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Bye Bye Beijing, Hello White House?
The current U.S. Ambassador to Beijing, former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr., reportedly
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submitted his resignation Monday, clearing the way for him to throw his hat in the ring as a Republican presidential candidate in 2012. While this move hardly comes as a shock—speculation has been percolating ever since a high-profile article in Newsweek last month, prompting a reporter to raise the question at President Obama’s summit meeting with Chinese president Hu Jintao—it does add an interesting twist to both U.S.-China relations and the upcoming U.S. presidential race.
Some skeptical commentators—including my friends James Fallows at The Atlantic and Jim McGregor here in Beijing—have pooh-poohed Huntsman's chances, arguing that his role as Obama's emissary to China will pose an insurmountable political problem, both in the Republican primary and the general election. "Huntsman in 2012? Nonsense!" McGregor titled one his blog entries. As a Republican, however, I must say I disagree. I think Huntsman will be a
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How Will Larry Hagman’s Death Affect TNT’s ‘Dallas’?
For a third time since it was conceived
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, TNT‘s new Dallas series will have to adjust its storylines to account for the absence of one of its signature characters, J.R. Ewing. And while the first two times the preparations turned out to be contingency plans that were never enacted, this time the show is forced to write off the villainous oilman following the death of the actor who’s portrayed the iconic character over the span of 35 years.
Larry Hagman, who died Friday at age 81 from cancer complications, was in Dallas filming Season 2 of TNT’s Dallas. He had completed shooting a number of episodes — believed to be six — before his death, and will appear in the 15-episode Season 2 of the series, slated to premiere January 28. As of now things are fluid, and it is unclear how his passing will affect the production on the show, which was scheduled to resume following the Thanksgiving break. Extending the hiatus or scheduling one in the near future is a possibility so
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The geographical difficulties of being a Mayo footballer based in Dublin become a reality for Chris Barrett when he is staring at the ceiling in the early hours of
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the morning.
Six hours - and nearly 500km - on the road from his capital base (where he works as a civil engineer) to midweek training in Castlebar offer unique challenges to Barrett and a dozen Mayo team-mates.
Getting back in time for training is one thing, but the toll which those efforts take on the subsequent days is another matter altogether with the former All-Star defender offering a unique insight into the problems he faces.
"It is tough. As you get older, sitting in cars after training sessions, you're that bit stiffer and it takes you a while to get recovered and the worst is the Tuesday session," Barrett says.
"You had to go down to Castlebar, that was really the thing I found the hardest and still find the hardest, that you get back at half one, one o'clock at night and you're staring at the ceiling for another hour.
"Your mind can't shut off that quickly so you mightn
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REALITY star Lucy Mecklenburgh has revealed she lost an incredible TWO stone during her time on TV show Celebrity Island.
The ex
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-Towie beauty tweeted dramatic before and after lingerie shots as the final episode of the Bear Grylls survival show aired tonight.
She told the Mirror she lost "about two stone" while filming the show after ensuring she piled on a few pounds before jetting out to the tropical location for filming.
She said: "I was told you should get used to eating less and less but then the I was told: 'No, no, no you need to put on some weight. So I put on half a stone.
"It was weird because when you're there you don't really feel as thin as you are because you don't have a mirror so you don't really know how tiny you are and then you get back and you realise."
Lucy stunned fans by tweeting before and after pictures on Twitter which displayed her tiny waist.
She wrote alongside the snap: "So emosh watching the last ep of Celebrity Island! I'll never doubt myself again!
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(Reuters) - Digital printing company Electronics For Imaging Inc said on Monday private equity firm Siris Capital Group LLC would buy the company for about $
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1.6 billion in cash.
The $37-per-share offer represents a premium of about 26 percent to the company’s closing price on Friday.
The deal, which has been approved by Electronics For Imaging’s (EFI) board, includes a 45-day “go-shop” period, which allows the company to consider alternative offers, it said.
Including debt, the deal is valued at about $1.7 billion.
In its latest reported quarter, EFI’s revenue slid 5 percent on weakness in its key industrial inkjet business, which accounts for more than half of the company’s overall revenue.
The deal is expected to close by the third quarter of 2019.
EFI also said it would file its first-quarter report but does not intend to host a quarterly earnings call. It expects first-quarter revenue to be between $220 million and $225 million.
Siris has secured committed
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For most organisations, the performance management system is so much a part of the company it’s barely noticed anymore. It just ticks along in
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the background, providing a process for appraisals, leave forms and (allegedly) performance monitoring.
No-one really expects it to do much, except tick along, and, possibly, be cursed at occasionally. A 2010 survey called Study on the State of Performance Management* conducted by non-profit WorldatWork found that when asked to appraise their performance management systems, managers rated the systems C-grade or below.
Why the negative feedback? People and technology have changed, rapidly, recently, and most performance management systems don’t allow for the requirement that younger generations of employees have to access those systems anywhere, from any device, at any time. Performance management systems aren’t very people-friendly either, technological advances aside.
Performance management is about more than just a mandatory annual review. It is intended to provide a means to give employees on feedback on what they are doing well, and where they need some work, and merely plugging in figures to
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"You did stalk them to get that role..."
Xtra Factor's Rylan Clark-Neal has revealed the real reason he got his cameo
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in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.
After he'd joyfully bragged about his part in the movie adaptation of Jennifer Saunders's classic sitcom, This Morning host Ruth Langsford joked: "You had to stalk them to get that role though didn't you?"
"I wasn't just at the premiere last night, I didn't just go to the after-party - I was also in Ab Fab: The Movie... for 14 seconds, thank you," Rylan joked.
He went on to confess: "I bullied Kathy Burke for as long as I could for three months, and she finally caved in and Jennifer [Saunders] wrote me a part."
On a side note, wasn't Eamonn looking fetching in Elton-style, blue, star-shaped glasses and a matching feather boa?
Rylan stars as a flight attendant alongside Pitch Perfect's Rebel Wilson in the film, which features an impressive list of cameos including Mad Men's
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VANCOUVER — British Columbia is expanding the number of bursaries offered to early childhood educators as it further commits to the goal of creating
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a universal, provincewide child-care system.
A $1.9-million investment through B.C.'s Early Learning and Child Care Agreement with the federal government will pay for the additional financial awards.
The extra funding adds to the roughly 1,100 bursaries and $10 million in funding approved last fall.
A news release from the Ministry of Children and Family Development and the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training says the investment is part of the recruitment and retention strategy for educators in early care and learning.
It offers increased supports for the child-care sector, including a $1 per hour wage enhancement for eligible early childhood educators and enhanced bursaries for students hoping to enter the field.
Katrina Chen, Minister of State for Child Care, says the profession was neglected for years so B.C. has a "lot of catching up to do."
"We need to invest heavily in the early childhood education sector to keep up with the pent up
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This exciting programme has the ability to impact the lives of people around the country by giving them guidance and help when they need it most. As Head
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of Help to Claim, you'll be in the driving seat. Your role will be to set the direction of the programme, set an inspiring vision and make sure the programme is set up and delivers against what's needed. You'll hold overall responsibility and talk to senior stakeholders inside and outside of Citizens Advice - but you'll have a strong team around you. This is a role with a lot of opportunity to help us shape the future of an important service. If that appeals to you, please see the job pack for more information on the role.
Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward - whoever they are, and whatever their problem. In 2017-18 we helped 2.6 million people face to face, over the phone, by email and webchat, and people visited our online advice pages 25 million times. We help with
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Springfield Public Schools has announced a single finalist for its top job: John Jungmann.
The southwest Missouri native spent 10 years in Mon
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ett, including four as superintendent, and is currently the leader of the 11,500-student Liberty school district.
Jungmann is expected to visit the 25,000-student Springfield district on March 3, where he will met with employees as well as business and community leaders.
A schedule of events is expected to be announced next week. Any decision about offering Jungmann a contract is expected to be made following that visit.
Springfield Public Schools has announced a single finalist for its upcoming superintendent vacancy.
He’s a native of southwest Missouri and former superintendent of the Monett school district, where he championed a one-to-one technology initiative at the high school.
Jungmann is currently superintendent of the 11,500-student Liberty school district.
Superintendent Norm Ridder, hired in mid-2005, will retire at the end of this school year. He has not yet announced what he will be doing after he exits the district.
Jung
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July 12, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s electricity generation in April 2009 fell 2.2 percent to 773 million units
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(GigaWatt hours) from a year earlier, while diesel sales were down 10.7 percent, the latest government figures showed.
Sri Lanka’s economic growth slowed to 1.5 percent in the first quarter of 2009 from 6.2 a year earlier and 4.3 percent in the December 2008 quarter, according to estimates released by the government’s statistics office.
After a slow second quarter, the Central Bank is expecting an upturn in the second and fourth quarters.
In the past electricity sales have tended to grow at twice the rate of economic growth.
There was a steep rise in thermal power production at state-run Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) to 229GWh from 141, according to central bank data. Private sector power generation also increased to 340GWh in the month from 205GWh last year.
In the four months to April electricity generation was down 4.4 percent to 3,137 GWh, and CEB
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A Valley man is faced with a decision to keep his home or his job after receiving a warning from his HOA. ABC15's Cameron Pol
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om has the story.
BUCKEYE, AZ — A Valley man is faced with a decision to keep his home or his job after receiving a warning from his HOA.
Tim Andersen says he and his family have been living the dream since moving to the West Valley.
"I love it here, people I tell, even in Scottsdale, they're like, 'Oh we're gonna move,' and I'm like, 'Move to Verrado.' I love the town," Andersen said.
But what was once paradise now spells trouble for this A/C and heating specialist.
"The whole Valley's my office, I get in my truck and travel everywhere through the Valley and help people out with their heating and cooling situation," Andersen said.
In order to do that, Andersen works out of this 10-foot tall take-home work truck.
The blue collar worker says his life has now been thrown into uncertainty after he received a letter from his
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Advocates have for years been urging the state to adopt a law that would prevent gun ownership by domestic abusers.
July 17 is the best
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of days in the Gaytan household, because it marks the birthday of 12-year-old Ian, who lives with his grandparents in a doublewide mobile home on a dirt road in Española. And July 17 is the worst of days, because it marks the anniversary of the shooting death of his 20-year-old mother, Jasmine Gaytan, at the hands of his father, Leroy Fresquez Jr.
It has been left to Olga Gaytan, a 55-year-old immigrant from Guanajuato, Mexico, to make sense of the contradictions. “People say I’m his grandma, but I always say ‘No, I’m his mother,’” said Gaytan, who stepped in and adopted her grandson following the 2009 murder of her daughter.
Jasmine and Leroy had known each other since their days at Carlos F. Vigil Middle School, the same school Ian now attends. It is
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The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) reports that they have completed a Safe Routes to School project at Green Lake Elementary School (2400
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N 65th St).
In an effort to make walking and biking to and from the school safer and more accessible, SDOT installed an illuminated overhead crosswalk sign and repaired a sidewalk.
The crosswalk light has yet to be turned on, but will be soon. According to SDOT, the light still needs to be connected to the electrical grid by Seattle City Light.
Brian Dougherty, SDOT’s Safe Routes to School Coordinator, said in May that Green Lake Elementary School was chosen for improvements due to a variety of factors, including the proximity of the NE 65th St and Latona Ave NE business district, a history of collisions in the area, and the nearby location of arterial streets N 65th St and Woodlawn Ave NE.
Over the past four and a half years, the Safe Routes to School Program has made improvements at 23 schools across Seattle. It is anticipated that a more than 30 schools will eventually receive safety enhancements through the program.
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Millions of employees nationwide are taking time off work, calling in sick, and watching games and filling in brackets instead of, well, working.
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Madness has taken hold — even in the normally quiet college library.
"I just got off our reading room desk, so I actually had to work," said Dan Golodner, an archivist at the Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University. "But, I imagine people will stop working soon because the games are starting. I noticed that one of our employees who follows basketball more than I do isn't here today."
So who is still at work? Or perhaps another way of putting it: Still working?
March Madness, the shorthand name for the hoopla surrounding the NCAA college basketball tournament, means millions of employees nationwide are taking time off work, calling in sick, and watching games and filling in brackets instead of, well, working.
It's an especially exciting time for Detroiters with the Little Caesars Arena hosting the first and second rounds of this year's men's tournament. Folks throughout metro Detroit who don't have tickets to the Big
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Hillary Clinton speaking at a Women for Hillary campaign event in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
As a lifelong fan of the Vikings,
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I know what it’s like to watch your team come up short.
Republican Jeff Johnson and Democrat Steve Timmer can empathize. As early supporters of presidential candidates not named Trump or Clinton, Johnson, a Hennepin County Commissioner, and Timmer, a retired lawyer from Edina, find themselves watching the presidential campaign much the way I spend Super Bowl Sunday — rooting for somebody else’s team.
Like the other committed supporters of presidential candidates who failed to win the nomination, Johnson and Timmer are the kind of people who can nevertheless play a critical role in ensuring the nominee of their party wins in November. They toil in the political trenches for their candidates and help message against the opposing party’s.
So while much of that messaging in the final weeks of the campaign will be targeted toward winning over independent voters, the Clinton and Trump campaigns would be wise not to ignore people like Johnson and Timmer.
Johnson served as the state chair of Marco
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Chicago R.A.W coach Howard Martin told several outlets that the video does not tell the whole story. He also said he did not condone
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the actions of some of his players.
"At the end of the game, one of my players was complaining about a call," Martin told ESPN. "He made a comment to the referee. The ref didn't like it. So the other team inbounded the ball, walked it up, the ref said to my player, 'Say it again.' Then he T'd him up and kicked him out of the game. And he walked behind him, still having words. Then the ref pushed my player, and they squared up right by my bench. When they squared up, another one of my players jumped off the bench and took [the ref] down. We separated them."
But that's not how Benjamin saw it.
"The referee definitely didn't attack the kids," Benjamin told ESPN. "Absolutely not. Once things got going, and he was attacked... he got assaulted. They were too outnumbered to even try to defend themselves."
Organizers of the event are
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PAUL POGBA became the first ever player to have an emoji created especially for him earlier in the week.
So we decided to dedicate
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a few emojis of our own to the world record signing's horror show against Liverpool.
Here is Paul Pogba's emoji match report.
2 mins: Paul Pogba wastes no time in getting involved in the game... but in his first clash he feels the full force of a challenge by Emre Can.
20 mins: The Frenchman misses an absolute sitter as he fires the ball wide after a delightful through ball by United team-mate Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
27 mins: The midfielder clumsily handles in the box trying to challenge Dejan Lovren. The penalty is awarded and Liverpool’s James Milner converts.
32 mins: Pogba loses his cool as he grapples with Jordan Henderson and ends up hurling the Liverpool midfield man to the Old Trafford turf.
59 mins: Looking for some sort of redemption, Pogba fails and can only manage to send a left-footed drive wide of the Liverpool goal.
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Once upon a time, we all exhibited perfect human movement. We were likely curled up like little bean sprouts, fast asleep on a soft,
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comfy blanket. With each breath, our ribs moved like a circus monkey's accordion, and our diaphragms pushed down and sprung up, creating little pot bellies on every inhale. The first movement performed, as well as the last, is a breath. In the middle there are critical changes that will impact every level of our existence. As we crawl away from infancy and run into adolescence, the way we inhale changes. Stress, fear, asthma, postural deviations, pillow shapes, mattress stiffness and a thousand other variables will change the dreamtime inhalation. The belly won't rise and fall with the same elasticity; the ribs will get tougher and less elastic. The change in the way air enters the lungs will permeate to all of the other systems in the body. Our shoulders will habitually lift towards the ears, sticking the breath higher in the ribs. The diaphragm will narrow its vertical oscillation, and might even reverse its wave pattern and
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Oregon State women's basketball alums continue to represent on the international stage this summer, as guard Gabby Hanson is playing for Sweden in the World
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University Games in Taipei, Taiwan this week.
Monday to open the preliminary round. Sweden will next face Chinese Taipei Tuesday and Chile Wednesday, before the quarterfinals begin Friday. The semifinals are Saturday, and the medal games are are next Monday.
Hanson had previously played for the Swedish National Team four times, all at the European Championships. She was on the U16 squad in 2011, the U18 side team in 2012 and 2013 and the U20 squad in 2014.
Earlier this month, former Beavers Ruth Hamblin and Jamie (Weisner) Scott won gold with the Canadian National Team at the FIBA Women's AmeriCup in Buenos Aires, Argentina, while Ali Gibson's Puerto Rico squad took the bronze. Both teams qualified for next summer's World Cup in Spain, Puerto Rico for the first time in the nation's history.
The Beavers are also represented stateside, with Sydney Wiese on the home stretch of her rookie season with the
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We all know that we are all going to hell in a hand basket, specifically as exemplified in the War on Christmas.
But there are
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two bright spots in this begotten landscape—and from unlikely sources at that.
The first politically incorrect culprit is FM radio station WQXR, the highbrow classical music station owned by none other than the anti-Christmas New York Times.
Starting right after Thanksgiving, the station's mostly liberal listeners have enjoyed the most beautiful and sublime Christmas music.
What's going on here? Haven't the munchkins at WQXR gotten the message? Evidently not! And thank God for that.
I hope that this message will not alert the PC mandarins of the Times editorial board or Columbia's liberal administration to what's going on.
If so, listeners will quickly be subjected to "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer."
Hayes writes that he "serves in the bureaucratic bowels of one the world's premier socialist entities, the city government of New York. When I entered city government, I was a Conservative. Then I became
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"The State Counsellor" marks the latest film outing for novelist Boris Akunin's Fandorin character after local smash "Turkish Gam
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bit." New movie sees the franchise maturing with a darker tone and an older thesp as lead, while sophomore helmer Filipp Yankovsky is alleged to have been guided by pic's producer and co-star Nikita Mikhalkov.
With: Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Mashkov, Oleg Tabakov, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Maria Mironova, Mikhail Efremov, Emilia Spivak, Oksana Fandera, Alexei Gorbunov.
Opulent Russian thriller “The State Counsellor” marks the latest film outing for novelist Boris Akunin’s Fandorin character after local smash “Turkish Gambit.” New movie sees the franchise maturing with a darker tone and an older thesp as lead (Oleg Menshikov replacing Yegor Beroyev), while
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Police in the southern province of Binh Duong have dropped charges against a local police officer who fatally hit a man on a motorbike while driving
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a car, saying he was not at fault, VnExpress reported Friday.
The Thu Dau Mot town police concluded that Captain Le Quang Binh, 36, was not culpable since he was driving in the correct lane when the accident happened on October 20 while the victim was not.
Binh, who came under fire for not stopping after hitting Nguyen Huu Quan, 27, had merely "panicked," Senior Lieutenant-Colonel Nguyen Quoc Tuan, deputy chief of the Thu Dau Mot police, said.
Binh was driving a friend's car back to a party he had been attending when he hit a motorist.
He did not get out of the car, thinking it was a minor mishap, the police claimed.
But passers-by were outraged and chased him. It was when he was fleeing the scene that he hit Quan's motorbike.
The officer, who was being chased by dozens of people, dragged
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It's impossible not to have that face and energy onscreen and not feel happy and good. When she's off, it sort of affects everything
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and everyone and that's why we'll tell that arc in the first four of five episodes. She's not suffering for that long because that's a painful thing to watch. She's our sunshine.
With Garcia's upbeat nature having been impacted by the events of the Season 14 premiere, what may be a short time, relatively speaking, might feel longer. Criminal Minds' showrunner revealing to TV Insider that Garcia's mood will be overcast for around four episodes does not sound that lengthy. However, the show's fourteenth season is currently slated to run for fifteen episodes, meaning that this is almost a third of the season. So, Garcia's return to her upbeat nature will not be a blink-and-you-missed-it event.
That said, the crime drama will not be lingering on it for a great deal of time for the reasons the showrunner mentioned. So, there is light at the end of the tunnel as fans settle in for Criminal Minds to
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The outlook for the U.S. stock market next year ranges from a gain of about 16% to nearly no gain at all.
It
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's crystal ball time for Wall Street stock strategists.
For 2018, will it be a big gain for stocks? Or little or no gain?
The most optimistic forecaster says the U.S. stock market — which has risen nearly 20% this year — will post another year of sizable returns.
The market's biggest skeptic thinks the rally will stall and stocks will end next year pretty much where they're trading now.
That said, year-end predictions are more art than science. And predicting the future isn't necessarily Wall Street's strong suit. At the start of 2017, for example, not a single strategist at 18 top banks saw the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index rising as much as it has. The average gain predicted was 5.5% and the biggest bull saw stocks rising 12%, according to Bloomberg.
If the average prediction had been right, a 401(k) investor with $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 at the start
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Falling donations, rising costs close 2 Easter Seals camps in B.C.
Summer camps to be closed in Squamish, Shawn
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igan Lake provided programs for children and young adults with disabilities.
Two summer camps for disabled children will not run next year as the charity that operates them faces a million-dollar cash shortfall.
Since the 1960s, the Easter Seals charity has operated three summer camps in B.C. for hundreds of children with disabilities.
This week the charity announced it is closing two of those camps, at Shawnigan Lake on Vancouver Island, and near Squamish.
Only the camp at Winfield in the Okanagan will operate next year.
"This is not a happy time for us, "Charlene Krepiskevich, the president and CEO of Easter Seals for BC and the Yukon, told On the Island host Gregor Craigie Wednesday.
"We are facing a declining support base, philanthropic giving is going down, not just for us but charities across Canada," Krepiskevich said. "Smaller charities are really feeling the pinch."
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A number of trains between Cambridge and King's Lynn will be affected by disruption on the rails this afternoon.
A speed restriction
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is in place between the two stations due to a defective track.
Train services are likely to be delayed or revised until 5pm.
National Rail is asking people to continue to travel as normal.
Network Rail engineers have been dispatched to the site to investigate, until they have confirmed the track is safe, trains will run at a reduced speed.
You can read all about it in our live blog below.
That’s all from us today folks, we’ll be bringing you all the latest breaking news from Cambridge and beyond.
Train services in both directions will proceed at caution over a defective section of track between Kings Lynn and Ely, extending journey times by up to 10 minutes.
A speed restriction over defective track between Kings Lynn and Ely means that trains have to run at a rescued speed between these stations. A normal service is expected to resume by 17:00.
It’s been a day of train trouble.
This morning a number of services between
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Hollywood stars can now be recreated so perfectly through technology that actors are drawing up wills to control how their digital selves perform long after their death
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, the Oscar-winning British special effects team behind the film Gravity has said.
The revelation comes after another British company, CereProc, helped to produce an audio recording of John F Kennedy “delivering” the speech he was due to give on the day in 1963 that he was assassinated.
According to the special effects company Framestore, however, technology now allows for much more. Sir William Sargent, Framestore’s chief executive, says special effects have broken the equivalent of the four-minute mile, which is to make a digital human that convinces viewers it is real.
Framestore was responsible for a chocolate bar commercial that featured a digital recreation of Audrey Hepburn, after approval from her sons. “It was a high-risk venture as they could have stopped it at any time,” said Sir William.
The Framestore team, talking exclusively to The Daily Telegraph ahead of our series on British technology, running
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The fundraiser will take place 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday at The Hawk, 468 W. Anaheim St.
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A close friend of Don Campbell's started the fundraiser after the retired sergeant's suicide outside an LBPD substation last week.
Local entrepreneur and creator of the city's only food tour company, Layla Ali-Ahmad, is currently undergoing treatment for stage four breast cancer.
Walk MS: Long Beach is expected to draw an estimated 2,500 people to El Dorado Park North on Saturday, April 14 with the goal of raising funds to help those affected with MS, Walk MS announced.
Long Beach local jazz legend Helen Borgers passed away Sunday after being hospitalized for nine weeks due to deteriorating health issues. She was 60.
Next week, Michael’s on Naples Ristorante and Chianina Steakhouse will hold a fundraiser to help the restaurant industry in Sonoma and Napa Valley impacted by the fires.
California Pizza Kitchen is hosting a statewide fundraiser Monday, November 6 through Wednesday November 8 to support communities impacted by the recent Northern California wildfires, CPK
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One day after Obama and Netanyahu discuss Iran, Tehran announced it will allow nuclear inspectors access to the Parchin site.
Iran said Tuesday it
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will allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to visit the Parchin military complex near Tehran.
The UN nuclear watchdog will be granted access to the suspected nuclear site at a time to be announced, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported Tuesday.
Iran's permanent envoy to the IAEA said Tuesday the move was a gesture of goodwill.
The visit will not be allowed, however, until an agreement is reached on inspection guidelines, according to the ISNA.
It is believed that Parchin is home to a large chamber designed for testing the high-explosives necessary to detonate the core of a nuclear warhead.
The IAEA noted the potential test chamber on recent satellite photos requested to visit the site last month during talks in Tehran, but the request was denied.
The nuclear watchdog last visited the site in 2005, but did not look in the area where the explosives chamber is believed to be located.
The site could be a potential target in a
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Mark Zuckerberg, Snoop Dogg and Sean Parker pictured, last month.
No, its not a scene out of The Social Network II –
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it occurred earlier this month after the social networking duo got into a public brawl outside a Hollywood night spot over Facebook’s involvement with music streaming service Spotify.
The scrap followed the launch of the Spotify/Facebook partnership at West Hollywood nightclub. Parker has shares in the Euro streaming giant.
The music and social partnerships, announced last month at Facebook F8 conference, also include Berkeley-based MOG and San Francisco-based Rdio as digital music sales slump.
The integration of Spotify and Facebook “is very similar to what I dreamed of 10 years ago” Parker declared at the lavish party Facebook’s f8 party last month, where pigs roasted on a double-decker spit, and The Killers and Snoop Dogg all took to the live stage.
But the ‘dream’ may not be all roses: “Sean and Mark had done the big Spotify launch and headed to The Beverly to party. They spent a lot of money on alcohol
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Sept. 5, 2018 2:59 p.m.
I am excited about the BYU win, but Ute and Cougar fans need
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to play nice for a few more weeks. Ute fans will look dumb if Arizona turns out to be pretty good and they lose to KT and the Wildcats. Cougar fans better not brag about beating Arizona, Arizona might be 3-9 this year. Let's wait until after week 3 when we have more data points on the teams before we start the trash talk. :) Go Cougs!
Sept. 5, 2018 1:03 p.m.
How is it that BYU had 3 months to prepare for an Arizona team lead by a new head coach and a new offensive coordinator?
It could easily be argued that BYU didn’t have any time to prepare for Arizona except for base defense.
Sept. 4, 2018 2:53 p.m.
Now begins the challenge for BYU. They had 3 months to prepare for Arizona and earned the upset. They have 7 days to prepare for Cal, then 7 days to prepare for Wisconsin. How well can the young
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"We're proud of the musical line-up of Miyelo Music Festival," says Donnie Reis, lead man of the Donnie Re
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is Band as well as producer at Twelve3South Studio. "We put a bunch of effort into bringing national acts."
TIPP CITY, Ohio, June 1, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Trebius Promotions along with Twelve3South Studio is proud to announce the surprise addition of Jonathan Jackson + Enation to the roster of artists performing at Miyelo Music Festival, presented by Dave Arbogast on July 18 in Tipp City, Ohio.
Jonathan Jackson + Enation is an anthemic Alt/Rock/Pop three piece from Nashville, Tenn. The band recently released their fourth studio album, Radio Cinematic, through Loud & Proud Records. Jonathan Jackson’s album has a local tie-in, as 4 of the tracks had their strings arranged by Donnie Reis and recorded in Tipp City’s Twelve3South Studio.
Tipp City’s downtown merchant district plays host on July 18 to the inaugural festival
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PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said Zimbabwe is not only Open for Business but for dialogue too, as it forges ahead with engaging locals and
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foreigners in its quest to attain a middle class economy by 2030.
Addressing members of the corporate world, academics and the business community during the Midlands State University fundraising golf tournament and dinner for the construction of the Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa Law School and Liberation Heritage Centre in Kwekwe yesterday evening, President Mnangagwa said while the Zimbabwe is Open for Business mantra had succeeded beyond measure, the country, he said, was now open for dialogue to attract investors.
He said it was unfortunate that there would be "doubting Thomasses" when development matters are discussed.
President Mnangagwa said he was optimistic Zimbabweans should rally behind the Government's socio-economic programmes so that locals enjoy the fruits of the liberation struggle.
"I remember when we had returned from China and we visited parents in Mashoko Village in Masvingo during a traditional beer drinking ceremony. We told the parents that we were freedom fighters and were going to see
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Privacy vs. security is a topic most brands would rather avoid, but Apple took it on this week with a thorough, but easy to understand letter
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In its 40-year history, Apple has been on the cutting edge of computers, music devices, smartphones, and cloud services. So it’s only fitting that the company is now playing a lead role in the debate of personal privacy versus security.
It’s a conversation that people will — and should — be having for the decades to come, but one that major corporations would prefer to avoid, which is one reason Apple’s decision to wade in is so noteworthy.
To recap, the FBI asked Apple to essentially hack into the iPhone that belonged to Syed Rizwan Farook, the terrorist who, along with his wife, killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, last year. In other words, the federal law enforcement agency hadn’t been able to crack the device itself to gain a peek at its contents, so it asked Apple to create a backdoor.
Apple said no, which prompts the (valid) question of why the
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The state Department of Conservation and Recreation has added parts of Shrewsbury and Boylston to the regulated area designed to head off an inf
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estation of Asian longhorned beetles initially found in the Greendale section of Worcester earlier this month.
None of the treacherous tree killers has been found in the two towns, but because the latest beetles were located in trees in Worcester close to Shrewsbury and Boylston, the state yesterday further expanded the regulated area into Shrewsbury and Boylston. The regulated area was first expanded beyond the Greendale area into parts of West Boylston and Holden last week.
Local and state officials stressed that no actual beetles have been located in the four towns, but new discoveries in Worcester prompted expansion of the regulated area outside the city.
As a precaution, Shrewsbury�s popular Saturday yard waste drop-off program is suspended until further notice, it was announced yesterday.
To prevent the spread of infestation, the state Department of Conservation and Recreation is prohibiting residents and businesses from transferring live beetles and yard waste, including branches, leaves, firewood, logs,
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Hundreds of visitors descended the seven stories to the base of the Sept. 11 Memorial Museum on Thursday for the national exhibit's dedication ceremony.
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Barack Obama greets World Trade Center attacks survivor Ling Young (center) and Alison Crowther, (right) the mother of Welles Crowther who died in the attacks while assisting in evacuation efforts in the South Tower, during the opening ceremony for the National September 11 Memorial Museum at ground zero May 15, 2014 in New York City.
Hundreds of visitors descended the seven stories to the base of the Sept. 11 Memorial Museum on Thursday for the national exhibit's dedication ceremony that centered as much around the lives of those lost 13 years ago as much as it around survivors.
At least 700 individuals were on hand for the commemoration, which began with a children's choir rendition of Steven Sondheim's "Somewhere" that reverberated from the slurry wall within the expansive Foundation Hall.
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg was the first person to address the crowd, which sat in front large concrete slab that showed photos taken on the day of the attack and videos recounting the lives upended thereafter.
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President Donald J. Trump applauds during his State of the Union speech before members of Congress in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol
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on January 30, 2018 in Washington, D.C.
Despite calling for bipartisanship and national unity during his first State of the Union address on Tuesday (that is after almost an hour of self-congratulating), Trump still brought up his most divisive, discriminatory policy yet: His “four pillars” for immigration reform. Along with ending both the family reunification and lottery visa programs, the reality TV star president is seeking $25 billion in border wall funding in exchange for developing a pathway to citizenship for roughly 1.8 million undocumented immigrants. Apparently that will keep America safe from raging gun violence. Even though there is no credible data to prove Trump and other American nativist’s claims that immigrants are responsible for an outsized share of crime.
It’s clear that the Trump administration is hell-bent on fulfilling his controversial campaign promise of building a “great wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border at all costs, irrespective of the
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Eugene Omoruyi had a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds and Geo Baker had 16 points and five assists as Rutgers
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used a 22-0 run to come back and beat Indiana 66-58 Wednesday night.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Eugene Omoruyi had a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds and Geo Baker had 16 points and five assists as Rutgers used a 22-0 run to come back and beat Indiana 66-58 Wednesday night.
Ron Harper Jr. had a fast break dunk followed by a 3-pointer after back-to-back Indiana turnovers as Rutgers (11-9, 4-6 Big Ten) ended the first half on a 9-0 run, cutting Indiana’s lead to 29-28. The Scarlet Knights started the second half on a 11-0 run to give them their first lead of the game since 3-2.
Indiana (12-9, 3-7 Big Ten) scored with 3:48 left in the first half on Aljami Durham layup. The Hoosiers wouldn
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PHOENIX (AP) Electric car maker Lucid Motors said Tuesday it will build a manufacturing plant in Arizona that will begin production
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in 2018 as it looks to compete in the fast-growing market for luxury electric vehicles.
The company said it chose the Casa Grande location from dozens of other spots around the country.
Construction of the factory will begin next year in a move expected to bring an initial 400 jobs. The company projects the plant will have 2,000 workers by 2022.
Lucid, which recently changed its name from Atieva, has been around for a decade, focusing its early years on making batteries. Its staff includes former Tesla employees, including its chief technology officer.
The decision came amid rising demand for electric cars from traditional automakers and Silicon Valley startups such as Lucid.
Tesla Motors is building a sprawling battery factory near Reno, Nevada, after receiving a generous $1.3 billion incentive package from the Nevada Legislature.
Faraday Future, another electric car maker, is building a factory near Las Vegas after getting $335 million from the state, although the project has been stalled amid questions
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July 15, 2015 School board, Uncategorized.
The Palm Beach County public school system will receive $1.6 million from BP after
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suing the oil and gas company over its role in the April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The settlement agreement is for $2 million, but the law firm representing the county school board, West Palm Beach firm Morgan and Morgan, will keep $400,000 as its fee, Superintendent Robert Avossa announced Wednesday.
School board members voted Wednesday to approve the settlement.
The school board was one of several around the state that joined a federal lawsuit against BP in April 2011, claiming that they had lost education money through a decline in sales tax revenue stemming from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The state of Florida received $3.25 billion as part of the same settlement.
Lee County’s school board this week approved a $2.5 million settlement with BP, while Polk County’s school board agreed to $1.5 million.
Miami-Dade’s school board also approved a $2.5 million settlement Wednesday.
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Benchmark indices ended on a strong note on Tuesday after hitting fresh record highs in the intra-day trade on Tuesday. The S&P B
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SE Sensex hit a new lifetime high of 39,364.34 in the trade while the broader Nifty50 index of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) surpassed 11,800 level to hit a record of 11,810.95.
At close, the 30-share index Sensex of BSE ended at 39,276, up 370 points or 0.95 per cent while Nifty closed at 11,787, up 97 points or 0.83 per cent.
In the broader market, the S&P BSE MidCap index ended 19 points or 0.12 per cent higher at 15,521, while the S&P BSE SmallCap index closed at 15,172, up 57 points, or 0.37 per cent.
Among sectoral indices, private bank stocks gained the most, followed by financial services and auto stocks.
Jet Airways ended around 8 per cent lower at Rs 241.50 apiece on the NSE after reports suggested the airline
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Wanna hack the military? The Department of Defense is starting to give hackers more opportunities to test its systems without the threat of prosecution.
The
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department announced today that it is expanding its Hack the Pentagon program to include more DoD systems and networks. Hack the Pentagon pays hackers to find and report vulnerabilities in exchange for cash, and so far it’s proved effective — the first bug was reported 13 minutes after the program launched.
Hack the Pentagon initially ran as a pilot program between April 18 and May 12 of this year and only included five DoD websites, but DoD plans to develop it into a permanent program that collects vulnerability reports on more websites and systems. The introduction of Hack the Pentagon represents the first time the U.S. government has experimented with a commercial bug bounty that allowed participating hackers to be paid for discovering vulnerabilities.
“Although the pilot was a success, it only tested the crowdsourced security concept against public-facing websites. We believe the concept will be successful when applied to many or all of DoD’s other security challenges,” a DoD spokesperson said in a statement.
Hack
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HOW a trading post in the wilderness grew to be New York City is one of the great stories of American history, and in this billowing volume
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Edwin G. Burrows, a Brooklyn College historian, and Mike Wallace, of the City University of New York, tell it stirringly. The dominant urban center on the North American continent since 1800, the metropolitan region of New York has attracted one of the largest populations in the world. New York's economic institutions eclipsed domestic competitors by the early nineteenth century and foreign competitors after the First World War. The city was, in the words of Walt Whitman, "the great place of the Western Continent, the heart, the brain, the focus, the main spring, the pinnacle, the extremity, the no more beyond of the new world."
New York's wealth lured people from everywhere. The populations of ancient Athens and Rome, early modern London and Paris, twentieth-century Tokyo and Mexico City, were enormous but homogeneous. In contrast, New York was at different times the largest Irish, Jewish, Italian, and black African city in the world. By 1860 nearly half of Manhattan's population
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A whopping 89% of people say they don’t accomplish their daily tasks, so we asked experts how to create a to-do list
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that you can finish.
If you feel like you never manage to check everything off of your to-do list, you’re not alone. Only 11% of professionals around the world accomplish all the tasks they’d planned to do on an average workday, according to a LinkedIn survey.
Writing down your goals makes you more likely to achieve them, but many of us struggle with a never-ending to-do list: pick up the dry cleaning, finish that presentation, call the dentist, book a flight, order a wedding present...
Tracy McCubbin, professional organizer and owner of the Los Angeles-based dClutterfly, says one reason we get frustrated with to-do lists is that we expect to complete everything on them. “It’s something living and breathing as opposed to ‘I’ve checked everything off and I’m done for the rest of my life,'” she
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More than 250 Germantown High School students listened to speeches about mental health and school safety during an assembly that mostly steered clear of politics.
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More than 250 Germantown High School students listened to speeches Wednesday, March 14, about mental health and school safety during an assembly that mostly steered clear of politics.
No students walked out of the high school in protest, according to Principal Joel Farren, who said students and school officials worked together to plan the assembly in the high school gym. The event which coincided with students nationwide walking out of class to honor the 17 victims of the school shooting last month in Parkland, Florida, and to protest gun violence.
The assembly featured students speaking about mental health and the need for students to be aware of signs a student may become violent. A mental health expert and a captain from the Germantown Police Department also spoke.
Germantown High School senior Gavin Rangel opened the assembly by telling the student audience that the main purpose of the assembly was to honor victims of school shootings, but he also encouraged students to demand change.
Capt. Mike Snow of the Germantown Police
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Vinnie Hinostroza each had a goal
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and assist, and the Arizona Coyotes beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-1 Saturday night for their sixth straight victory.
The Coyotes have won six in a row for the first time since Feb. 16-28, 2012, and are in contention for a Western Conference wild-card spot with 17 games left in the regular season.
Josh Archibald added his 10th goal of the season for Arizona, and Darcy Kuemper stopped 22 shots for his seventh straight win.
Dylan Larkin scored for Detroit, which has lost five straight. Jimmy Howard finished with 41 saves.
Hinostroza scored with the Coyotes clinging to a one-goal lead, putting in a rebound of his own shot at 4:37 of the third period.
The Red Wings had let up and thought the goal should've been disallowed, but after review it was deemed to be good, and the Coyotes moved out to a 3-1 lead.
The Coyotes, who lost 6
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ABOVE: New book about the Humboldt Broncos hockey team is facing criticism from some of the victims' families.
Family members
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of players involved in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash are harshly criticizing a new book about the hockey team and are urging people not to buy it.
“The story of our family members is ours to tell, either individually or collectively, as we choose,” read a post on Toby Boulet’s Facebook account on Monday. Boulet’s son, Logan, was one of the players killed in the crash involving the Broncos’ team bus and a semi-truck.
The crash on April 6 claimed 16 lives and injured over a dozen others.
On Sept. 5, Barry Heath, a former Saskatchewan coroner and veterinarian, published his book titled Humble Beginnings of the Humboldt Broncos and the 2017-2018 Team.
It is listed on the Indigo-Chapters website and is shown to be available at multiple locations in Saskatoon.
WATCH: A Saskatchewan author says he had good intentions when he wrote a book about the H
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The FCC has twice again rejected ED STOLZ appeals of rulings involving ENTERCOM.
In one proceeding, the Commission denied a Petition for Rec
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onsideration filed by STOLZ and DEBORAH J. NAIMAN against ENTERCOM's acquisition of CBS RADIO, citing the "new developments" of the designation for hearing of the SINCLAIR-TRIBUNE merger and the conservative MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER's allegations that CBS engaged in "intentional news distortion." The FCC said that the SINCLAIR-TRIBUNE parties were not similarly situated with ENTERCOM and CBS, and that STOLZ' "unadjudicated, unsubstantiated, and conclusory news distortion claim" involved CBS television stations and not radio and involved allegations that came after the radio deal was approved.
In the other, the FCC dismissed STOLZ' Petition for Reconsideration of the denial of his appeal of ENTERCOM's license renewals in SACRAMENTO due to lack of standing. STOLZ appealed the renewals citing the fatal "Hold Your Wee For A Wii"
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In commercials, anthropomorphized foods are always on the verge of death. Why is this funny and not macabre? We consult the experts.
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Chicken McNuggets gleefully dunking themselves in sauce. Chocolates cowering, fearing for their lives. Pop Tarts springing themselves loose from a toaster and yelling “Freedom!” And last week, Chips Ahoy! reintroduced its Cookie Guy, a mischievous cookie whose antics are cut short by a human’s hand. In a certain kind of ad, these are the tragic spokesmen of snacks: living creatures aware of an impending death-chomp. Their short lives are a hell of fear or resignation.
It is worth wondering: How do ad makers decide that these characters make us laugh and want to buy snacks, rather than totally creeping us out?
Next, there’s the type cursed with self-awareness–the one that knows he is food in a man-eat-food world–but embraces his place without protest. A stick of Slim Jim yells “eat me!” and a bunch of Frosted
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Apr. 9 5:40 PM PT6:40 PM MT7:40 PM CT8:40 PM ET0:40 GMT8:
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40 5:40 PM MST6:40 PM CST7:40 PM EST4:40 UAE (+1)02:4020:40 ET7:40 PM CT23:40 - Bobby Portis scored 11 points Tuesday on 4-of-9 shooting as the Washington Wizards fell to the Boston Celtics 116-110. Portis pulled down eight rebounds and dished out four assists, accumulating a plus-minus of +9 in his 22:46 on the floor. He tacked on one steal. Portis went 1 of 3 from behind the arc.
Apr. 7 6:17 PM PT7:17 PM MT8:17 PM CT9:17 PM ET1:17 GMT9:17 6:17 PM MST7:17 PM CST8:17 PM EST5:17 UAE (+1)03:1721:17 ET8:17 PM CT0:17 - Bobby Portis scored 11 points Sunday on 4-of-14 shooting as
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Pocket-lint has managed to get its hands on a pre-release (beta) version of the forthcoming firmware update for the Humax HD
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-Fox T2 (which will also arrive for the HDR-Fox T2) and has had a play with the company's brand spanking new TV Portal feature. Through it, the Freeview HD set-top-box gains access to Internet content, such as BBC iPlayer, Sky Player and Wikipedia.
The patch essentially allows the Humax STB to convert any regular set to a Smart TV, as long as the box is connected to the Internet via an Ethernet cable or an external, Humax-branded Wi-Fi dongle - support for which also comes with this patch. It's highly probable that owners will have done this already though, as it has doubled as a DLNA-friendly multi-media streamer for some time.
A recent over-the-air official update already brought recording functionality to the box, when connected to a USB memory stick or external hard drive (obviously the PVR version, HDR-Fox T2 didn't need this upgrade
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A failed Melbourne businessman who styles himself on Wall Street character Gordon Gekko has become a partner with a state government agency in a luxury ski resort
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project, even though he owes more than $61 million in bad debts.
Government and regulatory authorities have granted access to public land at Mount Hotham for a major new hotel that is backed by still-bankrupt developer Anton Joseph Wilson.
Wall Street character Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, and bankrupt developer Anton Wilson.
Despite being disqualified from managing a corporation, Mr Wilson has apparently taken a lead role in the $26 million project that is being billed as the largest commercial development on the mountain in 20 years.
Mr Wilson, who has adopted Gekko's slicked-back hairstyle, distinctive dress sense and even, according to sources, his signature catchphrase "greed is good", is responsible for a string of property developments and investment schemes where tens of millions of dollars have been lost.
"He's always had this thing about Gordon Gekko," a source said. "The monogrammed cuffed shirts, the hair, the attitude.
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Bourne Town were punished for mistakes in a home defeat to Lutterworth Town on Saturday.
Wakes boss Rob Middleton felt they
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were "hard done by" as the Leicestershire side stayed one point clear at the top of the table.
Bourne trailed 3-0 at half-time then Zak Munton's penalty was saved before the top scorer got a consolation on 75 minutes.
Middleton said: "Overall, I wasn't too disappointed by the performance as the lads put in plenty of effort.
"Two goals in the first half were avoidable from our point of view.
"We should have dealt with a ball behind the back four and the opener was a gift to them.
"The second goal was frustrating because we had spoken previously about defending set-pieces into the box.
"I felt our line was too high and I wanted to give ourselves 10 or 15 yards to attack the ball instead of heading it when we are running back towards goal.
"That wasn't put into practice and it cost us a goal.
"All of a sudden, we were
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ZANU PF national political commissar Engelbert Rugeje has roped in the ruling party’s Chitepo School
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of Ideology to conduct a healing and reconciliation workshop for all winning and losing candidates in the just-ended party primary elections, as part of measures to unite them ahead of this year’s polls.
The workshop will take place at the party headquarters in Harare on Tuesday and Wednesday.
“Provincial chairpersons are requested to invite all their respective winning and losing contestants in the said primary elections to attend this very important meeting scheduled to be addressed by His Excellency the President and First Secretary of Zanu PF on Wednesday 30 May 2018,” Rugeje said in a letter addressed to the ruling party’s provincial chairpersons.
The workshop comes at a time several Zanu PF losing candidates and their supporters have threatened to vote opposition candidates in protest over alleged rigging and imposition of candidates. The party members also accused their leaders of failing to rein-in violent members.
In a related development, four suspected Zanu PF activists are set to appear at
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The Historic Tappen Park Community Partnership will host "Illuminate Stapleton" in the park this weekend, which features light based installations
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from seven local artists and more. The festival aims to highlight the neighborhood and its residents amidst a wave of redevelopment on the North Shore of Staten Island.
STAPLETON — A new festival hopes to shine a light on Stapleton and its residents amidst a wave of redevelopment that's headed to the neighborhood.
The Historic Tappen Park Community Partnership will put on the first "Illuminate Stapleton" festival this weekend, featuring light-based art from locals, a photography exhibit highlighting residents, an art market and more.
"With all of the redevelopment happening, the residents and businesses are feeling changed and pushed out," said Kamillah Hanks, president and CEO of the group. "What we decided to do is take a closer look at our community assets and create an event and a district-wide marketing campaign.
"We're highlighting our history, we're anticipating our future and we’ll also be defining who we are so that anybody coming in knows
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At this time of year you are very likely to see hedge cutters at work on the hedges lining our roads.
This is the best
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time of year to trim back the hedges as all the leaves are off and the berries have been eaten by the birds.
It is an important job to keep the hedges trimmed because it enables better visability for road users.
Farmers also trim the hedges lining their fields, because if they left them to grow bigger and bigger they would lose valuable land.
Some hedge work can be done by hand using chainsaws and other equipment, but the bigger jobs require big machinery. And so contractors are often brought in to do the job as they have the specialist equipment required.
In the past it was a major job to collect up hedge cuttings, which then had to be chipped or burnt to be disposed of.
These days most hedges are trimmed with a flail cutter so there is nothing to pick up as the chippings fall back down into the hedge and fertilise it.
Hedge cutting is regulated by the European Commission and must be completed by
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Michelle Mumford is now back to her healthy self after recovering from anorexia.
A Whitnash woman who has overcome anorexia
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is sharing her story to help prevent others from going down the same path.
February is National Eating Disorder Awareness month (NEDA) - and Michelle Mumford, who spent around six months at Warwick Hospital recovering after nearly losing her life to anorexia, has started writing a blog to help encourage others who think they may be at risk to seek help.
Michelle first realised she had an eating disorder at the age of 18 while at university.
It started out as low self-esteem and trying to be “perfect” - but when she began to diet and exercise more, she lost weight and felt good about it.
She said: “I finally felt as though I was doing something right.
“But it was downhill from there. The more weight I lost, the more I wanted to lose.
Michelle was losing around half a stone a week, then became incredibly weak, would pass out regularly and was unable to take in what little food she did
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Just 23 percent said “no” to that in the
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statewide survey, and 3 percent said they didn’t know.
The statewide survey queried adults in 525 randomly selected Idaho households, included cell phone as well as land-line respondents, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percent.
It also asked how strongly Idahoans agreed that the state “should allow the sale and manufacture of marijuana for medical purposes.” Those results were less overwhelming, with 46 percent agreeing and 46 percent disagreeing.
The survey has queried Idahoans about their views on state policy every year for more than 20 years, but the last one was taken in 2007, as budget cuts nixed the survey for the past two years. The new survey, conducted between Nov. 18 and Jan. 8, is the 20th one taken.
Trail said he’s working now to make sure his medical marijuana legislation, HB 19, gets a hearing. The bill, entitled the Idaho Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act,
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In South Korea, one of the leading nations for crypto investing, young adults seeking financial freedom are falling into the craze with volatile results.
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NAMYANGJU, South Korea — Jumping on a national frenzy over cryptocurrencies, 24-year-old Juwon Park scraped together some of her savings and in December gambled $2,500 on the investment trend sweeping South Korea.
Park, a former Google intern who is now a business writer, had been riveted by a man on television who bragged that he transformed $80 into $23 million — all by trading in the virtual currency. It sounded too good to be true. And for Park, and other South Koreans like her pining for financial independence, it has been.
"I didn't want a fortune," she said last month on the first day of the Lunar New Year, a family-centric holiday celebrated across Asia.
"I just wanted enough to give me that glimmer of hope,” she said. "Now it's gone."
As cryptocurrencies move from the fringes of the internet to mainstream investing, South Korea — a country
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Jeffrey L. Wilson Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (PC, PS3, Xbox 360) Transformers: Fall of Cybertron builds
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on War for Cybertron by adding interesting environments, more fighting, and a robust online mode that lets you take custom 'bots into action.
Fast-paced shooting action. Tons of fan service. Peter Cullen's authoritative Optimus Prime voice work. Ability to take user-created Transformers into multiplayer battles.
Easy to get slaughtered by Decepticon grunts. Weak voice acting from non-Optimus Prime characters. Too many missions that require you to pull a level or plug in a computer part.
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron builds on War for Cybertron by adding interesting environments, more fighting, and a robust online mode that lets you take custom 'bots into action.
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, the sequel to 2010's hit Transformers: War for Cybertron, sees the peaceful Autobots continuing its war against the savage Decepticons, but the outlook is bleak. The title provides plenty of third-person shooting action, a thrilling multiplayer
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It cost him more than $13,000, but Marcus Peters said it was worth it.
Aaron Donald probably didn’t like his
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bill for about $20,000, but with a $131-million extension he can afford it.
Both Rams players were fined Friday for actions during the season-opening victory over the Oakland Raiders.
Peters was fined for his celebration, which featured him grabbing his crotch, after he intercepted a pass and returned it for a touchdown.
Donald was fined for a late hit on Raiders quarterback Derek Carr.
Peters, an Oakland native, provided an exclamation point to the 33-13 victory at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum when he picked off a Carr pass and ran 50 yards to the end zone. He leaped into the air and grabbed his crotch before falling to the turf.
After the game, Peters said he went “BeastMode” for his celebration as an homage to Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch, who like Peters grew up in Oakland and had been fined for similar celebrations.
Peters said Friday that Lynch was his cousin and that the celebration
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands took to the streets of Athens as Greek unions launched a two-day general strike against planned austerity measures
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on Friday, a day after the country's crucial international bailout was put in limbo by its partners in the 17-nation eurozone.
Police said some 17,000 people were gathering for two separate protests leading to Syntagma Square, outside Parliament. They chanted slogans against the painful cutbacks, which include reducing the minimum wage by 22 percent and cutting one in five government jobs in a country which is in its fifth year of recession.
Bailout creditors say Greece has not yet met demands for all the austerity measures, however. Frustrated by days of dithering, they have given political leaders in Athens until the middle of next week to meet the full list of required reforms. Otherwise, the country will lose its rescue loan lifeline, go bankrupt next month and likely leave the euro.
"We are experiencing tragic moments," Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos told Parliament Friday. "These days are the last acts of a drama that we all hope will lead to a happy
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Use an energy-efficient fluorescent light bulb in a shower light fixture.
Unlike other light fixtures in a home, light fixtures for showers and tub
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-shower enclosures are vulnerable to moisture. If the light flickers or doesn't work at all, there's a good chance that it must be replaced. Surface-mount and recessed lights with watertight globes are available at home centers and lighting stores. Obtain a light fixture of the same type as the existing fixture and organize a few tools to do the replacement before starting to speed the job along.
Climb a stepladder. For a surface-mount fixture, loosen the setscrews at the upper rim of the globe with pliers and remove the globe. For a recessed fixture, loosen the screws at the face of the globe's rim with a screwdriver and remove the rim and globe. Unscrew and remove the light bulb.
Turn off the breaker for the bathroom circuit at the electrical panel. If the breakers aren't labeled, use an electrical tester to identify the circuit breaker. To do this, set the tester on
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Schmidt was the second woman killed in a domestic violence incident in four months in the Fox Cities.
APPLETON - Education, awareness and
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channeling anger into action were the focus of a vigil honoring the recent victim of a domestic violence shooting in Harrison.
More than 40 friends and supporters came together Friday night — exactly one month after her death — to honor Sara Schmidt, who was killed at the hands of her husband, Robert.
"Each of us at Harbor House and I'm sure all of you here are deeply affected by the murder of Sara Schmidt," said Beth Schnorr, executive director of Harbor House Domestic Abuse Programs. "Shock, anger, grief, rage, I'm sure we've all felt the range of emotions because of her loss. Another life. Another life lost to domestic violence."
On Jan. 9, Schmidt was found dead in a car by police responding to a domestic dispute on Sweet Clover Drive in Harrison. She had at least one gunshot wound.
Robert Schmidt was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound a short time later in the backyard of the residence.
The shooting followed a series
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Anna Hepler is captivated by the way pieces come apart when freed from their moorings.
Anna Hepler's art is a triumph
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of opposites: Though it looks fragile, it also gives an impression of tensile strength. And although she captures the moment of an object's dissolution, she celebrates the charged particles that remain. From installations of string and colored tape to a series of delicate three-dimensional spheres made of covered florist's wire to ink drawings on stacks of Plexiglas, Ms. Hepler tries to convey the moment of controlled explosion. She takes her cue from nature, tapping natural phenomena from tiny dandelion-seed puffs to night-arcing fireworks as inspiration.
Hepler is captivated by the way pieces come apart when suddenly freed from their moorings, like a nebula in space or the flight of birds when a flock simultaneously wheels into the sky. This rearrangement of particulate matter recurs in her work like a theme and variation in music.
The sphere holds ongoing fascination for Hepler, whose recent work is on display – along with that of 12 other New
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The U.S. government is a complete mess. Congress could not even perform its basic constitutional duty to fund the government and had to shut down
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most of the public system. Amid the partisan spectacle, the White House promised that the shutdown would not interfere with a new website for comparing health insurance prices, which is now mandatory under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
Unfortunately, the comparison site, the Insurance Marketplace, is a rash of glitches and delays: parts of the website intermittently crash, some states don’t have the promised calculator for comparing prices, and at least a few states and demographics don’t even have access to the marketplace.
Regardless whether you’re a libertarian, it is exceedingly difficult right now to have faith that government can follow through on its promises.
Since the summer, the Obama administration has been prepping the American people for the introduction of the new healthcare law. A major part of getting everyone to sign up for (mandatory) health coverage is a new website that, for the first time, permits Americans to easily compare prices and plans.
Yet, starting a month ago,
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The Iosco County towns of Tawas and East Tawas, Michigan, which are located on Tawas Bay, a part
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of Lake Huron, offer year-round recreational opportunities. The towns also provide close access to some of the natural wonders of the heavily wooded Huron National Forest, one of only two national forests in Lower Michigan.
Both the cities of Tawas and East Tawas offer public swimming beaches with various amenities, such as playgrounds and picnic areas. The camping areas at City Park in East Tawas are on the beach. Nearby Tawas Point State Park includes a few miles of sandy beaches, either next to the warmer waters of Tawas Bay or the cooler waters of Lake Huron. The park can accommodate either RV or tent campers.
As a fishing spot, Tawas Bay has the advantage of being located at the meeting of the warm waters of Saginaw Bay to the southwest and the cool waters of Lake Huron to the northeast, which help support a diversity of species. Golfers have a number of courses to choose from, including the
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For years MobileIron has been known for its enterprise mobility management suite, allowing CISOs to secure mobile devices, applications and content. Now it has
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become one of the earliest vendors to take advantage of a change in Windows 10 to include management of PCs running that operating system.
On Tuesday the company announced MobileIron Bridge, which it says allows IT to manage several platforms from one console.
The company said Bridge can help organizations to reduce desktop total cost of ownership by up to 80 per cent compared to their existing solutions.
Through Bridge administrators can enforce actions from existing Windows Powershell scripts, edit and manage the Windows registry, deploy non-MSI applications through an enterprise app store and view and manage the file system.
MobileIron will still continue to sell its standard EMM suite, although for customers who want Bridge there is an integrated console.
Competing mobile device-only suites include BlackBerry Good Secure EMM Suite, Mississauga, Ont.’s SOTI, Citrix Xen Mobile, IBM MaaS 360, Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite and VMware Airwatch, The closest competitor to MobileIron Bridge is the Microsoft suite
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A scene for a non-canon Batman movie being produced by a local fan of the comic hero was shot at Morrisson-Reeves
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Library on Tuesday evening.
RICHMOND, Ind. – The Caped Crusader spent some time in Richmond this week during filming for a new movie.
While the film can't be sold or marketed for a profit because the characters being used aren't licensed for the movie by DC Comics, the director said he hopes other Batman fans, and possibly some in Hollywood, might have an appreciation for the final product.
David Carpenter, 32, is the director of the film, and said the idea came to him after dressing up as longtime Batman villain The Joker for Halloween a few years ago. He said from there, he decided he'd like to make a movie focused on the pernicious relationship between the antagonist and Batman himself.
Carpenter said he takes something of a method-acting approach to his portrayal of the Joker, whom he plays in the movie. He said his concept is less about putting on a costume and playing a part than it is giving the villain a unique voice
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CHIANG RAI, Thailand - As a search in northern Thailand for 12 boys and their football coach missing inside a flooded cave entered a sixth
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day on Friday, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha visited the site, offering encouragement to rescuers and comfort to relatives.
The boys, aged between 11 and 16, and their 25-year old assistant coach went missing on Saturday after they decided to explore the Tham Luang cave complex in Chiang Rai province, despite a sign warning visitors that the maze of passages and chambers was prone to flooding.
Bicycles and football shoes belonging to the boys were found near the entrance, and rescue workers think handprints inside the cave could have been left by the group. But the search has so far yielded no other trace.
The race to find the boys has gripped the Southeast Asian nation, and Prayuth spoke to rescue workers before going inside the cave.
"Whatever can be done, do it, the government will back it," said Prayuth. "I'm not worried about the work of the staff but I'm worried about time elapsed for those lost inside
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WASHINGTON — The United States is facing a year or more without crucial satellites that provide invaluable data for predicting storm tracks, a result of years of mis
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management, lack of financing and delays in launching replacements, according to several recent official reviews.
The looming gap in satellite coverage, which some experts view as almost certain within the next few years, could result in shaky forecasts about storms like Hurricane Sandy, which is expected to hit the East Coast early next week.
The endangered satellites fly pole-to-pole orbits and cross the Equator in the afternoon, scanning the entire planet one strip at a time. Along with orbiters on other timetables, they are among the most effective tools used to pin down the paths of major storms about five days ahead.
All this week, forecasters have been relying on such satellites for almost all the data needed to narrow down what were at first widely divergent computer models of what Hurricane Sandy would do next: hit the coast, or veer away into the open ocean?
Right on schedule, the five-day models began to agree on the likeliest answer. By Friday afternoon, the storm�
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Midlothian’s Memorial Park is the new home for the World Wiffle® Ball Championship, taking place this summer July 14
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–15. This four-decade bat and ball operation has grown the sport resulting in a move from South Bend, IN, which has been their home for 33 years to Skokie, IL and now settled in the Chicago Southland. The sheer size of Midlothian Park District’s Memorial Park will allow for growth of the World Wiffle® Ball Championship, which was chosen for its modern six-ball field complex, its proximity to downtown Chicago and two major airports. Lastly, there is a strong Wiffle® following in the Chicago metro area.
Coordinator John Premetz wants to have as many teams as possible, and why not? This sport can be played by a wide range of ages from 12 to 70, playing with perforated plastic Wiffle® Balls, on miniature ball fields with four-foot home run fences. Teams from around the world play annually in the two-day world championship, an open event for male and female w
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We sit down with Michael Simeone, the Director of Data Science and Analytics for the ASU Library, and discuss the opportunities available to students
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interested in working with data. Michael Simeone is in charge of Data Science Week, an event put on by the Library to encourage student interaction and engagement with information and technological resources.
We sit down with computer science senior, Stephen Lockhart, to discuss how he and his team hope to use robotics and computer programming to improve the lives of people with disabilities.
Technology is advancing every day, and with it a need for more powerful systems. As our needs and wants of the digital world expand, the ability for our systems to handle those requests must stay one step ahead. To do this, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working with universities to develop new computing technology.
Griffin Sandidge follows science and tech reporter Jessica Myers as she interviews associate professor Dan Bliss from the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering about the future of transportation.
ASU senior business sustainability major Tad Crother and his team discusses the benefits of downloading their app Shlacker,
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The Seattle Mariners have suspended catcher Steve Clevenger for the remainder of the season without pay, according to Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times.
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Clevenger is being suspended for a pair of tweets that were critical of Barack Obama and black people, saying all those involved with the Black Lives Matter movement should be "locked behind bars like animals."
"As soon as we became aware of the tweets posted by Steve yesterday we began to examine all of our options in regard to his standing on the team. Today we have informed him that he is suspended for the reminder of the season without pay."
Clevenger, who has been sidelined since June with an injury, has a salary this season of $516,500.
There are ten days left in the season which means Clevenger stands to lose approximately $29,000.
Clevenger has played in the big leagues in parts of six seasons with the Cubs, the Orioles, and the Mariners.
"First and foremost I would like to apologize to the Seattle Mariners, my teammates, my family and the fans of our great game for the distraction caused by my tweets
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A man filmed kicking an elderly homeless woman in the face on a train was found and arrested, police said.
Marc Gomez, 36, was
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taken into custody in New York City on Saturday after video captured him allegedly attacking the 78-year-old woman, leaving her bloodied on a subway train in the Bronx in the early morning of March 10.
The New York Police Department released surveillance photos and video of the ‘unprovoked’ attack Friday and Gomez was arrested the following afternoon.
According to police, the victim is homeless and did not knew Gomez before the incident. She suffered swelling, bleeding, and cuts to the face.
‘Thank you to the worldwide community for the tremendous assistance,’ Shea wrote. He did not say how they tracked down the suspect.
Edward Delatorre, New York Police Chief of Transit, first acknowledged the attack on Twitter on March 22. A police spokesperson did not know if the department was aware of the attack between March 10 and March 22, People reported.
Gomez was charged with assault and harassment and is being held in lieu of $30,000 bail
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Mother: Why doesn't the state limit restraint of children in child care centers?
DENISON, Ia. — Reward the good behavior;
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give minimal attention to the bad.
That’s the plan Sarah Lundin, a mother of two boys, worked out with caregivers at Children’s Imagination Station in Denison to deal with the boys' sometimes challenging behavior.
One of the brothers was 10, the other 8. Both were diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder. The older boy had anxiety and PTSD. The youngest, ADHD. The behaviors, she said, began after both boys were traumatized in their earlier years.
But last year, a new day care director was hired and everything changed, according to Lundin, an OB-GYN surgeon.
In a civil lawsuit rare in Iowa, the mother alleges director Kim Larson and assistant director Amanda Musfeldt used physical restraint, assault and intimidation to control her children. She has accused them of negligence, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
A trial date for the case has yet to be set.
Lundin contacted Watchdog because
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Roz McGregor from London, took her own life earlier this summer, following the May 26 death of Gaetan Mootoo, a well
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-known researcher for West Africa.
McGregor was a paid intern working for a team that lobbied at the United Nations in Geneva.
Rights group Amnesty International said on Monday it will conduct "full and independent external inquiries" into the suicides of two of its staff in the last three months.
Roz McGregor, 28, from London, took her own life earlier this summer, following the May 26 death of Gaetan Mootoo, a well-known researcher for West Africa.
"We are treating these tragedies with the gravity and priority they deserve, and will be holding full and independent external inquiries," Colm O Cuanachain, Amnesty's acting-secretary general, said in a statement.
"We can never compare the impact the two tragedies have on the families to our reactions within Amnesty.
"But we too are shocked and devastated at the loss of our beloved colleague Gaetan Mootoo, and a brilliant and inspiring young woman, Roz
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Police charged April Martineau, 28, with fourth-degree grand larceny — a class E felony — and third-degree falsely reporting
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an incident, a misdemeanor, after she allegedly lied about a burglary at her home and later admitted to keeping more than $2,000 worth of cash and checks raised during a fall 2008 Girl Scout cookie sale.
It’s one thing to get caught with your hand in the cookie jar, but it’s a lot more serious if the jar turns up missing entirely.
Bath-based state police on Monday charged April Martineau, 28, of Troupsburg, with fourth-degree grand larceny — a class E felony — and third-degree falsely reporting an incident, a misdemeanor, after she allegedly lied about a burglary at her home and later admitted to keeping more than $2,000 worth of cash and checks raised during a fall 2008 Girl Scout cookie sale.
According to troopers, Martineau allegedly reported a burglary at her home on Dec. 8, 2008, and claimed $1,200 in cash and $1,000 in checks raised for
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ozens in what authorities described as terrorist attacks.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 15 points, or 0.1%, to 17639 after
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falling early in the session. The S&P 500 gained 0.2%, while the Nasdaq Composite added 0.4%.
The Stoxx Europe 600 fell more than 1.3% before paring losses to 0.2%.
In recent years, financial markets have reacted swiftly to attacks in Western cities before quickly recovering. Markets from equities to bonds and gold were little disrupted by the killing of at least 129 people in Paris last November.
The market "has largely grown numb to them and shrugged them off," said Keith Bliss, senior vice president at brokerage Cuttone & Co. "Unless we see another attack on the heels of this or another attack in a major metropolitan center...I don't think the market's going to react."
Travel and leisure stocks, however, fell after the explosions hit Brussels' international airport and a subway station near European Union institutions. Belgian officials shut down the entire public transport network in Brussels
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MANILA, January 12, 2004 (STAR) By Marianne V. Go - In his first press conference as Trade and Industry Secretary, C
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esar A.V. Purisima assured that in the short six month time frame that he has initially set for himself, he would basically adhere to President Arroyo’s 8-Point Agenda concentrating on four of the eight points and follow through on programs started by his predecessor, Manuel A. Roxas II.
The four points which Purisima would concentrate on are job creation, stabilizing prices, improving infrastructure to encourage more businesses and improving health through the cheap medicine program.
Purisima admitted that he has no "preconceived notions" about his new position and that he has no intention of making any "earthshaking changes" in the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in the six months that he may hold is office.
However, Purisima noted, there is still a lot of things he can do and he would thus focus on execution or getting things done.
First and foremost, Purisima said, he would like to encourage
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China on Thursday signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on industrial cooperation under much trumpeted China Pakistan
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Economic Corridor (CPEC) during JCC meeting held at Beijing.
Informed sources told The News on Thursday night that size of the CPEC would remain at $46 billion for the moment but both sides agreed to include socio-economic development framework and execution of Gwadar projects in accordance with agreed timelines.
According to official statement saying that Federal Minister for Planning Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar has reiterated Pakistan’s firm commitment to CPEC which he termed as the heart and soul of Pakistan-China economic cooperation.
Bakhtiar made these remarks in Beijing at the 8th meeting of the CPEC JCC which he co-chaired with Chinese Vice Chairman of NDRC Ning Jizhe. Chief Minister of Sindh Murad Ali Shah, Chairman Board of Investment Haroon Sharif, and representatives of provincial governments and officials of both sides attended the meeting.
Highlights of the JCC included conclusion of a MoU on Industrial Cooperation and establishing a
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Meet Lentil, a 5-month-old French bulldog who was born with a severe, double sided cleft in his hard and soft
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palate, lip and nose.
Lentil now works as an "ambassadog," helping adults and children with cranial and facial deformities.
Lentil was born with the congenital defect. His breeder decided to give him away, and he was soon fostered by Lindsay Condefer, a former technician at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine who volunteers with the French Bulldog Rescue Network of Philadelphia.
Cleft palates and lips happen to dogs, just like humans.
"Many people assume this is a breed issue. While it is true we see broad-faced and short-faced dogs, they can occur in any breed. It's not necessarily a genetic issue," Dr. Alexander Reiter, the chief of the dentistry and oral surgery service at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, told CBSNews.com.
Dogs typically present with a unilateral cleft on the left side of the snout. What made Lentil's case
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The Ghana Football Association has announced the technical team of the senior national female team, the Black Queens ahead of the upcoming WAFU tournament to be
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held in Cote D’Ivoire next month.
Coach Mercy Tagoe who led the Black Queens to win gold at the last edition of the competition has been appointed once again as head coach of the team for the WAFU tournament.
Ampem Darkoa coach Nana Joe Adarkwah will assist Madam Tagoe with Raymond Fenny as Goalkeepers trainer.
Other members of the team’s technical team include Kate Boachie Agyeman(Team Doctor), Margaret Foli (Physiotherapist) and Rosemary Asiedua (Team Nurse).
Ex Ghana international Anita Wiredu is the new Welfare manager for the Black Queens with Patience Quarshie as the Kits manager.
The team will begin camping in Cape Coast from Monday April 15 ahead of the tournament which will be staged from May 8- 18 in Abidjan.
Ghana won the last edition after beating current Ivory Coast by a lone goal in the final match
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Joe Slaughter of Itasca spent 10 days in Los Angeles recently, but he wasn't on vacation. He was auditioning for stardom.
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Slaughter, 20, auditioned for the Fox reality show "So You Think You Can Dance."
The judges for the show chose dancers from Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, who will compete in a "dance-off" for 12 weeks. Viewers ultimately choose the winner.
Slaughter earned the trip to the West Coast after passing an audition at the Chicago Theatre. He tried out with other dancers from his dance company, Xtreme Dance Force, based out of Shelly Mack's Dance Experience in Naperville. He was among about 30 other Chicago-area dancers to make it to L.A. but was cut after 10 days. "We danced like seven hours a day," he said. "But it was some of the best dancing I've ever gotten, and I learned there's a lot of awesome talent and choreography out there."
Although Slaughter teaches dance at three studios and will be attending College of DuPage in the fall to study business and real
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Airbnb is tackling privacy concerns after several customers found hidden cameras at their rental properties. The company told CBS News it "takes privacy extremely seriously
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and there is absolutely no place in our community for this kind of behavior."
Airbnb requires hosts to disclose to guests prior to their stay if they have any cameras on their property. The company says cameras are "never allowed in bathrooms or bedrooms" but that doesn't always stop ill-intentioned hosts from hiding them, reports CBS News correspondent Anna Werner.
"I was like this could be like the day that I get killed or worse, I don't know," said Meghan Hilden.
The 22-year-old from Washington State was in Switzerland in 2016 when she says a friend discovered a cellphone under the sink in the bathroom at their Airbnb.
"We saw that the phone was filming and we were whispering and trying to be very quiet. We weren't sure if it was being live streamed," Hilden said.
Soon after, Hilden says they found an iPad also recording. They quickly left, and reported the incident to the company.
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The Good Sharp new design; tons of business-friendly features; highly configurable; excellent battery.
The Bad Merely average performance;
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somewhat heavy.
The Bottom Line A total revamp of Dell's ubiquitous business laptop line, the Latitude E6400 offers Intel's latest Centrino 2 mobile platform and introduces a brushed-metal design that works at home or office, but the real highlight here is the long battery life.
Now the Latitude line is getting a long-deserved makeover, and the most striking break from the traditional gray look is the new black brushed metal design. In a Latitude first, select models will soon be available in Regatta Blue and Regal Red (but not at launch).
The E6400 is powered by Intel's Centrino 2 platform, and our $2,007 review unit was packed with extras, from a backlit keyboard to a desktop-speed 7,200rpm hard drive. In typical Dell fashion, the starting price is a very reasonable $1,139, but almost everything, from the fingerprint reader to the Webcam, to a built-
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Being a DJ one of my biggest grievances with iTunes is the silent gap that iTunes (and the iPod) inserts between songs. For a lot of
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people this "gap" isn't a big deal because the music they listen to was intended to have a second or two of silence between tracks.
Being a DJ one of my biggest grievances with iTunes is the silent gap that iTunes (and the iPod) inserts between songs. For a lot of people this "gap" isn't a big deal because the music they listen to was intended to have a second or two of silence between tracks. The problem is with music that was intended to play from one song into another without gaps like DJ mixes, live performances, operatic rock 'n roll, jam bands and classical.
One gapless workaround was to rip your CDs into a single long AIFF then load that onto your iPod, but the disadvantage is that you lose individual tracks' ID3 tags. You can now skip between tracks by exporting the file with chapters, but who wants to go through all the trouble? A less elegant cheat is to enable iTunes' Crossfade Playback option in
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1. Bundle up under a beanie or ear warmer that actually adds to your outfit.
Get the hat from Forever 21 for $7.
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90 and the crown ear warmer from Aerie for $15.95.
2. Layer a turtleneck under a summer dress so you can wear your favorite pieces year-round.
Get a non-bulky cropped turtleneck from Forever 21 for $7.90 (sizes S–L) or a layering turtleneck from Land's End for $29.50 (sizes XS–3X).
3. Tuck a pair of Ugg liners into your fashionable boots for an extra dose of warmth and cushion.
So you can actually wear your cute boots all winter long.
4. Master the art of tucking jeans into your boots without any bunching.
5. Keep your shoes looking spiffy with a leather conditioner that restores AND protects.
6. Break dumb rules by dressing in effortlessly cool winter white.
No white after Labor Day? BUH-BYE.
7. Get the pills off your
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The head of Germany’s Jewish umbrella organization is calling on Germany to review – and possibly cancel – pension payments to former SS members who were
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injured during World War II, and who are living abroad.
Schuster spoke with the newspaper Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, which reported that more than 2,000 former SS soldiers outside Germany receive state pensions averaging about $370 a month, plus special health care allowances. Some recipients are non-German collaborators, who were injured while serving with the Nazi forces. They reportedly had been promised pensions by the Nazi authorities.
The benefits come through the Federal Pension Act, which was passed in 1950 to support war victims, whether civilians or veterans of the Wehrmacht or Waffen-SS.
Germany is already checking on the cases of four retirees living in the Netherlands. According to German law, membership in the SS alone is not a reason for denying a pension or compensation claim. The individual must be found to have participated in crimes against humanity or the rule of law, the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung reported.
Germany’s Ministry
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Joindre Capital Services is bullish on Sequent Scientific has recommended buy rating on the stock with a target price of Rs 116 in its research report
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dated April 15, 2019.
Incorporated in 1985, SeQuent Scientific Ltd (SSL) undertakes its animal health business via Alivira Animal Health Limited, which is engaged in manufacturing veterinary APIs and formulations. Earlier SSL was engaged in the manufacturing human APIs, which has been demerged with effect from October, 2017. SSL is now involved in manufacturing ‗Praziquantel‘– a human and animal API and intermediates. SSL‘s subsidiary - SeQuent Research Limited - offers analytical services to the pharma industry. SSL‘s (consolidated) portfolio consists of about 23 commercial products in animal health API and over 500 products across 12 dosage forms. Post demerger of the human API business, it has 7 manufacturing facilities across India, Spain,Turkey, Brazi and Germany.
SeQuent trades at a attractive EV/EBIDTA of 11x on FY21E and hence we believe that the SeQuent
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Also: Police looking for three women in CVS theft; three charged after being caught with drugs in a car; man gave police a fake name
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SHIPPENSBURG - Jason Allen Cromer, Carlisle, is charged with drug delivery resulting in death in connection with the fatal overdose of an individual who was found dead April 5 in Shippensburg.
Testing determined the victim, 35, had ingested acryl fentanyl, a derivative of fentanyl.
Police identified Cromer as the person they believe provided the drugs to the victim, and an arrest warrant was issued on April 17. The Cumberland County Probation and Parole Department apprehended Cromer on April 18.
In addition to drug delivery resulting in death, Cromer is charged with criminal use of a communications facility; manufacture, delivery or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver; and involuntary manslaughter.
A preliminary hearing was held April 23. Cromer is being held on $200,000 bail pending a trial.
RETAIL THEFT: Police are looking for three women who are suspected of stealing makeup from CVS, 415 E. Queen St
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Montgomerie said he'll use all 12 of his players on the opening day of play.
CHAMBOURCY, France
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(AP) -- European captain Colin Montgomerie told his players who their partners will be in the opening series of matches next month against the United States in the Ryder Cup.
Montgomerie would not reveal his pairings for the fourballs and foursomes, but said Wednesday that he will use all 12 members of the team on opening day.
He did disclose two likely pairings. Brothers Francesco and Edoardo Molinari will play a match together, as will Northern Irish pair Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell.
The United States begins defense of its title on Oct. 1 at Celtic Manor in Wales.
"I know who is going to be on that first tee on Friday," Montgomerie said. "Barring, of course, accident or illness or a complete lack of comfort by a player with that position.
"And the players know already. It's important to let the players know earlier than not. There's no
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Yusuf Carter’s cheering section picked a good game to attend.
With a section of family members and friends looking on from just
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in front of the press box, Carter collected three hits and three RBIs Saturday night as the Patriots dropped the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs 8-3 at TD Bank Ballpark.
As part of an unlikely six-run explosion in the first inning, Justin Huber had a RBI single and Josh Pressley and Jeff Nettles had back-to-back RBI doubles. Carter capped the rally with a two-run home run.
Southern Maryland starter Brian Slocum entered the game with a sub-2.00 ERA.
Derrick Gordon was brilliant for the second time in as many starts since joining the Patriots. He struck out eight and allowed one run in six innings to improve to 2-0.
The complexion of Father’s Day changed for Jason Anderson inside of an intensive care unit.
Seven months ago, in that emotional setting, he and his wife, Brittany, broke the news that they were expecting their first child to Jason’s cancer-str
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Stickis, which we covered briefly back in October last year is launching its service this afternoon. Stickis, at first glance is a Fire
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Fox and Internet Explorer plugin much like other web annotation programs, such as Fleck, Diigo, and Trailfire. Stickis does do the webpage “sticky note” annotation of these programs. However, Stickis is not just about marking up a single page. It is about creating and subscribing to “channels” of these notes and other data sources.
The channels can consist of notes left by people, RSS feeds (blogs), and even specialized data channels for web services such as OpenTable or Yelp. When you subscribe to a channel, be it another user’s “sticky notes” or Yelp reviews, that channel is added to your network and begins to populate, in reverse chronological order, a collapsible tray that’s tucked away on the side of your browser screen. Then, when you visit a page, such as TechCrunch, that tray is populated with summaries of any related notes or reviews from you network through an analysis
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Close to Torre Materita, in the charming Via Vecchia del Faro there is Villa Casa Tua, a villa
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of authentic beauty and elegance. The villa, accessible by car, with large parking for up to eight cars, stands in all its stunning grandeur. A garden of 5,000 sqm surrounds and divides it from other properties, large spaces and large panoramic terraces make it a place of great charm. The villa is divided into two units. The ground floor features a large living room, a dining room, a kitchen and a master bedroom with dressing room and en-suite bathroom. A space with showers and dressing room, serving the swimming pool, complete this first unit. The second unit consists of a living room that leads to a magnificent terrace from which it seems to touch the island of Ischia. There are also three bedrooms and two bathrooms as well as a kitchen that give direct access to the back of the terrace. The terrace, a true marvel of this property, surrounds this floor. The stunning views and the backside area equipped with wood-
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Police are now trying to find out if there is surveillance video showing actor Philip Seymour Hoffman withdrawing money from an ATM on the day before his death.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman withdrew $1,200 from an ATM at a supermarket near his New York City apartment the night before he was found lifeless in his bathroom with a syringe still in his left arm, sources told NBC News.
The Oscar-winning actor, 46, withdrew the money in six transactions while talking to two men wearing messengers bags around 8 p.m. Saturday, sources said, citing bank records.
Hoffman was found dead hours later in his Greenwich Village apartment after an apparent drug overdose.
Law enforcement officials told NBC News on Monday that officials who searched Hoffman's apartment found 49 full bags of heroin, 23 empty bags of heroin, four bags of white powder believed to be cocaine, as well as various prescription drugs.
Detectives are investigating whether Hoffman purchased the drugs the night before he was found dead. No amount of money approaching $1,200 was discovered during the search of the apartment.
Investigators are trying to piece together Hoffman's last hours.
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ADDIS ABABA, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Ethiopian Airlines and the government of Chad have signed an agreement to launch Chad’s
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new national carrier on Oct. 1, officials said on Friday.
Ethiopia’s state-owned flag carrier is in talks with a number of African states to acquire stakes and manage operations - a strategy aimed at gaining a competitive advantage against rivals such as those in the Gulf.
The airline is ranked by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) as the largest carrier in Africa by revenue and profit, outpacing regional competitors Kenya Airways and South African Airways.
On Friday, the head of Chad’s Civil Aviation Authority Mahamat Adjam told Reuters the new company will be named ‘Tchadia Airlines’, with the government owning 51 percent and Ethiopian Airlines the rest.
“The inaugural flight is planned for October 1 but the first destination has yet to be determined,” he said, adding the carrier would start off with a fleet of two Bombardier Q400 turboprop planes.
“It (the airline) will serve
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Although the men’s cross country team is just two races into the 2010 season, only two weeks stand between the Red and Oct. 29
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’s Heps. While most of Cornell’s fall teams have numerous competitions or games under their belts at this stage in the season, the Red will enter the postseason with questions rather than answers based on the team’s performances at the Army and Paul Short races. After all, despite a comfortable margin of victory over West Point’s perennially competitive squad, Cornell fell to two Ivy league teams — Columbia and Dartmouth — at the Paul Short Invitational on Oct. 1.
However, due to the training cycles typical of distance running, the Red’s senior members are concerned less with results at this stage of the season, and more with quality of running in hard workouts and training.
“The meets so far have been a little less than what we would have hoped for, but we’ve had a pretty solid week of training and people are feeling really good moving into the championship races,” said senior Nate Edelman, who led Cornell at
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