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Uber said a technical issue that kept it from paying its drivers instantly has been fixed, although some drivers are saying its after-effects linger.
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Last week and through the weekend, Uber drivers complained of being unable to take advantage of Uber’s Instant Pay feature, which allows for drivers to cash out their earnings immediately.
“The issue was resolved on Sunday, at which point drivers were able to use the feature once again,” an Uber spokesman said Monday. “We sincerely regret any inconvenience this may have caused our valued driver-partners and will continue working to improve their experience with Uber every day.” He said the issue affected U.S. drivers.
Drivers who contacted this publication and who complained on social media said the issue is a big deal to them.
Some Uber drivers responded to Uber Sensei — whose website says he is Aarron Canino, an Uber driver since 2015 — and said that because they couldn’t access their earnings immediately, they were stranded at various places and unable to pay for gas to return home. Others said they missed paying rent or bills.
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Saudi Arabia yesterday revealed its 2019 annual budget, the kingdom’s largest, as the world’s biggest oil exporter boosts spending to
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spur economic growth.
The kingdom, the biggest Arab economy, estimated spending in 2019 would reach 1.106 trillion riyals (Dh1.083tn), up 7 per cent from the finance ministry’s figure of 1.030tn riyals for 2018.
“Saudi government’s spending is the main driver of growth. The idea is to stimulate the growth of the private sector,” said Mazen Alsudairi, head of research at Al Rajhi Capital in Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia expects to continue the spending spree in 2020 and beyond with government expenditures reaching 1.143tn riyals in 2020 and 1.17tn riyals in 2021.
The fiscal deficit is forecast to narrow to 4.1 per cent of GDP in 2019 from an estimated 5 per cent in 2018, at 131 billion riyals. The government plans to lower the fiscal deficit to reach 3.7 per cent of GDP in 2021 and balance the
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QUESTION: I have an enigma that even the auto dealer can't fix. My 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee goes out with no problem at all
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. Then if I stop somewhere for 15-20 minutes, it won't start. Sometimes it will start if I really give it a lot of gas, but it won't run well, like a misfire.
I had a diagnostic check but the mechanics at different Chrysler dealerships haven't found the problem. The body and interior are in great shape; I would like to fix it. I am afraid to go too far from home. Whatever you could suggest would be greatly appreciated.
Q: I hope you might have some suggestions for the following mystery. My 2004 Dodge Dakota, a 3.7-liter automatic with 80,000 miles, won't idle smoothly in park or in drive with foot on the brake.
This occurs in dry weather (low humidity) only. Thank you for your informative assistance.
ANSWER: Both of these intermittent problems are certainly frustrating but solvable. It's imperative that both owners pin down the precise conditions when the vehicles act up, and practice
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Oman of not doing enough to tackle widespread abuse of foreign maids, which it says sometimes verges
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on slavery.
The group said it had documented physical and sexual abuse, confiscation of passports, excessive working hours and at least one case in which a maid was "sold" to another employer.
Omani authorities did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the HRW report, released on Wednesday.
Based on interviews with 59 of at least 130,000 domestic maids working in the Gulf Arab sultanate, HRW said it had concluded that Oman's laws did not adequately protect them and employers often mistreated them without being punished.
"It is clear that abuses are widespread and that they are generally carried out with impunity," the New York-based group said.
"Situations like those described below are at the very least dangerously close to situations of slavery."
A Bangladeshi maid said she left home to work for an employer in the United Arab Emirates before a new employer paid cash for her to be transferred to Oman.
"I was sold
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Video surveillance provider Gadspot launches its “fish eye” panoramic wide-angle Internet protocal (IP) security cameras. The
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line of network cameras can provide from a 180 degree to a 360 degree view of a room in a single device, preventing organizations from having to purchase and wire multiple cameras.
The new lineup includes three cameras, the Panorama Camera, the Panorama Dome Camera and the Panorama Outdoor Dome Camera. The cameras includes panoramic 180 degree and 360 degree full view in addition to a 2 Megapixel CMOS sensor and resolution at 1600 x 1200 pixels or high definition resolution at 720p at 30 frames per second (FPS).
Real-time H.264 and motion JPEG dual codec come standard, Gadspot says. Built-in distortion correction and mechanical infrared cut-filter removable (ICR) ensure accurate imaging. Two-way audio connectors and digital input/output (I/O) for alarm triggering are also included, but a built-in speaker and microphone is available for the model GS-NB670E only, the company says.
Power over Ethernet (PoE) and
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The people behind the Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall claim that it is "the first to have its primary structure entirely made of robotically
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prefabricated beech plywood plates." It's probably not, but this is a whole new level of sophistication in digital fabrication, of buildings as computer printout.
Designed and built at the Institute for Computational Design, part of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at the University of Stuttgart, the building is constructed from 2" thick beech plywood, with 243 panels machined on a 7-axis tool that created 7,600 finger joints.
It's really quite amazing, what is happening here; the plywood is both the shell and the structure as the very complex vault is designed on the computer with each of the pieces, sort of shaped like a sand dollar, cut out on a CNC machine and then finished by the robot arm. Natural materials and biomimic design principles (modelled on the skeletons of sea urchins) produce a complex design, with every part different, machined in a way that would be impossible by hand.
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We may never know who the woman is staring out of this cabinet card taken by Salem photographer W.P. Johnson sometime between 1877 and 1888
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The Willamette Heritage Center houses over 200,000 photographic images documenting the history of Salem and Marion County. There is nothing more disappointing than coming across an unidentified photo.
We may never know who the dour-looking woman is staring out of this cabinet card taken by Salem photographer W.P. Johnson sometime between 1877 and 1888 — the years he operated his photo gallery in Salem. However, a little research into some interesting markings on the photo itself did offer insight into the life of another enterprising woman of the time.
The backside of this photograph features the photographer’s name amidst palm fronds, pyramids and sphinxes, all printed in shimmering silver. At the very bottom of the logo are the unadorned words: “Mrs. A.L. Stinson and Son, Printers.” This little phrase gave made me pause.
Professional women in Salem during the latter half of the 19th century were, to use
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The Weather Channel App for Windows offers an innovative, simplified interface to tell the weather story and its impact on your daily life. The completely new look
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offers enhanced features while still delivering the most reliable, timely weather forecasts and information.
The Weather Channel App for Windows puts you just one click away from customized, timely weather information and critical severe weather alerts. Features include: Beautiful weather-triggered imagery for a deeper weather connection. Local temperature and severe weather notification in your system tray. An immersive weather forecast screen displays current conditions and hourly forecasts. Completely redesigned look with a more elegant and simplified user interface. Larger, easier-to-read interactive radar maps with additional layers so you can display more information related to radar, clouds, UV index, rainfall and more. Offers lifestyle integration to see how weather affects everyday activities, including pollen, beauty, and cold and flu forecasts. Compatible with a mouse or touch interface, it's device-friendly for desktops and laptops. Enhanced video experience including updated news, weather forecasts and featured content from TWC on television.
A miracle! Somehow the makers of this crapware stay in
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Yes, Virginia. Stocks go down as well as up -- and that's not always a bad thing.
The past three months' returns
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on the Dow -- scary! ^DJI data by YCharts.
Stop. To borrow a line from the 1989 rom-com Say Anything: "You must chill. You must chill."
Yes, I realize that the market's imploding. I get it. Over the past six weeks, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) has lost more than 10% of its value. After the quick thrill of a 4% one-day rise last week, the Dow plunged a heart-stopping 3% on Tuesday -- and we're down again today.
With the market up one day and down the next, the net effect is a lot of pain for a lot of investors -- and I feel that pain personally. Today, my shares of Baidu are worth 30% less than what they sold for just three months ago. Collectively, we investors have seen nearly a year's worth of stock market gains wiped out in a matter of weeks
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Highland’s Emergency Observation Unit has been active since 2010 with Robert S. Bennett, M.D., as founder and medical director
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. The Unit consistently meets its mission of caring for patients who need a short stay for a focused medical or surgical condition and meets or exceeds its target of discharging over 85 percent of its patients within 24 hours. Dr. Bennett cares for patients on the unit, along with Ray Chan, M.D., who has recently joined the coverage team. Both physicians have served Highland for more than 25 years. The following is an interview with Dr. Bennett about why the unit was established and how it contributes to Highland’s reputation for excellence in care.
Why was the Emergency Observation Unit created?
We opened the unit about eight years ago with nine beds to manage observation status patients that were scattered throughout the hospital and generally not differentiated from more acutely ill and complicated patients. As a result, their stays tended to be longer than necessary. By carving out a portion of these patients and placing them in a dedicated unit adjacent to the ED with dedicated staff (physicians, APPs and nurses), these
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"We're very excited that Manny has agreed to get behind our new snack product," Marc Heyman, co-founder, Home Team Snacks
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, says. "This one-of-a-kind popcorn is sure to become a fan favorite."
WESTMINSTER, Md., March 31, 2014 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Just in time for a new baseball season, Home Team Snacks announces a new addition to its snack roster lineup – Maryland Crab Seasoned Popcorn. Endorsed by professional baseball player, Manny Machado, this popcorn blend is sure to score on the big boards.
Of course, it’s not just for baseball fans. It’s a snack for anyone, anytime. Whether watching a movie or tailgating at a favorite sports event, Maryland Crab Seasoned Popcorn is made to hit the spot.
Maryland Crab Seasoned Popcorn joins three other Home Team Snacks’ favorites: Crab Curls with Cheese, Crab Seeds and Pure Purple Power energy drink. It’s sure to be a winner.
Available for wholesale and retail,
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Most of us these days are spending more time in the office than at home, and one of the biggest mistakes that you can make at work is
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not being aware of the various etiquette rules to live by. After all, missteps can impact promotions, raises, and especially your social cache in the office. Here, the 15 rules that you should keep in mind at all time while at work.
1. Don’t be too loud. Be mindful of your volume, whether you are talking to a colleague or on the phone. You don’t want to invade anyone’s personal space.
2. Don’t Interrupt your colleagues. When you are in meetings or even simply talking to a colleague in the hall, be mindful of who is talking. You don’t want to be disrespectful.
3. Be mindful of office chatter. It is great to work in an office where you also can make friends, but keep chatter to a minimum. You’ll know if you have gone on too long when a colleague has to walk with you to continue the conversation.
4. Don�
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Each week, The Daily Beast sifts through the cultural landscape to choose three top picks. This week, Katy Perry is one artist’s
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new muse, Big Love returns for a blockbuster year, and a script for The Kennedys shines light on the miniseries’ cancellation.
A dreamy new exhibit in Los Angeles is the latest marker in the short but memorable relationship between artist Will Cotton and “Firework” singer Katy Perry. Cotton paints women with candy accoutrements, including cupcake tiaras and cellophane dresses—and his recent muse makes an appearance in his new show. Cotton was also artistic director of Perry’s Candyland-themed “California Gurls” video and painted her most recent album cover, a whipped confection of cotton candy surrounding Russell Brand’s beatific bride. The latest exhibit opens at the Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles on January 14, but fans with a sweet tooth can get a glimpse at his newest portraits here.
Until this week, no one except tabloids—who salivated over images of Katie Holmes as Jackie
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"Aging in place" is a hot topic these days -- particularly among baby boomers who want to maintain their independence.
While flocking
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to smaller homes in warmer climates is still attractive for some seniors easing into their later years, more and more people are choosing to stay where they are. In fact, 85 percent of homeowners 55 and older aren't planning to sell their homes in the next year, according to a 2017 survey from Realtor.com.
"Aging in place really is a concept based on where you're living and your preference to staying, whatever you home of choice is," said Laurie Orlov, tech industry veteran, eldercare advocate and founder of Aging in Place Technology Watch.
Not every home is set up to ease the transition into adults' older years, when mobility can become a major issue. Declining hearing, sight and mental awareness can also affect how easy or safe it is to continue living independently in a person's home of choice.
But smart home technology brings a whole host of solutions to the table.
"Electronically controllable thermostats, lighting, motion sensors
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Supporters of United Conservative Party leadership candidate Doug Schweitzer shouldn't get their hopes up that threatening to kick British Columbia out of the New West Partnership will
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get that province's NDP-Green governing partnership to change its mind about opposing the Kinder Morgan Pipeline expansion project.
On the contrary, B.C.'s new NDP premier, John Horgan, would likely to be delighted to see the province thrown out of the interprovincial trade agreement that got its start back in the naughts when Ralph Klein was the neoliberal Conservative premier of Alberta and Gordon Campbell was the neoconservative Liberal premier of B.C.
That way, someone else could take the rap for something he'd presumably quite like to do anyway.
We all understand Schweitzer's idea is mainly posturing by a long-shot UCP leadership hopeful with a nice smile, no experience holding public office, and only a minuscule chance of winning.
Still, from the UCP perspective it's an opportunity for the Calgary lawyer to be heard pointing out that the pro-pipeline Alberta NDP Government of Premier Rachel Notley isn't getting much joy from B.C
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REAL MADRID TEAM NEWS - which 11 players will Zinedine Zidane select for Los Blancos’ clash against Hues
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ca?
Real Madrid welcome rock-bottom Huesca on Sunday evening, looking make it two wins from two under Zidane.
The Frenchman returned to the Real Madrid helm one week before the international break and began with a comfortable 2-0 win over Celta Vigo.
Zidane made some big calls for that win, notably starting maligned players Isco and Gareth Bale, who both scored.
Other standout selections included the return of Marcelo and Keylor Navas in goal for Thibaut Courtois.
The Belgian goalkeeper has not enjoyed a successful first season since making his dream move to the European Champions.
Despite being Real’s No 1 in place of the proven but under-appreciated Navas, Courtois has not reflected the £35m paid for him last August.
Zidane noticed that and dropped him for his first game in charge, but tried to play down the significance of the call.
"It
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Those who hoped that the Israeli atrocities in Gaza would rekindled a sense of remorse among the egotistical elites in Ramallah, were surely
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disappointed when the PA withdrew its draft resolution supporting recommendations made by South African Judge Richard Goldstone. The Goldstone report is the most comprehensive, and transparent investigation as of yet into what happened in Gaza during the 23-day war. It decried Israeli terror, and chastised Palestinians as well. But the focus on Israel undoubtedly and deservingly occupied much of the nearly 600-page report. The next step was for the Human Rights Council to send the report for consideration to the United Nations Security Council, which was to study the findings for a possible referral of the case to the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Such a move would have been historic. Knowing the full implications of such a possibility, Hamas accepted the report’s recommendations in full. Israel, backed by its traditional US ally, rejected it, leveling all sorts of accusations and insults on the world-renowned Jewish judge.
Palestinians who are now calling for change following the UN episode, must consider the Oslo culture in
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Kanye West debuted his Yeezy Season 2 collection at a New York Fashion Week today (September 16), to a star-studded
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crowd that included the Kardashian-Jenner sisters (save for Kylie Jenner, who walked in the show), Lorde, Anna Wintour, Seth Myers for some reason, Miguel, Tyga, Fabolous, Chromeo's Dave 1 and his brother A-Trak, and Michael Strahan.
Though the event was a fairly last-minute addition to NYFW, it was a highly-anticipated show — not least because of the fact that as a fashion world figure, Kanye holds much more mass appeal than other presenting designers who aren't also Grammy-winning rappers who may be running for president. Fashion can be abstruse and alienating, filled with impossibly lithe body types and obscure cultural references not immediately apparent to everyone. But in the case of Yeezy Season 2, lots of people seem to think they caught the references just fine.
Like that one candid witness who noticed the naked emperor wasn't wearing new clothes at all, the critics of social media
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The Buffalo Mountain Fire, which began in June, forced the evacuation of more than 1,300 homes and pre-evacuation for many others
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. The fire came within two blocks of our family’s cabin in Silverthorne, Colorado, jeopardizing a gathering place that had been in our family for 36 years.
Should climate change continue to worsen, my story won’t be unique. Climate change has made extreme weather events like wildfires more frequent and more intense, threatening Coloradans’ homes and livelihoods in the process. We only need to look to the wildfires currently ravaging California to see the consequences.
Higher temperatures, drier conditions, and increased fuel availability (in the form of dead forest) — all made worse by climate change — are increasing wildfire risk across the United States and here in Colorado. Already, we’re seeing that wildfire seasons are lasting 75 days longer than they did in the 1970s. If this trend continues, communities across the state will pay a steep price.
Extreme weather doesn’t just threaten lives — it hurts local economies. As the third hottest year on
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Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp. (Nasdaq: TKMR) stock surged some 20% to $17.23 Friday after
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an update on its Ebola treatment.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration modified its clinical hold status on its experimental Ebola treatment to partial hold, enabling it for potential use in humans infected with the virus.
TKMR stock was halted late Thursday ahead of the news. The stock was up 6.65% on volume of 2.1 million shares in Thursday's regular session, and soared another 6.87% to $15.25 after hours.
"We are pleased that the FDA has considered the risk-reward of TKM-Ebola for infected patients," Dr. Mark Murray, Tekmira's chief executive officer and president said in a statement. "We have been closely watching the Ebola virus outbreak and its consequences, and we are willing to assist with any responsible use of TKM-Ebola. The foresight shown by the FDA removes one potential roadblock to doing so. This current outbreak underscores the critical need for effective therapeutic agents
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Mr Trump announced in a tweet that Mr Sessions would be temporarily replaced by his chief of staff.
The president has repeatedly criticised Mr Sessions, a
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former Republican senator who was among the first to support Mr Trump's presidential candidacy.
"We thank Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his service, and wish him well!" Mr Trump wrote on Wednesday.
In a letter, Mr Sessions said he was resigning at the president's request.
Mr Trump lost trust in his top law enforcement officer after Mr Sessions announced that he would step aside from the Russia investigation last year, and allow his deputy Rod Rosenstein to lead the politically-charged probe.
"Dear Mr President, at your request I am submitting my resignation," Mr Sessions said in his letter.
"Most importantly as my time as attorney general, we have restored and upheld the rule of law," he wrote, while also thanking the Republican president.
Mr Trump has repeatedly pilloried his top law enforcement official since Mr Sessions stepped aside from the Russia investigation in March 2017, allowing his deputy Rod Rosenstein to lead an inquiry that has dogged the White House.
Mr Trump has at various times bel
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IT HAS BEEN the hallmark of socialism in Venezuela: free, high-quality medical care. Late President Hugo Chávez changed the constitution to
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guarantee such right to all Venezuelans. But that same health care system is now crumbling under the weight of an economic crisis, causing a severe shortage of normal medical care and many avoidable deaths. Venezuela has grown increasingly alienated from the United States and its Central American neighbors, but its political estrangement doesn’t justify the lack of urgency from the international community. Although many places call out for medical intervention, Venezuela’s growing medical collapse deserves a significant dose of humanitarian aid from near and far.
A jarring report in The Wall Street Journal last month described the plight of sick Venezuelans. Many are dying because underfunded hospitals lack medical supplies, including basic medicines and medical products such as heart valves. Since 2003, it’s estimated that some 13,000 doctors have left the country. The Associated Press also reported on the ordeal of women with breast tumors. Doctors in Venezuela must sometimes resort to 1940s-type treatments: They are performing radical mastectomies in cases where
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As the massive crackdown on Armenian Power and its alleged associates this week showed, gangs have changed with the times.
The impact of gangs on local
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communities cannot simply be measured in street muggings, burglaries, tagging and the like — not when they have access to technology that can drain the economy and personal finances.
As economic pains push Burbank and Glendale to consider cuts to many social services, including support for after-school programs that serve as important outlets for the youth, we as a community should consider if we’re really saving anything at all.
Either we pay for programs that push teens to be the best they can be, or, as this week showed, we pay an even steeper tab further down the road after some youth fall prey to the overtures of enterprising gang members seeking to maintain or increase their ranks.
The massive drain on law enforcement resources alone can be staggering, let alone the impact to families, victims and neighborhoods. The saying “Get ‘em while they’re young” has very real applications, and consequences, here.
To leave all the heavy lifting
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Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Two second-half goals from Jose Gimenez and Diego Godin guided Atletico Madrid to a 2-
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0 victory over Ronaldo and Juventus on Wednesday in the Champions League round of 16.
Elsewhere in Europe, Manchester City conceded two first-half penalties but used late scores from Leroy Sane and Raheem Sterling to earn a 3-2 win over Schalke 04 in the round of 16.
The game between Atletico and Juventus appeared headed for a draw, but Gimenez scrambled for a goal after a corner kick in the 78th minute. The ball bounced around in the box before Gimenez found the ball and quickly sniped it into the net.
Shortly later, Godin clinched the game with a goal in the 83rd minute. Godin fired a shot from a tight angle and the ball deflected off Ronaldo for the score.
Juventus had 14 shots compared to Atletico Madrid's 13, and also had 63 percent of the possession. Atletico had five shots on goal to Juventus' three.
Manchester City struck first with Sergio Aguero's goal in
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Calderone had been a photography student and worked with fresh flowers during her graduate school years. Her floral design portfolio secured her a job with P
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erennial Designs where she worked for seventeen years, until the store closed the doors of its downtown Needham location last spring.
At that time, Calderone was forced to ask herself what she would do next. “I loved the flowers and the clients. I realized that I didn’t want to do anything else.” So, last fall, she negotiated for a piece of the business and began to run the silk flower arrangements component out of her home studio.
The garden level of her Newton residence is now lined with workbenches, containers of materials, and tools. Just like florists who work with fresh flowers, Calderone makes routine trips to the Boston Flower Market for a selection of in-season blooms. She works with all different textures and styles, and can create silk flower masterpieces for small spaces or grand foyers.
“Faux flowers used to be a faux pas,” she chuckles, “but the quality
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A fake army officer who bears the name Bartholomew Paul, and specialises in smuggling cars into the country, has been arrested by the K
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ogi State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
It was alleged that the accused was posing as an army officer in the state.
The suspect was paraded yesterday along with seven others for their alleged involvement in pipeline vandalism, vandalism of telecommunication cables, illegal dealings on transformer cables and illegal possession and dealings in firearms and ammunition.
Parading the suspects at the command headquarters in Lokoja, the state Commandant of NSCDC, Mr. Everestus Obiyo, said the alleged impersonator was arrested at the Nigeria Army check-point at Ayere in the Western part of the state.
Paul, according to the commandant, has been smuggling cars from Seme Border using the military uniform.
In his statement, Paul told journalists how he was caught by security agencies in Kogi State.
According to him, “I am a driver who usually buys cars for people. At the military checking point, the soldiers
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Notwithstanding all the attention attracted by Anna Hazare and his team’s call against corruption, several hard-hitting legal, political and social
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realities cannot be ignored. Undeniably, Hazare team has succeeded in gathering thousands of people at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan. It is also true that peaceful demonstrations have taken place in several parts of the country in support of Hazare team’s call against corruption. The seating capacity at Ramlila Maidan is approximately 50,000. The number of people displaying their support for Hazare has not crossed one lakh in any part of the country, except once or twice in Delhi and Mumbai. Statistically, the support from across the country for Hazare-team can at most be presumed to be that of few lakh people. With India home to 1.21 billion people, this number does not represent a significant proportion of the country’s population. And this raises the crucial question: -- who do Hazare and his team actually represent?
There is no denying that Hazare team has succeeded in securing substantial media attention. But so what as even numerical statistics
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Startled pigeons might not appear to epitomise the wonder of evolution, but a study has discovered that the birds can communicate with their wings
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When a crested pigeon is startled into flight its wings produce a whistling sound which serves as an alarm call.
The pigeons have "modified wings" that produce the whistle as they fly, but only this sudden take-off creates the alarm that causes other birds to flee.
The team report their findings in the Royal Society journal Proceedings B.
Robert Magrath at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra led the study.
He and his colleague Mae Hingee took sound recordings from the birds.
"We audio recorded the sound of birds flying off from a feeder in routine flight and compared those sounds to those produced when we scared pigeons into take-off with a gliding model hawk," explained Dr Magrath.
The birds that took off in alarm produced louder whistles with a more rapid tempo of "notes", he told BBC News.
The researchers played back both alarmed and routine whistles to flocks of feeding pigeons
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The keynote speaker at the annual Rocky Mount Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Breakfast used the podium to take a different approach to honoring the slain civil rights
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leader.
Instead of focusing on more notable aspects of King's legacy, such as federal civil and voting rights laws, N.C. Justice Center Executive Director Rick Glazier spoke about how King might view four issues of the day: Immigration, the environment, health care and education.
Glazier also spoke about King having emphasized the importance of service while speaking at the event, which was held Monday morning at N.C. Wesleyan College.
On the issue of immigration, Glazier said, "We seem to be in our nation no longer a nation known as a welcoming place, a nation of bridges to and from other lands. Now, in the current environment, we seek to replace bridges and open arms with walls and closed fists."
Glazier cited remarks by civil rights leader U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. Lewis’ remarks were in the midst of the 50th anniversary of when King was cut down by a sniper in Memphis
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As the summer is winding down (I know, I can’t believe it’s already August), many of you are probably getting
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ready for your last weekend away, or maybe returning home after a long vacation. Either way, you’re likely to spot a lot of travelers at the airport. Some will be friendly and fun to sit next to, and others, well … not so much. As you jet-set one last time before coming back to Georgetown, look out for these eight types of people you’ll see on planes.
He’s not sitting in first class (shocker) because he’s probably a junior exec. who hasn’t quite reached that six figure salary. He’ll be hammering away on his laptop the whole flight, and the flight attendant will have to physically pry it out of his hands as you’re landing: “Sir, you must turn off all electronic devices NOW”. He won’t talk very much, except for the occasional muttering under his breath. If you plan on getting any sleep but you
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R&B singer Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds.
With less than 10 weeks left before the hugely anticipated Groovin In The Park
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concert at Roy Wilkins Park in Queens on June 24, organisers report that ticket sales are 'brisk' at all the outlets in the Tri-State area and online at EventBrite.com.
"We got off to an early start this year, and I am happy to report that we are ahead of schedule in ticket sales and areas that are critical to having a successful festival," said Christopher Robert, founder and CEO of Groovin Inc.
Over the past seven years, the annual festival has presented a dazzling array of R&B and pop talent, including international legends Michael Bolton, Air Supply, Gladys Knight, Patti LaBelle, Babyface, Peabo Bryson, Regina Belle, Billy Ocean, Brian McKnight and R Kelly. From the reggae fraternity, they have had Beres Hammond; Freddie McGregor; U Roy; Jimmy Cliff; Steel Pulse; Bob Andy; Morgan Heritage; Chronixx; Mavado; Toots; Marcia Griffith
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MESA, Ariz. — Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo did some quick math when he saw reports of the six-year, $
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43 million contract outfield prospect Eloy Jimenez agreed to with the White Sox.
majors in the last month — five in the last week.
Third baseman Alex Bregman got a five-year, $100 million extension with the Astros. Third baseman Nolan Arenado got eight years and $260 million from the Rockies. Outfielder Mike Trout’s deal with the Angels was more than those two combined.
Hell, outfielder Mookie Betts reportedly turned down a $200 million extension offer from the Red Sox last year.
It’s almost enough to make Rizzo, a three-time All-Star, wonder what his life — and portfolio — might look like if he had waited before signing what turned into one of the more team-friendly deals in baseball.
‘‘It definitely pops up [in your head], but it’s in and out quick,’’ Rizzo said. ‘‘
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Titre 4 : La société civile, actrice majeure dans la lutte contre la corruption.
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Section 2 : À l'endroit du citoyen : le rôle de sensibilisation.
"Le 8 juin 2018, le Ghanéen Daniel Batidam dépose sa lettre de démission du Conseil consultatif de l'Union africaine sur la corruption, en dénonçant notamment le manque d'intégrité au sein de plusieurs départements de l'institution continentale. Ironie du sort, la démission est révélée au moment où l'Union africaine est réunie en sommet à Nouakchott pour travailler justement sur le thème : "Vaincre la corruption, une voie durable pour la transformation de l'Afrique" Cette démission pointe du doigt un phénomène qui semble ne pas reculer même
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NOTE: This recruitment is open until the position is filled, with a preferred filing date of December 1, 2018. Applications submitted by this date will
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receive first consideration. This position may be filled on a part-time or full-time basis.
Arlington County is seeking a Senior Analyst to serve as a strategic business partner to County hiring managers in assigned County departments and subject matter experts offering Human Resources expertise and guidance in the areas of selection as well as recruitment, sourcing, and outreach. This Senior Analyst will collaborate with hiring managers, and Human Resources Department team members to develop assessment centers and work simulations for promotional processes, to identify staffing needs, and to develop recruitment, sourcing and outreach strategies, especially for executive-level recruitments, designed to promote efficient and quality talent acquisition.
Our HR team recognizes the value of quality hiring decisions, embraces opportunities to innovate our hiring, sourcing, and selection processes, and strives for creativity especially when the result is greater efficiencies, enhanced effectiveness or improved outcomes.
Guides and defends efforts associated with the validity of selection processes.
Responds to inquiries from applicants and maintains relationships with hiring managers, subject
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PwC Augment is a business which supports clients on a range of implementation and support projects across financial services and, after a period of exponential
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expansion, is moving into a new phase of growth. Automation and technology is at the forefront of development for a lot of our clients, and to continue to provide world-class services we are positioning ourselves to support the market with these projects. To this end, PwC Augment is developing a new Digital Delivery hub, which will work with our clients right across the UK, both in financial services and in the wider public and private sectors, to aid in the delivery of software development projects, testing services, embedded agility environments and service delivery. This is a unique opportunity to join a vital and significant business function with excellent opportunities for personal and professional development.
Technical Project Manager candidates will have been involved in multiple projects that involve major application development/integration, infrastructure or service improvement delivery. You will be able to speak confidently about the detail of full life cycle projects that they have had a lead role in delivering. This will include ability to discuss project objectives, technologies, design, delivery and the
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CHRIS RAMSEY is the man QPR to keep them in the Premier League.
The caretaker-manager took charge after Harry Red
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knapp quit last week - and the club are poised to announce that he will remain in control until the end of the season.
Ramsey led the club to their first away points of the season following Tuesday's 2-0 win at Sunderland.
That clearly strengthened his case - and Rangers midfielder Joey Barton took to Twitter to endorse the decision.
Barton wrote: "Good news also on Chris Ramsey. Very good since he has come in. Got group back on track. Lots for us all to do now to keep club in the league."
The 52-year-old former Brighton defender joined the Rangers coaching staff in November after spending a decade working as part of the coaching set-up at Tottenham.
And he made it clear this week he wanted the job when he said: "If the job's available and I'm the right man for the job, then I'll do it."
But Ramsey's appointment comes as a surprise after club chairman had been expected Tony Fernandes
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"We will not allow an international force to act against us."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to oust international observers from Hebron on Tuesday,
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thereby breaking a 22-year agreement that has helped hold in place the 1997 division of the city between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
The observer force, known as the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH), operates under a mandate that is renewed twice a year by both sides.
The mandate was due for renewal at the end of this month, but Netanyahu has been under pressure from right-wing politicians and Hebron’s Jewish community not to renew it.
Netanyahu said in November that he would review the situation, and decided on Monday that Israel will no longer support the presence of the 64 international civilian observers from Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.
“We will not allow an international force to act against us,” Netanyahu said in a statement to the press.
The Hebron community immediately thanked Netanyahu and the ministers who persistently spoke out on the matter, including Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, and Strategic Affairs and
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Maybe it wasn't the sweetheart throw-in deals that got the House of Reps to bail out Wall Street. Here, Cali congressman Brad
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Sherman said the threat of martial law was held over their heads like an executioner's sword.
I agree with at least one point Governor Palin made in the vice-presidential debate, when she pleaded for individual responsibility, common sense and thrift in the face of our bloated usury economy. Too bad this tidbit was obfuscated by her galling "man on the street" mediocrity. "Doggone it." "Joe Six-Pack." A "shout out." The illiterate "preferenced." A wink. No she did-int! But, she did. Of course, to too many, ignorance and vulgarity are liberating and affirming. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article4880909.ece">That's pretty disturbing to Andrew Sullivan. He may be gay. He may be a Brit. But he loves America, in his own
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Will Google's OS Make the Desktop Safe?
Israeli company Red Bend filed a lawsuit this week against Google, charging the search giant with infringing one
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of its patents.
The suit alleges that Google uses Red Bend's patented technology in Courgette, a method Google uses to compress updates and send them to its Chrome browser.
Courgette is a compression algorithm that Google developed to shrink the size of updates in order reduce bandwidth requirements for Google and its users, and also to reduce the potential for vulnerabilities, it says on a page describing the technology.
Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the suit also charges Google with publishing and distributing the source code for Red Bend's technology. That charge may stem from the fact that Chrome and the Courgette update system are open source.
Red Bend claims that Google has known about the patent, which Red Bend filed for in 1998 and was granted in 2003, since Sept. 7 this year. As a result, Red Bend is asking for triple damages and attorney's fees.
Google said it had not yet been served with the suit and therefore would
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Pakistan will get another chance to win a berth in next year’s Hockey World Cup in Odisha when they take part in the Asia Cup
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to be hosted in Dhaka from October 11-22. The winners of the Asia Cup will win a direct ticket to the World Cup. Pakistan have been clubbed in group A with India, Bangladesh and Japan in the eight-nation championship.
Bangladesh were awarded the Asia Cup by the Asian Hockey Federation on Monday. India will be the top ranked team in the 10th edition of the continental championship that will see South Korea defending their crown they won at home in 2013. The Koreans have been clubbed with Malaysia, China and Oman in pool B.
Introduced in 1982, the inaugural men’s Asia Cup was won by Pakistan. The green shirts, who are currently trying to find their old form in world hockey, also won the 1985 and 1989 editions.
World No. 6 India, Asia Cup champions in 2003 and 2007 will be top team in Dhaka. Korea, who won the Asia Cup in 1993, 1999, 2009 and 2013, are ranked 13 in the world
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie blasted bureaucrats in Washington for allowing a single mistake on a 1,000-page application to possibly cost the state Race
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to the Top education grants worth $400 million.
The Race to the Top grants were awarded to nine states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday. New Jersey was the top runner-up, having missed out on an award by just a few points on the 500-point scale used to judge the applications.
New Jersey lost five points on one section in which officials were asked to show that the state gives a consistent percentage of its revenue to education. The application called for using data from 2008 and 2009 to make the case. New Jersey used figures from the 2010 and 2011 state budgets.
It's not certain that the state would have aced the section if the right numbers had been used -- but it definitely would have done better.
State Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver, a Democrat, called it "a stunning mistake that is going to hurt New Jersey's children."
Christie said the "clerical error" could have easily been fixed if someone in
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Turns out the Internet giant might be able to settle its storied antitrust suit with the European Union without a fine.
Google could be getting
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out of its antitrust case in the European Union without a fine, based on a new report.
Reuters reported on Thursday that the Internet giant has now submitted a formal document of concessions in order to end the legal proceedings once and for all.
The international news service added, based on unnamed sources said to be "familiar with the matter," that Google is also planning to label its own service in search results so they will clearly stand out from competitors' products.
The Mountain View, Calif.-headquartered corporation has an uneasy, storied history with the European Union, but this two-year antitrust suit in particular has experienced a number of bumps along the way.
Just to recap a few of the bumps that have taken place this year, Europe's antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia suggested to the Financial Times back in January that Google would likely have to alter the way it displays search results — or face antitrust penalties.
A few weeks later, Google submitted a new proposal outlining plans about
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On Last Week Tonight, the comedian shed light on one of America's scummiest operations.
To dismantle the money-grubbing schemes
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of Christian evangelists, John Oliver simply rolled their clips. In snippets of televised broadcasts, pastors like Robert Tilton and Creflo Dollar preached to their devout followers about "planting seeds." If they sent tithes to the churches— $100, $500, $1000—the seed money would grow under God's watch. Oliver's audience held a steady groan through the segment. It wasn't just that the ploy was obvious (Dollar is open about jetting from venue to venue in his $65 million dollar private jet), but that good people were susceptible. The evangelists prey on those in need, twist arms using faith-filled words. Oliver wanted to see it for himself, so he enrolled in Tilton's donation plan. What followed was seven months of cash demands, promises for a better life, and zero accountability. We'll let Oliver explain in the video above. And stay through the entire segment; in the end, Oliver and Rachel Dratch decide to start their own
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The Commission agreed to skip historic preservation review for small 5G cell sites across the US
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The Federal Communications Commission on Monday took another step toward the eventual deployment of 5G wireless service.
Sidestepping the usual bureaucratic red tape, the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau agreed to eschew historic preservation review for small 5G cell sites across the US—as long as they don't adversely impact historic locations. The new exclusions, according to the FCC, are meant to help reduce the cost, time, and burden of building a nationwide 5G network.
"The agreement reflects the Commission's vigilant commitment to enabling swift but responsible deployment of wireless infrastructure," Jon Wilkins, head of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, said.
The agency is "open for business on infrastructure siting," he continued, welcoming input on how to further improve the process.
"The interconnected world of the future will be the result of decisions we make today," Chairman Tom Wheeler said in a statement. "That is why 5G is a national priority, and why [Monday's] agreement …
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One ugly duckling of a cartoon. Running time: 75 minutes. Rated G. At the Empire, the Kips Bay, the 64th
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and 2nd, others.
FODDER for only the most undemanding rugrats, “The Trumpet of the Swan” is a brightly colored but terminally dull cartoon adaptation of E.B. White’s classic 1970 book.
Director Richard Rich, an ex-Disney hack who dumbed down “The King and I” into a animated musical a couple of years back, has been somewhat more respectful of White’s story.
But lacking any real heart or engaging action, it emerges as even more charmless filler destined for a quick trip to the video shelf.
It’s a shame, because there’s a great lesson for kids in the story of a mute trumpeter swan’s triumph over adversity.
Louis (voice of Dee Baker), the swan, is frustrated because he can’t speak and communicate with his peers, particularly the beautiful Serena (Reese Witherspoon).
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'What if that happens to me?' After 17 are killed in a high school in Parkland, Florida, North Jersey teens answer the call to
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agitate for action.
"What if that happens to me?" After 17 are killed in a high school in Parkland, Florida, teens agitate for action.
The generation that has come of age in the 19 years since a dozen students and a teacher were gunned down at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999 — the massacre that set the tragic template for the dozens of school shootings that have followed — are taking a stand and saying "never again."
Terrified that their school could be next, and alarmed that active-shooter drills have become a routine part of their academic lives, students in New Jersey are adding their voices to the national movement against gun violence that has been gathering momentum since since 17 students and faculty members were fatally shot at a high school in Parkland, Florida, last week. They are organizing rallies and walkouts and forming clubs and committees in their schools to demand change.
“When I heard there was another school shooting, it made me realize
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During his visit to India last week, World Bank president Robert Zoellick stressed the need to make Bank services “smarter, faster and
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cheaper" to better serve this country. India, its largest borrower, is turning less to it for money and technical advice; reducing its borrowing from 0.55% of its GDP in 2003 to 0.34% in 2006. India is also unlikely to remain eligible for concessional International Development Association lending (for long the mainstay of the Bank support to this country)—and, could soon “graduate" out of the Bank altogether. The Bank is also losing the battle for the Indian heart and mind, with public resistance stalling or slowing a number of its recent projects. A more deathly blow, however, comes from within the Bank itself: a new policy (established by the Paul Wolfowitz regime) says no national can serve in his or her home country. This extends the Bank’s traditional ban on host-country nationals serving as country directors so as to guard against collusion.
Thus, the Bank’s Indian “international civil servants", hired originally through a worldwide
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THERE'S A WEARYING pattern associated with gun-related tragedies in this country. An assault, like the shooting Saturday of Rep.
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Gabrielle Giffords (D) and 19 others, sparks discussion about America's lax gun laws and the ease with which mentally unstable people can buy weapons of wholesale destruction. Then come rejoinders centering on the political impossibility of common-sense legislation. And then, a lapse back into an indefensible but seemingly inevitable status quo.
It's enough to make most people just want to move on to the next topic - but it shouldn't be. Reasonable gun control is not unconstitutional. It would not violate Americans' freedoms or inhibit hunting or self-defense. And - if political leaders starting with the president would rise from their duck-and-cover position - it need not be a political impossibility.
The alleged shooter in the Tucson, Ariz., rampage, Jared Lee Loughner, used a Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol that took the lives of six people and injured 14 others, including Ms. Giffords. Mr. Loughner allegedly fired some 30 bullets in a
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Incoming Florida Senate President Bill Galvano named the Naples Republican the Senate's majority leader for the upcoming legislative session.
Kathleen Pass
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idomo was unimpressed Monday when incoming Florida Senate President Bill Galvano called to tell her she would occupy office number 330 in the upcoming legislative session.
“You can put my office in the men’s room for all I care,” Passidomo said. “He said, ‘You don’t get what I’m saying, do you?’” she recalled.
What he was saying is that he was naming her senate majority leader, one of the top three or four positions in the chamber, and moving her office accordingly.
“It’s a real honor and I was totally in shock when he asked me. I hung up. I was afraid I’d start babbling,” the Naples Republican said.
Galvano says he picked Passidomo for the post because she has a good rapport with both Senate Republicans and Democrats and is a consensus builder.
Passidomo
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Hundreds of Palestinians thronged two major West Bank checkpoints, trying to reach a key Islamic shrine in Jerusalem on the first Friday of the Muslim holy
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month of Ramadan, despite tight Israeli restrictions.
Israeli troops turned back many of the West Bank faithful. Only men above the age of 45 and women above the age of 35, who had also obtained special permits, were allowed to enter Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest shrine of Islam, said police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby.
This year, the start of Ramadan, a month of fasting and religious observance, coincided with the Jewish New Year. Israel imposed a blanket closure on the West Bank during the Jewish holiday, barring virtually all Palestinians from entering Israel.
Hundreds of Israeli police were deployed in streets and alleys in and around Jerusalem's walled Old City where the Al Aqsa Mosque compound is located.
Troops also took up positions at two major West Bank checkpoints, one to the south of Jerusalem and one to the north. The checkpoints are built into Israel's West Bank separation barrier, which rings most of Jerusalem to control Palestinian movement into Israel
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Oversharing isn’t the only mistake people make when their marriages are ending.
If you’re getting a divorce,
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it pays to keep quiet on social media, said New York divorce attorney Jacqueline Newman. Trashing a soon-to-be ex or boasting about your great new life can complicate divorce negotiations.
These documents may help not only with the divorce settlement but with future retirement and tax planning, Stolz said. For example, someone who was married for at least 10 years may be able to claim spousal or survivor benefits from Social Security based on an ex’s earnings record.
Homes can be particularly problematic, especially in high-cost areas. A married couple can exclude up to $500,000 of home sale profit from their taxes, but a single person can avoid tax on only $250,000. Couples need to consider the future, after-tax value of assets during their negotiations, Longo said.
Mediation or collaborative divorce can save people money compared with traditional divorce proceedings, Newman said. Mediation, an alternative dispute resolution process, may not involve
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WASHINGTON — (PAI) In their long run on the nation’s television screens, Martin Sheen, Brad Whitford and Richard Schiff were
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always in the “West Wing,” but never on Capitol Hill — until now. But on March 31, the stars of the long-running, critically acclaimed TV series about the White House and its denizens led a cavalcade of workers up to Congress to unveil new ads for the Employee Free Choice Act and to urge senators to pass it.
It’s those workers — camera operators, grips, aides, stagehands — and other workers nationwide who really need the improvements in wages and working conditions that unions bring, Sheen added.
“We’re here to give celebrity lubrication” to the cause, Whitford told a later session in a small conference room. “Anything we can do to get the cameras on these people” — the workers who need the act — “we’ll do,” he stated.
The three, along with the workers, campaigned in favor of the act, labor’s No. 1
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In a game-changing move for the outdoor industry, CBS Outdoor is the first company to add the outdoor industry’s Eyes On ratings to
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its proof-of-performance report powered by Ayuda Media Systems, a software system for out-of-home media.
It’s the first time outdoor ratings will be delivered to buyers via an independent source, allowing advertisers to validate audience reach of outdoor campaigns alongside proof that the campaign ran.
The announcement comes on the eve of this year’s GO! 2010 Traffic Audit Bureau and Outdoor Advertising Association media conference opening this Sunday (May 2) in Phoenix.
Until now, advertisers and agencies have relied on media companies to provide Eyes On ratings, introduced by the Traffic Audit Bureau about a year ago to replace the archaic “daily effective circulation” numbers. As the industry transitions to the new metrics, getting the ratings into third party software systems to more efficiently manage outdoor campaigns was the next logical step.
“This provides a stamp of authenticity to the numbers and that gives clients and agency planners more comfort with the ratings,” said Jack Sullivan, svp of
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With its prime position on Lithgow's main street, Bev Matthews' curtain shop should be doing a roaring trade.
But since the downturn
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started, the town has faded to be a shadow of its former self.
"Unfortunately, Lithgow survives on the mines, which are closing down," she told the ABC.
"There's not as many people hanging around, retail is dropping off."
Ms Matthews said up to seven local businesses have closed in the past 18 months.
"It was a very, very thriving town," she said.
"We need to try and get people wanting to live in Lithgow, rather than just the retiring tree-changers."
Down the street at the bakery, locals come and go, but there aren't many young faces.
Owner David Dowler fears for the future of his town.
"I hope it doesn't turn into a ghost town, but you know, it might," he said.
"We need more jobs for young people, you have got to keep the young people around."
Some blame Lithgow's problems on job losses at the Waller
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1.(SBU) Summary: Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) has signed extensions for a pair of exploration and production sharing agreements (
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EPSAs) with Spain's Repsol, France's Total, Austria's OMV, and Norway's Saga Petroleum, continuing its policy of redefining old contracts under the new EPSA IV framework. The joint investment commitment in the new deal should help boost Libyan production significantly in the years to come. End Summary.
2.(SBU) In a widely-anticipated move, a consortium of European oil companies has extended its contracts in Libya. A new EPSA agreement signed on July 17 with a four-company consortium operated by Spain's Repsol covers two blocks, NC115 and NC186, in the Marzuq Basin, and extends the duration of the contracts to 2032. This represents an additional 15 years for NC-115, and from five to nine years (depending on the specific fields) in block NC-186. The deal ensures the exploitation of the vast resources discovered in both blocks, whose remaining proven oil reserves at the end of 2007 totaled 765 million barrels.
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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake came to the nation's capital Wednesday to make a pitch for what big-city leaders want to see from the federal
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government — and the next president.
But when her appearance at the National Press Club was opened for questions, she wound up spending much of her time addressing the unrest that shook Baltimore in April, and how she handled it.
Rawlings-Blake, who was in Washington in her capacity as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, said the city was not as prepared as it should have been for the riots that erupted on the day Freddie Gray was buried. She said her administration is now taking additional steps to ready itself ahead of the trials of the six police officers charged in his arrest and death.
"I don't think anyone would have expected the unrest to unfold in the way that it did," Rawlings-Blake said. "What it did give us was an opportunity to strengthen our response."
Rawlings-Blake, who announced last month that she would not seek re-election next year, will remain the president of the mayors' conference until June. She hosted
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News that Lydia Ko had ditched Guy Wilson, her coach of 11 years who taught her the game and brought her to No. 4 in the
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World Rankings, for David Leadbetter made us think of a post we did back in July, when Lee Westwood hired Sean Foley as his swing coach.
__Phil Mickelson and Ernie Els to Butch Harmon__It was all very cordial when Mickelson and Els both left their respective coaches, Rick Smith and David Leadbetter, for Butch. Both felt they needed a change as their careers enter their final stage and were both rewarded: each winning majors under their new coach.__Aaron Baddeley from Mike Plummer and Andy Bennett__When the Stack & Tilt method burst onto the scene, Aaron Baddeley was the face of it. He won his first and second PGA Tour events in consecutive years using the swing and broke into the top 20 in the world. But after shooting 80 in the final round of the 2007 U.S. Open -- he entered the day with the lead -- Baddeley ditched the instructors and
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(CBS News) The science world is abuzz about an announcement from the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, concerning the
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Higgs boson - informally called the "god particle." The European collective plans to announce their latest data concerning this elusive particle, which has never been directly observed and may not even exist. But what is a Higgs boson? One helpful cartoon explains.
NASA, which featured this educational cartoon on their website, offers some detail: "The term boson refers to a type of fundamental particle with similarities to the photon, while Higgs refers to Peter Higgs, a physicist who among others published research predicting the mechanism through which such a particle might act. The above animated cartoon explains in humorous but impressive detail why the Higgs boson is expected, and one method that the Large Hadron Collider is using to find it."
The video itself comes from "PHD Comics" - a web series started by Jorge Cham, a cartoonist and roboticist, that follows the lives of several graduate students. The knowledgeable voice explaining this mysterious "god particle" is physicist Daniel Whiteson,
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Announcements galore Apple today introduced a slew of new hardware products that will undoubtedly keep Apple retail stores buzzing in the weeks to come. From
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a new iPad Air to an impressive new 27-inch iMac with a Retina Display, Apple fans in search of new hardware will have no shortage of products to choose from. On top of that, Apple on Thursday also made a number of notable software announcements. That said, here is a look at the most important hardware and software announcements that Apple delivered during its special media event last week.
Apple Pay goes live on October 20 Apple Pay may very well go on to revolutionize how we make payments. Not only is the service extremely secure, it's also exceedingly simple to use. Yesterday, Apple announced that its highly anticipated mobile payments platform will go live on Monday, October 20.
New iPad Air 2 Apple yesterday announced the next-gen model, the iPad Air 2. Impressively, the new iPad Air is even thinner than the original and comes with a less reflective display. Other features include a blazing-fast A8X processor, Touch ID, an enhanced iSight camera
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Thousands of Central American migrants fleeing poverty and violence packed a bridge connecting Guatemala and Mexico in sweltering heat Saturday as part of a politically charged,
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U.S.-bound caravan.
At one point, several dozen migrants trying to make their way north sang the Honduran national anthem on the edge of the muddy Suchiate River between Tecun Uman, Guatemala, and Tapachula, Mexico.
Their journey continued one day after defiant caravan members rushed passed border gates only to be stopped by rows of Mexican riot police who dispersed tear gas and smoke canisters into the crowds.
The slow procession north has led President Donald Trump to threaten to cut aid to Central American nations and to send troops to the U.S. border if Mexico failed to stop the surge.
"Our message is we're not criminals," Honduran migrant Orlean Herrera said. "We're coming over here because we need a better life. That's why we're here."
By Saturday morning, the bridge was teeming with men, women, teenagers and children.
Mexican authorities starting Friday were allowing a trickle of migrants, starting with women and children
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Happy Saturday! It's a jammed packed weekend of holiday activities. Here are some Saturday "Gayle on the Go!" suggestions. Take a look
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! Enjoy!
Here you will find more than 50 vintage vendors!
For more information, visit http://www.VenturaCountyRecovers.org or call 805-654-2076.
The free, public event will share information about how homeowners living below or near fire damaged burn areas, hillsides, creeks and storm drains can keep their family and property safe from potential mud and debris flows. Flood and erosion protection experts will discuss the heightened flood dangers following the Woolsey and Hill fires, evacuation strategies and ongoing efforts being conducted to protect the community, as well as preparedness measures, such as sandbagging, wattles and more.
Celebrate Christmas in Redondo Beach at the 27th Annual King Harbor Boat Parade. The fun begins at 2pm with a holiday concert toy drive, and a visit by Santa Claus before the colorful boat parade begins.
Christmas is being celebrated in Yorba Linda at the Nixon Library. This is the annual holiday train
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A group of Jewish settlers has stormed a village near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank with the aim of constructing an illegal settlement outpost.
The group
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entered the village of Tuqu’, east of Bethlehem, yesterday under the protection of the Israeli army, and set up a mobile home, a tactic used regularly to establish illegal Israeli outposts on land across the occupied Palestinian territories.
Tuqu’ has been targeted repeatedly by Israel in recent weeks. Last week, three Palestinian students were injured by live ammunition after Israeli forces stormed the village and surrounded the local high school. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society confirmed that its medical crew had transferred three people suffering from wounds to the abdomen, pelvis, and leg to the nearby Beit Jala Hospital, Ma’an reported. Two of the three students were in a critical condition, added the Red Crescent.
Earlier in January, the Israeli army distributed leaflets threatening the residents of Tuqu’ with collective punishment. The army claimed that illegal Jewish settlers’ vehicles are “repeatedly attacked with rocks.” The leaflet threatened the withdrawal of Israeli entry permits for anyone found
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The tail of a feathered dinosaur has been found perfectly preserved in amber from Myanmar.
The one-of-a-kind discovery helps put
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flesh on the bones of these extinct creatures, opening a new window on the biology of a group that dominated Earth for more than 160 million years.
Examination of the specimen suggests the tail was chestnut brown on top and white on its underside.
The tail is described in the journal Current Biology.
"This is the first time we've found dinosaur material preserved in amber," co-author Ryan McKellar, of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada, told the BBC News website.
The study's first author, Lida Xing from the China University of Geosciences in Beijing, discovered the remarkable fossil at an amber market in Myitkina, Myanmar.
The 99-million-year-old amber had already been polished for jewellery and the seller had thought it was plant material. On closer inspection, however, it turned out to be the tail of a feathered dinosaur about the size of a sparrow.
Lida Xing was able to establish where
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The share of national income that went to the top 1 percent declined steadily from 1925 to about 1975, but has risen steadily since. We are a
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less economically cohesive nation.
The share of Americans who were born abroad dropped steadily from 1910 to 1970. But the share of immigrants has risen steadily ever since, from 4.7 percent of the population to nearly 14 percent. We are a more diverse and less demographically cohesive nation.
In case after case, we’ve replaced attachments to large established institutions with commitments to looser and more flexible networks. Levin argues that the internet did not cause this shift but embodies today’s individualistic, diffuse society.
Church attendance has declined twice as fast among people without high school diplomas as among people with college degrees. With each additional year of education, the likelihood of attending religious services rises 15 percent.
We’re also less embedded in tight, soul-forming institutions. Levin makes another distinction between community – being part of a congregation – and identity – being, say, Jewish. Being part of community takes time and involves restrictions. Merely having an identity doesn�
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Beyond colossal loss of human lives, if there is anything perhaps equally overwhelming in Nepal's earthquake tragedy, it is the monumental damage the country's iconic
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heritage has suffered due to the calamity.
The powerful temblor measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale on Saturday practically levelled the nation's tangible cultural history, robbing it of its architectural jewels, including the landmark Dharhara Tower, in an eerie reminder of the 1934 quake that claimed over 10,000 lives.
The 19th century nine-storey minaret, a UNESCO World Heritage site, which once offered a panoramic view of the Kathmandu Valley, turned into graveyards for over 200 people.
Over 2,000 people have been killed in the wake of the calamity while more than 5,000 are injured.
Built in 1832 by the then Prime Minister of Nepal Bhimsen Thapa, the tower was also extensively damaged in the 8.3-magnitude earthquake of 1934, worst in Nepal's recorded history. It was later rebuilt and opened to the public, only to be reduced to rubble this time.
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As the eCommerce industry has matured in sales and reach, it has realized it still has obstacles….namely engaging and persuading real people.
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To take this on, successful brands have embraced digital content to add a pop to their product presentation. But as recent survey from Episerver found, 98% of shoppers have been deterred from completing a purchase because of incomplete content.
Research has shown that video is a valuable content form for online shopping engagement. Put simply, it helps overcome the advantage of tangible interaction provided by in-store experience.
So that being the case, what kind of video content works best to boost eCommerce sales? A new study from the UK has found some insightful answers.
Alex Connock of EndemolShine North in MediaCityUK wanted to examine how differing editorial styles and durations would impact the customer journey. “Around the world there are many territories which have a more relaxed approach to brand integration into mainstream or OTT programming, and here it is possible that e-commerce ‘clickability’ will be included in factual and fiction programming of a mainstream variety. Testing what works
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On Dec. 2, the Guatemalan Army massacred at least 14 unarmed civilians protesting military abuses, by spraying them with machine-gun fire.
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The massacre is symptomatic of a military that shows no compunction about turning its weapons on its own citizenry. Since the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored coup of 1954, Guatemalans have lived in fear of the security forces, trained and sponsored by the United States, who are responsible for most of the killings of 100,000 Guatemalans in the last 30 years. As with past outrages committed by this faithful United States ally, the event received scant and ambiguous coverage from you: a wire service article headlined "Guatemala Troops Said to Kill 11 Protesting Raid." The Guatemalan military enjoys more than the material and moral support of the United States Government -- inadequate news media coverage in this country allows it to slaughter its citizens outside the scrutiny of American taxpayers.
While Cuba and Nicaragua have become synonymous (until recently in the case of Nicaragua) with the evils of Communism, Guatemala remains an enigma for most Americans. Last summer, when Cuban authorities tried to prevent their citizens
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The City of Industry plans to switch its health care provider in hopes of saving $1.5 million per year on medical costs.
Earlier this
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week, Transparent California listed Industry as paying one of the highest amounts in the state for its employees, with roughly a third of its employees receiving about $70,000 in annual benefits in 2015.
City Manager Paul Philips said the city will move from AETNA to a program offered by CalPERS.
“I think we’ll get a little bit better service in the sense that the co-pays will be lower and they cover more extensively than the AETNA program we’re in now,” Philips said.
A company hired by the city to review its benefit programs found that Industry’s medical premiums were “well above the market” when compared to cities in the surrounding area. Their analysis determined the city could pay less and also get more robust coverage, according to a staff report.
The city reimburses its employees and retirees for out of pocket expenses. A city report indicated part of the savings would come from increasing the
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A software bot from the Internet Archive ensures you can browse Wikipedia with less broken links.
Wikipedia has long suffered from a broken link problem as old
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, referenced pages go offline. But luckily, stewards from the Internet Archive have been slowly resurrecting those millions of faulty links, using a software robot to replace 404'd pages with archived versions using the Wayback Machine. Now they've announced over 9 million of those links have been rescued.
The broken link cleanup is part of the Internet Archive's Build a Better Web initiative, which aims to "bring you knowledge in all its many forms that is richer, deeper, more trustworthy and openly accessible on the Web." Naturally, Wikipedia's faulty links served as a room where the web could use a little improvement.
"When broken links are discovered, IABot searches for archives in the Wayback Machine and other web archives to replace them with. Restoring links ensures Wikipedia remains accurate and verifiable and thus meets one of Wikipedia’s three core content policies: ‘Verifiability’."
It isn't all attributable to the dutiful bot. Wikipedia community members have been slowly
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New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning (10) and offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo are presiding over an offense that has yet to score more than 14
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points and has lost the ball six times.
Can the N.Y. Giants finally start clicking vs. Texans?
The 0-2 New York Giants will try to put a screeching halt to their winless streak this today when they host the 2-0 Houston Texans at MetLife Stadium.
It's not going to be easy for the Giants, who have yet to fully click on either side of the ball, and who will need to figure out how to come together in a hurry to counter the challenges posed by first-year head coach Bill O'Brien's upstart Texans football team.
On offense, the Giants have yet to score more than 14 points in a game. They also coughed up the ball six times, with four of those turnovers converted to 16 points by opponents.
That's not a good trend to be taking into a game against a Texans team that has a plus-5 turnover ratio, and who has converted two of those turnovers into 10 points
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There are plenty of superheroes being featured in top-grossing films these days, but none of them are like political activist Dolores Huerta
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, whom many consider a real life superhero.
Carlos Santana knew it was time that the world learn more about Huerta, the labor leader who co-founded the National Farmworkers Association (now known as the United Farm Workers) in the 1960s alongside Cesar Chavez.
So the rocker reached out to director Peter Bratt and his production partner and brother Benjamin Bratt with the idea to make a documentary about Huerta.
Little did they know that five years later, with "Dolores" opening at the IFC Theater Center in New York on Friday, Sept. 1, the nation would be needing inspiration from Huerta more than ever.
"When Carlos Santana called and said, 'Let's make a movie about Dolores,' I seized the opportunity," Peter Bratt tells Viva.
"Carlos has known Dolores for a long time and he put a stake in the ground and said, 'We have to make this movie now.'
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A few years back, Madison library director Barb Dimick predicted it was only a matter of time before federal agents showed up demanding to see patron lending
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records, as the 2001 USA Patriot Act allows (Watchdog, "'It's Going to Happen Here,'" 12/27/02).
The law bars librarians from revealing whether they've gotten such requests, so there's no point in asking if this has occurred. But back then Dimick noted that the library's record-keeping system tracked only what was currently on order or checked out; once an item is returned, no record of who borrowed it remains.
Most libraries in the South Central Wisconsin Library System - encompassing a seven-county area, including Madison - are converting to a new LINKcat circulation management system that can record this information.
But Tana Elias, the Madison Library's web resource coordinator, says this function will be "turned off by default" for individual users. It will be available only on request - for those who want to track their library use or aren't worried that Uncle Sam could learn they've been reading Marx again. Only the borrowers themselves
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AMMONNEWS - Jordan said on Sunday 800 people including members of Syria’s “White Helmets” civil defence group had been
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evacuated from southwest Syria where Damascus’ forces are advancing against rebels, with Israeli officials saying they facilitated the mission.
The Israeli military said that overnight it had completed “a humanitarian effort to rescue members of a Syrian civil organisation and their families...due to an immediate threat to their lives”.
It said they were transferred to a neighbouring country, which it did not identify.
On Saturday, Israeli security forces closed down roads in the occupied Golan Heights, on the Syrian frontier, ahead of the evacuation operation.
A Jordanian foreign ministry spokesman said the kingdom had allowed the UN to arrange the entry and passage of 800 Syrian civil defence workers. said their lives were in danger after a government offensive that regained rebel-held parts of southern Syria.
The kingdom agreed to a request by Britain, Germany and Canada to give the White Helmet workers temporary asylum in the kingdom before settlement in the West on humanitarian grounds, spokesman Mohammad al Kayed said.
He said the aid workers would remain
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An attempted stabbing attack was stopped by Israeli border police at the Tapuach junction in the West Bank.
JERUSALEM (J
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TA) — Two Palestinian teens were wounded in their legs after they attempted to stab Israeli security forces at a West Bank junction.
Border Police at an observation point near the Tapuach junction on Tuesday saw the teens approaching a bus shelter at the traffic circle. They called on the teens to stop and after they refused shot into the air, according to the Border Police.
One of the teens then drew a knife and rushed at soldiers stationed near the bus shelter. The soldier shot at their legs, halting them.
The teens were arrested and taken to a hospital in Israel for treatment.
On Monday, Border Police arrested a Palestinian man in Hebron in the West Bank after finding a knife hidden under his clothes at security checkpoint at the entrance to the Cave of the Patriarchs.
The Border Police said that an initial investigation determined that the man planned to carry out a stabbing attack at the site. It is the fifth time in the last two months that Palestinians carrying knives have been detained at the
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H.E.R. performs "As I Am" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Oct. 9, 2018.
H
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.E.R. performed the funky “As I Am” from her I Used to Know Her: The Prelude EP on The Tonight Show on Tuesday night (Oct. 9). The 21-year-old singer, who has only been a part of the R&B scene since 2016, has already established an identity for herself — and that identity is: no identity. H.E.R., stands for “Having Everything Revealed,” and that’s exactly what the singer doesn’t want to happen. She desires for people to focus on her music, not the person behind the mic.
With that context, it wasn't surprising that the singer donned one of her usual pairs of oversized sunglasses during her Fallon performance. Backed by a full band and lit by a cool, purple glow, the singer started the finger-popping slow jam from behind a keyboard before moving center stage to take the spotlight.
As the song gained momentum,
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“Giving meters” look like regular parking meters, but collect money for the homeless in order to discourage panhandling.
Collected
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change will go toward helping fund homeless services, such as the city Homeless Task Force’s case management program, Mayor Pro Tem Lyn Semeta said in an interview Thursday.
“What we really want to do is fund programs that will get at the root cause of homelessness,” she said.
The first of three meters was recently installed downtown near the Starbucks on Main Street and Olive Avenue. Others are slated for the Central Library and Pier Plaza.
The council’s Homeless Subcommittee, which includes Semeta, as well as council members Barbara Delgleize and Patrick Brenden, brainstormed the idea.
Huntington Beach, like most of Orange County, is struggling to figure out how to address homelessness.
The city’s partnership with Westminster, the county and American Family Housing, a nonprofit that provides housing and other services to the homeless in hopes of expanding a shelter in Midway City, hit a standstill last year amid financial woes, according to
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The Ankeny High senior has broken through the school's records.
In a program with a legacy as strong as Ankeny — which
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has seven summer state titles since 1978 — it can be tough to crack the record books.
That's what makes Peyton Daugherty’s revision of the Hawks’ books even more stunning.
The senior has been Ankeny’s shortstop since eighth grade, and in that time has amassed a litany of records. Coming into this season, she held most hits in a season at 86, most hits in a career at 246, most steals in a season at 53 and most steals in a career at 120.
Daugherty’s.619 batting average last season was the best in Iowa. She’s a hit machine, and she’s really fast.
This season, Daugherty is again posting prolific numbers. Through 14 games, she’s batting.522 and has swiped 11 bases.
It’s great to have one of the state’s elite players on your team, it’s
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The press conference was coming to an end, when the woman stood up from the public, her head covered up by a black veil.
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�It’s you who created Daesh!” she shouted at the two ministers, using another name for the terror group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), reported the Italian state-owned television channel RAI.
The woman was dragged away from the conference by the Carabinieri.
After meeting with Gentiloni, Kerry said he was convinced that the US-led international coalition would “crush ISIS” eventually. His Italian counterpart expressed much more caution.
“There have been steps forward on the ground with respect to the Paris summit. But no triumphalism is warranted, we must continue the armed effort in Iraq,” Gentiloni said.
The protester in Italy is not the first to accuse Washington of aiding the rise of IS. One former US Marine has blamed the self-proclaimed caliphate on the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The Obama administration made a “willful decision” to ignore the warning,
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PLO condemns Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta for visiting eastern Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley, which it considers "illegal settlements".
The Palestine
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Liberation Organization (PLO) on Thursday blasted Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta for touring “illegal settlements” during his visit to Israel this past week.
Kenyatta, who met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during his visit, visited eastern Jerusalem and an Israeli community in the Jordan Valley.
The PLO Executive Committee condemned the visit and, in a statement quoted by the Chinese Xinhua news agency, said that international treaties consider “the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel in 1967” as part of the “state of Palestine”.
As such, the PLO said, "No one has the right to visit in these territories without an in-advance coordination with the Palestinian leadership."
Senior PLO official Hanan Ashrawi said in that "such behaviors boost the Israeli occupation and create a position of collusion between Kenya and the Israeli occupation."
Ashrawi called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Arab League and the Organization of African
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Published: Oct 23, 2017 at 2:25 p.m.
Kyle Garde put the ball by the Barrington keeper twice early in
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the game to notch Western Regionals for the Bridgetown Regional Community School boys soccer team -- and the first banner for the new school.
Middleton Regional High School hosted the two-day Regionals Oct. 21-22, with the final at Rotary Park in Middleton at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday.
The Hawks (Bridgetown’s new team name) kept the pressure on, but Barrington hit their stride after the second Garde goal and the ball went back and forth for the rest of the game with netminders playing a big part in the close match. Bridgetown’s Andrew Long was not afraid to go out for the ball and challenge Barrington attackers.
Bridgetown made it to the championship game with a quarter-final 7-0 win over Shelburne Saturday afternoon, and a 6-2 game over New Germany on Sunday morning. Barrington defeated Central Kings on Saturday, and that put
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While we're not in love with the design and would have liked some additional features,
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the real beauty of the T-Mobile G1 is the Google Android platform, as it has the potential to make smartphones more personal and powerful. That said, it's not quite there yet, so for now, the G1 is best suited for early adopters and gadget hounds, rather than consumers and business users.
The smaller of HTC's new U phones pairs software smarts with a more pocketable size and midrange price.
The HTC Desire 510 doesn't have the specs to excite committed tech fans, but it handles the basics well, has 4G LTE for superfast data speeds, and it doesn't cost the earth.
A few quibbles notwithstanding, the powerhouse HTC One is a beautifully crafted, near-ideal smartphone.
With its polished design and user interface, and blazing fast speeds, the HTC Droid Incredible takes pole position as Verizon's top smartphone and is now the Android device to beat.
HTC's U11 Life is a decent midrange phone
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The North Korean defector had sped across the demilitarized zone in a stolen jeep, then crawled south as the men who had been
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his comrades moments ago shot at him with handguns and AK-47 rifles.
South Korean soldiers found the defector under a pile of leaves, bleeding from at least five gunshot wounds.
He was brought to doctors, who expected to find the soldier in bad shape. But what they also found when they opened him up gave the world a glimpse into just how bad things are in North Korea.
Doctors repairing the unidentified soldier’s digestive tract found dozens of parasites in his intestines. One of the suspected roundworms was nearly a foot long.
“I spent more than 20 years of experience as a surgeon, but I have not found parasites this big in the intestines of South Koreans,” Lee Cook-jong, who leads the team treating the soldier, told the Associated Press.
Authorities have not released the name or rank of the defecting soldier. He has spent his first days in South Korea unconscious, sedated and relying on a breathing machine to stay alive.
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As people offer tributes to dead ancestors and China's "revolutionary martyrs" for the annual Qingming Festival, social media influencers on
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Beijing's payroll are working overtime.
The annual "tomb-sweeping" festival kicked off yesterday in China, an event that sees families visit and clean the graves of loved ones or respected former leaders and martyrs, leaving them food and wine and even burning paper versions of valuable items their relatives may want in the afterlife.
But back in the realm of the living, it's a period of heightened anxiety.
Qingming sees a spike on social media of what researchers call "astroturfing": that is, pro-Government posts and comments — supposedly from grassroots supporters of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — published in a coordinated manner to drown out online discussions.
Harvard and Stanford University researchers estimate some 450 million of these fake social media posts were published in China every year, adding that they peaked around periods of mass commemorations.
"That's because of the concern that popular unrest, and collective action, might be mobilised around holidays or days where there
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A second and third quarter surge in its offensive attack and defensive prowess handed the Moberly Spartans a 68-57 triumph Thursday over Kirksville
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in boys semifinal action of the Macon Invitational.
Senior Braedan Wetrich netted a game-high 28 points for the Spartans (8-4). In five of his last six games played Wetrich has scored nearly 30 or more points.
Sophomore point guard André Bell complimented Wetrich with 16 points while making 6 of 11 free throws, and Trey Koester dumped in 14.
Gavin Steward had eight while Dominic Stoneking chipped in two points to finish the scoring for Moberly.
Kirksville gained early tempo by securing a 19-12 lead after the first quarter when the Spartans regrouped and exchanged the favor taking a 35-31 advantage by halftime.
Moberly went 19 for 29 on free throws, while Kirksville only took six shots at the stripe said coach Hagedorn.
Austin Penick and Paxton Dempsay each scored 10 points for Kirksville (5-9).
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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Indian Cold Chain Market: Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and
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Forecast 2019-2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
This report provides a deep insight into the Indian cold chain market covering all its essential aspects. This ranges from the macro overview of the market to micro details of the industry performance, recent trends, key market drivers and challenges, SWOT analysis, Porter's five forces analysis, value chain analysis, etc.
The Indian cold chain market was worth INR 1,121 Billion in 2018. The market is further projected to reach INR 2,618 Billion by 2024, growing at a CAGR of 14.8% during 2019-2024.
The market has been segmented as cold chain storage and cold chain transportation. Currently, cold chain storage dominates the market, holding the largest share.
The private sector currently represents the largest segment. It is followed by the cooperative sector and the public sector.
Growth in Organized Food Retail: Organized retail is expected to be
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National news cycles have become even more predictable since Donald Trump won the presidency. Driven by the left, today’s news always blames President
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Trump. Virginia’s state leaders have been subjects of allegations of racism and sexual assault. Predictably, it’s Trump’s fault.
The left has always framed and driven news cycles, continuously herding the masses toward revolution. In the last 100 years alone we’ve seen Lenin lead the masses to the left. Stalin followed his lead, only with more malice. Hitler rose to power receiving his mantle from the left, as did Mao and Pol Pot. More recently, Venezuela’s leftist government bankrupted one of the richest nations in the Americas in fewer than 20 years. History is replete with the left’s continual drive toward strong, centralized, totalitarian governments at the expense of individual freedoms and rights.
The USA is caught up in this cycle and will inevitably be swept into a socialist revolution leading to a totalitarian state comprised of a ruling class and the people. To be specific, America’s left includes establishments of both major political parties,
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If it was not so pitiful, it would be hilarious. I'm referring to the news item on Aug. 8: Wallkill to install
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solar panels to produce 24 kilowatts for a cost of $180,000.
The tragedy of this is that subdued technology promises a 32-by-32-inch generator unit producing 30 kilowatts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year at no cost to the meter owner, who will receive 26,000 kilowatt-hours free per year for the use of his/her meter. Under deauthorization, the surplus energy would be sold to the electric company.
All this totally nonpolluting. Which would you rather have? No cost or $180,000 for much less electric?
We are writing to thank Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther for her support of agriculture during the 2007 legislative session. Farm families in her Assembly district appreciate her hard work to keep farming driving the rural economy.
Her support of legislation and budgetary programs that enhance the agricultural industry will truly help farms remain viable and keep land in working farm production. From the Dairy
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The vote is expected Monday, after a majority at a committee meeting favor building one shelter rather than several smaller ones at various locations.
The Portland
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City Council is expected to vote Monday on a resolution that would formally direct city staff to come up with a plan for a large new city-run homeless shelter while working with nonprofits on other shelters to serve groups with special needs.
The upcoming vote comes after a contentious meeting Tuesday of the council’s Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee, which was attended by the full council. It was clear that committee members were split between favoring the single city-run shelter or several smaller shelters scattered throughout Portland. Most councilors said they were more likely to support a single city-run shelter.
At one point, City Councilor Belinda Ray, who leads the committee, asked for an informal straw poll to make clear that six councilors were favoring a single city shelter. Several social service providers have said in emails to Ray that they agree a larger, consolidated shelter would.
Mayor Ethan Strimling and City Councilor Brian Batson are pushing for multiple city shelters.
Batson,
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Three-row crossovers are booming in the luxury auto market. So at this weekend's series of auto events in California, Infiniti
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is unveiling its newest concept: the seven-seat JX.
As practical as they are, minivans just don't appeal to those looking for luxury transportation. And recently the lure of big, roomy body-on-frame luxury SUVs has been waning too. Families who visited the Infiniti showroom and needed the room of a minivan or large SUV but wanted car-like driving dynamics have been out of luck, until now.
Infiniti America's vice president Ben Poore says that three-row crossovers are one of the hottest segments in the luxury market. So next spring, Infiniti will launch its seven-passenger, three-row JX crossover. The brand just debuted this concept version of its newest creation at the Pebble Beach Weekend in California.
Infiniti says the JX will offer class-leading roominess. And, because it's an Infiniti, the JX will pioneer a new technology called Backup Coll
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Broad-based low-cost index funds are a staple part of most investors’ portfolios. They give investors exposure to an entire stock index with
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low expenses ratios.
Younger people that are starting their first retirement accounts at work should consider dollar cost averaging into a low-cost stock index fund for a long period of time to build their retirement savings.
The first index funds were created by John Bogle at Vanguard who worked closely with Burton Malkiel, the author of “A Random Walk Down Wall Street.” Their theory was to invest in the overall market, keep the costs low and don’t try to beat the market.
Index funds have grown enormously in popularity since the first one was created in 1976. Exchange traded funds or ETFs were first started in the 1990s and the first ones were also based on stock indexes. The initial ETFs were the Diamond and the Spyder, the Diamond is based on the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Spyder is an S&P 500 index fund.
Most index funds are weighted by market cap. Market cap means market capitalization and is calculated by multiplying the
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The alleged leader of the violent Mexican Zetas drug cartel has been charged in a federal indictment with laundering millions through the U.S. quarter
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horse industry, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, believed to be a leader of the Zetas and already under indictment on U.S. drug trafficking charges, remains a fugitive with a $5 million reward on his head in Mexico.
The indictment alleges that the Zetas and 14 other cartel members laundered millions of dollars in drug profits by channeling the money through straw men and front organizations to buy and train quarter horses, a popular racing breed in the West.
The fraudulent owners then used forged documents to sell horses that won high-stakes races or were valued for their breeding potential to Trevino or companies he controlled. The documents backdated the sale to show Trevino had purchased the highly profitable horses for a minimal investment before their worth was established.
“The allegations in this indictment, if proven, would document yet another example of the corrupting influence of Mexican drug cartels within the United States, facilitated
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NASA's environmental spacecraft Aura will study Earth's atmosphere.
A school bus-sized space observatory that will monitor the health of Earth's atmosphere
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in unprecedented detail rocketed into polar orbit today, finally darting away from its California launch pad atop a Boeing Delta 2 booster after several frustrating delays.
Rumbling into the predawn sky at 1002 GMT (6:02 a.m. EDT; 3:02 a.m. PDT), the two-stage rocket creating a dazzling light show for spectators at Vandenberg Air Force Base and beyond. Ten minutes later, NASA's Aura satellite reached an initial orbit above the planet while still riding the rocket's second stage motor.
Aura was originally supposed to launch June 19, but multiple technical concerns conspired to postpone the mission six times, keeping the satellite earthbound for an extra month.
Today's launch shot came after two back-to-back countdowns were scrubbed.
"I guess the third time was the charm for Aura," NASA launch director Chuck Dovale said.
"We worked through a couple of hard days and unfortunately couldn't get off the ground
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A pod of life-size fiberglass dolphins greet visitors in Clearwater Beach.
Sunset over the Gulf of Mexico from Clearwater Beach.
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Street performers and artists entertain nightly at Pier 60, but sunsets are the real draw.
Visitor Julian Runschke, 21 months, soaks up some rays on the Beach Walk.
A children's play area is part of the draw at Clearwater's Pier 60.
Beach Walk, a half-mile, $30 million pedestrian walkway, was completed in 2008.
Clearwater resident Hulk Hogan opened a store on Mandalay Avenue in Clearwater Beach.
Taking a bite out of tourists' wallets is part of the game at Clearwater Marina.
Clearwater Beach, which beat out nine other nominees to win a recent USA TODAY reader poll as Florida's best beach town. Waiting for customers at the Palm Pavilion, a local institution on Clearwater Beach.
The Clearwater Jolley Trolley runs throughout Clearwater, hitting each stop every 30 minutes.
Sand Key, just south of Clearwater Beach across Clearwater Pass
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Some of France’s most prominent figures, concerned about anti-Semitism, have signed a shocking manifesto aimed at curbing it.
Although
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it’s not entirely clear whether “struck to obsolescence” means wholesale deletion of verses, the manifesto was perceived as a call to abrogate Muslims’ holiest text. And although pushing for a theological reform of Islam in France is nothing new—everyone from leading imams to President Emmanuel Macron have made plans to restructure Islam—demanding that scriptural verses be deleted is another thing altogether. In Islam, the Quran is considered divinely revealed; because it’s deemed to be the word of God, altering or deleting any part of the text would be blasphemous.
The manifesto came a month after the grisly murder of Mireille Knoll, an octogenarian Holocaust survivor who was stabbed to death in her apartment in an act authorities are calling an anti-Semitic crime. Last year, Sarah Halimi, a 67-year-old, was beaten to death and thrown out of her window, in the same area where Kn
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The 16-day government shutdown may have ripple effects throughout the government�s weather and climate programs. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NO
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AA) has begun assessing whether the shutdown will cause further delays to its already troubled development of the next generation of weather and climate satellites. The satellites, which were already running billions over budget and years behind schedule before the shutdown, are considered critical to maintaining the accuracy of U.S. weather and climate forecasts.
Before the shutdown, the country was already looking at a likely gap in critical weather satellite coverage starting in about 2016, which experts say will result in less accurate weather forecasts. Prior to the shutdown, officials told Climate Central that a shutdown longer than about 1 to 2 weeks could impact the satellite program�s timeline by halting work being done by government contractors, such as Ball Aerospace, which is building the satellites and their components. A shorter shutdown would have allowed the contractors to keep working using funding left over from fiscal year 2013 appropriations.
�Currently, NOAA is assessing the short and long-term impacts of the government shutdown to the development of, and launch schedules of all the spacecraft in its
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in Iceland for a 2 day visit. "I am personally excited to have an opportunity to visit this
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beautiful country. Iceland is a symbol of clean air...and beauty and peace loving and gender equality," the Secretary-General told reporters after a meeting with Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, the Icelandic Foreign Minister.
The emphasis of the visit is on Climate Change and sustainable development. Ban Ki-moon yesterday visited the Hellisheiði geothermal power plant close to Reykjavik and today visited the Langjökull glacier, which has retreated considerably in the last few decades due to warmer temperatures. "I will have an opportunity for visiting and seeing for myself the impact of Climate Change caused to glaciers", Mr. Ban said in Reykjavik.
Ban also met the President of Iceland, Mr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson yesterday and today he meets Mr. Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the Prime Minister at Thingvellir, the site of the ancient Icelandic parliament.
The Secretary General has discussed the post
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Economy|Job Training Works. So Why Not Do More?
Job Training Works. So Why Not Do More?
Unemployed after cycling
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through temporary jobs in insurance, accounting and real estate, Lisa Edwards was considering whether to borrow and go back to college three years ago when she came upon a flier on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. It was for a “women in technology” program offered by Per Scholas, a nonprofit offering low-income workers training in information technology.
Five months later, Ms. Edwards landed on the leading edge of a promising approach to helping embattled workers attain and hold on to a middle-class life in an economy that has devalued the work of all but the best educated.
Ms. Edwards, a middle-age mother of three, emerged from the Per Scholas program with CompTIA A Plus and Network Plus certifications in computers and networking. She first got an apprenticeship at the network operations center of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Then she got another at Barclays Bank, troubleshooting the voice recording systems.
Though Ms. Edwards makes several thousand dollars less as a Barclays apprentice than
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The dawn of agriculture did not rise with Neolithic humans in Mesopotamia. Or in China. Or in the Levant. No, it bloom
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ed in the rain forests of South America some 60 million years ago. And the first farmers were humble ants.
Long before early humans cultivated wheat, barley, lentils and flax, ancient leaf cutter ants raised fungus. And like human farmers, the ants had to fend off crop pests, particularly a parasitic fungal disease.
“If the fungus dies, the ants die,” said Cameron Currie, a microbial ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
To fight the pestilence, the ants aligned with a bacteria that produces a chemical capable of subduing the parasite. Now, Currie and his colleagues have found evidence that suggests that the partnership between ants and antimicrobial bacteria has existed for tens of millions of years. The key clues came from two 20-million-year-old ants that were discovered, trapped in amber, in the Dominican Republic.
One of the fossilized ants had specialized pockets on its head, called crypts, that are also
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It was almost unthinkable before April of 1992 that stock cars would ever lay a wheel on the historic 2�-mile oval at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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From the time the track opened as a brick-covered test course in 1909, and from the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911, the sprawling venue was a place for open-wheel, open-cockpit cars.
A lot of eyebrows were raised when speedway boss Tony George and his family, which owns and operates the speedway, allowed IROC cars -- basically stock cars that are identically prepared -- to test on the track in the spring of 1992.
That was a hint of things to come.
That summer, a group of NASCAR Cup teams were invited to test at the Indy track following a race in nearby Michigan.
It was billed as an exhibition, but stock car fans didn�t care. Thousands of people turning out to watch the stock cars zoom around the big track.
The drivers were just as excited.
�It just gave me chills to drive on the same track where Foyt and Andretti and Mears and all those great drivers raced
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