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A project to set up a major nature park around the town of Locarno in southern Switzerland has failed at the ballot box.
The new law on gambling meets constitutional requirements and protects players.
The new Gaming Act will just protect Swiss casinos from foreign competition, argues Andri Silberschmidt in opposition to the legislation.
Kandersteg has approved a credit of CHF1.2 million to build a ski jump should the Swiss city of Sion 2026 Winter Olympics bid succeed.
Sion 2026 Should Switzerland bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics?
On June 10, voters in the Swiss canton of Valais will decide on a CHF100 million credit needed to stage the 2026 Winter Olympics.
A poll shows most voters in canton Valais oppose the idea of allocating CHF100 million ($100 million) towards the Sion 2026 Winter Olympics bid.
About 5.3 million Swiss citizens, including registered members of the Swiss Abroad community, were eligible to take part in the June 10, 2018 ballot.
It was the second of up to four nationwide ballots this year.
Ceramics and other art classes will return to Hagerstown Community College for the spring semester, which begins Jan. 14, 2008.
Beginning Ceramics (ART-120) and Advanced Ceramics (ART-220) will each be offered on Tuesdays from noon to 3:35 p.m. and 6 to 9:35 p.m.
Art instructor Joan Bontempo will teach the noon section and Nicole and Vince Serra will teach the evening class.
Three-Dimensional Design (ART-108) will be offered on Thursdays from 6 to 9:35 p.m. Instructor Jeff Smith will help students develop an understanding and appreciation of the interaction of form in space through the use of simple materials, such as paper, cardboard, plaster and wood.
In addition to these courses, HCC will also offer its regular art classes in painting, drawing, jewelry, and photography.
To view the entire list of art classes, go to www.hagerstowncc.edu/academics/schedule and click on Spring 2008 classes, or contact Bontempo at 301-790-2800, ext. 221, for more information.
A Madhya Pradesh-based spiritual leader, involved in back channel negotiations between the Centre and fasting Anna Hazare, today said the ongoing talks to resolve the Lokpal logjam have so far been "fruitful".
A Madhya Pradesh-based spiritual leader, involved in back channel negotiations between the Centre and fasting Anna Hazare, on Monday said the ongoing talks to resolve the Lokpal logjam have so far been "fruitful" and are moving in a "positive" direction.
"I am trying my best to convince both sides (to arrive at an agreement). It will take time, but at the moment I can only say that the talks have been fruitful so far and moving in a positive direction," Uday Singh Deshmukh, popularly known as "Bhayyu Maharaj," said.
"Efforts are going on to resolve the issue with full vigour," said the Indore-based spiritual leader, who is known to several top politicians from Maharashtra, Hazare's home state.
"Things will take time to resolve. Media have played a tremendous role in presenting this whole issue (Lokpal) in a very transparent manner," said Bhayyu Maharaj, when asked to specify the time it will take to break the deadlock.
Without giving any timeframe for the talks between Team Anna and the Government, he maintained that intentions of both sides are honest.
Bhayyu Maharaj enjoys good rapport with the 73-year-old Gandhian, who is on a fast in New Delhi since August 16 to demand a strong anti-corruption ombudsman.
The spiritual leader, along with senior Maharashtra bureaucrat Umesh Chandra Sarangi, has been engaged by the Government to initiate back-room negotiations to end Hazare's fast at Ramlila Maidan in the national capital.
Fancy exploring the traditional patterns of African Masai tribes?
At this screenprinting workshop you’ll be taught how to use stencils to create layered repeat patterns, and have the chance to print either a teatowel or tote bag to take away with you.
There are two workshops on Thursday, September 1. The first is a family event from 1pm to 3.30pm which costs £30 Adults, £20 Children , Adult & Child £40.
The second is from 6pm to 8.30pm which costs £30.
All proceeds from this workshop will support Artworks tutor Harriet Lawton for her trip to the Memusi School in Kenya this September, where she will be delivering textiles workshops.
For workshop details call Artworks on 01422 346 900.
TEHRAN – Iran has freed Iranian-Canadian professor Homa Hoodfar, the Foreign Ministry spokesman announced on Monday.
“The retired professor was freed for humanitarian reasons such as [concern for] her health condition,” ISNA quoted Baharm Qassemi as saying.
The diplomat added that Hoodfar had gone to Oman and from there to Canada.
Hoodfar was arrested in Iran in June 2016. Websites close to the Iranian government stated that she had met charges of collaboration on soft revolution plans orchestrated by foreign governments.
Proper fertilization will ensure a bountiful citrus harvest.
1 How Often Should You Fertilize Citrus Trees?
Citrus trees benefit from proper application of fertilizer to enrich the soil. Like other fruit trees, citrus trees need the right balance of nitrogen, potassium, phosphorous and trace elements like manganese, boron, copper and magnesium for vigorous growth and maximum fruit production. Before fertilizing, test the soi...
Citrus trees will need more fertilizer as they age. In humid tropical climates such as Florida during the first year, start applying fertilizer at the start of the growing season in February just as the buds begin to swell, and reapply every six weeks through October. Apply about 1/2 pound of 10-10-10 fertilizer per tr...
For mature citrus trees that are 5 years old and older in humid climates, fertilize three times a season with 5 pounds of 10-10-10 fertilizer per tree. Fertilize in February, May and November. For each application, apply 1 pound of fertilizer for each year of the tree’s age. For instance, a Florida tree 10 years old wo...
For citrus grown in dry climates such as southern California or Arizona, the main fertilizing ingredient required for citrus tree vigor is nitrogen. Most soils have enough potassium and phosphorous. Generally, don’t apply nitrogen fertilizer in the first year. In the second year, apply 1/2 cup of ammonium sulfate per t...
Spread the fertilizer evenly on the ground in a band along the edge of the citrus tree’s leaf canopy. Don’t spread it near the trunk. Make the band as wide in feet as the tree has years of age. For instance, you would spread fertilizer on the ground along the canopy edge of a 5-year-old citrus tree in a band 5 feet wid...
Kirchhoff, Herb. "Fertilizing Cycles for Citrus Trees." Home Guides \| SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/fertilizing-cycles-citrus-trees-22781.html. Accessed 24 April 2019.
We find three important trends in the evolution of musical discourse: the restriction of pitch sequences (with metrics showing less variety in pitch progressions), the homogenization of the timbral palette (with frequent timbres becoming more frequent), and growing average loudness levels.
Basically, musicians are using fewer and simpler note sequences, less variety in timbre, and then making up for it by cranking up the volume. The chart on the right, which is really the only comprehensible one in the paper, shows the evolution of timbral variety, peaking in the 60s and then dropping off dramatically ev...
Later, during a Q&A with neighborhood kids, the researchers added, ¡Quítese mi césped!
Clark and the BC Liberals have spent the last few days arguing that because NDP leader Adrian Dix is against the expansion of the Kinder Morgan oil pipeline in the port of Vancouver he is "anti-development" and "anti-business."
Broad sweeping generalizations based on a singular position are the highest form of political spindoctoring and are likely the reason so few people even care that there is an election underway at all. I have seen high-school presidential races with more class.
But if that is the way it is going to be, then I guess that leaves Christy Clark and the BC Liberals, who remain unclear as to whether they support more oil tankers, expansion of tar sands development and higher risks of spills on our coastline, at risk of casting their lot with the pro-destruction camp.
Like the messy Exxon oil spill still being mopped up in an Arkansas suburb, it was only a few years ago that we saw a similar spill in Burnaby, from the very same Kinder Morgan pipeline.
A rupture like this is actually the least of our worries when it comes to the expansion of the Kinder Morgan oil pipeline. An expansion in the capacity of oil pumped to our coast, means more massive oil tankers in our waters and right into Burrard inlet. More tankers, and more oil means more risk of a spill.
According to Tourism Vancouver, in 2011 visitors to our city spent an estimated $92 million, and "cruise passengers increased by 15% over 2010. Between May and October 2011, Port Metro Vancouver welcomed 663,425 passengers on 27 different vessels over 199 cruise ship calls."
While Vancouver has many amazing attractions, restaurants and cultural centers, it is the ocean and all the nature around it that is the reason why people choose to come from all over the world to visit our city. Quite frankly, if it wasn't for the amazing ocean-scapes and natural beauty, Vancouver would be nothing mor...
In fact, if Clark ends up supporting the Kinder Morgan pipeline, she is not only pro-destruction, but arguably exactly what she is accusing her opponent Adrian Dix of being. Supporting the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, Christy Clark and the BC Liberals would be putting at risk the very thing that makes our c...
Supporting more oil tankers in the waters of British Columbia is not only pro-destruction, it is anti-business.
Nemanja Nikolic scored two goals, and Michael de Leeuw added a goal and two assists as the Chicago Fire snapped a nine-game winless streak with a 4-0 victory over Orlando City SC on Sunday afternoon at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Ill.
Aleksandar Katai also scored a goal, and Djordje Mihailovic added two assists for the Fire (7-15-6, 27 points). Richard Sanchez got the shutout with two saves.
Joe Bendik had two saves for Orlando City (7-18-3, 24 points), which fell to 0-7-2 in its past nine matches and into last place in the Eastern Conference. The Lions, who have allowed a MLS-high 66 goals this season, are 2-12-0 on the road this season.
Chicago jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the third minute on Nikolic’s 13th goal of the season. The Serbian midfielder redirected a crossing pass from the left side of the box by de Leeuw past Bendik to complete a scoring chance that started with a steal near midfield by Dax McCarty.
Orlando City missed a chance to tie it 13 minutes later when Dom Dwyer’s header from the center of the box off a nice cross by Mohamed El-Munir sailed just wide to the left of the net.
Katai made it 2-0 in the 28th minute after Bendik lost control of a pass on the left side of the box. Mihailovic picked up the loose ball and passed it out to de Leeuw, who then hit Katai in the middle of the box. Katai tapped it into a wide-open goal for his 10th of the season.
Chicago increased its lead to 3-0 in the 56th minute when de Leeuw, making just his second start since missing 10 months with a torn ACL, scored his first goal of the season, tapping in a pass from Mihailovic inside the far post.
Sanchez stopped Dwyer on a breakaway eight minutes later to keep his shutout.
Nikolic made it 4-0 in the 70th minute, taking a Raheem Edwards pass on a two-on-one break and beating Bendik with a left-footed shot inside the right post for his eighth goal in nine games.
Walmart Labs, the tech innovation hub owner by the giant retailer, has acquired Stylr, a location based mobile app that allows its users to find clothes at the stores they are closest to.
Walmart Labs, the tech innovation hub owner by the giant retailer, has acquired Stylr, a location based mobile app that allows users to find clothes at the stores they are closest to. It was started by two Stanford alumni in New York (Silicon Alley, anyone?) and funded by NYC incubator DreamitVentures.
This is Walmart Labs thirteenth acquisition in the last three years. While the terms of the deal were not disclosed, the motive was likely to expand Walmart's mobile app presence.
We are excited about the opportunity to serve these customers with indispensable digital tools that bring the convenience of online shopping into our physical stores and integrate our online and offline experiences to enable our customers to shop anytime, anywhere.
As for the future of Stylr, it seems it will be fully absorbed as a Walmart entity. What used to be Stylr's home page, stylrapp.com/demo now redirects to The @WalmartLabs Blog. Both owners will join Walmart Labs at their offices in California.
Even with the acquisition of a NYC based app, Walmart should know that fashionable New Yorkers still shudder at the thought of shopping in a Walmart.
A team of researchers carried out a series of experiments to study how complex hydrocarbons, an important class of molecules needed to create the building blocks for life, formed in space.
Hydrocarbons, compounds made up of differing amounts of carbon and hydrogen, are common on Earth but also outside it. Some hydrocarbons, such as benzene or naphthalene, have been detected in meteorites floating around the solar system, leading scientists to wonder how they might have formed.
Now, a paper published in Nature Astronomy on Monday provides a possible answer. Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of California, Berkeley and Florida International University, have recreated pyrene, a hydrocarbon commonly formed during the combustion processes in car engines, in a lab.
Musahid Ahmed, co-author of the paper and a chemist at UC Berkeley, said: “Starting off from simple gases, you can generate one-dimensional and two-dimensional structures, and pyrene could lead you to 2-D graphene. From there you can get to graphite, and the evolution of more complex chemistry begins."
A pressurised mixture of 4-phenanthrenyl - a hydrocarbon with one unpaired electron - another hydrocarbon compound acetylene were injected into a microreactor from a nozzle at supersonic speeds.
Next, a beam of UV light was directed at the gas to ionise the mixture and simulate similar conditions to those found around a star. The loss of electrons kickstarts a series of reactions that eventually create pyrene. Since it requires other hydrocarbons to make pyrene, it doesn’t quite explain how the first hydrocarb...
But, Ahmed, said he believes this process could explain how “some of the first carbon-based structures evolved in the universe".
Pyrene is part of a larger chemical group known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) that are estimated to make up about 20 per cent of all carbon in the Milky Way. PAHs are composed of ring structures that are found in interstellar dust grains, leftover material flung from stars. They provide a chemical pathway ...
Ralf Kaiser, co-author of the paper and an astrochemistry professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, explained to The Register that PAHs provide surfaces for other molecules like water, ammonia, methane, carbon dioxide or methanol to condense on.
After these molecules build up on PAHs like pyrene, if they’re exposed to ionizing radiation it can fire up another series of reactions to create amino acids, peptides and sugars.
BOSTON - The expensive flops are gone. So is the misfit manager. And the Boston Red Sox are winning again.
Winning more than any other team in major league baseball.
That's 58 wins, most in the majors and just 11 fewer than they had all last season.
Keep up the .598 pace they have at the All-Star break and they'll finish with 97 wins, 28 more than last year when they had their worst record in 52 years.
"Overall, very proud of the way this team has played," manager John Farrell said in his usual low-key manner. "The number of guys that we've called upon have contributed. Our guys deserve a much-needed couple of days off here."
His steady style and reluctance to criticize players is just what the Red Sox needed after one disastrous season under Bobby Valentine, who rarely wandered far from the spotlight even if it meant knocking his players publicly.
The Red Sox also needed a more cohesive clubhouse.
They got that by trading disgruntled Adrian Gonzalez, injured Carl Crawford and declining Josh Beckett - and unloading more than $250 million in salaries - to the Los Angeles Dodgers last August and adding consistent, if unspectacular, contributors like Mike Napoli, Shane Victorino, Jonny Gomes, Mike Carp and Koji Ueha...
And with Clay Buchholz sidelined since improving to 9-0 on June 8, Allen Webster, Alfredo Aceves and Brad Workman helped fill the void.
When third baseman Will Middlebrooks was sent to the minors after struggling and shortstop Stephen Drew was injured, there were solid reinforcements. Slick-fielding Jose Iglesias is batting .367 as Drew's replacement, and Brock Holt and Brandon Snyder have combined for 14 RBIs in 19 games at third.
"We're at 42 players and counting," Farrell said. "Seventeen above and beyond the 25 players who began the season. We have a number of talented guys. We can tap into a good group of players who have made significant contributions."
The Red Sox lead the majors in many major offensive categories - runs, hits, doubles, RBIs, walks and on-base percentage. They're second in batting average, triples and slugging percentage.
At .277, they trail only the Detroit Tigers in batting average. And six players who started Sunday's 3-2 loss to the Oakland Athletics, the Red Sox's last game before the break, are batting .300 or higher.
Last year, the Red Sox hit .260 and didn't spend a single day in first place. This year, they've led their division for 87 days, including the last 49.
Buchholz, Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz all made the All-Star game, although Buchholz was replaced because of injury.
Pedroia has been outstanding all season. He's hitting .317 and has been spectacular on defense at second base. Ortiz missed the early part of the season with a heel problem. Since returning, he's been a dangerous slugger with a .316 batting average and leads the team with 19 homers and 65 RBIs.
"The All-Star break comes at a good time," said Gomes, whose presence has helped knit a once-fraying clubhouse. "We've got some guys heading up there to New York who will hopefully get us some home-field advantage and give us an opportunity to lick our wounds and get back to work."
Farrell's influence has been significant on the pitchers. He worked with some of them in his four years as Terry Francona's pitching coach from 2007-10.
Buchholz's turnaround has been the most impressive after he went 11-8 last year. Jon Lester won his first six decisions but has struggled since then. John Lackey, who missed all last season following Tommy John elbow surgery, leads Boston with a 2.78 ERA in 16 starts while walking just 23 in 100 1-3 innings.
The biggest problem has been finding a reliable closer.
Joel Hanrahan started in that role and struggled before also being lost for the season to Tommy John surgery. Andrew Bailey was ineffective. Now, Uehara has the job and has been strong, although the Red Sox have blown 14 of their 34 save opportunities, one of the worst averages in the majors.
They're 58-39 and lead the Tampa Bay Rays by 2� games in the AL East. But the division's top four teams are all at least seven games over .500, and only six games separate them in the standings.

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