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Trucks wait for border inspection at the Chinese end of the Friendship Bridge that connects Sinuiju, North Korea, with Dandong
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, Liaoning province, China, over the Yalu River, May 24, 2018.
North Korea believes there are no legitimate reasons to maintain sanctions against the country since it has not conducted nuclear and missile testing for well over a year, a North Korean diplomat said Tuesday.
"The U.S. publicly recognized the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) had discontinued nuclear tests and rocket launches for the past 15 months" However, it does nothing to remove U.S. sanctions as corresponding measures, diplomat Ju Yong Chol said at the U.N.-sponsored Conference of Disarmament in Geneva.
Ju said disputes between the two countries should be resolved on a case-by-case basis in an effort to build trust but "Instead, they came up with the preposterous argument that sanctions relief is impossible prior to denuclearization."
Ju's remarks came in response to a senior U.S. arms control official who said the only way Pyongyang can achieve stability
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Applications for entrance in the Fall of 2019 are now open. We will begin to evaluate applications on January 15, 2019. If your application is not
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received by then, it may not be evaluated. Please note that we do not typically admit for Spring or Summer admission.
Offers are usually made between February and April 15. All applicants are considered for department support via research assistantships, teachings assistantships, and merit-based scholarships. Virtually all graduate students are supported for the academic year and in many cases during the summer term as well. Once the Graduate Admissions Committee has made a final decision on your application they will notify you via the email address that is on your application.
There is no minimum GRE or GPA requirement. However, to be competitive for assistantships and scholarships, students need a GPA of at least 3.0, a combined verbal and quantitative score on the GRE of at least 300, and an analytical writing score on the GRE of at least 3.5. The average GRE score for students that were accepted into our program for Fall 2018 was 316. The average GPA for students that were admitted for Fall 2018 was 3
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What would we do without the simple tote bag?
We'd be carrying our laptop, pens, make-up and all other work essentials
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around in our hands like plebs, that's what.
While the humble tote, which means "to carry” in... well, English, is the perfect office companion, Peta and Jain co-founder Peta Wessell says its practicality makes it ideal for work and play.
"The tote bag is a perfect option for work as it can hold not only your wallet but can also accommodate a laptop, folders or even your jacket,” Peta says.
Co-founder Jane Da Silva says the classic style of a tote means it matches every outfit, especially if you're sporting one in a neutral colour like tan, black or white.
"What I love about a tote bag is that it is just the perfect shape for everyone,” Jane says.
"The tote bag design is timeless and appeals to all ages as it is practical and fashionable.
If you're looking to integrate a tote into your after-
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French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has admitted in a newspaper interview that he made errors and was misunderstood in his management of a hotly contested
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youth labour law that has sent students and unions into the streets in violent protests.
De Villepin denied, however, that he has been disavowed by President Jacques Chirac, who has ordered up a new, softer version of the law in a bid to buy social peace that, instead, appears to have fed opponents’ ardor. Unions and students looked to a new day of strikes and protests set for Tuesday.
After triggering strikes and protests, the law appears to be taking a toll on De Villepin. He was dealt a further blow with the decision, announced on Saturday, to place the new measure in the hands of Parliament—not the government.
De Villepin was criticised for being intransigent in insisting on keeping the law, which is aimed at encouraging companies to hire youths under 26 by making it easier to fire them.
“There is misunderstanding and incomprehension about the direction of my action.
The interview was conducted on Friday
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Summary: The lack of transparency and the presence of widespread irregularities in the voting and counting process have given Egypt’s parliamentary elections little credibility among
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both international and domestic observers.
As results come in for Egypt’s People’s Assembly elections—surprise, a victory for the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP)—they are likely to enjoy little credibility either inside or outside the country due to the total lack of transparency and the widespread irregularities and violence that characterized the voting and counting processes.
Extensive restrictions on media coverage and civil society monitoring ensured that there would be little transparency on election day. Egyptian authorities prevented live satellite broadcasts from the country and cancelled planned television programs by major media outlets, including the BBC.
While the Higher Electoral Commission, which was charged with supervising the parliamentary elections, responded to early complaints about monitor exclusion by saying it would look into the problem, the commission itself created the problem by issuing overly restrictive regulations for monitoring—stipulating, for example, that credentialed monitors could enter polling stations only with the permission of the polling station chair, as if the credentials did not in themselves constitute permission.
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• Change of Course: Contributor Geoff Pingree (page 1) was out when bombs tore through the morning commute in Madrid Thursday. "I
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was on the metro line leading toward Atocha station, where one of the attacks occurred. Typically, there's an announcement telling you what station you're arriving at. But this time, it was much louder, coming not only from the train but in the station as well. The train simply stopped, and we were informed it would be shut down - though no reason was given."
Geoff says that as he headed back home, he noticed that the atmosphere seemed unusually somber and quiet. "When I walked into my apartment, I turned on the TV and realized what had happened. People quickly began gathering in squares and plazas to show solidarity against such a terrible attack."
• Missing in Moscow: How low-key is Russia's election (this page)? The usual rule in election campaigns, says Scott Peterson, is that the closer you get to campaign offices, the more paraphernalia trumpeting Candidate X you will find stuck to walls, cars, and people.
Not
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Another month of weak retail sales in July added to evidence that the spending power of American consumers has weakened considerably, despite the booster shot of billions of
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dollars from the government’s tax stimulus program.
Even as gasoline prices started to retreat, consumers paid more last month for imported goods, the government reported on Wednesday, as import prices rose at the fastest annual rate in 25 years.
The dour economic data put pressure on stocks, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down 109 points on Wednesday as financial shares fell for a second day. Disappointing earnings reports from John Deere, the farm equipment manufacturer, and the retail giant Macy’s also depressed investors, along with a nearly $3 increase in oil prices, which settled at $116 a barrel. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index fell 0.3 percent.
With the stimulus payments at an end, Americans now have fewer buffers between their pocketbooks and higher energy costs, falling home values and the tight credit market. Companies and investors are bracing for spending to fall even further this year.
Retail sales declined 0.1 percent in July
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FLAMBOYANT businessman Phillip Chiyangwa has had part of his upmarket Chisora Village in Harare's The Grange
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suburb attached after his company Padley Enterprises Pvt Ltd failed to pay damages worth US$609 115 to the Grange Residents' Association for failing to service stands.
Padley Enterprises is Chiyangwa's property development company that purchased a 60-hectare plot of land in The Grange. The plot was subdivided into 2 000-square-metre stands and sold to individuals.
According to High Court documents, Chiyangwa lost the property to the Grange Residents' Association, a group of residents who purchased residential stands from the company during the period extending from 2007.
In terms of various agreements of sale concluded by Padley Investments and its clients, it was supposed to service the property development by way of providing roads, storm water reticulation and waterworks, among other things. Court papers state that Padley Investments breached the terms of the agreements and, despite notice of the breach, the company failed to rectify the anomaly.
On September 27 last
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Armed with personal experience and the knowledge that most cancer research — and even treatment plans — are geared toward adults, Arrieta turned to legislators in
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Washington D.C. to prove that children with cancer deserve more of a fighting chance.
"I still question, why couldn't someone do this 20 years ago?" Arrieta said. "Even if we could never have saved Alex, at least kids like him could have died with more dignity.
"Alex was tortured. No child should ever have to go through that much pain."
The whole story originated from a single headache. Then, Alex started complaining about pounding on his head daily. Soon, the bruises began to appear.
The Arrietas visited pediatricians, eye doctors and dentists to try to get to the bottom of Alex’s symptoms. Finally, Alex's pediatrician drew a full blood count, and everything changed.
His results showed barely any red blood cells, white blood cells or platelets.
"They came down Friday afternoon, and I knew right away it was leukemia. I just couldn’t say what type," said Arthur Provisor
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Office Depot and OfficeMax are now one company. We’ve come together to bring you the best shopping experience possible. OfficeMax at 15
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41 River Valley Cr N is the place to shop for office supplies, paper, ink & toner cartridges, breakroom & cleaning supplies, office furniture, and school supplies. Or visit us online at www.officedepot.com.
OfficeMax Lancaster is the place to shop for copy paper, ink cartridges, toner cartridges, office desks, chairs and all of your office supply needs. Stop in or call for more information.
Making both your job and the job of shopping easier? Now that's multi-tasking..
With a new layout and modern concept, OfficeMax has titled its updated in-store experience as "Advantage." All renovations certainly do work for the customer's advantage, as aisle-free checkouts shorten the lines to many minutes' worth of waiting, and self-serve bulk bins now group office supplies into mini categories for easy selection. However, the biggest advantage is still the OfficeMax stock. From papers and pens to desks and filing cabinets
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GDP (Current Prices, National Currency) LSL 24.071 Billion.
GDP Per Capita (Constant Prices, National
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Currency) LSL 6,518.06.
GDP Per Capita (Current Prices, National Currency) LSL 12,489.87.
General government revenue (National Currency) LSL 14.575 Billions.
General government total expenditure (National Currency) LSL 14.428 Billions.
Total Government Net Lending/ Borrowing (National Currency) LSL 0.147 Billions.
Fiscal Year Gross Domestic Product, Current Prices LSL 24.071 Billions.
GDP (Constant Prices, National Currency) for Lesotho in year 2014 is LSL 12.562 Billion.
GDP Growth (Constant Prices, National Currency) for Lesotho in year 2014 is 3.448 %.
GDP (Current Prices, National Currency) for Lesotho in year 2014 is LSL 24.071 Billion.
GDP (Current Prices, US Dollars) for Lesotho in year 2014 is
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QUANTICO, Va., May 1— This was supposed to be a nice leisurely weekend of sun, fun and a few laps around Butler
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Stadium for Marty Liguori and Ron Stonitsch, a post‐Penn Relays, miltary style.
The scene changed drama tically today in separate an chor sections of the distance medley relay during the 14th annual Quantico Relays.
Liguori, the Villanova Olym pian from Cedar Grove, N. J., found hif self in a mile duel with three former college standouts, Byron Dyce, Barry Brown and Ralph Schultz, Sto nitsch, the C.W. Posct junior who was voted the outstanding college athlete of the Penn Relays, started his mile leg of a college section 35 yards be hind Tom Donahue of Man hattan.
At the finish, however, Li guori and Stonitsch were in front, demonstrating again their mental and physical readiness.
Lnquori took the lead from Brown, the New York Athletic Club anchorman, starting the last quarter‐mile of
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New Delhi: Home Minister Shivraj Patil, under tremendous criticism over a spate of terrorist attacks in the country since last year, resigned today
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in the wake of the Mumbai terror strikes.
Patil, who had offered to step down at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting last night, sent his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this morning, sources said.
The 74-year-old Patil was inducted into the Union Cabinet despite his defeat from Latur in Maharashtra in the 2004 Lok Sabha polls and has been a target of the opposition as also the detractors within the party over his handling of the internal security situation in the country.
Patil had told the CWC meeting that as the Home minister he “takes the responsibility and whatever the CWC decides, I am ready to do", the sources said.
Patil’s remarks came in the wake of criticism by several leaders, including Union Ministers P Chidambaram, Kamal Nath, Kapil Sibal and H R Bhardwaj, they said.
The refrain of these leaders at the meeting was that a
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The charming Tombot puppy on Kickstarter is meant to be a low-maintenance companion robot.
The Tombot robot puppy is designed for seniors
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with dementia.
Tombot looks at you with soulful eyes. It wags its tail and makes an "arf" noise, raising its eyebrows as you pet it. The fact that Tombot could almost pass at a glance for a real dog is a testament to the work of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, which provided the artistic design for the bot.
Tombot is an intriguing Kickstarter project. It wants to turn out affordable, adorable robot puppies to help soothe seniors with dementia, and to act as companions to anyone who can't have a real pet. As with all crowdfunding efforts, keep in mind that not all projects deliver on time or as expected.
Tombot co-founder Tom Stevens was inspired to create the robo-pup after having to rehome his mother's dog when her Alzheimer's became too severe for the beloved pet to safely stay with her. He hopes Tombot will provide a sense of emotional support and affection and improve the quality of
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Swing State TV Stations Spiking Ad Rates As Campaign Cash Pours In : It's All Politics Someone once said that owning a TV station
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is a license to print money. Now, that was before the advent of cable TV and computer screens and streaming video. But these are clearly good times for some stations, especially the ones in presidential battleground states.
President Obama at a stop on his bus tour of Ohio in Port Clinton on July 5.
Someone once said that owning a TV station is a license to print money. Now, that was before the advent of cable TV and computer screens and streaming video. But these are clearly good times for some stations, especially the ones in presidential battleground states.
While the November election is still four months away, President Obama, Republican Mitt Romney and outside groups are advertising in record amounts.
"If you are a television station in a media market in one of those handful of [swing] states, there's an incredible amount of demand for your inventory from political buyers," says Ken Goldstein of Kantar Media CMAG, which tracks political ad spending.
This ad by the Obama campaign, airing
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Skylink's been releasing home security gadgets for nearly 25 years, but the new SkylinkNet Alarm System is their first app-enabled DIY
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kit. Click through for a closer look at this low-cost system.
To get started, you'll need to install the hub, which doubles as the system's siren. Just plug it in, connect it to your router, then pull up the app on your smartphone.
Setup is simple, and only took us a few minutes.
Once the hub is up and running, you can start activating your sensors and adding them to your system. The starter kit comes packaged with a few to get you going, including this motion detector.
You'll also get two of these magnet-based open/closed sensors.
You'll stick these up along your door or window frame -- when the magnets get separated by more than a couple of centimeters, they'll ping the hub and tell it that the door is open.
You also get a compact little keychain remote capable of arming and disarming your system.
You can also arm or disarm the system from within the app. You
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Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, world indoor and Commonwealth 800m champion, showed his readiness to defend his titles in Moscow and Melbourne next month
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when he recorded a comfortable win at the fifth Athletics South Africa Champions meeting at Oudtshoorn on Saturday afternoon.
His winning time of one minute and 46,77 seconds, without really exerting himself, was the fastest of the year in South Africa.
“I am pleased with my performance and really looking forward to the forthcoming international races,” he said after his event that took place in scorching heat. He will also run in Pretoria next Friday before travelling to Russia for his indoor title defence.
Other members of the Commonwealth team also showed fine form. Hardus Pienaar won the javelin with an impressive distance of 82,56m, while Ruben Ramolefi, the national 3 000m steeplechase champion, ran a brilliant race in the extreme heat in a good time of eight minutes and 33,51 seconds.
South African champions Sherwin Vries (10,46 seconds) and Leigh Julius (20,97)
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Newsweek Media Group is, after an internal investigation, reinstating an executive who had been placed on leave following a report he had left his
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previous job due to sexual harassment allegations, the company told staff on Friday.
Chief Content Officer Dayan Candappa was placed on leave last month following a BuzzFeed News report which detailed harassment allegations a reporter made about Candappa in 2016, during his time as Americas editor of Reuters. The reporter made a formal and detailed complaint to Reuters human resources after what she said was months of harassment, according to BuzzFeed, and after an investigation, Reuters fired Candappa. Candappa has not commented on the allegations. Newsweek said after BuzzFeed's story that it had not seen any red flags when hiring Candappa in 2016.
Some Newsweek staffers are unhappy with the decision, two newsroom sources told CNN, describing themselves and their colleagues as "pretty shocked" and "horrified."
The news only added to the increasing feelings of chaos and discontent among employees at the once-storied magazine and sister site International Business Times, also owned by Newsweek Media Group. The past few weeks have also seen editors fired, executives
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Based on this super trailer season 9 looks like its going to restore the originator of the "Hip-Hop" based reality series back to
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prominence.
Love & Hip Hop New York has been for the most part the weakest out of the three franchises due to lame cast members. BUT based on this super trailer season 9 looks like its going to restore the originator of the “Hip-Hop” based reality series back to prominence.
The struggle is extra real this season.
Season 9 marks the return of now-retired rapper Joseph Budden minus the lame vests he rocked on his first LHHNY stint. Joe is in a great place mentally now thanks to the current love of his life and Love & Hip Hop NY vet Cyn Santana, his son Lexington and his podcast and Revolt TV show State of The Culture doing well. On LHHNY there is always some drama, and it’s Joe not supplying Cyn with the necessary amount of vitamin D she needs which is causing a strain on their relationship.
The other cast members are facing legal issues as well. Juelz Santana and his
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LSU completed its 2019 recruiting class Wednesday with a few expected signings as well as a couple surprises.
Here's at look at how we graded
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each position group's signees. These grades reflect how LSU's staff did at filling a need and whether these prospects will be able to make an early impact if given the opportunity.
Breakdown: No change here as Parrish is the only quarterback in the 2019 class. Parrish led his team to an undefeated season and a state championship.
Parrish gives the Tigers depth at the quarterback position next season behind returning starter Joe Burrow. If all goes well he should have plenty of time to develop and get ready to compete with Myles Brennan and LSU’s 2020 QB commitments TJ Finley (Ponchatoula) and Max Johnson (Georgia) following his first season at LSU.
Breakdown: I said in December that this grade would rise if Ruston’s Ray Parker signed. Overall, LSU secured an impressive group of prospects on the offensive line. This group of prospects features some very athletic offensive lineman and several should see the field next year.
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come clean about his alleged doings with Monica Lewinsky.
our cable system will launch those cable modems that he has heard so much about
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about to expire. "So let's do it now," he urged.
and finally get decent, if not the best, high-speed access to the Internet.
of Southern Westchester, is going to make them available in our area.
quarter of 1999, or whenever.
that go along with getting it installed.
company's soon-to-be-launched "Infospeed DSL" service.
to hear the Bell Atlantic pitch.
and they can afford it.
the microphone, as if to not arouse any of those computer veterans who might ask about it.
want to ruffle the nice, 20-something woman and put her on the spot.
but that will soon have competition on that front.
potshots at cable's prowess in high-speed Internet access.
capacity available to any one user inevitably drops."
are going to confront if they ever address gatherings
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Three-dimensional television got a major marketing push nearly two years ago from the consumer electronics and entertainment industries, yet the technology has one major limitation:
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viewers need special eyeglasses to experience the 3-D effect. Now the marketing experts say that the technology will never catch on in a big way unless viewers can toss the glasses entirely.
Although 3-D technology sans specs is available for small screens on smartphones and portable gaming devices, these devices use backlit LCDs, which can be a big battery drain and limits how small the gadgets can be made. More recently, researchers have begun to use light-emitting diodes, which show more promise. They are developing autostereoscopic 3-D using tiny prisms that would render 3-D images without glasses. Because these LEDs get their lighting from organic compounds that glow in response to electric current, they can be thinner, lighter and more flexible than LCDs. The innovation is detailed in the August issue of the journal Nature Communications.
The researchers—from Seoul National University, Act Company and Minuta Technology—used an array of microscale prisms placed on a screen
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WESTCHESTER COUNTY Republicans gathered at the County Center in White Plains with placards, bunting and political-convention music last week
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to designate candidates for Congress and the state legislature and to hear from the leaders of the statewide Republican ticket.
The nearly 200 delegates named 10 incumbents and selected familiar figures for two races. Assemblyman Nicholas A. Spano was named the candidate for the 35th District seat being vacated by State Senator John E. Flynn, Republican of Yonkers, and John M. Perone, a former Assemblyman, was chosen to challenge the Democrat Ronald C. Tocci of New Rochelle in the 85th Assembly District.
The Yonkers race has taken on statewide significance because Mr. Flynn's decision to retire at the end of this, his 10th term, could cause a problem for Republicans seeking to maintain a majority in Albany's upper house. With Republicans holding 35 of the 61 seats in the Senate chamber, a net loss of five seats would mean Democratic control.
Delegates at the two-hour convention heard from Andrew P. O'Rourke, the County Executive who was named
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SAN FRANCISCO — Airbnb got an upgrade Thursday, rolling out new luxury options and added user benefits in an attempt to attract a wider customer
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base as the company gears up for an IPO expected as soon as 2019.
To appeal to travelers who seek out the nicer things in life — which previously may have meant hotels, not Airbnb rentals — CEO Brian Chesky unveiled “Airbnb Plus.” Starting Thursday, the new feature offers 2,000 “insanely nice” homes in 13 cities, he said, including San Francisco.
Chesky also teased the upcoming “Beyond by Airbnb,” a product of the company’s acquisition of Luxury Retreats, which provides high-end stays at extravagant homes and villas in places such as Aspen and Tuscany. And he revealed improved search tools, which let users find homes with specific characteristics — such as a musician’s rustic home with a balcony — as well as new perks for Airbnb’s top-rated landlords and renters.
The news is the latest attempt by Airbnb to diversify its product offerings
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We are all going through a period of great confusion and uncertainty.
I have known French president-elect Francois Hollande since the days of his predecessor
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and my friend Francois Mitterand. A man of broad vision, he is what France needs to pull itself out of the current crisis and put in place a policy for economic and social recovery. But his victory at the run-off election on May 6 goes far beyond this: it is a resounding confirmation of numerous signs that Europe has recognised the failure of neoliberal ideology and is changing course.
It is hard to see how the European Union and the euro can find their way out of the imbroglio their leaders have led themselves, and all Europeanists, into.
HAS THE EUROPEAN UNION LOST ITS WAY?
The two main political-ideological families that contributed most to the unity of Europe were without question social democracy (labour, socialists, and social-democrats) and Christian democracy. These two strains are, and have long been, in decline, the former since the collapse of the communist universe (1989-1990) and their submission to neoliberal "
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With experts predicting a global economic slowdown, oil prices could fall to $60 a barrel, or lower - with gas prices soon to follow.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- As the world loses confidence in the foundations of its economic system, the silver lining may be that oil prices are about to get a whole lot cheaper.
In a new report Friday, Deutsche Bank uses a number of interesting yard sticks to suggest crude is currently way too expensive and may fall to the $60 a barrel range as the economy worsens.
And the bank does expect the economy to worsen, painting a bleak picture - caused be the current financial turmoil - but stopping just short of predicting a multi-year recession.
The bank says it expects GDP growth to slow by 1.5% over the next few years - and hints that things could get even worse.
"Indeed if one examines the banking sector crises in Japan and Sweden, economic output declined for at least two years following the crisis," Adam Sieminski, the bank's chief energy economist, wrote in a research note. If the global economy slows to less than 2% growth a
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Kellyanne Conway, who ran Donald Trump's presidential campaign and now works with his transition team, told MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Tuesday that
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the president-elect doesn't plan to follow through with one of the central promises of his campaign.
Conway confirmed Scarborough's reporting that Trump won't “be pursuing investigations" against his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, and suggested that Republicans in Congress probably would get that message.
“I think when the president-elect who's also the head of your party now, Joe,” Conway said, “tells you before he's even inaugurated he doesn't wish to pursue these charges, it sends a very strong message, tone and content to the members.
There's a tacit admission there that Trump's insistence that he would prosecute Clinton was all campaign rhetoric. But what's missing from Conway's response is the simple, important fact that Trump, as president, doesn't have the authority to demand that Clinton be prosecuted — and that it's a good thing that no president does.
We spoke by phone with Columbia University professor Daniel Richman, a former federal prosecutor
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Adam McKay and Will Ferrell know how to make unusual situations funny – from reading the news (Anchorman) to NASCAR (Tallade
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ga Nights). So when we hear that they are tackling the short-lived and completely bizarre NBC drama Manimal for a potential feature, we hardly bat an eye.
You didn’t watch Manimal? I can’t say that I blame you. The television program only ran from September 30 to December 17, 1983 – amassing only eight episodes. Can that be right? The description on Wikipedia is so perfect, I just want to share it with you in its entirety.
The show centers on the character Dr. Jonathan Chase (Simon MacCorkindale), a shape-shifting man who possessed the ability to turn himself into any animal he chose. He used this ability to help the police solve crimes."
Which brings us back to Adam McKay and Will Ferrell. Don’t worry. I’ll hurry back to Manimal. It’s too great not to obsess over. But for now, Deadline reports that the Anchorman duo will
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Half-Formed Half-Minute Hero Impressions: Why Am I Naked?!
Another game Stephen Totilo got to first that I
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was curious about was Half-Minute Hero, the game where you really only have 30 seconds to beat a level.
The game's concept sounded simple enough to me – you play as little 8-bit characters that riff on classic role-playing game tenants and have 30 seconds to get through various levels that open up on a world map. However, when I picked up the game and actually started to play, I couldn't figure out which buttons did what. Then, with 10 seconds to spare on the clock and about two inches shy of the boss encounter, my character was suddenly naked and without a sword and shield.
No other game has ever made me say "What the $%&@" out loud before. It took me and four other games journalists half an hour to figure out what exactly happened. Apparently, when you stop in a town (where the timer so graciously pauses most of the time), you can pray at a Goddess statue to reset the timer back to 30 seconds
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Chamonix is a pretty famous resort in France located in the French Alps just at the foot of Mont Blanc. If you are sports minded, then this place might be just the one for you. You can do a lot of fun activities here while youre at it like skiing, hiking or even mountain climbing. There are loads of ski areas available for the tourists in Chamonix. You can go for Vallee blanche for some easy courses but youll probably need a guide to get things started. If you want something a lot easier, try the courses on the Brevent or the la Flegere. They have the easiest courses among all the ski areas in Chamonix, perfect for beginners. Les Houches is also a fine ski resort.
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The emotional roller coaster captured on Twitter can predict the ups and downs of the stock market, a new study finds. Measuring how calm the Twitter
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verse is on a given day can foretell the direction of changes to the Dow Jones Industrial Average three days later with an accuracy of 86.7 percent.
"We were pretty astonished that this actually worked," said computational social scientist Johan Bollen of Indiana University-Bloomington. The new results appear in a paper on the arXiv.org preprint server.
Bollen and grad student Huina Mao stumbled on this computational crystal ball almost by accident. Earlier studies had found that blogs can be used to gauge public mood, and that tweets about movies can predict box office sales. An open source mood-tracking tool called OpenFinder sorts tweets into positive and negative bins based on emotionally charged words.
But Bollen wanted to build a more nuanced emotional barometer. He used a standard psychology tool called the Profile of Mood States, a quick questionnaire that is used frequently in pharmaceutical research or sports medicine.
The original questionnaire asks people to rate how closely their feelings match 72 different
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Not even Fox & Friends cohost Rachel Campos-Duffy could come up with a credential to present vloggers “Diamond and Silk
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” as experts on immigration, national security, the caravan of migrants and Donald Trump’s border wall. But all three cohosts acted as though the duo provided intelligent analysis – even as they once again displayed their indifference to the truth.
Of course, Campos-Duffy didn’t mention that the troops will be leaving the border just as some of the migrants are beginning to arrive. Nor did she mention that the cost of this deployment is estimated at $72 million.
But hey, money is no object when it comes to propping up Dear Leader Trump – even if you can’t manage to report truthfully at the same time.
But hey, facts are no object compared to propping up Dear Leader.
So when Hardaway said, “How about they fund the wall?” cohost Steve Doocy prompted for more. “He [Trump] ran on building the wall and Congress has not helped him out,”
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“Nearly every year, it seems we have deer showing up minus their heads at the end of seasons,” Craig Gunderson, a
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senior trooper with the Oregon State Patrol, recently told the Seattle Times. Authorities believed the mutilated animals might be the work of poachers, so in November 2016 they fixed motion-triggered cameras in the national forest near The Dalles, Ore., smack on the Washington state line.
The footage troopers caught would prove to be the first clue to uncovering what officials now say was a loosely linked poaching ring responsible for the illegal brutal slaughter of hundreds of animals in Washington and Oregon. The sheer size of the animal body count involved has shocked wildlife officials, in part because of the wantonness driving the rampant killing.
“It’s one of the biggest cases, if not the biggest case I’ve been involved with, and Washington has the same stance, based on the number of people involved and the number of illegally taken animals,” Tim Schwartz, a lieutenant in the Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division, told KOIN 6.
In the end
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Why are extreme sports so popular? One of the reasons may be that people love activities that are a little bit dangerous but that also provide some ultra
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-connection with the surrounding environment and a shock of adrenaline.
Though not a'sport', fixed gear bikes could fit in that area. As you cannot coast with them, you're pretty much pedaling all the time and therefore accelerating, so the bikes can get fast (and no kidding they're fast, they can even beat a helicopter!). You also have a better feel of the road and of how much traction you are getting. Many people even leave the brakes out for extra fun, so the only way to stop is forcing the pedals (not something we recommend).
These things, some claim, create a sort of ultra connection to the road and a rush. Or perhaps "it's a zen thing" as Bike Snob NY joked some time ago.
Images: Paula Alvarado & Screen Capture BerlinFixed.blogspot.com.
Even if there was a whole cult around fixed gear bikes before they became popular to new public, as the trend grows, so does the
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I don’t know about you but Donald Trump’s declaration that he may not concede an unfavorable election outcome is extremely disturbing to me
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None of the commentary by politicians and pundits which I’ve heard mentions my primary concern; the potential for violent reaction which such a psychopath’s inability to accept reality might foment among his most rabid supporters.
public transportation while living and working in open, less sheltered environments.
in San Bernadino, Orlando, Boston, Sandy Hook and Manhattan’s Chelsea section.
Donald Trump didn’t need to utter the word “rigged” during the third debate; his earlier accusation undermining the upcoming election and many messages of hate --anti-Black, anti-women, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrants -- are solidly embedded in the national conversation.
Combine his charge of a “rigged election,” with his insane demands for “crooked” Hillary’s arrest and prosecution and, his avid support of a loosely interpreted second amendment, then it's clear Trump has concocted a potent recipe sure
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Samsung Vs Apple: Galaxy S6 maker back on top despite record iPhone 6 sales | City A.M.
Apple may have had another incredible
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quarter with the huge success of the new iPhone 6, but Samsung managed to steal back the much sought after smartphone crown from the world's biggest company.
Samsung recaptured the title of the world's largest seller of smartphones by volume, shipping 83.2m devices in the first quarter of the year, versus Apple's 61.2m.
In market share terms, Samsung accounted for 24 per cent and Apple 17.7 per cent as the South Korean firm managed to stabilise its performance globally - despite challenges in Asia and elsewhere - helping it leapfrog rival Apple.
Samsung and Apple were in a dead heat in the previous quarter, having each shipped 74.5m smartphones and accounting for a 19.6 per cent share each, according to research by Strategy Analytics.
Samsung may have won this battle, but Apple is winning the war.
The Korean electronics giant which makes everything from TVs to fridges in addition to smartphones, saw profit declined 31 per cent in the first quarter of
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A federal government contractor that was paid more than $1 million to deliver e-security alert services to Australians has lost 8000 subscribers' personal information in
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the postal system.
AusCERT, which was paid $1,199,484.52 by the federal government to run staysmartonline.gov.au between April 29 2008 and April 29 2012*, lost subscribers' data after using Australia Post to send it on a DVD to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) on April 11 when its contract to run the alerts service expired.
In an email to the site's 8000 subscribers sent at about 6pm on Friday, the "Stay Smart Online Team" said information that had "gone missing" on the DVD included subscribers' user names, email addresses, memorable phrases and passwords. It said passwords were "unreadable" (stored as a cryptographic hash).
The DBCDE claimed it had "no reason to believe" that subscribers' information had "been found and misused by any third party" and therefore did not believe that there was "a privacy risk".
But it did
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What Are the Dangers of Beer Funnels?
A beer funnel, sometimes referred to as a beer bong, is a simple contraption
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, either built by hand or purchased at a specialty store or website. It consists of a funnel connected to a long hose. The concept is to pour beer into the funnel and the person at the end of the hose consumes the alcohol as quickly as possible. The purpose of using a beer funnel is recreational--but for some, this activity is anything but entertainment. Beer funnels are primarily a plaything used by teens and young adults--people with very little knowledge of the dangers of alcohol.
WRAD also warns that alcohol abuse can lead to “long-term damage to the heart, liver and brain.” Teen Alcohol Abuse, an educational website, suggests that beer bongs, known as a capacity game, pose additional problems for young people: this form of social drinking encourages alcohol abuse, promotes heavy drinking, leads young people to believe that socializing can only be enjoyed when they’re getting drunk and may lead to a potentially chronic and progressive alcohol problem.
Eye On Students
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During their first televised debate, the two Democrats vying to represent Massachusetts’ Seventh District saved their toughest words for President Trump and his administration, instead
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of each other.
US Representative Michael E. Capuano and Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley said Trump’s foreign policy — which has elevated relationships with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and led to public rebukes of longtime allies like Britain and France — has made the country less safe.
“Donald Trump is the biggest threat on every issue we can think of,” Capuano said.
“I think the biggest threat to us is Donald Trump because we are losing our global standing in the world because of his erratic and chaotic policy making,” Pressley said.
Capuano, a 10-term incumbent, is facing a challenge from Pressley, the first black woman elected to the Boston City Council. The two are vying to represent a majority-minority congressional district that includes most of Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Milton, Randolph, and Somerville.
Their debate, which was
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Lisa O’Carroll joins Jon henley to discuss the question of rights for both EU residence in the UK and UK residents in the EU
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, in light of recent events.
There’s currently no guarantee of status for the 3 million EU nationals currently living in the UK after Brexit. It’s been reported that the UK government is now deliberately trying to discourage EU nationals from applying for permanent residence in Britain. Rather than moving straight to filling out an 85-page permanent residency form, EU citizens are instead being asked to sign up for “emailed news alerts” that will tell them if and when they need to take action over their UK residence.
The Labour party’s Brexit minister, Keir Starmer, has promised that a Labour government – should one be elected in June’s UK general elections – would offer a unilateral guarantee to EU residents in Britain that they could stay and retain their rights.
In Brussels, Sophie in ‘t Veld, an MEP leading the European parliament’s taskforce on citizen’s rights after Brexit, has apparently described a UK minister as
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SAN FRANCISCO — “Witness: The Legacy of Heart Mountain,” a KABC-TV documentary produced by David Ono
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and Jeff MacIntyre, will air on KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in the San Francisco Bay Area, on Saturday, May 31, from 4 to 5 p.m.
The original half-hour version of the documentary, which aired in Los Angeles last year, won a 2014 Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA).
Interviewees included Judge Lance Ito and his mother, Toshi; Rafu Shimpo columnist George Yoshinaga; Brian Kito of Little Tokyo’s Fugetsu-Do, whose father made mochi and manju in camp; and Patti Hirahara, whose father and grandfather took thousands of photos of daily life at Heart Mountain. Ono and MacIntyre also visited the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation’s museum, located near the internment camp site.
Ono and MacIntyre have expanded the documentary to a full hour, adding the stories of Norman Mineta and
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You know what’s better than a small wheel of cheese?
A big wheel of cheese.
You know what’s better
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than a big wheel of cheese?
A big wheel of cheese that you got on a MASSIVE DISCOUNT.
Morrisons is selling this bloody huge Stilton for just £10.
It’s a lovely mature blue Stilton, which Morrisons say is made to a traditional recipe at the Long Clawson dairy in the Vale of Belvior. We’ve got no idea where that is, but it sounds absolutely lovely.
The cheese is only on offer for as long as stocks last, and with Christmas on its way I think we all know that they’re not going to last very long. So you should probably order yours now. You can do that right here.
Also fun fact, you can freeze cheese! So if you think that getting through a kilogram cheese in the next week or so it too tall an order you can cut it in half and save some of it for Christmas.
If Stilton isn’t
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Enola Joyce Pride, 84, died peacefully on Feb. 7, 2005 in Green Bay, Wis., at the home of her son, Kenneth
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, following a year-long struggle with cancer.
Nola was born the daughter of Kenneth and Gladys (Congdon) Campbell in Gaylord.
She graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dental Hygiene and worked briefly in Detroit before marrying Kenneth Pride. Following his service in World War II, they moved to Chicago, working there until retirement in 1976. The couple then returned to Gaylord, where Kenneth preceded her in death in 1993.
She was a member of the Eastern Star and enjoyed time with her family and friends along with gardening and letter writing.
She is survived by daughter, Connie (Rick) Dale of Gaylord; son, Dr. Kenneth (Doris) Pride of Green Bay, Wis.; three grandchildren, Wendy Welbaum of Otisville, Kenneth Pride II of Madison, Wis., and Keth Pride of Madison, Wis.; and many cousins, nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, March 15 at
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Even though a law on allowing FDI in higher education may still take some time to materialise, higher educational institutes abroad have started exploring opportunities
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for setting up campuses and partnership in the country.
NEW DELHI: Even though a law on allowing FDI in higher education may still take some time to materialise, higher educational institutes abroad have started exploring opportunities for setting up campuses and partnership in the country. Representatives of nearly 200 universities and colleges from the US, UK and Europe have visited India in the past 3 months.
Private education providers see the increasing interest of foreign varsities as both threat and opportunity. Some believe they may have a better chance of growth by partnering foreign varsities, while others argue that big money from abroad may put at stake the survival of small private institutions.
A US delegation of six universities and colleges led by US Under secretary of for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen P Hughes concluded its three-day long visit to New Delhi on Thursday. Last month a delegation from the UK, comprising representatives of Royal College of Physician, Royal College of Surgeon, University College, London, Imperial College
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The suspect, a male, painted the words on the building in addition to damaging an on-site security camera and smashing the windows out of an
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FOP van.
ASHEVILLE — Officers from the Asheville Police Department are investigating an incident at the local chapter of the North Carolina Fraternal Order of Police after a vandal damaged property and spray-painted the words "Black Lives Matter" on its building early Monday.
Police spokesperson Christina Hallingse said the incident took place at about 4 a.m. Monday at the FOP lodge at 18 Piney Park Road. The suspect, a male, painted the words on the building, referencing the international activist movement, in addition to damaging an on-site security camera and smashing the windows out of an FOP van, Hallingse said.
The incident was reported to police at about 1 p.m. Monday.
Rondell Lance, a retired police officer and president of the lodge, said the last time members were at the property was on Friday. He said the local FOP has cameras around its building and has since turned the tape of the incident over to local law
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Item 2.02. Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
Ford Motor Company (“Ford” or “Company”)
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hereby incorporates by reference its news release dated October 24, 2018, which is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto.
The presentation and supporting materials are available at www.shareholder.ford.com. Representatives of the investment community and news media will have the opportunity to ask questions on the call.
Investors also may access replays of the presentation beginning after 9:30 p.m. the day of the event through November 1, 2018 by dialing 1-855-859-2056 (or 1-404-537-3406 from outside the United States). The passcode for replays is 95413413.
All times referenced above are in Eastern Daylight Time.
Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.
Ford’s presentation materials dated October 24, 2018 are furnished as Exhibit 99.2 to this Report and incorporated by reference herein.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
Any reference in the attached exhibit
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in for a second term on Tuesday, shortly before riot police tear
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gassed the convoy of opposition leader Raila Odinga, who promised supporters he would be sworn in himself on Dec. 12.
Such a move would only deepen divisions opened by the extended election season in Kenya, a Western ally in a volatile region. Months of acrimonious campaigns and sporadic clashes have already blunted growth in East Africa’s richest economy.
At a lavish inauguration attended by the heads of many African nations, Kenyatta did his best to paint a picture of a country moving beyond that divide.
“The elections are now firmly behind us... I will devote my time and energy to build bridges,” he told a rapturous crowd of around 60,000 supporters as he was sworn in for a second, five-year term in a sports stadium in the capital Nairobi.
But, he warned, Kenyans needed to “free ourselves from the baggage of past grievances, and... keep to the rule of law�
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Caitlin Heising is Vice Chair of the Heising‐Simons Foundation and is currently pursuing a Master of Public Administration at the London School
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of Economics & Political Science (LSE) with a focus on social impact. Previously, she worked with Article 3 Advisors, a human rights and strategic philanthropy consultancy based in San Francisco. In 2014, she joined the board of the Heising‐Simons Foundation, where she has developed a grantmaking program focused on human rights and criminal justice reform in the U.S. Caitlin is also a founding member of Maverick Collective, a global community of strategic philanthropists and informed advocates working to end extreme poverty by improving the health and rights of women and girls around the world.
Caitlin serves on the Board of Directors and U.S. Program Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch. Previously, she co-founded and co-chaired the Human Rights Watch Young Professionals Network in San Francisco, which has now grown to include a chapter in Silicon Valley. She also serves on the board of the Nick Simons Foundation, which works to improve health and medical care in Nepal,
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Mama Mendes! New mom Eva Mendes showed off her super slim post-baby body on the April 2015 cover of Women&apos
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;s Health, five months after welcoming her daughter, Esmeralda, with Ryan Gosling.
Splashed across the cover are the fitting words. "Hey, Girl!" — a nod to the viral Internet meme involving her famous boyfriend. The Hitch actress, 41, stares at the camera with confidence with her hands in her pants pockets.
For her latest cover shoot, Mendes shies away from her trademark oversized coats and sweaters to bare her curvaceous, lean body in flattering pieces. The star's arms appear sculpted while her teeny waist is accentuated in body-hugging garments both on the cover and inside the issue.
Along with her devoted fitness regimen, Mendes also watches her diet. "I haven’t eaten meat in about six years, because I don’t agree with factory farming here," she revealed. "This is just what worked for me, it’s important to say, but when I
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SCRATCH MATCH WITH PLAYERS IN THE LOBBY OR WITH FACEBOOK FRIENDSGet 20 FREE SCRATCH BUCKS when you install the appYou can either login via Facebook or play the scratchers as a Guest user.Play Scratch Match with FriendsHow to Play?1. You can start a Scratch Match with a player in the lobby or a random opponent or a Facebook friend.2. Get notified when its your turn in the scratch match or when opponent finishes scratching to know the match result.Scratch Match Rules:1. Scratch 5 tickets in a match2. Player with the most bucks won at the end of the match is the winner3. If both players have won equal bucks, player who spent the least bucks on buying tickets is the winner.My Matches:1. Check out all Scratch Matches you are playing & played with the match status.2. You can restart a match with same opponent by just tapping on an
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FILE - Visitors walk on sand dunes as the sun sets, March 5, 2015, in White Sands National Monument, New Mexico.
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French couple who set out with their 9-year-old son on a hike in the scenic desert in the western US state of New Mexico likely lost their lives in an effort to keep their child alive.
David, 42, and Ornella Steiner, 51, both of Bourgogne, France, gave the boy, Enzo, two sips of water for each one they took before their supply ran dry and they succumbed to the scorching heat in the White Sands National Monument, Otero County Sheriff Benny House said. Enzo survived.
"That may be why he fared so well, is he was a lot smaller and probably had twice as much water,'' House said, referring to the child.
Two empty half-liter bottles of water were found with the bodies. The U.S. park service recommends 3.8 liters of water for each hiker.
Enzo’s grandmother, who flew out to America after learning of the tragedy
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Rail specialist International Rail is teaming up with gapyear.com in a bid to grow its market share of the Australian, Canadian and US backpack
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er transport market.
It will provide a global rail search engine to gapyear.com through its own website, InternationalRail.com.
Tom Griffiths, founder of gapyear.com, said: "Rail has unfortunately always been the 'also ran' in the independent travel market, coming a very poor third as a travel option in-country to travel by coach and car.
"The rail industry, to be honest, has also been a pain to work with! A fragmented offering with a lack of quality rail passes aimed at this market through multiple brands, sites and partnerships, we have found it impossible until now to deliver a clean, consistent offering to our users.
“However, International Rail, with their global offering have breathed new life into the rail sector by enabling sites like gapyear.com to place the rail passes neatly alongside their coach, car and plane rivals, finally making it an option which can be considered by all.
“With the resurgence in popularity
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Members of the Hotchkin family and La Canada Flintridge Educational Foundation officials smile as the school district announced it would name the north gym at La
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Canada High School after the family.
Eight months after offering generous donors a chance to see their names placed permanently on prominent school buildings, La Cañada Unified School District has announced its first taker.
La Cañada High School’s north gym will now be the Hotchkin Family Gymnasium after residents Jan and David Hotchkin made a five-year pledge that puts their cumulative contributions to the district in excess of $1 million, Supt. Wendy Sinnette said at a school board meeting Tuesday.
The Hotchkins moved to La Cañada with their two children, Jonathan and Carolyn, in 1997 and quickly took on leadership roles with the La Cañada Flintridge Educational Foundation and the Flintridge Guild of Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, among other groups.
Jan Hotchkin also worked as a teacher specialist at Palm Crest Elementary School.
David Hotchkin is a principal with the Pasadena-based Anchor Pacifica Group,
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Oren Cass joins City Journal editor Brian Anderson to discuss his new book, The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work
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in America.
The American worker is in crisis. Wages have stagnated for more than a generation, and reliance on welfare programs has surged. Life expectancy is falling as substance abuse and obesity rates climb. Work and its future has become a central topic for City Journal: in 2017, the magazine published its special issue, The Shape of Work to Come.
Brian Anderson: Welcome back to the 10 Blocks, podcast. This is your host, Brian Anderson, editor of City Journal. The American working class is facing an ongoing crisis. Wages have stagnated for more than a generation. Reliance on welfare programs in many sectors of society has surged. Life expectancy has actually declined in various areas as substance abuse and suicide rates climb. The future of work has become a central issue for us here at City Journal. Last year we published an entire issue called The Shape of Work to Come, featuring articles on the great American domestic crisis of our time, long term joblessness. Today we're going
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Some lawmakers abstain, or “take a pass,” to avoid a political dilemma. Republicans and Democrats representing more competitive districts, for
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example, generally did not vote more often than their colleagues from politically safer seats in 2015, records show.
1,380 The number of bills and other measures that came up for a vote on the Assembly floor in 2015.
Some lawmakers missed votes at higher rates than their colleagues.
In the Assembly, Assemblyman Rocky Chávez, R-Oceanside, did not vote 14.9 percent of the time on the floor, and Assemblywoman Nora Campos, D-San Jose, had a nonvote percentage of 10.9 percent. In committee action, Assembly members Travis Allen, R-Huntington Beach, and Roger Hernández, D-Baldwin Park, did not vote about a quarter of the time.
In the Senate, Sharon Runner, R-Lancaster, missed 15.2 percent of floor-voting opportunities, and Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, missed 12.1 percent. State senators Tom
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People Are Working Naked Because Their President Said To "Undress And Work"
"[We] need to undress and work. Work up a
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sweat. If we don’t — we’ll die."
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko delivered an impassioned speech to the All-Belarusian People's Assembly on June 22, urging people to seek out and tackle their own opportunities rather than relying on the government to constantly provide.
Lukashenko, dubbed "Europe's last dictator" by Condoleezza Rice in 2005, told his compatriots, "Innovations, IT, privatization and so on — we understand all that. We got this covered."
"But everything and our life itself — is in simplicity," he continued. "[We] need to undress and work. Work up a sweat. If we don’t — we’ll die. Competition is fierce."
It's likely Lukashenko meant to say "develop," which is quite similar in pronunciation. ("Undress" is pronounced "razdivatsya"; "develop" is "razviv
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Dawn Crider and Anthony Orr of Martinsburg, W.Va., announce the birth of a daughter, Hailey Nicole Orr
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, July 8, 2004. Maternal grandparents are Pamela and John Footen and Michael Crider. Paternal grandparents are Steve and Frances Orr. Maternal great-grandfather is Charles Crider. Paternal great-grandparents are Theodore and Sarah Shell and Rosalee Wood.
Angela S. and Richard L. Cross of Martinsburg, W.Va., announce the birth of a son, Zachary Daniel-Levi Cross, July 9, 2004. Maternal grandparents are Susan and Mike Lushbaugh of Martinsburg and Ken and Karla Harris of Boonsboro. Paternal grandparents are Jeannetta Cross of Martinsburg and the late Cleo Daniel Cross.
Sharon Kaye Wolford and David Larry Robinson Jr. of Martinsburg, W.Va., announce the birth of a son, Damion Lee Robinson, July 7, 2004. Maternal grandparents are Tina and Robert Wolford of Falling Waters, W.Va. Paternal
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SAG-AFTRA Joins Call for More Diversity: "This Moment Isn't Only About Race"
The union says the ultimate goal
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is "more and better jobs for all of our members."
SAG-AFTRA is adding its voice to the call for greater diversity in the entertainment industry. The guild’s President’s Task Force on Education, Outreach and Engagement and SAG-AFTRA Diversity Advisory Committee approved a statement in a joint meeting on Feb. 3 that was issued on Wednesday.
The statement sets forth a number of principals: it says the current focus on diversity isn’t just about race but also disability, age, gender, gender identify and sexual orientation; it commits the guild to focusing on inequities “in terms of opportunity, treatment and compensation”; it says statistics are a helpful tool in measuring progress, but the ultimate goal is “more and better jobs for our members”; and it calls for greater inclusion throughout the industry.
Jason George, chair of the SAG-AFTRA diversity advisory committee, commented: “The
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Here's a selection of special places where it's still possible to discover the magic and festive ambience of Christmas, replete with the smell of
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pine trees and the joyful sound of carols.
It's no exaggeration to say that practically every capital, medium-size city and town in Europe has its very particular Christmas market, many carrying the tradition through the centuries and all giving the season a festive atmosphere as visitors wander old cobbled streets, enjoying spectacular decorations, exploring wooden stalls full of seasonal crafts and festive fare while savoring hot mulled wine.
For the third consecutive year, Zagreb sits atop the European Best Destinations list of the Best Christmas markets, based on thousands of travelers’ votes. The secret of the capital of Croatia’s success includes high-quality crafts, a friendly and festive atmosphere, concerts, ice skating rinks and affordable prices.
Open from December 1 to January 6.
The Christmas market held during the "Pikkujoulu" (Christmas Season) in Finland's medieval capital offers many of the traditional scenes in a Christmas card: snow that usually falls appropriately around the dates
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Welp: Yearbook page for pro-infanticide Ralph Northam features a man in blackface and another in a KKK outfit;
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Update: "Deeply sorry"
Go figure that a guy with a Klan photo in his yearbook would have a strong stomach for killing innocents.
In fairness to him, a lot of dumb kids did offensive things back when they were [checks notes] 25 years old. In medical school.
This is his medical school yearbook.
It was Big League Politics that found the photo. It started circulating on conservative Twitter, then the Virginian-Pilot checked BLP’s work and found that, yep, the photo’s legit. Now we wait for the follow-up story: Is Northam the guy in the hood, or the one in blackface? And which is worse?
By the way, this guy defeated a formidable Republican in Ed Gillespie by nearly 10 points to become governor in 2017. Crack job by Gillespie’s oppo team in missing the other candidate’s BLACKFACE/KLANSMAN YEARBOOK PHOTO.
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Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I bring you greetings from the Government and people of Sierra Leone.
Let me first start by thanking the President
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of this great country-His Excellency Xi Jinping for his continued support to Sierra Leone. His commitment is in line with the existing relationship between our two countries spanning for over three decades.
On behalf of our President, His Excellency Julius Maada Bio, I say thank you and we are grateful for all the support.
As a new Government, we inherited a battered economy but with strong financial discipline, we are on track to address those challenges.
I am here to say that now is the time to transform our country.
Now is the time to bring development to our people.
Now is the time to strengthen our bilateral relationships.
Your Excellencies, China is perhaps the most prominent example of a country that has shifted from taxing to subsidizing its agricultural sector.
China’s domestic support policies for agriculture have expanded rapidly in size and scope.
A report summary from the Economic Research Service in the United States Department of Agriculture shows that China is now the
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RAY WILKINS has called on Roman Abramovich to give Gus Poyet the job of leading Chelsea into a new era at the end
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of this season.
The Chelsea legend believes that with Abramovich’s first-choice Pep Guardiola now enticed away from Stamford Bridge by Bayern Munich, former Blues hero Poyet is the only man who can heal the wounds tearing the club apart.
The effervescent Uruguyan is in charge at Brighton, where in three years he has built a side playing fluent, skilful football which he has taken into the Championship. They lie just outside the play-off places.
More important though for Wilkins than the fact that Poyet, 45, is one of the brightest young managers in the game is the fact that he is a former Chelsea hero who spent four seasons at the club from 1997 to 2001, scoring 36 goals in 105 appearances.
Another dismal night at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday saw Chelsea throw away a 2-0 lead to draw with Southampton. Interim manager Rafa Benitez was once again blamed as his team were booed off the field
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Gus Poyet has urged his Albion midfielders to join the goal spree in the absence of leading marksman Craig Mackail-Smith.
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The Seagulls have scored 14 goals in the five straight wins which have catapulted them to the top of the Championship.
Mackail-Smith, missing against Birmingham with a hamstring injury, has hit six of them and Ashley Barnes three.
Now Poyet wants his central midfielders, along with the likes of flying wide man Kazenga LuaLua, to start contributing.
He told The Argus: “We are not thinking Macca is the only one that is going to score. We need to make sure the rest do their bit as well. We are trying to convince a few players that they need to score more goals.
“That can be Gary Dicker or Dean Hammond or Crofty (Andrew Crofts ) or Kazenga LuaLua. They need to score goals, to add things.
“I’m not going to ask the defenders to score too many goals. If they can pop up with a few great
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LINDSAY, ONT. – John Tory pressed the reset button on his rocky leadership of the Progressive Conservatives by announcing today he'd finally cleared
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a path to return to the Ontario legislature, hoping to quell critics who insist it's already game over.
Progressive Conservative Laurie Scott will resign her central Ontario seat and take on the job of getting the Opposition ready for the next election, Tory said in Lindsay, about 130 kilometres east of Toronto.
The embattled Conservative leader travelled to Scott's riding of Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock – almost 15 months to the day his party suffered one of its worst electoral defeats – to announce she had agreed to step aside so he could run in a byelection.
Tory vowed to do a better job as leader of the party, acknowledging that his "impatience" to get things done may have clouded his judgment at times.
"I think I'm a stronger leader and wiser leader today than I was two years ago," he said.
It's become a common refrain for Tory, whose political missteps during the 2007 provincial election fuelled an open rebellion
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Matt Damon says the pressure he feels for people to like his movies makes him act weirdly when he’s promoting his films.
Matt
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Damon feels under pressure to make good movies.
The 42-year-old actor wants people to enjoy his films and he admits the pressure makes him act weirdly when he's promoting his projects.
During an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, he said, "I just feel pressured to try to make good movies. For me, a weird thing happens where I get this kind of weird, almost Tourette's, thing where I just immediately think of the exact wrong thing to say to try get people to see the movie."
To give an example, David asked him what his new science-fiction movie, Elysium, is about.
To which Matt jokingly responded, "Well, how much do you know about fracking...? It's a science-fiction fracking movie."
Matt's next project is The Monuments Men, a World War II movie directed by his friend George Clooney which also stars Bill Murray.
He said, "[Bill]
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Some Sacramento high school students are getting their poetry in front of a lot of people this fall. You'll have to get on a bus to read
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them.
I Think That I Shall Never See / A Password As Secure As... Poetry?
We all know "password" is no good, and "1234567" is asking for trouble. But the more we try to strengthen our passwords, the harder we make them to remember. It's a thoroughly modern problem — but researchers at USC found a very old solution.
A Sacramento County boy has won the California Poetry Out Loud competition at the State Capitol.
(AP) - The 32nd National Cowboy Poetry Gathering opens today in Elko, Nevada.
A group of Sacramento slam poets and hip-hop artists put together pop-up poetry performances at locations around the city.
Learn more about Sacramento’s thriving poetry scene and sample works by local poets with this occasional series from CapRadio.
The Sacramento Poetry Center just published the latest installment of the Tule Review of Poetry. Editor Bethanie Humphreys will read a poem and discuss the publication
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The past weekend saw another wave of fine dust blanket South Korea. Over the past 10 years, the frequency of waves of fine dust has increased steadily
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, causing people to worry about their negative effects on public health.
The problem also causes changes in daily life. An elementary school teacher I met last autumn told me that schools are eliminating playgrounds because there are so few days when the air is clean enough for children to use them.
In response, the government began to issue more assertive warnings on air quality and, in response to the most recent wave, banned some cars from the road in severely affected areas on alternating days based on the last digit of their licence plates. Though well intended, these efforts do not constitute a long-term response. To develop such a response, the South Korean government first needs to find out the causes. The first thing is to figure out how much of the pollution is domestic and how much comes from China and, perhaps, North Korea.
The nonprofit World Air Quality Index project in Beijing collects environmental information from 9,000 stations run by environmental agencies around the world and displays it on a searchable map.
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Day trading is a good way of leveraging limited capital and trading with short stop losses and short profit targets. Day trading is all about rules, trends
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and discipline. Since day trading does not involve delivery, the brokerage charges are much lower.
Day trading is quite well understood. It is better known as intraday trading or the creation and closure of positions on the same day. Day trading is a good way of leveraging limited capital and trading with short stop losses and short profit targets. Day trading is all about rules, trends and discipline. Since day trading does not involve delivery, the brokerage charges are much lower. Also, if you place an intraday order with stop loss and profit target imputed (cover order or bracket order), then you can get higher leverage. Let us first understand day trading in detail.
What is day trading all about?
Day trading, as the name suggests, involves making dozens of trades in a single day, based on technical analysis and sophisticated charting systems. The day trader's objective is to make a living from trading stocks, commodities or currencies, by making small profits on numerous trades and capping
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“Usain Bolt is all about charity,” charismatic Olympian Usain Bolt cheerfully explained to us at a fund-raising event
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recently. The charities in reference were the Zeitz Foundation and the Zoological Society of London, which are working together to conserve the habitats of cheetah and African wild dogs, and the evening’s event was a dinner and auction held at the London Zoo, of which Bolt was the host.
Bolt’s preposterously endearing attitude over the summer captured the world’s attention as much as—if not more than—his hypersonic speed, and of his warm reception in the Olympics’ host city, he told us that “just being in London, it was wonderful. The crowd was amazing. I really enjoyed the people here—they really showed me a lot of love. The energy was really good.” At one point in the evening he jumped onstage to rally support for a certain sentimental auction item (his electric-yellow jersey from the Summer Games). The extra push helped—the garment sold for £31,000 ($50,
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Kathleen Hanna cut a formidable path throughout the ’90s and into the 2000s as the co-founder of the riot grrl
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movement, frontwoman of genre-defining punk band Bikini Kill, and member of progressive electro-pop trio Le Tigre. Then in 2005, she abruptly stopped performing and kept a much lower profile—a surprising move for someone who had been a firebrand for nearly two decades.
The Punk Singer answers that question, but not until its third act. The story of Hanna’s life, from her childhood through the founding of riot grrl and Bikini Kill are compelling, though Anderson seems much more interested in the story once it gets to Hanna’s formative college years at Evergreen State College. Although she hits on some important aspects of Hanna’s childhood, including her “sadistic and funny” mother and her “sexually inappropriate” father, that part of the story feels incomplete, especially considering the physical and emotional (and potentially sexual) abuse Hanna references later in the film. It’s possible, even likely, that
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A: If Booking.com promised you twin beds, then it should have delivered twin beds. End of story.
But did it?
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I visited the site to make a dummy reservation at Adagio Paris Bercy Village. When you click on the studio, it clearly says: “Please note that the double bed in this studio is a fold-down bed in the living area. Two twin beds are available upon request.” So you would have needed to get a written assurance from the property or from Booking.com that your studio came with twin beds.
Cases like yours underscore the importance of reading your product description and confirmation carefully. If you have any questions, get the answers in writing, not by phone.
If I read the property description, I probably would not come away with the impression that I’d get two twin beds. But you say you had a confirmation that you would — and hey, I’m your advocate.
Based on the correspondence you’ve sent me, it appears as if Booking.com was willing to help cancel your reservation, but that you
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Neither the U.S., with all of its military muscle and more than 40 percent of annual military expenditures worldwide, nor China, with its rising
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economic clout and military modernization, can effectively contain globalized terrorism on their own. Yet if they work together, the two countries could rally the international community into effective multi-polar counter-terrorism.
On Monday, April 15, 2013, the crowded finish line of the Boston Marathon turned into a nightmare as bombs exploded, killing three people and injuring more than 280 others.
If Washington and Beijing could find a common ground in dealing with the global threat of terrorism, much more would follow.
All major advanced economies share a recent history of terrorist escalation. Only hours after the Boston massacre, the annual simulation exercise by the special EU police units began across Europe. Meanwhile, the risks of extremism in the region are escalating, thanks to worsening economy, rising anti-immigration sentiment and failure to designate terrorist organizations.
In Japan, terrorism was seen as a Western dilemma until the hijacking of a Japan Airlines flight by a Japanese Red Army Faction and other terrorist attacks in the 1970s. The mid-
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LONDON – Ford pressed ahead Thursday with its plan to slash production in Europe, announcing another plant closure and 1,500 more job cuts, as
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it warned that annual losses in the region will exceed $1.5 billion this year and next.
Ford Motor Co. is struggling in Europe, like many major carmakers, because labor costs are relatively high and there are too many plants given that demand for cars is sliding due to the economic crisis. Worries about its European business have dragged down Ford's stock price this year.
A day after announcing the closure of a major plant in Belgium, Ford said it also will close its Transit van plant in Southampton, Britain, and the stamping and tooling facility at its plant in Dagenham, east London.
The actions announced this week — along with a previously announced initiative to cut about 500 salaried and agency positions across Europe — affect a total of 6,200 Ford jobs, or about 13 percent of the company's European workforce.
Counting the indirect impact on suppliers that depend on doing business with Ford's
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Apr. 23 11:47 PM PT12:47 AM MT1:47 AM CT2:47 AM ET2:47 ET6:
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47 GMT14:47 11:47 PM MST1:47 AM EST12:47 AM CST2:17 AM VEN10:47 UAE1:47 AM CT-Peter Bourjos went 0 for 1 Monday as the Los Angeles Angels lost to the New York Yankees 4-3. Bourjos scored once and stole a base. He's now batting.100 with no home runs this season.
Apr. 21 9:53 PM PT10:53 PM MT11:53 PM CT12:53 AM ET0:53 ET4:53 GMT12:53 9:53 PM MST11:53 PM EST10:53 PM CST12:23 AM VEN8:53 UAE11:53 PM CT-Peter Bourjos went 1 for 4 Saturday as the Los Angeles Angels lost to the Seattle Mariners 6-5. He's now batting.103 with no home runs this season.
Apr. 20 10:18 PM PT11:18 PM
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SINGAPORE - The university for polytechnic upgraders here - the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) - will offer five new
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degrees and take in a record number of 2,080 students this year.
Set up in 2009, SIT, which used to offer only degrees in partnership with overseas universities, launched three of its own degrees in infrastructure engineering, software engineering and accountancy last year and took in 1,800 students in all.
This year, it will offer another four of its own degrees - in building services engineering, pharmaceutical engineering, information security and hospitality business.
It will also offer an engineering degree in electromechanical systems jointly with the DigiPen Institute of Technology, which is renowned for its computer engineering programmes. Undergraduates enrolled in this course will be trained to design and develop complex systems that can range from a robot to a transportation system.
The addition of the new courses will bring its total number of degree programmes to 36, of which seven will be its own. Its other partner universities include the Technical University of Munich and the Culinary Institute of America.
The university, which now
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Whether you bought your Android device last year -- or last month -- you can benefit from a little spring cleaning.
Your Android device contains a lot
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of personal information about you -- maybe even more than anything else you own. How about those work documents that you grabbed from an email, or the photos you saved from that text? These types of files should be relocated to cloud storage like Google Drive or Dropbox.
If you're not sure what's lurking in your storage areas -- internal or SD -- a file manager app can be used to explore your data. Some Android devices, like the Samsung Galaxy series, have a file manager app built-in. It's nothing fancy, but it can get the job done.
Not a fan of your stock file manager? Then try ES File Explorer. This app can integrate with cloud solutions such as: Google Drive, Dropbox, SkyDrive, and many others. Files can even be sent directly to your Windows desktop, if you like. As bonus, check out How to get the most free online storage.
This is an easy area to regain some storage. Each image, depending on your camera specs
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The Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology met for its second day Tuesday with an agenda faithful to its name--morning sessions that largely focused on teaching,
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followed by afternoon sessions on tech.
Specifically, the morning sessions centered on different approaches and tips on teaching large classes effectively, while the afternoon presented information on researching with SmartSite and teaching through Almagest--a tool that stores and presents images.
Faculty had the opportunity to see how their colleagues teach. A series of instructors shared their teaching philosophies and practical techniques to get jaded students to learn.
Jon Wagner, professor of education and SITT director, presented a creative approach to final exams. Instead of assigning term papers, Wagner had his students collaboratively design and draw a "map of the course." (To see their work, please visit Wagner's presentation website.) Wagner joked that the students probably learned more during that exercise than from anything else during the year.
Susan Keen, a lecturer of evolution and ecology, won the campus Academic Federation Excellence in Teaching Award this year. She described the difficulties of teaching a large class and offered solutions from her own teaching experience. She emphasized the
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Mobile phones could soon be helping re-assure Nigerians and Ghanaians they are getting genuine medicine.
A pilot scheme in the two nations
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has begun putting unique scratch codes on more than 500,000 medicine bottles and packets of pills.
When the code is texted to a free phone number, a return message will reveal that a drug is genuine.
The scheme hopes to boost efforts to tackle diseases such as malaria and combat the rise in fake medicines.
Globally, about 10-15% of all drugs are believed to be fake but in some parts of Africa this rises to 50%. The problem is made more acute in Africa because some fake medicines being offered to the sick are watered down versions of the real thing and dent the efficacy of the full strength drug.
"Some genuine medicines have lost their potency because of the counterfeiting," said Gabriele Zedlmayer, a spokeswoman for HP which is a partner in the labelling scheme.
This can be a particular problem with malaria as the disease is so widespread in sub-saharan Africa where it is the leading cause of death.
The scheme is
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Nile C. Kinnick's Olivia Ouellette shoots against E.J. King's Diamond Williams during Thursday's DODEA-Japan tournament
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girls playoff game. The Red Devils won 35-18.
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan – While the girls title in this weekend’s DODEA-Japan basketball tournament appears to be Zama’s to lose, the boys championship looks to be a tossup.
E.J. King’s, Robert D. Edgren’s and host Nile C. Kinnick’s boys entered the tournament a combined 48-7. The Cobras’ and Eagles’ lone losses came against the Red Devils, while Kinnick lost once to King and twice to Humphreys in the Kanto Classic two weeks ago.
It seemed only right that the Cobras and Eagles opened the DODEA-Japan Tournament at 10:15 a.m. Thursday; of the three favored teams, King and Edgren had yet to face each other this season.
“With the format a true double (elimination), we want
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In a deal that appears to be mostly financially-driven, the Hornets sent Tyson Chandler to their once stand-in hometown of Oklahoma City for Chris
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Wilcox, Joe Smith, and the draft rights to DeVon Hardin.
I think in a pure basketball sense, it’s a good move for both teams. Obviously, the Hornets may have lost the value end of it, but they get back a saavy veteran and a guy who can hold his own down low. Chandler was having a bad season anyway, and Wilcox hasn’t been getting off the pine.
Fantasy-wise, Chandler will start in OKC, sending Nick Collison to the bench. He takes a big hit in value and Nenad Krstic becomes droppable in every league. Of course, either could see minutes at the four, but it won’t likely be many.
As for New Orleans, Wilcox will just take Chandler’s place in the starting lineup. Smith will likely back up David West, and Hilton Armstrong will continue to see his limited minutes backing up Wilcox.
Big winner?
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Happy Summer Solstice, everyone. Not that you’d know today was such a signpost if you were to put down your works and
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venture outside. But even if you’re still focused on finding the last bits of body paint from Saturday’s Fremont Solstice Parade on your nether regions, why not look for some other summertime activities.
Like spending your midweek mornings in an air-conditioned movie theatre with your overheated kids.
Granted, that nutter talk after yesterday (which according to U-Dub’s Cliff Mass was a summer solar activity nadir unlike any we’ve seen in these here parts for decades). But imagine if we were knee deep in the mid-90s. Then even the biggest Vitamin D junkie could justify a few hours in the chill. So why not take a looksie at the Tuesday and Wednesday offerings to be shown at the Thornton Creek 14 up by Northgate Mall – the whole Regal Theaters chain offers these family-themed freebies as a part of their “Free Family Film Festival”. It starts this
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The Facebook Election: Can the Social Network Predict Winners in the 2010 Midterms?
In some races, there are large gaps in the number of
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friends various competitors have. Is that an indicator of how they’ll do at the polls?
In Nevada, Republican challenger Sharron Angle is not only leading Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the polls, she’s also far ahead on the social nets. When we started writing this story, Angle’s Facebook page had 104,059 fans vs. a mere 14,348 for Reid. Angle is also leading when it comes to voter sentiment–by four points, according to the latest Rasmussen poll. And Facebook’s public policy team says that Angle is piling on new supporters at a faster rate than Reid. In the last two weeks, Angle’s Facebook fan base grew by 10,500, vs. just 921 for Reid.
So does that mean Angle will knock Reid out of the Senate on election day next Tuesday? It’s anyone’s guess. We asked Facebook, and as far as they know, no one’s taken
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What about the climate of Southeastern Arizona makes it a new hotbed for wine?
Peggy Fiandaca, left, and Curt Dunham
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, right, owners of Lawrence Dunham Vinyards inside their wine cellar.
Sydnie LeMieux recently graduated from the UA with a bachelor's degree in geosciences.
If making wine is a science, then Southern Arizona is a superior laboratory. But ditch the lab coats and goggles because the most important components for growing grapes are elevation, climate and soil.
Arizona has more than 80 licensed and bonded wineries, according to the Arizona Wine Growers Association. In Southern Arizona the vineyards are clustered around Sonoita and Willcox. These vineyards don't thrive among saguaros and cholla but in well-watered grasslands above 4,000 feet, where the days are warm and the nights cool.
In 2007, Peggy Fiandaca and Curt Dunham established Lawrence Dunham Vineyards, 36 miles southeast of Willcox. The name honors Dunham's parents—Betty Jane Lawrence and Robert Ervin Dunham.
The winery sits on the
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YORK City midfielder Nicky Wroe has been placed on the transfer list after claims he no longer wants to play for the club.
But
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any interested parties would need to pay a five-figure fee for the 22-year-old's services with Wroe under contract to the KitKat Crescent club until the end of next season.
The former Barnsley midfielder joined City in August after starting the season in Scotland with Hamilton Academicals following his release by the Oakwell club.
He signed a one-year deal with the Minstermen inserting an option to retain his services for a further ten months, which was exercised last month.
Wroe, who made 27 starts and scored ten goals last season, was also offered improved terms but is now hoping to leave City according to club officials, fuelling speculation he has been offered a better deal elsewhere.
In a club statement, community and communications director Sophie McGill said: "Nicky Wroe has been placed on the transfer list following a statement by the player to Jason McGill and Colin Walker that he no longer wants to play for York City.
"Nicky W
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You've seen lots of post-apocalyptic worlds — but how would some of the most famous places on Earth look after everything fell apart? These
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digital paintings by John Walters and Peter Baustaedter, inspired by The Last of Us, show how 20 years of decay after the fall of humankind affect some iconic buildings.
Statue of Poseidon in the Gardens of Versailles, France. The garden was designed by André Le Nôtre, Louis Le Vau, Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun, under the rule of Louis XIV, between 1661 and the late 1680s.
The fortified walls of Avila, Castille and León, Spain, completed between the 11th and 14th centuries.
The decommissioned Battersea Power Station, South West London, UK, constructed between 1929 and 1935, designed by a team of engineers headed by Leonard Pearce and the architect Theo J. Halliday, but Sir Giles Gilbert Scott also worked on the project.
Buckingham Palace, London, UK, originally built as a large townhouse in 1703,
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ChrisD.ca is proud to once again be partnering with the Red River Ex this year.
We’re giving away four Family Packs
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(four gate admissions each) and 12 ride passes for the annual exhibition, running June 13-22.
This year’s theme is “Get Up Close,” allowing families to have an up-close experience with everything the Ex has to offer.
New attractions this season include iFlip — an aerial thrill show including aerial bungee, trampoline wall, dangling sphere, power track and more. Also on the agenda are new shopping kiosks this year along the popular midway. Musical performers Gord Bamford, Down With Webster, Tyler Shaw, Alyssa Reid and Karl Wolf will hit the stage, as well as Eddie Money and many others.
Fill out the entry form below. We’ll draw four random winners. Good luck!
Advance gate tickets are available at Sobeys, Mac’s or RedRiverEx.com for $9. Visit the Ex’s website for a complete rundown of this year’s events
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The sale of The Scream by Edvard Munch for $120 million is yet another sign that in the art world there is a lot more focus
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on the business, the ever rising prices, the booming demand. This person said that the world is indeed focused on big sales and big art gatherings such as Biennale or Art Basel.
This is not a judgement — more an observation, for that is where we might be in a cycle, both economic and creative. But as this art historian pointed out, away from the sparkling lights, she has seen new collectives and movements form, which gives her hope. I am betting it is the same in tech-land.
Secret to success (short term); create a need (or desire) and fill it. Or at least the illusion that it’s going to be filled. The days of ‘building a better mousetrap and the world beating a path to your door’ are long gone. To borrow Canon’s tag line “image is everything”. Or maybe it’s more important to ask “Where’s
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Hundreds of people are expected to protest the Kent County commission meeting Thursday morning with a single demand: end the
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county's jail contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"We want to leave that office making sure the contract is canceled," said Karla Barberi, a volunteer organizer with Movimiento Cosecha GR. "They're profiting from this whole issue -- the separation of families."
The Kent County Board of Commissioners meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, June 28, in room 310 of the County Administration Building, 300 Monroe Ave. NW.
Protesters will address the board about how the ICE contract has separated families in Kent County and demand it end, Barberi said. Before the meeting, Movimiento Cosecha GR and GR Rapid Response to ICE organizers will hold a press conference in Calder Plaza just outside of the building.
"America is the land of the free and we have to respect that," one protester said. "We're no bad hombres."
LaPlante said a Freedom of Information Act request must be filed to
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You’ve no doubt heard of cryptocurrencies by now – that weird, digital currency that went from being only used for buying drugs and paying off
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hitmen to now being common talk at restaurants and bars all over the world, with legitimate business groups investing millions into the digital tokens. Values in cryptocurrencies continue to skyrocket and new ICOs are popping up almost daily. Yet, there is still a huge disconnect when it comes to the general public, traditional banking institutions and investors. Some of this is due to digital currencies still being difficult to spend for the general public, but it is also because traditional investors are still a bit wary to invest in a currency that has almost zero regulation worldwide.
It’s also important to note that adoption of cryptocurrencies relies on these factors or else it will never fully reach its potential. This new era does bring with it one thing – entrepreneurs and startups around the world looking for solutions to these problems. In something as young as digital currencies, these same teams will be the ones to shape this new digital, financial landscape.
Take, for example, Canadian-based company, TokenFunder, who recently obtained approval
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“How did I fall pregnant? I’m on the pill!” Women finally have some clarity on a question that has baffled
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them for years. A new study has found that some women may have genes that break down the hormones in contraceptives more quickly, thus reducing the efficacy of their contraceptive.
Contraceptives are not 100% effective. The contraceptive pill, for example, is generally believed to be 99% effective but reasons why contraceptives fail have remained ambiguous.
When women fall pregnant while on contraceptives, it is largely assumed that they took their pill incorrectly – either by missing it or taking it too late or at erratic times – or were already in the early stages of pregnancy when they first started taking it.
The researchers examined 350 women with a median age of 22.5 years who were using the contraceptive implant, one of the most effective contraceptive methods available to women, for between 12 and 36 months.
User error on the implant is next to impossible. Because the contraception method is implanted in the woman’s arm, steadily releasing hormones, she cannot forget to take it or take it incorrectly.
The researchers
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Patrick Snyder defeats challenger Alyson Leahy to keep his seat, with 55 percent of the vote.
WAUSAU - Patrick Snyder will continue
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to represent the 85th Assembly District for another term in Madison.
Snyder defeated Leahy in Tuesday's mid-term election for the Assembly position. He received 55 percent of the vote.
Snyder, 62, has served one term in the Legislature, during which he authored five bills that were signed into law, including Sara's Law to protect lawyers and guardian ad litems after the death of attorney Sara Quirt Sann in a mass shooting on March 22, 2017. He is married with two children and lives in Schofield.
Leahy, 31, is a member of the Marathon County Board and has completed training with Emerge Wisconsin, which is a six-month program that trains Democratic women to run for political office. Emerge Wisconsin is part of the national Emerge organization. She said that she decided to run so soon after her election to the County Board because the time felt right. She is married and lives in Wausau.
The 85th Assembly
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Designed for military use in WWII, the Dodge Power Wagon found plenty of heavy-duty use after the war. The trucks were designed to
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go anywhere and do anything, for big jobs like mining and moving lumber.
Shown off on the latest episode of Jay Leno's garage today is a restomodded 6x6 1942 Dodge Power Wagon. Winslow Bent is the man behind Legacy Classic Trucks, a Wyoming-based restoration company that isn't afraid to throw some modern touches into its gnarly projects.
As Bent tells it, he specializes in Power Wagons and starts with abandoned trucks he sees in places like fields and barns. The great things about Power Wagons is that they were overbuilt to be able to do any job that a customer might wish to perform.
Leno laughs about the fact that this truck can't really rust out, because the metal's too thick. This civilian-cabbed Power Wagon uses a Cummins turbodiesel engine, will climb just about anything, weighs 8000 lbs, and would probably survive a small explosion. Let's a see a Ferrari do
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Two suspects arrested after gunmen storm mosque and open fire on praying worshippers, killing one and wounding three.
ISIL claimed responsibility after gunmen killed
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one Shia Muslim and wounded three others at a mosque in Bangladesh, a US monitoring website said on Friday. It was the second assault targeting the religious minority in a month.
However, a Bangladeshi official denied that Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was operating in the South Asian nation of 160 million people.
Three masked attackers entered the Imam Khomeini mosque in Haripur village and began shooting indiscriminately before escaping, witnesses told Al Jazeera. At least 20 people were saying evening prayers at the time on Thursday.
Two suspects were arrested in connection with the attack in Bogra district, 125 kilometres northest of the capital Dhaka, according to local media reports.
The US-based intelligence group SITE, which monitors the communications of armed groups, said ISIL had taken responsibility online for the mosque assault.
But Muntasirul Islam, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said he doubted the veracity of ISIL's statements, adding past claims by the group
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Reports of the sinking of a Soviet passenger ship in the Black Sea with up to 1,000 people aboard indicated substantial loss of life. Here are
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some notable maritime disasters of the last three decades. July 26, 1956 - The Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks, a day after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm off Cape Cod. Fifty-two people are killed, most of them on the Italian vessel.
July 14, 1957 - The Soviet ship Eshghabad sinks in the Caspian Sea and 270 people are killed. April 10, 1961 - The British liner Dara sinks in the Persian Gulf with a reported loss of 212 lives, two days after a bomb explosion aboard. July 8, 1961 - The Portuguese ship Save runs aground and breaks up off Mozambique; 259 killed. April 10, 1963 - The American nuclear submarine Thresher sinks in the North Atlantic; 129 killed. Feb. 10, 1964 - The Australian destroyer Voyager sinks after colliding with the aircraft carrier Melbourne off New South Wales; 82 killed. April 10, 1964 - An Iranian motor launch burns and sinks in the Persian Gulf; 113 dead.
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Washington, D.C., is an excellent place to hold a banquet or special event, as it is close to major train and air transportation,
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has many points of interest to entertain guests from out of town and has many hotels from which guests can choose for lodging. Some hotels in the city also have banquet space and specialize in making special events come off without a hitch, from decorations and audio/visual enhancements to food and drink.
Having a banquet-hall event can give guests the excitement of being close to the action. The Phoenix Park Hotel (phoenixparkhotel.com) is next to Union Station and just steps from the Capitol Building. This property has 5,000 square feet of banquet space and is able to accommodate up to 200 people. Dining options at events include traditional Irish breakfasts, afternoon tea and a variety of dinner options. The hotel features same-day laundry, a 24-hour business office and valet parking. The Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill (washingtonregency.hyatt.com) is three blocks from the Capitol and has dozens of banquet rooms, the largest of which can hold
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Ushering in a summer's worth of Boise River recreation, the floating season officially opens Thursday, June 28, according to Ada County officials.
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High water flows that neared 10,000 cubic feet per second in May and flooded portions of the Greenbelt have finally reduced to levels acceptable for water-bound leisure.
It's welcome news for those looking to get a jump on the float season and the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, which was decidedly float-free in 2011, when the river didn't open for floating until July 16.
On Thursday, Epley's Raft and Tube Rentals at Barber Park in Boise will begin renting rubber on which to float, shuttle service will start and other services will ramp up.
And while the river is open for business, officials caution river-goers to stay mindful of their surroundings, remain cautious, wear life jackets and remember that alcohol and glass containers are prohibited.
Earlier this month, Boise Weekly saw how the Boise Fire Dive Team prepares for the months-long floating season.
Check for info on parking, Barber park hours, shuttle costs and times here. Epley
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Motorola is taking a run at becoming a top smartphone maker again, this time with Google backing it. In the next few weeks, the Moto
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X will be out on all major carriers, and the new Verizon Droid devices have just launched. To go along with these phones, Motorola has released the new Touchless Control and Skip apps. Both are free, and both will bring unique features to Moto's new phones.
The Skip app is only for the Moto X and requires additional hardware, so let's go over that one first. The Skip is a small Near Field Communication (NFC) dongle that you can buy for $20 (although, it comes free with the customized Moto X). The dongle clips onto your pocket in such a way that the Moto X is dragged across the NFC tag when you remove it from your pocket. This will instantly unlock the phone, even if you have a PIN lock on it.
The Skip app is necessary to set up your dongle and give it access to the device. The Skip app can also be configured to work with the upcoming Skip Dot, which is a smaller NFC
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Arguably, 2017's hottest opening wasn't a cool restaurant or flashy hotel. Instead, when the Austin Central Library opened its (very beautiful
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) doors last fall, it was the most buzzed about event of the season.
Weeks after its debut, sitting over dinner or making pre-meeting small talk, the conversation would envitably turn to Austin's newest hot spot. "Have you been to the new library?" an aquaintance would ask before breathlessly adding, "you really must go."
“The Central Library is the crown jewel of not just the Austin Public Library system but the city as a whole,” said Austin Public Library director Roosevelt Weeks in a release.
Now it seems the world is noticing Austin's favorite attraction. On June 28, the Austin Central Library was nominated for 2018 Public Library of the Year Award, an international award that honors the best libraries on earth.
Each year, the International Federation of Library Associations gives the award to a newly built library. Libraries are assesed on how the space implements new digital development, local culture, sustainability, and the wishes and needs of
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Troll dolls last peaked about twenty years ago, but now that the ’90s revival is in full swing, DreamWorks is making a
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valiant effort to bring back those tiny bright-haired creatures. Coming up from the studio this fall is Trolls, an animated adventure featuring the mellifluous voices of Justin Timberlake (who released his first new single since 2013 for it), Anna Kendrick, Zooey Deschanel, Russell Brand, James Corden, and Gwen Stefani.
Timberlake leads the cast as a grumpy troll who must join forces with an extremely chipper troll (Kendrick) to fight a greater evil. Can these total opposites learn to respect each other and work together? Will they be able to vanquish the villain with the power of love and/or joy? Will the cranky one eventually open up to reveal the song in his heart? Tough questions, if you’ve never seen a movie before.
It’s been a good 20 years since trolls were in, but with everything else from the ’90s making it back to the big screen
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Prominent Argentinean litigator Luis Moreno Ocampo was sworn in today as the chief prosecutor of the world’s first permanent war crimes
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court.
Mr. Moreno Ocampo was sworn in as the first chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC), based The Hague, with the President of the Assembly of States Parties charged with shaping the Court, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan, administering the oath of office. The States Parties unanimously elected Mr. Moreno Ocampo in April.
The ICC was inaugurated on 11 March with the election of its 18 judges. Once the Court’s registrar has been elected, as is expected to take place later this month, all its senior officials will be in place.
The tribunal will have jurisdiction over the most serious breaches of international law – trying individuals rather than states, and holding them accountable for war crimes, including, genocide, mass murder, torture, and, once defined, the crime of aggression.
The Rome Statute – the ICC’s establishing treaty – entered into force 1 July 2002, and
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