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The average American worker loses 11.3 days in lost productivity annually because of insomnia; that is equivalent to a loss of $2,280 each
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, researchers report in the journal Sleep. Insomnia is a condition characterized by difficulty falling asleep and remaining asleep. It includes a wide spectrum of sleep disorders, from not enough sleep to lack of quality sleep.
"We were shocked by the enormous impact insomnia has on the average person's life. It's an underappreciated problem. Americans are not missing work because of insomnia. They are still going to their jobs but accomplishing less because they're tired. In an information-based economy, it's difficult to find a condition that has a greater effect on productivity."
Transient insomnia - symptoms last for only a few days or weeks at the most.
Acute (short-term) insomnia - symptoms last for several weeks.
Chronic insomnia - symptoms last for some months and even years.
All age groups can be affected by insomnia. More adult females are affected than adult males.
Insomnia can lead to anxiety, depression, obesity, poor work/school performance.
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Mitch McConnell bought Susan Collins’ vote on tax cuts by promising a vote on an Obamacare fix before year’s end. Facing
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a government shutdown, they caved to House conservatives.
The writing was on the wall for weeks, but Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) on Wednesday backed off of her push for a bipartisan Obamacare stabilization package that was threatening a government shutdown.
The legislation, crafted by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA), has broad bipartisan support in the Senate, but House Republicans have said the measure is dead on arrival there. Keeping the government open is a two-way street—and, for that reason, Collins announced that she was asking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to punt on Alexander-Murray until next year.
“Rather than considering a broad year-end funding agreement as we expected, it has become clear that Congress will only be able to pass another short-term extension to prevent a government shutdown and to continue a few essential programs,” Collins and Alexander said in a joint statement.
Collins secured a
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A daughter, Isabella Grace Bishop, was born to Joseph and Erin Bishop of East Jordan on Oct. 19, 2007, at Charlevo
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ix Area Hospital. Isabella weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces at birth. Her sibling is Madison Bishop.
A son, Jonah Paul Denherder, was born to Jesse and Tara Denherder of Central Lake on Oct. 23, 2007, at Charlevoix Area Hospital. Jonah weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounce at birth. Grandparents are Alan and Kathy Dewey of Central Lake, Charles and Mary LaPointe of Central Lake, and Paul and Ann Denherder of Haslett.
A daughter, Gracie Luella Gasco, was born to Darin Gasco and Jamie Hingston of Petoskey at 12:58 p.m. on Oct. 26, 2007, at Northern Michigan Hospital. Gracie weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounce and was 19 1/2 inches long at birth. Her siblings are Alexis and Acacia. Grandparents are the late Danny Gasco of Cross Vilalge, L'Vonna Gasco of Cheboygan
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Fast-moving slaughter lines are cruelly killing foul, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture records. Nearly one million chickens and tur
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keys are unintentionally boiled alive every year in U.S. slaughterhouses. Often, the accidental deaths occur because fast-moving lines fail to kill birds before they are dropped into scalding water.
In slaughterhouses across the country, live birds are shackled by the legs and hung upside down before they are electrically stunned and automated blades slice off their necks, allowing the blood to drain from their bodies. If the birds’ necks miss the blade, they are boiled alive and cannot be sold because the blood remaining in the corpse can breed bacteria and turns the skin bright red. Animal welfare groups have lobbied slaughterhouses to switch to a more humane killing process, commonly used in the European Union, which knocks birds unconscious using carbon dioxide or other gases.
With Thanksgiving approaching, more pain-filled poultry deaths are sure to come. The USDA is finalizing a proposal that will allow companies to accelerate their lines even more in order to remove pathogens from the food supply and increase efficiency. Rather than
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), along with a coalition of other medical groups, have submitted new recommended guidelines focused on young children’
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s consumption of sugary drinks.
The groups are calling on lawmakers to find ways to reduce the amount of exposure children have to sugary beverages. Within its list of suggestions, the groups are proposing that regulators increase the price of certain drinks by imposing an excise tax. While costs would likely be passed on to consumers, the groups say that the problem of overconsuming sugary drinks is a public health issue.
“Excess consumption of added sugars, especially from sugary drinks, contributes to the high prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity, especially among children and adolescents who are socioeconomically vulnerable,” the authors said.
The groups cite research which shows that children and adolescents consume 17 percent of their calories from added sugars, with sugary drinks representing the number one source. Those numbers fall well above recommended guidelines and have virtually no health benefit.
Sugary drinks “provide little to no nutritional value, are high in energy density, and do little to increase feelings of
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Netflix vs HBO: Is the Rivalry as Intense as it Seems?
Netflix has long identified HBO as one of its biggest competitors for content
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, and "Netflix vs. HBO" comparisons are fairly common. Is the rivalry between the two companies as big as it's made out to be, though?
When you think of competitors to Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), the first things that might come to mind are Amazon.com's (NASDAQ:AMZN) Instant Video service and other video streaming services like Hulu. If you were to ask Netflix CEO Reed Hastings about the company's competition, however, he might give you a different answer. Last June, Time Warner's (NYSE:TWX.DL) HBO was singled out as Netflix's "biggest, long-term competitor for content" in an investor relations document on the company's long-term view of its business.
What this means is that HBO presents a threat not only to Netflix in regard to where viewers are getting their entertainment, but also to the content that Netflix is able to offer. The cable network can secure exclusive contracts that limit the content
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Tributes have been paid to a former teacher and railway campaigner who died after being hit by a car in South Yorkshire.
Robin Sisson,
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51, of Saltaire, used to teach at Bradford Grammar School before pursuing a career in his greatest passion, the railway industry.
Mr Sisson was instrumental in the re-opening of Frizinghall railway station and has campaigned for rail users’ interests both in Yorkshire and the North West.
At the time of his death he was working as assistant editor for Today’s Rail UK magazine, based in Sheffield, where he commuted to from his home in Helen Street.
Tim Calor, chairman of the Aire Valley Rail Users’ Group, said: “He was a lovely person – a gentleman who was concerned for people using the train and did a great deal of work, both voluntarily and professionally, representing them.
“He was involved in representing rail passenger interests for a number of years.
The incident which led to Mr Sisson’s death occurred in Sheffield at about 7pm last Tuesday.
He had worked in the city at
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Phoenix, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) - Isaiah Thomas finally got the Phoenix Suns over the hump.
Thomas had 23 points off the bench
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and the Suns defeated the San Antonio Spurs 94-89 on Friday night.
After the Suns came close many times throughout the game to take a lead over the defending champs, Thomas blew past Boris Diaw in the open floor to finally put the hosts in front 88-87 with 3:34 left.
San Antonio trailed 92-89 with 6.5 seconds remaining following a timeout, but Diaw was whistled for a five-second violation just before he signaled for a 20-second timeout. Eric Bledsoe sunk two game-clinching free throws at the other end.
Markieff Morris posted 20 points and 11 rebounds, Eric Bledsoe tallied 12 points and nine boards and Alex Len provided his first career double-double, 10 points and 11 rebounds, off the pine for Phoenix, which beat the Los Angeles Lakers in its season opener Wednesday.
"The way he was playing with his length had a real effect on the game," Suns head coach
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It’s time for the pay TV industry’s annual slap in the face from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, which surveys 70
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,000 people about the products and services they use most. Cable and satellite distributors always fare badly in these polls — but this year’s results are especially disturbing after a slight uptick last year. The companies’ pay TV services collectively scored 65 out of 100, down 4.4% from last year, making subscription TV the second-least liked of the 43 industries ACSI tracks. What’s worse? Internet service providers, with a score of 63, down 3.1% — and which mostly consists of the same companies. People “question the value proposition as both, as consumers pay for more than they need in terms of subscription TV and get less than they want in terms of Internet speeds and reliability,” ACSI Chairman Claes Fornell says.
Time Warner Cable‘s at the bottom of both the pay TV and ISP lists (pay TV: 56, -7%, and ISP: 54, -14%). Second to last is its potential
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Thought-forms are energetic beings created for the purpose of performing a task. Some practitioners of the Craft, including myself, use Thought-forms
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for a variety of intents and purposes.
They have been called by various name throughout history. The Tulpa, a type of Thought-form, dates back to ancient Tibetan Buddhism. There are also certain instances where the term “Fetch” is used as a name for them. I tend to avoid using the word Fetch because, in Irish folklore, the appearance of a Fetch–or double of a person–has ominous tones and generally portends the death of the person it’s mimicking. I use the word “Seeker” for Thought-forms, as this was the term used in one of the magical traditions I studied.
Thought-forms are created by the practitioner energetically by raising and concentrating energy. The exact purpose or intent of it is up to the practitioner and their own Craft practices and guidelines. Once created, Thought-forms can work independently from their creator. A common practice is the use of them for assistance on
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KIM Kardashian is among a host of celebrities calling for tighter gun controls after a gunman went on a rampage at a school in Florida on Valentine's
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Day.
Expelled student Nikolas Cruz, 19, returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School armed with an assault rifle and opened fire at students and teachers.
Chilling images posted on Instagram show the shooter, who remains in police custody, posing with guns and knives as fellow pupils admit they "knew he would shoot up the school".
His actions prompted the likes of singer Nancy Sinatra, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and actress Reese Witherspoon to call for stronger gun restrictions in the wake of the atrocity on Wednesday.
The Keeping Up With The Kardashian's star called on the US government to do more to protect children and teachers.
Writing on Twitter, she said: "We owe it to our children and our teachers to keep them safe while at school. Prayers won't do this: action will.
"Congress, please do your job and protect Americans from senseless gun violence."
Actress Julianne Moore tweeted: "The
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What would have happened if all that rain were snow?
While western Massachusetts saw up to 12 inches of snow from the nor’easter
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, several inches of rain fell across most of the state.
The Massachusetts coast has been slammed with devastating flooding and brutal winds during the last 24 hours.
But the nor’easter that sent ocean water surging into roads and knocked out power for thousands of residents across eastern Massachusetts failed to bring one notable impact to most of the state: snow.
While parts of western Massachusetts got up to 12 inches of snow, most of the state saw driving rain. The Greater Boston area got between 2 and 3 inches of rain, and East Bridgewater got almost six.
If all that rain were snow, the storm could would’ve had a very different impact.
National Weather Service Meteorologist Lenore Correia told Boston.com that on average, one inch of rain can equal 10 inches of snow — meaning that parts of the state that saw 5 inches of rain could have gotten 50 inches of snow.
“[It] likely would have been considered a blizzard, given
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The main reason for this failure rate is an inability to access funding, but in the case of Adept Airmotive, a high-tech
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aircraft engine designer and manufacturer, the company’s directors blame a government agency tasked with developing innovative businesses and the strings attached to the money for the firm’s troubles.
Its executives are pointing fingers at the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), the department of science and technology’s agency meant to push innovation in South Africa, for making the company a casualty of the chaos that has afflicted the agency since its inception.
The agency, established in 2008, receives in the region of R400-million a year to facilitate innovation in the country. Technological innovation and spin-off technology companies are seen as a way to bolster economic growth and job creation.
The TIA was envisioned as a way to close the gap between innovation and marketable product, but has been fraught with controversy. Earlier this year, the agency’s former chief executive, Simphiwe Duma, and the chief financial officer, Barbara Kortjass, were fired for gross misconduct, and
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Open top double decker buses will be providing extensive tours around the island from Saturday. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi.
Eight
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open top double-decker buses will take to Malta's roads on Saturday - 14 years after their owner applied for a road licence.
Painted white, with Malta Sightseeing emblazoned on the side in red and orange letters, the open top buses will be taking sightseers on three-hour, hop-on, hop-off tours - one around the north and another to the south of the island.
Another two buses will be on the roads soon.
Nazzareno Abela, owner of Cancu Supreme Garage, said the problem with the licence was due to the fact that no new licences for route buses were being granted. However, the authorities had finally granted a new form of licence for sightseeing buses.
The south-bound tour will be the first to be wheeled out, with the other starting in about a month's time.
Leaving from the Sliema Ferries, the south-bound tour will take passengers to some
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WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve said Friday it expects the U.S. economy will strengthen and warrant further gradual increases in its key interest rate.
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That rate forecast was included in the Fed’s semi-annual monetary report to Congress, which Chair Janet Yellen will deliver to Congress next week. The Fed has raised interest rates three times since December, pushing its benchmark rate to a range of 1 per cent to 1.25 per cent. The Fed noted that policymakers still expect one more rate hike this year and another three hikes in 2018.
The Fed said this projected pace of hikes would still allow the labour market to keep strengthening and inflation to climb to the Fed’s 2 per cent target. The Fed also signalled that it expects to begin reducing its massive bond holdings this year.
The Fed’s “Monetary Policy Report,” presented twice a year, cited a number of reasons to be optimistic about the economy.
The report said while consumer spending, which accounts for 70 per cent of economic activity, was sluggish at the start of 2017, it “appears to have rebounded recently
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"We're not looking for Series A, we're looking for Series Awesome," OnSwipe cofounder Jason Baptiste announced at TechStars NYC
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in April.
Today OnSwipe announced that it has raised $5 million. Investors include Yuri Milner, Lerer Ventures, Betaworks, and SV Angel.
OnSwipe is a platform that makes it easy for publishers to create an app-like mobile and tablet experience in under three minutes.
Essentially, OnSwipe wants to kill apps. But Steve Jobs is a big fish to fry. We asked Baptiste how he thinks Jobs will feel about his ambition.
"I actually think Apple loves what we're up to since we provide a great experience for iPad users," says Baptiste. "Their goal isn't to sell apps, but to sell iPads. If the publications we power let that happen, then we're on the same page."
"People always say, 'Oh, Steve Jobs is gonna want to kill you.' I say, 'Actually, if anything he'll give me a hug or a fist pound. Steve and I are bros!"
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The Conservative Political Action Conference is facing backlash from... conservatives.
It began when it was reported that gay Republican groups like the Log Cabin Republicans and
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GOProud would not be in attendance at this year's conservative confab in Washington, D.C. GOProud, in fact, was banned before last year's event and was not welcomed back this year, either.
There was more trouble for CPAC when, this week, the chair of the American Conservative Union, which organizes the conference, explained that CPAC snubbed super-popular New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie because he opted in to the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, and put too much pressure on congressional Republicans who were blocking Hurricane Sandy aid.
Since some Republicans have been trying to appeal to a broader swath of the electorate, these decisions were naturally going to irk a few people.
First, S.E. Cupp, a conservative pundit on MSNBC's "The Cycle," pulled out of the event in protest of the exclusion of GOProud. "I've been thinking about this a lot, and I know a lot of people on my side of the aisle
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LITTLE Mix are set to perform on the Strictly Come Dancing semi-final this weekend.
Little Mix are set to make history
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with their Strictly Come Dancing performance, it's been confirmed.
Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards are preparing to perform on the semi-finals of the BBC ballroom competition this weekend.
The foursome have now confirmed that they will be performing alongside an all-female band and all-female dancers, the first time in the show's 14-year history that a guest performer has done so.
Announcing the news on their official Twitter account, the girls told their 11.6 million followers: "We're so excited for this one!
Strictly Come Dancing final 2018: When is the series final? What time is it on?
"Your girls are gonna be performing on @bbcstrictly this Sunday and it's the first time all the dancers and band will be women. Make sure you tune in to @BBCOne at 7:15PM GMT."
Fans immediately reacted to the
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Join us for Stanford’s largest entrepreneurship event of the year, as our finalists compete for their share of 150K! The Grand Finale
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of three BASES competitions: E-Challenge, Social E-Challenge, and Product Showcase.
For the first time in our history, we will have the finalists of E-Challenge and Social E-Challenge pitching to the public in the morning, beginning at 9:00 am, followed by a private judging session in the afternoon. Product Showcase will take place in McCaw Hall, beginning at 12:30 pm.
What is BASES? BASES is a student group dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship education and empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs at Stanford University. E-Challenge is our competition focused on ventures in healthcare, cleantech, mobile, and web ventures. Social E-Challenge is for ideas focused on creating social good. Product Showcaseis a hybrid demo day/science fair for teams to showcase their products.
Addy is changing how we share locations by enabling people to “create an address” in the form of a short,
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Mariners manager Scott Servais said he was happy with Kikuchi’s approach out of the gate, but Cleveland’s hitters jumped
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on Kikuchi early enough to gain a lead they never lost.
“His stuff wasn’t like he was trying to get it ramped up or whatever, it was right there from the get-go,” Servais said.
Following Jose Ramirez’s solo shot, Kikuchi retired 12 of the final 13 batters he faced, including collecting four of his five strikeouts in his final three innings. Through six innings pitched, he allowed the three earned runs on five hits, and walked three.
He said it’s difficult to pinpoint why he’s struggled in the early innings, but been able to throw so efficiently later on in starts.
Kikuchi exited the game trailing by three runs, and while the Mariners (13-6) did rally with four runs over the final four frames — including three on back-to-back home runs by Edwin Encarnacion and Omar Narvaez in the eighth — they couldn’t muster
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Qatar Foundation (QF) and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education have signed a memorandum of understanding to further enhance the calibre of pre
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-university education in Qatar.
More than 307,000 students will return to school on Wednesday, after the Ministry of Education and Higher Education completed its preparation for the new academic year 2018-2019.
The Department of Assessment of Schools at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education will start implementing the second phase of the comprehensive educational questionnaire, which includes parents, students and teachers.
The Ministry of Education and Higher Education, represented by the Department of Early Education, held the second annual forum for parents in "Maharati" (My Skills) project.
His Highness the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani's speech to citizens and residents on July 21 has inspired the Ministry of Education and Higher Education’s priorities for the new academic year, HE the Minister Dr Mohamed Abdul Wahed Ali al-Hammadi has said.
The Ministry of Economy and Commerce (MEC) has announced the launch of an initiative that provides the private sector with promising investment opportunities
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Persistent depressive disorder, formerly known as dysthymic disorder (also known as dysthymia or chronic depression), was renamed in the
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DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Dysthymia is also known as chronic depression, because the primary feature of persistent depressive disorder is a depressed mood that doesn’t go away over a long period of time.
The essential feature of persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia) is a depressed mood that occurs for most of the day, for more days than not, for at least 2 years (at least 1 year for children and adolescents).
This disorder represents a consolidation of DSM-IV-defined chronic major depressive disorder and dysthymic disorder. Major depression may precede persistent depressive disorder, and major depressive episodes may occur during persistent depressive disorder. Individuals whose symptoms meet major depressive disorder criteria for 2 years should be given a diagnosis of persistent depressive disorder as well as major depressive disorder.
Because these symptoms have become a part of the individual’s day-to-day experience, particularly in the case of early onset (e.g., “I
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The indictment reportedly accusing Hezbollah members of killing a former prime minister will fuel unrest, not justice.
The indictment delivered by the UN Special Tribunal for
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Lebanon (STL) to Lebanon's state prosecutor Saeed Merza marks the latest twist in a widely publicised and highly controversial operation of international justice.
The indictment reportedly accusing four members of Lebanon's party Hezbollah in the 2005 killing of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri will usher in a new phase of confrontation between Hezbollah on one hand and its local, regional and international enemies on the other. Domestic tensions will reach another high. Pro-Hariri March 14 forces have met the decision with much fanfare and political posturing. Hezbollah is expected to strike back with its Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah slated to deliver a televised speech on Saturday addressing the issue.
But the indictment and its immediate fallout is unlikely to lead to actual arrests or upset the existing balance of power within the country in isolation of other regional developments. Since its inception as a fact finding mission in the wake of Hariri's killing on February 14, 2005, the tribunal has been marred by a serious credibility deficit,
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Controversial weed killer Roundup will still be sold in SA regardless of recent court decisions linking its use to cancer in humans, pharmaceuticals company Bayer said
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last week, writes Legalbrief. Bayer said that its subsidiary Monsanto will continue to sell its Roundup weed killer in SA despite a US jury last month awarding nearly $80m to a man who claimed it had given him cancer. A TimesLIVE report notes that, according to court documents, Edwin Hardeman used Roundup for 30 years. Though no direct link between Hardeman's cancer and Roundup has been confirmed, the jury voted in his favour on the basis that there were insufficient warnings about the risk of using the product. Last year, a jury awarded Dewayne Johnson, who has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, $78m in damages for his exposure to Roundup. Magda du Toit, corporate engagement manager for Bayer SA, said: ‘We are disappointed with the jury's decision, but this verdict does not change the weight of over four decades of extensive science and the conclusions of regulators worldwide that support the safety of our glyphosate-based herbicides and that they
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The state companies Rosneftegas and Rosneft, headed by Igor Sechin, could be interested in the potash producer Uralk
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ali's assets, a news report said Monday.
A source close to businessman Suleiman Kerimov said that the billionaire's fund was prepared to sell its stake in Uralkali for a price that would value the whole company at $20 billion, Vedomosti reported.
Kerimov's foundation currently holds a 21.7 percent stake in the company, which on Friday was valued at $16.05 billion on the London Stock Exchange.
Earlier media reports said that investor Vladimir Kogan could buy a stake in Uralkali for $3.7 billion.
Alexander Dobrovinsky, a prominent Russian lawyer who earlier accurately predicted several upcoming deals, said on Facebook that Kogan has already paid 20 percent of the sum needed to purchase the stake and that the deal will be concluded within the next two to three weeks.
Another investor, President Vladimir Putin's close ally Arkady Rotenberg, may also enter the game, a source in a state bank told Vedomost
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Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, QI host Sandi Toksvig and documentary director Norma Percy are among the
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winners of this year’s Women in Film and TV Awards.
Waller-Bridge will be awarded the ScreenSkills Writing award today for her body of work, which includes BBC2’s Fleabag, Channel 4’s Crashing and BBC America’s Killing Eve. Judges said the writer/performer “strives to create characters who defy feminine stereotypes in TV, and in the process has made global audiences fall in love with them”.
Isles takes home the ENVY Producer Award at today’s lunchtime ceremony, while Toksvig’s EIKON Presenter Award recognises the broadcaster’s work from QI to The Great British Bake Off.
Meanwhile, US-born documentary film-maker and producer, Norma Percy will receive the Argonon Contribution to the Medium Award for her TV series, which include Inside Obama’s White House, The Iraq War, Putin, Russia and
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ARSENE WENGER is confident Aaron Ramsey will play again for Arsenal this season.
The Wales midfielder was hurt in Tuesday night's 4-
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0 FA Cup fifth round replay win at Hull.
He suffered a thigh injury 15 minutes after coming on as a substitute.
That will force him to miss key games in the coming weeks, starting with Sunday's FA cup quarter-final with Watford and the Champions League decider in Barcelona.
But when asked whether Ramsey's season was over Wenger insisted: "I dont believe that.
"At the moment his clinical signs are quite positive. I would say four weeks.
"It was a bit worse than I thought because I didn’t see it.
"Usually when a player gets injured with a muscle, he stops and I did not have that feeling of precaution so I thought he would be available for Sunday."
Per Mertesacker and fellow centre-back Gabriel were also forced off with injuries against the Tigers at a time when Laurent Koscielny was already sidelined.
Wenger added: "Mertesacker came off injured but should be available
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The FCC's Office of Communications Business Opportunities is holding a "Capitalization Strategies Workshop" for small, minority-owned and women-owned businesses
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in the communications industry. The workshop is scheduled for NOVEMBER 12th at FCC headquarters in WASHINGTON.
The workshop will include two panels, one with government representatives and the other with private sector financial experts. Thirty-minute breakout sessions for one-on-one meetings with experts are also planned.
Among the experts available at the breakout sessions (which require pre-registration) are CORE CAPITAL's MARK LEVINE, RLJ EQUITY PARTNERS' JERRY JOHNSON, OPPORTUNITY CAPITAL PARTNERS' ANITA STEPHENS GRAHAM, the SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION's RICHARD BLEWETTE, The NTIA's MAUREEN LEWIS, The USDA Rural Utilities Service's GARY BOJES, the TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT FUND's JIM PASTORIZA, SYNCOM's ROBERT L.
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Orlando has two players reach 20 points in beating New Orleans, 119-96.
ORLANDO, Fla.— Evan Fournier scored
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22 points and Aaron Gordon added 20 as the Orlando Magic routed the New Orleans Pelicans 119-96 on Wednesday night.
New Orleans’ Elfrid Payton had his streak of triple-doubles end at five straight games.
CAVALIERS 107, BUCKS 102: Rookie Collin Sexton scored 25 points, Jordan Clarkson added 23 and host Cleveland delayed Milwaukee from clinching the Central Division with a win over the short-handed Bucks, who were without superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo.
JAZZ 137, KNICKS 116: Donovan Mitchell scored 30 points, Rudy Gobert made all seven shots and added 18 points, and visiting Utah romped to its fifth straight lopsided victory.
Joe Ingles made six 3-pointers and also scored 18, and Mitchell made five 3-pointers as the Jazz finished 20 of 42 (48 percent) from behind the arc.
The Jazz led by as much as 37 in a game that was
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FOMC Recap: No More Hiking Bias?
With seemingly every member of the Federal Reserve emphasizing that the central bank would be �
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�patient” following its December interest rate hike, it came as no surprise that the Fed left interest rates unchanged today. And, despite the speculation that Chairman Powell and Company could revisit their balance sheet rundown strategy, the central bank was quiet on that front as well.
Did you catch that subtle-but-significant shift? In addition to emphasizing its patience moving forward, the FOMC also changed from assuming further increases to interest rates to future adjustments, leaving the door open for potential interest rate cuts if the economy deteriorates in the coming months and quarters.
That’s the big shift that traders have glommed onto, and that’s why we’ve seen a classic dovish reaction to the meeting in markets. Traders immediately bought bonds on the potential for lower interest rates, driving the yield curve down by 2-4bps across the curve. As a result, we’ve seen the US dollar gain a quick 40-60 pips against
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It all started to go horribly wrong immediately after the Bombers beat the Eskimos in Edmonton on Sept. 30, to improve to 10-
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3 and seemingly lock up home field advantage in the playoffs.
The first domino to fall came right after the bye week in September, with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers sitting at 8-3 and feeling great about their season.
Jamaal Westerman, one of the vocal leaders on the team, was not taking part in practice and was later revealed to be out for the season with a reported torn triceps muscle.
It was the first real sign of adversity for the Bombers but one they felt they could handle, with strong depth on the defensive line and an offence that could churn up enough yards and put up enough points to take a lot of pressure of the defence.
For two weeks everything looked OK, but it all started to go horribly wrong immediately after the Bombers beat the Eskimos in Edmonton on Sept. 30, to improve to 10-3 and seemingly lock up home field advantage in the playoffs.
That’s when they let their collective foot off
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But the big deal is the N.C. Apple Festival on Labor Day weekend, when Hendersonville's downtown launches the fall harvest with three days
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of apple-themed fun. you can stroll a street fair featuring arts-and-crafts and food vendors, exhibits and activities for kids. There's live music daily at the Historic Courthouse. Headliners take the stage at 7:30; 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday (The Caribbean Cowboys and The Mighty Kicks, respectively) and 5:30 and 8 p.m. Sunday (Still Cruzin'; The Legacy). What you can hear ranges from bluegrass to beach to Motown.
Monday afternoon - Labor Day - is when action focuses on the King Apple Parade; up to 60,000 people are expected.
Admission: Some events are free; others require nominal admission. Get specifics online.
Target audience: Families. Pets not allowed.
Directions: Take Interstate 85 South to U.S. 74 Bypass (at Kings Mountain); take U.S. 74 Bypass West to I-26 (at Columbus); take
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Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), companies that act as middlemen in the prescription drug supply chain, posted revenues totaling more than $260
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billion last year.
But a diverse range of people, politicians, advocates and health experts, are asking hard questions about just exactly how this staggering amount of money was made and what added value they brought to the supply of drugs from pharmaceutical companies to the consumer.
Many are calling for much greater transparency for PBMs in a market that one expert described as the most opaque he has studied in his nearly 50 years as an economist.
"The complexity of this market, and the opacity, is remarkable," Charles Phelps, a former professor and provost emeritus at the University of Rochester and a member of the study committee for a recent report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), told Patient Daily. "This is a market that is more opaque than any other I have seen since I began studying economics in the 1960s."
Three companies – Express Scripts, Optima, which is owned by UnitedHealth and CVS Caremark – control approximately 80 percent of
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General Motors announced today that it is investing $5.4 billion over the next three years to expand and upgrade its US production facilities.
This
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round of capital investments is expected to put the automaker's domestic factories in a better position to handle upcoming new models GM is set to release in the coming years.
Thus far, details for only a small portion of the multi-billion dollar investment have been released with $783.5 million headed to a trio of Michigan plants.
Of that total, $520 million will be allocated to the Delta Township assembly plant for new tools and equipment, $139.5 million will go to the expansion of the Warren facility, and $124 million will be slated for the Pontiac Metal Center.
"These investments are evidence of a company on the move, strategically investing in the people, tools and equipment to produce cars, trucks and crossovers that are built to win in the marketplace, with stunning design, quality and breakthrough technologies," GM North America president Alan Batey said in a statement.
According to GM, the $5.4 billion breaks down roughly to an investment of $
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The master of passionate and gentle human dramas, Hirokazu Kore-eda, returns to the screens once more this Friday with his latest Pal
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me d’Or winning film, Shoplifters. Equal parts bitter and sweet, Shoplifters is a deeply moving tale about the ties that bind a struggling family together.
On the outskirts of Tokyo, inside a ramshackle bungalow, a family of outsiders have created a home together.
Shoplifters is a satisfying exploration of life lived on the margins and an incredible return to form for Kore-eda. If you haven’t had the absolute pleasure of seeing a Kore-eda film yet, Shoplifters is a perfect introduction to his work that will have you itching to discover more of his mesmerising portraits of family life: try Our Little Sister or Still Walking next as gentle steps into a world of cinema you won’t want to forget.
Speaking of unforgettable cinema, a new restoration of Jean Cocteau’s Orphée has been touring cinemas across the UK and will be joining us from 23 rd November. This
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BOSTON (AP) — Environmentalists are again taking aim at the company that proposed the Keystone XL pipeline — this time for another of its projects
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they fear would send hundreds of supertankers laden with crude oil down the Atlantic coast to refineries in Texas and Louisiana.
TransCanada is behind the Energy East Pipeline project, a 4,600-kilometer pipeline, or nearly 3,000 miles, that would carry crude oil from tar sands in Western Canada to the East Coast, where it would then be shipped to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast. When completed, the project would carry 1.1-million barrels of crude oil every day from Alberta and Saskatchewan to refineries in Eastern Canada.
Plans call for converting a natural gas line for part of the route and then building a new pipeline in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Eastern Ontario, Québec and New Brunswick to connect to the existing pipeline.
The Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and other environmental groups are concerned about potential spills of tar sands diluted bitumen along the route in Canada that goes over thousands of rivers, streams and lakes. They also warned a
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BERLIN—A crowd gathered at the Babylon Theater here Saturday for an annual memorial for Dean Reed, the American “rebel,”
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rock star, and filmmaker who famously defected to “East Germany” (the German Democratic Republic, or GDR) in 1972. Those in attendance were among Reed’s most ardent fans, of whom he had many thousands in the GDR when he died in 1986.
People who were around 20 years-old when the Berlin Wall fell—those who lived in and were educated in the socialist GDR—have spent the more than quarter-century since the demise of that country living under capitalism in a different Germany. Being old enough to remember what life was like in the GDR, they are perfectly situated to make comparisons of the two different social systems. At the Reed memorial, I had the opportunity to speak with a number of them.
These former GDR citizens, referred to these days as “Ossies,” a short for the German word “ost,” meaning east, said some things that were not surprising, but also others that
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A Southwest Airlines plane slid off of its runway Thursday morning at the Hollywood Burbank Airport because of unusually rainy conditions. The good news is no one
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was hurt, but it is proof that it’s not just drivers in L.A. who can’t handle rain.
I, of course, kid. This was a very scary incident for the 112 passengers and five flight crew members who were onboard when the plane lost control. Luckily there were no injuries, ABC News reports.
As we landed you could feel the brakes. I fly out of Burbank a lot so I know that you have to hit the brakes. It’s a short runway. Then mud started hitting the windows, you could see smoke and water and I started noticing the plane going sideways. Then we came to a stop and I noticed we were right up against a retaining wall.
Heavy rains reduced visibility at the airport and caused the plane to lose traction on its tarmac. Only one runway at the airport was closed due to the accident, however several flights were canceled due to an FAA inspection of the runways.
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A certain sense of fear starts to creep in about three weeks before finals, and suddenly, all 12,000 CofC students hit the books
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hard. It's great to see everyone being good students, really, but... there's nowhere to sit and study. Not even at Stern Center, and especially not at the library. Never fear, Charleston holds many other options for studying when there's not a table to be found on campus.
Conveniently located about four blocks from campus, Black Tap offers studying space, natural light, free wi-fi, and some solid coffee. They also sell pastries, so you can snack during your caffeine binge for some staying power. Do make sure to get there early to stake out your spot, as there are a limited amount of seats, and it's a popular place.
Brown's Court is also located about four blocks from campus and has an extensive selection of goodies, like cookies, muffins, and breads. They carry Counter Culture coffee that you can sip while studying on the upstairs porch. Also included in their offerings is a sandwich with pretty much every breakfast food on it,
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Three months after Mark Zuckerberg pledged to stop external forces from disproportionately affecting U.S. elections, targeted ads are bombarding voters in a pivotal Senate
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race.
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama—Yvonne Trosclair doesn’t know who’s behind America First Action—which keeps running pro-Roy Moore ads here on television and on Facebook ahead of the U.S. Senate election on Tuesday—but she knows they’re not from Alabama.
Trosclair took to America First Action’s nascent Facebook page to vent her frustrations, just as several others have done over the past week after they were bombarded with targeted content from the pro-Donald Trump PAC’s $1 million ad buy. At press time, the group had a 1.7-star rating on Facebook out of 5.
What Trosclair didn’t find was much identifying information from America First Action, including where the PAC is based. That sort of pivotal disclosure is one of the several promises Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg made in his highly publicized address three months ago aimed at fixing veiled political advertising on the platform
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Shepherd's pie meets hot dish in this fast comfort-food recipe that can make the most of leftover fresh herbs and sweet potatoes from the holiday
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. It is basic with just the two layers, but you could easily add a layer of cooked broccoli or cauliflower florets — or even add those to the saucy sausage mixture.
We tested this with a few different kinds of sausage, including a chicken-and-apple one. But our hands-down favorite was the fresh bacon sausage — yep, you read that right — from Harvey's Market at Union Market in Northeast Washington. The family-owned butcher shop has made it in 12- to 15-pound batches since 2012. But it has been part of a rotation of sausage varieties, so I have missed it, apparently. The blend is about 60-40 ground pork and Benton's bacon (ground at different consistencies), with garlic, marjoram, savory, salt, black pepper and roasted red peppers.
Serve with a steamed or sauteed green vegetable of your choice.
Adapted from the undated, spiral-bound
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Puig’s growth is certainly on display at this Miami Open, where with the help of a partisan crowd she polished off Maria Sak
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kari of Greece 6-3, 7-5 in the third-round.
This is a first for Puig in terms of securing a fourth-round berth at the Miami Open. In five previous appearances at Crandon Park she never journeyed past the second round.
The conclusion of the Sakkari match offered some frustration for Puig, who served for the match three times before she finished in dramatic fashion with an ace.
On Friday, Puig upset reigning Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki 0-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the second round. The second-seeded Wozniacki later complained on social media that her family members were threatened by fans while watching the late-night encounter.
Puig acknowledged seeing the comments but said she hasn’t discussed the situation with Wozniacki.
Puig will square off against 93rd-ranked American qualifier Danielle Collins, a native of St.
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NEW YORK — Flynn the bichon frisé was crowned Best in Show at the 142nd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Tuesday night
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. The champion, a jovial 5-year-old, cut a striking, cloudlike figure in the ring: His powder-puff fur was painstakingly coifed, and he trotted jauntily across the floor with a step that looked almost lighter than air.
McFadden, who has been showing the breed at the Westminster Dog Show since 1991, said he believed this would be Flynn’s final year at the competition. He turns 6 in March.
“I’d have to ask the owners, but I’m pretty sure I can drop the mic and say he’s retired,” McFadden told Fox Sports.
Seven finalists had a shot at greatness this year. Aside from Flynn, Lucy the regal borzoi, a silly pug named Biggie and Slick the joyful border collie won their groups Monday night (hound, toy, nonsporting and herding). Ty the giant schnau
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(CNN) -- The late Gov. Mel Carnahan collected enough votes to beat out incumbent Republican Sen. John Ashcroft for the U.S
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. Senate seat from Missouri.
The incumbent Ashcroft was left running against a dead man after his opponent, the popular sitting governor, died in a plane crash on October 16. By that time, it was too late to remove Carnahan's name from the ballot.
No one had ever posthumously won election to the Senate, though voters on at least three occasions chose deceased candidates for the House.
Lt. Gov. Roger Wilson moved up to succeed Carnahan. Wilson said he would appoint Carnahan's widow, Jean, to the Senate seat should the deceased husband get more votes than Ashcroft.
Jean Carnahan said Tuesday night: "Abraham Lincoln never saw his nation made whole again. Susan B. Anthony never cast a vote. Martin Luther King Jr. never finished his mountaintop journey. My husband's journey has stopped short too, and for reasons we do not know or understand, the mantle has now fallen upon us. We remain heirs of a legacy."
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Published: March 6, 2015 at 01:26 p.m.
Updated: March 6, 2015 at 03:28 p.m.
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Justin Forsett is bound to find suitors on the open market if the Ravens don't come calling first.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Friday that the Washington Redskins and New Orleans Saints are poised to make a run at the free-agent running back who led Baltimore last season with 1,266 yards on the ground.
"We will work to try and retain Justin," Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome told reporters last month, but they won't be alone after Forsett broke out in 2014 to finish fifth in rushing league-wide.
The Saints are a logical squad to chase after veteran help following the release of Pierre Thomas. With fellow runner Mark Ingram set to hit the open market, New Orleans is on the prowl for runners who fit into their zone-blocking scheme. The team must be convinced that Forsett will cost less than re-signing Ingram.
Washington is a puzzling destination. Alfred Morris has been one of the league's most reliable backs
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Business cards form a central element of the standard identity suite most graphic designers produce for new clients. Along with letterheads and envelopes, they serve
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as a centerpiece of a cohesive set of materials that can showcase company and individual identity while they provide essential contact information. EPS files can serve a focal purpose in the creation of identity materials because of the flexibility and fidelity with which they can enable you to present critical parts of these designs.
Based on the PostScript language developed by Adobe Systems, the Encapsulated PostScript file format enables you to build graphics that can be included in files you create in other applications, including page-layout and word-processing programs. EPS files can incorporate any combination of live text, vector artwork and bitmapped images. They support spot and process color and can pass their color content on to documents that incorporate them, work in RGB and CMYK color models, and allow for embedded font information to maintain the look of text without access to the original font software.
Whether you're incorporating your company's own logo as the primary identity element on cards for your business or setting up elements of an identity suite for a
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Australia’s finale of “The Voice” was the most-watched show Monday night Down Under. But its ratings were well
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-down on last year’s massive grand final viewing figures.
Some 2.307 million viewers in the five metro cities tuned-in to watch teenager Harrison Craig crowned winner of the second series, according to preliminary ratings from OzTAM. Excluding the announcement, the prime-time finale on the free-to-air Nine Network averaged 2.035 million viewers -- well ahead of the night’s third-placed show, “The Block,” at 1.493 million (also on the Nine Network).
Last year’s inaugural season wrapped with a massive three-million viewers – making it the highest-rating entertainment show since ratings agency OzTam opened for business in 1999.
The fans' 2013 favorite Craig overcame a speech impediment to take-out the series and its spoils: a recording contract with Universal Music Australia, $100,000 in cash and a Ford Kuga.
Universal will hope the second series generates a sales effect similar to
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While only a rumor, the following story could contain major spoilers for Wonder Woman 1984.
While pretty much everybody is excited for the forthcoming Wonder Woman
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sequel, the movie already has people talking because one of the few things we know about it is that Chris Pine will be making his return as Steve Trevor. Since the original film, and the entire timeline for the sequel, would seem to make such a thing impossible, fans are very curious how such a thing would happen. Now, one report claims to know how Steve Trevor returns. As one might suspect, there are supernatural powers at work.
Now to start things off, it needs to be made clear that this information should be viewed only as a rumor for the moment. The sources are unnamed and thus can't be verified. However, the report does fall in line with other, unconfirmed, details that we have. If this report is true, then it makes for a massive spoiler as it also lays out the plot of Wonder Woman 1984 pretty much entirely. This is your last warning. Here we go.
The unnamed sources spoke with We Got This Covered, and according to them,
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What does property crime have to do with the drug war?
twobits wrote: Ok, ya, it works again for me too.
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Still does not mitigate this five day multiple 100k/yr officers for what is best classified as a social experiment that caught 3 known petty crime felons in 5 days. Whoohoo!!
No wonder Surrey wants a Police Force they have some input, direction, and expenditure control over.
The new Mayor of Surrey is going to ask how much this social experiment cost to apprehend......essentially 3 shoplifters......how these arrests made the community feel safer in general, and how they reduced the raging drug war shootings in every friggen Surrrey residential area on a daily basis???
Seriously? A five day Shopping Mall sting to catch three shoplifters is good value while driving on any Surrey street might mean catching a stray bullet?
You find something on the street, do you turn it in to police or keep it?
I found a cart at Costco with a bottle of Tide detergent still on the bottom shelf, do I put it in my car or take it back
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SAN FRANCISCO — I was 14 when I first saw Ninoy Aquino in action.
It was 1978. Ferdinand Marcos, hoping
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to legitimize his dictatorship in the eyes of the world, had called for elections for a new legislature.
Marcos was confident he would win easily even if he let Ninoy Aquino, then the country’s most well-known political prisoner, join the campaign.
That was a big mistake.
During a televised interview with journalists clearly aligned with the dictator, Aquino showed the country why Marcos feared him so much. It was a mesmerizing performance.
He out-talked the panelists sent to discredit him, responding to questions and allegations, eloquently and brilliantly, shifting comfortably from English to Pilipino and back.
But my views of Ninoy eventually evolved.
By the time I entered UP Diliman in the early 80s, I saw Ninoy as neither a superhero nor a saint.
Yes, he was an important figure in the fight against tyranny. But I had more questions about what he stood for, having been exposed to broader, more
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“Final exam time,” said Bishop McGann-Mercy coach Les Williams.
The top priority is qualifying for the New York
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State Public High School Athletic Association Championships that will be run Nov. 11 at Wayne Central School in Ontario Center.
Among those making the trip upstate will be Shoreham-Wading River’s Joe Krause and Adam Zelin and Mercy’s Michael Senica.
Usually it’s downright cold by the time the Section XI Championships roll around, but that wasn’t the case Friday when temperatures reached the mid-70s and it was more humid than many runners at Sunken Meadow State Park would have liked.
Krause, a junior, missed qualifying for the state meet last year by one excruciating place. This time around he came in third place in Class B, completing the five-kilometer race in 17 minutes, 44.64 seconds. He finished behind Miller Place sophomore Tom Cirrito (17:12.66) and Southampton senior Gustavo Morastitla (17:27.35).
The weather didn’t seem
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LONDON — The union has survived, comfortably enough in the end. Scotland will remain part of Britain. The queen’s title will stay
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unchanged: Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her Other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. Phew: In that mouthful lurks a lot of history and stability. Relief is palpable. The pound rallied. David Cameron, the Tory prime minister who risked all, exhaled.
A clear majority of 55 percent of Scots rejected independence in a referendum that had many merits. The questioning of democracy has become fashionable. Stillborn after the Arab Spring, paralyzed by discord in the United States, increasingly pliant to money, dithering in its processes beside the authoritarian systems of China and Russia, often unable to deliver growth or stem rising inequality, democracy has become the problem child of the 21st century.
More than two in five Scots voted for independence. Many of these “Yes” voters were young or struggling or both. Another merit of this “democratic process
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VMWare, the American cloud software company, said it will not participate in the joint venture cloud services Virtustream with its parent company E
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MC.
The announcement was made in a recent regulatory filling which you can read here.
“VMware announced that it will not be participating in the formation of the Virtustream Cloud Services Business previously announced by EMC and VMware on October 20, 2015,” it says in the filing.
The pull-out is most likely linked with the recent acquisition deal under which Dell would buy EMC for $67 billion, thus gaining control over VMWare’s shares. As part of the deal, a VMware tracking stock is being constructed and Dell would offer up to 50 per cent of Dell's shares on the stock market. VMware investors were unhappy with all this and the stock price has fallen.
Eight days after that deal was announced, EMC and VMware announced plans to create Virtustream as a 50-50 venture, Re/Code said in a report, adding that the Virtustream has been blamed for contributing to a 25 per cent decline in the value
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CANTON: Canton Winterfest 2019 events; Track And Field Winter League Championship Girls And Boys Varsity: St. Lawrence University, 6
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p.m.; Singing Valentines: Representatives from the Canton Goldenaires Men's Barbershop Chorus will deliver Singing Valentines, starting at 8 a.m. and continuing throughout the day; all money for these deliveries are used for high school scholarship awards at all schools in St. Lawrence County; to order your Singing Valentine for your sweetheart, call Vickie at 315-379-9848.
MASSENA: Valentine's Day Dinner and Dance, VFW Post 1143, 101 W. Hatfield St.; prime rib or stuffed chicken, baked potato, tossed salad, cabbage noodles, rolls, and dessert; coffee, tea, and water will be available; complimentary glass of wine with dinner; tickets in advance only at the VFW; no take-outs; seating will be 5:30-6:30 p.m.; music by Betty Rufa will be from 6:30-8:30; all welcome.
MASSENA
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Almost 1,600 people have objected to the proposed closure of Coundon Road in Coventry.
Plans to tackle nitrogen dioxide (N
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02) levels at the worst pollution hotspot in Coventry – Holyhead Road – include the proposed closure of Coundon Road.
Cllr Jim O’Boyle, Cabinet Member for Jobs and Regeneration, has previously said the plan would help encourage the use of trains while reducing N02.
A petition of 1,590 signatures has been collected in the space of a week objecting to the plans.
At full council on Tuesday, councillor Glenn Williams said: “To have nearly 1,600 people sign this petition in less than a week shows the level of concern amongst our residents and businesses.
“We understand the need to improve air quality in our city by there are serious questions around how closing Coundon Road will achieve this.
“It is claimed Holyhead Road has one of the highest levels of pollution in the city but investigations but residents suggest these figures are out of date.
“I do see the merit in closing the level
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The state Board of Education put a stamp of approval Thursday on a list of 1,000 schools deemed so bad that parents will have the right to
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transfer their children to a better school in their district or any other district - this school year.
The list fulfills a new state law passed in January requiring districts to provide parents an easier way out of the state's worst schools.
But the list is likely to leave many parents scratching their heads.
That's because not all of the 1,000 schools on the bad schools list are bad. In fact, several are actually pretty good.
The new law left state officials little wiggle room in creating the list. No one district can have more than 10 percent of their schools on the list. As a result, schools that perform at a higher level had to be added to get to the mandatory number.
On the list: Fremont's Grimmer Elementary School, with above-average test scores and an Academic Performance Index of 801, exceeding the state's good-school goal by one point.
Not on the list: Oakland's Hoover Elementary School, with test scores in
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Dutch firm Savage Rivale is working on a brand new supercar, but rather than going the traditional route of building a cramped two-seater
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and strapping a big engine to it the guys at Savage have managed to build something much more substantial.
Their creation is the Roadyacht GTS, which made its official world debut in race trim today at the Top Marques Monaco 2012, the premier show for performance and luxury cars.
This racing version is simply dubbed the "GTR" and only 69 examples are scheduled to be built.
It eschews the innovative telescopic roof system that the road-going version will feature, though keeps the scissor doors. It also features a more powerful engine, in this case a GM-sourced LS9 V-8 tuned to deliver between 700 and 800 horsepower.
The supercharged 6.2-liter LS9 is the same unit found in the Corvette ZR1 and in the Savage Rivale GTR, which weighs just 2,260 pounds thanks to its extensive use of lightweight carbon fiber in its construction, the engine guarantees 0-60 mph acceleration in 2.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday accepted her party's nomination in Philadelphia, saying "keeping our nation safe and honoring the people who do that work
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will be my highest priority."
The former secretary of state, senator and first lady criticized her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, for running a campaign that she said offered "dangerous proposals" and "zero solutions."
Trump last week blasted Clinton for what he called her failed tenure as secretary of state while pledging to "defeat the barbarians of ISIS" if elected president.
Clinton sought to detail her strategy for how her administration would "prevail" against the al-Qaida-inspired terrorist group that still controls significant territory in Iraq and Syria even after the U.S. launched airstrikes and deployed troops in both countries.
"We will strike their sanctuaries from the air and support local forces taking them out on the ground," she said. "We will surge our intelligence so we detect and prevent attacks before they happen. We will disrupt their efforts online to reach and radicalize young people in our country. It won't be easy or quick but, make no mistake, we will
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Sean Scully once told me about his early days as a plasterer’s mate. At the age of 17 he was helping a crafts
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man who would often accidentally drop a good deal of plaster on his youthful assistant’s head, especially after a midday break in the pub. Scully spent his own lunchtimes differently. He would roar on his scooter to the Tate Gallery, and spend the time staring at a single picture: ‘The Chair’ by Vincent van Gogh.
That picture is one of two reference points in Sea Star, his beautiful exhibition at the National Gallery. Scully pays homage to it in two groups of three paintings, entitled ‘Arles Abend Vincent’ and ‘Arles Abend Deep’. Neither looks much like a chair; the panels resemble, if anything, sections of a wall (if not a plastered one). Scully has, in fact, taken a series of photographs of dry stone walls on the island of Aran. The walls are like a puzzle — some stones vertical, some horizontal, wider or narrower.
The ‘Arles Abend�
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The Solicitor-General could avoid any consequences of John Banks' acquittal but others in Crown Law will be nervous, a law professor says
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The Court of Appeal has cancelled the former ACT leader's retrial on charges of filing false electoral returns during his campaign to be Auckland's mayor.
It said the Crown withheld new evidence about a crucial lunch with Kim Dotcom, amounting to a miscarriage of justice.
Mr Banks told Morning Report the Solicitor-General, Mike Heron QC, should stand aside while an independent investigation is carried out into his involvement in the case.
He said Mr Heron must be held to account for behaviour that was delinquent at best.
"I have been held to account and I have been completely exonerated," he said. "We now need to ask why the Solicitor-General is not being held to account, because he has a lot to answer for."
He said no one in the justice system should be subjected to the treatment he had faced.
"If I hadn't have been tough and resilient with some support and some resources, I would have been burnt
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A few years ago, David McCarthy was on vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands when he looked out over the rocky islands surrounded by sparkling
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blue water and realized it would be a great place for rock climbing.
McCarthy founded the South Shore Center for Outdoor Education, which he has since converted into Top Rope, in 1994. Since then, he has taken children and adults rock climbing on the South Shore. In early 2008, he founded USVI Rock Climbing, a separate business in the Virgin Islands, as a way to take people climbing year-round.
Individuals or groups of tourists visiting St. Thomas or St. John can book half-day trips with USVI Rock Climbing directly or through their hotels. Then McCarthy�s crew picks them up in a boat and takes them to offshore rock outcroppings between the two islands.
Using a top-roped anchor, visitors rappel down from heights of 75 feet and then climb back up. Offshore climbing �is a different experience with the water and the waves crashing,� he said.
The level of difficulty is geared toward beginners to intermedi
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Forestview�s Vincent Comesana and Kings Mountain�s Cassie Morton won their respective races at a 5K meet Tuesday at Forestview.
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Comesana won the boys� race with a time of 17:38 while Morton crossed the line after 22 minutes, 53 seconds for first place in the girls� event. Forestview�s boys and South Point�s girls won the team events.
Top 20 boys individuals: 1, Vincent Comesana, Fv, 17:28; 2, Quinn Barnette, SP, 18:29; 3, Malik Currence, HT, 18:41; 4, Walt Hambrick, HT, 18:47; 5, Jonathan Hilton, HT, 18:53; 6, Max Flores, Fv, 18:57; 7, Jackson Feezell, Fv, 19:13; 8, Taylor Adams, Fv, 19:16; 9, Logan McGill, KM, 19:52; 10, Thomas Will, SP, 20:00; 11, Nathan Davis, Fv, 20:06; 12, Collin Foster, KM, 20:18
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I’ve been sharing my health status with you guys all along, so I suppose I ought to continue even when the news isn’
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t as positive as I’d like. Here goes.
As you recall, a few days ago I got the 3-week results of my M protein level, a marker for cancerous plasma cells. It had gone down to 0.38, which was an OK result, but not great. It really needs to be zero or close to it. Yesterday I got the 5-week results, and my M protein level has increased to 0.56.
This is obviously bad news. It means I didn’t respond very well to the second round chemotherapy and the stem cell transplant. But there’s no point in wigging out about it yet. I won’t really know what it means until I get a biopsy and talk to my doctor later this month. At the very least, however, it means I’ll definitely begin maintenance therapy, and probably sooner rather than later.
For now, that’s all I know. In
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A petition to abandon Brexit has received more than 1 million signatures online and briefly crashed the UK government website where it was being hosted. The viral campaign
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comes as the European Union accepted a request from the United Kingdom to delay to departure date of Friday, March 29.
EU leaders have now agreed to an unconditional extension of this date to April 12 although should Brtish Prime Minister Theresa May succeed in getting her deal with the EU past her parliament, the UK will be allowed until May 22 to pass the required legislation to make an orderly departure.
The “Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU” petition has gone viral seemingly in the past two days, however, amassing over 1,091,181 signatures as of Thursday morning and steadily growing.
According to the UK’s petition website, the UK government will respond to all petitions that get more than 10,000 signatures. Once a petition receives 100,000 signatures, Parliament must consider the topic for formal debate.
In February, a different petition was launched in the UK that asked whether the Republic of Ireland should re-join the UK as a way to
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Steve Amella knows a lot about beating the odds. For more than 40 years, the 63-year-old Pueblo native and longtime
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Springs resident has worked hard from the trenches, helping minorities and the disadvantaged, teaching special needs students and working as an equal opportunity officer in the military.
He's always held down two jobs -- most recently as an ESL teacher at East Middle School and a substitute in School District 11. He also helped organize the local chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). Oh, and there was the trumpet playing with the middle school jazz band.
Everything changed in March when Amella's liver suddenly died. He refuses to follow along.
"I'll be there," Amella said, repeating the promise he's made to hundreds of friends and family who have rallied. "You know that." From his sickbed, Amella continues to work as an adviser in two civil rights discrimination cases.
Yet he acknowledges that now he's the one who must fight against the odds. Doctors have told him he has less than two years to live if he cannot find a donor who'll
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I’m sure that all the iOS faithful out there knows all about Apple’s latest firmware, iOS 6, and no doubt most
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would like to opportunity to try out iOS 6 and all its new features; however as I am sure you are aware, Apple lets users install iOS 6 Beta 1 only if they have a Unique Device Identifier (UDI) registered with an iOS developer account.
However, it appears there is a way of getting iOS 6 onto your iPhone without having a developers account or the UDI being registered, and just so those iOS faithful out there that would like to give iOS 6 a whirl on their iDevice, we have a video tutorial on just how to accomplish that.
The How to Install New iOS 6 (Free) Without Dev Account video comes our way courtesy of the guys over at Daily iPhone Blog and by way of YouTube user DinoZambas2 that delivers an almost seven minute tutorial on how to get iOS 6 up and running on an iPhone 4 without that registered developer account.
Apparently to accomplish the feat there are three downloads required, iTunes 10.6.3, the iOS
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The NHL’s labor negotiations shift back to Manhattan next week after today’s talks in Toronto. The fear is that Rockefeller Center will
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freeze its rink and light its tree before there’s a new collective bargaining agreement.
The sides hadn’t met for a full week with a Sept. 15 lockout looming, yet the NHL and its Players Association cancelled yesterday’s negotiations following 2 1/2 hours of morning talks among each team’s top two executives.
The cancellation was to allow each side “to consider how best to move forward with the process,” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, Daly, and union executives Donald and Steve Fehr discussed economic and procedural issues before cancelling the afternoon meeting.
“You could probably observe that there is some degree of frustration between the parties,” Donald Fehr said.
Daly said there were “no cross words,” in yesterday’s session, nor any suggestion the sides were arguing “apples and oranges,” from their initial proposals.
The NHL
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HP Spectre 13 is 10.4mm thick, and thinner than the MacBook.
It weighs in at 1.11kg, with a carbon
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fibre and aluminium build.
The Spectre 13 was globally unveiled in April.
HP has launched the Spectre 13 in India, a laptop that's claimed to be the thinnest in the world by the US-based firm. With a thickness of 10.4mm, it's thinner than both the 12-inch MacBook and 13-inch MacBook Air. It has been priced starting at Rs. 1,19,990 in India, and will go on sale from Saturday.
The HP Spectre 13 weighs in at 1.11kg, which is heavier than the MacBook at 0.92kg, but lighter than the 13-inch MacBook Air at 1.35kg. Apart from svelte dimensions, the company has decided to go all out with its latest top-end laptop, and the Spectre 13 is the first to sport its new logo for the premium range. The laptop was first unveiled back in April.
Built using carbon fibre and aluminium for lightweight durability, the HP Spectre 13
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Is the Smartphone Kill Switch a Good Idea?
Home Blogs Data And Telecom Is The Smartphone Kill Switch A Good Idea?
The
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government seems to be hot on the trail of smartphone kill switches. The question is whether the concept is a solid one.
InformationWeek reports that two recent proposals, one at the state level and one in the Senate, seek to make it possible for a carrier to render a lost or stolen device useless. The story points out that the Federal Communications Commission says that 30 percent to 40 percent of robberies in major cities are of mobile devices; the number in some cases can reach half. Consumer Reports, the story says, found that 1.6 million people had smartphones stolen in 2012.
The intended goal of the kill switch is, of course, to make such thefts are far less attractive to the criminals. Opponents say that while the goal is a good one, a likely unintended consequence is that the kill switch technology would attract hackers.
In one scenario, groups of mobile phones can be permanently disabled by sending multiple messages, such as by incrementing the MSISDN (the telephone number) or
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PASADENA — Once again, the Flintridge Prep and Mayfield girls’ soccer teams had to wait around for a while before they
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finally took the field against each other.
Tuesday's match between the teams was delayed for half an hour because a Pasadena City College softball game occupied a third of the field at Robinson Park.
The teams’ first match earlier this season had to be rescheduled because of a similar conflict at the Glendale Sports Complex and was played on Saturday with the teams tying.
This time around, Prep prevailed with a 2-0 Prep League victory over Mayfield.
Neither side felt the delay impacted play.
The win improves the Rebels to 13-2-4 overall and 5-2-2 in league. Mayfield falls to 8-5-3 overall and 5-3-2. Flintridge Prep has one match remaining, a contest against Westridge on Thursday, with a point needed to break a second-place tie in league. Playoff seedings are announced on Monday.
Flintridge senior Kaitlyn Kelleher said that her team was focused on finishing
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BIG IMPROVEMENTS Pupils during a visit from the Bishop of Wakefield after the school was refurbished.
A primary school
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that was told it needed to improve has now been rated “good” by the education watchdog.
When Ofsted inspectors visited Headfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Junior School in Thornhill Lees two years ago they found problems with teaching and reported that pupils were not making enough progress.
But a new report published this week showed that significant improvements had been made and the school now fell within the “good” category in all the areas assessed.
Headteacher Louise Warner said: “We’re very, very pleased. There has been so much time and effort put in my staff and children.
She said the new rating represented a team effort and praised the work of former headteacher Geoff Smith, who retired at the end of last school year.
“Pupils very much enjoy school. The clubs, their experiences with trips, visitors, residential visits, information and communication technology, French, reading and sport are all particular favourites. P
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Homemade fruit or veggie pops on a stick, inspired by SolPops.
Portland, Oregon is not known for its hot, humid
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weather, unlike the sticky heat we get over here in the Middle East, yet it is home to a new summer treat – the SolPop.
This is one of the healthiest alternatives to ice-cream and sugar-packed Popsicles since it is made mainly from fruit and natural juices.
Finally something you can give your children without feeling guilty about sugar content and chemical colouring. Read on for recipes.
The idea of SolPop began in May 2008 when Aaron Harmon, his wife Danielle Koppel and their friend Noah Cable started testing out different flavours and combinations of fruits to see what worked best. They now have almost 40 different flavours including sweet and tart, savoury, coconut-based and “wellness pops” to counteract the rainy weather.
Made from different fruit, vegetables and herbs, all of which are organic, these pops take the name SOL meaning Sustainable, Organic and Local. “Sol” is also the Spanish word for sun, referring
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Do not go west, young man – but avoid pretty much everywhere else too. The slump in US house prices has officially gone nationwide, according to
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the latest Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index. In April, all 20 of the cities tracked posted a year-on-year decline for the first time ever. Western cities, such as Las Vegas and Los Angeles, as well as Florida’s Miami, continued to lead the pack downwards.
Optimists, however, see two reasonably hopeful signs. First, the rate of decline has slowed, with April’s monthly drop in the index of 1.4 per cent comparing relatively well with March’s 2.2 per cent fall. Second, eight cities actually managed a monthly gain.
On closer examination, such hope dissipates. Case-Shiller’s data are rolling averages, so April’s numbers will reflect prices agreed in February and March – when mortgage rates had eased. Since April, rates have climbed steadily and terms have tightened, so May’s reading could see the rate of decline accelerate again.
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The media coverage in the Western press went into fever pitch over this story, but no Western journalist actually investigated the story and reported it. Not one
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. It all emanated from a press release.
Woman arrested with daughter in Dubai over drinking wine is released gloated the Guardian’s headline. This story was written by one of their journalists and ‘agencies.’ In other words, The Guardian didn’t do anything except hash together their version of a press release without declaring who the ‘agency’ was. And they certainly didn’t check the facts.
The day earlier The Guardian reported Woman held in Dubai with daughter after drinking wine on flight and that the Swedish dentist says she was detained and had her passport confiscated after having one glass of wine after it was offered by the airline’s own cabin crew.
Perhaps Ellie Holman, 44, who arrived on an Emirates flight from London Gatwick on July 13 should have checked her passport which had expired 3 days earlier. One has to question why did the officials at Gatwick did not notice or that the computerised check-in system
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Sponsored by Bob Gordon’s Formula Sports, the 17th annual Skoch Cup Intermountain/Northern Division Masters alpine races are
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back on Baldy for three days Friday through Sunday, Jan. 17-19.
The Skoch Cup features super giant slalom, giant slalom and slalom racing for those 18-and-under.
Advance registration is available at skiracereg.com, or from 7:30-9 a.m. on race day at Warm Springs Lodge. More than 60 racers have already registered, organizers said.
Sun Valley’s stop on the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) Intermountain Masters 2013-14 circuit kicks off with two SG runs Friday on Warm Springs.
They are set for 10:15 a.m. and noon. Cost is $40 before Jan. 16 at 6 p.m., or $50 after. The SG awards and social hour will occur at 3 p.m. at Apple’s Bar & Grill, followed by a potluck dinner.
Friday’
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John McCain, prisoner of cash.
How GOP fat cats will bring a Republican maverick to heel.
Everybody knows that John McCain has
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been trailing Barack Obama in fundraising. McCain raised a mere $120 million to Obama’s $287 million through May of this year (the most recent data that are available). Even Hillary Clinton, who lost, raised nearly twice as much as McCain during this period. I’d been assuming that the Obama-McCain fundraising gap was attributable to Obama’s phenomenal success at harvesting small contributions online; fully 45 percent of Obama’s contributions came in increments of $200 or less, compared to only 24 percent of McCain’s. But on closer inspection, Obama proves no slouch when it comes to raising bigger contributions, either; through May, he received about twice as many contributions as McCain at the maximum allowable level of $4,600. This included a period of four months when it was pretty clear that McCain was going to be the Republican nominee and three months when there was no possibility of doubt on this question. McCain’s money problem, then, would
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This is the first regular installment of a bi-weekly review of CDs, performances, news and events that cross my path or strike my fancy.
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Enjoy!
Cadillac Moon rocked the house at Cornelia Street Cafe last night in a return engagement. The eight-piece blues and soul combo squeezes onto (and spills off of) the tiny stage like they were born to it. Plenty of bands do the blues, soul and R&B thing, but few combine such a high level of professionalism with such infectious enthusiasm, and even fewer can write such good original material in that style. (A few well-chosen covers, like Van Morrison’s “Cleaning Windows,” fit right in to their mostly original set.) If you’re in the New York/Long Island area, go see Cadillac Moon. I’d recommend them to Charles and Camilla, in fact. If they booked them for their wedding, they’d have such a good time they could forget all about their sourpuss Queen and those annoying paparazzi!
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60 seconds of pitching and the CBC judges were sold - daana is the winner of CBC’s Media Pitch event at Startupfest 2016.
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Sixty seconds of pitching and the CBC judges were sold — daana is the winner of CBC's Media Pitch event at Startupfest 2016.
This year it was Bhaskar Goswami who blew the judges away, pitching a website that connects people to free wellness classes happening near them.
The site lists classes like meditation, chanting, yoga and self-defense.
After attending a class, people receive an email asking if they'd like to give some money to daana to pay the teachers of future classes.
"They contribute whatever they want anonymously to keep the classes going," said Goswami. "So the whole thing is a give-it-forward economy."
Goswami said he was inspired to start the platform after decades of yoga and meditation.
"It's given me so much, and my question is 'Why me, why not everybody?'" he said.
Goswami and co-founder Caroline Goyer dream of daana
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Al eyes are on Motorola right now with the impending release of their first Google-influenced smartphone. As details for this smartphone leak, it
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looks like it will rely on unique features instead of raw hardware to set it apart from the rest of the Android-powered pack. We know the phone is coming soon, and now we know a little bit of what that looks like under the hood.
While it’s not entirely accurate to say that specs don’t matter, it is absolutely true that right now a smartphone lives or dies by the unique features that are able to be offered. Whether it is the iOS ecosystem, the Ultrapixel camera with BoomSound, or the GS4’s user level control of battery and storage capacity, it’s the features offered by a phone that are causing buyers to take notice. Motorola’s upcoming smartphone has the benefit of being built collaboratively with Google engineers and product managers who have been hands-on with the evolution of Android so far. They’ve done their research and think the Moto X is the way to go.
According to Twitter power-
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A DEBT-RIDDEN north-east banker who embezzled more than £36,000 from elderly family friends has been jailed
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Alison Allan was sentenced to 16 months for stealing from two pensioners who trusted her implicitly.
Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard the 57-year-old – who targeted the couple over two years – committed the “nasty” crime to pay off mounting credit card debts. She believed it would be a “short-term solution” to her money problems.
However, once she started to take the cash, the situation began to spiral out of control.
Yesterday, Sheriff Graham Buchanan told the shamed former Clydesdale Bank worker that there was no other option for him than to send her to jail.
He said he had to send a message to the public that crimes that were a “gross breach of trust” would almost certainly result in a custodial sentence.
The court heard previously that Allan’s victims, Dorothea Buschman and William Smith, were her close friends and would normally ask her to deal with their
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New rules for setting rates on car, home and other insurance policies in California will result in higher premiums for businesses and individuals, a consumer advocate charged
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Wednesday.
The regulations adopted Tuesday by the state Department of Insurance "are an outrageous giveaway to the insurance industry," Harvey Rosenfield, founder of Consumer Watchdog, said in a letter to Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner.
Rosenfield, author of Proposition 103, the 1988 ballot measure that overhauled California's insurance regulations, said the rules would weaken the state's ability to mandate lower rates, such as the 15.9%, $250-million cut Poizner recently ordered in Allstate's auto insurance premiums.
That charge was denied by Poizner's office, which said the Republican commissioner has lowered Californians' insurance premiums by more than $1 billion since taking office in January 2007.
"Mr. Rosenfield is obviously very passionate about this issue," Deputy Insurance Commissioner Byron Tucker said. "The commissioner shares that passion with him, but in this particular case, Mr. Rosenfield is flat-out wrong."
The new regulations make changes in the formulas used to
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Asked about this anecdote, shortstop Errol Robinson — one of those freshmen who will be in the lineup when Ole Miss opens the College World Series against
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Virginia on Sunday (7 p.m., ESPN2) — smiles a kind of sheepish grin, like a kid who has been caught running by the pool.
The 2014 Ole Miss freshmen class did not care much for the natural order of things.
This, the upperclassmen discovered, meant that when even the guys who used to go “early” to the batting cages showed up, the freshmen were already hitting.
“Sometimes it gets annoying just because the older guys have been here so long, it’s ‘OK, wait your turn,’” senior co-captain Austin Anderson said.
It was coach Mike Bianco who relayed the story and used it as an example of not only the kind of impact the freshmen have made on this season but also the togetherness of this roster. Because while Anderson may find it occasionally bothersome that the cage is not ready for him when he is ready for it, he and the other upper
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RLX Technologies' System 600ex Chassis, priced at $2,400, holds up to 10 of the company's server blades, and
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has high-speed connections and redundant power supplies.
What's the big deal about blade servers? Think small: in the size of the servers, in the number of cables and wires cluttering up the back of a rack, in the time required for setup and management, and'in some cases at least'in the amount of power consumed.
At the simplest level, blade servers are complete servers on a single card that plug into a rackmount chassis. They're hot-swappable'just slide them into the chassis and they're up and running in seconds. Hundreds of blades can fit into a very small space.
mouse switch, there's quite a bundle of cables, spare network interface cards, power sources and other paraphernalia to manage.
Blade servers promise to correct these problems, but will they deliver the goods?
A couple of new companies such as RLX Technologies Inc. and Egenera Inc., and some well-heeled computer manufacturers such as Dell
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Actress Nicole Kidman gently addressed criticism of her new film Grace of Monaco on the opening day of the Cannes Film Festival.
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feel sad because I think that the film has no malice toward the family or particularly towards Grace or Rainier,” said Kidman, who stars in the film’s titular role.
The controversy over the biopic film, which started more than a year ago, involves the question of how a specific period of French-American cultural history is portrayed on the big screen.
Set in the 1960s, Grace of Monaco features as a central storyline France’s attempt to annex Monaco and claim its tax revenue. Monaco’s Prince Rainier III, who ascended the throne in 1949, played a key role in the resolution of the crisis, creation of a revised constitution, and restoration of Monaco’s national parliament.
Prince Rainier III married American actress Grace Kelly in 1956. Their children constitute Monaco’s reining Grimaldi family: Caroline, Princess of Hanover; Albert II, Prince of Monaco; and Princess Stéphanie of Monaco.
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In a bid to get someone, anyone, in the foreseeable future to clean up the toxic brew of methane and benzene percolating beneath hundreds
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of homes, the city of Carson declared a local emergency this week in its Carousel subdivision and pleaded for help.
A bunch of residents in the Los Angeles County city have already filed a class-action lawsuit against Shell Oil Co. for covering up crude-oil reservoir tanks with a thin layer of dirt—instead of cleaning up the area—after closing a 50-acre facility in 1966 and selling the property for residential development. But the lack of recognition by government authorities or Shell that a health hazard exists prompted city officials to escalate their effort.
The 4-0 vote by the city council asks Governor Jerry Brown, Attorney General Kamala Harris and state environmental agencies to demand an immediate cleanup.
The underground toxic stew wasn’t discovered until 2008 when testing of a nearby manufacturing plant led back to the Carousel neighborhood. Testing immediately turned up high concentrations of benzene (a recognized carcinogen) and methane (a gas that poses a fire and explosion hazard).
The Los Angeles Regional Water
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Corruption in Russia’s military has quadrupled to 7 billion rubles ($109.8 million) last year, the top federal military
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prosecutor said on Thursday.
Russia ranks among the world’s most corrupt countries in international ratings, with corruption-related crimes costing an estimated $2.5 billion in damages between 2014 and 2017. Observers have said that anti-graft campaigns under President Vladimir Putin’s rule have brought little progress.
“The crimes in this category aren’t going down, and the damage caused has increased fourfold [since 2017] to exceed 7 billion rubles,” the state-run TASS news agency quoted Chief Military Prosecutor Valery Petrov as saying.
Speaking at the annual board meeting of the chief military prosecutor's office, Petrov identified corruption as “the root cause of most problems in the rule of law,” calling on nationwide efforts to crack down on violations.
More than 2,800 Russian military officials were brought to justice for corruption in 2018, he said.
The chief military prosecutor’s office oversees more than 7
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Dr Christopher Tufton, minister of health, sharing a moment with the team captains from the corporate companies in this year's Jamaica Moves Corporate Challenge
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Jamaica Moves, an initiative by the Ministry of Health, has partnered with Running Events Jamaica to stage the inaugural Welcome to Kingston 5K.
Set to take place along the corridors of the Kingston waterfront on July 8, the 5K will conclude the five-race Jamaica Moves Corporate Challenge circuit.
The circuit, which kicked off in April, targets private- and public-sector companies through a friendly performance-based competition. The challenge, being done using the Running Events Jamaica calendar, encourages these companies to enter up to five 5K/10K race events.
During the launch of the Welcome to Kingston 5k, Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton, in commenting on the success of the Jamaica Moves Campaign and the 2018 Corporate Challenge Circuit, said, "This national campaign, to a larger extent, delivers emotional appeal to our Jamaicans and is geared towards stimulating action and acceptance of what we really need to work towards. It has generated national recognition, and we have the
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It looked so easy on Pinterest – as most Pinterest projects do.
The only hard part was picking just one. I was hooked – line and
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sinker.
Suddenly my bathroom mirror was lacking. It looked naked. Definitely in need of a frame.
I picked a fairly simple concept consisting of four wooden planks to flank the edges of the glass. When it comes to home projects, I excel at planning. My husband helps with execution. It was time to reel him in.
He proved a fairly simple catch. He likes projects, especially when they involve wood and power tools – not necessarily in that order.
Before beginning, we stood in the bathroom, gazing at the mirror. There was a metal trim piece running along the bottom of the glass, which helped affix the mirror to the wall, so we had to leave it in place. The trim protruded outward, providing a bump for our project to work around – literally.
We were stumped by the bump. I suggested routing a groove in the backside of the wood, but my husband rejected that idea in favor of shims, which are thin wooden
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Bletchley Park was the secret home to Britain's top codebreakers during World War II. These wireless telegraphy huts were used
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by people like Alan Turing to crack the Nazi army's coded messages, such as those sent by the famous Enigma machine which Hitler believed was unbreakable.
Bletchley Park is now home to the new National Museum of Computing, which features a rebuild of the world's first electronic codebreaking computer - Colossus.
This is the rebuilt Colossus Mk II computer at Bletchley Park's National Museum of Computing.
The original Colossus machine was built using more than 1,500 valves by Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers to speed up the breaking of German codes - in particular that of the Lorenz cipher.
The very existence of Colossus was kept secret as its success relied on the German's not knowing that the code could be broken.
At the end of the war destruction of most of the Colossus machines was ordered because of the secrecy around the machines, while the blueprints were burnt in a furnace – although contrary to popular belief it was not Winston Churchill who ordered the Colossus machines to
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E. Lucille Farley of Merritt Island, FL, formerly of Daniels
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, WV, passed away on Sunday, April 7, 2019.
She was born at Coal City, WV to her late parents, Fred and Ada Ryan.
Mrs. Farley was a member of Grace Baptist Church in Daniels and retired from the telephone company with more than 37 years of service.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Lacy L. Farley; by two brothers, Herb and Raymond Ryan, and a sister, Norma Jean Ryan Keffer.
Left to cherish her memories are two daughters, Beverly Farley Wallace and LaLane Farley Hayworth; seven grandchildren, three great grandchildren; a brother, Wayne Ryan and his wife, Yvonne; two sisters, Dorothy Smith and Deanna Farmer and her husband, Ray; and a host of nieces and nephews also survive.
Funeral services will be conducted at Rose and Quesenberry Peace Chapel in Beckley on Saturday, April 13
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No felony charges for St. Paul attorney who fatally struck jogger on Mississippi River Blvd.
The St. Paul attorney who struck and killed a
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jogger in St. Paul last winter will not face felony charges.
The decision comes after the Hennepin County attorney’s office reviewed evidence in the case against Peter Berge and determined the 61-year-old was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the collision, nor was he on his cellphone, the office reported Wednesday morning.
As such, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman found Berge’s conduct not to be grossly negligent and declined to file felony charges.
Prosecutors relied on witness statements and accident reconstruction to make their decision, the office reported.
Their analysis estimated that Berge was driving just over 30 mph at the time of the collision and that he drifted into oncoming traffic several times before shifting back into the correct lane, authorities say.
The speed limit on the roadway is 25 mph.
A massive tumor was discovered on Berge’s brain two days after he fatally struck Scott Spoo at Mississippi
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The Island's top scorer the past two seasons and a co-winner of the Jaques Award this year along with SIA's Clare Mitchell,
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the three-time Advance All Star signed an athletic scholarship with the University of Albany of the Division I America East Conference. Conroy scored 23.9 points per game as a senior.
The two-time Advance All Star, who helped guide the Warriors to the PSAL city semifinals, will play for La Salle University of Philadelphia, a member of the Division I Atlantic-10 Conference. The versatile Brown bounced back from an injury-plagued junior year to average 13.5 ppg as a senior while playing multiple positions.
The three-time Advance All Star had a memorable senior year, reaching 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds for her varsity career and fueling the Tigers' drive to a second straight Class A State Federation championship, averaging 19.6 ppg along the way. She'll be taking her game to the next level at Hillsdale College, a Division II program in Michigan that competes in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletics Conference.
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Pressure increased on the Government yesterday to keep a Treaty clause under its partial asset sales plans after 60 iwi leaders gave Prime Minister John Key a
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clear message that he was courting trouble if he tried to scrap it.
And despite the Prime Minister's assurances of a solution to satisfy all sides, National's governing partner - the Maori Party - again warned that it was an issue that could spell the end of the Maori Party's agreement with National.
Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples said the Prime Minister had underestimated the depth of feeling in Maoridom about Section 9 - the Treaty clause of the State Owned Enterprises Act.
"I've put my job on the line. I'm prepared to say that if the Treaty is blocked out, then there will be quite a lot of disruption between Maori and the Government. There will be an uprising and we may be part of that uprising. We go back [to Maori people] and if they say stay, we stay, if they say walk then we walk away."
He said that decision would be made by the Maori electorates and
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In my quest to learn if Boll really does make unapologetically awful films, I treated myself to two of his most famous movies, Postal and BloodRayne. BloodRayne is arguably his most successful video game adaptation, with two sequels and another reportedly in the works. Postal is probably his most well-known movie. I was hoping to get ahold of Alone in the Dark, one of the most egregious examples of how bad his movies can be, but I failed to find it and also very easily convinced myself against looking very hard. It's most famous for featuring a scene where a character who was recently killed on-screen gets up and exits the set. I am really upset that I missed out on that one scene. With BloodRayne and Postal,
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torched bus Torched bus that left six people dead and others injured.
Police yesterday arrested five people in connection with the deadly petrol bomb attack
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on a bus carrying a group of mineworkers in Burgersfort, Limpopo, on Monday night.
The attack resulted in six peope being burned beyond recognition, while dozens suffered severe burn wounds.
Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said the group, aged between 21 and 30, were arrested in different locations in operations over the last two days.
"The five suspects will appear in Mecklenburg Magistrate's Court [today] on six counts of murder, malicious damage to property and attempted murder," said Mojapelo.
Six people burnt beyond recognition after what seemed like a petrol bomb‚ was thrown at the bus by unknown suspects.
The six victims, including two women, were burnt beyond recognition after the fiery attack on the bus. Up to 28 were injured.
Around 50 mineworkers were on board at the time, around 8pm.
".... When the bus stopped at Driekop, two unknown suspects got in
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Can NYC still afford a 24-hour subway system?
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board is expected to approve the agency’s 2010 budget Wednesday
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, which cuts several subway lines, dozens of bus routes and reduces the number of trains and buses late at night and on weekends. Future budget cuts seem inevitable, given the state of the economy.
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The MTA has a bloated payroll. Both political appointee employment agency and union payroll. Why do MTA employee not contribute to their health insiurance and retirment at the same rates private employees do?
Yes, the MTA certainly can afford it. Get rid of some of the higher up lying bastards and they’ll have all the money they need.
If you want to see what economic damage looks like, just try stopping the subways at night. Everything from night life, to custodial maintenance, to traders
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Try not to drool on your smartphone as you browse Comodo's Instagram visual menu.
Comodo in New York City is serving a he
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aping side of Instagram along with its swordfish ceviche, seared duck breast, and poblano pepper pasta. The restaurant has decided to embrace all the Instagram users who snap pictures of their food after it's delivered to the table.
Comodo's Instagram menu is gathered together under the #comodomenu hashtag. Currently, 55 user-submitted photos pop up showing the dishes in various lighting conditions. Seeing the photos may help sway your dining decision one way or another. Comodo is expecting customers to make their menu decisions based on dish recommendations from their Instagram friends or from the sheer visual power of the food.
Diners are encouraged to add to the Instagram collection and share comments about the food. Few restaurants put photos on their menus, so this is a clever way to share the visuals without cluttering up the menu itself.
Most of the photos look pretty darn appetizing, though a few oddballs have snuck in under the hashtag. There's a photo of
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“Your babies are likely to be born blind, deaf, or with brain bleeds or worse if they are born right now,”
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the perinatal specialist told my husband and me after I was admitted to the hospital for preterm labor with our triplets at just 23 weeks gestation. I unmistakably heard God in that moment yell “NO!” inside my head and kindly asked the doctor to leave my room. The doctor was doing his job, but it was time for my God to do His job — protecting the lives of our unborn children. When you’re pregnant with triplets, the question is not if your babies are going to be premature but how premature they will be. Thousands were praying for us, a reality show was covering our story of three miscarriages followed by becoming pregnant with triplets, and we had seen God moment by moment reassure and comfort us. I had felt God carry me every step of the way, and I knew He wasn’t going to suddenly stop. Faithful He had been and faithful He would be.
Fifty days of confinement to a hospital bed
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Partnerships should be handled carefully this year. If you overreact or let your temper take the reins, you will end up losing out on
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something that could improve your life. Getting along with others and being willing to compromise will result in life-altering changes.
Aries (March 21-April 19): Think before you speak. You’ll end up in a compromising position if you are too pushy or will not listen to reason. Nurture relationships instead of pushing people away.
Taurus (April 20-May 20): You’ll find it difficult to sit still and wait out an uncertain situation. Try not to disclose any information that could be used against you. Don’t act or say something impulsively.
Gemini (May 21-June 20): A physical change will make you feel good about the way you look and what you have to offer. Don’t impose on someone who isn’t up for as lively a time as you are.
Cancer (June 21-July 22): An unexpected change will catch you off-guard. Don’
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