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Integration of maternal mental health in antenatal and postnatal care necessity to fight postpartum depression.
On Wednesday evening, the bodies of
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Swara Kaskar, 42, and her eight-month-old boy were found in their flat. While Kaskar left a handwritten suicide note stating she was depressed, doctors said apathy towards maternal mental health is the reason behind the incident.
Four out of 10 new mothers slip into depression in the first few months of childbirth, said psychiatrists. Pre and postpartum depression are common medical conditions, but detection and screening is relatively poor, said doctors. “Something was missed in this (Kaskar’s) case. Her symptoms would have been taken for granted,” said Dr Shubhangi Parkar, head of psychiatry department in KEM Hospital.
A scientific review of maternal mental health and child behaviour over the last five years, published recently in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry, indicated the prevalence of both antenatal and postnatal psychological distress is high the world over, with a higher prevalence in developing countries including India.
Studies published in international medical
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It's one of the signature scenes in Baltimore sports and one that could play out for the final time Sunday when the Ravens host the Indianapolis Colts in
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an opening-round playoff game.
Ray Lewis, No. 52, circles his teammates and stomps from one to the next, pressing his face within inches of each man, looking deep into their eyes.
"What time is it?" he shouts.
"Game time," they chant in unison.
"Any dogs in the house?" he bellows.
"Woof, woof, woof," they bark before taking the field at M&T Bank Stadium.
Lewis, who announced Wednesday that he would retire at the end of the season, is by consensus one of the greatest players in NFL history and one of the greatest athletes to play in Baltimore. But as the Ravens reckon with life after No. 52, they talk more about his wisdom and the ways he has touched them personally than about his on-field skills, which have slipped in recent seasons.
The familiar pregame ritual is the most visible sign of Lewis' leadership, but teammates and coaches say
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PARIS–French nationals are likely fighting alongside the self-proclaimed jihadist group Islamic State which has captured large swaths of Iraq, French Interior Minister
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Bernard Cazeneuve said on Wednesday.
“There are probably some of them in Iraq since the Islamic State, which has recruited these young nationals, takes them to all the areas where fighting is happening,” Mr. Cazeneuve said in an interview with radio station France Info. Nationals from other European countries are in Iraq.
About 900 French nationals are either in Syria or Iraq with jihadist groups or on their way to Syria, Mr. Cazeneuve added.
The dozens of youths traveling to Syria to join Islamist fighters is a concern for governments in many European countries where authorities fear they may lead terror attacks back home. Mehdi Nemmouche, the suspect arrested for a murderous attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May, spent months in Syria a year before the incident.
Islamic State has been persecuting Christians and Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking group that follows a pre-Islamic religion, as a part of its campaign to wrest control of Iraq
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A council is considering having larger English and maths classes to help it balance its budget.
The proposal for larger classes in the first and second year
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of secondary school comes from East Renfrewshire Council.
The council says having bigger classes could help it save nearly £750,000.
Overall, the local authority aims to save £8m from its education budget by 2018.
It currently has an average of 20 students in S1 and S2 English and maths classes - well below the national average.
A relatively prosperous area, East Renfrewshire has some of the most academically successful state schools in Scotland.
In its budget consultation, the council says: "This proposal will bring East Renfrewshire Council in line with many other Scottish councils and will increase class size to 30.
"We are confident that attainment will not be affected by this proposal and will continue to focus on improving the quality of our teaching and learning experiences to maximise pupil attainment and not class size."
A series of proposed cuts and savings to the education budget is detailed in the council's ongoing consultation on ways to save money between now
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New Hampshire’s tourism industry is gearing up for a strong Independence Day holiday weekend.
The state tourism forecast, produced by the Institute for
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New Hampshire Studies, calls for more than 900,000 visitors over the three-day weekend, spending over $140 million.
Those numbers would be in line with the state's overall summer forecasts, which project a 3 percent rise in the number of visitors and the amount of money those visitors will spend over last year. Those forecasts are slightly higher than other recent projections.
Analysts say the increased amount of tourism is due in part to a stronger job market and gas prices that remain lower than those of recent years.
AAA of Northern New England is expecting New England travel to exceed national averages over the three day weekend.
New Hampshire’s tourism industry is preparing for a busy Memorial Day weekend.
New Hampshire’s tourism industry is looking at opportunities to reach out to Canadian visitors as part of a two day annual conference.
New Hamsphire tourism officials say they’re concerned about the impact of proposed cuts in the state’s next two-year budget
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Days after being elected mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has given London’s commuters and visitors – at least those who frequently travel by bus
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– reason to rejoice. In his first policy act, he has introduced a 'hopper fare' that will allow bus passengers to change from one bus to another over a one-hour period for the flat-rate cost of a single bus ticket: £1.50.
Launching in September, the rate will be applied automatically whether customers 'touch in' using Oyster cards or contactless payments; London buses stopped accepting cash payments two years ago. The initiative is expected to particularly benefit Londoners on lower incomes who rely primarily on the bus network to travel around the city.
Initially the hopper fare will be capped, with commuters benefitting from free transit on the second bus they use within the hour but charged again for subsequent bus journeys thereafter. This is apparently owing to technological limitations that prevent Transport for London from applying successive discounts. However, upgrades to the systems that govern ticketing are due to be carried out next year and it is expected that TfL will deliver unlimited flat-
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January 31, 2019 (La Mesa) – A lightning bolt between Lemon Grove and La Mesa this afternoon produced a prolonged thunderclap loud enough to
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be heard as far away as Fletcher Hills, Lake Murray, Mission Gorge and Rancho San Diego. The noise startled residents and terrified pets, but fortunately the bolt did not result in any reported damage.
At my Mt. Helix home, the whole house shook as rumbling continued for approximately 30 seconds after the initial roaring jolt.
November 10, 2015 (San Diego’s East County)--In many places throughout the country, thunderstorms—and the rain, wind, hail, and lightning that come with them—are unavoidable. And in fact, according to the National Weather Forecast Office, lightning from thunderstorms causes “several hundred million dollars “ in property damage each year, while hail causes $1 billion in damages each year.
You might think that since there is nothing you can do to prevent thunderstorms, there’s nothing—other than staying indoors—that you can do to protect yourself, your family, and your home from their, sometimes
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Deploying robotic process automation for modern applications.
There is a lot of discussion in the industry around AI and the coming robot invasion. I�
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�ve talked a great deal in my blog about some of the different forms of AI including machine learning and chatbots. One of the rapidly growing areas of AI today is robotic process automation. Robotic process automation, or RPA, usually focuses on the highly repetitive tasks that don’t require as much cognitive processing or human judgement, but rather are often “boring” tasks.
Some years ago, the focus in IT was the implementation of large scope (and hence large dollar) systems for projects like enterprise resource planning. These were expensive, long term projects. In many of these cases, humans became the glue between the various large scale system—people would pull data from system one, massage it in excel, upload it into system two. It was cheaper for the humans to absorb this role as facilitator between the many different large monolithic systems than to automate it. In other cases, humans needed to “check” things… compare, contrast, report. Again
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How old is Jessie Ware, who is the Soccer Aid 2018 pundit's husband Sam Burrows and when was her album Glasshouse released?
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How old is Jessie Ware, who is the Soccer Aid 2018 pundit’s husband Sam Burrows and when was her album Glasshouse released?
SHE'S the south London singing sensation whose soulful voice is loved by music fans across the world.
But how old is Jessie Ware and what are her biggest hits?
Who is Jessie Ware and who is her husband?
Jessie Ware, 33, is an English singer and songwriter who was born in Hammersmith and raised in Clapham, London.
Her father is John Ware, a TV journalist who split from her mother Helena when Jessie was 10.
In August 2014, Jessie married her childhood friend, Sam Burrows, the pair met when they were still at school.
Jessie and Sam got married on the Greek island of Skopelos, which was the same location that they had become engaged.
Jessie gave birth to the couple's first daughter in September 2016.
When was
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The answer for society is not to give in. It is essential that citizens defy the cynicism and resignation that autocrats and power-hungry politicians
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depend upon to subvert resistance.
Not a bad resolution to begin with in 2019. With common sense and independent thinking on the issues, we can make a difference.
Democrats want to regain control of power and will do and say anything to achieve their goal.
They still can’t accept the results of the 2016 election and will obstruct and resist any program President Donald Trump advocates. Not one Democrat voted to cut our taxes. Their plan is to increase our taxes when they regain control of Congress. When it came time to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court, Trump had 25 possibilities and the Democrats said they weren’t voting for any of them, even though he hadn’t selected anyone.
Democrats advocate open borders, allowing anyone to enter our country, including terrorists and gangs like MS-13. Democrats are more concerned with rights of illegal immigrants than the safety of Americans. They want to abolish ICE. They want free income and jobs for everyone, free college, welfare
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Rwanda's president said the country had become "a family once again", while marking the 25th anniversary of the genocide that killed 800,
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000 people.
Paul Kagame, who led a rebel force that ended the slaughter, lit a remembrance flame in the capital Kigali.
Rwandans will mourn for 100 days, the time it took in 1994 for about a tenth of the country to be massacred.
Most of those who died were minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus, killed by ethnic Hutu extremists.
"In 1994, there was no hope, only darkness," Mr Kagame told a crowd gathered at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, where more than 250,000 victims are thought to be buried.
"Today, light radiates from this place. How did it happen? Rwanda became a family once again."
The commemoration activities began with the flame-lighting ceremony at the memorial. The flame will burn for 100 days.
The 61-year-old president, who has led the country since 2000, then delivered a speech at the Kigali Convention Centre.
He
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What's Microsoft's big secret about Kerberos?
My first Patch Panel column was written just as Microsoft Windows 2000 was released. I had
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been testing Release Candidate 2 and had just enough time to install the shipping version of Win 2000 Professional. A few weeks later, it was reported that Microsoft Corp. had left out some important information about the Kerberos security tool it had pre-announced and that I had described in my column.
Kerberos is a widely used standard, and many systems administrators were anticipating using it as an easier way to integrate Windows users with others in enterprise-scale virtual private networks.
But it appears Microsoft quietly decided to alter the way Win 2000 implements Kerberos so that its version works with only Win 2000, not with any of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kerberos-compliant systems out there.
I would like to share more details of Microsoft's explanation, which are available at www.microsoft.com/technet/security/kerberos/default.asp, but Microsoft has made this file a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) document. And because the company has
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up barbed wire along the neutral zone between the countries.
digging trenches, stacking sandbags and erecting fences on the Thai side of
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the border.
All three requested anonymity because they feared repercussions from higher officials.
when several hundred Thai troops were deployed to the border area at around 10 p.m.
to visit the temple. As a result, Cambodia declared its side of the border closed.
the tensions had been sparked by Thai troops clearing landmines close to the border.
a meeting, but that no written request had been made.
of good conduct," San said.
ease the situation had already begun.
top officials," said the RCAF source by phone, on condition of anonymity.
on why an incursion would be good.
on the law," Banh said.
to the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two countries in 2000.
informing Cambodia in advance," Visalo said.
authorities and the Phnom Penh-based government ministers.
Ministry of Defense to discuss their comments before making statements to the media.
said the attack was
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Apple Inc.’s iPhones shouldn’t be banned from the U.S. even though they infringe a patent owned by Qualcomm
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Inc., a U.S. International Trade Commission judge found Friday.
Judge Thomas Pender found that Apple infringed one of three Qualcomm patents in the case but declined to recommend the import ban sought by Qualcomm. The judge’s recommendation “makes no sense,” Qualcomm said.
The judge’s findings are subject to review by the full commission, which has the final say. If the commission goes along, it would eliminate a powerful bargaining chip Qualcomm could use to push Apple into agreeing to pay license fees.
Qualcomm is seeking an import ban of Apple’s iPhones that have chips made by Intel Corp. This is the first of two cases brought by Qualcomm before the trade agency in Washington.
“We are pleased the ALJ found infringement of our patented technology, but it makes no sense to then allow infringement to continue by denying an import ban,” Qualcomm General Counsel Donald Rosenberg said in a statement, referring to the administrative law judge.
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Catch us up. What have you been up to since?
The last few years have been fun! I won a national contest with Ang
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ie’s List and Ariana Huffington’s book The Sleep Revolution. I had to compete against three national designers and it was another “America votes” kind of thing. I was very fortunate to win. Then this past fall I was in London for four design shows with the National Kitchen and Bath Show as an “insider” meeting with global brands and tastemakers as to what is fresh in the world of design. And as if that is not lovely enough, I have been a spokesperson for Flooring America and am designing a line of soft flooring with Carlisle Wide Plank Floors. All the while filming Military Makeover on Lifetime Channel and taking care of my amazing local design clients with my team of helpers.
Do you think clients expect certain things after seeing you on TV?
I love to share the reality of design. I think the concept of TV makeovers inspire homeowners to love their home, take on what they can or want to
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?At the end of a three-month period, DeBortoli Pubs of the Month are acknowledged (9-10 in all)
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and from this the best four are chosen as the finalists for DeBortoli Pub of the Year.
As a generalisation, it has been a good start with all pubs reviewed hitting the mark: some better than others.
Pub staples are still there, and the irresistible surge in croquettes/arancini continues. From a pricing POV, burgers/parmas of superior quality are fairly entrenched around the $23-25. (You will pay less/more obviously).
New boy East Brunswick Hotel has resumed trading and is going beautifully. A stack has been spent on the Braybrook Hotel and I doubt if I have encountered a pub trying harder to change perception. Good luck to them.
My only comment on pricing is that wine (glass/bottled) of a decent and reputable quality is rarely seen under $8/glass or $40 /bottle. To be fair pubs are not alone here, but clearly the working rule of 100% on full retail no
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The month of May is when the nation honors older Americans and the theme for 2012 —Never Too Old to Play!— recognizes the value that older
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adults continue to bring to our communities through spirited participation in social and faith groups, service organizations, and other activities. Throughout May, Fulton County will shine the spotlight on the important role older adults play in our community. The celebration officially begins May 2, when the Fulton County Board of Commissioners issues a proclamation honoring senior adults living in Fulton County.
The observance continues on May 3, 2012, at 12:10 p.m. at Turner Field. The Atlanta Braves will take on the Philadelphia Phillies as they honor Fulton County Seniors through the donation of 200 tickets to senior multipurpose facilities. Seniors can also listen to the game on WNNX 100.5 NN 680 or tune in to SPSO (Television). County staff will distribute tickets through raffles for multipurpose facility participants. The tickets are a part of the “Reach Out, Be our Guest Program. Braves players who have contributed to the “Reach Out, Be Our Guest Program�
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Grass Gourmands: A Herbivore Food Mystery On The African Savanna : The Salt A new study sheds light on a longstanding
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ecological question: How do so many species like impalas and elephants co-exist when they're all feeding on the same limited foods?
Scientists used a relatively new technique called DNA metabarcoding to analyze the diets of impala and other herbivores in southern Kenya.
What do large herbivores like elephants and zebras eat? And if – as researchers assumed — they eat many of the same things, then how do they share the spread of grasses and other plants across the savanna?
You'd think this would be pretty easy to figure out: Just watch them eat or inspect the poop, right? But large animals are wily. They travel long distances and can be too dangerous to observe up close.
Sorting out what they're eating through binoculars is akin to trying to sort out what somebody is eating in a diner from across the street. And when scientists look at the poop under a microscope, the plant bits are often too mashed up to
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They were born after their parents' protests brought down the shah of Iran in 1979, when enthusiasm gave way to the hard years of U.
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S.-led isolation and a bloody, eight-year war with Iraq.
More than half of Iran's 80 million people are under 35, and all of them deal with the legacy of the uprising, especially as the country struggles anew under re-imposed U.S. economic sanctions after President Donald Trump pulled Washington out of Tehran's nuclear agreement with world powers last year.
"We had some goals and still believe those goals were right," Farzad Farahani, a 22-year-old university student, told The Associated Press. "We had demands and still think those demands were fair, but the revolution failed to fully realize our demands."
Besides installing the Shiite theocracy that governs today, the Islamic Revolution touted independence from both the West and the East. It also came with a host of plans pushed by the leftists who joined forces with Iran's clergy, including economic development, education and social justice. Its leaders promised the people a share of Iran's lucrative oil sales.
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PARIS/WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. officials are touring the globe to pressure countries to shun trade with Iran
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following Washington’s withdrawal from a nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, a move that undermines European efforts to save the accord, sources said.
U.S. State and Treasury Department officials have traveled to Japan and this week U.S. diplomats are in eastern Europe as Britain, France and Germany scramble to save the 2015 pact and convince Iran that they can continue to do business with Tehran.
“The Americans are on a roadshow and going everywhere. They are dogmatic,” said a senior European diplomat. “We were clear and told them: if you are coming to tell to us how to apply American laws here then you’re not welcome,” the diplomat said.
Ministers from the three European nations and the EU foreign policy chief have written to U.S. counterparts urging them to protect EU companies working in Iran from getting caught up in Washington’s new sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
In the June 4 letter, the
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‘We expected a greater Turkish response than this, but you know, every country has its own special affairs.’ Taken alone, the
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remarks by Bashir Hajjo, introduced by BBC Arabic TV last Thursday as the spokesperson of the Tawhid Brigade, are no cause for alarm, except, of course, when placed within context. By “we”, Hajjo was referring to the Tawhid Brigade — and other rebel groups — perceived as a division in the loosely-defined Free Syrian Army (FSA).
Based on Hajjo’s forthright remarks, one can effortlessly deduce that the Tawhid spokesperson was disappointed by the meek Turkish response to mortar shells originating from Syria. The shells fell on a Turkish border town, killing five, including three children. Hajjo perhaps expected an all-out Turkish military intervention in Syria. Some deem that as one of few options that could break the deadlock in fighting between the Syrian army, which is still largely loyal to the regime of Bashar Al Assad and the thousands of fighters dedicated to the Baath regime elimination.
Turkey’s Anatolia
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GRAFENWOEHR, Germany -- Community family members between the ages of 14 - 22 years old now have the opportunity to gain meaningful
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job experience here while getting paid.
The Civilian Human Resources Agency Northeast/Europe Region has begun accepting applications for the Army Europe Youth Summer Hire Program.
There are at least 30 positions available in the Bavaria footprint, which includes Grafenwoehr, Vilseck, Hohenfels and Garmisch.
The program will provide on-post jobs in general clerical and light laborer positions to U.S. family member dependents ages 14-22. Applicants of local national employees who are not U.S. citizens must be 15 years old.
The job announcements are open now through May 18. The program will run from June 29-Aug. 7.
Online applications are available on the CHRA-E website at https://acpol2.army.mil/sh/staffing/summerhire.
Applicants must submit a resume online, and hard copies of supporting documents, such as W-4 and SF-119
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Dumped Wallabies assistant Stephen Larkham says he still aspires to coaching at the highest level despite the tumult and controversy of the past three
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months.
Fresh from a perspective-giving trip to Laos with official Rugby World Cup charity Child Fund Pass it Back, Larkham said he was undeterred by a messy exit from the Wallabies coaching set-up.
The news could set him up for a showdown with other likely candidates for the Wallabies top job, including Dave Rennie, Eddie Jones and Warren Gatland, with current coach Michael Cheika almost certain to leave the post after this year's World Cup.
"I'm up here in Brisbane at the moment with the local coaches coming in, club coaches and school coaches. What's interesting to identify is that everyone who is a coach and was in that room up here, is keen to get further in their coaching," Larkham said.
"The motivation varies from trying to help rugby out, to try to be the best I can be in my position, to just chasing success. I'm no different, there's no doubt about that. I
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Starwood Hotels and Resorts, the company behind nearly a dozen hotel brands, says that more than 50 of its locations suffered from a malware
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attack on point-of-sale systems.
Hackers are at it again, as major hotel company Starwood reveals that customer data was nicked.
If you stayed at a Sheraton, Westin or other Starwood hotel in the US or Canada this past year, you'll want to keep an eye on your credit or debit card account.
Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide said this week that point-of-sale systems at more than 50 of its hotels had been infected with malicious software. The malware, installed at gift shops, restaurants and other locations, let hackers make off with payment card data, including cardholder name, card number, security code and expiration date.
The company said in a statement that it has removed the malware and "implemented additional security measures to help prevent this type of crime from reoccurring." It also said there's no indication at this point that its guest reservation or preferred-guest membership systems were affected. The company added
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ANNAPOLIS (October 20, 2018)—Governor Larry Hogan today announced the Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge will be renamed after Charles
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County Senator Thomas "Mac" Middleton. Standing at the base of the 77-year-old bridge, Governor Hogan joined Senator Middleton, Delegate Sally Jameson, and Maryland Transportation Secretary and Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) Chairman Pete K. Rahn for a ceremony to unveil the new signage and officially name the Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial/Senator Thomas "Mac" Middleton Bridge.
"I cannot think of a more fitting tribute to a gentleman and a leader who has dedicated so much of his life to this county, to our great state, and to serving others than renaming this the Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial/Senator Thomas "Mac" Middleton Bridge," said Governor Hogan. "On behalf of all the grateful Marylanders, I want to sincerely thank Senator Middleton for his decades of dedicated service to the people of Charles County and to the State of Maryland."
During the 2018 Legislative Session, a law sponsored by Delegate Jameson was passed that would rename
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CHELSEA new boy Willian is determined to make his mark at Stamford Bridge as he seeks to carve out a place for himself in the Brazil
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squad for the 2014 World Cup finals.
The 25-year-old was on the threshold of joining Tottenham after passing a medical before Chelsea gazumped at the eleventh hour to tie up a £30m deal.
The Blues' midfield ranks swelled this summer and Willian will have to force his way into the reckoning with the likes of Eden Hazard, Juan Mata, Ramires, Andre Schurrle and Kevin De Bruyne to contend with.
But Willian is under no allusions about the challenge he faces at Stamford Bridge.
"I know that I haven't secured my spot here, but I will do my best to achieve that place, while respecting the other players," Willian told Brazilian publication Globo Esporte.
"I will train, play and do my best to get the trust of the manager and of the fans.
"There is no doubt English football is very big, with huge visibility. I hope that helps me to be called
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THREE men have been arrested after two female backpackers were found with severe neck injuries in their tent at a popular trekking spot in Morocco.
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The tourists from Denmark and Norway, who were in their twenties, were discovered yesterday near the village of Imlil in the High Atlas mountain range where they had set up their tent.
They have been named as Louisa Jespersen, 24, from Denmark and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway who were on a month long trip across the North African country.
According to Morocco World News, a witness, who asked to not to be named, said the women were “allegedly found decapitated”, although this has not been verified.
Their bodies were found in a “remote mountainous region” about 6.2 miles from the centre of the village.
It is reported that three suspects from Marrakesh, who were camping nearby, have been arrested in connection with the murder.
Police are also said to have identified the suspects through CCTV in local shops in the village.
One of the suspects, according to the source, also
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(Image: Runtastic Moment Classic (left); Runtastic Moment Elite (Centre); Runtastic Fun (Right).
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untastic, the mobile-focused fitness tracking company that was recently acquired by Adidas for $239 has just launched its first official smartwatch.
Like every other smartwatch-wristband in the market, the analog wristwatch by Adidas doubles as an activity tracker called the Runtastic Moment. The smartwatch is brimming with pretty impressive abilities and has a combination of sensors, active minutes, and calories burned, as well as sleep cycles. Perhaps, the most exciting of all is that the analog wristwatch is waterproof up to 300 feet, which means it can be worn during swimming. It doesn’t exactly help wearer’s with swimming-related tracking, but it in the near future, Runtastic hopes to add features that may help track swim strokes.
Its nonchargeable battery life looks promising as well. Runtastic estimated that the watch should last for about 6 month on a standard coin battery.
Runtastic Moment pairs wirelessly over Bluetooth to share
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• Denzel Washington, who directs and stars in the inspirational movie The Great Debaters. The movie's based on true events (which means that
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some of it is fictionalised and not to be taken as gospel truth, but the essence of truth is very apparent) that happened at Wiley College, Texas, in the Thirties, when an African-American college debate team, against all odds, achieved something approaching glory.
The main debaters are played by Jurnee Smollett, Nate Parker and Denzel Whitaker and they all have fire in their bellies.
Ms Smollett and Mr Parker play composite characters featuring traits of many real-life students who were at Wiley in the Thirties.
Mr Whitaker portrays someone real: James Farmer Jr., who later became one of the leading architects of the Civil Rights movement. (In this film, his father is played by Forest Whitaker - no relation!) Washington himself plays Melvin Tolson, the Wiley professor and poet who coached the debating team. I loved a lot about this film, particularly the sense that these characters had such a passion for knowledge.
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England captain Harry Kane and star players Raheem Sterling, Jesse Lingard and Jordan Henderson were rested against a weakened Belgium team.
England fans
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refused to rest even if many of the national side’s first team were on the sidelines as the Three Lions World Cup group stage ended with a whimper against Belgium.
The largest contingent of England fans of the tournament so far packed into the 33,900-seater Kaliningrad Stadium and created a wall of noise until England went 1-0 down.
England captain Harry Kane and star players Raheem Sterling, Jesse Lingard and Jordan Henderson were rested against a weakened Belgium team, amid pre-match debate over whether it was more beneficial to finish second in the group and earn a potentially easier route to the final.
Not the result we wanted, but the #ThreeLions go through to the last 16 of the #WorldCup regardless.
But England’s players disappointed many fans in Kaliningrad who wanted to keep the winning run going, as the Three Lions ran out 1-0 losers.
Robert Blundell, 49, from Worcester,
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Infants delivered via cesarean section may have about twice the risk of becoming obese as infants delivered vaginally, according to a new study
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published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Researchers recruited more than 1,250 pregnant women from the Boston area and followed their children until the age of 3.
They found that at 3 years old, 15.7 percent of children delivered by C-section were already obese, while only 7.5 percent of children delivered vaginally were obese.
The mother's body mass index and the baby's weight at birth did not play a big role in predisposing children to obesity, the researchers explained. Previous research, however, has linked maternal obesity to obesity in their children.
Dr. Susanna Huh, lead author and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, said the findings still need to be confirmed in later studies, but they suggest that women considering having a C-section that isn't medically necessary should know that their children may be at higher risk for obesity.
"Almost one in three children are delivered by C-section in the U.S., and if
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A quiet, profound meditation on martyrdom, based on a true story of Trappist monks.
Conventional Christian film gets emotional boost by
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powerful acting and character study.
Life has been hard for Louis Gossett Jr. since winning an Oscar in 1983; his own addictions weren't much help. But he's found God and grace in recent years.
Huckabee speaks with CT on issues like immigration and the environment, the faith of politicians, and a possible presidential candidacy.
Since having a few big years in CCM, Shaun Groves has been focusing on his work with Compassion International.
Shades of Twilight Zone and Left Behind can't overcome this film's problems.
The deeper implications are void because this thriller lacks thrills.
An alien with budding superpowers hides from assassins by pretending to go to high school.
New math for those addicted to getting higher and higher in their churches.
The songs of gospel legend Mavis Staples cover 60 years of American history.
Adam Sandler. Vulgar humor and stupidity. Oh, and some rom-com sweetness.
Shakespeare, El
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ASUNCION – Paraguayan political parties and civil society organizations met Wednesday to begin a series of discussions planned by the government regarding the establishment of
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a possible electoral reform.
Interior Minister Juan Ernesto Villamayor gave start to the first day of discussions, during which the participating parties have highlighted the need to carry out the electoral reform before the 2020 municipal elections.
Delegates from the main opposition Liberal Party addressed the importance of establishing an electronic voting system, as well as campaign finance controls.
The left-leaning Guasu Front, which allied itself with the Liberal Party in last April’s general election, insisted on the need to carry out a structural electoral reform that includes the resignation or impeachment of the members of the country’s Superior Court of Electoral Justice (TSJE).
Oppositions delegates also highlighted the importance of establishing efficient campaign finance controls, an issue that has taken center stage in Paraguay after a police operation last week against a drug-trafficking organization led to 30 people being charged, including Ulises Quintana, a lawmaker with the ruling Colorado Party.
During his opening speech,
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I'm putting aside the regular comics spotlight column this week to talk about the comics and animated creations of the late Dwayne McDuffie who unexpectedly
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passed away last week at the far-too-young age of forty-nine.
I was in shock when I first heard the news that such a strong, vital voice had been silenced. Sadness set in as I realized that not only had I lost a writer whose work I admired but this loss would touch my children as well. McDuffie was the writer who adapted Grant Morrison's All-Star Superman, which was just released on DVD last week. He was the producer of Ben10 Alien Force,* Ben10: Ultimate Alien*, and Justice League Unlimited on Cartoon Network. My younger two children love the Ben10 shows and it was *JLU that introduced them to many DC comics heroes.
In an industry adverse to change, McDuffie never quit pushing to have heroes that reflected all the different peoples of America. He co-founded Milestone Comics and created Static, who had his own television show beginning in 2000 and ran for four season. McDuffie wrote a number
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Other facilties include complimentary daybeds and umbrellas, a selection of quick service restaurants, an arcade, a souvenir shop,
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two bars for adult beverages and plenty of parking and locker rooms. Recent guests to the park said the huge selection of slides were perfect for kids and adults of all ages, and lines were rarely long.
The waterpark is located in the center of the island about 8 miles west of Corfu Town. Aqualand is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from mid-May to early October. Admission passes range from a discounted afternoon pass (good from 3 to 6 p.m.) for 14 euros (about $17.50) for children ages 12 and younger and 19 euros (about $23) for adults to weeklong passes for 50 euros (about $62) for children and 70 euros (about $87) for adults. One day passes cost 19 euros (about $23) for children and 27 euros (about $33) for adults. Children ages four and youngers are always free. For more information, check out Aqu
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Researchers have exploited a structural vulnerability in the "superbug" Staphylococcus aureus that in laboratory experiments and a mouse study opened
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the bacterium to treatment with an anti-cholesterol medication. This follows the 2005 discovery that a pigment provides a "golden armor" that enables staph to evade the immune system.
An article published Feb.14 in the online version of Science (Science Express) describes the study, which was conducted by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the National Taiwan University in Taipei, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of California, San Diego.
After treatment with the drug - which had progressed through preclinical testing in rats and two early clinical trials in humans as a cholesterol-fighting medication - staph bacteria were about 15 times more susceptible to killing by hydrogen peroxide and were four-fold less able to survive in human blood, according to George Y. Liu, M.D., Ph.D., one of the article's co-first authors. Liu directs a laboratory focusing on staph aureus research at Ced
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Saudi Arabia’s young crown prince has an ambitious list of to-dos: modernise his conservative kingdom, weaken Iran’s hand
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across the Mideast and, this week, rehabilitate his country’s image in the eyes of Americans.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, son of King Salman and heir to the throne, is opening a marathon tour of the United States with a stop in Washington, where he plans to meet President Donald Trump on Tuesday. He’ll hold separate meetings with a long roster of influential US officials, including the secretaries of defense, treasury and commerce, the CIA chief and congressional leaders from both parties.
The visit comes as the United States and much of the West are still trying to figure out Crown Prince Mohammed, better known by his initials MBS, whose sweeping program of social changes at home and increased Saudi assertiveness abroad has upended decades of traditional rule in Saudi Arabia.
The 32-year-old crown prince also has big economic plans, and over three weeks in the US he will meet businessmen in New York, tech mavens from Google and Apple Inc.
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Was the rainbow-haired 22-year-old involved in the gunfire?
(AllHipHop News) Daniel "Tekashi69
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" Hernandez may have taken his troll campaign too far. According to reports, the NYPD is investigating the "Kooda" rapper for a shooting involving Chief Keef.
6ix9ine has been beefing with Sosa for the last few weeks. The bad blood led to the Brooklyn rhymer calling out other Chicago natives as well as him taking the mother of Chief Keef's child shopping in New York City.
Earlier this month, Keef was even shot at while in New York's Time Square. Tekashi was reportedly in Los Angeles at the time of the shooting, but police are now looking into whether he was connected to the two suspected gunmen.
6ix9ine has denied any involvement with the incident. He actually blamed the shooting outside the W Hotel on Chief Keef being a "gangster rapper" and promoting violence in his music.
Additionally, Tekashi's manager, Tr3yway, is said to be under investigation for two other violent episodes. One
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The video above is from an Jan. 2017 report.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has issued permits for a planned copper-nickel mine
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in northeastern Minnesota.
The agency said Thursday it had issued permits to Poly Met Mining Inc. for the company's proposed NorthMet mining project. But the project still requires permits from other agencies.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources issued a permit to mine, six water appropriation permits, two dam safety permits, a public water work permit and an endangered species taking permit.
DNR Commissioner Tom Landwehr said: "No project in the history of Minnesota has been more thoroughly evaluated."
During a press conference Thursday afternoon, Landwehr said the project still needs to receive additional permits from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
"The permit conditions are designed so that we can have confidence that the project can be built, operated and reclaimed in compliance with Minnesota's rigorous environmental standards, which are designed to protect human health and the environment," Landwehr said during the press conference. "DNR will have continuing authority to monitor and enforce the
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What does it mean to Dharyus Thomas to be the first area boys’ basketball players of the year from Southwest since Jamaal Williams was
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named the best in 2010?
The senior certainly had several big moments this past season.
Thomas scored at least 20 points in 11 games and had a trio of 30-plus point efforts en route to finishing with an 18.6 point per game average.
But he wasn’t just a scorer. Thomas also spearheaded the Stallions’ defense with 1.9 steals to go along with 2.3 assists and 4.8 rebounds.
And because of his efforts, Thomas is The Daily News player of the year for the 2018-19 boys’ basketball season.
White Oak’s Derreco Miller (13.1 points, 8.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists) was also considered for the honor, but the 17-year-old Thomas got the edge following votes received by the coaches and the newspaper’s sports staff.
Southwest coach Eric Kliewer said Thomas was well-deserving to be player of the year.
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The weekly UPI Blast from the Past package for Nov. 18-24.
Today is Thursday, Nov. 22, the 326th day
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of 2001 with 39 to follow.
René Moawad (April 17, 1925 - November 22, 1989) (Arabic: رينيه معوض) was President of Lebanon for 17 days in 1989, from the 5th to the 22nd of November, when he was assassinated. Although pro-Syrian forces were widely suspected, no clear assassin has been indicted for his killing.
A Maronite Christian noted for his moderate views, Moawad had given some citizens hope that the long civil war in Lebanon could be ended. He was an example of non-violence and accepting the other in the Arab world, his culture of non-confrontation and troubleshooting conflict and his courage led all of the Lebanese parties to accept him as a president to end the war. Before he died, Moawad had addressed the nation with these words: "There can be no country or dignity without unity of the people, and there can be no unity
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Some Jewish leaders are encouraging Jews to see Jesus as one of their own.
(CNN) - The relationship between Jews and Jesus has traditionally been
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a complicated one, to say the least.
As his followers' message swept the ancient world, Jews who did not accept Jesus as the Messiah found themselves in the uncomfortable, and sometimes dangerous, position of being blamed for his death.
Mainstream Christian theology's position held that Judaism had been supplanted, the Jewish covenant with the divine no longer valid, because of the incarnation of God as Jesus and his sacrifice on the cross.
Jews, for their part, tended largely to ignore Jesus.
In the past year, a spate of Jewish authors, from the popular to the rabbinic to the scholarly, have wrestled with what Jews should think about Jesus.
And overwhelmingly, they are coming up with positive answers, urging their fellow Jews to learn about Jesus, understand him and claim him as one of their own.
"Jesus is a Jew. He spent his life talking to other Jews," said Amy-Jill Levine, co-editor of the recently released "Jewish Annot
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Denver plans to raise more than $150 million over 10 years to address affordable housing.
Denver city officials on Friday unveiled the full version of a
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proposed five-year housing strategy, but they immediately faced questions about whether the plan sufficiently helps residents at risk of being pushed out by rising costs.
Neighborhoods undergoing rapid redevelopment and exhibiting signs of gentrification would get some help from the plan, Mayor Michael Hancock and his advisers said during a media briefing. Called “Housing an Inclusive Denver,” the 98-page draft plan will be subject to a 45-day public comment period and City Council consideration.
But a group of 21 residents from Globeville and Elyria-Swansea who attended a city forum about a plan framework last week questioned whether the strategy goes far enough to help families and individuals stay in their homes.
“Denver’s growing housing crisis is not only a direct threat to the health and well-being of our families and neighbors, but also jeopardizes the stability of the greater metropolitan region as a whole,” wrote the group, made of up members of Globev
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Former Crystal Palace legend Kenny Sansom was cleared of assault at Bromley Magistrates’ Court today and said he was “relieved it
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’s over”.
The ex-footballer, of Bostall Road in Orpington, had been charged with assaulting his on-off partner Denise Mullins at her home in Hastings Road, Bromley, late last year.
However, after first reporting the incident to police on November 22 she withdrew her statement in January and didn’t attend court.
Mr Sansom, who also made 86 appearances for England and played in two World Cups, said after the case had been dismissed: “I’m relieved. It’s been a long time to wait.
The 55-year-old, who denied a charge of assault by beating, also mentioned his “recovery is going well” after revealing he’d been struggling with drinking problems.
At the trial the court heard how Mr Sansom was said to have been drunk on November 21 and was kept overnight at Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH).
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NICK SCHNELLE/JOURNAL STAR Pastor Larry Zurek leads a funeral mass for former Peoria Fire Cheief Er
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nie Russell on Friday morning at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Russell was 74.
NICK SCHNELLE/JOURNAL STAR Jeremy Ott, 10, leans on Sara Russell, left, as the casket of Peoria Fire Chief Ernie Russell is moved on Friday during funeral services at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in downtown Peoria. Russell was 74.
NICK SCHNELLE/JOURNAL STAR Pallbearers carry the casket of former Peoria Fire Chief Ernie Russell on Friday morning during funeral services at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Russell was 74.
NICK SCHNELLE/JOURNAL STAR Peoria Heights firefighter Greg Walters, right, signs his name in the guest book at the funeral mass for former Peoria Fire Chief Ernie Russell on Friday morning at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Russell was 74.
NICK SCHNELLE/JOURNAL STAR Fire trucks lead the funeral procession of former Peoria Fire Chief Ernie
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LAS VEGAS -- Summerlin is where the new Firefly Tapas Kitchen and Bar will be opening.
The new location will be at
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Sahara and Fort Apache, where Z Tejas was once located.
Richard Crighton, President of Rothwell Gornt said, " We looked at over 30 locations prior to deciding on the former Z Tejas pad at Sahara and Ft. Apache. The space was a perfect fit and the economics of the lease met our criteria. In the end, we are all very excited to see one of Las Vegas' homegrown restaurant phenomena continue to see success and grow."
An opening date for the new Firefly Tapas Kitchen and Bar location has yet to be announced.
LAS VEGAS -- The $850 million Tivoli Village at Queensridge mixed-use development is now scheduled to open in March 2011.
Heavy-duty building work at the village resumed late last year after a 10-month slowdown. Grading and infrastructure work on the 30-acre site started in 2006 and the initial projected opening date was fall 2009. But Tivoli's developers slowed construction in December 2008 to
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Royal Bank of Scotland moved into profit, from a £2 billion loss, but has committed to continue major restructuring through to 2019.
Attribut
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able profit was £939 million in the half year ended 30 June, a significant rise from the £2 billion loss in the same period in 2016. Operating profit before tax was £1.9 billion.
The bank, which is still over 70% government owned said that it made progress dealing with legacy issues during the period. A settlement was reached with the Federal Housing Finance Agency which cost £151 million, out of the £396 million litigation and conduct costs.
Over the period it finally reached a settlement with the last remaining shareholder action group, which spared its former chief executive Fred Goodwin from having to appear in court, over a 2008 rights issue. The £25 million charge over the period took the total amount paid to investors to over £800 million.
Restructuring costs increased by £160 million to £790 million in the first half. 2017 is expected to be the last peak year of one off costs for the bank.
Chief executive Ross McEwan (pictured) said
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Faith-based political parties are hoping religious youths will vote for them in the May 8 elections.
The number two spot on the Al Jama-
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ah election candidate list is Aisha Nontobeko Mkhwanazi, a second-year student from KwaZulu-Natal.
The party’s leader, Ganief Hendricks, said Mkhwanazi joined the party after criticising it for not taking the concerns of Muslim youths on board in its election manifesto.
Hendricks said Mkhwanazi is the face of the party’s youths and their aspirations, adding that Al Jama-ah hopes to get at least three seats in Parliament.
“We are concerned that young, black, female Muslims feel marginalised,” he said. “Aisha is black, young; she wears the hijab.
Mkhwanazi (23) said the ANC, her former political home, did not “use Islam as the basis of their political ideology”.
In the 2014 election, Al Jama-ah narrowly missed winning a seat in Parliament. It did better in
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A plane flies over Mitiga airport following clashes, in Tripoli, Libya, Jan. 15, 2018.
Heavily armed Libyan militias clashed
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in Tripoli on Monday, killing at least 20 people and forcing the capital's only airport to close, officials said.
The Health Ministry said another 63 people were wounded in the fighting between two militias that are ostensibly allied with the internationally-backed government, underscoring the lingering instability in the country seven years after a popular uprising toppled long-ruling dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Civilians were among the dead, including an airline employee who was trying to get home after Matiga airport shut down. An airport official said staffers were evacuated from Matiga airport and that five flights have been canceled. A picture posted on the airport's Facebook page showed a passenger plane with its roof blown off.
The Special Deterrent Force, a militia which controls the airport, was fighting a rival militia led by local strongman Bashir al-Baqara. Both are allied with the internationally recognized government in Tripoli. A rival government and parliament rule in Libya's east, but across the country real power
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Miami - A new treatment, using microparticles made from chitosan, may help dairy cattle resist uterine diseases and could help improve
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food safety for people. New research suggests chitosan microparticles kill bacteria.
Uterine illnesses in cows are a major concern. This is because they can make cows infertile, lower milk production and could potentially pose a risk to consumers.
To find a way to kill bacterial infections in the uteri of cows – especially Escherichia coli – a research team selected chitosan (an antimicrobial material derived from dissolved shrimp shells). To explore this, the team infused chitosan microparticles into diseased cow uteri. The results appeared to be successful with most of the infectious bacteria killed.
New compounds are needed to fight infections, especially because dangerous infections are diminishing the role of some antibiotics, making them less able to treat infections. This is also important in the context of a recent news item on the Digital Journal. Here it was reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked 26 companies to voluntarily
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A long nightmare for dozens of seniors at Madison Tower apartments is finally over.
The heat and hot water
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is finally back on after nine days in the cold. But while residents are happy now, many say it’s only a matter of time before something else goes wrong.
"It was freezing," said resident Johnny Tharp, who said he had to sleep covered in coats and blankets, and heat up water to put in his bathtub.
The taxpayer-subsidized high-rise is full of seniors, many of them disabled.
The problem started nine days ago, when two main water lines backed up and flooded the basement, damaging the boiler and furnace. Management kept telling tenants they were working on a fix.
A spokesman for the property says it took time to find needed parts. Tharpe believes it.
"You know, this building is too old to be even standing here," he said.
The spokesman also says management is coming up with ways to stop it from happening again, but tenants are skeptical.
"Been happening for the past 10 years
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One document may contain patent, trademark and copyright protection for different reasons.
1 Are You Required to Put TM Next to a Pending Trademark
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?
2 "Differences Between a Copyright, Trademark & Registration"
Intellectual property is “imagination made real,” according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Your intellectual property is a business asset and warrants protection from unauthorized use. Three ways to protect your intellectual property are patents, trademarks and copyrights. Each intellectual property type is distinct, and the form of protection depends on the form of your content.
A patent is intellectual property protection for an invention. There are three types of patents according to the Patent Office: utility, design and plant. A utility patent protects the functional aspects of an invention, such as a new machine. A design patent protects the ornamental appearance of an invention, such as the color and shape of a new machine. A plant patent protects the inventor of a new method to asexually reproduce a new variety of plant. The most common business patents are utility and design.
A patent application must be filed with the
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It's that time of year again...to buy your tickets to the annual Taste of Arlington! If you buy online before Saturday, a $20
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ticket will provide you with 8 Tastes. Tickets will also be sold Sunday at the street festival for $25.
Taste of Arlington is one of the most popular annual events in Arlington that turns the Ballston area into a fun street festival. This year’s Taste of Arlington is this Sunday, May 22 from 12:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m.
The street fair will happen rain or shine and will include singing and dancing performances by local artists, games for kids, and tons of food and drink from local vendors. Over local 40 restaurants will be participating, and attendance is expected to be around 15,000 throughout the day.
Catherine Haynes was born and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. When she received word of the tornados hitting her hometown and surrounding areas, she decided to take action locally.
Soon after hearing about the great losses in her family’s neighborhood, Catherine Haynes was talking to her husband
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The process describes a way to move the glass mold in-process in order to change the shape of the glass without cracking or weakening the material.
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December 28, 2012, 9:32 a.m.
Is the scene being set for the next mega-battle between Samsung and Apple? Mere days after Samsung announced it will be showing off its flexible, bendable display technology at CES 2013, Apple has been granted a patent for — you guessed it — bending glass.
Apple’s patent doesn’t cover flexible screens, though, and it does not preclude other companies from developing products with curved displays. Instead, it simply details a novel method for bending glass during the “slumping” process of glass manufacturing.
Apple’s process describes a way to move the glass mold in-process in order to dynamically change the shape of the glass without cracking or weakening the material. The patent says the process could be used to create glass covers for portable electronics and larger displays alike.
Does that mean we’ll see crazily curved MacBooks and iPhones before the year is out? Don’
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RELATED: DRIVING rain and hail, and blustery winds are no netballer’s concept of ideal conditions, particularly if
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you happen to be a goal shooter. But if those adverse weather conditions were meant to curtail performance on Saturday, nobody sent Bridgewater’s Olivia Treloar the memo. The Mean Machine’s star young sharpshooter made a mockery of the atrocious conditions at Bridgewater, to deliver an outstanding best on court display in her club’s first A-grade premiership since 2011. Treloar, who shared a LVFNL B-grade best and fairest award win with Mitiamo midcourter Amelia Ludeman in 2015, has steadily become a force to be reckoned with at A-grade level with her precise shooting and formidable presence in the goal circle. Earlier this season she earned inter-league selection in the LVFNL team, which defeated Golden Rivers at the Queen Elizabeth Oval, and this month polled eight votes in the Helen Ward Medal league best and fairest count, won by team-mate Jessey Wilson. Her eight votes contributed to a
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Here’s why I support Proposition 112 and the 2,500-foot drilling setbacks.
1. There has been, to my knowledge
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, no study or statement or information that supports the premise that the affects of oil and gas drilling and residual effects of transportation, water and chemicals, noise, etc. are healthy for humans, animals, communities. There have been some studies that claim that they have not found direct adverse effects within 500 feet of drilling, but no studies showing it is healthy and other studies saying there may be negative health effects. Those living close to drilling pads have had adverse health and living conditions.
2. The opposition and funding against Prop 112 comes primarily from the oil and gas industry. The dire economic effects and the neutral health and livability claims come from the very industry that profits from the 500-foot setback. Should I believe the industry about benign health effects and economic Armageddon? Should we have believed the tobacco industry about the safety of cigarettes, the mining industry about coal dust, the pharma industry about thalidomide, the agra/chemical industry about DDT, the financial industry about mortgage bonds?
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Texas native Blake Mycoskie is a man on a mission. The founder of California-based TOMS, the innovative company that shot to success
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by giving a pair of shoes to a needy child for every pair sold, spent two years scouting for the perfect location for a standalone Austin store. He finally found it.
The new TOMS store, only the company’s second free-standing outpost (the first is in Venice, California), opens March 11 in a renovated Victorian house “with a lot of history to it” at 1401 S. Congress Ave.
“We are trying to create a real space for the community,” Mycoskie says. “I don’t like to even call it a store. It’s more of a community space, a cafe, a meeting place for people who are inspired by what we are doing and doing other great things themselves.” Babies and dogs are welcome too, he adds.
Only half of the 2,400-square-foot property will be devoted to retail; the other half will be for hanging out, with
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HOUSTON, June 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. unit of Venezuela’s state-run oil producer PDVSA is
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increasing purchases of crude on the open market because it cannot get sufficient deliveries from its struggling parent company, traders said on Monday.
Citgo Petroleum has been buying crude from multiple countries worldwide as PDVSA has been unable to comply with the contractual volume of heavy crude due to falling output and port congestion slowing deliveries, according to the traders.
Declining oil production, lawsuits by creditors, shortages of spare parts for terminals and executive braindrain have all reduced PDVSA’s ability to export oil. Most recently, U.S.-based ConocoPhillips’ actions to seize PDVSA assets to cash in on a $2 billion arbitration award have added to the firm’s export issues.
Crude exports are Venezuela’s main source of revenue, but the OPEC member has seen deliveries fall sharply in the last few months, dropping to 1.17 million barrels per day (bpd) in May from 1.24 million bpd in April,
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The sport of Rowing is taking off in Cleveland thanks to The Foundry!
Rowing is a popular sport in cities like Boston and Philadelphia
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but it’s also taking off right here in Cleveland thanks to the Foundry, a relatively new rowing center located on the Cuyahoga River in the Flats that focuses on youth and students. The Foundry’s Rowing Head Coach, Alyssa Trebilcock, sat down with Hollie and Alexa today and shared more.
Can you describe what makes the Foundry special?
If I’m a student or the parent of a student, why should I consider rowing?
What are the benefits of the sport?
Beside fitness, teamwork, and self-esteem – great values for every child to acquire – I also understand that rowing is the sport that provides more college scholarships to girls. Why is that?
I know the Foundry is a relatively new organization, but have you already seen some young women go onto college on scholarship?
What programs do you offer if a student wants to learn to row?
At
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Fleet Treat Fleet Street’s Morgan Hotel has completed a €15 million investment and redesign. Now, with the addition of a fifth floor
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, the hotel boasts 168 bedrooms, the 10 Fleet Street Restaurant, The Lobby Lounge and 10 Fleet Street Bar with 120 employees now manning the Templebar bolthole. For bookings and more information visit themorgan.com.
Family Affair A Monaghan history buff and his daughter have launched a series of self-guided cycling routes through the county’s drumlin townlands. Paddy and Joanna McQuaid’s tours are packed full of hidden history. Rent a bike from Paddy’s Emyvale-based convenience store for €15 per day for a regular bike or €35 per day for an electric bike to experience the region in a unique way; drumlintrails.com.
Strandhill First Strandhill Tourism, Co Sligo, has launched its first ever campaign this summer in the shape of a new video highlighting all there is to see and do in the vibrant surf village and peninsula along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic
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U Myint Kyaw Thu says he wanted to make games since he was a five-year-old playing Nintendo.
But growing up in
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Burma, now Myanmar, there was no internet and precious few mobile phones.
So when he founded Total Gameplay Studio with his brother in 2005, he had to develop games for international buyers, sometimes living nocturnally to capitalise on Myanmar's limited electricity - the domestic market just wasn't developed enough.
But since the recent liberalisation of Myanmar's telecoms market, millions have embraced mobile in a land where SIM cards used to cost $1,000.
Now he can do what he always wanted to do from the start - develop games for mobile about his own culture.
One enables players to guide a bicycle rickshaw driver through soaking-wet streets during Thingyan - Myanmar's New Year celebration; another involves playing chinlone - the country's traditional sport of highly stylised "keepy-uppy".
"When the government announced new telcos were coming, we believed there would be a lot of mobile users. I thought the Myanmar market would become
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The former stripper indicted for allegedly extorting Mark Jackson over naked photos the NBA coach sent to her has struck a deal with federal prosecutors to settle
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a pair of felony charges, records show.
Alexis Adams, who was facing a May 3 trial date, has “reached an agreement in principle” to enter a pretrial diversion program that would allow the 29-year-old’s case to be “resolved short of trial,” according to a U.S. District Court filing.
A stipulation signed by Adams’s lawyer and a federal prosecutor notes that Pretrial Services officials will evaluate Adams for acceptance into the diversion program, a process that takes at least 60 days. If a defendant--usually a first-time offender--successfully completes the diversion program, prosecutors will formally drop charges against them.
Last month, Adams’s codefendant, ex-con Marcus Shaw, pleaded guilty to charges that he conspired with Adams to shake down Jackson over the explicit images. Jackson shared the photos with Adams during the course of an extramarital affair about seven years ago,
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They are every mariner’s worst nightmare. A wave twice the height of the average sea state that seemingly comes out of nowhere. Rogue
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waves have been blamed for countless lost vessels throughout history, but not only are they dangerous to ships and mariners at sea, they can also sweep unsuspecting beachgoers out to sea – often with fatal results.
To get a better understanding of the phenomena, a team of researchers with the University of Southampton set out to study long-term data to investigate how these rare, unexpected and hazardous ocean waves behave. Their findings were published this month in the journal Scientific Reports.
Waves are classed as ‘rogue’ when they are over twice the height of the average sea state around them. From trough to peak, past observations have put some at over 30 meters high – easily capable of damaging or sinking ships. Rogue waves along the west coast of the United States have also been blamed for sweeping people out to sea, including notable fatal incidents at Point Reyes, Maverick’s beach and Arcata, in California and Depoe Bay, Oregon In 2000, the NOAA research vessel R
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Treating Prisoners For Hepatitis C Could Save Money In The Long Run : Shots - Health News About 15 percent of people in prison are
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infected with hepatitis C. Screening and treating inmates would save $750 million over 30 years and prevent many new cases in the general public.
Harvoni is one of the new medications for hepatitis C that can cure almost all infections.
Doctors, patients and insurers have been struggling with how to determine who should be treated for hepatitis C now that effective but wildly expensive drugs can all but cure the disease. Treating prison inmates is a good investment that would save money in the long run, a study finds.
The drugs, Harvoni and Sovaldi, cure about 90 percent of patients, but at a hefty price, about $90,000 per patient. The drugs are made by Gilead Sciences and were approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the last two years.
More than 15 percent of U.S. prison inmates are infected with hepatitis C. The study, published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine, shows that as many as 12,000 lives would be
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And there seems to be a wide expectation that somehow all of this should be free. We could of course legislate so that it was all free
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, to everyone. We would then have long queues.
Well, your alright jack, I mean Don!
Prior to Medibank, public hospitals were funded by the federal and state governments, privately insured patients, third party insurance and fund raising activities like fetes.
"David Himmelstein and colleagues recently contended that medical problems contribute to 54.5 percent of personal bankruptcies and threaten the solvency of solidly middle-class Americans. They propose comprehensive national health insurance as a solution. A reexamination of their data suggests that medical bills are a contributing factor in just 17 percent of personal bankruptcies"
"Have a brain tumor? The kind of insurance you have might make a difference in your survival "
Wolly B: Prior to Medibank, public hospitals were funded by the federal and state governments, privately insured patients, third party insurance and fund raising activities like fetes.
The Casket paid for the Free Hospitals. Then they took the profits of
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A film shot in Suffolk and telling the story of the friendly invasion of US airmen during the Second World War is to receive its world premiere at
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IWM Duxford.
Independent British drama Magpie has been four years in the making and was filmed on location at former US airbases in Suffolk and Norfolk.
Directed and co-written by Bury St Edmunds based filmmaker Paul Cook and fellow co-writer Carmel Hannant, the film is a labour of love that was partly funded through a Kickstarter campaign and features cast and crew almost all from East Anglia.
A trailer was recently released and now the film is set to be premiered at Duxford Imperial War Museum on September 29.
Paul Cook said: “We are really excited about it. We have already had a fantastic response to the trailer. It has been really humbling to get some of the content of the film out there and to receive messages saying it looks great and that they can’t wait to see it, some from as far afield as Canada, Australia and America.
“It is exciting because it is at
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"We are going to be their friend!"
If there's one thing that bugs me, it's the way the media treats celebrities. Self
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-respecting stars can barely crack a magazine or surf a cable lineup these days without seeing themselves attacked bitterly and without cause. There are the exposis, the "behind-the-scenes" reports. Personal details are bruited about the tabloids; the minutiae of private business negotiations are eagerly stolen and sold on an information black market to be spray-painted across the public consciousness. Many mass media outlets have even been known to try to write about stars completely independently of their having current product to promote -- a complete waste of human and journalistic resources.
Today, however, I feel better, because I just got done reading the New York Times' business section. In it I found two causes for hope.
Angeles seem hard-boiled." There will be lots of celebrity sightings and feature articles about how celebrities accessorize their dogs. "What Channel won't be doing is nasty exposi stories," said exec editor Sue Cameron.
Better news even than that came in a
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The end game: to be able to combine classic screen monsters King Kong and Godzilla into one cinematic universe.
A Monster Universe is coming together.
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Talks are underway between Legendary Entertainment, Warner Bros. and Universal to move Legendary’s Kong: Skull Island from Universal to Warner Bros., sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter.
Godzilla was made by Legendary with Warner Bros. and grossed around $200 million. A sequel is in active development with an eye for a 2018 release.
At the same time, Legendary is making Skull Island, a King Kong movie that is just weeks away from shooting and will star Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson, among others.
When it became clear that all roads led to an eventual crossover with a series of movies on these so-called super species, talks began to move Skull Island. The dealmaking isn’t as complicated as one would think: Universal has no financial stake and was only to distribute the movie.
The move is good for Warner Bros. as it feeds the studio’s insatiable appetite for event movies and gives the studio another universe other
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LOUDON, N.H. — Matt Kenseth just might win a championship with a touch of dominance, not dullness.
K
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enseth has firmly defended the style of his 2003 championship, stating his one-win season in the final year before NASCAR made the move to the playoff-style Chase format was as meaningful as all the titles collected by Jimmie Johnson or Tony Stewart.
He probably won’t have to justify anything about his Cup run this season. There are plenty of checkered flags.
Kenseth made it 2 for 2 in the Chase, holding off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch to win Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
He followed his win in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship opener at Chicagoland with his series-high seventh victory of the season. Kenseth made his 500th career start and built a 14-point lead over Busch before the series shifts to Dover.
One win or seven, Kenseth will take a title any way he can.
Kenseth was paired with owner Jack Roush for more than a decade and won 22 races
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Robin Lynn Miller, 36, of New Galilee, Pa., formerly of Erie, went to see her Lord on Saturday January 15, 2011.
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Born June 15, 1974 in Erie, Pa., she was the daughter of JoAnn Taylor, Erie, Pa. Robin attended East High School, Erie. She enjoyed spending time with all her family and watching her favorite TV shows, "Ghost Hunters" and "Creep Show". Go figure, her favorite color was black.
In addition to her mother, she is survived by her husband, Richard Miller Sr.; two children, Katylynn and Richard Jr. "Bubba"; two brothers, Jesse Miles, Smithfield Pa; formerly of Erie and Marvin Lee Miles, LaBelle, Pa.; one sister, Tammi Jo (Miles) Williams, Erie, Pa. and many aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews who all loved her and will miss her very much. Her other two loves in her life were her dogs, Buckie and Meca.
A celebration of Robin's life will be celebrated at a later date.
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I recently attended the Greeley Planning Commission meeting regarding Extraction Oil and Gas plans to drill the Triple Creek prospect.
In my opinion, Ext
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raction Oil and Gas put forth a very weak presentation. Although Mr. Thingelstad spoke about noise abatement, berms and sound barriers, he neglected to inform the commission about the continual squealing of the brake on the drilling rig while drilling. While living in St. Michaels, we experienced this continual noise from a well that was drilled on the north side of St. Michaels’ and also a well that was drilled to the west of us. Secondly, Extraction Oil & Gas failed to point out that when doing the fracking operation, a number of pump trucks and ancillary equipment will be on their location, the noise from this equipment will impact residents during the whole fracking operation. Mr. Thingelstad also commented that the Triple Creek project was a secondary choice because their primary choice did not work out? I wonder why.
In my 45 years working in the oil and gas industry (primarily drilling operations), I have seen firsthand how projects have to be moved due to any
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Click here to read who won the Flat Rock Playhouse's playwriting contest for middle and high school students.
FLAT ROCK -- Flat Rock
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Playhouse announces the winners of this year's Playwriting Contest. The contest was comprised of a middle school and a high school division.
Each division-winning play was produced as a reading by the YouTheatre at Flat Rock Playhouse.
The winners also received a $200 award, a season pass to the Playhouse 2007 Season, and have had their names engraved on a permanent plaque.
The runners-up received a $50 award and a presentation of their play as a reading.
The high school division winner was Good Night, Pete by Jesse Siak of East Henderson High School.
Runner-up was The Nothing Box by Brian Rose of West Henderson High School.
In the Middle School Division the winner was Crime in the Emerald City by Katie O'Shea of Rugby Middle School. The Runner-up was Where's the Ruby by Meredith Cole of Rugby Middle School.
High School Division -- East Henderson High School: Jesse Siak (two plays); West Henderson High
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A molecular pathway that explains the development of acute myeloid leukemia has been discovered by UC Santa Barbara researchers. The discovery may lead to new cancer
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therapies that reprogram cells instead of killing them. The findings are published in a recent paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
The UCSB research team described how a certain mutation in DNA disrupts cellular function in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The researchers were prompted to study this process by another research team's discovery that AML patients have a mutation in a certain enzyme, which was reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. The enzyme is a protein called DNMT3A, which leads to changes in how the DNA of AML patients is methylated, or "tagged." Norbert Reich, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCSB, was already studying that particular enzyme with his research group, so they began to study the disease process of AML at the cellular level.
Reich explained that tagging is a way of reading DNA at the cellular level. This falls within an area of study called epigenetics, a process that occurs "
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about the time that artificial intelligence becomes smarter than we are.
Despite my optimism about learning innovations, no one can predict the future. Few predicted
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the 10% stock market correction in January, nobody predicted the 70% drop in the price of oil (from $94 per barrel on 6/30/14 to $27 per barrel last week). Nobody saw September 11... or ISIS coming (or the unfortunate link between the two). Nobody saw World War I, or the Internet, or the collapse of the Soviet Union.
These unexpected high-profile Black Swan events are important developments that are way outside anyone's forecast. They seem to be happening more frequently given the collision of complex human systems, exponential technology ( Moore's Law etc.), and the climate that we've increasingly messed with. What makes these unexpected events more worrisome is the concomitant loss of civic capacity and collective problem solving ability (as evidenced by the early U.S. presidential campaigns).
Tech: We're living on an exponential curve but our brains make linear projections. When it comes to new technology, almost everything is closer than it appears.
Smart AI: Artificial intelligence
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Ashley Tattersley helped Lower Hopton qualify for the World Championship finals.
Lower Hopton booked their place in the World Bowls Club
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Championships finals following two impressive displays in their qualifying round at Spen Victoria last Sunday.
Hopton overcame Shropshire outfit Castlefield BC in their first round match, winning 142-131, before edging a cracking contest against Tixall, from Cheshire, 146-142 to reach finals day, which takes place on Sunday April 14.
Hopton will be joined at finals day by Pudsey, who made it a double success for Yorkshire sides last Sunday.
British Parks qualifiers Pudsey — who included local bowler Chris Mordue in their side — swept aside Staffordshire M&B Cheslyn Hay 161-95 in their first round match.
Pudsey then defeated another Welsh qualifier, Min Y Don, 148-135 to reach finals day.
Min Y Don had earlier accounted for Cheshire side King Alfred 149-120 but were unable to overcome Pudsey as they bowed out.
It means there will be at least three Yorkshire side represented at
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Nominations are open for this year's Inspiring Fifty South Africa, a non-profit initiative that benchmarks and awards the 50 most inspiring women
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in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).
Now in its third year, the initiative recognises the positive impact that increased diversity has on business growth, innovation, culture and productivity.
A nominee has to be a founder of a technology company; or hold a position in a C-Level position in a technology company; or be an influencer, academic or politician in the technology or innovation space.
"Inspiring Fifty has proven to be a wonderful, interactive platform for professional women to engage, share opportunities, and form collaborations in their professional activities," says Ellen Fischat, ambassador for Inspiring Fifty SA and co-founder of Innocircle.
"I look forward to expanding the reach of Inspiring Fifty with not only the support of the winners, but the generous support shown by #cocreateSA, an initiative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in South Africa."
"It is an honour being part of Inspiring Fifty. It has provided me with
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Irreverent, offensive and funny... that’s the way to do it!
Blackpool, you could say, has history when
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it comes to risqué puppet shows.
But even Mr Punch and his less than politically correct comrades might have had to watch the antics of the Avenue Q gang through their fingers.
This one-time off-Broadway show turned sensational touring hit might offer more than a little nod to the gentile fun dished out on Sesame Street.
And sure, it’s educational – just not in the same kind of way.
Satirical, irreverent, boundary-pushingly offensive and at times downright rude, it’s a bold step to let the puppets and their masters take over the Opera House for a week-long run.
The catchy tunes and bright colours might scream family entertainment but the themes are decidedly adult and there aren’t many topics Kate Monster, Princeton and the gang shy away from. Being cute and furry is a license for mischief on a grand scale with very little, if anything at all, left to the imagination
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In one of the biggest funding rounds of the year in education and technology, Altschool is raising $100 million from Founders Fund, Mark Zuckerberg
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and Priscilla Chan’s foundation along with other venture backers and philanthropic organizations.
The move will mark the company’s shift from proving out its ideas around personalized education through building its own schools to sharing or licensing its individualized learning model with other educators that want to adopt its approach. It’s an ambitious and major test as to whether Altschool’s model can be done affordably and accessibly at scale in other parts of the country.
This round is split 50-50 between conventional venture firms like existing investor Andreessen Horowitz and other philanthropic organizations like Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective. Altschool is a B-corp, a special type of corporate structure where the goal is to not only be a profitable entity, but to also have a positive impact on society. And that’s written in and one of the entity’s legally defined goals.
Ventilla, who previously sold social question-and
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Louisville basketball rolled to a win Saturday over Kent State thanks to an impressive performance from Christen Cunningham.
Taking the ball up the floor at
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breakneck speed, Christen Cunningham deftly sidestepped a defender to avoid a likely ankle sprain — and he got his reward at the end of the play.
After a near travel by Steven Enoch, a dangerous cross-court pass by V.J. King and a ball saved from going out of bounds by Khwan Fore, Cunningham picked up the ball just inside half court and was forced to shoot with three seconds left on the shot clock.
His 3-pointer went in as the shot-clock buzzer sounded with 7:10 left in the first half to cap a 6-0 Louisville run on an imperfect possession kept alive due to pure hustle.
Louisville (8-3) outworked Kent State (8-2) to earn an 83-70 win Saturday at the KFC Yum Center and remain undefeated at home.
After two games of imploring his team to get the ball inside, Louisville coach Chris Mack was rewarded Saturday with a strong
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Today is Friday, May 28, the 148th day of 2010. There are 217 days left in the year.
�On May 28,
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1863, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, made up of freed blacks, left Boston to fight for the Union in the Civil War.
�In 1892, the Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco.
�In 1918, the Battle of Cantigny began during World War I as American troops captured the French town from the Germans.
�In 1929, the first all-color talking picture, �On with the Show,� opened in New York.
�In 1959, the U.S. Army launched Able, a rhesus monkey, and Baker, a squirrel monkey, aboard a Jupiter missile for a suborbital flight; both primates survived.
�In 1972, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the English throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, died in Paris at age 77.
�In 1985, David Jacobsen, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, was abducted by pro-Iranian kidnappers
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Domestic messaging app Hike has announced new animated sticker packs for Valentine’s Day.
Domestic messaging app Hike has announced new
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animated sticker packs for Valentine’s Day. The sticker packs express love through teddy bears, hearts, and many other things symbolic of love.
The company says that with these stickers, users can celebrate every day of Valentine's week. Hike has a special pack for the LGBTQ community as well. Love is one of the most popular themes for conversation on Hike and the most used sticker packs are all about saying I love you, the heartbreak pack, ideal dates and more.
Available in the app, Hike users can download these expressive packs from the Play Store and App Store. As per the company, Stickers are one of the most loved features of Hike. Hike says that it offers a library of over 50K stickers in 40+ languages, covering multiple genres which highlight the colourful, cultural landscape of India, Bollywood, comedy, festivals, cricket, kabaddi, local catchphrases, emotions, and even excuses.
There is also
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ATLANTA -- Christian Walker homered leading off the ninth inning and the Arizona Diamondbacks rallied against the shaky Atlanta bullpen for a 9-6
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victory Tuesday night as the Braves squandered a massive, knee-buckling homer by Ronald Acuna Jr. and another strong start by Max Fried.
After Ozzie Albies went deep in the bottom half to tie the game at 6, Walker drove the second pitch from A.J. Minter (0-2) deep into the seats to start the ninth. Adam Jones brought home two insurance runs with a double that deflected off the glove of Acuna after a long run into the left-field corner.
Yoshihisa Hirano (1-1) claimed the win. Greg Holland got the final three outs for his third save.
With his right knee dipping to the ground as he delivered a mighty swing, Acuna launched a 448-foot shot over the Braves' bullpen in right-center field, putting Atlanta on the board in the fourth inning after Arizona jumped ahead 2-0 in the top half against Fried.
Atlanta tacked on four runs
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new report suggests that pushback from California and some cities is slowing the transfer of inmates into immigration custody despite
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the Trump administration stepping up immigration arrests overall.
The nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute said this week that about 69 percent of arrests during the first 135 days of the Trump administration were transfers from criminal custody. That's compared with more than 85 percent during the early years of the Obama administration.
"Pushback from California and other locations with sanctuary policies makes it quite unlikely that ICE will be able to match record enforcement levels," the report concludes.
The shift comes as California and a range of cities have passed measures limiting police collaboration with immigration enforcement. The report highlights dramatic differences between enforcement in different parts of the country and comes amid a raging debate over so-called sanctuary policies.
The Trump administration sued California over its laws earlier this year.
The report caps a year-long study that took MPI researchers to 15 locations across the United States, some fully cooperating with federal immigration enforcement and others not. Researchers interviewed senior ICE field leaders to state and local elected officials, immigrant-rights advocates, former immigration
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The broad S&P 500 capped off its strongest weekly rally since mid-October and snapped a two-week losing streak after the Fed unveiled mild
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QE3 tapering plans.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 42.00 points, or 0.26%, to 16221.08, the S&P 500 gained 8.92 points, or 0.49%, to 1818.52 and the Nasdaq Composite climbed 46.61 points, or 1.15%, to 4104.74.
For the week, the Dow surged 466 points, or 2.96%, its best weekly percentage gain since mid-September. The Nasdaq advanced 2.59%, while the S&P 500's 2.42% rally was its strongest since mid-October.
After two weeks of selling on concerns about whether the Fed will pare back its vast bond-buying program, Wall Street finally found a reprieve this week. Ironically, it was the unveiling of the central bank's plans -- which was seen by most Wall Street analysts at a continuation of its dovish policies
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Samsung came under fire last year when it was discovered that the company was artificially inflating benchmark scores on the Galaxy Note 3. But it looks as
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if the deceptive benchmark boosting code has been removed in the latest update to Android(s goog) 4.4 KitKat. Ars Technica ran some tests on updated devices and found that KitKat restores benchmark scores back to normal.
You can see the full barrage of tests over at Ars Technica, but here’s the gist of it: After installing the KitKat update on a Samsung Galaxy S4 on AT&T(s t) and a Galaxy Note 3 on Sprint(s s), the CPU function went back to normal while running some well-known benchmark tests. Before the update, the devices were ramping up all four cores to the maximum clock speed and keeping them there for the duration of the test. After the update, this no longer happened.
Some developers have noticed the change as well. Developer “Wanman” told Android Police that “com.sec.android.app.twdvfs,” the code responsible for boosting
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Increased imports would help reduce inflation, but China must overcome its mistrust of opening domestic markets.
With China's inflation – and inflation expectations – rising
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, how can price stability be maintained without threatening the country's booming growth?
Reconciling growth and fighting inflation is not impossible, but it does require that the government overcome its deep-seated suspicion of opening China's markets to imports.
The World Bank predicts 3.5 per cent growth for the world economy this year, and most analysts predict that the United States will grow at a similar pace.
As a result, external demand for China's exports will be strong, while the interest-rate differential between China and the world's advanced economies is resulting in massive capital inflows.
Thus, China will continue to accumulate large foreign-exchange reserves this year. As a result, the Chinese authorities are now deploying a combination of tools to stabilise domestic prices.
With the reserve ratio of banks already at 19.5 per cent and unlikely to be raised by a large margin, interest rates will most likely continue to be raised.
Indeed, the benchmark interest rate reached 7
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A glaring security flaw's been uncovered in Skype and other VoIP systems, potentially allowing hackers to access users' identities, locations and even files.
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Skype claims more than a half-billion registered users, and one report suggests that one in five overseas calls is made using the service.
But researchers headed by a team at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University say that Skype can be used to track not only users’ locations over time but also their peer-to-peer file-sharing activity. It works even when a user's blocked callers or used a Network Address Translation (NAT) firewall.
And having done this, says the team, it's easy to link to information such as name, age, address, profession and employer using social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn in order to build profiles on a single tracked target or a database of hundreds of thousands.
"These findings have real security implications for the hundreds of millions of people around the world who use VoIP or P2P file-sharing services," says Keith Ross of NYU-Poly.
"A hacker anywhere in the world could easily
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SAN JOSE, CA-June 29, 2010-OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: OCZ), a leading provider
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of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) and memory modules for computing devices and systems, releases the RevoDrive PCI-Express SSD, an innovative storage solution that focuses on both performance and affordability for consumers. The new RevoDrive was developed to push the limits of economical SSD technology to deliver a revolutionary product with a remarkable price point.
Moving beyond the bottleneck of SATA II (3Gbps), the OCZ RevoDrive features a PCIe interface to deliver superior speeds over 500MB/s reads and random small file writes up to 80,000 IOPS, nearly twice the speed of other consumer SSDs. Thanks to a proprietary RAID 0 design, the RevoDrive maximizes data access and bandwidth to promote a faster, more responsive PC experience compared to not only hard drives, but other SSDs on the market.
"The RevoDrive is the first PCIe SSD that delivers both performance and affordability and radically alters the SSD landscape," said Ryan Petersen, CEO of the
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Police suspect Nicholas Ray Burton of firing a rifle at the wood line near the softball field at Mar Len Park on South 18th Street.
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LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Police suspect Nicholas Ray Burton of firing a rifle Tuesday afternoon at the wood line near the softball field at Mar Len Park on South 18th Street.
A neighbor in the area called police at 2:50 p.m. Tuesday to report hearing bullets land on his or her property, according to Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Office reports, but no damage was done and no one was injured.
Deputies found Burton, 24, 2627 W. 300 South, Shadeland, with a friend and his family members playing at the playground at the park on 18th Street just north of Tippecanoe County Road 500 South. Deputies asked if they had any weapons, and Burton told the officers he was carrying a.45-caliber pistol, according to the sheriff's office.
A search of Burton's vehicle also turned up a shotgun and rifle, according to the sheriff's office.
On the edge of the
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Phase two of GovDC complete.
The Unanderra GovDC data centre is one of two facilities operated by Metronode to house the
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computing needs of NSW government agencies, under the state's data centre consolidation project.
Unanderra boasts 8MW of capacity, with roughly 200 racks in each of its 10 data halls. It has just received Tier III certification by the Uptime Institute and is working towards the country's only five star NABERS rating.
Yesterday marked the formal opening of the second wing of the GovDC facility, and the completion of the final contstruction phase of the data centre reform program as it was orginally envisaged.
iTnews took a tour of the newly opened hall.
A few NSW government agencies have begun moving equipment into the new section, but the secure data rooms are mostly empty, awaiting the installation of servers.
Roughly 90 percent of the new data centre wing has already been leased to NSW government clients.
Both of the GovDC facilities, in Silverwater and Unanderra, rely on energy efficient evaporative cooling techniques to keep the data halls at
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The US Interior Department's inspector general office has opened a probe into recently-confirmed Secretary David Bernhardt on several allegations, including conflict of interest,
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it said in a letter to lawmakers on Monday.
Mary Kendall, the Interior Department's deputy inspector general, told Senator Ron Wyden in a letter, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, that it received seven complaints from a "wide assortment of complainants alleging various potential conflict of interest and other violations when he was deputy secretary of the department."
Kendall said her office had opened an investigation and was continuing to gather information about the complaints. She did not detail the other complaints against Bernhardt, a Republican.
Wyden and Senator Mazie Hirono, both Democrats, had urged the inspector general in separate requests to investigate allegations that Bernhardt had inappropriately blocked a US Fish and Wildlife Service assessment of the effect of pesticides on several endangered species. The service is an office of the Interior Department.
Bernhardt, a former energy lobbyist, was confirmed by the Senate last week in a 56 to 41 vote. He replaced Ryan Zinke who resigned under a cloud of ethics investigations
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Flagler County and its cities were grinding back to a sense of normalcy Tuesday, four days past Hurricane Matthew’s offshore sweep of the
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area, with the last emblem of direst danger lifted Tuesday afternoon: there will be no curfew in Flagler Beach tonight, as power has been restored to the island and all travel restrictions were lifted.
But county and cities were also reckoning with the damage: $72.8 million-worth to homes and businesses alone, the county estimated today.
The price tag is very likely to exceed $100 million when damage to government infrastructure, including roads, parks, water plants, schools and beaches, including the Flagler Beach pier, are included. On Monday, U.S. REp. John Mica, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, said early estimates of repairing State Road A1A and its adjoining beaches, which have been cleaved by the storm, run up to $35 million.
Meanwhile, as of 1 p.m., 1,130 customers remained without power in Flagler County, but that was less than 2 percent of customers. Florida Power and Light was sticking
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Against teams that are.500 or above, the Sox are 18-12.
Below.500 squads, the record is just 9-19
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What gives? It’s the proverbial “playing to the level your competition” cliche.
Maybe it’s the fact that a lot of these bad teams are filled with young pitchers that no one has any tape on, and the Sox consequently struggle against them? Do the home/road splits make a difference? And will that even itself out and eradicate the statistical anomaly.
An even more telling statistic is the Sox 10-13 at home record (just terrible, yes I know) versus 17-18 on the road. That will have to change now as the Sox have the next 16/22 at home. And between now and the All-Star break they’ll only be outside Chicago for nine days. And they’re certainly due- as the Sox have had more road games than any team in baseball up to this point.
But the best nugget of hope is not in their home/road or over/under.500
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The BJP Monday named the party's state vice-president Pitambar Acharya as its candidate against ruling BJD president and Chief Minister Nave
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en Patnaik, who is seeking re-election from Hinjili assembly seat in Odisha's Ganjam district, party sources said.
This will be the first time that Mr Acharya will fight the assembly polls though he has been in politics since his student days and was the president of the students union in Bhubhaneswar's BJB College in the 90s.
Mr Acharya, a senior advocate of Orissa High Court, is also the BJP's spokesman. He was assigned the responsibility of the party's vice-president two days ago.
The BJP is yet to name its candidate against Mr Patnaik in Bijepur assembly seat from where the BJD president will also contest from.
Confirming that he will contest from Hinjili assembly seat, Mr Acharya said he would contest against the chief minister to win the polls.
BJP sources said Mr Acharya was interested to contest from Cuttack Lok Sabha seat. But the party
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Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics of an unpublished 1961 song about Wisconsin will hit the auction block.
Bob Dylan‘s handwritten lyrics of an unpublished
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1961 song about Wisconsin will hit the auction block on March 30th.
Nate D. Sanders Auctions will conduct the auction, with the opening bid set at $30,000. According to the auction house, Dylan penned the lyrics in November 1961, months after he moved to New York City and signed with Columbia Records. Dylan gave the lyric sheet to musician and one-time roommate Peter Crago.
Prior to moving to New York, Dylan had spent time (unsuccessfully) working the folk scene in Madison, Wisconsin in 1960 after dropping out of the University of Minnesota. Dylan also spent his summers as a youth at a Wisconsin’s Camp Herzl.
Although the lyrics don’t exactly hint at Dylan’s future Nobel Laureate greatness – “I’ll tune my banjo than the hills / And feast on milk and cream / And stamp my foot all thru the grass / And never know a care” – they are a heartfelt ode
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FICTION: Lively characters and a strong sense of time and place make this historical novel a rich delight.
And indeed it does when
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the ship’s captain returns to reveal he has sold not only the cargo but the ship itself to purchase Mr. Hancock a “genuine mermaid” — a desiccated, horrid creature with monkey head and fish tail — with which to make his fortune. “Only a fool could lose money on a mermaid,” Capt. Jones confidently asserts.
Author Imogen Hermes Gowar displays an unflinching eye for the economic calculations permeating a culture in which everything from human flesh to mermaids is monetized.
It’s hard to believe that this brilliant and sure-footed work is a debut novel. Gowar’s feel for the spirit of the period is spot on — unsurprising, given her background in archaeology, anthropology, art history and museum work. (Hancock’s mermaid was inspired by the “mermaid” displayed in the British Museum.) Gowar swims like a mermaid
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Pulling Grimm from the schedule for three months right as the show gained creative momentum seemed like just another bonehead move from NBC. And considering I
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was on vacation the last two weeks of the fall half-season, it’s been over fourth months since I’ve written about this show. But in the intervening months, Bree Turner returned to series regular status after giving birth, and the plot ramped up to the anticipated confrontation between Nick and Renard that has been building for the entire series so far. The promise of those final few episodes, particularly “The Hour Of Death” and “Season Of The Hexenbiest,” led me to expect that Grimm could turn the corner into something like Angel—and tonight’s episode “Face Off” follows through on that promise.
It’s not the riveting payoff like the Breaking Bad episode of the same name, but it’s yet another step in the right direction toward upgrading the show from a watchable diversion to consistently entertaining television. Though it’s an entirely serialized hour with a few glaring flaws,
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Life has moved fast for Hilton "Dinkles" Thomas. By age 15, he was selling cocaine for one of Baltimore's most notorious drug
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lords. By 17, federal prosecutors had linked him to six killings.
And yesterday, at age 19, he was sent to prison for the rest of his life.
"It's always tragic to see a young life thrown away," Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert R. Harding said after Thomas' sentencing in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. "But this was a very vicious killer that we were determined to see punished for his crimes."
Thomas was one of the teen-age henchmen employed by Anthony Ayeni Jones, whose $30,000-a-day cocaine and heroin ring has been linked to more than a dozen killings.
Jones, now serving a life sentence, made an infamous name for himself as the man who used a secret code in prison to order executions of federal witnesses.
One of those coded messages -- "that nergy jergy gotta get wergy tergy" -- was relayed to Thomas in February 1997. A few days later,
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CRN presents Storage Week 2015, the CRN Test Center's wall-to-wall coverage of the latest storage drives, devices and apps for
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the enterprise and consumer markets. Bookmark this page for five days of reviews, slideshows and videos, all designed to bring you solid intel from the storage world. This year's coverage will include reviews of industry-leading storage arrays and solid-state drives, an examination of flash storage versus hybrid storage and much more.
While the performance of all-flash array is needed for certain applications where cost is an issue, it is the hybrid array integrating both flash and spinning disk capacity that is fast becoming the storage industry workhorse.
The CRN Test Center reviews a trio of solid choices in solid-state drives from Intel, Samsung and SanDisk.
If performance is the key requirement for an application's storage, nothing today beats high-performance all-flash arrays.
As part of Storage Week 2015, the CRN Test Center reviews the latest NAS devices from D-Link and WD, and the ThunderBay 4 DAS from OWC.
When it comes to implementing flash storage
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Charlie Hebdo tragedy: Will 'clash of civilizations' become self-fulfilling prophecy?
Sonia Mansour Robaey is
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a Middle East observer and analyst. Sonia tweets at @les_politiques.
As the Charlie Hebdo tragedy has shaken France and the world, prompting a new discussion of Christian versus Muslim values, let's put the attack into a wider frame to answer the question what may trigger the so-feared ‘clash of civilizations’.
Imagine an editorial meeting discussing the next issue of a satirical magazine. Imagine gunmen searching and finding their way to this meeting. They assassinate, execution-style, twelve people, calling some by name: cartoonists, journalists, editorial writers, an economist, a policeman protecting cartoonists, a maintenance worker, and even a guest who happens to be there. They claim they are avenging the Prophet and chant “Allahu Akbar.” They escape the authorities, provoking a coordinated attack that targets a Jewish supermarket; another massacre; 17 killed in total. They give a TV interview crediting Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP
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