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Okay, ladies/everyone, now let’s get in formation. Free ice cream is coming your way. Thank the ice cream gods (Uber, apparently).
Yup, #UberIceCream day is back.
For those of you not in the know, this is a magical day on which people across the UK can get their hands on FREE ice cream from Uber.
Four delicious POPS ice lollies (not technically ice cream, but Uber’s #UberIceCream day has been around for a while now and we don’t think they want to change the name), to be exact.
This Friday August 12, between the hours of 11am and 7pm, Uber will be delivering ice lollies to users in 17 cities and towns across the UK.
All you’ll have to do is download the Uber or UberEATS app, make an account, send your location, and request ‘ICE CREAM’. You’ll then get ice cream delivered to your door. Magical.
The bad news is that free ice cream won’t be on offer for everyone in the UK.
You’ll need to be in London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Newcastle, Sheffield, Bristol, Merseyside, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Leicester, Belfast, Cardiff, Southampton, or Windsor.
Supplies will be limited, and judging by everyone’s excitement over the offer, the free ice lollies will go fast. We’d recommend ordering early, and if a driver isn’t available, keep trying every few minutes until one is.
Dedication and preparation will be required. But it’ll be worth it.
Not the same thing, Uber.
As presidential elections approach in Somalia, the bishop who serves as apostolic administrator sees signs of hope, but he says changes are needed.
Since 1991, the presence of the Catholic Church in Somalia, already small, largely disappeared across the country as parts of Somalia came under the control of a more fundamentalist Islamic authority while other large sections of the country were taken over by al-Shabab, an Islamist militant group.
Bishop Giorgio Bertin, the apostolic administrator of Mogadishu and president of Caritas Somalia, has worked largely below the radar from outside of the country, first in Nairobi and later from Djibouti, where the diocesan offices were eventually relocated.
Despite the years of turmoil and upheaval, he has always remained hopeful. He said one symbol of that hope is the recent rebuilding and re-consecration of the parish church in Hargeisa, Somalia’s second-largest city. The project was supported by the US bishops’ Catholic Relief Services.
What is and is not surprising, depending on how one looks at it, is that the church serves between 10-15 faithful.
“The threat of Islamic extremism is of course always there, but the situation is now relatively safe,” he said in early January.
Bishop Bertin said the 10-15 people who form the small church community are foreigners, working regularly in the semi-autonomous region of Somaliland for the United Nations or other development and humanitarian agencies that have offices in Hargeisa.
Through this presence, including through Caritas, Bishop Bertin said the aim is to re-awaken those values that are God-given and that all humanity has, irrespective of faith: the value of work, respect toward people of different faiths, and unconditional love toward others and the poorest of the poor.
He also noted that in areas like Hargeisa, where people have so little and there are so few resources to fuel conflict, there is relative peace compared with the rich agricultural lands around the Lower Shabelle and Juba rivers, which have been largely hijacked by al-Shabab militants in southern Somalia.
In Hargeisa, now with a parish priest and a small Caritas office, Caritas Somalia is working a programs such as repairing local schools and a hospital, food assistance and support for children from among the most marginalised minority clans. Caritas also has projects in Mogadishu.
Bishop Bertin said he remains optimistic for the January 22 elections, which have been rescheduled several times. He said, however, that one of the keys to Somalia’s future peace will be the need for foreign interests and the vested interests inside of Somalia to take a step back and allow Somalis to move forward in th...
He recounted how, in 1995, when internationals were being evacuated from the ever-deteriorating Somalia, a humanitarian worker who was leaving Mogadishu, like hundreds of others, pulled him aside and asked the bishop to pray for him.
“Father, please pray for me that I’ll be able to find a job as great as this job in Somalia has been,” the man asked Bishop Bertin at one of the last Masses he celebrated in Somalia, around Christmas of that year.
Bishop Bertin said if Somalia remains the way it is, not only would some nongovernmental organisations profit, but so would various Somali clan mafias and international economic interests, such as the security and the arms industry. Those who are currently in power seek to keep that power, he said, so an opening to the...
On a recent trip to the United Nations, Bishop Bertin told to a roundtable group that when it comes to Somalia, the outside world tends to view the country through one of two lenses. It’s either a security issue, or an emergency.
“The international community needs to make a more serious commitment to Somalia for Somalis,” he said. “It’s a shared responsibility. Because normally all the external parties push their own agenda, saying it’s for the Somali people but really it isn’t.” The result is that different Somali groups then align with whiche...
“I am of the opinion that 80 per cent of the population is being held hostage by all these different interests,” he added.
The Akure Division of the Federal Court of Appeal Monday reserved judgment on the appeal filed by the Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the August 9, 2014 Governorship election in Osun state, Senator Iyiola Omisore against the ruling of the state Elections Petition Tribunal which nullified...
He said that the date of final judgment on Omisore’s appeal would be passed across to all the parties in the matter through their counsels.
Omisore who appealed against the ruling of the Election Petitions Tribunal delivered on February 6, is asking the appeal Court to set aside the ruling of the tribunal.
He argued that the tribunal headed by Justice Elizabeth Ikpejime failed to examine the issues raised in his petition properly.
The 2014 PDP governorship candidate also hinged his appeal on the ground that the tribunal in its assessment failed to evaluate the evidences submitted by him through experts.
Omisore had approached the Elections Petition Tribunal following his defeat in the August 14 Governorship election, challenging the results of the election in 17 Local Government Areas of the state where he argued that there were electoral malpractices and rigging.
At the hearing Monday, Lead Counsel to Senator Omisore, Alex Isiyoung (SAN) argued that the tribunal erred in its ruling as it failed to examine all the allegations and issues raised by the petitioner passionately.
He argued that the tribunal failed to address the allegations of corrupt practices and non compliance to electoral acts in the election that produced Governor Rauf Aregbesola and therefore urged the Appeal Court to discountenance the judgment of the tribunal.
He maintained that Aregbesola failed to get the total number of lawful votes in the August 14 Governorship election which eventually produced him, and thereby prayed the court to upturn the ruling of the tribunal.
Isiyoung stressed the need for the Appeal Court to declare Omisore as the winner of the August 14 Governorship election in Osun state.
According to him, his client had the highest number of lawful votes in the election.
However, counsel to Governor Aregbesola, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Chiefs Akin Olujimi (SAN) and Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) respectively objected the grounds of the appeal, arguing that the tribunal was clear and unbiased in its ruling.
Specifically, the Lead Counsel to Aregbesola, Chief Olujimi said the ruling of the Elections Petition Tribunal which upheld the victory of Governor Aregbesola was unchallengeable as according to him it was decided after thorough investigations.
According to him the appellant made no case at the tribunal as only seven out of 230 witnesses he called made allegations of rigging during the Governorship election.
He however argued that out of the seven people there was no polling agent among them, stressing that only polling agents could testify to allegation of rigging in any election.
Olujimi who cited the case of Ngige versus INEC in his submission, maintained that the appeal of the appellant lack in merit and prayed the court to dismiss the case.
In his submission, counsel to the APC, Chief Akeredolu who prayed the court to strike out the appeal, stressed that there was no reason to fault the ruling of the tribunal in the interest of justice.
The five members Appeal Panel Judges therefore reserved judgment in the case, assuring that the judgment date would be communicated to all parties involved in the matter.
"In partnership with the City of Chicago, the nodes will be mounted on streetlight traffic signal poles around the city, beginning in Summer 2016, with 500 nodes installed by the end of 2018."
The city of Chicago has begun installing data sensors that will eventually monitor the whole city.
When the “Array of Things” network is complete, 500 sensors will track a variety of data points, including pedestrian patterns, how loud it is in a given area, and cloud cover.
The first few sensors were recently installed in the Pilsen neighborhood. The network is expected to be fully up and running by 2018.
I spent all of Monday and Tuesday live tweeting as I watched the 10 hours of "Making a Murderer," the Netflix series on the Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey trials in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach.
Both Avery and Dassey, Avery's then-teenage nephew, were convicted in 2007 of killing the 25-year-old photographer.
The series raises questions about whether Manitowoc County sheriff's deputies — who assisted Calumet County deputies in the murder investigation — planted evidence to frame Avery. And it questions whether Dassey – who made statements incriminating himself – had adequate representation from his first lawyer.
#MakingAMurderer Episode 3: If local cops framed Avery, did state DOJ lawyer and investigator and asst Milwaukee DA on case have no idea?
#MakingAMurderer Episode 4: Doesn't allay other evidence vs Avery, but defense investigator orchestrating Dassey confession--astounding.
After 4 hours of #MakingAMurderer, I remember how spending years covering a murder case seeps into your pores, alters your dreams. Scary.
It's natural to wonder if we missed something big covering Avery trial. But can't ignore #MakingAMurderer is from the Avery perspective.
#MakingAMurderer Episode 5: Having been there, I wouldn't read much into facial expressions of reporters asking questions in Avery trial.
#MakingAMurderer Episode 7: Calumet sheriff saying Manitowoc sheriff only provided equipment might not fare well on the Truth-O-Meter.
#MakingAMurderer Episode 8: It bears repeating that viewers saw 10-hour film, Avery jury heard weeks of testimony.
#MakingAMurderer Episode 10: Light moment is Avery's dad popping lettuce from his garden in his mouth and saying: "Bugs and all."
CHICAGO — Three people, including a Chicago firefighter, were inured in an apartment fire in the Chatham neighborhood.
Fire crews were called just after 1 a.m. Friday to an apartment complex near East 81st Street and King Drive.
The fire started in a garden unit.
Heavy smoke filled the building, trapping at least a half dozen residents who needed to be rescued.
Egypt's tourism revenue sank by 41 percent to $5.9 billion in 2013 compared to a year earlier, Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou said on Tuesday, a further sign of pressure on one of Egypt's main sources of foreign currency.
The tourism sector in the Arab world's most populous nation has shrivelled since former president Hosni Mubarak was toppled by a popular uprising in 2011.
After a slight improvement in 2012, tourism took another hit in 2013 due to the violent clashes that followed the ouster of ex-president Mohamed Mursi in July after mass protests against him.
Zaazou, in a text message to Reuters, confirmed Egypt's tourism revenues in 2013 reached $5.9 billion. "The number is correct and for the year 2012 it was $10 billion," he said.
Tourism receipts in the first quarter of Egypt's financial year, which starts on July 1, tumbled to $931.1 million down from $2.64 billion a year earlier, according to central bank data published last month.
The number of tourist nights spent in Egypt between July and September fell by 57 percent to about 15 million and the average visitor's spending also dropped compared with a year earlier, the central bank said.
Egyptian foreign exchange reserves hovered at $17.03 billion last December. They stood at $36 billion on the eve of the revolt against Mubarak.
Story has been edited by Ahram Online.
While there are no Danish articles or journalists among the shortlisted nominees for this year’s European Press Prizes, there is a Dane among the judges: Jørgen Ejbøl, the former editor-in-chief of Jyllands Posten and chairman of JP/Politiken.
The five category winners will be announced on April 14, but already the organiser Forum 2000 has stressed that this year’s prizes will have a special focus, the refugee crisis, and its Special Award will pay tribute to some of the great pieces written about it.
If you visit europeanpressprize.com, you will see how good journalism digs into the chaos in the world and give us insight about the troubled areas.
True, journalists can sometimes lose their focus in their quest for the story that might attract the most interest, but it’s no wonder when we see what they are up against.
Recent internet and social media and smartphones advances have made everything available for everybody anytime – or so they say? As things stand, journalists remains the best protection against misinformation.
At the same time, it’s important to remember that many journalists work under dangerous conditions in war zones and under scrutinising control in waking democracies or totalitarian environments.
Last year the award-winners covered corruption, suppression, and cover-ups. Even now, an alarming number of journalists are imprisoned. In Turkey, the government recently closed one of the largest dailies.
In Egypt and China, hundreds have been locked up. And Turkey is not much better.
We have to remember that good journalism needs to maintain high standards.
However, without help it does not work. The Panama Papers were not released on their own – somebody helped. Now investigative journalists can contribute to closing the immoral tax havens that have clouded rich people with greed.
If you cannot stop the drug lords – tax them. If you cannot stop the traffickers – tax them. Nobody can manipulate big sums of money without a digital trace. If they have nowhere to go, they will go nowhere. Bankers, lawyers and tax consultants will have to learn an honest trade.
Commerce City Police notified the Air Force that the man was found dead Friday.
An investigation is underway after a member of the Air Force who was stationed at Buckley Air Force Base was found dead late Friday.
Commerce City police notified the Air base that Tech. Sgt. Jason Friday, who was assigned to the 460th Civil Engineer Squadron, was found deceased.
Commerce City did not comment on the incident Sunday.
Is climate change stressing you out? A new study linking weather and mental health in the United States suggests things could get much worse.
The study outlines three separate ways that hotter and more extreme weather stand to undermine the mental well-being of the people forced to experience it. The effects will be most pronounced for women and for low-income Americans, the findings indicate.
“Ultimately, if observed relationships from the recent past persist, added climate change may amplify the society-wide mental health burden,” the study authors wrote Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The research team — led by Nick Obradovich, a data scientist at the MIT Media Lab who examines climate change and human behavior — was guided by the real-life experience of a diverse group of people from 263 cities across the country. All of them took part in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a health sur...
Obradovich and his colleagues used the responses to classify people into two groups: those who reported any recent days with poor mental health, and those who didn’t.
The study authors acknowledged that this was a far cry from assessing an individual’s true psychiatric state. But conducting individual assessments of so many people was simply not feasible. On the plus side, the survey participants were randomly selected to be representative of the nation as a whole. Also, the way the...
The CDC data included a location for each participant, and the researchers used it to match each person’s mental health status to the weather where he or she lived. Over the 10-year study period, they found three distinct ways that climate change was associated with worse mental health.
The first was what the authors called “short-run weather exposure,” which they assessed in two ways.
For starters, they recorded the highest temperature for each day in each city, then calculated the average of those peaks over the course of each month. When the maximum daily temperature averaged 86 degrees Fahrenheit or above, the odds that people would experience poor mental health were 1 percentage point higher tha...
Some people were more vulnerable than others, the researchers found. They sorted the participants into four groups according to their income and found that the effect of high temperatures on mental health was 60% greater for those at the bottom of the economic ladder than for those at the top.
The researchers also found that being a woman instead of a man was associated with an effect of the same magnitude. When these factors were combined, they calculated that the negative effect of high temperatures on mental health was twice as high for low-income women as it was for high-income men.