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While the agreement is ‘voluntary’, a procedure is in place whereby the association can fine charities if they continue to receive complaints about their collectors.
While Cheshire East Council regulates the number of ‘charity tin’ collectors, chuggers do not need a licence to operate in the town as they do not take cash from people.
Instead they try and persuade people to donate by setting up a regular direct debit payment.
Cllr Stuart Hutton suggested to clerk Ian Hope that he should ‘start the negotiations at one’ collector and that ‘more stringent’ requirements should be imposed.
Mayor Christine Farrall added that some retailers had complained ‘Chuggers’ were putting people off from going inside their shops, adding that they’d been seen ‘patrolling outside’ Nantwich Bookshop.
Two adults and four juveniles face charges after a reported shoplifting Saturday night resulted in a brawl between the suspects and police officers who responded to the call.
Gadsden Police Sgt. John Hallman said officers were called to the store in the 300 block of East Meighan Boulevard after loss prevention personnel reported suspects shoplifting. Officers tried to detain the suspects and they tried to run, then resisted officers.
Hallman said no injuries were reported. The adults were arrested and the juveniles will face charges in juvenile court.
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Here’s who the Reds won’t have available for the next chapter in the book of their title quest.
Defender Trent Alexander-Arnold and midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum are doubts for this one while central defender Dejan Lovren and team captain Jordan Henderson face late fitness tests on the weekend.
Midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (named to the UEFA Champions League knockout round roster) is on the comeback trail, but remains out long term. Ditto for defender Joe Gomez, who elected to have surgery this week.
Switching over to the visitors, midfielder Lewis Cook (knee ligament), defender Simon Francis (right knee ACL) and David Brooks (who has the same name as a very underwhelming New York Times columnist and an ankle injury) are all out. Hot commodity in the transfer market Callum Wilson is a doubt due to his knee problem.
Additionally, Cherries defender and Liverpool loanee Nathaniel Clyne is ineligible for this one, as it is against his parent club.
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Elena is an experienced, full time realtor with Keller Williams Realty Metropolitan. She is a seasoned, multi-million dollar producer servicing the real estate needs of Buyers and Sellers in Southern NH. She is a realtor with the advanced designations of ABR – Accredited Buyer Representation, SRS – Seller Representative Specialist, CRS -Certified Residential Specialist.
Originally from Long Island, New York, Elena relocated to Southern New Hampshire soon after college with her spouse. She enjoyed raising her family in Derry and Bedford. She is an active member of her church, and involved in community organizations. She and her husband have two married daughters, 4 grandchildren. It is a tremendous joy to have them all living nearby.
She was fortunate enough to have lived and attend school in both Brazil and Venezuela while growing up and has still retained some of the Spanish language. This experience is one of the reasons she loves to travel when possible, both domestically and abroad.Elena feels that New Hampshire has it all and loves the four seasons and what they have to offer! In the Spring, you might find her out for a 5K run. Recently, she ran a 5K to help raise funds for Vision International Missions’ (one of her favorite charities) orphanage in Haiti. If it is raining then a good book, sewing or a movie are a treat. It’s also time to start the gardening. She plants tomatoes and herbs in pots and puts in lots of flowers in the beds. In the Summer the coastlines of NH, Maine and Massachusetts call to her. She also relishes spending time in her own backyard catching up on her summer reading or floating in the pool! In the Fall, hiking in the Monadnock Region or White Mountains is exhilarating and the foliage is breathtaking. It’s an activity the whole family enjoys doing together. Winter is time for skiing and recently, snowshoeing. Loon, Waterville Valley, Sunapee and Canon offer great skiing and they are close enough to make a day trip. Last winter, she skied Wildcat for the first time and loved it!She is new to snow shoeing. Joe English in Amherst is so close by and the trails offer endless possibilities for exploration and exercise. After a few hours of snow shoeing, it’s fun to stop at La Belle Vineyard for a glass of locally made wine. One of Elena’s passions is to entertain in any season. Cooking for her family and friends builds warm, lasting, loving relationships and that is what she values the most.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia wants to expand its investments in China's energy industry, its Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said late on Friday, part of the world's top oil exporter's efforts to boost cooperation with a top customer.
Falih's comments were made in an emailed statement after discussions with China's Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli and other officials in Beijing during a G20 ministerial meeting.
"Saudi Arabia is very keen to elevate their partnership in the energy sector to the highest level," he was quoted as saying in the statement.
He said he hoped Saudi investments could increase to cover all Chinese provinces and that there was room to grow bilateral trade in both energy and other hydrocarbons products such as petrochemicals.
Falih also said he wanted to see new investment projects carried out by Saudi and Chinese sovereign wealth funds, and added that the two countries shared interest in crude oil storage, mining, renewable energy and industrial development.
Oil producers' battle for market share in Asia, and particularly in China, the world's No. 2 consumer, has heated up since the return of Iranian crude to the market after sanctions were lifted on Tehran this year.
Both oil giant Saudi Aramco and petrochemicals conglomerate Saudi Basic Industries Corp (Sabic) have joint venture businesses in China and new projects under development.
In January Aramco said it was also in advanced talks to invest in refineries in China. Sabic said in May it had agreed to build another petrochemical factory there.
Actress Zoe Tay performed a peacock-themed dance at the 17th President's Star Charity show on Sunday night (Oct 23), which raised a record $7.37 million, nearly $1 million more than last year.
Proceeds will go to 58 charities supported by this year's President's Challenge. President Tony Tan Keng Yam graced last night's event, which was hosted by news presenter Glenda Chong and actor Chua Enlai.
The show also featured a performance by the cast of Broadway musical Wicked and a tribute to the late former President S R Nathan.
The public can still pledge donations of $5, $20 and $100 by telephone or online until midnight on Oct 29.
Kosmix has crawled over 3 billion web pages looking for political leanings. View Slideshow In light of the recent row over Google and Yahoo doing business in China, many people are concerned with the politics of web searching. But one company is turning its attention to the web searching of politics.
Search engine newcomer Kosmix, which lets users look in specific topic areas, recently introduced its politics engine. For any search term, Kosmix organizes results into conservative, liberal or libertarian categories, allowing seekers to explore results associated with a certain political persuasion.
"I really like that approach," said Chris Sherman, the executive editor of Search Engine Watch. "That makes it more interesting for somebody who is interested in those viewpoints but isn't interested in becoming a power searcher."
Politics is a new addition to the site, which also includes a travel section – dividing results into hotels, museums and user reviews categories – and a well-developed health area, including alternative medicine, treatments and fitness.
Kosmix doesn't aspire to be a Google competitor. Rather, it's one of several new companies focusing on niche or so-called "vertical" markets the search giant can't reach. Another specialized engine is Krugle, which indexes open-source code repositories for programmers.
"In the same way that the generic television stations don't really provide satisfying programming for everything that we are really deeply interested in," said Sherman, "the general search engines have to make sense of literally any request that's made of them and provide their best guess, really, of what you are looking for." He added, "In a vertical search, you can safely ignore everything that doesn't fit within that narrow category."
Though still in its alpha version, the politics engine is fairly adept at teasing out ideological orientations on the web. Typing in the word "tax," for example, and then clicking the Conservative category brought up pages from a list of usual suspects that prefer lower taxes and less government regulation, such as GOP.gov, The Pacific Research Institute and Americans for Tax Reform. Likewise, results for a Liberal search on the word "gay" mostly yielded pages from gay-friendly organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, People for the American Way and Lambda.
But some results defy logic. The Conservative search on "gay," for instance, included 365Gay.com and a spoof article in The Onion titled "New Dad Thinks Baby Might Be Gay." Kosmix product manager Mark Johnson freely acknowledged that Kosmix is still error prone, but said the search engine is constantly learning.
But Harold Davis, who has written several books on web searching and maintains a blog about the industry, is skeptical about the current technology. "It's hard to impossible for an automated system to distinguish between conservative and liberal," he said. "The bottom line is, it's a crude field still."
Seeing where the site goes wrong offers some clues on how it works. "Similarly to Google, we use the structure of the web. So we use what web pages say about themselves and we also use what other pages say about them," said Johnson. But this can sometimes lead to mishaps. In one instance, the politics engine categorized as conservative a fairly balanced news article about Hamas-run youth camps in the Palestinian territories.
Johnson acknowledged that assessing media pages is tricky and said he is working to remove them from the results until the search algorithms improve.
He also hopes better analysis will allow Kosmix to refine results beyond the current three political slants. Many users have requested a Green category, for example. And some refinement may even come from examining the interplay among current categories: "If you take conservative and subtract libertarian, do you get far right?" he wonders.
Tammy Bailey of Altoona and Michael Mincin of Duncansville are engaged to be married.
Miss Bailey is the daughter of Bonnie and King Bailey of Imler.
She is a 1990 graduate of Claysburg-Kimmel High School and a 1992 graduate of the Altoona School of Commerce.
She is employed at Compros Inc., Altoona.
Mr. Mincin is the son of Nancy and Frank Mincin of Duncansville.
He is a 1988 graduate of Hollidaysburg Area Senior High School.
He is employed at Quality Services.
No wedding date has been set.
The new offense, a system that Pat Shurmur brought with him as head coach this offseason, has been slow to click.
When Eli Manning turns to his brother Peyton, it’s not for advice on dealing publicly with losing, or mechanical issues, or even how to handle unflattering comments from teammates (as if anyone ever spoke out about Peyton the way Odell Beckham Jr. did about Eli). No, when the Brothers Manning chat about the 2018 season, they usually fall back to one topic.
Getting it to make points out on the field in the regular season, though, has been a grind. It’s one of the reasons why Shurmur and others continue to say that the Giants are “close.” Not that they’re close necessarily on the scoreboard, but close to having the offense come to life.
Manning, speaking at the launch of the online game “Financial Football” for Visa at MetLife Stadium, said he has a good feel for the offense.
This isn’t the first time Manning has had to learn a new system. In 2014, he was introduced to Ben McAdoo’s offense after a decade (and two Super Bowls) with Kevin Gilbride’s system. Those Giants sputtered, too, scoring just 14 points in each of the first two games. They averaged 25.1 points per game in their next 14.
Arians, who went through a similar change with Carson Palmer in Arizona in 2013, said it took half the season for things to come together.
“And then all of a sudden you could see the guys around him start to get it and play faster and play better," Arians said. “Instead of waiting to see a guy come open, he was throwing guys open. When you're waiting to see a guy come open, you're going to throw interceptions because your eyes are there too soon and too long. When you can throw the ball on time, trust the receiver is going to be there, everything happens a second or a second and a half faster. That's a lot of time when you're talking about the passing game."
As for Peyton Manning, when he changed systems in 2015 with the Broncos, the offense averaged just 22.7 points per game in his nine regular-season starts. They did win the Super Bowl that year, but more on the strength of a dominant defense than the play of the future Hall of Fame quarterback.
The Giants' coaches and management all have said that they have faith that Manning will be able to revive the team from its current state of scoring stagnation. And despite some reports to the contrary and Beckham’s interview earlier this month, many players do too.
The Transdniester government headquarters in Tiraspol Moldova presented a list of proposals on 30 June intended to stabilize the situation in the country's security zone -- a long, narrow strip of land along the Dniester River separating the secessionist region of Transdniester from the rest of the Republic of Moldova.
1 July 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Parliamentarians from the 55-member countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, start five days of talks in Washington today.
The World Bank is worried about the state of judiciary in the former Soviet bloc A new report from the World Bank finds that judicial reform remains slow and incomplete throughout the former communist region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. A review of 27 countries in the region finds that poorly performing legal systems have created deep frustration among citizens and entrepreneurs. Even in countries with judicial independence, the study found, there is a lack of accountability and efficiency.
President Voronin 7 June 2005 -- Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin traveled to Brussels today to meet with top NATO and European Union officials.
There is little doubt in Brussels that the widely predicted French "no" to the new EU constitution on 29 May would mean at least a temporary halt to the enlargement process. Even Bulgaria and Romania -- which have both signed their accession treaties -- may still prove vulnerable. However, for more distant EU neighbors with no membership ambitions, the bloc's soul-searching may yet result in clearer policies.
Transdniestrian leadership's headquarters (file photo) A recently proposed plan for the resolution of the conflict between Moldova and its breakaway region of Transdniester was met with moderate optimism by both sides during a two-day meeting in Ukraine this week. The Ukrainian proposal raised hopes that negotiations to resolve the frozen conflict could be restarted. The plan provides for expanding the negotiations framework to include the European Union and the United States alongside Russia, Ukraine, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). But doubts still persist about the separatists' commitment to the plan, which also envisages the initiation of a democratization process in Transdniester.
Tashkent, 7 May 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Member nations of the GUUAM regional organization reacted yesterday to Uzbekistan's withdrawal from the group.
European Union External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner says there is no point in Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia seeking to start the process of joining the union, because they will not be accepted. Ferrero-Waldner called for realism, and said it is clear that a great amount of work is needed to prepare these countries for EU membership. But she foreshadowed closer relations with the near-neighbors, which would bring them some of the advantages of membership.
How much has GUUAM's face changed since this 2002 summit, which included (from left)Azerbaijan's Heidar Aliyev, Georgia's Eduard Shevardnadze, Ukraine's Leonid Kuchma, and Moldova's Vladimir Voronin? 27 April 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Following Viktor Yushchenko's election late last year as Ukrainian president and Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin's espousal of an unequivocally pro-Western foreign policy orientation, many observers anticipated that the long-awaited summit of the GUUAM alignment in Chisinau on 22 April would herald a new era in that body's activities.
The OSCE -- Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe -- has come under sharp criticism from Russia on the criteria it uses and conclusions it reaches in monitoring elections. Russia charges that the process is politically weighted. Leaders of the organization have just completed a two-day review in Vienna. Debate was lively but few minds appear to have been changed about the way the OSCE decides whether elections are fair and democratic.
Ukraine's Yushchenko was active in Chisinau (file photo) The presidents of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova gathered today in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau for a summit of the regional grouping GUUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Moldova). It's the group's first gathering since "velvet revolutions" brought pro-Western leaders to office in Georgia and Ukraine, and Moldova shifted its foreign policy priorities toward the West. EU and NATO expansion have also altered the European political landscape. This evolving perspective laid the groundwork for today's gathering, which focused on separatism, regional cooperation, and promoting GUUAM's geopolitical profile.
The temporary suspension of the crucial North Atlantic Treaty Organisation supply route to Afghanistan by Islamabad last year in response to incursions by allied forces and the Davis Raymond episode reflects the fragile nature of the United States-Pakistan relationship, the Obama administration said in a new report.
"Pakistan's decision in October to temporarily stop the flow of NATO and International Security Assistance Force supplies into Afghanistan in response to NATO and ISAF helicopter incursions that killed three Pakistani Frontier Scouts reflect the still-fragile nature of our partnership," US President Barack Obama said in the report to the Congress.
Obama said there were some setbacks to the overall relationship in the last quarter of 2010 but "tensions abated relatively quickly". "On September 30, an accidental engagement by an US helicopter against a Frontier Scouts unit resulted in a temporary pause in military cooperation as the incident was investigated; tensions abated relatively quickly," the report said.
"While regrettable, the reaction from the senior Pakistan military leadership was far less dramatic and severe than in previous cross-border mishaps and created an opportunity to discuss bilaterally how to prevent similar incidents in the future," Obama said.
"Militants also used the temporary cessation of US traffic at the Tokay border crossing to attack NATO supply shipments that were awaiting passage to Afghanistan," he said in the third-quarterly report to the Congress on Afghanistan and Pakistan sent on Tuesday.
The '2010 Afghanistan-Pakistan Annual Review' includes an evaluation of the progress made during the period of this report, which marked the full deployment of the US troop "surge" to Afghanistan that he announced in December 2009, ABMs said in a letter to the Congressional leaders.
He said in spite of strains on the relationship stemming from the detention of US official Raymond in Lahore, bilateral military cooperation between the two countries continues on a positive trajectory.
LONDON--Oil giant BP PLC BP, -0.52% said Friday it plans to buy back $8 billion of its shares, returning its 2003 investment in TNK-BP to shareholders.
-Decision follows the completion Thursday of the sale of BP's 50% interest in TNK-BP to Rosneft.
-Program is expected to return to BP shareholders an amount equivalent to the value of the company's original investment in TNK-BP.
-BP intends to retain the additional cash consideration of $4.48 billion received from the sale of its interest in TNK-BP to reduce BP Group debt as part of its continuing commitment to maintaining a strong balance sheet.
-At current volumes, BP estimates the buy-back program could take 12 to 18 months to complete.
-Shares closed Thursday at 449 pence valuing the company at 86.13 billion pounds.
UConn guard Jalen Adams (4) dribbles the ball up the floor against Manhattan at Gampel Pavilion Saturday night. UConn won the game 61-46.
Just as UConn’s loss to Florida State felt like a step forward, part of a process, the victory over Manhattan Saturday night felt like a step backward.
The Huskies were due for a clunker of a shooting night, and they showed, at least, that with effort on the defensive end — 12 steals and nine blocks — they can win an ugly game. This one included 41 turnovers, but 24 by Manhattan.
UConn is bound to experience a few grind-it-out games during the American Athletic Conference portion of the season, but this game shouldn’t have been this hard. The 61-46 victory over the young Jaspers raised some old questions for UConn, and left much for Dan Hurley and his staff to address.
Connecticut Huskies guard Jalen Adams (4) dribbles the ball up the floor against Manhattan at Gampel Pavilion Saturday night. UConn won the game 61-46.
In a senior season that had been going so well, Jalen Adams has slid back in the past two games, disappearing for long stretches. Saturday, that was just about the entire game, as he finished 1-for-4 shooting, with no trips to the line, two assists and four turnovers in 21 minutes. He picked up two early fouls, including a silly charge when, after making a steal and racing to the basket, he hit a defender who was behind him.
Could the headband have been a jinx?
The Huskies were 4-for-23 from the 3-point line, again a backward step in an area in which they had shown modest improvement. As a team, UConn is shooting 33.7 percent and, given their guard-driven offense, the total has to be better for them to succeed. Adams is 16-for-49, or 32.7. Others are doing reasonably well, including Alterique Gilbert (21-for-49, 42.9 percent), Christian Vital (20-for-54, 37.0) and Tyler Polley (16-for-41, 39.0). The remainder of the roster is combined 11-for-56, or 19.6 percent. Hurley issued a familiar call — familiar in that it was often heard from Kevin Ollie — that players need to spend more time in the gym on their own, getting shots up. So it’s a bit more than just the XL Center at play here.
Christian Vital’s game showed he remains an indispensable Husky, and Hurley had an especially enthusiastic greeting for him when he took him out of the game for the last time. “Christian basically saved us with his toughness,” Hurley said. Vital stuffed the stat sheet with 13 points, eight rebounds, seven steals and two assists — offsetting 1-for-5 on threes and three turnovers.
UConn guard Christian Vital (1), left, had 7 steals for the Huskies against Manhattan at Gampel Pavilion Saturday night. UConn won the game 61-46.
Hurley’s postgame critique extended past Adams to other seniors/grad students. Eric Cobb was limited to five uneventful minutes, Tarin Smith had nine points and two assists in 27 minutes, much of the scoring late. Hurley did like what he saw from Kassoum Yakwe, who had three rebounds and two blocks in 12 minutes. The coach’s point is that seniors need to play with more urgency, knowing their last game is approaching. … One might add that when a coach has made clear he is interested in investing in future seasons, seniors really need to justify their minutes.