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Big things are coming this season to ABC’s fairytale drama Once Upon a Time as former Lost star Jorge Garcia rumbles into Story
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brooke as The Giant, of Jack and the Beanstalk fame.
Not much is known about Garcia’s big new role or who he'll end up allying himself with, but the Lost alum will most likely appear in a multi-episode story arc.
Garcia is perhaps best known for his fan-favorite role as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on ABC’s hit mystery drama Lost. Garcia will reunite with fellow Losties Emilie de Ravin (Belle) - who has been promoted to a series regular this season - Alan Dale (King George and chief prosecutor Albert Spencer), and Once Upon a Time creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, who wrote all the Hurley-centric episodes of Lost.
Things are going to change in the little town where time stood still due to the Evil Queen Regina’s (Lana Parrilla) wicked curse. In another Lost-esque nod, a wave of thick purple smoke surged through Story
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The designer on traveling back to her former home, Paris, including its best bistros, shops, neighborhoods, and delicacies.
For
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the fashion designer, Paris’s culture, cuisine, and couture are what she craves on time off—so much so, she used to live there full-time. Her tips on Paris’s best caviar, macarons, shops, and neighborhoods.
To get away from it all, I go...
Anywhere... could be my bedroom, L.A., Paris, or Asia.
My (least) favorite way to travel there is... Unfortunately, for farther distances, I have to fly. Which I hate!
My favorite travel pastimes are...
My iPad... and a cocktail!
My ideal travel companions are...
My family and friends, or my staff, who are like family.
__My favorite place to stay is...
__Paris is always an issue. For years I kept an apartment in the 16th [Arrondissement],
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WASHINGTON � The CIA inspector general in 2004 found there was no conclusive proof that waterboarding or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any �
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specific imminent attacks,� according to recently declassified Department of Justice memos.
The risks and effectiveness of waterboarding and other �enhanced� techniques are at the center of an increasingly heated debate over how thoroughly to investigate the CIA�s secret detention and interrogation programs.
�It is difficult to quantify with confidence and precision the effectiveness of the program,� Steven Bradbury, then the justice department�s principal deputy assistant attorney general, wrote in a May 30, 2005, memo to CIA General Counsel John Rizzo, one of four released last week by the Obama administration.
�As the IG Report notes, it is difficult to determine conclusively whether interrogations provided information critical to interdicting specific imminent attacks. And because the CIA has used enhanced techniques sparingly, �there is limited data on which to assess their individual effectiveness,� � Bradbury wrote, quoting the IG report.
Nevertheless, Bradbury concluded in his May 2005 memos that the program had been effective, although
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On this episode of Cook This! with Shereen, Shereen shows how to make a refreshing Jalapeno Margarita to keep cool in
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this summer weather.
Margaritas and Mexican food go together like, well, peanut butter and jelly.
And thanks to Shereen Pavlides' recipe, there is a way to bring all the heat and spice of South-of-the-Border cuisine to your favorite icy cold cocktail.
Jalapeño Margaritas feature slices of the pungent peppers stirred into the the drink mixture right before serving.
The resulting beverage is perfect for drinking with nachos, tostados or fatijas, or for sipping on the porch while watching the summertime world go by. Either way, don't forget the salted rim!
I’ve found marinating the margarita mixture with jalapeño slices makes this cocktail unenjoyably spicy, whereas, stirring in a few slices right before serving gives this cocktail a delightful, beautiful flavoring of jalapeño with a mild zip. And don’t forget the salt
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A powerful blast at a prefabricated house in northwestern China on Monday killed at least 14 people and injured
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147, state news agency Xinhua said.
The explosion occurred in the early afternoon in the town of Xinmin in Shaanxi province, damaging dozens of buildings including the local hospital, Xinhua said.
An initial police investigation indicated that the blast was caused by illegally stored explosives, Xinhua said, adding that authorities had detained the owner of the building and were searching for the tenant.
Eleven of the injured were in intensive care.
Pictures carried by state media showed rescuers digging through the rubble of low rise buildings, though searches for the incident on Chinese social media were blocked on Tuesday.
China has a bad safety record, with previous blasts blamed on poorly stored chemicals or industrial explosives which are easy to get hold of due to their use in China’s booming coal mining sector.
A series of powerful explosions last year at a chemicals warehouse in the northern city of Tianjin killed 165.
There have also been cases of people deliberately setting off blasts to settle local
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Starpowa, a leading provider in healthcare and vitamins, today
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announced the launch of its newly designed website at www.starpowa.com. The completely revamped website features a streamlined and simplified design, improved functionality and enriched content areas to help customers looking for enriched hair, nails and skin.
"We are excited to debut our brand new company website to our customers, clients, partners, media and visitors who are looking to understand how Starpowa works and the benefits it offers customers," said Sean Phillips head of digital marketing. "This website redesign is truly another way we at Starpowa are committed to creating the best experience for our customers and website visitors as possible."
Starpowa's new website will be regularly updated with news on new company products, accomplishments and events as well as industry developments and news.
Visitors are encouraged to explore the new website and check out the different ways in which Starpowa products can help customers look and feel great.
For further information on Starpowa, visit Starpowa.com or alternatively,
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ONTARIO - A litter of six puppies have made their temporary home at the Humane Society of Richland County.
They will be up for
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adoption on Dec. 23, just in time for Christmas.
Humane agent Missy Houghton said the owner surrendered the lab/shepherd mix puppies because he could not care for them. And they are a happy, healthy group of busy four-legged friends.
"They are a stress-reliever," said Houghton, who posted photographs of the puppies on her Facebook page.
The puppies, five males and a female, are between three and four months old, Houghton said. People cannot interact with them yet because they just had their shots and are being kept separate from the other dogs.
While cats and kittens, and pups, dogs and other animals are wonderful additions to any family, Houghton said pets are looking for forever homes. If people are considering getting a pet for Christmas, it's meant to be a long-term commitment.
She said people can buy a gift certificate for another person, allowing them to come in and pick out
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A workshop followed by a public conversation helped scientists find new ways to talk about their scientific research to audiences they do not often communicate with. Religion and
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spirituality can be agents for scientific learning.
How do you communicate science to people who hold different worldviews? While there is no single answer, one crucial element can make the difference between hearing and listening: connection.
Most Americans are supportive of science and also identify as religious or spiritual, but scientists can be uncertain about how to foster dialogue with people who hold worldviews different than their own. At two events hosted by Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences (Stanford Earth) and the Office of Science Outreach on Jan. 25, participants gained insight into how to make scientific connections in new ways.
The events – a workshop for Stanford researchers followed by a public discussion – were sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society with a mission of advancing science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people.
Alexandra Bausch, a postdoctoral researcher in Earth
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Will one of these be our new flag?
The Government's panel deciding what could be the country's next flag says it had to cast off
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many very good designs, to whittle down 10,293 submissions to just 40.
Koru, the silver fern, and the southern cross feature heavily, along with the use of black, red, blue, green and white.
Some of them are developments of the existing flag, while others are radical departures.
From this list of 40, just four will be chosen to put to the vote at a referendum.
The Flag Consideration Panel's chairman, John Burrows, said cutting the list down from thousands to just 40 was not an easy task.
He said the flag should be "unmistakably New Zealand", showing that it is a special and individual country.
"You'll see some themes, certain symbols kept recurring both in the designs and when we talked to people.
"The silver fern, I think, some people see as the symbol by which we're best known throughout the world, the koru is there as well.
"But
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E-Sports Attract Big Money, Big Crowds And Former NBA Athletes As Owners : All Tech Considered E-sports competitors might be
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wielding swords and magic during their games, but these players are just as much athletes as those in the NFL and NBA. And that's according to the former pros themselves.
Thousands will watch the action as two teams duel with their fantasy characters and large swords during the League of Legends World Championship Finals in Los Angeles this weekend. Viewers will watch on large screens like they did during Paris Game Week.
Thousands will pack into the Staples Center in Los Angeles this weekend for a championship final event. It's not an uncommon scene for the center as it's home to the Los Angeles Lakers, but this weekend it's not the Lakers who are taking center court.
Crouched behind their computer screens the players will be competing in the 2016 League of Legends World Championship Finals. There's no action to watch on the court during these events, because all the action is shown on gigantic screens as the two teams go against one another.
Just like the Lakers, these teams of five players each are professional
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Astronomers have for the first time discovered two alien planets whirling around a pair of stars: a complete solar system with twin suns just
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like Luke Skywalker's fictional home world Tatooine.
Most stars like our sun are not singletons, but rather come in pairs that orbit each other. Scientists had found planets in these binary systems, so-called circumbinary planets with two suns like Tatooine in the "Star Wars" universe.
To find more circumbinary planets, astronomers analyzed data from NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope, which has detected more than 2,300 potential alien worlds since its March 2009 launch. Kepler had to date detected four systems with circumbinary planets — Kepler-16, 34, 35 and 38.
"Kepler-47 shows us that binary stars can have close-in planetary systems, just like the ones we see in single stars," study lead author Jerome Orosz at San Diego State University told SPACE.com. "Most of the stars in the galaxy are in binary or higher-order multiple systems, so the fact that planetary systems can exist in these types
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NOEL GALLAGHER has given an exclusive interview to NME.COM where he claimed new LP ’DON’T BELIE
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VE THE TRUTH’ is their best effort since their classic debut ’DEFINITELY MAYBE’.
Although they scrapped it three times and it took three years Noel told NME.COM that Oasis are back on form and he’s prouder of their sixth studio album than any other Oasis record in the last ten years.
With single ‘Lyla’ being released on May 16, the album following two weeks later on May 30 and a massive tour including appearances at V Festival (August 20-21) to come, Noel admitted it felt strange to return to full action with Oasis after ‘Don’t Believe The Truth’’s isolated recording process.
‘Don’t Believe The Truth’’s elongated recording process has contrasted sharply to the regularity between the band’s previous albums, leading some to suggest Oasis were in crisis. However, Noel insisted he
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Intel's boss has finally admitted software fixes to address the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in most modern CPUs will incur a performance hit.
At the
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Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday, Brian Krzanich stuck to the line the design weaknesses represented an "industry-wide issue across several different processor architectures".
He said Chipzilla has no evidence that the processor flaws – successfully demonstrated by security researchers – had been exploited by malicious hackers and advised businesses and consumers alike to apply security patches.
"As of now, we have not received any information that these exploits have been used to obtain customer data," Krzanich said. "And we are working tirelessly on these issues to ensure it stays that way. The best thing you can do to make sure your data remains safe is to apply any updates from your operating system vendor and system manufacturer as soon as they become available."
Krzanich went on to promise fixes for the majority of Intel CPUs within a week, with the rest to follow by the end of January.
"We believe the performance impact of these updates is highly workload-dependent," he said. "As a
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DURING November 1968, in the aftermath of the previous year's Arab-Israeli Six Day War, a ''Joint Declaration by 20 representatives
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of the German left'' appeared in the American left Zionist magazine Jewish Frontier. It argued that the left ''would lose its credibility for all time to come if, through one-sided sympathy for the Arabs, it were to contribute to a new Auschwitz''.
The declaration condemned the inconsistent ''crying out against the war of destruction being perpetrated by the Americans against the population of Vietnam and passing over in silence the far worse Holocaust being planned by the Arabs against Israel''. Signatories included the leading Marxist scholar Ernst Bloch and novelist Gunter Grass.
As many Western leftists abandoned Israel following its post-1967 occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, Sinai and the Golan Heights, instead embracing the then novel Palestinian cause, Grass remained pro-Israel. Some four decades later, few would describe Nobel-prize-winning author Grass, 83, in the same terms.
Grass' controversial recent poem What Must Be Said, published in the German daily Sü¨ddeutsche Zeit
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North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday it no longer wants Secretary of State Mike Pompeo involved in ongoing disarmament negotiations, after Pyongyang�
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�s state media claimed he has been too reckless in his remarks about the talks.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday to say he would reverse new sanctions on North Korea, defying his own Treasury Department.
Russian billionaire and metals magnate Oleg Deripaska sued the Treasury Department on Friday, claiming U.S. sanctions are crippling his businesses and were only enforced as a result of politically motivated reports about his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Two years after the Trump administration designated the former vice president of Venezuela a drug kingpin, U.S. prosecutors brought an indictment Friday that puts him at the center of a sanctions-busting conspiracy hopping across Turkey and Russia.
More sanctions are coming for banks that support Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a team of foreign relations experts told lawmakers Thursday.
A federal judge granted the estate of the late Prince Rogers Nelson sanctions against a music company for spoliation of evidence: wiping their phones after being ordered to preserve evidence after litigation
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The lawyer for a former Connecticut college student accused of smearing bodily fluids on her roommate's belongings said Tuesday that he doesn't expect authorities to file
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hate crime charges.
Attorney Tom Stevens' comments came after former University of Hartford student Brianna Brochu appeared before a state judge in Hartford. The 18-year-old Harwinton resident is charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief and breach of peace.
Brochu, who is white, wrote on Instagram about rubbing used tampons on her black roommate's backpack and putting her roommate's toothbrush "where the sun doesn't shine," according to West Hartford police. She also called her roommate, Chennel "Jazzy" Rowe, a "Jamaican Barbie" and wrote that she put moldy clam dip in her roommate's lotions and spit in her coconut oil.
Rowe said in a Facebook Live video that she developed "extreme throat pain" and doctors couldn't diagnose an illness.
Hartford State's Attorney Gail Hardy said Tuesday that investigators are reviewing additional information at the request of Rowe's lawyer. She would not elaborate. She said any decision on adding charges will
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Neil deGrasse Tyson once again schooled B.o.B when it comes to the rapper’s flat-Earth claims. Over
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the last couple of days, the rapper has been challenging Tyson with his truther theories about the earth being flat. There were even diss tracks made in the process.
But hopefully, after Tyson’s appearance on The Nightly Show, B.o.B will finally go back to rapping about things other than science.
Tyson joined show host Larry Wilmore to basically settle the score once and for all. And he did it in the most glorious way.
“Listen, B.o.B, once and for all. The Earth looks flat because, one, you’re not far enough away, at your size,” Tyson said, making fun of the rapper’s diminutive height. “Two, your size isn’t large enough relative to Earth to notice any curvature at all. It’s a fundamental fact of calculus and non-Euclidean geometry: Small sections of large curved surfaces will always look
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"They could be in the process of trying to gracefully wind down," according to one industry analyst.
A huge for-profit college plans
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to cut its enrollments by as much as 60% in an effort to reduce costs amidst a crackdown by the Department of Education and other regulators.
ITT Technical Institute, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, told investors Friday that it will slash spending on marketing and recruiting, sending its new student numbers in the second half of 2016 plummeting. While the cuts will boost profitability in the short term, the loss of new students will choke off the company's revenue stream in the coming years.
It's the latest in a series of blows to the college operator, whose stock has plummeted in recent years.
ITT Tech has long been defined by its daytime television commercials, taglined "Education for the Future," in which graduates boast of their high-paying tech jobs and degrees that have enabled them to lift their families out of poverty. Once prospective students called the phone number in the ads, lawsuits agains the company allege, a well-oiled sales machine would call them back repeatedly,
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Residents of several Orange County, California cities are complaining about a strange, mysterious odor in the air -- and local municipal agencies seem to be pointing fingers
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at each other as to the cause of the bad smell.
The odor is affecting cities like Orange, Anaheim Hills, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach and Huntington Beach, according to Patrick Chandler, spokesperson for the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
We have received many reports of a strong odor traveling through the city. The smell has traveled throughout many OC cities. We have made notifications to the proper authorities for follow up. At this time we do not know where the odor is originating from.
Residents are reporting smells similar to petroleum, paint thinner or butane in the air.
Capt. Tony Bommarito, a public information officer for Orange County Fire, told ABC News that a recent vector control spray for mosquitoes was "not the cause of the odor."
Regarding the chemical smell, you could also report to AQMD at 1-800-288-7664. If you begin to experience any abnormal symptoms, please call 911 to report a medical emergency.
The ongoing investigation is
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Work on expanding the 200-square foot John J. McKenna, IV Military Courtesy Room at the Albany International Airport in Colonie has begun.
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"The room will be expanded to accommodate the high volume of military personnel now using the facility," said Doug Myers, airport spokesman.
The expansion will more than double the room size to 430 square feet.
More than 3,500 military personnel and their families have found comfort as they utilized the Military Room and services before and between flights since it opened in March of 2010.
The construction of the expanded Military Room began on March 13. The room expansion will be completed within a week to 10 days, according top Myers. The total cost of the expansion is estimated at $50,000, he added.
"The cost of the labor and materials to be used in the expansion of the Military Courtesy Room expansion is being donated by BBL Construction Services and their sub contractors," said David E. Langdon, chairman of the Albany County Airport Authority. "Donald Led Duke, the late chairman of BBL had a strong commitment to the nation's military and his legacy will live on within the Military
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Elon Musk apologizes, Mercedes struggles to deliver cars, VW is lacking powertrain engineers and more await you in The Morning Shift for Thursday,
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Aug. 2, 2018.
Correction: Thursday, August 2, 1:20 p.m. ET A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the individuals Musk apologized to as journalists. Copy has been corrected below.
Tesla shares rose as much as 12 percent after the company held its second quarter earnings call last night, Bloomberg reports. Among contributing factors to the jump was Elon Musk’s apology to analysts (which you can read here), whom he had scolded in a previous conference call for asking “dry” and “boring, bonehead” questions.
It was a step in the right direction from a CEO who, especially recently, has been dishing out some rather childish remarks that have spooked investors, and which have been followed by drops in Tesla stocks.
Also contributing to the jump in Tesla shares was the announcement that Tesla had only burned through $740 million over three months ending in June, instead of $900 million that analysts were apparently anticipating
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Samsung has denied rumours that there is a "massive inventory" of unsold Galaxy Tab tablets because the device is not selling as well as many would
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have expected.
A media outlet called MoneyToday (ed : no link in the Reuters report), was the source of the "news" which refers to "market rumours" stating that Samsung was sitting on several hundred thousands units.
A spokesperson for Samsung flatly denied it saying that "We don't comment on market speculation but such talk is absolutely groundless" before adding that "Our tablet strategy is offering a broad product range with different sizes to support wider customer choice."
Samsung sold more than three million of its smaller 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab hybrid smartphones and paper launched a bigger 10-inch tablet at Mobile World Congress last month.
The Register suggests that the Tab was a "foot-in-the-door" product, one that allowed it to take a six months lead over the rest of the competition, allowing it to become the second best selling tablet around.
Yesterday, Samsung launched two more refined Galaxy Tab devices, a 8.9 and 10.1-inch model
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This year in the US they’re holding an election and I’m planning to become an American citizen. Happily, as a
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dual national, I can now also remain a loyal subject of the Queen. It’s as if, after the Declaration of Independence, the British shook hands with the colonists and said, ‘Jolly good, chaps. Great idea! Now let’s just beg to differ on a few details and carry on as normal, shall we?’ Of course, the power’s shifted a bit since then, but when I was in Marin County, California, last autumn, almost the entire population turned out to cheer the Prince of Wales touring organic farms and attending a local church.
In spite of being a strong supporter of a traditional House of Lords, I like the idea of voting for a senator. A constitutional monarchy and a constitutional republic are more opposed on paper than in practice. Both are perfectly good ways of running a democracy.
In spite of a streak of radicalism which finds strong resonances in the work of that great English-American Tom Paine,
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Penn President Amy Gutmann announces the university's intention to recognize its hundreds-year old ties to slavery.
The University of Pennsylvania announced Friday that
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it will take steps to recognize the school's hundreds-of-years-old ties to slavery, an issue unearthed by undergraduate students and their professor during research last fall.
Penn president Amy Gutmann said in a statement that "no fewer than 75 of the university's early trustees owned at least one enslaved person" and that the work of slaves was used to support Penn faculty and students. Some of its faculty and alumni advocated for slavery and supported the Confederacy, while its medical school faculty engaged in "racial pseudoscience," she said, citing findings from a university committee.
"This was a profoundly painful and odious part of our nation's history," Gutmann said. "No segment of American society or institution founded during the 18th century, including the University of Pennsylvania, escaped its scourge. Far from it."
The university, she said, will continue its research, develop a site to share the information, and join a consortium of other universities studying their ties to slavery.
Penn
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Small Business of the Year (small size): Snake River Pool & Spa of Idaho LLC.
Small Business of the Year (medium size): Western
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Heating & Air Conditioning Inc.
Nonprofit Excellence: The Salvation Army Boise.
Financial Services Industry Excellence: U.S. Bank.
Healthcare Industry Excellence: Terry Reilly Health Services.
Travel Industry Excellence: Block 22 LLC d.b.a. The Grove Hotel, CenturyLink Arena and Idaho Steelheads.
Government Advocate of the Year: Elam & Burke P.A.
The chamber also honored Dennis Johnson, president and CEO of United Heritage Life Insurance, with its 2016 Hall of Fame Award. Johnson was chairman of the chamber board in 2005-06.
Cope Collision Center in Meridian has been certified by Assured Performance, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, for maintaining the right tools, equipment, training and facility to repair vehicles of participating automaker brands according to the manufacturer’s specifications.
D. L. Evans Bank was recognized by the Small Business Administration as “SBA Community/Rural Lender of the Year” for
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A Perth man accused of murdering a New Zealand man doesn't deny pushing him through a second-storey hotel window to his death, a trial
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was told yesterday.
The question facing a West Australian Supreme Court jury was whether it was an accident.
On the first day of the murder trial of Stefan Pahia Schmidt, 25, the jury was shown a security video of 29-year-old Tauranga man Andrew Marshall plunging to his death on the evening of May 8 last year.
The film showed a window being dislodged and falling from the second floor of the Ocean Beach Hotel in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe, shattering on the concrete below.
Mr Marshall followed, landing in a crumpled heap on the footpath.
He died hours later in hospital.
The video, which also featured the lead-up to the incident, was played to the court as prosecutor Amanda Forrester explained what was happening on the screen.
At one point, two young women identified as friends of Schmidt were seen to walk off camera, with Mr Marshall following them.
A large, bald man
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The young boy finds trouble in the first verse, but Atkins' father takes ownership of the kid and deals with him properly. In the chorus we
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hear a little anger, but a whole lot of pride.
"And I said he's mine, that one / Got a wild hair side and then some / No surprise what he's done / He's every last bit of my old man's son / If you knew me then there'd be no question in your mine / You'd know he's mine."
It's a good concept for a song, but the second verse doesn't do enough to completely tell the story. "Limelight barely shined on him / But everyone still remembers when / He whooped on that boy way bigger / For taking that cheap shot on our little kicker / And they threw him out / Oh man, you should have heard me shout."
One is left craving a few more lines to round out the action, but instead Atkins repeats the chorus two more times and wraps it up. An effective bridge could have taken a good song to the next level. This was the safe choice for the follow-up
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Three arrests were made Wednesday after an initial report of three naked females at a rest area led Florida Highway Patrol troopers on a pursuit that ended in D
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ade City.
According to a media release, at approximately 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, FHP units in Pasco County were dispatched to a suspicious persons call at the northbound I-75 rest area, south of State Road 54.
» LISTEN: 3 naked women spotted at a rest stop lead police on a high-speed chase.
Trooper Danielle Poulin arrived on scene and observed three black females naked, who stated that they had showered and were “air drying.” As Trooper Poulin attempted to gather information, the three subjects ran and got into a white 2009 Nissan Sentra and fled through the northbound rest area entrance (heading southbound) before turning back northbound. They then traveled north on I-75 toward State Road 52. Trooper Poulin initiated a pursuit; however, was cancelled due to the pursuit not fitting FHP criteria.
A citizen then called into *347 to report the reckless vehicle and remained on
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In the just-reported third quarter, AT&T's new approach to device and service sales put pressure on the telecom giant's profit margins.
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Shares fell on the news.
Telecom giant AT&T (NYSE:T) just reported results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2014. Reacting to the news, shares fell as much as 3.4% in after-hours trading.
AT&T saw third-quarter revenues rise 2.5% year over year, landing at $33 billion. Diluted non-GAAP earnings fell 4.5% to $0.63 per share. Analysts were looking for earnings of $0.64 per share on $33.2 billion in total sales, so both results came in slightly below expectations.
The company added 2 million net net subscribers in the quarter, including 785,000 postpaid subscribers on long-term contracts. A year ago, AT&T added less than a million new subscribers and 363,000 postpaid users. Average revenue per user fell 8% compared with the year-ago period.
To put AT&T's subscriber figures
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(CN) – Bad press led a Connecticut school board to rescind its offer of a superintendent position to a highly touted Chicago administrator, he claims in
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court.
Though the complaint Terrence Carter filed in New London Superior Court on Nov. 25 does not say what was reported about him, the Hartford Courant notes that the New London Board of Education vote 6-0 against awarding Carter an employment contract this past August amid revelations about Carter’s own schooling.
According to the Courant, the board’s attorneys confirmed that Carter had used “Ph.D.” and “Dr.” with his name for at least five years despite not having a doctorate from an accredited college.
The attorneys also reportedly corroborated the New London Day’s findings that large portions of Carter’s job application were identical to language in articles published on the Internet.
Carter now claims that his job offer was rescinded after he had already resigned his position in the Chicago Public School System, put his Chicago real estate on the market for sale, relocated to New London with his partner, put his personal property in
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Leeds have apologised to Derby for spying on their training and will remind head coach Marcelo Bielsa of his responsibilities.
The build-
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up to Friday night’s 2-0 home win over Derby was dominated by claims from the Rams that a man was caught outside their training ground on Thursday.
Derbyshire Police were forced to intervene and it transpired the individual was an employee of Leeds, who was watching a training session.
Bielsa spoke to Derby boss Frank Lampard over the phone to accept full responsibility and was open about the incident when speaking to the media at Elland Road on Friday evening.
The former Argentina and Chile coach insisted it was not his intention to gain an advantage in a lengthy explanation that saw him admit it is something he has done for a number of years.
On Saturday morning, Leeds issued a statement, which read: “Following comments made by Marcelo Bielsa yesterday the club will look to work with our head coach and his staff to remind them of the integrity and honesty which are the foundations that Leeds United is built on.
The Football Association is investigating, but
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LOUDON, NH (TheSpread) – The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is at New Hampshire Motor Speedway today for the Sylvania 300. Here
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is a look at the drivers to bet on.
According to oddsmakers at Bovada.lv, Brad Keselowski is the clear favorite with 5/2 odds while Kevin Harvick has 5/1 odds and Jeff Gordon and Kyle Busch each come in at 6/1.
It’s hard to be against Brad right now. He is coming off a win last week, has the lead in the point standings and won the pole position for today’s race. He has already won at New Hampshire in the past and seems like the guy to put your money on to win the Sprint Cup title this year. Look for another winning performance today.
After a strong 2014 season, Gordon is looking to get back control of his points lead and this could be a good track for him to do it at. He is a three-time winner at New Hampshire with a driver rating of 107.7, which is the second best of any driver competing today.
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In November 2011, a small Renaissance painting known as the Salvator Mundi (“Saviour of the World”) went on show
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at the National Gallery. It was a compelling, moody, somewhat odd picture: a half-length figure of Christ with ringlets of auburn hair, holding a transparent crystal orb. Even more compelling was the label, describing it as a newly discovered work by Leonardo da Vinci.
This attribution, at the upper end of the art world’s Richter scale, was controversial for various reasons, not least because – contrary to National Gallery policy – it radically enhanced the market value of a privately owned artwork. Its owners were at this point mysterious: an American “consortium” was mentioned. They were, in fact, two mid-table New York dealers, Robert Simon and Alex Parish, who had bought it in 2005 on an intuitive whim, heavily overpainted and in poor condition, from a small auction house in New Orleans. They paid $1,175. Cleaned, stripped and painstakingly restored by Dianne Modestini, authenticated by distinguished Leonardo experts such as
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For those who have a job in this economy of ever-rising unemployment, under employment and general malaise, it seems almost ungrateful
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to complain about anything that produces a paycheck. But over a 50-year span, the average American spends about 100,000 hours working. With so much of our lives spent at our jobs, sometimes it is important to stop and consider a question that may sound childish or unrealistic in this job market: What do you want to be when you grow up?
It’s not an easy question to answer for most. More than half of all students change majors at least once, and a recent survey found that the average American man changes jobs every four and one-half years, the average woman every three years. The model of employee and employer forming a lifelong relationship no longer fits. And with 42 consecutive weeks of unemployment over 8 percent (using the most optimistic of job numbers), many have found that their job loyalty meant nothing in a bad economy.
Today choosing a career is generally not a one-time decision; it's a series of decisions, made through different stages
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THE DERBY took place in Manchester last night but only one horse was running.
This was a race between a thoroughbred and a donkey
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set for the knackers yard - and it wasn’t hard to work out which was which.
For those who have been living on a different planet for the last eight months then Manchester United are the latter.
The fallen champions have taken some heavy punches this season but the one delivered by the boys in blue after just 40 seconds topped the lot.
It came from Edin Dzeko, after David Silva and then Samir Nasri had been denied by a combination of Rafael Da Silva and the post.
If this had been a boxing match the referee would have stopped it in the first round.
But he didn’t and the blows just kept on coming from Manuel Pellegrini’s men to leave United floundering on the ropes like some punch-drunk fighter.
That is what United resemble now - a competitor way beyond his peak who knows those around him have left him behind in terms of ability and skill.
In fairness to the
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Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo’s dazzling performances as Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre have won them the
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top acting prizes at the UK’s oldest theatre awards.
Judges for the 64th Evening Standard theatre awards named Fiennes best actor and Okonedo best actress, both described by the Guardian’s Michael Billington as being “at the top of their game”.
They were given their prizes at a ceremony on Sunday night at London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, part of an evening which also saw successes for Company, Hamilton and the Young Vic.
Fiennes and Okonedo were following in the footsteps of Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench in 1987, and Alan Rickman and Helen Mirren in 1998, to play Antony and Cleopatra on the National Theatre stage.
The Hopkins/Dench production is considered legendary; the Rickman/Mirren one less so. Thus the stakes were high for the Simon Godwin-directed version, which opened at the National’s biggest stage, the Olivier, in September
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Is China's Belt and Road a bold infrastructure vision, or a slush fund?
Expressing concern over recent Chinese actions taken out of step
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with international norms, the Pentagon has said One Belt and One Road (OBOR) investments could create potential military advantages for China, should it require access to selected foreign ports to pre-position the necessary logistics support to sustain naval deployments.
In a report titled "Assessment on United States Defence Implications of China's Expanding Global Access", the report states that Department of Defence is concerned by the actions China's government has taken that are out of step with international norms, diminishes countries' sovereignty or undermines the security of the United States, its allies or partners.
"Some OBOR investments could create potential military advantages for China, should it require access to selected foreign ports to pre-position the necessary logistics support to sustain naval deployments to protect its growing interests in waters as distant as the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Atlantic Ocean," the report, which is the second one on China in 24 hours, said.
The Pentagon report identified 17 cases in which Chinese investment and project financing bypass
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A clean, modern bathroom increases the value of a home.
1 How Much Does it Cost to Renovate a House?
3 Where
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Should You Start First When Renovating a House?
4 How Much Does it Cost to Renovate a Kitchen?
The goal of most home renovations, beyond increasing personal enjoyment, is to increase the value of the home by more than the cost of home improvements. If the home were to ever be put on the market, the seller would make a profit based at least partially on the renovations. How much the renovations increase home value depends on the real estate market, the budgets of likely buyers and the extent of the improvements.
According to House Hunt, a real estate listings site, renovating a bathroom or adding a bathroom increases home value by $9,861 and $18,226 respectively. Provide a clean, neat presentation in the restrooms to make a positive impact on potential buyers. The Staging Bug, a site that gives advice to home sellers, suggests that sellers go for clean, bright, modern décor. A buyer is turned off of a home that seems like a
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A Suffolk man has been jailed for threatening the victim of a dog attack after failing to bribe him into dropping the charges.
Ollie De
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eks will serve six months behind bars for being in charge of a dangerously out-of-control dog, attempting to pervert the course of justice, and witness intimidation.
Michael Harrison required 32 stitches when his arm was bitten to the bone by a mixed breed dog called Diablo last April.
It left him unable to grip as he did before the attack, which took place as he passed the dog on the landing of his shared Haverhill home, where Deeks was invited by another resident to sleep while without fixed accommodation.
Deeks, 25, of Fornham Road, Bury St Edmunds, had denied offering Mr Harrison money in a text message before threatening to “cut him up” for pressing charges.
Prosecutor Gavin Capper told Ipswich Crown Court that police had advised Deeks to muzzle the dog – since described as “very aggressive” while in the custody of kennel staff – after it previously bit Mr Harrison.
Oliver Has
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The $408 phone promises battery life of up to 50 hours on a charge and offers an optional $250 Hasselblad camera attachment.
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Lenovo has unveiled its latest smartphone, the Moto Z Play Droid Edition, with a 5.5-inch 1080p HD Super AMOLED touch-screen display, estimated battery life of up to 50 hours on a charge and a $408 price tag when it goes on sale exclusively through Verizon on Sept. 8.
The 4G LTE handset, which will be known as the Moto Z Play elsewhere around the world, also features a 2GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor, an Adreno 506 graphics processor, 3GB of memory, 32GB of onboard storage and a microSD card slot for additional storage.
Also included is a 16-megapixel rear-facing camera with laser auto-focusing, an f/2.0 lens, 4X digital zoom and 4K video capabilities, a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with an f/2.2 lens and LED flash, and a fingerprint reader for device and user security. The handsets are
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Max's behaviour is taking a huge toll on his loved ones.
EastEnders has released two brand new pictures showing the drama ahead for the
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Branning family in tonight's special episode.
The chaotic clan will take centre stage this evening as the fallout from Max's revenge plan continues to send shockwaves around Albert Square.
Max (Jake Wood) is struggling to hold things together now that he knows he's been double-crossed by James Willmott-Brown and Fi Browning.
With the whole Square now against him, Max's family are deeply concerned and they try their best to get through to him once and for all.
Sadly, it seems that Max just doesn't want to be helped and emotions run high as they face the potentially fruitless task.
As things get heated, do the Brannings stand any chance of making him see sense?
Tonight's EastEnders marks the return of award-winning scriptwriter Simon Ashdown, who worked on the show between 1995 and 2013.
As well as penning this evening's episode, Ashdown has also crafted this year's Christmas editions, which
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WAGONER COUNTY, Oklahoma - A Wagoner County trial will start completely over after the judge declared a mistrial.
Sources tell
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News On 6 the jurors were discussing the case; it's a headache that will cost taxpayers more money and time.
Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler weighed in on the situation, saying jurors have one of the most important jobs in the courtroom.
"The jurors' job is every bit as important as the judge or the attorneys in the courtroom," Kunzweiler said.
Former juror Patrick Williams understands better than most just how tough it can be to stay silent when serving during a murder trial.
"It was one of the most challenging things I've ever had to do...keep my mouth shut," he said.
Williams served as a juror during 2018's Stanley Majors trial.
"I hope I never have to do it again," he said.
Majors was sentenced to life without parole for shooting and killing his next door neighbor Khalid Jabara.
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Arsene Wenger believes Arsenal's 2-0 Champions League win over Olympiacos is another example of just how his young side are maturing
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The Greek champions had goalkeeper Antonis Nikopolidis to thank for preventing Arsenal chalking up a big score in a one-sided contest at the Emirates. However, they were eventually undone with 12 minutes to go when substitute Eduardo set up Robin van Persie before Andrey Arshavin made sure of the win when he netted a cheeky backheel, which had more than a hint of offside.
"We kept our composure and kept going," said Wenger. "We have matured and a game like this shows just that."
He added: "We played with a desire to keep the discipline in the team. We did not do anything crazy. I always felt we could score."
Wenger feels the manner of the victory shows just why Arsenal are not "desperate" for new signings.
The Gunners' parent company this week announced healthy financial figures, with a record £35million profit and the board indicated there was plenty of money available for the
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Russia deploys new anti-aircraft systems follow jet shoot-down.
Russia Says It Won’t Retaliate Militarily
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Against Turkey. But It’s Not Exactly De-Escalating.
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a video conference with top military officials on Russia’s Air Forces’ operation in Syria at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on Nov. 20, 2015.
Some of these steps are entirely symbolic—Russian tour groups are canceling Turkey trips and the Russian Parliament is debating criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide, a sore subject for Turkey. Others are more consequential: Vladimir Putin has ordered state-of-the-art missile defense systems to be deployed to Russia’s base in Latakia, Syria, capable of shooting down Turkish jets up to 400 kilometers away. (The base is only 50 kilometers south of the Turkish border.) It has also deployed one of its largest air defense ships just outside Turkish waters in the Mediterranean and cut off all military-to-military communication with Turkey.
Both sides have publicly expressed a desire to de-escalate the
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I was pleased to read Richard Anderson's essay on charter schools in in the Dec. 1 (page B5) edition of the Herald Gazette.
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I, too, am concerned about how we teach, or do not teach, our children, even how we teach ourselves as adults. I have a son in fourth grade and daughter in sixth grade. Any doubt of my concern? Education has been my career for the past 40 years, so I write this from a perspective of not only personal concern but from professional experience.
My wife and I elected to home-school our two children this last year while living aboard our sailboat and exploring the the Caribbean islands. It was not only cheaper to live on the boat than ashore, it was a great deal more enlightening and meaningful for us all, adults and kids.
Our children had been in an alternative school program prior to our departure, and are now in public school; we are now aware of these options. The children who have been home-schooled, and whom I have interviewed and had the firsthand opportunity to observe in college, were as bright, knowledgeable and excited about learning as any
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Leicester beat Watford to move five points clear at the top of the table as Riyad Mahrez scored his 15th Premier League goal of
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the season.
After second-placed Tottenham drew with third-placed Arsenal, the Foxes took a step closer to English football's most unlikely title win.
Mahrez almost set up Jamie Vardy for an early goal as the Foxes started well.
And a similar start to the second half saw the Algerian rifle high into the net after Jose Holebas cleared to him.
The 25-year-old, who has scored or assisted 26 goals this season, worried Leicester after he seemingly pulled his hamstring late in the game and was substituted but Mahrez later said it was only cramp.
Despite good chances for Watford strikers Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo, the visitors, who flirted with relegation last season, held on and now have nine games between them and a historic first title triumph.
The victory also takes them 11 points clear of fifth-placed West Ham as the Foxes close on a Champions League spot and they are 41 points better off
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Valero and others in a new Political Action Committee have joined together to raise more than $100,000 to influence our election with additional hard-
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hitting negative campaign tactics. That’s $100,000 — more than three times the limit each individual candidate is allowed to spend on their campaign!
So … you can expect to see negative ads making outrageous claims against Kari Birdseye on TV and Facebook. Expect nasty signs around town, more negative telephone campaign calls, glossy mailers delivered to your door, and who knows what else? To understand the dark nature of their plans, you really do need to check out the phone script and photocopies of ads in the city reports at right. They want to buy a seat on Benicia City Council.
Besides Valero’s $14,200, the other interested parties are throwing in another $90,000 to fund the WFSB anti-Birdseye campaign.
My opinion? They better hope this works. Can you imagine campaigning this viciously against someone and then losing? Not the smartest way to try and “mend fences” after
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Talib has had six pick sixes during his four seasons in Denver.
Bronco fans may see Aqib Talib represent their team
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for the last time Sunday when he plays for the AFC in the Pro Bowl Game.
Talib has been a great Bronco, making the Pro Bowl each of the four seasons he was in Denver. The only other player to make four Pro Bowls in four seasons with the Broncos was John Lynch, who was inducted into the team’s Ring of Fame and is a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2018.
Talib was also a key player on the Broncos' Super 50 team and he was named first-team All Pro in 2016. He's had six, pick sixes during his four seasons in Denver.
Although Talib has two years left on the six-year, $57 million contract he signed with the Broncos in March 2014, Denver is expected to place him on the trading block because of financial considerations.
The Broncos have two other younger cornerbacks in Chris Harris Jr. ($8.5 million) and Bradley Roby ($8
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Who says evangelism has to stop during conflict?
Typically, when war breaks out in Africa, missionaries evacuate and evangelism stopsdead
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in its tracks. But the Democratic Republic of Congo is not typical. Nobody told Congolese evangelicals to stop spreading the gospel during war.
In the late 1990s, Gil Odendaal was in and out of Congo for five years in a series of short-term visits with Medical Ambassadors International. His aim was to train leaders who would in turn launch Community Health Evangelism (CHE) projects that offer basic medical care and Bible teaching in remote villages.
In 1997, three major rebel groups combined forces to overthrow the national government. As violence spread, missionaries evacuated reluctantly from throughout Zaire (as the nation was known at that time).
For the next seven years, almost nothing was heard from the projects. In 2004, Westerners returned, expecting to find all the established CHE programs destroyed. Odendaal and his colleagues did indeed find mission stations in ruins, but the programs were a different story. They had survived and thrived, more than doubling in size. The
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Work by Chris Monette Appleton will be unveiled at the Feb. 13 Second Saturday Art Walk on Feb. 13.
Chris Monette Apple
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ton is the featured artist in Studio 4 at Lorton’s Workhouse Arts Center. Her show "Recent Drawings" is comprised of figure drawings from life and will be unveiled at the Second Saturday Art Walk on Feb. 13, from 6-9 p.m. and exhibited through March 10. The art walks promise an interesting evening for art lovers and families and anyone wanting a few hours of fun. Snacks, hors d’oeuvre, warm beverages, music, new work and artists guarantee a great evening.
The Artists of Building 10 at the Workhouse Art Center at Lorton will be steaming up February with the theme of love and salsa on Feb. 13, from 6-9 p.m. Influenced by a recent trip to Cuba by artist, Susan Tilt who returned with the new salsa music. Tilt was part of a group from the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in D.C. that visits Cuba yearly as a friendship and reconciliation
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Network-as-a-service provider Megaport is seeking to raise up to $60 million that will be put towards network expansion and technology
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innovation.
The Australian Securities Exchange listed company plans to raise up to $50 million via issuing 12.5 million shares under a placement at $4 per share, and an extra $10 million through a share purchase plan.
As part of the transaction, Megaport founder Bevan Slattery will sell down a portion of his shareholding -- offering about five million shares to help improve liquidity, seeing him retain 16.3 per cent in Megaport shares.
The capital raising will be put towards expanding into new locations and markets, upgrading its capacity, as well as funding innovation and development of new technology, the company told shareholders.
Specifically, it will look at investing into innovative new services and capabilities to make data flow automatically and seamlessly between locations, services, supply chains and customers.
It also aims to achieve greater ecosystem density and choice through software integration and interconnection with service providers; and ensure its services-neutral platform is positioned for growth in line with increasing data consumption.
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The markets had a rough week as most investors were focused on fiscal cliff worries and talks that began on Friday. Despite a slightly positive end, in
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general the major indices slipped. The Nasdaq Composite ended 1.8% lower, the S&P 500 dropped 1.5% and Dow industrials finished 1.8% below one week ago. Also on many peoples' minds was the housing market and the Fed's plan to get past tight lending issues. Chairman Bernanke confirmed that the central bank is working on policies that will help the market recover.
Retail earnings and sales were trending this week as many companies gear up for "Black Friday" after Thanksgiving.
This holiday season, the biggest discount chains in the U.S. will tell the tale of two very different shoppers: those that have and those that have not.
US Markets Finish With Weekly Losses on Fiscal Cliff Concerns. InvestorGuide.com. WebFinance, Inc. http://www.investorguide.com/article/11316/us-markets-finish-with-weekly-losses-on-fiscal-
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Actor Martin Lawrence regained consciousness Wednesday after slipping into a coma brought on by severe heat exhaustion while exercising, according to doctors at Los Robles Regional Medical
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Center.
Lawrence, 34, star of the television show "Martin" and films such as "Life," "Bad Boys" and "Nothing to Lose," collapsed and slipped into a coma Sunday after returning to his Westlake Village home from a jog.
Doctors listed the actor in critical but stable condition and said they are encouraged by his progress.
Lawrence is alert and responsive, but his breathing is still being aided by a ventilator, which is preventing him from speaking, hospital officials said.
"He's becoming more and more responsive, and we're very encouraged that he's come out of his coma," said hospital spokeswoman Kris Carraway-Bowman at a news conference Wednesday. "But this is going to be a day-by-day thing.... We'll know more as time goes on."
Lawrence left his home about 11:30 a.m. Sunday for an hourlong run through his neighborhood, Carraway-Bowman
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The Delaware Area Career Center (DACC) and the hundreds of students and families we serve applaud the swift actions of Governor Kasich and members of the
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Ohio General Assembly for their extensive efforts to secure the passage of Ohio House Sub Bill 124. This bill will allow the voters in the additional four counties we serve outside of Delaware County the opportunity to vote on the 2015 renewal levy.
The critical funding from this renewal levy will allow DACC to continue maintaining quality programming and a rigorous curriculum for students throughout five Ohio counties, while empowering them to be college, career and life ready.
Whether personally involved with DACC or not, it is important for our community to recognize the high-quality educational programming DACC provides throughout the Delaware area and the substantial positive impact DACC has on students in our district. Always keeping education a top priority, DACC offers both high school electives and continuing adult education classes to give local students hands-on, quality training for real-life professions.
Thanks to the recent passing of Ohio House Sub Bill 124 and the leadership by Representative Andrew Brenner (R-Powell) and Representative Rick Carfagna (R
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Through The Ages is something fairly unique as far as mobile games go; it’s a mobile version of a board game. Not only that
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, it manages to actually be fun.
Through The Ages takes the very popular Through The Ages: A Story of Civilization board game from over ten years ago and bring it onto the mobile marketplace. Many times this has been attempted with varying results, but most players of mobile versions of board games can likely tell you, it never goes well.
Most board games are too complicated or rely too much on the other players being literally in front of you to work properly. It often means the mobile version falls short or is just plain not fun.
Not so for Through The Ages, thankfully. The game may be small for a simple mobile phone screen, but the gameplay and strategy is fully realized from the board game version. There is very little lost from the transition, other than making the mundane calculations required from the boardgame obsolete by doing it for you.
There is very little lost from the transition, other than making the mundane calculations required from the boardgame obsolete by doing it for you.
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There is interest in the Tri-Cities to position the community as a center for assembling or manufacturing the small nuclear plants to be shipped around the
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world, including to Asia. The reactors are proposed to be manufactured in modules and then shipped to where they will be used, with additional modules added as demand for electricity production increases.
The Tri-Cities has the educated and trained workforce for nuclear work, Brown said.
The bill also impacts other parts of the state, Brown said. A Vancouver, Wash., company has manufactured key parts for a mockup plant for NuScale Power of Oregon, which is developing a small modular reactor.
NuScale is working with Utah Associated Municipal Power systems and Energy Northwest in Richland to operate its first small reactor, likely in Idaho.
Brown is concerned Washington could lose jobs associated with a future small modular reactor industry to other states.
The city of Idaho Falls and the Idaho director of commerce would like to attract manufacturing to Idaho and have brought possible manufacturers of the reactors to Idaho for a symposium, Brown said.
Golder Associates will identify possible locations for small modular reactors in Washington and
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Deck the halls with boughs of holly, because Amit Trivedi, the most promising Indian composer, is back with the soundtrack
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of Aisha, and boy is it a doozy.
The album opens with Suno Aisha, a song that instantly throws you off with a fast, be-bebop array of almost-discordant sounds. They clash into melody soon enough, and the vocals -- by Ash King, Nakash Aziz and Trivedi himself -- shuffle charmingly around the basic, even banal lyrics. The flavour might be bubblegum, but there's enough texture here to call this a pretty tasty title track.
This is a Dilli-Punjabi movie, and Gal Mitthi Mitthi starts off sounding like something left over from the Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! soundtrack -- and Trivedi knows that's a compliment. And while the song sung by Tochi Raina starts off sounding basic, a huge shot of bass kicks in a minute into the track, and we realise the composer is subverting club-Punjabi traditions
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Two years ago, George Green got stabbing pain and bad blisters around his right arm. It was the worst case of shingles his doctor
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had ever seen.
"I said, 'Wait a minute, I had the vaccine! How come I got this?'" recalled Green, a 68-year-old engineer in Austell, Georgia, who got the shot seven years earlier.
His doctor at Emory University, Dr. Sharon Bergquist, said about 10 percent of the patients she's given the shingles shot have come back with the disease years later.
No vaccine is perfect, and it can take many years to find out how well a new vaccine works and how long it lasts. Sometimes, health officials have called for an additional dose when it became clear the first round wasn't cutting it. But disappointing performance is also prompting drugmakers to pursue new vaccines for older patients, using new additives to boost effectiveness.
The annual flu vaccine is a particularly hard one to nail. The virus changes quickly and spreads easily. U.S. health
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It has Michael Collins' approval.
“Shoot for the Moon" by James Donovan focuses on "first-person, behind-the
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-scenes details" of the Apollo 11 mission.
They say you should not judge a book by its cover, but there is a detail on the front of author James Donovan's latest release, "Shoot for the Moon," that is likely to attract the interest of space history enthusiasts.
Just under Donovan's byline in small print is, "This is the best book on Apollo that I have read."
It is not unusual for endorsements to be included on book covers and this example would otherwise not stand out were it not for who provided it: Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins. Not only is Collins central to the events that Donovan writes about in "Shoot for the Moon" — the book's subtitle is "The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11" — but Collins' own 1974 title, "Carrying the Fire," is widely considered one of, if not the best of the astronaut-penned memoirs.
James Donovan holds his
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 28 (UPI) -- Nate Schierholtz smacked a ninth-inning homer against his former team
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Saturday, lifting the Chicago Cubs over San Francisco 1-0.
Cubs reliever Pedro Strop (1-0) escaped a bases-loaded, none-out jam in the bottom of the eighth, sending the game into the ninth as a scoreless tie.
Sergio Romo (3-6) took the mound for San Francisco, and after striking out Starlin Castro, delivered a 3-2 pitch to Schierholtz that the ex-Giant sent into the right-center field bleachers for his 14th homer of the season.
Chicago starter Chris Rusin hurled seven shutout innings, scattering three hits while walking two and striking out three.
Kevin Gregg allowed a hit and two walks in the ninth, but induced pinch-hitter Tony Abreu to ground out into a game-ending double play for his 21st save as the Cubs clinched their three-game series.
Madison Bumgarner fired eight scoreless innings, yielding just
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Breaking up is hard to do.
There's no question that breaking up with someone that you thought you were going to be with for a long
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time can be really hard to handle. Having to face the constant struggle of moving on even though you can't stop thinking about him is seriously the worst. Nothing can ever prepare you for waking up in the morning, only to notice that he's not where he's supposed to be. If you've ever had to go through this feeling of being lost, know that you're not alone.
Hearing relationship coach Dr. Amy Johnson talk about how to tell when it's time to move on and the steps you should take to do so makes us feel like she really gets it. Moving on after a breakup is so hard, but thinking about your life as if it's a play with a rotating cast of characters can make dealing with the heartbreak easier. But it's important to remember that letting go doesn't happen overnight. Give yourself time to be sad and to recover. You just have to learn how to put the past behind you; there will come a ay where you'll be able to
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Can the corporate network support the additional bandwidth requirements that using the cloud will create?
In our first installment of this blog series, we went over
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the different types of applications migrated to the cloud and the benefits IT organizations hope to achieve by moving applications to the cloud.
How does the application currently perform?
How will moving the application impact users? Will there be more or less latency?
We’re naturally focusing on performance here because we’re a performance monitoring company. But performance is an all too common pitfall of cloud migration. That’s because many organizations don’t plan adequately for the impact on the enterprise network and end users of moving applications and workloads to the cloud.
Average Wait Time: the average time it takes a web page or application to load.
Cost and Throughput: the cost of provisioning cloud resources and the amount of data being accessed from the cloud.
Response Time/Latency: the amount of time it takes for site or application to respond to a user request.
Geo Load Balancing: the ability to distribute application requests across cloud resources in multiple ge
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The Hunt for Vulcan review: A predicted planet eluded discovery until Einstein killed it.
Scientists at one time thought the Solar System had an extra
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planet. And it wasn’t just a brief error; this expectation persisted for many decades despite some of the greatest minds at the time working on the problem. The missing planet was predicted to have been even closer to the Sun than Mercury. And despite the lack of any reliable, consistent observational evidence, it remained there until Einstein shot it out of the sky.
As the other planets were all named for Roman gods, the new planet was fittingly called Vulcan to complete the pantheon. Vulcan was the god of the forge, the metalworker responsible for creating the weapons of the gods (after whom volcanoes take their name). The intense heat of an orbit so close to the Sun makes it an appropriate name. Or it would have, if the planet existed.
It can be tempting to think of the story of Vulcan as a blunder, a laughable embarrassment in the history of science. Or worse, as evidence that science isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
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Aditya Birla Sun Life Retirement Fund NFO: Should you invest?
Units of Aditya Birla Sun Life
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Retirement Fund cannot be redeemed until completion of 5 years from the date of allotment or till the unitholder reaches age 60, whichever is earlier.
Aditya Birla Sun Life Retirement Fund NFO opens on February 19, 2019 and closes on March 5, 2019.
For many, retirement is one distant goal that is often ignored. Mutual fund investors have the option to either create a retirement portfolio comprising of MF schemes selected on their own (across asset classes and market caps) or invest through a dedicated MF schemes with retirement as their focus.
Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund is launching one such dedicated scheme titled Aditya Birla Sun Life Retirement Fund, which is an open-ended retirement solution oriented scheme having a lock-in of 5 years or till retirement age (whichever is earlier). The NFO opens on February 19, 2019 and closes on March 5, 2019.
Being a retirement dedicated scheme, the units of Aditya
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Philadelphia, PA and London, UK – October 24, 2013 – Unirisx, LLC (Unirisx), developer of world-class,
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SaaS-based, core administration solutions for property and casualty (P&C) insurance organizations, is pleased to announce that Beazley PLC (Beazley), a global specialist insurance carrier and Lloyd’s syndicate in the UK, is now live with three new insurance products configured and launched entirely via the Unirisx Blueprint Framework, an integral component of The Insurance Solution Suite, Unirisx’s flagship offering for P&C insurers.
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Through Unirisx’s Blueprint Framework and The Insurance Solution Suite, Beazley was able to launch new Marine Logistics, Environmental, and Kidnap and Ransom products, with requirements, customization, build and release all completed in a very narrow timeframe of eight weeks. These three new products bring the total products Unirisx has helped Beazley launch to seven.
Unirisx
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WASHINGTON, May 10, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As children across the country take part in National Bike to
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School Day (May 10), a new report from Safe Kids Worldwide and Nationwide's Make Safe Happen program reveals alarming news about the risks kids take when riding bikes, scooters, skates and skateboards. Nearly 40 percent of the 1,600 parents surveyed admitted that their child doesn't always wear a helmet while riding, even though more than 426,000 children – nearly 50 every hour – visited an emergency department (ED) in 2015 due to a wheeled sports-related injury.
The report, "Ready for the Ride: Keeping Kids Safe on Wheels," explores parents' beliefs and actions to protect kids while bicycling, scootering, skating and skateboarding. While statistics show helmet use is on the rise, this report uncovers a concerning number of parents who do not require their children to wear a helmet. Research shows that helmets and other protective equipment are the best way to prevent injuries while riding, and the new report suggests that more work needs to be done to protect kids
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“It is absolutely false that I supported flow control,” says BoS member Ken Boyd, calling it “more than a stretch
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” to suggest he ever did.
Two weeks after the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority Board discussed its interest in getting a flow control ordinance to bolster a revamped Ivy transfer station, Authority director Tom Frederick now appears to be backing away from such a move, which would have given the Authority monopoly control over trash collection and might have driven the Authority's nemesis out of business.
On October 7, after news of the flow control discussion broke and Coy Barefoot and Rob Schilling took up the issue on their radio programs, Frederick appeared before the County Board of Supervisors to say that his staff was not presently pursing flow control.
Earlier in the week, Supervisor Ken Boyd, who also sits on the RSWA Board, called in to Schilling’s show to distance himself from flow control, a term he said he “was not familiar with” when it came up at the Waste Authority meeting.
Friday, Boyd was still irked by the suggestion that he supported the
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Shorter beaks make it harder for red knots to forage for molluscs in mudflats.
Just as canaries once
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warned miners of the lack of oxygen, an iconic shorebird that migrates from Siberia to West Africa is sending warning signals about the impact of climate change on the planet.
In a new study published today in the journal Science, an international team details how the warming of the Arctic by climate change could be responsible for drops in the population of a sub-species of red knot bird (Calidris canutus canutus).
As the Arctic has warmed, red knots — which breed in Siberia — have grown smaller with shorter bills.
When the birds arrive at their winter feeding grounds in tropical West Africa, their bills are too short to reach the best food, resulting in higher mortality amongst the juvenile population, the researchers found.
They suggest the red knot's experience could hold the key to understanding declining populations worldwide of migratory shore birds.
Senior author Professor Marcel Klaassen, at the Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University,
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Mr. Black was just a fan who wanted to watch the movie he saw in 1977. Eight years later, he can.
On Star Wars
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forums, he goes by Mr. Black. And he owns somewhere between 30 and 40 versions of the original film. He has the DVDs and Blu-rays, of course, but he’s amassed cuts in digital, celluloid, and other rare release formats, too, including Japanese imports, a short-lived laser photographic version known as CED, and a technicolor scan that few people have even seen before.
Yet Mr. Black doesn’t really want all of these rare versions of Star Wars. He wants exactly one.
“I want to watch this the way it was,” he says. The way it was, specifically, in 1977—when at age nine, he saw the movie in the theater for the first time. The one where Han shot first, and George Lucas hadn’t added CGI characters. The one where digital sharpening hadn’t killed the natural grain of the film. But despite all of his acquisitions, Mr
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Over the trailing one-year period, crude oil markets and, in particular, the exchange-traded fund United States Oil Fund LP (ETF
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) (NYSEARCA:USO), have enjoyed a much-needed and desired recovery. Although no one likes pain at the pump, rising prices indicate higher demand, which bodes well for the underlying economy. That said, the USO ETF might be rising a little too quickly.
For Tuesday’s session, the oil fund, which tracks the West Texas Intermediate index, jumped over 3.6% against Monday’s closing price. Investors reacted sharply to news from the U.S. State Department, which declared that all oil imports from Iran must cease by November, according to a CNBC report. Given President Trump’s animus towards Iran and his predecessor’s signing a nuclear deal with the nation, the announcement wasn’t surprising.
Furthermore, Trump lashed out at the former President Obama’s nuclear deal during the 2016 election’s campaign trail. The former real estate mogul promised to undo the perceived damage to America’s reputation
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The acquisition is a further step in Mellanox’s strategy to become the leading broad-line supplier of intelligent interconnect solutions for data
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centers.
Israeli end-to-end connectivity solution provider Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:MLNX) has completed the acquisition of EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. (Nasdaq: EZCH; TASE:EZCH) for $811 million ($606 million net of cash). Both companies are based in Yokneam near Haifa. EZchip provides high-performance processing solutions for carrier and data center networks.
As of today, each outstanding share of EZchip ordinary shares shall be deemed to have been transferred to Mellanox, entitling the holder to receive $25.50 in cash without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes. Following the merger, EZchip shares will be delisted from both Nasdaq and the TASE.
Mellanox's Waldman: Who's to say what I should earn?
The EZchip acquisition is a further step in Mellanox’s strategy
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At a Vancouver Island hatchery, dozens of people give their time to raise new salmon for British Columbian rivers. But with Ottawa’s
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coming changes to fisheries policy, will free labour be enough?
A coho salmon's life comes to an end as volunteers with the Goldstream Salmonid Enhancement Association prepare to remove its eggs so they can be raised in the relative safety of a hatchery.
Wendy Lane slits open the belly of a coho salmon with a practised swipe of her blade, spilling about 2,000 fiery orange eggs into a stainless steel bowl. A crew of volunteers fertilize, wash and settle the fragile eggs in their artificial nest. They’ll be tended for 18 months until, as young fish, they are ready to be released back into Goldstream River to make their way to the Pacific Ocean.
Restoring British Columbia’s declining salmon stocks has fallen in large measure upon the shoulders of volunteers such as Ms. Lane. She is part of a crew of more than 90 regulars at the Howard English Hatchery near Victoria. In British Columbia and Yukon, there are an
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Cybersecurity I specialise in countering extremism, radicalisation and terrorism.
Last November, I was doing research for a new report on the
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prevalence of terrorism on the Darknet, and came across an al-Qaeda linked organization by the name of al-Sadaqah (which means voluntary giving in Arabic). The group were using Facebook and Telegram to campaign for bitcoin funding.
That month, a donation of BTC0.075 ($685 at the time) was sent by an unknown individual to the organization's advertised bitcoin address. Shortly afterwards, the funds (which rose to $803 overnight) were forwarded onto another address. This group is still active on Twitter.
There is no doubt that digital currencies provide benefits to individuals, financial organizations, governments, and public sector institutions by facilitating better access to financial products, aiding financial empowerment, and reducing the risks of corruption and fraud. But one of the significant risks associated with digital currencies is the ability of criminals and terrorists to use these new technologies for their own benefit.
While there is still no indication that digital currencies have been adopted by any terrorist organization on an institutional level, cases where
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[HONG KONG] Most Asian markets were higher on Tuesday on the first trading day of the year, continuing their trajectory from the end of
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a volatile 2016.
Overall, world markets ended last year in the black despite shock votes in Britain and the United States. But Shanghai was the exception with a slump of more than 12 per cent and Japan's Nikkei posted only modest gains.
However Chinese stocks finished solidly higher on Tuesday after an independent research firm showed manufacturing activity expanded in December at its quickest pace in nearly four years, a sign of improving health for the world's second-largest economy.
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index gained 1.04 per cent, while the Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China's second exchange, increased 0.86 per cent.
Sydney and Seoul both closed up around one per cent, while Hong Kong was tracking slight gains in afternoon trade after opening flat.
Markets in Japan were closed for the final day of an extended New Year holiday.
The dollar was mixed against most key Asia-Pacific currencies but was projected to continue its climb over the longer term, on
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Inspectors visited the college on February 27 and 28.
Crawley College’s last full Ofsted inspection took place in October
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2016 when the college was Central Sussex College and was judged as ‘requires improvement’.
The Chichester College Group acquired the college in August 2017 and renamed it Crawley College.
A spokesman said: “Since then the college has become part of the Chichester College Group, with a focus on improving teaching and learning and the student experience at Crawley College.
The report highlighted improvements in student achievement since the merger in August 2017, attributing this to the more active support given to students.
The report said: ‘Leaders, managers and teachers are focused on improving the quality of teaching, learning and assessment. They consider the needs of students in every aspect of their work.
‘Communication across the college has greatly improved and teachers feel valued, and this is in turn having a positive effect on students.
Vicki Illingworth, Crawley College principal, said: “We are absolutely delighted with the outcome of our latest monitoring
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Another Bachelor spinoff, another season of tears from Ashley Iaconetti.
The Bachelor in Paradise alum headed to Manchester, Vermont, for the
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all-new Bachelor Winter Games, but it's clearly new year, same Ashley as her tears are front and center in the show's first promo.
"Winter tears are coming," the clip teases as our favorite cryer cries about once again being friendzoned -- but she's not the only Bachelor alum getting some screen time. The promo also shares the first shots of Luke Pell, Clare Crawley, Dean Unglert and Ben Higgins!
Check out the steamy promo below.
ABC announced the Winter Games cast on Monday, with Eric Bigger, Josiah Graham, Lesley Murphy and Michael Garofola also among those representing Team USA. The show will also include 14 contestants from international versions of The Bachelor, from China to Australia to Sweden to the U.K.
Winter Games premieres on Tuesday, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC, and will air Thursday, Feb. 15 and Tuesday, Feb. 20, before holding
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Howard is a 37-year-old freelance writer who has had possession of the same small Greenwich Village one-bedroom since 1968. His current rent
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for the fifth-floor walk-up, under the rent control system, is a little under $100 a month. On the open market the apartment would probably bring $1,000 a month. This is not to say that it is a palace. In fact, it does not even have a bathroom. There is a shower next to the kitchen sink; other matters toilette must be accomplished in the water closet, which is down the hall across from another apartment.
There are those who are not so frustrated. There are those who have found the city`s housing market to be a gold mine. Most of those in this category are rental tenants in buildings whose owners decide to go co-op. Under New York state law, in order to make such a shift the landlord must get at least 15 percent of his tenants to buy their apartments. Since the tenants invariably band together and sign ''no-buy'' pledges at the first mention of co-oping, the owner is forced to offer
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"Smartech" is a Web Architecture, engaged in designing, development, hosting, promoting of Web sites. "Smartech" also provides IT
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enabled services and software solutions.
"Smartech" is based at Mumbai, in the state of Maharashtra in India.
"Data" means a representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts or instructions, which are being prepared or have been prepared in a formalised manner.
"Information" includes data, text, images, sound, codes, computer programmes, software and databases.
"Visitor" means and includes a person, entity including Corporate Bodies, Associations and its representatives, agents etc.
"Plastemart.com" means an electronic commerce web site. Informative materials collected and posted on this web site is on "as is" basis and is subject to further revision without any prior intimation or notice to any visitor(s) and is designed by Smartech to provide a platform for trade, knowledge, information to the users mainly belonging to Plastic Processing Industry and also consumers, dealers of Plastic products and goods of various nature.
Create a venue where
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BEEKMAN – A Beekman man is accused of assaulting a child for five years since she was 12 years old, according to the D
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utchess County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff’s deputies have charged John Stiebritz, 45, with predatory sexual assault against a child, a class A felony. The investigation began in mid- or late July by members of the Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with the Dutchess County Child Advocacy Center.
The alleged victim is now of legal age, police said.
“At this time these alleged acts are thought to be isolated occurrences, and there is no indication that Stiebritz has had other victims,” the sheriff’s department said in a news release Tuesday.
However, police are urging anyone with information on current or past victims to contact the Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff’s Office can be contacted at 845-486-3800, or via the tipline at 845-605-CLUE (2583) or dcsotips@gmail.com. Please ask
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For Yorkey, the reaction to Tyler's assault is exactly why he felt a scene like this was so necessary. "When we talk about something
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being 'disgusting' or hard to watch, often that means we are attaching shame to the experience. We would rather not be confronted with it. We would rather it stay out of our consciousness," he said. "This is why these kinds of assaults are underreported. This is why victims have a hard time seeking help. We believe that talking about it is so much better than silence."
He went on to add that the research they did on male-on-male sexual violence in high school further supported their decision.
"When we dug into that research, I think we were all astounded to find how many times this happened," he said, "this disturbingly similar story of a male high school athlete violating a weaker boy with some sort of instrument like a mop handle or a pool cue." Read Yorkey's full statement here.
In addition to adding new, custom warning video messages from the cast at the top of each episode, Netflix also made more resources available
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Homeowners who compromise when choosing a property often live to regret it, a survey has found.
A quarter of those who buy outside their target
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area or sacrifice a garden are left ruing their decision, according to the poll for Which? Mortgage Advisers.
Buyers were most likely to compromise on price, decor, location, room size and garden.
One in five of those who paid more than they planned wished they had not.
The structural condition of the property was also something people were particularly likely to regret making compromises on.
Families with children were particularly likely to feel remorse over compromising on location, with 38 per cent of those who had chosen a different location now regretting their decisions.
More than 1,200 home-owners who had bought their property within the past two years were surveyed.
David Blake, principal mortgage adviser at Which? Mortgage Advisers, said: 'Buying a home is a very emotive purchase.
'In an ideal world, we would be able to find our dream home in a great location, ticking everything off our list - but for most of us, some compromise
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In the 2016 Kauffman Index: Startup Activity released Thursday, Austin, Texas, again ranked No 1. Following Miami at No. 2 were
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Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York, Houston, San Jose, Denver and Phoenix. Kauffman’s data is industry-agnostic, so the businesses created range from high-growth tech startups to mom-and-pop shops and eateries and small service businesses in all industries. The Kauffman Foundation, based in Kansas City, develops and funds global research and programs in entrepreneurship.
Nationally, the key finding was that new-business activity was up for the second year in a row, said Arnobio Morelix, research analyst at the Kauffman Foundation and one of the study’s authors. “We as a country had reached the lowest level in two decades two years ago, so this second-year increase is very encouraging,” he said. The recession hit startup activity harder and the “Great Recession hangover” lasted much longer than for well-established companies, Morelix added.
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LOUIS Walsh has quit The X Factor after 13 years on the show.
Louis Walsh has quit The X Factor after 13 years after he
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released a statement confirming his decision.
The veteran judge, who has sat on the panel alongside a host of famous faces to find the next big talent in the music industry, announced that he was "ready to leave" after joining the talent show in 2004.
Thanking him for his contribution to the show, Thames Managing Director, Amelia Brown, commented: “Louis has been a huge part of The X Factor’s success since it launched and remains a good friend of the show.
Meanwhile, Sharon Osbourne will be seen taking on a new role when the show returns.
Unlike previous years when Sharon has sat on the panel from the auditions right through to the live finals, this year, Ozzy Osbourne's wife will only join the show when the live shows begin.
“I can’t wait to get back to the judges’ desk. I love the new format," she declared.
Speaking of the new format, Amelia added: �
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Hanoi police said at a press briefing Thursday that an autopsy found no evidence of "external forces" on a man who died in their custody
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earlier this week, but a family member said there were suspicious cuts and bruises.
Nguyen Quang Truong died Monday morning soon after he woke up trembling at a police station in Quoc Oai District, police said.
They took him to hospital but he died on the way.
Military medical officers conducted the postmortem in front of members of Truong’s family and they concluded that no use of physical force could be detected, police said at the conference.
They said there was damage in his heart, which suggested that he died of atherosclerosis, a disease in which arterial degeneration and cholesterol deposits on the inner surfaces of the arteries obstruct blood flow.
Cuong said there were bruises on his left leg and his right arm and small cuts below the knees. One of his fingers was broken.
Police arrested Truong on July 31 when they came to seize a house of his relative and he was there. A court order earlier required people staying in the
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DUBLIN, Dec. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: JAZ
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Z) today announced the appointment of Daniel N. Swisher, Jr. as president and chief operating officer, effective January 3, 2018. Mr. Swisher will report to Bruce Cozadd, chairman and chief executive officer. Russell J. Cox, who has served as the company's executive vice president and chief operating officer since 2014, has resigned, effective January 3, 2018, to assume the role of Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors at a biotherapeutic company that is focused on helping patients with acute forms of liver failure.
"I'm looking forward to working closely with Dan in his new position at Jazz and have great confidence in the value that Dan's extensive industry knowledge, leadership experience and strategic insights will bring to Jazz. Dan will complement our current strong leadership team as we grow and expand our global operations and further diversify our commercial and R&D portfolios," said Bruce Cozadd, chairman and chief executive officer of Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc. "
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A man who police say streamed the abduction of his grandmother live on Facebook appeared in court Friday.
Joshua Brackenridge, 31, is
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charged with abduction, unlawful restraint and domestic violence in the incident which occurred Thursday.
Investigators said Brackenridge got into his grandmother's car in Harrison and forced her to drive him around while he recorded himself.
In the Facebook video, Brackenridge quotes Bible verses and claims his family is conspiring against him.
"My family... was trying to use my mental illnesses against me to try to get me to kidnap my grandma and kill her," he said. "But I don't have the heart to kill her."
During the course of the video, police said he hit his grandmother.
He claims his family stole money from him, and also railed against Hamilton County judges. He said he spent seven years in the Hamilton County Justice Center as well as additional times in state prison and halfway houses.
Wearing a cross necklace, he said he expected the police to storm the car at any moment.
"You don't have to tackle me. You don't have
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What Newsday's editorial board fails to understand is that the open letter to Iran from Republican senators is, in part, a direct reaction to President
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Barack Obama's exclusionary agenda since the day he took office.
Nobody can deny that the ongoing partisan politics in Congress is utterly frustrating to all, with Republicans and Democrats equally to blame. However, it is the job of the president, as the leader of our nation, to get all parties to work together to create solutions that benefit the whole nation.
By consistently excluding Republicans from participating in the process of government -- see the Affordable Care Act, immigration reform and current negotiations in Iran -- he ignores the interests of many citizens of this country.
For six years, the president has demonstrated his unwillingness to be pragmatic and compromise; it's his way or the highway.
Even though my ultra-conservative Republican friends may not be able to admit it, the GOP's relationship with President Barack Obama has again proven itself to be strictly political ["GOP acts against Iran-U.S. talks," News, March 10]. Republicans want to defeat the president and debilitate his policies, not to serve
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MIDLAND--While the local economy may be on the mend, one local non-profit has seen the number of people coming to them for
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help sky rocket. Helping Hands of Midland is seeing a dramatic increase in applications.
So many families are turning to Helping Hands of Midland because they have no where else to go.
"It's all pretty much falling on Helping Hands right now, yes," Executive Director, Mary Hardin, said.
What started out as a desk and a phone, and selling clothes in someone's garage to raise money, Helping Hands of Midland helps those who can't help themselves.
According Hardin, sadly, the burden has fallen on them, "There's just not that much financial assistance being offered in Midland right now. Several of the large agencies that used to be big players, are out of funds."
Other organizations that normally help, still do, but can't do as much as they used to.
"Some of them may only be able to help with $50 or $100 or $150. When you're talking about an $800
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With more than two years to go before the next election, Malaysia’s opposition has a golden opportunity to take over the government, not because
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of the continuing scandals brewing within the state-backed 1MDB investment fund or rising concern over the economy, but because of demographics.
The figures tell the story – or they don’t. For a variety of complex reasons, including but not exclusive to their own ineptitude, a turnaround is unlikely although it should be. With the Barisan and particularly the United Malays National Organization depending for support largely on the rural ethnic Malay population, that is a dwindling base.
Today 74.7 percent of the population is categorized as urban, according to the CIA World Factbook, and is urbanizing at a rate of 2.66 percent annually. The Barisan also depends on the aging or elderly for its support. Today 45.4 percent of the population are under the age of 24. Perhaps two-thirds are under 40, according to Ibrahim Suffian, the program director of the Merdeka Centre social research organization.
The urban young, in addition to thinking more freely and
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The logistics and legal details surrounding Halloween weekend occupied the majority of the Halloween Town Forum on Oct. 19 at Isla Vista Theater. Members of Is
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la Vista Foot Patrol and the University of California Santa Barbara community answered public questions regarding Halloween in IV and provided information about the varying policies in place during that time.
One of the chief concerns at the forum was parking. During Halloween weekend, new restrictions are enacted to ensure the safety of the large crowds that occupy Del Playa. Starting Friday, Oct. 28, roadblocks will be set up at the ends of Del Playa, Sabado Tarde and their cross-streets, creating a quarantined area with no parking allowed. From 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., no driving will be allowed in the areas.
Enforcement Supervisor Chris Zbinden said that while parking permits are still available it is unlikely they will be delivered in time for the Halloween weekend. He and other members of the panel encouraged students and IV residents to move their cars out of the local area, citing the potential for damages and theft.
Medical assistance tents, public restrooms and hydration
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Courtesy of Marvel’s Legacy Previews, because it seems quite a few folk didn’t get them, here’s a
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preview of the first issue of Phoenix Resurrection #1, with the Return Of Jean Grey by Matthew Rosenberg and Leinil Francis Yu.
Just so you know, for this review I will be remaining spoiler-free, so don’t expect to learn anything about the actual events of this book. But I will answer the question that many will want to know: is it any good?
The series brings together the various groups of X-Men as a bizarre mystery brings them all together — one that brings a troubling air of familiarity to some longer standing members of the mutant superhero team.
What Rosenberg does here is bring just the right amount of nostalgia so that it feels familiar and brings excitement for long-standing fans, while also not feeling like a retread. It helps as well that just as many characters seem at a loss for what the others seem to recognise in the situation, so newer readers can feel connected through those characters, too.
There’s a very Grant Morrison
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With the Republican primary race for governor taking an aggressive turn, Jim Oberweis asked Judy Baar Topinka to apologize Tuesday for criticizing his TV
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attack ads while Topinka said he was trying to "bully" her because she is a woman.
The crossfire came during and after the third broadcast debate among the four major GOP contenders in the primary election. Reflecting the growing personal nature of the race, Topinka turned away as the hourlong broadcast ended and rebuffed an offer from Oberweis to shake his hand.
The debate, sponsored by the Illinois Chamber of Commerce and broadcast by ABC stations in Springfield and Champaign, was ostensibly to focus on business issues. It came with only two weeks to go in a primary campaign that has, until recently, done little to attract voters' attention.
But as with previous encounters featuring Oberweis, Topinka, state Sen. Bill Brady of Bloomington and Chicago businessman Ron Gidwitz, the disputes surfaced largely after the formal debate had ended.
Topinka contended that Oberweis' attacks on her show he "may have some difficulties dealing with women." Oberwe
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The whale shark is the biggest fish in the ocean, but one of the hardest to spot and least understood. Research at Georgia Aquarium is changing
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that.
Dr. Alistair Dove, a leading marine biologist and Georgia Aquarium’s director of research and conservation, spoke with MNN and explained the aquarium’s current whale shark research efforts, showing the connection to both human health and marine conservation.
MNN: Why is the whale shark research at Georgia Aquarium considered so significant?
Dr. Dove: I think it’s incredible that we know so little about the largest fish in the world. In 2015, we can fly by Pluto, but we don’t know where whale sharks mate or where they give birth. It’s never been seen. The chance to answer these questions in the course of what we do here at Georgia Aquarium is tremendously exciting to me.
I’m also excited about the ability to translate what we learn into conservation measures. I love turning research into strategies that change the plight of animals in their natural setting. For example, we’ve worked
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Each month, CIO.com pairs a job-seeking reader with a tech resume professional in order to help them tell the right story to advance
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their careers. Here is a look back at some recent makeovers to help you craft a resume that jumps off the page.
Your resume offers employers a first glimpse into who you are professionally. If you aren't putting your best foot forward during this crucial phase of the job search, then chances are your resume is getting ignored or trashed.
As a prospective job seeker, you need to take the time to craft a resume that shows how you can add value to an employer's team and that doesn't happen by accident. The good news is you can do it. All it takes is introspection, some research and a trusted friend or colleague to help review and edit your resume. Armed with these tools you can create a resume targeted to the role you want and the employers you want to work for. To you help you get started, we rounded up some of best articles from our Resume Makeover series.
Want to be a part of a Resume Makeover? Drop us a
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Action Star Donnie Yen (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”) has joined the cast of Disney’s live-
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action “Mulan,” an individual with knowledge of the project tells TheWrap.
Yen will play Commander Tung in remake of 1998 Disney animated film.
Niki Caro is directing the film, which stars Chinese actress Liu Yifei in the title role. Jason Reed, Chris Bender and Jake Weiner are producing, and Bill Kong is executive producing.
Yen made his movie debut in the 1984 Hong Kong film “Drunken Tai Chi” and came to wider attention with his portrayal of Nap-lan Yun-seut in 1992’s “Once Upon a Time in China II.” His international breakthrough came playing the title character in 2008’s “Ip Man,” based on Wing Chun grandmaster — and Bruce Lee’s teacher — Yip Man. He reprised that role in 2010’s “Ip Man 2” and last year’s “I
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A federal lawsuit and a bust by the feds are shining some light on the links between prison guards and gangs in Maryland. It’s very
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unsettling. Baltimore City Paper investigative reporter Van Smith takes an in depth look at the situation.
BALTIMORE — In 2008, 31-year-old prison inmate Tashma McFadden filed suit against 23-year-old correctional officer Antonia Allison.
On Oct. 9, that suit survived Allison’s attempt to have it dismissed. McFadden, who is seeking $800,000 in damages, claims Allison is a member of the Bloods gang and arranged for his stabbing and beating while in pre-trial detention in 2006 at the Baltimore City Detention Center (BCDC).
Court documents in the case reveal that since at least 2006, prison authorities have been aware that correctional officers in Baltimore’s prison facilities were suspected of being gang members or having gang ties.
The issue first emerged publicly in April, when 24 alleged members of the Black Guerrilla Family (BGF) prison gang, including three correctional officers, were indicted in federal court (“Black-
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Supporters of the Taiwanese National Party and allied groups bang pots and pans bearing the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) emblem outside the Taipei District
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Prosecutors’ Office yesterday after they filed a lawsuit against the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office’s Special Investigation Panel alleging forgery, perjury and abuse of power.
A group made up of 26 civic organizations yesterday sued the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office Special Investigation Panel (SIP), accusing it of forging documents, subornation of perjury and abuse of judicial power.
Led by Taiwanese National Party (TNP) Chairman Huang Hua (黃華), the groups filed the lawsuit with the Taipei District Court against the SIP, which they said cut a deal with former -Chinatrust -Financial Holding Co (中信金控) vice chairman Jeffrey Koo Jr (辜仲諒) to testify against former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) in an attempt to imprison him.
Koo, who was involved in a scandal over Chinatrust’s bid for rival
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An elderly Maryland man with a long history of ties to neo-Nazi organizations walked into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday and opened
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fire, killing a security guard and sending visitors scrambling for cover, law enforcement officials said.
An FBI official said the shooter had been preliminarily identified as James W. von Brunn, 88, who was described by the Anti-Defamation League and other watchers of hate groups as a longtime white supremacist and anti-Semite.
"We've been tracking this guy since the late 1970s," said Heidi Beirich, research director of the Southern Poverty Law Center. "He has an extremely long history with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, and is extremely hard-core."
The gunman, who was shot by museum security officers, was in critical condition at nearby George Washington University Hospital, police said.
The security guard wounded in the attack, 39-year-old Stephen Tyrone Johns of Temple Hills, Md., an African American, died after being taken to the same trauma center.
Joseph Persichini Jr., head of the FBI's Washington Field Office, and other
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Now that he's a grown man (have you listened to 'Boyfriend?'), Justin Bieber is eyeing real estate. Rumor has it the
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Canadian superstar is interested in a Calabasas, Calif. mansion worth a cool $6 million.
TMZ reports that Bieber won't take just any deal on the house, even though it looks pretty awesome. He's been haggling with the seller, and if he doesn't get a price he likes, the site reports that the sale may well fall through.
The seller of the mansion set its asking price at just over $7 million, but Bieber's been trying to knock it down to somewhere in the $5.5 to $6 million range.
The house is sprawling and gorgeous, which would be reason enough for any rich young star to move in. However, Bieber's main attraction to the property is its privacy, as it is located over 20 miles outside of Hollywood. Its distance from Hollywood combined with its gates make it a lot less likely for some pesky paparazzi to take pictures of him coming outside to get the newspaper, doesn't it?
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