prompt stringlengths 19 210 | natural_text stringlengths 233 1.26k |
|---|---|
PhD, Harvard, 1994. American politics, political development, legislatures, parties, and state and local politics. Current research on Congress, state | legislatures, and urban politics. Books include The Making of New Deal Democrats (University of Chicago Press, 1989), Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed (Harvard University Press, 1999), and a forthcoming book (with Steven S. Smith) on the development of Senate party leadership in the 19th... |
The votes are in for the 13th annual Couch Potato Awards.
Once again the Guide's indefatigable critics waded through the year | 's programs, searching for gems among the dross and delivering the odd well-aimed kick. The consensus was that it's been a good, not great, year. All the winners were deserving and some were among the best shows of the past decade but in some categories there was not a lot of depth. As in previous years, we asked reade... |
JUST A MONTH AGO, the U.S. House of Representatives was trumpeting its vote to increase the minimum wage, hailing it | as a symbol of new leadership in Congress.
But the bill has stalled in the Senate, and Republicans vow it's not going to happen. They've attached to the bill $8 billion in tax breaks for businesses.
This is disappointing. Especially since one of the biggest arguments against raising the minimum wage - that it reduces ... |
Bloomberg has an exciting opportunity for a motivated Senior Network Security Engineer within the newly formed (NSRE) Network System Reliability Engineering team in London. | The team is responsible for the solution engineering, implementation, stability and support of Bloomberg's global multi-vendor network, which is one of the world's largest private networks spanning over 100 node sites and connecting clients globally to over 1,500 exchanges, market data, and order entry venues.
You wil... |
What's the latest scoop? Ice cream, in ROLLS.
"The ice cream gets rolled up right before your eyes," explained Jacob | Billig.
It is VERY cool. In fact, it's downright freezing. After all, it's anywhere between -15° and -20°.
Twenty-two-year-old Jacob Billig and his 20-year-old brother Kyle opened Sweet Charlie's about a year-and-a-half ago. (Charlie is their dog.) They were convinced that Philadelphia would melt over Rolled Ice Cream... |
Scottish Parliament economists calculate how much a local income tax would cost after the First Minister tells a radio phone-in that he would introduce the levy | in an independent Scotland.
Families with two earners face a £550 hike in their bills for council services under Alex Salmond’s plans to introduce a local income tax in an independent Scotland, the Telegraph can disclose today.
Impartial economists in the Scottish Parliament’s Information Centre (SPICe) calculated the... |
04/23/2019 04:43:53 96383205 1 2 0 3241 1 1 Technology Application Development Azure Full Stack Developer - | Azure Full Stack Developer - Full Time Vonnasys LLC | Bellevue, TX 3 DAYS AGO Job DescriptionAzure Full Stack Developer - Responsibilities:Building planning tools, workflows and data driven applications on Azure platform to aide Data... 3 DAYS AGO Do you match?
04/22/2019 16:05:59 96296992 2 3 0 3553 1 1 Restaurant & ... |
Khawar Farid Maneka is a Customs officer who has recently come into the eye of the public as his ex-wife Bushra R | iaz Wattoo was linked with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan. Media reports claimed that the two have recently tied the knot. Although there hasn’t been a confirmation as yet from any of the sides, Imran Khan has officially told that he has only proposed Bushra for a marriage and she hasn’t yet given h... |
Scoring: 1, WVC, Katie Mitchkiosky, 51:00. 2, CBC, Bethany Forst (Bri | anna Turley), 78:00. Saves: CBC, Stephanie Gibson 10; WVC, AdriAnna Simmons 10.
WALLA WALLA MEN 1, NORTH IDAHO 1: Brenden Kenley scored a goal in the 55th minute, and the Warriors hung on to tie visiting North Idaho in NWAC East play.
Scoring: Brenden Kenley (Jose Vasquez), 55:00; 2, NI, Hamidou Kante (Max Mularski), 8... |
Already know where you want to buy a home? Have a specific budget in mind? Just want to nose around some pretty properties? Browse our hand | -picked selections of properties for sale around the world.
Cyprus has always been an obvious choice for holiday lets and resort-based property investment. However, a new spate of new-build developments are bringing in international investors in increasing numbers.
With Portugal now offering Golden Visas to foreign inv... |
Craven Concerts, which has been providing artistic excellence to Craven and surrounding counties for 30 years, has announced its lineup for the 2013- | 14 season, which begins in October.
The first of two 2013 concerts is Oct. 16, featuring Sixth Floor Trio. According to their web page, The Sixth Floor Trio is a chamber group dedicated to the creation and performance of music that connects different musical styles, communities and artistic disciplines.
Formed by gradu... |
Global Hair Gel Market is expected to rise from its initial estimated value of USD 1.79 billion in 2018 to an estimated value of USD 2. | 49 million by 2026, registering a CAGR of 4.20% during the forecast period of 2019-2026. This rise in market value can be attributed to the growing demand of natural hair gel and rising need for hair styling among younger population.
In January 2018, L'Oréal Paris launched a new hair care brand line Elvive which helps ... |
"From Technology to Cash" was the multiyear marketing campaign undertaken by Concurrent Computer Corp. to help Time Warner Cable in Oahu, Hawaii | , design, build and launch video-on-demand services. Started in April 1999, the system is now one of the largest deployments in the U.S., covering 352,000 VOD-enabled basic homes and 85,000 digital subscribers.
The process began in April 1999, when Concurrent was chosen by Time Warner to be its server vendor. Servers a... |
Former Ardmoreite, Sandra “Sandy” Sparks Wilson, 84, passed away Dec. 20, 2018, at her Denver, | Colo., residence. Sandra was born May 29, 1934, in Ardmore, the daughter of the late Bill and Mayme Lee Bailey Sparks.
Sandra and Lloyd “Lou” Rolland Wilson, a fellow public school teacher and coach, were married June 30, 1961, and they had celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary June 2011, a month before Lou passed... |
(CNN) - Special counsel Robert Mueller's office disputed an explosive story from BuzzFeed News as "not accurate" Friday night, after the news outlet | reported the President had directed his personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, for which Cohen was later prosecuted.
"BuzzFeed's description of specific statements to the Special Counsel's Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen's Congressio... |
The questions hit the two of them early in their NFL lives, week after week, game after game, repeated often enough so that Will Allen and | Will Peterson quickly understood the drill.
Inquiring minds wanted to know: What do you think of [fill in the blank with name of opponents’ top receiver] and how, with so little experience, can you possibly hope to stop him?
The past few days, as the Giants ready themselves to open their season Sunday against the usua... |
The left hook JAMES TONEY used last year to dethrone MICHAEL NUNN as the International Boxing Federation middleweight champion shocked more | than the previously undefeated Nunn and his hometown fans in Davenport, Iowa. It also stunned the nation's boxing writers, who had somehow missed the promise Toney had shown in knocking out JOSE LUIS ESTEVEN a year earlier and his continued development under his manager, JACKIE KALLEN.
Caught unaware, the writers cove... |
Ivory poachers may have finally met their match: forensic science. A study just published by PNAS describes a carbon-dating technique making it | possible to determine the age of elephant tusks—and thus whether a particular piece of ivory has been acquired illegally.
As Uno explained, new tissue forms every day in the elephant’s tusk as it eats, with the base containing the newest tissue. Because the carbon absorbed by plants contains radiocarbon from the atmos... |
When Carolyn Porco started exploring the outer solar system, it was all about the rings. Her 1983 doctoral thesis at Caltech focused on shifting spokes | in Saturn's rings discovered by the Voyager spacecraft. As Voyager sailed past Uranus and Neptune, Porco led a group dedicated to their rings, too. So when she became the head of the imaging team for the Cassini satellite mission to Saturn, the gas giant's majestic rings were expected to be the highlight.
But in Cassi... |
It is hard not to enjoy beer marketing. Even if you are not a marketer, this industry always offers creative advertising (particularly on TV) | that is fun to watch and spends lots of money doing it. Every year at the Super Bowl, a good number of the Top 10 ads come from beer companies. In other venues beyond sports, beer advertising often promises good times, great parties and generally being able to escape from your daily life into a world of fun, travel an... |
A child in Florida has become the first person to die of the flu this season, according to state health officials. State epidemiologists say the | child had not been vaccinated and was otherwise healthy before getting sick with the flu.
The child, who tested positive for influenza B, died sometime during the week of Sept. 30, although privacy concerns prevent officials from saying exactly where, CBS affiliate WTSP-TV reports.
Last flu season, 183 children in the... |
BERLIN (AFP) - Berlin on Wednesday commemorates Adolf Hitler's rise to power 80 years ago, with exhibitions exploring what Chancellor Angela Merkel has | called Germany's "everlasting responsibility" for crimes committed by the Nazis.
In a black-and-white photo, visitors can make out the Fuehrer saluting the crowd from the chancellery window on the evening of Jan 30, 1933, after earlier having been made chancellor and been charged by president Paul von Hindenburg with ... |
⇑ back to "Evangelism & Missions"
Music, not message, reverberates through the Meow Meow in Portland, Ore., | on Thursday through Saturday nights. The punk-rock club is the primary outreach of The Bridge, a church for the city's street kids.
"This is an all ages music venue in the same building as the church, but separate from it," explains Angie Fadel, who runs the club with her husband, Todd. "Many of these people have been... |
Boston-area Allstate agency owners recently joined with others from across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic to secure a $253,000 Allstate Foundation | Helping Hands grant to benefit 15 domestic violence nonprofits in nine states and the District of Columbia, including RESPOND, Inc. of Somerville.
The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), which represents the organizations’ local efforts, accepted the grant and distributed the funding to the local domest... |
He's still committed to taking on big issues.
When Kendrick Lamar joined forces with Reebok towards the end of 2014, the artist recognized | it was a unique platform for him to tackle issues that are largely overlooked in the industry. Footwear and fashion might not be go-to platforms for public conversations about issues beyond trends and popular style, but the world of sneakers offers an opportunity to talk to a particular range of people. Fans and colle... |
Angry Sir Alex Ferguson condemned Cristiano Ronaldo for allowing himself to be provoked into getting sent off in Manchester United's 1-1 draw at Portsmouth | .
The Portugual international head-butted Richard Hughes who had pushed him during a goalmouth melee.
Referee Steve Bennett, a yard away from the incident, had no option but to issue a red card, earning the winger a three match-ban.
It means United go into Sunday's Manchester derby without Ronaldo, who also sits out ga... |
Development Tour Event 12 winner Ted Evetts.
Ted Evetts once again tasted success on the PDC Unicorn Development Tour as he was | victorious at Event 12 in Wigan on Sunday.
With the victory, Evetts returned to the top of the PDC Development Tour order of merit.
The Stockton thrower had been knocked off the top spot by German Martin Schindler who won both events on Saturday.
Evetts reached the semi-finals of Event 11 courtesy of victories over Ja... |
In response to Anastasia Render Flores letter of “Sad future for Gaylord” (Aug. 8 Herald Times), I am one | of those tourists who Gaylord is catering to. I love Gaylord and have been coming to the area since 1963.
Three years ago I was truly fortunate enough to be able to buy a summer home in Michawyé. If it wasn’t for tourism, Gaylord would be in serious trouble. Gaylord needs tourism in order to supplement its tax dollars... |
First-person shooters are great and all. But they're no where near the size of real-world military conflicts.
In reality, they | play more like isolated firefights than all-out war, according to CJ Heine, lead designer at Zipper Interactive.
"The scale has always been missing," he says.
For example, when you see tracer fire and hear gunshots in other games, it's usually simulated by the computer "to make the player feel like they're in a larger... |
Fitz and the Tantrums find contentment in the soft, sleek, and simple on their infectious but frivolous third album.
The slight revisions | in sound between Fitz and the Tantrums’ first two albums (especially their 2013 commercial breakthrough More Than Just a Dream) and their new self-titled third record are almost intangible, so much so that any criticism one could levy at their latest effort could also easily be a condemnation of its subtly superior pr... |
JUDGE Rinder and his dance partner Oksana Platero were the eleventh couple to leave Strictly Come Dancing tonight. |
The popular duo were up against Ore Oduba and his dance partner Joanne Clifton in the dreaded dance-off after failing to secure enough votes from the public and points from the judges.
The dancers had to perform their Musical Week routines again, with Rinder and Oksana performing a Samba to Jersey Boys' Oh! What a Nig... |
Heart disease represents a heterogenous group of diseases involving the heart and blood vessels. Diseases of the heart have been broadly categorized into congenital heart diseases | ) or acquired heart disease.
The recent wave of increasing diagnosis of heart disease among prominent Ugandans has caused a lot of anxiety among members of the public. In this series, “Heart Disease in Uganda: Past, Present, and Future”, I attempt to add historical context, describe our current situation, and highlight... |
“Mozart and Me Too,” an event featuring music from the opera “Don Giovanni” and presentations on how it | relates to contemporary themes, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Pablo Center at the Confluence, 128 Graham Ave.
The event is part of Progressive Performance, a series of collaborations by faculty from across UW-Eau Claire’s music and theater arts department in multiple spaces throughout Pablo Center.
The ev... |
Okaloosa County commissioners have postponed approval of a zoning change that would have prohibited private and residential airports from operating on the waterfront.
The policy | change also would have restricted private airports to one of three zoning areas: agricultural, institutional or airport industrial park.
Commissioners voted earlier this week to table the proposal indefinitely after hearing concerns from a loosely organized group representing the private aviation community. Its member... |
PERSIMMON Homes, would-be developer of Bootham Crescent, has acquired a ten per cent stake in the company which owns the ground | , the Evening Press can reveal today.
Documents filed with Companies House show the York-based housebuilders have bought 20,000 shares in Bootham Crescent Holdings from current and former York City directors Douglas Craig, Barry Swallow, John Quickfall and Colin Webb.
The annual returns do not show how much Persimmon -... |
Reggae gospel artiste Chozenn is preparing to release his sophomore album and also to hit the road for an entire year, as he | carries out his mandate to spread the gospel globally.
The new album, Culture Invasion, will be ready for a summer release.
Although the name may suggest otherwise, the artiste answered in the affirmative when asked if the album was full gospel.
For this project, Chozenn has collaborated with producer Rohan 'Patexx' R... |
FILE - Bilal Mohammad, initially identified as Adem Karadag, is one of the two men indicted.
A Bangkok military court has | indicted two men accused of carrying out the August 17 bombing at a popular shrine that killed 20 people.
The court on Tuesday indicted Bilal Mohammed and Mieraili Yusufu on 10 counts connected to the blast, including conspiracy to explode bombs and commit premeditated murder.
Thailand authorities have not officially ... |
Refeeding syndrome can develop when someone who is malnourished begins to eat again. The syndrome occurs because of the reintroduction of glucose | , or sugar. As the body digests and metabolizes food again, this can cause sudden shifts in the balance of electrolytes and fluids. These shifts can cause severe complications, and the syndrome can be fatal.
It can take as few as 5 successive days of malnourishment for a person to be at risk of refeeding syndrome. The ... |
MAYOR Paul Antonio still hasn't commented on a local government panel finding he engaged in misconduct, despite taking time in a meeting yesterday to address | his colleagues.
Ordered to apologise by the review panel for acts of misconduct relating to commissioning an alternative route for the upcoming Inland Rail, Cr Antonio stood up before the meeting with a prepared speech.
"As you know Mr Chairman, recently -," Cr Antonio began.
Cr Bill Cahill, who was one of two people ... |
Before that award-winning story appears on The National, that heart-breaking report is on the World at Six or that important exposé appears | on your smartphone, CBC journalists have discussed, deliberated and debated the best way to tell our stories to Canadians.
There may be ethical considerations at play. Or maybe we have to think twice before putting a reporter in harm's way. How do we get behind the hype? And of course, Canada's a very big country, so ... |
Hawaii brought back its nuclear warning system….
Hawaii is preparing for a North Korean nuclear attack. Should the Bay Area follow suit?
| HONOLULU — For the first time in more than three decades, an ominous warning siren blared across Hawaii earlier this month — an alarm that one day could mean a nuclear missile is about to hit.
The siren, a Cold War relic brought back in the wake of new threats from North Korea, is the centerpiece of the most wide-rangi... |
After handing over close to 16,000 housing units since setting up PA Properties almost 23 years ago, company president and CEO Romarico Alvarez is | convinced that if the country were to get rid of social and economic ills, there is one thing that will make a huge difference: building more houses.
And it’s not just any type of house.
“We must make sure that the houses built are both of the right quality and would meet the financial capacity of ‘first-time buyers’ ... |
One by one, 3 utility workers descended into a manhole. One by one, they died.
When a utility worker in Key Largo | , Florida, noticed that a section of a paved street was not settling properly, he decided to remove a manhole cover and descend into the earth.
Moments later on Monday morning, the 15-foot-deep hole went silent. Sensing the man was trapped, a fellow utility worker climbed into the drainage hole to rescue him. When he, ... |
WASHINGTON, Jul 19 2013 (IPS) - Proponents of a proposed higher “living wage” requirement for workers at large retailers here in | Washington are stepping up their campaign, urging the city’s mayor to sign pending legislation into law.
Dozens of other U.S. cities have enacted similar laws, which increase minimum wages at those businesses covered by the legislation by around 50 percent. Yet the legal battle here has garnered national attention bec... |
Since last week, there have been rumors—first reported by tech blog Engadget—that Huawei, the world's largest telecom equipment maker, | would be open to supply 5G modems to Apple for next year's iPhone 5G.
On Saturday, in an exclusive interview with CNBC, Huawei CEO and founder Zhengfei Ren confirmed that the Shenzhen, China-based company is open to selling 5G modems to Apple if the Silicon Valley company makes such a request, marking a strategic shif... |
Guess it IS about time we updated our black, white and beige workweek wardrobe.
Guess what? Tonight you can actually party | hop on Wisconsin -- without hitting those college frat-boy hotspots. Instead, stop by chic boutiques for a special celebration and then a grand opening.
Washingtonian readers selected Urban Chic as the store with the "Best Trendy Clothes," according to this month's issue. So to celebrate this top shop honor, Urban Chi... |
Meek Mill has confessed he wants Nicki Minaj to have his baby “sooner or later” but the ‘Starships | ’ hitmaker insists she won’t get pregnant before she’s married.
The 28-year-old rapper dismissed speculation the 32-year-old singer is carrying his baby but admits he wants to have children “sooner or later” with the ‘Starships’ hitmaker.
When Nicki heard from fans what Meek had said in his interview, however, she quic... |
Michele Bachmann may have crashed and burned in her bid to win the GOP nomination last year, but the Minnesota congresswoman isn’ | t quite ready to leave the national spotlight.
Though she is still battling allegations of election finance fraud and allegations that her campaign tried to bribe a GOP official in Iowa, Bachmann is trying to keep her status as the leader of the GOP charge against Barack Obama.
This week Michele Bachmann sponsored a bi... |
The word usually conjures up an image of an animal tearing apart another animal of the same species.
But it's a word that can be | used in other ways, and in an analysis issued almost exactly a year ago, it was how the credit rating agency Moody's Investors Services described the impact the opening of two upstate casinos -- Rivers Casino & Resort, in Schenectady, and Del Lago Resort Casino, near Seneca Falls -- was having on gambling revenues.
"D... |
The Minister for Disabilities resigned over Brexit and a new one won’t be appointed until after its dealt with. So who in the UK | Government will fix the writes Christine Jardine.
There was a moment this week that made me worry for what we cherish as our caring society.
I have never been in any doubt that we, as a community, are driven to ensure that everyone, wherever they come from, or whatever obstacles are placed in their way, is entitled to... |
The rupee gained by 56 paise at 73.56 on dollar sales, capital inflows and the sharp fall in crude oil prices. Brent | crude, which registered a four-year high of $86.74 a barrel last week, has now corrected sharply to a level just above $80.
After the severe hammering on Thursday, equity benchmarks on Friday reversed almost all of those losses sending the Sensex vaulting by 732 points higher and the Nifty Index above the 10,450 mark.... |
Which city in the UK has seen the greatest property price growth over the past decade? It isn’t the hotspots of the south, | such as London or Oxford. The answer, surprisingly, is Aberdeen, where house prices have more than doubled over the past decade, according to various studies, including a report published late last year by the Nationwide Building Society.
Why? In a word: energy. Oil and gas– as well as a growing focus on renewables an... |
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in | -Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that a federal grand jury returned a two-count Indictment against CHENG LE for attempting to acquire and distribute ricin and committing postal fraud. LE was arrested in Manhattan on December 23, 2014, by the FBI. He was pres... |
Oct. 19, 2016, 8:34 p.m.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump respond to a question about a "grand bargain" | on entitlements.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both sidestepped a question in Wednesday’s debate about how to stabilize Social Security to avert benefit cuts as funding dwindles in the decades ahead.
Both have vowed to oppose benefit cuts. But as moderator Chris Wallace pointed out, the Committee for a Responsible ... |
Earlier this summer, TJ Miller shocked the HBO-watching, comedy-loving world by announcing his departure from Silicon Valley, the show on which he | made his name as tech-industry blowhard Erlich Bachman. And while many of the trickled-out bits of news since then would imply that ballooning egos were at play, he’s also said that the exit was “super friendly.” In the midst of all of this, he debuted an HBO comedy special in which he showed audiences the full range ... |
Cyber Monday broke all sales records this year, generating $7.9 billion. And the holiday shopping season is far from over.
But | it’s no time for brands using email marketing to be complacent. SendGrid, which handled 2.9 billion emails on Cyber Monday, has some takeaways from this November activity about what to do next.
Take subject lines. Those featuring terms such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday performed significantly worse than other line... |
We are looking to recruit a motivated and dedicated Project Worker to join our team based within our accommodation services in Thurrock. Your role will involve supporting | both young people (aged 16-21) and adults to develop independent living skills and skills to support resettlement back in to the community after a period of homelessness. You will also be responsible for hosting a range of activities within the hostel that benefits the clients.
To succeed in this highly rewarding role... |
Kevin Moore stormed to victory in the 200m to become the first Maltese athlete to win an event at the Euro Team Championships.
Malt | a placed 10th out of a total of 15 European federations at the European Team Championships 3rd League, held in Tbilisi last week.
The 3rd League was won by Cyprus who withstood a strong challenge from Iceland to preserve their status. Both nations secured promotion to the 2nd League.
Malta was at one point vying for ei... |
Stormy Daniels: Did Donald Trump pay Stormy Daniels $130K hush money?
Pictured, adult movie star, Stormy Daniels | aka Stephanie Clifford, alleged to have been paid $130K hush money over an alleged tryst with President Donald Trump.
Did Donald Trump lawyers pay off adult actress Stormy Daniels aka Stephanie Clifford, $130, 000 to keep quiet about an alleged 2006 sexual indiscretion?
Also trending this afternoon apart from whether ... |
SILVIS, Ill. -- A year after his opening-round 59 at the 2010 John Deere Classic, Paul Goydos was asked | what he learned from that round. "I know I need to practice," he deadpanned.
Not surprisingly, the bulk of Goydos' pre-tournament presser at TPC Deere Run Tuesday revolved around his iconic round -- one of just five 59s shot during competition on the PGA Tour. "I thought it was a big deal individually for me; wow, coo... |
Citing an undocumented immigrant’s arrest for the July 1 murder of Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco, congressmen repeatedly questioned Department of Homeland | Security Secretary Jeh Johnson about its policy to give state and local law offices discretion in enforcing immigration laws.
Referring to Lopez-Sanchez as a “career criminal,” Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., asked Johnson why Homeland Security lets local and state law enforcement ignore federal detainers that would allow Im... |
LearningRx provides cognitive skills training to all ages; whether it be preschoolers or school-age children struggling in school, students and adults looking | for a competitive edge, the older adult dealing with dementia or memory loss, or the athlete or military veteran who is coping with a traumatic brain injury. LearningRx creates a brain training program that is customized by an expert trainer, with one-on-one guidance and feedback throughout the program.
“LearningRx is... |
Yoshitomo Nara wants to Confuse you.
Home Visual Arts Yoshitomo Nara wants to Confuse you.
Just | ine Chausson: About author bio at bottom of article.
Inspired by Japanese Manga and Anime culture, Nara is part of a new style of Japanese art which is giving the comic strip subculture global attention. Even though Roy Lichtenstein was one of the first to negate a similar gap between pop-culture and high art, there pe... |
Riley Morrison, 9, and Warriors star Steph Curry share a moment.
The Curry 6 “United We Win” sneakers.
| The Bay Area girl who moved Stephen Curry to change the way he sells sneakers appeared with the Warriors’ superstar on national television Friday to discuss their extraordinary creative collaboration.
Curry marked International Women’s Day by releasing his newest namesake sneaker, which he co-designed with 9-year-old R... |
Imaculate bike, lady owned and ridden, only 32 hours, Oil changed every 3 hours! Electric start!!!
The high flying, high | paced action of motocross is not for everyone. As a result, the slightly less intense world of cross country / harescramble racing is experiencing solid growth and interest. The YZ250FX is a cross country focused model with the performance potential of the YZ250F. If you are serious about winning, the YZ250FX could be... |
Does it bother you that Vice-President Mike Pence proudly shares that he talks with God? I have to admit it bothered me a bit – but | not for the same reasons many other people became uncomfortable with Pence’s revelation.
I understand why some people are dismayed by the vice-president’s faith in open display in the public square. In fact, a “faith standard” is a pretty high bar to meet in terms of public service. For instance, how credible is the f... |
We are a group of non-governmental organizations that advocate for human rights, civil rights, and government accountability. We are writing to share our serious | concerns about PresidentTrump’s nomination of Marshall Billingslea to be Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights at the Department of State, given Mr. Billingslea’s well- documented history of advocating for the use of torture and other unlawful interrogation practices.
The Under Secretary f... |
Don't Get Dizzy While You're Busy Every answer today is a rhyming two-word phrase in which each word has two syllables | and the first word ends with a doubled consonant plus the letter Y.
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. And no, Kim Kardashian's back side did not break the Internet, but what's about to happen now is likely to blow up your radio. It's time to puzzle. Joining me now is Will Shortz. He is the puzz... |
Held at Headquarters, New York, on Monday, 29 October 2001, at 10 a.m.
1. Mr. Hansen ( | Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)), introducing his report for the period from 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2001 (A/56/13 and Add.1), said that the tragic events of 11 September in the United States had shocked people all over the Middle East an... |
Shannon Wyatt (left) and MaryJo Taira were two of 438 living organ donors who gathered April 21 at Millennium Park in Chicago | .
Oak Parker Shannon Wyatt, 36, and River Forest resident MaryJo Taira, 52, were two of 438 living organ donors who gathered April 21 at Millennium Park in Chicago for the Guinness World Record Attempt: Living Donor Rally. Both women spoke to the Oak Leaves on April 27 about their experience.
Q: What was the event like... |
The fundamentals of robotic process automation combined with machine learning capabilities to robotize the mundane tasks, plus learning to do a job even better, is what | intelligent process automation all about.
We have evolved from room-sized mainframes to laptops, from using stick shifts to autonomous vehicles, from personal assistants to virtual assistants, and to so much more in just the blink of an eye. The fast-paced technology-driven world has made our lives extremely convenien... |
PERFECTLY BALANCED Expect an even spread of ingredients with every pizza.
Despite the dozens of pizza orders it handles a day, | Matchbox is not a pizzeria. Rather, the restaurant considers itself a bistro that just so happens to have a brick oven perfect for baking up blistered and crispy pizzas with fresh ingredients.
Located not far from Verizon Center on H Street, the original Matchbox is housed on three floors of a former Chinese grocery s... |
Many online advertising firms are struggling in the wake of falling stock prices, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, even though global spending on online ads | is expected to climb 25 percent this year, according to eMarketer, and will represent 39 percent of total ad spending in the U.S.
Some of the young, publicly traded companies that are not reaping the benefits of that growth are Rocket Fuel, down 73 percent since January; YuMe, down 38 percent; Tremor Video, 46 percent... |
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Sunday, describing the Illinois senator as a "transformational figure."
Powell said | both Obama and Republican John McCain are qualified to be commander in chief. But he said Obama is better suited to handle the nation's economic problems as well as help improve its standing in the world.
It was an endorsement which also included a blistering critique of the Republican campaign tactics and specificall... |
The 2018-2019 High School Basketball season is officially upon us!
And with a new season at the Jersey Shore, the Asbury Park Press | has revealed its girls and boys basketball previews for the season.
What you'll find below is the very convenient list of all the links to our preseason high school basketball coverage.
Remember to follow girls basketball beat reporter Danny LoGiudice on Twitter (@danny_logiudice) and boys basketball beat reporter She... |
Mr Macron (second from left) welcoming Mr Juncker, Mrs Merkel and Mr Xi before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Tuesday | .
CHINESE President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China and Europe were "advancing together" but that the two trading blocs needed to overcome "suspicions".
"Of course there are differences and competition, but it's positive competition," Mr Xi told a press conference in Paris with the leaders of France, Germany and ... |
Intel investors were a bit "spooked" by the company's lower-than-expected data center numbers, which dragged its stock down 3% | Wednesday afternoon.
Intel's betting its future on the growth of its data center business, but it only saw 5% growth year-over-year in the second quarter, well below its 15% growth forecast for the full year.
But Intel CEO Brian Krzanich downplayed any concerns about the slowdown during a call with investors, saying t... |
Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday told lawmakers that he was among the 87 million or so Facebook Inc users whose data was improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge | Analytica.
But he pushed back on Congress members' suggestions that users do not have enough control of their data on Facebook in the wake of the privacy scandal at the world's largest social media network.
"Every time that someone chooses to share something on Facebook... there is a control. Right there. Not buried i... |
Measure 66, raising the tax on income above $125,000 for individuals and $250,000 for households, passed 54 percent to 46 percent | statewide.
Measure 67, establishing a $150 minimum tax for most businesses, passed 53 percent to 47 percent.
The measures failed in rural Umatilla County, where Measure 66 received 7,977 yes votes, or 48 percent, and 8,677 no votes, or 52 percent. Measure 67 had 7,739 yes votes, or 46 percent, and 8,927 no votes, or 5... |
Speaking at the Hudson Institute in Washington, former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon startled Israel by declaring publicly: 'The IDF has the military | capability to destroy Iran's nuclear installations and setting back Tehran's quest to acquire the bomb for years'. The subject of the lecture was Halting Iran's Nuclear Program, Is there any Israeli Option? Reacting in Jerusalem, Israeli officials severely reprimanded the general for just about detailing how it could ... |
As the game begins, you have to choose what kind of creatures you want composing your unit. Six portraits are lined up, you can click on | one, and then click on another to swap places, or click on the "?" icon to randomize that creature's type. Mousing over each portrait shows a list of stats, and directional arrows show the way that creature can attack. Some creatures can only attack from two spaces away, while some can attack multiple times and some c... |
Car-sharing networks like Zipcar — the largest in the U.S. — often earn environmental points for helping to reduce the number of vehicles | on the road. And as we’ve written on GigaOM Pro (subscription only) and on Earth2Tech, these services — hooked up to communications networks and often used by eco-minded and urban consumers — may offer a prime testing ground for early generations of plug-in vehicles. Already, many car-sharing networks have hybrids in ... |
Talks between the ousted and interim governments of Honduras have ended, with no solution in sight.
Representatives of toppled President Manuel Zelaya and | interim President Roberto Micheletti failed to reach an agreement Friday during their second day of talks in Costa Rica.
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias is mediating the negotiations. He said the two sides have agreed to meet again.
Friday's talks took place one day after President Arias met separately at his home w... |
LONDON — The BBC’s director general Mark Thompson is expected to leave at the end of the year or early 2013 at the latest. |
Authoritative sources suggest that Thompson has told friends that he is “psychologically ready” to exit.
On Monday, BBC chairman Chris Patten announced that headhunters had been hired to find a successor to Thompson, who was appointed in 2004 (Daily Variety, Jan. 24).
At the Oxford Media Conference on Wednesday, Patte... |
Failure to construct a maternity hospital alongside the new €1.7bn children's hospital on the St James's Hospital (SJH) campus | in Dublin would “be a financial and medical catastrophe”.
The warning from the former Master of the Coombe, Prof Chris Fitzpatrick, will be made at the Public Accounts Committee tomorrow along with calls to reconsider the location for the national children's hospital.
He expressed concerns for critically-ill newborns ... |
HOUSTON - A "stubborn" fever that kept former President George H.W. Bush in a hospital over Christmas has gotten worse, | and doctors have put him on a liquids-only diet, his spokesman said Wednesday.Jim McGrath, Bush's spokesman in Houston, had said earlier in the day that the fever had gone away, but he later corrected himself."It's an elevated fever, so it's actually gone up in the last day or two," McGrath told The Associated Press. ... |
Can green tea boost your brainpower and treat disease?
The images that come to mind when thiking of green tea are likely associated with calm | ness, purity and relaxation.
The ancient beverage has been used for centuries in Chinese medicine as a means to relieve people from various ailments, but more recently the tea — and its extracts — have caught the attention of scientists. Teams across the world have been trialling green tea extracts and specific compoun... |
"Put down the weights. I'd rather see a guy jump fifty times than squat three hundred pounds three times."
Reporter, CNET | TV; cohost, tech podcast "Buzz Out Loud"
"Never buy a Mac product in early June, before the Apple conference, in early September, when they launch their Christmas line, or in January, before Macworld."
"Stop trying to hit the ball so hard. Tiger Woods once told me that he has never, ever swung at a ball with 100 perce... |
HOUSTON (CN) – A self-styled pastor and real estate investor surrendered to federal authorities on charges that he conned $650, | 000 from a woman, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Samuel Ray Palasota, 52, of Houston, turned himself in following the return of a 24-count indictment, including 21 counts of mail fraud and three counts of wire fraud, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
Palasota “claimed to manage a real estate investment program... |
DURHAM >> Jessica Drop, Samantha Drop, Allie Alsup and Megan Decker arrived at the New Balance Track and Field Center at The Armory | in New York City with the same hopes and All-American dreams that all the competitors harbored at this year’s National Championship Indoor meet.
“It was in the back of our minds that we could get All-American because we looked at the results from last year and our times could definitely get us there,” Jessica Drop sai... |
Pavithra Srinivasan reviews the Tamil album, Avan Ivan. Post YOUR reviews here!
Rasathi begins on an | angsty note, as Haricharan picks up the vocal reigns, and there are faint strains of the classic Munpaniyaa -- but the song shifts direction soon. The lyrics are standard, colloquial fare but again, the score takes precedence here. The instrumental score is fascinating. An appealing number.
Dia Dia Dole, rendered by S... |
Days after Zimbabwe's central bank increased daily withdrawal limits, the lines outside Zimbabwe's banks are still as long as ever. As Tendai Maph | osa reports from Harare this is seriously affecting productivity for those with jobs.
Starting this week, Zimbabweans can withdraw, on a daily basis, 20,000 Zimbabwean dollars (equal to about $5) from their bank accounts up from the previous daily limit of 1,000 Zimbabwean dollars. But this has failed to reduce the lin... |
Democratic Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff has announced his panel will launch a broad new investigation into President Donald Trump's tax returns, business and | ties to Russia.
The announcement comes after the president criticized "partisan investigations" in his State of the Union address Tuesday night.
"An economic miracle is taking place in the United States — and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations," Trump said.... |
A consignment of ice was delivered to the award-winning park after a generous donation from The Ice Co, the nation’s biggest producer | of ice.
YWP’s Carnivore Team Leader Kim Wilkins said: “Our polar bears absolutely loved playing around in the ice. They were in their element. It was a real Half Term treat."
She added: “It’s such an amazing idea and great for our animals to be able to play with the ice now the snow days seem to be over.
Kim said: “We... |
I would like to respond to the spirited defense of Sen. Stiles mounted in a Saturday, March 19, letter from the prime sponsor of the | voucher bill, former Sen. Jim Forsythe.
Last year's very unusual Republican supermajority passed Mr. Forsythe's bill over the governor's veto. He used all the tools at his disposal — letters, editorials and even a fake opinion poll — to marshal opinion for his bill. But voters last November did not agree that governme... |
You don't get a more hardened hack than Jimi Matthews, who as cameraman and journalist for international media organisations during South Africa's | violent transition saw more bodies than is probably good for anyone.
So what does the respected Matthews, who is now acting group executive of news and current affairs responsible for 18 radio stations and four television news channels, with the recent addition of the SABC's 24-hour channel, think about the drive by ... |
The list of candidates for the Nov. 6 election in San Mateo County has been settled. With the exception of write-in candidates – their | window opens on Sept. 10 and closes Oct. 23 – the filing deadlines have passed for people seeking seats on the city and town councils in Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola Valley and Woodside.
Contested elections are ahead for all three seats open on the Menlo Park City Council. In Woodside, four council seats are open, on... |
BANGKOK (Reuters) - International tourist arrivals in Thailand rose 15 percent in January from a year earlier, government data showed, as the | industry continued to expand in a sluggish domestic economy.
Tourism accounts for about 10 percent of Thailand’s gross domestic product.
The growing number of visitors has been one of the few bright spots for Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy, which has struggled to find a firm footing since prolonged street pro... |
The World Wide Web as we know it was first sketched out a quarter-century ago this week by Tim Berners-Lee, a contractor | at the European physics lab CERN. Berners-Lee didn’t actually build out the Web until late 1990, and not until August 1991 did it become publicly available outside CERN.
Since then, of course, the Web has rapidly become so ubiquitous that it’s hard for many to remember how they bought things, did research, watched vid... |
Hotel and motel owners are opposing a hike in the local hotel tax to help pay for a new downtown El Paso ballpark housing a Pacific Coast League | team, but it’s not clear whether they have the political muscle to kill the proposal.
Taxing visitors via hotel and car taxes is always a popular way to pay for sporting facilities, because locals don’t bear the brunt of the costs. Hotel owners, of course, hate the idea of raising the cost of a stay in the city; while... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.