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The natives almost found themselves behind after just four minutes. Keith Buckley was afforded space to pick out Danny Madriou but he couldn't keep his header on target. |
The visitors knocked the ball around with zip and confidence and they passed up another gilt-edged chance to go in front with 35 minutes played. |
Sean Hoare's slip allowed Ali Reghba to take possession on the right of the Dundalk penalty area. His cross located Kevin Devaney but he could only stab his close-range effort into the side netting. |
pBoth sides left the Showgrounds with a degree of satisfaction as Sligo Rovers and Waterford played out a scoreless draw. |
Authorities in Allentown now have a lesser offense to charge people with, if they are caught for personal use of marijuana within the limits of Pennsylvania's third biggest city. |
Mayor Ray O'Connell on Friday signed into law the bill passed 4-3 by city council to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. |
It may be more of a symbolic than a practical victory for marijuana advocates, though: Allentown police Chief Tony Alsleben says that per a directive from Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin, police will enforce the stricter state law. |
The city's measure makes possession of a small amount of marijuana -- defined as 30 grams or less or marijuana or 8 grams or less of hashish -- a summary offense carrying a fine as low as $25. |
Council passed the bill May 16. It takes effect after 10 days, which is Saturday. O'Connell had 10 days to sign or veto the bill or allow it to become law. |
It also applies to personal use of marijuana and possession of marijuana paraphernalia. |
Pennsylvania law says possession of a small amount of marijuana is a misdemeanor carrying a maximum penalty of 30 days in prison and a $500 fine. |
Martin strongly advised officials in the city, the Lehigh County seat, against creating a local marijuana law. He calls the idea unconstitutional and unenforceable in the face of existing state law. The ACLU of Pennsylvania sent the city a different opinion, saying officials do have a say in how marijuana use is punish... |
In a statement, O'Connell said the state law "is putting an indelible mark on the backs of many otherwise law-abiding citizens. |
"Our ordinance is not addressing the legalization of marijuana. We are simply saying that possessions of small amounts of marijuana should be handled with a summons and not arrest and possible jail time." |
The new law punishes violators with a fine of $25 for a first offense, $50 for a second in one calendar year, $100 for a third offense in a year and $150 or up to eight hours' community service for a fourth offense. The proposal earmarks any revenue from the new law for recreation and police community engagement. |
Six Pennsylvania municipalities have passed similar measures: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Erie, Harrisburg, York and State College. A Bethlehem City Council committee has recommended full council approval of a bill identical to Allentown's. |
Council's public safety committee backed a marijuana decriminalization bill Tuesday and sent it to the full council. |
Marijuana remains illegal under federal law as a Schedule 1 drug. Deemed to have a high potential for abuse and no medical use, it's in the same category as heroin; the psychedelics LSD, Ecstasy and peyote; and the sedative methaqualone. |
Pennsylvania, like New Jersey, is among 29 states plus the District of Columbia with medical marijuana programs for qualified patients. |
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., last month introduced a bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. There is also a bill to that effect before the Pennsylvania Legislature. |
Easton City Council earlier this year rejected decriminalizing a small amount of marijuana, saying it's an issue for state not local lawmakers. |
"We at AVAC are extremely excited that President Obama has nominated an innovative and visionary person to lead the U.S. government's fight against HIV/AIDS. The program, now 10 years old, is at a critical juncture, and Dr. Deborah Birx is the ideal leader for the work that lies ahead. |
"Dr. Birx's sterling career in both HIV prevention research and service delivery has always been characterized by passionate commitment to ambitious, innovative responses to the epidemic. Dr. Birx focused her early career on AIDS vaccine research, ultimately serving as Director of the US Military HIV Research Program a... |
"As a member of AVAC's board of directors, Dr. Birx has lent her experience and wisdom to our global advocacy work, and we know her as a keen advocate for a comprehensive response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. We congratulate her on this nomination and look forward to continuing to work with her in the global fight to end ... |
"Dr. Birx will be assuming this role at a critical time for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Her leadership will be essential in achieving the goals laid out in the PEPFAR Blueprint for Creating an AIDS-Free Generation. |
"PEPFAR recently met an ambitious target for scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision, and it is continuing to expand available treatment slots for people living with HIV. But there is difficult work ahead for Dr. Birx and her team—specifically, it is essential to ensure that planned transitions from direct US ai... |
"It is also critical that PEPFAR continue to engage with civil society as it drafts and implements its plans for country-level work. Dr. Birx, with her established commitment to working with civil society, will be a terrific ally for this work going forward. Finally, the PEPFAR program needs a strong advocate at home, ... |
"Dr. Birx follows in the footsteps of two previous leaders who helped to create and mold a truly transformational global health program that the U.S. can be proud of, and we thank Ambassadors Mark Dybul and Eric Goosby for their leadership—and look forward to this next chapter of one of the greatest stories in public h... |
About AVAC: Founded in 1995, AVAC is a non-profit organization that uses education, policy analysis, advocacy and a network of global collaborations to accelerate the ethical development and global delivery of AIDS vaccines, male circumcision, microbicides, PrEP and other emerging HIV prevention options as part of a co... |
Though imperfect, the Internet is the most radically democratic space the world has ever known. Knowledge once confined to the university can now be freely accessed by anyone with a connection. And at well over 10 million strong, Wikipedia, one of its most recognizable institutions, has been fundamental in transforming... |
But who are those 10 million Wikipedians responsible for leveling the playing field? |
Really, anyone willing to contribute to Wikipedia’s digital halls of knowledge can become an editor, and from that point on, it becomes a hobby of personal preference. |
“It doesn't make a difference if you like, you know, manga or rock ‘n’ roll or basketball or knitting, there's a place for all of that,” explained Michael Barera, Information graduate student and Wikipedian-in-Residence. |
Each Wikipedian — any user registered to edit and create Wikipedia content — has their own niche where they choose to focus their efforts, but the collectivism of the world’s largest encyclopedia is too infectious to remain a solitary act. |
That’s where the Michigan Wikipedians, the nation’s first Wikipedia interest club, seeks to bring the same collaboration to campus. |
Two members, Barera and Engineering sophomore Jonathan Miela, created an article for the University’s field hockey team after attending a game. |
As with every other article on Wikipedia, Miela and Barera created this page free of charge, donating their time and effort for our benefit. |
It’s this combination of technical savviness and personal interests that anchors Wikipedians to this hobby, where they can create and maintain articles that act as inspiration for students seeking a topic for a research project, an informative way to pass time or even open the door for meaningful assignments. |
University libraries aren’t always “user friendly,” and, many times, access is geographically or institutionally restricted. But Wikipedia is slowly turning into an open source for anybody interested in learning more. |
Barera pointed out how professors understand that assigning an article’s creation instead of a term paper can engage a student. Now, their work won’t be forgotten, but will measurably add to the wealth of knowledge available to anyone with Internet access. |
“This is the work of a term project by a grad student here,” Barera said, opening up a Wikipedia article on a chemistry concept. The article was assigned in lieu of a term paper. |
That’s the power of an ever-evolving platform like Wikipedia. Academic work has the potential to be viewed by someone other than your teacher. |
As the newly appointed Wikipedian-in-Residence, Barera is the first of his kind in the state. Granting him intern credit toward the School of Information master’s degree, Barera’s new post requires him to help create new Wikipedia articles using the primary sources provided by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library in... |
Despite his limitations, he believes this newfound connection between the two institutions is indicative of the future goals of the popular online encyclopedia and its push for accurate content. |
But Barera isn’t alone in this new Wikiproject. While he’s the only one physically on-site at the library, he collaborates with six other Wikipedians in the hopes of developing a healthy and productive relationship between the two organizations. |
And this role, School of Information Assistant Professor Cliff Lampe said, is essential in the progress toward a seamless Wikipedia. |
And that’s where Wikipedians-in-Residence such as Barera can help mend gaps in content where the average Wikipedian wouldn’t think to look, or the subjects that may blur the lines between hobby and literal work. |
Lampe also revealed the possibility of re-establishing the currently vacant Wikipedia Ambassador position. Unlike Barera’s internship, this Ambassador would be in direct contact with school faculty. He or she would provide some much-needed expertise in how to incorporate effective article creation into the curriculum. |
This active, open dialogue about Wikipedia’s budding academic future among the Michigan Wikipedian Club, professors and students is promising. |
Lampe explained there are unrealized benefits to encouraging club members to join with students to create academically enriching articles that provoke conversation. |
Apple has a new patent (via AppleInsider) for 3D gesture control, specifically describing the tech used to help a computer identify hand motions made by a user. The patent goes into detail about how the system can not only recognize gestures, but learn them so well that it can even spot them when part of the hand makin... |
Apple’s tech would allow Kinect-style recognition to be more forgiving of less-than-ideal conditions, meaning it would make gesture interaction theoretically less painful for users, and therefore more likely to be used at all. The key innovation Apple made with the iPhone’s interaction model was getting touch-based inp... |
In 2013, Apple acquired PrimeSense, the company which powered much of the tech that went into the original Kinect sensor. Some speculated at the time that Apple might be interested in using PrimeSense tech to add gesture-based input to Apple TV, among other possible uses. Apple successfully transferred PrimeSense paten... |
Apple first filed for this patent in March 2013, and the document credits former PrimeSense employees as its creator. |
Cammie Says "I'm Not Fake!" |
I'm really a genuinely smiley, nice person. Because people think I'm fake, smiling up there. I'm just not! It's just me! I am who I am. |
Which is likely true! Though in the Nintendo acolytes defence, it was probably the content they were most displeased with, not necessarily the delivery. |
Data delayed at least 15 minutes, as of Apr 18 2019 19:02 BST. |
As of last trade Becton Dickinson and Co (BDX:NYQ) traded at 226.80, 8.71% above its 52-week low of 208.62, set on Dec 26, 2018. |
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) is a global medical technology company engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of a range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products. The Company operates through two segments: BD Medical and BD Life Sciences. The BD Medical segment produces an... |
As Viktor S. Chernomyrdin has battled to become Prime Minister, critics have wondered how he could placate the Communists and still take tough steps to rescue Russia from its deepening economic crisis. |
Mr. Chernomyrdin gave his answer today: By turns. |
In a major address to Russia's upper house of Parliament, Mr. Chernomyrdin outlined a two-stage plan that would begin with the easiest and most popular step: turning on the money-printing presses so the Government can pay workers back wages and prop up ailing banks. |
Only later would the Government impose an iron discipline on its tumbling currency by rigidly linking it to gold and hard-currency reserves. |
Analysts agreed that Mr. Chernomyrdin's decision to put off the day of reckoning just might get him through the Communist-dominated lower house of Parliament, which has balked at his nomination. |
It may also help the Kremlin defuse the strikes and mass demonstrations that the Communists have planned for early October. |
A growth of prices was a rather pallid euphemism for what is happening in Russia today. Inflation shot up 15 percent for the last two weeks of August -- an annual rate of more than 2,000 percent. The ruble has tumbled over that period from 6.2 rubles to the dollar to about 17 rubles today. |
Surveying the wreckage that once was the Russian economy, Domingo F. Cavallo, a former Argentine economics minister, who emerged this week as one of the Kremlin's most influential advisers, made a plea for fast action. |
Mr. Cavallo helped conquer sky-high inflation in Argentina by establishing a currency board -- a system that establishes a fixed exchange rate linked to a hard currency. |
Boris G. Fyodorov, the pro-free-market Kremlin aide who was reappointed First Deputy Prime Minister this week, has embraced the concept and made it a central feature of Mr. Chernomyrdin's economic plan. |
Neither Mr. Chernomyrdin nor Mr. Fyodorov, however, spelled out when their new currency policy would take effect. And only the broad strokes of the strategy were clear. |
Here is how it would work. |
Heeding the Parliament's call for a looser monetary policy, the Government would print more money. |
That would enable the Government to pay back wages to the Army, civil servants and defense workers, soothing popular discontent. Pensions would also be paid, and the new infusion of rubles would also help prop up teetering banks. |
But sometime after that populist splurge, Mr. Fyodorov explained, the purse strings would be drawn tight. |
Starting in January, the Government would get tough by bankrupting unprofitable companies, trying to balance the budget, beefing up tax collection and imposing a flat tax of 20 percent on personal income. |
In effect, Russia would be like a chronic drinker who would go out for a final binge before swearing off alcohol once and for all. Thus the plan has raised some troubling questions. |
If Russia's lacks the political consensus to undertake painful reforms and currency stabilization measures now, will there be sufficient support in the depths of winter, when inflation is raging, shortages plague the nation and the 2000 presidential vote is even nearer? Or will Russia again put off taking the tough med... |
Mr. Chernomyrdin's approach also poses difficult choices for Russia's friends in the West. |
In Washington, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Michel Camdessus, said Russia has a ''very urgent'' agenda of economic and financial improvements that have to be made. |
President Clinton indicated during his summit meeting here this week that he was prepared to lead a new effort to expand Western assistance if Russia kept on the reform path. |
Today, a senior Clinton Administration official expressed frustration with the outlines of the plan. |
Some important details of the plan remained to be spelled out, such as how much money would be printed. Until the Parliament approves a new Prime Minister and his team is fully in place, there is no Government to make those decisions. |
The ultimate question is whether the plan signaled that the shock waves of the economic crisis had finally impelled Russian leaders to act. |
Invoking the specter of empty store shelves, hungry soldiers and a worthless currency, Mr. Chernomyrdin insisted he would press ahead. |
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn said he would be “happy to see” former CIA Director David Petraeus high on President Donald Trump’s list of pardons. |
Petraeus is a retired four-star Army general who was appointed by George W. Bush in 2007 to lead the war efforts in Iraq and rose to CIA director during Barack Obama’s presidency — attractive résumé data points that once made him a viable candidate for the presidency. |
But in 2012, Petraeus resigned as CIA director after an FBI investigation uncovered emails between him and former military officer Paula Broadwell that indicated Petraeus was having an extramarital affair with Broadwell, who also co-authored Petraeus’ biography. |
The 2012 scandal was only the beginning of a legal battle that at one point threatened Petraeus with prison time. It ended in 2015 when he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense of mishandling classified materials in connection with giving Broadwell eight notebooks full of highly sensitive information. He received pro... |
Trump recently said he’s considering pardons for disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and TV personality Martha Stewart. On Wednesday, after Kim Kardashian West lobbied him, the president commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson — a 62-year-old great-grandmother who was set to serve out a life sentence wi... |
He earlier pardoned conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, who pleaded guilty for using straw donors to make illegal contributions in a 2012 Senate race. |
Baby Phat shows are always a spectacle, and Kimora Lee Simmons' vision for spring 2010 — shown last night — was no different. Models on a gold glitter runway with an Indian-ish arch; shredded jeans, harem pants, teeny bikinis. |
I worry about where crotches are going, what with dropped crotches and harem pants and so on. I really do. The color of her top is divine, though. |
Wearable, if not entirely original. |
The pattern and ties on these shorts? Actually pretty cool. And I liked the layered tops. |
As long as this is a dress and not a jumper, it's gorgeous. |
That model is the only one who can pull this off, or should try. |
I don't know what is going on here, but I suspect that Taylor Momsen wants to order two. |
As you can tell, this collection is all over the damn place. |
And most of it doesn't look very high-end. |
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