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Under this year’s bill, Senate Bill 253, coyote hunting and killing coyotes to protect property would remain legal. The bill also would not prohibit killing contests of other unprotected species. Organizing or participating in a coyote-killing contests would become a misdemeanor.
Sen. Mark Moores, R-Albuquerque, who is co-sponsoring the legislation with Rep. Jeff Steinborn, a Las Cruces Democrat, said the bill was carefully drafted so as not to penalize ranchers or other landowners for shooting predatory coyotes.
“That’s not our intent at all, to infringe on anyone’s ability to protect their private property,” Moores told the Journal after Tuesday’s vote.
Wildlife advocates say more than 20 coyote-killing contests were held in New Mexico during a recent two-year period. Such contests typically award prize money to whatever individual, or team, can kill the most coyotes during a set time period.
Critics of the contests also cite studies suggesting that mass killings do not actually help control coyote populations, partly because they disrupt the animals’ social structure and can cause breeding levels to increase.
The 6-3 vote in the Senate Conservation Committee appeared to reflect more of an urban-rural split than a partisan divide.
The three senators who voted in opposition to the measure were all from largely rural districts – Sen. William Sharer, R-Farmington, Sen. Richard Martinez, D-Española, and Sen. Woods.
Five of the six senators who voted in favor of the ban on coyote-killing contests were from Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Las Cruces, three of the state’s most populous cities.
The bill’s next stop will be the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Following an effective first session, State Rep. Matt Hudson, a Naples Republican, deserves a chance to continue representing Florida House District 101, which includes parts of southwest Broward County. The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board recommends voters re-elect the 42-year-old real estate broker.
Hudson was elected to the seat in a special election last year to fill the term left vacant by the death of Republican Mike Davis. After winning, Hudson had only a few months to prepare for his single legislative session, but he made good use of his limited opportunity.
He sponsored and passed HB 601, legislation that created efficiencies and simplified rules and procedures at the state Department of Business and Professional Regulation. He also garnered enough support to pass a bill in the House to remove "double-tax" treatment when new spouses are added to existing property deeds.
If re-elected, Hudson will pursue efforts to bolster economic development, oppose the Alligator Alley lease and fill in gaps in recent health-care reforms.
His opponent is Maria Jimenez, a 39-year-old administrator for a nonprofit program that works with migrants and children of farmworkers. She is an earnest, knowledgeable candidate. If elected, she'd support initiatives for better schools, a cleaner environment and new revenue for state coffers.
Jimenez would make a good state representative, but not at the expense of removing Hudson, who has shown an ability to deliver results and has earned a full term.
LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Harrah's Entertainment HET, +0.00% on Tuesday posted second-quarter adjusted earnings per share of 74 cents vs. 77 cents a year ago, a decline of 3.9 percent. Its property EBITDA fell 3.4 percent to $283.6 million from $293.6 million, while revenues rose to $1.08 billion, up 6.9 percent from revenues of $1.01 billion. The company said record results from Southern Nevada and Atlantic City operations helped partially offset the impact of poor weather in Northern Nevada, an April revenue decline tied to the beginning of the war in Iraq and disappointing performances at North Central Region properties.
International inquiry says Saudi journalist's killing was premeditated 'by officials of the state of Saudi Arabia'.
Reporting on a week-long mission with her team of three experts to Turkey, Callamard also said she requested access to Saudi Arabia.
She expressed "major concerns" about the fairness of proceedings for 11 people facing trial in the kingdom over Khashoggi's murder.
Callamard plans to present a final report to the UN Human Rights Council in June.
Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who wrote critically about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 last year. His body has yet to be found.
US intelligence agencies believe Prince Mohammed ordered the assassination.
Riyadh denies the powerful prince had any involvement, alleging "rogue" Saudi elements acted on their own accord.
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Riyadh was trying to contest an element of a CIA assessment that concluded MBS likely ordered the killing.
A confidential report prepared by Kroll, a large private security firm, for the Saudi public prosecutor found that none of the WhatsApp messages exchanged between Prince Mohammed and his top aide, Saud al-Qahtani, on the day of the murder concerned Khashoggi, the WSJ cited the draft document as saying.
"The existence of those messages between the Saudi prince and Mr Qahtani - who oversaw the team that killed Mr Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, according to people familiar with his work - was one piece of evidence cited in the highly classified CIA assessment," the WSJ reported.
A Saudi public prosecutor's spokesperson said last year 21 Saudis had been taken into custody over the case, 11 of whom had been indicted and referred to trial.
Sigurd Neubauer, from the Gulf International Forum think-tank, said it remains to be seen how the UN's investigation is received internationally, particularly by the United States - the Saudis' main ally.
"This is an extraordinary complex diplomatic game that's unfolding," he told Al Jazeera.
Saudi Arabia has yet to say if it will allow the UN team of investigators into the kingdom to continue its probe.
"The murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the sheer brutality of it has brought irreversible tragedy to his loved ones," said Callamard.
"It is also raising a number of international implications which demand the urgent attention of the international community, including the United Nations."
Jamie Foster scored a hat-trick of tries and kicked 16 points as St Helens moved up to third in Super League with a 40-18 victory over Catalan Dragons.
Foster put the hosts ahead, replied to by Steve Menzies before Francis Meli's try gave Saints a 14-6 half-time lead.
Frederic Vaccari, Menzies and Clint Greenshields closed the gap for the Catalans but Foster made it a treble for a memorable 28-point night's haul.
Late tries from Michael Shenton and Meli's second rounded off the night.
"We played a side that had won 11 of their last 13 so we're happy to win. but we let in some soft tries.
"Jamie Foster's goalkicking was good and he's scoring some tries but you've got to give a bit of credit to Francis Meli.
"He gives him a nice little ball and, with his size and strength, he attracts the opposition to stay on him a bit."
"It was obviously closer than that but we deserved what we got in the end. There were some poor plays from us in that last 10 minutes.
"I thought we were better than we produced tonight, even though we were good enough to be in the hunt.
"Remy Marginet is a good goalkicker. He had some wide attempts today but at Super League level you've got to put them over. It would have put more pressure on them.
"Rather than being a couple of points ahead, they should have been even or two points down and then we might have seen a different contest."
St Helens: Eastmond; Makinson, Shenton, Meli, Foster; Gaskell, Lomax; Graham, Roby, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Wilkin, Soliola, Puletua.
Replacements: Pryce, Flannery, Moore, Magennis.
Catalan Dragons: Greenshields; Blanch, Baile, Millard, Vaccari; Menzies, Marginet; Casty, Henderson, Baitieri, Paea, Raguin, Mounis.
Replacements: Gossard, Simon, Fakir, Pelissier.
By Capital FM, YouTube announced the launch of a Kenyan domain in Nairobi, Kenya on Wednesday.
YouTube Kenya will now offer some of the most informative and entertaining video content from around the world through a local interface that promotes the content most relevant to Kenyans.
“With a new localized version of Youtube, Kenyans will be able to connect and use this information more easily,” notes Olga Arara-Kimani, Google Kenya’s Country Manager.
Dubbed as the “original East African Diva,” Amani shared on the panel how YouTube has helped her to grow her audience and to better understand them.
But what does the addition of “.co.ke” really change?
For starters, a cool new logo that plays homage to the Kenyan flag, which will definitely inspire new printed t-shirt designs. On a more serious note, YouTube Kenya will make it easier for local users to find and view the videos most relevant to them through search algorithms and category spotlights. Secondly, content uploaded by users in Kenya will show up as “browse pages” on the YouTube Kenya site ultimately increasing Kenyan users’ exposure, and thirdly, offer local users YouTube Feather – a lighter version that will ensure that those with low-speed Internet connections will be able to play videos faster.
The impressive numbers that YouTube clocks, more than three billion views per day and 48 hours of uploaded video every minute, will only grow substantially as the online video giant continues to launch localized sites in emerging markets where there is a great need for stories to be shared on free platforms.
For the past few weeks, I've been marking the days until school begins. Twenty-one and counting, folks.
Don't forget: the Crofton Chamber of Commerce is selling raffle tickets for two season tickets to the world champion Washington Redskins' home games. Tickets are $10. The drawing will be held on Sept. 10.
The chamber will have its annual golf tournament Oct. 5 at the Crofton Country Club. If you would like information on either the ticket chances or the golf tournament, call the chamber at its offices: 721-9131.
Donations for the Crofton Kiwanis garage sale are still being accepted. The sale is planned for Sept. 19, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Crofton Dunkin' Donuts on Route 3.
Sale items will include housewares, bikes, books, toys, electrical equipment and sporting goods. The Kiwanis will not accept clothing or large furniture for its sale.
If interested, call Pat Wilson at 261-0364.
The Anne Arundel County Fair will celebrate its 40th anniversary from Sept. 16-20 at the fairgrounds on Route 178 (Generals Highway) in Crownsville. Events include a tug of war, pie-eating contest, tractor pull, cutest kid contest, puppet theater and Fair Queen contest.
On Sept. 19, a fireworks display will be held at 9:45 p.m.
Fair hours are 4 to 11 p.m. Sept. 16; 1 to 11 p.m. Sept. 17 and 18; 8 a.m. to 11 pm. Sept. 19; and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sept. 20. Admission is $4 for adults; $1 for children ages 6-15; $2 for senior citizens; and $2 for 4-H and Future Farmers of America exhibitors. Sunday admission is $6 for adults and includes an outdoor concert.
The fair also will offer special discounts. Students with school identification cards will be admitted for free from 4 to 11 p.m. Sept. 16. For just $6, students will be admitted to every ride, except the Thunderbolt, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Seniors, disabled people and homemakers will be admitted free from noon to 4 p.m. Sept. 17. From 4 to 10 p.m. is family night, when families can ride every ride, except the Thunderbolt, for $8.50. School groups will be admitted for free from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 18. Schools must contact the fair office, however, before arriving.
A $50 drawing will be held every night at the ticket booth at the fair entrance.
The Crofton Athletic Council has five vacancies on its board of directors that must be filled this month. Adult volunteers are needed to fill one one-year and three three-year terms, as well as the position of secretary. The board is looking for adults who care about the types of sports programs offered to the community.
To volunteer, contact Rick Silverman, 858-1583.
Mark Sept. 5 on the calendar because it's sure to be a busy day for all Crofton residents. Trash bins will be placed in the community for those unwanted items in your garage or basement.
Then, residents are invited to compete in the annual Tour de Crofton bike race. The event will feature races in several age and skill categories. If racing isn't your style, then ride your bike around Crofton Parkway and check out the sights.
The king of keyboards sports every feature you could possible imagine including the ability to program each key individually, display current system stats such as CPU usage on a key, play a gif or screenshot on a key, and blow up the world with the press of a button. This keyboard will strike fear into the heart of your enemies and envy in the fingertips of your friends.
Thinkgeek.com and two other places I checked said they were sold out. I found the Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard available on Amazon.com , but there was only 1 left- either it’s very popular or very expensive to manufacture.
Revolutionary Keyboard Features a tiny OLED screen on each key. 113 screens total.
Use any language with the appropriate key images including Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, and Hiragana.
Display notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions or any other special symbol.
PC with installed OS Windows XP or Vista, with a USB 1.1 (or better 2.0) port; Mac OS X 10.5.1 or higher.
At least 20 MB of free space on hard drive.
At least 256 MB of RAM.
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s Brownsville campus is one of the most haunted in Texas, according to San Antonio Express-News.
“Matamoros, across the river from us (Brownsville), goes back to the time of the American Revolution, so there have been people and communities here for a very long time, and there have been various buildings constructed here,” said UTRGV professor emeritus of history Anthony Knopp, in a university news release. “When some of them go back as far as they do, this is the kind of thing that invites speculation about ghostly hauntings that might have occurred.
The MySA.com story reports episodes of books flying off shelves, a jukebox playing on its own and phantoms in dated garb haunting the border grounds.
“Definitely, some spooky stuff happens in this area,” said UTRGV assistant professor in the Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies David Bowles in a release.
It’s the stuff beloved of science fiction: a robot that looks and sounds like a human being. A robot you can chat with, that recognises when you are sad, and that can cheer you up with its jokes.
But is that prospect so distant from reality? Samer Al Moubayed, and his colleagues at Furhat Robotics, are attempting to make it happen.
The “conversational AI and social robotics” startup, founded in Stockholm in 2014, has developed Furhat OS – an operating system that goes some way to allowing people to interact with machines the same way we interact with each other. The operating system doesn’t just enable you to have a conversation with a robot. It’s so sophisticated that the robots can read social signals and gauge your emotions.
The operating system can be put inside a 3D-printed mask that resembles whoever you want it to resemble, complete with the ability to “see”, “hear” and “speak” to make it feel like you’re interacting with another human. A mini projector inside the robot’s head creates the facial expressions.
“We operate in this area called social robotics,” says Al Moubayed, CEO and co-founder. “This crazy idea that if you create a machine that looks and sounds like people you can use them in extremely unique and valuable ways.” Al Moubayed and co-founders Gabriel Skantze, Jonas Beskow and Preben Wik met and worked closely together at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology, starting what he describes as an “intellectual quest”.
“We did our research in trying to understand humans so we can create machines that interact with humans the way humans interact with each other,” says Al Moubayed.
Last year the company, which has 17 employees, raised finance from Balderton Capital and LocalGlobe. It is working with global businesses such as Disney, Intel and KPMG, and, in partnership with Deutsche Bahn, has launched a multi-lingual robot concierge at Frankfurt Airport, which can provide information to passengers on departure times and give directions to places in the airport.
But creating the stuff of science fiction doesn’t come without its obstacles. “We have challenges on every front,” says Al Moubayed. “Building a social robot means building a machine that looks like us. Whenever people see a robot they have a lot of assumptions about how it should look, how it should behave – just because the robot looks like a human people expect it to behave like a human.
The startup has developed a pilot in Swedish schools featuring an interactive educational quiz game, and also has a partnership with Honda involving the development of a “smart” care home for older people.
One of the biggest challenges, though, might be the fear that comes alongside the science fiction – that robots might end up taking over. It’s an issue Al Moubayed agrees needs to be discussed. “We are extremely engaged in this economic, ethical and social conversation,” he says. Technology like this comes with risks that shouldn’t be ignored, he says, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t pursue it.
He argues that instead of listening to that fear we should instead focus on the ways this technology can help give us back that ever-elusive commodity – time. “There are so many ways we can use this tech for the better, we can think of applications that make people more social, whether it’s children or the elderly.
Tonya Beaty likes to compare teaching to gardening.
"A teacher plants the seeds. She may see growth or she may not," said Beaty, a teacher at Houston Elementary School. "Another teacher comes along and waters the seed, and she may see the growth. I hope that something I said or did might have caused the light to come on."
District 7 Teacher of the Year, Beaty is in her first year as a Master Teacher, a teacher-leader who works with her colleagues to become better teachers. Her job is to branch out and offer guidance to other teachers, as well as students.
"I'm all over the place. I don't have my own classroom," said Beaty, now in her 13th year at Houston, "It's different than being in one classroom with 15 or 16 students."
Beaty works with a specific group of teachers throughout the year, observing them in the classroom, leading them in professional development sessions twice a week, and researching educational strategies to improve student success. In addition, Beaty does model lessons for the teachers to observe Beaty in a classroom setting.
"It's a long list of duties and a different set of responsibilities," she said.
It's also a promotion. While the traditional teaching career ladder goes from teacher to assistant principal, in District 7, it goes from Career Teacher, Mentor Teacher and Master Teacher before climbing the rung to assistant principal. The added steps allow career teachers to get promoted while remaining in the classroom.