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Some things never go out of style. Great music, it is said, is always great, no matter how much time passes.
So it
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is not surprising, 100 years after his birth, that people are still performing the music of Leonard Bernstein, a composer, conductor, pianist.
On Saturday, East Lansing favorite and soprano Morgan James and conductor Teddy Abrams will be bringing their Bernstein show, The Best of Bernstein’s Broadway, to Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
Bernstein was born in 1918 to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants and became one of the first American-born and trained conductors to perform with prestigious symphonies such as the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony. He was also a composer who created 32 orchestral works, 11 theater works, one film score, 16 songs and song cycles, eight choral and keyboard works, and nine piano works.
While the show features James vocal stylings and hauntingly beautiful voice, she is backed by a full 68-piece orchestra, an orchestra put together by MSU College of Music Professor Richard Sherman. He said this
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Who are the Democrat frontrunners for 2020?
A great majority of Democrats believe that what their party needs is an influx of new faces for the
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coming 2020 presidential race. According to a survey by Rasmussen Reports, 73 percent of Likely Democratic Voters believe the party should look for new faces for the 2020 race. Of those polled, 16 percent disagree and thus prefer familiar faces from races past.
The Rasmussen poll also indicated that a majority of Democrats don’t want Hillary Clinton on the ticket. Among all likely voters, 65 percent say Democrats should find a new face for 2020, while only 19 percent believe the party nomination should go to someone who has run for the White House before. As for Clinton, 58 percent believe she has been bad for the Democratic Party, while only 22 percent think she has been good for Democrats.
The Washington Post averred that Oprah Winfrey does not wish to run for the White House. She has never held office, even though she has expressed support for Democrats such as Barack Obama in the past and has instant name recognition. She has said that she expects God to tell her whether she should run. But she
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, under fire for ethics violations, said Thursday that he has no intention of leaving his
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job even as the White House hinted at the possibility of "personnel changes" to lead the beleaguered agency.
Speaking at a budget hearing, Shulkin expressed regret for "distractions" that have shifted attention from his efforts to fix veterans' health care and pledged to put the government's second largest department back on track.
Shulkin, the lone Obama administration holdover in Trump's Cabinet, praised the congressional oversight committees for largely standing behind him to fix the Department of Veterans Affairs, compared to critics he said were "more interested in politics."
"With all of the distractions that are happening in Washington and all the distractions in VA, the events that have happened should remind us all about why it's so important that we're doing what we're doing today to get this budget right and get VA on track," he told a House appropriations subcommittee. "I came here for one reason and that is to improve the lives of veterans."
Addressing a government investigation underway into
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Election committee confirms 13 candidates can run in next month's poll, including former Mubarak-era PM Ahmed Shafiq.
Egypt's election
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commission has released a final list of 13 candidates eligible to run in next month's presidential election, the first since the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, the former president, last year.
Thursday's list includes Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister to serve under Mubarak, who was disqualified and then reinstated over a 24-hour period this week.
"After listening to Shafiq's appeal, the committee decided to halt the decision to exclude him from the presidential race," Farouk Soltan, the head of the election committee, said while announcing the list in Cairo.
Shafiq was disqualified on Tuesday, after the military council approved a new law denying political rights to anyone who served as president, vice-president or prime minister in the decade prior to Mubarak's fall.
The electoral committee also decided to refer the new law to the Supreme Constitutional Court to determine whether it was constitutional or not.
"This could be a challenge to the legitimacy of the presidential election and the
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It would be wrong to say that the mentally ill are undisciplined.
Yes, I have been scattered, unkempt, flight
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y, undependable, and absent. But I have also, at times, been able to carry out with incredible focus to minute detail tasks that I could never stick with if not at least mildly manic.
While the energy to work and the attention to detail did not always congeal on a reasonable or desirable task, the results were often impressive.
But then, I’ve also spent an awful amount of time lying around doing nothing. Not contemplating, not planning, not even daydreaming. Just depressed. Could there be a way to predict moods? A way to harness and apply a disciplined approach to managing symptoms?
Too often we equate discipline with punishment or control. But The American Heritage Dictionary offers the first definition of discipline as training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement.
Viewed in this way, discipline can be very positive. Self-discipline can lead to self-improvement. A
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Master Z's, a pool table and billiard retail store in Wisconsin are opening a new location in Brookfield.
Master Z's, a
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rec room and patio furniture retail store, is opening a new location in Brookfield, according to an announcement posted on its website.
The new store will be located at 19233 W. Bluemound Road, which recently housed the Laacke & Joys.
In December, Terry Mather, the husband and business partner of Laacke & Joys spokeswoman Marsha Mather, said the store's last day will be Jan. 15 unless inventory runs out before then.
The former Laacke & Joys building was sold for $3.3 million to Bluemound W. 19233 LLC, an investors group led by Scott Stollenwork, one of Master Z's owners, according to state real estate records.
Master Z's, a Waukesha retailer of pool tables, patio furniture, sports memorabilia and other leisure goods, has been sold to a group that includes the company's general manager.
Last April, owner Jim Lindenberg said he
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Jim Webb to discuss sentencing of Suu Kyi during meeting with General Than Shwe.
Webb, who arrived in Naypyidaw
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, the country's remote administrative capital, on Friday, is in Myanmar on the second leg of a two-week tour of the region.
Webb is travelling with a US delegation that would meet the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry in Yangon, the commercial hub, a Myanmar businessman said on condition of anonymity.
Webb had called in March for direct talks between the US and Myanmar.
But last month, he said the recent trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's detained opposition leader, made it difficult for Washington to pursue "meaningful relations" with Myanmar.
His meeting was likely to include talks on Suu Kyi, who was sentenced earlier this week to another 18 months of house arrest.
A US national, John Yettaw, who triggered the trial when he swam to her lakeside home in Yangon in May, was sentenced to seven years of hard labour and imprisonment.
After his talks in Naypyid
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CONCORD — The City Council on Tuesday awarded a one-year technology management contract that is expected to yield greater savings than the deal with the
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vendor Concord had used for the past three years.
By using an independent contractor to provide desktop installation, maintenance and IT support, the city has saved about $400,000 per year since 2011, according to Jeff Lewis, director of Information Technology.
R-Computer, which is in Concord, had held the desktop managed services contract since 2011, earning $487,361 in the most recent contract year. In April, the city solicited bids for the contract and received 10 submissions. The top finalists were R-Computer and Vacaville-based Axiom Technologies, whose clients include the state Department of Healthcare Services and the California High Speed Rail Authority.
Following the staff”s recommendation, the City Council on Tuesday awarded a one-year $419,112 contract to Axiom Technologies, with the option to extend it for up to four one-year terms. R-Computer”s competing bid was $426,372 per year.
The Axiom Technologies contract is expected
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Nick Duncan was nominated as one of the People's Best New Chefs by Food and Wine Magazine.
A new food truck on State Street advert
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ises Indian tacos, but you won't find saag paneer and biryani wrapped in a portable naan blanket. Mist'Delish serves up Native American tacos, enchiladas and frybreads.
So what exactly is a Native American frybread?
"It's a dough that's really, really super soft, and once I place it in the fryer, it just puffs up really big," explained owner Misty Lara through the window of her new truck on a recent chilly evening.
Mist'Delish opened on March 1 at 4210 W. State St.
"A lot of these recipes are from my great-grandma," said Lara. "I just felt, well, there's no Native American restaurants here that sell any Native American food, so I knew it was going to be a good place to start."
Mist'Delish is open Monday through Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.-ish. You
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McALLEN — A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer will serve 30 months in federal prison for taking a bribe in exchange for
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approving a land crossing permit, court records show.
U.S. District Judge Randy Crane sentenced Jose Javier “JJ” González, 38, of Mission to a 30-month prison sentence on Tuesday for, among other violations, accepting a $500 bribe and then approving an “I-94” border crossing permit, court records show.
González, a former CBP officer working in the Rio Grande Valley sector, was arrested May 25, 2017, and charged with federal bribery and fraud charges, according to court records.
During Tuesday’s sentencing hearing, González, speaking on his own behalf, claimed that in his more than 10 years as a federal officer, “he had been a dedicated CBP officer” and had only made “one mistake,” according to a release from the Southern District of Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office.
One federal agent who spoke on behalf of the government
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Westerly shut out Stonington, 15-0 — the exact score of its first Thanksgiving Day victory 100 years ago — in front of
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a crowd of approximately 4,400 at Stonington High School.
In 1911, the Westerly defense shut out rival Stonington in the first Thanksgiving Day game between the high schools.
On Thursday, Stonington and Westerly matched up in the 100th anniversary of that game, and the Bulldogs proved not much has changed in the last century.
The loss eliminated Stonington — who entered the game in the final spot — out of Class M state playoff contention.
Westerly (9-2) held an early 7-0 lead on Adam Mitchell’s 68-yard run down the left sideline on the first play of the game.
Despite the long run by Mitchell, the game’s MVP, the Bulldogs combined for 36 total yards the rest of the half.
Stonington, which still leads the all-time series, 69-66-17, after this 152nd overall meeting, outgained Westerly in the first half
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Owner Alexandre Gaydamak has confirmed he is hoping to sell Portsmouth.
Gaydamak revealed he has already rejected two offers as he seeks
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to ensure he finds the right buyer for his club. To satisfy Gaydamak's conditions of sale, any prospective new owner will need to commit to building a new stadium and training ground.
"I have come to realise over a period of time that I can no longer invest the time required to oversee the running of the club," Gaydamak told the Sunday Mirror.
"I think it's only right to consider the sale of the club to a group or individual who can come in and invest the time and money to ensure the club reaches its true potential."
Pompey have long been linked with a move away from Fratton Park, and Gaydamak added: "First and foremost, it is far more important for me to find the right buyer - with the club's best interests at heart - rather than sell out at the first opportunity."
Potential investment from South Africa has been among several sources of interest previously reported should any sale go through for last season's FA
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REDWOOD CITY — The six-alarm blaze that raced through a 73-unit apartment complex last week appears to be an accident that started near
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a kitchen, possibly due to a pot left on a stove, a fire official said Tuesday.
Investigators have narrowed the starting point of the fire to the kitchen area in a unit on the fourth floor of the building at 926 Woodside Road, said Redwood City Fire Marshal Jim Palisi. There were no indications the flames, which left over 70 people without a home Thursday, were anything but an accident, he said.
It will be difficult to provide any more specific explanation of the fire because the area where it started was so badly damaged. Though Palisi said an unwatched pot “is a very good possibility,” for the culprit.
Four people were injured in the early morning flames, which authorities said would have been slowed by a fire sprinkler system. However, because the Terrace Apartments were built in 1963, they were not subject to 1989 state rules requiring sprinklers in multi-unit buildings.
Fire officials firmly agree sprinklers save lives, but they
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Model names come and go, but the Astra seems an ever-present.
And why not? When you've shifted
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more than two million cars in the UK alone since 1980 it would seem folly to opt for anything else.
From this weekend, the fifth generation of the Ellesmere Port-built car hits the road, and few other than Vauxhall aficionados are likely to recognise this latest Astra from its predecessor.
Not to put too fine a point on it, this is a critically important launch for Vauxhall. The latest Astra enters an arena which accounts for 22 per cent of the entire west European car market.
From day one of the design process Vauxhall made it a priority to put some real emotion into the Astra's final look.
With the Meriva and Zafira models catering for more practical demands, Vauxhall felt confident they could go for something really entertaining.
GM Europe's design chief Martin Smith - the man responsible for the original Audi quattro - oversaw the operation, the result of which
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A ban addressing the controversial practice of gay conversion therapy has passed through its first House committee.
Medical students James Pathoulas and Kevin O'
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Donnell pose for a portrait on Feb. 22 on campus. The two are part of an effort to ban conversion therapy in Minnesota.
The proposed legislation written by Rep. Hunter Cantrell, DFL-Savage, passed through the Health and Human Services Policy Committee earlier this month. It requires licensed counselors and therapists to outline that conversion therapy is deemed ineffective by major medical organizations. The ban does not apply to pastoral counseling.
Nearly all major medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and American Psychological Association, have denounced conversion therapy, stating it is not grounded in scientific reasoning and can be detrimental to patients.
Citing the important intersection of medicine and policy, University of Minnesota Medical School students James Pathoulas and Kevin O'Donnell voiced support for the ban.
“This bill is really about protecting people, especially vulnerable people from a fraudulent practice,” O’Donnell said.
Pathoulas said exact statistics about the use of conversion therapy
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Electing Democratic state legislator would bring substantial leadership shift that could benefit all South Dakotans.
When Kristi Noem earned 57 percent of
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the vote in a surprisingly decisive Republican primary win over Marty Jackley in June, many political observers were ready to hand her the keys to the governor’s mansion.
That’s typically how it works in South Dakota, where the Grand Old Party reigns supreme and Democrats infamously haven’t won a race for governor since 1974.
In some ways, this permanence of one-party rule has hindered progress. Ethical lapses and shrinking accountability allowed the Gear Up and EB-5 scandals to fester, while legislative crusades on social issues – transgender policy, immigration restrictions, abortion rights – have placed South Dakota far right of national norms.
One could argue that’s fair game for an electorate that chose Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by 30 points. But for a state that has seen Democratic figures such as George McGovern, Jim Abourezk, Tom Daschle, Tim Johnson and Stephanie Herseth make an impact in Washington, a multipl
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Ben Barba will never "be welcomed back" to the NRL after its integrity unit investigation found he had been involved in a physical altercation with his
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partner.
The finding came after the NRL integrity unit viewed CCTV footage of the incident involving Barba and his partner at a Townsville casino over the Australia Day weekend.
NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg said he did not see "any time in the future" when Barba would play in the league again, having confirmed his deregistration.
Barba had already been sacked by the North Queensland Cowboys without having played a match for the club.
"There was a physical altercation between the player and his partner," Greenberg said today.
"I can't see a time at any time in the future when he'll be welcomed back."
Greenberg said Barba would have to look for a career outside rugby league, although he stopped short of instructing the English Super League to ban the 29-year-old.
"I'm not going to call for [a worldwide ban] but there's no place for him," Greenberg said.
"It's time for Ben Bar
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Jan. 15 was the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, celebrated nationally today.
As the years go by, there are fewer
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of those who marched with him to share their memories. But Jackson, one of his closest aides, still can recount milestone moments from King's Chicago Freedom Movement of 1965-66 like it was yesterday.
Jackson then marched with King in the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
When the Baptist preacher who espoused nonviolence brought the fight for equal rights north to Chicago, Jackson was at his side.
Chicago churches still standing today were the sites of their strategizing meetings, including Fellowship Baptist Church, 4543 S. Princeton Ave.; New Friendship Baptist Church, 848 W 71st St.; and Stone Temple Baptist Church, 3622 W. Douglas Blvd.
King's June 21, 1964, speech at the Illinois Rally for Civil Rights at Soldier Field came days after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. Then, after being asked by the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations to come help Black Chicago fight for quality schools, King led a July 26, 1965, march on
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“Israel’s love affair with Gal Gadot is reaching fever pitch right now,” Amit Cotler, a reporter for Israel
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’s leading news site Ynet said.
But after scoring the role of Wonder Woman in 2013, Gadot shot up to the top of the list.
Gadot got her start as a model, winning the Miss Israel pageant in 2004. She then went on to serve in the Israel Defense Forces as a physical trainer, where she whipped IDF soldiers into shape.
While Refaeli was exempt from the draft because she was married at the time she would have been compelled to serve (Israel exempts married women from the armed services), Gadot served her two-year mandatory service.
Gadot has not been shy about her support of the IDF. During 2014’s conflict between Israel and Gaza, she caused a bit of a stir around the world when she uploaded a photograph of herself praying with her daughter Alma.
The post garnered an impressive 200,000 “likes” as well as about 19,000 comments, both in support of her position
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New Delhi: The stage is set for the Narendra Modi government to present its final budget before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, with the government finalizing
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the dates of the budget session—the last sitting of the 16th Lok Sabha. The budget session is likely to run from 31 January to 13 February. Finance minister Arun Jaitley will present an interim budget on 1 February.
According to convention, the finance minister does not announce any new programmes that could give the government an electoral advantage and impose a financial burden beyond the initial four months of the fiscal. But nothing prevents the government from using the opportunity to present an economic road map for the next five years.
The rules are not cast in stone: P. Chidambaram, while presenting the interim budget for 2014-15 ahead of the last Lok Sabha elections, had announced the One Rank One Pension scheme for the armed forces in a move that could win the support of voters in the defence services. Jaitley later criticized Chidambaram for providing only ₹ 500 crore in his interim budget, which was a pittance compared to the annual financial implication of the scheme
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Sheffield United have drafted a proposed transfer agreement with Heart of Midlothian which could see Jason Holt join Nigel Clough’s side
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on a permanent basis this summer, writes James Shield.
But Holt, who has confirmed he wants to remain at Bramall Lane when his loan expires at the end of the season, must wait to discover whether Clough, the League One club’s manager, will choose to trigger the deal despite comparing the youngster’s style to former England and Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard.
Although neither United or their counterparts at Tynecastle are expected to publicly acknowledge the document, sources north of the border have confirmed its existence.
“I’m out of contract at Hearts and if the chance arose to stay at Sheffield United it would definitely appeal to me,” Holt said.
Holt, aged 22, has impressed since arriving in South Yorkshire three months ago and enters tomorrow’s game at Oldham Athletic, which could see United take a huge step towards play-off qualification, searching for his fourth goal in five games. They remained fifth following back-to
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This is the moment a fugitive gunman smashes through a Black Country level crossing as he speeds away from pursuing police.
Dean Isitt plough
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s through the barriers at an estimated 40mph as he evades capture. The 31-year-old put lives at risk as he sped over the tracks at Langley Green level crossing in Oldbury.
A wing mirror can be seen flying off the Honda Civic as it speeds over the tracks. Seconds later, two police cars appear in shot.
One edges cautiously over the tracks after checking for oncoming trains, while a second appears to reverse.
Isitt was wanted by police at the time after pointing a sawn-off shotgun at a member of the public and threatening to kill him.
Convicted armed robber Isitt had fled from a stolen car carrying a bag with the weapon and three live cartridges on March 2 last year.
Isitt, who is now serving nine years for firearms offences, was chased by armed police as he leapt over a fence into the yard of nearby Bromford Iron & Steel in West Bromwich.
He was confronted by a factory manager,
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We're still a long way from a Metroid-style space bounty hunter suit, but the US military is prototyping new wearables to enhance soldiers
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' combat abilities. These include an exoskeleton similar to those being trialled for factory workers, and a prosthetic arm device, officially named the "Third Arm", meant to make heavy machinery feel weightless.
The Army Times reported this week that soldiers will soon test the ONYX exoskeleton, designed to take the load off of a wearer's hips and knees, increasing their stamina.
The 10th Mountain Division will be the first American military unit to evaluate the devices later this year, working with researchers who will attempt to improve the exoskeleton's fit, make it quieter and faster, and finally test it for "ruggedised operation".
During the R&D stages, prototypes were tested in labs while wearers exercised on a treadmill. The real test will be how the ONYX responds to water damage and uneven, mountainous environments.
The cool practicality of the exoskeleton is contrasted with this completely bonkers-looking third arm prototype. The US Army
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Developer Bungie and publisher Activision are splitting up, an industry-shaking divorce that will see the shared world shooter series Destiny enter fully into Bungie�
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�s control.
This development comes after years of tension between the two companies—tension that has existed since before the first Destiny even shipped. Bungie, the studio that created and has led development on the franchise, told employees during a team meeting this afternoon, framing it as fantastic news for a studio that has long grown sick of dealing with its publisher. Employees cheered and popped champagne, according to one person who was there.
Destiny, which first launched in September 2014, has had a long and rocky road through expansions, updates, and a sequel. The most recent major entry in the franchise, Destiny 2: Forsaken, was beloved by players but failed to meet Activision’s sales standards.
Bungie also has a brand new game in development thanks to a $100 million investment from NetEase.
The news comes during a rough time for Activision, which recently went through an executive shake-up and has been cutting costs at its biggest subsidiary, Blizzard. Activision�
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The Black Lives Matter flag will go up at Rutland High School for 400 days, starting Friday.
Vermont's Rutland High School
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is set to raise the Black Lives Matter flag Friday.
Students sought permission to fly the flag from the Rutland City Public Schools Board of Commissioners, according to the Associated Press. One board member, Kam Johnston, indicated he rescinded the initial decision to fly the flag in order "to allow for more student input and address concerns."
The board confirmed that the plan was in motion in a Tuesday vote.
It won't just be for a few weeks, either: The school is going to keep it up for 400 days.
Rutland High School is the latest in a number of other educational institutions that have sought to raise the flag in the Green Mountain State.
High schools in Burlington, South Burlington and the state's capital, Montpelier, as well as Champlain Valley Union High School in Hinesburg have raised the flag on school grounds.
Efforts to raise the flag have made their way into the sphere of higher education in Vermont, as well. The
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Music’s biggest stars were all under one roof at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, with Black-ish star Tracee
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Ellis Ross hosting for a second consecutive year. She opened the proceedings with a dance routine, a promise to highlight black designers through her fashion choices throughout the night, and a fervent hope to end up on the Shade Room (or as she calls it, “the black TMZ”) before the night is over.
Least Political Moment: Fresh off a three-year break from award shows, and complete with newly-minted political personality, Taylor Swift opened the AMAs with “I Did Something Bad” and a guest appearance from a giant snake. Perhaps the song choice could was riposte to the ticking off from President Trump (who now likes her music “25% less”). Sadly, the performance was decidedly unpolitical (although she did get bleeped for saying a naughty word during her song).
Most In Need of a Makeover: Post Malone’s fans want him to appear on the next season of Netflix’s Que
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Grinning boyishly, Mr. Stephanopoulos denies the presence of a White House enemies list.
Hewitt and Stephanopoulos faced each other
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at the 15th annual Brown University/Providence Journal conference titled: ``America's Media: Are They Out of Control?'' ending today. Their exchange was not just about access to the president, or recalling the impact of the ``60 Minutes'' program in 1991 when candidate Clinton responded to questions about Gennifer Flowers.
Behind their exchange were the wrenching competitive forces challenging and changing the media today. The heart of the matter, says Hewitt, is that as the ``entertainment media'' have gained in popularity, journalistic standards have fallen.
Supermarket tabloids, radio talk shows, and sensational TV shows thrive on the provocative and bizarre. Huge audiences are listening, watching, and reading. Some 2.8 million copies of The Star, a supermarket tabloid, are sold each week. An estimated 5.2 million households watch ``A Current Affair'' every night.
As a result, newspapers, TV magazines, and network news broadcasts are pressured to include tabloidlike,
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Cheryl Denby (right), who lost 30 pounds so far after Bariatric Embolization of Arteries for the Treatment of Obesity
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at Johns Hopkins. She talks with Linda Bunyard, a registered dietitian at The Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center.
Hunger hormone could be key to weight loss; procedure aims to block it.
Cheryl Denby tried about every diet on the market over the years and always failed because of the same reason — she constantly felt hungry.
"I was just so hungry all the time that it would make it difficult to stick with anything," said the 48-year-old, who works in information technology. "I would feel so deprived and then want to eat everything."
All of that changed in December when the Oxon Hill resident underwent a new, minimally invasive procedure that helped her get her hunger under control and lose 30 pounds.
The procedure, known as bariatric arterial embolization, involves injecting small microscopic beads into the veins leading to the part of the stomach called the fundus that produces ghrelin, the body's most potent hunger-stim
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The secretary of state's office has announced that the petition campaign for an increase in the state minimum wage HAS met the minimum on raw signatures to qualify
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for the validation process. There wasn't a lot of breathing room.
The measure requries 62,507 signatures of registered voters to be on the ballot. The backers had to turn in that number, with a minimum allotment of voters in 15 counties, to initially qualify for the validation process. If the petitions fall short of the total required after validation they'll be given 30 additional days to meet the minimum.
I'd mentioned this morning some concerns that the drive might fall short of meeting the 62,507 requirement on its face, before validation. It has taken the secretary of state's office longer to validate these petitions than those submitted for a constitutional amendment to allow alcohol sales statewide. And the margin was narrow. The initial count was over the minimum by only about 1,500, which meant more than 10,000 of the signatures originally submitted were facially invalid.
I had noted concerns earlier about the petition drive. Signature gathering had stopped, but the drive did a final weekend of canv
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The University Center of Lake County has named Joel Williams as the executive director who will succeed G. Gary Grace when Grace retires March 31.
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Williams will begin work at the University Center on March 18 to ensure a smooth transition as the center's founding executive director retires. He is currently serving as the executive director of PADS Lake County, a role he has held since January of 2013.
Previously, he spent six years working for Lake County government in various roles within the Planning, Building and Development Department. He has also served as a part-time political science faculty member for Elmhurst College, one of the center's 18 member institutions.
"His experience as an executive director of a small, nonprofit organization, coupled with deep ties within Lake County and his enthusiasm for the center's mission, have positioned him well to help the board chart the next steps in the center's evolution," Hlinak said.
"He will inherit a well-organized administrative structure and a strong staff through the efforts of Gary Grace, and I am confident that he will bring creativity and new energy to the challenges of making the center more widely-known
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ride-hailing app Uber [UBER.UL] said on Monday it was joining a global public transport
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association to improve mobility in the cities it operates in, although North America's largest public transit union said there was no place for the U.S. company.
Uber's move to join the International Association of Public Transportation (UITP) is part of a drive by Uber to improve its relationships with local authorities after a series of regulatory and legal setbacks.
UITP represents public transport providers around the world, including Transport for London (TfL) - which in September stripped Uber of its operating license.
Scandal-hit Uber has just had to reassure authorities it is changing the way it does business after the disclosure of a massive data breach cover-up that has prompted investigations from regulators around the world.
Andrew Salzberg, Uber's head of transportation policy and research, said aligning the company with public transport authorities was a good way to make Uber a better partner for cities.
Uber, currently valued at $69 billion, has been testing a more collaborative approach to
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FILE - Mexico's current Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard smiles after a press conference regarding a new trade agreement with the U.S. on
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Aug. 27, 2018, in Mexico City.
The United States pledged $5.8 billion in aid and investment Tuesday for strengthening government and economic development in Central America, and another $4.8 billion in development aid for southern Mexico.
The U.S aid aims to promote better security conditions and job opportunities as part of a regional plan to allow Central Americans and Mexicans to remain in their countries and not have to emigrate.
The plan was announced in a joint U.S.-Mexican statement released by the State Department and read aloud by Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard in the Mexican capital.
"In sum I think this is good news, very good news for Mexico," Ebrard said.
Newly inaugurated President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waxed poetic about the plan to provide jobs so people won't have to emigrate.
"I have a dream that I want to see become a reality... that nobody will want to go
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ENGLAND'S 2018 World Cup campaign was thrown into disarray today after Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards resiged from the bid board
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Sir Dave Richards today sent a letter to Lord Triesman, chairman of the bid and the Football Association, saying that he would continue to support England's 2018 World Cup campaign but no longer wanted to be part of it.
The resignation comes as a devastating blow to bid leaders, and especially to Triesman, who had hoped to draw a line under recent turmoil by streamlining the board at an emergency meeting 10 days ago.
Richards said: “With the recent changes to the England 2018 Bid team structure, I feel I can now best support a successful bid without the necessity of sitting on the Board.
“My positions as Premier League chairman, FA board member and chairman of the FA’s international committee provide me with ample opportunities to bang the drum for English football, and the bid particularly, right across the world, which I will continue to do wherever and whenever I can.
Sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe, who himself agreed to step down from the
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese southern boomtown of Shenzhen, famed for its eye-watering home prices, has set an
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unprecedented goal of capping the number of new private homes, as the government focuses on rolling out more affordable public housing.
Shenzhen plans to build 1.7 million new apartments by 2035, of which only around 40 percent can be private homes, the city’s housing authority said in a statement on its website on Tuesday.
Heeding President Xi Jinping’s call for houses that “are for living in, not speculation”, local governments are starting to roll out policies to ensure multiple sources of home supply and multiple channels of financial support.
China’s under-developed home rental market has been a focus in the past year, particularly in megacities such as Shenzhen, which has a population of more than 12 million. In a national first, state lenders started giving loans last year to renters at ultra-low interest rates with long repayment periods in Shenzhen.
The housing authority said the remaining 60 percent of new supply would be equally split
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Jeana Eisenhauer can still hear her mother screaming at the sight of her father lying motionless on the floor of their garage in Valley View
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Estates, Albrightsville.
Editor's note: Donations to help Ember Hardy, 7, can be sent to: Children's Seashore House, ATTN: Ember Hardy, Room 306, 3405 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
"My mom came home from work, saw my dad on the floor and screamed out, 'He's not breathing,'" Eisenhauer said. "I heard her scream, I ran up from the basement out into the garage and saw my dad had collapsed. My mom had started doing CPR while I called 911. Then, I took over CPR until the ambulance arrived."
But it did no good.
"We knew my dad wasn't gonna make it by the time the EMTs got there," Eisenhauer said.
Her father, Lammert Roodhof, 66, was pronounced dead later in the evening of Oct. 30 at Gnaden Huetten Hospital in Lehighton, a victim
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OPINION: After the flood, is it still business as usual?
AS THE floodwaters have receded in Townsville, the town
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and wider region are contemplating much more than mould.
They will be looking at the extent to which business and the economy will be impacted by the disastrous extreme weather event.
More than 8,500 claims have been lodged so far, and losses are estimated at $105 million - but that figure is expected to rise.
Townsville Chamber of Commerce CEO Marie-Claude Brown told ABC she was worried that industries including retail and hospitality would be particularly badly hit.
Until now, Australian companies and investors alike have tended to think of the impacts of a changing climate in terms of energy transition and regulatory risk.
Less considered are the climate impacts already beginning to reveal themselves within the bottom lines of companies from a range of sectors. How will businesses and portfolios fare with the 4 degrees of warming we are forecast to face this century, if business as usual continues?
Climate change has given rise to a range of physical risks that can impact in the here and now. And though destruction from storms,
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Nearby Jewish cemetery apparently used for building materials by the post-World War II Soviet occupation authorities.
Authorities in Vilnius, the capital
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of Lithuania, are preparing to demolish a power substation that was built using tombstones looted from a Jewish cemetery, the Mail Online reported.
The use of tombstones was revealed on social media earlier this month by a local man who had noticed Hebrew and Yiddish inscriptions on the graffiti-covered walls of the substation. Archaeologists confirmed that the tombstones had been removed from a nearby Jewish cemetery.
The substation was built in the 1960s, while Lithuania was under Soviet occupation. Local authorities are investigating whether Jewish tombstones were used in the construction of other buildings.
Giedrius Sakalauskas, the local resident who made the discovery, said he had always thought there was something strange about the bunker-like structure outside the center of the city. "Why build an electrical substation with granite blocks instead of regular bricks?" he asked.
"I touched the stones and I realized that they're really gravestones," Sakalauskas told The Associated Press
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Mayawati said other parties made populist manifestoes, but forgot them after coming to power and ‘implemented anti-people policies�
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BSP will not have an election manifesto for Uttar Pradesh polls, its president Mayawati said on Sunday as the party announced a list of 101 candidates for eastern UP, giving a bulk of tickets to upper castes and backwards, in a move take on ruling SP and BJP in the state.
Uttar Pradesh goes to polls from February 11 in seven phases that will end on March 8. The results would be announced on March 11.
Addressing BSP leaders and office-bearers at its state unit office here, Mayawati said other parties make populist announcements in election manifestoes, but these remained “limited to elections”. After forming government, they forgot these promises and “implemented anti-people policies”.
“BSP will not release election manifesto as people know our party keeps its promises. BSP fulfilled all the promises made to the people after forming the government in 2007,” she said, adding
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In Los Angeles, young musicians have honored established performers who have blazed a trail for other artists to follow. The 1,200-member American
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Society of Young Musicians recently presented its annual awards, and drew attention to its efforts helping young artists avoid the pitfalls of the music business.
The event at the House of Blues, a Los Angeles music club, featured the actor Billy Bob Thornton, who presented an award on behalf of the young musicians to country star Dwight Yoakam.
"He's an amazing actor, an amazing songwriter, amazing musician,” he said.
The honoree said he was flattered.
"I guess it's an auspicious moment for me because I've been around now about 20 years, and to have young musicians and young artists, young writers acknowledge that you're even still around is more than I could have asked for 20 years ago," Mr. Yoakam said.
A 32-year-old musician named Brian Culbertson, with eight albums behind him already, has the kind of career that many performers envy. He received the jazz award from the organization of
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Because Christmas is a time of year like no other, and because N°5 is a fragrance like no other, red is the colour of choice
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For the first time in the history of the house, the legendary clear-glass bottle designed by Mademoiselle Chanel is donning a fiery cloak of red. A unique, limited edition, N°5 L’Eau Eau de Toilette and N°5 Eau de Parfum (100 ml) in mass-dyed red glass.
What other colour could combine with the power of N°5, the symbol of a visionary spirit? Red, “the colour of life, the colour of blood” according to Mademoiselle. Designed in 1921 and adapted in 1924, the clear rectangular bottle with simple, geometric lines and a faceted stopper features a radical architecture that has become the manifesto of a modern aesthetic. The iconic design subtly evolved over the 20th and 21st centuries, maintaining a masterful balance of shape and proportion. Remaining true to its pioneering nature, it is pursuing its course upheld by a new aura
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ISIS released a 'kill list' last week, which included members of synagogues and churches as potential targets by 'lone wolf' attackers
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The Islamic State’s release on July 3rd of a new “kill list” prompted U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials to brief American Jewish leaders on the possible threat of terrorism to prominent Jewish figures and synagogues. The latest ISIS statement is not the first “ISIS kill list” to target American citizens. News of one broke in early June on the site Vocativ, which reported on a list published online which targeted over 8,000 Americans - including Hollywood celebrities and Silicon Valley executives.
Some 200 Jewish leaders joined the conference call on Friday organized by the Secure Community Network, the security arm of the national Jewish community, in the wake of the ISIS list that included members of synagogues and churches among some 1,700 individuals. The names of the synagogue members were pulled from the synagogue websites, among other sources, according to SCN.
“The lists appear to be directed toward ‘lone wolf’ ISIS supporters
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Will Smith's Oscar-nominated 2001 turn as Muhammad Ali in his heyday. Director Michael Mann's film explores the complexities of the boxing champ
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who became a political lightning rod when he was stripped of his title after he refused to serve in Vietnam. The special-edition Blu-ray bursts with special features, including a making-of featurette, footage of Ali's set visit and the original theatrical trailer.
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder casts himself as a clueless dolt who wins the lottery and ends up falling in with a fast crowd, filled with people all too willing to victimize him. An incisive look into 1970s gay German culture, the film bursts with social commentary and witty asides. Extras in the impressive Criterion Blu-ray set explore the 1975 film from all angles, with vintage interviews with Fassbinder, as well as composer Peer Raben, filmmaker Ira Sachs and actor Harry Baer. There's also a tribute booklet with an essay by critic Michael Koresky.
Emily Blunt stars in this twist-filled psychological thriller, adapted from the bestselling Paula Hawkins novel. She
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He thinks O, Miami, which continues throughout the month and puts poems on such unusual spots as grocery store conveyor belts and gas station pumps,
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brings the energy poetry needs.
Putt Puttleggers Literary Mini Golf: 7-9 p.m April 15; Palmetto Bay Mini Golf, 9300 SW 152nd St., Miami; $15. Hang out with other readers and play literary-themed mini golf on a special course, get a book courtesy of Bookleggers and an O, Miami tote bag.
Bad Poetry Slam: 8-10 p.m. April 22, Artistic Vibes, 12986 SW 89th Ave., Miami. Who’s the worst poet in Miami? Find out here.
Japanese Culture Night at The Kampong: April 25, 4013 Douglas Rd., $5. Get a lesson in traditional haiku then test your skills describing the gardens of the Kampong and read your work on stage.
Manual Cinema: 8 p.m. April 28 and 3 and 8 p.m. April 29, South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts
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While the political ramifications of dependence on Russian natural gas are a current topic of debate within the European Union, often the talk fails to address a much
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larger issue of whether or not the importing of Russia’s natural gas will help to meet the EU’s growing demands.
So argues physicist Bengt Söderbergh, who recently completed a dissertation on an assessment of future Norwegian and Russian gas export levels.
According to forecasts by the International Energy Agency (IEA), production of natural gas within the EU will decline from the 2006 level of 216 billion cubic metres per year (Gm3/year) to 90 Gm3/year by 2030, even as demand for gas is expected to rise significantly. The need to import gas will accordingly increase by up to 90 per cent during the period. Russia and Norway are currently the most significant suppliers of gas to the EU. Their combined share of the EU’s gas imports during 2006 was 62 per cent.
As part of Söderbergh’s analysis with regard to the future levels of Norwegian and Russian gas exports to the EU, Norwegian and Russian
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Pillows can attract bacteria, dust mites, and even mold over time. Consider investing in pillow protectors to help keep these microbes from
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building up on your pillows, and be sure to replace your pillows regularly.
A pillow can make or break your sleep. Choose the wrong one, and you could end up tossing and turning all night and waking up with a stiff neck in the morning. Choose the right one, and you'll sleep soundly and wake up feeling refreshed and ready to take on the day. The trouble is there is no right pillow for everyone. It all depends on your preferences. Here's a short guide to walk you through the important considerations when buying pillows.
The way you sleep plays a major role in the firmness of the pillow that you need. You want your neck to stay in proper alignment so you don't wake up with soreness. Stomach sleepers don't need much support, so a soft pillow should be plenty. Side sleepers, on the other hand, need a lot of support in order to hold their necks at the right angle, so a firm pillow is the
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Black Tom Cassidy, in all his, uh, glory?
Correction: Monday, one of the writers of Deadpool 2, Rhett Reese,
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took to Twitter to simply say these rumors are “Untrue.” He didn’t elaborate beyond that.
According to rumors currently gently rocking the sleepy, sleepy crib of the internet, the upcoming Deadpool 2 might have one less villain than we thought.
Now, according to rumors via The Tracking Board’s Jeff Sneider, Kesy might not be a presence in the movie any longer. Speaking on a podcast, he commented that he had heard from an anonymous source that Kesy was no longer in the film. And while anonymous sources on films are not the most reliable in the world, this rumor tracks. We haven’t seen anything of Kesy’s villain in the promo materials, and info that suggests that the film’s recent reshoots were largely to recenter the film in the opposition between Deadpool and Cable (along with some more of Zazie Beetz’s Domino), presumably before they become best friends at the end
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WASHINGTON - Two Marine non-commissioned officers will be court-martialed for allegedly urinating on the bodies of Taliban fighters last year
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in Afghanistan and posing for unofficial photos with casualties, the Marine Corps said Monday.
The charges against Staff Sgt. Joseph W. Chamblin and Staff Sgt. Edward W. Deptola are in addition to administrative punishments announced last month for three other, more junior Marines for their role in the urination episode.
The disclosure in January of a video showing four Marines in full combat gear urinating on the bodies of three dead men led to a criminal investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service as well as a Marine investigation of the unit involved, the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, which fought in the southern Afghan province of Helmand for seven months before returning to its home base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., last September.
In the video, one of the Marines looked down at the bodies and quipped, "Have a good day, buddy."
In a statement Monday, the Marine Corps said disciplinary actions against additional Marines will be announced later. It also said there
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RIO DE JANEIRO — The three other U.S. swimmers were lying on the ground, following their assailant’s orders
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, when the gunman turned to Ryan Lochte, one of Team USA’s charming stars.
The four swimmers on the U.S. Olympic team lost their money and wallets but otherwise escaped unharmed from the gunmen who were posing as police officers. The harrowing assault, however, amounts to the most serious breach of security against American athletes in these Olympics, and it follows a troubling pattern of robbery, gunfire and assaults that call into question the ability of Brazil's security forces to keep participants and fans safe.
For a city on high alert for foreign-born terrorism, it has been the everyday domestic crimes that have disrupted the Olympics. While police and security officials say the city's overall crime rate fell during the first week of the Games, helped by more than 80,000 soldiers and police deployed on the streets around stadiums and along bus routes, thieves have managed to prey on several Olympic participants and high-profile officials, even in tourist-friendly areas and near Olympic venues.
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The era of consumer-grade virtual reality is just dawning, but already there are format wars. HTC Vive and Oculus Rift are facing off as
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the two main players in the PC gaming space, but just weeks after the release of both, a third-party program threatens exclusivity between platforms.
Revive, posted on GitHub, is described as "a proof-of-concept compatibility layer between the Oculus SDK and OpenVR". In simple terms, it means that certain games meant to be exclusive to Oculus Rift can be run on the Vive.
Currently, Revive only affects platformer Lucky's Tale, which comes with all Oculus Rift headsets, and Oculus Dreamdeck, a package of "vignettes" intended to introduce the possibilities of VR. It seems pretty simple to get either working either, with a small patch or injector to modify the DLLs for either game sufficing to get them running on the rival hardware. "It works by reimplementing functions from the Oculus Runtime and translating them to OpenVR calls," LibreVR, Revive's coder, writes. "Unfortunately Oculus has implemented a Code Sign
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Consumers will now be able to watch online videos from YouTube on their Sony Bravia flat-panel HDTV sets.
YouTube, the online
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video provider and Google subsidiary, is the latest content company to provide video for Sony’s Bravia Internet Video Link, a small add-on module that connects to the TV on one end and an Ethernet cable on the other and facilitates the viewing of Internet video on the big screen without requiring the use of a personal computer. Sony first announced the Bravia Internet Video Link, which sells for $300, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2007 and has since slowly added content partners including Yahoo!, AOL and Conde Nast.
The YouTube service, announced today at a press briefing and new product preview in New York, gives buyers of late-model (2007 and 2008) Bravia LCD sets access to millions of videos at no additional charge. Other new content providers for the Internet Video Link include Wired.com, which will provide technology- and gaming-related content, and C-Spot, which offers original episodic short comedy series and is part of Sony Pictures’ Crackle online
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Members of the Bognor Regis Write Club have shared their creative tips.
November is the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWri
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Mo) and last year more than 350,000 people globally signed up to the writing challenge, with more expected to take part this year. NaNoWriMo is a challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
NaNoWriMo is as much for beginners as experienced authors.
For the members of the Bognor Write Club, writing is about ‘me time’, self expression and giving the introvert a world to create.
To get started Bognor Write Club members recommend morning pages – writing for half an hour at the start of every day. The idea is to establish a new habit, to write whatever comes to mind and silence the inner critic.
Robert Winter, an IT business analyst and Bognor Write Club member, recommends writing a profile for each character before starting. Write about things like their needs, secrets and contradictions in character to get a fully-rounded character to drive the story.
Professor MacLeod also recommends keeping a
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In the battle of media format dominance, video still commands much of Madison Avenue’s attention, as well as its highest CPMs,
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but audio is ascending again, thanks to the ad world’s obsession with emerging voice-activated technologies, especially smart speakers and the ilk.
Personally, I’m not sure how much people ultimately will want to talk to their media, but they absolutely still like listening to it. That’s especially true when they’re on the go and using a mobile device, where audio formats remain the No. 1 form of media consumption.
The problem for media buyers is much of that audience opportunity has been fragmented, decentralized and unstructured from a programmatic point-of-view. With the exception of audio’s big two -- Pandora and Spotify -- and a burgeoning marketplace of ad networks compiling podcast audiences, it’s been difficult for advertisers to tap into it.
Now, thanks to a startup incubated by old school radio and TV rep Katz, there’s a third solution.
Aptly named Audiology, the new program
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Giving gifts just ain't my bag.
Christmas music makes me gag.
The critter exaggerateth not: Though the season is supposed
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to bring out the best in everyone, singers recording Christmas albums often prove the exception.
It's the time of year you hear enough identical versions of "The Christmas Song" to want to roast Mel Torme himself on an open fire. It's an annual occasion for masses of Nashville crooners to rent an orchestra for a day and mine the public domain for a quick buck. It's the season when otherwise decent folks commit heinous crimes against humanity like albums of carolling cats and dogs.
That's why finding a gem amid the coal amassed in Santa's music bag is all the more welcome. So, first, the good news in this roundup of '93 Christmas releases.
* * * * Bruce Cockburn, "Christmas," (Columbia). For those whose definition of traditional doesn't begin and end with Perry Como's sweater. The folk-rocker covers obscure carols from the exotic climes of France, Spain and North and South Carolina, while putting his
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“I look forward to defeating Dana Rohrabacher,” he said in a statement, even though he was only a few dozen votes
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ahead of fellow Democrat Hans Keirstead for a shot at unseating the 15-term Republican incumbent.
By the time Keirstead conceded this week and Rouda had won the second spot on the ballot by a margin of only 125 votes, he was more measured. “No one’s going to be calling me ‘Landslide Harley,’ that’s for sure,” Rouda said in an interview.
Rouda, who is chief executive of real estate services firm Trident Holdings Inc., says he’s running to protect healthcare coverage and strengthen environmental protections.
He must now convince supporters of the other seven Democrats who were on the ballot to put the bruising primary behind them if he stands a chance of flipping Rohrabacher’s seat and helping Democrats win back the House.
For one, he has to make up for three weeks of missed campaigning and fundraising. While final results were being tallied, neither Ke
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Robots & Automation: Manufacturing Hurdles Or Assets?
You may be aware of the current trend for automation to take shape of our
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daily lives. This comes in many forms from autonomous vehicles to our appliances and smart homes being turned on using IOT principles through gestures or sound and often remotely. To even robots being implemented in factories and the manufacturing process.
Automation comes in many forms and both hurdles and triumphs as it continues to be developed and utilized across industries. There are a lot of hurdles to automation and IOT principles being utilized in various industries -- such as manufacturing, warehousing, or freight – for many reasons. One, again is that supposedly robots and automated processing steal peoples' jobs and the need for human hands to do all the work. Secondly, the fear of humans have of robots and working alongside robots or robotic systems in place.
Sci-fi movies have been around for decades showing the pitfall of humanity working alongside robots or AI principles being trusted and later gone out of hand. You may recall movies such as Terminator, Matrix and many others showing this spiral of technology out of hand. Well,
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The county that's home to the Kansas City Chiefs is moving forward with a plan to remove
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and store tens of thousands of old Arrowhead Stadium seats with the intention of reselling them to fans and sports memorabilia collectors.
Jackson County officials voted Monday in favor of the plan despite concerns about the county spending time and money selling stadium seats when other projects need attention, the Kansas City Star reported.
The county will pay nearly $43,000 to remove and store the 30,000 dismantled seats.
"When I look at it, that's not what the county does," said county legislator Dan Tarwater at a recent meeting. "We don't sell things like that. We're not good at it, plus we don't really have an outlet to do it."
The decision comes as the Chiefs replace some of the Arrowhead Stadium's seating as part of an $11.5 million renovation project. The team had planned to sell some of the 20-year-old chairs through a sports memorabilia vendor and give away others to season ticket holders, but the county intervened because
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When the year began, Connie Pillich was vying for the Democratic nomination for governor. Now she has decided to leave the local political scene, at
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least for now.
When the year began, Montgomery Democrat Connie Pillich was vying for the Democratic nomination for governor.
Now Pillich has decided to leave the local political scene, at least for now.
She resigned as co-chair of the Hamilton County Democratic Party on Monday for a job in Washington, D.C. supporting women judges and judicial candidates across the country. She started immediately as the executive director of the National Association of Women Judges in Washington, D.C.
"When I finally made the decision to do this, it was hard for me to plan to say goodbye to the Hamilton County Democratic Party and the friends I have in Cincinnati," Pillich told The Enquirer over the phone from her new home in D.C.
The resignation leaves the local Democrats without one of their biggest fundraisers. Her co-chair, Gwen McFarlin, will serve as chairperson for the remainder of the term, which expires in 2020. Pillich and Mc
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In 2015, the newly elected president of Poland, Andrzej Duda, immediately announced that he was against marriage equality and, when asked
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if he would employ gay people in his office, replied: “I can’t imagine half-naked people parading around the chancellery.” His father, Professor Jan Tadeusz Duda, has said he views homosexuality as an acquired affliction that the state should do all it can to prevent.
And yet when the photographer Maciek Nabrdalik began to document the LGBTQ community in Poland, he was “very positive”, given the existence of pride parades, workshops and clubs in the major cities. On the surface Poland seemed to have travelled far in the 30-odd years since Operation Hyacinth in the mid-1980s, when state police raided homes, schools and workplaces to arrest people suspected of being gay. Each of the estimated 11,000 people detained were registered and then given the option of renouncing their sexuality or being forced to carry a so-called Homosexual Card.
On his travels beyond the cities
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We are currently seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) who will participate in the full life cycle of software development while supporting the functionality
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and mission of ARIN. This includes research, design, development, testing, debugging, maintenance, and documentation, with a particular focus on the role of test automation and testing in the software development lifecycle. The functionality of ARIN includes domain name services, public key certificate services, registration software, billing/accounting solutions, customer record management, data research and analysis, web-based systems including REST, electronic publication of ARIN data and any future technical growth and implementations at ARIN.
Design, develop and support testing of ARIN’s customer-facing and internal web applications, web services, and other backend systems related to functional areas such as whois, DNS, routing public key infrastructure, internet route registry, billing, and membership management software.
Participate in ARIN’s synchronized, multi-team scrum-based Agile development process. Develop and deploy automated tests using Java Enterprise, Selenium, MyBatis, Protractor, Jasmine, Mo
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Virtual reality headsets like Oculus Rift are cool, but the wires linking them to PCs are not. So Optoma has tried to remove the cable clutter
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with a new wireless VR headset.
Optoma’s VR headset is like a wireless monitor on your head. Users can play 360-degree games and roam VR worlds streamed wirelessly from a PC to the headset.
However, the quality of the wireless VR experience could be a big question, though Optoma claims there is no lag. VR headsets wired to PCs generally deliver the best experience.
The Optoma VR headset is also different from headsets like Sulon’s Sulon Q and Microsoft’s HoloLens, which are self-contained VR headsets and don’t require PCs.
The Optoma headset has a 5.46-inch AMOLED screen with a 1920 x 1080-pixel resolution and a 90-degree field view. Simply called Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display, the headset was shown for the first time at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
In a way, Optoma’s device is an early demonstration of how cloud
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MILTON, Ont. – A 23-year-old woman who was out for a hike with friends in an Ontario park died Sunday night
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after falling from a cliff in the area.
Halton regional police, who are investigating, said the incident took place at Rattlesnake Point in Milton, Ont., west of Toronto.
One of the woman’s friends called 911 shortly after 9 p.m. after the woman fell more than 20 metres from a trail, police said.
Sgt. Barry Malciw said police officers, firefighters and paramedics rushed to the area to help, but paramedics weren’t able to resuscitate the woman when they found her.
She was pronounced dead at the scene, Malciw said.
“At this point we don’t believe this to be suspicious,” Malciw said, but he noted the police investigation is ongoing.
Conservation Halton, which owns and operates the park, said Rattlesnake Point will be closed Monday as police continue to probe the incident.
“Our thoughts are with the young woman�
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(Reuters) - U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc’s (QCOM.O) quarterly profit and revenue topped Wall Street forecasts
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, suggesting that a slowdown in the global smartphone business might be less severe than feared after a string of weak forecasts from suppliers.
The results announced in Qualcomm’s smartphone chip business contrasted to those from major mobile phone components makers in Asia, including TSMC (2330.TW) and SK Hynix Inc (000660.KS), which have warned of slower growth in their smartphone chip divisions.
While revenue from Qualcomm’s chips division - its largest - rose 6 percent in the three months ended March 25, revenue from the licensing business plunged 44 percent, reflecting the withholding of revenue in a high-profile patent battle with Apple Inc (AAPL.O).
Despite the strong quarter for chip sales, the company does see some signs of weakness.
It forecast growth of about 5 percent in modern mobile handsets for the remainder of the year, which is lower than anticipated. Handset prices, however, are higher than expected.
“Qualcomm posted solid
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Plano's oldest house has finally arrived at its new home.
On Wednesday, crews completed the final leg of a move for the historic Coll
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inwood House after a years-long debate over its future.
The two-story farmhouse, built around 1861, is now part of the Haggard Farm off Parkwood Boulevard. The plan is for the Collinwood House to eventually be restored and incorporated into future development on that property, according to city officials.
"It's not just a record in a book," preservation advocate Candace Fountoulakis said of the home. "It's something you can walk in, see, feel, touch."
The city of Plano purchased the 80-acre Collinwood Farm in 2009 with plans to develop it as part of a 124-acre park. The pioneer home on the site was declared a hazard, but efforts to relocate it fell through.
Last year, after voters rejected a $3.5 million bond measure to restore the house, the city council voted to tear it down. A preservation architect was tapped to document the dismantling. His estimate for the job
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ELEANOR HALL: The budget has been attacked from two entirely different perspectives this morning.
The tabloid press has accused the Government of
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attacking and "gouging families of $150,000", attacking aspirational households by winding back on middle-class welfare.
But many economists are arguing those cuts don't go far enough.
To discuss who wins and who loses, and what more should be done I'm joined in the studio now by our economics correspondent Stephen Long, and also by Brian Toohey, one of the nation's longest serving political journalists and a leading commentator on economics and public policy.
Starting with you Stephen, the front page of the Daily Telegraph today says Wayne Swan's budget "pickpockets" families and that it is hard-working families in "mortgaged poverty" that will be hardest hit. Is that a fair characterisation of who is bearing the brunt of the budget cuts?
STEPHEN LONG: No, I don't think so. It's an inaccurate misleading and very, very superficial critique of the budget, Eleanor. They're talking about measures to wind back on family benefits
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An MPS board seat, a judgeship in Ozaukee County and the office of Mequon mayor are on the ballot.
Voters
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will head to the polls Tuesday for primaries in spring nonpartisan elections, including races to narrow the number of candidates for a Milwaukee School Board seat, an Ozaukee County judgeship and for mayor of Mequon.
In MPS, parent and activist Megan O'Halloran, Montessori teacher and MPS parent Kathryn Gabor and former MPS teacher and community activist Derek Beyer are competing to replace Carol Voss in District 8. Voss did not seek re-election. Tuesday's vote will eliminate one of the three candidates.
In Ozaukee County, three Cedarburg lawyers — Mark Larson, Steven Cain and Angela Foy — and Mequon attorney James Wawrzyn are looking to replace Circuit Judge Joseph Voiland, who will not seek a second six-year term. Tuesday's primary will eliminate two of the candidates.
In Mequon, three candidates are competing for the office of mayor. District 4 Alderman John Wirth, District 6 Ald
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The modern university is no longer made up simply of departments and regular professors teaching students. Ancillary centers, programs, and initiatives proliferate,
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undertaking research on every conceivable topic and, in exchange for use of the university's name, bringing in prestige, money, and the occasional celebrity. The fates of such entities rarely make the New York Post. But anti-Semitism is not a normal subject.
Just how abnormal a subject it is, and how volatile its study can be, has come to public attention with Yale University's termination of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) after five years of successful operation. Led by the sociologist Charles Small, YIISA was the largest research unit in North America devoted to examining an issue of great antiquity and urgent contemporary significance. Its mission was defined clearly: "to explore this subject matter in a comprehensive, interdisciplinary framework from an array of approaches and perspectives as well as regional contexts."
Pursuant to that mission, YIISA annually assembled groups of scholars for seminars and conferences and published a series of studies. The scholars attached
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The Defense Finance and Accounting Service has donated more than 100 surplus desktop and laptop computers to Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C.,
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and to some deployed overseas.
The computers were being replaced as part of DFAS' Desktop Management Initiative. Last year, DFAS announced its plans to modernize and standardize desktop computers through a utility-style contract made against the General Services Administration's Millenia vehicle.
The donated computers will help marines of the 2nd Marine Division gain access to DFAS' online pay tool, myPay to view their payroll earnings and tax statements. The portal, which went live in 2000, also lets users update their federal and state tax-withholding information, make address changes, and update bank account and electronic funds transfer information.
"Delivering these machines helps Marines, allows the Defense Department to realize additional value from its initial investment in the computers, and encourages Marines to use the online tools that can support their pay needs," said Air Force Brig. Gen. Jan D. Eakle, deputy director of DFAS, in a news release.
The idea of donating the computers was
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In Turnbull, spit and polish will be employed to cover what essentially will be policies similar to Abbott.
That Turnbull was magnanimous in the hour
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of Abbott's pathetic, richly deserved, failure is a testament to Turnbull's natural integrity as a man.
Rumours that Abbott is to be appointed Ambassador to the Holy See (Vatican) to seek absolution and a whipping, have yet to be confirmed.
Subs need to be built here, not Japan where they are promised to. Turnbull will be his own man not a shadow of Abbott. That is really stretching the excuses.
Abbott is in no hurry to congratulate or even tell his ex people of the circumstances at hand is he.
How long would you expect secret deals being done that we don’t need to know about to continue.
I think Shorten and Turnbull will work quite well as members that have interests of Australia at heart. What will Abbott’s next move be, maybe he will resign from parliament to bring on an election. I doubt if working in unison will be on. The atmosphere would be too thick to penetrate.
It
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WASHINGTON - Caving to a massive campaign by Internet services and their millions of users, Congress indefinitely postponed legislation Friday to stop online piracy of movies and
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music costing U.S. companies billions of dollars every year. Critics said the bills would result in censorship and stifle Internet innovation.
The demise, at least for the time being, of the anti-piracy bills was a clear victory for Silicon Valley over Hollywood, which has campaigned for a tougher response to online piracy. The legislation also would cover the counterfeiting of drugs and car parts.
Congress' qualms underscored how Internet users can use their collective might to block those who want to change the system.
The battle over the future of the Internet also played out on a different front Thursday when a loose affiliation of hackers known as "Anonymous" shut down Justice Department websites for several hours and hacked the site of the Motion Picture Association of America after federal officials issued an indictment against Megaupload.com, one of the world's biggest file-sharing sites.
The site of the Hong Kong-based company was shut down, and the founder and three employees were arrested in New Zealand
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Black entrepreneurs have largely missed out on a rebound in federal small-business lending since the financial crisis ended.
More than four years into the nation
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’s economic recovery, African-Americans looking for loans are struggling to overcome deeper financial distress, tighter lending standards and cutbacks by some lenders.
U.S. financial institutions made $382.5 million in Small Business Administration loans to black-owned businesses in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, according to an analysis of the agency’s data by The Wall Street Journal. Black borrowers received 1.7% of the $23.09 billion in total SBA loans.
The percentage is down sharply from 8.2% of overall SBA loan volume in fiscal 2008. By number of loans, black-owned small businesses got 2.3% of the federal agency’s roughly 54,000 loans last year, down from 11% in 2008. Read more.
The WSJ notes that SBA loans are a crucial source of financing for many entrepreneurs. To explain the drastic decline in loans to black business owners, SBA officials point to tougher scrutiny of loan
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – It’s called “Blankets From Warm Hearts,” and
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the title sums up the project. The North Alabama Coalition For the Homeless is asking the community to donate blankets, coats, gloves, hats, thermal underwear – anything to help keep people warm.
The annual drive has been held for more than 15 years, but unfortunately, the need hasn’t diminished. Also important, it isn’t a matter of coming up with just one blanket, hat and pair of gloves per person.
“We’re talking about multiple, because people who live out in the woods, or live under bridges get wet. They don’t have a place to dry it, so they need new warm coats, and scarves and blankets,” says Danielle Clemons, Executive Director of the First Stop Homeless Day Center.
Homeless advocates want to make sure people understand the winter goods are for more than just comfort.
NACH Executive Director Lineise Arnold says the ultimate goal of their client continuum is self-sufficiency.
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Dairy farmers the Mackie's are opening a yoghurt factory at their farm in Rora, Longside. Pictured is Bruce and
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Jane Mackie in their new yogurt factory they recently installed at the farm.
Innovative and growing food and drink businesses from across the north-east had their achievements recognised at the region’s prestigious annual food and drink awards last night.
The 2019 North East Scotland Food & Drink Awards included 13 different categories spanning the breadth of the industry.
Internationalisation, inn-ovation and capitalising on links between the food, drink and tourism industry are recognised drivers for long-term sector growth and this was reflected in a high number of entries in categories including; Export Business of the Year, Best Food & Drink Tourism Experience and the Innovation Award.
The winners were announced at a ceremony at Ardoe House Hotel.
Delivered in partnership by Opportunity North East (One) and Aberdeenshire Council, 250 attended the event, which welcomed former BBC journalist, author and nutritionist Amanda Hamilton, as host.
Two local companies were celebrating double wins on the night. Associated Seafood
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"It hurts. It hurts our team," said Auburn coach Gus Malzahn. "We have goals and dreams, and we did not get
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it done tonight. It is unfortunate, but we did not get it done. But you have to be a big boy. You have to man up. You have to be better in the future."
The Auburn Tigers could only put just so much pressure on their offense.
Sure, two huge miscues by the offense -- a fumble and a botched snap -- prevented the Tigers from pulling off another heroic finish. And a blocked field goal that was returned for a touchdown on the last play of the first half was costly. And the defense played worlds better in the second half.
But the bottom line is this: The Tigers gave up 41 points, including 35 in the first half. Championship caliber teams don't do that.
Auburn's defense had exceeded expectations through the first five games. The most points they gave up was 21 to Arkansas in the season opener. In fact, the defense saved them on a Thursday night at Kansas State (as did several uncharacteristic mistakes by the
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The Election Commission today removed the portion that advocates Hindu state and monarchy from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party’s statute
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before endorsing it.
Election Commissioner Narendra Dahal told The Himalayan Times that Hindu state and monarchy contradicted constitutional provisions of republican order and secularism.
Dahal added that political parties were also barred from advocating anything that could adversely impact the country’s security.
Co-spokesperson for Rastriya Prajatantra Party Mohan Shrestha said his party had called emergency meetings of the party’s top two bodies to decide the RPP’s next course of action following the EC’s decision.
“The EC has no right to comment on political matters. The constitution does not bar any party from advocating a political agenda. The constitution guarantees freedom of expression,” Shrestha said and added that if his party was barred from taking its political agenda of Hindu state and monarchy to the public, it would be meaningless for the party to take part in elections.
“We fear that the EC has conspired
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‘13 Hours’ Review: Michael Bay’s Benghazi Thriller Resonates, But Is It A Political Football?
13 Hours
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: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi rates perhaps as director Michael Bay’s most accomplished film to date, a timely and pulse-pounding true story of the terrorist attack on an American diplomatic outpost and a CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. Paramount is releasing the film in the exact same corridor that brought success in the last couple of years to two other, somewhat similar movies American Sniper and Lone Survivor, and like the latter film in particular, Bay has crafted a patriotic, riveting war movie full of intense action that also thankfully puts a human face on exactly what happened in Benghazi.
retired Navy Seals and Marines now in their 30’s and 40’s, is basically a movie that puts its emphasis on the brave men who fought this battle rather than the ensuing political storm it is still causing as we enter this Presidential election year. Hillary Clinton and President Obama (not even mentioned) are not the focus here as in the political debate about what was done
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PASADENA, Calif. -- UPN won the battle over which network gets to air "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," but The WB
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is winning the war. The WB's "Gilmore Girls" beats "Buffy" in households and some key demographics most weeks, even as "Buffy's" ratings are up compared to last season when it aired on The WB.
This fall, The WB also launched a hit in "Smallville" and finally got some comedy traction on Friday night with "Reba." To reward these series, The WB announced yesterday "Gilmore Girls," "Smallville" and "Reba" have been renewed for next fall.
Though "Smallville" is a hit, Jordan Levin, The WB's Entertainment president, acknowledged the frustration of some fans who feel the series devolved into a monster-of-the-week show after its launch.
"You'll start to see some smaller mini-arcs over three to four episodes to get away from some of the formulaic storytelling structure we were getting ourselves boxed into," Levin said. "We don't want to turn it into
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CHAPEL HILL � It could not have ended any other way: fans surrounding the stage, dancing and clapping as seasoned Cuban pianist
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and composer Chucho Vald�s and his quintet played the last song of the night, putting an end to an extraordinary soulful performance Tuesday at Memorial Hall on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.
For Vald�s, the concert was another opportunity to take the spotlight doing what he loves. For the audience, it presented a unique opportunity to see one of the greatest jazz pianists in the world perform at the top of his game.
Never mind the fact he recently turned 71. The dexterity and sharpness with which he made his piano sing made it clear that age has not slowed him down, not even after five decades of performing in halls around the world.
If anything, Vald�s demonstrated once again that he learned from the best. As a child, he took piano lessons from his father, Bebo Vald�s, one of the most celebrated pioneering Cuban pianists and bandleaders of all time.
After playing successfully with several bands, Chucho
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The awareness stage occurs two to four weeks after the death of a loved one and generally lasts three to four months. It takes time to fully absorb
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the impact of a major loss and symptoms may include anger, fear and guilt.
Experiencing symptoms of depression also is a normal part of the grieving process and is a psychological expression of grief. Grief is likely to be expressed physically (weight loss/ difficulty sleeping/loss of appetite), emotionally (difficulty making decisions) and psychologically (depression/anxiety).
After the first year, reconciliation and acceptance will begin to occur. Healing takes time and the best thing you can do is be patient with and kind to yourself. Take care of yourself, eat a balanced diet, exercise regularly, keep a daily routine and seek out caring people who will allow you to express your grief and talk about your loved one. Not all people are able to tolerate the expression of painful feelings, so choose a listener wisely.
If you have continued difficulty sleeping, substantial weight loss or weight gain, prolonged emotional stress or are overcome with thoughts of suicide, help is available. There are people in the community
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Below you can find a list of our latest Video Cards reviews, articles and guides that have been published on TweakTown.
With Christmas just
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around the corner and your favorite computer-type person wanting that little something special, we have taken a look at a pair of video cards from HIS. With rock bottom prices and... Read the article.
For those who have been looking for performance on a budget, the recent release of the Radeon 9600XT was a true blessing. Today we look at the Sapphire version of this very VPU. Come join us as we see... Read the review.
ATI's super fast Radeon 9800 XT graphics processor has been on the market for a little while now. Today we've got Power Color's vanilla version for you and we've put it head-to-head against its older... Read the review.
Capitalizing on the strengths of the popular Radeon 9600 Pro mid-range performance graphics card, ATI has just released their brand new Radeon 9600 XT VPU which offers a tremendous price to performance... Read the review.
Half a grand is a lot of money to spend on
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Update 1.8 for Tom Clancy’s The Division releases this week, adding the new Resistance PvE mode, the new PvP Skirm
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ish mode, and other new features. The new patch even adds a new area to the New York City map, a higher maximum gear score, and the Rogue 2.0 system. These new modes and features will go live after a three-hour maintenance period tomorrow (December 5).
In addition to the launch of the 1.8 update, players of The Division can play all of the game’s DLC for free this week. Each of the game’s three DLCs will be accessible to players until December 10. The Underground DLC, Survival DLC, and Last Stand DLC will be open to all, according to the game’s official website. The Division is also on sale this week, offering up to a 70 percent discount on the game and its downloadable content.
Players who do not own the game can also experience what it has to offer for free. The Division is free to play for a limited time on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. On PC
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Poor President Obama. His leftist backers have momentarily fallen out of love with him for not destroying the country fast enough. Obama must ask himself, "
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What would Hugo Chavez do?"
Obama decided to embark on a personal rehabilitation tour. He first stopped by the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus and told blacks to "stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'."
Don't they realize that it's the Republicans' fault that black unemployment is nearly double the national average, at 16.7 percent? "So many people in (Washington) are fighting us every step of the way."
Instead of berating them, Obama ought to count his lucky stars that he's not taking more grief. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver said that if Bill Clinton were in the White House and didn't address the problem of black unemployment, blacks "probably would be marching on the White House."
Obama's malcontent leftist friends on the Leftist Coast agree that he has not been liberal enough. So to regain their favor, he jetted out West in that covered wagon known as Air Force One and pleaded with them to understand the predicament
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Republican leaders in Congress on Thursday began advancing bills urgently needed to avoid federal agency shutdowns on Oct. 1 while navigating conservatives' demands to punish Planned
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Parenthood over an abortion controversy.
The Senate defeated Republican efforts to use a funding extension bill to cut off money to Planned Parenthood, clearing the way for a version without that provision that extends all previous funding through Dec. 11.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has set the first procedural vote on that measure for Monday, two days before the federal fiscal year ends on Sept. 30.
House Speaker John Boehner, meanwhile, laid out similar options in a closed-door meeting with Republican conservatives, who oppose any spending bill allowing federal funds to go to Planned Parenthood amid allegations that it improperly sold tissue harvested from aborted fetuses.
The nonprofit women's healthcare group has denied any wrongdoing.
Lawmakers leaving the meeting declined to say whether Boehner would defy their demands and hold a vote on a "clean" funding bill.
House Republican leadership aides said that the Ohio congressman is considering alternatives, including a separate Planned Parenthood defunding bill using special procedures to ease passage through both chambers of Congress. President
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Kim Burrell is receiving a ton of backlash over anti-gay remarks she made during a recent sermon at her Houston church. As we previously reported
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, the viral video features the gospel singer and pastor talking to her congregation about sin and referring to gays and lesbians as perverted.
In another video, Burrell clarified that she “never said that all gays were going to hell."
The video surfaced just days before Burrell is scheduled to appear on The Ellen show with Pharrell Williams to perform a song from the Hidden Figures soundtrack. The host, Ellen DeGeneres, is gay and and has been happily married to her wife, Portia di Rossi, for eight years.
Pharrell, as well as Hidden Figures co-stars Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae addressed the controversy on social media Saturday (Dec. 31).
"I condemn hate speech of any kind. There is no room in this world for any kind of prejudice. My greatest hope is for inclusion and love for all humanity for 2017 and beyond," said Pharrell.
Fellow musicians Questlove, Chaka Khan and Yolanda Adams also issued
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Melbourne-based software start-up, Network2Share, is on the hunt for resellers as it launches its storage agnostic file sync
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and share product, CloudFileSync.
Network2Share has spent two a half years developing the product that stands to benefits Australian resellers with extremely high profit margins (between 60 to 300 per cent), no minimum sales targets, no cost for NFR licenses and no upfront fees.
The product is suited for managed service providers, VARs, and Cloud service providers.
“For a lot of companies that have developed a B2B product, the channel has always been an afterthought,” Network2Share CEO, Regan McKay, said. “The problem we discovered was that the margins were really low and the products were never really built from day-one for the IT guy, and it just wasn’t making money.
“We built a product for the IT community to sell to SME customers ranging from 10 to 500 users, which is the sweet spot that the product has been designed for.
The product itself can be held on-
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Girl Power blasted back into people's consciousness earlier this month when four out of the five 'Spices' announced they were reforming for a six date
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tour. However, so huge was the response to Scary, Sporty, Baby and Ginger appearing back on stage, the Spice Girls have revealed six more new dates in order to meet demand.
Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, Melanie Chisholm (Mel C) and Melanie Brown (Mel B) will perform two more dates in both London and Manchester.
Bunton replaces pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini, who was hooked from the show amid sexual misconduct allegations earlier this year.
Former Spice Girls star Emma Bunton is to join Paul Hollywood as the new host of the American version of ‘The Great British Bake Off’, it has been confirmed.
Emma – aka. Baby Spice – is to co-host ‘The Great American Baking Show’ alongside the show’s returning judge Anthony ‘Spice’ Adams. The new series is set to be broadcast before the end of 2018, and it’
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Helianny Garcia uses crutches as she parades down the catwalk during Bionic Fashion Day at the Metropolitan Cultural Center in Quito
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, Ecuador, on Feb. 5. Garcia is a cancer survivor from Venezuela whose right leg was amputated in her fight against the disease.
Published at 3:53 p.m. ET: As Fashion Week starts today in New York, the catwalks will be filled with implausibly thin models who embody a very particular idea of physical perfection, but in Ecuador on Tuesday a different kind of fashion show took place. At Bionic Fashion Day the models were young cancer survivors who had lost limbs to the disease. Sixteen models from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador wore creations by Ecuadorean designers at an event organized by the Youth Against Cancer Foundation. The event aimed to counter stereotypes and break down social barriers for cancer patients and survivors.
Editor's note: All photos are from Feb. 5 and were made available to NBC News on Feb. 7.
Cintia Caraguay of Ecuador prepares to model a creation before the start of B
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Too much government manipulation and stimulation.
A free market that's not permitted to operate as such.
Banker (Wall Street) greed that
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causes - and then perpetuates - wrenching boom-and-bust cycles.
Too much easy money, which paved the way for too many easy loans.
Too many houses on the market.
Banks that have no incentive to lend.
And a generally unhealthy economy.
I agree that all of those issues are root problems. But here's the thing: To fix the housing market - and with it, the U.S. economy - we can't just attack one, two or three of these.
We have to address all of them - and in a comprehensive fashion.
My plan proposes to do just that.
Try it on again. Only this time, when you comment, help me identify unintended consequences that could result from the plan, and let's make it better together.
Let me start by saying that my plan isn't another government-manipulation scheme. It does require temporary government action (legislation) that is specifically designed to address
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The Nevada City Council held a ceremony to swear in the Rudiger in 2015.
The 2018 Paw and Order Dinner will have a dual focus this
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year.
Taking place on at 5:30 p.m., Sept. 21 at the Miner’s Foundry Cultural Center in Nevada City is the dinner, program and auction, according to a release.
In addition to raising the annual budget which supports the on-going training expenses of K9 Officer Rüdiger and K9 Officer Kano, the Rüdiger Foundation hopes to also raise the initial funding to provide additional K9 officers and equipment for local law enforcement agencies.
Start up expenses for new law enforcement K9 programs can be cost prohibitive for small, rural departments.
Rüdiger Foundation estimates the need for a total of five full-time K9 officers to provide around-the-clock K9 services to Nevada City, Grass Valley, and the unincorporated areas of Nevada County.
Tickets are $100 and are available online by visiting Rüdiger Foundation on Facebook and linking to the 2018 Paw and Order event page.
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LAURA Gallacher is best known for being the wife of Russell Brand and the sister of TV star Kirsty.
They grew up on the
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Wentworth Estate in Surrey, where they were lucky enough to share a neighbourhood with the late legend Bruce Forsyth.
The plush area has also been the home of Elton John and Cliff Richard.
In the past, Laura has worked in the restaurant industry.
She appeared to be employed at the Moral Fox restaurant, where she regularly tweeted updates.
Gallacher also helped with the opening of Electric Diner, a posh restaurant for the Soho House Group.
Entrepreneur Laura also has her own fashion brand, where she sells dungarees.
On her official website, she writes: “The Joy Journal is about creativity, colour, individuality and fun.
How long have Laura Gallacher and Russell Brand been together?
In August 2017, the pair tied the knot in an intimate service at Remenham Church near their home in Henley-on-Thames, Oxon.
How many children do Laura Gallacher and Russell Brand have?
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Prepare for more steamy royal lurve.
For anyone out there foolish enough to think that ITV's latest drama smash Victoria would only be
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a one-off, you can now relax.
Jenna Coleman will definitely be back for a second series next year, as the channel has ordered another run.
Tom Hughes will also return as the dashing Prince Albert, while Daisy Goodwin will continue to write the show.
Victoria has proved to be a ratings winner for ITV since it launched in late August, averaging around 7.7 million viewers and managing to beat rival Poldark over on BBC One.
Speaking of the next series, Goodwin said: "Even though she reigned in the 19th Century, Victoria is a heroine for our times. In the next series she faces the very modern dilemma of how to juggle children with her husband and her job.
"As Victoria will discover, it's hard to be a wife, a mother and ruler of the most powerful nation on earth!"
Victoria is Jenna Coleman's first major TV project since leaving Doctor Who - and she was admittedly reluctant to sign on at first.
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Above: Thinfilm's smart label tells you about your bottle of Johnnie Walker.
Perhaps you have heard about smart homes and smart light bulbs
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. Meet the smart bottle.
Yes, one of our most interesting new technologies is going to ensure that we can drink a bottle of scotch with the utmost confidence that it’s authentic. It will also give the scotch maker a way to engage more deeply with a consumer who might otherwise just toss that bottle away and never be heard from again. The smart bottle is part of the Internet of Things (IoT), or everyday objects that are connected to the Internet and have electronic brains.
Thinfilm Electronics is revealing its smart bottle in a deal with Diageo, the maker of the Johnnie Walker Blue Label brand of scotch. The smart bottle can verify for you that your 12-year-old bottle of scotch has never been opened before, and it can also connect via near-field communications to your smartphone.
With a smartphone app, you can learn some new things about your Johnnie Walker Blue Label, get personalized promotions, and
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Thugs tricked a disabled man into eating a deadly maggot and poo sandwich, and then tried to make him jump into a lake.
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Daniel Newell is appealing for help in catching the teenage boys who terrorised his brother Matthew, 32, who has the mental age of a child due to Williams’ Syndrome.
He said Matthew and his 11-year-old cousin were fishing at the lake in Mill Dam Park, Merseyside, last Saturday when two boys sitting nearby began teasing him.
They then grabbed DVDs he was carrying and handed him a sandwich.
Matthew was forced to take a bite before realising it was crawling with maggots and also contained excrement.
This was potentially life threatening as he has a faulty immune system caused by his chronic granulomatous disorder, which means he can catch infections easier.
‘Matthew was in hysterics – traumatised. He hasn’t cried since he was six but he was shaking and crying,’ Daniel, 28, said.
‘He’s never had problems there before. He used to go every day
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"There are no small teams in Africa" is a well-worn cliché, but like many clichés it has a grain of truth.
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And the Comoros are the latest footballing nation to prove it.
They may be 199 out of 207 in Fifa's rankings and have only three year's experience in international football.
But the Indian Ocean islanders have made significant progress at this year's Cosafa Senior Challenge in Zimbabwe.
In 2008 they lost all three games in the competition without scoring a goal.
In this year's tournament they held Botswana to a goalless draw and then beat a well-organised Seychelles side 2-1.
Their hopes of reaching the last eight were dashed by a 3-0 defeat at the hands of Swaziland, but it was still a huge improvement.
"We have players with good technique, but they lack experience," coach Abderamane Chamite told the BBC's African sports programme Fast Track.
"We came here with a completely new squad - our team has been underestimated all along and I think that this marks an improvement for our side
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TRENTON – Minors would no longer be legally able to buy over-the-counter cough syrups and related products under legislation designed
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to thwart teens from getting high on the products.
Assemblyman Paul Moriarty, (D-4), Turnersville, told the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee he wrote the legislation (A650) after a visit from a constituent who told him her daughter was getting high on the cough medicine.
“It’s a high apparently similar to PCP,” Moriarty, a committee member, told his fellow legislators.
Moriarty at one point held up some printouts of Twitter feeds he said he’d gotten today simply by plugging DXM into a search. And he said it’s a popular point of discussion among users making plans for using the stuff to get high in what some call “robo-tripping,” a name derived from the Robitussin cough medicine brand.
But other members said they were concerned that the estimated 120 products that use the ingredient would be too much for drug stores or cashiers
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Beating the daily record, though, wasn’t their goal.
Paula Hutton said participating in events that force them to do
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things as a team is something they try to do as much as possible.
Being able to give back, in the meantime, was just the icing on the cake.
They were among about 40 people who teamed up in pairs and participated in the inaugural ’Merica Summer Games through the Moshannon Valley YMCA.
The event was a way to bring people out to participate in what branch Director Mel Curtis called “obscure activities,” and raise money for programs that benefit the YMCA, local school districts and surrounding communities.
It included team games like ’Billy Bowling, knocking down trashcans with old vehicle tires, Cast Iron Skillet Toss, Hubcap Hurling, Bucket Pong, Cow Chip Fling, Toilet Seat Horseshoes and more.
All activities were held at the Philipsburg-Osceola Area High School football field across from the YMCA.
We like to do things you don�
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Law enforcement officers, including a sniper perched atop an armored vehicle, watch as demonstrators protest the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo.,
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Aug. 13, 2014. The police chief of this St. Louis suburb said Wednesday that Brown injured the officer who later fatally shot the unarmed 18 year old though witnesses dispute that such an altercation occurred.
After delivering remarks last night from the White House, President Obama fielded some questions from reporters and made a comment that stood out for me. “[T]he vast majority of the community [in Ferguson] has been working very hard to try to make sure that this becomes an opportunity for us to seize the moment and turn this into a positive situation,” he said.
It sounded like a nice-but-unrealistic goal. Years of systemic problems contributed to these crisis conditions, and the idea of turning the Michael Brown tragedy into something constructive is hard to fathom.
That said, over the summer, there was a fair amount of interest in one specific area: the militarization of local law enforcement. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) chaired a
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The New York Times reports that energy drinks, in spite of their macho names like "Red Bull," "Monster" and "Full Throttle
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," have approximately the same effect as less aggressively named beverages like "skinny caramel macchiatos" and "Mello Yello." Which is to say, they get you kinda high on sugar and caffeine and that's it.
This may come as a blow to those who have to get up early, want to stay up late, or need to think of themselves as "straight edge" while still getting a tremendous rush. Sure, they could switch to Starbucks or Coke, but who wants to support huge corporate brands when they could support slightly less huge brands owned by huge corporate brands?
That's why I'm gifting the world with my five ways to save Energy Drinks.
You know that feeling you get when you lick a 9-volt battery? What if every time you took a swig of your energy drink you also got a buzzing lip? Nothing like a mild and potentially harmless electrical shock to make you feel like dancing and/or studying the night away! With a
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Rottman-SnyderWOOSTER -- Rick and Stacy Rottman of Wooster announce the engagement of their daughter, Nicki,
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to Cory Snyder of Sugarcreek. He is the son of Scott and Lynn Snyder of Sugarcreek.Miss Rottman is a 2003 graduate of Triway High School and Malone College in 2007, with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism and a minor in writing. She is project coordinator at Shannon English Marketing in East Sparta.Her fiance is a 2001 graduate of Garaway High School and Malone College in 2005, with a bachelor of arts degree in sport management and a minor in business. He is account manager at Express Packaging in Newcomerstown.An Aug. 4 wedding is planned at Church of the Saviour, Wooster.Patton-MitchellWOOSTER -- Douglas and Beth Patton of Wooster announce the engagement of their daughter, Kristine Anne of Greensboro, N.C., to Carl Thomas Mitchell of Germantown, N.C. He is the son of Johnny and Sue Mitchell of Germantown, N.C.Miss Patton is a
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Adidas has partnered with its environmental group Parley for the Oceans to design a 3D-printed shoe created in part with garbage found in
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the ocean.
As of now, it's in the concept stage and comprises an upper made with plastic sourced from the ocean, and a 3D-printed midsole made with recycled polyester and gillnets (specialized nets used to catch fish and sometimes left in the ocean).
"World leaders forging an agreement is wonderful, but we shouldn't need to be told to do the right thing," says Eric Liedtke, adidas Group Executive Board member responsible for Global Brands. "The industry can't afford to wait for directions any longer. Together with the network of Parley for the Oceans, we have started taking action and creating new sustainable materials and innovations for athletes. The 3D-printed ocean plastic shoe midsole stands for how we can set new industry standards if we start questioning the reason of what we create. We want to bring everyone from the industry to the table and create sustainable solutions for big global problems."
Parley for the Oceans feels the political
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