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The Lancashire engineer who restored the world’s most famous steam engine – the Flying Scotsman – is booked in for a whistle-
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stop excursion to Clitheroe’s Grand Theatre.
Colin Green, a director of Riley and Sons Locomotive Engineers near Bury, was in charge of the decade-long, £4million project to bring the iconic steam locomotive back to life.
A colossus of British engineering, the Flying Scotsman was purchased by the National Railway Museum for £2.3 million in 2004.
Clitheroe Civic Society chairman Steve Burke, who is co-hosting ‘The Flying Scotsman Rebuild’ with Ribble Valley Rail, said: “This will be a very rare opportunity to hear about that extensive restoration project, one of the most complex and lengthy overhauls of a steam engine ever undertaken.
The Flying Scotsman returned to the main line to a huge public fanfare in February 2016, hauling a train from King’s Cross to York.
Mr Burke added: “When the Flying Scotsman steamed
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A message from Steven's mum leaves him questioning his romance.
Big Brother housemate Steven Goode was left questioning his relationship with Kimberly Kissel
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ovich after a message from his mum.
The day after the couple grew closer with the infamous "open it" incident, Steven was treated to a video from his mother as part of this week's shopping task.
However, her cryptic message - which referred to the person he is closest to in the house and the definition of dating - left him worried as she warned him not to let history repeat itself.
Steven was vague when he told the other housemates about the message and went straight to the Diary Room to ask when it was recorded, while Kimberly began to fret about what it could have been.
Meanwhile, the drama quickly spread around the house as Ash Harrison, Helen Wood and Winston Showan began gossiping about Kimberly's potential relationship status - and Winston wondered whether she is dating Hugh Hefner.
Steven later discussed his relationship with Kimberly in bed, admitting that he is falling in love with her but complaining that she should have been more honest.
For her part, Kimberly
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J.M. Smucker delivered a weak earnings report, as it faces increasing competition in its core segments from rivals Hormel Foods and Con
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Agra.
It is a joyful day indeed when an analyst can write about some of his favorite topics, in this case peanut butter and jam. One of America's largest processed food companies, J.M. Smucker (NYSE:SJM), delivered a rather disappointing earnings report recently, sending the stock down toward the end of last week. Apparently, the company is suffering from increased competition in several of its bread-and-butter businesses, including offerings from ConAgra (NYSE:CAG) and Hormel Foods (NYSE:HRL).
That raises the question. What are Smucker's prospects going forward?
Smucker reported third-quarter earnings that came in below analyst expectations. For the quarter, net revenue was down 6% to $1.47 billion, which was well below the $1.53 billion consensus estimate. Earnings per share came in at $1.66, which was up from last year, largely as a result of a diminished
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On Tuesday, NASA announced $50 million in grants to companies working on spacecraft and other hardware for use in launching humans into space. The money,
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drawn from the $1 billion in government stimulus funds NASA received in 2009, will help pay for the following five projects.
Blue Origin, an aerospace company based in Kent, Washington, and led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is working on a rocket-propelled vehicle called New Shepard to carry people and microgravity experiments on suborbital trips into space.
The Houston-based Space Exploration division of aerospace giant Boeing will receive $18 million to help it develop a crew capsule it hopes will one day carry NASA astronauts into space.
Paragon Space Development, a small company that builds spacecraft hardware based in Tucson, Arizona, will receive $1.4 million to help it develop a life support system that scrubs out carbon dioxide and replenishes oxygen in the air.
Sierra Nevada Corporation, an electronics and engineering firm based in Sparks, Nevada, will receive $20 million dollars to help its SpaceDev subsidiary develop a spacecraft called Dream Chaser.
United Launch Alliance, a joint
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Mortgage rates in the United States have dropped to their lowest levels since the 1940s, thanks to a trillion-dollar intervention by the federal
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government. Yet the banks that once handed out home loans freely are imposing such stringent requirements that many homeowners who might want to refinance are effectively locked out.
The scarcity of credit not only hurts homeowners but also has broad economic repercussions at a time when consumer spending and employment are showing modest signs of improvement, hinting at a recovery after two years of recession.
Refinancing could save owners hundreds of dollars a month, which could be spent, saved or used to pay down debts. Extra spending would help lift the economy, and lower payments might spare some people from losing their homes to foreclosure.
The plight of homeowners has become a volatile political issue. On Friday, as the House passed a series of new financial regulations, it narrowly defeated a provision that would have allowed bankruptcy judges to modify the terms of mortgages. The measure was strongly opposed by the banking industry.
The president is scheduled to meet with banking executives at the White House on Monday in another administration effort to increase the flow of loans
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A sweeping overhaul of Alberta’s public sector pensions has the government relinquishing control of $60 billion in fund assets.
Changes to Alberta
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’s three largest public plans currently must be approved by cabinet.
“The legislation we introduced today takes the politics out of pensions,” Ceci said at a Tuesday afternoon news conference.
Tuesday’s bill doesn’t change benefits or how plans are funded, merely how those funds are controlled.
It’s the biggest governance and regulatory overhaul of Alberta’s major public sector plans since pension reforms in 1992.
It affects around 351,000 current and retired public sector workers under the local authorities, public service and special forces pension plans — employees of Alberta Health Services, school boards, post-secondary institutions, cities, the provincial government, firefighters and police, for example.
If passed, the changes tabled by Ceci Tuesday will create a joint governance structure similar to those in other provinces.
It separates duties and creates a model where plans have a sponsor board and corporation working hand-in-hand to look after pension funds.
Spons
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BRISTOL � A suspended Panhandle sheriff is going on trial for corruption charges in a case that has divided a small rural county.
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ISTOL � A suspended Panhandle sheriff is headed to trial this week on misconduct charges in a case that has divided a small rural county and sparked yet another debate over Florida gun laws.
Nick Finch, the Liberty County sheriff, was arrested in June on felony charges of official misconduct and falsifying public records. Finch, who was removed from office by Gov. Rick Scott, is accused of personally intervening after one of his deputies arrested a resident accused of carrying a pistol without a concealed weapons permit.
Finch, who has pleaded not guilty, has repeatedly said that he let the man go because he is a believer in gun rights. He has drawn support from conservative media outlets and gun rights activists.
A jury was selected Monday in the trial that is expected to be wrapped up by Thursday.
During jury questioning, prosecutors made clear their position that the sheriff can't ignore laws he disagrees with. They plan to argue that Finch tried to destroy records that showed he intervened in the case.
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A generously sized deck adds to the spaciousness of the 3,109-square-foot Naomi (404-22), which would be at home
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in a woodland setting or a wonderfully landscaped city lot, level or sloped.
The Naomi features three bedrooms and 2½ bathrooms over two floors.
The living area is almost equally divided between the main floor and the daylight basement, where the huge family room nestles with its fireplace and room for several furniture groupings. There is direct access from the family room to the half-bathroom, which has been designed to facilitate the inclusion of future bedrooms with a separating full bath. Next to the half-bathroom is the large utility room, which boasts a built-in ironing board and folding table.
The rest of the living area is located on the main level. High, open-beamed, vaulted ceilings grace the living room, dining room, kitchen and den, giving added visual space and a feeling of strength and permanence.
The basement stairs lead to the large, efficiently designed kitchen, which includes a walk-in pantry as well as the other usual
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Mobilize the working class to support New York’s school bus drivers!
The Socialist Equality Party calls on workers throughout New York City to
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support the nearly 9,000 school bus drivers, matrons/attendants and mechanics who have called a strike to defend their right to decent jobs and safe service for children against the dictates of the city’s multibillionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg.
The bus drivers, part of the Amalgamated Transit Union, are seeking to oppose efforts by the city to cut costs by accepting contracts from the “lowest responsible bidder” when current contracts with private bus companies expire in July. The city will accept bids for 1,100 of its routes, about one sixth of the total.
The new bids do not require companies picked to observe seniority provisions or pay rates that workers now receive. These rights, which date back to 1965 and which were defended by workers in a 16-week strike in 1979, are known as the Employee Protection Provision (EPP).
Bus companies that pay poverty wages to their drivers will be able to outbid the companies now holding contracts.
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THIS WEEK, IRAQI federal troops ousted Kurdish military forces from the northern provinces city of Kirkuk.
Crucially, Kirkuk is home
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to lucrative oilfields that is now under Iraqi government control, having previously been partly under Kurdish control since 2013.
The military action caught the Kurds by surprise, and went almost unopposed.
So, what exactly happened in Iraq this week? And how is it having a global effect?
The Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, occupying regions of Turkey, Iran, Syria and Iraq.
They have a three-province autonomous region in northern Iraq but, from the time of the US invasion in 2003, Kurds supported the Americans and gained control of further lands in the country.
It also helped to fight ISIS alongside Iraqi security forces at the height of that crisis in 2014, which lead to the Kurds laying a claim on the oil-rich, and ethnically diverse, city of Kirkuk.
With the so-called Islamic State largely eradicated from the region, the Kurds planned to build its own separate nation-state.
Four weeks ago, it held its
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A short video of a premeditated, cold-blooded attack on a Russian policeman has surfaced online, showing a perpetrator giving the officer a boot
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and then narrowly escaping the law under an oncoming train.
The footage shows a man speaking on his phone at a railway platform, seemingly waiting for a suburban train somewhere in Russia. A couple of police officers are standing close to him.
The man then suddenly kicks one of the officers up his backside and jumps onto the rails straight under the upcoming train, evading the enraged, yet slow law enforcement.
The man apparently paid good attention to the reminder, frequently broadcast at Russian railways: ‘If you fall on the tracks – lie between the rails, head towards oncoming train and stay still’.
The evasive trick has surely saved the man a lot of trouble, as he seemingly escaped law enforcement unpunished. While in some countries such an unprovoked attack on police is a sure way to get killed, in Russia it can still land an individual up to five years behind bars.
Some users, however, doubted the authenticity of the incident, suggesting that
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Tampering or not, Bryce Harper isn’t backing down from his pitch to Mike Trout.
The Anaheim Angels clearly weren’t
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happy with Harper’s remarks and contacted Major League Baseball about the potential tampering violation.
Asked about it Wednesday, Harper stood his ground.
"They talked to me a little bit, not MLB or anything like that," Harper said, via The Athletic. "When that time comes, when guys are free agents, we'll see what happens.
"If I didn't mean it, I wouldn't have said it."
Harper began his public recruitment of Trout during his introductory press conference and went a step further Tuesday on 94-WIP.
Trout, scheduled to become a free agent in 2020, didn’t miss Harper’s comments.
"Obviously I saw it,” Trout said, per Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register. “He’s excited. He’s excited about his team. I have no control what he says."
But MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred does.
"Given our rules, players recruiting
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The pending revision of Apple's hobby project picks up a faster GPU.
The FCC diagram that outed the new Apple TV update.
Hot
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on the heels of the 128GB iPad, it looks like there's another low-key Apple product launch that's imminent. FCC documents (and one in particular [PDF]) have revealed what looks to be a slightly smaller revision of the Apple TV set-top box that measures about 3.69 inches squared, down from the current model's 3.9 inches. More sleuthing by AnandTech through the recent Apple TV software update also suggests that the box uses an upgraded Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip from Broadcom, as well as an upgraded Apple A5X SoC rather than the A5 in the current model.
The A5X was a revision of the A5 that retained its dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU but upgraded the GPU to a massive quad-core PowerVR SGX543MP4 from Imagination Technologies. This GPU (and the accompanying memory interface upgrades) were necessary to support the third-generation iPad's then-new Retina Display.
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All five have busted loose for touchdown receptions of 47 or more yards this season.
Davis (24 receptions for 469 yards and six touchdowns)
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and Allen Perryman (22-329-7) are featured in a cast that has put Lemoore (5-2, 3-0) in contention to win a second straight West Yosemite League title heading into Friday’s showdown at home against fellow league unbeaten Mt. Whitney (4-2, 2-0).
Ahlin has done his part, too, in three games since returning from a concussion suffered Sept. 4 against Clovis.
He has completed 74 percent of his passes (32 of 43) for 658 yards and 10 TDs while leading the Tigers to routs of Redwood (41-6), Hanford West (42-0) and Golden West (49-13) to open WYL play.
Lemoore, ranked No. 2 in D-II by The Bee, is aiming for at least a second straight No. 2 seed for the Division II playoffs. Last year, the Tigers were upset at home by No. 3
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The Filas Family Home, 710 Shady Ave.
A broad luminary-lit walk leads to this impressive traditional home. The family
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's vision came to life with an open floor plan, designed by the homeowner, that encompasses comfort and togetherness while also maintaining a high-efficiency standard. Our decorator has chosen a monochromatic theme for this stone and LP SmartSide Green Building sided home, adding emphasis with varied textures. Upon entering the foyer, your eyes are drawn to an impressive Christmas tree. Close by, a unique ottoman is ready for seated poses – perhaps a picture for the holiday greeting card. A signed Leroy Neiman print complements the intricate bookcase that holds a complete set of 1890 Charles Dickens novels; given to the homeowner by her grandfather.
An arched entryway invites you to explore this five-bedroom, 4.5-bath beauty further. Gaze at the 6-foot-high reclaimed natural wood mirrors as you make your way to the master suite that opens off the grand living room. The simplicity of the bedroom calms your soul with earth-inspired hues.
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How about doing this project properly and leave a legacy to the people of Ventura County.
My wife and I attended the Ventura County Planning Commission meeting
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of Jan. 31 considering the wildlife corridor overlay plan. During the presentation, the state biologist showed many tracking collar images of different species. It showed that these animals do not cross highways or freeways, staying in clusters on either side of these barriers. Later, a planning staffer explained that the county has no authority over highways.
So, all the planning for “connectivity for biodiversity” is virtually for nothing. Until the county decides to work with whatever highway authorities it needs to, to have connectivity, we will have a non-working wildlife corridor. Putting highly restrictive regulations on landowners and still not having connectivity for animal diversity makes absolutely no sense at all.
A project like this should take decades to properly plan and implement. These animals are not endangered. I understand the rush is so that the project will serve as a legacy to two long-term county supervisors.
Is a half-baked plan a legacy?
Is serving the public a reason to have a personal legacy?
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The cosmic collision that gave Earth its moon may have also given it the ingredients for life. Researchers have never been able to nail down exactly how and
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when Earth got its carbon, nitrogen, and sulphur, but a new study suggests they may have come from the object that smashed into Earth and created the moon about 4.5 billion years ago.
A group of researchers from Rice University in Texas used a series of experiments and simulations to test whether these volatile elements – those with low boiling points – could have been the result of such a collision.
They started by compressing alloys containing carbon, nitrogen and sulphur to pressures up to 7 gigapascals and heating it to temperatures as high as 1800°C to simulate the conditions during the formation of a planetary core. They used that experimental data to perform approximately one billion simulations of impacts between various types of volatile-laden object and Earth.
The simulations that matched experimental observations and the geological record best were those with a rock about the size of Mars, full of carbon and nitrogen with a sulphur-rich core.
“It is likely that such an impactor also brought
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He's arriving by boat, then spreading jolly cheer, at Nick's Cove.
Santa arrives by boat at Nick's Cove Restaurant, Oy
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ster Bar & Cottages on Sunday, Dec. 6. The food drive and festive occasion treats, cheer, and one-on-ones with Mr. Claus.
CAROLING WITH THE CLAMS: We're fairly certain that if we saw Santa Claus pulling into Tomales Bay on a sleek skiff or kitted-out boat we'd only have one question on our mind: Was the Jolly Ol' Elf just paying a visit to the denizens of the wider ocean? Had he joined the clams for some festive singing of songs? Was he just participating in a gift exchange with the sharks? And do seahorses hang stockings and, if so, where? Upon jagged-edged coral? Santa, of course, must keep his sweet secrets, so when he pulls into the beautiful bay on Sunday, Dec. 6 we will forgo quizzing him as to whether whales leave out cookies on Christmas Eve or if shrimps decorate trees. We will, however
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After three days of closed door meetings — so closed that the principals had to sign confidentiality agreements —Star Tribune management and labor just issued a joint statement
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about the discussions.
Labor is, of course, a major expense. (And, we should note, a major asset.) Strib Newspaper Guild co-chair Graydon Royce said layoffs weren’t mentioned in what he described as “introductory” sessions. But don’t be too reassured, Strib workers: Specific cuts didn’t come up at all. Still, I’m told management is looking for substantial expense cuts throughout the company by early summer.
What is different about the current skein of meetings is that it’s not classic bargaining: The Strib imported Restructuring Associates Inc. as a mediator to find a common way forward before the union’s contract expires this summer. Formal bargaining will commence at some point. Next week, union leadership will meet with Strib employees to assess whether they should participate in this pre-bargaining or go right to the mattresses.
As reported here previously
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Reports that army has entered northern city, near oil refinery where troops have been under siege by ISIL for months.
Iraqi military forces have reached
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the centre of the northern oil city of Beiji to try to break a siege by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on the country's biggest refinery, a colonel and a witness have told the Reuters news agency.
The armed ISIL group captured Beiji city in June during a lightning advance through northern Iraq.
Since then, they have surrounded the oil refinery and halted its production while a detachment of government troops has held out for months under siege inside it.
A military colonel told the Reuters news agency on Sunday that Iraqi troops entered the a city of about 200,000 people from the south and west, and took over the al-Tamim neighbourhood and city centre.
ISIL had placed bombs along roads in Beiji and deployed snipers to keep government forces from advancing, tactics used in other cities held by the group.
"There are IEDs [improvised explosive devices] and snipers that are slowing down the advance, but the presence of the air
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A promotional material on how to download and use the Bola Raya app.
KUALA LUMPUR: This year, Maxis
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is proud to bring the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ to more Malaysians on both Astro GO and RTM, making it easier for customers to catch all the action across all screens – whether on television or on their mobile device.
The World Cup is not just about football, but one of the world’s biggest sporting events that bring people together.
Both Maxis and Hotlink customers can purchase Astro World Cup match passes from as low as RM1 per match to watch any, or all, of the 64 matches in LIVE and in full HD anytime, anywhere.
Best of all, data to stream the game will be free so Maxis and Hotlink customers can enjoy it completely worry-free on the country’s No 1 4G network.
Maxis is also proud to be the lead broadcast sponsor for RTM’s coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™. RTM will broadcast 41 matches, out of which 28 will be live and 13 delayed
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Six people are dead and a dozen are injured after a packed Metro-North train hit a car on the tracks in Westchester on Tuesday night.
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A 5:44 p.m. train from Grand Central was heading north on the Harlem line when it struck a Jeep Cherokee at a railroad crossing in Valhalla at about 6:30 p.m. The Jeep was pushed up the tracks about 400 feet, then the vehicle and the first train car burst into flames. The Jeep driver and five people — revised down from six — on the train were killed, making it the deadliest accident in Metro-North’s history. “This is a truly ugly and brutal sight,” Governor Andrew Cuomo said while touring the crash site.
Authorities say the Jeep stopped on the tracks, and the railroad crossing gates came down around it. The driver got out to look at the back of the car, then got back in and tried to drive forward. That’s when she was struck by the train. Ryan Cottrell, assistant director of the nearby rock-climbing gym the Cliffs, said he was looking out the window
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Check out 15 ways to grow your business and get it at the top of Google rankings.
SEO and content marketing are becoming more aligned every
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day. Search engines are increasingly focused on the same user engagement signals content marketers track, and content marketers urgently want the free traffic SEO can bring.
Thinking about using content marketing for your business? Not sure about where to start with SEO? This is for you.
1) Think of keywords more like concepts than fixed phrases.
The days of stuffing keywords into a page in order to rank are over. The days of picking just one keyword and optimizing exclusively for that keyword are about to end, too.
Don’t get me wrong. Keywords still matter, but they’re more flexible than they were in the past. That’s why many SEO experts urge us to think of keywords more as concepts or topics rather than static phrases.
As you’re doing your keyword research, pick one core keyword for each piece of content. Think about how others might search for that keyword and work those variations into your content.
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SUMMIT COUNTY ” Along with the four local towns, Summit County is also a player in the affordable housing game. Assistant county manager Steve
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Hill said the county’s role is to coordinate efforts among the various entities and to provide an overview of a countywide affordable housing strategy.
“We’re trying to track what different folks are doing,” said assistant county manager Steve Hill. The idea is to make sure that the different entities aren’t shooting at the same target, Hill said.
“We also want to try and factor in what the private market is doing. We’re just a few steps behind,” Hill said. The county’s research could help show exactly what types of units are needed and identify which should have priority when it comes to actually building them, Hill said.
Some of the information is included in a comprehensive housing needs assessment completed by a consultant. But it’s important to “drill down” and be as specific as possible, said Breckenridge town manager Tim Gagen.
If, for example, there
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BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | The view of downtown Riverhead from Robert James Salon on East Main Street.
JVC Media
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, which owns local radio stations 98.5, 96.1, 105.3 and 103.9 —the last of which was once in Riverhead — is considering moving its studios to downtown Riverhead, the company’s owner told the News-Review Thursday.
The stations, which operate under the call names WBON, WJVC, WRCN, and WPTY, are currently housed in the company’s Ronkonkoma studio, though owner John Caracciolo said he is considering buying or leasing space in downtown Riverhead. He said he visited the area Wednesday to scout locations and has met with Riverhead Business Improvement District officials.
“I think Riverhead really has a lot of potential,” Mr. Caracciolo said, adding he would be open to buying a building if it was priced right.
His vision for the station includes a large window where passersby could see disc jockeys at work, he said.
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Oracle has integrated its software into the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance line for a new generation of the systems that also doubles storage capacity and triples
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processing power, the company said on Monday at Oracle OpenWorld.
The appliances use a hybrid storage architecture that incorporates both hard disk drives and SSDs (solid-state drives) in order to ensure fast access to data. In the new generation, they are also integrated with Oracle's database, applications, Fusion Middleware, Oracle Linux and Solaris operating systems and Oracle VM, in order to provide high performance in enterprise business systems, Oracle said in a press release.
Sun's ZFS storage line has long been built around standard Intel processors with both SSDs and spinning disks, an architecture the company has said can balance performance with cost. Its ZFS (Zettabyte File System) is designed to provide detailed information about the use of the platform.
ZFS was a prize from Sun's storage division, one of the company's smaller divisions, when Oracle acquired Sun earlier this year, according to some industry observers. Oracle is now tying the products of that acquisition to its own offerings in
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Ordinary mortals might not be able to own a real Bugatti supercar but the new Lego version is just as much an engineering marvel.
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Billund in Denmark has no business having an international airport. The tiny town has a population of just six thousand people and yet there are four flights a day to the UK alone. There is one reason, and one reason alone, for this: Lego. Billund has been dedicated to the manufacture and promotion of Lego bricks ever since they were first invented in 1949, and the town now houses not only the company’s headquarters and the majority of the world’s Lego factories but also the first Legoland theme park and the newer Lego House – a cross between an activity centre and a museum.
It’s there that the world’s press were invited late last week, to unveil the company’s latest collaboration with a fellow household name: car maker Bugatti.
Lego’s business may seem like child’s play but they last year regained the accolade of the world’s most powerful brand, denied to it by Disney in 2016
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It comes as no surprise to me, an old man by any measure, that women are standing out as profiles in courage on the current political scene
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. Heidi Heitkamp, U.S. senator from North Dakota, bucked the prevailing public attitude in her state by voting against a Supreme Court nominee whose public display of injudicious temperament and whose lack of candor in nomination hearings seemed inappropriate for the nation’s highest court. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, both Republicans, have been willing to buck their party’s leadership by working across the aisle and taking more moderate positions on issue after issue.
Randy Hultgren, representing Illinois’ 14th Congressional District, has been a good and faithful soldier for the Trump Republican party, siding reliably with the President despite avoiding being identified as a blatant trumpeteer.
His only noteworthy reach across the aisle was an apparent greenwash effort partnering with a democratic colleague to join the Climate Solutions Caucus while simultaneously voting for a measure to prevent the government from funding any such solutions.
His opponent, Lauren Underwood, I predict, is going to be part of the
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To Help During Shutdown, Man Mows Lawn Around Lincoln Memorial : The Two-Way Chris Cox said he was not making a political statement. "
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At the end of the day, we are the stewards of these buildings that are memorials," Cox said.
Chris Cox of Mount Pleasant, S.C., pushes a cart near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, on Wednesday.
Because of the partial government shutdown, most of the monumental core in Washington, D.C. is not being maintained.
That means that icons like the Lincoln Memorial and its Reflecting Pool look a little less majestic.
But, today, a South Carolina man, took matters into his own hands and made news by doing what the government won't do.
As The Washington Post reports, Chris Cox, 45, bought an old lawn mower and a leaf blower and got to work, making sure the lawn was nice and kempt and some fallen tree limbs were moved out of the way.
"These are our memorials. Do they think that we're just going to let them go to hell? No," Cox told All-News 99
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I can't read the news anymore…I gave up on watching it many moons ago. I have a tendency to get angry and throw things.
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Frankly I have several pairs of shoes that consist of only one shoe as the other has never been recovered from the appliance at which it was hurled. It hurts the appliances, too.
As if the headline were not enough to incite a shoe toss, the introduction was fail-safe.
"Dalila and William Timal look like any other couple signing a home mortgage. They've picked out paint colors for their new four-bedroom house in Indianapolis and can't wait for their 18-month-old son to play in the yard.
But they differ in one way from many others you'd see at a loan officer's desk: Neither is a U.S. citizen or legal resident. The Timals came to this country from Guatemala in the late '90s and illegally overstayed their visas."
Aww, isn't that sweet? The ickle Timal family from Guatemala just overstayed their visas—like, for ten years —and lucky day; we
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The Miz Ronda Trash Talking WWE... is a GOOD Thing!!
Ronda Rousey giving a big middle finger to her employer is exactly what
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she shoulda done... so says The Miz, who tells TMZ Sports her anti-wrestling rant was MONEY.
She also went off on fans, her coworkers, people from Ohio... basically anyone she could think of, Ronda put in a metaphorical body bag.
The whole rant was crazy... and some people think Ronda went TOO far... but The Miz says it was perfect.
"She's making noise, she's making headlines and you're talking about her, so everything's working about it," The Miz says... adding that it's great hype leading into the year's biggest event.
"It's WrestleMania season. You do whatever you have to do to get people watching... right now, she's doing exactly that."
The Miz says all signs point to Ronda being part of the main event at WrestleMania 35... and the rant certainly helped generate buzz.
We also asked about Ronda's hubby getting in on the action at '
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A deadly assault by Shi’ite Houthi rebels on a Salafi Islamic school planted in their mountain
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heartland could ignite wider sectarian conflict in Yemen, where instability has already helped al Qaeda militants to take root.
The Houthis, who belong to the Zaydi branch of Shi’ite Islam, have bombarded the sprawling Dar al-Hadith seminary in Dammaj village for two weeks, killing at least 100 people.
Late on Tuesday, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular (AQAP) pledged revenge for the assault.
Political rivalries may have helped to start the violence, but the struggle over a Salafi outpost deep in Houthi territory is also part of a regional contest between Shi’ite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia that has been sharpened by the war in Syria.
Zaydis have for years been alarmed by young Sunnis flocking to Dar al-Hadith, in the northern province of Saada, to study ultra-orthodox Salafi doctrines that cast Shi’ites as heretics.
Houthi militants,
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Avoiding malware on our smartphones and computers is pretty easy: just don’t install apps or visit suspicious sounding and looking websites. Granted this
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isn’t a guarantee that you can’t get infected, but usually practicing such habits can help. Unfortunately for owners of certain Alcatel handsets, their phones actually came with malware preinstalled.
This is according to a report from ZDNet who obtained a report published by a UK mobile security firm called Upstream, found that a weather app named “Weather Forecast-World Weather Accurate Radar” actually had malware in it, in which it subscribed owners of devices the app was installed on to premium phone numbers without their knowledge. What’s even more damning is the fact that the app seems to have been developed by TCL who actually makes the Alcatel phones.
Now to TCL’s credit, the app was not created with malicious intent and it seems that at some point in time, it managed to get compromised and infected with malware. Prior to that the app had actually been available via Google’s Play Store which means that Google
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Fixed deposit or FD interest rates of SBI or State Bank of India range from 5.75 per cent to 6.85 per cent.
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Senior citizens get FD interest rate of 7.20% on deposits below Rs 1 crore for 1 year from SBI.
Fixed deposit (FD) interest rates paid by SBI or State Bank of India range from 5.75 per cent to 6.85 per cent. However, small finance banks such as Jana Small Finance Bank, Equitas Small Finance Bank and AU Small Finance Bank provide interest rates up to 9.1 per cent on FDs, much higher than their larger peers. Consider this: on amounts below Rs 1 crore, SBI offers an FD interest rate of 6.70 per cent to general citizens for one year. However, on the same amount and maturity period, Jana Small Finance Bank and Equitas Small Finance Bank pays an interest rate of 8 per cent each while AU Small Finance Bank pays 7 per cent to the general public.
Senior citizens with fixed deposit accounts in SBI earn an FD interest rate of 7.20 per cent on deposits below Rs 1 crore
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Review Tod's answers to staff and reader questions.
Deborah and I will celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary this year. We met in
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College at Kent State University and were married one week after we graduated. We are blessed with two wonderful children - a sophomore daughter and a 7th grade son. My wife is a 8 year U.S. Army Vet and is a current local elementary school teacher.
My education is a precise fit for my role as Your County Commissioner. I have a bachelor's degree in Business Management from Kent State University (1990) and a master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Tennessee (1994).
Currently I work as your County Commissioner. In addition, I own a small private practice firm in Port St. Lucie specializing in Land Planning and Landscape Architecture.
Prior to my private sector work, I provided close to 10 years of service in Michigan and Florida working as both an assistant city manager and a city manager. My Michigan municipal experiences taught me how to work through very tough economic conditions in both urban and rural environments. While in Jupiter, I coordinated the successful $670 Million
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UWF's Chandler Blanchet won the Division II men's golf individual national championship on Wednesday.
Call it fate. Call it karma.
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Whatever it was, Chandler Blanchet has added his name to a very short list in the University of West Florida record books.
The Argos' junior standout won the Division II men's golf individual national championship on Wednesday at Reunion Resort in Kissimmee, becoming just the second person in school history to accomplish that feat.
"He's had an incredible year and is one of the best I've seen in college golf," said UWF head coach Steve Fell in a press release. "It's just phenomenal what he's done this season.... To be a national champion you have to be a special player and he is. He’s a different kid and has the mentality and demeanor of a tour pro and it shows out there."
Blanchet joins Orjan Larsen as the only Argos in school history to win the men's golf individual national championship. Larsen won the 1998 title by eight shots.
Trailing by three strokes with three holes to play
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The industrial action will affect Northern services in Yorkshire on Wednesday May 9 and a limited timetable is likely to be running.
Staff have walked out several
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times over the past two years and the issue is now Britain's longest industrial dispute.
They are objecting to plans to reduce the number of guards on services and switch to a driver-operated system.
Why is more not being done to end strike action on Yorkshire's railways?
“Yet again the intransigence of private rail companies operating in England over the key issue of the guard guarantee means that we have no option but to announce further strike action in the separate disputes on Arriva Rail North, Greater Anglia and South Western Railway.
“With RMT members protesting outside Parliament today we are drawing attention to the ludicrous situation that means we are able to reach agreements in Wales and Scotland on the guard guarantee but not on a raft of key franchises in England. If it’s good enough for Wales and Scotland to put rail safety first then it should be good enough for the rest of Britain.
“We have long detected the dead hand of the Government interfering
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Titan infielder Brody Rich makes a break for first base as the Roadrunners first baseman Luke Rappe catches a pass during Friday's Lane
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versus Linn-Benton match-up at PK Park on April 1. Rich, a 5' 10” sophomore from West Weber, Utah, had four times at bat, one hit, and one RBI in the first game. The Lane Titans would go on to win with a one score shutout in the bottom of the fifth against the Linn-Benton Roadrunners 1-0.
Titan pitcher Cooper Webster winds up and fires a pitch during Friday’s Lane versus Linn-Benton match-up at PK Park on April 1. Webster, a 5′ 11” freshman from Milwaukie, Oregon, had five innings pitched, two strikeouts, and one walk in the second game. The Lane Titans would go on to win by one point in the bottom of the sixth against the Linn-Benton Roadrunners 2-1.
Titan outfielder Skyelor Ishikawa anxiously waits in the bullpen for his turn at bat during Friday
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The global economic recovery has run out of steam, reveals ACCA's (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) latest Global Economic Conditions survey
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, with confidence taking a hit and a return to solid economic growth moving further away.
This is despite important improvements in conditions on the ground across most of ACCA’s risk indicators – especially the outlook for employment and investment – and even modest gains in the popularity of government actions to deal with economic turbulence.
opportunities for their organisations as consumption in debt-laden wealthy countries refuses to keep up and governments roll back their support for businesses.
- Business confidence levels have also eased. Only a third now report any business gains at all, while 28 per cent report losses of confidence. Only 29 per cent of respondents adjusted their expectations of their organisations’ incomes upwards in the first quarter of 2010, down from 32 per cent in 2009.
- Accountants have adjusted their views about the duration of the recovery – only 15 per cent now believe the recovery has less than a year to run, down from 18 per cent in late 2009.
Although one in two respondents predicted that the
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Missed the spring planting season? It's not too late to plant.
The Chicago Botanic Garden staff continues to plant all summer long —
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there is not enough time to get all the planting done only in the spring and fall.
I have been doing a lot of traveling and missed the spring planting season and am wondering if it is OK to still do some planting. There is some very hot weather in the forecast, and I worry about how the new plants will fare.
Some gardeners have the opinion that one should only plant in the spring and fall. There is no reason to stop planting during the summer, in my opinion, and I have always gotten good results doing so. The Chicago Botanic Garden staff continues to plant all summer long — there is not enough time to get all the planting done only in the spring and fall.
The garden centers that I have been shopping at recently all still have a great selection of plants grown in containers and balled and burlapped trees and shrubs. The balled and burlapped trees and shrubs are typically dug in late winter/early spring while dormant and held above
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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE – Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa today that condoms were not the answer in the continent
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's fight against HIV. It was his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with AIDS patients.
Benedict had never directly addressed condom use. He has said that the Roman Catholic Church is in the forefront of the battle against AIDS. The Vatican encourages sexual abstinence to fight the spread of the disease.
Some priests and nuns working with those living with HIV/AIDS question the church's opposition to condoms amid the pandemic ravaging Africa.
Benedict's first papal trip to Africa will take him to Cameroon and Angola. Africa is the fastest-growing region for the Roman Catholic Church, though it competes with Islam and evangelical churches.
The pope also said today that he intends to make an appeal for "international solidarity" for Africa in the face of the global economic downturn.
He said that while the church does not propose specific economic solutions, it can give "spiritual and moral" suggestions.
Describing the current crisis as the consequence of
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Four And One Half Furlongs - BEATEN CLAIMING $5,000. -Purse $10,100. For Three
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Year Olds and Upward Which Have Not Won A Race Since September 27, 2016 or Which Have Never Won Four Races.
4 - Unbridled Critic has been sharp of late. Is coming off layoff, but loves this distance.
6 - Easy Topper has won two of last three starts, gets the very godo Tracy Hebert aboard.
8 - Praksis has been consistent in career and loves this distance.
Exacta/Trifecta/$.10 Superfecta Five And One Half Furlongs - MAIDEN. - Purse $24,500. (Includes $3,000 from NMHBA Fund) For Registered New Mexico Bred Maidens, Fillies And Mares Three Years Old and Upward.
5 - Heavens Warning has hit theboard in all three starts. Likes the distance and gets very good jockey aboard.
4 - Miss Nobility has hit the board in 6 of 7 starts,
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Horsham are facing their toughest month of the season in February and go into it with no margin for error, according to manager Dominic Di Pa
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ola.
The Bostik League South East Division play-off race remains as tight as ever after the weekend’s results.
The Hornets emerged from a bruising encounter with a narrow 1-0 home win over Ramsgate to remain fourth in the table.
They have narrowed the gap on second-placed Hastings United to just four points, trail Ashford United in third by a point and are three ahead of Whyteleafe in the final play-off place.
Di Paola has been wary of their games in February for a while and has previously said it could make or break their promotion push.
They travel to East Grinstead on Saturday and host Hastings on Tuesday night. The following weekends see a trip to VCD Athletic, a home game against Three Bridges and a clash at Whitstable Town.
Di Paola stressed: “It’s a really tough February. We have Hastings and VCD Athletic in there. It’s probably our toughest month
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SINGAPORE - It appears there are two truths to living in Singapore - do not mess with a food order and when a dispute erupts
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, call the police.
And so it was on Thursday (Nov 9) at 11.30am when a woman, who wanted to be known only as Madam Xu, ordered a plate of wanton mee with char siew from a stall at the hawker centre at Pasir Ris MRT station. After she ate the noodles, it hit her that the meat tasted like chicken.
Shin Min Daily News reported on Saturday that she questioned the male employee who sold her the dish.
"I just asked him if the char siew was chicken, and he started shouting at me and repeatedly scolding me with vulgarities, making me very angry," said the 65-year-old retiree, who called the police.
The signs at the shop show "Chicken Wanton Noodle" and "Chicken Char Siew Rice" in bright colours, and in English and Chinese. Char siew usually is made with pork.
The police told The Straits Times on
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MONTREAL—Dear Ontario voters, proportional representation could soon be coming to a province near you. While electoral reform is not on the radar
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of the ongoing provincial campaign, the reverse will be true when Quebec goes to the polls in the fall.
Earlier this month, three of the four parties in the National Assembly including the currently leading Coalition Avenir Québec signed an electoral-reform pact.
Should one of them win the Oct. 1 vote, its government would be honour-bound to introduce legislation within its first year in office to move Quebec to a mixed-proportional voting system. The pact is not legally binding but it does bear the signature of the party leaders.
Under the scenario of an opposition victory, Quebec could presumably vault over British Columbia — where a plebiscite on electoral reform will be held next fall — and become the first province to cross the finish line to a proportional voting system.
But did we not just see this movie at the federal level and did it not end on an unhappy note for electoral reform proponents?
There are two major differences between the Quebec bid to make the fall election
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The whole release of Fortnite for Android outside of the Google Play eco-system has caused some consternation over security.
Google has
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made it easier for Fortnite fans to not fall for fake listings by noting that the game isn't available on Google Play Store yet. Unlike most developers who rely on the Google Play Store for distribution of their apps, Epic feels that Fortnite can draw enough interest to allow them to avoid needing a third party distributor. You'll leap out of the Battle Bus with a huge grin on your face, get oh-so-close to shooting the first unsuspecting player you see, and have the game quit out within a few seconds of you landing on the ground.
XDA-Developers explains that when people sign up to the beta, their Pixel downloads an app that replaces a placeholder app, making everything work just fine.
While this move will make Epic Games more money than otherwise, it will also set up a unsafe precedent for Google. The web Play Store does not have this feature, though.
With the Android launch finally upon us, we project that, based on Sensor Tower Store
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The Canadian government has made immediate changes to the Aeronautical Act, including restricting recreational drone flying height to 90 metres.
Canada is bringing in
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strict measures for the recreational use of drones, with Transport Minister Marc Garneau announcing new restrictions on Thursday to curb the number of incidents in which recreational drones have flown too close to planes.
Under the new restrictions announced as part of the Aeronautical Act, recreational drone -- or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) -- operators must now mark their devices with contact information, and cannot fly them at night or in cloudy conditions.
Drones are now also not allowed to fly higher than 90 metres; within 75 metres of buildings, vehicles, or people; within 9 kilometres of airports, heliports, seaplane bases, or anywhere aircraft take off and land; within controlled or restricted airspaces; within 9 kilometres of a forest fire where it could interfere with police or first responders; and if operators are not within 500 metres of their drone.
Penalties include fines of up to CA$3,000 for individuals and up to CA$15,000 for corporations for failing to follow the
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Janet Lim-Napoles had more than P500 million in a savings and loan cooperative of members of the Philippine Air Force (PAF)
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deposits under her name, her husband, children and employees allegedly running dummy nongovernment organizations (NGO) siphoning state funds through ghost projects.
Lawyer Levi Baligod said whistle-blower Benhur Luy had the complete records of funds Napoles had amassed from profits of her bogus NGOs that were pumped into Air Materiel Wing Savings and Loan Association Inc. (AMWSLAI) through the help of the thrift association’s president and chair, Ricardo L. Nolasco Jr.
“There are questions on whether Napoles and the persons she used were eligible and whether these investments were in keeping with AMWSLAI’s limits on deposits,” Baligod said in an interview.
The Inquirer called Nolasco’s office, his personal staff and compliance officer Ronald Dominguez for comment on this report but he had not replied as of press time.
Baligod said Napoles wanted to
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IT’S not very often these pages are graced by a 335-year-old house, but then, Glencastle House, Co
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Waterford, is no ordinary property.
Built in 1676 during the restoration of King Charles 11, its construction date is confirmed by a plaque on the wall, along with the name of its owner, Ian Francis Everett.
Little is known of Everett other than he took possession of a fine chunk of rich farmland along the Suir as a reward for crushing a rebellion in the north. And this within 25 years of Cromwell’s campaign in Ireland. The Lord Protector may even have marched along this part of the river on the way to take Carrick on Suir.
The house Everett built, while in the Dutch style, is a simple, well-to-do farmer’s dwelling rather than an aristocratic status symbol and in that sense, it’s pretty rare.
Set on the bank of the Suir, with valuable fishing rights, you could almost fish out of the windows. With the river running fast nearby, you would imagine that as a result
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Some conservative bloggers took this to mean that President Obama ordered the removal of the flag.
This administration and, by extension, the Democrat Party are
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now so thoroughly divorced from the history, traditions and morals of America that we might as well admit the Marxist left has executed a successful coup d'état on this Republic.
What an absolutely pitiful little manchild Obama is. As if turning his back on Debra Burlingame (sister of Charles Burlingame who piloted the plane that went down at the Pentagon during 9/11) wasn't pitiful enough. Now we learn that the Obama regime had an American flag removed from the live shot of his photo op at Ground Zero today.
Does flying the American flag at Ground Zero now constitute "spiking the football???"
According to the Drudge Report Archives, Drudge ran a headline reading, "REPORT: Team Obama takes down US flag before Ground Zero event..." which linked to Tapper's tweet.
One problem. It isn't true. Multiple photos show that the flag was on full display when Obama arrived at Ground Zero. Tapper's tweet
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Turkeys, family, and football: Great articles about Thanksgiving.
Wild turkeys, crazy relatives, and beloved rituals.
Is there a
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way to keep the Black Friday crowds safe?
The origins of the term Black Friday are obscure. Some think that it was first used by the police in Philadelphia to describe the snarled traffic and sidewalk hassles that came with the day after Thanksgiving and crowds arriving for the city’s annual Army-Navy game. Others have defined Black Friday as the day that merchants’ balance sheets crossed over into the black. Either way, it is now a de-facto national shopping holiday. On TV, images of people racing through the aisles of stores for sale-priced items, in a sort of American Pamplona, have become as much a part of the day after Thanksgiving as leftovers. Shoppers get discounts, programmers get some lively content for a slow news day, and retailers get free publicity: a good deal for everyone, except for the clerks who have to work that day, breaking up fights among shoppers and cleaning up the mess left behind.
How
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CHICO — Composting will be the topic for the next Butte Rose Society meeting, at 7 p.m. March 26, at
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the Chico Veterans Memorial Hall, 554 Rio Lindo Ave.
With spring being the time to fertilize, the month’s topic will be composting, with speaker Ward Habriel of Paradise.
Habriel has been a master composter since 1996 through the Alameda County Office of Education. He has been employed as an environmental educator for Stopwaste.org, and managed organic gardens in the Bay Area, as well as demonstrating different types of compost bins and methods.
He has presented composting information through various programs in schools, home and garden shows, and community meetings.
Habriel is president of the Paradise Garden Club, and on the board of California Garden Clubs and Pacific Region Garden Clubs, and vice chair of Butte County Fire Safe Council. He has been involved in firewise landscaping, water conservation and green building.
April Fool’s is the theme of the meeting, and visitors should expect a few surprises, according to the program
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The Eagle County Fair and Rodeo dates back to 1939 when hundreds of folks from the region came to the county seat to share in a day
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of competition and camaraderie. Along with the ropin’ and wranglin’ the 4-H exhibits featured livestock, arts and crafts. Housed in the Eagle River Center, the 4-H exhibits are not to be missed today. This is where the hard work and dedication of local youth comes to fruition.
4-H is the largest youth development organization in the nation, helping youngsters pursue interests that range from photography to computers, but we checked in with those raising everything from steers, sheep, chickens, pigs, even bunnies at this year’s fair. These kids have worked countless hours to raise an animal worthy of the annual auction. This dedication to tend to and care for some living being other than oneself speaks volumes to the character these kids possess. The 4-H emblem is the four-leaf clover, which stands for Head, Heart, Hands and Health and these kids exemplify all of these qualities.
Logan Story is
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Buying advertising can be expensive and creating the ads can also be a time-consuming and difficult process. While there's no doubt that advertising and
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other traditional marketing efforts can be helpful in growing your client base, knowing what options are available and which are the most effective can often be the biggest challenge to a small business owner.
1. Effectiveness. A recent study by the Direct Marketing Association notes that every dollar spent on e-mail marketing has a return of $45 to $51. You'll still be competing with other businesses for your customers' attention, but the study shows that open rates for e-mail marketing pieces are 10 times higher than conventional direct mail.
2. Ease. Anyone with basic computer skills can build an e-mail list and compose an e-mail to send out to customers. However, business owners should take care to not send out poorly developed, poorly designed or irrelevant messages which can cause your customers to turn away from your business. If you need help, consider services that offer e-mail marketing software services to help you get started. Providers, such as Easy Contact (www.easycontact
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“We have filed a criminal complaint to inform the prosecutor of certain irregularities in violation of environmental law that have occurred in the heart of the Ministry
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of the Environment which is involved with authorizations of projects,” said attorney Raúl Montenegro.
The construction at the site has been suspended until an environmental assessment is completed to determine the plant’s future impact on the area. Local newspaper La Voz reported that the environmental study could be completed as soon as early February.
The multinational company said it will appeal the decision. “We consider our right to build legitimate since we have complied with all legal requirements and have obtained authorization to build according to the regulations,” said Monsanto’s statement.
The company stated that it already conducted an environmental assessment, which is currently under the review by the provincial Secretary of the Environment.
Activists had been blockading the construction site for 113 days, preventing workers from completing work on the plant.
In October a new report revealed that pesticides sold by Monsanto are linked to health problems ranging from birth defects to elevated rates of cancer in Argentina. A lack of regulations has
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The National Council of Resistance of Iran exposed Iran's uranium enrichment plant at Natanz and a heavy water facility at Arak in 2002.
An
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exiled Iranian opposition group said on Thursday a delegation of North Korean experts in nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles visited a military site near Tehran in April amid talks between world powers and Iran over its nuclear program.
The dissident National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) exposed Iran's uranium enrichment plant at Natanz and a heavy water facility at Arak in 2002. But analysts say it has a mixed track record and a clear political agenda. Iran says allegations of nuclear bomb research are baseless and forged by its enemies.
Iran and six world powers are trying to meet a self-imposed June 30 deadline to reach a comprehensive deal, but issues remain including the monitoring and verification measures to ensure Iran could not pursue a clandestine nuclear weapons program.
Citing information from sources inside Iran, including within Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Paris-based NCRI said the seven person North Korean Defense Ministry team were in Iran for the last week of April. It was the third time in 2015 that North Koreans had
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Samsung's Notebook 9 Pen is a nice example of the company taking what works on the smartphone and bringing it to a larger screen. But Samsung
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also misses opportunities to connect its broader product roadmap to its laptops.
Samsung has powered-up its Smart TV experience with a 'One Remote' control and an upgraded voice recognition feature that will allow consumers to use smart features more smartly, says its development team.
Samsung latest laptop lineup led by the Notebook 9 Pen is notable, but misses key opportunities on multiple fronts to provide connective tissue between its products and services.
The reviews of the Notebook 9 Pen are in, and most tout Samsung's use of the S Pen stylus as a bridge to the Galaxy Note 8, but they also gripe about the overall design.
The Good: The Samsung Notebook 9 Pen is extremely light but powerful, has plenty of ports, multiple biometric security features and includes Samsung's excellent S Pen stylus.
The Bad: Especially for a premium-priced laptop, the design is bland. Battery life is merely OK. The stylus feels better suited for a small phone screen
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Computer chips are arguably both the most complex things ever mass produced by humans and the most disruptive to our lives.
So it's remarkable that the
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extraordinary pace they have evolved at was in large part influenced by a three-page article published 50 years ago this weekend.
It noted that the maximum number of components that manufacturers could "cram" onto a sliver of silicon - before which the rising risk of failure made it uneconomic to add more - was doubling at a regular pace.
Its author, Gordon Moore, suggested this could be extrapolated to forecast the rate at which more complicated chips could be built at affordable costs.
The insight - later referred to as Moore's Law - became the bedrock for the computer processor industry, giving engineers and their managers a target to hit.
Intel - the firm Mr Moore went on to co-found - says the law will have an even more dramatic impact on the next 20 years than the last five decades put together.
But could its time be more limited?
Although dubbed a "law", computing's pace of change has been driven by human ingenuity rather than any fixed rule of physics
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MANILA, Philippines — The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Bohol and other parts of the Visay
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as and Mindanao rose to 85, police said Tuesday, as more reports trickled in about toppled buildings and historic churches near the epicenter.
Bohol police chief Dennis Agustin said that over 60 of the deaths came from the province, where the quake hit near the town of Carmen. At least 16 others died in nearby Cebu province and another on Siquijor Island.
Meanwhile, in a text message to reporters, Police Officer 3 Carl John Legazpi, operations clerk of the Bohol provincial office, said that there were 62 fatalities from several towns in Bohol.
The quake struck at 8:12 a.m. and was centered about 33 kilometers (20 miles) below Carmen on Bohol Island, where many buildings collapsed, roads cracked up and bridges fell.
“We ran out of the building, and outside, we hugged trees because the tremors were so strong,” said Vilma Yorong, a provincial government employee
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Despite modern advancements in photography making it easy for every man, woman, and child to get their Annie Leibovitz on, taking breathtaking photos
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isn’t always quite as simple as just hitting the shutter button. To make the most of your camera, you should understand a wide range of prerequisites, skills, and advanced functions in order to get terrific-looking photographs. One of those skills can mean the difference between capturing a blurred mess and a sharp stunner: autofocus.
Perhaps one of the most important steps to taking beautiful photography lies with understanding how your camera’s focusing system works. All cameras — whether you own a high-end or an entry-level interchangeable lens model — feature a collection of autofocus (AF) sensors and processors that work tirelessly to focus on a subject or object.
To help you get a better understanding of autofocus systems, we’ve put together this simple rundown on how these features work and when to use each autofocus mode. We can’t guarantee reading our guide will allow you to achieve National Geographic acclaim, but it’s a
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Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is a complication of a strep throat caused by particular strains of group A beta-haem
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olytic streptococci.
Although common in developing countries, ARF is rare in the United States, with small isolated outbreaks reported only occasionally. It is most common among children between 5-15 years of age. A family history of ARF may predispose an individual to the disease.
Symptoms typically occur 18 days after an untreated strep throat. An acute attack lasts approximately 3 months. The most common clinical finding is a migratory arthritis involving multiple joints.
The most serious complication is carditis, or heart inflammation (rheumatic heart disease), as this may lead to chronic heart disease and disability or death years after an attack. Less common findings include bumps or nodules under the skin (usually over the spine or other bony areas) and a red expanding rash on the trunk and extremities that recurs over weeks to months. Because of the different ways ARF presents itself, the disease may be difficult to diagnose. A neurological disorder, chorea, can occur
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Guardian News and Media, publisher of the Guardian and Observer titles, has revealed its mean gender pay gap is 11.3 per cent favouring
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men.
Among the group’s editorial employees, the mean gap falls to 7.4 per cent.
In non-editorial departments, where the Guardian said there was a “a higher proportion of men in the highest paid roles”, the mean gap was 17.2 per cent.
This compares to a national average mean gender pay gap of 17.4 per cent.
ITN, which also published its gender pay gap report today, revealed a 19.6 per cent mean gender pay gap. The BBC’s gender pay gap is 9.3 per cent, while PA’s is 0.8 per cent.
GNM employs 1,557 people in the UK, of which 876 are men and 681 are women.
The pay data published in today’s report includes full and part-time staff and casual workers, but not freelances.
It shows that of the 390 staff in the group’s highest
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Most liquor stores are owner-operated, and Sunday was owners’ only day off. They also had to pay an increased liquor license fee to
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open on Sunday.
Liquor store owners in Warner Robins were even more strongly against opening on Sunday. For the first couple of months after sales were allowed, not one liquor store opened on Sunday. However, it wasn’t long before the ranks began to break. Now 11 of the 12 package stores in Warner Robins are open on Sunday. The only holdout is Top Shelf Liquor on South Houston Lake Road.
The city of Warner Robins actually changed its ordinance to accommodate stores that didn’t want to open on Sunday. Originally, after the referendum passed in November, council raised the liquor license fee from $4,500 to $5,000 to account for the extra day of sales.
But when it became clear stores didn’t want to open on Sunday, council changed it, so store owners only had to pay the extra fee if they did open on Sunday. Since that time, owners have come in and paid the extra $500
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LEXINGTON – In the state rankings posted by Scott Gerber at OhioTennisZone.com, Lexington is No. 9 in Division II
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as it prepares for its own invitational Saturday and a 16-team field that includes seven other ranked teams.
But the standings that matter most to Lex coach Ron Schaub are where his girls finish in the Ohio Cardinal Conference.
Lex's 14-year reign as the only program to win the OCC came to an end last fall when Ashland used better top to bottom depth to prevail by 1.5 points.
Getting back on top is Lex's mission, led by the senior trio of Sylvia Goldsmith, Hayliegh Tucker and Katie Volz. A huge addition is freshman Gracie Pfieffer, who, truthfully, was ready to play varsity tennis a couple of years ago.
"Sylvia's a good leader, a good captain," Schaub said. "Gracie's real steady and puts a lot of time in. She makes somebody beat her. She'll never beat herself. And Hayliegh and Katie are able to help us in
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Chennai, July 20 (IANS) High on commercial value, the slick trailer of Pawan Kalyan-starrer Telugu
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action-drama "Attarintiki Daaredhi" is a mix of action, comedy, romance and drama in appropriate proportions.
The trailer, which released Friday, promises that the film will entertain audiences when it hits the screens in August.
Directed by Trivikram, who is known for action films such as "Athadu" and "Julayi", "Attarintiki Daaredhi" appears to be an out-and-out entertainer with an apt tagline "celebration of entertainment".
The film will be the second collaboration between Pawan Kalyan and Trivikram after blockbuster Telugu romantic action-drama "Jalsa".
Trivikram hasn't compromised on anything, including special punch lines for Pawan Kalyan, which he mouths in his signature style with a hint of sarcasm.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu is paired opposite Pawan in the film.
"I'm extremely lucky
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Our no. 1 sneaker of 2014 just got a serious upgrade in the form of the adidas Pure Boost ZG Prime.
We first
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previewed this sneaker in January, and now the next-gen of Pure Boost has arrived. This model mixes a full-length Boost midsole with a layer of EVA on the outsole to produce what adidas calls a "floating sensation," hence the 'Zero Gravity' (ZG) part of its name.
That's not the only key feature here, as this version of the Pure Boost ZG also features a Primeknit upper for a cozy and adaptive sock-like fit. It's then finished off with leather tabs at the tongue and heel, adding a premium touch to an otherwise sporty silhouette.
If for some reason this Primeknit variation isn't quite your cup of tea—or out of your budget—there's also a less expensive mesh-based version dropping this summer.
The adidas Pure Boost ZG Prime is now available in black
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Facebook has disabled the Arizona Educators Rank and File Committee group, which was initiated by the WSWS Teacher Newsletter to provide a forum for teachers
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in Arizona and other states to communicate and oppose the betrayal of their struggles by the unions.
These claims are unsubstantiated and patently false. Scores of teachers joined the rank-and-file social media group after the Arizona Education Association (AEA) and its front group, Arizona Educators United (AEU), abruptly announced they were shutting down the strike and accepting the Republican governor’s pay and school funding plan, which teachers just a week previously had overwhelmingly rejected.
Teachers joined the rank-and-file group after the ostensibly “grassroots” AEU began scrubbing any critical comments of teachers from its Facebook page. This followed the AEU’s decision to censor any postings from the World Socialist Web Site and WSWS articles shared by teachers.
The rank-and-file group is currently disabled and under review after group administrators challenged the decision. According to Facebook, groups are only allowed to request a review once. If the company finds the
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Move over Tim Hortons, Montreal's "King of the Food Court" Stanley Ma is swallowing Ontario's second largest coffee and doughnut chain.
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Through a subsidiary of his company, MTY Food Group Inc., Ma is buying Country Style Food Services Inc., owners of 490 Country Style and Buns Master locations.
The move fulfills the mainly Asian-style fast-food operator's goal of entering the coffee market, pitting it against far larger rivals Tim Hortons and Starbucks.
Before the purchase, which closes May 1, MTY owned 24 fast-food chains, including Tiki-Ming, Sushi Shop and Sukiyaki.
Buying Country Style dramatically boosts the number of locations MTY owns to nearly 1,500, up from 1,000.
It also gives the company a far bigger presence in Ontario, where it also owns Yogen Fruz and Cultures.
The purchase price will be disclosed when the deal closes May 1, a spokesperson for MTY said. MTY is expected to pay cash, the spokesperson added.
MTY has no immediate plans to change Country Style
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INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Indiana’s private plan placed top in the
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state and its Medicaid plan shared the top ranking in the recently released National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Health Insurance Plan Ratings 2018-2019.
The annual report rates more than 1,000 commercial, Medicaid and Medicare plans based on consumer satisfaction, prevention and treatment.
In recognizing Anthem, the NCQA evaluated the plan’s performance based on three areas -- consumer satisfaction, prevention and treatment. Anthem’s commercial and Medicaid plans in Indiana both received overall scores of 3.5 out of 5.
The consumer satisfaction scores come from what members say about their health plans in surveys, including feedback about claims processing, their doctors and getting needed care quickly. Prevention measures assess the proportion of eligible members who received preventive services, like prenatal and postpartum care, immunizations and cancer screenings. Treatment measures assess the proportion of eligible members who received the recommended care for conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and depression.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is the trade
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Tyler Bertram, a 2019 recruit, will visit the Dayton Flyers this week, according to a report by ESPN’s Adam Finkelstein
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Bertram, a 6-4 guard, received a scholarship offer from Dayton in March. He’s also visiting Michigan and Loyola this week, according to the report. All three are unofficial visits.
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Bertram will be a senior at Vermont Academy, a private boarding school in Saxtons River, Vt. He ranks 322nd in the class of 2019, according to 247Sports.com.
Bertram is originally from Cooperstown, N.Y., the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. He scored 1,879 points in three seasons at Cooperstown High School, setting the school record for career points before transferring to Vermont Academy and changing his graduation date from 2018 to 2019.
Dayton has two scholarships open for 2018 and could have as many as three
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Responding to widespread anger about spinning off its DVD business, Netflix has dumped Qwikster before it was even out of the gate. Based on
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the news, The New York Times says Netflix’s stock price has moved in a positive direction and Wired has published the image at left. Huzzah!
Subscribers came out in full force when the plan to split the DVD and streaming service was announced just a few weeks ago, with many dropping the service. A blog post (that has comments calling for CEO Reed Hastings’s ouster) has posted and subscribers got an email with the new plan.
“Dear Tonya,” the email reads, “It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.” Price changes will stay the same, but streaming selection will improve, the company says.
The Wall Street Journal calls it Netflix’s “New Coke” moment. And while it doesn’t do a company any good to rile up its
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Legislative Speaker Su Jia-chyuan yesterday bangs his gavel in the Legislative Yuan in Taipei to mark the passage of amendments
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to the Referendum Act.
Lawmakers yesterday approved amendments to the Referendum Act (公民投票法) to lower the legal voting age and slash the thresholds for initiating, seconding and passing referendums.
The Legislative Yuan yesterday reviewed several motions concerning seven disputed draft amendments.
A proposed amendment to Article 2, which states that issues stipulated in the Constitution — such as the nation’s official title and territory — are not to be decided through referendums, was passed with the support of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the People First Party caucuses.
The New Power Party’s (NPP) motion to extend the scope of the act to cover the Constitution’s contents and to allow a new Constitution to be written was struck down.
The amended Article 2 also grants people the right to propose — through a referendum — laws to be considered
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John Ewing was born and raised in Omaha, Neb., where he still resides. He attended the University of Nebraska-Omaha, earning
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a bachelor's degree in business administration and criminal justice and a master's in urban studies.
In 1982, Ewing became an Omaha police officer, serving for 24 years and receiving the department's Distinguished Service Medal in 2000. Ewing rose to the rank of deputy police chief before retiring in 2006, the same year he was elected Douglas County treasurer.
In 2010, he received the NAACP Living Legend Award and was inducted into the Omaha Northwest High School Hall of Fame.
Ewing is also an associate minister at the Salem Baptist Church in Omaha and has worked as an adjunct professor in leadership and ethics at the University of Nebraska-Omaha's School of Public Administration.
Ewing and his wife, Dr. Viv Irving, have two daughters.
John Ewing knows that in 2012 history is not on his side.
The Democrat is the latest in a string of candidates over the last 14 years who have challenged Republican Rep. Lee Terry for Nebraska's 2nd District U.
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WASHINGTON – The cost of the new Capitol Visitor Center (search) could run as high as $559 million, more than double the estimated cost
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when the construction project broke ground in 2000.
The Government Accountability Office (search), the investigative office of Congress, also predicted in an analysis that the opening for the three-floor underground facility, originally scheduled for the end of 2005, would be further delayed. It said current plans to open in the summer of 2006 were optimistic.
The GAO analysis is the latest of several assessments to drive up the price tag of what is the most ambitious and expensive construction project in the history of the Capitol -- larger than the addition of the House and Senate wings in the 1850s.
In concluding that the real costs could be as much as $100 million above the $454 million currently budgeted, the analysis cited management problems for the project, which is being overseen by the architect of the Capitol, and low bid estimates.
Jennifer Hing, spokeswoman for Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., who heads the Appropriations subcommittee responsible for the project's budget, said both Kingston and
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When Michael Fitzgerald first came to New York 21 years ago, he didn’t give the Big Apple much of a chance.
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I had studied jewellery design at NCAD and ran a successful business with a couple of other jewellers on George’s Street while throwing myself into Dublin’s nightlife with great enthusiasm,” he recalls.
“It was 1996 and Dublin was an amazing place. But I thought I’d extend my horizons and try New York on a six month holiday visa. I had been to the World Cup in 1994 and loved NYC,” he says.
Where better than New York to kick start a career in this industry?
New York was just recovering from the ravages of a crack epidemic, which was rampant during the 1980s, so there were cheap rental opportunities across the city.
It was here that he met his wife, also a jewellery maker, with whom he now runs his business. Fitzgerald Jewelry was founded by Fitzgerald and his wife Hiroyo, originally from Japan, as a small studio and workshop in 2001.
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Denver point guard Isaiah Thomas will return to the court and make his debut with the Nuggets against the Sacramento Kings after missing nearly a year.
Utah
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Jazz big man Rudy Gobert broke down in tears when speaking to the media about his snub from the 2019 NBA All-Star Game.
CHARLOTTE -- The Charlotte Hornets will look for their first win over a Western Conference club this season against a team that hasn't lost in a while when they host the streaking Denver Nuggets on Friday night.
Michael Malone has a contract extension, Nikola Jokic inked a max deal in the offseason and Paul Millsap is healthy.
A surgeon told UPI that Isaiah Thomas could have lingering issues with his hip, despite undergoing surgery in March.
Veteran center Channing Frye has agreed to rejoin the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Free agent guard Isaiah Thomas has agreed to a one-year contract with the Denver Nuggets.
BOSTON -- All season long, the Houston Rockets and NBA champion Golden State Warriors ran 1-2 in the Western Conference, eventually ending up in the conference finals with little resistance.
Singer Jordin
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It's another historic day for consumer SSDs. Today Intel begins selling the first consumer NVMe SSD with 4-bit per cell flash technology (
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QLC).
Like 3-bit per cell (TLC) before it, there is a lot of fear surrounding QLC. Will the technology provide enough write endurance, how long will data last on the memory, and the area that terrifies many the most, how much latency will the extra bit add?
We can't answer some of those questions today, but so far the Intel 660p looks really good. It's not a complete game changer, but it's a helluva lot better than we expected. Intel's 64-layer QLC memory uses a slightly faster IO bus speed compared to 64-layer TLC memory. Intel paired the memory with a Silicon Motion, Inc. (SMI) SM2263 controller that is similar to the SM2262, so the application performance is exceptional.
4-bit per cell from Intel stores 33% more data per die over 3-bit per cell media. The technology enables SSD manufacturers to meet aggressive price points.
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Jurassic World's sketchy science: How impossible would it be to splice dinosaur DNA with other animals'?
How Impossible, Actually,
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Is the Dinosaur DNA Splicing in Jurassic World?
The Indominus rex is part raptor, part cuttlefish, part God knows what else.
So now what? To restore a sense of wonder to the jaded masses, we’re going to need something bigger, better, and altogether grander: a dinosaur that can transcend the pesky laws of nature. Armed with test tubes and hubris, scientists set out to design their own, tricking out the T-Rex genome with strands of cuttlefish and tree frog DNA to create a custom-made methuselah: the Indominus rex. After all, why mimic Mother Nature when you can outdo her?
Clearly, there’s a lot here to set off your scientific BS radar. But just how implausible is it to think that we could engineer a mega-creature out of a patchwork of different animals’ DNA?
First off, the idea of designing
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LITTLE ROCK — The amounts of lottery-funded scholarships would increase as students advance through college under a bill that cleared a House committee Wednesday.
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The House Rules Committee endorsed House Bill 1295 by Rep. Jeremy Gillam, R-Judsonia, and Sen. Johnny Key, R-Mountain Home.
Under the bill, the Academic Challenge Scholarship for students attending four-year schools would be awarded in the following amounts: $2,000 for freshmen, $3,000 for sophomores, $4,000 for juniors and $5,000 for seniors.
Students attending two-year schools would receive $2,000 per year.
Currently, students receive $4,500 each year to attend a four-year school and $2,250 each year to attend a two-year school. Under HB 1295, students already in the program would continue to receive those amounts but students entering the program in the 2013-14 school year would receive the tiered amounts.
The measure also would increase the amount of funding available for scholarships for nontraditional students from $12 million to $16 million
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MIAMI — How do you measure a disaster like Florence? In sum, the storm is turning out to be every bit as devastating as forecasters
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expected, and it's far from done, with trillions of gallons of rain in the forecast, hundreds of people needing rescue, nearly a million power outages and several deaths. Thousands of people have been told they still faced "imminent danger" from flooding. The economic toll remains to be tallied.
In North Carolina, a mother and infant died when a tree fell on their house, a 78-year-old man was electrocuted while plugging in a generator in the rain, a 77-year-old man died after being blown to the ground while checking on his hunting dogs, and a sheriff's office said three people died because of "flash flooding and swift water on roadways.". In South Carolina, a 61-year-old woman was killed when her vehicle hit a tree that had fallen across a highway.
Thousands of people living within a mile (1.5 kilometers) of the banks of North Carolina's Cape Fear River and Little River were ordered Saturday to evacuate
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One of the two aggressor squadrons at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, has deactivated.
The 65th Aggressor Squadron
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at Nellis, which flew F-15s, was deactivated Sept. 26, according to the Air Force. This means that Nellis will only have one squadron, the 64th Aggressor Squadron, to serve as adversaries during the large-scale Red Flag exercises at the base, along with Weapons School training. The squadron helped train pilots in F-22s, F-35s, F-15s, F-16s and F/A-18s.
“It’s been a great asset for the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center to be able to have the F-15 Eagles here as an aggressor squadron for almost a decade now,” said Lt. Col. Gregory Wintill, commander of the 65th Aggressor Squadron, in a news release.
The squadron’s F-15s will be assigned to other squadrons throughout the Air Force. Pilots in the 65th will continue their work
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Discussion in 'Dieting / Supplement Discussion' started by RedRover, May 15, 2014.
I'm about wrapped up with my
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first real disciplined effort with a diet. I'm 28 and thought myself to be a fit guy for a long time but working out regularly wasn't enough, so I went to a friend for advice and he recommended carb back loading as something i should try.
I peaked 209# body weight at 6' around Christmas time(near 20% body fat). The highest I had been in my life was 7 years ago when I was in a World of Warcraft body type, 207# and est. 25% bodyfat, and going over that number knowing it wasn't mostly muscle really bugged me.
I started working out more regularly and I joined a yoga studio because I had stopped training MMA summer of 13(local club closed) and needed a group activity to fill that hole. That got me down a couple pounds but something was missing; a diet. I really wanted to get lean, my lifetime low was around 12.5% back when I was 23 and working out with friends during the
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Newly appointed Deputy Treasurer of Housing and Economic Development, Jovan Agee (right) with LA County Board of Supervisors member Mark Ridley-
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Thomas.
On Monday, January 17th, Fiona Ma assumed office as California’s State Treasurer and she also announced her top staff appointments.
Treasurer Ma’s appointments are as follows: Genevieve V. Jopanda as Chief of Staff, Kasey O’Connor as Legislative Director, Mark DeSio as Communications Director, Frank Ruffino as Pension and Benefits Director, Kathryn Asprey as Director of Constituent Affairs, Gloria Li as State Director of External Affairs, Tim Schaefer as Deputy Treasurer of Public Finance, Audrey Noda as Deputy Treasurer of Health and Education, and Jovan Agee as Deputy Treasurer of Housing and Economic Development.
Jovan Agee was previously appointed in March 2018, as the Deputy Treasurer for Legislative Affairs under State Treasurer John Chiang. Agee is solutions-oriented and passionate about commercial and residential development, community revitalization and wealth building.
Agee has held positions as a veteran legislative advocate, strategic
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Britain's Got Talent Golden Buzzer act Kojo Anim has vowed to become a solo star after 20 years helping other comedians.
Speaking exclusively to
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MailOnline, the London comic, 39, admitted he was 'emotional' after Simon Cowell pressed that famous buzzer to send him through to the semi-finals, as he wowed viewers on Saturday with his hilarious routine.
Kojo also admitted he decided to audition after decades working as a comedian at his London club, which is famed for kick-starting the career of Hollywood superstar Kevin Hart.
When asked how he felt when Simon pressed that Golden Buzzer, Kojo told MailOnline: 'Emotional! My career flew in front of my eyes. It was a huge risk, I was afraid of being judged.
'I didn’t even dream what would happen, happened. It was Tiffany, my fiancee, who encouraged me to audition. She reminds me of that!
Kojo went onto speak about how he felt in the moments leading up to his audition, saying: 'Before my audition I was anxious, it’s a massive show.
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One need only look at the average train or Luas carriage on a work morning to see the extent of mobile device usage. However, when it
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comes to implementation of management systems, content controls and all the other supports and resources, just how far have Irish organisations progressed?
To get a picture of the Irish situation, TechBeat, in association with Three Ireland, surveyed Irish IT professionals to see what is in use, what is being used to control it, and for perceptions and impressions of how the combined stack of technologies impacts their lives. The results are illuminating to say the least.
Which device is your main work tool?
Firstly, the 139 respondents reported that, despite a recent IDC study showing that the humble desktop PC is still the primary device for most workers in Europe, laptops take that honour in Ireland. Almost half (49%) reported that the laptop was the number one device, followed by the desktop PC (42%), with tablets and smart phones each seeing just 4% as a primary work device. Given that the sample is IT professionals, this may be unsurprising, but one might have expected the all-in-one
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Parents who have sued the Bossier district alleging unconstitutional promotion of Christianity say they fear for their safety.
Seven Bossier Parish Schools parents involved in
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a religious lawsuit against the district want to remain anonymous during future legal proceedings, citing fear of harassment and violent threats on social media toward them or their children.
The plaintiffs made their request in a court document filed March 1. The motion to remain anonymous is not opposed by the defendants, the Bossier Parish School Board or Superintendent Scott Smith, according to the court document.
The parents say they fear that community members or school employees who have contact with the children may cause problems.
The suit, which accuses Bossier Parish Schools of unwanted and unconstitutional Christian messages and indoctrination, was filed with help from Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Among other things, the lawsuit alleges that teachers and administrators in elementary, middle and high schools promote Christianity and in some cases call out students who do not attend church or are not Christian.
"It's really a case about the school district's conduct that is affecting many families and we're appreciative that the school district agrees with us"
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Late last week President Trump blasted Montana’s senior U.S. Sen. Jon Tester for releasing damaging information on Ronnie Jackson, Trump
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’s personal physician and his nominee to head the massive Veterans Administration. Jon Tester might lose his bid for re-election, just like any other politician, but it will not be because Montana’s veterans turn on the man who has done as much or more for vets than any person Montanans ever sent to Congress.
As the ranking Democrat on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Tester has been an absolute bulldog on dealing with the problems at the Veterans Administration. Considering the VA has about 378,000 employees and a $180 billion budget, Tester’s concern with vetting Trump’s nominee is exactly what a senator should do.
For one thing, Congress is a separate branch of government, which Trump doesn’t seem to understand. The function of Congress, besides making law and appropriating funds to run the government, is to provide the checks and balances on the executive and judicial branches of government. It’s very unfortunate that we have
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Davis criticizes the governor’s plan of using income tax cuts and exemptions to spur job growth as a “failed experiment” that
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hasn’t met Brownback’s lofty promises of a “shot of adrenaline to the heart” of the state’s economy.
▪ Kansas jobs have risen at a more or less steady pace, between 1 and 2 percent a year, since the recession bottomed out in early 2010, regardless of who’s in the governor’s office.
▪ Kansas saw its highest post-recession percentage of job growth in 2011, the year before Brownback and the state Legislature slashed business taxes in an effort to spur job creation.
▪ The only year since the recession that Kansas job growth beat the national rate was 2010, former Gov. Mark Parkinson’s first and only full year in office.
▪ Kansas has yet to return to its peak private-sector employment of 1,136,400 jobs, which came in March 2008 under then-Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. In July, the most recent month of final
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Denver-based Factory Design Labs has closed after more than two decades in business.
Though the independent agency has not been particularly visible in recent years
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, it once employed more than 100 and maintained a presence in Colorado, Zurich, Verbier, Shanghai, and, for a brief period, San Francisco.
Factory was founded in 1996 by a group of designers who later became a full-service agency and competed against other shops for new business. The company’s self-description read, in part, “We live to create, we live to design, we live to say what everyone else is afraid to say.” As recently as last February, a PR firm was promoting Factory’s work for HEAD Tennis, and it once included such brands as Callaway Golf, Jim Beam, Oakley, MapQuest, and The North Face among its clients.
This week, however, we learned from a reliable source that the company officially went out of business as of January 1st and that all of its offices have closed. Our tipster’s account of the agency’s demise holds that founder/chairman
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As he openly voiced his support of a party candidate and flaunted his Air India ticket for the flight back home, the video reached online spammer
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who utilised the PNR details and cancelled the booking -- causing him to lose a whole lot of money.
Even though the man lost a lot of money that did not deter him to come to India for casting his votes.
With the 17th Lok Sabha elections underway, not just voters in the country but also voters living abroad are excited to exercise their franchise. However, for one such excited Indian voter residing in Oman, things turned sour after he fell prey to an online scam. Letting the world know he has booked a ticket to come back to vote during the elections, he made a video clip to display his ticket online. But some miscreants accessed his ticket details through the video and cancelled it!
Yes, the young man, Joystan Lobo, who wanted to come to his native place in Mangaluru from Muscat to be able to cast his vote during the 2019 Lok Sabha election had booked ticket late in March. The ticket, which was booked for March 29
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Too many CCTV cameras are useless, the government's surveillance camera commissioner has warned.
Tony Porter also told BBC Radio 5 live the public did not
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have a true understanding of the current nature of surveillance.
Local authorities with many CCTV cameras needed to inform the community about the exact number and how effective they were, he said.
He also expressed concern about drones and police officers wearing cameras.
The UK has one of the largest totals CCTV cameras in the world. The British Security Industry Association (BSIA) estimates there are between 4-5.9 million cameras.
Mr Porter, the surveillance camera commissioner for England and Wales, said organisations and local authorities were meant to carry out annual reviews of their CCTV capacity but many failed to do so.
He said when a West Midlands local authority held a review, it reduced the number of ineffective cameras and saved £250,000 in the process.
"You can still maintain the balance of excellent surveillance but not have a propagation of surveillance that is actually useless," he said.
"Surveillance can be an extremely good thing and run well, it's a useful tool for society.
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It’s doing just the opposite.
Earlier this summer, the biggest news in the food world seemed to be about a hamburger.
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But not just any hamburger — a burger that, despite being made entirely from plants, could bleed, sizzle, and taste just like its cow-based brethren. Vox wagered that it might become the “Tesla of food.” Food and Wine declared that, with the Impossible Burger, we had entered “the era of plant-based meat.” The wall between plant-based protein — long pushed aside as the tasteless dominion of dedicated vegetarians and vegans — and meat-based protein seemed to be crumbling. The idea that the world could truly enter a post-meat world didn’t seem quite as far-fetched as it might have years ago.
As it turns out, that world is probably not going to materialize any time soon. Americans still love to eat meat — and in 2015, they increased their consumption of it faster than any other year in four decades
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Unions representing Auckland bus drivers who rejected their employer's latest pay offer say there is no immediate threat of further industrial action.
The 353-
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284 rejection by NZ Bus drivers on Tuesday afternoon follows action last month that saw drivers locked out for a week and caused disruption for tens of thousands of commuters.
The company and unions also spent more than three weeks in mediation facilitated by the Employment Relations Authority.
The Auckland Combined Unions, which represent the drivers, were surprised at their rejection of the offer.
The unions had encouraged them to accept an increase of 11.5% over three years.
Spokesperson Karl Andersen told Checkpoint the unions saw the offer as good progress towards an appropriate wage, but members saw otherwise.
Mr Anderson says at the end of the day, the democratic process has to prevail and the rejection does not mean more industrial action is likely.
He says he expects to meet with NZ Bus to arrange further pay negotiations by early next week.
NZ Bus says it is immensely disappointed at the rejection and the decision by union member "beggars belief". It says it will take the next few days to
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UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS: DE Ziggy Ansah, DT Ricky Jean Francois, LB Eli Harold, RB Zach Zenner,
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TE Levine Toilolo, TE Luke Willson, WR TJ Jones, CB DeShawn Shead, RB LeGarrette Blount, WR Bruce Ellington, FB Nick Bellore, QB Matt Cassel, OL Andrew Donnal, LB Kelvin Sheppard, CB Marcus Cooper, OG T.J. Lang.
RESTRICTED FREE AGENTS: DE Kerry Hyder.
NEEDS: Detroit desperately needs edge rusher to replace Ansah, who won't likely be re-signed after oft-injured player was on franchise tag last season. DE Romeo Okwara recently signed two-year deal to stay, keeping restricted free agent off market after he had team-high 7 1-2 sacks last year. Lions will also be looking to upgrade at tight end year after letting Eric Ebron go and watching him flourish with Indianapolis.
AVAILABLE SALARY CAP SPACE (approximately): $35 million, which Lions say is most team has had in GM Bob
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Bank of Ireland Chief Executive Richie Boucher. He received a total package of €898,000 in 2011, of which he waived €67
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,000.
ANY GOVERNMENT REVIEW of bankers pay must address the fact that over 1,700 bankers in institutions with explicit state support are currently earning over €100,000, Fianna Fáil’s Finance Spokesperson has said.
Michael McGrath TD, who obtained the figures after submitting a parliamentary question to the Minister of Finance Michael Noonan, said that he hoped an expected review would result in more realistic levels of executive pay rather than a pay hike.
“Over 180 of these executives are on basic salaries in excess of €200,000. In my view, there is no justification for such a large number of bank employees earning salaries of this order” said McGrath.
The government is expected to begin reviewing bankers salaries soon, with Canadian consultant firm Mercer hired to look at pay at all levels in the banks. Despite a government limit of €500,000, some banks have continued to pay their staff more, most notably in
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At last, a scientific explanation for why bookworms always seem to end up needing glasses.
Despite what helicopter parents may have you believe, there
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’s pretty solid evidence that kids should be encouraged to spend a lot of time outside. Access to greenery boosts health and energy, and gets kids’ brains turning in creative ways that screen time doesn’t.
Now, here’s another reason: Researchers at Northwestern University found that kids who spend too much time indoors may develop myopia. And the potential short-sightedness has nothing to do with them being cooped up and not going outside to look at faraway things, and everything to do with an existence lived under artificial light.
What really determines the eye’s ability to focus is the length of the retina. If it’s long, the person becomes short-sighted; too short, and they become far-sighted. “The eye needs to stop growing at precisely the right time during childhood,” assistant professor of ophthalmology Gregory Schwartz told Northwestern Now. Schwartz is the lead author of a study locating the cell which tells
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Apple's iPad will lead Android in a 2011 tablet market that should hit 24.1 million, according to Forrester Research. The note comes
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as the Consumer Electronics Shows gets underway.
While many expect the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show to be a big coming-out party for the Android tablet, Forrester Research has revised its previous conservative estimates and now expects the 2011 tablet market to be 2.5 times what it was in 2010.
Forrester analyst Sara Rotman Epps said Jan. 4 that she expects tablet sales to top 24.1 million, more than double the 10.3 million she estimates were sold through 2010.
"When Apple's iPad first debuted, we saw the device as a game-changer but were too conservative with our forecast. Since then, we've fielded additional consumer surveys and an SMB and enterprise survey, conducted additional supply-side research, and seen more sales numbers from Apple. We've had briefings from many companies that will release new tablets at CES. All of these inputs have led us to revise our U.S. consumer tablet forecast," she said.
Epps was certainly
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Uff-Da! Island Norske Spotted Flogging Tacos on TV!
No surprise that islander John Norby is on
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TV. Sue Frause photo.
Being a TV star hasn’t changed John Norby one iota.
OK, star may be a bit of a stretch. But John does appear on a TV commercial here in the Pacific Northwest and there are more coming up.
“I’m a Norske flogging tacos!” laughed John, stomping his feet in delight.
John and I are having late afternoon tea at Useless Bay Coffee in Langley.
The 61-year-old islander, who moved to Whidbey in 1969, admits his new “career” is something of a surprise.
“I’ve never done any acting,” said John, whose long resume includes cheese factory worker, carpenter, merchant marine, machinist and shipwright to name a few. He’s been in unions since he was 17 years old and is currently employed by the Washington State Ferries
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The Rev. Edward Pinkney, political prisoner, was transferred on Sept. 7 from the Marquette Branch Prison in the far north of Michigan�
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�s Upper Peninsula. Some 11 months after arriving at that prison and suffering months of threats and abuse from guards, he was sent to West Shoreline Correctional Facility outside of Muskegon. His new location is only 90 miles from the home of his spouse, Dorothy Pinkney. The distance to Marquette, in comparison, was 500 miles.
Rev. Pinkney has now served 22 months of his 30-month minimum sentence. On Dec. 15, 2014, he was given a 2 ½ to 10 year sentence for supposedly altering dates on a recall petition against then Mayor James Hightower of Benton Harbor, Mich. Rev. Pinkney was convicted with no evidence, simply for being the leader of the recall effort and a well-known activist in his home town. His case has drawn the support of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild, as well as many groups and individuals across Michigan.
Attorney Tim Holloway filed an “Application for Leave to Appeal”
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