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Tangelo Park resident Larry Brown, who was representing the Federation of Manatee County Community Associations, was concerned with talk about raising user fees
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for county services.
“We’re in a budget crunch,” Brown told the commissioners after listening to them discuss Hunzeker’s spending plan for 2009-10.
He said he is a retiree living solely on Social Security and not being able to afford to use the county facilities because the costs keep going up.
Hunzeker provided the commission its first look at the budget numbers Monday.
In what he called a “30,000-foot view,” the general overview of the 2009-10 budget was broken down into about 150 separate funds.
Hunzeker and Jim Seuffert, director of the county financial management department, reviewed each of those funds for the commissioners.
One of the largest is the general operating fund, which showed an expected revenue of about $217.5 million for 2009-10.
That is $13.3 million less than this year, mostly because property tax revenues are expected to be down
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“To let some kids that are quite immature and irresponsible think they can be flippant about things and say things just because they are in
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a crowd … to ruin what so many people have spent so many years building, that’s sad to me,” Tracz told the Collegian.
Administration had previously discussed stopping the band mid-performance if fans started the chant, Tracz told the Collegian. He then received a message from the president’s office and K-State Athletics to stop the band if he heard the chant.
After the game, band member Marissa Grace Sullivan posted a letter on Facebook to express her frustrations with K-State students.
Sullivan’s post has received over 150 shares.
According to the K-State marching band’s history, the tradition dates to 1968 when the “Wabash Cannonball” was the only piece of sheet music to survive a building fire.
“Since then the Wabash Cannonball has come to represent the survival of the underdog in the hearts and minds of all true K-State fans
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The Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant (CCNPP) is a nuclear power plant located on the western shores of the Chesapeake Bay in
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Lusby, Calvert County, Maryland.
The plant is one of the largest employers in Calvert County, Maryland. The company pays a significant amount in taxes and fees to Calvert County to the extent that the local government rarely suffers budget issues -- especially in contrast to surrounding counties.
The plant has two 2700 megawatt thermal (MWth) Combustion Engineering Generation II, two loop pressurized water reactors. Each generating plant (CCNPP 1&2) produces approximately 850 megawatt electrical (MWe) net or 900 MWe gross. Each plant's electrical load consume approximately 50 MWe. These are saturated steam plants (non-superheated) and are approximately 33% efficient (ratio of 900 MWe gross/2700 MWth core). Only the exhaust of the single High Pressure Main Turbine is slightly superheated by a two stage reheater before delivering the superheated steam in parallel to the three Low Pressure Turb
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.In one of my previous columns, I already “predicted” about this result simply because she was, all along, telling the
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“truth” based on her own effort to uncover it and bolstered by her immense knowledge and experience as BoC official for the last three decades.
On the other hand, those customs officials who managed to “convinced” Comm. Sid at the very start of this controversy that the lifters were ‘No Suspect’ (did not contain anything suspicious), did so simply to protect their back and their lucrative racket of getting a regular “tara” from each container van arriving at the piers, whether subject to X-Ray inspection or not.
I mean, if you are collecting from a low of P200 to a high of P1,000 per container for each container van, why would you not scamper to convince Comm. Sid -- and malign Coll. Mangaoang in the process -- that the SMYD containers that delivered the lifters to GMA, Cavite was “clear” of any suspicious cargo?
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Hank Moody is finally ready to get his life together in the final season of Showtime’s Californication — premiering April 13 at 9
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:30/8:30c — but as you’ll see in TVLine’s exclusive first-look promo, it might already be too late.
His first misfire comes when he tries to make amends with Karen. “I have always loved you, and I will always love you,” he tells her — just moments before she introduces him to her handsome new yoga buddy, played by Roger Howarth (General Hospital, One Life to Live). Strike one.
Then there’s Hank’s career. Considering he’s already “taken a s–t” on books, movies and theater, there’s only one medium left on which Hank can metaphorically defecate: television! And defecate he does, by sleeping with his actresses and fighting with his writers. Strike two.
Will Hank find a way to reach strike three? Given his track record, we’re remaining optimistic.
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Generally, a better design version of the NEX-5N. The interchangeable lens Sony Alpha NEX-5R delivers similarly excellent photo quality
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and somewhat improved performance over that model. The look is about the same. The addition of the control dial and a function button make a big difference in usability and its streamline shooting for those of us who like direct access controls for everything. The menu system still gets a little annoying. And now it has the card submenu rolled into setup, which makes it quite tedious to find important options like card formatting and Wi-Fi set up. The Wi-Fi features are pretty basic. The most competitors offer the same. You can upload to Facebook or Sony's play memory service or you can transfer directly to your phone. There's also remote shutter app that lets you use your phone or tablet as a larger screen, but only can really do is snap the photo. Also is the ability to download and install proprietary apps, but the whole operation seems to offer more benefit to Sony than to camera owners. For instance, the free picture effects plus app duplicates the effect in the camera with the exception of
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These kids are teased, taunted and physically assaulted by their peers — reflecting racism, xenophobia, homophobia and sexism. This bullying epidemic also spreads
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far beyond classroom walls to strike countless communities from coast to coast in different social environments. Bullying is particularly acute in the elderly community. It is reported that one in 10 elders in America has experienced mistreatment in the past year. It has also been reported that for every case of elder abuse, neglect, exploitation or self-neglect reported to authorities, five more go unreported.
Students at the University of Virginia were outraged by the dismissal of Teresa Sullivan.
Editor's note: Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is president emeritus and university professor of public service at George Washington University. He is chairman of the Korn/Ferry Higher Education Practice and senior client partner at Korn/Ferry International, an executive recruiting firm.
(CNN) - Those who have been following the recent soap opera at the University of Virginia may think that it has to do with the blundering dismissal of the president, Teresa Sullivan, and her subsequent re-engagement by the Board of Visitors
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After experiencing the marvels of traveling or living overseas, the International Friendship Club invites residents to build new relationships. While it is not a requirement to
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have traveled or lived overseas, the club focuses on other cultures.
The club is composed of people who speak more than 20 different languages.
Hal Meeks, club president, lived in Caribbean for more than 35 years before moving to Sun City. Over those years, Meeks lived in St. Thomas, St. Croix, Puerto Rico and Saba, Netherlands Antilles.
After graduating from the University of Oregon, Meeks and his wife Judy Meeks decided to travel overseas.
"I got a job as a news anchor in the Caribbean, but my plan was to stay there a year then travel somewhere new," Meeks said. "Somehow we ended up spending 35 years there and continue to visit every year."
Meeks became interested in the Caribbean after a college professor shared his experiences of the island life. When Meeks moved to Sun City in 2000, he joined the International Friendship Club.
While mostly a social club that meets to build friendships, it also educ
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This story originally appeared in DukeMed Alumni News.
Most scientists can point to an instance when serendipity played a role in their
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work. Some of the most exciting scientific discoveries have happened by accident. Penicillin resulted from a spoiled bacteria culture. The radioactivity of uranium without outside light was discovered when a cloudy day derailed an experiment with sunlight.
Indeed, two scientists at Duke University School of Medicine feel their careers have been transformed by serendipity. One, a pharmacologist and cancer biologist, has found his way into an unexpected avenue of work that may lead to a new treatment for HIV. Another, a neuroscientist, is recognized as an innovator in understanding brain injury and repair, but he never planned to go into science in the first place.
Drug discovery can involve conducting a massive screen in which millions of potential drugs are tested for their ability to bind to one target of interest -- a receptor or other structure in the body that is known to be associated with a particular disease. To Tim Haystead, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology and cancer biology, that method seemed like spinning a
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Touts are a three-piece rock band from Derry. The name is a reference to the Northern Irish colloquialism for a police
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informer, which is scrawled and sprayed around their home city; the music they make is full of a sense of Derry’s violent past and its uneasy present. It harks back to the distant days of punk rock, but its sheer velocity also speaks of an urge to get on with the future, whatever that might be. The band are part of a lineage of music interwoven with Northern Ireland’s difficult politics and history: as the Belfast-based music writer Stuart Bailie’s brilliant book Trouble Songs puts it, raw art that has “challenged given stories” and provided “succour and a sense of collective worth”.
Over four very sobering days, this was a sentiment I heard time and again. After I left Derry, with ringing ears, I drove along the often labyrinthine border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, stopping to talk to people for whom that largely invisible line had been a complete irre
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On Saturday, April 20, the C&O Canal Trust, in partnership with the C&O Canal National Historical Park, kicked off the 6
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th annual C&O Canal Pride Days, the single largest volunteer event to take place in the park. Approximately 85 volunteers from the local communities in Montgomery County invested their time and effort to help restore and revitalize the C&O Canal National Historical Park at Great Falls.
Saturday’s event at Great Falls, which is among the most popular and heavily-visited sites in the 184.5-mile-long Park, coincided with Earth Day, National Park Week, and National Volunteer Week.
This year’s projects at Great Falls included painting historic buildings and park landmarks, raking leaves, and removing trash and debris from the parking lot and surrounding areas. Immediately following the projects, there was a Volunteerism Fair set up for those who were interested in learning about or participating in future volunteer and service opportunities, ranging from long-term volunteer positions such as Bike Patrol and Billy Goat Trail Stewards to one-time projects available for corporate and civic groups.
C&O Canal
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After a nearly three-week trial last November, a Queens jury failed to agree on a verdict for the charges against Chanel Lewis, 22,
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and retrial is slated to begin March 12.
The Brooklyn man accused of killing and sexually abusing Howard Beach jogger Karina Vetrano more than two years ago was checked out at a hospital after he got into a fight with another inmate at a Suffolk County jail, officials said Saturday.
According to a spokesman for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, Chanel Lewis, 22, got into a fight on Friday and was sent to nearby Peconic Bay Medical Center where medical staff there cleared him for a return to the Riverhead Correctional Facility. Chanel is being held there while awaiting retrial.
The spokesman couldn’t elaborate about the nature of the fight or any injuries but said that after Lewis was returned to Riverhead he was housed in a different part of the jail. Internal disciplinary charges could result because of the fight, the spokesman added.
After a nearly three-week trial last November, a Queens jury failed to agree on a verdict for the charges against Lewis
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Eleven passengers were injured when an air-conditioned bus in Bangkok crashed into a tree on a slippery road following rains on Thursday.
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Lt-Colonel Chitawan Nua-on, deputy inspector of Ratburana Police Station, said the accident happened in front of the Ratburana district office at 11.30am.
Bus No Por-Or 6 plying the Bang Lamphu-Phra Pradaeng route crashed into a large roadside tree on Ratburana Road.
Many of the 11 passengers suffered head injuries and bruises. They were rushed to the Suksawat Hospital.
Driver Thongsuk said his bus was heading to the Phra Pradaeng stop and most passengers were getting ready to get off when he lost control of the bus.
He said the road was slippery and the wornout bus tyres could not grip properly.
He said that as he lost control, he saw many vehicles on the right lane so he decided to stop the bus by crashing it into the tree instead of the other vehicles.
Chitawan said police would interrogate the injured passengers before deciding whether
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Michele Cox of Howell celebrated her 50th birthday by running 50 miles in the Chicago Lakefront 50/50, her 50th race of
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the year.
Michele Cox celebrated her 50th birthday just over a week ago by running 50 miles.
The milestone was also the 50th race in a year marking a half-century of life.
The night before the Chicago Lakefront 50/50 Ultramarathon, Cox didn’t sleep well at her father’s nearby home, afraid she wouldn’t hear the alarm and miss the race — the one race she could not miss, with no others to make up for it before her birthday.
She made it to the starting line, joined by about 55 runners on the dark, cold, windy morning — with a temperature of 33 degrees, about 27 or 28 degrees with wind chill.
Cox was dressed for the weather with hat, gloves and socks and shirt made of “smart wool,” but the real preparation for the race, an out and back course in which she would complete four loops of 12.5 miles each
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JACKSON, Ga. -- Georgia executed its ninth inmate this year on Tuesday night, putting to death a man convicted of killing his father-
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in-law more than a quarter century ago.
William Sallie, 50, was pronounced dead at 10:05 p.m. after a lethal injection at the state prison in Jackson.
Lawyers who sought to block William Sallie’s execution said he should be granted a new trial because of alleged juror bias, but courts haven’t properly considered that evidence because he missed a filing deadline by eight days at a time when he didn’t have a lawyer, his lawyers said in court filings.
Georgia has put to death more people this year than any other state, including Texas with seven. There have been 68 men and one woman executed in Georgia since 1976, CBS affiliate WGCL reports.
Sallie was the 46th inmate put to death by lethal injection, according to officials.
Sallie was convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of John Lee Moore in March 1990. His first conviction and death sentence were overturned because his
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The birthday isn’t until August 2, but the celebration is this week. Israeli President Shimon Peres is turning 90 and there�
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�s no shortage of big names heading to Israel to celebrate the world’s oldest head of state.
For the festivities, Bill Clinton is being paid $500,000 to speak at an event today at Peres Academic Center in Rehovot, the Daily Mail reports. The Jewish National Fund is fronting the bill, donating the money to Clinton’s charity, The William J. Clinton Foundation.
And what’s a party without a serenade from Barbara Streisand? The Jerusalem Post reports that the singer arrived in Israel on June 15 with her dog in tow. Streisand will sing at the main event on Tuesday night, which will kick off this week’s Israeli Presidential Conference at Hebrew University.
Peres has asked that those invited not bring him gifts. “It is not something celebratory that I grew by a year, but it is a good opportunity to show the world Israel’s accomplishments, and for this I am
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When Wall Street withdrew its support for auction-rate securities, many investors discovered their cash is trapped. Their brokers told them their investments in instruments that
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were marketed as cash-equivalents were suddenly illiquid. Issuers who depended on the securities for financing are being told by their banks that they must refinance, and of course hand over deal fees to the very institutions that allowed the markets to collapse. And now many want to know why the auctions were in such dire condition that the banks decided the cost of supporting them was not longer acceptable.
“How long did they know the auctions were on life support?” one investor with nearly half-a-million dollars in now illiquid auction-rate securities asked DealBreaker.
The immediate cause of the auction failures was the pullback of the banks and brokerages. In mid-February the financial institutions conducting the auctions stopped acting as principals or buyers of excess ARS inventory. Investors and issuers were caught off guard, surprised by the sudden change that occurred nearly simultaneously and without warning. Even some within the financial institutions were caught off guard, with brokers learning only after the
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NILES Go Blue? The University of Michigan battle cry is popular with many in the Niles area, but it hits a stop sign at
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1205 S. 11th St., where John Dampeer operates his State Farm Insurance office. Dampeer's Good-Neighbor surroundings include a picture of former Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian and a poster depicting photos of a century's worth of Fightin' Irish football captains. Closer examination of the latter reveals that Dampeer isn't simply a fan. His mug is displayed for the year 1972, when Dampeer earned All-American status. Like most football linemen, the former offensive tackle didn't receive a great deal of recognition in college. But he managed to impress the one person who mattered most -- the former Susan Combs, a Sturgis native and a student at Saint Mary's College when the two first met. Today, they've been married 34 years and have two grown children. "I tell people I made a big mistake at Notre Dame. I fell in love with a girl from Michigan,'' he said. "I'm still here, with the gray (
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Netflix will not bring any films to this year’s Cannes film festival after a new rule change.
Last year, Netflix brought Okja
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and The Meyerowitz Stories to the Croisette, which led to protests from French cinema owners. French law states that movies cannot be available on home platforms for 36 months after being shown in cinemas. This would directly conflict with Netflix’s day-on-date release for their films.
This year, Thierry Fremaux, the festival’s artistic director, imposed a ban on movies competing for the main prizes without a theatrical release. Sarandos called the decision “completely contrary to the spirit of any film festival in the world”.
This year’s lineup is yet to be announced but Netflix removing films from consideration would mean new pictures from Alfonso Cuarón and Paul Greengrass would miss out.
Earlier on Wednesday, 2018’s official festival poster was released, before Thursday’s announcement of which films will be premiering. Everybody Knows, a psychological thriller from The Salesman director Asghar Farhadi,
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This is the debut week of the Z10 on AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, and at the same $200 price point
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as the iPhone, Android smartphones, and Windows Phone devices, I wonder if consumers will choose BlackBerry.
As T-Mobile joins Verizon and AT&T this week with the release of the BlackBerrry Z10, I continue to wonder why someone would buy a Z10 over an iPhone, Windows Phone, or Android smartphone. I've been enjoying the Z10 for over a month, but I like using my Nokia N9, and we all know how well MeeGo is doing right now.
I have a great job where I get to try out lots of phones and thus part of the appeal of the Z10 is the new, fresh BlackBerry 10 operating system. I've been able to sideload many Android apps I use daily, but we can't expect consumers to do this, so there is still lots of work to do in BlackBerry World. Then again, the OS packs a lot and you don't always need a ton of apps.
As I previously mentioned, the
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The communications vendor signs on as board member and agrees to lead a project to create a framework for mobile Java developer tools.
Nokia Corp.
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Monday is expected to announce it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and board member, becoming the second major company to announce this level of membership in Eclipse in two weeks.
Nokia officials said the mobile communications giant will contribute software and developers to the open source application development platform and will head a new Eclipse project. Iona Technologies announced membership as a Strategic Developer and board member of the Eclipse Foundation last week.
Officials at Nokia said their company, based in Espoo, Finland, will lead a project to create a framework for mobile Java developer tools, including complete tooling support for J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition). For instance, Nokia officials said the company will donate several components of its Java development tool set and build new tools for building MIDP- (Mobile Information Device Profile) and CDC- (Connected Device Configuration) based mobile Java applications.
Nokia has been an Eclipse user for some time, announcing enhanced support for the Eclipse Platform last year at the JavaOne
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With just three months until the recreational use of marijuana becomes legal in California, state public health officials are hoping their “Let’s Talk
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Cannabis” web page will encourage residents to think twice before they consume, and if they do, to understand there could be some risks.
The California Department of Public Health “engaged in extensive conversations with stakeholders in California and partners in other states with legalized cannabis to target the most vulnerable populations and apply their lessons learned,” said CDPH health director, Dr. Karen Smith.
The health agency’s web page is part of a statewide campaign to educate the public about what’s legal in California and the potential health impacts of cannabis use.
Effective Jan. 1, 2018, its will be legal for adults 21 and older to possess, consume and cultivate marijuana. It will also be legal to sell marijuana at retail outlets where permitted by local ordinance. Marijuana dispensaries will also continue to be permitted.
SB 94, the legislation legalizing recreational consumption, included funding for the state to conduct outreach and education to consumers.
“We are committed to providing Californians
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Controlled and stable electrical doping of organic semiconductors is desirable for the realization of efficient organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices.
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Thus, progress has been made to understand the fundamental doping mechanisms.1-3 In 2016, Aizawa et al. reported the use of 12-molybdophosphoric acid hydrate (PMA) to induce p-type doping and crosslinking of neat films of poly[N-9’-heptadecanyl-2,7-carbazole-alt-5,5-(4’,7’-di-2-thienyl-2’,1’,3’-benzothiadiazole)](PCDTBT).4 Later on, a more general approach of sequential solution-based doping was presented, by post-process immersion of donor-like polymer films in PMA-nitromethane solutions.5 However, critical to the method is the use of nitromethane, a highly unstable solvent, to dissolve PMA and thus limited the applicability to large-scale
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For patients who have lost their sight to various eye diseases, artificial retina technology allows them to experience limited vision once more.
The external parts of
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the artificial retina device include glasses with a mounted camera and a small computer.
The device also includes an electrode implanted onto the patient’s retina. When the camera “sees” an image, the computer is able to translate these into a pattern of neural signals. This pattern is then transmitted to the implanted electrode, and directly stimulates the optic nerve. These signals are then able to be processed by the brain and interpreted as very rudimentary images.
The first artificial retina to be implanted in a patient, known as Argus I, included only sixteen electrodes that stimulated the optic nerve. However, the patient with this implant was still able to tell the differences between light and dark, and could make out basic shapes. The newer version of the technology, Argus II, now includes sixty electrodes. However, it is still limited in that patients can only tell the differences between light and dark areas, and can only see shapes, outlines, and blurs, and not detailed images. Regardless
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Services through a station were delayed after someone got on to the tracks.
A veteran politician who served as an MP for almost 30 years has died
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A claim by a Kent MP that scrapping primary school tests would let down children has sparked a backlash online.
The safety concerns of parents who fear crossing the road with their children is leading to calls to improve the "dangerous" layout.
Firefighters battled a garden blaze for about 40 minutes in the middle of the night.
A mum has hit out after her autistic son had to miss the end of a screening of Dumbo at the cinema after complaints.
Faversham joint-manager Phil Miles demands more from his players after defeat to Herne Bay.
Police are investigating vandalism at more than 30 locations across a town.
A suspect has appeared in court accused of criminal damage and driving offences after a police car was damaged.
Dramatic footage shows the moment cars go up in flames on the M2 following a crash.
A team of school pupils are set to compete on the world stage after racing to success at the F1 in Schools national finals.
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Updated. Motorola’s(s MMI) quest to ban Apple’s(s AAPL) push e-mail notifications from
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its iCloud and MobileMe services was upheld in a Germany court Friday. This is a victory for Motorola: Not only did the judge agree that an earlier injunction granted should be upheld, Apple was also ordered to pay Motorola unspecified damages in the case, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
Motorola sued Apple over the way iCloud and its predecessor MobileMe send “push” emails, claiming the method used is a violation of “multiple pager status synchronization system and method patents” — basically technology Motorola once used in pagers. Apple said following the initial ruling that Motorola’s “old pager patent is invalid.” But a judge disagreed and forced Apple to come up with a workaround in early February. Apple did that: The overall services of MobileMe and iCloud still work in Germany, but users have to check their email manually, rather than it being automatically pushed to them.
While it’s a win for Motorola, it’
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Staged by the playwright, who also appears in the unbilled role of Monkey (a kind of money whisperer), Lazy Fair
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is in the tradition of Reyna’s earlier, shorter The Scottish Play. That one cleverly used a family breakup to explore Scotland’s independence movement.
Lazy Fair looks at the execution and aftermath of a heist somewhere in the world (Paul Tei’s costumes suggest the Middle East). The caper plays out in flashback. In the present, a decade after the theft went all kinds of wrong, the three plotters reunite and turn on each other.
Rip (Ken Clement) is the conniving ringleader who wound up with the spoils: what looks like an empty box, though Monkey assures him it contains the spirit of money. Otto (Andy Quiroga), a tightly wound worrier, suffers from memory lapses because of an injury he suffered in the bomb blast 10 years earlier — at least, that’s how Rip tells it. Sandra (Meredith Bartmon) has remained friendly with Otto, but she has
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If you Google images of "Elle Magazine Covers," you'll finds lots of covers featuring skinny women wearing tight outfits or low-cut dresses
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, showing lots of skin. In fact, you'll have a hard time finding anything else.
So when Elle magazine offered the cover to Melissa McCarthy (The Heat, Bridesmaids) for its "The Women in Hollywood" issue, many were happy to see a bigger woman finally chosen for the cover. But now that the magazine has unveiled a look at it, we see that the actress is wearing a heavy coat that's covering almost every inch of her.
Critics immediately attacked Elle for their wardrobe decision, but the magazine says that McCarthy had lots of input into what she would be wearing. "Melissa loved this look, and is gorgeous on our cover," said Elle.
Take a look at the cover below and let us know if the magazine should be ashamed for covering up McCarthy.
They should be ashamed for putting her on the cover. Period!
I can't f*cking stand this unfunny irl Miss Piggy, she's terrible.
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The critical buzz on The Brave One and In the Valley of Elah.
The critical buzz on 3:10 to Yuma and Shoot �
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�Em Up.
The critical buzz on Ladrón que roba a ladrón and The Nines.
The critical buzz on The Nanny Diaries and The King of Kong.
The critical buzz on Superbad.
The critical buzz on Stardust and Rocket Science.
The critical buzz on The Bourne Ultimatum and Charles Simic, poet laureate.
The critical buzz on No Reservations and Arctic Tale.
The critical buzz on I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
The critical buzz on Talk to Me and Interview.
The critical buzz on the haute couture collections and License To Wed.
The critical buzz on Ratatouille and Evening.
The critical buzz on A Mighty Heart and Evan Almighty.
The critical buzz on Nancy Drew and Eagle vs. Shark.
The critical buzz on TheSopranos and the Tony Awards.
The critical buzz on Knocked Up and Crazy Love.
The critical buzz
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Bill Collings liked to build things. And while he was blessed with good engineering genes, nobody would have guessed just what he would wind up building
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: a guitar.
His grandfather’s uncle was a pioneering automaker. His grandfather was the innovative president of Dow Corning, the manufacturer of silicone products. His father was an engineer. His parents hoped he would become a doctor, but he dropped out of a pre-med program at college.
He built hot rods, mostly as a hobby. But after working for five years in an Ohio machine shop and experimenting with improvised string instruments in his spare time, he finally found his true calling when he was about 30.
Abandoning metal for wood, he began a quest to perfect the kind of fretted musical instrument he had dabbled with since he was 13, in his case a C-1 model Gibson.
Self-taught and by then living in Houston, he learned on the job largely by fixing other people’s instruments before venturing to build acoustic guitars on his own in his two-bedroom apartment, making machine parts for them as well.
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Deleted tweets for House Representative Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
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Brian Ernest Arbizu was born July 17, 1964, to Ernest E. and Muriel Ann Arbizu. He was one of twins
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. Brian passed away Jan. 6, 2019, in Shawnee at the age of 54.
Brian was preceded in death by his parents and sister Johnni L. Kinnard.
Brian is survived by his three children, Jeremy, Daniel, and DeLanie of Phoenix, Arizona; brother David A. Rogers of Shawnee; three sisters, twin sister M. Dianne Arbizu of Arizona, Terrisa M. Allen of Wisconsin, and Samantha A. Garcia of Arizona.
Brian was kind and generous and would bring laughter to even your darkest days. Upon meeting him you could never forget him. Brian was excited about his new life that he had found in Jesus, his family, his church family, and several close friends. He attended C3 Cross Connection Church in Shawnee. He had such an outgoing personality and attracted folks to him with his smile. Brian would give you his last dollar or his sack lunch if he thought you needed it more than him.
A memorial service
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Rolling Stones fans around the world got a fright Monday after reports that their idol Mick Jagger was to have heart surgery later this week.
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The iconic British band put back the North American leg of their "No Filter" tour Saturday saying the 75-year-old rocker was to receive unspecified medical treatment.
There has been no official information about the veteran frontman's condition other than the group's declaration on Twitter that "Mick has been advised by doctors that he cannot go on tour as he needs medical treatment."
With fans taking to social media to say they were praying for Jagger, the band tried to dampen fears by adding that "Mick is expected to make a complete recovery so that he can get back on stage as soon as possible."
Rolling Stone magazine reported Monday that the singer is to have heart valve surgery. Drudge Report said the operation would take place on Friday in New York.
Jagger himself tweeted that he was "devastated" to delay the tour of 17 shows in the US and Canada that were due to start later this month and run until June.
"I will be
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Amid declining budgets and increasing priorities, Yale’s library system has begun to deepen partnerships with peer institutions to address upcoming challenges.
As the
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University prepares for the arrival of 800 more students over the next four years, ensuring that students continue to have positive experiences at Yale’s libraries is an immediate concern for University Librarian Susan Gibbons.
“With the new colleges coming on line, we are going to need new staffing to support 800 additional students,” Gibbons said, adding that more librarians will be needed to help with undergraduate outreach programs and in majors where students have senior theses. Gibbons also estimated that with the coming increase in the University’s undergraduate student body, the library will need to spend an additional $1.2 million for electronic content licenses annually.
The challenges are exacerbated by the library’s funding structure. According to Gibbons, about three-quarters of the libraries’ budget comes from the return on over 600 library-specific endowments that are managed by the University Investments Office, with the rest coming from general appropriations provided by the Office of the Provost
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The Alberta politics merry-go-round continued to spin Wednesday as a Calgary MLA announced she would leave the NDP government caucus to sit as an Independent
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“Albertans need political choices that inspire them, not scare them,” she said on Facebook.
In an interview, McPherson said she has great regard for her former NDP colleagues but acknowledged she felt the government was not taking the steps needed to transform the health and education systems for the 21st century.
She said she had raised her concerns in the past but Premier Rachel Notley’s government is focused on fulfilling what it sees as its electoral mandate.
McPherson said she will consult with her constituents about her future path. She said it’s way too early to contemplate moving to another party — both the Liberals and Alberta Party hold a single seat in the legislature — but laughed at the notion of joining the right-wing United Conservative Party, newly formed by the merger of the Wildrose and Progressive Conservatives.
Her concerns about polarization echoed those of Calgary-South East MLA Rick Fraser, a former PC who announced in September he was
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Google's self-driving car team just lost one of its long-time engineers.
Chief technology officer Chris Urmson, who has been with
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the project since it began in 2009, announced his departure Friday afternoon in a Medium post. Urmson did not give a reason for leaving and didn't say where he would would head next.
"After leading our cars through the human equivalent of 150 years of driving and helping our project make the leap from pure research to developing a product that we hope someday anyone will be able to use, I am ready for a fresh challenge," Urmson said in the post.
When Google first launched its then-secret project to build self-driving cars, it hired a core team of 15 engineers, including Urmson. Led by Sebastian Thrun, the group went from driving modified Prius cars on closed courses, to testing custom-built Google vehicles on public roads in states like California and Nevada.
The self-driving car group is part of X, a stand-alone division under parent company Alphabet (GOOG).
When Thrun left the group in 2013, Urmson took over as
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Allan McNish completes BBC’s F1 team for 2014 along with Suzi Perry, David Coulthard, Eddie Jordan, Ben
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Edwards, James Allen, Lee McKenzie, Tom Clarkson and Jennie Gow.
Following a very successful debut for the BBC last season, Allan McNish has signed up to the BBC’s F1 team for 2014 as co-commentator for Radio 5 live and expert analyst across TV, radio and online.
Allan will be live from the radio commentary box for 15 of the 19 races and will also feature across the BBC’s F1 output. He’ll be using his extensive experience from across all areas of motorsport to steer audiences through the intricacies of the forthcoming season, which promises to be a fascinating one with all the technical changes ahead.
Eddie Jordan, chief analyst and David Coulthard, co-commentator and expert pundit both return and, after her first season at the helm in 2013, Suzi Perry resumes her duties as TV anchor for 2014.
Ben Edwards once again leads the commentary on TV with Lee McKenzie and Tom Clarkson
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Kevin Durant is confident Golden State's struggles down the stretch might be just what makes the defending champions
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dominant on the postseason stage again.
Maybe not quite 16-1 this time around, sure, yet plenty capable of another remarkable run.
"I always knew everybody on our team had a good spirit, a good energy for the game," said Durant, the reigning NBA Finals MVP. "We might have lost some games and had some tough stretches but that doesn't define everybody here as an individual player. I'm kind of positive on, optimistic on each of these guys and how we approach the game no matter what the score of some of those games. I'm glad we can kind of learn from those tough times and continue to move forward."
The Warriors have been hurt and humbled. Beaten handily and beat up hard. Two-time MVP Stephen Curry is expected to be sidelined the entire first round with a knee injury. Four All-Stars — Curry, Durant, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson — were out together at times, too.
On Saturday afternoon,
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The head of the liberal Yabloko party, Sergey Mitrokhin has asked the head of the presidential administration for assistance in registering candidates in
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regional elections.
Mitrokhin has forwarded an official complaint to the President’s Chief of Staff, Sergey Naryshkin. Lacking representatives in parliament, the Yabloko leader listed a number of violations relating to the process of registering candidates. Local legislative elections will be held in 12 regions on March 13.
Yabloko’s leader requested that Naryshkin take measures so that the regional election commissions, which did not register candidates, changed their decisions.
The Central Election Commission has received about 200 complaints from parties about alleged violations during the election campaign. However, Mitrokhin decided to send a letter to the presidential administration’s head as well, on the advice of the president.
During his meeting with heads of four parties represented in the State Duma on February 19, Dmitry Medvedev noted that complaints could be sent directly to the presidential administration. This was in response to Communist Party chief, Gennady Zyuganov
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President Dmitry Medvedev has said that the recent Global Policy Forum in Russia’s city of Yaroslavl was a success.
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�In my opinion, the forum worked out well; it was interesting,” he said during a Saturday meeting with the leaders of the political parties and factions represented in the State Duma, the parliamentary lower house.
“And most importantly, the proceedings are conducted in a completely open mode,” Medvedev added.
This year’s forum – entitled “The Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency”- was held in Yaroslavl on September 9-10. It gathered politicians, businessmen and political analysts from about 35 countries who discussed issues of democracy, security, international law and modernization.
During Saturday’s meeting with the Duma factions’ leaders, Medvedev also touched upon the single voting day scheduled for October 10 this year when regional parliaments’ deputies, heads of municipal entities and towns will be elected in some regions. The Russian president said he hopes that all the changes in election legislation will be
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There's never a bad time to dive back into the archives and watch some good movies.
And if you have some time on your hands,
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this might be a good time to binge some modern-day classics.
With that in mind, I've come up with 20 essential titles from the past 15 years that you should reexamine or, if you've never seen them, delve into.
Jake Gyllenhaal was just starting to get on everyone's radar when he scored one of his first lead roles, playing a troubled teen who is tormented by visions of the future and a disturbing-looking bunny. "Donnie Darko" has become a cult classic, as it captured the angst of youth who, at the time the movie was in theaters, were coping with the confusion of a post-9/11 world.
Michael Moore's fourth feature film, which won an Oscar for best documentary, might be his best. The controversial director uses the events of the Columbine High School massacre to address the US's addiction to guns. Sadly, 14 years later the issues explored in this movie are still relevant.
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A superstore whose advertising upset people living nearby has been allowed to keep most of its signage.
Camping superstore Go Outdoors moved into
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the old MFI site in Canley last year.
The company had applied to the council to keep nine large signs and banners which it had posted around the store.
But planning bosses granted permission for only seven.
One of the residents opposing the application, Pete Prady, presented a petition of 25 signatures at a planning meeting.
Mr Prady, who lives in Canley Road, also showed the committee some photographs he had taken which showed the view from his front room where one of the large signs was visible.
He said: "It seems to me that Go Outdoors have a bombastic attitude towards their signage."
Go Outdoors is located on the old MFI site, near to Coventry Business Park. Although the store is not part of this development, existing businesses there have to adhere to strict signage and environmental rules.
Cllr Catherine Harper, of Earl-sdon ward, accused Go Outdoors of "making a mockery" of the council&ap
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The distributors of powerful prescription opioids and the Drug Enforcement Administration failed to stop the flow of millions of pills into rural West Virginia despite rampant warning signs that
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the pills were being diverted for abuse, inertia that contributed to the nation’s opioid epidemic, a congressional report has found.
A report from the majority staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee found that distributors, which fulfill orders for prescription drugs to pharmacies, failed to conduct proper oversight of their customers by not questioning suspicious activity and not properly monitoring the quantity of painkillers that were being shipped to individual pharmacies.
The committee also found that the DEA did not properly use a database that aims to monitor the flow of powerful prescription painkillers from manufacturers to sellers, something that could have allowed federal agents — in real time — to notice that millions of pills were being sent to pharmacies in West Virginia. The agency also curtailed enforcement of distributors, the report found, and infighting inside the agency affected the way cases were handled.
The 324-page report, the culmination of an 18-month investigation of alleged pill dumping in West Virginia, shows how mistakes and lack of oversight led to a massive
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The central regional communication officer of the National Democratic Congress, Mr. Kwesi Dawood says the people of Central Region will demonstrate their sincerest appreciation
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to the NDC, by voting massively for President John Dramani Mahama in the December elections to help retain the party in power.
This, he said, would go a long way to ensure that the region would become the next World Bank for the NDC after the Volta region.
Mr Dawood stated this in an exclusive interview ahead of the first phase of the president’s campaign tour in the region which starts from Monday 5th to 9th September.
According to Mr Dawood, under the leadership of president Mahama, the central region has benefitted immensely from the better Ghana agenda, in terms of infrastructural development and other social intervention programmes that have transformed the lives of the citizens of the region.
selected His Excellency Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, a true son of the region as his running mate in 2012 and his vice for 2016 as well.
Mr. Dawood intimated that President John Dramani Mahama has
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Today, megacities have become synonymous with economic growth. In both developing and developed countries, cities with populations of 10 million or more account for
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one-third to one-half of their gross domestic product.
Many analysts and policymakers think this trend is here to stay. The rise of big data analytics and mobile technology should spur development, they assert, transforming metropolises like Shanghai, Nairobi and Mexico City into so-called "smart cities" that can leverage their huge populations to power their economies and change the power balance in the world.
As technology researchers, however, we see a less rosy urban future. That's because digitization and crowdsourcing will actually undermine the very foundations of the megacity economy, which is typically built on some combination of manufacturing, commerce, retail and professional services.
The exact formula differs from region to region, but all megacities are designed to maximize the productivity of their massive populations. Today, these cities lean heavily on economies of scale, by which increased production brings cost advantages, and on the savings and benefits of co-locating people and firms in neighborhoods and industrial clusters
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Either Prince George has been bingeing Riverdale on Netflix, or this whole anecdote we’re about to describe represents some sort of misunderstanding,
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because... this is an odd one!
Per The Sun, five-year-old George—son of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and third in line to the throne—was recently walking with his grandmother Carole Middleton near her house in Berkshire, when he struck up a conversation with a stranger. Per the outlet, George had been playing with his sister, three-year-old Princess Charlotte, in a stream, before approaching the stranger, a woman, who was accompanied by her dog.
According to the woman’s account, George was in a quite amiable mood. The woman, who has remained anonymous, told The Sun: “I was asked by a police minder not to take a photo of the children, which I didn’t, but George started stroking my dog.” What does one do when the most famous five-year-old in the world comes up to you and your dog and starts petting the animal
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Samsung has confirmed the arrival of a new sub-brand within its Galaxy range of mobile devices: the Galaxy Mega expands its mini-tablet-
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sized-phone (aka phablet) portfolio by firing two new devices into the category, building on the momentum generated by its extant Galaxy Note line.
Samsung said the Mega will be available globally — “beginning May from Europe and Russia”, adding that product availability will vary by market and roll outs will be gradual. There’s no official word on Mega pricing yet but since both devices pack dual-core chips (vs the Galaxy Note II’s quad-core chipset) it’s possible they will be a slightly more affordable than Samsung’s other phablets.
The newest addition to the GALAXY family balances an optimal viewing experience on a 6.3-inch HD screen, yet is ultra-thin and portable enough to put into a pocket or hold in one hand. The GALAXY Mega offers a mix of popular smartphone and tablet features such as an effortless user experience, a split screen, multitasking between video
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LITTLE FALLS - Crystal clear blue skies and crisp snow covered trails set the scene for the Winter Warrior Sled Dog Races this weekend
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This is the second year for the races which take place at Camp Ripley in Little Falls. The North Star Sled Dog Club hosted the event.
Teams consisting of six or ten dogs raced in different divisions on the 25 mile or 45 mile course.
Sled dog racing is an endurance competition for both the riders and their dogs. Bob Bzdok is the defending champion of the 10-dog sprint event and has been racing for 20 years, he says riders spend a lot of time preparing their dogs for the race.
"We spend an awful lot of time with them, training them, feeding them the right food and taking care of them the right way," Bzdok says.
For many of the dogs, training starts early on when they're puppies.
"A lot of them, ever since they're pups we'll start harness breaking them and put them into small race teams," Bzdok says.
Racers of all ages
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Climaxing months of political maneuvering and high anxiety in the halls of Congress, the House ethics committee today released the names of 247 current
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and 56 former members of Congress who overdrew their checking accounts at least once at the House bank.
Coming two weeks after the committee listed 22 members as having abused their accounts by writing frequent large overdrafts, the new list brings to 325 the number of present and former members involved in the affair.
It will also bring the long and contentious matter to a close, said Speaker Thomas S. Foley of Washington.
Most members braced for political rather than legal problems, because at this point no laws are known to have been broken. But the free overdraft protection enjoyed by members with House bank accounts has crystallized a perception that representatives are pampered by perquisites out of the reach of the average citizen.
Although dozens of members had already released their bank records in order to defuse criticism, for several of the most prominent members of the House the list released today, covering 39 months ending late last year, was the first disclosure that they had written scores of overdrafts
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Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 71.80 points at 10,799.15 while the BSE Sensex was up 262
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.77 points at 35,957.87.
NEW DELHI: FMCG shares were trading higher with the Nifty FMCG index up 0.56 per cent at 30,358.15 around 11:50 am on Monday.
Shares of Marico (up 2.48 per cent), Jubilant Foodworks (up 1.14 per cent), United Breweries (up 1.10 per cent) and United Spirits (up 1.06 per cent) were the top gainers in the index.
Tata Global Beverages (up 0.77 per cent), Dabur India (up 0.74 per cent) and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (up 0.74 per cent) too were trading with gains.
Shares of YES Bank, Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors, SBI, Vedanta, Bank of Baroda, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, ITC, ONGC, JSW Steel, Hind
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(CNSNews.com) – Communist North Korea is one of the most “hostile and repressive” regimes in the world when
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it comes to religious belief and practice, particularly for faiths associated with the Western world, such as Christianity, according to the 2018 report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, which details the state of religious freedom around the world in 2017.
The North Korean “regime associates Christianity with the West, particularly the United States,” the report said. The regime uses “robust surveillance” to identify secretly practicing Christians and imprison them and their families, even if their family is not religious.
Christians in North Korea are “tortured and killed on account of their religious affiliation,” states the report.
“According to the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, individuals face persecution for propagating religion, possessing religious items, carrying out religious activities (including praying and singing hymns), and having contact with religious persons,” the report documented.
In addition, in North Korea religious groups cannot conduct religious activities unless the activities are
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Iran's crude oil exports have surged to their highest in 20 months, far exceeding a one million barrel-per-day limit set by the West
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under an interim deal on curbing Tehran's nuclear programme.
The International Energy Agency's monthly report revised February's global crude imports from Iran upwards by 240,000 bpd to 1.65 million barrels per day, the highest since June 2012.
Under a landmark deal signed in November between Iran and world powers - known as the P5+1 - that came into effect in January of this year, Iran's exports are supposed to be held at an average 1 million bpd for the six months to July 20.
Tough international sanctions over the past two years have cut Iran's oil exports around a half.
"The question is whether they are going to continue to test the sanctions," Antoine Halff, head of the IEA's oil industry and markets division, told Reuters.
China accounted for 168,000 bpd of the rise in imports in February, India for 93,000 bpd and South Korea for 83,000 bpd.
On the other hand
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MLB rumors: David Robertson to Phillies | What it means for Yankees; Zach Britton, Adam Ottavino on deck?
Once again
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, David Robertson has left the Yankees.
The 33-year-old right-hander took a two-year, $23-million deal from the Phillies on Thursday, according to a report from MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. The pact also includes a third-year club option.
What the Yankees are losing: Last season, Robertson went 8-3 with a 3.23 ERA in 69 games and 69 2/3 innings for the Yankees, earning five saves. Robertson also left the Yankees following the 2014 season, taking a four-year, $46-million deal from the White Sox.
What do the Yankees do? They turn their eyes toward Zach Britton and Adam Ottavino, the top two arms remaining on the free agent market. They have been in close contact with both. General manager Brian Cashman and his front office have been among Britton’s top choices all winter. And at the Winter Meetings, Cashman met with
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Today I’ll look at the Utilities sector. With a distribution yield of 5.5% for the sector, it’s easy
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to see how the distributions can act as a buffer to market volatility.
What do investors need to know when investing in the utilities sector?
The utilities sector is a small one on the Australian market. There are only 5 companies that make up this sector. Utilities companies tend to have stable cash flows. Often, they are restricted in types of price rises they can enforce. We call this a regulated industry. Due to the stable cash flows and high depreciation costs of capital investment, they have huge amounts of debt, when measured against traditional measures, such as equity or earnings.
What is the outlook for this sector?
This sector is thought of as a bond proxy. It means as global interest rates rise, share prices can come under pressure. Higher longer-term interest rates would be a negative while lower long-term interest rates would be a positive.
While transmission and distribution of gas and electricity will continue to be important in Australia, emerging technologies will also pay a growing part. Battery storage
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Like a sweater stretched too often by wide shoulders, space-time can be permanently warped by the gravitational waves that constantly ripple through it. This distortion
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, called gravitational wave memory, could allow us to detect waves previously beyond our reach – even if we can’t see the event that caused them.
This offers hope that we may be able to find some of the universe’s most exotic objects.
Gravitational waves are created by massive objects moving through space-time. In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) first detected a gravitational wave caused by two black holes spiralling towards one another and merging. Since then, theorists have been hard at work figuring out what such waves from other events and objects would look like.
Some of the most exotic objects in physics, such as evaporating black holes, cosmic strings and even possible extra dimensions, would induce gravitational waves at much higher frequencies than we can currently detect.
But there is still hope that these elusive objects could leave a detectable signal, say Lucy McNeill and her colleagues Eric Thrane and Paul Lasky at Mon
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If one thing has become abundantly clear over the course of the Euro crisis it is that the Euro is not going to be allowed to collapse. While
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I believe it is in the best interest of some of the periphery nations to leave the Euro it's now obvious that they have been convinced that this is not in their best interest. The core is very concerned about the ramifications of defaults and defections as their banks remain the largest lenders to the periphery. So, while the periphery bails out the core (and vice versa) we will continue to see this union held together with increasing attempts to create a truly unified Europe.
Admitted or not, flashing across the political mindset in Europe is the realization that monetary unification will inevitably require a greater degree of political and fiscal unification. Critics of the euro have been saying this since its inception, but the current crisis is forcing the issue to the forefront of pan-European policy.
Ever since [the creation of the euro], economists have warned that monetary union, without a parallel authority to regulate taxes and spending, was destined to fail because there was no way to enforce the fiscal discipline essential to a currency's
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On Feb. 9, 1964: The Beatles made their first live American television appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," broadcast from New York on CBS
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In 1825: the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.
In 1861: Jefferson Davis was elected provisional president of the Confederate States of America at a congress held in Montgomery, Alabama.
In 1942: the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff held its first formal meeting to coordinate military strategy during World War II. Daylight-saving "War Time" went into effect in the United States, with clocks moved one hour forward. The SS Normandie, a former French liner being refitted for the U.S. Navy at a New York pier, caught fire (it capsized early the next morning).
In 1943: the World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an Allied victory over Japanese forces.
In 1950: in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charged the State Department was riddled with Communists.
In 1964:
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Laguna Beach will spend $38,400 to develop a monitoring system that would evaluate flooding conditions in Laguna Canyon and advise residents of potential
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danger and when to evacuate.
The City Council on Aug. 16 unanimously approved the recommendation of the Laguna Canyon Flood Mitigation Task Force to hire Dr. Frank Weirich to design and supervise the installation of the system, as well as develop the notification and evacuation thresholds.
"At the time the task force was formed, we envisioned meeting for six months and then bringing recommendations to the council," said Councilwoman Verna Rollinger, task force co-chairwoman. "But this is the second time we have brought recommendations forward early. We want the early warning system in place before the rainy season."
The council also approved the distribution to canyon residents of educational material about the potential for flooding and the measures they can take to be better prepared. City staff was directed to work with property owners on clearing significant debris that could dam drainage from the upper portion of the Laguna Canyon Channel.
Weirich will be paid $15,000 for his services. Components of the system,
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This week has taken a toll me. I kept coming back to the clinic for doctor's appointments and felt all dizzy in between. My doctor
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has said that I have been getting too much stress and that it’s slowly killing me. If I don't take a step back, I might just be in for another adventure of my life. She added that it is not a cause for alarm though, just a gentle reminder to get my life straight. That hit me hard.
While it is true that I squeeze in yoga, running, and swimming between my already-crazy schedule, there is just too much negative energy in the workplace and outside. I have to deal with irritable, unreasonable, and sometimes senseless individuals with the most pleasing personality. I try my best to stretch my patience for people who have wronged me and I take in the situations of the daily news. That is why I hate it when some people (especially friends and family) ask me what's the latest about this and that. It's as if I haven't had enough at work. Why don't we talk about something else? Like your life and
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Google announced deeper integration between Gmail and Google+ on Thursday, confirming your Google+ connections will now auto-appear as potential recipients when composing an
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email.
Google has long kept Gmail contacts updated via Google+, but now the Internet giant allows its free email service to suggest your Google+ connections as recipients when you're composing a new message.
Google said its new feature will roll out “over the next couple of days” to anyone who uses both Gmail and Google+. However, if you'd like stop this feature (i.e., stop anyone on Google+ from emailing your Gmail account), you're in luck.
Pocket-lint has compiled a step-by-step guide on how to adjust your settings and disable the feature. Thus, you'll never get random emails from people on Google+. Check it out below.
Google's new Gmail/Google+ integration might seem like a serious breach of privacy, but Google has actually added a few security measures to protect you.
For instance, your email address isn't visible to Google+ connections unless you reply to their emails. Similarly, their email addresses aren't
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RUBY AIKO YOSHIMURA July 21, 1922 to September 6, 2011 Ruby, age 89, passed away peacefully at home with
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her family by her side. She was born in Hanalei Kauai and graduated from Santa Maria High School in California. Ruby is a Sears Roebuck retiree. She was married to the late Charles Yoshimura, who passed away this year on March 5. They are together again, reunited in heaven after 70 great years of marriage. Survived by son Michael, daughters: Shirley Yoshimura and Diane (John) Beirne, Grandchildren: Debra (Keith Boruff) Yamakami, Dina (John) Suyemoto, Dara (Greg) Duane, Derek Yamakami. Great-Grandchildren: Tiare (Daniel Kuba) Yamura, Jake and Cole Suyemoto, Aidan and Dilyn Duane, Jarin Tengan Yamakami. Great-Great-Granddaughter, Paisley Kuba. Sisters: Nancy Kobayashi, Geraldine Katayama, Kathleen Davis. Brothers: Donald Takaki, Kenneth
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The Les Clefs d'Or UAE executive committee visited Bahrain to elect the new executive committee for Bahrain Hotel Concierge Group (BHCG
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It also pinned four new members to the Les Clefs d'Or. The event was attended by H.E. Sheikh Khaled Bin Humood Al Khalifa, CEO of Bahrain Tourism and Exhibition Authority.
The interview process for the new Les Clefs d'Or members from the BHCG was conducted by: Abey Sam, UICH zone director Arabian & Western Asia and president of Les Clefs d’Or UAE; first vice president Kamal Jalayath; third vice president Oussama Itani; general secretary of the organisation, Mahesh Brid; and public relations officer Cleatus George.
The pinning ceremony was initiated by the founding president of BHCG and chief concierge of Four Seasons Bahrain Bay Hotel, Khalil Al Yaman.
Sheikh Khaled and Sam awarded: the first Bahraini female member of Les Clefs d’Or, concierge at Four Seasons Hotel Bahrain Bay, Saleha AlWazz
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As a Boston Bruins fan this might just be the Stanley Cup champagnetalking, but it’s possible I’m the only
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left-leaning person who’s OKwith goaltender Tim Thomas showing he also likes to play right wing.
As a Boston Bruins fan this might just be the Stanley Cup champagne talking, but it’s possible I’m the only left-leaning person who’s OK with goaltender Tim Thomas showing he also likes to play right wing.
In case you’re exhibiting concussion-like symptoms and don’t know what I’m talking about: The Boston Bruins were invited to the White House this week, but their MVP Thomas decided to stay away and have a Tea Party instead.
To be fair, Thomas’ statement was vague, which left it open to interpretation. A reader might guess that he doesn’t recognize the divine provenance of the Los Angeles Kings, believes it’s his right to defend his crease with a gun, and thinks that Mario Lemieux is the best Freedom-Canadian player ever.
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I-495/Beltway Outer Loop between VA-236/Little River Tnpk (#52) and Braddock Rd (#54),
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right lane gets by by the work zone.
I-495/Beltway Inner Loop at I-66 (#49), left lane blocked by the work zone.
I-495/Beltway Inner Loop after VA-267/Dulles Toll Rd (#45), right lane blocked by the work zone.
I-495/Beltway Inner Loop ramp to eastbound MD-214/Central Ave (#15), ramp blocked by the long term work zone.
I-295 northbound at Suitland Pkwy (#3), single lane gets by by the work zone.
Good Hope Rd SE both ways between Naylor Rd SE and 18th St SE, road closure in effect by the police activity.
Suitland Pkwy both ways near I-295, proceed with caution, outbound ramp blocked by the new traffic pattern.
Beach Dr both ways between Joyce Rd NW/Military Rd NW and Maryland State Line, all lanes blocked by the
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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has inaugurated the restoration of an ancient Hindu temple complex in Punjab, a symbolic gesture that may appeal
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to the Muslim nation’s minority communities and soften the country’s image abroad.
However, the visit on Jan. 11 and other recent overtures to minority faiths and women, including the passing of pro-women legislation, could also alienate powerful religious hardliners opposed to social change, Reuters reported.
The government has in the past year passed a bill that removed a loophole in existing law that allowed people convicted of so-called “honor killings” to walk free if they were pardoned by family members, while a Punjab law was recently passed tp protect women from domestic violence.
Sharif’s visit to the 900-year-old Katas Raj temples, one of the holiest sites in South Asia for Hindus, comes at a time when relations with Pakistan’s Hindu-majority neighbor India are at a low ebb and show few signs of improving.
“In my personal view, we are all are equal — Muslims, Hindus
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Since August 15 we have only experienced five days with high temperatures under 90 degrees Fahrenheit, and only one of those days was below average for the date
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. All the others have been above average, and at times well above average.
Yesterday’s record of 97 degrees at Denver International Airport was a whopping 15 degrees above normal for this time of year.
With another scorcher on the way today, and only a few degrees cooler in the forecast for Sunday, you may be asking yourself if this will ever end. If so, you are in luck.
Temperatures for this coming week look to be dramatically cooler, with highs Tuesday forecast to be some 20 degrees cooler than our forecast highs today. The question will be just how good of a shot of cooler air we will get. High temperatures would likely be more or less 80, but a stronger shot could mean highs near 70 mid-week. For now, will go somewhere in the middle.
In addition to the cooler temperatures, expect an increased chance for showers and thunderstorms for the coming week. Our best shot at moisture appears to be Tuesday and Wednesday, but some models
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One hundred years ago this week, in small pockets along the Western Front, soldiers fighting in World War I laid down their arms for a temporary Christmas
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truce.
Some say it began when soldiers on one side of no man's land began singing carols in their trenches and their adversaries recognized the tunes and started singing back. Others say it was a series of formal agreements between commanders that harkened back to a more gentlemanly age of warfare. For whatever reason, the soldiers chose to recognize, for a brief moment, that what united them was greater than what divided them and partook in a bit of Christmas cheer.
As you read this, I'm celebrating the holidays with my soon-to-be in-laws in Waterford, Ireland, where there will be no shortage of Christmas cheer. Just before I left the States, I completed a draft of a chapter for a forthcoming volume Rick and Jeff Henig are editing on educational philanthropy. They tasked me and AEI's Jenn Hatfield with studying the "backlash" to education philanthropy that has sprung up in the past decade or so.
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CLEARWATER, Fla., June 17, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tech Data Corporation (Nasdaq:T
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ECD) today announced that it has further advanced its cloud strategy with the official global launch of TDCloud, powered by StreamOne™, the company's end-to-end provisioning, billing, and marketing engine providing scale and operational scope to solution providers. The award-winning Tech Data Cloud Solutions Store will now be available to partners in Canada, France and the UK, and will be introduced across Europe in a phased introduction over the coming weeks. The Tech Data Cloud Solutions Store is part of TDCloud, a dedicated business within the company that provides education, enablement and assistance with transitioning to cloud- and subscription-based models.
Through the Tech Data Cloud Solutions Store, solution providers and managed service providers (MSPs) can administer and control the entire cloud services delivery process in an app store-like environment. Everything from initial assessment and quoting to the provisioning and ongoing management of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as- a-Service (
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Mexico's government says it plans to use dolphins trained by the US Navy to try to save the world's most endangered marine species, the vaqu
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ita porpoise.
Environment Minister Rafael Pacchiano said that the dolphins would be deployed to locate and herd vaquitas into a marine refuge.
Mexico also permanently banned fishing nets blamed for the vaquitas' decline.
Scientists estimate that fewer than 40 of the mammals are still alive in their habitat, in the Gulf of California.
Mr Pacchiano said the dolphin project would begin in September.
"We've spent the past year working alongside the US Navy with a group of dolphins they had trained to search for missing scuba divers," he told Formula radio.
"We've been training them to locate the vaquitas.
"We have to guarantee we capture the largest possible number of vaquitas to have an opportunity to save them."
The Mexican government also said on Friday it was imposing a permanent ban on gillnets, used to catch totaba, which are highly valued in Chinese traditional medicine.
Image caption Could the latest ban on gill
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BILLINGS — Prep soccer season came to an end for Great Falls High school Friday with Billings Senior’s 2-0 victory over the
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Bison girls’ team in a state tournament play-in game.
It would have been the GFH girls’ first trip to the state tournament in more than 10 years.
Both the third-seeded Broncs’ goals came off the foot of Bailey Woodring. Woodring rang the first home on a long shot in the 29th minute; the second came shortly after the half on a penalty kick in the 42nd minute.
“One of their goals was a questionable penalty kick, and that didn’t help,” Smith said.
GFH rallied for some late scoring chances but weren’t able to punch the ball through. Sarah Conway made eight saves in the Bison goal.
The Bison finish the season with a 3-11 record but were the last to fall of the four Great Falls prep teams. GFH beat Butte High 4-0 on Tuesday with its best performance of the season to advance to the second
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A pregnant EMS dispatcher helps a frantic mother deliver her baby over the phone.
When a woman went into premature labor in her Long Island home,
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she didn’t expect to see the feet of her baby come out first. That’s when she called 911.
A 911 worker – another mother-to-be – got the call and coached the Manorville woman in labor through a safe delivery of a beautiful and healthy baby girl, reported Newsday.
EMS dispatcher Christine Springer got the call just after 3 p.m. Tuesday. Her shift was about to end at the Yaphank emergency services dispatch center when the frantic call came in.
"She's out! The feet are out of her!" yelled Debra Guidice, the mother of the woman in labor, Newsday reported. According to the paper, it was the first time Springer handled a breech birth in her five years on the job.
Fortunately, the call ended happily – and quickly -- for everyone.
It only took four minutes for baby Nevaeh to pop out. She weighed 3 pounds, 9 ounces and was born about six
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Join us for a weekend full of hockey, beer and fun at the annual Honky Tonk Showdown at Ford Ice Center on June 20-23
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, 2019!
Schedule subject to change; Not all teams play Thursday.
Final rosters are due June 1, 2019 with players' USA Hockey numbers submitted to the Tournament Director. By submitting a registration for a specific level, you intend to compete at that level, no exceptions.
Teams are comprised primarily of experienced players 21 years of age and older with moderate to advanced skill level. Players may have up to high school playing experience, but most teams should have youth playing experience and at least several years playing as an adult. Some players may have played A, AA, or Junior hockey growing up, but may have lost a step or two or decided early on that Beer League was their way to go. Players with experience, but either older in age or slower than younger players may be within this division, as well. Games will have a moderate to fast tempo, as well as, moderate to advanced skill sets/hockey knowledge.
Teams are comprised primarily of decently experienced players
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Find out how rude you are! A new study has found that committing these 10 etiquette faux pas could make you a terrible houseguest.
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If you're looking to be invited back to someone's house then you should probably take note of these etiquette rules. But first, take off your shoes and never ask us for the wifi password.
A new study has found that these are the top 10 things that guests do that homeowners find incredibly rude. So much so, that it could put you into their bad books.
Read more: How Many Can Your Dad Tick Off? Poll Reveals Top 50 Skills Dads Need To Be Great!
The survey found that 89 per cent of homeowners found that guests who use their phone around the table are rude, while 64 per cent revealed that they think guests should take off their shoes on the carpet.
The study also found that homeowners do like guests to respect a certain degree of privacy in their home, with 58 per cent of homeowners thinking it's rude to snoop in their bedrooms without permission and 52 per cent admit that they feel like they're being judged if a guest takes the liberty to
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Description: Perform electrical, electronic, and mechanical maintenance, troubleshooting and repairs on complex material handling systems. Maintain records to ensure accountability of time
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, parts and repairs to meet regulatory compliance. Perform maintenance, troubleshoot and repair of 480V 3 phase electrical control circuits, motor control circuits, Device Control circuits, PC and PLC control systems. Perform maintenance, troubleshoot, and repair of facility systems including energy management systems, fire control systems, alarm systems, 2 way radio systems, and dock door systems. Perform maintenance, troubleshoot, and repair on a fleet of lift trucks including, reach trucks, pallet riders, tugger trucks, and various other vehicles used in the distribution warehouse. Experience with 3-phase 480-volt industrial electrical systems and motor controls Experience with PLC/Control systems Experience in plant & Industrial maintenance Ability to work independently in a team environment with a customer/guest focus Able to be certified to operate power equipment, operate maintenance tools, saws, drills, etc., work from blueprints/sketches Use safe lifting techniques; lift and carry necessary materials and equipment Target merchandise discount. Competitive
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Saturday, Aug. 25, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Escape Velocity, 19 E. Bijou St
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Free; for more information, call 578-8847 or write to comics@escapevelocity-comics.com.
Propped against a wire book holder, a fairly flimsy black-and-white booklet called Velvet Garden, faced the throngs at last spring's GalaxyFest. The booklet sat at Ryan Davis' vendor table, and enough people bought his pitch — and the "rough" of his new comic — to fund a limited run of a full-color glossy version.
In June, at the 2012 Denver Comic Con, he made more than 100 sales, enough to publish the next issue.
Davis is a 30-year-old with a dream: He wants to break into the big time in the comic book industry. He and his partner, Colorado Springs artist Gunther Goltz, have come up with what they hope will be a winning story that will catch the attention of big names.
"There are basically two ways of breaking into the
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Would project harm Silver Creek?
The Silver Creek water system near Picabo is the stuff of legend for anglers. Acclaimed author Ernest
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Hemingway made the area around what is now the Silver Creek Preserve a favorite haunt, and people from as far away as Scarsdale, N.Y., and Danville, Calif., have recently copped to their passion for the region in letters to Blaine County.
So it’s no wonder that a large-scale project proposed for the Kilpatrick Pond portion of Silver Creek has stirred up controversy. County Commissioner Larry Schoen said during a meeting last month that he believes the amount of public comment on the proposed waterway renovations was among the highest he had ever seen.
“There’s a lot of passion on this issue,” he said.
Two separate projects have been proposed, projects which Dayna Gross, Silver Creek watershed manager for The Nature Conservancy, said have been in the works for over 20 years. The Nature Conservancy manages the protected Silver Creek Preserve.
Gross said species in the system, including rainbow trout and
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Amid a major controversy and protest over the delay in local council elections, the mandate of the committee dealing with demarcation of boundaries of local council
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wards has been extended till August 31, committee sources said.
Local Government Minister Faiszer Musthapha this week signed the extension letter as the committee’s previous mandate expired on March 31. He said this was done in view of the piles of complaints regarding the demarcation of wards of local councils throughout the country.
At least 5,000 complaints had been lodged by political parties and the general public.The extension letter noted that due to the workload and the complex nature of the complaints, the mandate of the committee had been extended with immediate effect.
A committee member told the Sunday Times that the earlier delimitation commission had used a caste basis to carve out some of the wards.
He said committee members were visiting every district to finalise wards in consultation with the people and political parties.An independent election watch dog alleged that the government was deliberately delaying the local council elections and using the delimitation issue as a cover for its own political agenda.
People’s Action
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WITH as many as seven hurricanes expected in the region this summer, Attorney General Carl Bethel said the mandatory evacuation bill Prime Minister Dr Hubert
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Minnis promised last year is still in draft form and "difficult to craft because of constitutional limitations".
"Freedom of movement also means freedom not to move, no matter the threat," he said.
Mr Bethel was asked yesterday if the bill would be passed before the official start of the hurricane season next month. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) expects between three seven hurricanes this year.
One thousand people were flown to Nassau from the southern Bahamas last year before Hurricane Irma made landfall. Hundreds failed to heed the government's evacuation plea, however, prompting Dr Minnis on September 10 to say a mandatory evacuation bill would be tabled in the House of Assembly the following week. The bill never arrived.
"I think it is essential that we have a mandatory evacuation [law]," Dr Minnis said. "Not only that, we must have a manual for evacuations so that we will have guidelines. A storm may be a category one or two, and that may
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Pollution from human activities can be found at all points across the ocean’s vast expanse, whether in the deep, at the
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surface, or in the organisms that live in it. Rivers carry waste, solid and liquid, and a wide range of other substances into the ocean. Discharges, spills and waste from shipping are another source of pollution. Pollutants discharged into the air are deposited into the ocean. Although considerable progress has been achieved in limiting some forms of pollution, others persist. New challenges, whether relating to particular pollutants, such as micro-plastics, or broader trends, like the rapid growth of coastal cities, will require sustained action encompassing scientific research, knowledge-sharing, and strengthened governance arrangements.
Mr. Kosi Latu was appointed the Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) at the 26th SPREP Meeting in September 2015, officially taking up the position in January 2016. With 26 Member nations on board, SPREP has the vital task of coordinating Members' activities at the regional level in order to manage and protect their environment within the context of sustainable
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SWAT members unload from a truck after arriving at a Greeley home in January 2016 where investigators say multiple people were living and engaging in drug
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activity.
It should go without saying drugs cause crimes.
The violence and larceny associated with the scourge of addiction are well documented, and it makes sense these sorts of crimes fuel the fears communities have when drugs make their way into their neighborhoods.
However, what’s less obvious is how often drugs lead to crimes not typically associated with them. According to Greeley Police officials, spikes in property crimes like auto and home break-ins as well as thefts, forgeries and identity thefts often are a result of the drug market.
In short, the criminal baggage that comes with drugs can make a long, deep impact that extends well beyond the community of drug users and sellers in direct contact with the drugs themselves.
We like Weld County’s use of drug court.
It’s an alternative to normal criminal court that treats drug addicts with rehabilitation as well as with normal discourse.
However, if the long, criminal reach of drug addiction is a stark reminder
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Rand Paul and Frank Underwood would be best buds.
Senator Paul announced his presidential bid Tuesday, and for a moment, his jobs promise echoed
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Underwood's jobs proposal on the fictional show House of Cards.
On Tuesday, Paul said: "I have a vision for America where everyone who wants to work will have a job."
Stop the tape. Didn't Underwood, the president on House of Cards, say something really similar in season 3?
Yup: "If you want a job, you get one," Underwood said while giving a televised address about his jobs plan "America Works."
Of course, politicians make big campaign promises on the economy during every election. Paul isn't the first to guarantee jobs.
But hey, the parallels don't stop there. Underwood needs $500 billion to justify his fictitious jobs program. His solution: cut welfare and entitlements.
Paul will probably need money for his sweet-sounding jobs plan too. And we already know he wants to significantly cut down government spending on programs like medicaid and food stamps. Paul also wants to reduce payments on entitlement programs like social security
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Global escalator supplier, Schindler group, on Monday said it has launched its best-selling range of elevators-the Schindler
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3300 and the Schindler 5300, in the country.
MUMBAI: Global escalator supplier, Schindler group, on Monday said it has launched its best-selling range of elevators-the Schindler 3300 and the Schindler 5300, in the country.
The elevator will be used for mid-rise residential and commercial buildings, a press release issued here stated.
"Schindler has taken all the advantages of top-range elevators for high-rise buildings, and made them available in the residential and commercial segments," Chris Lindenmeyer, responsible for the company's operations in India, Russia, Middle East and Africa (EMIA) said.
Both the lifts are environment-friendly, energy efficient and operate at lower expenses, the release said.
The group also inaugurated a dedicated training facility for employees of the company here. The facility was inaugurated by Switzerland's Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Head, Doris
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Finger pointing: Sol Cooperman, the president of Trump Towers in section three, voiced his concerns about the plan to build a 40-
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story tower in Brighton Beach.
Eyes only: George Heitzman, a representative from the Department of Environmental Conservation, explained that the department won’t do the cleanup itself, but instead will oversee National Grid’s cleanup of the site.
This is really going to stink!
Construction of a 40-story residential tower that will sit atop a toxic field in Brighton Beach can’t begin until the site is cleaned — and that job is going to smell to the high heavens, the state told neighbors last week.
Chemicals including coal tar that are locked in the soil beneath Trump Village Shopping Center on Neptune Avenue at West Fifth Street will have to be carted away — and when they are, it will unleash a distinctly nasty odor.
“It smells like mothballs mixed with something that has been badly burned,” Gardiner Cross, a geologist with the Department of Environmental Conservation, said at a hearing on the plan at Lincoln High School on Feb
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Multiple witnesses on the scene told troopers that Tiffany Simison was driving so fast she could not maintain her lane.
An Alabama woman reportedly driving in
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excess of 100 mph on Interstate 10 Thursday night, struck a slower vehicle causing it to overturn.
Tiffany Simison, 27, of Saraland, Alabama, was westbound on I-10, with a 2-year-old passenger, when she failed to yield to slower traffic, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report.
The front of Simison’s 2015 Dodge Challenger collided with the rear of a 2007 Toyota 4Runner driven by Kendra Marra, 40, of Beachwood, New Jersey, shortly before 6:30 p.m. Thursday near mile marker 4 in Escambia County.
Marra’s vehicle was pushed off the roadway, collided with a tree line and then overturned, according to the accident report. Simison came to a stop.75 miles west of the crash.
Multiple witnesses on the scene told troopers that Simison was driving so fast prior to the crash that she could not maintain her lane. The witnesses estimated that
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SEATTLE Andrew Triggs did his best to keep the Mariners powerful offense at bay, but eventually it broke through.
After allowing the
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first two runners to reach base in the fifth, Triggs hung a first-pitch slider to Nelson Cruz that was launched over the wall in left-center to break the tie and put the Mariners ahead 4-1 as the As eventually fell 6-3 for their third straight loss.
Triggs had allowed Mariners (17-11) base runners in each of the first four innings, but had managed to limit the damage to just one run before allowing the homer to Cruz. He proceeded to allow the next two batters to reach base after Cruz before getting pulled for Trivino. Triggs failed to complete five innings, allowing four runs on six hits with three walks and four strikeouts on 86 pitches as he fell to 2-1 with his ERA now at 5.20.
Giving up the home run with two outs, made it a little more painful for Triggs, especially after retiring Robinson Cano right before Cruz.
Jed Lowrie got the A
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Administrators at the University of Missouri completed a reversal of their decision to close the university’s publishing
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house when they announced on Friday that the longtime editor in chief, Clair Willcox, would be rehired.
The move also could save the core of the operation — 41 authors who had works published by the university press asked for the rights to their works back unless Mr. Willcox was rehired.
“Victory Is Ours!” declared a post on a Facebook page, Save the University of Missouri Press, created by Ned Stuckey-French, a professor at Florida State University and an author with the press, and Bruce Joshua Miller, a sales representative for university publishers.
“I’m floating,” Mr. Stuckey-French said in an interview.
Mr. Wolfe said in an interview that the university was not changing course. His intention never was to close the press, he said, but rather to reinvent it in a more cost-effective technological model.
“We’re down this path and we
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With the recent news that many of us expect to work to age 80, it's hard to be overly impressed with the Legislature's move to increase
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retirement age for state employees from 55 to 60.
In truth, any steps toward reconfiguring the state's unsustainable and convoluted public retirement system are welcome as long as the push continues to fix other flaws in the system.
Gov. Deval Patrick has now signed pension reform legislation that is expected to save taxpayers more than $5 billion over the next 30 years. In addition to raising the minimum retirement age, the bill also attempts to close a loophole exploited most recently by former Weymouth Mayor David Madden.
Madden in 2008 decided he wanted to retire at age 52. So he abandoned his job as mayor in the final week of his second term in order to work for five days in his former capacity as fire chief. The maneuver, which is being challenged in court, was designed to boost his pension from $43,200 to $79,800 a year.
The will now require that employees who move into a new job that carries a greater pension benefit late in their career hold
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The Young and the Restless family has lost a beloved member.
Kristoff St. John, the actor who originated the role of Neil Win
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ters on the long-running soap opera nearly three decades ago, has died. The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to E! News that police were called for a possible alcohol overdose and found St. John dead in his home in Calif. around 2 p.m. on Sunday. Authorities have not disclosed any further details and the cause of his death is unconfirmed at this time. St. John was 52 years old.
"Few men had the unique strength, courage & sensitivity that @kristoffstjohn1 lived every single minute of every day. He impacted everyone he met and millions who he inspired and in turn admired him," attorney Mark Geragos said in a statement on Twitter. "On behalf of @MiaStJohnBoxer & @TheStJohnFamily thank you for all of your love."
A New York native, he got his start on television with brief appearances on shows like Happy Days and Wonder Woman. By the late 1980s, St. John landed a recurring
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Boxer Miguel Cotto talks during an interview, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, in New York. Cotto will bid farewell to the
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ring when he faces Sadam Ali on Dec. 2 in Madison Square Garden _ his “second home,” as he calls it, where he will fight for the 10th and final time of his career.
Boxer Miguel Cotto poses for a portrait, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, in New York. Cotto will bid farewell to the ring when he faces Sadam Ali on Dec. 2 in Madison Square Garden _ his “second home,” as he calls it, where he will fight for the 10th and final time of his career.
Boxer Miguel Cotto talks during an interview, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, in New York. Cotto will bid farewell to the ring after facing Sadam Ali in a junior middleweight bout on Dec. 2 at Madison Square Garden.
Boxer Miguel Cotto wipes away tears during an interview, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, in New York. Cotto will bid farewell to
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Fern the Zebra Shark. Photos courtesy of the Aquarium of the Pacific.
By the Aquarium of the Pacific’s opening
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day on June 20, 1998, more than 30,000 households had purchased charter memberships; during its first day, 12,000 people (its maximum capacity) toured its exhibits.
On Wednesday, the aquarium will celebrate two decades of work in ocean conversation, education and community engagement, with much to look forward to, including the completion of its under-construction Pacific Visions wing, the first major expansion for the local institute.
“Over its 20-year history, the Aquarium has served as a community gathering place for people to learn about the ocean, its inhabitants, and each other so the public is better prepared to address the global societal and environmental issues we face, like climate change,” said aquarium President and CEO Jerry Schubel.
The aquarium was the first to successfully breed Pharaoh’s cuttlefish in 1999 and weedy seadragons in 2001, adding to its list of achievements in the realm of animal husbandry. In 2016,
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A judge has reportedly ordered a Colorado woman to decrypt her laptop computer so prosecutors may use the files against her in a criminal case involving alleged bank fraud
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The defendant, Ramona Fricosu, had unsuccessfully argued that being forced to do so would violate the Fifth Amendment protection against compelled self-incrimination, Wired reports.
“I conclude that the Fifth Amendment is not implicated by requiring production of the unencrypted contents of the Toshiba Satellite M305 laptop computer,” Colorado U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ruled Monday.
The case is being closely watched by civil rights groups, Wired reports, as the issue has never been fully considered by the Supreme Court. Authorities seized the laptop from Fricosu in 2010 with a court warrant while investigating financial fraud.
Blackburn ordered Fricosu to surrender an unencrypted hard drive by Feb. 21. The judge added that the government is precluded “from using Ms. Fricosu's act of production of the unencrypted hard drive against her in any prosecution," Wired reports.
Click here to read more on this report
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WASHINGTON, Sep 18 2014 (IPS) - As the wobbly anti-ISIS coalition is being formed with American prodding, the Obama administration
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should take a strategic look at the future of the Arab world beyond the threat posed by the self-declared Islamic State. Otherwise, the United States would be unprepared to deal with the unintended chaos.
Driven by ideological hubris, the Bush administration on the eve of the Iraq war rejected any suggestions that the war could destabilise the whole region and rock the foundations of the Arab nation-state system.
Invading Iraq was a “dumb” war. Chasing after ISIS in the Iraqi/Syrian desert without a clear vision of the endgame could result in something far worse.
That system, which was mostly created under the colonial Sykes-Picot treaty of 1916, is now being severely stressed. The Obama administration should avoid repeating the tragic mistake of its predecessor. While trying to halt the advance of ISIS by focused airstrikes, and regardless of the coalition’s effectiveness in “degrading” and “defeating” ISIS, President Obama
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Your Lordships, Friends, Comrades and Compatriots, good evening and welcome to this great farewell party to one of the most eminent
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sons of the soil!
First things first. I must introduce myself. I dare not presume that everybody knows me.
I’ve heard conflicting stories about my origins in the past: Who’s Mike Dingake precisely? a) South African according to some sources, born in Diepkloof, SOWETO.
Preposterous if you happen to know I am older than SOWETO and Diepkloof; it was a story peddled by the Boers for their own interest; b) in Botswana after a long ‘sojourn overseas,’ many came to know I was a native of Bobonong village; some mistakenly in the process nominated me Key Dingake’s father; I’m Key’s brother not his father; c) a motley of Botswana residents confer false titles on me: Professor, Doctor and Mdala.
I am none of those, neither Professor,
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The Millville High School football team cruised to a 41-14 win over Kingsway Friday in the Bolts' home opener at Wheaton
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Field.
MILLVILLE - The Millville High School football team did not want a repeat of last year's showing against Kingsway.
Shortly after the Thunderbolts' 40-point win over Egg Harbor Township in Week 1, coach Dennis Thomas reminded his team of as much in the postgame huddle.
"7-0... We can't have that again," Thomas said, referring to the Bolts' tight victory over Kingsway in 2016.
Millville responded in a big way to their coach's plea.
The Bolts scored early and often en route to a 41-14 trouncing of Kingsway in Millville's home opener at Wheaton Field Friday night.
Senior transfer Elijah Nichols had an exciting debut in orange and blue. Nichols, who was forced to sit out last week, threw touchdown passes on Millville's first two possessions.
Nichols got things started with a 29-yard touch pass over the Kingsway defense to Carlton Lawrence for
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High school football continues with one last game for one Gaston County senior Saturday.
Ashbrook wide receiver Demetrius Oliver will suit up for
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the North Carolina team in the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas in Spartanburg, S.C.
The 76th annual event kicks off at 1 p.m. at Gibbs Stadium on the campus of Wofford College.
The two-county area will have another participant in East Lincoln head coach Mike Byus, who is coaching North Carolina�s quarterbacks and receivers. Garner�s Nelson Smith is head coach of the North Carolina team.
The 6-foot-2, 200-pound Oliver was an integral part of Ashbrook�s spread offense this season, catching 39 passes for 645 yards and five touchdowns. Oliver turned in three 100-yard games as Ashbrook went 6-5 overall and 4-2 in the Big South 3A Conference.
Oliver has received an offer from North Carolina A&T and is also drawing interest from Limestone, the University of Charleston in West Virginia and Gardner-Webb.
Oliver becomes the second Ashbrook player
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He anticipates being held in isolation in prison for the foreseeable future, where he would be able to write essays books and coordinate with far-right
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networks from his prison cell.
Breivik’s comments were reported by a team of court-appointed psychiatrists giving evidence on Monday, who have contradicted the diagnosis of two previous psychiatrists that he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia.
Terje Torrissen and Agnar Aspaas were asked to carry out a second assessment of Brevik’s mental culpability after the first examination diagnosing Breivik’s “psychosis” was leaked to the media triggering outrage.
The court was also told how Breivik had claimed to have received a steady stream of admiring fanmail including declarations of love from women and girls as young as 16. He added he had also received hate mail.
Torrissen and Aspaas, the final witnesses to give evidence in the trial of Breivik – who has admitted the murders and insists that he is sane – have said they had found no evidence of “psychosis”.
According to
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A threatening note with the logo was attached to a plastic bottle filled with cement that was thrown through a window of the Maccabi Jewish Community Center
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and sports club in Santa Fe City, the capital of the Santa Fe province.
A Jewish sports club in Argentina was the victim of a threat that included the Islamic State logo.
The note read “This is a warning, the next one will explode” and “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is great” in Arabic.
The National Institute Against Discrimination expressed “deep concern” about the attack “written in Spanish and in Arabic with a motto used by fundamentalist groups,” according to a statement issue by its Santa Fe office.
The Santa Fe representative of the Argentine Jewish political umbrella DAIA, Horacio Roitman, met with police and security authorities to strengthen surveillance of the institution and to put in place preventive measures. Roitman denounced the attack in interviews with local and national media.
The JCC said on social media that its activities will continue as usual. Maccabi is celebrating this month its 60th
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No one should miss the incredible Museum of the Moon.
The transfixing exhibit has toured around the world and is soon coming to the magnificent
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Ely Cathedral.
I witnessed the awe-inspiring orb when it travelled to the Arc Shopping Centre in my home of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
The exhibit tucked inside a room at the Apex event venue was so popular, I had to wait for a few minutes to enter.
Everyone's eyes were instantly glued to the massive illuminated orb dangling from the ceiling.
The 3D moon is so mesmerising because it is covered with detailed NASA photographs of the moon. I felt compelled to slowly circle the structure several times because each angle of the moon is so different.
The sculpture feels eerily realistic with its internal lighting and NASA imagery of the lunar surface with an approximate scale of 1:500,000 – each centimetre of the 7-metre spherical sculpture represents 5 kilometres of the moon’s surface.
I was impressed with the exhibit even in Bury's little shopping centre but now that it is coming to
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If the French adage "mariage pluvieux, mariage heureux" ("a rainy wedding means a happy marriage")
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holds true, the sun should shine for Alexia Landeau and Guilhem de Castelbajac.
VAUVILLE, FRANCE — If the French adage “mariage pluvieux, mariage heureux” (“a rainy wedding means a happy marriage”) holds true, the sun should shine for Alexia Landeau and Guilhem de Castelbajac.
“It’s a good omen,” offered the Oscar de la Renta-clad bride of the rainy day, just before making her entrance into the picturesque church of Vauville as guests stood on tiptoe hoping to sneak a peak.
The ceremony, held Saturday near Deauville in Normandy, wasn’t a complete washout, however. As Landeau, an actress, and de Castelbajac, the artist son of French designer Jean-Charles de Castelb
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento Kings hired Luke Walton as their coach Monday, just days after the Los Angeles Lakers parted ways
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with him following three losing seasons.
Neither the Kings nor Walton waited long following changes that came just after the end of the regular season. Sacramento fired coach Dave Joerger on Thursday following a 39-43 finish that was the best record for the franchise in 13 years, while Walton was dismissed in Los Angeles a day later when he failed to get the Lakers into the postseason in the first year with LeBron James.
Kings general manager Vlade Divac met with Walton on Saturday and the two sides quickly came to the agreement that was formally announced Monday.
That performance helped him get the job with the Lakers but he was unable to duplicate that success with a roster with far less talent during his first two years and then again this year, even with James on board.
Walton now takes over an up-and-coming team in Sacramento that features several talented young players acquired by Divac: guards De'Aaron Fox and Buddy Hield, forward Marvin Bagley III and center Willie C
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