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Dear Dr. Gott: Have you ever heard of treating an ear infection with Burow's solution? Are you supposed to mix it with vinegar and
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, if so, what is the proper mixture? Thanks for your help. I love your column.
Dear Reader: Burow's solution is aluminum acetate or acetic acid (vinegar) in water that is used to reduce or relieve inflammatory conditions such as swelling, bruises, insect bites and rash caused by poison ivy or sumac. It is often applied as an eardrop remedy in a 13 percent solution because of antibacterial properties that inhibit the growth of bacteria. Some suppliers offer prepacked gauze compresses that are used in medical settings for stasis ulcers prior to the application of a dry, sterile dressing; however, because the solution is an acid (albeit weak), the time a compress is left on the wound must be adhered to. Solutions for ulcers can be a mixture of one to 20, meaning 50 milliters in a liter of tap water as directed by a skin specialist. The remedy is also available in tablet form. Directions for the tablet-
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Chabad emissary describes 'chaos' after massive - and deadly - earthquake.
One day after a massive earthquake in Ecuador which killed
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272 people, the Chabad emissary to Guayaquil spoke about the damage.
"The quake occurred Saturday night, toward the end of the Ma'ariv prayer," Rabbi Uriel Tawil began, in an interview with haredi news outlet Hamevaser. "Suddenly, everything was shaking - and we were shocked, we didn't know what might happen."
"We left the building, gathered the children, and sat on a grass area in the courtyard, where we gather during an emergency," Tawil continued. "We started to recite Tehilim (Psalms), and the children were crying in panic."
"It lasted about two minutes," he added. The average earthquake lasts between 30-40 seconds.
"Everything came crashing down," he continued. "Surveillance footage from inside the synagogue shows that after we went outside, all of the books fell off their shelves; everything was on the floor."
Rabbi
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A teaser trailers for for Steve Shill’s backdoor pilot… errr I mean TV Movie remake/reboot Knight Rider have started to
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run on NBC. Yes, it is a slow news day week. Watch the first teaser after the jump. And no, I’m not all too interested, although everyone does get just a tad excited about ideas which let you revisit your childhood.
From the official press release: The movie stars Justin Bruening (“Cold Case,” “All My Children”), Deanna Russo (“NCIS,” “The Young and the Restless”), Sydney Tamiia Poitier (“Veronica Mars,” “Grindhouse”) and Bruce Davison (“Breach,” “Close to Home”). In addition, David Hasselhoff (NBC’s “America’s Got Talent”) — who starred in the popular lead role as Michael Knight for four seasons during the original series — returns as the same character in a special guest-star appearance
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President Donald Trump threatened to use his power over broadcast licenses Wednesday to retaliate against NBC News for its reporting on his consideration of a dramatic increase of the
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U.S. nuclear arsenal.
"With all of the fake news coming out of NBC and the networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their license?" Trump asked, via Twitter.
The answer of course is never. Presidents don't have any say about how a television network runs its operation. The Federal Communications Commission regulates licenses for individual stations.
Trump doubled down this morning, tweeting, "The fake news is going all out in order to demean and denigrate. Such hatred!"
The New York Times reports that The Weinstein Company knew about Harvey Weinstein's behavior for at least two years before The Times reported on Weinstein's repeated exploitation of women. According toThe Times, interviews and internal company records reveal that the company knew about Weinstein's payoffs to young women so that they would remain quiet about the inappropriate encounters. Former Weinstein attorney David Boies said in an interview that The Weinstein Company had been made aware of confidential settlements with women. Weinstein Company board members did not respond
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Incident, which occurred several weeks ago, reexamined after leftist org. initially distanced itself from anti-Semitic remarks.
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researcher for the extreme left group B'Tselem has denied the Holocaust leaving the organization scrambling to clean up its image.
Undercover reporter Tuvia Tenenbom recorded the researcher, Atef Abu-Alrub, saying that the Holocaust is a "lie" that he "doesn't believe" during a tour of Bedouin village Khirbet Al-Makhul in Judea and Samaria.
Tenenbom's book Catch the Jew, which was released last month, documented the incident.
After an expose by Channel 2 on the remarks in September, B'Tselem spokesman Sarit Michaeli claimed that the remarks were "lies" and taken out of context.
The organization's views have apparently changed, however, and on Sunday, a Facebook post by the group pledged to "seriously examine the issue."
"After an [initial] investigation conducted with the researcher, and in a letter sent to our employees, we established that Mr
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One of the data companies Facebook is planning to remove from its ad-targeting program has come out swinging.
Acxiom CEO Scott Howe
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told Business Insider that Facebook is deliberately cutting off third-party data vendors to distract from its botched handling of the Cambridge Analytica mess.
''We are getting thrown under the bus,' Howe said. "This was a masterful political manipulation."
A lot of people are not happy with Facebook right now. Add Scott Howe to the list.
Howe is the president and CEO of Acxiom, which collects consumer data from a wide variety of sources - data that has been employed by marketers for decades. It's also one of the companies that Facebook said it plans to stop working with for ad targeting.
Late Wednesday, Facebook announced plans to wind down a program that enabled advertisers to use data from third-party companies — ranging from Oracle to Acxiom — to target its users with specific ads.
Facebook has positioned that move as being aimed at better protecting consumer privacy in light of the ongoing fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which came to light when The New York
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In the landmark 400th issue of Doctor Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme finally discovers the real price of his powerful magic. For decades, Strange has protected
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the Marvel Universe, but it turns out the sorcerer has seemingly overlooked the price that comes with casting spells.
Marvel's "Fresh Start" initiative relaunched several of Marvel's titles, including Doctor Strange. Written by Mark Waid, the new series sent Doctor Strange on a journey into outer space. Shortly after taking back the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme from Loki, Strange lost all of his magical powers and was desperate to get them back. While traveling in space, Strange found a way to regain his abilities and became even more powerful than ever. Strange returned to Earth, resumed his role as Sorcerer Supreme... and it seemed all had returned to the way it was.
Marvel Comics has reached a milestone with this week's release of Doctor Strange #10, which in legacy numbering is the comic's 400th issue. In Doctor Strange #10, Strange's friends are captured by a mysterious man who admits to being the one who took away Strange's magic. He reminds Strange of the number one rule of
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He and wife Amal quietly took in the refugee from Iraq in a house they maintain in Kentucky.
George and Amal Clooney have quietly
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taken in a Yazidi refugee from Iraq.
In The Hollywood Reporter's cover story, Clooney reveals that he and his wife are boarding the man in a house the actor-director maintains in Augusta, Ky.
"He was on this bus to Mosul, and ISIS shot the two bus drivers and said, 'Anybody who wants to go to college, we will shoot them,' " says Clooney. "He survived and came to America. He got through all the checks, and once he got through those, it was like, 'Listen, we got your back. You want to get an education? You want to move your life forward? This is something that we can do.' "
The refugee is now a student at the University of Chicago.
Clooney has been praised for his philanthropic work, including in Sudan, a cause he picked up after reading 12 years ago about a program of ethnic cleansing that the government was carrying out in its western region, Darfur
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The model talks Lena Dunham, her personal style, and memories of her famous aunt.
Given her title, given that her father currently lives on
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a 13,000-acre estate, and given that she is Princess Diana’s niece, it would be fair to assume Lady Kitty Spencer would, in conversation, have the air of, well, a royal—overly cautious with his or her words, perhaps somewhat disconnected from reality. Spencer is the oldest of the four children Princess Diana’s brother Charles Spencer, the Ninth Earl Spencer, had with Victoria Lockwood, a British former fashion model. (Charles Spencer has re-married twice, since his split from Lockwood, and has had three additional children.) When Charles dies, the Althorp estate where he currently lives will pass on to Kitty’s younger brother, Louis, due to the British primogeniture bylaws that mandate the property be bequeathed to a male heir (yes, this triggered flashbacks to high-school Jane Austen reading for us, as well).
But, in fact, when actually chatting with Kitty Spencer, the conversation is
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Thousands of Chinese teens and young adults work 15 hours a day at 65 cents per hour, prohibited from talking or listening to music, in abys
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mal conditions at the KYE Systems factory where they assemble Microsoft hardware that is exported to the United States, Europe and Japan.
So reports the National Labor Committee, which on Tuesday released the culmination of three years of incognito interviews and photography inside the infamous Dongguan, China, gadget factories. Though Microsoft is not the only company to outsource manufacturing to KYE, it accounts for about 30 percent of the factory’s work, the NLC said.
The workers – mostly women aged 18 to 25 – work from 7:45 a.m. to 10:55 p.m. They eat horrid meals from the factory cafeterias. They have no bathroom breaks during their shifts, and must clean the toilets as discipline, according to the NLC.
They sleep in factory dormitories, 14 workers to a room. They must buy their own mattresses and bedding, or else sleep on 28-inch-wide plywood boards. They “
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When Rich Francis attended the Stratford Chef School in Stratford, Ont., one of his assignments was to come up with a bistro concept
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Francis spent his early years in the traditional Indigenous community of Fort McPherson in the Northwest Territories, and he was in the midst of rediscovering his roots through food. The idea he came up with — a destination restaurant on a reserve serving modern Indigenous dishes—reflected his new passion.
If you didn’t know Francis’ name, you will soon. His reality show Red Chef Revival, which is part cooking series and part historical documentary, is set to debut in early 2019. His cookbook, Cooking for Truth and Reconciliation, featuring Indigenous recipes, is due in the spring.
Francis has become an important voice in the conversation about honouring Canada’s culinary history, which goes back a lot further than 150 years.
Now 42, Francis moved back to Six Nations last year.
In his early thirties, he was living in London, Ont., raising a family and earning a living as an ironworker while watching
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Eight military policewomen stationed at West Point have been discharged from the Army for what officials said were homosexual activities, the United States Military Academy said
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today.
The women, who were not cadets, were ''administratively discharged at various times during the summer,'' as investigations were completed, according to Col. John P. Yeagley, a West Point spokesman.
''The investigation included witnesses and other evidence,'' Colonel Yeagley said, and was not just a case of individual interviews. The women lived in barracks on the academy grounds and were the first, he said, to have been discharged under those circumstances.
There are about 800 soldiers at West Point, providing logistical and administrative requirements of the military academy. The military police company had 153 members, 35 of them women, before the eight accused were forced to leave.
The women were discharged under chapter 15 of Army regulation 635-200, which deals with separation as a result of homosexual activity. They were given general discharges under honorable conditions, which fall short of honorable discharges.
Army officials declined to provide details of the investigation, which was conducted by a
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Why is metro New Orleans sinking? Video NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Home and Garden Editor Susan Langenhenn
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ig talks with Tulane University geographer Richard Campanella and Civil engineer Kevin Vanderbrook about the effect of soil subsidence in the New Orleans metro area.
Tulane University geography professor and NOLA.com Cityscapes columnist, Richard Campanella's recent column on soil subsidence generated a lot of questions from readers about why the metro New Orleans area is sinking and what that means to homeowners. The column generated such a vibrant online conversation, I decided it was worth exploring the topic in a little more depth.
Campanella joined me and civil engineer Kevin Vanderbrook of VECO Consulting Engineers in the newsroom studio on Thursday to discuss the serious issue of subsidence -- and what, if anything, homeowners can do about it.
The video is about 26 minutes long, but it's full of information, both on the macro level -- why is subsidence an issue we should all be concerned about? -- and the micro level -- is it a good idea for
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The HomePod isn't a large device, but it's heavy. Which makes sense given the audio components crammed into the cylinder. It's got
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a single, circular woofer to deliver bass tones and seven tweeters for the midrange and high-frequency sounds.
First released in February, the smart speaker didn't come to Canada until June 18. It's available for $449 in either Space Grey or White, and although that price might seem high, it's actually reasonable when you look at the cost of competitors.
The Sonos Play:3 is $329 and the Google Max is $499. Amazon's larger Echo is only $130 regularly priced, but I'm not even sure the Echo is in the same category as the HomePod.
Apple decided long ago to focus on the experience of music as a driver of its products. And while the HomePod was a bit slow in coming to the smart-speaker category, it delivers on that experience.
The HomePod delivers the best sound of them all. To my ears, Sonos speakers come close, but the Amazon Echo and Google Home speakers are inferior.
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More than a year in the making — first at VMware(s vmw) and then at Pivotal — Pivotal’s
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commercial distribution of the Cloud Foundry PaaS will be generally available on November 15. As we have heard, Pivotal has grand ambitions to make this cross-cloud platform a for-real application layer for enterprise use. Of course, broad cross-cloud adoption has always been the strategy for Cloud Foundry — what Pivotal has done is layer data analytics and other services atop the PaaS.
Pivotal CF “is our big enterprise product launch. Now you can have your own Cloud Foundry on the cloud of your choice running on vSphere behind the firewall or on OpenStack or AWS,” said Scott Yara, senior vice president of products and platform for Pivotal, the company spun out of EMC and VMware last year to pursue this goal using bits and pieces of technology from the parent companies.
There are two basic components — first the Pivotal CF commercial distribution and second a set of services to run atop that platform, including:
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An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier keeps guard at the Chakri post on the India-Pakistan border.
NEW DELHI --
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The latest dispute between archrivals India and Pakistan centers on whether the Indian Army took out several suspected terror camps just across the volatile border in Kashmir.
While India claims its special forces carried out pre-emptive “surgical strikes” last week, Islamabad is adamant they did not cross the line of control into Pakistan.
The truth may be hard to ascertain in the remote Himalayan region where the two armies have long faced off and where bouts of heavy cross-border firing are not unusual.
What is certain is that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has signaled a more assertive approach in dealing with Pakistan. The move follows an attack on an Indian Army post in Kashmir that killed 20 soldiers on September 18, an attack that New Delhi blamed on Pakistan-based militants.
Officials say in the coming days and weeks India will explore more diplomatic and economic measures to put pressure on its neighbor and rival whom it has long accused of supporting cross-border attacks by Islamic militant groups.
Analy
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A bill prohibiting cities from charging higher building permit fees in their extra-territorial areas will get a legislative hearing in Bismarck Thursday
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Rep. Dan Ruby, R-Minot, is the sponsor of House Bill 1471, which states cities cannot charge more for permit fees in extra-territorial areas than in the corporate city limits. Cities also cannot impose more restrictive regulations in extra-territorial areas under the bill.
The House Political Subdivisions Committee will take public testimony Thursday at 9 a.m. in the Capitol.
The issue arose in Minot last year when a resident outside city limits asked the council to equalize fees, which are doubled in the extra-territorial area. The Minot City Council had passed a resolution in July 1986 that provided for doubled fees.
The city upheld the fees last fall. According to the city, the surcharge is meant to recover the added costs of staff time and resources used to perform the duties outside of city limits and to discourage sprawl from adding to the costs of developing municipal infrastructure in and around rural subdivisions. The city reported
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In the past 24 hours, Palestinian terrorists have killed two Israelis, fired rockets and mortar rounds at Jewish communities in Gaza, opened fire on Israeli soldiers
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in Atzmona, and sent a suicide bomber to blow up Soroka Hospital in Beersheba (thankfully, she was caught on the way).
So how exactly is Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reacting to this renewed onslaught of Palestinian violence?
Why – by hosting Palestinian leader Abu Mazen, of course!
Sharon and Abu Mazen will be holding a mini-summit today to discuss coordinating the proposed Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria that is slated to take place in August.
In other words, even though Abu Mazen continues to allow Palestinian terror groups to attack Jews with impunity, Sharon seems to have no qualms about greeting him in Jerusalem or discussing the transfer of territory to his control.
This is not just a matter of national pride or even diplomatic niceties – it is a dangerous act that signifies weakness and frailty, for it sends a message to the Palestinians that they need not pay any “price” for their continued acts of terror
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The president's subdued remarks Tuesday at an event marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U
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.S. were a marked contrast in tone to his remarks on social media earlier in the morning.
WASHINGTON — A somber-sounding President Donald Trump recalled "a moment when America fought back" in remarks commemorating the passengers and crew who stormed the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 93, forcing hijackers to crash the plane in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assault on the U.S.
Speaking Tuesday at the Flight 93 memorial, Trump mixed promises to defend America from terrorism with praise for those who foiled the prong of al Qaeda's attack that planners said was intended to strike the U.S. Capitol and sympathetic sentiments for and about their survivors. Specifically, he told the heart-wrenching story of Dorothy Garcia, who asked investigators to retrieve her husband Andrew's wedding ring from the field — a speck-in-the-wreckage mission — and miraculously received it
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It’s hard being English in Los Angeles. People keep trying to talk to you. You can’t avoid it. They ask
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questions, all the time. There was the supermarket checkout girl who quizzed me at length about my salad dressing (yup, it was zero-fat). And the barman who wanted to know why the Queen had been alive for so long (no, nothing to do with ashtanga yoga). They are chatty and inquisitive and go nuts for an English accent. And yes, they are a tiny bit exhausting.
Better, perhaps, to tackle it one piece at a time, and Santa Monica sounded like a good place to start – hippyish, laid-back, and you can’t argue with miles of golden beaches. I decided against a hotel. Rent an apartment, I figured, and I could pretend I actually lived here, pretend I was a local.
Living like a local meant talking to locals – what better way to get to know a place? And boy, do Angelenos like to talk. It started before we even left home, in
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She is known for her signature bohemian style.
And Teresa Palmer cut an angelic figure in a floaty frock as she attended
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the British Academy Awards held in her new hometown of Wales on Sunday.
Wearing a gorgeous Prada white dress, the 31-year-old attended the exclusive event with her husband Mark Webber.
The mum-of-two teamed her outfit with a pair of black suede platform shoes.
She wore her blonde locks out and kept her makeup flawless with a smokey eye and bright red lip.
Mark looked dapper in a burgundy jacket teamed with a white shirt, grey bow tie and black pants.
She wrote in a blog post on Your Zen Mama: 'We have always been a travelling circus but this time it came with a few added challenges.
She also discussed juggling her busy career with motherhood on her blog.
The actress shares two boys with husband Mark Webber and is stepmother to Mark's son Isaac, who he shares with ex-partner actress Frankie Shaw.
Teresa and Mark have a three-year-old son Bodhi
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Not all banks are built to last, but these three superior franchises have the potential to be long-term stock holdings.
Banking ought to
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be a straightforward, profitable business: Take in deposits and lend money out at a rate that exceeds your cost of funding. However, bankers appear to be predisposed to complicating that formula and abdicating their common sense during boom periods. That behavior isn't limited to bankers, but as the financial crisis demonstrated, it's a recipe for disaster when you combine it with gobs of leverage.
Alex Dumortier (Wells Fargo): There are two things a bank must do in order to stand the test of time: Make loans that are, in aggregate, profitable and avoid what I call "iceberg" loan losses that can tear a gaping hole in the hull of its balance sheet as the bank attempts to navigate its way through a deep recession or a banking crisis (which seem to be a periodic feature of capitalist economies that is unlikely to disappear).
The ability to do both is related to a single quality: Lending discipline. A bank's lending discipline, in turn, is
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They brought back the Szechuan sauce, but it wasn’t enough.
Rick and Morty, created by Community’s Dan
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Harmon, is currently the Number 1 television comedy among millennials. It’s risen in popularity since it premiered on Adult Swim in 2013, and this weekend inspired McDonald’s to launch a one-day fan event that became way bigger than the burger chain had ever anticipated.
In Season 3’s premiere, “The Rickshank Rickdemption,” which aired April 1, 2017, mad scientist and terrible grandfather Rick Sanchez (voiced by co-creator Justin Roiland) is being interrogated by an alien Galactic Federation to find out the secret of his portal gun, which allows him and his grandson Morty (also voiced by Roiland) to traverse through parallel universes. But what’s important here is that Rick figures out that the aliens have broken into his own mind and memories to interrogate him, and drives them to McDonald’s where, in 1998, the chain released limited-edition “Szechuan” McNugget sauce to
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2008 was the year that collatorised debt obligations wiped out the capital bases of the west's biggest banks, which played itself out during September 2008
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following the china syndrome chain reaction that followed the Lehman's bust that led to the unprecedented actions of capital injections and nationalisation of too big to fail banks that looks set to continue for the whole of 2009 and beyond. The crisis had been festering and growing since the August 2007 interbank market freeze due to flawed and some could say fraudulent mark to market valuation of worthless over leveraged mortgage backed CDO's.
The time bomb continued to tick under the bankrupt banks as to how long could the banks hide the truth from the market that they were insolvent. The article of September 9th (BANKRUPT Banks Wiped Out by Tulip Backed Securities, Is China Cheap?) in response to email queries of "should I buy banks now?", clearly pointed out that banks should be avoided as the banking crisis had yet to hit the financial markets let alone the economies which were also soon expected to fall off the edge of the cliff as the second phase of the credit crisis
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A Kutztown University student who claimed she was the subject of retaliation for spurning her professor's unwanted sexual advances has settled a sexual harassment
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lawsuit for $70,000.
Rhonda Miller of Bethlehem transferred to Kutztown and began to study Pennsylvania German family history in June 2011.
Professor Robert Reynolds, the director of the university's Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center, was assigned as Miller's academic adviser, according to the suit filed last year in federal court in Allentown.
In December, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Stengel rejected Reynolds' request to dismiss the suit, finding that Reynolds and Kutztown would have to present evidence to refute Miller's claims.
The settlement, signed in March and obtained through a request under Pennsylvania's Right to Know Law, is not an admission of fault or liability by Kutztown or Reynolds. Reynolds, who has worked at Kutztown for 10 years, remains a professor at Kutztown.
Kutztown spokesman Matthew Santos said the university does not discuss personnel matters.
"Given the potential costs involved in lengthy litigation, regardless of the eventual outcome,
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The Finance Minister says increased protectionism due to failed WTO talks too pose a threat to economic growth.
India on Monday warned the international community that
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growing threats of terrorism, which have potential to disrupt oil supply, and increased protectionism due to collapsed WTO talks posed a threat to the high global economic growth witnessed during the last few years.
"There is no scope for complacency on the growth front because the current growth phase is fraught with several downside risks. These include inflationary pressures, high oil prices, a disorderly unwinding of global imbalances and a sudden slowdown of the US economy," Finance Minister P Chidambaram told the policy making development committee meeting of the World Bank.
"Increased threats of terrorism, including that to oil installations which can cause supply disruptions, and increased protectionism due to the collapse of the WTO Doha Round, are added causes for concern," he emphasised.
He said the twin challenges facing the international financial community at this juncture were how to mitigate the specific downside risks that could act as dampeners to the otherwise bright medium-term growth prospects and how to leverage this benign growth scenario
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ISLAMABAD: The 14th death anniversary of Pakistani playback singer Akhlaq Ahmed was observed on Sunday throughout the country.
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He was born in May 8, 1940.
He was the member of a famous singing group with two other artists' singer Masood Rana and actor Nadeem Baig.
ruling the film music. Even then he remained a successful singer in late 1970s and 1980s.
Akhlaq Ahmad was the third generation of top male playback singers in Pakistan film industry.
He struggled for many years but finally claimed the fame he deserved as playback singer in the 1970s.
"Sona na Chandi na koi Mehal" in film Bandish 1980 and "Sawan Aye Sawan jaye" in Chahat 1974 are his most super hit songs.
Famous Indian singer Sonu Nigam sang many of his songs as Nigam’s voice closely resembled Akhlaq's. Nigam released these songs in late 1990s.
He suffered with a deadly disease of blood cancer and died on August 4‚ 1999 at London
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The Economic Cycle Research Institute has had a knack for calling tops in the business cycle, and accurately forecasting recessions. It saw the slump coming in
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the early 2000s, and the methodology it uses anticipated similar activity in the 80s and 90s recessions. At this point, the economy is at a proverbial fork, or crossroads, and the institute says there's a 50-50 chance of a recession in the next year. Meanwhile, with the economy at a fork, the Fed finds itself fractured. The minutes to its last meeting reveal broad dissent over the direction of the economy. It's too bad there has to be just one answer. Perhaps the optimists could just go their way, and the pessimists the other, and both deal with the consequences.
The tech press is in a hot lather over news that Google chief Eric Schmidt has joined the board of Apple Computers. Some are speculating on what the move means. Will the two companies form some sort of grand alliance to take on Microsoft? Will Google buy out Apple? Will everyone please shut up? Thank you. Nobody
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"Shazam!" won the weekend domestic box office with an estimated $53.4 million.
The latest DC Comics release from Warner Bros
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. helped the box office rebound after Disney's "Dumbo" underperformed last weekend.
"Shazam!" also performed well overseas, where it was the No. 1 US release in 60 markets, including China, where it took in $30.9 million. The movie has a global cume of over $158 million.
After Disney's underperformance last week with the release of "Dumbo," the box office rebounded this weekend thanks to the help of a child superhero.
"Shazam!", the latest DC Comics release from Warner Bros. that follows a boy who turns into a Superman-like hero whenever he says the word "Shazam", won the box office with an estimated $53.4 million domestically.
Opening on over 4,200 screens, the lighthearted movie that's a mix between "Big" and "The Goonies" was a must-see for fans of the comic as well as the general superhero moviegoer, which
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The Steamboat Springs High School boys lacrosse team, with new coach Jay Lattimore, is the Yampa Valley boys team of the year
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There were questions about this year’s Steamboat Springs High School boys lacrosse team, real questions about whether or not it would be able to replicate the success of the 2013 season, when the team made the state semifinals.
The Sailors graduated 14 seniors, and even more importantly, returned for the first time ever without Hall of Fame coach Bob Hiester.
Sure, there was still talent, but that kind of talent? Sure, there was another coach, Jay Lattimore, but could he lead a team that far?
The answer, it turned out, was yes, a resounding yes.
Time will tell if Lattimore can keep the program on the same track Heister had it on, but in year one, the Sailors again proved to have the talent, the skill and the swagger to thrive in Class 4A lacrosse, and they proved good enough again to rank as the Yampa Valley boys team of the year.
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President Barack Obama addressing the UN General Assembly on Sept. 20, 2016. Photo: UN.
America’s presidential transitions are critical to
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smoothly transferring power, but are simultaneously fraught with danger. Decisions by the departing president almost invariably affect the new president. While we must not impair the basic constitutional principle that there is only one president at a time, sensible leaders recognize that the world does not begin anew on Inauguration Day.
Both the president and the president-elect can fulfill their respective electoral mandates without undue friction if they handle the task well. If they handle it poorly, America and its friends worldwide unnecessarily suffer uncertainty and confusion that tarnishes the outgoing president’s reputation and unfairly hampers his successor.
Unfortunately, we are now experiencing the second kind of transition. On both domestic and international matters, Barack Obama has taken sweeping executive actions after Donald Trump’s Nov. 8 election but before his Jan. 20 inauguration. These include broad executive orders precluding oil and gas production on hundreds of millions of acres of offshore federal areas; designating broad swathes of Utah and Nevada as national monuments to prevent even
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As part of an overhaul of its online store, Apple introduced a new feature called ‘Apple Notifications‘, a new text-message
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based service that is designed to keep customers up-to-date on their orders or notify them if an order is ready to be picked up in store.
The change was noticed by Cult of Mac, which noticed that Apple was now displaying a small line of text notifying customers of the new option. At the time of writing it only appears to be operational in the US and Canada, but may come to other regions soon.
Apple says that it will send the SMS updates alongside its standard email notifications, allowing customers to select text message updates when they are navigating the Checkout.
It appears that if a customer already owns an iDevice, the text update will be displayed as an iMessage (given that the notification bubble in the above screenshot is blue).
Apple says that when an order ships, or is available for pickup, a text update will be sent. This will include an order number and a link to Apple’s online Order Status.
The company also notes that the
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News of the hack has taken a toll on the credit bureau's brand in the eyes of consumers.
The Equifax brand is under assault.
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Equifax's reputation with consumers has fallen at a quicker pace than other companies hit by similar data breaches in recent years, according to data from YouGov BrandIndex released Monday.
The credit bureau has suffered a major public relations hit since Sept. 7, when it said its computer systems were breached by hackers and that personal data of 143 million Americans was at risk of being stolen as a result.
The negative headlines have taken a toll on its "Buzz score," tallied by YouGov, which tracks the perception of more than 1,500 brands daily.
The credit bureau's 33-point 10-day drop is larger than other high-profile breach.
The second-worst was a drop of 10 points suffered by eBay in the 10 days after its May 2014 hack. Other high-profile breaches, such as one at Anthem Blue Cross in February 2015 and Home Depot in September 2014, did not cause as big a hit to those brands.
Equifax's sinking perception score puts it
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There are some experiences that are so ordinary that they could make excellent material for a Seinfeld episode. In other words, it’s about
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the little things that can make or break your day. Take dry cleaning.
Last week after I picked up my clothes from the local store, I noticed that my blouse was wrapped in the same style they use for men’s shirts. I need to make an aside here – have you noticed that even here women are treated differently? Compare dry cleaning costs between quite similar garments like shirts and you will see that we shell out twice the money to cover the expense.
There it was, a name written in ink on the inside of the back collar instead of the stapled number I usually find on my garments. Yet the price told me they knew it was a woman’s garment. Having a name written on the collar reminded me of summer camp and made me look harder at the laundering job. The collar could have definitely used better cleaning. I took the blouse back to the store.
After a very short demonstration of my problem with the job and a request to also
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In the last five decades, veteran singer Rahimah Rahim has built up her name as one of the home-grown music scene's most
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distinctive names, appearing anywhere from Malay radio and Chinese television programmes to National Day Parades and charity shows.
So when it came time to stage her Esplanade Concert Hall concert this Saturday, which surprisingly is her first solo headlining show after all these years, the 61-year-old mother of two decided that it was going to be no ordinary show.
"I'm going to take the audience through a journey of my life and there will be insights into my life as a singer, a daughter and a mother," says the bubbly multilingual singer who was inducted into the Singapore Women's Hall Of Fame in March and appeared last month in Channel 8 Hokkien drama Eat Already?.
Nothing will be spared, she says of the performance, which will be programmed like a musical with a storyline based on the ups and downs of her life in show business.
The show will also touch on her early years, such as the time she made her debut as an entertain
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Rachel Dolezal is an anti-racism and human rights activist who is most well-known for the controversy surrounding her decision to live as
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a "black" woman even though she was born "white." She is also the author of the new book "In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World."
On this episode of "The Chauncey DeVega Show," Rachel and I discuss the concept of "transracial" identity, Rachel's childhood, how she discovered her affinity for black people, what it is like to be a target for public scorn, and her thinking about how individuals should be free to perform whatever racial or other social identity they feel most comfortable with.
For more on Dolezal, watch this episode of "Salon Talks," where Salon's Alli Joseph interviews her about how her life and her career changed after she became a notorious public figure.
My second guest on this week's episode is counterintelligence expert Naveed Jamali. He is the author of the new book "How to Catch a Russian Spy." He shares his thoughts about Donald Trump and former National Security
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But Francis doesn’t have a monopoly on faith-based environmental rhetoric. Scott Pruitt, the scandal-ridden chief administrator of the EPA,
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thinks humanity’s epochal challenge presents some epic opportunities.
“Is true environmentalism ‘do not touch’? It’s like having a beautiful apple orchard that could feed the world, but the environmentalists put up a fence around the apple orchard and say, ‘Do not touch the apple orchard because it may spoil the apple orchard,’” Pruitt said on a conservative talk show last August.
This perspective relies on the idea that Earth’s natural resources are there for us to take advantage of. In fact, God mandates it. Conservative Evangelicals use a biblical passage to justify this approach: “dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Pruitt uses this worldview to justify opening up land for drilling.
Obviously, the pope does not agree with this
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Even with iPhone sales dropping, the company is still earning about $100 million in profit every single day.
Apple's iPhone sales fell again in
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the company's most recent quarter, marking the third consecutive period of quarterly decline for the company's most important product. The company's sales of iPads and Macs also both fell.
Those sales have fallen before, but there was also a first in Tuesday's earnings statement: Apple's annual revenue fell for the first time since 2001.
Apple sold 45.5 million iPhones in the three months from July to September, down 5% from a year earlier. The current period included about two weeks of sales of the iPhone 7, which may have been boosted by the disaster surrounding the recall of Samsung's explosion-prone Galaxy Note 7.
Apple shares are up about 12% this year, while the broader Nasdaq Composite Index, which includes many technology companies, is up just over 5%. In after-hours trading, the company's stock fell slightly following the release of the results.
With iPhone sales falling, Apple steered investors toward the growing money it makes from services like iCloud, which users subscribe
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I have the greatest respect for the Rye lifeguard who had the courage to jump into action and take full responsibility for the jellyfish threat at Wall
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is Sands State Beach last Wednesday. He risked his own life to protect the people at the beach that day, and for that he has received nothing but media derision and contempt. Your above the fold article and lead headline of July 23, "Lifeguard error led to... blah, blah, blah" blasts this individual's conscientious attempt to deal with a unique emergency.
It has become quite apparent from reading various accounts from the "experts" that there are numerous ideas about what the most appropriate solution should have been that day. All of these, suggested by people who were not there, who did not have to take on the responsibility of making a decision in the public interest, and who are bedecked with Ph.Ds in marine biology. I'm absolutely sure that none of their learned procedures for handling a huge jellyfish are contained in the "Lifeguard Training Manual," so why the ridicule?
The one thing that we can all be clear about is that the job of a
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The Islamic State is being crushed, its fighters are in retreat and the caliphate it sought to build in the image of a bygone glory is crumbling
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.
The biggest losers, however, are not the militants, who will fulfill their dreams of death or slink into the desert to regroup, but the millions of ordinary Sunnis whose lives have been ravaged by their murderous rampage.
No religious or ethnic group was left unscathed by the Islamic State’s sweep through Iraq and Syria. Shiites, Kurds, Christians and the tiny Yazidi minority have all been victims of a campaign of atrocities, and they now are fighting and dying in the battles to defeat the militants.
But the vast majority of the territory overrun by the Islamic State was historically populated by Sunni Arabs, adherents of the branch of Islam that the group claims to champion and whose interests the militants profess to represent. The vast majority of the 4.2 million Iraqis who have been displaced from their homes by the Islamic State’s war are Sunnis. And as the offensives get underway to capture Mosul, Iraq’s biggest Sunni city, and Raqqa,
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“I feel he is too young to retire,” Waufle said yesterday.
This is Waufle’s fourth
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year with the Giants and he doesn’t want it to transpire without Strahan, who continues to stay away from camp. Thus far, Strahan has been fined $100,016. The Giants, though, actually haven’t taken any money from Strahan, as the fines will not kick in until the start of the regular season, when his paycheck would be reduced to $229,411 per game after a weekly fine deduction of $5,883. That’s if he reports today, which won’t happen. Today makes a full week without Strahan, who is said to be contemplating retirement.
Waufle said Strahan hasn’t lost any passion for the game.
It does not appear as if Waufle is going to work with Simeon Rice any time soon, or ever. Rice, who passed the Giants physical, came and left without an offer. This was a case of the Giants doing their due diligence on
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Yesterday, we saw 53 European World Cup hopefuls get cut down to just 17. Nine teams—Belgium, Italy, Spain,
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Germany, the Netherlands, England, Switzerland, Bosnia, and Russia—advanced to next year's tournament in Brazil. There are still four spots up for grabs, to be fought for among the next eight best European nations. And now the fun starts.
That's because UEFA is the strongest and deepest soccer confederation by a long shot, and they're keeping the qualifying in house. While Mexico from CONCACAF and CONMEBOL's Uruguay will take part in playoffs against weak teams from other regions (New Zealand and Jordan, respectively), the Europeans don't have it so easy.
First, a refresher. UEFA's 53 competing teams were split into nine groups (eight of six teams, and one of five). Every team played everyone else in their group twice. When qualifying ended yesterday, the nine group winners had booked their tickets to the Brazil. Of the nine group runners-up, the eight best are set to compete in four separate two-legged playoffs to cut the 17
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Give credit where credit is due. That’s the meme of this letter as I sit down to recognize the extremely effective leadership and “
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results driven” approach by commissioner Randy Neatherlin. I’ve lived here in Belfair for over 37 years and I have never seen a more effective commissioner serving our county and our community.
I’ve worked with the commissioner on several items from details on the Highway 3 improvement project and getting our own North Mason “Park & Ride” (now under construction). I’ve observed his work on gaining legislative support for bypass funding and his ongoing support for the Sheriff’s Office. It’s been impressive. His list goes on and on: debt reduction solutions for the sewer issue, garnering grants for parks and recreation improvements and implementing multifamily housing and low income incentives as well! Randy has shown a way to work with both sides of the aisle, pragmatically and beyond partisan politics. “Let’s just do the right thing... and get it done.” I appreciate that approach.
I believe it’s important
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Nobody should know a football team better than its head coach. But Blake Nill admits he was wrong about the University of B.C. Thunder
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birds.
After taking player inventory before his first season on the Point Grey campus, Nill figured he had the makings of a 3-5 team. He missed the mark by a mile.
After going 2-2 to start the Canada West season, the T-Birds finished second in the conference at 6-2. They then knocked off the Manitoba Bisons and the No. 1 ranked Calgary Dinos in the playoffs and now have won seven straight. The latest breakthrough came Saturday, in Antigonish, N.S., where UBC defeated the Atlantic Conference champion St. Francis Xavier X-Men 36-9 in the Uteck Bowl to qualify for the Vanier Cup for the first time since 1997. UBC will play the defending national champion Montreal Carabins, who defeated the Guelph Gryphons 25-10 in the other Vanier Cup semi-final, the Mitchell Bowl, played in Guelph, Ont.
Freshman quarterback Michael
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[See Also: Hyped Figures: John Glenn And the PC Myth of Katherine Johnson —Unsung Black Women Were NOT What Got US To The
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Moon; Why Not A Movie About Jack Crenshaw—The White Man Who Actually Did What HIDDEN FIGURES Credits To Black Women; America Should Be Ashamed: Why Isn’t HIDDEN FIGURES About “Nazi Scientist” Arthur Rudolph?].
The article doubting the truths of Hidden Figures characters or rather, the poor attempt at click bait- is dripping in White tears. Why take the time to write about the non existent reverse racism? You surely could have summarized the article in a 140 character or less tweet! "Dr. Jack Crenshaw helped too!" and "Katherine Johnson doesn't even look Black! She is probably White!" And let's not forget "Few Black Women getting us to the moon is laughable!"
I had hoped your particular brand of racism was dying out with the last of the "it was a different time" racists, but your article made me understand that as a Black Female Doctoral student, there will still be
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THERE'S a Valley of Despair currently residing in southeast London and this time it may well be one that Charlton cannot climb out of.
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The Addicks' slow and painful death was confirmed earlier this week as they slipped back into League One following a turbulent season both on and off the pitch.
Their drab and lifeless 0-0 draw at already-relegated Bolton on Tuesday night summed up their campaign - no quality, no desire, no hope.
The days of Premier League stability under Alan Curbishley and stands packed to the rafters inside the Valley are a distant memory now replaced by a list of misdemeanours by a disenchanted board that seems to grow longer by the week.
Charlton are at least £44m in debt, have no chief scout, no director of football and tumbling attendances.
This weekend the Charlton fans are set to stage their biggest protests yet against controversial owner Roland Duchatelet in the hope that he will finally relinquish his strangle hold and sell up.
While the Belgian has long stated he will do no such thing, the intense pressure
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Solo contains a lot of Easter Egg and callbacks to many different eras of the Star Wars universe, but there are also some really cool Easter
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Eggs from the original Indiana Jones movies as well. In a new interview, Ron Howard confirmed the nods to the other iconic Harrison Ford character while promoting Solo and admits that the idea was not his. Howard also reveals that the Easter Eggs were not planted by Lawrence Kasdan either, who wrote Raiders of the Last Ark. There are SPOILERS for Solo below, so read ahead at your own risk.
Jonathan Kasdan is the one responsible for the hidden (and not so hidden} Indiana Jones-themed Easter Eggs in Solo. The first one is pretty easy to spot, but they're all included in Dryden Voss' office on his yacht. Voss has an extensive collection of artifacts in his office, but one that sticks out is the fertility idol that Doctor Jones stole in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The fertility idol is visible behind Han's head when the two first meet. Ron Howard explains.
"...This was not my idea but I completely supported the idea of planting this little Easter
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Tyranny of the majority is a familiar concept in politics. It occurs when a majority takes action to thoroughly subjugate the minority. But what
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is happening in parliament or nothing is happening in parliament is because of the tyranny of the minority.
The Congress party with a slim block of 44 MPs is holding the Lok Sabha to ransome. It wants to stall debate and passing of various bills by sticking to its demand. The Congress has made clear that the resignation of the three leaders (foreign minister Sushma Swaraj, two chief ministers Vasundhara Raje of Rajasthan and Shivraj Singh Chouhan of Madhya Pradesh) is a pre-condition to it allowing legislative work to be done in the 21-day Monsoon Session of Parliament that began yesterday.
It is not possible to run a country on pre-conditions. A democratic set up allows negotiations and debate but never a situation where the rules of the game are set unilaterally by one party.
One cannot be sure of the Congress, what it wants next. Because, it did not hold a protest by its MPs at the Gandhi statue in
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Over the last two days, both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, perhaps reacting to Newt Gingrich’s announcement of his forthcoming
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announcement concerning his presidential ambitions, have published pieces about Gingrich’s “secret weapon.” According to The Times, it just may be Callista Gingrich, Newt’s former mistress and current wife, while the Journal identified Gingrich’s “secret weapon” as his conglomerate of “advocacy and for-profit groups,” known unofficially as Newt Inc. So which is more secret, more weapon-like? Callista, a French-horn player and former House Agriculture Committee employee, might do well to turn up the enthusiasm. “At Villanova University on a recent Thursday night, Mrs. Gingrich warmed up the audience for a showing of the couple’s movie about Pope John Paul II by signing books and DVDs in her left-handed curlicue,” The Times reported. “But when asked whether she is ready for the scrutiny a campaign would bring, she smiled tightly and grew silent.” Friends worry
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Toward the end of trading Monday, the Dow traded down 0.12 percent to 26380.81 while the NASDAQ declined 0.13
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percent to 7,973.83. The S&P also fell, dropping 0.09 percent to 2,904.83.
Monday afternoon, the consumer staples shares rose 0.7 percent. Meanwhile, top gainers in the sector included Dean Foods Company (NYSE: DF) up 8 percent, and Seneca Foods Corporation (NASDAQ: SENEB) up 10 percent.
In trading on Monday, financial shares fell 0.8 percent.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE: GS) reported mixed results for its first quarter on Monday.
Electronics for Imaging, Inc. (NASDAQ: EFII) shares got a boost, shooting up 29 percent to $37.87 after the company agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of Siris Capital Group, LLC in all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.7 billion.
Shares of Fibrocell Science, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCSC) shot up 45 percent to $2.
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Mansfield Town supporters are largely happy with the club’s season ticket prices which were announced on Friday.
The cut-price �
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�Early Bird’ ticket deal was given a big thumbs up and the overall pricing was seen as reasonable, though there were concerns over matchday admission prices for children and adults.
An SFU spokesman said: “Stags Fans United are delighted that the club has offered an early bird season ticket.
“This was the number one suggestion we made to club when we were asked for our thoughts in April, ahead of any draft season ticket prices.
“The early bird prices represent excellent value.
However, the SFU were concerned over matchday prices.
“We asked the club to look after kids and families by having cheap junior and family matchday tickets,” said the spokesman.
“However, the matchday prices for kids are still too high in our opinion based on consistent feedback from fans.
“Kids do not tend to plan ahead to buy tickets and need to be encouraged to attend on a matchday.
He continued:
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V Australia’s inaugural trans Pacific flights between Sydney and Los Angeles have been pushed back from 15 December to 28 February because of a strike that
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has shut down the Boeing assembly line indefinitely.
It needs the first two of its order for up to six Boeing 777-300ER jets (plus one on lease through IAG subsidiary ILFC) to reliably start regular flights. One of them is painted and looking ready outside the factory but has been held up by delays in cabin fittings, another supplier issue that is also hurting other 777 customers.
A bit of context is needed over the V Australia delays. Virgin Blue’s CEO Brett Godfrey has previously revealed that the airline did consider blinking about its plans to take on Qantas to the US. The $60 million or so that setting up V Australia is costing Virgin Blue falls across several financial years, but it has already made a good performance by the domestic operations of the parent carrier look weaker, and the dumping of the Toll shares in VBA in an edgy market that isn’t very interested in airlines has created a black cloud over its operations that its critics have
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WESTMINSTER -- Mayor W. Benjamin Brown yesterday denounced the City Council's Aug. 27 decision to begin a $1.6 million addition
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to City Hall, saying he hoped the council would reconsider a decision that "didn't have to be made now."
The controversial 3-2 vote to go ahead with plans endorsed in a $40,000 space-needs study means the city would build a 10,000-square-foot addition to City Hall at more than $1.6 million.
"I am dismayed that we are all not on the same page," the mayor said in an informal press conference in his spacious first-floor office on Emerald Hill. "At the very least, I thought the council would consider the possibility of leasing space rather than building more of it."
Others thought that was where council members were heading as well. At its Aug. 14 meeting, the council said it would look into possible options inthe rental or purchasing markets.
Currently, 25 people work in the nearly 6,000-square-foot City Hall. The space-needs study conductedby Baltimore-based Cho, Wilks
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Tory Bruno, president and CEO of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) — and one of 29 candidates selected for the National Space Council's
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Users Advisory Group — leads Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence on a tour of ULA's Horizontal Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Feb. 20, 2018. NASA's acting administrator Robert Lightfoot (right) tagged along, too.
Vice President Mike Pence has selected 29 candidates to serve on an advisory group for President Trump's newly reinstated National Space Council.
Pence, chairman of the council, released his list of candidates in a statement issued by the White House Tuesday evening (Feb. 20), on the eve of the council's second formal meeting at Kennedy Space Center in Florida today.
The selected candidates — who must still be officially approved by NASA's administrator — include high-ranking officials from private spaceflight companies like SpaceX and Boeing, as well as several scholars and government officials. Five former astronauts made the list, including Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin. While speaking at the National Space Council's meeting today (Feb. 21), Pence called
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An official with the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Friday declared that former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele was only elected because he's black.
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"This is a terrible thing. We elected Mike Steele to be the RNC chair 'cause he's a black guy, and that was the wrong thing to do," said Ian Walters, a spokesperson for the American Conservative Union, the organizers of CPAC.
Steele served as chairperson of the RNC from 2009 until 2011, taking office during President Obama's first term. He lost his attempt at a second term to Reince Priebus.
Walters' comments, made during the Ronald Reagan dinner event on Friday night, where tickets started at $250, drew gasps from some in the audience.
Steele told MSNBC he was standing outside of the room when the racist comment was made. Immediately afterwards, Steele spoke to the Observer and called the comments "painfully stupid."
"I wanted to talk to [CPAC chair] Matt Schlapp first, but I think it’s painfully stupid what he said," said Steele. "If he feels that way I’
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An image of how the new development will look.
The finer details of Castleford Tigers' new stadium development will be discussed in public next week
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Five Towns Park, which has now become known as the Axiom project, will be built on land next to the M62 in Glass Houghton after being given outline planning permission in 2015.
The development will consist of the rugby league ground with space for 10,000 spectators, as well as retail outlets, a car park and a country park.
Now, issues around the design of the project and the infrastructure around it will be put before Wakefield Council's planning committee next Thursday.
No substantial changes from the original plans have been put forward, but councillors will be asked to approve the layout of the country park and the proposed road access to the site, among other things.
The highly anticipated project was due to be finished in 2021, but in the documents released ahead of the meeting there is no mention of that or any other timescale for it being completed.
However, the report does say: "Officers consider that the proposed stadium design is appropriate for the site and
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The principal agenda item during the Putin-Trump summit is going to be the situation around North Korea—with Trump asking for additional Russian help in containing
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the crisis.
Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have decided to meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam, and there is only one question that each Chief Executive needs the other to answer. For Putin, it is, “Who’s in charge?” For Trump, it is, “What’s Russia’s game?” How—and whether—those questions are answered will determine the trajectory of U.S.-Russia relations moving forward.
If the Kremlin undertook active measures in 2016 to favor the candidacy of Donald Trump, first over other Republican challengers, then over that of Hillary Clinton, then the Russian government, ten months into the Trump administration, must be asking whether any such effort was worth it. The driving force for Russia policy has shifted from the Executive Branch to a much more Russia-skeptical Congress, while Trump has appointed to the key portfolios dealing with Russia matters in the U.S. national
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China celebrated another achievement last week, as Mo Yan became the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize for literature.
The selection of Mo was
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praised by a Chinese nationalist tabloid as a sign that mainstream China could "no longer be refused by the West for long."
Mo grew up in Shandong province in northeastern China, and during the Cultural Revolution, he left school to work in the fields, finishing his education in the army, according to The Guardian. The author draws upon his rural upbringing in his novels, mixing historical perspective with mythical elements.
His real name is Guan Moye, but he chose "Mo Yan" as a pen name meaning "don't speak," to reflect the culture in which he grew up.
The new Nobel laureate is of the same generation as the new leaders set to take over the Politburo Standing Committee next month after the convening of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
This group of men (and one female contender) are "old enough to remember the suffering of the Cultural Revolution, but also young enough to fully experience how China has grown through Deng [X
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Tim Hwang founded faux-law firm Robot Robot & Hwang in 2010 as “a legal startup” having a single human partner.
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While the site is a joke, Hwang’s declared mission–opening new opportunities for experimentation in the practice of law–is sincere. Hwang, not an actual lawyer, is a former research associate at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and the founder of ROFLCon, a real-world gathering celebrating Internet memes and the creators of viral content, and the Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, a (real) organization whose local chapters bundle small donations to award $1,000 grants to quirky, community-focused projects. Here, Hwang discusses the state of flux in the legal profession and his own young career.
FAST COMPANY: You’re behind a website for a law firm called Robot Robot & Hwang, which turns out to be a joke. But there seems to be a serious idea there, too. What are you up to?
TIM HWANG: The name of the firm has been a great filter.
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February 20, 2018 (Washington D.C.) – The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge by gun rights advocates to
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California’s law requiring a 10-day cooling off period before buying a new gun.
The CalGuns Foundation’s lawsuit contended that the waiting period violated the 2nd Amendment and was unreasonable, since it applied even to people who already owned other guns. A lower court agreed. However, an appeals court rejected those claims and the Supreme Court allowed the appellate decision upholding California’s law to stand.
January 23, 2018 (San Diego) -- California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) introduced a bill this week that would prohibit public agencies during gun buy-back events from handing out taxpayer-funded vouchers to any store that sells firearms.
October 10, 2017 (Las Vegas) – A class action lawsuit has been filed against Slide Fire Solutions, LP, manufacturer of the bump stock device used by the mass shooter in Las Vegas to convert a semi-automatic weapon to “functional equivalent of a machine gun, thereby evading longstanding federal law
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Jack Matlock makes the case for the United States reaching a practical compromise with Russia.
Just as the Beltway’s legions of neo
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–Cold Warriors were working themselves up into paroxysms of self-righteous indignation over the Obama administration’s refusal to (so far, anyway) arm America’s purported “allies” in Kiev, one of the Cold War’s wise men reappeared in Washington last week.
At a gathering sponsored by the Committee for the Republic, which was formed by an elite group of former Washington officials in response to George W. Bush’s foreign policy adventurism, Jack Matlock spoke for nearly an hour at the National Press Club urging the assembled not to fall prey to the Manichaeistic view of the current crisis in relations between the United States and Russia.
Matlock, 85, knows of what he speaks. He began his thirty-five-year career in the Foreign Service translating dispatches between Washington and Moscow at the height of the Cuban missile crisis. He was present at nearly every US-Soviet summit between 1972–91 and served
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"Our social norms have begun to change — they've shifted. The boundaries of protected personal space have been reset and I get it. I get
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it. I hear what they're saying," he said in a video posted Wednesday.
Former vice president and potential 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden is addressing claims that he acted inappropriately towards multiple women and is vowing to "be more mindful" in a new video posted Wednesday to his Twitter account.
"Today I want to talk about gestures of support and encouragement that I've made to women and some men that have made them uncomfortable," he said to start the clip. "In my career, I've always tried to make a human connection — that's my responsibility I think. I shake hands, I hug people, I grab men and women by the shoulders and say, 'You can do this.'"
Biden explained that he's always been this way and that it's his way of showing he cares, and over the years he's found that people have reached out to him for "solace and comfort."
"I've never thought of politics as cold and antiseptic. I
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After wading through all the publications and websites representing both support and opposition for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-approved by the
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U.S. Congress July 2005), it's astonishing to realize how very few of them bother to explain the legal foundation for the agreement. CAFTA, like most international trade agreements, is based entirely in the supremacy of communitarian law.
This isn't Bush and Clinton quietly slipping in communitarian programs like Local Agenda 21 that bury communitarian laws deep inside hefty grants and incentives. The U.S. Congress has officially denounced their own Constitution as Supreme Law. When the United States Congress approved CAFTA they endorsed a regional trade agreement that places U.S. Constitutional Law below Communitarian Law. While communitarian law is without a doubt the most important legal topic in the world, American experts on both "sides" of the free trade arguments completely ignore it. Consequently, it's the rare American who has any concept of how prevalent or powerful this new system of justice is.
The European Court of Justice is occassionally referred to as the Communitarian Court of Justice. CA
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“This is betrayal, ladies and gentlemen! Europe has been betrayed! And if we do not stand up for it, this Europe will be
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taken away from us.” So declared Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (shown) last Thursday while condemning European leaders who have opened up the continent to waves of mostly Muslim Middle Eastern migrants.
It was not the first time Orbán had inveighed against the migration, which threatens to upend European culture. And it further underlined the chasm separating politically correct Western Europe and what many would call a more culturally correct Eastern Europe.
Orbán apparently was referring to the collectivist, open-borders, European Union mentality that seeks to replace nationalism with internationalism. And immigration facilitates this agenda. If countries can be so balkanized that there’s no longer “a people” but rather just a disparate collection of “peoples,” there then will be little sense of nationhood and hence little resistance to a loss of sovereignty and dissolution of borders.
And prominent statists have at times alluded to this agenda. Andrew Neather, former
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How is immigration changing the face of modern Britain? One of the country's leading experts on migration explains what the BBC's Born Abroad project,
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published this month, reveals about the country - and what it means for integration.
Diversity in the UK is not what it used to be.
This is clear from the BBC's Born Abroad project and the New Immigrant Communities study conducted by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) that the maps and figures draw on.
The maps and data published earlier this month on the BBC News website point to the growth, locations and economic profiles of a wide variety of groups: a much wider variety, in fact, than most policy-makers and members of the general public had ever realized.
The study, based on Census data, focuses on where people were born to chart the development of immigration within Great Britain.
For decades British multicultural policies have mainly centred on fewer communities, mainly Asian and African-Caribbean - in the eyes of policymakers, it was these people who generally comprised Britain's immigrants.
But the new data shows how, compared with these patterns from
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A commemorative photographic exhibition in memory of Barbara Susan Stewart-Thomas (1948-2017) will be on display at The Art Box in De
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Kalb, from Aug. 30 through Sept. 27.
A commemorative photographic exhibition in memory of Barbara Susan Stewart-Thomas (1948-2017) will be on display at The Art Box, 308 E. Lincoln Highway in downtown DeKalb, from Aug. 30 through Sept. 27.
Barbara Stewart was born and raised in Detroit. After high school she attended Michigan State University during the tumultuous years of the 1960s and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history. She married Jim Thomas in 1975, moved to DeKalb in 1979, and attended Northern Illinois University, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography.
The exhibition at The Art Box is mostly based on the contents of Stewart-Thomas’ second soft-bound book titled, “Still/Moving.” In 2007, she continued shooting street scenes in Chicago that she started as a photography student in the 1980s. Between the elevated trains and bus line her “preference
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March 18 (Reuters) - Palladium surged to a record high on Monday, boosted by ongoing supply shortages for the autocatalyst metal,
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while gold rose as expectations the U.S. Federal Reserve will pursue an accommodative monetary policy this year weighed on the dollar.
Spot palladium scaled an all-time peak of $1,577 an ounce and was up 0.8 percent at $1,571.65 at 1321 GMT.
“The industry does not use bars and so the mines make grains, which are not deliverable,” Gero said, adding thin trading was perking up volatility of the metal.
Palladium prices have jumped more than 24 percent so far this year due to a sharp supply deficit and increasing demand.
Higher lease rates of palladium show tightness in the market, Capital Economics analyst Ross Strachan said, adding that speculative interest was also driving up demand.
However, falling car sales in China, the United States and Europe due to slowing economic growth could push prices down to the $1,100 region by the end of the year, Strachan
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The following pets are available from The Humane Society Chatham-Savannah. Applications are available at The Humane Society, 7215 Sallie Mood
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Drive. For a complete list of pets, go to www.HumaneSocietySAV.org. To learn about The Humane Society Volunteer & Foster programs, call Nancy Richards at 354-9515 or e-mail nrichards@HumaneSocietySAV.org.
Domino is a 1 1/2-year-old Dalmation mix. He is affectionate and playful, and is great with kids and other dogs. He seems to be housebroken and is very intelligent.
Chanel is a 4-year-old Sheba inu/spaniel mix. She loves walking, playing with other dogs, licking faces and eating treats.
Red is a 1 1/2-year-old guinea pig. She is friendly and is good with children and other guinea pigs. She loves to be held and to get exercise.
The following pet is available from Georgia Animal Rescue and Defence, 100 Dichroic Dragon Drive, Pem
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Editor’s note: Hassan Baig is an entrepreneur who runs White Rabbit Studios, a South Asian gaming startup he founded four years ago in
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Pakistan. Follow him on Twitter @baigi.
Mobile gaming is a huge worldwide opportunity at the moment, having clocked in at $9 billion in 2012, and it is poised to grow further in the coming years. With the world’s 1 billion smartphones scheduled to almost double in number by 2015 and games responsible for a whopping 66 percent of all app revenue, it’s easy for anyone to do the math and see where this is going.
Game development continues to have a bright future, but only for those who can develop profitable titles. Pursuing such profitability is an exact science now, with monitoring analytics and continuous A/B testing having become the staple of game development. In fact, Zynga – the gaming company to have popularized (if not introduced) the use of analytics – has been often categorized as a big data company.
One can imagine metrics to be ‘levers’ that a game developer can push or pull to create a desired outcome
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Rick Ross knows how to party. The Maybach Music mogul celebrated his 41st birthday like a boss, with a lavish masquerade ball at his
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mansion in Fayetteville, Ga. over the weekend.
The star-studded bash was attended by Renzel’s MMG family, including Meek Mill, who showed up in a ski mask and Wale, who popped up in all black. Other rappers also stopped by, including YG, Jeezy, Outkast’s Big Boi, Big K.R.I.T., DeJ Loaf, Yung Dolph, and Curren$y.
The-Dream also showed love to Rozay, while debuting his new face tat. Usher dropped by the mansion, donning a mask to go along with Renzel’s theme. Even politicians attended the event. Such was the case with Congressman Hank Johnson, who also spent the weekend fighting President Donald Trump’s immigration ban.
The party was an extravagant affair, complete with a red carpet and a multi-layered black-and-gold
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Charles J. Ostermeier, 68, of Green Bay, Wis., formerly of Kewaunee, Wis. and Geneseo,
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died Sunday evening, Sept. 19, 2010, at home. A memorial service will be held Friday, Sept. 24, at 6:30 p.m. at MALCORE (West) Funeral Home, 1530 West Mason St., Green Bay. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. until the time of the memorial service at the funeral home.
He was born Dec. 16, 1941, in Springfield, the son of John and Helen (Morgan) Ostermeier. He graduated from Illinois State University with a master’s degree in history. He was a dedicated teacher at Geneseo High School for his entire career, teaching English, literature and history, retiring as department head in 1990. He then moved to Kewaunee, where he owned a small family farm. He later retired to Green Bay. He will be remembered for his enjoyment of classical music, classic literature and history.
Survivors include three sons and spouses, Charles and
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There's a new resource for homeowners, architects, designers and eco-activists in the Bay Area interested in practicing sustainability: the Green City Gallery
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Opened July 22 on Shattuck Avenue, near the Downtown Berkeley BART Station, it is a joint effort by Bay Localize, an Oakland nonprofit that focuses on regional self-reliance and ecological sustainability, and DIG Cooperative, a building group that focuses on helping members achieve a greener lifestyle.
The goal is to demonstrate how conservation, recycling and reuse can be brought into homes and businesses.
Babak Tondre, a permaculture teacher at DIG Cooperative and a gallery curator, said, "This is an eco-design showcase; we want to mainstream green technology by making it more visible."
Tondre said visitors to the gallery will leave with an "action package" of ideas for making sustainable design part of their lives.
The gallery's organizers were given a generous lease from a neighbor up the street, developer Soheyl Modarressi of the gourmet takeout hotspot Epicurious Garden.
"We made a presentation to
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CHAPEL HILL � There�s an unspoken taboo against rushing the court after important victories at places such as North Carolina and Duke.
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Those are the celebrations of the huddled masses, not two of college basketball�s most celebrated blue bloods � for whom big wins, even those of the emotional variety, are the expectation not the hope. But on this occasion, the Tar Heel faithful at the Smith Center couldn�t restrain themselves.
There was simply too much pent-up anticipation after last week�s weather-related postponement and the stirring second half comeback that led to Thursday�s 74-66 victory against the Blue Devils to keep the festivities confined to the restraints of the seating area. Whether the unusually raucous crowd of 21,750 was the spark that ignited UNC�s eighth straight victory overall and first in three years against its hated rival at home or vice versa is both uncertain and inconsequential.
All that matters is that the once-stumbling Tar Heels are rapidly rounding into the formidable team they were originally predicted to be. And that people are starting to take notice, even those
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The victim was in the crosswalk when he was hit by the driver of a SUV.
WAUPACA - No criminal charges will be filed
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in the traffic crash that killed John "Jack" Penney, a longtime Waupaca County supervisor and former Waupaca County sheriff's captain.
Police said Penney was walking north across Royalton Street at Harding Street about 1:15 p.m. Sunday when he was hit by an eastbound SUV driven by Richard Morales, of Waupaca.
Penny was in the crosswalk, having already cleared one traffic lane, at the time of the crash. He was taken to ThedaCare Medical Center-Waupaca and then was airlifted to ThedaCare Regional Medical Center-Neenah. He died from his injuries Monday.
Morales was cited for failure to yield the right of way to a pedestrian at an uncontrolled intersection.
"It's a tragedy all around," Police Chief Brian Hoelzel told USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. "Jack was 86, and this gentleman (Morales) was 83."
Hoelzel
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MONORE — The world’s oldest person celebrated her 115th birthday quietly Friday with a cake, family members and friends at a Walton County
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nursing facility.
In more than a century, Besse Cooper witnessed historic events on a personal, as well as a national scale.
She has traveled in a houseboat down a river with her family, watched the rise of airplanes and autos, taught school, survived the Great Depression, married and raised her own family.
This time last year, Cooper celebrated her 114th birthday and her rank as the third oldest living person with a big party and an Elvis Presley impersonator. Cooper already was in her 60s when Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” became a No. 1 hit.
His mother didn’t want another year in the spotlight, said Sidney Cooper.
“She’s just not up for company,” he said.
But people — especially the media — have called him a lot this week asking about his mother, Sidney Cooper said. Even the British Broadcast Corporation asked for an interview about the woman born in 1896
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But for many Americans it doesn’t feel that way. Congress is intransigent. Our presidential candidates are divisive. Race relations are tense
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. Social classes are disconnected.
While there’s no one solution to heal all that is broken, there’s a belief that one remedy might be more people doing community service.
America is a country that extols rugged individualism and people who make it on their own, but along the way, in that search for personal growth, many have forgotten service beyond ourselves. Over the years, a number of academic studies have shown that volunteering has real benefits for mental and even physical health, yet in 2014, 75 percent of Americans did not volunteer, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Fewer college students aspire to careers in public service. The military has its smallest share of Americans serving since before World War II. Just shy of 20 percent of 18- to 29-year-old citizens voted in the 2014 midterm election.
This, some argue, is what has made us retreat to our respective corners with little regard for communities outside our own.
In January
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New United States sanctions on oil exports from Iran could impact local refiners as multinationals seek to ensure that American markets and financial institutions are not closed
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to them. This may mean that they are compelled to stop importing crude from Iran, which supplies nearly 30% of South Africa’s needs.
Last week the European Union joined the US in banning oil imports from Iran. The US government placed sanctions on Iran in a bid to force it to abandon its nuclear programme.
The sanctions are designed to target Iran’s crude-oil revenue while avoiding disruptions to international oil markets.
A new US law provides for sanctions on foreign financial institutions for certain kinds of transactions, including those related to petroleum and petroleum products, with the Central Bank of Iran and designated Iranian financial institutions.
China, the largest importer of Iranian oil, has refused to impose sanctions and the US is now seeking to ensure that they are tightly implemented elsewhere. US embassy spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau confirmed that a representative of the US treasury was in South Africa.
“The treasury official met representatives of private business in South Africa, including members of the banking industry, as well
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THE demolition of a Victorian pub in Portsmouth could make way for an 'eye-catching' three-storey development.
Plans for 12
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homes have been submitted on the site of the former Mr Pickwick pub on Milton Road, just around the corner from Fratton Park, where last orders were called in 2017.
A mix of one and two-bed flats plus a larger three-bedroom family flat are proposed, as well as parking for 13 cars.
The most recent application comes after previous rejected designs were branded 'bland' and criticised for the parking layout.
But Mark Holman, of HRP Architects, which recently took over the project, believed the latest scheme addressed these issues. 'We have moved the car parking to the north of the site, meaning that the building won't be so close to the properties on the west,' he said.
'Highways England are now happy with how the parking will work.
'The original design was also immensely traditional. But the council felt it was an important road and they wanted the development to make more of a statement.
As part of the council's housing
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This afternoon, President Clinton addresses World Trade Organization (WTO) trade ministers at a luncheon hosted by Charlene Barshefsky, U
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.S. Trade Representative, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seattle. The President will be joined by other members of his Cabinet and by WTO Director General Michael Moore at the luncheon. In his speech, the President will discuss his vision for a 21st century trading system -- one that is robust and responsive to rapid changes in technology, addresses the concerns of the poorest countries, and puts a human face on the global economy. Working with the other nations of the WTO, the President wants the Seattle Round to focus on expanding prosperity and improving the quality of life and work here at home and around the globe. This Round should ensure that the global trading system honors our values and meets our goals for the 21st Century.
1. BETTER INTEGRATING POOR COUNTRIES INTO THE GLOBAL TRADING SYSTEM. The initiative that the President is promoting, along with European Union, Japan and Canada, would provide enhanced market access for the poorest countries. It will also revitalize and
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The Learning Network | Should Voting Be Mandatory?
A healthy representative democracy depends on citizens exercising their right to vote. Yet here in the United States
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, usually 40 percent of eligible voters don’t vote during presidential elections, and typically 60 percent don’t vote in congressional midterm elections.
Jury duty is mandatory; why not voting? The idea seems vaguely un-American. Maybe so, but it’s neither unusual nor undemocratic. And it would ease the intense partisan polarization that weakens our capacity for self-government and public trust in our governing institutions.
Thirty-one countries have some form of mandatory voting, according to the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. The list includes nine members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and two-thirds of the Latin American nations. More than half back up the legal requirement with an enforcement mechanism, while the rest are content to rely on the moral force of the law.
Despite the prevalence of mandatory voting in so many democracies, it’s easy to dismiss the practice as a form of statism that couldn’t work in America’
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The world may know them as Wonder Woman, Supergirl and Batgirl, but not-so-typical teenagers Diana, Kara and Barbara,
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alongside their Super Hero friends have much more to deal with than just protecting the citizens of Metropolis from some of the most sinister school-aged Super-Villains of the DC Universe. After all, being teens is tough enough, what with school, friends, family and the chaos that comes with managing a social life. But add super powers and a secret identity to the mix, and things can get a lot more complicated.
Sure, gal pals Bumblebee, Zatanna and Green Lantern Jessica Cruz are always there to lend an ear, a shoulder to cry on, and a fist to punch with, but what happens when Diana and her favorite study buddy and fencing partner, Tatsu, can’t agree on how to dole out justice as Wonder Woman and Katana? Or when Barbara finds out her Gotham-Con bestie is teen-fiend Harley Quinn? Along with all their friends, foes and frenemies, this squad of super teens navigates the unique growing pains
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The Dons return to league duty on Saturday when they travel to Hearts.
Dons boss McInnes believes the trip to Edinburgh to face
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the Jambos will bring out the best from his players as they take a break from trying to improve their disappointing recent home form.
It has been a bizarre run for the Dons, who head for Tynecastle on a run of eight wins and one draw from their last nine away matches. It is a stark contrast to one win in nine at home in a run dating back to Boxing Day.
McInnes said: “We’re disappointed with a lot of the results at home and it is clear the players are enjoying playing away from home at the minute.
“We sell out our allocation almost everywhere we go and the atmosphere created by the fans has been fantastic. They have given the games on the road a real cup-tie feeling to them and the players clearly enjoy it.
The Aberdeen manager shares in the frustration among the fans at not seeing the team winning at home on a regular basis but he insists there is no secret to why the Dons
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ELIN PELIN, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Syrian refugee Fatema Batayhi says she has not left her home for five weeks,
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not since a hostile crowd confronted her on the main square of this sleepy town in a valley east of Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia.
Batayhi, her husband and their youngest son fled the barrel bombs and street fighting of Syria’s Aleppo four years ago, eventually joining their eldest son in setting up home eight months ago in the first European Union country they could reach – Bulgaria, via Turkey.
However, they had not reckoned with the town’s mayor, who refused to issue them with residence papers, or on a growing mood of nationalist intolerance that has dragged Bulgarian politics toward the hard right and may help determine the make-up of the next government after an election on Sunday.
The crowd in Elin Pelin, a town of some 7,000 people named after an early 20th century Bulgarian writer, hurled insults and objects at Batayhi, a Muslim.
Her husband, Fahim Jaber, said nationalists had threatened to forcibly convert the family
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EDEN HAZARD has warned Chelsea’s title rivals his ruthless, record-breaking team is the best Blues side he has ever played
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in.
Antonio Conte’s men marched to a club record 12th straight win in the Premier League with a 3-0 victory over Bournemouth on Boxing Day.
And Hazard, who joined Chelsea in 2012, reckons they are an even more formidable force than Jose Mourinho’s 2014/15 title winners.
That team won the championship with three games to spare after going on a mammoth 16-game unbeaten run earlier in the season, and Hazard ended up Footballer of the Year.
But asked whether he thought this year’s vintage was even better, he said: “Yes - because we win every game! We are full of confidence.
“We try to do something that we didn’t do in the past. We score some goals. We feel good. We try to win every game. We don’t look at records but if we can make history in this club we will.
“Let
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Rio Ferdinand has advised Ruben Loftus-Cheek to leave Chelsea if he continues to be left out by Maurizio Sarri.
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The 22-year-old has played just 33 minutes in the Premier League this season as Chelsea strengthened their midfield with the arrivals of Jorginho and Mateo Kovacic in the summer.
Sarri has promised that Loftus-Cheek will get more playing time once Chelsea’s fixture schedule becomes more congested.
But Ferdinand has warned that the midfielder runs the risk of going mentally and physically ‘stale’ at Stamford Bridge.
‘Obviously the players are not good enough [for these teams],’ said Ferdinand on BT Sport.
‘The young kids like [Phil] Foden, [Ruben] Loftus-Cheek and [Dominic] Solanke who are winning tournaments for England at youth level, if they’re good enough they’ll be playing.
‘It’s such a lucrative game for these [club] managers and their jobs are on the edge every single game
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A man remains in a critical condition in hospital tonight following a fire at a block of flats in Stratford this afternoon.
He was rescued by
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firefighters from the flats in Hamlet Way in the town after an emergency call was made at 3.40pm.
Two ambulances, a senior paramedic officer and a paramedic area support officer from West Midlands Ambulance Service attended the incident, along with Warwickshire Fire & Rescue Service and Warwickshire Police.
The Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance was also dispatched to the scene.
Group commander Ian Tonner, from Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service, said: “The fire service were called by a lady who said she had spotted smoke coming out of a flat at the end of her road.
"The Stratford crew were first to attend at the scene, where a man was calling out for help from the upstairs kitchen window.
“We did try to get him out of the window with ladders but due to the smoke he had inhaled, he was too frail to exit the property
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Our struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Scourges that have plagued human beings since the ancients still threaten to unleash themselves; new maladies
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are brewing that have yet to make their appearance in the headlines; and lethal germs employed as weapons of warfare and terrorism have again emerged as a worldwide menace. Regardless of their mode of attack or co-habitation, microbes exist solely to multiply, thrive, and find new hosts. The most egalitarian of living organisms, they cross all national boundaries and every social class, attacking without prejudice.
Across the 20th century, the relationship between human beings and microbes changed with scientific advances in our understanding and amelioration of infectious diseases. With the advent of miraculous antibiotics and preventive vaccines, it looked to many as if the ultimate victory against deadly germs was imminent. Accompanying such delusions of victory has been an underestimation of the highly unpredictable power of infection. As we see with each return of an epidemic, be it naturally induced or man-made, germs still have the power to incite panic and action — that is, until the crisis subsides and they are all too soon
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I love all history – it’s fascinating. The older, the better. The more complicated, the more closely I pay attention.
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There’s a constant stream of history sites that populate my Facebook newsfeed. And, for Halloween this year, I took my son to George Washington’s estate, Mount Vernon, because that’s the kind of place I like to celebrate everyday occasions.
So here are some of my favorite places for history news.
There’s so much to read on Atlas Obscura.
The blog says it’s the “definitive guide to the world’s wondrous and curious places.” Indeed.
Some of the history-specific posts that caught my eye include Found: A New Ice Age Cave Network Below Montreal, When a City and a Bishop Went to War Over Beer, and Using a Particle Accelerator to See Inside a 1,900-Year-Old Mummy.
The History Blog was launched June 2006. It’s being managed by a writer by the name of livius.
Notable posts on
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Linda Lee Coates Miller, 65, a resident of Fairfield, Idaho, died at home on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012.
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She was born April 18, 1947, at Wendell, Idaho, and grew up on a ranch outside of Fairfield. Linda attended schools in Fairfield and graduated from Camas County High School in 1965. She received Bachelor of Science and Master of Education degrees from the University of Idaho.
Linda married Steve Miller at Fairfield on June 12, 1969.
She taught school in Northern Idaho and for the Camas County School District. She worked at Camas Grain, enjoyed buying items for The Specialty Shop, and helped her husband on their ranch. Linda enjoyed teaching English and technology, and working as a librarian in Camas County schools. She also obtained a Masters of Education from Leslie University and later became a certified library and media specialist.
Linda loved the Lord and attended Lighthouse Christian Fellowship.
She is survived by her husband, Steve Miller; her children, Nancy Miller (San Diego), James Miller (Fairfield) and Andrew Miller (currently attending Arizona State).
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September 24, 2013 – PBS today announced a collaboration with web video pioneer John Green, co-founder of the massively successful Vlogbrothers and
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Crash Course channels on YouTube and author of New York Times #1 best-seller The Fault in Our Stars, and wife Sarah Urist Green, an art curator most recently with the Indianapolis Museum of Art, to produce a new weekly series for PBS Digital Studios called THE ART ASSIGNMENT. The series is expected to launch as part of the PBS Digital Studios YouTube network in early 2014.
While most art-related video on the web focuses on art of the past and the idea of creative genius, THE ART ASSIGNMENT will celebrate risk-taking in the creative process and the act of making. The series will highlight emerging and established artists working across the United States, with each artist creating an assignment that will serve as an open call for responses. Viewers create their own responses through photos or video to be posted to YouTube, PBS.org, and other social media platforms with the aim of sparking conversation and comments about the original assignment video as well as the responses.
The PBS Digital Studios network
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Dolores Zabek of North Adams, Massachusetts, was recently found guilty of abusing a 4-year-old autistic child under her care
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in 2015. This shocking behavior only came to light after another child under Zabek’s watch created a video documenting the incident.
In the video, Zabek, while wearing sandals, can be seen kicking the young boy in the head twice. She proceeds to kick him once in the stomach and then slaps him on his rear twice.
According to Zabek’s attorney, she admitted to giving the child a “gentle tap of her foot” to reinforce that it was nap time. “No physical harm was done to the child,” the lawyer argued.
Zabek has owned and operated Doty’s Dare Care in her home for nearly three decades.
While Zabek did not deny the physical contact with the autistic child, her defense argued that “a lack of education and training” about autistic children meant that Zabek relied on “her best efforts” to manage the 4
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Free-speech organizations called on the Department of Commerce to hold a hearing before approving seven new groups of Internet domain names. In a Jan. 16
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letter signed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, among others, activists said the process the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers used to choose the new generic top-level domain names was flawed.
Wal-Mart Stores Walmart.com scooped up some of the assets of defunct Garden.com, which sold gardening products online. Walmart.com acquired Garden.coms editorial, interactive and film content. Products will be offered for sale in Wal-Marts garden centers nationwide. Some items will be introduced online this year, with more products added next year.
In an unexpected move, the AeA, formerly the American Electronics Association, released a set of principles to guide federal policymaking on privacy. The association said it fears conflicting state privacy rules, and appears to have broken with the majority of high-tech companies that want to self-regulate rather than face federal oversight.
Tired of waiting for the phone guy, a group of Verizon Communications customers filed
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A soldier from the Ta'ang National Liberation Army emerges from a forest in Mantong township in Myanmar's northern Shan state, Jan. 16,
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2014.
An alliance of four ethnic armed groups fighting Myanmar forces in northern Shan and Kachin states said on Tuesday it wants to participate in peace talks with the government next month, but demanded that China and another ethnic militia be present as witnesses, an officer from one of the groups said.
The Northern Alliance, which includes the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Arakan Army, Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), and Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), teamed up last November to carry out coordinated attacks on government and military targets in northern Shan state.
“We believe a cease-fire is not a final solution, and we have a desire to hold talks with the government to get a political solution,” Major Mai Ai Kyaw of the TNLA told RFA’s Myanmar Service.
The UWSA—Myanmar’s largest nonstate army—is led by ethnic Chinese commanders and controls the Wa Special
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Offering her greetings on the Bangla New Year 1426, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has hoped that the new year will mark the beginning
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of a new chapter in the lives of all Bengalis.
She was speaking at a greetings exchange programme with leaders and activists of the Awami League and its associate organisations at Gana Bhaban on Sunday.
"We will continue our journey of progress. Bengalis will walk with their heads held high on the world stage. Bangladesh will rise as a developed and prosperous nation," said Hasina, thanking the people for electing her to lead the country for a third straight term.
Activists and leaders started arriving at Gana Bhaban before 9am to take part in the new year's celebrations.
Artistes rendered a number of songs, including Rabindranath Tagore's 'Eso Eso He Baishakh', Anando Loke Mangal Aloke' and 'Alo Amar Alo', upon the prime minister's arrival at Gana Bhaban's Banquet Hall around 10:30 am.
Later, the Awami League's central committee
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Rain and wind are in the forecast for Wednesday.
Flood warnings are in effect in D.C., northern Virginia and central Maryland through Friday
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evening and into Monday morning.
The region has received more rain in the past three days than in the previous two-and-a-half months, Storm Team 4 Chief Meteorologist Doug Kammerer reported. The center of circulation drifted southwest from Waldorf, Md., over the course of the day.
A flood warning for urban areas and small streams was extended until 2:45 a.m. for Montgomery County, where 3-5 inches has fallen and another inch is expected. Any more rain will cause creeks and streams to rise over their banks.
A flood warning for urban areas and small streams in D.C. is in effect until 7:45 a.m.; Prince George’s, Arlington and Fairfax counties; and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church expires at 1:45 a.m. After 2-4 inches of rain estimated to have fallen over the past couple of days, another 1-3 inches is expected in the area.
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• Coumbes, Bertie I. 10 a.m. Thursday at Buchanan & Cody Funeral Home in Jacksonville with committal services at
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11:45 a.m. Thursday at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield. The family will meet friends at the funeral home from 9 a.m. Thursday until the time of services.
• Harvey, Kenneth D. “Harv”. Memorial service 7 p.m. Thursday at Davis-Anderson Funeral Home. Visitation 4-7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home, preceded by Masonic rites at 3:45 p.m. Thursday.
• Moore, Roy H. 3 p.m. Thursday at Williamson Funeral Home.
• Daugherty, Patricia “Penny.” Celebration of Life 5-10 p.m. Friday at the New Berlin Knights of Columbus #4372, 715 East Illinois St., New Berlin.
• Gandy, Nyela (McGee). 1 p.m. Friday at Crawford Funeral Home in Jerseyville. Visitation from 10 a.m. Friday until the time of
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The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder from crashed Boeing 737 MAX 8 sent to Paris for detailed analysis.
Black boxes from the crashed Ethiopian Airlines
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jet are with investigators in Paris. Julian Satterthwaite reports.
A Kenyan family has filed a lawsuit in Chicago against American aviation giant Boeing over the March 10 Ethiopian Airlines crash. Serena Chaudhry reports.
A lawyer suing Boeing in connection with a 737 MAX crash says the company covered up fatal flaws. This is his first one-on-one interview since filing.
More family members of victims of the Lion Air disaster are coming forward to sue Boeing. According to Business Insider, the families say, an apology from the company's CEO for the two fatal plane..
Monday's lawsuit fits a theme: It alleges Boeing installed an unfit system on its new 737 to keep it competitive in the airline market.
Here's the sad story. Boeing is finally taking full responsibility.
Boeing said in a statement that they would reduce production of their 737 MAX by nearly 20% in the wake of the two deadly crashes in recent months. Jayson Albano reports.
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I love to entertain. My other half and I host every Thanksgiving, every Super Bowl and countless pau hanas and dinners throughout the year.
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That’s why when it came time to buy living room furniture, we went big. Our sectional is roughly the size of two twin beds and has held up to eight people at once.
After dinner with friends recently we came back to our place and assumed our regular positions, sprawled out on the couch with our feet up on the coffee table. It had been a long day, so I propped mine up with a throw pillow. Then it dawned on me that an upholstered ottoman might make more sense than a hard coffee table. Not only is it more comfortable for resting your legs after a long day, but it can also serve as extra seating when needed. Luckily, I found out that converting a coffee table into an upholstered ottoman was easier than I thought.
First, determine your desired height and trim the table legs accordingly. If you want to change up the color, now is the time to paint the legs as well
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Xiaomi might soon launch these three smartphones for its fans this year. Here are some of the expected specifications and price.
After launching the
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Redmi Note series, the company might soon launch Mi Mix 2S, Mi 7 and Mi A2.
and Redmi Note 5 Pro in India along with Mi TV 4. After launching the Redmi Note series, the Chinese company might unveil flagship smartphones in the near future.
If rumours are to be believed, the company might soon launch Mi MIX 2S, Mi 7 and Mi A2. Xiaomi could launch Mi MIX 2S and Mi 7 high-end smartphones at MWC 2018 later this month. As of now, the company has not confirmed that it will be attending MWC 2018 in Barcelona.
The Mi A2, on the other hand, did not grab much of the attention, but rumours suggest that the company will introduce Mi 6X in China, which will be the successor to the Mi 5X alias Mi A1. With these three smartphones expected to debut soon, here's everything we know so far.
Rumours of Mi MIX 2S
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