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My longtime relationship with antiperspirants was like that of a social smoker and cigarettes: I knew they were ultimately harmful and comforted myself with
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the notion that I would one day just give them up for good. The problem is, I was never really certain when that day would come.
I started using more intense antiperspirants just before college, which was around the same time I got more invested in working out regularly. I was so frequently going from class to the gym to the cafeteria and wherever else life took me that I developed a preemptive fear of smelling bad in front of my peers and the people I was trying to befriend.
When I started interning at the start of my sophomore year, I grew to rely upon my intense deodorant habit even more. I was suddenly having to work in professional environments that felt so out of my league, and it kinda made me sweat.
Around the same time, I kept seeing stories about the harmful effects of common antiperspirant ingredients, which can include aluminum compounds and parabens. Antiperspirants than contain aluminum are especially risky because they can be absorbed
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Hate group says the accused Florida school shooter did paramilitary exercises and got a rifle from members. Ex-students say he wore a ‘
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Make America Great Again’ hat in school.
PARKLAND, Florida—Nikolas Cruz, the man accused of killing 17 people in a Florida high school, was a member of a “white separatist paramilitary proto-fascist organization,” a leader of the group told The Daily Beast.
Cruz, 19, is accused of opening fire inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Jordan Jereb, a captain of the Republic of Florida, said Cruz trained with the group (as first reported by the Anti-Defamation League).
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said Thursday evening that the claim is “not confirmed at this time” but “we are looking into that.” After previous mass shootings, the alt-right has spread disinformation online about alleged perpetrators.
Jereb claimed Thursday morning Cruz was a part of the Republic of Florida.
After taking a moment to check notes, Jereb confirmed Cruz came to Tall
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Can I Run Python From Notepad?
PYM files contain macros written in the Python scripting language.
Programmers use the Python programming
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language to develop applications for use in Web and desktop environments. Python facilitates this through its extensive collection of libraries and the flexibility of the language and its interpreter. While a programmer can enter Python programming in any text editor, such as Notepad, actually executing a Python script occurs by invoking the interpreter in some fashion. By using Notepad and the Python interpreter, a programmer can write Python programs and execute them, or create "batch" files that can execute multiple programs, including Python scripts.
The Python print command is simple, but right now it is just text. For the operating system to understand that the file should be read as a Python program, the programmer needs to save the file as a Python file, with the ".py" extension. In Notepad, just save the file, in this "hello" example, with the ".py" extension, as in "hello.py."
Note that the Python interpreter must be included in the user's PATH variable to function from the command line
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Everyone talks about the technical talent crunch in Boston (and other hubs). Few do anything about it.
But today is all about the “
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launch.” More specifically, Launch Academy. And, secondarily, LearnLaunch.
Those companies have a chance to get directly involved with Launch Academy. The program will have a “hiring day,” which is analogous to a “demo day” for startup accelerators; companies there will get to recruit students as junior developers. Some money issues: The course costs $10,000, and the program will pay a student up to $5,000 if he or she goes to work with a participating company. In turn, the company will pay Launch Academy a recruiting fee of 20 percent of the graduate’s first-year salary. That helps cover six months of post-grad support and structured mentorship after the 10 weeks are up.
This looks to be an important addition to the non-traditional education cluster around Boston, which has seen the likes of Boston Startup School, Intelligent.ly, and General Assembly sprout up in the past year (
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CRAIG Joubert, the referee at the centre of the controversy over Scotland’s narrow Rugby World Cup quarter final loss to Australia last
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year, has revealed why he ran off the pitch at the final whistle.
South African official Joubert awarded a last-minute penalty to Australia for a Scottish player being offside at a lineout., with Vern Cotter’s men on the verge of making the semi finals for the first time.
But the penalty was converted, handing Australia a 35-34 victory, and Joubert was lambasted for racing off the pitch at full time, avoiding handshakes with any players and heading straight for the tunnel.
Joubert was branded ‘disrespectful’ following his actions, banned from speaking to the media and was eventually hung out to dry by World Rugby, who stated that the official had made the wrong decision and should have awarded a scrum for a knock-on, rather than a penalty.
Joubert revealed that he wanted to ‘avoid confrontation’, adding: “In my head was a desire to avoid any possible unseem
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Dr. Rahul Gupta is the senior vice president and chief medical and health officer at March of Dimes.
If some state lawmakers have their way
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, pregnant women who misuse opioids or other drugs will soon face criminal charges if their babies are born exposed to drugs – making Tennessee among a handful of states to impose punitive measures that can have dangerous and lasting consequences for moms and babies.
In February, state Rep. Terry Lynn Weaver and state Sen. Janice Bowling introduced HB1168/SB0659, which would allow the state to prosecute pregnant women using drugs illegally if her child is born “addicted to or harmed by” her drug use.
It’s an impractical approach to tackling the disturbing number of babies entering the world with neonatal abstinence syndrome or NAS, a tragic condition in which newborns go through drug withdrawal in the first days or weeks of life. Unfortunately, this is not the first time some Tennessee lawmakers have pursued this misguided approach.
As our nation grapples with a growing opioid epidemic, NAS is clearly on the rise and March of Dimes, like so many others, is deeply concerned. In
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It's easy to dump shortcuts, files and other miscellany on to your desktop for quick access or for convenience's sake, but before long
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you can be left with a forest of icons and thumbnails obscuring the wallpaper beneath. If your desktop could use a clean up, we're here to tell you how to go about it.
These tips are primarily written with Windows in mind, though you can apply some of the same general principles to Mac OS or Linux to suit your setup.
The desktop is often the go-to place to store email attachments, photos and downloads, but once you've opened or dealt with a file then it can sit there gathering virtual dust. Instead of using your desktop as a temporary store, create a temp folder specifically for that purpose—use it for files that are only needed for a few minutes until they get uploaded or sent elsewhere.
Don't save anything that's important to this folder, like a cherished holiday photo that you only have one copy of. Use it for stuff that's duplicated elsewhere or that you can easily find again on the Web—basically anything that you can live without
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Nicola Sturgeon has assured the family of Sheku Bayoh, the Sierra Leonean man who died on a pavement in Kirkcaldy,
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Fife, minutes after being detained by police in May, that she will give “serious consideration” to holding a public inquiry into his death.
The family of the 31-year-old trainee gas engineer and father of two spent over an hour discussing the case with Scotland’s first minister and the cabinet secretary for justice, Michael Matheson, on Tuesday. The family believe that post-mortem evidence suggests Bayoh died of positional asphyxia after being brought to the ground by four police officers.
They asked the Scottish government to consider the possibility of holding a public inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005, for which there is already legal precedent in Scotland.
Aamer Anwar, Scotland’s leading civil liberties lawyer, who is acting for the family, has previously described how within seconds of confronting Bayoh on the street at 7.10am on 3 May, officers had sprayed him with CS gas and pepper spray, even though he was unarmed and had
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One of the most popular features on our website yesterday was a picture gallery of revellers photographed over the years at popular Portsmouth nightclubs.
Count
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less people would have clicked through on the off-chance of seeing themselves or their friends enjoying a great night out, dressed up to the nines and enjoying life.
But times and habits have changed in the past 20 years, it seems. Along with the shops on our high streets, we have become used to seeing pubs and nightspots close down with alarming regularity.
But according to new statistics, Portsmouth has seen a steeper decline in the number of nightclubs and social clubs than the national average.
In 2001 there were 50 nightclubs in the city but by 2018 there were only 25.
In contrast the number of licensed restaurants rose dramatically — 85 to 150 — and across the country eateries that can serve alcohol increased by 52 per cent.
So with fewer bars to spend the time in it appears that restaurant culture has replaced pub culture as one of the city’s most popular pastimes.
There is no doubt that the city’s remaining nightclubs
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It’s been six years since Jean Dujardin improbably charmed his way to an Oscar for a sparkling star turn in �
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�The Artist”, and since then, even the French film industry has struggled to make optimum use of the funnyman’s outsize, old-school screen presence. Drug thriller “The Connection” was a solid enough play-it-straight vehicle, but by the time Dujardin showed up as a digitally modified little person in the dubious 2016 romcom “Up for Love”, Michel Hazanavicius’ beguiling silent-film pastiche itself seemed ancient history. That “I Feel Good” finally hands Dujardin a role he can wrap his arms around is perhaps the greatest of its many offbeat pleasures; he repays Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern’s ultimately sunny anti-capitalist comedy with a performance of x-factor charm, yes, but also wounded human complexity.
Dujardin’s urbane star quality isn’t the likeliest of matches for
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The men relied on a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that the land was private when they decided to buy, revamp the old.
PALMY
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RA, Wis. — Beth Martineau might be rolling in her grave, the one at nearby Oak Knoll Cemetery marked with a stone reading, "I fought the DNR and I won."
In the late 1960s, Martineau lived and worked as an artist on Upper Spring Lake, an idyllic spot created by a 19th-century dam. She defended her privacy with fences, signs, trespass complaints and even gunshots.
In 1970 after the state tried to add the property to the Kettle Moraine State Forest, she ultimately got the Wisconsin Supreme Court to declare that the Conservation Commission — the predecessor to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources — had no power to condemn the lake.
Now the fate of Upper Spring Lake, about 35 miles southwest of Milwaukee, is back in court. The current owners say they relied on the legal conclusions of Martineau's victories when they bought the property out of bankruptcy in 2008 and spent about $1 million rebuilding the dam that creates
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Today we examine the XFX Double Dissipation R9 280X video card, comparing it to a fiercely priced custom GeForce GTX 770. Sporting new
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aesthetics this video card has the appearance of a truly professional looking video card. We'll find out if the overclock and Double Dissipation GHOST2 thermal technology justify its price.
On our test bench today is the XFX Double Dissipation R9 280X video card (R9-280X-TDFD).
AMD's R9 280X video card is a simple re-branding of the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. It is based on the 28nm Tahiti GPU. The streaming processors are the same at 2,048, the ROPs are the same at 32 ROPs, the TMUs are the same at 128. The GPU architecture is based on GCN (Graphics Core Next) 1.0. The clock speed on the AMD Radeon R9 280X will run at 1GHz. The memory will run at 6GHz on a 384-bit bus with 3GB of GDDR5, just like the 7970 GHz Edition. The TDP
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ZANESVILLE - The Zanesville Community Theatre will open its 56th season this weekend with the award-winning drama, "Of M
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ice and Men" by John Steinbeck.
The play is the story of two drifters during the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. George will be played by Albert Brown and his companion, Lennie, will be played by Kevin McCarthy. As these two travel aimlessly, hoping to “live off the fat of the land” they encounter others, ultimately with tragic results. Those others include John Lowe as Candy, Jan Smith as The Boss, Scott Robison as Curly, Monica Van Nort as Curly’s Wife, Lew Woodward as Slim, Daniel Warne as Carlson and Jay Shaffstall and Steve Stewart as Crooks. The play does use some adult language and situations.
The production is directed by Phil Palmer with assistance from Val Gahagen. Steinbeck wrote the play based on his novel of the same name. It won the 1938 New York Critics' Circle award for best play.
The 2014 Broadway version was nominated for two Tony Awards,
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Only two reports against members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) were made to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) last year
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, but JDF commanders say several other soldiers were disciplined or fired following altercations with civilians.
INDECOM reported last week that there were 699 civilian reports against members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) last year and 42 involving members of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS). Routinely, the police force interacts with citizens far more regularly, and in denser numbers, than do soldiers.
There was only one report of civilian violation by security forces carrying out joint activities – including those in the recently concluded zones of special operations (ZOSOs) in Denham Town, Kingston, and Mount Salem, St James.
“We have had very few cases, but we have dealt with them very strongly. I recently dismissed three soldiers for operating while on duty in a way that I did not find acceptable in terms of their interaction with a citizen of Jamaica,” said Lieutenant General Rocky Meade, chief of defence staff of the JDF, during a
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It was poignant sitting opposite the man whose ambition it had been to remake capitalism for an age of austerity.
During the World Cup, I wrote
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a cover essay about Englishness and on the day of the semi-final against Croatia I kept receiving invitations from broadcasters to talk about it. If you are not desperate to appear on television or radio or have nothing to sell, broadcast punditry can be tedious: you are poorly paid (if you are paid at all), the broadcasters thrive on outrage and polarised opinions, and it takes up too much time. However, on this occasion, I agreed to do a slot on Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine Show, because I like its editor, Phil Jones, and it has an audience of more than seven million. Except there was a slight problem: after I had agreed to appear I was told that Vine was away and the guest presenter would be none other than Ed Miliband, who has reinvented himself as a podcast host.
I had not spoken to Miliband – or, perhaps, more accurately he had not spoken to me – since I published a column in the New Statesman in November
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Heritage proponents in Southampton are upset that Bruce County intends to sell the 124-year-old former St. Paul’s Anglican rect
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ory intact or for salvage to make room for expansion of the adjacent Bruce County Museum Cultural Centre — and maybe something else.
The Southampton Residents’ Association issued a statement Thursday that calls on the county to instead incorporate and repurpose the old rectory at 254 High St. into “a more imaginative design” for the expansion of the museum.
“We believe that a core mission of a museum is to preserve our history and interpret it for future generations,” said the statement from Bill Bowden, president of the residents’ association.
Bruce County issued a request for proposals to purchase and relocate the old rectory on Jan. 8. Proposals are due Jan. 29 and the building is to be moved between April 1 and April 15.
Saugeen Shores Mayor Luke Charbonneau in an interview maintained he couldn’t say what the property was needed for exactly. But he said that it will require “the removal”
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Cloudflare presents a primer on "anti-patterns" that have transformed IoT devices into ghastly security nightmares.
This JSON request
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instructs the alarm clock on every “alarmSound” event to send a HTTP request to the coffee machine. Whilst this may seem a simple and effective way of implementing the Pub/Sub pattern in HTTP, this poses a significant security risk.
By not being able to validate if the receiver of the subscribed message wants the message or not, there is effectively a DDOS vulnerability. An attacker with the ability to set subscriptions on the alarm clock can effectively send HTTP messages to any device or internet property they want. If this is done across enough devices, a DDOS vulnerability is created.
Toast popping out of a toaster or a car driving across a road traffic sensor could be the trigger of a future large scale DDOS against a web property.
Vasile Savu is accused of walking into a Western Union in Hollywood, Florida and asking the clerk to print out his flight itinerary, a pretense he used to get the clerk to insert a thumb-drive loaded
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Israel Air Force is due to receive F-35 stealth fighters from manufacturer Lockheed Martin beginning in late 2015.
Israel might accept deliveries of the new
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F-35 fighter jet later than planned to make sure the planes have the capabilities the air force requires.
The Israel Air Force is due to receive the planes from manufacturer Lockheed Martin beginning in late 2015. But the current development speed means that if Israel takes the planes on schedule, they will be from the first batch of production, lacking the advanced electronics, communications and radar functions that Israel demands.
Third-batch jets that feature these capabilities will not be delivered before late 2016. Teams from the IAF and the Defense Ministry have left for the United States in the past two weeks to take part in discussions between Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force. The sides will plan production and the various delivery dates.
The Israel Air Force now believes that timing must be considered against capabilities. The IAF wants to acquire the jets as soon as possible to increase its technological lead over other countries in the region. This would bolster the air force's deterrent capabilities.
However, the IAF also
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The Peoria Rivermen came back to tie the game twice against the Rockford IceHogs but fell 4-2 before 5,521
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at the MetroCentre Friday night.
Goaltender Corey Crawford helped kill off all six Rivermen power plays and stop Peoria from completing its comeback bid.
The Rivermen rallied to score twice in the final four minutes of the second period to tie the game at 1-1 and again at 2-2. Crawford made 27 saves to secure Rockford’s second win in as many Fridays against the Rivermen.
Playing on pink ice, to help raise awareness for breast cancer research, the Rivermen got second period goals from Chris Porter and Jonas Junland. Jack Skille and Kyle Greentree connected for the hosts.
Jake Dowell scored the eventual game-winner just 3:14 into the third period. Simon Danis-Pepin’s slapshot from the right point was redirected by Dowell under the arm of Ben Bishop for his fifth of the season.
Both team’s special teams missed chances to score with time running down as
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Digital consumers are being bombarded with one kind of messaging or another. Today, Kahuna announced a new tool designed to avoid driving consumers crazy.
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“Marketers were stuck in this world where they send billions of messages to get” a small rate of return, Kahuna founder and CEO Adam Marchick told VentureBeat. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company provides an automated platform for messaging mobile users through such means as push notifications, in-app messages, web messages, and email.
A key target for the new tool, called RevIQ, is the mobile marketer’s continuing headache: shopping cart abandonment, which some reports say is about 70 percent on mobile devices.
RevIQ sends out messages to groups of users who have just abandoned a brand’s shopping cart. Each group gets up to five reminders at different time intervals, such as one at 5 minutes, another at 30 minutes, and so on. RevIQ then chooses the interval with the best response rate, following by testing of up to five different kinds of messages that the marketer has basically written and the system has personalized.
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Warning shot to the City as trader Tom Hayes’ conviction over Libor scandal upheld | City A.M.
The City was sent a
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stark warning yesterday that authorities will continue to crack down on financial crime as Court of Appeal judges upheld Tom Hayes’ conviction for Libor rigging.
Hayes, who was found guilty on eight charges of conspiracy to defraud and sentenced to 14 years in August for his role in the manipulation scandal, had his jail time cut to 11 years by the Court of Appeal.
The message to the City was that misconduct will not go unpunished. Ben Rose, white collar crime expert and a founding partner at law firm Hickman & Rose, said: “Those watching hopefully from the Square Mile will no doubt be disheartened by [the] result. Eleven years is still a substantial sentence for a financial crime.
When handing down his sentence in August, Justice Jeremy Cooke said Hayes’ conduct “must be marked out as dishonest and wrong and a message sent to the world of banking accordingly”.
In reducing the sentence, the judges took into account Hayes’ relative
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Following Hurricane Sandy, members of the New York startup community have extended offers of help fellow entrepreneurs and other residents of the tri-state area caught without
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power and Internet by the storm.
Social discovery startup Mirror Media, based out of Lower Manhattan's Flatiron neighborhood, opened its offices Wednesday to entrepreneurs seeking power, Internet and workspace.
"As a startup founder and CEO, I understand how important it is to be productive. Each day is critical in the life of a startup," said Mirror's Daniel Mattio. "We have the available space to help New York entrepreneurs who may not have power in their homes or current workspaces. It's the least we can do to help out fellow entrepreneurs in the New York area."
Providing much-sought charging stations, Moxy is offering free cellphone charging and Wi-Fi to New Yorkers in need. Chase Bank invited Moxy to set up shop inside of one of its branches, to create a hub for lower Manhattan residents, who are still without power.
Zaarly launched a virtual marketplace where people from around the country can purchase local services for New Yorkers, such as a
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Joey Bada$$ has been working hard all year to push his creativity, and we're seeing more of his skills as a director in his
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new "Temptations" music video. The All-Amerikkan Bada$$ rapper's new visuals take us back to his hometown of Brooklyn, where he journeys through his old neighborhood.
The new video, which was released exclusively to Tidal, represents the New York native's experiences in the borough during his childhood, taking us through a house with two children, while he soon follows around a little girl. Bada$$ narrates some of the different people in the household before making his way outside into the neighborhood. The visuals end with the rapper dropping off the little girl with her mother before joining others inside of a church.
Towards the end, the song also features a speech made by 9-year-old Zianna Oliphant back in September 2016 in front of Charlotte City Council.
After releasing his anticipated sophomore album this year, Joey Bada$$ was recruited to join Logic for his Everybody Tour, which they are currently embarking on around the country
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COGNAC, FRANCE — I have a lot of faith in my ability to taste and evaluate. I’m the dude who
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sniffs and sips and opines, and I’m arrogant enough to think that my palate should be heeded by others.
So it felt weird to be, literally, on the other side of table. Here, inside the white-walled tasting room at Remy Martin, I recently fidgeted nervously as cellar master Pierrette Trichet nosed the cognac I’d just blended.
This was no small judgment. Trichet has 36 years experience in the cognac business, and has been Remy Martin’s cellarmaster since 2003. Sure, this was a friendly challenge, but for me it felt like a matter of professional pride was at stake.
I undertook an exercise similar to what a master blender would face on a daily basis. I’d been given bottles of five-year-old, 15-year-old and 30-year-old eaux de vie (what they call the spirit before it’
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Tottenham Hotspur striker Son Heung-min was overwhelmingly chosen as the athlete of the year among Korean sportspeople.
Son finished on top
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with 63.3 percent support in a Gallup Korea poll, which was released on Tuesday. He also topped a similar poll last year.
Gallup Korea conducted the poll asking 1,700 people aged 13 or older nationwide from Nov. 7 to 30 to name two athletes who they think had the best performance this year.
Son has had a busy schedule this year shuttling between his duties as a national team member and Tottenham player. He participated in the FIFA World Cup in Russia and the Asian Game in Indonesia, where Korea won the gold medal, earning him an exemption from military service. He scored the 100th goal of his European career just last week.
Coming in a distant second was Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin (19.2 percent). Ryu came back from injury to make 15 starts last season, going 7-3 with an ERA of 1.97 and becoming the first Korean pitcher to start a World Series game.
In third place was national football team goalie
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In the pantheon of Santa Barbara artists, perhaps no star shines brighter than Ray Strong (1905-2006). Prolific, diverse and influential
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, he left a beautiful legacy of work, much of which celebrates the wild lands of Santa Barbara County, and northern California. For Strong, painting was both documentation of an area and his personal communion with nature.
One collector, David Parker, is sharing his Ray Strong paintings with us, as well as his stories of how he built his collection of over thirty pieces. The collection has an admirable range of artworks (stylistically and geographically) and was guided by Parker’s passion and determination, as well as advice from other collectors and galleries.
Humans have been collecting art for millennia and today, for some wealthy people, it can be a business investment, with collections being warehoused as they grow in value. But for Parker it’s all about his passion for Ray’s vision of the landscape and now, sharing that with the general public.
Our exhibition will also celebrate Strong’s artistic legacy, through his influence on other area artists and in
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The Facebook data privacy and Russian election interference scandals show that artificial intelligence is still not up to many critical jobs in the technology sector.
Facebook CEO
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Mark Zuckerberg said this week the social media company will be adding another 5,000 jobs before the end of the year, on top of 5,000 recently created positions.
A significant number of jobs are in content review, where A.I. still needs a lot of human help in protecting the company from what Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg called "bad actors."
Facebook already employs 7,500 content reviewers, which is a larger number of workers than the entire workforce of most companies.
More Americans may be deleting Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, but the social media giant is adding people to its ranks in a way that does pay: through thousands of new jobs.
Facebook's struggles to contain the privacy and linked Russian election interference headlines underscore a big trend in technology careers that is still being sorted out and spent heavily on by major players. As smart as artificial intelligence gets, it is still not up to many critical job tasks that are required to
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A small town in Ontario, Canada, has prompted fresh scrutiny of the bottled-water industry after its attempt secure a long-term water supply through
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the purchase of a well was outbid by the food and drinks multinational Nestlé.
Using a numbered company, the municipality submitted what Linton described as an “aggressive bid” for the five-hectare site. “We put in more money than they did and we removed all conditions.” He declined to specify the exact amount of the bid.
An agreement forged with Nestlé after its initial bid, made 18 months earlier, gave the company the right to respond. “They had the opportunity to match our offer and that’s how we lost on that on that one,” said Linton.
Nestlé Canada currently has permits that allow it to extract up to 4.7m litres of water a day from sources in Ontario. On its website, the company noted that its latest acquisition – the well also sought by Centre Wellington – would be a source to supplement other operations in the region, as well as support future business growth.
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The 3-year-old boy squirmed in his mother’s arms, an IV drip unspooling from his wrist, his
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skin flush with a pale pink rash.
As a doctor struggled to put an inhaler between the boy’s blistered lips to calm his coughing, his mother, Norayah Cabugatan, explained how she had resisted vaccinating her son and his two siblings against measles.
The measles virus, with its rash and often high fever, may cause dangerous complications. But Cabugatan had been spooked by the idea of a vaccine, having heard it could have fatal side effects.
The boy, Andrew, is among more than 20,000 people, mainly children, who have been infected during a measles outbreak in the Philippines. As of mid-March, about 315 people had died from measles since the start of the year, according to the Philippine Red Cross, compared with 202 people who died of the disease in the country last year.
A driving force behind the outbreak, according to some doctors, health workers and government officials in the Philippines, has been a 2-year
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The last few years have proved challenging for offshore drilling major Transocean, which saw its day rates and contracting activity post significant declines. While things
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are likely to look up for the company over 2019, driven by a large number of planned offshore projects, the recent decline in oil prices and a continued oversupply of deepwater rigs could still prove a challenge. In this note, we take a brief look at what lies ahead for Transocean and the broader deepwater market in 2019.
We have also created an interactive dashboard analysis on the expected outlook for Transocean, which you can use to arrive at your own revenue and EPS estimates for Transocean.
Big oil companies are likely to approve about 110 offshore projects this year, up from 96 projects in 2018 and 43 projects in 2016, according to Rystad Energy. While this is likely to increase demand for drilling rigs and drillships over the year, the market is still meaningfully oversupplied, with Wood Mackenzie analysts estimating that about 30% of deepwater rigs could remain idled this year. That said, Transocean should be well-poised to take
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A study led by researcher Lisa Kellogg of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science shows that a restored oyster reef can remove up to
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10 times more nitrogen from Chesapeake Bay waters than an unrestored area nearby, providing additional evidence that reef-restoration can contribute to efforts to improve water quality in the nation’s largest estuary.
The study, “Denitrification and nutrient assimilation on a restored oyster reef,” is the feature article in this month’s issue of Marine Ecology Progress Series. Co-authors are Jeff Cornwell, Michael Owens, and Ken Paynter of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
To date, the justification for restoring oysters to Chesapeake Bay has focused on their capacity to clear the water, provide habitat for their own young and for other species, and to sustain both watermen and seafood lovers.
The new study, says Kellogg, aimed to quantify another potential benefit of restored oyster reefs—their ability to remove nutrients from the water. Input of nitrogen and phosphorous from fertilizers, wastewater treatment plants, and other sources is
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Some 190 Nigerian schoolgirls remain missing after being abducted last week, their head teacher has told the BBC - far more than the official figure.
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Asabe Kwambura said the parents of 230 girls had reported them missing but 40 had managed to escape.
Earlier, a local state governor said that about 77 of the teenagers had not been accounted for.
Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected to be behind the kidnapping but has not issued any statement.
Some 1,500 people are believed to have been killed in attacks blamed on Boko Haram this year alone.
What is Nigeria's Boko Haram?
The group, whose name means "Western education is forbidden", is fighting to establish Islamic law in Nigeria. It often targets educational establishments.
According to the AP news agency, parents from the school in the town of Chibok told Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima when he visited on Monday that 234 girls had been abducted.
When news first emerged of the kidnap last Tuesday, initial reports said more than 200 students had been seized but state officials soon downgraded the numbers, saying the correct figure was about 130.
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Rabiah Hutchinson is used to being talked about.
She was born as Robyn Hutchinson in the Australian Outback. Her mother left her
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violent father when she was three and took the children with her.
Religion played an important part in her life. Rabiah converted to Islam and decided to renounce her 'wild child' past and try to live the best life she could.
In the 1970s and 80s, Rabiah travelled to Indonesia and studied with Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, who had founded an Indonesian militant group opposing President Suharto.
Rabiah decided that she wanted to provide a proper Islamic education for her children. In the 1990s, she journeyed to the Mujahidin camps of Pakistan. It was during the Afghan holy war and Rabiah worked in a hospital.
Civil war broke out and Rabiah moved back to Australia, then on to Egypt and finally to Afghanistan.
The Taliban was establishing what Rabiah felt could be a 'true Islamic state'. Although she had some reservations, she was keen to offer her help and wrote to the Afghan-Arab's benef
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Former President Bill Clinton speaks during a campaign stop for his wife Democratic presidential candidate Hilary Clinton, Jan. 7, 2016, in Cedar Rapids,
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Iowa.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Campaigning in Iowa for Hillary Clinton, former president Bill Clinton told a packed room of Iowa voters that the former secretary of state would protect the Obama administration’s economic gains while finding ways to advance them.
He promised progress on the economy — headlined by requiring paid family leave, enforcing equal pay for women, subsidizing childcare, and cracking down on Wall Street.
The event at the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library was the first of two events by Clinton in his first solo campaign jaunt to the state since 2008. He’s scheduled to make a second appearance in Dubuque this evening.
Former president Bill Clinton tells the story of the time he met his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Clinton, for his part, refused to take the bait when asked about Trump’s attacks before his speech in Cedar Rapids.
During his speech, he offered an extended retelling of how he
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A number of Warriors players actively recruited DeMarcus Cousins to the Bay Area, but the newly-signed Warrior can definitely state which one of them presented
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the worst pitch.
During an interview with ESPN's Chris Haynes, Cousins stated that Draymond Green "had the worst pitch" of anyone he talked to.
"Draymond probably had the worst pitch,"Cousins said. "He was like, 'Cous, I'm pretty sure me and you are going to fight.' I'm like, 'Draymond, Come on. Whoa. Whoa.'"
Cousins said that he's a fan of the fiery Green, and is looking forward to playing next to him.
"But Draymond, that's my guy. I respect him as a player, I respect him as a competitor," he said. "He's one of the top in this business and just his approach to every game, I want that guy on my team every day. So, we talked, we kind of communicated about what we both wanted, which was winning games."
Green also talked about the potential lack of
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Kanye West does it again. After wowing fans at Madison Square Garden for Yeezy Season 3, Mr. West presented his Season 4
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show today, kicking off New York Fashion Week with yet another grand display.
Overlooking New York, surrounded by greens, and backed by regal strings, Season 4 proved to be another extravagant, stylish, and momentous event, held at the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan.
The Vanessa Beecroft performance, presented by adidas, was also star-studded. Chanel Iman and Teyana Taylor both appeared on the catwalk, the latter continuing an impressive hot streak following her stunning “Fade” music video performance. Elsewhere, Justin Bieber’s rumored girlfriend Sofia Richie, daughter of Lionel Richie, made her runway debut.
A smiling Kanye also popped up at the end of the show. Bowing to his audience, strutting down the walkway in all black, ‘Ye suddenly began running in the opposite direction. He would not appear onscreen again.
On Wednesday, that vision came to fruition,
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Although the laboriously negotiated and long-delayed Middle East "road map" received a diplomatic boost by the recent intervention of George W. Bush
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, the plan is replete with the same structural flaws that doomed the Oslo Accords.
Although the laboriously negotiated and long-delayed Middle East "road map" received a diplomatic boost by the recent intervention of George W. Bush, the plan is replete with the same structural flaws that doomed the Oslo Accords. It’s as if the players in this drama were cursed to a Nietzschean hell of eternal recurrence. As in 1991, the United States has just won a crushing victory in the Persian Gulf and promised vigorous action to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict. As in 1991, the United States, to satisfy its Israeli partner, has vetoed the recognized Palestinian leadership. And just as with the Oslo Accords in 1993–when Israel bypassed the Palestinian negotiators it had approved earlier and engaged its old bête noire, Yasir Arafat, because the recognized negotiators stubbornly insisted on bothersome details like compliance with the Geneva Conventions and guaranteed removal of illegal
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Minnesota State High School League has approved concussion insurance for student athletes starting this fall.
The plan will mirror a program about to kick off to protect
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kids playing school sports in Wisconsin.
MSHSL Board of Directors authorized the plan at a meeting in Brooklyn Center that would pay $1.50 per student-athlete to purchase Head’s Up concussion insurance, according to published meeting minutes.
The plan will cover athletes in grades 7-12, and is expected to cost the association $145,000 to cover the athletes.
Minnesota joins Wisconsin, Montana, Arizona and Michigan athletic associations to offer students free concussion insurance when injured playing school sports.
More specific details are expected towards the start of the school sport's season.
"We felt it was the right thing to do for young people right now in this day in age, with all the awareness of concussions," Dave Anderson, executive director of Wisconsin's Interscholastic Athletic Association, said.
Wisconsin’s plan will be put in place in August. The program will cover more than 80,000 students athletes in grades 6-12 with up to
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The Patently-O blog this week took a look at how the number of pending patent cases is changing. With the number of patent cases filed
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falling – Lex Machina this week noted a 33% drop in October compared to October 2013, for example – Patently-O dug into the pending cases to give another perspective on the state of patent litigation.
Its findings are consistent with the conclusion that the number of patent litigations is declining, although it noted that the number of pending cases is still well above that in October 2010.
The Patently-O folks also had a look at how the USPTO is implementing Alice v CLS Bank in patent examination, in an article in the 2014 Patently-O Patent Law Journal. It ranked the top applicants with post-Alice allowance withdrawals. Unsurprisingly IBM, eBay and Microsoft were the top three assignees, named in 47, 19 and 15 applications respectively. Perhaps more surprisingly, gaming companies IGT and WMS Gaming are in the top 10. Also appearing are finance companies JP Morgan, American Express and Bank of America, which reflects the impact of Alice on financial services patents.
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The Seven Cs of Political Leadership!
As I sit down on the eve of my 40th birthday to write this editorial, I couldn't
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have thought of writing on a more important aspect -- as great political leadership is what India requires more than anything else today.
As I sit down on the eve of my 40th birthday to write this editorial, I couldn't have thought of writing on a more important aspect -- as great political leadership is what India requires more than anything else today. And though I have written considerably on leadership, it has mainly been about corporate leadership.
Leadership in corporations is massively different from political leadership, and therefore it requires a special model and a special line of thinking. While in corporations the final aim is profit maximisation in most cases, in politics the final objective is necessarily social welfare maximisation.
While in corporations the best leaders are often the best marketing guys, in politics the best leaders necessarily have to be the people who are the sincerest and most hard working. While in business you can make do without the knowledge of economics, in politics that can be suicidal. While in business being unethical can harm
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Thomas L. Friedman became the paper’s foreign affairs Op-Ed columnist in 1995. He joined the paper in 1981, after which he
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served as the Beirut bureau chief in 1982, Jerusalem bureau chief in 1984, and then in Washington as the diplomatic correspondent in 1989, and later the White House correspondent and economic correspondent.
Mr. Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel). He also won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
Mr. Friedman is the author of “From Beirut to Jerusalem,” which won the National Book Award in 1989. He has written several other books, including “Hot, Flat and Crowded,” an international best seller.
Born in Minneapolis, Mr. Friedman received a B.A. degree in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University in 1975. In 1978 he received a master’s in modern Middle East studies from Oxford. His column appears every Sunday and Wednesday.
Golf is all about how you react when you get a bad bounce.
They both see the world’
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When it comes to safety in the workplace, organizational culture can be quite literally a matter of life and death. Look no further than the example of
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BP.
As one of the world's largest oil producers, BP has a troubled safety record. As Forbes reports, one of BP's plants has an unusually tragic past, including an explosion in 2005 that killed 15 workers and injured 180. This plant also reported 23 worker fatalities in the three decades that preceded the 2005 accident.
When Marathon Petroleum, the fourth-largest oil refiner in the U.S., bought the plant from BP, many in the industry thought it was a risky move. But Marathon had ideas for how to rectify the situation by instituting a culture centered on safety.
Remedying the culture required a review of the plant's existing safety procedures. Following the 2005 explosion, federal investigators pointed to BP's problematic safety culture -- for example, with managers who were "checking off boxes" rather than promoting best practices for safety -- as the cause of the plant's many safety problems. BP failed to respond and paid dearly for its inaction in 2010, when the Deepwater
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DJ Premier will be the first artist to release a single on the newly-revived imprint, in a nod to its early-1990s roots
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Patrick Moxey, the founder of dance and electronic label Ultra Music, is going back to his roots with the relaunch of Payday Records, the classic hip-hop label he created in 1992 that served as the label home of artists like Gang Starr, Group Home, Jeru the Damaja and Showbiz & A.G., among others. As part of the company's revival, Moxey is teaming back up with DJ Premier for a new single, "Our Streets" feat. A$AP Ferg, set to drop tomorrow (Nov. 3).
When Moxey first launched Payday 25 years ago, it was at the center of New York's golden age of hip-hop, with Premier heavily involved as one of the go-to producers and, alongside Guru in Gang Starr, key artists in the scene at the time. In 1995, Payday also released the first-ever single from Jay-Z, "In My Lifetime," a year
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New Jersey lawmakers approved a plan to reinstate the individual mandate to try to stabilize the health insurance market.
TRENTON - Murphycare could
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look a lot like Obamacare.
Lawmakers Thursday sent to Gov. Phil Murphy a bill that will require nearly all New Jerseyans to have health insurance or pay a penalty, in a bid to stabilize premiums for consumers in the Obamacare marketplace.
They approved another bill that would set up a reinsurance plan that would be paid partly for by the federal government and cover some of the most expensive health care claims.
"It's a two-pronged attack to get at premium costs,” said Linda Schwimmer, president and chief executive officer of the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute, a research and advocacy group.
The mandate bill passed 23-13 in the Senate and 50-23 in the Assembly. The reinsurance bill passed 22-14 in the Senate and 46-22 in the Assembly. Health Commissioner Shereef Elnahal in the video above discusses the state's plans to protect Obamacare.
The bills would most directly affect consumers who don't get health insurance through
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Luis Suarez was distraught following Liverpool’s draw with Crystal Palace on Monday, but the Uruguayan can take a measure of solace
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in the fact that he made history.
Suarez scored his 31st Premier League goal of the season during the wild, 3-3 draw. He joins Cristiano Ronaldo and Alan Shearer, who hold the record for most goals in a 38-game Premier League campaign.
Suarez can break the record on Sunday by scoring against Newcastle United.
Shearer scored 31 for Blackburn Rovers in 1995-96, and Ronaldo equaled his tally in 2007-08.
Shearer and Andy Cole hold the absolute record for goals in a single Premier League season with 34, although they did it in a 42-game season. Cole set the bar with Newcastle in 1993-94, and Shearer matched him in 1994-95 (with Blackburn).
Suarez’s goal-scoring exploits helped him claim both of English soccer’s major Player of the Season awards. The 27-year-old won the PFA Players’ Player of the Year prize last week and
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Around 20 years ago this wonderful matriarch in church brought a pie for one of the socials. She took care of a number of these
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elderberry bushes at home. It was a special pie in that I had never heard of elderberries. Personally, I still think that they taste a little like blueberries. This fruit was amazing. Don’t ever turn down an elderberry pie if you have an option to have a piece. I have found that these elderberries are not widely known, but everyone that I know that has tasted these berries has loved them. From what I can see over the years this elderberry is loved by a variety of different wildlife, which will provide some competition.
From my own experience I can seriously say to my reader who asked me for help with this wonderful plant a person who wants to grow them in Summit County will have success with a modest amount of effort. The only trial is that there are 25 different species around the world and at least six different cultivars of Elderberries and each of these have different requirements to some extent.
There are a number of different nurseries in the area
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Take a look around each team in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference.
Top returners: seniors Louis Culala and Patrick O
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’Reiley, juniors Andre Ruiz and Darius Baez.
Outlook: The neighboring programs formed a co-op this season under coach Patrick Clark. Ruiz will be the key building block (113 or 120) as a recent state qualifier, while the team's freshman class should make an immediate impact.
Top returners: seniors Luke Mazzeo, Zach Lewis and Jonah Schechtman, juniors Logan Mazzeo and Nick Babin.
Outlook: The Cavos remain a top contender in Bergen County after taking a perfect record to the Group 1 final last season. There's no shortage of talent under coach Stan Woods with five state qualifiers back and all three BCCA champions.
Top returners: seniors Derin Stitzer and Victor Jorge, sophomore Grayson Jurado.
Outlook: Longtime coach Scot Weaver is back for another stint with the Golden Bears and brings his son Dylan, a freshman state qualifier at Bergen Catholic. The co-
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ANC employee Errol Velile Present who was fired by the ruling party on Wednesday for his alleged involvement in a cash-in-transit he
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ist in Soweto, Johannesburg. Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2018.
The wife of a former ANC employee arrested for a Soweto cash heist says she does not believe her husband is guilty.
“I was so shocked. I’m not even coping. I have lost weight because I can’t even eat. I can’t talk to him and ask him to explain what is going on‚” the woman told eNCA.
She said her husband’s lawyer told her that witnesses called for an identity parade did not point Errol Velile Present out.
“They said he was not there. No one was identified. I don’t understand why he is still being detained if they have nothing on him‚” the woman said.
Present‚ who until Wednesday was an ANC employee at the party’s Luthuli House headquarters‚ stands accused of being involved
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Authorities in Bexar County, Texas, on Thursday responded to reports of three individuals with fatal gunshot wounds inside a gated community.
A
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San Antonio man found the woman he had been dating and two teenage girls shot dead inside a luxury home within a gated community where they all lived, reports said.
Investigators in Bexar County said the two teenagers appeared to have been murdered. Family members identified the woman as 37-year-old Nichol Olsen, the San Antonio Express-News reported. Authorities are working to determine if she was killed or committed suicide.
"It's just too early to tell on the third person if that is a murder or a suicide," Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said. "We'll let the medical examiner take a look at it."
Police did not confirm the woman's identity. All three -- and the man who discovered the bodies -- lived at the home in Anaqua Springs Ranch. The unidentified man who found the bodies had a romantic relationship with the woman, reports said.
Olsen reportedly worked as a cos
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College Basketball Power 10: Who Runs The Pac-12?
A look at the top 10 teams in college basketball after the NCAA released a preview
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of their top 16 seeds.
For the first time in college basketball history, the NCAA released a preview of their top 16 seeds in the NCAA Tournament if the season ended on Saturday. Of course, many people had many disagreements.
No Big Ten teams made the top 16, while undefeated Gonzaga was just the fourth No. 1 seed.
It shows that the Big Ten is going to have a harder time getting bubble teams in because of its down year, plus top teams like Wisconsin and Purdue have a lot of work to do to even receive a No. 4 seed. Their potential is also likely a No. 3 seed at best.
Even though Gonzaga still earned a No. 1 seed, it’s telling that the committee, at least before their win over Saint Mary’s on Saturday night, isn’t overly impressed with their undefeated season.
There is still a month left of the regular season and every conference tournament left to be played. With upsets
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PARIS (AP) PSG coach Thomas Tuchel needs Adrien Rabiot back in his team - and soon - because an injury to Marco
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Verratti has left the French league leader seriously short of options in midfield.
PSG's budget this window is reportedly around 30 million euros ($34 million) in total, which falls considerably below the amount required for a standout holding midfielder. At the highest end of the scale, Chelsea's N'Golo Kante - arguably the best in his position in world football - is rated at 100 million euros ($114 million) by website Transfermarkt.
As the bitter feud between Rabiot and PSG escalated, Veronique Rabiot said the French champion turned down an offer from Barcelona last summer. Henrique replied to that by saying Barca's offer for Rabiot - made on Aug. 29 and just before the close of the summer window - was so low it was dismissed as "ridiculous."
Yet with Verratti possibly missing for the United game and no January signing on the immediate horizon, it appears paramount that Rabiot is reinstated - and fast.
But
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As the Obama administration winds down more than a decade of war, the budget request — only fragments of which were released Thursday — is supposed to account
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for cuts of $487 billion in projected spending over the next 10 years.
Pentagon officials said their proposal represented tough choices, but the biggest cuts appeared to be in the Defense Department's plan to reduce the number of U.S. ground forces to slightly more than on Sept. 10, 2001, before the wars began.
At the same time, the department proposed increasing spending on technology and major weapons systems, after a strategic announcement earlier this month in which defense officials said they must be ready for all kinds of warfare and proposed greater use of unmanned aircraft and a more agile ground force.
It wants to raise spending on drones by 30 percent, delay spending on the costly and controversial F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and fund a new bomber and a sea-based vessel that would allow drones and helicopters to take off from international waters. It wants to maintain current spending levels on missile defense and nuclear weapons while increasing spending on cybersecurity.
Tthe department sought to assert that it was simultaneously taking
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Schoolchildren across the Portsmouth area have been commemorating Remembrance over the last week. Here is how they remembered our fallen heroes.
Aru
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ndel Court Primary Academy in Portsmouth laid wreaths as part of their tribute to those who died in the First World War.
Deputy headteacher Rob Jones said: ‘Each class made a wreath and laid it in our school hall.
Schoolchildren in Gosport have been praised by their deputy headteacher for how they have approached the school’s remembrance commemorations.
The poppy display at the Tower of London was Copnor Primary School’s inspiration for their remembrance proceedings this year.
Pupils, parents and staff of Manor Infant School in Fratton designed an exhibition to teach children the significance of Remembrance Day.
Headteacher Ashley Howard said: ‘We wanted to raise the profile of the poppy, especially with it being 100 years since the end of the First World War.
A towering tribute was created by schoolchildren to honour all the men from Portsmouth killed during the First World War.
About 900 pupils from Miltoncross
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"Laissez les bons temps rouler"
About Me Outgoing, I love to laugh and love being with people that I
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can laugh with, I love the outdoor life...and I live at the lake..cool huh?
Wild Fact About Me I don't think I know any...or have any...Oh no better get some..Oh yeah I'm a Poker playin Hippie Cowgirl...is that wild enough?
My Philosophy Let Love Be Your Highest Goal..
What/who changed my life and why the book "ROOTS" I cried for hours at what one human being can inflict on another.
Quotation "Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend and inside a dog it's too dark to read"
I come here once in a while. How have you been?
Very busy yesterday, Cloggers Christmas party. I sailed through the performance, my co- clogger didn't. I feel bad for her. HUGS to you! Enjoy the grandkids. God gave you something to enjoy the holidays with, no matter how they got
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La Jolla >> The Chico State men’s basketball team’s struggles continue as it fell for the second night in a row
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After falling to Cal State San Marcos by 18 points on Friday, the Wildcats suffered a lopsided 73-50 setback against UC San Diego Saturday night.
The Wildcats started the season out with a 9-2 stretch but have lost their third-straight game.
Chico State, making its return to RIMAC Arena, the site of last year’s West Region championship run, were hoping the location could spark a turnaround.
UC San Diego connected on its first six 3-pointers and 11 of its first 13 shots to race to a 30–11 lead and never looked back in a battle for third place in the California Collegiate Athletic Association standings.
The Wildcats shot just 29 percent (15-for-52), including 18 percent from beyond the arc (2-for-11).
Corey Silverstrom led the Wildcats with 11 points while Nate Ambrosini scored 10 and pulled down five rebounds.
Chico State starters combined to shoot just 25 percent
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Stock hits $19 per share, nearly half its original value, as major investors become eligible to sell their holdings.
Facebook’s stock
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plunged to a new low on Thursday after the expiration of a ban that had prevented some early investors and insiders from dumping millions of additional shares they own in the social-networking leader.
Major investment firms and several Facebook board members became eligible to sell their shares on Thursday, after the lifting of a ban known as a lock-up period. If many of them took advantage, Facebook’s stock could decline, because the market would be flooded with shares.
It's not yet known whether any of those investors had sold any stock because they have three business days to disclose sales, said Sam Hamadeh, the CEO of PrivCo, which researches privately held companies.
But many of them likely did, he said. "A lot of people have been waiting," Hamadeh said. "Facebook was expected to go public a long time ago."
Venture capitalists who invested in Facebook as early as 2005 were likely itching to sell at the earliest opportunity. Though the company is
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Hollywood superstar Christian Slater was spotted in Glasgow filming today for his upcoming movie “The Wife”.
The A-lister,
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47, was joined by co-star Glenn Close, 69, and the pair was seen shooting scenes at a former hospital in the city centre.
Close earned a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians.
But yesterday the actress was much more pooch-friendly, seen walking her dog Pip in between shooting.
Close’s four-legged friend has been treated lavishly on the trip as well, being chauffeured in a luxury people-carrier and flying in to the airport on the actress’s lap.
He even has his own Instagram account, where he’s affectionately referred to as Sir Pippin on Beanfield.
Despite her celebrated role as Dalmatians’ greatest-ever villain, Close is a well-known animal lover.
In 2007 she and her husband, David Shaw, co-founded FetchDog, an Internet catalogue of dog accessories.
Christian Slater, who
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Officers have begun pulling over and questioning drivers in four Michigan counties in the hopes of catching a man suspected of shooting at other motorists nearly two dozen times
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over the past two weeks, including one driver who was wounded over the weekend.
Officers are searching for anything out of the norm during their traffic stops in Oakland, Livingston, Ingham and Shiawassee counties, where the suspect is believed to have fired on 22 other vehicles since Oct. 16, said Lt. Mike Shaw, of the state police post in Brighton.
Witnesses have described the suspect's vehicle as resembling a dark 1998 Oldsmobile Alero or a 1998 Toyota Camry. Police on Monday stopped the driver of a dark-colored Chevy Cavalier after a woman reported that something hit her car on U.S. 23 near Brighton.
"We've had 22 victims that have tried to identify a vehicle traveling at 60 to 70 mph," he said. "We're looking for more suspicious activities that go with four-door vehicles and those darker in color -- somebody that's pulled over on
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But while disruptive opportunities abound for AI, there’s also no shortage of challenges to overcome. Anyone who has tried their hand at training a
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fledgling AI will tell you, there’s one hurdle that eclipses them all: removing a human from the loop.
It’s no secret that scaling AI typically involves human agents operating as a safety net, working in the background and ready to take the controls when a bot gets stuck. Even Facebook, an early pioneer in AI and intelligent chatbots, needs an occasional human hand to ensure a high-quality user experience.
While this offers an effective way to get AI off the ground, complete autonomy is the ultimate goal. How do you get there? As we learned firsthand building Mezi, it starts with picking the right vertical and then mastering the hand-off.
One of the greatest misconceptions about the field of artificial intelligence is that there will be “one AI to rule them all.” In reality, we’re far more likely to see an AI landscape dotted with countless highly specialized AIs than one dominated by artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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According to one study, eating kiwi fruit before bed helps deep sleep. But which other foodstuffs may aid a long and peaceful sl
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umber?
Ahead of World Sleep Day next week – an awareness-raising exercise that should surely be renamed World Sleep Night – there has been increased focus on how much sleep we should be getting (more than we probably are) and how to get it. The event has prompted the strange claim that eating two kiwi fruits before bed leads to better kip – the result of a 2011 study at the Taipei Medical University – to resurface. However, the study was also “supported” by the world’s largest marketer of kiwi fruit, and had just 24 participants. Kiwis do have high levels of serotonin, which is critical to sleep – but what other foods could help?
Turkey and chicken contain high levels of tryptophan, which also boosts serotonin. “Foods that are high in tryptophan and vitamin B6 will help you make melatonin, the sleep hormone,” says Nerina Ramlakhan,
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MELBOURNE man Lachlan Preston will go a long way to achieve a coveted Baden Powell Award – 1040 kilometres to be
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exact. The award – the highest accolade a Scout can achieve – is reached by completing four challenges and can take years to finish. Mr Preston is halfway through completing his first challenge, the Rambles challenge, riding from Sydney to Melbourne in 11 days. He has roped three of his mates into joining him on the 1040km trip and the group is doubling it up as a fundraiser for charity organisation Bicycles for Humanity. Bicycles for Humanity is a not-for-profit organisation which collects old and disused bikes and ships them off to developing nations. The struggling communities use the bikes to improve basic mobility for access to healthcare and education. “(The ride) is for Rovers, but we thought once we got the idea up and going we would get Bicycles for Humanity on board,” Mr Preston said yesterday just after the group arrived in Wagga. “If we were riding that far we thought we may as well do something for charity as
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 28 (Reuters) - South African poultry producer RCL Foods’ reported a 50 percent jump in full
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-year profits on Tuesday, saying the restructure of its chicken business and growth in its grocery unit helped it improve its performance.
Diluted headline earning per share (HEPS) rose to 94.5 cents for the year ended June 2018, from 63 cents in the previous year. HEPS is the main profit gauge in South Africa, which strips out certain one-off items.
At RCL’s chicken unit, earnings before interest, tax, amortisation and depreciation (EBITDA) rose to 466.8 million rand ($32 million) from 57.1 million rand in the year earlier period, boosted by the company’s revised business model, cost cutting and profits from the sale of dormant farms.
“Everything that we have put in place regarding our chicken business is paying dividends and we have weathered some significant storms,” RCL Foods’ Chief Financial Officer Rob Field told Reuters.
RCL, which produces poultry,
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Note: Following are questions submitted by The Daily Reflector to Pitt County district attorney candidate Faris Dixon and Dixon’s responses. District attorney
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is a countywide race in which all voters may cast ballots on Nov. 6 and in early voting, which is ongoing through Nov. 3.
Political Philosophy: I believe it is important to serve the public and provide honest and transparent leadership to the community.
■ Why are you running for district attorney and what distinguishes you from your opponent?
I am running for district attorney because I want to clean up the mess that my opponent and the current administration have made of the office. Glenn Perry is endorsed by District Attorney Kimberly Robb, and neither of them have provided leadership. They continue to contribute to the decline of the office and have no desire to improve it. Perry is unable to see those deficiencies and lacks the will and strength to clean up the office. As a well-balanced attorney I will bring back honesty, integrity and transparency to the office. I will take the politics out of the office and return it to the citizens of Pitt County.
My top priority is to protect the citizens of
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The latest outbreak was swiftly contained by a fast, decisive response, acting as a model for containing infectious diseases in remote places.
As anti-
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climaxes go, it was a most welcome one. On May 11, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) notified the World Health Organization that one of its citizens had been infected with the Ebola virus. The announcement marked the start of the country’s first Ebola outbreak since the historically unprecedented West African epidemic that infected 28,000 people between 2014 and 2016, and killed more than 11,000.
But after just 42 days, it was all over.
With the last confirmed patient having tested negative for the virus for the second time in a row, the WHO declared an end to the outbreak on Sunday. Just four people had died, and just four more had become infected.
But just as importantly, once the first cases were confirmed, the response was fast, decisive, and coordinated—all qualities that were initially missing in West Africa. The DRC response shows that when everything goes right, Ebola can be quickly brought to heel, even
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Margo MacDonald burst on to the Scottish political scene when she won a stunning victory at the 1973 Govan by-election.
The SNP win
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- in a hitherto staunchly Labour seat - was a massive boost to the Nationalist cause.
Margo, then a 30-year old trainee physical education teacher from Lanarkshire, was dubbed the Blonde Bombshell of Scottish politics.
Her stint in Westminster was short-lived. She lost the seat at the General Election four months later but her impact was immense.
The 1974 Election saw 11 SNP MPs returned to Westminster. Although she was not one of them she was voted in as Deputy Leader of the Party, a post she held for five years.
Her politics were always left of centre and she was a forceful campaigner for Scottish independence.
She married former Labour MP JIm Sillars who switched to the SNP and, by coincidence, won the Govan seat for the Nationalist in 1988 - 15 years after his wife's victory.
In 1982 she resigned from the SNP in protest at the proscription of the Socialist 79 Group, of which she had been a
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Cutting Iran's link to the Mediterranean Sea is a strategic prize worth the risk.
We’re not done with the possibility of an
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Israeli strike on Iran. Given that the current round of negotiations with the world’s major powers will not fundamentally change Iran’s nuclear program, the question of an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities is likely to return to center stage later this year. In addition to hard-headed diplomacy and economic sanctions, there is an important step the United States can take to change Israel’s calculations — helping the people of Syria in their battle against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Iran’s nuclear program and Syria’s civil war may seem unconnected, but in fact they are inextricably linked. Israel’s real fear — losing its nuclear monopoly and therefore the ability to use its conventional forces at will throughout the Middle East — is the unacknowledged factor driving its decision-making toward the Islamic Republic. For Israeli leaders, the real threat from a nuclear-armed Iran is not the prospect of an insane Iranian leader launching
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If the past is a foreign country, then old cookbooks are some of the best passports we have. Consider, for example, the advice on
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how to choose beef in Amelia Simmons's 1796 American Cookery. "The large stall fed ox beef is the best, it has a coarse open grain, and oily smoothness; dent it with your finger and it will immediately rise again; if old, it will be rough and spongy, and the dent remain. Cow Beef is less boned, and generally more tender and juicy than the ox, in America, which is used to labor."
That's more than a description of meat; it's a picture of a vanished culinary world. When American Cookery appeared, cooks still knew their butchers, and expected to be able to lift and turn and prod a roast before buying. The meat itself might have been hauled to market in wagons pulled by oxen that would one day be meat themselves, over roads so rutted that they were best traversed when frozen.
Today, we worry about the costs of transporting corn-fed cattle. Could we still use a
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Disagreement without disrespect — that's the formula for constructive dialogue across an ideological divide. U.S. liberals should try it.
Em
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manuel Macron and President Trump don’t agree on much. Macron is a globalist; Trump is a nationalist. Macron is a free-trader; Trump just imposed protectionist tariffs on steel and aluminum. Macron wants the United States to remain in Syria; Trump wants to get out. Macron wants to preserve the Iran nuclear deal; Trump wants to scrap it. Macron wants the United States to rejoin the Paris climate deal; Trump withdrew from the accord.
And yet there they were, the French and American presidents air-kissing on the White House portico, clasping hands at the podium of a joint news conference, clutching arms as they walked down the colonnade and clinked glasses at the first state dinner of the Trump presidency. “He is perfect,” Trump declared of Macron (after brushing what he said was dandruff off of the French leader’s suit). The displays of amity have left Washington and Paris agog at le b
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Is the Mains Lane bypass a'sticking plaster'?
The Wyre Labour Group recognises the incredible amount of work that went into the
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production of Wyre’s Local Plan, and we thank Planning Officers for their efforts.
Unfortunately, 0fficers have been let down by the Conservative administration who haven’t provided the required direction.
It’s bad enough that the plan is eight years late, but the Conservative administration have allowed the borough’s employment, transport, and open space problems to be swept under the carpet.
With around 9,000 homes to be built during the 20-year plan period, we cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of previous decades, but by continuing to ignore infrastructure requirements, those mistakes are now about to be compounded.
And with the road system at breaking point, you would have thought this was an ideal opportunity for the local plan to set out a vision for the reinstatement of the rail line from Fleetwood to Poulton. Inexcusably, it has failed to set out that vision.
A plan for housing is needed, but it must be
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The 9th Summit of the Organization for Economic Cooperation D-8 has started in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Azerbaijan-Arab Business Forum has been
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held in Baku today.
Azerbaijan regards seriously all the undertaken commitments, including the ones to OPEC.
The limit of external and internal borrowing of Azerbaijan for 2018 has been established.
State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan’s (SOFAZ) assets increased by 8.67% by 1 October 2017.
The Director of UNEC Business school, associated professor Nazim Hajiyev was invited to explore in the centre of Davis Russia and Euro-Asian research centre for 10 months.
Azerbaijani insurer Atəşgah Həyat carried out a large payment on compulsory insurance against accidents in the workplace.
The Draft State Budget of Azerbaijan for 2018 has been published.
The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) has announced the US dollar exchange rate on Friday.
The shareholders of Azerbaijani insurance company AZSIĞORTA will conduct an extraordinary meeting.
The Central Bank (CBA) and the
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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Academy of Business and Finance at Clarksville High School is adding up their numbers.
They have 72
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incoming freshmen and, according to Academy administrator Shannon Cummings, they even took in a few extra sophomores.
The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System's topic-based academy system is designed to graduate college- and career-ready students.
Each high school has one of these “schools within a school” aligned with a specific career or college preparatory theme. These create small learning communities where a select group of students with a common interest share many of the same teachers, allowing educators to coordinate lesson plans and classroom activities around the academy theme.
Cummings said more than 10 percent of academy students from each freshman and sophomore class is from outside the CHS school zone.
Cummings feels that getting the word out about the variety of academies, and having guidance counselors talking to their middle school students, has helped.
Sophomore Cody Spurgeon thought last year was a good experience. He feels the academy taught him what planning he needs to do if
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Alex, flew out on a pre-agreed trip with Melanie Batty, 37, and David Batty, 58, for a week-
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long stay in the Benahavis area, near Marbella.
The grandmother of a missing schoolboy believes her daughter and ex-husband have taken him to live an "alternative lifestyle" abroad.
Police continue to be concerned for the welfare of Alex Batty, who did not return from a holiday to Spain with his mother and grandfather last year.
Alex, who turns 12 on Tuesday, flew out on a pre-agreed trip with Melanie Batty, 37, and David Batty, 58, for a week-long stay in the Benahavis area, near Marbella.
However they did not come back home as expected on Sunday October 8.
Inquiries have revealed they may have tried to sail on the same date from Malaga to Melilla on the Moroccan border.
Alex's guardian, grandmother Susan Caruana, 62, says her daughter and ex-husband previously lived on a commune in Morocco with Alex in 2014 as part of an
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For decades, U.S. schools have failed to provide students with an adequate civics education, which is integral to building and maintaining an engaged
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and informed voting population.
How bad is it? According to the 2018 Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey, only 32 percent of Americans can name all three branches of the U.S. government. Even worse, 33 percent could not correctly name one branch.
Unfortunately, this lack of basic civics knowledge is not restricted to U.S. adults. In 2014, only 23 percent of American students earned a proficient score on the civics portion of the “Nation’s Report Card” exam. Needless to say, this does not bode well for the future.
Given these startling statistics, one would assume that American educators would be working feverishly to find new ways to improve civics courses. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Only nine states and the District of Columbia require a full year of civics education as a requirement for high school graduation. Thirty-one states require students enroll in only one half-year course.
Although several solutions have
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Apple: dead in the water, or on top of its game?
Since I was reading this on my iPad Pro, which is probably the
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most useful electronic device I have ever owned, it came as a bit of a shock. But in fact Volker was really just articulating a truth about digital hardware, which is that the evolution of all such products (and a good deal else besides) follows a sigmoid curve.
It sounds complicated, but it isn’t really. Think of it as a version of the letter S that’s been flattened to form a graph whose vertical axis measures functionality while the horizontal axis represents time. What it tells you is that initially (at the lower part of the S) a new technology develops relatively slowly. Then there’s a point where the functionality increases dramatically over a relatively short period, after which the rate of improvement declines steadily and levels off. The iPad is now somewhere on that upper plateau, which means that it’s reached the point where one can only expect incremental improvements (faster processor, better screen, stereo audio etc). This is what Volker
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Qualification for the season-ending tournament closes Sunday. Twenty-five of the finalists have already been determined. The angler who has the biggest
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fish this week will complete the 26-angler field for Nov. 6 tournament. The biggest fish by weight on each boat trip each day is used towards determining the big fish of the week.
As of Oct. 7, the tourney fund totaled more than $6,700. The fund actually will exceed that as $1 from each paid fare through the final day of the regular season — Sunday — will add to the tournament fund.
Stormy weather had improved the bite the previous week on day two of the Angler’s Choice Tournament of Champions, but rain and strong winds made fishing the American Bass North TOC at Clear Lake on Friday and Saturday a real ordeal.
Atascadero’s Gene Gray and Dusty Kahler, the ABA Pacific Coast Region Anglers of the Year, had caught 30 fish on the second day of the previous tournament, placing fifth with a two-day weight of 43.32 pounds.
Kahler and Gray caught
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By BERNARD MOMANYI, NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 25 – Kenyans are watching to see what action the government
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will take on shocking revelations that its security agents are involved in the execution of up to 500 Mungiki suspects.
The international community will also be interested to see if President Mwai Kibaki and his Coalition partner Prime Minister Raila Odinga will implement recommendations of the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Professor Philip Alston who was due to release his report on Wednesday.
A stunning video footage released by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) on Tuesday not only implicates the police in the murders but also signals what officials there termed as ‘state-sanctioned killings’.
Capital News was reliably informed that the video footage is part of the evidence the KNCHR presented to Prof Alston and will no doubt form basis of his investigations and subsequent recommendations.
And as questions abound on whether or not the video footage was genuine, the fact remains that the police force has been tainted and may take ages trying to redeem its image.
The footage
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GOP Candidates Step Up Attacks On Each Other As the contests in Iowa and New Hampshire near, the Republican presidential hopefuls are no longer keeping
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their sniping focused on President Obama. In the past few days, the contenders have shown themselves to be ready to fight each other.
From left, GOP presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney participate in the Fox News/Google GOP debate at the Orange County Convention Center in September. Since then, the candidates have gotten tougher on each other.
Once upon a time, the Republican presidential contenders seemed to be mostly on the same page. They agreed on who the real enemies were — as Newt Gingrich explained at a debate in September.
"All of my friends up here are going to repudiate every effort of the news media to get Republicans to fight each other to protect Barack Obama, who deserves to be defeated," he said. "And all of us are committed as a team — whoever the nominee is, we are all for defeating Barack Obama."
Well, that team seems to have broken up. In the past few days, the contenders have shown themselves to
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The University of Vermont Health Network will be moving its captive insurance company to Vermont from Bermuda.
The UVM Health Network website said, “
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The action comes as the result of a unanimous decision by the Board of Directors of VMC Indemnity Company, Ltd., the health network subsidiary that provides medical malpractice insurance coverage for its medical providers.
“Because of its reputation for offering a predictable and stable regulatory environment, Vermont has become a leading location for captive insurance companies, a standard self-insurance practice option for academic medical centers that can make malpractice insurance less expensive than what is available through commercial insurance companies.
“We had an analysis done comparing the two locations and it is clear we can continue to provide low-cost, predictable insurance coverage to our providers if the company is located in Vermont,” said John Brumsted, M.D., president and CEO of the UVM Health Network and VMCIC board member.
“Our captive insurance industry is a shining example of what can be accomplished when we work together to provide and grow good jobs here in Vermont,” said Governor Phil Scott
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Gathering in Washington called attempt to inject humour and tone down partisan division.
Barack Obama, the US president, was planning to attend three
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rallies on Saturday to support candidates from his Democratic Party, but one gathering he would not due to attend was held in Washington DC.
Thousands of people gathered in the US capital to watch two popular political satirists appeal for moderation and civility in polarised times, in the run-up to the congressional elections on November 2.
The alternative rally had generated extensive buzz on the internet, with more than 226,000 people on a Facebook page created for the event saying they would attend.
Organisers insisted the idea behind the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear hosted by Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's Daily Show and Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Show was not about politics.
Stewart and Colbert encouraged attendees to bring signs with slogans such as "Real patriots can handle a difference in opinion", "It could be worse but let's not make it that way", and "Death to Nobody".
Stewart said the day was about toning down anger and partisan division.
Al
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WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 01, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ
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:IDCC), a mobile technology research and development company, today announced that the company will release its fourth quarter and full year 2015 financial results before market open on Thursday, February 18, 2016. InterDigital executives will host a conference call that same day at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss the company's financial performance and other company matters.
For a live Internet webcast of the conference call, visit www.interdigital.com and click on the link to the live webcast under the Events tab of the Investors section on the homepage. The company encourages participants to take advantage of the Internet option.
For telephone access to the conference, call 877-876-9175 within the U.S. or +1 785-424-1668 from outside the U.S. Please call by 9:50 a.m. ET on February 18 and give the operator Conference ID number 5332394.
An Internet replay of the conference call will
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A new video released compares the cinematic graphics from The Last of Us on the PlayStation 3 to The Last of Us on the PS4. The breakdown
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features 10 whole minutes of side-by-side comparisons between both versions of the game, and the differences may or may not be obvious to everyone.
The Last of Us: Remastered is dropping on the PlayStation 4 tomorrow. The new version includes increased visual fidelity, better graphics enhancements, as well as native 1920 x 1080p. Naughty Dog also took an opportunity to boost up the game's frame-rate from the barely-hitting-30 frames per second on the PlayStation 3 to 60 buttery frames per second on the PlayStation 4.
Naughty Dog decided to leverage the power of the PlayStation 4 to up the core specs of the award-winning 2013 outing from Sony.
The Last of Us Remastered includes all the previously released content for the game, including the DLC and add-ons that found a kind home on the PlayStation 3. Players will get the extra content for free, including the single-player and multiplayer content.
There have also been rumors that new DLC is being planned to
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"The investors are fundamentally missing the change that’s happening at the company."
Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air
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Force Base.
Welcome to Edition 1.44 of the Rocket Report! There remains no let-up in the world of lift, with lots of activity in the realm of smallsat launchers as well as some interesting speculation about the future of Aerojet's rocket engine business. Oh, and we think we know why SpaceX hasn't had too much to say yet about a Falcon Heavy Moon mission.
Relativity announces first launch contract. The California-based rocket company Relativity announced its first customer on Friday, the global satellite operator Telesat. The contract for flights on the Terran 1 rocket includes "multiple" launches, but in an interview with Ars Relativity CEO Tim Ellis said he could not provide additional details. Although this is the first contract the company has chosen to announce, he said, Relativity has signed other binding deals earlier.
Good company to be in... Ellis said Telesat has been in discussions with Relativity for a while, so the satellite operator has had good access
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Welby: 'Islamic State is deeply evil' Jump to media player The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has spoken out against what
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he called ''atrocious pressure'' on Christians and other minority communities across the Middle East.
Search for migrant boat survivors Jump to media player Hundreds of people are feared to have drowned after a boat carrying up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, the Italian coastguard has said.
Welby's plea on migrant boat deaths Jump to media player As a boat carrying up to 700 migrants capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, urges Europe to ''rise up, and seek to do what is right''.
Italian PM condemns 'new slave trade' Jump to media player Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says the trafficking of migrants across the Med amounts to "a new slave trade".
'Migrants cross vast stretch of sea' Jump to media player Richard Bilton, on a boat south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, explains the scale of the journey that migrants face as they attempt to cross the Mediterranean.
Migrant tells of
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The where and when are still to be determined, but there’s no doubt that Parsons, the Kingston native who played at Archbishop Williams High
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School, will soon set the record for goals scored by a minor pro player. The 39-year-old winger netted No. 674 on Thanksgiving Night, leaving him just four from passing Kevin Kerr’s 677.
The funny thing is, there was every reason to doubt Parsons would ever be in such a position. He only scored 18 goals in 107 career NCAA games at UMass-Lowell, after all – but there was a reason.
It took famously hard-nosed former NHLer Nick Fotiu to put Parson’s soft hands to use. As a rookie head coach for the East Coast Hockey League’s Nashville Knights, Fotiu agreed to his first-year pro’s request to play forward in 1992-93, and Parsons scored 27 goals – amazingly, his career low for a season – as a third-line winger.
Parsons was soon on a tour of the ECHL, playing in Tallah
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In butter tarts, raisins or no raisins? "Yeah! Why not? I put raisins in everything."
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Timothy Fu is a man with two passions: baking and the trombone.
"'The Great Canadian Tromboning Show' isn't likely to happen, so I thought I'd apply for the Great Canadian Baking Show," he says.
In fact, Timothy planned to apply last year. "I had my form filled out, I had my audition video and then I read the fine print," he says. "It said 'You have to be 19,' and I was like, 'Aw shucks, I'm only 18.'"
One year later, Timothy is finally old enough to be on the show.
"This is probably the most exciting thing that's happened to me in my life," he says. "I hate to think I've peaked at 19...but I might have."
Timothy is a self-taught baker. He likes to incorporate traditional Chinese flavours and spices into his baking, particularly ginger. He's been passionate about baking from the moment
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Less than a century since DDT was first sprayed, the spread of the Zika virus through mosquitoes has left some wondering whether regulators were too quick to
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move away from the chemical. But public health officials warn returning the controversial pesticide to use could do more harm than good in some places.
DDT, which first came into use as an insecticide in the 1930s, played a crucial role helping Allied forces protect themselves from mosquitoes carrying malaria in World World II and eventually helped eliminate the deadly disease from the U.S. But despite its successes, public opinion turned quickly in the 1960s as outrage grew over DDT’s potential risks to human health and animals and many countries joined the U.S. in ultimately banning its use.
Today, health officials caution that while the benefits of the pesticide can outweigh health concerns in some contexts, spraying DDT to combat Zika would be premature and potentially very misguided.
The first concern for public health officials when considering whether to use DDT is if the method of applying the pesticide will actually kill the targeted mosquitoes. Most applications of the pesticide today occur on the walls of indoor dwellings—targeting
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Project will pay growers to try methods to keep harmful carbon in the soil.
On 1,100 acres of farmland near Austin, Minn.,
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47-year-old Tom Cotter has embraced no-till planting and cover crops that keep carbon stored in his soil and out of the atmosphere. Cotter changed his farming methods for financial reasons, not just to fight climate change, and stuck with them long enough to see them pay off.
Cotter sees a new pilot program in the 2018 federal farm bill that pays farmers to experiment with the same growing style as a chance for others to enjoy the economic and environmental benefits he has.
The $25 million test project will measure how much additional carbon the agriculture sector can keep out of the atmosphere by leaving fields untilled or minimally tilled and covered with vegetation.
Farming techniques that fight climate change by increasing carbon stored in soil do not work everywhere, explained Tim Smith, a professor of bioproducts and biosystems engineering at the University of Minnesota. But where they do work, soil quality and productivity improves. They also reduce the need for fertilizers that
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Right - that’s all from me folks.
Any serious accidents will be reported on our news feed.
But until then, stay
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safe!
B1044 The Avenue in Godmanchester in both directions is partially blocked. So there’s stop-start traffic due to an accident involving three vehicles involved between Park Lane and B1514 Riverside Road.
Both directions are closed on the A1123 Rectory Road in Bluntisham. A car is in a ditch between Holliday’s Road and B1050 Chapel Lane.
There’s queuing traffic on the A10 Royston Road in both directions at Station Road (Foxton Level Crossing).
There’s very slow traffic on the A428 Cambridge Road in both directions at A1198 Ermine Street South.
There’s queuing traffic on the A141 Spittals Way around B1044 Stukeley Road / B1044 Stukeley Road.
There’s slow traffic due to an accident, after a car into a ditch involved on A1123 Rectory Road near Holl
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Japan is less than two years away from making a fundamental change in its legal system, by allowing jury trials. Under the new system, average citizens
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will work alongside judges to issue verdicts in many criminal cases. As Yuriko Nagano reports from Tokyo, the greatest hurdle to the experiment is expected to be persuading Japanese citizens to participate.
In Japan, as in most Asian countries, judges alone make decisions in trials. But starting in 2009, juries will be participating in Japanese courts, under what is called a "saibanin" system.
The new system has not yet been confirmed. At first, it will be tested for three years. And it will be limited in scope. Juries will only be used in certain criminal cases, involving serious crimes such as murder.
Robert Precht, a U.S. defense lawyer and legal scholar at the University of Montana, is helping Japanese judges, prosecutors, defense lawyers and citizens to implement the change. He spoke to journalists in Tokyo on Thursday.
"The saibanin system and these other reforms are intended to transform Japanese citizens from viewing themselves as governed objects into
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Walani Ndhlovu's journey from a dirt-floored hut in the African country of Malawi to Union College included a stop
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last week on stage with Tom Brokaw at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Brokaw interviewed Ndhlovu at a gala for Maloto, a not-for-profit organization based in Nyack, Rockland County. The group helps educate orphaned and impoverished children in Malawi, one of the smallest and poorest countries in Africa. Brokaw's wife, Meredith Brokaw, is a former board member of the group.
In 2015, Maloto helped Ndhlovu attend Taft School, a prep school in Watertown, Conn. After graduating, he chose Union because of its engineering program and picturesque campus. He was the first Malawian student at both Taft and Union. A Maloto donor covered his tuition at both schools.
He offers a saying about his improbable path in his native Chichewa language: Dziliko nkulinga utatosako. "It's there if you try to look
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A salesperson orientation checklist ensures a smoother onboarding process.
Sales prospecting involves identifying potential customers and generating new leads. Training for these activities
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prepares participants to develop a systematic plan to fill their sales pipelines. Typically, training courses define prospecting, describe why it is important to a business, show how lead-generation systems work, and describe how to evaluate sales leads. You can develop your own workshops, typically as part of a larger sales-training curriculum, or purchase materials from training providers or consultants. Choose the format and scope based on your needs and budget.
Sales-prospecting training prepares participants to establish a sound approach to making calls. For example, a salesperson should develop a script for leaving voice-mail messages. These messages should clearly communicate the features and benefits of a product or service and give a compelling reason for people to contact the seller for more information. Training also provides tips and techniques for getting referrals and networking with other business professionals to sell collaboratively. Sales-prospecting training also provides participants with resources, such as videos and podcasts that provide advice from industry leaders. These resources typically cover topics such as
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(Harrisburg) - An early-morning state House committee meeting Wednesday drew an unusual number of protesters to the state Capitol--many of them unusually
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dressed.
The reason for their discontent was the meeting's featured testifier, a geologist who rejects mainstream climate science, and who has spent most of his career working and consulting for natural gas companies.
The demonstrators were from the Better Path Coalition and other groups, and came dressed as mythical creatures like unicorns and leprechauns in an effort, they said, to show that while the creatures are imaginary, climate change is real.
The geologist, Gregory Wrightstone, was tapped to testify by Daryl Metcalfe, one of the most conservative members of the House and chair of the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, who said he invited Wrightstone to debunk "myths."
Wrightstone doesn't deny the earth is warming, or that CO2 has increased rapidly since industrialization. But he told assembled lawmakers that based on his study of geologic records, he believes warming started significantly before industrialization, in the 17th century.
He said the warming the
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Fifteen past winners of the Nobel Peace Prize have issued a letter to Chinese president Hu Jintao, asking that the newest winner, Liu Xia
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obo, be released from his 11-year prison sentence, and that his wife, Liu Xia, be freed from de-facto house arrest. Announcement of the appeal, from the Freedom Now organization, here; PDF of the letter here.
One interesting aspect of the effort, which according to Freedom Now was organized by Desmond Tutu, is its "catch more flies with honey" approach. For instance, it says: "The Chinese government's release of Dr. Liu would be an extraordinary recognition of the remarkable transformation China has undergone in recent decades."
Another interesting aspect is the list of signatories, below. Notably absent is a 2007 winner. I would love to have heard whatever discussion occurred between Desmond Tutu and that Laureate (OK, I'm talking about Al Gore) leading to the latter's decision not to become the 16th signer.
Let us hope that the overall "correlation of forces," foreign and domestic, convinces the Chinese leadership that they are
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The new year is a great time to take a step back and review your campaigns to see where you can make improvements. Columnist Casie Gil
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lette shares her ideas for starting off 2018 right with SEO.
It’s that time of year where we make our resolutions, promise to be better people and try to start the year fresh. It’s also the time of year where people like me put out “ways to make 2018 better” posts and everyone’s eyes roll into the back of their head. But bear with me!
See, every December, as we pull together reports and commence planning for the new year, we spend an enormous amount of time thinking about all the new things we can do come January. We come to the table with fresh ideas and the “next big thing” to keep our clients or bosses excited.
That’s great! We want and need new ideas, but they often come at the expense of our old ideas — which, given the cyclical nature of SEO, shouldn’t be forgotten.
I’ll be the first to admit
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Bikram is all about concentration and focus, but it can be difficult to stay in the zone when your feet start cramping up. B
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ikram -- also called "hot" -- yoga is fairly intense, so some muscle soreness and cramping is to be expected. By ensuring that you're properly hydrated and checking your posture and technique, you should be able to keep cramping at bay. If not, a quick break and a soothing massage can get you back in the game.
Check your posture and alignment. When your posture is off, it can create excess pressure in the feet. For instance, when you're in Balancing Stick pose, leaning too far forward could put excess pressure on the balls of your feet, when the weight should be evenly spread through the feet instead.
Spread your toes and ensure that when you are in poses that require foot balance, your weight is evenly distributed along all four corners of the feet. Rolling to your instep can also cause cramping along the inside of your foot, so keep your feet flat on the floor and avoid rolling inward. This is especially important during challenging poses,
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It was the sort of story that made Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) look so awful, he managed to even surprise his critics.
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In mid-April, the far-right governor vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have allowed pharmacists to dispense an effective anti-overdose drug without a prescription. But it was LePage’s explanation that added insult to injury.
“A junior at Deering High School had three Narcan shots in one week. And after the third one, he got up and went to class. He didn’t go to the hospital. He didn’t get checked out. He was so used to it. He just came out of it and went to class,” LePage said.
That’s quite an anecdote, which the Republican governor appears to have completely made up.
The Huffington Post reported yesterday that the principal at Deering High School described LePage’s story as “absolutely not true,” adding that the anecdote doesn’t even make sense – because Narcan isn’t available at the school.
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MIAMI, March 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- In anticipation of the newest cruise ship joining its fleet, Regent Seven Seas
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Cruises [®] announced in January details of the Regent Suite on Seven Seas Splendor™, the largest and most elegant suite ever built on a luxury ship. The lavish Regent Suite sets the tone for all 14 other suite categories on Seven Seas Splendor. Today, Regent reveals additional details of all guest suite categories, further establishing Seven Seas Splendor as the ship that will perfect luxury when she debuts in February 2020. Images are available here.
Luxury is found in intricate details, exquisite finishings and enormous balcony space. More than 46,000 square-feet of Italian marble will adorn Seven Seas Splendor -- more than an acre of marble -- including the marble-detailed bathrooms in each ofher 375 guest suites. Nearly 52,000 square-feet of balcony space is found on the all-balcony vessel -- larger than the size of an American football field and averaging 138 square feet of balcony space per suite. Approximately 500 crystal chandeliers will
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Alternative reality and virtual reality are gaining traction, and some of the early adopters are already trying to figure out what it means to their businesses.
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The use cases vary from industry to industry, but the idea is to leverage virtual assets (AR) or create a completely virtual environment (VR) that provide low-cost, yet effective means of accomplishing what is otherwise expensive and difficult in the real world.
The possibilities seem only limited by the imagination; however, adoption numbers underscore the early nature of the products and related analytics among businesses. For example, a recent survey by IT trade association CompTIA shows that about 21% of the responding organizations had some kind of AR or VR initiative in place.
"Most organizations realize there's some potential because they saw what happened with Pokémon Go last year, but it's going to take some time to happen," said Tim Herbert, senior VP of research and market Intelligence at CompTIA.
Right now, people are focused on the visualization aspects and what that means. Interest in analytics will come later as it becomes clear that what happens in an AR or VR environment needs to be monitored, analyzed
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CALGARY—The year was 1984, the place an industrial city in the north of England and to Vancouver’s Jon Kimura
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Parker fell the honour of winning one of the most prestigious piano competitions in Europe.
“I was incredibly lucky,” the goateed pianist smiled modestly over breakfast last week, just before the finals of Canada’s most esteemed and the world’s richest piano competition, the Esther Honens International.
Now a professor at Houston’s Rice University and midway through a successful international career, Parker had come to Calgary as the Honens’ new artistic director to preside over the awarding of a $100,000 prize to the 26-year-old Georgian pianist Nicolas Namoradze.
The cash wasn’t Namoradze’s only benefit. Perhaps even more important was a three-year career development package valued at $500,000, including concert engagements, a recording, a Banff Centre residency, mentoring and management.
Winning a major competition opens doors. It does not guarantee a career. Parker
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Let’s face it, not even the most advanced programming in the world can save your Facebook News Feed. The goal of the feature is
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to display the stories that matter most to you, and although the social network continues to tweak the formulas powering its recommendation engine, it’s not always the best at ranking posts based on your interests and interaction. Fortunately, Facebook is finally giving you some granular control over what shows up in your feed, essentially allowing you to quickly prioritize posts from specified friends and Pages so you never miss a beat when browsing.
The newly minted feature — known as “See First” — pins stories that are important to you, to the top of your News Feed. It will still let you view the rest of your News Feed as you normally would, once you scroll beyond the highlights at the top. Currently exclusive to iOS devices, it’s quick and painless to set up. Follow the directions below for all the details, so you can keep up on the people and pages you actually care about.
Step 1: Launch the Facebook app on your iOS device and tap the More
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