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The suburb suffered its worst day of violence since the UN Security Council demanded a 30-day ceasefire.
The first aid delivery in weeks to reach
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the besieged eastern suburbs of Damascus was cut short after Syrian government forces began shelling while aid workers were still in the area, a local council said.
Aid trucks had to leave before they could finish unloading supplies on Monday, as the eastern Ghouta suburbs suffered their worst day of violence since the UN Security Council demanded a 30-day ceasefire.
The government, supported by Russia’s military, is pushing its assault on the rebel-held suburbs where the UN estimates almost 400,000 people are trapped under unmanageable levels of violence.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 80 civilians were killed on Monday.
The Security Council resolution, passed unanimously on February 25, has gone unheeded.
Monday’s aid shipment was the first to enter eastern Ghouta amid weeks of a crippling siege and a government assault that has killed close to 800 civilians since February 18.
Aid agencies said Syrian authorities removed basic health supplies, including trauma, surgical kits
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A newly created Miami corporation paid $223 per square foot - a 44 percent discount off of the average closed sales price in the project - for 34
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units in the 3030 Aventura condominium in Northeast Miami-Dade County, according to a new report from Condo Vultures® LLC.
The units acquired in bulk represent 76 percent of the 45-unit project built in 2007 at 3030 NE 188th St. with seven stories and 89,000 square feet of saleable space fronting a canal in the city of Aventura.
The buyer paid nearly $15.4 million for nearly 69,000 square feet of saleable space, which works out to an average of $452,300 per unit. Prior to the bulk deal, individual buyers acquired 11 units at an average price of $733,400 per unit, or $400 per square foot, according to the Condo Vultures® report based on Miami-Dade County records.
"Aventura is a mature market with a strong demand from primary users, second-home buyers, and investors," said Peter Zalewski, a
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A view of the southern top of the dry lakebed at Lakeview and Mariposa avenues where an equestrian center is being proposed.
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Riders tour the upper rim trail of the dry lakebed where an equestrian center is proposed.
YORBA LINDA – For more than two decades the equestrians of Yorba Linda have been patient, and anchored themselves as the protected species of the city’s historical heritage.
Yorba Linda’s equestrian community is unique in that most horses are backyard horses. The equine population resides from the west to the east, with nearly every breed of equine represented. The heaviest horse population is west of Fairmont Boulevard where spacious horse properties house the tradition of the old-time West.
An act of protecting our semi-rural neighborhoods that brings the charm to our city is hovering over the General Plan, and the cowboys and cowgirls are the vigilant sentries of the equestrian heritage.
As Yorba Linda began to develop on the east side, a major developer offered to include an equestrian center, which did
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With horse-racing going on in all regions across the world, record- keeping can be a hit-andmiss at times.
It
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is therefore with some trepidation that one may say that such-and-such has achieved a "world-record", while out there in cyber-world, there is someone ready to shoot you down in flames.
What we can safely say is that Joao Moreira's feat of riding eight winners - from as many rides - at the Singapore Racecourse on last is a performance that will go down in the books of modern racing history.
The Australian-based company Racing And Sports - www.racingandsports.com.au - is recognised as one of the racing world's best websites covering racing and sports globally.
The Racing And Sports horse-racing database began with Australia and New Zealand in 1992, extended to Ireland and the United Kingdom in 2000, Singapore and Hong Kong in 2002, South Africa in 2005, with France coming on board last year although the history of races covered extends further back.
A search of winning jockeys over the years covered conclusively
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Tom Cruise loves women. We know this because over the last year and a half he's aggressively affirmed it in both the general sense ("They smell
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good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.") and the specific ("I'm in love! I'm in love! I can't be cool! I can't be laid back!"). We know it because when he made the latter comments, about new squeeze Katie Holmes, he emphasized his sincerity by treating Oprah's studio furniture like a ten-year-old's bed at a sleepover party. And we know it because he made Mission: Impossible III.
Just released on video, this third entry in Cruise's signature action franchise is comprehensible primarily as a two-hour testimonial to the many ways in which its star loves women. The plot, essentially, is that an evil arms dealer named Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman) takes captive a female secret agent (Keri Russell) whom Cruise's character, Ethan Hunt, had trained and loves "like a little sister." Ethan first conducts a rescue operation, and subsequently takes revenge on Davian by taking him captive
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SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Investors gearing up for the initial public offering of Ant Financial, the $60 billion
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online finance arm spun off by e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA.N), will have to wait until at least late 2017 as the business puts growth first, sources say.
Sources with knowledge of the plans said Ant Financial, whose anchor business is Alipay, China’s largest online payments service, is focusing on expanding its existing 450 million-strong army of daily users, adding merchants and customers.
One of the sources said that, as of last month, Ant had yet to contact Chinese regulators to start the lengthy listing process and join a queue of more than 700 companies waiting to list.
An Ant spokeswoman said the group had not set a timetable or location for its listing, and the China Securities Regulatory Commission did not comment.
In addition to online payments, Ant Financial also offers services from wealth management to credit scoring, micro lending and insurance.
Alibaba Group set up Alipay in 2004 in the PayPal (PYPL.O) mould, to help
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The cost of bringing up a child has rocketed to £180,000, it is claimed today.
Research from financial services provider Liverpool Victoria
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, found that in the last year alone the cost of raising offspring from birth to the age of 21 rose by 9%. It has soared 28% in the past four years.
The new estimated cost to parents is £180,137, equivalent to £23.50 a day.
Childcare and education are the biggest expenditures, costing parents £49,092 and £46,778. The cost of schooling and putting a child through university has increased by 26% since last year, the report notes.
This has helped push the price of raising a child up at a rate outstripping inflation by almost four times.
The driving force behind rising education costs has been university. From the start of this academic year, undergraduates at English universities face paying £3,000 per course in tuition fees, up from £1,175.
The number of people in higher education had been steadily climbing but has eased more recently, with would-be students pointing the finger at rising costs
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As May Day approaches, migrants and refugees in the U.S. and around the world remain in a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. President Donald
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Trump’s continued move to the right is exacerbating this situation.
In the U.S., raids at courthouses and workplaces have increased. The National Guard has been sent to the southern border to further militarize the area. The U.S attorney general has strengthened repressive legal measures to terrorize immigrant workers and divide the working class.
Now more than ever, the struggles for migrant and refugee rights must be linked to the struggle against state police terror and to win workers’ rights.
It is easy to turn away from the spectacle that is the Trump administration or to laugh Trump off as no more than a no-talent, orange clown in a cheap circus. But Trump is extremely dangerous. In league with an ultraright faction, he has made his administration into a militaristic, white supremacist regime.
This has disastrous consequences for the workers and oppressed everywhere. This must be fought tooth and nail.
He called for new laws to make it even harder for
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Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 66F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph..
When business closed at the Oregon Legislature Tuesday, a
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breakneck session became somewhat less hectic.
Roughly halfway through the 2019 Oregon legislative session, April 9 marked the last day most bills could either be moved out of committee or shelved for another year.
But while the list of fallen proposals included some notable bills — lowering the drunk driving limit and disarming campus police, among them — the real challenges lie ahead. Democrats still have a hefty to-do list: They want to raise $1 billion annually for schools, rejigger the state’s tax code, usher through ambitious gun legislation and pass a complicated proposal to cap carbon emissions.
If those seem like easy tasks — after all, the party holds supermajorities in both the House and Senate and controls the governor’s office — consider that legislative leaders also have to make sure Republicans are engaged and willing to work with them.
Talks between the two parties have been mostly amicable so far, but there’s no guarantee that will last as
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FRANKLIN � The Franklin High School Class of 1972 and 1973 will donate $1,500 toward the creation of a scholarship in memory of Lex
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i and Sean Munroe.
The alumni raised the money from their 40th reunion, held last fall. The School Committee will formally accept the donation next month.
Assistant Superintendent Sally Winslow, a member of the class, said the one-time scholarship would go to a high school student who attended Davis Thayer Elementary School.
Lexi and Sean, 8 and 7, respectively, were students at the West Central Street school, known for its tight-knit community.
The children died last month in what authorities called a "tragic accident." A wooden chest they climbed into�while playing shut and locked, trapping them inside.
Their deaths sparked renewed warnings about the dangers of the Lane Company chests that were recalled in 1996.�The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission�warned of safety hazards stemming from a latch that locks automatically in chests manufactured between 1912 and 1987.
These chests are still being sold in second-hand stores and handed down in families.
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The media's expectations of Auburn entering 2016 are far lower than they were a year ago.
Auburn was picked to finish 6th in
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the SEC West by the 331 media members to vote in the annual SEC Media Days poll, which was released Thursday in Hoover.
The Tigers received 890 total points in the poll, a sizeable distance behind Arkansas (1,047 points) and ahead of Mississippi State (518).
No members of the media picked Auburn, which was the media's pick to the conference heading into last season, to win the SEC West division or the conference as a whole this year. By comparison, 246 voters Alabama to repeat as division champs, with 223 picking the Crimson Tide to win the conference title again.
Tennessee was the media's pick to win the SEC East.
The media has correctly selected the SEC champion five times in 24 tries, with just three successful picks in the last 20 years.
Auburn was picked to win the SEC at last year's media days, which had the odd twist of Alabama receiving more aggregate points to win the West division but Auburn being the more popular pick
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The final event on George W. Bush's schedule on the final day of the 2004 presidential election campaign was not a late-night gathering in a
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"battleground" state such as Florida or Ohio. Rather, it was a Monday evening "victory rally" on the campus of Southern Methodist University in his home state of Texas.
Texas? After months of focusing on the dozen or more targeted states that supposedly will decide this election, why did the Bush camp decide to finish things off in the one state that ought to be securely in the president's column?
Because, despite everything that has been said over the past few months, this campaign is not just about battleground states. There is also a national fight to win the popular vote, and Bush's election-eve trip to Texas was an acknowledgment of that fact.
The final event on George W. Bush’s schedule on the final day of the 2004 presidential election campaign was not a late-night gathering in a “battleground” state such as Florida or Ohio. Rather, it was a Monday evening “victory rally” on the campus of
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A wildfire fanned by strong winds devoured hillsides around the wealthy Mediterranean resort city of Marbella in Spain on Friday. At least one
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person died, two sustained burns and more than 4,000 others were forced to evacuate their homes.
A dry winter followed by a scorching hot summer has left much of southern Spain tinder dry and susceptible to fires. About 1,500 square kilometers (580 square miles) of land in Spain has burned in nearly 12,000 wildfires so far this year.
Other European nations, including Greece, Portugal and Bosnia, also have faced blazes spawned by similar conditions.
In Spain, regional Interior Ministry official Jose Luis Ruiz Espejo said the latest fire started outside the mountainside town of Coin, northeast of Marbella, and that authorities suspect arson as the cause.
All the residents of the nearby town of Ojen were forced to evacuate as flames swept through their valley. Most spent much of the night sheltered in sports centers in Marbella.
Fernando Fernandez, mayor of the popular whitewashed hillside tourist destination town of Mijas, said many
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restaurant to Gus Alexander. Under Gus’s leadership, Lula McCoy “The Fried Chicken Maker”, Ella Hamilton
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“The Pie Lady”, and Gladys Duncan “The Great Waitress” joined him to make Strawn’s Eat Shop a success. It was during this time that Strawn’s became known as a “Shreveport Tradition.” In 1988, Buddy and Nancy Gauthier bought the restaurant from Gus. Legend has it Buddy won the restaurant in a poker game from Gus, a rumor which Buddy has always denied. In 1992 The Gauthier’s expanded Strawn’s Eat Shop from seating 50 people to 150 people. In 2001 Strawn’s became a family tradition when Celeste, The Gauthier’s oldest daughter, opened Strawn’s Too at 1640 E. 70th St. in Shreveport, and in 2004 their youngest daughter, Heather, opened Strawn’s Also in Bossier City at 2335 Airline Dr. Wes, The Gauthier�
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Several competitors to AT&T and Verizon proposed the OMB approval for data collection in the FCC’s slow-moving inquiry into special access
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rates. The FCC circulated a proposed order on special access in mid-2012, but late that year, also asked for comments on the special access market. Those comments aren’t due until late this year.
“Countless industries and organizations and hundreds of millions of customers across the country depend on this critical broadband infrastructure to connect our cell phones, workplaces, banks, factories, data centers, universities, and hospitals to enable communications among customers, employees, suppliers, government, and each one of us,” a coalition spokeswoman said by email.
Asked for a response to the OMB approval, an AT&T spokeswoman pointed to a 2012 blog post by Bob Quinn, the company’s senior vice president of federal regulatory affairs.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, however, called special access “increasingly important in the digital economy.” The new data collection will help the FCC “better understand competition in this marketplace, and the impact on consumers as we pursue
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There's no doubt IU football has made improvements, but it's hard to make gains in college football's toughest division.
He likes using them
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for context, to better understand a task or obstacle. And he’s not oblivious to the numbers that make his job one of the toughest in Power Five college football.
Indiana resides in the old-money half of the most lopsided division-structured conference in college football. As Allen seeks to build the Hoosiers into a more consistently competitive program, one capable of regular bowl appearances and greater stature within the league, how can he hope to navigate the four-pillared obstacle of the Big Ten East?
“I think it puts pressure on everybody else to rise up,” Allen said. “We may never have all that they have. But I don’t care what anybody says, we still, when it’s time to play, we’ve got to beat those guys.
The Big Ten aimed for competitive balance when it first broke the league into divisions for football, in 2010.
It split its traditional powers between the
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As Perth and Sydney prepare to battle for the W-League championship on Saturday, Jets players have already turned focus to their next commitments.
It
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has been just 10 days since Newcastle closed their season with a 4-1 rout of Western Sydney at No.2 Sportsground, leaving them three points off the top four.
The emergence of young talent was the shining light as injuries to key players came thick and fast. But the team has had little time to reflect, instead heading off in different directions for the so-called off-season.
Tara Andrews (New Lambton), Libby Copus-Brown (Wallsend), Gema Simon (South Wallsend) and Jenna Kingsley and Cassidy Davis (Warners Bay) will bolster the Herald Women’s Premier League, which starts on March 10.
Young guns Cortnee Vine, Teigan Collister and Clare Wheeler will play for Sydney University and Pana Petratos is expected to line up again for North West Sydney in the National Premier League NSW Women competition, also kicking off March 10.
They will go up against Tessa Tamplin, Ren
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Tesla's solar roof looks nice in renderings, but a new report claims they're not so good-looking in real life.
Tesla's
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production problems apparently don't stop with the Model 3. According to a Reuters report, production of the company's solar tiles have been delayed by assembly line problems.
Part of the issue is producing tiles that meet the aesthetic standards of company CEO, Elon Musk.
UPDATE: Aug. 13, 2018, 9:03 a.m. CEST A Tesla spokesperson told Mashable that there are no problems with the product's looks. "The claim of a former employee that Solar Roof is delayed due to aesthetics is false. We are ramping the production and installation of Solar Roof substantially," the spokesperson told us via email.
Announced in October 2016, Tesla's Solar Roof tiles are advertised as a beautiful, durable alternative to regular roof tiles that also happen to produce electricity to power your home. But the production at Tesla's Buffalo, New York plant that opened last year has been so slow that it forced Panasonic — Tesla's partner in this venture — to sell components it built for Tesla to other
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A Missouri Republican proposed expanding Medicaid coverage to low-income military veterans and their families Tuesday as a slimmed down alternative to a broader Medicaid expansion that
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has been opposed by many of his GOP colleagues.
The bill by Sen. Ryan Silvey would expand Medicaid coverage for veterans and their families making up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, which is $29,685 for a family of three.
"The other proposals that I have will cover not only veterans but everyone, but I felt it was important to try and solve this problem for this group," Silvey, R-Kansas City, said.
Missouri is one of 23 states that has not used a provision of President Barack Obama's health law to expand Medicaid, a joint federal and state program that provides health care to low-income individuals. Missouri's Republican legislative leaders have said there's little chance for any expansion this year.
As part of the federal Affordable Care Act, states that expand Medicaid coverage for families and individuals making up to 138 percent of federal poverty can receive more federal funding.
Currently, able
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Car crashes are unpleasant at the best of times. They can be a lot worse. And when you are behind the wheel, it’s
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easy to forget that your driving habits don’t just impact you, they impact your passengers.
It about more than just staying alert. Although you can’t control how anyone else drives on the road, you can take clear steps to make sure you and your offspring get from here to there safely. Here are a few basics.
A central locking system - meaning one where the driver can lock all doors from their seat, or which locks the car when it goes over 10 MPH – is a must for maximum safety, especially for very young children or those with special needs who do not recognize danger. Practice quickly reaching the lock.
Let the kids know they’ll get a reward if they behave over long journeys, and warn them of consequences of misbehavior. Usually, pulling over and telling them if they don’t cut it out they’ll have to walk home works pretty well. If one child is older than another, assign him or her the responsibility of
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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the Bahamas will soon be able to compete globally because public and private executives have crafted
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the Bahamas Small & Medium-Sized Development Act (SME Act). The SME Act is likely to be legislated during the 2015 first quarter, and will stimulate economic growth while also mitigating the negative impact of future recessions on the Bahamian economy.
The SME Act will be enforced and supervised by a non-political organisation called the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Agency (SMEDA). Market research was completed in early 2014 to obtain information on how SME owners would like business development activities to improve and progress in gthe Bahamas. In addition, SME owners made recommendations on how SMEDA should be structured to cater to the successful development of the SME sector in the Bahamas.
Public and private sector executives will be elected to SMEDA’s Board. Members of this Board will be mandated not to make decisions based on political, gender or cultural motives. SMEDA’s Board will have the authority to make recommendations that modify particulars
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There was much to be disappointed by in President Donald Trump’s “60 Minutes” interview over the weekend, from his curious belief
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that climate change might reverse itself to his contention that his mocking of alleged sexual assault victim Christine Blasey Ford is immaterial now that “we won” and Brett Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court. But there’s at least one thing he said that ought to disturb Americans right in their core beliefs. Asked about the apparent murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, President Trump vowed “severe punishment” if it turns out that Saudi Arabia ordered his death, but he expressed great reluctance to use the most powerful leverage available to him — the pending $110 billion arms sale to that country — on the grounds it would hurt U.S. manufacturers.
So there it is. The price of justice has been set. Do at least $110 billion worth of business with a favored industry within the United States and human rights are meaningless. Truth is meaningless. Once again, the Saudi royal family is demonstrating to the world that everyone has a price. The values that Americans claim to
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The Cowboys traded for offensive lineman Parker Ehinger before the start of last season, giving up cornerback Charvarius Ward to the Chiefs to get
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him.
Ehinger, though, didn’t play in a game for the Cowboys.
Dallas announced Wednesday it has cut Ehinger along with defensive tackle Aziz Shittu.
Ehinger injured his knee in one of his first practices with the Cowboys, with Dallas placing him on injured reserve two days before the season opener.
Shittu, 24, spent part of last season on the Cowboys’ practice squad.
I agree Ward is coming into his own. But wasn’t it Nelson that picked it off?
Bears besides Larson we need another Lineman this is are man.Pace do your job please for us former Cowboy Fans he can help us. Cheaply.
I just went and looked at the video … it was Ward. #35. For what it’s worth. If Ehinger has anything left in his knee the Chiefs could sign him back … just a guess.
Ward would have been a
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Back in the mid-1990s, I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, then vice president at
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IBM, who was charged with building a new generation of supercomputers. But Dr. Wladawsky-Berger didn't go out and spend a huge budget on specialized hardware. Rather, the genius of his approach was to take sets of already-manufactured processors -- at the time, RISC processors from IBM's Unix family -- and lashed them together with a high-speed switch to create supercomputing power. A few years later, the follow-on generation of supercomputers was built in a similar fashion from x86 processors running Linux.
Welcome to innovation, 21st Century style. A couple of months ago, I posted some observations about innovation coming from low-cost and conveniently available parts -- part of the formula for success for our era: “Good enough” may be good enough when it comes to developing new products and services.
One powerful byproduct that has emerged from this paradigm is supercomputers. The latest and fastest behemoth, as a
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LOUIS VAN GAAL insists his self-belief has not wavered despite the mounting criticism he is facing at Manchester United.
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But the Dutchman admits he is fighting a battle to manage the expectations at Old Trafford and says the club – and football itself - has changed from five or 10 years ago when they were the dominant force in the English game.
Despite spending £250m on new players in his 18 months in charge, Van Gaal insists he is still in a re-building process and that there were “positives” from the midweek defeat to Wolfsburg when United crashed out of the Champions League at the group stage.
That followed a run of four goal-less draws in six homes games when United were booed off by some supporters.
“People think it is ‘just’ the Europa League but I'm not thinking like that. I have already won the competition when it was the UEFA Cup in my first season at Ajax and I was very proud of that. For me, the Europa League is a big competition."
And he insists the team need to pick themselves up
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WASHINGTON -- Justin Upton isn't entirely sure what's wrong with him, but the outfielder feels like he's made enough strides to get back into the
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lineup for the Atlanta Braves. His manager wants to take a wait-and-see approach.
Upton left Atlanta's game Tuesday with dizziness and since then has felt several inner-ear symptoms. Thursday, however, Upton worked out before the game and felt much better. He would pinch-hit in the eighth inning.
"I swung, ran about eight sprints and got a good sweat going," he said. "I've dealt with inner-ear stuff before, and honestly, I hope it's that and it will blow over in the next couple of days."
The Braves played a series in Colorado last week, and Upton thinks the altitude could have had an effect on his balance.
"Who knows? But Denver can do some things to you," he said. "It's one of those things where if you're a little bit off, you feel it."
Manager Fredi Gonzalez hopes to get Upton, who is tied for sixth in the National League with 14
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Warminster, Pa. - THE horticultural world is having its own debate over immigration, with some environmentalists warning about the dangers of so-
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called exotic plants from other countries and continents "invading" American gardens. These botanical xenophobes say that a pristine natural state exists in our yards and that to disturb it is both sinful and calamitous. In their view, exotic plants will swallow your garden, your neighbors' gardens and your neighbors' neighbors' gardens until the ecosystem collapses under their rampant suffocating growth.
If anything suffocates us, though, it will be the environmentalists' narrowmindedness. Like all utopian visions, their dream beckons us into a perfect and rational natural world where nothing ever changes -- a world that never existed and never will.
Native plants are the survivalists of the botanical world, and in the appropriate settings -- wilderness areas, home and botanical gardens, public parks and sidewalks -- they bless us with their beauty and awe us with their tenacity. Our lives would be poor and grim without the strawberry, cranberry, columbine and trillium. They've always been
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The sarod player Ali Akbar Khan, who has died aged 87 of a prolonged kidney ailment, was one of the greatest musicians of the
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Indian subcontinent. A man of few words, introverted, and never given to extravagant flourishes, he was completely absorbed in the music of the classical tradition that he inherited, and that he helped popularise in the west.
Born in the village of Shibpore in the Comilla district of what is now Bangladesh, he took up the instrument that his father, Allauddin Khan, had developed and improved from the rabab of Afghanistan. Smaller than the sitar, the sarod has an unfretted fingerboard made of metal. Of the 25 metal strings, 10 are played, the rest are sympathetic. The strings are plucked with a coconut shell, and both father and son exploited its capacity for glissando effects.
Allauddin had studied with the Rampur court musician Vazir Khan, a descendant of the legendary musician-composer Miyan Tansen, one of the "nine gems" of the Mughal emperor Akbar.
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The federal government is continuing to study Silicon Valley giants for potential violations of antitrust law, according to President Trump, in his latest criticism of the embattled
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tech industry.
Asked by Axios to clarify which companies the Trump administration is considering, Trump said: “All three” — referring to Amazon.com, Facebook and Google.
Trump claimed in the interview that a previous administration had considered breaking up key players in the tech industry. But while the Federal Trade Commission had investigated Google during the Obama administration over how the company displayed its search results, the agency concluded there was no antitrust violation — and did not weigh a break up.
Some, such as Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), have called on the FTC to reopen its probe into Google.
In September, the Justice Department held a meeting with state attorneys general to discuss whether any conduct by the tech companies could have violated antitrust law. State officials have taken up the banner, opening the door to a multistate inquiry. But those discussions are still in their early stages.
And the Federal Trade Commission has held hearings this fall on the matter, though
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President Donald Trump disclosed reimbursement payment last year of more than $100,000 to his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, in financial documents released Wednesday.
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The disclosure, released Wednesday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, did not elaborate on what the money was for, beyond expenses. However, the payment was made for work Cohen did in 2016, the same year the attorney paid adult film star $130,000 in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter she had with Trump years earlier.
The documents show Trump paid Cohen between $100,001 and $250,000. Daniels, who was born Stephanie Clifford, was paid $130,000 by Cohen after she signed a nondisclosure agreement barring her from talking about her alleged affair with the future president.
She has since sued to break the agreement, claiming that it is invalid because it was never signed by Trump.
Former New York Mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani told Fox News earlier this month that the president reimbursed Cohen for the payment, but he insisted that the funds did not come from the campaign. Critics have questioned whether the payment could be considered an
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi is probably the best Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back, but that doesn't mean it's without its faults
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. From the over the top barrage of humor to some certain things that made fans laugh or cry at the wrong time, we've collected some of the biggest gripes with Rian Johnson's first foray into the Star Wars universe. While they're not horrible offenses, they've for some reason or another left a bad taste in the mouths of fans, much like the weird green milk Luke Skywalker ingested on Ahch-To from that weird alien sea cow. Brace yourselves, there are SPOILERS AHEAD, so if you haven't seen The Last Jedi, you might want to stop reading.
One of the worst things about The Last Jedi are the Canto Bight scenes. They seem out of place, almost like George Lucas directed them and had the scenes patched into the movie without telling anybody. From a weird drunken space leprechaun feeding BB-8 gold coins to some of the lamest inhabitants of any alien planet in the Star Wars universe. It is definitely the bathroom break
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Toronto, Canada – LONDON (Reuters) - Tiger Woods's former coach Butch Harmon believes the world number one must risk
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the humiliation and embarrassment of a full and frank news conference over his infidelities before he can get on with his life.
"But where the hell is he? We could find Osama bin Laden easier than we can find Tiger Woods. How long can you spend on a yacht in the middle of the ocean."
Harmon, who now coaches world number two Phil Mickelson and does occasional commentary work for the UK television channel Sky Sports, said the 14-times major champion would have to put up with verbal asides from the crowds when he returns to golf.
"The difficult part, in my opinion, is going to be the heckling from the galleries," he said. "He is going to get it.
"If he plays in the Ryder Cup (in Wales in October) which I happen to think he will, that is going to be very interesting."
Harmon, who believes Woods is likely to return for one of the four PGA Tour events
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iTunes is getting more features! But hey, some bloat is good bloat.
Apple is adding still more features to the already
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overbloated iTunes because, you know, it needs more bloat.
The latest update to the music music/video/movies/app manager and player – classically dubbed version 11.0.3 – includes a redesigned Mini Player, album art in Song View, support for multi-disc albums, and some search and performance enhancements. It isn't the major update we hope to see Cupertino make to this once-great platform, but, hey, at least it's not getting any worse.
Here's a look at the newest features, to help you decide whether you want to download yet another Apple iTunes update.
Album art in songs view.
You can now see all of your pretty album art on the left when in the Songs viewing mode. It's a nice design element, but if album art isn't available for a lot of your music – which is the case for me – it's not very useful.
The new Mini Player consuming as
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Campbell's has a new line of soups designed around Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and predictably, people are already crying foul of an
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LGBT component of the campaign.
The ad features a married gay couple feeding soup to their son. "Cooper, I am your father," one dad says, zooming the noodles to his son's face on a spoon/spaceship. "No, no, no, I am your father," his husband jokes, and delivers another spoonful. At the end, a voiceover announces that Campbell's soups are for "real, real life." The actors are a real-life married couple, and have previously starred in an ad for Sabra hummus.
The ad is part of a series of commercials around the #RealRealLife hashtag. "We wanted to show actual families, which means families of different configurations, cultures, races and life choices," Yin Woon Rani, Campbell's VP of marketing activation, said in a statement. "The American family is changing faster than at any time in recent history and it is now a true mosaic of shapes and sizes,
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With parents complaining about a glut of tests in public schools and the Florida Department of Education investigating how much time students spend on exams, senators appear ready
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to refocus how the state assesses learning gains.
After members of the Senate Education PreK-12 Committee spent about an hour Wednesday hearing from and grilling Education Commissioner Pam Stewart about tests, the panel’s chairman said legislation addressing the issue was likely during the Legislature’s spring session.
“I’ve got a message very clearly from our members that they’re interested in doing something,” said Chairman John Legg, R-Lutz.
But as for the details of the would-be bill, Legg conceded that “I don’t know what it looks like yet.” Issues that might be addressed range from which grades of students should be tested, to how many tests should be administered, to whether “assessments” required by the state necessarily have to be tests at all.
Even lawmakers who spearheaded the state’s accountability movement, which led to many of the testing requirements now on
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Who Is Performing at Aretha Franklin's Funeral?
In life and in death, Aretha Franklin knows how to attract a crowd.
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In addition to the droves of celebrities, musicians, and civil rights leaders expected to show up to pay their respects at her funeral on Friday (August 31), a lengthy list of stars are also set to perform. Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Jennifer Hudson, Faith Hill, Ronald Isley and Fantasia are among the 19 acts slated to take the stage. Ariana Grande, who delivered an emotional rendition of Franklin's "Natural Woman" on The Tonight Show earlier this month, was also added as a performer on Wednesday (August 29). Former President Bill Clinton, Cformer U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Clive Davis, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, and Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are among those scheduled to speak.
Franklin died Aug. 16 at the age of 76 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Her funeral will take place Friday at 10 a.m. ET at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. The Associated Press will livestream the invite
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I READ “The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush” with some interest. I was left wondering what the qualifications are in this
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day and age to obtain a Nobel Prize. Joseph E. Stiglitz asserts that F.D.R. and his various social reallocation programs were the cause of great prosperity and that somehow President Bush has done more damage to the economy than Herbert Hoover. Both assertions are false.
The implementation of Social Security has been the greatest Ponzi scheme ever foisted on the people of the Western world. Such a scheme is illegal if put in place by private business, yet the government created a “system” that depends on ever increasing populations of working citizens to sustain it. This, of course, is impossible—the carrying capacity of the planet is finite and will eventually be reached. It is for this reason that private systems such as Mr. Ponzi’s are illegal.
MAUREEN ORTH WAS DEAD ON in her depiction of the dreary state of affairs that is the Washington social scene [“When Washington Was Fun,” December].
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Conor McGregor revealed in Episode Three of 'The Notorious' how he was asked to audition for the role of the villain in the new James
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Bond film 'Spectre'.
The 30 minute episode concentrated on the build-up and aftermath of McGregor's victory over Dustin Poirier at UFC178 in Las Vegas last year but he did discuss a possible movie role as well.
Whether he was approached by someone connected with the film franchise inspired by Ian Fleming is unclear.
"They want me to audition for the villain for James Bond. The last villain for James Bond won an Oscar. Your man that used to be in No County for Old Men [Javier Bardem]. He was unbelievable," he said.
"I’m not that person. D’ya know what I mean? I’m just doing it having a laugh. Don’t start putting in those serious things.
"But I’ll see how I feel. They were telling me this last week.
"It’s the wrong time to say it to me when I’m cutting weight. Maybe after
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If you are traveling by plane and want to take your bicycle along, you'll need to check the requirements for the different airlines. Most airlines allow
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you to ship your bicycle as baggage for an additional fee. As long as you pack your bicycle properly, taking it on an airline should not be a problem.
Contact the airline to find out the rules and regulations for taking your bicycle on the plane. Ask whether you need a certain type of box or hard case to ship your bike. Find out whether you can count your bicycle as one piece of your luggage as well as the additional amount required for checking a bicycle as a piece of luggage.
Measure your bicycle to determine what size box or hard case you need. You may have to disassemble your bike by taking off the handlebars, pedals, seat and wheels to fit it in the case or box.
Pack the bike in the box or case. Add padding around the bike if packing in a cardboard box to prevent any of the parts from poking through the box and possibly getting lost during transport.
Use a Transportation Security Administration-approved lock to lock your case -- if you use
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AgLocal, a startup that’s using the power of the Internet to disrupt how animal farmers connect with meat buyers and distributors, has just
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scored $1 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Midwest VC firm OpenAir Equity Partners and other angels including John Fohr (Partner at Lux Capital), Thad Langford (former CEO of Zave Networks), Dan Carroll (founder of Leap2 and AdPredictive), Andy O’Hara (Partner at Tradebot Ventures), and Matt Watson (Founder of Vin Solutions and Stackify).
The additional funding will help the company build out its technology platform, hire additional engineers, and establish relationships with potential partners in advance of its late summer/fall launch planned for later this year.
He thought to himself: “I don’t think I’m getting the best price for the best product, and that’s because of the system that controls it. So, how do I break that and disrupt that by using the web?” Those ideas later became AgLocal.
However, Jones quickly realized that the consumer-focused approach
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A 72-year-old Russian cyclist pedaling across the country to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II has been hit
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and killed by a truck in the Tver region, a news report said.
The cyclist, Alexander Grechkin, died on the spot after the Wednesday accident, the local TverNews portal reported.
Grechkin was in the middle of a 7,000-kilometer bike ride along the site of major World War II battles in western Russia, according to an interview he gave to Komsomolskaya Pravda published two days before his death.
Half of the route had been covered, and Grechkin planned to complete the trip on May 7, just ahead of Russia's Victory Day celebrations, the report said.
Grechkin said that his father and two older brothers had fought in the war, and he was “dedicating this ride to the victory,” according to the interview.
The driver of the truck that hit Grechkin said that he had lost control of the steering after taking his eyes off the road to tune in to a
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Stillwater Mining Company (NYSE: SWC) surged 19 percent to $17.45. The volume of Stillwater Mining shares traded was 2
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154 percent higher than normal. Sibanye Gold Ltd (ADR) (NYSE: SBGL) announced plans to acquire Stillwater for $18.00 per share in cash.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) shares moved up 4 percent to $56.87. The volume of Las Vegas Sands traded was 343 percent higher than normal. Las Vegas Sands shares have climbed 25.10 percent over the past 52 weeks, while the S&P 500 index has gained 9.70 percent in the same period.
Eros International plc (NYSE: EROS) shares gained 7.2 percent to $16.45. The volume of Eros International shares traded was 280 percent higher than normal. Wells Fargo upgraded Eros from Market Perform to Outperform.
Broadcom Ltd (NASDAQ: AVGO) shares rose 4.2 percent to $177.90. The volume of Broadcom shares traded was 626419 percent higher than normal. Broad
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"Breaking Bad" spinoff "Better Call Saul" is coming to TV in Feb. and it's probably one of the most-anticipated new
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series of the year.
We've already seen it, and "Breaking Bad" fans should really enjoy it.
So it shouldn't be a big surprise the series has already been renewed for a second season.
If you can't wait for "Better Call Saul," but need to know a bit more before the show's premiere, here's everything you need to know about the spinoff.
Is this a prequel or a sequel?
The majority of the series is set in 2002, six years before Saul ever met Walter White. However, the show definitely has some elements of a sequel, too, as viewers will see in the premiere's first frew minutes.
So, yes, you'll get to see what became of Saul Goodman after he left Walt and Jesse Pinkman.
When we spoke with Odenkirk a while back while he was doing press for his Oscar-nominated film "Nebraska," the star told us he wanted the show to be both
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Reba McEntire's waterfront estate in Lebanon, an 83-acre expanse with a gazebo, tennis court, stables
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, pastures, and a seven-bedroom Southern colonial home, sat on the market for more than a year.
The $7.9 million listing finally sold in July 2017 at the deeply discounted price of $5 million.
In the greater Nashville area, such multi-million-dollar home sales have skyrocketed since 2000 — from dozens to hundreds sold each year.
Since 2013, the number of homes sold for over $1 million in the 9-county greater Nashville area have jumped each year, from 300 in 2013 to 846 in 2018 as of Dec. 20, according to Greater Nashville Realtors.
They present lucrative opportunities for real-estate agents willing to invest time and energy into them. But it can take years to unload luxury properties and, even then, deep discounts may be needed.
McEntire's estate was split in two, and the buyer developed 15 homes on one portion. The house was resold for $3.1 million, and
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ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: Timbaland revisits his stompy, loopy, Nelly Furtado-approved template on
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the latest song to snake out from Ashlee Simpson’s forthcoming album, and… well, he certainly figured out a way to get around the fact that Ashlee’s drunk-sorority-girl voice isn’t really her strongest suit. The song opens with her yelling “Whut,” although thanks to the lousy audio quality it sounds like she’s yelling “War,” a la Edwin Starr. (Now that would be a cover.) From there, you go into what’s essentially “Maneater 2.0,” complete with Ashlee squeezing out half-spoken lyrics and a chorus where she unwisely decides to use her voice as a percussive element, singing “ah-ya-ya-ya-ya” and berating whoever she’s mad at for “talking way too much.” Perhaps she doesn’t realize that the object of her
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There was Robert Quinn applying a bit of pressure and holding up stoutly in the run game.
There was Minkah Fitzpatrick making a fantastic
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tackle at the goal line to prevent a Tennessee touchdown.
There were new offensive linemen Daniel Kilgore and Josh Sitton providing generally stellar protection for Ryan Tannehill and creating holes in the running game.
And there was Frank Gore steamrolling through those holes, displaying a burst that belies his age (35).
Gore collected his 61 rushing yards on 6.8 per carry — his highest per carry average since averaging 7.6 yards per attempt as a San Francisco 49er (20 for 153) in a September 2013 game at the Rams.
Gore averaged only 3.7 yards per carry for the Colts last season, but the Dolphins believed that was primarily the result of deficient blocking, privately citing the fact his yards after contact had increased in recent years.
And on Sunday, 32 of his yards came after contact, according to Pro Football Focus, which gave him the highest grade of any Dolphins offensive player for the opener.
Meanwhile, Kilgore and Sitton
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A system that aims to identify stolen passwords before breaches are reported or even detected was launched on Tuesday.
Shape Security's Blackfish credential defence system
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is designed to detect the use of stolen usernames and passwords by criminals and in real time.
The technology is a mechanism for organisations to identify the abuse of stolen passwords and attempts to hijack accounts long before these same purloined credentials show up for sale on the dark web.
Cybercrooks regularly automate the process of testing stolen or leaked passwords on third-party websites.
For example, customers of online takeaway firm Deliveroo found their accounts hijacked and charged for food they never ordered because of a credential-stuffing attack. In another attack using the same method, passwords and email addresses from previous breaches were abused to gain access to 26,000 online UK National Lottery accounts. Groupon blamed fraudulent purchases from some UK customers' accounts on password leaks from other sites.
Credential stuffing only works because many users still use the same login details on multiple sites. This is a serious security risk that's only getting worse as the volume of data breaches rises.
Shape
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Cocoa Tea is very upbeat about the progress of his single, A Love Like Yours and Mine, even as the title of the upcoming
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album from which it is taken expresses his concern about reggae in general.
He is thinking of releasing his next full-length set, Whe De Reggae Deh?, to piggyback on performances in London for next year's Olympics. This is as he says, currently A Love Like Yours and Mine "a gwaan bad! A gwaan terrible!"
"It is strictly for the ladies," Cocoa Tea said, placing the new track in the vein of his songs such as She Loves Me Now and Good Life. "It is to get the ladies back in my corner."
However, the overall project 'Whe De Reggae Deh?' speaks to something that he says people are asking about when he does performances outside Jamaica. "Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me where the reggae gone from in Jamaica. People are saying we are trying to export hip hop, rather than import hip hop and export reggae," Cocoa
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A number of disused commercial buildings could be demolished to make way for a new block of flats in Southend.
The planning application submitted
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to Southend Council outlines the construction of two blocks on land behind a number of businesses on Prince Avenue.
The buildings will be comprised of 11 flats and would be built following the demolition of commercial properties which were once owned by a business that has fallen into administration.
Planning documents note that these building are now “far beyond repair” and have been subject to vandalism in recent months. If it was to be used for another commercial building “much larger commercial units must be proposed to make the site viable”.
The size and number of bedrooms in each flat is not detailed in the application but it does highlight that “all proposed residential units would comply with minimum room standards, each unit would have adequate cycle, car parking and bin storage”.
Many of the flats are said to include either a balcony or juliette balcony.
A total of 12 parking spaces will be included, along with a storage area for bicycles and a bin storage area.
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The history of the Koreas, both north and south, is overshadowed in East Asian politics by China and Japan, according to an Ohio Wesleyan
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University professor.
Ji Young Choi, associate professor of international studies at Ohio Wesleyan University and a native of South Korea, kicked off this year’s Great Decisions series Friday. Choi said he is personally tied to the issues the countries face.
Choi covered the countries’ politics, nuclear issues and the chance of reunification after seven decades of tension between North and South Korea. Current politics in the Koreas are still being affected by a long history of conflict after World War II when they split.
Park Chung-hee, the first female and current president of South Korea, has worked to further the economy and create more welfare programs, Choi said.
In South Korea, people are politically split on how they feel with regards to U.S. involvement in the country. There are far leftists who believe U.S. help is not beneficial to South Korea, yet 60 percent of the population believes the U.S. is the best security for nation, Choi said
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Despite wobbling fuel prices, thickening waistlines and an avalanche of evidence lauding the benefits of active travel
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, Americans have been slow to embrace walking and cycling.
Dr. John Pucher, a professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, said the increases have been among men, the employed, well-educated and people without a car.
He believes American resistance to active travel has more to do with safety concerns than suburban sprawl.
Pucher, who works at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, has been studying transportation and ways to make walking and cycling feasible for 15 years.
In a recent study he and his team analyzed government data on active travel from telephone interviews in 2001 and 2009 with tens of thousands of Americans.
He said data from 2009 shows that 25 percent of all trips in American cities are a mile or shorter, and 40 percent are two miles or shorter.
He said other studies have shown that women cyclists tend to make huge detours to get to safer facilities, even if it takes longer, whereas men are
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T-Mobile makes a murky issue worse by declining to provide details about what's really going on.
T-Mobiles’ Binge
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On program has gone too far by throttling all streaming video traffic regardless of data plan or network congestion, according to a group of tech industry heavyweights.
The Internet Association—a group that counts Netflix, Amazon, Google, and Facebook among its members—claims that T-Mobile is reducing video quality for all streaming services without giving adequate choice or notice to consumers. The group has applauded the Federal Communications Commission for looking into T-Mobile’s practices.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, an unnamed YouTube spokesman gave more details: With Binge On, participating services agree to reduce video quality to 480p resolution in exchange for not counting against users’ data caps. YouTube is not yet participating in the program due to technical issues, yet its videos are getting downgraded to 480p anyway.
T-Mobile hasn’t responded directly to the accusations, except to say that users have the option to turn off Binge On whenever they want. This doesn’t
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MK’s mental health street triage service won Project of the Year at a prestigious awards ceremony in London last night.
The Street T
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riage Service sees Thames Valley Police officers and mental health professionals from NHS provider CNWL - which held the awards in London - working together to make sure people who are experiencing a mental health crisis get the appropriate care at the earliest possible opportunity.
The scheme has successfully reduced the number of Section 136 detentions by over 50 per cent since it began earlier this year.
By working together police, ambulance crews and mental health professionals have made sure people are given the right treatment increasing their rate of recovery.
It has also just received further funding following a successful pilot.
Inspector Lee Brace,who coordinates the street triage scheme in Milton Keynes for Thames Valley Police, said: “This award is recognition of all the hard work carried out by both Thames Valley Police and CNWL in delivering an improved mental health service to vulnerable people across Milton Keynes.
Superintendent Gez Chiariello, Area Commander for Milton Keynes, said: “We are proud to have
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Will Saif al-Islam Gaddafi run in Libyan elections?
The announcement that Saif al-Islam is planning to run for president has prompted
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mixed reactions within Libya.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi plans to run in Libya's presidential elections expected for later this year, according to a spokesman for the son of ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The announcement by Ayman Boras was made on Monday during a press conference in Tunisia, where the spokesman outlined Saif al-Islam's vision of "restoring the Libyan state, making it for everyone".
Since his release from prison in June 2017, the whereabouts of Saif al-Islam has been unknown. Boras, however, claimed that he is in Libya and is ready to become part of the political process - an announcement that stirred mixed reactions within Libya.
Mohammad al-Darrat, a member of the Tobruk-based Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), told Al Jazeera that Saif al-Islam's intention to run does not deserve any attention, asserting that the Gaddafis' regime is gone for good.
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LoveBot is the thoughtful husband or wife that you aren’t.
Presenting at the 2016 TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon,
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Guru Ranganathan was sure to specify once he got onstage that his LoveBot doesn’t do what you probably think it does.
Instead of making robot love, this chatbot speaks the love language by sending messages to designated contacts telling them how much you love and appreciate them or asking them how their day is going.
The app which uses the Telegram App SDK has multiple message setting types, including love, casual and motivational.
Love will send your loved one sweet, sweet Shakespeare quotes or messages that can bring that missing spark back into your relationship. Casual sends a check-in to your friend or lover to see how they’re doing or what they’re up to. Motivational is a bit strange. It sends your contact a quote that will maybe sorta inspire them. You can also set the frequency of these messages within the app’s portal.
Guru Ranganathan and Karthikeyan Santana, both employees at Microsoft, created the
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Allison Miller, a 13-year-old at Deer Park Junior/Senior High School logged on to the Happify platform to get what school
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officials hope will be a revealing picture of her character strengths.
What it showed: a strong capacity for creativity, humor, humility, forgiveness, and gratitude.
Allison was just one of the students at the Cincinnati school using the web platform, which uses a survey and generates five core character strengths from a list of 24 character traits. In a number of cases, students said it confirmed some of their own impressions of themselves.
"[Happify] explains the strengths and you could say, 'Yes, that's me,' " she said.
Austin Moore, an 8th-grader like Allison, also got insights into his core character strengths through Happify. They included creativity, hope, humility, forgiveness and gratitude. "I knew these were my core strengths before the survey," he said. "I definitely thought they were for me."
The 13-year-olds noted that Happify helps them approach their classes with a more positive, hopeful attitude; in particular, it
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Al Jazeera English staff have voted to accept a two-year pay deal worth more than 9 per cent after going four years without a raise.
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Staff at Al Jazeera’s London bureau received the offer last week just days before planned 24-hour strike action, which would have been followed by an indefinite withdrawal of goodwill if it had gone ahead.
Representatives of the National Union of Journalists and media union BECTU met with management through the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service on 4 May.
Negotiations lasted more than seven hours with the unions saying significant progress had been made. Staff have been trying to push for a pay rise since unionising four years ago.
Al Jazeera offered staff a two-year pay deal with a consolidated pay increase of 6 per cent, backdated to 1 January 2018, and an increase of 3 per cent as of 1 January 2019.
Yesterday NUJ members voted by 84 per cent to accept the offer and 92 per cent of BECTU members also backed it.
The Al Jazeera NUJ chapel said in a statement: “This deal shows what can be done when
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At peak times, customers have to wait up to two hours to get on the Viking Voyage attraction.
TAYTO PARK WILL introduce anim
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atronic robots to the “queue experience” at one of its attractions to make the sometimes hours-long wait more entertaining for customers.
The company behind the crisps-inspired theme park in Ashbourne, Co Meath has tendered a contract to provide various upgrades at the Viking Voyage water ride.
Visitor feedback surveys identified that the queue for the ride was “the key area which needed to improve to ensure guests remained satisfied”, according to a tender document.
“During our peak months of visitors (June, July and August) the queue can reach up to two hours in length,” it said.
To improve the visitor experience, Tayto Park plans to break up the waiting area into “a sequence of mini destinations”.
It will provide customers with a “mixed media, multi-sensory encounter” telling the story of the Viking invasion of Ireland through live actors; male and female animatronic
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But it still makes some mistakes that a human never would.
Microsoft scientists have released a paper claiming that their visual recognition software is outperforming humans
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, a long-sought after feat. The benchmark for humans in image classification is a 5.1 percent error rate. Microsoft claims their error rate is 4.94 percent, beating out Google's 6.66 percent.
In the ImageNet Competition, teams are given a dataset of 150,000 images and asked to identify 1,000 objects within those images. The 1,000 objects may appear in different pictures, meaning a computer may need to identify something like a power drill both with a person holding it and sitting on a workbench by itself. The provided images are often of a medium resolution, so it's going on compressed datasets.
This recent success a demonstration of Microsoft's deep learning capabilities—though as the company points out, some of its misses were pretty glaring, making "mistakes in cases that are not difficult for humans, especially for those requiring context understanding or high-level knowledge." The researchers also acknowledge that the demonstration related to the ImageNet dataset its algorithms were given
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama bowed to pressure yesterday and agreed to sign legislation giving Congress the right to reject any nuclear agreement with Iran.
The White
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House conveyed the president's decision shortly before Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved a compromise version of the measure on a 19-0 vote. It was a sign that Congress would not back down on its insistence that lawmakers must have a say if any final deal with Iran involves the eventual lifting of crippling economic sanctions that Congress levied on Tehran.
The bill is now likely to clear both houses in the Republican-controlled Congress.
Obama had threatened to veto the original bill, but as news of the compromise leaked out on Capitol Hill, the White House abruptly acquiesced. The president, however, still retains the right to use his veto if Congress tries to scuttle an emerging deal with Iran, which is to be finalized by June 30.
"Maybe they saw the handwriting on the wall," House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said about the White House decision.
International negotiators are trying to reach a deal that would prevent Iran from being able to develop nuclear weapons.
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"When it comes to human rights, the United States must practice at home what it preaches abroad."
The United Nations' Committee on the
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Elimination of Racial Discrimination has recently concluded its 85th Session during which time it considered seven state reports, including one on the United States.
The report praised many progressive steps the U.S. has taken to ensure equality, including the termination of the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, the adoption of the Fair Sentencing Act and the adoption of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
In a press conference convened Friday, CERD committee vice chairman Noureddine Amir highlighted the death of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown: "The excessive use of force by law enforcement officials against racial and ethnic minorities is an ongoing issue of concern and particularly in light of the shooting of Michael Brown. This is not an isolated event and illustrates a bigger problem in the United States, such as racial bias among law enforcement officials, the lack of proper implementation of rules and regulations governing the use of force, and the inadequacy of training and law enforcement officials."
In response to
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Ruth Taylor at home in Leeds.
A Leeds family has re-appealed to YEP readers to help with donations for a former
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St James’s Hospital worker who is suffering with motor neurone disease (MND).
Ruth Taylor, 44, is deteriorating rapidly since her diagnosis this summer and desperately wants to try stem cell treatment - but still needs thousands of pounds.
The treatment she wants is not available on the NHS and a previous appeal brought little in the way of financial help, so her family are now asking people in the run-up to Christmas to donate whatever they can manage.
Moor Allerton woman Ruth, a passionate world traveller and former St James’s Hospital worker of more than 20 years, was diagnosed in the summer after experiencing cramps around her body.
It is not exactly known why MND happens, nor are there currently any cures for the condition, which affects the nerves in a person’s brain and spinal cord that tell muscles what to do.
With MND, messages from these nerves gradually stop reaching the muscles, leading them to weaken, stiffen and
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The Queen's throne has been stolen, it seems, thanks to the efforts of the world's beer drinkers. The head of the royal family has
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lost her title as Britain's richest woman to Charlene de Carvalho, heiress to the Heineken brewing empire.
According to a survey of Britain's richest 100 people, Queen Elizabeth no longer weighs in as the state's wealthiest female, after Charlene inherited the legacy left by her father Freddie Heineken, who died last January.
When he passed away, his 48-year-old daughter took control of the entire family fortune along with the well-known Dutch brewing company. As a result, her wealth is now estimated at £2.85 billion, leaving other wealthy British women like Paloma Picasso and JK Rowling in the shade.
Indeed Charlene has taken second place overall in the top 100 rich list, making her the highest ranked woman ever. But despite her enormous wealth, she couldn't keep up with Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, who took the top spot with an estate of £3.3 billion.
If you haven't
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A new Samsung Galaxy J series smartphone was spotted on Geekbench bearing indication of Android Go.
Samsung could be launching its first Android Go smartphone soon
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. An entry-level Galaxy J series smartphone running Android Go was spotted on benchmarking website Geekbench recently.
According to the Geekbench listing, SM-J260G smartphone runs on the latest Android 8.1 Oreo. The smartphone is powered by Exynos 7570 quad-core processor paired with1GB of RAM. The listing further mentions “Universal7570_Go,”indicating the presence of Android Go.
Announced last year, Google’s Android Go platform is based on Android 8.1 Oreo and the OS is optimised for entry-level smartphones. Android Go aims to offer a lightweight Android experience for smartphones with low storage and less than 1GB of RAM. Google also has Android Go apps like YouTube Go, Google Maps Go, Google Assistant Go, and Google Go.
There are two Android Go smartphones available in India - Nokia 1 and Lava Z50. Nokia 1 Android Go smartphone is priced
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Jackson 5 star Tito Jackson returned to Wolverhampton as he continues his hunt for houses in the area.
Clad in a Wolves track
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suit, the 64-year-old Motown star wandered around the city centre before visiting Molineux – where he walked down the tunnel and sat down on the bench.
Tito stayed at the Mount Hotel and dined at the Memsahib restaurant in Compton during his trip this week.
Tito, one of pop legend Michael Jackson’s older brothers, said: “I’ve been wanting to come back to see another game and will hopefully next time I’m in town.
“Wolves have done great this year and I’m looking forward to them getting promoted. Wolves ay we!
“I think the fans have done a tremendous job supporting their local team.
“Being an entertainer is no different to being an athlete. People screaming their name gives you an extra incentive.
“I wish [his album Tito Time] was doing as well as the Wolves – but it is doing well.
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No. 6 Franklin won its third state title in dramatic fashion Thursday night at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.
Simon Spath kicked a
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29-yard field goal as time ran out to give Franklin a stunning 17-14 victory over Linganore in the Class 3A state title game.
Franklin (12-2) won in 2013 and 2014 with the first state title also coming against the Lancers. The Indians also made it to the 2016 state title game but lost. Linganore (12-2) was trying for a seventh state title.
Spath had made two extra points without incident in this game, and he was put on the stage when Franklin moved the ball downfield in the final 4:44 after Linganore tied the score. The Indians drove to the Linganore 13 and were keeping the ball in the middle of the field.
They called time with two seconds remaining. Linganore then tried to ice the junior kicker with another timeout before Spath drilled the kick through to give Franklin the crown.
Franklin coach Anthony Burgos knew that it might come down to Spath
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People who get much of their daily liquids from plain water rather than other beverages may have healthier diets overall, a study suggests.
Using data from
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a national health survey of more than 12,000 Americans, researchers found that people who drank more "plain water" tended to eat more fiber, less sugar and fewer calorie-dense foods.
The reverse was true of people who got much of their fluids from other beverages, according to a report of the study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The findings do not prove that drinking water makes for healthier eaters, said lead researcher Dr. Ashima K. Kant, a professor at Queens College of the City University of New York.
But, she told Reuters Health, they do suggest a connection — and a reason to encourage people to choose water over beverages.
The findings are based on 12,283 Americans age 20 and older who took part in a government health and nutrition survey between 1999 and 2006. On average, respondents got one-third of their daily fluids from water, 48 percent from other beverages and the rest from food.
In general, the more water people drank
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When I reflect on my childhood baking memories, one that stands out is a tray of warm chocolate chip cookies coming out of the oven. It was
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so tempting to eat the raw dough while making them — talk about a lesson in delayed gratification — but in 20 or so minutes, delicious buttery, sugary cookies dotted with chocolate chips would be ready to enjoy.
Never mind fancy desserts; chocolate chip cookies have always been one of my favorite treats. And if you are like me and find them irresistible, you probably can’t stop after a few bites.
Then there’s the chocolate, which, in addition to sugar, contains small amounts of a compound known as anandamide. Interestingly, anandamide is also a brain chemical that targets the same cell receptors as THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the active ingredient in marijuana that is responsible for its mood-altering effects. That’s not to say chocolate will produce the same “high” as marijuana, but there may be a chemical basis for the pleasure we get from eating chocolate.
“A chocolate chip cookie is a
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For the world's major oil companies, the feud over the Falkland Islands is between different petroleum geologists, as well as between Argentina and Great
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Britain.
One theory holds that the Falklands could be sitting atop a major oil field. This possibility explains the considerable interest shown by such companies as Exxon and Arco now engaged in exporatory work off the Argentine coast. It also is one reason political analysts give for the tenacity of both British and Argentine claims to the Falklands.
A second opinion, supported by recent work done for the US Department of Energy by the US Geological Survey, says that Argentina's oil-rich sedimentary beds both onshore and offshore may end well before reaching the midway point between Argentina and the Falklands.
The oil industry can only resolve the question of the Falklands' oil potential by drilling exploratory wells. Preliminary steps have been taken but the major work remains ahead. According to some experts, the combination of extreme weather conditions in the Falklands area and current low crude oil prices could delay further work for as much as 20 years. Other experts see production possible in the area within five to
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The annual television licence fee will increase to £147 from £145.50 on April 1 this year, the Government has said.
You might
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think you only need a TV licence if you actually have a television, or only if you watch live TV at the same time as it's being broadcast, but it is NOT that simple.
It's the first increase since 2010.
But it won't be the last, with the Government announcing the licence fee will rise in line with inflation for five years.
Here's everything you need to know about the increase including payment plans and when you don't have to pay for one.
What date will it increase?
The cost of a TV licence will increase on Saturday, April 1.
It is the first time since 2010 that the price has changed.
How much is it going up by?
From April 1 a TV licence fee will be £147, the new figure is just £1.50 more than the £145.50 cost we pay now.
The government
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The Rotary Club of Royal Leamington Spa’s Trees of Light will be shining again on the Christmas trees outside Leamington Town
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Hall and St Margaret’s church in Whitnash over the festive period.
Everyone is invited to have the names of their absent or departed loved ones displayed on lists near the trees and around the towns, in exchange for a donation to the Myton Hospices to support their work in Warwick, Coventry and Rugby.
Last year donations to the campaign reached a record total of £5,885, all of which went directly to the charity.
Rotary club president David Leigh-Hunt said: “Thanks to everyone’s generosity the Trees of Light have raised £66,000 since the inception of the scheme in 2001.
The Courier is supporting the campaign, and will carry the donation coupon each week up to Christmas alongside articles about the charity’s work.
Last year the Myton Hospices supported more than 1,400 people and their families needing compassionate end of life care.
The lights on the Whitnash tree will be switched on by Mayor
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FOR an industry where timing is everything, the alarm clock setting was the first indication Hall of Fame trainer Gai Waterhouse had rediscovered her passion
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for racing.
Racing's first lady makes every second count in her busy daily schedule and it was her husband who noticed a small change in long-followed routines at home that let him know the spring was back in his wife's step.
"I set Gai's alarm and she used to get up at 2.25am each morning but now I am setting her alarm for 2.12am,'' he said.
The difference is only 13 minutes but that is a lot for the trainer.
"Gai can't wait to start her day, get to the track and be with the horses,'' Waterhouse said.
After a sustained period where the Hall of Fame trainer found herself becoming bogged down in the daily grind of managing a large stable - being pulled in all directions - training racehorses has become fun again.
"What I really love about my job is the horse side of it,'' she said.
"Being able to work with the horses,
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Submitted Photo. Regional Solutions Commission Chairman George Borrello speaks to the review panel about the county’s MCEC grant application.
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ALBANY — Chautauqua County officials recently traveled to Albany to provide New York state officials with a presentation on the county’s submitted application for the final phase of the Municipal Consolidation and Efficiency Competition (MCEC).
The MCEC is part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s mission to reduce the heavy property tax burden in New York state by cutting costs, sharing services and increasing efficiencies.
In February, Chautauqua County was one of six finalists across the state to be awarded $50,000 to further develop its plan for the final phase of the competition. Its final plan was submitted to the state at the end of June and the winner of this final phase will receive a $20 million grant award for its innovative plan for consolidation, dissolution, service sharing and other cost-saving measures.
Presenting the county’s final plan were Chautauqua County Executive Vince Horrigan, Chautauqua County Regional Solutions Commission Chairman and County Legisl
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Deep in the Atacama Desert of Chile, chemical company SQM pumps saline brine from underground reservoirs into hundreds of giant rectangular pools. As
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the brine slowly evaporates, the liquid turns into varying shades of green and blue resembling an artist’s palette.
A liquid called lithium chloride remains, which is shipped to refineries to produce lithium carbonate and hydroxide, vital materials for lithium-ion battery production.
In recent months, Chinese engineers and businessmen have visited the plants, hinting at China’s desire to secure supplies of lithium, a key component for the high-tech industry.
It’s hard to overstate the importance of lithium in the context of current battery technologies. Lithium-ion batteries are efficient and have low self-discharge. They’re the most popular type of rechargeable battery for home electronics, mobile phones, and electric cars.
A remote region in central South America, formed through millions of years of natural leaching from the Andes Mountains, holds one-fifth of the world’s known lithium reserves.
Chile has the world�
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There have been in recent times, several reports of security personnel engaging in deviant behaviours that get us wandering if we are ever going to be safe
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Security men have been cited in incidents of armed robbery, maiming and cold-blooded murder. These are not normal behaviors. That persons who the state has provided weapons for to protect society, turn these weapons on the very society that pays them as well, should be of serious concern to all of us. Not even when they turn the guns on themselves. Not only is it a waste of the country's resources; every single life lost is one life too many for this country.
The tragic incident that occurred close to the Castle, where an officer who was to secure the seat of the Presidency, turned his gun on civilians, before committing suicide must get us doing some serious thinking.
The questionable acts that some of our men and women in uniform involve themselves in, raise questions as to how we recruit these persons. For persons who we would entrust our very lives and safety with, there is the need to have established their psychological state.
Resilience is a very important
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Two children died and four other people were injured in a two-vehicle crash that occurred Sunday afternoon west of Leola.
Names of the
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six people involved are not being released pending notification of family members, the Highway Patrol said in a news release.
A 2001 Buick Park Avenue was eastbound on South Dakota Highway 10 when the vehicle left the roadway and entered the south ditch. The driver overcorrected back onto the roadway where the vehicle collided with a westbound 2004 Cadillac Deville.
Two children in the Buick, a 4-year-old female and a 2-year-old male, died at the scene. Both were wearing seatbelts, the Highway Patrol said.
The two other occupants in the Buick, both females, suffered life-threatening injuries. The 28-year-old driver, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the vehicle. She was taken to an Aberdeen hospital and later airlifted to a Fargo, N.D., hospital. A 7-year-old female passenger, who was wearing a seatbelt, was taken to an Aberdeen hospital.
Both
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Council Post: Can Advertisers Balance Scale And Quality?
Can Advertisers Balance Scale And Quality?
Founder and CEO of Tay
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key, a real-time audience data company.
In the wake of several high-profile cases of large advertisers appearing next to terrorist videos, the issues of inventory quality and safety are once again top of mind for the advertising industry. We’re seeing a renewed flight to manually vetted solutions such as private ad exchanges, predefined publisher whitelists and traditional direct media deals where marketers run exclusively on hand-selected publishers.
Unfortunately, advertisers also pay the price in the form of reduced scale, efficiency, and the ability to reach and engage their consumers most effectively. While the appeal of these manual approaches is understandable, their trade-offs are often unnecessary based on the advertiser’s objectives. Increasingly, whitelisting and private exchanges are being used as a crutch for bad data and inaccurate targeting rather than a proactive strategy.
The primary challenge is consumer behavior itself. More than 30% of web traffic is driven by social media. Millennials check their phones more than 150 times
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East Coweta, Newnan and Northgate high schools are among Georgia’s Advanced Placement Honor Schools for 2019.
Advanced Placement
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(AP) courses are college-level courses offered by specially trained high school teachers in a regular high school setting. In May of each year, students take AP exams – administered by the College Board, which also administers the SAT – with a maximum score of 5.
Those who score 3, 4 or 5 level may be able to earn college credit for these courses taken during high school. State School Superintendent Richard Brooks recently announced the list of 2019 Georgia AP Honor Schools, which recognized 230 of Georgia’s 525 public high schools for student achievement on the May 2018 exams.
“I congratulate the educators and leaders who worked to create strong AP programs in these 230 Georgia schools, ultimately connecting students with high-level coursework and the opportunity to gain college credit,” Woods said.
Northgate was among just 71 schools recognized as AP Merit Schools. Merit status is awarded to schools where at least 20 percent of the total student population sits for AP exams, and at least
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DALLAS — It's the case for a lot of people: the older we get, the weaker we become.
"The average 50
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-year old loses about one to two percent of muscle mass in their legs yearly," said David Foreman, R.Ph, aka The Herbal Pharmacist.
Age-related muscle decline is called sarcopenia. "You can truly reverse sarcopenia if you do the right things," Foreman said.
First, Foreman suggests pumping up your healthy proteins which could include chicken, fish and plant-based proteins. He said the average person who weighs 150 pounds should consume 120 grams of protein per day. A lack of protein, Foreman said, makes it more difficult to produce muscle mass.
"I now have little snack packs of peanuts and almonds and chickpeas and edamame," Foreman said of his own choices when it comes to packing for travel days.
Next, Foreman recommends essential amino acids, which our bodies can't make on their own.
"We’re trying to rejuvenate our muscles," Foreman explained. "We�
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It's hard out there for a lone Seahawks fan at a Packers-Cardinals game. It's late in the NFC playoff game at University of
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Phoenix Stadium in Glendale on Saturday, where for some reason Cardinals fans don't take a liking to this one Seahawks fan and begin beating on him and placing him in headlocks.
It's hard to say what started this rumble, but it's the Seahawks fan who gets arrested and hauled off, despite the cameraman declaring that "I got it all on footage! He's the victim!"
The Seahawks fan then worries about his hat as he's being taken away. "It's a Seattle hat! It's important to me!"
And the cameraman is asked by security to come up to the office so that they can view the tape. This seems to be the proudest moment in the cameraman's life, judging by his commentary as he films himself leaving.
But the joke was on him. Just moments after he left his seat, Aaron Rodgers threw the Hail Mary pass that sent the game to overtime.
Police reported that there was no arrest involving the incident, so
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June 15 (UPI) -- In a nearly unanimous vote, the U.S. Senate on Thursday approved new sanctions against Iran and Russia that
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also limit President Donald Trump's administration from weakening existing sanctions against Moscow.
In a 98-2 vote, the Senate approved tougher measures against Iran's ballistic missile program, due to the country's support for terrorist groups and its record on human rights.
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the author of the bill, told reporters he hoped President Donald Trump would "acknowledge" the near-unanimous support among senators for tougher actions against Iran and Russia.
The measure also included language toughening sanctions against Russia in the wake of their accused efforts to influence the outcome of the 2016 election, converting some of the penalties put in place by former President Barack Obama's administration into law, and forbidding Trump from weakening existing Russia sanctions without first seeking Senate approval.
Senators said the tougher tack against Russia would help force them to ease hostilities against Ukraine, permit a negotiated settlement in the Syrian civil war and dissuade them from attempting to hack U.S. institutions and political groups
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Perhaps when the president’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., is inundated by the rising waters of the Atlantic
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Ocean, he might come to his senses about the realities behind global climate change and understand that his reliance on fake science has put more than his golfing and banquet buddies at risk.
The real scientists, not the fossil fuel industry shills, have been proven correct.
Rising atmospheric and sea temperatures brought about by the incessant production of environmentally destructive, heat-trapping greenhouse gases have ensured that what were called “500-year storms” are now happening every couple of years.
Hurricane Harvey saw areas of Texas never prone to flooding deluged with up to 50 inches of rain. Interstate highways were turned into raging rivers. The second floors of many homes and apartment buildings were reached by flood waters.
But the epochal flooding of Houston and several other areas of Texas do not represent a one-off event.
As Texas counted the dead and tallied up the billions of dollars in damage caused by Harvey, South Asia saw 1,200 deaths and millions of people made
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Three, never march on Moscow.
So why are the U.S., the European Union (EU), and NATO on the road to the
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Russian capital? And exactly what are they hoping to accomplish?
For beginners, there are multiple armies marching eastward, and they are not exactly on the same page. In military parlance that is called divided command, and it generally ends in debacle. In addition, a lot of their weapons are of doubtful quality and might even end up backfiring. And lastly, like all great crises, there is a sticker price on this one that is liable to give even fire breathers pause.
There are actual armies involved. NATO has deployed troops, aircraft and naval forces in the region, and the Russians parked 40,000 troops on Ukraine's eastern border. But with the exception of the horrendous deaths of over 40 demonstrators in Odessa, the crisis has been a remarkably calm affair. The Russians took over the Crimea virtually without a shot, and while there is a worrisome increase of violent incidents in the south and east, they are hardly up to the French and German invasions in 1812
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With the Super Bowl behind us, it’s time to look ahead to the NFL Draft.
The Cardinals are in an extreme rebuild phase
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. Bosa is an elite-level talent and projects to be a perennial All-Pro from the defensive end projection. Arizona selects the best player available in the draft.
The Bednarik Award winner (nation’s top defensive player) would give the 49ers a promising pass rush when matched with 2018 No. 3 overall pick Solomon Thomas. Allen could be the X-factor their defense needs to help them push for a playoff berth next year.
I believe the Jaguars will jump the Giants and go for their quarterback of the future. Haskins led the nation in passing yards and touchdowns while leading the Buckeyes to a Big Ten Championship in 2018. Blake Bortles has been a dud in Jacksonville, so maybe the playmaker out of Ohio State can revitalize their failing offense.
The Raiders surrendered two of their best players last year for first-round draft selections. That means they need to find the best talent, regardless of position, to begin filling the many holes
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As Digital Trends’ Managing Editor, Nick Mokey oversees more than 25 full-time editorial employees delivering definitive reviews, enlightening buying guides
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, and incisive analysis. His decade-long career at the company has seen him writing, editing, managing, hosting videos, guiding conference tours, moderating panels, and presenting Tech Talks to companies including Microsoft and GM. He never met a headline he couldn’t tighten up. Offline, you can find Nick hiking, biking, riding motorcycles, woodworking, or puttering down forest roads in the 4x4 camping van he imported from Japan. He grew up in Rochester, NY, holds a degree in Magazine Journalism from Syracuse University, and still drinks Genesee beer.
You may not be able to attend CES in Las Vegas, but we’re bringing all of the best booths to you. From LG’s wall of OLED TVs to a full-scale flying taxi, these are spectacles we won’t forget.
Why drive when you can ride? At CES 2019, car companies are showing off an array of self-driving shuttles,
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Huh? Last time I came through these doors this was a Chinese place, the Silver Sea. Now it’s Hawaiian. Very Hawaiian.
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Bright yellow and sea-green walls, canoe paddles, three toothy, life-size tikis, and that bright red, blue, and white-striped Hawaiian state flag. One wall section’s even covered with Kona coffee gunnysacks. And wow, two big flat screens show extreme surfing on Oahu’s North Shore. Forty-foot waves. Tiny stick men skiing down collapsing blue water mountains.
But I see some other real tempters on the menu, like eight deep-fried coconut shrimp with sweet chili sauce, for $8.95; a mandarin orange salad for $8.25; and a “killer kalua” pork sandwich, with “a generous portion of succulent roasted pork piled high on our jumbo roll and smothered with BBQ sauce,” for $7.65. They also have grilled chicken ($7.65), kalbi (beef short-ribs,
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Kiss you winter skin troubles goodbye, understand your skin better and learn how to maintain it the Vegan Way.
Shikhee Agrawal
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, Head Training at The Body Shop India and Bhavya Chawla, Chief Stylist, Voonik list down some benefits of opting for vegan rich skin regime.
Skin friendly: Vegan-friendly skincare products are made from plants, minerals, and some safe synthetic ingredients. It provides more nourishment to the skin with natural goodness.
Controls acne: Natural ingredients such as seaweed, tea tree oil, vitamin E, aloe vera, chamomile, and vitamin C, adds energizing abstract to these vegan products. Chamomile purifies the skin and gives a silky soft feel to the skin thus very suitable for sensitive skin.
Aloe-vera has a soothing and calming sensation and is known for its skin benefits from ancient times. Seaweed is popular for removing excess oil and impurities, thus helps in treating acne. Tea tree targets the imperfections of the body thus it is best suitable for blemished skin.
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The JP Big Band are holding a one-off charity concert to help raise funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on Saturday, July 29,
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at the Steyning Centre, Fletchers Croft, Steyning.
The evening, hosted by Jim Prior and his three singers – David Browne, Rebecca Askew and Bryony Prior – will start at 7.30pm.
Band leader and organiser Jim has a personal connection with Cystic Fibrosis and wanted to combine his love of music with raising funds and awareness for research for the thousands who suffer from this life-threatening disease, he explained.
Jim is promising a raffle with generous donations from local residents and businesses, all of which will be run and supported by The Rotary club of Steyning and Henfield, The Steyning Music Society and The Steyning Jazz Club.
Tickets for the evening cost £12 and are available from the Steyning Bookshop on 01903 812062 or from the fundraising page.
Visit Click here to find out more or visit www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk
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Town board members repealed a law Tuesday that they say is antiquated and was written at a time when "attitudes were different."
Hemp
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stead Town Board members on Tuesday voted unanimously to repeal an antiquated town code that restricted public breastfeeding.
The repeal came about two months after Levittown resident Colleen Morgan expressed concerns to town officials about breastfeeding restrictions at town pools.
“We should allow mothers to breastfeed their infants wherever they see fit when they’re using town facilities,” Hempstead Supervisor Laura Gillen said Tuesday.
Morgan, 33, on Tuesday praised the repeal.
“It’s great they’re finally with the times and did the right thing,” she said.
Also on Tuesday, the board cast dissenting votes on proposed personnel changes in the town communications department. Four Republican councilmembers and senior Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, a Democrat, voted against both the promotion of Mike Fricchione from press secretary to director of communications and hiring Stephen Smirti as press secretary. Gillen supported those moves. Councilman Edward Ambrosino voted against F
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It was a great and terrible year for Jewish pop culture.
We wrote what we hope will be our last article on Howard Stern. (We
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have that hope regarding every article about Howard Stern.) Bethenny Frankel emerged as an unlikely hero, Al Franken had an unlikely fall from heroism, and our relationship with Mayim Bialik got deeper and more complicated than ever before.
Read on for our 17 most-read pieces of 2017.
1) 2017 was the year that marked the rise of two great Jewish women: Gal Gadot and Meghan Markle. Just kidding, Meghan Markle isn’t Jewish. Still, we thought she might be, giving rise to the kind of royal hysteria that only Jews can muster.
Is Meghan Markle Now Prince Harry’s Jew-ish Princess?
2) Why did readers of a Jewish pop-culture page care so much about scholar Ta-Nehisi Coates’s analysis of the peril of making comparisons between Nazi Germany and the Confederacy? Because The Schmooze’s audience is savvy and well-informed.
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Fulham have moved to replace Dimitar Berbatov by completing the signing of Greece striker Kostas Mitroglou.
Ber
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batov has been allowed to travel to Monaco for a medical ahead of a potential loan move to the Ligue 1 side.
West Ham were interested in signing Mitroglou but the 25-year-old has opted to move to Craven Cottage instead.
Mitroglou has signed a four-year contract with the west London club.
The striker began his career in Germany, but moved to Olympiacos in 2007.
He has enjoyed a superb season so far, scoring 14 league goals in the Greek Super League.
Fulham manager Rene Meulensteen will hope that Mitroglou can fill the void left by Berbatov, who has struggled for form recently.
Berbatov joined Fulham in August 2012 and enjoyed a successful first season with the club, scoring 15 goals.
This season has been a different story for the Bulgarian, however.
He has found the net just four times in the Barclays Premier League and his agent
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A woman described as the Bonnie to her boyfriend's Clyde will spend another 222 days in jail after pleading guilty to five charges stemming from four incidents across
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the Central Okanagan.
Kristina Anderson and Julian Hoekstra were arrested Dec. 16, 2017, after months of mail thefts in West Kelowna, Peachland and Summerland.
The first conviction stems from a December 2016 incident in which stolen mail in Peachland, fitted with a bait tracking device, led police to the couple in a car on Dobbin Road in West Kelowna, full of stolen mail.
They were released on bail, but they weren't done.
After a slew of mailbox break-ins in May 2017, 19 covert cameras were installed in Summerland community mailboxes, and on June 4, the cameras caught Anderson and Hoekstra breaking into a mailbox near McDougald and Matsu roads.
Several months later, in October, a community mailbox on Shannon Lake Road was broken into and a recently approved Wal-Mart credit card was stolen. On Oct. 29, Anderson and Hoekstra went on a “shopping spree
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A chef familiar to the culinary team at Kevin Gillespie’s restaurant Gunshow has been tapped to helm the eatery’s kitchen.
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Chris McCord, who has served as sous chef at Gunshow since 2015, will take over as chef de cuisine after executive chef Joey Ward’s departs to open his own concept in Poncey-Highland on Feb. 9.
Before that, McCord worked at French restaurant F&B in Buckhead, and the now-shuttered Ink & Elm in Emory Village and The Globe in Midtown. He attended culinary school at the Art Institute of Atlanta, where he was a year behind Gillespie.
As chef de cuisine, McCord will the responsible for the back of house operations and the menu, and a new general manager will run the front of the house operations. The restaurant will no longer use the executive chef title, according to Gillespie.
Gunshow has racked up plenty of accolades since it opened in 2013 in Glenwood Park, including being named to Esquire’s list of Best New Restaurants and the National Eater 38. Gillespie
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Pension ULIPs offered by insurance companies are tailored to the needs of investors to accumulate their retirement corpus. They are similar to regular ULIP
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s in terms of nature and cost structure. Both have a lock-in of five years and the premiums paid are tax exempt under Section 80C up to ₹1,50,000 annually.
Pension ULIPs are long-term investment products working in two phases: 1) accumulation and 2) income.
During the accumulation phase, you can build your retirement corpus by investing in different asset classes. They levy various charges towards premium allocation, policy administration and switching. As mandated by the insurance regulator, pension ULIPs should guarantee at least the total premium paid by the policyholder at the time of pay out. For this, an investment guarantee charge is levied by the insurers ranging from 0.10 to 0.50 per cent per annum. Some insurers levy mortality charge calculated on the sum at risk. On death, the nominee would receive the higher of the fund value or 105 per cent of the total premiums paid so far. The nominee would be given the option to
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After a frustrating six months which saw her fall from the cusp of the world's top 100 to 153 in the world, Katie O'Brien
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is back on form and very close to joining Anne Keothavong in the promised land. As she sets her sights on a good grasscourt season, Katie talks about why she has improved, on almost being in the top 100 and why the women on tour are useless at socialising.
On her terrific year so far: I’ve been playing really well and in general I’ve had a really good year so I’m really looking forward to the upcoming tournaments.
On playing on clay: I’m much more comfortable on it than I used to be. A lot of Brits don’t particularly like the clay but I don’t mind it. The French is harder to qualify for than the other Slams because of the clay.
On hopefully getting automatic qualification for Wimbledon: I didn’t expect that, to be honest. I started the year just wanting to turn over a new leaf and everything came together really well.
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Using a sensor hidden in the grille, the Nissan Rogue Sport is one of several models that will make automatic emergency braking standard for 2018.
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To distinguish itself in the increasingly competitive field of advanced safety capabilities, Nissan will standardize automatic emergency braking in the bulk of its 2018 model year lineup.
All the major manufacturers in the U.S. have some manner of forward crash mitigation technology available today and most have agreed to standardize it by 2022, but only a few have taken that step ahead of schedule. Nissan joins Toyota and Volvo as the only high-volume sellers to make automatic emergency braking, or AEB, available on the bulk of their sales fleets.
Using radar technology, the system monitors surrounding traffic and alerts drivers to potential crashes with audio and visual warnings. If the driver doesn’t respond, the system applies the brake autonomously.
Part of Nissan's "Safety Shield Technologies," automatic emergency braking uses a radar system to detect potential crashes.
Currently, AEB is part of a suite of driver assistance technologies that Nissan brands as its “Safety Shield.” It includes blind spot monitoring, lane departure
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The Malaysian prime minister says Burma could face expulsion from the Asean group of nations if its government continues to ignore calls to free the jailed opposition
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leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
"We have already informed them that we are very disappointed with the turn of events and we hope that Aung San Suu Kyi will be released as soon as possible," Dr Mahathir said.
He said that ultimately Burma could be expelled from Asean though he stressed this would be done as a last resort.
It was Dr Mahathir who spearheaded moves to bring Burma into Asean - the Association of South East Asian Nations - in 1997.
The Malaysian leader hoped that trade and political engagement would bring change there, says the BBC's Jonathan Kent in Kuala Lumpur.
Suu Kyi and other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) have been detained by the Burmese military government since the end of May.
Dr Mahathir said that Asean nations had been forced to criticise Burma because its leadership had caused problems and embarrassed its neighbours.
Aung San Suu Ky
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Nobody inside CCHQ was prepared for election night’s 10 p.m. exit poll. Lynton Crosby’s last text to
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me predicted that we were going to ‘do well’, which according to our expectations would mean a Conservative majority of more than 60. A late projection, based on data from the ground and Jim Messina’s modelling, suggested we would win 371 seats, giving us a majority of 92. In the end, the Conservatives got their highest share of the vote since 1983, and more votes than Tony Blair managed in any of his elections, yet still we ended up with a hung parliament.
Skilful leadership may deliver stability, but the absence of an overall majority means the nature of the Brexit deal the government negotiates is more uncertain. There has long been talk of a choice between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ forms of Brexit, with the latter requiring membership of the EU’s single market. Since that would involve accepting the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice, vast annual membership payments to the EU, and the continuation of free movement rules,
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Soldiers of the German Bundeswehr participate in Land Operation Exercise 2017 in Munster, Germany, on October 13.
German military strategists
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prepare for the fall of the European Union and the United States.
The German Army is trying to work out what to do if Europe falls apart, according to leaked documents published by Der Spiegel magazine on November 4.
The 102-page document, published in February and titled “Strategic Perspective 2040,” reveals that the German Army is contemplating how to react to six political trends that could escalate in the coming years. The document describes as its sixth and worst-case scenario “The Collapse of the EU and Germany in Reactive Mode.” The document proves Germany has a strategy for a time when it is no longer under United States or European Union dominance.
“For the first time in its history, the Bundeswehr predicts how social trends and international conflicts will influence the Bundeswehr’s strategic planning,” Spiegel wrote. “The conclusions are six security-political scenarios that are extraordinary” (Trumpet translation throughout).
The
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Prosecutors detained a top Chinese news anchor shortly before a nightly broadcast, state media reported, as authorities extend anti-corruption efforts deeper into the country's
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media industry.
Rui Chenggang, the popular host of financial news programs on China Central Television (CCTV), was taken away from his studio on Friday, ruling Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily said on its Twitter account on Saturday night.
Rui's detention, along with the network's vice director of financial news Li Yong, comes a little more than a month after officials announced an investigation into suspected bribery by his boss, CCTV's advertising director and director-general of its finance and economics channel Guo Zhenxi.
The government has cracked down on official corruption and extravagance in China since the appointment last year of President Xi Jinping, who has said widespread graft threatens the party's survival.
An indication of the suddenness of Rui's detention, a second microphone appeared on the set of Friday night's "Economic News" broadcast, though it was anchored only by Rui's co-host, reported the financial news site Caixin.com.
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