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Google Incentivizing Ad Partners To Use Automation; Is That Good?
Kirk Williams posted on Twitter that he got an email from
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Google with new rewards and incentives if he uses more of Google's ad automation features. He said he doesn't have an issue with automation but the incentives should be tied to client goals, not using a feature in Google Ads which may or may not result in positive outcomes for your client goals.
Kirk said "Anyone seen the new Google Partners store? They’re now incentivizing agencies to turn on things like more Search or GDN automation in accounts by rewarding them with points to win sweatshirts and mini-fridges. Not, you know, hitting or exceeding client goals."
BTW, I'm not remotely against automation used well.
He wrote this up in detail at Marketing Land and listed these specific "challenges" where you earn incentives within Google. Audience challenge, Search automation, Display automation, Non-last click adoption, Host a live stream event, Participate in a training, Team certifications and specializations.
Again, it is nice to see
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Syria warned the American and French ambassadors Wednesday not to travel outside the capital without permission, two weeks after they angered the regime by visiting a city that
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has become the center of the country”s four-month-old uprising.
If the U.S. and French envoys disobey the order, Syria will ban all diplomats from leaving Damascus, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said during a lecture at Damascus University.
“We did not evict the two ambassadors because we want the relations to develop in the future and in order for their governments to review their stances toward Syria,” al-Moallem said.
Egypt”s ruling generals say foreigners won”t be allowed to monitor upcoming elections but there will be Egyptian observers.
The decision was announced Wednesday as the military unveiled a law setting guidelines for Egypt”s first post-revolution parliamentary vote.
Maj. Gen. Mamdouh Shaheen, a member of the military council that assumed control of the country after Hosni Mubarak stepped down, says the army will announce a date for the elections by the end of
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Despite the obvious differences between the biggest IT markets of today, one thing that they all have in common is the importance of data. Focusing on
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that common thread, it might be easier than you think to shift from one market to a totally new one.
At least, that’s what Modus Operandi, a small software company that serves the defense and intelligence communities, is doing as it pushes into the health care market.
The company’s niche is semantic technology, which helps “intelligence analysts find specific unique data and correlations of data within the multitude of databases across the intelligence agencies and the military services,” said Rick McNeight, Modus Operandi president.
In practice, an intelligence analyst can put a query into a semantic wiki, such as the name of a known terrorist, at which point software will search relevant databases and automatically fill in the wiki with information not only about the terrorist, but about his associates, notable locations, and so on, McNeight said.
“We don't just find a needle in a haystack; we find the right needle in the right hay
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The infamous “polar vortex” made a return to North America last week. Temperatures plunged to as low as minus 50 degrees across
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the northern U.S. that led to several states of emergencies. Thousands of flights were canceled, and people were warned to stay inside to avoid instant frostbite.
One of our weather and commodity clients near the Canadian border reported a low of minus 56 degrees last week. Wind chill tempera-tures in North Dakota have been down to near minus 60 degrees. In Chicago, the Windy City, a low of minus 21 degrees was reported with a wind chill temperature of close to minus 40 degrees. The frigid temperature was just 6 degrees short of its all-time low temperature of minus 27 degrees.
It was so cold in the Chicago area that residents were hearing “frost quakes.” Also known as “cryoseisms,” water expands underground when it freezes very quickly. The fast expansion can stress the soil and split rocks resulting in loud booms. It’s a phenomenon that is relatively rare.
Many of us have heard about this
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St Helens' Australian centre Jamie Lyon today brushed aside stinging criticism from Kangaroo legend Peter Sterling over his surprise call-up for the Tri
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-Nations Series.
The Australian selectors broke with tradition by choosing a British-based player in their Test squad and they have been rebuked by outspoken former Origin coach Phil Gould and ex-Parramatta scrum-half Sterling.
Gould labelled Lyon's call-up "a disgrace" while Sterling said he was "filthy" with the player for walking out on his old club three years ago.
"Jamie Lyon 'duded' Parramatta like you wouldn't believe," Sterling said in a speech at a charity function at the weekend.
"He got 125,000 (£50,000) for an off-season and one game. I don't want him back in the Test side and I don't want him back in the NRL.
"He's had a great season over there but I just think he showed no style or class or grace in the way he left our club."
The 24-year-old Lyon, who will return to
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Republicans are, naturally, united in their opposition to the preliminary deal the Obama administration struck with Iran to restrain its nuclear program. And now, the
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presidential candidates in particular are going to compete with each other to see who can make their opposition more categorical. They're all criticizing it, of course, and Scott Walker has already said that on the day of his inauguration, he'll pull out of the deal. I'm guessing the rest of them will follow suit and pledge something similar. The question is: OK, so on January 20, 2017, you announce that we're out of the deal (since we're in the Republican fantasy world for the moment, let's put aside the involvement of Europe and the UN). What happens next?
Well for starters, the Iranians would no longer be constrained by the things they agreed to. They could kick out all the inspectors and institute a crash program to create a nuclear weapon if they wanted. Are Republicans saying that Iran would never do that? I don't think so. Yet in practice, the Republican position seems to be: 1) We can never trust the Iranians to adhere to the terms of
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STAN COLLYMORE has mixed thoughts on Arsenal’s impending appointment of Unai Emery.
Mikel Arteta was originally
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expected to succeed Arsene Wenger at Arsenal, but former Paris Saint-Germain boss Emery is expected to be announced later this week at a news conference.
Emery, who won five trophies in two seasons in charge of PSG, comes with a wealth of pedigree.
However, after spending freely at the French giants, he is likely to be restricted to a £50million budget.
And Collymore is a little bit unsure about the Spaniard.
When asked to elaborate his concerns, Collymore tweeted “Emery. Fascinating hire. Almeria, Valencia and Seville delivered improvement plus managed resources well.
"Can't help but think Arsenal have got him because he's available though rather than the best man for the job.
Elaborating his viewpoint, he added: “I like it because I think his philosophy will dovetail with Arsenal beautifully.
“Perhaps feel a bit meh because will he go in be ruthless
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Some 200 British jobs were put at risk on Monday after infrastructure group Balfour Beatty axed three of its UK offices.
The company
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, which issued two profits warnings in the space of six months, has been looking for ways to slim down its domestic operations and focus on faster-growing emerging markets.
After reviewing 21 offices Balfour will close sites at Dartford, Rochdale and Doncaster, resulting in a ‘small number’ of job losses.
The offices account for 8 per cent of UK business, with around £1.5billion in combined revenues.
Balfour also appointed former Skanska director Nick Pollard to lead the turnaround of its British operations, which have been hit by the economic slowdown.
Shares rose 5 per cent after investors cheered the action by new boss Andrew McNaughton, who only started in April.
‘The recent UK issues are being addressed,’ said analyst Andy Brown at Panmure Gordon.
Shares, which have fallen by a fifth over the last 12 months, rose 10.3p to 226.3p, valuing the
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Li Chunke began carving ivory after leaving school as a 15-year-old boy.
Today, at 68, this master craftsman is
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working until the early hours of every morning, trying to finish a 20-inch statuette of Buddha on an unforgiving deadline — before China implements a total ban on ivory sales at the end of this month. The art of ivory carving survived even the tumult of China's Cultural Revolution, but he's worried it may soon die out.
"What makes China great is that its traditional culture still exists," he said. "If it disappears in China, it will be a loss for the whole world."
Yet China's commitment to put craftsmen like Li out of business and close down its ivory industry has thrown a lifeline to African elephants and brought new hope in the battle to end the poaching of tens of thousands of animals every year for their tusks.
The Chinese government shut down 67 ivory-carving workshops and retail outlets in March, and will have closed the remaining 105 by the end of this year, honoring a commitment President Xi Jinping first made alongside President Barack Obama in
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High fashion hits Bellevue this week as Front Row Fashion event unfolds at the Bellevue Collection. This is Bellevue’s signature fashion event
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Fashion Week is presented by Vogue Magazine, and this, it’s second year, will be better than ever with all sorts of events for you to attend.
Last evening’s Cocktails at Tiffany’s proved to be a wonderful kick off to get this party started.
Attendees got in the mood to shop while sipping the Bradshaw, a cocktail with sugar rimmed around the glass..delicious!
Tiffany’s Bellevue Square is such a crowd pleaser with classic styling and the launch of their new leather goods line. I fell in love with the Tiffany blue clutch purse.
The ladies were out on the town and we all were coveting the jewelry, purses, and other items.
Puget Sound Business Journal writer Patti Payne was in the house shopping with her Tiffany clad dog Pepper in tow.
I have to admit, cocktails at Tiffany’s sure beats breakfast at Tiffany�
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The new MacBook Air, disassembled.
Now that Apple's new MacBook Air has hit the stores, repair specialists iFixit have immediately cracked
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it open to see what's inside.
And frankly, if you've seen some of the teardowns of recent MacBooks, you won't see too many surprises here. The new Air is a tightly packed machine that requires lots of specialized tools and patience to open and repair.
But if we compare apples to apples — that is, the new MacBook Air with the last version of MacBook Air, which launched in 2015 — the differences are substantial. Check them out below: The new Air is on the left.
On the left, the 2018 MacBook Air. On the right, the 2015 MacBook Air.
The Air of yesteryear was practically all battery: It had a 54Wh cell, while the new one only has a 49.9Wh cell. Despite this fact, both Airs have the same (advertised) 12 hours of battery life — talk about improvements in energy management.
The new Air also has a ton of new tech, including a better, larger
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The Home of Hope Orphanage’s Surfing Safari officially began on Monday along the Arabian Sea (part of the Indian Ocean) at
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the beautiful cliffside town of Varkala Beach. Today’s post will not be too wordy because the pictures speak for themselves.
The experience today has been one of the more emotionally draining assignments I’ve ever shot. It’s strange because normally when I would refer to an emotional assignment it would a sad or tragic story, whereas today was filled with only happiness. To see the absolute joy on the faces of the 27 orphans was something I’ll never forget. The unbelievably tragic backgrounds that they come from and the fact that they have no real childhood cannot be forgotten when looking at the pictures. The word “vacation” does not exist in their vocabulary.
Sister Deva plays in the water with the girls of Home of Hope Orphanage in the Arabian Sea at Varkala Beach, India Monday April 18, 2011.
The patience and love that instructor Jack Viorel demonstrates while working with the girls is wonderful to watch
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They may have struggled to connect with their Coachella crowd, but Outkast certainly impressed at CounterPoint.
Outkast returned home
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to Georgia for their stint at CounterPoint Festival 2014 - and fans were a lot more pleased this time round than they were at their comeback gig at Coachella.
Nothing was going to spoil the mood at this year's CounterPoint Festival. With a line-up headlined by one of the world's favourite veteran hip hop duos and also featuring Pretty Lights, Foster The People and STS9, not even the ferocious storm that swept the venue over the weekend engulfing festival goers in streams of mud was going to ruin the experience for anyone.
Sonar Barcelona 2014 Announces A Further 17 Acts Pretty Lights, Flux Pavilion, Rudimental, Dj Harvey Plus Many More..
Get ready to enter the New Year in style at Colorado's third annual Decadence festival with Bassnectar, Tiesto and many more.
2013 will meet an exciting conclusion at the third annual Decadence festival in Colorado this December, toasting the New Year to the tune of some of
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CRISTIANO RONALDO will not win an appeal over his Champions League red card because of the nature of the incident.
That
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’s the view of ESPN pundit Craig Burley, who says that although he didn’t think it was a red card, there was still physical contact and so it will be difficult to overturn the decision.
Ronaldo was given his marching orders in Juventus’ 2-0 win over Valencia at the Mestalla last night - his first game in the competition for the Old Lady.
As a result, the former Real Madrid forward gets an automatic one-game Champions League ban, meaning he definitely misses Juventus' home game against Young Boys on October 2.
But it could get worse, with UEFA opening disciplinary proceedings over the incident, meaning the 33-year-old could see his ban increased to two or even three matches.
Should he be banned for one extra game, Ronaldo would miss the trip to Old Trafford to face his old club Manchester United.
Should he be banned for three, he would miss the return game against them in Turin.
Ron
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Marc Lamont Hill: "We have an opportunity to not just offer solidarity in words but to commit to political action. "
In a brief
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statement made yesterday, the US TV channel announced that “Marc Lamont Hill is no longer under contract with CNN”. Though CNN did not explicitly state that Lamont Hill had been fired due to the content of his UN speech, it is widely understood that it was this which prompted the news outlet’s move.
His use of the phrase “a free Palestine from the river to the sea” sparked an immediate backlash from Israel supporters who were quick to launch a tirade of accusations against the pundit, including claiming he had called for the destruction of Israel and killing Jews and was therefore anti-Semitic.
It is thought that CNN’s decision was swayed by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) – a powerful American NGO which monitors anti-Semitism – after it objected to Lamont Hill’s speech. Al Jazeera quoted left-wing activist group Jewish Voice for Peace as saying: “While the ADL markets itself as a civil rights
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The N.B.A. season unofficially began with a superstar’s trade demand before the superstar in question (Jimmy Butler)
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and his team at the time (Minnesota) had even convened for training camp.
Seven months and more than 1,200 games later, Magic Johnson upstaged the retirements of two legends — Dirk Nowitzki and Dwyane Wade — in unbecoming fashion by abruptly walking away from Jeanie Buss, LeBron James and the rest of the Los Angeles Lakers through a chaotic hour of unscheduled interviews with the news media.
And there were countless dramas and controversies between those bookends, from the Houston Rockets’ poor start and near-instant divorce from Carmelo Anthony... to the sad disintegration of the New Orleans Pelicans’ season after Anthony Davis’s trade demand … to the Lakers’ injury-driven collapse that ultimately prevented King James from reaching the postseason for the first time in 14 years.
Regular season? Hardly. From Butler’s trade request to Friday’s announcement from the Lakers that they were parting ways with Coach Luke
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In the week following the announcement of PostScript Level 3, PCDN spoke to Ian Mitchell, Adobe's European OEM business manager, about page description
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languages (PDLs), the Web, and Hewlett-Packard's (HP) decision to forsake the standard.
PCDN: What's a capsule summary of PostScript Level 3? It's being painted as `PostScript for the Web'. Is that right?
The whole thing is it brings freer exchange of information between PDF and PostScript so you can print any digital document without losing look and feel. It's a new paradigm of distribute-and-print, rather than print-and-distribute. It's a complete democracy of where you print. We do it all so users don't have to worry about it. For example, in the office where you have a PostScript Level 2 printer you would push a PostScript file byte by byte so it would be slow. PDF is structured in much more intelligent way so that's not necessary.
It was a mistake to introduce [PostScript] Level 2 and leave it a year before products and longer for
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There is more to the holiday season than searching for the best deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
SANTA ROSA BEACH � There
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is more to the holiday season than searching for the best deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Nineteen local nonprofit groups are teaming up to promote Giving Tuesday, an effort to harness the collective power of charities, families, businesses and individuals to transform how people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season.
Giving Tuesday will be Dec. 3, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. It will use social media to create a national campaign around the holidays dedicated to giving.
Shelter House and Food For Thought learned about Giving Tuesday and wanted to be part of the movement. The leaders of those organizations reached out to other non-profits to join.
The Boys and Girls Club of the Emerald Coast (bgcec.com); the Emerald Coast Children�s Advocacy Center; Children�s Volunteer Health Network (cvhnkids.org); Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (culturalartsalliance.com); Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation (dcwaf.org);
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TORONTO — Rogers Media Inc. said Thursday it’s cutting 110 jobs from its television operations, mainly at its Omni multicultural stations,
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as it replaces traditional newscasts with interactive current affairs shows.
The subsidiary of Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B) said it will no longer produce Omni newscasts starting on Monday, laying off production staff and reporters.
The changes come as the broadcaster shakes up its programming across Omni stations in an effort to merge the multicultural brand’s operations with its City stations.
Omni currently airs local news in Cantonese, Italian, Mandarin and Punjabi.
Under the new programming, Omni will launch interactive current affairs shows that will broadcast in Cantonese, Mandarin and Punjabi.
The Italian newscast is being scrapped entirely and replaced with popular novella “Raccontami,” an import from Italy.
Omni newscasts had production costs of about $9 million last year and brought in $3.9 million of advertising revenue, said Colette Watson, vice-president of television and operations
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Street parking in D.C. is changing as district officials are trying to get more money from those who drive in the city.
The hours
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in which drivers are required to feed the meters were set to expand. The council voted to keep many meters in effect until midnight, which was expected to raise more money for D.C. government, but a problem with how the expanded hours were calculated forced the council to rethink the plan.
The council voted Tuesday to roll back the hours from midnight to 10 p.m. but to increase the cost of parking meters.
“At this point it’s better than to increase the hours to essentially all meters … and to have the rate uniform at meters across the city,” Mendelson said.
Under the new plan, the parking fee will increase from 50 cents per 15 minutes to 50 cents per 13 minutes.
It’s the first parking meter fee increase in several years, Mendelson said.
“I don’t think this is out of step and I think that this is a better approach than the extended hours,” he said.
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The 24-hour operation remains in place until 7am tomorrow.
GARDAÍ HAVE CAUGHT 133 vehicles driving over the speed limit
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today as part of National Slow Day.
Since 7am this morning, gardaí have checked the speed of 105,567 vehicles, with the 24-hour operation in force until 7am tomorrow morning.
Gardaí are urging motorists to be aware of road, traffic and weather conditions as part of the initiative aimed at reducing speeds.
Supported by the Road Safety Authority, National Slow Day aims to raise awareness about the dangers of speeding and to act as a deterrent to driving over the speed limit.
“When someone decides to speed they put members of their community at risk, including children, older people, cyclists and other motorists.
Nobody has the right to do that.
There were 157 road deaths in Ireland in 2017. As of 15 October there were 117 fatalities.
94km/h in a 60km/h Zone on the N11 Stillorgan Road Stillorgan, Dublin.
128km/h in a 100km/h Zone on the N
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Falling short in the World Series in consecutive years, perhaps a more bitter ending than not playing for the championship at all, offers the Dodgers front
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office one perk this early in the offseason.
There is plenty on the Dodgers’ checklist as they begin reshaping the club over the next week. For starters, determining whether their face-of-the-franchise ace’s future is in Los Angeles.
Clayton Kershaw originally had until Wednesday at 9 p.m. PT to opt out of the two years remaining on his contract. But Kershaw and the Dodgers agreed to extend the deadline to Friday at 1 p.m. PT, which offers more time to possibly come to terms on a deal that would keep Kershaw in Los Angeles for longer than the next two seasons.
Neither offered specifics on the negotiations.
The club did remove one thing from its checklist Thursday, signing David Freese and saving $1 million doing it. The Dodgers held a $6 million team option to on Freese, but paid him a $500,000 bonus and then signed him to a one-year, $
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India's largest entertainment conglomerate is investing millions of dollars to produce films in collaboration with a Hollywood studio.
Mumbai-based Reliance Big Entertainment
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says it will invest $325 million to help finance the production of five to six films a year by the American film company, DreamWorks Studios.
The Indian conglomerate entered into a partnership with DreamWorks Studios last year as its co founder, Steven Spielberg, looked for capital for new projects.
Reliance Big Entertainment said it is providing the "financial muscle" to help "uniquely talented individuals such as Steven Spielberg realize their dreams." Steven Spielberg said "the venture with Reliance opens a new door to our future."
The movies to be produced by the joint venture are expected to star some of the biggest Hollywood stars, and will be commercial, general entertainment films. The first film is slated to be released next year.
Mumbai-based film trade analyst, Komal Nahata, says Reliance's partnership with DreamWorks will give global exposure to the Indian entertainment industry.
"It comes on the international map. That is the biggest advantage. Now imagine reading Reliance's name in
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A viewing and funeral service was held for four members of the Caneiro family who were killed in an arson fire at their Colts Neck home.
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As a community reeled from the news that a family of four had been murdered, then their house set on fire, school officials and counselors mobilized.
Eleven-year-old Jesse Caneiro and 8-year-old Sophia Caneiro were students at Colts Neck Township schools. Their deaths meant school employees, as well as parents, faced a task that felt impossible: consoling their friends in what may be their first brush with death.
A memorial card that was distributed to media members gathered at the Holmdel Funeral Home, Sunday, December 2, 2018, depicts the four members of the Caneiro family who were killed in an arson fire at their Colts Neck home. Paul Caneiro has been charged in their deaths.
"I don't know how to describe a school environment after something like this happens," said Superintendent MaryJane Garibay. "I can say closer to the event, we utilized school spaces, classrooms and offices to speak with students
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A Northamptonshire County Council social worker has been suspended for a year after failing to keep accurate records for 64 children in care.
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A panel of the Health and Care Professions Council’s (HCPC) Conduct and Competence Committee heard that Lee Higginbottom was responsible for a number of failings while working as an Independent Review and Conference Officer.
The panel heard he did not keep accurate records for approximately 87 Statutory Looked After Children Reviews, relating to 64 children.
Mr Higginbottom also failed to keep his managers proactively informed about the significant backlog of his work, with reports of a “disconnect” between what they were told and “reality”.
The panel ruled to suspend the name of Lee Robert Patrick Higginbottom from the HCPC Register for a period of 12 months on the grounds of misconduct.
Panel Chair Polly Clarke said: “The panel concluded that a suspension order of this duration demonstrates how seriously the we regard Mr Higginbottom’s failings in fulfilling statutory duties which were fundamental to his role and vital to service users.
Mr Higgin
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Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Saturday there is no guarantee closer Aroldis Chapman will pitch again in the regular season.
Ch
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apman was placed on the 10-day disabled list Aug. 22 with left knee tendinitis. Since then, he has had two platelet-rich plasma injections and has been dealing with knee pain since at least May. Zach Britton, Dellin Betances and David Robertson have shared the closer duties in Chapman’s absence.
On the season, the five-time All-Star Chapman is 3-0 with a 2.11 ERA. He has appeared in 50 games and has 31 saves.
—The Yankees activated catcher Gary Sanchez from the 10-day disabled list and also added outfielder Andrew McCutchen and shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria to the active roster.
Sanchez had been sidelined with a groin injury. He last played for the Yankees on July 23 but was in the lineup batting fifth for the team’s game against the Detroit Tigers, going 0-for-4.
McCutchen, who was obtained from the San Francisco
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In an instance of life imitating art, a Nike exec confirmed that the company is working on getting its Marty McFly "Back to the Future
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" shoe — with Power Laces — out to customers in 2015, the year that they appeared in Back to the Future II.
Speaking at the Agenda Emerge industry conference in Long Beach, California, on Monday, Nike's innovation chief Tinker Hatfield said the shoe — known as Nike Air MAG — would hit in 2015. He declined to give a release date or pricing info and distribution info, reminding the crowd that there are still "11 and two-thirds months left in 2015," according to sneaker blog Nice Kicks.
"The anticipation for this release is something that few understand," Matt Halfhill, publisher of NiceKicks, told Mashable. "I don't even know if everyone at Nike realizes just how much demand there is for this shoe."
Nike has been teasing the release since 2011, when it dropped a video promoting the self-lacing shoes. The company even filed for a patent for the Power Lace technology. At the time, Nike auctioned
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The "most senior geek" after Gates got the OS onto almost every desktop, but he also influenced the decision that prompted the landmark antitrust case.
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Jim Allchin, to some Microsoft's biggest senior geek after Bill Gates, is retiring at the end of 2006. His legacy: Windows on almost every desktop.
The 53-year-old Allchin joined Microsoft in 1990, initially working on the company's networking product strategy. He came from Banyan Systems, where he had been the architect of the now-defunct Vines network operating system. At Microsoft, Allchin's main achievement was in leading the development of the Windows operating system.
"When it comes to Windows, the buck stops at Jim," said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at JupiterResearch. "Allchin has been the guiding father of Windows for many years and had a tremendous responsibility for charting the flagship product for Microsoft."
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that Allchin plans to retire at the end of next year, after it ships Windows Vista, the successor to Windows XP. Until then, Allchin will head Microsoft's new Platform Products and Services
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Kendall Jenner had nowhere to hide when she left her hotel with Harry Styles (inset) of One Direction in New York City over the
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weekend.
Kendall Jenner looked like she wanted to be anywhere in the world except in a throng of paparazzi as she left a New York City hotel behind smirking “One Direction” Lothario Harry Styles over the weekend. Talk about a walk of shame.
The 19-year-old boybander clearly looked like he had bedded her on Friday (Dec. 6).
Both were spotted leaving the Gansevoort Hotel in New York’s Meatpacking District on Saturday morning (Dec. 7) on what amounted to their third date.
The two reportedly met at the studio where the “X Factor USA” music competition is taped in Los Angeles. Harry’s manager an Kendall’s momager Kris Jenner reportedly introduced them.
Kendall and Harry were later spotted having dinner Nov. 20 at Craig’s in West Hollywood, a well-known celebrity hangout teaming with paparazz
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Extreme Networks has appointed Chris Georgellis as managing director for Australia and New Zealand replacing John Gonzalez.
Gonzalez was the company’
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s managing director from 2013 until early 2017.
Georgellis will be based in Sydney and will be responsible for setting the strategic direction and growth plan for the “new” Extreme in A/NZ markets.
He will report to the company’s vice president for Asia-Pacific and Japan, Simon Naylor.
In July, Extreme Networks completed the acquisition of Avaya’s networking business, which included new customers, personnel and technology assets from the vendor.
Georgellis has more than 15 years of experience in the area having worked in a variety of roles across networking, telecommunications and systems integration industry.
He worked for Encoda Systems, Cisco, Getronics, and others such as UXC Connect where he was a business development manager for almost four years before being promoted to data centre and cloud practice manager.
He then moved on to HP where he was the business manager for wireless and mobility for two years, then taking up a sale4s manager role
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It’s a beautiful day. The family’s in attendance, side dishes and beer in tow. Your sister-in-law
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brought a trunk full of Super Soakers. It’s BBQ time. Time to kick back in the yard and fire up the … stove?
Hmm, that doesn’t sound terribly exciting, does it? But that’s basically what you’re doing when you cook out on a gas grill, which is powered by the same largely flavorless fuel as your kitchen stove.
True fact: Cooking on a gas grill is more convenient than cooking with charcoal.
It’s also a lot less special. And, scientifically speaking, it creates less flavorful food.
True fact: A gas grill is more convenient. But it also creates less flavorful food.
In other words, a burger is more than the sum of its ingredients. Sure, there are chemical processes occurring in your food that alter its flavors as it heats – amino acids interacting with sugars, fats breaking down, and so on – but this delicious chemistry happens whether you cook on gas, charcoal,
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David Hilliard is a visiting artist at the Carpenter Center this year.
“I like that a photograph alludes to something and doesn�
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�t really fully tell the story,” says David Hilliard, a visiting artist at the Carpenter Center this year. For Hilliard, who has backgrounds in theater and film, photography has a “magic” related to but unique from that of cinema and stage. His paneled photographs, which show glimpses of human scenes in progress, feel like a spectacle unfolding at the viewer’s pace. Hilliard sat down with the Crimson to talk about his work, which will be on display at the Carpenter Center through September 28.
The Harvard Crimson: How long does it take for you to set up the photographs?
David Hilliard: There’s no recipe. Some are preconceived: I have an idea and I build or find a location and I make the photograph, and sometimes it’s the recreation of a moment or an illustration of an idea. And other times, like if I had time right now and I were with you and I had my
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Private equity fund Actis LLP plans to set up a new firm to house its operational renewable energy assets in India, attracted by the nation’
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s growing green economy.
Actis will likely accommodate the solar projects of Essel Group in the new firm that the private equity fund plans to acquire in a deal valued at around $600 million, said a person aware of the development. It also plans to acquire around 200 megawatts (MW) of Shapoorji Pallonji group’s solar assets through Sprng Energy Pvt. Ltd.
The third firm being set up by Actis which is focused on the renewable energy space follows India’s largest clean energy deal wherein ReNew Power Ventures acquired Ostro Energy Pvt. Ltd from Actis LLP at an enterprise value of $1.5 billion last year. Actis plans to grow Sprng Energy to 1.75 gigawatts (GW) from its present 750MW portfolio.
“The new firm will house the operating assets for setting up a yield-based product. It will be a new platform wherein the bulk of the focus will be on renewable.
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Issa revealed at a committee hearing Wednesday that the immunity granted to Clinton aides during the FBI investigation of her mishandling of classified documents in her private
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e-mail server went far beyond the scope that was previously reported.
Former Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills and another senior staffer had “some” classified material on laptops they turned over to the bureau for its investigation, but the aides still received broad immunity. At least five Clinton aides received similar immunity.
“Isn’t there a double standard that when you granted immunity to these 5 individuals you took them out of the reach of prosecution for crimes committed related to destruction of documents or withholding or other crimes pursuant to Congressional subpoenas?,” Issa asked FBI Director James Comey at the committee hearing Wednesday.
“I don’t think anybody was given ‘transactional immunity,’” Comey responded.
Comey at that point admitted that he could be wrong, but later said he was “pretty sure” what was granted was “use immunity” and that “transactional immunity” was not granted.
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From the Archive: You can’t understand the worsening Mideast violence without knowing the modern history of Palestine, a story that begins with
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European anti-Semitism causing Zionists to claim Palestine for the Jews and to expel the Arabs, wrote retired U.S. diplomat William R. Polk in the first of three parts.
In England, we see most clearly what some leading politicians thought might be the answer: encouraging the emigration of Jews from Europe to the colonies. One of the early proponents of this, essentially anti-Semitic, policy was Sir Laurence Oliphant. As he proposed, getting rid of the Jews as neighbors, that is, in England, and thus solving the “Jewish Problem” would foster British trade and help Britain consolidate its empire if they established themselves as colonies in Africa or Asia.
Oliphant, his successors in the British government and others in the French government were not concerned about what their policies did to native peoples. The British were keen to take the lands of African blacks and to plunder the Indians of India while the French engaged in policies approaching genocide in Algeria. As focused on Palestine
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George Roman, a former standout football player at Penn Hills High School who later went on to play three seasons in the NFL, died June 30 at
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his home in Columbus, Ga. He was 77.
Mr. Roman, who grew up in Verona, had suffered from emphysema and diabetes.
Large for his day at 6 feet, 4 inches and weighing more than 240 pounds during his pro career, Mr. Roman decided against attending better-known schools such as Notre Dame and Wisconsin to enroll at Western Reserve College in Cleveland.
Less than a year into his college education, the outbreak of World War II led to Mr. Roman being drafted into the Army. He served as a medic from 1943 to 1946, spending 2 1/2 years in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations.
After his tour of duty was over, Mr. Roman returned to Western Reserve for two more seasons before being drafted in 1948 by the Boston Yankees of the NFL as a defensive tackle. He also played for the New York Bulldogs in 1949 and for the New York Giants in 1950.
A back injury cut short his professional career.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A phone app and a database of more than 50 million voters were key weapons in the successful campaign of
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cricket legend Imran Khan in last month’s general election, though rivals allege Khan also received clandestine aid from Pakistan’s powerful military.
It partly explains why Khan’s party managed to win tight-margin races in the nuclear-armed nation of 208 million people, though Khan’s rivals allege he also benefited from the powerful military’s support - an allegation he staunchly denies.
Developed by a small tech team, the CMS was a key response to Khan’s bitter complaints after the 2013 poll loss that his party failed to translate mass popularity into votes because it did not know the “art of winning elections”.
Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) ran a more erratic campaign, hurt by divisions within the party and the loss of key leaders who were either disqualified or in case of Sharif and his daughter, jailed.
Weeks before the elections, Khan sent out a video via
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Tracy McGrady, who's surprising just about
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everyone including probably Tracy McGrady with a good season so far in Atlanta, is launching a new daily deals site for NBA fans and gadget lovers and collector clock collectors. And the most bizarre thing about it might be how much sense it makes.
TMac's Deals has discounted items from places like Adidas (a longtime McGrady sponsor), Lids, Sports Authority, Best Buy, Finish Line, and whoever makes this Tracy McGrady street sign that appears to be the only "Recommended" deal on the site so far.
Which sounds plenty random and out there on its own. But let's go down the list of reasons this actually isn't super crazy: People buy stuff from NBA players. T-Mac is still a big enough name to draw some rubbernecking. NBA fans are quietly pretty tech savvy. And the content on the site fits a niche that's mostly ignored by Groupon, LivingSocial and Woot.
And I mean, if Stephon Marbury can be a successful
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Tired of being “between gigs”?
WHAT: Two “Navigating the Future” job-hunting workshops on
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Boeing (NYSE: BA), which has come under criticism from Pentagon officials over delays to the KC-46 refueling tanker, is rev
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amping its defense unit in a bid to better manage the tanker and other weapons programs and improve its reputation.
The first batch of tankers, originally slated for delivery last August, are now supposed to arrive before year's end, but Air Force officials have expressed concern that the timetable will slip into 2019. The Pentagon says there are still major deficiencies that must be worked out before deliveries can begin, including issues with the tanker's remote-vision system that have caused the refueling boom to scratch fighters.
"One of our frustrations with Boeing is they're much more focused on their commercial activity than on getting this right for the Air Force, and getting these aircraft to the Air Force," Wilson said, adding that Air Force officials held face-to-face meetings with Boeing in recent weeks about the KC-46, and that "we have asked them to put their A-team on this to get the problems fixed."
The commercial derivatives
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Editor's note: The following column originally appeared on AEIdeas, the American Enterprise Institute blog.
The Fox News poll
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released Thursday night had a lot of bad news for Donald Trump. He is now down seven points against Hillary Clinton, 45 percent to 38 percent. And after a terrible two weeks in which he spent several days attacking a former Miss Universe, then saw the release of a “hot mic” recording in which he bragged about groping women, then spent several days attacking Republicans who distanced themselves from him over the video of him bragging about groping, Trump has lost significant ground among women.
Fox asked voters whether the two candidates were “very qualified,” “somewhat qualified,” “not very qualified” or “not at all” qualified to be president.
Forty-nine percent said Trump was “not at all” qualified to be president. In other words, half of all American voters believe Trump has no business being anywhere near the Oval Office. That is a devastating number.
Another 7 percent say he is
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work to combat Islamic extremism.
Cham Muslims at their prayers in a mosque on Oudong mountain in Kampong Speu province in this
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file photo.
CAMBODIAN police in three provinces are to attend seminars this week as part of a US effort to promote a closer relationship between Cham communities and Cambodian law enforcement officials as they attempt to keep Islamic extremism at bay in the Kingdom.
In a speech Monday at the opening of the first seminar in Phnom Penh, US Ambassador Carol Rodley said the case of convicted Bali bomber Hambali, who took refuge in Cambodia in 2003, showed that no Muslim communities were immune from malignant outside influences.
"Muslim leaders in Cambodia have been forthright and united in their condemnation of terrorism, pointing out that Islam is a religion of peace," she told the audience.
"Through your dialogue and mutual understanding, networks and bonds can be created which will go a long way towards the prevention of any type of threat - be it terrorist, criminal or social."
US embassy spokesman John Johnson said the seminars, which will be held Tuesday in Kampong Cham and Thursday in
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Published: July 30, 2014 at 08:27 p.m.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2014 at 05:16 p.m
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The Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2014 will be enshrined on Saturday. Each day this week, the Around the League crew will pick a player that we believe is also deserving of enshrinement.
The player with the most Super Bowl rings in NFL history has been denied election to the Hall of Fame for five years running.
Charles Haley, a premier pass rusher on the best squads of the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys, has hoisted the Lombardi Trophy five times but has yet to be fitted for a gold jacket in Canton.
If there was an NFC game of the week in the late 1980s and early 1990s, chances are Haley was prominently featured -- often making impact plays.
Haley appeared in six NFC Championship Games in a span of seven seasons. His team won the division in 10 of his 12 years and produced a collective.700 winning percentage. He was twice named NFC Defensive Player of the Year and finished his career with 100.
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AN MP is calling for people to add a splash of pink to their usual outfits ahead of a breast cancer fundraiser.
Gosport MP Caroline
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Dinenage will be supporting this year’s Wear It Pink fundraiser at the Houses of Parliament, which will take place on Friday, October 19.
The event, held in support of Breast Cancer Now, will raise money for vital breast cancer research.
Ms Dinenage is calling for people across the region to sign up to the event and wear something pink for the day.
She said: ‘Breast cancer is still the most common form of cancer in the UK – that’s why I’m so passionate about encouraging everyone in Gosport to take part.
‘Wear It Pink is great way to come together with friends and family to have fun whilst raising money for Breast Cancer Now’s vital research.
‘As you can see from my photograph, all it takes is an additional splash of pink.
Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive at Breast Cancer Now, added: ‘We hope that by wearing pink
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Kendall and Kylie Jenner achieved a fashionable slam dunk while sitting courtside on Tuesday evening (Mar. 16) as the stylish siblings took
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in a match between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings. Their bold, front-row fashion definitely made a statement.
Kim Kardashian’s younger sisters attended the basketball game in party-ready ensembles.
Kendall and Kylie both rocked thigh-high boots at the game.
Dressed in an oversized beige coat and black choker necklace, Kendall opted for a pair of thigh-high Sophia Webster boots. The stiletto Mila shoes, which retail for USD$2,250, laced up to the model’s thighs as she rocked the Kardashian family’s signature black-and-white colour palette.
Following her sister’s lead, Kylie also wore boots to the sporting event. The 18-year-old anchored her red-and-white jersey dress with over-the-knee black patent Kurt Geiger boots. However, unlike her model sister's stilettos, the avid Snapchatter's
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While walking through the massive exhibit hall today, I was handed a couple of sample comics as I passed by a booth. I was about to put
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them in my bag when I noticed that they were from the American Physical Society; one was about Spectra the Laser Girl and the other was about Nikola Tesla (battling the nefarious Thomas Edison). I backtracked so I could find out more. Physicist Rebecca Thompson-Flagg, dressed as Spectra, explained that they made some fun superhero comics that also teach a little science. Spectra has all the powers that actual lasers do, and the Tesla-inspired comic is more of a non-fiction piece that shows what an interesting character Tesla really was.
But what I thought was particularly cool was this little device demonstrated in the video above. (Apologies for the poor sound quality; the exhibit hall is not a quiet place.) Here's the gist: the SpectraSound is a little assemble-it-yourself kit that plugs into the audio-out port of your iPod or other audio device, and sends it to a small laser pointer. The device modulates the laser
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Well, at least one 4-year-old Australian cattle dog can.
Whisper apparently became the first "wingsuit BASE jumping dog
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" in the world, when the Queensland Heeler flew down the Eiger in Switzerland attached to her owner, Dean Potter, a self-described "climber, line walker and human-body-flyer."
Potter is a Yosemite National Park resident who runs a company called "Whisper Films." And in August 2013, he strapped on a GoPro camera to capture the dog-and-man jump off the 13,025-foot Eiger, a limestone buttress known in mountaineering as one of the six great north faces of the Alps.
A 46-second video Potter posted on May 27 attracted more than 350,000 views by Thursday morning. Potter's Instagram account was hopping, too, with fans liking still images of Whisper being thrown up into the air and clinging to a mountaineering rope.
The YouTube clip shows the little gray dog with brown legs, who wore glasses and a blue cap while strapped to the backpack Potter wore during the
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Stephen S. Campanelli has spent the past three decades carving out an amazing career as a cameraman on some of Hollywood’s biggest
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films. Most notably, he has served as along-time camera operator for film icon and legendary director, Clint Eastwood, which is certainly an amazing place to cut your teeth. In 2015, Campanelli has made the transition to the director’s chair for his feature film debut. The result is “Momentum” — a fun, fast-moving action-thriller starring Olga Kurylenko and James Purefoy. The story focuses on Alex (Olga Kurylenko), an infiltration expert with a secret past. She accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, quickly finding herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin (James Purefoy) and his team of killers. Armed with her own set of lethal skills, Alex looks to exact revenge for her murdered friends while uncovering the truth. Jason Price of Icon Vs. Icon recently caught
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It should have been a festive day for lawmakers, but they couldn’t escape a shutdown that has no end in sight.
It's
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not the way they wanted to start the 116th Congress.
On a day that should have been solely marked by ceremony and celebration, lawmakers couldn’t shake the gloom of a government shutdown that has no end in sight.
“It does put a damper on things. We’re all thinking about those people that are working without pay today, or who are furloughed,” said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), adding that he’s been speaking to constituents who’ve been affected by the shutdown.
It’s the first time in history that a government shutdown has dragged on from one Congress to the next, underscoring a sense of dysfunction in Washington that appears to have only intensified in the Donald Trump era.
Scores of new House Democrats arrived for their first day of work Thursday, with freshly pressed outfits and sparkling new member pins.
But instead of advancing the first pieces of their ambitious
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Kerala box office - March 31 to April 13.
The film, in its first week in 77 screens in Kerala, has taken a distributors
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share of Rs 1.55 cr, which is very good.Urumi has netted Rs 27.40 lakhs from Padma and Sridhar in Ernakulam in 19 days, the highest ever for a Prithviraj film. The film has been classified as a hit by the trade and is the number at the KBO.At the number two is Mohanlal's multi-starrer Christian Brothers, which continues to do extraordinary business. The film is reported to have already got a share of Rs 8.5 cr in 25 days from releasing stations, which no film has done before.In third position is Jayaram's Makeup Man, which is very strong in small stations, and at number four is Marykundu Oru Kunjadu.In fifth place is Mammootty's August 15, which has failed.
Trade Facts : No story, too long.
Multi starrer, lot of stars and glitz No story, too long
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Did Target Accidentally Reveal Eminem's "Revival" Release Date?
Eminem fans, particularly those on Reddit, are constantly searching
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for information about Slim Shady’s new album, Revival. Oddly enough, they may have received the most definitive detail so far from an unexpected source — Target.
A Twitter used reached out to Target, via its customer service Twitter, after obtaining a photo from a store that shows a placeholder for a deluxe edition of Eminem’s highly anticipated LP. The rep behind the Twitter account responded by stating that the company has a December 15 release date listed for Revival.
We're excited for the release date for this album to come. You probably already know, this date is controlled by the record company and is subject to change. What we currently have is a street date of December 15, 2017. Thanks for connecting with us.
The @AskTarget account quickly changed its tune though. When asked later for some confirmation about the release date, it was much more coy with its answer.
“Currently we don’t have an official release date, so please be
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Knee injuries forced Jeff Clement, once a can't-miss prospect, from catcher to first base. Now, he seeks a job with the
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Twins.
Video (08:27) : Twins pitcher Mike Pelfrey talks about his three shutout innings vs. Tampa Bay on Sunday.
FORT MYERS, FLA. - In a way, it's a little odd that the Twins would sign Jeff Clement and assign him a spring-training locker four stalls away from Joe Mauer. It's not as if Clement has a contagious disease or anything, but he definitely serves as a reminder of how "sure things" occasionally can go wrong. And how much punishment the body absorbs behind the plate.
Their résumés are so similar, it's spooky. Clement and Mauer are both catchers born in the Upper Midwest in 1983. They each earned national attention for their high school exploits, and they both originally were drafted by the Twins. Mauer, the first overall pick in 2001, turned pro right away. But Clement decided to attend college, where he became so highly valued, he was chosen almost as high
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DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa.– The band director for Hershey High School has been charged with corruption of minors.
Jonathan Pinkerton is
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facing one count of corruption of minors for an incident that took place in August 2010, when he was employed by the Lower Dauphin School District, according to court documents.
The Lower Dauphin School District confirmed Pinkerton’s employment at the time of the incident. Pinkerton served as a high school music teacher, and directed the school’s marching band, concert band, and jazz band, the district said.
“Derry Township School District has extended indefinitely the administrative leave of a Hershey High School staff member accused of inappropriate behavior while employed at another school district. The district had previously placed the employee on leave when it was notified of an investigation and took immediate action to further extend that leave following criminal charges being filed on November 13.
Although the charges do not relate to Derry Township School District or any students from the district, and the alleged activity pre-dates the teacher’s employment here, as a public school entity focused at all
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Calling for a "new college compact," Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday unveiled a $350 billion plan aimed at making college more affordable and reducing the crushing
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burden of student debt.
At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, the state with the highest average student debt in the country, Clinton proposed steps to reduce the cost of four-year public schools, make two-year community colleges tuition-free and cut student loan interest rates, according to campaign aides.
She pitched her plan as a public-private partnership, requiring a contribution from the federal government and states, the colleges and universities and students themselves.
"Americans will have to work hard to put themselves through school to out-learn and out-hustle our competitors, just like we always have," she told voters gathered at a high school in Exeter, New Hampshire.
The college affordability plan, a main plank of her policy platform, is an effort to address a major financial stress for many American families and satisfy a central demand of the Democratic party's liberal wing.
The proposal centers on a $200 billion federal incentive system aimed at encouraging states to expand their investments in
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The spectacle of soldiers departing for war zones has become all too frequent since Sept. 11, 2001. From mid-May through today, 2,
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400 members of the Minnesota National Guard received sendoffs at armories across the state, including West St. Paul, Bloomington, Maplewood and Fort Snelling this week alone.
Many of these events have received little notice, perhaps because they have become such regular events. We want those soldiers and their families to know how much their departure from home and their service to our country mean to us.
This is a large deployment of the 1st brigade combat team, 34th Red Bull Infantry Division – the second largest single departure of Minnesota National Guard members since World War II. They will be stationed in Kuwait for one year to support the pullout of U.S. soldiers from neighboring Iraq, and their duties will include base security and securing the transport of troops and supplies throughout Iraq.
West St. Paul Mayor John Zanmiller, who served in the guard in more peaceful times, addressed the troops at the local armory on Tuesday. He said he was impressed by soldiers serving second and
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South Korean officials have finally tracked down the source of last month's cyber attack and the culprit is, as suspected by some, North Korea.
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Last month's mysterious cyber attack that crippled banks and television stations in South Korea was executed by North Korea's intelligence agency, according to official investigators based in Seoul.
The findings were revealed in the Korea Herald today as South Korea's Ministry of Science, ICT (information communications technology) and Future Planning connected the attacks to North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau.
On March 20, the computer systems of local South Korean television stations KBS, YTN, and MBS, as well as banking firms Shinhan, Jeju, and NongHyup experienced major disruptions in what appeared to be a coordinated attack. Because of recent regional tensions, international security experts immediately raised the possibility of North Korea's involvement, but South Korean officials appeared hesitant to lay the blame on its neighbor. A day after the attack, South Korea investigators reportedly traced the attack to an IP address in China, but quickly retracted those claims, adding to the confusion regarding the source of the attack.
Finally, during a major
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The India Meteorological Department has predicted above-normal rainfall this year in the June-September period at 106 per cent of the Long Period Average (
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LPA), with a model error of +/- 5 per cent.
This is good news as it comes after two successive years of deficient monsoons. In 2015, the south-west monsoon ended with an overall deficit of 14.3 per cent after a deficit of 11.9 per cent in the 2014 monsoon as well.
The country’s foodgrain production has hence dropped sharply. From a record production of 265 million tonnes in 2013-14, it dropped to 252.02 million tonnes in 2014-15 and is estimated to be at 253.16 million tonnes in 2015-16 with crops such as sugarcane, tur, coarse cereals and soyabean likely to see a 4-12 per cent drop in output.
With two successive years of drought, the water level in major reservoirs across the country has also diminished. Currently (as on April 7), according to the Central Water Commission (CWC), the total water stored in 91 reservoirs that it monitors
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The South Korean baseball league will bid adieu to one of its greatest players with a series of special events in his final All-Star Game this
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weekend.
The Korea Baseball Organization said Thursday that Samsung Lions slugger Lee Seung-yuop will take the field with his two sons, Eun-hyuk and Eun-yuop, prior to the midsummer classic at 6 p.m. Saturday at Daegu Samsung Lions Park in Daegu. Eun-hyuk, 13, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch, with his younger brother Eun-yuop, 7, standing at the plate and their father taking the catcher's position.
Lee, who turns 41 next month, will retire after the 2017 season, after 15 seasons with the Lions, his hometown team. Lee was drafted as a pitcher out of high school in 1995 but converted to first baseman as a pro.
He is the KBO's all-time leader with 459 home runs, 1,465 RBIs, 1,328 runs scored and 3,979 total bases. These totals would have been higher had Lee not spent eight
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has per- plexed the police and all who feel an interest in undiscovered crime, has been at last revealed. On Tuesday Miss Const
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ance Kent appeared before Sir Thomas Henry, and surrendered herself as the murderess of her half-brother Francis Saville Kent, a child of four years old. It appears that after her acquittal in 1860 she was sent abroad, but returned two years since to England, and obtained a home in a religious house at Brighton, where she has remained ever since. Her confession of guilt was first made to Mr. Wagner, the well-known Vicar of Brighton, but the idea of a public confession came, he says, from herself. Before the magis- trate she was perfectly calm, and exhibited no trace of that ten- dency to insanity which it is said has been manifest in her mother's family. No motive has yet been assigned either for the murder or the confession, and a part of the public seems inclined to believe that the criminal's belief in her own guilt is a mere delusion. We cannot accept that solution, but it is certain that if the confession is limited
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Flash has long been known as the bane of the Web because of its performance issues and security flaws. Even with less than a week to go
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before the year is out, another vulnerability has been discovered and thankfully, patched.
As with several other Flash gaffes, Adobe noted that the flaw could potentially allow a hacker to take control of a system and was exploited in ‘limited, targeted attacks’.
That brings the count to 316 Flash Player bugs for 2015 alone, or six bugs a week.
The Web has been calling for Flash’s head to roll all year: a security firm was discovered exploiting flaws in the software to access victims’ computers. Mozilla disabled the plugin in Firefox, Facebook’s chief of security said it needs to go, Google removed support for it in its ads and Adobe ditched the ‘Flash’ name for the latest version of its animation tool.
You’ll want to ditch Flash as we start the new year. Learn how to uninstall it or at the very least, set it to only run when you need it in your browser.
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Vancouver residents are dealing with a measles outbreak that has been traced to a man who didn’t vaccinate his kids over concerns about autism
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, a mythical connection that has been promoted by Jenny McCarthy and other celebrity anti-vaxxers.
Emmanuel Bilodeau says he isn’t an anti-vaxxer at this point in time, but that he and his wife skipped their kids’ inoculations years ago because they saw certain doctors linking them to autism, according to CBC News.
The man whose family is at the centre of a measles outbreak in Vancouver said he didn’t vaccinate his children because he distrusted the science at the time.
In an exclusive interview with CBC News, Emmanuel Bilodeau said he and his then-wife were influenced by reports that linked the vaccine that prevents measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) with autism.
Bilodeau is likely referencing the “research” from 1998 by then-doctor Andrew Wakefield, who came out with a flawed (and now retracted) article claiming the link. The problem here
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DuPage County has been given an additional year to transition its circuit court clerk's office to a new electronic filing system required by the state.
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Circuit Court Clerk Chris Kachiroubas said he sought the delay because the state-mandated technology lags behind the e-filing system DuPage already has.
DuPage had until July 1 to start using an e-filing system from Tyler Technologies, which has a contract with the state. Every county in Illinois eventually will use the system for the filing of civil court cases.
But in an order filed Tuesday, the Illinois Supreme Court gave DuPage an extension until July 1, 2019. The court denied the county's request for a 2021 deadline.
The court's order was filed just hours after Kachiroubas warned county board members that completing the transition by this July would be costly.
"DuPage's system is so far ahead that we may have to go backward to go forward," he said on Tuesday morning.
Electronic filing for civil cases has been available in DuPage since 2006. The county worked with a company called i2File to
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Angelina Jolie has officially dropped Brad Pitt’s last name. The actress, who had hyphenated her last name during her marriage
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to Pitt, is now back to her original name.
According to People, Angelina Jolie’s decision to drop Brad Pitt’s last name comes just days after the pair were deemed legally single — although they are still working out the details of their divorce.
The couple first met back in 2004 on the set of their film, Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Brad was married to Friends star Jennifer Aniston at the time. Rumors quickly began to fly that Brad and Angelina may be having an affair, and after Brad and Jennifer’s divorce was announced, fans went wild.
Jolie and Pitt confirmed their romance not long after, and then announced that they were expecting a child together. They went on to have three biological children, Shiloh, Vivienne, and Knox. Brad also legally adopted Angelina’s adopted sons, Pax and Maddox. They adopted a daughter, Zahara, together.
The couple were together for
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The consequences of deinstutionalizing the severely mentally ill.
MICHELLE CORDERO: Right now our nation is in the
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middle of a serious debate about gun violence and mass shootings. A year has passed since a former student killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
NEWS ANCHOR: What made the shooting at Stoneman Douglas so different than other mass shootings was how quickly students and parents turned their pain into action.
CORDERO: Some are pushing for broader restrictions on Second Amendment rights. With new legislation like the recently voted on HR-8 that would impose significant burdens on law abiding citizens by mandating universal background checks.
REP. NANCY PELOSI: This will be a priority for us in the next Congress. Common sense background checks to prevent guns going into the wrong hands.
CORDERO: But we've still heard little on a number of other issues that weigh into gun violence and mass shootings. Like mental health, family breakdown, culture, media and more.
CORDERO: Heritage recently released a series
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We don’t add antibiotics to baby food and Cocoa Puffs so that children get fewer ear infections. That’s because we
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understand that the overuse of antibiotics is already creating “superbugs” resistant to medication.
Yet we continue to allow agribusiness companies to add antibiotics to animal feed so that piglets stay healthy and don’t get ear infections. Seventy percent of all antibiotics in the United States go to healthy livestock, according to a careful study by the Union of Concerned Scientists — and that’s one reason we’re seeing the rise of pathogens that defy antibiotics.
These dangerous pathogens are now even in our food supply. Five out of 90 samples of retail pork in Louisiana tested positive for MRSA — an antibiotic-resistant staph infection — according to a peer-reviewed study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology last year. And a recent study of retail meats in the Washington, D.C., area found MRSA in one pork sample, out of 300, according to Jianghong Meng, the University of Maryland scholar who conducted the study.
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SearchBoth, Corp., today announced the launch of SearchBoth.se; Sweden's first website that enables users to search both Google.se and
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Yahoo.se at the same time.
Both Google and Yahoo are placed side by side on a split screen in order for users to easily compare results of both websites. The company has also launched the same service for 17 other countries including the United States with SearchBoth.com, the United Kingdom with SearchBoth.co.uk, Belgium with SearchBoth.be, France with SearchBoth.fr, Russia with SearchBoth.ru and many more. All of the SearchBoth family of websites searches both Google and Yahoo or Google and MSN in their respective countries.
Online searchers no longer need to be tied to just one search engine. According to researchers and analysts, the majority of tech savvy and non-tech savvy Swedish search engine users are crossed between either Google or Yahoo. Each show the same results, but on different pages. Some results may come up on Google's first page, however, the same results could be on Yahoo's second, third or fourth page, or vice versa
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1 What Degree Do You Need to Become a Sports Reporter?
2 What Does a Graphic Artist Do in Journalism?
4 What Courses Should
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You Take in College to Be a Journalist?
The word "journalist" implies a single job, but there are many kinds of journalists working in different fields, from newspaper and radio reporters to broadcast news anchors. The initial preparation for a career in journalism is nearly the same for all fields, but as you progress you'll start to specialize in the type of media you intend to work in, and possibly a specific area, such as sports or science reporting.
A bachelor's degree is necessary in this competitive profession. Journalism or communications should be your major, but it's a also good idea to minor in a specialized subject, such as political science or economics. A broad liberal arts background is required for a journalism degree, and many journalism programs require a concentration, such as electronic news or public affairs reporting, but a minor degree can give you an edge over other job seekers. For example, a journalism degree with a concentration in environmental reporting, along with a minor in a physical science, can
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The story drew a predictably scornful response from many in the media, however, including from people who complained that the Davos men were using claims
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of hypersensitivity as justification for longstanding sexist attitudes.
By refusing to take men’s concerns seriously, however, these critics do men and women a disservice. The concerns of men about the optics of spending one-on-one time with their female colleagues might be cover for sexism for a few, but for most in the post-#MeToo business world, hypersensitivity about the appearance of misconduct has become de facto business practice for good reason.
At a time when an uncorroborated allegation of harassment (amplified by social media) can potentially derail a career (or, say, a Supreme Court nomination), it would be foolish for men not to think twice before spending time alone with a woman in their office.
It’s disingenuous for feminist-minded critics to demand that men embrace the new post-#MeToo regime of awareness and sensitivity to women’s concerns and then turn around and attack them when they try to do just that.
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At Chinn’s farm, which turns over more than 10 million pounds ($13 million) a year, the workers pick the premium as
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paragus spears that can grow up to 20 cm a day by hand. Sometimes they pick them twice a day before dispatching them to customers such as Marks and Spencer (MKS.L). and Britain’s biggest supermarket, Tesco (TSCO.L).
Britain’s asparagus season is short and early - traditionally running from April 23, known as Saint George’s Day, to Midsummer’s Day in mid-June. It will be the first big test of the 2019 seasonal labor crisis.
Britain’s fruit and vegetable sector relies on up to 80,000 seasonal workers from the EU each year. Having previously been inundated with applications, labor agencies say interest dropped off in 2017 and 2018 as workers from Romania and Bulgaria opted to go elsewhere in the EU.
Concordia, a labor agency charity that finds EU pickers for British farms, said it now has to work much harder to recruit.
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A young mum with an 18-month-old son has talked about her terrifying experience of waking up at their Melton home to see her boyfriend
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’s car ablaze on the driveway after it was attacked by an arsonist.
Paige Harrison (20) was asleep with 22-year-old Mitchell Wood at her property on Bramley Close when the incident took place in the early hours of Saturday.
Melton firefighters were already battling another deliberately-started car fire just a few yards aways in Dieppe Way when Mitchell’s Vauxhall Nova was targeted.
The fire crew were arriving outside when Paige looked out the window to see the blaze close to the front of the property and she feared for the safety of her son, Coby.
She told the Melton Times: “I was asleep but randomly woke up around 2.30 and saw this orange glow at the top of my bedroom window.
“I could hear the burning and when I looked outside the flames were coming up to the window.
“I shouted to Mitchell to get up because the car was on fire and then
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Dina Lohan had already gotten suspicious that her online boyfriend didn’t have the best intentions before they called it quits.
On
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Saturday, her ex Jesse Nadler told TMZ that the pair, who had never met in real life, had finally set up a time to meet, but broke up before that could happen due to a fight.
“This guy wants his 15 minutes of fame — he just proved her suspicions correct,” the source adds.
News of Dina’s relationship first emerged during her time as a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother earlier this year.
During one of the episodes, she revealed that she’s been talking to “a special someone” for five years, even though they’ve never actually met in real life — or even FaceTimed.
The New York-based star went on to explain that she hadn’t met her long-term boyfriend yet because he was currently living San Fransisco, California, taking care of his mother and he doesn’t use FaceTime.
While Dina seemed confident that her relationship was
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) says it is “tremendously saddened” at the tragic and
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untimely passing of a member of the cricket family, William Haye.
The former national representative played his part in advancing the best interest of the sport and would have inspired many of his contemporaries and many who succeeded him, JCA said in a statement today.
Haye, 69, was shot dead at his Four Paths, Clarendon home on Monday and his house set ablaze by gunmen.
“This is shocking news; our thoughts and prayers are with his family, close friends and associates in this their period of grief. The circumstances around his death as reported in the media are beyond unfortunate. We encourage anyone with information which may be useful to the police in their investigations to come forward,” JCA CEO Courtney Francis was quoted as saying.
Haye served the Jamaica team as a fast bowler in the 1970s and performed creditably at different points in his early cricket career for the parishes of St Catherine and Clarendon, the JCA
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A peaceful repeat vote at polling stations in Macedonia on Sunday confirmed the ruling coalition's landslide victory in parliamentary elections that had initially been marred by violence
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, election officials said.
Held under tight police security, the rerun had not been expected to change the overall result from June 1 elections. But it was meant to determine which of the two main ethnic Albanian parties would be invited to join the governing coalition.
State electoral commission spokesman Zoran Tanevski said the reruns, conducted at stations where violence and irregularities occurred during the earlier vote, showed Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's VMRO party had won 50.4 percent of the vote, with 97 percent of the votes from both rounds counted. The main opposition Social Democrats received 24.4 percent, he said.
Tanevski said the ethnic Albanian DUI party had garnered 11.5 percent of the vote and its archrival DPA received 7.6 percent.
The voting Sunday was held without any major irregularities in 183 polling stations, mostly in ethnic Albanian areas. Minor violations stopped voting in four polling stations. The country's total number of
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More than 500 police officers raided the Berlin city's Hells Angels chapter early on Wednesday morning – in a hurried operation after police sources tipped off the
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gang.
The Berlin state parliament banned the “Berlin City” chapter of the gang on Tuesday evening on the grounds that members were suspected of violent crimes as well as weapons and drugs offences.
The initial plan was to carry out raids during the day on Wednesday, but this had to be pulled forward after an informer tipped off gang members, and the police moved in to hand over the official banning notice on Tuesday night.
“Unfortunately we have to assume that people from our own ranks gave information to these criminals in return for money,” a police spokesman said, adding that the betrayal was shameful for the police force.
The city's police say there are more than 1,000 biker-gang members in Berlin, of whom more than 400 belong to the Bandidos. The Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper said just over 200 Hells Angels members are known to the authorities.
Rivalry between the two gangs can often be deadly and is usually
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Christian Jones can spot a Texan from across the locker room. They’re borderline cocky, but they’re not loud about
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it.
Jones is all that separates the Bears from starting an all-Lone Star State inside linebacker duo Sunday night at the Taj Majal of Texas football, AT&T Stadium outside Dallas. Depending on matchups, the Bears figure to play Jones or Jonathan Anderson — a Corpus Christi native who went to TCU — alongside Waco’s Jerrell Freeman, from Mary Hardin-Baylor.
It might be hard to Anderson to stay that way. Sunday could be a watershed moment: a primetime start in his adopted hometown to replace Danny Trevathan, the Bears’ big-money free-agent acquisition who had surgery Wednesday to reattach a thumb ligament.
Less than two years after getting his diploma, Anderson hopes his former TCU teammates will make the trek from nearby Fort Worth to watch the game. His family is coming up from Corpus Christi, about six hours south.
Anderson played two years of safety in college; his coverage skills helped the undrafted free
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It’s always great to think about Christmas, even though it’s the summer or spring time. Most of the times, people
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prepare for this holiday and try to find the best places for them to shop. Moreover, if they’re visiting another country during the Christmas time, it’s great to know what places are most suitable for them.
In this following article, we will be talking about the best Christmas markets that you can find around Geneva and what can you find around these places. If you are interested in this subject, keep on reading and maybe it will be useful for you.
One of the most beautiful markets that you should definitely visit is Place de la Fusterie that is actually an international market. There, you get buy various things, from the local traditional food to the most interesting international dishes. It’s a great place to be during the holidays, because there are a lot of activities you can do, from enjoying the area generally, to going from shop to shop.
Another Christmas market that is definitely recommended in Geneva is Chateau de Coppet. This place
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You deserve only the best. Whatever your preferred style of exercise, we can accommodate you. With top-quality name brand equipment from Cybex
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, Hoist, Nautilus, Precor, Star Trac, and TRUE you can be assured a quality workout.
We offer 5 treadmills, 6 ellipticals, 4 bikes (including one spinning and one recumbent), 2 rowers and 2 Adaptive Motion Trainers - which can be used as a stairclimber or stride adapting elliptical.
Most equipment includes a heart rate monitor, several machines have built-in fans. There are 3 televisions on the cardio side that you can listen to with a walkman.
We offer 16 Cybex resistance machines, 2 benches and one Nautilus weight-assisted chin dip. We also have a Max Rack seen in the center of the right-hand picture. It includes adjustable safety bars, is plate-loaded and unlike most Smith machines, allows both horizontal and vertical motion for a flexible workout.
We also have a free weight area with dumbbells from 5 to 75 lbs, a curl bar
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For this season, no: the defender has pledged to stay at least one more year at the French club. Next season, however, he would
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be available. £10-14M would probably be enough.
What kind of player is he?
A commanding centre half standing at 6’2, the Football Manager fanatics among you will be well aware of his attributes. Ubiquitous in France U20’s World Cup win this summer, Zouma impressed with his strength, aerial prowess and reading of the game. Having broken into the St Etienne side, the youngster has established himself as one of the most promising players in Ligue 1, leading to interest from the likes of Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal.
Age: 18. Club: Real Betis. Position: Winger.
Is he available? Betis have shown this summer that they’re not averse to selling their prized assets, with Swansea snapping up both Alejandro Pozuelo and Jose Canas. A bid somewhere between £5-10M could do the trick.
While headlines such as “the new Ronaldo
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NAIROBI, Aug 14 2014 (IPS) - In the rush to save babies from HIV infection and treat their mothers, experts warn that a
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key element of HIV prevention is being neglected in Africa – contraceptives for HIV positive women.
Yet contraception is the second pillar of successful prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child (PMTCT), along with preventing infection among women and babies, and caring for those infected.
“The contraceptive needs of HIV positive women are often put on the background, the main focus is on keeping mother and child healthy,” Florence Ngobeni-Allen, a spokesperson with the Elizabeth Glaser Paediatric AIDS Foundation, told IPS. A South African, she was diagnosed with HIV in 1996, lost a baby to AIDS and now has two healthy boys.
Contraception is crucial in East and Southern Africa, where high HIV prevalence combines with high unmet needs for family planning, and where eight in ten HIV positive women are within their reproductive years, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Most modern methods of hormonal contraception are safe for women with HIV.
Some hormonal
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A little-known provision of the Every Student Succeeds Act allows students who attend a "persistently dangerous school," or who become the
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victim of a violent crime on school grounds, to transfer to a safer school.
Now department wants to know how that's working. The department is planning to study state implementation of the provision, according to a notice scheduled to be published in the Federal Register.
"Given ongoing, cross-Federal-agency efforts to help ensure students are safe in school, it is essential for the Department to understand how State Educational Agencies (SEAs) are implementing the requirement," the notice says.
The idea isn't new under ESSA. States also had to flag "persistently dangerous" schools under the law that proceeded it, No Child Left Behind. But because states got to decide what "persistently dangerous" meant, very few schools got slapped with the label. In the 2005-06 school year, for example, just 41 schools across the country were flagged as "persistently dangerous." States also get to define the term under ESSA.
The provision is one of a
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Although it seems like the other day, it is already a year since Kenya’s last polls in 2017. The passage of a year justifies
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a reflection on recent electoral experiences and some thoughts on what the future might hold.
The 2013 elections were important as these were the first under a new Constitution that promised higher standards of electoral probity than had previously been experienced, and also because of the freshness of the violence that followed the previous elections.
However, the country emerged from 2013 with a clear sense that the management of the elections had largely failed to meet those standards. As a result, there was expectation that some kind of reforms at the IEBC, ahead of the next elections in 2017, would be inevitable. After 2013, the resistance to demands for electoral reforms was largely seen as an attempt to minimise the scope of possible reforms, rather than to prevent them.
After a traumatic year, in which the country faced an unprecedented two presidential elections, there is much less clarity about what needs to be done in response to challenges that were experienced during the elections last year. While, by summoning the courage to annul the presidential election
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Technically, summer starts today, but Central Texas has been scorched by hot temperatures in a record-breaking spring.
This year had the
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hottest and 10th -driest March to May on record in Austin, according to measurements by the National Weather Service at Camp Mabry.
There has been no relief in June, as record daily highs have either been tied or broken at least nine times at Mabry since June 1, and 11 times at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Temperatures in June have been 7.6 degrees above average, suggesting the record-setting hotness will continue.
If Central Texas has felt to you like an oven, you're not imagining things: The temperatures have turned up to a low bake.
Meanwhile, the region continues to be parched.
Mabry has gone 30 days without measurable rain. More broadly, the period of October 2010 through May is the second-driest on record since 1856, with only 8.96 inches recorded.
Compounding the problem, an unusually windy spring is increasing evaporation from soils and lakes, even as it
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Hillsboro City Schools Board of Education members are pictured at Monday’s monthly meeting, from left, Tom Milbery, Beverly Rhoad
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s, Bill Myers, Jerry Walker and Larry Lyons.
The hiring of a social worker to help elementary students deal with mental health and social issues was approved during Monday’s regular meeting of the Hillsboro City Schools Board of Education.
As of Monday’s meeting, the new position has not been posted yet, so it is still open, according to Superintendent Tim Davis. Davis said the social worker will likely be part-time, at least in the beginning, and will work closely with the school counselor. The exact duties of the job remain to be determined, Davis said.
According to Davis, the high school already has a social worker.
Davis said part of the reason why the school board decided to hire an elementary school social worker was to respond to requests made during a public safety forum the school hosted last spring.
“A lot of the response we got that night was dealing with mental health, so if that’s something we can help kids deal with
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Porter County Animal Shelter employee Kori Black leads Sebastian, a German Shepherd, to the yard Jan. 23, 2019.
As the weather
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heads into another deep freeze, animal shelter directors have some advice for dog owners: If you’re cold when you go outside, your dog is, too.
With subzero low temperatures and single-digit high temperatures predicted this week, shelter officials said furry friends need extra care and attention to avoid frostbite and other cold-weather hazards, and playtime should switch to treat-filled toys and other mental stimulation to take the place of long walks or games of fetch.
"Shilah" stands in the yard at the Porter County Animal Shelter on Jan. 23, 2019, as kennels and cages are cleaned at the facility.
Pets should be kept indoors except for bathroom breaks if it’s below 20 degrees out, she said, while her counterparts at the Humane Society of Hobart and the Humane Society of Northwest Indiana in Gary’s Miller neighborhood said the limit should be around freezing, at 32 degrees.
“You have to be careful because
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Sen. Mike Lee Michael (Mike) Shumway LeeDems sound alarm over top DOJ nominee Restore Pell Grant eligibility to people in prison Former
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Democratic aide pleads guilty to doxing GOP senators attending Kavanaugh hearing MORE’s bid to enter the Senate Republican leadership next year came to an abrupt end Sunday when he announced to colleagues via email that he would suspend his campaign.
Lee, a rising Tea Party star from Utah, said he was ending his bid to be the GOP’s policy committee chairman to avoid further turmoil in the GOP conference.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellSenate Republicans tested on Trump support after Mueller Anti-smoking advocates question industry motives for backing higher purchasing age Former Bush assistant: Mueller report makes Obama look 'just plain bad' MORE (R-Ky.) effectively quashed Lee’s effort by arguing that the current chairman, Sen. John Barrasso John Anthony BarrassoOvernight Energy: Gillibrand offers bill to ban pesticide from school lunches | Interior secretary met tribal lawyer tied to Zinke casino dispute | Critics say EPA rule could reintroduce asbestos use GOP
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This app could save your older Android phone from being hijacked. Specifically, the Installer Hijacking Scanner app from the Google Play store is
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designed to check for a vulnerability that was discovered over a year ago and still hasn't been resolved.
Palo Alto Networks revealed information Tuesday about a critical vulnerability affecting Android. The flaw was initially discovered in January, 2014. Palo Alto Networks has been working closely with Google and Android device manufacturers to resolve the issue since then. The flaw, dubbed “Android Installer Hijacking,” is estimated to impact nearly half of all Android devices.
The vulnerability affects the Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTTOU) function of Android. Exploiting the flaw allows an attacker to hijack app installation and replace or modify an otherwise benign Android app installation with malware without the user’s knowledge. According to Palo Alto Networks the malicious app is able to gain full access to the compromised device—including usernames, passwords, and other sensitive data.
The issue is a problem only when downloading apps from third-party repositories. Apps installed from
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Hundred Karnataka BJP lawmakers were flown to Delhi on the weekend. Sources say they checked into the ITC Grand Bharat at 5 pm on
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Monday.
The reason for the unexpected break was a boot camp before national elections, BS Yeddyurappa had said.
Surrounded by the Aravali forests where leopards are said to lurk, over 100 Karnataka BJP lawmakers have been sequestered at a luxe -- yet confining --resort in Gurgaon near Delhi. As two independent lawmakers withdrew support from the ruling Janata Dal Secular-Congress coalition in Karnataka on Tuesday, the mystery surrounding the activities of the Bengaluru club intensified. Sources say they checked into the ITC Grand Bharat at 5 pm on Monday, even though they were expected much later at night. No one's quite sure how long they will stay.
The official reason for their unexpected break, as their leader BS Yeddyurappa told NDTV yesterday, was a boot camp before the national election due by May.
They were flown to Delhi on the weekend, when the BJP had a two-day leadership conclave
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It was only a matter of time: You can now run conventional x86 desktop apps on your ARM-based Windows RT tablet, such as the
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Surface RT. x86 games like Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (see the video below) and small utilities such as WinRAR are confirmed to work on Windows RT, with the developer promising to support uTorrent and some other games in the future.
The tool, which seems to be called Win86Emu, is essentially an x86 emulator or software abstraction layer for Windows RT. If you’ve used DOSBox, or some kind of game console emulator before, Win86Emu is very similar: You run Win86Emu, select which x86 app you want to execute, and then – if everything goes to plan – your x86 app will appear.
In essence, Win86Emu grabs the API calls made by the x86 app, converts them into the Windows RT equivalent, and then passes them along to the WinRT kernel. (See: Why you should upgrade your PC to Windows 8). As far as the x86 app is concerned, it
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ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday said Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered Sindh government to launch probe
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into reports of abduction, forced conversion and underage marriages of two teenage Hindu girls and to take immediate steps for their recovery.
In a Twitter post earlier today, the minister informed that Prime Minister Imran has issued directives to the Sindh chief minister to look into reports that the girls in question have been taken to Rahim Yar Khan.
The incident came to light after the father and brother of the girls, in videos that went viral on social media, said that the two sisters were abducted and forcefully converted to Islam. In a separate video, however, the minor girls can be seen saying that they accepted Islam of their own free will.
"The minorities in Pakistan make up the white of our flag and all of our flag's colours are precious to us. Protection of our flag is our duty," the info minister added.
Chaudhry had also tweeted on Saturday that the government had taken notice of reports of the alleged forced conversion and underage marriages of the two girls in Ghotki.
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ASIC and the Australian Federal Police have raided the Melbourne office of an online foreign currency broker accused by clients of harassing and pressuring them into losing hundreds
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of thousands of dollars.
The raid is a further indication of concerns over practices within the massive online foreign exchange — or forex — brokerage industry.
Officers from the AFP alongside officials from ASIC executed a search warrant last week on the Melbourne office of ForexCT, one of 70 forex brokers licensed in Australia by ASIC.
ASIC also obtained orders in the Federal Court freezing the bank accounts of ForexCT and stopping its director Shlomi Yoshai from leaving the country.
ASIC would not comment on the raid, but the ABC has been told the warrant referred to a number of ForexCT employees.
Although it holds an Australian Financial Services license, ForexCT is wholly owned by a Vanuatu company.
The ABC spoke to two ForexCT clients who claimed employees of the company pressured them into investing hundreds of thousands of dollars with the company — money which was subsequently lost.
Forex trading is a highly complex and risky form of investment, which experts
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Stanford tennis player Mallory Burdette will skip her senior season and turn professional, the school said.
As a wild card, B
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urdette advanced to the third round of the U.S. Open before losing to third-seeded Maria Sharapova. Earlier this summer, she won two USTA singles events, the Hospital Tennis Classic and the Odlum Brown Vancouver Open.
"I am very sad to leave my coaches and teammates at Stanford, but excited to build upon my recent summer success by shifting my focus to a professional tennis career," Burdette said.
-- Five-time major champion Martina Hingis, 1991 Wimbledon winner Michael Stich and doubles star Helena Sukova are among the nominees for the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Others nominees for the hall's class of 2013 are Thelma Coyne Long, a Grand Slam champion in the 1930s to 1950s, and three nominees in the contributor category: ESPN broadcaster Cliff Drysdale, Charlie Pasarell and Ion Tiriac.
As a wild card, Mallory Burdette advanced to the third round of the U
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If she runs for president in 2016, Hillary Clinton would bring a number of potential strengths to the race, from her tenure as secretary of state to
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her perceived toughness and honesty. Fully 67% of Americans approve of the job she did as secretary of state, while majorities say she is tough (69%) and honest (56%).
The public also rejects the notion that Clinton is unlikable – a change from the 2008 Democratic primary campaign. In a memorable moment from that contest, then-candidate Barack Obama turned to Clinton during a debate and said sarcastically, “You’re likable enough, Hillary.” Today, just 36% say Clinton is “hard to like”; a majority (57%) says that phrase does not describe her. During the 2008 primary season, about half of voters found Clinton hard to like (51% in March 2008).
However, the new national survey by the Pew Research Center and USA TODAY, conducted Feb. 27-Mar. 2 among 1,002 adults, finds that Clinton is not widely seen as having new ideas. About half (49%) say the phrase �
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LAHORE: Begum Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of former premier Nawaz Sharif, was laid to rest in Jati Umra
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, Raiwind after offering of her funeral prayers by relatives, senior political figures and hundreds of party workers on Friday.
The funeral prayers, led by Maulana Tariq Jameel, were offered at Sharif Medical City in Raiwind. The prayers were attended by Sharif family members excluding Begum Kulsoom’s sons Hassan and Hussain Nawaz.
She was laid to rest in Jati Umra next to the resting place of her father-in-law Mian Sharif and brother-in-law Abbas Sharif.
The leadership of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf including Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar and NA Speaker Asad Qaiser attended the funeral prayers. Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders Khursheed Shah, Qamar Zaman Kaira were also in attendance. MQM-P leader and federal minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, MQM-P leader Farooq Sattar and P
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Edina couple looking forward to a fourth medical mission with Children's Surgery International.
They’re monsters. They’re demons.
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They’re outcasts.
About one in 1,000 children is born with a cleft lip or palate. But in some parts of the world, these babies are shunned — not only by society, but by their own blood.
“In some cultures, they’re thought of as monsters or demons. Many of these kids are abandoned by their families,” said Dr. Dan Sampson, an Edina resident and associate chief of surgery at Minneapolis Children’s Hospital.
Sampson and his wife, Melanie McCall, have helped improve the lives of dozens of babies born with cleft lips and palates through Children’s Surgery International, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit that sends volunteer medical teams to a half-dozen countries around the world.
Sampson, an oral-maxillofacial surgeon, has made an annual surgical trip to Hermosillo, Mexico, for the past three years. On each trip, McCall
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After shifting away from 'traditional' games in favour of mobile title and pachinko machines, Japanese developer Konami has announced a return to the
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world of Metal Gear for 2017.
Metal Gear Survive is a very different Metal Gear game though. Pitched as a "co-op stealth game", it takes place in an alternate timeline branching off from the end of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, and there's no sign of the series' iconic leading man, Snake.
The divergent continuity occurs when wormholes appear in the sky, transporting a handful of Mother Base soldiers to a blasted, desolate world full of half formed structures and military ruins. While the franchise is no stranger to weird enemies – looking at you, Psycho Mantis – Survive will see players teaming up to take on rampaging hordes infected with what looks like some sort of silicate mutation, turning them into crystalline monsters.
"We are delighted to announce another exciting addition to the Metal Gear franchise," said Tomotada Tashiro, Konami's European president, via statement. "Metal Gear Survive will offer a fresh take on the series' famed
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LIVERPOOL legend Kenny Dalglish has warned the Anfield club that if anyone can knock them off fourth spot, it could be Manchester United
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He admits that it's Liverpool's to lose, but an in-form United could give them a serious run for their money.
Brendan Rodgers' side dropped two points at West Brom and David Moyes' United lost at Stoke over the weekend, increasing the gap to seven points between the great rivals.
Dalglish said: "Liverpool are in fourth spot right now and someone has to come and take it off them because they are not going to give it up.
"They are two points better off than the team below them (Everton) and they have a massively better goal difference.
"They have all the big teams apart from United to come to Anfield and as the team immediately below them found out last week they are pretty awesome at Anfield.
"You have to play one game at a time but they are in a very good position at a good time.
"United have been one of the top-four teams for a long time and although they
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Making money: Terrence Kelleman started making nifty items in his living room in 2002.
Board stiff: Dynomighty is furnished with
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these neat cardboard chairs.
In the fold: Artist Miss Zukie with the Dynomighty wallet featuring her work.
This guy is chairman of the cardboard.
Terrence Kelleman, the founder of Dynomighty, a company best known for its paper-thin wallets, opened a storefront and shared artist work-space in Dumbo on April 16 and decked the place out with cardboard seating. The chairs are made from three pieces of thick cardboard cut with lasers and can be shipped flat and assembled in a jiffy. The engineering feat came out of Kelleman’s dissatisfaction with the seat-us quo when trying to furnish the shop.
Kelleman started Dnynomighty 12 years ago in his living room, with a box of magnets that his father lent him $300 to buy. He made link-less bracelets out of the magnets and sold them to his employer, the Museum of Modern Art Design Store in Manhattan.
Kelle
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U.S. Added 213,000 Jobs In June The government's June jobs report beat expectations with another 213,000 jobs added. The unemployment
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rate ticked up to 4 percent with more people entering the workforce.
Joana Dudley looks at a list of job prospects at a job fair in Miami Lakes, Fla., in January. In the government's June jobs report, the unemployment rate ticked up to 4 percent with more people entering the labor force.
The Labor Department on Friday reported another big month for job growth, with a larger than expected addition of 213,000 jobs for June.
The unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 4 percent as some people who had been on the sidelines moved back into the labor force.
The report underscores a familiar refrain: There are lots of jobs being created, but not enough people to fill them. That continues as employers consistently hire at robust rates and the unemployment rate keeps falling.
The economy has now been adding jobs for nearly eight years — its longest streak on record. The U.S. is considered at near full employment, and the biggest challenge in the job market is the lack
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TOKYO — Sony is in talks to sell its troubled personal computer business and Thursday lowered its earnings forecast for the business year ending March to a
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110 billion yen loss ($1.1 million).
The company also said it’s cutting its global workforce by about 3 percent or 5,000 people by the end of March 2015 as it restructures its PC, television and other businesses. Some 3,500 of the job losses will be overseas and 1,500 in Japan. That comes on top of the 10,000 jobs cuts Sony announced over the previous year.
The Japanese electronics and entertainment maker, battered by stiff competition from Samsung Electronics of South Korea and Apple, the U.S. maker of the hit iPod and iPad, acknowledged it won’t be able to stop losing money in its Vaio PC or Bravia TV operations as it had repeatedly promised.
Tokyo-based Sony said it will split off its money-losing TV division and run it as a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Sony is talking with investment fund Japan Industrial Partners, which specializes in turnarounds and buyouts in manufacturing, to
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God’s Politics: Frist Fights Filibuster on Judicial Nominees in “Justice Sunday” | Democracy Now!
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The battle over President Bush’s judicial nominees reached new heights this past weekend. Senate Majority leader Bill Frist delivered a taped speech in which he again threatened to ban Democrats from filibustering Bush’s court nominees. While the Republican leader’s rhetoric was the same, it was the venue of his address that grabbed national headlines.
The speech was part of an event organized by Christian conservative groups called “Justice Sunday: Stopping the Filibuster Against People of Faith.” It was held at a packed Baptist church east of Louisville, Kentucky and was simultaneously broadcast to churches around the country, as well as to 61 million households.
In his speech, Frist threatened again to use what is known as the “nuclear option,”–changing Senate rules to ban filibusters of judicial nominees.
Democrats have said they would retaliate by bringing most Senate business to a halt. But now, the Senate’s top two Democrats–Minority Leader
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