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NBN Co staff explain the network.
Residents given details about the dig.
NBN Co has told residents it will dig up about forty
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percent of streets in Brunswick, Melbourne - the main metropolitan area to form part of the "live trial" site for the Federal Government's national broadband network fibre rollout.
NBN Co staff told local residents and small business owners at a community briefing on Saturday morning that construction could begin as early as July and be completed by September. The live trial processes will inform the rollout of the national broadband network.
Around ten NBN Co staff spruiked the social benefits of high-speed broadband and answered questions to residents of the suburb, which is some 15 minutes north of Melbourne CBD.
By the halfway mark of the three hour briefing, about 50 locals had stopped by, from young kids to elderly couples, a turn-out which pleasantly surprised staff.
The trial will connect about 2,600 premises with high-speed broadband. One NBN Co staff member said about 40 per cent of the fibre would be laid underground while the remaining component would be strung overhead using the existing power infrastructure.
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There have now been dozens of editorials and op-eds in recent months and years calling on Richard Burr to end his absurd blockade of President Obama
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’s attempts to fill a decade-old vacancy on the federal bench in the Eastern District of North Carolina. Today, it’s the Winston-Salem Journal with a reprint of an editorial that the Greensboro News & Record featured last week.
“When Patricia Timmons-Goodson ran for a seat on the N.C. Supreme Court in 2006, she polled 58 percent of the vote. She’d already proven her mettle on the state Court of Appeals and as a District Court judge in her native Cumberland County.
President Barack Obama has nominated Timmons-Goodson to fill a vacant seat on the U.S. District Court bench in Raleigh. She is eminently well-qualified. She is a leader in the American Bar Association, a trustee at Guilford College and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
If North Carolina residents want to know what Timmons-Goodson did that turned her from a
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Remember Solo: A Star Wars Story? While the latest Star Wars spin-off film underwhelmed the box office, it was (mostly)
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fun and breezy. But there was one particular plot-point featured in the film that was a bit disturbing: the fate of droid L3-37. The upcoming Solo novelization delves into this, and tries to put a positive spin on it all. But let’s be honest: it’s still kind of horrifying.
I liked Solo for the most part, but there was one thing that really bugged me: the treatment of L3, the droid co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon. As played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the character was fun and likable, presented as a droid very committed to the cause of droid rights. Then midway through the film she dies and her brain gets uploaded into the Falcon, literally robbing her of her voice and forcing her into a life of servitude. It’s a bit dark, as many people (this site included) pointed out.
That’s why I’m
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In her new book 'Nature Framed: At Home in the Landscape,' Eva Hagberg examines 2 dozen contemporary residences with very special connections to
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the great outdoors. Here's a look at one of them.
May 19, 2011, 6 p.m.
When thinking of Mother Nature’s increasingly complicated relationship with home building and design, we generally think of rainwater cisterns. And low-e windows. And geothermal heat pumps. And solar arrays. And energy-saving appliances and water-conserving fixtures. And nontoxic paint, natural landscaping, and material recycling. Essentially, when we think of what would be considered an earth-friendly home, we do so through a LEED-influenced filter with a home’s “greenness,” often being based on USGBC-approved laundry lists like the one above.
There’s nothing wrong with this, of course, but it also helps to acknowledge that there’s a whole other breed of homes that don’t just attempt to “protect” Mother Nature through various energy and water
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In a rare and stinging public rebuke, Los Angeles County supervisors criticized new Sheriff Alex Villanueva on Tuesday over his reinstatement of a
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deputy accused of stalking a woman, with some of them questioning whether he was abusing his power.
The Board of Supervisors’ move heightened a political crisis for Villanueva, who was elected just two months ago in an upset victory but has generated alarm from watchdogs for opposing some reforms implemented in the department after a series of corruption scandals.
The county’s governing body voted to send a letter to Villanueva expressing concern over his rehiring of a deputy who was fired in connection with allegations of domestic abuse and later served as a volunteer on Villanueva’s election campaign, which The Times reported earlier this month. The letter also criticized Villanueva for attacking the credibility of an alleged domestic violence victim.
The board also directed county counsel to examine some of the legal issues surrounding the reinstatement, including whether Villanueva acted within his authority in overriding a decision by a county appeals board to uphold the deputy’s firing.
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LONDON — Syria's civil war drags on, with diplomatic efforts making little headway and, according to the United Nations, more than 60
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,000 people killed. Experts don't see a quick solution, and believe that even if the rebels succeed in ousting President Bashar al-Assad, the violence could well continue, and even get worse.
"Of course, the worst case in Syria is more than imaginable: It's possible," said. Middle East expert Alia Brahimi of the London School of Economics.
"What is looking more likely is that if the regime were to collapse, you would get the worst-case scenario of revenge killings and inter-communal violence. And you would also probably see violent power struggles from within the victorious opposition, and then of course regional actors coming in to back their own horses," Brahimi.
It's a bleak scenario, but not a surprising one. Syria is split among Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims, various clans and sects, and Islamic militants and liberals.
"Syria is a crisis that may not be resolved for years to come, precisely because it plays into all these
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Americans love aromatherapy massages and body wraps. Signaling a growing trend, 54 percent of travelers surveyed by the Travel Industry Association of America
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last year were interested in going to a spa for their vacation, including 28 percent who were more interested than five years before.
If you're among them and have been debating whether to visit a spa or go places such as Aruba, Alaska or Australia this year, it doesn't have to be an either/or choice. There are spas that go places with you - floating ones onboard cruise ships.
Besides the spa treatments, passengers aboard cruise ships can attend wellness seminars, work out at well-equipped gyms and receive personalized advice by a fitness trainer. "They can actually disembark their ship in even better physical condition than when they began their vacations," said Terry Dale, president and CEO of the Cruise Lines International Association, which represents 21 cruise lines.
In addition, passengers can have fun - and relax.
"I've been waiting all year for this," exclaimed a passenger from Los Angeles we met as she entered the thalassotherapy pool at the "AquaSpa
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Green is blooming is ways you might not expect at this year’s big annual home and garden show, now on at the Ener
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care Centre at Exhibition Place.
This year’s new pop of bright green is presented inside — and out — in a teeny-tiny “Rebate Homeshow”: A 250-square-foot model home outfitted with examples of the many rebates available to homeowners through the Green Ontario fund (GreenON).
Parminder Sandhu, CEO of GreenON, says the non-profit agency launched last year as part of Ontario’s Climate Change Action Plan www.ontario.ca/page/climate-change. The agency is funded by the province’s cap-and-trade program that is financed by businesses and industries working to meet provincially-imposed limits on greenhouse gas emissions. By law, the funds must be directed to initiatives that reduce greenhouse gases.
And that’s a “win-win message” for HGTV reno expert Kate Campbell, www.katebuilds.ca who is at
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ELYRIA — A baby sitter who gave the anti-anxiety drug Xanax to a toddler before leaving to go shop and meet a
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friend at the movies has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for the child’s death.
Thirty-two-year-old Summer Shalodi apologized Thursday in a Lorain County courtroom and admitted giving 17-month-old Nadia Gibbons the drug while baby-sitting in December 2015.
Shalodi pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter instead of murder in a plea deal.
A prosecutor said Shalodi found Nadia unresponsive when she finally returned home and, instead of immediately calling 911 for help, shook the toddler and immersed her in hot water in a failed attempt to revive her.
Emergency crews found Nadia cold to the touch. The Lorain County coroner ruled she died hours before help arrived.
TOLEDO — An Ohio city councilman running for re-election has been arrested following a confrontation with a local activist.
Social media posts indicate the confrontation happened during a candidate talent show Thursday night at Georgjz419, a bar in Toledo.
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Dance music has been growing up and growing out in 2013: Kaskade threw out the first pitch in Chicago, Madeon played at the
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New York Stock Exchange, Ultra was two weekends, and the list goes on. Perhaps one of the most interesting and exciting new developments comes from Richie Hawtin, who is gearing up to play two nights at the famed Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum. The shows, which will take place on November 6 and 7, are part of this year's annual fundraising event "The Guggenheim International Gala."
Cityguideny.com reports that the tickets won't cheap (obviously), but not impossible. "Tickets to the Guggenheim International Gala pre-party on November 6 include a full open bar. Tickets are $125 for general admission and $500 for VIP admission, which includes an opportunity to view the exhibition Christopher Wool from 9–10 pm and a private bar area. A one-year membership to the museum’s Young Collectors Council may be combined with a general admission ticket to the pre
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The increasing popularity of e-cigarettes among American adults is linked to the significant decrease in the number of people who smoke, according to new research published
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by the British Medical Journal.
The researchers, from the University of California, based their findings on five large US population surveys carried out between 2001 and 2015.
It was found that the rate of cessation increased by 5.6 per cent in 2015, up from 4.5 percent in 2011. This figure is higher than in any other year the survey was carried out. Although it is only a rise of 1.1 per cent, this represents around 350,000 American adults every year.
The results also showed that e-cigarette users were 25 per cent more likely to attempt to give up smoking.
This is an interesting study and lends weight to the idea of remaining open minded about the regulation of e-cigarettes, however it carries with it the caveats often associated with observational studies, such as recall bias and the existence of other confounding factors.
The use of e-cigarettes in smokers in itself may carry with it a suggestion of increased motivation to quit, and large scale media campaigns and
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The Acadia is mechanically identical to the Buick Enclave and Chevy Traverse--so if you're looking for something a bit softer-looking
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or a bit less expensive, GM has you covered.
The 2012 GMC Acadia: better for people than a big SUV, better looking than a minivan.
In the vast middle ground between station wagons and full-size sport-utility vehicles are crossovers. And few crossovers come off so smartly as the GMC Acadia, an eight- or seven-passenger utility vehicle that shares some of its running gear with the Chevy Traverse and Buick Enclave, but wears a suit of chunky sheetmetal all its own.
Available with either front- or all-wheel drive, the Acadia has a single powertrain motivating all versions. It's a 3.6-liter V-6 with 288 horsepower, coupled to a six-speed automatic that takes some prodding to snap off shifts. Acceleration is fine, but the Acadia's ride and steering feel are finer--and towing capacity is as high as 5200 pounds
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Columnist Arnold Pearlstein offers his view of the skies above South Florida. His observations provide insight and a guide to this week’s ast
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rological activity.
Jupiter reaches conjunction with the sun. The giant world now moves into the morning sky, where it will become visible before dawn by the year’s end.
Mercury also reaches conjunction with the sun this week. Like Jupiter it moves into the morning sky and it will shine low in the east before dawn in a few weeks.
The moon sails north of the bright blue-white Regulus. This star marks the heart of Leo the Lion, a well-known member of the zodiac.
In the southeast during morning twilight, blue-white Venus reaches its maximum brightness. This is the time where you can track the planet and see it with your naked eye in the sky after the sun rises. Through a telescope and even binoculars, the huge slim featureless-phase shape of Venus can be seen.
On Friday, astronomically the sun enters Ophiuchus the Snake Handler. This is the lost or 13th constellation of the
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Resident Evil 7 is about to get a lot weirder--considering how freaky the game's original Beginning Hour demo is, I
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'm both trepidatious and excited.
Capcom has announced a new Twilight content update for Resident Evil 7's excellent (and super disturbing) teaser demo, along with a fresh batch of screenshots and a new trailer.
Starting today the Resident Evil 7 demo (including the new Twilight update) will be available to all PS4 gamers and won't require PlayStation Plus, so be sure to check it out--it's definitely worth a playthrough, and has a very real PT vibe to it. Capcom has also announced that Resident Evil 7's Deluxe Edition will include a new story expansion, bringing up the grand total of season pass story missions to three. To make up for this extra bit of content, the deluxe edition will jump from $79.99 to $89.99, but if you pre-order it before the adjustment you'll get all three missions.
Basically Capcom is doing what Bethesda did with its Fallout 4 Season Pass price hike.
Capcom has confirmed that Resident Evil
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High oil prices have replaced Greece as the chief threat to the world's fragile economic recovery, an HSBC report finds.
Fears of a Greek
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default and ensuing financial implosion in Europe have threatened global recovery, but spikes in already high oil prices will be even worse.
Tensions between the West with Iran over Tehran's nuclear ambitions have sparked major fears that saber rattling will escalate into conflict and threaten supply.
"Has Iran developed a nuclear capability, will there be a war with Israel or, indeed, the U.S., and, in a bizarre self-defeating act of retaliation, would Iran be tempted to seal the Straits of Hormuz?" HSBC Chief Economist Stephen King writes in a report, according to CNBC.
Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway vital for oil tankers, to protest sanctions.
Worries are growing that Israel is mulling military strikes on Iran with or without the blessings of the United States.
Loose monetary policies in the United States and Europe have helped push prices up as well. Prices will stay high due to rising demand
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The Princeton University Mentoring Program, a program aimed at supporting ethnic minorities, is in the process of transitioning from three branches of mentorship programs to
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one inclusive program for students who identify as students of color.
PUMP was originally split into the Latinos Unidos for Networking and Advising, the Black Student Union’s Leadership and Mentoring Program and the Asian American Mentoring Program.
While the mentors and mentees were paired within ethnic groups under the previous construction, director of the Fields Center Tennille Haynessaid that under the new system freshmen can be paired with mentors of a different race if they wish. He explained that part of this change will be executed by including more detail on the mentee application by asking for the exact criteria that freshmen students look for in a mentor. Haynes addedthat mentors can also indicate how they want to be paired with mentees.
Margaret Wang ’14, the student coordinator for all of PUMP, said that PUMP hopes to recruit a diverse group of mentors this semester, which will then attract a diverse group of mentees.
The transition of PUMP will probably
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West DunbartonshireWest Dunbartonshire councillors approve move to name and shame tax-dodging firmsIt's hoped the move will
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force a small number of non-paying local firms to cough up.
West DunbartonshireSharp rise in child protection referrals in West Dunbartonshire for second yearDomestic abuse and neglect have been highlighted as the main reasons for referrals.
West DunbartonshireCouncillors agree to lease Alexandria town centre site for churchFormer medical centre plot to be new base for Jehovah’s Witnesses in West Dunbartonshire despite opposition.
West Dunbartonshire NewsWest Dunbartonshire councillors urged to step up to fill roles on education committees.Committees are suffering from lack of voting members.
West DunbartonshireTwo new faces join iconic Maid of the Loch's board of trusteesBalloch-based paddle steamer gets expert help in push to get her sailing once again.
West Dunbartonshire NewsJudy Murray is a smash hit with Kirktonhill Tennis ClubThe famous tennis coach hosted the grand opening of the club's new pavilion.
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Conditions are ideal for grafting.
ITV2's new trailer for Love Island has us remembering all our favourite lingo from the show
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.
Featuring host Caroline Flack dressed as an airline pilot, the teaser is an in-flight safety video done Love Island-style.
First, Caroline lets us know that 'conditions today are ideal for grafting', meaning it's time to put the work in on the object of your desire.
But due to'muggy' conditions, turbulence is expected (as always on the Island).
And in a cheeky nod to Chris and Kem's pop single, passengers are advised to 'little bit leave' their belongings in the event of an emergency landing.
Speaking of Chris, if you're in need of emergency options while onboard you can always tell them you're a polar bear.
And of course the onboard nuts are called 'Cash Hughes'.
For those passengers who aren't quite feeling the same about their partner anymore, there's a helpful 'ick bag' located in the front pocket.
And upon landing, Caroline reminds all passengers to fill out their
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According to the internal document drafted in the Public Defender's Office, "the investigative and arresting authorities adopted a 'trigger-happy' policy [vis
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- -vis detained disengagement protesters] and the courts cooperated with it." In doing so, the courts allegedly created new procedural rules. For example, judges heard prosecution requests to remand entire groups of, rather than individual, protesters. The proof presented by the police to back allegations that detained suspects directly participated in the demonstrations was often "extremely weak." The prosecutors left it up to the judge to determine whether there was a cause for arrest. In some cases, they presented the court with hours of video tapes of a demonstration and left it to the judges to view them themselves in order to determine that the suspects brought before them had in fact acted illegally. The courts used remands in custody to deter other disengagement opponents from blocking roads and other protest actions. But according to the law, deterrence is not a criteria for remanding in custody. They often agreed to keep protesters in jail instead of considering alternative measures. The courts, particularly the district courts, did not take into account that the suspects were
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A new study of dogs published this week in Science offers a tantalising glimpse of how life-changing the gene-editing technology CRISPR
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could be for some people in the near future. It suggests that CRISPR can be used to treat an otherwise incurable, fatal genetic disorder known as Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
DMD is the most common form of muscular dystrophy, a blanket term for conditions that progressively destroy muscle throughout the body. This wasting away is primarily caused by the inability to use dystrophin, a protein that acts as a glue to stabilise muscle fibre.
These conditions are often caused by a genetic defect, and people with DMD have mutations in the gene responsible for dystrophin that prevent them from making any at all.
Because the dystrophin gene is found on the X chromosome, DMD primarily affects boys, since girls typically have two X chromosomes, and one healthy copy of the dystrophin gene is usually enough to prevent serious disease (women can still be carriers and pass on the disease to their sons though).
The symptoms
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So how did the Windy City get chosen as one of the world’s 20 safest cities in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s rankings
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this year, beating out other American cities like New York, Washington and Dallas?
The short answer, according to Crain’s Chicago Business, could have something to do with digital security. The rankings don’t only look at personal security — they also look at digital security, health security and infrastructure security. Digital security, the index says, is how well city residents can freely use the internet without fearing privacy violations or identity theft — and how well-protected the city’s power grid, water supply and communications systems are from cyber attacks.
Crain’s reports that Chicago can thank Mayor Rahm Emanuel, at least in part, for high marks in digital security. Last year, Emanuel launched cyber security training in the city this year that teaches college students about digital security, with help from the U.S. Department of Defense, the index notes.
And digital security appears to be a strength across the country.
“Of the cities in the top
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Did the Game of Thrones Season 8 Premiere Live Up to the Hype?
Game of Thrones Season 8 is finally here! But did the opening
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episode meet your expectations?
Will Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez Get Married?
Will they make it? Will Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez actually exchange vows? VOTE NOW!
Will Colton Underwood and Cassie Randolph get married?
Colton Underwood and Cassie Randolph made it through The Bachelor. But will they make it down the aisle?
Should Khloe Kardashian forgive Jordyn Woods?
Jordyn Woods has sort of apologized to Khloe Kardashian. Should she be forgiven for kissing Tristan Thompson?
Grade the Maroon 5 Halftime Performance.
Maroon 5, Travis Scott and Big Boi rocked Super Bowl LIII. Or did they? VOTE NOW!
Grade Gladys Knight's National Anthem Performance.
Gladys Knight sang the national anthem prior to the Super Bowl. How did she do?!?
Who would make a better President, Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt?
You must choose one. Which of these stars would you
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That it is acceptable to refuse sexual attention is something every family does not teach their children, which sets them up to become victims.
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LLMAN, Wash.) - Female college students who believe women are subservient and who endorse music/media's degradation of women are more likely to be involved in an unhealthy sexual relationship, according to research from Washington State University’s Murrow Center for Media & Health Promotion Research.
Stacey J.T. Hust, associate professor in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, and her colleagues found that college women who believe in traditional gender stereotypes were significantly less likely to ask for and adhere to their partner’s consent to sexual activity and were less likely to refuse unwanted sexual advances.
The research team also found that acceptance of music media’s degradation of women was associated with unhealthy sexual consent negotiation.
“Our findings suggest college women’s acceptance of degrading media portrayals of women, like those we see in current popular music videos such as DJ Khaled’s “I’m the One” or Katy Perry’s
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seeing a model of the Homebiogas device on display at the June 26-27 Cleantech Israel 2018 conference and exposition in Tel Aviv
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, I paid a July 10 visit to the company’s headquarters in Beit Yanai Israel, to inspect a working model of the appliance that makes usable methane based bio-gas in one’s own backyard using a combination of manure, food scraps and other organic material.
is exposed to air” he said. This anaerobic breakdown process is what produces the mostly methane bio-gas that is then stored in the appliance for later home use.
The Homebiogas appliance, made almost entirely of PVC and polyprophane plastic materials, weighs only 23 KG “in the box” when delivered with a set of assembly and operation instructions. When completely ‘charged up’ with horse or cow manure (the best fertilizer for producing suitable bacteria for the breakdown process), water and food scraps, the appliance weighs as much as 1.5 tons. The entire bio-gas production process takes several weeks, Roy added, pointing to an appliance still in
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In 2005, the United States had over 160,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Pentagon was ramping up remotely piloted vehicle operations
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over both war zones and military operational requirements filled government satellites to capacity. This led the Department of Defense to ask commercial companies like Intelsat General to help satisfy requirements for both operational data from unmanned aerial vehicles and for troops to stay in touch with families back home. The satellite industry delivered the needed bandwidth, with Intelsat going as far as moving one of its satellites halfway around the globe to provide coverage in Southwest Asia.
A decade later, with turmoil spreading around the globe, is the DoD better prepared to use space-based resources for global communications in a time of conflict? Is there a better linkage between commercial and government satellite and ground capabilities that promotes resilience and survivability and meets the expanding needs of the U.S. military in a complex world?
Not yet, but we anticipate they will be soon. In fiscal year 2016 or early fiscal 2017, the DoD will conduct an analysis of alternatives to determine the way forward for next-generation wideband communications. The study will
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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Two men’s basketball games in the Bay Area have been called off because of poor air
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quality from wildfires in Northern California and the status of the Big Game between Stanford and California is in doubt.
Cal canceled its basketball game against Detroit Mercy on Thursday night because the Air Quality Index was well over the threshold of 200 — the very unhealthy range. A significant amount of smoke infiltrated Haas Pavilion leading to the cancellation.
San Francisco postponed its game Friday night against Arizona State because of unhealthy air quality as well. The schools are working on finding alternate plans for the game.
Cal says no decision has been made about the football game Saturday in Berkeley against Stanford. Officials are monitoring air quality in the area.
The Oakland Raiders were forced to move their practice off-site to an indoor facility Thursday because of the poor air quality. Oakland plays at Arizona on Sunday, while the San Francisco 49ers are off this week.
The air quality in the Bay Area got significantly worse Thursday as a result of the Camp Fire about 150 miles north in Butte County that has burning for more than a week
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Managers can list their profile on a page's timeline, but the feature is only optional.
Facebook just launched a way for page managers to
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identify themselves to the public. The new feature is now available on all pages, but it is optional and therefore unlikely to be used by pages involved in suspect activity.
BuzzFeed News identified an early version of the feature on a Russian-language news page run from Germany. The right-hand rail of the page features a section called "Team Members" and lists the name and profile photo of a man who manages the page. When contacted via Facebook Messenger, he confirmed it was a new feature.
After BuzzFeed News asked Facebook about the "Team Member" section, the company published a Help Center article that details how it works, and a spokesperson said the feature was now available globally.
"Adding yourself as a team member on your Page is a way to show other people on Facebook that you're a manager of that Page," says the help article.
The spokesperson, who agreed to talk on condition of anonymity, told BuzzFeed News the company has been testing the feature "for a few weeks
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Our cookbook of the week is Smitten Kitchen Every Day, by award-winning author and perennially popular first-wave food blogger Deb Pere
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lman. Over the next four days, we’ll feature recipes from the book and an interview with its author.
To try another recipe from the book, check out: Grandma-style chicken noodle soup; and herb and garlic baked Camembert.
“Squash and richer vegetable dishes are something I intensely crave right through the holidays,” Deb Perelman says.
The flavours of her winter squash flatbread are Middle Eastern, with its hummus-yogurt sauce and sprinkling of za’atar (a traditional spice blend). But for its structure, Perelman looked to Italy.
Taking inspiration from Roman pizza di patate (potato pizza), she soaks thin slices of butternut squash in salted water until flexible, drains and blots dry before assembling.
Perelman recommends serving the flatbread for dinner or as a snack when entertaining; it holds up well and can easily be eaten with your
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The hike will be the 7th in just over 2 years, with expectations of a further rate rise, possibly in June to 4%. However recent
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turmoil in the financial markets may put that in doubt, especially if the shocks from China continue for the next few months which will likely impact European economic growth. Jean-Claude Trichet will make the likely trend clearer in his statement following the ECB decision.
Meanwhile The Bank of England is expected to keep UK Interest rates on hold at 5.25% after Januarys surprise rise continues to have an impact on the UK economy and inflation, which showed a fall for January figures released in February. However traders are still wary of another surprise, hence the British Pound staged a rally on Wednesday as traders squared short positions in the lead up to the banks decision.
However, at least one further interest rate hike is expected later this year, possibly in May 2007, especially if the decline in CPI figures released in February prove temporary. The Market Oracle forecast is for UK Interest rates to hit 5.75% this year.
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Less than a year after selecting the design of Europe's future Ariane 6 launcher, government ministers will meet in Geneva on Friday to iron out lingering
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questions over the rocket after Germany's top space official last week called for the current form of the Ariane 6 to be ditched in favor of another configuration.
Johann-Dietrich Woerner, chairman of the executive board of the German Aerospace Center, or DLR, said Thursday that Europe could not afford proposed launcher developments presented to European Space Agency member states at a council meeting on March 19 and 20.
"Our opinion is we should at least have another discussion," Woerner said.
The discussions will continue Friday in Geneva, when the ESA member states participating in Europe's launcher program will meet to try to bridge differences in their visions for the future of the Ariane program.
ESA plans to complete testing of a new upper stage engine for the workhorse Ariane 5 rocket, start development of the replacement Ariane 6 launcher, and continue a series of upgrades to advance the lightweight Vega booster's position in the small satellite launch market.
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The idea behind these sessions is to disperse myths about immunisation and encourage locals to take up immunisation of their newborns.
Sitting in
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a tiny room in a Govandi slum bylane, several religious leaders, some slum-dwelling women and adolescent girls, are all ears to what a health worker tells them. Sunita Choure calls it a “sensitisation session”. The idea behind these sessions is to disperse myths about immunisation and encourage locals to take up immunisation of their newborns. Choure, who also works with government health workers and organisation Apnalaya, says the human development index in the M-east ward, comprising Govandi area, is one of the lowest in Mumbai.
Siraj Ahmed Ansari (50), a maulvi in Babra Ahmed Mosque, says, “I had heard that immunisation leads to impotency and polio. Then I saw the immunisation shots myself and how they are administered. Since then I started to help this practise as much as I could.” “When I recently saw a woman breastfeeding her
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Music streaming service Spotify has announced that users can once again sign up to listen to the service for free.
The company allowed users to join for
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nothing when it launched, but last year ceased to offer free accounts to new members, unless they were invited by an existing premium member.
Now, a new account type, named Spotify Open, allows users once again to sign up for streaming music at no cost – but, like the older free subscriptions, includes adverts every few minutes between tracks. The catch? Spotify Open users can only listen to the service free for 20 hours a month.
The new account is part of a refresh of the company’s subscriptions policy, which sees it introducing Spotify Unlimited – essentially the old, unlimited free service with adverts. Only this time it’ll cost you a penny under a fiver each month.
Spotify Premium, which saves users from the bleating of ‘Jonathan from Spotify’ and the solicitations of various dating web sites, still costs £9.99 a month. It enables subscribers to use Spotify playlists offline on their iPhone, iPod Touch or Android mobile
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It’s spring time and with extra help needed in Poplar, Mother Mildred (Miriam Margolyes) decides to send Sister
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Frances (Ella Broccoleri) and Sister Hilda (Fenella Woolgar) to Nonnatus House, where they will live and work.
Everyone is excited for the impending arrival of the Queen’s baby. Violet (Annabelle Apsion) is holding a Teddy Bears’ Picnic and raising funds through a sweepstake on whether the Queen will have a boy or a girl.
The midwives are introduced to their new midwifery bags, but Sister Monica Joan (Judy Parfitt) is distressed when she sees Fred (Cliff Parisi) burning the old leather ones.
Lucille (Leonie Elliott) is caring for heavily pregnant Lesley White (Jordon Stevens), whose sister Cath (Emily Barber), an aspiring model, has been feeling extremely unwell. Back at the maternity home, Shelagh (Laura Main) has to step in to help Trixie (Helen George) with a birth that
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BANGALORE: WestBridge Capital Partners, a leading US-India Venture Capital firm with $140 million under management, on Thursday announced that
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they have completed the first round of funding for Strand Genomics as lead investors.
innovative products in the area of in silico biology. Sumir Chadha, senior managing director of WestBridge Capital Partners will join the Board at Strand Genomics. Other investors include UTI Ventures and angel investors. The consolidated first round of investment in Strand is $ 4.6 million.
Strand's business model is a combination of high-end proprietary products and informatics services which address productivity bottlenecks in drug discovery & development and diagnostic research. Strand Genomics was founded by a group of computer scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. It is the country's first venture funded company being spun out of a research university, and is widely regarded for its world-class computational capabilities in the field of life sciences and health care. Strand's vision is to accelerate the drug discovery and development process by developing a suite of products, "
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Six residents have applied to an open seat on the Minden Town Board.
Town board members are scheduled to meet 5:30 p.m
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. Wednesday at the town's public works facility, 1330 Buckeye Road.
Member Glen Radtke resigned his seat on Feb. 21. Radtke, a 1985 Douglas High School graduate and longtime Valley resident, is retiring from Douglas County Public Works and plans to go on RVing across the country.
Applications for the town board closed earlier this week.
■ Mark Wlaschin is a retired U.S. Marine Corps major who has lived in Minden since 2015.
■ Robert Pohlman is a 25-year Winhaven resident, who has run for the board in the past.
■ Susan L. Jackson said she is a lifelong Minden resident who has 33 years and is currently a parole commissioner.
■ Ted Thran is a lifelong Carson Valley resident and former Douglas County clerk-treasurer.
■ Pat Bridges is former publisher of The Record-Courier. He has lived in Minden since moving here in 2012.
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Shia cleric said the Lucknow district administration has assured him in writing that rules will be framed for entry of tourists in the two Imambar
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as, which he claimed, were religious places and not a place for recreation.
If the Uttar Pradesh government and Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawwad have their way, tourists and visitors to the historical Bada and Chhota Imambaras will have to follow a dress code — which includes mandatory covering of the head and “no short dresses”.
Addressing the Shia community during Friday prayers, Jawwad said the Lucknow district administration has assured him in writing that rules will be framed for entry of tourists in the two Imambaras, which he claimed, were religious places and not a place for recreation.
While District Magistrate Raj Shekhar did not respond to calls, Additional City Magistrate-II Shailendra Mishra, who handed over the said letter to Jawwad, confirmed the decision.
“We have agreed to issue instructions for maintaining the religious sanctity of the Imambaras by framing rules barring short dresses
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Hepatitis C is a viral infection is caused by the Hepatitis C virus. This infection results in abnormalities in the liver of the
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infected individuals.
Advanced hepatitis symptoms are liver scarring and liver cirrhosis. Hepatitis C progresses gradually and the infected person can be asymptomatic anywhere between several months to several years.
The body’s immune system fights the virus, but chronic infections need appropriate treatment. There is no vaccine for Hepatitis C.
Treatment for Hepatitis C uses antiviral medications such as interferon and the antiviral drug, ribavirin. These medications are taken for a period of 24 to 48 weeks for patients who either exhibit confirmed hepatitis symptoms or persistent abnormal liver functions.
Patients with acute infection see better results than patients with chronic Hepatitis C. The side effects of these medications are flu-like symptoms, anemia, cardiovascular abnormalities, and suicidal thoughts.
New medications for Hepatitis C treatment are in development. These are protease inhibitors, entry inhibitors, and polymerase inhibitors. The protease inhibitor has reached phase III trials and
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No Friendship Is Safe on This Season of The Real Housewives of New York!
The Big Apple gals are back on Bravo tonight! The
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Real Housewives of New York returns for season 6 and they are bringing the excitement (and perhaps a little bit of drama) with them.
We caught up with cast members Aviva Drescher, Heather Thomson and newbie Kristen Taekman to get the scoop on this season and what we can expect to see. But not before the ladies weighed in on that insane trailer! Where is Carole swimming to?
Watch: The Real Housewives of Orange County trailer is here!
The RHONY ladies explain where their friendships are with each of the ladies in the cast and what’s to come, including some unexpected tiffs between friends you wouldn’t expect to see at odds.
OK! News: Did you see Lindsay Lohan’s reality TV debut?
The Real Housewives of New York airs tonight on Bravo at 9 p.m. ET.
What are you most excited to see on this season of RHONY? Tell us in the comments below
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Minnesota coach Richard Pitino dared No. 22 Wisconsin to beat the Golden Gophers from the 3
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-point arc and the free throw line.
The Badgers weren't up to the challenge.
Amir Coffey scored 21 points and Minnesota put Wisconsin in an early hole before holding off a furious rally to win 59-52 on Thursday night. The Gophers (12-2, 2-1 Big Ten) ended an eight-game losing streak in the rivalry with their first victory at Wisconsin since 2009.
Minnesota held the Badgers to 14 percent shooting from 3-point range in the first half while building a double-digit lead. The Gophers then hung on as Wisconsin missed late opportunities at the foul line.
Pitino said a key part of his strategy was double-teaming Wisconsin leading scorer Ethan Happ in the post and then intentionally fouling him late.
Happ led the Badgers with 17 points on 8-of-13 shooting from the field, but he was just 1 for 7 at the line. And the Badgers, who came in shooting
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Woody Allen's latest London-set picture, in cinemas now, provoked some predictably'mixed' reviews. No news there then,
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so let’s change the subject and talk about his glasses instead.
We've long been great fans of Moscot eyewear, but the company’s continued rise over the last couple of years has been nothing short of phenomenal, leading to expansion which has seen it add nine stockists in Britain alone to its website, in addition to the two dedicated retailers in New York and a worldwide webstore.
Established nearly a century ago on New York’s Lower East Side, the family-run business has maintained its appeal by defying short-lived trends and sticking to the distinctive designs it built its name on, now selling from the same location since 1950.
The Moscot Originals line is based on styles from their archives between 1930 and 1970, while the Spirit range is a contemporary rethink of the established classics. Now with titanium editions and the newly-launched Moscot Sun range, 2011 looks to be their year, for the 96th time at least.
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The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has announced the honorees for the 31st annual ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement. Edward
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Lachman, ASC; Ron Garcia, ASC; Philippe Rousselot, ASC, AFC; and Nancy Schreiber, ASC will be recognized for their contributions to the art of cinematography at the organization's awards gala on February 4, 2017, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland. Lachman will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Garcia will be bestowed with the Career Achievement in Television Award. Rousselot earns the International Award, and Schreiber will take home the Presidents Award.
LOS ANGELES (October 13, 2016) - The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has announced the honorees for the 31st annual ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement. Edward Lachman, ASC; Ron Garcia, ASC; Philippe Rousselot, ASC, AFC; and Nancy Schreiber, ASC will be recognized for their contributions to the art of cinematography at the organization's awards gala on February
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Host Fountain Valley and Ocean View are on a collision course in the Majors division of the Little League District 62 All-Stars Tournament.
Both
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teams won their first two tournament games to advance to face each other at 5 p.m. today at Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley.
Fountain Valley picked up its second win Tuesday with a 6-5 win over Huntington Valley. In the following game, Ocean View got win No. 2 by defeating Seaview, 11-1, under the lights.
Fountain Valley starting pitcher Steven Eldridge took a 6-4 lead into the top of the sixth but had to be pulled from the mound after reaching his pitch-count limit with two out in the inning. Wyatt McGinnis relieved Eldridge and gave up a few hits before being replaced by Ryan Foster who gave up a hit and a run before recording a strikeout to end the game.
Charlie Dysone had a two-run double in the first inning for Fountain Valley and was followed by McGinnis' one-run double. Shea Sueda had a two-run single in the second inning.
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Julian Caddy, managing director of Brighton Fringe, says he is reasonably confident he and his team can raise £20,000 in time
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for the start of this year’s festival (May 4-June 3).
But already he is warning that if they don’t, there will inevitably be implications for next year.
Brighton Fringe has launched a crowd-funding campaign after the last-minute loss of their headline sponsor.
Ironically, the crisis comes with a fine festival in prospect, the festival bigger and selling more tickets than ever before. Ticket sales are up more than ten per cent on this time last year.
Now the fringe has to move on, with the crowd-funding bid just one part of the jigsaw: “We are looking for other sponsors and other funders.
“If we don’t get the £20,000, we will have to reduce our budget for next year. What does that look like? We will have to reduce the activities that we are able to deliver, and we will have to look at the size of our staff. The staff
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The mother of a newborn baby in recovery from addiction has a new job. Her Wish List need is a new car for her new life.
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The Enquirer and United Way of Greater Cincinnati have joined forces for the 31st year to promote the Wish List giving season providing assistance for families in need. Today, learn the story of Covington mother Shae Clem.
Shae Clem, 30, gave birth Nov. 1 to a daughter. The Covington resident is married and has two other children.
Her husband is in jail, and she's worked to overcome drug addiction. Clem wants to work to get her two other children and stepdaughter back into her custody.
"I've struggled with a lot of things, but I'm most proud of the mother I was to my children before I let drugs into my life," she said.
To that end, Clem has graduated from Life Learning Center's 12-week life skills program this fall. She successfully completed a 10-week drug addiction rehabilitation program prior to entering the life skills program.
Clem connected with Life Learning Center when the nonprofit
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It’s about time. The liberal media has long been sticking it to Republicans.
In October 1992, during the presidential race between President
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George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Investor’s Business Daily found that over 90 percent of the economic news in newspapers was negative. At the time, the economy was well into a recovery, on its 19th consecutive month of growth. Yet much of the business news was sour.
The next month, November 1992, Bill Clinton won. Investor’s Business Daily found that suddenly only 14 percent of the newspapers’ economic news was negative, a dramatic decline in negativity and upswing in positive economic news.
ABC News’ Peter Jennings, NBC’s Tom Brokaw and CBS’ Dan Rather anchored the nightly news for the then-“Big Three” networks on the first day in office of both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. On Clinton’s first day in office, he reversed a President Ronald Reagan policy forbidding the use of federal money for abortions. President Bush reversed Bill Clinton’s reversal.
So
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In the 1980s BBC docudrama ‘The March’, hundred of thousands of Africans marched northwards toward the Mediterranean to escape starvation
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, prompting widespread panic in Europe about an impending ‘flood’ of ‘illegal migrants’. The current global food crisis is very unlikely to result in mass migration, and population movements that do occur will almost certainly take place within countries and not across borders, and for a short-period of time only. Still the crisis is likely to have a significant impact on those already displaced as refugees or internally displaced persons; and finding solutions for them will be part of the long-term solution to the food crisis.
The dimensions and dynamics of the food crisis have been widely reported: rice prices have increased in the Philippines by 70 percent in one year and tripled in Thailand since the beginning of the year; high food inflation is affecting countries as diverse as Costa Rica, Djibouti, Egypt and Sri Lanka. The global causes are increasing demand for food especially in Asia, reduced supply because of bad weather and increased bio-fuel production, speculation on futures markets, and high oil prices that
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The mission of the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Media (AIEM) research group at Boston University is to conduct research and foster education in areas related to
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artificial intelligence and emerging media. We explore and create techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision to interpret emerging media, their role in mass and interpersonal communication, and understand the human and automated processes by which emerging media are developed, marketed, shaped and reshaped by users.
The group’s weekly research meetings are open to colleagues and students who are interested in joining BU AIEM (Hariri Institute, Fishbowl, Wednesdays 1-3 pm).
BU AIEM is housed in the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering and is part of BU’s Artificial Intelligence (AIR) Initiative. Our team members are affiliated with various colleges and departments throughout Boston University, including the College of Arts and Sciences (Department of Computer Science), the College of Communication (Division of Emerging Media), and the College of Engineering (Department of Computer Engineering).
BU AIEM started with a Hariri Institute incubator research award in June 2016 led by Lei
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SAGINAW TWP. — Elementary school students in Saginaw Township Community Schools are learning math the Singapore way.
The district this
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year implemented a program called “Math in Focus” for kindergarten through fifth grade students at its five elementary schools: Arrowwood, Hemmeter, Sherwood, Weiss and Westdale.
Superintendent Jerry Seese said the model is based off the Singapore style of teaching math, which was developed in the 1980s.
The teaching model uses concrete examples, such as dice, to explain processes such as addition and subtraction. Then students uses pictures and bar modeling before moving to abstract concepts.
The content goes in greater depth at a higher level of thinking and focuses on mastering the subject instead of covering a larger spread. The books also make math easy for parents to follow along and help their children, Seese said.
Sandra Braun, principal Sherwood Elementary, said she likes the way math is taught.
Math in Focus offers enrichment pieces for students who move more quickly through the material and support for students who need more time, Braun said.
“The program itself has
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A man is on trial for third-degree murder and other charges in a Thanksgiving Day police chase that authorities said ended when he collided with a car
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that burst into flames, killing the driver, his fiancee and her toddler daughter.
Demetrius Coleman, 24, of Pittsburgh, is charged in Allegheny County in the November 2016 crash in North Versailles, about 2 miles from where police in East McKeesport had stopped him for making an illegal left turn.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that relatives of the victims gasped and began dabbing at their eyes Friday as they watched a video from a nearby restaurant showing Coleman's car speeding into the intersection and plowing into the side of the victims' car, which erupted into a fireball.
Killed were three members of a Pitcairn family on their way to a holiday dinner: David Lee Bianco, 29; Kaylie Meininger, 21, his fiancee; and their daughter Annika, 2.
Coleman is charged with three counts of third-degree murder, vehicular homicide, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, fleeing police, driving
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Weekly Roundup: Thursday, January 25 There have been a number of revelations this week related to the Russia investigation. Among them, that the special
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counsel's team has talked to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and that Robert Mueller is now looking to sit down with President Trump. And while the shutdown is over, the underlying problems remain, particularly when it comes to finding a resolution on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. This episode, host/congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben and national political correspondent Mara Liasson. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.
There have been a number of revelations this week related to the Russia investigation. Among them, that the special counsel's team has talked to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and that Robert Mueller is now looking to sit down with President Trump. And while the shutdown is over, the underlying problems remain, particularly when it comes to finding a resolution on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arri
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - With the unofficial kickoff of summer comes the new, sunny destination of Destin - Ft
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. Walton Beach, Fla., helping boost numbers at the Springfield - Branson National Airport to record levels.
"The security lines are easy to get through and so friendly," said Susan Butts, a traveler who flies in and out of SGF on a regular basis.
The Springfield airport is now one of the fastest growing of its size nationwide, with United set to add twice-daily service to Houston in June.
"The timing was right, and they decided to drop in a couple flights a day," said airport director Brian Weiler.
Weiler said the growth amounts to about 30 percent just within the last five years.
"I think the southwest Missouri economy is doing well. People have more money to travel and they want to travel. I think that's driving a lot of the growth," Weiler said.
Weiler anticipates the airport will reach 1 million passengers this year. Going past that number will help the airport attract more options, like additional restaurants.
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YouTube is expanding the test of its “Explore” feature, a new discovery tool it first introduced as an experiment within its iPhone app last
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year. Similar to Instagram’s Explore page, the new YouTube feature aims to introduce users to a diverse set of personalized recommendations so they can more easily find something new to watch. The test is now available across devices, and has been updated to also suggest smaller, up-and-coming YouTube creators, the company says.
The changes to Explore were announced in a recent Creator Insiders video, where the company shares ideas it’s thinking about or testing ahead of a public debut — like a change to the “dislike” button, for example.
Last year, the company published a video to Creator Insiders where it talked about a plan to develop a new place within the YouTube app that would help people broaden their horizons when looking for something different to watch.
Today, YouTube’s recommendation technology relies heavily on past viewing activity and other in-app behavior to make its content suggestions, the company explained. With the Explore tab, however, YouTube aims
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As we help American high-tech companies deal with value-added tax problems in the U.K. and continental Europe, the hit movie "
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Groundhog Day" often comes to mind.
Just as Bill Murray's character, Phil Connors, found himself repeating the same experiences day-in and day-out, we find companies—whether first-timers or well-established entities—falling into the same avoidable traps. These include an assumption that VAT works just like U.S. sales tax (it doesn't), a belief that VAT doesn't apply to non-European businesses (it does), or a failure to acknowledge that VAT is an inescapable part of doing business in Europe. Sometimes, it is all of the above.
The 27 EU member states have a harmonized VAT system, and the non-EU countries follow similar principles. Rates are high, from 15 to 25 percent, and there is little margin for error. Savage penalties for mistakes and non-compliance abound, so getting it wrong is costly in terms of both profitability and cash flow. The cost benefit of a cross-border business transaction should
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn is back in the Tokyo detention center where he previously spent 108 days,
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after being released just last month on a $9 million bail.
His former employers, Japan’s Nissan and France’s Renault, initially appeared to be at odds over his case when he was first arrested in November, but now seem to have closed ranks against him.
Ghosn was arrested again on suspicion of funneling $5 million from payments made by a Nissan subsidiary to a third party for personal gain. An internal Nissan investigation has identified the party as a Nissan distributor in Oman.
He is already fighting charges of under-reporting his Nissan salary for nearly a decade through 2018, and a charge of temporarily transferring personal financial losses to Nissan’s books during the global financial crisis around 2008.
Renault too is investigating payments it made under Ghosn’s watch to the same company in Oman. The outcome of that probe could deepen the French automaker’s exposure to the scandal, which so far has been largely focused on Nissan.
HOW
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Several times in history great nations crippled or ended their development by expelling industrious minorities. The United States is doing the same with its immigrants,
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legal or not. If it’s not been expelling them by the hundreds of thousands a year since the Obama days, and worse now under Trump, it’s been demonizing them as a threat–and not a minor threat–to America’s economy and culture.
But it’s the reverse. They’re among America’s salvations. We have a lesson to learn.
England expelled Jews in 1290 and wasn’t heard of for the rest of the Middle Ages. It made Catholicism illegal and massacred or decimated Ireland of Catholics in the 17th century, only sending their industry to America. Good for us, and me: my second father was Irish. The Iberian peninsula was among the rare centers of culture and coexistence during the middle ages, but Catholic Spain expelled Muslims and Jews around the time of the discoveries of the New World. If American gold staved off decline for a while, Spain was soon
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After winning back-to-back NBA championship titles, the Golden State Warriors were only expected to focus on retaining their core this offseason. However,
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despite going far beyond the luxury tax threshold, the Warriors managed to make a huge upgrade on their roster with the acquisition of All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins in free agency.
The arrival of DeMarcus Cousins in Golden State will undeniably make the Warriors massive favorites in the upcoming 2018-19 NBA season. However, there are some people who think Cousins could ruin the Warriors’ chemistry and become a headache in their locker room. Since entering the league in 2010, Cousins has received 118 technicals and has been ejected 13 times.
If the Warriors can’t control Cousins’ attitude on and off the court, his acquisition could do more harm than good for the reigning NBA champions next season. However, Warriors superstar Stephen Curry doesn’t want to focus on the negative side of the All-Star center. Curry has a strong belief that the Warriors can “bring the best out” of Cousins.
Stephen Curry admitted having a conversation with DeMarcus Cousins after the All-
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Legendary Sanath Jayasuriya will make a welcome return to the Sri Lanka T20 and One Day International fold as the national selectors picked
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the former Sri Lanka captain yesterday to join the squad for the series against England starting on June 25 with aT20 at Bristol. The series also features five ODIs against England and one ODI each against Ireland and Scotland.
The exciting left hander who has thrilled the crowds around the world with his explosive stroke play, returns to Sri Lanka team after a one-and-a half year absence, having last represented the country in December 2009 against India at Delhi.
The experienced left hander who turns 42 on June 30, has established a plethora of World records in a 22-year international career that began in 1989, and played a major role in Sri Lanka’s rise as one of the strongest forces in world cricket, during a crucial transition period.
“I am doing my training as seriously as I’ve ever done in my career and my fitness levels are as good as I’ve been at 18. I am prepared always and am confident of what I
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Garance Dore was once told she was getting too old to have a child when she reached the age of 40.
The French blogger,
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who is now 42, opened up about her fertility struggles in a touching essay published on Lena Dunham's Lenny Letter on Friday.
She described how she and her fiance, jazz musician Chris Norton, tried for months to conceive a baby during a harrowing process that robbed her of her happiness and mental well-being.
Garance began toying with the idea of becoming a parent when she was 37 years old. At the time, the blogger, who lived in New York for years before moving to LA earlier this year, was dating her fellow fashion blogger Scott Schuman.
'I was with a man I loved, but my new desire for kids didn't seem to find its space in our couple. Too many travels, too big an age difference, too many cultural differences,' she wrote about Scott, who is now 49.
The blogger briefly thought about having a baby on her own, but she quickly met Chris, who at the time was 39 and, like Garance, had no
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In his first policy act as new mayor of London, Sadiq Khan is introducing a one-hour "hopper-fare" for bus users
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as promised in his election manifesto.
The fare system allows bus passengers to make an extra journey within an hour of touching in when using an Oyster card or contactless payment.
Previously, customers were obliged to pay £1.50 each time they boarded a bus.
The hopper-fare will "help ensure everyone will be able to afford to travel around the city," Mr Khan said.
It is scheduled to be introduced in September.
"The cost of a fare in London has risen for eight years in a row and now that I'm mayor I am determined to prevent the cost of travel from becoming a barrier to work."
Transport for London said it did not have the technology to allow passengers to enjoy unlimited bus transfers within one hour but it was hoping to upgrade its ticketing technology in 2017 and possibly introduce unlimited timed fares by the end of 2018.
A single journey costs £1.50. London buses stopped accepting cash payments for fares in 2014 and it is
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Unity government takes shape with ceremony overshadowed by would-be minister's arrest.
The MDC leader has selected 14 cabinet ministers but Mugabe,
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who was supposed to have 15 ministers sworn in, instead brought 22 as the swearing-in ceremony got underway.
The MDC splinter group, MDC Mutambara, has three cabinet posts.
But in the latest of a series of political twists, Roy Bennett, a white farmer who became treasurer of the MDC, was arrested at a Harare airport just an hour before the oath-taking ceremony, MDC sources said.
Bennett returned just last month from three years of self-imposed exile in South Africa, where he had fled to escape charges of plotting to kill Mugabe, and was set to become deputy agriculture minister in the new government.
Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa, reporting from Harare, said: "He [Bennett] is still in police custody some where outside the capital. People are confused as to what is going on."
She said some people were wondering why Tsvangirai had agreed for his ministers to be sworn in
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NEW YORK (AP) Old enough to see the rustic world of his childhood disappear, Sam Shepard was a new kind of man who brought a
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new kind of language to the American stage.
“In True West,” “Buried Child” and other groundbreaking plays, Shepard’s characters spoke with a rugged poetry and raw introspection rarely heard from out of men and women from the American West. Like William Faulkner writing about the American South, Shepard gave voice to a society haunted by decline and defeat and a fear of being on the wrong side of an old and moral argument.
The handsome, taciturn Shepard was shaped by the frontier life he mourned and critiqued and by the revolutionary changes of the post-World War II era that helped upend it. He looked like an heir to Gary Cooper and other stars of Hollywood Westerns, but he was an artist for a rebellious and challenging time. In his 1971 one-act “Cowboy Mouth,” which he wrote with his then-girlfriend, musician and poet Patti Smith, one character says, “People want
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Left to right: Imogen Fife, Ian Whyte, Mark Robinson, Dave Hills, Lindy Woodrow, Norman Stephenson and coach Constantin
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Cosmin Petcu.
A number of City of Sunderland ASC Masters’ swimmers went the distance when they took part in the Swim England T30 swim.
The event is a national competition which sees how far swimmers can swim in 30 minutes.
City of Sunderland entered individual and team events with some fantastic results which was pleasing for new Masters’ coach, Constantin Cosmin Petcu.
In the individual events, Dave Hills (65-69 years) took the gold medal when he swam a distance of 2,050 metres in the allotted time.
Mark Robinson (5-39 years) also got gold when achieving an impressive distance of 2,070 metres.
Norman Stephenson (70-74 years) was awarded the silver medal for his distance of 1,610 metres, while Ian Whyte gained the bronze with distance of 1,800 metres.
Imogen Fife (18-24 years) ranked sixth in her age group, swimming a distance of 1
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A Rockland man says it was all a misunderstanding over paperwork.
The U.S. Attorney begs to differ.
Rockland resident Stephen
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Grant, 48, was able to bypass Logan Airport security and board an American Airlines plane by doing little more than showing an assistant harbormaster badge to airport security personnel, then checking the wrong box on a federal form, authorities say.
Grant of 48 Berlin St., was charged Tuesday in U.S. District Court with impersonating a federal agent and making false statements.
Authorities say Grant boarded a flight to San Diego Jan. 1, 2007 without first passing through security by telling ticketing agents, a state trooper and flight personnel that he was a Department of Homeland Security agent and that he was �flying while armed,� according to an affidavit filed in court.
Three days later, Transportation Security Administration personnel in San Diego considered having his plane, which was returning to Boston, make an emergency landing, concerned that Grant �might be an imposter who had somehow snuck aboard the plane armed,� the affidavit said.
Grant said in a phone interview Tuesday that the whole episode was a
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahraini police fired tear gas to break up a march on Saturday by thousands of Shi’ites mourning
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a man whom activists said was killed in custody but officials said had drowned, residents said.
Dozens of pro-government Sunni militants attacked the mourners, as riot police tried to break up the clashes and keep the two sides apart in Muharraq, a town north of the capital Manama, they said.
“Some shop windows were broken during the clashes. I know one was owned by a Shi’ite and one by a Sunni,” said a resident adding that police detained at least four people.
Clashes between security forces and mainly Shi’ite opposition activists have taken place on an almost daily basis after the Sunni-dominated government crushed a pro-democracy uprising last year.
The island nation, home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet, is seen by the United States and Saudi Arabia as a key ally against non-Arab Shi’ite power Iran just across Gulf waters.
“Police warned mourners several times (the)
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HALIFAX—A March winter storm is forecast to hit this weekend and bring with it some significant snowfall.
Early on Saturday,
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Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning for Halifax and many other parts of mainland Nova Scotia, saying that heavy snow was likely to begin Saturday afternoon and continue into the evening.
About 15 centimetres of snow was expected for most areas, “with higher amounts possible in the west and along the Atlantic Coast,” the weather warning stated.
But by Saturday afternoon, Environment Canada had upgraded the snowfall amounts for the Halifax region, and changed the snowfall warning to a winter storm warning, which now includes most of mainland Nova Scotia.
The new warning said snowfall amounts of between 15 and 25 centimetres were now forecast for most of mainland Nova Scotia, with some southern areas of the province getting up to 40 centimetres.
Gusty winds were also expected for overnight Saturday.
“Consider postponing non-essential travel until conditions improve,” this latest warning read.
On Saturday morning, Halifax Regional Municipality said it would enforce the overnight parking
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JERMAIN DEFOE last night revealed the heartbreak behind his stunning winner for England.
That goal was for my cousin who died
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in St Lucia. It would have been her (21st) birthday today.
Tottenham striker Defoe came off the bench to smash home in the 80th minute as England secured their first win over Italy since 1977 and got revenge for their Euro 2012 quarter-final defeat to the runners-up.
But Defoe then revealed his personal anguish, paying tribute to his cousin Hannah Defoe, who died in a freak accident in St Lucia last month.
The 20-year-old was electrocuted after diving into a swimming pool while on holiday and distraught Defoe was forced to return home from Tottenham's summer tour of America.
Defoe said: "That goal was for my cousin who died in St Lucia. It would have been her (21st) birthday today.
"It's one of the best I've scored. But the main thing was to get a win. Even if you speak to the lads with more caps than me, every time you play you
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As a plant pathologist, Gordon Grimm pursued his lifelong passions at work and play.
"Nature was such an important part of his being,"
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said Katherine Grimm of Winter Park, his wife of 30 years. "When we'd go outside, he would look around and he'd say, 'This is my cathedral.' "
Grimm, 93, died on Nov. 6. "He was a sweet person and my best friend," said Katherine Grimm.
Born in Madison, Wis., Grimm earned his doctorate in plant pathology from the University of Wisconsin, where his studies were largely focused on the wheat that covered the Midwestern fields of his youth. He moved to Winter Park in 1953 for a job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, researching Central Florida citrus plants. He was instrumental in helping growers combat phytophthora parasitica, a disease of the root system.
A keen observer, Grimm watched his new home grow along with the flora.
"He could remember when T.G. Lee's cows were actually in a pasture where the Colonial Plaza area is on Highway 50," said Katherine Grimm,
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In 2002 on Christmas Eve, two-year-old Bryce Faber was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a deadly. The toddler's treatment,
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in addition to surgery, included massive amounts of radiation followed by even more massive amounts of antibiotics, and it no doubt saved his life. But those mega-doses of antibiotics, while staving off infections in his immunosuppressed body, caused a permanent side effect: deafness.
"All I remember is coming out of treatment not being able to hear anything," said Bryce, now a healthy 14-year-old living in Arizona. "I asked my mom, 'Why have all the people stopped talking?'" He was 90 percent deaf.
"The loss has been devastating," said his father, Bart Faber. "But not as devastating as losing him would have been."
Treatment with aminoglycosides, the most commonly used class of antibiotics worldwide, is often a lifesaving necessity. But an estimated 20-60 percent of all patients who receive these antibiotics suffer partial or complete hearing loss.
Now researchers report that they have developed a modified version of an am
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A North Korean traffic policewoman has been awarded the rare 'Hero of the Republic' award, sparking speculation she may have saved the life of
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Kim Jong-un.
South Korean media suggested that Ri Kyong-Sim may have rescued the North Korean leader from a traffic accident, while others speculated about a possible assassination attempt.
In a brief dispatch, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced that Ms Ri "displayed the heroic self-sacrificing spirit of safeguarding the security of the headquarters of the revolution in an unexpected circumstance."
The phrase "headquarters of the revolution" is often used to refer to the country's supreme leadership.
The "Hero of the Republic" award is usually reserved for heroic acts during wartime, although it is also given to individuals who have made a major contribution to the country's advancement.
Recently, a large number were given to scientists and technicians involved in the North's long-range rocket launch in December and February's nuclear test.
Park Kun-Ha, secretary general of NK Intellectuals Solidarity, a North Korean defector group, said it
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A newly formed group representing 20 elected First Nation councils will present an offer on Tuesday to buy a 22.5-per-cent stake in Trans
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Canada Corp.'s Coastal GasLink pipeline project in British Columbia.
First Nation Leadership Group (FNLG) said having elected band councils serve as co-owners of Coastal GasLink would strengthen the $6.2-billion project, which is designed to transport natural gas from northeast B.C. to the planned LNG Canada terminal in Kitimat on the West Coast.
Coastal GasLink, also known as CGL, began clearing land earlier this year to make room for work camps along the 670-kilometre route.
“This proposal will not inhibit CGL’s ability to raise capital for the initial phases of project activities in 2019, and provides a genuine opportunity for the FNLG to explore mutually beneficial partnership and investment opportunities with CGL,” according to a letter sent by the Indigenous group to TransCanada.
Members of FNLG, including Haisla Nation elected chief councillor Crystal Smith, will meet with CGL officials on
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SAN JOSE — Pushed by its ambitious president, San Jose State is spending $28 million on high-tech communications systems worthy of a campus
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of the future — but an investigation by this newspaper shows the project was crafted largely in secret, purchased without competitive bids and adorned with pricey gadgets that many professors may not even use.
At a time of tremendous financial pressure for the university and its students, campus leaders bought some of the flashiest classroom, conference room and office equipment available. The Next Generation Technology Project — built mostly by San Jose-based Cisco Systems, a major university donor — boasts thousands of videophones costing nearly $400 each, two-way conferencing to beam in experts on giant screens, and systems to record, transcribe and broadcast lectures.
San Jose State also paid Cisco to speed up its notoriously slow and unreliable Internet service, even though the California State University system — which is coordinating Internet upgrades for its other 22 campuses — is providing similar technology at no cost to the schools, with a company that offered CSU a proposal at one-fifth the price Cisco quoted.
Campus President Mo Qayou
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Did the Obama Campaign Run Roughshod Over Voter Privacy?
The Obama presidential campaign displayed a masterful use of databases to assemble the most sophisticated
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voter profiles ever used in any election. But privacy advocates believe the campaign's "do as I say, not as I do" approach will undercut proposed consumer privacy initiatives.
Since 2008, the Obama campaign has assembled voter profiles using both online and offline databases, combined with information provided by donors and voters. According to a Washington Post report, the Obama campaign is considering leveraging those lists to assist the president's legislative agenda or other Democrats.
That's got privacy advocates more than a little alarmed that the administration is less than genuine about its recommendations for a consumer privacy bill of rights or tighter data collection regulations for data brokers, as suggested by reports from both the Commerce Department and the Federal Trade Commission.
"The very same information they want regulated in the commercial sphere, they are using in the political sphere," said leading privacy advocate Jeff Chester, the executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy. "They are being hypocritical."
While businesses are required to give consumers the choice to opt-out of data
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Lyft Enters the Market With a Bang - 24/7 Wall St.
Lyft Inc. (NASDAQ: LYFT)
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entered the market with a bang in one of the most anticipated initial public offerings (IPOs) of the year. Shares actually went out at just over $87, compared to its pricing of $72, which was at the high end of the expected pricing range of $70 to $72. Overall, 30.77 million shares were offered. The entire offering, including the overallotment option, was valued at $2.55 billion.
There were already a couple analysts with ratings out for the ride-share company ahead of the IPO. Northland Research and Wedbush each had a Neutral rating, the latter with an $80 price target. Note that these analysts can issue ratings now because they are not part of the underwriting group, which is subject to a quiet period.
It’s also worth noting that this is the biggest IPO since Facebook came public in 2012.
The IPO was expected to be one of the largest since the 2014 offering by Chinese e-commerce giant
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Send announcements to The Loudoun Connection, 7913 Westpark Drive, McLean, VA 22102, e-mail to loudoun@connection
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newspapers.com or fax to 703-917-0991. Deadline is Friday, two weeks before the event. Photos/artwork encouraged. For more information, call Matthew Razak at 703-917-6457.
All cats adopted from the Loudoun County Animal Shelter through Nov. 30 will go home with a "Kitty Care Kit" including necessities like a litter box, scoop, food and water bowls, and toys. Plus, all cat adopters will be eligible to win a Kitty Play Center. Visit www.loudoun.gov/animals. The Loudoun County Animal Shelter is located at 39820 Charles Town Pike, Waterford.
Loudoun County Public Schools Student Art Exhibit hosted by The George Washington University Virginia Campus, through Jan. 25. The winter exhibit features two-dimensional, mixed-media works by 75 LCPS students from Emerick Elementary School, Hamilton Elementary School, Harmony Intermediate School and Loudoun Valley High
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Two earthquakes felt over the weekend were aftershocks from February's magnitude 4.6 event and the magnitude 5 event that rocked Boulder in 2010.
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Geoscience Australia duty seismologist Hugh Glanville said two events were recorded a few hours apart on Friday night.
"We had two earthquakes, a magnitude 3 out near where we had that 4.6 in February and then a magnitude 2.6 a few hours later closer to Kalgoorlie that was felt by many more people."
People in Kalgoorlie reported having objects move and windows rattle by the quakes.
"We are having more at the moment, because we've had these larger events we're having aftershocks associated with them," Mr Glanville said.
"So on average in the area you have had about four a year for the past 20 years, at the moment we're having about 6 or 8 a year and these are mostly associated with the magnitude 4.6 and the magnitude 5 in 2010."
Mr Glanville said so far this year the Goldfields region has had five or six magnitude 2 earthquakes in addition to
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How Did The Meter Get Its Length? The U.S. doesn't routinely use the metric system. The U.S. government definition of
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a foot is 0.3048 meters. But if the length of a foot is based on the meter, what's the length of the meter based on?
How Did The Meter Get Its Length?
The U.S. doesn't routinely use the metric system. The U.S. government definition of a foot is 0.3048 meters. But if the length of a foot is based on the meter, what's the length of the meter based on?
Three countries in the world do not routinely use the metric system for making measurements. Those three countries are Liberia, Myanmar and the United States of America. Although to be fair, both Liberia and Myanmar are taking steps to go metric. Not to say the United States does not make use of the metric system. The official U.S. government definition of a foot is 0.3048 meter. But if the length of the foot is based on the meter, NPR science correspondent Joe Palca wondered, what is the length
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A few years ago, my husband and I moved from Missouri to Idaho to pastor a church. Having spent approximately 48 hours of my life in the
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state—and only for the interview process—I fully expected Idaho to be true to the stereotype: potato fields as far the eye could see. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that while Idaho does, of course, have field upon field of potatoes, it also has breathtaking streams and rivers, snow-capped mountains, and pristine mountain lakes. My fisherman husband has been in fish-catching heaven ever since.
But in 2015, something strange happened—99 percent of the sockeye salmon run died. Dead fish. Everywhere. What happened? The water was clear, and food sources were readily available. It was as if there was something in the water, some unseen force at work, making the environment inhospitable.
In the same way, there seems to be something in the water of many churches, at both the local and denominational level—something that is hindering women from thriving at the same level as their male counterparts. In generations past, it was easy to identify explicit structures
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UNITED NATIONS, March 24 -- The UN hosts many cultural events, but few as moving as the concert of Sarod master Amjad Ali
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Khan and two of his sons on March 24. It was sponsored by India's Mission to the UN and was followed by a reception at the Mission which included the musicians.
UN officials ranging from former Indian Permanent Representative Vijay Nambiar to Department of Field Support Ameerah Haq were in attendance, along with current Permanent Representative from such countries as Turkey, Angola, Fiji, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Brazil and the European Union.
Hardly anyone left the Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium during the more than one hour concert. There were ragas and a song by Tagore; there was drumming and call and response. And afterward, there was conversation.
In this scenario, would there immediately be an election for a new, five or ten year SG, from Eastern Europe? Not necessarily: Deputy Jan Eliasson could fill in, or someone like Helen Clark be appointed "ad interim." Such was the discussion.
On the substance of Ukraine and Crimea, some scoff
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This weekend, Southeast hit back with an ad campaign and new website that says Atrium’s move will “seriously jeopardize patient
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safety,” and that the system’s motive is to increase profits but not necessarily lower patient bills. Southeast, which is based in Charlotte and serves most of Atrium’s area hospitals, also alleges the system intends to adopt a radically different anesthesiology model with greater reliance on nurse anesthetists.
Charlotte-based Atrium and the doctor who was awarded the new anesthesiology contract with the hospital system strongly deny such claims.
Dr. Thomas Wherry says doctor staffing won’t decrease when his Charlotte-based company, Scope Anesthesia of North Carolina, takes over July 1.
Wherry said he is committed to an industry best practice of one anesthesiologist being responsible for no more than four patients at a time, and that Atrium has the same expectations: “It’s actually very clear that we’re not to exceed one-to-four,” he said.
At the heart of the debate
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2003-05-21 04:00:00 PDT Fort Worth, Texas -- Annika Sorenstam has said she thinks her appearance in
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a PGA Tour event is a one-time deal.
The PGA Tour might be moving to assure Sorenstam that she is accurate in that thought.
Tom Pernice Jr., a member of the Tour's Policy Board, told The Chronicle on Tuesday that player unhappiness over Sorenstam's sponsor's exemption into Thursday's Bank of America Colonial is so strong that he anticipates a movement to change the written bylaws of the Tour.
As it is currently written, there are no bans on women playing PGA Tour events. The policy board meets next month in Chicago.
"I'm sure this will be discussed, because it's a major issue on Tour, no question," Pernice said. "Players just don't think it's right."
The LPGA, for instance, has specifically written bylaws that restrict the playing field to women. Because the PGA Tour does not, Sorenstam -- the world's top-ranked
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Winnipeg’s mosquito population is still high and the weather conditions are keeping it that way. The city has started its second treatment of
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fogging after successfully covering the entire city, including East St. Paul and West St. Paul.
At a news conference Thursday morning, Stuart was mum on what the ordered review by the Executive Policy Committee of the mosquito control policy would entail. Speaking near the Duck Pond at St. Vital Park, Stuart said he couldn’t comment on the exact changes he’d like to see be made, but did say he would be the first line of contact to review the questions EPC has put forward. “It’s good. We always should review policies, and that’s what we’ll be doing.” Stuart said. However, before speaking publicly on any changes he’d like to see, Stuart will need to consult with his superiors. One of the suggestions floating around has been to adopt a similar aerial mosquito assault program as used in Grand Forks. The North Dakota city doesn’t believe in buffer zones.
On Wednesday,
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A YEAR ago in these pages, I congratulated the Danish government on its revolutionary experiment. It had just implemented a world-first fiscal and public health
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measure – a tax on food products containing more than 2.3 per cent saturated fat.
This experiment has now been dropped. Under intense pressure from the food industry in an already weak economy, the Danish government has repealed the fat tax and abandoned an impending tax on sugars.
Nobody likes taxes, and the fat tax was especially unpopular among Danish consumers, who resented having to pay more for butter, dairy products and meats – foods naturally high in fat.
But the real reason for the repeal was to appease business interests. The ministry of taxation’s rationale was that the levy on fatty foods raised the costs of doing business, put Danish jobs at risk and drove customers to buy food in Sweden and Germany.
In June this year, a coalition of Danish food businesses organised a national repeal-the-tax campaign. The coalition said that fat and sugar taxes would cause the loss of 1300 jobs, generate high administrative costs and increase cross-border shopping – precisely the arguments cited by the government
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Cloudy early with some clearing expected late. Low
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Julian Assange gestures as he arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, after the WikiLeaks founder was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police and taken into custody Thursday April 11, 2019. Police in London arrested WikiLeaks founder Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy Thursday, April 11, 2019 for failing to surrender to the court in 2012, shortly after the South American nation revoked his asylum.
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia said on Friday it would oppose the death penalty for Julian Assange if he's extradited to the United States, as protesters in Sydney called for his release and Australia's journalists' union voiced its strong support for him.
The Australian WikiLeaks founder was arrested Thursday in London's Ecuadorian Embassy and the judge found him guilty of breaching his bail conditions. He faces a U.S. charge of conspiring to reveal government secrets.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said any extradition plans had "nothing to do with Australia," and that Assange
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"The Post-Trump Presidency: Who, What, When, Where, and Why"
Surprise! The Trump presidency will end sooner than
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you think.
The demise will begin after the mid-term elections in which the Democrats will bust the Republican Party's monopoly.
December 2-6 will set off a serious of events by which the Trump administration will begin to unravel. At the same time, leaks or actual proceedings in the Mueller investigation may begin to expose some incriminating evidence that will highlight Trump's nefarious dealings, resulting in a classic disconnect by the flaccid Republicans as they turn on Trump, their moneymaker.
Not wanting anything to do with Trump anymore the Republicans will then confer with the Democrats to find the most painless exit from this rather embarrassing moment in American History. As a result, by consensus, they will offer an "agreement" to forgo the blame game and move forward. The Democrats will once again oblige.
However, the complete remedy will be to ask Trump to resign in lieu of impeachment proceedings. Trump will be allowed to use whichever excuse he chooses but the Truth will be obvious.
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US science writer Jeff Wise, who has been widely promoting himself as central to CNN’s coverage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, has
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once again put forth his conspiracy theory implicating Putin – this time providing some “clear” insights.
Almost two years since the whole world began wondering how a huge airplane with 239 passengers on board could have simply vanished en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014, the American expert has come forward to finally tell the world: it was Putin.
Although Wise’s “suspicion fell on Russia” back then, he still “had no idea” as to “why, exactly, would Putin want to steal a Malaysian passenger plane.” Though he hypothesized that “maybe he [Putin] wanted to demonstrate to the United States... that he could hurt the West and its allies anywhere in the world,” or that Russia’s leader could have been after “the secrets of one of the plane’s passengers,” or that he may, rather, have saved the plane so that it could
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's son is just a few hours old, but the Twitterverse has already chosen a name for the
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couple's second child: Easton.
While the happy parents haven't announced their baby boy's name yet, Easton West was a trending topic on Twitter on Saturday, Dec. 5.
Kardashian did admit to Ellen DeGeneres in September that she had a soft spot for that name, which is a play on the moniker that the couple gave their 2-year-old daughter, North.
"I do like the name Easton. Easton West," Kardashian, 35, told DeGeneres.
"I don't think my husband likes that name, but I do like it," she continued. "I don't think we'll go another direction. It's definitely not South, every time someone says South, I just want to roll my eyes."
Sources previously told Us Weekly that the reality star and her rapper
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Indeed, the weight-loss fads of past centuries include precedents for all the main contemporary diets, from low-fat, low-cal
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orie ones to high-fat, low- carbohydrate ones, like the Atkins diet. In, a French lawyer, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, wrote a famous treatise, "The Physiology of Taste," in which he contended that true carnivores and her- bivores did not get fat; it was only when one ingested grain---read: bread---that the trouble started. Around the same time, an American Presbyterian minis- ter, Sylvester Graham, reasoned that, as gluttony was the greatest sin, abstinence must lead to virtue; he advised eating vegetables and drinking water, eschew- ing meat, co ee, spices, and alcohol. For a while, students and faculty at Ober- lin College were made to follow Gra- ham's diet; graham crackers were so named in order to appeal to his aco- lytes. Several years later, Horace Fletcher, known as "the great masticator," touted
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And here’s the craziest part: It still makes a ton of money. Welcome to the strange world of Decluttr.
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Someone once gave me a CD of heavy metal Hanukkah songs called Gods of Fire. It was funny for a minute. Then it sat on a shelf for years, because I didn’t want to throw it away and it’s not like anyone on eBay would buy it from me, but I finally found a taker. The new company Decluttr paid me $2.85 for it, which, when combined with a bunch of other crap I sent them, netted me a total of $45.95. Decluttr buys anything–because that’s their business model. They will literally buy any CD, DVD, or video game you want to mail them. And they pay the postage, too.
This isn’t some charity for 1990s survivors. The company, including its U.K. counterpart, notched more than $150 million in revenue last year.
The thinking goes like this: Although the number of physical-media
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has floated an idea to get comprehensive immigration reform passed in the U.S. House.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he floated an idea Tuesday in Las Vegas to get comprehensive immigration reform passed in the U.S. House this year.
So far, House Speaker John Boehner has refused to take a vote on it, Reid said.
Reid said the deadline to act is Aug. 1, before Congress takes its end-of-summer break.
“Boehner says the reason they (U.S. House members) won’t pass immigration reform is because he doesn’t trust the President,” Reid said in the telephone conversation.
President Obama's second four-year term ends in late January of 2017.
Reid said it was a workable compromise with Boehner and others in the GOP.
“That (Jan., 2017 effective date) is not my preference but I will go for it,” he said.
Reid said it was the second time he’s floated
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DETROIT -- Mark DeRosa and J.P. Arencibia brought some life to the Toronto Blue Jays' dugout.
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DeRosa delivered a two-run, pinch-hit double in the sixth inning and Arencibia hit a three-run, go-ahead double in the seventh as the Blue Jays erased a five-run deficit and defeated the Detroit Tigers 8-6 at chilly, damp Comerica Park on Wednesday.
Toronto, one of the favorites in the American League East after an offseason shopping spree, needed a jolt after a 2-5 start.
"It's been quiet, and rightfully so," DeRosa said of the mood inside the dugout. "We haven't played well. You try to keep it upbeat, try to keep it energetic, but when you've got a 2-5 record and you see another slipping away, you kind of want to push the throttle a little bit. We needed something to happen like this."
DeRosa drove in three runs and reliever Aaron Loup recorded his first major-league victory with an inning of scoreless relief
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Alaska entrepreneurs, crafts people, artists, inventors and tinkerers are getting help turning their ideas into money-making realities this week.
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Now in its second year, Alaska Entrepreneurship Week connects people trying to start new businesses with each other and seasoned professionals. The events range from workshops with the founder of Indiegogo -- one of the largest crowd funding resources available on the Internet -- to seminars on business startups and even a "Shark Tank"-style contest for hopeful entrepreneurs.
Starting a business from the ground up is a daunting task. A recent study by Harvard Business School lecturer Shikhar Ghosh found that only about 25 percent of startup business return investor capital. The National Venture Capital Association believes that the number is a little better than Ghosh's figure, although it defines startup failure differently, estimating that about one-quarter to one-third of startups end up liquidating all of their assets.
Whatever the true figure, starting a business from nothing is a difficult task, one littered with potential hurdles to overcome. And until recently, entrepreneurs in Alaska had little organized help and almost no access to investors willing to take
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A look at the numbers show there was a reduction in homicides last month compared to what was recorded on the books this same time last year.
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According to National Security Minister Marvin Dames January 2018 saw some 12 killings while this year there was only three.
“Our law enforcement officers are very in toned with what is happening; we’re not going to stop every murder, that’s reality.
However, we are well on tract to ensure that we continue to pull those numbers down, that we continue to make our streets and our community safe so that our people can move about without any fair or concern of becoming a victim to a crime,” he said.
When asked if he anticipates a continued downward trend, the National Security Minister responded with this.
However, National Security Minister Marvin Dames again stressed the need for everyone to join in the fight against crime.
“So, we have to come to that place where we understand that it is all our responsibility if we’re going to keep our country safe,” he said.
Just this past weekend there were three
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Indian cuisine is powered by a versatile supporting cast, whether it’s pickles, papads, raita spin-offs or offbeat
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chutneys. Even a tiny dollop holds transformative powers—a humble bajra roti comes alive with the green chilli thecha’s assault of spice, while the cooling (and healthy) amrood chutney takes the heat and guilt off a pakoda binge. Using a creative mix of ingredients, from spices and herbs to fruits, regions from around the country have innovated with various chutneys to lend balance, texture and colour to their meals. Here, we pick some lesser-known supporting acts of Indian cuisine.
A popular Manipuri delicacy, eromba is made with boiled vegetables, king chilli and fermented dried fish (ngari is the local choice). While you can use your pick of seasonal vegetables, mushrooms, bamboo shoot, mashed potatoes, cabbage and French beans are safe options for this spicy winter chutney, which pairs beautifully with pork curry and steamed rice.
Green chillies, garlic, peanuts and cori
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NDS Americas Group dealt with the lack of a digital security product and a “reputation problem” caused by its own hacked analog
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system in the late 1990s and early 2000 by “harming everyone else,” claimed the attorney for Echostar Communications Corp. during final arguments in the multi-million dollar trial against the conditional access company.
Attorneys for NDS countered that Echostar was repeatedly hacked by several pirate groups, adding that the damaging information that showed up on Internet pirate sites came from sources other than the former NDS employee and acknowledged pirate, Christopher Tarnovsky, cited by the plaintiffs.
Reverse engineering, the method by which NDS engineers found the weaknesses in Echostar’s conditional access system, is legal and routine and is in fact conducted by both NDS and NagraStar, asserted NDS attorney Darrin Snyder.
The parties are in the final days of what was expected to be a month-long trial. In the suit brought by then-Echostar (now Dish Network) and the security firm it co-
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Halloween decorations and children's toys littered the front yard of the home along State Route 108 in Altamont, Tennessee, where one person was
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shot dead and three more were injured on Sunday.
What used to be a playground for the homeowner's grandchildren is now a crime scene, cordoned off by yellow crime scene tape. A green and white swing set that stood in the front yard now served as a post the tape looped around before it was tied to the home's front porch.
It's still not clear what led up to the shootings, Grundy County Sheriff Clint Shrum said Monday. That is what authorities are working on now, and they have collected cell phones to help in that process, he said.
But what they do know is that 37-year-old John Wesley Smith began firing shots after an argument with his wife, 32-year-old Carolyn Nicole Powell.
Nicole Powell was killed, and her father, 50-year-old Jerone Powell, and an acquaintance of hers, 38-year-old Christopher Gary Hurst, were injured. Smith was injured after Jerone Powell
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Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, briefed a 20-member delegation of “Kashmir Journalist Forum” on the grave
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human rights situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK).
Pakistan to sensitize the international community. He underlined that the indigenous movement of Kashmiris for self-determination in IOK had entered a critical phase since the new wave started on July 8, 2016, said a press statement issued here on Monday.
perpetrated by the Indian occupation forces against unprotected Kashmiris in IoK and precarious security situation due to Indian unprovoked ceasefire violations since July 8, 2016, which alone should be an eye-opener for the International Community: Over 150 martyred, mostly youth, including many in extra-judicial killings and fake encounters; around 8,000 are affected by pellet guns that has blinded more than 250 youth either fully or partially with another 930 at the verge of losing their eye-sight; 697 women reported molestation by Indian forces, around 18,000 injured and over 17,000 arrested arbitrarily with their fate and welfare unknown.
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It's never too early to start thinking about NBA free agency and the 2019 class could be very interesting.
Take a look at the top potential
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free agents in the NBA in 2019, courtesy of Hoops Hype.
Hoops Hype ranked the top possible free agents for this season.
The list includes some big names.
Take a look at the Top 25 potential free agents in the league to start preparing for possible moves in the offseason.
One of the three best players in the NBA. Rumors are swirling about his interest in joining the Knicks, but when it comes time to make a decision, will he really opt to leave the perfect situation he’s currently in?
Now healthy, he’s one of the best players in the league again and will surely command a huge contract next summer. The question is: Will Toronto do enough this season to convince him to stay long-term?
One of the hardest-to-defend point guards in the league. Will he listen to outside suitors this offseason or is him re-signing in Boston an inevitability?
For the past three
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A tree that shielded two targets of a drive-by shooting just before midnight Wednesday didn't protect a Jacksonville man sitting nearby visiting friends.
Frank
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H. Harrity, 32, was killed when he was hit by gunfire from a shooter in a car who fired at two men walking by on Blue Street in Northwest Jacksonville. Harrity was with two friends on a small side porch drinking a beer when the gun battle broke out, one of the friends said.
The friend said the two men walking down the street returned fire and tried to dodge behind a tree at the edge of the sidewalk. The friend, who is not being named by the Times-Union because no arrests have been reported, said he heard a dozen or more shots exchanged between the car and the intended victims.
Harrity and his friends dove for the ground, the witness said. When the shooting ended, the dark car sped off and the two men ran down West 10th Street from the intersection with Blue.
"We started calling Frank's name and he didn't get up," the friend said.
He and the other man were unharmed, and no
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