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MANILA, Philippines – AMA Online Education steered past McDavid to take an 80-65 victory Tuesday in the 2019 PBA D-League at
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Paco Arena in Manila.
Franky Johnson played big in this season opener for the Titans with his 24 points, seven rebounds and two steals.
Joshua Munzon also registered a double-double with his 12 points, 10 rebounds and three assists, as fellow rookie Troy Rike collected 15 points and eight rebounds.
"Buti nag-jell kami nang maaga. At least, nag-sama sama sila," said a jovial coach Mark Herrera.
Johnson's early spurt allowed AMA to take a 10-0 lead as they went on cruise control in the wire-to-wire victory, annexing the lead to as much as 18, 71-53 early in the fourth period.
Newcomer Kib Montalbo also chimed in six points and five assists for the Titans, in a game where Andre Paras only saw four minutes of action.
AMA grabbed a share of the Aspirants Group lead together with opening
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HP's Ann Livermore said HP needs the open-source community to pursue its "next-generation data center" strategy.
Hewlett
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-Packard's ambition to build the "next-generation data center" depends on Linux and open source, an HP executive said at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Wednesday.
"We believe there is a tremendous need for contributions from the open-source community combined with the technology and innovation of companies like HP," said Ann Livermore, executive vice president of the Technology Solutions Group within HP.
Although her address was light on news that hadn't been reported before, the forum gave Livermore an opportunity to talk to the Linux community about HP's next-generation data center strategy.
HP's next-generation strategy is to develop products and services that will help data centers run more effectively, reliably, easily, securely and efficiently.
HP ships one Linux-based server every minute, Livermore noted, and has been shipping them for nine years.
The energy efficiency of all servers has become the issue "every customer wants to talk about," she said, and applauded the new functionality added to
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Dr Komal Prasad, Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon, said there was a common misconception that neurosurgeons only
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perform brain surgery, however they are the only physicians who treat the entire spine as well, including the spinal cord.
“Choosing a neurosurgeon for your brain as well as your spine health will ensure you’re getting the most experienced and relevant medical attention,” Dr Komal said.
The Department of Neurosurgery at Health City is equipped with state-of-the-art operating microscope for various minimally invasive brain and spinal procedures. Health City offers treatment for various diseases of the brain including brain tumours and spinal conditions like neck pain, back pain, surgery for herniated disc and Sciatica.
“The minimally invasive approach we use result in smaller scars, shorter recovery times, less post-operative pain and shorter hospital stays. In fact, many patients are home within 24 hours after this kind of minimally invasive spinal procedure,” said Dr Komal.
Health City opened this service on September 14th, and offers patients
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Photos from the 2018 MLB All-Star Game at Nationals Park in Washington on Tuesday, July 17, 2018.
“America’s
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Got Talent” outscored Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game in viewers Tuesday night.
The NBC contest averaged 11.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings released Wednesday afternoon. The game drew 8.7 million. The American League beat the National League, 8-6, in 10 innings.
But the game and “AGT” tied in reaching the 18-to-49 age group. Each telecast posted a 2.1 rating for young adults.
“AGT” started its judges’ cuts round. In a memorable segment, “AGT” presented a married acrobatic team, Mary and Tyce. The two, named Duo Transcend, suffered a major blunder on the trapeze when she fell through his hands. He was blindfolded during the stunt. She landed on a mat, got up and learned they were moving to the next round.
NBC ended its prime time with �
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Taking prime minister Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘Housing for all by 2022’ forward, Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (
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EPFO) has amended the EPF Scheme, 1952 to provide assistance in acquiring affordable houses to the EPF members by allowing withdrawal from PF to the extent of 90 percent of the total PF accumulation and also facilitating payment of instalment of housing loan.
An MoU to facilitate ‘Housing for All by 2022’ was signed between Central Provident Fund Commissioner, VP Joy and Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO), CMD, M Ravi Kanth recently.
The major objective of this scheme is to assist in building houses for workers integrating with housing programmes of the central and state governments.
The salient features of this scheme include bringing together all stake holders like workers, employers, financial institutions & housing agencies to provide workers’ need for housing, constituting housing societies for collective action to arrange housing units from public/private housing providers, apply to the concerned PF office through the society for getting certificate of fund and contribution and channelling the corpus of EPF savings
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Meet The Cronut's Humble Offspring: The Doughscuit! : The Salt The Cronut is old news. A Chicago restaurant offers
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the latest doughnut hybridization: an impossible mix of doughnut-fried sweetness and crumbly biscuitness.
The honey-glazed doughscuit is a combination of "doughnut," "biscuit" and "life-changing."
I first met the doughscuit at last weekend's Donut Fest in Chicago, where 15 doughnut-makers get together to try to kill you, for charity. They serve 1/4 portions of doughnuts, but still, after a few tables you feel yourself slowing down and thinking there's no way you'll make it through.
Everything starts to taste the same. Your mustache, if you have a mustache, is glazed. You look around at the thousands of doughnuts and wonder if you totaled up the calories in this room, how many delicious pounds it would be.
I was able to get this bird's-eye view of Donut Fest when my soul briefly left my body after doughnut No.
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While the Buffalo Sabres continue to nurse their defensive corps in advance of Thursday's season opener, a promising addition joined the team on the ice for practice
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on Tuesday.
Jake McCabe, out since Sept. 23 with an upper-body injury, was a full participant at practice. He said afterward that he felt 100 percent, and Sabres coach Phil Housley was optimistic when asked about McCabe's status for Thursday.
"Today's practice was a good measure," Housley said. "There was a lot of battling and he looked great out there."
The Sabres are still without Zach Bogosian, who remains day-to-day after leaving Buffalo's game against New York last Friday with a lower-body injury. Justin Falk is also day-to-day after missing practice on Tuesday. Housley said he does not expect Falk to practice Wednesday.
With Bogosian and Falk absent, the Sabres practiced with seven defensemen: McCabe, Nathan Beaulieu, Rasmus Ristolainen, Victor Antipin, Marco Scandella, Josh Gorges and Matt Tennyson.
Scandella is
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Sunday, Sept. 11, 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
El Pomar Gallery, Colorado Springs
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Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St.
Free with gallery admission (adults $10); for more, visit csfineartscenter.org.
New York playwright Leslie Bramm remembers looking at the World Trade Center from just hundreds of yards away on 9/11 and seeing objects falling from windows.
"The guy standing next to me asked why they were throwing furniture out the windows, and I told him, 'It's not furniture, it's people.'"
That was one image that stuck with him. Another was a photograph from that day, proof of what Bramm for a while believed was only an urban legend: a couple holding hands as they jumped.
So when off-off-Broadway theater group The Present Company asked Bramm to write a response piece to the tragedy, he created Lovers Leapt. His director in New York City was Scott RC Levy.
Now performing arts director at the Fine Arts Center Theatre Company, Levy was walking through
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Is fearfulness finally giving way to greed?
Following Warren Buffett’s stock-market investing formula of being fearful when others are greedy and
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greedy when others are fearful sounds easy enough. The problem, however, is that it can be hard to discern whether investors are greedy or fearful or somewhere in between.
Past surveys have indicated that investors often say they are fearful but still act as though they are very optimistic.
The current bull market, which entered its ninth year in March, has arguably been one of the most hated, and that longstanding skepticism has been credited as a force behind its longevity. The S&P 500 SPX, +0.10% climbed even as investors remained skeptical about the economy, earnings and, more recently, lofty valuations. The index was in record territory Monday, up 0.3%, and has rallied 13% since the end of 2016.
But as the main indexes continue to hit records, investor optimism has started to rise as well. So is some fearfulness justified?
Analysts at Bank of America Merril Lynch, in a recent note, said that sell-side optimism levels—
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The cast of Girlfriends Getaway, from left, Terri J Vaughn, Essence Atkins, Malinda Williams and Garcelle Beauva
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is.
In one of the early scenes in the new American comedy Girlfriends’ Getaway, four 40-something girlfriends vacationing in Trinidad arrive at their luxurious villa and one of them—Sophie, played by Terri J Vaughn—begins spraying disinfectant and wiping down furniture.
“The islands carry lots of germs our bodies are not immune to,” she tells her companions.
With her strong presence and deftly subtle comedic performance—she never once cracks a smile—the veteran T&T actress seems to be schooling her American counterparts in other ways as well.
Her appearance was greeted by cheers from the audience at the MovieTowne Port-of-Spain premiere of the film. Roger Bobb, assistant director on most of Tyler Perry’s box-office-topping films and director/executive producer of Girlfriends’ Getaway, had nothing but praise for the film production and acting talent he found here
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The Secret Service is pushing back against assertions its agents are "incompetent to carry out forensic examinations on digital media," The Hill reports.
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Secret Service agent Samuel Ivanovich, who arrested Yujing Zhang, testified Monday when an agency analyst inserted the USB into his computer, it immediately started installing malware. The analyst, he said, "had to immediately stop the analysis and shut off" the computer to stop the corruption.
A Secret Service spokesperson said in a released statement the agency's Electronic Crimes Special Agent Program (ECSAP) "is internationally recognized" and there are special agents who "receive extensive training in computer forensics and undergo a rigorous certification process."
"Forensic examinations conducted by these personnel are done in accordance with U.S. Secret Service standard operating policies and procedures," the spokesperson added. "Secret Service forensic examinations are conducted on standalone computers, equipped with specialized forensic software, which are not connected to Secret Service networks."
Computer security professionals criticized Ivanovich for the move.
Zhang's defense attorney Tuesday presented evidence Zhang thought she was attending a United Nations Chinese American Association event and she paid a man
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NFL Quick Shots: Why do teams abandon the run on third down?
My favorite NFL play as a kid was a third-down draw play
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to Walter Payton, Earl Campbell or O.J. Simpson. Now, even the best running backs seldom run on third down. Heck, only three of Adrian Peterson’s 197 carries for Minnesota have been on distances between third-and-3 and third-and-7. Why?
The Bears tried to pass on their first 17 third downs Sunday. It worked well, especially the two third-and-1 passes. But what’s the point of running 38 times if the defense knows you pass on every third down? Matt Forte is no Walter Payton or Adrian Peterson, but he’s more adept at busting the occasional long run than he is running between the tackles. Chicago needs to give Forte a chance to break that long run with two or three run calls on third-and-medium. That should also open up more passing lanes for Jay Cutler.
Or they could ask WWBCD (What Would Brad Childress Do) and keep throwing every
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Brexit is a search for enemies — something that Carl Schmitt understood only too well.
On 29 July 2018, the anniversary of Benito Muss
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olini’s birth, Italy’s far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini posted on Twitter “tanti nemici, tanto onore” (“So many enemies, so much honour”)—a variation on the fascist dictator’s notorious motto. Salvini was reproached by the press and rival politicians, and many took it as a worrying sign of fascism’s creeping return to Italian politics. But the same sentiment—an exaltation of enemies, whether liberals, immigrants or “cultural Marxists”—can be seen across the world, as domestic politics becomes increasingly polarised.
In this febrile atmosphere, it’s no surprise the ideas of German legal theorist Carl Schmitt are, in the words of the Financial Times, “back in vogue.” A celebrated scholar, an avowed and unrepentant Nazi supporter and a Mussolini sympathiser, Schmitt saw politics
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Imagine feasting on grilled fish, caught that morning, on a terrace lit by flaming torches beside a secret bay, with a bottle of fine
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wine perched on the pristine white tablecloth.
Now imagine eating the same succulent fish out of a takeaway box, with your toes in the soft sand, a chilled bottle of beer resting on the wobbly picnic table before you.
Why, you may ask, am I using food to introduce you to the Caribbean gem of Barbados?
Two reasons. First, 2018 has been designated Barbados’s Year of Culinary Experiences. Second, the cuisine is a perfect illustration of the amazing diversity you’ll find on this little tropical island.
You can tick all the boxes when it comes to dreamy beaches, swaying coconut palms, idyllic hotels and a sea painted every colour of blue.
Yet Barbados has so much more depth than just being a premium fly-and-flop destination. You could spend a whole week investigating the intriguing historical monuments, grand plantation houses and exquisite botanical gardens. Or another week combining forays into the rain
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers were locked in a standoff with Democrats on Saturday over the U.S. government shutdown,
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with Republicans saying they would not negotiate on immigration until the government is reopened.
Funding for federal agencies ran out at midnight with no agreement in Congress, meaning the second year of Trump’s presidency began without a fully functioning government.
Democrats stuck to demands that any short-term spending legislation must include protections for young undocumented immigrants known as “Dreamers.” Republicans in turn said they would not negotiate on immigration until Democrats gave them the votes needed to reopen the government.
U.S. government workers were told to stay home or, in some cases, work without pay until new funding is approved in the first federal government shutdown since a 16-day funding lapse in October 2013.
The Republican-controlled Senate and House of Representatives held rare weekend sessions on Saturday, facing a political crisis that could affect November congressional elections. By about 7 p.m. both chambers resigned themselves to failure and agreed to resume work on Sunday.
Both Republicans and Democrats had dug in during the
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Falkirk manager John Hughes insists he has no qualms about playing Kevin McBride in tonight’s crucial relegation battle against Hamilton despite the
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midfielder’s stinging criticism of the Bairns supporters.
The former Motherwell playmaker launched a stinging attack on his own fans at the weekend, branding them ’embarrassing’ and the ’worst in the world’ after he had been on the receiving end of flak from the stands.
Hughes needs the Falkirk faithful and the players pulling in one direction as they look to overturn the two point deficit at the SPL basement. Victory for the Bairns at Hamilton this evening could lift the club off the bottom of the league for the first time since March and Hughes insists he is not fretting over the fans reaction to McBride’s outspoken remarks. He said: "The fans have been fantastic, you have to get to know them. "After that bit in the paper regarding Kevin McBride, I guarantee you they get right behind him. "I would have no qualms at all about putting him in there. "I
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File this product under "We'll believe it when we see it." A Menlo Park company called Always Innovating says its Touch Book will be
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a netbook that turns into a tablet PC when you pull the screen away from the keyboard. The company also told the audience here at DEMO 09 that the Touch Book's battery will last 12-15 hours on a charge.
The Touch Book uses an ARM processor, which means it won't require a fan and won't need much power. But company officials also say it'll be powerful enough to play video, and, even though it comes running Linux, that it can run other OSes as well. It may be significant, though, that the other OS they mentioned as an example was Android, not Vista. ARM processors are far from the most powerful chips on the planet.
The Touch Book certainly looked slick. You could pull the screen off of arms that connect it to the keyboard. At that point, the presenters said, the Touch Book would operate in any orientation depending on how you hold it, thanks to the same kind of accelerometers found in iPhones. Again, it
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Nizatidine belongs to the family of medications called H2-receptor antagonists. Nizatidine works by reducing the amount of acid
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secreted by the stomach. Reducing the acid helps to reduce the pain of stomach and intestinal ulcers and heartburn and to assist in the healing of ulcers and damage caused by gastroesophageal reflux disease. Nizatidine is also used to prevent duodenal (intestinal) ulcers in certain circumstances.
The adult dose of nizatidine ranges depending on the condition being treated. For the prevention of ulcers, the usual dose is 150 mg daily at bedtime. For the treatment of stomach and intestinal ulcers, the usual dose is 300 mg daily (either 150 mg twice a day or 300 mg at bedtime). For gastroesophageal reflux disease, the usual dose is 150 mg twice a day. Nizatidine may be taken with or without food. Antacids may be used along with nizatidine if extra relief from excess acid is needed.
It is important to take this medication regularly and exactly as prescribed
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Carino Processing will not be buying seals this year, but company CEO Dion Dakins says the decision is geared to improve the industry’s
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and the company’s viability in the years ahead.
Carino Processing will not be buying seal pelts or fat this year, but company CEO Dion Dakins says the decision is geared to improve the industry's and the company's viability in the years ahead.
Dakins said the company has inventory from previous hunts on hand.
However, he said they will be purchasing a limited amount of seal meat from harvesters who are participating.
As a result of the decision, Dakins said Carino has also decided not to access any of the $1 million loan announced last week by the provincial government.
"At this point we just want to focus our efforts on the sale of our existing inventory," Dakins told CBC's Fisheries Broadcast.
"It just falls into the basic concept of fiscal responsibility and the financial responsibility of our company to remain strong and be a significant player next year."
Dakins said the key to a viable operation for Carino and any
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Having a furry creature around for comfort may seem ideal to the stressed-out student. But with Pepperdine’s limited living premises,
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having a pet-friendly campus just isn’t a viable option.
Animals do not belong in the cramped dorm lifestyle. Most students have barely enough room for their own things in their small two or three person rooms. Animals need space to run around. When a room is barely big enough to hold its human tenants, how can another living creature be expected to reside in there comfortably?
Additionally, living with roommates (as most Pepperdine students do) is already tricky as it is. Throwing pets into the mix will only make things more complicated. Just because an owner may love their pet and all its weird habits does not mean that everyone else will. One may forgive their dog for destroying their shoes, but when that dog destroys their roommate’s things, it’s another story.
Furthermore, college life is not conducive to good pet care. Students are away for hours each day in class and other events where they cannot bring their pets. This means leaving
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McKamey Center Officials Say HES Funding "A Great Day For Animals In Our Region"
Officials of the McKamey Animal Center
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said the decision by the County Commission to provide $10 million toward a new facility for the Humane Educational Society (HES) was "a great day for animals in our region."
Lee Towery, Elisabeth Donnovin and Jamie McAloon said in a joint statement, "The board of directors and staff members wish to congratulate the Humane Educational Society and Director Bob Citrillio for their diligent efforts to seek a better life for the animals of Hamilton County.
"HES's staff and supporters’ commitment to improve the quality of life for the animals of Hamilton County has come to fruition thanks to their dedicated hard work.
"We look forward to continued collaborations between the two organizations, and we know that we all believe that the best interests of the animals and people in the community should always come first.
"Today was a great a day for the animals in our region!."
The statement was "on behalf of the board of directors and staff at McKamey
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Don't worry about the somewhat confusing interface. I'll tell you what you need to know to get started, and the excellent user guide can explain
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the rest.
The first time you run AndreaMosiac, the program will want to know what collection of photos it should use as source material to be your new creation's "pixels." To keep things simple, you might want to grab a hundred or so of your favorite photos and copy them to a new folder. Then, in AndreaMosiac, click Find Tiles. Click Create Collection, navigate to the folder with the source photos, and name your collection. It'll take a few minutes for AndreaMosiac to create the collection, so have some patience. When it's done, click Close. You'll be back on AndreaMosaic's main screen, where you need to fill in a few more details. In Step 2, for example, you need to enter a width for each tile. I suggest a number between 50 and 100 for this first mosaic.
The last step is to choose a photo to turn into a mosaic. AndreaMosiac is not going to change
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Dr. Beriah Frazier was Chattanooga's second mayor, though he later moved away to a farm near Knoxville. His nephew, Samuel Joseph Ab
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ner Frazier, had interesting experiences here during the Civil War and later returned to help develop North Chattanooga into a thriving suburb. Another kinsman was James Beriah Frazier, a Chattanooga lawyer who became a governor and U.S. senator.
The Fraziers traced back to Samuel Frazier, who was of Scotch descent though his family was in France when he was born in 1749. This Quaker family made its way to North Carolina, where Samuel Frazier in 1771 married Rebecca Julian. She was "a Huguenot of great beauty and culture." She was from Guilford County, N.C.
end of the Revolution, he moved his family to the lands available to veterans in western North Carolina (the later Tennessee). He settled in the section that became Greene County. Samuel Frazier helped organize the New Hope Meeting in Greene County in 1795. The Fraziers had arrived at Greene County about 1789 and they moved on to Knox County soon after 1800. Samuel Frazier was a delegate
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Bajaj Auto Ltd and TVS Motor Co., India’s second and third largest motorcycle makers, saw September sales plummet, the worst
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monthly decline in five years, even as they hope new models will drum up sales in the peak sales season ahead.
Bajaj Auto’s sales declined 23% last month from a year ago, while TVS Motor’s sales fell 29% as it sold 50% fewer motorcycles in September from the year-ago period.
Bucking the industry trend, Hero Honda Motors Ltd sold 4.3% more bikes in September. Hero Honda, the country’s biggest bike maker, has built up stocks before the festive months of October and November, Ravi Sud, chief financial officer said.
Bajaj Auto will produce more of its XCD DTS-Si motorcycles that it started selling last month and TVS will unveil a new 110cc StaR City.
These companies, in the world’s second largest motorcycle market, aim to revive sales during the festive season after five-year-high interest rates curbed demand in the past six months.
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GLEN ELDER — Carl Edwin Jordan, 75, passed on to his heavenly home Nov. 5, 2018. He was born July 13
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, 1943, in Beloit, to George Edwin Jordan and Clela Remus Jordan.
He attended Center Rural School, graduated from Beloit High School and following graduation he attended Kansas Wesleyan University, graduating with a degree in biology and laboratory sciences. Carl worked as a medical laboratorian assistant at Mitchell County Hospital and returned to farming and ranching in Mitchell County. Carl married Sharon Blasdel, Dec. 27, 1970, in Plevna. To this union were born two children, Shawna and Brian.
Carl enjoyed the farm way of life. At a very early age he raised hogs and started his own herd of registered Polled Hereford cattle which he had until he retired. Carl’s passion in life was conservation of the land. He devoted many years to working with Mitchell County Conservation District, the Kansas Association of Conservation Districts, serving as an officer for many years. He also served with the National Association of Conservation Districts for six years. Carl
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Who could have predicted that one of President Trump’s projects would be to root out institutional racism? Yet that’s the upshot
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of an internal memo which apparently launches a push to review university admissions policies for race-based discrimination. The memo is still not public but the Justice Department has said that, at least so far, the focus will be on one complaint filed by Asian-American groups against Harvard.
To be sure, the Supreme Court has said three times in the last 30 years that race can be “a factor” in admissions decisions, to be used to achieve the “compelling interest” of educational diversity. At least for another decade, when the 25-year clock that swing Justice Sandra Day O’Connor set in two 2003 University of Michigan cases runs out. In those cases, the Court struck down the use of a mechanical points system — five points if you’re a violin virtuoso, 20 points if you’re black — but upheld the law school’s supposedly more individualized, “holistic” review.
But can any school show
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I must say 10 News First numbers are impressive for summer. What is the comparison between last years numbers?
Tennis beat cricket yet again but Seven won the night. This time last year cricket (ODI) beat tennis and Seven won the night.
Seven News got a small boost in Melbourne after Nine News finished at 6.30pm to make way for AO pre-game show.
What is the comparison between last years numbers?
Roughly the same as this week last year for 10 News First, but overall FTA news numbers are generally lower so even maintaining the average is an achievement. Good result in Brisbane where 10 equalled the ABC 7pm News for the week.
This week: 438,000 - Last year 431,000.
First night that Seven has won since the start of the tennis. Nine was ahead in Sydney and Melbourne
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Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Dave Chappelle and Melissa McCarthy won the Creative Arts Emmys for guest actor and actress in a comedy
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Sunday.
They both earned their honors for their work on NBC's Saturday Night Live -- Chappelle for hosting and playing multiple characters in sketches and McCarthy for hosting and playing former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
Alexis Bledel won the award for guest actress in a drama series for her performance in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale and Gerald McRaney was named outstanding guest actor in a drama series for his work in the pilot episode of NBC's This Is Us.
HBO won a leading 16 Creative Arts Emmys.
Westworld picked up the prizes for interactive media; sound mixing for an hour-long drama or comedy series; special visual effects; and hair-styling and makeup (non-prosthetic) for a single-camera series; while The Night Of won for cinematography for a limited series or movie; sound editing for a limited series, movie or special; sound mixing for a limited series or movie; and single-camera picture editing for
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The security provider beat analyst estimates and swung to a profit.
What: Shares of network security solutions provider Barracuda Networks (NYSE:CU
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DA) soared on Friday following the company's first-quarter earnings report. At 11 a.m. ET, the stock was up about 17%.
So what: Barracuda reported first-quarter revenue of $86.7 million, up 11% year over year and nearly $3 million higher than the average analyst estimate. Recurring subscription revenue jumped 20% to $65.3 million, while appliance revenue declined 10%. The number of active subscribers rose 14% to 286,000.
Non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) came in at $0.20, up from $0.09 during the prior-year period and $0.09 higher than analysts were expecting. On a GAAP basis, Barracuda posted EPS of $0.05, up from a loss of $0.07 during the first quarter of 2015.
Our performance in the quarter was largely driven by execution on our strategy, which includes focusing our efforts to be the leader
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The Ark Encounter theme park is expected to be completed by 2014 if it can get funding. Gov. Steve Beshear says a for-profit
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business cannot be discriminated against because of subject matter.
FRANKFORT — A controversial Bible-themed amusement park received approval Thursday for up to $43 million in state tax incentives over a 10-year period.
The Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority, which oversees tax credits for tourism and film-related projects, unanimously approved the tax credit for the Ark Encounter project, which is scheduled to break ground in August outside Williamstown in Grant County.
In addition to the tax rebate, the state may spend an estimated $11 million to improve an interchange off I-75 near the 800-acre site in Northern Kentucky.
The park has been criticized by late-night talk show hosts and those who say the state should not give tax breaks to a business that espouses a particular religious view. But Gov. Steve Beshear has defended the incentives, saying the state cannot deny the application on religious grounds. The park alone could generate as many as 600 to 700 new jobs, according to a consultant
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This past week, four people were allegedly laid off at the Harvard Extension School without the school properly following union contract procedures.
Last year, continuing
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and executive education brought in over $450 million in tuition revenue — a growth of over 11.5 percent from the previous year and over 60 percent over the past seven years.
Huntington D. Lambert, dean of the Division of Continuing Education and Extension School, hailed the new program as a great addition to the School’s existing offerings.
Harvard Extension School held a convocation for admitted students for the first time in its 108-year history.
The Division of Continuing Education’s Grossman Library closed its doors permanently after merging with the larger Harvard College Library system.
The Division of Continuing Education has added two new fields of study, a joint bachelor’s and master’s degree program, and several new master’s capstone tracks.
The Extension School has grown its online course catalog significantly over the past few years, according to the dean of the Division of Continuing Education.
Simeon Bochev, Harvard Business School Lead Rep
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Over the last three decades, the number of women in prison has risen more than 800 percent. While this statistic is staggering, the numbers alone do
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not begin to reflect the deep disruption such incarcerations inflict on families, communities, the courts, and the public health system, says Catherine Cerulli, director of the University of Rochester’s Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership.
To explore the broader issue of women and the justice system, legal and medical professionals, women’s advocates, and former inmates will meet on Friday, June 21, for the first Justice Involved Women Conference.
“The term ‘justice involved’ describes women who are involved in our courts and prison system both in a professional capacity as well as defendants and prisoners,” said Cerulli, a co-creator of the conference.
Sponsored by the Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership and the Women’s Initiative Supporting Health (WISH) at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), the conference will serve as a discussion forum for topics like re-entry, funding challenges,
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Editor's note: The three members of the second Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition are filing weekly dispatches of their 1,000-mile, 10-
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week journey to highlight the value of keeping an open pathway through the state for wildlife. Here is the story of the ninth week.
Our team likes to joke that you can forecast when the next winter storm is arriving just by scanning the expedition itinerary, as bad weather is perfectly timed with the first day of each of the planned backcountry, fully self-supported legs of our trek. We're proud of this unerring correlation when we look back, and humbly resigned to this truth when planning and packing out the next mini-journey in our adventure.
True to form, our first day of backpacking on Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle was rainy and wet, followed by cool and windy and then cold and windy. We did our best to defy the elements for a time, blocking the wind from the camp stove, starting a fire and feeding it, moving closer and closer to the hot coals until the desire to get in our sleeping bags overpowered
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Home InDepth Op-Eds Will Defeating Islamic State Take More Than A Generation?
U.S. General (Ret.) John Allen
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, the senior American envoy for the coalition fighting Islamic State (IS), says it will take “a generation or more” to defeat the radical Muslim organization.
One may assume that what Allen means by such a statement is that IS will be holding on to territory for a long period of time. Allen added that if IS were not defeated, it would wreak ever-greater havoc on the world order.
It seems bizarre that anybody would choose to make such long-term forecasts, the more so as earlier this year President Obama asked Congress to approve a three-year military campaign.
But Allen’s remarks, whether realistic or not, can serve for more detailed reflection on what it would mean if, years from now, IS were to control territory of a substantial size.
As far as the Muslim world is concerned, the Arab Spring has already added Libya, Yemen, and Syria to the roster of failed countries. The continued existence of IS might lead to Iraq and possibly
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Some 12pc of digital subscriber loop (DSL) broadband subscribers will switch to fixed WiMax connections within the next five years, new research claims
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A new analysis of the global opportunity for WiMax 802.16e by Juniper forecasts that up to 12pc of the global DSL installed base will be substituted by WiMax by 2013.
The Far East will lead with over one fifth of the 47 million subscribers in 2013.
WiMax technology is at a fairly nascent stage in the Irish economy. Eircom has a detailed rollout plan for the deployment of WiMax in urban areas across the country. Intel is performing WiMax-related R&D in the Leixlip area.
The main champion of WiMax in Ireland has been Irish Broadband, which was acquired last week by Imagine for €47m. WiMax technology – which allows mobile operators to roll out 10Mbps to 25Mbps wireless broadband over a distance of up to 10-15 miles – will allow Imagine to offer next-generation voice and data services to business and residential customers across Ireland.
“Strategically, we have acquired substantial network and
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Inside The Mind Of An Alleged Teen School Shooter: Plot To Kill "50-60"
As a teen allegedly slaughtered 17 people at a
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high school in Florida, a judge was deciding whether another accused school shooter in South Carolina should be tried as an adult.
Jesse Osborne allegedly opened fire on an elementary school playground in South Carolina.
Six days before he allegedly opened fire on an elementary school playground, the eighth-grader returned to his Instagram group chat to fixate, yet again, on his most intense interests: guns and bombs and the mass murder of children.
"My plan," wrote Jesse Osborne, who had turned 14 three weeks earlier, "is shooting my dad getting his keys getting in his truck, driving to the elementary school 4 mins away, once there gear up, shoot out the bottom school class room windows, enter the building, shoot the first class which will be the 2d grade, grab teachers keys so I don't have to hasle to get through any doors."
He had been researching other school shooters for months and, determined to outdo them, learned exactly how many people they'd murdered
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Miles Johnson a resource manager at the Little Rock District’s, Russellville Site Office will be retiring on April 30 with more than 38
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years with the Corps of Engineers.
Hobbies: Bird watching, working on old vehicles, landscaping, woodworking/carpentry, back country traveling.
You have been with the district for more than 38 years, how has your job changed over the years?
When I first came to work in Jan. 1978, four rangers shared a single rotary dial telephone that swiveled between us on an accordion arm. Drafting a disposition form was a rare treat, accomplished by only the most senior staff. Fax machines came along enabling electronic queries with the reasonable expectation of same day responses.
What can I say about modern improvements? You never get away from the job unless a server or cell tower goes down. If you lose internet connectivity, you’re out of business. Field staffs have exceptional mapping tools at their disposal with a click of a button. Early in my career, we relied on Real Estate Segment maps and quad sheets. They don�
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Carol Marin: Whatever happened to Rahm the Reformer?
In his bid for re-election, Rahm Emanuel slipped into a fuzzy
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sweater and a softer “I hear you” style.Yes, he’d made mistakes. Bashing the teachers. Closing schools in poor communities while building new ones — plus opening more charters — in wealthier, whiter places. Refusing to admit his speed cameras were really a revenue grab more than they were “for the children” and public safety.
In the campaign of 2015, the mayor assured us, sitting beside his ever-present water bottle, that he was really listening.
But for Emanuel, it’s never been about listening so much as it has been about controlling the narrative so that we heard only what he was willing to tell us. Not what we asked to know. Five years of reporter battles with his administration over access to public documents establish that fact.
Friends of Emanuel vehemently insist that the horror of the police execution of Laquan McDonald in October of 2014 and the failure to acknowledge its horror until just days after the mayor won
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Computers at the S.C. Department of Revenue have been attacked by a foreign hacker, exposing about 3.6 million taxpayer Social Security numbers
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COLUMBIA - Computers at the S.C. Department of Revenue have been attacked by a foreign hacker, exposing about 3.6 million taxpayer Social Security numbers.
About 387,000 credit and debit card numbers also were exposed.
Not all taxpayer information was affected by the computer server breech, said Gov. Nikki Haley during a news conference at S.C. Law Enforcement Division headquarters Friday afternoon.
Mike Williams, the director of the Secret Service in South Carolina, said the breech is one of the largest the agency has seen but not the largest.
The offense is believed to date to Aug. 27, 2012, officials said.
Anyone who has filed a state tax return since 1998 is being asked to visit protectmyid.com/scdor or call 1-866-578-5422 to determine if their information is affected. The state will provide those affected with one year of credit monitoring and identify-theft protection, officials said.
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Transforming testing is emerging as a stealth strategy to take your digital transformation initiatives to the next level.
Do we really know the business risks associated
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with the new software we design, build, test, and implement? Will the new capabilities we invested so much time and resources in actually function and perform and expected, or will they draw the ire of customer? Getting answers to these questions is the last “Holy Grail” of IT. Unfortunately, most IT stakeholders focus on the number of tests that are successfully run, not whether the tests are providing insight into critical business risks.
It is a rare enterprise CIO who likes to dive into software testing methodologies. But, IT leaders at all levels might be intrigued to learn what an archaic and ineffective process most enterprises are using to test the innovations driving their digital transformation initiatives. The way it’s commonly done, testing is an expensive activity that holds back your innovation—without providing clear insight into the business risks of your applications.
As an industry veteran with experience across a broad swath of industries, I can tell you that transforming testing is emerging as a stealth strategy to take your digital
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A four-day Bangalore Health Festival will be held in the city from April 27 to provide a platform for stakeholders in the healthcare industry to interact with
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the public on general health.
Organised by TV House Network Pvt Ltd, the festival will be held at Tripuravasini, Palace Grounds. The festival aims at increasing awareness on preventive healthcare. “The mortality rate has come down, but the quality of life too has suffered. New diseases have come to the fore. Skyrocketing costs of medicine and treatment are the primary causes for this,” said festival director Deepak Thimmaiah.
Even as there are good hospitals and skilled experts as well as insurance policies which prioritise patient care, people are skeptical about the medical field. This is mainly due to lack of awareness, he said, adding the festival aimed at familiarising the common man with the medical field.
The festival will have activities such as open house, talks by specialists, health check-up, hospital promotion and presentation booths, panel discussions, debates and streetplays. A committee of five prominent doctors from Karnataka
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A computer fault delayed a number of flights out of UK airports this morning.
National Air Traffic Services (NATS) said its Flight Data Processing
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(FDP) system at West Drayton developed a fault today at 0930 but was restored to full operations by 0950.
Nats said restrictions that were imposed on flights as a result of the fault led to delays for some travellers — but added that the restrictions have been lifted and controllers are working to clear the backlog.
According to the BBC, 100 flights at Heathrow Airport were directly affected by the fault as no planes were allowed to take off for 40 minutes.
But NATS emphasised "throughout the period, NATS controllers were able to operate normally using radar and radio systems which were unaffected."
Maastricht Air Traffic Control Centre also suffered a service interruption from 1000 this morning. NATS said that while there is no reason to believe the failures are connected this will also lead to further travel delays.
Ian Hall, director of operations at NATS, said: "We sincerely apologise to those who have been inconvenienced this morning. We did everything we
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan police are holding a Ghanaian preacher over a stage magic device they fear may dupe people into
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believing they have experienced miracles.
Customs officials seized the Electric Touch device — which magicians use to give small electric shocks to volunteers — from “Prophet” Obiri Yeboah at the airport last week, the state owned New Vision daily reported on Tuesday.
The pastor heads one of many Pentecostal churches in Uganda, receiving large sums of money from congregations seeking miracle cures for diseases or help with financial problems.
The Electric Touch device is usually sold in magic shops alongside card tricks, magic coins and disappearing balls.
“With a simple touch, make a fluorescent bulb glow on and off at your command, make confetti move, charge a spoon and watch as it shocks a volunteer!” says one online magic shop selling the device.
“People could be duped to think it is a miracle,” the New Vision quoted Civil Aviation Authority security chief Herman Owomugisha as saying.
Officials are worried about the proliferation
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Major multinational aid funding may be cut unless it provides better value for money, International Development Secretary Priti Patel has said.
More than £
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4bn of UK aid goes to global organisations such as the World Bank.
In an interview in Kenya with the BBC's James Landale, Ms Patel also said that she wanted to use the aid budget to help pave the way for trade deals.
But Labour said Ms Patel had "no mandate" for changing how aid was given and called on her to abandon the plans.
Ms Patel, who was speaking on her first visit to Africa since she was appointed to her new role, witnessed what some of her department's £12bn budget is supporting on the ground.
She saw humanitarian aid being delivered, via a payment card that gives Kenyan women £20 a month from the British taxpayer to buy the food they need to survive.
She said: "We have to make sure that our aid works in our national interest and also that it works for our taxpayers. Much more openness, much more transparency and much more accountability."
She is about to publish a review of the work of big
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We’re just four days away from Election Day, and voter suppression schemes continue to strike—as does the push back against them. The
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aftermath of Hurricane Sandy may mark an additional, and unforeseen barrier to the vote. Meanwhile, everyday people will contribute to the way we understand this election than ever before.
As seen above, Video the Vote is empowering communities to document what happens Tuesday, from long lines to voter machine failures. Their new promo video encourages voters to sign up, monitor hot spots, and hashtag shared social media content with #VideoTheVote.
The Advancement Project has also released a short series of films, produced by Stanley Nelson, that focus on people whose right to vote was threatened this year. The inspirational films encourage people to get out and vote.
Political organizers in Virginia are working down to the wire and putting boots to the ground to influence the vote in the remaining days before the election. The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy has political pundits are making all sorts of predictions for which way Virginia will swing come Election Day. The anticipation of massive storm forced the closing of twenty-one voter registrar offices offering early absentee voting
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Jure Robic, the Slovene soldier who might be the worldÂs best ultra-endurance athlete, lives in
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a small fifth-floor apartment near the railroad tracks in the town of Koroska Bela. By nature and vocation, Robic is a sober-minded person, but when he appears at his doorway, he is smiling. Not a standard-issue smile, but a wild and fidgety grin, as if he were trying to contain some huge and mysterious secret.
Robic catches himself, strides inside and proceeds to lead a swift tour of his spare, well-kept apartment. Here is his kitchen. Here is his bike. Here are his wife, Petra, and year-old son, Nal. Here, on the coffee table, are whiskey, Jägermeister, bread, chocolate, prosciutto and an inky, vegetable-based soft drink he calls Communist Coca-Cola, left over from the old days. And here, outside the window, veiled by the nightly ice fog, stand the Alps and the Austrian border. Rob
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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Detroit Tigers rookie starter Michael Fulmer breezed through eight scoreless innings and entered the ninth with a seemingly safe 7
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-0 lead.
But he still had to sweat every pitch.
Yes, Fulmer had to retire the Texas Rangers for a final time, but he also had to do so before his pitch count climbed so high that manager Brad Ausmus would have no choice but to make a switch.
When he gave up a lead-off single to Nomar Mazara, Fulmer glanced over to the dugout.
When he started Ian Desmond off with three straight balls, he knew he was only one ball away from being pulled. He fought back to strike Desmond out.
Texas slugger Carlos Beltran was to be Fulmer's final batter one way or another. A hit, and Fulmer's day was done. Instead Beltran hit a sharp grounder to Ian Kinsler for the third out, giving Fulmer the first shutout and complete game of his career.
"It's special because it's the first, and hopefully there are many more to come in my
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1. "Going broad" and reaching a diversity of audiences across non-traditional media platforms such as entertainment film and television, new genres of documentary
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film, new forms of multi-media storytelling, new genres involving satire and comedy, and through collaborations with the creative arts.
2. "Going deep" and creating new non-profit forms of digital science journalism, especially at the local or regional level, that offer rich reservoirs of information via content contributed by professional journalists, experts, citizen journalists, and that is re-purposed, re-mixed, and commented on by a variety of users.
3. "Going direct" and creating institutionally sponsored media in the form of videos, blogs, and other forms of interactive media.
On this third strategy, a leading example appears today in the form of the National Science Foundation's Science Nation, a weekly multi-media magazine "that's all about science for people" [News Release].
The initiative has been part of the buzz among the science policy cognoscenti here in DC for sometime and today marks its launch with a report on "extremophiles" research
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Eaton senior Maley Tinstman tips the ball over the net during the Eagles match with Dixie on Tuesday, Aug. 21. Eaton
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swept the Greyhounds 25-13, 25-7, 25-18. The Eagles are 3-0 after wins over National Trail, Dixie and Oakwood.
EATON — Eaton’s volleyball team is off to a 3-0 start after the first week of the season.
The Eagles picked up wins over National Trail, Dixie and Oakwood.
Eaton opened the season with a 25-9, 25-17, 25-11 win at National Trail on Monday, Aug. 20.
Shay Perry and Courtney Giffen each had six kills, while Ava Miller added five. Maley Tinstman had 22 assists. Kayleigh Michael led the team with four aces.
On Tuesday, Eaton cruised by visiting Dixie in straight sets 25-13, 25-7, 25-18.
Miller led the team with eight kills. Perry added seven, while Giffen and Kylee Pitsinger added six
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Rubbish dumped at the rear of Bideford Street in the Grangetown area of Sunderland.
Two fly-tippers have been
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fined after leaving rubbish dumped in streets.
Amy Spraggon and Helen Ritson have both been convicted following hearings at Sunderland Magistrates' Court.
Rubbish found dumped in the Ryhope Street area of Grangetown, Sunderland.
Spraggon, of Ryhope Street, in Grangetown, had left waste outside her property on 22 September last year.
In mitigation, magistrates were told Spraggon, who was in receipt of benefits, was waiting for a relative to remove the waste.
Magistrates ordered her to pay a fine of £60, clean-up costs of £70.46 and council legal costs of £210.00 - a total of £370.46.
The case was brought after the council received information from a member of the public about fly-tipping at the rear of the address in Ryhope Street and more tipping only a few metres away in Bideford Street.
The council's statement
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Which Type of Company is Best for Your Business?
Namely, should you incorporate, form a Limited Liability Company (LLC), or
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remain sole proprietor of your business?
It can certainly be alarming to think that this decision really matters. But truthfully, business advisers agree — it can be one of the most glaring wrong decisions that entrepreneurs make as they’re just starting out.
By default, the IRS will assume that your business is a sole proprietorship unless you claim otherwise. Often, this is what self-employed contractors do, and they never change. If this is your choice, however, remember that your business and personal funds will be considered jointly in a sole proprietorship. This means that if someone sues you, they can go after your personal assets as well as your business assets.
Being sole proprietor also means that all revenues will be subject to taxes. In most states, if a business name is used other than the name of the owner in a sole proprietorship, you’ll need to register that name. For more information on this, look up “Doing Business As
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The state's largest business association said Wednesday that it was disappointed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's decision to extend tax surcharges that
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he had promised were temporary.
Reimposing the surcharges may have allowed Malloy to say that his budget contained "no new taxes," but the Connecticut Business & Industry Association questioned the long-term consequences of extending the levies, which were instituted two years ago as an emergency budget-balancing measure.
"Our priority is getting the economy moving," John R. Rathgeber, president and chief executive of CBIA, said in a phone interview. "Until we restore business confidence in this state... we are not going to end this budget shortfall."
The surcharges most notably affect taxes on electric-generation facilities and corporations over the next two fiscal years. These levies alone are expected to bring more than $270 million to state coffers over that period.
Another measure that was set to expire, a limit on the insurance premium tax credit, will bring in additional revenue if it is extended as well.
Steven Lanza, a University of Connecticut economist, said it is
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John Birdeno hitched up the holster around his waist, drew his pistol and spun it with his thumb and forefinger.
Just like the
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cowboys in the movies of his youth.
"I found this one in a box of junk I bought for $20," he explained as he slipped the one-time movie prop back into its holster.
Birdeno's collection of cowboy memorabilia started after he was asked to give a program for his son's third-grade class and the few pieces he had obtained barely covered a card table. The collection has since blossomed into thousands of pieces - enough to fill a museum.
And that's where they're headed.
With the help of a volunteer board likewise dedicated to the days of the Old West, Birdeno, 67, has established the Silver Screen Cowboy Museum on U.S. 50, two miles west of Newton.
A sneak preview is planned for Feb. 14, with a catered Valentine's Day dinner and a program. Movie cowboy Dale Berry will open the show, with ZERF, the singing cowboy from Manhattan, presenting his "six-string justice
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It had been a hectic day for Shaharyar M. Khan. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman, on his first visit
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to Karachi after beginning his second stint at the helm of PCB, carried out a series of meetings and also addressed what was quite an explosive media conference at the National Stadium Friday afternoon.
Our meeting for an interview was lined up for the evening and as I entered his hotel my fears were that I might be interrupting his nap. But just minutes later, Shaharyar entered the room in a sporty outfit that included a bright-coloured ICC T-shirt. I greeted him with a “You look good, sir!” comment and he replied with a beaming smile: “Well, I expect that after a good swim”.
There is a brief chitchat but well aware that Shaharyar has to leave for a few pressing commitments we get down to business almost straightaway. The interview begins with the inevitable question as to what prompted him to accept a role that was snatched away prematurely from him and that too at the ripe old age of 80. We
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Jacob Hale Russell is assistant professor of law at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Justice Kennedy’s retirement has prompted a chorus
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of cries by Democrats to resuscitate a seemingly unlikely idea: “packing” the Supreme Court.
For would-be packers, expanding the court from nine to 11 justices, if and when the Democrats take back executive and legislative power, provides the only opportunity to regain a liberal majority on the court. A packing approach, in proponents’ view, is justified by the need to “fight dirty” in exigent times. The equally vociferous refrain of anti-packers worries about protecting the integrity of court: It’s not worth compromising the institution, they say, for a temporary policy result.
The battle over court packing is being fought on the wrong terms. Americans of all political stripes should want to see the court expanded, but not to get judicial results more favorable to one party. Instead, we need a bigger court because the current institutional design is badly broken. The right approach isn’t a revival of FDR’s court packing plan
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"Living Mas" may soon include more vegetables. Taco Bell announced it will test a dedicated vegetarian menu, new menu items and in-restaur
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ant menu boards later this year.
The company, based in Oak Brook, Illinois, says it's the first time it has flipped its Golden Arches logo since it first appeared at a restaurant six decades ago.
In December 2017, Alexander Acosta announced a new proposed regulation to allow restaurant owners to pocket tips of millions of workers. This would result in an estimated $5.8 billion in lost wages each year - wages that they rightfully earned.
Establishments are ditching plastic straws as public backlash grows against the ubiquitous convenience.
The Trump Department of Labor, backed by the National Restaurant Association, is moving quickly to push a new rule that will make tips the property of employers rather than workers. We can't let them get away with this #TipTheft.
MoveOn Petitions - Tell Andy Puzder, the CEO of Hardee's and Carl's Jr., That HE'S the Problem!
Petition by Fight for $15 To be delivered to
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MOSCOW — Olympic figure skating medalist Denis Ten was killed Thursday, and prosecutors in Kazakhstan said they were treating the case as murder.
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Ten was stabbed after a dispute with people who allegedly tried to steal a mirror from his car in his home city of Almaty, Kazakh news agencies reported. Doctors in Almaty say the 25-year-old skater died in the hospital there.
Born in Kazakhstan to a family of Korean descent, Ten moved to Los Angeles in 2009 to train with Frank Carroll, the longtime coach of five-time World champion Michelle Kwan and Evan Lysacek, the 2010 Olympic champion. Ten’s bronze at the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014 made him Kazakhstan’s first medalist in figure skating.
He was considered a longshot for a medal in Sochi because in the months leading up to the Olympics he suffered a series of injuries and illness. Still he managed to take the bronze medal at the Olympic Games.
The International Skating Union said it was “deeply saddened” by news of Ten’s death.
Ten also won the Four
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accenture has been chosen to replace CGI Federal as the lead contractor for the Obamacare enrollment website, which failed to work when
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it launched in October for millions of Americans shopping for health insurance, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said on Saturday.
CGI Federal, a subsidiary of CGI Group, built the website, HealthCare.gov, which was plagued by error messages and slow speeds for weeks after the launch. The glitches created a political crisis for President Barack Obama, threatening the roll-out of his signature healthcare law and emboldening Republican foes to call for its repeal.
“As CMS moves forward in our efforts to help consumers access quality, affordable health coverage, we have selected Accenture to become the lead contractor for the HealthCare.gov portal and to prepare for next year’s open enrollment period,” the agency said in a statement.
CGI Federal said on Friday that its contract, which was originally awarded in 2011 and is scheduled to end February 28, would not be renewed.
Accenture said the contract was worth $45 million for the initial phase of
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Whether you’re tuk-tukking through Chiang Mai or strolling the Champs-Élysées, a few
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key apps like Uber, Google Trips, and Google Translate will take the kinks out of any itinerary. But for a real power-up, try these ninja-level favorites.
You won’t catch a Pokémon with this AR app, but you will learn about those winged horse-fish creatures in the Trevi Fountain. Just point your phonecam and it annotates the scene with pop-ups on everything from ancient ruins to taco stands.
Lose yourself in the mysteries and histories of the world’s great cities with this superb walking-tour app. Detour tracks your location to cue the audio, so it’s all hands-free and you can go at your own pace. In 10 cities so far.
Wherever you find yourself, pick your next destination and Rome2rio will plot the best way to get there—whether it be planes, trains, and automobiles or buses, ferries, and bike shares. It�
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When it comes to the ratings for Super Bowl XLVI, the numbers were appropriately giant.
According to the Nielsen fast nationals released on Monday afternoon
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, the New York Giants’ victory over the New England Patriots was seen by 111.3 million total viewers, edging out last year’s match-up (which drew an even 111 million) to become the most-watched television program in U.S. history.
With a 47.0 overnight rating and a 71 share (up 2 percent from Super Bowl XLV), this year’s Big Game stands as the highest-rated Super Bowl since 1986 (when the Bears played the Patriots).
As for the Season 2 premiere The Voice that led out of the Super Bowl: It averaged 37.6 million total viewers and a 16.3 demo rating, making it the highest-rated entertainment program in six years (since Grey’s Anatomy‘s own apres-Super Bowl outing). What’s more, The Voice improved on Glee‘s year-ago post-Super Bowl showcase by 47 percent in the 18-49 demo
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Trick-or-treating is done for the year, kids have collected their bags of loot, and parents everywhere are plotting to lighten
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those loads of treats. Halloween treats can put big smiles on the faces of children and give parents nightmares. Parents these days worry less about the random psychotic person putting poison or razors in the candy than they do about the sheer amount of sugar their child will be consuming over the next few weeks.
Epidemics of obesity, attention deficit disorders, and food allergies have made parents much more conscious of what their children are consuming on a day to day basis. Some studies have shown that some food substances, like sugar, can actually be addictive and habit forming. Any parent who has been chased through the house by a child begging, cajoling, or bargaining for just “one more” Halloween treat would probably find that conclusion to be a no-brainer. More and more events are being celebrated with food, mostly sweet treats, but none of them approach the sheer volume of Halloween. The treats collected from Halloween can fill entire pillow cases, and if doled out judiciously,
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – A federal judge ordered a young woman charged with leaking classified U.S. documents to remain jailed until her
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trial after prosecutors argued Thursday she might possess more stolen government secrets.
Wearing an orange jumpsuit and leg shackles, Winner pleaded not guilty in U.S. district court to charges that she illegally retained and transmitted national defense information. The federal crime carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison if she's convicted.
Authorities haven't described the report or named the news outlet. But the Justice Department announced Winner's arrest Monday as The Intercept reported it had obtained a classified National Security Agency report suggesting Russian hackers attacked a U.S. voting software supplier before last year's presidential election. The NSA report was dated May 5, the same as the document Winner is charged with leaking.
Prosecutors warned U.S. Magistrate Judge Brian Epps that Winner might have more stolen secrets. Solari said investigators have learned Winner inserted a portable hard drive in a top-secret Air Force computer before she left the military
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InterOil (NYSE: IOC) reported earnings on May 13. Here are the numbers you need to know.
For the quarter ended March 31
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(Q1), InterOil beat expectations on revenues and beat expectations on earnings per share.
Compared to the prior-year quarter, revenue expanded. GAAP earnings per share shrank significantly.
InterOil tallied revenue of $350.3 million. The two analysts polled by S&P Capital IQ wanted to see revenue of $309.4 million on the same basis. GAAP reported sales were the same as the prior-year quarter's.
EPS came in at $0.08. The two earnings estimates compiled by S&P Capital IQ predicted -$0.12 per share. GAAP EPS of $0.08 for Q1 were 58% lower than the prior-year quarter's $0.19 per share.
Next quarter's average estimate for revenue is $255.7 million. On the bottom line, the average EPS estimate is -$0.07.
Next year's average estimate for revenue is $1.69 billion. The average EPS
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The government has directed all universities and higher educational institutions across the country to ensure that no fees payments are made by students in cash mode from the upcoming
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academic session.
New Delhi: The government has directed all universities and higher educational institutions across the country to ensure that no fees payments are made by students in cash mode from the upcoming academic session. The HRD Ministry has asked the University Grants Commission (UGC) to issue necessary advisory to all higher educational institutions that all monetary transactions should be done using digital modes of payment.
"All receipts and payments related to the functioning of the institutions including student fees, exam fees, vendor payments and salary/wage payments shall be made 'only' through online or digital modes," the directive sent to university heads said.
"For all students' service in the hostels, digital mode should be used for all transactions. All canteens and business establishments on the campus may be encouraged to resort to only digital modes for their receipts and payments using the BHIM app by linking their bank accounts with Aadhaar," it added.
The varsities have been asked to identify all transactions being carried out in cash
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Accra, March 30, GNA - The Management of the Accra Training College on Tuesday appealed to the Government to as a matter of urgency
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, intervene on the school's behalf and reclaim its land from encroachers. The Management alleged that encroachers, with the support of the chief and people of Mempehuasem in the Madina area in Accra, had now taken over 68.8 hectares of the 91 hectares on the School's land that was acquired by the Government-Executive Instrument (EI 72) in 1972 for the College. The Management said the School was currently occupying a land area of 20 hectares, which it said, was woefully inadequate for urgent expansion works.
Mr Abu Bakar Wallace, Principal of the College, who took the press round the land, said the encroachment situation had become so serious that all expansion works had to be halted until a proper negotiation was arrived at between the Chief and the school authorities. He mentioned that the school needed to expand its boarding facilities introduced three years ago, as well as build a new library complex, an ICT centre, a distant learning centre and a demonstration school
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Ever since it was announced back in February, Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix show The Get Down has been laying down a steady stream
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of casting notices in an effort to build up interest in the project, a fictionalized re-telling of the history of punk and hip-hop in ’70s New York. But while some announcements have been met with mild approval—hey, Jimmy Smits—and others less so—hey, Jaden Smith—the show’s cast of mostly young newcomers hasn’t managed to generate much name recognition or passion. That might be about to change, though, as certified A.V. Club hero and Breaking Bad star Giancarlo Esposito has signed on to the project, playing a fiery preacher who’s the brother of Smits’ well-connected political boss.
Besides his star-making turn as chicken impresario and dapper supervillain Gustavo Fring on Vince Gilligan’s critical monster, Esposito has had a long and storied career, including a role in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing
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"Invasion day" rally organiser Tarneen Onus-Williams does not apologise for saying she hoped Australia would ''burn to the ground
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" but says her words should not be taken literally.
Ms Onus-Williams stood on the steps of Victoria's Parliament on Australia Day in front of thousands of people and told the crowd: "F--- Australia, hope it burns to the ground."
"All you fellas in your Australian flags should be ashamed of yourselves."
Ms Onus-Williams, 24, has since moved to clarify her comments and said her words were a metaphor for the political system in Australia that continued "to ignore and oppress" Aboriginal people.
"It's been an emotional day and it was a strong statement, but I am not going to apologise for it,” Ms Onus-Williams who identifies as a Yigar Gunditjmara and Bindal woman said.
“I don't have all the answers of what is going to liberate us. I just know the current system isn't working. Since colonisation nothing has worked for blackfellas on this land."
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Paul M. Weyrich, the conservative thinker and strategist whose iron principles, articulate fervor and organization-building skills were instrumental in propelling
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the right wing of the Republican Party to power and prominence in the 1980s and ’90s, died Thursday. He was 66 and lived in Fairfax, Va.
Lee Edwards, a friend of Mr. Weyrich’s for four decades and a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative research group that Mr. Weyrich helped found, confirmed the death, at a hospital in Northern Virginia. The family did not release a cause, Mr. Edwards said, but Mr. Weyrich had many health problems, including diabetes. His legs were amputated at the knee in 2005, and he had broken his back in a fall some years earlier.
A writer, a lobbyist and an organizer on behalf of conservative causes and especially social conservatism, Mr. Weyrich (pronounced WY-rick) was one of the far right’s most unbending ideologues. He was widely credited with coining the phrase “moral majority” as
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Knox County Schools is reviewing a "communications breakdown" around a report of school violence, including whether there will be disciplinary action.
Knox
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County Schools is reviewing a communications breakdown around a reported threat of school violence, including whether the principal will face disciplinary action for failure to report it to authorities, according to the superintendent.
"There is going to be accountability for not following the protocol," Superintendent Bob Thomas told USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee on Tuesday.
In the interview,Thomas said there was a "breakdown in communication" between law enforcement and school officials about the threat that led to delays in police being able to investigate.
Authorities ultimately determined there was no immediate threat to safety, but the incident exposed problems with the school safety system, including law enforcement using a wrong phone number for the schools security chief and the recent breakdown of Text-a-Tip, a text messaging system the public can use to report threats to school safety.
What's protocol for reporting threats?
Thomas said the proper protocol for how to handle threats of school violence was not followed. Specifically, Holston Middle School Principal Kathryn Lutton should have reported
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The ballots are in! While fashion has always had its politics, this year’s International Best-Dressed List includes Barack and Michelle Obama
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, Michael Bloomberg and Diana Taylor, and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, alongside Hollywood stars (Brad Pitt, Penélope Cruz, Daniel Craig), royals (H.R.H. Princess Letizia of Asturias), and businessmen (Arpad Busson, Alejandro Santo Domingo), among others. Now it’s your chance to get in on the vote. Which outfit looks best on today’s honoree? Plus: See photos of everyone who made the best-dressed roster.
Based in London and Hampshire, England, Nicky Haslam is a “professional interior designer, amateur architect, fledgling cabaret singer, and author” (his words) who names Mark Ronson, King Stanislas of Poland, and Lucian Freud as his style icons. He says he likes dressing both up and down, but he prefers buttons to cuff links (“Cuff links are aging and studs
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With the strike of a gilded sledge hammer, the $46.5 million renovation of the Alley Theatre ceremoniously began at midday on the
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Hubbard Stage. Wearing a commemorative hard hat, Roger Plank, co-chair of the Extended Engagement Capital Campaign which includes cost of the renovation, took a swing at one of the stage columns and unexpectedly pulled off an entire side of sheetrock.
Applause sounded throughout the theater as Alley patrons, actors and fans celebrated the launch of the renovation which is set to transform the 52-year-old building into a state-of-the-art theater. With work expected to be completed by late August 2015, the company will perform in the interim at the University of Houston's Lyndall Finley Wortham Theatre.
"When this theater was created, it was the state of the art at the time," said Gregory Boyd, Alley artistic director. "All these years later... what we're looking to do is to increase the focus between an actor and the audience member and trying to increase the breadth of who we consider the public we want to serve and what the
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Why Shouldn't We Celebrate Osama's Death?
And there are many martyrs.
All the good should count and not the evil
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But rather their help, so that they may cease their fury.
and that this peace may come also to the others.
... we might try to understand exactly what loving your neighbour as yourself means. I have to love him as I love myself. Well, how exactly do I love myself?
Now that I come to think of it, I have not exactly got a feeling of fondness or affection for myself, and I do not even always enjoy my own society. So apparently "Love your neighbour" does not mean "feel fond of him" or "find him attractive". I ought to have seen that before, because, of course, you cannot feel fond of a person by trying. Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? Well I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments) but that is not why I love myself. In fact it is the other way round: my self-love makes
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MEXICO CITY – The mayor of a city in Durango state was among more than a dozen people murdered in Mexico in the past two days
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, officials said.
Manuel Estrada Escalante, mayor of the city of El Mezquital, was gunned down at a restaurant on Monday night.
The 34-year-old Estrada Escalante, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, was buried on Tuesday.
At least six gunmen attacked the mayor and lawmaker Mariano Soto, who is listed in serious condition at a hospital, Mexican media reported.
Ramon Mendivil Sotelo, mayor of the city of Guadalupe y Calvo, was murdered last Thursday, Chihuahua state officials said.
A group of around 20 gunmen, meanwhile, killed 13 people, including five police officers, in a community in the southern state of Oaxaca, a municipal official said.
The gunmen went into two houses in the community of Vicente Camalote and killed eight people, including some children, Acatlan de Perez Figueroa Mayor Nicolas Villal
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NIKKI Bardis came up with a clever solution for a common problem babies face — and mums are going crazy for it.
A
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VICTORIAN entrepreneur raked in $100,000 in 10 weeks after discovering a simple solution to a common problem faced by new mums — bald babies.
That’s right. Because babies spend so much time lying down, the friction caused by rubbing the backs of their heads against the bedding often causes hair loss.
Nikki Bardis came up with the solution — silk cot slips — and mums are going crazy for it. “Ask anybody that has a child, they’ve noticed bald spots,” the 34-year-old from Mount Eliza on the Mornington Peninsula said.
Ms Bardis, originally from Scotland, recalled that her grandmother swore by silk pillowcases — so she bought an adult one and tucked it into the bassinet as an experiment.
Silk pillowcases were growing in popularity — one Australian manufacturer is predicting sales of $50 million in the next few years — but Ms Bardis realised there was a gap
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Just days after his release from a VA hospital in Palo Alto, California, Army veteran Terry O'Hearn took his own life.
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WASHINGTON, DC — Terry O'Hearn came into the world a fighter, his mother, Robin, says.
But after serving in the Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, she says, he changed.
"He wasn't as happy-go-lucky," she said. "He seemed to pull back from all of us."
O'Hearn battled post-traumatic stress disorder for years. In 2016, he put a homemade shotgun to his chest and fired. He survived, spending the next few weeks in a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Sacramento, California.
As her son recovered, Robin worried what he would do when he left the VA hospital. She says she begged the hospital to keep him. "He's isolated himself," she remembers saying. "Please do not let him go. Do not let him go home alone."
He stayed in the hospital for a total of two weeks. Just days after his release, O'Hearn, 30,
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We loved the design of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, we loved the 4.2-inch 854 x 480 display, we loved the
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8.1-megapixel camera and we even found that Sony Ericsson’s user interface wasn’t too bad. But what we were a little suspect of was the processing power, or rather the power moving forward.
The Xperia Arc S finds itself with not only a run of software updates that have rolled out to the Xperia line in recent weeks, but an upgrade to a 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 chipset, mirroring the recent upgrade we saw from Samsung to make the Galaxy S Plus.
With a design as stunning as the Xperia Arc, it would have been a shame to rotate it out with the next iteration of device, so we wholeheartedly approve of this small change in hardware.
Externally though, you won’t spot any differences, which is fine - just make sure that you know which phone you’re getting if you decide you want to get yourself an Xperia Arc.
From our brief hands-on with the new device
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Plumes of smoke rise from an oil-sands upgrader facility north of Fort McMurray, Alta.
Canada's greenhouse gas
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emissions will rise sharply after 2020 unless there are dramatic efforts to rein in emissions from the oil and gas sector, the Harper government indicates in a new report to the United Nations.
The document was submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in late December with no announcement or press release. As it was being filed, Prime Minister Stephen Harper signalled his government was delaying for as long as two years the release of long-promised regulations to reduce emissions from the booming oil-sands sector.
The report to the UN gives no indication of how Ottawa plans to meet a commitment Mr. Harper made at the Copenhagen summit in 2009 that Canada would reduce its emissions by 17 per cent from 2005 levels by 2020. Instead, it talks vaguely about new regulations in its "sector-by-sector" approach, while adding that provinces, businesses and consumers also have a responsibility to address climate change.
In contrast, U.S. President Barack Obama laid out a plan last summer – including regulations on
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"Republicans have begun to concede defeat in the evolving fight to preserve the House majority," The Associated Press reports. "And as they initiate a painful
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and strategic triage, the early Republican-on-Republican blame game has begun as well."
Republican incumbents being abandoned by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) complain that national House Republicans are not living up to their promise to spend $62 million, as outlined in a September memo declaring that "the cavalry is coming." The NRCC, which is taking out what AP describes as a "sizable loan," says it has to "hone in on what are the races we can actually win," as House Speaker Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) fundraising chief Spencer Zwick phrased it. And Ryan's allied super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund, grouses it has had to step in to boost weak fundraising by GOP incumbents. The CLF notes it's the only GOP group spending any money in 14 out of the 30 races ranked as toss-ups.
Overall, according to filings submitted Friday, Democratic candidates have outspent their GOP rivals $116 million
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The government has declared ten days of mourning following the death of a president accused of human rights abuses in recent years.
THE MALAWI
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GOVERNMENT confirmed the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika today, two days after the leader of the impoverished southern African country died.
A brief statement from the Cabinet confirmed what doctors had reported on condition of anonymity earlier, that Mutharika died Thursday following a heart attack. The Cabinet declared 10 days of mourning.
Vice President Joyce Banda was expected to address the nation later today, an indication that she will be taking over. Under the constitution, the vice president should take over to complete Mutharika’s term, due to end in early 2014.
Banda has clashed with Mutharika and been expelled from his party. The delay in announcing his death had led to speculation politicians were squabbling over succession.
Mutharika had favored his brother, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Arthur Mutharika, over Banda, appointing him acting president when he traveled. Friday, Mutharika’s party had named Peter
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Shoes4you, a company then sells shoes through a monthly subscription model, has received a round of Series A financing, led by Redpoint
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Ventures and with Accel Partners Flybridge Capital Partners, Romero Rodrigues (CEO and co-founder of BuscaPé), IG Expansion, and Fabrice Grinda (CEO and founder of OLX) participating. As part of the round, Redpoint partner Jeff Brody will join the Board of Directors. The company declined to disclose the amount of funding raised.
Similar to the U.S.’s Shoedazzle, Shoes4You (which launches this month) offers collections of designer shoes to its Brazilian clientele. Users visit the site, create a customized profile of their tastes and styles and Shoes4You will send them a monthly shipment of shoes that match your customized style profile. Founded by Olivier Grinda, Shoes4You, the company says it plans to launch 12 collections per year and hundreds of sub-collections throughout the year.
Grinda is actually a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded a flash sales site (Brands Club) and a
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A nephew of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's finance minister and former prime minister, faces a three-year prison sentence for refusing to serve in the army
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Jonathan Ben-Artzi, 19, has served seven months in a military jail after being given consecutive sentences of up to 31 days at a time. Army officials are now summoning him to appear at a court martial, which has harsher sentencing powers, on Tuesday.
Mr Ben-Artzi, who has been a pacifist since he was 12, will be among the first objectors to appear before a court martial. Last week Matan Kaminer, another refusenik, was also arraigned for court martial along with a third objector, Hagai Matar.
Mr Ben-Artzi's family believes that he is being singled out because of his connections. More than 170 objectors have been jailed since the start of the intifada.
The case has become a cause celebre in Israel because Mr Netanyahu's wife, Sara, is Mr Ben-Artzi's aunt and it may set a legal precedent regarding an individual's right to be exempted from military service
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The third secret passage where the human bones were found.
A confraternity during the procession.
Grezzju Vella showing the location
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of the opening. Right: In front of St Gregory's church.
Clergy taking part in St Gregory’s procession.
During a pastoral visit to Żejtun in 1575, Mgr Pietro Dusina was intrigued by their annual custom and asked the elderly inhabitants about its origins.
No one was sure of its inception and people came up with various theories. But they all agreed on one thing: the procession was a sort of thanksgiving to God.
Some believed a promise was made when the village was saved from harm during a violent storm, while others claimed it was when a storm wrecked a large Turkish fleet which was about to attack the area.
The truth was discovered accidentally in recent years when Dominican friar Fr Mikiel Fsadni was doing some research in the Curia archives.
He found out that in 1543 Bishop Cubelles had set up this pilgrimage as a plea to God in order to bring peace among the
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Class 1A and 2A wrestlers try to earn their way to districts.
jared- status on FC and Osage for finals?
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182 – Derek Kohlmeyer (Sumner-Fredericksburg) vs. Jason Fisher (Nashua-Plainfield).
Sunkten has been hurt. Hope Pena gets by Gavin.
195 – Tyler Larson (Nashua-Plainfield) vs. Brock Meyer (Sumner-Fredericksburg).
220 – Colton Hansen (Newman Catholic) vs. Bryce Bilharz (Nashua-Plainfield).
285 – Sawyer Hulshizer (St. Ansgar) vs. Dustin Lenz (Sumner-Fredericksburg).
106: Tacchia (IFA) vs. Case (GHV); 113: Doebel (CL) vs. Raisch (IFA); 120: Schmalen (CL) vs. Dornbier (GHV); 126: Leisure (CL) vs. Rubow (IFA); 132: Barkema (HD) vs. Freerks
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Suburban Station becomes a refuge for homeless people during the cold weather. Many avoid shelters because of the rules.
On a frigid night in
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January, SEPTA police stepped among the dozens of people camped out in Suburban Station’s long corridors and ordered them to leave the station. Outside it was 26 degrees.
It’s a closing-time routine for officers, clearing out people, many of them homeless, who seek shelter in the transit hub. This time, though, the crowd protested. It was too cold, they argued, and their resistance escalated into a melee that SEPTA officers quelled with pepper spray and swinging batons.
Two Philly homeless students were denied an adequate education. Now, there are statewide ripples.
Transit police didn’t use force until they were under assault, said Thomas Nestel, SEPTA’s police chief, and ultimately needed backup from Philadelphia police to quell what was described as a mini-riot. The incident has fed fear among the homeless and left advocates questioning whether officers should have been moving people out on a frigid night
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The UK government has announced a plan to require drone owners to register their devices. It says the incoming rules are aimed at ensuring safer use of the
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technology.
Under the planned regulations, owners of drones weighing more than 250 grams will, in future, be required to register their devices — with the stated aim being to “improve accountability and encourage owners to act responsibly”.
A similar plan in the US to require drone owners register their devices with the Federal Aviation Authority was struck down by an appeals court in May. Though Congress could still legislate on the issue.
In the UK, the government is also planning a new drone safety awareness test that drone owners will have to take to prove they understand relevant safety, security and privacy regulations.
There’s no timeframe for when the new UK drone regulations will come into force. Nor are there concrete details of how the rules will be enforced. The government says drone owners “may” be able to register their drones online or through apps, suggesting it’s still exploring options.
The move follows a consultation, published at the end of last year, that took
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Freekbass explains the "funktronica" sound and discusses his work with Headtronics, who recently appeared at Moogfest
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Freekbass arrived at Moogfest in October with a different Headtronics trio than usual, which is just part of the footprint for the band. He’s a protégé of legendary funk bassist/singer/songwriter Bootsy Collins, and in Asheville, Freekbass was hanging out with another legend, the “Wizard of Woo” Bernie Worrell of P-Funk. DJ Spooky was enlisted to take the place of DJ Logic but this seemed perfect, since he’s the one who appeared in the Moog documentary along with Worrell. Every show is start to finish improv, all crazy funk with bass, electronic beats and keyboards--no matter who is playing the show.
Are you enjoying Moogfest? Is there anyone you want to see?
Oh yeah, definitely. I want to actually see [DJ] Spooky’s own set. I’m also excited to see Dan Funk
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“Mad Men”? Whatever. On Sunday night, the 2015 Billboard Awards made for priority viewing for pop music fans.
The ceremony
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in Las Vegas (hosted by Chrissy Teigen and Ludacris) included performances from Iggy Azalea and Britney Spears, Kanye West, Fall Out Boy, Mariah Carey and many more.
But not all the stars delivered on their promise.
The star-studded video to “Bad Blood” was impressive enough. But it deflected attention from the fact that the Kendrick Lamar remix cranks up the bombast levels on what is otherwise a weak spot from the “1989” album. Clearly, Taylor’s commitment to change is ongoing.
The sexification of Nick Jonas continues and this time, he donned his best rock star threads to deliver a slick, electro version of his smash “Jealous.” It was part Daft Punk, part the Killers, but not much Jonas Brothers — and that’s just the ratio he wants.
Thirty years on, and “Don’t You
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By cevans on October 11, 2010.
To get to the National Radio Telescope Observatory, you have to be committed.
Well,
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first, you have to be in New Mexico -- about an hour's drive south of Albuquerque, in the plains of San Augustin, to be precise, a Pleistocene lakebed bordered by the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert and dotted with arid shrubs. Despite being some 6,970 feet above sea level, it feels like the basement of the world, wide and flat and under the massive Southwestern sky. Driving to the Observatory, the home of the famous "Very Large Array" of radio telescopes, is an exercise in patience. The repetitive landscape unfolds past the car windows at 80 miles an hour (the speed limit is 65, a Dadaist joke that no one seems to adhere to); with every rise you crest, you half-expect the fantastic vista to suddenly reveal itself, a sea of telescopes casting shadows on the parched Earth. For an hour, it doesn't.
The scale of the desert plays with your sense of perspective as
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Second Democratic Senator Comes Out Against Iran Deal. How Close Is This Thing?
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey gives a speech announcing
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he will not support President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal at Seton Hall University on Aug. 18, 2015, in South Orange, New Jersey.
Menendez, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and longtime proponent of sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program who has clashed with the Obama administration on this issue in the past, said that the agreement as negotiated “failed to achieve the one thing it set out to achieve—it failed to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons state at a time of its choosing.” Menendez said his “overarching concern is that it requires no dismantling of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and only mothballs that infrastructure for 10 years” and recommits Iran to agreements, such as the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, that it has violated in the past.
The hawkish senator is now publicly opposed to the White House’s two signature foreign policy moves of the past year: the Iran deal and the normal
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Jon Voight stars in the 1974 film "Conrack."
My two older sons and I saw the movie "Conrack" soon after its
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release in 1974. Based on Pat Conroy's memoir, "The Water is Wide," the movie portrayed the challenges of a young, white schoolteacher, played by Jon Voight, who volunteered in 1969 to teach in a two-room, all-black school on "Yamacraw Island," the fictional name given Daufuskie Island, now highly developed with golf courses, a residential club, vacation homes and docks for private yachts.
By chance, I saw the movie recently on a cable channel and found it as moving and provocative now as it was then. This viewing prompted me to read Conroy's memoir. Sadly, the movie is not available in a DVD format compatible with U.S. players.
In "The Water in Wide," Conroy, fired with reformist zeal, gave up his job as a high school teacher in Beaufort, S.C., to move to Yamacraw Island, inhabited predominately by impoverished African-American families
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Luke Shaw may want to stay away from Twitter for a while after he was bodied by a Manchester United fan after England’s World Cup
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quarter-final victory.
Gareth Southgate’s men secured their place in the semi-finals of the tournament after an uncharacteristically comfortable 2-0 win over Sweden in Samara on Saturday afternoon.
Harry Maguire and Dele Alli were England’s goalscorers and Jordan Pickford produced the performance of his life as Sweden threatened to work their way back into the match in the second-half.
Pickford was criticised by some for his display against Belgium in Group G but has bounced back in style and was England’s hero in a tense penalty shootout victory over Colombia in the last 16.
Following the Three Lions’ defeat of Sweden, Shaw tried to get involved as ‘#ThingsPickfordCouldSave’ went viral on Twitter.
‘What a lad! Internet, do your thing please: #ThingsPickfordCouldSave,’ the United left-back tweeted.
Little bit of fun, right? WR
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San Martin is one of only 175 Guggenheim Fellows this year. In all, a diverse group of scholars, artists and scientists were
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chosen from 3,000 applicants. The average award is about $36,000. The awards were announced April 6.
“I intend to create vocal works that set texts from Occitania, a language region that encompassed sections of today’s France, Monaco and Italy. I’m interested in the 'Trobairitz,' French female troubadours active in 12th and 13th century,” she said. “My plans at the beginning of a project are often quite different from where I end up so you’ll have to wait until 2018 to see how it turns out.
“I may go abroad to work on the pieces depending on where the materials I need for research are located,” she said. She will defer the fellowship until the 2017 – 2018 academic year to coincide with a year-long teaching sabbatical.
San Martin has been commissioned by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Washington Square Contemporary Chamber Players
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Says Alison Lundergan Grimes "supports Obamacare, which cuts $700 billion from seniors’ Medicare."
By Lauren Carroll on Thursday
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, July 10th, 2014 at 4:14 p.m.
One of Republicans’ favorite Affordable Care Act talking points is back in fashion.
Back in 2012, we checked the claim that the health care law cuts $700 billion from Medicare more times than we can count. (For a sample, look here, here and here.) It’s popped up again in this year’s Senate race in Kentucky.
Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes recently accused incumbent Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of supporting a $6,000 per year increase in Medicare costs for beneficiaries -- another once-popular claim resurfacing. We’ve rated that False.
The McConnell campaign swiftly retaliated with an ad of its own the next day.
"The truth? Grimes supports Obamacare, which cuts $700 billion from seniors’ Medicare. That’s how Obama and Grimes will pay for Obamacare," the ad says.
For old times’ sake, we decided
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Column: Several governments are destroying their own bank notes. Here’s why.
Nov. 8, 2016 was a big day. Millions
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of citizens were stunned, literally unable to believe what had just transpired. Economists issued dire warnings, suggesting a negative shock to future growth. Many took to the streets in protest. Within a week, election commission officials started raising concerns over potential fraud. And over the next few weeks, dozens died. It will be a long time before the events of Nov. 8 are forgotten. Separately and completely unrelated, on the other side of the planet and on the very same day that spurred these events, America elected a new president.
And in a fast-growing economy with a large informal sector in which it’s estimated that around 90 percent of transactions take place using cash, trashing most of the cash in circulation was not unlike throwing sand into the gears of a machine running at full speed.
Given that the unexpected announcement came amid news reports that the U.S. election might affect the subcontinent’s relationship with America, Indians were caught completely off guard. In
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Friends of a local family hope the community will turn out strong to support a 4-year-old Highland Township girl who recently underwent emergency surgery to
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remove a tumor growing inside her head.
A fundraiser, including food, silent auction, raffle and entertainment, takes place 6-9 p.m. Friday at the Comeback Inn. The business also plans to donate 15 percent of sales all day — from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. — to help Leah Vincenzetti’s family pay for medical bills, insurance deductibles and lost employment hours.
The event was organized by parents of children in Leah’s class at Little Saints Preschool in Hartland.
Sarah and Rick Vincenzetti first noticed something wasn’t right with Leah – youngest in a brood that also includes Henry, 15, Maddie, 13, and Tucker, 11 – last autumn when she took a fall and ended up with a concussion.
As the headaches increased, the family sought a neurologist – it was no easy task finding one not already booked through March, Sarah said – and began keeping a
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HERE: Astrohotographer Gerald Rhemann captured this image of Comet 46P/Wirtanen on Dec. 4, 2018 from
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Farm Tivoli, Namibia.
On Dec. 3, 2018, astrophotographer Gerald Rhemann captured another view of Comet 46P/Wirtanen using the same telescope and camera with the addition of an ASA DDM85 mount and at an exposure time of 16x5 minutes, with a result of this seemingly animated view of the comet zooming across the cosmos.
In Payson, Arizona, astrophotographer Chris Schur captured this 60-minute exposure of the incoming Comet 46P/Wirtanen on Dec. 3, 2018, using a 10" f/3.9 Orion Astrograph and a ST10 xme CCD camera.
A Comet as Bright as Venus!
On Dec. 5, 2018, astrophotographer John Hattenbach snapped this image of Comet 46P/Wirtanen from La Palma, Spain. At the time, the comet was shining at magnitude 4.7. Hattenbach captured this
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Concerns that the dollar's days are numbered lack merit.
It was always a ridiculous contention, and it seems even less reasonable now.
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Not even a year ago, consensus thinking saw China’s yuan on the verge of replacing the dollar as the world’s premier reserve currency. Now the flood of funds out of China, and the yuan’s declining value, have stifled all such talk and even such thinking. No doubt circumstances will continue along current lines for a while to come. Still, today’s negative attitudes are setting the stage for a rebirth of pro-yuan speculation, perhaps pretty soon. It will be wrong again.
When the pro-yuan thinking was at its height last spring, it looked as though the currency had support from all quarters. China’s economy seemed to be doing reasonably well, though growing at a much slower pace than previously. Beijing was also making headlines with its efforts to give the yuan a more prominent international role. To argue the other side of the question, that the dollar was not quite so vulnerable, took a disciplined analysis of the fundamentals, historic
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Published July 30, 2018 at 11:45 p.m.
Updated August 9, 2018 at 1:12 p.m.
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by Emily Matthews | Ken Goldstein stands outside V2 Wine Bar and Trattoria in downtown Youngstown. He visited the area Monday. Goldstein's documentary "Song of Bethlehem," produced by PBS, will be available soon.
Ken Goldstein, from a farm town outside Chicago, was just 18 when he first got a glimpse of the death of industry.
Touring with his heavy-metal band through upstate New York, he and his friends rolled into a town outside Buffalo, N.Y., just as thousands were losing their jobs at a nearby Bethlehem Steel facility.
Depressed by the collective pain of the individuals he met in the town, Goldstein penned a 30-minute dirge lamenting the death of American industry and the pain of loss of income and stability.
Today, 31 years later, the song – albeit a retooled and much shorter version – is an anthem celebrating the spirit of rebirth and collective action in the face of adversity.
Goldstein, now 49, is
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Pictured, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Wells Fargo executive, Jennifer Riordan- who died on a Southwest Airlines flight.
What led to a
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Southwest Airlines flight twin engine blowing out, causing the death of Jennifer Riordan a New Mexico Wells Fargo banking executive?
Jennifer Riordan a Wells Fargo bank executive from New Mexico has been identified as the female passenger who died whilst on a Southwest Airlines flight Tuesday after an engine exploded midair, causing shrapnel to shatter a passenger window.
At the time, the Albuquerque mother of two had been sitting along the left window aisle when one of the twin engines of the Boeing 737 burst as the plane traveled at an altitude of 30,000 feet shortly after take off from NYC‘s LaGuardia Airport.
Fellow passengers scrambled to keep Riordan from being literally sucked out of the plane as she was held down for 12 minutes until the plane landed at nearby Philadelphia.
Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 had just departed en route to Dallas when the plane’s left engine suddenly burst around 11:30 a.m according to social media posts from shell shocked passengers.
The plane was
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From Iraq with love, a great jam with a surprising ingredient.
Nawal Nasrallah, a food historian and author, writes about
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Iraqui cuisine in a warm, rich style that beautifully highlights each recipe’s historical and cultural background. Her newly revised cookbook, Delights From The Garden Of Eden, is about to be released in a new edition, and I can’t wait to read it (and cook from it).
I liked Nasralla’s surprising watermelon rind jam especially because the recipe ensures that there’s no food waste. Even more than that, it’s an old-fashioned, slow-food recipe that promises to taste simply delicious.
You will be surprised how beautiful and tasty this jam will turn out to be. Its origin cannot be any humbler: watermelon rind, usually discarded after the juicy ruby melon pulp is sliced off. In other parts of the world this rind ends up being pickled, but in Iraq we transform it into a charming chunky jam, usually served with geymer (slabs of cl
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