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62. In the meantime, Turkey shared the security concerns expressed by non-nuclear-weapon States and it welcomed the adoption by the Security Council of resolution 984 (1995) noting that, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, the five permanent members of the Security Council had given the non-nuclear-weapon States which were parties to the Treaty security assurances against the use of such weapons.
63. Turkey supported the indefinite and unconditional extension of the Treaty, since it believed that the main objectives of the Treaty - strengthening of the non-proliferation regime and nuclear disarmament - could only be achieved through a treaty that was universally adhered to and indefinitely extended. Such an instrument could only strengthen international peace and security.
The Easter Performing Arts Competitions Festival is an event which takes place in Napier every year. It is a five day event that brings together young talent from all areas of New Zealand.
The categories featured are Ballet, Tap and Jazz Dancing, Senior Vocal, Aria, Junior Vocal, Instrumental and Speech. It provides competitors an opportunity to perform live in front of an audience and, for the very gifted, scholarships to develop their unique talent.
Cycling Team Defends American Chris Horner After Win In Spain : The Two-Way Conjecture over Chris Horner, the 41-year-old American who won Spain's Vuelta bike race on Sunday, grew after drug testers couldn't find him at a team hotel Monday morning.
American cyclist Chris Horner celebrates winning Spain's Vuelta bicycle race Sunday. Anti-doping officials say that Horner, who at 41 is the oldest ever to win one of cycling's top events, was not at the hotel drug testers visited.
The cycling team of Chris Horner, the 41-year-old American who won Spain's Vuelta bike race on Sunday, says the racer followed the rules in telling doping officials where they could test him. And Monday afternoon, U.S. doping officials agreed that Horner had done his part to allow surprise out-of-competition testing.
Conjecture over Horner's victory in the three-week Vuelta a Espana grew after drug testers couldn't find him at a team hotel in Madrid on Monday morning. His team says the officials went to the wrong hotel.
Horner will turn 42 next month, making him by several years the oldest rider ever to win a Grand Tour event, the centerpiece races on the European circuit. He is now believed to be on his way back to his home in Bend, Ore.
The team's defense of Horner — and its posting of an email thread in which Horner informed U.S. Anti-Doping Agency officials of his planned whereabouts on Monday and the rest of the week — has brought a response from USADA, which says it won't hold the mix-up against Horner.
USADA says that, "given that the information was received in the U.S., the AEA doping control officer on the ground in Spain did not receive the updated information prior to arriving at the hotel."
The agency also said that doping officials had not leaked information to the media.
A climbing specialist who is a former teammate of Lance Armstrong, Horner is known for maintaining a smile on his face during long, punishing climbs. Sunday's win in the Vuelta is the biggest of his career. During its coverage of the race, Spanish newspapers have taken to calling Horner "El Abuelo" — the grandfather, NPR's Lauren Frayer tells us from Madrid.
Horner's team, RadioShack Leopard Trek, issued a statement today declaring that anti-doping officials had violated the cyclist's privacy if they informed the media that Horner wasn't at the hotel that drug testers visited this morning.
"The anti-doping inspectors from the Spanish Anti-doping Agency that were asked to do the test by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) showed up at the wrong hotel in Madrid, where the team was staying but Horner was obviously not to be found.
"The team believes the communication between the Spanish Anti-doping Agency and the media is a violation of the privacy of Chris Horner, especially since it comes down to a clear mistake by the tester."
Their statement ended with the news that RadioShack Leopard Trek "will seek compensation for this matter with the responsible anti-doping agencies."
The team has said that Horner's performance, particularly his power output in a mountain stage last week that raised eyebrows, isn't out of the ordinary for an elite cyclist who weighs around 140 pounds.
And his defenders note that Horner did not ride in this year's other big European races, the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia. In addition, two factors at this year's Vuelta helped him: a strong ride in the time trial by his team, and the race route's inclusion of 13 mountain stages, out of 21 total.
In an article for Velo News analyzing the skepticism over Horner's performance, Andrew Hood says that USADA's detailed report on years of cheating in the sport have "erased any doubt about how riders used to win grand tours. What remains is the doubt in believing what we are seeing."
"It's a shame for Horner, and for cycling, that his victory cannot be wholly embraced, but that's the reality of today's peloton. Riders have to realize that after winning the race, they must then be ready to convince everyone that they can believe it. Fans simply do not want to be taken for fools again."
PORTSMOUTH � Andrea Amico pushed federal officials about when they will release their PFAS Management Plan during a meeting with high-ranking Environmental Protection Agency officials Tuesday morning in Washington, D.C.
Amico, and three other people who have faced PFAS contamination in their communities, met with the EPA officials before she attended the State of the Union address Tuesday night as U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen�s guest.
Amico stressed her desire to �get an update on the status of where the EPA PFAS Management Plan stood,� during Tuesday�s meeting.
�He said he was hoping it would come out very soon but he couldn�t� commit to a date,� Amico said of Ross� response to her questions.
EPA pledged to release the PFAS Management Plan last fall after holding a series of high-profile listening sessions around the country, including one in Exeter in June.
�These concerns impact real people and can have devastating consequences,� Amico said Tuesday afternoon during a phone interview from Washington during a break in her packed schedule.
Thousands of people, including children at two day cares, were exposed to PFAS contamination in the city-owned Haven well at Pease International Tradeport before the city shut down the well in May 2014. Two of Amico�s children and her husband were exposed to the chemicals. Investigators believe the PFAS compounds came from firefighter foam used at the former Air Force base.
PFAS are man-made chemicals that have been used in products worldwide since the 1950s, including firefighting foam, non-stick cookware and water-repellent fabrics and carpet. They have a range of applications in the aerospace, aviation, automotive and electronics industries, among others.
Amico and the community members also met with Alexandra Dunn, former Region 1 EPA administrator, who�s now assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. The group also met with Peter Wright, nominee to be assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Land and Emergency Management.
Amico asked for the meeting with Dunn to �better understand� how her new role at EPA �pertains to PFAS.� Amico also met with representatives from four other congressional offices about PFAS.
She was then scheduled to attend a Senate dinner with Shaheen, before heading to the State of the Union address.
�Clearly, PFAS contamination is not just a national issue now, but an international issue,� Amico said.
�I honestly don�t know what to expect," she said, "but I�m looking forward to meeting government officials that can help impacted community members and continuing to elevate the PFAS issue."
We spoke with a lot of Livecast listeners on this edition of the show. We learned about the life of a prison guard. We discussed the meaning of Gojira's name. We talked about some of the craziest things we've seen at shows. We talked about backyard wrestling. We even got into a little politics discussion. It gets heated!
1 of 3 voters are undecided on Measure 104. If you and I don’t reach them, it will fail.
Polling shows that nearly 33% of voters are undecided on Measure 104. The good news is that of voters polled who have decided, most support Measure 104 than oppose it. That means all we have to do is to educate the undecided 33% and WE WILL WIN in November.
As you know, Measure 104 requires that all taxes be required to get a 60% (2/3rds) super-majority vote in both the Oregon House and Senate. This 60% rule is the best defense against new tax hikes ever utilized in American history.
Without Measure 104, politicians will continue to pass hidden taxes with less votes than regular taxes. The $1.3 billion small business tax (Sb 1528) passed this year was a hidden tax. The $600 million carbon tax was a hidden tax. Both these gigantic taxes were labeled as a non-tax and allowed to bypass the 60% vote rule on taxes.
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Once again here is how you can help Measure 104.
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When Erhard Loretan, Switzerland's greatest Himalayan climber, fell to his death in April, many were puzzled. How could someone who raced up Everest's north face without oxygen perish on a modest Alpine peak he had climbed many times? Reports at the time said Loretan, who worked as a mountain guide, was climbing with an unnamed 38-year-old client from Bern. She was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.
Now the survivor has identified herself as lawyer and amateur alpinist Xenia Minder who, far from being a client, had been Loretan's partner for the last two years of his life.
In a moving account of the accident published in Swiss newspaper Le Temps, Minder revealed it was she who slipped, the rope tied between them dragging Loretan off the mountain. They fell 200 metres. "No one has blamed me for Erhard's death," she said. "But since he disappeared, I've been taken over by this sense of complete emptiness coupled with a sense of guilt."
Minder described how the two had approached the Grünhorn in the Bernese Oberland on skis, before climbing a ridge towards the mountain's summit. Loretan had turned 52 that day, and the couple were spending his birthday together in the mountains they both loved. She described how her left foot slipped and she lost balance, falling backwards. Her last thought as she registered the ground rushing past her was "a prayer to not suffer too much before dying".
Part of her motivation for revealing what happened on their last day together is what she regards as the unjust treatment Loretan received at the hands of the media after the death of his baby son in 2001.
He was convicted of manslaughter after briefly shaking seven-month-old Ewan, unable to cope with an inconsolable baby. Loretan gave up his right to anonymity to publicise the risks of shaken baby syndrome.
The case was a sensation in Switzerland. Loretan, the third man to climb all 14 mountains over 8,000 metres, was admired around the world, not just for his mountaineering exploits but for his modesty and integrity. After Ewan's death he became withdrawn, but his relationship with Minder restored his enthusiasm for life.
"The loss of his own son was a tragedy from which he never recovered," Minder said, before speculating that the media would have turned on Loretan had he survived their accident rather than her. "Would public opinion have accused him of negligently killing his far less experienced partner in the mountains he knew so well? Put simply, why do people treat so differently circumstances that are so similar?"
In recent years, Loretan has become concerned at the rise in lawsuits against mountain guides. Clients, he believed, had come to expect absolute safety in an environment where it was not possible. They wanted to feel like risk-takers, he said, but not actually take responsibility for their own actions.
"As a judge, I cannot complain when the law is applied," she said. "But having lost the man I love in such terrible circumstances, my conscience has been roused. The boundary between guilt and innocence can be separated by nothing more than a hair's breadth."
Artificial intelligence company Aylien plans to create 70 jobs following an investment of €2 million.
The company, which is headquartered in Dublin, offers natural language processing and text analysis tools, and already has more than 10,000 customers globally including Sony, Microsoft and Deloitte.
The company’s text and image analysis tool can be used to summarise, categorise and extract meaning from large amounts of unstructured data.
The latest investment round has been led by the Atlantic Bridge University Fund along with existing investors SOSV and Enterprise Ireland. The investment will be used by the company to grow its Dublin team and to secure its first hires in the United States.
Aylien also said it would use the money to expand its product offering and make its technologies available to more global enterprises.
The new jobs will be across the business and include opportunities for software engineering, product management, sales and marketing.
The company recently reached a milestone of 30,000 users, and has launched its new text analysis platform which allows users to easily create custom text analysis models powered by machine learning and deep learning technology.
Aylien chief executive Parsa Ghaffari said the firm had enjoyed “phenomenal growth in traction and team size”.
Little Big Town, Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris and others will pay tribute to Dolly Parton during the 2019 Grammy Awards. The musical performance comes in honor of Parton's designation as 2019's MusiCares Person of the Year.
The musical tribute to Parton will feature Little Big Town, Musgraves and Morris, along with pop star Katy Perry, performing some of Parton's biggest hits. Parton herself will also take the stage, to perform some of the new music she wrote for the recent Netflix film Dumplin'; it will be her first time performing at the Grammys since 2001.
Parton is an eight-time Grammy Awards winner and is receiving the 2019 MusiCares Person of the Year honor in recognition of her philanthropic efforts throughout her career, including her Dollywood Foundation, Imagination Library and 2016 telethon to raise money for the victims of wildfires in East Tennessee. She is the first country artist to earn the MusiCares Person of the Year honor in its 29-year history, and will be celebrated at the MusiCares Person of the Year gala on Friday (Feb. 8) as well.
Other country performers scheduled to appear onstage during the 2019 Grammy Awards are Brandi Carlile and Dan + Shay. The show will be hosted by Alicia Keys.
The 2019 Grammy Awards will take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Feb. 10. The televised ceremony will begin at 8PM ET on CBS; the pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony will be available to stream online earlier in the evening. Further details, including additional performers, will be announced in the coming weeks.
Police in Alabama say a man not wearing any pants fell through the roof of a Waffle House during a botched burglary and fought patrons before fleeing.
TUSCUMBIA, Ala. (AP) - Police in Alabama say a man not wearing any pants fell through the roof of a Waffle House during a botched burglary and fought patrons before fleeing.
The TimesDaily reports Tuscumbia police Detective Wes Holland says 27-year-old Glenn Bost is being sought on criminal mischief and burglary charges. Another suspect hasn't been identified. Police Chief Tony Logan says the Birmingham man tried to break into the restaurant's office through the ceiling.
Logan says Bost went into a bathroom, tied the door shut with his pants and climbed into the ceiling. He says an underwear-clad Bost then fell into the dining area and fought off patrons trying to detain him. Logan says Bost then fled, leaving behind his pants that contained his driver's license.
Police say Bost may have been on drugs.
IN his first budget the Chancellor promised a £16million investment in the UK's 5G mobile network.
Philip Hammond also announced £200 million to support local “full-fibre” broadband network and £270 million to put the UK “at the forefront” of technology, including robotics, biotech and driverless cars. Here's what 5G is all about and why it could be so significant.
There is no official definition of 5G but it is thought to be similar to its predecessors, 3G and 4G.
It will be a wireless connection built specifically to give devices – like your mobile phone or tablet – a faster and more reliable internet connection.
The “G” in 5G stands for “generation” – that’s why it is known as “next-generation technology”.
The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) has stated 5G needs to feature higher speeds.
This will mean 5G will be able to carry more data which therefore provides greater coverage.
Companies such as BT, Vodaphone and Nokia have also given the development of 5G their support.
How much faster will it be than 4G?
The exact speeds are yet to be finalised.
The Next Generation Mobile Networks alliance states that for something to be considered 5G it must offer faster data rates.
NGMN is hoping for speeds of 20Gbps and one millisecond latency.
This would provide download speeds which are 40 times faster than 4G.
NGMN believes 5G would provide an era of being able to download files in the blink of an eye - vital to the success of smart homes and self-driving cars.
Does 5G have a launch date?
Speaking in March 2018, Mark Evans from o2 said: "I think that [5G] won't arrive for a number of years - 2020 plus."
However, in September 2018 EE confirmed that it is to launch 5G mobile phone services across the UK in 2019, a full year ahead of many of its European neighbours. EE will switch on its 5G network in 2019, with some 5G sites being built on top of upgraded existing 4G sites. The company is also repurposing 3G spectrum that it bought in 2004 to boost 4G availability on its networks today.
EE will convert a large chunk of its 3G spectrum to 4G in order to lay the foundations of its 5G services which it hopes to launch in 2019.
The mobile operator will convert over 500 towers from 3G to 4G within the next six months to “enable the maximum performance on the top smartphones being released in 2018, as more customers demand high-speed mobile data connections”. This news comes as Apple launches its new iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR.
When it does arrive, 5G could offer massive savings for consumers.
A report from Juniper Research said £145 would be saved on energy bills as a result of 5G-enabled smart grids providing better distribution.
While it could also help councils reduce waste bills as well. Lowering council taxes in the process.
No one likes the feeling of dragging themselves out of bed to go to a job they just aren't feeling right now, and the best antidote to that is finding our flow.
Education professionals throw their whole selves into what they do--at least I did. Always learning and feeling good at work often took me away from my family.
Kick Butts Day is recognized nationally by young people to raise awareness against the use of tobacco products.
Members of the Tioga High School Living Healthy Club erected a memorial wall where students could add the name of someone they knew who died from tobacco use. Tioga High School was one of 53 schools in Central Louisiana participating in Kick Butts Day with funding from the Healthy Behaviors School District Partnership Grant from The Rapides Foundation. Kick Butts Day is recognized nationally by young people to raise awareness against the use of tobacco products. A press release from The Rapides Foundation states, "The Healthy Behaviors School District Partnership Grant seeks to prevent and reduce tobacco use, substance and alcohol abuse, and overweight/obesity by focusing on changing policy, social norms and environments. Grant activities are based on best and promising practices to create comprehensive school- and community-based awareness and prevention programs in order to positively impact Central Louisiana students, educators and staff. The goal is to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to make better and informed behavior decisions leading to healthier lives."
Swim, bike and then run, dozens of kids got up early Saturday morning to participate in the 8th annual Kids Only Triathlon at Hide-Away-Lake. Event organizers say the purpose of the triathlon is to promote fitness, self-confidence and of course for kids to have some fun.
"This country has a real problem with childhood obesity, and I feel like anything we could do to keep kids active and encourage them to get out and get away from the video games is a positive thing," said Race Co-Director John Webb. Every year the race recognizes an athlete that has unique physical challenges. This morning, Jimbo Reynolds competed in the triathlon using his wheelchair, and it's not his first time. He's been participating in the Kids Only Triathlon since 2002.
The Great Beauty was up tonight against the aforementioned The Hunt by Danish director Thomas Vinterberg and Belgium’s Broken Circle Breakdown from Felix Van Groeningen; as well as Rithy Panh’s Cambodian documentary The Missing Picture and Hany Abu Assad’s Palestinian drama Omar (Abu Assad was the only director in the bunch ever previously nominated). This was a year where a record 76 films were entered for Foreign Language consideration, and it was also a year with an embarrassment of riches — a testament to the diversity and strength of local movies. Great Beauty, released in the U.S. by Janus Films, has already won a Golden Globe, a European Film Award and a BAFTA, and is likely to figure heavily at Italy’s Oscars, the David di Donatello Awards, later this year. Sorrentino also told me the last time we spoke that the film’s success on an international level will hopefully “stimulate” Italian producers to take more risk.