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The AV Club dug up this news broadcast footage from 1973 featuring interviews with movie goers who had just seen The Exorcist. This movie was so scary that theater owners had smelling salt on hand to wake up those who passed out during the movie. Those who were asked about the film afterwards even have trouble talking ... |
It’s crazy to think that it was The Exorcist that caused this much uproar. While the film is a certified horror classic, audiences used to today’s traditional terror wouldn’t even bat an eye at what’s on display in The Exorcist. But it was one of the first movies of its kind, dealing with possession and exorcism before... |
There’s been several times that my mother has recalled what it was like to see The Exorcist in theaters, and she was pretty young to be seeing a movie like that at the time. She maintains that it was one of the scariest movies she’s ever seen in a theater, and it’s cool to get an idea of what it was like to be part of ... |
Have you see The Exorcist? Did you find it scary? What’s the scariest movie you’ve seen in theaters? |
THE private concessionaire for the Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEx) has secured a P19-billion loan facility with six local banks, which will partially fund the construction of the bridge project in the Visayas. |
Cebu Cordova Link Expressway Corp. (CCLEC) said in a statement it has inked a 15-year omnibus loan and security agreement with Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC), Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP), Robinsons Bank Corp., Union Bank of the Philippines, Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), and Security Bank Co... |
“Construction completion of the (CCLEx) project is assured now that it has secured a P19-billion syndicated loan facility,” the unit of Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC) said, noting the main foundation of the bridge is now nearing completion. |
The CCLEx is a P30-billion, 8.5-kilometer toll bridge that will link Mactan island to mainland Cebu. |
The whole bridge is scheduled to open in 2021, by then it is hoped to benefit around 50,000 vehicles every day by decongesting the two existing bridges linking Mactan and Cebu. |
Average retail gasoline prices in Jacksonville have risen 0.2 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.52/g yesterday. This compares with the national average that has increased 3.8 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.53/g, according to gasoline price website JacksonvilleGasPrices.com. |
Including the change in gas prices in Jacksonville during the past week, prices yesterday were 74.5 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 41.8 cents per gallon higher than a month ago. The national average has increased 40.5 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 74.5 cents per gallo... |
SNC-Lavalin: Did Justin Trudeau break the law? |
Solemn principles are one thing, but did Trudeau break the law? |
Below, the National Post bothered a bunch of legal experts to find out. |
The U.S. president, as you’ve probably heard, is currently facing a never-ending avalanche of legal scrutiny. While a Special Counsel investigation has not found all that much evidence that Donald Trump is guilty of electoral collusion with Russia, it has a better case that the president tried to obstruct the investiga... |
As polls are showing, a clear majority of Canadians seem to be on board with the idea that it is inordinately unethical to pressure an attorney general to drop criminal charges against a prominent lobbyist, and then fire her when she refuses. However, that doesn’t mean it’s illegal. Canada does have laws against the ob... |
It’s a detail Canadians may prefer to ignore, but the prime minister of a majority Canadian government is one of the most powerful single positions in the democratic world. “Prime ministers are free to dismiss, appoint and shuffle cabinet as they please,” said Philippe Lagasse, a Carleton University Westminster expert.... |
As a rule, the Americans put many more people in jail than Canada and lapses of political ethics are no exception. Let’s take it as a given that everything said last week by Jody Wilson-Raybould is indisputably correct: Trudeau repeatedly attempted to quash a criminal prosecution for nakedly political purposes (protect... |
At the root of LavScam is the uncomfortable proximity of Canada’s justice system to its political system. The person with ultimate authority over federal prosecutions remains a person who also attends cabinet meetings and can be fired at will by the prime minister if seen to be non-compliant. Joseph Magnet, a constitut... |
Returning to Trump for a second: If overwhelming evidence emerges that he’s a justice-obstructor, the likely remedy would be impeachment. But impeachment is not a legal process; it’s a political one. While presidents are technically only supposed to be removed for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” this is a pretty broad ... |
Roundup: Lauren St. Clair scored six runs in two games as Oak Harbor swept Genoa. |
Lauren St. Clair, Bailey Dusseau and Kaytlyn Sandwisch scored two runs apiece Saturday as Oak Harbor won the first of two games. |
St. Clair scored four runs and drove in two, Olivia Rahm had three RBI and Abby Gregg added two as the Rockets won the second game 12-2 in five innings. Dusseau, Seree Petersen and Emily Lenke scored two runs apiece. |
Petersen had four RBI and Dusseau scored twice in the first game. Sandwisch had three RBI in the second game. |
Taylor Lemaster drove in two runs in the first game. Ashley Riley won both games in the circle as she allowed one hit and an unearned run in five innings in the first game. |
She walked 10 in seven innings. Lemaster allowed one run in three innings of relief in the second game. |
Caitlin Gose scored once and drove in a run and Kendall Gerke scored one run for the Comets. |
Oak Harbor (2-0) scored eight runs in the second in the second game and five runs in the first inning in the first game. |
Kyle Fitzpatrick had three of Port Clinton's five hits in the non-conference setback. |
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The Ministry of Finance (MoF) continues its efforts to implement the financial Circular No.3 for 2016 on ‘uploading Emirates ID details within employees’ records in the Federal Financial System’. |
Since the issuance of the circular in April, the number of employees with incomplete or inaccurate national ID details went down to 280 employees compared to 3,000 employees previously. |
MoF withheld July salaries of employees with incomplete or inaccurate national ID details until completed. |
MoF followed up with ministries and federal entities to ensure the completion of uploading the Emirates ID number, as it is an essential reference to speed up all government transactions for all federal government employees, in addition to the important link between the Emirates ID number and a number of significant fe... |
Mariam Mohammed Al Amiri, Assistant Undersecretary for the Management of Financial Resources, stressed need for all ministries and federal entities to ensure the completion of uploading the required data in the federal financial system as having the correct data facilitates and accelerates government transactions and e... |
The Ministry has previously announced on the need for all ministries and federal entities linked to the Federal Financial System to enter or correct the Emirates ID numbers of their employees by July 10, 2016. |
Could what was once the city's power plant spark development revival in downtown Fort Pierce? |
FORT PIERCE — Reviving downtown rests with three proposals to redevelop the former H.D. King power plant site. |
The nearly 8-acre site — bordered by Indian River Drive to the east, Second Street to the west and A.E. Backus Avenue to the north — is one of the last publicly owned undeveloped properties in downtown. |
The proposals from the Framework Group, of Tampa; Redevelopment Management Associates, of Pompano Beach; and Keith Kite, of Vero Beach, propose a mixed-use development with a hotel, restaurant, shops and parking garage. The Framework Group and RMA would include apartments and townhomes. |
That all sounds like the shot in the arm the downtown area needs, and could help with tourism, said Charlie Frank Matthews, chairman of the city Community Redevelopment Agency Advisory Committee, which is charged with selecting a proposal to recommend to the City Commission. |
The nine-member CRA, which advises the city on downtown-redevelopment issues, is to discuss the proposals 2 p.m. Jan. 17. |
Matthews said he has yet to decide which proposal he supports, although, he said, he is leaning toward Kite's. Kite developed the new Hampton Inn & Suites on 19th Lane in Vero Beach. |
“I like Mr. Kite’s project because he knows the area and knows what we are trying to create in Fort Pierce,” Matthews said. |
CRA member Plythe Freedman said she, too, hasn't decided which proposal to support but would like to see more residential development in downtown. |
“I think it would be quite a great service to the city to have more residential in downtown because it would create more foot traffic for existing businesses,” Freedman said. |
CRA member Cindi O’Connell said combining residential development and businesses would make downtown a destination. |
“The apartments and townhomes would promote walking in downtown, and the right mix of businesses would help to create a vibe and bring energy,” O’Connell said. |
Matthews and Freedman said they want the city to sell the property to generate property taxes, which could to be used for city services. |
“The city of Fort Pierce desperately needs the money to pay for maintenance of roads and salaries for police officers,” Matthews said. |
CRA committee members Kristina Gibbons, Allan Reed, Michael Brown Jr., Hoyt Murphy Jr., Al Johnson and Junette Raymond could not be reached for comment. |
In recent years, the CRA has recommended the city sell surplus properties. Last year, the city followed a recommendation and sold the former Police Athletic League building on Second Street to Radical Cosmetics for $1 million. The company is set to open spring or summer, officials said. |
The committee will forward its recommendation to the Fort Pierce Redevelopment Agency, which consists of members of the City Commission, which has final say on the redevelopment project. |
Redevelopment Management Associates, of Pompano Beach: Marina Village, a craft brewery, 84-room hotel, 95 apartments, about 40 townhomes and parking garages.. |
A study in Nature details a discovery with potential clinical significance for treating eating disorders such as anorexia. To make that discovery, Stanford researchers had to develop a "first-time-ever" way of teasing apart two separate but closely intertwined sets of identical-appearing neurons in the brain. |
To broaden access to proven strategies for treating eating disorders, Stanford specialists have published a book to help those struggling with the disease. |
Rachael Flatt competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Now the former skater works on eating disorders prevention and intervention in a Stanford Medicine lab. |
Facing antitrust scrutiny over its practices in the biotechnology seed business, Monsanto has said it will not stand in the way of farmers eventually using lower cost alternatives to its genetically modified soybeans. |
In letters to seed companies and farm groups this week, Monsanto said that it would allow farmers to continue to grow its hugely popular Roundup Ready 1 soybeans even after the patent protecting the technology expires in 2014. |
The letter countered a widespread impression in the agriculture business that Monsanto planned to force farmers and seed companies to migrate to a successor product called Roundup Ready 2 Yield, which will remain under patent and is more expensive. |
The issue has potentially broad implications for the agriculture industry because Roundup Ready soybeans will be the first widely grown biotechnology crop to lose patent protection since gene splicing became a mainstay of crop science in the 1990s. |
Because farmers and seed companies would no longer have to pay royalties to Monsanto on the gene after 2014, Roundup Ready soybeans would become agricultural biotechnology’s equivalent of a generic drug. |
Monsanto’s statement comes as the Justice Department is investigating possible antitrust concerns in the seed business, looking in particular at Monsanto, which dominates the business of supplying crop traits developed through genetic engineering. Critics, including some competitors, say that Monsanto has great leverag... |
Monsanto calls such criticisms baseless. But it certainly is getting harder for seed companies to avoid using the Roundup Ready bacterial gene, which makes the plants impervious to the widely used herbicide glyphosate, which Monsanto sells as Roundup. |
That allows farmers to spray their fields to kill weeds without harming the crops. More than 90 percent of the soybeans grown in the United States contain it. So do about two-thirds of the nation’s corn and cotton crops, though those are protected by different patents that expire later than the soybean patent. |
Gerald A. Steiner, executive vice president for corporate affairs at Monsanto, said Thursday that Monsanto was not changing its policy on how it would handle the soybean patent expiration, but was merely clarifying its intentions. |
But the widespread impression in the seed business was that Monsanto was backing away from a previous policy. |
“The only thing we were told was that as of 2014 you would not be able to sell any more Roundup Ready 1,” said Jack Debolt, manager of Advanced Genetics, a coalition of small Ohio seed companies that license the Roundup Ready gene from Monsanto to put in their seeds. |
Mr. Steiner of Monsanto said one reason for the company’s letters this week was to counter statements made by Pioneer, which Monsanto has sued alleging patent infringement. |
Roundup Ready seed can cost as much as $75 an acre compared with $30 to $35 for soybean seeds that are not genetically modified, according to James Beuerlein, a soybean specialist at Ohio State University. The difference in price is thought to reflect mainly royalties paid to Monsanto. |
While Monsanto sells Roundup Ready seeds itself, it also licenses the technology to other seed companies. Some seed industry executives and academic soybean specialists say that Monsanto was not planning to renew licenses for that Roundup Ready 1 trait that expired before 2014, so that seed companies would have no choi... |
But in its letters this week, Monsanto said it would now extend all contracts for Roundup Ready 1 until the patent’s expiration date. It also said it would not enforce language in some contracts that would have required seed companies to destroy or return Roundup Ready seed when the patent expired. |
And Monsanto said seed companies could continue to sell seeds containing the Roundup Ready 1 trait without jeopardizing their access to the successor technology. |
Monsanto also said that after the patent expired it would allow farmers to save Roundup Ready 1 seeds from one year’s crop to plant the next. Monsanto said it would not enforce other patents that might protect those seeds. |
Many soybean farmers used to save seeds, but with Roundup Ready seeds they have been contractually obliged to buy new seeds each year. Monsanto has taken legal action against hundreds, if not thousands, of farmers it has accused of saving seed. |
“This is a pretty big concession for Monsanto,” said Shawn Conley, a soybean specialist at the University of Wisconsin, who said saving seed could save farmers a lot of money. |
Still, it is uncertain how long Roundup Ready 1 would survive in generic form. Some nations require licenses for the import of genetically engineered crops to be periodically renewed. Monsanto said it would maintain those licenses through 2017. But if they expired after that, American farmers would not be permitted to ... |
Monsanto said it was confident that most farmers and seed companies would move to Roundup Ready 2, which uses the same bacterial gene but places it in a different location in the soybean DNA. Monsanto said that Roundup Ready 2 crops would have higher yields, and that other desirable traits would be added to those crops... |
A book written by Mara Huber and her daughter, Elena, is the basis of a UB summer camp to encourage children to "wiggle" their power and give back to the community. |
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo's Center for Educational Collaboration (CEC) will bring its message of civic engagement and personal empowerment to elementary children through a summer camp that mixes interactive activities with UB's mission of making a difference in the world. |
At the heart of the summer camp program is "Wiggle Your Power," a children's book written by Mara Huber, founding director of UB's CEC, and her 8-year-old daughter, Elena. The book is illustrated and enhanced by Sarah Miyashiro of AmeriCorps VISTA, who will serve as camp coordinator. |
"My Mom says I can change the world, but I can't even change a light bulb," starts the first page of the book. "She's helping to build a school in Africa, but what can I do? NOTHING." |
The "Wiggle Your Power" summer camp will teach the students that each of them has special gifts and then suggest ways of using these gifts to give back something to their community. The "wiggling" is learning how to call on that personal power, first by recognizing the special talents each of us have, and then by learn... |
"We all have the power to amazing, wonderful things," the Hubers' book states. "But it takes practice. You start small by wiggling, but one you get the hang of it, you can accomplish anything." |
Huber, who organized a fact-finding trip last year to explore collaboration between UB and a community in rural Tanzania, said the Wiggle Your Power summer camp is intended to take advantage of the same model UB embraces with its educational partnerships: Allow people to contribute to their respective communities, whet... |
"When I look around, I am constantly struck by the amazing resources and talents that we have within our community," she says. "Not just in terms of the faculty and students at the university, but also the youth within our area schools. If we can help these students find their power through community service and engage... |
The summer camp, which runs July 12-16, will be held in Allen Hall on UB's South Campus. It is organized around three goals: helping children discover their gifts, listening to the needs of the community and teaching the children how to "wiggle" their power and give back to the community. |
Katie Biggie, program manager for civic pathways in the CEC, stresses the importance of community awareness in preparing students for success. |
"It's exciting to watch children make a difference in their communities," says Biggie. "Be it through fundraising, studying differences between cultures or learning about the challenges in their communities, they realize their power to make positive change. The Wiggle Your Power summer camp represents an important oppo... |
The five-day summer camp will include activities designed to show participants how to reflect upon and share what makes each of us special and what gifts we can offer to the community. In addition, participants will visit as many as three community agencies to learn about what services they provide; engage in a half da... |
"The main contribution that our center can make is sharing the model we have developed -- which is simplified in the 'Wiggle Your Power' book -- and helping people work on the process so that they can make their own contributions to their respective communities," says Huber. "The Buffalo and Tanzania projects represent... |
The CEC was created by UB in 2007 to serve as the hub for UB's PreK-16 outreach and to direct the university's partnership with the Buffalo Public School System. |
"Writing Wiggle Your Power together with my daughter Elena was a wonderful experience that brought us closer together," says Huber. "As parents we all try to instill in our children fundamental principles that are at the core of who we are. The idea that power comes from helping others to be their best is a difficult c... |
"I knew Elena had it when she started catching herself 'wiggling' her power. I am looking forward to sharing this concept with area children through this exciting camp." |
Students interested in the summer camp are encouraged to sign up soon. Registration fee is $125, which includes all books and materials and all expenses for field trips and the closing reception. A portion of each child's registration fee -- $25 -- will be used as the group's "seed money" to benefit a local organizatio... |
To register, contact Sarah Miyashiro at sarahmiy@buffalo.edu, 716-829-3099 or visit http://www.buffalo.edu/pk16. |
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