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In 2009, Tim Wayne Medvetz started The Heroes Project, a foundation dedicated to raising funds to help wounded warriors climb the world’s | highest peaks and find a renewed purpose in their lives. The foundation is predicated on the idea that we can make a difference and change the lives of our wounded veterans, soldiers, and their families – one soldier, one veteran, one family at a time.
Climbs for Heroes – Under the leadership of Tim Medvetz, the Heroes Project supports climbing programs for wounded soldiers and veterans. After a serious accident left Tim injured and in long term physical therapy, he vowed he would climb to the summit of Mt. Everest, which he ultimately did in 2007. The comeback Tim experienced in conquering that challenge transformed his life. It also inspired him to share the challenge and triumph with those who need it the most – wounded warriors – which he has done in a volunteer capacity. On August 16, 2010, Tim reached the peak of Elbrus in Europe with a wounded veteran. Tim is now planning climbs to the seven summits of the world, each with soldiers and veterans, as part of |
Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner has pleaded for negotiations over sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, saying that Britain was happy to talk | to "mass murderers" but not her democratically elected government.
Mrs Kirchner used her annual state of the nation speech to Congress to declare that she would not give up her diplomatic fight for the Malvinas, the name for the islands in Spanish, and ruled out another military invasion.
Dedicating a slice of the three-hour address on government policy to the Falklands, Mrs Kirchner said Argentina “wants sovereignty, but wants it peacefully”.
She accused Britain of having negotiated with “genocidists” – an apparent reference to the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina during the 1982 invasion of the Falklands. An estimated 30,000 Left-wing civilian activists lost their lives at the hands of the junta.
“How can it possible that [Britain] sat down with genocidists but won’t negotiate with officials voted by popular will at the ballot box?” Mrs Kirchner asked to rousing |
The moment gave Bradford chills as his son, Keller, a ULM pitcher, caught the pitch.
Keller knew his father was going | to be in attendance for the non-conference contest, but he had no idea his father was going to throw out the first pitch.
"That was awesome. This was a little more special with Mississippi State playing ULM, big ballpark," said Bradford, who previously threw a ceremonial first pitch to his son during a Coastal Plains League game. "This was special."
The elder Bradford will forever be linked to Michael Lewis' book, 'Moneyball,' for his unique delivery. Bradford said he made the transition while a sophomore in high school. He was only throwing in the low 70s and wasn't recording outs at an impressive rate. Almost out of necessity, he made the change and never looked back.
"If you have an open mind and want to do it, it's a lot easier than not wanting to do it," Bradford said. "A lot of guys want to worry about throwing hard and throw over the top. If you worry about velocity too much then you're not |
Wildlife expert Ron Wooten said he started researching the animals after a group of them attacked his dog back in 2013.
"I finally | found some and took pictures and then looked back at them and thought, 'these are not coyotes.' There's a definite difference in the way they sound and how they interact." he said.
Wooten found a carcass of one of the canines that was killed by a car and sent it off to Princeton University. The animal's DNA showed it was 40 percent red wolf.
"Overall, it's incredibly rare to rediscover animals in a region where they were thought to be extinct and it's even more exciting to show that a piece of an endangered genome has been preserved in the wild," said Elizabeth Heppenheimer, a Princeton University biologist involved in the research on the pack found on Galveston Island.
The work of the Princeton team was published in the scientific journal Genes.
File photo of red wolf pups at Wolf Haven International in Tenino, Wash. in 2016. Researchers say a pack of wild canines found frolicking near the beaches |
In a unique community collaboration, members of the Rancho Cielo Youth Corps stepped in to help an elderly Salinas woman by repairing her damaged | fence last week.
Elizabeth Venturini, who is in her late 90s, has lived in Salinas since 1958 and is the “matriarch of our community over here in Maple Park,” said neighbor Butch Francis.
“I take care of her when I can, and the fence had been knocked over and kids were coming in,” Francis said.
Venturini’s south Salinas home lines up next to a city park, and in the last heavy rainstorm, the fence partially collapsed into her backyard, leaving the property vulnerable and Venturini worried. It was estimated to cost between $500 and $1,700 to repair the fence, her daughter Elena Dorabji said.
Yet through the coordination of several people, a crew from Rancho Cielo Youth Campus, a nonprofit that provides services to underserved and at-risk youth, went to the home on March 21 and completed the repairs over several hours |
Former Thiess John Holland executive Stephen Sasse has given evidence that Opposition Leader Bill Shorten was directly involved in discussions about $300,000 | in payments to the Australian Workers Union when he was national secretary in late 2004 and that a series of invoices for large payments appear to be bogus.
When shown a series of invoices including one for research into back strain injury and another for $110,000, Mr Sasse, who has until now declined to comment on the issue publicly, told the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption on Monday they appeared to be bogus.
Senior counsel assisting the commission Jeremy Stoljar asked Mr Sasse about a series of large payments made to the Australian Workers Union including one for research on back strain.
"Does it look like a bogus invoice to you?," Mr Stoljar asked.
"I fear so," Mr Sasse replied.
Mr Sasse said his early discussions about a payment of $300,000 to the union as part of a deal over the $2.5 billion EastLink Melbourne road project were with Mr Shorten in late 2004. |
It is 2020. The American Health Care Act has become law, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has eliminated contraception from | its list of essential preventive services that must be covered by insurance without cost sharing.
Let’s imagine a woman named Margaret. She is 25 years old and has Type 1 diabetes requiring insulin. She has high-deductible health insurance through her job with a construction company. For the past 2 years, high out-of-pocket medical and prescription costs have led Margaret to avoid doctor’s visits, and her sugar levels are too high.
Margaret and her fiance want to delay having children for a few years until they become more financially stable. Additionally, Margaret’s doctor recommended that she delay pregnancy until her sugar levels are better controlled, to improve outcomes for both Margaret and a baby. However, because insurance companies are no longer required to fully cover contraception, her insurance charges a $100 copayment for an intrauterine device (IUD), the most effective reversible birth control method and a particularly safe option for most women with chronic medical conditions.
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SARAH E. MENDELSON is Director of the Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 2010 to 2014 | , she served as Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Follow her on Twitter @SarahMendelson.
No Illusions: The Voices of Russia’s Future Leaders. BY ELLEN MICKIEWICZ. Oxford University Press, 2014, 264 pp. $29.95.
Twenty years ago, while working for the National Democratic Institute in Russia, I found myself observing a focus group in the town of Khimki, not far from Moscow. In a drab apartment, my colleagues and I strained to understand what local residents thought about candidates running in a by-election for the Russian parliament. It was a disorienting time, that early post-Soviet period, before the wars in Chechnya, the collapse of the ruble, and President Vladimir Putin’s rise to power. But for some, it held a tantalizing hope: that Russia would |
Mexican Singer Paulina Rubio 'We Love You, Donald Trump'... Flip-Flopping At Women's Empowerment Concert?
Paul | ina Rubio threw many fans for a loop at a concert for women when she blurted out "We love you, Donald Trump" -- but it appears to have been purely for literary effect.
The Mexican pop star was performing Saturday in L.A. during the 'K-Love Live: Las Que Mandan' concert when, at one point, she coupled her shout-outs to women with a seemingly random plug for the President... which got a lot of boos from the crowd.
The lines about Trump didn't have much context, but in an interview after the show... Paulina seemed to imply her "love" for Trump was nothing but sarcasm and an attempt at irony. When the host asks her if she had a message for 45, Paulina says (in Spanish) that Hispanics have been here long before DT became the Prez, and that her mom had told her she wasn't going anywhere in the Trump times. Translation... she's not team MAGA.
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The Knight Foundation is going to make sure the people charged with investing its vast endowment aren’t entirely homogeneous. It’s | not just a push for diversity’s sake–it’s also a push for better returns.
In order to create the cash flow necessary to continue issuing grants year after year, most foundations reinvest the majority of their endowment in the open market. Historically, however, major funders haven’t thought a lot about how to use that process itself to do more good.
Earlier this year, the Ford Foundation rethought wasted financial impact by committing a large portion of its endowment toward mission-related investments, creating more capital for change. Now the Knight Foundation, which works to build engaged and informed communities, is trying to address a more creeping societal issue: discrimination against who exactly is enabled to make these investments.
According to a Knight Foundation report, women and minority-owned money management firms are getting shut out of the asset management industry–not just by philanthropies, but by public funds, high-net-worth individual and family offices, and especially corporate interests. |
The panel has already prepared guidelines for physical, technological and IT security of thermal power stations.
With increasing threat of terrorist activities paralysing key | thermal power infrastructures, the Union power ministry has graded such installations as sensitive or hypersensitive, and asked state governments, officials of state-owned and private the electricity generation stations to ensure physical, technological and cyber security of their units.
The Ministry of Power has formed a panel for development of National Infrastructure Protection Plan in thermal power sector. The committee will be headed by a member of the Central Electricity Authority and members drawn from CISF, IB, NIC and power utilities.
In Orissa, the 460 megawatt thermal power station of NTPC at Talcher and 3000 megawatt Super Thermal Power Station in Kaniha have been labelled hypersensitive by the ministry, while the upcoming 1800 megawatt thermal power station by Jindal India Thermal Power Ltd at Derang of Angul district was termed sensitive.
Similarly, the upcoming 350 megawatt thermal Power Station of KVK Neelachal at Cuttack has been marked as hypersensitive, while Jindal India Thermal Power |
Israeli archaeologists said today they had discovered a 12,000-year-old neolithic settlement west of Jerusalem which they believe is the largest of the | period ever discovered in the Holy Land.
The settlement, in Motza 5km west of Jerusalem, was home to 2,000 people and dates to 9,500 BC, Hammadid Khalife, head of the archeological team, told AFP.
"We discovered a real treasure on the site consisting of 58 flint blades, found together, which at the time served as a kind of currency," Khalife said.
"The origin of the stone and the way the blades were made show they come from northern Syria," he added.
"It is the first time that such a treasure... from this neolithic period, has been discovered in the Holy Land," said Khalife, who specified the site belonged to an era known as pre-pottery neolithic.
A similar discovery was made in Syria by a French team three years ago at a site called Jerat al-Ahmar.
The dig, which started three months ago, was organised by the Israeli antiqu |
When you think of the name Ben Hogan and even when you take a look at the recent club introductions from the new Ben Hogan Golf Equipment Company | , your natural inclination is toward precision and classic blade-like design. It's what you think of when you think of Hogan blade irons, Hogan's 1-iron shot at Merion in the 1950 U.S. Open, and well, maybe a new collection of Ben Hogan hybrids.
Hybrids? Really, says Terry Koehler, the president and CEO of the equipment company that bears the nine-time major champion’s name. The company's new VKTR hybrids are designed to explicitly reflect that idea of precision—specifically when it comes to distance control.
The VKTR hybrids reflect that idea of precision in two ways: Loft and shot shape. Like both the Ben Hogan irons and wedges, the VKTR hybrids will be offered in individual one-degree loft increments, spanning a range from 17 to 27 degrees. It’s an effort to better fit the hybrids into a player’s current set of irons. The Ben Hogan hybrids also |
Paula G. DiMatteo, 95, of Peachtree City passed away peacefully on March 10, 2019.
Paula was | the youngest of two children, born to Clarence and Pauline Gardiner on December 18, 1923 in Bridgeton, N.J. Paula married John DiMatteo on March 21, 1941. The couple settled in East Point, in 1957 and moved to Peachtree City in 1987.
Paula was preceded in death by her husband, John; brother, James Gardiner; granddaughters, Gina Ford and Dr. Tracy Maloney.
She is survived by her daughter, Joanne DiMatteo; son, Paul (Sharon) DiMatteo; grandchildren, Karen (Greg) Cash, Melanie (Allen) Phillips, Todd Maloney, Kathy Briscoe (Kenneth Jameson), Pam (Mike) Peaden, Joey (Brooke) Hall; numerous great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.
A funeral service was held Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 2 p.m. at Mowell Funeral Home, Peacht |
Attention has been focused on V15 after a bipartisan US Senate subcommittee criticized the State Department for giving a $350,000 grant to OneVoice | , which became V15.
The heads of the parties in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition will meet on Sunday to discuss how to advance a bill that would hobble political organizations like V15 that campaigned against Netanyahu in the last election.
Proposed by Likud MK Yoav Kisch, the bill would prevent organizations involved in elections from raising more than NIS 1,000 a month. Netanyahu has announced his support for the bill.
V15, which has since renamed itself Darkenu, caused headaches for Netanyahu ahead of the March 2015 election by hosting rallies against him and spending huge sums on billboards and canvasing voters. Such activity was legal, because they did not tell voters to support a specific party or candidate.
Kisch said the Senate report proved how important it is to fix the loophole that V15 exploited in the last election. He said that besides V15, he wanted to prevent a recurrence of the 1999 election in which fictitious organizations were used to |
There are less than 100 days until the Summer Olympics begin in Brazil and the golf industry could not be more excited about the game’s return | after a 112-year hiatus.
Similar to last year, I sat down with golf industry leaders to ask them a few questions on the state of their industry. The timing of looking at the state of the golf industry seemed especially relevant considering that manufacturer adidas recently decided that it would be selling off parts of its golf business.
BEVACQUA: When you look at the big picture, the state of golf is overwhelmingly positive. In fact, demand is quite healthy and on a growth trajectory. Rounds played were up in 2015 for the first time since 2012 – an increase of approximately two percent. A total of 2.2 million people took up the game last year, approaching the record of 2.4 million, set at the peak of Tiger Woods’ popularity.
Spectator numbers and television viewership were also up. Participation in PGA Junior League Golf – a team format for boys and girls 13 and under – has increased 233 percent since 2013. Get Golf Ready, which is |
Goodbye, 1986 election. Hello, 1988 presidential race. As the last cheer fades from this year's campaign, political attention immediately swings toward 1988 | and the two frontrunners for the White House - Vice-President George Bush and US Sen. Gary Hart.
The 1988 race, jampacked with potential candidates, has created great anticipation in both parties. It should be a watershed election, according to analysts like Republican John Sears III, who says it will set the political stage for the rest of the 20th century.
Republicans, coming off eight strong years under President Reagan, hope their new leader will move the GOP into the status of the majority party.
Early polls put Republican Bush and Democrat Hart so far out front that their races for nomination look easy. But don't believe it. Each man has a difficult obstacle course to run before this contest is over. And each has handicaps that will help his opponents.
George Bush.... 54 percent.
Robert Dole.... 24 percent.
Gary Hart.... 54 percent.
Mario Cuomo.... 29 percent.
Yet analysts say these figures are misleading. Neither Bush nor Hart can rest |
Business owners in the 1300 block of Foothill Boulevard said they are feeling frustrated and vulnerable after being burglarized three times in as many weeks | .
The most recent burglary occurred at 1:30 a.m. Monday, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Det. Brian Tibbett. Suspects smashed the front glass door and glass display cases at All About Watches and stole several watches and pieces of jewelry.
The watch shop had been burglarized less than three weeks earlier when suspects broke in through the back door in the early-morning hours of June 16, smashed the display cases and stole at least four watches worth several hundred dollars each, according to sheriff's officials. An adjacent business, Lovely Nails, was broken into the same night, and a television set was stolen.
And on June 30 shortly before midnight, Lovely Nails and Cowgirl Princess were broken into. This time the nail salon was ransacked, and about 500 bottles of nail polish, a nail dryer, toilet paper and Styrofoam cups were stolen, according to manager Kim Tran.
Cowgirl Princess, a women's clothing |
There is a woman who sings at our church. She has a fine voice and is obviously an accomplished vocalist. Included in her repertoire is a | vibrato which when used to highlight a note or passage adds significantly to the music. However, when used on every note, as she does, it is just plain annoying.
The same can be said of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Unlike his milquetoast predecessor nominees (Sen. John McCain and former Gov. Mitt Romney) who cowered irrationally in the face of political correctness – they could not find the courage to criticize President Barack Obama with regard to either his policies or his background affiliation with American hating radicals like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers or his refusal to release his academic records at Occidental, Columbia, or Harvard for fear of being labeled “racist” – Mr. Trump has ventured fearlessly into the political thicket dismissing “political correctness” as ridiculous and dangerous. But sometimes his rhetoric is just annoying.
But he also steps out of bounds as when he scoffed at Carly Fiorina’s appearance and |
A man who was due to walk free from jail on Wednesday has had his release blocked after he was allegedly caught on CCTV indecently assaulting an underage | inmate.
The 20-year-old was already serving time a Juvenile Justice centre for sexually assaulting a minor when police allege he committed the indecent acts.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Kieran Drever lodged the last-minute detention application in Wagga Local Court on Monday.
“Should [the offender] be granted bail, there is an unacceptable risk to the safety of the community and of him continuing to commit offences,” Sergeant Drever said.
Police allege that the four indecent assaults fell within a 24-hour period.
Sergeant Drever told the court the home address listed on the man’s bail application was right next to a primary school.
“Given the nature of the offences for which he is already serving time and the new allegations, there are concerns that he will continue to commit offences against young people, given the proposed location that he is to reside,” she said.
The man’s lawyer said he had secured full- |
Pure Digital’s Jonathan Kaplan–aka the Flip Guy–Speaks (Post-Cisco)!
BoomTown has been an unab | ashed fan of Pure Digital’s Flip digital video cameras since we debuted them at the D: All Things Digital conference in 2005.
And I have used the nifty device on this site since for my shaky-tastic video extravaganzas.
Yes, Pure Digital’s CEO Jonathan Kaplan (pictured above) is to blame!
Now, Kaplan has gone and sold Flip off to Cisco (CSCO) for $590 million in stock.
Sources said that Pure Digital–this corporate name will go by the wayside, by the way–had also chittered-chatted with Sony (SNE) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) about such a possibility.
That’s pretty good company for Pure Digital, considering it started as a white-label product, shrink-wrapped for theme parks and drugstores.
But the simplicity of its line of relatively inexpensive cameras, including the recently released Mino (seen below, and |
The Premier League fixtures for the upcoming 2018-2019 season have been released and it's a tough start to the new campaign for the Magpies | .
Benitez has praised Newcastle's winning mentality after seeing them effectively secure their Premier League status with five games to go.
Middlesbrough midfielder Adam Clayton has signed a contract extension which will keep him at the club until 2021.
It was a comfortable home win for Middlesbrough, which sent Swansea further into the relegation zone.
Alvaro Negredo scored twice. His first; an excellent finish from an Adam Clayton cross. His second; Boro's first penalty of the season.
A much needed win for Aitor Karanka's side, moving the Boro up to 14th in the Premier League table, four points from the bottom three.
Swansea slip one place to 19th after Sunderland's 1-0 win over Watford.
The Frenchman had been expected to sign for Sunderland in January but the club say the player will now move elsewhere.
Boro boss Aitor Karanka says game against relegation rivals Hull City is 'important' |
Sooty air pollution can cause genetic damage that can be passed along to offspring, Canadian researchers reported today in a study on mice.
Follow | -up work is needed to learn if people can inherit pollution-damaged DNA that harms their health. In the meantime, the discovery is sure to increase scientists' worry about particulates, the microscopic soot particles emitted by factories, power plants and diesel-burning vehicles.
The good news: Air filters protected the mice.
"The new work now adds another area of potential concern" because of the implications for risks to future generations, said Dr Jonathan Samet of Johns Hopkins University, who headed a recent National Academy of Sciences call for more research into the dangers of this common pollutant.
These airborne particles are linked to a growing list of health problems, including asthma and heart disease, in the people who breathe high levels of them.
But there had been little evidence that any air pollutant might cause the kind of genetic damage that can be inherited - until Canadian scientists in 2002 housed mice downwind from steel mills and tested their offspring. The males passed on double the DNA mutations as |
Is ‘Brand Journalism’ the New PR?
PR professionals: Do you consider yourself content providers? How about reporters? Bloggers? | Are we getting close? OK, here’s the question of the day: Instead of struggling with media gatekeepers to win coverage and attract wandering eyes to your brand, should you simply become the media? Instead of providing access to key personalities and emailing quotes for a big story, why not just tell the story yourself?
According to Blue Fountain Media strategist Tim Gray, the best way to promote your brand through content is to create it—he sees the PR industry moving quickly in that direction, and Bazaar Voice’s 2012 “social trends report” backs him up.
Of course you’ve heard about the ways in which an increasingly interconnected media world makes traditional advertising less effective than ever; most viewers/readers will skip those pesky sponsored messages when given the choice. The appeal of creating your own content delivery system is obvious–and more than a few brands have started doing just that.
As usual, financial brands like banks and credit card companies have moved |
I did something new not long ago. In my prayers at a memorial service, I remembered not just the deceased, his children, and friends but | also the two people he murdered.
Here was a man who bore in his own body the sins of his country, what had been done and left undone. Here was a service that constituted a prayer that the country of his birth find a future bigger than its past. Here were leaders of that country, past and present, gathered to respect a man who had the courage, dignity, and humility to change his mind.
Seán O’Callaghan was born in Ireland and grew up understanding nationalism as a religion and terrorism as an act of devotion. He joined the Provisional Irish Republican Army as a teenager and soon had two conquests to his name, a police officer and a reservist soldier. After learning of a policewoman’s death, Seán heard a top IRA officer say, “I hope she’s pregnant and we get two for the price of one.” That was the decisive moment—the telling judgment. Seán recognized this |
Police have reaffirmed their commitment to tackle criminals who target isolated rural areas.
Northumbria Police has issued a strong warning to crooks who | target the farming industry and rural population for their agricultural machinery and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs).
Superintendent Andy Huddleston is also the national police lead for agricultural machinery and vehicle thefts.
He said: “Nationally, we have seen a pattern emerge in how these sophisticated criminal groups operate and the types of premises they are targeting.
“We know many offenders see this type of crime as low risk with a high gain – and there are often a number of factors to this. We are talking about high-value machinery which is in demand both here and abroad, and it is often stored in yards and buildings away from dwellings where these groups feel they are less likely to be caught in the act.
“We see things differently – these crimes have a terrible impact on UK farming as they can ruin livelihoods.
Activity to combat offences includes regular Checkpoint operations, which bring together a range of agencies on dedicated days of action, taking part in community |
A daughter, Caili Jean-Lorain Mueller, was born to Mark and Jana Mueller of Charlevoix on March 4 | , 2005, at the Charlevoix Area Hospital. Caili weighed 10 pounds, 2 ounces. Her siblings are Jason Clyde, 4, and Jacob Albert, 2. Grandparents are Jim and Cindy Mansen of Charlevoix, and Jerry and Kristine Mueller of Royal Oak. Great-grandparents are the Rev. Albert and Donna Mansen of Hudsonville, Clyde Cunningham of Charlevoix, and Jean Bartz of Hazel Park.
A son, Juan Gabriel De La Fuente Gallardo, was born to Teresa D.L. F. Gallardo and Juan Gabriel Gallardo of East Jordan on March 7, 2005, at the Charlevoix Area Hospital. Juan weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces. His siblings are Herman Reyes De La Fuente, Agustin Tadeo De La Fuente, Oscar Gabriel De La Fuente, and Martina Jimenez De La Fuente. Great-grandparents are Omar F. De La Fuente of |
WINTER HAVEN - Pickin' in the Park will be Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in Central Park.
Bring | a lawn chair or blanket, and enjoy toe-tappin' music by Winter Haven's Harmony Grits.
For details, call Main Street Winter Haven at 863-295-9422.
LAKELAND - At 7 p.m. on Saturday, there will be a chamber music recital at All Saints' Episcopal Church.
The recital will include a discussion of music, which includes "Quartet for the End of Time," written while the composer was in a German prison camp during World War II.
This piece was composed for the instruments and players available in the camp; which were piano, clarinet, violin and cello. The human concerns of this music, hope for eternity, reaching for the transcendental and release from the constraints of time are accessible to careful listening. The program will begin with a brief discussion.
The group formed as a chamber music project at the University of South Florida and will be attending a contemporary music workshop in Boston |
GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, gave its top acting prizes to Timothee Chalamet and Sally Hawkins.
Call | Me by Your Name has been named film of the year by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, which is comprised of more than 200 gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and entertainment journalists in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., which announced its Dorian Award winners on Wednesday. The film also earned Timothee Chalamet a Dorian Award as Film Performance of the Year – Actor and as Rising Star. Sally Hawkins was awarded the comparable best actress prize for The Shape of Water.
Lady Bird’s Greta Gerwig was named Director of the Year.
Jordan Peele earned Screenplay of the Year for Get Out. Peele was also crowned Wilde Artist of the Year and Wilde Wit of the Year. He shares the latter award with Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon.
Meryl Streep was crowned the group’s latest choice for Timeless Star, a career achievement honor.
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The FBI is currently planning to have a fully operational facial recognition system in place, which could contain a massive 52 million images by 2015, a big | jump from the 16 million the database contained in the middle of 2013.
Documents regarding the construction of FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) database, which may hold data on as many as a third of all Americans was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request for details from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which claims to be a non-profit organization that safe guards civil liberties in the digital world. The documents revealed that the database can be searched tens of thousands of times every day.
Besides that the documents also showed that database had nearly 4.3 million images that were obtained for non-criminal purposes. Frontier Foundation (EFF) has said that it is concerned that pictures of innocent people will be stored alongside images of criminals.
Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation said that the system will be able to question a database of photos to establish the identity of individuals based on their outward form even if they do not have a criminal history.
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How I Got Started: "I first started taking photographs going into high school. I was really into graffiti at the time. The camera was really | just a device for me to document what my friends and I were tagging. We were just kids looking to have fun, with no artistic intention. I would buy disposable cameras (they were really light to carry around), and then made 4x6 prints once I went through the roll. Eventually, illegal activities and the disposable cameras evolved into a Nikon F1, and Art School in Philadelphia.
"For inspiration, it varies. I'm always paying attention to light during the different times of day and the way it hits different surfaces. I'm constantly at book stores flipping through different art books/magazines. It's important to stay current and see who art directors and photo directors are hiring. I've been really into Boo George and Guy Bourdin's photography work lately. My favorites are the more classical photographers."
Tip to Getting Started: "To someone who's looking to become a professional photographer, I say, go to school in NYC, assist a professional photographer who can pay you, and |
An investment's performance over a single year isn't the best indicator of whether it's worth buying or holding. That's why smart investors look at | annualized returns over longer periods.
When investing, especially in stocks, your returns can fluctuate wildly from year to year. For this reason, knowing an asset's return for a single year isn't too helpful when deciding whether or not to invest. Calculating annualized returns for longer time periods can help you better assess how the investments you currently hold are performing, and can also help you choose future investments.
First, determine the investment's overall total return over the holding period you're examining. You can find this by subtracting the investment's current value from its original value, and then dividing by the original value.
Note: This formula assumes all dividends paid during the holding period were reinvested.
Next, divide the number one by the number of years of returns you're considering. For example, if you're looking at a 10-year holding period, dividing one by 10 gives 0.1. To annualize your returns, raise the overall investment return to this power, |
January 12, 2010: For the last five years, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been developing an arms industry. With that in | mind, a recent deal with South Korea should come as no surprise. South Korea got a $20 billion contract, to build four nuclear power plants in the UAE. As part of the deal, South Korea will transfer research and technology on its RQ-101 UAVs, Hyunmoo-II ballistic and Hyunmoo-III cruise missiles and EMP (electromagnetic pulse) bombs. On the last item, South Korea and the UAE will jointly continue research on this weapon.
Five years ago, when the United States would not let the UAE purchase ten Predator UAVs, the UAE decided to build their own. Using technology obtained from Schiebel, in Austria, and CybAero, in Sweden. The two UAVs created were helicopter type designs, intended for police work, and border patrol. German and South Korean firms also contributed technology. The UAE also plans to export their al Sber and APID 55 UAVs. The smaller al S |
Concern about human rights abuses by foreign police forces in the 1970's prompted Congress to prohibit United States training for such organizations. Congress later made some | exceptions for programs to combat terrorism, and the Reagan Administration seems intent on making the most of them. ''Our support for democratic development in Latin America must be highlighted by our support to counterterrorism,'' James H. Michel, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, said in November.
The Administration is training some police units in the region; the Central Intelligence Agency and military advisers have worked with military police counterterrorism units in El Salvador, and civilian police units in Costa Rica have been instructed in counterinsurgency, bomb-detection and airport security methods. The effort has prompted accusations reminiscent of the 1970's. In particular, there have been objections to C.I.A.-assisted units of Government security forces in Honduras, who were said to have killed suspected leftists.
In arguing for the training, the Administration says the police must be helped to combat terrorism by leftist rebels determined to undermine fragile elected governments. American officials concede that many of the Central American security forces have unsavory records. But, they |
The case of a state police sergeant who has been paid more than $289,000 this year illustrates the extent of the state's fiscal mess, | and its unwillingness to deal with it.
Sgt. Stephanie Miller, who works at the state police barracks in Bethany, has been on the job for 22 years — making her eligible for retirement — and so far this year, she has been paid an eye-watering $185,000 in overtime. That makes her the highest-paid member of the state police union this year. Last year, she was paid more than $151,000 in overtime, part of a total compensation of about $257,000.
But she is far from alone — she is among 117 state police officers who have received more than $50,000 in overtime this year.
The reason for the overtime, of course, is to bump pensions, because a state trooper's lifetime pension is based on the average of their top three salary years. A trooper who retires with 20 years of service gets an annual pension of 50 percent of that average. Every extra year of service beyond that tacks another |
In recent decades, fossil fuel interests have been funding front groups to advance their ideological and political goals, and key to these groups’ success is | concealing their industry backing. But Utah columnist Paul Rolly has been working to shine a light on the industry backing behind the most influential front groups in his state. In an interview with Media Matters, Rolly discussed the importance of following the money.
Rolly has been a columnist at The Salt Lake Tribune for the last 20 years, and he has stood out because of his work exposing fossil fuel front groups operating in Utah. He has uncovered the oil industry fingerprints behind campaigns to seize public lands from the federal government, attack renewable energy, and promote an industry-friendly agenda in higher education.
Utah is ground zero for many of the fossil fuel industry’s campaigns, making Rolly’s work invaluable. One of the most prominent fossil fuel-backed campaigns in recent years has been the effort to transfer control of federal lands to state governments, which would greatly benefit fossil fuel interests, as states would likely open up more areas to oil and gas drilling and coal mining.
State Rep |
CARROLLTON, Ga. -- A man has been arrested in the shooting death of a pregnant Carrollton mother.
Tyrail Arren | zo Wynn was taken into custody early Friday. He was charged with murder, feticide, aggravated assault, burglary, cruelty to children and marijuana possession.
Wynn, 25, was emotionless during his first court appearance Friday morning, even after a judge told him he could face the death penalty for the murder charge. The feticide charge carries a possible punishment of life in prison.
Wynn's wife was arrested on a drug charge at the same time as her husband. She has not been charged in connection with the murder.
The victim, 36-year-old Nakita Holland, was found dead in her bedroom Monday evening. She had been shot through the window with a 9mm pistol. Police believe she could have been killed as early as Sunday.
Authorities believe Wynn snuck to the back of the bedroom window and fired several shots inside.
Holland's 2-year-old daughter was in the apartment at the time; the little |
Dallas ISD trustee Bernadette Nutall was cleared of wrongdoing in an investigation into whether she harassed a district administrator, according to an investigative report | .
The investigation did not substantiate the harassment claims and dismissed reports that she acted unprofessionally with two other DISD employees. The report said those employees didn’t believe their interactions with Nutall warranted a review.
The report raises questions about Superintendent Mike Miles’ involvement in starting the investigation. Nutall and Miles have bumped heads, including an Oct. 13 incident in which Miles had DISD police throw Nutall out of Dade Middle School.
On Oct. 29, DISD hired an outside investigator, former U.S. Attorney Paul Coggins, to look into complaints that Miles said he had received from three employees. Coggins was expected to receive $30,000 for the investigation, but the final bill is not yet known. The district will also pay for Nutall’s legal bills.
One of the complaints about Nutall was based on a letter by Miles’ driver, Freddie Jackson. But Jackson told investigators he wrote the |
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Last week before we winged our way east we received a covert communique from regular tipster Tommy Talks | alot who informed us that former professional dancer and model turned Emmy-nominated actress Victoria Rowell has put her Los Angeles residence on the market with an asking price of $2,599,000.
A quick perusal of Miz Rowell’s resumé on the Internet Movie Data Base shows her big break cam in the late 1980s with two-episode arc on The Cosby Show, a turn of entertainment industry good fortune that launched into her showbiz salad days, the 1990s and early Aughts when she simultaneously appeared on the soap story Young and the Restless (1990-2007) and the medical crime dram Diagnosis Murder (1993-2002).
Along the way she appeared in a number of other tee-vee shows (Noah’s Arc) and mostly bad movies (The Distinguished Gentleman) and pushed out a couple of children, one of them with jazz genius Wynton Marsalis. Since her time at Y&R came to an |
Do you like eating cheeseburgers, bacon, sausage, buffalo wings, crab dip, onion rings and pretzel rolls? Do you have | trouble choosing which of these to pick from?
The Baltimore Ravens are doing you a favor and putting them all together. The Tailgater Burger, made with concessions partner Aramark, features a grass-fed beef patty with American cheese, applewood bacon, kielbasa sausage, Maryland crab dip and beer battered onion rings on a pretzel roll. The Buffalo Wings are placed on top, allowing hot sauce to ooze down the burger.
The sandwich will be sold for $18 at M&T Bank Stadium's concession stand 152, stationed on the lower level. Although $18 is more than a standard burger, all that meat could give the price value. This burger screams, "Joe Flacco is elite!"
Ravens fans will have to salivate over pictures for another few weeks. The Ravens open the season with two road games before the home opener Sept. 27 against the Bengals.
In other news, there is a new balsamic roasted Portob |
A protest movement is building among Toys “R” Us employees, who are angry that the retailer is shutting down but providing no severance | pay.
Beginning last weekend, some of the 31,000 employees who will soon be without jobs began picketing stores in New Jersey, where the company's corporate headquarters is located. Protesters said that when stores closed in the past, employees received severance based on their tenure.
For its part, Toys “R” Us blames the nation's bankruptcy laws. As it turns out, if a corporation is liquidating -- selling off everything and no longer staying in business -- it is not allowed to pay severance to its workers. That's because creditors are supposed to be first in line.
"Because we were forced to liquidate the U.S. business, we were not able to follow the normal severance process," Toys “R” Us spokesperson Amy von Walter told CNN.
But the employees who are losing their jobs are angry because the laws do not prevent the private equity firms from paying top executives big retention bonuses, so they'll stay on the job long |
There are days that it takes 6 hours to shuffle through all this communication. I think this hyper-connectivity is a bad thing. Notice how | people in a restaurant or a bar spend more time on their phones than actually talking / interacting with the people right in front of them?
Crackberry was a joke, but it turned out that it is very difficult for people to unplug. I successfully did that for a couple of hours each day this weekend, but then right back online to see what I missed. It's nuts. I'm going to start a 12-step program.
Are you overloaded with email / communications? Is email bankrupt? (After getting 500+ spam messages this morning, I think the answer is obvious, except that email is primary communications tool).
Obviously, there are tools that can be used to make business communications more efficient, but some that I have tried slow down Outlook so much or eat up so much memory the laptop slows down that I had to delete them. Suggestions are welcome.
A productivity consultant I know, Matthew Cornell, says that he has a zero inbox. I can't even |
Everyone understands that a major hotel/condo/business development is going to create some buildings that will block the view of whatever is behind them. |
And everyone understands that casinos come with bright lights.
And everyone understands that you don't propose a public walking trail on your property along the river unless you intend to let the public use the trail and have access to the waterfront.
But even though they seem fully on board with the proposed Mohawk Harbor development project, Schenectady residents and city council members have legitimate reason to be hesitant about the proposed zoning changes sought for it.
Call it a "belief issue."
The first belief issue is in what the project will ultimately look like. Proposed zoning changes for the site are significant, such as allowing for 11-story buildings and for enormous, brightly lit signs.
The existing architectural renderings for the project show buildings that don't appear nearly that tall. They also don't show how elaborate the lighting for the casino might be. It's difficult for the normal person to envision what 90-foot-tall "multi-use pylon signs" will look like. |
At least 32 people killed - including army's top spy - after attacks on security offices in third-largest city.
A series of suicide attacks | on military installations in Syria's government-held city of Homs are reported to have killed 32 people, including the army's intelligence chief - a close confidant of President Bashar al-Assad.
Syrian state television said the army's intelligence chief General Hassan Daabul died and it paid tribute to the "martyrs" in Saturday's bombings.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said loud explosions and gunfire were heard following the assault in the western Syrian city.
Talal Barzani, the governor of Homs province, said there were three blasts in total killing 32 people and wounding more than 20 others.
The SOHR, which put the Homs toll at 42, said air raids by government forces killed another 13 people across the country, including at least three in al-Waer, a rebel enclave of Homs.
The violence comes as officials from the Assad government and the opposition meet for a fourth round in Switzerland to end Syria's six-year |
President Barack Obama will have to figure out a new plan - three of his top candidates for the Treasury Department have dropped out of consideration in the past | month.
Attorney H. Rodgin Cohen, President Barack Obama's leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, withdrew from consideration for the post Thursday because of an unnamed "issue," ABC News reported.
Cohen is the third top candidate who has withdrawn from a potential Treasury job.
The previous candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, Annette Nazareth, pulled herself out of the running when she realized she'd face questioning over her failure to catch Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme during her time at the Securities & Exchange Commission. Caroline Atkinson, who was up for Undersecretary for International Affairs, was told she had to withdraw because of tax problems.
Cohen, a partner in New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, has counseled Wall Street's biggest bankers and would likely have gotten an official nomination from Obama for the deputy post.
An "issue" arose in the final vetting process as top Democrats went over Cohen's credentials, Democratic sources said.
One source said that |
By William Strauss and Neil Howe.
The idea that history moves in cycles tends to be viewed with suspicion by scholars. Although historians as respected as | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and David Hackett Fischer have made cases for the existence of rhythms and waves in the stream of events, cyclical theories tend to end up in the Sargasso Sea of pseudoscience, circling endlessly (what else?). ''The Fourth Turning'' is no exception.
This is the third book on the subject of American ''generations'' written by William Strauss, the director of the Capitol Steps, a Washington satire troupe, and Neil Howe, a senior adviser for the Concord Coalition, a group dedicated to balancing the budget. In case you missed the previous two, ''Generations: The History of America's Future'' and ''13th Gen,'' Mr. Strauss and Mr. Howe claim that the key to understanding not only American but world history is ''a unit of time the ancients called the saeculum.'' Practically every major historical crisis, the authors assert, comes in a transition between saecula, or at distinct periods within a |
If the Longhorns hope to find success in 2016, it all starts with the offense. New offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert has his work cut out | for him, but has plenty of pieces to work with. The real challenge will be how quickly Gilbert can implement his up-tempo, spread offense. The offense brings back an experienced offensive line and two dynamic running backs in junior D’Onta Foreman and sophomore Chris Warren. And receivers like sophomore John Burt and freshman Collin Johnson give Gilbert lots of options on the outside.
For the seventh year in a row, the Longhorns are still searching for a quarterback. Seemingly an eternity has passed since Colt McCoy last donned the burnt orange on Saturdays in Austin. Texas still has not found an answer under center, and this year the quarterback battle has essentially turned into a three-man race. Tyrone Swoopes is back for his senior season, and sophomore Jerrod Heard is still recovering from a shoulder injury. But freshman Shane Buechele is drawing the most hype from Texas faithful. Strong has given Buechele high praise this offseason. But it |
Crafts, music, food, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. May 6. downtown Apex. apexpeakfest.com. |
Craft and food vendors,local bands and dance groups, a barbecue cook-off and rubber duck race, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. May 6, downtown Smithfield. hamandyam.com.
Tortoises and other reptiles with wildlife experts, games, food and music, May 13 (time tba), Bass Lake Park, 900 Bass Lake Road, Holly Springs. hollyspringsnc.us.
May 19-21, more than 170 visual arts and crafts exhibitors and performances, downtown Raleigh. artsplosure.org.
Carnival games, pony rides, food May 19-21, North Carolina State Fairgrounds, 1025 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh. gottobencfestival.com.
Celebration of African history, culture and arts, noon to 8 p.m. May 20, Rock Quarry Park, 701 Stadium Drive, Durham.
35 hot air balloons, music, military |
Jim Fisher Parrot Anafi The Parrot Anafi puts all emphasis on size—the small, folding drone is ideal for travel, thanks to | 4K video capture, a small airframe, and USB charging.
Very small. Charges via USB-C. 4K video with HDR. 3x digital zoom lens. Upward gimbal tilt. Big battery for 25-minute flights.
No obstacle detection. Digital zoom cuts into 4K quality. Requires smartphone. Construction feels a little flimsy.
The Parrot Anafi puts all emphasis on size—the small, folding drone is ideal for travel, thanks to 4K video capture, a small airframe, and USB charging.
Parrot is no stranger to small drones. Its Bebop series is one of our top picks for casual flyers who don't need a high-powered model with pro features. Its latest effort, the Anafi ($699.99), is smaller than the Bebop 2, but also much more capable. It sports real gimbal stabilization, 4K video, and innovative additions like HDR video capture, a camera that can |
Developing information systems is a high-risk occupation and user acceptance testing (UAT) is the backstop that can avoid disasters.
Not | convinced? In June 2012, the interruption to NatWest and RBS payments following a routine update to software cost an eye-watering £170m to fix.
Similar disasters, which might have been avoided by thorough UAT, have been experienced by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the UK Passport Agency, the London Ambulance Service, Heathrow Terminal 5 and Microsoft Xbox 360.
In spite of its importance, UAT is usually chaotic, problematic and ineffective. Often treated as an intuitive process – an exercise in which users and subject matter experts "have a go at trying to break the system" – it is actually a process that requires careful preparation.
Subject matter expertise is not enough, but it is vital that UAT is carried out by users, though it is not enough merely to be a user.
What is needed to enable users to become an effective UAT team is some custom-built training. Not a run-of-the-mill course on UAT |
Letters respond to Ian Frazier’s account of fires on the Great Plains, Tad Friend’s profile of Gavin Newsom, and | Claire Friedman’s Shouts & Murmurs.
It’s telling that the word “ecology” is nowhere to be found in Ian Frazier’s heart-wrenching account of the extensive prairie fires last year (“The Day the Great Plains Burned,” November 5th). Journalists tend to see wildfires as evidence of the harm caused to humans by climate change. How, given this widespread blindness, are people to learn about and work with nature’s logic? The article hints at ecological realities, but doesn’t connect the dots. Fire plays a role in any healthy ecosystem. On the prairie, wildfires convert the previous year’s dead grass into fertilizer, which explains why, as Frazier writes, “the grass came back better than before.” Native Americans “used fire as an environmental tool” because the nourishing regrowth attracted game. The native prairie grasses funded by the |
Washington Capitals Photo Tribute to Scott Stevens.
Twenty-five years ago, an 18-year-old defenseman named Scott Stevens made the leap | from the blueline of the OHL’s Kitchener Rangers to the Washington Capitals. He ended up playing 22 seasons in the league, winning three Stanley Cup titles and playing in 1,635 regular season and 233 playoff games. Stevens has played more regular season and more postseason games than any other defenseman in NHL history.
On Monday, Stevens was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto in his first year of eligibility. He went in alongside three of his longtime NHL peers: defenseman Al MacInnis and forwards Mark Messier and Ron Francis. All four were chosen in NHL drafts between 1979 and 1982, all were team captains in the NHL and all gained enshrinement in their first year of eligibility. Between them, they won a dozen Stanley Cup championships. That quartet of players and longtime hockey executive Jim Gregory make up the 2007 class of inductees for the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Stevens spent the first eight of those seasons, the first 601 of those |
When the sun is shining, many of us are unable to resist a trip to the beach to soak up the rays, despite recommendations that we should | cover up to reduce the risk of skin cancer. And now, researchers have discovered why; ultraviolet radiation from the sun releases endorphins - "feel-good" hormones - that act like a drug, making exposure to sunlight addictive.
The research team, including senior author David Fisher of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, recently published their findings in the journal Cell.
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the US. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, over 3.5 million skin cancers are diagnosed in more than 2 million people every year.
Approximately 90% of nonmelanoma skin cancers and 86% of melanoma skin cancers - the deadliest form of the disease - are caused by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun and tanning beds or lamps.
To reduce the risk of skin cancer, public health experts recommend that people stay in the shade when the sun is at its strongest (usually around midday), wear clothing |
The likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin were in attendance as US$36m worth of prizes were awarded to some of the world’ | s top scientists in California yesterday.
The Breakthrough Prizes fund is divided into separate awards of US$3m, representing well over twice the financial value of winning the Nobel prize which is, unlike these, often given to experts nearing the end of their career.
"The world faces many fundamental challenges today, and there are many amazing scientists, researchers and engineers helping us solve them,” Mark Zuckerberg said.
“This year's Breakthrough Prize winners have made discoveries that will help cure disease and move the world forward. They deserve to be recognised as heroes."
The award in life sciences honours transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life, with one prize this year dedicated to work that contributes to the understanding of Parkinson’s disease. The award in fundamental physics recognises major insights into the deepest questions of the universe, while this year also saw mathematicians honoured for the first time.
The Breakthrough Prizes were founded by Wojcicki |
"Two Brothers" roars mightily when the cameras rest on the titular feline siblings. When the story trails off into human concerns, | the effect is more like a whimper.
Fortunately, the two tiger brothers command most of the footage.
French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, who gave us 1989's widely praised "The Bear," has generally had better luck with animals than with human actors. "Two Brothers" does not prove otherwise. The animal characters are more expressive than lead actor Guy Pearce, whose deadpan earnestness shows no variety.
Still, "Two Brothers" is not the equal of "The Bear." The story never reaches the heart-pounding heights that Annaud so obviously intended, but there is both sentiment and fun along the way, and the feline brethren move with expected grace and majesty.
We first meet Kumal and Sangha as tiger cubs, having been born into a loving habitat governed by momma and poppa cat. They play together with coltish camaraderie and quickly grasp the unwritten laws of the jungle.
Then man comes along and disrupt |
Overhaul Games recently revealed that they would be bringing a refreshed and revamped version of Baldur’s Gate, dubbed the Enhanced Edition, to | the iPad this summer. The updated version of the game would feature improved graphics, as well as controls adapted for a touchscreen. You can add another new feature to the list, one that definitely sounds exciting: multiplayer support.
In an interview with Kotaku, the COO of Beamdog Cameron Tofer revealed that the game would include multiplayer support when it hits the iPad this summer. He also said that the game wouldn’t cost more than $10, and said it would be “crazy” to charge more than that for a PC game made in 1998.
Baldurs Gate is a pretty big game and we’re not cutting it down to size. There’s a boatload of content there, 80+ hours. But past ten dollars doesn’t make sense.
And when you do eventually make it through the original game on the iPad, you can look forward to the sequel. An enhanced edition of Baldur’s Gate II: |
The Washington Redskins may be abysmal at home in recent seasons -- they have not had a winning record at FedEx Field since 2007 -- but you | could at least count on them to send the fans home happy in their home opener, having not lost one since 2006.
That is, until Sunday. The Redskins fell to the Cincinnati Bengals in a game that was really a tale of two halves.
Since most of you, as Redskins fans, are gluttons for punishment, here are some unsettling first-half tidbits. I suggest that you mute the highlights and listen to this instead.
The Bengals' first play from scrimmage was a 73-yard touchdown pass from a wide receiver to another wide receiver. The one who threw it, Mohamed Sanu, had more passing yards in the first half on one pass than Robert Griffin III had after 10 pass attempts (36).
In fact, the Bengals had more yards on the aforementioned pass than the Redskins' offense had combined in the first half (73 to 68).
Yeah, we're just gonna forget about this one, Josh Wilson.
The second half started off better as the |
This week, the New York Times unveiled the "United States of Thanksgiving," a collection of recipes that capture the spirit and culture of each state. | It's an admirable exercise to unite the nation under a gluttonous holiday that's steeped more in myth than in fact.
Idaho has hasselback potatoes with garlic-paprika oil, which makes sense because of the whole Idaho potato thing. Maine has lobster mac and cheese, and Mississippi has the sufficiently Southern-sounding ale-braised collard greens with smoked ham hock.
So which recipe did the New York Times determine to encapsulate the very essence of Texas? Well Georgia laid claim to pecan pie, which should be ours, even though pecan pie is gross. Since the nutty dessert staple was taken, Texas was left with turkey tamales.
A highly unscientific flash poll of my co-workers and dinner companions found nothing offensive about the recipe, but it also failed to ignite a passion for Texas that state-themed food tends to do. When the topic of turkey tamales came up, it was met with a resounding meh |
SYDNEY, Aust., - May 4, 2010 - Nearly all of the entertainment devices in today's living rooms use remote controls, so for | most people a remote that simplifies complex home-entertainment systems is essential to performing even the simplest of activities, such as watching TV. Today, Logitech Australia added to its award-winning line of Logitech® Harmony® remotes by unveiling the Logitech® Harmony® 600 Remote. Giving you one-click control over your favourite activities, the new remote is simple to set up, simple to use, and can replace up to five other remotes.
"Why have one remote for the TV, one for the DVR, one for your DVD player and one for your A/V deck?" asked Ashish Arora, vice president and general manager of Logitech's digital home group. "A Logitech Harmony remote brings it all together, making entertainment fun and simple for you, your family or anyone who picks up the remote."
When you're gathered around the TV with your friends and family, a Logitech Harmony remote makes everything simpler. To automatically turn on the |
AFRO pop artiste, Adekunle Temitope, popularly called Small Doctor, and three others were yesterday arrested by police operatives | for threatening to shoot a traffic policeman.
It was gathered that the musician before now had a case at the Lagos State Crime Investigation and Intelligence Department for shooting at his Agege show where he injured four persons.
The state Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, who confirmed the arrest, said the musician had, last week, fired some shots with a pump action rifle during a show at Agege area of Lagos, injuring four persons.
He said: “ You would have thought the incident would wisen him up but surprisingly today, I got a situation report from traffic monitors at Oshodi expressway alleging that four unknown gunmen in green unregistered SUV brought out a weapon and threatened to shoot the policemen.
“Fortunately, the DPO and other policemen at Shogunle intercepted the suspects and arrested them.
“When they were brought here it was discovered that one of them was the same Adekunle Temitope aka Small Doctor with three others and |
Environmental campaigners in America are concerned about a new danger to the world's whale population.
It's sonar - powerful sound waves used by submarines | and ships to track activity underwater.
Research has shown that the sonar waves can be heard by whales and dolphins - and campaigners believe it may be causing the whales to beach.
It was a stranding of rare beak nosed whales in the Caribbean which gave scientists their first proof of the harm sonar can inflict.
In spite of the efforts of local people, six whales died.
Each whale ear was sliced into a thousand sections and stained to reveal bone and blood. Red areas show the bleeding caused by exposure to military sonar.
At the moment, we think sonar precipitated the strandings, " says Dr Darlene Ketten.
"The animals were driven to strand by the stress of being exposed to this particular sonar."
The sonar implicated in this stranding was mid-frequency.
The new system is lower and louder and travels much further. The noise is the equivalent of a jumbo jet taking off.
The American Navy says |
George Lessens began his career at WZZM 13 in 1980 as weekend meteorologist. From 1985 through 1991, he anchored weekday morning weathercasts | before returning to the 6:00 PM and 11:00 PM weekend newscasts. George became WZZM 13's Chief Meteorologist in July 2001. In October, 2007, he became the longest-tenured meteorologist at any single West Michigan TV station: 26 years, 11 months.
George has been passionate about weather ever since the 1965 Palm Sunday tornadoes hit West Michigan. He grew up in Lowell, Michigan, and formed a weather club as a youth to scan the skies for storms and tornadoes. Although he has never seen a tornado, he has been inside the damage paths of many of these storms. In the early morning hours of his 21st birthday, a small tornado touched down in his hometown. George heard the storm coming and alerted his family members. This storm destroyed the Lowell Showboat, toppled a church steeple, and caused considerable damage to the surrounding community. He rode out a "derecho" windstorm during the July 4, 1991 holiday weekend in |
(Reuters Health) - Waiting at least three minutes to clamp the umbilical cord after birth is associated with a lower risk of anemia in | babies, according to a study in Nepal.
Children with anemia and iron deficiency may have impaired nervous system development, which affects cognitive and motor abilities and behavior. Typically, they’re treated with foods and supplements that provide extra iron, but some previous research has suggested delayed umbilical cord clamping may reduce the odds of iron deficiency by giving babies a transfusion of iron-rich blood from the placenta.
For the current study, researchers examined data on 540 babies who were randomly selected to have either delayed cord clamping at least three minutes after birth or earlier clamping within one minute of delivery.
After eight months, babies with delayed cord clamping were 11 percent less likely to have anemia and 42 percent less likely to have iron deficiency than infants who got early cord clamping, researchers report in JAMA Pediatrics.
“If a baby gets clamped early, it will not gain access to the part of its own blood that is still in the placent |
IL&FS Transportation Networks Limited (ITNL), promoted in November 2000 by Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS), is one | of the largest BOT road asset owners in India. ITNL acts as a developer, operator and facilitator of surface transportation infrastructure projects, taking projects from conceptualization through commissioning to operations and maintenance.
ITNL had initiated an Initial Public Offering (‘IPO’) of its equity shares which was concluded in March 2010 and the shares were listed on the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd (BSE) on March 30, 2010.
ITNL is a market leader in the transportation infrastructure sector in India with its portfolio comprising 22 projects in various stages of development with an aggregate cost of about USD 8.14 billion. The project portfolio of ITNL has an optimum blend of revenue from ‘toll’ and ‘annuity’ based projects, is geographically diversified with presence in 14 states covering the length and breadth of India and has projects in various stages of commissioning as well as commissioned projects thus offering significantly |
While sports enthusiasts all around the world are gearing up for the 2018 Winter Olympics, officials in PyeongChang, South Korea—where the | next Olympics is located—are putting the finishing touches on the venues that will host the XXIII Games.
Although this is the second time the Olympics have been held in South Korea — the 1988 Summer Games took place in Seoul — it’s the country’s first Winter Games and PyeongChang’s first international sporting event of this caliber. South Korea previously made unsuccessful bids on both the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.
The Olympic Rings are illuminated in PyeongChang. The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images.
The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images.
The 2018 Winter Olympics will consist of 102 events in 15 different sports over the course of 18 days. These events will take place at 13 venues spread across the counties of PyeongChang and Jeongseon, as well as the coastal city of Gangneung. The Opening and Closing ceremonies and most snow sports will be located in PyeongChang, with |
While pregnant with twins, Chicago Southsider Sherri Edwards thought she might want to use cloth diapers. But when it came time to search for | the products, she hit a bump in the road.
While pregnant with twins, Chicago Southsider Sherri Edwards thought she might want to use cloth diapers. But when it came time to search for the products, she hit a bump in the road. “I realized there weren’t any nearby stores that carried cloth diapers and had to find everything online,” Edwards says. “When shopping online, people have to invest in a product with no idea of what it’s really like, and, after spending the money, realize it may not work.” To solve the problem, Edwards decided to make an assortment of cloth diapers more accessible for Chicagoland women with Cutie Poops and Bottoms (14910 S. LaGrange Rd., Orland Park; 708-873-4588, cutiepoopsandbottoms.com). “People can come in, see, and touch the diapers before buying them,� |
San Bernardino County (Calif.) Employees' Retirement Association's investment committee agreed to recommend that the board terminate Tricadia Credit Strategies and end dealings with | two York Capital Management funds, confirmed Michael Tamony, spokesman for the $9.7 billion pension fund.
Tricadia Capital Management managed approximately $36.2 million for SBCERA as of April 30 in Tricadia Credit Strategies, a multistrategy credit hedge fund. The investment committee recommended termination because of performance issues.
SBCERA approved a commitment of $100 million to the York Structured Credit Opportunities Fund in January; it will be rescinded. During negotiations, the pension plan's investment committee staff found an unfavorable key term to SBCERA in the fund documents, and a resolution has not been reached, meeting minutes show.
The committee also agreed to redeem SBCERA's $157.3 million interest in York's Global Credit Income Fund due to a similar term in its current contract with that fund.
These actions will be presented to the board for approval at its Aug. 2 meeting.
A spokeswoman from Tricadia declined to comment. |
South Gibson is the new No. 1 team in the girls soccer Elite Eight.
A look at the top high school girls soccer teams in West | Tennessee, as ranked by the USA Today Sports network. Teams eligible come from The Jackson Sun’s 13-county coverage area - Madison, Gibson, Henderson, Chester, Hardeman, Haywood, Crockett, Weakley, Carroll, Benton, Decatur, McNairy and Hardin counties.
1. South Gibson (8-1) – The Lady Hornets did take their first loss in the North Side Shootout, but they were 3-1 overall this past week. Last week: No. 3. This week: Tuesday at Crockett County; Thursday at Dyersburg.
2. Madison (2-4) – The Lady Mustangs lone match was postponed. They will get tested this weekend playing in Memphis. Last week: No. 1. This week: Tuesday vs. White Station; Thursday vs. Trenton Peabody.
3. Lexington (4-3) – The Lady Tigers took their first loss this past week, but |
The Navy SEAL and actor in "Act of Valor" spoke Wednesday night as part of Veteran's Week.
Former Navy Seal Rorke | Denver spoke Wednesday at Jesse Auditorium. Denver had a role in the movie "Act of Valor."
As zombies hunted humans around Jesse Hall, Rorke Denver talked inside Jesse Hall to audience of ROTC members, veterans and civilians about a different kind of battle.
Denver, a former Navy SEAL, spoke as a part of Veterans Week at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and stayed to talk with the audience until well after 10 p.m. His presentation primarily focused on training, teamwork and leadership.
For Denver, the battle was not in the deserts of Iraq but in training. He said training is what "pushes you into that next level." Denver was once a training officer for the SEALs, who are renowned for their grueling program. He showed a video demonstrating how hard the training is for hopeful SEALs.
Jordan Webb, an MU senior and Air Force ROTC member, said he came to the presentation to hear about some lessons Denver has |
Cable Bahamas is a strong company, with positive growth prospects, one of our best-known and most actively traded equities. Yet the share | price quoted on BISX gives the impression of a severe loser, with a decline of about nearly 40 percent in the last year, from $3.68 to $2.29. Why?
Surely not because the recession has caused mass liquidations to meet household expenses or feed the kids. No - the real reason is Bahamian shareholders are uneasy about any company that does not pay a dividend, even during a period of capital growth when cash is needed for investment. Unlike in more sophisticated markets, we have no tradition of funding new ventures requiring long-term commitment. Until a few years ago, Cable’s initial price of $1.00 rose gradually towards $5.00, then began to fall as soon as the investments in ALIV and Summit Broadband in Florida were initiated, even though these new projects were essential for Cable’s success. Without them, Cable would have become a relatively stagnant business with minimal growth potential.
Instead of looking at the potential |
Property rights are foundational to American liberty. Our Declaration of Independence reads, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all | men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness....” The “pursuit of happiness” is interchangeable with property rights.
These opposing ideals clashed at the UN’s climate change meeting taking place in Bonn, Germany, where a three-member panel, introduced by a representative from the United Nations University, discussed “climate risk” insurance.
“Climate Risk" insurance is to cover “loss and damage” due to climate events, such as typhoons and floods, but panelists deceptively used free market rhetoric while advocating socialism. Let me explain.
Weather events have historically rendered heavier damages on people and properties in undeveloped countries, mostly because poor countries are ruled by corrupt governments that do not allow private property rights, nor do they make it a priority to improve infrastructure that could minimize storm affects on their citizens and |
LONDON—Scrub, a division of HHB specializing in post production, has supplied three Avid’s S6 control surfaces and | the latest Pro Tools systems for Smoke & Mirrors’ new London audio department.
The Avid S6 enables the engineers to choose the modules they need and custom configure the console layout to meet the requirements of each new studio. From the 16-fader S6 M10 console in Studio 1 to two compact 8-fader M10s in Studios 2 and 3, S6 is an extremely flexible system that compliments their short-form advertising and broadcast work.
Scrub worked alongside Smoke & Mirrors’ Head of Audio Scott Little to specify the equipment for each room. The new consoles and Pro Tools HDX and version 11 software was installed and custom configured onsite by Scrub’s technical service engineers. The new rooms have been fully booked since the launch, and the audio department is set for further expansion in the very near future.
Imagine Communications announced that its Platinu™ IP3 routing technology has been deployed in the new London headquarters of international post production |
On Wednesday the undefeated pound-for-pound boxing kingpin Floyd Mayweather Jr. (aka the 50-million-dollar-man) announced he | will meet the 22 year-old also undefeated Saul "Canelo" Alvarez on September 14th.
"Money" Mayweather (44-0) who holds a welterweight and junior middleweight world title comes into the fight off an unanimous decision victory over Roberto Guerrero while Canelo is coming off of an unanimous decision victory against Austin Trout where he unified the WBC, WBA and The Ring Magazine Light-Middleweight titles. I know, I know, if you don't follow boxing it seems like there is a ridiculous amount of weight classes, titles and promotions, well, because there is. For this fight though, all that matters is the two will meet at a catch-weight of 152 pounds.
I say it is about time boxing fans are given the fight that we want to see. All those years of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather flirting with the idea of fighting each became null and void when Manny got KO'ed by Marquez in a pointless fourth fight ( |
You could tell just by looking in her fiery eyes that Princess Arva, regardless of the 600 years that had passed between her era and ours, | was determined to renew her mission. She would eschew Christianity from the Baltics and reacquaint its inhabitants with their pre-crusader traditions. Amazing. She hadn't yet been "awake" for an hour, yet she was planning the greatest cultural revanche in modern history. To boot, she was under the impression that I, humble linguistic scholar, was going to help her.
My oh my, I thought as I lazily steered the Volkswagen, I had a clinical nutcase riding shotgun. Until I reached the nearest nuthouse, the least I could do was to show understanding. "So tell me, princess, are there any other missions of yours I might need to know about?"
Arva nodded. "Yes, after ridding the region of Christ and his followers, my legions and I will declare war on Germany."
I lost control of the wheel and nearly drove into an ash tree. I stopped the car to catch my breath. "Umâ |
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) had requested all accredited Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs) to submit a list of all | their foreign workers to determine how many of them are working legally in the country and to know if they are paying the proper taxes.
Foreign POGO workers on the list who do not have the required alien employment permit (AEP) will be recommended to the Bureau of Immigration for immediate deportation.
On Friday, the DOLE reported that a total of 76,936 individuals are currently working in 165 Service Providers of POGO.
“Out of this figure, 63,855 or 82.9 percent are foreign nationals, while 13,081 or 17.1 percent are Filipinos,” the DOLE said.
At least 87.9 percent or 56,180 of them are Chinese, Vietnamese – 1,862 (2.9 percent) and Indonesians – 1,586 (2.5 percent).
DOLE said the numbers could still increase in the coming days. A total of 27 licensed POGO firms have yet to submit their |
Third, do not believe the Republican spin. The race was going to be close because there were 18 candidates with 11 of them mostly well known Republicans | . But Jon Ossoff outperformed Hillary Clinton in an off year special election. That should bother the GOP. The Democrats were deeply motivated and mobilized. That spells trouble for 2018.
Fourth, do not believe the White House. There actually was a bit of a rebuke of the president. Consider that there were three well known candidates running as the friends of Trump.
One, Bob Gray, had actually vocally opposed the president in 2016, going so far as to call him the “GOP Obama.” While he hired some of President Trump’s campaign staff, most everyone knew he really was not as pro-Trump as he claimed. He came in third in the race.
Then there was Bruce Levell, who served as President Trump’s coalitions director in Georgia. He got 0.2 percent of the vote. That is what Amy Kremer got too. She served with a Trump related super PAC in 2016. The closer one had to legitimate ties |
Stars of the new movie Bohemian Rhapsody Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee and Joseph Mazzello arrive at the Boston premier | of the movie on October 1st at AMC Boston Common which attracted many area college students.
The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers (THUD) perform during the grand opening of the Smith Center on Thursday evening.
The formerly all-female Radcliffe Choral Society opened its membership to students of all genders in late April 2018.
The Glee Club made the decision to open their membership eligibility after consulting with the historically-female Radcliffe Choral Society, which also decided to make its membership gender neutral in April.
Cole Durbin '18 (center) taps out a rhythm during THUD's spring show, "THUDlash."
Solange Knowles accepted the Artist of the Year Award from the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations Saturday evening in Sanders Theater.
The Kuumba Singers of Harvard College celebrated and reflected on the week of events dedicated to creating and celebrating work by black artists.
88rising founder Sean Miyashiro and Chinese hip- |
"Last week we heard from members of Congress about Google's plans to update our privacy policies by consolidating them into a single document on March 1 | ," Google director of public policy Pablo Chavez wrote today in a blog post accompanying the letter. "Protecting people's privacy is something we think about all day across the company, and we welcome discussions about our approach. We hope this letter, in which we respond to the members' questions, clears up the confusion about these changes."
"We're not collecting more data about you. Our new policy simply makes it clear that we use data to refine and improve your experience on Google--whichever products or services you use," Google said at the time. "This is something we have already been doing for a long time. We're making things simpler and we're trying to be upfront about it. Period."
But several lawmakers, including Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), saw things differently. And in their letter to Google, they said that "consumers should have the ability to opt out of data collection when they are |
MERCERSBURG, PA.? A showdown between long-term incumbent state Sen. Terry Punt and the chairman of the Franklin County | Republican Committee could be in the making as Jim Taylor will announce today that he is running for the GOP nomination in the April 22 primary.
Taylor is scheduled to make the announcement at 9 a.m. on the steps of the Franklin County Courthouse, according to an e-mailed announcement.
The Mercersburg, Pa., man "will run on the issues of state government reform, immigration, and lower taxes," the announcement stated. "Other issues he considers himself a spokesman for are the lives of the unborn, the Second Amendment, and preserving the open and rural nature of Central PA," the announcement read.
Punt, of Waynesboro, Pa., is entering his 20th year as the state senator representing the 33rd District, which is comprised of Franklin and Adams counties and a small part of York County. In a Dec. 3 appearance at a farewell luncheon for retiring Franklin County Commissioners G. Warren Elliott and Cheryl Plummer, he sounded like a candidate for a |
According to you, it got more surprising from there. You recount how Grover Norquist, the feverish unsavory head of Americans for | Tax Reform, waged a whispering campaign against you for “helping the other team.” You complain that Oliver North and G. Gordon Liddy wouldn’t have you on their radio shows. You reveal that Gary Aldrich, whose book Unlimited Access whines about excessive swearing in the Clinton White House, doesn’t like you because you’re gay. You grumble about not being taken seriously as an objective journalist, while at the same time crying foul because you were not invited to address a convention of conservative political activists. You even appear hurt that liberals, still sore about your Anita Hill book, refused to come to your defense. The whole experience, you explain in wounded tones, was shocking. When did professional political partisans become so … partisan?
The outrage you express at discovering something so obvious strikes me as disingenuous. So does your claim that you’ve suffered greatly for being truthful about Hillary Clinton. Let’s weigh the results of the controversy |
Washington--For the next 11 years, advancements in technology will continue to create jobs for workers in some occupations while reducing the demand for workers in others | , the most recent projections by the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate.
By 1995, the U.S. economy still will need workers with a wide range of job skills, but not all of the new positions will require college or specialized training, according to the bls However, employment opportunities are expected to increase "significantly" in each category, according to analyses by several bls economists in the November 1983 Monthly Labor Review.
A projected increase in the demand for medical services, for example, will require large numbers of nursing aides and orderlies in addition to highly trained medical practitioners, according to George T. Silvestri, John M. Lukasiewicz, and Marcus E. Einstein of the agency.
But other occupational areas will be negatively affected by technological changes at least through the mid-1990's, they predict. The growth in employment opportunities for typists and assembly-line workers will be slow as a result of the use of word-processing equipment in the case of the former |
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) recorded the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of Delhi at 312 at 11 am | .
Fire has been raging at the massive Bhalswa dump site since October 20.
Delhi's air quality on Wednesday dipped to'very poor' barely two days after staying in the 'poor' category, even as firefighting operations continued at the Bhalswa landfill site.
An Air Quality Index between 0 and 50 is considered 'good', 51 and 100'satisfactory', 101 and 200'moderate', 201 and 300 'poor', 301 and 400'very poor', and 401 and 500'severe'.
The air quality in the capital had shown signs of improvement on Monday as it moved from'very poor' to 'poor' category, but experts said it could deteriorate in the coming days due to toxic air coming out of the blazing fire at Bhalaswa landfill site.
A Delhi Fire Service official said firefighting was still on at the garbage dump site.
"Due to continuous discharge of methane gas from the landfill, fire erupts randomly. Two |
And, perhaps more intriguingly, it will be set immediately after Toy Story 3. Which means we'll be reunited with the trilogy's original characters | : Woody, Buzz, Jessie, Bullseye, Rex and the rest. Toy Story 3 ended with Andy's remaining toys being donated to Bonnie Anderson, a little girl who lived in the neighbourhood.
However, it's likely that the cast will be boosted by Bonnie's toys, some of whom we met in the last film: the Shakespearean hedgehog Mr Pricklepants, Buttercup the friendly unicorn and old timer Chuckles The Clown.
John Lasseter revelaed the latest in an interview with LA Times. The original Toy Story director and Pixar chief creative officer said: "We only make sequels when we have a story that's as good as or better than the original."
Toy Story fans may have thought they said goodbye to Woody, Buzz and Jessie after Toy Story 3 in 2010 but now Disney has announced that a fourth film is to be made.
Disney said Toy Story 4 is being created by the original Toy Story director John Lasseter alongside Lee Unkrich, |
Sri Lanka’s bowlers saw India run through Australia this summer with swing and seam and now they want to do the same.
| Having never won any of their 13 Tests in Australia, the tourists are eying the two-Test series as their best shot at victory down under against the wounded hosts.
Australia’s batsmen failed to score a century in their 2-1 series loss to India, suffering collapses as they dropped a Test trophy at home against a team from Asia for the first time in their history.
Jasprit Bumrah produced one of the best performances by an overseas quick in recent years as he claimed 21 wickets at 17, while Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Sharmi offered no width to the hosts and took away the cut shot in the victory.
And it’s that game plan Sri Lanka want to bring to Thursday’s Warne-Muralitharan Trophy opener at the Gabba with the pink ball.
“It’s one of the major things we looked at and the areas which they had bowled at,” bowling coach and |
Sunday, March 24, 2019, 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Roberto Carlos is the number 1 artist | in Brazil, with a career spanning 59 years, a Latin American song idol and revered in many countries throughout the world. He needs no introduction and is a living example of world success in Brazilian pop music. He has inspired affection, admiration and adulation among his millions of fans who follow him throughout Brazil and the world. Singer and composer of over 600 songs and the greatest example of the Jovem Guarda (Brazilian musical movement of the 60s) consolidated his success in the 70s with romantic songs and unequaled charisma. He did not follow the trends but built his career around songs that speak of love, solidarity and faith in tomorrow. His greatest inspiration is love, from the innocence and youth (songs from the 60s), moving on to tumultuous loves and sensual awakening (in the70s), to intense, earth shaking loves (in the 80s) and finally the discovery of true, mature, balanced love and full of passion (from the 90s until today). He |
TULSA, Oklahoma -- There are new developments in a Tulsa police officer's lawsuit against his superior and the police chief. |
Captain Walter Busby says his commanding officer, Major Walter Evans, ordered him to attend the Martin Luther King Day last year parade because he's black. He claims it was a violation of his civil rights.
The suit says Major Evans said it was embarrassing that so few African American officers participate in department-sponsored events, like the MLK parade.
Tulsa police major Walter Evans says he wants people to know he does not discriminate, wouldn't condone discrimination and doesn't work for place that has discriminatory policies. And, he doesn't like to be accused of it.
But, he says his job has taught him to put personal feelings aside and focus on the business at hand.
He says it was a matter of business when he assigned Captain Walter Busby as one of 10 officers to attend the Martin Luther King, Junior parade in 2010.
"In terms of African American participation, there were |
Without crossing the line into New Age pap his songs attempt to celebrate the potential of the human spirit.
East is East and West is West and | never the train shall meet is how the saying goes. Often used to describe two diametrically opposed opinions, the sayings origins rest in the supposed separation between the philosophies of Western and Eastern thought.
Thankfully for the fate of the world there are people who refuse to buy into that statement, and attempt to bridge what was formally seen as an unbridgeable gulf. While in the past we have seen some Western performers either work with musicians from India or incorporate instruments into their songs, very few have successfully melded the two into one sound.
One musician who makes the integration of these supposed opposites seamlessly is Harry Manx. This Canadian based musician has mastered the intricacies of the multiple rhythms of the Indian ragas and blended them with Mississippi delta blues, and a touch of Gospel to create something funky and beautiful..
His CD West Eats Meet is chock full of examples of how successful this seemingly bizarre marriage works. The first track of the disc, “Help Me� |
In just over a month, one of the UK's biggest technology showcases, Misco Expo 12, will light up London's historic, Grade II | listed Old Billingsgate exhibition and conference centre. Expo 12 boasts a number of selling points that make it an unmissable day for IT professionals, enterprise leaders, and more casual consumers alike.
Running on Friday, 28 September, the event will feature over 75 leading manufacturers, with the exhibitor directory reading like a who's who of influential tech firms: think Acer, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Panasonic, Samsung, and Toshiba and you're still missing out big names like Asus, Canon, Epson, LG and Sony.
Moreover, some 1,500 professionals - from small businesses to multinational corporations - are expected to be in attendance, presenting myriad opportunities for networking and knowledge sharing, not to mention the unfettered access to Misco's specialist Enterprise Solutions Provider team that attendees will be able to enjoy.
But for ITProPortal, Expo 12's biggest selling point is its seminar series – no surprise as we're proud to be Misco's exclusive partner in |
Dr. Alberto Giovannini has served as Chairman of the Board at Salini Impregilo SpA since May 1, 2018. He is | Chairman of the Board at the firm since July 14, 2015. He was Non-Executive Independent Director at the firm from July 17, 2012. He is Member of Audit and Risk Committee and Executive Committee within the Company. He was Chairman of the Related Party Transactions Committee within the Company. He serves as Director at Unifortune Asset Management Sgr SpA, Pelios netherlands NV, and others. Dr. Alberto Giovannini holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Pietro Salini has served as Chief Executive Officer of SALINI IMPREGILO SPA since July 18, 2012. He earned his degree in Economics and Business Administration from Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza and began his professional career in 1985 working for the family company, Salini Costruttori SpA, becoming its Chief Executive Officer in 1994, a position he still holds. He is also a Member of the Board of |
Nina Chanel Abney’s mural is the first thing viewers encounter when visiting the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. It occupies the | Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall, an unconventional space commissioned annually for an artist to install his or her work.
The setting allows for natural light from the floor to the ceiling windows surrounding the Wall. This showcase space is uniquely in the Institute’s lobby, where visitors can see the artist’s creation for free. Its accessibility, according to curator Ellen Tani, alters the experience.
“To have this situated in a public lobby where it’s always there I think brings out a different kind of comfort with visitors in terms of engaging with it,” said Tani.
The mural, Abney’s debut in Boston, was completed on Jan. 17 and will remain until March 15, 2020. Abney is an abstract narrative painter whose work covers a variety of forms such as playground surfaces, fashion collaborations, and canvases. Her art tells a story of modern tensions such as racial and gender discrimination, disenfranchisement, and current events that |
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration is set to unveil its first assessment of how much his cash clampdown will slow one of the world's fastest- | growing major economies.
[MUMBAI] Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration is set to unveil its first assessment of how much his cash clampdown will slow one of the world's fastest-growing major economies.
India's gross domestic product will grow 6.8 per cent in the year through March, according to the median of 18 estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists, with the Statistics Office's forecast due at 5.30pm in New Delhi on Friday. That's the slowest pace in three years and belies projections of a pick up to 7.7 per cent made before Mr Modi's Nov 8 decision to cancel 86 per cent of currency in circulation.
While analysts are still debating about how long the effects of the cash shortages will linger, a deep slowdown that kills jobs may turn voters against Mr Modi in key state elections over the next two months. Indian stocks saw the biggest outflows in Asia last quarter and global funds sold the most rupee-debt in at |
Sitting in the cab of his truck under the hot sun, Sayed Sorour has come to the conclusion he and his truck load of aid | to the besieged people in Gaza Strip are going no where for more days to come.
"I have been sitting here for three days, and before that I was in Arish for four days," the truck driver told the New York Times on Wednesday, January 28.
Sorour, whose vehicle is hauling clothing and blankets, is among many truck drivers stuck at El-Auja crossing between Egypt and Israel.
The normally quiet commercial crossing has been turned into a parking lot of stalled, humanitarian aid, carrying loads of foodstuff and humanitarian aid to Gazans who survived an air, sea and ground Israeli offensive.
"The trucks get to Auja and they sit,” said Ahmed Oraby, head of the Red Crescent office in El Arish.
"Many trucks that left are now coming back. They don’t take anything."
From the first hours of the Israeli onslaught, which killed more than 1,350 people, and wounded 5,450 |
Coach Kevin Popadines believes his Lejeune girls� basketball team can get better.
But while that�s a scary thought given the | Devilpups remained undefeated on Friday night with a 74-35 win over Dixon, Popadines can pinpoint one area in particular where Lejeune still has room to improve.
The Devilpups (15-0, 5-0 Coastal Plains 1-A Conference) certainly turned the pressure on against the Bulldogs (8-11, 2-3). Lejeune forced 36 turnovers and limited Dixon to 25 percent shooting.
Earlier, Dixon defeated Lejeune 86-79 in the boys� game.
Senior Chatori Major was the main beneficiary of the defense by the Lejeune girls, finishing with 29 points on 13 of 20 shooting. Major scored on several transition layups created by turnovers and long rebounds. She scored on a layup after a steal with three seconds left in the first quarter to give the Devilpups a 12-4 lead before she scored 10 points in a second quarter that saw Dixon commit 13 turnovers.
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The @vintagetribune Instagram, a beloved photography account produced by the photo editors of the Chicago Tribune, has been mining the newspaper� | �s vast archives since 2014. These are the images that would have been posted had Instagram existed in, say, 1932—the offbeat, gritty, funny, rare, everyday images captured in the moments that happened between the well-documented events that make up the city’s official biography. This book is an unexpected, inspired portrait of one of the world’s great metropolises, told through the lenses of the countless feet-on-the-street photographers from the city’s hometown paper.
The Blackhawks, one of the NHL’s “Original Six,” have been building a storied legacy since their founding in 1926. The Hawks have produced dozens of standout stars, from Hall of Fame goaltender Mike Karakas in the ’30s to Bobby “The Golden Jet” Hull in the ’60s to current team captain Jonathan Toews, who has led the team to a remarkable three championships since 2010. This comprehensive |
Four people have been seriously hurt in a crash between two carriages on a rollercoaster ride at Alton Towers.
West Midlands Ambul | ance Service said two men, aged 18 and 27, and two women, aged 19 and 17, suffered "significant lower limb injuries". They were airlifted to trauma centres in Stoke and Coventry for treatment.
Alton Towers said all guests involved were evacuated by 18:35 BST.
A director described it as "the most serious incident" in the park's history.
The passengers were trapped for several hours on the ride, about 25ft (7.6m) above the ground.
Eyewitnesses reported hearing "a loud crash" when the crash happened at 14:09.
Ben Richardson said: "When the second carriage crashed people were screaming and shouting - even after it stopped. Everyone around the park ran over.
"The people looked significantly distressed. It was almost like a car crash, very full-on."
Alton Towers said first responders based at the park were on the scene "within minutes", quickly followed by the emergency services.
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A run-down 18th-century house in Coventry, which has been repeatedly targeted by vandals, could be demolished - to protect those | causing the damage.
Since Newlands House - a former nursing home owned by Coventry City Council, off Bennetts Road South, Keresley - was vacated in 1991, it has suffered?immeasur-ably? from vandalism.
As a result, the building is now deemed dangerous.
The council is required by law to protect trespassers to see that they do not hurt themselves on local authority-owned land.
So it is now aiming to flatten the building, which was bought in 1952, to protect trespassers and also members of the emergency services responding to call-outs.
It is estimated that in the past two years, #16,000 has been spent dealing with both security of the site and repairing damage caused by vandals.
The house has been stripped of anything of value, such as fireplaces, wooden panelling, copper pipework and lead from the roof.
It would cost the city council about #50,000 to demolish |
HOLTON, Kan. (WIBW) -- On December 15, Madison Taliaferro lost her battle with cystic fibrosis | .
Services for the 18-year-old were held Friday at Holton High School where classmates, friends and family filled the gym at the school to celebrate her life.
Several people spoke during the service including her mother, Desiree Teliaferro, who read a letter Madison wrote before she died.
"In my life, all I ever wanted was to make everybody happy,” the letter said. “And this isn't a happy thing."
Madison left letters for her loved ones while she was waiting for her second lung transplant that never came. The notes shared positive messages and memories about her time at Holton High.
"Overall, Holton High School gave me a place that I actually wanted to go to,” the letter said. “Not just to learn, but to be surrounded by people that were almost always upbeat and happy. It was never just a school to me. It was a family."
While battling her illness, Madison was |
How can theatre companies get Indigenous land acknowledgments right?
That statement, adapted from the official land acknowledgement from the City of Toronto (updated as | of February), should sound familiar if you’ve attended virtually any kind of public arts event in the last few years. But now, dissenting voices have started picking them apart. They can sound detached, shallow and give a false sense of progressive accomplishment when delivered by settler, often white, organizations and artists.
Anishinaabe writer, educator and Indigenous policy adviser Hayden King is one of the most vocal critics of land acknowledgments as they’re currently being practised. In his talk “Welcome to My Territory, Please Leave: Politics of a Land Acknowledgement,” given recently at Ryerson University, he said that our mainstream style of land acknowledgments actually cause harm to the people they’re supposed to celebrate.
“All major cities in Canada today have a land acknowledgement. Yet in each of these jurisdictions, with each of these land acknowledgments, there is active and ongoing disposition of Indigenous people,” he said.
In fact, |
With the massive transportation agency merger that will fold the formerly independent and self-financed Massachusetts Turnpike Authority into the state Highway Department set to | begin next week, the governor today appointed the five-member board that will oversee the super transportation agency.
The board, which will include a former Turnpike board member, a geotechnical engineer, the head of a Boston transportation and environmental consulting company and two former MBTA board members, will be sworn in and hold its first meeting Monday.
The governor said today he expects the new MassDOT as it is being called, to achieve significant costs savings for taxpayers, while improving customer service and safety across all of the state’s transportation networks.
The board will also be advised by a 20-member advisory council that will be led by Alan MacDonald, executive director of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable.
The council’s members will be named Monday.
The MassDOT will be headed up by its new CEO Jeffrey Mullan, who is also set to become the state’s new Secretary of Transportation, replacing outgoing secretary James Aloisi, who |
The author's 2016 debut novel "Behold the Dreamers" centers on race, class and the pursuit of the American dream.
CANT | ON In September of 1998, Imbolo Mbue arrived in the United States from West Africa carrying a belief that life here was like an American sitcom.
Mbue’s 2016 debut novel centers on race, class and the pursuit of the American dream by an African immigrant couple and the wealthy family they work for, set against the real-life 2008 financial crisis.
A New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club selection, it has been translated into 12 languages and recently was optioned to be made into a feature film.
On Thursday night, more than 500 people turned out to the Palace Theatre to hear Mbue share her experiences as an immigrant and author. The program was part of the Stark County District Library’s Dr. Audrey Lavin Speaking of Books Author Series.
Mbue is a graduate of Rutgers University and holds a master’s degree in education from Columbia University.
Americans’ misconceptions about Africa, Mbue said, |
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