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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on August 09, 2018, on page 13.
Tiger Woods and
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Rory McIlroy, past major winners trying to rise once more from contenders to champions, tee off side by side when the 100th PGA Championship starts Thursday. Woods, eight months into a comeback from spinal fusion surgery, and McIlroy, seeking his first major win since the 2014 PGA, will be joined by defending champion Justin Thomas for the first two days over the 7,316-yard, par-70 Bellerive Country Club layout.
Woods, a 14-time major champion, has not won a major since the 2008 U.S. Open and hasn't won any event since the 2013 Bridgestone Invitational. But he fired his lowest final round in five years to take fourth in June at the PGA National and led in the British Open final round before sharing sixth at Carnoustie.
Fifth-ranked McIlroy has five top-10 showings in the past nine majors, sharing second at last month's British Open and fifth at the
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FORMER Energy minister Dzikamai Mavhaire yesterday distanced himself from the case in which the former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC
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) board chairperson Stanley Kazhanje is being accused of concealing his business interests in Intratrek Zimbabwe Company from his bosses when he was appointed to the board.
Intratrek is currently entangled in the botched Gwanda solar power plant with the State pressing charges of fraud after the company failed to set up the project.
Mavhaire, who was last week convicted by magistrate Hosea Mujaya for refusing to testify, told the court that when he recommended Kazhanje's appointment to the board, he had only seen his curriculum vitae.
Mavhaire told the court that the President's Office could have unearthed during vetting process that Kazhanje had interests in Intratrek before his appointment.
"Kazhanje had never disclosed to me that he had interests in Intratrek Zimbabwe. If he had declared, we could have not appointed him to the board since he had proved that he was conflicted," Mavhaire told the court.
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Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and South Korea's president in June.
The U.S
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. Treasury secretary has said he told U.S. lawmakers that President Donald Trump will keep strict sanctions on Oleg Deripaska, as congressional Democrats turned up pressure on the administration's policy toward the Kremlin-connected oligarch.
Steven Mnuchin released a statement on January 10, ahead of a classified briefing he was requested to give a key House of Representatives committee.
Congress has been reviewing an administration decision announced in December to lift sanctions against three companies that Deripaska controls: Rusal, EN+, and JSC EuroSibEnergo.
Early last year, the Trump administration indicated it was planning to sanction Rusal -- one of the world’s largest aluminum companies -- but that announcement roiled global markets, sending metal prices soaring.
The Treasury Department delayed imposing the sanctions several times, amid a reported lobbying campaign by Deripaska's companies.
In December, the administration notified Congress it would lift the sanctions. That triggered a clause in Congress that gives lawmakers 30
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So if the SNP were able to con the Scottish electorate into committing suicide then at the end of the day once the dust has settled from the resulting
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chaos of ripping the UK apart then England should start to reap the benefits of no longer having to subsidise Scotland in perpetuity. Though of course there will be a heavy cost to England of a breakup of the UK that could total as much as £120bn, especially as a bankrupt Scotland would be in no position to service its share of Britains £1.8 trillion national debt. So it could take more than a decade before England starts to turn a profit from the break up of the UK.
Whilst for Scotland, well the Scottish economy would have jumped over the edge of a cliff where the impact of the loss of the English subsidy would be felt near instantaneously. The Scottish economy would be in free fall, and it would not be too long before Scotland passes Greece on the way down as the loss of £12bn per annum would demand deep cuts in government spending that I am sure would result in the SNP permanently losing power in Holyrood for bringing about such a catastrophe
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Firms doing business abroad are being warned to consider buying currency in advance after the Indian rupee fell 20 per cent against sterling in six months,
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causing uncertainty for UK firms.
Currency exchange giant Western Union said it had seen a huge rise in British small businesses forward-buying rupees over the summer with a 90 per cent increase from May to June.
Western Union’s Kerry Agiasotis said: ‘The rupee has hit all-time lows against sterling. India is an important trade partner for the UK and it is vital firms use this opportunity to look at cashflow and maximise their purchasing power.
Rajan Jolly is operations manager at Naturetrek, a firm offering wildlife treks.
As growth stutters in emerging markets... Is now the time to pick up a bargain?
Set up in 1985, it employs 25 staff in Alresford, Hampshire, and 100 tour leaders in 85 countries.
Naturetrek has always paid for goods and services in US dollars, but two years ago their suppliers in India began quoting in rupees, with payment in US dollars.
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Based on Bradshaw’s out-of-left-field gasbagging about Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin on a recent episode of
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FS1’s “Speak for Yourself,” it seems that any clue Bradshaw might have had left him a long time ago — if he ever had one at all.
Bradshaw then had the audacity to add another “at all’’ for emphasis.
Fact: Not long after that highly educational TV program aired, the Steelers defeated the Ravens on Christmas to clinch their seventh playoff berth in the 10 seasons Tomlin has coached them.
Fact: The Steelers are 102-57 on Tomlin’s 10-year watch.
Fact: They have won five AFC North division titles, including two of the last three, two AFC Championships and one Super Bowl in that span.
Apparently Bradshaw does not deal in — or pay attention to — facts. Or maybe he really is as dumb as Henderson said he was and truly cannot read.
Predictably, Tomlin’s players came to his defense after Bradshaw’
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Lo-Fi (Low Fidelity) is at present incorrectly assumed to be a genre of music. During its inception lo-fi was more akin
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to a type of sound rather than a style of music. However, over the years, lo-fi has somewhat become a standard genre of music that is known to be popular amongst “bedroom musicians” or people producing music from their homes as opposed to studios.
Lo-fi was heavily criticised by both critics and the general audience when it first came onto the scene. The so-called “lo-fi aesthetic” would arise unintentionally during sound engineering and was characterised as being undesirable. Some of the first musicians to experiment with lo-fi did so somewhat by accident. The likes of Paul McCartney, The Beach Boys, Beck, and Robert Stevie Moore were among the first. Moore is today regarded as one of the pioneers of the genre.
Out of all the artists associated with lo-fi back then, only Moore was producing music in his home, which ultimately resulted in the overall aesthetic. While Moore's name isn't known as widely, his work has influenced Beck
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Beans, corn, and endless varities of root vegetable—is this the stuff of an obsession?
The land was inviting, but depending
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on its bounty could trouble your dreams.
This Christmas, my two sisters and my brother and I, along with our families, will head toward home, our real home, which is where our seventy-eight-year-old mother, Christy, lives, in western Kentucky. She’ll be ready for us with the usual Christmas feast, and what I’m looking forward to most is the green beans and sweet potatoes and creamed corn, the farm fare that once seemed so oppressively ordinary to me. When I was growing up on our fifty-three-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food. Food was the center of our lives. Everything we did, every day, revolved around it. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it—endlessly, day after day, season after season. This was life on a farm. I can appreciate the value of a country upbringing now, but when I
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Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean is leading a team of younger political leaders to Brunei for a four-day visit at the
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invitation of Crown Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah. The delegation left Singapore yesterday.
DPM Teo will reaffirm the close bilateral ties between the two countries and explore new areas where both can learn from each other and work together on, said a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).
The visit is the fifth edition of the Young Leaders' Programme (YLP), an annual exchange of visits that was started in 2013 to enhance relations.
The two countries enjoy what the MFA has called a "special relationship", underscored by frequent high-level exchanges between leaders. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong visited Brunei for Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah's Golden Jubilee celebrations last month. Sultan Bolkiah visited Singapore in July to mark 50 years of Singapore-Brunei currency interchangeability.
The two countries take turns to host the YLP. Last year, Crown Prince Billah led a delegation of younger Bruneian leaders here
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Merkle's Q1 2018 report shows Shopping campaigns dominate retailers' paid search click volume.
Shopping campaigns on Google and Bing continued to
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fuel paid search spend in Q1 2018, according to digital agency Merkle’s latest quarterly report. Overall, search spend increased 21 percent year over year among the sample of Merkle clients’ US campaigns included in the report [registration required].
Looking at overall performance, cost-per-click (CPC) growth remained relatively steady from Q4 2017, increasing 13 percent year over year. That CPC growth is much higher than what Merkle clients, who skew large retailer, experienced in the earlier quarters of 2017. The rising CPCs have coincided with improved ad quality and higher conversion rates. Click volume growth has slowed significantly over the past two quarters, up 7 percent year over year in Q1 2018.
Merkle clients spent 20 percent more on Google paid search in Q1 2018, on average, than the previous year, marking the fifth straight quarter to see year-over-year spend growth surpass 20 percent. Click volume was up 7 percent,
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The resistance to imperialism, the global anti-war movement and in particular the British Stop the War Coalition have brought Blair to his present humiliating position.
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He is no longer in control of when he leaves, no longer able to control the succession, no longer in control of his ministers and no longer able to make the barest claim to represent a majority in Britain.
The Lebanon war, which saw Blair’s utterly single-minded devotion to Bush and to Israel, was the final straw for many Labour MPs.
Some were politically revolted by the refusal to call for a ceasefire. Others were bitterly aware that this sharp reminder of Blair’s warmongering would prove disastrous at next May’s council, Scottish and Welsh elections - and perhaps at the general election to follow.
Blair will be remembered for the bloody disaster of Iraq above all else. He and Bush are responsible for 150,000 or more Iraqi civilians dead, for the bestial events at Abu Ghraib, for the creation of a global network of torture and imprisonment without trial, for Guantanamo Bay and for the announcement of a future of war without
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The illustrious former Great Britain internationals are the latest players to join the prestigious roll of honour.
Loose forward Turner - who died aged 82
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in 2015 - was captain of the all-conquering Wakefield Trinity team of the 1960s having started out at Hull KR.
He was part of Great Britain's World Cup-winning side of 1960 and later coached Castleford to Challenge Cup glory in 1969 before leading Leeds to the Championship three years later.
Fellow back-row Whiteley, 87, led Hull FC to two Wembley finals, as well as enjoying Ashes-winning success as a player and coach.
Gregory, meanwhile, was a multiple Challenge Cup winner with Widnes and Wigan and another famous Lions tourist.
Whiteley and Gregory will be joined by their families at the Rugby League Hall of Fame and RLIF Golden Boot dinner at Elland Road, Leeds, on Wednesday November 7.
It will also be attended by current Hall of Fame member Neil Fox MBE, Billy Boston MBE, Lewis Jones, Garry Schofield OBE and Malcolm Reilly OBE, as well as family representatives of Jim
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy takes his campaign for greater global food price and currency stability to Washington next week when he seeks
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Barack Obama’s support for France’s goals as head of the Group of 20 powers.
Soaring food prices and riots in places like Algeria offer Sarkozy ammunition to press for more coordination between G20 governments to combat wild swings in vital commodity prices as well as exchange rates versus the long-dominant U.S. dollar.
The French president wants to use his run at the G20 helm in 2011 to start, if not finish, reforms of the monetary system at a time when many countries are tempted to let their currency drop to promote exports and growth after the worst downturn since World War Two, even if that can be at each others’ expense.
Paris is also pressing for international efforts to impose greater transparency in commodity markets trading and pricing, and for tougher regulation of trading in commodity derivatives along the lines pursued for other investment derivatives in the wake of the financial markets crisis that preceded the economic downturn of 2008-2009, and the government debt crisis now.
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Cavaliers guard and ex-Knick J.R. Smith earned his one-game suspension from the team by throwing a bowl of soup
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at assistant coach Damon Jones, according to a report.
ESPN reported on Friday that the "conduct detrimental to the team" the Cavs announced before Thursday's 108-97 loss to the 76ers was indeed broth-based.
Smith will return to practice on Friday and resume game action Saturday night when the Cavs host the Nuggets, per the report.
Jones, a former Cleveland guard, has been with the Cavs as a coach since 2014 after working his way up from the franchise's G-League squad.
Cavs head coach Tyronn Lue said he had "a little discussion" with Smith on Friday but didn't go into any details, per ESPN.
Lue filled Smith's shooting guard slot with Rodney Hood, who bucketed five of his 14 attempts and finished with 11 points, five rebounds and five assists in the defeat.
Smith, who has missed only one other game with the Cavs this season, is averaging 8.3 points on 39.2 percent shooting
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The Net may have spawned a New Economy, but it's shown less success with New Excuses. Last month, the lawyer for a teenager accused
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of slinging online threats argued that the youth had a Net addiction. The novel argument went that virtual threats in a virtual world aren't worth squat. But even the plaintiff couldn't stomach that line of defense. Yesterday, he pleaded guilty to the threats in a Denver courtroom.
Microsoft Corp. may be sighing with relief over the hacks. Buried by the avalanche of media coverage over the break-ins is the news of yet another antitrust investigation involving Redmond. This time it's European Union officials who are peering into Microsoft's doings - they're investigating anticompetitive charges against Windows 2000.
In morning-after coverage of the New Hampshire primary, the cyber-savvy campaign of Republican victor John McCain came under scrutiny, as did the media's own use of the Net in covering the Granite State's doings. It turns out that readers, like the electorate of which they are a part, aren't always the winners.
Today's presidential primary in New Hampshire isn
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CafeChavalos is finally open.We opted not to have a big bash opening until we have finessed our service and food preparation to
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the highest caliber. I think we are finally there.
The café is located on the corner of Calles Martirio and Arsenal and open to the public at 6 p.m. Fridays through Mondays.
Reservations are not required but are helpful (852-0210).
It is open for special groups – tours, brigades, professional associations – on any night of the week. Reservations are needed for this, of course.
Unlike the first CafeChavalos, the restaurant now serves a full menu that includes vegetarian choices along with meat and fish entrees. The Chavalos’ red snapper baked in banana leaves and the chiles rellenos are especially interesting to the patrons.
Chocolate Mombacho and Tri Limon (a dessert of limoncello, lemon pudding in a scooped lemon half, and a lemon biscotti) are tied for first-place dessert favorites.
In a move to encourage the “green
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The Glenbard Parent Series, Equity Student Achievement Committee (ESAC) and Families of African American Students United for Excellence (FUSE) will present
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Find Your Future at College on Thursday, Dec. 6.
High school is a crucial time for students to grow intellectually and personally and to prepare for college and career. This presentation will assist students and their parents in this important journey. Specialists in the field will discuss what families can expect from each stage of the college admissions process. Panelists will discuss the role of grades, test scores, work experience, financial aid and the significance of an upward trajectory. Raquel Wilson, Glenbard District 87 coordinator for equity and Directions program, joins a panel of educational leaders and students who will inspire and empower all students to reach their goals and thrive.
A light dinner will be served, and all family members are invited to attend. Babysitting will be provided, as well as translation for Spanish-speaking participants.
The program will begin at 6 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Marquardt School District 15 administration center, 1860 Glen Ellyn Road in Glendale Heights.
The
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EL SEGUNDO — Like everyone else who grew up captivated by the sound of the thump, thump, thump of a
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basketball on a court, Lakers coach Phil Jackson and guard Kobe Bryant said they mourned the passing of the legendary John Wooden on Friday.
“I just stand in awe of the guy,” Jackson said Saturday.
“As a young basketball player growing up and watching the 1962 Bruins, the ’63 Bruins, the era I came out of high school, watching this team, this pesky team of 6-foot-5 guys roll out this great defense they had, with the speed they played at, that was my first awareness of John Wooden,” Jackson added.
Jackson said he learned more about Wooden later in life. Tex Winter, Jackson’s longtime assistant with the Lakers and the Chicago Bulls, was a rival of Wooden’s UCLA teams while coaching at Kansas State.
“Tex always tells the story,” Jackson said. “His team was ahead by four points going into the last stretch of the ballgame. There’
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In life Brian Clough was never at a loss for words, and not even death has been sufficient to shut him up. Clough recently featured
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in Steven Lowe's play The Spirit of the Man at Nottingham Playhouse, and his starring role in David Peace's novel confirms that writers are queuing up to get inside the mind of Old Big 'Ead. Good job there's plenty of room. Peace has the good sense to realise that 300 pages of Clough in barrel-thumping mode would be fairly intolerable, and instead chooses to focus on the manager's ignominious 44-day tenure at Leeds United. The novel makes you wonder how it lasted quite that long. Clough loathed Leeds - he famously told the players they ought to throw their championship medals in the bin as they had been won unfairly - and his attempt to instil "a little bit more warmth, a little bit more honesty, a little bit more me" in a taciturn squad of cloggers was doomed from the outset. The story unfolds with the grim inevitability of hubris inviting humiliation - if Euripides had ever tried ghosting football memoir
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Are you a bear market CIO?
From 2005 to 2008, my approach to business development was simple. I would walk into my office,
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put my feet up on my desk, throw open the window and smile as bluebirds flew in with juicy search projects in their beaks. I was a bull market executive recruiter.
Reach beyond IT. From human resources to customer service to call center operations, the majority of today's CIOs (nearly two-thirds of you, according to CIO magazine's 2009 State of the CIO Survey) have taken on at least one major responsibility beyond IT. If you have not, the bear market should provide you with significant opportunity to do so. Not only will this help you find new ways to leverage IT during these tough times, it will also help you to raise your own visibility as an enterprise leader.
But clean up your own shop first. The CIO survey reported that 70 percent of CIOs believe that IT is considered an integral business partner and is beloved by the company. But it's not all a lovefest. In fact, 46 percent of CEOs gave
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SAN ANTONIO — The Texas economy is cruising along just fine despite Hurricane Harvey's wrath, swirling political questions about NAFTA and a crackdown on immigration
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, the president of the Dallas Federal Reserve said Thursday.
"The dynamics of the Texas economy are pretty darn good," Robert Kaplan said during his keynote conversation at the Texas Business Leadership Council's fall meeting.
Harvey would cost the state between $75 billion and $100 billion, he said, and the state is expected to temporarily lose between 55,000 and 75,000 jobs in the areas affected by the natural disaster. But Kaplan said he expects those jobs to return as recovery continues, leaving intact the Dallas Federal Reserve's 2.6 percent job growth forecast.
Kaplan carefully avoided politics in his speech but stressed the importance of NAFTA to Texas' economy. His words came just days after renegotiation talks on the North American Free Trade Agreement ended with all sides agreeing to continue the discussion in 2018 after reaching an impasse.
"The trade relation with Mexico has been critical to Texas," Kaplan said, adding that Mexico is the state's top trade partner and that seeing the United States,
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KTEN's viewers were concerns about our constitutional right to bear arms and restrictions on smokers in restaurants. Here's a sampling of what you had to
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say.
"Hi. This is Tommy, calling from Ada, and I would just like to say that Obama is going to be one of this country's greatest presidents, and he is not going to put a ban on assault rifles. I believe in the second amendment. It's there to protect us. It was put into place by our forefathers, and it will not be taken away."
"This is H.D. Williams, here in Denison, and I think they ought to allow people to smoke in a smoking room with no ventilation. No one allowed in that room under 18 years of old - of age - excuse me. Let 'em smoke until they drop."
"Yes, this is Jeanette, and I'm from Sherman, Texas. And I don't think it's right for them to cut out smoking and everything, because people that don't smoke... then they have the most advantage of everything. And people that do smoke, they won't be
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William Kratman, 50, was arrested for allegedly threatening another driver with a hammer in a road rage incident on June 20, 2018 in Nash
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ua, New Hampshire.
A man who allegedly threatened another person with a hammer in a road rage incident was arrested Friday in Nashua, New Hampshire.
On June 20, Nashua police responded to a call of a road rage incident at Alec’s Shoe Store that resulted in one of the involved parties being struck by the other's car.
Investigators spoke with both parties involved and determined that William Kratman, 50, was the aggressor. Officials issued an arrest warrant for Kratman and charged him with criminal threatening with a deadly weapon.
Kratman was bailed on $2,000 cash and was released. He faces up to seven years in prison for the charge. The suspect will be arraigned on Aug. 23 at the Hillsborough County Superior Court South in New Hampshire. It's unclear if he has an attorney.
Anyone who witnessed the road rage or who has information on the incident is asked to contact the Nashua Police Department’s Crime
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Robert Griffin III may fancy himself the best quarterback in the NFL, but he sure as heck didn’t look like it on Thursday night while
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constantly peeling himself off the turf at FedEx Field.
Griffin looked gun shy as he was consistently battered by the Detroit Lions in Washington’s second preseason game. He was hit six times on eight dropbacks, sacked three times and fumbled twice.
Griffin left with a shoulder stinger and also was tested for a concussion, so we hope he didn’t suffer one.
You can blame the offensive line plenty for RG3 getting drilled, but a good part of this is still on Griffin. He is responsible for calling plays and assigning protections, and he has the ability to slip in and out of the pocket to avoid rushes. Oh yeah, he can also get rid of the ball before he gets hit if he chooses to.
Neither Colt McCoy nor Kirk Cousins were sacked during their action, and both completed far more passes and led touchdown drives. RG3 is clearly uncomfortable, lost, and he looks like a guy who forgot how to function as a quarterback.
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The EU upgrade offer is more modest than proposals made last year by Israel which included summits of EU and Israeli leaders.
European Union states will
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say on Monday they are ready to deepen ties with Israel but will urge the Jewish state to make progress on Middle East peace, diplomats said.
EU foreign ministers are expected to give the green light to the upgrade at talks in Luxembourg, hours before a scheduled meeting there with Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni.
Diplomats said EU member states had agreed a text on their readiness to enhance ties with Israel in social policy, access to the EU market and regulatory issues, including reference to the need for progress in peace steps with the Palestinians.
The wording of any linkage between moves to deepen ties and progress in the peace process was not immediately available.
The EU upgrade offer is more modest than proposals made last year by Israel which included summits of EU and Israeli leaders, and meetings with EU sectoral ministers on top of the current annual session at foreign minister level.
Israel currently has a seven-year-old association agreement with the 27-member bloc setting out a schedule of political meetings
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A caretaker and her boyfriend have been accused of stealing checks from a 93-year-old disabled Hermosa Beach woman and cashing them at
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a business.
Shekesha Shenea Andrews, 31, and Perry Lewis Jr., 47, made off with less than $500 from the woman’s account but took advantage of her condition, police said.
Andrews, who was employed with a caregiver company, went to work in the elderly woman’s home as a live-in attendant.
“The victim is 93 years old and disabled to the point of being confined to a wheelchair in the downstairs portion of her two-story home,” Wolcott said.
As part of the company’s service, a supervisor recently visited the house to write checks to pay the woman’s bills.
The supervisor paid them from the woman’s checkbook.
Five checks were missing. The supervisor contacted Hermosa Beach police.
Detectives determined the checks were cashed at a supermarket. The transactions were videotaped by a surveillance camera.
Andrews and her boyfriend, Lewis
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Call it the Internet of Things, call it the smart home, call it a sign of the imminent robot takeover. Whatever it is, it's
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coming to connect your light bulbs, locks, thermostats, fridges, and everything else, to your phone and to the Internet. And Alex Hawkinson, CEO of SmartThings, is pretty sure he's going to be right smack in the middle of it all.
Today, at the IFA conference in Berlin, Hawkinson announced the second version of the SmartThings platform. It comes with a new hub, new devices, a new app, and new tools for developers to connect to the SmartThings ecosystem. This is a big moment for the company, one Hawkinson calls "the big scale-up."
The difference between SmartThings and its ever-increasing list of competitors—you may have heard of a few of them, like Google and Apple and Wink and Amazon and on and on and on—is that SmartThings is totally committed to being open to everyone. Hawkinson says over and over that he didn't sell to Samsung to become a HomeKit competitor, to make
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All of these ideas are fine, but what if this year we celebrated Valentine’s Day “outside of the box”? What
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if we came up with something unique that spoke to our valentine’s heart?
1. Hand write a love letter. Include why your spouse is special to you, what you admire about him or her both physically and mentally, and how much you love them.You can find examples online of love letters.
2. Go on a hike to Chalk Ridge Falls. This is a lovely wooded area with a small waterfall off Stillhouse lake. You can stay on the path or veer off and create your own path. Wear some hiking boots and enjoy the great outdoors with no cellphones to distract you.
3. Have dinner at home. Prepare and serve your valentine a meal. You can buy premade food that you simply have to heat to make this easier if you don’t cook or don’t have time. A meal idea is a bag of salad mix, frozen lasagna and dinner rolls from the bakery. End the meal with
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The upcoming referendum for Hinsdale High School District 86 is of course critical to our community. It will determine whether we continue the long history of
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excellence in education in our schools or tell our students they will have to settle for less in the future.
It will determine whether we are a destination area for families buying homes, or an area where the value of our investment plummets. There is one other critical issue that will also be determined by this vote on April 2.
This referendum will determine for all future elections whether the road to success on the ballot is through transparency and fact, or by lies, deceit, intimidation and bullying. It is not overstatement to characterize this election as good vs. evil.
If the no faction succeeds in manipulation of the electorate, if voters believe their blatant lies, future elections will follow their example, where anything can and will be said because the voting public is too apathetic or gullible to discover the truth.
There is so much at stake on April 2, and I fear that our community and the way we chose to raise our families and live our lives will be changed forever. Please
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Matt Joyce hit his second grand slam in six games and Elliot Johnson had a two-run shot to lift the Tampa Bay Rays to their third straight
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win, 7-4 over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night in a game that saw the benches empty in the ninth inning.
Carlos Pena, inserted into the leadoff spot after a miserable slump, added a solo homer for the Rays.
Adrian Gonzalez had an RBI double for Boston, which lost for just the fourth time in 14 games.
The Red Sox (22-23) failed to move above.500 for the fourth time this season. It’s the latest into a season they haven’t gone over.500 since 1996 when they didn’t do it until late August.
Leading off the ninth Boston reliever Franklin Morales threw behind DH Luke Scott with the first pitch and hit him in the hip area with a 3-1 count. Scott was restrained by catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and the benches and bullpens emptied. There was a lot of pushing and shoving along the first-base line that carried over behind
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One of the most popular parks in the Bay Area is about to get a total makeover.
By the end of the day Friday, the
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fences will be up and half of San Francisco’s wildly popular Dolores Park will be closed for seven months. After that, the other half will close for seven more months.
The park begins closing down Thursday for its roughly $15 million renovation.
With beautiful weather expected this weekend, that's not the best news for those who go to the park. But one thing they really do like is that the park is going to get some new bathrooms. The improvements will replace the park's three bathrooms with 35 new ones.
San Francisco’s Dolores Park, a giant and unique Mission District open space bathed in sunshine and hipsters, will partially close in the next two weeks up, as the city begins a $12.4 million restoration slated to last more than a year. Joe Rosato reports.
Lapthorn has lived nearby for 50 years and cannot imagine squeezing the park's 10,000 weekend visitors into half the space.
“Great park
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1815.201 Exchanges with industry before receipt of proposals.
1815.204-5 Part IV—Representations and instructions.
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1815.207 Handling proposals and information.
1815.207-70 Release of proposal information.
1815.207-71 Appointing non-Government evaluators as special Government employees.
1815.208 Submission, modification, revision, and withdrawal of proposals.
1815.209 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
1815.304 Evaluation factors and significant subfactors.
1815.305-70 Identification of unacceptable proposals.
1815.305-71 Evaluation of a single proposal.
1815.306 Exchanges with offerors after receipt of proposals.
1815.370 NASA source evaluation boards.
1815.403 Obtaining certified cost or pricing data.
1815.403-1 Prohibition on obtaining certified cost or pricing data.
1815.403-170 Waivers of certified cost or pricing data.
1815.403-3 Requiring data other than certified cost or pricing data.
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Killer Coke: Activist Disrupts Coca Cola Shareholders Meeting | Democracy Now!
On the morning of December 5, 1996,
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two men on a motorcycle arrived at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Antioquia, Colombia, where according to eyewitnesses they breezed past a guardhouse at the factory’s front gate and onto plant grounds. The men approached Isidro Gil, head of the plant’s union of bottling employees, and in plain sight of his co-workers shot him ten times, mortally wounding him. Just one hour later, another top union officer was kidnapped from his home, and that evening the union’s offices were ransacked and burned to the ground. Two days later, after gunmen with the Colombian paramilitary group A.U.C. threatened further violence against employees, plant managers distributed union resignation forms to workers. All of them signed the forms.
In July of 2001, the union representing Colombia’s Coca-Cola employees filed suit in a federal court in Florida, alleging Coke contracted with paramilitary death squads to torture, kidnap, and murder
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Mathare, one of the poorest slums -- places where poor people live -- in Nairobi, May 28, 2014.
Kenya
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’s towns and cities are growing quickly. Experts estimate at least 100,000 people move to the capital Nairobi every year from rural areas of the country. This has caused high demand for good housing. The Ministry of Housing estimates the city needs at least 200,000 new homes or apartments every year. That, they say, would meet the demand from new people and from those who are already in the city but live in poor conditions.
In 2009, the government estimated more than 3 million people lived in Nairobi. It says about two-thirds of them live in places where there is no running water, electricity or methods to remove waste.
Irene Njeri is 22 years old. She lives in one room with her son. She says it is difficult for them to be healthy.
William Wachira blames poor housing on dishonest officials of the department of planning and housing. He says the bathroom in the house where he lives is in poor condition. He shares
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With one month left before the Democratic primary, the newly formed New Florida Vision PAC is adding to the momentum building for Gillum, with an independent
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campaign knocking on doors, reaching voters by phone and text and taking to the airwaves to make sure Florida’s African American, Haitian, and Latino voters know that there’s a candidate from the community and for the community on the ballot on Aug. 28.
With Florida’s governor’s elections frequently within 1% point, many believe the winner will be determined by who can expand the electorate and motivate new and infrequent voters who sometimes sit out to come to the polls. That’s exactly who the PAC will be reaching out to in its efforts over the next month.
The organization will be centering its conversations with voters on Gillum’s working class roots, investment in public education and affordable housing, strong stance against the gun lobby, commitment to criminal justice reform and unwavering defense of Florida’s immigrant communities from Trump’s deportation force.
Voters who need to find where to cast their ballot or who want to get
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Humanitarian groups have long opposed cluster bombs. These unique weapons consist essentially of canisters full of small grenades or bombs that are launched or dropped on
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a target and then spread their payload far and wide.
Sometimes all the little bombs are designed to blow up on impact. Sometimes they are made to lie in the dirt and wait for a passing soul to disturb them before they erupt. And sometimes, no matter how they are designed, they just don't explode. Instead, they lie around for weeks, months, years, until someone stumbles upon them, and then, with no warning, they can burst, killing long after the serious fighting of a battle is done.
The United Nations says it has identified 249 cluster bomb strikes in southern Lebanon and expects to find more than 300 by the time the counting is through. Thousands of the little bomblets are believed to be scattered around these sites, posing a very real and mortal danger to both the UN peacekeeping soldiers and the Lebanese civilians who are now moving back home.
Military forces say cluster bombs are essential, powerful weapons, capable of wiping out a group of men operating a rocket launcher
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Pakistan is one of those countries which have been greatly affected by climate change, although its contribution to the carbon emissions is negligible.
Environmental experts said
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this on Wednesday as they spoke at a workshop for a project on renewable energy sources, titled ‘Introducing Renewable Energy Solutions to Enhance Energy Security and Build Climate Resilience in Karachi’.
The experts called for shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources as fossil fuels were the biggest cause of carbon emissions, which resulted in climate change.
The project implemented in Rehri, Mauripur, and Gadap Town of Karachi was financially supported by the Nordic Climate Facility of the Nordic Development Fund (NDF). The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and K-Electric (KE) were the lead implementing partners in the project, which successfully piloted innovative alternatives and renewable energy solutions for over 2,000 households located in the peri-urban areas of Karachi.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr Babar Khan, the Worldwide Fund for Nature-Pakistan regional head for Sindh and Balochistan, said cities from all over the world, being major economic and industrial hubs
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Sydney Rose Brianna Parkins called for a repeal of the Eighth Amendment.
RTÉ HAS CONFIRMED that no edits or changes
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were made to the Sydney Rose’s portion of last night’s live Rose Of Tralee broadcast.
Sydney Rose Brianna Parkins used her interview with host Dáithí Ó Sé to call for a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment.
Her interview was in the final part of the show and was published to Player in the running order sequence – after Kilkenny and before Queensland. It is the same as the broadcast version. No edits or changes were made to the Player version at any time.
Parkins, an Australian journalist, said that she thinks “it’s time to give women a say over their reproductive rights”.
Some contestants in this year’s Rose of Tralee were asked for their opinion on abortion ahead of the live broadcast as part of a panel discussion.
TheJournal.ie and DailyEdge understand that while international Roses were quizzed for their thoughts on topics like immigration, some Irish
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Gold gave up early gains on Monday as a robust dollar outweighed safe-haven demand after Greeks rejected the terms of a bailout package in a referendum
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The failure to sustain the rally shows gold's struggle amidst prospects of higher US interest rates despite the uncertainty over Athens' financial situation and its future in the euro zone, a situation that would typically garner safety bids for bullion.
Spot gold was flat at $1,167.50 an ounce by 0652 GMT, after earlier jumping by as much as 0.6 per cent.
US gold climbed nearly 1 per cent in its biggest daily gain in about two weeks to $1,174.40 before paring some gains to trade up 0.3 per cent.
Silver, platinum and palladium all declined.
"Gold's deterioration is evidence of the market discounting wider contagion risk from a Greek default and increasing certainty of a US rate hike this year," Barclays analysts said in a note on Monday.
In a referendum on Sunday, Greeks overwhelmingly rejected conditions of a rescue package from creditors.
Official figures showed 61 per cent of Greeks had rejected a deal that would
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2 What Is the Percent of Profit Margin That Retailers Expect From Jewelry?
4 What Is a Reasonable Profit Margin?
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Property management companies range from gargantuan firms that manage thousands of apartments, shopping malls and commercial complexes to small firms that specialize in vacation rentals with only 10 or so houses. Whether small or large, increasing profits is a goal. If you're considering starting a property management company or improving your own property management business, there are several ways you can do so and turn a profit.
Increase the number of properties, and your revenues will increase. If the operating margins are maintained, each additional property results in an additional percentage falling to profits. For example, if each property generates $10,000 in revenues and has a 35 percent gross margin -- the percentage of expenses related to that property -- then $6,500 of additional profit is generated.
Property management services include such efforts as marketing, maintenance, and renting out or selling the use of the property. Providing additional services results in additional profits as long as your expenses for providing the service are lower than the revenues generated. An apartment complex property
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If you have old photos, videos or other files that are backed up on DVDs, you should check if they're still OK.
Have you
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got some old backups living on DVDs? It's time to upgrade them for real long-term reliability.
The one big problem that people are just beginning to face is the lifespan of DVD backups. DVDs have been great, thanks to a good few gigabytes of storage on a single disc. But a lot of people have now filed them away, like they're a good long term storage option.
Depending on your discs, you shouldn't feel confident of more than 30 years, and as little as 5 years with a bad disc.
If you have CDs or DVDs with important data on them, tucked away for long term storage, then it is time to get them out and move that data to a better place. Unless you have purchased expensive long-term, archival-quality discs that guarantee lifespan, these are going to rot and lose your data.
Right now, cloud storage or redundant local storage on active hard drives are much better backup options.
And, as ever, never
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Deputy superintendent Tamu Lucero addresses Westhill High School students at a meeting of the mold task force in Stamford, Conn. on Dec.
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12, 2018.
STAMFORD — It’s been an oft-repeated phrase in the city for months: air quality tests only show a snapshot in time.
Many members of the community, including students, have requested air-quality tests as mold has spread to more than half of Stamford’s public schools. The demand for air-quality tests even prompted a student walkout at Westhill High School this month.
But members of the Mold Task Force and the remediation company, Tighe and Bond, recently met with students and others in the school community to better inform them about air-quality testing and what is needed to fix the problem.
Marcello Staiano, 17, who was one of the walkout organizers, said the meeting gave him a better understanding of air-quality tests.
Staiano said he’d still like more precise information from the task force.
Judy Klym, one of the co-
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NEW DELHI: Manmohan Singh, the British-educated economist set to become the 13th prime minister of India, is better known as
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the man who kick-started difficult economic reforms that helped integrate the country with the global economy.
As finance minister in P.V. Narasimha Rao's cabinet between 1991 and 1996, he not only put India on the map of the world's attractive investment destinations but also brought about a fundamental change in the way India Inc. conducted its business.
"He took path-breaking decisions at a time when our economy was in a terrible state," said N. Srinivasan, director general- designate of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
"He is a man of great humility and total integrity who understands the economy extremely well," Srinivasan told IANS.
But Rao was not the first prime minister who saw potential in this soft-spoken economist. In 1990, he was handpicked by then prime minister Chandra Shekhar as his economic advisor, thereby bringing him into the public eye for the first time.
The other high points of his long
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They’re a group of prints showing four, commonplace tools. Enlarged many times their actual size, they’ve become something
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much more monumental.
They include tin snips, a crescent wrench and, my favourite, a crate opener. The latter stands out because the large format print makes it easy to read the lettering on the side that names it as a particular type of crate opener called a Baby Terrier.
The prints are all black and white. The even lighting virtually eliminates any shadows and highlights the texture of the metal surfaces. Their directness and simplicity made me think of another important but absent tool: the camera used by the photographer.
Even though they’re neither arty nor dramatic, they were part of a series called Beauties of the Common Tool published in the 1950s in Fortune, a high-end magazine that I wouldn’t normally associate with such experimental photography.
But they made it into print because they were the work of Walker Evans who, at the time, was Fortune’s staff photographer.
Evans is probably best known for taking iconic photographs of
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updated: Adobe has reportedly landed a Flash deal with MLB.com upending Microsoft's Silverlight.
Adobe has landed a two-year
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agreement with Major League Baseball to stream its 2,500-plus spring training, regular season and post-season games live to MLB.com's 1.5 million subscribers. Games were previously streamed on Microsoft Silverlight, an arrangement announced in August of 2007.
That's a pretty big coup for Adobe. It was only a little over a year ago that bloggers were patting Microsoft on the back for not only creating a class act video experience on MLB.com but for landing a deal that had enough legs to it to help Microsoft's Silverlight pick up some strength as a competitor to Flash. And early this year, there were even more accolades when it was reported that Silverlight on MLB.com was playing nice with the Mac.
update: In a CNET report, Microsoft basically offers no real comment. An executive says, " Microsoft has appreciated the partnership of MLB.com" and notes that Silverlight has "a great ecosystem that includes more than 150 partners." Likewise, MLB
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Russia will hold eight days of naval drills in the South China Sea off southern China’s Guang
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dong province starting from Monday, China’s navy said.
The exercises come at a time of heightened tension in the contested waters after an arbitration court in The Hague ruled in July that China did not have historic rights to the South China Sea and criticized its environmental destruction there.
The “Joint Sea-2016” exercise will feature surface ships, submarines, fixed-wing aircraft, ship-borne helicopters and marines, the Chinese navy said in a statement on Sunday on its official microblog.
The two countries will carry out defense, rescue and anti-submarine operations, as well as “island seizing” and other activities, it added.
Marines will participate in live-fire drills, island defense and landing operations in what will be the largest operation ever taken together by the two countries’ navies, the statement said.
China announced that it had called the “routine” naval exercise in July, saying the drills were aimed
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BELTON — Caleigh Robinson had already made quite an impression in the first inning of Belton’s offensive onslaught, but the senior
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had the opportunity to achieve more.
The Lady Tigers had scored 15 runs and were on their third trip through the lineup in the first when Robinson came to bat with a grand slam already in her stat line. Much like her previous at-bat, Robinson stepped into the box with the bases loaded.
“I really wasn’t thinking about hitting another home run. I just really wanted to make contact,” Robinson said.
The senior didn’t clear the fences for a second grand slam, but her fly ball was dropped by a Killeen outfielder, allowing three more runners to come home in Belton’s 18-run first inning that paved the way for a 26-2, four-inning victory Saturday afternoon.
Robinson finished 3-for-4 with a home run, a double and five RBIs for Belton (16-10, 5-0 District 12-6A), which routed Killeen (0-5 in
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An afternoon commute in Canada’s capital turned to horror after a double-decker city bus became impaled on a passenger shelter, leaving
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three people dead and 25 injured, officials said.
Jim Watson, the mayor of Ottawa, said one of the people killed was standing on the platform at the time of the crash, and the other two were aboard the bus.
The bus, operated by the city’s transit system, OC Transpo, was traveling along a below-grade road reserved for buses when it went out of control entering a station west of the city’s downtown at about 3:50 pm, said Chief Charles Bordeleau of the Ottawa Police Service.
It then mounted a passenger platform and crashed into a shelter. The steel and glass of the shelter’s overhang tore off the front of the bus and sliced through a large section of its upper deck.
Bordeleau said most of the injured people were in that part of the bus and that several people on the platform also required treatment.
Why the accident occurred was not clear. It was a bitterly cold afternoon: Officials
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The latest attempt to unload a municipal building Windsor has been trying to get rid of for nearly a decade has failed, but the city is still
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hoping to make a buck from the bust.
The latest attempt to unload a municipal building Windsor has been trying to get rid of for nearly a decade has failed.
But the city is hoping to at least finally be able to make some money off the long-vacated former social services building at 755 Louis Ave. by pocketing the $10,000 deposit left by the latest unsuccessful developer.
Mayor Eddie Francis said the city thought it had a deal for the sizable holding south of Wyandotte Street E., “but the person didn’t follow through.” City council this week agreed to pursue the deposit that municipal lawyers said is Windsor’s to keep.
The property now goes back on the market, Francis said.
That market has been fickle. The building was first put up for sale when Windsor’s social services department was consolidated from its various locations and housed in the 400 City Hall Square building in 2005.
First listed
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LG Electronics on Sunday said it will be working jointly with the government to help nurture software personnel.
Until Aug. 26 the Seoul-based electronics
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company will receive applications for an IT software research study project in tandem with the National IT Industry Promotion Agency under the Ministry of Knowledge Economy.
The teams must be composed of 3-5 students studying for their master’s or Ph.D. in IT and related software, along with a supervising professor, LG Electronics said.
The project will have a duration of nine months starting in October, and will involve five areas that LG Electronics designates, including those in energy management and parts and components, along with five chosen by the applicants.
Up to 600 million won ($556,000) of financial support will be offered, broken down to 60 million won per project.
The funds will be jointly provided by LG Electronics and the National IT Industry Promotion Agency, LG officials said.
The results of the projects are to be shared by LG Electronics and the universities.
To further help the students involved in the projects, the company plans to offer internships to all the applicants, with
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Boys Ranch's LaQuan McGowan is a 6-foot-8, 360-pound lineman who wears a size 22 shoe, earned
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all-state status last season and has orally committed to Baylor on a football scholarship. McGowan starts for the Boys Ranch basketball team and is the defending state champion in the Class 1A shot put.
• How long has it been since you have a gone a day without somebody asking you how tall are you or your shoe size?
"I haven't gone one day without somebody asking me that question. It's probably been a couple years."
• Where is your gold medal for winning the shot put?
"I keep it in my room on my bulletin board next to the picture I keep of my girlfriend (Kourtney Kelly)."
• What was the most influential reason you selected Baylor?
"They are close to home. They are a Christian school, and I am Christian. I figured that's where I should be at, and that's where God led me."
• How often do read the Bible?
"I try to read it every night if I can
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A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules, which would have kept Internet service providers from slowing or prioritizing
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some content and users over others.The ruling marks another blow in a long legal battle over the commission’s authority to enforce net neutrality rules on Internet and mobile companies.
In question is the FCC’s Open Internet Order, commonly referred to as its net-neutrality rules, which was passed in December of 2010. The rules were designed to prohibit Internet service companies from slowing, blocking or prioritizing some content and users over others. The order imposed stricter rules on wired Internet services than mobile services. But in September of 2013, Verizon took the commission to court arguing that it did not have the legal authority to impose “common carrier” principles on Internet service providers. The commission argued that it needed to enforce net-neutrality rules to meet its legal responsibility to deploy broadband access across the country. (Read more here about the trial and net neutrality).
The court’s ruling offers a sliver of hope for the FCC. The court acknowledged that the commission has some
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Having lost the trust of Jewish community long ago, Hollywood filmmaker reportedly tries to reboot relationship through Holocaust philanthropy.
Mel Gibson clearly has a long
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road to travel if he wants to win back support from the Jewish community. But it seems as if he is at least willing to try.
The movie star — known for a drunken anti-Semitic rant and promoting the idea that the Jews killed Jesus in “The Passion of the Christ” — has been donating to a Holocaust survivor aid project, Extra reported on Friday.
The Survivor Mitzvah Project, started by comedic actress Zane Buzby, will be honored by the Anti-Defamation League in Los Angeles on March 30. The project provides financial aid, home visits and medical supplies to some 1,000 survivors living in the former Soviet Union.
The Extra report didn’t specify how much Gibson has been donating, or for how long.
Those “mistakes” Buzby mentions still loom large in the Jewish community.
Gibson apologized shortly after the incident, but many Jews deemed it insufficient.
The actor spent the
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About 15 days after the after the new moon the full moon first appears. At this point the moon is on the opposite side of the earth from
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the sun so she rises around sunset and sets around dawn.
The sun shines fully on her face and tides are at their extremes again. Some may sense the pull of the sun from one direction and the moon from the opposite and their energy and will feel a bit scattered.
Hold a party or an event, but be aware that the energy level is likely to be high and anything troublesome is likely to surface. Cook and stock up the freezer. Pay special attention to your creative ventures and your dreams.
This is a good time to try out forms of divination such as scrying or tarot. Reflect about your goals, feelings and matters that have to do with relationship and family. The full moon is also good for transformations, psychic abilities, strength, love, power and fertility.
The Full moon is an excellent time to cleanse, purify and charge your crystals, I don’t put all of mine out though – see my blog post http://www.pathe
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Along with the Federal SOA Community of Practice, the MITRE Corporation is hosting a free conference for Federal managers and executives interested in adopting service-
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based, enterprise-wide practices. The one day event features keynotes and distinguished speakers and topics that will prepare you to succeed in developing a service-based approach to application modernization from both a management and technical perspective. See SOA at MITRE. Conference Specifics: Thursday, September 16, 2010 The location is in MITRE 1 Auditorium, 7515 Colshire Road, McLean, VA 22102. The conference will take place as in previous years, on the MITRE campus located just inside the Beltway adjacent to Dolly Madison/Chain Bridge Road. Free registration is through the conference’s online website at: https://register.mitre.org/soa/ MITRE Shuttle Bus: Service available from the West Falls Church Metro Station starting at 6:40 a.m., continuing every 20 minutes, and last bus from MITRE at 5:40 p.m. Drop off at MITRE 1 and 2 (come to the back of MITRE 1 for entrance
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The following is a transcript of Senator Barack Obama’s speech in Sderot, Israel, as provided by CQ Transcriptions, Inc
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OBAMA:... today, Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Fayad, when I was in Ramallah, earlier.
The threats to Israel security begin in Sderot, but they don't end there. They include outrageous acts of terror like the attack we just saw yesterday in Jerusalem. Rearming Hezbollah in Lebanon and an Iranian regime that sponsors terrorism, pursues nuclear weapons and threatens Israel's existence. A nuclear Iran would pose a grave threat and the world must prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Today I had a series of productive discussions with many of Israel's key leaders about how to address the broad range of security threats that Israel faces and the broad threats that all of us face. I look forward to continuing these consultations with Prime Minister Olmert this evening, and I'm also looking forward to consulting closely with our European allies about Iran and other challenges in the days ahead.
Now let me just close by saying that I bring to Sderot, an unshake
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It's April 16, 2000. The second day of another NFL draft is underway. The quarterback prospects plucked so far include Chris Redman and
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Giovanni Carmazzi in the third round, Tee Martin in the fifth, and Spergon Wynn in the early sixth. Who? Precisely. But I'll bet you've heard the name of the quarterback who every NFL team passed on at least five times: Tom Brady.
More than half of all players selected before Brady are no longer playing in the league. How could this happen? How could all the sage football minds representing each NFL team overlook a player like Tom Brady, a three-time Super Bowl winner and two-time Super Bowl MVP?
This sort of thing happens every year in the NFL draft, and at every position. If you're lucky, your team finds the next Tom Brady. But if your team passes on a guy who turns out to be a Hall of Famer and instead selects a player who becomes a mediocre journeyman, its glaring lack of omniscience will never be forgotten, or forgiven. And no cliché about hindsight will appease angry fans.
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Former minister Eric Abetz wants conservatives to be promoted in the Turnbull ministry.
His colleague Kevin Andrews has called for Tony Abbott to be returned to
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the frontbench, arguing it would be a magnanimous thing for the now-prime minister to do.
When asked for this thoughts, Senator Abetz told ABC radio on Thursday: "I think it would be helpful if the conservative side was to be embraced somewhat more willingly by the leadership of the party."
Senator Abetz said the tight election result shows a more balanced ministry would be of assistance.
He argued the likes of Zed Seselja and Michael Sukkar are excellent people with a great future ahead of them, but would be unlikely to be added straight into cabinet.
"As a result of which, one assumes that people with proven judgment and discernment might be beneficial in the cabinet," he said, without directly naming Mr Abbott.
But he conceded decisions about appointments are up to Mr Turnbull.
"It will set the tone going forward as to who he appoints and that is a judgment for the prime minister to make."
Senator Abetz said it was important
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Laptop makers are supposedly no longer waiting for Ultrabooks to reach more budget-friendly prices, and have decided to create cheaper models that mimic
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the design of the Intel notebook platform.
Like the look of the new Ultrabooks, but not ready to pony up the $1,000 or more that they cost? Notebook vendors feel your pain, and are apparently ready to do something about it for you.
According to Digitimes, laptop makers are no longer waiting for Ultrabooks to reach more budget-friendly prices, and have decided to create cheaper models that mimic the design of the Intel notebook platform. Component suppliers tell the site that vendors will make adjustments -- a.k.a. cheaper parts and updated designs -- to provide lower-cost versions. That could include using AMD processors instead of new Intel Ivy Bridge ones, an opening AMD would surely love to exploit.
The good news is that the Ultrabook look is apparently appealing to the masses enough that manufacturers want to fulfill their demand. The bad news, at least for Intel, is that its mobile chip customers appear ready to position the original Ultrabooks
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Match ends, Leicester City 2, Liverpool 3.
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half
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Attempt missed. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Shinji Okazaki.
Foul by Marc Albrighton (Leicester City).
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Danny Simpson.
Philippe Coutinho (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Simpson (Leicester City).
Emre Can (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Andy King (Leicester City).
Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Emre Can (Liverpool) hits the left post with a right footed shot from outside the box. Assisted
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Bihar’s principal secretary (education) Amarjeet Sinha has indicated that the forensic science laboratory report identifying the poisonous substance in the
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mid-day meal is expected today.
As Bihar awaited the much-anticipated forensic report, which will ascertain the exact cause of death of 23 school students in Chhapra, the district administration on Saturday started the formalities for attaching the property of Meena Devi, the headmistress of the Dharma Sati primary school at Gandaman village where poisonous mid-day meal triggered the tragedy a couple of days ago.
Bihar’s principal secretary (education) Amarjeet Sinha has indicated that the forensic science laboratory report identifying the poisonous substance in the mid-day meal is expected on Saturday.
However, it is not certain if, indeed, the report will be available on Saturday or be postponed till Monday.
The state government on Friday issued orders for attachment of property of headmistress Meena Devi even as it ordered the school to be moved from its present site and merged with the nearest middle school where infrastructure for mid-day meal was better.
It also declared
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In the 1700s, a French craftsman named Andre Jacob Roubo took the time to record his vast woodworking knowledge, presumably for the benefit
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of future generations. His resultant work, L'Art du Menuisier (loosely translated, "The Art of the Joiner") was a three-volume set containing over 300 illustration plates.
In 2008 woodworkers Christopher Schwarz and Bjenk Ellefsen of Lost Art Press admirably took on the Herculean task of translating the work into English. It's not a matter of simply plugging text into Google Translator; Roubo refers to extinct tools, and the pre-Metric French measurement system differs from anything we use today. But the first translated piece of the tome, "On tools for cutting and preparing wood," is here.
That initial translation caused a stir in the woodworking community, because it provided explanation and details of Roubo's workbench design—absolutely the most crucial piece of shop equipment in a pre-table-saw era. Modern-day accomplished woodworkers gamely began replicating Roubo's design, as in the
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“Healthy Planet, Healthy You!” is the theme for the 14th Annual Earth Day Expo Saturday at Monroe County Community College.
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The free family-friendly event will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Gerald Welch Health Education Building at the north end of the campus, 1555 S. Raisinville Rd.
More than 50 booths and exhibitors will offer activities, presentations and displays for children and adults.
Topics will include sustainability, recycling, composting, gardening, energy efficiency, alternative energy, green living and personal health and wellness.
Prize drawings will be held for a La-Z-Boy chair, one-year membership to the Monroe Family YMCA, kids’ bicycles and other prizes.
Also featured will be the River Raisin Institute’s Climate Literacy school project — “Scaled Wings at Work” — that focuses on butterflies as pollinators.
Children from 16 area classrooms are creating larger-than-life butterfly sculptures made with recycled and re-used materials for display, said Dan Rock, Recycling and Green
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, September 14, 2018 ) Global Bath Bully Market report is replete with detailed analysis from a thorough research
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, especially on questions that border on market size, development environment, futuristic developments, operation situation, pathways and trend of Bath Bully. All these are offshoots of understanding the current situation that the industry is in, especially in 2018. The will chart the course for a more comprehensive organization and discernment of the competition situation in the Bath Bully market. As this will help manufacturers and investors alike, to have a better understanding of the direction in which the Bath Bully Market is headed.
With this Bath Bully Market report, one is sure to keep up with information on the dogged competition for market share and control, between elite manufacturers. It also features, price, production, and revenue. It is where you will understand the politics and tussle of gaining control of a huge chunk of the market share. As long as you are in search of key Industry data and information that can readily be accessed, you can rest assured that this report got them covered. Key companies profiled in
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A trove of dispatches made public by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks paint a vivid picture of the delicate dealings between the United States and Egypt
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WASHINGTON — It was Hillary Rodham Clinton’s first meeting as secretary of state with President Hosni Mubarak, in March 2009, and the Egyptians had an odd request: Mrs. Clinton should not thank Mr. Mubarak for releasing an opposition leader from prison because he was ill.
In fact, a confidential diplomatic cable signed by the American ambassador to Egypt, Margaret Scobey, advised Mrs. Clinton to avoid even mentioning the name of the man, Ayman Nour, even though his imprisonment in 2005 had been condemned worldwide, not least by the Bush administration.
The cable is among a trove of dispatches made public by the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks that paint a vivid picture of the delicate dealings between the United States and Egypt, its staunchest Arab ally. They show in detail how diplomats repeatedly raised concerns with Egyptian officials about jailed dissidents and bloggers, and kept tabs on reports of torture by the police.
This balancing of private pressure with strong public support for Mr. Mubarak
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Mikaela Shiffrin won her 15th World Cup race of the season on Saturday, breaking a 30-year-old record for
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most wins.
Vreni Schneider of Switzerland set the previous record of 14 in the 1988-89 season.
Shiffrin, 23, set the record with a win in the slalom, her sixth victory in that discipline this season.
Even before the Saturday’s race in the Czech Republic, Shiffrin had locked up her third overall World Cup title.
After the first run of the competition, Shiffrin led Wendy Holdener of Switzerland by 0.37 seconds. A strong second run left her 0.85 seconds faster than Holdener and gave her the record and her 58th World Cup career victory.
Shiffrin attempted to break the record Friday in the giant slalom but fell short, finishing in third place behind Petra Vlhova of Slovakia.
“Yesterday in the second run I was pushing really hard,” Shiffrin said after Saturday’s race. “It was enough to get on the podium
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Mr. Hiroshi Ishino resigned from the position of Representative Director in KANSAI PAINT CO., LTD. effective June 27, 2019
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. He joined the Company in March 2003. His previous titles include Senior Managing Director, Deputy Director of Paint Materials Business, Chief Director of Global Supply, Chief Director of International Affairs, Senior Managing Executive Officer and Manager of Product Planning Office in the Company. Prior to joining the Company, he worked for Mitsubishi Corporation. He obtained his LLB's degree from The University of Tokyo in March 1975.
Mr. Harishchandra M. Bharuka has been serving as Director in KANSAI PAINT CO., LTD. as well as President and Director of a subsidiary, Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd. since June 2017.
Mr. Kunishi Mori was named President and Representative Director in KANSAI PAINT CO., LTD., effective April 1, 2019. He joined the Company in April 1981. He previously served as Chief Director of Sales Planning in the Company.
Mr. Shinji Asatsuma resigned from the position of Director of KANSAI PA
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MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, and Abpro, an integrated life sciences company at
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the forefront of synthetic biology, today announced they have entered into a collaborative agreement to advance the development of a preclinical, novel bispecific antibody targeting angiopoietin-2 and vascular endothelial growth factor (Ang2-VEGF). The agreement is structured as a spin out, benefiting from both companies' scientific expertise and Abpro's day-to-day leadership as it oversees the new company, AbMed.
Several potential therapeutic areas will be explored where inhibition of the Ang2 and VEGF pathways with this unique bispecific antibody may provide clinical benefit.
Scientists at MedImmune leveraged the company's significant experience with bispecific antibody development, engineering a novel bispecific antibody that demonstrated potent activity in animal models, which may be useful in targeting disease indications with high unmet needs. Abpro will bring strong scientific, technical and clinical expertise to the new company moving forward, and its core technology platform, DiversImmune, will be used to further
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KANO – Kano state Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has presented an aggregate Budget of N219, 281,273
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,481 for the 2014 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly.
Tagged “Budget of Consolidation”, the proposed 2014 appropriation bill is slightly lower than the 2013 budget with N19.2billion, which translates to 8%..
In a two hours presentation Tuesday night, Governor Kwankwaso described the appropriation bill as a balance budget with revenue matching the same expenditure.
Kwankwaso stated that the 2014 budget has a projected recurrent revenue N126, 960,422,861 and capital receipt of N81, 526,211,850. It also has a recurrent allocation of N70, 621,425,720 and capital estimates of N148, 659,847,767, stressing that “this represents a total of 68% capital and 32% recurrent estimate”.
He disclosed that the direction of the 2014 budget will remain on the Infrastructural development, aggressive revenue generation and strategic exit from debt finance
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Anyone who collects posters has heard of Mondo. They’re the Austin, TX-based company making some of the best limited-edition
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, collectable posters in the world. Next month, they’re hosting their second convention: MondoCon.
MondoCon takes place October 3-4 in Austin, and will feature two days of pure awesome for collectors. There will be panels on the creation of various posters, artists talking about their process, designers discussing limited release vinyl pressings, and screenings of classics like Batman and The Goonies (complete with exclusive posters)—not to mention two huge rooms filled with brand new art, posters, vinyl, toys, and anything else you can imagine.
Oh, and there’s a bar in there too.
This year, MondoCon has its own gig poster by The Dude Designs and we’re stoked to exclusively debut it here. It’s a completely hilarious take on The Warriors, but reimagined with the Mondo staff and some of the artists who’ll be on hand. Check it out.
For more on Mondo
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In many ways, America deserves Ted Cruz. After all, it's been nearly eight years since voters (and the Supreme Court) elected a c
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ocksure, right-wing adopted Texan, long on discredited ideology but short on wits, who plunged the United States into a sinkhole of economic and foreign policy chaos from which it has yet to fully emerge. The American political attention span is notoriously short.
Thus, when the bumptious junior senator from Texas announced his 2016 presidential bid at Liberty University — the late Rev. Jerry Falwell's brick-and-mortar attempt to reverse the entire Western Enlightenment — pundits across the political spectrum weren't exactly surprised. In typical Republican fashion, his announcement was larded with plenty of patriotic fanfare, an inordinate amount of unearned chutzpah, and carefully staged, color-coded, gender-designated patriarchal family posing. Moreover, students expressed palpable support, especially since they were forced to attend the event. Taking a page out of the Barack Obama playbook (but without the critical thinking), the Texas senator with only a few capital years under his belt cultivated his star-
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From left: Kathy Whitlow, Truckee River Watershed Council, Green Bucks program manager; Rob McCormick, director of sales, Pl
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umpJack Squaw Valley Inn; Travis Weber, sales manager, Squaw Valley Lodge; Amy Berry, Tahoe Fund CEO; Andy Wirth, president and CEO of Squaw Valley Ski Holdings; Rebecca Lincoln, Tahoe Fund coordinator; and Christy Beck, general manager for The Village at Squaw Valley.
Olympic Valley businesses have raised $75,000 since 2012 to preserve and restore Lake Tahoe and the region’s watersheds through the Green Bucks program and direct contributions.
Green Bucks is a dollar donation program designed to harness the passion of visitors and residents to help care for the region’s environment. In Olympic Valley, Squaw Valley Ski Holdings, Squaw Valley Lodge and PlumpJack Squaw Valley Inn have committed to collecting dollar donations on room nights and season passes to raise funds.
Starting winter 2014-15, Squaw Valley Ski Holdings will also add its food and beverage program to the list of Green Bucks contributors. To date, Squaw Valley
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More lawmakers on Tuesday threw their support behind former Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez—who is running again for office in May—
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as the next speaker of the House.
Among them were party-list Reps. Catalina Pizarro of Arts, Business, and Science Professionals (ABS), Mariano Piamonte of A-Teacher, Jesulito Manalo of Angkla, Anthony Bravo of Coop-Natco, and Cecilia Chavez of Butil.
In a statement, the leaders said Romualdez would make a good speaker because he is good at gaining a consensus, and as such, can push President Rodrigo Duterte’s legislative agenda forward.
“We have worked with FMR in Congress. He is not only a principled and compassionate leader but a unifying presence who can actively steer [the President’s] legislative agenda for change and development in the country,” their statement read.
Romualdez, both president of the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats and the Philippine Constitution Association, is running for the Leyte congressional seat to replace
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The NBA is taking a rare day off on Thanksgiving, which should at least satisfy Stan Van Gundy. But for diehard fans, getting through
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the holiday will be a struggle.
At ThePostGame, we are doing our part to entertain you... by matching Thanksgiving foods with the personality of NBA players. That means entrees, sides, desserts -- we're putting on a full-court press. Maybe consider reading this after your big meal. It'll make you hungry -- hopefully not to eat LeBron James or Stephen Curry.
LeBron is still the face of the NBA. Yes, he can sometimes be bland, but no good NBA argument can be made without mentioning LeBron in the same way that there's no good Thanksgiving meal unless you have turkey.
Green is a great complement to a great team. Stuffing is the most important role player on Thanksgiving. You can't rely only on stuffing for a meal, but you'll move it around your plate and let it cover a ton of ground. It has a firm texture and can get messy.
Just so smooth and sweet. Nothing makes your palate tingle like sweet potatoes.
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UAE is one of the greatest examples of tolerance, according to the newly appointed UAE Minister of State for Tolerance, Sheikha Lubna
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Al Qasimi, also President of Zayed University.
Delivering the ‘Giving Back’ keynote address on the second day of the Global Women’s Forum Dubai, Sheikha Lubna said UAE’s tolerance is reflected in the weave of the society – both nationals and foreign residents – “everything reflects tolerance”.
Sheikha Lubna, who has previously held four ministerial portfolios, and was UAE’s first woman minister with the portfolio of Economy, was asked by Henry Bonsu, Broadcaster, Conference Host and Analyst with BBC News, UK, about her new job as Minister of State for Tolerance.
She explained that the UAE has service ministries like Social Welfare, ministries with international roles like Foreign Affairs, policy-making ministries… and then two new and ‘odd’ ministries were added – those of ‘Happiness’ and ‘Tolerance’.
“But these reflect the values that
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Community colleges are a vital part of America’s opportunity structure, not least because they often provide a way into higher education for adults from less
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advantaged backgrounds. Each year there are around 10 million undergraduates enrolled at public, two-year colleges. Among first-generation students, nearly 38 percent attend community colleges, compared to 20 percent of students with college-educated parents.
Credentials from community colleges—whether short vocational courses or two-year associate degrees—can be valuable in the labor market. In theory, community colleges also provide an on-ramp for those seeking a bachelor’s degree; in fact, four out of five students enrolling intend to get a 4-year degree.
But the potential of community college is often unrealized. Many students are not ready. Quality varies. Pathways are often unclear and/or complex. Only about 40 percent of those enrolling earn a degree within six years. Just 15 percent acquire a 4-year degree, according to analyses by Doug Shapiro and Afet Dundar at the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
The degree of alignment and integration between
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In an extraordinary interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump unleashed an avalanche of caustic attacks on American’s top law enforcement officers
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, some of whom he had personally appointed.
In each case, the source of Trump’s ire was related to the ongoing investigation into his campaign and potential collusion with Russia.
Trump dismissed the entire notion of FBI independence, saying that the FBI Director only reports to the Justice Department “out of courtesy,” blaming the practice on Richard Nixon.
Taken together, Trump’s comments amount to a full scale assault on the rule of law from an increasingly paranoid president.
Trump blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions, one of his earliest supporters, for recusing himself from the Russia investigation. Trump cast Sessions as a traitor and said that, had he known Sessions would recuse himself, he would have appointed someone else to the job. He blames Sessions for starting a chain of events that resulted in the appointment of the special prosecutor.
TRUMP: Look, [Attorney General Jeff] Sessions gets the job. Right after he gets the job, he recuses himself.
Trump
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Southland temperatures again will reach triple-digit territory today amid a heat wave characterized by strong Santa Ana winds and very low humidity.
A red
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flag warning indicating a strong risk of wildfire will be in force through Thursday evening in mountain, forest and valley areas of Southern California from San Diego to San Luis Obispo County.
Some Southland areas will be swept by offshore winds gusting as high as 45 miles per hour this morning, and humidity levels in some spots away from the ocean will fall below 10 percent, according to the National Weather Service.
“The combination of very low humidities, weak offshore winds, hot temperatures and extremely dry fuels will produce critical fire weather conditions for portions of the Southland through Thursday,” according to an NWS advisory.
The red flag zone includes the Angeles National Forest, where firefighters have been battling the Station Fire since Aug. 26.
Northeast winds of between 15 and 30 miles per hour will blow through Angeles National Forest areas today, gusting to 50 mph in some passes and canyons, according to an NWS advisory. Temperatures at lower elevations will
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The Big Bang Theory bosses recently revealed that the sitcom would be crossing over with Young Sheldon – and fans are divided over the move.
Iain
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Armitage, Lance Barber and Montana Jordan will all cameo as their characters in one episode, that’s due to air next month, although it so far remains under wraps how they’ll manage to time travel to the show that’s set 30 years later.
Viewers weighed in on the bridge, which will broadcast just a few months before The Big Bang Theory ends forever, by sharing their opinions on Twitter, with some unimpressed by the decision.
However, others are over the moon about the two shows coming together and are patiently waiting for the episode to air.
So far it remains to be seen just how the crossover will take place, with some fans predicting a flashback or a dream.
Showrunner Steve Holland has previously teased that a videotape could be used as a plot device and teased what the episode will bring, telling a panel at Comic-Con 2018: ‘There’s an episode we’re writing now where we�
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Here's how you can join the Google's experiment to show offers at the top of the search results for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
To
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help retail advertisers increase their exposure for their Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals this year, Google has launched a new experiment with promotion extensions in Google Ads.
What’s the experiment? Now through Nov. 27, Google may serve a specific Black Friday promotion ad format when people search for the following Black Friday and Cyber Monday related keywords and their variations: “black friday deals”, “black friday <product name> deals”, “black friday <company name> deals” and their variants.
The ads are powered by promotion extensions, which debuted around this time last year.
The ad unit, like the example below, will display at the top of the search results for English speaking users. Users will see a list of offers that link to each retailer’s website.
How to participate. It’s pretty easy to get in on this experiment. What’s less easy is guaranteeing your promotion will display in the list
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After a 15-month-long absence from the airwaves, Donald Glover’s acclaimed comedy-drama “Atlanta” has
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finally returned, but the eponymous city is much colder than when we saw it last. Summer and all its awkward Juneteenth celebrations have now passed. Instead, Christmas is coming to Atlanta, and with it, “robbin’ season” — a spike in crime looming over the city during the holidays. From the very beginning of the second season premiere, Glover casts the shadow of robbin’ season to take the series in a new, decidedly darker direction.
Echoing the cold open of series’ first episode, “Alligator Man” leads with a shooting. Earn (Glover), Al (Brian Tyree Henry), and Darius (Lakeith Stanfield) are noticeably absent from the scene, however. In their place, we’re introduced to Curtis (Jasun Jabbar Wardlaw Jr.) and Droop (Frederick Williams), two young men who stick up a drive-thru for a drug stash rumored to be hidden in
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Asia-Pacific ministers are increasingly worried about eurozone's worsening debt crisis before economic summit.
Asia Pacific countries have pressed Europe to act more forcefully to
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quell its debt crisis, setting the tone for a summit overshadowed by growing alarm over the fallout from eurozone upheaval.
The 19th Informal Leadership Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC), scheduled to take place in Hawaii on Saturday, will look closely at regional economic growth, integration, green growth, energy security and regulatory co-operation.
"It is crucial that Europe move quickly to put in place a strong plan to restore financial stability"
Timothy Geithner, the US treasury secretary, and other APEC finance ministers have agreed to shore up their own economies against Europe's debt crisis, warning in a statement of "heightened downside risks to the global economy".
The Asia-Pacific ministers have pledged to take decisive action if necessary to prevent the spillover from Europe's financial woes from further undermining growth and financial stability across the region.
"The crisis in Europe remains the central challenge to global growth," Geithner said after ministerial talks in adv
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ATHENS – It doesn’t matter what Rulon Gardner does in these Olympics, or for the rest of his life, because he
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will forever be attached to the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2000, the day he attached himself to an unbeatable wrestling machine and wouldn’t let go.
Aleksandr Karelin still shadows Gardner, and will until the day Gardner takes off his singlet, walks away from Greco-Roman wrestling and heads back to Wyoming for good.
Karelin was the sport’s undisputed king, a man who hadn’t lost a heavyweight match in 13 years when he showed up for work in Sydney four summers ago, looking to bring home a fourth medal. Karelin was the modern incarnation of Milo of Croton, the ancient Greek wrestler who won six championships, some because his opponents were too terrified to face him.
Then the farmboy from Wyoming showed up. Karelin wrapped his arms around Gardner that day, broke the grip ever so slightly, and that was that. Gardner won the match 1-0. The reverberations were everywhere.
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What's Up with Neil Diamond?
Australian television is having a love affair with the 1970s right now. That glorious era of big moust
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aches, Chiko rolls and ham steaks is being celebrated in shows such as Paper Giants, Puberty Blues and the upcoming Howzat.
Those who were there will remember there was one artist who appeared in almost every suburban record collection around the nation, whose songs could be heard at just about every backyard barbie and neighbourhood party.
Neil Diamond's Hot August Night spend almost 30 weeks at number one in the Aussie charts, and he did a triumphant tour of Australia in 1976 ending in a massive farewell concert that was filmed and broadcast on television.
That show broke attendance records at the Sydney Sports Ground.
Diamond, 71, was recently given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, only fitting for an artist who has sold more than 125million albums worldwide.
More than 50 of his songs appear on Billboard's Hot 100 list of the most-heard songs, and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year.
He's considered the third
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Dr Nicholas Gruen is head of the Australian government's Government 2.0 Taskforce, which is in the final stages of a public consultation process
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. Dr Gruen is due to report his recommendations and findings by December 31. So what are his priorities and how does he answer the sceptics -- not about his taskforce, but about the way government will respond to his findings?
Also, Professor Graeme Turner and why he believes there's been a loss of perspective in the rush to celebrate the democratic potential of Web 2.0.
Listen to or download an extended interview with Dr Nicholas Gruen, chair of the Australian government's Government 2.0 Taskforce.
Lindsay Tanner: Information technologies are transforming the way that governments do business all around the world. They're opening up new possibilities for government to improve transparency, accountability and efficiency of government. In particular, Web 2.0 technologies are delivering new opportunities that governments in many countries are just starting to exploit, and it's really crucial that in Australia we are up there among the leading countries making use of these new opportunities.
Antony Funnell: That's federal finance
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Apple continues to dominate the worldwide tablet market, but the real story is the rapid rise of Amazon's Kindle Fire.
New data from research firm
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IHS iSuppli shows the Kindle Fire made an impressive debut in the fourth quarter of 2011. Amazon shipped 3.9 million units of its new color tablet, enough to grab 14.3 percent of the global market and surpass Samsung Electronics, which sells the Galaxy Tab series of slates.
Apple's share of the tablet space fell to 57 percent in the fourth quarter--down from 64 percent in Q3--but Cupertino still rules the roost by a wide margin. Apple shipped 15.4 million iPad and iPad 2 units in the fourth quarter, nearly four times the number of Kindle Fires shipped.
Despite the Fire's sizzling debut, it's unclear whether Amazon's tablet strategy--which at the present time means selling the $199 Fire at a small loss--will work in the long run.
IHS researcher Rhoda Alexander said in a statement that "the long-term viability of the (Fire) will hinge on the success of Amazon's business gamble,
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You never know, it could happen. This year it won’t happen, but we’ll see. I think James Franco has
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already made a series of Freaks and Geeks and hasn’t told us yet.
Judd Apatow's comments (per The Wrap) are both good and bad for fans of the show. Apatow not ruling out the possibility of a reunion someday gives us reason to be optimistic, and dropping the news in January that 2016 won’t be the year for a reunion can keep us from wondering about the possibilities. Still, word that a reunion won’t be anytime soon is a bummer. We can at least count on the fact that Apatow would certainly be willing to bring the cast back for another go.
Although he's (assumedly) joking about the Franco thing, if any actor were capable of putting together a reunion without actually telling anybody else involved in the original, it would be James Franco. Franco played stoner heartthrob Daniel Desario during the single season of Freaks and Geeks; unlike many other film stars who
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WASHINGTON — Matthew G. Whitaker, the nation’s new acting attorney general, repeatedly chided presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in public statements during
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2016 while he was speaking for a group that is barred by its tax-exempt status from supporting or opposing political candidates during a campaign.
Before coming to the Justice Department in 2017, Whitaker was president and executive or of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, a charitable organization that styles itself as nonpartisan government watchdog promoting ethics and transparency. The tax-exempt group — known by its initials, FACT — is supposed to serve the public interest under Section 501c3 of the U.S. tax code, without directly or even indirectly supporting or opposing specific candidates for office.
Yet the group has engaged in one partisan pronouncement after another, mostly directed at Democrats. During the last presidential race, Whitaker argued in July 2016 newspaper opinion pieces that Clinton should be prosecuted for her handling of her private email server — a favourite talking point of Donald Trump. The opinion pieces identified Whitaker as FACT’s leader.
In September 2016, Whitaker argued that Clinton had acted shamelessly
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In an effort to keep young female players coming back to its game, Fuel Entertainment has launched virtual boys (including boyfriends) in its online virtual
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world Spark City World. The free-to-play browser game allows girls to shop in virtual stores, customizing their avatars with new clothing and makeup, and decorating their apartment with new furniture, flooring or wallpaper.
The boys in Spark City World are all non-playable characters (NPCs), and are found at random throughout the world. Players can interact with them and form friendships via conversations, learning the boys’ likes and dislikes, birthdays and more. These girls can enter light relationships with the boys by developing crushes on them, going out on dates, giving them gifts and even breaking up with them when they’re ready to move on.
At launch, boys appear in four personality types: jock, hipster, skater and pop star, but there’s always the possibility for more to be added as the feature grows.
Spark City World will come to mobile in 2014, allowing players to take the game with
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Disgruntled supporters of a losing candidate in Solomon Islands are reported to have thrown stones and damaged a counting station in Temotu province.
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It is the first account of trouble in the general election held earlier this week, Radio New Zealand International reports.
Reports from Temotu suggest the supporters involved were those of high-profile politician and Our Party member Patteson Oti.
Police will not confirm this, but say supporters of a losing candidate allegedly threw stones, damaged a building and looted the shop of the winning candidate after the unofficial result was announced in the provincial capital Lata about 3am on Friday.
Police say the situation is now under control and they are sending out reinforcements.
Security remains tight at polling stations in Honiara, with police and observers to witness the counting.
Other well-known politicians to have been ousted are Francis Billy Hilly, the finance minister and National Party leader who lost the Rannogga/Simbo constituency to Charles Sigoto.
Also out is deputy Speaker Clement Kengava, who lost North West Choiseul to Connelly Sadakabatu.
However,
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What begins as yet another humdrum teen film slowly morphs into an empowering, passionate coming out story. While toting a flat, ultimately
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unlikeable cast of characters and an almost too perfect protagonist, “Love, Simon” manages to deliver an impactful message throughout its final act, cementing itself as one of the best book adaptations in a long time.
Despite the high praise, this film is far from perfect or even great. Most of the acting is a bit too cheesy and over dramatic, and there is little underlying personality within the film. A chord is finally struck, however, once Simon’s inner demons take center stage, forcing him to reveal his secret before he’s ready.
Based on the award-winning novel “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,” “Love, Simon” follows Simon Spear, a typical awkward high school senior with a pretty decent life. His parents are successful in their fields, and his sister is an aspiring chef. Simon gets coffee for his friends before scooping them up in his car, and they jam to ’90s
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Curfews, sports, and understanding kids’ brain chemistry have all helped dramatically curb substance abuse in the country.
It’s
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a little before 3 p.m. on a sunny Friday afternoon and Laugardalur Park, near central Reykjavik, looks practically deserted. There’s an occasional adult with a stroller, but the park’s surrounded by apartment blocks and houses, and school’s out—so where are all the kids?
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A couple of minutes ago, we passed two halls dedicated to badminton and ping pong. Here in the park, there’s also an athletics track, a geothermally heated swimming pool and—at last—some visible kids, excitedly playing football on an artificial pitch.
Young people aren’t hanging out in the park right now, Gudberg explains, because they’re in after-school classes in these facilities, or in clubs for music, dance, or art. Or they might be on outings with their parents.
Today
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Microsoft's "I'm a PC" advertising campaign was created on a Mac and the celebrity spruikers brought in by the software giant are all
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professed Apple fans, it has been revealed.
Hidden information contained in images from the ads published on Microsoft's website show they were created on Macs, a Flickr user revealed in a published screen shot.
Microsoft responded by quickly scrubbing the hidden "metadata" information from the images.
It issued a statement saying: "As is common in almost all campaign workflow, agencies and production houses use a wide variety of software and hardware to create, edit and distribute content, including both Macs and PCs."
The revelation is ironic because the ads are part of a broader $300 million campaign designed to spruce up Windows Vista's image and tout the PC's advantages over the Mac.
Microsoft has already run two ad spots featuring Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld awkwardly meeting in a discount shoe shop and attempting to reconnect with real people by moving in with a normal family.
But even though a third ad featuring Seinfeld was filmed, Microsoft dumped the comic last week in favour
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It’s time to get excited, Mac fans. As reported by 9to5Mac, oft-accurate Ming-Chi Ku
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o of TF International Securities is back with another report on Apple’s ambitions for 2018. In addition to the new iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches we all know are coming, Kuo says, Apple is reportedly planning to update one of the most beloved and forgotten members of the Mac lineup: the Mac mini.
The last time we got a new Mac mini way back in October 2014, Apple delivered a new chip, lower price, and less user upgradability, but it was arguably more of an obligatory refresh than a gotta-have-it upgrade. And since then, the Mac mini hasn’t gotten an ounce of love from Apple.
But all that could change in this year. While Kuo doesn’t offer any specifics about the predicted Mac mini refresh, the mere fact that it was mentioned in his report is cause for celebration. Other than a random e-mail Tim Cook sent to an Apple fan late last year declaring his love for the Mac mini and
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ST. LOUIS — Once in awhile, in my role as a movie critic, other grand opportunities present themselves and my fortuitous meeting with
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“Pawn Sacrifice’s” producer at an industry cocktail party rates as one such opportunity.
The St. Louis Chess Club, located in the city’s Central West End, sponsored the party Sept. 3, prior to the St. Louis red carpet premier of the movie “Pawn Sacrifice” starring Tobey Maguire, as American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer.
The film is about chess Grand Master Bobby Fischer’s triumphant win over Russian Boris Spassky at the 1972 World Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland. The film’s producer, Gail Katz, was present at the party to promote the film.
I asked if I could have a couple of minutes to talk with Katz. I was delighted that I had her all to myself for almost a half hour. When she walked in the room, she had the attention of every woman present. She was tall and thin, with long hair peppered with gray, and
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With little U.S. economic or corporate news on the docket Monday, investors kept an eye on the rest of the world to get a
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sense of where the market is headed.
The Dow trimmed a loss of over 100 points earlier in the day, but still ended slightly in the red. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq finished flat.
The Dow and S&P 500 are near all-time highs as investors celebrated the five year anniversary of the current bull market.
But the Nasdaq is not back to all-time highs yet.
In fact, Monday is the 14-year anniversary of the tech-heavy index hitting its peak of above 5,130.
Still, the Nasdaq is now only about 15.5% below its dot-com boom record, thanks to a nearly 40% jump last year and strong start to 2014.
European markets closed mostly in the red. And Asian markets ended significantly lower after China trade data and revised Japanese GDP numbers came in weaker than expected.
Boeing (BA) shares fell after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777, disappeared Saturday in mysterious
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Jan 31 (Reuters) - Shares in Tesla Inc fell nearly 4 percent on Thursday as Wall Street analysts following up on its fourth-quarter results questioned
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underlying demand for its crucial Model 3 sedan and the electric car maker’s ability to make inroads in China.
Tesla reported quarterly profit below analysts’ expectations on Wednesday and surprised investors by announcing that Chief Financial Officer Deepak Ahuja, 56, would leave and handover the reins to 34-year-old Zach Kirkhorn, its vice president of finance.
JPMorgan analysts were among those warning that Ahuja’s leaving deprived the company of long automotive industry experience and relative stability in a company which has seen a steady stream of senior staff come and go since 2016.
Still, the fall in Tesla shares was less than that suggested by initial pricing after Wednesday’s results and also far smaller than some of the swings in one of the past year’s most volatile Wall Street stocks.
The company, which is striving to stabilize production and deliver consistent profit, ended the quarter with $4.3 billion in cash and said it had “
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In this week's CNET Prizefight, we pit the Motorola Xoom against the Apple iPad 2 to see which tablet is most worthy
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of your time.
We know this will only end in nasty, partisan comments, but we wouldn't be doing our jobs if we didn't put the Motorola Xoom and Apple iPad 2 in the ring for an official CNET Prizefight.
Out of the gate, you guys can probably guess my feelings on these two tablets. I wrote CNET's rated reviews for both devices, and although I was optimistic enough about the Xoom to nominate it for CNET's Best of CES, the iPad 2 ultimately received my Editors' Choice.
The wild cards in this Prizefight are the other two judges. Eric Franklin reviews tablets and monitors for CNET, and directs the CNET Labs product testing for the San Francisco office. Brian Tong, as most of you know, is the man behind CNET's Apple Byte podcast, where he dishes Apple news, praise, and criticism every week.
So without further ado, let's put the gloves on and see which of
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The EPA is required by the Clean Air Act to review and, if necessary, update its standards every five years to keep up with the latest science
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and research. The agency was required to finish its current review in March, five years after the previous analysis, but has not yet finalized its evaluation.
Current standards are based on data from 2006.
"So we're now looking at science that is seven years old," Nolen said. "Most of us would not be happy if our doctors stopped looking at the science seven years ago and said, 'This is how you're going to be treated.' So this is the reason for the same requirement that they keep up and take a look at the current research."
Health and environmental groups want the EPA to impose stricter standards for ozone, a greenhouse gas.
Tougher standards could prevent up to 12,000 premature deaths per year, according to an analysis by the EPA, but industry groups warn they could cost businesses up to $1 trillion.
Protecting lives and health should come first, the organizations argue. They cite a 2001 Supreme Court decision that ruled the EPA should set air
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Fast food franchise Burger King is to return to Hartlepool after plans for a new drive-thru were given the green light.
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osals were submitted to Hartlepool Borough Council last year to build the restaurant at Teesbay Retail Park off Brenda Road.
The application, from Chase Property Developments Limited, stated the site would be open from 5am to midnight seven days a week and create 50 jobs.
Planning documents stated an estimated £2.5million would be invested into the construction of the site.
Four supporting comments were submitted backing the plans while one objection was submitted.
The plans have now been given the go-ahead by council planning bosses, with a report from senior planning officer Laura Chambers stating the proposal is acceptable for the area.
It said: “The proposed development will occupy a prominent position within the street scene given its proximity to the entrance of the retail park.
“The proposals are of a high quality design, in keeping the character and appearance of the wider site, and are therefore acceptable in visual amenity terms.
The application is the latest development on the retail
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