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Russian President Vladimir Putin in Versailles, France, on May, 29, 2017.
Plenty of ink is being spilled over Russia�
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�s contentious relations with the West these days, and with good reason. But while Russian President Vladimir Putin plays games with the U.S. and Europe — and continues a murky alliance with Syria and Iran — the other countries that will determine Russia’s future shouldn’t be overlooked. Here are five you should be keeping tabs on.
Let’s start with the most obvious. Russia had hoped its eastern pivot towards China would make up for lost Western investment and trade ties in the wake of the Ukraine crisis of 2014. U.S./E.U. sanctions and Russian counter-sanctions are estimated to have cost Russia between 1 and 1.5 percent of its GDP in the first year alone; the IMF forecasts the hit could be as much as 9 percent over the medium term. And while China did indeed step up financing for Russian projects (Chinese investment in Russia grew by 172 percent in the first half of 2016), it wasn’t enough to overcome the losses
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Photo: Gotham/Getty Images. Design: Allison Kahler/STYLECASTER.
The countdown is on for the annual Victoria
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’s Secret Fashion Show (November 8) and preparation is in full swing. This week, the modeling elite made their way to a series of fittings for those iconic wings and among them was Elsa Hosk, a seasoned catwalker with the lingerie brand.
It would be easy to assume that 29-year-old Swedish stunner is living a life free of the stresses that we face from day-to-day, especially in today’s political and social climate. But au contraire: even angels need a time-out, especially before and after one of the fashion industry’s most high-profile events.
Taking time for yourself and having space and time to be on your own and take care of your happiness. It de-stresses me, it makes me happier and it makes me a better person in my relationships. It’s very important.
I need some time every day to myself whether it’s my makeup routine, cleansing
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STOKE and Watford have both been charged by the FA for failing to control their players.
A number stars became embroiled in an angry
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clash during Stoke's 1-0 win at the weekend after Troy Deeney grabbed Joe Allen by the face before appearing to gouge his cheek.
It even forced members of staff to leap from the bench to break things up.
And the two clubs could now be set for heavy fines following the news that Deeney had been charged with violent conduct.
He has until 6pm today to answer and faces the risk of being hit with a three-match ban.
It means Deeney could miss vital clashes against Everton, West Ham and Newcastle.
But Allen has since laughed off the incident, saying: "It was handbags really and there was nothing to it. I like Troy, he's one of the good guys, he's a really good player and it was nothing personal.
"He's a big guy and we were both laughing - I knew I was beaten in that situation, but I have a bit of a bad habit of picking the wrong fights!"
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: A coconut tree climbing robot is among five awards won by Amiritha University students at a Asia competition in Singapore.
While the coconut tree
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climbing robot won the Best Mechanical Design award, a staircase-cleaning robot, room-cleaning robot, a gesture-based navigational robot and a hand-orthosis robot for stroke patients, were among the award winners at the recent OMRG Asia competition,where 20 teams from various countries participated,a university release said.
The robotic coconut-tree climber, the hand-orthosis robot for stroke patients, the gesture-based navigational robot and staircase-cleaning robot bagged prizes in the Open Category, while the autonomous room-cleaning robot won the second prize in the Under 18 category.
The coconut-tree climber named Amaran was judged 'Best Mechanical Design and ClePa, the staircase cleaning robot, was declared the "Best Marketable Design, it said.
The robots were designed by students as part of Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs of University's Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering.
The University intends to develop the robots further and introduce
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A STORY of Ebola victims rising from the dead has been discredited as a cruel hoax after someone recognised this so-called zombie.
THE story of
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dead Ebola victims supposedly rising from the dead has been discredited as a cruel hoax.
A story titled “Africa confirms 3rd Ebola victim rises from the dead, shows a picture of the first ‘Ebola zombie’ captured,” has been shared online thousands of times.
“For the first time in human history, confirmed footage of a man who scientists watched die from Ebola then only several hours later, regain life and rise from the dead,” the photo was captioned.
But it appears the fake image has been stolen and altered from Brad Pitt’s zombie movie World War Z.
The 2013 flick stars Pitt as a former UN investigator who is trying to save the world from a zombie rampage.
It’s just the latest in a series of rumours of Ebola victims being “resurrected” after apparently being killed by the virus.
The horrid image appeared on notorious website Big American News and quickly sparked an
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A face of the Buffalo Bills is breaking his silence about concussions.
After a 13 year career, Hall of Fame Running Back Thurman Thomas
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is opening up about the effects of head trauma.
Thomas spoke out over the weekend at a concussion summit. He revealed mood swings and a worsening condition.
The revelation has refueled the debate over contact sports.
One lawmaker has introduced legislation in hopes of preventing some concussions.
"I have three kids, they're playing contact sports now," explained Erie County Legislator Patrick Burke (D-South Buffalo). "I've seen things. Head to head collisions, head to knee collisions."
It was those collisions on the field, and the attention that sports-related concussions have received recently, that prompted Burke to take action.
His legislation would require that the supervisor or organization overseeing any minor playing a contact sport in Erie County would take a course on concussions every few years.
"Ensuring the long term brain health of our children, and I hope this will be one small part of it, making people more aware," Burke told 7 Eyewitness News Reporter Rachel El
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WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Friday adopted a new system of special fees paid by U.S. financial institutions that will shift more of the burden to
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bigger banks to help replenish the deposit insurance fund.
The move by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. cut by about two-thirds the amount of special fees to be levied on banks and thrifts. It followed protests by small and community banks — with powerful allies in Congress — against a plan adopted in February that charged premiums based on the amount of deposits. The smaller institutions insisted they would be unfairly hit even though they didn’t contribute to the financial crisis with reckless lending.
The FDIC board voted 4-1 to approve the new fee system. It is intended to raise $5.6 billion in the face of a cascade of bank failures that have depleted the insurance fund. The lone dissent came from U.S. Comptroller of the Currency John Dugan, whose agency regulates national banks.
The FDIC received more than 14,000 comment letters on the earlier fee plan. Typical of the anger was the letter from Dean Anderson, vice president of Lake Elmo Bank.
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FRANKLIN COUNTY, Mo. - An inmate in the Franklin County Jail could face drug distribution charges after three other inmates overdosed on opioids she
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allegedly smuggled into the facility. There’s technology that could help prevent jail smuggling, but it’s not cheap.
The incident happened early Wednesday morning as three female inmates were rushed to Mercy Hospital in Washington. They all survived the overdose and were returned to the jail.
“Actually, our detention deputies do a great job,” said Franklin County Sheriff Steve Pelton.
So how did the drug end up behind bars? The sheriff said the suspect was searched but she hid the opioids in a body cavity.
Jails are not prisons. To do such a search, authorities have to have probable cause and get a judge to sign off on a search warrant, then medical officials conduct the search.
“Normally, in the course of action, we transfer to a hospital,” Pelton said.
Some jails are purchasing security devices that checks a suspect’s entire body. No court order is needed and it’s not physically invasive.
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Hambleton District Council, which has paid £757,000 in exit payments to three officers this year.
While the Conservatives have
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candidates for each of the 28 Hambleton District Council seats on May 2, they are facing fewer challengers overall than the 41 non-Tory candidates at the 2015 election.
The Labour Party is fielding 15 candidates, the Green Party seven candidates, Liberal Democrats six, three are running as independents and three as Labour and Cooperative Party candidates. One candidate’s affiliation, if any, has not been announced.
The sole opposition member of the council, UK Independence Party councillor Claire Palmer, who secured her seat by just four votes at the 2015 election, is not standing for re-election for the Northallerton South ward.
Another closely fought ward in 2015 was Stokesley, which saw Liberal Democrat Byrn Griffiths, a North Yorkshire County councillor, lose to Conservative Stephen Dickins by 132 votes.
The two Stokesley wards seats will be contested by five rather than the seven candidates who challenged for votes in 2015..
However, several of the seats, including Romanby
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Theo Walcott is out to make the FA Cup his first winners' medal at Arsenal - declaring the Gunners should fear no-one after
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their thrilling comeback against Aston Villa.
Arsene Wenger's side were 2-0 down at Emirates Stadium on Sunday heading into half-time. However, a rousing second-half performance turned the tie around as Arsenal secured a place in the last 16 next month against either Sunderland or Middlesbrough.
Walcott - signed from Southampton in 2006 - is one of a string of senior players yet to lift silverware with the Gunners. However, the 22-year-old is out to put that record straight this season, and said: "I would like to look back on my career at the trophies I have won. There are none yet. This is a competition that we can win."
He added: "A couple of big teams have gone out and, if we can come from 2-0 down, hopefully we can beat anybody now."
Walcott revealed a rousing address from Van Persie during the interval helped lift Arsenal for the second half.
He said
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Donald Trump attacked the Clintons on Thursday over the latest blockbuster hacked email released by WikiLeaks, which details how a close Bill Clinton aide helped rake in tens
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of millions for the former president while his wife was serving as secretary of state.
Doug Band sent the 12-page memo in 2011 to Bill Clinton, his daughter Chelsea, several Clinton Foundation board members and lawyers, and'special adviser' John Podesta – whose email was hacked and who is now Hillary Clinton's campaign manager.
'Just today we read about Clinton confidant Doug Band bragging that he had funnelled tens of millions of dollars to "Bill Clinton, Inc." through the Foundation donations, paid speeches and consulting contracts,' Trump said in a farm animal expo center in rural Springfield, Ohio.
Trump, cheered on by a crowd estimated at 7,000 people, blasted Hillary Clinton as the new figurehead leading what amounts to an organized crime family.
'The more emails WikiLeaks releases, the more lines between the Clinton Foundation, the secretary of state's office and the Clintons' personal finances – they all get blurred,’ the Republican presidential nominee said.
Wikileaks published
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Pretoria - Residents of Atteridgeville say if the incumbent mayor Kgosientso "Sputla" Ramokgopa
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is replaced, they will vote for the DA.
- Are you there? Send us your eyewitness accounts and photos.
"No Sputla, no vote," residents chanted. "If they remove Sputla then we will take our votes to the DA.
"The ANC knows the DA is a threat and we will give our votes to them. We want Sputla."
Residents of Atteridgeville have been on the rampage since Monday night following the announcement of Thoko Didiza as the mayoral candidate for the city.
Residents referenced the Freedom Charter and said they felt like the party was taking them for granted.
"They said the people will govern [in the Charter] but now they are governing us and that is very wrong. They are where they are because of us," said another protester.
She said they had come a long way with the party and wanted to be listened to.
"Today they are sitting there in their comfortable chairs and empires while
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Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon has asked fans to design him a new tattoo based on his favourite TV show.
The folk singer-
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songwriter, whose band was recently voted the ‘worst hipster act’ ever, is offering a cash prize to the winner of his 99designs competition and will have their illustration inked on his arm.
Vernon has published a long description detailing the requirements he wants from his new body art, with the singer choosing five finalists to propose designs influenced by the TV series Northern Exposure – the same show which was the inspiration behind his band’s name, and the name of his new record label.
The comedy drama ran for six series between 1990 and 1995, and detailed the lives of the inhabitants of the fictional town of Cicely in Alaska.
He wrote: “I named my band after an episode of Northern Exposure. In the episode a women transforms a gold rush village into a cultural place with one single dance in a tavern. They name the town after her, Cicely, Alaska.
He later added: “This is a really important
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(Reuters) - The airline worker who stole an empty airplane from a Seattle airport on a flight that ended in his death once ran a bakery with
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his wife and enjoyed the benefits that came with his job to travel the world, social media posts showed.
Richard Russell, who liked to be called Beebo, is seen in an undated photograph from a video he produced for his Youtube channel, obtained August 11, 2018. Youtube/Handout via REUTERS.
Richard Russell, who liked to be called Beebo, was a 29-year-old man living in Sumner, Washington, who was born in Key West, Florida, and moved to Wasilla, Alaska, when he was 7 years old, according to a Web page he set up for a college communications class.
He has not been officially named by authorities, but his family and multiple news media outlets have reported his identity.
Russell worked for Horizon Airlines, a sister carrier of Alaska Airlines, as a ground service agent who helped baggage handlers and was part of Horizon’s tow team, which moved planes around on the tarmac. It was a job
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Amnesty International today called on the Kenyan government to take all appropriate steps to protect people in Kenya from ongoing human rights abuses caused by politically-mot
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ivated and ethnic attacks in the aftermath of December’s disputed presidential elections.
International standards on law enforcement stipulate that firearms should not be used except to defend people against an imminent threat of death or serious injury and only where less extreme means are insufficient.
Politically-motivated and ethnic killings by armed gangs continue in several parts of Kenya. Most of the violence has targeted members of communities from which President Kibaki was perceived to have drawn his support, particularly members of the Kikuyu community.
Recent cases of violence have been both spontaneous and organised, particularly in parts of the Rift Valley.
On 22 January, seven people from the Kikuyu and Kisii communities were killed in Kipkelion and 70 houses were burned in the Aldai area of Rift Valley province by armed gangs.
Organised attacks have also taken place targeting internally displaced persons (IDPs) who were seeking refuge in places close to the homes they had fled as a result of the violence.
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Submitted by John Roberts on 03/15/2017 - 02:10 pm.
So if Mayo is becoming more selective about its patients,
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perhaps the state of Minnesota, and any governmental/public body needs to be more selective about funding Destination Medical with public dollars. It cuts both ways.
Submitted by James Hamilton on 03/15/2017 - 02:28 pm.
Submitted by beryl john-knudson on 03/16/2017 - 06:05 am.
which, one can assume it’s merely a practice that suggests, has been in place but never been publically admitted as standard policy…so what else is new?
Watch closely in the near future as other MN hospitals follow suit and the quality of care goes down…as Trump care establishes itself as standard policy?
The only certainty here is the salaries of physicians and administration take care of their own I suppose?
Submitted by Joel Stegner on 03/16/2017 - 10:59 pm.
Mayo growth money comes from government and grateful patients.
The state and federal government have been very good to
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The Farmlands Trust Society was abuzz with excitement on being named Pollinator Advocate for Canada at the 2018 North American Pollinator Protection Campaign Awards,
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on Oct. 16 in Washington, D.C.
The Saanichton-based charitable organization was recognized for its commitment to environmental stewardship and pollinator conservation by the Pollinator Partnership, the world’s largest organization dedicated to the protection of pollinators.
The society won one of only seven awards conferred to organizations and individuals in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
“We are pleased to be able to recognize the outstanding efforts of these special individuals, who are leading by example and taking innovative actions that help make the North American landscape a better place for our pollinating partners … the bees, butterflies, birds, bats and other species that we all rely upon,” said Val Dolcini, president and CEO of San Francisco, California-based Pollinator Partnership.
The Farmlands Trust Society was recognized for creating a habitat for beneficial insects, including planting hedgerows of bee-friendly flowers, such as sunflowers and wild flowers. They also
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Welcome to the Dew Sweeper's Open rundown, your one-stop shop to catch up on the action from the golf world. From the professional
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tours, trending news, social media headlines and upcoming events, here's every golf-related thing you need to know for the morning of July 20.
Mark O'Meara, a former Birkdale champ, was selected to hit the first tee shot of the 2017 Open Championship. O'Meara's drive won't make the tournament's highlight reel, as it sailed -- and we underline sailed -- out-of-bounds.
O’Meara's third discovered a fairway bunker, finishing near the deep face. O’Meara walked off with a quadruple bogey-8.
Let's hope this isn't an omen for things to come this weekend.
For the first time in forever, Rory McIlroy is entering a major under the radar. And with reason: the 28-year-old's 2017 has been a bit of a disaster inside the ropes. He's missed significant amount of time with injury,
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On April 15, 2007, MARY B. TWINER (nee Barna), beloved wife of the late Grover Twiner, loving
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mother of Jeanne Peterson and husband Eric, Dr. Mary Ellen Clisham, Anne Hainer and Dr. Barbara Black, grandmother of Julian, Alexander, Daniel, Meghan, Colin, Michael, Amy, Christina and Jonathan, sister of Helen Badini and husband Henry. She was a Navy nurse during WWII, and retired as a Captain with the U.S. Public Health Service. Family will receive friends on Wednesday, April 18th from 3-5 p.m. at STERLING ASHTON SCHWAB WITZKE FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1630 Edmondson Avenue, Catonsville. A Mass will be held on Thursday, April 19th at 11:00 a.m. at Our Lady of the Angels Chapel, Charlestown, with viewing beginning at 10:30 a.m. Interment will be held on Friday, April 20th at 10 a.m. at the Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery, Owings Mills, Maryland.
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Microsoftshares popped in late trading Thursday as the company turned in a profit and sales that both topped Street targets, helped by higher sales of its
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flagship Windows and Office software and the launch of the latest blockbuster Halo video game.
The world's biggest software company said it earned $5.4 billion, or 62 cents a share in its fiscal first quarter, up 51 percent from $3.6 billion, or 40 cents a share last year.
Sales for the most recent quarter jumped to $16.2 billion, from $12.92 billion last year.
Wall Street analysts who monitor Microsoft estimated on average that the Redmond, Wash., company would report a profit of 55 cents a share on sales of $15.8 billion, according to data accumulated by Thomson Reuters.
Shares of Microsoft were changing hands about 2 percent higher in extended trading Thursday. Get after-hour quotes for Microsoft here.
The stock, a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, finished the regular Nasdaq session up almost 1 percent at $26.28. The shares are down 14 percent so far this year.
Looking at sales by business unit
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The four vendors have so far certified 36 products under the organization's green metrics for printers, multifunction devices, and copiers.
Companies or
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government agencies that use the EPEAT green technology to guide procurement or purchasing decisions for notebooks, personal computers, monitors, and integrated systems will now be able to evaluate imaging peripherals.
So far there are 36 copiers, multifunction devices, and printers listed in the database--which looks at products along 33 strict metrics such as how they are designed, the components used in them, energy consumption, and how easily they can be recycled or refurbished. Digital duplicators, fax machines, mailing machines, and scanners are also covered, but there aren't any certified products yet.
The first four vendors have products listed in the imaging category are Canon, Ricoh, Xerox, and Dell.
In fact, Canon has earned a Gold rating (the highest possible) for all eight models of its ImageRunner Advance C5200 and ImageRunner Advance 4000 Series multifunction devices. Its commitment to earning the certification falls under the company's "Kyosei" philosophy of living and working together
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Wearing Jordan Hankins’ No. 5, Amber Jamison plays defense. The sophomore has emerged as a key contributor for Northwestern over the
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past two games.
For Amber Jamison, Tuesday’s win was more than just a game.
The sophomore guard was a close friend of Jordan Hankins, who died last week. Jamison roomed with Hankins their freshman season and wore Hankins’ No. 5 jersey in Northwestern’s game against Indiana on Saturday, the team’s first game since the death of Hankins.
Jamison has started back-to-back games — the first two starts of her career — since Hankins’ death, scoring a combined 35 points over the Wildcats’ last two wins. Her 22 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists against the Spartans were all career highs as well.
Coach Joe McKeown did not provide an update on senior guard Christen Inman, who missed Tuesday’s game with an injury, so it remains to be seen how many more starts Jamison will get. But in the two games since Hankins’
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — Talented spinner Rashid Khan celebrated his 20th birthday by scoring a half
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-century and taking two wickets as Afghanistan upset Bangladesh by 136 runs in the Asia Cup yesterday.
Rashid scored a rapid unbeaten 32-ball 57 with eight fours and a six to lift Afghanistan to an imposing 255-7 after their captain Asghar Afghan won the toss and decided to bat at Sheikh Zayed Stadium.
Rashid, who finished with 2-13 in nine overs and effected a run out, claimed the prized wickets of Shakib Al Hasan (32) and Mahmudullah Riyad (27) as Bangladesh were bundled out for 119 in 42.1 overs.
It was Afghanistan's second upset in the tournament following their 91-run win over Sri Lanka which sent the islanders crashing out in the first round.
Afghanistan next take on Pakistan in the double-header Super Four game in Abu Dhabi Friday while title holders India meet Bangladesh in Dubai.
Afghanistan rocked the Bangladesh top four for just 43 runs before Shakib and
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Aug. 25, 2018 3:59 PM PT4:59 PM MT5:59 PM CT6:59 PM ET22:59 GMT
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6:59 3:59 PM MST4:59 PM CST5:59 PM EST5:59 PM CT2:59 UAE (+1)18:59 ETNaN:� - Jaguars coach Doug Marrone said Marqise Lee will have season-ending knee surgery and be placed on injured reserve. Lee, who led the team in receptions in 2017, was carted off the field Saturday night after Atlanta Falcons cornerback Damontae Kazee delivered a helmet-first hit to his knee. Tests confirmed what everyone in the stadium expected after seeing Lee's knee buckle: The injury was severe.
Analysis: Lee is nearly a lock to be back with Jacksonville since his $7.25 million salary in 2019 is guaranteed. The Jaguars will miss him, although it's unclear how much considering Marrone's offensive philosophy features a smash-mouth ground attack.
Mar. 13, 2018 12:44 PM PT1:44 PM MT2:44 PM CT3:44 PM ET
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President Obama's stunning victory on Thursday in the Supreme Court is a surprising validation of his dogged refusal to give ground on his 2008 campaign promise to provide
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health insurance for the millions of Americans who live in daily dread of disease or sickness. Just about everybody not on the White House staff expected a conservative high court to invalidate key parts of the law Obama pushed through Congress in 2010. But the president prevailed, dealing a severe blow to Republican hopes to ride "Obamacare" to big victories in November.
But before the White House gets too carried away in celebration, the reality is that the Court's decision, as historic as it is, does not guarantee the survival of the law that is the signature accomplishment of Obama's first term in office. This big legal victory gives the president a second chance to do what he flubbed the first time -- persuade the country that this is not a partisan exercise. For even after this decision, the health care law still is far from the permanent reform he envisioned when he hailed its passage as answering "the call of history." More than two years later, it remains deeply unpopular despite surviving this legal challenge
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A new study suggests that the death toll from drug overdoses in America is much more severe than initially believed.
In December, the CDC said 52
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,404 people had died from drug overdoses in 2015, with over 60% dying from opioids (prescription painkillers) and heroin. Overdose numbers have been rising for years, but new research published Monday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine suggests that those rates were dramatically underreported.
One reason for the gap? In many overdose cases, no specific drug is identified as the cause on the death certificate. Between 1999 and 2014, up to one in four drug overdose deaths had no single drug listed as the cause.
That doesn't mean researchers who want to correct the figures are out of luck, however. Even in cases in which no specific drug is listed as the single cause of death, officials often do list at least one category of drug present in the person's body based on screenings they do at the time. For the latest study, the researchers used that information to correct the data they had on drug overdoses.
Nationally, the "corrected" death rate (using the
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China is developing a huge rocket that will be used for its first manned mission to the moon, state media said Monday, underscoring Beijing's increasingly
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ambitious space programme.
The first launch of the Long March-9 will take place around 2028, said the China Daily, which also cited experts saying the rocket's development is at the research stage.
It will carry a load of 130 tonnes, the newspaper added, equal to what NASA is aiming for with its Space Launch System (SLS), which aims to blast off for the first time in 2018 with an initial test payload of 70 tonnes.
The US space agency has touted its deep-space rocket as having "unprecedented lift capability".
Li Tongyu, head of aerospace products at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, told the newspaper: "Our current launch vehicles, including the Long March-5, which is set to conduct its first launch soon, will be able to undertake the country's space activities planned for the coming 10 years.
"But for the nation's long-term space programmes, their capabilities will not be enough."
Li said that the Long
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St. Johns County schools could find themselves in an unusual position of becoming a lifeline to high school student-athletes in Duval County this
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fall if an ominous proposal becomes a reality.
Recommendations sparked by a $90.9 million budget deficit prompted Duval County athletic director Jon Fox to propose eliminating 10 varsity high school sports.
As one of the fastest-growing school districts in the state, St. Johns County could very well find itself in position to absorb some of the spillover of the nearly 2,100 students who won't be able to compete in the sport that they did this past athletic season.
St. Johns County School District Superintendent Joseph Joyner said that the county would have to address some of the residuals from the Duval County situation, although that it would wait until the decisions were finalized before doing so. A vote on the proposed cuts, which include cross country, golf, tennis, wrestling, lacrosse and slow-pitch softball, will be June 13.
"Part of that is it's a little too early to tell what the impact is going to be... are they going
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Rami, a Syrian refugee, plans to become a physician in America. I want to hire him. But senseless paperwork has our plans on hold
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Rami Sakaan just wants to be a doctor. He is a smart, gentle spirit with a kind heart. I would be eager to hire him at Church Health, but it is not that easy.
He grew up in Aleppo, Syria, where he fell in love with wanting to help people through medicine.
In 2011, he had completed four years of his six-year medical training program (that is the way it is done in British-influenced countries) when things began to fall apart in Syria. Inspired by the pro-democracy movement, a group of school boys in Syria began writing anti-government slogans on walls.
The government reacted by rounding up the boys and torturing them. Protests broke out. The Syrian civil war had begun.
Through the early days of the war, Rami kept going to school. Then one day, for who knows what reason, he was arrested and placed in solitary confinement in a dark basement. His family had
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DANANG, Vietnam — Alex Huff is hard to miss among the dozens of children in the cafeteria at Phan Thanh elementary school. Bl
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ond-haired, blue-eyed and towering over his classmates, his legs are so long that his knees nearly touch his chest as he sits at a plastic table slurping up beef-noodle soup and milk.
In a city that was home to one of the largest U.S. air bases of the Vietnam War, in a school where the portrait of the late communist leader Ho Chi Minh hangs on the wall, 11-year-old Alex is a symbol of how even the deepest wounds can heal. But it goes further than that.
His Vietnamese is so good that he has astonished the country by placing second in a national storytelling competition that is as prestigious here as the National Spelling Bee in the United States. He is believed to be the first foreigner to do it.
Since kindergarten, Alex has been the lone Westerner surrounded by a sea of Vietnamese children. His parents, Bob and Kathleen Huff, moved here more than five years ago from DeQueen, Ark., to
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Earning itself instant fame with a couple world records.
Jumping aboard the llano bandwagon ahead of the APU launch, MSI has announced
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its A75 powered mainboard today in the "A75MA-G55" which has been given the Military Class II treatment (comprising MSI's Hi-c CAPs, Super Ferrite Chokes and Solid caps) which both improves overall lifespan and helps in lowering power consumption as well as giving a more solid, reliable platform.
Using the mATX form factor, the board packs a good array of features for its size including enough USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps ports to keep you content, HDMI and DVI output, 7.1 channel audio and proprietory features from MSI including their UEFI based Click BIOS, OC Genie II for easy one click overclocking and i-Charger Apple friendly charging support.
To really put this board in a good light, however, is the fact that a high ranking overclocker known as Toppc (who recently won MSI's ultimate overclocking championship (MOA) in Taiwan), has gotten a hold of this board
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It’s National Burger Day and you’ve had your say on the best places in the county to indulge. These are some of
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the restaurants and burger joints that you said serve the best burgers.
This American-style chain diner has two restaurants in Norwich, one on Mousehold Heath and another on Barrack Street.
Famous for their chargrilled burgers and with cosy booth seats, Zaks has been named by our readers as one of the best places in Norfolk to get a burger.
This burger van and grill restaurant serve American-style burgers with vegetarian options available. They also serve hotdogs, filled baguettes and basket meals but it’s their burgers that you recommend.
This fast-food chain restaurant opened in Norwich in 2016 and has clearly made an impression in the two years it’s been in the city.
Five Guys’ headquarters may be in America, but the casual chain with a focus on hamburgers has been recommended as one of Norfolk’s best bets for a tasty burger.
Not a burger joint per se, but a hotel with a pub
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(Reuters) - The uncle of a drowned Syrian toddler whose body pictured on a Turkish beach three months ago prompted worldwide sympathy for the plight of the
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region’s refugees, arrived in Canada with his family on Monday.
CBC Television broadcast the arrival of Mohammad Kurdi, his wife and five children in Vancouver, where they had an emotional reunion with his sister Tima Kurdi. She lives in British Columbia and sponsored the family’s relocation to Canada.
The family chanted: “Thank you Canada” shortly after being reunited.
“I am happy, very happy,” Mohammad Kurdi told reporters at the city’s main airport.
The family came to prominence in September after a photograph of the tiny body of Alan Kurdi, face down in the surf of a Turkish beach, appeared in newspapers around the world. Alan was originally reported to be 3 years old, but some subsequent reports said he was 2.
The image brought international attention to the refugee crisis and sparked outrage at the perceived inaction of developed nations to deal with the issue.
The child’s brother and mother were among
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President David Granger yesterday said that Guyana needs the assurance from UN Secretary General António Guterres that the deadline fixed for the referral of
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the Venezuela border controversy to the World Court will be met.
Granger was speaking with reporters yesterday during the lead up to the United Nations General Assembly in New York where he is scheduled to deliver an address.
According to a Ministry of the Presidency release yesterday, Granger met in New York with Commonwealth Secretary General, Baroness Patricia Scotland and raised the matter of the border controversy during their discussions.
He said that Guyana needs the assurance that Guterres will abide by the commitment that was made by former Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon to refer the matter to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) if an agreement is not reached between the two countries by December 2017. Ban had set the deadline after Guyana pressed for a juridical settlement of the controversy saying that decades of the UN Good Officer process had produced no results and had emboldened Venezuela in interfering with Guyana’s development. Venezuela on the other hand has been pressing for a continuation of the Good Officer process.
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For Ben Nichols — singer, songwriter and front man of veteran Memphis roots rock band Lucero — life has become dramatically different over the last few
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years, bringing with it a marriage and his first child. As he explains how all this has affected him — personally and creatively — you can hear his daughter in the background running around getting ready to celebrate her 2nd birthday.
That kind of emotional maturity and perspective colors Lucero’s ninth and latest album, “Among the Ghosts,” due out Aug. 3.
After stints on major labels Universal and ATO, the band — Nichols, guitarist Brian Venable, bassist John C. Stubblefield, drummer Roy Berry and keyboardist Rick Steff — self-financed its latest album and will release it on their own Liberty & Lament imprint (which is distributed through Thirty Tigers). The disc arrives as Lucero marks 20 years together.
The making of “Among the Ghosts” brought changes to the band’s working methodology. Lucero’s last three LP were cut at Midtown’s Ardent studio with British
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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the alliance will discuss this week its “next steps" in response to
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Russia's continued violation of a key Cold War-era nuclear arms-control agreement, as well as its presence in the Black Sea region in the face of Russian “aggressive behavior."
NATO foreign ministers will gather in the U.S. capital on April 4 to mark the 70th anniversary of the signing of Western military alliance’s founding Washington Treaty.
The talks are expected to focus largely on relations with Russia, which have been severely strained over a variety of issues including Moscow’s seizure of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 and its support for separatist militants in the conflict in eastern Ukraine that has cost some 13,000 lives over five years.
Stoltenberg told journalists in Brussels on April 1 that the NATO ministers will “begin by addressing NATO's relations with Russia,” which he said “continues to violate” the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
The INF Treaty, the first of its
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NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Patrick Reed and Tiger Woods are about as far apart as can be on the leaderboard after one round
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of the Hero World Challenge.
Only they know how close they are after the Ryder Cup fallout.
Reed showed no sign of fatigue in his travels from Dubai to Hong Kong to the Bahamas in successive weeks, making birdie on three of his last five holes Thursday for a 7-under 65 and a share of the lead with late-entry Patrick Cantlay.
Woods was never under par at any point and opened with a 73, eight shots behind, tied for 16th in an 18-man field.
Reed’s comments after Europe won the Ryder Cup still follow him. In a phone interview with The New York Times hours after the loss, Reed blamed Jordan Spieth for them not playing together, U.S. captain Jim Furyk for twice leaving him on the bench and he made it sound as though he was stuck with Woods as a partner in Paris.
This is one time Reed held his tongue.
After his eighth and final birdie in bal
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On the morning of August 12, 2015, residents of a predominately Jewish neighborhood in San Antonio, Texas awoke to swastikas, Ku Klux
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Klan and other anti-Semitic graffiti spray-painted on their cars and homes.
At the epicenter of the rampage sits Congregation Rodfei Sholom, an Orthodox synagogue that is the spiritual home for over 300 families, led by Rabbi Aryeh Scheinberg. When news of the anti-Semitic vandalism surfaced, the rabbi immediately received a visit from one of his closest friends.
A world-renowned Evangelical pastor, Hagee’s telecasts on Global Evangelism Television reach over 150 million homes in the United States. These days, Hagee may be equally well known for his support of Israel and the Jewish people.
Nearly ten years ago, Hagee founded Christian United For Israel. Today, CUFI is the largest pro-Israel organization in the world with over 2.5 million members. But without Rabbi Scheinberg, there would never have been a CUFI and nearly $100 million raised to help the people of Israel.
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Less so with combining two or three departments maybe, but you think going from three fire administrations down to one wouldn't save money? I think it
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would.
And in Tri Cities WA their auto aid fire agreement is between 8-9 fire agencies with 8-9 fire administrations. I know they could sabe fire admin money going from 8-9 fire admins down to one.
Without a detailed study of what it would require, I don?t think that?s a given.
Many of those smaller WA fire districts run a lean administration. There is a chief and a secretary. Budgeting and payment of vouchers is done by the board of fire commissioners, and they don?t get all that much for their monthly meetings.
Also, regional?authorities? that have the ability to levy taxes and fees are not very accountable to the voter. If a local fireboard goes a bit nuts on the expenses, locals will show up at the meeetings and make noise. Regional entities are good at removing themselves from accountability.
I think fire admins push fire auto aid over joining forces totally, just to save their jobs
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South Florida snuck its way into the glamorous Hollywood spotlight of Thursday’s Academy Award nominations, but not in a way you might expect.
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“Kings Point,” a poignant look at life, love and loneliness among six residents of the titular retirement community in Delray Beach, was among the titles nominated in the Short Documentary category.
The film, which clocks in at about 30 minutes, was seen locally at last fall’s Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, which CEO Greg Von Hausch attributed to a bit of luck. “Kings Point” arrived in an unassuming envelope, one of many cold submissions that often get ignored by harried FLIFF curators. But seeing the Florida tie-in, Von Hausch took a shot.
“Kings Point” is the result of two decades of visits by filmmaker Sari Gilman (pictured) to see her grandmother, who moved to South Florida from New York. In the beginning, life was warm and sunny, but as Gilman writes on the film’s website, day-to-day existence for her grandmother
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With Windows XP entering the final few weeks of official support, Microsoft executive Jay Paulus offers his take on the OS and explains why it's high
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time to move.
Microsoft's Jay Paulus: There is certainly risk for people who are staying on XP. Image: Microsoft.
It's easy to get sentimental about Windows XP and forget the hostile reception the OS received at launch — but the fact is, it's simply not cut out for the modern world, according to a senior Microsoft executive.
Despite the undeniable eventual success of XP — and the important lessons it taught the company — it drew criticism when it first appeared in 2001, says Jay Paulus, director at Windows Commercial.
"When you look back at some of the reviews when Windows XP shipped, it was reviled because it had some UI changes, it had some changes to the start menu, it changed the windowing, it put some rounded corners on things," Paulus said.
"People just hated it. They thought, 'It's such a big change. People are never going to learn' — and now look where we are."
Where we are
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The Appleton Police Department is investigating a death of a woman on the south side of the city.
APPLETON, Wis. — UPDATE
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: Police have identified the woman as 60-year-old Lee Ann Dorn of Appleton.
Around 3 P.M. Thursday, police were dispatched to conduct a welfare check of a woman. They attempted to locate her throughout the day. At around 1:30 A.M. Friday, officers entered a residence on Valley Road. There, they found the woman dead.
Friday afternoon, Appleton Police issued an updated press release on the woman's car. Investigators discovered the victim’s vehicle was missing and entered it in a national crime database as a stolen vehicle. Appleton Police say they were notified at around 11:00 am that the vehicle was recovered, and the operator taken into custody, by law enforcement officers in Kentucky.
The vehicle is being held as evidence and the operator is being held in custody on a probation warrant. Appleton Police say they are working with law enforcement in Kentucky on this investigation.
The cause of death is currently unknown. The Appleton
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It’s money to burn. Looks like a warehouse in Thailand full of Bitcoin-mining machines caught fire. Local media and Bitcoin websites suggest
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that the facility, packed with over 2000 computers connected to the Bitcoin network, went up in flames on 7 November. Equipment worth an estimated $2 million was destroyed. The machines mined Bitcoins by solving cryptographic puzzles. The fire has been blamed for a sudden slowdown in activity on the Bitcoin network.
Make yourself invisible. That’s the idea behind software that removes moving objects from video imagery. The uncensored images are then only viewable when an authorised person watches the recording. Developed by Prism Skylabs, based in San Francisco, the system uses machine-learning to identify movement belonging to foreground elements, like a person walking across the camera’s field of view. The software recognises the stationary background and can then paint over foreground objects to neatly hide human activity.
Call it roach-and-rescue. Alper Bozkurt at North Carolina State University built sound-sensing “backpacks” that can be strapped to Madagascar his
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Women who experience sleep apnea during pregnancy may face an increased of risk of health problems, for both themselves and their newborns, a new study
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suggests.
In the study, babies born to women with obstructive sleep apnea were more likely to be admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit than babies born to women without the condition. All of the women in the study were obese.
In addition, the women with sleep apnea were more likely to develop preeclampsia, a condition of high blood pressure during pregnancy, and to deliver their babies by cesarean section.
Pregnancy complications linked to obesity — such as high blood pressure and gestational diabetes — are better understood than sleep apnea, which is an understudied and under-diagnosed condition in pregnant women, the researchers said.
There is a need for better ways to screen and treat sleep apnea in pregnancy, said study researcher Dr. Judette Louis, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of South Florida.
People with sleep apnea experience pauses in their breathing during sleep. With obstructive sleep ap
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In the eyes of investors, Tesla Motors can do no wrong. A blog post unveiling the company’s “Model W” �
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� a watch ‒ sent stocks surging momentarily… until, perhaps, people actually read the post that referred to an orangutan and Big Ben.
The announcement came five minutes before the closing bell, and in the next minute, Tesla stock jumped about $1.50 ‒ approximately 0.75 percent ‒ from the previous minute, with about 400,000 shares traded during that time.
The Model W caused the heaviest one minute of trading volume in the company's stock since February 12, Reuters reported.
The wire service was one of at least two news organizations that jumped on the Tesla announcement before realizing what Wednesday’s date was. That increase came after Tesla revealed a plan to produce battery packs strong enough to power houses within six months.
"We have withdrawn the headlines and regret putting out the material," a Reuters spokeswoman said.
The prank came just days before Tesla competitor Apple is set to begin pre-orders of its Apple Watch on April 10. The two companies
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The victim, a 26-year-old man, was taken to the hospital with a stab wound to the chest and additional injuries to his head
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and face, Beckley said. He was in fair condition Friday, said Hilary Andrade, a hospital spokeswoman.
A witness told police the two men fought before the incident, but officers were unable to talk with the victim because of his condition, Beckley said.
Blanco-Martinez made his first appearance in Whatcom County Superior Court on Friday afternoon before Commissioner David Thorne. He has lived in Whatcom County since 1989, said Angela Anderson, Blanco-Martinez’s public defender.
Erik Sigmar, the deputy prosecutor, told the court Blanco-Martinez admitted to being in a fight when police arrested him. He also had injuries to his face, Sigmar said, reading from charging papers.
Blanco-Martinez has proven himself a flight risk eight times in the past, Sigmar said, urging Thorne to set bail at $100,000. Thorne followed the recommendation.
Blanco-Martinez was sentenced in
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Nearly 13,000 new downtown rental units have been approved in the past 12 years, and another 10,000 are in the works.
Long
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Island’s newest, most luxurious rentals are getting snapped up by affluent empty-nesters and young professionals seeking flexibility, convenience and hotel-like amenities such as pools, concierges and room service.
The demand for high-end rentals has driven up prices throughout the Island. In Nassau County, the average rent for units in multifamily buildings was $2,257 a month in the first three months of 2018, up 3.2 percent from a year ago and 27 percent from five years earlier, Manhattan-based real estate market research company Reis reported. Suffolk County rents have risen by about 2 percent in a year and 13 percent over five years, to an average $1,775 in western Suffolk and $1,654 in eastern Suffolk, according to Reis.
The growing number of rental complexes provides more options for Long Island apartment-hunters, though some planners say the supply still falls far short of demand, especially when it comes to rentals that are priced for
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Reporters gather outside the Tribeca Film Center, where a package with a pipe bomb was sent to actor Robert De Niro.
NEW YORK
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— President Trump on Thursday blamed the news media for the division and anger in the United States, as authorities discovered more pipe bombs intended for the president’s political rivals.
In his tweet on Thursday, Trump did not mention that CNN, the news network that he has long assailed and called “fake news,” was among the targets of a pipe bomb, along with former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden and actor Robert De Niro. Three more devices were found in Delaware and New York, the FBI said Thursday. Two were addressed to Biden, a Delaware resident, and a third to De Niro, who lives and works in Lower Manhattan.
Trump’s posture as a leader working to bring the country together — saying on Wednesday that any attempted terrorist act “against any American is an attack on every American” — was brief.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., pointed to the president’s tweet on Thursday morning as
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Phillip Adams is a prolific and sometimes controversial broadcaster, writer and film-maker. As presenter of Late Night Live, he has interviewed thousands of
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the world's most influential politicians, historians, archaeologists, novelists, theologians, economists, philosophers and sundry conversationalists. "It's a privilege to present Late Night Live", he says. "No radio program, anywhere on earth, casts a wider net."
Phillip's laid back approach has become a trade-mark for Late Night Live, as has his humour, curiosity, his ability to flesh out rare insights from his guests, and his amazing store of anecdotal knowledge.
Largely self-educated (he left school in his mid-teens) he's the author of over 20 books, including The Unspeakable Adams, Adams Versus God, Talkback, Retreat From Tolerance and A Billion Voices. His writing has appeared in many of Australia's most influential publications and he has been a contributor to The Times and The Financial Times in London, and to the New York Times.
His films include The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, The Getting of Wisdom, Don
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The rapper admits to cheating on his wife, as revealed in his latest album.
Don’t come for Jay Z! Actress Tiffany H
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addish made that quite clear while rehashing a story about Beyonce and her husband during a Hollywood party. And yes, there was another woman involved!
The Girls Trip superstar revealed she was at an afterparty for Jay Z's 4:44 tour when another actress got a little too close for comfort.
In a video, Tiffany shares, "I was talking to Jay Z for a little bit and there was another actress who was also talking to Jay Z. She touched Jay Z's chest."
Afterwards, Beyonce came up to them and Tiffany then described the encounter as Beyonce going, "Bish, get your hands off my man's chest!"
In December, Jay Z admitted to cheating on Beyonce, and the 47-year-old told New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet that he would even push his wife away during their relationship.
“It took them years to get to the point where they are now,” a source told People
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"Teachers, principals, parents and city councillors joined together last night in Porirua to talk about the effect National's national standards are having
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on the quality of education our children are receiving", Kris Faafoi, Labour's Candidate for Mana said today.
"The majority of those who attended the NZEI forum rejected the rushed, untested implementation of National standards.
"Many were concerned that National standards will dampen the love of learning many kids have.
"Attendees said that children who are successful when measured against the average achievement for their age are being labelled as 'failures' because National standards have been pitched much higher than normally achieve for their age.
"National Standards should be about uplifting the education of our kids- not penalising them for not meeting a set of standards that may be unrealistic.
" Kids and quality education are not a one size fits all problem- yet this government is trying to implement a one size fits all solution.
" Education and National Standards are a huge issue many parents in Mana are concerned about, yet National MP Hekia Parata did not front the Kom
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Joel Fitzgerald, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh's choice to head the city police department speaks at a news conference at City Hall.
It�
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�s not clear precisely what information will be shared, nor whether the submission will include a complete background check report that members of the council have been pushing to see.
In an interview, Pugh said some information would be withheld to protect the privacy of Fitzgerald’s family.
“The stuff that can be shared will be shared,” Pugh said.
Much of the information the city has gathered on Fitzgerald is likely protected by state laws that guard personnel records, meaning officials can’t disclose it, and it’s not clear how much Fitzgerald is willing to release voluntarily.
But a third council member — Zeke Cohen — announced Wednesday that he would not be able to vote in favor of Fitzgerald unless he can review the background investigation report.
Cohen described a testy interaction when he asked Fitzgerald on Tuesday to share the file.
“Baltimore is a tough town and anyone who wants to lead the police department needs to understand that our city is
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Chef Cindy Wolf, pictured with business partner Tony Foreman in the Palm Room of Charleston, has been nominated for a James Beard Award six times
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The winners of the awards, considered the Oscars of the culinary industry, were announced at the James Beard Foundation Awards Gala, held at the Lyric Opera of Chicago Monday night.
In addition to Vernick, of Vernick Food & Drink, Wolf was up against another Philadelphia chef, Richard Landau of Vedge, along with Washington, D.C., chefs Amy Brandwein of Centrolina and Tom Cunanan of Bad Saint.
Wolf could not immediately be reached for comment Monday night.
A partner in Foreman Wolf Restaurant Group, Wolf has been a frequent semifinalist for James Beard Awards during the last decade; in addition to this year’s nomination, she’s also been named a finalist in 2006, 2008, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Wolf has described herself as the Susan Lucci of the James Beard Awards. Lucci, who starred on the show “All My Children,” was nominated for a Day
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If you're traveling to Puebla, Mexico, past visitors recommend staying at Hotel Cartesiano. Overall, recent lodgers were impressed with
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the hotel, especially its picturesque location, attentive staff and stylish yet cozy rooms. The property sits in historic Puebla, surrounding guests with eye-catching period architecture and putting them within walking distance of top attractions like the city's Zócalo. You can also enjoy Puebla from the comfort of your room's private balcony. Other standard room amenities include 55-inch flat-screen TVs, Nespresso coffee makers and bathrooms with rain showers. Should you desire a more unique experience, consider upgrading to a suite, where you'll find natural stone and exposed-brick walls. When it's time to grab a bite to eat, previous guests suggest you savor the delectable food at the hotel's cafe and Centena Cuatro, where every dining table offers views of the city's cathedral and mountains. Additional property facilities range from a fitness center to a spa to a rooftop pool (a traveler favorite). Since this hotel is part of the Leading Hotels of the World
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Watch as the Metro Maple Leafs receive a personal message from @smithpelly23 and @JohnCarlson74 inviting them to Monday's game.
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A minor hockey team that stood up for one of its players after he was the subject of racist taunts got a surprise from the Washington Capitals on Wednesday.
The Capitals sent the Metro Maple Leafs a video of forward Devante Smith-Pelly and defenseman John Carlson inviting them to Washington's game against the St. Louis Blues on Jan. 14.
Divyne Apollon II, a 13-year-old blue-liner on the 14-and-under club based in Odenton, Md., was subjected to taunts from an opposing team at a tournament in December, according to NHL.com's Tom Gulitti.
His teammates fought the opponents at the end of the game in response to the taunts. After Apollon was suspended for the rest of the tournament for his part in the melee, the team placed logos on their sticks with the word "Racism" crossed out by a hockey stick.
Smith-Pelly, who is black,
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DENVER — A judge is being asked to appoint a specialist to help ensure that the state hospital at Pueblo comes into compliance by promptly determining
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whether a backlog of criminal defendants are mentally competent to stand trial.
The request is the latest development in a lawsuit against the hospital because it and its parent agency are not promptly determining whether hundreds of pre-trial detainees lingering in county jails are competent to have their day in court.
The request was made Thursday in Denver to Magistrate Judge Nina Y. Wang of the U.S. District Court for Colorado.
It was made by Disability Law Colorado, an office that advocates for disabled persons in Colorado, including the detainees who are in jails all over the state. They are there because judges think they may not be competent.
State mental health staff have to tell judges whether those defendants are competent. Until that happens, judges can't move the cases forward for juries to determine if the defendants are guilty.
The current lawsuit — which has been ongoing since 2011 — was filed by Disability Law Colorado. It claims that the hospital and its parent agency are violating the constitutional rights of the detainees by
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It's hard to believe that ten years ago, Taylor Swift was preparing to tour in support of her second studio album Fearless while Adele had
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just won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. As for Beyoncé, she was still releasing tracks from her third studio album I Am… Sasha Fierce.
Flash forward to today and Swift is now the biggest pop star on the planet, having released six studio albums and racking up two Album of the Year awards in the process. Adele is one of the best-selling artists of all time and Beyoncé is, well, Beyoncé.
Oh, how things have changed!
Even the 2009 Grammys award ceremony now seems worlds away.
Lady Gaga had just received her first nomination for her chart-topping single "Just Dance" whileLil Wayne still dominated the rap categories.
Miley Cyrus teamed up with a surprise star for a country duet while the world had not yet been graced with the presence of Pharrell Williams' now infamous Arby's hat.
Needless to say, it was a much simpler time.
In anticipation for this Sunday
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This information is also available as a PDF download.Since I've been doing a lot of coverage of storage technology both for the enterprise and for the
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home lately, I thought I should give an explanation of what RAID storage is.
This information is also available as a PDF download.
Since I've been doing a lot of coverage of storage technology both for the enterprise and for the home lately, I thought I should give an explanation of what RAID storage is. I won't go in to every RAID type under the sun, I just want to cover the basic types of RAID and what the benefits and tradeoffs are.
RAID was originally defined as Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives, but RAID setups were traditionally very expensive so the definition of "I" became Independent. The costs have recently come down significantly because of commoditization and RAID features are now embedded on to most higher-end motherboards. Storage RAIDs were primarily designed to improve fault tolerance, offer better performance, and easier storage management because it presents multiple hard drives as a single storage volume which simplifies storage management. Before we start talking about the different RAID
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Sept. 27, 2010, 1:30 p.m.
Block by Block: Once you’ve launched, what’s
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Phase 2 of a community news startup?
By Megan Garber @megangarber Sept. 27, 2010, 1:30 p.m.
Jay Rosen called it “entrepreneur atomization overcome.” And, for an event that put nearly 100 formerly disconnected community news publishers together in one place, it’s an apt description. When those publishers got together in Chicago on Friday to share their experiences in publishing — to talk, in particular, about on-the-ground matters like audience engagement, advertising strategies, and, of course, revenue generation — there was a prevailing sentiment: Why didn’t we do this earlier?
The Block by Block Community News Summit, principally organized by the Reynolds Journalism Institute‘s Michele McLellan (a former Nieman Fellow), was thankfully well-recorded, through means both ephemeral (its Twitter hashtag), slightly less so (its CoverItLive’d live blog), and much less so (
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It’s topped the best-sellers list for months on end, but Michelle Obama Michelle LeVaughn Robinson ObamaThe Hill's
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Morning Report — Category 5 Mueller storm to hit today Warren praises Ocasio-Cortez in Time 100 Beyoncé in 'Time 100' profile: Michelle Obama empowers black Americans MORE says there’s at least one person who hasn’t yet read her memoir "Becoming": Sasha Obama.
“Sasha still hasn’t read it,” the former first lady said of her 17-year-old daughter during a chat with BookTube posted Tuesday.
“It’s like, ‘I’m getting to it, Mom!’ ” Michelle Obama quoted, making an exasperated facial expression into the camera. “ 'I’m a senior,' ” she continued, impersonating her younger daughter.
“Well, you know, that would be Sasha,” Obama quipped.
"Becoming" was declared the best-selling hardcover book of 2018 shortly after its November release
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Barry "Butch" Wilmore, commander of the International Space Station, sends a Thanksgiving message to Earth. This image is a still from
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a NASA video published on Nov. 24, 2014.
This Thursday (Nov. 27) will be full of feast, family and friends as people celebrate Thanksgiving — both on Earth and on the International Space Station (ISS).
The orbiting lab's American astronauts — commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore and flight engineer Terry Virts — and Italian-born flight engineer Samantha Cristoforetti will take Thursday off from their normal duties to celebrate the holiday. Orbiting about 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the Earth, Wilmore took a moment to send a Thanksgiving greeting for everyone on the ground.
"I can hang from the ceiling like a bat," he said, floating with his feet straight above his head. "And I'm grateful for these kinds of things that you dream about. Literally dream about. … To have the opportunity to take part and share in it is special and amazing. And I'm thankful for that."
Wilmore, Virts and Cristoforetti were
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Digits.io, the first blockchain technology offering the
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ability for any credit or debit card to be used as a cryptocurrency card, announced today that it has launched is core technology.
Digits hopes to bridge the gap between the complexity of crypto currencies and simple spending on Credit Cards by creating a bridge between the two. The Digits technology allows any credit or debit card to be turned into a crypto card when consumers are using their card at merchants that have signed up to the Digits platform.
Along with releasing their product, which can be accessed at digits.io they have also released their API which allows any merchant to integrate into the digits platform. Digits will also be building "plug ins" for popular ecommerce platforms like BigCommerce.
Despite the challenging market conditions in Crypto and Blockchain products over the last year, Digits has continued to develop their products and services and todays release is a testament to the continuing power of the technology.
About Digits:Digits aim is to make it so that people can make purchases using cryptocurrency
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AUSTIN, Texas (CN) — The Texas Supreme Court unanimously upheld the dismissal of a University of Texas regent’s lawsuit over
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access to student admissions records, finding the UT chancellor had authority to redact the records based on federal privacy law.
Wallace L. Hall Jr., in his capacity as a University of Texas System regent, originally sued UT Chancellor William H. McRaven in Travis County Court in June 2015 seeking access to the disputed records.
Justice John P. Devine, who delivered the Jan. 27 opinion, stressed that the ruling only dealt with whether Hall could overcome the chancellor’s sovereign immunity to proceed in his lawsuit— and Texas’ high court ruled he could not.
As such, the ruling does not answer important questions that arose from the case, Devine said. For example, does a university regent have an inherent right for access to information? And, can an institution invoke federal privacy law to redact information and limit a regent’s quest for complete access?
The dispute started in 2013 after Hall raised concerns about possible improprieties in the admissions process
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Apple's 30. Isn't it time it grew up and got itself a proper job?
On Apple's birthday it is tempting to cast a
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retrospective eye over the company's successful and not so successful products and strategies of the past 30 years. But as the company approaches middle age and the inevitable launch of the iHarley, perhaps it would be more fruitful to look to the future and start taking the workplace more seriously.
Apple's greatest strength has always been the desktop — this is the metaphor it has lived by for most of the past 30 years, and it is the place that the company understands better than any other. Steve Jobs knows, perhaps better than any other tech chief executive, what people want. For the most part that is a seamless, easy experience, and it applies to music players as much as to computers, which is why the iPod has been such a success.
So why are Macs still such a rare site in the enterprise? The reasons may seem obvious — cost, relatively low availability of applications, Apple not caring to compete with the cut-price merchants — but they are increasingly bogus.
Macs are
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Human rights conditions in Iraq deteriorated in 2014. Suicide attacks, car bombs, and assassinations became more frequent and lethal, killing more than 12,
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000 people and injuring more than 22,000 between January and December. Government forces’ attacks on largely peaceful demonstrations on December 20, 2013, helped trigger a renewal of armed conflict in Anbar province between local residents, Iraqi security forces, and multiple armed groups. The fighting, which has included indiscriminate attacks by government forces on civilian areas, displaced close to 500,000 people from and within Anbar province between January and September and killed an unknown number of civilians.
The conflict spread north after the extremist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, took over Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, on June 10. The group has committed numerous atrocities in Iraq, including ongoing car bombings and suicide attacks in civilian areas; summary executions; torture in detention; discrimination against women; forced marriage; sexual assault and slavery of some Yezidi women and girls; destruction of religious property; and killings and kidnappings of members of religious and ethnic minorities –Shia and Yezidis—in
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It's a well-known fact that some of our favourite seafoods come with an unsavoury dose of heavy metals like mercury. But there
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's another group of chemicals that sometimes lace our tuna steaks, and the latest findings on them are anything but appetising. They're called persistent organic pollutants (POPs), and they do a bang-up job obstructing the human body's chemical defence system. That's according to an analysis published today in Science Advances, examining how ten POPs found in both tuna and human bodily fluids interact with a gatekeeper protein that shuttles unwanted toxins out of our cells. The findings suggest that ingesting even very small quantities of POPs can do bodily harm.
"These chemicals interfere with our chemical defence system's ability to operate, which can make us more vulnerable to drugs and other toxins," Amro Hamdoun, a biologist at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and lead author on the study, told Gizmodo.
POPs have been around for a long, long time. One of the most infamous, the pesticide DDT, was developed during
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THE US city where an Aussie bride-to-be was shot dead by a cop has been described as a “police state”
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run by “out-of-control officers”.
THE mid-western US city where an Australian bride-to-be was mysteriously shot dead by a cop is a “police state” run by “out-of-control officers”, according to a community activist.
Shock has turned to anger in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after Sydney woman Justine Damond, 40, was inexplicably shot “multiple times” by police officer Mohamed Noor.
Ms Damond, a yoga teacher, had heard a noise in the back alley near her home in the Fulton neighbourhood on Saturday night and called the police suspecting someone was being sexually assaulted.
When a police vehicle arrived about 11.30pm, she talked to the officers through the car door. Mr Noor was seated in the passenger’s seat and shot across his colleague multiple times, killing Ms Damond. She was wearing her pyjamas at the time.
Why the
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Video footage has shown masked men firing shots during the funeral of a West Belfast republican.
Police have launched an investigation after a video of the incident
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emerged on social media.
Barry McMullan, who is understood to have been a senior figure in the Irish republican Socialist Party (IRSP) – the political wing of the INLA – was buried in Belfast on Monday.
A video of the funeral appeared on Belfast IRSP Facebook page on Tuesday, showing mourners and a republican band gathered outside his west Belfast home, where the coffin was put on display in the street.
It was draped with a Starry Plough flag and a number of men wearing paramilitary style uniforms could be seen at the funeral.
As the funeral cortege made its way along Whiterock Road towards Milltown Cemetery, the video captures two masked men dressed in black paramilitary garb with dark sunglasses and berets, firing off a volley of handgun shots into the air.
Two young children dressed in their school uniforms were standing next to the masked gunmen when the shots rang out. It is not clear if the bullets were live rounds or blanks
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LEEDS UNITED hope to secure the signing of Tyler Roberts from West Brom.
The Championship outfit are in advanced talks over a deal for the
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19-year-old striker, according to the Yorkshire Evening Post.
An initial fee worth £2.5million - which could rise to £4m - is set to be agreed between the two clubs.
Roberts is expected to undergo a medical and put pen to paper before tomorrow’s 11pm deadline.
The Wales Under-21 international’s contract with West Brom expires at the end of the season and a host of European clubs were interested in negotiating a pre-contract deal.
Scottish giants Rangers have also been sniffing around.
Roberts spent the first half of the season on loan in League One with Walsall and scored five goals in 19 appearances.
Leeds have been hunting for a striker but were not expected to succeed in bolstering their attacking options.
However, West Brom’s capture of Daniel Sturridge from Liverpool has resulted in the Baggies allowing Roberts to leave.
Roberts might not be the only player to join Leeds on
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Your theories on why America is getting fatter.
Last month in this space I asked Slate readers to help me understand what’s going
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on with obesity—specifically, the explosive growth in obesity over the past 10 years. I’m still digging out from under the excessive weight of the e-mail deluge (several thousand), but here’s my preliminary report.
The least helpful contributions are the ones that explain, often in painstaking detail, that obesity is caused by some combination of eating too much and exercising too little. Well, duh. The question is why eating and exercise habits have changed so dramatically at this particular time.
The angriest e-mail comes from readers who believe they’ve been duped into eating too many carbohydrates and not enough fat. The Agriculture Department’s ubiquitous “food pyramid” recommends six to 11 servings a day of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta—a diet certain, in the minds of my irate correspondents, to trigger insulin reactions that prevent you from burning calories and/or cause you to crave between-meal snacks
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The National Australia Bank (NAB) has warned customers about an email scam which claims that access to their accounts is restricted.
The email advises
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them to place a call to the bank in order to have their access restored. However, victims are redirected to speak with a fraudster who will seek access to their personal and financial information.
An NAB spokesperson said that domestic and overseas criminals attempt different methods for defrauding financial institutions and their customers.
"NAB advises all of our customers to be aware of the practical steps they can take for their personal and business security,” he said.
The spokesperson added that a bank will never ask for account details via email.
He advised customers to report scams to spoof@nab.com.au, phone NAB's fraud assist line on 1300 622 372 or visit their local branch.
In August, ANZ Banking Group customers were also targeted with a similar email scam which claimed access to their account had been restricted.
The emails, which were referred to as 'callware' by Kaspersky Lab researchers, asked recipients to call a Sydney-based phone
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Author gives an insight into what it costs US taxpayers to build and support the American global military presence.
"Are you monitoring the construction?" asked
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the middle-aged man on a bike accompanied by his dog.
"Ah, si," I replied in my barely passable Italian.
In front of us, a backhoe's guttural engine whined into action and empty dump trucks rattled along a dirt track. The shouts of men vied for attention with the metallic whirring of drills and saws ringing in the distance. Nineteen immense cranes spread across the landscape, with the foothills of Italy's Southern Alps in the background. More than 100 pieces of earthmoving equipment, 250 workers and grids of scaffolding wrapped around what soon would be 34 new buildings.
We were standing in front of a massive 145-acre construction site for a "little America" rising in Vicenza, an architecturally renowned Italian city and UNESCO world heritage site near Venice. This was Dal Molin, the new military base the US Army has been readying for the relocation of as many as 2,000 soldiers from Germany in 2013
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Crises that seemed contained not long ago have now spiraled out of control—and the prospects for resolving them peacefully look depressingly bleak.
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Neoconservatives in Washington are ready to spark America’s next military disaster—one that may well be worse than the Iraq War.
Two private intelligence companies hack political enemies in Africa, Europe, the Mideast, and the United States, for a price.
The Trump-Putin Summit: From Rivals to Confederates?
We may be seeing the centralization of world power in the hands of two nuclear-armed megalomaniacs.
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies helped kill the nuke deal, but it’s not satisfied—it wants harsh new sanctions against any country doing business with Iran.
Big funders neglect peace groups while Trump threatens war.
His hopes for a “better deal” are based on the myth—partly encouraged by Obama—that sanctions forced Iran to come to terms in 2015.
Trump has undermined the reliability of multilateral diplomacy, compromised peaceful dispute resolution, and eroded the authority of international law
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UPDATE Oct. 10: CBS has given “Ransom” a second season. The original post is below.
Neither move is any
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kind of surprise, as the two series were the lowest-rated shows on the network this season.
“Training Day,” a series-ification of the 2001 movie that won Denzel Washington an Oscar, debuted on Thursdays in February to modest ratings, averaging a 0.75 among adults 18-49 over six episodes there. CBS then shunted it to Saturdays to play out the remainder of the season. Its 18-49 average for the season as a whole is o.6, along with 3.47 million viewers, on the night it airs.
Star Bill Paxton died in late February, midway through the season (although after production had finished).
“Ransom” was a low-risk play for CBS on Saturday nights, as it was financed mostly by international partners. Had it brought in better ratings than the “Crimetime Saturday” reruns the network usually airs on the night, it could have been a win-win.
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Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) may be back in the minority, but that also means he’s back to the role of professional
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gadfly. He kicked off the 112th Congress on Monday with a request to new Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (R-Mich.) to investigate whether a well-known climate skeptic lied to Congress on his CV.
The skeptic in question is Pat Michaels, a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute. Michaels, unlike many of the kooky climate contrarians that Republicans often dig up to, actually has some bona fides. He has a PhD in ecological climatology and is a senior fellow in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. And unlike some of his fellow skeptics, Michaels will acknowledge that the earth is warming—he just doesn’t think it’s that big of a deal, nor will he agree that human activity is the major contributing factor.
But Michaels is loathe to admit how much of his income over the years has come from fossil fuel interests, despite evidence that he’s taken quite a bit of it. In
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We could be shivering through the night on what will be the coldest of the autumn so far tonight, with health experts warning the weather could
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be fatal.
The North East awoke to frozen cars and icy conditions this morning, and despite a dry and sunny day ahead, this evening is expected to get very chilly indeed.
Public Health England is urging people to prepare for the cold snap, warning that it can have serious health implications.
Meteorologist Mark Wilson said while it is unlikely overnight temperatures for the entire UK will drop lower than the coldest of the season so far - which was -12C in parts of Scotland last week - Britain could get its coldest night of autumn on tonight with temperatures in some areas forecast to get as low as -8C.
The North East looks to escape the worst of the cold weather, which will mainly hit southern regions. The minimum temperature for the North East predicted by the Met Office for tonight is -1C.
"For the bulk of the country, it's going to be a cold day. Across much of the southern parts of the country we're expecting harsher frost."
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Kaepernick, a former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, began his silent protest in 2016 by remaining seated during the national anthem.
He
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said: "When I walked into the team room this morning, there were some people who were fuming".
The advert, titled "Dream Crazy", has Kaepernick narrating over images and footage of various athletes with inspirational stories, including National Basketball Association icon LeBron James, tennis star Serena Williams and Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge.
Some NFL players are supporting Nike's ad, saying Kaepernick sacrificed his life's work and football because of his ideology.
(AAP)LeBron James has said that he stands for 'anybody who believes in change'.
Shortly after Nike announced Colin Kaepernick would be featured in their new "Just Do It" campaign, causing a firestorm on social media, we are getting our first look at the 2 minute commercial. He implores the listener: "Don't ask if your dreams are insane, ask if they're insane enough". "Ask if they're insane enough", James replied with the sportswear giants' motto: "#JustDo
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Maria Butina, accused in the United States of spying for Russia, had wider high-level contacts in Washington than previously known, taking part in
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2015 meetings between a visiting Russian official and two senior U.S. officials.
The meetings, disclosed by several people familiar with the sessions and a report prepared by a Washington think tank that arranged them, involved Stanley Fischer, then Federal Reserve vice chairman, and Nathan Sheets, then Treasury undersecretary for international affairs.
Butina traveled to the United States in April 2015 with Alexander Torshin, then the Russian Central Bank deputy governor, and they took part in separate meetings with Fischer and Sheets to discuss U.S.-Russian economic relations during Democratic former President Barack Obama’s administration.
The two meetings, which have not been previously reported, reveal a wider circle of high-powered connections that Butina sought with American political leaders and special interest groups.
The think tank, Center for the National Interest, had urged Donald Trump to improve US-Russian relations and to retreat from “Eurasian conflicts” in December 2016. In a report on its earlier activities
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After winning the day's two biggest prizes in the Republican race for president, Donald Trump was in the mood to celebrate.
JUPITER
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, Fla. (AP) — After winning the day's two biggest prizes in the Republican race for president, Donald Trump was in the mood to celebrate.
No, not his wins in Michigan and Mississippi. The front-runner for the GOP nomination wanted to celebrate his skill selling things to eat and drink, among other things, defending business ventures that have increasingly come under attack in ads and in debates.
Before Trump's arrival at a news conference at his golf course in Jupiter, Florida, club staff set up displays of Trump-branded products on either side of his podium. There were bottles of Trump red, white and rose wine, cases of Trump water and two butcher blocks heaping with stacks of giant, well-marbled "Trump Steaks."
And it wasn't long after Trump started that he moved past Tuesday night's election results and began to focus on the foodstuffs on display.
"I brought some things up because, he said, 'Water company is gone.'
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Update at 10:25 p.m. — Arlington County government will be closed Monday. As a result, there will be no curbside
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trash pickup Monday; service will resume when the county government reopens. Arlington snow crews are also reverting back to “Phase 2” of the county’s snow plan, meaning plows will stop treating neighborhood streets and will resume treating primary and secondary arterial streets only.
The extra burst of snow Sunday evening has caused problems at local airports. There are reports of extensive delays, extended waits on the tarmac and frustrated passengers at Reagan National Airport.
Another impact of the extra burst of snow Sunday evening: Arlington Transit Service.
Update at 9:45 p.m. — The federal government — the parts of it that are not furloughed, at least — is closed Monday, according to the Office of Personnel Management. Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall is also closed. Among other closures, earlier today Arlington Public Schools announced that Monday will be a snow day, with all classes and activities cancelled.
Earlier: This weekend’s snowstorm
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Beginning at noon, a full four-lane reversal on I-26 in Charleston will begin at the interchange of I-26 and I-526
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. The full reversal continues west until the I-26 crossover to I-77 just outside Columbia in Lexington County.
This is the third year in a row S.C. highways will be reversed because of storm evacuations.
To help the massive migration, the S.C. Department of Public Safety and the S.C. Department of Transportation will “reverse the direction of traffic along certain evacuation routes to ease the flow of traffic away from the coast,” the governor’s office said in a statement.
For drivers heading from Charleston to Columbia, I-26 will have a full four-lane reversal. The SCDOT reported it will begin at the interchange of I-526 and I-26, with other entry points for those leaving Charleston.
“Once motorists get to Columbia area, we’re going to return the reverse traffic back to the normal configuration just before Interstate 77,” said Rob Perry, SCDOT director of traffic engineering
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Utah’s GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz, retiring from Congress on June 30, will become a contributor to Fox News Channel and Fox Business
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Network on July 1, the network announced today, confirming one of the worst kept secrets in recent TV-news history.
Chaffetz had represented Utah’s Third Congressional District since November of 2008.
During his time as congressman, he served as the Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, was a member of the House Judiciary Committee. He also served on the Homeland Security Committee.
Additionally, Mr. Chaffetz had an integral role in many government investigations, including the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal, the Benghazi terrorist attack, the IRS targeting scandal and the Secret Service investigation. Prior to running for Congress in 2008, Mr. Chaffetz worked as campaign manager and chief of staff to former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. (R).
Before his political career, Mr. Chaffetz worked in the local business community for 16 years, specializing in corporate communications work and later owning his own communications firm, Maxtera Utah Inc. He attended Brigham Young University, where he
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Locally driven businesses do have control over their online reputations. Find out how you can start managing yours today.
More than 80 percent of
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us have searched online for businesses in our area and researched product information on the Web before buying locally. Twice as many of us use search engines as printed yellow pages when looking for local business information — and yet only 44 percent of local businesses have a website, according to a 2009 research brief from the Center for Media Research.
If you’re a locally driven business of any kind, creating a Web presence can help you connect with more of your customers and get a leg up on the competition. And it’s easier than you think.
- A home page, with text in the title of the page and in the content that includes your business name, your location, and what your business does.
- An “about” page that offers details such as hours, directions, address and phone number.
Make sure you include your city and state as part of your address. When potential customers search for businesses like yours, search engines will display Web pages from businesses that they
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Tom Bonner is leaving Ebbsfleet United to rejoin their local rivals Dartford.
The centre-half captained Fleet last season but
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will leave the club when his contract expires at the end of June.
Bonner, 28, becomes Dartford's first signing of the summer.
Dartford manager Tony Burman said: "I am delighted to have Tom back on board for next season.
"He will be a excellent addition to the squad and he has now gained a lot more experience from his time at Cambridge, Dover and Ebbsfleet since leaving us three seasons ago.
"Tom is a good defender and has the hunger to succeed, and I have no doubt that Tom will help the club achieve their targets over the next couple of seasons."
Bonner was a fans favourite during his first spell with the Darts but left in May 2013 alongside team-mate Tom Champion to pursue a full-time career with Cambridge United.
He suffered with injuries during his time with the U's and was loaned out to Dover at the start of the 2014/15 season.
Bonner was part of the
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1994 - Religious artwork decorates a motorcycle at the Blessing of the Bikes at St Patrick's Church, 12305 Arcola Road.
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1997 - A Suger Daddy Petunia is one of the varieties featured in the new show at the Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory.
1998 - Blackhawk Christian junior Mike Zick crosses Maplecrest Road with only a fraction of the trash he and other students removed from a drainage ditch.
1999 - Sole-o: Karen Gerken is the only member of the Fort Wayne Track Club to run in Monday's Boston Marathon.
2001 - Greg Maxwell, of Maxwell Landscape Contractors, smooths out the final petal of a giant 12-foot pink water lily in the new "Donor Garden", near the entrance to the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo. It's one of the new items for this coming season.
2001 - Area residents line-up at the Main post office to drop off mail and tax returns early Monday morning about 7:30.
2004 - University of St. Francis students (from left) Sarah Boling, Melissa Bre
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As court weighs efficacy of antitrust settlement, Microsoft is trumpeting its compliance efforts.
A federal court is still weighing the efficacy of a proposed antitrust
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settlement signed between Microsoft Corp. and the Department of Justice in November, but the Redmond, Wash., software maker nonetheless must meet several deadlines under the deal this month. As the same court considers whether stricter antitrust penalties are necessary, Microsoft is trumpeting the steps it is already taking to remedy its illegal conduct.
The settlement inked with the Justice Department and nine states is considerably more lenient than an alternative remedy proposal sought by nine other states. Both proposals address the need for Microsoft to disclose more technical information, give developers a way to remove access to the companys middleware and provide greater flexibility to OEMs, but the proposals differ dramatically in the degree to which Microsoft must pursue those goals.
Tomorrow, under the terms of the settlement proposal, Microsoft will launch a program to license 113 communications protocols for other vendors to use to interoperate with Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP and future versions of Windows. The licensing program, which the company described as novel, is based on 12 tasks that reflect how
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Lancaster maintained the pressure on leaders Longridge on Saturday in the Moore and Smalley Palace Shield Premier Division.
Brendan Hether
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ington’s men retained their position in second spot in the table after crushing Thornton Cleveleys at Illawalla.
Lancaster posted a huge 293-8 after winning the toss and electing to bat and that proved to be a daunting target for the home side, who folded to 86-9 off 21 overs.
The visitors did not get off to the best of starts as both openers departed for low scores. Joseph Hills struck 10 before he was snaffled by Sam Robinson off the bowling of Jordan Beech, while the same bowler also accounted for Laurie Atkinson (9) – caught by Jack Northrop.
Ben Simm did not last long before he offered a catch to Joshua Sackfield off the bowling of Greg Tirrell for five.
However, Charlie Swarbrick then took charge as he took the game away from the home side with a superlative knock.
He struck a brilliant 80 off just 56 balls – a knock which included 12 boundaries
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EDITORIAL: Brace yourselves, South Carolina. Things could get ugly as candidates in key races head to runoffs.
McMaster,
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who skipped several debates leading up to the primary, shouldn't assume he is a shoo-in against a well-financed Warren.
In the end, having the backing of President Donald Trump wasn't enough to save incumbent Gov. Henry McMaster from a runoff in two weeks.
Greenville businessman John Warren's outsider status – he's never held public office – earned him Betsy Baumgardner's vote Tuesday. Voters like Baumgardner propelled Warren into a runoff with McMaster, the top vote-getter by a large margin.
Baumgardner said she was looking for someone "new and different."
"I'm just tired of the old guard in Columbia," she said. "Columbia's gone bad and I want to make a change."
The crowded Republican primary field made it difficult for McMaster to win outright, a fact that worked to Warren's advantage. A late push of campaign ads might have helped Warren edge out third-place finisher Catherine Templeton
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Attic Labs, the creator of Noms, an open-source decentralized database, announced today that is being acquired by Salesforce. Terms of
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the deal, Salesforce’s first acquisition of 2018, were undisclosed. Last year, the company only bought digital creative agency Sequence, according to Crunchbase, taking a break from an acquisition spree in 2016 when it snapped up more than a dozen companies.
Noms was launched in August 2016, at the same time Attic Labs announced it had raised an $8.1 million Series A round led by Greylock. Founders Aaron Boodman and Rafael Weinstein, along with many other members of Attic Labs’ team, previously worked on Google Chrome. Boodman also created Greasemonkey.
Like Git, Noms lets users replicated data and edit it offline on multiple machines, then syncs up the edits. It also emphasizes versioning so edits don’t destroy previous versions of data, making it easier to retrieve if necessary. Unlike Git, however, Noms is written to store structured data instead of text files and support very large data sets. In
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Zardari: "Accusations... only complicate the already complex situation"
(CNN) -- Pakistan's president Tuesday pointed to a weekend
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raid in Kashmir as proof of his government's commitment against terrorism, urging India to "pause and take a breath" before blaming Pakistan for the November massacre in Mumbai.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari addressed India in an opinion piece in The New York Times.
In a sometimes deeply personal opinion piece in The New York Times, President Asif Ali Zardari wrote that his government, which took office earlier this year, was also the target of Islamic extremists -- "and we continue to be their victims."
But Sunday's raid on a camp used by the group India blames for the Mumbai attacks shows Pakistan is willing to crack down on "non-state actors" operating on its territory, he wrote.
"We understand the domestic political considerations in India in the aftermath of Mumbai," he wrote. "Nevertheless, accusations of complicity on Pakistan's part only complicate the already complex situation."
Pakistani security forces raided a camp near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani
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My 401(k) stinks. What are my options?
Q. I don't like the choices in my 401(k) and
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the expenses are high. I know I can do an IRA, but then I can't save as much. How else can I save the same as in the 401(k) in a tax-deferred investment with lower expenses?
A. Although you may not be very excited about the choices and fees in your 401(k) plan, it is hard to beat the tax advantages of 401(k) contributions - getting a deduction against current income and tax-free growth.
Don't just abandon your plan.
You should at least take advantage of any matching funds offered by your employer, said Chip Wieczorek, a certified financial planner and investment advisor with Tradition Capital Management in Summit.
After that, he said, you can use other vehicles to supplement your 401(k) contribution.
Wieczorek said a healthcare savings account (HSA) one way to save funds for retirement - if you qualify.
"An HSA is a tax-
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PUCGTT: Commissioners and other members of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) at centre along with the representatives of GTT on the left
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and representatives of the Guyana Consumers Association at right.
Seeking to justify its application to increase wireline access and landline metered charges for intra-network calls, the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) has told the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) that it is necessary for the liberalisation of the telecoms sector.
However, its application is being opposed by a local consumers group over the company’s failure to fulfil its contractual obligations.
Speaking at a hearing on Wednesday at Duke Lodge, Mark Reynolds, head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at GTT, explained that the present application seeks to address the gap that exists between the cost of the provision of service for landline or copper residential access and the current tariff.
Reynolds said that a balance in tariff would improve the telecommunications sector, which would encourage service providers to invest in technology. “The act of moving towards more balanced tariffs is known as rebalancing in the telecommunications industry. It
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Andrew Ferguson resigned from the role of CFO at Ruralco Holdings Limited on 30 July.
Having been in the CFO role for more than
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eight years, Ferguson worked for NRMA Tourism and Leisure and Jetset Travelworld Group before joining Ruralco Holdings Limited in April 2012.
The resignation follows on from Ruralco’s offer to acquire Elders Rural Services which was rejected in June by the Elders Board.
“The Elders Board has rejected a bid for its Rural Services business, while it has entered into final negotiations for the sale of Futuris Automotive (Futuris),” Elders said in a statement in June.
In July, Ruralco entered into a 50:50 joint venture with global agribusiness CHS to help operate and grow its grain marketing business Agfarm.
Ruralco’s managing director, John Maher, thanked Ferguson for his service of 16 months as CFO.
The company is currently working with Hattonneale to search for a new CFO and has appointed someone internally to act in the role during the interim.
C
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New Delhi: It is a common feature with almost all aircraft nowadays to have onboard transponders, which connect to secondary ground-based rad
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ars spread along the flight paths to help track movement of airplanes, and also serve as a vital communication link between the crew and the ground stations.
But imagine a situation when a hijacker switches off this transponder to take full control of the aircraft! Can it still be located?
The answer is ‘yes´, with the help of primary radars that monitor the movement of planes continuously. There are alternative means of communication, too, through which a pilot can send an SOS meassage.
In its efforts to enhance primary radar coverage across the country and to meet challenges like ever-growing air traffic, Airports Authority of India is putting in place a series of radars and other high-tech equipment not only to address the security concerns but also to beef up communication, navigation and collision avoidance network.
Concerned over the growing density of air traffic over major metros like Delhi and Mumbai, AAI is also ‘sectorising´ airspaces over busy airports
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"60 Minutes" has been investigating the widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs by Russian athletes, including some who won gold medals at the Sochi
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Winter Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee said Thursday it's considering retesting blood and urine samples from the now-tainted Russian lab at the 2014 Winter Games. But based upon what CBS News has learned from the lab's former director, any positive drug tests disappeared a long time ago.
Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov shared details of a systematic cover-up in Sochi during Skype conversations with Vitaly Stepanov, a former Russian anti-doping official turned key whistleblower.
Stepanov allowed "60 Minutes" to listen to 15 hours of conversations he secretly recorded with Rodchenkov.
"He had the ability to help to get the necessary results," Stepanov told CBS News -- referring to gold medals.
In the recordings, Rodchenkov named Russian gold medalists in three sports -- bobsled, skeleton and cross country skiing -- whose dirty drugs tests he helped cover up.
It was all part, he said, of an elaborate scheme to protect
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REASEHEATH College floristry students proved they’ve got the X Factor after sweeping the board at a regional contest.
The
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first three places in the intermediate section of the WorldSkills UK regional heat went to students who are studying for their Level 3 Diploma in Floristry at the college.
The competition, hosted by Reaseheath, attracted competitors from other colleges and from within the industry.
It was the first of a series of regional competitions organised by the British Floristry Association (BFA) to find the UK’s best young florists.
The highest scoring competitors across all heats are invited to a UK final at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park in July.
The highest placed there will be considered for the GB squad at the WorldSkills competition in Leipzig in 2013. WorldSkills is the largest vocational skills competition in the world and has 50 member nations.
For the competition, students had to create a dinner table design for a stylish after-show party. The designs were judged by a national panel of judges from the Floristry Judges'
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If you don't have a bench, perform flyes on a stability ball.
4 What Is a Dumbbell Skull Crusher?
If you
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're looking for a versatile exercise that can target different areas of your chest, consider a wing exercise, better known as the fly. Flyes are isolation exercises, but you can shift the targeted area by doing dumbbell flyes on a bench. Use an incline bench to focus on the upper part of your pectoralis major, a flat bench to hit your middle pecs or a decline bench to emphasize your lower pecs. The basic arm movements remain pretty much the same, no matter which type of bench you use.
Warm up before attempting dumbbell flyes with five to 10 minutes of light cardio activity, such as jumping rope. Ease into your workout by performing a warm-up set of flyes using approximately 50 percent of your standard weight.
Lie face up on a bench with your feet flat on the floor. Maintain contact with the bench throughout the exercise.
Hold one dumbbell in each hand and extend your arms straight up so the weights are above
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Editor’s note: The Post Independent, in conjunction with Valley Life For All, continues a monthly series of profiles about people in our community
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who have different abilities. Twenty-seven percent of Americans experience some disability. One hundred percent are a part of our community. Each has a story.
She is the outreach coordinator for the Aspen Hope Center. She adopts older dogs to give them their best golden years. She finds her serenity in the outdoors. Christie has a diagnosis of bipolar 1, defined as manic highs and depression lows. She knows how to manage her illness and does not let it define her.
Her voice will change you.
Everyone goes through hard times and faces challenges. The more we share and talk about our struggles, the more we will change the perception of looking at our hardships as a weakness. I think this is especially true for mental health.
For years I hid my depression. I didn’t want people to know how I was really feeling. It began in high school, and I masked my feelings with drugs and alcohol. Suicidal thoughts became part of my norm. Eventually the
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — In the dozens of calls, hundreds of emails I’ve received since we launched
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“Medical Debt Rescue,” there is the one constant: desperation. The sound of helplessness in your voices has permeated my subconscious all week.
I wish we could help all of you. I wish that every person who’s drowning under a mountain of medical debt right now could be helped by this program we’ve started. But that sad reality is that with nearly one in four Americans struggling with medical bills right now, we are barely scratching the surface by paying off bills for a mere 600 of you.
If there is one thing I have learned this week it’s this, the current state of our nation’s healthcare system is as broken as some of the dozens of people who have called to talk this week.
There was James Glasscock who emailed on Tuesday. James nearly lost his sight a few years ago in an accident. He was hospitalized for a week and was eventually sent a bill for $398,999.98. How many
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NATICK - A Natick woman was arrested Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. on Pond Street, police said.
Mary M.
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Brewer, 46, of 1 Lincoln Circle, was charged with OUI and possession of an open container of liquor while driving, police said. Brewer was also cited for a marked lanes violation.
FRAMINGHAM - A Framingham man was arrested Tuesday at 11:30 p.m. after a domestic dispute, police said.
Wanderly G. DaSilva, 36, of 126 Beaver St., was charged with two counts of assault and battery, police said.
MARLBOROUGH - A Marlborough man was arrested Tuesday at about 11 p.m., police said.
Gary T. Graham, 55, of 898 Concord Road, had two Framingham District Court warrants, both charging him with assault and battery, violating an abuse prevention order and witness intimidation. He also had a Marlborough District Court warrants for assault and battery, witness intimidation and destruction of property worth less than $250; assault and battery, assault on ambulance personnel and resisting arrest; and
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