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Louisiana has accidentally paid double tax refunds for nearly 66,000 taxpayers amounting to almost $26 million.
Gas prices have been low for weeks, but nothing quite like this.
Leander Paes says in the next few years players of international calibre would emerge even from small cities because of the upbeat of training facilities now available in the country.
Indian tennis ace Leander Paessaid he was sure that in the next few years players of international calibre would emerge even from small cities also because of the kind of training facilities now available in the country.
Paes, who won his first Grand Slam men's doubles title in five years at the US Open last month, said of late training facilities were on upswing in the country, which was good for the future of the budding talents.
"In my time, the kind of training that is now available like at the Nandan Bal Tennis Academy were not there. Proper training at such Academies would surely produce tennis players of international class," he told reporters after inaugurating the Nandan Bal Tennis Academy at Magarpatta near here.
The 33-year-old, who later visited Endurance Gym at Kothrud in the city, said he was able to survive for 16-long years in the sport because of self-motivation, endurance, fitness and discipline.
"Whatever be the age and irrespective of the strata of society a person belongs to, if he is disciplined and fit, he can make a mark.
"I do not consider myself a genius or a very talented player. However, whatever success I have had achieved in the tennis court it is because of my faith in the attributes of disciplin and fitness," Paes added.
The fight is on to defend postal workers’ pensions. Socialist Worker last week reported that Royal Mail has announced its intention to close our final salary pension scheme – despite the company organising a “consultation period” in which 99 percent of employees opposed its plans.
It is clear that Royal Mail bosses are determined to press ahead regardless, with no agreement from our CWU union or the workforce.
What is the point of a consultation period if the views of those affected are not taken into account?
Pensions are deferred wages and therefore our money. What Royal Mail intend to do is tantamount to theft and we cannot let them get away with it.
Cutting pensions might be OK for fat cats like Royal Mail bosses Allan Leighton and Adam Crozier – they won’t be required to work till they are 65, and they will never be short of a few quid either. But they expect our members to work till they drop.
It was Royal Mail that took a 17-year pensions contributions holiday – and now the company wants to pick our members’ pockets to make up the deficit.
The CWU’s executive is now conducting a consultative ballot in Royal Mail workplaces over whether to accept the proposed changes to our pensions – with a recommendation to reject them.
We all want harmony after last year’s dispute. But if we have to lock horns with the employer again, we must all answer the call.
I never thought I’d wish for this, but we need to get Royal Mail managers on board in this fight too – after all it’s their pension scheme too.
Although expecting some of those snakes to have a backbone is somewhat wishful thinking.
It is vital that we bring the Royal Mail managers’ CMA union into this fight, and utilise the apparent fruitful relationship between our general secretary, Billy Hayes, and the joint general secretaries of the Unite union of which the CMA is part.
The government is Royal Mail’s sole shareholder and it must be forced to intervene on this issue. It is deplorable that Gordon Brown can plough billions into Northern Rock, while a 300-year old institution that the government already owns is preparing to loot its employees’ pension fund.
Given the position the government took during last year’s strike, let’s not expect too many favours.
However, there are still some good Labour MPs who provide support for the CWU. A solid political campaign is required with Billy Hayes leading from the front.
In the meantime all CWU members can assist the union by registering our anger at this announcement.
We can tell our line managers, write to Allan Leighton, Adam Crozier and our local MP – and vote to reject the attack on pensions in the consultative ballot.
World War II's hands-across-the-sea theme, in which an English boy (Roddy McDowall) meets children in America. Jane Darwell. Tom: Stanley Clements. Harold Schuster directed.
Coastweek -- As we approach the end of the year, I spent some time over the last few weeks asking many of my friends and colleagues to list down in order what were the five top things that drew their ire whenever they were driving on the road, writes Teti Kamugunda.
In order of most hits, the one that came out the top was the behaviour of matatus and at the bottom of the list of five was livestock on the road.
The behaviour of matatus came to the top of the list of almost every single person I talked to.
When pushed a bit further, it expanded a bit to the drivers of all vehicles that were in some form of public service.
This ranged from matatus to large urban buses, cross country buses, small lorries and heavy commercial vehicles.
Not to be left out were boda bodas and tuk tuks.
Most sane drivers on the road have their hacks raised every time one of the public service contraptions (will call them PVs for brevity) appears within range of their vehicle – whether in the rear-view mirror, or in full sight from the sides or the front of the car.
The main fear is that the person in charge of the public service vehicle is fully brainwashed in the matatu culture of road use.
Most of my friends said that the minute they see one of the drivers of public utility vehicles, they get into both defence and attack mode.
Defence in that they will want to avoid the PVs from cutting cross the front to try and fill the non-existent space between them and the vehicle in front.
The PVs sometime also cut across in front of a vehicle so that they can get to the kerbside to pick up a passenger.
The worst case is when they stop in the middle of traffic and the driver’s assistant runs to the kerbside and pulls passengers onto the road to board the vehicle – all the time completely ignoring the fact that other vehicles in traffic need to make progress.
Attack mode is when roles are reversed and the sane driver takes action to protest the PVs interference with their driving.
When a public service contraption makes one brake suddenly or swerve suddenly and especially when one has passengers who would witness their “weak” moment.
Such drivers, when enraged, will follow the PV and cut across the front to cause them to have the same discomfort or sometimes lunge across the path of the public service vehicle and begin to gesticulate profanities at the driver.
The other annoying behaviour is the penchant that the driver’s assistants or even passengers tend to become part of the driver’s tools.
Quite often the assistant or passenger will stick out their body and hand to indicate to the driver of the other vehicle that he intends to cut across the bonnet of the vehicle.
This is not to ask for permission but to tell the other driver to take whatever action is required to avoid an accident as the PV is making that manoeuvre anyway.
The noise is another constant.
The boom twaf of the in-vehicle entertainment system, the exhaust noises and the incessant hooting also grates on the mind.
Any form of civility in the middle of a traffic jam with one of these vehicles adjacent becomes an exercise in restraint.
Recently, the larger size matatus, buses, boda bodas as well as tuk tuks have taken to having funkadelic lighting on the outside of the vehicle.
Some even have headlights that respond to music.
It is very annoying when driving at night to not be able to recognise what it is that is coming towards you are driving away – especially when it is at a distance.
With the level of concern about safety on the roads and also security in some of the more far flung areas, any vehicle on the road at night that does not conform to the standard four light clusters at the extremities of a box will draw suspicion.
First the sane driver will have to slow down in order to establish what is a safe berth, then, they will have to assess what to make of the item that is approaching them almost being forced to prepare for a fight or flee situation.
Finally, the other beef about the public service contraptions is the mannerism of the operators.
The drivers and their assistants have developed their own way of walking, dressing, talking and acting that I intended to intimidate other drivers.
This way they establish their ownership of the territory and also some sort of pecking order.
Even the police whom they bribe all the time, come lower in the pecking order.
So, who are we to take umbrage at these operators who have been able to put the law enforcement agencies into their pockets ?
How often do we call the police believing that we are in the right when an accident occurs and we end up being the offenders ?
How often do we find ourselves having drawn the short end of the stick when there is an accident and the crowd is cowed into taking the side of the PV operator ?
Much as we may believe that there are rules that govern the use of the road, more often than not, these are forgotten in the heat of the moment.
As Kachumbari says, the rule of the jungle is the one that is mainly applied on our roads.
Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy was named the 2018 best restaurant in the world.
Gaggan in Bangkok, Thailand was named the 2018 Best Restaurant in Asia — its fourth consecutive year.
Yes, I was in Istanbul on Dec. 10, the night the twin bombings happened at the Besiktas Stadium. Our hotel, situated at the heart of Taksim Square, was just five minutes away.
Gitugotan sa konseho sa Siyudad sa Sugbo si Mayor Tomas Osmeña nga mag-emergency procurement sa service provider nga maoy molabay sa basura sa siyudad ngadto sa laing landfill.
A pill that will allow you to eat whatever you want without gaining weight (and no side effects).
For the first time, the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards ceremony was held outside the British capital.
Did you know Hello Kitty now has a wine?
This year’s Vinexpo allowed me to discover Moet Hennessy’s first luxury wine from China, sample Japanese chardonnay from the Suntory group, and likewise Hello Kitty Cava from Spain.
For the second year in a row, Gaggan claims the top spot in the list of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants.
This year’s Madrid Fusion held at the Palacio Municipal de Congresos had a recurrent topic among several of the chef-speakers: reviving ancestry and respect for produce.
The first time I saw Mauro Colagreco was at the 2015 World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards ceremony in London last June.
HULL, England (AP) — Australia ran in 10 tries to thrash Scotland 54-12 in the opening match of the Four Nations rugby league tournament on Friday.
Scrumhalf Cooper Cronk and left winger Josh Mansour both crossed twice for the Kangaroos, the tournament favorites, in front of 5,337 spectators in Hull, northern England.
Stand-off James Maloney was one of the other Australian try-scorers and he also kicked seven goals for an 18-point haul on his international debut.
Australia coach Mal Meninga was able to rest Johnathan Thurston, Greg Inglis and Darius Boyd and bring off captain Cameron Smith at halftime, when the Kangaroos led 30-6.
Scotland was making its debut in the Four Nations and kept the scoreline respectable with tries from Ryan Brierley and Ben Kavanagh.
Tournament host England plays defending champion New Zealand on Saturday.
CHICAGO (AP) _ Amtrak is seeking a developer for a new phase of its overhaul of Chicago’s Union Station.
The railroad announced a request for qualifications Tuesday with a July 1 deadline. Amtrak wants a developer to overhaul the commercial elements of the 91-year-old station and neighboring properties in Chicago’s rapidly developing West Loop neighborhood.
That includes 1.3 billion square feet of building space spread over more than 14 acres and air rights to develop another 3 million square feet of office space above it all.
Amtrak Vice President of Infrastructure Development Stephen Gardner says the goal is to turn Union Station into “a world-class transportation facility that is further woven into the fabric” of the city.
Union Station is the country’s third busiest rail terminal. About 120,000 passengers pass through it daily.
“I think everyone has their own view on how things are played out,” she recently told Page Six.
She's setting the record straight in her new biopic.
He's claiming that Frank "Frankie Loc" Locascio was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1992 for the murder of mobster Louis DiBono.
Last week, the Estonian Rescue Board responded to and extinguished a total of 49 wildfires across the country.
As a nationwide extreme fire danger period took effect on Saturday, the Rescue Board and the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) kept a closer eye than usual on people's safe behaviours both along bodies of water and in the wilderness last weekend.
Rescuers patrolled public campfire sites as well as popular recreation and swimming areas in their territory that have previously seen issues or that were at greater risk in terms of fire or water safety.
According to Martin Lambing, head of the Rescue Board's Rescue Department, people found with campfires or grilling were asked to cease what they were doing, and in the majority of cases, they peacefully complied.
"We informed people about restrictions in force during a period of extreme fire danger and gave advice regarding what to do during such a period," he added.
Rescuers and law enforcement officers also spoke and shared water safety information with people present at swimming areas, as well as checked for and inspected safety equipment.
Approximately 286 emergency situations were responded to over the weekend, 158 of which were fires and six of which were on the water. 49 of these cases were wildfires, the largest of which was five hectares that burned in the northeastern border town of Narva-Jõesuu on 27 July.
On 28 July, a ten-hectare crop field burned in the Lääne County village of Jalukse.
Over the past weekend, three people drowned and one person died in a fire.
FILE - Sen. Jeff Sessions speaks at a news conference.
White House plans to allow thousands more refugees into the United States face stiff opposition on Monday in the U.S. Congress, where Republican lawmakers demanded the right to review, and reject, the effort, citing fears of terrorism.

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