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Britain's parliament will vote on whether to approve Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal before January 21, her spokesman said on Tuesday.
May had been due to hold the vote later on Tuesday, but on Monday announced she would defer it and seek extra reassurances from the European Union to make sure it got through parliament.
May is looking to resolve the impasse over her deal as quickly as possible, and intends to get the assurances she needs from European leaders before January 21, the spokesman told reporters.
The spokesman also said May had earlier held a productive meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the first stop on a tour of European capitals. The two agreed to work to find a way through the current situation, he said.
May will hold a meeting of her cabinet on Wednesday afternoon.
How to be a man. Google “How to be a man” and you will get a bunch of information. Some good and some not so good. Everything from articles from “The Art of Manliness” to Advice from celebrities such as Kareem Abdul Jabar. Even Wikihow has an article called How to Be a Man (with Pictures) – wikiHow.
Here at Manly Training Ministries we are seeking to answer this question once and for all. Biblically! But one thing is for sure, it is going to require discipline!
Oh no! I did it! Used the D word…. discipline! Almost no one uses the D word today! Almost no one that is except those who have mastered their talents and are great at what they do. If you want to become a godly man, a man who is living his manhood according to how God designed it, it will require discipline for sure!
Discipline is the difference between what you want now and what you want most.
If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Discipline is a word that you hardly hear today. It’s almost a “bad word”. We have stopped using the word discipline. Discipline is almost non-existent in most aspects of our lives. We don’t even speak the word anymore, at least not like we used to. You still heard the word discipline in some circles, such as sports, especially when it comes to Olympians. But in most of our culture it has all but disappeared.
The Latino GLBT History Project continues its events of the eighth annual D.C. Latino Pride this weekend.
On Saturday, the La Fe Interfaith Service, a bilingual (Spanish/English) LGBT-affirming interfaith service will be held from 6-8 p.m. at Metropolitan Community Church of Washington (474 Ridge St. N.W.). The service will be co-hosted by MCC-D.C.’s Spanish ministry and Grupo Latino Dignity Washington. Light refreshments will be served after. All faiths are welcome.
The La Fiesta Dance Party will be held Thursday from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. at Town Danceboutique (2009 8th St., N.W.) with Lineysha Sparkx from season five of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” DJ Joe El Especialita from El Zol 107.9 FM and DJ X Gonzalez. Juanita Dior hosts along with Jocelyn Carrillo and local drag kings and queens Sugar Cane, Dawn McSmiley, Diego El Sabroso and Enzo. For those ages 18 and older with valid ID. There’s a $10 cover. Proceeds support the Latino GLBT History Project.
The History Project will also have a contingent in the Capital Pride Parade. Latino Pride was scheduled to have a panel discussion on community and family this week. Last weekend its La Coronacion — a “royal court coronation” — was held.
The Latino GLBT History Project was started by longtime D.C. activist Jose Gutierrez. About 800 are expected at its various events.
“We’re proud to continue the tradition,” said David M. Perez, Project president.
Instagram is borrowing another feature from Facebook today, as they are rolling out true people tagging for both iOS and Android.
With the updated apps, you’ll be able to add people to photos for the first time. All you have to do is snap your picture, apply your favorite filter, and in the publishing phase of the process you’ll see a new “Add People” button. From there, you can tag friends, businesses, or anyone and anything with a username.
Of course, you’ve always been able to tag people on Instagram. But before, the tagging system worked a lot like Twitter – you could @ mention users but that’s about it. There was really no way of telling whether the photo’s @ mention was simply there to direct the user to it, or if it meant that user was actually in the photo.
“Photos are memories of the people, places and moments that mean the most to us. We have always sought to give you simple and expressive ways to bring the stories behind your photos to life. Your captions and hashtags capture the ‘what?’ and your Photo Map answers the ‘where?’ but until today we’ve never quite been able to answer the ‘who?’” says Instagram.
All of the photos you’re tagged in will now appear in a new profile section called “Photos of You.” The new feature will have all the same privacy settings of Facebook photos – mainly you’ll be able to control whether or not any tagged photo appears in your Photos of You section. You can adjust your settings to make sure you have to approve every tagged photo before it pops up for everyone to see.
Instagram is giving users until May 16th to familiarize themselves with the tagging feature before everyone’s Photos of You sections go public.
This new feature comes in version 3.5 on both iOS and Android. This update also adds a “report a problem” button to the app and also puts your privacy settings accesible on your profile screen.
BANGALORE: Broadband equipment and telecom software major Xalted Networks has bagged orders from 14 global telecom carriers in the US, South America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region to service over 50 million subscribers daily.
Competing with the likes of Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens, Xalted secured the orders to supply its equipment and products to global service providers such as Telecom Italia, Hutch, 3G Networks, Vodafone and Orange.
"Our products allow telecom carriers to deploy end-to-end Internet Protocol/Ethernet-based access networks, both wireline and wireless, delivering orders of magnitude in bandwidth and service intelligence," said Xalted chairman Pratap S. Kondamoori.
Within three years of relocating to Bangalore from Silicon Valley, US, Xalted invested 2.5 billion to set up its facility at the Electronics City where it designs and develops hardware, software and chips, among other products, for the global market.
For the Indian market, Xalted has developed broadband equipment and access products to stream voice, data and video content through copper, fibre and wireless networks.
"Though computers have not penetrated Indian homes and offices as fast as mobiles and television sets, the potential for broadband is immense as the country has about 60 million households with TV sets, which can be connected to the Internet through set-top boxes and modems," Kondamoori noted.
The Fairfield University Women’s Lacrosse team hosted conference foe, Marist Red Foxes, for their final regular season home game at Rafferty Stadium on Saturday, April 14. Being the final home game of the season, Fairfield’s seniors, Olivia Russell, Brenna Connolly, Brooke Gallagher, Erin Bauman, Katie Fitzpatrick, Lauren Martinelli, Kelly Holt and Mary Smyth, were honored in a pregame ceremony for their contributions throughout their four years at Fairfield.
Although it was a day meant to honor Fairfield’s seniors, Marist College spoiled the celebration as they edged the Stags by a final score of 11-10. Fairfield’s seniors had several contributions to the game as Connolly and Gallagher each tallied a hat trick during the defeat. With the loss, the Stags drop to 3-2 in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference play, giving them a 7-6 overall record. Unfortunately for the Stags, this is their fifth one-goal defeat. With the win, Marist improves their overall record to 8-5, 4-1 in conference play.
The first half saw a back and forth battle between the Stags and Red Foxes. Marist struck first, just two minutes into the game, with the game’s first goal only to be answered back by Fairfield two minutes later off the stick of Gallagher for her first goal of the game. After Marist scored another goal, they would take a one goal lead only to be answered back by two goals from the Stags off free position shots by Kathleen Hulseman ‘19 and Connolly, giving the Stags a 3-2 edge.
After the Stags would take the quick lead, Marist followed up by tying the game up with a quick goal of their own. With less than eight minutes remaining in the first half, the Stags would score two goals to give them a 5-2 lead heading into the second.
The Stags would carry the momentum into the second half as they would register two more goals to extend their lead to 7-5, both goals coming off the stick of Connolly. But, unfortunately for the Stags, Marist would go on a run of their own to tie things up at seven with less than 20 minutes remaining in the game.
After tying the game at seven, Marist’s scoring run would continue by adding two more goals, giving the Red Foxes a 9-7 lead with less than 13 minutes remaining in the game. The Stags would battle back to tie the game at nine after goals by Gallagher and Hulseman. Marist would hit the dagger when they scored two more goals to give them a total of 11 goals on the game.
Down by two, Fairfield’s Taylor Mitchell ‘19 connected on goal to cut the deficit down to just one. But down by one and less than three minutes remaining in the game, Marist’s defense was too much for the Stags as they failed to score again, dropping the contest to Marist by a final score of 11-10.
In the game for the Stags, Hulseman and Mitchell both finished with two goals each. On Saturday’s contest, Erin Mammele ‘19 snagged her 87th and 88th draw control of the season, surpassing her her own single-season record. The junior currently holds the Fairfield career record with 182 draw controls. Another Stag with a notable performance was Paulina DiFatta ‘21 as she had her best outing of her rookie campaign finishing with 16 saves including 10 in the second half.
The Stags will look to bounce back and get back in the win column when they hit the road for a three game road trip to end their season. Fairfield is set to take on conference foe Iona College on Wednesday, April 18 followed by contests against Canisius and Manhattan to close out the regular season.
The three Longhorns drafted into the NBA last week spent about as much time on the draft board as they did playing college ball. Tristan Thompson, Jordan Hamilton and Cory Joseph were all taken in the first round of the draft, and it is a point of both contention and celebration for Longhorn fans.
Perhaps the disappointment can only be erased by taking solace in the fact that, for the first time in school history, three players were selected in the first round. Weak draft class or not, no one expected that.
The biggest shocker of the night was when Cleveland selected Tristan Thompson with the fourth overall pick. Let’s be nice and at least count this early selection as a victory for Thompson. The extra “W” will come in handy for him since he is now on the worst team in the league, which did itself no favors by drafting so terribly.
Thompson, along with the Cavaliers’ No. 1 pick Kyrie Irving, will head into the home of the Rust Belt with equally as much rust in their games. Irving played a grand total of 11 games his sophomore year because of injuries, and Thompson played one solid year of beginner ball with Texas. Now he is expected to make an immediate impact on the league’s laughter squad. The problem is the Cavaliers are already stacked with raw forwards.
Thompson would have been better off falling into the upper teens before being selected. He would have fit well into the second team of a squad such as Phoenix or New York; high-scoring teams with an emphasis on speed.
Thompson’s impact is not going to be as a scorer. He is the guy you want to come in for 15-20 minutes, cause defensive chaos, snag big rebounds and drop a respectable nine or 10 points a night. Cleveland may expect too much too early from the big man, and it could have a negative impact on his career moving forward.
If Thompson was drafted into an unfortunate situation, Jordan Hamilton was dealt the exact opposite hand of cards.
Landing in Denver was perfect for Hamilton, because the Nuggets know a thing or two about explosive scorers. Hamilton is being ushered into a situation tailor-made for his game. He will get to spend a year or so on the bench, learning from guys such as Danilo Gallinari and Wilson Chandler, while simultaneously being allowed to unleash his hyperactive shot for 10-15 minutes a game. His progress will be slow, but he is set up for the most success of any of the former UT players drafted.
As far as the Cory Joseph pick is concerned, I’m still shaking my head at why he even chose to enter the draft.
He was essentially going to have the keys to Texas backcourt handed to him had he stayed another year. He would have had a chance to retool his game and up his draft stock. Instead he went 29th to the Spurs, where he could battle Tony Parker for the starting job — a job Joseph will compete for but won’t get.
To be frank, how is anyone supposed to know how these things will turn out? Draft selections often surprise fans. And if anyone knows about draft steals, it is the San Antonio Spurs. In 1999, an Argentinian by the name of Manu Ginobili was selected 57th overall in the second round, and no one aside from the Spurs had high hopes for him. Turns out everyone else was wrong. Ginobili has won three championships with the Spurs and was an All-Star in 2005.
During the 2007-08 season, he received the Sixth Man of the Year Award and was named to the All-NBA Third Team. One can only hope Joseph will be so fortunate.
As for Longhorn basketball fans, you’re free to be either unhappy at the loss of your team’s cornerstone players or happy for their progress. I’m just jealous they have jobs already.
For a few years of my very young childhood, I lived with my grandmother, Miz Lena, on a farm in Middle Tennessee. She had her hands full, taking care of me and my two brothers while my mother was away recovering from her demons.
Grand Mom was a country woman. She wasn't a terribly consoling person. She grew up on a farm. If something hurts, you just deal with it. If something is wrong, you fix it. To her way of thinking, there was a logical and correct answer for any problem: her answer. Furthermore, there could be dire consequences coming your way if you didn't heed to her tenured advice and country remedies.
She'd say, "Looka here, if you don't stop pickin' at that, it's gonna start bleedin', yuh'll start gittin' dizzy, and I'm gonna haf tuh run yuh up to the emergency room at the hospital. They'll probly haf tuh give yuh a needle shot. One a them long needles. They's gonna stick it right in yore knee. I know them needles hurt. Now, you don't wanna haf tuh go to the hospital, do yuh?" I didn't.
Then, she said, "Elizabeth, run git me that mecurachrome out from my medicine cabinet." Elizabeth was my grandmother's longtime housekeeper, a wonderful black lady who took care of everything.
Grand Mom really didn't have to go into such elaborate detail, but it was effective. I stopped picking at my always present scabs. I got a new one every few days.
She once told me, "Looka here, sit up straight. You wanna grow up to be all bent over. Hunchbacked. Walkin' around ever'where lookin' down at the ground. People tryin' to get up outta yore way. Yuh won't be able to find work nowhere. You'll probly end up sleepin' under some railroad tracks. If I was you, I'd be sittin' up like yuh cared a little bit about yoreself. Strong men stand up straight."
I was just 5. I didn't feel a curve forming in my spine. But Miz Lena seemed to know what she was talking about.
When Grand Mom sensed that she wasn't getting through to me, she'd bring in the Almighty — and Elizabeth for backup. Grand Mom's God was a no-nonsense one and, apparently, didn't care much for the chattering of children.
Almost all of Grand Mom's sermons took place in the kitchen. Elizabeth was always close by.
I was sitting at the breakfast table, asking Grand Mom questions, one right after the other. They were the kind of questions that made her have to think too much. She and Elizabeth were at the sink doing the dishes with their backs to me. Elizabeth washed. Miz Lena dried.
I guess Grand Mom had had enough. Over her shoulder, she said, "Son, why do you think the Lord wrote down, "Children should be seen and not heard? Cuz kids kain't learn nothin' if they's talkin' all the time. Elizabeth, you ever learn anything while you wus talkin'?" Elizabeth said, "No'm, Miz Lena."
She covered a lot of territory. Nothing was off-limits. I remember her take on Catholics. She told me, "Now, what I was sayin' is that yore not gonna make it to heaven if you keep hangin' around with the wrong kinda' people. Little Mike's a nice young boy, but his family is Catholic, and they don't believe in what Christian people do. They ain't nothin' in the Bible sez yore supposed to eat fish on Friday. Elizabeth, did yuh ever read anything about fish on Fridays in the Bible?" Elizabeth said, "No'm, Miz Lena."
Grand Mom continued, "I told yuh, already, Son. God notices the kind of people yuh run around with. Remember this, the Lord don't look the other way. You ever hear anything in the Bible about Catholics? Well, there's a reason for that."
She never explained the reason. Miz Lena was her own kind of religious. She rarely went to church. Mostly holidays — Christmas and Easter. She was Presbyterian. The only praying I ever heard out of her was when she was at the end of her rope with me. She'd look up and say, "Oh, dear Lord, please help me git through to this boy."
However, Miz Lena loved going to church to attend funerals. It didn't matter who died. She always seemed to take over the event. Dressed in her Sunday best, she became the grieving family's unofficial greeter.
Standing by the casket of the dearly departed, Miz Lena would greet those who came to the front to pay their last respects with, "Poor Mr. Black. I do wish he had taken better care of himself. Well, he's in a better place now, I'm pretty sure. Oh Honey, that's a beautiful dress. Did you get that at Harvey's in Nashville? I think I saw that one in the front window last fall."
She'd stand up front, clutching her purse and talking to her fellow mourners, until the eulogy began.
One time, she returned to our pew and said, "Well, at least that poor woman don't have to worry no more about where he is at all hours of the night."
I'm now in my 60s. And, sure enough, a lot of Miz Lena's teachings have stuck with me. I stand up straight and have found that I learn more when I listen.
Grand Mom and Elizabeth have passed on. I have to assume, by now, my grandmother has bumped into several Catholics up there. I can only imagine her reaction.
I've thrown caution to the wind. I've been with my true love, Jana, for the past 22 years. She's a Catholic. So far, so good. I'm sure Miz Lena has realized that she was wrong about Catholics. She was already warming up to them when Kennedy came into office.
Little Mike and I stay in touch.
Is the worst of the economic crisis over? BBC Radio 4’s Today programme has been babbling about this for the past week or so, and Barack Obama has now joined them.
He said on Friday of last week that he saw “glimmers of hope” in the US economy. This followed more cautious comments by Lawrence Summers, chair of the US National Economic Council, who said that the “sense of free fall” would end in the next few months.
Meanwhile, the stock markets are up. The Dow Jones Industrial Index rose by 23 percent in the month before Easter.
Anyone who takes this stuff too seriously is kidding themselves. We are in the grip of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. What became clear after the collapse of the Lehman Brothers bank last September and the ensuing stock market crash was that the financial crisis was morphing into a severe global recession.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that global economic output will contract by 0.5 or 1 percent this year. This will be the first time that the world economy has shrunk since 1945.
The advanced economies are being especially hard-hit. According to projections from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the US will shrink by 4 percent in 2009, Japan by 6.6 percent, the euro-zone by 4.1 percent, Germany by 5.3 percent, and Britain by 3.7 percent.
The big manufacturing and exporting economies such as Japan and Germany are suffering even more severely than the US and Britain, where the financial crisis started. This is because of the sharp decline in global demand for the industrial goods they produce. The OECD says that, after growing for much of the present decade by 8 percent a year, “international trade [is] in free fall”, and will shrink by 13.2 percent this year.
At some point, however, the world economy will stop shrinking and may even start growing a little. Even then unemployment will continue to rise. The OECD predicts that “the number of unemployed in the G7 countries will almost double from its level in mid-2007 to reach some 36 million people in late 2010”.
One reason why the world economy will eventually hit a plateau is that the leading capitalist states have been cutting taxes and increasing spending in an effort to combat the very powerful contractionary tendencies at work.
But these efforts are very unlikely to produce anything resembling economic lift-off. As I have already said, this started as a financial crisis. Much of the banking system is effectively bust because of the bad loans many banks made during the credit bubble of the mid-2000s.
The IMF has now raised its estimate of these losses from a mere $1 trillion to a staggering $2.2 trillion. As long as the banks are stuck with these losses, they won’t lend, paralysing much economic activity.
We may find ourselves in the plight of Japan after its “bubble economy” collapsed in the 1990s. It stagnated for a decade while the banks and industrial firms paid off the bad investments they had made during the speculative boom of the late 1980s.
Many commentators are worried that the G20 summit did nothing to solve the problem of the banks. “You won’t have a recovery until you cleanse the [banking] system, but nobody wants to discuss it,” an anonymous official, probably from the IMF, told the Financial Times on the eve of the summit.
For the same reason, Wolfgang Munchau, one of the same paper’s best writers, headlined his column last week, “The London summit has not fixed the crisis”.
We’ll see whether or not this particular prediction turns out to be right. But one thing’s for sure. This is a very big crisis that still has a long way to go.
More than three out of five motorists believe congestion on motorways has increased in the past year.
More than three out of five motorists believe congestion on motorways has increased in the past year, according to new research.
An RAC poll of 1,727 drivers found that 61 per cent think motorway traffic has got worse over the past 12 months.
The reasons given for increased congestion include major roadworks (47 per cent) and middle-lane hogging (45 per cent).
Amanda Stretton, motoring editor at Confused.com, said: "It's unsurprising that many drivers are blaming middle-lane hogging as one of the main causes of extended motorway journey times.
"Our research showed that one in three drivers (32 per cent) admit to being a middle-lane hogger - so there's a fair few offenders out there.
"Worryingly, almost two in five (37 per cent) UK drivers are unaware that middle-lane hogging is a punishable offence and drivers can lose three points off their licence.
"This was made clear when I went out on the road to see how the offence is policed.
"It was astounding to see just how many hoggers there really are, clogging up the motorway when the left-hand lane was entirely clear.
"Middle lanes aren't for coasting in and drivers who do this can cause congestion and make other perform dangerous manoeuvres to get around them.

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