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Ben El-Mhanni saw his dream move to the Premier League go sour after filing a complaint against Under-23 coach Peter Beardsley this year.
Beardsley was suspended after the London-born forward accused the former England international of racism and bullying.
An independent panel found Ben El-Mhanni was “unfairly treated” by the 57-year-old coach.
However Beardsley, in his second spell coaching at Newcastle, denies the allegations made against him.
Timothy F. Tunstall, 62, died unexpectedly on Thursday, November 29, of a heart attack at his home in Hampden, Massachusetts.
Tim was predeceased by his parents, Donald J. and Mary L. Tunstall. He is survived by his siblings James of Easthampton, Thomas (T.P.) of Wales, Christine of Townsend, Michael of Weston, Connecticut, Tricia of Plano, Texas, and Mary Julia of Longmeadow. “Uncle Tim” also leaves behind many beloved nephews and nieces inc...
Born in Springfield, Tim grew up in the city’s Forest Park neighborhood, where he attended Holy Name Grammar School. He graduated from Cathedral High School in 1974, where he was co-captain of the tennis team, and subsequently received a B.S. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1978.
Upon graduation from UMass, Tim joined Allison Acoustics, a high-end stereo-speaker manufacturer based in eastern Massachusetts, leading to a long career in research and development, and product design. The founder of Allison recruited Tim after becoming aware of innovative speakers that Tim had designed and built whil...
with his Dad and brother, T.P. During their 30-year leadership tenure, T.P. and Tim increased the number of employees from three to over 30. Tim was the driving force behind the company’s pivotal shift from a manufacturers’ rep company to a product-manufacturing company when he invented, trademarked, and marketed the T...
Tim also designed, patented and marketed the Tunstall Putter, which has adjustable swing weights that can be changed based on a golfer’s preferences. In 1985 he received approval from the USGA in order to market the putter in various product catalogs. His design was the precursor to the weight systems that golf clubs n...
Tim spent considerable time at his house in his beloved Worthington, Massachusetts, where he lived during summers as a child. For over 20 years, he hosted the annual Tunstall Fall Foliage Open at Worthington Golf Club, where he won the junior club championship as a teenager.
Tim rebuilt the house in Worthington over many years and many friends and family helped with his projects there. He enjoyed the swimming hole and rudimentary stone house in the woods, where he happily spent one winter living only with a woodstove and no electricity. Tim leaves many good friends in Worthington, from chi...
Tim was a generous, kind, and unusually creative person who loved his family and cherished his many friends. While very successful, Tim was indifferent to convention, yet he never had a single adversary. He will be sorely missed.
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The Fond du Lac Cardinals remember St. Mary's Springs player Trent Schueffner, who died in a duck hunting accident.
FOND DU LAC – A week after St. Mary’s Springs football player Trent Schueffner died as a result of a duck hunting accident, the Fond du Lac Cardinals showed support for their Fruth Field co-residents and city football family.
Fruth Field was neon green Friday night in the Cardinals' second-round playoff game against the Arrowhead Warhawks, which the Cardinals won 28-22.
"Glowing for You #62" was the theme of the night as signs were hung around the stadium, and the hashtag #glowingforyou62 was shared on social media. Schueffner wore No. 62 as a Ledgers offensive tackle and defensive lineman.
Fond du Lac High School sold $1 glow necklaces, with proceeds going to the Schueffner family.
Schueffner’s blue St. Mary’s Springs jersey hung on the Fond du Lac Cardinals bench, a sign that their local football player was with them. Senior Carson Raddatz said after the game that many Fond du Lac High School students knew Schueffner.
“Being in the same city as Springs, you feel for them,” Raddatz said.
The Fond du Lac dance team performed a halftime show in honor of Schueffner. The song was "Lean on Me." After the game, the Cardinals came together for a team photo, in which they formed the No. 62.
Fond du Lac coach Steve Jorgensen said that a tragedy like the death of Schueffner puts everything into perspective.
At the end of the game, as Raddatz was about to take a knee to win the game, a thunder of cheers erupted from the stands. This time it was not for the undefeated Fond du Lac Cardinals.
The PA announcer said that through the glow stick sales and bags passed around the stadium, Fond du Lac High School was able to write a check for $4,527.21 to the Schueffner family.
The stabbing death of Trenton H. James Cornell-Duranleau, who was found murdered in the apartment of a noted Northwestern University microbiologist on July 27, was about as grisly as it gets.
According to information obtained by Sneed from an autopsy report from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, Cornell-Duranleau, 26, was stabbed a total of 47 times to the torso, essentially in the chest and back; specifically 21 times in the front and 26 times in the back.
In addition, Cornell-Duranleau tested positive for alcohol, amphetamine, and methamphetamines.
The motive for the victim’s murder, which resulted in the arrest of Northwestern University microbiologist Wyndham Lathem and British citizen Andrew Warren, is still under investigation.
Police sources have told Sneed they believe it was at least a crime of passion due to the severity of the stabbing. Two knives, including a broken one, was found at the murder scene.
There were significant incise (cutting) wounds on the neck (A police source told Sneed last week that the neck was so cut up it appeared to be almost decapitated).
There was an incise wound on the chin.
There were multiple incise wounds on both arms and shoulders, wrists and left hand.
Contrary to what an earlier police source told Sneed, there was nothing about genital mutilation.
The victim was a hairstylist from Michigan who had been in a relationship with Lathem, who was arrested along with Warren in California. Both men are expected to be extradited by this weekend.
Lathem’s attorney told the Sun-Times Thursday he would seek to have Lathem go free on bond at a hearing which could take place at Leighton Criminal Courthouse as soon as Monday. Warren will be represented by the Cook County Public Defender’s Office.
The frozen conditions at Sochi, Russia might be tough on camera equipment and photographers but snapping a panoramic Winter Olympics image that is shared around the world online makes it all worthwhile for Getty Images staff.
Stuart Hannagan, Australasia director of photography and vice president, told Computerworld Australia that his photographers understand the limits their cameras can be pushed to.
According to Hannagan, there has been growing demand for 360-degree panorama images from news websites.
Getty Images is also offering post-production treatments for media companies including large format files for magazine double page spreads.
“It is a service we offer which is particularly useful for those websites and publishers that may not have the in-house design resources to do it themselves,” Hannagan said.
Photographers will be shooting the panoramic images in 40MB files.
Looking to the future, he said that the agency may consider real-time delivery of images and photography that is more interactive with social media platforms such as Twitter.
However, Hannagan does not believe that high resolution video stills will replace still photography just yet.
“Just because someone shoots video, that doesn’t mean the still image someone takes from those will be creatively shot or thought provoking. Seeing and then producing a still image is an art that takes years to perfect,” he said.
Bashir vowed that his government will continue his austerity program and economic reform.
In his first public speech since the unrest that erupted on Sept. 24, Bashir – who ruled Sudan since 1989 – pledged to work on providing electricity and water supply for millions of people and for agricultural projects.
More than 60 people were killed in the nationwide violence after the government responded with a heavy hand to demonstrations against a sudden hike in fuel prices.
The Sudanese government lost more than 70 percent of oil revenues after the secession of South Sudan two years ago. The country is facing challenges to continue servicing its foreign debt, which is estimated at more than $40 billion, without lifting subsidies on basic commodities.
But the public anger that resulted from this step posed a major threat to Bashir’s 24-year rule.
The president is already wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and losing his post as president would likely make him more prone to international prosecution.
The United States recently denied him a visa to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
Has the Arab Spring finally stretched to Sudan?
Škoda, the best Volkswagen Group brand that Americans can’t buy, recently announced it will get into the seven-seat SUV game with a new vehicle called the Kodiaq. And in Kodiak, Alaska, the locals and mayor were so excited they decided to get in on the action by renaming their town for a whole day.
Think about it. You live on “Alaska’s Emerald Isle” surrounded by so many of the world’s largest brown bears that every third person could have one as a pet. Then, a carmaker in the Czech Republic of all places decides to put you on the map forever by naming their new three-row SUV in your honor. The least you could do...
Well, the people of Kodiak seem to agree with my theory, having changed the town’s name wherever they could, including on their street signs, police cars, fire engines, fishing boats, advertising boards and even on the town’s official homepage, according to an announcement from Škoda.
We have extensively researched life on Kodiak Island and the language of the native people, the Alutiiq. They call the Kodiak bear Taq uka ‘aq – the letter ‘q’ at the end is typical for the names of animals.
Škoda Kodiaq: From the people who brought you the Yeti.
Now, the only thing Škoda needs to do is sell the Kodiaq in America. Alaskans deserve the large SUV named after them.
STRASBOURG (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised the European Union on Thursday as an unprecedented model for peaceful cooperation, in a speech to EU lawmakers that contrasted sharply with the critical stance of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Speaking to the European Parliament a day after it backed a comprehensive free trade deal between Canada and the EU known as CETA, Trudeau said the 28-nation bloc had a crucial global role to play.
By contrast, Trump has questioned the value and future of the EU and has applauded Britain’s shock decision to leave it.
“You are a vital player in addressing the challenges that we collectively face as an international community ... Indeed the whole world benefits from a strong EU,” Trudeau told delighted EU lawmakers in his speech, delivered in English and French.
Canada and the EU share a belief in democracy, transparency and the rule of law, human rights, inclusion and diversity, said Trudeau, who is also due to visit Germany on his European tour.
“We know that, in these times, we must choose to lead the international economy, not simply be subject to its whims,” he added.
CETA AS MODEL TO TRUMP?
With the passage of their trade deal, Canada and the EU offer a counter to Trump, who has withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and wants to rework the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Trump told Trudeau in talks in Washington on Monday that the United States would only be “tweaking” its trade ties with Canada.
For Canada, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the EU is important to reduce its reliance on the neighbouring United States as an export market.
For the EU, it is a first trade pact with a G7 country and a timely success after Britain’s vote to leave the bloc last year harmed its credibility. Brexit supporters want to focus more on reviving trade with former British colonies, including Canada.
“We are in a globalised world and how we make sure that we are turning that into opportunities for small businesses and our citizens is the challenge of our time,” said Trudeau.
Trump got elected partly by those who felt opportunities were slipping away, fearing for themselves and their children, Trudeau said, anxieties shared by people in Canada and Europe.
Both Canada and the EU have to ensure that CETA, set to come into force in months, worked.
MANCHESTER UNITED face competition from Arsenal for wantaway Real Madrid star James Rodriguez, according to reports.
Rodriguez is said to be unsettled at the Bernabeu and wants to leave this summer after a string of problems.
The attacking midfielder has been in and out of the side, starting just 17 La Liga games this term.
It goes on to say the former Monaco and Porto man has called a meeting with club directors for after the Champions League final on May 28th to discuss his move.
And Arsenal are mentioned as possible suitors, with Arsene Wenger increasingly willing to spend big following the capture of Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez over the last two seasons.
Unemployment in the eurozone hit a record high of 12.2% in April, up from 12.1% in March.
Unemployment in the troubled eurozone region hit a record high of 12.2% last month.
The latest official data from Eurostat shows nearly 100,000 additional people were out looking for work in April compared with the previous month, when unemployment was pegged at 12.1%.
The usual suspects -- Spain and Greece -- are facing the highest levels of unemployment. The latest data show unemployment levels of roughly 27% in both countries, with youth unemployment well above 50%.
Meanwhile, Austria and Germany have the lowest jobless levels out of the 17 countries that use the euro currency. Austria's unemployment was just below 5% in April and Germany's unemployment was 5.4%.
In total, 19.4 million people in the eurozone were unemployed in April.
To put that in context, Australia's population was just over 22 million at last count, a stark reminder of just how many people are struggling in Europe.
High youth unemployment has been particularly worrisome for politicians and European officials. Eurostat data show eurozone unemployment among those under the age of 25 topped 24.4% in April.
The latest numbers were released just two days after top officials from the European Commission instructed EU member states to focus more of their efforts on growth-centric policies to promote competitiveness and employment.
"This year's recommendations call on all countries to be more ambitious when it comes to growth-boosting economic reforms," said Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso.
Officials are particularly concerned about rampant youth unemployment, and are trying to assist eurozone nations in implementing programs that will help place youth into jobs and training programs.
Spending cuts and tax increases have formed the core of the eurozone's response to its credit crisis over the past few years, as it struggles to bring sovereign debt under control.
The United States must build and deliver clean energy today to create jobs, lower energy costs, and strengthen our economy. The establishment of a federally owned, not for profit Green Bank—formally called the Clean Energy Deployment Administration, or CEDA—will spur private-sector investment in innovation and American...
The creation of a Green Bank will encourage a long overdue integrated and strategic approach to clean-energy innovation, efficiency, and deployment in the United States. In combination with Senate action on clean energy—legislation that provides incentives for the research, development, and deployment of clean-energy t...
In partnership with the private sector, the Green Bank will enable innovative, commercially viable clean-energy technologies in such areas as wind, solar, geothermal, advanced biomass, increased efficiency, and transmission infrastructure—all to be deployed on a large scale. No single technology must be allowed to abso...
What’s more, clean energy delivers long-term job growth and holds tremendous new job-creation potential, particularly in the manufacturing sector. A recent report from the Center for American Progress and the University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute notes that $150 billion per year in clean-ener...
In short, the Green Bank can encourage the rapid deployment of clean energy and ensure that lower energy costs are passed on to consumers. In addition, the Green Bank can act as a bulwark against higher energy costs associated with volatile fossil fuel prices.
In the past, Congress has encouraged private sector equity investments in wind, solar, and other clean technologies through tax credits. Equity investments are important, but the deployment of major clean-energy projects will also require significant loans and low-cost debt financing. The Green Bank will marshal a vari...
In a clean-energy project, the Green Bank can potentially reduce the cost of debt by half—to about 4.5 percent in today’s credit markets from around 8.5 percent without federal support. As the cost of debt is reduced, projects can still provide a 15 percent return on equity and meet debt coverage ratios without an incr...
The result will jumpstart business investment, increase capital at reduced loan rates, lower energy prices to consumers, and spur the construction and operation of more clean-energy technology and energy efficiency projects throughout the country.
A Green Bank is essential because many clean-energy technologies face several unique obstacles along the path to large-scale deployment and then to the delivery of clean energy in our homes. Traditional banks and commercial lenders are reluctant to loan to many of these clean-energy projects with limited track records ...

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