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The hands-off approach by the Obama administration actually began at the end of the Bush years, when Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip told federal prosecutors in 2008 “take into account the possible substantial consequences to a corporation’s employees, investors, pensioners and customers” when thinking of going afte... |
The TRAC numbers show there were 21% fewer corporate prosecutions in the five years after the Filip memo than in the five years before, Sirota wrote. |
Senior BJP leader and five-term MLA Hridaya Narain Dixit (69) appeared to be the front runner for the Speaker post owing to his knowledge of parliamentary practices. |
The swearing-in of MLAs will continue tomorrow too and election of the Speaker will be held on March 30. Nominations for the post will be filed tomorrow. |
LUCKNOW: A total 319 out of the 403 newly-elected MLAs today took oath as members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. |
They were administered oath by Pro-tem Speaker Fateh Bahadur. |
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was present when members started taking oath. |
Prominent among those who took oath today included ministers Surya Pratap Shahi, Suresh Khanna, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Rajesh Agarwal, Swami Prasad Maurya, Dharm Pal Singh, Satish Mahana, Dara Singh Chauhan, Satyadev Pachauri, Satyapal Singh Baghel, Nand Gopal Nandi, Ramapati Shashtri, Jai Pratap Singh and Brijesh Pathak... |
Senior BJP leader and five-term MLA Hridaya Narain Dixit (69) appeared to be the front runner for the post owing to his knowledge of parliamentary practices. |
A former minister, Dixit has been working as UP BJP's chief spokesman. He was BJP legislature party leader in the Legislative Council and was elected MLA from Bhagwant Nagar constituency of Unnao in the just-concluded Assembly polls. |
We’re really getting into the holiday season and there are a lot of ways to start celebrating this weekend. And there are plenty of non-holiday related events going on as well. We’ve got all the details…right here. |
The national Broadway tour of Finding Neverland comes to the Ellen Eccles Theatre this weekend. Finding Neverland tells the incredible story behind Peter Pan, this Thursday and Friday. |
The Hyrum Senior Center is hosting their annual All Wrapped Up Christmas Craft Fair. Gift baskets, treats, holiday decorations and a lot more will be available Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. |
Christmas trees decorated by local businesses will be auctioned off at the Tree Festival. It’s a fundraiser for The Family Place and takes place at Freckle Farm Friday at 5. |
Celebrate the Art of Giving at the Winter Gift Market at the Bullen Center. Support local artists beginning Friday at 5, and continuing Saturday at 9. |
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of USU’s Science Unwrapped. The theme for Friday night’s event in the Eccles Science Learning Center is Powers of 10: Planetary and it begins at 7 p.m. |
USU Hockey hosts the University of Utah Friday night at the Eccles Ice Arena, and it’s Military Appreciation Night. All fans with military ID get free admission. |
Four Seasons Theater opens its heartwarming musical adaptation of White Christmas this weekend. Performances are in the Sky View auditorium and continue through December 10th. |
If you enjoy satire, we think you’ll like Light Up the Sky. The theater production (about theater) opens this weekend at the Caine Lyric Theatre and continues through December 8th. |
Come enjoy the Zoo lights at Zootah, starting this weekend and continuing through December 29th. Friday night is USU Student Night. All college students with ID get in for half price; and, Saturday is Veterans Night. All active duty or retired military get in for free and there are discounts for immediate family as wel... |
On Saturday, there are two performances of the Forgotten Carols: a matinee at 2:30 and an evening performance at 7:30, both at Logan High School. |
Join the Northern Utah Youth and Community Symphonies and soloists as they usher in the 2018 Christmas season with Handel’s Messiah in the Brigham City Tabernacle. The event will include audience participation and begins Saturday at 7 p.m. |
If you’d like to know more details about any of the events going on this weekend, visit our Community Calendar. |
Carla Williams new single Love to Gain, a duet with Kirk Sullivan of the Grammy nominated and eight time DOVE award winning group 4HIM, is available for pre-sale on iTunes and Google Play today. This song, penned by Williams and Steve Dorff (a celebrated writer with 11 Billboard #1s), was inspired when Carla was teemin... |
Produced by Tom Hemby, a four time DOVE award winner, Love to Gain will be released on BelleFire Records to all major online retailers on Friday, February 22. |
Fans can stay updated on Carla�s career at the following. |
Carla will return to the music scene with the release of her new Christian single Love to Gain on February 22. This Bayou based torch singer has been performing in church since she was three years old. Raised in a Southern Baptist household, she encountered contemporary worship tunes when she attended a non-denominatio... |
Cobb County schools started back to school Monday. In this photo, students arrive for class at Mountain View Elementary School on Sandy Plains Road in Cobb County. JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM. |
Some of the more than 100 public schools in Cobb County are among the best in Georgia, according to Niche.com. |
The website ranked the nation’s top schools and broke them down into many categories, including the state level to give us the “2018 Best Public Schools in Georgia” ranking. |
Although a Gwinnett County school came out on top, Cobb’s Walton High School — and its new building — made the top five schools. |
The website determined the rankings by considering academics, culture and diversity, parent and student surveys, teacher performance and surveys, clubs and activities, health and safety, resources and sports. Of that data, 40 percent comes from input from Niche website readers. Data from the U.S. Department of Educatio... |
Cobb County schools superintendent Chris Ragsdale talks about the new school year at McEachern High School. |
Nice 3 bedroom, 1 bath Split Level on cul-de-sac. Lower level family room with fireplace. Convenient location, close to downtown Conneaut Lake. |
COOPERSTOWN, NY—In a series of baffling events during the summer of 1839, obsessive freak Abner Doubleday reportedly coerced locals into participating in a preposterous game that featured nonsensical elements such as "plates," "mounds," "bases," "balls," "bats," "gloves," "fair and foul territories," and the scoring of... |
"While those forced to take part in this strange diversion viewed Doubleday as a peculiar fellow, they were even more perplexed by the bizarre game itself," local observer William Moore noted in his journal, adding that many players simply walked off the field when Doubleday attempted to explain the tag-up rule and the... |
According to later entries in Moore's journal, participants finally began to enjoy playing the nonsensical game when, after weeks of frustration, they started using the long wooden sticks to tag out base runners. |
Great news everyone!! Don Jazzy will be performing at the General Assembly of the United Nations for the UNICEF Imagine Campaign. |
“Would be performing alongside some great world musicians at the UN-GA tomorrow, for the UNICEF #Imagine campaign.” He stated as he shared photos from the rehearsal. |
The agent typis M. Clark, impensis J. Martyn ad insigne Campanæ in Cœmeterio D. Pauli represents an entity (e.g. person, organization, etc.) associated with resources found in Boston University Libraries. |
Labour rebels narrowly missed out on their plan to stick it to the big power companies in the Commons just now. |
They had wanted to get an amendment added to the Energy Bill that would give ministers powers to cap carbon emissions coming from power stations. |
Labour rebels joined with the Tories and Lib Dems to get it through – but they lost by eight votes, 244 to 252. |
The Tories still have a chance to get the amendment added to the Bill in the Lords though, using their ability to hold up the legislative process as a bargaining chip. |
The Tories would basically say ‘let this amendment through on the Bill, or we’ll hold up all of your legislation so that you can’t get any of it through before the election’. |
The question is – do the Tories, who undoubtedly have strong big business links, really have the will to strike a legislative blow to the power companies for the sake of the environment. |
Dave’s eco-credentials are now really on the spot. |
Nope - those Tories are smart - climate change's carbon credit scheme is a scam dreamt up by Enron. |
It sounds bizarre - but it's true. |
And given the fiasco of the IPCC's supposed impeccable science, it's based on bugger all too. |
Check out www.whatsupwiththat.com as a starting point. |
This was a genuine attempt to get the power companies to do something to mitigate the continued use of coal for electricity generation. |
Full marks to local MP's such as Alan Simpson and Nick Palmer for supporting it. |
Synonymous with its name, Anytime Cafe in Market City Shopping Center is always there anytime a craving for superlative fare hits you hard. Be it, breakfast, lunch, dinner or a late-night dessert, this tried-and-true establishment never fails loyal diners who flock here by the masses. |
Dining Out recently paid a visit to one of our favorite eateries and caught up with owners Ken and Cindy Wong. This husband-and-wife team wasted no time, as they were eager to share a handful of new and savory dishes that grace the menu starting today. We were lucky enough to catch a sneak peek, and can wholeheartedly ... |
DO: Anytime Cafe is embarking on its third year in business and has garnered much success. The restaurant appeals to just about everyone, correct? |
Cindy: Yes. Our menu has more than 100 items, from Chinese cuisine to American, Italian and more. The concept here at Anytime Cafe is similar to a cafe you would come across in Hong Kong, where Ken and I are from. |
DO: Taking a glimpse at the menu, there’s so much to choose from, and it all depends on what you’re craving most. What are a couple of the restaurant’s most popular dishes? |
Cindy: Two of our most requested dishes are Wonton Noodle ($7.95) and Thai Style Pork Cheek ($6.95). |
DO: Now that a new year is upon us, Anytime Cafe is welcoming 2013 with a slew of new dishes. When are they slated to hit the menu? |
Cindy: There are four new items that we’re excited to feature and we will offer them starting today. |
DO: How exciting! Tell us about these dishes. |
Cindy: Yes, we’re very excited, too. First of all, we have Vegetable Lasagna ($15.95), which features a fresh spinach pasta sheet layered with eggplant, mushrooms and ricotta cheese. Then we’re eager to offer Squid Ink Linguine with Calamari. Priced at $16.95, fresh squid ink pasta is tossed with calamari rings and our... |
Basically, the big draw is that we’re now using fresh pasta, and we believe not many restaurants carry fresh pasta. |
DO: Fresh pasta dramatically adds to any dish. What are you hoping the response will be to these new dishes? |
Cindy: Of course, we’re hoping that these dishes will be a hit with everyone. We’ve been giving samples to our regular customers and they seem to love it. |
DO: What brought about the addition of these new items to the menu? |
Cindy: Many customers asked us about fresh pasta, so we got some from our pasta supplier on Christmas, and we tried it and we loved it very much. During our last visit to Hong Kong, we noticed that many restaurants carry fresh pasta, the most popular being squid ink pasta. |
DO: What else will the new year hold for Anytime Cafe? |
Cindy: Well, we would like to further promote Green Monday at Anytime Cafe. It’s all about going meatless on Mondays — an easy and effective way to reduce your carbon footprint and improve your health. According to a recent study, the meat industry is responsible for nearly one-fifth of the greenhouse gas emissions in ... |
The seriously ill seal pup was due to be rescued but was scared into the sea by members of the public, near Lands End. |
Named Brian May, the pup was rescued off the coast when he was just five-weeks-old after being spotted wounded and severely malnourished. |
A newborn pup is being looked after by Cornish Seal Sanctuary after public activity on a beach in St Agnes frightened his mother away. |
'Squidge' the penguin is the first ever chick to be hand-reared at the sanctuary. |
Two seal pups rescued by the Cornish Seal Sanctuary have been released back to sea. One, Harry, was found with plastic around his neck. |
The Cornish Seal Sanctuary re-opens its hospital today, 17 October, following a £50,000 renovation. |
The centre for injured pups, based in the village of Gweek, will also be celebrating its 60th anniversary next year. |
As Cornwall's only seal rescue centre, the sanctuary cares for more than 50 pups every season. |
The new facilities mean more injured pups can be cared for. |
There has been some cracking training going on at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary this week to celebrate Easter with the resident creatures. |
Two otters are approaching their one year anniversary together and are still very much in love. |
The sweeping crackdown on dissent in China under Xi Jinping is well known. While most international media reports focus on repression against liberal dissidents it is not unusual for left activists also to be targeted. This is highlighted by an ongoing case in the southern province of Guangdong. |
On 15 November, two youths taking part in a leftist reading circle at Guangdong University of Technology in Guangzhou, were arrested by police on the ridiculous pretext of “illegal business operations”. This was later changed to “gathering crowds to disturb social order”, a very common charge against worker activists a... |
At least seven of the eight youth are Maoists. The police raid seems to have resulted from the fact that during the meeting of the reading circle, participants discussed the 1989 democratic movement in China (which ended in the massacre of 4 June), and also criticised the widespread censorship operated today by the rul... |
The police action in Guangzhou is therefore not surprising, given the wider crackdown in China under Xi Jinping, the most ferocious phase of repression since 1989. But the Guangzhou case can have more complicated implications. |
Xi has paid some superficial tributes to Mao Zedong, partly in an attempt to utilise Mao’s prestige among sections of the masses in order to consolidate his and the CCP’s rule. Not long after coming to power, Xi announced to a meeting of senior officials: “The history of the first 30 years (the Mao era) of the PRC must... |
When targeting liberal bourgeois opponents, the regime claims these individuals collude with western “anti-China forces” to “subvert the socialist system”. Such, mostly fictitious, accusations can extract support from some nationalists. |
But when accusing young people who support Mao Zedong of being “anti-CCP” this increases the political contradictions for the regime. It risks alienating the Maoist layer, who make up probably the largest part of left-leaning youth in China. They, while objecting to the restoration of capitalism in China, tend to give ... |
Another and deeper reason for the police action is that the upturn in workers’ struggles is frightening the CCP dictatorship, especially when it has not eliminated the dark clouds of economic crisis. Three staff members from a well-known labour NGO in Guangdong were sentenced to harsh prison terms in 2016. So the growi... |
In 2014, students from some universities in the same district where the ‘15 November’ incident happened, offered help to a strike by 200 cleaners. |
Following the crackdown on the Guangzhou reading group, hundreds of people including left supporters and liberals, signed a petition against the flagrant suppression of democratic rights and the developing workers’ struggles. This has encouraged other sections of left-leaning youth, who have undergone similar repressio... |
This wave of protest, with online petitions signed by hundreds, including some well-known scholars, has forced the police to suddenly stop the detentions and release the four on bail. However, they are still under surveillance and face police harassment, while four other fellow reading group members are still being hun... |
The CWI and socialists internationally condemn the CCP regime’s brutal repression. We stand for full and genuine democratic rights for the masses in China and internationally. The struggle for real democracy is inseparably linked to the struggle for international socialism led by the working class. Dictatorial rule lik... |
This protest letter/email can be sent to the Chinese embassy in your country. |
Hill isn’t the typical college ace. He isn’t a big right-hander who throws 95 mph. Instead, Hill has pinpoint command and an advanced four-pitch mix that can make life tough for hitters. His 38 strikeouts are the fifth-most in the nation. |
But facing star pitchers is something UTA does every year. Last year, the Mavericks faced two first-round draft picks, beating Dillon Tate (No. 4 Texas Rangers) on the road and having a lead when Jon Harris (No. 29 Toronto Blue Jays) left the game. |
Behind Hill, however, the Jaguars haven’t gotten much from their Saturday and Sunday starters. Austin Bembnowski (1-0, 5.40) and Harrison Spruiell (1-0, 4.63) got big games from the Jaguars’ lineup in last weekend’s sweep of UALR. |
That opens up a nice opportunity for Kadon Simmons (4-1, 2.13) to take over on Saturday. Simmons has been lights-out the last two weeks, throwing eight shutout innings in back-to-back starts to lower his ERA to 2.13 and help the Mavericks win consecutive Saturdays. |
It’s all about getting an early lead for Simmons and Joel Kuhnel (3-1, 1.48), who’ll go head-to-head with Hill on Friday. Kuhnel doesn’t have the gaudy strikeout numbers, but he’s only allowed four earned runs in 24 1/3 innings. |
And once the Mavericks get a lead into the seventh inning, they’ve been a perfect 10-0 this season. Daniel James and Jacob Moreland haven’t surrendered a lead all season. |
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