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Over 50,000 race ticket holders attended the opening concert by pop-rockers One Republic, who used their Singapore date to kick off their latest Asian tour. |
Held at The Padang, a large open field in the downtown district, the crowd braved humid conditions to see the Colorado five piece deliver a solid and uplifting set. |
One Republic’s latest world tour has been a long time coming. Beginning in July, it comes after the band cancelled all touring commitments last November, a month after the release of their latest album, Oh My My, citing exhaustion. |
“We just felt tired,” explained frontman Ryan Tedder to the crowd. |
While the disjointed touring dented the album’s commercial’s performance, it gave fans time to soak up what is a fine release. |
The tracks Tedder and co dropped from Oh My My represented the bolder and full bodied sounds of the album. |
The lead single Where I Ever Go gets an extra disco stomp live with Tedder’s falsetto immaculate as ever. The directness of Let’s Hurt Tonight proves that by stripping away all that sonic gloss, One Republic is essentially a straight forward rock band. |
Kids is another track that benefited from the live treatment. While boasting some adventurous song arrangements, the added grit from the band’s three guitar attack allowed it to sound more than a Coldplay imitation. |
While the group’s big hits were there, such as driving Stop and Stare and the soulful Apologize, the concert’s best moment came when Tedder, on the piano, performed a small intimate mini set with minimal accompaniment. |
With the Singapore F1 and the band both celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Tedder marked the event by performing a set of songs he wrote and co-wrote for others. |
Even if you are not the biggest One Republic fan, there is no doubt that Tedder is a seriously talented and successful tunesmith. |
After performing a gospel styled version of Beyoncé’s Halo, he launched into a more delicate take of Ed Sheeran’s Happier (“this is how the demo sounded,” he said in the introduction) and a slightly wonky take on Adele’s Rumour Has It. |
With such success eclipsing his work with One Republic, you can be forgiven to think if the group is essentially good part-time job for Tedder. Either way, as long as he is in charge of the songs you know the band will be around for another ten years. |
The Singapore F1 concert series continues over the weekend at the Padang; Saturday night will see pop-princess Ariana Grande taking the stage after the racing action. While Sunday will boast pre-race concerts from vintage British pop acts Duran Duran and Seal before Scottish DJ (and future Abu Dhabi F1 concert headline... |
A prominent Chinese dissident who was jailed for sedition more than three years ago was released Sunday, his wife said. |
A major figure in China's dissident community, Hu Jia was active in a broad range of civil liberties issues before he was imprisoned in 2008. His 3 ½-year prison sentence was set to end Sunday. |
There are concerns that extra-judicial tactics will be used against Hu, including illegally detaining him, said Human Rights Watch senior Asia researcher Nicholas Bequelin. |
"Of course we are happy to have him be released. the problem is that we are not sure he is going to be released to freedom, but rather that he is going be again under some form of limitations to freedom, such as house arrest or monitoring and harassment by the authorities," Bequelin said before Hu's release. |
Another activist, Chen Guangcheng, and his wife, have been kept under an unofficial house arrest in their village in eastern China since he was released from jail last fall, and reporters trying to visit them have been kept away by thugs who patrol the village. |
Chen angered authorities after documenting forced late-term abortions and sterilizations and other abuses in his rural community, but was sentenced for instigating an attack on government offices and organizing a group of people to disrupt traffic, charges his supporters say were fabricated. |
He returned home before dawn, Hu's wife Zeng Jinyan said in an online message. "Safe, very happy. |
Needs to recuperate for a period of time," Zeng said in a Twitter message. |
No one answered Zeng's phones on Sunday, but she had said earlier she would announce his release on Twitter. She had visited him on Monday at the Beijing Municipal Prison. |
Hu, 37, is known for his activism with AIDS patients and orphans. The sedition charge stems from police accusations that he planned to work with foreigners to disturb the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. |
Hu's release comes amid one of the Chinese government's broadest campaigns of repression in years as Beijing has moved to prevent the growth of an Arab-style protest movement. |
There have been concerns that, like other dissidents released recently from jail, Hu might be kept under some sort of illegal detention. |
In a posting last week, Zeng said that upon his release, Hu, who suffers from a liver ailment, would be deprived of his political rights for one year and will not be able to speak to the media. |
"For this one year the focus should be on treating his cirrhosis, caring for parents and child, to avoid being arrested again," she wrote. |
In late 2008, Hu won the European Parliament's top human rights award, the 50,000-euro ($72,000) Sakharov Prize. Hu was honored in Strasbourg, France, where because he was in prison, his name was placed in front of an empty seat. |
China's government heaped scorn on the award, with Beijing calling Hu a criminal. |
Initially an advocate for the rights of HIV/AIDS patients, Hu expanded his efforts after the government gave little ground and he began to see the country's problems as rooted in authorities' lack of respect for human rights. |
Hu used the Internet and telephone to chronicle the harassment and arrests of other dissidents and also published a series of articles criticizing the authorities for using the Olympics to mask serious human rights abuses. |
In recent months, hundreds of lawyers, activists and other intellectuals have been questioned, detained, confined to their homes or simply disappeared in the wake of online appeals calling for peaceful protests across the country similar to those in the Arab world. |
Though no protests took place, the calls spooked the Chinese government into launching the clampdown. |
A web-based programme can guide women with breast cancer, says study. |
Last year 6,800 Swedish women were diagnosed with breast cancer. Diagnosis is followed by an operation to remove part or all of the breast, radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy, and then anti-hormonal treatment for up to ten years after the operation - all of which involves being shunted around between outpatient clinics a... |
Need for informationSeveral scientific studies have shown that women with breast cancer have a real need for communication and information about their disease - such as how they can help themselves - as well as psychological and emotional support. This being the case, researchers at the University of Gothenburg's Sahlg... |
Design based on interviewsDesigned after interviews with women with breast cancer, the programme includes input from various experts (doctors, nurses, social workers, physiotherapists, patient representatives), links to websites, book recommendations and glossaries of medical terms. |
Increase the involvement"We tackle the questions that crop up before and after the operation, and try to give psychosocial support and provide information on rehabilitation," says researcher Ingalill Koinberg who is leading the study at the Sahlgrenska Academy. "The aim is to see whether Internet-based support can help... |
Complement to health careThe programme is being assessed scientifically in a study of 227 women who had surgery for breast cancer at Sahlgrenska University Hospital and Lund University Hospital between 2008 and 2011. "The Internet support is to be viewed as complementary to standard health care and aims to allow patien... |
An innovative method to measure breast tissue using microwaves has been developed by researchers. |
BRANDON, Man. – Leanne Marlow saw the flames engulf the building across the street from her Brandon, Man., apartment before the smoke alarm started to ring throughout her building. |
Her cat, Buddy, scared of the sound, disappeared, and as she frantically searched for her pet a pounding at her door began with police officers yelling she had to evacuate the Massey Manor building immediately. |
Marlow had been on the bus with Vince Li when he beheaded Tim McLean in 2008. Still dealing with the trauma of that horrific incident she was now also facing the dire prospect of losing everything she owned. |
“I walked out with the shirt on my back. I didn’t take my ID, purse, pills, nothing… I’ve lost money, everything,” Marlow said in an interview with The Canadian Press outside a hotel in Brandon where residents of her building were being placed by the Canadian Red Cross. |
A massive fire burned through several buildings in Brandon’s downtown on Saturday, including one with dozens of apartments managed by community groups. |
Around noon, flames started shooting from Christie’s Office Plus building on the 700 block of Pacific Avenue. Residents of Massey Manor — located across the street — watched the flames quickly spread and the smoke fill the neighbourhood. |
After they were evacuated, many Massey Manor residents stood on the street as embers drifted first to the Collier’s Sales building and then to the large brick structure they called home. |
“The fire department tried to put out Christie’s but they had to back up because it was so bad, it was so high … It was a goner. They just let it burn,” Marlow said. |
Multiple explosive sounds rang through the area and the flames spread again to another building that holds a boxing club and a contracting business. A beer vendor about a block away also began to burn, while a handful of buildings in between were left largely undamaged. |
Reinforcements from outside the city, including firefighters from CFB Shilo, arrived to help battle the blaze. |
Marlow stood on the street, along with many of the families who lived in the Manor’s 58 suites, and watched as the roof collapsed. She thought about her cat, who was still in her top floor apartment, and burst into tears. He had been her support after she was on the bus and witnessed the beheading. |
Krisha Prince had gone for a walk with her children, aged one and two, when she received a call from neighbour who told her the building was on fire. |
Massey Manor was originally constructed as an agricultural supply store and warehouse by Massey-Harris and was converted to apartments in the past decade through a partnership between the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Brandon Friendship Centre and Habitat for Humanity. |
Prince and her children quickly ran back just as the roof of the building was collapsing. |
Fire crews continued to douse flames overnight and the Red Cross said it was helping more than 100 evacuees. |
The Christie’s building was completely destroyed, and the other buildings were substantially damaged, the City of Brandon said in a news release Saturday night. Homes and businesses in the area were also without power. |
Marlow, along with her roommate Debbie Netzel, said she still hasn’t come to terms with the loss. |
“I can’t think,” Marlow said. |
“It’s just like in shock, you are brain dead. You just don’t know what to do,” Netzel added. |
Chase Ramon (1) brings the ball up the floor for Streator against Peotone defender Anthony Pilgrim on Friday during the Bulldogs' 48-24 Interstate Eight Conference victory at Pops Dale Gymnasium. |
Streator's Amarion Ford (13) looks up as he dribbles Friday evening at Pops Dale Gymnasium. |
STREATOR — It took all of 19 seconds for the Streator Bulldogs to take the lead Friday evening in their Interstate Eight Conference meeting with Peotone. |
They never gave it up. |
The Bulldogs scored 19 seconds in on a putback by junior post Jimmy Tredway and led from that point forward here at Pops Dale Gymnasium in a 48-24 doubling-up of the visiting Blue Devils. Streator — winners of six of its last seven and back in the thick of the Interstate Eight race — is now 9-11 overall (5-2 on the I-8... |
"We're just trying to play team basketball, really," said Tredway, who was 4 for 4 from the field in the first quarter as the 'Dogs took control. "We were just passing it around, trying to get it through the zone and get easy buckets. |
"We've definitely turned around the whole season. From 3-10 to where we are now, that's been real good." |
Tredway's game-opening offensive rebound and bucket prompted Peotone coach Eric Peppmuller to immediately call a timeout just 21 seconds into the game, but it didn't help as the Blue Devils — playing without a pair of regular starters — found themselves down double digits after an Amarion Ford bucket (Logan Colter assi... |
"We know in their place on a Friday night, they see our record, and they're going to be predators to start the game," said Peppmuller. "I told my guys they had to be ready for a blitz, and right away I got the impression they weren't. That was the timeout. |
"Streator played great defense. Those are some hard-working kids they've got ... and if you're missing some people, sure it's tough, but Streator hustled their butts off on defense." |
The Bulldogs' lead reached 25-9 by halftime and zenithed at 26 points, 39-13, late in the third quarter. Both Tredway and fellow starting post Grant Mascal finished with 10 points, while point man Mason Benning scored a game-high 12 and added a team-best five rebounds to a balanced effort on the boards. |
Amarion Ford (seven points, two steals), Xander Ward (four points), Christian Bedecker (three assists) and Chase Ramon (three assists, two steals) also paced a Streator team which outshot Peotone 43.5 percent (20 of 46) to 22.0 percent (11 of 50) from the field, outrebounded the Blue Devils 35-22 and did not send its v... |
Kyle Gasik scored nine points to lead Peotone. |
"I thought it was a good team effort," said Bulldogs coach Beau Doty, "and it's been nice the last two home games (versus Herscher and Peotone) to jump on teams early. ... (Peotone) missed some shots, and we weren't nearly as good defensively as maybe the statistics show tonight ... but the nice thing for us is we've p... |
"That's something that didn't seem like a possibility maybe a month ago, but we've started to play some better basketball, and I think our confidence is growing. Now we just have to make sure we keep things trending in the right direction." |
The Bulldogs will be back in action Saturday night with a visit to St. Bede Academy before a home-heavy final two weeks of the regular season. |
PEOTONE (24) — Walsh 2-6 0-0 4, S. Bettenhausen 1-9 0-0 2, Love 0-3 0-0 0, Gasik 4-8 0-0 9, D. Bettenhausen 1-7 0-0 3, Hunter 1-6 0-0 2, Bias 0-1 0-0 0, Newton 0-3 0-0 0, Pilgrim 0-3 0-0 0, Wenzel 1-1 0-0 2, Balmar 0-1 0-0 0, Kilbekis 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 11-50 0-0 24. |
STREATOR (48) — M. Benning 4-11 3-4 12, Ford 3-12 0-0 7, Bedecker 1-1 0-0 2, Mascal 4-8 2-2 10, Tredway 5-6 0-0 10, Ramon 0-1 0-0 0, Colter 0-1 0-0 0, Houch 1-1 0-0 2, Spears 0-1 1-2 1, A.J. Benning 0-0 0-0 0, Baker 0-1 0-0 0, Ward 2-2 0-0 4, Good 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 20-46 6-8 48. |
3-point goals - Peotone 2-21 (Gasik 1-1, D. Bettenhausen 1-6, Bias 0-1, Newton 0-1, Pilgrim 0-1, Kilbekis 0-1, Walsh 0-2, S. Bettenhausen 0-4, Hunter 0-4); Streator 2-14 (M. Benning 1-5, Ford 1-6, Mascal 0-1, Ramon 0-1, Good 0-1). Rebounds - Peotone 22 (Hunter 6); Streator 35 (M. Benning 5, four players with 4). Assist... |
Est shoots to second slot in $1.5bn soft drink market, pushing Pespi to third position, six months after launch. |
Thailand’s got a thirst for soft drinks, with its $1.5bn industry, the biggest in South East Asia. |
But a brand war has erupted and a local newcomer to the market has taken the fizz out its international rival Pepsi. |
Cassidy Wallis presents her research at UBC Okanagan’s sixth annual Three Minute Thesis competition. |
A captivating topic and plenty of passion propelled Cassidy Wallis into the winner’s circle at UBC Okanagan’s sixth annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, Thursday. |
The Master of Arts in Psychology student wowed judges and audience members alike with her presentation, ‘Non-offending Parental Support and its Impact on Delays in Reporting Child Sexual Abuse.’ She took home first place and the top prize of $3,000. |
Kelowna’s Innovation Centre was filled to capacity for the event, which saw eight graduate students take three minutes each to explain years of research to audience members. |
“The 3MT event provides an incredible opportunity for our campus and the community at large to get a snapshot of the amazing research being conducted by our graduate students,” says Dwayne Tannant dean pro tem of the College of Graduate Studies at UBC’s Okanagan campus. |
As the winner of the 3MT final, Wallis will travel to this year’s Western Regional 3MT Competition hosted by the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George on April 17. |
From there, the top three presenters will win an opportunity to compete in the nationals, hosted by the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies. |
The Rev. Amy Ebeling McCreath will be the first woman to serve as cathedral dean in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, appointed to the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in downtown Boston. |
McCreath, a Dayton, Ohio, native, will be the ninth dean of the church when she begins her tenure on April 22, the diocese said Wednesday in a statement. She has served as the rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Watertown for eight years. Before that, she was a co-chaplain of the Lutheran Episcopal Ministry at... |
McCreath has been a leader in the diocese as coordinator for ministry in higher education and as a member of several councils, including the Standing Committee, an elected council of advice to the bishop. She also supervised seminary students and interns as director of contextual education in Episcopal Divinity School ... |
Diocese Bishop Alan Gates appointed McCreath to succeed former dean John P. Streit Jr., who retired last February. |
“Amy has exceptional gifts as a leader, with a demonstrated capacity to reimagine congregational identity, build partnerships in the wider community, draw others into shared ministry and navigate institutional systems with the personal heart of a pastor,” Gates said in the statement. |
McCreath said in the statement she is honored to serve as the new dean. |
“Definitely,” he said. “You definitely have to check that. A lot of things go into it. Do you want to put that same grind in again? As you get older, it’s a different kind of grind to get ready for games, to get your body ready. [And] can you mentally go through another year and give it your all and not be checked out ... |
If Wade agrees to play for the minimum $2.4 million season, only $1.5 million would count against the salary cap. It’s possible, though less likely, that Miami would give Wade a chunk of its salary cap exception — either a $5.5 million taxpayer midlevel exception next summer or a full $8.8 million midlevel exception de... |
Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade talks to the Miami Herald about his stats and records as an NBA athlete during a team practice session at the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami on Friday, February 21, 2018. |
Wade could raise his position on several all-time NBA lists by continuing to play. He already is second all time among NBA guards with 835 blocked shots, behind only Michael Jordan’s 893. If he blocks shots the rest of this season and next season at the rate he has done this season, he will pass Jordan by about 10 bloc... |
Though that won’t drive his decision about whether to retire, he said rising to No. 1 on that list “would definitely be the most meaningful for me” among remaining statistical possibilities. |
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