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“I’m glad I stayed home for training this time (Jones has gone away for training for his fights over the last two years). I focus better. I don’t drink, smoke or go out so there’s no problem with distractions at home. It’s soothing being home. |
Jones, rated No. 2 by the WBO, No. 3 by the WBA, No. 3 by the IBF and No. 4 by the WBC, won a majority 10-round decision over Soto-Karass in their first fight Nov. 13 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX, to retain his NABO and NABA welterweight titles while winning the WBC Continental Americas belt. |
The Jones-Soto-Karass fight, this time scheduled for 12 rounds, opens the 9:45 pm (EST) HBO telecast prior to a title fight featuring world bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel defending his title against two-division champion Nonito Donaire. |
Jones should school Soto-Karass this time around. Easy UD or late TKO. |
Police cover Indonesian suspect Siti Aisyah while escorting her to a court building in Shah Alam, Malaysia to face murder charges in the killing of Kim Jong Nam, July 28, 2017. |
A lawyer for one of two women accused of assassinating the half-brother of North Korea’s dictator on Friday questioned a chemist’s report about a banned nerve agent allegedly used in the bizarre attack at a Malaysian airport in February. |
Attorney Gooi Soon Seng said the defense would seek expert opinion to establish whether the VX agent or another poisonous chemical was used in the killing. During a court hearing Friday in Shah Alam, near Kuala Lumpur, the prosecution turned over 33 documents to the defense, including post-mortem and toxicology reports... |
The lawyer representing Indonesian suspect Siti Aisyah spoke to reporters after his client appeared in court. A judge set Oct. 2 as the opening date for the joint murder trial of Siti and Vietnamese suspect Doan Thi Hoang. |
“VX is supposed to be a very potent agent and even 0.1 milliliters is enough to kill a person, but we can say there have been no side effects on the two women,” he said after both women appeared in court on Friday. |
They have been charged with murder for smearing the face of victim Kim Jong Nam with the deadly VX agent at a crowded Kuala Lumpur area airport terminal on Feb.13. While the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un died about 15 minutes later, the two women did not report any injuries from handling the... |
VX, short for “venomous agent X,” is an extremely toxic synthetic chemical compound that causes death with exposure to low quantities by inhalation or absorption through skin, according to the American Chemical Society. |
The two women appeared about five minutes apart at the Shah Alam High Court, about 27 km (16 miles) west of Kuala Lumpur. They were handcuffed and wore body armor over Malay traditional attire known as “baju kurung,” a loose-fitting full-length dress, consisting of a skirt and a blouse. |
About 250 police officers, including many in combat gear, guarded the court’s compound for Friday’s hearing, which lasted 30 minutes. |
Doan looked calm during the hearing, but Aisyah cried near the end. |
Judge Azmi Ariffin ruled the two defendants would be tried together. He set 11 days of trial in October and 12 days the following month. The women’s lawyers said they would enter their plea during the first day of the trial, on Oct. 2. |
Prosecutors said 30 to 40 witnesses would be called. The evidence handed over to the defense included CCTV recordings, according to lead prosecutor Muhammad Iskandar Ahmad. Defense attorney Gooi Soon Seng complained last month that he could not mount a proper defense for his client without such key evidence gathered by... |
Andreano Erwin, Indonesia’s acting ambassador to Kuala Lumpur, was at the hearing. He told reporters Aisyah might be feeling the strain after being in police custody for about five months while facing the prospect of waiting another three months for her trial to start. |
“Anyone who is in an uncertain situation like Siti would feel such similar pressure,” Andreano said, using Aisyah’s first name. |
The women, who face the death penalty if convicted, have said they were duped into thinking that they were taking part in harmless prank for a hidden-camera TV show. |
The two are the only suspects to be charged with Kim’s murder, although Malaysian authorities identified seven North Koreans as suspects early on in the investigation. |
South Korean blames Pyongyang for the killing and Malaysian investigators said they were looking for four North Korean men who flew out of Malaysia on the day Kim died. They were filmed by a security camera at the same airport. |
Three other North Koreans who had been sought by police for questioning in the case, including the second secretary of Pyongyang’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur, were allowed to return home freely. |
They left Malaysia in late March as part of a deal resolving a bilateral diplomatic row over the killing, when Kuala Lumpur agreed to return Kim’s body to North Korea in exchange for nine Malaysians who had been prevented from leaving the communist state. |
Pyongyang has denied that it was behind the attack, saying South Korea and the United States were mounting a campaign to discredit it. |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas has fired coach Bret Bielema after five disappointing season, moments after a season-ending 48-45 loss to Missouri on Friday. |
Bret Bielema was fired moments after Arkansas' 48-45 loss to Missouri on Friday. |
Arkansas is now 4-8 on the season. |
The Razorbacks went just 11-29 in the SEC under Bielema. |
The loss left Arkansas with a 4-8 record, capping only the second losing season of Bielema's 12-year career. It also left him with a 29-34 record in his five seasons with the Razorbacks, including 11-29 in the SEC. |
It was a shockingly poor performance from a coach who led Wisconsin to three Rose Bowl appearances before being hired at Arkansas from Wisconsin after the 2012 season. |
Interim athletic director Julie Cromer Peoples informed Bielema of his firing moments after Friday's loss. Cromer Peoples is serving in an interim role after former athletic director Jeff Long was fired two weeks ago. |
"During the course of the past five seasons, we have not been able to sustain the success on the field that is expected and required at the University of Arkansas," Peoples said. "... We are grateful for his contributions to our program and most importantly his investment in the lives of our student-athletes. We wish h... |
Bielema was signed with Arkansas through the 2020 season, thanks to an extension he signed following his second season in 2014 when the Razorbacks improved to 7-6 after a 3-9 record in his first year. |
His average annual salary over the six-year contract was $4.25 million, and the deal contained a buyout clause that stated Arkansas would have to pay Bielema $15.4 million if he was fired without cause prior to 2018. The buyout dropped to $11.7 million to start 2018, and it was immediately unclear if the school would b... |
"I definitely want to coach again," Bielema said. "... I don't know (what's next); I've never been in this situation." |
Bielema's hiring was considering somewhat of a coup nationally when he was lured from Wisconsin by Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long in December of 2012. |
The Razorbacks were coming off a scandal-ridden eight months started by former coach Bobby Petrino's motorcycle accident and revelation that he had hired his mistress to a position in the athletic department. They had just finished a disappointing 3-9 season under interim coach John L. Smith in 2012, and Bielema brough... |
Arkansas struggled mightily in Bielema's first season in 2013, losing its final nine games of the season on the way to a 3-9 record. However, the Razorbacks put an end to a program-worst 17-game SEC losing streak a year later and finished 7-6 — including a season-ending bowl win over former Southwest Conference rival T... |
The progress continued in 2015 when Arkansas defeated Kansas State in the Cotton Bowl to finish 8-5, and the Razorbacks appeared on their way to a third straight season of improving their win total in 2016 when they started the season 7-4. They ended the season with devastating back-to-back losses to Missouri and Virgi... |
The hangover from those losses continued into 2017, as did a two-year struggle on the offensive line. After allowing a combined 36 quarterback sacks in Bielema's first three seasons, Arkansas gave up 35 sacks in 2016 and 35 more this season. |
For a coach whose identity revolved around his ability to develop top offensive linemen such as former Wisconsin All-American Joe Thomas, the falloff in line play left Bielema both frustrated and searching for answers for much of the last two seasons after former offensive line coach Sam Pittman left for Georgia follow... |
Injuries were a problem for Arkansas this season, in particular to some of its top offensive players. |
Top running back Rawleigh Williams, who was second in the SEC in rushing in 2016, suffered a career-ending neck injury during the spring. Also, No. 1 wide receiver Jared Cornelius injured his Achilles and was lost for the season, while starting quarterback Austin Allen missed four games with an injured shoulder. |
Lastly, center Frank Ragnow — one of the top offensive linemen in the country — suffered a high ankle sprain and missed the season's final five games. |
Prepare garden beds with a tiller to break up soil for planting. |
Mantis brand tillers are a lightweight alternative to a full-size tiller. The serpentine tines till up to 10 inches into the soil, and the small size makes the tiller able to fit in narrow rows between plants and tight spaces next to fences or buildings. If you experience idle problems with your tiller, the problem can... |
Take out the tine retaining pins and remove the tines from the axle before working on the engine. |
Unscrew the wing nut in the center of the air cleaner cover on the left side of the tiller engine as you look at it from the front of the tiller. |
Remove the air cleaner cover. Take the cover off slowly so you don't hit any of the projecting parts. |
Locate the triangular metal piece at the end of the throttle cable. It should be touching the idle screw located to the left of the triangle. If it is not touching, you will need to loosen the throttle cable. |
Use a wrench to loosen the nut that holds the throttle cable in place on the side of the tiller. The nut is on the underside of the metal piece that clips the throttle cable to the side of the tiller. |
Slide the throttle cable down until the metal triangle is touching the idle screw. If the cable is too loose, push the cable up until the triangle is properly seated next to the idle screw. |
Tighten the nut to secure the throttle cable in place. |
Look for the metal cylinder on the triangular metal piece. There is a slot on the end of the cylinder. Ensure the end of the throttle cable is fitted into this slot. |
Carefully replace the air filter cover and tighten the wing nut to hold the cover in place. |
Kokemuller, Jill. "How to Adjust the Throttle Cable on a Mantis Tiller." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/adjust-throttle-cable-mantis-tiller-91820.html. Accessed 24 April 2019. |
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On Monday night, Joelle Cousins, general manager and sommelier of Red Room Lounge, was crowned Texas’ Best Sommelier, the sixth winner from Austin in the past 10 years. Austin sommeliers placed first and third in the competition held at TEXSOM, one of the world’s most prominent wine education conferences. |
Cousins excelled among 25 competitors (including seven others from Austin) in a grueling exam involving proper fine dining service, blind tasting and wine knowledge. She received a scholarship of $2,500 from the Guild of Sommeliers Education Foundation to be used for a Court of Master Sommeliers certification program. |
Rene Fagoaga of the Four Seasons Hotel Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas was the runner up. Austin's Nathan Fausti of Arro Restaurant, came in third place. |
Cousins joins five Austin sommeliers — Devon Broglie, Mark Sayre, June Rodil, Bill Elsey and Scott Ota — who have previously won the coveted prize. |
Villa Park's best known building might be the Odeum Expo Center, where — in just a matter of weeks, in fact — you can see "The Greatest Ferret Show on Earth" or experience the largest haunted house in Chicagoland. Take your pick. |
But here's something else worth seeing: an iconic and beautifully-maintained BMO Harris bank at St. Charles Road and Villa Ave., designed by a disciple of architect Mies van der Rohe. Indeed, the midcentury bank's design was inspired by an unbuilt work by Mies. |
Built in 1964 as Villa Park Bank, the flat-roofed, single-story bank has floor-to-ceiling glass walls and an open floor plan. The building is supported by a pair of exposed trusses running parallel to each other across the roof. A drive-up facility was later added (you can see it to the left of the photo above), borrow... |
The bank is a spectacular piece of modernism, particularly for a could-be-anywhere business strip with the usual run of fast-food places, dollar stores and the like. The bank was designed by architect Peter Roesch, who studied under Mies at IIT in the 1950s. His scheme for the bank was inspired by an unrealized Indiana... |
The concepts behind the unbuilt restaurant would manifest in full in 1956 with the completion of Mies' world-famous Crown Hall on the IIT campus. There, four visible overhead steel girders attached to eight steel exterior columns support the structure and create open "universal space" inside the glass-walled struc... |
Roesch is now 83 and retired. He has vivid memories of designing the bank in Villa Park. |
"After it was built, they all thought it was a refreshing new idea and that made it something of a landmark in Villa Park," he said. |
Roesch said the use of trusses was a way to overcome the poor and "trashy" soil conditions on the site. With the building's weight supported by something akin to a bridge structure that touches the ground in just four points, the expense of drilling numerous caissons through the bad soil was eliminated. Roesch stu... |
He also liked the idea of an all-glass bank. |
"The critics said, 'What is that all-glass building?' I said 'It is a safe bank. You can see inside.' " |
Like Mies, Roesch was born in Germany and was an architect there before moving to the United States. |
"I am a modernist and a minimalist," he said. "When I got to Mies, my whole life changed. He was the kind of person I thought didn't exist: He built what he thought. I held on to him and learned from him." |
Roesch had a long career as an architect and professor at IIT. With his firm Hammond & Roesch in the 1960s, he designed the notable Episcopal Church Center at 65 E. Huron. |
Mies died in 1969, five years after the Villa Park bank was completed. Did the student ever take the master to see his work? |
"I never took him there," Roesch said with a hint of regret. "I never knew if he saw it on his own. He was a very busy man — up to the end." |
Roesch himself hasn't seen the building in decades. "It's the same with any good architecture. You have to photograph it the day it was built and keep your fingers crossed," he said. "I hope they didn't mess it up." |
One last thing: A look at the unrealized house Mies designed for Joseph Cantor in 1946. |
Marino has served in the House since 2011 and was just re-elected to his fifth term. |
Marino was a blue-collar factory worker who switched to a legal career later in life and became a federal prosecutor before entering politics. As the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania from 2002 to 2007, he often focused on drug-trafficking cases. |
Trump tapped Marino in April 2017 to be head of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, or the nation’s drug czar. Marino withdrew his nomination later that October, following reports about how a bill he sponsored, which later became law, made it harder for the Drug Enforcement Administration to go afte... |
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise said he had not heard Marino was resigning and said he wanted to talk to him before commenting on the decision. However, the Louisiana Republican noted that members of Congress have resigned early in the past for a variety of reasons. |
Just last week, Marino introduced legislation to institute four-year terms for members of the House. |
“Having served in Congress for the last 8 years, I have seen what works and what contributes to the dysfunction that often gets associated with this institution. By enabling members to serve longer terms, we can break the cycle of constant campaigning and focus more on issues that are important to our constituents,” he... |
Marino’s resignation will prompt a special election, in which each party’s nominee will be selected by local party leaders at a nominating conference. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf must issue a writ of election within 10 days of Marino stepping down. The special election must take place no fewer than 60 days after Wolf issu... |
Marino’s district is solidly Republican. He won re-election last year by 32 points and President Donald Trump carried the 12th District by 36 points in 2016. |
Under the old district lines, the Republicans named as possible successors to Marino included state Rep. Fred Keller, Bradford County Commissioner Doug McLinko, Lycoming County Commissioner Tony Mussare, state Sen. Mario Scavello, Marino’s district director Dave Weber, and state Rep. Jeff Wheeland. McClinko challenged ... |
Wheeland is strongly considering running for the open seat, according to a GOP source. It’s unclear if the others would still be considered potential contenders, especially under the new map. |
Lindsey McPherson and Bridget Bowman contributed to this report.Get breaking news alerts and more from Roll Call on your iPhone or your Android. |
AmaWaterways is launching the myAmaCruise app to expand the ways guests can engage with and share their river cruise experiences. Here’s what guests can expect. |
Scenic Tailormade, originally launched in 2013, had previously been a purpose-built, hand-held device. Here's what's next. |
The travel group fully acquired the travel management app Sam :] and increased its holdings in the artificial intelligence-powered booking engine Claire. Learn more about both here. |
The cruise line has announced the launch dates for the next ships to receive its MedallionNet Wi-Fi upgrades, as well as its MedallionClass personalized vacation experience. More here. |
The new DiscoverPuertoRico.com has a user-friendly layout and dynamic content that allows visitors to connect with local tourism businesses directly. More here. |
The tourism department’s new website has a simpler and more user-friendly interface with an improved search function. Find out more here. |
Carnival Cruise Line is expanding the app's "Pizza Anywhere" function to more ships, as well as adding new pre-cruise ordering capabilities. Here's what guests can expect. |
Apple Vacations will now allow its clients to pay in monthly increments thanks to its partnership with the travel technology platform Uplift. Learn all the details here. |
Georgia, "The Peach State," is a southern state that borders Florida. There are several pet-friendly hotels in the state, with some requiring a deposit and others offering pets a free stay. Georgia offers several outdoor activities, including hiking the Appalachian Trail and Blue Ridge Mountains. |
The La Quinta Inn is located in Marietta, Georgia just outside of Atlanta. The hotel is pet-friendly and does not charge a fee or a deposit, so your furry friends stay free. The hotel does not offer a daycare for your pets, so if you must leave, they will remain in your room. The hotel offers a free Bright Side Breakfa... |
The Baymont Inn & Suites is located 3 miles from the Savannah historic district. The hotel is pet-friendly with a non-refundable deposit required at check-in. The hotel does not offer pet-sitting, so if you must leave your pet at the Baymont, it will remain in your room until your return. The hotel offers free shuttle ... |
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