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The IE report said that carotid artery in the neck was cut by a sharp-edged object. The carotid artery supplies blood to the brain. It said that the stab in the neck fell short of damaging his trachea that provides air flow to and from the lungs for respiration. There was also a slit on his hand which indicates that he...
The bank executive had sustained three critical wounds, it said. While two injuries were reported in front of his body in the liver and intestine, one was from behind that pierced his lungs. The other injuries were on his legs.
“We suspect other stab injuries were inflicted after he fell unconscious,” a doctor said.
According to forensic experts, Singhvi’s murder was well-planned. An expert told IE that most injuries are muscle deep but three stab injuries have gone deeper touching the vital organs.
Sanghvi (39), a resident of upscale Malabar Hill area in South Mumbai, was missing since last Wednesday. He used to drive his car to Kamala Mills compound in Parel to attend his office. His family had lodged a missing complaint at NM Joshi Marg Police station when he didn’t return home till late Wednesday night. While ...
In this Sept. 17, 2018 photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a student town hall at National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had said the regulation, known as borrower defense, made discharging loans too easy and was unfair to taxpayers. The rule was due to take effect in July 2017, but DeVos froze it while she worked on devising a new regulation.
But U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled last month that DeVos' delay was unlawful. On Tuesday, he denied a request by an organization representing for-profit colleges in California, to further postpone the rule, thus paving the way for borrower defense to enter into force.
"The rule is finally in effect. No more excuses. No more delays," said Julie Murray, an attorney with Public Citizen, who is representing the defrauded students in their suit against DeVos.
Education Department spokeswoman Liz Hill said DeVos "respects the role of the court and accepts the court's decision" and will soon provide information about how the regulation will be implemented.
But DeVos continues to regard the regulation as "bad policy" and will continue writing a new rule "that protects both borrowers and taxpayers," Hill said in a statement Tuesday.
The ruling marks a significant setback for DeVos, who has made deregulating the for-profit college industry a top priority. The decision means that the Obama rule, which DeVos has fought hard to scrap, could be in effect until July 2020, when any new rule written by DeVos would enter into force.
Under the Obama rule, students whose school closed mid-program or shortly after completion, will become eligible for automatic loan discharge. The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank, estimates that Tuesday's decision will affect tens of thousands of students at over 1,400 schools who will now be eligible for ...
Other provisions in the rule allow students to apply for loan discharge as a group. It also prevents schools from forcing students to sign away their rights to sue the program and makes sure that the schools, not just tax payers, bear financial responsibility in case the schools end up shutting down.
Over 100,000 students who say they have been swindled by their schools are currently waiting for the Education Department to consider their applications for loan forgiveness. James Kvaal, president of the Institute for College Access and Success, said that the agency must immediately halt debt collections and wipe out ...
"This is a major victory for students across this country in the ongoing battle against the Department of Education and the for-profit college industry," said Toby Merrill, director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard University that also took part in the lawsuit.
But Steve Gunderson, president of Career Education Colleges and Universities, the industry lobbying group, described Judge Moss' ruling as "disappointing as it will only create further confusion for students and schools" and urged the Education Department to provide as much as guidance as possible while it finishes wri...
Gunderson added, "Many will look at this ruling where a Judge appointed by President Obama upholds a rule created by the Obama Department of Education and see further evidence of the politicization of our court system."
The group, whose motion to delay the rule was denied Tuesday, the California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools, did not return a request for comment.
The Monks suffer a 5-3 loss to Western New England, despite outhitting the Bears by an 11-7 margin.
HARWICH, Mass. – Western New England utilized a decisive second inning to eliminate St. Joseph’s from the NCAA New England Regional Tournament on Friday, taking a 5-3 win at Whitehouse Field in Harwich.
The Monks concluded their season with a 31-14 record.
Western New England tacked up four runs in the second on a lone hit and four straight walks. Third baseman Mike Rubino’s single was the key hit for the Golden Bears, giving them a 4-1 lead. A fly out to right brought home the final run of the inning.
Monks’ starter Nick Whitaker, who worked 3 1/3 innings in taking the loss, stopped the damage by fanning Kyle McKelvey and Steve Ambrosio to close out the inning.
That was difficult,” said Monks Coach Will Sanborn, describing that rough second inning.
“We had a little trouble finding the strike zone and then make some key errors and the inning snowballed on us. (Western New England) is a tough team to do that against and expect to come back.
Said Monks senior Mike Pratt: “That was not how we wanted to start the game. But we gave them a good fight.
Although freshman relief pitcher Corey McNamara did an admirable job in shutting down the Golden Bears for the remainder of the game, the Monks offense failed to produce in the later innings.
In all, McNamara worked 52/3 innings of relief.
“He’s done that all year for us,” said Sanborn.
On Friday, the Monks got to opposing starter Nick Salerno for a pair of runs to narrow the gap in the fifth inning.
With runners on second and third, Joe Coyne’s bounce out to short drove home a run to make it 5-2. Pratt then cracked his third hit of the game, an RBI single narrowing the gap to 5-3, but he was also thrown out at second trying to stretch his hit to a two-bagger.
Pratt, who had two multi-hit outings in the tournament, evened the score at 1-1 in the bottom half of the first when he stroked an offering from Salerno to drive home Sam Butts.
After the game, Sanborn said he expressed his admiration to the St. Joseph’s seniors.
“I told them that they’ve had a great run here,” he said.
Austerity is over apparently. But will Fine Gael's 10-year, €20 billion splurge wow us?
The new roadmap has to do three things: support the capital, develop the regions, and repair the defective anti-rural, anti-regional gene, writes Kealan Flynn.
IT WAS TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar who said of Fine Gael’s five-point plan for the general election that swept Fianna Fáil away, it’s only when you’re almost physically sick yourself of saying something, that the voters are finally starting to hear the message.
For those that have spent decades ploughing the lonely furrow of development beyond Dublin, the 10-year, €20 billion capital spending roadmap to be unveiled this week is good news. At last, it appears there is real money for the regions to catch up with the capital.
There’s a lot of catching up to do. In 2015, Dublin with 28% of the State’s population, got 48% of net new IDA-backed jobs. The rest of Ireland, with 72% of the population, got the other 52%. Dublin accounts for 42% of Ireland’s GDP and policy up to now has been to keep on shoehorning, even if that shrinks the regions.
Yet the capital is increasingly strangled by its own success. It can’t house its growing population affordably. It struggles to move people around easily and quickly. Its quality of life is questionable.
The new roadmap has to do three things: support the capital, develop the regions, and repair the defective anti-rural, anti-regional gene in public policy and administration.
I experienced this first-hand when an Assistant Secretary in Social Protection tried pressuring me into getting the Minister onside for a bonfire of rural post offices. At that time, there was a move to pay social welfare direct into people’s bank accounts.
In the world of the bean-counters, it didn’t matter if wholesale post office closures frayed a community’s fabric beyond repair. The official view was, not our problem, deal with it.
In recent years, the Department of Transport rubbed a planned 33-mile rail freight link from the west to the ports of Foynes, Cork and Waterford, off maps it was using to get EU funding. That sleight of hand only came to light four years after the fact, when the EU Transport Commissioner said “refinement of the maps” a...
The price of such incompetence and bloody mindedness has been very high. One model, used to measure the impact of EU Cohesion Funds, says the cost to the BMW region is €1 billion in stimulus spending, 17,500 jobs, and €1.6 billion in GDP per year. Another model, developed for the EU Commission, estimates 20,000 jobs an...
Politicians were quick but quite mistaken in blaming Europe. As it happens, Leo Varadkar is one of the few people, and perhaps the only minister from that time, who could shed light on how some projects required a robust business case to be included at all, while others were simply added to the list without attaching a...
Will this new plan right that wrong? Will it also repair the defective gene?
For the western half of Ireland, it’s vital the €1 billion M20 motorway between Cork and Limerick is on the roadmap. If it is, it will provide momentum for the Atlantic Economic Corridor linking the regional cities and put a brake on the unhealthy sprawl of Dublin.
At its heart, this Atlantic Artery is about mobilising Exchequer and EU money for an arc of infrastructure from Waterford to Sligo, via Cork, Limerick and Galway. Some of the roads are already done, like the M18 from Limerick to north Galway. The next stretch, the M17 from north Galway to near south Mayo, opens in 2018...
A €1.7 billion investment will see the Belfast-Derry road upgraded to a dual carriageway, and a €90 million motorway built from Derry, through Tyrone, to Monaghan. IBEC rightly says the new Belfast-Derry road should run on to Donegal and down through Sligo and Mayo, where it would meet the M17 in south Mayo. Atlantic A...
Say what you like about Independent TDs, but if it wasn’t for the tardy and the time-servers in the main parties, many of these “irresponsible oddballs” would never have seen the inside of Leinster House. Ultimately, it was they who put the regions on the political radar and forced the Atlantic Economic Corridor into t...
It will be the complement to the Irish Sea Corridor linking Belfast, Dublin and Cork, which got €4.5 billion over 15 years to develop high quality road, rail, air, and sea links.
It will be a lifeline linking the regions and regional cities, and a failsafe route to EU markets for all of Ireland, in the event of border controls and customs checks post-Brexit.
Brexit is coming at us like a train. If we’re clear that our future is to remain in Europe, we need to plan and provide for it. Things are happening, but the scale, scope and speed are nowhere near enough for the coming challenges. As the Italian novelist Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote, “if we want things to stay a...
Kealan Flynn is a public affairs and management consultant, and lectures in health policy, health reform and political reform at NUI Galway.
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We were expecting to see wild variability coming from a TLC flash array, but the Eldora controller keeps things nice and tight. The M8Se would greatly benefit from some OP when running heavy sustained workloads. However, we doubt that someone that actually does run heavy sustained workloads would buy an M8Se in the fir...
This test unmasks sequential write performance of TLC flash arrays. The 512GB M8Se sustains writes at 507 MB/s, the 256GB model 304 MB/s. Although relatively low, it is certainly better than we are getting from Intel's 600p. Samsung's 250GB 960 EVO gets similarly pummeled by this test.
The Impact Theatre’s newest production is Henrik Ibsen’s "The Wild Duck," directed by David Greenwood.
Considered one of Ibsen’s most complex dramas, the play is about two old school friends, Hjalmar Ekdal, who believes he is about to make a great invention, and Gregers Werle, who is determined to free his friend from all such illusions.
Greenwood, who was assistant director of Boerum Hill Arts Center’s production of "Steel Magnolias" in May 2002, told GO Brooklyn, "[’The Wild Duck’] mixes kitchen sink realism with a fair amount of symbolic language and references. It doesn’t really have a hero or a villain, just a bunch of human beings doing the best ...
The production will try to keep the period flavor, said Greenwood.
"We want the audience to feel that they are back in 19th century Norway, even though many of the themes are totally current: the way truth is perceived differently by different people and the issue of how to help people without hurting them at the same time."
"The Wild Duck" opens Feb. 19 and continues through Feb. 29, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 pm, and Sundays at 2:30 pm. Tickets are $15, $12 seniors and students. The Impact Theatre is located at 190 Underhill Ave. between Sterling Place and St. Johns Place in Prospect Heights. For reservations, call (718) 390-7163.
Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum and Scarlett Johansson voice roles in Wes Anderson's animated adventure about a boy out to save his dog from canine genocide.
From the director of the Oscar-nominated film Fantastic Mr. Fox comes Isle of Dogs. The animated film is set in Japan 20 years in the future after a canine flu outbreak, which prompts the relocation of all dogs to a garbage dump known as Trash Island.
The movie opens with a prologue that shows how wild dogs became domesticated over time to serve as household pets. But when the cat-loving Kobayashi dynasty sets off a citywide alarm about an outbreak of "snout fever," or dog flu, all pooches are ordered to be quarantined before the disease can infect humans.
Trash Island is later invaded by Atari (Koyu Rankin), a 12-year-old boy who crash-lands his aircraft at the dump in search of his dog, Spots. While Spots is initially presumed dead, rumors surface that he may have joined a pack of cannibal canines inhabiting an abandoned experimental plant at the far tip of the island.
Atari joins Rex (Edward Norton) and gang to solve the mystery of his missing dog. The star-studded pack is voiced by Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum and Bob Balaban.
Ahead of the movie's theatrical release Friday, read more about the cast and their characters below.
The Breaking Bad star plays the film’s alpha dog, Chief. The leader of the dogs reassures the others, "Nobody’s giving up around here."
As he unfastens a trash bag full of maggots, he exclaims he can’t stomach any more garbage. Cranston's character also has moments of existential introspection, which cause him to wonder, "I'm not a violent dog, I don't know why I bite."
The island's disparity can be seen in his decisions, such as brawling with other dogs over food. In one scene, in a fight over rotting fruits and vegetables, a dog from a rival pack ends up losing an ear.
Chief also feels an instant attraction to former show dog Nutmeg (Scarlett Johansson), envying her pedigree.
Cranston has a history of voice acting, which has previously included the English dubbing of Japanese anime and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
Bill Murray, who also voiced Garfield in two feature films, plays one of the dogs in Anderson's film. His character is a former baseball mascot named Boss.
Alongside Rex (Norton), one-time Doggy Chop pet food spokespooch King (Balaban) and gossipy Duke (Goldblum), the dogs form a pack on the refugee island, where packs of dogs now ravaged with illness scavenge for scraps to stay alive.
Murray has also voiced Baloo in The Jungle Book and Clive Badger in Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Atari is a 12-year-old adventurer and pilot is gunning to find his banished dog, Spots. In his attempt, he crashes and lands his plane on the dog-ridden island, where he decides to team up with some of the canines.
Isle of Dogs is Rankin's first role in a film. Previously, he acted in a local short film and appeared in a music video.
The actress voices a high-pedigree pup named Nutmeg. She is a poodle-King Charles cross who can juggle flaming Skittles with her paws. Nutmeg instantly attracts the attention of Chief (Cranston) while the two adapt to the polluted island.
Johansson has also voiced roles including Kaa in The Jungle Book and Ash in Sing.
Greta Gerwig plays Tracy Walker, an American exchange student who challenges the dictatorial mayor and succeeds in revealing that his regime is suppressing the serum that can cure canine flu.
She is on the frontline of a student-led protest in Megasaki City, which dispenses fake news via a propaganda TV channel.
Gerwig recently made history by becoming only the fifth woman nominated for a best director Oscar, for Lady Bird. She also was up for best original screenplay.
The Oscar- and Emmy-nominated actor plays one of the gossip-loving pooch protagonists, Duke. Like the rest of the pack, Duke hates the trash-ridden island and is eager to assist Atari in his search.
Goldblum has also been the voices of Perry Van Moon in Allen Gregory, the White Rabbit in Robbie the Reindeer in Legend of the Lost Tribe, Jeff in Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist and Verminous Skumm in Captain Planet and the Planeteer.
With three Academy Awards nominations, Norton has played a variety of memorable roles, from Bridman to Primal Fear.
Over the past few years, he’s branched out into voice roles in TV shows and animated films, most recently as Sammy Bagel Jr. in Sausage Party.
Plant perennials that bloom at different times for season-long color.
Perennials add color and texture to the garden during the growing season. During the cooler months of winter, these plants die back to the ground, only to renew again in the spring. Perennials grow in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and colors, from 8-foot-tall, purple-blooming germander to tiny cranesbill geraniums th...
For early spring color, bergenias (Bergenia cordifolia) produce dark pink flowers atop lustrous, large foliage. These Siberian natives are hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 to 8 and thrive in partial shade. They prefer moist, fertile soil. Hellebores (Helleborus spp.) also bloom in spring;...
For a bright golden splash that lightens up shady corners of the garden, plant yellow-blooming spurge (Euphorbia spp.). This perennial grows from 12 to 18 inches tall and is hardy in USDA zones 4 to 8. It prefers partial shade and tolerates moist to dry soil. Cranesbill geraniums (Geranium sanguineum) grow well in part...
Bear's breeches (Acanthus mollis) blooms in midsummer with spikes of white and purple flowers. Hardy in USDA zones 7 to 10, this 4-foot-tall perennial thrives in partial shade and well-drained soil. Another summer bloomer, the hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) grows to 3 feet tall and is hardy in zones 5 to 9. This North A...
For fall color, plant asters (Aster spp.) These versatile perennials come in a range of varieties -- from 12 inches to 4 feet tall – and bloom late in the season with purple, blue, pink and white flowers. They are hardy in USDA zones 5 to 8 and grow well in partial shade and well-drained soil. The white gaura (Gaura li...
Evans, Linsay. "The Best Perennial Flowers for Partial Shade." Home Guides \| SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/perennial-flowers-partial-shade-45222.html. Accessed 20 April 2019.
The European Central Bank is ready to initiate a 60 billion euro ($69 billion) monthly government bond buying program—quantitative easing—but that won’t do much for the moribund continental economy.
Central banks can print money to purchase government bonds to push up prices and lower interest rates on those assets and competing debt, such as corporate bonds and bank loans. In the United States, the Federal Reserve also bought billions in federally sponsored mortgage-backed securities, such as those issued by Fann...

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