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What are your three spring break packing must-haves? Aquaphor (aka the best lip balm ever), headphones, and a portable phone charger! |
What's important to you in a travel outfit? Comfort is the most important element of a traveling outfit. Adding personal touches to the outfit is also a major key. |
What's important to you in a travel outfit? My prime traveling ensemble is one that consists of pieces you would never think of putting together, yet somehow marry very well. There is nothing like roughing up a tight, high-low dress with a funky bomber jacket and Nike Roshe Sneakers. |
What are your three spring break packing must-haves? My trusty Canon Rebel, a leather journal I bought at Camden Market, and a prominent shade of lipstick. |
What's important to you in a travel outfit? Two major keys to the perfect travel look are layers and comfort. The look comes together with exciting pieces like these flare jeans and leopard tote bag that add something special to your outfit. |
What are your three spring break packing must-haves? A camera to capture important moments, a killer playlist for long car or plane rides, and those books you've been meaning to read all semester. |
What's important to you in a travel outfit? The most important part of a traveling outfit for me is feeling comfortable without looking frumpy. My go-to pants are a pair of joggers, which can be dressed up or down. |
What are your three spring break packing must-haves? A nice pair of sunglasses, my favorite pair of Nike trainers, and AT LEAST one pair of ripped jeans. |
What's important to you in a travel outfit? When it comes to traveling, comfort is key, and the one piece that I find most comfortable is most definitely a romper. A romper allows you to move freely and is an easy one-piece outfit that you never have to question. |
What are your three spring break packing must-haves? Rad sunnies, ankle boots which practically live on my feet, and black leather cross-body bag! |
What's important to you in a travel outfit? Comfort, versatility and style are all key when I'm traveling! I find that a classic leather jacket is the perfect laid-back layer, especially when thrown over an easy shift dress and paired with my favorite comfy Chloé booties. |
What are your three spring break packing must-haves? My Karen Walker Super Duper Strength Sunglasses, my Birkenstock Monterey sandals, and an engrossing novel. |
What's important to you in a travel outfit? I love a traveling outfit that's easy to transform. A black slip dress looks put together, but a denim jacket brings a look back to casual. |
What are your three spring break packing must-haves? Denim, comfortable shoes, and a new book. |
What's important to you in a travel outfit? Comfort! If I'm traveling I want to be wearing an outfit that's low-maintenance but cool too. |
What are your three spring break packing must-haves? My favorite jacket, a leave-in conditioner, and my camera! |
Why on earth did Castro build a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Havana? |
In January of 2009—on New Year’s Day, to be precise—it will have been half a century since the brave and bearded ones entered Havana and chased Fulgencio Batista and his cronies (carrying much of the Cuban treasury with them) off the island. Now the chief of the bearded ones is a doddering and trembling figure, who one... |
Ever since the upheaval in his own intestines that eventually forced him to cede power to his not-much-younger brother, Raúl, Fidel Castro has been seeking (and easily enough finding) an audience for his views in the Cuban press. Indeed, now that he can no longer mount the podium and deliver an off-the-cuff and uninter... |
[i]s a spiritual force. It played a major role at critical times in the history of Russia. At the onset of the Great Russian War, after the treacherous Nazi attack, Stalin turned to her for support to the workers and peasants that the October Revolution had changed into the owners of factories and the land. |
These sentences contain some points of real interest. It is certainly true, for example, that the Orthodox Church “played a major role at critical times in the history of Russia.” It provided the clerical guarantee of serfdom and czarism, for example, and its demented anti-Semitism gave rise to the fabrication of the n... |
It gets worse. As Castro writes in the same column, concerning the visit of a Russian Orthodox archbishop named Vladimir Gundjaev to Cuba, “I suggested building a Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in the capital of Cuba as a monument to Cuban-Russian friendship. … During the construction, earth was brought from ... |
All these are good questions, but I believe they have an easy answer. Fidel Castro has devoted the last 50 years to two causes: first, his own enshrinement as an immortal icon, and second, the unbending allegiance of Cuba to the Moscow line. Now, black-cowled Orthodox “metropolitans” line up to shake his hand, and the ... |
Microsoft (MSFT) has set a $15 a handset Android tax on Samsung to keep legal action at bay, according to a Reuters report. That's a good deal stiffer a royalty than the $5 to $12.50 price tags previous reported. |
Although I've written about this before, the Samsung news combined with reports that Oracle (ORCL) is also seeking stiff royalties from handset makers using Android puts the issue into a renewed and glaring light. Mobile is the hottest area of high tech right now, with the possible exception of social networks. The int... |
Consumer electronics companies are notoriously sensitive to price, literally working to pare away tenths of a cent from the cost of a unit. It's because of the volume. When you're selling ten of millions, a fraction of a penny adds up quickly. For a parallel, look at the PC industry. Even 20 years ago, companies were l... |
Demand royalties from anyone and everyone using Android, knowing that many companies will buckle under to avoid the greater expense of a protracted legal battle, something that Microsoft is notorious for undertaking. |
In taking this route, Microsoft creates be a significant revenue stream for itself. |
Microsoft can offer to license Windows Phone at or near the cost of the Android royalty and offer its patent infringement indemnification so the hardware company avoids a similar run-in with Apple (AAPL) or anyone else. |
For example, according to Reuters, Samsung might get a $5 per unit break if it starts building Windows Phone-based handsets. It would be hard to overstate just how disruptive this strategy could be for mobile in general and Google in particular. |
Not that Microsoft is Google's only worry. According to a NetworkWorld report, Oracle has begun to ask handset makers for a royalty of $15 to $20 a handset, based on the patent infringement suit that Oracle filed against Google over the use of Java. |
According to a Deutsche Bank analyst, that sum would be comparable to the cost of licensing Windows Phone. Now add the Microsoft tax on top of it. Suddenly, the free Android costs nearly double the price of a Windows Phone license, let alone Linux, Symbian, or possibly Nokia's (NOK) MeeGo, since the company would likel... |
Say for a moment that Oracle is successful. How the devil does Google fight back against these two directions of attack? The only way is to ... charge a license fee itself for Android and provide indemnification. Suddenly, the operating system's biggest selling feature for hardware manufacturers is gone. With it would ... |
The big winners out of all this are Microsoft, which seems more adoption of Windows Phone, and Apple, because its most dangerous competitor gets kneecapped. |
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The nation's biggest five-a-side football competition is nearly upon us! |
Registration for the 2019 FA People's Cup is now closed but you can follow all the action at bbc.co.uk/fapeoplescup - starting with the first round on Saturday and Sunday 23-24 February. |
We'll bring you the action, colour and stories from the nation's biggest five-a-side competition. |
There are 15 different categories - including the new Women's Walking Football - and the teams taking part will get the chance to play at St George's Park and lift a trophy during the FA Cup final at Wembley. |
We also want to hear your stories! Join the conversation on social media via the hashtag #FAPeoplesCup. |
It is a free five-a-side knockout competition that gives everyday folk like you and me the chance to play in their version of the FA Cup. |
BBC Get Inspired, the Football Association and the country's leading small-pitch football providers have joined forces to make it happen. |
Everyone from league regulars harbouring dreams of glory to people who have never even set foot on a pitch will take part in football's biggest participation tournament. |
The competition takes place over three rounds - round one (23-24 February), the regional semi-finals (23-24 March) and the grand finals weekend (27-28 April) at St George's Park, the home of the England football teams. |
From original celebrations to cracking goals, watch some of the best moments from the nation's biggest five-a-side competition - the FA People's Cup. |
Renaissance FC - a five-a-side team - tell their story of football bringing refugees together to give them an opportunity to feel at home in England. |
Meet Romance FC - the collective of creative women from East London who are playing in this year's FA People's Cup. |
Klopp signs Pogba for Cup... or does he? |
Meet the 'Kloppelgangers', a five-a-side team entering this year's FA People's Cup who bear an uncanny resemblance to some of football's most famous faces. |
BBC Breakfast's Louise Minchin, who says she has never played football, leads a team of BBC All-Stars in a five-a-side walking football game against the Rothwell Old Boars. |
Kitted out in fancy dress, Bristol City Women tell us why you should don your best costume and get involved in the 2019 FA People's Cup. |
England women manager Phil Neville visits St George's Park to see women's walking football - a new category in this year's FA People's Cup - in action. |
Winners of the FA People's Cup competitions collect their trophies on the Wembley pitch during the 2018 FA Cup final between Manchester United and Chelsea. |
Find out how some 'old girls' and the suffragettes inspired these 'old bags' to reach last season's FA People's Cup semi-finals. |
Often, cancer goes undetected until its advanced stages, when treating it becomes very difficult and the outlook less promising. But researchers from Switzerland are developing an implant that could alert "wearers" to the presence of cancer early on. |
A biomedical tattoo that looks like a brown mole when it 'lights up' could alert its 'wearer' to early signs of cancer. |
Recently, the media has been inundated with the news of "smart tattoos" — developed by researchers from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. |
They help to monitor health using biosensitive ink that changes color following the modifying composition of the body's interstitial fluid. |
Now, Prof. Martin Fussenegger — of the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich in Switzerland — alongside a team of researchers, has developed the prototype of another such "tattoo" for a precise purpose: detecting the possible presence of cancerous cells early on... |
Numerous types of cancer are diagnosed late, which diminishes the efficacy of treatment and might mean that people will likely not see positive long-term health outcomes. |
"For example, if breast cancer is detected early, the chance of recovery is 98 percent; however, if the tumor is diagnosed too late, only 1 in 4 women has a good chance of recovery. " |
"Nowadays," he continues, "people generally go to the doctor only when the tumor begins to cause problems. Unfortunately, by that point it is often too late." |
Prof. Fussenegger and team believe that this situation might, in the future, be significantly improved by the specialized skin implant that they devised — which they call a "biomedical tattoo." |
Their biomedical tattoo is set to recognize four of the most widespread types of cancer — which are also often detected late — namely: breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer. |
The researchers have conducted a feasibility study, in which they tested the efficacy and accuracy of their prototype on mice and on pig skin. |
Their results, which so far have been promising, are published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. |
At the earliest stages of cancer development, blood levels of calcium become super-elevated in a phenomenon known as "hypercalcemia." Studies have reported that 30 percent of individuals diagnosed with a form of cancer have an elevated calcium concentration in their systems. |
The implant consists of a series of "genetic components" that are incorporated into body cells; once inserted under the skin, this implant is then able to monitor blood calcium levels. |
A simple blood test could tell lung cancer from harmless pulmonary nodules. |
Should these levels spike abnormally, melanin — which is the body's natural pigment — would then "flood" the genetically modified cells, giving them the appearance of a brown mole. Thus, the "wearer" would be alerted very early of any telling signs of cancer. |
"An implant carrier should then see a doctor for further evaluation after the mole appears," Prof. Fussenegger says. |
"The mole does not mean that the person is likely to die soon," he adds. To the contrary, the carrier should simply take it as an early sign that they may need to check their health status. |
Also, the implant "is intended primarily for self-monitoring, making it very cost effective," as Prof. Fussenegger notes. |
However, should a person not wish to be exposed to the potential stress that an artificial "mole" might "light up" anytime, and potentially signal cancer, they would have another option. |
Prof. Fussenegger and colleagues have also developed an alternative implant style, wherein the colored marker of hypercalcemia only becomes visible under a special red light, similar to the "invisible ink" concept. |
This means that the implant carrier would need a "regular check [that] could be carried out by their doctor," says Prof. Fussenegger. |
The tests conducted so far have confirmed that the implant is reliable as a diagnostic aid, but it does have some drawbacks. The main problem is that it does not have a long "shelf life," so it would have to be "updated" repeatedly. |
"Encapsulated living cells last for about a year," notes Prof. Fussenegger, "according to other studies. After that, they must be inactivated and replaced." |
Another catch is that this implant is, as yet, only an early prototype, and much more research is needed before it can be put to the test on humans. The road to making the biomedical tattoo available for use is long and laborious. |
"Continued development and clinical trials in particular are laborious and expensive, which we as a research group cannot afford," explains Prof. Fussenegger, confessing that the overall research process could take over a decade to be completed. |
But the wait and the effort, he adds, is definitely worth it, since this is a concept that could be adapted so that it can help to diagnose a plethora of different conditions — from neurodegenerative diseases to hormonal disorders — early on. |
The Roots will surely rock at the Prospect Park band shell, when they play an Afro-centric line-up on July 11. But, will they still wear their stylin’ suits in the summer heat? |
Coney Island: Sen. Schumer makes saving the New York Cosmos his goooaaal! |
Music: Celebrate Brooklyn kicks off with Andrew Bird next Friday night! |
Those annoying vuvuzelas at the World Cup are definitely not the only sounds coming out of Africa. |
Okay Africa, at the band shell in Prospect Park on July 11, will celebrate the last day of the international soccer tourney, and the launch of music site okayafrica.com, with a performance by The Roots. Currently seen almost nightly as the house band on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” the cooler-than-thou act will pull... |
Also on the bill is our own Talib Kweli, who will most likely rock his track “Africa Dream,” as well as three other acts who hail from the motherland. |
“The most exciting part of this event is that people can open their ears to the new sound of Africa,” said Okay Africa spokeswoman Virginia Suss. |
But do us a favor: Leave the vuvuzela home. |
Okay Africa at the Prospect Park band shell [Prospect Park West and Ninth Street in Park Slope, (718) 855-7882], July 11, 4 pm. |
Some GOP House members are trying to strip a provision from the defense authorization bill that they fear would lead to more discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. |
The provision in question was added during a late-night markup of the National Defense Authorization Act in April. Rep. Steve Russell, R-Okla., offered the amendment , which provides protections and exemptions to "any religious corporation, religious association, religious educational institution, or religious society"... |
Russell's amendment would apply to "any branch or agency of the federal government," not just defense contracts. |
With the full measure expected to come to the floor this week, Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., has offered an amendment to remove the Russell provision, along with a handful of GOP members, including Florida Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who has a transgender son, and Carlos Curbelo, whose re-election race the Rothenberg-Gonzal... |
Rep. Mike Coffman, initially voted for Russell's amendment, but the Colorado Republican is now co-sponsoring the effort to take that provision out of the bill. |
Coffman's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday morning. Coffman's represents a swing district based in Aurora, Colorado. The Rothenberg-Gonzales Political Report/Roll Call rates his re-election race as Leans Republican . |
Democrats and gay rights advocates argue that the current amendment would undo President Barack Obama's 2014 executive order that banned federal contractors from discriminating based on sexual orientation or gender identity. |
"The exemption is meant for religious organizations," said Armed Services Committee ranking Democrat Adam Smith of Washington "The way this amendment is written, it doesn't matter if you are a religious organization. You could be a private contractor and this basically gives you the right to discriminate if you de... |
But Russell countered that his amendment was about extending religious liberty protections to Defense Department contractors, since the department had not yet codified the religious protections. |
"This is not what is being characterized, "Russell said during committee markup. "This rule affirms prior policy that faith-based organizations are no less eligible than secular organizations to deliver federally funded services ... This is reaffirming what the president is already doing in making a level playing field... |
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