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Patents that originate from campus-based research can generate significant revenue for universities.
Each day, universities conduct and invest in research that has an
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impact on science, medical, and technology industries. And while schools of higher education serve a larger purpose, patenting those research results and licensing those patents to industries can generate much-needed funds that benefit those universities.
Patents are assets, even if they are not immediately used. As such, campus assets borne from technology created by colleges and universities usually can be licensed, sometimes later in their useful lifetimes. Dormant patents represent potential revenue sources for colleges and universities who find that those patents are infringed upon.
A growing number of universities are hiring technology transfer managers who are responsible for generating revenue by licensing out university patents to industry.
With apologies to the crusty old prospector in the 1948 western Yellow Sky, “Thar’s gold in them thar patents!” New York University, the University of California, the University of Colorado, Cornell, and Stanford have hit pay dirt pursuing patent infringers. Shouldn’t every university’s
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[Bolivia], Mar 29 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday (local time) arrived in Bolivia on the second leg of
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his three nations tour, and was welcomed by Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma and Foreign Minister Diego Pary Rodriguez at Viru Viru International Airport.
According to a statement issued by Bolivia's Ministry of External Relations, President Kovind, upon arrival, said: "I have the honour of making the first state visit to Bolivia. Today is a historic day in bilateral relations. "
"I hope to hold my meetings with President Morales tomorrow. I am confident that relations between India and Bolivia will grow, "the President added while addressing media at the Airport.
The arrival of President Kovind in Bolivia marks the beginning of a new historical chapter in the bilateral relations between the two countries, the statement noted.
President Kovind, along with his Bolivian counterpart, is expected to address strategic issues such as lithium, Bioceanic Railway Corridor, technology, health, and others, said a statement released by India's Ministry of External Affairs.
During his three day visit
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Bipasha Basu hospitalised due to respiratory problem?
THANE: Actor Arbaaz Khan has admitted to police that he used to
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place bets on cricket matches with the help of bookie Sonu Jalan, the alleged kingpin of the IPL scam, said inspector Pradeep Sharma.
Khan, who was named by Jalan during questioning, recorded his statement on Saturday. He said that no money changed hands and whenever he lost, Jalan blackmailed him to appear at public events, said inspector Sharma. Khan is likely to be made a witness in the case.
Actor Arbaaz Khan arrived at the anti-extortion cell office around 11am. He was at the office for nearly five hours. Jalan and Khan were brought face to face, said Sharma.
The inspector told TOI that Khan had confessed to having placed the bets through Jalan, who was introduced to him by a common friend seven years ago. “Earlier, Khan placed small bets just for fun and there was no monetary transaction between him and Jalan,” said an officer from the department.
Police said
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An award-winning Scottish singer-songwriter is next on the bill at the concert series at St Cuthbert’s House in Seah
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ouses.
The concert takes place on Saturday, July 14.
Yvonne Lyon is widely regarded as belonging firmly amongst the best and brightest talent currently playing the circuit.
Her new album Metanoia is her eighth solo studio release, further demonstrating her ability to deliver engaging original material with fresh imagination.
The album is a unique and emotive collection, where Americana, ambient and folk influences fuse in a bold tapestry, showcasing Yvonne’s strengths as an evolving artist.
She has consistently stirred audiences across the UK and beyond with her emotive performances, combining poignant lyrics with creative melodies and demonstrating a beautiful voice that can be both fragile and intense.
Yvonne has shared the stage with Eddi Reader, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Karine Polwart and several other stars of the folk/Americana circuit.
As winner of the Burnsong International Songwriting Competition, she performed her winning song in a concert at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. She has appeared
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As former sellers on Latin American’s largest e-commerce site, the cousins had found it difficult to build clientele for their electronics-
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resale business. The two had become the second-biggest seller on the website Mercado Libre but still felt the site limited their company’s potential.
“You were not able to upload a photo or have a brand, so your customers are not able to find you again easily after they made a purchase,” said Gomez in an interview at the company’s office at the Miami Entrepreneurship Center.
Gomez, 27, also found that there was not much security against fraud for customers and sellers. The site did not protect buyers, which made them wary of purchases.
While a safe and seamless online shopping experience is the standard in the U.S., they say this is not the case in Latin America.
So in November 2013, the pair came up with the idea to create an e-commerce site with more discovery infrastructure for business across Latin America.
Gomez received both his bachelor’s degree and MBA from Florida International University,
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LOUIS VAN GAAL will be given another £150million to spend on "several" transfer targets this summer, it has been
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confirmed.
The Manchester United manager parted with a similar amount last pre-season in a huge spending spree that included record signing Angel Di Maria for £60m.
And top of Van Gaal's list for this summer is Borussia Dortmund defender Mats Hummels, who is valued at £30m and appears ready to leave Germany.
A senior club source told the Daily Star: "No deal has been done but he is someone we want to sign, like several others this summer."
United failed to sign a commanding centre-half last summer after reported talks with Hummels following the World Cup in Brazil broke down.
They will lodge a £30m bid once the transfer window re-opens, with Red Devils bosses willing to offer the 26-year-old a four-year contract worth £160,000 a week.
United have been linked to a host of Europe's top stars this spring after failing to significantly add to their squad over the January transfer window.
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Chronic pain is the most common condition identified by the study.
Just one joint smoked before age 14 could increase gray matter volume in the brain
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Cannabis affects memory functions in teens. The good news is that the effects can be reversed fast with abstinence.
There’s such a thing as cannabis withdrawal syndrome, and it’s symptoms have been associated with a variety of psychiatric disorders.
Scientists figure out why weed gives you the munchies.
This is a serious condition that has sent many to the ER multiple times.
In states where both recreational and medical marijuana was legalized, opioid prescriptions dropped about 14%.
Men experienced sexual dysfunction when consuming alcohol or taking molly, while women had problems when smoking pot.
Herb could prove a worthy ally in our fight against opioid drugs.
Let’s stick to what’s scientifically proven, shall we?
Legal or not, teens aren’t that interested in cannabis anymore.
The findings suggest that both foods could have a therapeutic effect against diabetes and colitis.
This new research center is set to deliver quite a buzz
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Since fiscal year 2012, the number of Indiana children who entered foster care because of parental drug abuse has increased 230.6 percent.
Indiana has
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more children in its child welfare system than any surrounding state — including those with nearly twice Indiana’s overall population.
Republican legislative leaders in Indiana said the higher number of Hoosier children in care indicates the Indiana Department of Child Services has problems that go beyond funding.
"There’s something wrong systemically," House Speaker Brian Bosma said Wednesday.
Indiana had 29,315 children in foster care during fiscal year 2016, according to federal data from the Administration for Children and Families. During that same time period, there were 23,646 children in care in Ohio; 19,998 in Illinois; 18,194 in Michigan and 13,016 in Kentucky.
Questions about Indiana's handling of child welfare cases hit fever pitch last month after former DCS Director Mary Beth Bonaventura sent a scathing resignation letter that accused Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office of cutting funding and services for families and continuing policies that "all but ensure children will die."
In the
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SPRING PLANT EXCHANGE: Exchange your extra cuttings, bulbs and plants with other gardeners. Bring them in labelled,
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leak-proof containers, free. Saturday, May 11 at Sherwood Library, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Crouch Library (outside), 10 a.m. to noon, Beacock Library (lobby), 2-4 p.m.; Saturday, May 18, Westmount Library (outside) 9 a.m. to noon, Carson Library (outside), 9:30-11:30 a.m., Stoney Creek Library (outside), 10 a.m. to noon, Masonville Library (outside), 10 a.m. to noon; Saturday, May 25, Lambeth Library (outside), 9:30-11:30 a.m., Landon Library, (outside), 9:30-11:30 a.m., Jalna Library, 10 a.m. to noon, Pondmills Library (outside), 10 a.m. to noon; A master gardener from the London Middlesex Master Gardeners may
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Google announced the other day that it has added Blogger and Google+ Pages to Google Takeout, meaning that users can more easily export their data
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out of these services if they would like to leave.
Meet us at https://www.google.com/takeout, and together we will export each of your blogs as an Atom Xml file. Or, if you’ve enjoyed exporting data from your Google+ Stream and Google+ Circles through Takeout in the past, but are looking for something more, join us now and download html files with your posts and json files containing the circles for each Google+ Page you own. If you don’t want to rush into things, we can also just export a single blog or page of your choice. Either way, give us a try. Life will never be the same.
A couple months ago, Google added some new features to Google Takeout, enabling users to maintain their original folder hierarchy when exporting files from Google Drive, and letting users pick a single resource within a service to download.
Google also recently added Reader and Latitude data to the Google Takeout
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Two women mistakenly shot at by the Los Angeles Police Department when their newspaper delivery vehicle was mistaken for the truck driven by rouge ex-cop Christopher
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Dorner in February are being compensated $40,000 by the city.
The tax-free settlement covering the pickup and other property came quickly after the women's attorney, Glen Jonas, rejected Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck's offer of a replacement truck because the women would have had to pay taxes.
Margie Carranza and her 71-year-old mother, Emma Hernandez, were delivering papers around 5 am on Feb. 7 when LAPD officers guarding the suburban Torrance home of a Dorner target blasted at least 100 rounds into their Toyota pickup.
Hernandez was shot in the back and Carranza sustained minor injuries.
Jonas said the women were still not doing well.
The deal announced on Thursday specified no admission of liability.
'Margie's still very emotionally impacted and Emma is suffering from her injuries,' he said.
Jonas, who noted he has waived all his fees, said he hoped that all other issues including personal injury can be resolved without
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Sadly our brother, George, passed away February 28, 2019, at the Dorothy Ley Hospice, Etobicoke, Ontario, with his long
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time and loving companion, Olga Perka at his side. Born October 31, 1943, George was the son of the late George and Margaret MacLeod of Sydney/Mira Road. In his younger years, he enjoyed playing hockey, but his main interest was boxing. George trained and was managed by the late John Chechetto. George also had a long and successful career in the Canadian Armed Forces. He loved fishing and returned home to Cape Breton every May to catch “The Big One”. George is survived by his faithful and loving companion, Olga Perka and her family; his sisters, Peggy (Mike Mercer), Audrey MacQueen, Anna MacLeod, Sharon (John Bailey), Barbara MacLeod and Edwina (Junior Jaquard). He will be sadly missed by his life long forever friends, Ron and Lois MacDonald, Francis and Carolyn Jones, Gunter Blatter and his favourite fishing buddy, Allan Stapleton. George was also blessed with numerous
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Innovative and inspiring social and environmental entrepreneurs can win a tailor-made support package to help expand their business, as part of the 2013 SE
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ED Awards, which opened last month.
The SEED Awards aim to develop the most promising social and environmental start-up enterprises in emerging economies, developing and least developed countries.
SEED are seeking entries from innovative start-up entrepreneurs who aim to generate environmental, social and economic benefits at the local level in a country with a developing or emerging economy.
2 SEED Gender Equality Awards, for enterprises in other countries (except countries that are OECD or EU members).
Candidates can apply until, and no later than, 12 June 2013, 23:59 CET.
SEED Award Winners in the previous round of SEED Awards in 2011 included enterprises that transformed groundnut shells into fuel briquettes in The Gambia; developed solar ovens in Burkina Faso; trained and employed street youth to collect waste materials in Ghana, which they then transformed into handmade designer products;; and employed women to produce aloe-based skin care products in Kenya. The gender equality prize was won
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Mayor Bill de Blasio had good intentions.
That was the mayor's response Friday morning when asked about his administration's bungled civic engagement campaign,
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which sent thousands of letters to voters across the city this week warning them that their registration status was inactive.
The letters, sent to 400,000 New Yorkers, encouraged voters to check their registration status just weeks before the November primaries, and days before the registration deadline. At least 30,000 letters were also sent in error, City Hall said this week — after initially blaming the Board of Elections for compiling a bad list.
The mistake caused a brief panic among some voters, who then flooded the Board of Elections wondering if there was a voting scam underway.
De Blasio acknowledged Friday that the city had mismanaged the effort — the first spearheaded by the recently created “Democracy NYC” office, which de Blasio created as part of his push to increase civic involvement.
“There is no question that this was a good idea where there was a problem in the execution,” de Blasio said Friday during his weekly appearance on "The Brian Lehrer Show. "
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Hi, I'm Rich Brown, senior editor for cnet.com. Today, we're gonna take a look at the editor's choice winning
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Mad Catz Cyborg R.A.T. 9. So, this right here is one of the most expensive gaming mice we've ever seen. It comes in at a 150 dollars. So, it's definitely for the more committed PC gamers out there. That's it. This is also one of the most customizable mice we've ever seen and it's also a great performer. We recommend it to anybody looking to spend a lot of money on an input device for game. So, the RAT 9 comes with a lot of features we expect on a high end gaming mice these. That's a 5600 dpi laser sensor. That means it's very fast, very accurate. This is a wireless mouse, but Mad Catz does sell wired version for a little less. Now, this button right here lets you move through various dpi settings you can make the most more less sensitive as you're playing. You can also use the included driver's software to customize the settings, so you
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Republicans will still head back to the polls Tuesday night to participate in the precinct conventions, but Democrats will stay at home.
This year, Democratic
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precinct conventions will be March 22, right before senate district conventions.
Republicans say they aren’t moving their conventions.
“We feel like it’s important to have it at those grassroots levels that night,” said Jennifer Hall, who heads the Tarrant County Republican Party.
Local and state conventions are held every two years; national conventions every four years, for presidential elections. The next round of national conventions will be in 2016.
At precinct conventions, delegates are chosen to move on to the senate district convention and any ideas that might be incorporated into the party platform are submitted.
An often quiet step in the political process, these gatherings drew national attention to Texas in 2008 when Democrats wanting to weigh in on the historic presidential primary battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton showed up in such large numbers that they overwhelmed organizers.
More than 20,000 Democrats attended local senatorial conventions that year, swamping decades-old systems and procedures.
Such crowds haven
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Former racehorse Diamond Beau, who also once served as a therapy animal to autistic children, was recently saved from slaughter by the very age group he
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once helped.
A gentle-eyed horse that adores children and loves to soak up human attention has a new chance at life.
Former racehorse Diamond Beau, which also once served as a therapy animal to autistic children, recently was saved from slaughter by the very age group it once helped.
“Perhaps it is fate that he was saved by kids after serving children and being their best friend for years,” said Hannah Power of Stoneridge Stables and Rehoming, a Stratford-area rescue that works with a network of people to save horses destined for slaughter.
One hot chocolate, and one or two dollars at a time, a group of pupils from Embro, named the Hoof Club, wanted to give a horse a second chance.
Spearheaded by Brenna Parkhill, a pupil at Zorra Highland Park elementary school, the club’s goal was to raise money to rescue a horse from the kill pen by selling hot chocolate
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A Christmas gift to the Kaiser.
Surely this rotten luck of being separated at Christmas can’t go on forever.
— John
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Davey, Dec. 26, 1916.
In the early months of the Great War it was widely believed the fighting would be over in short order. “We’ll be home by Christmas” was a common assumption. But as the fighting ground on and the casualties mounted, with neither side able to achieve a decisive victory, Canadians — soldiers and civilians — gradually realized the magnitude of the war.
The letters soldiers sent home to their parents, wives, girlfriends and others reflects this realization.
In October 1914, two months after the war began, more than 30,000 men sailed to England as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. After a couple months of training they were shipped to the Western Front, where the opposing armies had settled into a jagged line of trenches that stretched 1,000 kilometres from Switzerland in the east to the North Sea in the west.
The Canadian Expeditionary Force soon established a reputation as a formidable fighting force. For example, between April 22
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Jan. 9, 2018, 3:25 p.m.
Bill Patzert, climatologist for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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in La Cañada Flintridge, said mudslides are par for the course in this region.
Patzert said the worst debris flows happen during an “atmospheric river event,” when 6-10 inches of rain falls in the course of two or three days. It’s fortunate, he said, that Tuesday’s mudslides weren’t preceded by more rain. It could have been worse.
Jan. 9, 2018, 3:22 p.m.
The concern over mudslides shifted to burn areas in Los Angeles and Orange Counties as the storm system that caused deadly flooding in Montecito moved east.
Flood alerts were issued for area burned by recent fires in Anaheim Hills and the canyon near Sylmar.
Jan. 9, 2018, 1:32 p.m.
A driver on the 5 Freeway says he looked out from his small Prius and saw a large truck come tumbling
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Free Harem of Perfect Virtual Girlfriends?
Benefits of the Cloud: Servers, Capacity, Storage...Girlfriend?
They
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say e-mail and IM is the death of interpersonal communication. Well, if the latest dating service in front of me right now is any indication, love could be following the same path. Enter Cloud Girlfriend, a new service which allows you to have a fantasy romance online.
The site categorizes itself as "a mix between Match.com and Second Life." Indeed it is: Unlike other more traditional dating sites, there's no requirement that you present yourself as who you really are. So say you're a 5'2" guy who weighs 110 pounds soaking wet. Have no fear, you're now a 6'3" 220-pound gym rat.
After creating your profile on Cloud Girlfriend with who you want to be (rather than who you really are), the site's algorithms then proceed to search through other profiles in order to find you a match. Now this person probably isn't real either, so you have no clue who you're really talking to.
Like what
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These chats are hosted by volunteers who give up some time and energy each week to provide a chat room for others to gather in and share a topic
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.
In respect of these volunteers, I would again remind and ask our members to show common courtesy to them and their fellow members when they enter a hosted chat.
- Show up to the chat on time. Chats start at a specific time and often the chat leader will discuss any rules he or she might have for their chat, as well as their chat topic (if there is one for that week).
- Be aware that each chat leader is free to set their own chat rules (as long as they are in keeping with our community guidelines). It is your responsibility as a member to be familiar with these rules (either by showing up on time, or asking the chat leader about any rules ahead of time in a PM).
- Be aware that each chat leader is free to set a specific chat topic for the week. If you are late to the chat, you can respectfully ask the chat leader if such a topic is set and what it is. But again, if you show
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Reviewer. Journalist. Malay. Singapore. Daughter. Sister. Wife.
This self-labelling exercise was prompted by an intimate and
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thought-provoking one-man show performed by British-Indian playwright Joe Sellman- Leava about the comforts and limitations of labels.
The hour-long play sees labels with words such as "BRITISH", "INDIAN" and "FOREIGN" slapped onto his shirt (these are just the mentionables), while he tells his family history and tackles anti-immigrant rhetoric prevalent in his native Britain and elsewhere, including President-elect Donald Trump's America.
The main thrust of the play is that everyday occurrences of racism and easy labelling are not far removed from larger socio-political crises, such as countries tightening their borders.
Overall, it is an effective and urgent call for people to make a greater effort in understanding the humanity that lies beyond a label.
A versatile actor, Sellman-Leava plays multiple characters, from a young child who calls him "ARABIAN" on the street, to Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, who sings a nursery
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As Washington sends mixed signals on whether or not it will introduce new sanctions against Iran, Tehran is considering other options should a new round of penalties come
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to pass, says Seyed Mohammad Marandi, professor at the University of Tehran.
The United States delayed the announcement of new penalties, which reportedly seeks to punish several companies and individuals from Iran, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates that the US believes have been involved in Iran’s ballistic missile tests.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is an agreement designed to oversee Iran's nuclear program reached in Vienna on July 14, 2015 between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council — China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States—plus Germany), and the EU.
The real reason the US is fundamentally opposed to Iran is because the Islamic Republic successfully freed itself from Washington’s rule many years ago, he argues.
“The United States has not forgiven the Iranian people over three and a half decades for gaining their independence from the United States and becoming an independent actor in this part of the world.
Yet the
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Tensions are growing in Syria as the Arab League prepares to present a detailed assessment of the monitoring mission’s findings on the situation in the
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country. Meanwhile, the opposition is getting ready to release its own report.
A report prepared by the head of the mission, Gen. Mohammed al-Dabi, will be the main topic of discussion at an Arab League meeting Saturday in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
On Friday, Human Rights Watch urged the Arab League to release the observers' report to the public, but the League’s ministerial committee said it would have to discuss its next moves first.
Agence France Press reported Saturday that Arab League deputy chief of operations, Ali Jarush, says al-Dabi is satisfied with the achievements of the operation – and that the mission is likely to be extended.
But the Syrian National Council (SNC), the country's main opposition group, claim that “leaks” from the report say monitors were unable to determine who is committing the killing.
A decision on whether the Arab League's observers will remain in Syria for another month is expected to be made on
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After she was cast as Dorothy, the actress not only had to master every nuance of her performance, but also trained to work as a dog handler
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— because it is she who gives Nigel and Loki, the two adorably talented cairn terriers that play Toto, their commands onstage.
Watch closely and you’ll see subtle interaction between Dorothy and Toto.
Lasko says she could not have asked for better canine friends and co-workers.
“It’s been fun learning how to be a dog handler onstage,” she says. “It’s definitely a challenge having a live animal onstage, but it’s also been really quite easy because they’re so good at what they do.
Nigel, the main Toto, and Loki, the understudy, have even bonded with Lasko off the stage.
He was in an animal shelter there. I found him online and I called and adopted him sight unseen.
These dogs’ tales — from hardscrabble early lives to stardom — are classic showbiz success
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Organizations are only as strong as their people. Hone your skills as a visionary leader and prepare for increasingly strategic roles, ready to lead your
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organization at the next level.
Embrace your strengths and drive your organization to new heights. In The Women's Leadership Program, you'll develop a vision for how you lead and influence on multiple fronts.
You'll study the behavior of individuals and organizations, refining key principles through case studies led by senior businesswomen and faculty members focused on corporate culture, negotiation, communication, conflict management, leveraging differences, crisis leadership and decision-making under pressure. You'll customize these skills through discussions, simulations, workshops, and one-on-one professional and personal coaching. A wellness program and development of a personal action plan will round out your ability to assess and address your unique challenges and opportunities.
Strengthen your knowledge of strategy, negotiation, communication and leadership, as they pertain to the highest level of an organization.
Identify your leadership strengths and practice applying them across your current and future organizational responsibilities.
Learn to actively manage your professional development and secure managerial support for innovative ideas and strategic
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Tshego Koke has emerged as a pop culture force in his own right.
Tshego Koke finds himself at the intersection of
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TV, radio, music and fashion.
Not too bad for a man who was unemployed and slipping into depression, before his big MTVBase VJ Search win a year and a half ago. Now it's a case of catch him if you can, because he is running with it.
Koke, 27, from Ga-Rankuwa north of Pretoria (now based in Johannesburg), has set himself apart as one of the most influential in youth pop culture.
His crisp street style, charisma and smooth demeanour have endeared him to many social media followers.
"When I joined MTVBase I didn't want to be like any other presenter, so I explored my fashion tastes which are not high end, but vintage and urban.
"People relate better when you look like them and being on a youthful channel, I needed to reflect that," he said.
Koke presents NewsISH, an insert about the latest entertainment news, and What Went Down, a
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UPDATE on Sunday, November 5: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon tapings scheduled for the week of November 6-10 has been canceled in
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wake of Jimmy Fallon's mother's death and reruns will air instead.
"On behalf of everyone at NBC, we extend our deepest condolences to Jimmy and all his family at this time of enormous loss," the network said in a statement to E! News. "Our hearts go out to Jimmy and everyone else whose lives were so touched by Gloria Fallon's love, kindness and support."
Jimmy Fallon's mother, Gloria Fallon, has passed away on Saturday, E! News can confirm. She was 68.
In a statement given to E! News, a rep said, "Jimmy Fallon's mother, Gloria, died peacefully on Saturday. Jimmy was at his mother's bedside, along with her loved ones, when she passed away at NYU Langone Medical Center in NYC. Our prayers go out to Jimmy and his family as they go through this tough time."
The news comes one day after the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon host cancelled a taping of the late-night talk show
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President Trump Donald John TrumpHouse Dems demand Barr cancel 'inappropriate' press conference on Mueller report DOJ plans to release 'lightly redacted' version of
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Mueller report Thursday: WaPo Nadler accuses Barr of 'unprecedented steps' to'spin' Mueller report MORE is thinking about nominating Stephen Moore and Herman Cain to the Federal Reserve Board, Bloomberg News reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources.
Cain, a former director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Cain, 73, has served as CEO of the restaurant chain Godfather's Pizza and worked for companies including Burger King and Pillsbury.
Moore, 59, is a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He also started the Club for Growth, a conservative group that advocates for lower taxes and has been part of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board and worked on Congressional Joint Economic Committee.
Moore, an opinion contributor to The Hill, was also a Trump campaign adviser and worked on the campaign's economic policy.
The board has two open seats.
The Hill has reached out to the Federal Reserve Board and the White House for
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COUNCIL has voted unanimously to launch a campaign to demand tunnels be reinstated on the Coffs Harbour bypass.
A motion raised by councillor
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Keith Rhoades and carried unanimously will see a working group called Coffs Harbour Bypass Impact Working Group formed to progress the campaign as a matter of urgency.
Mayor Denise Knight and councillors Keith Rhoades and Paul Amos will sit on the working group.
Necessary funds from council's communications and advertising budgets will be used to run the campaign.
"I didn't think we would have to revisit this. We now have major open cuttings. That's a complete turnaround from when this community was basically told they would get tunnels," Cr Rhoades said.
He highlighted noise as one of the main problems with cuttings.
"The echoing effect that is going to come down into Coffs Harbour...I just don't want to think about it because it is going to be astronomical."
Coffs bypass in planning: RMS Director Northern Region John Alexander gives the latest update on the Coffs Harbour bypass planning.
Mayor Denise Knight also spoke passionately about
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BEIJING, March 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- China Biologic Products Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBPO
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, "China Biologic" or the "Company"), a leading fully integrated plasma-based biopharmaceutical company in China, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year of 2018.
· *Total sales* in the fourth quarter of 2018 increased by 33.5% in RMB terms and 27.5% in USD terms to $114.9 million from $90.1 million in the same quarter of 2017.
· *Gross profit* increased by 30.4% to $77.3 million from $59.3 million in the same quarter of 2017. *Gross margin* increased to 67.3% from 65.8% in the same quarter of 2017.
· *Income from operations* increased by 116.8% to $42.5 million from $19.6 million in the same quarter of 2017. *Operating margin* increased to 37.0% from 21.8% in the same quarter of 2017
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I'd have put John Carmack up there somewhere, perhaps not top 5, but maybe given i'd say he's had a fairly large impact
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on all modern pc games (atleast, not 2d).
Also, why the hell is the iPhone even there? This is like a crazy list, for crazy people. I've probably done more for gaming than the iPhone, that's how little it has done for "real" gaming.
"Real" gaming? Is that like "no true Scotsman"? Gaming is gaming, and to deny the massive influence the iPhone has had is to be blindly foolish. But putting Steve Jobs at #1 is a bit much. I'd accept top 10 somewhere at most.
But i'm not sat here holding my breath in anticipation of the next release of "angry birds".
Skyrim next week... a "Real" game. Yes there is a difference, one pushes things along, one is just to make money in the short term.
Jobs? Zuckerberg? Tim Berners Lee?
This list suffers from the classic 'what's important right now' syndrome.
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WASHINGTON (KFVS) - The federal government plans to make a big investment at a transportation hub in the Heartland, and a local farmer
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is excited about the investment.
The Southeast Regional Port Authority was awarded a $19.8 million grant through the Department of Transportation this week.
According to SEMO Port Executive Director Cary Harbison, the funding will go toward the construction of two 12,000 foot long loops of rail road track near the transportation hub.
This week the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority honored Congressman Smith for his work to enhance rural infrastructure in southeast Missouri.
Harbison says the new infrastructure make it easier to transfer tons of product from rail cars to river barges, and vice versa.
“There are loops available in St. Louis and down by Memphis, but in our general area this would be the only public loop track facility available, such that any customer can come to us,” Harbison said.
Farmer Kevin Fennewald manages a grain bin complex in Scott County.
He says the proposed railway loop at SEMO Port could lower his cost to transport rice
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SAN LEANDRO, Calif., Oct. 28, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Energy Recovery Inc. (Nasdaq
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:ERII), the leader in pressure energy technology, announced today that the Company won the 2014 Southwest Oil & Gas Awards for New Technology Development of the Year on October 23, 2014. The annual gala ceremony was held at the Westin Park Central in Dallas, TX, where hundreds of oil and gas executives gathered together to celebrate Operational Excellence, innovations in technology, CSR, Health & Safety and Environmental Stewardship.
"Showed how they were able to capture energy from high pressure fluids and transfer it to power applications, creating reusable energy from what was formerly waste energy. Good environmental benefits as well as cost savings from the energy recovery solution."
" Energy savings by being creative and cutting edge deserves the award."
"We are thrilled to receive this prestigious award for new technology development in the oil and gas industry. Innovation is what drives us as a cutting edge technology firm and we're being recognized for all our hard work. Our focus is to bring technologies to the oil and gas
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CAIRO (Reuters) - A Russian broadcaster has removed an opinion poll about ownership of Red sea border triangle disputed between Egypt and Sudan after Cairo protested
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to Moscow.
The protest came ahead of a meeting in Moscow between the foreign and defence ministers of Russia and Egypt on Monday.
The Halayeb triangle, which is controlled by Egypt, has been claimed by Sudan since 1958. Cairo says it is Egyptian territory and it has long been a source of contention between the two neighbours.
Relations between Egypt and Sudan have been further strained in recent months by Khartoum’s support for Ethiopia over a hydroelectric dam Addis Ababa is building which Egypt fears will restrict its water access.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday it had demanded an explanation from Moscow about the opinion poll, which was aired by state-controlled broadcaster Russia Today on its Arabic news channel on Friday.
“The Foreign Ministry contacted the Russian side on the morning of Saturday May 12th to express its strong condemnation of the opinion poll conducted by the Russian government-affiliated channel, and demanded an urgent explanation for this unacceptable conduct,”
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Founding Partner at Vantage Point, the world's leading sales management training firm.
I’ve spent my entire career helping companies affect
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change. As a consultant and trainer to global sales forces, I’ve attempted every type of change imaginable inside a sales force: implementing sales processes, mapping sales territories, deploying CRM, upskilling talent, designing compensation plans, launching new products, entering new markets, merging sales forces... you name it, I’ve tried it.
But that’s not to say every effort has been a smashing success. As an outside advisor, I’ve had to exert influence over the change — not manage it. Consequently, I’ve been involved in a range of successes from home runs to strikeouts. And during that time, I’ve come to recognize that there are two very common management mistakes that have always, in my experience, led to failure. To help you avoid the strikeouts, I've described them below.
When senior leadership commits to making a meaningful change, there’s a seemingly natural tendency to go big. Therefore, the scope
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Accra, Jan. 7, GNA - President John Agyekum Kufuor was on Friday urged to use his next four
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-year term to further reconcile the nation. Various people who spoke to the Ghana News Agency on the day President Kufuor was inaugurated said he needed to do more to reconcile the nation.
Mr Mike Griffiths, a Director at Sunny FM, an Accra private radio station, noted that the reconciliation process initiated by the President and the Government was a good thing.
However, in recent times, there had been certain actions and inactions by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), which impeded reconciliation.
"I was disappointed for instance to see the statue of Dr J. B. Danquah, at Danquah Circle at Osu in Accra, covered with NPP flag although that roundabout and the statue are national monuments and not party monuments," he said.
Mr Griffiths said doing things in such a way went a long way to deepen the already existing politically pent up feelings, which were not good for national reconciliation.
The GNA was
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India has one of the highest rates of acid attacks in the world. Victims often cover their faces out of shame and are unable to get jobs.
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A reporter goes to Agra, India, to see the Taj Mahal and finds a story that was both disturbing and inspiring.
Clippers announcer Ralph Lawler has long invoked “Lawler’s Law” — his belief that the first basketball team to score 100 points in a game wins.
To a member of the Times data desk, Lawler's Law was a "rudimentary kind of statistical model." He just had to test it.
She wanted to tell the story of Lauren Cantin and her mother, who lost everything in the Montecito mudslides. How could she win their trust?
A 15-year-old girl who survived the devastating mudslides in Montecito finds solace in music as she and her mother grieve the deaths of her father and brother.
In a dramatic last-ditch effort to save the monarch butterfly, scientists in Mexico want to relocate an entire forest 1,000 feet up a mountain
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The liberal media has swallowed whole the Islamic pose of victimhood, despite years of religion-based terror attacks, honor killings, direct declarations of hostility
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toward Western values and the frightening effects of decades of Muslim immigration in Europe. The TLC example represents an escalation in America of propaganda efforts.
But even the powerful media machine cannot cover up evil entirely, try though it may. The frequent murders and terror attacks in the name of Allah become hard to disguise after a while.
In the case of the TLC divers-a-thon, viewers responded negatively to what was clearly a biased account of Muslims residing in America that could have come from the Riyadh desk of CAIR.
Helpfully, the Florida Family Association sent members and friends an explanatory article about the show and asked them to contact sponsors with words of disapproval, which appears to have had the desired effect.
Below, TLC has portrayed Muslims residing in America as wholesome, cheerful and very concerned with hijab styles.
“All-American Muslim,” a new program on The Learning Channel that is being touted as a “powerful series” that carries viewers
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The stunning vistas and colorful creatures in Mulaka are born from the myths and folklore of the Tarahumara people in northwestern Mexico. But
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it was a challenge for indie developer Lienzo, since it only had an oral tradition to go on. It had to dream up all the designs while still remaining faithful to Tarahumara legend. Mulaka will launch in 2018 for PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch.
The first episode of Lienzo’s behind-the-scenes video series explored who the Tarahumara are and why the studio was inspired to create a game around their culture. This second episode investigates the creative process of crafting a world from nothing more than just verbal stories passed through the community for generations.
“So we had to seek inspiration in who they are as people, in their colors, in their attire, in their ways of living,” said Lienzo’s art director Daniel Gutiérrez.
Above: The Rusíwari, a rock surrounded by a soul, is one of the creatures from Tarahumara myth.
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At long last, I can take some pride in my provincial government’s stand on climate change. These are very exciting times; congratulations to
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all who helped play a part.
Finally, we are doing something good on the carbon situation. It’s late, but it’s a start.
Premier Rachel Notley is to be congratulated for this unprecedented effort; having representatives from the oil industry and environmentalists on stage with and backing her plan is a huge achievement.
The opposition can continue with the old, tired line that change is impossible and will doom us forever. There are 4.164 million reasons — one for every Albertan — why the status quo is unacceptable.
I would have preferred the tax begin in 2016, but I accept that waiting until 2017 will give those most directly affected time to plan.
As a now-transplanted, longtime Alberta conservative, I can’t resist an “I told you so” on the Alberta NDP election victory and the party’s climate-change plan. Get out your wallets, Albertans, and taste what your socialist party is really
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With his future as the nation's top prosecutor in doubt after a week of blistering public scorn from President Donald Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions acknowledged
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Thursday that the criticism was "kind of hurtful."
In an interview with Fox News aired Thursday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Sessions was asked whether Trump's comments about him were fair.
"Well, umm it's kind of hurtful but the president of the United States is a strong leader," he said, according to transcripts of the remarks. "He is determined to move this country in the direction that he believes it needs to go to make it great again. And he has had a lot of criticism and he's steadfast determined to get his job done, and he wants all of us to do our job. And that's what I intend to do."
Sessions forged ahead Thursday with a tough-on-crime agenda that once endeared him to Trump, opening a mission in El Salvador to step up international cooperation against the violent street gang MS-13.
Sessions arrived in San Salvador for a series of meetings with law enforcement officials about a transnational anti-
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today issued driver’s licenses to 10 women in a historic first for the Middle Eastern country. Government officials there say
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that women will be officially allowed to drive as of June 24. Officials noted that about 2,000 more women could receive their driver’s licenses next week.
Permitting women to drive is a component of modernization reforms being implemented by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Fox News reported, who is the heir apparent to the king. The 10 new drivers already held licenses in other countries and, as such, received the expedited go-ahead after taking a driving test and eye exam at an agency called the General Department of Traffic, which is located in the country’s capital of Riyadh.
In denying licensing previously, Saudi Arabia previously imposed the world’s only de facto ban on female drivers, the Associated Press reported.
AP adds that the restriction has been targeted by women’s rights activists in the Muslim country, some of whom who are still in jail and could be put on trial for charges related to allegedly undermining Saudi Arabia’s security.
As a technical
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On this Theme Thursday Season Three webcast, Jim Collison, Gallup's Director of Talent Sourcing, and Maika Leibbrandt,
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Senior Workplace Consultant, talk about Significance with guest Lela Meinke.
You want to be very significant in the eyes of other people. In the truest sense of the word, you want to be recognized. You want to be heard. You want to stand out. You want to be known. In particular, you want to be known and appreciated for the unique strengths you bring. You feel a need to be admired as credible, professional and successful. Likewise, you want to associate with others who are credible, professional and successful. And if they aren’t, you will push them to achieve until they are. Or you will move on.
An independent spirit, you want your work to be a way of life rather than a job, and in that work, you want to be given free rein, the leeway to do things your way. Your yearnings feel intense to you, and you honor those yearnings. And so your life is filled
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The U.S. wireless consumer has taken a backseat to narrow self interest in industry consolidation.
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The
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consolidation of the U.S. wireless industry into four competitive nationwide players may be the most important consumer story of this decade. Too bad the process appears to be veering into a game of shakedowns and back-alley poker.
The brinksmanship exhibited by Dish Network ( DISH in trying to block Sprint's ( S - Get Report) acquisition of Clearwire ( CLWR and the carrier's planned takeover and recapitalization by SoftBank, in addition to a venomous hedge fund battle over the T-Mobile ( TMUS - Get Report) and MetroPCS merger, indicates the narrow interests of a few key players could govern whether or not the average American will see falling wireless bills and rising service, in coming years.
Wireless consolidation is a daily news item mostly because so many hedge funds, telecom conglomerates, card-playing CEO's and lobbyists have an economic interest in the eventual outcome. But in this Wall Street horse race, the ordinary consumer is poised to
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In case you thought the war of words between President-elect Donald Trump and civil rights icon Representative John Lewis (D-Georgia) might die down
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ahead of the inauguration, outspoken and controversial Governor Paul LePage (R-Maine) has ensured that the debate rages on.
The Trump-Lewis spat broke out over the weekend, after Lewis said Friday on NBC News' ‘Meet the Press’ that Russia interfered in the US election campaign and therefore Trump was not a “legitimate president.” He also added that, for the first time in his political career, he will not be attending the inauguration.
Since then, nearly 60 other Democratic politicians, mainly in the House of Representatives, have said they will join Lewis in boycotting the inauguration, the Washington Post reported. While many of Trump’s opponents have said that not attending is an appropriate way to express displeasure with Trump, his election and his proposed policies, LePage took the debate a step further than most.
Dear Democrats: If Hillary Clinton can attend the Inauguration, so can you. Grow up.
LePage said Lewis,
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Is It the Bottom or Bear Market Rally?
After suffering through one of the most significant market downturns in history, investors are asking if the
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worst is over... if the bottom has been reached.
Some experts think so, although they are careful to hedge their comments. Monday's market surge might not be the absolute bottom, they note, but it is an indication that some stocks and sectors are too cheap to pass up. And that buying will put in a floor, if it hasn't already, they claim.
Others don't totally agree. They think the market surge is simply a spate of buying in a generally depressed and downward moving market. But they also suggest investors take advantage of it.
Amid the market fall, central banks and governments scrambled to formulate plans to prop up the world's financial sector. While the efficacy of those efforts remains to be seen, the moves have injected a glimmer of confidence into the markets. That makes now the time to buy, some market managers claim.
"If you wait for every thing to be solved the market is already going to have discounted that and probably be up 15-20 percent
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In Jim Holt’s review of George Dyson’s Turing’s Cathedral he falls into the trap that Dyson set for
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him [“How the Computers Exploded,” NYR, June 7]. Dyson has amplified the importance of John von Neumann’s MANIAC project to a point where Holt got the impression that it was the first useful computer and it started a revolution. It wasn’t. It didn’t.
John von Neumann’s MANIAC was not the first computer. Nor was it, as Holt dubs it, the first “genuine” computer, or the first high-speed, stored-program, all-purpose computer. John von Neumann did not invent the stored-program architecture that often bears his name. By the time the MANIAC came online, several stored-program machines were operating and actually for sale in England and the US. Any number of computer history texts will bear this out.
Dyson does include these facts in his book. Yet they are mostly brushed over, in a mad
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week gave its first green light to a company that wants to start selling a blood test to evaluate
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for mild traumatic brain injury, or concussion. The agency lauded the blood test as an innovative tool for speeding diagnosis and avoiding radiation exposure from brain scans. But some head trauma experts worry the authorization was pushed through too hastily.
“The data aren't as conclusive as we would have hoped, so I was surprised by the rapid FDA approval,” says Henrik Zetterberg, a professor of neurochemistry at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, who was not involved with the project. The Brain Trauma Indicator, developed by San Diego–based biotechnology company Banyan Biomarkers, was reviewed and authorized for commercialization in fewer than six months. It was cleared under the FDA's Breakthrough Devices Program—an approvals process that aims to fast-track the development of promising and relatively low-risk medical technologies, after reviewing available data. Banyan says the new test will soon be available in hospitals.
The Brain Trauma Indicator measures blood
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In "The Darkest Minds," the plot feels like X-men in that a virus kills 90 percent of children and gives the other 10
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percent potentially dangerous powers. The surviving 10 percent are taken away from their parents and locked in camps, with the most dangerous ones killed outright.
Rating: PG-13 for violence including disturbing images and thematic elements.
Screenplay by: Chad Hodge, based on the novel by Alexandra Bracken.
Directed by: Jennifer Yuh Nelson.
Starring: Amandla Stenberg, Mandy Moore, Gwendoline Christie, Harris Dickinson, Skylan Brooks, Miya Chech, Bradley Whitford and more.
When will Hollywood finally realize that it takes more than just summarizing a novel to make a good movie script?
That’s the biggest flaw with “The Darkest Minds,” the latest attempt at bringing young adult dystopian fiction to the big screen. Though the characters are engaging and some of the ideas are more relevant than ever, the plot feels more like a hurried synopsis rather than an actual story. That makes the dramatic
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There’s a common refrain in the startup world: “Pick one thing and do it well.” This is undoubtedly sound advice
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for the services and apps working diligently to make your life a little easier. With one tap of a thumb, your taxi is on its way or your dinner is being delivered. In just a few clicks you can buy and receive your movie tickets without even going to a theater. Hitting the refresh button allows the world’s news to unfold before you without glancing at a newspaper. In the tech world, this simplicity is considered the pinnacle of delivering satisfaction to consumers.
But what happens when your needs can’t be solved by a single click, a single feature, or even by a single company? What happens when achieving your goal requires dozens of steps, expert advice, ongoing motivation and inspiration, and often takes months or years to accomplish? Is there an app for that?
A new set of companies in multiple industries like food, fitness, and financial planning are looking to take on the role of a multifaceted hub offering everything you might need to upgrade your life, from
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Just weeks after ESPN laid off about 100 journalists and on-air commentators, the “Worldwide Leader in Sports” unveiled a new programming
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slate on Tuesday filled with big personalities but short on the kind of highlight shows that for many years were the foundation of the network.
The revamped lineup underscores just how much the changing media landscape has unsettled even the world’s most powerful sports company. Once the undisputed king of sports programming, ESPN must now contend with companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter, which not only offer statistics and highlights at the click of a button but are also increasingly offering the games themselves.
And in a world where viewers can catch a must-see play on Facebook or stream an entire football game on Twitter, who needs a traditional highlight show like “SportsCenter” that focuses on highlights and updates like player injuries and roster moves?
So ESPN is shaking things up.
The theme was a bet on the power of the network’s personalities. ESPN formally announced several new shows — including a three-hour morning block with the longtime ESPN host Mike Greenberg, and one that will
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah could not have made his controversial speech in the state Assembly on Wednesday without giving much thought to its consequences.
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Union Defence Minister A.K. Antony’s recent statement that India and Russia have sorted out all issues pertaining to the joint development of the fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) and that the deal is slated to be signed during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to India in December is heartening indeed.
Every day, social networking sites have been throwing up new challenges and shaping how people interact with one another. Social networks like Facebook, MySpace and Orkut enable people who are separated by geographical distances to interact and share each other’s lives, thus strengthening their bonds.
Bob Woodward of the Watergate fame is back once again with his new book, Obama’s Wars. Despite the hype, there is nothing in the book that is really shocking or revelatory. There is no analysis, commentary or policy assessment in the book.
POLITICS is one profession in which there is no retirement age (there are some other professions also,
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Man's body found in Hertford, Cotton Road, Hertford, 17-12-17, Pictures by Alison Jenkins.
A man has
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been found dead in a Hertford street today, sparking a police investigation into what happened to him.
The 30-year-old, who has not yet been named, was found in Cotton Drive on the Pinehurst Estate shortly before 8.30am this morning (December 17).
Police were called by the ambulance service, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
A tent was erected and a cordon put in place, guarded by uniformed officers.
The cordon covered Cotton Drive and part of Stanstead Road until shortly after 4pm.
Man's body found in Hertford, Cotton Road, Hertford, 17-12-17, Pictures by Alison Jenkins.
White-clad forensics officers were at work for much of the day collecting evidence.
A police spokeswoman said that the death is being treated as unexplained and have appealed for anyone who has any information about what may have happened to contact police on 101.
The body was found a
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HP is attempting to up the game in VR with the launch earlier this past week of its newest Windows Mixed Reality headset called the Reverb.
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While we have not got our hands on it, a press release directs us to the specifics—the headset would come in two options (consumer and enterprise) and will sport cracking 2160 x 2160 resolution optics.
Such resolution numbers make it one of the highest-fidelity headsets currently on offer for VR fans globally.
The Reverb, which was launched at HP Reinvent, the company’s largest global partner event, will also sport a lightweight design, and offer an expanded 114-degree field of view.
The Reverb will come with pre-paired motion controllers right out of the box and support for Windows Mixed Reality and Steam VR.
As for availability and pricing, HP says both models will go on sale in the UAE soon.
The HP Reverb Virtual Reality Headset – Pro Edition for enterprise customers is expected to be available in April for Dhs 2,380.
The HP Reverb Virtual Reality Headset – Consumer Edition for us regular joes
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KITT.AI wants to help developers add voice activation features to almost any device for free.
The Seattle startup today unveiled its first software tool
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kit called Snowboy, which lets developers add verbal “hotword detection” to devices. It’s the same technology that tech giants like Amazon and Apple use for products like Alexa and Siri, but now KITT.AI is enabling anyone to easily add the functionality to their own hardware.
The idea is to let users talk to devices in order to “wake” or “command” them to do something. Snowboy uses deep neural network technology that learns and recognizes unique patterns in voices. It also utilizes sophisticated audio processing techniques and can work without an internet connection.
KITT.AI, originally incubated inside Paul Allen’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), launched last year and in January landed funding from Founders’ Co-op and Amazon’s Alexa Fund. It also recently received investment from Madrona Venture Group and the startup currently works at the firm’s downtown Seattle office.
KITT.AI co
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The state’s largest rural election association last week once again elected just one green candidate in a bloc of three members looking to reform policies currently
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geared more toward conventional power sources. Mike Kempe, a chemical engineer and research scientist for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, was re-elected to the Intermountain Rural Electric Association board by a margin of 2,892 votes to 1,870 for challenger John Dendahl. Kempe is often to the lone dissenting vote on the board of the IREA, which has just under 140,000 members in the Front Range suburbs between Denver and Colorado Springs.
Colorado Sen. Mark Udall has walked a fine line the last several years, advocating for new nuclear energy because of global climate change concerns while running the risk of alienating his Democratic, environmentalist base, many of whom still bitterly oppose nuclear power because of its legacy of mining pollution in the state. In the wake of the Japan’s ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant northeast of Tokyo, more than just the so-called “dirty front end” of nuclear power – Colorado
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Delays are among the major difficulties most construction firms face, and can lead to numerous negative results, such as lawsuits among owners and contractors, increased
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costs, lack of construction productivity, and loss ofrevenue, as well as contract terminations, and negative influences on the economic and industrial domain of a community as a whole.
Through a systematic questionnaire design, this study involves a comprehensive analysis ofthe perceptions of construction delay-related reasons collected from (1) construction stakeholders from both public and private firms, considered to be experienced engineers, and (2) students in the civil engineering department at Western Michigan University, who are considered to be inexperienced construction engineers. This thesis presents the conclusions ofthis survey designed to identify and investigate the attitude and the point ofview ofpeople with different levels of knowledge and experience within the construction industry. Such results are useful in conducting curricula for construction engineering students to evaluate their knowledge and skill level for meeting the challenges in the real world ofthe U. S. construction industry, and identifying improved education strategies for preparing them to better meet these challenges.
El Kadeki, Salahedeen A., "A
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Marriott (MAR) and the hotel lobby American Hospitality & Lodging Association asked the FCC this summer to allow hotels to deploy equipment that prevents
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people from turning their phones into Wi-Fi hotspots.
At Marriott connection rates start at $14.95 per day. For $19.95, guests get "enhanced high speed Internet" which includes video chatting, downloading large files and streaming video.
In its petition to the FCC, Marriott and the hotel lobby argued that guests can use their smartphones or Mi-Fi devices to launch an attack against a hotel's Wi-Fi network or threaten other guests' privacy (by stealing their credit card data or other personal information). They also said that those gadgets can interfere with the hotel's Wi-Fi, slowing down speeds for other customers.
"If a hotel is powerless to address such activities to ensure the security and reliability of its Wi-Fi network on its premises, both the hotel and its guests would suffer," Marriott said in its filing.
Most of the 21 responses to Marriott's request basically boil down to this: The hotel industry simply wants to keep charging people exorbit
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“It’s a very personal story, so I won’t elaborate upon too much. Suffice to say, it was
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a situation in my life I wasn’t very happy with or proud of… and sometimes when you can’t describe a feeling with your own words, it’s almost easier to express in a song. And then, when you get asked about the songs, it’s quite difficult to explain. It’s a conundrum — you don’t want to seem self-indulgent explaining yourself; it’s always awkward. Which is weird again, because it’s never awkward actually singing them. I suppose the song should stand on its own and people draw their own interpretation from the words. But for me, personally, it’s the lyrics that I listen to again and again in a song. I place specific importance on them. I can’t write lyrics unless I really feel them and mean them, which can sometimes be quite frustrating — because if you’re not feeling much at the time, you’
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The gin bubble shows no sign, whatsoever, of bursting this summer. Instead it grows bigger and more buoyant every month, bouncing along while bright
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, shiny, new distilleries pop up everywhere.
Premium gin is the darling of the UK spirits trade – domestic sales shot over the £1 billion mark for the first time last year, and we bought 43 million bottles, according to the Wine and Spirit Trade Association.
This prompted the Office of National Statistics to add the spirit to its “inflation basket” of regularly bought goods, for the first time in 13 years. And it helped the Treasury to take £3.38 billion from spirits last year, up seven per cent, narrowly beating the tax revenue on (shock!) beer.
The variety now dazzles. All gin, by definition, must have juniper at its heart, but the other botanicals (the natural products – seeds, barks, spices, peels and flowers – that make up each recipe) range hugely and as never before. Unusual ingredients include various kelps and seaweeds, moorland
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A popular documentary series profiling an eclectic range of notables, with each episode focusing on one figure. Based on a half-hour syndicated program
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that ran from 1961-64 and in 1979, the concept was successfully revived as an hourlong show with Peter Graves as host in 1987. Well-established and a franchise series for A&E by 1994, it later spun off t (more…)A popular documentary series profiling an eclectic range of notables, with each episode focusing on one figure. Based on a half-hour syndicated program that ran from 1961-64 and in 1979, the concept was successfully revived as an hourlong show with Peter Graves as host in 1987. Well-established and a franchise series for A&E by 1994, it later spun off the Biography Channel.
A history of the TV sitcom “The Brady Bunch” (1969-74), includes an exploration of its wide appeal, due in part to syndication; fashions; and behind-the-scenes conflicts and friendships. Among those commenting: creator Sherwood Schwartz; Florence Henderson; Barry Williams; Susan Olsen; Mike Lookin
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A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit by the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community to proceed against BNSF Railway over oil train shipments.
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The tribe sued BNSF in April, alleging the company is violating an agreement that restricts the number of trains that can cross its reservation on Fidalgo Island.
U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik on Friday denied BNSF's request to have the case dismissed or stayed. The railway argued the matter should go before the federal Surface Transportation Board. The judge wrote that referring the case is "neither efficient nor necessary."
The tribe's lawsuit argues that a 1991 easement signed by the BNSF's predecessor only allows two 25-car trains each day. It says several 100-car trains carrying crude oil from the Bakken region cross the reservation each week. The tracks serve two oil refineries in Anacortes.
BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas said the railroad is disappointed by the ruling and weighing its options to ensure the railway is not in violation of obligations to move regulated commodities.
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Nancy Risinger Mills, 86, of Orange, died Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010, in Orange. Funeral services will be 2
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p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 26 at Claybar Funeral Home Chapel in Orange. Officiating will be Mickey McNamara. Graveside service will be 2 p.m., Wednesday, at Antioch Cemetery in Spearsville, La. Visitation will be from 12-2 p.m., Tuesday, before the service at the funeral home.
Nancy was born on May 24, 1923 in Junction City, Ark. She was the daughter of William Robert and Fannie Mae (Britt) Risinger.
She is preceded in death by her parents, William and Fannie Risinger and three brothers.
Those left to cherish her memory are her husband, Hank Mills of Orange; daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Tom Kincannon of Flower Mound, Texas; sons and daughters-in-law, Jim and Elaine Mills of Fuquay-Varina, N.C. and Richard and Janet Mills of Orange; five grandchildren, Jeff, Colleen
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On Wednesday Cook County Board president Todd Stroger sat behind the rostrum listening as commissioners led by finance chairman John Daley dissected and debated
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budget amendments. On Thursday he told them it was their job to get a budget passed; he'd already done his work by proposing a plan that would raise sales taxes and add jobs. On Friday he sued.
"In the performance of his duties, President Stroger submitted his executive budget to the board's finance committee on October 17, 2007," says the complaint, filed in county court by Stroger, state's attorney Richard Devine, and sheriff Tom Dart, naming all 17 board members as defendants. "All conditions precedent to the board's duty to adopt an Annual Appropriation Ordinance have taken place." The suit asks the court to order commissioners to keep meeting until they have a budget deal done and, in the event the deadline passes, to authorize county treasurer Maria Pappas to make payments to keep the government running.
Late Friday word circulated that a deal might be in place. Commissioners would agree to raise the sales tax one percentage point in return for Stroger agreeing to farm out
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The governing board of the University of Texas is expected to extend football head coach Mack Brown's contract by four years, through 2020, a well-
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placed source told the American-Statesman on Monday.
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the source was not authorized to speak publicly, said Brown would continue to receive annual raises of $100,000. His current annual compensation is $5.2 million.
The UT System Board of Regents is scheduled to meet by telephone Thursday to consider changes in the contract, according to an announcement from the system.
A contract extension would be a signal to potential recruits that Brown isn't about to leave. But the regents are also expected to approve a provision that would in essence allow the university to dismiss Brown for $3.5 million with about six months' notice, the source said.
Brown, 60, went 8-5 last season, including a 21-10 victory over California at the Holiday Bowl. His team was 5-7 in 2010.
In his 14 years at Texas, Brown has compiled a 141-39 record, putting him 26 victories shy
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Apple won a preliminary sales ban on Motorola phones and tablets in Germany on Thursday when the regional court of Munich ruled that Motorola infringes on a touchscreen
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-related patent, a spokeswoman for the court said.
Apple sued Google-owned Motorola Mobility for infringing on its "list scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touchscreen display" patent, said Stefanie Ruhwinkel, spokeswoman for the Munich court. The patent is also known as the "overscroll bounce" or "rubber band" patent and allows pages, documents or photos on touchscreen devices to scroll past their boundaries and bounce back when users release their fingers from the screen.
The Munich court ruled that Motorola Mobility infringes on the patent with its smartphones and tablet computers, said Ruhwinkel. Infringing devices include the Motorola Milestone XT720, the Motorola DEFY, the Motorola Atrix and Motorola XOOM, which all use the Android OS.
Motorola is not allowed to use the patent in Germany, said Ruhwinkel, "so you could call it a sales ban."
Besides an injunction, Apple also demanded that
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Some University of Notre Dame students, employees and alumni say 19th century murals of Christopher Columbus should
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be removed from a campus building because they depict Native Americans and blacks in stereotypical submissive poses before white European explorers.
More than 340 students, employees and alumni signed an open letter against the paintings published in the university’s student newspaper, the Observer. The letter says the paintings in an administrative building are equivalent to a Confederate monument, The South Bend Tribune reported.
“(The paintings offer a) highly problematic vision of Western triumphalism, Catholic militarism and an overly romantic notion of American expansion,” the letter said.
The 12 paintings by artist Luigi Gregori have been on display in the campus’ Main Building since 1884.
School spokesman Dennis Brown said the paintings have historic and artistic importance and the university has no plans to remove them. He said there are pamphlets available that explain the murals’ historical context.
John Slattery is a post-doctoral teaching fellow at the university. He approached the Native American Student Association with the idea for
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Top row: Z. Howard, T. Cole, A. Pugh, C. Penrose-Whitmore.Bottom row: B.
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Ford, G. McBay, J. Hall, T. Dinkins.
Our future, we know, belongs to the young. That is why The Root has decided to put the spotlight on the leaders of tomorrow.
We embarked on a nationwide search to find African-American youth, ages 16 to 21, who are innovators in the green movement, science and technology, social justice, business and the arts. We approached schools and universities, national sororities and fraternities, as well as civil rights groups like the NAACP, which has nurtured a young-talent competition every year. The names poured in. We took on the difficult task of sifting through the achievements of many young and talented people to come up with this final list.
The 25 winners we selected for our Young Futurists list are committed to making the world a better place and are actively doing something about it. Many are still in high school. Some are in college. They live all
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Perry said last week that he will not drop out of the race despite his money woes.
The chair of Rick Perry’s Iowa
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campaign, Sam Clovis, is calling it quits.
Clovis stepped down from his position on Monday, calling the former Texas governor a “remarkable” man in an interview with The Associated Press, which first reported the resignation.
The campaign’s money woes played a part in Clovis’ decision, he told the AP — though he said it was not the only reason for his departure.
Perry said in a radio interview last week that he will not drop out of the race despite his money woes. “This is a long race. This is a marathon. This isn’t a sprint. There’s a lot of time left. There are a lot of debates. There’s a lot of work to be done,” he told host Hugh Hewitt.
Iowa is critical to Perry’s dwindling chances, and Clovis — a radio personality and failed 2014 Senate candidate — was considered
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La Jollan Sami Ladeki, owner of Ladeki Restaurant Group, was born in Lebanon and has opened more than 35 restaurants
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and fine-dining concepts around the world since 1983. This summer, he celebrates 25 years of combining globally- inspired cuisine with locally-produced ingredients at Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza, with a variety of social media promotions at his 19 locations in Southern California and Nevada.
Ladeki, who opened the first Sammy’s in La Jolla in 1989, was honored June 3 with the “Restaurateur of the Year” award by the California Restaurant Association at its 30th annual Gold Medallion Awards. Mayor Kevin Faulconer declared June 3 to be “Sami Ladeki Day,” in honor of his milestone achievements.
Recognized for both his business and philanthropic dexterity, in 2012 Ladeki was presented with the Headliner Award by the San Diego Press Club.
I was visiting La Jolla and I just fell in love with it. The energy, beauty and the elegance of the people here — I knew it would
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Shaun McConville faces a total of 12 charges over the alleged events at his home in Shortroods.
A man accused of taking
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part in a siege situation involving armed police officers where he asked for Brendan Rodgers to be brought back as Celtic manager appeared in court today.
Shaun McConville faces a total of 12 charges over the alleged events of Monday, March 18, at his home in Springbank Road, Paisley.
The 30-year-old also allegedly asked for "a bag of cans" as part of his ransom "demands".
And he is said to have trashed his neighbours' homes, damaged police cars and assaulted officers after barricading himself on a landing outside his flat while armed with a kitchen knife, hammer and screwdriver and claiming he had hostages.
Prosecutors claim he behaved in a threatening way and barricaded himself on the second floor landing of his property where he repeatedly shouted and swore, stated he had hostages and made threats to blow up the property.
McConville also faces three charges of being armed with offensive weapons, one in relation to the kitchen knife
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Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont says he is set to release his tax returns Monday. For the first time in his career, it's been revealed
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that Sanders is now, in fact, a millionaire.
Congressional Democrats are embroiled in the fight to try to compel the release of President Trump's taxes, which he continues to decline to do. But with the deadline to file taxes coming Monday, it's Democratic candidates who are in the spotlight.
As Democrats try to grab the higher ground on transparency with regard to their personal finances, so far only three of the almost 20 notable Democratic candidates have released their 2018 returns as of Thursday night.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York have released them. Gillibrand was the first to do so. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota has also released 12 years of taxes through 2017 so far. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is pledging to release his by Monday. Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke, Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker and others have indicated they will release them,
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Once known for the strength of its special teams, the Harvard men’s hockey team was not-so-special in last night’
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s 4-1 loss against Northeastern in the consolation round of the Beanpot Tournament at TD Garden.
Although the Crimson’s third-period surge narrowed Boston College’s lead to one, the Harvard men’s hockey team was not able to overcome the No. 10 Eagles last night, giving up a 3-2 loss.
Just back from Thanksgiving break, the Harvard men’s hockey team wasn’t feeling the holiday cheer after suffering a 6-2 loss to Dartmouth (3-6-0).
Although the Harvard men’s hockey team (1-2, 1-2 ECAC, 1-1 Ivy) took a 3-1 lead in the first two periods against the Big Red (3-0, 3-0 ECAC, 2-0 Ivy), the Crimson yielded four goals in the final frame, ultimately succumbing to long-time rivals No. 5 Cornell, 6-3.
Oh, Canada. F
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The RMS Bohemian struck a ledge off Cape Elizabeth in February 1864, and 42 died just as they were about to arrive in America.
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Bonfires lit up the night sky on Feb. 22, 1864, as residents of Portland and Cape Elizabeth celebrated George Washington’s birthday, unaware of the large ship steaming toward them.
Two miles offshore, most of the passengers aboard the RMS Bohemian slept as the ship neared the end of a long, rough crossing from England. All was peaceful on board until the veteran ship captain suddenly found himself and the ship in a “peculiar haze” that proved both disorienting and disastrous.
By the end of that night, the ship would strike Alden Rock, an underwater ledge off the coast of Cape Elizabeth. Forty-two people drowned, most of them Irish emigrants planning to start new lives in Boston, New York or Quebec. The ship’s cargo spread across Casco Bay.
Back on shore, local residents mistook the distress flares and gunfire from the sinking ship as part of the holiday celebrations.
It would remain
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In less than an hour, Wisconsin’s men’s basketball team will face instate rival Marquette in Madison at the Kohl
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Center. But the Badgers will be without two key players. Guards D’Mitrik Trice and Kobe King will be out indefinitely with foot and knee injuries, respectively, according to the UW Sports Medicine Staff.
Wisconsin bragging rights will be on the line at the Kohl Center in Madison when the Badgers host instate rival Marquette on Saturday at 11 a.m.
Green Bay Packers tight end Lance Kendricks is charged in Outagamie County with marijuana possession.
Shizz Alston Jr. scored 22 points and hit four decisive free throws late to set a school record and lead Temple to a 59-55 victory over Wisconsin on Wednesday night.
Khalil Iverson scored 14 of his 16 points in the first half to lead Wisconsin to a 64-63 win over Penn State on Monday night.
J.T. Barrett looked just fine Saturday. Now it’s up to college football’s selection committee to decide whether No. 8 Ohio
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California has increased the capacity of its publicly-funded preschool program in recent years, but McCarty says it’s still behind other states.
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The National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University ranks California 13th in state spending on preschool and 21st in total preschool spending, which also includes local and federal money.
Lawmakers have been working to expand preschool access dramatically for years, but Brown’s interest in saving for an impending recession curtailed their efforts. Less than half of children from low-income families in California are in high-quality preschool programs largely because there are many eligible children but not enough space available, Cullinan said.
McCarty’s proposal is not universal preschool, which many advocates have sought.
McCarty’s main bill would expand the state’s existing preschool program by about 50 percent to serve roughly 250,000 low-income kids. It will likely cost about $1.3 billion dollars over three years, McCarty said. He’s also introducing bills to fund preschool construction and increase pay for preschool teachers.
McCarty said he and Newsom have
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The senator leading the charge to revive a assault weapons ban conceded on Sunday, just days before hearings on gun control open,
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that winning Senate passage will be tough but said she has been assured she will have the chance to bring it up for a vote.
President Barack Obama, who has made gun control a top priority after 20 children and six adults were killed by a gunman on December 14 at a Connecticut school, said in remarks published on Sunday that gun control advocates should take into account the views of rural Americans who use guns for hunting.
“Part of being able to move this forward is understanding the reality of guns in urban areas are very different from the realities of guns in rural areas,” Obama told The New Republic magazine as he continued his administration’s outreach to gun owners even as he seeks new gun restrictions.
Senator Dianne Feinstein said Majority Leader Harry Reid has promised that even if the assault weapons ban is left out of a broader package intended to curb gun violence, she will have the opportunity to offer it as an amendment on the Senate floor.
Feinstein introduced legislation last Thursday to ban military
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The chief of his own faction of Pakistan Muslim League, Nawaz Sharif on Monday lashed out at PML-Q for supporting Pervez Mushar
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raf in the past, describing their politics as ‘hypocrisy’.
“No one has forgotten that yesterday they were ready to elect Muhsarraf even 20 times in his uniform and now sitting in coalition with those issuing red warrants against the dictator,” the PML-N chief, without naming, criticized Choudhry brothers which legitimized the former dictator’s rule after winning 2002 elections.
“The politics of hypocrisy should come to an end now. They (PML-Q) had termed PPP as foes, but now sitting under the ruling party’s shelter for their own interests,” Nawaz alleged while addressing party’s General Council at Awan-e-Iqbal.
On Sunday, PML-N president Sharif demanded an apology from Chaudhry brothers to the nation for supporting a dictator, saying the PML-N is ready to shake hands with the Chaudhrys
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It is next to impossible to produce an experimental film in Pakistan, mainly because the distributors do not support the venture unless it comprises of a star-
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studded cast.
Director Farhan Alam and Kalakar Films deserve appreciation for breaking barriers with their new film, Saawan. The film is written by Mashood Qadri and features Syed Karam Hussain, Imran Aslam, Najiba Faiz and Saleem Mairaj in pivotal roles.
The film revolves around Saawan (Syed Karam Hussain), a physically challenged young boy who suffers from polio and lives in a valley in Balochistan. His father is frustrated, depressed and hopeless because of his son’s disability and does not treat him well. Thus, Saawan’s parents abandon him and move to the city because of a certain life-threatening situation. Despite his disability and abandonment, Saawan heads out to search for his family and uncovers various hidden truths about his life.
We can easily divide the film between its hits and misses.
1.Overall, I would say the performances were a hit. Syed Kar
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In its 44-page order, the appellate tribunal has noted that the RPPL’s resolution plan discriminated between some of the financial creditors who
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are equally situated and not balanced the other stakeholder, such as operational creditors.
Rajputana Properties had moved the SC against the revised decision of the committee of creditors for Binani Cements to consider the revised resolution plan submitted by UltraTech Cement.
After a long drawn legal wrangling which saw the matter going back and forth between the National Company Law Tribunal, the appellate tribunal and even the Supreme Court, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Wednesday finally approved the revised bid of Aditya Birla Group’s UltraTech Cement for the bankrupt Binani Cement. UltraTech has offered to pay `7,960 crore under its plan wherein all the financial as well as the operational creditors will receive their complete dues.
A two-member bench headed by NCLAT chairman Justice SJ Mukhopadhaya while approving UltraTech’s resolution plan said that the plan submitted by rival Dalmia Bharat Group firm Rajput
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Jacinta (Clay) Scott, 81, of New Albany, passed
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away Monday morning at Baptist Health Floyd Hospital in New Albany. She was born in Anderson, Indiana to the late Wilton and Mary Neal Elizabeth (Thompson) Clay.
She was a graduate of New Albany High School and attended Indiana University. She was employed at Servpro in New Albany where she was a Senior Administrative Assistant.
Survivors include her daughters, Tahnya Jones, Shana Kellams (John) and Trina Robacki (Jeff); her brother, Quentin Clay; grandchildren;, Megan, Stephen, Lindsay, Alaina, Kellen and Brennah; and great-grandchildren, Kyla, Taylor, Hannah, Oliver and Simon.
Visitation will be Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Oak Street Chapel of Naville & Seabrook Funeral Homes, 1846 E. Oak Street, New Albany, Indiana. Service will follow at 2 p.m. athte funeral home. Entombment will
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You can either update an existing installation of Windows 8 or install Windows 8.1 from scratch via ISO files from Microsoft.
Those of you eager
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to check out the new Windows 8.1 Preview have a few choices as to how and where to install it. Let's cut right to the chase and review the different options.
If you're already running Windows 8, you can simply update it to Windows 8.1 via the Windows Store, as CNET's Jason Cipriani explained earlier this week.
One word of warning before you proceed, however. The Windows 8.1 preview is essentially a beta of the new OS and is by no means a finished or polished version. Therefore, you shouldn't update to Windows 8.1 on your main or only PC. Instead, reserve the update for a spare or non-essential device outfitted with Windows 8.
Your first step in Windows 8 is to browse to Microsoft's Windows 8.1 preview page. Click on the Get it now button. At the Download Windows 8.1 Preview page, click on the Get the update button. You're prompted to open or save
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Measuring rental price inflation from tenancy bond data is working well, Stats NZ said today.
The consumers price index (CPI) for the
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June 2019 quarter (to be released on 16 July) will be the first in the world to use administrative rent data in this way to construct the CPI.
The new method for measuring rent prices arose from a collaboration with Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).
“Thanks to this work, landlords no longer have to fill in a Stats NZ survey every quarter,” consumer prices manager Gael Price said.
Instead, rents are measured directly from data that MBIE is already collecting.
MBIE holds tenancy bonds on behalf of landlords, which means the agency has information on actual rents charged for all tenancies. This is a much bigger source of data than the survey that was previously used to measure rental prices.
The new approach means Stats NZ can release rental price indexes (RPI) every month. This is because MBIE collects the data regularly as part of administering rental bonds. The RPI has been available monthly since the start of 2019.
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JUNEAU | Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg, a major figure in the abuse-of-power investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin
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, has resigned, the governor’s office said Tuesday.
Mr. Colberg, who was appointed to the post in 2006 after Mrs. Palin was elected, represented seven of nine state employees who initially refused to testify before a legislative panel investigating Mrs. Palin’s firing of her public safety commissioner in what became known as Troopergate. Mr. Colberg said he advised the seven of their options, and he unsuccessfully challenged the subpoenas in court.
Mrs. Palin’s spokesman, Bill McAllister, said the resignation was a personal decision for Mr. Colberg, and Mrs. Palin neither fired nor pressured him to quit.
SAN DIEGO | The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office said 33 people have been arrested and charged with selling drugs at military housing.
Authorities said Tuesday that the three-month investigation resulted in seizures of 2 pounds of methamphetamine, a half-pound of cocaine, 6 pounds of marijuana and seven guns.
Deputy
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Controversial talking head Prue MacSween has claimed a Greens MP is a "danger" to the community and even his own wife.
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The comments come just days after the conservative commentator was found to have contributed to ridiculing Indigenous Australians and spreading false information on Seven's Sunrise program.
On Monday's episode of Today Extra, MacSween was asked what she thought about Melbourne politician Adam Bandt calling his wife "hot" on social media.
MacSween unleashed on the left-wing MP, with hosts Sonia Kruger and David Campbell having to quickly hide their shock due to the intensity of her comments.
"This little flea is so obsessed with climate change," she said. "I can't stand this cretin."
After repeated attempts to try to steer the conversation back to the issue at hand, MacSween eventually admitted she didn't care what Bandt called his wife.
"He is a non-person to me," she said. "He is a danger to the community and I suspect a danger to his wife. If you had to go to bed with that, God help you, love
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Progress on nuclear issues and negotiations on Al Qaeda members may signal a major thaw in relations.
It may not be the fall of the Berlin
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Wall. Still, a significant change is afoot. The decades-long gap between the super Islamic Republic of Iran and superpower US may finally be narrowing.
Iran's decision to bare its nuclear activities for international inspectors - and its attendance at the Iraq donors' meeting in Madrid this week - may signal its willingness to deal more openly with the US.
That, experts and government officials say, is extremely important. Iran has something the US desperately wants, beyond Iran's compliance on the nuclear front: Several high-level Al Qaeda members are in Iran. The US and some of its allies have been quietly negotiating behind the scenes for their release. But so far, Iran has not been willing to give them up.
"With the Iranians having worked through the nuclear issue, the temperature may drop sufficiently to where this issue can become resolvable," says Adel al-Jubeir, foreign-affairs adviser to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah.
It's not clear if talks will
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Not every 79-year-old surgeon happens to run a tech incubator. Not every 79-year-old surgeon who runs a tech incub
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ator happens to have a winery either. But Thomas Fogarty does. The doctor-entrepreneur-vintner, best known for inventing the angioplasty balloon, runs the Thomas Fogarty Winery just a few miles uphill from his medtech incubator at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View.
The non-profit Fogarty Institute for Innovation is based around a simple concept: Making life easier for small or early stage medtech firms developing cutting-edge products or tools. In an interview with Fast Company, Fogarty decried what he saw as the increasing cost of American medical innovation, and said that small medical companies need a safe environment for growth similar to those of lower-overhead conventional tech startups.
Since its founding in 2007, the Institute has helped about a dozen small medical companies launch. Back in June, the Institute announced its latest crop of participants. The five new companies are primarily centered around providing services for expectant parents or newborn children. Among them
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MARINE CITY - Merchants and community leaders are planning a celebration of the holiday season, because it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Marine
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City.
Merrytime Christmas — the name is a pun on "maritime" — is 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.
"It’s a citywide event," said Erika DeLange, executive director of the Marine City Chamber of Commerce. "It’s an old-style Christmas in Marine City."
She said stores will have specials throughout the day. The event also will include wagon rides, live ice-carving demonstrations at Drake Park and carolers.
"The Marine City football team will be singing in the streets," DeLange said.
The Coach Mike Miller Christmas Run will be at 9 a.m. The event features a 5K run and a 1-mile walk or run.
Santa Claus will be at the Mariner Theater from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
A Christmas craft show is 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Marine City Lions
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Will the next great novel be nothing more than a series of text messages?
Uh, maybe not, but there’s always room to
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experiment with new formats. That’s what husband-and-wife team Parag Chordia and Prerna Gupta are trying to do with their new startup Telepathic, which is launching its first app, Hooked.
Telepathic is also announcing that it has raised $1.2 million in new funding, bringing its total raised to $1.9 million. Investors include 500 Startups, Greylock, Foundation Capital, a syndicate assembled by Gil Penchina, Rivet Ventures, as well as angel investors like Hired founder Doug Feirstein, BranchOut founder Rick Marini, Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron, MightyText CEO Maneesh Arora and Lean Startup author Eric Ries.
Chordia and Gupta sold their last startup, Khush, to music app-maker Smule. They left Smule in 2013 (CEO Jeff Smith is an investor in their new startup) and spent some time traveling and working on
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For World Read Aloud Day students of St. John XXIII had a special guest visit on Friday, February 1, 2019, for their educational
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day.
Canadian award-winning author David Bouchard grew up knowing nothing about his roots, but through the process of his writing, he has learned more about his Metis heritage.
Bouchard entertained students on Friday with song and dance from an array of special flutes as he highlighted his Metis heritage to the children.
Bouchard grew up with a learning disability and he explained to the children that every time God gives you a problem, he also gives you strength.
“Because I had Dyslexia, keeping things in sequence and at a young age I was not discouraged from reading,” Bouchard said.
Holding up a pair of earphones Bouchard encouraged children to learn anyway they can.
Bouchard believes in the power of reading and had a special message for the children of St. John XXIII to encourage them to read.
“Children, I can take you anywhere in the world through reading and song,
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Oh, come on, millennial women. Just look at us.
Frantic and apologizing, overwhelmed between staff meetings and gymnastics, shamed
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for bottle-feeding, booted for breast-feeding, passed over for promotions, denied on the day-care list — isn’t this what you’ve always dreamed of?
No thanks, they’re saying, to today’s lovely vision of motherhood. And in huge numbers.
The American birthrate is sinking: 3.8 million babies were born last year — the lowest number in three decades and down 2 percent from 2016, according to a new report by the National Center for Health Statistics.
It’s a decline that is alarming demographers and social scientists — many of them men who chart womb activity like the consumer price index or manufactured-goods sales.
Babymaking dropped in the 2008 recession and kept sliding. That makes sense to the charts-and-graphs people. But by 2016, the economy was roaring, business was booming and experts kept wondering when, exactly, women were going to crank the baby factories back up.
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China is blocking some of the British Broadcasting Corporation's television transmissions into China, possibly objecting to a story that aired on the news channel.
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It appears the troubling story aired Sunday and was prepared by the BBC's Hong Kong office. It focused on the fifth anniversary of the return of the former British colony to Chinese rule.
The story included information about the Falun Gong spiritual movement, which Chinese officials call an evil cult that is a threat to order and stability. Falun Gong is a mix of slow-motion exercises and traditional Chinese beliefs. Some of its practitioners accuse China of torturing and killing Falun Gong members.
BBC journalists in China declined comment on the interruption of the TV signal. A statement from the network's London headquarters said China has not said precisely what prompted the cutoff.
The transmissions were cut from a Chinese-owned satellite that brings BBC news to expensive hotels and apartments that house mostly foreigners in China, perhaps 60,000 in all. The practical impact of the ban is limited because other satellites continue to transmit BBC TV news to much of its usual audience in China.
This is the first time China has cut
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No summer food celebration would be complete without one of the greatest tastes of the season - sweet corn. And let's be honest, nothing beats buying
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corn that has been picked that very day. That means getting yourself out to the nearest farmers market or roadside stand for the sweetest corn ever.
No summer food celebration would be complete without one of the greatest tastes of the season - sweet corn.
And let's be honest, nothing beats buying corn that has been picked that very day. That means getting yourself out to the nearest farmers market or roadside stand for the sweetest corn ever.
If you store corn, refrigerate it in its husk. You can wrap it in a damp towel put inside a plastic bag.
Preparing corn for grilling can be tricky, according to the editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine in their book, "The Best Kitchen Quick Tips - 534 Tricks, Techniques, and Shortcuts for the Curious Cook" (Boston Common Press, $19.95).
The editors point out that "husked ears tend to burn, and unhusked ears steam on the grill, failing to pick
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This knowledge is important in the search for a treatment for tuberculosis. 9.4 million people are infected with tuberculosis annually and 1.7 million people
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die as a result.
Joris Messens: “We have discovered how Mycobacterium survives the oxygen stress in our body, namely with the aid of the protein mycoredoxin-1. This opens up a whole new field of research into the role of this protein during a tuberculosis infection. A better understanding of this mechanism will enable us to combat this bacterium more selectively”.
Oxygen is essential for the respiration of nearly all cells. They use this gas to burn sugars in order to produce energy. However, oxygen is also very aggressive and can seriously affect proteins – the building blocks of the cell – in a manner similar to rust or oxidation of iron.
Our immune system uses reactive oxygen molecules in the defence against intruders, for example against Mycobacterium. Proteins are particularly sensitive to the effects of oxygen (oxidation). Proteins with sulphur-containing components are particularly sensitive and become inactive with oxidation. Following
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The single biggest cause of homelessness today is loss of tenancy – in other words, an eviction. An increasing number of these are “no-
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fault evictions” – meaning the landlord need not give any reason why they are turfing someone out of their home.
This year, a study for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research found that 80% of private-sector evictions in 2015 occurred under these provisions, which fall under section 21 of the Housing Act 1988.
A tenant can’t appeal against a section 21 eviction unless they can demonstrate it was retaliation for complaints made about problems in their home and that their home was unsafe to live in. The Guardian has reported on people being evicted under section 21 for reasons as minor as asking for hot water.
The rise in this type of eviction has accompanied an out-of-control housing market that increasingly works in favour of the landlord. In the last eight years, loss of a tenancy has increased threefold. According to the English Housing Survey, a branch of the Department for Communities and Local Government that collects data on people
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Foxy Brown’s lawyer has responded to allegations by a book publishing company that’s suing her client over non-delivery of
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a book, for which she received an advance.
As previously reported, Simon and Schuster are suing Brown to retrieve a $75,000 advance they say she was given in 2004 to write a book entitled ‘Broken Silence’.
They say Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, did not write the book and they want their money back.
But Brown’s attorney, Laura Dilimetin, says the company had reached an agreement with Brown to put the project on hold after she suffered severe hearing loss.
“With Simon and Schuster‘s blessings, Foxy Brown underwent extensive surgical procedures and a lengthy recovery time, fighting to restore her hearing,” Dilimetin told AllHipHop.com.
She then went on to say that “Simon and Schuster decided not to go forward with the project,” and that Brown’s attempts to push ahead with the deal were unsuccessful.
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Pack these up for school or work.
Whether you're making lunch for work or for your kid's lunch box, it can feel like a
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real hassle. But packing a homemade lunch doesn't have to be difficult. Here are some affordable and easy recipes, all of which are made with five ingredients or fewer.
This easy pasta salad is a perfect meal prep recipe. Just leave the pesto on the side until you're ready to eat so the arugula doesn't get soggy. Get the recipe.
Turn canned cannellini beans, bacon, and whatever veggies you have on hand into this satisfying soup. Get the recipe.
Thanks to protein-packed chickpeas and avocado, this seemingly simple salad will fill you right up. Get the recipe.
Make the chicken filling at the beginning of the week and keep the tortillas separate. When you need lunch in a hurry, just roll up your taquitos and pop them in the microwave. Get the recipe.
The base of this vegetarian soup is made with onion, sweet potatoes, salsa, black beans, and vegetable stock. You can dress it
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Those who hoped that the change promised by candidate Barack Obama would include repeal of the various acts that have stripped Americans of their constitutional rights should be disappointed
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. Benjamin Franklin supposedly wrote, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." The citation is likely apocryphal, at least in terms of its attribution to Franklin, but it is useful shorthand for the unfortunate abandonment of many of the liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution as a consequence of 9/11. The trauma of 9/11 created an opportunity for those seeking to centralize executive power, an objective of recent presidents from both political parties. Many Americans initially accepted that there had to be some abridgment of fundamental liberties while fighting a multi-faceted and unconventional war against terrorism, but few realize just how much the constitutional rights that all citizens take for granted have been eroded. History also teaches us that once a right is suspended, in all likelihood it is gone forever.
The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 might well be described
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