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When I was working on the Badnarik campaign, Kevin Zeese was my counterpart in the Nader camp. Rumors have abounded for
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some time that he is running for US Senate in Maryland. They were confirmed today yesterday (I’m back in campaign mode and don’t realize what time of day it is) by the Baltimore Sun and the Business Gazette.
Zeese, 49, an attorney, is running as an Independent in the hopes of galvanizing support from the Green, Libertarian and Populist parties while attracting voters from the Democrat and Republican candidates.
He plans to make the war in Iraq a central theme of his campaign, and drew a parallel between the war and the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
“Katrina is the Iraq war coming home to roost. Instead of taking care of our crumbling infrastructure, misplaced federal spending priorities have made our entire nation vulnerable,” Zeese said in a statement.
He said anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, is going to headline an event for him at the University of Maryland later this
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Presidents of Tanzania and Uganda launched a presidential campaign calling on the European Union (EU) to lift sanctions against neighbouring Burundi.
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anzania’s Magufuli and Uganda’s Museveni spoke on Saturday in the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam, where leaders of the East Africa Community (EAC) met for the 18th Ordinary Summit of Heads of State.
They (Europeans) are taking sanctions against Burundi when they are also facing difficulties at home like the Brexit.
He added that the group also firmly objected to threats by the EU to harm Kenya. He said the failure to sign the EPA was partly because of sanctions on Burundi.
Burundi is our member and no action should be taken against it without our input. Our house is our house.
Also, we don’t agree with the EU placing unilateral sanctions on Burundi. It’s part of why we have not signed the EPA.
The call was, however, immediately rejected by the EU diplomat who was present at the summit, reiterating that
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Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald was named Monday as the SEC Co-Offensive Player of the Week, the league office announced.
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itzgerald accounted for 329 yards total offense and four touchdowns, including a career-long, game-clinching 76-yard TD run with 2:17 to play, as the Bulldogs knocked off No. 17 Texas A&M, 28-13, Saturday in Starkville.
“It felt good to go out there and have a good game,” said Fitzgerald, who threw four interceptions in a 19-3 loss at LSU two weeks ago.
He bounced back against the Aggies, throwing for a season-high 241 yards and two TDs on 14-of-22 accuracy. Fitzgerald’s passing yardage was his most in an SEC game since throwing for 328 on Nov. 19, 2016 as a sophomore against Arkansas.
“That’s the way we expect Nick Fitzgerald to play,” MSU coach Joe Moorhead said.
Fitzgerald also tied the MSU career record for rushing scores with 42, matching running back Anthony Dixon
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LOS ANGELES Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of the singing Andrews Sisters trio whose hits such as the rollicking "Boogie Woogie Bug
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le Boy of Company B" and the poignant "I Can Dream, Can't I?" captured the home-front spirit of World War II, died Wednesday. She was 94.
She could also deliver sentimental ballads like "I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time" with a sincerity that caused hardened soldiers far from home to weep.
From the late 1930s through the 1940s, the Andrews Sisters produced one hit record after another, beginning with "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" in 1937 and continuing with "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar," ''Rum and Coca-Cola" and more. They recorded more than 400 songs and sold over 80 million records, several of them gold (over a million copies).
The Andrews' rise coincided with the advent of swing music, and their style fit perfectly into the new craze. They aimed at reproducing the sound of three harmonizing trumpets.
Bette Midler's 1973 cover of "Boogie
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WASHINGTON, Nov 13 2013 (IPS) - Asylum seekers who travel to the United States to escape persecution in their home countries receive no assistance from the
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U.S. government and are not allowed to work for months, which activists say lead many to live on the streets or work illegally.
And despite a recent high-level judicial decision on the issue, many say only action by Congress will be able to fix the problem permanently.
Current U.S. law bars asylum-seekers entering the United States from applying for work authorisation for at least six months, a timeframe that is often only a minimum. In fact, waiting times can typically extend for several additional months due to what is known as the “asylum clock”, a term used to describe the six-month period during which asylum-seekers wait for their claims to be adjudicated by U.S. immigration laws.
The issue is discussed at length in a new report from Human Rights Watch, which notes that the main feature of the clock is its ability to start and stop because of what are also called “applicant-caused delays”
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The Mesilla Valley Christian volleyball team won the District 3-2A tournament title on Saturday.
The Mesilla Valley Christian volleyball team won the
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District 3-2A tournament title on Saturday with a 3-0 win over Capitan (25-18, 25-20 25-14) at Mesilla Valley Christian School.
The SonBlazers (16-2) should get a high seed for the Class 2A state tournament when the field is announced on Sunday.
LAS CRUCES – New Mexico State volleyball hosted California Baptist in a conference clash at the Pan American Center on Saturday, The Aggies reached the 20-win mark by downing the Lancers 25-16, 11-25, 25-8, 25-20 in the match.
"I thought we attacked the ball pretty well. Except the one stretch in the second set, we were pretty balanced" NM State head coach Mike Jordan said. "We defended a lot better than we did the first time we placed this team. Also, to serve 10 aces against what I believe has been the best passing team in the league is impressive
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Howard Rheingold is truly a digital elder, and I mean that in the most respectful, old-school way. All of the fetish
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izing of the "digital native" can distract us from the wisdom of those who experienced and shaped the birth of internet culture, and Rheingold was right there, in time and in space. His new TED Book, Mind Amplifier: Can Our Digital Tools Make Us Smarter? traces the history of mental augmentation in its social, cognitive and technological forms.
Things were far more idealistic and countercultural in the early days of the digital revolution. I was most intrigued in Mind Amplifier by Rheingold's mention of Ivan Illich's idea of "convivial tools." To be convivial is to be social both inwardly and outwardly—playful and open with oneself and others. "I consider conviviality to be individual freedom realized in personal interdependence and, as such, an intrinsic ethical value," wrote Illich. "I believe that, in any society, as conviviality is reduced below a certain level, no amount
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With the passing of British writer The Right Honourable The Lord Rees-Mogg, a voice that for more than 60 years resonated in
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the freedom firmament was stilled.
Upon graduation from Oxford in 1951 (as president of Oxford Union), William Rees-Mogg began his journalism career at The Financial Times in 1952. He moved to the Sunday Times in 1960, where he became editor in 1967, serving until 1981. He left the Times after the paper was purchased by Rupert Murdoch, returning years later as an occasional columnist on current affairs.
I saw Lord Rees-Mogg for lunch just several months ago in London. As always he was sharp, questioning me about the upcoming American election and giving [me] his take on world events and the global economy. His mind never slept.
In The Great Awakening, Rees-Mogg and Davidson thundered in 1991 about the coming recession that overtook the American economy just nine years later with the bursting of the dot.com bubble in March, 2000, when the NASDAQ peaked at 5,132 (at this writing it remains at just 3,000
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A white woman shown on a viral video blocking a black man from entering a loft to his downtown St. Louis apartment was fired from her job Sunday
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, KMOV reported.
In a cellphone video posted to his Facebook page, D’Arreon Toles documented a confrontation between himself and a female tenant at the Elder Shirt Lofts. Toles, 24, said he was returning from a late shift Friday when the woman, who was walking a dog on a leash, asked what unit he lives in, the Post-Dispatch reported.
In the video, Toles can be heard telling the woman, "You are blocking me into my building. This is my building as well. So, I need you to get out of my way."
“I’m uncomfortable," the woman says in the video.
"OK, you can be uncomfortable," Toles says in the video.
In the video, the woman follows Toles to the front door of his apartment, KSDK reported.
Thirty minutes later, St. Louis police appeared at his apartment, according to Toles’ Facebook post. No
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The Prime Minister has released the schedule of responsibilities that has been drawn up for the myriad Associate Ministers that this government has spawned. There are no fewer
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than 18 different ministers (out of an Executive of 26) running around associating themselves with other ministers. They span a mind-boggling 38 portfolios.
There’s the odd trouble shooting role moulded around the personal attributes of the minister in question. Trevor Mallard’s associate finance role is ominously described as “assisting the Minister with bilaterals conducted as part of the Budget process”.
Translated into the vernacular Albanian, this means cutting off the arms, legs and ears of unfortunate spending ministers in the pre-budget carnage that the Treasury sponsors each year as a way of staying within pre-agreed fiscal limits. Bill Birch personally savoured this role in the last government. It says something for Michael Cullen’s squeamishness that Trevor is to be hauled back from the gulag of chief executive terrorisation squads to impose fiscal discipline.
Then there are a raft of associations that are consolation prizes for those who
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Battery technologies have improved and Prof. Ulrich Hackenberg is at the steering wheel again at Audi, so the R8 e-tron is
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reportedly back from the dead. Good times.
I was looking at the reasons why the R8 e-tron was cancelled, and one was the range – about only 140-150 miles. Now with the team we found the possibility to go beyond that, between 250 and 300 miles.
We are thinking maybe to release the R8 e-tron as a production car. I personally need such a car as a technology vehicle to bring in new technologies, step by step – every half year or every year there will be something new.
At Volkswagen (where I was development chief) I used the XL1 as such a car. For Audi, the R8 e-tron would be good car for doing such things, so I am fighting for that.
The production decision would be made shortly, and the expectation is the Audi board will give it the green light. If everything goes as Hackenberg planned, expect a very fast zero emission ride indeed using a carbon-al
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Everyone seems to ponder the lyrics of Train's song "Drops of Jupiter," so perhaps it's about
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time a songwriter includes the "Snowflakes of Mars" in their next ballad. MIT scientists might be able to add prose to the lyrics by describing their study into the very alien snow that falls from Red Planet skies.
After collecting the vast quantities of data gathered by orbiting Mars spacecraft, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology team has uncovered some rather interesting facts about Martian snow.
But before you start dreaming about snowball fights and reindeer grazing on the slopes of Olympus Mons, think again -- this snow is like nothing we can ever experience on Earth.
For starters, as the majority of the Mars atmosphere is composed of carbon dioxide, the snowflakes are made from CO2 ice -- basically tiny particles of 'dry ice.' Also, the snowflakes are very small -- approximately the size of a red blood cell.
"These are very fine particles, not big flakes,” said MIT assistant professor Kerri Cahoy in a press release
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or when sounded like "ay"
"CIEN words" are another exception to the rule. These include ancient, efficient, and science.
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Have you heard the expression "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking?" This means that when there are two vowels in a row, the first usually has a long sound and the second is silent. That's why it's team, not taem; coat, not caot; and wait, not wiat. Remembering this rule will help you to put vowels in the right order.
In general, though, memorizing rules isn't the most effective way to learn spelling. Most rules have exceptions—and besides, you are best at learning words that you have made an effort to understand. A good way to understand a word is to break it into syllables. Look for prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Practice each short part and then the whole word.
After you break apart a word, ask yourself: How is this word like other words I know? Spelling the word traditional may make you think of spelling functional and national
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Chris Jackson is the guitarist for Antarctic, a Jacksonville-based instrumental rock group that recently released a self-titled album on Hello Sir Records.
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The band will play Friday, July 9, at the Lomax Lodge in Five Points with Victor! Fix the Sun and The Reptilian.
1. "Canto de Xango" by Baden Powell: It has one of the most joyous melodies I've ever heard! Brazilian percussion instruments rumble underneath finger-picked notes of the guitar while female voices harmonize with a flute in the foreground. You can almost hear the big smiles on their faces.
2. "My Name is Daniel Pearl" by Steve Reich: Repetition is good for the mind! String melodies soar over a patchwork of pulsing chords from four vibraphones and two pianos. It's a song for the patient mind.
3. "Limehouse Blues" by Quintette du Hot Club de France: This tune always makes me want to skip. I have discovered very few musical relationships like that of Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt.
4. "India"
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I get emails from Saks 5th Avenue.
to see any money from it. Mostly I just ogle the shoes.
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did buy a sweater on sale there once.
I felt was important to share with you.
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*Results may vary with each original coat or jacked based on condition, color and size.
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A reader who goes by the moniker “David_notascynical” posted a comment to my dismayed view of “
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Toy Story 3” asking for recommendations of “films that successfully capture the wonder of childhood without pandering sentimentality.” He himself started the ball rolling with Chaplin and Tati.
they were hooked on the amazing side business (the gum-chewing and wisecracking and hearty roughhousing) and captivated by the sharp slang, slyly delivered by Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett. Louise, who’s eleven [now she’s thirteen], said she wished she were alive then, “when everybody was sassy.” I reminded her that it was the screenwriters who were sassy, then as now.
I also called attention to a gesture of Tracy’s that, once seen, will never be forgotten—his flick of his hat brim and call of “Jake!” There are some harsh and low late-Prohibition pratfalls involving an importunate alcoholic (the following year, Walsh would direct
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Performers include: Lucas Till, George Eads, Sandrine Holt, Tristin Mays, and Justin Hires.
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reimagining of the classic television series from the 1980s, this action-adventure drama centers around a twenty-something problem-solving adventurer.
Angus “Mac” MacGyver (Lucas Till) creates a clandestine organization within the United States government where he uses his extraordinary talent for unconventional problem solving and vast scientific knowledge to save lives.
MacGyver’s team of experts join him on high-risk missions around the globe. They include maverick former CIA agent Jack Dalton (George Eads); Patricia Thornton (Sandrine Holt), an ex-field agent turned director of operations; and Riley Davis (Tristin Mays), an unpredictable computer hacker with a chip on her shoulder. At home, MacGyver is entertained by his ambitious roommate, Wilt Bozer (Justin Hires).
Under the aegis of the Department of External Services, MacGyver takes on the responsibility of saving the world, armed to the teeth with
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Government teachers instruct students regarding the fundamentals of the governmental system.
3 What Kind of Education Is Needed to Teach Kindergarten?
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What Is the Next Step if I Have a BS Degree & Want My Teacher Certification?
If you want to be a high school teacher, you’ve certainly picked a career with lots of job opportunities. There were over 1 million high school teachers in the United States as of 2010, and the number of jobs is growing, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. All states require secondary teachers to meet strict educational requirements to teach in public schools. Private schools can set their own standards, but usually follow state requirements.
All states require secondary school teachers to earn at least a bachelor’s degree. To earn a bachelor’s degree, you have to take a core or general set of classes in addition to the major courses your program requires. Core curriculum classes include English literature, science, mathematics, history and social sciences. Depending on the college or university, you might need to take classes in a foreign language as well.
High school teachers don’t
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DETROIT – Electric-car maker Tesla (TSLA) swung to a $671 million loss in the third quarter as it struggled to
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ramp up production of its new Model 3 small car.
The loss, of $3.70 per share, compared to a profit of 15 cents per share in the July-September period a year ago.
That was far bigger decline than Wall Street had predicted. Analysts polled by FactSet forecast a loss of $2.85 per share.
Sales of Tesla's Model S sedan and Model X SUV rose 4.5 percent to 25,915. But investors' eyes were on the Model 3, the $35,000 car that's intended to move Tesla from a luxury niche automaker into the mainstream.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk had promised that the Model 3, which has more than 500,000 potential buyers on its waiting list, would be simpler to make than Tesla's previous vehicles and not plagued with the same delays. But Tesla produced just 220 Model 3s in the third quarter, far lower than the 1,500 Musk promised.
And the problems will continue. Because
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CEDARVILLE — Two men who were killed in a shooting in Cedarville early Sunday morning will be remembered by friends as caring fathers who loved
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sports and sharing laughs.
Kyle Tucker, 35, and Shaun Bradbury, 36, were shot as they walked out of the Cedar Inn at about 1:45 a.m. Sunday. Tucker was pronounced dead at the scene, while Bradbury later died at a hospital in Rockford. Mike Steinhauser, 35, was also shot and taken to FHN Memorial Hospital.
The men went to the bar with two other friends who they frequently spent time with. Tom Keyes, who was lifelong friends with the men, was right behind them as they exited the bar together.
"Usually we're either in my garage or at Shaun's house," Keyes said. "We were supposed to go to a Super Bowl party on Sunday, and once in a while we'll do an '80s-themed party. This was just kind of an impromptu, 'Hey, let's get a drink.'"
Keyes did not want to share many details about the shooting itself
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Here’s how badly the state’s health insurance companies want to kill a bill in the Legislature giving state officials the power to put
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the kibosh on excessive premium increases.
Not content to fight the measure on the merits, they’ve mustered bogus facts and figures against it and tried to convince the public that a measure allowing regulators to limit premium increases will actually cost people money.
The column links to the health insurers’ arguments against the bill and then challenges them.
Massachusetts already requires prior state approval for individual and small-group rates — one among 34 states to do so — but as the state debates the next phase of health care reform, the desirable extent of government regulation remains a hot issue.
As the L.A. Times column sees it, regulation is good for the public, but lawmakers may not pass it because so many are so beholden to campaign contributions from the health insurance industry. Readers, thoughts?
seemed worried that an elected insurance commissioner might use his powers under prior approval to benefit the public interest, as opposed to placing what’s best for the health insurance
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I pray that Canada will come up with a much more humane incentive to help those tormented, war-afflicted people.
Like many Canadians
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, I am also acutely overwhelmed by the refugee crisis in Europe, in particular by the misery and agony suffered by women and children. Being a woman and a mother, I understand much too well what those hapless women holding young children in their arms, running or walking in such desperate circumstances must be going through.
Your editorial and Paul Clarke’s article “Suddenly one picture changed everything” (Opinion, Sept. 10) have consumed me so much. I feel so proud of Premier Philippe Couillard as well as Canadians like Paula Kline (“Petition calls for Canada to accept 50,000 Syrian refugees” (Montreal Gazette, Sept. 10)) who are encouraging other Canadians to do the same.
I came to Canada to study 44 years ago and then decided to stay, urged by Canadian friends to take up residency here. Today, I still remain a very humbled and grateful immigrant who not only built a great life here for myself, but also
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Kashmiri journalist Shujaat Bukhari is no more. But he has left behind countless stories as he lived a life of courage and
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valour – true to the meaning of his first name – despite all the oddities of life in Srinagar, a city that has been under siege for decades.
I can’t stop thinking of him and his family having dinner at an Islamabad restaurant in December last year, when Shujaat was on a tour of Lahore, Islamabad and Muzaffarabad to see his extended family.
Friends at home and abroad helped him in developing the newspaper, but suspicions and accusations around sources of funding for the paper always accompanied him. He also got labeled as ‘pro-Indian military’ for his nearly 22-year-old acquaintance with General Husnain, a former commanding officer in Kashmir. This amounted to the most ludicrous allegation for a person who grew up in profession in extremely hostile socio-political conditions, went on to embrace journalism as a source of livelihood, and made a name for him through sheer hardwork and thorough professionalism.
Little do the finger-
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'DWTS' Recap: Lea Thompson Steals the Show!
This week's episode of DWTS was a special My Jam Monday edition
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, where the songs were chosen by contestants who were able to dance to any music they chose. The routines were hot, the judges were excited, and the stars were ready to show how much they had improved from last week.
Let's take a look at the individual dance numbers and see whose gotten better and who the judges think need more work.
As new host Julianne Hough said, "What a great way to start the night." The audience loved the military-themed routine and were on their feet cheering their hearts out as the number ended. It energized the crowd. Len, Julianne and Bruno all agreed that it was tremendously entertaining, but Couture needed to round off some of the rough edges. Carrie Ann, however, said she the dance wasn't passionate enough - much to the dissatisfaction of the audience, who loudly disagreed.
Janel and Val's gorgeous, black-tie foxtrot saw the pair dancing their hearts out while dressed to the nines – with
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Beijing: India and China are expected to hold the next round of talks on border issues as well as on other bilateral topics next month, the
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first between the two countries after Chinese President Xi Jinping began his second term as the chief of the ruling Communist party.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said today that the 20th round of the India-China Special Representatives border talks as well as the Russia, India and China (RIC) Foreign Ministers meeting will be held in "due course".
Yang Jiechi, who currently holds the rank of the state councillor which is few notches higher than the foreign minister, has now been elected to the powerful 25-member Politburo of the ruling Communist Party of China at its recent once-in-a-five-year Congress.
Hua Chunying, however, said Yang Jiechi continues to be the Special Representative for the India-China boundary talks.
"Resolving the border disputes has stagnated and the Dokalam standoff has led to a rethinking on the ties of the two countries, which will be reflected in the talks," Qian Feng said.
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James Brown has dreamed of becoming a professional black bass angler some day. He and his wife, Tessa, have dreamed about getting out of
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debt and onto a steady financial foundation some day.
Last week in Columbia, S.C., their dreams came closer to reality when the 37-year-old Lodi resident, who works for Central Valley Septic, finished in second place in the FLW Fantasy Fishing competition, out-pointing a legion of online participants to claim a $52,200 boat and motor.
Brown, who had been in first place since May, came up just short of winning the $1 million top prize. Still, he was stoked.
"I'm always on the Internet looking at FLW tournaments, seeing results and checking schedules," Brown said. "That's when I discovered it on the Web - Fantasy Fishing - and thought it wasn't real. Boy, was I wrong. It is very real."
Playing against tremendous odds - more than 15 million people world-wide are expected to play Fantasy Fishing next year - Brown entered all seven FLW Fantasy Fishing tournaments, which began in February
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Roger Federer is preparing himself for a barrage of Kevin Anderson big serves after the Swiss superstar sealed his place in the Miami Open quarter-finals in
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just 61 minutes on Wednesday.
Federer, 37, is celebrating 20 years at this tournament and edged closer to his fourth title in South Florida as the up-and-coming Russian Daniil Medvedev was swatted aside 6-4, 6-2.
Next up for the 20-time grand slam-winning legend is the South African world No 7, who famously beat Federer at Wimbledon in 2018 over five dramatic sets.
• Can Roger Federer overhaul Jimmy Connors' mark of 109 career titles?
That triumph was Anderson's only win over Federer in six attempts - and the only time he's won a set.
But having classily dealt with Medvedev, the former world No 1 knows it won't be as straightforward with Anderson at the other end of the Hard Rock Stadium's center court.
"I think if you beat me at Wimbledon, you've got my attention," Federer said. "He's got a great serve and
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(CNN) -- Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor has been handed a three-match suspension for his stamp on Arsenal's Robin Van Pers
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ie last weekend.
Adebayor has also been charged for his goal celebration in last Saturday's defeat of Arsenal.
The Togo captain decided not to challenge the charge of violent conduct, so received a fast-track punishment from the English Football Association, which means he will miss this weekend's Manchester derby.
The 25-year-old still faces another charge, of improper conduct, relating to City's 4-2 Premier League victory against his former club on Saturday.
Adebayor -- Hero or villain?
Adebayor raced the length of the field at City's Eastlands stadium to celebrate in front of the visiting Arsenal supporters after scoring the third goal, and was pelted with items including a plastic seat.
The hearing for the second charge has yet to be set by the FA.
The ruling body said in a statement on Thursday: "A regulatory commission today considered the charge of violent conduct issued against Manchester City's Emmanuel Adebayor under the
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Nate Silver: Only way Democrats win Senate is a "systematic polling error"
Democrats' prospects of winning the Senate continued to slip this
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week despite generally good news for their chances of winning control of the House of Representatives.
FiveThirtyEight election forecaster Nate Silver writes that the only way the Democrats will win control of the Senate is a “systematic polling error” among all of the surveys in every race.
The FiveThirtyEight projection model gives the Democrats about an 85 percent chance to win the House, but the same model gives the party just a 15 percent chance to win the Senate. For comparison's sake, President Donald Trump had a 30 percent chance to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016, based on Silver's model.
The problem for Democrats days ahead of the election is the same problem they had at the start of the midterm cycle: there aren't enough winnable seats available. Even if Democrats win every race rated a “toss-up” by election forecasters, they would still need to win one more race in a red state carried by Trump in 2016, such North Dakota, Texas
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Could This Be The ESA's Missing Comet Lander?
After months of searching, the European Space Agency says it may have finally caught a glimpse
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of the missing Philae Lander on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
During its historic descent back in November 2014, the lander’s harpoons failed to properly deploy and its ice screws were not enough to secure it at its intended landing site, an area known as Agilkia. After a tremendous bounce that resulted in an additional two-hour flight, the lander finally came to rest in an area called Abydos. The probe managed to snap its now iconic final image, but soon expired due to its inability to draw any energy from the sun.
In the weeks and months following, the ESA’s OSIRIS team been tirelessly searching for the lander by analyzing images and performing simulations to determine where it might be. After ruling out four out of five possible landing sites, the ESA now says it may have finally located the missing lander, though it cannot be confirmed.
A key component to the
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For more than 70 years, celebrities, world figures, residents and visitors have made it a tradition to come to The Marine Room to enjoy its spectacular
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seaside panorama and inspired cuisine: from fresh seafood to unique and inventive seasonal dishes. The combination has made it one of San Diego’s best restaurants and one of the region’s most iconic dining destinations.
Since its opening in 1941, The Marine Room has become famous for the pounding surf that creates dramatic displays outside the restaurant windows. And today, award-winning Executive Chef Bernard Guillas and his team of tastemakers have introduced a culinary renaissance in La Jolla, with inspired dishes like Skuna Bay Salmon, Sesame Crusted Ahi Tuna, Angus Beef Filet Mignon and Cervena Elk Loin. The imaginative cuisine is more than matched by the up-close view of the surf. All tables, both window-side and elevated booths, offer reach-out-and-almost-touch views of the incoming water. And patrons seated window-side during an unusually high tide can savor the food as plumes of surf cascade off windows
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A nationally-recognized arts recovery program that’s been in operation for 21 years is the latest casualty in the Vancouver Coast Health Authority�
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�s deep cuts to mental health programs.
Among the funding cuts are treatments for mood disorders, schizophrenia, and the complete closure of the Arts Studio recovery program in 60 days. Critics are saying the cuts hurt even more due to the announcement coming days after Victoria raised salaries for senior government staff.
There are more than 600 members from teenagers to seniors that use the Arts Studio recovery program to deal with their mental health diagnoses. The program has been in operation for 21 years and has been funded by VCH for the past decade. The cost of the program, which has five full-time staff, is $357,000 a year – and after a review, the health authority says it’s too expensive to run.
It won’t be a savings if people end up in the hospital or the loss of lives, says Jessica, an Arts Studio member.
“This is the only place other than my four walls at home,” says another devastated member Lisa Chan
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It has been speculated for the last few years, that Tony Gonzalez, tight-end of the Kansas City Chief's, might leave the squad.
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Here's the latest news on his status.
Tony Gonzalez has played football with the Kansas City Chief's since 1997. He is now 36 years old, and might be leaving the Chief's. He has not been happy with their stagnation during the 2006-2008 years. He has spoke of looking elsewhere.
The chairmen, Clark Hunt (Lamar Hunt's son), hopes Gonzalez stays in the squad, and finish his career. Hunt is not interested in trading Gonzalez, yet Gonzalez has been wanting to play in a Super Bowl and the Kansas City Chief's have not made it to that point since 1967. Hunt says he has no interest in trading the pro-bowl player. An unidentified source says Gonzalez is interested, but not demanding a trade.
"If the right deal can be made, Tony very much wants the Chiefs to trade him," the person said. "Tony is not demanding a trade. Tony cherishes the time he's spent with the Chiefs and he loves the way he's
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Eric Garner, grand jury: How would we cover the decision not to indict a police officer if it happened in another country?
Protesters take
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to the streets.
The latest installment in a continuing series in which American events are described using the tropes and tone normally employed by the American media to describe events in other countries.
NEW YORK CITY, United States—The heavily armed security forces in this large and highly militarized country have long walked the streets with impunity, rarely if ever held accountable for violence committed against civilians. In recent weeks, however, several such incidents have ignited public anger and threatened to open new fault lines in a nation with a long and tragic history of sectarian violence.
In America’s largest city, the judicial branch declined to pursue charges against a security officer who was videotaped in broad daylight choking a man to death. This came less than two weeks after courts in the nation’s often overlooked central region reached a similar decision in the shooting of an unarmed teenager. Both victims were members of the country’s largest minority group, and the killings have set off nationwide protests that have often escalated into clashes
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JAMIE CARRAGHER claims that Jose Mourinho's Manchester United move is off.
Express Sport understands Mourinho is confident he will take over from
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Louis van Gaal this summer after a tempestuous season.
The Dutchman had looked as though he would follow a humiliating European exit with a failure to qualify for the Champions League next season.
And United were expected to sack the 64-year-old if he missed out on a top-four Premier League finish.
However, with an FA Cup final against Crystal Palace looming and the chance to reach next year's Champions League not yet gone, Van Gaal looks as though he will still be in charge next season.
And Carragher has added his voice to those pouring cold water on Mourinho's move to United.
@ChrisMUFC08 @AndyMitten @MENnewsdesk @MENSports Thanks Chris! Change your profile picture it's not happening!!
"It's not happening!!" Carragher tweeted.
United are understood to have offered to have offered Mourinho a contract starting in 2017, when Van Gaal's deal expires, but he rejected the deal.
The Portuguese
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I can’t believe that I’m writing these words, at last: today is the publication day for my book. As of
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today, it’s out in the world, available for sale at bookstores near you. It seems like so long ago that I sat on that crowded bus, on a rainy afternoon, and wondered, “What do I really want from life? Well, I want to be happy.” Then I admonished myself, “In that case, I really should start a happiness project.” And I did.
In his book Happier, Tal Ben-Shahar describes the arrival fallacy, the belief that when you arrive at a certain destination, you’ll be happy. (Other fallacies include the floating world fallacy, the belief that immediate pleasure, cut off from future purpose, can bring happiness, and the nihilism fallacy, the belief that it’s not possible to become happier.) The arrival fallacy is a fallacy because, though you may anticipate great happiness in arrival, arriving rarely makes you as happy as you anticipate.
First of all,
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BRUCE RATNER Long Island calling.
Bruce Ratner — months after luring the New York Islanders to the Barclays Center — is
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set to bid on renovating and operating the team’s soon-to-be former home, the Nassau Coliseum, The Post has learned.
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, in his state of the county address today, may announce a request for proposals to renovate and run the 41-year-old building, a source said.
Nassau in recent months hired Ratner to determine if the Coliseum could be profitable after the Islanders leave.
“Based on our review of the arena and the marketplace, we believe that the [Coliseum] can be a viable entertainment venue,” Ratner, chairman and CEO of Forest City Ratner Companies, the majority owner of Barclays Center, told The Post.
He declined to comment on whether he’d make a bid.
As a result, the developer can eliminate some parking and carve out some 20 acres of the 63-acre plot to develop, a source said. Ratner will likely
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bill co-written by U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer to protect religious community centers against hate
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crimes has been sent to President Donald Trump to be signed into law.
The House of Representatives passed the final version of the Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act on Friday.
Kilmer, a Democrat from Gig Harbor, co-wrote the bill after a string of bomb threats was made nationwide against religious institutions, including one at the Stroum Jewish Community Center in Mercer Island last year. He co-introduced the bill with Rep. David Kustoff, R-Tenn.
Kilmer authored the bill with input from community members who observed that while committing an act of violence against a religious community center was classified as a hate crime, the act of calling in a threat against them was not.
“Today [Friday] Congress affirmed the right of every American to practice their faith and gather as a community without the fear of being targeted because of their beliefs,” Kilmer said in a news release Friday.
“Once the bill is signed
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PCMag Staff Unboxing the HTC One S for T-Mobile The HTC One S for T-Mobile is here. We unbox it.
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Behold, the HTC One S for T-Mobile is in the PCMag Labs.
The first thing you see when you open the box is the phone. What you can't see is just how thin and light it is.
The phone out of the box.
Almost completely unboxed. The suspense is terrible. I hope it lasts.
There isn't much included in the One S box—just the phone, instruction manual, and charger.
Even when it isn't turned on, the HTC One S looks pretty darn sleek.
The HTC One S is powered by a 1.5-GHz, dual-core Qualcomm MSM8260A processor.
At 0.3 inches thick, the HTC One S is T-Mobile's thinnest HSPA+ smartphone.
This photo doesn't quite do it justice, but the HTC One S is super thin and lightweight.
An overlay with startup instructions appears the first time you turn on the phone.
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trustpilot, the leading global customer review platform free and open to everyone, today announced the release
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of its new Transparent Flagging feature. Bringing further transparency to the reviews industry, the feature provides consumers with a window into how often companies flag reviews and what happens to them once they’ve been investigated. The new feature is the first of its kind and is part of Trustpilot’s larger initiative to bring more openness and transparency to its platform and the review industry as a whole.
“We believe being open and transparent is the only way to do business. I’m thrilled to see our new feature pushing the boundaries of what’s possible when it comes to transparency in the reviews space. Opening up the flagging process adds more credibility to all Trustpilot reviews and is yet another step towards our mission to create ever-improving experiences for everyone,” said Peter Mühlmann, founder and CEO at Trustpilot.
Trustpilot’s commitment to openness also means a commitment to leading the fight against fake reviews and any attempts
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A witness discovered the injured dog swimming across the canal after hearing gunfire, and said the shooter “was standing on the other side of the canal
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and indicated that he shot the dog because it allegedly bit his son,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement last month.
Soon the shooter walked off and left the scene, deputies said.
Meanwhile, the dog swam until it reached the edge of the canal, got out and limped into a forested area, deputies said.
By the time deputies arrived in Lehigh Acres on reports of gunfire, the injured dog was still hiding in the woods, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies soothed the scared dog and encouraged it to come out into the open.
Eventually they succeeded: The pit bull limped into an open area, where deputies could pick up the injured dog with a towel and carry it to a Lee County Domestic Animal Services vehicle.
Neighbors brought out the towel and a muzzle to help care for the wounded animal, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies saidthe 3-year-old
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Radio talk-show host and political commentator Armstrong Williams says George Zimmerman was "cowardly" in shooting Trayvon Martin and instead should have "f
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ought him like a man."
"When I was growing up … we did not fight with guns, we used our bare fists and we fought," Williams told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
"Sometimes we were bloodied, but we settled our issues with fists not with guns... I would have fought him like a man. I wouldn't resort to a gun... It is cowardly to use a gun."
Zimmerman, a neighborhood-watch volunteer in Sanford, Florida, was acquitted last week of second-degree murder and manslaughter during an altercation with Martin, a 17-year-old black youth.
The defense claimed that Zimmerman was attacked by Martin and then used his gun in self-defense.
“[Zimmerman is] no different than any of these inner city black kids that use these guns... when someone's getting the best of them," said Williams, who hosts a daily, nationally-sy
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A pint sized schoolgirl is preparing to take on the challenge to conguer Everest..at the age of 11!
Lydia Wrathall
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has always been fascinated by the world’s highest mountain and when she announced she would love to climb it her mum, Louise, knew she was serious.
Lydia (left) with her mum Louise and little sister Emily.
Louise said: “Lydia loves walking and at the age of three she completed the Scarlett’s Stride walk which is 12 miles long no problem at all.
“That was when her love of walking and climbing started and also her fascination with Everest.
"She knows all the facts about it and when she realised that ordinary people could climb it and not just people like Bear Grylls and Ant Middleton she wanted to do it."
Lydia and her mum can be seen on regular walks in the scenic countryside around their home in Cliviger and Lydia thinks nothing of clocking up 10 miles one go.
And the duo have started a fund raising campaign to help two charities close to their hearts and also raise awareness
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San Diego County citizens disgusted with massive potholes, deficient sewer and water systems, library closings, ad nauseam should scoff at politicians�
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� promises that things will get better. They won’t. Already-ruinous pension payments will eat up much more of future budgets — and actually, if the books were honest, those annual pension contributions would be larger still. That’s because both the County (San Diego County Employees Retirement Association) and the City (San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System) grossly overestimate their expected annual pension portfolio returns, thereby lowering governments’ annual contributions and passing the bill to future generations.
Since June 30, the County’s pension fund portfolio has plunged from $8.4 billion to below $6 billion. On February 11, San Diego County Board of Supervisors chairwoman Dianne Jacob declared in a speech that “even if the [stock] market bounces back, the required contribution by the County is expected to triple over the next five years.” And if the market doesn’t bounce back? She didn’t go into that.
During
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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah may soon impose tougher restrictions on tattoos and piercings for minors.
On Tuesday, the House passed HB
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117, which requires that minors provide written and signed permission from a parent or legal guardian to get a tattoo or piercing, in addition to having a parent or guardian present for the procedure.
Rep. Jon Stanard, R-St. George, sponsored the bill after a minor in his district came home with a tattoo without parental permission. When the minor told the tattoo artist he could not provide identification proving he was 18, Stanard said the tattoo artist gave him the tattoo anyway, saying he would claim he saw the minor’s ID.
The bill also provides that tattoo or piercing artists cannot be found guilty of illegally tattooing or piercing a minor if they can produce a photocopy of the minor’s government issued ID that shows the minor was purportedly 18 or older at the time it was performed.
If a youth comes in with a fake ID, it is not the business' fault, Stanard said.
Stanard said he sponsored the bill to close this loophole and
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Violence over this weekend by left-wing "antifa" activists in Berkeley has opened another chapter in the debate at the birthplace of the Free
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Speech Movement over UC Berkeley's plan to host several conservative firebrands next month.
University officials have vowed to allow speakers, including conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, to come even under the threat of violence, which has occurred at Berkeley and other universities earlier this year.
Some city leaders are becoming increasingly wary, fearing a repeat of Sunday's clashes in which the protesters, wearing black with their faces covered, attacked a small showing of supporters of President Trump and others they accused, sometimes inaccurately, of being white supremacists or Nazis.
"We don't want the moral, psychological and fiscal expense of having these agents of hate coming to our town," said Berkeley City Councilman Ben Bartlett. "We know the contest of ideas is at the very heart of freedom, but at the same time when the ideas are certain to cause bloodshed I'm inclined to err on the side of protecting the population, and I say that with a heavy heart."
Councilwoman Cheryl Davila also opposed the
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The American Film Institute has selected Julia Roberts to present the AFI Life Achievement Award to her longtime friend and colleague George Clooney.
The presentation
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will take place at the 46th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute on June 7 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Calif.
TNT will premiere the hour-and-a-half special on June 21. Sister network Turner Classic Movies will also air the special in September during a night of programming dedicated to Clooney’s work.
Roberts has frequently collaborated with Clooney, starring with him in 2001’s “Ocean’s Eleven,” 2004’s “Ocean’s Twelve,” and 2016’s “Money Monster.” She also starred in his directorial debut, 2002’s “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” and in 2013’s “August: Osage County,” which Clooney produced.
Clooney’s next project is a Hulu miniseries adaptation of “Catch-22,” which he will
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The Nasdaq tumbles and the S&P 500 slides. The Dow rises slightly.
An Ohio company offers California wine in 12-ounce
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cans, a Vermont concern sells variations on maple syrup and the Philippines is introducing a citrus juice made from the fruit calamansi.
Shares of Dr Pepper Snapple were falling over 2% when the firm announced that the CEO of its subsidiary Bai Brands is leaving the company.
Wednesday's downgrades of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are in focus.
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 05/15/2017 settlement date, which shows a 624,381 share increase in total short interest for Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc, to 6,487,611, an increase of 10.65% since 04/28/2017. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we here at Dividend Channel find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded.
The firm raised its price target on the stock to $104 from $
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In the last two years, Mexico has become one of the major battlegrounds of the 21st century global food wars. On one side of the
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battle line is Demanda Colectiva AC, a collective of 53 scientists and 22 civil rights organizations and NGOs fighting to protect Mexico's extraordinary wealth of food crop biodiversity; on the other is a coalition of the world's GMO goliaths led by US agribusiness giant Monsanto.
Their ultimate goal is simple: complete control over the Mexican food chain. And in their bid to achieve it, they can count on the unwavering support of Mexico's Ministries of Agriculture and the Environment.
On Tuesday they won a vital, albeit not yet decisive, victory when Mexico's XII District Court overturned Judge Marroquín Zaleta's 2013 ruling to suspend the granting of licenses for GMO field trials.
In his original ruling, Zaleta cited the potential risks to the environment posed by GMO corn. If the biotech industry got its way, he argued, more than 7000 years of indigenous maize cultivation in Mexico would be endangered, with the country's 60 varieties of corn directly threatened by
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Tributes have been paid to an experienced fisherman who died after he was injured by equipment on his boat.
Gareth Jones, 36, of
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Morfa Nefyn was working alone on his 36-foot fishing vessel Ronan Orla off the Llyn Peninsula on Sunday afternoon.
Friends said Mr Jones, known as Pod, was injured by equipment on the boat which had winching gear.
It remains unclear how the accident had happened while Mr Jones was fishing for scallops.
Nearby vessels went to his aid and the Porthdinllaen lifeboat and an RAF Valley helicopter were alerted.
A Porthdinllaen RNLI spokesman said: “Volunteers received a request by Holyhead Coastguard to launch at 3.15pm yesterday to an injured fisherman on the Llyn Peninsula coast.
“The crew quickly made their way two miles west off Nant Gwytheyrn where the fishing boat was located and were joined shortly afterwards by Rescue 122 helicopter.
Tributes were paid to Mr Jones by Porthdinllaen RNLI spokesman Dylan Thomas who described him as “
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On Monday, AMD launched the six-core AMD Opteron HE and SE, providing additional energy efficiency for the Opteron server processor family
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The new HE chips deliver 18 percent better performance per watt than the standard-wattage version of Istanbul, the underlying processor architecture that forms the foundation for both of the new families of chips.
AMD said that the new 55-watt Opteron HE processors are currently shipping for two-way, four-way, and eight-way systems from HP's Proliant family, with additional systems from other OEMs slated for the third quarter of 2009. AMD did not disclose the clock speed of the chips, but said that the new six-core Opteron SE will run at 2.4-GHz for two-, four-, and eight-way systems.
The price of the two-way AMD Opteron 2423 HE will be $455, while the eight-way Opteron 8425 HE will be $1,514. The two-way, six-core AMD Opteron 2439 SE will be $1,019, while the eight
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WASHINGTON — A U.S. trade official said Tuesday that Russia had not banned imports of U.S. chicken, as it had done with
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beef, pork and turkey because of concerns over the feed additive ractopamine.
Andrea Mead, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Trade Representative's Office, was responding to a media report that Russia's food inspection agency was investigating imports of U.S. chicken to see whether they contain residue of the growth stimulant, which is used to make meat leaner.
It would be a surprise if ractopamine were found in U.S. chicken shipments to Russia.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved it for use in beef, pork and turkey production but not in chicken production, Mead said.
Russia announced plans to ban imports of U.S. turkey, beef and pork effective Feb. 11 over the use of the additive.
"[The trade office] is working actively with USDA on this issue," Mead said.
Chicken has not been mentioned in any of the communications from Russia, she added.
Some countries ban the additive
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The campaign trail has started.
The deadline for anyone wanting to put themselves forward for next month's Colchester Council elections passed at noon today.
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Three high-profile Liberal Democrats - former council leader Steve Cawley (Shrub End), and husband and wife team Jenny Stevens (New Town) and John Stevens (Berechurch) - were not on the list.
And 73-year-old Edna Fowler, Lib Dem councillor for Harbour ward since 1987, has also decided to stand down.
Well-known Labour councillor and former mayor Mary Frank, who represents St Anne's, has also decided not to go for re-election.
The Conservatives have fielded a range of new candidates and old hands in a bid to gain seats.
One third of the 60 borough councillor seats are up for grabs at the May 4 polls.
While the Lib Dems have the most seats - 25 out of 60 - there is no overall political control. Labour has 15 seats, Conservatives 18, Tiptree Residents' Association one and Indepedent one.
Current mayor Martin Hunt, a Liberal Democrat, is up for re-
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Mike Low isn’t in the mood to settle. His daughter, a Boston flight attendant, died in the flames of 9/11 and
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he’s demanding his day in court.
“I want depositions. I want testimony. I want accountability,” Low said yesterday following the news of 14 families settling out of court in lawsuits linked to the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Out of nearly 3,000 people killed on 9/11, only 21 families now remain to go to trial or settle out of court with the government fund set up for victims or with airlines and airports.
Mike Low wants a court date.
“This is not an indication the end is in sight,” Low said yesterday of this week’s payouts.
It’s his duty to his daughter, he tells the Herald, to take her case to court.
“I still want to know why Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari got on a plane in Portland with box-cutters and pepper spray,” he said.
Those terrorists, to be joined by
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January 11, 2013, 2:23 p.m.
My favorite type of recipe is one that I can keep transforming over and over again
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. My Caramelized Butternut Squash is one of those recipes. Not only is it a tasty side, but I have managed to sneak it into a few desserts too.
First I made an amazing Butternut Squash Swirl Ice Cream with it. If you like dessert but aren't a fan of super sweet things, try it. You will LOVE it. Well, since I had all that ice cream... I figured why not an ice cream float? Oh, and why not add some bourbon while I'm at it?
First thing you need to do is make the Caramelized Butternut Squash if you haven't already. It is very simple. Just look at it!
Then we need to make that ice cream. Also super simple. And super tasty!
Now you are set to go! Add a few scoops of ice cream to a chilled glass along with a shot of bourbon and some cream soda.
Slightly sweet and rich with
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A new initiative around the planned Guggenheim museum in Helsinki aims at identifying alternative uses for Helsinki's South Harbour, proposed site of the arts
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centre. Behind the latest twist in Finland’s bid to host one of the iconic museums are a Helsinki art organisation and anti-Guggenheim groups in the United States.
Checkpoint Helsinki has been one of the most vocal critics of the proposal to locate an iconic Guggenheim museum in the Finnish capital – in fact the group owes its existence to opposition to the project.
Checkpoint has now joined forces with two US groups in an attempt to steal the thunder of the Guggenheim architectural competition currently underway. One of the US players is the architectural and sustainable development NGO Terreform, the other is Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction, GULF. The latter has devoted much of its energies to exposing injustices in the construction of the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim museum.
Known as The Next Helsinki, the counter-competition invites participants to submit suggestions for alternative uses for the South harbour plot reserved for the proposed Guggenheim museum. Participants may also
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Is Lions Gate Entertainment Corp's Dividend Safe?
Lions Gate’s dividend yield has spiked to a historically high level -- but
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is it sustainable?
Shares of Lions Gate Entertainment (NYSE:LGF-A) plummeted over 30% on Feb. 5 in response to its weak third quarter earnings report. The studio's revenue fell 10.8% annually to $670.5 million during the quarter, missing estimates by $96.5 million.
Much of that miss was attributed to the softer-than-expected performance of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2. Motion picture revenue fell 14.3% to $505.8 million, international motion picture revenue dipped 1.4% to $140.1 million, and TV production revenue grew just 2.1% to $164.7 million. On the bottom line, adjusted net income plunged 39.3% to $66.8 million, or $0.45 per share, missing expectations by two cents.
Mockingjay Part 2. Source: Lions Gate.
However, the stock's precipitous plunge also bumped its forward dividend yield
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MANILA, Philippines – Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies is an entertaining and engrossing historical drama, that with the luxury of
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Father Time and hindsight, brings us back to the Cold War era; and looks for the warm, fuzzy and human within the strident, paranoid brinksmanship and struggle for information and intelligence that characterized that juncture in history. With insurance lawyer Jim Donovan (Tom Hanks) as our guide and moral compass, there is much to learn and appreciate about human values and ideals when set against nationalistic polemic and viewing life purely in blacks and whites.
The film basically revolves around two narratives that are presented in linear fashion -— a tribute to old-style cinematic storytelling. The first narrative involves accused Rudolf Abel (the brilliant Mark Rylance), who is tried for espionage as a Russian spy and branded a traitor. When Donovan surprisingly takes on the case as Abel’s defense attorney, we are thrust into the world of courtrooms and small minds ready to trample on Abel’s basic rights to a fair trial and his presumption of innocence. When Gary Powers, a USAF
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Renteria’s candidacy could well make California’s 21st Congressional District race one of the nation’s most closely watched
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, and the target of considerable outside spending. In addition to her high-flying resume, Renteria is running in a district where 73 percent of the 712,866 residents are counted as Hispanic or Latino, according to Census Bureau records.
“A district like mine is always going to be competitive,” Valadao acknowledged.
But Valadao, the 36-year-old son of Portuguese immigrants, enjoys advantages of his own. He’s a native of the district and has held state or federal elected office in the southern San Joaquin Valley since 2011, boosting his name recognition. As an incumbent, and member of the House Appropriations Committee, he enjoys other built-in advantages that include, notably, the power to raise a great deal of money.
“Every challenger underestimates the power of incumbency and overestimates their power to get rid of the incumbent,” said David Schecter, a Fresno State University political science professor.
Last
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Small & Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), is seeking a 10-year tax holiday for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME
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s) in the country.
The Lagos State Coordinator of the agency, Yinka Fisher, said SMEs remained the agents of transformation in any developing economy, adding that offering them 10-year holiday would help their businesses grow.
Speaking on the sideline of this year’s Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) SME group annual seminar, Fisher said with about 37 million enterprises of which 68,168 are SMEs, government should initiate more entrepreneurship initiatives to keep them alive and grow.
Chairman, LCCI’s SME group, Abiodun Oladipo, said the seminar would help members and the business community to become aware of the opportunities available.
Head, SMEs, Sterling Bank, Mrs. Ezinne Nwaokafor, said the bank is helping businesses to grow by strengthening the expansion of its retail/SME and ‘non-interest-bearing’ lines and business reorganisation. She said
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Work under way for the project.
The Government of Dubai's Department of Finance (DoF) has announced the successful completion of a 17-
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year financing of Dh9 billion ($2.45 billion), to complete the construction of Dubai Metro's Route 2020 extension project.
The project will cost Dh10.6 billion and envisages the construction of about 15 km extension of the Dubai Metro's Red Line from Nakheel Harbour and Tower station up to the site of the Expo, with seven stations as well as an upgrade to the existing metro network, a Wam news agency report said.
Expected to generate significant social and economic benefits, the project will facilitate the passenger traffic, including the Expo visitors in the areas served.
The transaction consists of a 17-year, Dh5.2 billion loan supported by comprehensive guarantees from the French export credit agency, Bpifrance Assurance Export (BPIAE) and the Spanish export credit agency (CESCE), amortising over 14 years commencing in 2020 and a 10-year conventional facility of Dh4 billion, amortising over six years commencing in 2022
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A Rosh Hashanah meal shared with family and friends is one of the first acts of the New Year, and it’s as
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positive and life affirming an act one can perform. After all, nothing says ‘We’re here, we made it through another year, L’Chaim!’ like a festive meal shared and savored with loved ones.
There are five foods the Talmud says we should eat on Rosh Hashanah to ensure a year of good fortune: gourds, black-eyed peas, leeks, beets, and dates. These foods all have names that are a play on words for a particular wish for the new year: For example, the Hebrew word for dates is tamar, which sounds like yitamu, which means ‘to be removed’—as in, remove our foes from our midst.
With these auspicious ingredients in mind I’ve put together a Rosh Hashanah menu sure to start the year off right. I’ve added a few familiar symbolic flavors as well, because you can
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On his first trip outside Africa, new Gambian President Adama Barrow said he was confident France and the EU would boost financial support to his
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country after 22 years of dictatorship. Barrow estimated that his predecessor, Yahya Jammeh, had embezzled the equivalent of 85 million euros domestically, with inquiries open into his activities abroad. Justice, Barrow insisted, would be served.
Barely two months after he was sworn into office at a ceremony in neighbouring Senegal following a post-electoral crisis in his country, Barrow said he was determined to put Gambia on the road to recovery.
Speaking to FRANCE 24’s Marc Perelman, Barrow stressed that inquiries into the extent of Jammeh’s embezzlement were still underway, but he estimated that so far, experts had determined that the former dictator had looted 4 billion dalasi (approximately 85 million euros) domestically. An inquiry commission was still looking into other areas and the assets Jammeh had transferred abroad.
“The Gambia was looted. The Gambia was robbed by the [former]
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If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, experts say you are better off making it a healthy one.
Registered dietitian Nicole
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Osinga based in Courtice, Ont., says often, most people start their day with high-carb and low protein choices for breakfast, and this can include everything from cereal to toast to waffles.
She says there’s a limit on how much protein our bodies can use at one time, which is why it’s important to eat small amounts of protein throughout the day.
Health Canada notes, like carbohydrates and fat, protein is also a source of energy (or calories). Sources of protein include everything from dairy products (cheese, milk, yogurt), eggs, seafood, legumes, meat (beef, lamb, pork), poultry and nuts and seeds.
Canadians should aim for 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of their body weight if they are 19 and over.
Osinga says for breakfast, in particular, there is such a thing as too much protein in the morning.
And for any non-meat eaters
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LTTE May Day rally in Paris, a show down with French authorities?
Elaborate arrangements have been made by agents of the Tamil Tigers
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in Paris to exploit May Day rally as a protest against the arrest of the 19 Tamil Tiger cadres on April Fools day by the French anti-terrorist squad. Usually the May day rally in France is organized by CGT (confederation General du Travail) a leading trade union confederation in France. Any organizations interested in participating on the May Day rally and march are normally allowed to participate. Tamil Tiger have participated in the name of Tamil Coordinating Committee Tamil Tigers in France. Earlier Tigers participated in the May Day march as a publicity campaign for the Tigers. This is the first May Day rally after EU declared LTTE as a proscribed organization.
The ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) pushed for the abolishment of Executive Presidency in favour of Parliamentary & Cabinet System of government on April 30 in Colombo. It also proposed a second legislative chamber called the 'Senate' that was somewhat similar to the independent Sri Lanka assembly of 1948. Released on April 30th May Day rally
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What’s that expression, “When it rains it pours?” Come to our house if you want to see it in
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motion; I really thought we had enough problems when one more came along to add to the fun. My son, Doug, twisted his back getting Christmas decorations down from the shelves in the garage.
He came in complaining of pain. Taking aspirin and resting did nothing, and the next day — the day before Thanksgiving — I had to drive him to the hospital. You’d have to understand just how terrible he felt that I had to drive. Of course all the way to the emergency entrance he told me how to drive. You know the routine, you’re going too fast, you’re going too slowly, you’re in the wrong lane, etc.
Gritting my teeth, I reminded myself that he was really hurting. It was hard to imagine just how many people there were inside that facility. It was crowded, but they took care of Doug right away, took a test, gave him a couple of prescriptions and sent us on our way. Then
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LONDON — For the last four years, Ariel Hsing, 16, has played table tennis at least three hours a day, six days a
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week. Her parents set up a special room for the game at the back of their house in San Jose, Calif. Out went the porch, the fountain and the flower beds. In went a well-lighted space for a table and a ball-return machine. Live-in coaches were flown in from China.
Her father, a computer software engineer, left his job with IBM so he could work from home, available to ferry his daughter to practices and matches. Hsing’s schoolwork was never compromised. The deal was that every report card had to be straight A’s or table tennis would be withheld. A 91 on a grammar test once put her oh so close to a B.
On Sunday night, all this effort nearly paid off with an incredible upset as Hsing — ranked No. 115 in the world — nearly beat the second seed in the Olympics, Li Xiaoxia of China. The score was 11-4, 9-11, 11-
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The modern scourge of obesity could owe more to the lifestyle of our ancient ancestors than previously thought, according to scientists.
Anthropologists claim our
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urge to eat supersized portions can be traced back to the dramatic growth of the human brain and body that occurred in the face of environmental changes two million years ago.
The expansion of the human brain, which coincided with the arrival of the first hunter-gatherer economies, required early humans to bolster their diets by seeking out more energy-rich food, researchers said.
William Leonard, a professor of anthropology at Northwestern University in Illinois, said the transition from a highly active subsistence level of living to today's more sedentary lifestyle has played a major role in the rise of obesity, because while we still eat energy rich diets, we are far less physically active.
Today, roughly a quarter of the energy we burn up while resting is used by our brains. Other primates, such as chimps and gorillas, use between a half and a third of that. To make sure our brains have enough energy, humans eat diets that are much richer in calories and nutrients than other primates.
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A man from Lerwick narrowly escaped jail when he appeared for sentencing at the town’s Sheriff Court yesterday after admitting a bizarre string of abusive
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calls to a disabled acquaintance.
Scott Johnson, of the town’s Twageos Road, pleaded guilty at a court hearing last month to making 23 “vile” anonymous calls to the man with mental and physical disabilities.
The harassment had gone on for a period of more than six weeks between February 22 and April 6 this year and had left the victim feeling isolated and alienated from the community.
Referring to a social work report prepared for yesterday’s hearing, defence solicitor Tommy Allan said his client was “genuinely ashamed of himself for acting in this way”, and added that as a consequence he had already lost his job.
Sentencing the 23 year old to 300 hours of unpaid work and one year of supervision, sheriff Ian Cruickshank told Johnson that he was only just persuaded not to impose a custodial sentence.
“This was a cruel course of conduct in that you targeted a vulnerable victim for personal amusement,�
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Left-wing TV talker Keith Olbermann, who abruptly left NBC last month, is about to resurface at a cable network headed by
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Al Gore.
Olbermann, 52, will join Gore's Current TV, reported The New York Times. The former host of "Countdown," who first rose to prominence as a sportscaster, will have a nightly prime-time news and commentary show. He will also serve as chief news officer and get an equity stake in the network, which was established by Gore ad businessman Joel Hyatt.
Current TV has struggled with low ratings and is only available in about 60 million homes nationwide.
Olbermann left NBC just ahead of Comcast's takeover of the network, though officials said the two developments were unrelated. Olbermann, whose show drew about one million viewers per night, has long been known in the industry for being abrasive though his show had a loyal following.
One of his last run-ins with NBC management involved his making political donations to congressional candidates in violation of network policy. He drew a brief suspension for his actions.
Selected Reading: The New
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Smoking lounges in Corpus Christi are prohibited from operating from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m.
Corpus Christ
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i City Council passed an ordinance that restricts smoking lounges from operating during early morning hours.
The ordinance passed Tuesday includes retail tobacco stores, hookah lounges, vaping lounges and cigar bars, the ordinance reads.
Smoking lounges are prohibited from operating from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m.
Violation of the ordinance will carry a punishment.
Punishment will follow section 1-6 of the Corpus Christi Code of Ordinances. Violations may result in a fine.
The fine can be between $500 and $2,000, the code states. The fine may not exceed $2,000 when the violation governs fire safety, zoning, public health and sanitation, the code states.
Council heard about problems with a hookah lounge off Nile Drive from Corpus Christi Police Department Chief Mike Markle in October 2018.
The concerns from Markle came after a large fight involving teens in the parking lot of Tropical Hook
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A tiny calf is a real-life mini moo after being born one-tenth the average size - and is now tipped for a place
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in the record books.
Lil' Bill shocked his owners at birth, weighing in at a mere 4.5kg but looking just like every other cow, except smaller.
Concerned for his health, Lil' Bill's owners took the tiny calf to the Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
The university posted on its Facebook page that the case of Lil' Bill left veterinarians scratching their heads.
"He was born weighing a little over one-tenth of what newborn calves typically weigh," the post said.
"Occasionally, we get a case that has us scratching our heads a bit. Lil' Bill is one of those cases."
News of the tiny star's arrival last week comes just days after the world was introduced to a mammoth steer in Western Australia which has since been crowned the world's biggest cow.
Knickers, who weighs 1.4 tonnes - 300 times more than Lil' Bill - was saved from the slaughterhouse because he was
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and other leaders joined in a sold-out panel discussion Tuesday night to
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address terrorism in the context of immigration reform and border security.
Former Gov. Bill Ritter moderated the event at the Denver Art Museum, which was hosted by the Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab, or CELL, and sponsored in part by The Denver Post.
Panelists included Linda Chavez, chairman for the Center for Equal Opportunity, state Attorney General John Suthers and Consul General of Canada Marcy Grossman.
The tone of the panel was friendly, and all the participants agreed that the system is broken.
A system that allows those who want to be here to work legally and live peacefully will have a significant negative impact on those would come here to harm Americans and break laws, they agreed.
They said a majority of Americans want a viable system to be put in place.
Bennet said immigration has always been an important component of public policy, and he has seen firsthand what the impact of a broken system has on the country.
“There is not a
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Hilly Kristal vows to put on finale shows at NYC venue.
Hilly Kristal's got an awful lot of packing ahead of him
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.
The owner and operator of New York's legendary CBGB club says by mid-October, the last drinks will have been poured and the last unsigned band will have taken the stage inside the punk-rock landmark. In compliance with an agreement Kristal reached with the club's landlord last December (see "CBGB Owner, Landlord Reach Accord: Club To Close On Halloween '06"), CBGB will no longer exist on the Bowery.
Still, Kristal says he's not about to let the mythical club go the way of the dodo.
"We want to take a lot of this stuff with us, and I think we're going to move to Las Vegas," Kristal said, adding that he'll start disassembling parts of the club as early as September. "I have some developers who have some really great space in the downtown area. So, I'd say sometime in spring we'll be in Las Vegas. It's a big undertaking, and these
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Security giant McAfee has had a very nice run. The company has doubled revenues to $1.9 billion in the past four years and aggressive
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hiring has followed. This should be fantastic news for California, where McAfee was founded. But it isn't, and the reasons are troubling.
David DeWalt, who heads McAfee, is very intentionally not hiring new staff in the Golden State. Even worse for California, the company a while ago transferred entire departments elsewhere. Is McAfee based in California? Kind of. Only 14%, or roughly 900, of McAfee's 6,500 employees are left in Silicon Valley.
This is a cost-saving measure. McAfee ranks Silicon Valley fourth with the dubious distinction of most expensive places to do business, behind Russia, Japan and London. That's kind of shocking. Mountain View, Calif. sure ain't Tokyo in any sense.
DeWalt figures he can save 30 to 40% every time he hires outside of California. And that's roughly the premium he has to pay in the form of a moving bonus to get someone to relocate to California. Sunshine, pretty hills
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Underwater pipe explodes, oil pours into Haifa Bay. Study linking pollution and cancer lead to greater efforts to shut down the refineries.
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On Tuesday afternoon, a ship owned by Petroleum and Energy Infrastructures Ltd. (PEI) was working to dismantle underwater oil pipes. The pipes, located opposite Haifa's Kiryat Haim neighborhood, had been there since the 1930s. Some leakage was reported back in 2014, and the company had been contracted to remove the now hazardous pipes.
In a slip of fate, the ship collided with one of the pipes, bursting it. Oil flooded into Haifa Bay. Thanks to the quick action of the company, the pipes were immediately sealed. The Environmental Protection MInistry reports that only 5-10 cubic meters of oil were actually released into the bay.
Although a crisis was averted, the reactions surrounding the incident are out of proportion. MK Yael Cohen-Paran insists: "Israel is not prepared to deal with ocean pollution." Similarly, the NGO Tzlul used this leak as a doomsday sample: "An oil spill in the ocean is
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MERALCO capped its fourth quarter explosion with a strong finish to hack out a 108-105 win over NLEX and keep its flickering playoff
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hopes alive in the PBA Governors’ Cup on Sunday at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
Import Allen Durham scored 16 of his 36 points in the fourth quarter, but it was Reynel Hugnatan and Baser Amer who delivered the points that mattered most as the Bolts clinched one of the four wins they must pull off for a possible passage into the quarterfinal round.
Aaron Fuller had just given NLEX a 105-99 lead which proved to be the team’s last taste of the lead as Hugnatan cut loose with a triple while Amer completed a three-point play off Fuller’s 6th foul as Meralco tied the count at 105-all with still 46.2 seconds remaining.
Juami Tiongson committed a traveling violation in the ensuing play, virtually pushing NLEX to kingdom come. The Road Warriors then turned to their defense as Meralco advanced the ball, forcing Amer to call for a 30-
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The Obama administration is foot-dragging on approving a pipeline to deliver abundant Canadian oil to the United States at the same time the Chinese are investing
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in a pipeline that could send that oil to China.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee last week passed a bill requiring President Barack Obama to speed up a decision on approving the pipeline. The bill was introduced by Nebraska Republican Rep. Lee Terry, who maintains that the Obama administration has been too slow in making a final decision, the Montreal Gazette reports.
The Canadian province of Alberta has the world’s third-largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, and more than Russia or Iran. Daily production from oil sands is expected to rise from 1.5 million barrels today to 3.7 million in 2025.
Delivering the oil will mean building two pipelines, one south to the refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast and the other west toward the Pacific, where it can be exported to China.
If the United States doesn’t approve its pipeline promptly due to environmental concerns, “Canada might increasingly look to China, thinking America doesn’t want a big stake in
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PEORIA — The West Nile virus has been found in mosquitoes in Peoria County, the Peoria City/County Health Department reported Tuesday
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West Nile is transmitted through bites from infected mosquitoes. Symptoms, which include fever, nausea, headache and muscle aches, may last from a few days to a few weeks. Four out of five people infected with West Nile virus will not show any symptoms, but, in rare cases, severe illness including meningitis or encephalitis, or even death, can occur.
People older than 50 are at higher risk for severe illness from West Nile virus.
“The best way to prevent West Nile disease or any other mosquito-borne illness is to reduce the number of mosquitoes around your home and to take personal precautions to avoid mosquito bites,” said Carey Panier, PCCHD Interim Director of Environmental Health.
Panier suggests people practice the three Rs to prevent disease — reduce exposure by staying inside when mosquitoes are most active between dusk and dawn, repel mosquitoes by wearing protective clothing and insect repellent, and report mosquito breeding grounds, such as stagnant water
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THE World Championships haven’t even started but Allora goalkeeper Laura Geitz has already been to The Lodge in Canberra and the Melbourne Cricket Ground
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after her selection in the team.
Yesterday, the team attended a media conference at the MCG before flying out to a four-day camp in Hong Kong as a lead-up the World Championships early next month in Singapore.
Former Warwick West student Clare McMeniman is not in the Diamonds team but one of four travelling training partners who will act as opposition to the Diamonds at the camp in Hong Kong.
Training partner Madison Browne withdrew from the camp due to impacted wisdom teeth.
Netball Australia CEO Kate Palmer said that it was unfortunate for Browne as it would have been a wonderful learning experience for her. Vanessa Ware from the NSW Swifts will replace Browne at the four-day camp in Hong Kong.
Geitz will be playing in her first World Championships and second major event after winning a silver medal in the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi last year.
The Allora goalkeeper only has to continue her strong form to play in a second World Championship in 2015 when the event
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BACOLOD CITY — About 1.5 tons of giant clams or “Manlot” were seized in a police operation in
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Barangay Molocaboc in Sagay City at 11:40 a.m. on Thursday.
Arrested for violation of the act preventing the illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing were Felix Causapin, 60; Lito Cañete, 49; and Adan Atabelo, 54.
The police said 127 pieces of fossilized Manlot or Tridacna gigas, the largest shell in the Philippines, were confiscated from the three men reported to be hoarding the clams.
The operation was led by officials from the Philippine National Police-Sagay City, Protected Area Management Board-Sagay Marine Reserve, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and Task Force Lawod of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.
Jose Roberto Togle, the Resource Assessment Head of Sagay Marine Reserve, said his office received a report from a concerned citizen of Molocaboc that the arrested men were hoarding the clams
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WE'D BEEN SUMMONED to the office on Sunday for an emergency meeting: Our third-quarter numbers were going to fall short of
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analysts' expectations. Way short. We were a classic story stock, and up until then our story had been gold, from our boy-wonder founder and CEO to our proprietary technology to the multibillion-dollar markets we were targeting. We had Fortune 100 partners and Nobel laureates on our board. Investors had responded by making the company one of the most highly capitalized start-ups the Nasdaq had ever seen. Yet a story stock is like a hit TV series, and we had to keep delivering exciting new episodes. We were developing a reputation for putting out news releases whenever Boy Wonder farted. The Street's expectations had begun to feel unsustainably high.
Clearly, the solution to that pesky little problem had now arrived. I was part of the communications group, and for the last week we'd been scrambling to put together a plan for announcing the first bad news in the company's five-year history. I was preoccupied with the tactical blunders we'd already made
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Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Sunday the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul was
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a "huge and grave mistake" and promised his family that those responsible will be punished, Daily Sabah reported.
"This is a terrible mistake. This is a terrible tragedy. Our condolences go out to them. We feel their pain," Jubeir said in an interview with Fox News. "Unfortunately, a huge and grave mistake was made and I assure them that those responsible will be held accountable for this."
Saudi Arabian officials do not know details of how dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in their consulate in Istanbul or where his body is, Jubeir said.
He said Khashoggi was approached by a "Saudi security team" when he entered the consulate and their account of what happened after that differed from that of Turkish officials, which prompted the Saudis to investigate.
Asked about the location of the body and whether it was cut up, Jubeir only said that "we are working on this" with Turkey.
"He was killed in
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Miguel Cabrera didn’t even have to swing the bat to hurt the Cleveland Indians this time.
DETROIT — Miguel
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Cabrera didn’t even have to swing the bat to hurt the Cleveland Indians this time.
Victor Martinez drove in three runs, taking advantage after Cleveland pitched around Cabrera, helping Alfredo Simon and the Detroit Tigers beat the Indians 4-1 Saturday.
Cabrera drew four walks in a game for the first time in his career, three of them intentional. Earlier this season, the two-time AL MVP went 11 for 14 with six RBIs in a three-game series at Cleveland.
“He’s an unusual hitter,” Indians manager Terry Francona said.
With Cabrera batting third, Martinez was in position to do damage hitting cleanup.
Martinez hit a two-run single in the first, after Cabrera’s non-intentional walk. He added an RBI single in the third after Cabrera’s first intentional pass.
“Yeah, the two singles right-handed were obviously big, big runs to get us
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Two years ago this week, President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga unveiled a 40-member Grand Coalition Cabinet whose members would
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incidentally become architects of ‘grand corruption’.
From the maize scandal, Triton scam, Free Primary Education funds theft, corruption in the water sector and recently the dubious purchase of cemetery land, it has been business as usual in raiding public coffers.
Three months into the tenure of the Coalition Cabinet, Parliament passed a censure Motion against then Finance Minister Amos Kimunya, and demanded his immediate resignation over the controversial sale of the Grand Regency Hotel, now Laicos Hotel.
Kimunya quit to pave the way for investigations into the sale and he was reappointed in January last year, after an inquiry cleared him.
But a probe report prepared in November 2008 by retired Chief Justice Majid Cockar-led commission into the controversial sale of the hotel to Libyans is yet to be made public.
In late 2008, the Government instituted measures to tackle biting famine that was abused by profiteers in the so-called ‘maize scam�
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Colorado’s top lawmakers want to ask voters to increase the state sales tax by less than a penny on a dollar to support spending as much
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as $3.5 billion to improve roads and traffic congestion.
The much-anticipated legislation, introduced late Wednesday, represents a breakthrough after months of difficult negotiations between Democratic and Republican leaders to address what both parties agree is the General Assembly’s top priority.
House Bill 1242 — sponsored by Democratic House Speaker Crisanta Duran and Republican Senate President Kevin Grantham — would increase the statewide sales tax to 3.52 percent from 2.9 percent. If approved by the voters in November, the tax hike would start in January 2018 and remain in place for 20 years.
“If we are really going to deliver results to the people of Colorado, we need everybody at the table — Republicans and Democrats. I think this is an example of that,” Duran, of Denver, said in an interview.
The legislation, details of which were first reported by The Denver Post, also would redirect $50 million in existing revenue to roads and decrease annual vehicle registration fees
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SAN ANDREAS - Six months ago, during the summer lightning storm season, Calveras County sheriff's deputies started having trouble radioing back
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to the dispatch center in San Andreas.
The problem impacted deputies in several locations, and authorities suspected bad equipment in the dispatch center. So they made repairs.
"The problem still persisted," said Calaveras sheriff's Lt. Dennis Huberty.
Next, officials sent a contractor to check remote antennas. He found that antennas on three different mountain tops - Blue Mountain, Fowler Peak and Sierra Vista Mountain - had all been damaged, "likely caused by lightning."
Huberty appeared before the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to ask for up to $16,000 to repair those antennas.
"This was an unbudgeted event that was not foreseen," Huberty said.
Supervisors unanimously approved dipping into contingency funds to make the expenditure, but not before asking some questions.
"Are we simply putting it out there to be fried again?" asked Supervisor Steve Wilensky, who urged the installation of lightning rods to protect the equipment.
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Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009 – There has been an outpouring of support in the trucking world as nearly 1,400 truck drivers for
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Arrow Trucking Co. of Tulsa, OK, were left out in the cold when the company unexpectedly shuttered its doors on Tuesday, Dec. 22.
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has received hundreds of calls in the past two days, some from stranded Arrow drivers and even more from fellow truck drivers who have called in offering assistance to help the drivers get home. OOIDA staff kicked into high gear Wednesday matching help requests from Arrow drivers with truckers and friends who volunteered to provide assistance.
Late Tuesday afternoon, OOIDA had set up a support page for stranded Arrow drivers on Facebook. As of press time on Wednesday, the site had more than 1,600 fans. Some of those who posted comments were out of fuel and were stranded. But the overwhelming number of people who have posted comments were offering rides, money and even a place to stay until they could arrange transportation home.
Many Arrow drivers woke up Tuesday to the “Nightmare Before Christmas” to
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Egyptian prosecutors sought the death penalty in the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak. They say he was complicit in the killing of more than 800
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Egyptian protesters last year.
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who has been ill, arrives by gurney to court in Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 5, 2012.
The prosecutor in the trial of Hosni Mubarak demanded on Thursday that the ousted Egyptian leader be sentenced to hang on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising against his rule.
Mustafa Khater, one of a five-member prosecution team, also asked the judge for the death sentence for Mubarak's security chief and six top police commanders being tried in the same case.
"Retribution is the solution. Any fair judge must issue a death sentence for these defendants," said Khater on the third and final day of the prosecution's opening statement. "We feel the spirits of the matryrs flying over this hall of sacred justice and those who lost their sight by the bullets of the defendants are stumbling around it to reach the judge and demand fair retribution from those who attacked them," he
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Williams Jr., a speedy outfielder, was drafted in the sixth round in 2008 and became a problem when former manager Ozzie Guillen felt
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son Ozney should have been picked higher in a later draft. It helped sour the relation between Guillen and Williams Sr.
Rick Hahn, just hired as Ken Williams's replacement on the south side after Williams Sr. was promoted to Executive Vice President of the White Sox, has made his first trade: dealing Ken Williams Jr. away to the Rockies.
It's a logical move in light of Williams's five unproductive seasons in the minor leagues (30 RBIs in Double A last year, though!) and, at the same time, a mystifying move in that it was freighted with meaning, and took an executive's son-hanging on to his minor league job, it'd seem, largely through nepotism, and dealt him to an organization not beholden to him in any way. As the first trade of Hahn's tenure.
Williams Sr. likely signed off on the trade, which only makes it more confusing-as if he'd been biding
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Performers include: Garry Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, Rip Torn, Wallace Langham, Penny Johnson, Janeane Garof
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alo, Scott Thompson, Linda Doucett, Sid Newman, and Mary Lynn Rajskub.
Stand-up comic Garry Shandling stars as insecure and vain talk show host Larry Sanders. The show-within-a-show goes behind-the-scenes at a fictional late-night talk show which features real-life celebrities from the world of movies, music, and television.
On-camera, Larry is assisted by his sidekick Hank Kingsley (Jeffrey Tambor). Behind the scenes are his fiercely protective producer Artie (Rip Torn), Larry’s personal assistant Beverly (Penny Johnson Jerald), Hank’s personal assistant Brian (Scott Thompson), show booker Paula (Janeane Garofalo), booking assistant Mary Lou (Mary Lynn Rajskub), head writer Jerry Capen (Jeremy Piven), and writer Phil (Wallace Langham).
tnt knows drama,that is why they show 2 hours of las vegas every
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Colts have won a franchise-record 12 straight home games and are off to the third-best start of
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any defending Super Bowl champion.
So why are they underdogs at home this week? Blame that, as Indianapolis fans usually do, on the Patriots.
"They're a good team, they've played great football all year and we've played very, very well," Colts coach Tony Dungy said. "It's going to be a big game."
Both teams enter Sunday's game with glittering resumes.
New England (8-0) has beaten all of its opponents by at least 17 points. Tom Brady has a mind-boggling 136.2 passer rating, new receiver Randy Moss could break the franchise's single-season record for TD catches this weekend, and only two opponents have topped 20 points this season.
Indianapolis is merely off to another 7-0 start, already has three road wins against division opponents and just routed Jacksonville and Carolina on the road within six days of each other. The Colts lead the league in TDs rushing (12) and their
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No one pushing the canard that vaccines cause autism should be setting immunization policy in this country.
Scientists and public health experts immediately went ballistic
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, but the announcement was hardly surprising. During the Republican primary debates, Trump trafficked in vaccine misinformation himself.
We’ll be clear: No one pushing the canard that vaccines cause autism should be setting immunization policy in this country. A federal advisory committee of medical and public health experts has already established smart, responsible recommendations on vaccinations. Reams of research have found zero links between autism and immunization. And science-denying anti-vaxxers have already hurt too many children.
Kennedy’s claims, sincere though they may be, are dangerous nonsense. They’re of a piece with his assertion, in 2006, that the Republican Party stole the 2004 election, and his 2013 speech in which he said he doesn’t believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of his uncle, John F. Kennedy.
Shortly after Kennedy shared his news with reporters, Trump’s team issued a statement saying that the president-elect had made
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German centre-right and French far-right MEPs have tried, unsuccessfully, to torpedo a new rule which will require MEPs with senior posts
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to sign a document promising to behave appropriately.
The new rule was adopted on Thursday (31 January) with a broad majority, and relates to a recently-adopted code of appropriate behaviour for MEPs.
The rule states that MEPs who have not signed a declaration to respect the code, will not be able to be elected as president or vice-president.
They will also be barred from taking a position as rapporteur, which is a much-sought after post that gives responsibility over the drafting of legislation and negotiations on behalf of the parliament.
MEPs unwilling to sign would also not be allowed to take part in official delegations.
The new rule was adopted as part of a resolution on the parliament's new rules of procedure, which will also lead to some increased transparency of MEP meetings with lobbyists.
It was voted on in two parts.
The first was about parliament simply declaring in its resolution that MEPs "shall refrain from any type of psychological or sexual
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It was a "no brainer" to install a bike lane on dangerous Queens Blvd. despite community board opposition, Mayor de Blasio said Friday.
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"It was called the Boulevard of Death for years, and there's a reason — because it was absolutely handled the wrong way. It was constructed the wrong way," de Blasio said on the Brian Lehrer show, referring to the nickname the street got because of the high numbers of pedestrians killed there.
"A protected bike lane along Queens Blvd. is a no brainer. We have to make it the Boulevard of Life. We are not going to go backwards."
The boulevard is set for a major revamp under de Blasio's Vision Zero push to cut traffic deaths, but the neighborhood's Community Board 4 voted for a plan that stripped the bike lane out of the design.
The city will build it anyway, de Blasio announced this week. The community board vote is advisory, not legally binding.
"I do care deeply what community boards think, and we listen. I'm concerned about how that meeting was handled. I'm not sure the members of the board were given
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The investing company is ERA Brazil Israel, owned by Eric Ben-Mayor and partners.
Israeli company RescueDose, which has developed a compact
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robot system for dispensing liquid drugs for injection and for filling syringes and IV bags, has announced a $2.5 million financing round. The company has raised a total of $5 million since it was founded. Founded in the hiCenter Ventures incubator in Haifa, RescueDose latest investment is from ERA Brazil Israel, a company owned by Advocate Eric Ben-Mayor and a group of Brazilian partners. ERA Brazil Israel has invested in a variety of high-tech companies in Israel, and in medical and dental companies.
Automation of drug dispensing has two main advantages. The first is more accurate control of the process of preparing drugs and more accurate monitoring of the dosage. The second is protection of pharmacists against hazardous materials. Syringes with most dangerous drugs are currently prepared manually. The transition to an automated process enables a pharmacist to oversee the process. RescueDose's first line of products is designed for nuclear medicine. The company has two patents in the US
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the spr agency, an award-winning social media and public relations agency in Scottsdale, has been named No. 1 Best Workplace Culture
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: Advertising/Marketing Agency in 2019 by Ranking Arizona.
The agency was previously named Ranking Arizona's No. 1 PR Agency for 2017.
The digital marketing agency, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2018, also ranked in the Top 5 for "Public Relations", "SEO/Social Media Marketing" and "Advertising Agencies."
"We're honored to be recognized once again by Ranking Arizona," said Al Stevens, president of the spr agency. "Our goal as an agency is to always continue to improve and to deliver the best possible advocacy for our clients. Recognition like this is proof that we're on the right track."
The 2019 Ranking Arizona honors are the latest awards for the agency, which was listed as one of Phoenix's top 25 social media firms and public relations firms by the Phoenix Business Journal this year.
The company's roster of clients has included national homebuilders, premier master-planned communities, electronics manufacturers, restaurants, interior design firms and healthcare companies
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CHICAGO — Oregon State midfielder Hassani Dotson and forward Don Tchilao were both selected in the second round of Friday�
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�s Major League Soccer SuperDraft.
Dotson was taken by Minnesota United FC with the 31st overall pick (seventh pick of the second round). He was followed five picks later by Tchilao, who went 36th overall (12th pick of the second round) to the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Dotson, who hails from Federal Way, Washington, played every minute for the Beavers this season, serving as a steadying force in the OSU midfield. The senior was a Pac-12 second-team pick, and earned conference player of the week recognition once this season. Dotson also found the net against UCLA, scoring the third goal in OSU’s 4-3 win.
Tchilao, from Chandler, Arizona, was a Pac-12 first-team selection after leading the team with nine assists on the year. The senior also scored seven goals to finish the season tied for second in the conference with 23 points.
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Sheila Abramson, a waitress at Langer's Delicatessen on Alvarado Street in Los Angeles, reaches for a plate while
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serving customers last month.
When Junior's Deli closed in late December, longtime customers lined up for a last, nostalgic nosh at the 53-year-old Westside institution.
But Brian Won's main reaction was "meh."
"The food was unremarkable," said the West Los Angeles IT specialist, 32, who visited to use up a Groupon voucher. "Given that there are so many good places to eat in L.A., I have a really hard time saying yes to that."
Increasing apathy, particularly from younger patrons, has driven traditional Jewish delicatessens from their mid-century pinnacle. The decline seems to be accelerating partly because of health concerns over the schmaltz-spread fare and partly because bagels are now available in every supermarket.
Add sides of restaurant-industry slump and rising lease rates, and even local landmarks aren't immune.
In the last three months, three long-standing emporiums
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