Split (1)

train · 2.59M rows

text stringlengths 9 93k
However, there is a plan to release an image in exchange for a charitable donation — as Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt did when they married in France last year.
Geri had hoped that her friend, the singer George Michael, might give her away. But the troubled former Wham! frontman hasn’t been seen in public for 18 months, and although his people insist that he is in ‘good form’, others claim that he never leaves his home in Highgate, North London. Certainly the local Italian res...
Geri was very close to George’s ex-partner, American art dealer Kenny Goss, Bluebell’s godfather, but he returned to Texas on splitting from George in 2010. Sources say Geri’s Spanish mum, Ana Maria, will walk her down the aisle.
Is Geri Halliwell's dream wedding to Chritian Horner jinxed?
Dog owners collect their dog waste in a special biodegradable bag and throw it into the digester - an air-tight cylindrical container, where the dog feces are broken down by anaerobic bacteria.
A byproduct from that process is methane, which can then be released through a valve and burnt as fuel. In this case it is being used to power an old-fashioned gas-burning lamppost in a park.
One Sounder who will not be in Houston is second-year forward Babayele Sodade, who was invited to the Canadian camp, but declined after missing most of his rookie season with an ACL injury.
"They called me up for the camp that’s going on right now – to play against Denmark and the USA," he said. "It would have been nice to go, but I knew where I was soccer-wise, and I knew that I wouldn’t make a good showing there. I’d rather make the mistakes here with my club team than make the mistakes with my country ...
Schmid said they had discussed the issue, but the decision was Sodade's.
"I think it was the right decision, because I don’t think he was ready at the time when Canada was coming in," he said. "He hasn’t played a game in over a year, and to go try out for your national team when you haven’t played a game in a year is a tough thing, especially when you’re trying to make an impression. So for...
My Cousin Vinny is one of the most memorable comedies of the decade. It gave us a surprisingly solid comedic performance from Joe Pesci and earned newcomer Marisa Tomei an Academy Award for her supporting role.
Funny as it is, at its core, the film holds a riveting courtroom drama with the lives of two innocent men in the balance, begging the question: What would happen if you stripped away all of the comedy?
This week’s episode of “Trailer Mix” answers that burning question and the results are just as exciting as you'd expect.
In this special report, the Defense Department marks the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the most devastating storms in U.S. history. More than 60,000 troops and DoD civilians provided disaster assistance to New Orleans and Gulf Coast residents in Katrina's immediate aftermath, and have worked to help com...
This Aug. 25, 2005, satellite image shows the danger the rains posed from Hurricane Katrina. The storm moved slowly, enabling heavy rains to linger longer over one area, the National Hurricane Center warned. The center forecast 6-10 inches of rain over Florida and the Bahamas, and up to 15 inches in some regions.
Coast Guard Ensign Dan Donovan delivers food to Serenity Dedeaux and her family during Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts in Gulfport, Miss., Sept. 18, 2005. USCG photo by Jeff Hall.
A screengrab of Zhao Guoguo's Weibo account looking for her birth parents.
A 25-year-old girl who grew up in the Netherlands is looking for her birth parents, who live in Zunyi, southeast China's Guizhou province.
Zhao Guoguo was born Sept 6, 1993. She lived at the social welfare home in Zunyi city until July 1995, before being adopted by a family in the Netherlands.
A citizen surnamed Zhou picked up a crying baby at the gate of the then-intermediate people's court of Zunyi (now Fayuan Road) on the morning of Sept 8, 1993. He sent the baby to the hospital for a health check and feeding, and reported it to the police office. Then the baby was sent to the social welfare home at Hongh...
According to Zhao, she was possibly born downtown, near the welfare home.
"A nurse took very good care of me at the welfare home. She brought me to her home every weekend," Zhao said. She and her foster parents found the nurse in 2004 when visiting the welfare home, but didn't leave a way to contact each other, except a photo.
Zhao is one of the first batch of foreign adoptions from Zunyi. Foreign couples must submit materials to the Chinese adoption center under charge of Ministry of Civil Affairs of China and undergo strict examinations before adoption.
Now she lives with her foster parents and sister in Groningen, northeast Netherlands, working as a chef in a restaurant.
Starting last October, Zhao tried to find her birth parents using Weibo, a Chinese social platform, but making little progress due to the time zone differences and language barrier.
AOT president Nitinai Sirismatthakarn responded to criticism of the AOT’s process of TOR development and launch for its duty-free stores at Suvarnabhumi, Phuket, Chiang Mai and Had Yai airports and commercial space at Suvarnabhumi.
The organisation has selected a master concession model which is deemed as “monopolistic” and may be in conflict with the amended and Public-Private Partnership law.
AOT claims that the core issue prohibiting it from granting concessions by category at Suvarnabhumi airport as demanded by many parties is that the management of space at an airport is different from that at a department store.
The body said there was uncertain and uneven dispersal of passengers around an airport. In some areas, they are clustered at the boarding gates and not spread out as in shopping malls.
If space is divided by category, then category A products might be on the left side and category B products on the right. But there might be erratic footfall if smaller planes were using one side.
AOT may have misunderstood that a concession by category is different from a concession by location.
Concessions by category are usually managed by major product categories, such as cosmetics or alcohol and tobacco and distributed at two or three locations in the airport.
Although some exits have low passenger traffic at certain times, there are still shops with the same category at exits with high passenger traffic which would help to average out operating results.
The result would be that on each side there would be both cosmetics or alcohol and tobacco according to space and passenger footfall.
It would not mean that one category would only be on one side of the airport as previously explained by AOT. As for luxury fashion, there would be just one store per brand in the central area, where there is the highest traffic.
AOT would only have to plan the allotment of space to locate stores by category to be balanced according to physical aspects of the terminal and the historical passenger flow.
Suvarnabhumi is already divided by product category but there is just a single concession for all the stores. Concession by category is a model used widely by leading Asian airports such as Changi, Incheon and Hong Kong airports (see illustration).
The U.K. government met on Thursday with technology companies for a post-mortem on the violent riots earlier this month, but made clear from the onset that it was no longer considering shutting down services in times of crisis.
Home Secretary Theresa May met with representatives of Facebook, Twitter and Research In Motion, three companies whose services were used by participants in the violent rioting across several U.K. cities.
After the riots, Prime Minister David Cameron said the U.K. would look at "whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence." The suggestion that the U.K. could censor social networking services brought wide criticism.
The Home Office said in a statement that the discussions revolved around improving the "technological and related legal capabilities of the police" when dealing with services that are being used for criminal behavior. The Home Office did not mention if it discussed shutting down services with the companies.
But a statement from Facebook said that from the start of the meeting May "set the tone clearly that we were not there to discuss restricting Internet services."
"We welcome the fact that this was a dialogue about working together to keep people safe rather than about imposing new restrictions on Internet services," the statement read.
Facebook did acknowledge that "sometimes we have to be more vigilant or react faster when there are exceptional circumstances," such as the recent shootings in Norway or the riots in the U.K.
"When we are dealing with situations that are heightened or sensitive such as the U.K. riots, then content relating to this specific issue is prioritized," Facebook said. "As a result, the team works around the clock to ensure that take-down times for such content is decreased and content that straddles the line of acc...
Facebook said that it processes reports about content that is against its rules to its User Operations teams, which work 24 hours a day around the world. The company has a law enforcement team dedicated to helping U.K. police improve their skills in using the service to handle serious crime.
On Aug. 16, a British court sentenced two men to four years each in prison for using Facebook to try to organize two riots, one of the sternest punishments meted out so far for misbehavior and one that has been criticized as being too harsh. Neither riot actually took place.
Facebook said in its statement that the service was also used for positive actions, such as organizing groups to clean up debris from the streets following the disturbances.
RIM, whose BlackBerry devices are popular with U.K. youth, called the discussions "positive and productive." Young people are thought to buy BlackBerry devices for Messenger, an instant messaging application that allows people to broadcast messages to many users. It has been blamed for enabling youths to quickly mass i...
Twitter was more oblique and did not mention Thursday's meeting with the government. "We've heard from many that Twitter is an effective way to distribute crucial updates and dispel rumors in times of crisis or emergency," the company said.
Join in for The Nightowls, sponsored by LMG, on the Levitt Pavilion lawn for an evening of soul grooves. Be sure to bring your picnic blanket, chairs, family and friends for this free live show. For more information visit levittdayton.org. The Nightowls first took Texas by storm in 2014 with the release their debut alb...
CONTRARY TO Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan?s and his predecessor Babulal Gaur?s repeated claim about the government having received investment proposals worth Rs 50,000 crore, the BJP-ruled State in two years has been able to attract a measly Rs 414.70 crore.
CONTRARY TO Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s and his predecessor Babulal Gaur’s repeated claim about the government having received investment proposals worth Rs 50,000 crore, the BJP-ruled State in two years has been able to attract a measly Rs 414.70 crore.
This information has been gleaned from the Madhya Pradesh State Industries Development Corporation (MPSIDC). Another revelation is that over 70 per cent of Rs 50,000 crore proposals are in power and road sectors.
Indore has emerged as the preferred investment destination with 50 per cent of the total investments made in the past two years in Indore.
While Rs 201.44 crore have been invested in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ), Rs 43.80 crore pumped into the Industrial Area, Pithampur and an investment of Rs 2.79 crore made at Readymade Garment Complex of Indore.
Senior officers of the department claimed that investment proposals of Rs 17,000 crore, including that of the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) are in final stages. Some investment proposals like that of the BPCL have been figuring in proposal lists of successive governments for the past 15 years.
To be fair to Chouhan, his predecessors Babulal Gaur and Digvijay Singh also had this penchant for making astoundingly tall claims on investment proposals.
in India to assume investment inquiries from industrialists or companies as investment proposals. Most of these enquiries are of very preliminary nature, which seldom transform into actual investments. Nevertheless, chief ministers have little compunction in passing them off as investment proposals.
This paradigm shift in the thinking was brought about by mainly the ousted Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandra Babu Naidu and still persists despite the Cyber Naidu’s ignominious drubbing in the assembly polls.
For example, the sources added, during the previous Congress regime, the then chief minister Digvijay Singh would often claim of Rs 22,000 crore investments in private power agreements (PPA) to generate 7000-mega watt power. Barring a couple, none of those promised power projects materialised.
Before Digvijay Singh, the era of liberalisation had not dawned. Chief ministers were not compelled to showcase their states as potential heaven for investments. In those days, irrigation and poverty alleviation schemes used to be seen as signs of progress.
Industries were linked to development of backward areas. Till the eighties, the State’s industrial policies used to be guided by socialist ideology, derogatorily remembered as licence -permit raj.
In the eighties the then chief minister Arjun Singh formulated an industrial policy, which had more thrust on addressing backwardness than wooing investment. Even then it managed to woo a sizable investment, specially in Pithampur and Mandideep. Subsequent governments, however, failed to maintain the pace of industrial...
During the Arjun Singh regime, under the Audoygik Vikas Nigam, five industrial centres were set up in Maneri (Mandla) near Jabalpur, Malanpur (Bhind) near Gwalior, Pithampur (Dhar) near Indore, Mandideep (Raisen) near Bhopal and Urla (Mahasamund) near Raipur. The centres were purposely chosen due to their being in back...
NEW YORK, June 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter announces the four winners of The Formation Scholars Award for the 2017-2018 academic year. The establishment of the merit scholarship program was announced on April 24, in celebration of the one-year anniversary of LEMONADE, her critically-acclaimed...
Current and incoming female undergraduate and graduate students at Berklee College of Music, including those enrolled at the college's campuses in Boston and Valencia, Spain, Berklee online and Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Howard University in Washington, DC, Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York Ci...
The Formation Scholars award encourages and supports young women who are bold, creative, conscious, confident and unafraid to think outside the box. Students' disciplines included creative arts, music, literature and African-American studies. All applicants maintain a 3.5 GPA or above and submitted a short essay statin...
Sadiya Ramos is currently studying dance at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She is originally from Suffern, New York. Ramos began dancing at the age of six under the guidance of Arthur Mitchell at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, where she was asked to perform with their ensemble at the Kennedy Center and the White House. ...
Maya Rogers is a songwriter and vocalist who believes in the power that music has to heal, connect us with one another, and help us understand ourselves more deeply. Maya has returned to school to study music therapy after recovering from a traumatic brain injury in 2013. She describes her recovery as the most frighten...
Avery Youngblood is a recent Stanford University graduate, Class of 2016 and an undergraduate student in the AAS (Associates) Graphic Design program at Parsons School of Design at The New School, Class of 2018. From Dallas, Texas, and one of six children, she loves being with her family and her four dogs at home. As an...
Bria Paige is a rising junior English major at Spelman College from Jackson, Mississippi. At Spelman, Bria is invested in her academics as she maintains membership in the Ethel Waddell Githii Honors Program, Alpha Lambda Delta honor society, and is a Dean's List scholar. In addition, Bria holds various leadership posit...
As is true just about any time Microsoft launches a new product, there's been no shortage of hype about Internet Explorer 9. And indeed, my PCWorld colleague Tony Bradley has no shortage of good things to say about the new browser.
I'm not so sure. Actually, I am sure -- that I won't ever be using IE9. Why? Four very powerful reasons.
It's no secret that I am a Linux fan, but I recognize that the majority of the world still uses Windows. I myself dual-boot, in fact, so I am no stranger to Microsoft's dominant operating system.
But to exclude Windows XP, which according to Net Applications still accounts for more than half of the operating system market? That reeks of a hard sales tactic and fits right in with Microsoft's characteristic strategy of enforced, perpetual upgrades--the "treadmill," as it's called.
Haven't paid the Microsoft tax recently? Well then no IE9 for you. Microsoft may say the move was necessary for functionality reasons, but the reality--as usual--is simply that you must pay out or shove off.
Even aside from the treadmill factor, I am irked by the fact that Microsoft won't extend its browser's support beyond the universe of its own products. Mac users, doesn't this bother you?
Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari don't seem to feel the need to stay exclusive to a single operating system, so why does Microsoft? For the answer, see point 1, above. If you don't want to live in an all-Microsoft, pay-the-tax-all-the-time world, Redmond hereby invites you to take a hike.
It may be true that the particular security flaws that caused IE8 to fall so quickly at Pwn2Own have since been closed, but Microsoft's track record on security doesn't exactly inspire confidence that IE9 is likely to be better in any better in any enduring way. Its much-touted anti-tracking technology, for example, ha...
Of course, Windows' security is also woefully inadequate compared with that of Linux. Particularly now that IE9 is so tightly integrated with Windows, could it possibly compare with Google's Chrome in this respect? No way.
Part of it is the monoculture effect. Any technology that's used by the majority is going to be subject to more hack attempts, even aside from its inherent security. At the same time, how much of a majority IE9 can come to claim without support for any operating system other than Vista and Windows 7 remains to be seen.
Another part of it, however, is also the fact that Internet Explorer's code is closed, so all the many bugs and vulnerabilities that crop up are fixed only at Microsoft's leisure. With Firefox and Chrome, on the other hand, the code is being scrutinized and improved all the time.
Some may tout IE9's "blazing performance," but the data really doesn't back that up. On the Acid3 test, for example, which measures conformance with Web standards, IE 9 scores far below Chrome 10, Opera 11 and Firefox 4, as noted recently by GigaOM.
Bottom line? IE9 will be used primarily by the minority already on Vista and Windows 7, though Microsoft may even succeed in strong-arming an impressionable few to upgrade from XP just so they can. But it won't turn around Microsoft's slipping share in the browser market--and it won't ever find its way onto my PC.
ASBURY, Ala. -- After weather issues and other delays, there's an end in sight for the construction of Asbury High School's first ever football stadium.
Crews transformed a field in the small Asbury community from grass to a cleared space with bleachers and stadium lights. The initial goal was to have the stadium done by now, but the weather and other issues held up construction.
The new, first ever stadium is located across the street from the Asbury Volunteer Fire Department, which is a short walk from the school. The progress is exciting to see in the community. "It's a huge deal for the community," Asbury High School principal Clay Webber said, "The community can see that it's going up and ...
"We've actually made a great deal of progress in the last couple of weeks," said Marshall County Schools superintendent Cindy Wigley. "We have all of the stadium lighting in place. We have 85 percent of the bleachers in place."
That's only part of the work crews are doing to get this stadium done as soon as possible. "We're planning to have it done in the spring," Wigley added.
Barring any new weather delays, that's the goal and welcome news. "The school is such a big part of the community, especially at Asbury, so we're all excited to be moving forward," Wigley said.
Webber says Asbury is very community-based, and the stadium will just add to that. "They really turn out for everything going on at the school, really support the school," he said.
So, with the goal line in sight (so to speak), that's something to look forward to.
IT was a small repair job that I’d been promising myself for months to do, but never got round to it. The square plastic surround of a light switch in our apartment developed a crack, and all it needed was a dab of superglue to mend it.
Finally, last week I decided to take a minute off to do the repair. That’s when disaster struck. I spilled the contents of a tiny bottle all over my hands, and reflexively clenched them into fists. Panic set in immediately when I realised that my fingers had become firmly stuck to my palms. Dumb, dumb, dumb!
It took all my strength to prise them loose, and it was agony. Then, to my horror, I saw that both hands and two rings – one my white gold wedding band – were smothered in a white residue. Worse, my fingers would only half-extend because the glue in the joints had firmly set.
When soap and scalding hot water failed to remove the stuff, I tried everything from WD40 lubricating oil to oven cleaner to get it off. Nothing worked. So I turned to the Internet in search of a solution to my predicament. Apparently the only product that will remove superglue is acetone (acetona in Spanish), which is...
As neither my husband nor I use nail polish, there was none in the apartment. So with gritted teeth I began scrubbing my hands with a metal pot scourer until they started to bleed.
The following day, for under €2, I got the acetone. It did worked a treat and even restored my rings to the shininess they had when I first got them.
Later, to my intense annoyance, I discovered on another site that I didn’t actually need acetone. Mayonnaise, apparently, does the job just as well, and there’s never a shortage of the stuff in our fridge.

Subsets and Splits

No community queries yet

The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.