“The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, based on the novel by <PERSON>, is about a college grad’s last summer before plunging into the “real world.” Art <PERSON> is a clean-cut, good guy on the path to success. One would never imagine that he, of all people, has a gangster father, a fact he prefers to keep secret. Between gra... |
2664fc01-39fb-3a15-0009-d51aea2cd51a | ['e86bc978-0c93-817c-38bd-97efe798e1e7'] | Share:
MIrpur (AJK)/SRINAGAR - The military officials of Pakistan and Indian traded accusations on Sunday after the death of two Pakistan civilians and four Indian soldiers, who were killed during an exchange of gunfire along Line of Control in Kashmir.
As per officials on both sides, four other Pakistanis including tw... | 892e3f9a-6a48-e81e-415d-48dc3028c3ba | ['e86bc978-0c93-817c-38bd-97efe798e1e7'] | Share:
MIRPUR (AJK) Great enthusiasm was witnessed among the amateur cricketers seeking entry into the ranks of the national cricket team as Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) continued talent-hunt trials for Under-16 players at the Quaid-e-Azam Mirpur Cricket Stadium here on Tuesday. Hundreds of local lads continue landing ... |
c758f8e6-bf8f-d283-8d11-f18d30dac407 | ['e887a87a-00ed-5647-6915-f46be37bf0ec'] | Mumbai: <PERSON>, the director of Forsche Fleet Services Pvt. Ltd in New Delhi, wants to add Tata Indigos and Maruti WagonRs to his fleet of 10 cars. <PERSON>, 31, ideally, would like to buy the vehicles online comparing different models if car makers offered such a facility in India.
Prospective buyers at the car show... | 75c7bd2a-0078-f389-c571-2f9966d173c9 | ['e887a87a-00ed-5647-6915-f46be37bf0ec'] | New Delhi: Yamaha Motor India Ltd announced on Thursday that its managing director <PERSON> is moving back to Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd in Japan to take up a new assignment effective 1 January. The company did not give any details on his future responsibilities.
Moving on: <PERSON>.
Known as a turnaround specialist, <PERSON... |
83b7e8c9-16f7-f6eb-bb51-49b71afd38b1 | ['e888dfce-4475-3f7a-5e39-0eadab0b0ef0'] | Faceoff: An app comes with many strings attached. Faceoff: An app comes with many strings attached.
So, I hope, by now, you have figured out who your celebrity lookalike is. Mine, for her sins, is <PERSON>. Now, as you scratch your heads and wonder how a “facial recognition algorithm’”decided that my mug matches with t... | 66ae80cd-cfe4-d63f-112a-bd7b1ee7c828 | ['e888dfce-4475-3f7a-5e39-0eadab0b0ef0'] | For me, the digitality of Diwali is beyond the surface level of seductive screens and one-click shopping, or messages of love and apps of light. (Source: Reuters)
The last fortnight, I have been bombarded with advertisements selling the idea of a “Digital Diwali”. We have become so used to the idea that everything that... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.