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A House bill that would drastically tighten screening procedures on refugees from Syria was only a few hours old by the time Stephen Colbert sat behind his desk to
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film The Late Show on Thursday. And Colbert and his staff were not going to let H.R. 4038–a bill that had already caused widespread outrage–go ignored. Acting quickly, he used it as an intro to a segment cutting through the hypocrisy of Republican's Syrian refugee fear-mongering. While Colbert doesn't spend much time on the bill itself other than its name–"ASAFEA, because under the law no one with a name like that will be allowed in the country"–the association is clear.
In the week leading up to the bill, Republican candidates unleashed a barrage of asinine statements regarding how America should handle Syrian refugees. There was Donald Trump, who said they wouldn't like the weather here, to which Colbert said: "Do I want to stay in a war zone where my family faces almost certain death or do I want to go somewhere where I have to put my jacket on before I go to the mall?" Then there was Grandpa Mun
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The production is playing a short, virtually sold out run at the massive Park Avenue Armory.
Three and a half hours fly by pretty quickly in
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“The Lehman Trilogy,” an unlikely epic drama and an unlikely must-see attraction, which explores how Lehman Brothers evolved from a small cotton goods shop run by three German-Jewish immigrants in mid-19th century Montgomery, Alabama, into an elite international financial firm that flourished in the 20th century and then perished in 2008 amid the wreckage of the subprime mortgage crisis.
“The Lehman Trilogy” (authored by Stefano Massini) began its life several years ago in Paris. Following other European productions, it was translated into English by dramaturge Ben Power and presented at London’s National Theatre under the direction of Sam Mendes (whose production of “The Ferryman,” another English transfer, is currently on Broadway).
The cast is comprised almost entirely of Simon Russell Beale (one of the most prominent classical actors in the world), Adam Godley (Tony nominee for “Anything Goes”) and Ben Miles (
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Apple iPhone users now will be able to use the Waze app on their car's infotainment screen—at least if they own certain late
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-model Ford vehicles.
The automaker's latest infotainment system is now compatible with the popular Waze navigation app, the two parties announced Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Unlike existing Android Auto support for Waze, Ford uses its baked-in SmartDevice Link to host Waze directly through the Sync 3 infotainment software fitted to many 2018 model year Ford and Lincoln vehicles. That means that users—sorry, Wazers—aren't device-restricted.
Ford says that Sync 3-equipped 2018 model year vehicles will be ready to go with Waze. Previous model year Fords with Sync 3 will require an over-the-air update. To use the app, Wazers will only need to connect a smartphone with the app installed to the USB port in a Sync 3-equipped Ford vehicle. Then, Waze will pop up on the infotainment screen.
Ford's Waze integration takes full advantage of Waze including HOV
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ARDMORE, OK--Ardmore police continue to investigate a second robbery of the week.
This time the Pizza Hut on North Commerce Street
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was robbed just days after someone robbed the First National Bank.
It was a scary situation Wednesday night for two Pizza Hut employees.
It happened just after 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
Police say a man approached the two women in the parking lot and demanded their money.
Ardmore Police tell us the man was armed with a knife when he robbed the women.
He then took off on foot southbound with the money in hand.
Because the robbery took place outside of the business, police don't have surveillance to help them solve this crime.
However, they did find evidence at the scene that we are told could be crucial to the investigations.
"Patrol officers that responded to the armed robbery later located the suspects ski mask that he was wearing during the robbery as well as they've located footprints that we believe are going to be from the suspect. Hopefully in time we'll be able to identify the suspect with the evidence they gathered," said Chad Anthony
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January 21, 2007 President Bush will give his State of the Union address to the nation Tuesday night. What can we expect the president to
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say in the midst of an unpopular war effort and the wake of a sea change at the ballot box?
January 21, 2007 Four teams are set to fight for two berths in the Super Bowl. In the AFC, it's a quarterback duel between the Patriots' Tom Brady and the Colts' Peyton Manning. In the NFC, it's the surprising Saints and the erratic Bears.
January 7, 2007 Nobel Laureate and Princeton University psychology professor Daniel Kahneman explains why the "hawkish" point of view so often prevails in times of national conflict.
January 7, 2007 For Rain Pryor, being the daughter of comedian Richard Pryor, wasn't always one long laughfest. Her father's use of drugs and alcohol resulted in savage dark moods of anger and abuse directed toward his children and women. Rain Pryor has written about both the happy and difficult times in her relationship with her father in Jokes My Father Never Taught Me.
January 7,
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Stan Mikita, arguably the greatest player in Blackhawks history, died Tuesday after a long illness. He was 78.
Mikita lived life
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the way he played hockey. He did it his way, and he never stopped caring about what he did.
“He was more prepared than anybody I ever played with,” said Dale Tallon, executive vice president and general manager of the Florida Panthers, remembering the seasons they spent together skating for the Blackhawks from 1973-74 to 1977-78.
“His preparation was impeccable. His style of play was unique. He had great skills and drive and passion. He was hardworking. He was unselfish.
The little man who came from the little town of Sokolce in what then was Czechoslovakia and became one of the biggest superstars of the NHL and the Chicago sports galaxy died surrounded by his family.
The family said in statement that details of services will be announced later. “We respectfully ask for privacy at this time,” the family said.
In January 2015, Mikita’s family said he had been �
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Phillips died, Dec. 31, 2009, at Forward Operating Base Methar Lam, Afghanistan.
THIS WAS A SHOCK TO ME,
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I WAS IN THE BAND WITH HIM AT INGLEWOOD HIGH AND I JUST WANT TO SEND MY HEARTFELT CONDOLENSES TO THE FAMILY MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU!!!!!!
” — MARCIA, January 26, 2010 at 4:46 p.m.
I'm from Orange County and wasn't aware of the death of this fine soldier until today. The mere fact that he joined and went to a terrible place to fight should remind us all of the sacrifices others make for our country. Thank you, Sgt. Phillips.
” — Eating Fool, January 28, 2010 at 5:52 p.m.
” — lexus phillips, May 20, 2010 at 10:52 a.m.
” — katrinathompson, June 21, 2010 at 4:21 p.m.
My heart still hurts every day, for my friend who’s passed away. Taken
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A cursory analysis of the historical evolution of Philosophy and Theology, even the most radical and primary histories of both disciplines, reveal an â
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€˜ecstatic’ romance successfully penetrating to the very basis of their real existence. This becomes even more evident from the product of Karl Rahner’s analysis of the Philosophy and Theology: ‘there is a theological element inescapably present in every philosophy’. This is quite instructive from the very fact that there lies concealed in every philosophy right from its beginnings a theology which is either unreflectingly accepted or rejected in a manner which is culpable. These notwithstanding, what is philosophy? What is theology? What are their points of convergence and divergence? Are they of any importance to the intellectual formation of the seminarian? These and more are the basic preoccupations of this piece.
Philosophy is of Greek origin, φιλοσοφια. The concept is a neologism attributed to
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Local hoopsters record history and rally together during the deaths of two well-known community figures.
KIMT NEWS 3 SPORTS – “
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We’ve been through a lot as a team,” said Drew Enke.
Throughout the season, the Clear Lake Lions experienced a rollercoaster of emotions.
The Lions were predicted to finish fourth in the North Central Conference, but they went on to take it much further. Clear Lake defeated Charles City 63-53 to advance to the state tournament for the first time in 40 years.
Little did the team know that the journey would become even sweeter, earning the first-ever state basketball win for the boys or girls on Tuesday, advancing them to the semifinals. That is where things would go awry for the Lions falling in the fourth quarter to Norwalk, placing fourth among Iowa’s best teams. The team would also learn that long-time sports icon, Dave Theiss, had passed away Thursday morning.
While things on the court may have seemed picture perfect for the team on the court, behind the scenes, it never was. They also had
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The top Democrat at the statehouse says a wide-ranging bill that’s eligible for debate in the senate needs “additional work
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” before senators would consider making changes in the state’s gun laws.
“There are people in law enforcement that have suggested they see some things that could be significant improvements in our current law,” says Senate Democratic Leader Mike Gronstal of Council Bluffs.
Gronstal says establishing a uniform license for permits to carry a concealed weapon seems most likely, along with a move to create a statewide database of permit holders.
Gronstal says senators are, instead, working on rewriting their own bill.
Representative Matt Windschitl, a Republican from Missouri Valley, is a gun rights advocate who argues there’s no three-day waiting period in Iowa for the purchase of “long” guns, like rifles and shotguns, so there’s no reason to have it for handguns. In 2010 the legislature made significant changes that made it easier for Iowans to acquire a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Thousands of Iowans
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Here’s a simple strategy for enrolling more low-income students at elite colleges, but why is it so effective?
The University
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of Michigan sent packets to students telling them they were eligible for free tuition.
Is a packet and a promise enough to change the trajectory of someone’s life?
Roughly two-thirds of low-income Michigan students who received a branded set of materials from the University of Michigan promising free tuition and fees for four years wound up applying — and 27% enrolled, according to a working paper distributed by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Among similar students who didn’t receive the materials, just 26% applied and only 12% enrolled, the study found.
Of the 15 percentage-point difference in enrollment between the two groups, 7 percentage points account for students who would have otherwise gone to a less-selective four-year public college, 4 percentage points account for students who would have gone to a community college and, perhaps worse of all, another 4 percentage points wouldn’t have gone to college at all.
The reasons why elite schools educate a relatively small
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BENGALURU: Sun TV Network Limited (Sun TV) has declared a repeat of sunny results once again for FY-2014. The
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company’s consolidated PAT at Rs 748.01 crore (33.64 per cent of income from operations or revenue) was up 5.42 per cent as compared to the Rs 709.56 crore (36.9 per cent of revenue) in FY-2013.
The company’s consolidated income from operations (revenue) at Rs 2223.62 crore was 15.63 per cent more than the Rs 1923 crore in FY-2013.
The company’s income from operations figures include income of Rs 105.53 crore (4.72 per cent of revenue) and costs of Rs 142.06 crore (6.39 per cent of revenue) from its IPL franchisee cricket team Sun Risers Hyderabad in FY-2014.The company has paid Rs 85.5 crore (3.85 per cent of revenue) IPL franchisee fees that Sun TV has paid for its IPL in FY-2014.
The company’s
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JOBS and lifestyle are driving a migration boom on the Sunshine Coast with the region attracting more internal migrants than nearly every other region in Queensland.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows only the Moreton Bay and Gold Coast council areas experienced greater net gains from Australians moving in the 2015-16 year.
In that year 23,113 people moved to the Sunshine Coast council area from other parts of Australia; 16,913 people moved away from the area. The net increase of 6200 people is the third most in Queensland.
Regional Development Australia Sunshine Coast chair Tony Riddle said many people moved to the region for the economy as well as the lifestyle.
"There's a lot happening on the Coast,” he said.
"People have long moved here because of the lifestyle we have, that's what we're known for.
Mr Riddle said entrepreneurship was growing with the latest figures showing about 36,000 small businesses based on the Sunshine Coast - about one for every 10 residents.
But he said the Coast was also attracting major businesses to the region - pointing to companies such as insurance giant Youi as well as
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Becca Kufrin’s journey as The Bachelorette of the 2018 spring season is about to debut on ABC, and plenty
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of spoilers are emerging regarding what’s on the way. Gossip king Reality Steve has been revealing lots of juicy goodies since filming began in March, and now he’s sharing details breaking down which two guys are the last suitors standing. He’s also teasing some information about Kufrin’s final rose pick, but fans will have to hang tight on that front for the moment.
According to Reality Steve’s Bachelorette spoilers, Jason Tartick, Garrett Yrigoyen, and Blake Horstmann are the three men who joined Becca Kufrin for the fantasy suite overnight dates in Thailand. Now, he notes that Jason was eliminated at that point. For those who have been following the spoilers throughout filming, this probably doesn’t come as a big surprise that Yrigoyen and Horstmann remained for the final rose ceremony.
Reality Steve has previously indicated that Garrett was a frontrunner, and there has been
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The Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client has been updated to fix vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to gain system or root privileges on Windows, Linux and Mac
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OS X computers.
The AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client allows employees to work remotely by securely connecting back to their company's network. It provides virtual private networking over SSL and additional features like identity services, network access control and Web security.
The vulnerability in the Linux and Mac OS X version of the client was discovered and reported by researchers from Dutch security firm Securify. It can be exploited to execute arbitrary files with the highest system privileges, also known as root.
The Securify researchers also reported a similar vulnerability in the Windows version of the client that allows executing malicious DLL files with the System privilege.
The Windows version flaw was also independently found by researchers from Google's Project Zero team who published proof-of-concept exploit code for it last week, after Cisco took more than 90 days to release a patch and did not ask for an extension to the public disclosure deadline.
Attackers need to first have limited access to a system before they can exploit any of the two flaws
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If nine games can constitute an era, this is a new era for the Mets, one in which they can win despite their pitching.
B
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obby Jones could not hold a 5-1 lead today and it did not matter. Behind a season-high 19-hit attack, the Mets came back to defeat the Phillies, 8-6, at Veterans Stadium for their ninth consecutive victory, two short of the franchise record.
The victory extended another streak: the Mets are now 7-0 since Mike Piazza has been in their lineup. They have outscored their opponents, 54-21, and out-hit them, 100-56, in that stretch. They pulled within five games of the Atlanta Braves, who lost to the Chicago Cubs tonight, and have gained four games on the Braves since Piazza's arrival.
Piazza has hit safely in each of the seven games he has played with the Mets, but despite his.419 average as a Met, he has only two extra-base hits (both doubles) and two runs batted in during his seven games. Today he had three singles in five at
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Castle McLaughlin, curator of North American ethnography and a principal in creating the exhibition, explains that under Frederic W. Putnam,
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the museum’s director from 1875 to 1909, it became respectable to extend the study of man from Greece and Rome, the ancient pinnacles of Western civ, to the contemporary species. That prompted organizing donated treasures from the China trade, or vacuuming up Native American ceremonial wares—the precursors to and fledgling work of scientific anthropology. It also became academically sound to treat the Mesoamerican past, at sites like the Maya capital at Copán, with the same respect accorded Athens—a simultaneous broadening of archaeology. This era coincided with Harvard president Charles W. Eliot’s 40-year transformation of a classically oriented New England college into an ambitious research university, curious about everything.
Not quite everything can be displayed on the splendidly refurbished fourth floor: the Peabody holds 2.75 million objects, plus more than 500,000 historic images. But the more than 600 items exhibited are a rewarding plenitude.
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David Robertson will be reading from his newest novel, The Evolution of Alice, at THIN AIR 2014.
A West End resident likes to write
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about what he knows and what he is passionate about.
David Robertson will be reading aloud on the main stage at The Forks for THIN AIR 2014, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival, on Wed., Sept. 24 at 7:30 p.m. THIN AIR 2014 runs from Sept. 19 to 27. Robertson will be reading from his latest novel, The Evolution of Alice, to be released in August.
A publishing operations manager for the Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre (1090 Waverley St.), Robertson is passionate about aboriginal culture and issues, and often incorporates those elements in his writing, including The Evolution of Alice.
“The main character lives on a reserve. You’ll see the struggles of living on a reserve and some of the beauty of a reserve, and what that lifestyle is like,” Robertson said.
"The main character lives on a reserve. You’ll see the struggles of living on a reserve and some of the beauty
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AS cracks appeared in Oxford University's Clarendon Building, library staff became worried the historic structure was sinking.
Once the rumour was repeated
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, librarians were convinced that the Broad Street building's foundations were slowly crumbling and had subsided 11cm in the past 11 years.
But tests carried out by a structural engineer revealed no significant movement and subsidence of the Grade I-listed building, built on the site of the old city ditch, has been ruled out.
A total of 45 staff have now been relocated so that a £1m refurbishment programme can begin to restore the building, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor to house the university's printing press.
It is now home to Bodleian Library staff, but for the next 12 months they will be working at offices on the city's Osney Mead industrial estate.
"We were aware of the rumours about the building sinking," said Toby Kirtley, 40, estate projects officer for Oxford University Library Services.
"We called in structural engineers last year as part of the design process for this project and made them aware of the rumours.
"They
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What happens when engineers run the world?
On Christmas Day 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded a Northwest Airlines plane wearing custom
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ised underpants stuffed with explosives. As Flight 253 approached Detroit, he tried to blow himself up – along with nearly 300 other passengers and crew. It was the biggest flop in the recent history of Islamic terrorism. The baby-faced bomber succeeded only in setting his trousers on fire and burning his legs, before getting doused by fire extinguishers and being sat on by some intrepid souls in economy class. Not even Ryanair dishes out that kind of treatment.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Mohamed Atta, 9/11’s mastermind and one of its ringleaders, were both engineers. Imam Samudra, the plotter of the Bali nightclub bombings of 2002, was an engineer. Kafeel Ahmed, who in 2007 charged a Jeep into Glasgow airport, had an MPhil in aeronautical engineering.
Analysing the backgrounds of 178 jihadis, Gambetta and Hertog found that 44 per cent had studied for an engineering degree – while engineers comprised an
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With the long black robes, red velvet curtain and secret conference room, the Supreme Court can seem like a pretty weird place. But the court is
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never weirder than when the death penalty is being discussed, as it was in Wednesday's oral arguments.
On the surface, the justices must decide whether co-defendants can have their sentences determined in a single hearing, and whether a jury must be told that factors mitigating against a capital sentence don't need to be proved beyond reasonable doubt. But underneath these technical legal issues, something more profound is at stake: the immediate, personal involvement of the nine justices in the intentional killing of human beings.
Because the court thinks "death is different," its usual rules for choosing which cases to hear don't apply. It considers cases where there's no split of authority among the courts of appeal or among the states, and it corrects errors that it thinks were made by the courts below. More than that, the court gets into the guts of how the death penalty is determined and administered, making it the de facto supervisor of what Justice Harry Blackmun memorably called the "machinery of
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As an author, speaker and educator Victoria's brings together and translates the best science available on family wellness with an emphasis on emotional and mental health.
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She offers this expert information to parents and others in a form they can use today.
As a mother she stays close to her two grown sons. Professionally she made her mark as an Emmy Award winning science journalist, and coauthor of five published books in psychology, including: a parents’ guide to childhood OCD, a popular science book on the chemistry of human relationships, and, with Dr. Jack C. Westman, a guide to child and adolescent psychology.
Victoria's articles offer previews from her upcoming book A Lethal Inheritance, A Mother Uncovers the Science Behind Three Generations of Mental Illness, reflecting the decade she spent researching how to treat and prevent mental illness in children and adolescents. Due out from Prometheus Books in Jan 2012, you can pre-order A Lethal Inheritance on Amazon.
Victoria is married and she lives and works in San Francisco where she’s a board member of the S. F. Mental Health Association and a consultant to the S.
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New details in the Lehigh University student poiosnoing case reveal a possible second poisioning. Yukai Yang was released on bail last
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weekend but has since been jailed again, prosecutors say.
A former Lehigh University student charged with trying to slowly poison his roommate to death had his bail revoked Friday over fears that he would try to flee to China to avoid prosecution.
The decision to revoke bail comes after Yukai Yang, a Chinese national in the U.S. on a student visa, was rearrested in December after initially posting $200,000 cash bail in hopes of being deported back to his home country.
Yang is being held in Northampton County Jail, with a detainer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. His visa has also been revoked.
In addition to attempted murder and related charges, Yang is charged with ethnic intimidation for allegedly vandalizing his roommate's belongings with racist graffiti. Earlier reports had indicated that authorities were probing a possible second poisoning, but Northampton County Assistant District Attorney Abraham Kassis said that was not the case.
The former Lehigh University student allegedly used thallium, once used
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It was exactly one year ago today that Donald Trump suggested he was prepared to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denials about attacking American elections
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This, evidently, helped convince the American president that he should trust his Russian counterpart’s word over that of U.S. intelligence agencies.
President Trump pledged Thursday that will “of course” raise the issue of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election at his summit next week with the country’s leader, Vladimir Putin, but insisted that there was little he could do if – as expected – Putin denies that Russia interfered.
The American president doesn’t appear to appreciate how pathetic a line this is. From Trump’s perspective, confronted with overwhelming evidence that Putin’s government launched an unprecedented attack on the United States’ democracy, the president can ask the Russian leader for an explanation. If Putin denies responsibility, Trump can ask again. As the Republican put it this morning, it’s “all” he can do.
Trump is acting as if he’s effectively powerless, but he�
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The Prince George’s County Board of Education, facing a rocky start in a new era of school governance, has entered into a short-
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term agreement with a corporate foundation to help ease its transition from an elected board to a hybrid board with government oversight.
Panasonic, which has affiliations with school systems in Elizabeth, N.J., San Diego and Connecticut, will assist the county during the next nine months to navigate the governance structure approved by state lawmakers in April. Prince George’s will be one of the largest school districts to partner with Panasonic.
The agreement is one of the most significant steps the board has taken since the General Assembly gave County Executive Rushern L. Baker III (D) the power to choose the schools chief, name three appointed board members and select the board chair and vice chair.
The move to team with Panasonic also speaks to the challenges that the reconfigured 13-member panel has faced in its early days since the legislation went into effect in June, and about the work that lies ahead.
Eubanks said the board is considering a 10-year agreement with Panasonic that could begin next
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NEARLY 50 per cent of families in Scotland could be left struggling if cuts to working tax credits go ahead, a charity has warned.
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Chancellor George Osborne has made clear that he would be looking to make significant savings in Wednesday’s Budget to the system of tax credits brought in under the previous Labour government to top up the incomes of low paid working families.
Barnardo’s Scotland is calling on the UK Government to keep what it called the “lifeline” benefit after it calculated 49.1 per cent of families in Scotland (301,600) currently use working tax credits.
Head of Policy for Barnardo’s Scotland, Mark Ballard, said: “The UK Government has promised to improve support for working families so that parents do not have to choose between feeding their families and heating their homes.
“Unfortunately, the reality is increasing numbers of working parents are struggling to stay above the breadline, and any proposed cuts to the benefits they rely on will only make things worse. Low paid parents with dependent children rely on tax credits to make up the difference between what they earn and
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Theresa May has publicly challenged a call by the leader of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead for police to take action against rough sleepers
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in the town ahead of the royal wedding later this year.
The prime minister, who is the MP for Maidenhead, said she disagreed with comments made by Simon Dudley on Twitter and in a letter to the Thames Valley police and crime commissioner.
Dudley said “an epidemic of rough sleeping and vagrancy” in Windsor was causing concern and presenting “a beautiful town in a sadly unfavourable light”.
Asked about the remarks during a visit to a hospital in Camberley, May said: “I don’t agree with the comments that the leader of the council has made.
Thames Valley police have made it clear that they do not view legal action against rough sleepers and people begging on the streets to be effective, and have called for a multi-agency approach to find solutions to the causes of homelessness and destitution.
Homeless charities have also said that antisocial behaviour powers should not be used against people sleeping rough but
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ShutterstockA view of warming waters, from Cape Cod.
Would you like some broiled flounder with your serving of climate apocalypse?
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Well, you’re going to have to broil it yourself, because record-breaking temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean are driving the fish away from fast-heating waters toward more hospitable depths and latitudes.
The Atlantic Ocean’s surface temperatures from Maine to North Carolina broke records last year, reaching an average of 57.2°F, nearly three degrees warmer than the average of the past 30 years.
That’s according to new data published by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which says the jump in average temperature from 2011 to 2012 was the largest recorded one-year spike in the marine region, which is known as the Northeast Shelf Ecosystem. Last year’s average temperature was also the highest recorded there since measurements began 150 years ago.
That’s not too shabby if you fancy a balmy dip in the brine. But the implications for the ecosystem’s wildlife and fisheries could be profound.
The production
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Snapchat today launched its media hub Discover. With bite-sized content blips that mix photos, videos, and text, it could become a
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millenial entertainment destination. And by mixing in pre-rolls and looping video interstitial advertising, Snapchat may have found how to turn storytelling into a serious business.
Tapping on any Discover button will open that partner’s edition, and possibly show you a pre-roll along the lines of “CNN, brought to you by BMW.” You’ll then see the first chapter of the edition. You can swipe up to explore that piece of content more, swipe down to return to the Discover screen, or swipe left to move to the new chapter in the edition. Each chapter can include photos or looping video clips with overlaid text, scrollable news articles, or videos a few minutes in length that display in a little video player.
For example, CNN’s edition features a chapter on the east coast snow storm with a clip of a newscaster in the blizzard followed by an article full of photos from the storm. Its other
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It sounds far-fetched, but some deer are so habituated to people that they have been seen jumping over children on the playground at Missoul
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a, Montana’s Rattlesnake Elementary School. Still, a recent encounter shocked school employee Jenn Jencso: A deer crashed through the passenger-side window of her car, breaking the glass and landing inside the vehicle, hooves flailing.
That account is slightly dramatized, but Jencso said she did have to “push the deer back over” in order to halt her moving car. Finally, it “fell out of the car and ran away.” Jencso told the Missoulian that she likes deer, but they’re getting out of hand.
Though even feral cats don’t go in for carjacking.
“Sweetheart, this doesn’t sound right,” said Helena Byler, 78, as her husband, Gerald, kept driving their rental sedan down an increasingly rocky dirt road. The Texas couple, who were visiting Kanab, Utah, had gone out Sept
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Cher's longtime go-to fashion designer and costumer Bob Mackie has officially joined the new biomusical "The Cher Show," set
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to open on Broadway in the fall.
Who better, really? For more than 40 years Mackie, aka "sultan of sequins" and the "raj of rhinestone," has dressed fashion maverick Cher in some of the most iconic and flashiest showstopping outfits ever seen on stage.
"The first time I dressed her she was guest-starring with Sonny on 'The Carol Burnett Show,'" Mackie told the Daily News in an earlier interview. "I put her in a little outfit, it wasn't much of anything, a dress with a bustle in the back.
"It wasn't exactly a creative moment," he added, "but Cher and I got on and she asked for me when she and Sonny started doing their summer specials. That was 1971."
Now, 47 years later they're still going strong. The new musical, which will play a pre-Broadway run in Chicago in June, follows different stages of Cher's
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Russia could take a lesson from the U.S. on the matter of adopting abandoned children, children's ombudsman Pavel Astakhov said Monday
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"If Americans were allowed to adopt every single child on the planet, they would. It is their mentality. That is something Russians could learn from," the ombudsman said at a press conference in St. Petersburg.
Astakhov also said St. Petersburg was seeing a worrying increase in the number of children put up for adoption and noted that 300 mothers give up their newborns on a yearly basis, Interfax reported.
"Why do you have so many abandoned children?" he said, adding, "We have to find a different answer to this question than the general 'these are the socioeconomic circumstances' answer."
Eighty-four percent of children up for adoption are so-called social orphans, meaning that the children have at least one parent that is still alive.
"We have to find out the reason for this and fix it to give the greatest number of children the right to a family," Astakhov said, adding that no healthy state should let its children be
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What you eat affects your brain. Are you eating things that will energize you mentally?
October 29, 2010, 12:45 p.
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Mental health disorders have become so common in the United States that according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), an estimated one in four Americans ages 18 and older suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in any given year. One factor that mental health scientists agree on is the imbalance of the complex, interrelated chemical reactions of the brain. How this imbalance occurs continues to be a cause for study. Meanwhile research has produced a pharmacopoeia of prescription meds to ease our mental suffering. Rarely is quality of diet mentioned as a treatment plan for mental illness, yet the ancient Ayurvedic practitioners and yogis knew the affects food can have on the brain.
The human body requires essential nutrients on a daily basis to function properly. We know from medical research that a lack of these nutrients can cause chemical imbalance in organ and brain functions. Ancient practitioners of Ayurvedic medicine — the world’s oldest surviving healing system — created a lifestyle
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More people are leaving New Zealand, with the latest official figures showing that annual net migration was down 8,800 to 63,300 in the 12
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months to August 2018, the lowest for the month since 2015.
Net migration is continuing to ease from the record high of 72,400 in the year ended July 2017 and August’s figures were the lowest annual rate for the month since 2015, according to the figures from Statistics New Zealand.
‘The number of migrant arrivals in August was only slightly lower than in August 2017, so it was the increase in the number of departures that led to the fall in net migration,’ said population insights senior manager Brooke Theyers.
‘This is consistent with what we’ve seen in previous months, with the fall in net migration being driven more by increases in migrant departures than decreases in migrant arrivals,’ she added.
Migrant departures for New Zealand citizens were up 600 for the year ended August 2018, to 34,200. Of these, 20,900 were to Australia. This increase in departures was accompanied by a fall in the number of citizens returning to
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Candidate Richard Charbonneau has no visions of winning a seat on the Brevard County Commission this year.
Rather, Charbonneau says
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his entry Monday into the race as an official write-in candidate is a ploy to help Republican Trudie Infantini win an Aug. 28 GOP primary against incumbent Curt Smith.
"I'll do everything in my power to not have Curt elected," Charbonneau said. "I don't want Curt to win. He's got strong Democratic support."
While all three are Republicans, Charbonneau and Infantini are in a different faction of the party than Smith, who some Republicans perceive as too moderate for their tastes.
Charbonneau's strategy would come into play if no Democrat qualifies for the race.
With Democratic candidate Matthew Fleming's failure to collect the necessary number of valid signatures of registered voters by a May 21 deadline to get on the ballot, there is a chance the race could come down to a cast of Republicans.
According to his latest campaign financing reports, through May 31, Fleming has raised just $100 so far in his campaign — a check from
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Steve McClaren admitted Middlesbrough's luck finally ran out in the UEFA Cup final.
Boro staged two epic fightbacks from three goals
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down to make it to the final in Eindhoven. But they were torn apart by Sevilla, who scored three times in the last 12 minutes to win 4-0.
McClaren said: "I don't know if the occasion got to our players. We looked nervous. There was no freedom and we didn't perform as we can.
"We had three goalscoring chances for an equaliser and a stone-wall penalty.
"It could have changed the game but, as it was, our luck ran out."
Middlesbrough wanted a penalty when Javi Navarro barged into the back of Mark Viduka, two minutes before Sevilla's second, but their appeals were ignored.
Boro went behind midway through the first half to a header from Luis Fabiano.
Enzo Maresca added two more and former Spurs striker Frederic Kanoute grabbed the fourth in the dying minutes.
McClaren, who will become
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As the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians once again threatens to intensify, the international community has called on both sides to come together and engage in peace
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talks. On Wednesday, leaders from both sides will meet face-to-face in Jerusalem for the first time in five years, to discuss the terms of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, the drawing of a secure border between the two nations, and the fate of Palestinian refugees.
Ahead of these meetings, The Onion would like to firmly and categorically urge both Israelis and Palestinians to stand tall and steadfastly refuse to give up so much as a single inch during the negotiations.
Israelis and Palestinians, you must accept nothing short of total victory against those who threaten your religion and way of life. Sacrificing just one of your ideals would at this point be tantamount to complete and utter failure.
If a settlement is built, you must attack it. If a settlement is attacked, you must rebuild it. Rocks must be met with bullets; bullets must be met with rocket fire; rocket fire must be met with helicopter assaults. This is the only noble way forward for either side
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How Do Crime Alert Rewards Work?
When a crime happens and leads go dry police look to the public for help. One of the best motivations
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to get people to help is money.
However, not all crime tip rewards are created equal.
Some rewards come from groups or non-profit organizations that are closely linked to the crime; like businesses that have been robbed or family of the victim. The amount of the reward can vary and so does the criteria for receiving it.
Then there are national non-profits like “Crime Stoppers,” which has regional chapters. Sacramento’s chapter is called “Crime Alert” and is run by retired Sacramento Police Sgt. Marty Mamuyac. He said their rewards are pretty straight forward.
“All we’re looking for is an arrest. If we can prove (the tip lead to) an arrest or solved the case, as per the detectives, you’re eligible for a reward,” Mamuyac said.
The minimum reward amount is about $100; the maximum is $1000. The money comes from fundraising and the
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What does the proposed Brexit Withdrawal Deal mean for the tech industry?
What does the proposed Brexit Withdrawal Deal mean for the tech
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industry? U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May announced November 14, 2018, that the U.K. Government has reached an agreement with the European Union on the initial stages of how the U.K. will exit the EU.
It is not a done deal, however, until the U.K. Parliament and the EU Parliaments have ratified it. If this proposed Withdrawal Agreement does get the go ahead—and this is very uncertain as there is huge opposition to it among U.K. members of parliament—it essentially gives U.K. business and, therefore, by default the U.K. tech industry, a bit of breathing space.
The tech industry in the U.K. is quite reliant on EU workers. If the U.K. leaves the EU without a deal, then many of these workers would no longer have leave to remain in the U.K. and there would be a brain drain. The Draft Withdrawal Agreement will allow
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The Louisville football team will count on a handful of former track stars to add some playmaking ability this fall.
Before Bobby Petrino walked into
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the Cardinal Stadium press box for his news conference on media day Saturday, he was on the field, participating in team photo exercises.
They brought in the seniors first, and there were not many. Then came the juniors, and there were a few more. But the classes that struck Petrino were the freshmen and sophomores, more than usual.
They will be tasked with important roles as the Louisville football team replaces a decorated outgoing class, retools and prepares for 2018.
On Aug. 3, the first day of practice, Louisville held split-squad workouts with mostly newcomers in the morning and veterans in the afternoon.
But there were exceptions: The coaches bumped a handful of true freshmen to the later session to work with the first team. Three of the five freshmen who arrived last winter, plus wide receiver Marcus Riley, practiced in the afternoon. The program mantra “Speed City” has brought an influx of fast athletes to contribute early.
“This is
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Player-coach Michal Dobron has “high expectations” for his Edinburgh Capitals side – but only if they continue to play smart
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following their convincing recent wins over Coventry Blaze and Dundee Stars.
Caps travel to a sold-out Cardiff Devils tomorrow before facing-off against Manchester Storm on Sunday, an away double header that will surely prove the Murrayfield men’s toughest test of the season to date.
Looking back over Wednesday night’s 5-1 home win over Dundee, Dobron said: “Everybody played the game our way and the way we wanted to. We researched all the players we signed in the summer and the style we play is a good fit for them so I’m not surprised at how we are doing.
Dobron was delighted to see Edinburgh cut out their slow starts – a trait evident in their last defeat, a 4-2 loss away to Sunday’s opponents Manchester. Edinburgh conceded twice in the first 70 seconds before losing a third in the first minute of the second period.
Although disappointed with his team’s early efforts in
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As in Alice's Wonderland, so too in the labyrinth-land of income tax, things are often not what they appear to be. 'Yes
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' may not always mean yes, and 'no' may not necessarily mean what we generally take it to mean.
So, it pays to be tax-smart; you can get to keep more of your hard-earned money for yourself rather than having to cough it up to the taxman...
1. Exemption on soft furnishing expenses Sec. 10(14) [of the Income Tax Act] offers exemption for expenses (and not allowances) incurred wholly, necessarily and exclusively in the performance of the duties. There are two distinct arguments to render soft-furnishing non-taxable.
The first one is to claim that the employee needs to entertain guests at his residence for official purpose. The second one is that the expense is incurred to protect the furniture belonging to the office at the residence of the employee from deterioration.
Most employment conditions require an employee who desires to change his job, to give his employer a notice of his intentions and serve him for certain pre
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HARTFORD -- When you average 30 goals a year and the meter hasn't started to click in the first six games, no doubt even
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center Cory Larose had to be wondering a bit when the first one might find the net.
Larose, who has generated points with regularity the past two seasons in the AHL including 75 last winter, had managed just one assist in five games this year.
His numbers changed after Sunday's 2-2 tie with the Lowell Lock Monsters.
Not only did Larose finally get on the board -- his power-play goal at 16:11 put Hartford into the lead -- but he got involved throughout and did his best to create scoring chances as well as make a determined effort to play smart without the puck.
"I've been a notorious slow starter going back to youth hockey but I don't really know why," Larose said. "It's not like I've played poorly or anything in the first four games, but I got involved more in games on Saturday and Sunday. That's the way I can and have to play.
"I need to be a little more
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Not just in America, or Chicago, where with grateful tears in his eyes he carried home the gleaming gold championship trophy, but in places one
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might never expect, Michael Jordan is a hero.
Ted Ewanchiw of ProServ, the management group that handles Jordan's endorsements, said he had been receiving calls from Japan. "They want him for commercials," he said.
Dan Peterson, the voice on telecasts of National Basketball Association games in Italy, said Jordan's basketball video was second only to an Italian soccer video in sales there.
"I was just speaking to a broadcaster in Yugoslavia," someone said to Jordan a few days ago, "and he told me you're the biggest star there. They see the games on tape delays."
"Bigger than Divac? Bigger than Kukoc?" asked Jordan, mentioning two of the country's best basketball players.
"Bigger than anyone," he was told. "What does that mean to you?"
"It means," Jordan said, "relaxation."
"Sure. For a couple of hours they can sit back and enjoy a game
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As I revisit some songs and voices that caught my attention when I was first learning about gospel music, I’m going to try to do
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something a little different from simply talking about why I liked them. I will describe as best I can my initial thought process in reaction to these clips, but then I’ll draw some conclusions from my impressions that might be of promotional use to artists who want to draw in “newbies” like I was at the time.
I can vividly remember being in my mid-teens and listening to a cassette tape of Steve Green’s For God and God Alone. I’d listen to one side, then flip it over, then start at the beginning again when it was finished, and just keep that up for hours because I simply couldn’t get enough of that voice. But through the years that followed I didn’t get much more exposure to Steve’s music than that one album. It was only around a year and a half ago that I realized just how extensive his repertoire was and began finding more of his stuff. In the process,
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Whatever the outcome of this weekend’s PN leadership election, one result is already in. On Friday, Simon Busuttil addressed the
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PN council for the last time as party leader. This brought to a close a short but eventful chapter in the Nationalist Party’s recent history.
It is probably too early to make a thorough assessment of the Simon Busuttil era. Judged only on the basis of electoral results, the immediate verdict is unlikely to be positive. Busuttil inherited a party reeling from a massive knock-out blow delivered in March 2013. He led the party to a bigger defeat in June 2017... losing all other elections in between.
But this is only a partial assessment. It must also be remembered that Busuttil took over the Nationalist Party at its most difficult hour: also facing insurmountable debt, as well as an existentialist crisis that was not of Busuttil’s making.
Besides, some of the issues brought up in the last election campaign remain unresolved to this day. Though unsuccessful in political terms, Busuttil championed issues of good governance and
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NO-COST ADOPTIONS AT SEATTLE HUMANE!
Fees waived on all pets Oct. 2-4 at Adoption
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Blitz!
Seattle Humane’s annual Adoption Blitz means hundreds of families can adopt a dog, cat, puppy, kitten, rabbit or other furry critter without the typical adoption fee. Fees are waived for all pets in the care of Seattle Humane in Bellevue for three days only, Friday, October 2nd through Sunday, October 4th.
Each year, hundreds of pets are adopted during Adoption Blitz. Adoption Manager Nicolette Voigt points out that Seattle Humane’s Adoption Advisors carefully vet each adopter by conducting one-on-one interviews and reviewing questionnaires. “The animals are always our first priority and we want to make sure each one of them is going to a loving family that can care well for them. We pride ourselves on our ability to make successful matches,” continues Voigt.
All dogs and cats ar e vaccinated, microchipped, health-checked and spay/neutered. Dogs are temperament
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Threat hunting likely ranks second after artificial intelligence as a leading cybersecurity marketing buzzword and top airport advertising theme. Why not hunt for threats when dwell
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time between attack infections and detections can take months? Hiring threat hunters could change the playing field dynamics so if attackers make a mistake, they risk being detected. Sounds good, however, the real answer is more complex.
Threat detection leverages multiple detection techniques from signatures, rules and patterns to anomaly detection, machine learning and behavioral analysis to find known threats, query or model. Matching indicators of compromise to various data sources is a form of threat detection and so is searching a security data lake. It is all too common for security and service vendors to incorrectly market threat detection as threat hunting.
Threat modeling is a proactive process to improve applications, systems and network security by assessing potential risks, threats and vulnerabilities often from an attacker’s perspective, and then prioritize countermeasures to address the effects. This practice is maturing and will be increasingly important for cloud, internet of things, and autonomous solutions for converged information technology/operation technology networks.
Threat hunting is a
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This piece is the second in a multi-part series, telling stories about employees of Ada's Cafe -- the 501c3 nonprofit cafe in the
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Mitchell Park community center, which employs individuals with disabilities. To learn more about Ada's, read the November 2017 PA Online article, or visit www.adascafe.org.
When I first learned of John Collins, I was intrigued. When I first spoke to the man, I was spellbound.
What makes this man, you might ask, so unique? There are many answers to that question – his simple charm, his constantly-churning brain, his humble compassion. Yet for everything which makes Collins distinct, the man’s greatest idiosyncrasy is a sincere and familiar heart.
Collins, 54, has an interesting way of telling stories – one wholly contextualized by memories of the world outside. “Proposition 13 was about to pass,” he says perfunctorily, recalling his 1977 childhood move to Palo Alto. “The six-day war had just finished,” he remembers, of a family vacation to Israel. Defunct airlines
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Some rare good news as we emerge from an intense and exhausting political season: In 2017, investment in broadband rose by $1.5 billion to
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$76.3 billion. This reversed a decline of approximately $3.2 billion in 2015-16.
What made the difference? Regulation. Specifically, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repealed the rules it unwisely imposed in 2015 that treated broadband as a monopoly and restored the rules that had been in place for nearly 20 years beforehand, under which the Internet first grew and flourished thanks to billions of dollars in investment and a bipartisan consensus.
This seems like common sense, but for the past several years, the political and tech communities have been mired in a bitter debate over “net neutrality” that obscures the real facts. Broadband is not a monopoly, and policies from the 1930s are inappropriate for the rapidly converging technologies and platforms of today.
The basic point is simple: Higher investment in broadband correlates both with the certainty of light-touch regulation and — this is the really important part — with the growth of the Internet itself. By starting the process
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He has undergone surgeries on his wrist, elbow and hip, each costing him countless games and untold momentum. So the sport can be as painful as
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it can be pleasurable, and it can make a 21-year-old feel a great deal older.
The worst injury was fixing a hip ailment in late 2016. His back hurt, his legs, too, all tied to that hip and overcompensating. It was painful getting up in the morning, or climbing out of a car. Normal tasks became a challenge and a chore.
“It was some weird stuff, painful,” Green said. “Here I was 20, 21 years old, and I couldn’t move. I thought, ‘What’s going on?’ There were times I’d text the manager (of the team) and tell him I’d be a complete liability out there today.
Green has looked the part of a healthy prospect at 6-foot-3 and 210 pounds, one eager for his first call-up to the big leagues. He had two home runs in a
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Universal Credit is hardly out of the news. The suffering and anxiety it has caused is immeasurable - so much so that even some Tory
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MPs have been forced to highlight problems with its implementation.
This month votes take place to decide the PCS Left Unity candidates for the union's 2019 elections.
PCS civil service union Assistant General Secretary (AGS) Chris Baugh, elected three times since 2004, has won at least eight nomination meetings in his campaign to be the Left Unity AGS candidate for a fourth term.
The Socialist Party rejects the view of the new group 'Socialist View', that all that is required for success in 2019 is to do the same as 2018 but be better organised.
The dispute within the left of Britain's largest civil service union raises key issues for the whole labour movement. Above all, the need for democratic, lay-member control of fighting trade unions.
Break the pay cap - the fight continues!
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Thatcher's Militant blacklist, capitalism wants slums, World Cup nationalism?
The PCS strike ballot
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Latest plaintiff alleges the actor abused her while she was a theater student in the 1980s.
Another lawsuit has been filed against Twin Cities actor-
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turned-entrepreneur Jason McLean and the Children's Theatre Company (CTC), alleging sexual abuse of a minor and institutional negligence.
The complaint follows a suit filed Dec. 1 alleging sexual abuse by McLean and CTC co-founder John Clark Donahue, as well as negligence in hiring and supervision by the theater.
McLean, 61, who owns the Loring Pasta Bar and the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis, did not respond to requests for comment.
Last week, his attorney, Jon Hopeman, noted that the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) investigated allegations against McLean in 1984 but that no charges resulted, and said his client "intends to defend against this lawsuit with all his might and to clear his name."
The Children's Theatre released a statement Thursday, saying "our guiding principles are to have the truth be known and to see justice done for anyone who may have been the victim of sexual abuse. … We welcome
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The photo of Pronger’s wide smile towering over Justin Bieber’s pained look went viral immediately.
In his job
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as part of the NHL’s player safety department Pronger joked that he fined himself $5 for the hit.
“You don't want anybody to get hurt out there or to do anything too crazy," Pronger told NHL.com afterward.
He later told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the hit wasn’t as bad as the photo made it out to be.
“I gave him a little back massage with my stick, pinned him up against the boards, rubbed his face in the glass and just gave him a little welcome to the NHL,” Pronger said.
Yes, the tale of the tape decidedly went to Pronger.
Even at 42, Pronger rolls up at 6-6 and 220 pounds.
Approximately 5-9 and 145 pounds.
“A player of his caliber, you've got to take away his time and space,” Pronger told the Post-Dispatch
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A Stanford scholar found that talking about social class helped first-generation college students reduce the social-class achievement gap by as much as 63 percent.
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Using a "difference-education" approach, these students had higher grade-point averages and took better advantage of college resources than peers who didn't participate in the discussion.
Research has shown that first-generation college students – those who do not have a parent with a college degree – often lag behind other students in grades and graduation rates. They also often struggle socially, finding it hard to fit in and sometimes feeling like they don't belong in college.
But the study, "Closing the Social-Class Achievement Gap," offers a new approach to help them advance in college: discuss class differences rather than ignore them.
"The research showed that when incoming first-generation students saw and heard stories from junior and senior students with different social-class backgrounds tell stories about their struggles and successes in college, they gained a framework to understand how their backgrounds shaped their own experiences and how to see this as an asset," said MarYam Hamedani, a co-author on the paper
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A hit British play touring the world will make its only Canadian stop at London’s Grand Theatre.
Barber Shop Chronicles from the National
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Theatre in Great Britain’s will be on the Grand’s Spriet Stage next season running from Nov. 15-24.
It’s one of the highlights of the Grand’s 2018-2019 season announced Thursday that includes a couple of blockbuster musicals – Cabaret and Mamma Mia! – a return of Vigilante, the hit rock musical about the Donnelly family massacre in Lucan in 1880 which sold out in 2017, and The Wars, adapted by Grand artistic director Dennis Garnhum from the award winning Canadian book by the late Timothy Findley to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
We live at a time when our freedom is so cherished because of the men and women who served in those wars and protected it for us.
It’s an ambitious season, featuring 12 plays – eight on the main Spriet Stage and four on the smaller McManus Stage in the basement – and involving 130 artists including actors
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I consider myself to be a vintage-camera-loving nerd of sorts. You can definitely find me geeking out over silly things like Holgas
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, cheap Lomo cameras from Urban Outfitters, and even apps on iOS like Instagram that boast that same old school looking feel. In fact, I’ve even shared my love of cool, retro-inspired gadgets like the Wood Camera iPhone 4 case by Photojojo on The Next Web — though these next beauties take the cake in terms of MacGuyver-esque retro awesomeness.
Jason Hull, a photographer based in Oakland, California has repurposed his collection of old film cameras into unique nightlights. You may not be as excited as I am by this old school take on interior design, but these gadgets will certainly add more character to my apartment than this 99cent Target light bulb.
Rare camera or not, the result is a creative and original new way to light up your space at night. My only question now is, where can I get one? According to Hull, he’ll soon be constructing more of these gizmos to sell
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Two brothers from Peterborough and a market trader from Watford who brought six million cigarettes into the UK through a Waltham Abbey industrial yard,
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without paying £1.3 million duty have been convicted of evading customs duty.
Now they must wait to hear their fate. Sentencing was adjourned at Chelmsford Crown Court until next month.
The crates were transported from Holland through Dover and Customs officers raided the Essex yard as the Yeoman European B.V. truck was being unloaded.
Driver Colin Yeoman, (53), of Ayres Drive, Peterborough, and Brian Yeoman, 50, of Hanbury, Orton Goldhay, Peterborough, who helped with the planning, have been on trial at Chelmsford Crown Court for over a week.
They were joined in the dock by market trader Bernard Levy, 51, of Willoughby, Bushey.
All three pleaded not guilty to being knowingly concerned in the fraudulent evasion of customs duty between 1 and 31 July 2014.
The jury of nine women and three men returned majority guilty verdicts of 11-1 for the two Yeom
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Regulators determined to let Mexican trucks on U.S. roads under a trade deal have downplayed safety shortcomings with companies in a border-cross
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ing pilot program, according to safety, trucking and labor groups.
Trucking authorities violated their own rules by letting one company keep operating over the border after its safety rating was lowered, and overlooked other carriers’ failures to disclose affiliations with unsafe operators, according to protests filed with the U.S. government by advocates, trade groups and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union.
President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon signed an agreement in March 2011 to end $2.4 billion in Mexican tariffs on U.S. products, in exchange for opening the border to Mexican trucks meeting American safety and environmental regulations. The tariffs were imposed after the U.S. canceled a previous program to allow Mexican trucks.
U.S. agricultural exports to Mexico fell 26 percent to $5.55 billion in 2009 after the tariffs were imposed on products including wine, pork, apples and onions. They had increased every month in 2008 from the same period a year earlier.
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A pioneer of farm-to-table cuisine shares how he spread this growing trend nationwide.
In the following video, we hear from Fedele
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Bauccio, founder and CEO of Bon Appetit Management. His company has built its reputation on locally sourced, seasonal, healthy foods and is actively involved in sustainability issues affecting every aspect of the food industry.
As it began to expand beyond the fertile valleys of California, Bauccio's company faced new challenges in its mission to work with fresh, seasonal, locally sourced food. We discuss how Bon Appetit has dealt with those challenges by working with local farmers and institutions to both grow and preserve more food.
Isaac Pino: I'm just curious. Being located in Silicon Valley or the San Francisco area, a very fertile region, within 150 miles you can find all types of foods. What is your experience when you go to other areas that might have a monoculture or might only be suitable for certain types of crops?
Fedele Bauccio: Yeah, that's a good question. As we started to move to the Midwest and to the
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Cyber thieves are taking advantage of shoppers this holiday season with a devious email scam that can prove costly.
According to a report by Internet
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security company Malcovery, hackers are spamming email accounts with phony order confirmation messages claiming to be from popular retailers like Home Depot (NYSE:HD), Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Target (NYSE:TGT) and Costco (NASDAQ:COST). The notifications are sent with company markings to appear as though they are authentic.
The fake messages contain a tainted link which, if clicked, takes the victim to an infected website laced with malware that powers the infamous ASProx spam botnet. A botnet is essentially a network of infected computers which are used to carry out a variety of cyber attacks.
According to security blogger Brian Krebs, ASProx is a nasty Trojan that collects email addresses and passwords from its victims and then turns the infected machine into a “zombie” for relaying spam messages. Trend Micro reports that ASProx emerged in 2007 and has since been responsible for a significant portion of the world’s spam.
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Events continue unabated at the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development.
If you’re not in Rio, take a look at our
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behind-the-scenes shots on our Rio+20 photostream for a flavour of all the action.
Technology, social media and global leaders will gather together for Rio+social, a global conversation focusing on topics related to social good and how new media can help foster positive solutions to the world’s biggest problems. Participants include Mashable, Richard Branson and many more. The event will be webcast live.
How and why is the negotiation process – which includes many more voices, not just those of diplomats – different for Rio+20? Join a live Google+ Hangout on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. in Rio (8:30 am NYC, 2:30 pm Paris) with Brice Lalonde, Executive Coordinator of the Conference. Twitter users can ask questions using #Riodialogues.
Online audiences are also invited to follow @UN_Women to put questions to panelists during Tuesday’s Women Leaders’ Forum on Gender
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According to Nielsen Fast National Data, CNN’s AC360: Guns in America: Obama Town Hall (8-9:15pm)
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was #1 in cable news last night in the demo 25-54 and 18-34. Hosted by Anderson Cooper, the Town Hall outperformed the combined delivery of Fox News and MSNBC in the demo 25-54 and 18-34. In 25-54, CNN averaged 845k, +83% more than Fox News’ 463k and +272% more than MSNBC’s 227k. In 18-34, CNN had 277k, Fox News trailed far behind with 73k and MSNBC had 40k. In total viewers CNN averaged 2.389m, Fox News had 3.032m and MSNBC posted 955k.
The post-program, A Presidential Town Hall Special (9:15-10p) also ranked #1 among 25-54, averaging 613k, Fox News followed with 405k and MSNBC trailed with 265k. In 18-34, CNN registered 197k vs. Fox News’ 65k and MSNBC’
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Love and modern sustainable design bloom in Bridgeport.
If you need evidence that Sarah Dunn and her partner, Martin Felsen, are two of
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the city’s most promising new design talents, consider the case of Hannah’s Bretzel. For the restaurant’s second location, in Illinois Center, the architects chose materials as crunchy as the menu’s organic fare. “We used woods actually made of multigrain wheat, so the walls will look just like bread,” says Dunn.
She traces her passion for urban planning and design to a childhood growing up in New York, Tokyo, and Singapore. “I told my mom I wanted to be an architect when I was five,” she says with a grin. While studying architecture at Columbia University’s graduate school, she met Felsen, a D.C. native. He ultimately headed for Chicago, and she went to the Netherlands to work for Rem Koolhaas. In 2000, she joined Felsen in Chicago, and they founded their own firm, UrbanLab.
Dunn and Felsen, who
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The ‘Homeland’ star sported a chic, understatedly elegant low ponytail and at The 19th Annual Screen Actors
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Guild Awards. Get the step-by-step breakdown directly from her hairstylist, here!
Claire Danes, 33, brought all the attention to her neckline with her one-shoulder Givenchy dress and chic, low ponytail with a soft side part. Her hairstylist, Peter Butler, said to her, “If we try and make this Hollywood, it just won’t work,” so he kept the look fresh and cool but still elegant with soft pieces falling around the face. “The dress is very sharp looking and I wanted to soften it by giving her a cool ‘New York girl’ style,” he said.
• Starting with wet hair, Peter applied Matrix Amplify Foam Volumizer evenly throughout hair to provide hold, texture and volume and Matrix Total Results Blonde Care Flash Filler Sheer Mist to ends so that they would smooth out nicely and look finished and polished.
• Claire�
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RadioIO (OTCMKTS:RAIO) and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the
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better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations and valuation.
60.2% of Facebook shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.4% of RadioIO shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 16.3% of Facebook shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
This table compares RadioIO and Facebook’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
Facebook has higher revenue and earnings than RadioIO.
This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for RadioIO and Facebook, as reported by MarketBeat.
Facebook has a consensus price target of $191.13, suggesting a potential upside of 16.30%. Given Facebook’s higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Facebook is more favorable than
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Investigators say they do not know why the woman's vehicle suddenly veered from the roadway.
(ARLINGTON, Ore.) - A
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Spokane Valley, Washington mother and her 12-year old daughter died, and her 10-year old son received non-life threatening injuries, Sunday afternoon in a single vehicle rollover crash on Interstate 84 about eleven miles east of Arlington.
Oregon State Police Sergeant Julie Wilcox says that at approximately 4:19 PM, a 2000 Subaru Forester station wagon driven by 33-year old Heather Scrum of Spokane Valley, Washington, was eastbound on Interstate 84 at milepost 148.
Most people believe Carmen Gronquist got the short end of the stick.
(SALEM, Ore.) - She may no longer be the Mayor of Arlington, Oregon, but Carmen Gronquist is increasingly becoming a national celebrity since media sources outed her lingerie photo from MySpace, showing a healthy tan and plenty of tone.
Today she was featured on NBC's Today Show live, talking about the recent struggle to retain her office in spite of the fallout from the photos, in this small,
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June 29, 2015 bars/clubs/alcohol, Beer, brunch, dining, Food, Food events, food trends, lifestyles, pulsefeed
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, restaurants, Things to Do.
Independence Day makes us think about drinks by the water. Here’s a look back to an ode to that very-Florida phenomenon, the waterside tiki bar.
You think you’re at a tiki bar.
There’s a frilly tropical drink in your hand and steel drum music looping over the expensive sound system. The only boat in sight hangs from the bamboo rafters. The waitresses are in grass skirts, and you kind of, sort of, can see the water through the picture-frame windows.
The air-conditioning is set at 74 degrees.
Bad news: You are not at a tiki bar.
You’re at a theme restaurant dressed as a tiki bar.
A tiki bar is not fussy. It’s slotted safely above the biker bar, comfortably below the cocktail bar. But there have to be rules.
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The Church of England owes Charles Darwin an apology for its hostile 19th-century reaction to the naturalist's theory of evolution
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through natural selection, a cleric wrote on an Anglican Web site launched Monday.
The Rev. Malcolm Brown, who heads the church's public affairs department, issued the statement to mark Darwin's bicentenary and the 150th anniversary of the seminal work "On the Origin of Species," both of which fall next year.
Brown said the Church of England should say it is sorry for misunderstanding him at the time he released his findings and, "by getting our first reaction wrong, encouraging others to misunderstand [Darwin] still."
The Church of England said Brown's statement reflected its position on Darwin but did not constitute an official apology.
The church's stance sets it apart from fundamentalist Christians, who believe evolutionary theory is incompatible with the biblical story of the Earth's creation.
Darwin was born into the Church of England, educated at a church boarding school and trained to become an Anglic
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The USGA left the fun at Congressional CC. This year's U.S. Open, says Graeme McD
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owell, is anything but that.
"My day was as equally un-enjoyable as yesterday," McDowell said after shooting a two-over 72 Friday at the Olympic Club that left him at one-over 141 and right in the thick of things after 36 holes. "It's just tough to have fun out there, I got to be honest with you. It's just a brutal test of golf."
The 32-year-old from Northern Ireland hasn't done much in the major championships since winning the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach GL in 2010 -- four missed cuts in seven majors, a T-12 at the 2012 Masters his best finish -- but despite a bogey at his last hole Friday, he likes his position at Olympic.
"If you had offered me one-over par [through 36 holes] starting on the first tee yesterday having seen what I saw yesterday morning, I would have probably snapped your arm off for it," McDowell said. "
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Managing the increased volume of inventory during the holidays is an issue most supply chains are forced to deal with every year.
However, this year
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, it seems United Parcel Service, Inc. is experiencing especially difficult obstacles with the fulfillment of on-time delivery, The Wall Street Journal's Laura Stevens reported, mainly due to the rise in online orders.
The distribution delays aren't mild, either. The source reported that, based on a ShipMatrix Inc. analysis, the transit times of ground packages delivered by UPS have fallen by as much as 91 percent compared to its normal delivery times.
As more consumers begin shopping online, many major retail companies are finding it necessary to adjust supply chain operations to support the exponential growth in e-commerce activity. Unfortunately, this is a complication made even more difficult during the holiday season, when U.S. consumer spending is at its highest.
According to Reuters, the Commerce Department has revealed customer spend steadily rose the last few months, with an estimated 0.6 percent surge in retail sales and 0.4 percent non-auto inventory increase in October alone.
More than two-thirds of
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"Tony will confirm that he learned how to fist-bump and dance to Drake's 'Hotline Bling' by hanging out with me
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," Stephen Williams tells THR.
A bald man with killer instincts, a sharp gaze and an even sharper knife searches a mysterious world for answers to life's greatest questions: purpose, existence — and above all else, destiny.
Does that description apply to the Man in Black of Westworld or John Locke of Lost? You be the judge. In either case, director Stephen Williams certainly knows a thing or two about both characters.
Williams, who directed several episodes of the erstwhile island drama, was the man behind the lens on Sunday's episode of Westworld, called "Trace Decay," featuring a more vulnerable side of Ed Harris' brooding gunslinger. As the Man inches closer to the maze he seeks, other characters on the board further unravel in their own right: Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), shell-shocked in the wake of discovering he's a host; Maeve (Thandie Newton), now capable of rewriting other hosts' programming with nothing more than voice commands
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A union representing more than 20,000 engineering workers at Boeing Co. is accusing the company of being lax in tracking its foreign workers, which could
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put the delivery schedules for defense and commercial work at risk.
"We continue to uncover a pattern of abuse of foreign contract labor at Boeing facilities," said Ray Goforth, executive director of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, which is Local 2001 of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers. The organization represents 21,500 engineers and technical employees at Boeing.
"This is bringing the mistake of outsourcing, which continues to delay the 787, right into Boeing offices and factories," Goforth added.
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner commercial jet, which is being built with international partners, has been delayed because of production problems. In one setback, an Italian partner working for Boeing in South Carolina damaged a center fuselage piece in June.
In addition, union officials said, 300 contractors from Russia were working at Boeing under the B-1 visa program, which is typically reserved for visitors on business trips.
Boeing officials defended the company's strategy.
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In my childhood memory, the first two politicians I ever recognized were Nixon and Goldwater, and Nixon spooked me enough that I was one of
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only two in our 35-student first grade class who chose McGovern in our election day show-of-hands straw poll of 1972 - and I always thought that the girl who also raised her hand only did so because she liked me. I remember feeling as though Goldwater looked like the strictest principal I could envision, and now I come to find that he had the strictest principles one might envision.
I find it enlightening that your use of the idea of "conscience" in speaking of the senator dovetailed so closely with my reading of Christopher Hitchens' illuminating language in his Ratzinger article that "the man who modestly considers himself the vicar of Christ on Earth maintains a steady attack on the idea that reason and the individual conscience can be preferred to faith." I feel as though a great deal of what ails this administration is that our leader, who undoubtedly considers himself a vessel of Christ on Earth, maintains that same, steady attack. And though we might
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Could Plug-And-Play Be The Future Of Healthcare Diagnostics?
As healthcare is moving toward greater consumerization, devices used for diagnostics
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are keeping pace and becoming leaner, meaner and even cheaper. Radiology, the “darkroom” of the healthcare world, is now coming into the light and directly into patients’ hands… so as to speak.
New-age diagnostic devices are changing the way we have conventionally diagnosed and understood diseases, and are no longer restrained to “just diagnosis.” Traditional radiology diagnosis involving CT, MRI, ultrasound, etc., included bulky, room-size equipment costing millions of dollars. However, in the past decade or so, new technology has unleashed a wave of creativity and innovation for both software and hardware, and is reshaping these products significantly.
The latest innovations at this year’s Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting in Chicago were primarily focused on smarter and safer diagnosis using smaller equipment. For example, the ultrasound that used to be as bulky and heavy as a refrigerator is now the size of a handheld “ph
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The BBC is making a two-part drama based on the creation of the Grand Theft Auto franchise, to highlight British technology successes.
The show
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isn’t about the plotlines from the game itself but instead will focus on the making of the series, presumably starting with Scottish company DMA Design – which later became Rockstar North.
It’s likely to be similar in style to one-off drama Micro Men, which explored the early days of the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum. The two-part show is due to be aired this September on BBC 2, as part of the Beeb’s ‘Make it Digital’ initiative.
Make it Digital’s primary goal is to encourage youngsters to get into coding, with shows such as Doctor Who and EastEnders also being involved.
Which seems a bit odd considering GTA has always been 18-rated and is absolutely not for kids.
Still, it is one of the biggest successes the British games industry has ever seen and it’s nice to see it finally get some sort of recognition as such.
For anyone hoping that it
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Lamborghini’s heritage-focused Polo Storico division has wrapped up the complete restoration of a 1971 Miura SV. The
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Miura stands out as one of the most desirable — and expensive — classic sports cars, but the example brought back to life by Polo Storico is even more special because it’s a one-of-a-kind pre-production model.
Wearing chassis number 4846, the SV prototype was displayed by Italian coachbuilder Bertone during the 1971 edition of the Geneva Auto Show. It was a close-to-production coupe built to give show-goers a preview of the then-upcoming SV, which was marketed as the ultimate evolution of the mighty Miura. It is consequently equipped with parts carried over from the Miura S on which it’s based, as well as with components that were introduced later when the SV model entered regular production.
Polo Storico explains the cocktail of different parts made the restoration more challenging than usual. The division wanted the prototype to be as accurate as possible in every way, so the experts breathing new life into
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Shawanna Nelson, a prisoner at the McPherson Unit in Newport, Ark., had been in labor for more than 12 hours when
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she arrived at Newport Hospital on Sept. 20, 2003. Ms. Nelson, whose legs were shackled together and who had been given nothing stronger than Tylenol all day, begged, according to court papers, to have the shackles removed.
Though her doctor and two nurses joined in the request, her lawsuit says, the guard in charge of her refused.
"She was shackled all through labor," said Ms. Nelson's lawyer, Cathleen V. Compton. "The doctor who was delivering the baby made them remove the shackles for the actual delivery at the very end."
Despite sporadic complaints and occasional lawsuits, the practice of shackling prisoners in labor continues to be relatively common, state legislators and a human rights group said. Only two states, California and Illinois, have laws forbidding the practice.
The New York Legislature is considering a similar bill. Ms. Nelson's suit, which seeks to ban the use of restraints on Arkansas prisoners during labor and delivery,
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The Michigan Supreme Court has opted not to reconsider the decision of the state’s Court of Appeals in the case of a Midland man convicted
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of second-degree murder in 2005.
James Scott Altman, 47, was convicted in the October 2004 death of Christina Joy Fisher. He was sentenced to between 18 and 60 years in prison.
Two attorneys representing Altman, Richard Priehs of Midland and Robert Dunn of Bay City, asked the Court of Appeals to take another look at the case after Midland County Circuit Court Judge Jonathan E. Lauderbach decided not to overturn the jury conviction and grant a new trial. The Court of Appeals denied permission to file the appeal on Sept. 20.
Dunn and Priehs then asked the Supreme Court to look at that decision. The Supreme Court’s March 26 order denying permission to file an appeal states the defendant did not meet the burden of establishing entitlement to relief, which is identical to the Court of Appeal’s September order.
Dunn and Priehs contended errors in the trial included a map of the Hicks Road area, spin marks in the driveway
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The original CSI may have ended its run just a few short days ago, but for one main CSI cast member, the ride isn’t
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over yet. Since George Eads and Elisabeth Shue left the CBS drama even before the big 2-hour event (and Grissom and Sidle boated off into the sunset), it may be a little easy to guess the person who is heading to CSI: Cyber this week. That’s right, Ted Danson is heading to CSI: Cyber, where he has been added to the cast as a series regular.
The stint won’t be the first time that Danson’s CSI universe character, D.B. Russell, has headed to another show within the franchise. He also popped up in an episode of CSI: NY earlier this decade. While fans aren’t quite as invested in Russell as they have been with some of the original CSI characters, it’s nice that the network found a way to keep him on. In addition, adding Danson could give some former CSI audiences a reason to tune in and check out CSI
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A growing number of families and children apprehended at the U.S. border with Mexico are requiring medical treatment after a rigorous journey north in very crowded
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conditions, the head of Border Patrol said Monday.
At the close of a month in which two young Guatemalan children died in federal custody, six children were among 17 migrants hospitalized with illnesses, said Kevin K. McAleenan, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.
On a typical day, he said, 50 people are referred to medical providers for checkups and treatment, though one day alone the authorities sent more than 80 to be treated. In recent days, he said, two pregnant women were rushed to hospitals immediately after they were taken into custody, as they were about to give birth.
Some of the illnesses that agents have been seeing on a recurring basis are typical winter diseases such as influenza. Some have been diagnosed with very serious problems, including pneumonia, tuberculosis, parasites and gastrointestinal illnesses.
McAleenan called the situation at the border “an unprecedented crisis” caused by a sharp increase in the number of younger, sicker people who are crossing. The number of
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Like San Francisco's iconic cable cars, a new system of cable trucks is set to be installed between the port of Long Beach and Los Angeles,
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cutting emissions by as much as 30%.
Already famous for San Francisco's cable cars, California is set to receive a new set of cable trucks, reducing carbon emission and fuel use along highway routes used to haul freight between the port of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Called eHighway, the system will connect hybrid diesel-electric trucks to overhead electric cables similar to those used to run cable cars and tramways. Though the technology was developed and tested by the German company Siemens, Los Angeles will be the system's first true urban test. Siemens expects to connect freight trucks to electric lines along Interstate 710 within the year.
As 40% of all goods that enter the US come through the port of the Long Beach and Los Angeles, Interstate 710 is an ideal testing ground for the green technology. Vehicle emissions could be cut by as much as 30% which, given the nearly 2.5 million gallons of oil consumed by cargo trucks each year, would be a needed improvement, especially
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SEAHAWKS OFFENSE – OVERALL (27), RUSH (8), PASS (27).
SEAHAWKS DEFENSE – OVER
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ALL (13), RUSH (29), PASS (6).
RAIDERS OFFENSE – OVERALL (6), RUSH (24), PASS (6).
RAIDERS DEFENSE – OVERALL (30), RUSH (28), PASS (23).
STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES – Teams have alternated wins in last eight meetings, with each team winning all four at home. … This meeting in London comes with Seahawks playing first international game in franchise history. Raiders playing fourth international game in last five seasons. Oakland lost to Miami in London in 2014 and split in Mexico City past two years, beating Houston, falling to New England. … Seattle’s Pete Carroll seeks 91st win with team to pass Mike Holmgren as winningest coach for franchise. … Seahawks QB Russell Wilson 25-6 after loss, best record of any QB since merger. … Seattle K Sebastian Janikowski spent 18 seasons with Raiders, holding franchise record for points (1
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Weeks of gathering a broad range of intelligence led to the successful strike.
Before two 500-pound bombs were dropped onto a small house north
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of Baghdad Wednesday, American military officials "had absolutely no doubt whatsoever" that they had at last found their man.
The statement by Maj. Gen. William Caldwell was as provocative as it was vague. The effort was, he told reporters, an "exploitation of intelligence, information gathering, human sources, electronics, [and] signal intelligence that was done over... many, many weeks."
Yet the details of what is perhaps the coalition's greatest tactical success of the war were largely omitted or conspicuously avoided. The certainty exuded by General Caldwell - and the success of the air strike - points to a deep penetration into whatever security measures Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had relied on to stay alive.
How the coalition managed to finally pin down a man who had become renowned for his hairsbreadth escapes, however, is a story that is only beginning to emerge.
What is certain at this point is that at 6:15 p.m. Iraqi time,
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Hyannis, MA - Housing Assistance invites interested participants to a free Big Fix-a-Thon Kick-Off on Tuesday, April 30,
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at 5 pm at Shepley Showcase at 75 Benjamin Franklin Way in Hyannis.
This month’s kick-off will provide details on how residents and business owners can get involved in the annual day of service event, which will be held on October 5, 2019 in several Barnstable villages. During the Big Fix-a-Thon, volunteers make a difference in the lives of their neighbors: seniors, veterans and disabled people who need help with home repairs, yard clean-ups and other projects. Volunteers also raise funds to support Housing Assistance’s year-round programs which includes operating four family shelters; homeless outreach; homelessness prevention; energy assistance; conducting financial literacy workshops; and housing development.
Housing Assistance is recruiting fundraising volunteers, hands-on volunteers, and sponsors. Residents can register for the event at www.haconcapecod.org/big-fix.
In addition to Barnstable, the Big Fix-a-Thon has been to Sandwich
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Xu Caihou retired as vice chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission last year and from the party's decision-making Politburo in
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2012.
China will court-marshal one of its most senior former military officers on charges of corruption, state media said on Monday, the highest-ranking official to date felled in President Xi Jinping's battle against deep-rooted and pervasive graft.
Xi heads the Central Military Commission, which controls the 2.3 million strong armed forces, the world's largest, and has repeatedly reminded them to be loyal to the ruling Communist Party.
Xi has made weeding out corruption in the military one of the top goals in his administration. It comes as Xi steps up efforts to modernise forces that are projecting power across the disputed waters of the East and South China Seas, even though it has not fought a war in decades.
"This is earth-shaking. To the entire party and the country, this is heartening news that sends a strong signal. It's a clap of thunder," said Ni Lexiong, a military expert at Shanghai University of Political Science
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Former President George H.W. Bush has shaved his head to show support for the son of a member of his security detail, who is being
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treated for leukemia.
After seeing that many members of his Secret Service detail had shaved their heads in support of a young boy named Patrick, whose father Jon is a member of the Bush Protective Division, Bush took the drastic step in solidarity with the others, according to a press release from the Bush’s spokesman.
The two-year-old is diagnosed with leukemia and had started losing his hair, prompting the action. The family’s surname was withheld at the family’s request.
The Bush Protective Division has also launched a website, as well as other benefits, to assist with the boy’s medical bills. Bush and his wife Barbara made a donation to Patrick’s website, followed by Bush shaving his head, according to the release.
The Bushes lost their second child at the age of four to leukemia 60 years ago, the press release noted.
The haircut caught widespread attention including that of former President Bill Clinton who tweeted about Bush on Wednesday
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The women's golf team took the top spot in the Dartmouth Invitational for the first time in four years.
As the golf program seeks to
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establish a new standard of success, it has turned toward the youngest members of its squad. Four of the five players in the team’s top group this weekend were from the freshman class.
“We know that we can really bring something to the table,” Hana Bradshaw ’19 said.
On the first day, the Big Green’s top group of golfers finished first in a field of 10 teams — which included a second Dartmouth squad — by shooting a 294, only six shots over par. Playing in her second collegiate event, Bradshaw led the team with a one-under 71 in the first round, which placed her alone atop the leaderboard at the end of the first day. Bradshaw was the lone golfer in the field to shoot under par on Saturday.
“I felt as a freshman it was something really special, especially at home,” Bradshaw said.
Julia Calbi ’19 and Kane closely
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Researchers found noticeable differences in the brains of CFS patients, offering a small antidote to the skepticism often given to this medically unexplained condition.
Ch
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ronic-pain conditions are really hard to figure out. Pain is tough to measure, its sources are often plural, and our perception of how much pain is tolerable varies widely by culture. There is no shortage of lay people offering their take on what, exactly, pain is all about (just type “chronic-pain management” into an Amazon Books search box to see some examples), but genuine breakthroughs in the medical community on specific pain conditions are scarce.
One such aberration cropped up last week at the Stanford School of Medicine. Researchers reported discovering slight but significant differences in the brains of people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The condition, described in Stanford’s press release as “crushing, unremitting fatigue that persists for six months or longer,” has stumped medical researchers for years. The new study, though small, is being touted as a game-changer, and online support groups for the unexplained illness are teeming with optimism
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Monetary-policy makers from around the world are being pressed into action to shore up a global economy that is suffering its steepest slowdown since the
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recession ended in 2009.
On the heels of a June 5 interest-rate cut by Australia, China unveiled its first reduction in borrowing costs in more than three years to counter what Premier Wen Jiabao has called increasing downward economic pressure.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi left the door open at a June 6 press conference to a rate cut, while highlighting the limitations of the ECB’s tools in countering the region’s financial turmoil.
“Across the board, we’re seeing the central banks being galvanized into action by weak growth around the world,” said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist in Lexington, Massachusetts, at IHS Inc.
The global economy will grow 1.7 percent this quarter and 2 percent next, after expanding at an annual pace of 2.5 percent in the final quarter of 2011, economists at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York said in a June 1 report. The result is “an extended
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LEEDS, U.K. -- Nov. 14, 2016 -- NUGEN Audio today announced the launch of MasterCheck Pro, a
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new loudness, dynamics, and codec toolset for music professionals. MasterCheck Pro enables producers to hear and visualize the playout encoding and loudness matching techniques now in use by music streaming service providers such as Spotify, Apple Music(R), YouTube, and Digital Radio. Ideal for both mix and mastering engineers, MasterCheck Pro enables producers to audition different codecs in real time to help avoid codec distortion or over-compression, resulting in masters that are perfectly tuned for each digital music streaming service.
"Consumer demand has never been higher for music on streaming apps, download stores, websites, and podcasts. All of these services use data compression and/or loudness matching, which can affect mixes in various unforeseen ways," said Jon Schorah, founder and creative director, NUGEN Audio. "With MasterCheck Pro, producers can take back control of the listening experience and mix to the streaming services' criteria. They can identify problems ahead of time and optimize their mixes,
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It is now general knowledge that another round of talks in the never-ending negotiations between the government of the Republic of Namibia and the government of
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the Federal Republic of Germany is scheduled for next week.
One may by now have lost count of the number of times these negotiation talks have taken place, yet without any agreeable and constructive solutions in sight.
In fact, even the fundamentals of the negotiations have not been reached - but it is not hard to see why. It has been evident that these negotiations, from the word go, were ill-advised and thus ill-conceived. This is because there were no prior consultations in their conceptualization.
Hence the reservation of this section of the affected community about these negotiations, which to this day has never been allayed. Time and gain a section of the affected communities has been harping and protesting against their exclusion from these negotiations.
Today they are awaiting the verdict of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York. This is from an application brought before that court by the Ovaherero, Ovambanderu and Nama.
Among the
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Two semi-trucks collided head-on and struck a pickup truck Sunday along Interstate 10 in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, killing
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four and injuring one.
HIDALGO COUNTY — A fiery crash along Interstate 10 in western New Mexico claimed four lives, including an El Paso man.
New Mexico State Police responded to the fatal head-on collision at mile marker 19, near Lordsburg, about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, March 24.
Police said a 2015 Freightliner semi-truck was traveling east on Interstate 10, when, for unknown reasons, it crossed the center median and hit a west-bound 2013 Kenworth semi-truck head on. The Freightliner’s trailer hit a 1999 Dodge pickup that was also traveling west. Both semi-trucks caught on fire.
Four people died in the crash: Sean White, 50, of West Covina, California, was the driver of the Freightliner; Jose Apodaca, 47, of El Paso, was the driver of the Kenworth; 51-year-old Arnold Rojo of Sierra
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The American Medical Association (AMA) is opposing the presence of federal immigration agents in hospitals and clinics. A new resolution declaring this stance was passed Wednesday
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by the AMA's House of Delegates, the policy-making body for the association.
The announcement comes just weeks after a 10-year-old girl in Texas was taken into custody by border patrol officials following an emergency surgery. Advocates and health care providers are increasingly concerned about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents encroaching on hospitals.
A recent opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested health care facilities should take an active role in establishing so-called "sanctuary hospital" policies. The Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association has said it's unaware of any hospitals seeking any sort of sanctuary policy.
The AMA is an important voice in suggesting nationwide industry standards in health care, though new AMA resolutions don't always result in new policies.
Dr. Elisabeth Poorman is a physician with Cambridge Health Alliance in Everett and works primarily with immigrant patients. She says the resolution is a good step, but she'd like to see the association take more
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Rollover crash kills 56-year-old woman on I-96 in Lyon Twp.
State police: Rollover crash kills 56-
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year-old woman on I-96 in Lyon Twp.
Michigan State Police's inital investigation says the woman was driving recklessly and her vehicle rolled after she lost control on the roadway.
A 56-year-old woman died after a rollover crash on eastbound I-96 in Lyon Township, Michigan State Police said.
At 2:50 p.m. on Saturday, MSP troopers were dispatched to Old Plank Road. They saw several people and Lyon Township EMS personnel at the scene attempting to resuscitate the driver, MSP said in a series of tweets.
The driver, however, died on the scene.
An inital MSP investigation says the woman reportedly was driving recklessly in traffic and her vehicle rolled after she lost control on the roadway. She struck the right embankment under the Old Plank overpass, MSP said, and was ejected from her vehicle.
"She was driving too fast, lost control and the vehicle rolled
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ISLAMABAD - Thirty Pakistani government officials and agricultural industry representatives have completed a six-year US Department of Agriculture (USDA) sponsored
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training programme.
According to a press release, the ceremony was held to mark the completion of training programme. The ceremony was presided over by David Williams, Agriculture Counselor, US Embassy Islamabad, Muhammad Tariq Khan, Deputy Director Department of Plant Protection, Karachi, and Dr Babar Bajwa, CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International) Director Pakistan and West Asia.
The USDA, with support from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has invested more than $4 million in this six-year distance learning project initiative to support the government of Pakistan’s efforts to increase agricultural trade. The programme’s goal is to strengthen Pakistan’s ability to comply with international trade rules to increase Pakistan’s commodity exports, and help Pakistan to prevent the importation of harmful plant diseases and pests.
Since 2011, the USDA and partners, CABI and Texas A&M University, have joined hands to create a distance learning
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Is inflation in the U.S. ready to blow its top? Uh, no. Prices are rising, but just gradually.
It�
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�s all over but the shouting. Interest rates are going up. And up. And up.
That’s what a roaring economy will do. Households and companies are the most confident in years. Consumer spending and business investment are strong. And years of steady hiring have knocked the unemployment rate down to the lowest level since 1969 — an astounding 3.7%.
The reward? Higher costs of borrowing for consumers and businesses.
The economy is doing so well the Federal Reserve has embarked on a path to lift a key short-term U.S. interest rate to at least 3%, pushing them to the highest rate in more than a decade. That will raise the cost of all sorts of other loans.
Oh sure, interest rates are still low, but if you don’t act soon, that home mortgage, auto loan or small-business line of credit is going to cost more. The Fed is on track to raise interest rates again by December.
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The Hayward family added a third daughter, Nora Mae, on Thursday.
He's more than halfway to his own WNBA team.
Boston
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Celtics forward and former Butler and Brownsburg star Gordon Hayward and his wife, Robyn, welcomed their third daughter on Thursday.
Robyn Hayward announced the addition on Instagram on Friday, writing: "Our sweet Nora Mae was a little stubborn on wanting to join us, but she was worth the wait. Yesterday was a special day. 💕"
The couple also have two daughters: Bernie, 3, and Charlie, 2.
They previously revealed Nora Mae's gender in a video posted to Robyn's Instagram account in July, in which Bernie and Charlie open a box filled with pink balloons.
"In January we will be adding another baby to the family and we couldn’t be more grateful!" she wrote. "Three babies in three and half years has me thinking we’re crazy, but our lives are already crazy so what’s adding another baby!😬😂💗"
Gordon Hayward's first reaction to learning he'd be getting
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PRIMAL SCREAM – DISSED IN DISS!
Primal Scream stopped off for a head-to-head with one of
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their fiercest critics during the first leg of their British tour – in a record shop in Diss, East Anglia.
Mani popped in to ‘have a chat’ with Wes Kent of Revolution Records in the town following the band’s show at the University Of East Anglia in nearby Norwich.
The showdown had happened because in reply to an industry questionnaire – sometimes sent out when labels are searching for initial feedback to review copies of material – Wes had awarded ‘Exterminator’ 0 out of 10, adding ‘this record must have taken all of 10 minutes to record’. Somehow Primal Scream heard about the slating and in response had been sending Wes postcards from several of their stop-off points during the recent Australian and Far Eastern tour.
The Eastern Daily Press, one of the region’s newspapers, reports that the band had taken it all in good humour and were actually pleased to have have come across someone who expressed their own
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A Michigan woman said a dream of lottery luck came true when she won a $4 million jackpot from a scratch-off ticket.
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Michigan woman collected a $250,000 lottery jackpot eight years after she won a $252,074 payout using the same numbers.
Law enforcement agencies in Michigan located 123 missing children during a one-day operation, the U.S. Marshals Service announced.
A Michigan Lottery player said a clerk's "lucky" tip led to his winning a grand prize of $1,000 a week for life.
A day after Hurricane Florence slammed into North Carolina, at least 14 people died, nearly one million without power, hundreds rescued from rising waters.
Florence claimed its first victims, including a woman and her infant child in Wilmington, N.C., hours after landfall Friday.
A Michigan man credited a chance encounter with a lottery player with inspiring his own $2 million jackpot win.
A pair of Ohio train hoppers who came to regret their decision when the high-speed train carried them more than 60 miles ended up calling 911 for help.
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