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They are also recommending checks by police on the owners and storage of all semi-automatics and pistols.
"Police know who most of these people are because these types of firearms currently must be registered,'' Dr Russell said.
In the longer term the pair believe amended or new legislation should include a ban on all private ownership of semi-automatic firearms in New Zealand, an amnesty or buy-back with compensation to owners of subsequently banned firearms.
There should also be a register of all firearms and either three or five-year licensing of firearms owners, instead of the current 10 years.
Dr Russell noted each licenced firearms owner must pay $126.50, once every 10 years for a standard licence to own rifles or shotguns, but the actual cost to police of administering the entire licensing system is more than $11 million per year.
"Because taxpayers are subsidising firearms owners, it's time for taxpayers to have more of a say in firearms policy and law,'' Dr Russell said.
Just when it seemed like everyone was getting along, Rob claims his family failed to invite Chyna to her own baby shower – and took revenge against Kylie.
When Rob Kardashian got together with Blac Chyna, there was family drama from the off.
In case you need a quick Kardashian/Jenner family tree for reference, Chyna is Kim's former BFF and Tyga's former fiancé. Tyga and Chyna also have a child together. After splitting from Chyna, Tyga got together with Kim and Rob's half-sister, Kylie. The family cut contact with Chyna out of loyalty to Kylie. Well, everyone except Rob.
While the family didn't comment on the relationship at the time, the drama behind the scenes unfolded on the last season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
As if the bombshell of Rob and Chyna ~going against the family~ by hooking up wasn't enough, within months they had announced an engagement and pregnancy.
And that news went down like a goddamn lead balloon, too.
So it's safe to say that there's a fair amount of angst between the two parties in this scenario. However, yesterday things took a turn for the absolute worst.
Because out of nowhere, Rob took to Twitter to suggest that his family had planned a baby shower for him – but didn't invite Chyna.
He then went on to TWEET KYLIE JENNER'S PHONE NUMBER.
We've blanked it out here, but he has tweeted it twice.
And it turns out that this wasn't a prank – it really was Kylie's number.
Instagram has a function where it can search for the contacts you have in your phone. If you have somebody's number, and they have the contacts function switched on, they will appear when you search. People very quickly began entering the number into their phonebook to see if it was legit.
In fact, a lot of people tried it.
And some people began texting and calling her.
But also just wanting a chat.
A source close to the family also confirmed to The Shade Room that Rob wasn't hacked either, and it definitely was him who tweeted the number.
The number has since been disconnected, but we'd imagine the Kardashians are currently in Krisis Talks.
Because the real issue here is that Rob and Chyna have gone in on Kylie on social media before.
When Kylie launched a cooking show on her app, called Cooking With Kylie, Chyna, who had her own show, Cooking With Chyna, responded with this not-so-cryptic comment.
And Kim called Rob out on it.
And her comments to him then are awkward AF in light of what's happened now.
Roll on Season 13, tbh.
Disney Channel’s first venture into animation with its original-movie franchise proved to be quite animated among viewers.
The premiere of Disney’s Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama was cable’s top-rated program April 8 among a slew of kids’ demos.
The film, derived from the network’s Kim Possible series, grabbed a 10.4 rating among kids 6-11 (2 million of those viewers), an 8.9 among tweens 9-14 (1.8 million), a 13.9 among girls 6-11 (1.3 million), an 11.4 against tween girls (1.1 million) and a 6.5 against tween boys (667,000), according to Nielsen Media Research data.
Earning a 3.6 household rating (3.1 million viewers), the Kim Possible flick trailed only the 4.2 generated by Turner South’s coverage of the Major League Baseball game between the Atlanta Braves and the New York Mets April 8, according to Disney officials.
A blast of arctic air and more snow will be back next week. The forecast for Wednesday calls for a high of just 3 degrees.
Metro Detroiters probably thought the worst weather of the season was over after experiencing temperatures in the single digits and 3 to 6 inches of snow last weekend.
But the worst is yet to come.
A deep freeze will grip metro Detroit next week as arctic air pushes into the region. Wednesday is shaping up to be the coldest day next week, with a high of 3 degrees and a low of minus-9 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in White Lake.
The week will start off with snow on Monday after 1 a.m. then lastthroughout the day and end by Tuesday morning, the agency said.
Weather service meteorologist Sara Pampreen said it is still too early to tell how much accumulation the system will bring.
After the snow is gone, a cold front will move into the area. While temperatures will be in the teens this weekend and early next week, Pampreen said, "The coldest day looks to be Wednesday and Thursday."
On Wednesday, Pampreen said, the wind chill could make temperatures feel like minus-28 degrees. Thursday's high looks slightly better, going up to seven degrees, with a low of minus-2 degrees.
Things will begin to warm up gradually by next weekend, with temperatures back in the teens.
As a graduate student starting a dissertation, I discovered that the big three above should play balanced roles with the qualification that all three were largely run by decent people largely working in the public interest. How drastically things have changed with greed now running a country with millions in desperate need.
My first career choice for which I was awarded a B.D. degree qualifying me to practice theology from Union Theological Seminary with an exchange year at Oxford. But these very studies and faculty such as Reinhold Niebuhr persuaded me that the “social gospel” was not being promoted by by Billy Graham (and progeny) but rather being trumped by worse things now being replayed from the the past of Christianity — wars, torture, burning people (witches/drones) including as well Muslims and Jews.
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His stint with the Canberra Gunners convinced the Illawarra Hawks to sign Marshall Nelson in a sign of just how valuable the ACT's high performance pathway is despite its uncertain future.
Hawks coach and Canberra product Rob Beveridge's decision to send Nelson to play with the Gunners in the SEABL paved the way for the rising star to earn an NBL contract.
Nelson could soon return to Canberra when the Hawks meet the Adelaide 36ers at the Tuggeranong Basketball Stadium in an NBL pre-season match on September 14.
But the most pressing matter on the ACT basketball scene is the uncertain future of the Gunners and Canberra Capitals Academy after Basketball Australia withdrew its support of the SEABL.
Basketball ACT chief executive Michael Haynes is adamant the ACT's senior high performance teams will survive a cull but changes could be afoot with the squads set to join a lower standard of competition if the SEABL goes under.
Nelson says the SEABL was the perfect avenue for him to find his feet on the court, following in the footsteps of current and former NBA players Patty Mills, Andrew Bogut, Matthew Dellavedova, and Ryan Broekhoff to play in the league.
"It was a great opportunity to be able to come into a system where I have the ball in my hands a lot and I’d be able to make mistakes and grow as a player," Nelson said.
"I hadn’t played in a while before I came to the Gunners and then I had those injuries [broken fingers] so it was good to get the rust off and just play with a good group of guys. It was really good for my development.
"[Gunners coach] Shawn McEachin came to one of the practices and he was just looking at all the young guys and the development players. Then he said he wanted a scoring guard and Bevo put a good word in.
"I ended up going there, it was kind of close to Wollongong so I could stay in Wollongong and be around the team and work out here. It just worked out well with my schedule. I had a job as well here. I worked here during the week and then I’d go there on weekends and play."
The Gunners and Capitals Academy could shift to the NSW Waratah League, while Haynes is open to exploring the prospect of playing in Victoria following murmurs about a new competition being formed.
Either move would likely represent a cavernous drop in the standard of the opposition for the region's high performance teams, however it could allow the Canberra sides to become far more competitive.
The Gunners team finished a nightmare season with 20 losses and zero wins, as Nelson averaged 16.1 points and 3.2 assists in his 15 games, while the Capitals Academy dropped 13 of its final 15 games to finish 12th in a 16-team league.
Marshall is a Western Australian product that shifted to Wollongong last year to chase an opportunity with the Hawks, and the move paid off via the 24-year-old's Canberra detour.
The looming pre-season match in Tuggeranong is an audition for Canberra's ability to host a regular season fixture, with the Hawks open to shifting a game to the capital as early as this season.
It is another chance for Illawarra to build on their budding partnership with Basketball ACT which will see the Hawks play games in Canberra and strengthen the capital's development pathways.
"It’ll be exciting, playing at Tuggeranong. I haven’t actually been there yet but that will be really good, hopefully I’ll see some of the Gunners fans there and some of the old teammates," Nelson said.
Friday, September 14: Illawarra Hawks v Adelaide 36ers at Tuggeranong Basketball Stadium, 7.30pm.
A $60 million expansion at Miami Valley Hospital South in Centerville is now open, adding to the steady stream of health care construction in the region.
The hospital expansion and renovation — parent company Premier Health’s largest construction project in at least five years — includes 170,000-square-feet in added space, a joint and spine center and about 100 new jobs.
But even with the Centerville hospital expansion complete, there are still more than $250 million in health care construction projects underway in the Dayton metro area.
Ohio health systems are trying to expand their capacity and stretch their reach, and every major system in the Cincinnati and Dayton area recently opened new or replacement hospitals or constructed major new medical centers, according to analyst Allen Baumgarten in his 2018 Ohio Health Market Review.
The expanded Miami Valley Hospital South will for the first time have a cardiac catheterization lab, medical offices for dozens of additional physicians, and six additional operating rooms bringing the site’s total to 16. The expansion also added 20 additional inpatient beds.
Besides the adding 170,000 square feet to the hospital, the project also included renovating 42,000 of more than 580,000 existing square feet.
The new spine and joint center is the centerpiece of the project, with expanded sports medicine, sports performance and pain center services.
Dr. Mike Herbenick, chair of Premier Health Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Institute, said with the expansion, they will be able to reduce the number of patients who need to be transferred elsewhere, keeping their course of care under one roof.
A spokeswoman said the expansion created about 100 new jobs, which brings Miami Valley Hospital South employees to about 600. Some jobs are shared between both Miami Valley Hospital South and Miami Valley Hospital main campus in Dayton.
Other Premier Health construction projects underway include two $9 million outpatient medical centers that just started construction in Beavercreek and Vandalia and a $27 million rehabilitation hospital to open early 2020 by Miami Valley’s main campus.
Ohio’s Hospice is building the $10 million Pure Healthcare Center on Miami Valley Hospital South’s campus, on track to open early 2019 and serve those with serious and chronic illnesses in their own homes. Ohio’s Hospice is also planning to open an inpatient hospice house at Upper Valley Medical Center in Troy in late 2019.
Competitor Kettering Health Network is also substantially expanding its reach. The Indu and Raj Soin Medical Center in Beavercreek will be getting a new $70 million, five-story tower in 2020. A new hospital will open in Troy mid 2019, first billed as a $60 million project though the square footage has since expanded. The network is also building a $30 million freestanding ER and medical center just broke ground in Piqua.
Dayton Children’s Hospital is building a $28 million, 50,000-square-foot medical center by its main campus, the Center for Community Health and Advocacy. The pediatric hospital is also converting a building in Troy into an outpatient medical center the former Miami-Jacobs Career College, to be shared with Edison Community College.
The Dayton Daily News should be your only source for health care news in the Dayton region. We dig deep to bring in-depth coverage on health care issues that impact your life.
Every so often we get one of those articles about how someone more frugal than your average frugal person is living off the land on the cheap, surviving on stuff discovered in Dumpsters and other people's trash. But they have limits, these people do.
Every so often we get one of those articles about how someone more frugal than your average frugal person is living off the land on the cheap, surviving on stuff discovered in Dumpsters and other people's trash. These enterprising individuals are known as Dumpster divers or freegans or anti-consumerists or whatever the name du jour happens to be, and we are supposed to feel both bourgeois-horrified and possibly impressed by their behavior. Would that we could eat old tacos from the garbage and save $250,000; our lives would be different, indeed. Today in the New York Post Kate Storey writes of such a person—Kate Hashimoto, who "Dumpster-dives for all her food, doesn’t use toilet paper or do laundry, and hasn’t bought toiletries in 10 years."
Hashimoto, like some others with this extreme propensity for savings, is employed. She's a CPA. Storey writes, however, that after Hashimoto was laid off in the dot-com crash she changed her lifestyle. With the fear of being fired at any time weighing on her following that experience, even though she has a job now, she takes advantage of all the fairly decent or even good products thrown away by upscale stores. She lives in Harlem, in a studio purchased and paid for, and treks regularly to the Upper West Side for free food because that's where it's best and most plentiful (Fairway?). She also cuts her own hair, washes her clothes "while she showers," runs to work instead of paying for the subway, participates in medical trials, takes surveys online for gift cards, and uses soap "to wash herself after using the toilet."
Sound advice, that. Maybe the Dumpster-diving life makes some sense after all.
Seventy-eight asylum seekers rescued in international waters by an Australian customs vessel will be taken to Indonesia to have their refugee claims processed.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono agreed during a bilateral meeting in Jakarta that they should be taken to Indonesia for "humanitarian reasons".
The group, believed to be Sri Lankans, was picked up on Monday in Indonesia's search and rescue zone, heading towards Australia.
The BBC reports there has been a tenfold increase in the number of asylum seekers reaching Australian waters this year.
The opposition blames Mr Rudd's government for relaxing the country's refugee laws.
Mr Rudd was in Jakarta on Tuesday for the inauguration of President Yudhoyono to his second term in office.
Tourists looking looking for a calorie-burning adventure in Ireland can hop on a bicycle, but those interested in something less active can take an escorted bus trip or a self-drive vacation. Visitors who want to hop from pub to pub can enjoy a relaxing independent tour, while others will prefer to visit the country's historical, natural and religious sites, like Blarney Castle, the Ring of Kerry and St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Escorted tours offer a hassle-free way to see the Emerald Isle. Most escorted tour packages include the services of professional guides and bus drivers, admission to tourist sites, hotel accommodations and daily breakfast; and some include airfare and airport transfers. Collette Vacations has a 10-day highlights tour that visits Blarney Castle, the Waterford Crystal facility, the Cliffs of Moher and a working farm. CIE Tours organizes a variety of Irish tours that include visits to sites like Bunratty Castle, the Blarney Woolen Mills, the Cobh Heritage Centre and Dublin's Kilmainham Jail.
Although driving on the left presents a challenge to tourists from the Americas and the European continent, Ireland's country roads and slow pace of life are good conditions for a self-drive tour. Typical packages from companies like Sceptre Tours include car rental and overnight accommodations. Many packages provide lodgings vouchers that tourists pay for in advance and then exchange for an overnight stay. Travelers have a choice of budget levels and classes of accommodations, from basic bed and breakfasts to high-quality hotels. Most packages allow the tours to begin at Shannon Airport in the west and end in Dublin in the east, or vice versa, thereby avoiding the need to backtrack.
Day tours have the advantage of giving independent travelers a chance to spend just a day with a knowledgeable and experienced tour guide while still maintaining their flexible schedules. These tours also give travelers who do not rent a car an opportunity to visit sites that are difficult to reach by public transportation. From Belfast, a day tour to the Giant's Causeway usually includes a stop at Old Bushmills Distillery. Black taxi tours of the city visit the Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods, explore their political wall murals and explain the history of "the Troubles." Day tours in Dublin include excursions to the Wicklow lakes region or walking tours of the capital.
Ireland's Catholic heritage and history puts it on the pilgrimage map. A pilgrimage is both a touristic journey and a spiritual experience. Specialty pilgrimage companies, such as Blue Heart Travel, offer Irish tours. Escorted tours that include daily mass and trips to religious sites and places of general interest are a common way to make a pilgrimage, but some tourists prefer to tour religious sites independently. The Marian Shrine at Knock is considered one of Ireland's most religious sites. Others include the ancient monastic city of Glendalough, the 12th-century Rock of Cashel and the sixth-century Clonmacnoise -- a monastery overlooking the River Shannon and characterized by its early churches, high Celtic crosses, graves and towers.
Although bike riders may occasionally find themselves in Ireland's legendary rain, a cycling tour is an ideal way to explore the country's green landscape and country villages. Companies like Iron Donkey organize escorted or self-guided bike tours through places like County Clare, the Burren, the Connemara, the Glens of Antrim and Galway Bay. The company provides bike and accessory rentals, guide services or phone support, route maps, overnight accommodations and luggage transfers. DuVine Adventures offers similar services but specializes in luxury escorted tours with overnight stays in deluxe hotels and castles.
Gualdoni, Annabella. "Types of Tours in Ireland." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/types-tours-ireland-35139.html. Accessed 19 April 2019.
We’ll leave Hulhumale lagoon behind and head to our first stop, a coral reef where, just two meters below the surface there, you’ll find young and delicate hard coral, as well as a multitude of reef fish. Your guide will give you tips on how to snorkel without causing damage to the coral, as well as talk you through the key points for using snorkel equipment, remaining calm in the water, and protecting marine life. You’ll also get a mini marine life lesson, so that you can put names to many of the colorful fish you’ll see.
From there, we’ll travel to Kandu Oiy Giri island, where, just beyond the harbor wall, we might spy the many stingrays and moray eels that come to feast on the fish scraps thrown back into the water by the local tuna fish processing plant.
Afterward, we’ll head to a sandbank where you can swim and snorkel some more, or just relax on the beach. We’ll enjoy a traditional Maldivian tea accompanied with fresh coconut, and get the chance to chat with our boat crew. We’ll snack on bite-size sweet and savory delights — the savory ones filled with vegetables, tuna, egg, and chili, the sweet ones with coconut, banana, or sponge cake.
As the afternoon comes to a close, your Maldives tour will take you back to Hulhumale, where you will be able to catch a ferry to return to Malé or a taxi to your Hulhumale guesthouse.
Local English-speaking snorkel guide; snorkeling equipment; Transportation by speed boat; Maldivian afternoon tea; 500ml bottle of water.
Hotel pick-up and drop-off; Food and beverages; Items of a personal nature; Gratuities.
Public jetty adjacent to Hulhumale Ferry Terminal, Hulhumale.

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