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Conclusion - Überclok Reactor: “Überperformance” Gaming?
The Überclok Reactor is a
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performance monster with the available E8400 at 4.01 GHz and dual 8800GTX graphics cards in SLI, but is it worth the price?
We checked the online prices of every component, and our total to build it ourselves was over $2700, including the operating system, keyboard and mouse. The most recent price available from Überclok’s web configuration page was over $3500, which is a difference of around $800.
What does the extra $800 get you, other than a couple hundred dollars worth of service? The Überclok Reactor comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee and three-year warranty. Buyers can evaluate their systems and return them if unsatisfied, while those who choose to keep their system will be covered against component failure for three years. These two programs are expensive to manage, because Überclok can’t sell a returned system as new, and Überclok can’
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ZURICH (Reuters) - GAM Holding (GAMH.S) Chief Executive Alexander Friedman resigned on Tuesday, the Swiss asset manager said
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, as the company seeks to reverse billions in asset outflows that came on the heels of the suspension of a top manager.
Board member David Jacob will become interim group CEO and a member of the group management board, GAM said in a statement. The new leadership will better enable the company to take action needed to support profitability and drive forward its strategy, it said.
GAM assets suffered a 17.7 billion Swiss franc (13.5 billion pounds)hit in the third quarter, as slumping markets hurt and as the suspension of absolute return bond fund (ARBF) director Tim Haywood during a misconduct investigation helped prompt investors to withdraw funds.
GAM has since become potential prey, with media reporting that it rebuffed an offer from Schroders Plc (SDR.L) for its hedge fund unit.
As the Swiss company seeks to regain its footing, it said new leadership will help.
Jacob, on GAM’s board since April 2017, was
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OTTAWA — Samantha MacDougall thought her fight to get her late partner’s Canada Pension Plan benefits would take years.
The
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government ended the fight for her.
Newly approved changes to the Canada Pension Plan will mean widows and widowers, regardless of age, will receive full survivor benefits, changing five decades of federal policy.
The changes mean anyone under age 35 without children or a disability will receive benefits immediately, rather than having to wait to age 65, and will end benefit clawbacks for survivors under age 45.
Anyone previously denied survivor benefits because of the age rule will be able to re-apply for benefits when the rules take effect in 2019. Those receiving a reduced benefit will automatically see their benefits recalculated upwards.
The government estimates the changes will affect 40,000 people, about half of them being young survivors like MacDougall.
“It is the right thing to do and seeing as the change is being made, I must not be the only one who thinks so,” said MacDougall, whose partner, Greg Weeks, died in 2013.
Federal research found the
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The Alberene Improvement Project, a joint neighborhood revitalization effort between AHIP and the County of Albemarle, is one of 11
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statewide projects receiving funding through more than $9.5 million in Community Development Block Grants announced by Governor Terry McAuliffe late last week. The local home rehab and community preservation initiative focusing on Alberene in rural southern Albemarle will receive $855,000 in CDBG support to help approximately 30 families with critical home repair needs over two years.
In 1883, two New York businessmen started the Alberene Soapstone Company. One of the men, James H. Serene, combined his last name and “Albemarle,” coining the name of the community that became home for the workers of one of the area’s largest employers. Several of the homes built then are still there, along with a mix of ranch-style houses from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
AHIP knew from its extensive waitlist data that there was high demand for rehab and energy-efficiency work in southern Albemarle. The
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Here are the top five air purifiers you can get in both online and offline markets.
Post Diwali 2018, the air quality in
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northern part of India has deteriorated significantly, with Delhi being the worst hit. Large parts of Delhi have shown an Air Quality Index (AQI) of more than 999 when it comes to the most harmful PM2.5 particulate matter. There’s no other way of putting this: if you live in North India, the air you are breathing is hazardous at worst or ranges at very unhealthy in the best case scenario. The long term impacts of air pollution paint a scary picture where health is concerned.
One way to mitigate some of these risks is relying on air purifiers in your rooms, especially in bedrooms, to at least reduce some impact. Here is a list of air purifiers that you can currently purchase in India. This list is based on the options we have reviewed.
The Xiaomi Mi Air Purifier 2S features a 3 layer HEPA filter.
Xiaomi’s Mi Air Purifier 2S was recently launched in the country as a successor to
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Retired at 35 averages over 2 million viewers.
New York, New York, January 20, 2011 – Against fierce competition from premieres on
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the broadcast networks, TV Land’s critically-acclaimed hit original sitcom “Hot in Cleveland” scored huge numbers for its second season premiere last night (Wednesday, January 19th at 10 p.m. ET/PT). The series was the most-watched show in its 10 p.m. timeslot in all of cable with nearly 3 million total viewers as well as the #1 scripted series for the night on cable among Adults 25-54 and Women 25-54. Additionally, the series premiere of TV Land’s second original sitcom, “Retired at 35,” which premiered right after “Hot in Cleveland,” averaged over 2 million total viewers and posted impressive triple-digit gains across all key demos versus the channel’s primetime average.
Nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards®, including: Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
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A well-known official of the UAW has become the fourth person charged in connection with a $4.5 million embezzlement case
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involving the union and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
Virdell King, a retired UAW associate director, was charged in a 17-page document with using a credit card from a training center for Chrysler employees to buy more than $40,000 worth of clothing, jewelry, luggage and other personal items for herself and other senior UAW officials.
King, 65, who is known the first African-American female to be elected president of a local union in UAW-Chrysler's history, was charged in U.S. District Court on Friday in the information document, indicating that she is likely cooperating and working on a plea deal with the government.
A lawyer for King, John Shea, declined to comment Friday.
Among the purchases for herself was a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes for more than $1,000, authorities said. Another was a $2,180 shotgun, gifted to UAW Vice President Norwood Jewell by King in 2015 for his
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To provide better experiences for customers and a more efficient workforce.
Sydney, Australia – March 19, 2019 – Avaya Holdings Corp.
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(NYSE: AVYA), a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, today announced further integration with Google Cloud Contact Centre artificial intelligence (AI) to provide better experiences for customers and a more efficient workforce, taking full advantage of the powerful artificial intelligence capabilities of both companies.
Recognised as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center1, Avaya extends its leadership in leveraging AI to improve customer experience with more personalised, intelligent and insightful interactions. This includes embedding Google’s machine learning within Avaya conversation services powering the contact centre, enabling easy integration of AI capabilities regardless of channel, promoting a consistent and intelligent experience for customers and delivering true omnichannel experiences with AI. Together, Avaya and Google Cloud are providing customers with increased flexibility, efficiency and scalability in deploying powerful and simple communication and collaboration solutions that improve the customer journey. Avaya IX Contact Centre is an AI-enhanced, omnichannel solution including voice,
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I’ll admit it: Three years ago, when nail art first made a break for respectable popularity, I wasn’t just resistant
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—I was annoyed. I’m an aesthetic minimalist, and nail art is the obvious antithesis of understated beauty; it doesn’t just call for attention—it begs for it shamelessly. I don’t want your glitter or pom-poms or gemstones or bright colors anywhere near my fingertips. Accoutrements are not welcome here. You get the picture.
I waited years for nail art to join the ranks of acrylic French tips and die a slow, permanent death, so you could imagine my surprise when, late last summer, I found myself sitting across from Misleidys, a nail tech at Valley salon in NYC, agreeing to let her draw something on my nails. Well, more accurately, I let her draw something on half of my nail, thereby making it a negative space manicure. The trend, which often takes on a geometric or graphic vibe, manages to look sophisticated and playful at the same time. To prove it,
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The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) wednesday lost its bid to takeover the land known as the Federal Secretariat Complex, Ikoy
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i, Lagos, as a Federal High Court in Lagos dismissed its debt recovery suit it filed against businessman, Dr Wale Babalakin (SAN).
Justice Ibrahim Buba, in his judgment, also awarded the sum of N3 billion damages against the federal government and AMCON in favour of Babalakin for publishing his name in THISDAY Newspaper of February 5, 2016, as a First Bank’s debtor.
AMCON had dragged Babalakin and one of his companies, Resort International Limited to court in November 2012, seeking an order for the repayment of the sum of N20.5 billion comprising principal sum and accrued interest as at October 2011 on various loan facilities allegedly granted to the businessman and personally guaranteed by his company.
It is also sought an order granting it the power of sale or disposal of a parcel of land known as Alma Beach property, and the parcel of land known as the Federal Secretariat Complex, Phase 1 & 2, Ikoyi in
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Above: The Scuf Infinity1 gamepad.
The Xbox One Elite Controller is still the best gamepad I’ve ever used,
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but I can see why some people may choose Scuf’s Infinity1 instead. Scuf, which also works with Microsoft on the Elite, provides similar functionality in its Infinity1 customizable controllers. You can swap out thumbsticks and use back paddles to activate face buttons. But it is also much lighter and also much more likely to survive use as your everyday input on Xbox One and/or PC.
The Scuf Infinity1 custom controller is available now starting at $120. You can also get it in a PS4 variation. For Xbox One or PC players, however, you may wonder if this is worth it compared to some of the other options on the market, and I think Scuf makes its case in a few key ways.
You can compare the Infinity1 in two directions. The more affordable, standard Xbox One controller is better than ever at $60. Microsoft has made constant updates to dial in the right feel for the analog sticks and bumpers, and it has
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It was just two years ago when representatives of 195 countries met in Paris and reached a historic international agreement to combat the climate crisis. Only two countries
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– Syria and Nicaragua – rejected the accord.
Nicaragua is set to join the Paris climate agreement, according to an official statement and comments from Vice President Rosario Murillo on Monday, in a move that leaves the United States and Syria as the only nations outside the global pact.
Nicaragua has already presented the relevant documents at the United Nations, Murillo, who is also first lady, said on local radio on Monday.
It’s worth noting for context that when representatives from the Nicaraguan delegation balked at the Paris accords in 2015, it wasn’t because they were fringe climate deniers embracing oddball conspiracy theories. It was actually the opposite: Nicaragua opposed the agreement because officials believed it didn’t go far enough.
And as a result, there are now only two countries on the planet that are operating outside the Paris accord: Syria, which is home to a brutal civil war, and the United States, which is home to Donald
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The former vice president sat down with WPP chief Martin Sorrell at Cannes.
Former Vice President Al Gore told WPP CEO Martin Sorrel
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at Cannes that representative governments need to use technology to tap into the vox populi.
"The wisdom of crowds is not just a buzz phrase; there’s something quite incredible about it," he said on-stage at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. "When you trust in the collective judgment of people who communicate with each other and share their own individual points of view and bring that wisdom together, that’s the best way to make decisions. Democracy is supposed to work that way."
Gore also railed against the influence of big money in "propaganda" campaigns.
"When you have campaigns to convince people of falsehoods backed up by huge budgets, that distorts the ways public decisions are made," he said. "It is urgent that we speed up the movement of democratic principles, traditions, and institutions into the digital age so people can once again become involved, so ideas and opinions can once again matter, and so it’s not
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Microsoft's strategy for keeping recent builds of its latest operating system tightly under wraps sprang a few holes last week.
On Friday, longtime Microsoft wat
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cher Mary Jo Foley reported that new pictures and videos (here and here) of the "M3" build have been leaked online, to Redmond's chagrin. The images show various Windows 7 functions, including the Start button, calculator and WordPad, plus sticky notes and ribbon functionality.
Foley, who saw a preview of the build last week from an non-official source, said on her All About Microsoft blog that Microsoft won't confirm or deny the legitimacy of the images leaked, nor will it comment directly on any Windows 7 rumors.
Microsoft has said it will reveal much of Windows 7 at its upcoming Professional Developers Conference in late October and/or its Hardware Engineering Conference (subtitled "Windows 7 Unveiled") in early November -- and may, as reported last week, launch an early public beta of Windows 7 at one or both of the shows.
While Microsoft may not be speaking out on the leaks, it appears to be trying to stop them: Foley also
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You are strong. You are Mom.
I have something important to tell you, mama: I don't see you.
Now,
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don't stop reading just yet. Please hear me out. It's true I don't see you, but I know what you are going through.
I know that these days you are almost always exhausted and fueled by caffeine and anxiety... I know that more than once a day you scream on the inside, "There's only one of me!" I know you feel deep mommy love, as well as deep mommy guilt, for not being the person you think you should be.
Mia is personally familiar with the days when you just want to run away but instead escape to the grocery store and stay in the car a bit longer than necessary just to savor the alone time. Mia is also aware of the endless to-do lists that stack up while you're trying to raise tiny humans, which can leave you feeling overwhelmed, disorganized, and even flawed.
"I know the weight of responsibility sometimes feels so heavy you can barely move," she wrote in a post on Sc
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KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, November 28, 2006 – The search for the missing SVG Air aircraft and its two occupants has been called off.
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Search teams from Barbados, Martinique, Trinidad, and Venezuela coordinated by the St Vincent and the Grenadines coastguard have combed several square miles of sea between St Vincent, Bequia, and Mustique with no sign of the Aero Commander 500S which vanished Sunday evening November 19 sometime between 6:51 pm and 6:55 pm.
However, government has announced they still wanted to locate the wreckage and bodies to bring closure for the families and was therefore seeking to source and commission sonar equipment to locate the plane believed to have crashed about one mile from the ET Joshua Airport.
The five-seat plane was on a routine flight from Canouan in the Grenadines to the mainland St Vincent. On final approach to the ET Joshua airport around 6:51 pm, as the pilot was descending 1100 feet over Bequia he radioed the Control Tower to advise on his position and seek permission to land. He was cleared for landing and advised the tower that he
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IPOH, Feb 11 (Bernama) -- The Perak squad must take full advantage of playing at home in the second round of the Asian
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Champions League (ACL) qualifiers here tomorrow night.
Team captain Shahrul Saad, when met during the press conference today, said although the team was aware that Hong Kong League champions, Kitchee SC were the favourites to qualify for the third round, it was no reason for the Bos Gaurus squad to surrender.
"We play at home, of course, we want to win. We will play all out and move on to the next round,” he said, calling on supporters to get behind the team.
The Bos Gaurus squad need to win to advance to the third round to face South Korea’s Ulsan Hyundai.
If they get past the two qualifiers, they will be placed in Group H, with Sydney FC (Australia), Kawasaki Frontale (Japan) and Shanghai SIPG (China).
Meanwhile, Perak head coach Mehmed Durakovic said the match was very important for his team, especially the younger players
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Nicky Hilton has already cemented her status as a style icon, but the mom-to-be is clearly set to inspire our maternity wardrobe
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dreams as well. Keeping cool New York breezes at bay, the socialite wore a brown sheepskin jacket over cool yet casual jeans and heeled boots for a Wednesday (Jan. 27) stroll, topping off the ensemble with a chic Louis Vuitton shoulder bag.
It was revealed earlier this month that 32-year-old Nicky is pregnant with her first child. The heiress tied the knot with financier James Rothschild at the Orangery in Kensington Palace Gardens in July 2015, and now her aunt, Kyle Richards, has confirmed the news in a sit-down interview with E!.
Nicky Hilton looked stylish as she stepped out in New York.
"Nicky's pregnant, and she's the first of the cousins to have a baby, so we're all really excited," the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star said. "I can't wait to see what that baby is going to look like. It's going to be gorgeous."
On
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In a scene that’s repeated at many other conferences throughout the country, attendees of the National School Boards Association’s Technology + Learning
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(T+L) Conference in Seattle, Wash., crowded into the main hall Oct. 28 to hear what the keynote speaker had to say. But unlike at other conferences, where the flashing lights and neon colors that educators have come to expect emanate brightly from the stage, the mood was somber—with keynote speaker Paul Saffo asking serious questions about the future of education and the role technology will play.
As attendees and exhibitors sat in their seats, sipping Seattle’s trademark beverage, their eyes focused on the stage: Seattle’s black skyline with hues of purple and blue, clouds massed on the horizon—signaling rain clouds on the way.
According to Saffo, there are some tips educators can use to predict the next big technological innovation that will directly affect the economy.
First, take a look at history: In the 1950s, the key technological innovation was the television—and the media expression of it was broadcasting in the 1960
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Editor’s Note: In an interview with NPR’s Steve Inskeep, Elizabeth Ferris discusses the effect of the Arab spring on
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massive migration across North Africa’s borders.
STEVE INSKEEP, NPR: Now, early in Libya’s war, people were sometimes leaving the country at the rate of thousands per hour. Foreign workers were mainly fleeing the country. Now that rebels control Tripoli, a different kind of refugee is on the move, including some of Moammar Gadhafi’s relatives, who slipped across the border into Algeria.
Elizabeth Ferris of the Brookings Institution is tracking Libya’s migrations.
ELIZABETH FERRIS: Whenever there’s a turmoil such as this and a change in government and regime, people associated with that regime try to get out.
FERRIS: And there are rich people who have resources and homes elsewhere and bank accounts they can tap into. Poorer people tend to be displaced closer to home. So you’ll have displacement inside Libya. You’ll have people going to both borders,
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Stephanie Sallee, from left, Naomi Dalton, Sandrine El Hage and Sylvie El Hage at the Nutcracker Market
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opening night party.
'Tis the shopping season, right?!
That's what some 4,000 guests had on their minds at the Wells Fargo Preview Party on Wednesday for the 38th annual Houston Ballet Nutcracker Market at NRG Center.
The party goers got a jump on the shopping before the market officially opens today with an expected 100,000 in attendance through Sunday. The market features some 270 vendors, with 26 new ones, from across the nation. New this year, Kendra Scott hosted a jewelry pull in which 100 percent of proceeds benefited the Houston Ballet.
Attendees enjoyed cocktails, buffet stations and music by David Caceres Band, took holiday photos with special guests Santa and Mrs. Claus.
Eleven percent of merchandise sales and all proceeds from ticket sales directly benefit the Houston Ballet Foundation. Since its inception in 1981, the Nutcracker Market has raised more than $63 million for the Houston Ballet Foundation.
Guests included
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sunday, Oct. 2 - A series of bomb blasts rocked popular tourist areas on the island of Bali on
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Saturday night, killing at least 25 people and injuring 101, the Indonesian government and a local hospital said.
Among the places hit were a crowded restaurant outside the Four Seasons hotel at Jimbaran beach, and a shopping square in Kuta, not far from the terrorist bombing that killed 202 people in October 2002.
Witnesses described lifting bloodied bodies from the badly damaged Raja Bar and Restaurant in Kuta, and taking the injured to hospitals.
Tourists who had been eating and drinking at the Raja at a peak dinner hour staggered onto the sidewalks of the Kuta Square shopping district. The front of a middle-aged man's beach shirt was drenched in blood, his forehead gashed. Another man lay on his back on a bench, his face, head and arms covered in blood.
At Jimbaran, a blurred amateur video caught the sounds of confusion soon after the blast, as survivors tried to escape and motorcycles and cars carried the injured to hospitals.
Ind
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“Miracles From Heaven” begins with voice-over narration from Christy Beam (played by Jennifer Garner), a Fort Worth mom who explains
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that a miracle is defined as an unexpected, positive event that cannot be explained by science. Of course, in reality, that’s only part of the definition. Any unexplained, welcome situation necessarily needs the person or people involved in the event itself to decide that it’s a miracle.
This poses a problem for the cinematic retelling of a story that its author is convinced is miraculous. In fact, it’s a problem facing almost all recent faith-based films; faith is an unseen force, and film must give audiences something to see. “Miracles From Heaven,” then, qualifies as a success: It delivers its miracle without strain.
Based on the memoir by Beam, “Miracles” tells the story of young Anna Beam (Kylie Rogers, “Space Station 76”), whose unexplained digestive disorder leads Christy to battle with a variety of doctors and misdiagnoses. Confidently told that the situation is merely lactose
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UPDATE: A BAN on parents smacking their children risks turning Australia into a nanny state, says PM Tony Abbott, who admits he sm
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acked his own kids.
A BAN on parents smacking their children risks turning Australia into a nanny state, says Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who admits he smacked his own kids.
A UN Committee on the Rights of the Child report asks Australia to abolish the right of parents to use reasonable chastisement to discipline children.
The committee would also like teachers and childcare workers to report cases of parents smacking.
But the idea hasn't grabbed Mr Abbott.
"I was probably one of those guilty parents who did occasionally chastise the children, a very gentle smack I've got to say,'' Mr Abbott told the Seven Network today.
"I think that we've got to treat our kids well, but I don't think we ought to say there's no place ever for smacks.
Mr Abbott said it was "always
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1 What Are the Aims & Objectives of HR Development?
One of the key roles of the human resources department is to keep the workforce
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safe, productive and engaged in the company’s activities and interests. HR training objectives support this role by educating employees and managers on the relevant procedures. Training objectives focus on what the organization needs to achieve and how to help employees attain company goals. Depending on the type of business and specific challenges the company faces, there are a wide range of possible HR training objectives. However, some are important in almost every organization.
Every employer has a duty to provide a safe and healthy working environment. Every employee has a duty to protect himself and those around him. Health and safety is an area that is often included as part of the HR function in small and medium-sized companies. In large organizations, there may be a dedicated health and safety department. Managers need to be trained in risk assessments and the importance of undertaking them regularly and correctly, while implementing any necessary actions quickly. Neglecting this duty can lead to injury, illness, death and legal action against the company. All of these have
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Ukraine's telecommunications system has come under attack, with equipment installed in Russian-controlled Crimea used to interfere with the mobile phones of members of parliament,
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the head of Ukraine's SBU security service said on Tuesday.
Some Internet and telephone services were severed after Russian forces seized control of airfields and key installations in Ukraine's Crimea region on Friday, but now lawmakers were being targeted, Valentyn Nalivaichenko told a news briefing.
"I confirm that an...attack is under way on mobile phones of members of Ukrainian parliament for the second day in row," the security chief told a news briefing.
"At the entrance to (telecoms firm) Ukrtelecom in Crimea, illegally and in violation of all commercial contracts, was installed equipment that blocks my phone as well as the phones of other deputies, regardless of their political affiliation," he said.
Ukrtelecom has already said armed men raided its facilities in Crimea on Friday and tampered with fibre optic cables, causing outages of local telephone and Internet systems on the continent.
The Ukrainian security chief did not say whether the new issues were linked to the
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Conor McGregor isn't opposed to seeing Floyd Mayweather don four-ounce gloves in a cage - far from it, in fact.
After the
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undefeated boxer dropped a pair of videos in which he appeared to tease an MMA foray, McGregor told street reporter Adam Glyn on Wednesday that while he'd have a grand old time at Mayweather's expense if ever they met in the Octagon, he'd wholeheartedly respect his former foe for daring to make the transition.
"I'd do as I please against him, but if he does do it - I know he's flirting with it - I would have respect for him," McGregor said. "I think it would get his earned respect if he was to step in."
Mayweather may have merely been cutting a promo for Irish sports book Paddy Power - a sponsor of his August blockbuster opposite McGregor - and if that proves to be the case, it could tarnish his legacy, said the Irishman.
"If it is, it will follow him the rest of his days. You know what I'm saying? It will follow him for the rest of his days that he did
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Confidential diplomatic cables from the U.S. embassies in Beijing and Hong Kong lay bare China's growing influence as America's largest creditor.
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As the U.S. Federal Reserve grappled with the aftershocks of financial crisis, the Chinese, like many others, suffered huge losses from their investments in American financial firms — from Lehman Brothers to the Primary Reserve Fund, the money market fund that broke the buck.
The cables, obtained by WikiLeaks, show that escalating Chinese pressure prompted a procession of soothing visits from the U.S. Treasury Department.
In one striking instance, a top Chinese money manager directly asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for a favor.
In June, 2009, the head of China's powerful sovereign wealth fund met with Geithner and requested that he lean on regulators at the U.S. Federal Reserve to speed up the approval of its $1.2 billion investment in Morgan Stanley, according to the cables, which were provided to Reuters by a third party.
Although the cables do not mention if Geithner took any action, China's deal to buy Morgan Stanley
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The name Live MB Music may not instantaneously strike a chord with many, but if persons take a deeper look into the industry, they will discover
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that the Montego Bay-based record label has been steadily making inroads on the entertainment scene. They have been the driving force behind reggae artiste Jae Prynse, and this year, the record label is looking to expand its reach even more.
In a release sent to THE STAR, the label revealed that they have embarked on a new project that they hope will be'revolutionary'.
The project is called the 'Reggae Revolutionary' Rhythm, a 14-track compilation which includes some of the biggest names in reggae. Capleton, Jah Cure, I-Wayne, Freddie McGregor, Fantan Mojah, Jah Mason and Lukie D are just some of the heavy hitters to be featured on the project, which includes other notable names such as Chino, Jah Bouks, Dotta Coppa, Wickerman, Nitty Kutchie, Falkonection, Jah Izrehl and Unstoppable Fyah.
The project is to be distributed through
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The federal government just can’t stay out of agriculture. From subsidy programs that decide winners and losers in the markets by favoring corporate farms over
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family farms to ethanol rules that sacrifice food for fuel to laws that give undue influence and power to a select few pesticide and seed producers, Washington has maintained a stranglehold over farming that has forever altered the industry’s competitive landscape and doomed consumers to pay ever-higher prices at the grocery store.
It wants even more power. Now, another assault comes from the Capitol and the unlikeliest of agencies: the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, an arm of the Department of Transportation. The DOT/FMCSA has new standards currently in the public comment period that, were they to become law, would override states’ rights — and the rights of the individual farmer — and have a detrimental impact on how business is done.
First and foremost, the DOT wants to reclassify farm vehicles and implements — everything from tractors to cattle haulers — as Commercial Motorized Vehicles (CMVs), which would then mandate all farm workers to meet the same set of requirements that over-the
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1 If you buy something from a charity shop, pay double.
2 Carry stress balls to squeeze when you feel under pressure.
3 Use
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your umbrella with manners.
4 Buy your electricity from a supplier who uses only sustainable resources.
5 Give your Lottery money to a good cause (only 28p of every £1 you spend goes to charity).
7 Swich off your mobile phone before going into the cinema or theatre.
8 Tell someone their label's sticking out. Especially if you don't know them.
9 Stop yourself saying 'I'.
10 Bring birds into your life; get a bird-table, and make sure your cat has a bell around its neck.
12 Volunteer. Try www.idealist.org for ideas.
13 Make your own compost. Vegetable peelings, leftovers, garden waste, tea bags all do it.
14 If you're buying a car, consider the new breed of zero-emission vehicles.
15 Put a brick in your toilet's cistern to reduce the amount of water used in flushing.
18 Go out, don't stay
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On its 100th birthday, the National Parks System is more popular than ever. A record 307 million people visited its 410 sites in 2015. With
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that many visitors trampling through, of course some of them are going to be ignorant, ill-prepared, or just plain dumb—putting flora, fauna, and themselves in danger. After a recent incident involving tourists loading a bison calf into their SUV (more on that below), we felt compelled to make this guide for what to do …and importantly, what not to do the next time you visit Acadia, Yellowstone, or any of the country’s parks and monuments in between.
Last week, two Yellowstone tourists spotted an abandoned bison calf by the road and decided to put it in their car and drive it to a park ranger. Bad move. The poor little guy had to be put down because its new scent prevented its herd from taking him back. Oh, and no selfies either. Bison injure more people in Yellowstone than any other animal, and last year, two selfie snappers got headbutted when they turned their backs on bison.
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Breweries find spaces — and a welcome — in D.C.
As brew lovers celebrated the growing popularity of craft beer during last week�
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�s fifth annual D.C. Beer Week, real estate observers are marveling over the market changes that have seen the return of the first production breweries to the District since the Christian Heurich Brewing Co. shut down its Foggy Bottom brewing operations in 1956.
Back when D.C. Beer Week first started in 2008, there were no production breweries in the District proper. Now there are three, and two more breweries are planning to open. The growing popularity of craft beer in the region dates back to 1992 when Capitol City Brewing Co. became the first “brewpub” to open in the city since Prohibition. Since then, numerous brewpubs have opened throughout the region. The chief distinction between these establishments and breweries is that brewpubs primarily brew beer for sale on site in their restaurant and bar locations, and as such they generally occupy retail/restaurant spaces.
Production breweries, on the other hand, primarily produce beer sold off-site in local bars
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New music video shows the cycle of gun violence.
The Rube Goldberg machine has been a staple of light-hearted music videos and ads.
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However, Kesha, working with her younger brother Sage Sebert and on-the-rise rapper Chika, used the technique for very different reasons—and to stunning effect— to highlight the scourge of gun violence and encourage people to vote in this year’s midterm elections.
Created by McCann in partnership with the students leading March for Our Lives and Mill+, “Safe,” is an incredibly powerful way of unpacking the human toll that gun violence has in America, especially in schools.
What starts as a typical day at school suddenly turns chaotic as a hail of gunfire erupts in slow motion. The camera follows a pathway of teachers pushing students into classrooms, machines symbolizing the predictable “thoughts and prayers” that occur after shootings, memorials of victims (from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Pulse nightclub shootings, and everyday gun violence in Chicago), posters imploring change and more.
What’s most interesting about the video is that
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Supporters say providing lockers would be a neighborly thing to do. Critics worry they would attract problems.
Imagine having to carry all your possessions
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with you all the time.
That’s a situation many homeless people face every day.
How would you handle that?
If you had a job at a construction site, for example, how would you feel about bringing your stuff to work? Would it be OK to leave it unattended while you focused on doing your job?
What if you had a job interview? Would you want to show up lugging a big backpack?
What if you did have a place to store your stuff but could only access it during business hours Monday through Friday? What if you needed a change of clothes on the weekend?
Those are some of the arguments advocates for the homeless have pitched to Fort Collins officials for several months to illustrate the need for lockers in Old Town that could be used by homeless people.
Lockers are available at local service providers, such as the Murphy Center, but not enough to meet the need, advocates say.
In response, the city is considering a
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From tattooing, to satire, to cooking - this week on Unreserved we look at the many ways Indigenous people are reclaiming their culture
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From tattooing, to satire, to cooking — this week on Unreserved we look at the many ways Indigenous people are reclaiming their culture.
Four months ago Tim Fontaine was a serious journalist, but he decided to set his journalism career on fire with a new satire website, Walking Eagle News.
Chef Sean Sherman's new book The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen dispels the myth that Indigenous food is fry bread and Indian tacos, and instead offers recipes made with foods Indigenous to North America.
Reporters in New Zealand are getting hate mail for occasionally using Maori words in their broadcasts. This prompted Kanoa Lloyd, a New Zealand host for Newshub, to take a stand.
Nakkita Trimble is reclaiming her Nisga'a heritage one tattoo at a time, and learned her craft from some of the best traditional Tomoko tattooists in New Zealand.
A few years ago Tanya Sayer turned to her Indigenous spirituality
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▪ Minced garlic can be found in the produce section of the market. One teaspoon is equivalent to 2 cloves crushed garlic.
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Frozen chopped onion is used in both recipes. Measure at one time and divide accordingly.
▪ Preheat oven to 350 degrees to warm bread.
Wine suggestions: Savory meatballs go nicely with a nice, rich, soft, nontannic cabernet sauvignon from Chile or maybe Australia.
To buy: 1 can no-salt-added lentils, 2 ounces mushrooms, 1 small bottle no-sugar-added, low sodium pasta sauce, 1/2 pound ground white meat turkey breast, 1 small jar fennel seeds, 1 package frozen chopped onion, 1 small jar crushed red pepper flakes, 1 small bunch parsley and 1 small loaf whole grain bread.
Staples: Minced garlic; fat-free, low-sodium chicken broth, plain breadcrumbs, balsamic vinegar, salt and black peppercorns.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees to warm bread. Place onion, garlic, mushrooms and pasta sauce
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Seminole County commissioners agreed Monday to charge the American Red Cross $1 a year to lease a former motor vehicle inspection station for a food distribution
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center and chairman Robert Sturm tossed in a contribution for the first year's rent.
Commissioners are expected to vote today on the lease. No formal action could be taken during Monday's work session.
The American Red Cross in Seminole County, which distributes surplus food to needy families once a month, had asked to use the former inspection station on 25th Street to solve problems volunteers have faced at other locations they have used as distribution centers.
The May distribution still is scheduled for Crooms High School on West 13th Street but Red Cross representatives said they hope to be in the county-owned inspection station by June.
Jenny Penny, director of the American Red Cross Seminole Services Center, had said that the school was unsuitable for distribution because the doorways were narrow, making food deliveries difficult, and the doors leading in and out of the rooms used were too close together.
Crooms High School was used as the distribution center this month, but before that the Red
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GALION — The GriefShare grief recovery support group will meet at St. Paul United Methodist Church, 746 Cherry St. Galion
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on Monday evening Oct. 1 from 6:30-8 p.m. Whether your loss is recent or not so recent, this 13 week, Christ-centered, Bible-based program is designed to offer encouragement, comfort and help in grieving the loss your spouse, child, parent, sibling, another family member or friend.
IBERIA — The Rev. John Watson, M.Th. of Columbus, will teach the fall seminar at Ohio Central Bible College. The event will be held Saturday, Oct. 6 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Iberia Presbyterian Church, 8607 County Road 30 in Iberia through the courtesy of the congregation.
His topic will be “The Life and Work of Christian Author C.S. Lewis.” All are welcome to attend.
Cost for the seminar is $20 per person, with lunch included, and registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. Students will receive a
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On Sunday afternoon the Minister of Social Development and Sports Michael Weeks attended the closing ceremony for the Mirrors SuperCamp Junior Forum at Willowbank Resort &
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Conference Centre.
Last week, 58 young people, aged 11 to 13, attended the six-day camp, where they focused on communication, critical thinking and character development as well as innovation learning strategies and academic skills.
This fully subsidized camp gave middle school students an incredible opportunity to develop their socio-emotional skills, to build and maintain relationships with others more effectively, and gain neuroscience-based learning techniques to enhance their school performance.
Prior to the closing ceremony, students had the opportunity to run their own ‘trade show’ to teach others in the community what they had learned in terms of the core principles of the program.
Additionally, 44 parents completed a two-day workshop created especially for parents of the students.
“SuperCamp is not a typical classroom or camp experience; it uses a structured curriculum to provide students with intensive personal development and learning strategies to be more effective learners,” said Minister Weeks.
In speaking to those gathered on Sunday, Minister Weeks
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The Bahamas-registered "Prestige" is seen some 70 nautical miles (132 kilometers) off Spain's coast in the Atlantic ocean,
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Sunday, Nov. 17, 2002. Spain battled to contain an oil spill from the striken oil tanker as slicks washed up on the beaches of the country's northwestern coast.
A view of the coastline in Camelle, northwestern Spain, Saturday, Nov. 16, after oil from the Bahamas-flagged tanker washed ashore.
The stricken Bahamas-flagged "Prestige," carrying some 77,000 metric tons (85,000 US tons) of fuel oil, leaves a trail of oil behind it. The "Prestige" sprung a leak Wednesday, Nov. 13, after it cracked its hull in a storm some 50 kilometers, 31 miles, offshore. The tanker, in danger of splitting in two, was being towed out to sea.
On Tuesday, Nov. 19 the Prestige oil tanker finally broke in two. The stricken tanker was towed some 244 kilometers, 152 miles, off the coast before it sank.
The last of the Prestige, and its
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Jason Lindsay vividly remembers the day he jumped off the sidelines in America’s decades-long and seemingly endless debate over gun reform.
Mot
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ivated by Leinonen’s plea, and frustrated by the recalcitrance displayed by politicians in the days following the Orlando nightclub massacre, Lindsay formed a political action committee, the Pride Fund to End Gun Violence. Lindsay had one simple goal: help elect candidates willing to pass measures that could prevent future gun-related tragedies, and keen to support legislation promoting LGBTQ equality.
A moderate Democrat raised in a rural community in North Carolina, Lindsay is not ashamed of the Pride Fund’s partisan leanings.
The biggest challenge for the fledgling organization is that it’s attempting to serve as a counterweight to the much more prominent, well-financed, and politically established National Rifle Association, which is quick to dismiss any sort of restrictions on guns — from waiting periods to background checks to limits on the number of magazines — as a conspiracy to take away the right to bear arms. The NRA uses its wealth and influence to oppose candidates who support gun reform, even cowing some lawmakers
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Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn has formally asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to give Illinois more time to put federally restricted funds back
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in their proper place.
The state faces the loss of $16 million in federal funds for fish and wildlife projects if it does not formally restore $9.25 million “swept” from six funds that receive money from hunting and fishing licenses and related fees.
In a letter dated Jan. 22, Quinn asked Thomas O’Melius, regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to give the state 90 days more “to finalize a remedy” to the diversion of wildlife funds.
“Given the unfortunate and unprecedented situation regarding the impeachment of our current governor and the timing of the impeachment proceedings, it is unlikely that the appropriations bill will be signed before the February 2 deadline,” Quinn wrote.
The Fish and Wildlife Service’s acting director, Rowan Gould, could declare Illinois ineligible for the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program. Future federal funding beyond the $16 million for this fiscal year also could be at risk
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Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, in cooperation with officials from the Fed and executives from four of the five largest U.S. banks, has
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outlined his latest plan to save the banking system and housing markets: creating a covered bond market.
What is a "covered bond"?
Now it's true that covered bonds are, technically, mortgage-backed. But all the mortgages could default and go into foreclosure tomorrow, and so long as the bank remains in operation, the covered bond will pay out as normal. Similarly, if the bank blows up for some non-mortgage-related reason, investors in the bond will still get paid back in full.
Their main risk is that the bank blows up because the mortgages blow up, and they'll be left holding a bag of damaged loans - but because two things have to happen rather than just one, that risk is relatively low.
So covered bonds may provide a less risky means by which to prop up the secondary mortgage market--by doing the same thing that morgage-backed securities used to do before they collapsed. By issuing covered bonds, banks can raise capital from lenders that would
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WASHINGTON — The apparent downing of an Iranian unmanned system is providing a good look at Tehran's indigenous high-end drone.
On Aug.
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13, social media began buzzing with pictures of what appears to be a crashed Shahed 129. Defense News cannot independently confirm whether these photos are legit, but it has not observed there has been no pushback from the knowledgeable aerospace communicate community on Twitter that would indicate these are fakes.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which unveiled the system in 2012, has claimed the Shahed has a range of 1,700 kilometers and can stay aloft for 24 hours; it can also be armed with up to eight missiles. It is Iran's first medium-altitude-, long-endurance (MALE), or "MALE," system, roughly analogous to the US Air Force fleet of MQ-1 Predators and MQ-9 Reapers.
Of note: These pictures are reportedly taken from inside Iranian territory, but very close to the Pakistan border. It is possible Iran is using these systems to keep an eye on its territory; it is also possible, though pure speculation, that they are
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Announcement to contest elections expected in May comes as IMF says it will provide loans worth up to $18bn to country.
Ukrain
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ian former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, released from jail last month after President Viktor Yanukovich was forced by protesters to leave power, has announced she will run again for president in an election slated for May 25.
"I plan to run for election as president" and stand "a candidate for Ukrainian unity," Tymoshenko told reporters on Thursday.
Tymoshenko, 53, served twice as prime minister and ran for president in 2010, only to be narrowly beaten in a run-off vote by Yanukovich.
Yanukovich subsequently launched a campaign against Tymoshenko and her allies, and she was jailed in 2011 for abuse of office linked to a gas deal she brokered with Russia in 2009.
The announcement came as the International Monetary Fund pledged up to $18bn in loans on Thursday to prop up Ukraine's sinking economy.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukraine's interim prime minister, has forecast more pain ahead without reforms that will affect nearly everyone in
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Back in 1777, when the ink was scarcely dry on the Declaration of Independence, Morocco became the first nation to recognize the United States, and
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a treaty of peace and friendship between the two countries was signed by Sultan Sidi Mohammed III in 1786 and approved by Congress in 1787. The State Department says this is the longest unbroken treaty relationship in the nation's history.
With the bicentennial of that treaty fast approaching, King Hassan II of Morocco has made known his desire to give an appropriate monument to the American people, to be dedicated, if all goes well, in 1987. Before that can happen, however, Congress must approve the project and its location on Federal property, and the first move in that direction will be taken this morning when the House Task Force on Libraries and Memorials conducts a hearing on the enabling legislation.
Several favorable witnesses will testify, and no opposition to the bill has been detected as yet. President Reagan has notified King Hassan that he will sign the measure when it reaches the White House, as is expected.
No one knows yet where the monument will be situated or what it will look like,
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Consider it a taste of the future: the fire, smoke, drought, dust and heat that have made life unpleasant, if not dangerous, from Louisiana to Los Angeles. New records tell the tale: biggest wildfire ever recorded in Arizona (538,049 acres), biggest fire ever in New Mexico (156,600 acres), all-time worst fire year in Texas history (3,697,000 acres).
The fires were a function of drought. As of summer’s end, 2011 was the driest year in 117 years of record keeping for New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana, and the second driest for Oklahoma. Those fires also resulted from record heat. It was the hottest summer ever recorded for New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, as well as the hottest August ever for those states, plus Arizona and Colorado.
And here’s the bad news in a
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Disney heir apparent Thomas Staggs is leaving the company.
Thomas Staggs, the heir apparent to Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger
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, has abruptly decided to leave the company, throwing Disney's succession plan into disarray.
Staggs, who was promoted to No. 2 executive last year, was widely seen as first-in-line to replace Iger when he steps down in 2018. He was also an instrumental figure in Disney's ambitious Shanghai Disneyland project.
In a statement, Disney (DIS) said it would "broaden the scope of its succession planning process to identify and evaluate a robust slate of candidates for consideration."
Disney stock fell 2% in after-hours trading on Monday.
Finding a replacement for Iger was always seen as an enormous challenge for Disney, given how much he has shaped the company during his 11 year tenure as its top executive.
The stock is up 314% during Iger's tenure as CEO, crushing the S&P 500's gain of 68% over that same period. Last year, Disney posted an $8.4 billion in profit. Much of that is
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Pete Buttigieg, a little-known Indiana mayor who has risen to prominence in the early stages of the 2020 Democratic US presidential race,
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has made his official campaign entrance.
“I recognise the audacity of doing this as a Midwestern millennial mayor,” he said to cheers of “Pete, Pete, Pete” from an audience assembled in a former Studebaker car plant.
In the hours after his announcement, more than one million dollars (£763,000) in donations poured in, said Lis Smith, speaking for the campaign.
“The forces of change in our country today are tectonic,” he said.
Mr Buttigieg will return this week to Iowa and New Hampshire, which hold the nation’s first nominating contests, to campaign as a fully fledged candidate now being taken more seriously.
Over the past few months, Mr Buttigieg has appeared frequently on national TV news and talk shows and developed a strong social media following with his message that the country needs “a new generation of leadership”.
Mr Buttigieg’
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MONMOUTH — Rather than focus on ancient events in Greece or Rome, the next Archaeology Lecture at Monmouth College will discuss a
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more recent time — Ottoman Palestine in the late 19th century.
Brita Lorentzen, a postdoctoral research associate at Cornell University, will speak about harvesting wood in pre-industrial times in the region we know today as Israel.
Titled "Anatolian Forests on the Sea: Trees, Timber and Environment in the Ottoman Empire," Lorentzen's talk will be given at 7:30 p.m. March 26 in the Pattee Auditorium of the College's Center for Science and Business.
"Wood was a fundamental fuel resource and building material in pre-industrial societies including the Mediterranean, which made forests a valuable and politically strategic natural resource," said Lorentzen, whose lecture will discuss the environmental history of the East Mediterranean forests, focusing on Ottoman Palestine. "During this time, technological, economic and sociopolitical change in the Eastern Mediterranean led to increased building activity and demand for wood building materials, while facilitating increased access to timber-rich areas, including
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connecting downtown Jersey City to Liberty State Park seven months after it was swept away by Hurricane Sandy but according to the latest estimates the park's rebuilding
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is far from over.
Park Superintendent Robert Rodriguez estimates that it may take two years before the park fully recovers from the $20 million in damages caused by Sandy, according to an email by the Friends of Liberty State Park, an all volunteer nonprofit dedicated to the protection and advocacy of the park.
Officials expect the park's light posts and the Hudson River Walkway to be repaired by the end of the year. Picnic and playground areas are also expect to be open to the public sometime this summer, the email says.
Repairs at the park's historic railroad terminal building at the east end of Audrey Zapp Drive may be finalized in two years as the facility undergoes renovations to its damaged interior.
The park's nature center, which sustained damaged to its floors, walls, and roof, may also be ready to open in two years. The public boat launch is now open, the email says, adding that replacement needs to be made to the floating dock and ticket machine.
The
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"We rate TAYLOR DEVICES INC (TAYD) a BUY. This is driven by multiple strengths, which we
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believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, good cash flow from operations, increase in net income and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity."
The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 2.8%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 23.7%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
TAYD has no debt to speak of therefore resulting in a debt-to-equity ratio of zero, which we consider to be a relatively favorable sign. Along with the favorable debt-to-equity ratio, the company maintains an adequate quick ratio of 1.30, which
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In 1965, a piece of legislation known as the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act declared that "the arts and the humanities belong
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to all the people of the United States" and that support for these pursuits is an "appropriate matter of concern to the Federal Government."
President Johnson signed the bill into law, establishing the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts as two separate independent federal agencies.
Occasionally, these two agencies - and the projects they support - encounter political and popular criticism. But, for the most part, the NEH and NEA quietly fund the work of scholars, artists, authors, and researchers in their efforts to disseminate arts, culture, and history to the greater public. In fact, both agencies provide support to some of the most popular programs (including On Stage) on PBS.
NEA. NEH. The acronyms sound almost the same - so, what's the difference between the two entities? Think of it this way: if you want to create (ie, write a novel, choreograph a ballet, compose a symphony,
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NSW Electoral Commission satisfied iVote unaffected.
A second vulnerability in the cryptographic protocol employed by the Swiss government’s e-voting
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system has been found, this time relating to how votes are decrypted.
It comes just weeks after the in-development system was found to contain a cryptographic trapdoor that could allow vote manipulation to take place unbeknown to the authorities.
That flaw centred around the way the country’s sVote system, which uses software from the Spanish vendor Scytl, verified votes using a sequence of shuffle proofs.
It was later confirmed to be present in NSW's iVote system, which also uses Scytl's e-voting software, though it was declared unaffected and safe to use for last week's election.
But new research, published on Monday by the same group of researchers, reveals a similar weakness with the implementation of the cryptographic technique used to create the decryption proof, known as Fiat-Shamir heuristic.
Cryptography and privacy researchers Sarah Jamie Lewis, Oliver Pereira and Australia’s-own Venessa Teague said the error “
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An exciting new Italian bazaar makes Whole Foods look like the A&P—and it’s coming to America.
At Eataly
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, a sprawling food market in Turin that opened at the end of January, you can choose fresh fish from beautiful arrays on curvy banks of ice, or beef from rare breeds prized for their meat, raised on nearby farms. If the sight of all this makes you hungry, you can sit at a high counter—at two of the nine areas serving food within the market—and order a piece of grilled fish or meat, or have it as tartare.
You can eat pizza at a counter near the bakery, where bread is made in a huge, custom-built wood-fired oven sheathed in fieldstone. A young French baker named Rémy Coste devised the starters (no commercial yeast), and the bakery uses stone-ground flour milled 30 miles away by the wonderful Marino family at Mulino Marino, which grinds organically raised wheat, corn, rye, and more-exotic grains. The tomatoes for the topping are Miracle of San Gennaro, a particularly
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World leaders have been urged by an influential United Nations agency to sign up to a universal labour guarantee to bolster fundamental workers’ rights, including adequate
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living wages and collective bargaining through trade unions.
Designed to address rapid changes in the workplace triggered by the rise of the robot economy and technological automation, the International Labour Organization said a package of measures was required to put the world economy on a sustainable footing for the future.
Calling on world leaders to support the policies at the start of the annual gathering of heads of government and business tycoons in Davos this week, the UN agency, which marks its 100th anniversary this year, said failure would increase the risk of “sleepwalking into a world that widens existing inequalities”.
It comes as concerns grow over the impact of technology on workers’ jobs, pay and rights around the world, with automation rendering more traditionally human roles obsolete.
The Bank of England estimates that rapid technological change could put as many as 15m jobs in the UK at risk, while academics believe almost half of all workers in the US could be displaced by automation. Traditionally working-class
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In the wake of the tragedy of Pittsburgh, the murder of 11 Jewish people at a synagogue in America’s most deadly act of antisem
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itism, we have heard a repeated cautionary refrain: that words have consequences. Donald Trump’s White House denies that the president’s rhetoric has any impact on reality. But others have noted that the “apparent spark” for the Pittsburgh murders was a “racist hoax” inflamed by the US president, who in the run-up to the US midterm elections has been scaremongering over a Honduran caravan of refugees fleeing violence and travelling to the US border to seek asylum, feeding antisemitic conspiracy theories that it has been funded by Jews.
That words have consequences is known viscerally to anyone whose identity is felt to be contested. Minorities, migrants and LGBT communities know all too well the terrible power of words to animate unconscious biases and rouse animosities; to poke at prejudices, stir hatreds and seed divisions. Words aren’t the only factor, but they create a context. Language is core to the architecture of antis
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The 2019 Porsche Speedster looks like the rolling embodiment of a thank-you letter to Porsche fans. Clean lines, lean cockpit, naturally-as
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pirated and a manual transmission–seems pretty much as perfect as a Porsche could get in 2019.
Powered by a naturally-aspirated 4.0-liter flat-six from the 911 GT3 and 911 GT3 RS, the $274,500 Speedster will get individual throttle bodies which is supposed to aggressively sharpen the response of the engine’s claimed 502 horsepower and 346 lb-ft of torque.
This car is built around a chassis “derived from the 911 GT3 models with a specifically-calibrated rear axle steering system and dynamic engine mounts to deliver a maximum amount of precision, stability and driving pleasure,” per a press release, and Porsche’s promising a 192-mph top speed and a stopped-to-60 mph time of 3.8 seconds.
Besides the obvious exterior tweaks setting the Speedster apart from any other 911–those being the squat appearance thanks to its ultra-raked windshield and low rear hatch
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SB 4 seems like a NIMBY gambit to water down SB 50 to something the NIMBY cities could tolerate. Weiner is very likely
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to give into this small vs big city bifurcation, yet Palo Alto is preying he gives into nixing the 'jobs rich' areas upzoning and delaying application to'sensitive poor communities', both of which the poor people want. There is going to be a lot of horse trading until the next hearing on the 24th. Hope Weiner doesn't water down SB 50 to the point of worthlessness like he did 827.
Fine and other members of the Scott Wiener's fan club have a chance to put money where their mouth is. Next Tuesday, buy the former City manager's share of a single family home. Use it for affordable housing/shelter now. Then use SB50 to upzone it into 4, 8 or more affordable units?
Note that the City of San Francisco Board of Supervisors from where Mr. Weiner started his political life is opposed to SB50. They are already overloaded with people and infrastructure issues. So please do not play
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Across Terrebonne and Lafourche, just under 33,000 homes and businesses lacked power tonight, about half the number of outages
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reported in the hours after Hurricane Isaac hit Tuesday night and early Wednesday.
About 22,100 Entergy customers in Lafourche Parish were without power by this evening, a figure that dropped by 7,000 since this morning. In Terrebonne, 10,300 Entergy customers lacked power, down by nearly 1,500 since morning, said Mike Burns, spokesman for the utility.
Only a few individual city of Houma customers with damage specific to their homes or businesses lacked power by tonight.
About 650 SLECA customers remained without power by 7:30 p.m., and General Manager Joe Ticheli said they were expected to be restored by midnight. About 200 of those sites were fishing camps in Terrebonne and Lafourche. The rest were mostly homes in the Oakshire neighborhood and north Bayou Black area of Terrebonne. Power had been restored to more than 1,000 SLECA customers in both parishes throughout the day.
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When more than one value in a calculation has been rounded, the upper or lower bounds for each value should be used in the calculation to find the
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greatest or least possible values that the calculation can take.
A bag of flour has a mass of 1500 g (to the nearest 10 g). Find the upper bound for the mass of 10 bags of flour.
The upper bound of 1500 g rounded to the nearest 10 g is 1505 g. The upper bound for 10 bags of flour is therefore ( = 15.05 kg).
Jack is 1.8 m tall (rounded to the nearest 10 cm). Ella is 1.63 m tall (rounded to the nearest cm). What is the smallest possible difference in their heights?
To find the smallest difference, we need to use the lower bound for Jack’s height and the upper bound for Ella’s height. The lower bound of 1.8 m (rounded to the nearest 10 cm) is 1.75 m. The upper bound of 1.63 m (rounded to the nearest cm) is 1.635 m.
A piece of A4 paper
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If you could take a deep-dive into any particular concept, topic, idea or strategy during our time together, what would it be?
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If you could design your ideal three-day experience, what objective would you want to achieve for yourself by the end of it?
What is the one topic, tool, concept, idea, or strategy that will cause you to roll your eyes and wish that you could sneak out of the workshop never to return again?
Answers to the last question proved to be fascinating as they clustered around three themes: no more "collaboration," enough with the talk about "growth mindset," and NO EduSpeak. I really liked the last comment as it seemed to eloquently sum up the underlying issues with the first two. This group of teacher-leaders did not want three days of flowery language that had little meaning and could not be acted upon. On the first morning, I made the group a promise: we would not use any terms that we could not define in an actionable way.
Few terms have achieved the state of "buzzword-ness" as innovation.
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Will ‘cabinets in the basement’ be the next big thing?
BT is trumpeting a new test which will see it
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install broadband in some really hard-to-reach locations: the middle of cities. Well, provided it can get into the building in the first place.
It seems there are some places where it’s impossible to put a cabinet in the street, and that means slow broadband for domestic and small business users.
While the press release says “BT to pilot new technology in City of London”, it’s actually old technology. This is putting the cabinet that would have gone in the street into the basements of buildings. Except it’s not a cabinet but a rack.
It’s less innovation and more negotiation, and what makes it worth noting is that BT is prepared to square things with landlords for a rack which lets other ISPs use the installation in the same way as they would if it were in the street.
Within the building it’s plain old copper, but then this is precisely the kind of application which is being targeted at
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Stung by its poor performances in Punjab and Goa Assembly polls, the AAP has changed its strategy of directly attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and has
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decided to focus on "positive campaign" as it faces litmus test in the MCD municipal polls.
A party leader said the AAP will resort to what it did during the 2015 Delhi Assembly polls-- a "positive campaign".
"We are adopting the same strategy used by the party before 2015 assembly polls in which we went to people convincing about the positive work done during our 49-day government.
"We have seen the outcome of a positive campaign in the 2015 Assembly polls and will continue to do that for the MCD polls," said a senior party leader.
Another reason behind not targeting Modi in the MCD polls is the massive victory the BJP scored in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Delhi has a sizable voter population that belongs to the two states.
The AAP leader said attacking Modi directly during the MCD polls campaign may backfire.
In the recent Assembly election in Punjab, AAP could win 20 of 117 seats, while drew a blank in 40-member Goa
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If you have ever wanted to experience the absolute extreme thrill of driving a fully modified 400kw 5700cc V8 Holden race car.
Then
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You have what you think is a great idea for a women’s clothing store. You’re ready to move your dream from your
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heart and head to reality. Where do you start?
First define what kind of clothing you want to sell. Is it going to be high-end designer fashions, moderate-priced active wear or a combination of these? Who is your target consumer and where does she live?
For brick and mortar stores, location is critical. Find a location that your potential client can get to easily, that has parking and is an area that shoppers frequent with other clothing stores open. You’ll benefit from the foot traffic from competitors whose customers take notice of you.
“Most women do not want to make more than two turns off a highway,” said Diane Lloyde Roth, who has owned the retail boutique L'Armoire for 30 years.
The next step is to do a business plan. What are the fixed costs? What can you expect to pay for rent, payroll, insurance and utilities, for example? What are the variable ones: Inventory,
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Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas are the voices - and writers - behind the new NPR podcast for kids.
David Boraks reports on the new
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NPR podcast "Wow in the World." Listen to his full interview with Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas below.
WFAE's David Boraks interviews Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas of NPR's "Wow in the World" podcast.
There's a new podcast out from NPR, something the network has never done before - a children's program. It's called "Wow in the World" and it targets elementary school kids - and their parents.
Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas are the voices and writers behind "Wow in the World" - so named because it focuses on science, technology, and discovery. Raz says it’s the science behind the world around us - like looking up at the stars at night.
“But how many of us stop and think that we're looking at the past in real time, that the light that reaches us happened, you know, a thousand years ago, you know, stars that we can see with the naked eye. And children
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AMARILLO, TX (KFDA) - Amarillo police are searching for suspects after Caprock High School was broken into over the
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weekend.
According to a police news release, the suspects burglarized the school on Sunday, causing tens of thousands of dollars of damage inside multiple campus buildings.
Amarillo Crime Stoppers needs your help identifying two suspects who burglarized and vandalized Caprock High School in this week’s “Crime of the Week”. In the early morning of Sunday March 17th, these two suspects burglarized the school and caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage to several buildings on the campus. If you have any information about this crime, call Amarillo Crime Stoppers at (806) 374-4400. You can see video of the crime and also submit a tip on-line at amapolice.org. Tips can also be submitted by using the free P3 tips app. If your anonymous tip leads to an arrest, you could get a reward of up to $1,000.
Anyone with information on the crime is asked to call
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January 16, 2019, 12:57 p.m.
Every year, more animals and plants are added to the Endangered Species list.
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Sadly, some are removed from the list because they've become extinct — animals like George, the last Hawaiian land-snail species, Achatinella apexfulva, who died on Jan. 1.
The Endangered Species Coalition is a national network of conservation, scientific and other organizations that work together to "safeguard and strengthen the Endangered Species Act." In honor of Endangered Species on May 17, the coalition is hosting its annual youth art contest to give kids a chance to show off their artistic skills and also recognize the importance of saving endangered species. In fact that’s last year’s grand prize-winning entry above, a hawksbill sea turtle created by Brandon Xie.
The contest is open to any students (including home-schooled students and those who are part of a youth art program) in kindergarten through 12th grade. Students can choose to draw a species from one of the following four groups: invertebrates, vertebrates, non
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Abu Dhabi: Gulf Petrochem Group will invest $136.4 million (Dh500.89 million) to develop a 412,000
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cubic metre storage terminal project in Fujairah in which Fujairah Petroleum Company (FPC) has signed an agreement with Gulf Petrochem to buy a 12 per cent stake, a senior executive of Gulf Petrochem said yesterday.
Sanjeev Sisaudia, Group Chief Executive for Gulf Petrochem, told Gulf News, "FPC will also invest as per the agreement". He didn't elaborate.
Gulf Petrochem recently signed an investment agreement with the Government of Fujairah subsidiary Fujairah Petroleum Company (FPC).
Gulf Petrochem's storage terminal is due for completion next September.
Ashok Goel, Chairman of Gulf Petrochem Group, said in a statement: "Participation of Fujairah Petroleum Company in our project underlines the importance of the storage terminal business as a tool for socio-economic progress in the emirate and across the region. Such strategic partnerships complement our aggressive growth plans and help us create new economic possibilities for the communities
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CALGARY, AB -- Calgary Flames general manager Jay Feaster and assistant GM John Weisbrod have been relieved of their duties effective
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immediately, the team announced Thursday.
Brian Burke, the team's president of hockey operations, addressed the moves at an afternoon press conference at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
"I'm frustrated like all our fans with our inability to hold leads," Burke said.
He said there would be no further moves in the front office and the team's coach, Bob Hartley, and his staff would finish out the year. Burke also said that he will not take over the GM duties and will only sere in that role until a replacement is found. He also said he has already reached out to one unnamed candidate and received permission to interview him.
Burke also said Thursday he would like the Flames to play a different style in the future.
"I like teams that bang. I don't like the way we play," Burke said, adding that he wants to see more hostility and truculence.
The Flames play host to the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night.
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:) ISPs: Customers lucky enough to have Verizon's FIOS gave it the highest ISP score, 8.6 out of 10.
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ISPs: DSL providers score generally lower than cable, despite needing fewer repairs.
:) Cell-phone providers: US Cellular is the top contract provider with our readers, scoring 7.8 out of 10.
:) Digital cameras: Canon is not only an overall Readers' Choice, it earned the Reader's Choice in all camera subcategories.
:) MP3 Players: Apple dominates with the highest market share and overall score.
:( Network routers: Cisco dropped over a full point to 7.9, losings its Readers' Choice, while its Linksys division remains steady with 8.1.
Yes, our readers can hear you now. Verizon Wireless lost its spot at the top of the contract providers to "super-regional" US Cellular, which went up a half point to 7.8 out of 10, despite serving only 26 states. But Verizon Wireless did gain a tenth of a point overall, as well as the high score in pay-as-you
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After the passage of Proposition 13, Howard Jarvis became even more popular with average citizens. He would joke that overnight he went from being regarded as a
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“nut” by the political elites to being seen as a “savior” for millions of California homeowners.
Visitors to Howard’s office would praise him for coming up with Proposition 13 just when it was so desperately needed. But Howard would just smile and point out that he had been working on property tax reform for 16 years.
Howard was tenacious and a big believer in the power of people when they combined together to make change. When speaking to groups he would hold up his hand with his fingers extended and say that while separately they were weak, united they were strong and he would form his hand into a fist. Some will remember seeing the photo of Howard holding up his fist on the cover of Time Magazine.
However, Howard understood that it was necessary to start small. His first taxpayer group meeting was attended by only twenty ordinary citizens — no celebrities, no politicians — just regular folks concerned that if the trend of ever escalating property taxes continued, they would
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The Long Beach Camerata Singers will perform “A Camerata Christmas,” on Dec. 17 at Los Altos United Methodist Church
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. Photo courtesy Camerata Singers.
Guest Conductor Matthew Martinez will lead the Long Beach Chorale and Chamber Orchestra in a Dec. 17-18 performance of holiday music.
Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra will perform the show “Baroque Christmas,” on Dec. 17 in Long Beach and Dec. 18 in downtown L.A. Photo courtesy Musica Angelica.
When it comes to revving up the holiday spirit with music, Long Beach is going into overdrive this weekend with three local musical powerhouses all putting on separate performances celebrating the season.
The Long Beach Chorale and Chamber Orchestra and the Long Beach Camerata Singers both head to different churches for their shows while the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra stays at home in the Beverly O’Neil Theatre for a performance that will take people back in time.
With so much music available, it’ll be hard to choose which show to catch, although
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Central banks purchased 118 tonnes in net gold in Q2 2014, representing a 28% year-over-year increase, according to The World Gold
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Council.
In May 2014, the European Central Bank and other European central banks signed the fourth Central Bank Gold Agreement (CBGA). The agreement says the central banks "currently do not have plans to sell significant amounts of gold," and that it will last for five years starting in the end of September 2014.
Country-wise, Russia saw a major increase in official reserves since February 2014, moving its place up two spots in the ranking.
Global official gold holdings totaled 31,812 tonnes as of August 2014, according to the latest report from the World Gold Council.
Business Insider identified the 10 countries with the largest gold reserves.
Note: CBGA refers to the Central Bank Gold Agreements. The first Agreement (CBGA 1) ran from Sept. 27, 1999, to Sept. 26, 2004. The second Agreement (CBGA 2) ran from Sept. 27, 2004, to Sept. 26, 2009. The third Agreement (CBGA 3) will run for
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Police Chief Darren Pytel said the city took the “very rare” step of hiring an outside investigator because of allegations that police used excessive
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force and exhibited racial bias.
The McGinness investigation will look not only at the officers’ behavior but also at the department’s overall response, Pytel said.
The department on Wednesday released a dashcam video recording of the incident. The video provided by a citizen witness shows as many as 50 young people spilling into the slow lane of the roadway. When a gray minivan makes a U-turn and pulls next to the group of people, punches are thrown immediately as the doors open. Several men can be seen punching and kicking the plainclothes officers.
Alexander Reide Craver, 22, and Elijah James Williams, 19, both of West Sacramento, and Antwoine Rashadek Perry, 21, of Elk Grove were arrested for their part in the altercation.
Craver was arrested on suspicion of aggravated battery, assaulting a peace officer, felony obstruction of a peace officer and assault with a deadly weapon. Perry was arrested on suspicion of aggravated battery and felony obstruction
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CrimeCenter Software, a modern investigation management platform developed by law enforcement experts, will showcase its activity-based case management software at the Connecticut Police Chiefs
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Association’s Public Safety Expo on April 18 in Plantsville, Connecticut.
The Connecticut Police Chiefs Association’s 2019 Public Safety Exposition will take place on April 18, 2019 from 8:00 AM ET to 3:00 PM ET. The CPCA unites law enforcement agencies in the state, providing exhibitors the opportunity to showcase products and services designed to enhance public safety.
Learn more about the 2019 CPCA Public Safety Expo here.
CrimeCenter Software is a web-based investigative case management application built by law enforcement, for law enforcement. Accessible on any mobile or desktop device, CrimeCenter delivers intelligent investigation management and analytic capabilities which provides investigators with key information leading to conclusions that otherwise may not have been possible for both internal and criminal investigations. It exists to allow all agencies – small, medium or large – to function more effectively and better serve their communities. Headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, CrimeCenter Software is strategically located just west of New York City.
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Downtown San Diego plays host to a series of diverse attractions, including the San Diego Civic Theatre, the famed USS Midway Aircraft Carrier, the
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shop and restaurant-filled Seaport Village, the beach and Petco Park, home stadium for Major League Baseball’s San Diego Padres. After a day of exploring, visitors are bound to be hungry. Fortunately, the bustling region also features its fair share of high-end restaurants complete with full bars, as well as casual, family-friendly eateries.
Located in the historic Gaslamp Quarter, Taka serves 40 different types of sushi rolls, various sashimi and teriyaki-covered meats such as chicken and salmon. The upscale setting features hardwood floors, candlelight dining and outdoor patio seating.
Just 1 block from Petco Park, Jsix’s high-end interior includes sheer drapes, oversized windows, ornately detailed ceilings and stone slab floors. The menu features hearty items like bacon-wrapped pork tenderloins and wild mushroom ravioli. The restaurant also offers weekend brunch and kid’s menu.
Steps
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“One day there will be a book called ‘The Collected Legal Works of Gawker Media,'” said Gaby Darbyshire
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, the company’s 39-year-old COO and head lawyer.
It was a recent Thursday afternoon, and Ms. Darbyshire was sitting on a couch in her loft in Little Italy. She pulled out her laptop and showed The Observer an email from a screenwriter who was upset that Jezebel, a Web site that is part of the Gawker stable, had posted a small excerpt of a script from his forthcoming movie. He wanted the excerpt removed-exactly the sort of email Ms. Darbyshire receives roughly once per working day.
Or, in other words, she’s the person who has to go in and defend Gawker’s rowdy band of pirates when someone believes they have crossed the line.
Virtually all editors who have worked with the site agree that she’s very good at her very busy job, which is not just limited to being the head counsel. She is a sort of everywoman at Gawker, wearing
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BAMENDA, Cameroon: Children kidnapped by gunmen in western Cameroon said their captors had warned them not to go back to school, recount
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ing their ordeal as parents on Thursday packed up belongings from a boarding school now being shuttered.Kidnappers freed about 80 school children and a driver in west Cameroon on Wednesday, but kept hold of a principal and one teacher, two days after snatching them in a school raid.
The armed men had seized the kids on Monday in Bamenda - a green city nestled in the hills of western Cameroon and hub of the country's troubled English-speaking region.
"It was around 3 a.m. in the morning. We were still sleeping, then we heard people shouting, some other people, some men, came and broke our door. They told us: 'come out'. They were all dressed in black," a 13-year-old boy told Reuters TV, recounting his ordeal. He declined to be identified.
"When they set us free, they said we should tell the other schools that they should stop, so no one goes to school," he said.
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A MAN who fell under a train on a Hampshire heritage railway was unaware he was not meant to get off due to a faulty PA system in his
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carriage, an inquest heard.
Michael Kerry had arranged that trip on the Real Ale train on the Watercress Line.
The train, run by the Mid Hampshire Heritage Railway, known as the Watercress Line, did a double return journey from Alton to Alresford.
Winchester Coroner's Court heard that 62-year-old Mr Kerry, a systems electronics test engineer for BAE, had organised the trip for his wife Carol’s 60th birthday and the couple and friends were sitting in the same carriage.
Mrs Kerry told the court that their carriage’s PA system was not working which she discovered when she went to another part of the train.
As a result her husband, of Old Redbridge Road, Redbridge, Southampton, missed an announcement asking passengers not to leave the train at the second Alresford stop as it was running late.
The court heard that Mr Kerry left the train for a suspected toilet stop.
As
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Some 17 years ago, when internet dating was popular but still kind of embarrassing to talk about, I interviewed an author who was particularly bullish on the
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practice. Millions of people, he said, have found gratifying relationships online. Were it not for the internet, they would probably never have met.
A lot of years have passed since then. Yet thanks to Joe Schwartz, an author of a 20-year-old dating advice book, “gratifying relationship” is still the term that sticks in my mind when contemplating the end-goal of internet dating tools.
Gratifying is a vague term, yet also uniquely accurate. It encompasses everything from the forever love of a soul mate to the temporary fix of a one-night stand. Romantics can talk about true love. Yet when it comes to the algorithm-and-swipe-driven world of online dating, it’s all about gratification.
It is with this in mind, coincident with the arrival of Valentine’s Day, that Crunchbase News is taking a look at the state of that most awkward of pairings: startups and the
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Among the most important events in the recent history of the Western Reserve Port Authority was the Mahoning Valley’s collective decision in 2008 to create
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its economic-development division.
The Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, the reason the port authority was created 22 years ago, has long been a topic of debate. Some people have called the airport a financial “black hole” because of the government subsidies that have been provided to keep it in business.
But the addition of economic development gave critics another target, and it may have set in motion forces that have led to the port authority’s current turmoil — including discussion of throwing out the current board of directors and starting over.
U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Howland, D-13th, first proposed adding an economic development office in early 2008, then persuaded officials in Trumbull and Mahoning counties to contribute money to start it.
Rose Ann DeLeon, formerly of the Cuyahoga County Port Authority, was hired in 2009 as executive director for economic development at a salary of $155,000 per year after a national search.
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The Vietnam war memorial is 492 feet long. If a similar memorial had been made for the Vietnamese who died, it would be nine miles long
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Len Aldis has long been engaged in the fight against Monsanto and Dow Chemicals for their role in Agent Orange use in Vietnam.
(LONDON) - Len Aldis, the internationally respected Agent Orange Activist and Chair of the Tower Hamlets CND has released the attached letter from the Mayor of Tower Hamlets regarding the London Olympics.
Len has been instrumental in organising worldwide condemnation of Dow Chemical involvement with the London games, in particular the wrapping the Olympic stadium in the Dow brand.
The Dow public relations machine is working 24/7 to portray Dow as the friendly face of the Olympics when in fact the name Dow is synonymous with Vietnamese being burned to death by Dow's NAPALM and the millions Vietnamese suffering from Agent Orange into the fourth generation.
Thank you DOW! The world will never forget your participation in the American War in Vietnam. Mass Murder if your legacy!
*Is named the second worst polluter by the American Environmental Protection Agency for emissions of
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The founder of a zoo where nearly 500 animals died in less than three years from causes including emaciation and hypothermia is opening a horse
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-riding ranch in the Lake District.
Two years ago inspectors concluded that scores of animals had died in often cruel conditions at South Lakes Safari zoo in Cumbria between December 2013 and September 2016, when it was owned by David Gill.
The catalogue of deaths included two snow leopard cubs discovered partially eaten in their enclosure, and a squirrel monkey whose decomposing body was found behind a radiator. A diagnosis of chlamydia was reported in the zoo’s peacock population.
The inspectors recommended Gill should face prosecution under the Animal Welfare Act for allowing animals to suffer, and said the entire blame for the attraction’s problems could be laid at his door.
A month later Gill was refused a licence to continue running the zoo, and the attraction is now in the hands of new owners, Cumbria Zoo Company Ltd. Gill has never been prosecuted and denies any wrongdoing.
The Guardian has learned that Gill is now planning to launch an American-themed horse-
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Snipiskes has caused an international furor.
VILNIUS - Human bones have been discovered centimeters below the surface of the Sn
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ipiskes grounds in central Vilnius.
The discovery would appear to back up claims that the site is within the boundaries of an old Jewish cemetery. The government had approved plans to build more luxury apartments on a site that has already been built on, a plan which has outraged the Jewish community.
However Zenonas Baubonis, the head of the Lithuanian Archeological Society, which carried out the dig, said the bones cannot be treated as burials.
Baubonis said that the archeological survey was intended to supplement material gathered by Israeli geophysicists and to determine the precise location and boundaries of the Jewish cemetery.
The original Geotec survey failed to verify the geophysical data and did not specify the boundaries of the old cemetery. The tests were suspended following demands of Jewish representatives who observed the dig.
Archeologists who carried out the research said that the findings, including human bones, had been discovered at depths of 20 to 30 centimeters, while
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A Louisville private school has placed a faculty member on leave while it reopens an investigation into whether the employee had inappropriate sexual conduct with two female students
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roughly three decades ago.
St. Francis School first looked into complaints about the faculty member in 2015, but after handling the matter internally, chose to keep that person on the job, according to a letter posted on the school's website this week.
The school is now re-opening the investigation and apologizing for how it previously handled the matter.
"We acknowledge that the prior investigation did not accomplish all it could and should have, and for that we deeply apologize. We recognize the importance of addressing these issues with compassion, transparency, and fairness, and we are committed to doing so," the school said in a statement provided to Courier Journal.
St. Francis has campuses in Goshen and downtown Louisville. The school serves nearly 500 students in preschool through 12th grade and is known for its small class sizes.
The school, which said it has been "formulating a plan to re-evaluate" the allegations since mid-November, has hired a Boston-based attorney to lead the
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MIAMI • Thirty-two kilometres may have made a US$150 billion (S$202 billion) difference.
Estimates for the damage
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Hurricane Irma would inflict on Florida kept mounting as it made its devastating sweep across the Caribbean. It was poised to be the costliest US storm on record. Then something called the Bermuda High intervened and tripped it up.
"We got very lucky," said Mr Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
If Irma had passed 32km west of Marco Island instead of striking it on Sunday, "the damage would have been astronomical".
A track like that would have placed the powerful, eastern eye wall of Irma on Florida's Gulf Coast. By one estimate, the total cost of the damage fell to about US$50 billion on Monday from US$200 billion over the weekend.
The state escaped the worst because Irma's powerful eye shifted west, away from the biggest population centre of sprawling Miami- Dade County.
The credit goes to the Bermuda High, which acts like a sort of traffic cop for the tropical North Atlantic Ocean. The circular system hovering
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Freshman guard Micaela Kelly, right, defends against the opponent at the women's basketball game against Kent State on Jan. 13 at McGu
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irk Arena.
Central Michigan women's basketball heightened its lead at the top of the Mid-American Conference West Division Feb. 10 against Ohio.
The Chippewas nearly scored double what Ohio scored, and won 85-47. This is their 12th straight win. CMU has three more conference wins than Ball State, who is second in the MAC West Division.
The Chippewas' struggles continued as they lost, 69-63, at Akron Feb. 10. CMU dropped to 4-8 in conference play and 15-10 overall.
CMU kept the game close until the end, but after senior forward Cecil Williams stole the ball with about 30 seconds left, he missed an open layup and allowed the Zips to extend their lead. Williams finished with 12 points, eight rebounds and one assist.
The Chippewas' next home game is at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 17 against Eastern Michigan. CMU is tied for
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The power of embroidery on show for all to see.
Floral embroidery and sportswear might not immediately appear a compatible
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pairing, but one man in Leeds is changing all that with his stunning Adidas embroidery.
Shibby Hussain, 20, is a student who took to embroidery when his first year of study didn’t exactly go to plan, and the results have attracted retweets and likes from tens of thousands on Twitter.
“I was basically going through some real hardships in my personal life and, long story short, had to retake my first year at medical school,” Shibby told the Press Association.
“It’s been the toughest year of my life so far. It was the lowest I’ve been and I basically needed something to help me feel like I was good at something,” he continued.
It was then that Shibby discovered a stitch society at university and found it to be a welcoming environment, and after receiving positive feedback on his initial work he decided to continue with his new hobby – the pineapple below was his
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There will be plenty of blonde ambition at this year's CMT Music Awards.
Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift top the
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nominations which were announced this morning on the Today show.
Underwood earned five nominations, Lambert had four as a solo artist and as part of her trio Pistol Annies, and Swift led a group of stars earning three nominations apiece for the 11th annual video awards show.
Underwood's Good Girl and her Remind Me collaboration with Brad Paisley, Lambert's Over You and Swift's collaboration with The Civil Wars on The Hunger Games soundtrack entry Safe & Sound are among the 10 nominees for top honour video of the year.
Underwood also is up for female video, CMT performance and collaborative video of the year.
Lambert is up for female video as a solo artist and for group video and breakthrough video for Hell on Heels with her friends Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe in Pistol Annies.
Other video of the year nominees include Aldean's Dirt Road Anthem, Kenny Chesney's You and Tequila with Grace Potter, Toby Keith's Red Solo
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(Newser) – More than 100 prisoners have fled a high-security facility after it was hit by shelling in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in
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eastern Ukraine, local authorities say. A jail riot was precipitated by a direct rocket hit that claimed the life of at least one inmate, says a city council spokesman, who adds that at least 10 homes, shops, and garages were hit by overnight rocketing and 20,000 people are living without electricity. Ukrainian government forces have intensified their push on Donetsk over the last week and have succeeded in surrounding it. Exchanges of rocket fire have become a daily feature of the fighting.
Ukraine asked the rebels to participate in open elections, not only did they refuse but they prevented other citizens who wished to vote from doing so. President Poroshenko asked the rebels to negotiate and they refused. He offered increased autonomy if they would stop fighting and negotiate, they refused. They confiscated citizens food, autos etc for their own use and they had no humanitarian concerns then. Now they want a cease fire so they can regroup, strengthen and hope Putin sends in troops then they will start the killing again.
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Avolon celebrates delivery of the world's first Boeing 737 MAX to Malindo Air in May.
Cork could become a major centre for
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the development of pilots as a global dearth in filling the roles grows over the next decade.
The worldwide commercial aviation industry will need an extra 255,000 pilots by 2027 to sustain its rapid growth and is not moving fast enough to fill the positions, according to a 10-year forecast published by training company Canadian Aviation Electronics (CAE).
Cork has the largest pilot training facility in Ireland at the Atlantic Flight Training Academy (AFTA) near Cork Airport. Training pilots since 1995, its graduates fly for the likes of Turkish Airlines, Air Astana, Kazakhstan and the Libyan Ministry of Transport.
It has also struck up a partnership with Norwegian Airlines, which will make history by offering the first ever direct transatlantic flights to Providence in Rhode Island from Cork next month. AFTA has supplied dozens of graduates to Norwegian. More than 1,800 of AFTA’s graduates fly for airlines around the world.
Meanwhile, the Paris Air Show proved a lucrative one for Boeing with Irish
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Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh today suggested Boston could provide a safe harbor for legal abortion clinics if President-elect Trump follows through on his vow to
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appoint Supreme Court justices who will reverse Roe v. Wade.
Trump has said he will appoint Supreme Court justices who would seek to overturn the landmark 1973 decision that made abortion legal across the United States. Over the weekend, Trump told a "60 Minutes" interviewer the issue of legal abortion then would be decided on a state level, and some women would have to "go to another state" to obtain an abortion.
Walsh noted others within the GOP may want to cut off money to states who support reproductive rights if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Asked what he could do currently as mayor to protect women’s reproductive rights, Walsh said, "Working with the legislature to make sure the laws don’t get weakened. Working with health centers to make sure that, if there’s there’s threats of cutting back federal funding to those health centers for any type of reproductive rights, working with all the health centers in the city of Boston to make sure there is
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Controversial anti-Islam film-maker jailed for a series of criminal offences relating to false aliases.
Mark Basseley Youssef,
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the conman behind an anti-Muslim film that led to violence in many parts of the Middle East, has been given a one-year prison sentence for probation violations unrelated to the film.
The sentence was handed down on Wednesday after a plea bargain was reached between solicitors for Youssef and federal prosecutors.
Youssef admitted to using several false names and violating his probation order by obtaining a fraudulent California driver's license under a false name to commit bank fraud.
US District Court Judge Christina Snyder accepted the plea agreement and immediately sentenced Youssef after he admitted to four of the eight alleged violations.
Shortly after Youssef left the courtroom, he issued a provocative statement through his solicitor, Steven Seiden.
"The one thing he wanted me to tell all of you is President Obama may have gotten Osama bin Laden, but he didn't kill the ideology," Seiden said.
Prosecutors agreed to drop the other four allegations under the plea deal, which also included more probation
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With the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expiring in less than 1,000 days, new goals are needed that prioritise support for small
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holder farmers to better access markets and increase productivity, nutrition and incomes.
Michael Hoevel, deputy director of a UK-based think tank called Agriculture for Impact, says that the MDGs have helped galvanise efforts to address the world’s most fundamental development challenges, including the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger.
Andrew Emmott of Twin, a UK-based fair trade group that works with more than 50 farmer organisations, notes that food safety is not a feature of the MDGs, despite presenting significant barriers to achieving Goal Four on reducing child mortality and Goal Six on combating diseases.
According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation, malnutrition costs the global economy as much as five percent of global gross domestic product (GDP), equivalent to 3.5 trillion dollars annually or 500 dollars a person. Impact for Agriculture noted that over 200 million people go hungry and 40 percent of children under age five are stunted due to malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa today.
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The Raptors have won their last seven meetings with Chicago.
Pascal Siakam led the Raptors with 33 points, while Fred VanVle
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et added 23. Kawhi Leonard’s 25-plus-points game streak comes to an end.
Ibaka, Westbrook return from suspension; Valerie Adams’ little brother will also play.
Emmanuel Mudiay and the woeful Knicks had lost eight straight before Sunday’s one-point win over the Lakers.
Raptors fans by the thousands in Motor City, where basketball fans’ attention was divided, saw coach Dwane Casey’s Pistons complete a shutout of their season series.
Kawhi Leonard’s 33 points not enough in Fred VanVleet’s return to the Raptors’ lineup.
Serge Ibaka and Marquese Chriss exchanged blows at the end of the third quarter. Score it a draw. Kyle Lowry limped off after mid-air collision in fourth. Yes, it was a rough night against the Cavaliers.
Raptors journeyman Patrick McCaw and Cavaliers lottery pick
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Middle Eastern Christians are experiencing one of the most significant periods in their history, according to religious and political leaders meeting in London last week.
Reg
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ime changes in Egypt and Iran, and sectarian violence in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, have presented an opportunity for the Christian minority to speak out, or for international bodies to advocate on their behalf.
Rev. Andrew White, the pastor of an Anglican church in Baghdad, spoke of the "terrible suffering" of Iraq's Christian community. He said that in the last 10 years since Saddam Hussein was toppled, 1026 members of his congregation had been killed – 58 within one day.
White said that in the last decade, Iraq's Christian population had shrunk from 1.5 million to around 200,000.
As Egypt adapts to its second regime change in two years, Bishop Angaelos, leader of the Coptic Church in the UK, said Egyptians are beginning to embrace their identity as Egyptians, rather than only as part of a group of distinct communities.
"It was unheard of before two years ago that Egyptian flags would be flying on the streets because people felt that they
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Some of the most amazing coffees I've ever tasted have been winners from the Cup of Excellence competition. The program has been referred to as the
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Oscars of coffee and seeks to identify the best beans from many of the top coffee farms in the world. An international jury of professional coffee tasters is invited to the host country to cup the selected entries. Cup of Excellence competitions have been held in Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Rwanda, Costa Rica and Colombia.
On the first day of the competition there is an extensive calibration. During the next two days, the international jury cups the coffees that have been approved and passed by the national jury. On the fourth day, the jury cups about 45 coffees which have passed the first round. Coffees scoring an 84 or above during this round are awarded the prestigious Cup of Excellence.
The top ten scoring coffees are ranked again to discover the first place winner of the competition. Winning Cup of Excellence coffees are then sold through an internet auction. The most recent auction was held on January 18th, for the winning farms of the 2010 Brazilian competition. I
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