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A flag mix-up caused Canada a bit of embarrassment today — day one of a state visit by the king and queen of Belgium, the first
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such visit in over 40 years.
Belgian journalist Wim Dehandschutter was the one who first pointed out that the flag marking a tree Belgium's Queen Fabiola planted on the grounds of Rideau Hall back in 1977 was actually Germany's flag.
Both flags feature black, red and yellow or gold bands, but Belgium's stripes are vertical while Germany's are horizontal.
"While we were preparing for the tree planting ceremony on the grounds of Rideau Hall, it was brought to our attention that there was a mix up with a small flag," said Marie-Ève Létourneau, a spokesperson for Rideau Hall.
"We rectified the situation immediately, prior to their majesties' arrival at the tree planting."
Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders was unfazed by the flag faux-pas.
"They are the same colours so maybe that's the reason why, and we have very close relations with Germany so it's not a
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A last minute push by the Committee for the Defense of Iranian People’s Rights to prevent the execution of Iranian teacher Abdolreza G
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hanbari is in full gear today after the Iranian courts rejected the teacher’s final appeal.
Ghanbari was arrested at his workplace after anti-government demonstrations on Dec. 27, 2009.
Held in Evin Prison since his arrest, Ghanbari has been tortured and denied access to a lawyer.
The teacher was tried before the Tehran Revolutionary Court on Jan. 30, 2010 and sentenced to death for ‘moharebeh’ (enmity towards God) for alleged links with the banned opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
The sentence was upheld on appeal, and his request for a pardon from the Amnesty and Clemency Commission was rejected late in Feb. 2012.
The campaign by CODIR has the backing of many human rights and trade union organizations including Amnesty International, Labour Start, the National Union of Teachers, and the University and College Union in the UK, the Canadian Teachers
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Amendment's 1, 2, 3 and 5 are on this year’s ballot. Here’s a short guide to each one
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On Nov. 8, Florida voters will be selecting more than just who will be the next president. Besides picking state senators and congressmen, four amendments will be on the ballot this year: Amendments 1, 2, 3 and 5.
Before you vote, here’s a quick rundown of what each amendment stands for.
What does that mean for me: The amendment allows anyone to have solar panels installed and operating at their house. However, the homeowner has to have a backup electric power source in case the solar panels stop working.
Amendment 1 would remove net metering, which is a policy that allows people with solar panels installed to have a cheaper electric bill by sending extra power stored by solar power to the public grid.
For homeowners that have solar panels on their property, this reportedly would cause an increase in the cost of their electric bill.
How likely is it to pass: somewhat high. Almost $22 million was raised in support of the amendment and it
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NEW YORK | Buoyed by his characteristically soaring spirit, the surging crowd around him and a pair of canes, Pete Seeger walked
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through the streets of Manhattan leading an Occupy Movement protest in 2011.
Though he would later admit the attention embarrassed him, the moment brought back many feelings and memories as he instructed yet another generation of young people how to effect change through song and determination — as he had done over the last seven decades as a history-sifting singer and ever-so-gentle rabble-rouser.
"Be wary of great leaders," he told The Associated Press two days after the march. "Hope that there are many, many small leaders."
The banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage died Monday at the age of 94. Seeger's grandson, Kitama Cahill-Jackson, said his grandfather died peacefully in his sleep around 9:30 p.m. at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he had been for six days. Family members were with him
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Charles Liu, a senior fellow at Peking University, debates Bonnie Glaser, director of the China Power Project at CSIS.
The South
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China Sea is one of the most hotly-contested and lucrative regions in the world.
In July, an international tribunal in The Hague ruled in a landmark case in favour of the Philippines, which rejected the Chinese claim to almost the entire South China Sea. China called the ruling ill-founded and non-binding.
As the row in the maritime area continues to heat up, will this lead to war? Or are claims of a possible conflagration exaggerated?
In this week's Arena, we debate the issue with Charles Liu, a senior fellow at the Peking University Centre on China and Global Affairs and the founder of Hao Capital, and Bonnie Glaser, a senior adviser for Asia and director of the China Power Project, at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
Editor's note: This interview was recorded before Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte announced the end of military cooperation with the United States on October 8, 2016.
China's territorial claims are driven by a sense of historical
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This year, the success story of Boston College men’s basketball appears to be the team’s ability to rally after slow starts.
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Prior to the Eagles’ matchup against Colgate on Wednesday, BC overcame six- and eight-point deficits against Maine and Sacred Heart, respectively, before winning both games by 20 points. Wednesday was no different by any means. The Eagles were down by 14 points at the end of the first half, but made the necessary adjustments in the latter portion of play to come away with an 83-79 victory.
Down 15 with just 15 minutes remaining in the second half, the Thanksgiving crowd in Conte Forum was ready to call it quits. Then came Jerome Robinson. The preseason All-ACC Second Team guard pulled off a phenomenal sequence of plays that led to a tie game in just nine minutes of game time. First, he swatted away a potential layup off the glass and made a 3-pointer on the other end. Later, after a Colgate (2-2) airball, Robinson hit another one from deep, bringing BC (5-1) within seven of the
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Gary Sanchez isn’t apologizing for being picked for next week’s Home Run Derby.
The Yankees catcher was called out Tuesday in
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a bitter rant by the Rays’ Logan Morrison for getting the nod instead of him.
Morrison, in comments made to the Tampa Bay Times, pointed out he has 24 homers (second at the time in the American League behind Aaron Judge’s 28) compared with Sanchez’s 13.
Sanchez was out for a month due to a biceps injury. Still, he has 33 home runs in 105 games since being called up to the Yankees for good last year. Since that day, Aug. 2, Morrison has 28 homers.
Sanchez admitted to initially expressing reluctance to participate in the event.
Morrison is one of five players in the American League — including Didi Gregorius — who are up for the Final Vote, so he still can be selected for Tuesday’s All-Star Game.
Morrison said he wasn’t “disappointed” in not being invited to the derby … and then reeled off a list of
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ELKHORN, Neb. — The Rutherford Institute has offered to assist the Elkhorn Public Schools should they encounter any fallout as a result
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of their decision to overturn Principal Jennifer Sinclair’s attempt to purge Manchester Elementary School of any symbol or mention of Christmas, including singing Christmas carols, using items that have red/green colors, and candy canes (which were perceived as problematic because the shape is a ‘J’ for Jesus). The Institute’s “Constitutional Q&A: The Twelve Rules of Christmas” guidelines aim to clear up the legal misunderstanding over the do’s and don’ts of celebrating Christmas by providing basic guidelines for schools, workplaces and elsewhere.
Over the years, The Rutherford Institute has been contacted by parents and teachers alike concerned about schools changing their Christmas concerts to “winter holiday programs” and renaming Christmas “winter festival” or cancelling holiday celebrations altogether to avoid offending those who do not celebrate the various holidays. In one incident, a public school 6th-grade class was asked to make “holiday cards” to send to
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Since the nation plunged into economic turmoil, a handful of states have scaled back pay bonuses and subsidies for teachers who earn certification through the National Board for
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Professional Teaching Standards.
But factors other than the economy have also played into the cuts, too. Officials in Georgia, for instance, contend that the state wants to turn its teacher-quality focus toward output-based measures of teacher effectiveness, rather than credentials.
Both phenomena are leading some experts to urge districts, teacher associations, and the NBPTS itself to think strategically about how to structure incentives so that board-certified teachers’ expertise is used effectively in school systems, and thus recognized by a wider cross section of stakeholders.
Despite the downturn in state and local support for national-board certification, some districts continue to compensate teachers for seeking, and getting, the credential, especially those that have it in collective bargaining language.
*High-need incentive includes but is not limited to board-certified teachers.
Board certification is an extensive, 10-step process that includes the submission of a portfolio and an analysis of a videotaped recording of teaching. It can take up to
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BALTIMORE — Before the Yankees improved to 20 games over.500 and put on Drake’s “Passionfruit”
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— their postgame clubhouse victory song — they had to survive a scare.
Gleyber Torres, their 21-year-old super rookie, got hit with a pitch on the right wrist in the sixth inning of their 8-5 victory over the lowly Orioles on Saturday.
Torres looked to be in significant pain at the time. But after a visit from the trainer, he stayed in the game.
The Bombers (37-17) are on a 111-win pace through the first third of the season. So at this point it’s just about maintaining consistency and staying healthy.
They lead the majors in runs, homers and OPS.
Their lineup, 1 through 9, is relentless.
When some guys slump, other guys step up.
On Saturday, it was Giancarlo Stanton’s turn.
Stanton has mostly underperformed since coming to New York — relative to massive salary and the added expectations that followed after the blockbuster deal
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The New York Red Bulls and New York City FC will meet twice in 2019.
The New York Red Bulls, New York City FC and the
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rest of Major League Soccer announced their 2019 schedules on Monday.
The rivals will meet twice this season, first at Red Bull Arena on July 14 and again at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 24. The addition of FC Cincinnati as the league's 24th team means that no teams, not even division opponents, will meet three times.
The Red Bulls open the season on the road in Columbus on March 2 and play their first home game on March 16 against San Jose.
NYCFC opens the season on the road at Orlando City on March 2 and plays its first home game on March 10 against DC United.
Both teams will host defending champion Atlanta United. The Red Bulls, who lost to Atlanta in the Eastern Conference finals last season, host the defending champions on May 19 in one of the team's 13 nationally-televised games. NYCFC hosts Atlanta on Sept. 25.
The full Red Bulls schedule can be found here.
The full NYCFC schedule can be found here
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The Fratellis' second album is packed full of boozy music hall singalongs.
The Fratellis certainly aren't to everyone
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's tastes. The Glaswegians' debut album, Costello Music, and specifically their hit 'Chelsea Dagger', was installed with extra-strength superglue in the nation's pub jukeboxes all through 2006. However, for every fan of the band's boozy singalongs, there were many others who found them distasteful and crass. The nicer reviews described them as "artless but amiable", while sterner critics lamented their "tediously misogynistic" lyrics. John, Barry and Mince, meanwhile, kept on smiling while the album sales racked up.
According to the band, album number two is a more "factual" record. Lead single 'Mistress Mabel' fails to support this assertion, featuring as it does lyrics about a "hem line rat bag" that are about as comprehensible as an Ikea instruction manual printed in Japanese. Fortunately, the track is saved by what sounds like a dozen pianos being bashed with hamm
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Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday wrote to chief ministers of all states and union territories seeking their cooperation to ensure 33 per
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cent reservation for women in legislative assemblies and Parliament.
Earlier, he had urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to initiate steps to pass the Women's Reservation Bill.
"The support of chief ministers in giving rightful places to women in society will give a new direction towards women empowerment," Patnaik wrote in letters to CMs.
Stating that women have a major role to play in building the nation and society, he said, "Empowerment of women is empowerment of the nation. No household, no society, no state, no country has ever moved forward without empowering its women."
Patnaik's letters to chief ministers came a day after the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha took a decision to consult 22 political parties, including the Congress and the BJP, as part of its efforts to build consensus on the Women's Reservation Bill, pending in the Lok Sabha.
BJD delegates would meet leaders of seven national parties and 15 regional
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Where are the manuals, and the GT?
Though it's tamer, we recommend the four-cylinder Legacy for its gas mileage and
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bargain price. There's more power to be had from the flat six, but it starts some $7000 higher, and doesn't deliver a big performance dividend.
The 2015 Subaru Legacy smooths over its ruffles, and out-domestics some American family sedans with a big back seat, excellent gas mileage and standard all-wheel drive.
The 2015 Subaru Legacy is no niche vehicle. You may not have put it in the same thought bubble as the Nissan Altima, Honda Accord, or Ford Fusion--but now, you should.
We have. The Car Connection has named the Legacy our Best Car To Buy 2015.
It's taken a decade or so, but Subaru's gradual upsizing and mainstreaming of its cars has paid off impressively in the new Legacy. The company that once brought you offbeat cars like the Baja and SVX now has a legitimate leader in the brutally competitive family-sedan class.
The new Legacy is more convention
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At a news conference in Winter Park, he said he wants to end a ban on smokable medical marijuana in Florida.
The Governor said
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he's filing a stay of decision in an appeal by the state Legislature, which wants to keep that ban in place.
On Thursday, Gov. DeSantis said he's giving state lawmakers until mid-March to reform or rewrite Florida's law on medical marijuana.
"I want the elected Representatives to write the law the way the people intended," said Gov. DeSantis. "So we'll give them a couple weeks in session to address the smoking issue."
He said if the Legislature doesn't reach a decision by then, his office will dismiss the state's appeal, which will open the door for smokable medical marijuana to be legal in Florida.
"This thing should have been implemented, we should have moved on," said Gov. DeSantis. "For someone who has these really tough conditions, I want to do whatever we can to provide relief for these folks."
Gov. DeSantis was joined at the news conference by Orlando attorney and medical marijuana supporter
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Thanks to some confused signals from Carroll County officials, developers Michael Reeves and Henry L. Blevins may have escaped a state effort to remove buried
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construction debris in their Homedale Road subdivision in South Carroll. But the fact remains that the tree stumps, limbs and other building waste covered by a layer of soil will cause problems for future homeowners there.
County water resources officials have identified about 100 sink holes in Carroll that were caused when rotting stumps and wood could no longer support the tons of soil that covered them. The developers responsible for creating these earthen time bombs are long gone, and the homeowners are now stuck with the expense of filling the holes.
Although burying construction detritus has been illegal in Maryland since 1988, Carroll's inspectors had been turning a blind eye to the practice. After the county's Environmental Affairs Advisory Board became aware of the law and informed inspectors, regulation was stepped up.
Mr. Reeves casts himself as the unfortunate victim of a change in policy. He claims unnamed county officials gave him permission to follow past disposal practices, only then to be cited for violating state law.
He convinced new
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LONDON—Prince William and Prince Harry joined the cast of Star Wars: The Last Jedi at the film’s European premiere Tuesday, delight
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ing fans who braved the London cold for a glimpse of Hollywood stars and British royalty.
But cast and crew were silent on reports that the royal siblings make a cameo appearance in the much-anticipated film.
The tuxedo-clad princes walked the red carpet at London’s Royal Albert Hall for the black-tie gala, a benefit for their Royal Foundation charity — though without William’s pregnant wife Kate or Harry’s fiancée, Meghan Markle.
Royal officials have refused to comment on reports that the princes recorded a scene playing Stormtroopers in the sci-fi saga when they visited the film’s set in April 2016. At the time they were filmed meeting crew members, battling with light sabers and hugging a Wookie.
Star John Boyega has said the royal duo filmed a scene during their visit to London’s Pinewood Studios, though it’s unclear whether it made the final cut.
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On Aug. 29, 2012, the Moscow Arbitration Court made a noteworthy ruling in the Eastern Value Partners Limited (Decision of the Moscow Arbit
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ration Court No.A40-60755/1220-388 of 29 August 2012) case concerning interest withholding tax issues and applicability of the double tax treaty between Cyprus and Russia (the Treaty). The court had to examine the back-to-back debt financing received by one Cyprus company (allegedly having some form of presence in Russia) from another Cyprus company. The problematic issue of the case was that the second Cyprus company was not the economic source of financing, as it received the funds on-lent to the first Cyprus company from an affiliate residing in BVI.
The parties did their best to structure the transaction in a way that would attract the attention of the tax authorities. Firstly, the funds were received by the second Cyprus company and on-lent to the first one within the same day. Secondly, the second Cyprus company requested that the borrower repay the loan and interest accrued thereon directly to BVI. In addition, the transaction was the only operation of the
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says labor unions have an open door to his White House, but so far, he’s holding the door a
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little more ajar for some organizations than others.
Trump has put out the welcome mat for the nation’s construction trades, with whom he’s had relationships during decades of building office towers and hotels. Also invited in have been auto, steel and coal workers who backed him during the 2016 election.
But there’s been no White House invitation for other unions representing the sprawling but shrinking pool of 14.6 million workers who collectively bargain with employers in the labor movement.
But he has not courted all union leaders or advocated for all labor priorities. For example, he’s against a $15-an-hour minimum wage and has let linger a rule expanding overtime pay. Much like President Ronald Reagan did, Trump is not so much pursuing a labor agenda but one that appeals to those who share his “Buy American, Hire American” priorities and happen to be union members.
But even among unions with most-favored status, there�
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A few weeks ago, Lil Wayne released Free Weezy Album, a free album (hence the name) that was available exclusively on Tidal
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. The move was a not-so-subtle dig at his former record label, Cash Money, which has been refusing to release his latest normal album, Tha Carter V. Wayne’s record contract—which he is currently suing to get out of—prevents him from selling any music that isn’t through Cash Money, so he figured dumping this free album on Tidal would be a loophole.
Unfortunately for Lil Wayne, Cash Money does not agree, and TMZ is reporting that it is now suing Tidal for $50 million. Cash Money’s argument is that it owns the rights to all of Lil Wayne’s music—whether he charges for it or not—and that Tidal has broken the law by getting involved. The label even worked in a dig at Tidal’s problems in the lawsuit, saying that releasing this album was “a desperate and illegal attempt to save their struggling streaming service.” Whichever way Cash Money
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Simon “Si” Waronker, the patriarch of the famous musical Waronker clan — son Lenny (producer, pres
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of Warner and DreamWorks Records), granddaughter Anna (that dog, co-founder Five Foot Two Records), grandson Steve Berman (head of sales & marketing at Interscope/Geffen/A&M) — died in his sleep Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 90.
Si Waronker was born in Los Angeles in 1915 and was a child prodigy on the violin. He wasn’t stupid, either, graduating from high school at thirteen. He studied violin in Philadelphia, France, and Germany, the latter coinciding with the rise of Hitler. After being chased by a Nazi youth gang, he returned to Los Angeles and was orchestra contractor for 20th Century Fox from 1939 until 1955.
In ’55 Waronker started Liberty Records, specializing at first in the film music he knew so well. Liberty’s first release was an orchestral single, “The Girl Upstairs” backed with “Conquest,” by
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Congress moved Tuesday to dismantle a chunk of the rules framework for banks, installed to prevent a recurrence of the 2008 financial crisis that brought millions of
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lost jobs and foreclosed homes.
The House voted 258-159 to approve legislation rolling back the Dodd-Frank law, notching a legislative win for President Donald Trump, who made gutting the landmark law a campaign promise.
The Republican-led legislation, pushed by Wall Street banks as well as regional banks and smaller institutions, garnered some votes from House Democrats. Similarly, the bill splintered Democrats into two camps when the Senate voted 67-31 to approve it in March.
The bill raises the threshold at which banks are deemed so big and plugged into the financial grid that if one were to fail it would cause major havoc. Those banks are subject to stricter capital and planning requirements. Backers of the legislation are intent on loosening the restraints on them, asserting that would boost lending and the economy.
The legislation is aimed at especially helping small and medium-size banks, including community banks and credit unions. But critics argue that the likelihood of future taxpayer bailouts will be greater
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Thursday has been declared Taco Truck Night by the founders of a Web site created in response to a new set of regulations for the mobile restaurants recently approved
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by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
“To celebrate this year’s May Day we’re announcing Taco Truck Night … Go out, get some carne asada or al pastor and support your hard working taco vendor,” the Web site Saveourtacotrucks.org readers.
The Web site, founded by teachers Aaron Sonderleiter and Chris Rutherford, received national attention when it was mentioned by Time magazine Friday in an article on the dispute over the new county rules.
Earlier this month, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance making it possible to punish lunch-truck drivers who park in one spot for more than an hour in an unincorporated area with either a citation or a misdemeanor, at the discretion of the District Attorney’s Office.
Citations will be punishable by fines starting at $100 for the first offense that increase in increments of $100 for each additional offense reported, to a maximum
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Does prayer belong in public schools?
Just over a week ago, the House of Representatives said no - barely. In its first vote on school
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prayer in 27 years, the House narrowly rejected a proposal for a constitutional amendment to allow prayer in schools and religious displays in federal buildings.
But amid all the adult sparring over establishment of religion and freedom of speech, one point seems to have been lost: Lots of students around the United States are already praying while on school grounds - and they're doing it legally.
In the early morning, at lunch, or after the last bell rings, thousands of high school classrooms host gatherings of kids of varying faiths. There, sandwiched in between jobs, team practices, and homework, students congregate to pray about everything from upcoming tests to how to keep their school safe.
It's a phenomenon that may puzzle, anger, or thrill many of their parents, most of whom came of age in schools governed by the 1963 Supreme Court ruling that banned compulsory prayer in public schools and, for practical purposes, forbade religious activities while at school.
But the 1984 Equal Access Act is shaping a younger
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Sun Microsystems Inc. has a busy week planned for the LinuxWorld conference next month.
First up, Sun is expected to release its
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first general-purpose server — codenamed Big Bear — to run the Linux operating system on Intel Corp. processors, as reported in June by IDG News Service. This move marks a major philosophical shift away from its long-held stance that the Sun Solaris OS and UltraSPARC processors are the best combination for every kind of server.
Sun also will use the LinuxWorld venue here to discuss its second change of heart — the resurrection of Solaris for the Intel architecture, sources said.
Sun decided in January to close a download program for a version of Solaris 8 that runs on Intel chips, as well as cancelling work on the newly-released Solaris 9 OS for the Intel architecture. The move infuriated a large number of users and prompted Sun to meet with a group of fans of Solaris on Intel dubbed The Secret Six to seek a compromise on bringing support back. The talks between Sun and The Secret Six stalled over the last seven months, and the group was largely
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Twenty lots are available now, and 21 more are expected in the fall. Crews are now digging a second pond, and a third pond will
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round out the development, Louie said.
Each of the lots on ponds will have its own dock and little beach cut out next to the dock. You can go into the water and paddleboard or kayak or fish.
Lakeside Retreats will be part of the 800-lot, 590-acre Legacy development, which includes a private, three-hold golf course, community pool, clubhouse and a 24-hour gym. Horseshoe Flats LLC, of Caldwell, is the developer, Louie said.
Jere Webb, associate broker at Downs Realty in Eagle, said the developer may struggle to sell lots at the listed asking prices. Webb said Eagle has about a year’s worth of inventory of homes on lots smaller than an acre and 10 months’ supply of waterfront lots, showing weak demand.
“It will be a tough price point given the present availability of lots in Eagle already on the waterfront, especially given that it’s
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District Attorney Stan Garnett makes a closing statement in a Boulder District courtroom on Monday. Dynel Lane is charged with attempted murder, unlawful termination of
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a pregnancy and four counts of felony assault.
Defense attorney Kathryn Herold makes a closing statement in a Boulder District courtroom on Monday. Dynel Lane is charged with attempted murder, unlawful termination of a pregnancy and four counts of felony assault.
Chief Trial Deputy Catrina Weigel details the attack on Michelle Wilkins as she makes a closing argument in a Boulder District courtroom on Monday. Dynel Lane is charged with attempted murder, unlawful termination of a pregnancy and four counts of felony assault.
Chief Trial Deputy Catrina Weigel makes a closing argument in a Boulder District courtroom on Monday. Dynel Lane is charged with attempted murder, unlawful termination of a pregnancy and four counts of felony assault.
From left: Defense attorneys Kathryn Herold and Jen Beck stand with Dynel Lane as the jury enters the courtroom before closing statements on Monday. Dynel Lane is charged with attempted murder, unlawful termination of a pregnancy and four counts of felony assault.
From left: Defense attorneys Kathryn Herold and Jen
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Originally Published: June 15, 2018 2:09 p.m.
For anyone who tried driving along Willow Creek Road in Prescott between Sunday and
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Friday, June 10-15, likely idled in traffic for far longer than they ever wished to.
“This week has been pretty tough with a full pavement reconstruction from Willow Lake Road to Mitchell Road,” said Tim Sherwood, construction services administrator with the City of Prescott.
Fortunately, the worst of the road work in that stretch is over, Sherwood said.
“All of the paving operations on Willow Creek Road are finished,” he said Friday afternoon.
Next week, crews will be raising the utilities (manholes, water valves, etc.) back to grade, “but that’s much, much, much less impact on traffic,” Sherwood said.
Also, according to a news release from the City of Prescott, crews will be striping the roadway over the next two weeks. The impacts are expected to be from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, June 17-28.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A man who gunned down a Southwest Airlines employee outside of Oklahoma City’s airport likely
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killed the victim in retaliation for circumstances that led to the attacker leaving his job with the airline last year, police said Wednesday.
Buie resigned from Southwest Airlines in April 2015. Balderrama said Winchester wasn’t Buie’s immediate supervisor, and though the circumstances surrounding Buie’s departure were not immediately available, he said investigators believe they were the reason behind the attack.
Police found Buie’s red pickup truck in the parking garage about three hours after the shooting. They used a robot to determine he was dead inside it before giving the all-clear.
Michael Winchester was a punter on the University of Oklahoma’s 1985 national championship team.
“Our hearts are truly heavy for the entire Winchester Family. Mike was a former Sooner student athlete as was his son James/daughter Carolyn,” the school’s athletic director, Joe Castiglione, tweeted Tuesday afternoon. He added “daughter Becca was also
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Laus
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anne and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a major research initiative, with several leading academic and corporate research organizations across Europe, to address the alarming growth of energy consumption by electronic devices, ranging from mobile phones to laptops to televisions to supercomputers. The research project, called Steeper, aims to increase the energy efficiency of these devices, when active, by 10 times and virtually eliminate power consumption when they are in passive or standby mode.
Coordinated by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Project Steeper includes leading corporate research organizations IBM Research - Zurich, Infineon and GLOBALFOUNDRIES*, large research institutes CEA-LETI and Forschungszentrum Julich, academic partners, University of Bologna, University of Dortmund, University of Udine and the University of Pisa and the managerial support of SCIPROM.
Scientists collaborating on the project will apply their expertise and research to tunnel
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Palestinian militants killed six Israelis and seriously injured five others in an attack on a key border crossing in central Gaza late Thursday night. The assault is seen
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as a direct challenge to the newly elected Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.
Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly called for an end to violence and says he wants Palestinian militants to support political dialogue with Israel.
But the militants appeared to press forward with their own agenda Thursday night following a deadly attack on an Israeli outpost in Central Gaza.
The Israeli Army says gunmen stormed the terminal at the Karni crossing point after militants used a truck bomb to blow a hole in the building's perimeter.
Captain Yael Hartmann says the men opened fire as soon as they passed through the entrance.
"Three Palestinians crammed through the hole and walked to the Israeli side of the crossing," she explained. "When they opened fire there were guards there that fired back but by then it had too late."
Captain Hartmann says the militants were killed during the ensuing gun fight but not until after a number of Israeli civilians were shot.
Three militant groups Hamas, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the
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WestJet says it is reviewing its baggage policy after a customer complained that it discriminated against travellers from certain countries.
WestJet says it is reviewing
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its baggage policy after the son of a Toronto customer complained that the airline discriminated against travellers from certain countries.
The airline currently has a policy that prevents travellers to Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago from checking in more than two bags, unless the extra luggage is "a golf bag containing golf clubs."
Jared Walker tweeted about the policy after his 62-year-old mother was prevented from bringing an oversized bag on a trip to Jamaica to attend a funeral.
Walker, 30, said the policy is "absurd" and shows preferential treatment to tourists, as opposed to travellers returning to their country of origin.
WestJet told The Canadian Press in a statement that the baggage policy was in place for Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago "due to the amount of excess checked baggage brought by guests travelling to these particular destinations."
The company said it's reviewing the aspect of the baggage policy related to golf bags, recognizing "the optics are poor."
It further said that travellers who want to bring
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Matt Weber's runner-up finish is believed to be the best by a high school player in the tournament’s 99-year history.
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This time, experience triumphed over youth.
Brandon Aydlett had the experience. The Metairie native had been trying to win the State Amateur Golf Championship since he was 18, just before he began a four-year playing career at LSU.
That was one year before Matt Weber was born.
But there they were, the 36-year-old Aydlett, a veteran of Louisiana Golf Association events and with experience on professional mini-tours before regaining his amateur status in 2012 … and Weber, who just finished his junior year at St. Thomas More High and had never teed it up in any LGA championship event.
The original 144-player field in the 99th edition of the state’s premier amateur golf event had been whittled down to a two-player race entering Sunday’s final round at Oakbourne Country Club, with former LSU golfer Aydlett and Weber tied for the lead through 54 holes. The
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Google’s long talked-about ebook store, Google Editions, is set to debut by the end of the year, the Wall Street
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Journal reports.
The store was initially supposed to launch this past summer, but sources close to the company say that it only recently cleared some legal and technical hurdles. Now Google is gearing up to launch Editions by the end of the year in the US and by first quarter 2011 worldwide, according to Google product management director Scott Dougall.
So what is Google offering that Amazon isn’t? Just as with its open-source mobile operating system Android, it appears that Google is aiming to establish a more open ebook ecosystem. You’ll be able to purchase ebooks from Google, or other online retailers, and tie them to an ebook library with your Google account. The Google Editions library will be easily accessible online from any web-enabled device, including smartphones, tablets, and PCs.
This is in contrast to Amazon’s Kindle ecosystem, in which you order books from Amazon’s store, and they’re subsequently delivered to your Kindle. Kindle books
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REMY CABELLA has denied Newcastle are already thinking about spending time on the beach after slumping to a fifth straight defeat at Liverpool.
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The midfielder insisted he and his team-mates were as “hurt” as the long-suffering Newcastle supporters, who once again sang in protest at owner Mike Ashley’s reign during Monday’s 2-0 reverse.
Interim coach John Carver has seen his hopes of landing the job permanently nosedive, but Cabella maintains the players having not pulled up stumps for the season.
“On holiday already? No, no, we are professional,” he said. “We don’t think about our holidays. It’s impossible. We have six matches left. We need to concentrate on Tottenham.
“We need to win that game by working hard in training. In our minds, we are not on holiday. That’s not professional. We need to concentrate on playing.
Newcastle’s problems were compounded by the dismissal of Moussa Sissoko for two bookings late
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The blog agrees with kindly Doc Maddow that, if you want to gauge the depth at which the lessons of the shellacking they took have sunk
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in to the Republican party, do not look at what they're saying in Washington, but look at what they're doing out in the states, where nobody's watching. We have been engaged in the ongoing shenanigans surrounding Scott Walker, the twice-elected goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin, and the state Republican party that Walker leads. Today, we take a look at an ongoing lawsuit filed by Democrats against the Republicans in the state legislature as regards the process they used to gerrymande....er...redistrict the state's various political boundaries. So far, the lawsuit has revealed that the redistricting process was was a marvelous environment for, ah, unfortunate coincidence.
The move came a week after a panel of three federal judges ordered that two sides and the state quickly resolve their differences. The groups sued the state in 2011 over election maps drawn by Republicans, but for months the case has focused on documents
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Mexican president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday he will invite US President Donald Trump to his inauguration on December 1, the
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leftist leader's latest olive branch after two years of deeply strained ties.
"We are neighboring countries, we have economic and trade relationships, ties of friendship. It is very important to us to cooperate on development. We share 3,180 kilometers of border. So President Trump will be invited," Lopez Obrador told a press conference.
Whether he comes "will depend on his agenda and his decision," he said.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will also be invited, he added.
Lopez Obrador won a landslide election victory Sunday to become Mexico's first leftist leader in recent memory, in a resounding rejection of the two established parties that have ruled the country for nearly a century.
The politician known as "AMLO" had vowed during the campaign to "put (Trump) in his place," at a time when the Republican president's anti-trade, anti-immigration policies have infuriated Mexico.
But the two men appear to have hit it off Monday in
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The City Council set aside another $50,000 last week to continue to pay a law firm to represent Burbank in ongoing labor negotiations between the
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city and two bargaining groups — the recently formed Burbank City Attorneys Assn. and the Burbank Management Assn.
However, negotiations with both groups have reached an impasse.
The appropriation is in addition to $50,000 the council set aside in March for the same purpose. The Los Angeles-based law firm Liebert Cassidy Whitmore will continue to represent the city in negotiations.
Talks between the city and the attorneys union reached a stalemate this summer when union members — having gone five years without a pay raise — continued to push for what city officials say would be a 13% salary increase retroactive to last November and an additional 2% salary increase each year for the next three years.
The attorneys union — formed in February — represents 10 city attorneys and a paralegal.
Last month, a fact-finding panel of three jurists heard arguments from the city and the city attorneys and is slated to make a settlement recommendation early next month. A public
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EXCLUSIVE: Sony won an auction for screen rights to My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, a graphic novel by Emil Ferris that scared up a
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four studio bidding battle today. Amasia Entertainment’s Bradley Gallo and Michael Helfant will produce. Palak Patel is overseeing for Columbia Pictures. The graphic novel is already getting critical raves for its originality and artistic flourishes.
Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes. It is infused with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazine iconography. Karen tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, where the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Present throughout are monsters, real and imagined. It is the latest buy for Sony, which under president Sanford Panitch has been very aggressive in the material
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On Monday, the Supreme Court issued a stay of the Maryland federal district court’s injunction against the Sept. 24 immigration order (EO-
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3) in International Refugee Assistance Program v. Trump and an the identical stay of the injunction in Hawaii v. Trump. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor would have denied the government’s request for a stay. The court’s order allows the latest iteration of the travel ban to go into effect, pending further proceedings in the courts of appeals and, if relevant, the Supreme Court. However, this latest stay signifies little or nothing regarding the court’s view of the merits in the challenges to EO-3.
In marked contrast to the temporary nature of earlier iterations of the travel ban, EO-3 indefinitely suspends entry of both immigrants and some or all classes of nonimmigrants from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria and Yemen (see my earlier post). In addition, the new ban bars entry of immigrants from Somalia, subjects Iraqi nationals to heightened screening, and bars certain Venezuelan government officials from entering as nonimm
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After a less-than-stellar reception at TIFF, director David Mackenzie decided to go back and cut close to 20 minutes out of his
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historical epic Outlaw King. Now at 137 minutes long, the film arrives on Netflix today in all its gory glory. How does this new cut hold up compared to the TIFF cut? Is an improvement at all? And does the infamous Pine peen remain?
If you’ve ever watched Braveheart and thought, “What happened after all that?”, have I got a film for you! It’s called Outlaw King, and it’s an unrelentingly brutal, often funny, haphazardly edited affair. Outlaw King had its big debut at the Toronto International Film Festival, and will debut on Netflix on November 9, 2018.
Chris Pine is keeping the wiry beard that he grew for A Wrinkle in Time, and taking it back to the 14th century for a reunion with his Hell Or High Water director David Mackenzie.
Pine stars as legendary Scottish outlaw and leader Robert the Bruce in Outlaw King
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An early morning storm left a trail of havoc in this state today.
A four-year-old boy who was reported missing while in the
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custody of a nursery in Precinct 3 here was found safe on a school bus in Cheras this afternoon.
The Sabah government is planning to set up a relocation centre for conflict refugees on a remote island located far from the mainland.
The amendments to the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 will also involve higher penalties for employers who fail to ensure safety, health and welfare at the workplace.
The Malaysia Homestay Experience Programme organised by the Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry (MOTAC) gives tourists the opportunity to interact and participate in the daily activities of the village community, said its minister Datuk Mohamaddin Ketapi.
Three Malaysians are still receiving treatment at the Hatyai Hospital following a fire incident at a hotel in Sadao, Songkhla, on Friday (April 12).
It has been over three months since they last saw their 88-year-old mother but that hasn’t stopped her five children from doing all they can in
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Adam Cohen’s editorial diatribe in the NYT (January 27) against Tom Woods and his scholarship shows the degree to which the relation
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between facts and historical narrative has dissolved. Cohen does not seem to know, or perhaps want us to know, that segregation began as a Northern institution that, after Reconstruction, Southern states adapted to their use. A once widely quoted study, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, written by the then impeccably leftist Southern historian C. Van Woodward, was on reading lists in American history when I began teaching in the late sixties. This book has not been superseded by recent, exhaustive research. It has been put aside because it contradicts the now established version of PC, just like Tom DiLorenzo’s writings about Lincoln’s attitudes toward blacks or the economic causes of the (misnamed) American Civil War. The chastising of Woods in the NYT, for challenging the "Columbia University historian Eric Foner," typifies the new approach to history. Foner’s tendentious work on Reconstruction, which Cohen treats as a Fundamentalist would the Bible, is certainly open
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I’m packing my suitcase and printing out my boarding pass. Why? Because Maker Faire takes place this weekend at the San Mateo
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County Fairgrounds just south of San Francisco. According to the National Weather Service, it looks to be very nice with sunny skies and warm temperatures.
This will be my fifth Maker Faire and I’ve enjoyed participating in all of them. This time, I’ll be showing folks how to make smoke bombs and fire pistons, as well as expounding a bit upon the Art of Living Dangerously.
Saturday at 6:30 PM –I will be on the main stage, giving a talk based on material from my new book “Absinthe and Flamethrowers.” The presentation is called “The Art of Living Dangerously” and I think it’s quite an enjoyable talk and (I hope) thought provoking as well. And, the slides are pretty good.
Sunday at 2:00 PM – Do you know what a fire piston is? Well, come on by and I’ll show you how to make one
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Airtime may have launched with a bang, but its end was eerily quiet: Sean Parker’s video chat startup, which
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once aimed to become the next Chatroulette, shut down its web app some time during the last month, and no one even noticed, or bothered to complain.
The site was still up and running in mid-August, according to the Internet Archive, but has since been replaced by a placeholder site that asks us to “stay tuned,” and lists a number of jobs on both coasts. There’s no mention of the shut-down on Airtime’s blog, which was last updated two years ago, or its long-abandoned Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Even more striking: I couldn’t find a single mention of it on Twitter — it looks like users had given up on the site long ago, and no one even bothered to check if it’s still around. I sent Airtime an email, asking when exactly the web app was taken offline, but have yet to hear back, and will update this story once
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While Bill Mathesius is correct in supporting individual rights, he fails to consider how drug use violates the welfare of others. Has he thought about
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the children of drug-using parents? This would be a sizable population.
He could obtain information by visiting the psychiatric hospital programs for children (about 10 in New Jersey, and more are opening) or by looking at worker caseloads (abused and neglected children) at the Division of Youth and Family Services.
Has he considered drug-related accidents? Some substances can impair perception for days without apparent awareness on the part of the user. Were he to support drug testing of people responsible for accidents resulting in serious injury, especially auto- or work-related mishaps, we could better assess the problem of drug-involved injuries to others.
Is Mr. Mathesius going to provide free drugs to the using public, and who will pay for that? Certainly addicts will continue to steal to support drug habits regardless of whether purchases are made on the street or at the local pharmacy.
Also, what are his thoughts on drug-related medical problems? With health insurance and hospital costs
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FOX has to be relieved that the "Empire" is back and "Shots Fired" will live to fight another day benefitting from the
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"Empire" draft.
Saw the 16 series renewal story this morning. CBS' success is all about consistency and stability, so props to them for knowing that most of the time, replacing what they have will result in lower ratings.
When I entered the business, network television had only one revenue stream: advertising. In addition the network would pay affiliated stations to carry their programming.
Over the years affiliate compensations went away, affiliates started paying the networks and now stations get paid by cable and satellite providers to carry the channel. The networks share in that, giving them a second revenue stream. This dual revenue stream was an advantage that basic cable channels had through subscriber fees.
One of the drivers of retrans is professional sports, especially the NFL, so the networks are willing to pay a fortune to the NFL to keep football "over the air."
Back in the 1980s, the networks were limited in what programming they could own. This was intended to insure competition and protect
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One-time Insight Communications Co. Inc. executive Kim Kelly is leaving her current post as CEO of technology start-up Arroyo Video Solutions
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Inc., citing the grind of a New York-to-California commute.
“I’m going to stay [at Arroyo] as a director,” she said Tuesday, adding, “I would have had to move,” and she didn’t want to leave New York. Kelly said she was typically spending three or four days per week at Arroyo’s location in Pleasanton in the EastSan FranciscoBay area.
Kelly landed at Arroyo last July, about 11 months after leaving Insight. She had been chief financial officer and, later, chief operating officer at the New York-based MSO.
Arroyo is pitching a video-on-demand solution to cable companies, and it has received investment support from Comcast Corp.’s and Time Warner Inc.’s venture-capital units, among other sources. The company has said that it has three North American cable deployments so far, but it
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IBM will roll out its first new Netezza appliance since acquiring the data warehousing player late last year.
IBM on Wednesday will
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roll out its first new Netezza appliance since acquiring the data warehousing player late last year.
The IBM Netezza High Capacity Appliance is designed to allow companies to analyze up to 10 petabytes in a few minutes. With the new appliance, IBM is looking to make analysis of so-called big data sets more affordable, said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of software and systems at IBM.
Mills noted that the latest Netezza appliance is optimized for IBM's BladeCenter technology and is part of a broader portfolio focused on big data projects. IBM also has its BigInsights software, based on Hadoop, and its Streams application. The software is designed to analyze unstructured data on the fly.
The big pitch for Netezza is the price per user per terabyte. Mills said the Netezza appliance will run about $2,500 per user per terabye compared to an average of $10,000. "
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Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) slipped 13 percent off Monday’s highs after the automaker released second-quarter production figures
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and weathered unflattering press tied to the departure of its chief engineer and the pains taken to achieve its quarterly rollout rate.
CEO Elon Musk responded to the catalytic reports early Thursday by questioning the integrity of the journalists behind them and the outlets printing damaging analysis.
Musk began by condemning Reuters as “relentlessly negative” about Tesla and accused the wire service of running a “bogus” piece claiming low Model S production.
The article in question ran July 3 and said Tesla’s Model S line was about 800 vehicles behind schedule. It also portrayed a chaotic factory scene and an anxious CEO leading up to the second-quarter deadline.
.@Reuters, why did you mislead the people public about this number?
Musk then directed shots toward Business Insider, which first reported that Tesla cancelled a “critical” braking test in order to meet Model 3 targets. The company said the test was redundant to double-check results of a similar
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A village primary school with approximately 100 pupils has bucked the national trend and come out tops for its SATS results.
Year 6 pupils at
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Longnor School, near Shrewsbury achieved a higher standard of 44 per cent for reading, writing and mathematics combined. The national for the higher standard is just nine per cent.
And part of their success can be put down to the yoga sessions the school organised for the children.
Longnor School headteacher Lucy Adams, said: "As SATS results week dawned upon us, we were confident that our Year 6 children had all tried their hardest and given it their very best. However, even we were not prepared for the amazing set of results that our pupils achieved.
"We are a small school which means that even one child's marks can sway our overall percentages. But we are proud to announce that out of 16 Year 6 children, 94 per cent achieved the expected standard in reading with 56 per cent achieving the higher standard.
"In mathematics, 94 per cent of children achieved the expected standard and 50 per cent the higher standard. In writing 100 per cent of
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DALEY BLIND’s proposed move from Manchester United to Roma collapsed because of the Red Devils’ demands, claims his agent.
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Blind was expected to join Roma in a deadline day deal today.
However, the Dutchman saw his hopes of leaving Old Trafford ended when Roma withdrew their interest.
The Rome club have instead moved on to Jonathan Silva from Sporting Lisbon in the hope of completing some deals before 11pm.
And Daley Blind’s agent and father, Danny, has explained how United tried to push through a permanent deal on the reluctant Roma.
“Time is running out because it’s the last day of the transfer window,” for Netherlands manager Danny Blind told Roma 24.
"Yes, I can confirm that Roma want him but Manchester United don’t want to let him go on loan, only on a permanent basis.
“They don’t want to sell him now, only in the summer. The price is good, but the operation is difficult.
Blind, 27, has played just 15 games for United this season.
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Michelle Obama wears a red, velvet and chiffon gown designed by Jason Wu to the Inaugural Ball on Jan. 21, 2013.
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The designer also created her white Inaugural Ball dress in 2009.
Four years later, Wu, whom the First Lady wore again to the Inaugural Ball Monday evening, has reached mass recognition, having launched a diffusion line with Target in early 2012. The young designer has also partnered with St. Regis hotels on a luggage line and with faucet company Brizo on a bathroom collection, in addition to dressing celebrities such as Diane Kruger, Zoe Saldana and Michelle Williams for red carpet appearances.
The red, chiffon and velvet dress he designed for Obama on Monday night will only raise Wu’s growing profile. The sleeveless gown showed off Obama’s famously toned arms, and she accessorized it with a handmade diamond embellished ring by jewelry designer Kimberly McDonald, and shoes by Jimmy Choo.
Obama’s pick surprised many fashion critics, who thought she would give the honor to another designer this time around. But in
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HELENDALE — Hesperia’s Isaiah Wilson shot a 74 to pace all golfers at the Academy of Careers and Exploration Inv
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itational on Monday.
Wilson had a one-stroke advantage over teammate Damien Aranda and University Prep’s Andrew Acosta at Silver Lakes Country Club.
Aranda and Acosta each shot 75, but Aranda had a birdie on the playoff hole to edge Acosta for second place.
Excelsior’s Wesley Wang shot 77, which helped lift the Eagles to the team title. Excelsior shot 359 as a team, besting Hesperia by four strokes. Oak Hills finished third, shooting 387. Eleven teams competed in the event including, Sultana, Serrano, Barstow CIMS and Riverside Prep.
Three teams were ranked in the latest CIF-Southern Section Division 6 poll released Monday.
Sultana is down a spot to No. 4 in the division, with Adelanto moving up two at No. 6, and Excelsior finally cracking the top-10, coming in at No. 10.
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Not to be confused with a pimple or wart, skin tags are tiny bits of useless flesh that marr one's face and other parts of
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the body. The good news is, they can be removed.
These days, if someone mentions "tag", it's quite likely that they're talking about tagging someone on Facebook. For those unfamiliar with social network jargon, it means linking a friend to a picture, statement or a link.
But way before Facebook came to be, there were skin tags.
Senior consultant dermatologist Dr Steven Chow Kim Weng explains.
"Skin tags are redundant small growths of the skin, usually ranging from 1mm to 3mm. They are soft, and can be flattish (leaf-like) or nodular (like a pea or grain). They are normally brown or black, and found on the folded areas of the body like the neck, armpits or groin area. They are attached to the underlying skin by a thin neck of tissue (a stalk), and can bleed profusely when this tissue is torn or cut. Skin tags are non-cancereous
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While most websites let you apply for jobs straight with your LinkedIn profile, it doesn’t hurt to keep a polished CV around in case you
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need to submit one for the vacancies you’re eyeing. But building up a sleek resume could be a hassle, especially if you struggle with designing stuff.
Available for free, Ceev is a nifty extension for Chrome that lets you effortlessly convert your LinkedIn profile into a printable resume. Once installed, all you need to do is pick one from the available templates and color schemes – and the tool will do the rest for you.
Currently Ceev has four templates to choose from, but there are other things you can adjust – including the accent color, the font style, as well as the page size.
Testing out the extension, I noticed that while it does work fairly well most of the times – it would sometimes miss printing out some of the relevant information. Fortunately, the app has a dedicated edit feature which lets you tweak the content of your resume before saving it as a PDF.
In all fairness, LinkedIn does have its own feature to download CVs, but
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Caleb Carr, who authored “The Alienist,” is joining TNT’s television adaptation of his best-selling novel as
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a consulting producer, Variety has learned exclusively.
Gina Gionfriddo (“House of Cards, “Law & Order”), E. Max Frye (“Band of Brothers”) and John Sayles (“Bass Reeves”) also join the Paramount Television and Anonymous Content project as writers. The trio, joining pilot and series writer Hossein Amini, will serve as consulting producers on the episodes they pen.
“After twenty years of tough struggle and countless failed attempts, I’m delighted that Paramount Television, Anonymous Content and TNT have decided to join forces and bring ‘The Alienist’ to life in what, based on the material I’ve read, has the potential to be a faithful and exciting TV series,” Carr commented.
Previously announced, “True Detective’s” Cary Fukunaga will direct the drama. He and Amini will exec produce with Eric Roth
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Lance Cooley, an expert in applied superconductivity, who was recruited to Florida State University in 2017, has been named head of the
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MagLab’s Applied Superconductivity Center.
Cooley came to the MagLab from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or “Fermilab”, near Chicago. He also holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.
Cooley succeeds David Larbalestier, who will remain the chief scientist for materials at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and a professor in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, according to FSU.
Cooley worked under Larbalestier as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin. He later worked at National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Wisconsin and Brookhaven National Lab, the university said.
“These are exciting times for the field of superconductivity, and Lance is the perfect person to take the helm and lead ASC as the MagLab realizes the next generation of superconducting magnets,” Mag
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Social media vent sessions may give the impression that the state of customer service is suffering. Not so fast
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, according to the 2017 Customer Service Barometer. The study, fielded by American Express (NYSE: AXP), shows U.S. consumers are happier than ever with the service companies provide.
Eight in 10 Americans (81%) report that businesses are meeting or exceeding their expectations for service, compared to 67 percent in 2014. In fact, 40 percent of consumers say businesses have increased their focus and attention on service, a significant increase in just three years (up from 29% in 2014).
Digital servicing options are helping to drive this uptick in servicing satisfaction, as is improved person-to-person care. More than two thirds of those surveyed (68%) said that a pleasant representative was key to their recent positive service experiences, and 62 percent said that a representative’s knowledge or resourcefulness was key.
Americans continue to reward companies that get service right. US consumers say they’re willing to spend 17 percent more to do business with companies that deliver excellent service, up from
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Pop quiz time! What is the probability that tonight’s episode of The Voice ended in a Steal?
c. Is Adam’
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s torso covered in tattoos?
No, you are not allowed to shake a fist at my spoiler-ization down in the comments section. The Voice‘s Battle Rounds always end in a Steal, sillies!
But as much as I try to keep NBC’s reality singing competition at an emotional arm’s length during its early rounds — at least three-quarters of the time, potential champions get pitted against each other in winner-take-all pairings, while subpar competitors somehow get salvaged from the scrap heap by sentimental coaches, after all — once in a while, something so spectacular happens that my Gospel hand goes up and those walls I built, baby, they come tumbling down.
Tonight, that rare double rainbow-striped pegasus-unicorn hybrid landed on NBC’s Monday-night schedule in the form of DaNica Shirey and Toia Jones’ duet on Beyoncé’s “H
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Mike Doughty On Mountain Stage Hear the singer-songwriter perform his own tunes and some from his latest album of covers, The Flip Is Another
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Honey.
Singer-songwriter Mike Doughty makes his second appearance on Mountain Stage, recorded live on the campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va. Doughty rose to prominence in the late '90s as the frontman for the experimental rock band Soul Coughing — a venture he now describes as a "dark, abusive, very turbulent, awful marriage." Now an established solo artist in his own right, his 2005 album Haughty Melodic spawned the hit song "Looking at the World Through the Bottom of a Well."
Doughty's latest project, The Flip Is Another Honey (a phrase from a Variety review of a Jerry Lee Lewis single), is a collection of covers. It includes two songs by Doughty's first favorite artist: the late John Denver, whom Doughty described to host Larry Groce as being ready for "his Karen Carpenter moment." Naturally, Doughty's set includes his reworking of "Take Me Home, Country Roads,"
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Reviews were embargoed until 10pm London time last Tuesday (22 March) – after official premieres of the film had already occurred in Mexico
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City, Los Angeles and New York – but Warners could not indefinitely postpone the day of reckoning for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The question was: would reviews, if largely negative, hamper the box-office?
The answer, so far, is not really. Critical adulation, had it occurred, may have pushed the numbers even higher, but nobody can fairly call the results disappointing. In the UK, the film opened with £14.62m over the three-day weekend, with Easter Monday pushing the four-day total to £17.96m.
For comparison, Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel began in June 2013 with £11.2m. As for Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight kicked off in July 2008 with £11.19m including previews of £2.5m, and The Dark Knight Rises with £14.36m (and no previews). Comparing the three-day openings, Batman
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A travel show focusing on the world's best indoor and outdoor markets and bazaars.
Every market brings a unique experience specific to its location
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and surrounding culture. From a relaxing foot massage in Thailand to a fun backgammon match in Jerusalem, this episode reveals the special experiences markets have to offer.
Local food is a fascinating aspect of any market. The aroma, spices and the way the food is served can reveal so much about a place and culture. In this episode, Ishai Golan takes the viewers on a culinary tour through the heart of the markets.
Mercato Central, or "Mercato di San Lorenzo," is the central market in Florence. Built in the late 19th century, today there are more than 250 stores and over 10 thousand visitors every day. The stands are known for selling Tuscany's finest products.
Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem is one of the most popular markets in Israel. The market is known for its "song birds," lively merchants who yell and call out, and has become one of the city's landmarks.
Host Ishai Golan heads off to Nice,
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Jayasena Dissanayake Foundation has been rendering an instrumental service to the young generation of the North Central province through their numerous community services projects
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and the latest of their CSR initiatives took place recently in Saliyawewa, bordering Anuradhapura in thePuttalam district.
An eye camp was held for the 16th consecutive time and free eye checkups and distribution of spectacles was carried out on this day.
A joint project by the Jayasena Dissanayake Foundation and ‘My Vision’ organization, the eye clinic saw the participation of 4 prominent consultant eye surgeons and 300 spectacles were distributed amongst the needy.
Incepted in the year 2008, Jayasena Dissanayake Foundation has carried out numerous CSR project in line with health and education, targeting the youth and the young generation of the North Central province making a mammoth contribution towards uplifting their living standards.
Jayasena Dissanayake Foundation to date has distributed over 7,000 spectacles and over 25,000 people have benefitted through their health clinics over the years. Furthermore, through these medical
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The Telecommunications Industry Group (TIG) is pursuing goals of industry improvement and the promotion of communications technology to business, seeking areas where operators can work
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together to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
CEO Rob Spray, speaking before CallPlus announced its withdrawal from the body, says increasingly technology is not the key differentiator between providers, rather the products they sell, service and billing and how the product is scaled are coming to the fore.
TIG, he says, is about what businesses and citizens can do with broadband to make investment a success and make sure New Zealand gets great value from fibre and other investments.
Spray says New Zealand is a country of small businesses and it is a challenge for telcos to create products, the right price and package, that work for that sector. The smaller telcos are taking the lead in doing that, he says.
The current work of TIG is half to evolve the industry to ensure it meets the needs of the market better and the other half is to push industry change, so the relationship between providers is not so adversarial.
“It should still be ‘daggers
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Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan was trailed by a phalanx of unfamiliar faces as he stepped up to the podium to open the debate on repealing
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health care reform on Tuesday.
Among the parade of Republicans coming forward to deliver one-minute speeches in support of HR 2, a repeal of health care reform, were several freshmen members, including Reps. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, James Lankford of Oklahoma, and Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, all of whom ran on an anti-health care reform platform this fall and now sit on the budget committee.
In the beginning, it seemed that freshmen members were leading the debate. Spokesmen for Ryan’s office did not respond to requests for comment, but the presence of so many new members, at least eight, on the House floor for repeal was an purposeful attempt to keep the focus on the freshmen, whose opposition to the bill became a clarion call for conservatives and Tea Party activists this year.
For the new members it wasn’t just an important milestone of speaking on the House floor for the first time, but an early and visible opportunity to
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JOSE MOURINHO should unquestionably be made the manager of the season having been credited one of his senior players for masterminding every
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single point that has made Chelsea league champions.
Branislav Ivanovic is more than happy to pass the credit to the Special One for the subtle influence he has had on honing the team throughout the entire season.
"There is not even a question over who the best manager is this season," he said. "When you study the games, every single one he was important in making sure we won them.
"There are a lot of things and it's every game. He has crucial things to say and crucial things to decide. He always makes the difference. When there is a big game he is always so motivated, but small games too. Inside the team, it's all about him.
"We are all so happy and appreciate the fact we get to work with a manager like him. He's developed our squad and changed the mentality. He has done a lot of things for two years and this year really is the best."
Nevertheless, Mourinho has consistently been
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I WOKE up several times peeping for the first sign of dawn before my phone finally rang at ten-past-six. A family
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friend who suspected we would be voting at the same place wanted to know if I was already at the booth because she couldn’t find it.
I missed her call. When I called back about 15 minutes later, she had found the polling booth and was number 96. This was at six-thirty when the orange shafts of the sun’s ray were just piercing the grey morning sky. I asked what it was like at the polling centre. She responded that the centre, Kado Bimko Primary School, Gwarinpa, Abuja, was already filling up. Voters had appointed an unofficial numerator to assign numbers to the early birds to avoid a rush.
When I arrived at the centre shortly afterwards, I was 142 on the list, and voters kept coming. There were no officials yet, so my luminous green vest with the “Media” tag made me look like one. For this particular voting centre, the geolocator:
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Mark William Johnson, co-owner of Tiny Tapp & Cafe on the Chicago Riverwalk, works behind the counter Sept., 7, 2018.
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The business is currently the riverwalk's only minority-owned concessions vendor.
A new program on the Chicago Riverwalk could bring up to a dozen new vendors to the bustling promenade next summer, many of them possibly women- and minority-owned businesses.
The city’s goal in this latest chapter of commerce on the river is to increase the diversity of vendors in a way that reflects the flavors and textures of Chicago’s neighborhoods. To accommodate the newcomers, the city is making available three new areas previously unused by vendors that will require a mix of vendor- and city-funded upgrades. The work will be part of the $10 million in riverwalk improvements announced by the city last month. Construction is slated to begin this fall.
Some potential vendors lauded the city’s effort to address its current lack of diversity among riverwalk vendors.
“It’s an investment in its residents who are black, who are Hispanic, who are other, who
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A good judge of a person's character is how well they respond to difficult but good advice.
Europe, as a whole, and the UK
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in particular got that kind of advice almost 25 years ago. Then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned everyone who would listen about the dangerous economic perils that would come along with a unified Europe. It meant everything to her to save Britain from getting to entrenched in what would become the European Union.
The stars of European Union (EU) membership sit on a euro sign sculpture outside the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany.
The crux of Thatcher's argument was that Europe was way too diverse an economic playing field to expect disparate nations as different as the UK and say, Greece, to effectively manage successful economies together. And she knew that would lead to a centralized, indirectly-elected body like the European parliament basically confiscating money from British citizens. And she wasn't just talking about taxes, she was alluding to something close to an outright shakedown every time the less productive EU nations would need a handout.
For all her impassioned warnings and
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A tornado hits Sindian District in New Taipei City yesterday afternoon, overturning an SUV and scattering motorbikes and debris.
A tornado
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churned through Sindian Distict (新店) of New Taipei City (新北市) yesterday, the Central Weather Bureau said.
Footage of the rarely seen weather system was captured by several residents and was uploaded to YouTube.
In the footage, a funnel-shaped cloud moving in the distance could be seen against a dark sky at about 1:50pm yesterday.
The bureau said that its radar echo map also showed a strong convective system in the area.
Bureau forecaster Wang Chun-sian (王君賢) said the tornado was formed by the interaction between a frontal system that arrived over the country yesterday and heat convection.
Though tornadoes are mostly reported in the plains areas in central and southern regions of the country, Wang said it is also possible for tornadoes to occur in highly populated metropolitan areas.
“It [a tornado] can still form [in metropolitan areas] as long as
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David King's suggestion that we should cut back on space research and basic physics in order to focus on more immediate issues is misguided. Of course,
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the scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change, infectious diseases and counterterrorism; in particular, "clean energy" research deserves far higher priority. And science and technology are the prime routes to tackling these issues.
But it is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not "either/or" options – indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.
Also, it is, crucially, the big scientific issues that attract the best people into science – even though they end up in varied careers. David King is right that environmental issues are noble challenges, that they deserve higher priority, and that we need urgently to address global warming through science. But a prerequisite for this is an enthusiastic and inspired generation of talented scientists. And it's well documented that many are attracted by
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Oracle plans to get rid of over 350 employees in the coming months as the database giant attempts to transform itself for an enterprise world dominated by Amazon Web
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Services (AWS).
As reported by Bloomberg, Oracle disclosed the impending cuts in a notice filed last week with California's Employment Development Department. The company will dismiss 255 employees from its Redwood City headquarters and 97 employees from its Santa Clara offices in May.
Some of the job cuts affect workers from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) unit, the company's infrastructure-as-a-service offering for outsourced compute, storage, and network resources.
The headcount reduction is relatively small for a company that employs just under 140,000 people globally. The company says the intent is to focus resources on its cloud business.
"As our cloud business grows, we will continually balance our resources and restructure our development group to help ensure we have the right people delivering the best cloud products to our customers around the world," an Oracle spokesperson said.
Earlier this month Oracle reported that its fiscal Q3 2019 revenues were down one percent to $9.6bn.
Oracle founder
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AN encounter with the Bathurst Aquatic Centre recently had me questioning whether or not people can demonstrate common morality when faced with an unexpected situation. The
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pool claimed that I was unable to enter with my three sisters, (one biological and two foster) on a "family" pass because the girls were apparently not my family according to the pool's standards. The (unwritten) claim was that I was only allowed to enter as a family if these girls were on the same Medicare card as me. Foster children are legally not allowed to be transferred on to their carer’s Medicare card. The rule the pool has in place is not only discriminatory, but unjust. These children should not have to pay more at the pool as a result of their family situation. Being 2019, I am sure that many other "families" have dynamics that do not limit them to whether or not they share a Medicare card. It interests me also that no-one else is ever asked for a Medicare card - rather, it was just because I attended with children who did not "look" the same as me. My own biological father isn't even on
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The Good Hands-free operation; 10-channel weather radio; vibrate and power-saving modes.
The Bad Hefty; falls short
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of 10-mile range.
The Bottom Line The Midland GXT400 packs in some nice features, but its performance is a mixed bag.
With winter in full effect, many outdoor enthusiasts are prepping to get out and enjoy the season's snowfall. But as you're packing your skis and boots, don't forget to think about safety. Two-way radios such as Midland's X-tra Talk GXT400 ($79.95) come in handy if you get separated from your party as you're swooshing down the slopes or if you need to set up a rendezvous time to meet at the lodge. These FRS (Family Radio Service) and GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service) radios claim a range of up to 10 miles in GMRS mode; unfortunately, real-world testing proves otherwise.
Outfitted in black and silver, the GXT400 has a utilitarian look, and at 4.1 by 2.1 by 1.4
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In Pret-a-Reporter's second installment of Bites — a look at all things food — Amanda Chantal Bacon gives us a
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breakdown of her daily food routine (ghee and maca are involved) and the must-haves in her fridge (coconut yogurt!).
Welcome to Pret-a-Reporter's second installment of Bites, our new column that highlights the edible consumption habits of Hollywood and music's biggest tastemakers. Bon appetit.
It's a no-brainer that eating low-sugar, wholesome foods are good for your health and wellness, but what about eating specifically to rev up your brain power, balance your gut microbiome and manage hormone levels?
If you're anything like us, you're probably just as confused as to the type of foods and liquids that give you glowing skin and a flatter tummy. Fret not, because we chatted with Amanda Chantal Bacon, founder of juice bar and health food shop Moon Juice, of which Gwyneth Paltrow, Shailene Woodley and Lena Dunham are fans, to find out the science
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CRYSTAL PALACE mascot Kayla was punched in the face by a rival fan, a court has heard.
A Charlton Athletic
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fan has denied punching Kayla - a 25-year-old American bald eagle - when violence broke out between the two clubs in 2015.
Addicks fan Daniel Boylett, 36, of Eltham, south east London, has denied attempted criminal damage in the alleged attack.
Boylett appeared at Croydon Crown Court alongside Colin Kitto, 49, of Eltham, Andy McConville, 48, of Rochester, Kent, Billy Cowcher, 32, of Greenwich, south east London and Sam Donegan, 25, of Welling, south east London, who have been charged with the football violence.
Kayla's handler Chris Belsey was walking the bird of prey around the Selhurst Park pitch when a punch was thrown from the crowd, the jury heard.
Prosecutor Daniel Higgins said: "As he passed the stand he noticed three or four fans were shouting abuse and one of these three or four lent over the barrier and threw a punch directed at Kay
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You can’t build a good machine learning model without good training data. But building those training sets is hard, often manual work, that
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involves labeling thousand and thousands of images, for example. With SageMaker, AWS has been working on a service that makes building machine learning models a lot easier. But until today, that labeling task was still up to the user. Now, however, the company is launching SageMaker Ground Truth, a training set labeling service.
Using Ground Truth, developers can point the service at the storage buckets that hold the data and allow the service to automatically label it. What’s nifty here is that you can both set a confidence level for the fully automatic service or you can send the data to human laborers. Those human labelers, who probably have the most mind-numbing job in tech, can either be the company’s Mechanical Turk users or third-party service. If you really hate your employees, you can have them do the labeling, too.
Currently the service supports text classification, image classification, object detection and semantic segmentation. Users can also create their own tasks.
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The opening of Kenilworth’s railway station has been delayed until December 2017 because of problems with the signalling system.
After discussions between
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Warwickshire County Council, Jeremy Wright MP, the Department for Transport and Network Rail, it was decided the opening date should be pushed back to Sunday December 10.
Jeremy Wright MP said: “The Secretary of State for Transport has said that although the station delivery is on track, the main delays to the introduction of the new service are being caused by issues around the signalling project.
Cllr Peter Butlin, portfolio holder for transport and planning at the council, said: “Whilst the station will be delivered by the County Council on time, Network Rail has been unable to meet the agreed dates to deliver the track and signalling works to enable the new train service at the station.
Leader of the council Cllr Izzi Seccombe has also written to Martin Frobisher, Programme Director of Network Rail, requiring an unconditional commitment from Network Rail that it will do all it can to ensure the station is open and served by trains by the new deadlines.
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Most countries now actively want a weak currency to make their exports more competitive. “China seems happy to let the renminbi drift lower,
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the Swiss are still running quantitative easing at full tilt and central bankers everywhere are actively talking down their currencies or offering only limited support," says Mr Mould.
This is a race to the bottom, and everybody wants to be a winner.
The year started with a currency "flash crash”, as the US and Australian dollars along with the Turkish lira plunged against the Japanese yen to raise the curtain on what analysts expect to be a hugely volatile 12 months.
Foreign exchange movements matter to UAE residents, as many internationally mobile individuals juggle two or three different currencies and make regular foreign exchange transfers.
Gaurav Kashyap, head of futures at EGM in Dubai, says the fear factor is back after the stock market meltdown of 2018 that saw equities slide amid trade war worries and a slowing global economy. And currencies are also feeling the heat.
Several market-moving events are coming to a head this year, notably the US-China trade war and Brexit. �
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Senior-level Justice Department officials pushed back heavily on an ongoing FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation, according to a bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal
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The newspaper laid out numerous examples, based on law enforcement sources, of senior DOJ officials intervening to quash the probe.
Prosecutors with the U.S. attorneys office in the Eastern District of New York — which Loretta Lynch led before taking over as attorney general last year — refused to allow FBI investigators probing the Clinton family charity to review emails found on devices turned over this year by two of Clinton’s lawyers during the separate investigation into the mishandling of classified information on Clinton’s private email system.
The rationale, according to The Journal, was that the devices were covered by partial immunity and limited-use agreements that the Clinton lawyers — Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson — agreed to with the DOJ. Information recovered from the laptops could only be used in the email investigation and not in others.
As part of the immunity agreement, the FBI and Justice Department agreed to destroy Mills’ and Samuelson’s devices, a revelation that sparked outrage from
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Recording artist Iggy Azalea performs onstage during a 2014 "MTV Video Music Awards" concert with Sam Smith And Iggy Azale
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a presented by Time Warner Cable and Lifebeat at Avalon on August 22, 2014 in Hollywood, California.
Iggy Azalea tumbled off the stage during an MTV Video Music Awards benefit concert, but she appeared unharmed and posted a video of the fall on social media.
The Australian rapper fell Friday night while performing her hit "Fancy" at The Avalon in Los Angeles. Security guards quickly pulled Azalea back onto the stage, and she barely missed a beat as Charli XCX joined her for the chart-topping single.
Afterward, Azalea told the crowd she felt "very blessed" that she did not break her legs. There was no immediate word if she was injured.
Azalea appeared in good spirits, posting a video of the fall on Instagram. She wrote in the caption: "I know I laughed."
Neither Azalea's representatives nor MTV immediately responded to emails seeking comment.
Tori Kelly and Sam
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended a campaign rally Sunday night for the Liberal party’s candidate in the critical Burnaby South byelection in B.
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Trudeau was shouted down by a small but vocal group of anti-pipeline protesters, responding that some people will choose the politics of anger, fear and division, but Liberals will stay focused on serving Canadians, bringing people together and building a better future.
Trudeau says B.C. is a leader in environmental advocacy, specifically referencing the province’s carbon tax.
Trudeau has clashed in recent months with B.C.’s provincial government over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project on Burnaby Mountain. Ottawa recently bought out the project for 4.5 billion dollars.
Trudeau championed Richard Lee as a voice for the Burnaby South riding, throwing punches at former prime minister Stephen Harpers’s administration as an example of local MPs who would echo whatever the federal government wanted.
The February 25 byelection in Burnaby South is an important one for the Liberals and for the federal NDP, whose party leader Jagmeet Singh is running in the
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The state Legislature will choose the governor on Jan. 7 because neither candidate got at least 50 percent of the vote in November.
MONTPEL
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IER, Vt. — The second-place finisher in last month’s election for governor announced Monday that he is staying in the race, bucking recent history of the losing candidate conceding and leaving the final say up to the state Legislature.
Speaking at the Statehouse, Republican Scott Milne criticized what he called the “pervasive incompetence” of Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin’s administration and described the state’s finances as “a disaster.” He rattled off a litany of complaints, including the lack of a plan to fund the state’s proposed single-payer health care system, the failure to implement a law requiring statewide prekindergarten and the absence of a plan to clean up Lake Champlain.
In a statement, Shumlin reiterated that he was the top vote-getter in the election and that he expected the Legislature to return him to office.
The Vermont Constitution requires the governor,
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Hunger and disease have been rife in Yemen ever since the Houthis seized power in 2015.
The situation worsened when the rebels spread their reign
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of terror to the port city of Hodeidah and usurped vital supplies intended for the starving masses.
Driving the Houthis from Hodeidah is vital to ending the suffering of the Yemenis – and it is this thinking that has governed the actions of the Saudi-led Arab coalition that includes the UAE, which took military steps this month to liberate the port city after all attempts at diplomacy failed.
“We are here for the long run,” Reem Al Hashimy, the UAE’s Minister of State for International Co-operation, assured Yemenis, speaking in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.
The UAE has provided aid amounting to $4 billion to Yemen since 2015. And over the past year, the Emirates Red Crescent has delivered 35,000 tonnes of food – enough to feed two million people for a month – as well as other essential supplies.
Such giving will continue long after the Houthis are defeated, reflecting the UAE’
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This research service provides a detailed analysis of the global metrology probes and scanners market. This assessment includes forecasts, an overview of the competitive structure and
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competitors' market share as well as end-user and segment analyses. Market drivers and restraints are assessed for their impact throughout the forecast period, 2013 to 2017. End-user segments are also analyzed. The market is expected to grow consistently throughout the forecast period, with a key focus on automotive, aerospace and machines shops. Furthermore, executive summary and conclusions have been provided. The base year is 2012.
• In 2012, the total metrology probes and scanners market earned a revenue of $Xmillion with a growth rate ofX% over 2011.
• Arriving at an average industry price for metrology probes is a challenge because prices can be as low as a $X and as high as $X. Applications within the industry are very important in pricing because they influence the type, size, materials used, and the level of engineering.
• Although the economy has been experiencing growth over the past few years, its cyclical nature means that a decline in activity is imminent. Manufacturers serving
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American Varvara Lepchenko won in her Fed Cup singles debut to lift the U.S. team to a 1-1 tie against Italy
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on Saturday, after Sara Errani beat Jamie Hampton 6-2, 6-1.
Lepchenko rallied past Roberta Vinci 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 after the Italian struggled with a leg cramp in the final set, which featured seven breaks of serve. She had treatment on her left thigh and rallied from 5-1 down in the third to tie it 5-5.
Then Lepchenko broke back and served out the match.
"I really lost my focus and got a bit distracted, which happens a lot to a lot of players," Lepchenko said. "I just kept on fighting, said to myself it's not the end of the match, you can still win it."
The doubles on Sunday will feature Melanie Oudin and Liezel Huber against Nastassja Burnett and Karin Knapp. Lepchenko will play Errani in reverse singles.
Lepchenko, who is originally from Uzbekistan, moved
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While key support levels are still in place, the troops have been struggling lately, and that continued today after the monthly jobs data. Like the AD
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P numbers on Wednesday, the data were slightly under expectations, but still strong enough to stoke concerns about a September rate hike. If that is indeed the case, then the response in equities fits that narrative, but interest rates and the greenback both went off script.
It was an interesting dynamic, but regardless of the underlying mechanics, it was another tough day for stocks. The bulls were able to engineer another late bounce to close off the lows, but materials and energy led to the downside with notable losses, and utilities were the only major sector to show any semblance of a gain. There were a few decent bars in names like Stamps.com (STMP), 2U (TWOU), Nvidia (NVDA) and Autobytel (ABTL), but you had to be a sharpshooter to pick off any good trades today.
Most notably, the S&P 500 is back near its 200-day moving average again, which has helped bring the buyers out
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Female airmen now have up to 12 months after having a baby to request separation from the Air Force.
That change, which recently took effect
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, is designed to give new moms more time to determine how -- and whether -- they want to balance a military career and a family.
It's one of more than a dozen initiatives the service is rolling out to attract and retain a more diverse group of airmen. The changes were recently detailed in a memo, "Diversity & Inclusion Implementation Guidance."
"How do we get [airmen] and keep them [in assignments] that don't quite have that diversity?" Air Force spokeswoman Brooke Brzozowske said of the effort to Military.com on Wednesday.
New mothers in the Air Force previously had to decide whether to stay in the service before giving birth. The idea behind the updated policy is to give them more time to come to a decision after adjusting to their changed circumstances.
In a separate but related policy change, the Defense Department last year set maternity leave across all branches of the military at 12 weeks. The move doubled the Army and Air Force's six
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Jenna Dewan, Channing Tatum Celebrate Step Up’s 10th Anniversary — Watch Them Re-create That Dance Move!
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Happy 10th anniversary! Jenna Dewan Tatum celebrated Step Up’s August 11, 2006, release date on Thursday, posting a throwback photo with her now-husband, Channing Tatum, on Instagram. The two also adorably re-created the movie's infamous dance scene on Dewan Tatum's Snapchat.
“#tbt to on set of Step Up I cannot believe it's the 10 year anniversary of the release today!! Ahhhh where does the time go?? Love you all and thanks for all the love all these years❤️❤️,” the actress, 35, captioned a sweet snap of herself with Tatum.
The couple, who tied the knot in July 2009, met on the set of the dance flick. During an interview with GQ in July 2015, the Magic Mike actor recalled rewatching the movie with his wife.
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Former Camden Mayor Aaron Thompson (right) with the current mayor, Frank Moran.
Aaron A. Thompson, 88, a retired telephone serviceman
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who became the second African American mayor of Camden in the early 1990s, died Tuesday, March 19, the city’s current mayor, Francisco Moran, announced Tuesday.
No details about his death were immediately available.
He was retired from AT&T after 31 years when he was elected to Camden City Council in 1989.
Mr. Thompson had served only five months when he was picked by his fellow Council members in 1990 to serve as acting mayor, replacing Melvin R. “Randy” Primas, the city’s first African American mayor, who had quit to take a state job.
Mr. Thompson officially ran for the office in a special election later that year and won.
“I’m a college dropout and former telephone installer,” he said in a 1993 interview with The Inquirer while running for re-election. “I’m a dying breed. I see other mayors, and I see their academic
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Voorhees Township, which has a population of about 30,000, is located in southern New Jersey, about 20 miles from Philadelphia and
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35 miles from Trenton. For traditional tourism activities, visitors to the area have all of the attractions of greater Philadelphia within a short drive. However, for those looking for more laid-back entertainment, Voorhees has plenty to do, right in town.
The Voorhees Township Parks Department operates a network of parks and sports facilities for year-round public use. You can enjoy warmer months picnicking at Connolly Park or Lions Lake Complex. Both have playgrounds for children, picnic tables and lawns. Lions Lake also features grills, a concession stand and a banquet hall. Connolly Park has covered gazebos and designated areas for dogs. Athletes can play baseball or football at Giangiulio Sports Complex and softball, basketball, bocce ball or tennis at Kirkwood Sports Complex. Maiaroto Sports Complex features a soccer field as well as basketball and tennis facilities. Rabinowitz Sports Complex is devoted to baseball, with multiple light
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Seneca Little lost 200 pounds eight years ago, and now he's launched a supplement company to help others do the same.
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N PARK, Minn. - A Brooklyn Park man is using his weight loss journey to start a business and help others.
Seneca Little lost 200 pounds eight years ago, and now he's launched a supplement company aimed at helping others stay on board in their own fitness journeys.
"It all starts with your mind, you know," he said. "Mentally if you get ready, then physically you'll be prepared."
Since losing the weight, Little has dreamt of creating a supplement brand that will help others with that mindset. This year, the dream became reality: Senergy Supplements.
Seneca Little lost 200 pounds eight years ago, and now he's launched a supplement company aimed at helping others stay on board in their own fitness journeys.
"The pre-workout is called Charged Up," Little said. "We started formulating it last year, and then this year we actually launched, and in March we got on the
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Sen. Clinton waved at supporters gathered in early June as she announced the suspension of her White House bid.
(CNN) – A grassroots organization
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of Hillary Clinton supporters has announced plans to march in Denver on the same day the New York senator is set to address her party’s faithful during the Democratic convention there.
The march will take place on August 26 and is being organized by 18 Million Voices Rise Hillary Rise. The march will be accompanied by a festival in downtown Denver and additional coordinated marches across the country on the same day.
Clinton, who garnered approximately 18 million votes in the long Democratic primary fight, is scheduled to speak at the convention on the 88th anniversary of the date American women were granted the right to vote.
Since Clinton announced the formal suspension of her presidential campaign, the Obama campaign has gone to great lengths to promote party unity. Clinton and Obama appeared together at a campaign event in Unity, New Hampshire; the Obama campaign recently announced that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will be holding two fund-raising events to help retire Clinton’s campaign debt; and Clinton is scheduled to campaign on Obama’s
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Clearly the house prices and economic mini boom is timed to PEAK during the May 2015 at approx 12% per year, to just exceed the Labour
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mini-boom into the May 2010 general election. Which therefore implies that the prospects for the Conservatives and to a far lesser extent the Liberal Democrats should continue to improve right into polling day. Although 12% will not be on par with the booms of the noughties of over 30% so house prices are suggesting a very similar election result for the Conservatives at least to that of 2010.
My next in-depth analysis concludes in a detailed seats per party general election forecast, so ensure you are subscribed to my always free newsletter to get this in your email box on completion.
Thanks alot Nadeem! Was really looking forward to this. So to clarify if I'm looking to buy a house in the London suburbs it could well be in my favour to wait another 6 months?
Do you think a house is better in terms of value to flats because of the freehold and land associated? Even if for the same price as a flat you get a lower rental yield?
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Hackers are now officially terrorists, too.
The famous internet hacktivist Jeremy Hammond, who played a role in some of the biggest hack
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ings by Anonymous, has been placed on a terrorist watchlist by the FBI.
The Daily Dot got its hands on a confidential document originating from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), which says Hammond “was considered a ‘possible terrorist organization member".
The document also indicates that he was placed on the multi-agency Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), alongside individuals suspected of ties to Al Qaeda, Somalia-based extremists al-Shabaab, and Colombia's FARC guerilla movement.
First rule of the watchlist: Do not tell people that they’re on the watchlist.
Hammond was arrested in 2012 for a series of high-profile hack attacks, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. One of the hackings includes the theft of five million emails from the intelligence agency Stratfor.
As The Daily Dot writes, hack attacks can land you on a terrorist watchlist because a threat to human life
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Kendall Jenner puts family first! She rushed out of the Revolve event in Las Vegas to head home after her hearing dad Caitlyn Jenner
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’s house may have burned down.
UPDATE (Nov. 10 3:17pm ET): Caitlyn’s house is SAFE! Despite an initial report, TMZ is now claiming her house narrowly escaped the flames brought on by one of Souther California’s wildfires on Friday, Nov. 9. See the pics here.
ORIGINAL STORY: Say what you want about the Kardashians, but there’s no denying that they put family first. Kendall Jenner did just that when she rushed home after an event in Las Vegas to be closer to her sisters while the Woolsey Canyon wildfire blazed on near their California homes. The 23-year-old model made a brief appearance at the second annual #REVOLVEawards at Palms Casino Resort on Friday, Nov. 9, but returned home shortly after walking the red carpet, according to Entertainment Tonight.
We’re out of the fire zone and are safe. Thinking about all those that
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The California ban on single-use plastic bags is a huge step toward reducing litter, but it might not be as effective a change as its advocates
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assume.
On Sept. 30, Gov. Jerry Brown became the first governor to sign a statewide ban on plastic bags in grocery and convenience stores. Many California cities already instituted the ban earlier this year, including Los Angeles. In his signing statement, Brown stated that he hopes to encourage other states across the nation to follow our example and reduce their litter as well.
But this ban is only effective if people actually commit to reusing the bags they buy instead of opting to pay an extra few cents for a paper bag or buying another reusable bag every time they go to the store. Considering that consumers only have to pay a negligible sum of 10 cents for new paper bags, they must take it upon themselves to reuse the bags they buy.
For college students, whose advocacy has been instrumental in banning plastic bags both in the city of Los Angeles and the state of California, it’s particularly relevant to make sure that we follow through with those efforts on our weekly trips to the grocery store.
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If you were hoping that Republicans would finally live up to their promise of being the party of limited government and fiscal responsibility, you’ll just
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have to keep hoping.
Members of Congress refer to their just-passed government-funding legislation as the “omnibus spending bill.” But “omni-bust” would better describe it, because it reveals all the ways Congress is busted.
Under the normal appropriations process, what’s referred to as “regular order,” there are 12 different appropriations bills that fund the federal government. That process is busted — at least in the Senate.
In September, the House of Representatives passed all 12 “approps” bills under the title “Make America Secure and Prosperous Act.” However, several Republican members of Congress, writing in The Hill, say it was the first time in 14 years all approps bills passed the House in time, though Republicans have controlled the House since 2011.
How many of these bills has the Senate passed? Zero.
So how many of the approps bills has the Senate
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In case you haven't heard, The Last of Us is really, really good. If you still haven't played the game that went all M
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eryl Streep on the DICE Awards (after picking up Kotaku game of the year honors, no less), you can pick it up on Amazon today for just $30. I might have to buy myself a PS3 now just to play it.
Update: If you prefer Newegg, they have it for $28.
If your Xbox Live subscription is running dry, top it up for another year. $40 is about as cheap as you're ever likely to see this.
Featuring 5.1 channel surround sound, 4K pass through, and fantastic reviews, the Yamaha RX-V375 receiver is an absolute steal today at $200.
In case you missed it over the weekend, we've got great deals on both the iPad Mini Retina and the Kindle Paperwhite. Best Buy is the proprietor of both discounts, knocking $50 off all iPad Mini with Retina Display models, and 20 bucks off the Paperwhite.
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