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Walgreens is working to close its $9.4 billion purchase of Rite Aid early next year. It said Tuesday that it's selling the
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Rite Aid stores in response to concerns raised by federal anti-trust regulators. The deal still needs to be approved by the Federal Trade Commission.
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., based in Deerfield, Illinois, announced in October 2015 that it planned to buy Rite Aid in a deal that would create about 12,000 U.S. locations. That's several thousand more than the nearest competitor, CVS Health Corp.
The combination is expected to give Walgreens beefed-up negotiating muscle with drugmakers and other suppliers and to help enlarge its presence in the Northeast and in Southern California. But the nation's largest drugstore chain also knew it would have to drop some stores to ease regulatory worry about competition.
Shortly after announcing the deal, Walgreens said it was willing to divest up to 1,000 stores to win regulatory approval, but it expected it wouldn't have to sell more than 500.
Fred's runs 647 general merchandise discount stores clustered mainly in the Southeast
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Geneva: Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev and his ex-wife Elena on Tuesday announced they had reached a deal to settle their divorce,
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which had been dubbed the costliest break-up of all time.
In May, 2014, a Swiss court awarded Elena Rybolovlev over four billion Swiss francs ($4.2 billion, 3.6 billion euros) -- the equivalent of half his fortune, in their divorce, which at the time was dubbed the divorce of the century.
On Tuesday the pair said in a joint statement that they had "reached an agreement on the terms of the divorce" in a move they said "puts an end to all legal procedures launched in different jurisdictions.".
The statement did not specify the amount agreed upon.
The agreement came after a Geneva appeals court in June overturned the 2014 ruling, downgrading the payment required from the owner of French football club AS Monaco to 564 million Swiss francs, along with two real estate holdings.
One of the contentious points was Rybolovlev's worth, as he had transferred shares in 2005 to a trust and then sold them
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Ukraine — The small Ukrainian tax software company that is accused of being the patient zero of a damaging global cyberepidemic is under investigation and
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will face charges, the head of Ukraine's CyberPolice suggested on Monday.
Col. Serhiy Demydiuk, the head of Ukraine's national Cyberpolice unit, said in an interview with The Associated Press that Kiev-based M.E. Doc's employees had blown off repeated warnings about the security of their information technology infrastructure.
"They knew about it," he told the AP at his office. "They were told many times by various anti-virus firms.... For this neglect, the people in this case will face criminal responsibility."
Demydiuk and other officials say last week's unusually disruptive cyberattack was mainly spread through a malicious update to M.E. Doc's eponymous tax software program, which is widely used by accountants and businesses across Ukraine.
The malicious update, likely planted on M.E. Doc's update server by a hacker, was then disseminated across the country before exploding into an epidemic of data-scrambling software
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The costume Elon and Grimes designed together for the Met Ball came out quite nicely. Must have taken some time and effort.
Elon Musk doesn
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't care about you.
If he did, he would have details about the things that matter to customers and shareholders — the progress of the Model 3, his company's profitability, and continued efforts to make his cars as safe as possible.
In light of Tesla founder Elon Musk's tweetstorms railing against media coverage against the company, I think it's a good time to remind you of something I've mentioned here before.
By you I mean his customers, Wall Street, his shareholders, his creditors, his employees, and anyone who just might be interested in learning more about electric cars. Teaching you about what's going on with the cars, after all, is partly the business of the media. The stories that have most recently upset Musk have to do with dangerously lax safety protocols at Tesla's factory in Freemont and poor review s of his now $78,000 Model 3.
He seems like a busy guy.
The last time I pointed out Musk's lack of interest in anything
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Michael Flynn is involved in Trump’s weirdest scandal yet.
How the incoming national security adviser got tangled up in the Trump administration�
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�s weirdest scandal yet.
Can brain waves be used to detect lies? What even is a lie?
The weirdest scandal of the Trump transition—the one involving brain electrodes, Russian spies, Hillary Clinton’s email server, and an expert in kung fu—probably should have been a bigger deal. But I’m sorry to say that Bloomberg reporters David Kocieniewski and Peter Robison’s gift to journalism, published on the morning of Dec. 23, barely registered before it disappeared into the tinsel.
Their delightful scoop, headlined “Trump Aide Partnered With Firm Run by Man With Alleged KGB Ties,” describes a business link between Donald Trump’s incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and a shady biotech startup called Brainwave Science. In February, Brainwave, which sells a “helmet-like headpiece fitted with sensors” as a sort of lie detector for law enforcement and
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It's been seven years since Cake baked up a new recording.
Of course, part of the mischievous pleasure for John McCrea and
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his hard-to-label Sacramento anti-rock band is checking out all the puns, rhymes, metaphors and cliches their name precipitates. You can't help it.
"Showroom of Compassion," title of the group's first album since 2004's "Pressure Chief," is bound to prompt even more wordplay.
Bottom line, though: It's Cake's dependable recipe (how can you resist that one?) of slightly off-kilter tunes full of subtle sonic delights, McCrea's deadpan vocals and wry observations and, Vincent DiFiore's playfully engaging horn tootings and the wiggly, squiggly keyboard injections of McCrea, DiFiore and Xan McCurdy.
As always, it's hard to determine exactly how serious, sarcastic or silly McCrea & Co. are trying to be.
No doubt, though. The opening "Federal Funding," taken at a slinky crawl, lobs some
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The Asian session see’s the Euro trading with a slight decline against the USD; however it remains still relatively firm as yesterday’s
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hawkish comments by European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet which saw the EURUSD surge by over 65 pips in yesterday’s late European session. The comments made gave a positive outlook with regards to upcoming release of the European interest rates, with the market expecting the rates to be raised – an event that may see the EURUSD break past the November 4th high of 1.4281. The Euro is currently trading some 20 pips under the 1.4100 level, which it momentarily broker yesterday, from an Asian session open of 1.4091.
The Sterling dropped in the early part of the Asian session from an open of 1.5991 to a session low of 1.5974 before recouping its losses and rising above the Asian open to a high of 1.6002. The Sterling is currently some 60 pips above yesterday’s 5 month low that was reached in mid European session, following weak UK economic data that casted doubts on
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How the Park Community Arena could look.
Sheffield Sharks say they’re 'edging closer’ to finialising a bank
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loan which would help them achieve their goal of building a community basketball arena.
Sharks were asked to finalise a finanical plan which would enable them to build an arena on the Olympic Legacy Park by Sheffield Council in July.
The council is under pressure to be able to provide students with facilities by September 2019, when secondary pupils are due to join primary children at Oasis Academy Don Valley and its cabinet approved alternative proposals to provide provision at the English Institute of Sport.
But Sarah Backovic, Sharks’ managing director, said the club were expecting verification reports to be submitted to the bank over the next few days as part of plans to build a community arena, which the schoolchildren could use.
She said: “It’s all edging closer. It’s been a been frustrating for us because this things aren’t in our own hands and timing wise we would like to be much faster.
Ms Backovic said the Sharks, together with Park
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Police press releases, public safety updates, traffic updates and general breaking news.
The Austin Parks and Recreation Department has re-opened Barton Creek Green
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belt.
After continually monitoring the safety of the Barton Creek Greenbelt, the Austin Parks and Recreation Department has made the decision to re-open it for public use today, Wednesday, August 24, 2016. Patrons using the Barton Creek Greenbelt are asked to use caution and avoid any areas of standing water or debris on the trail.
Beginning Saturday, August 13, East Riverside will be reduced to two east and westbound lanes between Shore District Drive and Lakeshore Boulevard.
The visitation for fallen Travis County Sheriff’s Sgt. Craig Hutchinson will be Monday, Aug. 1, 2016 from 4-8 p.m. at Cook Waldon Funeral Home, 6100 North Lamar Blvd.
A celebration of Sgt. Hutchinson’s life will be on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016 at 10 a.m. at Shoreline Church, 15201 Burnet Rd. Following the funeral service, there will be a procession to his final resting place.
Protesters
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Motorists have been warned to expect difficult driving conditions as icy weather continues to grip the UK.
The Met Office has issued yellow 'be aware
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' warnings for ice across the entire country and snow across the Midlands, northern England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The Met Office said sleet and snow showers would affect parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland today, with snow falling to lower levels and extending further south through the day.
A very cold airmass will spread southwards across Scotland and Northern Ireland accompanied by strong winds, spreading southwards into northern England and north Wales later in the day.
Frequent showers are likely to form in this airmass, and with the cold air snow is likely to accumulate, even to low levels in places.
Periods of enhanced snowfall are possible within this general flow, perhaps more especially across the high ground of Scotland and north-east England, but these details are more uncertain.
Snow showers and sleet expected to affect parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland, with snow extending further south.
The first heavy snow of the season has fallen in northern parts of the UK causing some
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What is Jennifer Lopez’s age, what movies has the singer been in and what is J-Lo’s net worth?
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JENNIFER Lopez is a triple threat - actress, singer AND dancer.
Here's everything you need to know about the talented Jenny From The Block.
Jennifer Lopez, 49, was born in The Bronx, New York.
Her parents are Puerto Rican and she has two sisters, Leslie and Lynda.
Lynda is a journalist and TV news anchor.
J-Lo started her career in 1991 as a backing dancer for New Kids on The Block.
She performed with the boyband at the 18th Annual American Music Awards.
Shortly after, she became part of the Fly Girl dance troupe in the sketch comedy series In Living Colour.
What movies has Jennifer Lopez been in?
Jennifer Lopez had her first leading role in 1997 in the biopic Selena - a film about the singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.
Her performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination and made her the first Latina actress to earn over $1 million for a
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Monopolies are strangling competition and cutting off opportunity. Here’s how to stop them.
It’s an age-
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old question, a cliché so apt it never gets old: What is to be done?
After nearly four decades of lax antitrust policy, during which a handful of corporations have been allowed to gobble up market share like a horde of deranged amoebas, the consequences of unfettered monopoly have become painfully apparent. Competition has fizzled, replaced by pockets of extreme concentration. The number of new businesses has plunged. Wages have stagnated. Inequality has spiked. And extreme wealth—alongside its evil twin, extreme power—has pooled in fewer and fewer hands.
Many Americans feel the consequences of monopoly in their daily lives. Nurses in Michigan saw their income depressed by an estimated 20 percent as a result of alleged collusion among dominant hospitals seeking to keep labor costs low. Dairy farmers in the Southeast contend they have been denied a fair price for their milk by two dominant firms that control the processing and distribution of milk. Independent pharmacists say that CVS Health, which
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Death Valley is famous among geologists because it offers the chance to study a variety of exposed and accessible ancient rock.
The mountains of Death Valley
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are dry and sparsely vegetated, supporting some grasses and the odd creosote bush and cactus.
Caltech's John Grotzinger, lead scientist for the Curiosity Mars rover mission, likes to get white cars for his geology field trips, so he can use the vehicles as mobile dry erase boards.
A coachwhip — a fast-moving, nonvenomous snake — cruised through the courtyard of our hotel in Shoshone, Calif., on April 30, 2012.
A rusty old bed frame bakes in the Death Valley sun. Many prospectors came here in the early to mid-20th century to seek their fortunes in precious metals, but few struck it big.
An old talc mine in Death Valley. Nearby are great fossils of billion-year-old stromatolites, mound-like structures built by sediment-trapping microbial mats.
Caltech's John Grotzinger, lead scientist for NASA's Curiosity
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A respected member of Lebanon County’s law enforcement community died Monday morning.
Ray Barry passed away suddenly after collapsing at his home on Boll
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man Street in Lebanon. He was 65.
Barry’s career in law enforcement spanned four decades, including 21 years as chief of Cleona Borough Police Department. He retired in August of 2015, but kept busy working part-time for the Lebanon County Sheriff’s Office and teaching law enforcement classes at Lebanon Valley College and Harrisburg Area Community College.
Barry grew up in Lebanon and settled on a career in public service at an early age.
The viewing will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 2 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Kreamer's Funeral Home, 618 E. Main St., Annville.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, Aug. 3 at the Good Shepherd Church, 1500 Quentin Rd., Lebanon. The viewing will begin at 10 a.m. and services will begin at 11 a.m. Interment will follow at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery in Annville.
The procession to Indiant
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May 28, 2016 "[C]ancelling or changing the location of the 2016 Olympics will not significantly alter the international spread of Zika virus
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," WHO says, after scientists called for the Games to be moved.
May 12, 2016 Brazil's first female president was suspended on Thursday, and the man replacing her quickly installed a new Cabinet that has no women.
May 12, 2016 Brazil's Senate voted overwhelmingly to try President Dilma Rousseff for alleged manipulation of the country's budget. She is now suspended as president as impeachment proceedings move forward.
May 11, 2016 Brazilian media report that a majority of senators have said they will approve the impeachment trial of Dilma Rousseff — although some face scandalous allegations of their own.
May 9, 2016 The speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress annulled a vote on the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. And then he decided to reverse his decision.
April 18, 2016 The embattled president says the vote to impeach her is "an attempt at indirect election because those who want to rise to power would not have
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A Jersey City 24-year-old with a criminal past turned himself in last night to police, facing a murder charge for a fatal shooting Friday
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Daquan Mixson, accompanied by his attorney, turned himself in last night at about 8 p.m., Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Gene Rubino said. Mixson is charged with the fatal Friday shooting of 21-year-old Darius Dashawn Redmon. Redmon died Saturday.
This development ends the weekend hunt for a suspect police considered armed and dangerous. Mixson is currently being held at Hudson County jail on $1 million bail.
This is not the felon's first run-in with the law. Mixson is a reputed member of the 52 Hoover Street Gangsta Crips in Jersey City, whose previous offenses include running over a 6-year-old boy and dragging him for over 70 feet before fleeing the scene in July 2008.
After being in an induced coma for several weeks, the young boy, Jabari Cooley, miraculously survived. In that case, authorities tracked Mixson down in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and in
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These capabilities have existed for a while (Facebook told ProPublica’s Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr. it began offering them
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within the past two years as part of its “multicultural advertising” efforts), and to the advertisers who’ve used them, they might seem like a natural extension of broader practices like targeting based on age, gender and location.
For example, a nonprofit that’s hosting a career fair for the Hispanic community can use Facebook ads to reach people who have an interest in that community. And a merchant selling hair care products that are designed for black women can reach people who are most likely to want its products.
Our ad policies strictly prohibit this kind of advertising, and it’s against the law. If we learn of advertising on our platform that involves this kind of discrimination, we will take aggressive enforcement action. We also realize that, as a website, we often aren’t in a position to know the details of an apartment rental or job application — and so we will also remove an ad from our platform if the government agency responsible for enforcing discrimination laws tells
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Law enforcement officials and reporters continue to plug new information into the still mysterious timeline of the lives of Syed Rizwan Farook and Tash
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feen Malik, but now the emerging picture has been framed by one stunning, but not surprising, piece of information.
The bottom line: Deadly violence linked to ISIS has come to the United States, either through online poison or through contacts during visits to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. The answer, of course, could be "both-and." Were two people -- alone -- really gong to use all of those pipe bombs and thousands of round of ammunition, while taking care of a 6-month-old baby?
Early on, reporters (and law officials, one can assume) were surprised to find little online evidence that Farook and Malik existed. Now it's clear -- in another sign of premeditation and planning -- that they had attempted to wipe their cyber slates clean.
Authorities are officially investigating the San Bernardino, California, massacre as "an act of terrorism," FBI official David Bowdich said Friday.
Investigators think that as the San Bernardino, California, massacre was
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UPDATE: I’ve heard – yes, I’ve heard – that I badly under-estimated the size of the gathering at
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the VAG on Tuesday. Some said the crowd grew to a couple hundred people before it ended. That’s still smaller than what was expected, but I offer this mea culpa.
A call Tuesday for B.C. students to support their peers in Quebec attracted modest numbers in Vancouver, even as tens of thousands of people marched through downtown Montreal to mark the 100th day of a strike against tuition fee increases.
Scores of people showed up in the rain — but not as many as had “liked” the plan on Facebook. Organizers had hoped the Montreal uprising would spark conversations here about the cost of education and calls for an end to tuition fees.
B.C. students pay higher tuition fees than Quebecers attending post-secondary schools in their own province — an average of $4,852 compared to $2,519. Quebec fees are the lowest in the country, where average tuition at public post-secondary institutions is $5,
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There’s been no shortage of news around LG’s upcoming V40, including confirmation from LG that the phone would spot three cameras
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on the rear. What we didn’t know was what each of those cameras actually did; leave it leaker Evan Blass to be the one tell us.
As with previous LG flagships, there are both standard and super-wide-angle cameras on board, but this time around there’s a telephoto lens as well. This camera arrangement is significant because not only is it one of the few phones with a triple-lens shooter (Huawei was first), but it’s also the only one to combine both an ultra-wide and telephoto.
Huawei’s setup on the P20 Pro, on the other hand, includes a normal and telephoto lens paired with a third monochrome sensor to improve image quality. While that does help the P20 Pro take some of the best photos on the market, I’d argue LG’s setup is much more versatile.
Being able to switch between three perspectives adds a
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Online, on-demand subscription service saves companies hassle of building or customizing their own set of applications, company says.
Salesforce.com
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, a maker of customer relationship management software, has announced an online service designed to let companies use many applications at once--whether built in-house, by another vendor or a partner.
The on-demand subscription service--Multiforce--is meant to let customers access applications online and run them simultaneously rather than taking a client-server-software approach that calls for customers to build or customize their own set of applications.
Using the service, companies can share data models, security systems and user interfaces, said Phill Robinson, Salesforce.com senior vice president of global marketing.
But competitors, such as Siebel Systems, have a different take on Multiforce.
"Salesforce.com's stated strategy is 'no more software.' I think what they mean is, 'We don't want to write software for you. Do it yourself.' More and more customers tell us they want to look to one company to deliver a solution to them," Keith Raffel, Siebel
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If, like me, you're burned out on craft fairs, art openings, rock shows, and dive bars, look no further than Des
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Plaines. Hop on the el, get off at the Rosemont stop, wait for the every-ten-minutes, 24/7 free shuttle, and arrive at the glorious suburban oasis known as Rivers Casino. (Seriously, from Logan Square it takes less than 30 minutes to get there, all for the price of CTA fare.) The casino is only closed for two hours a day, between the hours of 7 AM and 9 AM, and in the wee hours you'll find a wide range of characters, from serious gamblers to night-owl geriatrics to travelers shuttling over from O'Hare. The drinks are strong and reasonably priced, and they have multiple restaurants open late: a burger joint, an Asian noodle place, a steakhouse, and even a sports bar type thing that serves poutine. If you're a nonsmoker, you don't have to clam bake like at the Horseshoe over in Indiana, which allows smoking indoors.
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Vernon-Verona-Sherrill's Alexa Kiser entered the 1,000 point club on Saturday. She is pictured her with her
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coach Randy Thomas.
The boys and girls high school basketball holiday tournament action ramped up again Saturday with more than 30 contests in play. Here are the highlights from Dec. 29.
The Gaelic Knights hung right with their Class AA state-ranked opponents through the final possessions, battling back from a nine-point halftime deficit. Aurora DeShaies and Amarah Streiff combined for 46 points on the day, finishing with 25 and 21 respectively.
The Gaelic Knights will take on Sacred Heart in the consolation game at 4 p.m. on Sunday.
Freey Pleasants posted 10 points, 13 rebounds, and 10 assists for a triple-double to charge the Atoms, while teammates Aniyah Powell, Xyel Bradford, and Alexius Pierce scored 20, 19, and 13 points respectively in the win. For the Warriors, Victoria Morgan put in a team-high 15 points.
For the Red Devils, Alexa Kiser entered the 1,000-
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The needs of foodies are permeating many facets of culture -- and in a city with mostly dismal museum dining, the owners of Equinox
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just made a pretty smart move.
Todd Gray’s Muse, a café focused on "a fresh to-go-style" concept, opened last Saturday at the Corcoran Gallery (500 17th St. N.W.).
Established restaurateur Todd Gray and his wife Ellen Kassoff Gray, who also operate Equinox and the Watershed, didn’t go over the top with the new restaurant’s design.
"The décor is the Corcoran," Ellen Gray said. "It’s not supposed to be a grand, shiny new café" that can hold thousands of people.
She said people can relish "a terrific sandwich and a half bottle of wine while taking in some great art," for what would be "a very real and approachable experience."
The sandwiches and salads are made on site, with ingredients fresh from the same morning, Gray said. The produce is in fact bought from local farmers' markets,
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Born Wet, Human Babies Are 75 Percent Water. Then Comes The Drying : Krulwich Wonders... A fresh tomato is 93.5
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percent water. A fresh baby girl or boy is 75 percent water. A banana, 74 percent. We all start wet, and then, inevitably, dry. A 1-year-old baby carries 10 percent less water; a male adult 15 percent less. Life is a slow evaporation, with some curious exceptions.
Lovely, no? Now think of this baby abstractly — as a sack of hundreds of millions of atoms. Here's the atomic formula for a new human being, arranged by elements, according to scientist Neil Shubin.
Notice that the two most plentiful atoms are H (hydrogen) and O (oxygen) which shouldn't be a big surprise, since 2 H's and an O make water, and we humans are very moist, especially when we're born.
It turns out, a brand new human baby is 75 percent water.
We're born as wet as a fresh potato. Tomatoes are wetter (93.5 percent water
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The Department of Education has issued new guidance for school districts on how to devise schoolwide plans for Title I money aimed at raising the achievement of disadvantaged
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students.
The long-awaited “nonregulatory” guidance is intended to help steer schools through federal legislation—though the guidance itself is not binding—as schools set up comprehensive Title I compensatory education programs reauthorized under the No Child Left Behind Act. The 4-year-old law is the latest version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
The guidance allows a school with at least 40 percent of its students determined to be low-income to operate a schoolwide program, as opposed to a targeted program. A targeted program seeks to identify and specifically serve low-income students.
To create a schoolwide program, a school must redesign its entire educational program to serve all students, the guidance says. The schoolwide idea has gained popularity as it reflects principles emphasized in the No Child Left Behind law, including accountability, research-based practices, and community engagement.
The guidance, issued late last month, says a school wanting to establish a schoolwide program must conduct a
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Wal-Mart vs. United Parcel Service: Which Stock's Dividend Dominates?
Two of the retail economy's most important stocks
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, Wal-Mart and United Parcel Service, square off in a battle of dividend fundamentals. Find out which one belongs in your portfolio.
But few of us can invest in every single dividend-paying stock on the market, and even if we could, we're likely to find better gains by being selective. Today, Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) and United Parcel Service (NYSE:UPS), two companies that have come to symbolize different aspects of the new globalized retail economy, will square off in a head-to-head battle to determine which offers a better dividend for your portfolio.
Founded in 1962, Wal-Mart(NYSE:WMT) is the world's largest retailer, and ranked as the world's second-largest public corporation on the Fortune Global 500 list in 2013. The company operates more than 11,000 stores under 69 banners in 27 countries, and also maintains e-commerce websites in 10 countries. The Arkansas-based colossus
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A U.S. Navy submarine is under investigation after several female officers were reportedly filmed unknowingly in the vessel's unisex bathroom showers.
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According to multiple reports, tapes of at least three female officers showering and changing clothes were allegedly circulated among other crew members aboard the USS Wyoming, one of the first submarines to allow women to serve.
It amounts to a huge scandal for a community that has prided itself on an otherwise smooth integration effort, begun four years ago when women first entered submarine training. And it comes as the Navy moves towards its next milestones, integrating Virginia-class attack subs and then the enlisted submarine ranks.
The investigation comes not only just before the Navy is set to begin its next round of gender integration, but also the same week the Navy revoked an honorary title from Bill Cosby, citing numerous allegations that the comedian committed sexual assault. In a statement released on Thursday, Navy officials said the charges against Cosby "are very serious and are in conflict with the Navy’s core values of honor, courage and commitment." So far, officials have been unclear about what punishment could result from the investigation into the alleged tap
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(MENAFN - The Conversation) With the re-election of the Berejiklian government, New South Wales now has a minister
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for public spaces, Rob Stokes. This portfolio was first mooted in February, when the premier announced one of the new minister's tasks would be to identify and protect publicly owned land for use as parks or public spaces.
As important as this task is, we need even more ambition in this portfolio. Public space is crucial to the social, economic, political and environmental life of our towns and cities. As well as increasing the quantity of public spaces, we need to improve their quality.
Here are ten priorities for government action to make our public spaces more plentiful and more accessible to all.
From Barangaroo to Bonnyrigg, public spaces in new urban developments are often owned and controlled by private developers. The public has little say over the rules that govern these spaces and how those rules are enforced. Restrictions are often excessive, and private security guards are known to overstep their powers.
The minister for public space should map the extent of privately owned public spaces and ensure
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Believe it or not, a household pulling in over $130,000 can still avoid the tax!
This may help ease your tax burden
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when it comes to capital gains.
As tax season winds itself to a close, many American families have had to fork over a pretty penny for selling investments. Of course, this doesn't necessarily apply to tax-advantaged retirement accounts, but there are still a lot of families that have side money invested in the stock market for non-retirement purposes.
Today, I'm going to tell you how many -- most, actually -- American families could sell their stock investments for a gain and not owe Uncle Sam a penny.
For starters, you absolutely must own the stocks you are going to sell for at least a year. Once you get beyond 365 days, your investment is considered a "long term" one, and that opens it to a host of tax advantages. If you follow the buy-to-hold investment philosophy that we preach here at The Motley Fool, this shouldn't be too hard.
Next, let's take a look at how those long-term capital gains
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What does the former chief executive of one of the most well-known news aggregators do after his company just barely escapes death and gets acquired by
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seed-stage venture capital firm Betaworks? He starts a home improvement site.
Former Digg chief executive Matt Williams just raised $3.5 million from Jeff Bezos, Andreessen Horowitz, Madrona Venture Group, Redpoint Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, and Sherpa Foundry for his new venture, Pro.com, a site that helps people get quotes for the home improvements they have in mind as well as find professionals to hire for those jobs.
After taking over for interim Digg chief executive Kevin Rose in 2010, Williams eventually sold the company in three parts in 2012. Digg sold its brand, website, and technology to Betaworks for $500,000, most of its engineering staff went over to the Washington Post‘‘s SocialCode project for $12 million, and some patents went to LinkedIn for around $4 million.
After the sale of Digg, Williams joined Andreessen Horowitz as an entrepreneur in residence.
He then started up
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Twenty-seven years have passed since I moved to Costa Rica, and I have been fortunate enough to run world-renowned fishing operations over the
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years. Big fish tend to beat me up more these days than vice versa, but the fever for both the sport and the country has never left me.
Costa Rica has so much to offer all types of anglers that it is a shame not to experience it. Here is a rundown of some of the many sport fishing opportunities.
Guapote (rainbow bass) are available in Lake Arenal, along with machaca, a relative of the South American piranha that is quite acrobatic when hooked. The rivers and lagoons in Los Chiles, which is in the Northern Zone, and all along the Caribbean seaboard have those species as well, plus tarpon and snook that also venture deep into the freshwater ecosystems. Several types of other cichlads, known as morjarra are found deep in the jungle and make for great ultra-light fun.
High in the mountains that divide the Pacific coast from Cartago, known as
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At NAZ Elite, there is no secrecy. From training logs to workout videos, nearly everything is public. Want advice about something? Just ask
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Gather the fastest possible runners.
Have them toil in secrecy, allowing only limited contact with the civilized world.
Never ease up, especially not during altitude training, when the hardest and most crucial marathon preparation takes place.
Then there is the club known as Northern Arizona Elite, where training logs are published online each day. Key workouts are filmed, photographed and shared on social media, the team website and in certain cases a YouTube channel. The 11 runners in the club, especially the veterans who run the biggest races, are required to be as public as possible about every aspect of their pursuits. The club is, essentially, a digital running reality series.
Its members are hardly the superstars of the sport. The three who are competing Sunday in the New York City Marathon — Stephanie Bruce, Scott Fauble and Scott Smith — are long shots to win. They have their sights set on the top 10, but none has ever come close to winning one of the world’
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Calling it a "hidden epidemic," county health officials are lauding a new strategy by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to increase screening and treatment for the Hep
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atitis C virus.
Cuomo last week announced new strategies to eliminate Hep C, piggybacking on a previous effort to tackle HIV in New York. The new effort aims to stop the spread of the Hep C virus by increasing access to medications that can cure the disease and by expanding programs to connect New Yorkers in high-risk communities with wrap-around services for prevention, screening and treatment.
Dr. Gale Burstein, Erie County health commissioner, said many people don't realize Hep C has made a major comeback, and just how deadly it can be.
"The problem is, Hep C is the most deadly disease in the United States, causing more deaths than HIV. And because it causes permanent liver damage and cirrosis, it's also the No. 1 cause of liver cancer," she said. "However, if it's diagnosed early, Hep C can be treated on an outpatient basis."
Burstein also serves on Cuomo's AIDS Task Force, which has a goal
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In "Amateur," writer-director Hal Hartley's usual minimalism edges toward the maximal. The director of such wiggy art-house
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mood pieces as "The Unbelievable Truth" and "Trust" is trying for an action movie--or, to be more precise, an inaction action movie. But it's still Hartleyland on the screen: lots of stranded, blankish characters in desolate decor. Hartley hasn't really changed his stripes, just his tempo.
Hartley has always drawn from a lot of disparate pop influences, from Godard to film noir, but never more so than in "Amateur." Although the film is ostensibly about "redemption" and "exploitation"--this according to the director in interviews--what it's really about is movie-making as personal style. Hartley turns what might have been a lurid pulp thriller into a freeze-dried art thing. He squeezes all the juice out of pulp.
Hired assassins, drug dealers, shootouts in Grand Central Station, Catholic iconography--Hartley stirs it all up but there's little
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Every Wednesday here at eWEEK's Emerging Technology we'll provide links and insights into the latest news that's breaking anywhere about new technologies and products
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. Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of May 7th. Sun Tries to Outshine Silverlight, Flash; Targets Mobile - You could make a good argument that Java was the original Rich Internet Application environment but it has since been replaced by Flash and other new technologies. Among many announcements at this week's JavaOne show is JavaFX, which aims to get Java back among the top players in RIAs. Doing the Tom Cruise with your computer - The founder of Oblong Industries gives a talk about work on building hand gesture computer interfaces, somewhat similar to the one show in the Tom Cruise film Minority Report. All I can say is that if the person next to me on a plane starts waving their hands around at their laptop, I'm going to ask for another seat.
Every Wednesday here at eWEEK's Emerging Technology we'll provide links and insights into the latest news that's breaking anywhere about new technologies and products.
Here are the emerging technology stories for the week
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WASHINGTON — Eleven labor groups are backing Rep. Nancy Pelosi to be the next speaker of the House, according to a letter obtained by NBC News,
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giving her a boost as she looks to dispel dissent from within the party ranks.
Six new labor groups came out on Wednesday, writing a letter of support, including the Airline Pilots Association, American Federation of Government Employees, United Auto Workers, United Brotherhood of Carpenters, United Food and Commercial Workers, and the National Association of Letter Carriers.
"Throughout your career you have been an unquestioned champion for the interest of working men and women and their families," they wrote in a letter to Pelosi. "we can think of no one better suited to be speaker at this critical moment in history."
These six join the AFL-CIO, United Farm Workers, American Federation of Teachers, United Steelworkers and the National Education Association.
Pelosi is facing a backlash as more than a dozen new freshman Democrats campaigned on not supporting her and about a dozen current members have indicated they wouldn't support her. Their problem, however, is there is no one who has stepped
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Sue Thompson at the Midland Hotel, Morecambe, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Picture by Paul Heyes, Monday
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June 18, 2018.
Sue Thompson was the driving force behind setting up a friends group for Morecambe’s Midland hotel in 1998.
Sue, 63, from Heysham, was born and bred in the area and saw the hotel’s demise over the years. She became chairman of Friends of The Midland. She always regarded The Midland as one of the most important buildings in Morecambe and felt it was key to the town’s regeneration.
The Midland this month celebrates its 10th anniversary since reopening but Sue remembers only too well its lean years.
Sue said: “It was at the end of 1998.early 1999, that I put an advert in The Visitor asking for people to come forward to become members of the friends group. I asked if there were any like-minded people to come and sit round the table to see if we could save The Midland, which was derelict, as
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Geographical Situation: The radar is located on Black Jack Mountain, about 8km WSW of Gunnedah, at nearly 700 metres above sea
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level. This gives the radar an excellent view in all directions. Based on detecting echoes at an altitude of 3,000 metres, the radar coverage extends north across Moree, northeast over Inverell and Guyra, east to Armidale, southeast to Scone and the Upper Hunter, south to Mudgee, southwest towards Dubbo and Gilgandra, west to Coonamble and northwest over Burren Junction.
Meteorological Aspects: The radar should provide excellent coverage of the Namoi region, including Tamworth and the Liverpool Plains. The radar is well placed to detect thunderstorms and deep rain-bearing systems in almost all directions, often at greater range than quoted above. An obstruction at a bearing of about 228 degrees suppresses weather echoes through a narrow sector in this direction, which extends towards Dubbo. The rugged terrain of the region may compromise the radar's view of low-level conditions in some directions. In particular, the Liverpool Ranges and Warr
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LUNENBURG � Racist graffiti and swastikas were spray painted all over the center of town, a discovery made by authorities yesterday
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morning. Officer Jason Poitras said swastikas were painted on Town Hall, the town�s post office building and in other areas of town, as well as on trash barrels.
The new basketball court at the Chester Mossman Teen Center on Memorial Drive was also hit with racist scribbling and swastikas, he said. Members of the teen center cleaned up the graffiti. The swastikas were also removed from the town buildings.
Officer Poitras said the paint color of the graffiti was the same used Aug. 18, when police found graffiti in the town. Anyone with information about the graffiti is asked to call police at (978) 582-4150.
LEICESTER � The Recycing Center will be accepting upholstered couches and chairs, and mattresses and box springs at the center this Saturday only.
The charge will be $30 for large or small couches, $20 for upholstered chairs regardless of size
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A Greatest Hits album and the name Bruce Springsteen just don’t seem to match. While he has had a number of top charting
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single releases, he has never been considered an artist who produces hit songs in the normal sense of the term. He is an artist who creates diverse, memorable, and some of the most critically acclaimed albums in music history. Thus his Greatest Hits compilation released in February of 1995 felt a little suspicious.
Let me say that if you want to explore Bruce Springsteen’s music you need to start with his studio albums. Each is an individual adventure in and of itself, and the songs have a cohesiveness within that context. Pulling his songs from their parent albums of release casts them adrift and allows them to lose some of their impact.
It might be a little too easy to say that this album is only for new adherents who are not familiar with his catalog. While Greatest Hits may provide a nice taste of his material, it is not an introductory release. It is an album for his fans and should just be accepted as a fun 76 minutes of listening pleasure. Ignore any sense
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Regular readers of this blog will know that I’ve been of mixed minds on the electoral prospects of former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of
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Minnesota. I’ve gone from initial skepticism about his chances to defending him as a “top-tier” candidate while some other analysts downgraded his status.
Both the pro-Pawlenty and the anti-Pawlenty arguments are relatively straightforward. The pessimistic case is that he doesn’t really stand out from the pack on the basis of personality, accomplishments or what we might think of as his “brand.” The optimistic case is that he’s broadly acceptable — he has traditional qualifications, he’s well positioned between the moderate and conservative factions of the Republican Party and his favorability numbers are relatively good.
Really, though, I’m not sure that these arguments are incompatible: part of the reason that Mr. Pawlenty does not stand out is that he does not have a lot of sharp edges. The question is how to regard someone with this profile when he’s in competition with a dozen other
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Pelosi's List: Who's on Her Bad Side?
U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi has an enemies
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list.
Nancy Pelosi likes to keep lists.
As a young political protégé of her father, Baltimore Mayor Tommy D’Alesandro, the preteen speaker-to-be would spend hours leafing through the list of voters her father had helped in some way — fixing a pothole, finding them a job, even getting them a hot meal.
Those around Pelosi say she has always kept her own favor file. But, like her father, she has also maintained a “disfavor file” in her head — a roster of those whom she believes have screwed up, betrayed her, challenged her or merely annoyed her.
In some cases, Pelosi has mended fences with people on the list, most notably House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), a former party rival who has become an indispensable lieutenant.
But she has also moved to strip power from longtime adversaries — and she has a propensity for remembering
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You can’t sue your way to a solution for global warming. So says the judge.
On Thursday, Judge John Keenan of
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New York’s Southern District dismissed the City of New York’s lawsuit against the international oil and gas companies BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell. Facing billions of dollars in climate change-related damage in the coming years, New York was hoping to extract some money from the transnational companies that extract the oil that people burn for energy—raising the planet’s temperature, exacerbating storms, melting polar ice and elevating sea levels, worsening wildfires, extending droughts, and allowing diseases to spread farther and faster.
Cities around the country have been filing lawsuits, hoping to get money from oil companies to pay for things like seawalls and infrastructure improvements—part of a strategy that’s been developing for decades. Oil companies have continued to market and lobby for lighter regulation on a product that made life harder on the only planet anyone knows about with life on it, while the US government moved slowly, if at all
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Corporations and tax-exempt organizations for the first time have the option of filing their annual income tax and information returns electronically, the IRS said
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today.
Most corporations and tax-exempt organizations, who file forms 1120 and 990, have the option to transmit tax return data using a secure Internet connection instead of via modem.
Taxpayers and tax professionals can prepare the returns using IRS-approved software developed by one of several software companies.
The returns are then transmitted to IRS through a secure Internet site accessible only to registered users.
'The successful launch of this modernized e-file process means charitable organizations and most corporations can stop filing massive paper returns,' IRS commissioner Mark Everson said.
Error messages are sent quickly and are easier to understand.
Returns are processed upon receipt.
An IRS return message lets tax professionals know the return has been filed.
The IRS' goal is to replace outdated, proprietary technology with an industry standard process that uses Extensible Markup Language, agency officials said. This is the first XML application the IRS has used for tax returns submitted via the Internet.
So far, the IRS
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Four former employees have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the Hewlett-Packard companies for age discrimination, according to documents filed in U
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.S. District Court in San Jose.
The complaint, filed on Aug. 18 by former employees Donna J. Forsyth, Sidney L. Staton III, Arun Vatturi and Dan Weiland, names Palo Alto-based HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company as defendants. The lawsuit claims the tech company has shed thousands of older employees while aggressively recruiting much younger employees to replace them while it publicly sought to transform the company from an "old" company into a "younger" operation.
In 2012, HP instituted a Workplace Reduction Plan that allegedly targeted older workers, affecting tens of thousands of employees across the country, according to the lawsuit. HP's publicly stated goal under the plan was to make the company "younger."
Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company and chair of HP, Inc.'s board of directors, allegedly stated a goal to change HP's "labor diamond" into a "labor pyramid" or a
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No suspects have been named in the blast, which occurred in northeastern Myanmar's conflict-torn Shan state.
Demonstrators demand Myanmar’
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s recognition of Rohingya Muslims as citizens.
The immigration ministry is scrutinizing the names to ensure there are no militants among the returnees.
Fortify Rights and Amnesty International call on the government to look into cases involving missing Kachin villagers and murdered Karenni men.
Over 8,000 names are included on the list, which must now be verified by Myanmar authorities in Naypyidaw.
Rakhine state’s chief minister urges the group to work with the Myanmar government to help resolve the region's problems.
The two sides are trying to reach an agreement on wage and other contract terms.
The prosecutor offers to drop the case against the editor-in-chief of Myanmar Now if he makes amends with Buddhist monk Wirathu.
A spokesman for the Kachin Independence Army says the shutdown of the military stations won’t take place soon.
“We can’t wait for international media to come,” says Rohingya
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Michigan ElvisFest 2012, which was held July 13-14 in Ypsilanti’s Riverside Park, featured live musical performances by 11
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award winning Elvis tribute artists, Elvis memorabilia, a classic car show and a trip for two to Graceland was raffled off with the proceeds going to the Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels program.
The festival began in Ypsilanti in 2000 and is the largest tribute concert in North America. The two-day concert is not a look-alike contest, but an event where Elvis fans can gather to enjoy music by the former king of rock ’n’ roll.
One of Michigan ElvisFest’s original co-founders and Elvis tribute artist Matt King, from Detroit, Mich., performed both days of the event and has been headlining public and private events since age 14.
When asked how he became a tribute artist, he said he dressed as Elvis for a Halloween dance where there was karaoke and people told him he looked and sounded like Elvis.
King said he felt good about his performance and thinks the crowd had a good
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Nancy McGowan is no stranger to volunteer work. The retired Independence school teacher volunteers with Fun and Crafts, a spin-off program of
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the Auxiliary. Fun and Crafts makes a variety of free items for Centerpoint patients and their families.
The group makes pillows for patients and stuffed animals for children of patients and blankets for every baby born. They also make “walker caddies” that are carrying pouches attached to walkers.
She also volunteers at Youth Friends, a school based-mentoring network program in the Kansas City metro area. McGowan also volunteers at various projects at Vesper Hall.
What do you do within the Fun and Crafts?
I make the tray favors. I make about 200 of those a month. It’s like a get well card for patients to let them know someone’s thinking about them. I spend about 15 to 20 hours making them.
What do you most enjoy about your volunteer work?
You get to help people and make a lot of new friends. I enjoy working with people and kids. That kind of keeps me
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With Anna Ford and John Humphrys.
With the Rev Dr Colin Morris.
Chris Langham, aka broadcaster Roy Mallard, offers
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an impression of four ordinary occupations. 1: The Mother Lynne Turner has one of the most influential jobs in existence.
Paul Lewis presents seven programmes which look at personal finance.
A four-part examination of how past generations have viewed the future. 3: 1984 and All That. Mark Lawson looks at how the ideas of novelists and film-makers have affected the future.
Robert Robinson meets six groups of people who share a way of life.
The American composer Steve Reich has been at the forefront of one of this century's musical revolutions - minimalism. From the simplicity of his Clappingto the complex patterns of Different Trains, his music has'found an audience worldwide. Lynne Walker talks to him about his influences.
The news of 50 years ago.
By Ernest Bramah, dramatised by Sue Rodwell. A blind detective tangles with suffragettes and the Bard. with Lynsey Baxter, Oona Beeson, Diedra Morris, Ian
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SINGAPORE - In business, a well-written e-mail could mean the difference between landing a deal and leaving empty-handed.
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To write well, executives and managers must first learn how to write simply, and effectively.
The Executive Edition masterclass is aimed at professionals, managers and executives who want to improve their English language skills for professional communication.
The masterclass is suitable for those who need to write in the course of their work, from e-mails to minutes, presentations and reports.
Ms Choy has over 30 years of experience in sub-editing, writing, visual journalism and training. She will guide participants on topics such as writing shorter sentences, avoiding common grammar and spelling mistakes, and how to craft better e-mails for work.
Learn the difference between "it's" and "its", and why you should not use phrases such as "close proximity" and "small minority".
"Concise writing that effectively gets your message across shows your boss, clients, colleagues and people you deal with that you have a clear mind and that you are considerate of their time," said Ms
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What’s been happening is NASCAR conducting more thorough inspections at its research and development center in North Carolina, and assessing midweek penalties for winners
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that failed. The sport had never stripped a driver of a win.
Kevin Harvick, for instance, won last fall at TMS, but his car failed inspection a couple days later. NASCAR handed a significant penalty, including losing an automatic berth into the championship finale, but he’s still recognized as the race winner.
That won’t be the case anymore, although it’s far from perfect.
NASCAR will conduct thorough post-race inspections at the track this season, a process that will take approximately 90 minutes, compared to sending the cars to North Carolina. However, in that 90-minute window, the Victory Lane celebration and post-race interviews will have already been conducted.
If a winning car fails inspections, the second-place team wins the race. By that point, though, the second-place team will be long gone from the track.
“That’s the downside -- you’ve had a false celebration
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ISLAMABAD, March 23 (Bernama) -- Issues involving Malaysia Airlines Bhd (MAB) need an in-depth review
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before any decision can be made, says Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
He said the issues afflicting the national carrier was due to the approach taken by the previous government which did not make sense.
“MAB reduced its staff by 6,000 people but it also flew to fewer destinations. The ratio of personnel to the routes flown was still the same.
“We need to rethink about the airline. If there are any suggestions, including a takeover by the private sector, we will need to consider them,” he told Malaysian reporters following the conclusion of a three-day working visit to Pakistan today.
On March 5, national sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd reported a loss of RM7.3 billion in 2018, mainly attributed to losses incurred by MAB.
Khazanah is the sole shareholder of MAB after taking over the ailing airline in 2014. It committed RM6 billion to improve the
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More cars are stolen on New Year's Day than any other day of the year.
Gonna sleep it off on January 1st? Car
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thieves aren’t.
It takes less time for a professional thief to break into your car, start it up and drive away as it does for you to walk into Dunkin’ Donuts and pick up a coffee – less than two minutes in some cases. And don't presume your wheezing clunker's immune; the most stolen vehicle of 2011, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, was the 1994 Honda Accord.
"We know that thieves never miss an opportunity to make a quick buck by stealing a car," says Joe Wehrle, president and CEO of NICB. "They work weekends, nights and holidays and ironically, they are particularly busy on New Year's Day and Labor Day."
Just how busy? 2,347 car thefts were reported on January 1, 2010, 200 more than were reported for the #2 busiest day for car thieves - Memorial Day.
“While Americans are enjoying the holidays and most have time off from work, we
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LETHBRIDGE - All five starters reached double digits as the University of Great Falls women's basketball team defeated Lethbridge College 85-46
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here Saturday.
The UGF defense held tough in a physical game, limiting the Kodiaks to 23 percent shooting throughout the game and acquired 18 steals. The Lady Argos also dominated the glass, out rebounding Lethbridge 56-39.
The defensive effort showed growth in an area the team is focused on improving early in the season, although they did give up too many open looks on the perimeter.
Offense is less of a work in progress for UGF and that showed again against the Kodiaks. Preseason All-Conference forward Nneka Nnadi led all scorers with 21 points off of 8-14 shooting. The junior added eight rebounds and two steals to her statistical totals.
While Nnadi was the team’s leading scorer, every Argo that played, scored and every starter finished with over 10 points.
UGF’s preseason All-American Erin Legal flirted with a quadruple-double. She finished with 14 points
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With Thanksgiving behind us, families are flocking to Whispering Pines Christmas Tree Farm in Milton to kick off the Christmas festivities.
Out with
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one holiday, in with the next.
Late Friday morning — less than 12 hours after the official end of Thanksgiving — families had already flocked to a Milton farm in search of Christmas trees.
"It's our family tradition that we set up and decorate the day after Thanksgiving," said Pace resident Heather Mason. "I try not to start too early."
Mason roamed around the wide open spaces of Whispering Pines Christmas Tree Farm for about 30 minutes with her husband, Tim, and their sons, Tristan and Caden, in search of their first live Christmas tree.
After spotting a tree that met their criteria of being being 6 to 7 feet tall, 9-year-old Caden went to work with a handsaw to bring down the family's find. Soon, Tristan, 16, joined his brother on the ground to give the effort a little more muscle.
The Mason men loaded the tree onto their truck and drove it to the entrance of Whis
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SEATTLE, Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- NetMotion Wireless, a leading provider of mobile productivity and management software,
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announced today the launch of Locality, innovative software that gives organizations the insight and visibility needed to optimize their cellular data deployments.
The operations of many organizations rely heavily on public cellular data networks. Companies make large investments in devices, monthly service plans and application development to connect mobile field workers to mission critical applications over these networks. However, despite their critical role, there are no tools available to monitor and manage the performance of these cellular deployments.
Recognizing the need for a product that provides organizations with the visibility they are accustomed to when analyzing the performance of their internal wide area network, NetMotion Wireless developed Locality. By gathering performance and location data directly from mobile devices, Locality provides a continuously updated and customized view of a cellular deployment.
The police department in Mesa, Arizona is one of the first organizations to deploy Locality. The business intelligence gathered from Locality has enabled the department to improve the effectiveness of their officers by addressing connectivity issues.
"The important opportunity for us was
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Use iTunes or iCloud to sync your Outlook calendar with your iPad.
Sync your iPad calendar, as well as your mail, notes, tasks and
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contacts, with Microsoft Outlook using iTunes or iCloud. To sync your calendar and other data with iCloud, download ]the free iCloud Control Panel applictation, then install the software on the same computer you use to manage your Outlook calendar. To sync with iTunes, obtain the latest version of the application from the iTunes download site and install the software to your computer you use to manage your Outlook data.
Connect the iPad to your computer with the USB data cable, then launch iTunes on the computer.
Click the “Device” option, then click the “Info” tab. Note that the Info tab only displays if you have contact or calendar data stored on the device or on your computer.
Click the check box next to the “Sync Calendars With” option, then click the corresponding drop-down box. Click “Outlook.” A list of your Outlook calendars displays below the drop-down box.
Click the “All Calendars�
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The Cookoo is novel among smartwatches in that the watch bit is entirely separate from the smart part - all they have in common is the
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casing, which is claimed to be water-resistant to 50m. You set the mechanical analogue face manually, and the Japan-made movement is powered by its own battery. This cell is good for three years of time-keeping, claims ConnecteDevice.
The advantage is that the Cookoo still functions as a watch even when the Bluetooth-based notification system has run out of charge, or has been turned off, though it also means your watch can’t use an internet time server or your phone’s clock to stay in sync. I don’t like the fact there’s no date readout, and the minimalist, blue-on-black Swatch-style design won’t appeal to everyone, either. It’s not an overly large watch - the diameter is 44mm - but it is thick: 16.33mm front to back. It’s comfortable to wear.
Behind the hands sits a white-on-
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Thanks to climate change, methane is rising from our oceans and into our atmosphere.
Increasing water temperatures in the Pacific Northwest are causing frozen methane
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trapped in layers under the seafloor – called methane plumes –to thaw, rise to the surface and enter our atmosphere.
This isn’t the first time warm water temperatures have forced methane to the surface. The frozen methane clusters appeared on the East Coast last year. In August 2014, it was reported that 570 methane seeps clustered in approximately eight regions. Compared to carbon dioxide, methane is about 25 times more potent.
The latest research into methane plumes off the Pacific Northwest comes from the University of Washington. Scientists observed 168 methane plumes over the course of a decade.
Frozen as is, the methane plumes are not dangerous to our environment. When they thaw and come to the surface, however, the methane bubbles become a powerful and dangerous greenhouse gas. At the rate these plumes are coming to the surface, our atmosphere could be filled with.1 million metric tons of methane per year, just from the plumes off the Washington coast.
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AMERICANS in search of spiritual nourishment turned their gaze in the 1990s to the Indigenous. To judge by first impressions, F.
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David Peat’s Blackfoot Physics is the modern version of The Tao of Physics, with Blackfoot metaphysics as the more spiritually mature system against which Western physics is to be referred and compared. Like Fritjof Capra, Peat argues that during this century physicists have been discovering a picture of reality that has remarkable resonances with what other cultures have been saying for thousands of years. Here the “other” is the “First Peoples of Turtle Island” – indigenous Americans’ description of themselves and their continent.
Yet Peat’s book is of a somewhat different stripe. While Capra used the parallels with Taoism to make physics more palatable, Peat uses his to plead for a more serious consideration of “indigenous science”. That is the heart of this book. It is not that Peat himself believes that Native American knowledge needs to be justified in Western terms, but rather, as he poignantly points out
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Boundless and the open educational resources movement are threatening publishers.
The open educational resources movement that’s terrifying publishers.
Photograph courtesy
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Harvard University Department of Economics.
N. Gregory Mankiw is one of the most well-known economists in American politics. A Harvard professor, he chaired George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2003 to 2005 and served as a senior adviser for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. Many observers saw him among the top contenders to replace Ben Bernanke as chair of the Federal Reserve in a Romney administration.
But for hundreds of thousands of undergraduates, Mankiw is better known as the author of Principles of Economics, one of the best-selling college textbooks in America. Politics may have made Mankiw famous, but his book—list price: $293.95—has made him a very wealthy man.
The Internet has made access to many kinds of information more flexible and less expensive. Novels, films, songs, photographs—all manner of things can be gotten from a broad array of providers for low prices, or for free, in digital
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Earlier this week, a member of the Boca Raton Beach Club said Dardano and Kiffin have become fixtures on the club’
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s exclusive piece of the beach.
FAU has put up Kiffin at the swanky nearby Boca Raton Resort & Club while he looks for a house.
When reached at her office, Dardano played coy after admitting she and the coach were introduced by mutual friends.
They do, meanwhile, have plenty in common.
Both are just divorced and 41.
Dardano went to University of Southern California, where Kiffin coached until he was fired in an airport in the middle of the night on an airport tarmac in 2013.
And they both need what the other provides: a higher business profile for Dardano, who sells multi-million-dollar houses; and a semblance of stability for the coach.
After incidents like an infamous mystery-shrouded car crash in Tennessee in 2009, Kiffin drags behind him a reputation as a party animal and womanizer. A story about several appearances by Kiffin with the same lady might actually make news
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Travel agents in Singapore will receive government funding to speed up their adoption of technology, such as developing mobile apps to give customers a better experience.
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Instead of traditional travel agents coming up with the solutions and asking the authorities to help with the funding, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) will identify a range of technological fixes to common problems, and offer them to the agencies.
This initiative will be launched by the second half of next year, said Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry, and Culture, Community and Youth Sim Ann yesterday at the Travel Agent Industry Forum.
Travel agencies also need help to upgrade their hiring practices, said Mr Steven Ler, acting president of the National Association of Travel Agents Singapore (Natas), which organised the forum with STB.
In his opening speech, he said many agencies hire through print advertisements or via word of mouth, which may not lead to the right job applicants. He said Natas will launch a talent development platform by the end of next year, which will connect job seekers and travel agents.
Giving an update of the Travel Agent Roadmap, Ms Sim said more than 40 projects were
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University of Tennessee Medical Center reported four adult flu deaths for the 2018-2019 season.
Flu season is officially over at the University of Tennessee
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Medical Center.
That doesn't mean you can't still get sick with influenza. But the number and pattern of positive flu cases has declined enough that infectious disease physician Dr. Mark Rasnake, after reviewing the data, feels comfortable saying the 2018-2019 season is at an end.
Hospitals aren't required to report adult flu deaths, but Rasnake said UT Medical Center had four this season. Flu-related child deaths are reportable to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which said 86 have occurred so far this year. One of those was in Tennessee.
Flu season in East Tennessee typically ends in March, Rasnake said, and it did so for most of the rest of the state.
"We started late and ended later than usual," he said.
But the season was much less severe than last year's, in East Tennessee as well as in other parts of the country. Though it will be months before the CDC releases its analysis
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How do the visual images we experience, which have no tangible existence, arise out of physical processes in the brain? New research at the Weiz
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mann Institute of Science provided evidence, for the first time, that an ‘ignition’ of intense neural activity underlies the experience of seeing.
In research recently published in the journal Neuron, Prof. Rafael Malach and research student Lior Fisch of the Weizmann Institute’s Neurobiology Department worked with a neurosurgeon, Dr. Itzhak Fried of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, a distinguished team of medical doctors from the Center and Weizmann Institute students. They asked a group of epileptic patients who had had electrodes clinically implanted into their brains in preparation for surgery to volunteer for some perceptual awareness tasks. The subjects looked at a computer screen, which briefly presented a ‘target’ image – a face, house, or man-made object. This image was followed by a ‘mask’ – a meaningless picture for distraction – at different time intervals after the target image had been presented. This allowed the experimenter to control
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SEVERAL INDIGENOUS and multinational power companies have shown interest in the proposed ultra mega thermal power project of 4000 mw to be established
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at Sasan in Madhya Pradesh.
The Power Finance Corporation, the agency appointed to shortlist private players for the project, has received 33 initial expression of interest (EOI) for the power plant coming up in Sidhi district.
Power, G-Global Investment House, GMR Energy, India Power Corp, Ispat Industries, Khanjee Holding Texas, Korea Electric Power, Lanco Kondapali, Madhucon Projects Ltd, NTPC Ltd, Reliance Energy Ltd, Sterlite, Suez Energy, Sumitomo, Tata Power, Torrent Group, and Tronoh Alco, Malaysia amongst others.
Other than these, companies like Neyveli Lignite, Mitsui of Tokyo, Larsen and Toubro Ltd, Jindal Steel, JP Associates, GVK Consortium have also submitted EoIs for Sasan project.
Ministry of Power also convened a bidder’s conference recently for these leading players to address their concerns about issues like fuel
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SEATTLE — In its 17th year, volunteers filled stockings at Coast Guard Base Seattle during the annual “Coast Guard Family and Friends
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Holiday Stockings for Homeless Children” event, Dec. 8.
HSHC is an annual Coast Guard family and community organization that provides and delivers handmade holiday stockings, filled with new and educational gifts and toys, to homeless children living in shelters throughout the Puget Sound area. They have filled more than 32,000 stockings, to children ages birth to 17-years, in 102 shelters from Everett to Tacoma.
In 1994, Jan Maxson, the wife of a U.S. Coast Guard member, wanted to do something for the homeless children of New York during the holidays, so she decided to provide them with handmade stockings filled with toys. The first year, a group of volunteers donated 300 handmade stockings to children in shelters in Harlem, Lower Manhattan, and Staten Island.
In 1996, the Maxson family moved to Seattle, which allowed a new home for the HSHC project at Coast Guard Base Seattle.
HSHC is run by an all-vol
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After finding the biggest success of her career with last year’s Gravity, Sandra Bullock is looking to reteam with both George Clooney
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and Warner Bros. for a new project. Set up by Clooney and his longtime co-producer Grant Heslov three years ago, the drama Our Brand is Crisis is now moving forward, Variety reports.
Based on Rachel Boynton‘s documentary chronicling the involvement of James Carville‘s political consulting firm in the 2002 Bolivian presidential election, Bullock has signed on to star and David Gordon Green is taking the helm. Scripted by Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Men Who Stare at Goats), the project has officially been greenlit, so expect it to move forward fairly soon.
In other casting news, a switch-up has occurred for Brady Corbet‘s directorial debut The Childhood of a Leader. Set to star Robert Pattinson and Tim Roth, Juliette Binoche was once on board, but had to bow out due to scheduling conflicts. Variety now lets us know that Bérénice Be
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Proof Research specializes in lightweight, accurate weapons using carbon-fiber barrels and stocks.
When it comes to high-end weapons, there's
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a new company in town that's changing the way people think about rifles.
Founded in 2010, Proof Research of Kalispell specializes in creating lightweight, accurate weapons using carbon-fiber barrels and stocks unlike anything else on the market.
While Proof Research may only be two years old, it is made up of four companies that have years of rifle-making experience, according to Rainey. Proof is actually a merger of Lone Wolf Riflestocks of Kalispell, Jense Fabrication of Missoula, ABS out of Lincoln, Neb., and Lawrence Rifle Barrels of Lewistown.
Although only one of the core companies was from the Kalispell area, lead investor Mike Goguen said it made sense to locate Proof in the Flathead Valley.
Goguen said he became involved in Proof while looking for a lightweight hunting rifle, and got more than he bargained for when his custom rifle was finished.
In addition to folding several
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Artist, AP Disagree Over Photo Credit, Payment An iconic image of Barack Obama gazing upward in hues of red, white and blue has been
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used on buttons, posters and Web sites. That image came from an nearly identical photo taken for the Associated Press by photographer Manny Garcia. Now that the image is just about everywhere, the AP wants credit and compensation. Artist Shepard Fairey argues it's legal to take someone else's photo and turn it into art.
An iconic image of Barack Obama gazing upward in hues of red, white and blue has been used on buttons, posters and Web sites. That image came from an nearly identical photo taken for the Associated Press by photographer Manny Garcia. Now that the image is just about everywhere, the AP wants credit and compensation. Artist Shepard Fairey argues it's legal to take someone else's photo and turn it into art.
Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. You know that hope poster featuring the iconic image of Barack Obama gazing upward in hues of red, white and blue? That image came from a virtually identical photo taken for the Associated Press by photographer Manny Garcia
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Was it only two weeks ago that analysts at Berenberg Bank were telling us Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD) stock was
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undervalued, and primed to deliver investors a 42% profit? Ah, the good old days.
Well, I hope you enjoyed them while they lasted, because today, we have a new view for you on Gilead Sciences stock -- and this one's not nearly as optimistic. Yesterday, analysts at Leerink Partners announced that they are taking the opposite view on Gilead, and downgrading the shares from outperform to market perform.
The news isn't all bad, of course. Leerink still thinksthat at $79 and change, Gilead stock costs less than it's worth. But whereas Leerink previously priced Gilead shares at $112 in value (42% upside -- just like Berenberg had predicted), the analyst's new price target of $94 per share suggests that Gilead stock is only about half as valued as we used to think.
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Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. served as the 60th governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. He is the author of the new book
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, Bet You Didn't See That One Coming: Obama, Trump, and the End of Washington's Regular Order.
The left-wing establishment’s gambits are blowing up in its face.
Bumptious as Trump may be, he has eliminated Obama’s mojo-destroying cringe.
Scorched-Earth partisan combat is tempting, but it ultimately backfires.
For all the coverage and discussion sparked by the Parkland shooting, the two sides of the debate have retreated to their respective corners.
Now that you’ve successfully completed four years of relentless indoctrination, you’re ready for the Resistance.
Where Have All the Liberals Gone?
Hard-left progressives have pushed most traditional liberals out of the Democratic party. It’s a great loss.
We should cool it with the "war" lingo.
Now more than ever, we must highlight the negative consequences of left-wing policies.
An extreme
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LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) -- Entertainment producer and distributor Kushner-Locke posted a fourth-quarter loss Wednesday, citing a decline in
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film and television revenue.
Kushner-Locke said it lost $5.9 million, or 64 cents per share, compared with a profit of $178,000, or 2 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier. First Call didn't have a consensus of analysts estimates for the media company.
Revenue fell 30 percent to $13.9 million from $20.1 million primarily due to the "timing of delivery and/or availability of films and television programs," the company said in a statement.
Kushner-Locke owns 80 percent of 1-800-U.S.SEARCH, which includes a Web site that provides a fee-based people-search service and other customized reference services. A very visible advertising campaign on syndicated television shows like "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy," and on several of the biggest online search engines, has played a large part in boosting the site's profile over the last year
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Catherine Grace Coughter Jackson, died on January 20, 2019 at her home in Longmeadow of natural causes. She was born in
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Springfield on January 17, 1921, a daughter of Peter R. and Grace Byrne Coughter. She grew up in Springfield and seasonally in her beloved Berkshire Mountain towns of Pittsfield, Lenox, and Lee. She was a graduate of Technical High School, and in retirement, attended college classes at the Learning in Later Life Program of Springfield College. As a young woman she worked in the offices of several Springfield industrial businesses including Pittsburg Plate Glass. For twenty-five years, she supervised and conducted the majority of banking activities of the Postal Workers Credit Union, which was to become The Pioneer Valley Credit Union. In 1958 she married Willard Dewhurst Jackson. They made their home in Springfield until his death in 1993. Every summer she visited Maine where she enjoyed the sea in the company of her sister, Jane Marie Coughter Corcoran. Mrs. Jackson was an active volunteer throughout her life. She served as a Gray Lady of the American Red Cross, visiting injured and disabled soldiers
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Read the first two chapters of Greg Bear's next Halo novel right now!
Greg Bear returns to the Halo universe with Primordium, out
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next week. But you don't have to wait until then to start delving into Bear's second installment in the Forerunner Saga. Tor.com has the first chapter of Primordium, and the second chapter is live over at Halo Waypoint.
A long time ago, I was a living, breathing human being. I went mad. I served my enemies. They became my only friends.
Since then, I've traveled back and forth across this galaxy, and out to the spaces between galaxies-a greater reach than any human before me.
You have asked me to tell you about that time. Since you are the true Reclaimers, I must obey. Are you recording? Good. Because my memory is failing rapidly. I doubt I'll be able to finish the story.
Once, on my birth-world, a world I knew as Erde-Tyrene, and which now is called Earth, my name was Chakas...
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People in Hamilton claim the man sits in parking lots in his car, grabs binoculars, and stares at women for hours.
HAMIL
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TON, OH (FOX19) – Though some Hamilton residents have said they've had enough with a man who sometimes follows young girls in the area, police say there is nothing they can do because the person has not committed a crime.
FOX19 is not using the person's name or showing their face, as that person has not been arrested.
People in Hamilton claim the man sits in parking lots in his car, grabs binoculars, and stares at women for hours. On Facebook, people have become so concerned that they've created a poster called "Creeper Alert."
Women have posted about their encounters and talked about being followed or watched.
Jeff Mobley says his daughter was followed. He took matters into his own hands, confronted the man, and told him to stop.
"He followed my daughter from Planet Fitness to home," Mobley said.
Mobley recorded his encounter with the man, who denied the allegations. The man told Mobley he lived in
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I'm writing to tell you about a group of good girls and boys. They're a little older than most of the kids who send you a
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wish list, and they're probably too big to sit on your lap anymore. Some of them even shave off their beards! But they have wishes, too! I'm thinking about this year's Wood River senior class of 2012.
It won't be long before these students march to the familiar strains of "Pomp and Circumstance," toss their mortarboards in the air and disperse to the corners of the earth. We do our best to make their graduation night safe, sober and memorable by holding a Senior Bash party for them. That's where you come in. After all, what's a party without prizes, entertainment and good food? Some of this costs a lot of money. And this, Santa, is our wish list.
If you agree that our local seniors from three high schools—Wood River, Silver Creek and Sage—deserve a safe haven for their party, then please help us make their wishes come true. Please contact our Senior Bash co-chairs,
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Johnathan Thurston and Shaun Johnson will headline a spectacular line-up of rugby league’s greatest players at the 2017 Downer NRL Auckland
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Nines.
The superstar duo are committed to playing in the February 4 and 5 pre-season rugby league showpiece – with tickets on sale from tomorrow.
Thurston, who made a cameo appearance at this year’s tournament in the Beko Legends Big Kick competition, said he could not wait to take the field alongside his Cowboys teammates in 2017.
“I had a small taste of the NRL Nines this year, and the atmosphere was simply incredible,” Thurston said. “I made up my mind right away that I would be back to play in the 2017 tournament – and hopefully lead the Cowboys to another Nines title.
North Queensland Cowboys coach Paul Green and General Manager Peter Parr confirmed his club would welcome the presence of its premier player and captain.
“Every year he’s always put pressure on me, being that attacking style suits his game and I think he’d really flourish.
“Winning
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Terra Motors Corporation this week announced the release of its new A4000i electric scooter, complete with smartphone connection.
Terra Motors Corporation
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this week announced the release of its new A4000i electric scooter, which includes a smartphone connection.
The Japanese company said it is the first to mass produce a wireless, smartphone-connected scooter.
The two-person bike comes with a built-in iPhone dock, which can collect and store details like electricity consumption, remaining battery life, average speed and mileage, and navigation information. The Tokyo startup intends to learn from that data to help develop more services over time.
"Smartphone connection can provide new service to customers," the company said in a news release. "[The] electric scooter will be more than means of transportation."
Demand for scooters in Asia is especially strong accounting for about 80 percent of the worldwide market due to growing gas prices and high levels of air pollution. As a result, more than 30 million electric bikes are sold each year in China alone. Still, maintenance problems and supply chain issues keep electric scooters from competing with the
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A company is seeking a partnership with the state of Delaware to invest $580 million in the state's shipping economy.
International port operator Gulft
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ainer wants to invest $574 million to retool the existing Port of Wilmington and build a new container terminal on the Delaware River at Edgemoor, Peter Richards, CEO of the company, said in an interview.
Secretary of State Jeffrey Bullock said an agreement for the company to take over the existing Port of Wilmington could double the estimated 5,700 port-related jobs in Delaware. The past decade has seen Delaware hemorrhage blue-collar jobs and state officials see Gulftainer's proposal as a relief.
"This is a really big deal," Governor John Carney said.
Gulftainer is based in the United Arab Emirates and operates 15 ports around the world. The company opened its first terminal in the U.S. in southern Florida in 2015 and is a subsidiary of Crescent Enterprises, a privately held conglomerate.
"We see Wilmington and the Delaware River as the future and a major gateway import and export to the east coast of the United States," Richards said.
Under
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The mayor of San José, Johnny Araya Monge, is the solid leader in next year’s presidential race, according to a survey
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by consulting firm CID-Gallup for the daily La República, released Thursday.
Araya, candidate for the ruling National Liberation Party (PLN), would have the support of 40 percent of respondents for upcoming 2014 elections, the number of voters required to win the presidency without a runoff vote, according to Costa Rica’s legislation.
All other candidates combined do not reach even half of Araya’s approval numbers.
None of Araya’s opponents, including Epsy Campbell from the Citizen Action Party (PAC), José María Villalta from the Broad Front (FA) and Rodolfo Hernandez from the Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC), managed to surpass 10 percent approval.
As for party preferences, PLN also leads the polls with 40 percent support, a clear advantage over opposition parties. PUSC received 8 percent support from respondents, PAC received 3 percent and the FA received just 1 percent.
However,
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Ralph L. Spearly Contracting Inc. to Joseph R. Bauman and Jamie A. Bauman, Property Located on Camp Lane,
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$169,900.
Elaine K. Rackovan to Nathan A. Bowler and Katherine E. Bowler, 1210 Fairview Drive, $207,000.
Village of Nittany Glen LP to Matthew P. Sandbakken, 168 Rock Forge Road, $207,500.
Betsy J. Moyer Estate and Randall S. Moyer to Aaron Vonada, 395 N. Fillmore Road, $165,000.
Glenn A. Coakley and Jeri L. Coakley to Commonwealth of PA Department of Transportation, Property Located in Boggs Township, $1.
Maragret L. Teaman a/k/a Margaret L Teaman Estate, Kenneth L. Teaman and Lori T. Cummings to Cortney D Skripek, 621 Old 220 Road, $162,000.
Richard E. Young and Joan E. Young to Jeffrey L. Young and Linda L. Young,
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The final round of this season's Scottish Championship fixtures has been moved from Saturday, 30 April to lunchtime on Sunday, 1 May.
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angers' visit to St Mirren has been moved to that date with a 12:30 BST kick-off for television coverage.
The four other games have been moved to ensure all games start at the same time.
Alloa host Dumbarton, Falkirk visit Morton, Hibs welcome Queen of the South and Raith Rovers are at Livingston.
Leaders Rangers, who host Dumbarton on Tuesday, need one more win to secure the title and automatic promotion to the Premiership.
The sides finishing third and fourth in the Championship will play-off over two legs with the winner progressing to meet the league's runners-up, again over two legs.
And the victor in that semi-final will meet the team finishing second bottom of the Premiership in the two-legged play-off final, with the winner starting next season in the top flight and the loser consigned to the Championship.
Falkirk are currently second with Hibernian third. Raith Rovers
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The muted reaction to the resignations by Turkey’s top military officials demonstrates continued weakening of the Turkish military’s position and power.
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On July 29, head of the Turkish armed forces General Isik Kosaner and three other top military officials announced they were “seeking early retirement,” effectively resigning from the armed forces. The three Turkish military officials reportedly were angry over the arrest and treatment of more than 200 military officials, including ten percent of serving generals, who currently are in jail on charges of plotting against the government. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan quickly named General Necdet Ozel as acting head of the military. The Prime Minister reiterated his support for a new constitution that will limit military intervention in civilian politics and downplayed the importance of the exodus of top officers.
The resignations by Turkey’s top military officers was a last ditch effort by the military to protest Erdogan’s arrest of Turkish military officers, an action that is viewed by many Turkey watchers as a sham. The Turkish military now appears firmly under civilian control with little political influence. Also last week, a prosecutor sought the arrest
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More than 20 months after closing the Bronx’s only bookstore, Barnes and Noble’s promised return has yet to materialize. Barnes
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and Noble in Co-op City closed almost two years ago, leaving the Bronx without a single general-interest bookstore. Corporate officials and Bronx politicians promised a swift return within 24 to 36 months but show no signs of progress.
The Bronx’s nearly 1.5 million residents are approaching two years without a bookstore, apart from a handful of religious, foreign language, or private university-owned book retailers. Once home to a thriving literary culture, the Bronx has struggled with a long decline in book availability. Barnes and Noble’s shutdown struck another blow to the chronically under-resourced borough.
The Bronx’s bibliophiles rallied behind the store and created an online petition that received more than 2,000 signatures, including several local officials, leading to the store’s decision to stay open. The impact of the grassroots effort, however, proved limited when the Barnes and Noble closed its doors in December 2016, rendering the Bronx a book desert in a harrowing end
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Dal_Cooper 4 pass from Prescott (Maher kick), 6:12.
Ten_Henry 1 run (Succop kick
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), 9:35.
Ten_D.Lewis 18 pass from Mariota (Succop kick), 4:11.
Dal_Hurns 23 pass from Prescott (Maher kick), :39.
Ten_Jo.Smith 7 pass from Mariota (Succop kick), 5:44.
Ten_Mariota 9 run (Succop kick), 4:38.
RUSHING_Tennessee, D.Lewis 19-62, Mariota 10-32, Henry 6-27, Davis 1-4. Dallas, Elliott 17-61, Prescott 2-11.
PASSING_Tennessee, Mariota 21-29-0-240. Dallas, Prescott 21-31-1-243, Beasley 0-1-0-0.
RECEIVING_Tennessee, Davis 6-56, D.Lewis 4-60, Jo.Smith 2-33, Taylor 2-24, Batson
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Luke Walton, you lucky dog.
In finally getting dumped Friday by the Lakers, their former head coach made his escape like a man staggering up
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the embankment from a ditch occupied by the twisted metal of steaming wreckage.
Walton gets to walk away from a basketball operation being run by the “backstabbing and whispering” of the widely unpopular and generally unsuccessful Rob Pelinka.
Walton gets to depart a basketball team being run, occasionally, when he feels like it, by distracted Hollywood mogul LeBron James.
Walton gets to separate himself from a franchise being run by a formerly beloved owner who has presided over the sort of off-court drama that has turned the Lakers into the New York Knicks. Nobody, but nobody, has been more disillusioning in this mess than Jeanie Buss.
Walton soon could be coaching again in the NBA, maybe in Sacramento, and maybe there he will be allowed to continue growing with a young team. He never had that opportunity here. After two seasons, just when he was finally connecting with some of the over-hyped kids, Walton was handed the head
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The major U.S. indexes posted modest gains in the first trading session of the week, adding to five straight weeks of gains. Bobbi
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Rebell reports.
U.S. stocks were flat Monday. Losses in energy and basic materials shares offset a rally in healthcare. A disappointing drop in home resales last month dampened investor sentiment. The lackluster equities action follows five straight weeks of gains. Kevin Caron of Washington Crossing Advisors: (SOUNDBITE) KEVIN CARON, PORTFOLIO MANAGER, WASHINGTON CROSSING ADVISORS, (ENGLISH) SAYING: "I think part of it is profit taking." It's merger Monday. Starwood is back in Marriott's arms. It accepted its suitor's raised bid worth $13.6 billion. That topped a counteroffer from a group led by Chinese insurer Anbang. Shares of the owner of the Sheraton and Westin brands rose, while Marriott fell. IHS is paying $13 billion to buy British data provider Markit. Both shares of Markit and the publisher of "Jane's Defence
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Sanath Jayasuriya said his team was all set to take on world champions Australia in the Champions Trophy semifinal. "It is going
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to be a tough match for both sides.
Sri Lankan cricket captain Sanath Jayasuriya said Thursday his team was all set to take on world champions Australia in the Champions Trophy semifinal. "It is going to be a tough match for both sides.
Our confidence is good, all our players are in good form and we have the advantage of a good support from the home crowd," Jayasuriya said of preparations for the second semifinal match Friday.
Jayasuriya, however, said he had not fully recovered from the shoulder injury he suffered during the final match of Morocco Cup against South Africa in August.
However, the Sri Lankan captain returned to play in the Champions Trophy and guided his side to victory against Pakistan in its opening league match of the 12-nation tournament. The win against Pakistan, helped by a century from Jayasuriya, ensured Sri Lanka a place in the semifinals.
Australia and Sri Lanka have not played each other for
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Kings 2, Sharks 0: Jonathan Quick made 35 saves for his second shutout of the postseason while defenseman Slava Voynov and Mike Richards each
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recorded a goal and an assist as host Los Angeles drew first blood in its Western Conference second-round series against sixth-seeded San Jose.
Jeff Carter and blue-liner Rob Scuderi notched an assist apiece for the fifth-seeded Kings, who have won 11 straight home games. Los Angeles hosts Game 2 on Thursday.
Antti Niemi stopped 18 shots for the Sharks, who were 0-for-3 on the power play after going 7-for-24 during their first-round sweep of Northwest Division champion Vancouver.
The Pacific Division rivals both registered eight shots in the first period, but the Kings were the only team to get on the scoreboard. Richards carried the puck down the right wing and over the blue line before leaving it for Voynov, who skated to the top of the right faceoff circle before ripping a rising shot past Niemi with 12.9 seconds remaining.
The goal was the third of the postseason for Voynov, with all
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(CNN) — "We have products, history here that you don't find anywhere else in the world," says Esben Holmboe Bang
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, the Danish head chef of Oslo's three-Michelin-starred restaurant Maaemo.
"Norway being as long as it is, being as untouched as it in nature, you have things here that are unique.
"For me it was mind-blowing. I saw the way they preserved fish, meat and I just thought I've never seen this before."
Norway's distinctive cuisine has been shaped by its 100,000-kilometer coastline, by its long winters and brief summers, by the forests that cover a third of its surface, and by the mountains that cut west off from east.
Here are 18 of Norway's greatest -- and strangest -- specialties.
"You have to try it once in your life. This is amazing thing," says Eirik Braek, owner of Oslo deli Fenaknoken, holding up a whole sheep's head.
Fenaknoken is an Aladdin's cave of cured
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User-generated content (UGC) – blogs, reviews, comments, essentially any digital interaction your customer has with your brand – is becoming an increasingly
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important part of many businesses’ marketing plans. It is a low-investment, high-impact way of raising your profile online.
Mike Peates, founder and director of the homemade chocolate business Owow Chocolate has focused on turning his customers into brand advocates from the start.
When his business was starting up, Peates focused more on engaging than selling and was relentless on social media. He sent packs of chocolate to people he’d been talking to and encouraged them to share their thoughts on Twitter.
This worked particularly well, largely because the business makes branded chocolate gifts and his target market are other small firms who use them for promotion and client rewards. His customers help him promote his business, while his whole business focuses on promoting theirs.
You can create opportunities for engagement in many ways. Encourage your customers to get involved in social media competitions, ask them to show you what they love about your product or simply tap into their personal life and encourage them to share their interests
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In the article "US Redirects Africa Policy," May 26, the author mentions a visit by the Nigerian head of state to Washington, stating
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, "Clinton refused to meet with Maj. General Ibrahim Babangida when the Nigerian military leader visited Washington recently."
This statement is incorrect. President Babangida has never visited Washington since assuming office.
Editor's note: General Babangida did not in fact visit the United States, but US officials sent clear signals that President Clinton would not receive the general. Who's wallowing in water?
While your article "California Rethinks Water Issues," June 3, is timely, it incorrectly states that farmers are using 80 percent of the state's water and implies that the environment is getting shortchanged. Although about 80 percent of the developed water is used for irrigated agriculture, this represents less than 30 percent of the total water supply of the state. Environmental uses such as scenic rivers, instream uses, and wetlands compromise 65 percent of this total runoff.
Recent demands by environmentalists to take from agriculture's 30 percent to dump additional water into the ocean in unproven efforts to protect endangered
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Not only is this good news for Android users, its helpful for anyone switching phones to share in a consistent experience across mobile platforms.
Tweet details
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page. Twitter has changed the layout of the timeline and introduced a Tweet details page, which you can access by simply clicking on a Tweet. This feature – which is already available in Twitter for iPhone, Twitter for iPad and Twitter for Windows Phone – makes it easier to click on links and reply to, retweet, or favorite a Tweet. This also brings the application up to par with other third party apps such as TweetDeck.
Speed. The app is now even faster. In this version, Twitter has created a new way of drawing a timeline of Tweets that optimizes for scrolling speed. Try it for yourself to see how quickly you can scroll up and down your timeline.
Pull to Refresh: This feature, also available through the iPhone app, functions just as it sounds – when you’re at the top of your timeline, simply pull down to load new Tweets. No more need to push the refresh button and wait.
Swipe to Reveal: Swipe across
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To be honest, I’m feeling rather stupid about not understanding until now how to make sense of the ever-changing rationales for the
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ever-changing demand for higher interest rates. As someone who started in international trade, I more than anyone should have known that specific factors, not Stolper-Samuelson, is usually the way to go.
For the 99.9 percent of readers who have no idea what I’m talking about: One of the landmark papers in international trade theory was the demonstration by Wolfgang Stolper and Paul Samuelson, way back in 1941, that the income distribution effects of protectionism typically swamp any efficiency considerations. If you said something judicious along the lines of “Well, protectionism might increase labor’s share, but workers will still end up losing because the economy will become less efficiency”, you were just wrong in terms of the standard model: if an economy imports labor-intensive goods, protectionism will raise real wages — end of story.
So trade policy should have big effects on the distribution of income between broad classes of players — labor versus
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Matt McAllester had been taking a leave of absence.
Newsweek Media Group has formally severed ties with global editor in chief Matt McAll
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ester, who the company had recently announced was on a leave of absence. Bob Roe, who has filled in as editor of the magazine's U.S. and international operations, has been elevated to take McAllester's position permanently.
On Aug. 9, a spokesperson for Newsweek told The Hollywood Reporter that McAllester was on a planned leave of absence from the company, but that it was unrelated to a recent employee discrimination lawsuit that featured him prominently, stemming from his time at Time Inc. McAllester was not formally named in the suit against Time Inc. but was heavily criticized by former colleague Catherine Mayer.
While the leave of absence was presented as temporary, company sources insisted that McAllester would not return to his position, and a memo from Newsweek Media Group CEO Dev Pragad on Friday made that official.
"Former Global Editor-in-Chief Matt McAllester is no longer with Newsweek," Pragad wrote in a memo obtained by THR. "We
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A 19-year-old mother has been charged with felony evading arrest, reckless endangerment after car chase with children in tow.
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19-year-old Hendersonville mother has been charged with felony evading arrest, reckless endangerment, child passenger restraint violation and driving on a suspended license after leading officers on a vehicle chase May 14.
According to a news release from the Hendersonville Police Department, an officer attempted to conduct a traffic stop at 9:30 p.m. Monday. The vehicle refused to stop and drove onto Highway 386 at approximately 71 mph.
The driver, Franchescia Robinson, was forced to leave the interstate when she got a flat tire. Officers followed the vehicle to an apartment complex located at 1037 Center Point Road, where she was taken into custody. According to the news release, her two minor children were found in the vehicle and were not restrained.
A second suspect, Tavarus Brinkley, fled on foot and was located a short time later hiding in the attic of one of the nearby apartments. Officers found a semi-automatic handgun in a dumpster where Brinkley had
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Robert Ellis weaves text and paint and symbolism together to make us think about what it means to be a New Zealander, and about our relationship
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to the sky and the land. Charlotte Wilson visits him in his studio to ask about the role of music in his life and work.
The works of Robert Ellis occupy a uniquely important place in this country’s art. In 60 years of activity he has held over 60 exhibitions: and not just paintings, either. There are the stained glass windows of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Auckland: the world’s largest tapestry hanging in the Aotea Centre; the smaller works in etchings, metal casting, lithography, photography, film. He is so prolific that he admits that there are some of his works that he doesn’t even remember.
What he is most famous for, though, is his connection to Māoritanga: through his wife, Elizabeth Aroha Ellis, who is herself a distinguished figure in the arts and comes from Ngāti Porou and Ngāpuhi in the far north. Hence the Rakaumang
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