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Two TDs have announced that they will not contest the forthcoming General Election.
Fine Gael MEP and TD Gay Mitchell and Independent TD Mildred Fox have
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confirmed that they will not be running in the election, which is expected next summer.
Mr Mitchell has held a seat for Fine Gael in Dublin South Central since 1981.
When he became an MEP two years ago, he said he would decide closer to the election whether to continue in Europe, or return full time to the Dáil.
This evening, he announced that after much thought, he is to opt for Europe, but he said he was confident Fine Gael would hold his seat, and that Fine Gael and Labour between them could win three of the five seats in the constituency.
His running mate in the last election, Catherine Byrne, has since had a year as Lord Mayor of Dublin, and would be seen as a strong candidate.
Meanwhile in Wicklow, Independent TD Mildred Fox has confirmed she will not run.
Ms Fox, who was elected to the Dáil in 1995 after the death of her father Johnny, told her local radio station she was not standing
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Winning an Oscar is all well and good. Like everyone else in the world though, this year's awards recipients had to go back to work
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the following day.
For Spike Lee, winner of the best adapted screenplay award for his film BlacKkKlansman, that meant heading off to South East Asia at the first opportunity.
"I'm on a plane tomorrow morning to Thailand," the US film-maker told reporters on Sunday.
Thailand will stand in for Vietnam in Da 5 Bloods, which tells of African-American war veterans returning to that country to locate the remains of a fallen comrade.
Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther himself, will star in the project alongside Delroy Lindo and Leon's Jean Reno.
Here's what else this year's Oscar winners have in the pipeline and where we'll be seeing them next.
With the third and fourth series of The Crown shooting back to back, Olivia Colman will not have long to bask in the glory of her best actress triumph.
The Broadchurch star's filming commitments meant she had to miss a number of other awards
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Ghana’s only representative in continental competition, Kumasi Asante Kotoko has been beaten narrowly by one goal to nil by Sudanese
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giants Al Hilal Omdurman.
It was the side’s first outing in the Group phase of this year CAF Confederations Cup competition. They could however not finish the match with the result they would have wanted as they were beaten by the home side.
It took the efforts of Waleed Hamid who scored the only goal of the game for Al Hilal five minutes before the end of the first half. Both sides could not take any of their chances in the second half and the scoreline stayed the same at the end of the 90 minutes.
The Porcupine Warriors now has to return to Ghana and prepare for their second match of the group stage against Zambian heavyweight Zesco United. It is a match they will have to do everything possible to win to revive their chances of making it to the knockout stage of the competition.
In the other group c game played today, Zesco United beat fellow country team Nkana Red Devils by
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Who is Yuriko Koike, the most powerful woman in Japan?
Tokyo's ambitious governor, whose supporters wave broccoli in honour of
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her green slogan.
“You idiot, you’re about to meet the governor!” In a surreal televised moment, one of Japan’s most celebrated film-makers – the winner of the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion in 1997 – emerged from a limousine dressed as Donald Trump, with a blond wig and red tie, on his way to visit the governor of Tokyo, a city of more than nine million people.
Takeshi Kitano, better known in Japan as the comedian “Beat Takeshi”, brushed off the scolding from his dark-suited sidekick waiting outside city hall and strode through the sliding glass doors to meet Yuriko Koike, Tokyo’s first female governor and Japan’s political star of the moment.
Koike, 65, is a former newsreader who last year broke ranks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to run as
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Washington: US President Donald Trump on Friday said that he did not see a rise in white nationalism across the world after the accused in the New Zealand
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mosque terror attack called the president "a symbol of renewed white identity."
“I don't really think so. I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems,” The Hill quoted Trump as saying when asked if he saw a rise in white nationalism.
"If you look at what happened in New Zealand, perhaps that’s the case. I don’t know enough about it yet," he added.
Earlier, a social media account believed to be linked to the Australian-born suspect, who filmed himself, while carrying out the attack, had posted a lengthy manifesto, expressing anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim views.
Responding to the same, Trump said that he was yet to see the manifesto and called the mass shootings "horrible".
The 28-year-old suspect, identified as Brenton Harrison Tarrant appeared before a Christchurch court on Saturday on murder charges connected with Friday's terror attacks
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THIS Sunday (7), a Herrison Hospital History Open Day is being held at Herrison Hall in Charlton Down, near Dorchester, from
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11am to 4pm.
People will be given a chance to learn more about the history of the hospital and meet some of the people who were involved with it.
It was timely then to hear from Sally McMahon, who doesn't live locally but became aware of the open day after picking up a copy of the Echo when she was staying in Dorchester to visit the opening of the Tolpuddle Martyrs Remixed exhibition at the Shire Hall.
Some of Sally's relatives worked at or were patients at the hall and she has shared their records with us below after researching her family history.
1) Employment record - Samuel Hammett was a brick layer (1871-1881) who possibly worked on the construction of the building, but certainly worked as an attendant at The Dorset County Asylum from 1891-1911 and resided there. He was Sally's second cousin three times removed and the son of James Hammett Tolpuddle Martyr.
2) Patient record
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Disability provider IHC says the Ministry of Education needs to act and shut down seclusion rooms, not simply say it is "working" with
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schools.
Education Minister Hekia Parata announced yesterday that seclusion rooms would be banned in schools under new laws proposed by the government.
Today, the ministry would not confirm or deny whether two schools were still using the rooms.
The move to make the rooms illegal follows revelations some schools have been placing disruptive children in locked, small, cell-like rooms.
Ms Parata told Parliament last month a Ministry of Education review found eight special schools had seclusion rooms.
A response to written questions by the Green Party has now revealed only six of the schools have agreed to stop using them.
RNZ understands the two schools in question were residential schools that operated 24/7.
IHC's Trish Grant said the response was a cop-out.
"I'm concerned that the ministry is using phrases like 'working with the schools'. I think the minister herself said this was intolerable and needs to stop now."
It was nonsense to blame the delay in shutting down
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Minnesota shot only 31.3 percent from the field in its sixth loss in seven games.
Lindsay Whalen sees a team working hard
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. Every day, she said. In practice and in games. On both ends of the court.
But the results, right now, just aren’t there.
Again Thursday, her Gophers women’s basketball team held an upper-division opponent to 64 points. The Gophers defended hard, though there were cracks to be seen down the stretch. But they just couldn’t score enough in a 64-53 loss to Purdue at Williams Arena in front of 5,572 fans.
For now, unfortunately, difficulty scoring has led to a second straight loss and the sixth in seven games for Minnesota (13-6, 2-6 Big Ten).
Up by a point at halftime, the Gophers made only 11 of 34 second-half shots. A 13-3 Purdue run put the Boilermakers (15-6, 6-2) up seven with 3:40 left in the third quarter and Purdue never trailed again. The Gophers pulled with
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I’m working with an amazing entertainment events company who are driving continual growth and are looking for a Head of People & Culture for a 6
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month maternity contract. With people and culture very much at their core, you will play a significant role during a period of change within the business.
Reporting directly into the CEO & MD, you will partnering the leadership team from a HR strategic perspective but also be comfortable rolling your sleeves up and partnering with a diverse client group (x100). A true generalist role you will be exposed to everything from talent management, succession planning, learning & development and employee engagement. With the agency going through a change/transformation period, you will have been exposed to this previously.
You will have exposure of working within a creative SME environment, reporting directly into a CEO/COO/MD and leading HR from a strategic perspective. This role has a HR co-ordinator reporting into it, the ideal candidate will have experience of managing and the ability to develop & nurture them.
You will have excellent senior stakeholder management and demonstrate a commercial approach to people issues. A highly energetic office, you
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Gordon-Reed: Well, it goes back to almost my first encounter with Jefferson. The idea, the black people are missing. Any kind
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of realistic portrayal of what’s slavery was like in general, but also slavery at Monticello. Jefferson, as a slave owner, is missing. Not just him writing sort of philosophical stories about, philosophical pronouncements about what’s slavery means, but actual, the day to day relations with black people. That’s missing from a lot of Jefferson’s scholarship or if it’s there it’s the sort of happy, [dorky] kind of story, you know, that’s told and not really getting at the nature of this, of his relations with blacks. You know, and tell you in particular, you know, people wrote about him have long accepted that Sally Hemings and her siblings and five of her siblings were the half sisters of Jefferson’s, you know, half siblings of Jefferson’s wife. Well, you know, but they never written of that way. It’s always Bob
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Gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis will not be allowed to have a surrogate participate in his place at the Club 20 debate in Grand Junction.
The
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Western Slope club’s leadership announced its decision on Friday regarding the upcoming Sept. 8 debate. The debate is a tradition, and the club said no gubernatorial candidate in more than three decades has declined participation.
Polis, a congressman and the Democratic candidate for governor, is running against Republican and state Treasurer Walker Stapleton for governor. Polis had requested to send Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne, one of his primary opponents, to debate Stapleton in his place.
Polis’ move attracted criticism from leadership of the club, which represents 22 western Colorado counties.
“Congressman Polis’ decision not to honor the citizens of Western Colorado by participating in our debates is simply outrageous and we continue to ask for his reconsideration,” said Cindy Dozier, Club 20 board chair, in a statement.
Polis’ campaign has previously defended his commitment to western and rural Colorado issues, saying he has a scheduling conflict and plans to
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Patrick J. Buchanan: Does Trump's Decertifying The Deal Mean War With Iran Is Inevitable?
With his declaration Friday that the
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Iran nuclear deal is not in the national interest, President Donald Trump may have put us on the road to war with Iran.
Indeed, it is easier to see the collisions that are coming than to see how we get off this road before the shooting starts.
After "de-certifying" the nuclear agreement, signed by all five permanent members of the Security Council, Trump gave Congress 60 days to reimpose the sanctions that it lifted when Teheran signed.
If Congress does not reimpose those sanctions and kill the deal, Trump threatens to kill it himself.
Why? Did Iran violate the terms of the agreement? Almost no one argues that—not the UN nuclear inspectors, not our NATO allies, not even Trump's national security team.
Iran shipped all its 20 percent enriched uranium out of the country, shut down most of its centrifuges, and allowed intrusive inspections of all nuclear facilities. Even before the deal, 17 U.S. intelligence agencies said they could find
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The clear, cool water that still flows in wild rivers is the clean blood of history, and now in the summer you can hear voices there,
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old voices, sometimes whispering in the slicks and eddies, sometimes shouting in the rocky, roaring rapids.
Sometimes the voices are so distinct that they make you stop and listen. There is no one there, of course, or is there?
There is a place where cedar trees brush the rushing water with dark boughs and great boulders defy the power of the rapids. A small jut of flat land lies at the foot of the rapids, and still discernible beneath the thick trees is the outline of a structure, its deminsions set by the decaying logs that formed its sides.
It was used a century ago by the lumberjacks who cut the great trees and then tended the spring log drives to float the wild land`s first crop to a consuming civilization.
Part way up the rapids, a huge gray stump sits solidly on the rocky riverbank. Its sides are gouged by ax marks, made long ago when it might have
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"I've already had people saying, 'Are you bringing back the Crooked card? What about us old guys that had the original Crooked
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card?'" Cutler says with a laugh. "It's like, 'Oh. My. God. Give me a second to breathe, please!'"
Let's all take a deep breath. Under the ownership of Cutler and his wife, Maerene, Crooked Fence will reopen Friday, June 15, at 5220 N. Sawyer Ave. Twelve beers will be on tap. They range from old favorites 3 Picket Porter and Sins of Our Fathers imperial stout to more recent varieties such as Cranberry Sour and Grapefruit IPA. Head brewer Jeff Winn remains with the brewery.
"Crooked Fence has got a history," Cutler says. "There's lot of people out there that know it and like the beers. They are looking for a place back in town to be able to go."
Twelve beers will be on tap when Crooked Fence reopens. Crooked Fence Brewing Co.
Opened in Garden City in 2012, Crooked Fence helped lead a
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LONDON (AFP) - From baggage carousels to airline signs and security scanners, the contents of a Heathrow airport terminal undergoing an upgrade
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will be auctioned off this month, the sale organisers said on Friday (April 6).
The sale of the contents of Terminal 1, once Europe's busiest terminal, also includes 110 check-in desks, 1,200 airport seats and 9 travellators, CA Global Partners (CAGP) said in a statement.
"A sale such as this, comprising the entire contents and infrastructure of an entire major airport terminal is unprecedented," Daniel Gray, managing partner of CAGP Europe.
Gray said some items were "iconic" and had "significant historic value", while others could be repurposed for different industries.
"There may even be elements of the furnishing that would appeal to nightclubs or other entertainment venues," he said.
Terminal 1 opened in 1968 and was gradually expanded before closing in 2015 to allow for a major upgrade at Heathrow, which is Europe's busiest airport by passenger numbers.
The sale includes 10 giant murals by Polish artist Stefan
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Los Angeles designer Pierre Davis made her debut in New York this week, becoming the first openly transgender creator to present a collection at Fashion Week, further
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shaking up an event that had already featured trans models.
The powerful Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), which says it represents more than 500 creators and has made diversity its battle cry, announced last month that Davis’s No Sesso brand would be “making NYFW history” at Monday’s event, which opened with a parade of whimsical garments.
Fashion Week began with a focus on men and will turn to women’s wear on Thursday.
While she embraces her identity as a trans woman in the design field, Davis doesn’t want it to be a gimmick, telling AFP it’s important for people to see the creations and for them to be recognized.
“I just want to show the work,” she said of the agender brand No Sesso, which was launched in 2015 and — according to CFDA — counts fans including R&B artists Kelela and Ery
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Ald. Jane Grover (7th) championed a drone moratorium ordinance that the City Council narrowly approved Tuesday despite opposition from aldermen including
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Ald. Ann Rainey (8th).
The chief supporter of Evanston’s ban on drone activity was surprised by the amount of dissent it faced during a City Council meeting Tuesday.
Grover brought up a resolution proposed by the North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice that would sharply limit the use of the drones by police but allow them for recreational and research purposes. The resolution passed in a 5-4 vote Tuesday after receiving unanimous approval from the Human Services Committee.
Opponents of the drone moratorium said it would stifle technological progress in the city. Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) and Ald. Mark Tendam (6th), both Human Services Committee members, voted to move the resolution to council but voted against it Tuesday.
“I don’t think we want to appear to be unfriendly toward technology,” Tendam said.
At the May 6 committee meeting, Eddington said although the drones could serve as useful technology
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Security guards stand near a model of a fighter jet from the Star Wars movie franchise displayed in Beijing, China, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015
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What makes a Hollywood franchise a hit in China? Walt Disney needs to know.
Disney has unleashed a marketing campaign in China to sell "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" when the latest in the nearly 40-year-old movie franchise comes to the world's No. 2 movie market on Jan. 9. The campaign is aimed at an audience that largely missed the "Stars Wars" phenomenon and has trouble telling Jabba the Hutt from Jar-Jar Binks.
The good news is that whiz-bang science-fiction stories with lots of special effects do well in China. Still, not every franchise translates to the country's increasingly discerning audience.
This photo provided by Lionsgate shows Liam Hemsworth, left, Sam Clafin, back left, Evan Ross, back right, and Jennifer Lawrence, right, in the film, "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2."
“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 2,"
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Two houses in Harohalli in ISRO Layout, including a farmer’s house, bore the brunt soon after the crash of two S
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uryakiran Hawk aircraft.
“I was stacking hay for my cows when I heard a blast. A part of one of the planes crashed in front of my cow shed on to my doghouse, killing my dog,” said Venkatesh, a farmer. The part of the plane was engulfed in flames, burning at least five tractor loads of ragi hay meant for his cattle, he said.
Venkatesh told DH he saw the two pilots who had ejected from the planes on a double road near his farmland. One of them landed into thorny bushes and was injured and the locals rushed for his help. While some of the locals were trying to help him by giving water and fanning books and towels at him, the pilot said in Hindi that his team was on the way and he did not need anything.
A few undergraduates staying at the Government Boys Hostel very close to Venkatesh’s farmhouse were the eyewitness
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The 'Buzz without booze' campaign has just launched promoting fun things for young people to do that don't involve alcohol.
The Southampton, Hampshire
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, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth PCT Cluster would like 11 to 16 year olds living in Southampton to suggest how to have fun without booze. By submitting ideas and healthy activities, entrants could win a Wii and Wii Fit.
The 'Buzz without booze' project aims to encourage young people to enjoy themselves without alcohol by participating in alternative activities.
Sandy Jerrim, alcohol project manager, for the Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth PCT Cluster said: "The levels of alcohol use significantly increases from age 11 to 15 years, and is therefore a critical time to make sure young people are making positive choices about what to do with their time. The campaign aims to get young people to share ideas about that they could be doing instead."
"The PCT Cluster is committed to promoting positive alternatives to young people and their parents, and is very excited to have developed the Buzz without Booze campaign as a way of involving young people," explained Sandy.
Councillor Jeremy
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Recent reforms were hailed as progress, but advocates say the system is still riddled with problems.
Recent federal reforms aimed at protecting prisoners from exorbit
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ant phone bills still fall short of reining in prices on the the vast majority of inmate calls, federal officials and prisoners' advocates said Wednesday.
The new rules, enacted in February by the Federal Communications Commission, cap prices for out-of-state calls. But most calls from prisoners are in-state communications, which remain unregulated.
Advocates say call fees have long been a problem for inmates and their families. Costly charges can leave prisoners with thousands of dollars in phone bills when they get out. In some cases, people have been forced to choose between phone calls and food. And children who lack regular contact with their incarcerated parents are more likely to miss school, become homeless, or suffer depression.
The FCC, led by interim Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn, took a step toward addressing that problem last year. The agency's ruling capped prices for interstate phone calls at 21 cents per minute for prepaid calls and 25 cents per minute for collect calls. Previous prices had exceeded
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LAS VEGAS — Charging your mobile device wirelessly via a chip embedded into a Starbucks table or resting it on a surface inside your
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car could become more commonplace in the next year or so, thanks to the latest backing of a larger effort to make wireless charging more a part of everyday life.
It was announced on Monday at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that 30 companies across the smartphone ecosystem are joining the Power Matters Alliance (PMA) organization, which consists of government leaders and major companies such as Starbucks, AT&T and Google working to get rid of cable-based charging plugs and embrace wireless power.
Smartphone case manufacturers such as Otterbox and chipset vendor Integrated Device Technology are among the new wave of companies backing the PMA, which was founded by Duracell's Powermat and its parent company Procter & Gamble and Powermat Technologies in March 2012.
"For wireless power to really transform our lives, a lot of things have to come together, from how companies make their products to public spaces deploying the right technology for charging," Daniel Schreiber, president of Powermat and
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Even as authorities insist they leave, Kurdish migrants are working without permits on government projects. Japan’s strict immigration rules combined with a shrinking work
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population has spawned a black market in labor.
WARABI, Japan – Mazlum Balibay paves Japan’s roads, digs its sewers and lays its water pipes – all for a country that doesn’t want him.
Balibay, 24, is a Kurdish asylum seeker who fled to Japan more than eight years ago after he said his family was persecuted by Turkish security forces who tortured his father. He has since been on provisional release from immigration detention, which means he is barred from working while the immigration authorities consider his application for asylum and could be detained again at any time.
Two of Balibay’s brothers have also worked without permits on government projects around Tokyo, laying asphalt and digging sewers. Reuters also spoke to more than 30 Kurds on provisional release who are working illegally on private sector projects, mainly in demolition.
Japan’s deep reluctance to take in migrant workers is now clashing with the reality of a shrinking population
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If at first you don’t succeed, hitch up your pants, spit out your broken teeth and try again.
Last week Colorado Republican
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Senator Cory Gardner, Massachusetts Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, and eight other Senators re-introduced the legislation the two co-sponsored last year to allow states to legalize marijuana without federal interference.
The co-sponsors included Colorado’s other senator, Democrat Michael Bennet, who is also contemplating a presidential run, and Minnesota Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar.
“In 2012, Coloradans legalized marijuana at the ballot box and the state created an apparatus to regulate the legal marijuana industry. But because of the one-size-fits-all federal prohibition, state decisions like this put Colorado and other states at odds with the federal government,” Gardner said in a prepared statement.
“The federal government is closing its eyes and plugging its ears while 47 states have acted. The bipartisan STATES Act fixes this problem once and for all by taking a states’ rights approach to the legal marijuana question. The bipartisan commonsense bill ensures the
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In response to a surge of Central Americans fleeing north to the U.S. southern border, President Donald Trump vowed Saturday to cut direct aid to
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El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. He also threatened to close the border and halt all trade with Mexico.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a visit to Lake Okeechobee and Herbert Hoover Dike at Canal Point, Fla., on March 29, 2019. Mr. Trump threatened to close part or all of the nation's southern border next week if Mexico does not immediately stop illegal immigration.
Taking drastic action over illegal immigration, President Donald Trump moved Saturday to cut direct aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, whose citizens are fleeing north and overwhelming United States resources at the southern border.
The State Department notified Congress that it would look to suspend 2017 and 2018 payments to the trio of nations, which have been home to some of the migrant caravans that have marched through Mexico to the U.S. border.
Amplified by conservative media, Mr. Trump has turned the caravans into the symbol of what he says are the dangers of illegal immigration
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BIRTHDAY GAL: Actress Carey Mulligan was born in London on this date in 1985. This birthday gal was nominated for a 2009
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Oscar for her role in “An Education.” She has starred in such films as “Suffragette,” “Far From the Maddening Crowd,” and “Inside Llewyn Davis.” She voiced the role of Lady Anne York on the acclaimed mini-series “The Spoils of Babylon.” Mulligan has been married to musician Marcus Mumford since 2012 and the couple has one daughter.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You are willing to put your shoulder to the wheel to achieve your goals. Well-meaning friends may point out flaws in your plans or problems that should be addressed, so listen well.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Mind conquers matter. Springtime romances will flourish and permanent partnerships can be nurtured with a few well-placed words. Your penetrating intellect can overcome any challenge.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You shine on
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Why Were Three White House Officials Trawling Through Highly Classified Documents?
One of those involved in procuring the documents cited by Nunes has close
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ties to former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The official, Ezra Cohen, survived a recent attempt to oust him from his White House job by appealing to Trump advisers Jared Kushner and Stephen K. Bannon, the officials said….After assembling reports that showed that Trump campaign officials were mentioned or inadvertently monitored by U.S. spy agencies targeting foreign individuals, Cohen took the matter to the top lawyer for the National Security Council, John Eisenberg.
The third White House official involved was identified as Michael Ellis, a lawyer who previously worked with Nunes on the House Intelligence Committee but joined the Trump administration as an attorney who reports to Eisenberg.
This is an amazingly far-reaching conspiracy considering that the documents don’t actually seem to have contained anything very interesting. You’d think that at some point one of these guys would have the common sense to call off this Keystone Cops affair.
Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, has offered to be interviewed by House and Senate
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A Freedom of Information Act Request reveals that immigration agents were instructed to search DMV records to target immigrants.
A damning new post at USA Today reveals
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that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) administrators created a plan to boost deportations of undocumented immigrants convicted of minor crimes, like driving without a license.
The Obama administration—which has deported a record 1.5 million people in its first term—has enthusiastically promoted the deportation of criminals. It has also issued a memo advising immigration personnel to use prosecutorial discretion for low-priority cases. Still, many immigrants facing deportation point out that they were picked up after being racially profiled while driving.
Today’s report originates from an ACLU of North Carolina Freedom of Information Act request surrounding traffic checkpoints. The request yielded a cache of e-mails and documents that disclose that immigration agents were instructed to delve into Department of Motor Vehicle records to target immigrants for deportation.
Previously, documents considered acceptable for proof of residency in North Carolina were easily forged, or the information provided by applicants was not verified. However, in 2006, state lawmakers required a valid social security number or visa. The DMV stopped
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But the governor noted that, at least for the moment, he doesn’t have to make that choice.
The issue arises because the
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pope, in the strongest statement ever, said earlier this month that executions are “an attack” on human dignity. Francis also promised to work “with determination” to abolish capital punishment wherever it still exists.
“I, of course, am going to listen to what the pope says,” Ducey said on Monday when asked about it. The governor is a practicing Catholic.
“At the same time, I took an oath to uphold the law in Arizona. And I’m going to continue to uphold the law,” he added.
In his 1995 Evangelium vitae — the Gospel of Life — Pope John Paul II said that execution is only appropriate in cases of absolute necessity, “in other words when it would not be possible otherwise to defend society” through non-lethal means. That language provided enough of an escape clause of sorts for Catholic officials like the governor who must sign death warrants.
The governor sideste
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It’s not that the human immune system doesn’t recognize HIV. Indeed, an infection causes the body to unleash antibodies that attack
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the virus, and initially some HIV is destroyed.
But HIV is able to quickly defend itself by co-opting a part of the innate human immune system — the immune system people are born with, called the complement. The complement includes a vital mechanism that prevents immune system cells from attacking the body’s own cells. HIV is able to incorporate a key protein in that self-protection mechanism, CD59, and by doing so makes itself appear to be one of the body’s normal cells, not an infective agent.
In laboratories at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Andy Qigui Yu, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, is testing a promising compound that may counteract HIV’s ability to hijack the immune system’s protection mechanism.
“HIV is very clever. As it replicates inside cells, it takes on the CD59. The virus is covered with CD59, so
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Fine Gael TD Noel Rock and Labour Senator traded insults over their commitment or otherwise to provide housing.
Fine Gael TD Noel Rock and Labour Senator A
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odhán Ó Ríordáin have been involved in a bitter spat on Twitter over objections to housing developments.
Mr Rock accused Mr O’Ríordáin of being a “serial objector and massive hypocrite” and said the Labour Party used to have a policy of supporting housing for everyone.
Mr O’Ríordáin countered by accusing Mr Rock of “cheap shots” and said Fine Gael are “ripping up the rule book to benefit landlords and developers, but then stage photo ops with supposed ticket touts to look tough”.
The reference to ticket touts is the private members Bill brought forward by Mr Rock to stop tickets being sold for above face-value prices.
Mr Rock is the latest prominent Fine Gael politician to target Mr Ó’ Ríordáin over his objections to housing developments.
Raheny refers to Senator O’Ríordáin’
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Silicon Valley style just went too far.
The sartorial equivalent of Silicon Valley used to be the hoodie, jeans, and ad
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idas slides. But now that San Francisco is getting richer, it's in need of a classier (but still really lazy) uniform, and that's where the Suitsy comes in.
Herzog told the Guardian he had the idea six months ago and got a seamstress to produce his design. "It feels great, and no one knows it isn't a real suit," he said. "Its debut was at the rehearsal dinner for my wedding." Yes, someone agreed to marry a man who wore a onesie to his rehearsal dinner.
You can't buy the Suitsy just yet; currently it's been submitted to the company Betabrand for possible production. If it gets enough users' votes, the company will produce the product. Betabrand is also the company that brought you the Dress Pant Yoga Pants and the pinstriped Executive Hoodie, so you can essentially blame them for all of society's ills.
The Suitsy exemplifies a
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Here was the oddest thing: within weeks of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on a second Japanese city on August 9, 1945, and
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so obliterating it, Americans were already immersed in new scenarios of nuclear destruction. As the late Paul Boyer so vividly described in his classic bookBy the Bomb’s Early Light, it took no time at all -- at a moment when no other nation had such potentially Earth-destroying weaponry -- for an America triumphant to begin to imagine itself in ruins, and for its newspapers and magazines to start drawing concentric circles of death and destruction around American cities while consigning their future country to the stewardship of the roaches.
Radio quickly followed with its own nightmarish nuclear scenarios of all-American disaster as, within years, would TV, while post-nuclear landscapes of horror were a dime a dozen in the world ofpulp fiction. In the movies, mutant and irradiated creatures of every sort -- from previously somnolentgiant reptilestomonstrous ants-- ran wild on screen. Everything, in a sense, became radioactive. There were even, as Boy
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Your insider's guide to ordering off-menu specials in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Ever been at a restaurant with a good idea of what you were
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ordering when a dish going to another table caught your eye? Ever asked your waiter or waitress what the dish is called? And what is in it?
Ever been told that dish isn't on the menu?
Off-menu specials are more common than you might expect at Acadiana restaurants, especially classic restaurants that have seen many regular customers and many menu updates.
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Perhaps best-known of the off-menu subculture in Lafayette is La Fonda's fried chicken, which regularly places in the top three for best fried chicken in the Times Best Of contest each year.
"I like the mystique of it. It's the secret that's not so secret," says Stephanie Gagnard, the daughter of La Fonda's founder Lee Bob Cox. "And I like that we have fried chicken. I like that we're known for fried chicken. And I like that it's
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Sean Sherlock says he remains committed to implementing new laws, but is “personally” willing to consider primary legislation.
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INNOVATION MINISTER Seán Sherlock has said he remains committed to implementing new internet copyright legislation – but has said he is personally willing to bring forward full primary legislation, which would allow for full Oireachtas debates.
Speaking in the Dáil this afternoon, Sherlock insisted that as a member state of the European Union, Ireland needed to implement the copyright directives laid down by the EU, which allowed copyright holders to take measures to ensure their intellectual property was not being infringed.
The minister assured independent TD Catherine Murphy, who had raised the matter during the Dáil’s ‘topical issues’ time, that this right was “not superior to the right of the individual user” to use the internet, nor the right of an internet service provider to conduct their business.
An Internet Service Provider (ISP) could not be asked to monitor all the data of each of its customers in order to prevent copyright infringement, Sherlock said, referring to
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Over 40 per cent of all European organisations are failing to adhere to continent-wide rules governing how to handle citizen data requests as many organisations won�
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�t inform citizens how data is used, shared and processed.
The Engineering and Technology Magazine reports that citizen data access requests were submitted from 10 European countries to 184 public and private organisations with a range of information requested.
Every single request asked that those controlling the data disclose anything personal being held, explain if any third parties had been aparty to the data and whether the data has been subjected to any automated decision making processes.
43 per cent didn’t result in any personal data being sent back or the subjects involved didn’t receive a valid reason for the data not being disclosed with 56 per cent of cases resulting in no adequate or legally compliant response received regarding third party data sharing.
“We are selectively marketed to, our locations are tracked by CCTV and automated licence plate recognition systems and our online behaviour is monitored, analysed, stored and used. The challenge for all of us is that our information is often kept from us, despite the law and despite our best efforts to
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ROY HODGSON has told his England team that they have achieved nothing yet and still have to prove themselves in a tournament situation.
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England go into tonight's second Euro 2016 warm-up against Holland at Wembley on a high after their remarkable 3-2 win over world champions Germany in Berlin on Saturday night.
Hodgson's reshaped young team earned plaudits from around the world as they fought back from two goals down and at the same time spark real optimism after a dismal 2014 World Cup and 2012 Euros.
He will reshuffle his pack again tonight against a Dutch side who surprisingly failed to qualify for this summer's championships but who will still provide formidable opposition.
But last night, in public, he was much more cautious. When asked if England could win the tournament this summer, he said: "It's the impossible question. Whatever I say. If I say 'yes', then it's 'Hodgson thinks we can win the Euros'. If I say it's a tough ask, then it's 'Hodgson has no confidence in the team'."
Liverpool midfielder James Milner
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Taiwanese technology firms should be aware of potential risks before they succumb to Indian fever, an IBM Corp research fellow said yesterday.
"India
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has the largest pool of human resources in the technology industry after the US and Russia, but it is harder to retain people now as they change jobs more frequently," said Chandrasekaran Mohan, an IBM fellow and chief scientist in India.
He made the remarks after speaking at the IBM 2006 Developer Works conference held in Taipei.
The availability of the talent pool does not guarantee employee retention as in the case of IBM India, which has to employ non-computer graduates for its call centers, because computer science and engineering graduates get bored of the job easily and leave, he said.
IBM, whose second largest workforce after the US is in India, is the biggest foreign employer in the country with 42,000 employees to date.
Meanwhile, salaries in India are shooting up and it is no easy task recruiting senior researchers with a PhD qualification, said Mohan, who has been working with IBM for 24 years and is one of the 60 or so fellows at IBM -- the highest
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Now, a new study offers insight into why some people shrug off physical touches and how families affected by autism may learn to share hugs without overwhelming an
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autistic child’s senses.
Yale neuroscientists recruited 19 young adults and imaged their brain activity as a researcher lightly brushed them on the forearm with a soft watercolor paintbrush. In some cases, the brushing was quick, and in others slow: prior studies have shown that most people like slow brushing and perceive it as affectionate contact, while the faster version is felt as less pleasant and more tickle-like.
None of the participants in the current study had autism, but the researchers evaluated them for autistic traits — things like a preference for sameness, order and systems, rather than social interaction. They found that participants with the highest levels of autistic traits had a lower response in key social brain regions — the superior temporal sulcus (STS) and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) — to the slow brushing.
According to Martha Kaiser, senior author of the study and associate director of the Child Neuroscience Laboratory at the Yale Child Study Center, the STS
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Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky explores the intersection of nature and industry through his large-scale images that are extraordinarily beautiful, exquisitely detailed
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, and hauntingly unnerving. Over the years, he has explored the global landscape through series that include Quarries, Ships, Tailings, Mines, Recycling, Oil, and China. Together, the images convey the impact of industry on consumerism, culture, and human life.
Burtynsky is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose depictions of global industrial landscapes are in the collections of more than fifty major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliotéque Nationale in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. His distinguished awards include the TED Prize and the title of Officer of the Order of Canada. He holds four honorary doctorate degrees.
Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime presents 30 large-scale photographs dating from 1991 – 2008. The exhibition was organized with Weber State University, the Frist Center for Contemporary Art, and
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By 2030, scaled-up green power could meet the demands of a large grid 99.9 percent of the time, according to new research from
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the University of Delaware.
A mix of offshore and onshore wind, along with contributions from solar power, could provide reliable power flow during all but a handful of days in the hypothetical four-year period under study.
Moreover, researchers found that scaling up renewable generation capacity to seemingly excessive levels -- more than three times the needed load, in some instances -- proved more cost-effective than scaling up storage capacity, due to the high systems costs associated with storage technology.
"That's a lot of overbuilding," said Willett Kempton, a professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy at the University of Delaware and a co-author of the study. Much of that excess capacity would be underused during all but a few days a year, he said.
At the same time, thermal power plants face a similar problem today through inefficiency, he added.
"If you think about it, power plants burn three times the amount of fuel energy needed to produce their energy
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A fantastic September left this stock overheated and in need of a cool shower.
Shares of Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:
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WIN) fell 21.9% in October, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. On the heels of an 18% gain in September, based on Windstream launching a bevy of new and expanded network services, the rally ran out of steam.
If Windstream investors were expecting a constant stream of service launches, early October left them disappointed. At that point, the company added fixed wireless data plans in 40 markets nationwide, and shares prices immediately stopped sliding. Call it a correction of overheated network-building expectations.
Going beyond the October period, Nov. 7 saw Windstream announcing an all-stock merger with fellow network access specialist EarthLink (NASDAQ:ELNK). The $1.1 billion deal is expected to close in the first half of 2017 and should increase Windstream's cash flows from the get-go. Including an early share price boost from rumors about the EarthLink deal, Windstream rose about 8% on the news.
Windstream
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Welcome to Football FourFootball Four covers and stokes the conversation on college football and its Playoff.
Despite key losses, plenty of talent keeps Clemson
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among elite in 2017Deshaun Watson and some other stars will likely be gone, but the Tigers will be a factor.
Clemson places four on USA TODAY Sports All-Bowl teamIn total, 11 players on the all-bowl team participated in New Year’s Six games.
Projecting 2017's 25 best teamsThough confetti has yet to fall, here’s an early look at teams battling for Playoff.
Clemson, Deshaun Watson win the only trophy that matters to themA sizzling finish is fitting for what should be the end of QB DeShaun Watson's college career.
Clemson No. 1, USC No. 3 in final 2016 NCAA Re-rankDespite some high-profile tumbles, the Big Ten still has four teams inside the top eight.
USA TODAY Sports' freshman All-America teamThe Crimson Tide’s Jalen Hurts and Jonah Williams have starring roles on this year's team.
The
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Two classic Mercs simply isn't enough Mercs. But it is definitely a good point to start. Featuring the most graceful and elegant Mercedes designs
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ever to roll out: the W111 series cars of the 60's.
The blue car is a 220SE made by IXO Altaya. IXO is a model maker specialising mostly in 1:43 scales. Altaya happens to be a sub brand utilizing the same body shell but made of slightly fewer parts and chrome window trim reproduced with silver paint.
The 280 SE made by Greenlight is also a W111 often mistaken for the later W108 models because the bumper and headlights are similar. The model is also available with a top raised version but then you cannot see the beautifully crafted interior. I've since added a few interior details mostly featuring chrome/aluminium highlights.
Pros: Both models are similarly well built though I found the Greenlight to have thinner paint allowing more detail to be visible. Both have photoetched metal hood emblems. Interiors are well detailed with excellent gauges and realistic trim.
Cons: Mirrors are extremely fragile.
Price: Rough
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Any peace process in Afghanistan with the US boots on the ground is impossible, the Taliban delegates said after a meeting in Moscow, adding that the current
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Afghan government is a US puppet stalling the talks.
“We will not tolerate a single US soldier in Afghanistan,” said the head of the Taliban delegation at the international meeting on Afghanistan in Moscow, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, adding that the insurgent group’s “main goal” is to “put an end” to the 17-year-long “invasion” led by the US and its allies.
Still, Stanikzai said, the militants are ready to negotiate – but only with Washington, which they see as the real force behind the current Afghan government.
— RT (@RT_com) 9 ноября 2018 г.
The US and Taliban did actually engage in direct talks recently, Stanikzai said, hailing it as a positive sign.
#BREAKING ‘We will have NO direct contact with the government in #Kabul’ - #Taliban movement
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In its first set of annual results since it demerged from the Carphone Warehouse, TalkTalk has posted revenues of £1.76bn
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, up 4.6 per cent on fiscal 2010, and statutory pre-tax profit of £57m, over four times higher than last year.
The strong-all round performance masked an overall decline in paying broadband customers as a result of major customer service hiccups in the wake of the Tiscali acquisition. The firm is also pushing ahead with plans to cut close to 600 jobs.
Chief executive Dido Harding said the firm had "worked hard to mitigate the impact of this disruption".
"We are confident that we are now making major progress in improving the experience for our customers, which will lead to lower churn," she said.
Nevertheless, the outlook for the next financial year is for revenues across the business to remain flat as non-broadband revenues continue to decline.
The firm's b2b unit, TalkTalk Business, saw flat fourth quarter sales of around £80m, reflecting declining voice sales and tempered by data services growth.
It said the unit
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(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) The Brickyard Plaza, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019.
The young city of Millc
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reek has sought help from state lawmakers in its bid to carve Brickyard Plaza shopping center out of Salt Lake City and annex it into its own boundaries, a move that has derailed talks between the neighboring cities.
HB262, sponsored by Rep. Val Potter, R-North Logan, ratchets up the ongoing border dispute between Utah’s capital city and its neighbor to the south, which incorporated as a city in 2017. Leaders for Millcreek have pressed Salt Lake City since May to consider letting them annex the 23-acre center located at about 1100 East and 3000 South, saying the move will help with planning the community’s future.
Salt Lake City is opposed to the idea, with its elected leaders making clear in at least two recent meetings with Millcreek that any boundary adjustment would have to come with no net loss in tax revenues. Officials estimate Brickyard currently generates between $3 million and $4 million in sales taxes per year.
Now, those city-
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When the promising young designer Wes Gordon launched his fashion line in New York in 2009, it wasn’t long before his elegant, finely crafted
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clothes caught the eye of buyers from Saks Fifth Avenue and Harrods.
The 25-year-old Gordon, who was born in Chicago, also attracted attention here, but in an unexpected location: the greens of Evanston Golf Club. There, Terry Athas, who bought an early stake in Gordon’s company, mentioned his investment to fellow golfers, like John Ward, the owner of Bistronomic. Now Athas, the senior managing director for Mesirow Financial, estimates that two-thirds of Gordon’s investors, including Ward, have a Chicago connection.
Gordon has his father, Steve, to thank: The proud papa and Melrose Park native talked up his son’s success to Athas, an old football buddy from Holy Cross High School. Athas invested and spread the word.
Athas admits he’s no fashion maven (“It’s not my bailiwick. I walk
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Trump Ratchets Up The Rhetoric Over Attack On Syrian Civilians President Trump Tweeted Wednesday that if Russia was prepared to shoot down any
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American missiles fired at Syria that "Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and "smart!"
President Trump Tweeted Wednesday that if Russia was prepared to shoot down any American missiles fired at Syria that "Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and "smart!"
Trump this morning is ratcheting up his language and sounding more specific about what he may do in response to a reported chemical attack in Syria. The president tweeted this morning that if Russia is prepared to shoot down any American missiles fired at Syria, quote, "get ready, Russia, because they will be coming nice and new and smart" - end quote. Russia has just responded to the president. A foreign ministry spokeswoman said, quote, "smart missiles should fly towards terrorists, not legal government." Let's bring in NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson. Hi, Mara.
GREENE: All right. So this is a president who has made a big deal of
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To mark Bill Gates' last day as a full-time employee of Microsoft, we'll have plenty of coverage all day. First up, videos
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from over the years.
Well, it's finally here: Bill Gates' final, official day at Microsoft as a full-time employee.
To mark this historic moment--33 years in the making--we've been combing through our video archives to find some memorable stuff.
At a 2001 event celebrating the 20th anniversary of the personal computer, Gates and Compaq founder Rod Canion reflect on the creation of the modern PC business.
At the same 2001 event, IBM engineer Dave Bradley talks about how the keystroke came to be, quipping that, though he invented it, Gates made it famous. The best part of this video is the look on Gates' face after Bradley's comment.
Nobody's perfect, not even Gates.
At CES 2008, Gates and friends debuted a comical look at what life would be like as his last day approaches. U2's Bono, actor George Clooney, and director Steven Spielberg get some laughs at Gates' expense.
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When the dust was cleared and the debris swept away, he stood revealed as Hillary Clinton’s most generous billionaire donor. Yet his name rarely
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surfaced during the presidential campaign—and that’s generally the way he likes it. Dark Money, Jane Mayer’s book about covert political funding, refers to the Koch brothers more than 300 times in its excoriation of the “radical right” but mentions progressive icon George Soros just six times; three are footnotes.
One of the planet’s richest men, his past marred with crimes and misdemeanors, the 86-year-old billionaire skates on. More than a decade ago, he moved his financial headquarters to Curaçao, a tax-free haven in the Caribbean designed for monied hypocrites who talk one game and play another. The place is not bulletproof; on occasion, Soros has been accused—and even convicted—of insider trading. A French court found him guilty of that crime and levied a fine of $2.3 million. In the parlance of the billionaires’ club, that was small change.
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As quixotic causes go, working in China to spread the ideas of Friedrich A. Hayek, the Austrian-born liberal economist and philosopher
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of freedom, is up there.
Hayek believed that economic planning by the state leads to a loss of individual liberty, and that a private economy run by people whose rights are protected and enlarged by good laws delivers the best life.
‘‘There is some distance between Hayek and the current realities’’ in China, Gao Quanxi, a prominent Chinese Hayekian and law professor at Beihang University in Beijing, said in an interview this week.
Mr. Gao was probably choosing his words carefully. The gap is enormous, as he explained last Friday in a talk at the Unirule Institute of Economics, a think tank in Beijing.
Present were members of the Hayek Association, an informal group of dozens of Chinese scholars that is not registered — cannot register, several members said, probably because of government opposition that would make it too difficult or expensive, though they didn’t spell that out.
In his talk, titled �
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Facebook’s News Feed has become a place where it’s very easy for hoaxes to go viral, and the social networking giant
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has announced that it’s starting to tackle that problem.
Now anytime a significant number of users marks a particular link or story as being a hoax, Facebook will mark an annotation stating ‘many people on Facebook have reported that this story contains false information’. If you do spy a hoax without that annotation, you can report it in exactly the same way that you’d report spam or abuse.
Facebook will also be taking into account how many people delete posts containing certain links. So if a number of people have flagged it as a hoax and a number of people have deleted it, then Facebook’s algorithms will ensure any other posts with that same link will be seen by fewer people.
But Facebook did clarify that it’s not going to start deleting stories, nor is it going to be reviewing them for accuracy. It also promised that satire would not be affected by the new changes, how that’s going to work has yet to be seen.
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Even with firm support from the ANC Youth League and the majority of ruling party branches in Gauteng and Limpopo – as well as a
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measure of support from the North West and the Western Cape – Motlanthe remains guarded about the likelihood of a challenge to Zuma, and this is hindering his prospects.
One month away from the elective conference, Zuma – as the incumbent – is already showing signs that he expects to be re-elected.
Speaking at a rally in the Eastern Cape, Zuma said there would be a "change of gear" post Mangaung in the ANC's approach towards discipline.
"There will be a change of gear when we return from Mangaung, because we realise that when you merely talk to a person they take it for granted this organisation is full of idiots," he said.
While Zuma's confidence can’t be attributed solely to Motlanthe’s relative absence from the campaign trail, it is certainly helping Zuma and doing his deputy a disservice.
Motlanthe has largely been keeping within the ANC tradition of allowing
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A game that started slowly in the first half, then burst into life in the second stanza as Damian Neill’s men grew in
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confidence and began to move the ball wide at pace, winning this Conference 1 South game.
Andorra ranked 70 in the world rankings were no match for a team ranked 33 points above them.
For a team who were frequent flyers after their win in Israel last week, became frequent scorers in this exciting game, as Malta unleashed their quick runners out wide, scoring at will, especially in the second half taking the score from a half time 26 to 3 out to 89 points to three when the Czech Referee, Mathew Razga finally blew for full time.
Malta were on the scoreboard within the first minute as they ran from deep with James O’Brien(15) and Robert Holloway(10) not looking to kick but to run, putting Malta into an attacking position for Benjamin Borg(4) to go over.
The Referee warned Andorra for repeated infringements, as they tried to slow Malta’s game down with finally a yellow
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Two former world champions meet in the final of the 2006 FIFA World Cup when Italy and France do battle in what may be a classic match of stern
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defenses and cunning tactics at the Olympiastadion in Berlin on Sunday.
Fairytale ending? Zidane ahead of his last international match.
Italy, World Champions in 1934, 1938 and 1982, have conceded just one goal in their six matches at the 2006 tournament so far and will go into the match buoyed by a hard fought extra time win over host nation Germany in the semi final, and a 3-0 drubbing of Ukraine in the quarter final.
France, the 1998 World Champions and notably European Champions in 2000 when they defeated Italy by golden goal in the final, also have a stingy defense which has allowed just two goals in their six matches including clean-sheets against Brazil and Portugal.
The Italians will be looking for revenge for their Euro 2000 final defeat where they were just seconds away from a 1-0 victory, only for France's Sylvain Wiltord to equalize in the 90th minute and then David Trezeguet to score
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According to website Bleacher Report, Schalke defender Sead Kolasinac has already completed a medical ahead of a summer move to Arsenal
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The Bosnia international is out of contract at the end of season and is expected to be heading to Arsenal on June 30, with the deal reportedly '95 per cent done'.
The Gunners are said to view the 23-year-old as their first-choice left-back next season, replacing the 31-year-old Nacho Monreal.
Arsene Wenger has suggested he could make a move for Monaco's teenage sensation Kylian Mbappe this summer.
The 18-year-old France international has been in red hot form for the Ligue 1 leaders this season with 23 goals across all competitions.
"Obviously it would be hypocritical and a lie to say that we are not looking at him," Wenger told French broadcaster SFR Sport.
"But he's already in the bracket of clubs who are, perhaps, much better financed than us."
According to Italian outlet Il Mattino, Napoli are planning talks with Arsenal over a potential deal for goalkeeper
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Federal prosecutors said in a new court filing that Maria Butina, the Russian national indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday for her role in a covert
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political influence operation, is a serious flight risk and should be held in jail until her trial.
The big picture: New details in the case against the 29-year-old Butina reveal a tangled web of deception and meticulous coordination with Russian officials — including the FSB intelligence agency and Russian oligarchs — that dates back to at least 2013.
The backdrop: Documents released Monday charge that Butina, a 29-year-old graduate of American University and purported gun rights advocate, worked under the direction of a high-ranking Russian official to "arrange introductions to U.S. persons having influence on American politics."
Butina was accused of conspiring to set up a "backchannel" of communication between the Kremlin and the Republican Party using the NRA as a conduit.
The indictment didn't name a specific Russian official, but Butina has a well-documented connection to Alexander Torshin, an associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin described as a "godfather" in organized
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Read more about Momentum says: read Steve Cohen’s book!
Above: Activists from the Standing Together movement.
As part
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of an ongoing series of interviews with leftist activists in Israel/Palestine, Daniel Randall of Workers’ Liberty spoke to Hannah Pollin-Galay, an activist in Standing Together, a cross-party movement organising Jews and Arabs against occupation and in favour of social and economic equality. By profession, Pollin-Galay is a Yiddish and Holocaust researcher at Tel Aviv University.
Over the past decade the situation for the Palestinians has gone from bad to worse.
Continued occupation, continued settlement expansion in the West Bank, no end to the conflict, the US moving their embassy to Jerusalem (undermining the widely held view that Jerusalem should be shared as a city after a settlement between Israelis and Palestinians) and now Trump has pledged to withdraw all US funding for the UN’s refugee agency for Palestinians UNWRA, while also closing down the PLO’s offices in Washington DC.
In an interesting article in the Guardian (14 August) Nathan Thrall sets out
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The recent incident in the Richmond District in which Peter Woo was suspected of stabbing his parents, killing his mother before ultimately being shot and killed by police
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("Police kill man suspected of slaying mother," Oct. 4) reminded me of the multitude of other recent tragedies involving the mentally ill. While details of possible motives for this incident are lacking, his brother reported last week that Woo had a long history of schizophrenia. Similar to other recent events in Mendocino ("Rifle-wielding suspect killed," Oct. 2) and Orange County ("Suspect held after 8 killed in rampage at hair salon," Oct. 13) involving the untreated mentally ill, this incident ended in tragedy for all involved.
As a psychiatrist working in the public mental health system, and the son of a mother with schizophrenia, I know all too well the challenges of getting a loved one treatment in a system that seems designed to wait for catastrophe before providing necessary care.
After decades of trying to get my mother help for her relentless psychotic symptoms and being told by mental health professionals that she did not meet the legal criteria for involuntary hospitalization, my family was left feeling confused and
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THE US has clamped down on two Chinese shipping companies accused of helping North Korea dodge sanctions imposed over its nuclear weapons programme in a move which risks
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enraging leaders in Beijing and Pyongyang.
The crackdown comes as North Korean officials threaten to resume nuclear testing after talks between leader Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump collapsed before any agreement was reached. Washington said shipping giants Dalian Haibo International Freight and Liaoning Danxing International Forwarding were now banned from dealing with US companies and confirmed any US assets held by the companies would be frozen.
The US Treasury Department also issued an updated advisory listing 67 ships allegedly engaged in illicit transfers of refined petroleum with North Korean tankers or were believed to have exported North Korean coal.
It said Liaoning Danxing had "routinely used deceptive practices" to enable the work of North Korean procurement officials based in the European Union.
Evasion tactics employed by North Korea included disabling or manipulating automated identification systems, physically altering vessels, transferring cargoes between ships and falsifying cargo documentation.
Ports visited by vessels involved in ship-to-ship transfers included those in Taiwan,
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I love children. I grew up in a family with a lot of them. Eleven of us to be exact.
There are many things I
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loved about growing up in a large family, we looked out for each other, we spent hours playing together, and when we worked together jobs were accomplished quickly.
A woman who could not have children was a sad empty sort of person, and women who chose to avoid having children were the worst of all. Women who rejected motherhood in favor of anything else (be it career, missions, or even health) were the worst kind of selfish, their life was pretty much without meaning.
Even women who limited their number of children were rejecting God’s will for their lives. There were no reasons to delay having children, or to space the arrival of children. God would provide whatever you needed, whether that was resources/income or reserves of strength and patience, so there really were no valid reasons to prevent from having as many children as your body would conceive. Some families within the Quiverfull movement took the value of having children so seriously, that they would wean their babies early
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Rutgers wrestling coach Scott Goodale was clearly frustrated following the Scarlet Knights’ 21-9 setback to EIWA-rival Lehigh
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before the largest crowd ever to watch a wrestling match in school history.
But if Goodale had a message for the 5,011 fans in attendance it was this: We’ll be back.
The Scarlet Knights’ fourth-year coach spoke about better days ahead in both the EIWA and NCAA tournaments, and predicted that it won’t be too long before wins over Lehigh (now 40-1 all-time over Rutgers) are commonplace.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2011 by Keith Sargeant.
In the end, former Rutgers quarterback Tom Savage opted to play at one of the schools Scarlet Knights coach Greg Schiano approved on his original transfer release.
Savage, whose father publicly ripped Schiano for not letting his son contact Miami and Florida about the possibility of transferring south, is headed 2,400 miles west to play for Arizona, according to TucsonCitizen.com.
Arizona, which finished 7-6 and 4
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SSD Tweaker is a small tool which aims to optimise Windows for the best possible solid state drive performance.
For the most part this
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just involves turning off Windows features that generate drive activity. And so in a few clicks you can disable the Windows indexing service, NTFS 8.3 name creation and "last access" date stamping, boot tracing and so on. Or simply click "Auto Tweak Settings" and the program will optimise all your settings at once.
If you'd like to see if the program can help to optimise your SSD's performance, though, don't let this put you off. Just be sure to make a note of your original settings before you apply any tweaks, so it's easy to restore them later, should it be necessary.
Please note, there's also a commercial SSD Tweaker Pro version available. This also allows you to tweak relevant hibernation settings and Windows services, as well as providing the ability to check and optimise Windows TRIM status. The program can be yours for $12.95, and you can find out more at Elpamsoft.
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Almond milk for babies: Is it safe?
Can babies and toddlers drink almond milk?
Can babies drink almond milk?
Almond
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milk is a common alternative to cow's milk for adults, but developing babies have different nutritional needs.
Most doctors and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that babies less than 1-year-old drink breast milk or, if breast milk is not available, dairy- or soy-based infant formula unless otherwise advised.
Experts advise only introducing other milk, such as cow's milk or almond milk, after a baby's first birthday, as the specific nutrient profile in breast and formula milk is essential for development.
Almond milk can safely be given to most toddlers but is not a replacement for breast milk or infant formula.
Almond milk may be a healthful replacement for cow's milk in some cases, but there are some nutritional differences to be aware of when making the switch.
Almond milk is popular with people avoiding dairy.
Some people may give almond milk to children who are lactose-intolerant or if they avoid dairy for other reasons.
Toddlers can drink
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April 26, 2016, 8:41 p.m.
The Gmail app for Android is about to get a little more inclusive.
Google
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has started rolling out an app update, which brings support for Microsoft Exchange accounts, so your work and personal messages can live together. Now, when you set up an email address within Gmail for Android, you'll see a new option to add an Exchange account alongside existing options for a Google, Yahoo, Outlook.com, or another personal email address. From there, sign in with your Exchange credentials, set your account options, and voila.
"All your mail in one place," the Web giant posted to its Gmail Twitter account.
The update comes after Google last week refreshed its Inbox by Gmail app with a more streamlined events feature, "glanceable" newsletters, and an easy way to save links in an effort to help you "feel more in control" of your ever-expanding inbox.
Meanwhile, Google also on Monday started rolling out a handy change for Drive on the Web. If you use Chrome, you can now get a notification from Drive in your browser when
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If you love NBA stars who do awesome things for their fans, then get ready to smile.
Nine-year-old DeSean Pollis
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adores the Golden State Warriors, but since November he’s had to watch every game from his bed in a hospital. Of course, it wasn’t long before reigning MVP Stephen Curry heard that one of his biggest fans was sick, and on Monday night he did something amazing: Curry scored 31 points to go with six assists and two boards in an authoritative 111-103 victory over the Miami Heat.
Yup. Curry was 4 for 11 from beyond the arc and 5 for 7 from the line in 38 minutes of playing time.
DeSean cheered louder than ever as he watched what proved to be a wire-to-wire victory for the Warriors, who were able to hold off a challenge from Miami in the fourth quarter when Curry hit a crucial three. He then hit another with under 30 seconds to play that put the game permanently out of reach for Miami, who were playing without injured center Hassan Whiteside.
Curry committed only one turnover and stayed out of foul trouble
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My best friend in college was a straight-A student, an English major. In part he got all A’s because he is whip
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smart—his essays were systematically better than everyone else’s. But the other reason was that he refused to enroll in a course unless he was certain he would ace it. Consequently, he never really challenged himself to try something beyond his comfort zone. I, on the other hand, was not a straight-A student. My first semester I took atomic physics with Professor Delroy Baugh, self-proclaimed “Laser Guy.” I’d never taken a physics course before in my life, and as a reward for my willingness to transcend my comfort zone I received a D.
Somewhere between the two of us lies a sweet spot: if you only ever get 100 percent on your tests, they aren’t hard enough. If you never get above 50 percent, you’re probably in the wrong major. The trick is to be right enough, but not so right that you never allow yourself the opportunity to be wrong.
So, how
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These allegations are contained in court records [PDF] filed on Monday by Justice Department lawyers prosecuting five Blackwater contractors for the September 2007 shooting frenzy in
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Baghdad’s Nisour Square that killed 14 Iraqis and wounded 20 others. Anticipating that lawyers representing the contractors will argue that they were acting in self defense, the prosecution is seeking to introduce evidence that “several of the defendants had harbored a deep hostility toward Iraqi civilians which they demonstrated in words and deeds.” The charges are similar to those that recently emerged in civil lawsuits against Blackwater, stemming from the Nisour Square episode.
In addition to verbal expressions of hatred towards Iraqi civilians, the defendants engaged in unprovoked and aggressive behavior toward unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad. In so doing, the defendants routinely acted in disregard of the use of force policies that they were required to follow as a condition of their employment as Blackwater guards.
This evidence tends to establish that the defendants fired at innocent Iraqis not because they actually believed that they were in imminent danger of serious bodily injury and actually believed that they had no alternative to the use of deadly force, but
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The abrupt ouster of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe ignited a political firestorm in Washington on Saturday.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff
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) Beauregard SessionsThe Memo: Mueller's depictions will fuel Trump angst Collins: Mueller report includes 'an unflattering portrayal' of Trump Trump frustrated with aides who talked to Mueller MORE said he fired McCabe on Friday, alleging that the FBI's former No. 2 official had misled congressional investigators and leaked information to the press.
But McCabe quickly pushed back on those claims. He said his firing, which came just two days before he was expected to retire, was a political maneuver intended to undermine the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Trump touted McCabe's firing on Saturday as a "great day for democracy," and suggested that the former FBI deputy director was corrupt and dishonest. He also cast the decision as a victory for the "men and women of the FBI."
"Andrew McCabe Andrew George McCabeThe Mueller report concludes it was not needed Ten post-Mueller questions that could turn the tables on Russia collusion investigators Electronic surveillance isn't spying — it's much more
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Bhubaneswar: As the Indian Meteorology Department (IMD) predicted heavy to very heavy rains in the city for over next 36 to
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48 hours or even more, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) along with other line departments chalked out a strategy to fight water logging and urban flooding situation across the State Capital.
BMC Commissioner Dr. Krishan Kumar convened the multi-department emergency meeting at the BMC Conference Room in the evening and briefed the senior officials to be vigilant the next 36 hours and work in tandem with the strategy and the experiences gathered from the last water-logging situations.
The Municipal Commissioner also added that off day and leave of all staff of BMC and BDA remained cancelled so that better coordination would be done to face the situation in the city.
The BMC and Odisha Fire Services have pre-positioned nearly 30 water pumps at vulnerable locations across the city, where the rest 22 are for the developing situation as rains have started across the city after evening hours. Both the agencies have 52 pumps (BMC 19 and Fire Services 33) pumps with them to face the situation.
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Aidan Henderson from Elgin Academy was crowned Moray Young Citizen 2019.
Some of Moray’s youngest residents have been celebrated at
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an awards ceremony to recognise their achievements.
More than a dozen “inspirational” finalists were named in the young citizen awards.
Now the winners have been crowned following their tireless efforts throughout the year, which have included fundraising, raising awareness of causes, voluntary work and getting involved in their local community.
Elgin Academy student Aidan Henderson won the overall honour of being named Moray’s young citizen of the year for his efforts, which included running a talent show to support Logan’s Fund.
Meanwhile, St Sylvester’s Primary School won the primary school award for its Moray School Bank group, which collected items of school uniform to pass on to other pupils.
Speyside High School lifted the secondary prize for running its own sleep out in the school grounds with some pupils also taking part in the national Sleep in the Park event to raise awareness of homelessness.
Alves Primary School won the global citizenship award while The Country Qu
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Both Pollitt's and Culver's ceremonial beginnings, although vastly different, were appropriate in that they reflected the personal styles of each man.
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Wicomico County's government is working exactly as it was intended — the person occupying the office of county executive is accountable to voters. I was privileged to witness the establishment of the office itself in the wake of a referendum approving the new structure, the tenure of Rick Pollitt, Wicomico's first-ever county executive, and now the swearing-in of its second, Bob Culver.
A majority of those who voted in 2014 were apparently seeking change — and that is precisely what they are getting. Although both are Wicomico County natives and members of the same generation, the stark contrast between Culver and his predecessor became apparent immediately upon walking into the Guerreri Hall auditorium at Wor-Wic Community College Tuesday morning.
In December 2006, Pollitt took his oath of office — the first ever for what was a newly created office — during a gathering in the ceremonial courtroom of the old Wicomico County Courthouse, a location that's steep
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Blackhawks team historian Bob Verdi moderates the discussion between former players during the Blackhawks Convention at the Hilton Chicago Hotel July 20, 2014, in Chicago
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When the incomparable Bob Verdi used to call the Tribune sports desk to check on his columns, several questions routinely followed.
Self-deprecating to a fault, Verdi liked to ask if his work was running in the back of the section by the tire ads. He would quiz copy editors about Chicago's breaking news or screaming headlines. He might challenge the slightest changes to the version he filed with deft diplomacy every columnist needs or draw chuckles with wit drier than vermouth. Almost always, Verdi wondered the same thing aloud before hanging up.
"How did it read?" Verdi asked sincerely, according to several former Tribune colleagues.
More times than not, Verdi was told his column read fine.
No, Bob, it was good. Very good.
The answer, once and for all, came last week, when the Hockey Hall of Fame announced Verdi will receive the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award for excellence in hockey journalism.
Has anybody
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Golden Globes nominee Mel Brooks arrives for the NBC Universal/Focus Features after-party following the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Monday, Jan
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. 16, 2006.
Patrick McGilligan's new biography, "Funny Man: Mel Brooks," seeks to undermine the cultivated image of the lovable, goofy uber-Jew who has worked in film, television, audio recordings and theater. He has earned an Oscar, four Emmys, three Tonys, three Grammys, a Kennedy Center Honor and a National Medal of the Arts. If one were to hold up these accolades as evidence of Brooks's genius, McGilligan's response might resemble the soundtrack from a certain vulgar scene in "Blazing Saddles."
The book's organizing principle is that Brooks is bifurcated, a Jekyll-and-Hyde-type being, comprising "Good Mel" and "Bad Mel." Good Mel, resembling Yogurt from "Spaceballs" - kindly and ever ready with a pun or an endearingly crude joke - is the public Mel. But Bad Mel - like the nasty, greedy and uncaring President Sk
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The Raiders took two offensive tackles in the draft and that make the competition for spots on the 53-man roster tighter at the position in the coming
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months.
That could be bad news for Vadal Alexander, who didn’t do anything to help his chances of making the team again this year by getting suspended. The team announced that Alexander has been suspended for the first four games of the regular season for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances.
Alexander, a 2016 seventh-round pick, played 24 games and made nine starts for the Raiders the last two years.
Alexander is able to practice with the team this offseason and play in the preseason before starting his suspension. He will be eligible to return to the roster after a September 30 game against the Browns.
There’s your A-typical Raider and I’m sure Gruden encourages this kind of Activity.
The only thing you should be SURE about is that you’re an idiot.
HOW BOUT DEM RAIDERS! A new day and new scandal. Nobody does it better!
Was a fan of
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A 2-way SMP server designed to accommodate Intel dual-core Xeon processors, the PowerEdge 1950 sits at the top of Dell’
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s 1U rack-mount range. It’s not a particularly expandable solution — there simply isn’t room for lots of adapters or disks — but that hasn’t stopped Dell’s designers cramming a lot in to create a server that can be used for a variety of purposes.
The PE 1950 is very solid and well built. No special tools are needed to install or service it, and the whole of the top lifts off for access. A sliding rail kit can be supplied as an optional extra and there’s a lockable front bezel to prevent unauthorised tampering and stop the server being switched off accidentally. You can also specify a second, redundant, power supply if required.
The Intel motherboard takes up only a fraction of the space inside the chassis, with two prominent sockets for the 64-bit Xeon processors. The review system came with Woodcrest chips fitted (now referred to as the Xeon 5000 and 5100 series), which
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The spat over Arizona's new immigration law expanded Tuesday as a state official dared Los Angeles to follow through on its new boycott by agreeing to give up
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the 25 percent of electricity the city gets from Arizona sources.
In a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce said a boycott war is bad for both sides, and said he would "be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to renegotiate your power agreements" to end the electricity flowing to Los Angeles.
"I am confident that Arizona's utilities would be happy to take those electrons off your hands," Mr. Pierce said. "If, however, you find that the City Council lacks the strength of its convictions to turn off the lights in Los Angeles and boycott Arizona power, please reconsider the wisdom of attempting to harm Arizona's economy."
Los Angeles City Council voted overwhelmingly last week to adopt a boycott of Arizona businesses — at least in instances where it wouldn't impose a significant economic cost to the city.
Arizona's law requires police to ask for proof of legal residence from anyone they reasonably suspect to be in the country illegally. In most cases, a driver
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Air travel experts estimate that as many as 1,500 private jets will be coming and going from a Swiss Ski resort hosting the annual meeting of the
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World Economic Forum in Davos this week, the Guardian reports. In addition to the sheer volume of the costly and fuel-hungry aircraft, the jets themselves appear to be bigger and more expensive than those used in past years.
The increasing use of private jets is drawing particular scrutiny this year, as the forum’s global risk report lists environmental concerns — including failure to address climate change — as the number one threat to the global economy. Jet travel has been identified as a substantial contributor to climate change, per Deutsche Welle.
Many eyes are presently on this gathering of global leaders as they consider options to preserve the environment.
Although leaders have prioritized further discussion of environmental issues as a central part of the event, this concern has not yet carried over to travel plans, generally speaking.
Another potential contributor to the higher volume of jets is the increasing trend of “jet-sharing” services — services which allow individuals to purchase partial shares in shared aircraft, meaning that private
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The company has raised over $64 million since it emerged from the MIT Human Dynamics Lab back in 2007 trying to use the artificial intelligence technology available at
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the time to understand sentiment and apply it in a business context.
While it took some time for the technology to catch up with the vision, and find the right use case, company CEO and founder Joshua Feast says today they are helping customer service representatives understand the sentiment and emotional context of the person on the line and give them behavioral cues on how to proceed.
“We sell software to very large software, premium brands with many thousands of people in contact centers. The purpose of our solution is to help provide a really wonderful service experience in moments of truth,” he explained. Anyone who deals with a large company’s customer service has likely felt there is sometimes a disconnect between the person on the phone and their ability to understand your predicament and solve your problem.
Cogito in action giving customer service reps real-time feedback.
He says using his company’s solution, which analyzes the contents of the call in real time, and provides relevant feedback, the
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PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Eagles and Nick Foles have agreed to a reworked contract that gives the Super Bowl MVP and projected
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2018 backup a reward for his outstanding postseason and allows him to pursue free agency prior to the 2019 campaign, according to NFL Network insider Mike Garafolo.
In addition to a $2 million signing bonus for the upcoming season, the new deal contains a mutual option for the 2019 season. That gives Foles the chance to become a free agent, but if both parties agree to it, the new deal also would potentially let him come back to Philly if he didn’t find a new home elsewhere.
The reworked contract does not reflect any change in the status of starter Carson Wentz, who is working his way back from a torn ACL injury he suffered in Week 13. Foles famously took over for Wentz and led the Eagles to their first Super Bowl championship.
Wentz and team officials told reporters this week that he is still projected to be back in the lineup by the start of the regular season.
Foles' deal was about hooking him up after his
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BERLIN — Borussia Dortmund squandered a three-goal lead and drew with Hoffenheim 3-3 at home then watched Bayern Munich
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cut its lead in the Bundesliga to five points on Saturday.
Bayern took advantage of Dortmund's second successive league slip-up by beating Schalke 3-1 in the late game, lifting the six-time defending champion back to second place.
Jadon Sancho starred for Dortmund in the absence of injured captain Marco Reus, but instead of putting the pressure on Bayern with what would have been a 10-point gap ahead of the late game, they allowed Hoffenheim to come back.
"A very bitter outcome," Dortmund midfielder Mario Goetze said.
Dortmund, which drew at Eintracht Frankfurt last weekend, was missing coach Lucien Favre due to illness, and with Reus also out due to a muscular injury in Tuesday's German Cup exit to Werder Bremen, there were fears of a tough game against old rival Hoffenheim, which is fighting for European qualification.
But those fears seemed misguided with Sancho sparkling
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Texas BBQ Foods, the brand behind New Zealand’s most authentic Texas-inspired smoked beef brisket, pork belly, cheeses and butter
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can now be found in the chilled section at supermarkets nationwide.
- Texas BBQ Foods Smoked Pork Belly. RRP $11.99 for a 200g pack.
- Texas BBQ Foods Smoked Beef Brisket. RRP $11.99 for a 200g pack.
- Texas BBQ Foods Smoked Cheese. RRP $8.95 for a 155g pack.
- Texas BBQ Foods Smoked Butter. RRP $6.75 for a 95g pack.
Ready to eat hot or cold, the specially designed packs mean the slow-cooked meats can be heated in seconds, tasting as good as it does straight from the smoker.
Meat cuts are hand seasoned with a traditional Texas-style dry rub. They are then slow smoked and cooked with mesquite (a wood imported from North America) for 20+ hours to create a full, genuine flavour. Even the cheese and butter from Texas BBQ Foods is smoked for three hours to get a true smoke
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Most everyone who's been actively following Lone Ranger's progress has surely tired of hearing about the film's budget woes in the aftermath of Disney's highly
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-publicized efforts to cut down costs last year. Yet, the new blockbuster from Pirates of the Caribbean trifecta - namely, star Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer - is having money problems yet again.
Insiders (reliable ones, mind you) are reporting that Depp's unorthodox western has fallen days - possibly even weeks - behind schedule. More importantly, the budget is said to have risen above a "lowered" $215 million - and ballooned back up to the $250 million level that prompted Disney to halt the project's development in the first place.
With respect to principal photography being behind schedule: that's actually less of a concern, seeing how Disney recently pushed Lone Ranger's release date back from May 2013 to the fourth of July weekend slot previously occupied by Robopocalypse. Right now, newly-appointed Disney studio head Alan Horn is thought to be focused on trimming the film's budget (via script re
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Complete with overnight lines and crazed crowds.
Boxing Day takes place in Great Britain the day after Christmas. A lot of people only care
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about it because of the sales it brings.
Shoppers "queued" outside London's famous Selfridges department store overnight, where items will be sold for up to 75% off the usual price. They've still got nothing on American Black Friday shoppers, who have been known to camp out for days in advance.
U.K. shoppers are expected to spend around £2.9 billion, or $4.7 billion, on Boxing Day sales this year.
Black Friday sales in the U.S. were around $59 billion.
Like in the U.S., people in the U.K. have been injured because of the day's massive crowds and confusion.
An 18-year-old boy was stabbed to death in front of Boxing Day shoppers in 2011; the conflict was attributed to gang violence, but Boxing Day chaos contributed as well. And this year, train drivers in Central London are striking because of a lack of "quality time" around the holidays,
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BOSTON — State Rep. Hannah E. Kane, R-Shrewsbury, has hired Westboro resident and recent college graduate Jessica Bel
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iveau as her new legislative aide for the 190th General Session at the State House.
Prior to graduating from Westboro High School in 2012, Ms. Beliveau served as student representative to the Westboro School Committee, where she was actively involved in matters pertaining to Westboro public schools and public education in the commonwealth.
Following her junior year at Boston College, Ms. Beliveau served as an intern for Gov. Charlie Baker. She worked closely with the Governor’s Council to Address Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence and Homelessness. During her internship, Ms. Beliveau researched legislation, attended several hearings surrounding numerous social policy issues, and traveled throughout the state to liaise with advocacy groups, state and local officials, and constituents on state matters and procedures.
As a political science major, Ms. Beliveau has always been active politically and interested in pursuing a career in public service and government. She enjoys contributing to the state community and is a firm believer in
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THE chief economist and global strategist for Deutsche Bank Securities, Edward Yardeni, is a favorite Wall Street figure for technology skeptics these days.
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LEAD: NUMEROUS articles and books have appeared recently that claim that America is in decline. Americans are living beyond their means and on borrowed time. Our prosperity is an illusion, say the pessimists - a day of reckoning is coming.
The Fed stopped raising short-term rates last summer and is expected to hold firm again on Wednesday.
Though a steadfast market bull, a strategist worries about investors’ nonchalant attitude toward ever-rising stocks.
WHEN the numbers stop making sense, maybe it is time to stop believing them.
The monthly Labor Department jobs report is often wide of the mark, requiring substantial revisions weeks later and leaving investors unsure of how to interpret the results.
Executives and board members are usually in their stock for the long run, but buybacks have a different objective.
WALL STREET expects the economy to have added about 200,000 jobs in April, a not-too-strong, not-too
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Lyft has officially entered the public transit space with the launch of Nearby Transit, a feature currently available just in Santa Monica, Calif. This
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comes just a couple of days after Lyft deployed electric scooters in the city.
Today, Lyft customers in Santa Monica will see the Nearby Transit option, which includes route information and schedules for the Big Blue Bus, LA Metro and Metrolink. The feature is in partnership with Trafi, a transit information platform.
“Building on the launch of Lyft Scooters in Santa Monica this week, it’s another step toward providing effective, equitable, and sustainable transportation to our communities, and towards creating a more seamless and connected transportation network,” the company posted on its blog.
Lyft has also brought on Lilly Shoup, formerly of Nelson\Nygaard Consulting, to serve as senior director of transportation policy. In that role, Shoup will oversee Lyft’s multi-modal transportation efforts as they pertain to equity, land use, autonomous vehicles and more.
Uber announced its public transit ambitions back in April, but has yet to integrate those
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Recently my house was struck by lightning and one of my TiVo boxes got zapped (among other things). I had decided to try replacing it
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with a generic DVR from Time Warner Cable.
Recently my house was struck by lightning and one of my TiVo boxes got zapped (among other things). I had decided to try replacing it with a generic DVR from Time Warner Cable. Boy, was that a mistake.
I wanted to like the Time Warner DVR, I really did. The main reason was price. The Time Warner DVR box (actually a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8340HDC) model was free, and the service cost $7.95/month. Also I was excited at the possibility of finally getting high definition content on my Sony HDTV. I asked some friends who used it and they seemed happy with it.
I can sum up my experiences with the Time Warner DVR in one word: Argh!
The first problem was the remote they gave us. What a disaster that thing is. So many tiny buttons - six pairs of buttons that go up and down alone. And take the
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Burgess Hill pupils celebrating the suffragettes as part of their work to mark Parliament Week.
Burgess Hill Girls pupils have been
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spreading the word about the importance of political engagement in winning women’s suffrage.
Sporting a suffragist’s sash, head girl Cara Eckstein and deputy head girls Sophie Rowson and Bridget Calthrop walked the school corridors to encourage the girls to consider the importance of the 1918 act which gave women the right to vote, and the 1928 act that equalised that right with men’s rights.
Last week’s UK Parliament Week is an annual festival which engages people from across the UK with Parliament, explores what it means to them and empowers them to get involved.
Cara said: “It is important for any young women to fully appreciate the sacrifices made for us by those who campaigned for women’s suffrage.
Head of sixth form at Burgess Hill Girls, Bill O’Brien-Blake, said: “A thorough understanding of how the right to vote was fought for and won can ensure that
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Eating out in London is tough. Exciting, but tough. A complex procedure that involves co-ordinating diaries with friends, working
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out what everyone can afford and picking somewhere with the lowest risk of queues. Not to mention keeping up with the latest trends.
Yet, London is not the be-all and end-all of British gastronomy. Just an hour-and-a-half’s train ride away, a quiet gastronomic explosion is taking place in Bristol where 31 new eateries opened in 2016 and 64 are expected to open this year.
On a packed Saturday night in No Man’s Grace, a restaurant typical of Bristol’s foodie growth spurt, light from the exposed bulbs is low and the Beach Boys jingle on the stereo. The vibe is friendly neighbourhood, the food is exquisite.
Even Casamia, Bristol’s most touted Michelin-starred restaurant, is resolutely on the casual side of smart. Starched white tablecloths and set places have been ditched in favour of plain wooden tabletops, cutlery in hewn
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Cold weather and a bright moon didn't stop skywatchers around the country from capturing stunning shots of the annual Quadrantid meteor shower this week
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Astrophotographer Victor Rogus, for example, snapped a dramatic image from Jadwin, Mo., a few hours before dawn today (Jan. 3) during the Quadrantids' peak. The streaking meteor seen in the photo appears in Ursa Minor, a constellation in the northern sky.
Victor Rogus captured this image of the Quadrantid Meteor shower in the constellation Ursa Minor at 2:39 am on Jan. 3, 2013 from Jadwin, Missouri. To take the photo, Rogus used a Carl Zeiss 35mm lens at f 2, and an ISO setting of 640, on a Cannon 60Da camera, astrophotography model.
"Battling the cold and the gibbous moon was no easy task, but I managed to catch this meteor trail in a 12-second exposure with a Cannon 60Da astrophotography camera," Rogus told SPACE.com via email.
Veteran meteor observer John Chum
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The African Union has affirmed its intention to keep its peacekeeping mission in Somalia as Ethiopian troops withdraw and to boost its manpower in the face of precarious
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security conditions.
The United Nations is also signaling a renewed willingness to support efforts to bring stability to Somalia - a nation virtually ungovernable for nearly two decades.
A news release issued on Tuesday at AU headquarters reiterated the continental body's intention to back Somalia's Transitional Federal Government as it chooses a new leader following last week's resignation of President Abdullahi Yusuf.
Somali and Western diplomatic sources said a number of candidates are jockeying for the post, as members of parliament try to name a successor within 30 days, as specified in the transitional charter.
The AU statement acknowledged deteriorating security in the Horn of Africa nation, with fresh fighting leading to the death of dozens of people and a massive displacement of civilians.
But AU Peace and Security Council spokesman El-Ghassim Wane said there is no plan to withdraw the 3,500 strong peacekeeping force, at least for the next few months.
"The task ahead of us is not to pull out
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I picked UR because of the academic freedom. I knew I liked math and science but I wasn't a hundred percent certain that I would like engineering
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. With the UR curriculum, I knew that I could easily change to another major or take a random unrelated class and not affect when I graduated.
I picked my major randomly. As a freshman, I was assigned a BME advisor and I took BME 101, which I really enjoyed. After taking an optics course in the fall semester of sophomore year, I decided to declare my major as biomedical engineering with a concentration in medical optics.
I was involved in a variety of different groups including the Society of Women Engineers, varsity track and field team, Class Council, Tiernan Project, St. Sebastian Society and Catholic Newman Community. Being involved helped me to know my classmates better, become involved with the community, and gain leadership, time management, and networking skills.
In the fall after graduating from UR, I started graduate school. I decided I wanted to earn a PhD after doing research while at UR. I received help on the graduate school application process from my BME advisor and advisors
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Has Bill Donohue of the Catholic League in New York no shame?
He says not to believe the Commission of Investigation - don’
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t believe the Irish government, don’t even believe the Catholic Bishops, who have just reacted with “shock” and “shame” at the discovery of “significant human remains” at the former Mother and Baby Home at Tuam, County Galway.
Only Bill Donohue of the Catholic League in New York knows the truth. He says it is all 'fake news,' nothing to see, no one to be held to account over 800 dead children in a Mother and Baby home in Tuam, County Galway.
Just a section of the death records believed to be those of the 796 babies in the mass grave at Tuam.
He besmirches the memory of helpless young children, some literally emaciated and starved to death, in pursuit of his own grandiose and grotesque need for attention.
He’s the only one who knows the story of a “mass grave” in County Gal
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Seven Arun gymnasts made the long trek to Farnborough for the Liberty Gymnastics Club invitational competition.
This was a three-
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piece apparatus competition with gymnasts competing on floor, vault and trampet work and medals were awarded for each piece of apparatus only.
Rebecca Williamson competed in the advanced girls’ section for those aged 14-15 and had an excellent competition, winning gold medals for both her superb vault and trampet work and a silver for her floor routine.
There were three Arun gymnasts competing in the bronze 13-17 group and Charlotte Williamson came out on top, winning one medal of each colour. She put in a lovely performance on floor for the gold medal then won a silver for her trampet work and a bronze on vault.
Emily Day won silver with her great vault work and bronze on floor while Jenna Partridge put in an excellent trampet series to win the gold medal.
Jordan Kitchen, Chantal Mawbey and Lily Smyth all competed in the silver 13-17 group. Jordan finished with a bronze medal on trampet and Chantal
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(CN) – Japan’s already-endangered orchid populations faces a new threat from a type of seed-eating fly, according
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to a new study.
There are thousands of varieties of the highly coveted and colorful orchids, some of the most diverse flowers on the planet.
In Japan, more than 70 percent of native orchids are endangered due to a number of factors like overharvesting and development.
While the endangered plants can be reproduced through cloning, scientists say reproduction through seeds is better for genetic diversity.
If the plants can’t reproduce with their seeds they face even bigger threats, scientists believe.
A new study by a team of Japanese researchers identified a type of fly that feeds on orchid seeds in five varieties of the flower. Their findings were published in the journal Ecology.
The fly, Japanagromyza tokunagai, lays its eggs inside the young fruit of blooming orchids. When they hatch, the flies make a hole in the fruit.
Because the orchid fruit grows to the same size as fruit without the flies, scientists may have
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Yesterday, the triennial PISA results were announced, prompting a paroxysm of spastic pontificating. Hands were wrung,
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familiar talking points were rehashed, and PISA Overlord Andreas Schleicher once again took the results as his cue to lecture American educators and policymakers on the wonders of common standards and the perniciousness of school choice. (Not that Schleicher has ever seemed an especially strategic operator; I'm curious whether the cheerleading of this international bureaucrat will really help the cause of the Common Core.) Anyway, the funny thing is that all this gnashing of teeth is, quite literally, for nothing. There are at least seven reasons I don't give a fig about the PISA results. What are they?
One, international test score comparisons suffer from the same banal problems that bedevil simple NCLB-style comparisons. PISA results say nothing about the value schools are adding; they merely provide simple cross-sectional snapshots of achievement.
Two, Shanghai was tops in the rankings--which ought to prompt a whole lot of questions. Brookings's Tom Lo
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In winter we recognize nature’s power over us and our need for sustenance against it — a warm sweater, a blazing fire, a
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hot drink — whether we’re in icy Minnesota or balmy Miami.
▪ Mulled red wine: sturdy reds heated with honey, orange peel and such “mulling spices” as cinnamon, orange, cloves, star anise, cardamom.
▪ Mulled white wine: aromatic whites warmed with Poire William, the pear brandy, and those spices.
▪ Hot spiced wine: wine of either hue heated with Kirsch, the cherry brandy, and spice. Or simmered with sugar, cider and grape brandy. Or scotch and ginger.
In Germany there’s gluwein; in Romania, vin fiert; in Russia, Glintwein — all pretty much the same.
What, then, are the proper wines for such loving libations, you ask between chattering teeth. They can be such potent reds as cabernet sauvignon,
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Salesforce unveiled plans for a new, 61-story Salesforce Tower at 415 Mission Street in San Francisco to expand its worldwide headquarters, and as
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part of that it’s filed an 8-K form with the SEC with the details of how much it will be investing to do so.
The CRM giant will pay $560 million over a period of 15 years starting 2018 to lease space, with an additional $130 million on top of that for for leasehold improvements, amounting to a total of outlay of $690 million.
Salesforce’s move is also an interesting development considering the ongoing debates about tech workers who live in San Francisco and are accused of putting a strain on the residential market, some of whom do not work in the city itself — resulting in a string of protests around the busses that they use for their commutes. One suggested solution has been to ramp up high-density housing (read: skyscrapers, not unlike the Salesforce Tower), which has its own drawbacks.
Salesforce says it will be taking over half of the 1.4 million square feet available in the
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