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But your man Shane, tipsy as usual, was deep into the gravelly end of his range, rendering most of the lyrics indecipherable. His song intros were semi-comprehensible, although he seemed to be gargling much of the time. When we heard the band a year or so back at the Orpheum, it seemed like tin whistle player Spider St... |
The jaunty tin-whistle-driven “Streams of Whiskey” was an early treat, prompting much of the crowd on the balcony – where there was room to move – to erupt in impromptu jigs with total strangers. Down on the floor, close to the stage, it looked like a mosh pit was trying to form. Kearnley’s accordion was a highlight, h... |
There’s nothing like Celtic music for expressing wistful memories, or bittersweet regret, and of course MacGowan, 51, is like a poster boy for wrong turns taken. Even when you can’t catch all the words, his tortured baritone conveys reams of feeling, and Saturday’s 21-song set had some affecting segments. MacGowan shon... |
But Stacy’s lead vocal on “Tuesday Morning” was terrifically moving, as Kearnley’s accordion and Terry Woods’ mandolin crafted a marvelous traditional backdrop. Whether because it was the tour’s finale, or because MacGowan had been mixing his own cocktails with a bottle of whiskey onstage, the regular set ended after 7... |
Yet that three-song encore segment with “Rainy Night in Soho” was worth waiting for, as the transcendent ballad was followed by a celebratory “Wild Rover” that had fans hopping around, sort of like step dancers. |
In short, a night with the Pogues and their ever-unpredictable singer had moments of sheer musical bliss, and moments of consternation. |
The City Council is about to take the next step toward making feminine hygiene products readily available, and free, in New York City public schools, shelters, and correctional facilities. On Thursday, June 2, the Council’s Committee on Women’s Issues will hold its first hearing on a package of bills to improve access ... |
The three bills are being spearheaded by City Council Member Julissa Ferreras-Copeland and Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, the lead sponsors, and the hearing will come as New York State is set to eliminate the so-called “tampon tax” - the sales tax on feminine hygiene products. |
Representatives from the city agencies that would carry out the new mandates outlined in the bills and relevant advocacy groups have been asked to testify - leaders from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Department of Education, and the Department of Correction will attend the hearing, as will representa... |
Women who filed a class action lawsuit against the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance to end the tax on menstrual productsand Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, a leading national and international voice calling for better access to menstrual products, have also been invited to testify. |
During the hearing, questions about the logistics and costs of implementing the mandates will be addressed. According to her office, Ferreras-Copeland looks forward to hearing from the de Blasio administration about its views on the bills and the current policies of the relevant agencies in terms of access to menstrual... |
It is not yet clear how tampons and pads will be provided to women and girls in city shelters, jails, and schools, though no-charge dispensers have already been installed in the girls’ bathrooms of 25 middle schools and high schools in the city through a pilot program, and Ferreras-Copeland has previously mentioned the... |
The Council bills and the elimination of New York’s “tampon tax” contribute to a growing movement to de-stigmatize menstruation and improve gender equity, as women end up paying hundreds of dollars in taxes buying tampons and pads throughout their lifetime, despite the fact that women cannot avoid buying the products. ... |
One bill, introduced by Ferreras-Copeland, would require all schools to make feminine hygiene products readily available to students and would require DOHMH to provide schools with a supply of tampons and pads that is adequate to meet the needs of the student body. |
In September 2015, Ferreras-Copeland and the High School for Arts and Business in Queens launched a pilot program of free tampons and pads by installing a free dispenser in the girls’ bathroom. In March, Ferreras-Copeland and the DOE expanded that program to 25 middle and high schools in Queens and the Bronx, providing... |
Ferreras-Copeland says the DOE has been receptive and that conversations with schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña have been productive, although the cost of freely providing menstrual products was initially raised as a concern. |
Another bill, introduced by Speaker Mark-Viverito, would require DOHMH to provide feminine hygiene products to all female residents in temporary shelters (here meaning Department of Homeless Services family shelters and single adult women shelters, Department of Youth and Community Development shelters, and Human Resou... |
Tampons and pads are often in short supply in the city’s shelters, where women are already often unable to purchase the products. SNAP, WIC, and flexible spending accounts cannot be used to buy tampons or pads. Congressional Rep. Grace Meng of Queens has introduced a bill that would reclassify feminine hygiene products... |
The third bill, also introduced by Mark-Viverito, would require the Department of Correction to provide inmates with feminine hygiene products immediately upon request, “unless so providing would be unsafe, in which case products would be required as soon as possible.” This would be a slight, but potentially significan... |
Others say that’s not the case. During a roundtable discussion on access to feminine hygiene products last summer, Ferreras-Copeland said she heard from representatives of the Women’s Prison Association that “some women were reduced to using one pad for their whole cycle” and stories from women who have had “to show so... |
On Wednesday, Ferreras-Copeland expressed excitement about the upcoming hearing to Gotham Gazette, but was not available for a follow-up interview. |
How Far is Shashwat Surashree? |
Shashwat Surashree is a popular residential development in Airoli, Navi Mumbai. Developed by Shashwat Group, this project offers 1BHK apartments and commercial shops with basic amenities for the comfort of residents. It is close to the market and many educational institutions. |
Ask the appropriate government agency for a copy of your business license. |
4 What Is the Cost of a Business License? |
Most businesses must have a local business license, allowing the business owner to operate legally within a geographical vicinity. Depending on your business, you may have also been required to obtain a state business license, sales tax license or a federal license. Most states require that the license be displayed in ... |
Contact your secretary of state for a copy of your state business license. The secretary of state website has instructions on how to obtain and renew your state business license. For example, Georgia accountants or auctioneers can apply for a business license online via the Georgia secretary of state website. You would... |
Contact your local department of revenue or taxation agency, or state franchise tax board, for a copy of your sales tax license or seller’s permit. If your company is a retail business, you must have a permit or a sales tax license, which enables you to collect sales tax from your customers. For example, if your state ... |
Check with your local city hall or county government for a copy of your local business license. For example, a business owner in Gwinnett County, Georgia, would contact the Gwinnett County government for a copy of a local business license. |
Check with the appropriate federal agency for a copy of your federal business license. Certain businesses are subject to extensive regulations from the government, such as interstate trucking, aircraft and firearms. These businesses require special licensing. For example, you would contact the Federal Aviation Administ... |
Apply for a copy of the license according to the agency’s regulations. For example, if you lose your Wisconsin sales tax license, you must either call or write the agency for a copy. Your attorney, if he has power of attorney, can obtain a copy of the license for you. The respective agency generally charges a fee for a... |
Ferguson, Grace. "How to Obtain a Copy of a Business License." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/obtain-copy-business-license-2983.html. 24 July 2017. |
This is the terrifying moment a pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in northern France. |
Shortly after taking off from the airfield in Ile de Re, the plane’s engine failed, forcing the pilot to make a nerve wracking descent. |
The experienced pilot stayed calm and was able to steer the small aircraft towards a field, but upon reaching the ground, the landing gear broke. |
This caused the plane to ricochet and roll over several times coming to a halt just over half a mile away from the airfield. |
Amazingly the pilot was not seriously hurt in the incident. |
League One and Two clubs are preparing for their weekend fixtures - and we've got it covered. |
Tune in throughout the day for all the latest news from the across the two divisions as clubs look ahead to this weekend's matches. Don't forget to refresh! |
There are several different curses that folklore claims upon the city of Spokane, Washington. This city is said to have at least two different “Indian curses” and at least one “Gypsy curse”, plus many, many hauntings. There is also a tale that I found about a sort of blessing on this city, in which the river rapids tha... |
What is it about some cities that seem to have squeezed out most of their joy and now find themselves stumbling along in economic depression and physical disrepair? They are not quite dead towns. Some of them, like Spokane, may even be growing. But there are still problems with drugs and gangs and soaring unemployment.... |
I don’t know whether I heard of the Spokane curse first or if I’d formed my own opinion of the city first. Back then, I only knew the downtown area, and it was a lot worse for wear than it is today. This is where I’d come when my mother was in the hospital after she had her strokes and her heart problems. This is where... |
The city of Spokane was always at a disadvantage in my eyes, because it’s not Seattle. But there is that curse, and I can explain it all away with that. I’m not the only one who does. After all, someone told me about the curses. Someone told me about the series of crimes committed against Native people that lead their ... |
November 7, 2013 The Texas Cool Season: when life rejoices! |
Truckers have a new ally when it comes to safety and security on the road. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has appointed Don L. Rondeau as security advisor for the Association. |
Rondeau, who is currently the vice president of homeland security and emergency preparedness for Alion Science and Technology, will advise the Association on matters concerning homeland security as it relates to the nation’s highways. |
He has served as a consultant for a variety of agencies and organizations on national security matters throughout his career. He is also the author of “Red Teaming: The Don L. Rondeau Method,” which chronicles his creation of an anti-terrorism development methodology to identify potential terrorist tactics and targets. |
KEYSTONE, Colo. — A man who was unconscious while dangling from his neck on a chairlift at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area was saved by a professional slackliner in a daring rescue on Wednesday. |
Mickey Wilson posted photos to social media showing the harrowing rescue after he climbed a lift tower, went across the lift cable and cut down the man with a knife. |
“Today I saved someone’s life. I think some strange forces were at work,” Wilson wrote on Facebook. |
Wilson was skiing with friends when a member of the crew got his backpack strap stuck in the chairlift as he tried to unload. The lift dragged him back down the hill. |
Wilson said he and his friends tried to build a human pyramid to get to him but they couldn’t. |
“Panic was becoming terror as we realized we were about to watch our friend die in front of our helpless eyes,” Wilson wrote. |
Then, Wilson had what he called a “Eureka” moment. |
He climbed the lift tower above the chair and onto the cable, then slid down to his friend. |
“I knew my slackline experience prepared me perfectly for this so I burst into action,” Wilson wrote. |
Unable to break the backpack strap, a member of the ski patrol arrived and threw Wilson a knife. |
“I luckily caught it on the first try and cut the strap. Our friend fell like a doll into the snow. 8 or so ski patrolman then began CPR,” Wilson wrote. |
Breathing was restored and the man was taken to St. Anthony Summit Medical Center then to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood. |
Wilson said his friend is doing quite well and will be released on Thursday. |
Do not adjust your sets.. |
Viewers might be rubbing their eyes - Channel 4 is airing a blurred ad break to allow people to experience what life is like with sight loss. |
The broadcaster has teamed up with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to screen adverts with special visual filters. |
Broadcast during the new series of The Undateables, it will show how millions of people see, while suffering with everything from cloudy to tunnel vision. |
Filters have been applied to adverts for O2 and Freeview to show what life is like for people with the five most common eye conditions in the UK - macular degeneration, eye conditions caused by diabetes, cataracts, hemianopia - which causes people to lose half their vision - and glaucoma. |
The campaign is designed to highlight the importance of eye care during National Eye Health Week. |
RNIB director Sophie Castell said: "This unique opportunity... will help show viewers different sight loss conditions and what living with sight loss can be like." |
It will be broadcast at around 9.15pm and then repeated, with audio description for viewers with a visual impairment, at 9.30pm today (Monday). |
Earlier this year, Channel 4 broadcast the world's first TV advert live from inside the human body - a live colonoscopy, as part of a campaign for Cancer Research UK. |
China intends to land its first probe on the moon at the end of this year, the next step in an ambitious programme which includes eventually building a space station. |
State media said preparations were underway for the launch of Chang'e-3, the latest stage in its efforts to put a person on the moon. |
The craft will use a radio-controlled rover to transmit images and dig into the moon's surface to test samples. |
In June, three Chinese astronauts spent 15 days in orbit and docked their craft with an experimental space laboratory, which was launched in 2011. |
The station is due to be replaced by a permanent station in seven years. |
China sent its first astronaut into space in 2003. The BBC reports the space programme is a source of national pride. |
AT&T has had very mixed feelings about allowing tethering and hotspot devices on its network, but now the carrier and will sell Novatel's MiFi 2372 hotspot, which will connect up to five Wi-fi devices to the AT&T 3G network. |
And the 2372 is no ordinary hotspot. It has its own OS on-board (MiFi OS), on top of which users can access a series of apps and widgets. All of the devices connected via Wi-fi to the hotspot have access to those apps and widgets. For instance, a business might equip its MiFi to automatically establish a VPN pipe back ... |
Novatel, the maker of the MiFi, has an SDK that developers can use to make their own custom MiFi apps. |
Verizon made the MiFi famous in the U.S., but its version of the device--the 2200--has no OS, no custom apps and no widgets. Until now, the more advanced 2372 has been available through carriers only in Canada and Europe. |
The 2372 has a microSD card for storage, and contains a GPS radio (for things like weather and mapping apps). |
AT&T has custom built a user interface on top of the MiFi OS that displays what devices are connected to the MiFi, and how much data each has used against the allotment of the data plan. |
AT&T also says the MiFi 2372 is faster than other MiFi's, hitting download speeds of up to 7.2Mbps. That's a theoretical number; we'll try to get at the real-world speed numbers when we test the device in the wild. |
AT&T will begin selling the MiFi 2372 (AKA AT&T Mobile Hotspot) November 21 at AT&T stores nationwide, or online, for $49.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate. According to the AT&T site, you'll need a "qualifying DataConnect Plan" but no further plan information is available. |
ABERDEEN FC have lost a legal battle with a sherry producer over the name of the club’s official Scotch whisky. The Scottish Premiership side, nicknamed The Dons, launched a blended whisky, Dons Dram, in partnership with a local distillery. The club, managed by Derek McInnes, applied to register the name of the Scotch ... |
However, drinks firm Sandeman, who produce a Spanish sherry, Don Fino, featuring a mysterious caped figure on the label, objected. |
They claimed that Aberdeen could benefit from this confusion and called for the club’s application to be blocked. |
Aberdeen argued the club was formed in 1903 and had been affectionately known as The Dons for more than a century. |
Now, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO), which rules on trademark disputes, has found in Sandeman’s favour and said the vast majority of the public would not know Aberdeen were referred to as The Dons. |
The club has been ordered to pay Sandeman £1,500 in legal costs following the conclusion of the hearing. |
The ruling means Aberdeen will have to change the name of their whisky or apply to Sandeman for permission to use it. |
Their whisky, which is made by the Bennachie Scotch Whisky Company, was launched in 2016 and is sold in the club shop. |
A Summer Soundtrack playlist for an imaginary John Hughes movie. |
Ben Donnelly's submission to the Summer Soundtrack Contest is "a virtual cassette full of music from virtual '80s Neo-New Wave bands." He's titled it "Theme From an Imaginary John Hughes Movie." Get your faux-1983 groove on, people. |
Mark McFarland, global chief economist at private bank Coutts & Co. Limited, tells China Money Podcast host Nina Xiang that Hong Kong-listed Chinese Internet leaders and banks are preferred sectors for gradual market re-entry. |
He says that China has plenty of room to loosen monetary policy if needed, and is likely to cut bank reserve requirement ratio two or three times by the end of 2016. |
He also believes that the RMB has limited space to depreciate further and the Chinese government will be able to keep a relatively stable exchange rate going forward. |
He suggests that investors should look beyond the current slowdown to realize that an economic slowdown in China is good for everyone as there will be less waste of resources. |
A pregnant whale was found dead last week in Italy with nearly 50 pounds of plastic in her stomach. The case highlights a disturbing trend of how plastic pollution of the oceans is impacting wildlife. |
Vicki Croke (@VickiCroke), host of WBUR's The Wild Life blog, says there was more trash found in the whale’s stomach than food items. |
“A necropsy is being done to determine the exact cause of death, but considering the pounds of plastic bags, plates, fishing nets and more twisted up in her belly, scientists say it's obvious trash was at least a factor,” Croke tells Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson. |
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