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Sharon Waxman of the New York Times has a great article titled “The Mystery of the Missing Moviemakers”.
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�Is it a sign of timidity, or laziness, or some unexpected lack of drive? Is it a lack of interesting material? Is it the fault of the studio system and its emphasis on high-paying, mind-numbing commercial fare?” questions Waxman.
I must disagree with her on Russell’s I Heart Huckabees which she calls “disastrous.” I also found Aronofsky’s The Fountain to be one of the best movies of 2006, but many people hated it (and rightfully so). She theorizes that 2007 may be a “banner year” for Kimberly Peirce, who hasn’t made a film since 1999’s Boys Don’t Cry. Don’t get your hopes up. Instead, read my hate-filled review of her latest: An American Crime Sundance Movie Review.
May-be he has a point? The great thing about Waxman
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Despite its flaws, Alex Proyas’ Knowing ended up being a fascinating film, with a cool sci-fi bent and some interesting ideas
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about faith. I was so taken aback by the film and its audacious ending that I held an impromptu /Filmcast, where we all tried to make sense of what the movie was all supposed to mean (and determine whether or not the film was actually any good).
/Filmcast listener Ned wrote in a detailed response to that podcast episode, in which he relates various elements of the film to Biblical prophecy. I don’t think I would make all the connections that he made, but I found his e-mail pretty thought-provoking nonetheless (especially from a Christian standpoint, as faith plays a huge part in the film). I’m republishing the e-mail here in its entirety, with his permission. If you ever have any interesting and in-depth interpretations of recent/classic films that you want to share, always feel free to e-mail me at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com. Who knows? Maybe it�
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In 1997, we recommended a promising candidate in a special election for Santa Clara County supervisor in District 1, and we were sorry that she lost.
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But when the victor in that race later ran for a full term, we were happy to say: Stick with Don Gage. He’s doing a great job.
Today we congratulate Cindy Chavez on her decisive victory over Teresa Alvarado, whom we strongly recommended in Tuesday’s special election for District 2 supervisor. And we hope that, like Gage, Chavez proves our concerns about her candidacy unfounded.
Gage is a Gilroy Republican who we believed would be out of touch with the county’s mission of helping its neediest residents. But he became an effective advocate for the disabled, homeless and others, as well as — more predictably — for fiscal responsibility. It was a powerful combination.
With Chavez, our worry is how she’ll balance the interests of county residents and taxpayers with those of the powerful county unions to whom she is intrinsically tied. Until last fall, she headed the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council.
But as
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MILAN - The man on the move be it with a big backpack, an oversized shopper or the old-fashioned carry-on,
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was the key theme of high-end labels as they showcased their designs for next summer at Milan's Fashion Week, which wrapped up Tuesday.
Next summer's styles are more relaxed than formal, featuring looser jackets, often with the sleeves rolled or scrunched up, and frequently with Bermuda shorts.
The jacket is central to the season. Even shirts take the shape of bomber jackets, often made out of the lightest techno fabric or reworked silk and satin. Designers continued to search for new ways to work with fabrics, bonding instead of stitching, laser cutting, giving a matte finish to a normally shiny fabric, and vice versa, and stamping prints on finished garments for a bespoke touch.
Trousers are pleated for an elegant look. The favorite look was slim and close to the body and hemmed at the ankle.
Pajamas are coming out of the bedroom, showing up as shirts with sartorial suits. There were lots of T-
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Cars, weapons, safes and death certificates will be part of the discussions at this year's Black Hat USA 2015 and DefCon 23 security
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conferences.
The first big story to generate interest in the Black Hat USA 2015 event is Twitter security researcher Charles Miller and IOactive security researcher Chris Valasek's talk on how to remotely hack a car. They are returning to the Black Hat podium this year, after having spoken on the subject in 2014.
Joshua Drake, senior director of platform research at Zimperium, is set to provide full details on the Stagefright Android media framework vulnerabilities, which have the potential to impact 950 million Android users.
At the DefCon 23 conference, Oscar Salazar, senior security associate at security firm Bishop Fox, and Dan Petro, security associate at Bishop Fox, are planning on bringing a Brink's CompuSafe Galileo on stage and then hacking the safe to remove all the cash inside—within 60 seconds.
Security researchers Runa A. Sandvik and Michael Auger will discuss Internet of things rifles from firearm vendor TrackingPoint at Black Hat. Sandvik and Auger figured out
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Attorney Michael Avenatti faces up to 333 years in prison following a federal grand jury indictment that charged him with stealing millions of dollars both from his clients
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and from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), prosecutors said.
Avenatti allegedly built a “financial house of cards” using his stolen millions to fund his lavish lifestyle, U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said at a press conference Thursday.
He allegedly stole millions from one client to purchase a private jet, according to the indictment, which is included in full at the bottom of this article. Federal authorities seized Avenatti’s jet Wednesday, officials said Thursday.
Avenatti allegedly scammed another client, a paraplegic man, out of a $4 million settlement without the client’s knowledge, according to the indictment.
“The financial investigation conducted by the IRS details a man who allegedly failed to meet his obligations to the government, stole from his clients, and used his ill-gotten gains to support his racing team, the ownership of Tully’s coffee shops, and a private jet,” IRS special agent Ryan L.
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"Singin' in the Rain," "Sunset Boulevard" and "The Player" are among the films that have made hay writing about the
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Hollywood machine.
There have been great movies about Hollywood almost as long as Hollywood has been making them. Damien Chazelle's much-Oscar nominated "La La Land" is part of a grand tradition going back beyond "Singin' in the Rain" and running past "Mulholland Drive."
Some have even inspired their own movies. "Sullivan's Travels," Preston Sturges' great 1941 satire about a movie director (Joel McCrea) of broad comedies ("Ants in Your Pants" is one credit) who goes undercover as a hobo to make a serious social drama. Decades later, the Coen brothers used his planned title for real: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
—"In a Lonely Place": Nothing has captured the dark desperations and delusions that lurk in Hollywood like Nicholas Ray's devastating 1950 noir. Humphrey Bogart, playing the self-destructive screenwriter Dix, was never better — which is saying
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President Obama presided over his sixth turkey pardoning as commander-in-chief Wednesday at the White House.
The annual tradition sees two turkeys
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spared from the dinner table, but only one is selected to take part in the White House ceremony.
This year’s duo was “Mac” and “Cheese.” Cheese got to go before the cameras.
The tradition is not a new one — it’s happened every year for the last quarter century. But there has been confusion about how it all got started.
Bill Clinton in his 1997 “pardoning,” cited President Harry Truman as the first.
Truman was actually the first president to receive a turkey from the National Turkey Federation in 1947.
Abraham Lincoln was the first on record to spare a bird, but it was a Christmas turkey his son, Jack, had taken a liking to.
John F. Kennedy was the first president to actually pardon a Thanksgiving turkey. In 1963, despite a sign hanging around the turkey’s neck that read, “Good eating, Mr. President,” Kennedy
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Valley Head, Ala. (WHNT) - This time last season, the Wildcats practiced as a team under the radar. This August,
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Valley Head is on everybody's list to win football games. Class 1A Region 7 is wide open and after a 9-2 campaign in 2013, folks in DeKalb County are asking, "Why not Valley Head?"
"Last year it was kind of like we want to win the region and this year we need to set our goals even higher to make it further in the playoffs," senior quarterback Ben Kirby told WHNT News 19's Chase Horn. Kirby's team is without a few important players from last season but still feel like the sky is the limit. "Just try to emphasize that last year was last year, and doesn't really win any games this year."
Head Coach Rusty Higdon knows his team is talented, but also knows how hard it will be to repeat as region champions. His senior class is small, but motivated by the opportunity to push further in the playoffs. "These seniors that we have now want to continue the playoff we got to last year and hopefully we
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How Far is Sycon Maitri?
Maitri, as the name suggests, is a melange spaces. Designed to be people
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friendly and environment, this neighborhood foster an interactive, secure and balanced living space. With only 6 villas per acre an 73% open space, the congestion of the city is left far behind. The self-contained integration enclave houses a vibrant community of families in a layout that boasta the most sophisticated facilities. Every one of villas are thoughtfully designed, keeping in mind the envolving tastes of today's home owners. Attention to the details timely execution and value creation is the hallmarks of Sycon.
Sycon Constructions is the group lead company based in Bengaluru, focused on property development. Together with its construction arm, Sycon Infra, the company carries out end to end development of properties.
Sycon has built and promoted in Bangalore more than 25 residential, commercial and institutional buildings. The construction arm has built, and continues to build many landmark buildings for select clients.
The promoters’ experience spans local, national and international geographies in property development, software
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A 10-year-old Chicago girl born with an abnormally small bladder that made her incontinent has become the first patient to benefit from
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a new robotic-assisted bladder-reconstruction method developed by surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical Center. The surgeons describe their innovative technique in the December 2008 issue of the journal Urology. They have now performed the operation, using the DaVinci robotic surgical system, six times, with good results and no significant complications.
The first patient, treated Feb. 21, 2008, suffered from a very small, spasmodic bladder, a birth defect that led to gradual kidney damage and loss of urinary control.
"We refer to this condition as neurogenic bladder," said team leader Mohan S. Gundeti, MD, assistant professor of surgery and chief of pediatric urology at the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital. "Her bladder could barely hold six ounces. Worse, it produced frequent involuntary contractions, which forced the urine back up into the kidneys, where it slowly but inevitably causes damage, including frequent infections."
The girl always felt that she
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Originally Published: March 23, 2019 11:20 p.m.
SALT LAKE CITY — Bruce Pearl's Auburn rebuilding project took a
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massive leap.
The Tigers are headed to the Sweet 16 for the first time in 16 years.
Bryce Brown scored 25 points and hit seven 3-pointers, leading Auburn to an 89-75 takedown of mighty Kanas Saturday night in the Midwest Region.
The Tigers (28-9) were a surprise last season, earning a share of their first SEC title since 1999 and winning an NCAA Tournament game.
Auburn took another major step Saturday, running past a blue-blood program into the school's first Sweet 16 since 2003 under Cliff Ellis.
Unlike their opener against New Mexico State, when they had to survive a couple of late-game blunders, the fifth-seeded Tigers pounced on the undermanned Jayhawks and never let them up.
Auburn had a 17-point lead before the midpoint of the first half and kept pouring in shots, hitting 13 3-pointers while shooting 53 percent against one of the college basketball's premier programs
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Hillary Clinton is issuing a challenge to Donald Trump: I'm ready to debate. Are you?
On Monday night, seemingly out of the blue
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, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta released a statement saying that Clinton "looks forward to participating in all three presidential debates" that are scheduled in September and October.
"The only issue now is whether Donald Trump is going to show up," Podesta added.
The statement wasn't a response to any new remark by Trump or any official invitation by the Commission on Presidential Debates.
In fact, the invites haven't gone out yet.
The Clinton campaign may be trying to put Trump on defense -- or pre-empt any more complaints from him about the debate schedule.
"Our campaign is not interested in playing along with a debate about debates or bargaining around them," Podesta said.
In late July, Trump publicly bemoaned the debate schedule, pointing out that two of the three scheduled presidential debates are on the same nights as NFL games. His aides said they'd like new dates, and RNC officials backed Trump up.
The bipartisan commission responded by saying that scheduling conflicts are common and
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The researchers chose to focus on the oceans because they make a tiny, but important contribution to the Earth's overall magnetic field. The salt within seaw
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ater can conduct electricity. And oceans don't remain still; rather, they move in cycles, up and down. As the tides cycle through the world's oceans, that salty water essentially tugs on the magnetic field above our planet.
"We have used Swarm to measure the magnetic signals of tides from the ocean surface to the seabed, which gives us a truly global picture of how the ocean flows at all depths — and this is new," Nils Olsen, the head of geomagnetism at the Technical University of Denmark, said in a statement.
The magnetic field generated by the oceans is quite small. "It's about 2 [to] 2.5 nanotesla at satellite altitude, which is about 20,000 times weaker than the Earth's global magnetic field," Olsen told BBC News.
The newly analyzed data will give researchers a more nuanced view of how the oceans are affected by climate change, Olsen noted. "Since oceans absorb heat from the air,
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Conservative politicians and pundits lie and distort far more than liberals do. At the same time, conservatives have a well-known persecution complex, frequently accusing
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the mainstream media of having some secret anti-conservative agenda. This puts mainstream media fact-checkers in an unenviable situation, trying to seem balanced in an environment where one side simply has more enthusiasm for lying than the other. Now the pressure to overemphasis or even exaggerate claims of liberal mendacity, in an attempt to seem more balanced, has infected Glenn Kessler's coverage of the gun debate in the Washington Post.
Our tale begins with a speech by President Obama where he said, "We know that states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths. So the notion that gun laws don’t work, or just will make it harder for law-abiding citizens and criminals will still get their guns is not borne out by the evidence." This is, as Kessler's investigation demonstrated, a true statement. The statistics are complicated by demographic and social factors, but overall, the data shows a direct correlation between how easy it is to get a gun and
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Overall, 28 percent of retailers changed their holiday return policies this year, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation.
Some of the changes
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are intended to thwart fraudulent returns, which the NRF estimates was an $8.76 billion headache for retailers in 2013. Nearly half that fraud amount – $3.39 billion – hit stores during the holiday season, including counterfeit receipts, return of stolen goods and “wardrobing,” where consumers try to return clothing or merchandise (after it has been worn or used) by passing it off as new.
Bring the receipt. “Try to bring some proof of purchase. Tags on an item aren’t enough,” said Dworsky. If you have a gift receipt, you’ll likely get store credit or the ability to exchange or return it. Without a receipt, you’ll be lucky to get the lowest price it recently sold for, not necessarily what the giver paid for it.
“Typically, stores tend to be more generous with returns for anything bought from November through Christmas,” said Tod Marks, a
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Eddie Tipton was a computer programmer in the Iowa offices of the Multi-State Lottery Association who installed software that allowed him to
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pick winning numbers in some of the nation’s most popular lottery drawings.
DES MOINES — Eddie Tipton, the Iowa brainpower behind a case of multistate lottery fraud, will spend up to 25 years in prison for rigging “random” drawing jackpots.
"I certainly regret," Tipton said in Polk County District Court prior to sentencing with some of his former coworkers in the courtroom. "It’s difficult even saying that. With all the people I know behind me that I hurt and I regret it. I’m sorry."
It's unknown how many years Tipton will actually spend in prison. He could be paroled within three or four years, his attorneys noted.
“It is indeed unfortunate that you did not use that intelligence to prosper by legal means," said District Court Judge Brad McCall. "Instead you chose an illegal path."
Tipton, 54, was a longtime computer programmer in
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Everybody loves Batman. After 75 years of saving Gotham City, the Caped Crusader has become an archetype. So it's not surprising that every comic
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needs its own version of Bats. And yet, Batman remains unique, and it's not so easy to copy him. Here are 9 Batman knock-offs that totally miss why Batman works.
The superhero protagonist of Frank Miller's post-9/11 propaganda comicHoly Terror was originally supposed to be Batman. But DC Comics executives were reportedly quite leery of the "Batman vs Osama" premise — and yet, Miller claims that he chose to take the story out of the DC universe, after he realized that the character was going in a different direction. Nevertheless, the final result is clearly an ersatz Batman, complete with a thinly veiled Catwoman clone named Natalie Stack, and a Jim Gordon stand-in called Dan Donegal.
Sadly, Miller misses the essence of what makes Batman such a well-loved hero — his humanity and his sense of justice. The Fixer becomes an impassive, merciless warrior against Islam, and is more akin to a homicidal Sin City
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Columbian High School teachers and coaches have developed a program to incorporate certain values and characteristics students may be lacking.
The Rise Up (Reach
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Inside Seek Excellence) program was developed to assist student athletes, but was expanded to work with the entire student body at Columbian, said Curt Mellott, baseball coach and program coordinator.
Mellott said with state testing and learning standards taking over classrooms, the faculty and staff wanted to be able to work with students to make them into good people, leaders who have the values and characteristics they need to be the best people possible.
The program started this past fall in informational meetings. The program takes place the first Friday of each month with a speaker who takes on a certain topic. Speakers have included TCS coaches who introduced the program; Gary Barber, TCS superintendent, who spoke about leadership and community; and Larry Kisabeth, who discussed champion values.
“This series is to help students cultivate leadership skills and empower them to think out of the box,” Mellott said.
Upcoming speakers include Joe Stacy, on training like a Tornado; Sarah Clapper, Miss
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Something smells off in the world of Deadpool 2 and it ain’t the chimichangas.
Earlier this week, star Ryan Reynolds
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and producer Simon Kinberg addressed what fans could expect from the highly anticipated sequel. They said, though most sequels deliver bigger everything, that wasn’t what they wanted for Deadpool. They wanted to make another smaller movie, more in line with the first film. Which is odd, because that’s also the kind of sequel the first film’s director, Tim Miller, wanted to make.
To recap, Miller directed the first Deadpool to massive international success. While prepping the sequel, there were some issues that lead to him leaving and David Leitch (John Wick) being hired to direct. Then quotes came out that the producers and star hired Leitch because he really knew how to stretch a budget.
That brings you up to speed for the latest. In his first interview since everything went down, Miller specifically told Chaos Group he wanted to make a smaller movie, not a bigger sequel.
I haven’t talked since Deadpool 2, I stepped off the movie
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CHRIS Evans' Virgin Radio show listeners were moved to tears this morning listening to terminally ill Reverend Ruth talk about the final weeks of her life
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.
Cancer-stricken Ruth, known for presenting Radio 2's Pause for Thought, calmly spoke about her illness and gracefully addressed her own death.
Listeners were as inspired as they were moved listening to an excerpt from the full 30-minute interview, which is available on the Chris Evans' podcast.
One wrote on Twitter: "Amazing words from the Reverend Ruth Scott on the @achrisevans breakfast show on @VirginRadioUK this morning. Hearing her talking about her life and preparing both her imminent death was both overwhelming and inspirational. #grace #gratitude #wisdom.
Another said: "Thank you @achrisevans and @VirginRadioUK and especially Reverend Ruth Scott for sharing that wonderful interview. Incredibly moving broadcasting.
A third posted: "Live life with grace, gratitude, generosity... Reverend Ruth on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show.
"Totally humbling listening to the interview with reverend Ruth Scott on @Virgin
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Many veterans struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, after returning home from war. Symptoms of this invisible wound may manifest as panic attacks
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, flashbacks of horrible memories or nightmares.
People with PTSD may also have problems concentrating and sleeping. They may suddenly get angry or develop unhealthy habits such as smoking, drinking and doing drugs.
Some of them are dancing their symptoms away.
More than two dozen veterans gather once a week in Louisville, Kentucky, for a dance session. They’re clapping, moving to the music and taking a break from the overwhelming symptoms of PTSD.
These dance-as-therapy sessions are organized by Deborah Denenfeld.
According to the U.S. Veterans Administration, between 10 and 20 percent of war veterans are living with PTSD. Roosevelt Smith, who served in the Gulf War, is one of them and says dancing helps.
Denenfeld developed the “Dancing Well” program for veterans with PTSD in 2013. The group sessions are kept small, usually less than 30 people. Each session runs for 10 weeks. The lights are kept low and the music is
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I can't believe the Wild's catching the Vancouver Canucks without Pavol Demitra.
You can hear more great jokes like this tonight from
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6-7 p.m. on KSTP (am1500.com) when the award-winning (in my own mind) "Russo Radio" comes to you live from inside Matt Thomas' luxurious studio.
Good afternoon everyone from the Twin Cities, where I just returned from practice. Amazing what a couple wins and a few days off will do for a team. The batteries are recharged and for the first time since really training camp, smiles and laughs and downright fun ensued during another loose, yet hard-working Wild practice.
The Canucks come to town Thursday, and they're demolished with injuries. Yet, other than one minor -- OK, major -- hiccup to Anaheim -- the Canucks have won three of four as Andrew Raycroft has provided solid goaltending, Ryan Kesler's provided his usual strong, and gritty, play all over the ice and Mikael Samuelsson's been scoring.
Kesler leads all U.S.-born players in NHL scoring
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I had a pretty good idea of where “Django Unchained” was going from the first credit. It went to the Weinstein
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Company. The Weinstein Company once fought a legal battle (settled out of court) over the right to distribute “Precious,” which is, in my opinion, the worst film ever made about black life. The company’s name in the credits for “Django” also meant that the movie was aimed at a mainstream audience.
Though German, the bounty hunter character played by German-Austrian actor Christoph Waltz seemed to speak with a British accent, which is all the rage in the media, though I need subtitles to understand what Piers Morgan is saying half the time. The German dentist dazzles the screen with his eloquent talk and vocabulary and puts together constructions like “shan’t.” I would loved to have been present at the marketing meetings about this movie. The cynicism must have been as thick as cigar smoke. Jamie Foxx has been promoted as the star of “Django Unchained,
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They Amarnath Yatra will begin on June 28 and conclude on August 26.
Amarnath Yatra registration is done on first-
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come-first-serve basis.
The first batch of Amarnath Yatra pilgrims was flagged of from the Bhagwati Nagar camp in Jammu at 04:45 am on June 27 and they will start their journey to the cave shrine from Baltal and Pahalgam routes on June 28. Officials said a total of 1,904 pilgrims including 330 women and 30 children were part of this batch of Amarnath Yatra pilgrims. The Central Reserve Police Force also launched bike-borne quick reaction teams on Tuesday that will not only respond to any attack or sabotage incident on the yatra route but also double up as an ambulance to rescue unwell pilgrims, security personnel or locals.
They Amarnath Yatra will begin on June 28 and conclude on August 26, coinciding with Raksha Bandhan.
Vehicles tagged with electromagnetic chips, bike and bullet-proof SUV police convoys and scores of bullet-proof bunkers have been deployed as part of
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While Brussels is proud of one urinating boy, Manneken Pis, Bratislava has four.
The fountain marking the first coron
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ation in the city will get back its Renaissance look.
The Maximilian Fountain on the Main Square of the Slovak capital, also known as Roland Fountain, will have its Renaissance look again. Not only will it be rid of the inappropriate modern stone ring, but the fountain’s urinating boys will return.
Work on the fountain will be carried out in two phases, with the expected end date in the spring of this year. The price will be about €180,000, stated Iveta Kešeľáková from the press department of the Bratislava City Council.
The restoration work will be carried out by sculptor Vladimír Višváder. During the restoration, all water pipes will be replaced and the water tank will be fitted with colourful illumination to be used on festive occasions. The city promises that all work will be under the supervision of the Regional Monument Office in Bratislava.
Maximilian Fountain
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The remote Galápagos Islands host many species found nowhere else on Earth, making it one of the world’s best tourist spots for
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wildlife viewing. Yet land tourism seems to be hurting the Galápagos. Unlike cruises, land tourism is lightly regulated and oftentimes tourists will break the rules by touching the islands’ famous wildlife, such as the giant tortoises or iguanas. Additionally, scientists believe that if a tourist walks among Galápagos penguins and their young, the animals might experience a sort of stress which may prevent them from parenting adequately.
Like many tourist attractions, the Leaning Tower of Pisa attracts many visitors all year round. But large crowds aren’t the most annoying part about the well-known landmark — it’s what everyone in the crowd is doing. Not only is everyone hovering in the same radius, but they’re all trying to get the iconic “leaning tower photo” by twisting their bodies and extending out their arms. Other than spending 30 minutes trying to get a good photo, there’s nothing else to do here.
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SHEBOYGAN - The Jets made all four of their 3-pointers in the first half, including three by Lily Nelson, as they
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built a 15-point halftime lead over the Eagles.
Bryannan Wallander scored eight points in each half and finished with 16 to lead Roncalli. Nelson finished with 13 points.
Megan Moeller led Sheboygan Christian with 12 points.
Roncalli: Lusk 6, Pritzl 4, Nelson 13, Stelzer 10, Moczynski 3, Cvetezar 2, Pajula 4, Wallander 16, Freis 2. 3-pt: Nelson 3, Wallander. FT: 4-7. F: 25.
Sheboygan Christian: Zylstra 7, Moeller 12, VanEss 4, Steenwyk 9. 3-pt: Steenwyk 2: FT: 6-20. F: 11.
JACKSON - Emma Dufour scored 19 points and Keri Walker had 15 to lead the Timberwolves over the Crusaders.
Dufour scored 12 points and
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Is everything okay with Tesla and Elon Musk?
A BIZARRE outburst from Elon Musk this week has Wall Street anxious and investors worrying about
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the famous CEO.
IN 2001, during a conference call with investors to discuss first-quarter earnings Enron CEO Jeff Skilling got a little testy, calling one listener an a**hole.
He was responding to Richard Grubman a managing director at a hedge fund who was known for shorting companies, betting on their share price falling. Mr Grubman was asking for a balance sheet for the first quarter of 2001 and not just the income statements provided.
As it turned out, the hedge fund manager was right to pry. Later that year Enron collapsed in scandal in one of the biggest cases of corporate accounting fraud in history.
This week the bizarre behaviour of arguably the world’s most visible CEO, Elon Musk, drew comparisons to that now infamous call. During his own conference call with investors and the media, he avoided rudimentary questions because they were “boring” and “not cool”.
“Excuse me. Next
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RFTA hauled a record number of passengers exceeding 5.5 million this year. The regional bus agency is considering seeking a property tax hike in November
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to help fund its operations and expansion.
RFTA isn’t certain yet if it will seek a property tax from voters in November to support the local bus system, but if it does it’s got a catchphrase to help sell the idea.
Consultants told the RFTA board of directors at its monthly meeting Thursday that something catchier must replace the Integrated Transportation System Plan — the name of the blueprint for keeping the bus system healthy and growing over the next 25 or so years.
The tag line plays off the idea that getting people out of their personal vehicles and into mass transit is vital for mobility in the narrow valley served by one primary artery.
RFTA board members agreed it would be tough to excite voters about something called the Integrated Transportation System Plan. They had a few suggestions about the tag line but generally expressed support.
“It’s clever,” Basalt Mayor and RFTA board member Jacque Whitsitt said.
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The boy should be sitting in an elementary school classroom learning beginning algebra and studying how Congress works. Instead, police say, the East Baltimore youth,
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age 10, sells crack cocaine.
The youngster is one of seven teens and pre-teens indicted recently by a grand jury on drug distribution charges and targeted yesterday during a police sweep of three neighborhoods north of Patterson Park and east of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
On one level, the operation was similar to dozens of other drug raids conducted by city police over the past 18 months, which have put hundreds of violent dealers behind bars. Yesterday, police charged 58 people in connection with a drug network linked to nearly 60 shootings and three homicides this year.
But it also reflects -- once again -- the troubling increase of child criminals.
Besides the 10-year-old, police obtained warrants for the arrests of a 12-year-old and two 15-year-olds.
And on Thursday, police jailed two Prince George's County girls, 12 and 14, for using a toy gun to hijack cars from elderly women.
"Undercover officers [in Baltimore] were shocked," said Officer
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Seattle Seahawks fan Mr. Mohawk faces off with a Green Bay Packers fan during Monday Night Football on September 24, 2012 at CenturyLink Field in
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Seattle.
Seattle Seahawks fan Andrew Rucker, center, ribs Josh Macri over his Green Bay Packers jersey outside the stadium during Monday Night Football on September 24, 2012 at CenturyLink FIeld in Seattle.
Seattle Seahawks fan Lorin "Big Lo" Sandretzky grates cheese as the Hawks play the Green Bay Packers during Monday Night Football.
Green Bay Packers fan Sarah Hinkhouse wears a 'cheese top' during Monday Night Football against the Seattle Seahawks.
The 12th Man makes noise during a Green Bay Packers possession as the Seattle Seahawks play the Packers during Monday Night Football.
Seattle Seahawks Seagals perform as the Hawks take on the Green Bay Packers during Monday Night Football.
Former Seattle Seahawks quarterback Trent Dilfer hypes up the crowd after he raised the 12th Man Flag before a game against the Green Bay Packers.
CenturyLink Field is shown as the Seattle Seahawks take on the Green Bay Packers during Monday Night Football.
A Green Bay
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Five-month-old Udal Faisal died two days after the photo was taken.
The image of 5-month-old Ud
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ai Faisal in a hospital bed didn’t find its way on to newspaper front pages or go viral on the internet like the picture of Alan Kurdi’s drowned corpse did. Yet it is every bit as heartrending. The tiny boy’s wide eyes glare from his skeletal face, his bony hand closed just beneath his chin.
He was admitted to Yemen's al-Sabeen hospital late last month, suffering from malnutrition, diarrhoea and a chest infection, which was where this photograph was taken. Two days later his parents took him out of the hospital. His father said it was because the doctors told him the situation was hopeless, but the head of the hospital's emergency ward told the Associated Press he didn't think the family could afford the medication he needed.
A few days after the picture was taken, Udai died.
"He didn't cry and there were no tears, just stiff," his mother, Intissar Hezz
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Dr. Prabhat K. Sehgal, 70, of Southborough Massachusetts, passed away on Sunday, August 29, 2010. He
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is survived by his loving wife Neena; three daughters, Anupama and son-in-law Thomas Sealey; Neetu and Renika Sehgal; and three grandchildren, Raiya, Shaila, and Ajay. He is also survived by his two younger brothers, Kamal Sehgal and Harsh Sehgal and their families.
At the age of 29, Dr. Sehgal ventured from his homeland of India to the United States to pursue his career aspirations. He had 36-years in a prestigious position in veterinary medicine at Harvard Medical School�s New England Regional Primate Research Center in Southborough. At his retirement in 2006, Harvard honored Dr. Sehgal�s accomplishments and contributions to medical science by naming one of their conference rooms after him during his retirement celebration.
In his retirement, Dr. Sehgal found enjoyment in flying toy helicopters with his grandson, tending to his rose and vegetable gardens with his wife and son-in
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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Sunday he wants to "see all" of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Trump
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campaign collusion, including what was behind the FBI’s "extraordinary use of government surveillance power."
In an interview on NBC News’ "Meet the Press," Rubio, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said "we want to learn as much as we possible can that’s allowed and permissible" under Justice Department policy and "of course, the law."
"I want to see all of it, what was the underlying criminal predicate for the entire investigation," he said. "Let's see the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] investigations because this is an extraordinary use of government surveillance power…. Show us what those were."
"Let's see all of that and put all of that out there so we can pass judgment about how the investigation was conducted or at least the predicate for the investigation was conducted during the Obama years," he added.
According to Rubio, the completion of the the Mueller report now also means the intel committee can question people that it has wanted to
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With only two months to go, Chicago's homicide total on Monday reached 435, matching last year's total murder count, according to the Chicago Sun
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-Times. The 435th homicide victim of the year was a man in his 30s, who was shot on a South Side street.
The city's homicide count grabbed international attention when it spiked during an unusually warm spring.
President Barack Obama has talked about the violence in his adopted hometown, including in an MTV interview on Friday.
"I live on the South Side of Chicago," said Obama. "Some of these murders are happening just a few blocks from where I live. I have friends whose family members have been killed."
"What I know is that gun violence is part of the issue," he said. "But part of the issue also is kids who feel so little hope and think their prospects for the future are so small that their attitude is, ‘I'm going to end up in jail or dead.' And they will take all kinds of risks.
"If they've got mental health issues, are they getting the kind of services and counseling that they need early
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Afghanistan is truly an under-reported war—and, more important, an under-discussed and under-debated war. Last
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week, for instance, Andrew Breitbart must have received a thousand times the ink and hits that the war did, and even he might think that wasn’t right. This conflict is costing the nation about $100 billion a year, at a time when our federal budget is under great pressure. The loss of American lives in Afghanistan has been increasing. Civilian casualties have created resentment against US and NATO forces. The US military and civilian agencies are involved in a tremendously complicated endeavor in a land very few Americans know anything about, and US success depends on collaborating with Afghan political and security institutions that are often inept and plagued with corruption. Yet this war receives little air-time in the United States. There is the occasional hearing on Capitol Hill, but no rousing debates. The media and public pay attention in spurts—such as when President Barack Obama conducted a review that led to increasing the number of US troops in Afghanistan, or when Gen. Stanley McChyrstal and his staff dumped on the
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A crook robbed a woman in the Classon Avenue G Station on Aug. 21.
The 24-year-old victim told cops she
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was in the station near Lafayette Avenue at 2 pm when a man displayed a switchblade and pushed her against a wall, taking her pocketbook. After she protested, he said, “Stop making noise, I’ll stab you,” and then fled.
Two gun-wielding thugs robbed a man on DeKalb Avenue on Aug. 22.
The 47-year-old victim told cops he was at Vanderbilt Avenue at 1:45 am when the teenaged jerks walked up to him and asked him for a cigarette. One of them pulled out a handgun, and pointed it at the victim, he said. The crooks fled after the man handed over $10.
Cops arrested a teenager who they say tried to grab a lady’s cellphone on Washington Avenue Aug. 22.
The 22-year-old victim told cops she talking on her iPhone at Gates Avenue at 12:30 am when the teen hit her in the head and grabbed
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His prime minister, Camille Vital, appeared on national television to denounce the officers as mutineers.
Vital called on soldiers to "
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respect discipline, respect institutions and show professionalism," and said soldiers who supported Rajoelina had been sent to dismantle road blocks around the base where Andrianasoavina had made his declaration. Vital also said witnesses in the area say civilians were destroying materials at polling stations.
Col. Charles Andrianasoavina, who last year backed Rajoelina's move to take power, told reporters the military will pursue national reconciliation, is dissolving government institutions and putting in place a national committee to lead the country at least provisionally. He said political prisoners would be freed and called on exiles to return "to work together to save our fatherland." He did not say who would form the provisional governing committee.
The military has repeatedly intervened in politics on the island, undermining democracy.
"The people should remain calm and help preserve the peace," Andrianasoavina said at a military base near the capital's airport.
In making the announcement, the colonel
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Pedestrian deaths in Chicago have risen over the last five years, according to the city's Transportation Department.
Pedestrian deaths in Chicago
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have risen over the last five years, up to 46 fatalities in 2017 compared with 27 in 2013, the city’s Transportation Department said Wednesday.
Most of the deaths occurred in neighborhoods on the South and West sides. The overall increase echoes a national trend of higher pedestrian fatalities in recent years, which safety experts say could be the result of more vehicles on the roads, high vehicle speeds and electronic distractions for both drivers and walkers.
Chicago saw 44 pedestrian deaths in 2016, down slightly from the 46 reported a year earlier. Two deaths were reported in January of this year.
“As we have said repeatedly, every one of these fatalities is an unacceptable tragedy that should have been prevented,” said Michael Claffey, spokesman for the Transportation Department.
The city put forward a “Vision Zero” plan last June to eliminate traffic deaths and serious crashes. Under the plan, the city said it is pushing for more safety education, intersection changes like curb “b
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Pamela Fletcher oversaw the development of the breakthrough Chevrolet Bolt EV, a $37,500 all-electric hatchback that can go 238 miles
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on a single charge—the first electric car to achieve that kind of range at such a low price point. Fletcher explains her approach to building the well-reviewed vehicle, which is rolling out nationally in 2017.
How much pressure did you feel to get the Bolt to market before Tesla released its competing Model 3? "We wanted to be fast, and we wanted to be first. With all the products we’ve done, we’re highly motivated—and I’m personally motivated—to make technology available to as many people as possible."
Was there a key development step? "All of our experience has built to let us deliver a car like the Bolt. A decade ago, we started developing the control system—all of the software that it takes to run these kinds of vehicles. When we went into production with Chevy Volt [a plug-in hybrid that debuted with the 2011 model year], we had no idea how people would use the car, so we built this
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Childish Gambino won Record of the Year at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards here for his political anthem 'This Is America', making history as
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the first rap song ever to take home the honour.
With Gambino, whose real name is Donald Glover, absent from the festivities, the prestigous award on Sunday night was accepted on behalf of co-writer and producer Ludwig Goransson, engineer/mixer Derek 'MixedByAli' Ali and mastering engineer Mike Bozzi.
"Creating music with Childish Gambino has been one of the greatest stories of my life," Goransson told the audience.
"As a kid growing up in Sweden, loving American music, I always dreamt of migrating here, working with an artiste like Donald Glover.
"I really wish he was here with us right now, because this truly was his vision, and he deserves this credit," he continued.
"No matter where you're born or what country you're from, you connect with it. It speaks to people. It connects right to your soul. It calls out injustice, celebrates life, and reunites us,
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What Constitutes a Hazard in a Workplace?
A frayed wire is one example of a physical workplace hazard.
2 What Determin
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es Initial Hazards in the Workplace?
Any practice or situation that occurs in an occupational setting and has the potential to cause bodily or mental harm or poses any other risks to the health of one or more workers constitutes as a workplace hazard. Different occupations pose different types of potential hazards to employees. According to the Ontario Ministry of Labour, there are four broadly defined categories of workplace hazard: physical, biological, chemical and ergonomic.
The Ontario Ministry of Labour reports that physical hazards constitute the majority of hazards in most workplaces. Any situation that can lead to a trip, slip or fall is a common physical hazard, such as wet floors or icy walkways. Any dangerous workplace equipment, from sharp knives to heavy machinery, are examples of physical workplace hazards. Physical hazards also include electrical hazards, such as frayed cords or poor wiring, working from heights or other situations that present a risk of falling, and noises at decibels that have the potential to cause hearing damage.
According to the
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CHICAGO - 'Tis the season - for heart attacks? Not to dampen any spirits, but studies show heart troubles spike this
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time of year.
It's not just a Western phenomenon; recent research in China found the same thing. The increase includes fatal and nonfatal heart attacks and a less serious condition dubbed "holiday heart syndrome" - an irregular heartbeat caused by too much booze.
Reasons for the seasonal increase are uncertain. Theories include cold weather, overindulgence and stress.
"The other day we had three heart attacks come in within four hours," said Dr. Charles Davidson, chief of Northwestern Memorial Hospital's cardiac catheterization services. The hospital's usual rate is two or three a week.
American Heart Association spokesman Dr. Richard Stein, a cardiologist at New York University's medical center, said most studies investigating holiday heart trends have found a statistical increase in heart attacks and other problems - not a giant surge but worth noting just the same.
It happens in cold climates, sometimes when sedentary people or those with heart disease take on too much snow shoveling, or spend
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When a 7-year-old Iraqi boy lost his right arm and eyesight after being caught in the crossfire between American forces and guerr
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illas, a U.S. Army major in Baghdad called Elissa Montanti.
“She said, ‘Can you help this child?’ ” recalled Montanti, founder of the Global Medical Relief Fund, who has made it her life’s work to bring children who have lost limbs due to war or natural disaster here to be fitted with prostheses.
“I picked Ahmed Sharif up at the Iraq border. The poor kid was holding on to his teddy bear. It was heartbreaking,” said Montanti, who depends on donations.
“I do it on a prayer,” said Montanti, a Staten Islander who has brought 52 children here since 1997 and sends them home with prosthetic limbs and eyes.
Montanti, a 2002 Liberty Medal nominee, was nominated again this year for the Ambassador Medal by Paul Nicholls, a 2004 winner.
Last year, Montanti brought Ahmed to the United States, and he
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New businesses could enter Bermuda’s electronic communications sector when a freeze on the market ends soon.
Walter Roban, the Minister of
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Home Affairs, instructed the Regulatory Authority to lift a moratorium on the granting of both Communication Operating Licences and Integrated Communication Operating Licences.
He said yesterday: “This move will ultimately result in the opportunity for new entrants into the Bermuda telecommunications market.
Mr Roban explained that when the RA started its work in 2013 the approval of new ICOLs was suspended.
He said: “The rationale at that time was that there were already about 20 licensees at that point, and more would simply dilute the market even further.
“Over the years, with that moratorium in place, Bermuda has gone from a vibrant and competitive environment to one far less dynamic, and, arguably, less competitive — all through a series of mergers and acquisitions, where the electronic communications market has become an oligopoly, perhaps not serving the public as well as it might.
A RA spokeswoman said: “The RA has begun the process of establishing the framework to apply for and issue
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There is certainly more awareness about the importance of cybersecurity now than ever before, but are things in cybersecurity better or worse than they were 12 months ago
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In the past year, we have seen mega-malware such as Wannacry and NotPetya temporarily wipe out some enterprises and services. We have seen new records set by DDoS attacks, with the largest event hitting a giddy 1.7 Tbps – and we have also seen that simply handling the capture and sharing of digital personal information about your subscribers in ways they do not like (even if they originally consented to it) can wipe a sizable percentage from the value of a company.
The nature of attacks is changing, too. Twelve months ago, cryptojacking (the hijacking of computer resources to perform paid cryptocurrency mining work) had rarely been heard of and fileless malware (malicious software that can persist and operate in the memory of computer devices) was a rare exploit type.
According to VirusTotal statistics, there were an average of more than one million potential new threat files submitted to them each day in March 2018. On some days,
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There was a time, not long after the cold war ended, when it looked as though the vast investments the west had made in Kremlinology were
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about to be liquidated. Having failed to foresee communism’s collapse, the west’s Soviet experts faced grim prospects in a world that had apparently left them behind. How fast things change: today, Russia is back in the news, reprising for the internet era its familiar role as antihero to the freedom-loving west. Putin’s muscle-flexing has produced an old-fashioned territorial struggle in Ukraine and Crimea; the Kremlin’s newfangled cyberwar has generated a firestorm in the US and the results of the 2016 presidential election, far from calming relations between the two old superpowers, have made them tenser than they have been for years.
Yet amid this drama, the response to the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution has been curiously muted and not only in Russia itself. Fifty years ago, there was an outpouring of high-calibre work that testified to the west’s desire to understand its adversary. This year,
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The below is summary of my comments provided on Wednesday, January 29, 2014, at the Alfresco Content.Gov event in Washington, DC
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In my 27 years of federal service, I've watched the growth in federal records and the implementation of new executive orders and regulations aimed at improving records management across the federal space. There are immense challenges associated with litigation, review and release, tracing factual evidence for analysis, managing information legal proceedings, and overseeing a plethora of authorized and unauthorized disclosures of classified and/or sensitive information.
Federal records management professionals are true, unsung heroes in helping our nation protect information while also protecting the civil liberties and privacy of our nation's citizens. The job has become increasingly more difficult in today's era of "big data." Records management and information management in the 1980s was hard and that's when we thought big data was hundreds of gigabytes. As we consider today's generation of data, four (4) decades later, federal records professionals are charged with managing tens of thousands of gigabytes-petabytes and zettabytes of data. It's an especially daunting task.
The federal workforce creates
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Khaled El-Enany, Egypt's new minister of antiquities, told Ahram Online that plugging the hole in the ministry's finances
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will be his top priority, because when funds are available projects that were put on hold could be resumed.
El-Enany completed his doctorate in Egyptology in 2001 at Montpellier III University in France, writing about ancient Egyptian royal names.
He then began an academic career in the Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management at Helwan University, where he rose through the ranks.
While at Helwan, El-Enany was director of the Open Learning Centre, head of the Tourism Guidance Department, vice-dean for education and student affairs and professor of Egyptology. He is also an associate scientific expert and member of the board of administration at the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO) and a visiting professor at Montpellier III. He has lectured in France and Switzerland.
In October 2015, the French government awarded El-Enany the French Chevalier (knight) of the Order of Arts and
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Four days after playing in the IPL, AB de Villiers announces sudden retirement from international cricket.
Sa-chin! Sa-chin!
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That singsong chant that reverberated around the biggest stadia in India was retired along with Sachin Tendulkar, and nothing has replaced that. What did come close, however, was a 35,000-strong Chinnaswamy Stadium crowd yelling A-B-D! A-B-D! to welcome their most loved adopted son. Such was AB de Villiers’ impact in India.
As a modern batting great, de Villiers’ credentials can’t be questioned. South Africa’s fourth highest Test run scorer of all time, their second highest ODI run-getter and owner of the fastest ODI century, off only 31 balls, de Villiers gave cricket 360-degree batting, much in the way Johan Cryuff is known for gifting the world Total Football.
The timing of de Villiers’s announcement will raise eyebrows, especially given how little he has played for South Africa in the recent past. In
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What is the purpose of "Universal" in proposals for "Universal Background Checks"?
Is there a common-sensible way to examine statistics of
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carnage pertinent to the ongoing proposals for "universal" background checks. Yes, but it requires patience.
Let's examine the views of pro-gun-control advocates on the issue of "Universal Background Checks" -- They say: It's time to say "Enough." End this Carnage. Universal Background Checks must be required regardless of the mode of acquisition-- No exceptions, no loopholes and regardless of whether acquisition is by purchase from a retail store, dealer, or distributor or from a wholesaler or private club or organization or by gift from a relative, friend, father, mother, daughter, son, neighbor, domestic partner or spouse. The statistics are grim -- year-in and year out. Watch the video. Pay attention to the statistics. Go to http://PoliSat.Com/Universal-Background-Check.htm.
**A Federal NIH study concluded that firearms were lawfully used in 497,646 instances by homeowners to deter crime in 1994. Those totals reflected only such defensive/
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Lexys Siebrands of Fort Morgan putts during the Fort Morgan Tournament.
There was golf in Fort Morgan after all.
Weather forced
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the postponement of Fort Morgan High School's March 12 tournament, with cancellation a possibility. However, maintenance of Fort Lupton's course required rescheduling their tournament planned for Tuesday, April 2.
Fort Morgan jumped at the chance to claim the date.
At the varsity level, ten schools competed at Quail Dunes Golf Course fielding 39 golfers.
The Mustangs have two varsity golfers on the roster. Peyton Smith was unable to play because of injury. Lexys Siebrands played and finished 30 out of 39 golfers, shooting 115 for 41 over.
Eight of the 39 qualified for the team competition. Holy Family had the only two golfers who shot under par: Hailey Schalk and Jessica Mason, both at one under. They were followed by Jessica Zapf of Windsor at one over, rounding out the top three of the tournament.
However it's the top four from each team that determines the team's score. Windsor was able to take
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Mark Stoddard, bar manager at The Bitter Bar, makes a Mexican Firing Squad, which includes Corrido silver tequila,
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pomegranate juice, aromatic bitters, ginger beer and fresh lime juice.
With the first taste of warm weather, it’s hard not to already be thinking of those hot summer days that slink into leisurely evenings.
Time for a proper summer drink, one that pays homage to the season. Fortunately for locals, Boulder’s cocktail scene has gone through a major evolution in the past few years; the quintessential summer drink no longer comes out of a soft-serve margarita machine.
The clear spirits — white rum, gin, vodka, silver tequila — are in their glory, he says, as are citrus juices and seasonal fruits. But just as no chef worth his salt would use prepackaged stock in a soup or garlic powder, bartenders — or mixologists as they’re now called — are eschewing pre-made mixers and turning to fresh citrus juices. Bitters and grenadine are house-made, and
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Microsoft will more quickly retire old code in its Windows operating system and other software as a result of the company's four-month-old "trust
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worthy computing" initiative, the company's lead bug basher said in an interview.
The revelation follows last week's warning that a serious vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer occurred in the software supporting a decade-old protocol that has rarely been used since the World Wide Web became popular.
"A lot of the (coming) design changes are to remove this feature or turn that one off by default," said Steve Lipner, director of security assurance for Microsoft and the man on the ground for the company's trustworthy computing initiative.
He added that when Microsoft is faced with a choice between removing old, possibly insecure code and keeping a feature to please a small fraction of customers, increasingly security is winning out. "Do we think that things will be retired more quickly? Sure," Lipner said.
The acknowledgment that the company is rushing to axe old code comes amid criticism that Microsoft's security initiative has been slow to show results. More than 30 vulnerabilities have been reported by the company since the initiative
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PUTRAJAYA: It all started with a simple bookshelf-building project 10 years ago by three college mates.
They sc
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oured the alleyways and dump sites around Chow Kit and collected wooden pallets and other waste materials to build their furniture.
Today, Rashvin Pal Singh, Azam Hisham and Gurpreet Dhillon’s vision has turned into a profit-making social enterprise called Biji-Biji Initiative, which promotes sustainable living by reusing waste and craftsmanship.
Within two years, Biji-Biji Initiative has since grown and sold enough furniture and crafts to fund its business and has passed down its knowledge to nearly 1,000 youths at its workshops.
“None of us had experience or the skills when we had this idea. But we were determined to do something meaningful,” said Rashvin, 28.
The group has created tables, chairs, shelves, bags and more using discarded items such as pallets, diesel drums, bamboo and even used seat belts.
“You can easily find waste materials. They are cheap.
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TIMKEN � Hunter 5-6-17, Walton 1-0-2, Brunner 4-0-8, Oree 4
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-2-10, Laceg 1-0-3, King 1-0-2. Totals: 25-68 15-22 67.
JACKSON � Dillon 1-0-2, Walker 1-2-4, Bailey 4-6-15, Carlin 0-2-2, Griffin 9-10-30, Johnson 1-2-5, Smith 1-0-2. Totals: 17-46 22-27 60.
3-point goals: Griffin 2, Bailey, Johnson, Laceg, Hunter. Fouls: Tim., 22-18. Rebounds: Tim., 43 (House 10); Jac., 40 (Carlin 4, Bailey 4). Turnovers: Jac., 19-15.
CHIPPEWA (6-8, 3-7) � Downs 2-4-9, Epling 3-3-9, Hazard 2-0-4, Purdy 1-0-2
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There are several new state statutes that took effect on January 1st, and one of them is a real sleeper that will impact every home or condo
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owner in Wallingford and the rest of Connecticut. It has to do with addressing the terrible and growing problem of crumbling house foundations in northeastern and north central Connecticut.
There are three huge areas of concern with this legislation: it is a small fraction of the money needed, it is advertised as ending in 2029, and it will end up covering far more than originally intended.
First of all, in the five years of bonding and eleven years of homeowner’s insurance surcharges, a total of $199 million will be raised. After deducting administrative expenses, one million dollars will be sent to New Haven to address their sinking soil problem, and 15 percent more will be diverted to residential lead abatement. That will leave around $170 million to address the crumbling foundations problem up through 2029.
However, the financial implications of the Crumbling Concrete Foundation problem (as it’s called) dwarfs the remittances to this fund. The Hartford Courant reported
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We all saw it. How could you look away?
There was Jonathan Papelbon pumping in fastball after fastball against the Los Angeles Angels in
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the ninth inning of Game 3 of the American League Division Series. He threw 26 straight at one point, and the Angels were either letting them pass outside the zone or spoiling them until they got one they liked.
In a flash they had reached Papelbon for three runs and confirmed the closer’s worst fear. If he could not find a way to get hitters out with secondary stuff, particularly the split-fingered fastball, he would become predictable. With predictability came a closer who, for a day, was no longer a sure thing in October. With the splitter in his back pocket, Papelbon was a one-trick pony.
"I’ve got to make some adjustments," Papelbon said earlier this spring when asked about reducing the use of his fastball.
The success of those adjustments may mean the difference between October glory and October misery, both of which the 29-year-old has now experienced.
In reality, the trend
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Send–Ghana, a research and advocacy organization with support from Oxfam has organized a day’s workshop for the Association of Central Regional
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Queen mothers in Cape Coast with a call on them to support smallholder women farmers to acquire and own farm lands.
It was aimed at increasing spaces for enhanced accountability and political commitment to guarantee land tenure security for women and other small-scale women farmers in the face of land ownership and other land security issues in Ghana.
The workshop which brought together more than 80 queen mothers in the Central Region was on the theme “Strengthening partnership with traditional authorities for increased women’s access to agricultural lands”.
Madam Lois Aduamoah, Programmes Manager of Women in Law and Development for Africa (WILDAF) who took the participants through ‘land access and control, a gender perspective in Ghana’ said majority of women in Ghana had properties but did not have proper rights to those properties.
She said the cultural practice where landowners expected women to bring their husbands along to serve as witness whenever they wanted to buy lands must be critically reviewed as the men
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"The motion simply was you'll go to veterans affairs, It's lower on the totem pole so to speak, but the other thing was that
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you know there was a struggle to over where he would put the new rights portfolio and Jody rightfully wanted it in the Attorney General's office, Trudeau made a decision to give it to Carolyn Bennett, and it's died now, nothing's happened since that took place", said Wilson-Raybould's father.
"Her treatment, it disgusts me, nobody should be treated this way, and especially somebody who is a representative, whether she wants to be or not, of aboriginal people being treated and kicked in the face the way we always have been by his father, now by him and by the conservatives and all of the other governments", said Bill Wilson.
That glaring omission, plus the prime minister's terse statement announcing Wilson-Raybould's resignation, which did not include the traditional thanks for her service, re-enforces the feeling that there is a huge rift between the PM and his minister.
The simple way to handle this would be for our feminist, indigenous
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The minister said that it is better to delay the procedure than to take corrective measures afterwards.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Das Mun
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shi has said that private FM stations will not be allowed to broadcast news and current affairs programmes for at least two to three years.
He said that a fresh look will be taken on the issue after observing the content being broadcast by these channels.
"Let us first wait and see what content would be offered by these stations for the next two to three years and then we will think about the next step," Munshi said.
"It is better to delay it so that nothing wrong goes on air rather than trying to control the damage afterwards," he added.
He said that news broadcast on radio is considered to be the last word and has unmatched credibility. Therefore, it has to be seen that the news is correct and does not provoke any section of the society.
"We cannot compare ourselves with any other country in the world when it comes to radio. Nowhere in the world do we have radio channels in so many languages and dialects," the minister said.
Asked how would
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Tampa police boast of political spying at 2012 RNC protests | Fight Back!
Tampa, FL - According to an August 3 report in the
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Tampa Bay Times, Major Marc Hamlin, the head of Special Operations for the Tampa Police Department, is boasting about the political spying carried out at the 2012 Republican National Convention.
Over 1000 people rallied and marched in the streets of Tampa, August 27, 2012, to demand good jobs, affordable education, healthcare, equality and peace. Although the Republicans canceled the first day of their convention due to Tropical Storm Isaac, organizers with the Coalition to March on the RNC went through with their promise to march to the site of the convention.
A number of smaller protests also took place during the course of the Tampa RNC.
“Government spying and repression targeting protests has long been a standard feature at conventions of the major political parties,” stated Mick Kelly, of Freedom Road Socialist Organization, who helped to organize the mass marches at the 2008 RNC in Saint Paul and again in Tampa in 2012.
Kelly relates that in the run -p to the 2008 RNC protests, a police officer going by the
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Soha Ali Khan posted on Instagram, "It feels right when you hug me so tight #HappyHugDay"
Actress Soha Ali
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Khan and Kunal Kemmu are giving us major couple goals. The Ahista Ahista actress posted a sweet picture on her Instagram and wrote, "It feels right when you hug me so tight #HappyHugDay." The couple's photo reminds us that the Valentine day is just around the corner. The couple also keeps us updated about their love through several cute pictures and videos. Remember, when Kunal shared this stunning photograph of the two on his Instagram and captioned it: "The sunshine and miss sunshine #throwback #croatia #traveldiaries"?
Sohal Ali Khan and Kunal Kemmu got married on January 25, 2015, after the latter proposed her on their trip to Paris. She announced the news of her wedding on Twitter with this picture and wrote: "I married my best friend today."
The couple welcomed their first child - daughter Inaaya Naumi Kemmu - on September 29, 2017. Kunal introduced Inaaya Naumi to
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People who enjoy working with children might choose careers in human development.
1 What Qualities Make a Good Developmental Psychologist?
2 What
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Are Some Jobs Dealing With Children?
The study of human development involves examining issues related to growth, development and behavior during the entire lifespan, from birth until old age. Many people who work in the field of human development choose to specialize on specific stages of development, such as old age, adolescence or early childhood. Depending on your level of education and experience, you may be able to choose from a variety of human development careers that emphasize working with children.
Child protective services workers usually have at least a bachelor's degree in human development or a related field. They are almost always employed in government-run child protective services agencies. Child protective services workers offer support and counseling to abused or neglected children and their families. They also help arrange for concrete services, such as temporary housing and foster care. They may decide when children should be removed from or reunited with their families. The Child Welfare League of America reports that there is a significant shortage in the number of qualified child welfare workers in the U.
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PORTLAND, ORE.-There are few sure things in this world, but here’s one of them: If you go to Portland
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, you will eat well.
With a winning combination of fertile farmland, a year-round growing season and proximity to both the Pacific Ocean and eastern Oregon ranchland — along with the pioneering attitude of its citizens — this riverside city has been quietly living the farm-to-table lifestyle long before it was cool.
With more than 20 farmers markets within the city limits, it’s easy for chefs to pick up seasonal ingredients to ignite their creativity — and craft dishes that can only be tasted in Portland.
Oregon has no sales tax, and shipping costs are low within the state because the growing zones are so close to each other (Portland has strict rules on urban sprawl, to protect local farmland), which means customers can taste top-notch cuisine at a fraction of what it would cost in other major U.S. cities.
Access to affordable produce is also one of the reasons food carts started popping up all over empty Portland parking lots in the mid-2000s —
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Cesar Sayoc expected to plead guilty in pipe bomb mailing spree that targeted critics of President Donald Trump and prominent Democrats.
NEW YORK — Pipe
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bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc is expected to plead guilty today to mailing explosive devices to critics of President Donald Trump and prominent Democrats including Hillary Clinton and George Soros in Westchester, a court filing shows.
Sayoc, a 56-year-old Florida resident, initially pleaded not guilty during a November federal court arraignment in Manhattan on allegations he used weapons of mass destruction in a domestic terrorism spree that raised fear and jangled nerves across the nation last year.
However, after prosecutors and defense lawyers held a Friday telephone conference with U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, a new court docket entry disclosed that a pretrial hearing scheduled for March 21 "is now a plea" session. Sayoc is due in court at 4 p.m.
The filing did not disclose which charges would figure in the expected guilty plea. Sayoc is charged in a 30-count criminal indictment. If found guilty on the most serious charges, he could face life in prison.
Additionally, convictions
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Defense Secretary James Mattis recently stated that North Korea must completely and verifiably de-nuclearize as a condition for American assistance.
Much ink
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has been spilled regarding where or not North Korea will or even should de-nuclearize. It is unrealistic and naive to expect Kim to forgo his nuclear weapons.
We can want Kim to de-nuclearize but it is not likely.
What is likely is an increase in cooperation in making North Korea more Capitalist. We should expect a more Vietnam and Chinese style thawing of relations. The U.S. will be permitted to invest in developing franchise establishments like KFC, McDonald's like has happened in other Communist countries.
What North Korea should do is learn from the Soviet Union's mistake. Anthony D'Agostino argued that it was Glasnost that undermined the Soviet Union.
Glasnost was Gorbachev's program to increase freedom and not increase capitalism and decrease freedom. It will be China's example that China will support in a North Korean model of future international relations.
Another analog would be German reunification with some major differences. North Korea
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Beyonce fans have proven they are nothing but loyal, after calling out Tamera Mowry for saying she once flirted with Jay-Z
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.
She may have only asked him for gum. It may have only been 17 years ago. And it may have been way before even Bey and Jay-Z were a thing, but that didn’t stop the Bey Hive from coming for her.
Tamera was seen talking about the rapper while on US show The Real and was saying how she was left starstruck and totally wrapped up in Jay-Z’s charm after bumping into him at a premiere.
‘I found myself strangely asking for gum,’ she confessed. ‘It’s so weird, no, I swear, my sister and I were at a premiere of Nutty Professor and he walked by.
Her co-host Loni Love was quietly stirring her tea as Tamera recalled her story and quizzed her on where her husband Adam had been.
Point is, it’s not. It was just a little bit of low-key flirting
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Former Manchester United striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been appointed as the club’s caretaker manager until the end of the 2018
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/19 season following the dismissal of Jose Mourinho.
United fired Mourinho Tuesday with the club languishing in sixth place in the English Premier League, 19 points behind leaders Liverpool after Sunday’s insipid 3-1 defeat at Anfield.
Solskjaer, who recently signed a new deal as manager of Norwegian club Molde, will take charge of his first match on Saturday, against Cardiff City — a club he previously managed without much success.
Mike Phelan, a coach at United during Alex Ferguson’s managerial reign, returns to the club as assistant manager.
In a statement, United’s chief executive Ed Woodward said: “Ole is a club legend with huge experience, both on the pitch and in coaching roles.
Nicknamed the “baby-faced Assassin,” Solskjaer scored 126 goals in 366 appearances for United during Ferguson’s trophy-laden years, coming off the bench in the Champions League final in
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It's easy to lose track of the news. So at the end of the week, it's good to keep an eye on some of those
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things which shouldn't go unnoticed.
If you spot something you think should be included next week, send it to us using the form at the bottom of the page.
1. Frying pan fumes can kill canaries, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature.
2 Bill Clinton sent just two e-mails while he was president.
3. Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, has got solar panels fitted on the roof of his Cricklewood home.
4. Whales can explode - a dead sperm whale this week exploded in Taiwan, showering blood and body parts on passers-by. Marine biologists blamed it on a build-up of gases inside the whale.
5. More than a quarter of UK households have no savings, according to statistics revealed this week.
6. Pets will be eligible for frequent flier points on Japanese airline JAL from March. The points will be exchangeable for cage rentals on board, as well as gifts.
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Three blue Dodge pickups were pulled over by police officers, and Kincaid was stopped in the southbound lane in the 1500 block of 26th
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Street West in front of a couple of white frame houses.
The stop happened in front of 53-year-old Kathy Kitterman’s home. The sirens distracted her from watching television.
Kincaid pulled a gun on the officers during the traffic stop while he was still sitting in the driver’s seat, Tokajer said. He also had another pistol on him, he said.
“The officers saw the threat, fired on the individual and shot him in the arm,” Tokajer said.
According to the accounts of several neighbors, Kincaid was told to put his hands up and get out of the truck before shots were fired. None of the neighbors said they saw a gun.
Fran Misselli, 49, who lives just across the street from where Kincaid was stopped, watched detectives and street crimes unit officers go by. She said she hopped on her bike to get a closer look.
Missell
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A rendering of the T3 Bayside building on the Toronto waterfront.
Danish architects, I was warned by a publicist with the
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country’s consulate, are sometime a bit tongue-tied when asked to describe how they incorporate sustainability principles into their projects. Seems it’s just a thing they do.
Reframed for a Canadian audience, the question tracks a bit like asking Toronto Maples Leafs star Auston Matthews what it’s like to play with a hockey stick.
Maybe so, but Toronto’s development and design sector will – or should – be soaking up a lot from Danish approaches in coming years. Earlier this month, the international developer Hines revealed that it had selected 3XN, another Copenhagen firm, to design a two-building tall-timber office complex for a property on the south side of Queen’s Quay East, in Bayside. It will be 3XN’s second commission in the area, the first being a Hines/Tridel Corp. residential project announced in 2016, also for Bayside.
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A seven-year-old boy and his 44-year-old mother were seriously injured at the Ayia Napa amusement park on Friday night
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after their swing collided with another ride, police said.
According to authorities, at approximately 10:30pm the mother and son, who were on holiday from Russia, were on a ride at Parko Paliatso, when part of the swing on the Star Flyer carousel they were on hit into the pole of another ride. The carousel was reportedly going too fast, making the swing take on too wide an angle and taking it too close to the next ride.
The boy suffered an exposed fracture on his right leg, while the mother lacerated her left knee, broke her right hand and suffered concussion.
The mother and son were taken to a private clinic in Ayia Napa, but due to the severity of their condition they were transferred to a private clinic in Limassol, where doctors managed to save the boy’s leg from being amputated.
Police spokesperson for Famagusta Andreas Constantinou said that the pair are in serious condition, but
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Individuals with type 1 diabetes must inject themselves with the required dose of insulin daily to manage their condition. In the future, injections may no longer
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be necessary; scientists are developing a viable way of delivering insulin in pill form.
Researchers have developed a pill for the oral delivery of insulin, and they hope that it will eventually be made available to patients.
Type 1 diabetes is a less widespread form of the disease that, unlike type 2 diabetes, is often hereditary and non-preventable.
In type 1 diabetes, the immune system wrongly attacks and damages the cells of the pancreas that produce insulin, a hormone that is key to regulating blood sugar levels.
Unmanaged, type 1 diabetes could cause many health problems due to the unregulated blood sugar levels.
To prevent complications and keep the condition under control, people diagnosed with this type of diabetes must receive daily doses of insulin delivered into the bloodstream through either injections or insulin pumps.
But these methods are cumbersome, and multiple daily injections are disruptive and unpleasant — especially to individuals who may have needle phobia.
Administering insulin orally, in pill form, would be
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Apple has refreshed the MacBook Pro line with minor upgrades of the processor, a small price cut to the aged non-Retina model, and additional
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RAM for the least-expensive Retina configurations.
The updates - the first since October 2013 -- were expected, as some of the pricing and component changes had leaked over the weekend from China.
Apple gave minor performance increases to the Retina MacBook Pro with slightly faster Intel Core i5 and i7 processors in the 13-in. and 15-in. models, respectively, and boosted the stock system memory of the entry level 13-in. notebook from 4GB to 8GB, matching the configurations of the other two laptops in that screen size.
For the 15-in., Apple increased the RAM of the least-expensive model from 8GB to 16GB, again to sync with the higher-priced notebook.
Prices of the 13-in. and 15-in. Retina MacBook Pros stayed the same: The three smaller laptops started at $1599 and climbed to $2199, as the solid-state drive (SSD) increased from 128GB to 512
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A dozen local dancers recently competed in the Triangle Open Ballroom Competition held at N.C State University in Raleigh.
The dancers are part of
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a group taught by championship competitors John and Penny DeFino at Rivertowne Ballroom in New Bern.
Nine of the dancers took the competition floor for the first time.
The local dancers included Bernie Mallon, Ania LeRoy, Mark and Kandy Caccio, Paul Hager, Gayle Watson, Calvin and Ruth Long, Joy Carawan, Candace Grove and Lynette Pearsall.
�They had outstanding results in two days of competition while dancing waltz, foxtrot, tango, quickstep, Viennese waltz, Cha Cha, rumba and swing,� said Joyce Price of Rivertowne Ballroom.
The students were part of a new competition program at Rivertowne.
The DeFinos, the instructors, were divisional second place winners in the 2012 national championships.
Rivertowne Ballroom first opened its doors in downtown New Bern in 2002 and provides ballroom dance lessons to students from
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LOS ANGELES (Sporting Alert) — Five Los Angeles Clippers players scored in double figures, but the team almost blew a big lead in their
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102-93 victory over the Boston Celtics at STAPLES Center on Monday evening.
Blake Griffin shot 50-percent from the field in scoring 22 points, while pulling down nine rebounds and dishing out six assists for the LA Clippers (28-14), who were 47.6 percent as a team from the floor.
DeAndre Jordan had 19 points, 12 rebounds and six blocks, with J.J. Redick and Jamal Crawford each contributing 16 points in the win,.
Brandon Bass led the Celtics with 17 points off the bench, Marcus Thornton hit 3 of his 6 three-point attempts to add 15 in a reserve role as well, while Marcus Smart, who went 4-of-7 from 3-point range ended with 14 points and seven assists in the defeat.
Los Angeles Clippers raced out to an 11-2 lead early in the first half and went into the halftime break ahead 47-37.
The hosts then extended their advantage to as many as 23 points with
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Louie the Barber really was a barber.
During my annual Father’s Day visit with my dad, he informed me that Louie
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the Barber was Bill Avansino’s father, Louie.
Louie had a barber shop for a while on C Street and then in his B Street home. He was the barber for many on the Virginia City Muckers basketball team.
My dad said he guessed Louie thought a haircut would make you lose.
I don’t know if it mattered or not — the Muckers didn’t turn out any state championship teams between 1953 and 1957 when my dad would have played for them. They fell somewhere along the line to Tonopah, Lander County, Moapa Valley or Fernley, who claimed state in those years respectively. The next time the Muckers took the trophy was in 1959.
My dad said he started school in Virginia City in the third grade.
Dad also saw Mr. Gallagher out walking the other day. Sure glad to hear he’s doing better.
Fred and Karin Gladding are restoring the
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LONDON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - An oversupply of lithium this year has nearly halved prices this year in China, halting an
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unprecedented run for the key component for batteries used in electric vehicles.
But analysts say solid long-term demand should shore up the market after a slight surplus in demand this year.
A boom in electric vehicles has boosted prices for components of lithium-ion batteries including lithium and cobalt, as consumers such as car companies to scramble to secure supplies.
But lithium prices have come under pressure in 2018 because miners have ramped up production, consumers destocked supplies and asubsidies in China’s new energy vehicles (NEV’s) market have been pulled back.
Prices in China, the world’s biggest consumer of lithium, plunged to $13,000 per tonne in August from a peak of $24,750 in March, according to prices tracked monthly by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence (BMI).
“There is certainly no shortage of potential supply and there are already a huge number of projects out there,” said Alex Laugharne
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SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS—There’s no mistaking game day here.
Not only was a
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national holiday extended through Tuesday for the Canada-Honduras World Cup qualifying match, but the media coverage was intense and exhaustive.
With the match set to kick off at 2 p.m. local time, at least two morning TV news programs began broadcasting live from Estadio Olimpico shortly after 7 a.m. On another channel, a man dressed in a replica of the white jersey Honduras wore in the match was demonstrative as he took phone calls from viewers discussing the game.
It turned out to be prophetic.
At the stadium, the party started early and went on well after the Hondurans’ 8-1 victory.
Under the watchful eye of upwards of 400 police officers inside the stadium and another 50 outside, fans began arriving hours before kickoff. Guns, plentiful in a city with the highest per capita murder rate in the world, could not be brought in by fans.
Canadian reporters, who had been given assurances they would be protected in
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Officials seize explosives after Iranian man carrying grenades seriously wounds himself and four civilians.
An Iranian man carrying grenades has blown off his own legs and wounded
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four civilians after multiple blasts in a busy Bangkok neighbourhood, Thai officials say.
Security forces found more explosives in the Thai capital on Tuesday in a house where the Iranian man was staying, but it was not known what targets they might have been meant for, police General Pansiri Prapawat said.
He said a passport found at the scene of one of the blasts indicated that the assailant was Saeid Moradi from Iran. Authorities in Tehran could not immediately be reached for comment.
Tuesday's violence began in the afternoon when a stash of explosives apparently went off by accident in Moradi's house, blowing off part of the roof.
Police said two foreigners quickly left the residence, followed by a wounded Moradi.
"He tried to wave down a taxi, but he was covered in blood, and the driver refused to take him," Pansiri said. He then threw an explosive at the taxi and began running.
Police who had been called to the area then
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A person leaves the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands on Jan. 16, 2019.
Just days after the United States’ government
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revoked the visa of the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor, judges at the ICC on Friday rejected her request to open an investigation into alleged atrocities in the war in Afghanistan, citing practical reasons.
The decision, which prosecutor Fatou Bensouda may appeal, angered human-rights groups and means the Taliban, the Afghan government and the United States will not face any investigation at the International Criminal Court for their alleged crimes, which dated mostly from 2003-04.
U.S. President Donald Trump called the decision “a major international victory” and denounced the international court for its “broad, unaccountable, prosecutorial powers,” as well as for what he considers its threat to U.S. sovereignty.
“Any attempt to target American, Israeli or allied personnel for prosecution will be met with a swift and vigorous response,” Mr. Trump said.
White House National Security Adviser John Bolton, a sharp critic of the ICC, called the ruling
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England international paid tribute to the youngster during the victory over the Czech Republic last month.
Pep Guardiola’s side have already clinched
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the Carabao Cup this season.
The Premier League champions were knocked out of the Champions League by Tottenham on Wednesday.
Tottenham Hotspur have enjoyed plenty of memorable European nights but none quite like the 90 plus minutes experienced in Manchester on a crazy, crazy evening.
At the start of a pivotal seven days that could well determine Manchester City’s destiny this season, manager Pep Guardiola last night demonstrated the complicated relationship he and his club share with the Champions League.
City are battling Liverpool at the top of the Premier League.
The Manchester City manager, 48, takes his side to Crystal Palace on Sunday.
Manchester City reached the FA Cup final with a tense victory over Brighton at Wembley.
Chris Hughton, one of the calmest and most under-stated managers in football, admits that even he will allow himself a leap of celebration if he can recreate a glorious memory of 1981 by beating Manchester City in the FA Cup at Wembley today.
And then there were 13
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Bakkavor Foods USA recalled a number of prepared food items, including Trader Joe's burritos, for salmonella and lister
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ia concerns in onions.
Trader Joe's burritos were included in an 800,000-pound food recall this week.
The food supplier recalled a specific burrito type because the onions may contain salmonella, listeria.
Trader Joe’s burritos and other prepared foods from food supplier Bakkavor Foods USA were recalled this week after concerns about salmonella or listeria contamination.
Bakkavor recalled nearly 800,000 pounds of prepared food items sold in grocery stores around the country, including pizza and breakfast burritos, after the company's onion supplier recalled Bakkavor's onion ingredients for potential traces of the stomach-churning bacteria, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture news release.
Only the 10-ounce “Trader Joe's Carnitas with Salsa Verde” burritos with use-by dates of 10/08/17 to 10/24/18 have been
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Rangers boss was on hand to interpret for the Croatian defender at Wednesday's press conference.
Steven Gerrard cut a very different figure in front of
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the media on Wednesday as he turned translator for Nikola Katic.
The Rangers boss went on the offensive following his side's 1-1 draw with Aberdeen at Pittodrie on Sunday.
Gerrard insisted "the world was against" his side during a much-talked about press conference, sparked by Alfredo Morelos' now rescinded red card against the Dons.
But he looked much more relaxed taking questions ahead of the Europa League third round qualifier against Maribor on Thursday.
Sitting alongside Katic, Gerrard stepped in when the Croatian defender struggled to understand some of the questions posed by reporters.
Last week, Gerrard heaped praise on the centre-back, declaring his "love" for the 21-year-old and insisting "he's mine" when asked about his potential to star on the biggest stages in the future.
Katic was asked if that praise his boosted his confidence, but
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The Cuomo administration is having trouble keeping its story straight.
Twenty-four hours after the administration confirmed its plan to award Amazon up to $505
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million in grants for its new Queens headquarters would require the approval of the Public Authorities Control Board — an obscure state entity over which the Legislature has some authority — the administration walked it back.
In interviews with the New York Daily News and The New York Times Thursday, Cuomo budget director Robert Mujica said that in the case of the $505 million grant, the state could evade board approval, thereby denying the state Legislature a say in the matter.
A spokesman for Mujica confirmed Thursday night that was the state’s new opinion.
"When the time comes, a decision will be made as to which specific program will be used to meet our capital commitment," said Mujica spokesman Morris Peters. "As we have said, we have several options, including the use of programs that do not require PACB approval."
Empire State Development is the agency spearheading the general project plan for Amazon on behalf of the state. Though POLITICO asked both the governor's spokesperson and a
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Elbow is the latest band to announce dates as part of Forest Live, where acts perform in spectacular woodland settings around the country as part of the
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summer concert series promoted by the Forestry Commission.
These dates include one at Sherwood Pines Forest, near Mansfield, on Sunday, June 25.
Elbow’s rise over the past two decades has seen them become one of the most important bands in contemporary British music.
Since debut album, 2001’s Asleep At The Back, their stature has grown with subsequent releases such as Cast of Thousands, Leaders Of The Free World, The Seldom Seen Kid, Build A Rocket Boys and 2014’s The Take Off And Landing Of Everything, that debuted at the top of the UK charts.
Frontman Guy Garvey’s story-telling lyrics have honed their unique identity and sound to establish the band a passionate fanbase and critical acclaim on their musical journey, including two Ivor Novellos and a BRIT award for Best British Band.
Renowned for the intimacy of their live shows, stand-out gigs include Glastonbury Festival�
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New York City is set to become the first American metropolis that seeks to ease traffic congestion, cut pollution and boost mass transit by charging motorists a
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hefty toll for the privilege of driving into its most crammed areas. So can it work?
Will the tolls raise enough money to make the city's strained mass transit system reliable? Is there enough alternative transportation for commuters who decide to give up their cars? How will the tolling system affect the delivery trucks, taxis and ride-hail vehicles that now comprise a big proportion of Manhattan traffic? And will so many vehicles be made exempt from the tolls that the effect on travel patterns is minimal?
"We're not going to see people abandon their cars to get into the subway," he said.
"This is a terrific victory... for the mass transit ridership and for New York's capacity to respond to the crisis of its mass transit system," he said.
In Stockholm, a pilot program that was put in place with less-than-enthusiastic public support in 2006 became much more popular as people saw
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Here are seven things to know about Bonifacio, who could make his major-league debut as early as Friday night.
▪ Brian
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Poldberg, Bonifacio’s manager at Class AAA Omaha, told the Omaha World-Herald last year that Bonifacio could be in a category with Alex Gordon, Lorenzo Cain and Paulo Orlando when it comes to defensive ability. And he can play anywhere in the outfield, depending on the need.
Bonifacio had 17 outfield assists while playing for Omaha last season.
▪ Bonifacio was named the Storm Chasers Player of the Year by Omaha media members last year after leading the team in total bases (228), walks (51), home runs (19), RBIs (86), runs (82) and hits (137).
▪ At last year’s Futures Game, Bonifacio walked twice in his two plate appearances.
▪ Bonifacio is the younger brother of Emilio Bonifacio, who played for the Royals in 2013. Emilio is in his 11th big-league season and is playing for the Atlanta
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Donald Trump, who claims to be the “best on the military” among the 2016 Presidential candidates because he is the best at everything,
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apparently has no idea what the nuclear triad is. The revelation came during last night’s Presidential Debate when conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Trump a question about the need to modernize our nuclear forces.
Oddly enough, a description of the Nuclear Triad was embedded in Hewitt’s question, yet Trump still stumbled around the question, making almost no sense throughout his reply.
HEWITT: Mr. Trump... Dr. Carson just referenced the single most important job of the president, the command, the control and the care of our nuclear forces. And he mentioned the triad. The B-52s are older than I am. The missiles are old. The submarines are aging out. It’s an executive order. It’s a commander-in-chief decision.
But we have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game. Frankly, I would have said get
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A Newcastle cemetery is hosting a seminar on preparing a plan for care at the end of life as part of a series of discussions on death, dying
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and grieving.
The free talk at Sandgate Cemetery on Wednesday evening is being organised by Newcastle Compassionate Community.
The organisation's chair Jeanette Lacey, who is an end-of-life care nurse practitioner at John Hunter Hospital, said her work had illustrated to her the importance of Wednesday's topic.
"Advanced care planning covers all aspects of preparing for getting sicker, older and preparing for the unknown really," Ms Lacey said.
"Working in the heath care sector, I've met people who have never had these conversations and talked to family members about what is important to them in case they get really sick.
"It includes writing a will, appointing people to speak for you if you can't speak for yourself, and deciding whether you are willing to accept CPR, willing to go to intensive care, have artificial breathing done for you, kidney dialysis or artificial hydration as part of end-of-life treatment.
"I've really recognised in
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The CPU is the heart of any computer, and is responsible for running the operating system and every application. A speedier CPU means faster-running
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programs, but usually it also means lower battery life and a more expensive laptop. Nearly every laptop has a CPU from either AMD or Intel.
If you're buying a netbook, you'll find that it uses either Intel's Atom line of CPUs, or AMD's Fusion E-series. The Atom line offers pretty slow performance and poor integrated graphics, but the battery life is phenominal. AMD's Fusion E-series chips are a bit faster, with dramatically better graphics and video decoding, but you'll sacrifice an hour or two of battery life for it. Neither choice is powerful enough for the most demaning tasks, like encoding HD video or playing the latest games.
Ultraportable PCs generally use low-voltage AMD or Intel processors. These chips are usually dual-core CPUs that are quite similar to the regular notebook CPUs found in larger laptops, but run at much lower clock speeds (1.2GHz instead of 2.1GHz, for example). Lots of processors--
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Morrissey, the celebrated British singer who once fronted the Smiths, is coming to Broadway. He will play a seven-night engagement
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at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater from May 2-11, becoming the latest high-profile musician to take the Broadway stage since Bruce Springsteen last year. According to a news release on Monday, the shows will serve as a career retrospective for Morrissey, and will come weeks before the release of a new record, “California Son,” an album of covers.
Broadway stages have become increasingly friendly to pop music, particularly jukebox musicals featuring songs with already built-in popularity. Cher, Donna Summer, the Go-Go’s and Jimmy Buffett are just some recent examples of artists whose music has been featured recently on Broadway. “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations” will officially open later this month. “Springsteen on Broadway,” a show mixing songs and storytelling, earned an honorary Tony Award and was filmed for a Netflix special.
Last year, Morrissey, 59
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Samsung Electronics recorded an operating profit of about $14.15 billion for the December quarter — in line with guidance.
The firm's semiconductor
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division drove the fourth-quarter earnings on the back of strong demand for its memory chips.
Samsung's mobile business saw a 3.2 percent on-year decline in operating profits.
The tech giant also announced a 50:1 stock split that saw its shares jump more than 8 percent in morning trade.
Samsung Electronics on Wednesday said it recorded an operating profit of about 15.2 trillion Korean won ($14.15 billion) for the quarter ending in December, which was in line with guidance. That was a 64.3 percent jump from a year earlier.
The firm's fourth-quarter revenue came in at about 66 trillion won, a 23.7 percent on-year increase. For the full year, Samsung recorded an operating profit of nearly 54 trillion won on revenue of about 240 trillion won.
Samsung shares jumped more than 8 percent in morning trade after the firm announced a 50:1 stock split. But that rally eventually faded and the stock closed up only 0.2 percent
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FILE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic speaks with The Associated Press during his visit to Tirana, Albania, May 27,
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2015.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Tuesday that he would represent Serbia at ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the bloodiest episode in the Bosnian civil war of the early 1990s.
On July 11, 1995, toward the end of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, Bosnian Serb forces overran Srebrenica, a U.N.-designated "safe area." About 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in the days that followed. The U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague has called the killings genocide.
Vucic, who was well-known as a fierce Serbian nationalist, said that "It is time to show that we are ready for reconciliation and that we are ready to bow our head before other people's victims."
The prime minister said Serbia would sentence each criminal who committed "horrible crimes." But he and Bosnian Serb officials still refuse to call
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The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns softball team was picked to defend its Sun Belt Conference title as the 2015 Preseason Poll was released by
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the league office on Wednesday.
Coming off its sixth trip to the Women's College World Series, the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns softball team was picked to defend its Sun Belt Conference title as the 2015 Preseason Poll was released by the league office on Wednesday.
Louisiana placed four players on the Preseason All-Conference team, highlighted by returning All-Americans Lexie Elkins and Christina Hamilton, plus at-large selections Haley Hayden and Shellie Landry.
The Ragin' Cajuns, ranked No. 9 in the USA Today/National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division I Preseason Top 25 poll, earned seven of the nine first-place votes among the league's head coaches. South Alabama, which received the remaining two first-place votes, was picked to finish second overall followed by Georgia State, Texas State and Georgia Southern.
"I think we have a lot of good teams in our conference and that we have
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Aldi is to begin selling a new gin that tastes like the Marmite of the confectionery world - Parma Violets.
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The new, purple'shimmer' gin is being introduced as part of the German retailer's 'Infusionist' range of liqueurs and will launch on 26 April.
The new shimmer infused gin will launch alongside The Infusionist Coconut & Vanilla Rum Liqueur - which offers creamy coconut flavours paired with aromatic vanilla - and The Infusionist Rhubarb, Pink Grapefruit & Black Pepper Gin Liqueur, which has sharp citrus notes and a hint of peppery spice.
The new spirits will cost just £9.99 for a 50cl bottle.
Aldi has become a surprise destination for gin fans in recent years.
In 2018 it won the gold medal for Best Gin at the International Spirits Challenge for its £9.99 Oliver Cromwell London Dry Gin - which also took home the award in 2017 - but it's not just gins that are a success for the supermarket.
Earlier this month, Aldi’s own-label
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U.S. airfares are expected to fall in 2017 amid overcapacity and stiff competition between budget carriers and legacy airlines, according to an
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American Express report. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Prices of airplane tickets in the U.S. are on track to fall in 2017, says a new American Express report on the travel industry. That's because legacy airlines are competing for passengers with budget carriers, and need to fill seats. Short-haul economy fares could drop as much as three percent, and long-haul business class could get 1.5 percent lower, according to the American Express Global Business Travel report. As oil prices have fallen, airlines have been able to expand the number of flights to places that were previously unprofitable. To make up for the lost revenue, airlines will be trying to make money in other areas, says Jonathan Root of Moody's Investors Service. (SOUNDBITE) JONATHAN ROOT, VICE-PRESIDENT, SENIOR CREDIT OFFICER, MOODY'S INVESTORS SERVICE "They are going to continue to push ancillaries and fees, and they are going
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