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There are fears the death toll could rise as communities have been left stranded without food or medicine.
In Malaysia, eight people have reportedly been killed so far by the monsoon rains. The government on Sunday pledged more funds to help people hit by the country's worst flooding in decades.
About $14m has been disbursed to manage relief centres. Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin admitted rescuers were facing challenges amid power outages and roads being washed away by the floods.
The number of people evacuated topped 160,000 on Saturday, according to local media reports, a sharp increase from 100,000 a day before.
Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak reached Kelantan, the worst-hit state, after cutting short a vacation in the US.
Malaysians have vented their anger at Razak after the release of photos which went viral on social media showing him playing golf with US President Barack Obama during the storms.
In Thailand, the government has declared eight of its southern provinces disaster zones. Local media reports said that 13 people have been confirmed dead.
Thai authorities warned residents in at least seven southern provinces to brace for more flash floods in the coming days as rain shows no sign of letting up, local media reported on Saturday.
In Sri Lanka, floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rain have killed at least 17 people with a further 15 people missing, according to police and officials.
The meteorological department issued a severe weather warning over the floods.
Nominations for 248 Local Government institutions will be accepted from today until noon on December 21, the Elections Commission said.
Deposits to the 248 institutions could be paid until 12 noon on December 20.
Nominations for 93 Local Government bodies were accepted from December 11 to 14 noon.
According to the new Mixed Electoral System under which the Local Government Elections will be held, the number of Local Government bodies have been increased up to 341. The number of councillors have increased up to 8,356.
The Chairman of the Elections Commission Mahinda Deshapriya will announce the date for the election after the accepting nominations end on December 21 and after looking into any objections raised, Deputy Elections Commissioner M.M.Mohammed said.
The Elections Commission had to call for nominations in two stages due to legal reasons.
Meanwhile, after the closure of nominations for 93 LG bodies on December 14, the Returning Officers had rejected the nomination papers of 23 political parties and independent groups due to flaws.
Out of the rejections, 19 nominations were submitted by recognised political parties, while nominations were filed from independent groups.
Mohammed yesterday urged both political parties and independent groups submitting nominations to be more vigilant in order to avoid further rejections.
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If Today Is the First Day of Spring, Why Is It Still Cold Outside?
Spring officially arrives on March 20, 11:57am CST, or 12:37pm EST, or more universally at 16:57 UTC. So why does it still feel like winter outside?
Are Wood-Burning Heaters and Fireplaces Environmentally Friendly?
With a push towards more sustainable fuels, wood-burning stoves have enjoyed some time in the spotlight as a green alternative to gas or electrics options.
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Here are a few easy steps we can take to save water in these tough times.
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Our scurvy crew of readers, fighting among themselves, couldn't settle on which Tucson Symphony performance this season was best, so here's a suggestion: the May concerts under guest conductor Guillermo Figueroa. No offense to music director George Hanson, but the TSO players are always at their peak when they're tryin...
Is this it? The end of the Oprah Book Club as we know it?
number 251 in a select studio audience of about 300, I find myself privy to this news before it has broken over the general populace. It is with no small sense of irony that I find myself here at this unforeseeably historic taping. For one thing, I don’t even own a TV and have had little direct exposure to The Oprah Wi...
I sit stunned in my seat listening to the rest of her official statement that will air during her regularly scheduled program on Friday, the statement in which she explains before the cameras that “the truth is, it has just become harder and harder for me to find books on a monthly basis that I am really passionate abo...
I hear her say during one of the final commercial breaks that six years’ worth of book club has been long enough for her, that having to read so many contemporary novels with an eye toward picking one for the show is just too much pressure in conjunction with everything else she has to do, and that she wants to take ti...
Back on the air again at a few minutes before 4 o’clock, an assortment of staffers pass out copies, both hardcover and paperback, of the final selection. Winfrey reminds all of us in the audience and, of course, everyone watching at home, “After you read it, write me a nice letter. A great Toni Morrison-worthy letter, ...
Rising before posing her question, as we were instructed to do at the beginning of the taping, a well-spoken middle-aged woman in a periwinkle blue shirt addresses Winfrey. I do not catch her name because she is speaking quickly and earnestly, and I couldn’t record it anyway because writing materials are not allowed. I...
Filing from my section to the studio exit, I can’t help considering that this unexpected last chapter in the story of the Oprah Book Club is not dissimilar to the kind of secret or surprise divulged in a number of the novels that were her book club picks. Unlike the best of the Oprah selections, though, this story seem...
Still, even when the opportunity for broad-based exploration of the club arose, as in the case of last fall’s dust-up with Jonathan Franzen, reductive high-versus-low cultural bickering seemed the only result. Now that the club is over, perhaps we can examine the story of the Oprah Book Club with the care we would devo...
More than anything else, we’ll find that the club was not just extremely significant, hopeful and positive as a development but was actually a revolutionary cultural event. The use of such a far-reaching television program–The Oprah Winfrey Show charts a domestic audience of an estimated 26 million viewers per week, pl...
Whatever else can be said about the Oprah Book Club–that it superficially treated fictional works as Things That Really Happen; that the narratives of the books themselves were flattened by the pandering, shallow narrative of the television program; that it drew an inordinate amount of attention to the personalities of...
Paradoxically, within Oprah’s success rested the very problem so many people had with the book club, and that led to its untimely demise. For as Richard Lacayo noted in Time, “Culture snobs who thought of her as that mawkish woman who was always on a diet now think of her as that mawkish woman on a diet who has got mil...
A reasonable question, then, becomes why widespread signs of discomfort surfaced only when said power manifested itself in the form of a middle-aged black woman and, more precisely, a middle-aged black woman with lots and lots of money (her net worth is estimated at $425 million). For even though Winfrey picked a multi...
Indeed, in large part because Winfrey selected titles with an eye toward both their literary merits and their ability to go over well with an audience consisting chiefly of women between the ages of 18 and 54–which women, incidentally, purchase and read more than 70 percent of the fiction sold in this country–the club ...
None of this alters the fact that while it lasted, the club was an unquestionably encouraging phenomenon, indicative of an American impulse toward intellectual self-improvement and a hunger for the kind of seriousness and stimulation that good literary fiction can offer. Such a story as that of the Oprah Book Club shou...
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The FBI on Friday offered evidence that links the North Korean government to the hacking of Sony Pictures computers.
“We are deeply concerned about the destructive nature of this attack on a private sector entity and the ordinary citizens who worked there. Further, North Korea’s attack on SPE reaffirms that cyber threats pose one of the gravest national security dangers to the United States,” the FBI said in a statement.
The FBI, in a press release disclosed evidence it has gathered in the probe.
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Tiffany is one of the largest diamond retailers making a play in Botswana to cut and polish its own diamonds . But other firms are setting up shop there, too. Vanessa O'Connell takes a tour inside a new factory in Gaborone which produces polished gems for Graff Diamonds.
Walk up to 2362 Market Street and you'll see Catch, a trendy seafood restaurant. But unless you're familiar with the history of the neighborhood, you'd never know this building has been the home to way more than lobster rolls: Before Catch arrived in 2002, the building was home to the NAMES Project, and the first-ever ...
In every city, there are unassuming buildings and neighborhoods with fascinating backstories. Earlier this year, a new app called Detour, created by Groupon co-founder Andrew Mason, offered a way to help you find them. Now, by enabling anyone to use his geolocation engine, Mason wants to give locals the tools they need...
Detour uses a phone's GPS tracker to guide users on audio tours of neighborhoods, and providing background information and directions as listeners arrive at different landmarks, or “narration triggers.” Each tour takes around an hour to complete, but the actual time depends on the listener's walking speed. And since it...
Mason first conceived of Detour while on vacation in Rome. “Walking around the ruins, there’s all this clear stuff that happened there, but you need some interpretive layer,” he says. But the available options—a walking tour with other tourists, constantly consulting a guidebook, a time-regimented audiobook—didn’t appe...
In several of the tours, listeners are instructed to engage with members of the community—an effort to prevent augmented reality from removing users from the world around them. While on a tour of San Francisco’s TenderNob area, users are instructed to go into a vintage magazine shop. “When the owner sees them with the ...
The use of technology to tell a more subtle, specific story is on the rise, from the small-scale—like New York Magazine’s “One Block”—to the New York Public Library’s ongoing Space/Time Directory, which will combine historical maps of Manhattan with a time slider to let "scholars, students, and enthusiasts... explore N...
“It’s like geologic strata—there’s also a layer of stories on any block, anywhere that you go,” Clark says. “The magic of this stuff is that anybody who happens to be walking through has a fleeting interest in the place.” By capitalizing on that momentary curiosity, geolocated storytelling can give casual passersby a m...
With the 24-hour news cycle, we often evaluate whether stories are relevant to us based on timeliness—but as Clark sees it, “we have an equal interest in the world we’re passing through right now.” What if we saw physical proximity as a way to find stories relevant to us, as we see time?
To compile her tech-enabled audio experiences, Clark turned to the people who know their neighborhoods best, knocking on doors and asking for hyper-local histories. Detour strives for the same authentic voice, sourcing their narratives from prominent neighborhood voices.
“Every neighborhood has its own history. If you can find somebody who’s been really involved over a long period of time, you get a much deeper sense of who lives there, and what their lives are like,” says Cleve Jones, who narrates Detour’s walk through the Castro. Jones is an instrumental figure in the neighborhood’s ...
Cleve Jones narrates the Castro Detour.
On Detour, Jones accompanies listeners through locations significant to the history of the Castro and the AIDS pandemic. While standing at the corner of 18th and Castro, listeners hear Jones’ account of a night when he and other activists fought police there, alongside archival audio footage of the riot. To a random pa...
As of November, Detour has redesigned its tours to offer city-specific packages, starting with San Francisco. (It previously offered single tours in seven other cities.) By offering the package as a 10-tour set, Mason hopes users will develop a more subtle view of the city as a whole. The new edition contains a few dif...
And in 2016, Detour will release Descript, the engine behind its tours, to enable people to create those experiences within their own communities. “Detour can invest in producing content for the big destinations, but we’ve heard from a lot of small towns, small institutions, parks, where people have some sort of poorly...
Geolocated audio tours of unfamiliar places, like Jones’ guide through the Castro, could help listeners have a more meaningful experience while traveling. But Clark and Mason both see a larger role for geolocated storytelling. As Clark puts it, it’s a chance for listeners to “kindle that same curiosity in your own ever...
The Nigeria Liquefied and Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) is expected to produce 30 metric tonnes per annum (MTPA) on completion of its Train 7, its former Managing Director, .Godswill Ihetu, has said.
Train is a vehicle through which the gas giant exports Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to developed countries, such as China and Asia.
He said when Train 7 is completed, Nigeria would improve its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), increase its foreign exchange earnings, make our revenue through taxes and create more employment, among others.
Ihetu said NLNG has completed Train 1, 2, 3, 4 5 and 6. It has also generated revenue of over N10 billion for the government, adding that the cash would increase substantially, when Train 7 takes off.
Ihetu said: “NLNG capacity will increase from 22 to 30 metric tonnes per annum, when Train 7 is completed. NLNG has made considerable investment in building the trains and further increase exportation of gas for the growth of the economy. The intentions for building the trains are laudable and the results will impact p...
Foreign direct investments (FDIs), Ihetu said, have been created to speed up the process of building the Trains by NLNG and further galvanise the economy.
He said various Trains built by NLNG provide immense benefits for the government, urging the firm to continue to create opportunities that would enable local and international companies get added value through gas.
On funding, he said NLNG has overcome its problem of raising money for the take-off of various Trains, stressing that Federal Government through NLNG could access funds through various windows.
He said foreign lenders have confidence in NLNG, which gives it access to borrow money for big-ticket transactions and pay back. He said foreign financial institutions enjoy working with the firm.
He said infrastructure is a problem facing operators in the gas value chain, adding that NLNG, which is a major stakeholder in the gas value chain, is working to solve the problem by venturing into projects that would provide money for such purpose.
North Korea must drop nuclear, missile programs to achieve progress: U.S.
GENEVA (Reuters) - A senior U.S. arms control official said on Tuesday the only way for North Korea to achieve security and development is to abandon all of its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs.
The Hanoi summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un last month broke down over differences about U.S. demands for Pyongyang to denuclearize, as well as Pyongyang’s demand for major relief from international sanctions imposed for its nuclear and missile tests, which it pursued for years in...
“North Korea must understand that the only way to achieve the security and development that it seeks is to abandon all of its weapons of mass destruction, all of its ballistic missile programs as numerous U.N. Security Council resolutions demand,” said Yleem Poblete, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, ...
“You are violating U.N. Security Council resolutions that explicitly prohibit such transfers,” she said without naming names.
On Tuesday, a North Korean diplomat said there was no justification for maintaining full sanctions on Pyongyang given that it has halted nuclear and missile testing for the past 15 months.
Ju Yong Chol said that U.S.-North Korean differences should be tackled one-by-one in a phased way to build trust.
“Instead, they came up with the preposterous argument that sanctions relief is impossible prior to denuclearization,” Ju told the Geneva forum.
In 2017, the Detroit Red Wings picked inside the top 10 for the first time in three decades.
The 2017 NHL entry draft saw the Detroit Red Wings make their highest pick since 1990.
The playoff streak that spanned 1991-2016 yielded four Stanley Cup championships for the Wings — but springtime success also left the team without high-end prospects. When the Wings drafted Michael Rasmussen at ninth overall a year go, it was their first top-10 pick since 1991, and their highest selection since draftin...
The Wings made 11 selections, having stockpiled picks via trades involving Thomas Vanek, Brendan Smith and Tomas Jurco, and compensation from Toronto for hiring Mike Babcock. They selected five defensemen, five forwards and one goaltender. The Wings also hold 11 picks going into the 2018 draft, which is Friday and Satu...
This is the final installment in a five-part series looking back at how Wings draft selections have panned out since 2013. In this edition: the class of 2017.
Draft year doings: 32 goals, 23 assists in 50 games for Tri-City Americans (Western Hockey League).
Draft day scouting report: Goes to the hard areas. Plays the net-front on the power play. Good scoring touch around the net. Competitive. Good skater. Has got a chance to be really good.

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