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Under Spanish law she could have been sentenced to up to two years in jail but the sentence was suspended as she was a first-time offender in Spain.
A spokesman for the Spanish Police said: "She had been pursuing Mr Hawking throughout the world and in the last few days had sent him grave threats through social media and to his personal email.
"In the various emails he received she outlined plans to end his life during the scientific conference being held in Tenerife.
"Because of the information contained in the emails, it appeared the person sending them could have been inside the conference venue."
The ongoing science festival, which has brought together the world's leading stargazers and astrophysicists, was billed as a tribute to Hawking when it was announced in April it would take place in Tenerife for the third time.
Queen guitarist Brian May, also an astrophysicist, is taking part too in the event alongside English Nobel Prize-winning chemist Harry Kroto and the Astronomer Royal Lord Rees, professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge.
DITCH the ice-cream, as experts have revealed you should be eating foods like soup and chilli to cool down in the heat.
As Britain experiences one of the hottest summers on record, nutritionist Daniel O’Shaughnessy has compiled a list of the best foods to eat – and avoid - in order to feel cooler.
Despite traditionally being considered a winter dish, having a bowl of soup in the evening can actually help regulate your body temperature.
And tucking into watermelon, turmeric and reducing the carbohydrates and protein in your diet are all sure-fire ways to beat the heat.
He also believes a spicy chilli is an excellent choice, as the capsaicin found in the food sends a signal to your brain that your body is overheated and you will then sweat more to cool your body down.
Takeaway tikka masala curry is also a good option in hot weather due to the powerful anti-inflammatory effects of turmeric.
Curcumin, which is the active ingredient in the spice, helps promote good circulation, helping to speed up your blood flow and cool your body down.
O’Shaughnessy also named onions — found in the likes of burritos and curries — as a top pick.
The vegetable is used in Ayurvedic medicine, a traditional form of Indian medicine which is more than 3,000 years old, to treat heat stroke.
Other hot weather choices recommended by O’Shaughnessy include mint, thanks to its cooling sensation, and spinach, which contains minerals needed to help keep your blood pressure under control.
He also added that coconut milk, found in dishes like a Thai green curry, holds important nutrients to support hydration and prevent exhaustion in hot weather.
And watermelon, which is high in water content, contains citrulline — an amino acid which helps to dilate the blood vessels — meaning more blood can circulate around your body and cool you down.
But there are some foods to avoid, with O’Shaughnessy advising Brits to cut down on carbohydrate-rich foods, such as rice and wholegrains, and foods high in protein like meat.
He said: “It may be harder to digest a high protein food in a heat wave.
“Meat is quite hard to digest and the digestion process creates heat (thermogenesis) and can make you feel hotter in yourself.
“Opting for plant-based dishes can be a good choice as less energy is needed to break vegetarian dishes down compared to meat”.
“I just wanted to have a place where I could rent out the yard and you could also have a reception if it’s not a really big wedding,” she said.
Brewer knew she didn’t want to be in Mecklenburg County. She spent about two years searching in counties around the Charlotte area before she bought the home in Clover.
The 3,200-square-foot home, known as the Sifford home, had been a rental property for seven years when Brewer bought it. The house was “run down and unloved,” she said, but it was structurally sound.
Her initial idea for a wedding and special events venue with a garden and reception space evolved to include a bed and breakfast when people visited the home.
“Everyone who came here said, you’ve got to make this a bed and breakfast,” said Brewer. And so she did.
The bed and breakfast area includes four second-floor bedrooms and two baths. Brewer calls it a rustic bed and breakfast because none of the bedrooms have a private bath.
Brewer recently retired from her job in Charlotte and has been working to renovate the home. The improvements include new windows and light fixtures, a new roof and air conditioning unit, tearing up carpet that covered the original wood floors, painting, a kitchen and bathroom renovation and new porch areas at the rear...
Brewer, who has a degree in ornamental horticulture and landscape design from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, also has been working on plantings in the yard. The yard includes some unique features, such as a fish pond that dates to 1931.
Brewer said she has started to get some inquiries about renting the home for special events. She said event rates will vary, depending on the customer’s needs and the length of an event. Bed and breakfast rates are $90 a night, she said.
Magnolia House and Gardens, a bed and breakfast and special events venue, is at 221 N. Main St., downtown Clover. For details, call Laura Brewer at 704-608-5681.
ADVANCE units of Egypt's 4th armored division returned home from the Gulf yesterday, amid concern that the Arab alliance at the heart of Gulf security plans is unraveling. The tank units were the first to return since President Hosni Mubarak unexpectedly announced two weeks ago he was withdrawing all 38,000 soldiers di...
Foreign diplomats say, and Egyptian officials hint privately, that the dramatic pullout is not irreversible, however. Rather, they suggest, it is a signal of the Mubarak government's intense displeasure with the policies that Gulf rulers are adopting on a number of fronts, and is a bid to redirect those policies.
Cairo's displeasure stems partly from national pride and unfulfilled economic hopes. But the main cause, as explained by diplomats and observers, is a vast difference of opinion over the nature, control, and placement of a regional security force - and the role non-Arab forces might play.
Publicly, Egyptian officials say the troops joined the anti-Iraq coalition to free Kuwait. Since that objective was achieved, they say, there is no need to keep the troops in the ravaged emirate.
But local observers say that bland explanation masks a deep resentment at what many Egyptians in and out of government see as a betrayal by the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - particularly Kuwait - with which Egypt and Syria signed the ``Damascus Declaration'' on security plans only 10 weeks ago. Those plan...
To start with, Egyptians feel strongly that Kuwait has not given due credit to Cairo for its help in ejecting Iraq.
Although Egyptian troops did not bear the brunt of the fighting against Iraqi forces, the Kuwaitis should not forget that ``the mobilization of Western forces could never have happened without this country and Syria,'' a Foreign Ministry source argues, referring to the legitimacy bestowed on the Western troop presence ...
It was no coincidence, diplomats and local analysts agree, that Mr. Mubarak announced the pullout just as United States Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney was touring the Gulf.
``If they have to choose between being dependent on the West or ... on Egypt, the Gulf countries prefer the West,'' a foreign military observer says.
Whether the Damascus Declaration is dead may become clear in July, when its signatories meet again. Meanwhile, Egyptian soldiers will keep coming home.
President Barack Obama waves farewell after speaking at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on April 15, 2010.
A lot has changed in the fields of spaceflight and exploration since President Barack Obama came to power eight years ago.
The moon is no longer an official destination for NASA astronauts, for example, and the commercial spaceflight industry has boomed to the point that multiple private spaceships are flying cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) — and two should soon start ferrying crew to and from the station as well.
When President Obama took office in January 2009, NASA was working to get astronauts to the moon by 2020, as part of George W. Bush's Constellation program. Constellation envisioned using the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, though the program didn't map out any crewed Red Planet missions in detail.
In May 2009, the Obama administration ordered an independent review of the agency's human-spaceflight plans, which came to be known as the Augustine Commission (after the review committee's chairman, former Lockheed Martin CEO Norm Augustine). The commission's final report, published in October 2009, deemed Constellati...
As a result, in 2010, President Obama cancelled the five-year-old program, instructing NASA to instead get astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid by 2025, and then on to the vicinity of Mars by the mid-2030s.
To make all this happen, the agency is developing the Orion crew capsule (a Constellation holdover) and a gigantic new rocket called the Space Launch System (SLS). NASA has also devised the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which aims to pluck a boulder off of an asteroid using a robotic probe. This spacecraft will then...
Astronauts will fly on an Orion/SLS mission for the first time in 2021, if all goes according to plan. A crewed mission to visit the captured asteroid boulder will follow in the mid-2020s, NASA officials have said.
The decision to shift from the moon to an asteroid (and, ultimately, to an asteroid boulder) as the near-term destination for NASA astronauts has been controversial. Last year, for example, the U.S. House of Representatives' Appropriations Committee proposed denying funding to ARM.
The change has also made collaboration with commercial and international partners more difficult, said Scott Pace, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. NASA officials have stressed that such collaboration is a key priority of the larger "Journey to Mars" project.
"Mars is so difficult and so challenging that it wasn't really possible for people to feel they could do something" in cooperation with NASA, Pace told Space.com. "You could talk about commercial cargo delivery to the moon. You couldn't really talk about commercial cargo delivery to Mars."
Commercial spaceflight has taken off during the Obama presidency. For example, two different American companies, SpaceX and Orbital ATK, are now flying uncrewed resupply missions to the ISS for NASA.
Such public-private cooperation kicked off with the announcement of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program in January 2006. But it was "turbocharged" under the Obama administration, which made the development of private crew-carrying vehicles a priority, said Casey Dreier, director of space policy at...
"That, to me, is the biggest legacy [of the Obama administration] — fully embracing the potential of commercial launch capabilities, and really, really making that a priority, and fighting for it against a lot of opposition from Congress," Dreier told Space.com. "I don't think commercial crew was fully funded at NASA u...
Other developments under Obama's watch have been key as well, said Eric Stallmer, president of the nonprofit Commercial Spaceflight Federation. He cited extending the life of the International Space Station through at least 2024 and the confirmation that U.S. companies can own the resources they mine from asteroids and...
Both of these provisions are part of the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, which the House of Representatives passed and President Obama signed in late 2015.
Lots of things are happening in private spaceflight beyond NASA-funded ISS cargo and crew missions. Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon.com chief Jeff Bezos, has said it's nearly ready to fly paying customers to and from suborbital space, for example. Virgin Galactic is making strides toward the same goal.
Some of these developments would probably have occurred no matter who was in the White House, because private spaceflight was already on the rise, Stallmer said. (More venture-capital money was invested in commercial spaceflight in 2015 than in the previous 10 years combined, he said.) But the Obama administration dese...
President Obama's space-science legacy is perhaps a bit more complicated. In these tough budget times, the outgoing administration seems to have prioritized Earth science and full funding of the $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope over robotic-exploration missions, Dreier said. He pointed to a $300 million cut to N...
The planetary-exploration cupboard therefore looks to be somewhat bare in the near future, two recently announced asteroid missions notwithstanding, Dreier said. There are no uncrewed NASA Mars missions on the books beyond the Mars 2020 rover, he pointed out, and, in a year or so, the agency won't have an active probe ...
The Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn since July 2004, will wrap up its work this September, and the Jupiter-orbiting Juno probe's mission is scheduled to end in early 2018. NASA is developing a mission to the Jovian moon Europa, but that effort's not slated to launch until the mid-2020s.
"You have a generation of missions about to end and nothing ready to replace them for five to 10 years," Dreier said.
But it's possible that there could have been more happening now on NASA's robotic-exploration front if the White House had cooperated to a greater extent with Congress, Dreier said.
"They almost wouldn't believe that Congress was willing to give them extra money on planetary science, but year after year after year, Congress added money to planetary science, particularly in the House," he said. "I think there are a lot of lost opportunities there."
Pace agreed, lamenting the lack of "new starts" in NASA's exploration pipeline. But he said the Obama administration deserves credit in some other areas, such as space defense.
"Putting more money into DoD [the Department of Defense] and recognizing the Russian and Chinese counterspace threat — that's, I think, in the positive column, so I hope that continues," Pace said.
"Most of the Obama space policy, I would argue, is actually quite reasonable," he added.
Pace did have some major caveats, however. He's not a fan of the move away from the moon for human exploration, and he said the Obama administration employed an overly broad definition of "commercial spaceflight," resulting in some confusion about the roles the private and public sectors should play.
All of the above should be taken with a large grain of salt. It will probably take years to fully assess just how the Obama administration shaped U.S. spaceflight and exploration, partly because decisions made by the Trump administration and other future officeholders will affect that legacy.
Sometimes, the clarity this temporal distance provides can lead to surprising conclusions. As an example, Pace cited presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
"I would make an argument that, actually, Nixon has had a longer-term legacy on human spaceflight," Pace said.
"People remember Kennedy and going to the moon, but it's Nixon and his choices and nonchoices about [the space] shuttle in 1972 that have arguably been with us for 40 years," Pace added, referring to Nixon's decision to base NASA's human-spaceflight activities on the space shuttle program, without any distant destinati...
Nobody has set foot on the moon, or been anywhere beyond low-Earth orbit, since the Apollo 17 mission ended in December 1972.
The U.S. criminal justice system has transformed into a vast, for-profit, industrial system. Police, lawyers, court staff, convicts and prison personnel make up a giant business complex that scoops up citizens and churns out convicts, generating enormous state and federal budgets and substantial private profits.
But like all profit-driven enterprises, the prison-industrial complex exhibits the irrationalities of competition and the marketplace. A Sept. 6 Wall Street Journal article exposes the collision of reality with capitalism.
In Mississippi, lobbyists for privately administered prisons asked the state to pay millions of dollars for “ghost prisoners.” Despite the decade-long decline in crime, most states have engaged in a frenzy of prison construction and expansion. Fueled by demagogic politicians and sensationalist media, 27 states now have...
It doesn’t take much imagination to recognize what this growing demand for inmates will mean for law enforcement – the supply side of this industry. More and more pressure to arrest and convict will encourage already ruthless police to further brutalize the poor, the rebellious, and especially African Americans. While ...
Because states often deny the right to vote to convicted felons, 13 percent of adult African-American males were denied the right to cast a ballot in the 2000 elections. This clearly affected the outcome, a result that was not lost on politicians. In some states, 40 percent of adult African Americans are disenfranchise...
Crime is almost always rooted in poverty and desperation. It is largely an issue of economic justice. Therefore, it rises or falls with the economic tides. When jobs are more plentiful, crime declines.
When unemployment is on the rise, crime rises as well. In 1991, when the last economic recovery begin, the crime rate began a decade long slide. Now, with the economy slipping, there is an emerging rise in the crime rate. If we want to reverse this development, we must insure work and an adequate standard of living for...
A decision could be made next week about whether a ferry service between Melbourne and Geelong will go ahead.
There were cold, but clear conditions on Tuesday for hundreds of passengers taking part in the first trial day of the service, run by Port Phillip Ferries.
Those on the 6.15am service watched the sun rise from the boat, and relaxed with stunning views of Melbourne CBD instead of battling road traffic and train crowds.
Tickets were free for the four, 105-minute trips — two each way — between Geelong's waterfront and Docklands.
The trial was funded by the Committee for Geelong, which represents 160 Geelong area businesses, academic bodies and community organisations keen to see a daily service.
‘‘For us this is an important part of improving those transport linkages between Geelong and Melbourne, and really establishing Geelong as Victoria’s second city,'' committee chief executive Rebecca Casson said.
Ms Casson said the ferry offered a cafe, alcohol sales, tables and free Wi-Fi.
‘‘You can’t get that when you’re sitting in a car driving on the highway,'' she said.
Ms Casson called on passengers to support the follow-up free trial next Tuesday.
Port Phillip Ferries owner Paul Little said there was ‘‘a lot of optimism’’ about the service.
He said next Tuesday, ‘‘we are hopefully going to be in position to give the community further information about whether or not a service will happen''.
Lachlan Drummond, who took the 6.15am ferry from Geelong, felt the ferry ‘‘compares very favourably with road and rail’’.
Mr Drummond, 46, from West Geelong, said cycling to the dock at Geelong would take 10 minutes, the ferry to Docklands 105 minutes and the tram to his St Kilda Road advertising job another 25 minutes.
A little longer than the train or car, but ‘‘it felt fast, it was very smooth and it was also enjoyable’’, he said.
Rebecca Williamson, a registered dietitian at Indiana Regional Medical Center, has spent much of her career making sure folks eat so their hearts are healthier. As with most things in life, moderation is the key. But there’s more to keep in mind.
“For healthy heart eating, I usually recommend things that are low in fat, low in saturated fats, low in cholesterol and low in sodium,” Williamson says.
In other words, read the labels.
Of course, we can’t always eat at home.

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