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The state Department of Corrections has said it's working to address the recent spike in inmate suicides. |
Is the fourth time a charm for Charlie Sheen? |
The 48-year-old Anger Management star proposed to his girlfriend, former adult film star Brett Rossi, on Saturday, Feb. 15, his publicist Jeff Baillard confirmed to People. |
Excited to share the news, Rossi, 24, called Sheen her "best friend" and "soulmate." |
"Yes! We are engaged! He even was a gentleman and got down on one knee," she told E! News. "I was not expecting it at all. ... The ring is classic and beautiful, but I don't have any photos to share just yet. This is the happiest moment of both our lives. He's my best friend and my soulmate." |
This will be the fourth marriage for Sheen, whose first marriage to Donna Peele ended in an annulment. He is also divorced from Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller. The former Two and a Half Men star has five kids from his previous marriages, Cassandra Jade Estevez, Lola Rose, Sam, Max and Bob Sheen. |
Huawei has developed a prototype smartphone battery that can be recharged to half its capacity in just five minutes. |
The battery is based on the same lithium ion chemistry used in cellphone batteries today but gets its advantage from atoms of graphite bonded to the anode, Huawei said on Friday at an industry conference in Japan. |
That change means faster charging but not at the expense of usage life or a sacrifice in the amount of energy that can be stored in each battery, it said. |
It was developed by Huawei research and development subsidiary Watt Lab and the company showed off two prototypes in videos posted online. |
One of the two batteries has a capacity of 3,000mAh (milliampere hours) -- about equivalent to the batteries in modern smartphones -- and can be charged to 48 percent of capacity in five minutes. The second has a much smaller capacity of 600mAh but reaches 68 percent of capacity in just two minutes. |
The batteries have undergone repeated testing and the fast charging isn't a one-time deal, the company said. |
In the video, a battery is taken from a Huawei smartphone and recharged in a prototype charging unit. The device is bulky and hasn't been shrunk to the size that it could fit inside a phone. |
Huawei didn't say when the fast charging might make its way into commercial products. |
The announcement is one of a number this year that all point toward faster charging or longer battery life. Advances in battery technology have lagged other areas of technology and battery life remains a limiting factor for gadgets such as phones and larger products like electric vehicles. |
Earlier this week, researchers at Vanderbilt University said they had used quantum dots of iron pyrite, also know as fool's gold, to realize a fast-charging lithium ion battery. |
Scientists at Stanford University presented in April a fast-charging battery that uses aluminum-ion cells. They said it could be charged in about a minute, but at that time had only realized prototypes that were not powerful enough for use in smartphones. |
Sharon Osbourne Is Against Legalising Marijuana Because She Fears It Will Be A Disaster For Society In The Long Term. |
The music manager-turned-TV host has seen her husband Ozzy and children Kelly and Jack battle and overcome drug addictions, and she has now spoken out against the legalisation of marijuana in four U.S. states, admitting she hopes the rest of the country does not follow suit. |
She tells CBS TV, "I have big resentments that this is happening (sic). Anything that alters your mental state I don't think should be allowed... You can say prescribed medication can alter your mental state but I don't agree with it all. |
"The next thing I am waiting for is when someone is working heavy machinery, when they are driving a car. It is all going to end in tears." |
She believes the legalisation will one day be overturned, adding, "In years to come there will be new laws for those who are smoking and using marijuana... This will end not the way everybody thinks it will." |
Why Might Sharon Osbourne Get Sacked From 'The X Factor'? |
her life and work with the Underground Railroad. Weather permitting, the performance will be outdoors near a roaring fire; otherwise it will be held indoors. This event is FREE and open to the public, but please RSVP to secure your spot at 704-875-2312. |
The government announced new plans for developing both transportation and rural sanitation at the annual meeting of the Ministry of Rural Development at the Chaktomuk Conference Hall in Phnom Penh yesterday. |
According to officials at the event, the ministry will be completing by year’s end a sub-decree laying out penalties for overloaded vehicles – seen by some as a source of added stress on Cambodia’s already pockmarked highways – and will also take measures to increase the number of modern latrines in rural areas over th... |
“The sub-decree will be done in many steps, but we’re trying our best to finish it in 2013, because there are many overloaded vehicles destroying our roads,” said Chan Darong, director of technical affairs at the ministry. |
The sub-decree, which comes on the heels of a speech in which Prime Minister Hun Sen singled out the issue, would give police a legal framework in which to operate and could reduce spending on road construction, Darong added. |
The ministry also took aim at sanitation, with Chea Samnang, director of the Department of Rural Health Care, saying that based on the department’s research, 53 per cent of rural Cambodians had televisions, 39 per cent had motorbikes and 29 per cent had mobile phones, but only 23 per cent have spent the $15 to $30 it t... |
“So, do they lack the money to buy toilets, or do they have it but not buy them?” he asked, adding that the ministry planned to reform a financing scheme that in the past saw many recipients misuse the money intended to build latrines. |
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John Colbert has been bowling tenpins for over 30 years. |
That bowling career started at Fort Lee, Va., when he served in the Air Force. Now the Baltimore resident does all his league bowling at Brunswick Normandy in four leagues -- Tuesday Doubles, Friday BGE, Saturday Weekend Wonders and Wednesday Anytime/Funtime. |
In May 1993 he posted a 300 game and just a few weeks ago he came very close to an 800 series. |
Colbert, a right-handed down-and-in bowler, also came close to another 300 game. |
"That first game [in the Tuesday Doubles] I opened with a spare and said to myself, 'Well, might as well strike out,'" Colbert laughed, "And that's what I did." |
The next game he kept right on striking for a 267. |
"Man, I wanted that 800 set so bad I could taste it," Colbert said. "In the last frame I needed a strike to sew it up and I left the 10-pin standing." |
The result was a 233 game and a 789 series, the best of his career. |
Colbert was using a 16-pound Torq, fitted and drilled by Jerry Sieglein, The Thumb Doctor Pro Shop owner, and he knows exactly what happened with that last ball. |
"I know I took my eye off my spot," he said. "And I didn't come through the ball, I let my hand come around the ball and that was enough to make the 10-pin stand there laughing at me." |
his partner, Tim Sandusky, win the Normandy Tuesday Double League, beating along the way Ed Lanehart and Monty Smith, who had to settle for second place. |
Jim Cooke has been bowling tenpins "for about 10 years now." |
That's long enough for Cooke, who has a 177 average, to have been locked in some battles for first place. But no victory could have been sweeter than the one in the Wednesday Mixed Fivesome at Brunswick Normandy last month. |
Cooke's team, "The Cobras," was tied with two teams for the league championship. |
"I've been close to 300 games before," Cooke said. "And I've been close to a 700 series [his career high series of 676] but I wasn't thinking about a 300 game that night, just winning [the league championship]. |
"I was bowling anchor and that's always helped me concentrate. And since I sure wasn't expecting to have a perfect game. I was very relaxed." |
In the first game of the three-game set for the league crown, Cooke stepped onto the lane in the first frame and fired his 16-pound Turbo X bowling ball into the pocket for a strike. He followed with 11 more for his first perfect game -- and the championship. |
That's a great way to finish the winter season, with a perfect game and the league championship. Both feats accomplished on the very last night of competition. |
Whenever I respond strongly to art, I always try to figure out why. If it’s an ‘I hate that!’ response, I ask myself if the work or works in question pushed one or more of my buttons in some way. If it’s ‘I love that!’ I do the same but from the other direction: am I seeing something that merely confirms my own prejudi... |
Of course the question ‘Is it really good?’ suggests there is some way to get outside of yourself – that is, outside of our own particular sociology – and look at art objectively. I don’t really believe that. I think we’re all creatures of the time we’re in and there’s no way really to get out of it. I think the best w... |
That’s a long preamble to the work of Stephanie Aitken at Field Contemporary. I liked them right away – even on the night of the opening when it was so crowded in the West Broadway gallery that it was difficult to see the works on the wall. The ones on the floor were much easier to look at. So I went back a second time... |
It didn’t. Maybe I liked them even more. So what was it I liked? |
Part of it was that they’re paintings – abstract paintings. I know that’s almost a dirty word in Vancouver unless it’s matched with the adjective conceptual. Okay, that’s kind of flippant but it was something about the honesty of materials – of paint applied to a surface – that appealed to me right away. They didn’t ne... |
I don’t know if you can tell from the reproduced image, but the paint is applied to suggest light filtering through a forest. That’s another taboo in Vancouver, isn’t it? Art that references nature in a way that’s about creating an equivalence for the visual experience of being in the forest. The paint is applied in li... |
The paintings have wall presence despite being relatively small in size. Axis Mundi, for example, is 35.5 cm by 46 cm (14″ by 18″). They look bigger than they are because they’re dense with visual information. |
On the second viewing, I realized I saw something else in them: the work of Emily Carr. I’m reading a biography of Carr, so it must have helped me see parallels with her later, expressionistic paintings. Some of Aitken’s works look vaguely tree-like in the vertical orientation. As a group, Aitken’s rich greens, deep br... |
The exhibition also includes three hand-knitted rugs on the floor. They have been produced in collaboration with Burritt Brothers on Main and weavers in the Kathmandu Valley. At the opening, I liked how people stood around and sometimes on them. I found myself staring at the relationship between shoes and legs and the ... |
If the paintings are informed by the natural world of trees and plants and beetles, then are the carpets literally referencing the forest floor? I liked the idea of using textiles to create an environment that extends beyond the wall to the floor of the gallery. What I had trouble with was seeing what was underfoot as ... |
Breathing Machines continues at Field Contemporary to Saturday, March 14. |
*Images top to bottom: Axix Mundi and Anchor on the Mountain, oil on linen, both by Stephanie Aitken, courtesy Field Contemporary; Stephanie Aitken rug, Photo: Kevin Griffin. |
Since December 2007, when the Indiana Commission on Local Government Reform issued a report on streamlining local government, many library leaders expressed wariness about the report's call to reorganize library systems by county and to ensure that unserved residents get service. Many librarians suggest that givin... |
It's natural for the librarians to want local control and the ability to respond to the specific needs and desires of their patrons. But everything I've seen in LaPorte and Allen counties indicates that those libraries' patrons are being well taken care of, and I don't know why it would be any different for other count... |
Libraries are facing enormous challenges right now, and might find it harder and harder to justify continued taxpayer support. The Internet and the digital revolution have eaten away at many of the libraries' core functions. People can do far better research themselves and in much quicker time than by relying on the li... |
November 4, 2010 The new Forbes list of the world's most powerful people is out -- and Chinese President Hu Jintao is in the top spot, just ahead of President Obama. |
August 24, 2010 China's mega, 11-day traffic jam is linked to the illegal coal trade, according to a report in the Christian Science Monitor. |
August 16, 2010 China's economy appears to have surpassed Japan's for good and is on track to top the U.S. by 2030. China is helped by being a developing economy with plenty of room to expand while the mature U.S. economy appears poised for slower growth. |
August 9, 2010 The move allows China to boast about its attempts to green its economy and keeps the nation on track as a low-cost producer of the world's goods. |
July 20, 2010 China overtakes U.S. as the world's largest energy consumer. |
Matt and Kim’s most recent album, Lightning, was released last October, and the year that the lo-fi dance-punk duo has enjoyed since its release has been a busy one. They finished up a tour with Passion Pit earlier this spring and are currently in the midst of performing at most of the major summer festivals, both in t... |
"Even though the permit may not have been fully legitimate," Matt adds. "We couldn't get a permit to shoot a music video in Times Square. It was post-9/11, and things were much more sensitive. But we were able to get a permit to shoot a web promotional video there. We didn't give the full story of what we were doing; y... |
Has Lincoln Park in Lincoln Heights been turned into a dirt parking lot? One activist says so, and he's not happy about it. The park houses the city's Plaza De La Raza and, according to YouTube, there's plenty of parking in the neighborhood, including curb-side spots. But for some reason, he indicates, the green lawn o... |
Cyrus Kadivar writes: A few days ago, seven Tehran men convicted of committing a series of drunken thefts and brawls were returned to the scene of their crimes and forced to ride backwards on donkeys in public. |
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Then burn in the fire of love, don't sleep. |
You slept a hundred nights, what did you gain? |
For God's sake, tonight don't sleep till dawn. |
Make a dare. Make a bid. Make money. |
I prefer an accomodating vice to an obstinate virtue. |
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Dena’s exposure to Alok Industries stands at Rs 615 crore. |
Dena Bank has put on sale its exposures to Alok Industries and Bhushan Power and Steel, worth a total Rs 1,018 crore. The sale will be held through the Swiss challenge method, based on an existing offer the bank has received from an investor. The bank is offering them on a 100% cash basis. |
Both accounts, part of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) first list of large non-performing assets (NPAs), remain unresolved 18 months since the list was issued amid several rounds of litigation. |
“Dena Bank invites bids from all eligible Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs)/ NBFCs, banks, FIs for sale/assignment of its Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) subject to applicable regulations issued by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from time to time. The sale of NPAs comprises of two accounts with a principal balance of abo... |
Dena’s exposure to Alok Industries stands at Rs 615 crore. The Bhushan Power exposure is Rs 403 crore. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has admitted claims worth Rs 783 crore for Alok Industries and Rs 567 crore. |
On September 12, Bank of India (BoI) had sought bids for its exposures to the two accounts, which stood at Rs 3,062 crore. Earlier this year, Bank of Baroda (BoB) had sold off its Bhushan Power exposure. Dena Bank is to be amalgamated with BoB and Vijaya Bank over the next few months. |
So far, a full resolution has been reached only in the cases of Bhushan Steel, Electrosteel Steels and Monnet Ispat & Energy from the first RBI list of 12 accounts. |
While excessive litigation has delayed the resolution in some accounts, others, such as seven of the 11 large power projects have not achieved resolution because of a lack of consensus among lenders. As a result, banks continue to resort to sales to asset reconstruction companies (ARCs). |
Dena Bank has already put smaller NPAs worth Rs 5,535 crore on the block so far in Q3FY19. |
A legal battle for control of Alok Industries and Bhushan Power has played out in different judicial forums. On November 29, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) had upheld an NCLT order directing the resolution professional for Alok Industries to reconsider the bid submitted by Reliance Industries and J... |
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