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In Nigeria, one anti-corruption campaigner fears that if the era of U.S.-led transparency initiatives is over, the relapse will be stark
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In February, in one of its first acts of lawmaking, the Trump Administration, with the Republican-controlled Congress, rescinded a pending Securities and Exchange Commission rule that would have required oil companies to disclose details of their payments to international governments in connection with oil and gas production.
The rule, which was mandated by a law co-sponsored by former Republican Senator Richard Lugar, of Indiana, and Democratic Senator Ben Cardin, of Maryland, was designed to combat bribery and corruption, especially in poor countries governed by kleptocrats. Thirty other countries, including Canada and the members of the European Union, had already adopted similar requirements. Yet the American Petroleum Institute and companies such as ExxonMobil, at the time when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was still its C.E.O., had lobbied against the rule. They said that it was costly to implement and gave unfair advantage to overseas competitors to which it did not apply. When Trump took power, the lobbyists got their way.
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Why the country's media missed its 'Harvey Weinstein moment'.
Last October, the Harvey Weinstein scandal shook the US media industry into a moment
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of reckoning. Outlets that had previously shied away from, and in some cases covered up, abuses by the Hollywood producer began harassment investigations that saw a host of household media names pushed from their pedestals.
Italy, home to two of Harvey Weinstein's accusers, also felt the shockwaves. But Italians hoping for a similar impact on their fourth estate, where victim-blaming and objectification are notoriously common - were to be disappointed.
Instead, two features marked the fallout: the near absence of names named, and the ferocious reaction faced not by the accused, but the accusers.
Italy, it would seem, had missed its "Weinstein moment".
The problem is, it's difficult to expose such cases, especially when they happen in the industry that is supposed to be doing the exposing! And that's an industry whose leaders tend to be, on the whole, men.
Six months on from the scandal, The Listening Post went to Rome and Milan to
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There was no sunshine for Fine Gael and Labour in the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll. Conducted on Monday and Tuesday of
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this week as the weather turned, it shows combined support for the Government two points lower when compared with our February poll.
Fine Gael has dropped one point, to 24 per cent, while Labour is also one point lower with 9 per cent support.
Satisfaction with the Government’s performance is up three points to 21 per cent, strangely as a result of fewer Fine Gael and Labour voters being dissatisfied with how their parties are performing.
The latest poll confirms Fianna Fáil as the number one party in Ireland, attracting 26 per cent of the vote. The party continues to climb steadily, having bottomed out in 2012.
Also showing positively is Sinn Féin, increasing to 21 per cent, a gain of three points.
Independents/Others are down two points to 18 per cent, with the Green Party on 2 per cent, up one point.
It was a scrappy few weeks leading up to this week’s poll, full
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OSLO, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Norwegian police on Monday charged the Chinese captain of a dry bulk vessel for not warning the coastal authorities that
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his ship was in danger during a storm last week that led to one of Norway’s biggest fuel spills.
The Chinese-owned "Full City" ship has remained grounded near Langesund since early Friday morning, when it was blown off course during a heavy storm and started leaking fuel.
The spill has affected a 150-kilometre (93 mile) stretch of coastline in southern Norway and occurred near a bird sanctuary and a popular summer resort about 170 km south-west of Oslo.
"The captain of the vessel has been charged for not reporting that his ship was in a dangerous situation," police attorney Siri Karlsen told a news conference. The charge carries a maximum two-year jail sentence, Norway’s TV2 television said.
The clean up efforts have involved some 25 ships helping to contain the fuel, which has now stopped leaking from the vessel’s hull. Onshore workers are also working to clear the syrupy dark fuel from the mostly rocky
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William Perlman/The Star-LedgerRB Shonn Greene should be "fine next week," coach Rex Ryan said.
Rex Ryan
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said the Jets do not expect the low-grade skin infection on Shonn Greene's right foot to keep him out for an extended period of time.
"We think he'll be fine next week," the coach said today.
The starting running back was ruled out for Sunday's preseason game against the Bengals after missing practice Thursday afternoon. According to the team, Greene is taking antibiotics to treat the infection, which was caught early.
The team said it could not determine whether or not it is a staph infection because skin infections like his cannot be cultured. But a team spokesman said today that Greene is responding well to antibiotics and is expected back next week.
The team clarified Ryan's explanation of Greene's infection. Earlier this week, Greene had calluses shaved off his feet and received a local anesthetic for that procedure. While that was being done, he asked about irritation on another part of his foot, later diagnosed as a "standard, routine skin infection."
Greene did
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The completion of seven steel bridges by the Road Development Authority on the new Outer Circular Road in the Trincomalee District would go a long
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way to boost economic activity in the Eastern Province, residents of Trincomalee said yesterday.
The project, costing Rs 900 million, is now nearing completion under the supervision of Minister of Nation Building and Trincomalee District SLFP Chief Organizer Susantha Punchinilame under the Nagenahira Navodaya Programme.
Project Director, RDA, Susitha Fernando said that the seven steel bridges on the new outer circular road in Trincomalee had been awarded to the reliable private contractors following Tender procedures. The British Government had given Rs. 467 million and the Government had to bear the balance to complete the project.
The bridge over the Soorankuli Lagoon is 88 metres long. It is close to the Somawathiya Chaithya area in Seruwawila.
The Upparu bridge is 128 metres long and would be completed in 2010, whilst the construction of the 27-metre-long Black bridge across the
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Wilfredo Pica-Torres is accused of killing a man and setting a fire at a Walnut Street residence.
The day before
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Wilfredo Pica-Torres allegedly murdered a Binghamton man and set fire to a Walnut Street house, he was released from the Broome County jail to await sentencing on a larceny charge.
Pica-Torres, 45, of 107 Walnut St., Apt. 1, is accused of killing 61-year-old Victor Banayan on Feb. 9 in an apartment at 109 Walnut St. on Binghamton's West Side. A 27-year-old woman was also injured in the attack, but she managed to escape along with upstairs tenants as a fire consumed the building.
On Feb. 4, the Broome County District Attorney's Office offered to settle a recent set of felony charges against Pica-Torres — burglary, grand larceny and criminal mischief — by a guilty plea to a misdemeanor petit larceny in Binghamton City Court. A prearranged sentence would be jail time served and three years of
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House GOPer brags: "I was the first to call Obama a socialist"
Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga.,
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who is running for senate in 2014, played up his right-wing cred in a fundraising email, boasting that he was the first one to label President Obama "a socialist," also noting that his record and that of Ron Paul "are virtually identical."
As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, Broun has been publicly playing the cool contender since announcing his run last week. But on the side to potential donors, he's brandishing his Tea Party background. "I was the first Member of Congress to call him a socialist who embraces Marxist-Leninist policies like government control of health care and redistribution of wealth," Broun wrote in an email.
Truth be told, except for foreign policy, Ron Paul's voting record and mine are virtually identical and I wear it as a badge of honor when I'm accused of being a strict constitutionalist who doesn't bend or break when it's tempting to do so….
In Congress last session I was honored to enjoy a close friendship with
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The town of Krymsk has been wiped off the face of the Earth.
The official body count has topped 170, but that takes into
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account only the bodies that have actually been found. Krymsk residents believe that the figure could reach into the thousands. They are also certain that the flood was caused by water being released from the Naberdzhayevskoye reservoir. This was done, they say, as a control measure to avoid flooding President Vladimir Putin's dacha in Gelendzhik, a Black Sea coastal town located 60 kilometers from Krymsk, or the city of Novorossiisk, only 40 kilometers away.
In fact, the Neberdzhayevskoye reservoir is fully intact, but when the people distrust the authorities, they tend to believe conspiracy theories. There is a good reason why the people's trust has been completely undermined: The authorities knew at least six hours beforehand that disaster would strike, yet failed to issue a warning.
Major flash floods causing more than 100 deaths and catastrophic damage are rare occurrences. Rapid City in South Dakota was washed away by a flash
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I use a patient-centered approach to care and combine evidence-based medicine with a realistic treatment plan that suits each patient's needs and situation.
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Often, I am the third, fourth or more consultation -- and patients still have questions and a lack of understanding, which demonstrate communication problems that I hope to correct. In addition to radiation oncology, I have expertise in palliative care and pain management.
North Carolina and studying medicine in New York City. I reside in Spencerport with my wife and two children. In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, golf, art and fine dining.
I am also on the medical staff at Wyoming County Community Hospital, United Memorial Medical Center and Medina Memorial Hospital, and see inpatients as needed.
A native of Lewiston, NY, Dr. Mudd received his medical degree from the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn and completed his internship at Staten Island University Hospital and his residency in radiation oncology at SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, where he also served as chief resident. Before coming to Batavia, he practiced at Finger Lakes Radiation On
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IF you don’t make a noise, nothing is likely to change. That’s why Albury trucking operator Doug McMill
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an is appealing to Border residents to form a group to protest against the carbon tax. While the federal government has given the trucking industry a two-year exemption from the tax — until July 1, 2014 — Mr McMillan yesterday said when it was imposed on the industry, it would hit families hard. “Our fuel will rise 6.2 cents a litre,” he said. “We use two litres a kilometre, so it’s a huge cost. “A trip from here to Melbourne, we are now paid probably $700. But under the carbon tax, it’s going to be a $1500 trip, at least, and someone’s got to pay for that. “That sort of increase will just increase the cost of everything you buy. “Like or hate trucks, there’s no other way to shift things.” Mr McMillan hoped the saving grace would be provided by the leader of
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Meghan Gregg looked at the scoreboard Tuesday night and saw the obvious effect hitting had on Tennessee's softball team.
The senior third baseman searched
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beyond the 8-0 victory over Memphis, though, and saw something more in her teammates' faces.
"I saw a lot of smiles I haven't seen in awhile." she said. "I think we were having a lot of fun."
Such enjoyment will be harder to come by this weekend, when No. 10 Tennessee (34-8, 5-7 SEC) hosts No. 14 LSU (32-7, 7-4) in a three-game series beginning Friday at Lee Stadium (TV: ESPN2, 7 p.m.).
Tennessee has scored four total runs in its last six conference games and has been shut out three times. In those games, UT is 3-for-34 (.088) with runners in scoring position.
LSU, meanwhile, has an ERA of 1.11 and has held league opponents to three runs or fewer in nine games.
In conference play, something to smile about hitting-wise involves two components.
The
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DENVER (AP) — Nate Robinson serenaded his teammate with a song in the locker room, rapping and rhyming about J.
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J. Hickson’s big game.
Only fitting, since the Denver Nuggets were marching to Hickson’s beat all night.
Hickson had 19 points and 11 rebounds and the Nuggets overcame a slow start to beat the New Orleans Pelicans 102-93 Sunday night.
Last season, Hickson was a double-double machine for Portland, ranking among the league leaders with 40. This was only his sixth of the season for Denver.
“We’ve been teasing J.J. a lot: `Where are all those double-doubles from last year? Because we need them this year,'” Robinson said. “I know they’re going to come.
Especially if they can jump out to faster starts. Once again, the Nuggets took a while to get going on offense and had to play catch-up. But they did and were able to pull away late.
No big deal, since it’s more
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The recent Supreme Court decision in NIFLA v. Becerra struck down a California law that required so-called “crisis pregnancy
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centers” (CPCs) to disclose whether they are licensed medical facilities, and what health services they do and not offer. By a 5-4 margin, the ruling permits these fake women’s health centers to continue to hide important, basic facts, and dodge direct questions about reproductive health.
In Minnesota, the deceptively titled “Women’s Right to Know Act” requires individuals to receive state-mandated counseling before they can access a legal abortion. Included on the list of approved counseling options are a number of CPCs, with no mention of the fact that these facilities are strongly biased against abortion and may not have licensed health care providers on staff. In stepping up to promote the deceptive practices at CPCs, state lawmakers continue to support this charade and participate in deceiving everyday Minnesotans who are seeking needed health care.
73 percent of CPCs told patients that abortion is linked to an increased risk of breast cancer, a claim rejected
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The Canvas Gallery is hosting Komail Aijazuddin’s solo art exhibition titled ‘Secret History’ from March 26 to
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April 4. Call 021-35861523 for more information.
The Chawkandi Art Gallery is hosting Marjan Baniasadi and SM Khayyam’s art exhibition from March 28 to April 5. Call 021-35373582 for more information.
The ArtKaam Gallery is hosting Hamed Azeemi’s solo art exhibition titled ‘Renaissance’ until March 30. Call 0317-1160642 for more information.
The Full Circle Gallery is hosting Afshan Farrukh, Hira Zubair Ghakhar, Noureen Rashid, Rubab Jawaid and Tahir Ali Sadiq’s art exhibition titled ‘Thoughts Make Visuals’ until April 1. Call 0303-2239038 for more information.
The MainFrame Gallery is hosting Hajira Ahmad’s solo art exhibition titled ‘Tilismaat’ from March 26 to April 2
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Live updates from the Bozeman City Commission meeting on April 11, 2017, concerning the controversial Black-Olive development.
With a couple
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minutes to go before the opening gavel, the city commission chamber isn't quite as full as last week — but still doesn't have many empty chairs.
The city has a live stream video up here. I'll be focusing on catching the high points and adding context with updates on this page.
Sounds like this could go late this evening. "We're going to finish tonight," insists Mayor Carson Taylor — and city clerk who's taking minutes is drinking a Red Bull.
We're hearing largely familiar concerns from our first several commenters of the night, with many wishing the proposal was for a smaller building with more parking and less impact on neighbor's light.
“Five stories, right up to the property line does not fit in this area. It’s not Bozeman — it’s not who we are,” says one opponent.
A few supporters are pointing to the city's housing crunch, and arguing that the project meets the thrust of the city
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A few years ago, Team Tobyhanna set out to change the face of electronics maintenance, taking inspiration from the past and present to reshape
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its future.
The results of the massive, multi-million dollar modernization project were unveiled during a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday. The new Electronics Maintenance Enclosure provides a revitalized, accommodating and comfortable workspace for personnel supporting the joint warfighter.
The event was attended by CECOM commanding general, Maj. Gen. Randy Taylor, distinguished visitors, depot leaders and members of the workforce.
"Tobyhanna's responsibilities are vast and critical to the mission," Taylor said, adding that the quality of work performed here is indicative of how much the workforce cares about the Soldiers. "The breath of operations here to sustain, overhaul, fabricate, engineer and provide worldwide logistics support for the Army's massive fleet of communications and intelligence systems is extraordinary -- this building is the heart of it all."
This enclosure will be home to hundreds of employees who will reap the benefits of the innovative ideas used to create a state-of-the-art and eco-friendly environment. Tobyhanna
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Learn about an Irish regiment that was also a typical unit in the Union Army of the American Civil War.
Not Irish? Not a problem.
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If you are interested in the Civil War, that's what counts.
We welcome men, women, and children to consider this wonderful opportunity to journey through history.
Take a look at the 155th New York, its history, activities, and visit some of our friends. Then visit us in person.
Raised in September 1862, the 155th NYVI served with distinction until July 1865. Almost all of the men of the 155th were Irish; many of them had only come to America since the time of the Famine of 1846-47.
The 155th was raised as part of Michael Corcoran's "Irish Legion," a brigade containing the 155th, 164th (zouave), 170th, 175th, and 182nd New York Volunteers. Members of Companies "I" and "K" came from Buffalo, New York, and the 164th also contained Buffalo recruits. The regiment fought under both the flag of the United States, and a green
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Brian Rakowsku, VP of Product Management at Google, holds the Pixel phone during its launch in October 2016.
Morgan Stanley has estimated that
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Google's new smartphone, the Pixel, will generate $3.8 billion in revenue for the company in 2017.
The estimate is based on the expectation that Google will sell around 5-6 million Pixels next year, which retail between $649 and $869.
The bank also projected that Google will sell 3 million Pixels in the last three months of 2016, generating $2 billion.
For a comparison point, Apple sold 212 million iPhones in the 2016 financial year, generating the company $137 billion in revenue. In the last quarter of 2016, Apple sold 45.5 million iPhones, generating $28 billion in revenue.
The Morgan Stanley note also estimates the Pixel will be half as profitable for Google as the iPhone is to Apple, thanks to the former device's higher cost of materials.
The Pixel phone will generate a 22%-25% gross profit margin, the note says, varying according to the model. For perspective, the iPhone 7's gross margin is at around
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T.I. has responded to the shooting that occurred at his concert at New York’s Irving Plaza last night (May 25).
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The Atlanta rapper, who also goes by the name TIP, took to Instagram to express his condolences to Banga who was killed in a reported altercation between Troy Ave and Maino’s crews. The shooting occurred before T.I. took the stage and, along with Banga’s death, left three injured.
Troy Ave was arrested on multiple charges today (May 26) after he reportedly opened fire and accidentally shot himself.
Rest In Peace Bro. God bless.
A T.I. concert in New York ended abruptly in gunfire tonight (May 25), as shown in various social media video posts. The performance was at Irving Plaza and also featured Anderson.Paak and Uncle Murda.
The FADER reports that four people in total were shot inside the venue, according to the NYPD. One person died at Beth Israel Hospital from injuries sustained in the shooting. The deceased person was a 33-year-old man.
Two of the other victims
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Vitimbi comedian Mzee Ojwang moved on to the afterlife after a decorated career spanning decades and thousands of on screen hours.
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SportPesa’s growing popularity has elevated the platform to a domestic phenomenon as a growing number of savvy Kenyans chase the ever elusive jackpot.
Until the leader of the free world jams to your tune next time he’s in town, no one can claim to have enjoyed the success Sauti Sol recorded in 2015.
As Floyd Mayweather drifts into retirement, he leaves behind a rich legacy worth millions of dollars, with 2015 accounting for over $300 million of his present net worth. His victory over Manny Pacquiao earlier this year set an unprecedented record in the sporting world as the sportsman commanded the attention of a cross-section of Kenyans, marking an international highlight for the boxing profession.
The City Girl has trended herself into a viral sensation, thanks to her controversial pieces that tickle plus-sized single women and rile Roysambu and South B Subaru drivers in a single stride. Njoki’s regulars have contributed
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Jessica Sager is the founder and executive director of All Our Kin and a lecturer at Yale College. She is a Pahara Aspen Fellow
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and a Ms. Foundation Public Voices Fellow through The OpEd Project.
I like to wake up early. This is new for me: I used to be a night owl, but now that I’m a mother, I find that I can get my best writing done first thing, while my daughter is still asleep.
As a working parent, I have my late nights, too, and those are the times when I’m most likely to send a sloppy email, misspelling a name or leaving out a crucial bit of punctuation. I’ve learned to be extra careful after 10 p.m. when I press send.
The grammar and plagiarism checking site, Grammarly, released a report recently comparing the writing capabilities of two kinds of people: “Early Birds,” who rise with the dawn, and “Night Owls,” who stay up late.
According to the study, Early Birds made fewer mistakes. Their grammar
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are unveiling new proposals to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's health care law, as Speaker Paul Ryan seeks to
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showcase a GOP governing agenda amid the tumult of the presidential campaign.
But the 37-page white paper falls far short of a full-scale replacement proposal for "Obamacare" and leaves key questions unanswered, including the size of the tax credits, the overall price tag of the plan, and how many people would be covered. Republican aides said it's intended as an overall roadmap showing how the GOP would approach undoing and replacing Obama's health law with a Republican in the White House, and specific legislative details would be answered as the actual bills are written next year.
As such it is an aspirational document like the rest of Ryan's "Better Way" agenda, a six-topic blueprint that the speaker has been rolling out this month at carefully choreographed events that have been getting largely overshadowed by the latest Donald Trump campaign controversy. Ryan was to present his health care proposals alongside several House committee chairmen Wednesday afternoon at the American Enterprise Institute, and a tax plan was coming Friday.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder’s memoir of her pioneer girlhood, written in 1930, has remained unpublished until now.
In 1930,
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Laura Ingalls Wilder decided to write a memoir of her pioneer girlhood. She was a sixty-three-year-old chicken farmer, living in the Ozarks with her husband and their daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, a well-known journalist and popular author. Wilder’s own literary ambitions were, she told Lane, for “prestige” rather than for money, and they may have dated to her youth, though they had been thwarted by a married life of hardship and calamity.
Wilder would certainly capture the big market. She lived to the age of ninety, and published eight novels for young people—the perennially beloved “Little House” books—that have sold some sixty million copies in more than thirty languages. In the nineteen-seventies, the third installment of this family saga, “Little House on the Prairie,” was adapted as a drama for television that ran for nine seasons. The Wilder farm
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Millburn teen Alexander McBride arranges to have laptops delivered to students in Africa.
Alexander McBride wants people to send him their laptops,
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but he has a good reason: The 17-year-old high school junior helps refurbish potentially usable computers — they must still be supportable by Microsoft or Apple — and send them to a girls’ school in the African nation of Tanzania, where students range in age from late teens to early 20s. He does this through Laptops 4 Africa, an initiative he created with a group of his Millburn High School peers. They are in the process of obtaining 501(c)3 status for the nonprofit.
Craig Leisher works for The Nature Conservancy, and travels to Tanzania for work about six times per year, when he delivers the laptops.
Alexander’s father James says that 21 students have received laptops so far, mostly in Tanzania, but also in Kenya and Zambia.
Laptops 4 Africa is looking for more laptops, and is aiming to get them over to Africa more quickly. “My goals for the future are mainly to increase the efficiency
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More than a dozen private firms wanted to work on a project like the one the state Education Department is set to award to a Rupert Murdoch-owned
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company in a $27 million no-bid contract.
Agency officials have cited "an extremely challenging time line" in their decision to partner with News Corp. subsidiary Wireless Generation to build a data system of student test scores and other information.
The Daily News has learned that the agency has explored the project for at least two years - proof, critics say, state officials had ample time to competitively bid out the contract and still meet a fall 2012 deadline for a federal Race to the Top grant.
"It raises all kinds of questions," said Susan Lerner, executive director of good government group Common Cause New York. "There appears to be time in this process to go through a much more open-bidding process to ensure that the public is getting the best vendor at the best price."
The News has also learned that Wireless Generation paid as much as $5,000 a month to lobbying firms to advocate for the contract and Race to the Top funds with state officials.
In June
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Dr. Walker Waite has over a quarter century of project management experience, spanning nearly a dozen nations and 13 different industries across North America and Europe
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. She is a leader in the field of global change initiatives, managing major international projects and guiding government, academia and corporate organizations toward sustainable performance. Among her multibillion-dollar global project clients are Saab, Nortel, Discovery, Bechtel, Pasteur Merieux Connaught, Astra Zeneca, USAID, ABC/Disney, MTVN, IBM, ONCOR and NJDOT.
Dr. Walker Waite is one of the longest serving PMI volunteer leaders, having held PMI voluntary leadership roles since 1991. She is serving as a Director in the GAC (Global Accreditation Council) 2016-current, and previously as a Director of the International PMI Board of Directors (2013–2015). Formerly she served on the PMI Board Volunteer Advisory Committee (2009–2012), first as a member and then as Committee Chair (2011–2012). She was the president of the PMI Washington, DC (WDC) Chapter, following her ten
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Bangalore: As games are over, the scam ghosts have started haunting the organizers of Common Wealth Games. Initial investigation reveals that the scandal is deep
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rooted involving big guns. Though India is set to become a super power, scams are yet to be controlled. Of late, India seems to be plagued by frauds one after the other. The nation would have hardly forgotten the infamous corporate scam by Satyam founder Ramalinga Raju, when an equally bigger scandal of CWG is revealed.
Here, we will look at the top five scandals in relation to the enormity of these scandals that have erupted over several years in Indian history to understand the complicacies, with the hope of not being repeated in the future. What are common in each of these cases are discrepancies in financial regulation and corporate governance.
1. Fraudulent CWG: The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), involved in probing alleged corruption in various Commonwealth Games-related projects, has found discrepancies in tenders and alleged misappropriation amounting to about Rs 8,000 crore. It reveals that cashwas abnormally doled out for many Games related projects
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With the help of producer Tim Goldsworthy, the Santa Barbara band unlock a new sound in a Michigan locksmith building.
Gardens
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& Villa play the Boot & Saddle in Philly on Friday, Feb. 21, the Middle East Upstairs in Cambridge, MA on Saturday, Feb. 22 and the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Tuesday, Feb. 25.
After 30 days of recording, during which countless nights were spent watching Chinese cinema and listening to copious amounts of Prince, the group has fashioned an album that is not only seeming of the band’s usual psychedelic leaning, but reveals a significant progression towards a more new wave sound. While “Dunes” preserves Gardens & Villa’s flute, keyboard, and synth-driven melodies, an added electronic vibe thrusts their new album into a realm of organic and nostalgic rhythms.
Since their self-titled debut in 2011, Gardens & Villa has garnered a natural inertia to popularity. One that not only carried them into the highly regarded arms of indie label, Secretly Canadian, but landed them an opening slot for The Shins and led
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - This year, travelers will face the busiest holiday travel season on record.
State transportation
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officials expect there will be more than 50,000 passengers moving through Hawaii’s airports every day until Christmas.
At the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, Tonya Parker quickly rushed her two boys from the parking garage to their terminal to check in Saturday afternoon.
“Because it is always really busy and you always expect it to be hectic. They tell you to come two and a half hours before, three hours before for international,” said Parker.
Her sons are flying to Vancouver to visit their father. But when the family arrived at the Air Canada terminal, there was no wait at all.
"Everyone is super mellow, there are no lines as you can see which is great. Much better than expected," Parker said with relief.
The same can’t be said for the other end of the airport where travelers are working their way through long lines at the Hawaiian Airlines terminal.
"It was crazy. It just seems like we
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Residential real estate appraising website Zillow plans to start buying home in Orlando and five other cities, joining a handful of companies offering quick
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and easy solutions.
The real estate website Zillow plans to start buying houses in Orlando and five other cities, joining a handful of companies offering quick and easy solutions for home sellers.
The Seattle-based online service plans to roll out its Zillow Offers program by fall, buying houses from sellers in as little as a week and then turning around and selling them for a higher price, the company said.
Orlando joins nine other cities where Zillow has already launched the service along with four other areas getting Zillow Offers this fall: Miami, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Nashville and Portland.
It joins a handful of other services such as Opendoor, Offerpad and Rex that will either buy houses directly from consumers or circumvent the traditional real estate agent model.
Online home buying services have been controversial among real estate professionals because of worries that they cut out local agents and try to take advantage of rising real estate prices.
Zillow said it does
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Robert Rawson, who has been interim dean of the Case Western Reserve University law school since the former dean stepped down
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, will remain in that role until mid-2011.
Rawson, 65, has asked that his title remain interim dean. The university has called off its search for a new dean and will resume the search next summer. Former Dean Gary Simson served as dean from July 2006 through December 2008.
Rawson did not want to be considered for the permanent job, but agreed to a longer interim commitment.
"It gives me some more running room to continue some projects," Rawson said Monday. Specifically, he'll help with some goals of a strategic plan for the law school approved by the faculty in September.
High on that list are plans to raise more money for scholarships. He also wants to boost the school's career services section, which helps recent graduates struggling to navigate the tough job market.
Rawson, who was partner-in-charge of the Cleveland office of Jones Day until 2007, remains a partner at that firm. He is also a trustee of Cleveland State University.
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Spring Art Classes | Art Supply Lists | Kids Create Dates | Art & Story Stroll | SHORTS!
Our hands-on art classes are
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taught by artist-teachers, and frequently inspired by art on view in the museum. We teach, inspire, challenge, and encourage all ages. We love it when you make the artwork you never thought you could make.
Our fabulous all-day school break and summer art camps are designed for children ages 6–12.
Kids enjoy high quality (and very fun) art projects, visits to the museum to see original works of art, lunch breaks, and daily recreation breaks.
Two age groupings—6–8 (junior) and 9–12 (senior)—allow kids to learn about art techniques, strategies, and materials as they make art they can be proud of.
Information & registration available here.
During the summer, we also will be running two collaborative camps with Writers & Books for kids who love to draw and write! For more about these camps (Telling Tales and Your Incredible Illustrated Story), call or email Rachael | 585.276
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Look out! There's an app barreling toward your skull, and it's going as fast as a car.
Among the most powerful
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things about the first iPhone was how it made old software metaphors — pressing buttons, scrolling through pages — much more literal. Scrolling was now linked, one-to-one, to the tip of your finger. You didn't click a button on a mouse to command a software cursor to press a button for you, you just tapped it with your thumb. This was a profound change and one that was hard to advertise or talk about. But it was something that users were able to grasp almost immediately.
Movement in iOS, and in Android, is generally directly connected to one of two actions: a tapping or swiping, or hitting a button or dragging (or pushing!) something around. The weirdest these direct actions really get is pinch-to-zoom, which is somehow intuitive but doesn't really have a real-world equivalent. These are all vital in making iOS feel like iOS.
Also vital: the animations, which, in iOS 7, are centered around zooming
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NEW YORK – Stocks sagged Friday after a closely watched report on U.S. economic growth came in well below Wall Street expectations and raised
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concerns about the strength of the current economic recovery.
The Dow Jones industrial average (search) ended down 22.22 points, or 0.21 percent, at 10,488.07. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (search) fell 2.98 points, or 0.26 percent, to 1,131.13. The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index (search) slipped 2.08 points, or 0.10 percent, to 2,066.15.
For the week, the Dow fell 0.8 percent, the S&P 500 slipped 0.9 percent and the Nasdaq dropped 2.7 percent.
U.S. economic growth slowed to a 4 percent annual rate in the final three months of 2003, less than half the third-quarter pace as consumers cut back spending, the Commerce Department (search) reported early Friday.
Traders attributed the market's declines to the disappointing GDP data
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Essex’s aspiring businesswomen are being encouraged to head to Colchester Business Centre with their best business ideas to take one of 100 places
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in the re-launch of an award-winning business support programme.
Have you got a great business idea and just want the opportunity to develop it?
Thanks to a £32,740 grant from the Natwest Skills & Opportunities Fund, Colbea is offering 100 places on In the Market for Success Too (IM4S 2) to budding female entrepreneurs for just £50.
The complete start-up package, worth over £2,000, includes training workshops, business mentoring, a free virtual office service for 12 months and a test trading spot on Colchester’s High Street market.
First launched in 2017, IM4S assisted in the creation of 83 new businesses over 18 months, won the National Enterprise Network Enterprise Engagement Award in November 2018, and culminated in Samantha Luxford, winning a two-month trading opportunity in Fenwick’s Colchester High Street store.
Jackie Clifford director of Clarity Learning & Development, is the course
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The president was wrong to malign the criminal-justice system in his State of the Union speech.
The claim that the criminal-justice system
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is racist is the mantra of left-wing activists the country over. Adopting it for the State of the Union was an unfortunate attempt to score bipartisan political points. The effort has already proven unavailing: Trump and his supporters continue to be charged with racism, while the legitimacy of law enforcement has been undermined.
It is crime, not the punishment of crime, that disproportionately harms the black community. And the demand for strict drug enforcement has always originated most forcefully in the black community. In 1959, Harlem’s New York Age newspaper called for “no leniency for the criminals, the recidivists, the junkies, dope pushers, muggers, prostitutes, or pimps. Clean out this scum—and put them away as long as the law will allow.” New York’s Rockefeller drug laws, now reviled by the elites, were passed in the 1970s because of activism in the black community, as Michael Fortner shows in
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Carrying the torch for South African soul stylists Miriam Makeba and Busi Mhlongo is KwaZulu-N
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atal singing sensation Melody, who is the star of this weekend’s Sundowner Session presented by the Playhouse Company.
The singer will take advantage of the venue’s excellent acoustics and laid-back ambience. Admission is free and the bar is open.
Playhouse Grand Foyer, Friday March 2 at 6pm.
Tel: 031 369 9596/9540 Website: playhousecompany.com.
? During auditions for the new talent stage at the 2010 World Cup, Neil Comfort, owner of live music venue the Rainbow Restaurant, was blown away by Nigerian guitarist Solomon Willy. Willy subsequently performed several solo slots at the restaurant and recently performed with a five-piece band at Sibusiso Mndaweni’s Jam Session. This weekend, the seven-piece Solomon Willy Band takes centre stage at the Oude Meester Jazz Session, an event not to be missed by anyone even
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Kitchen and bathroom renovations top the list of improvements for increasing the value of a home. But this labor-intensive remodeling can get expensive.
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Even without changing room layouts, the simple job of replacing finishes and fixtures can cost more than the price of a new car.
What builders call “pull and replace” remodeling can run about $12,000 to $22,000 for the average 5-by-7-foot bathroom and $29,000 to $52,000 for a 12-by-12-foot kitchen, estimates Rick Matus of Bethesda-based Case Design/Remodeling Inc. “As soon as you start moving plumbing, electrical wiring and walls, the costs go up substantially from there,” he says.
Budget-minded homeowners are finding cheaper solutions in the $10,000 to $20,000 range by making do with existing appliances and fixtures, refinishing kitchen cabinets and shopping for bargains. Suppliers and builders, in turn, are responding to the recession-driven demand for cost-conscious kitchen and bath remodeling with package deals aimed at guaranteeing the
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You might be shocked to learn exactly how much those bad habits are costing you in potential retirement savings.
We get it. You enjoy your morning
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latte, and we don't want to take that away from you. But we could all cut back on some guilty pleasures without sucking the fun out of life.
Don't think you can do it? Take a look at just how much more money you'll have in retirement if you make these small changes to your spending habits.
Dining out in restaurants is fun, but doing it too often is expensive and unnecessary. Get into the habit of eating at home for just one weekend a month, that's all we're asking for. You can still go out for dinner every other Friday and Saturday night. The average American spends $252 a month eating out, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If you skip two restaurant meals, we figure you'll save $63. By the time you hit retirement age, you'll have a couple hundred thousand extra in the bank.
A quicker ride home is always tempting. But barring a torrential downpour, maybe the convenience isn't always
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Until Microsoft fixes this issue removing any external media is a decent workaround, but those who use an SD card to make up for a lack of disk
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space will face problems. Threshold 2 requires 20GB of free space for the installation and that may prove a lot to free up.
A Reddit thread notes that Threshold 2 is deleting a number of installed programs as it upgrades. Posters have a long list, including CPU-Z, speccy, 8gadgetpack, a Cisco VPN client, SATA drivers, SpyBot, RSAT, F5 VPN, HWMonitor and more.
Of course these can be reinstalled and you will be notified of any removed programs after the installation, but 1. This shouldn’t happen in the first place, and 2. There should be a warning in advance, not just after they were removed. There’s also something a theme here: many are system monitoring tools. Has Microsoft something planned in this space for the future and is quietly removing the competition? Only time will tell, but I suspect that won’t stop the conspiracy theories growing.
On
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has demanded a strong reaction from his team,
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stunned by their 4-0 loss to Everton, when they face title-chasing Manchester City in Wednesday's Premier League derby at Old Trafford.
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - The following are talking points from the weekend's Premier League action.
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said he would not have been able to recover, as a player, from Wednesday's Champions League exit to Tottenham and then beat the same opponents on Saturday in the Premier League.
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Steel and pragmatism are words rarely associated with Pep Guardiola's thrilling Manchester City side, but they are characteristics that would have served them well in their Champions exit at the hands of Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday.
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - There are great goals, lucky goals, own goals, winning goals and now, in the era of VAR, we have the 'provisional goal'.
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After another blank Saturday in the London Three South East programme last weekend, H&B will return to action with an away match against Bromley this
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coming Saturday.
A 45-19 win at Sheppey in their last outing two weeks ago has left H&B seven points and two places above the third and final London Three South East relegation spot with five games to go.
But given their difficult upcoming run of matches, and third-bottom Folkestone’s next two home fixtures being against the two sides cast adrift at the bottom, H&B know there is still work to do.
H&B were 51-22 winners over fourth-placed Bromley in the reverse fixture on the opening day, but a far tougher assignment is on the cards this time around.
H&B head coach Chris Brooks said: “We’re one of the few teams that have beaten Bromley this season, but they weren’t at full strength and we had a very good day against them.
“They’re going to be aware of that as well and they’re really not
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The Petersen Automotive Museum has had motorcycle exhibits before, but its new show isn’t about your typical bikes.
On April 14,
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the museum will open “Custom Revolution,” a yearlong exhibition made up of about two dozen customized motorcycles that showcase how builders take stock bikes and transform them into one-of-a-kind machines.
“These builders in our exhibit really are at the pinnacle of the movement. They’re the best in the world,” said Paul d’Orleans, a motorcycle historian and author who curated the exhibition, which is set to run through April 2019.
The exhibition will showcase the work of 22 builders who use both new and old engines, chassis and other parts to reimagine factory-built machines.
Among the bikes on display will be an electric dragster called the E-Lisabad. It was built out of a BMW scooter by German custom builders Krautmotors in 2017.
The – shh – silent speedster was lowered and with its matte-black angular design looks more like a stealth plane than a scooter.
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NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Air cargo carrier Emery Worldwide grounded its fleet of 37 freighters Monday as the Federal Aviation Administration prepared to pull
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its operating certificate because of maintenance problems.
An official of the FAA said the agency pushed for the grounding because its investigation discovered more than 100 violations of safety regulations.
Air cargo carrier Emery Worldwide agreed Monday to ground its fleet of freighters instead of having the FAA pull its operating certificate due to more than 100 alleged safety regulation violations.
"This gives us a lack of confidence in the carrier's ability or willingness to fly safe aircraft," said Ava Mims, the deputy director of the FAA's flight standards office.
Mims said the current agreement with Emery will keep its planes on the ground for at least 30 days, but that it likely will take much longer to resume operations.
A spokeswoman for Emery, a unit of CNF Inc., said the move by the FAA came "out of the blue." Shares of CNF (CNF: down $1.19 to $30.31, Research, Estimates) were off about 4 percent in trading Monday.
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Coney Island History Project director Charles Denson rode out Superstorm Sandy in Sea Gate, where his apartment and car were destroyed by the storm surge
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. On Sunday, September 22, his documentary “The Storm” is premiering at the Coney Island Film Festival. The 20-minute film shows rare and dramatic footage of the storm coming ashore on the evening of Oct. 29, 2012, as well as preparations for the storm, the surge at Coney Island and Sea Gate, and the storm’s aftermath.
On September 22, prior to the film screening, the Coney Island History Project exhibit center will be open special hours, from 3-5 p.m. View historic artifacts, photographs, maps, ephemera and films of Coney Island’s colorful past. The exhibit center is located on West 12th Street at the entrance to Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park. Admission is free of charge.
“The Storm” is part of Program 16, featuring several Coney Island-themed films, and the screening will begin at 6 p.m. Tickets are $7.
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If Eminem is coming for President Trump, the Secret Service is coming for him.
The Detroit rapper, whose real name is Marshal Mathers
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, reignited his musical feud with Trump on the first track of his surprise album “Kamikaze,” which dropped early Friday. In the third verse of “The Ringer,” Eminem claims his 2017 freestyle for the BET Hip Hop Awards earned him a visit from the Secret Service.
The Secret Service in a statement said it “does not confirm or comment on the absence or existence of specific investigations.
Comedienne Kathy Griffin, who gets a seemingly more positive shout-out in another “Kamikaze” track, similarly earned a visit from the Secret Service last year after a wildly controversial image that showed her holding a bloodied, severed effigy head of Trump. She appeared in Eminem’s “Real Slim Shady” music video nearly 20 years ago.
Eminem’s alleged Secret Service visit was apparently prompted by his scathing anti-Trump cypher, in which he called the President a
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By Monday night, 23-year-old Tori Kelly might be in possession of her very first Grammy. But only a year ago, she
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was a relative unknown whose audiences were rooted mainly in YouTube subscriptions.
Kelly, who auditioned for American Idol's ninth season as a teenager in 2010, was cut from the show just before the its live semi-finals after some particularly harsh criticism from judge Simon Cowell. While the rejection hit Kelly hard, she told Ryan Seacrest last year it incited her to buckle down on her craft and prove her worth as a musician.
"I was bummed when I got cut, of course,” she said. “But then it was kind of awesome because, I think, by getting cut from the show, something stirred up in me to want to write."
And that's precisely what she did. In 2012, after releasing six-track EP Handmade Songs By Tori Kelly that Kelly, herself, produced in her bedroom, the singer caught Scooter Braun's eye, and found herself under Capitol Records' management within the year. A second EP, Foreword
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Season recap: Solid all season, Nico Young enjoyed a postseason for the ages, even as part of it was disrupted by the Woolsey fire.
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Young won the CIF Southern Section’s Division 2 individual title just days after most of his teammates were evacuated from their homes due to the quick-spreading wildfire. He set a Riverside City Course 3-mile course record with a time of 14 minutes, 24.2 seconds while leading Newbury Park to its first boys team championship.
He wasn’t done. The following week, he won the 5-kilometer Division II race at the CIF State Championships at Woodward Park in Fresno in 14:59 while again leading the Panthers to a championship, this time at the state level.
Newbury Park performed so well, in fact, it earned a berth into the Nike Cross Nationals meet in Portland, where Young again impressed with a fourth-place overall finish in 15:04.7.
Jackson Adelman, St. Margaret’s, So.
Cy Chittenden, Mira Costa, Sr.
Ethan Danforth, Canyon (
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In today's turbulent market prices are up one month and down the next. Rates are down from the Fed, but high for individuals. Banks require
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different information and credit scores -- not to mention down payments -- than ever before.
1.) Know how much house you can afford. A banker can tell you this, or websites such as Bankrate.com or Military.com, have mortgage calculators to help you out. Try to stick to a home that doesn't, including payment and insurance, exceed 35 percent - 45 percent of your gross income.
2.) If you have a lot of revolving debt, then consider pay it off with your down payment money and re-save the down. It will boost your credit score to get you a better rate, and will save you interest. Banks may require you pay off your debts through escrow to close the loan if you don?t.
3.) Prioritize your debts before you buy. Come up with a six-month or one-year plan that pays down the debts with the highest interest rates first. Go into your new home as debt free as you can. A
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The emphasis in the workshop is on \"just-in-time\" information as opposed to the \"just-in-case\" material that comprises
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most new faculty orientations. Besides tips on starting and building a research program and designing and delivering courses, sessions are devoted to dealing with common headaches in the life of a faculty member, including difficulty getting proposals and papers written and accepted; setbacks in research projects such as equipment breakdowns, unproductive research assistants, and loss of funding in mid-project; a wide variety of classroom management and academic advising problems; and cheating.
The standard way to prepare people for a faculty career is not to. At most universities, new faculty members go to a campus-wide orientation workshop to be welcomed by the Provost and hear about their insurance and retirement options and the locations and functions of various campus administrative units, and graduate students learn how to work on a research project someone else has defined, but that's about it for academic career preparation. Little or nothing is generally said to either future or current professors about the three questions all new faculty members at research universities have uppermost on their minds: (1)
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Here are five critical qualities of great leaders and how they can help you be a great leader -- or colleague, or family member, or friend --
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as well.
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
Clearly, as Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince, suggested, great leaders are inspiring. It's generally true that you know great leaders when you see them -- but what, exactly, are their characteristics? Here are five key characteristics and groups of characteristics to consider.
See which of them you might have, and which you might be able to develop or develop further, as they may help you get ahead in your professional (and even your personal) life.
This first characteristic of a great leader encompasses a host of similar ones, such as honesty, integrity, candor, transparency, and accountability. If you're the leader of a company, your underlings as well as those outside the company should get the sense that they can
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VOLUNTEERS who scan the seas off Redcar have called on the Government to revoke plans to cut Humber Coastguard’s opening
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hours.
The proposal was announced last year as part of plans to cut the number of UK coastguard stations from 19 to nine, only four of which would have remained open 24 hours a day.
Humber Coastguard, which takes in our stretch of coastline as part of its Scottish border to the Humber Estuary coverage, was due to be scaled back from 24-hour-a-day coverage to daylight hours only.
But reports now suggest the Government is thinking again about the UK proposals after widespread opposition.
Commons Leader Sir George Young told MPs the Government was ‘‘having another look’’ at the proposals and would respond before the Commons rises in July.
And one of the groups which works closely with Humber Coastguard, Redcar Coastwatch, hopes any review will reverse the plan to cut Humber’s hours.
Redcar Coastwatch station controller Ray Preston said: “If Humber went to daylight hours, it would
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You probably don't think much about the community standards on the sites you use, such as Facebook. But when things go sour -- you get harassed
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online, you post something controversial or you otherwise get the Internet mad at you -- those stated rules of community courtesy become some of your greatest tools.
So it makes sense, then, that you should actually be able to understand them, right?
The makeover comes shortly after the company unveiled the design of its data use policy and privacy menus to be more friendly to its growing (and, often, aging) userbase.
This is almost entirely a cosmetic change, the company said. "We're not changing anything about the policies," said Monika Bickert, Facebook's head of global policy management. "We're just trying to explain what we do more clearly."
Previously, Facebook's Community Standards page was serviceable -- a single page that you could scroll through to find the policy that you wanted to peruse. It wasn't hard to navigate, but it wasn't easy either.
Now, the baseline rules of conduct on Facebook are grouped into four categories -- such as
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The old £10 note must be spent by March next year after the Bank of England revealed the date for when it will cease to be legal tender
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.
A use by date of March 1, 2018, has been slapped on £10 paper notes following the introduction of the plastic tenner on September 14.
However, old notes can still be spent ahead of the cut-off date, or exchanged at the Bank once this point has passed.
The Bank introduced the paper £10 note featuring naturalist Charles Darwin on November 7, 2000. Around 55% of the £10 notes in circulation are made from polymer, while 359 million are paper.
The new £10 banknote, featuring a picture of author Jane Austin, is the first Bank of England note with a tactile feature to help blind and partially-sighted users.
Like the £5 note already in circulation featuring Sir Winston Churchill, the new £10 banknote is made from polymer, which is more durable and expected to last five years in total.
The transition to polymer has sparked controversy after the Bank confirmed that an "extremely small amount" of tallow - or animal
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Calling a game requires plenty of interpretation.
Jim Evans, a former major league umpire, serves as special adviser to the president of Minor League
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Baseball.
I have been an umpire since I was 14. I have worked at every level, from Little League on up, and I worked thousands of games in the major leagues for 28 years. I don’t remember when I first heard the popular analogy comparing judges to umpires calling balls and strikes, but recently it’s been everywhere. When Brett Kavanaugh was first nominated to the Supreme Court, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council called him “a constitutionalist — someone who will call balls and strikes.” This past week, as Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings began, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) described him as “somebody who calls balls and strikes and doesn’t come up with his own strike zone.” Supposedly a judge is, and should be, as mechanical as an ump.
It’s true that there are similarities. Umpires have always been considered authority figures, like
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Sam Snead famously never won a U.S. Open, his national championship keeping him from completing the career Grand Slam in the same way it
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has eluded Phil Mickelson. And like Mickelson, Snead had his share of chances, finishing runner-up in the event four times -- two behind Phil's record of six. But one tournament, the 1939 U.S. Open, haunted Snead more than others.
Snead needed just a par on Philadelphia C.C.'s par-5 18th to win that year's U.S. Open. However, he believed he needed a birdie to get into a playoff with Byron Nelson, thanks to an incorrect fan and a lack of scoreboards. The result was a bad decision that led to a stunning triple bogey.
The disastrous 8 caused by hitting his "2 1/2 wood" (How about the fact he could hit that thing a "good 250" in 1939?!) instead of 3-iron gave Snead a closing 74 and a fifth-place finish. Yep, this wasn't even one of those four runner-ups
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"significant" equity stake in the newly rolled up company, he said.
Washington, D.C., at least a little.
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and I think that's worth something."
Canadian-based DBS firm Star Choice Communications.
medium-power satellite service stagnate in recent months.
cable, and not just against its DBS rivals.
PrimeStar's new owners and board members will be.
MCI Communications Corp., which would give PrimeStar much-needed high-power slots.
if that would help the company to get federal approval.
Vogel replied, "We don't need to let a lot of grass grow beneath our feet,"
adding that much of that timing is out of PrimeStar's control.
would strike a deal with Loral Space and Communications Corp.
or silver bullet out there."
away from his position if the government denies PrimeStar access to high-power spectrum.
acquisition numbers, we're doing very well."
whether Vogel&apos
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Jan. 9 - Hagerstown BNI Tuesday Morning Breakfast Group, 7:30 a.m. open marketing forum, 7:50 a
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.m. business meeting, Country Inn and Suites at Valley Mall. Breakfast buffet included. Call Pam Green at 301-639-3214 or e-mail fawgreendesigns@yahoo.com.
Jan. 9 - Hagerstown-Washington County Chamber of Commerce, pre-legislative forum - health-care update, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Four Points Sheraton, Dual Highway, Hagerstown. $25 members and nonmembers. To register, call 301-739-2015, ext. 100; e-mail suzy@hagerstown.org; or go to www.hagerstown.org.
Jan. 10 - Hagerstown-Washington County Chamber of Commerce, Eggs & Issues. 7:30 to 9 a.m. Country Inn & Suites, Hagerstown. $12 for members registered before Jan. 8; $22 for nonmembers and members
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After over a year of negotiations, the very pro-industry bill appeared quickly and was passed by both houses in less than two days. It
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established Pennsylvania’s “impact fee” at a significantly lower rate than any major gas-producing states’ extraction tax. Neighboring states have a 4 to 5 percent tax. According to reports, the compromise bill was presented to the General Assembly before the conference committee even met, causing some more knowledgeable about Harrisburg politics than this writer to speculate about who had actually authored the pro-gas industry legislation.
Left in the dark? Maybe, — or maybe it was just the industry’s investment in Pennsylvania politics paying off.
According to Common Cause and the Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania, the natural gas industry has spent over $29 million dollars in campaign contributions and lobbying efforts in this state during the past dozen years. Top recipients of industry money given between 2000 and April 2012 included Gov. Corbett with $1,813,205.59, Senate President Joseph Scarnati (R-northcentral PA) with $359,145.72, Rep. Dave Reed
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Alberta is working to encourage construction of a $2 billion partial-upgrading facility that would turn more of the province’s slud
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gy bitumen into higher-value products.
The facility, designed by Calgary-based Value Creation Inc., would be located near Edmonton and process 77,500 barrels of diluted bitumen a day into products like medium synthetic crude and ultra-low sulfur diesel. The province is offering a $440 million loan guarantee to help build the project, which is seeking additional financing as it works toward a final investment decision this year.
The loan guarantee is part of about $3 billion Alberta plans to invest to spur the construction of refineries, upgraders and petrochemical facilities to reap more of the value from the province’s oil reserves. The plan also is aimed at helping alleviate the pipeline bottlenecks that have hammered local crude prices and last year prompted Premier Rachel Notley to mandate a province-wide oil production cut to boost prices.
The upgrader would also allow Canadian companies to diversify the slate of crudes they produce from just light and heavy oil to also more medium grades
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Need a little pick-me-up while you brush?
Wish you could do more with less during that frenetic morning scramble? Step
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right up, because stuff just got real with this Colgate-Palmolive patent for a toothbrush that releases sweet, sweet caffeine directly into your mouth.
Imagine a toothbrush capable of dispensing a little something extra while you polish your choppers, drizzling the equivalent of a double-espresso with your toothpaste — or, you know, a numbing drug like benzocaine to soothe sore gums or a pesky cough. In fact C-P’s patent (noticed by Yahoo News) mentions all sorts of topical and consumable fun, from bursts of fruit-flavor (orange, strawberry, berry, grape, apple, mint, lemon, lime!) to herbal or nutritional supplements (aloe vera’s mentioned, as are lavender and chamomile) to somewhat weirder-sounding “communicative elements” like hot, cold or “tingle”-inducing materials. No, we�
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Sam Robson has a confident answer to the question that will be his constant companion if, as expected, he opens the batting for England this summer
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The accent is a clue to the question, for Robson sounds more Sydney than St John’s Wood.
MARTIN SAMUEL: How can you NOT blame Giles for English cricket's latest shambles?
He is the Australian, born to an English mother, who will attempt to come to the rescue of our cricket at a time when it has been condemned to its lowest ebb by his fellow countrymen. He is a former ‘enemy’ now in our midst.
It is not without irony that Robson’s probable introduction at the highest level coincides with England’s stated attempt to regain a more ‘English’ feel to the national team.
Yet England will have no hesitation in making him Alastair Cook’s opening partner for the first Test against Sri Lanka if he carries on the form for Middlesex which saw him score 1,180 first-class runs last season at 47.
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Looking at your Facebook page may help you accept criticism and weather attacks on your ego, a study suggests.
That time you're spending on Facebook
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may not be wasted productivity, after all.
At least, that's what yet another Facebook-based study has found.
You may remember Stuart Smiley, the fey self-affirmation addict portrayed on "Saturday Night Live" by now-Sen. Al Franken. He stares into the mirror and declares, "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, dog gone it, people like me."
That's what Facebook does, according to a study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
We already know that looking at other people's fun times on Facebook could make you envious. And we've seen that you are what you like on Facebook — a computer algorithm based on "likes" can home in on such things as sexual orientation, political leanings and psychological traits including openness and conscientiousness.
So, think of your Facebook page as Stuart Smiley's mirror: It contains a lot of your core beliefs and preferences, and it puts your network of friends
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The property market in Taipei has not seen new large luxury home projects so far this year as developers shun such products, which remain a tough sell
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despite a recovery in property transactions, the Chinese-language Housing Monthly (住展雜誌) has reported.
The magazine defines luxury homes as apartments larger than 100 ping (330m2) that appeal to wealthy buyers.
Luxury projects — which last year totaled NT$85 billion (US$2.75 billion at the current exchange rate), the highest since a peak in 2013 — were nowhere to be found in the first quarter of this year and the situation might persist through the rest of the year if Taozhu Garden (陶朱隱園) in the Xinyi District (信義) does not join the market, Housing Monthly research manager Ho Shih-chang (何世昌) said.
Luxury home projects approached NT$90 billion in 2013, but plunged to NT$35 billion in 2014 following a spate of government measures to cool the property market, Ho said
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TAIWAN RESCUERS SCOURED a river for 12 people still missing from a TransAsia plane crash today, as the pilot,
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who died in the crash, was hailed a hero for apparently battling to avoid hitting built-up areas.
Hundreds of rescuers in boats, as well as divers and soldiers mounted the search in the chilly waters, as the death toll rose to 31 with more bodies located including those of the pilot and co-pilot, authorities said.
The TransAsia ATR 72-600 crashed shortly after take-off from Songshan airport in Taipei Wednesday, hitting an elevated road as it banked sidelong towards the Keelung River, leaving a trail of debris including a smashed taxi.
In an operation overnight large parts of the plane’s fuselage were lifted from the river, enabling rescuers to recover bodies trapped inside, while divers Thursday battled strong currents to search downstream for more victims.
Pilot Liao Chien-tsung was applauded by aviation experts for apparently steering the turboprop plane, which had 53 passengers and five crew on board, away from populated
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Many thanks to those of you who nominated all our super volunteers. We received 152 nominations. And, after two rounds of judging and some very close
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votes, we have our winners.
Lou Gatch, Tammy Jewell, Reita Smith, Glenn Stephenson, and Charles Tompkins all claimed a medal on Tuesday night. Glenn Stephenson will now go on to Washington to compete for a national award.
A big congratulations all who were nominated. Hopefully, we will see your names again next year.
LOU GATCH spear-heads a furniture-building project for the Furniture Bank of Central Ohio. He and his team developed a system to speed up the production of much-needed dressers for people transitioning into housing. Lou’s system took dresser production from one per week to up to 48 per week.
TAMMY JEWELL grew up poor and often didn’t have basic hygiene items, which made an already difficult life even more so. So, Tammy started God’s Hygiene Help Center, providing free toiletries to those who need them, so that young people and their families can keep
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Most of the analysts tracking the stock remain bullish and believe that FSL deserves better valuations.
The stock is on the reversal trend after a
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steep correction headed towards Rs 58 as against the current market price of Rs 48.55, said technical analysts.
Billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala has increased his stake in business process outsourcing services provider Firstsource Solutions (FSL) during the March quarter from 2.89 per cent to 3.26 per cent as the stock was available cheaper in terms of valuations after a correction of 50 per cent between September 2018 and February 2019.
Most of the analysts tracking the stock remain bullish and believe that FSL deserves better valuations on expectations of high dividend yield and healthy cash generation.
“We are bullish on the stock considering reasonable valuations, healthy cash generation and 3.3 per cent dividend yield, even though the company’s execution remains patchy,” said Dipesh Mehta, analyst, SBICAP Securities.
FSL has corrected 20 per cent and 15 per cent in the last six months and one-year,
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See something on Twitter that may be false? Maybe an alternative fact?
The company is "exploring" a feature that would let you flag
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the tweet as containing "misleading, false, or harmful information," The Washington Post reported Thursday, citing two anonymous people familiar with the matter.
It remains to be seen if the feature will ever see the light of the day.
"We are not currently testing this nor do we have any current plans to ship it," a Twitter spokesperson told Mashable.
Twitter product managers and engineers, like those at other tech companies, often brainstorm and create features that never get implemented. Take, for example, Twitter's exploration of expanding tweets to more than 140 characters or an edit button.
Introducing a fake news button wouldn't be too difficult. Twitter already has a drop-down menu on each tweet where Twitter users can report a tweet as harassment, for example. According to the anonymous sources speaking to The Washington Post, the feature could appear in this menu.
Meanwhile, Facebook, Twitter's big competitor in the industry of sharing news on a social media platform, has taken the fight against
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BERLIN — Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden said in an interview broadcast Sunday that U.S. officials might take deadly revenge against him for disclosing American
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surveillance secrets.
Snowden told the German public TV broadcaster ARD that he had not faced any direct threats or intimidation since seeking asylum in Russia last summer. But he cited an article from the Web site Buzzfeed that quoted anonymous officials from the U.S. military and National Security Agency as saying they wished they could kill him.
“There are clear threats, but I’m not losing any sleep over them,” Snowden said, according to a German-language voice-over of the interview. An English-language transcript was not immediately available.
The 30-year-old also accused the U.S. government of spying on German companies, even if the information gathered would not serve national security needs. Snowden cited the engineering and electronics company Siemens as an example of firms that might be targeted.
Since last June, Snowden has released a massive trove of top-secret documents, which depict the U.S. government’s surveillance of telephone records,
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Town clerks are expecting long lines at the polls next Tuesday for an election in which voters will be making decisions on presidential candidates, county offices, state
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referendum questions and a local question in Swansea that will ask people to approve the Community Preservation Act that could have a large impact on the local area, state and country.
Somerset Town Clerk Patricia Hart said she expects to see over 80 percent of the registered voters in Somerset come to the polls next Tuesday. She said the presidential election is what is drawing the interest.
"I think it's going to be a very busy day, so be prepared to possibly wait a little bit," Ms. Hart said.
The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. next Tuesday in Somerset and Swansea. Ms. Hart said the longest lines at the polls during the day will probably be when people get out of work between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., so she advised people to vote during the day if they can.
In Somerset, voters in Precinct One can go to the Somerset Water Department on County Street to cast their ballots, voters
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Some Apple Macs have a particularly terrible flaw that lets hackers sneak in and remain undetected, a security researcher has found.
It means a
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hacker could -- from far away -- force a Mac into a coma. Personal, corporate or government Macs could be spied on in a way that even the best security checks wouldn't discover -- until it's way too late.
"This is scary," said Sarah Edwards, a forensic analyst at the SANS Institute who specializes in reviewing computers for evidence of hacks. "I would never see this. There could be funky stuff going on in the computer system, and I would never know why."
What makes this one so bad? It's a computer bug that runs especially deep in the machine.
All computers have some kind of basic input/output system (BIOS), the core program that brings a machine to life. It's the kind of thing you should never tamper with. And it should obviously remain heavily guarded.
But Macs purchased one year ago or before, apparently, leave a door open.
When a Mac goes into sleep mode and wakes back up, it
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Recently, I was gifted with a little bottle of blessed oil brought from an orthodox monastery in Greece. The aroma of this blessed oil is powerful,
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profound and, yes, mystical.
Obviously, when I say mystical, I am not talking about esotericism. The joint document, entitled "Jesus Christ the Bearer of the Water of life: A Christian reflection on the 'New Age'" issued by the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Pontifical Council for interreligious Dialogue, describes it as "a search for knowledge, and magic, or the occult". On the contrary, what is mystical is revealed because it is not the theoretical knowledge for the chosen few but holiness as the everyday bread and butter for every person. As Jesus himself tells us: "Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven "(Matt 5:19). Therefore, Christian mysticism is about being great and not being small. It is about being authentic and not fake by placing oneself
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MUZAFFARGARH, Pakistan (AFP) - A Muslim teacher in Pakistan could face the death penalty after being accused of blasphemy,
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sparking anger from school officials and activists who said the law is being abused to carry out personal vendettas.
Arabic teacher Gibreel Ahmed was arrested at a government school in southern Punjab province on May 14 after allegedly beating two brothers in the sixth grade for not coming to class on time. The students' parents complained to the Government High School Gurmani in Muzaffargarh district, whose head told AFP the 40-year-old teacher had been suspended after an inquiry.
But four days after the original complaint, the parents went to the police to accuse Ahmed of blasphemy, according to the local authorities. The school said no mention of blasphemy had been made before the police complaint.
Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in conservative Muslim Pakistan, where even unproven allegations can stir beatings and mob violence.
Rights groups have said the laws are routinely abused to seek vengeance.
Multan-based lawyer Shahbaz Ali Gurmani, who said
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Earlier this week, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) released a shortlist of finalists in contention for the IAAF’
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s prestigious Rising Star Award which is usually presented to athletes under the age of 23 who have shown great promise and posted impressive performances in the year under review.One of the athletes in contention for this award is 19-year old Salwa Eid Naser who competes for Bahrain.
This teenager won a Silver medal in the women’s 400m at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London, finishing ahead of USA’s most decorated female athlete, Allyson Felix. Naser’s feat earned her the accolade of the youngest ever medalist in the women’s 400m in World Championships history at 19 years, 2 months and 17 days!
Less than two weeks later, she defeated Felix once more at the Diamond League meeting in Birmingham, before going on to set a Bahraini Record of 49.88s in Brussels a week later. Her time is also an Asian U-20 Record!
I’ve had mixed feelings watching the exploits of this
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MOBILE phone deals for ten cents a month — possibly the lowest ever — have arrived in Australia.
Smaller carrier Moose Mobile — who
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uses the Optus network — has this month rolled out a deal giving cost-conscious customers a monthly phone introductory offer for just 10 cents.
It is available for phone customers who bring their own device and chew through small amount of data.
Customers must choose Moose’s smaller month-by-month deals — either the $9 (1GB) and $14 monthly (1.5GB) to take up the introductory offer.
Telco comparison website WhistleOut’s spokesman Kenny McGilvary said it’s one of the cheapest deals to ever hit the market.
“It’s certainly difficult to get much cheaper,” he said.
He said “paying very little for the first month” is a good way to test the waters before committing to a carrier.
Mobile phone customers are getting cheaper deals as competition among carrier intensifies.
Moose Mobile’s chief executive officer Dean Lwin said they
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Tony Smith (LIB) since 2001.
409 sq.km on the very eastern edge of the Melbourne metropolitan area, including a cluster of D
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andenong Hills suburbs and state forests. Includes Croydon Hills, Kilsyth, Mooroolbark, Wandin, Silvan, Kallista and Monbulk. According to the 2001 Census, at 19.5% Casey has Victoria's highest proportion of the electorate with trade qualifications.
Created in 1969 and named after R.G. (Lord) Casey, former Foreign Minister, Ambassador to Washington and Governor-General. A seat that changed hands in 1972, 1975, 1983 and 1984, it has been made safer for the Liberal Party by subsequent redistributions. It was held 1984-98 by Bob Halverson. He served as Speaker following the 1996 election before being levered aside early in 1998 for Ian Sinclair as the Howard government tried to impose greater control over Question Time. On Halverson's retirement in 1998, Michael Wooldridge moved to this seat, his old seat of Chisholm being viewed as far too marginal for a minister with a portfolio as
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For every athlete adversely affected by the U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, there was an NBC Sports employee with a similarly shattered
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dream.
"It's history and you can't change it," track and field announcer Charlie Jones said. "All you can do is cry in the dark."
Those who remain at the network have vivid memories of the spring of 1980.
"I remember the day the boycott became official," said Terry Ewert, then an associate producer. "I was with Bryant Gumbel at the ski jump at Lake Placid doing a pre-Olympic piece. We had heard preliminary reports on the radio that things were looking bad.
"They were going to make me a producer. It was a very dismal day in Lake Placid. The boycott was a blow. The Moscow Olympics were the reason I was hired by NBC. I thought my career was not going to go anywhere. It was disappointing because we had worked so hard for two years."
Ewert, who was to have produced the late-night segments of NBC's coverage, is the coordinating producer for the
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FOXBORO, Mass — The New England Patriots are renowned for doing a slew of things well, and for Mike Zimmer, one thing in
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particular stands out.
During his conference call with New England media Wednesday morning, the Minnesota Vikings head coach explained why the Patriots are so difficult to defend against.
And at the ends of his answer, he slipped in an interesting little comment.
Quarterback Tom Brady long has been tremendous at executing play action, even when the offense is particularly pass-heavy. But with dynamic running backs in James White, Sony Michel and now Rex Burkhead, teams have to especially be prepared for the run.
Because of that, it’s not uncommon for the opposition to get busted by the fake, and Zimmer later expounded on his endorsement of the Patriots’ play-action skill by explaining what it is they do so well when running those plays.
The Vikings defense is among the league’s best, ranking in the top five in pass, rush and total yards, as well as 10th in points allowed. As such, the Patriots’ ability to deceive will need
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The blacklegged deer tick Ixodes scapularis is well-known for its ability to transmit the Lyme disease-causing bacterium
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, Borrelia burgdorferi.
With spring comes glorious sunshine, warmer weather — and ticks.
Ticks and some insect pests can carry bacteria, viruses and parasites that may cause disease in humans. One in particular, the blacklegged deer tick Ixodes scapularis, is well-known for its ability to transmit the Lyme disease-causing bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi.
For the most part, these ticks are inactive throughout the winter and begin to look for their next meal as seasonal temperatures warm up.
But as the global climate warms, it is more likely that some ticks will remain active through the warmer winters and can expand their habitats into new areas. Because of this, hikers and dog owners need to be watchful for ticks year-round to reduce the risks of getting sick.
Ticks and other pests are prevalent in forests during the warmer months, from spring to fall. But where do they go during the winter and
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Last night's game, on paper, had the look of a pitching duel that comes along once or twice a season
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: Johan Santana (6-4, 3.16 ERA) vs. Curt Schilling (9-2, 3.81), the guy who won the 2004 Cy Young against the guy who placed second. And, as is often the case in life, the event did not live up to the hype; in this case, it exceeded it.
``I knew from jump street he was on," Schilling later said. ``I knew he was going to have to make one mistake for us to win."
Santana, for eight spellbinding innings, was channeling Randy Johnson, amassing 13 strikeouts, the highest total by a lefthander against the Sox since 1972 with the exception of that man. Mickey Lolich, in 1972, fanned 15 Red Sox, and Johnson matched that in 1998. Santana walked no one and found the plate with 75 of his 102 pitches.
``Did he look nasty from up there?" David Ortiz asked the assembled writers.
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You can take part of the beach home with you.
Many home decorators, whether they live on the coast or reside miles from the shore
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, take inspiration from the beach's sand and sea. You can capture the essence of a trip to the seashore by bringing some of the beach into your own home. Sand, stones, seashells and other beach staples make naturally beautiful decorations. If you've got a collection of rocks and sand, show it off to family and friends by displaying it in a clear vase.
Layer the bottom of a clear vase with sand or craft moss, then fill the vase with stones of various shapes and sizes. If you're giving this as a gift, use smooth, light-colored stones. On each stone, write a happy memory you've shared with the gift recipient. You can also do this at weddings and parties. Lay the stones on a table and have each guest write a message on one with a permanent marker. When they're done, have them put the stones in the vase. This makes a lovely keepsake for couples or the party's guest of honor.
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Caregiving spouses between the ages of 66 and 96 had a 63 percent higher mortality rate than people of the same age who were not caregivers.
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Hospice of Cincinnati nurses Melody and Randy Losey know a lot about caregiving. Before they became registered nurses, they had personal experience caring for their own family members at the end of life – and doing so nearly cost Melody her own health.
Melody recalls that she was so deeply entwined in caring for her grandmother that she wasn’t taking care of herself. Finally, her grandmother’s hospice nurse talked to Melody’s sister, warning her that Melody would become ill if she didn’t start “letting go” and spending more time caring for herself. And the nurse’s prediction came true – the stress made Melody ill.
Melody admits to feeling guilty by even considering taking a break. But experts say that taking care of yourself and sharing the care is not simply a guilty pleasure – it can be life-saving.
Self-care benefits the patient as well as the caregiver. Think of yourself as a
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Rod Blagojevich's fate was in the hands of jurors Wednesday as they began deciding whether the impeached Illinois governor tried to sell an
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appointment to President Obama's former Senate seat and schemed to use his political power for personal gain.
"I'm not expecting" a speedy verdict, Judge James B. Zagel said before jurors entered the courtroom.
During the trial, prosecutors portrayed Blagojevich as a greedy, smart political schemer determined to use his power to enrich himself throughout his administration, and who saw the opportunity to appoint Obama's successor as the chance to get a lucrative and well-paying job in the administration.
By contrast, Blagojevich's own attorney characterized him as an insecure bumbler who talked too much but never did anything to enrich himself.
The ousted governor, 53, has pleaded not guilty to 24 counts, including trying to sell or trade an appointment to Obama's vacated Senate seat for a Cabinet post, private job or campaign cash. If convicted, he could face up to $6 million in fines and a sentence of 415 years in prison.
His co
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Cargill, a giant privately held food manufacturer, is one of the biggest enemies of laws requiring companies to label products that contain genetically modified ingredients
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. But even as the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), an anti GMO-labeling lobbying group Cargill belongs to, fights GMO-labeling laws in state legislatures and courthouses around the country, Cargill is introducing more GMO-free products.
Last week, Cargill announced its newest non-GMO crop, soybean oil, which will join corn and beans on Cargill’s list of unmodified products offered in the United States, among others.
Gregory Page, the chairman of Cargill’s board, sits on the executive board for the GMA, the big-food lobbying group that recently sued Vermont for passing a bill requiring food manufacturers to label genetically modified foods. The company warns on its website that mandatory labeling can be “misleading” to consumers who might believe genetic modification and bioengineering in food is dangerous. A GMO label does not provide any meaningful information about the food, Cargill
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MUMBAI: In its biggest winning streak since November 2018, the Indian rupee on Tuesday opened higher for the seventh consecutive session against the
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US dollar, a day before the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decision.
At 9.15am, the rupee was trading at 68.51 a dollar, up 0.03% from its previous close of 68.53. The home currency opened at 68.59 a dollar and touched a high and a low of 68.51 and 68.59 respectively.
Oil is trading near its highest level this year after OPEC and its partners committed to continue production cuts until at least June, when they will meet to discuss an extension.
The 10-year bond yield was trading at 7.339% from its Monday's close of 7.317%. Bond yields and prices move in opposite directions.
So far this year, the rupee has gained 1.8%, while foreign investors have bought $5.23 billion in equity and sold $396.70 million in debt market.
India's benchmark index Sensex rose 0.34% to 38155.29 points.
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Friends tend to drift apart as they go their separate ways after high school.
For many students, the end of their high school friendships marks the
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start of their independent lives.
Along with the pressure of facing the world as adults for the first time, most graduates must also face their transition without any familiar company.
Many high school graduates who are going into college choose to join sororities and fraternities as a way to make new friends.
The aim of most fraternities and sororities is to create a lasting network of connections and opportunities for its members. According to the New Jersey Institute of Technology, over 9 million students are currently involved in Greek life in America.
Among these 9 million people is UCLA student and Carlmont alumni Zach Beauchamp.
Despite the social opportunities that fraternities and sororities offer, there are some students who opt for alternative means of making friends.
Some students have found friends simply by talking to the people around them.
For those who may feel lost or overwhelmed among so many strangers, clubs and organizations help bring people with similar interests together, and can offer a
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A total of 1,598 students were awarded degrees in various disciplines at the University of Karachi’s Silver Jubilee Convocation on Saturday -
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137 of them achieving the coveted gold medals.
The graduating students included 1,250 and 348 of the morning and evening sessions respectively.
The convocation was organised at the university’s Valika Ground.
In the absence of governor Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan, provincial education minister Nisar Ahmed Khuro was the chief guest at the event.
KU vice chancellor Dr Muhammad Qaiser presented a report on the university’s progress and the research being carried out at the campus.
Special prayers for the victims of the Shikarpur Imambargah and the Army Public School, Peshawar attacks were offered on the occasion.
One student each of MS, DSc, MPharm, Business Public Administration and BCom were among the recipients of the degrees.
A total of 129 students of BA (Honours), seven of BE Chemical Engineering, six of Bachelors in Library Information Sciences, 163 of the BS programme, 110 of
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A deaf and partially blind, old blue heeler dog named Max helped to keep a three-year-old girl safe who went missing overnight in
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Queensland bushland. The young toddler, Aurora, was reported missing after she wandered away from her family property at Cherry Gully, south of Warwick on Friday afternoon. Max the dog followed Aurora and stayed by her side as she slept overnight in bushland. About 100 police, State Emergency Services workers and members of the public resumed their search at first light on Saturday. The girl's grandmother, Leisa Marie Bennett, heard Aurora faintly from the top of a mountain on the family property, about 2km from home. She first found Max, who led her to Aurora, who had only minor cuts and scratches.
AN Alaskan husky is credited with helping rescue an injured woman hiking a trail east of Anchorage, Alaska.
The seven-year-old dog named Nanook helped pull Amelia Milling to shore after she fell while crossing the Eagle River last month, the Alaska Star reported.
Ms Milling, a 21-year-old college student from the US state of Tennessee,
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Like other public organizations, fire and emergency medical services are going through a number of major changes to keep up with the needs and demands of local municipalities
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. New models are emerging to meet the changing times.
One of these models is community paramedicine, which in essence allows EMS personnel to visit the homes of individuals who require medical assistance. These individuals are not medical emergencies that require transportation to a hospital emergency room.
For years, 911 calls from individuals who needed medical attention but are not emergencies have overburdened EMS units. These calls created a number of patient care problems and strained hospital ER services.
Community paramedicine is designed to address these issues. Numerous articles and studies cite the overall benefits of this model, showing how in the long run, non-emergency patients need fewer trips to the ER.
However, ER services are again under stress due to the current nationwide opioid crisis. Emergency medical services must respond to countless overdose calls that burden EMS workers and take away necessary resources from other emergencies.
A recent study shows that many overdose patients do not get the care that they need to break the cycle, even after one
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DOWNERS GROVE – Downtown Downers Grove was transformed into an artist's colony Sept. 8 and 9 as artisans from across the Midwest
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displayed their work in the 42nd annual Downtown Downers Grove Fine Arts Festival.
Artists showed everything from paintings and drawings to jewelry, photographs and other mediums during the juried art fair, which also featured family friendly activities and food.
About 5,000 people attended the show, which also featured live music, as well as specials presented by the restaurants and boutiques in downtown Downers Grove.
Elaine Chapa of Downers Grove takes a close look Sept. 9 at wood wall sculptures by Jeff Easley during the annual Downtown Downers Grove Fine Arts Festival. Artists specializing in a variety of mediums were part of the festival.
Liz Hedgcock (center) of Downers Grove and Kathy Ruch (right) of Frankfort admire artisan glass jewelry made by artist Sheila Papaioannou (left) on Sept. 9 during the annual Downtown Downers Grove Fine Arts Festival.
David Bechtold performs Sept. 9 on Main Street during the annual Downtown
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Westworld took a long time to come together over at HBO, but when it finally premiered, it blew audience's minds wide open and stuck a
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bunch of puzzle pieces in there. As a theme park where wild and debaucherous behavior is rampant, Westworld is a unique reflection of society's warped impulses, and as a hit HBO dramatic thriller, Westworld is also a unique reflection of humanity's foulness that's further wrapped up inside a bunch of tantalizing mysteries that kept the online community going crazy with speculation.
Season 2 will no doubt introduce a new assortment of enigmatic characters and storylines, and since it's right around the corner, we thought we'd lay out everything we now know about the new season, from the new trailers to the new worlds we'll soon step foot inside. (Metaphorically.) Hop aboard, and beware all malfunctioning hosts.
How Many Seasons Has Westworld Been Renewed For?
Currently, Westworld has only been renewed for one season by HBO. However, considering how massive the production on the series is, we wouldn't be particularly surprised if Westworld started getting early renewals or
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FORT BENNING, Georgia (Reuters) - Army Colonel J. Cale Brown put his life on the line in two tours of duty in
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Afghanistan, earning a pair of Bronze Stars for his service. In between those deployments, Brown received orders to report to Fort Benning, the sprawling Georgia base that proudly describes itself as the century-old home of the U.S. infantry.
He was pleased. His wife, Darlena, was pregnant with their second child, and the Browns owned a home in the area. Their 10-month-old son, John Cale Jr, was a precocious baby, babbling a dozen words and exploring solid foods.
Cale’s duties as a battalion commander required him to live on base. So instead of moving into their own house, in 2011 the Browns rented a place inside Fort Benning. The 80-year-old white stucco home had hosted generations of officers.
The symptoms began suddenly. At 18 months, JC would awake screaming. He began refusing food, stopped responding to his name and lost most of his words.
“He was
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These freedoms and comforts exist largely because we live in a safe nation. In commitment to our Constitution, our nation has placed great priority on a
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dedication to this well-guarded peace. Similarly, over the past fifty years, Department of Defense innovation and technology has made our military the most technologically advanced in the world. Now, in the 21st century, dedication to harnessing top-of-the-line technology is even more necessary.
We live in a post 9/11 society. We’ve known for some time now that there are those who actively seek to do our nation harm by targeting our buildings, our city streets, and public events. We also know that terrorist organizations are actively pursuing chemical, nuclear, and biological weaponry. Quite simply, there are those who want to hurt America and rob us of our freedoms.
Our Founding Fathers knew that these freedoms were so precious that they were worth protecting and worth defending. They also knew, as we know today, that one of the realities of having these freedoms is that there will always be individuals who want to take them from us. To lack vigilance in our investment in
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Questback, a global leader in enterprise feedback management, today announced its new Spring release includes GDPR
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-specific features to enable seamless compliance for its thousands of customers including one-third of the Forbes list. Preparing for the GDPR since 2015, the new Spring release is the culmination of years of expertise and industry-leading best practices. It includes features aligned to the GDPR requirements around personal data, processing and storage.
Privacy by design and default. That is what you get with Questback’s enterprise feedback platform. The newly released Privacy Assistant includes features aligned to GDPR-compliant feedback data collection, processing and storage.
1. By default. The Privacy Assistant is activated in Questback’s technology by default as required by the GDPR.
2. Personal information. You can now flag personal data in each field of your survey. Personal data flags highlight and organize participant variables and feedback making it easy to identify the data that falls under the GDPR.
3. Set it and forget it. Set the retention period to automatically purge data in accordance with the
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America is still reeling from the horrific Charleston, S.C., massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that claimed the lives of nine innocent people.
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The last thing the community and our country need are hysterical journalists compounding the pain with inflammatory reporting on an unsubstantiated “epidemic” of black-church arsons.
The Sun neglected to mention that Clinton had falsely claimed at the time that he had “vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child” — an assertion immediately debunked by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Reminder: Several of the hyped hate crimes against black churches had been committed by black suspects; a significant number of the black churches were, in fact, white churches; and the complex motives behind the crimes included mental illness, vandalism, and concealment of theft.
Teach for America alumnus agitator DeRay McKesson quickly added his Twitter kerosene to the fire, reflexively claiming that the “KKK” was responsible for a half-dozen black-church burnings.
Another
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The Canadian Department of National Defense announced earlier this month that it issued a contract to Colt Canada to design and produce 6,500 new rifles for the
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military's Arctic Rangers.
The unit is armed with the.303 Lee Enfield rifle bought back in 1947. The rifles have gotten so old, the Canadian force can no longer buy parts to fix the rifles that are quickly falling apart.
The Rangers are a unit of about 5,000 Reservists who are spread across the northern most territories in Canada. Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently visited a Ranger unit and was photographed firing one of the Lee Enfield rifles.
Soon after the trip, a memo was released stating the urgency required to replace the rifles.
"While Rangers are given rifles in pristine condition (i.e. new from the box from special storage), Canada's stock is diminishing and a replacement needs to be identified within the next four to five years," according to a memo written by Harper and obtained by the Canadian Press.
It's unclear what type of rifle Colt Canada will design for the Rangers, however it better be able to operate within extreme arctic temperatures. The Canadians
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Published Feb. 4, 2019 at 5:13 a.m.
George Mosher passed away last week. His funeral is today. The
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Milwaukee investor and businessman was 79.
I had the opportunity to meet Mosher a few times, and he was always captivating and inspirational – not to mention supportive of our ideas and energy at OnMilwaukee as well as an early supporter of YPM/Fuel Milwaukee and many of the start-up and recruitment and retention efforts for the region.
According to his bio and obituary, he moved to Milwaukee from the Boston area in 1965. "Joining several business organizations, he became an enthusiastic member of the Milwaukee community. George and Julie founded National Business Furniture together in 1975 and ran a successful business for over 30 years. He became an active angel investor and philanthropist, and enjoyed offering his time and talent to mentoring the next generation of budding entrepreneurs. George will be deeply missed, but his legacy will live on. He passed away peacefully after a struggle with pancreatic cancer."
In this 2016 interview with Todd McLees, Mosher leaves behind amazing advice for us all
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Tallinn City Council on Thursday formally elected acting mayor Taavi Aas (Center) mayor of Tallinn.
The only candidate for the
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position, Aas received 40 votes in his favor; 33 had voted against him.
"Our city has changed and will continue to change," Aas said according to a city government press release, adding that when he first began work in the city government, Freedom Square was still a parking lot, the beginning of Tallinn-Tartu Highway had uneven sidewalks and boards with barbed wire, and Tallinn Creative Hub was just an abandoned power plant.
With 40 votes, Tallinn City Council also confirmed Züleyxa Izmailova, Aivar Riisalu, Vadim Belobrovtsev, Tõnis Mölder, Andrei Novikov, Eha Võrk and Kalle Klandorf deputy mayors of Tallinn.
Also elected on Thursday were the the chairmen and deputy chairmen of the city council committees, and the council confirmed the salary of the city council chairman as well as the benefits of the council
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Oona Tempest, 24, lost her birth father — a fisherman by trade — when she was one year old. She met the sushi chef she
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calls her “adopted father” almost twenty years later, working as a substitute waitress at his Upper East Side restaurant in 2013.
Oguma could be a strict teacher at times, but Tempest — a Massachusetts native who moved to New York to study art but today serves chef-curated omakase meals under the name Sushi by Bae — admired his passion and principles: “His philosophy was just focus on sushi, just focus on your work. That was really beautiful to me as an artist,” she said.
Tempest’s gender and Jewish heritage made her an unlikely apprentice. Still, Oguma instructed her in not only the art of making sushi, but more practical matters: how to save money, by conserving plastic wrap for example, and how to stand up to suppliers selling fish beneath her standards.
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