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Coventry's top cop says the ability to move people on who could cause trouble is a "very useful tool" in
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the fight against violence in the city.
One such dispersal order was put in place following the stabbing of a 15-year-old boy in the city centre on Sunday, February 2.
This meant officers could move on any groups hanging around in the city centre if it’s suspected they could be a crime or anti-social behaviour threat.
If those moved along came back, then they faced possibly being arrested.
Coventry stabbing reaction: "Where are the parents?"
The teenager was found with knife injuries to his leg and lower torso in Trinity Street shortly before 6pm and was taken to hospital.
His injuries were not life-changing and he was released from hospital just hours later.
Dispersal orders are not a new action that police can take, however they aren't always used.
So we asked the Commander of Coventry Police, Chief Superintendent Mike O'Hara, why one was used on Sunday and
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Michael Torpey wants to raise awareness about student debt.
Michael Torpey, an accomplished actor and writer, is hosting a trivia show
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where contestants compete to pay off their student loans.
The show hopes to bring light to the student debt crisis in the US.
The show premieres tonight at 10 p.m. EST on TruTV.
With the student loan debt crisis at an all-time high, Michael Torpey has a plan to help borrowers pay off their lofty debt.
In his new game show "Paid Off" on TruTV, Torpey gives three contestants a chance to pay off their student loan debt by answering "Family Feud" style and other trivia questions.
Torpey is an actor and writer who is best known for his work in "Orange is the New Black," "Veep," and "Inside Amy Schumer."
According to Forbes, the amount of student loan debt in the US has totaled $1.3 trillion, with the average 2016 graduate leaving with $37,172 in debt. These numbers are highest in the world and this is not lost on Tor
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Marcia Goldberg is co-president of the League of Women Voters of Greater Cleveland.
CLEVELAND -- On May 8, Ohioans will
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have the chance to vote on Issue 1, a bipartisan proposal to reform the way Ohio draws its U.S. congressional districts. The League of Women Voters urges you to vote yes.
As many Ohioans know, our state is one of the most severely gerrymandered in the country. For decades, politicians have drawn political maps that allow them to choose their voters (and have not allowed voters to choose their representatives). Rather than bringing a lawsuit to protest our state's gerrymandered districts, the League of Women Voters of Ohio chose to promote measures for reform.
Transparency: There must be at least two hearings on any plan and the public can submit proposed maps. These transparency and voter-participation provisions offer particularly strong protection against biased map-making.
Susan Murnane is co-president of the League of Women Voters of Greater Cleveland.
This proposal is the result of a rare bipartisan agreement in the state legislature, negotiated by lawmakers from both parties with the Fair
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A plan to create the world’s largest marine sanctuary in Antarctic waters was shot down when a key conservation summit failed to reach a consensus,
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with environmentalists on Saturday decrying a lack of scientific foresight.
The proposed sanctuary – some five times the size of Germany – would ban fishing in a vast area in the Weddell sea, protecting key species including seals, penguins and whales.
But environmental groups say Russia and China – whose concerns over compliance issues and fishing rights have proved key stumbling blocks in the past – along with Norway, played a part in rejecting the plan.
"This was an historic opportunity to create the largest protected area on Earth in the Antarctic: safeguarding wildlife, tackling climate change and improving the health of our global oceans," Greenpeace’s Frida Bengtsson said in a statement on Saturday.
Andrea Kavanagh, head of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Antarctic and Southern Ocean work, described the failure to achieve an MPA designation as "discouraging".
The CCAMLR released a statement saying the new MPAs were the "subject of much discussion" and
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South Sudan's conflicting parties to sign comprehensive deal next week.
Current round of talks discussed issues that were not resolved in the framework and the power
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-sharing and security arrangements agreements.
Earlier, the South Sudanese opposition alliance demanded revision of the administrative division of South Sudan and reconsideration of the number of the 32 states.
South Sudan's conflicting parties have reached consensus on a final peace deal draft expected to be signed in Khartoum on August 27, South Sudan's Information Minister said Wednesday.
"We are expected to sign with initial letters on a comprehensive peace agreement next Monday," South Sudan's Information Minister and government spokesman Michael Makuei told Xinhua Wednesday.
"The parties have overcome most of the issues of differences which we discussed during the third round of South Sudan's peace talks starting in Khartoum on August 13," he noted.
He said the current round of talks discussed issues that were not resolved in the framework and the power-sharing and security arrangements agreements.
"We have discussed issues relating to powers of the vice presidents, formation of the committees responsible for formulating the constitution, the judiciary committee
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Rapper LIL’ KIM, who plays her first solo live dates in the UK in June, has been filming the final scenes to
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her latest video.
But in a break from her outrageous norm, Kim‘s latest track is a cover of Phil Collins‘ ‘In The Air Tonight’, the second release from the ‘Urban Renewal’ covers album, in which popular R&B and rap stars – including Kelis, Montell Jordan, Joe and Changing Faces, among others, tackle “popular” Collins songs.
The first cover to be taken from the album, ‘Another Day In Paradise’ – a duet featuring siblings Brandy and Ray J – has already shifted a quarter of a million copies, despite the album itself only being released in Germany.
Lil’ Kim also makes a guest appearance on the forthcoming ‘Lady Marmalade’ single.
For tickets to Lil’ Kim‘s UK dates, [url=]click here…, or ring the NME 24-hour Ticketline on 0870 1 663663
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Director of Climate Change, Federal Ministry of Environment Dr Pete Tarfa has urged youths to see climate change as an opportunity for growth and national economic advancement
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Tarfa made the call at the Accra International Conference Centre in Ghana, when he met some Nigerian youths’ delegates attending the ongoing International Climate Change Development Initiative (ICCDI) in commemoration of the Africa Climate Week. The theme was: ‘Africa climate week is a race we can win’.
Six youth delegates from Nigeria attended the event. They are: Babatunde Enitan, Abiodun Adekoya, Rukayat Odebiyi, Moses Eboigbe, Prosper Egeonu and ‘Seyifunmi Adebote.
“One thing I want Nigerian youths working in the area of climate change to do is to open their eyes to the many opportunities that surround climate change,” Tarfa began.
He continued, “Before now, we used to see climate change as a tragedy, a woe, and something to be scared about. Today, there are a lot of opportunities
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that it was unacceptable to make "groundless" accusations over this week's suspected chemical weapons
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attack in a Syrian province.
The Kremlin said in a statement that Putin "highlighted that it was unacceptable to make groundless accusations against anyone without conducting a detailed and unbiased investigation."
According to the Prime Minister's Office, it was Netanyahu who initiated the phone call in order to convey his condolences over the St. Petersburg attack. Netanyahu also told Putin that he was "deeply shaken by the chemical weapons attack in Idlib. The international community must complete the effort to clean Syria of chemical weapons as was agreed in 2013."
Scores were reported killed by a suspected Syrian government chemical attack in Idlib province and the U.S. government has suggested forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad were responsible. Russia has said it was too early to accuse the Syrian government and called for an investigation.
The call came several hours after Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Assad ordered the chemical attack. Lieberman told Yedioth Ahronoth that Syrian planes carried out the two chemical attacks, which were
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DEFENDING champion Jean-Eric Vergne won his first race of the season in Sanya.
The Frenchman overtook pole-s
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itter Oliver Rowland with a crisp move after the Brit’s aggressive defending.
Rowland finished second as the Nissan star celebrated on the podium for the first win in Formula E after also securing his maiden pole in China.
Vergne had gone five races without a win after sealing his first victory since last season's finale in New York.
He said: "I was never gone, I guess I had a bit of bad luck lately, but I have always had the same motivation.
"I guess talent doesn't go away in a few months, so that is the thing I told myself, not to lose the confidence or the hope.
"The moment you lose hope you lose everything, you need to trust your team and especially yourself."
Vergne also dedicated his victory to Charlie Whiting after the former Formula One race director tragically passed away earlier this month.
Vergne added: "He (Charlie Whiting) was a great man, more than
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Old Glory features 50 American flag design proposals from citizens during the Eisenhower administration.
The late Robert G. Heft—the man credited with designing
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the 50-star American flag—was a 17-year-old boy fulfilling a class assignment when he came up with the winning design. The Illustrated America: Old Glory is a new book that features 50 American flag designs submitted by U.S. citizens to President Dwight D. Eisenhower that incorporated Hawaii and Alaska as the 49th and 50th states.
“Old Glory excavates a long-forgotten, yet fascinating chapter from America’s vexillographic history,” said Los Angeles–based publisher Atelier Éditions. The book’s updated renderings of original submitted designs, drawn from plates held in the Eisenhower Presidential Library’s archive, used a lithographic four-color process that represents the era’s printing methods.
“From the first year of the Eisenhower administration the public had anticipated that Alaska and Hawaii might be added as new states and that a new flag design would be needed,” the library explained in
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We know that there's no such thing as a completely secure computer system. Is the NSA spy system the largest security risk of them all?
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Many are concerned about the National Security Agency (NSA) collection of data on US companies and individuals and the very real possibility that it has a way of directly accessing the servers of the world's largest computing platforms: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.
It's certainly a situation that deserves attention and concern. But what's missing in this discussion is this: how secure is the NSA's spying system?
If a foreign entity wanted to spy on US companies or individuals, would it try to tackle the problem directly by targeting the specific company or individual in its electronic spying attempts? It might, but that's a lot of work for an uncertain payoff.
A much more efficient approach would be to hack into a surveillance system that already has access to the information. Far better to hack into the NSA spying system at Google, or at Facebook, or at Microsoft (if such an NSA system exists, of course).
This puzzled me tremendously, why would Google, with its enormous brain trust of the
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We’ll be seeing Arrested Development season 5 sooner than expected. A lot sooner – as in this month. Netflix just released an Arrest
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ed Development season 5 trailer which reveals a May 29 release date.
Netflix dropped a surprise Arrested Development season 4 remix over the weekend, but that’s not the last we’ll see of the Bluths this month. The official Arrested Development season 5 trailer is here, and it reveals a May 29, 2018 premiere date.
This trailer starts off like a greatest hits compliation, taking us through some of the best moments of previous seasons before launching into new material. That new material hints at a plotline involving the Bluths giving themselves an award. There’s also a quick shot revealing Portia de Rossi‘s character Lindsay is running for Congress.
The question now is: are you still excited for a new season of Arrested Development? Personally speaking, I’m not entirely optimistic about more misadventures with the Bluths. While the original run of the series will always be a classic, and the cast remains very talented
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DONAL DONNELLY, who became one of the most respected Irish actors of his generation, has died in Chicago on Monday after a long
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battle with cancer. He was 78.
He was best known for his role as the scheming Archbishop Gilday in The Godfather: Part III and as good-natured drunk Freddy Malins in John Huston’s masterful adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead,but he saw the stage as his natural home. He was described by Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism Martin Cullen as “one of the first of the Irish success stories”.
Donnelly was nominated for a Tony Award for his role as Private Gar in the original staging of Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come! in 1964. He also appeared in the original Broadway version of Friel’s play Dancing at Lughnasa, which won a Tony.
Born in Bradford in 1931 to an Irish doctor, Donnelly moved to Ireland with his family at a young age. He went to Synge Street CBS where his contemporaries included Milo O’
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The morning before I attended the screening of the new X-Men movie, I was cleaning out an old box of mementos and came across
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an odd flyer. It read “Mutants Are People Too!” on the cover. On the inner fold were details of how this country was full of Mutant Oppression and lacking Mutant Equality. I was given this flyer at the first screening of the original X-Men in 2000, when the studio staged a mock protest outside the theater. Actors made up as mutants handed out pamphlets and spoke out against the Senator Kelly character, played in the movie by Bruce Davison.
It’s amazing (and maybe a little depressing) that there have been seven X-Men movies made in the past 14 years, and only a few of them are really good. The first two, directed by Bryan Singer, were made before the saturation of comic book movie adaptations we have today and remain impressive, thrilling and a lot of fun. The disappointing X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine were the underwhelming series lows, while the pretty good X-Men
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Greetings, programs. You can now wear a bit of Tron: Legacy on your head, as Monster reveals headphones based on the forthcoming film
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Greetings, programs. You can now wear a part of Tron: Legacy on your head, as Monster reveals headphones based on the forthcoming film. Branded with a Daft Punk logo, they light up and everything.
Monster's line of Tron-tastic light-up products include the T1 over-the-ear cans, T3 in-ear headphones and Identity iPod dock, which is modelled on the film's data disc. Get the Tron app on your iPhone or iPod touch and you can unlock a film-themed alarm clock for use with the dock.
The T1 Tronphones offer noise-isolating technology and an adjustable LED Light Drive system -- in other words, they light up. They also come with a removable boom mic, which attaches to either ear to turn it into a gaming headset -- perfect for playing Tron: Evolution. The headphones all support Monster ControlTalk voice-activated hands-free phone calls.
Daft Punk
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LOVELAND, Colo. -- A man is dead after being found shot on a Loveland sidewalk late Wednesday night and the Loveland Police
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Department said a task force is investigating whether it's connected to two other random shootings in northern Colorado in the past six weeks.
"There are enough likenesses in this case that we reached out to the task force," Loveland Police Chief Luke Hecker said during a Thursday afternoon news conference.
Loveland police responded to East First Street and St. Louis Avenue just before 11 p.m. on a report of a man on the sidewalk who was bleeding.
Life-saving measures on the 65-year-old William Roger Connole Jr. of Loveland were unsuccessful. The Larimer County coroner said Connole died of a gunshot wound to the chest. The manner of death was homicide.
Police do not have a description of the suspect. Police said they are consulting with members of the task force to determine if there is a link to the shootings of a Milliken woman on Interstate 25 in April and a Windsor cyclist last month. Cori Romero was shot in the neck and she
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One week later, estimates are still coming in.
The tornado and strong storms that tore through last week will cost Brideport more than $3
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.2 million, and damage and cleanup cost estimates continue to go up.
Damage to city property alone exceeds $2.2 million, Bridgeport officials said, and police estimate they have spent about $150,000 in overtime.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency set $1.19 million as the statewide threshold to be eligible to apply for federal funds, which could reimburse municipalities up to 75 percent, according to the Connecticut Post.
Bridgeport was the hardest hit community and was the site of the only confirmed tornado. City officials said that, because the city has met the Small Business Administration's threshold of 25 homes and businesses impacted by the tornado, help from the SBA could be available soon.
Stratford and Trumbull were also severely affected and the communities are still tallying how much damage the storms caused and what it will cost to recover.
John Marsilio, Trumbull’s public works director told the Post he does not yet have a figure,
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Although Yahoo managed to defuse Carl Icahn's proxy fight this week, a rare victory in its months-long, tumultuous sparring match with
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shareholders and suitor Microsoft, its results for the quarter ended June 30, 2008, will probably do little to dispel doubts over its ability to survive as an independent company.
"We believe it is more efficient for Yahoo to be acquired. Scale is a competitive advantage. As a result, a combined Yahoo and Microsoft makes a great deal of sense," Financial analyst Clayton Moran from Stanford Group Company said in an e-mail interview after the results were released.
Asked whether he sees Yahoo as being on the right track or not, Moran, who has a "Hold" recommendation on the stock and a 12-month target of $24 per share, said: "Yahoo is struggling with no clear solution to reignite growth."
Still, Yahoo's top executives repeatedly said, during a conference call to discuss the results, that they were pleased with Yahoo's performance considering the challenges it has faced, including adverse economic conditions and the distractions of the Microsoft acquisition bid and the strident controversies it has generated
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By CNN'S JIM ACOSTA AND JEREMY DIAMOND CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.
A triumphant President
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Donald Trump emerged Sunday to claim "complete and total exoneration" after special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation did not establish that Trump or his campaign associates conspired with Russia to win the presidential election.
But the absence of clear evidence of wrongdoing was enough for Trump to boast of vindication after the nearly two-year cloud of the probe has lifted. His remarks foreshadow what advisers say will be an unsparing effort to cast the entire Mueller probe as a pointless and expensive folly.
"It was just announced there was no collusion with Russia, the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. There was no collusion with Russia. There was no obstruction, none whatsoever," Trump said, calling Mueller's investigation "an illegal takedown that failed."
"It's a shame that our country had to go through this. To be honest, it's a shame your President had to go through since before I was even elected," he said.
"It began illegally, and hopefully somebody's going to look at
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A few new skills are HIPAA compliant, which is nice, but probably not enough to protect user privacy overall.
Multiple healthcare companies have announced
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HIPAA-compliant Alexa skills, promising adequate protection for consumers who use Echo devices for health and wellness.
These new voice skills include the ability to manage prescriptions, find clinics, schedule or cancel appointments and get blood glucose readings and health tips.
HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, protects personal information that is stored or transferred electronically by health plans, healthcare clearinghouses and healthcare providers. It covers an individual’s physical or mental health or condition, medical services provided, payment for services rendered and anything that identifies the individual or could be used to identify the individual.
These healthcare providers say Alexa skills make them more accessible and make it easier for consumers to manage their health, which, in turn, may eliminate costly problems that arise from not complying with doctor’s orders. They also align with Amazon’s rumored plans for the healthcare industry, from its acquisition of online pharmacy PillPack last year to reports that it is building a health
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Washington officials believe 8,000 people would die as a result of an earthquake-driven tsunami after a magnitude 9 quake hits off the coast.
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The reason is many low-lying communities are without easy access to bluffs and higher ground and would not have time to outrun the waves in the mere 15 to 20 minutes it would take between the shaking to stop and first tsunami waves to hit the beach.
Maximilian Dixon, the earthquake program manager for Washington State Emergency Management, says that’s 8,000 people in the offseason. The number is expected to be higher during the warmer tourist season.
Officials say there is a solution that could drop those frightening numbers to near zero. The answer is tsunami vertical evacuation structures.
There is also the threat of tsunami waves coming from the other side of the Pacific Ocean, or Alaska. There, the warning time would be much longer.
Washington is ahead of other tsunami-vulnerable states like Oregon, California, Alaska, and Hawaii.
The state already has one vertical evacuation structure. It doubles as part of the Ocosta School south of Westport on the coast.
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At this time a year ago congress passed a one-year extension of the Farm Bill mainly to avoid a dramatic hike in milk prices. Congress failed
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to pass a new five-year Farm Bill in 2013, but U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack has assured congress there won’t be an immediate spike in dairy prices in January — as it will take several weeks for his agency to draft the rules that would put 1949-era dairy prices in place.
“But it’s not an indefinite amount of time and it’s not a long period of time,” Vilsack says.
Negotiators in congress hope to pass a new five-year Farm Bill when the U.S. House and Senate reconvene in mid-January.
If that January deadline isn’t met, however, Vilsack warns his agency will start enforcing the dairy program devised in 1949, as all subsequent Farm Bills have been a temporary, five-year updates of that original 1949 law.
“When it becomes quite obvious that there is no agreement, then it is our responsibility under
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In this week’s article we wanted to talk about a subject that many people find hard to talk about – the end of our lives,
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dying.
Talking about death and dying can be hard because we don’t want to think about a time when we may no longer be around.
But to plan ahead and to talk about it with loved ones can make a huge difference when the time comes.
This week is Dying Matters Awareness Week, a national campaign, which wants to get as many people as possible thinking, talking, and taking action about death, dying and bereavement.
The theme for the annual week campaign is ‘What Can You Do?’ and it aims to get people more active in planning for dying and death, and helping support those who may need it in times of grief and bereavement, be they friends, family or in your wider community.
What is crucial is that talking about our wishes now doesn’t mean that it is going to happen, and talking about the end of our lives isn’t going to bring it on, we can still live, and importantly,
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A new Yale study may help save the tigers.
Researchers from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies have come up with a form of spatial
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modeling to identify the areas of the Kanha Tiger Reserve National Park where the risk of tiger attacks on livestock is highest, in the hopes of reducing farmer-tiger conflict. The study holds potential for mitigating farmers’ economic losses, but could also prove an important part of the conservation puzzle for the dwindling tiger population.
“If we can understand what kind of landscape features these cats target when they’re attacking livestock, then we can better predict where to graze, and predict where the high risk areas are,” said Jennie Miller FES ’15, the study’s lead author who conducted the research for her dissertation.
Similar statistical models have been used in past research with wolves in the United States. Though Miller’s model is based off of these, it is distinct because of the differences in large cats’ hunting patterns.
The team studied the area within 20 square meters of each kill site. Though past models have focused on larger areas
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Sister Ursula continues to reign with an iron fist and the midwives at Nonnatus House struggle to toe the line, especially when she
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insists they must not be emotionally involved with their patients. This unpopular new edict is immediately put to the test when new father George Marsh is badly burnt in an explosion at the docks and is unable to support his new family, and when expectant mother Penny Reed and her anxious husband Derek are brought to the attention of Nonnatus House.
Penny and Derek both have achondroplasia (colloquially known as dwarfism) and problems with the pregnancy are anticipated, including their baby being stillborn or only living for a short time. As the midwives prepare the Reeds for an infant that may not live, their unconditional devotion to one another and to their unborn child makes a deep impact, especially on Patsy, who is facing one of her toughest decisions yet.
Elsewhere, barmaid Valerie Dyer's quick thinking catches Shelagh's attention when they are first on hand to deal with the casualties at the dock fire. Shelagh is appalled by the general
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The Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch is the best eReader on the market. The new Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight is the same
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device, with an improvement. (Can you guess what it is?) If you're thinking of getting your first eReader, start here.
An eInk reader with a built-in lighted display to enable reading in the dark.
Readers who sometimes finds themselves hungry for literature in low-light environments.
The GlowLight adds a new scratch-resistant screen coating, and the Simple Touch's rubberized matte design is far tougher than the easy-to-chip silver paint on the current Kindles. Those are improvements. But the garish new gray ring around the outside is an eyesore.
If there's one thing that makes me vomit in my mouth, it's plastic gadgets painted silver.
Simply hold down the home button for a few seconds to turn the front light on and off, and tap the home button to adjust its brightness. The light degrades the clarity of the text a bit, but overall, it improves
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“A Thousand Splendid Suns,” an emotionally stirring stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel now at the
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Old Globe, brings old-fashioned narrative techniques to a story about a country that seems fated to remain forever in the headlines.
In “The Kite Runner,” Hosseini humanized the tumultuous history of modern Afghanistan in a novel centered on male characters buffeted by the strife of a society in constant upheaval. In “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” set in Kabul in roughly the same period, the violence and terror of the Soviet invasion followed by the rise of the Taliban are captured in the domestic saga of two women enduring the brutal tyranny of marriage to the same increasingly unhinged man.
This theatrical presentation, a collaboration between San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater and Canada’s Theatre Calgary, is in many ways more modern than the novel that inspired it. Directed with a sure hand by Carey Perloff, the production is more atmospherically suggestive than literal.
Perloff, who’s stepping down after a
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Lenders to India’s troubled Jet Airways Ltd may have to wait a little longer to sell a stake
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in the carrier, as they need more clarity from the country’s central bank, the Business Standard newspaper reported on Sunday.
Jet, India’s oldest private carrier, is saddled with more than $1 billion in debt, compounding its financial woes and forcing it to ground most of its fleet.
After Jet failed to convince potential investors, including its largest shareholder Etihad Airways, to bail it out, Indian banks decided to take a majority stake in the carrier.
Last month, Jet’s lenders, led by State Bank of India agreed to bailout the airline in a complex deal that involved the banks taking a majority stake, while seeking out an investor to help revive the company’s fortunes.
Jet’s lenders on Thursday said they plan to seek expressions of interest in the airline from potential investors from April 6 and that all submissions from interested parties are expected to be completed by April 9.
But this process may be delayed as the Reserve Bank of
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Nicki Minaj Flaunts A Diamond Ring From Meek Mill And Admits They Live Together!
She’s flawless! And we
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’re not just talking about the bling. Nicki Minaj showed off a gorgeous new diamond gifted to her by her boyfriend Meek Mill in honor of her birthday, and she flaunted it on that finger.
The beautiful stone looked like it weighed a ton and cost even more, and the petite rapper was happy to show it off to her fans. “Now this is what I’m talking about baby. Lol. Love u” along with a lot of kissy face emojis.
Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill at the Sprite Celebrity Basketball game during the 2015 BET Experience in Los Angeles, California.
So is she getting married? This is not the first time Meek Mill has bedazzled his girlfriend’s finger with diamonds.
Back in April, he gave Nicki a diamond stunner that reportedly cost $500,000! So what’s going on with these two? They have been dating since last
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Talented young rugby players from West Cork are a plentiful commodity these days with the Wycherley brothers and the Coombes’ cousins among
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those making a mark at Munster. And that trend is set to continue with a new crop, many of them attending Bandon Grammar School, on the horizon.
All are following the trail set by Darren Sweetnam, who turned his back on Cork hurling so as to concentrate on a career in rugby — though he admits his introduction to the game as a child was memorable for all the wrong reasons.
“It all began for me in Dunmanway where my dad Leslie was the head coach,” recalled the 25-year-old. “Only three turned up for the first session, me, my brother and my next door neighbour! After that, I moved on to Bandon Grammar and that’s when the rugby really started for me. I went on from there to Munster underage and the academy while also trying to manage all the other sports, hockey, hurling. I was a bit of an all-rounder.
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THE people of Arbroath reveled in the success of Tartan Day success, after eight days of special events across Angus, which celebrated Scotland
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and its people.
THIS year’s Tartan Day celebrations in Scotland drew to a close on Sunday following eight days of special events across Angus.
The programme of events, which celebrated Scotland and its people, kicked off on 5 April.
Over 1600 people enjoyed visiting Arbroath Abbey for the first time, while street performers and live music led festival goers from the historic building to the Harbour as the celebrations continued.
Arbroath resident Natalie Cargill said: “My children had lots of fun at the Abbey’s medieval encampment.
Shop windows in the town’s main street were specially decorated for the Tartan Shop Window competition as members of Heritage Arts Auchmithie Residents performed a short musical play about life in the fishing village in the late 19th century.
Official visitor figures revealed that 3,301 people had travelled from far and near to visit Arbroath Abbey, which led to a mini-tourist boom on Ar
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More than 1 billion people around the world were expected to watch Sydney's fireworks display on television.
Cities around the world prepared to welcome the
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New Year on Monday, from traditional ceremonies in Japan to fireworks displays in Sydney, Dubai, London, Edinburgh and Rio de Janeiro.
At 6 a.m. ET, Auckland, New Zealand, became the first major city to ring in 2019 with fireworks erupting from Auckland's Sky Tower. Thousands of revelers on the waterfront cheered as they watched brightly colored fireworks and laser lighting shoot into the sky over the city's harbor.
Celebrations followed in Sydney two hours later with rain-drenched crowds counting down to midnight. Fireworks launched from buildings across the city lit up the night and reflected in the harbor.
Police estimated that more than 1 million people would crowd Sydney Harbor to watch the spectacular display. More than 1 billion people around the world were expected to watch the display on television.
Tokyo also rung in 2019 at 10 a.m. ET, Hong Kong at 11 a.m. ET and Bangkok at noon ET.
While many celebrate New Year's Eve
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CIUSSS de l'Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal is in desperate need of English
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-speaking foster homes.
Every child deserves a warm bed and the love and support of a family. Unfortunately, there are English-speaking children in the larger Montreal community who are going without.
These children have suffered abuse, be it negligent parenting, rejection or physical or sexual abuse. They have been removed from their families and are in need of fostering, which is why the health authority CIUSSS de l’Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal has launched a call for English-speaking foster homes.
“What we expect from a foster family is energy, time and love,” Marie Pierre Ulysse said.
Ulysse has been working with children in crisis for over 30 years. For the last seven years, she has been working as head of the CIUSSS de l’Ouest –de-l’Île –de-Montréal program which overseas matching children
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The wounds are multiple in the wake of Boston's bewildering 13-6 loss to the Cleveland Indians in 11 innings last night at Fenway Park
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. The obvious and most damaging byproduct is the Red Sox have suddenly coughed up home-field advantage in the American League Championship Series by letting this game slip through their grasp.
It goes beyond that, naturally. The locals thought they had survived a shaky outing from their usually redoubtable playoff pitcher, Curt Schilling. They hoped they would be able to keep the Indians at bay with their deep, reliable bullpen, and they did that through four scoreless innings.
But as Saturday night droned into Sunday morning, the Red Sox ran out of time, pitchers, and options, leaving the fate of this ballgame in the hands of Eric Gagné and Javier Lopez.
The results were nothing short of devastating. Gagné set the table for the loss by giving up a single and a walk, then Lopez spectacularly imploded by getting whacked for three runs. Francona gave him the hook and went to Jon Lester, but he, too, proved
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Cost: $49.50 and more. Tickets
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available through Ticketmaster.
Note: Saturday’s concert will be livestreamed at http://dmblivestream.com at 8 p.m.
Traditions become traditions for a reason.
For one, they typically mark a special occasion or experience. For another, they’re, usually, just plain fun.
Which perhaps explains why Dave Matthews Band has made performing at the Gorge Amphitheatre during Labor Day weekend a long standing tradition since its 1996 debut at the outdoor venue overlooking the Columbia River.
After taking a break from the road last year, Dave Matthews Band is back at the Gorge, Friday through Sunday.
According to live music website JamBase, this weekend’s trio of shows will bring the band’s Gorge show count to 58.
Fans of the band mirror Phish fans and Deadheads in their dedication, with many taking in all three shows year after year.
“We only have like 35,000 fans
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Kuala Lumpur: The Malaysia International Halal Showcase (MIHAS) 2019, scheduled to be held on 3-6 April 2019,
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is expected to attract the biggest number of exhibitors in the event's history.
Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) Wan Latiff Wan Musa said that around 1,000 companies are expected to participate in the 16th edition of MIHAS, dubbed the world's largest halal trade fair.
“MIHAS 2018 attracted over 778 exhibitors from 32 countries and 21,000 visitors globally. It proved to be successful by generating over RM1.52 billion in sales, an increase of 50.49 percent compared with MIHAS 2017,” he told BERNAMA in an interview.
He pointed out that MIHAS 2019 would serve as a platform for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to showcase their halal brands and services to the global visitors.
The exhibition, to be held under the theme of "Delivering the Halal Market", would showcase technologies related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (
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BRUGELETTE, Belgium (Reuters) - Belgian researchers are examining the excrement of giant pandas to try to understand how they can
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digest tough bamboo, hoping for clues on how to develop new generations of biofuel.
The genetic make-up of endangered pandas is that of a carnivore but the animals have adapted to a diet consisting almost exclusively of bamboo.
While a few scientific studies have looked into the digestive tract of the panda, the researchers say their study is the first to focus on the microorganisms in the animal’s gut.
“We can look for new enzymes which could be used to degrade tough biomass,” said Korneel Rabaey, professor for biochemical and microbial technology at Ghent University, standing outside the giant panda enclosure at the Pairi Daiza zoo in Belgium.
The results of the study may point to new, cheaper, ways to produce so-called second generation biofuels made from plants and biomass not destined for consumption such as corn stalks.
Six-year-old panda Xing Hui, whose name means sparkling star,
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COLUMBUS, Ohio—The leader of the country's largest university thinks it's time to re-examine how professors are awarded tenure,
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a type of job-for-life protection virtually unknown outside academia.
Ohio State University President Gordon Gee says the traditional formula that rewards publishing in scholarly journals over excellence in teaching and other contributions is outdated and too often favors the quantity of a professor's output over quality.
"Someone should gain recognition at the university for writing the great American novel or for discovering the cure for cancer," he told The Associated Press. "In a very complex world, you can no longer expect everyone to be great at everything."
Plenty of people have raised the issue over the years, but Gee is one of the few American college presidents with the reputation and political prowess -- not to mention the golden touch at fundraising -- who might be able to begin the transformation.
Still, some professors are already skeptical.
"The idea of awarding tenure based on teaching makes me anxious," said Jennifer Higginbotham, an English professor at Ohio State who's up for tenure in three years. By then,
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Continental Resources (CLR) is up as the energy sector gets a boost from the Talisman Energy (TLM) acquisition and the rise
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in oil prices.
The shares of the young company have tanked this year on mounting fears about its future in a down market, but investors might have underestimated this oil producer.
Continental Resources (CLR) hit a 52-week low Friday as oil prices continue to fall after the International Energy Agency lowered its consumption forecast for 2015.
Am I being overly negative on some players? I don't think so.
Continental Resources (CLR) stock is down this afternoon as oil prices decline after OPEC cut its forecast for global demand for its oil next year.
The company is in a strong position to weather the downturn in the industry, thanks to these advantages.
These names are trading at multi-year lows. Let's check the charts.
Continental Resources (CLR) hit a 52-week low Monday after oil prices fell to five-year lows.
Crashes, sneaky things they are, often occur without headlines.
Three things must happen before getting
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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - President Donald Trump is considering significantly drawing down troops from Afghanistan, two United States officials told Reuters on Thursday (Dec 20
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), in the latest sign that his patience is thinning both with America's longest war and overseas military interventions generally.
Shortly after the officials spoke, Defence Secretary James Mattis said he was quitting so that Mr Trump could have a Pentagon chief more aligned with the President's views.
Mr Mattis has argued for maintaining a strong US military presence in Afghanistan to bolster diplomatic peace efforts. He also opposed the US troop withdrawal from Syria that Mr Trump announced on Wednesday, a move that has bewildered allies and triggered harsh reaction from Republican allies in Congress.
Mr Garrett Marquis, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said the White House would not comment "on future strategic developments".
The US officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said thousands of the 14,000 troops could be sent home as a result of the deliberations, the disclosure of which could undermine peace efforts with the Taleban.
Mr Trump privately has been grousing about US military involvement in Afghanistan, telling an ally as recently as
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Gov. David A. Paterson has continually said he plans to run next year to keep the job he assumed after Gov. Eliot Spitzer�
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�s resignation. But first he will have to improve his standing with the public.
A Marist poll released Wednesday showed his approval rating at a dismal 20 percent. That is basically unchanged from a survey conducted by Marist in June, which had Mr. Paterson’s approval rating at 21 percent.
Seventy percent of those polled said Mr. Paterson should not even run next year.
Poll numbers continue to show Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo’s popularity as almost the opposite of Mr. Paterson’s, as expectations continue to rise that Mr. Cuomo will enter the governor’s race. Rudolph W. Giuliani, who is considering a gubernatorial bid, also has robust support; 58 percent of those surveyed believe he should run for governor.
Marist surveyed 805 registered voters across the state as part of the poll, which has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
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The role of flavors has become increasingly scrutinized as adolescents and teenagers have adopted e-cigs with fruity variations.
The flavor controversy has
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heightened within the past year as JUUL, a popular e-cigarette, has become popular among adolescents and teenagers.
The days of menthol cigarettes and strawberry-flavored e-cigs may be numbered.
The Food and Drug Administration is taking the first step toward implementing a rule about the role that flavors, including menthol, play in attracting users to certain tobacco products. On one hand, fun e-cig flavors like creme brulee might be enticing teenagers and young adults, but the FDA is trying to balance that with the flavors helping some adults to quit smoking traditional cigarettes.
The agency is considering banning or restricting menthol and other flavors from tobacco products. One of the questions it's seeking comment on is which types of products should fall under the rule: traditional combustible cigarettes, alternatives like e-cigarettes, or both.
"No child should use any tobacco products, including e-cigarette," FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said, in a statement. "At
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Wall Street Journal reports that marketing companies are specifically targeting social media as a means of gathering information about us for advertisers. We knew this was happening,
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right?
Most users of popular photo-sharing sites like Instagram, Flickr and Pinterest know that anyone can view their vacation pictures if shared publicly.
But they may be surprised to learn that a new crop of digital marketing companies are searching, scanning, storing and repurposing these images to draw insights for big-brand advertisers.
Some companies, such as Ditto Labs Inc., use software to scan photos—the image of someone holding a Coca-Cola can, for example—to identify logos, whether the person in the image is smiling, and the scene's context. The data allow marketers to send targeted ads or conduct market research.
Privacy watchdogs contend these sites aren't clearly communicating to users that their images could be scanned in bulk or downloaded for marketing purposes. Many users may not intend to promote, say, a pair of jeans they are wearing in a photo or a bottle of beer on the table next to them, the privacy experts say.
WSJ has an infographic that
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Hurricane Isaac damaged nearly 59,000 homes as the slow-moving storm crawled across southeast Louisiana, according to the latest damage estimates released Friday.
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The Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness said the most severe damage hit houses and rental units in St. John the Baptist and Plaquemines parishes, where flooding swamped some homes with several feet of water. The latest estimates -- 46,663 owner-occupied houses and 12,289 rental units damaged by the storm -- were more than four times the preliminary figures released a week after Isaac made landfall Aug. 28.
after people registered for federal aid.
"The majority of housing inspections have been completed," state homeland security Director Kevin Davis said in a statement. "We'll continue to support parish leaders in their efforts to help communities recover from this devastating storm and will continue to advocate for residents who find themselves without homes as a result of Isaac."
Isaac came ashore in Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi River as a Category 1 storm, relatively weak compared to other named storms that remain fresh in residents' memories. But its damage, particularly flooding, was significant
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Plans are moving forward for James Franco, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by five women, to remain with the HBO series “The
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Deuce” as it readies to begin filming its second season in a few weeks, Variety reports….
Moonves Attorney Says Conclusions of CBS Investigation Are ‘Baseless.’ Will Moonves Fight Decision Depriving Him of $120 Million?
Veteran TV Exec Named Chief Creative Officer for CBS Corp.
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Cover of New York Daily News Summarizes How Many U.S. Liberals Are Feeling Today — Did the Daily News Go Too Far?
Charlie Rose Reportedly Asked to Host a Show About … Whaaat?
Can ABC’s Hit Freshman Drama Lead the Network Out of Fourth Place?
When Will We See Apple’s Original TV Programming?
What’s Behind the ‘Massive Shortage’ of Snacks in New York City?
The Most Outrageous Experiment Ever Conducted in Hollywood. Would Those Working in the Movies Recognize a Classic Screen
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By Don Edwards Don Edwards, US representative from California, is chairman of the House Subcommitte on Civil and Constitutional Rights. He was the floor
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leader for House passage of extension of the Voting Rights Act.
If President Reagan and a handful of conservative senators succeed in their scheme to require plaintiffs in Voting Rights Act cases to prove ''intent'' to discriminate, the results will be tragic for minority Americans. A key provision of the bill passed by the House of Representatives on Oct. 5, 1981, by the overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 389-24 will be struck down before it has become law.
Section 2, which was designed in 1965 to remedy voting discrimination patterns wherever they might exist, authorizes the government or private individuals to ask the federal courts to stop discriminatory practices whether they occur in Mississippi, Alaska, California, or anywhere in the US. If President Reagan is successful in imposing his will, scores of blatantly discriminatory laws and pratices will be unreachable through lawsuits.
When it approved the Voting Rights Act in 1965, it was Congress's intention that in lawsuits to enforce Section 2 the burden of proof on the complaining party not be limited
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Mexico has leapfrogged other auto producing nations. In 2009, Mexico was the world’s 10thlargest auto producer. But it
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’s soared past Spain and France, and earlier this year it surged by Brazil to become the world’s No. 7 automaker and the fourth largest exporter. Experts say Mexico is one of the most dynamic hubs of the global auto industry.
“In 2013, we had procurement of about $4.4 billion. By 2016, we plan to triple that to almost $13 billion,” Morfin said.
As auto plants spring up across Mexico in cities like Celaya, San Luis Potosi, Monterrey, Salamanca and Saltillo, factories making electronics, tires and other automotive components are popping up, lining highways in central Mexico.
“It’s just a brutal knock-on effect. If you pass by Queretaro, it’s one factory after another. And it’s all auto parts,” said PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Lozano, who noted that some 550,000 people
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All GMGA summer 4ball pennant matches were put back by 30 minutes last Sunday due to the expected high temperature, meaning an early hit off
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time of 7.15am for the Rochester players at the Hill Top Country Club in Tatura against Shepparton.
Although Rochester had won their first two matches, a heavy defeat against Numurkah last round saw them slip to equal third on the ladder and playing against a strong club like Shepparton, getting back into the top two wasn’t going to be easy.
Rochester’s number one team of James Walsh and Jake Wright played some good golf but were unable to hold off the longer handicappers and were beaten on the 18th.
Leigh Hicks and Robert Vise lost on the 16th as did Richard Feuk and Bruce Bryant.
Frank Severino and Steve Malley lost 2/1.
Peter Anderson and partner Steven Bubb came back from two down to win their 13th, 14th and 16th holes, going 1up, only to lose on the short par three to finish square at the end of the game
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Manila: Motor-tricycles and motorbikes have eclipsed the jeepney as the ‘King’ of Philippine
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roads and now contribute a large percentage of harmful emissions that Filipinos breathe in every day.
A study conducted by the National Centre for Transportation Studies (NCTS) of the University of the Philippines said these two types of motorised personal and public conveyances are responsible for much of the dirty air in urban and rural areas of the country.
Tricycles and motorcycles are responsible for 45 per cent of all volatile organic compound emissions that destroy the ozone layer and worsen the greenhouse effect, the NCTS said.
“The tricycle sector represents the biggest number of public transportation mode in the Philippines,” said the NCTS in a study on intermodal transport.
In the provinces as well as the city, there are more people who rely on tricycles for public conveyance compared to public utility jeeps or “jeepneys”.
One of the reasons is that tricycles are cheaper to acquire and has minimal “cost of ownership�
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The new law focuses on anti-discrimination in the workplace.
Utah businesses will now be required to provide sufficient time during the workday for mothers
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to breast feed and take care of pregnancy-related matters.
Senate Bill 59, signed by Gov. Gary Herbert on March 28, mandates employers with 15 or more employees provide accommodations for workers who are pregnant, breastfeeding or in "any related condition."
Through this new anti-discriminatory law, employers for at least one year must provide a reasonable amount of time for breaks when employees need to breastfeed or express milk.
The law does not make it a requirement for businesses to permit employees to bring their children to work to accommodate pregnancy or breastfeeding needs.
According to the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods, employers can ask for a doctor’s note to avoid any pregnancy-related guessing.
Weiler said for 25 years the U.S. has already set up similar standards for disabled employees under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
This law puts into place provisions for businesses to allow employees with disabilities to fully participate in their
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Image caption PM Abbott: "The delicate balance between freedom and security may have to shift"
Australian PM Tony Abbott says certain freedoms may have to
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be forfeited in the name of security, after major anti-terror raids last week.
His government would seek broad powers to fight the rising threat of militant Islamists, he told parliament.
New laws would criminalise travel to conflict areas declared off limits.
Australian authorities believe at least 60 Australians are in the Middle East fighting with Islamic State (also known as Isil) and other militant groups.
Mr Abbott gave the example of an off-limit area as the city of Raqqa in northern Syria.
That is where a photograph was taken earlier this year and posted to social media of a young boy holding the severed head of a Syrian soldier. The boy is believed to be the son of an Australian jihadist.
"My unambiguous message to all Australians who fight with terrorist groups is that you will be arrested, prosecuted and jailed for a very long time; and that our laws are being changed to make it easier to keep potential terrorists off our streets," Mr Abbott said.
Laws
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IPL auctions: Are teams spending lesser now?
The IPL auction for the 2019 season has concluded with its usual set of surprises. But
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how have IPL franchises been spending over the years?
A look at the average spending at the IPL auctions since 2008 shows that after the high stakes of the first five seasons, the amounts have been coming down, with the exception of 2017.
The average of the total amount spent by all teams was above Rs 2 crore till 2012 after which it has largely been lower.
This graph shows how teams have been spending over the years. Hover over a team to see how they spent for a season or been spending or click on a team to see how they spent over the years. For eg: In 2013, Chennai splurged on international players in its biggest spending at the IPL auctions.
Here are the players who have been the highest paid in each auction. The graph shows the base price and the final price of the players in the auction.
Who was the highest paid player at each IPL Auction?
What's also interesting is how much teams are willing to spend on
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A "vegetarian" gene may have evolved amongst groups of people who have historically eaten less meat.
A team at Cornell University describes the
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genetic variation in a study published inMolecular Biology and Evolution -- a variation that they say has "evolved in populations that have eaten a plant-based diet over hundreds of generations". That includes areas of India, Africa and East Asia, with a different variation adapted to a seafood diet found in Greenland.
The adaptation, the team says, allows those with the gene to "more efficiently process omega-3 and omega-6 acids and convert them into compounds essential for early brain development and controlling inflammation". The downside is that it might be linked to some types of cancer and other health problems.
The team looked at frequencies of particular alleles in 234 vegetarian people from India and 311 from the US, finding it in 68 percent of Indians and 18 percent of Americans. This is likely, they say, because Northern Europeans are more likely to eat meat and have "a long history of drinking milk".
Adaptations between vegetarian and seafood diets is most striking -- the vegetarian allele has an insertion of
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We don't need a Putin!
Hindutva is now playing for broke: all or nothing! In Gujarat, the Vishwa Hindu
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Parishad has launched a vicious confrontation with the Election Commission. It has defiantly announced a series of inflammatory meetings to be addressed by Pravin Togadia after the Commission banned its Hindu Patpadshahi (supremacy) Yatra. Its allies on the extreme right, like Bal Thackeray have unleashed a hysterical campaign maligning the BJP's national leaders, including L K Advani, no less, as 'pseudo-secular traitors' to Hindutva. All these moves, like Narendra Milosevic Modi's Gaurav Yatra, are calculated to further inflame communal passions during India's most sectarian election campaign ever. For the Sangh Parivar, the coming election in Gujarat has a'make or break' character. That's why both Vajpayee and Advani have decided to campaign for the BJP -- despite the attacks on them.
This time around, the Gujarat BJP has made no effort whatever to distance itself from the VHP's
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He always said he'd be back, and even though it may have taken 12 years, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a man true to his word. His
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seven-year stint as California's governor caused him to miss out on starring in Terminator Salvation, but he came back as the iconic T-800 in this summer's Terminator Genisys. As an added bonus, fans were treated to more than one Arnold this time around!
The story initially follows the same conceit as The Terminator, with John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance, sending Sgt. Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect his mother, Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), and safeguard the future. But an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline. Now, Sgt. Reese finds himself in a new and unfamiliar version of the past, where he is faced with unlikely allies, including the Guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger), dangerous new enemies, and an unexpected new mission: To reset the future.
One of the most memorable scenes in Terminator Genisys is a direct result of this fractured timeline, with the aging Guardian and Sarah laying in
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The state House is poised to vote this week on a bill that would privatize the sale of liquor and spirits in Pennsylvania.
In its first
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significant piece of business in the 2015-16 legislative session, the state House of Representatives is poised to vote this week on a bill that would get the state out of the liquor business. But some wonder how many legislators casting votes really know what the bill would do.
House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, said it's time to get state government out of the liquor business, but some question if he knows exactly what his bill that would accomplish that actually does.
Rep. Mike Sturla, D-Lancaster, and a union official suggest even the bill's sponsor, House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, seems confused about what's in the legislation based on comments he made during a recent PCN Call-in Program.
"It'd be interesting if the people who are voting on the bill had to take a test and had to get a passing grade before they could vote yes, I think it wouldn't pass," Sturla said.
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Macau liaison office director Zheng Xiaosong fell to his death from his home in a 22-story luxury building, with Beijing officials saying he
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had been depressed.
The death of the 59-year-old Zhang on Saturday night was confirmed yesterday by the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office in Beijing.
It said in a statement that Zhang, who was appointed last September, died in a fall from the residential block "because he suffered from depression."
It also said the Organization Department of the Communist Party Central Committee sent representatives to console Zheng's family.
Macau Fire Services Bureau received a report at 7pm on Saturday that a man fell from height at the Hung On Torre Building.
Firemen arrived to find Zheng dead, and the case was handed over to the Judiciary Police. Judiciary police director Sit Chong-meng said investigators were still on the case.
It was understood that Zheng had already been to Beijing for treatment for ill health, staying for almost a month.
His last appearance in public was on Friday when he met members of the Think Tank of United Citizens.
His death came just as officials in
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The winds of change are blowing through Poplar, as a new government paper calls for the eradication of small hospitals in favor of large general hospitals
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. Dr. Turner and Shelagh are informed that an inspection of the maternity home will decide its fate.
Sister Ursula has her own anxieties about the efficiency of Nonnatus House, so she introduces a new 20-minute rule for all antenatal and postnatal house visits. Barbara struggles the most with this, as she is drawn into helping a first-time mother from the Chinese community. It soon becomes apparent that the shortened visit might have allowed a serious oversight. With the future of the maternity home hanging by a thread, serious questions are raised over Sister Ursula's suitability for her role.
Meanwhile, Sister Monica Joan has started disappearing for long periods of time and there are growing concerns for Sister Mary Cynthia's whereabouts.
Catch up on Episode 3 of Call the Midwife. Warning: Spoilers ahead.
Modern Day Midwife Katie Moriarty looks at what leaders do today to make positive changes.
The personality traits and decisions that turn a Modern Mid
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There is a long history of people on the far right casting Jews as malign puppet masters who work behind the scenes to manipulate both national and international
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events for their selfish gain. The puppet master is always fantastically wealthy, greedy and amoral.
In our era, the puppet master stereotype has been embodied by George Soros. Few people, with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton, have been more vilified by the far right. Both the number and intensity of the attacks on Soros are astounding.
The actor James Woods tweeted that Soros was “satanic.” Trump attorney Rudi Giuliani retweeted a post calling Soros “the anti-Christ.” On Twitter, Soros has been accused of supporting both Colin Kaepernick and the mass shooter at Las Vegas.
Outside the United States, especially in Eastern Europe, Soros has achieved an even greater level of notoriety, with nationalist and authoritarian governments running propaganda campaigns against him.
So who is this alleged puppet master with his fingers in so many pies?
The short answer is that Soros is a Hungarian-American billionaire philanthropist. Soros was born Gyorgy Schwartz into a Jewish
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Bigger and better is how it is done at the Haliburton School of the Arts. A component of the Sir Sandford Fleming College,
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the HSTA campus in Glebe Park is well known for its summer arts program. This year, there are 50 new weeklong courses, 22 new Saturday workshops and 15 new instructors.
Boasting more than 300 courses and 150 teachers, the program offers classes on all sorts of techniques and styles, from watercolour painting to felting.
“I think of it as the Disney effect – it’s important to blend the familiar favourites with fresh, new options so that people maintain interest,” says HTSA program co-ordinator Schelley Schell. With the extensive number of courses offering such a wide selection of art classes, all kinds of interests are catered to.
Some of the new course and workshop offerings for this year are negative painting, memory quilts, thread sketching and painting and yoga paired with painting, writing, singing, drawing and meditation.
“Learn to develop unique images by using the space in and around an object. Create
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The government has endorsed the draft of Health Insurance Act prepared by the Ministry of Health with a view to providing basic health care services to all Nepali
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citizens.
Raju Katwal, legal adviser to Minister for Health Gagan Kumar Thapa, said, “Once the bill is enacted into law, no one will be deprived of basic healthcare services.” He said a meeting of the Council of Ministers held yesterday had endorsed the bill and decided to register it in the Parliament.
According to the bill, people will get free access to yoga, immunisation, family planning, safe motherhood, out-patient care, in-patient care, surgery, medicines, emergency care, curative services, rehabilitation, ambulance service (except air ambulance service) and other services decided by the government.
The bill adds that civil servants and migrant workers have to enrol their families in the health insurance policy system. People working in private institutions also have to get their families enrolled to ensure health insurance policy benefits.
Federal, provincial and local governments will be liable to bear insurance premium of poor and marginalised families, adds the bill. Rehabilitation
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1904 – Britain and France signed the “Entente Cordiale”, an agreement settling all disputes between the two.
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13 – China’s first parliament opened in Peking.
1946 – The League of Nations opened its final session in Geneva before being replaced by the United Nations.
1973 – The Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso, pioneer of Cubism, died.
2002 – Maria Felix, Mexico’s foremost movie star, renowned as a femme fatale throughout Latin America, died. She was 88.
2002 – Israeli troops open fire on Bethlehem’s Church of Nativity after five-day stand-off with Palestinian militants inside the building.
2003 – A U.S. tank fired a shell at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad packed with foreign journalists, killing Taras Protsyuk, a cameraman from Reuters, and Jose Couso from Spain’s Tele 5.
2004 – Condoleezza Rice, then U.S. National Security Adviser, testified before the 9/11 commission that four presidents had failed to fully mobilise against terrorism
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Coupled with all of the Chichester housing developments being planned, and already under construction, the recent press coverage on the removal of the
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A27 funding, unless an online option was accepted, is disturbing.
Simple arithmetic from the 41 months of construction (HE’s data for the online Option 2 that was rejected by the public) equals more rat runs through the city exacerbating the current air quality problem in the city.
This is on top of increased traffic movements, from both housing and retail developments.
Unless our local authorities stand up to central government, they are creating a public health issue.
For those residents living in the already three AQMAs (Air Quality Managed Area) ie Orchard Street, Stockbridge Road, and St Pancras, alarm bells should be ringing.
There are other areas in the city which are not monitored but have become increasingly gridlocked.
Arguably, the air quality through these rat runs (eg Sherbourne Road, Westgate, St Paul’s Road, Spitalfield Lane, Westhampnett Road, Bradshaw Road, Swanfield Drive
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On Friday, eBay said it sold its 28.4 percent stake in Craigslist back to the San Francisco-based online classifieds company.
The
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company also noted in a blog post that the deal also came with the agreement that all litigation between the companies will be dismissed.
Craigslist repurchasing of EBay's stake ends a rocky relationship between two of the Web's largest online marketplaces. In 2008, eBay sued Craigslist for diluting its stake in the company in a move that caused the online auction firm to lose its board seat. Craigslist later restored eBay's full stake, but an eBay representative was not reappointed to the board.
EBay bought the stake in Craigslist in 2004 for $32 million, paying $16 million to then-disgruntled shareholder Phillip Knowlton and $8 million each to Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and chief executive Jim Buckmaster. Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman said in 2009 court testimony that her company had long coveted Craigslist and tried to buy the whole site.
“We were very interested in making an acquisition of Craigslist, and we would have loved to have bought the whole thing,�
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Avatar: The Last Airbender is a treasured animation with a dedicated fanbase that loved following the journey of Aang, Katara, Sok
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ka, and the rest of Team Avatar. Their adventure across the four elemental nations has inspired and fascinated fans across the world. Spawning several comics, a sequel series, and a questionable live-action movie, the series is a staple of animated television.
While the journey was the best part, fans were also attached to the relationships that the characters formed. The Avatar fandom has an entire subset obsessed with the different fan couples. One popular -- and very real -- romantic relationship is the one between Katara and Aang. The young Avatar is smitten from the first time he sees her. When it comes to Katara, she eventually grows to love the fun-loving, determined hero, too.
By Legend of Korra, the pair married and had three children. They raised wonderful leaders and benders, and single-handedly saved airbending from the brink of vanishing. Their relationship is vital to Aang's journey and the legacies at the core of Korra's. However, the couple
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Since the days when the snake-oil salesman would roll into town with a well-placed accomplice in the crowd to support bogus medicinal claims during
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his sales pitch, promotions professionals have struggled with issues of transparency.
Since the days when the snake-oil salesman would roll into town with a well-placed accomplice in the crowd to support bogus medicinal claims during his sales pitch, promotions professionals have struggled with issues of transparency and full disclosure. The Web has replaced the stage outside the covered wagon as the venue of choice, but the issues are still very relevant as word-of-mouth marketing and testimonials remain effective promotional strategies.
So, when is the line between creative publicity tactics and deceptive practices crossed? The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has maintained its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising for decades. In 2009, the FTC updated the guides to, among other things, specifically address the use of testimonials in blogs, social media, and other online outlets.
It's a fairly simple premise - where there is a material connection between the speaker and brand that the audience would not
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Landon Winfield lost his father 14 years ago, but was inspired by him to try to become a police officer himself.
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On an early October morning in 2004, Brandy Winfield received a call.
The Marion County sheriff's deputy was asked to check on an abandoned van that was sitting on Ohio 423.
He had followed in his father's footsteps, a detective with the Marion Police Department, by pursuing a career in law enforcement. So when the call came in, he decided to check it out.
Later that morning, the deputy was found laying in his cruiser with a gunshot wound. The vehicle had been found upside down in a ditch.
The last radio message sent to the sheriff's office described a man walking along the road carrying a gas can, according to the Star's coverage at the time.
It has been 14-years since Landon Winfield lost his father that cold morning. Now attending Marysville High School he counts the days until graduation.
He recently tried on one of his father's old uniforms that have been stored in the basement of his home.
"He looked
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Switzerland-based Rajan Thambehalli and Tripti Abhijata are comfortable with the difference in their salaries.
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When Sandeep Mulay Kumar and his wife were investing in a property in Bengaluru, his mother found out that he was paying less than his spouse Pramitha Ramaprakash because he was earning less than her. “My mother took me into a corner and told me quietly that the fact that I’m earning less than my wife shouldn’t go out of the family,” laughs the 38-year-old, while explaining how truly entrenched the patriarchal concept of men being the primary breadwinners is when it comes to Indian families.
Marriage, and after that childcare, according to a survey by National Sample Survey of India for 2011-2012, is one of the most common reasons for women to drop out of jobs in India. In 2011, around 50% of unmarried women in the 15-60 age bracket were in the labour force, while the proportion for married women was a mere 20%. The trend is more prominent in rural than urban
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WORCESTER - Colleen Anne (McLaughlin) Higgins died peacefully at her home in Worcester February 24, 2013 after a prolonged struggle
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with ill health.
She was born March 25, 1945 in Seattle, WA and spent her childhood in Woburn, MA. She was born to parents Dr. Laurence S. and Elizabeth (Bette) McLaughlin, and was the oldest child of five.
Colleen attended St. Charles Grammar and High School, graduating with the class of 1962. She attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, graduating in 1966 with a degree in Early Childhood Education. She earned a master's degree at the University of Kentucky.
Her first teaching assignment was at the Columbia Point Housing Project in Boston. She truly enjoyed her kindergarten pupils. She took a break to raise her two children then worked at Lechmere department store. She then returned to school and became an administrative assistant working at Hanover and AllMerica until her retirement.
Colleen was very creative and evidence of that was seen in the home she shared with her two sons, Michael and Matthew. She offered an
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It is Billy Graham’s voice that will be missed most. The beguiling yet commanding North Carolina drawl, accompanied by the stab
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of a finger, itself as sure as God’s in the old paintings. “The Bible says …” Graham would announce, pointing to the book that seemed permanently attached to his other hand. And then he would tell us what it said and why it meant what it said and why we must give our lives over to it. The Word, Christians understand, is eternal; it just seems odd that that voice, which for decades seemed just as enduring, is gone.
Billy Graham died on Feb. 21 at age 99, and the hundreds of millions who love him have every reason to believe that he is now in a heaven he once, in his hyper-enthusiastic youth, described as follows: “We are going to sit around the fireplace and have parties, and the angels will wait on us, and we’ll drive down the golden streets in a yellow Cadillac convertible.” Yet his earthly legacy is everywhere. Ever read one of the Left Behind
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September 25, 2011 Edgar Thompson, PGA Tour.
Tiger Woods missed the FedEx Cup playoffs and hasn’t teed it up
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in more than a month. Yet on the final day of the Tour Championship, he grabbed headlines once again.
Woods’ choice of Joe LaCava as his new caddy won’t cause the stir his firing of longtime looper Steve Williams did this summer.
But the move, announced Sunday on Woods’ Web site, suggests those inside the game are optimistic about the direction of former world No. 1’s game.
LaCava, the longtime caddy of Fred Couples, will leave Dustin Johnson to join Woods.
While the 27-year-old Johnson is one of the game’s most promising players and a recent winner, Woods, 35, is surrounded by questions and winless in 22 months.
“This is a unique opportunity to be part of something very special,” LaCava said. “Tiger and I have been friends for a very long time, and I know what he can do.
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Can't attend your uncle's fourth wedding? Now you can watch it online, in one of the latest new uses for streaming video on the Web
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Can't attend your uncle's fourth wedding? Watch it online.
My Wedding To You, a division of streaming-media company Online Video Service, announced Monday it is offering a range of video services starting at $295, and any wedding can be streamed over the Web. Couples choose an online photo album, and each kit includes a postage-paid box for submitting a wedding video to the company.
The video is prepared for streaming and hosted at a secure Web site, where it can be viewed anytime for no additional charge. Videos are played with either RealPlayer or Windows Media Player.
Many people hold high hopes for streaming video, envisioning a future where everyone watches TV and movies on their desktops. But technology has lagged behind, and high-speed Net access has been slow to catch on, a combination that has dampened the popularity of streaming media.
As technology improves and broadband becomes more easily available, however, many believe streaming video will find a large audience
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She didn’t know she wanted to open a coffee shop at first, she said, but she did know she wanted to be a part
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of a community, to give the community a place to come together.
She said Cool Beans does exactly that, even if it is just a cup of coffee and a muffin, it’s a way of starting your day off right.
Throughout the day, the shop sees quite a cross-section of daily life, she said. Graduate students, young professionals, court workers, people who work from home — all looking for a hot drink, some food or simply a change in scenery.
For regular customers, Fultz says, employees know who they are and what their favorites are. Their drinks are ready often before they even walk in.
The personal touch can range from composing a unique drink request to a simple gesture like small candies to the side of a drink. Each holiday features its own candy. In February, they are candy hearts; candy canes in December.
Drinks range from simple coffee (light to dark roasts) to tea to cappucc
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LEICESTERSHIRE POLICE have named the four people believed to have been killed alongside Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha
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when the Leicester owner's helicopter crashed outside of the King Power Stadium on Saturday night.
A statement on the force's website read: "Five people are believed to have died when a helicopter crashed outside the King Power Stadium yesterday evening (Saturday 27 October).
"The force has been working to ensure that all the relevant next of kin had been informed prior to this information being confirmed publicly.
"The aircraft came down in a car park near the stadium shortly after 8.30pm with Leicestershire Police, East Midlands Ambulance Service and Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service all responding to the incident. No one else is believed to have been injured."
"The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is leading the investigation into the accident and a cordon remains in place at the scene while enquiries continue," the statement continued.
"Leicestershire Police will be supporting the AAIB in its investigation, liaising closely with Leicester City Football Club as enqu
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More and more companies every year seem to be getting on the bandwagon of pulling April Fool's Day pranks on April 1st.
WestJet
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has been doing this for a number of years now, and I especially enjoyed the one from Honda Canada this year with the “polite horn” for Canadians. If you haven't seen these yet, they are a search away on the internet.
This year I decided to join in the fun.
We all have them: our secret ingredients that transform recipes into one-of-a-kind creations that are to die for. This is what keeps food exciting at the dinner table and makes it unique to us.
Beef or other red meats such as lamb or various game meats always will benefit from a little something bold and sweet. Blueberry jam is my “go to” ingredient for burger patties, chili, stews, etc.
How many people are tired of the same old picnics items? Do memories of bland potato salads and boring sandwiches persuade you to buy fast food or, worse yet, keep you locked indoors?
Whether it's
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In my Tai Chi classes we learn how to pay attention to what we are doing, for it is fundamental to being able to relax, stay balanced
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and move well.
Sometimes the first and most important step in learning to pay attention is simply experiencing just how difficult it is to do so. Unfortunately most people give up at this point but it is worth considering the implications of spending most of our time being unaware of what is happening both in and around us.
To learn anything or develop any skill you have to able to pay attention. For me it is the single most useful attribute that anyone could develop to improve all aspects of their life. Paying attention means to intentionally focus on what is happening in the present moment (both internally and externally) at any given time. It is the art of noticing things without the distraction of thinking and judgement; the art of empirical observation. Paying attention is very simple. It is so simple in fact that it is usually overlooked by almost all of us but actually it underpins everything that we do. To begin with it can be a bit of a tricky skill to develop for it is easy to assume that
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Selena Thier gives back to the community on her birthday each year. This year, she chose to help fallen officers in Fort Myers.
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Greg and Julie Thier never thought they'd have a little girl.
They already had four boys, and figured they were all done having children.
"But you wanted one," 10-year-old Selena Thier said with a smile up at Julie Thier, her mom, as she sat on the couch of their Cape Coral home Thursday.
"That's right, we waited for you," Julie Thier said.
Selena had just returned home from a day of fourth grade at Caloosa Elementary School and soon would get ready to go to her dojo. She's a purple belt in karate, Julie Thier said.
"She's our little miracle," Greg Thier said. "I went for a ride with a friend of mine one night, and she needed someplace to stay. We brought her home and five months later, we adopted her."
That was May 10, 2010. They call it her "gotcha" day, and
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Just eight days ago, Ginger McCall's 7-week-old baby girl was healthy and happy. But within 48 hours, Evianna
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's health deteriorated. She died last Sunday.
SALEM, Ore. — A Salem mother is turning her tragedy into a lesson for other parents.
Just eight days ago, Ginger McCall's 7-week-old baby girl was healthy and happy. But within 48 hours, her health deteriorated. She died last Sunday.
McCall feels her daughter's death could have been prevented by hospital staff.
"We only had seven weeks with her. But she was so loved,” McCall told KGW.
She and her husband waited so long to have their first child. Evianna Rose was their world; an active baby who already had a love for nature.
She’ll never know, because Evianna was taken suddenly a week ago Sunday.
Last Friday, McCall said her baby girl started making a terrible moaning noise. "Evi" was having trouble breathing and running a fever. McCall and her mother-in-law rushed
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Even a cursory look at our coverage of the government market’s merger-and-acquisition activity over the past two years could lead
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the casual observer to think this: the big are getting bigger.
Then of course there are those in the vast, somewhat opaque middle tier of the market looking to make that jump into the upper echelon through deals to add scale and new customer bases in hopes of creating a platform for further growth.
So how do small businesses navigate a world that seems to show deal after deal for size? Particularly in their own environment of set-aside contracts and the need to progress to full-and-open work to entice potential buyers if and when they wish to sell?
Erin Andrew, managing director of government contract lending at Live Oak Bank, said M&A transactions are certainly an option for small business contractors whose owners either want to exit or take their company into more full-and-open contracts that critical for the next phase of growth.
“Folks are realizing that small businesses make up a large part of the marketplace and that we need to identify and create strategies
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A diary written by John Lennon that was stolen from his widow Yoko Ono over a decade ago has been found by police in Berlin.
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The diary, which includes an entry from the day the Beatles star was murdered, is among 100 recovered items that had been stolen from Ono in New York in 2006.
Other items belonging to Lennon that were found include a cigarette case, his signature round-framed glasses with an original 1978 prescription and an original recording of a 1965 Beatles concert at the Hollywood Bowl.
Ono, who was interviewed by Berlin police at her home in New York, played a key role in establishing whether the items were genuine.
"She was visibly touched and confirmed the authenticity of the items," Berlin police said in a statement on Tuesday.
Representatives for Ono did not respond to a request for comment.
Police said a 58-year-old man was arrested on Monday in Berlin on suspicion of fraud and the handling of stolen goods. The police said a second suspect was located in Turkey, beyond the reach of German police.
The items came to the attention of police several months ago after an
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The writer is member of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime.
AFTER escaping mass casualty attacks for 12 years, the United Kingdom
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suffered three in quick succession in 72 days, suggesting the authorities are not able to stop low-tech, improvised assaults carried out by individuals or small groups. These pose a difficult choice for the so-called ‘free societies’: do more to contain the resurgent jihadist violence or risk political backlash by putting ‘draconian’ limits on civil rights and liberties. The answers are not easy to find and knee-jerk, reactive approaches are simply not working, whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Kashmir, Yemen, Turkey or Pakistan.
In two out of three recent attacks in the UK, the perpetrators were known to the intelligence agencies but not thought to be dangerous enough to warrant a close watch. This points to the difficulty of the intelligence apparatus in determining whom to monitor.
The attacks also pose a policy conundrum for governments that uphold the values of liberty and free expression: how should they take the fight to an “amorphous battlefield”? Britain�
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Unless you’re a college student with a parent who doesn’t know what to get you for Christmas.
People are difficult to
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shop for, especially college students.
Between working and going to classes, students may not have time to sit down with their parents to get questioned about what they need or want for Christmas.
It may be hard to swallow pride and admit that a well-thought-out gift could be useful.
Shawn Jackson, an MCCC economics student, doesn’t worry about his Christmas list.
Brian Schyllander, who studies mathematics at MCCC, said students in math courses may want to ask for the TI-84 or the TI-89; both are high end graphing calculators.
The two calculators are made by Texas Instruments and assist students with simultaneous equations, plotting graphs, and real world data collection. The TI-84 costs around $115 and the TI-89 around $145.
In addition, Schyllander said advice books for organization, test taking, and other topics would be beneficial.
Karalee Delormier, a student studying
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Officials are working to convince the public that a sweeping trade deal will help the planet.
Facing criticism from green groups, the administration is making
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the case that a sweeping trade deal that President Obama is working to negotiate with Pacific Rim nations won't hurt the environment. In fact, officials argue, the agreement could go a long way toward protecting the planet.
As part of a push to sell the deal on Capitol Hill and to the American public, the U.S. trade representative and the State Department will unveil a report on Wednesday highlighting what they say are the potential environmental benefits of the international agreement, a pact that the president views as a cornerstone of his economic legacy.
The report arrives as Congress inches closer to passing so-called "fast-track" legislation backed by the White House, granting lawmakers an up-or-down vote on any trade deal.
The White House contends that the deal will bolster trade and help the United States maintain a competitive advantage in the face of China's rapid rise. But Democratic lawmakers, labor unions, and green groups remain wary of the agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, warning that it
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SAN ANTONIO - As chief of the Texas Rangers, the state’s leading law enforcement agency, Henry “Hank”
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Whitman Jr. oversaw investigations into difficult criminal cases, public corruption, officer-involved shootings and more.
Now, as the commissioner of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services since 2016, Whitman was appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott to take on the state’s troubled child welfare system.
Foster care in Texas was deemed unconstitutional by a federal judge, who ordered that changes be made. Arguments are expected to begin April 30 after Attorney General Ken Paxton appealed the ruling.
Even so, Whitman said he’s made important changes and there are still more to come.
He said he’s even ridden along with Child Protective Services caseworkers, who he calls some of the most dedicated people he’s ever met.
“This is the hardest job in public service without a doubt,” Whitman said.
In response to the crisis, Whitman that, before the Texas Legislature convened, he accepted a lawmaker’s offer to dramatically increase
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Topeka's downtown U.S. Postal Service building, which was the site of events that included an FBI shootout and hearings in a historic federal
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court case, will soon enter the next chapter in its history.
Tim Hrenchir, the "History Guy" for CJOnline, returns Thursday with a short video about the structure at 424 S. Kansas Ave. The building became fully operational on Dec. 9, 1933, as a post office, federal courthouse and administrative office building.
Four days earlier, the United States had ratified the 21st Amendment, ending Prohibition and putting a cork in plans to house a prohibition office at the building.
The post office lobby in 1937 became the scene of a gun battle between federal agents and two men suspected in a bank robbery, one of whom shot and killed 27-year-old FBI Agent W.W. Baker.
The two men were convicted of murder, then hanged together in 1938 at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.
The post office building during the early 1950s became the site of federal court hearings in the Brown v. Board of Education case, which brought about the
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Outgoing Minister for Social and Family Development Tan Chuan-Jin received an exuberant and unusual farewell yesterday evening.
About 150 employees
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of his ministry, the National Council of Social Service and SG Enable took to the outdoors with him for a warm-up session before he led some of them on a 6km run at MacRitchie Reservoir.
Mr Tan, 48, is set to take up the role of Speaker of Parliament next week. He takes over from Madam Halimah Yacob, who resigned to contest the upcoming presidential election.
Netizens, surprised by the nomination of a core member of the fourth-generation political leadership as Speaker, had seized on one of Mr Tan's Facebook posts for clues on its significance.
In it, he said: "May God continue to grant me wisdom, courage and love in all that I do. However inadequate as I may be, I hope that I can fight the good fight, finish the race and keep the faith."
On Wednesday evening, he urged people not to read too much into it, saying he noticed "some doing serious practical criticism of every
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Blockchain burst into the mainstream five years ago as a secure platform for Bitcoin transactions, but the technology’s use today is extending well beyond
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cryptocurrency to transform industry sectors on a holistic ecosystem basis.
Healthcare, banking and insurance are just three industries that anticipate tens of billions of dollars in cost savings from the blockchain’s permanent decentralized ledger. As a result of blockchain, banks, for example, expect to generate more than $27 billion in cross-border settlements alone by 2030, according to a 2018 study.
At its most basic, a blockchain is a distributed, digital ledger with built-in security that records transactions among the network participants in real-time. Every 10 minutes, these transactions are verified, permanently time-stamped and stored in a block that is encrypted and inextricably linked to the preceding block — creating a blockchain.
Participants don’t need to trust that the ledger has not been tampered with because entries are trackable and irrevocable. Another advantage of blockchain technology is business efficiency. Participants can execute smart contracts without a central controlling authority. The contracts trigger when pre-arr
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Perhaps the real Special Counsel investigation was inside us all along.
For some, this was meant to be Donald Trump’s Götter
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dämmerung. Through nearly two years of meticulously secretive investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller was defined in the public consciousness as the US president’s ultimate nemesis. Partisans for Trump accused the 74-year-old former FBI chief of spearheading a witch hunt; liberals, who yearned for the president’s hubris to rebound on him, revered him as a potential saviour. A cadre of true believers became convinced that Trump would be dragged from the White House, any day now, in handcuffs.
Barr emphasised that “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him” – but that wasn’t how Trump and his entourage received the message. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called it a “total and complete exoneration” of the president. Soon after, Trump tweeted smugly from Air Force One: “No Collusion, No Obstruction,
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group founded 45 years ago with a focus on combating hate and extremism, has often come under fire from
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conservatives who argue its classification of extremists and hate groups has a left-wing bias — mainly because of disputes over labeling traditionalist views of homosexuality as anti-gay hate. But now the center has done more to discredit itself than its worst enemies could by branding critics of radical Islamism — including a liberal Muslim reformer — as Muslim-hating bigots.
The center’s “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists,” released last week and compiled with Media Matters for America and two other left-of-center advocacy groups, includes 15 men and women. The report urges the media to treat them as “propagandists... far outside of the political mainstream” and their views as “toxic” and dangerous.
Some critics have taken issue with the entire list. However, the label fits some of the people on it — those who paint nearly all Muslims as potential terrorists and violent jihadists and even argue that Islam does not qualify
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It includes 60 straightforward but delicious recipes for beginners.
As a trans woman, the artist puts a staggering amount of thought into everyday decisions to ensure
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that she can deter unwanted attention.
The instant rapport between biographer and subject convinced the iconic Indigenous singer and songwriter that it was time for her story to be told.
A new cookbook features recipes and memories from Iran.
Despite the accolades, the Victoria-based author is pragmatic about literary fame.
The recently released cocktail book celebrates the likes of Beyoncé, Yayoi Kusama, and Tanya Tagaq—with tasty and thirst-quenching results.
In his new book, America, the Farewell Tour, the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter identifies symptoms of extreme inequality: the opioid epidemic, increasing suicide rates, and the election of a crude misogynist who preys on people’s anxieties.
The writing duo behind winefolly.com, the popular online resource known for handsome wine maps and infographics, came out with their first book in 2015.
This fall, Vancouver will welcome another inclusive evening of writing to its calendar
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In an effort to build resilience against the impact of climate change on wetlands, the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) and the Indian
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Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have teamed up to map, validate and protect smaller wetlands in the coastal region and restore them through coastal livelihood programmes.
This is the first time that a fisheries institute is collaborating with the ISRO to develop a comprehensive climate resilient framework for fisheries and wetlands.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the CMFRI and the Space Applications Centre (SAC) of the ISRO to develop a mobile app and a centralised web portal with complete database of wetlands in the country which were smaller than 2.25 hectares.
Such smaller wetlands cover an area of more than 5 lakh hectares across the country, with Kerala alone having as many as 2,592 such wetlands.
According to the MoU, the two institutes will identify and demarcate the wetlands and restore the degraded ones through suitable livelihood options such as coastal aquaculture.
The mobile app will be used for real-time monitoring of the wetlands and giving advisories
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Above: A chatbot beats a travel app.
My travel season is coming up soon. I always attend CES in Las Vegas (let me
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know if you want to chat in person), the SxSW conference in Austin, and a few extra trips here and there. As I Iive up here in Minneapolis, it’s the perfect time to escape the inevitable cold and snow.
Recently, I’ve been looking into travel options and, as a way to practice what I preach, I’ve been relying entirely on messaging apps like Mezi (which uses AI to find the best deals). I’ve talked to the Google Assistant on a Pixel smartphone I’m testing and relied on chat interfaces. It’s always interesting, as journalist, to apply what I’m testing in my job to making actual plans. When you have to hand over your credit card information and other personal details, your perspective changes.
As it turns out, I learned quite a bit about why messaging works better for travel arrangements, mostly due to the time savings. It’s amazing. On Me
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The man who lied to the police twice and, as a result, may have delayed the investigation into the violent death of David Koschman had
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six prior run-ins with the law in Chicago, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Among Kevin D. McCarthy’s arrests was one that accused him of a drunken battery of a cabdriver exactly two years before he, his wife and two friends – Craig Denham and Richard J. “R.J.” Vanecko, a nephew of then-Mayor Richard M. Daley – got into a drunken confrontation with Koschman in the Rush Street area in the early-morning hours of April 25, 2004, that led to Koschman’s death 11 days later from brain injuries.
As Koschman lay unconscious in the street after being punched in the face, the police handcuffed McCarthy. That’s when he told them his first lie – that he didn’t know the two men who ran away after Koschman was punched.
Hours later, he repeated the lie, when detectives came to his house, the Chicago Sun-Times has
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Gold fell to a five-week low on Friday, heading for its worst week in two months on prospects the United States would curb its stimulus soon
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and as fears of aUS-led military attack on Syria recede.
US-led military attack on Syria recede.
The United States and Russia started talks on Thursday,trying to flesh out a Moscow plan to dispose of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons.
Gold was quoted at $1,312.66 an ounce, down 0.6.
It hit its weakest since August 8 at $1,304.56 earlier. As technical support at 100 and 50 day moving averages (MA) has been broken, traders said that $1,307 should now provide a floor, but a consistent fall through that level would trigger further losses to around $1,275.
US gold futures for December also touched a low since August 9 at $1,304.60 an ounce and stood at $1313.50,still down $17.40.
"This is almost certainly the pricing in of the expectations of QE tapering," Mitsub
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Suffolk County police are rejoining the FBI’s Long Island Gang Task Force following three Central Islip murders in two days last week
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, effectively reversing a decision to quit the collaboration last fall.
Chief of Department James Burke announced the policy backtrack Monday at the Third Precinct in Bay Shore while outlining that and other steps police have been taking to address the slayings—two of which detectives have said they suspect involve gangs.
When the Press first reported that Suffolk police quit the task force last year, Burke said the three detectives dedicated to the unit were reassigned because of staff and budget shortages. He said the brass is still deciding which two detectives will be assigned now.
Lenny Tucker, president of the Brentwood Association of Concerned Citizens, was also relieved to learn from the Press that Suffolk police rejoined the FBI gang task force.
He added that he was glad to see that the police stepped up their game before community outrage began to boil over like it did during a spike in gang murders in the area in 2009 and 2010.
FBI spokesman James Margolin said the agency welcomed Suffolk police back into the task
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Kimberly-Clark has begun testing sales of the Scott Naturals Tube-Free brand of TP that doesn't need a cardboard tube to
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keep the good times rolling. It's the biggest change seen by toilet paper users since the roll first appeared in the 1800s.
But response isn't all flushed with excitement for terminating the tube, often reused for arts and crafts projects or as pet toys.
To her, the appearance of a brown cardboard cylinder signifies something momentous -- the end of an era.
Kari Love, of West York, Penn., pointed to the new rolls' central holes. Designed to fit around a spindle, they're shaped like polygons instead of circles.
According to a Kimberly-Clark news release, U.S. households use an estimated 17 billion bath tissue tubes annually, amounting to 160 million pounds of waste.
The company conducted a survey of 1,000 people that found 85 percent throw the tubes out with the trash.
At Walmart, Scott's Naturals Tube-Free costs $2.97 for four rolls containing 205.2 square feet compared to the tube-
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The Bulldogs season ended with a loss to Liberty in the NCAA Tournament.
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Lamar Peters had a practice jersey wrapped
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around his neck. He leaned back in the corner of Mississippi State's locker room at the SAP Center in San Jose, California.
He looked as comfortable as he could, and he looked confident, too. His Bulldogs were set to take on Liberty in the first round of the NCAA Tournament roughly 24 hours from the time he sat there and said he felt Mississippi State was ready to turn some heads.
Friday evening against the No. 12 seed Liberty Flames, Peters turned plenty of them as he scored 21 points and made four 3-pointers.
But the Flames turned more.
Liberty beat the fifth-seeded Bulldogs, 80-76, to oust them from the tournament much sooner than they would have liked. Mississippi State's season ended abruptly after blowing a double-digit lead down the stretch.
"It's just a tough, tough pill to swallow, especially the way we had the lead that late in the game," MSU head coach Ben Howland said.
Two of
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Generosity, storytelling, relationships and cycling – these are the four guiding principles behind Cycling Without Age, an innovative program that has been named one of
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Lakewood’s 2018 Sustainability Award winners.
Cycling Without Age uses a unique bicycle that allows older adults to sit comfortably on the front while a pilot pedals behind, letting older adults feel like a kid again while the pilot has the privilege of listening to a lifetime of stories.
Lakewood is celebrating the 11th anniversary of its Sustainability Awards on May 7, with a reception at 6 p.m. and recognition of the 2018 winners at 7 p.m. during the Lakewood City Council meeting at 480 S. Allison Parkway.
The eight winners showed how creativity, passion and determination can create healthier communities, keep waste out of the landfill, spread environmental awareness and bring neighbors together.
Eaton Senior Communities and Lakewood Bicycle Advisory Team launched Cycling Without Age.
Zero Waste Services hosted a clothing swap, distributed reusable bags and organized other creative events to promote waste diversion in Lakewood.
The Lakewood Heritage Center Volunteer Gardeners exemplified sustainable gardening by avoiding
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The third series of Funko’s Horror Classics Mystery Minis is coming just in time for Halloween this October, and the entire roster has
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just been unveiled with some great additions.
If you don’t recognize all the figures in the photo above, here’s all the included figures: The Mummy, The Wolf Man, Freddy Krueger with syringe fingers from A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, the Grady Twins and Jack Torrance from The Shining, Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange, Regan from The Exorcist, Jason Vorhees, Twisty the Clown from American Horror Story: Freak Show, Slimer from Ghostbusters, Elvira, Adam Maitland from Beetlejuice and Bruce the shark from Jaws.
Hot Toys has another great new sixth scale figure from Star Wars: The Force Awakens on the way, this time giving Finn a variant as First Order Stormtrooper FN-2187. The figure comes with the signature Stormtrooper helmet with a bloody handprint smeared on it, all the appropriate blasters
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The Northern Ireland duo behind a famous New York bar are launching the much sought-after Dead Rabbit Whiskey in Belfast tomorrow.
Having assumed cult
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status among bartenders across the globe, the five-year-old blend of Irish single malt and grain whiskeys has been a long time in the making.
That's according to Sean Muldoon, one half of the north Belfast twosome behind the multi-award winning Dead Rabbit Grocery and Grog pub, to give it its full name.
Sean (46) told the Belfast Telegraph the profits of the New York sales of the whiskey will go to Aware NI, the mental health charity supporting people with depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder.
"Irish whiskey is what we're known for; we've over 200 bottles, which is the biggest Irish Whiskey selection in America," Sean said.
"We were approached by a whiskey company just after we opened The Dead Rabbit five years ago and it has taken that length of time to make it happen. It's been a very long process."
Sean, who's married to north Belfast woman Anne (54) and now
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