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The crisis in the Ukraine continues as American and European leaders lob more sanctions against Russia for its actions in the war-torn country. But in the
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oil world, it’s business as usual, as the world’s biggest petroleum producer moves forward with its potentially lucrative deal with Russia in the Arctic.
Oil king ExxonMobil last week began drilling a new oil well off Russia’s Arctic frontier, in cooperation with OAO Rosneft, the country’s state-run oil company.
The operation has $700 million in potential, and is one of 40 wells planned by Russia in Arctic waters to see just how much oil it can extract now that global warming has opened new avenues in the region.
The deal was able to go forward despite the latest round of economic sanctions because it was concluded before the West tried again to punish President Vladimir Putin for interfering in Ukraine.
“The well is very important, it’s probably one of the most interesting wells in the global oil industry for many years,” James Henderson, a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, told Bloomberg
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Research network provides unmetered access to Akamai's cached content.
Australia's academic research network (AARNet) has announced that
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it has unmetered access to traffic hosted on the Akamai content delivery network for its clients in the university and research sectors.
AARNet CEO Chris Hancock told iTnews today that it started unmetering Akamai services to its clients as of yesterday.
Hancock said these clients included universities, the CSIRO and all of AARNet's other clients which include the likes of NICTA and Questacon in Canberra.
Hancock said that over 70 percent of traffic on the AARNet network was peering traffic.
"We have got a lot of peering partners," he said. "We don't publicise all of our peering partners as it's the end-user services that are the value add."
Peering allows the research network to cut-down on international traffic, which comes at high costs to service providers in Australia.
Content hosted on Akamai represents around 5 percent of AARNet's total traffic, Hancock said.
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Show other people how change will be helpful before expecting them to behave differently.
Although circumstances often change in the blink of an eye, people tend
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to change at a slower pace. Even the most motivated people who welcome change often encounter stumbling blocks that make transformation more complicated than they'd originally anticipated. Whether you’re hoping to lose weight, or you're trying to convince your employees to embrace a new procedure, don’t expect immediate results. Instead, recognize that real change happens slow and steady.
When two psychologists, Carlo DiClemente and James O. Prochaska, studied people who were trying to quit smoking, they discovered five stages that can be used to assess a person's readiness to make change. Their ideas about the stages of change have been applied to people who are creating a variety of changes in their lives, whether they are looking to establish new behavior or extinguish old habits.
Their research has become paramount to the Transtheoretical Model of Change. It shows that trying to force someone to change before he's ready isn't likely to be productive. For example, most New Year's
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Warner Bros. has made no secret of the fact that it’s trying to set itself apart rom Marvel Studios. Unlike its competitor,
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WB has opted for a more director-oriented approach to its films – allowing more room for creative freedom and stylistic choices. We’ve seen this with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’s Zack Snyder, and this summer we will see what David Ayer brings to the DC table with Suicide Squad. He’s a director who, according to Jai Courtney a.k.a Digger Harkness a.k.a Captain Boomerang, may have more than a screw or two loose.
Psychotic. He is the man. He’s one of the greats. I think he has an amazing future ahead of him, and I hope we get to work together again. I have nothing but admiration for him, and small amounts of fear. That about sums it up. He loves that attention to detail, and he’s not interested in comfort. Nothing is about making anything easy for anyone. And that’s not about
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New Zealand has passed a hotly-disputed bill that radically expands the powers of its spying agency. The legislation was passed 61 votes to 59 in
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a move that was slammed by the opposition as a death knell for privacy rights in New Zealand.
The new amendment bill gives the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) – New Zealand’s version of the NSA – powers to support the New Zealand police, Defense Force and the Security Intelligence Service.
Megauploads founder Kim Dotcom, who has been a vocal critic of the bill, tweeted his condemnation after the legislation went through parliament.
The #GCSB bill just passed in Parliament against the will of most Kiwis. RIP Privacy. Payback at the 2014 election!!!
However, Kiwi Prime Minister John Key argues otherwise. In an emphatic defense of the amendment in parliament on Wednesday Key argued it would not give the GCSB sweeping powers to spy.
"There will be times where a serious cyber intrusion is detected against a New Zealander and the GCSB will then need to look at content - that's why the law allows that.
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"There is absolute impunity of crimes committed by the police."
WASHINGTON, D.C.– The violent aftermath of the Honduran presidential election —
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triggered by allegations of electoral fraud — has led to serious human rights abuses, Honduran advocates said Thursday, strongly advising the Trump administration not to deport immigrants back to a country repressed by deadly government security forces.
At an event sponsored by Alianza Americas, a transnational network of immigrant organizations, two Honduran-based speakers shared their on-the-ground perspective of the dangers they have faced after President Juan Orlando Hernández’s reelection. Joaquin Mejia — a lawyer and human rights advocate who works as a commentator at the Jesuit radio station Radio Progreso — expressed concern over the legitimacy of his country’s presidential elections and indicated that his life was at risk for openly criticizing Hernández and the military police. The Honduran constitution has since the 1980s explicitly enforced a one-term presidential limit. Hernández sought to change the constitution to ban term limits. Claudia Mendoza — a freelance journalist who has worked
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Authorities say a man sought in the slaying of a woman at a west Omaha apartment has been arrested
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in Missouri.
Police say 42-year-old Anthony Burries was taken into custody by officers in Odessa, Missouri, on Monday evening. He awaits extradition to Omaha. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney in the case.
A warrant for Burries’ arrest was issued earlier Monday. It said the charge was first-degree murder. He’s accused of killing 38-year-old Tina Hoult, with whom he’d had a relationship. Her body was found Sunday morning in her apartment after officers were sent to check on her well-being.
Court records say Burries has a prison record for theft and firearms violations and for domestic abuse in assaulting Hoult in December 2012.
May this murdering feral son of satan burn in hell! Another White woman who fell for the “jewversity” LIE and paid for it with her life. Newnationdotorg is a site where I found this story
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The mouse is putting on its healthy hat with a landmark plan to address concerns about Hollywood's role in childhood obesity.
June 5, 2012,
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11:30 a.m.
No longer will healthy-minded parents cringe at the sound of sugar-saturated drinks or sickly snack cakes being lauded in seductive ads for kids watching their favorite Disney shows. In a bold move, the Walt Disney Company is announcing that it will only advertise healthier foods to children on its TV channels, radio station and website. Disney is the first major media company to take such a stand.
Food and beverage companies spend about $2 billion a year on marketing aimed at children, according to the Federal Trade Commission. And the Center for Science in the Public Interest states that in 2005, nine out of 10 advertisements shown during Saturday morning children’s television programming were for unhealthy foods. Match that with the statistics — a third of children and adolescents are overweight or obese — and the connection is hard to ignore.
Robert Iger, Disney’s chairman, said he felt strongly that “companies in a position to help with solutions to childhood
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To call them a political odd couple would be a rash understatement.
Conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch will host a fundraiser for liberal New York Sen.
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Hillary Clinton, the Financial Times reports.
The mating ritual of the unlikely allies has been under way for months. Clinton set political tongues to wagging last month by attending a Washington party celebrating the 10th anniversary of Fox News, the cable news channel owned by Murdoch.
The Financial Times quoted one unnamed source as describing the Clinton-Murdoch connection in this way: "They have a respectful and cordial relationship. He has respect for the work she has done on behalf of New York. I wouldn't say it was illustrative of a close ongoing relationship. It is not like they are dining out together."
The fundraiser will take place in July, the newspaper said. Clinton is the frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, though she has not indicated whether or not she will run.
Clinton has worked hard to take the edge off her reputation as a card-carrying liberal. She has has collaborated with congressional conservatives on some peices of legislation, called for a "common ground
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The 91st Academy Awards take place on Sunday.
Come hell or high water, the 2019 Academy Awards will go on this Sunday.
This
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year’s embattled production has been beset by a series of missteps — from announcing and scrapping a popular-film category, naming and losing host Kevin Hart and reversing a widely unwelcome decision to announce some of the winners during commercial breaks. Despite all that, the now somewhat crowd-sourced television special will still proceed to honor achievements in film over the past year.
Whether the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences acknowledges its role in the blunders remains to be seen, but we’ve kept up with all the developments and break some of them down below.
The 91st Academy Awards will again be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC at 7 p.m. Central. The show usually runs about three hours but can go over, so set those DVRs past 10 p.m. if you really want to know which film won best picture without getting a news alert — or a second news alert correcting a “La
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Americans are living longer than ever, with the average life expectancy reaching 78 years in 2005, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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said.
But despite the steady upward climb of longevity, the United States was still far behind Japan, Andorra and Italy, where statistics compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO) show that life expectancy exceeds 80 years.
The CDC report, based on preliminary data for 2005, showed that life expectancy in the United States has risen steadily in the past 50 years.
Americans lived for around 69 years in 1955, and 76 years in 1995, the study showed.
The age-adjusted death rate also fell to an all-time low in 2005, bottoming out at fewer than 800 deaths per 100,000 people, the statistics show.
"This report highlights the continued reduction in deaths from the three leading killers in the United States - heart disease, cancer and stroke - which is most likely due to better prevention efforts and medical advances in the treatments of these diseases," said Hsiang-Ching Kung, a survey statistician at the CDC and one of the report's authors
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Saudi agents were waiting when Jamal Khashoggi walked into their country’s consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago. Khashoggi was
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dead within minutes, beheaded, dismembered, his fingers severed, and within two hours the killers were gone, according to details from audio recordings described by a senior Turkish official on Wednesday.
The government of Turkey let out these and other leaks about the recordings on Wednesday, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Ankara, in an escalation of pressure on both Saudi Arabia and the United States for answers about Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi dissident journalist who lived in Virginia and wrote for The Washington Post.
The new leaks, which were also splashed in lurid detail across a pro-government newspaper, came a day after Pompeo and the Trump administration had appeared to accept at face value the promises of the Saudi rulers to conduct their own investigation into Khashoggi’s disappearance — regardless of Turkish assertions that senior figures in the royal court had ordered his killing.
As the Saudis and the Americans tried to put the crisis behind them, the brutality described in the leaks
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Monday, April 8, 2019 - 5 a.m.
Reversing a recent trend, the median sale price of a home in Southern
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Nevada ticked up in March, according to a new report from the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.
The report showed that the median price for an existing home sold in March was $300,000, up slightly from $296,200 in February and up more than 7 percent from March 2018.
Home prices in the area had generally been rising since early 2012 before retreating in recent months.
The median sale price reached $300,000 for the first time in September and has been hovering around the mark ever since.
The median price of local condos and townhomes sold last month came in at $166,500, up just slightly from February. The March figure was up about 4 percent from the same month in 2018.
Following the economic downturn of 2008 and 2009, home prices bottomed out in Southern Nevada at about $118,000 in January 2012.
With mortgage rates remaining near historically low levels and the lowering of some asking prices, Carpenter said things could
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Both right-handers have held that perspective since Day One of camp. Both have struggled at times this spring, with Gonzalez also allowing six runs
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Monday in a Triple A game. He was unhappy with his slider, which lacked the required bite for strikeouts.
Chi Chi Gonzalez allowed seven runs in 3 1/3 innings Saturday against the Diamondbacks in Scottsdale, Ariz. (Video by Stefan Stevenson/Star-Telegram).
I was jamming a ton of guys, which was great, but I need some punchouts. I haven’t gotten any yet, and that would help me out a ton. I need to figure out what pitch to throw to get a strikeout.
Martinez, meanwhile, has allowed nine earned runs in three appearances (7 2/3 innings).
But none of that will matter if either performs well in his last few outings. The focus from Brocail, among others, will sharpen, and the pitchers understand what’s at stake.
Martinez is expected to throw four to five innings Sunday.
Rangers ace Yu Darvish is scheduled
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Grand Rapids Community College is celebrating its centennial anniversary, but the birthday presents are going to local charities and
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organizations.
College faculty and staff created the 100 Ways to Give program, which includes service projects throughout the community.
GRCC’s Grants and Resource Development Office launched the first project this month. They’re trying to collect 100 items for care packages that will go to foster children at the D.A. Blodgett- St. John’s Home.
KENTWOOD, Mich.—The state’s front line for cyber attacks will put their skills to the test at Davenport University next week.
The Michigan Cyber Civilian Corps formed earlier this year. Similar to the National Guard during a disaster, the team can be activated by Governor Snyder during state of emergency involving cyberattacks.
On Wednesday, July 23, MiC3 will be pitted against the West Michigan Cyber Security Consortium in a cyberattack exercise. With the help of the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget, MiC3 will have to defend email servers, web servers and
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There are no plans to make it compulsory for everyone in the UK to be on the national DNA database, the government has said.
The comment
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comes after a senior judge called for all UK residents and visitors to be required to provide a DNA sample to help police solve crimes.
Lord Justice Sedley said this would make the present database in England and Wales fairer and less biased.
The database currently holds details of four million people's DNA.
Each month, some 30,000 more samples from suspects or DNA recovered from crime scenes are added to the database, making it the largest in the world.
It includes some 24,000 samples from young people aged between 10 and 17, who were arrested but never convicted.
It also stores samples from nearly 40% of the black men in England and Wales compared with 9% of the white men, according to Home Office and Census figures.
But the idea of expanding it any further has come in for a barrage of criticism.
DNA database: A step too far?
The Human Genetics Commission said creating such a huge database would be too expensive and prone to mistakes being made.
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I saw a billboard that supports Dama Rice for Petersburg City Council. She is asking us to vote for her because of 16 years of experience on
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council. That is exactly why we should NOT vote for her.
She has voted with the current council to spend millions on a golf course when the mass of her constituents were not in favor of such an act. Our 1st Ward has dilapidated housing and no public recreation for our children. I really don't know what she has done in those 16 years and I can't see giving her another four to add on to that. It is time for someone else to fill that seat.
Her opponent Treska Wilson-Smith has done some very remarkable things during those same 16 years. Treska worked tirelessly for 16 years to promote school uniforms, bringing our community to hear that our children should focus more on education and less on fashion while at school.
Treska brought a celebration of African-American culture and history to our city when she organized Juneteenth for several years. She engaged musicians, vendors, artists and city workers, bringing them together to work in harmony for the
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Chelsea completed the swoop for the Cameroon forward on a one-year deal to bolster their attacking options after missing out on No 1 target Rooney.
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And now Eto'o has joined up with those members of the Chelsea squad not on international duty to take part in training ahead of the weekend's Premier League clash at Goodison Park.
Eto'o looked to be fitting in with his new team-mates John Terry, Kevin de Bruyne, Michael Essien, Juan Mata and fellow new boy Willian.
Club captain Terry appeared to be giving Eto'o a warm welcome as the pair shook hands before sharing a joke with the rest of the squad.
Mourinho, who guided Eto'o and Inter to a Treble in 2010, may look to the 32-year-old striker to spearhead his attack this season.
The former Barcelona star took a paycut to join the Stamford Bridge club from Anzhi. The Russian outfit - who also allowed Willian to join the Blues - had made him the highest paid player on the planet, but he has seen his pay slashed from £17m
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In expectation of hosting top sessions and meetings within Slovakia’s presidency of the Council of the European Union, Bratislava is getting a
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makeover.
But while repairs of roads cause even bigger and more frequent traffic jams than usual, no significant improvement is expected.
It is also questionable how long the renewed roads will last as these are not undergoing a thorough reconstruction but only repairs within ordinary maintenance.
The reason for not choosing a complex reconstruction Ľubomír Palčák of the Research Institute of Transport (VÚD) estimates that the city was looking for a compromise between money and time it has for work to be done.
Drivers in Bratislava have to count with delays during morning and evening peak hours. Road work is expected to continue for the next two months as the presidency begins on July 1.
Apart from roads the city is also repairing the fly-under road at Hodžovo square as well as dilapidated underpasses at Kozia street and Trnavské Mýto. The SNP Bridge should undergo repairs in August.
In the centre
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Like American white supremacist Richard B. Spencer, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan maintains that there is no distinction between "radical" and "moderate"
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Muslims.
At a November 9 conference on women's entrepreneurship in Ankara hosted by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rejected the concept of "moderate Islam." Referring to the vow by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman -- during the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh on Oct. 25 -- to turn his country into a bastion of "moderate Islam," Erdoğan said, "Islam cannot be either'moderate' or 'not moderate.' Islam can only be one thing." He also claimed that the "patent of this concept originated in the West," which "really want[s] to weaken Islam."
Erdoğan has consistently communicated his thoughts about the term "moderate Islam" often used in the West to describe his Justice and Development Party (AKP). As early as 2007, he said: "These epithets of'moderate Islam' are very ugly, it is disrespectful and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoder
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The business-IT landscape is increasingly getting disrupted due to onslaught of cloud, data science, AI, and IoT adoptions on both consumer and enterprise
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side. Hence, the talent community is keen on securing their career by moving to Cloud and other latest techs to ensure their employability for a decade or even more. While most IT service providers are still in a dilemma to push cloud or push legacy or how much on which cloud, Hanu Software is painlessly attracting top talents in the industry with its sheer focus on Azure Cloud. 'Any workload, anywhere to Azure' is its single-point solution for everyone globally. Hanu enables everyone on Azure adoptions - be it 'Do It Myself' CxOs or get it Outsourced CxOs by helping some of the selected IT implementer and also by loaning Azure talents on contracts.
Debuted in 2004 with few fresh graduates to drive some small-sized projects in U.S., Hanu took the leadership to solve the talent scarcity problem to achieve the leading service provider position for Microsoft Azure ever since Microsoft announced it around 2007. Made the right bet on a technology that
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The Editors' Choice Award-winning Asus PA246Q is a professional-class monitor with a satisfying number of features at an affordable price.
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There are three distinct reasons to be excited about the Asus PA246Q. One, it's the first monitor we've had the opportunity to calibrate using a new tool; two, it's the first 24-inch-plus monitor with a high-end P-IPS panel we've reviewed that costs less than $500.
Finally, the graphical overlay feature may be the most original monitor option I've encountered in more than three years of writing monitor reviews. Essentially, the feature places one of a number of different grid and photo size options on the screen, allowing for increased precision when tailoring graphics or printing photos.
What sets the PA246Q apart is its price-to-performance-and-features ratio. Rarely do you see a monitor of its size, performance, and feature set at such a relatively low starting price: $500.
Height adjustment of 4 inches is available.
Not the thinnest of profiles, but not bad for a CCFL-based
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An escalating dispute between Gulf Keystone and a group of shareholders drove down the oil company's shares on Monday, 10 days ahead of
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crucial votes which will decide the composition of the board.
The company, which made its name finding a huge oil field in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, is facing investor calls for a board shake-up to counter concerns about corporate governance standards and executive pay.
Its disagreement with activist investor M&G Recovery Fund, one of its biggest shareholders with a 5.1 percent stake, worsened on Saturday when the company recommended that shareholders vote against four directors M&G had nominated to the board, when the annual meeting is held on July 25.
Sky News then reported on Sunday that a shareholder group headed by M&G Investments was considering voting against Gulf Keystone's new chairman Simon Murray, a city heavyweight who was formerly chairman of commodities giant Glencore.
Shares in Gulf Keystone were down 10.6 percent in afternoon trade, underperforming the European oil and gas index which was 0.4 percent higher.
Setting out its objections to M&G's
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igaom Research report aims to help technology decision-makers better understand: - What the modern workforce thinks it needs to succeed in this rapidly changing world of mobile-first communications and new work-collaboration technologies - How IT is supporting those needs and overall corporate objectives - If there are gaps between worker expectations and IT requirements, and how technology buyers can address them Download this Gigaom Research white paper to learn more.
GigaOm is seeing a new breed of services that promise to accelerate the mobilization of existing enterprise applications and business processes. Early mobile-application development solutions (MADP) were resource-intensive, requiring custom client code for each supported platform, as well as an on-premise middleware layer to connect mobile clients to enterprise backend systems. In this new model, code-free, configuration solutions - aimed at business analysts and lines of business- are revolutionizing the landscape, consolidating tools and services to simplify cross-platform enablement, and reducing
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ASHEVILLE — Pedestrian and bike projects in the River Arts District are back on the table, the result of an influx of cash from
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the county’s tourism board that could move the projects forward after the Asheville City Council meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 23.
The city of Asheville is slated to formally accept an investment of $4.6 million from the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority to help complete the southern section of the the River Arts District Transportation Improvement Project.
The city and the BCTDA initially announced the funding last October, and at its Jan. 23 meeting, Asheville City Council will consider accepting the grant and adjusting the city’s budget accordingly. The $4.6 million will go toward elements of the major infrastructure project in the RAD that were eliminated after construction costs came in more 50 percent higher than initial cost estimates last summer.
Council will also vote on amending its contract with Beverly Grant/Barnhill, the project’s construction manager, to include improvements to Lyman Street such as pedestrian and bicycle access that were delayed as a result of the cost overrun.
Council will hold a
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The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in
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this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 on file with the SEC. Some of the information contained in this discussion and analysis or set forth elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including information with respect to our plans and strategy for our business, includes forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. As a result of many factors, including those factors set forth in the ''Risk Factors'' section of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, our actual results could differ materially from the results described in, or implied by, the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis.
We are a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing new drugs to improve the lives of cancer patients by addressing key mechanisms of drug resistance that limit the rate and durability of response of many cancer therapies. Our targeted, small molecule drug candidates, designed using our proprietary kinase switch control inhibitor platform, inhibit the
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Steven Zieff of Crossroads Redevelopment hopes to turn EMC Corp.’s former headquarters site in Hopkinton into
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a mixed-use complex of housing, retail, and office space.
When the exodus to the suburbs got underway more than a half-century ago, employers followed, and the office park was born. But today, as younger workers return to the city, and employers again follow the labor, these isolated campuses of low-slung buildings, parking lots, and company cafeterias face challenges, from new competitors to aging facilities to high vacancy rates.
As a result, owners and developers across Eastern Massachusetts are seeking to reinvent the suburban office park, taking a page from urban revitalization that transformed old mill and factory buildings into mixed-use developments of housing, retail, and office spaces. In communities such as Burlington and Marlborough, developers are adding restaurants, hotels, and other amenities, as well as housing, to compete with the “live, work, play” attraction of the city.
In Marlborough, for example, Atlantic Management Inc. of Framingham purchased
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As a result of the ravaging flood wreaking havoc on different parts of the country, about 22 Internally Displaced Persons camps have been set
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up in Delta State.
Twelve of the camps were created by the Delta State Government, while the 10 others were set up by communities and people that are not disposed to moving into the government holding camps which are not near their original places of abode.
The state said the Flood Management Committee it created recently was providing for the needs of the people in the private camps.
Speaking after inspecting some of the holding camps and areas affected by the flood, the Director, Relief and Rehabilitation, National Emergency Management Agency, Mr Kayode Fagbemi, commended the Delta State Government for being proactive in handling the effects of the flood.
Fagbemi, who led officials of NEMA and those of the State Emergency Management Agency on the inspection, expressed satisfaction with what was put in place in the camps visited.
He sympathised with the flood victims for the inconveniences they were suffering, especially those who refused to move into government camps to avoid the unpleasant experience of 2012 when
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UPDATED, 4:28 PM: The score of the sometimes painful-to-watch Dallas Cowboys 38-14 win over the Washington Redskins last
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night on Thursday Night Football was determined hours ago, but the real final figures finally are in.
With 15.6 million viewers on NBC and the NFL Network simulcast of the primetime matchup, TNF has hit its best viewership of the sometimes ratings-challenged 2017 NFL season.
Now, yes, 15.6 million does seem to be less than the 16.91 million who tuned in with bellies full of Thanksgiving feasting to endure the November 23 primetime game between the winning Redskins and the NY Giants. And, you would be correct in your math but not your scheduling. Though it had all the semblance of a TNF game, the Thanksgiving match-up was actually not programmed as one. Add to that, the Redskins vs. Giants was not part of the TNF package deal and actually not shown on NFL Network and you have a hair splitting that is legit.
So, comparing regular apples to regular apples, last night’s game beat the previous high of
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EGYPT: Polaris has leveraged the features of its Intellect Lending product to help Tamweel become one of the first of its
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kind to be technology-led in the mortgage finance space in Egypt.
This is claimed by a recent announcement with Summit Technology Solutions (STS), a Summit Holding company, where Polaris Software Lab Limited has inked a partnership and has made its first major product go-live in the Egypt market.
The product Intellect Lending, which is Polaris’ product for Mortgage finance, has been chosen by Tamweel, Egypt’s third licensed Mortgage Company and as per the release, is being claimed as the first to have such an automated system in Egypt.
“Polaris has leveraged the features of its Intellect Lending product to help Tamweel become one of the first of its kind to be technology-led in the mortgage finance space in Egypt.I’m pleased to share that Tamweel is all set to reap the benefits of Intellect’s Mortgage product such as faster and business rule based decision for loans processing, regulatory reports based
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WASHINGTON — Facing the prospect of leaving Washington for a month-long recess without any substantial legislative achievements, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Tuesday announced he
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is delaying the start of the traditional August recess this year by two weeks.
McConnell's decision comes after members of his own party asked him to delay the five-week long break from Washington as a long list of GOP priorities pile up, including a stalled health care bill — even as new details emerged about a revised health care plan.
“In order to provide more time to complete action on important legislative items and process nominees that have been stalled by a lack of cooperation from our friends across the aisle, the Senate will delay the start of the August recess until the third week of August," McConnell said in a statement released to reporters Tuesday afternoon.
The revised schedule will mark the first time since 1994 that the Senate has postponed its August break. That year, the Senate was scheduled to leave for its recess around Aug. 6 but postponed it in order to work on health care, among other issues, according to the Senate historian. The chamber worked until Aug. 25 then returned on Sept.
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Relax, Kyle. That is the frequent message from University of Cincinnati basketball coach Mick Cronin to Kyle Washington, who admittedly is excitable.
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That is the frequent message from University of Cincinnati basketball coach Mick Cronin to senior forward Kyle Washington, who admittedly is the excitable type. When the message clicks, such as Washington scoring a season-high 19 points in last Saturday's 77-63 win at UCLA, the Champlin, Minnesota native can be a sight to behold.
Washington sometimes gets too exuberant, especially in the early stages of games. He sometimes makes quick fouls and turnovers, which leads Cronin to take him out. Washington also sometimes has played subpar in big games, including no points and two rebounds in an 89-76 loss at Xavier on Dec. 1.
Washington rallied with a 16-point game in a 65-50 win over Mississippi State on Dec. 12, followed by his 19-point outing at UCLA.
"The Mississippi State game got his confidence back," Cronin said. "We talked about the UCLA game, if he would just take his time. That's my
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From Kim Foxx in Chicago to Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, reform-minded prosecutors are facing pressure from organizers working to transform the criminal justice
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system.
Fixing a system that ravages black and brown communities takes more than just electing a prosecutor, Straight says. He explains that community organizers have to build structures to hold candidates accountable and establish a relationship in the spirit of co-governance.
In October 2015, Rev. Charles Straight, pastor of the Faith United Methodist Church in Dolton, Illinois, and other members of the People’s Lobby sat down with Kim Foxx to find out whether she was a worthy and willing partner in criminal justice reform. Straight remembers that Foxx, who was running for Cook County State’s Attorney, said she was committed to countering the failed war on drugs and stemming other drivers of mass incarceration.
The People’s Lobby, a grassroots organizing group, and Reclaim Chicago, the political action committee it supports, are two of the progressive organizations that campaigned for Foxx. The two groups claimed they knocked on more than 300,000 voters’ doors across Chicagoland
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The drivers may be familiar faces if you already use the rideshare portion of the Uber service. The Uber Eats app is separate from the rideshare app but the drivers are typically the same for both.
Drivers can choose if they want to accept assignments from both services or just one. This will allow drivers to spend more time out on the road, whether it be delivering food or people to different locations around Macon.
Those interested in driving for Uber and Uber Eats can sign up through its online application. Drivers must be at least 19-years-old, with a valid drivers license, a smartphone and have a car that meets the Uber requirements. Those requirements include
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Richard Perry/The New York TimesRobert Egan, in front of his barbecue restaurant in Hackensack, N.J., says he has
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played an unlikely role in diplomatic relations between the United States and North Korea.
In this 2010 photo, North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-il, who died last weekend, applauds following a massive military parade celebrating the 65th anniversary of the communist nation’s ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, North Korea.
HACKENSACK, N.J. – Diners were chewing on pulled pork and baby back ribs here at Cubby’s barbecue restaurant on Sunday night when the owner, Robert Egan, learned that the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, had died on Saturday of a heart attack.
“I got 50 calls from the press, and I was in consultation with the North Koreans all night,” Mr. Egan said, sitting in a booth on Monday in the no-frills rib restaurant he has owned since 1982.
The ripple effects of Kim’s death extended from Russia to China to Washington and,
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Summary: Without a firm constitutional basis, early elections in Libya would not only produce a government whose legitimacy is contested even more widely, but also leave
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the door open for another strongman to rise to power.
To visit Libya in recent months is to encounter a country holding its breath, caught in the throes of abeyance and a deep foreboding. It is a lawless place, riddled with criminality and flare-ups of fierce fighting in the south and east. Oil revenues have fallen due to recent factional clashes and elite plunder has everyday Libyans struggling for subsistence amid deep economic crisis. Overlaying all of this is a lingering political stalemate. Formal authority is split between a feeble, internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in the capital of Tripoli and eastern institutions dominated by Field Marshal Khalifa Hiftar, who once served under the former Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi but later had a falling-out. But much of the country’s west and south escapes the control of these rival authorities.
There has been no shortage of Western proposals to break the gridlock and
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Euro Disney, the cash-tight operator of the Disneyland Paris resort, got some financial breathing room Wednesday.
The company, 39% owned by
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Walt Disney Co. of Burbank, said it obtained waivers from its lenders and a $52-million credit line from Disney. The credit line can be drawn only after an existing $193-million credit line from Disney is fully tapped.
The waivers and the credit line "will allow time for the parties to develop a mutually acceptable resolution to the company's future financing needs," Euro Disney said.
The credit line and the waivers, however, apply only through March 31. The question of how Euro Disney, which operates two theme parks at Disneyland Paris, meets its debt obligations beyond then remains uncertain.
"It still leaves open the question of what the long-term fix is," said Bob Yow, an analyst with Bear Stearns in London.
The waivers and the credit line mark the first step toward a financial restructuring of Euro Disney, whose parks have struggled to meet attendance projections. Euro Disney warned this summer that it might default on debt payments and is expected to report wider-
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Some AIDS victims are being buried alive in Papua New Guinea by relatives who cannot look after them and fear becoming infected themselves, a health worker said Monday
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Margaret Marabe, who spent five months carrying out an AIDS awareness campaign in the remote Southern Highlands of the South Pacific nation, said she had seen five people buried while still breathing.
One was calling out "Mama, Mama" as the soil was shoveled over his head, said Marabe, who works for a volunteer organisation called Igat Hope, Pidgin English for I've Got Hope.
"One of them was my cousin, who was buried alive," she told reporters.
"I said, 'Why are they doing that?' And they said, 'If we let them live, stay in the same house, eat together and use or share utensils, we will contract the disease and we too might die.'"
Villagers had told her it was common for people to bury AIDS victims alive.
Marabe appealed to the government and aid agencies to ensure the HIV/AIDS awareness programme carried out in cities and towns was extended to the rural areas
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The Hall of Famer has had some legendary calls over the years. Relive some of the favorites voted on by fans.
The following are
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transcriptions of Cincinnati Reds broadcaster Marty Brennaman's favorite calls as voted on via the Reds website in 2013. For all of the calls, Martyisms and other content, visit the Reds' website here.
Doc: The Reds are family around here, and Marty sits at the head of the table.
Dunn up there with the bases loaded. The outfield deep and around toward right. And the 1-0 on the way to the plate. Swung on, long drive, right field, and this one belongs to the Reds! Can you believe it? Can you believe it? Adam Dunn with a screaming line drive into the Cleveland bullpen in right field and the Reds have done what appeared to be the impossible. His teammates are waiting on him. Jerry Narron is out of the dugout banging his hands together. Adam Dunn with a ninth-inning, two-out grand slam home run. What a finish at Great American Ball Park! The Reds have rallied to beat the Indians
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Waze, the hippest turn-by-turn directions app since probably ever, has just added another name to its list of celebrity directions-
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givers: Tom Mison, the actor who plays Ichabod Crane on Fox’s Sleepy Hollow. Presumably, his directions involve a lot of spooky historical mysteries, warnings about the Headless Horseman, and just a general sense of him being totally confused by the whole process. Crane is a few hundred years old, after all. Back in his day, most GPS apps were simply burned at the stake.
As we reported back in September, the app also features the voices of Kevin Hart and Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘s Terry Crews. Variety says the Ichabod Crane voice is part of a “Halloween-themed marketing promotion” that runs through October 31, so his voice will probably no longer be available after that. Drivers looking to celebrate the holiday and also help support the Fox network can access the voice by opening the app, going to “Settings,” then “Sound,” and selecting “English (US)—
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Student sportsmen and women have laced their boots to show bigotry the red card.
Players from the university’s women’s and
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men’s rugby squads and the women’s football team donned rainbow-coloured laces on Sunday, in support of a national campaign to kick homophobia out of sport.
The Rainbow Laces campaign aims to tackle homophobia in sport and raise awareness of issues faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender players and fans.
Cambridge women’s rugby captain Lara Gibson said: “We’re wearing rainbow laces to send a clear message that all sport – either as a participant or supporter – is for everyone.
“Around the world, many LGBT+ people want to take part in sport, either as players or fans, but the behaviour of a minority can make people feel unwelcome, unsafe or unable to be themselves.
Varsity women’s football captain Gerda Bachrati donned the laces ahead of the first ever Varsity Football double-header on Sunday, when both Cambridge's men’s and
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In an interview with CBS News' Jeff Glor, President Trump weighs in on his potential 2020 election opponents, saying Joe Biden would be a "
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dream" opponent.
Because Donald Trump is, well, Donald Trump, a lot of attention has been paid to his hostile takeover of the Republican Party -- and how he continues to consolidate that power.
What that focus on how Trump killed the old -- and by that we mean the 2012 -- version of the Republican Party misses is how much the Democratic Party has evolved -- and is evolving -- in its own way.
Like Republicans, that change sped up -- rapidly -- in 2016. It was led by an unlikely figure -- Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders. To say Sanders was lightly regarded when he started running against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to do a disservice to the term "lightly regarded."
But what Sanders understood was that the Democratic Party of 2016 wasn't the "Third Way," centrism-over-all Democratic Party of Bill Clinton and the mid-1990s. The Democratic base had moved to the left on virtually every issue -- pushed that way by the financial collapse of
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Shares of video game publisher Electronic Arts fell after retailer GameStop reported weak third-quarter earnings on Nov 23. GameStop stock plunged as much as
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16% that day, while EA stock slid about 6%. It might seem logical to dump a game publisher's stock after a major game retailer misses earnings expectations, but it doesn't really make much sense due to the differences between physical and digital distribution.
Source: GameStop 3Q earnings report.
At first glance, it looks like sales of consoles and video games are falling across the board. However, console sales were expected to slow down, since the PS4 and Xbox One have both been on the market for two years. Sales of physical software were also expected to fall, due to the growth of digital distribution channels. GameStop's digital games revenue also shouldn't be considered a bellwether for the digital market, since many gamers download games directly from the PlayStation Store, Xbox One Game Store, or Steam.
Simply put, customers buy consoles from GameStop, but they gradually lose touch with the retailer
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Martin O'Neill parted company with Sunderland on Saturday night after the Black Cats slipped deeper into relegation trouble.
The 61-year-old's
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departure was confirmed hours after the 1-0 home defeat by Manchester United, which left the club sitting just a point clear of the Barclays Premier League relegation zone with seven games left to play.
A club statement said: "Sunderland AFC has announced that it has parted company with manager Martin O'Neill this evening. The club would like to place on record its thanks to Martin and wishes him well for the future. An announcement will be made in the coming days regarding a successor."
A run of eight league games without a win which has yielded only three points ultimately cost O'Neill his job after a little more than 15 months at the helm.
The Black Cats' last victory came at Wigan on January 19, and with trips to European champions Chelsea and rivals Newcastle to come ahead of bogey team Everton's visit to the Stadium of Light on April 20, things could get worse before they get better.
O'Neill, of course, was the man whose appointment Sunderland fans
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The wait staff goes out of its way to make sure that diners are given detailed service. One night, we overheard a waiter offering to have
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the kitchen make a special seafood linguine for the cowboy (Stetson, Wranglers, and all) who dined solo next to us. Later, this country gentleman said it was the best pasta he's ever had.
It's fun to see Nicola, a waiter from Trieste on the Adriatic Sea, describe the food. And, even better yet, open a bottle of wine.
That night, we started with salmon carpaccio ($8.50) and glasses of Zenato pinot grigio ($6).
Soon, a basket of warm focaccia bread arrived, situated next to a glass ramekin of red chili flake and garlic-kicked olive oil.
The carpaccio was super-thin slices of lightly smoked salmon, semi-cured in lemon juice and finished with extra virgin olive oil, capers, scallion and pulverized Reggiano Parmigiano. We just scooped the delicious shaved fish
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The bid is worth $7.2 billion and would give CSRA stockholders 55 percent ownership of the combined company.
Public sector powerhouse C
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ACI International has submitted a $7.2 billion bid to acquire rival solution provider CSRA – a move that could thwart U.S. defense contractor General Dynamics' planned purchase of CSRA for $6.8 billion.
CSRA, No. 14 on the 2017 CRN Solution Provider 500, acknowledged receiving an "unsolicited" proposal from CACI to buy all of its outstanding common stock in exchange for a mixture of cash and equity. The offer is worth $44 per share, including cash equivalent to $15 per share and a 0.184 CSRA-CACI equity trade ratio, and would give CSRA stockholders 55 percent ownership of the combined company.
The offer General Dynamics made last month is an all-cash deal worth $40.75 per share and includes a $2.8 billion CSRA debt assumption, giving it a total value of $9.6 billion. However, that proposal will expire at 11:59 p.m. ET
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It looks like Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper are dating again! The co-stars spent virtually every second of this weekend together and showed much
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more PDA than they did during their first go earlier this year. So are they just friends or finally ready to take their relationship to the next level?
I’m not quite sure yet. It was only two weeks ago the former lovers looked uber awkward together at The Words premier. Zoe and Brad met and hooked up while filming but called it quits after three months together. I figured it was just a rebound for Zoe since she had recently split with her boyfriend of 10 years right before. And Bradley always seems like he’s game to date whatever starlet will help his career out at the moment. But perhaps absence really does make the heart grow fonder?
They had a very busy Saturday. Bradley was spotted doing the walk of shame from Zoe’s house early in the morning. I love the pics of Zoe waving to him from her place. She’s saying good bye over a giant bowl of cereal. So cute! Then Bradley had just enough time
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President Obama plans to lay out a timetable for U.S. involvement in the Afghan war when he announces his decision this week to send more forces
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, officials said.
WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to lay out a time frame for winding down the American involvement in the war in Afghanistan when he announces his decision this week to send more forces, senior administration officials said Sunday.
Although the speech was still in draft form, the officials said the president wanted to use the address at the United States Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday night not only to announce the immediate order to deploy roughly 30,000 more troops, but also to convey how he intends to turn the fight over to the Kabul government.
The officials would not disclose the time frame. But they said it would not be tied to particular conditions on the ground nor would it be as firm as the current schedule for withdrawing troops in Iraq, where Mr. Obama has committed to withdrawing most combat units by August and all forces by the end of 2011.
Officials of one allied nation who have been extensively briefed on the president’s plan said, however, that Mr. Obama would describe
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Thailand's ruling political party is meeting in Bangkok Wednesday to discuss a possible successor to ousted Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
Mr
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. Samak was forced to resign Tuesday after Thailand's Constitutional Court ruled he violated the constitution by accepting payment for appearing on a television cooking show while in office.
His People's Power Party, the largest in Thailand's six-party ruling coalition, has vowed to nominate the ex-premier for the post. But the 73-year-old Samak has been in seclusion since Tuesday's court decision, and there is speculation he will reject the party's nomination.
The Thai parliament will meet Friday to elect a new prime minister.
Leaders of an anti-government group, the People's Alliance for Democracy, who seized control of Bangkok's Government House in Bangkok late last month say the group will continue its protest if Mr. Samak is re-elected.
The protesters were demanding the prime minister's resignation, accusing him of being a proxy for ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Mr. Thaksin was deposed in 2006 by a military coup.
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There’s a reason no one talks about Sham, Ernst Schmied, and Josiah Bartlett: Number two just doesn’
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t have the pizzazz of number one. We scoured the Chicago area to find our Secretariats, Edmund Hillarys, and John Hancocks.
Marty Cook was a 34-year-old high-school dropout and recovering alcoholic who desperately needed inspiration and a buddy. Seven years ago, he found both in an unlikely source—irascible, imperious Dan Rostenkowski, the fallen political giant.
In 1855, Chicago embarked on a far-fetched scheme to hoist itself out of the mud and gunk. On the 155th anniversary of the project’s launch, we take a lively illustrated look back.
Arthur—the heart of Illinois Amish country—seems like a place out of time. Life here may be traditional, but the people face a contemporary issue: the economy.
ARTS & CULTURE Introducing Prescott Tolk, a chops-busting comedian with a Northwestern degree; “Pocket Guide
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Will Sri Lanka's Tamils Get Some Measure of Justice from the United Nations?
Forty-seven governments on the Untied Nations Human Rights
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Council (HRC) will discuss and decide, beginning at its May 30th session, what to do about an unusually candid and truthful report in the world of international politics.
The Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka was delivered to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on March 31 concerning both alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the last phases of the 26-year old civil war that ended May 19, 2009, and the consequences for approximately 300,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) and, by extension, for the 2.7 million Sri Lankan Tamils, who were the losers in the war. Some 13% of the Sri Lanka's 21 million people are Tamil.
After receiving the report, which calls for investigations into these allegations, Ban Ki-moon stated that he did not have the power alone but that one of three UN bodies could request such action by either the General Assembly or the Security Council or the Human Rights
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Former England batsman James Taylor said he thought he was going to die during a pre-season match for Nottinghamshire last month as a heart condition
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that forced his early retirement from cricket flared up.
"My heart was going wild at a funny rhythm. It was probably only about four degrees, really cold, and I got inside. Sweat from me is hitting the ground hard so I knew I wasn't right," he said of the match against Cambridge University.
"That's when I thought I was going to die."
The 26-year-old, thought he was suffering from a viral infection but scans showed he had a heart condition known as Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Arrhythmia (ARVC), the same condition that almost killed former Bolton Wanderers footballer Fabrice Muamba.
The middle-order batsman played seven tests and 27 one-day internationals for England and captained the side against Ireland in May last year.
Speaking to the BBC, Taylor said he had no inkling of the heart complaint as the new season loomed and was "in hysterics" when doctors first told him
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Cheer: The Lake County Fair, which concludes today after another successful run.
The County Fair remains a signature event for this area, not
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only because it offers 10 days of low-cost fun and entertainment for thousands but because it honors the region's agricultural roots and provides educational opportunities for dozens of area kids who aspire to careers in ag.
Yes, there is the midway and carnival, but the centerpiece of the fair remains the livestock shows and exhibitions that give young FFA and 4-H students a chance to exercise their skills as budding livestock breeders and sellers. They prepare all year by raising animals, learning how to nourish, groom and care for these critters to help them reach their full potential, and they must do it cost-effectively. So along the way, they learn valuable organizational and financial planning skills.
We salute fair organizers and participants and of course you, the patrons, for supporting this emerging generation of farmers and entrepreneurs.
Jeer: The White House, for a confidential plan to expand oil and gas drilling off the coast of Florida. Politico reported this week that the Interior Department has been developing
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I've always wanted to start a story with that teaser. This time, the idea succeeded: I am now frying cheese - intentionally.
The
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reason I started was practical. I wanted to reproduce the fried cheese I ate at a long-gone Greek restaurant in Atlanta, in order to include the dish in a class on Mediterranean appetizers.
It wasn't merely fried cheese I had experienced years ago. It was a spectacle. Cooked at tableside, the golden-crusted slab in its little frying pan was doused with brandy. Then, a decidedly non-Greek waiter, holding it aloft, set it aflame and gushed, "Opa!"
Despite the ersatz trappings, the cheese was wonderful. It lurked in my memory.
That fried cheese, I learned much later, is called Saganaki (sa-ga-NA-kee). Despite sounding Japanese, the authentically Hellenic name derives from the shallow two-handled pan in which Greeks fry such dishes.
Fried cheese is not usually flamed in Greece. That bonus act of Greek drama is more a feature of Greek
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Monday Watch List: Get In Shape, Tubby!
Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay
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at home and celebrate Labor Day. Ah, Labor Day. The day where you go to a pool or a beach one last time, when you’ve already had more than your fill of going to pools and beaches. LET’S GO!
THINTERVENTION WITH JACKIE WARNER – 10:15PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal network) Bravo’s new reality show features fitness guru Jackie Warner slapping a group of tubbies into better shape. I hope they stage the thinterventions like an actual intervention, with family members crying and threatening to cut off communication with the food addicts if they can’t stop eating Pop Tarts, and telling horrible stories of how Johnny failed to pick up his son from soccer practice because he was too busy binging at KFC. You’d watch that, and don’t even deny it. I know you all too well. ANTICIPATION: IT’S FAT C
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WARNING: This post might cause your eyes to bleed. H/T to r/CrappyDesign.
1. "Yeah, let's
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make sure the face is on the window."
2. "You we'll know show you how to how to design lead."
3. "Please choose what you'd like to eat."
4. "Boy syrup is on sale on aisle four."
6. "Screw it, just throw all the words on there."
7. "But how will they know it's a male hand?"
10. "Perfect. Now stick it to the window. Wait..."
11. "I'm sure the corner won't affect it at all."
12. "leave as WelcomeF May all who guests came asriends."
13. "Put the red in the blue bottle and the blue in the red bottle. No, I don't think it'll be confusing."
14. "Nobody's going to want to charge it and use it at the same time anyway."
15. "Sure, I can make a pie chart. Math isn't my strong
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Kimi Raikkonen still believes he can compete for another Formula One title,
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despite not winning a race since the start of the 2013 season.
And despite being considered Ferrari's second driver after Sebastian Vettel.
Raikkonen sits fifth in the standings heading into this weekend's season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. He can still climb to fourth but is seven points behind Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo and more than 100 points behind Vettel, who is second to leader Lewis Hamilton.
Although Raikkonen has finished third in the past three F1 races, his best results among seven podiums this year are two second-place finishes.
The 2007 F1 champion expects much more from himself.
"Obviously I am here to try to win races and win championships, so it is far from ideal," the 38-year-old Finnish driver said. "But this is how it turned out to be. I can live with it, but it is not why I am here."
Raikkonen was fourth in both of Friday's practice sessions for
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Campanelli Cos. of Braintree has begun work on a 62,000-square-foot expansion of Airxchange’s
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headquarters in Rockland that could accommodate up to 100 new jobs in the next three years.
The expansion will essentially triple the size of the building for the company, which designs and manufactures energy-efficient components for HVAC systems.
Designed by RKB Architects of Braintree, the work involves construction of a new entryway, upgrades to office areas and an addition for the manufacturing facilities to include more loading dock space.
When it’s done, the entire expanded facility will be about 95,000 square feet in size.
Airxchange also plans to exit a 15,000-square-foot leased warehouse in Hingham early next year and move those operations to the Rockland site.
The Rockland expansion is expected to be finished by spring 2011.
The company currently employs fewer than 100 people in Rockland, but it could add up to 100 more employees during the next two to three years after the expansion is complete.
Airxchange plans to spend
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Consumer Confidence at Highest Level Since October 2000 - 24/7 Wall St.
The Conference Board reported Tuesday morning that its consumer confidence index for
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the month of August rose from 127.9 in July to 133.4. The expectations index increased from 102.4 to 107.6, and the present situation index rose from 166.1 to 172.2. The consensus estimate for August called for a slight dip to an index reading of 126.5.
The assessment of present-day conditions improved again in August. The percentage of consumers who said business conditions are “good” rose from 38.1% to 40.3%, while those claiming business conditions are “bad” declined from 10.3% to 9.1%.
Consumers’ assessment of the August labor market also improved. The proportion stating jobs are “plentiful” was unchanged at 42.7%, while those claiming jobs are “hard to get” dropped from 14.8% to 12.7%.
Consumer confidence increased to its highest level since October 2000 (Index, 135.8), following a modest
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QATAR. Private wealth continued to experience positive growth between 2016 and 2017 (8 percent), and this growth is projected to remain steady over the
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next five years according to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Global Wealth 2018: Seizing the Analytics Advantage.
Personal wealth in the Middle East rose by 11 percent to $3.8 trillion in 2017, a significant increase compared with the CAGR for the previous five years. In comparison, personal wealth in Qatar has grown at 9 percent between 2016 and 2017. In 2016 to 2017, private wealth was driven primarily by the positive development of life insurance and pensions.
In Qatar, personal wealth is projected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 8 percent and expected to reach $270 billion in investible assets by 2022.
The report, BCG’s eighteenth annual study of the global wealth management industry, uses global and regional perspectives to examine such topics as the evolution of personal financial wealth, the widening revenue gap and how institutions can narrow it, and the state of offshore business. The report also takes a comprehensive look at
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Wondering if Republicans will push Nancy Pelosi over the top in her drive to become House speaker next year? Despite supportive words
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from President Donald Trump, it's implausible.
Twice since Democrats won House control in last month's elections, Trump has said the California Democrat deserves to regain the post she held from 2007 to early 2011 as the first female speaker. He's offered to help her win GOP votes, if needed, when the new House elects its speaker Jan. 3. One Republican lawmaker says he'd consider helping her.
Still, it's a far-fetched scenario that she's publicly rejected.
It's rare for lawmakers to vote for the other party's speaker nominees, though there's an uncanny connection between the last time it happened and one of Pelosi's leading foes. Even a seemingly harmless vote of "present" by a Republican would help Pelosi because she'd need fewer votes to win a majority, leaving anyone who did that vulnerable to a future GOP primary election challenge.
WHY WOULD REPUBLICANS EVEN CONSIDER HELPING PELOSI?
It's largely about 2020
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2 marathons, 15 days: a blistering pace?
Sometimes, successful marathon running means backing off when pressing on seems the only way
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to go.
For Robert Yara, one of those times came last week, and as a result, come Sunday, Yara will be running in his second marathon in 15 days.
"This was just sort of a feeler for me," Yara said Sunday after he had won the Baltimore Road Runners Club's 5K Championship at Goucher College in 15 minutes, 44 seconds. "It's only the second time I've run this week."
A week earlier, he had finished fourth in a marathon in Burlington, Vt.
"I should have won or, at least, finished second," Yara said about the Vermont marathon, which he completed in 2:26. "I had to stop a couple of times. I got a real bad blister; in fact, I still have it.
"My last stop was at 21 [miles]. Stopping at 20 for a minute tightened up my muscles. The first time I stopped at 14, I was
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Each year, the College of Biological Sciences honors its top undergraduate students for their research contributions. The following students were recognized during commencement.
Jessica West
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, of Shasta Lake, Calif., received her Bachelor’s of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. As a sophomore, West was awarded a Provost Undergraduate Fellowship to investigate Drosophila insecticide resistance in the lab of Professor Joanna Chiu, Department of Entomology. She was selected to present her research at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students and the Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting. West has been highly involved in a recently published study investigating underlying Drosophila gene expression.
West credits much of her success to the institutional support she received from the Special Transitional Enrichment Program and the Biology Undergraduate Scholars Program. “Coming from my small town that doesn't have a lot of educational opportunities, I think it goes to show that if you're self-motivated, curious and hard-working, despite your background you can go far and excel in college,” she said.
“Writing papers and giving
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The 59th Annual Grammy Awards are finally here.
Just ahead of the music industry's biggest annual evening, see TooFab's guide to everything
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you need to know about the 2017 Grammys, with coverage kicking off on Sunday at 3 p.m.
Comedian and actor James Corden will be hosting the show live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles at 5 p.m. PST/8 p.m. EST on Sunday, Feb. 12. About his hosting gig, Corden told the LA Times: "I'm completely underqualified. My point is that maybe you don't need to be qualified for this gig. My qualification is that I'm a massive fan of everybody in that room, and I'm going to try and share that with the audience."
Adele, The Weeknd and Daft Punk, Chance The Rapper, Alicia Keys and Maren Morris, Bruno Mars, Little Big Town, Demi Lovato, Andra Day and Tori Kelly, Lady Gaga and Metallica, Sturgill Simpson, Lukas Graham, John Legend and Cynthia Erivo, A Tribe Called Quest,
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What better way to show your valentine and loved ones how special they are on Feb. 14 than by giving the gift of chocolate truff
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les, bean-to-bar artisan chocolate, or confections you made especially for them?
Speaking of bean-to-bar, while going up and down the aisles at the Fancy Food Show last summer, I was overwhelmed by the number of bean-to-bar chocolatiers. I predict this is the next movement in the artisanal food world. Like craft beer, specialty coffee and bread before it, this small-batch industry is growing by leaps and bounds. American craft chocolate sales are $100 million annually and growing.
Most recently, while working on 2018’s Hidden Gems of Florida feature (keep an eye out for it), I visited Castronovo Chocolate Factory in Stuart, Fla. Denise Castronovo has taken home the gold medal several times in the International Chocolate Awards for her bean-to-bar chocolate bars. One bite of the Colombia Sierra Nevada bar, and no wonder it was the gold winner of the International Chocolate Awards World Finals in
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With enviable long legs and an ultra-lean physique, Gwyneth Paltrow has a body that most women would kill for.
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But the mother-of-two has made it clear in a new interview that it is not by chance that she has the amazing body she does.
'It's not an accident. It's not luck, it's not fairy dust, it's not good genes. It's killing myself for an hour and a half five days a week, but what I get out of it is relative to what I put into it.
'That's what I try to do in all areas of my life', the actresss said at Good Housekeeping's Shine On Awards in New York this week.
The event honoured the achievements of powerful women.
The actress was on hand to salute the hard work done to raise awareness of maternal health by model Christy Turlington and enjoyed the evening with other women like Meryl Streep, Rebecca Romijn and new mother Ali Larter.
In her cover issue of Self magazine she said of her workouts: 'I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a
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Software stability is a key requirement for large companies, and Hortonworks is taking a big step in that direction with a new release cadence for its
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enterprise Hadoop software.
Starting with the Hortonworks Data Platform 2.4, which is now available, the company is taking a two-pronged approach to updates. Specifically, it will update core Apache Hadoop components such as HDFS, MapReduce and YARN along with Apache Zookeeper annually, while extended services that run on top of those components -- including Spark, Hive, HBase and Ambari -- will be updated continuously throughout the year.
"We can give customers all the latest innovations in the moment without sacrificing a stable and reliable core," said Tim Hall, vice president of product management at Hortonworks, in an announcement. "This will change the way people consume Hadoop."
HDP 2.4 includes Apache Spark 1.6, Apache Ambari 2.2 and SmartSense 1.2. "We're the first to announce the inclusion of Apache Spark 1.6 in our distribution," said Rob Bearden, Hortonworks
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A sponge roller creates a textured finish on the wall.
Faux finishing is an inexpensive way to add a customized look to a room.
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Applying extra layers of color with sponging or ragging creates an illusion of dimension and texture on the wall. Any surface that can be painted can be faux-finished, but it's best to start with a clean, primed wall. You can create a subtle or lively look with faux finishing depending on the colors of paint you choose. For an understated look, use slightly different shades of the same color. Complementary colors -- those opposite each other on the color wheel -- will result in a more vivid finish.
Select the paint colors for your project. Using one base color and two accent colors is a typical method, but you may also opt for only one accent color or more than two. Use standard interior latex paint in an eggshell or flat finish.
Apply a base coat of paint to all the surfaces that will be sponged.
Thin a portion of accent paint with water or glaze. Thinning the paint makes it dry slower, giving you more
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Sebastian Vettel led team-mate Mark Webber to a Red Bull one-two in qualifying for the Indian Grand Prix.
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McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button were third and fourth ahead of the Ferraris of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa.
Vettel was 0.044 seconds faster than Webber, Hamilton 0.261secs adrift of pole.
Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen, third in the championship behind Vettel and Alonso, was seventh.
Sauber's Sergio Perez was eighth, ahead of the Williams of Pastor Maldonado and Nico Rosberg's Mercedes.
Michael Schumacher was 14th in his fourth last F1 qualifying session - he was behind Lotus's Romain Grosjean, Force India's Nico Hulkenberg and Williams driver Bruno Senna and was 0.6secs slower than team-mate Rosberg.
"I made a mistake on my first run so we only had one set of tyres left but I was pretty happy with the [final] lap," said Vettel. "It has been a great
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Robert Sciarrino/The Star-LedgerIn this 2009 file photo, students take a tour of Montclair State University. Police are investigating
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a hateful message found on the campus, officials said.
MONTCLAIR — Montclair State University police are investigating another hateful message found on campus, this time directed at African Americans and women, officials said.
The message was written in marker on the door of a room in The Heights residence complex about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, university president Susan Cole said in a message to the campus community. Students reported the incident to police.
The hateful message appeared after a unity rally, which was organized by students after they learned about three anti-gay death threats written in a note and on the walls of the student center. The university boosted security, which included posting police with guns on the rooftops of buildings near the quad to protect students.
“They wanted to have it on that day in part to demonstrate that they were not fearful,” Karen Pennington, vice president for student development and campus life, said today.
Montclair State has worked hard to
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CNN viewers were greeted Thursday with video footage of bent metal and broken glass from a bombed-out London train. The images' source: a video
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camera phone, a first for the news network.
Meanwhile, amateur pictures of the bombing began popping up on Flickr.com, a photo swapping Web site, at the same time mainstream news outlets were announcing the attack.
Welcome to the world of citizen news gathering, where technology and the age-old desire to communicate hot information, be it hard news or soft gossip, are converging and forcing traditional news organizations to dramatically change the way they cover big news events.
Reporting by the public got a big push from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and has gathered steam as camera phones have become more ubiquitous, blogs have multiplied and mainstream media outlets have gotten more Web-savvy.
"Sept. 11 marked an important date in the history of how people got information when a major news event happened," said Rich Gordon, director of the new media program at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
More people sought--and shared--information on the Internet. Do-it
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OTTAWA—Has there ever been a better time to air a political satire in Canada?
Between the Senate scandals and Toronto’s
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bobblehead mayor, Rob Ford, Canadian politicians provided more laughs and shocks in 2013 than The Big Bang Theory and Breaking Bad combined.
Enter The Best Laid Plans, a six-part series premiering Sunday at 9 p.m. on CBC, before moving to Monday nights at 9.
Late last fall, on location inside a century-old, wood-panelled estate, director/producer Peter Moss stepped away from the camera long enough to explain how the series came together. The spark was Terry Fallis’ award-winning novel of the same name, based on the author’s own adventures as a Parliament Hill speech writer.
“One night I was reading the book and I was laughing my head off,” says Moss.
Producing partner Phyllis Platt asked what was up. Moss told her he’d found their next project.
The idea was pitched to CBC, and six episodes were ordered.
The story centres
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CHICAGO—John McDonough’s job title stays the same. By moving just a few miles across town, though,
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he’s got a new team to run in an entirely different sport.
McDonough resigned Tuesday as president of the Chicago Cubs—a team that is up for sale—to take a similar position with the Chicago Blackhawks, who offered him a multiyear contract he couldn’t pass up.
“I do see parallels. We have a lot of work to do,” McDonough said.
The most striking similarity is long championship droughts. The Cubs haven’t won a World Series since 1908, and the Blackhawks haven’t captured the Stanley Cup since 1961.
But while the Cubs pack Wrigley Field, the Blackhawks have been plagued by dwindling attendance and poor play for nearly a decade. Last year, the Blackhawks missed the playoffs for the eighth time in nine seasons.
The team is undergoing a facelift both on and off the ice. General manager Dale Tallon is building a young club, featuring 19-year-
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Yandle’s versatility and ability to fuel the offense will be critical as the Panthers begin a three-game homestand at the
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BB&T Center on Thursday against the Edmonton Oilers. The Panthers (3-5-3, 9 points) are about to begin a stretch in which they play 14 games in 24 days, a stretch the Panthers hope will get them out of their early-season rut in which they recorded an NHL-low nine points during their first 11 games and have been outscored 41-34.
The Panthers likely don’t want Yandle to think too much either if it means seeing the production he has already created this year.
Heading into Wednesday’s slate of games, Yandle ranked fifth among defensemen while averaging a career-best 1.09 points per game. His team-leading nine assists are tied for 10th among blue line players.
But Yandle’s strength as of late is coming on the power play. When the Panthers are in a man-up situation, Yandle has thrived. He leads NHL defense
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Fantastic Beasts 3 principal photography has been pushed back to late fall. The third installment was originally going to start filming in July, but it
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appears that the studio wants more time to properly prepare. Fantastic Beasts 2 was just released in November and is still in some theaters. To date, the sequel has made close to $650 million worldwide, which is nearly $200 million less than the first installment. It has not been revealed why the studio has requested the extra time to prepare, but the box office numbers may have been a factor.
If Fantastic Beasts 3 was going to start filming in July, it would have to be in the soft prep process right now. It has been reported that the actors have all been briefed in order to keep their schedules clear for the upcoming production start. The project is expected to hit theaters on November 20th, 2020 and there has not been any announcements about pushing the release date back as of this writing. However, that could easily change in the next few months.
Fantastic Beasts 2 received mixed reviews from fans and critics for a story that seemed to be too cluttered. Additionally, many feel
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The British citizen of Syrian origin detained at Košice swimming pool was sentenced for attacking a public official.
The man identified by initials as A
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. O. was found guilty by a judge of the District Court Košice I. of the misdemeanour of attacking a public official and received a sentence of 12 months, conditionally postponed for two years. The court also ordered the Briton to pay damage compensation to the Slovak police officer, amounting to €442, spokeswoman of Košice courts Marcela Gálová told the SITA newswire.
The man caused an uproar at the Red Star outdoor swimming pool in Košice when he was roaming around fully clothed and was taking photos of buildings. Košice Police spokeswoman Jana Mésarová said that on the morning of July 25, an emergency phone call alerted the police about the man who was behaving suspiciously. Police patrols arrived and learned about the situation from the pool’s employees. They also found that after the man had heard that police were coming, he jumped over the fence and fled the site.
After the police checked
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How would you fare if auditors walked in the door tomorrow morning and started scrutinizing all your processes, policies and procedures? Here are descriptions of
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several types of audits and four tips for making your management audit less stressful.
This is a test. Which of the following are common occurrences during IT Management Audits?
2. Staff members break down in tears in front of the consultants.
3. Staff members fly into a screaming rage at the consultants.
4. Staff members lie to the consultants.
5. Staff members refuse to cooperate.
6. All of the above.
If you selected item 6, you get a gold star! There is no reason for any of these behaviors but they occur all too often, especially in organizations in which audits are not routine events. The consultants are there to identify problems and help improve operations. They wouldn’t have been hired if everything was peachy keen, but Information Technology management and staff members rarely see it from this perspective. Identifying the problem is the first step to recovery. All Information Technology organizations should be managed as if an audit is imminent. How would you fare
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The weather may indicate otherwise. The calendar may disagree. But anybody who lives in New York City knows that Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer
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.
As your tan fades, the only sensible thing to do is celebrate the city. In the next couple of months, dozens of restaurants will open, many of them with wonderful chefs at the helm: Anne Rosenzweig (Arcadia), David Walzog (Arizona 206), Matthew Kenney (Matthew's), Gary Robins (Aja), Antoine Bouterin (Le Perigord) and Jean-Jacques Rachou (La Cote Basque) are all planning to open new restaurants in the fall. But while you're waiting for these new ventures, let me suggest a visit to Nobu, a remarkable restaurant that epitomizes the energy of the city at this exact moment.
When Nobu opened last year, most people assumed that it would be a clone of its Los Angeles sibling, Matsuhisa. In the beginning, despite flashy digs designed by David Rockwell and management by the restaurant impresario Drew Nieporent, that
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Most of the new workers will build a new generation of electric vehicle at Ford's existing factory in Flat Rock, Michigan, south
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of Detroit, which will see an $850 million investment. The company also plans a roughly $50 million autonomous vehicle manufacturing center at an undisclosed site near Detroit that will add hardware to existing vehicles.
Wednesday's announcement comes just after a three-day string of venomous tweets by President Donald Trump condemning crosstown rival General Motors for shutting down its small-car factory in Lordstown, Ohio, east of Cleveland. Trump demanded that GM reopen the plant, criticized the local union leader and expressed frustration with GM CEO Mary Barra.
Joe Hinrichs, Ford's president of global operations, wouldn't directly answer questions about whether Trump's actions influenced the moves, but said Wednesday that the investment is part of the company's plans to run its business more efficiently. The timing of the announcement was due to requirements that parts suppliers be notified of manufacturing plans, Hinrichs said.
"We
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We have reached the unavoidable void, the dreary deadlock, the seemingly ceaseless standstill, the tedious time out — otherwise known
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as mid-winter.
When the monotony mounts, I espouse escapism!
Memory is a handy mental device against boredom and dullness, which define the winter lull. In fact, winter is about the only time when — dare I say — I have the luxury to reminisce and revisit the past. My husband's departure for Europe this week had me thinking of a trip I took with him last summer, and one particularly alluring French garden.
He'd spoken of Eze as though it was a magical place, off the beaten track, hidden away on a French mountaintop overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, close to the Italian border. That alone qualified it as a must-see, but when I reached the summit, I found a garden of pure enchantment, quite unlike any I'd seen before.
It isn't your typical South of France landscape or, for that matter, a typical alpine retreat. Le Jardin d'Eze, as it
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If you’re wondering why Aamir Khan is spending 7 grueling days criss-crossing the People’s Republic of
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China to promote his latest movie Secret Superstar, consider this: the film’s China grosses could bring the Bollywood megastar his biggest paycheck yet after the picture releases on January 19th.
That’s because Khan and his Aamir Khan Productions (“AKP”) were awarded a rare gift by China’s film authorities: Secret Superstar is the first Indian film to be granted a lucrative revenue-sharing slot under China’s film import quota.
Such valuable slots are routinely given to imports from Hollywood, but few are awarded to films from other countries. With their powerful government lobbying organizations supporting them and their big box office potential in China, American movies typically get 30 or so of the country’s 34 annual revenue-sharing slots.
The preferential treatment for Khan is undoubtedly due to the fact that he has become one of China's favorite and highest-grossing movie stars. Beginning with his 2009 comedy hit 3 Idiots
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[prMac.com] Intego, the Macintosh security specialist, today announced that it has discovered a QuickTime bug which may be used as
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a vector for attack. Apple's QuickTime, the media software used to play music and movies on Mac OS X and Windows, has recently been update to version 7.5.5, but a serious bug has already been discovered that may be used as a vector for malicious attacks.
The "<? quicktime type=?>" tag fails to handle long strings, which can lead to a heap overflow in QuickTime Player, iTunes, or any other program that attempts to display media using a QuickTime plug-in. This can be a browser, such as Apple's Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, or, on Mac OS X, could be any program that displays graphics or movies inline, such as Mail, or even the Finder if a user tries to view a file with Quick Look. For now, files which contain offending strings will crash programs attempting to display them, but malicious code could be added to such files, and may be executed with no user interaction, other than an
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January 28, 2013, 12:49 p.m.
Do you pat your car’s fender after putting it away in the
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garage? Do you give it a name? Do you call it “he” or “she”? If so, you’re not alone — millions of otherwise normal Americans treat their inanimate cars as if they were alive. Why else the outrage when all those EV-1s got crushed in "Who Killed the Electric Car?"
I’m not reporting this from some high cliff of superiority — I do it too. When I scrape my car’s paint, it’s as if it is feeling actual physical pain. Why do we do this? Frankly, it’s complicated. The ownership of an automobile (and especially a classic with a long history) is intertwined with all the emotional experiences we’ve had in it, from a first kiss to the drive to the hospital when baby’s due. You can’t just send it to the crusher without a second thought, but you also have to put
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BERLIN, April 10 Deutsche Boerse is not planning to go into a minority position at its recently acquired companies at least in the foreseeable future
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, its chief executive said.
FRANKFURT Deutsche Boerse is buying risk management software provider Axioma for $850 million (£652 million), the stock exchange operator said on Tuesday, and plans to merge the unit with its existing index business to create a new analytics firm.
FRANKFURT Deutsche Boerse is buying risk management software provider Axioma for $850 million, the stock exchange operator said on Tuesday, and plans to merge the unit with its existing index business to create a new analytics firm.
FRANKFURT, April 9 Deutsche Boerse is buying risk management software provider Axioma for $850 million, the stock exchange operator said on Tuesday, and plans to merge the unit with its existing index business to create a new analytics firm.
BERLIN, April 1 German stock exchange operator Deutsche Boerse is interested in buying foreign exchange trading platform FXall, Handelsblatt business daily reported on Monday.
FRANK
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April 28, 2015 The move applies only to the league office. The National Football League's 32 teams already pay taxes on their profits,
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salaries and merchandise sales.
April 3, 2015 The IRS says if you are surprised to be getting a call from the agency, it's not them on the line. Don't fall for it! Scammers are trying to trick you into giving up personal information or cash.
March 25, 2015 Figuring out the penalty for not signing up for health insurance is just one complication. Tax filers who made more money last year than they anticipated may have to pay back some of their subsidy.
February 20, 2015 There will be a special insurance enrollment period from March 15 to April 30 for people to use HealthCare.gov if they discover they owe a penalty for not having coverage when filling out their taxes.
January 20, 2015 "It has been, and still is, a hard time for many" Americans, President Obama said in Tuesday night's State of the Union address. "But tonight, we turn the page."
January 17, 2015
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STEPHEN G. BROOKS is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. WILLIAM C. WOHLFORTH is Daniel
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Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. This article is adapted from their forthcoming book America Abroad: The United States’ Global Role in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2016).
After two and a half decades, is the United States’ run as the world’s sole superpower coming to an end? Many say yes, seeing a rising China ready to catch up to or even surpass the United States in the near future. By many measures, after all, China’s economy is on track to become the world’s biggest, and even if its growth slows, it will still outpace that of the United States for many years. Its coffers overflowing, Beijing has used its new wealth to attract friends, deter enemies, modernize its military, and aggressively assert sovereignty claims in its periphery. For many, therefore, the question is not whether China will become a superpower but just how soon.
But this is wishful, or fearful,
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Yale School of medicine researchers report that most heart attack patients transferred between hospitals for the emergency artery-opening procedure called angioplasty are not
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transported as quickly as they should be. This is the first national study of "door-in door-out" time for transfer patients.
Fewer than 10 percent of heart attack patients transferred from their initial hospital to one offering the life-saving procedure are transferred within the recommended 30 minutes, according to the researchers, who published their findings in the November 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
For ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients, quick response is critical because this type of heart attack is caused by a complete blockage of blood supply to the heart. Angioplasty should be performed as quickly as possible, but many smaller hospitals do not have the staff or facilities to perform the procedure around the clock. Experts agree that the hospitals should send those patients on to a hospital that offers the procedure. The guidelines recommend that the time from arrival at the first hospital until the patient leaves should be no more than 30 minutes.
"This represents a
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Check out the movie-viewing habits of post-baby boomers and you can get the impression they believe significant filmmaking began with 1977's "
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Star Wars," or maybe "The Godfather" five years earlier. Dig deeper, though, and chances are you'll find the one vintage title that defies this perception: "Casablanca," the 1942 classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
"Everybody seems to have seen 'Casablanca,' " says film critic Roger Ebert, who supplies audio commentary for Warner Home Video's beautiful new two-disc DVD set ($27) of the Oscar winner that arrives in stores today. "It seems to have escaped the ordinary categories: people who don't like old films. People who don't like black and white. It doesn't matter what you don't like, you like 'Casablanca.' "
"It is the fluke that works," adds film historian Rudy Behlmer, author of "Inside Warner Bros.," who supplies the other commentary track on the collector's edition. "And then to compound it, the fluke works in perpetuity,
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The United States on Thursday released 13 Pakistanis prisoners from detention at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, officials said.
The 13 were among
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the 58 Pakistanis taken into custody by the US troops from Afghanistan for suspected links to the Taliban and Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda.
“As a result of continuous efforts made by Pakistan, the US has freed 13 more Pakistanis from the Guantanamo Bay,” Pakistani interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema said.
The released prisoners are expected to return to Pakistan shortly.
The US had released one Pakistani detainee in November last year, while three more were freed early this year.
Another 41 Pakistani prisoners still remain in the detention centre. Nearly 600 prisoners are being detained in the controversial centre for the past 19 months without trial or any kind of access to legal help.
Most of them had been rounded up in the wake of the US-led military campaign in Afghanistan in November 2001.
Thousands of Pakistanis, many of them young students at religious schools in remote rural areas, went to Afghanistan to support the Taliban against the US-led coalition.
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SJVN Ltd inked a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Power today to achieve 9,200 million units in 2018-19, the
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company said in a statement.
State-run power producer SJVN Ltd is targeting to produce 9.2 billion units (BU) of electricity with a turnover of Rs 2,175 crore and Rs 900 crore capital expenditure in this fiscal.
Under the pact, SJVN, which operates the 1500 MW Nathpa Jhakri Hydro Power Station, will have a capital expenditure (capex) target of Rs 900 crore and turnover target of Rs 2,175 crore under 'excellent category' along with other targets related to operational efficiency and project monitoring.
In 2017-18, against the target of 8,950 million units (under ‘excellent' category), SJVN generated 9,280 million units from its projects under operation with an installed capacity of 1,964 MW.
It has already paid an interim dividend of Rs 785.95 crore to its shareholders in 2017-18.
Currently, SJVN has four projects with capacity of 1,610
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Germans discovered a new lightness of being in the run-up to their World Cup victory. It's a shift apparent not only in
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football. Increasingly confident and content, Germany is emerging from the dark shadows of its past, but its global role remains elusive.
Christine Meier, 61, sits in a beach chair in her bikini on the German island of Sylt. She's seen all but one of the matches at this year's football World Cup, having watched most of them at her allotment garden in Berlin. "We wear necklaces and hats with the colors of the German flag, some paint the colors on their faces. There is cake, antipasti and sometimes I make a noodle salad in black, red and yellow," she says. Meier is proud of Germany's success in Brazil. "People abroad are watching us," she says. "They want to know how we live and who we are." Germany, she says, has shown itself to be a decent country, adding: "We're an uncommonly good people."
Her comments came two days after Germany crushed Brazil 7:1 in
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US troops are being deployed ready for military action as the US gears up to respond to last week's attacks on New York and Washington.
US
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Army Secretary Thomas E White told a briefing at the Pentagon that the deployment order signed by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday included army as well as air force troops.
He said the army was ready to conduct "sustained land combat operations".
Mr White said it was only the first step in a broader military plan that would unfold in the weeks ahead.
"A lot more will come," he said.
Also speaking at the Pentagon, Mr Rumsfeld refused to be drawn on details of the deployment, but said: "We are trying to get ourselves arranged in the world, with our forces, in places that we believe conceivably could be useful in the event the president decided to use them."
The air force is sending more than 100 aircraft to the Gulf, said to include F-16 and F-15 fighters and B-52 bombers and well as tanker aircraft to create an "air bridge" to refuel the combat planes.
Once in the region, the
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SJR 14 is cloaked as a bill that provides property tax relief for the disabled and seniors age 62 and older. But does it really provide tax
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relief?
I arrived in Reno in 1976. Having owned a home in Missouri, I thought it wise to be a homeowner in Nevada. During the next four years, there were significant property tax increases that threatened my home ownership. I taught school during the day and held a second job in the evenings to pay for the additional property tax levied on my home. I was financially barely hanging on.
The tax shift of 1981 was a wonderful relief. It reduced property tax collections by 50 percent and placed a greater reliance on sales tax.
As the years passed, property taxes continued to climb, erasing the tax savings generated by the tax shift. Lawmakers recognized the danger of the oncoming “real estate bubble” and the increase in property tax that the formula would generate. Nevada Revised Statute 361.4723 was introduced to create tax relief.
Today, NRS 361.4723 provides a partial abatement of taxes by applying a 3 percent cap on the tax bill of
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Dark matter is notoriously elusive. For decades we have searched for its existence, and while we can infer its presence in the universe from its effect at
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a galactic scale, finding direct evidence for it has been a bit more difficult. But what if it has been hiding under our feet this whole time?
That’s what a team of researchers are proposing in a paper available on the pre-print server arXiv. They say that it might be possible to see the effects of theorised dark matter particles called weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) on ancient rocks right here on Earth. And they’ve got an idea to prove it.
Despite being suspected of making up 85 per cent of matter in the universe, dark matter’s lack of interaction with regular matter has made finding direct evidence for its existence very difficult. Most of our searches, such as at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory in Italy, at SNOLAB in Canada, and numerous other labs around the world, have been unsuccessful so far.
Those detectors typically look for interactions over several years, but Baum and his colleagues suggest so-
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WOOSTER -- On senior night at Titans Stadium, Timken suffered the same fate that so many other opponents have on faced on the road at
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Triway -- watching Derek Carmichael connect with Sawyer Polen all night long.
Triway (8-2, 6-1 Principals Athletic Conference) took a 27-0 first-quarter lead and coasted to a 41-0 win over Timken (2-8, 1-6 PAC) in a tune-up before the opening round of the playoffs next week. The shutout not only sent the seniors out on a high note, but had even greater significance -- it was the 16th straight regular season home win for the Titans. The senior class went out having never been beaten at home.
"We're trying to establish tradition and this goes a long way," said coach Tony Lee. "I told our seniors they have never been beaten at home. That was important for them."
Teams have struggled mightily on Triway's turf in part because Carmichael and Polen have been an even more effective combo than Abbott and Costello. On Friday,
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The Twin Cities North Chamber of Commerce will host a new-member appreciation luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p
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.m. Monday at the Tournament Players Club Twin Cities, 11444 Tournament Players Parkway, Blaine. The cost is $16 for veteran members and free for new members. Register online at twincitiesnorth.org.
The Anoka Area Chamber of Commerce will offer an AM Educational Meeting from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Nov. 28 at the chamber office, 12 Bridge Square, Anoka. “Dealing with Holiday Stress” will be presented by Kathy Samilo, executive director, Central Center for Family Resources, a Spring Lake Park nonprofit counseling clinic. Chamber members may register for this free event by calling 763-421-7130.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits will host a “Meet the Media” panel Tuesday morning at the Children’s Home Society and Family Services, 1605 Eustis St., St. Paul. Panelists include Rubén Rosario, St. Paul Pioneer Press columnist; Jeff Achen,
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During a radio interview, Williams said "this is small potatoes [compared to] a lot of things out there," in reference to the team
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receiving criticism over acquiring Reuben Foster.
WASHINGTON -- Washington Redskins Vice President Doug Williams apologized for insensitive comments he made on domestic violence when discussing the team's controversial signing of Reuben Foster.
The Redskins claimed Foster off of waivers earlier this week from the San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers cut ties with Foster following his arrest of domestic violence charges.
"Never in my life, that I've ever said anything so insensitive," Williams said on Friday in reference to him saying what Foster is accused of is "small potatoes" compared to those who have "done far worse."
Foster is not allowed to practice pending the results of the NFL's investigation.
On Tuesday, the Redskins released a statement from Senior VP of Player Personnel Doug Williams saying that the team talked with a number of Foster's former Alabama teammates who now play for the Burgundy and Gold. It became clear Wednesday, that not all of Foster's Alabama teammates were asked about him.
Williams said that they talked to two
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One in five IT decision-makers claimed cyber attackers left no clue to their identity, while 54% said they had faced at least one attack in
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the past two years that resulted in some sort of disruption, a survey has revealed.
This disruption was in the form of service disruption (31%), data integrity issues (18%) and data loss (15%), according to the poll of nearly 2,000 European firms by security firm Kaspersky Lab.
Organisations in the UK and Spain faced the highest risks, the survey found, with 64% of respondents confirming they had been hit by cyber attacks in the past two years.
Despite traditionally having bigger IT budgets than small businesses, 64% of enterprises said they had been hit by a cyber attack that caused some disruption, in contrast to just 45% of small and medium-sized businesses.
The survey confirmed that cyber attacks were not diminishing, with more than one in five respondents (21%) saying the number of cyber attacks on their business had increased in the past 12 months, compared with the previous year, while for 42% it had stayed roughly the same.
Kaspersky Lab
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BERLIN • Joachim Low's world champions Germany head to Prague for today's World Cup qualifier against the Czech Republic focused on preserving their 100
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per cent record.
The match is Germany's first international of a season which finishes with the World Cup final.
Having won all six qualifiers so far in Group C, victory at Prague's Eden Arena will leave Germany on the verge of confirming their place at Russia 2018 before hosting Norway in Stuttgart on Monday, when they could qualify if results elsewhere go their way.
Winger Serge Gnabry is out of both games with an ankle injury, while Juventus midfielder Sami Khedira will miss the match against the Czechs due to a knee injury.
Few German fans will need reminding that the team's last heavy defeat in qualifiers came 10 years ago in Prague when Low's men were humbled 3-0.
However, the Czech Republic were beaten by the same scoreline when the sides met in Hamburg last October with two goals by Thomas Muller.
"We know the Czechs from the first game, they like to start at a high pace, but we dealt with
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