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Regarding Syria, Crossfire's Stephanie Cutter and Newt Gingrich put aside their differences to find common ground.
But Ms. Cutter, WMD's
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were found in Iraq, as shown by WikiLeaks. Check your facts before spewing the party line.
Doesn't Newt have a book to sell or something? I have no idea why CNN is featuring this hypocritical grifter on a so-called news show. When Jon Stewart destroyed Crossfire a few years ago the world was better for it. Now they bring it back with, of all people, Newt Gingrich! Pathetic. At least they could find another real conservative, rather than this ridiculous money-grubbing loser.
With the Obama administration’s constant and heavy emphasis on the heinous murders of 429 Syrian children by ricin gas and the gruesome footage of that act, I suggest the United States should start putting its aborted babies on display. The aborted babies should be wrapped in shrouds and lined up on, let's see we'll need a pretty big area, perhaps on football fields for the whole world to see the heinous murders of abortionists. At the tune of approximately
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This is a smart little hardback with beautiful endpapers copied from the fabric design of one of Madiba’s shirts, and has a
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foreword by Graça Machel, whose idea the book was. It gathers together anecdotes and remembrances from people who worked with, for and beside Mandela, from household staff and bodyguards to advisors and secretaries.
This is the first and only authorised and authenticated collection of correspondence spanning the 27 years of Mandela's incarceration.
Illustrated with facsimiles and generously annotated, the letters provide new insight into his life behind bars and how he kept up his spirits during those long and lonely years.
Kate Sidley read every book she could find about Mandela before composing her book 100 Mandela Moments.
Sidley has an eye for the warmest and most humorous moments, as well as the momentous. Here he is eating melktert with Betsie Verwoerd in Orania, on his feet dancing to Ladysmith Black Mambazo in the Royal Box with the Queen of England, and donning an “HIV POSITIVE”
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The Waves on To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Slow Burn, and “peak desirability” in online
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dating.
On this week’s episode of the Waves, Christina Cauterucci, Kat Chow, and Veralyn Williams talk about Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, unpacking the standards it’ll be held to as one of the only teen rom-coms with an Asian-American lead—and what sets its central romance apart from the rest of the genre. Next, chart-topping historical podcast Slow Burn has turned its sights from Watergate to the Clinton impeachment. The hosts are joined by Leon Neyfakh to discuss what it’s like to re-evaluate the roles and reputations of women like Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky in 2018, why Bill Clinton has continued to loom large in the Democratic Party, and how we should reckon with his legacy now. Finally, a recent study of online dating found that men are perceived to peak in desirability at age 50, while women peak at 18.
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Up to 41 jobs are at risk across Reach’s regional editorial teams, most of them in print production, Press Gazette has learned.
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The publisher (formerly Trinity Mirror) said its regional newsrooms were facing the potential cuts as it rolls out a “common production model” aimed at refining workflows.
Consultations with staff whose jobs may be at risk are underway.
A Reach spokesperson said: “Our investment in rolling out a common system allows us to introduce a common production model across Regionals editorial.
“This means regional teams will now work more closely together than ever before, which enables us to refine our workflows.
Press Gazette understands that among the jobs at risk are eight roles in the north west, where its titles include daily regionals the Liverpool Echo and Manchester Evening News, and six sub-editors, a deputy print editor and a property editor in the south east and Cambridge region.
Hold the Front Page has reported that up to six jobs mainly in sub-editing roles will be lost in the East and West Midlands, where daily titles include the Birmingham Mail, Burton Mail
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Map of a New America by Neil Freeman. A radical re-mapping of the US that shows 50 states with equal population. (Larger
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version here).
The Four Kinds of Dog by John Tomanio for National Geographic. The genetic breakdown of 85 common dog breeds, showing how much they fall into four broad categories: wolflike, mastifflike, herders, and hunters. (Larger verison here).
Multi-Touch Paintings by Evan Roth. A document of today's ubiquitous smartphone gestures made with inky fingertips. Top left: "Username and Password." Bottom left: "Slide to unlock." Right: "Launch Twitter. Check Twitter. Close Twitter." (Larger versions here).
America's Most Popular Birthdays by Matt Stiles. A chart showing the frequency of births for every day of the year. (Larger version here).
Where Twisters Touch Down by John Nelson. The starting and ending points for fifty-six years of tornado activity in the US, with brightness adjusted for severity. (Larger version here).
The Last Forty-Five Seconds by Todd Lindeman
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Eugene Kaspersky tells reporters Russian intelligence services have never asked his Kaspersky Lab to spy on Western targets and that he would leave
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Russia if asked to do so. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
ROUGH CUT. NO REPORTER NARRATION. Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab has never been asked by Russian intelligence services to spy on targets in the West, the company's founder and the chief executive said on Tuesday (November 29). "Never, never," CEO Eugene Kaspersky told reporters at a media briefing at the company's office in London, when asked if Russian intelligence had ever asked him to help them spy on the West. Kaspersky, who once served as an engineer for Soviet military intelligence before founding his company in the years following the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, said he would move the company outside of Russia if he faced such a demand to spy. Fears about Kaspersky's ties to Russian intelligence, and the capacity of its anti-virus software to sniff out and remove files, prompted an escalating series of warnings and actions from U.S. authorities over the
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After suffering a regular season loss for the first time since his sophomore year on Saturday, Kyle Smith said he was glad to have a game again on
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Tuesday.
Smith responded to the loss with a pair of goals, but it was far from enough as Lyle Thompson scored five goals and recorded three assists to lead Albany to a 15-9 win over the No. 9 Massachusetts men’s lacrosse team at John Fallon Field yesterday.
The Minutemen (3-2) have now lost consecutive games for the first time since March 2011, and haven’t won at Albany since 2002.
UMass was deflated by its season-high 16 turnovers against Brown on Saturday, and matched that mark again on Tuesday as this young team continues to figure out how to move the ball efficiently without scoring threats Will Manny and Colin Fleming in the lineup.
Goalkeeper Zachary Oliveri had arguably the worst outing of his young career with the Minutemen. The redshirt freshman made 10 saves, but allowed a career-high 12 goals against.
Despite the team-wide struggles, UMass coach Greg Cannella took the
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Cisco projects total global data center traffic to reach 15.3 ZB annually by 2020, with 92 percent of all workloads being processed in
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the cloud by 2020.
Cloud data center traffic will exceed 14 zettabytes in 2020, an increase of 262 percent from 2015, according to the Cisco Global Cloud Index (PDF). Released Thursday, the report projects total global data center traffic to reach 15.3 ZB annually by 2020, with 92 percent of all workloads being processed in the cloud by 2020.
It also forecasts the number of hyperscale data centers to rise by 226 percent from 259 at the end of 2015 to 485 by 2020.
The majority of workloads will tip over from private to public cloud this year, Cisco says, and public cloud will continue to grow by 35 percent CAGR throughout the forecast period (compared to 15 percent for private), boosted by demand for cost efficiency and agility, along with strengthening public cloud security.
SaaS workloads will grow from 65 percent of total cloud workloads in 2015 to 74 percent by 2020, while the share taken by IaaS will drop from
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During recent high-level talks, the two sides agreed to hold further talks before early November but Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, hinted at calling
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it off, citing cross-border tensions.
Just a day before the talks were held, the two nations traded machine gunfire across their tense border after Pyongyang apparently attempted to shoot down balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets floated by civic activists.
After some of the North Korean machine gunshots landed south of the border, South Korean troops fired back in response.
North Korea, taking part in the Games for the first time, are represented by nine athletes competing in archery, athletics, table tennis and swimming.
Their delegation, comprising of 29 members, arrived in Incheon last week.
Approximately 4,500 athletes from 42 countries will be competing in 23 sports at this year's Games, which are due to start tomorrow and end on October 24.
Training for the competition began earlier this week at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium, the Songdo Global University Gymnasium and the Munhak Park Tae-hwan Aquatics Centre, named after the South Korean Olympic
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The No. 1 broadcast network delivered a welcome jolt of energy to its day in the TCA press-tour spotlight when CBS CEO Leslie
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Moonves, one of network TV's most boisterous showmen and champions, took the stage Monday morning for the first time since 2005 (filling in at the last minute for entertainment president Nina Tassler, called away for a friend's funeral). Bluntly bullish on CBS's prospects for the new season ("We're confident we're going to be up this year"), Moonves credited stability as a primary factor for the network's long-term success.
"It's great to be able to renew 20 shows. It really is.... When you can do that, it makes it easier to launch shows when you're launching them in positions that are behind successful shows. Obviously, it doesn't work all the time [RIP, Vegas and Golden Boy], but it leads to a degree of being able to win year after year." Moonves suggested the streak won't last forever, pointing to NBC's fall from grace when it couldn't find new hits to replace Friends and ER.
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Jason Derulo - "The Other Side"
...16 months after fracturing his neck.
We have to hand it to Jason Derulo --
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the R&B/pop crooner appears completely unafraid to return to his ambitious choreography after fracturing his neck while practicing a stunt in January 2012. Case in point: the music video for his new single "The Other Side," released on Wednesday (May 1), features the 23-year-old making an arms-free head stand at the 3:12 mark.
Directed by Colin Tilley, the "Other Side" clip finds Derulo engaged in a roller-coster romance in between fits of pinpoint dance moves. Or is it a real romance at all? "Are you sure you wanna do this?" the singer asks his lady friend at the end of the video, nodding to the lyrical deliberation of leaving the friend zone.
"The Other Side" will serve as the lead single to Derulo's next studio album, due out in late summer/early fall. The song debuted at No. 75 on last week's Hot 100, landing Derulo another
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A teenager found dead near a reservoir in Sheffield may have been killed with two large scythes, police have said.
Detectives investigating the
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alleged murder of 17-year-old Terry Hurst said they were found near the spot where his body was discovered on Tuesday.
He had suffered multiple injuries, including stab wounds, slash wounds, fractures and bruising.
Mr Hurst, from Penistone, was last seen in Bolsterstone on Monday at 1700 BST. He was with a group going camping.
South Yorkshire Police believe he was heading to a camping spot near Broomhead Reservoir, just off New Road.
A South Yorkshire Police spokeswoman added: "We are appealing for help from local people, particularly farmers, to trace the origins of the implements."
Police say it is too early to say if there was any motive for the murder or whether the incident happened at the spot where the body was found.
Inquiries were continuing today at the murder scene.
Two 17-year-old boys and a 15-year-old girl, arrested on Thursday, are still being questioned at separate police stations
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The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority's (MHADA) Mumbai board has proposed to construct 26,959 houses in Aarey Milk Colony
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, to rehabilitate tribals and slum dwellers from National Park. While this will eat into 90 acres of Aarey land, the houses are expected to cost Rs 3,500 crore. Activists fear the human settlement will eventually involve heavy infrastructure and commercial development on this space in the near future.
The trigger for the trepidation was an advertisement calling for bids from developers for the construction of these houses. Instead of monetary benefits, the developer will be given development rights, which can be used anywhere in the city except Aarey, said MHADA officials.
We hope that this is not what sceptical activists fear, garb of housing and upping the life standard of tribals, but just another way of snatching more of the city's little green left.
The MHADA officials must be true and reassure people that they are not going to gobble up the green space. This can only come through dialogue and completely transparent process. We have seen the trust deficit
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You specialise in Motion Interactive Media (MIM). How big is it here? We were the first to introduce MIM more than five years
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ago, and today leaders have embraced the concept. Although the mass market is still in its infancy, our ambition is to grow beyond limits.
How has MIM been affected by the economic crisis? We fortunately prioritised with alternative markets, which resulted in increased business this year compared to last year.
What is the best interactive experience you have worked on so far? I'm very proud of a project where we deployed a row of interactive experiences for Hydra Properties. Plus, during the World Leaders' Summit in Abu Dhabi, we had President George Bush Sr. and Gerhard Schroeder (former German chancellor) interacting with our displays.
What's next? We're keen to introduce new technology to the region, but our main focus is to solidify our regional presence.
Finally, if you could have one dream technology for the day, what would it be? Real free floating holograms, such as the one used
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An anonymous hacker who claimed to have broken into monitoring systems at a New Mexico wind turbine facility made the whole thing up, security experts said Monday.
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The hacker, who called himself Bigr R, said he broke into NextEra Energy Resources' Fort Sumner wind facility in revenge for an "illegitimate firing". He posted what he said was proof of his exploits to several places Saturday, including the Full Disclosure mailing list.
In fact, the "proof" he provided had been gathered from public websites and contained contradictory information.
Ruben Santamarta, head of security assessment at the security consultancy Wintercore, was the first to uncover the hoax. He found that the screenshots allegedly proving Bigr R had access to the Fort Sumner management console were lifted from a file on a publicly available FTP server.
After pointing out a number of technical errors in the alleged proof, Santamarta concluded that Bigr R was a fake.
NextEra, owned by Florida Power & Light (FPL), had already said on Sunday that the material offered as proof was largely publicly available and that there was no evidence that its
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Sundays are free all day.
In the surgeries first year of operation the Department of Health funded UK GP Survey results for 2009-10 showed
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that 95% of registered patients where satisfied at the overall quality of care received, ranking the surgery at 18th out of 92. However, patient satisfaction deteriorated significantly during the subsequent 12 months (2010-11) to rank the GP surgery at just 66th out of 92,(see table at end of article). The latest GP Survey results will be analysed and published shortly, which this review is in advance of as a summary of what patients can expect based on real experience of using the GP Surgery services as a registered patient for 6 months from mid 2011 onwards over a number of consultations as covered in greater detail in November 2011.
The surgery is easy to get through to on the phone and expect appointments to be available for 1 week in advance.
Expect to be kept waiting for upto 1 hour 20 minutes for a pre-booked GP Consultation appointment (way too long).
Despite the glossy leaflets and website, No new patient health check, even if an appointment specifically for a health
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A long dirt drive leads to the Edwin Way Teale home in Hampton.
A long dirt drive to the Edwin Way Teale house, in
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Hampton, is just as it was in 1959 when the naturalist writer and his wife, Nellie, bought the place.
The 1806 cape is a modest home. The first floor is mostly living room with stone hearth where a wood stove now sits. A study in the northeast corner remains as it was when Teale was alive. Artwork celebrating nature hangs on the walls. There is a picture of the Teale’s only son, David, who was killed in WWII. A big desk – the site of Teale’s work – occupies a central spot. He wrote 30 books, 10 at Trail Wood.
Wandering Through Winter won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 1966.
Bookshelves line the walls. There are nature and reference guides, identification books for mammals, birds, insects, trees and flowers. Teale was consumed with writing about the natural world. And while he wrote in the study, his real office was outdoors. The
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SEW INSPIRING: Elyse Maguire in her Cape Cod design studio, draws inspiration from life on the Cape in her line
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of chic scarves.
Classic New England style has a definite appeal, but Cape Cod designer Elyse Maguire is all about creating a collection with edge.
“Cape Cod only gets represented in this one very traditional, preppy way and there was a different take that I wanted to bring to life,” Maguire told the Herald.
The 45-year-old splits her time between her Brooklyn home and Chatham design studio, and will officially launch a line of chic scarves this August. They are available for pre-order online now. Maguire — an advertising professional-turned-designer — is Boston-born, Midwest-bred and spent summers on the Cape with family.
The colors used to create her signature fringed scarves are inspired by things like beach roads, gray cottages, the Cape’s stunning landscape and sea glass. They’re also about wearability.
While the collection is designed and hand
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By CORRESPONDENT, BUNGOMA, Kenya, Mar 3 – Headteachers have been urged to give their best in
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their institutions to make Bungoma the centre of academic excellence in Kenya.
Speaking in Nakuru Thursday in the ongoing Bungoma County Secondary School Heads Association Conference, Bungoma Governor Ken Lusaka observed that Kenya has a young and energetic population, which has the potential to transform the country’s economic fortunes.
But to achieve this transformation, the County Boss observed, there is need to improve the quality of the skills young learners possess when entering the labour market.
“This calls for perpetual improvements in the education system at all levels,” he said.
He cited the boosting of morale of teachers and instilling good behavior to students as the key ingredients to making Bungoma a top performing county in education in the country.
The County Government of Bungoma has been at the forefront in boosting access to education through the construction of more than 135 modern ECDE classrooms, translating to three in every ward.
It has also implemented the nutrition programme in 200 ECDE schools, recruited
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According to a recovering “wealth addict” in a column in the Sunday NY Times — he's a young man who at 25 was making
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a few million a year (but it wasn’t nearly enough) — the mania to accumulate more and more wealth beyond what anyone could possibly need or spend is a disease the very rich fall prey to. They might suffer some psychological trauma, poor babies, but it’s everyone else who pays, literally, for their drug of choice.
The growing accumulation of wealth in a few hands bends economic and political power in the direction of the rich, as the column makes clear. Income inequality is about concentration of wealth in the hands of a few people and the growing number of others living at or near the poverty level, but it also poses a serious threat to the health of our democracy.
Back to the NY Times column in a minute. First, some stats.
Four hundred billionaires have a net worth equal to that of the country’s 14 million-plus African Americans. So writes Bob Lord on my old home at Blog for Arizona in a chillling Martin Luther King
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'We have a duty to prepare for the worst': Peter King warns Iran has 'hundreds' of Hezbollah agents in the U.S.
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Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah may have hundreds of operatives based in the United States, and Hezbollah - not al-Qaida - poses the greatest terrorist threat to Americans, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Peter King, said today.
Since September 11 2001, America’s counter-terror officials have focussed on al-Qaida and home-grown radicalised American extremists, said the New York representative at a hearing of his committee. But, now, the terrorist threat to the United States is shifting.
‘As Iran moves closer to nuclear weapons and there is increasing concern over war between Iran and Israel, we must also focus on Iran's secret operatives and their number one terrorist proxy force, Hezbollah, which we know is in America. That’s right, we know Hezbollah operatives are here.
‘The question is whether these Hezbollah operatives have the capacity to carry out attacks on the homeland and how quickly they can become fully operational,’ King
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President Trump's tariffs are not a simple job-preservation measure, writes Leo W. Gerard, international president of the United Steelworkers.
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The Trump administration’s steel tariffs are intended to staunch the flow of rust from closed American steel mills. The aluminum tariffs are designed to halt the rapid shuttering of American aluminum smelters.
Tens of thousands of steel and aluminum workers have lost their jobs over the past five years as subsidized metal from China glutted the world market, artificially forcing down prices.
The tariffs are not, however, a simple job-preservation measure. President Trump levied them to try to secure sufficient domestic production capacity of these vital metals for defense — for planes and tanks and for critical infrastructure.
Not every slab of steel or ingot of aluminum produced in the United States is necessary for munitions. But as the Commerce Department’s Section 232 investigations under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 showed, it is possible that so many steel and aluminum mills would be forced to shut down that the United States could not supply its own defense needs.
The United Steelworkers union and American metals companies have in
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Canadian eBook seller and eReader-maker Kobo has four new slates to show off to the public, part of a renewed push to target
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a wider market while also catering to faithful fans of the brand.
The Kobo Arc 10 HD tablet.
The hero of the new line-up is the $499.95 Kobo Arc 10 HD, a 10-inch tablet competing with the iPad, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and Nexus 10. It’s largely similar to its contemporaries, but is unique in offering both a standard Android tablet menu — complete with all the apps, notifications and distractions you’d expect — and a pared-down, reading-focused interface, which disables all distractions and offers access to Kobo’s growing library of graphic novels and interactive kids’ books alongside classic eBook fare.
A $249.95 16GB and $299.95 32GB 7-inch version of the Arc HD will also be available when the tablet line-up is released, as will a $199.95 8GB non-HD variant. All will use the same dual-mode
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Indulge me, if you will, as I attempt to plant a seed or two.
What is love, anyway? Specifically, what
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is “old love?” As we age, we can look back on the many loving relationships in our lives. Maybe we vividly call up passion-filled romantic trysts and smile at ourselves in the remembering. But what is love defined and held close for someone in the final decades of life?
I will start at the beginning. Did you know there are three kinds of love? Eros is desire-filled, sometimes breathless love. There’s a lot of that when we’re young and hopefully some of it as we grow older. Although, the “breathless” part of that definition may require a different kind of execution as one ages.
Philia is affectionate love as well as friendship and shared good will. Older adults need a lot of that.
There are actually more kinds of love — maybe as many as eight, according to the ancient Greeks. There is stroge love, which is described as “familiar�
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UTEP sophomore Emmanuel Korir begins his first full pro season by becoming third-fastest indoor 800-meter runner.
UTEP student Emmanuel
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Korir knew he was in a good place — good in training, in fitness and in life in general.
He headied into his first race in his first full season as a pro track athlete at the Millrose Games in New York City Feb. 3 in that good place.
For the most part, he's done surprising himself just one year after his stunning ascendancy from unknown to track superstar. But there's still room to be pleasantly pleased as he balances his new life as a pro with being a college sophomore.
That was the case when Korir opened his indoor season with an 800 meter time of 1 minute, 44.21 seconds that made the Nike athlete the third fastest indoor 800 runner ever and the fastest in 17 years.
The 22-year-old beat a field loaded with fellow pros, as the second- and third-place finishers, Donavan Brazier (1:45.35) and Drew Windle (1:45.53) ran the
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Group shot of the band from the band's website.
Odin's Court is an up and coming band from southern Maryland.
From the
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band's website: "Odin’s Court is a Maryland, USA band that was initially formed by Matt Brookins in 2001. For the first 2 years the band struggled to find their sound, playing covers and originals ranging from classic rock to modern metal and everything in between. It was during this time that John Abella joined the group. By 2003 a stable lineup and vision were in place, and Odin’s Court released the self financed album Driven By Fate. Over the next 3 years the band would go through 3 more lineup changes, eventually releasing another CD and a DVD (both self financed) and concurrently establishing a stable, cohesive unit that has been maintained to this day."
Deathanity How the band describes the album: "Deathanity is an ambitious concept album dealing with the effects mankind’s actions are having on the planet. Alternate views are offered through the use of instrumentation, lyrics, sound effects, and various vocal clips. Ambience, dynamics
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David and Louise Turpin ran a sickening school in Perris, California.
It had just six students, all of them children of the
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school's sole teacher (Louise) and its principal (David), and all of them held against their will — shackled, tortured, and horribly malnourished in their putrid family home, which doubled as their school and which they shared with seven former students, older offspring of the same couple, who were treated in the same appalling way.
Now obviously, this is an exceptional case. The vast majority of parents who home-school — most of whom are conservative or fundamentalist Protestants — do not abuse their children. Most standardized forms of assessment show that, on average, home-schooled kids acquire the same cognitive skills and learn much the same basic information as those who attend school outside the home. Indeed, home-schoolers tend to score at or slightly above the national average on the SAT and similar tests.
Yet it is also the case that home-schooling sometimes serves as an easy cover for stomach-churning cases of cruelty and mistreatment — some of them
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North Korea's state-run news agency announced on Wednesday that its mysterious American captive, Kenneth Bae, has begun his 15-year sentence at
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a "special prison," which has Korea watchers scratching their heads. And if Pyongyang is trying to parlay Bae's imprisonment into political gain after all, it's a pretty spectacular move.
That's the whole thing. Earlier reports had suggested that Bae, a Christian American citizen who was using his China-based tour agency as a front for missionary work in North Korea, was headed for one the country's infamous labor camps. There was no mention of any "special prison" at the time. But then last we found out Bae was suspected in a conspiracy known as "Operation Jericho," and it appears the game has changed. Or at least the appearance of the game has changed. He arrived at "special prison" — whatever that is — on Tuesday.
A North Korean academic, using information provided by the government, told The Associated Press earlier this week that Bae had told his family in a phone call that he couldn’t appeal his April 30 sentence and that they
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In his last major speech before the election, the Taoiseach urged the public to re-elect the government.
ADDRESSING THE
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ELECTORATE during his Ard Fheis speech this evening, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said voters are facing “only one question” in the upcoming election.
That question he says is, ‘who will keep the recovery going?’.
The final four words of that question are set to be Fine Gael’s election slogan and Kenny repeated them nine times during the course of his speech.
To the main hall at Citywest in Dublin, Kenny did not give a date for the election, saying only that it would be “in a few short weeks”.
In contrast to last night’s introductory address, Kenny did not dwell for long in attacking Fianna Fáil, mentioning Micheál Martin’s only when criticising the party’s cut in the minimum wage and the introduction of the Universal Social Charge (USC).
Kenny described the USC as a “penal tax”
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This Friday at 7 PM, Northwestern University’s Block Cinema will host one of the major cinematic events of the year with the local premiere of
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The Arboretum Cycle (2017), a collection of seven interconnected short works by veteran avant-garde filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky. One of the country's most important living film artists, Dorsky has been making meditative, generally rapturous movies since the early 1960s. He has described his practice as "devotional cinema" (he also wrote a book with that title in 2003), referring to the potential of movies to engender spiritual experiences. The Arboretum Cycle is doubtless one such experience. Shot in the San Francisco Arboretum over the course of a year, the work consists of silent shots of plant life, skies, and other natural phenomena. Dorsky's compositions are consistently inspired; eschewing wide shots, he forces viewers to lose themselves in minutiae. Last week I telephoned the filmmaker (who will attend Friday’s screening) to discuss the cycle. Our far-ranging conversation came to touch upon spirituality, the ethics
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 26, 2019 /Christian Newswire/ -- Over the past several decades, belief in the Bible
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has steadily declined. In 2017, Gallup found that only 24 percent believe the Bible is the literal word of God, the lowest in a 40-year trend. Even among Christians, engagement with the Bible is waning. Eighty-two percent of Christians only read their Bibles in church.
In A Visual Theology Guide to the Bible, releasing today from Zondervan, authors Tim Challies and Josh Byers use illustrations and infographics to show how the Bible is put together, why each book was written and why the Bible can be trusted.
"With the rise of the digital age, our culture has become increasingly visual," said Challies. "In A Visual Theology Guide to the Bible, we wanted to present these important biblical concepts in a format that is accessible to everyone."
A Visual Theology Guide to the Bible is a sequel to the best-selling guide to the Christian life, Visual Theology. In this new installment, Challies and Byers clarify difficult
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Governments throughout the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are working feverishly to provide relief to millions of people affected by cyclone Id
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ai, a category three-to-four storm which has severely impacted three states, Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, with some damage extending as far away as South Africa and Madagascar.
During the early morning hours of March 14 storms and subsequent flooding destroyed homes, crops, businesses and public institutions bringing normal life to a halt while local and international rescue operations scrambled to provide temporary housing and medical assistance to the communities directly hit by the cyclone.
In the strategic port city of Biera in central Mozambique’s Sofala Province, it has been estimated that 90 percent of the infrastructure of the municipality was been destroyed. Although the port itself, a lifeline for the landlocked states of Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe, remains largely intact, with such destruction of surrounding areas, it is expected that the recovery process will take years.
Biera has experienced exponential growth over the last two decades. The population more than doubled since 1997 and the prospects for economic development were
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As anguished families wait, a Washington Post review finds the average civil rights case takes three years for a ruling.
It was July 2014
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when Eric Garner died after a violent struggle with New York City police on a Staten Island street, an encounter captured on video and replayed worldwide. When a local grand jury declined to indict any police officers, federal authorities announced in December 2014 that they would launch their own civil rights investigation.
In November 2017, Bijan Ghaisar died after being shot by two U.S. Park Police officers in Fairfax County, Va., an episode also captured on video. The FBI and the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department took over the case within three days. As the first anniversary of that killing approaches, the names of the officers and an explanation of their actions have been withheld by federal authorities. The Ghaisar family has not been told where the investigation stands.
“To wait like this is like being underwater and not being able to breathe,” said Kelly Ghaisar, Bijan Ghaisar’s mother. The family has pleaded with
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SOUTH BERWICK, Maine � The Town Council approved a municipal budget of $7,055,014 for fiscal year 2019-
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2020 at its April 9 meeting.
The budget represents a 5.23 percent increase, or $384,592, over the current fiscal year, but a significant portion of the increase represents an additional $100,000 in state revenue sharing and $183,000 in projected town revenues.
To meet its goal of no increase in municipal tax rates, the budget calls for a limited uptick in operations by $106,000, or 1.5 percent.
The budget will be submitted to the town�s annual meeting for approval by voters May 21 at 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall.
Several line items have major increases. In particular, the town�s Police Department would receive a boost of $165,032 to fund costs associated with the new station such as water, sewer and internet. The station on Route 236 near Academy Street was formerly on the lower level of Town Hall.
Town employee benefits would increase by $59,634 to meet increased costs associated
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The annual World Gyoza Eating Championship descends upon Little Tokyo this Saturday, August 20th, an event in which tiny 100-pound Sony
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a Thomas, a.k.a. the Black Widow, and others will attempt to eat as many gyoza as inhumanely possible in 10 minutes. As the eaters are no doubt too intimately aware, gyoza are Japanese-style dumplings, usually stuffed with a mixture of pork and vegetables. The competition record is 231 of these delicate purses eaten within a sixth of an hour; tellingly, the competition gyoza are boiled, not pan-fried, for reasons we imagine have to do with slipperiness and ease of eating. For our non-eating competition situations - that is to say, for all of our eating situations - we're partial to the pan-fried gyoza, even if, or maybe because, the crispiness of the skin forces you to pause for a moment to appreciate such a simple food for which most every Japanese household has its own unique recipe.
In honor of the World Gyoza Eating Championship, we set out
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Chinese Aggression Against the U.S.A.
Far more than trade is involved.
My previous article for FrontPage Magazine focused on
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specific threats to the United States that were linked to border security issues raised in the January 29, 2019 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Worldwide Threats that was itself predicated on the Intelligence Community’s just-released World-Wide Threat Assessment.
I used the information disclosed at the hearing and contained in that threat assessment report about the dangers to America created by transnational criminal organizations and translational gangs such as MS-13 and the drug cartels in Mexico, as well as the crimes and activities of human traffickers that support the Trump administration’s demands for a border wall, a wall that unbelievably, the leaders of the Democratic Party adamantly oppose.
However, the report included much more material about other global threats that confront the United States and its interests. Simply stated, the world is a dangerous place.
Among the other threats addressed in the report were those posed by China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
Today we will take a hard look at China and how its aggressive and
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A minor earthquake near Swansea which could be felt across parts of the UK was "frightening", residents in Wales have said.
The quake
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at Cwmllynfell was of 4.4 magnitude and tremors were reported across Wales, in south west England and the Midlands at about 14:30 GMT.
The British Geological Survey said the epicentre was near Cwmllynfell in Swansea Valley and at a depth of 7.4km.
Many people took to Twitter to ask "what was that?"
Seismologist Richard Luckett, of the British Geological Survey, said the earthquake was the largest in mainland UK since the 5.2 magnitude Market Rasen earthquake in 2008, and was felt across a large area of Wales and England with the reports from Birmingham and Devon.
There have been no reports of injuries or serious damage but South Wales Police said it received 205 calls in the 15 minutes after the earthquake happened.
A Welsh Football League match at Port Talbot Town against Taff's Well was called to a brief halt by the tremor about half way through the game.
Mountain Ash Golf Club
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Buses, trains and automobiles will be the focus of MSPs attention this week as Holyrood when they debate the Transport Bill.
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And it all ties in with that other B-word - Budget, not Brexit.
In order to strike a Budget deal with the Greens back in February, the Scottish government agreed to a workplace parking levy.
This is the piece of legislation which could see councils empowered to adopt that new tax.
Importantly the levy is not included in the bill just yet, but the Greens will table an amendment at stage 2.
The other opposition parties are less convinced of its merits.
They says an underfunding of local government will force councils to burden their communities without proper economic assessment.
The Scottish government said no impact assessment has been undertaken on the parking levy - instead they have insisted this would be for councils to undertake should they wish to make use of the powers.
Will you have to pay to park at work?
The Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee endorsed the Transport Bill at the start of March, but urged the government to ensure enough time was given at stage 2 to properly scrutin
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ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. - Sgt. Henrique "Mag" Magalhaes, chaplain's assistant,
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U.S. Army Sustainment Command, competed in U.S. Army Materiel Command's Best Warrior Competition, Camp Atterbury Indiana, July 7 - 9.
Magalhaes, who at the previously held ASC Best Warrior Competition said "my faith shall not be broken," was selected with 11 others from a pool of thousands of Soldiers in AMC.
Soldiers from U.S. Army Sustainment Command; U.S. Army Security Assistance Command; Communications-Electronics Command; U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command; U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command; U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command; and U.S. Army Surface Deployment and Distribution Command converged at Camp Atterbury to begin the competition on July 7.
In the competition's opening speech, Command Sgt. Maj. James Sims compared the four-star level competition to the Super Bowl, the World Series and the Olympics
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Editor’s note: The following is adapted from chapter four of Jeff Riggenbach’s new book, Why American History Is Not
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What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009).
Until very recently, it was generally agreed that the story of the United States was the triumphant tale of a people fervently devoted to peace, prosperity, and individual liberty; a people left utterly untempted by opportunities of the kind that had led so many other nations down the ignoble road of empire; a people who went to war only as a last resort and only when both individual liberty and Western Civilization itself were imperiled and at stake.
Then, a little over a quarter-century ago, the terms of the public discussion of such issues changed – radically. One might say the opening salvo in the new American history wars was fired by Howard Zinn, in the form of a textbook titled A People’s History of the United States. First published in 1980, this volume is still in print, was reissued in a revised, updated, "20th Anniversary Edition
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Attention, MetroPCS customers. If you're in the market for a new Android smartphone, we have good news.
The no-
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contract wireless carrier on Monday added the Samsung Galaxy S 4 to its 4G smartphone lineup. The popular phone is available through MetroPCS in select cities for $549 and can be paired with any of the carrier's no-annual-contract 4G service plans, which start at $40 per month for unlimited data, talk, and text.
At this point it looks like MetroPCS is only offering the phone in its brick-and-mortar stores in Atlanta; Boston; Dallas - Ft. Worth; Hartford, Conn.; Las Vegas; New York; Philadelphia; and San Francisco. Additional markets and online availability will be announced "soon," the company said.
"Providing choice and flexibility for consumers means offering premium smartphones without the costly service and a long-term contract," Tom Keys, MetroPCS COO, said in a statement. "By combining the Galaxy S 4 and affordable nationwide 4G service plans … we are truly enabling our customers to have it all."
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Robot combat season is right around the corner and it makes me think of the smell of burning oil and sodomized electrons. Ah, the
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sound of a 200-pound killer bot smashing into a transparent barrier after being ripped apart and destroyed by fire. Yes, the Robogames have just opened for entries in preparation for their actuator-annihilating killfest in early June. Here's a picture of one deathmatch from last year, and a few more below.
Here's a closeup shot of combat between a spinner and a wedge-style robot. Looks like the spinner might be about to flip that wedge right over. Robogames are perfectly safe, and fun for the whole family. Really! I had a 200-pounder on fire smash right next to my head against the thick, plastic barrier and it was scary but totally non-dangerous.
There are also artbots and other kinds of robot projects on display at Robogames. Here's Zou Renti last year with his android clone.
The photographer titled this picture, "You're creeping me out, dude." Seriously.
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Eisen and Lafleur: What would Canada’s finances look like without Alberta?
During a speech on Canada Day, Prime Minister
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Trudeau accidentally caused a stir by forgetting to mention Alberta when listing all of Canada’s provinces and territories.
It was surely an oversight rather than an intentional slight, and the prime minister immediately apologized. Nevertheless, his slip provokes an interesting thought experiment: what would Canada’s economy and public finances look like without Alberta? The answer is not a pretty picture.
Up until the recent downturn in energy prices and subsequent recession in the province, Alberta contributed disproportionately to economic growth in Canada. Between 2004 and 2014, inflation-adjusted annual economic growth in Alberta averaged 3.4 per cent — more than twice the rate of growth in the rest of the country (1.6 per cent) during the same period. Without Alberta’s strong performance, Canada’s overall economic growth rate would have been much weaker than it was.
To look at another economic metric, consider that Alberta’s provincial economy created more jobs than any other jurisdiction in Canada between 2004 and 2014,
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It’s always amazed me how fans decide that teams should just spend money, commenting, “The owner’s a billionaire!
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” The team is raking it in so why not spend more on players? Or, the owner is making X with his other company, so who cares what he spends?
I made a comment on twitter a few days ago about LeBron James asking for a max contract. As a free agent, that is his right, and I have no problems with it if that is what he wants. There are many different people in this world brought up many different ways, so there really is no right or wrong answer. The point I was getting at on Twitter was, why? Why, in an industry where you have a limited amount of time to be great—and in this specific instance speaking about a player who makes considerable more off the court in endorsements than what he will make on it—why care about a max contract?
Brady has repeatedly given up more money for a better chance of winning the Super Bowl.
My point is this: If LeBron takes $17 million this year instead
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In 2016 in California, a class-action lawsuit against Toyota claimed the company should cover — under warranty — damage from rodents chewing through insulation for wiring
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that is now soy-based rather than petroleum-based. The suit is ongoing.
ROYAL OAK, Mich. — Every evening, Janice Perzigian puts Pine-Sol on the ground around her 2017 Ford Mustang.
Dryer sheets go under the front seat and in the trunk. Spray made with essential oils is applied to the tires, the sides and the back.
Why does she go through this 5-minute routine?
She has a simple answer: to avoid another $600+ repair bill after a rat chewed through wires under the hood of her car, leading to problems last month starting her car.
Aside from gnawed wires, the rodent — literally — left a trail of bread crumbs, rat feces and urine on the engine, which she now sprays weekly with peppermint essential oil.
"I’m gonna do everything possible to eliminate this and make sure this doesn’t happen again," she said.
She's
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Twins DeAndre and Darion Nelson showed talent for anticipating chart-topping tunes, getting kids onto the dance floor with their deej
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aying skills and pulling in hundreds of patrons to their teen parties. But what they thought was a successful hobby turned out to be a financial drain.
Unable to fit entrepreneur classes into their schedule, the South Gwinnett High students joined Youth Entrepreneurs, an after-school club that condensed those lessons. The national nonprofit has programs in Gwinnett, DeKalb and Cobb counties as well as Atlanta Public Schools — it’s largest footprint.
In a “Karate Kid” kind of way, some of the 26 activities in the year-long curriculum don’t at first appear to have much to do with the lesson. But once one of the core values (responsibility, being principled, seeking knowledge, respecting rights and freedoms of others, finding fulfillment in your work, making your own opportunities, exercising sound judgment or creating a win-win focus) is applied to the exercise, a light bulb goes off.
“It’s learning in
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If you haven’t been following the buzz and think it’s irrelevant to your start-up, think again.
If data
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is the name of your game, you’ve probably already heard of this 4-letter acronym for new European regulation that’s coming into effect on May 25, 2018. If you haven’t been following the buzz and think it’s irrelevant to your start-up, think again.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European regulation that will set a new standard for data privacy and consumer rights. It will give EU citizens more control over their personal data, including easier access to it, simpler portability between service providers, the right to erase their personal data and to be notified if it has been hacked.
While businesses will have to apply suitable technological and organisational measures to secure personal data and its privacy, as well as keep detailed records of all their data processing activities, this regulation is meant to make their regulatory life easier too. All the data protection rules will be streamlined under a single set of EU-wide rules and a single supervisory
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A new study shows that many Americans have slow, expensive Internet that lags behind what's available in other parts of the world.
When it
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comes to providing fast, affordable broadband Internet access, the U.S. can’t compete with other countries. A new study by the Open Technology Institute found that Americans pay far more than people in Asian and European countries for the same type of broadband Internet service, and U.S. service isn’t as fast.
The report compares the cost and speed of Internet access in 24 cities across the globe, including several U.S. cities.
Why does the U.S. lag behind so many other countries in both speed and affordability of service? It isn’t a technology issue.
“Instead, it is an economic policy problem — the lack of competition in the broadband industry,” the Times said.
Stop and let that sink in: Three-quarters of American homes have no competitive choice for the essential infrastructure for 21st century economics and democracy.
Two U.S. cities – Kansas City, Mo., and Chattanooga, Tenn. –
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A new study gives reassurance that women who eat nuts or peanut butter during pregnancy are not raising the risk that their children will have nut allergies.
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Kids whose moms ate nuts most often were actually less likely to have problems consuming them, researchers found.
Peanut allergies are on the rise and affect up to 2 percent of the population in the United States and other Western countries. Women were once advised to avoid nuts in pregnancy to avoid triggering allergies in their offspring, but that advice was later rescinded. Studies went back and forth, and some even suggested that avoiding nuts during pregnancy increased a child's chances of being allergic to them.
The new research supports that theory. It involves more than 8,000 children born to female nurses in a long-running U.S. study that periodically asked questions about diet and health habits.
Doctors and tests confirmed that 140 children had allergies to peanuts or tree nuts such as walnuts, almonds or pecans. Fifty-eight had mothers who were allergic to nuts, and 82 did not. Looking at this second group, researchers found that children whose moms ate nuts at least five times a month were
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MELBOURNE, Australia – Two men were arrested after bewildered diners at a McDonald's spotted them wrestling a
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5-foot (1.5 meter) python named Boris in the restaurant parking lot, police said Thursday. Victoria state police said the men stole the 8-year-old black-headed python and a lizard from a pet shop on Wednesday. They then brought the snake to the McDonald's parking lot, where they began wrestling with it in front of puzzled customers, police said.
The men, aged 22 and 24, were arrested and charged with burglary and theft. Police didn't release their names.
"In all honesty, it's just a case of dumb and dumber," Detective Sgt. Andrew Beams told Australian Broadcasting Corp. "Anyone who gets out there with a one-and-a-half meter python in a McDonald's car park — they're pretty dumb."
The snake was returned to a relieved Jodie Graham, owner of the Totally Reptiles pet shop.
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It truly pays to live and work in Dallas or Fort Worth. A new ranking from BusinessStudent.com puts the two cities — and Houston,
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too — among the top 10 places in the U.S. for stretching your salary.
To come up with its ranking, BusinessStudent.com examined the average annual salary for 127 white-collar “business” jobs listed on career website Indeed — such as HR director, marketing manager, and IT manager — and subtracted the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment, based on data from apartment search website Rent Jungle. According to that measure, Dallas is No. 4, Houston is No. 7, and Fort Worth is No. 9.
The BusinessStudent.com study calculated an average yearly salary of $82,609 in Dallas and average monthly rent of $1,422 for a two-bedroom apartment. That resulted in a difference of $65,545, behind Palo Alto and San Jose, both in Northern California, and Detroit.
In Big D, at least, all types of workers are benefiting from stable rent growth. According to apartment search website Apartment List
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The contract was awarded in May after a lengthy bid dispute.
A slate of contracts to provide cloud computing services to the Interior Department could add up
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to $10 billion and help the department save $100 million in information technology costs annually, officials have said.
The contracts are all indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity -- or IDIQ -- contracts, meaning the 10 vendors will compete with each other to win 10 specific contracts to provide cloud goods and services, Interior said in the statement Wednesday. Each of those contracts has a maximum value of $1 billion for a total possible value of $10 billion for the entire slate of contracts.
Cloud storage is typically cheaper than on-site data center storage because vendors can pack information more tightly and charge for storage space like a utility, with customers only paying for the storage they use.
Other vendors listed on the contract are Lockheed Martin, Smartronix, Unisys, Aquilent, Automonic Resources, CGI and GTRI.
The comptroller general’s office cleared the way for the Interior contract award in March, when it denied a protest from technology vendor Qwest Government
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The board’s achievement and graduation committee had recommended raising the English Language Arts score required for 2018-19 third-graders to advance to
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fourth grade from 672 to 682. That resolution was rejected by the full board by a 9-7 vote, with three members absent.
The board then amended the resolution to set the cut score at 677, matching what the Ohio Department of Education had recommended. That resolution passed by a 16-0 vote. The law requires Ohio to raise the third-grade reading cut score each year so that it eventually matches the “proficiency” score of 700.
On the first vote, board member Nick Owens, who represents Greene and Clark counties, voted in favor of the tougher 682 score. Pat Bruns, who represents Warren County, and Charlotte McGuire, who represents most of the rest of the Greater Dayton area, voted against it.
The full state board will vote on the issue later Tuesday.
State law requires Ohio to gradually raise that promotion score, but the Ohio Department of Education had recommended a smaller increase. ODE wanted the required score to go from
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Tornado warning expires for SE Wayne Co., part of Monroe Co.
In areas south of Detroit, the normal winds could suddenly become a
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tornado tonight, say weather experts.
The National Weather Service tornado warning has expired for southeast Wayne County. The warning lasted until 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The area of the warning was approximately comprising Gibraltar, Rockwood, Flat Rock, Grosse Ile, Trenton, Woodhaven and Brownstown Township.
The warning also applied to northeast Monroe County, said Steve Considine, a staff meteorologist at the Weather Service regional station in White Lake. Conditions seem ripe for heavy thunderstorms in those areas — with mild winds averaging just 10 m.p.h. — to suddenly morph into a tornado touching down, Considine said.
"Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter," the alert read. "Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is likely."
So far, there are no reports of a tornado nor of any wind damage, he said, "but reports from rural areas
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NASHVILLE — When the Southeastern Conference stumbled last season and received only three NCAA Tournament bids, the league's coaches cited Kentucky's down year
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. The perception of SEC basketball depended on its flagship program, they said. UK's normally elevated status lifted all the SEC boats. Conversely, Kentucky in a depressed state shrunk the significance of other programs.
As the league gathers here this week for the SEC Tournament, an event Tennessee Coach Bruce Pearl called a "festival" on Wednesday, last season's prevailing wisdom has been taken to the hoop and dunked on.
Kentucky comes to the SEC Tournament as the No. 2 team in the country. But UK as a likely No. 1 seed in the upcoming NCAA Tournament hasn't done much for the league.
According to collegerpi.com, the SEC has the fourth-best Ratings Percentage Index, behind the Big 12, Big East and Atlantic Coast conferences.
"I don't know if I ever bought into that philosophy," Donovan said.
As Donovan saw it, each SEC team rises and falls on its own merit. If one gains quality victories, its status will rise
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GAYLORD - According to the Michigan Arson Prevention Committee (MAPC), more than 25 percent of fires reported in Michigan in 2001 were
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arson or suspicious in nature. Otsego County Fire Dept. Chief Dave Duffield said those statistics likely are comparable to the percentage of fires in Otsego County which also are suspicious or the work of arson.
To focus attention on the crime of arson, Gov. Jennifer Granholm has designated May 4-10 as Arson Awareness Week in Michigan.
"The problem with arson or suspicious fires is they are usually easy to detect but proving who did it is the hard part," Duffield said. "Once you eliminate all of the natural causes of a fire it's not too difficult to make a determination the cause of a fire as being suspicious in nature."
One of the problems facing the state in fighting the crime of arson, according to Duffield, is cuts in state funding for fire investigations. "We have a fire marshal in our region who has had seven fires in the past week to investigate and one that is a week-old that he hasn't been able to get
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WEST BRANCH (AP) — Democrats say it repeatedly: George W. Bush is the first president since Herbert Hoover to lose jobs on
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his watch.
When they hear that or related claims about the Depression-era president, the folks in West Branch wince.
“They’ve dug up poor Mr. Hoover again and tried to turn him into the boogeyman of the campaign,” said Tim Walch, director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. Both are within sight of Hoover’s birthplace and the hill on which the 31st president is buried.
Admirers defend the Hoover administration and point out that the former president became one of the great humanitarians of the 20th century with his efforts to stop world hunger.
Democrats have evoked the image of Hoover off and on since his defeat by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, the political victim of a stock-market crash and the Great Depression. But Mr. Walch said there hasn’t been such a coordinated, partywide effort to link Hoover with a Republican candidate since Harry S. Truman’s
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River Radamus of Ski and Snowboard Club Vail collected three firsts and a second last weekend at the J5 finale at Powderhorn.
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March 18, 2009 — The J5 Finale at Powderhorn ski area in far western Colorado last weekend brought more than 130 young athletes ages 8 through 10 from all over the Rocky Mountain division together for a championship event in Giant Slalom and Slalom.
Ski and Snowboard Club Vail's J5 assistant coach Barclay Rabin commented, “The level of competition at this event brought out the best in each of our athletes."
SSCV’s young racers competed against the best J5s in the division, including kids from New Mexico and Minnesota.
“The winning time of 1:05.27 put down by River Radamus made this GS course one of the longest we've seen,” coach Rika Moore said.
The club kids brought home four medals and 15 ribbons, and Ski & Snowboard Club Vail brought home more ribbons and medals than any other club at the event.
River Radamus
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Thumbs down to circumstances surrounded Stop & Shop workers throughout New England who walked off the job after negotiations over a new contract broke down. It�
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�s the first time in more than 30 years Stop & Shop workers have gone on strike, and most stores closed temporarily as a result. The 31,000 workers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, who are represented by five locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, have been working without a contract since late February. All they want is fair pay, and we can’t blame them. Mediated labor contract talks between Stop & Shop and the five New England locals of United Food and Commercial Workers International are expected to resume Tuesday in Providence. Sticking points for a new contract include proposed cuts in health care and retirement benefits, according to the union. The union maintains that the company is "demanding unreasonable wage and benefit cuts" and asking customers to do more of the work themselves. Let’s hope negotiations go well this week.
Thumbs up to speakers at Norwich’s first public hearing on the budget who urged City Council members to add money to the 2019
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Five tax day marches are scheduled across the Bay Area Saturday in protest of President Donald Trump refusing to release his tax returns.
Marchers will gather
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in the cities of San Francisco, San Jose, Palo Alto, Walnut Creek and Santa Cruz.
Sixty percent of Americans believe Trump has a responsibility to release his tax records, according to a January Pew Research Center poll.
The White House confirmed in March that Trump paid $38 million in federal income tax on more than $150 million in income for 2005.
Trump has repeatedly said an Internal Revenue Service audit prevents him from releasing his records. The IRS has released a statement declaring an audit would not preclude anyone from releasing their own tax information.
Local marches will coincide with the Tax March on Washington the same day. Thousands are expected to attend the Washington D.C. march.
South Bay resident Cohn Ormeno decided to organize a San Jose march when she realized one had yet to be organized in the area. Dissatisfied with who she calls an “arrogant, misogynistic, and incoherent” president, Cohn Ormeno wanted a space for herself
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Yandex, Russia’s ‘homegrown Google’, is adding an English interface to its Yandex.Translate
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app for iOS, along with support for more language translation pairs, in order to widen the app’s appeal and start building an international user-base. The original app launched in December with a Russian interface, offering translations between Russian and eight languages, including English, Ukrainian, Turkish, Czech, Bulgarian, Romanian and Serbian.
As well as adding an English version of the app, Yandex has increased the supported English translation pairs from three options before (English<->Russian, English<->Ukrainian, English<->Turkish) to eight, with the addition of: English<->Spanish, English<->German, English<->French, English<->Italian and English<->Czech.
The majority of the app’s current translations – more than 85% – are between Russian and English, according to Yandex. And 98% of all downloads come from Russia and Ukraine. But the company claims there is “considerable interest” from mobile
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Is a deal finally in the pipeline?
DESPITE warnings not to let the Kremlin gain control of a 49 percent stake in the Transpet
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rol oil pipeline administrator, Slovakia has still not moved to recover the stake itself. Even if it now decided to do so, analysts say, it still might not meet a deadline of April 2007 to accomplish the transaction.
Slovak Economy Minister Ľubomír Jahnátek (right) should have waited before revealing deal with Yukos Finance management (left).
Slovak Economy Minister Ľubomír Jahnátek and President Ivan Gašparovič visited Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the second week of November, but no firm decision was taken on the future of the Slovak firm, except that it would not be sold to a third party.
"We simply agreed that there are two possibilities - either the Russian side will get the [49 percent] stake, or Slovakia will have 100 percent. We're now looking at which option would be best for Slovakia," said Gašparovič on his return on November 11.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - World Cup qualifiers Uruguay paid for wayward finishing as they suffered a shock 2-1 defeat to Austria in a
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friendly on Tuesday.
Austria, who missed out on the World Cup, won with a freak goal by Louis Schaub in the 87th minute as their new coach Franco Foda got off to a winning start.
Schaub took a free kick near the touchline around 35 metres from goal and the ball floated over a pack of players and into the net without anyone getting a touch.
Austria had gone in front after five minutes with a Marcel Sabitzer goal but Uruguay took control after Edinson Cavani headed the equaliser in the 10th minute, his 40th goal for his country.
The South Americans squandered a flurry of chances with Giorgian de Arrascaeta thumping the ball against the post and Cavani firing over when he had a free shot on goal.
Forward Luis Suarez was rested by Uruguay to help his recovery from a knee injury.
Uruguay have played four friendlies in Europe this year, producing three defeats and a
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THE facts about your security are being torn to shreds by activist liars. And they think that you’re too stupid to know the
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difference.
Whopper No. 1: America is less safe today than it was on Sept. 10, 2001. Oh, really? Where’s the evidence? The Clinton years saw New York City attacked and Americans slaughtered by terrorists around the globe. Nothing was done to protect us.
And the true end of the Clinton era came on 9/11.
A record to be proud of.
Countless aspects of the Bush-Cheney administration deserve merciless criticism. But fair is fair: Since 9/11, we haven’t suffered a single successful terrorist attack on our homeland. Not one.
Explain to me, please, how this shows we’re less safe. What factual measurement applies, other than the absence of attacks?
God knows, the terrorists desperately wanted to strike our homeland. And they couldn’t. Are we supposed to believe that was an accident?
Whopper No. 2: Al Qaeda is stronger than ever. Al
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The Chinese Football Association (CFA) has started an independent review of football officiating in a controversial Chinese Super League (CSL) game between
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Shandong Luneng and Henan Jianye on March 9.
Shandong Luneng filed a complaint following their 2-2 draw in the March 9 CSL game, claiming referee Fu Ming made four controversial refereeing decisions in the second round match.
Fu officiated at the Asian qualifiers for the FIFA 2018 World Cup and this year's Asian Cup earlier this year.
An official with Shandong Luneng expressed their respect for the CFA's review, saying: "We will do our job as usual, and we call on all fans show respect to the referee."
The independent review team was formed by a group of FIFA and AFC referee instructors and elite referees. Upon completion, they will submit a review summary to the referee department of CFA, who will decide what to do if refereeing mistakes were found.
The Chinese Football Association announced in February that the CFA set up its own professional referee team including both domestic and overseas distinguished football referees. Ma Ning,
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One of the greatest benefits is lowering the labor and operational expenses of development. Teams with broader skillsets and more experienced professionals can deliver in shorter time
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frames and without the overhead of in-house resources and extensive re-coding. Proven methodologies like Agile development are already in place and efficiently executed for a streamlined process. Professional developers can provide outcomes that minimize effort and lower cost. A full team of experienced developers will accomplish more in any given time frame than a limited team of in-house programmers that have other obligations.
Many technology companies choose to outsource development so that their teams can remain focused on core business functions like marketing and customer service. The more time-consuming processes that can be outsourced, the more business teams can focus on growth. Most small-to-medium companies, and even large enterprises, find it increasingly difficult to keep up with technical change and consumer expectations. Outsourced development makes this much easier with no loss of emphasis in developing core business competencies. Well-architected software will provide greater flexibility, potential, and accuracy to you and your customers.
Rather than being restricted to local employees or
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The Youth Scholarship Bowling Tournament was held on Thursday, April 18 at the Voyageur Lanes. Zeke Olson took home the top honors after
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out-bowling Chloe Leegard who placed second, followed by Joe Skinner, third place and Zane Weaver took fourth place. To qualify for the finals, all participants bowled three games. The top four scorers then bowled in a head-to-head competition.
Driller Promotions makes a highly-anticipated return to beautiful Detroit Lakes and Kent Freeman Arena Saturday, May 18 bringing mixed martial arts back to the Lakes area. No Mercy X is headlined by Thief River Falls native Reese Hernandez taking on Las Vegas resident BJ Lacy in a rematch of their previous fight which was scored a draw.
Registration for Detroit Lakes Youth Football is open for students entering grades 4-6 this coming fall. Detroit Lakes is a member of the FM Athletics Youth Football league beginning its 48th season and consists of about 70 teams with over 1,500 players in Western Minnesota and Eastern North Dakota. The organization is a non-profit corporation and all board members are volunteers.
The Minnesota Vikings announce
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DAWSON MP George Christensen has used taxpayer funds to pay for books that consider the threat of climate change to be a conspiracy or a hoax.
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The MP's spending habits were revealed in the latest expenditure reports from the Department of Finance.
Mr Christensen was reimbursed for books including Tower of Babble: How The UN Has Fueled Global Chaos, Taxing Air Australia and The Greatest Hoax: How The Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.
The Tower of Babble -- a nine-year-old "tell-all" on a climate change conspiracy created by the UN -- was good enough for Mr Christensen to purchase two copies.
The Greatest Hoax from US Senator Jim Inofe describes how the concept of climate change is "blatantly and categorically false", according to the book's description.
Senator Inofe has previously likened the US environmental regulator, the EPA, to the Nazi Gestapo.
He has previously said global warming was "the second-largest hoax ever played on the American people, after the separation of church and state".
Mr Christensen has long been outspoken on his position of
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It is vitally important that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that these institutions benefit from strong and independent regulatory supervision, operate in a safe and
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sound manner, and are primarily focused on their statutory mission. More importantly, Congress must ensure that the American taxpayer is protected in the event either GSE should fail.
Via Human Events. One thing I hadn’t realized is that McCain’s reform legislation was passed through the Senate Banking Committee, but was not able to gain majority support on the Senate floor. All twenty Senators who signed the letter calling attention to the urgency of reforming Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac were Republicans. After May 2006, the Democrats continued to use Fannie and Freddy as their private slush funds until the inevitable collapse, which McCain had warned against so eloquently, occurred.
For some inexplicable reason, John McCain seems unable to claim the credit he deserves for being one of the few politicians in Washington who saw the present crisis coming and tried to do something about it. He is even more unable to vigorously and unambiguously put the blame where it belongs: on the Democratic Party. Which is one of the
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Separately, three fighters attack an airbase close to the border with Pakistan in the eastern province of Khost.
Eight policemen were killed
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by their colleagues after they were poisoned in their base in southern Afghanistan in the latest "insider attack".
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident, which happened in Nawshar district of southern Zabul province late on Friday, as the group escalates a deadly winter campaign of violence.
"The infiltrators first poisoned their colleagues and then shot them dead," provincial spokesman Gul Islam Seyal told AFP news agency on Saturday, adding the attackers fled the area taking all the weapons and munitions from the base.
The governor of Zabul, Bismillah Afghanmal, said they had launched an investigation into the incident.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a message to the media that the group's "infiltrators" carried out the attack.
The Reuters news agency, quoting local officials, said the attackers defected to Taliban.
So-called insider attacks - when Afghan soldiers and police turn their guns on their colleagues or on international troops
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We've got nothing but love for Heavy D, who died this week at his Beverly Hills home. Dan Hyman wrote a touching memorial for a
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man who was a pioneer of the hip-hop/R&B hybrid.
This week will be remembered for sunnier news as well, however: We finally enacted Nigel Tufnel day. And it's today! Sure, we had to decree 11/11/11 a holiday in his honor by fiat, but who cares? That didn't stop L.J. Williamson from brainstorming eleven ways to celebrate the occasion.
Hell, this is the most fun we've had since hearing about the time Flying Lotus played an impromptu concert in writer Chris Walker's friend's apartment -- and then went out for "Jesus burgers" and impersonated a physics major.
We also brought you transmissions from controversial rapper V-Nasty, who talked to Rebecca Haithcoat about how she used to steal booze, frat parties at UC Berkeley, and her trying teenage pregnancy. Then there's the incomparable Adanowsky, who, Caroline Ryder informed us, like, seriously wants to
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I've added a new program called Maker Classes to my monthly cooking classes at the Leesburg Public Library. In these special classes, I invite
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an industry expert to class to share their role in the food industry, including a lot of awesome local farmers.
My first industry expert this year was Blandine Galbreath of Simon Seed. She helped clear up a lot of confusion with some great tips on growing fresh herbs. A lot of people are confused and often intimidated by the idea of using fresh herbs in their cooking. You may have heard that fresh herbs are best, but if you haven’t had a lot of experience using fresh herbs then you’ll probably have more questions than answers.
Should I grow my own herbs?
Which herbs pair with which types of food?
How much should I use?
When do I add them to the cooking process?
What should I do with the leftovers?
All are reasonable questions and the answers are not complicated. If used properly, fresh herbs will make your food taste great and make you feel like a professional in the kitchen.
Before we go further,
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South Africa hosts one of the top 500 fastest computers in the world, and the best on the continent, at the Centre for High Performance Computing (
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CHPC), of the CSIR, in Cape Town.
The CHPC's Tsessebe Sun Constellation System was named one of the world's fastest supercomputers, taking 329th place in the international Top 500 list, and the top spot in Africa. This comes shortly after the upgrade of the machine in October this year from a Linpack performance score of 25 Teraflops to 61 Teraflops.
The announcement was made at the Super Computing Conference, in Seattle, US, on Tuesday, where members of the world's high-performance computing industry congregated. Japan's 'K Computer' claimed the top spot for the second time in a row, after it was first revealed in Hamburg, Germany, in June.
Installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, in Kobe, Japan, the K Computer achieved an impressive 10.51 Petaflops on the Linpack benchmark using 705.024 SPARC64 processing cores.
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SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea edged out South Korea 2-1 in an inter-Korean football showdown at the Women's East
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Asian Cup here on Sunday.
Ho Eun Byol grabbed two goals in quick succession during the first half at the Seoul World Cup Stadium, as North Korea quickly erased a one-goal deficit and beat South Korea for the 10th time in their last 12 showdowns.
The match took place against a backdrop of lingering tensions on the divided Korean Peninsula.
Both teams had a cautious start to the match, before Kim Soo Yun put South Korea on the board in the 26th minute.
The midfielder pounced on a loose ball after a goal-mouth scramble and rolled it past Hong Myong Hui into the North Korean net.
But the visitors quickly regained control. In the 36th, Ho equalised on a rebound following a brief period of dramatic goal-line mayhem near the South Korean net.
Goalkeeper Kim Jung Mi and defender Lim Seon Joo each turned away a shot at the line before the hosts succumbed to the North Korean pressure.
Ho was at
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Teachers in Denver, Colorado, hold their first strike in 25 years on the heels of recent teacher strikes in Los Angeles, Kansas and Virginia.
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Not to Colorado now where Denver public school teachers today. Have launched their first strike in 25 years they're joining ended waved teacher protests across the country in recent months of course we saw them in Los Angeles Kansas. Virginia teachers demanding. Higher paid more funding for schools are Micah Smith with ABC affiliate came GH in Denver is out side tracking the protests they might it's great to see you so bring us inside the protest what are these teachers asking for today. While DeVon at teachers want better pay here and Denver they've been negotiating with Denver Public Schools for the past fifteen months and from the beginning they said they watch when he eight point five million dollars toward teachers salaries. During their last negotiation session with Denver Public Schools the school district offered. 25 million but teachers here is that too little too late and they decided to strike today. And to get. Ed in as I understand they are they're paid 43000 dollars average there in Denver well below the 58000. Dollars. National average for public
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It’s still more conceptual than actual, but Nintendo and Universal Studios Japan are teasing a more complete video look at what their new Mario-
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themed real-world venture is going to look like.
Dubbed “Super Nintendo World,” the new park—to be located in Osaka, and due in time for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics—is mostly computer-generated in the video, thereby allowing Nintendo’s roly-poly plumber to sprint, bound and flip as human park-goers stare in wonder.
Judging by the video, visitors will enter through a green Mario-land warp pipe, then congregate in a hub-like plaza from which various Mario locales (like Bowser’s castle) are visible. Will the floating platforms actually move and mask their connection points with LEDs and SLR cameras? Will those snapping piranha plants be reified animatronic terrors? Can you jump and bonk your head on fluffy low-hanging coin blocks? Will the coins themselves be holographic projections that “hop” when you run through them?
There’s
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Chances are if you're a fan of comedies and live anywhere near a movie theater, then you were one of the many people who went
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to see Todd Phillip's hilarious bachelor-comedy, The Hangover. The film went on to become the single highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time, raking in over $450 million worldwide from a budget of $35 million.
That's impressive for a film that didn't seem like it would make that big of a splash. Just something about it - on top of it being genuinely funny pretty much from start to finish - connected with a wide audience and people went out to see it in droves.
With the success of the film, a sequel was pretty much inevitable. The Hangover 2 (as it's being dubbed for the time being) is already in the works, and returning director, Todd Phillips, tells EW that he's half-way through working on the script for it. He's not revealing any plot details (understandably), but says it won't just rehash the "hungover after a bachelor party in Vegas" plot of the
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Razer's latest eGPU cabinet gets LEDs and a bigger PSU, plus a ton more ports than before.
Alienware's redesigned powerhouse laptop
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promises the Holy Grail of gaming laptop features. It's big, fast, beautiful, and even upgradable.
Google's shown it can kill off a product when it no longer deserves to live. We know a few more products that are ready to die, if only Google could help.
We go hands-on with HP's Reverb Consumer Edition, whose astounding resolution is well deserving of this exclamation mark!
Here's what you need to know about Maxon's new Cinebench R20 benchmark, and how to use it to test your computer.
Acer's Predator Helios 300 is currently the bestselling gaming laptop on Amazon. With an 8th-gen Core i7, GeForce GTX 1060, and 144Hz screen, it's easy to see why. We delve into those and other details.
Give the ThinkPad six cores and a GeForce GPU and you get the Lenovo ThinkPad Extreme X1, a 15-inch laptop that's large and in charge
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SINGAPORE - MP Lim Biow Chuan (Mountbatten) has urged netizens to embrace "proper conversation and dialogue",
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as he clarified his position about a former offender who was turned down for a security officer's job because of his criminal past.
Singapore People's Party member Jose Raymond posted the plight of a Potong Pasir resident who was rejected by the Singapore Police Force because he was deemed "not a fit and proper person" for the role.
Mr Raymond posted the rejection letter on Facebook on June 7 and it went viral.
Mr Lim commented on it, noting that while it was easy to say that the SPF should give ex-offenders a second chance, the reality is that "most of us would err on the side of caution".
He noted, for example, that while some residents might be comfortable knowing that a security guard at their condominium was an ex-offender, others might not.
Mr Lim suggested the man could look for work in other sectors, like food and beverage.
On Sunday (June 10), Mr Lim wrote on Facebook that his suggestions had attracted
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PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following a competitive tender process initiated by Abry Partners for its stake in Basefarm, the Orange Group
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, through its enterprise subsidiary Orange Business Services, has announced today the signature of a contract to acquire 100% of the company’s capital for an enterprise value of 350 million euros.
Basefarm is a leading European player in cloud-based infrastructure and services, as well as the management of critical applications and data analysis. The company, which recorded revenues of over 100 million euros in 2017, has enjoyed strong growth since 2015. Basefarm has a strong operational presence in several European countries, particularly in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria and in Germany, where it boasts a cutting-edge big data activity. Its business proposition lies at the forefront of the most innovative services in cloud computing, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence thanks to the widely-recognized expertise of its 550 employees and to the high satisfaction from its customers.
Following the recent purchase of Business & Decision, the acquisition of Basefarm represents an important step forward in Orange Business Services’ development strategy. With its existing team of 1
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A forthcoming drama by Dominic Cooke called ‘Ironbark’ will feature Georgian actor Merab Ninidze along with other world-ren
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owned cinema stars, including Academy Award-nominated Benedict Cumberbatch, Golden Globe winner Rachel Brosnahan and BAFTA nominee Jessie Buckley.
The plot of the film is based on the story of British spy Greville Wynne, played by Cumberbatch, and his work during the Cold War, particularly during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The film is in post-production and the part of Merab Ninidze plays in it has yet to be revealed.
Ninidze is a famous Georgian actor who has gone beyond the limits of his motherland and strongly established himself in the arena of world cinematography. His most memorable characters were seen in the following works: ‘Repentance’, ‘Roots’, ‘My Happy Family’, ‘Hostages’, ‘Nowhere in Africa’ and ‘Paper Soldier’. He is also known for his roles in the British-American TV series ‘McMafia�
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BALTIMORE — By the time the baseball dropped into the seats, just beyond the grasp of Felix Pie, it seemed the atmosphere in the
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ballpark had changed. There were cheers, all over the park, cheers as the suddenly-playing-for-their-season Red Sox moved into a sizable lead in the seventh inning. So much for the Orioles, playing their best ball of the season under Buck Showalter. This was a last chance for the Sox.
And even though it seemed dire early, as the Orioles scored four runs off Jon Lester in the first inning and another in the second, the seventh signaled a rebirth. Not that it’s likely to mean much in the grand scheme of things.
All the Sox did, really, was keep pace in the division and wild-card races with their 9-6 win at Camden Yards, as the Yankees and Rays also won last night. The win ended the Sox’ three-game losing streak.
Although Adrian Beltre’s three-run homer was the crowning achievement of the six-run seventh, this game was just as much about what Lester
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Marvel movies work in threes. They also work outside of their threes. Some of the better Marvel films have more than one villain in them
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. Me and Scott have not laid the groundwork for it but what I can say is that I have a feeling that whatever Nightmare is involved with, Baron Mordo, being somebody who considers himself the defender of natural law will have something to do with it.
While Marvel's Phase Four plans have begun to take shape behind the scenes, we know very little about what is actually planned. We expect that a Doctor Strange 2 will happen at some point though Benedict Cumberbatch has stated he doesn't know anything about it. It seems that C. Robert Cargill and his writing partner, Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson, have a plan in mind for the sequel already, they just need to be told to go make it.
Nightmare is a ruler of the Dream Dimension and one of Doctor Strange's oldest enemies, appearing first way back in 1963. Nightmare is able to torment people through their dreams, drawing psychic energy from them that he can use for his own purposes. Having seen another dimension
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After a fairly quiet post-election period in this regard, President Trump is again facing a legal fight over claims that he sexually assaulted women in his
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prior life as a private citizen and business figure.
The president's latest legal challenge comes in the form of a subpoena which seeks all documents from his campaign as related to "any woman alleging that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately." As Buzzfeed first reported Sunday, the subpoena was issued at the request of legal representatives for Summer Zervos, a former reality show contestant on the Trump-hosted The Apprentice, who has accused the now-president of kissing and groping her at his Beverly Hills Hotel bungalow in 2007 after she'd come to discuss possible employment with the Trump Organization.
According to Buzzfeed, the subpoena was issued in March, but was only entered into the court file last month. The White House has been reached out to for comment, which will be included here when and if available.
Trump previously denied Zervos' allegation in plain terms, calling it a lie. In response, Zervos sued Trump for defamation, while her lawyers subpoenaed the
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A massive gold nugget worth at least $110,000 has been uncovered by a prospector in remote Western Australia.
A retired man
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has found a massive gold nugget worth at least $110,000 while prospecting in a remote part of WA's northern Goldfields.
The retired man, who doesn't wish to be named to protect his identity, says he's been combing the same patch in the northern Goldfields with a metal detector for years, but struck it lucky with better technology.
The nugget found in remote Western Australia has been dubbed 'Duck's Foot' because of its shape.
"When I had finished digging it out, I just thought 'Oh my god'," he said of the find, a 3.23kg specimen containing 68 troy ounces or 2.11kg of gold.
"It was pretty deep at about 800mm in clay soil so it took more than two hours of careful digging to get it out."
Rob Anderson, who owns the Prospectors Pick in Bunbury, has known the prospector for a long time and says he's a specialist at
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Some of my favorite books of the past few years have been National Book Award winners from the Young People's Literature category. If you like having your
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heart ripped out, stomped on a few times and shoved back in your chest, you can't beat winners like Sherman Alexie's Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian or Kathryn Erskine's Mockingbird. Alas, they're both just regular ol' fiction. So I was excited to see that a fantasy novel had won this year.
Past authors who have won in this category with fantasy books include Ursula K. LeGuin, Lloyd Alexander and Madeleine L'Engle. First time author William Alexander's winning middle grade novel Goblin Secrets had a lot to live up to. And, though it has occasional flashes of brilliance, the story never seems to come together in a satisfying whole.
The novel takes place in the city of Zombay (a name that far too silly, conjuring thoughts of the video game "Plants vs. Zombies" – I imagine Dr. Zomboss getting his degree at the University of Zombay). It
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Artist, writer and social activist Julie Ault, who grew up in Winthrop, expects the 'genius grant' to increase her independence as
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she plots out new projects.
Growing up in Winthrop, Julie Ault always was struck by the self-reliance of women on her mother’s side of the family.
They’d been raised on farms in the New Gloucester area and insisted on doing everything themselves: baking, quilting and stuffing goose down into homemade mattresses. She also was impressed by the handmade chairs, boxes and other wares from the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village that her family liked to buy.
Those influences wouldn’t have been obvious if you’d seen Ault in her early 20s. By that point, she had moved to New York City and cofounded an arts group that took on politically sensitive subjects: the AIDS crisis, the underfunding of public schools, censorship of the arts. As a corrective to all the advertising people were used to seeing around the city, the group once hung paintings, photos and other work throughout a functioning subway train.
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They did discuss economic ties, which, to at least one member of the Duma, is code.
“You know, in previous
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years a deficit of mutual respect was a main reason for the regression and degradation of our relations,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov told reporters on Monday, doing his best to channel Aretha Franklin.
Per Peskov, the one-hour phone conversation Saturday between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin was “good” and “constructive.” It apparently focused on both regional and international threats, as well as the war against terrorism and, critically, the centrality of mutual respect between heads of state.
What it did not cover, according to the Kremlin, were U.S. economic sanctions slapped on Russia in 2014.
The Kremlin said that, for now, there are no deals on the table with the United States in return for an end to economic sanctions on Russia. White House officials have insisted sanctions weren’t discussed at all. Trump has previously floated the idea of lifting sanctions, as has his Secretary of State-designate, Rex Tillerson
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Real-life Forrest Gump is halfway across U.S.
Barclay Oudersluys, a Birmingham native, recently hit the
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halfway mark in his efforts to run 3,200 miles from California's Santa Monica Yacht Harbor and Pier to the Marshall Point Lighthouse in Maine.
It was July 6, 1994, that Forrest Gump first premiered on the big screen.
Twenty years later, Barclay Oudersluys is carving his own path. The 23-year-old Birmingham native recently hit the halfway mark in his efforts to run 3,200 miles from California's Santa Monica Yacht Harbor and Pier to the Marshall Point Lighthouse in Maine.
It's essentially the same route Forrest Gump ran in the movie.
Oudersluys is a huge fan of the movie, which is the main reason behind the run. He's also raising money for the Hall STEPS Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 2009 by distance runners Ryan and Sara Hall to fight global poverty by improving health.
He started out May 9 and his goal is to complete the trip in 100 days. He spent the Fourth of
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Literacy, or rather a lack thereof, is a serious problem all over the world — believe it or not, even in our little utopia
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. While a touch-up of our education and support systems would probably be the best fix in the long term, we all know that’s not likely. So in the meantime we have creative private attempts to alleviate the issue: Today, a $7 million XPRIZE for literacy-improving apps enters the field-testing phase.
There are eight semifinalists that will be tested by 12,000 adult reading learners in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Dallas. After a full year of steady use, literacy gains by the users will be assessed and the finalists determined. The grand prize is $3 million, with $1 million sub-prizes each for best performance among native speakers and English language learners. There’s even a million bucks for the city that gets the most people to use the apps.
It’s funded by the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, which has been funding efforts like this since 1989.
Defining the problem as a technical one
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If you were watching one of the Friday morning cable or broadcast networks, chances were you didn’t hear about news late Thursday into Friday that
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the North Koreans handed over what purported to be remains of U.S. soldiers who went Missing In Action (MIA) during the Korean War. A NewsBusters analysis found that 16 times more coverage was dedicated to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s unverified allegation that then-candidate Trump knew in advance about the infamous June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
With the liberal media joining Democrats in the ongoing battle to save DACA and for no border wall, CBS and NBC ignored the killing of Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson at the hands of a drunk-driving illegal immigrant during their popular morning and evening shows Monday. Instead, CBS Evening News hyped Space X launching a Tesla Roadster into space and NBC Nightly News whined about how cold the WINTER Olympics were going to be.
According to New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor, the outcry over Donald Trump’s hot-mic audio has something to do with race. After the presidential candidate’s
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Targanta Therapeutics, a Cambridge, Mass. drug developer at work on a new generation of antibiotics, hopes to raise $86.
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3 million in an initial offering, according to an SEC filing. The company didn’t specify how many shares it plans to offer or what price it hopes they fetch.
Formerly known as PhageTech, Targanta moved its headquarters to Cambridge from Montreal last year. At about the same time, it brought on a new CEO, Mark Leuchtenberger, whose previous Boston-area company, Therion Biologics, cratered a year ago when its cancer vaccine for melanoma failed. Therion’s former CFO, George Eldridge, assumed the same job at Targanta in February.
The company’s lead drug candidate, oritavancin, is an intravenous antibiotic intended for treatment of drug-resistant bacterial infections. It has been tested against skin and “skin structure” infections as well as bacteremia, an infection of the blood, and is intended to supplant vancomycin, a generic antibiotic that is
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Curtain comes down on KDF meet.
Nanyuki-based sprinter Maurice Wasike set a new national record in men’
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s 100 metres on Thursday as the curtain came down on Kenya Defence Forces Athletics Championships at Nyayo National Stadium.
At the same time, Marsabit-based 10,000 metres runner Joyciline Jepkosgei led big names in winning their races at the championship.
Wasike clocked 9.9 seconds to erase Mike Mokamba’s record of 10.23 seconds set in July 2015 at Kasarani Stadium. Wasike also met the qualifying time for World Championships of 10.12 seconds.
Jepkosgei continued her record-breaking performance this year after she bagged the 10,000m title in 32 minutes, 26.3 seconds in the process erasing the previous KDF record of 32:51.26 held by J Ngotho since 1990.
Last month, the 23-year-old broke the 10km, 15kms, 20km and World Half Marathon records at the Prague Half Marathon in Czech Republic. She
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Developer Dudley Webb said the changes were made in response to concerns raised by the board at the August meeting.
"We're tweaking the designs to
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make them better," he said. Webb said changes to the office building — making it a flat, reflective surface — also were made at the request of the building's main tenant.
The new design will be discussed at a special Oct. 9 meeting.
Webb said the project could have gone forward under the designs approved in August. But The Webb Companies wanted to make the changes to address the board's concerns.
After the Aug. 21 meeting, EOP Architects, the architects for the development, announced that it was pulling out of the project. CMMI of Atlanta, the original architects for the project, filed the latest designs Wednesday.
The project has gone through several architects since it was announced in 2008. It also has been followed by controversy. Properties on the block were razed, but the development stalled for years after an unnamed European financial backer died.
Webb said Wednesday that a ceremonial groundbreaking was scheduled for mid-October; construction could begin in early November.
He
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A MIND-boggling video of a woman juggling three balls has gone viral, with viewers jokingly claiming she has three arms.
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The video, which was uploaded to Twitter on Tuesday, shows a woman juggling three lit up balls, two of which are blue with the third coloured red.
Graphics onscreen instruct viewers to follow the red ball.
At first, all seems fine in the video as the woman begins only juggling with the blue balls.
She turns it up a notch and introduces the red ball, which turns blue shortly after.
People can only answer HALF of these questions – can you do any better?
Parents are STRUGGLING with this seven-year-old’s homework – can you work it out?
The woman manages to juggle two of the balls in her right hand while catching the third in her left hand.
She then drops the third ball into her right hand creating a mind-boggling illusion.
Throughout the 25-second clip, the woman passes the extra juggling prop between her right and left hand proving it difficult for viewers to keep their eye on
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A winter storm on Sunday dumped several inches of snow on a band of southern states, triggering
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accidents on slippery roads and knocking out power to tens of thousands.
The storm brought wet snow to parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.
In northern Tennessee, about 20 vehicles were involved in crashes along a three-mile stretch of Interstate 75 near the Kentucky border on Sunday afternoon.
Tennessee Highway Patrol Sgt. Stacy Heatherly said the crashes were reported shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday in near "white-out" conditions caused by heavy snowfall and fog. Police said a juvenile was seriously injured. All lanes of Interstate 75 had reopened by early evening.
Dozens of wrecks were also reported in North Carolina as snow, sleet and rain fell with little accumulation, according to The Winston-Salem Journal.
In Virginia, the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 were shut down following a two-vehicle crash that critically injured one man, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The accident was reported at about 6:20 p.m
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SINGAPORE - One in two million meals costs, well, $2 million for a willing couple at Singapore's high-end Ce La
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Vi restaurant, as part of a dining event claiming to offer the world's most expensive dinner.
At a preview for the dinner Wednesday, which included samples of slow-cooked pigeon and sea bass with orange glaze sauce an epa journalist reported that the food was flavorsome and very well crafted from seasonal ingredients.
The dinner will be a joint effort between the Russian World Of Diamonds Group and Ce La Vi, according to a press release on the gala.
Though there were no reports yet of who has booked the dinner, the first couple to do so will on that evening enjoy a 45-minute helicopter ride and a luxury private cruise.
The pair will then dine at Ce La Vi, surrounded by 10,000 fresh roses, and indulge in an 18-course Modern Asian dinner consisting of various meat and seafood delicacies sourced from around the world.
As they eat, they will hold personalized diamond-studded chopsticks worth $17,000 a pair.
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The right PJs make everything easier.
Sure, not everyone is seeing your pajamas—but that doesn't mean it isn't worth
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getting a good pair. Not only will you not embarrass yourself in front of overnight guests (surprise, or otherwise), but clothes dedicated to sleeping actually help your mind get into relaxation mode. Here are some of your most stylish options.
Every man has a place in his lounge drawer for a solid set of Hanes.
There's a reason people love slippers: They really are that comfortable.
For hanging around, or for laid-back trips to the store.
Tommy John's signature stretch joggers are so comfortable they don't require a shirt (though you can still wear one if you like).
Who needs Egyptian cotton sheets when you have a silky shirt like this one?
Sweatshorts are just as comfortable as boxers—and much more appropriate for pre-sleep lounging on the couch.
A crisp navy PJ shirt is the most mature version we can think of.
Not a fan of pajamas? A socks-and-
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A man with an apparent penchant for yard work told lawmen he intended to return a shopping list of items he "borrowed" from an
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Okaloosa County Road Department facility, including grass seed and a pipe-setting laser.
CRESTVIEW � A man with an apparent penchant for yard work told lawmen he intended to return a shopping list of items he "borrowed" from an Okaloosa County Road Department facility, including grass seed and a pipe-setting laser.
During the months of July and August, the man, 25-year-old Dennis Randazzo of Crestview, allegedly took four bags of rye grass seed (which he spread on his property), a weed whacker, a generator, a seed spreader, a chain saw, a demo saw, miscellaneous tools, a tripod, and a pipe-setting laser.
When questioned by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office, Randazzo admitted to "borrowing" the items but said he planned to return them. He said once he heard he was under investigation for stealing the items, he gathered them all � except the laser
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Donald Trump and Theresa May are struggling to keep their handholding relationship special. This time they're bickering over proposed steel taxes, adding to
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a growing feeling that a conscious uncoupling may lie ahead.
Insiders have revealed that the British PM was forced to confront US President Donald Trump again, after POTUS revealed plans to impose tariffs on metals imports. The Donald wants to add a tax of 25 percent on imported steel, and 10 percent on aluminum to save the flailing US industry.
Trump also said that, if the EU retaliated over the proposed tariffs, the US would put a tax on cars made in the European Union. Insiders say UK PM Theresa May expressed her fears over the proposed taxes (and subsequent threat) to him by telephone yesterday afternoon. “The prime minister raised our deep concern at the president’s forthcoming announcement on steel and aluminum tariffs, noting that multilateral action was the only way to resolve the problem of global overcapacity in all parties’ interests,” a spokeswoman said.
This isn’t the first time that May and Trump have disagreed. In recent months,
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