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A-Gas driver Richard Wilson in March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway on Saturday.
A-Gas driver Ray Padgett in | March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway on Saturday.
Fans enjoy the March Meet on Saturday at Auto Club Famoso Raceway.
Funny Car driver Kris Krabill in March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway on Saturday.
Fuel Altered driver Eric Gates in March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway on Saturday.
E-Gas driver Paul Miller in March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway on Saturday.
A-Gas Tom Tourek in March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway on Saturday.
C-Gas driver Marc Brenzinger in March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway on Saturday.
Funny Car driver Rian Konno in March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway on Saturday.
D-Gas driver Bruce Boardman in March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway on Saturday.
Funny Car driver Dan Horan in March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway on Saturday.
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The SOHOpelessly Broken contest pitted hackers against 10 router models from different manufacturers: Linksys EA6500, ASUS RT-AC66 | U, TRENDnet TEW-812DRU, Netgear Centria WNDR4700, Netgear WNR3500U/WNR3500L, TP-Link TL-WR1043ND, D-Link DIR-865L, Belkin N900 DB and the Open Wireless Router firmware developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
There were three challenges. In one researchers had to demonstrate unpatched -- zero-day -- vulnerabilities in the preselected devices, and received points based on their criticality. The second challenge was a capture-the-flag-style game in which contestants had to hack into routers running known vulnerable firmware to extract sensitive information, and the third was a similar surprise challenge targeting a router from Asus and one from D-Link.
Four contestants participated in the zero-day vulnerability contest and demonstrated exploits for a total of 15 flaws. Eleven of the reported vulnerabilities were submitted by Craig Young, a researcher at security firm |
Monday April 8, 2019: On General Hospital today, Sonny and Jason ponder their next move, Willow tells Chase more about Shiloh, and | Robert has some information for Anna.
Alexis corners Neil at The Floating Rib. He wants to maintain boundaries and tries to escape, but she insists on an impromptu session. She informs him that her daughter is in a cult. Reluctantly, he sits and lets her explain. The shrink advises her to do nothing. Her daughter is an adult and she needs to treat her like one or things will get worse. She doesn’t have time to wait. He suggests she try using positive memories to urge Kristina into looking at the group more objectively. Then he hands her the bill. Across the room, Maxie tells Peter that she turned down her high school crush. She had to because she has feelings for Peter and thought he had feelings for her too. He thought he’d made it clear that he does. Peter admits he cares about her more than he ever has about anyone. They start kissing. Anna and Finn watch them from a table. He holds a ring |
A new, more conservative TV network is reportedly in the works, after recent events and reports that suggest Fox News Channel is moving further left, per | Mediaite. Former Fox News Chief Roger Ailes, as well as high-powered television executives and potential funders are meeting Friday to discuss what a new network could look like.
Why it matters: The drama is reflective of a massive change hitting the right-wing media ecosystem that has dominated political coverage for the past decade.
Our thought bubble: Audience demand doesn't shift from business-side pressures. We're watching Sinclair Broadcasting Group take strategic steps to fill that void at the local level, but if Fox goes more mainstream at the national level, there will almost certainly be a market opening for a new right-wing channel to gain some steam, at least before the cable business bubble bursts.
Why now: The controversy comes at the heels of an internal rift between Fox brass. On Thursday, Fox News Anchor Sean Hannity tweeted his frustration with reports that Fox President Bill Shine, accused of covering up sexual harassment allegations, could be removed. Shine represents what's left of Fox's traditionally |
On the 15th anniversary of its war against women, the Augusta National Golf Club commemorated the event Wednesday not with mournful band or heartfelt hy | mn, but a single click.
For the first time, the most exclusive American sports venue unlocked its venerable Magnolia Lane gates for a competitive championship round to be played by golfers other than those in the Masters.
That round will be played by women.
In a morning announcement that could be the equivalent of this week’s most enduring Masters roar, new Augusta chairman Fred Ridley revealed the establishment of the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur Championship to be played here next April.
The golf world instantly was filled with the sound of jaws hitting the floor. A club that did not even allow women members until 2012 was now going to invite them to spend a day competing on their most sacred of grounds?
It was enlightening. It was invigorating. It was also pretty stunning.
The club will invite 72 of the world’s best amateurs. They will play the first two rounds at a nearby course. Those with the lowest 30 scores will advance to |
School crossing guard Francis Light said he didn't know what to think one morning last month when a woman approached him at his post outside Oak Forest Elementary | School and asked for a urine sample.
"I've been doing this school job for about 16 years, and I never heard of anyone taking a drug test, at least the crossing guards," said Light, 79. "Most of us are old people anyways."
"About two hours later, when I got back home, they called and told me I was terminated," Light said. "They told me I had 10 days to turn in my equipment — you know, a stop sign, raincoat, stuff like that."
He shouldn't have been surprised, said Terry Abbott, a Houston Independent School District spokesman.
"Every employee understands if you refuse the drug or alcohol test, you are automatically terminated," Abbott said. "We cannot allow people who are responsible for children's safety to refuse to take a drug or alcohol test."
Light signed a form acknowledging as much in September.
"They give us rules and regulations, and every year they get thicker and thicker," said Light |
LAS VEGAS, April 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Remark Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MARK), | a diversified global technology company with leading artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and digital media properties, reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2018.
"We closed the year on a strong note, generating solid top-line growth at both of our business segments," said Kai-Shing Tao, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Remark Holdings. "Our success in turning around Vegas.com under our ownership during the past three years has allowed us to move forward in monetizing this asset and transitioning into a pure-play AI enterprise. Our sale of Vegas.com will allow us to substantially reduce our debt, restructure our balance sheet and streamline our cost structure, as we shift all of our attention on expanding our AI business.
"KanKan contributed $2.4 million to our fourth quarter revenues; which excludes an additional $4.6 million that will be recognized in future periods, beginning in the second quarter of 2019. KanK |
Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic. the world will come together to review progress and chart the future course of the global AIDS response at the 2011 UN | General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS from 8–10 June 2011 in New York.
The High Level Meeting on AIDS is taking place 10 years after the historic 2001 United Nations Special Session on HIV/AIDS, and the 2006 signing of the Political Declaration where UN Member States committed to moving towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.
More than 30 Heads of State, Government and Vice Presidents are expected to attend the meeting which will include official plenary and five panel sessions along with 40 individual side events.
Although some countries are still struggling to reach their universal access targets, many have made significant strides in responding to their epidemics. Twenty-two countries have achieved universal access to services which prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
The rate of new HIV infections has decreased by 25% in the last 10 years, deaths have reduced by 20% in the last 5 years and 6.6 million people are now accessing antiretroviral therapy, compared to |
March turned the cliché on its ear this year: It came in like (an overcooked) lamb and went out like a (very wet) | lion.
This was the warmest March on record at Camp Mabry, Austin’s main weather station, just edging out March 1907, Lower Colorado River Authority meteorologist Bob Rose said. The record average of 68.6 degrees in spring’s first month followed a winter that was also the warmest on record.
Put another way: "It has been the warmest first three months start to the year on record," Rose said. "And not just by a little, but by a lot."
The record at Camp Mabry for the warmest first three months of the year had been 61.5 degrees, also set in 1907. The average temperature for the first three months of this year was 63 degrees at Mabry. At Austin’s other weather-monitoring station, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, the average three-month temperature this year has been 61.9 degrees, surpassing 1990’s previous airport record |
In an interview on The Ellen Show, Super Bowl LII MVP Nick Foles tells Ellen about how he almost quit professional football due to problems in | his life. Super Bowl LII saw the Philadelphia Eagles crowned the champions after some brave moves in the game. The New England Patriots were favourites to lift the trophy for the second time running but the Eagles remained focused enough to outplay the Patriots when it mattered.
The New England team won last year’s Super Bowl at the NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, on Sunday, February 5, 2017. The Patriots won the game in remarkable fashion, after trailing the Atlanta Falcons by 25 points in the third quarter. The Patriots surprisingly overturned the deficit, winning the game by 34-28 in overtime.
In the interview, Ellen tells Foles she was rooting for the Eagles, who were the underdogs and her excitement after the game. Ellen also commended the gutsy moves of the Eagles during the game. The Eagles quarterback responded by telling her about the need for those brave moves because of the pedigree of the Patriots. The Super Bowl MVP disclosed to Ellen how he talked with Coach Doug |
China should not be made a "scapegoat" for the collapse of the UK's steel industry, Sir Vince Cable has said, accusing the | Treasury of holding back with financial assistance that could help relieve pressures.
The Liberal Democrat former business secretary said David Cameron should urge action from Beijing to curb production and noted there was a technical question to be examined over whether China was guilty of illegal "dumping".
But he insisted there had been "endless problems with steel" unrelated to China while he was in government that ministers had some power to alleviate.
There is a technical issue about dumping which is a legal question that you have to prove they are selling below cost.
But the bigger issue is that they have massive excess capacity because they are trying to rebalance their economy.
What we should be saying to the president - and I hope Mr Cameron makes this point - is: if you want to be world economic citizens - and they clearly do as a superpower - you really have to take account of the rest of the world and you've got to restructure your own steel industry and lay off some of your own capacity.
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THE Macedonian defender will meet his new Hawthorns team-mate for the first time when the pair go toe-to-toe at Hampden | tomorrow night.
GORAN POPOV wants to destroy Scotland – then cadge a cheeky lift back to West Brom with vanquished Tartan Army rival James Morrison.
Popov signed for West Brom at the end of last month but hasn’t met his new Baggies colleagues as he instantly headed off to report for international duty after penning his season-long loan deal from Dynamo Kiev.
The 27-year-old can’t wait to get started in the Premiership but before he locks horns with the cream of England, Popov has Scotland to deal with as his side look to shatter Craig Levein’s team.
West Brom midfielder Morrison will again have a pivotal role at Hampden and Popov said: “I know James is an important player for Scotland and I look forward to playing against him.
“I didn’t see him on transfer deadline day. The squad was training on the Friday morning and then went home to rest |
Abuja — A bill for an Act for the establishment of National Tea and Coffee Development Council to develop commercial cultivation of the produce in the country | has passed second reading in Senate.
The Bill was first read in the Upper Chamber in April, 2017 and it seeks to enhance growth, production and marketing of tea and coffee to boost agriculture and enhance revenue generation.
Also, if the Bill is finally passed into law, it will reduce the overdependence on oil export earnings so as to further exploit the country's vast agricultural potentials.
Leading the debate at plenary yesterday, the sponsor of the Bill, Senator Yusuf Abubakar Yusuf (Taraba Central) argued that some parts of the country especially in the Mambilla Plateau, have the endowement with suitable climate and soil condition that could be harnessed for large cultivation of tea and coffee but are yet to be utilised.
According to Yusuf, governments have not made any major impact in terms of active involvement and participation in tea and coffee growth.
He noted that "the Bill has tremendous benefits on the local tea and coffee producing areas, |
Like other multinationals, Kimberly-Clark’s results have been depressed in recent quarters by currency impacts from the strong U.S. dollar | . Last year, net sales declined by 5.7 percent to $18.6 billion even as organic sales globally showed 5 percent growth. Operating profit declined by 36 percent. First-quarter results were similarly affected, though the company recorded a profit of $560 million, up 15 percent.
Falk, 58, has been at the helm of Kimberly-Clark since 2003, guiding its expansion around the globe. The company relocated its headquarters to North Texas from Wisconsin in the 1980s, and has about 200 employees at its corporate office.
The Star-Telegram recently caught up with Falk to discuss the global business. Here are excerpts from the interview.
People say, “Gosh, that diaper works so great, you can’t possibly make it better.” But our job is to have the next two or three years of great ideas in the pipeline So we’re constantly working on new materials that fit better, absorb better, that move better with the child |
Allen remains unsigned after the first four weeks of the 2019 league year, Jeff Zrebiec of The Athletic reports.
Allen finished the regular | season with 41 carries for 110 yards and three scores while adding 35 catches on 43 targets for 196 yards and two touchdowns.
Allen (coach's decision) is not active for Saturday night's contest against the Chargers.
Analysis: It's a bit surprising to see Allen not active for Saturday's pivotal game, but it's quite clear Ty Montgomery has ascended into the third-string role behind Gus Edwards and Kenneth Dixon.
Allen did not play an offensive snap against the Falcons.
Analysis: Ty Montgomery's ascent has now neutralized Allen's presence in the Baltimore offense. Since the bye week, Allen's snap counts check in at five, one and zero on offense. Allen still sees time on special teams, but any sort of fantasy-relevant role is seemingly out the window.
Allen had a two-yard carry on his lone offensive snap in Sunday's 34-17 win over the Raiders.
Analysis: Ty Montgomery seems to have taken Allen's role as the de facto pass- |
Apple has a new patent application published by the USPTO (via AppleInsider) that makes it easier to remember who you’re | texting. This could help alleviate the incredibly painful SMS fails where you send a message to the wrong person, occasionally with catastrophic results. The system works using contact pictures employed in the background of text conversations as a big, glaring visual cue telling you exactly who’s receiving your communiqué.
The system would put the contact picture of the person you’re conversing with in the background of your message window, with your actual conversation overlaid on top. For group chats, the system suggests using multiple contact pictures for the backdrop, either arranged Brady Bunch style in a grid, or in a cycling carousel, or with various visual cues like showing some grayed out and one in color to indicate which one sent the last received message.
If there aren’t any images associated with a contact, the system could employ generic male or female avatars to at least give you some kind of cue. Also, the patent goes on to describe how this might be made available to |
Our day in Umm al Kheir started with a common flying checkpoint, set up by the Israeli forces in Zif. Our mini-bus | driver didn’t want to pass this control so we got out of the car and walked through the control and then waited for our friend from the village to pick us up. We had some spare time and observed the soldiers controlling nearly every vehicle trying to pass and wrote down their plate-numbers.
After we got picked up we tried to enter the village, which is only accessible through one road. This road is directly next to the illegal settlement Karmel and therefore entirely under the control of the Israeli forces. An Israeli police-car was stationed directly at the entrance to the village to stop and control every passing car, so we made a u-turn to avoid yet another control and contact with the police and instead waited until the police had left to enter Umm al Kheir.
Umm al Kheir is located in the South Hebron Hills in the south east of Yatta. The village is divided in different parts: on one side there is the bedouin village |
Whatever its other merits, the new home for the Texas Rangers will come with a retractable roof, meaning that future generations will have only to wonder | what it was like for Rangers fans — not to mention actual Rangers — to spend an August afternoon in the wicked heat of Arlington, desperately trying to enjoy a game of baseball despite elements better suited to the smelting of iron ore.
The first ideas of what this stadium might look like were revealed Thursday, along with the choice of architect, Dallas-based HKS, the firm responsible for the Rangers' present facility as well as its domed neighbor, the Cowboys' AT&T Stadium.
The defining feature of the firm's woozy initial renderings is a monumental arcade — imagine a misplaced and overgrown Roman aqueduct — enclosing the ballpark beyond its outfield walls. Hopefully this feature will disappear in future iterations, though a "retro" design seems inevitable.
A model of the new Texas Rangers ballpark to be built by HKS.
HKS's models of what the new Texas Rangers ballpark seating will look like when designed. The difference between the new (left) |
MILWAUKIE -- The Milwaukie Rotary Club has donated $4,500 to Partners for Healthy Students, a newly formed | non-profit organization raising funds for a new Milwaukie High Health and Wellness Center.
A group of parents, students, school staff and community members have worked to raise funds for the school-based health center for three years according to a press release from the North Clackamas School District.
Project leader and assistant principal at Milwaukie High, Michael Ralls, said every donation helps and that the group hopes to provide every student with the care he or she needs.
"We are so grateful for this generous contribution," Ralls said. "Every contribution that comes in takes this project forward to the day when we can provide every student with easy access to needed care for physical, dental, and mental health. The end result will be increased academic achievement."
So far the project has raised $105,000 which includes grants from Clackamas County and the Ann & Bill Swindells Charitable Trust.
Outside In is the project's medical sponsor and already |
Jonas Gutierrez has already put the disappointment of a missed opportunity behind him as he plots victory over West Brom.
The Magpies will attempt | to reach the 30-point target manager Alan Pardew has set them for Christmas when the Baggies arrive on Tyneside on Wednesday evening. They would have been significantly closer to that landmark in their season had they made the most of the chances they created against Swansea on Saturday as they were held to a goalless draw.
Gutierrez, who came within inches of what would have been a winner shortly before the break at St James' Park, said: "We created a lot of chances. We kept the ball and had possession, but that's football."
He added: "Sometimes you create one chance and you score and you win, and sometimes like today, you create many chances and you draw. That's football and we have to focus on the next game.
"We tried to keep the ball, have possession and press high. We did it for 60, 65 minutes of the game, but couldn't score.
"That gave Swansea confidence and in the |
James Charles Calls Ariana Grande the "Rudest Celebrity"
According to YouTube star James Charles, Ariana Grande is the "rud | est celebrity."
The CoverGirl spokesperson slammed the Dangerous Woman singer in his most recent makeup tutorial video (also featuring YouTube stars Shane Dawson and Ryland), claiming Grande was rude for unfollowing him on social media last year.
In 2017, Charles attended one of Grande's concerts in Los Angeles. The pop star subsequently took notice of the vlogger after he shared a handful of videos and photos from the show on his Instagram Story.
She reportedly DMed him, thanking him for attending the show, and followed Charles on social media. However, their mutual relationship on social media was short-lived, as Grande quickly unfollowed Charles after fans pointed out his scandalous racist behavior.
In February 2017, Charles came under fire for being insensitive about his trip to South Africa, in which he tweeted, "I can't believe we're going to Africa today, omg what if we get Ebola?" In a tone-deaf apology tweet, he then referred to the continent of |
In the Sector-48 car snatching incident, the Chandigarh police on Monday traced the vehicle, and have also identified persons involved in | the robbery.
During investigation, it was learnt that owing to some money dispute with complainant Parvinder Pal Singh Midda, the prime suspect, Mintu, a Patiala jail inmate, had asked his accomplices, Manjot Singh and Germanjeet Singh, to rob Mahindra XUV 500.
Police said accused Manjot Singh, resident of SAS Nagar, and Germanjeet Singh, resident of Amritsar, Punjab, would be arrested soon, and to further probe the case, the production warrant of Mintu, lodged in the Patiala jail, would also be procured.
Confirming that Mintu is the mastermind behind the robbery, police said his accomplices had executed the plan. The robbed car was traced near Chandigarh, whereas during the investigation, it was also learnt that the accused had taken the XUV to Ludhiana.
Navdeep Brar, assistant superintendent of police, south, said, |
A STUDENT at one of Melbourne’s most prestigious schools has been suspended for creating a hit list aimed at classmates, with the incident reported | to police.
A STUDENT at one of Melbourne’s most prestigious schools has been suspended for creating a hit list aimed at classmates.
Police were called in earlier this month after Melbourne Grammar School uncovered the “negative list”.
The list targeted other senior school students for their sexuality, intelligence and appearance.
It has been reported the “HITLIST 2018” listed one student with the description: “I don’t think I’ll be able to kill him he never shows up anyway”.
The Herald Sun has obtained a copy of the disturbing hit list which names 30 of the student’s would-be ‘targets’.
It is broken down into three categories and provides a reason for each person appearing on the list.
One person was listed because he was “possible competition (and) might kill me first”.
Headmaster Roy Kelley said the boy had been suspended |
Ninety percent of a child’s brain develops by age 4. We also know that between about six months and age three, a child | in an upper-income home hears 34 million words, in a middle-income home the number drops to 19.5 million words, and in a low-income home the number drops further to 9.5 million. Researchers have determined that exposure to vocabulary use is predictive of a child’s language skills and academic success; this means that the opportunity gap has already begun in a child’s first year of life.
So why then does Maryland wait until kindergarten — age 5 — before guaranteeing publicly supported education for all our children?
For most children from upper-income families, building the foundation begins during pregnancy with good nutrition, and early and regular prenatal care. For many of these children, a language-rich environment and multiple and varied learning opportunities at home and in the community are givens throughout their early years.
In lower income families, parents who are not provided concrete assistance in times of need have insufficient social supports and limited access to the latest research in child development. |
Once again, Cape is a "recovery play" after another disappointing profit warning.
"non-mechanical" maintenance services to | energy and mining projects, issued its third profit warning last week – this time caused by a slowdown of work in Australia.
The news came shortly after the new chief executive, Joe Oatley, took the helm. Mr Oatley is a former chief executive of oil and gas engineer Hamworthy and he took up his position at the end of June. The current non-executive chairman of the group is Tim Eggar, a former energy minister in John Major's government.
Following a tour of the group's operations, Mr Oatley concluded that both revenue and margins in its Australian operations will fall short of previous expectations.
This followed a warning in May when the group took a £14m hit after it revealed a large project it was working on in Algeria would make a loss. This was down to delays in construction at a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant to which it had a contract to supply insulation material.
The issue in Australia is different, |
DJ Frankie Knuckles in London in 2007.
Frankie Knuckles died in 2014, but he still casts a long shadow over dance music in | Chicago and around the world. That much will be evident when a gaggle of top-shelf DJs and singers gathers to pay tribute to him Sunday at Metro and Smart Bar to raise funds for his nonprofit educational and cultural organization, the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.
Knuckles is first among equals when it comes to house music, the sound that he nurtured in Chicago clubs such as the Warehouse and Power Plant after disco faltered in the late '70s and early '80s.
"People love Frankie so much because so many people fight over house music — (they argue about) who was first. But a lot of people put it to Frankie, because he was such a humble and talented person," says Michael Serafini, who will be among the DJs spinning at the Knuckles tribute with David Morales, Louis Vega, Terry Hunter, Derrick Carter and others. "Frankie was never into competition (for recognition). He was always welcoming."
A longtime Chicago DJ and owner |
The disk storage market in Central and Eastern Europe (Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Slovakia) grew by 22 | .5% in revenue to $418.
The disk storage market in Central and Eastern Europe (Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Slovakia) grew by 22.5% in revenue to $418.10 mln in 2003 and is expected to expand a further 17.5% in 2004. According to IDC, unit shipments rose by 12.8%, while terabyte capacity surged by 27.7% last year. As storage technology continues to improve, the rate of memory growth will exceed that of shipment growth. This year, while IDC expects shipments to increase by just under 21%, terabyte capacity will rise 31.5%.
Direct attached storage (DAS) dominated the disk storage market in Central and Eastern Europe last year, accounting for more than 55% of total disk storage revenue and over 74% of capacity. This figure includes DAS for both internal and external systems, with internal DAS accounting for more than three times as much capacity |
Digital audio tape (DAT), liquid crystal color TV (LCTV), portable video camcorders, and digital video cassette recorders (V | CRs) were some of the much-discussed items at the International Winter Consumer Electronics Show, which ended here yesterday. This twice-yearly ritual of the Electronics Industries Association (EIA), representing the $30 billion audio, video, and home information products industries, also presented new variations on old themes: more ``surround sound'' audio and audio-visual home entertainment consoles; smaller, slimmer, and sturdier compact disc players; more designer colors in everything from ``boomboxes'' (portable stereos) to typewriters and telephones; and an unprecedented range of options in digital stereo equipement, and remote-control television.
To sample the newest equipment, 100,000 people spent four days here examining 1,400 exhibits. Since the show was so large - spread over many halls and various hotels - and the number of exhibitors so extensive, the directory was the size of a thick paperback. The show included a vast array of slick, micro |
Game of Thrones makes motherhood powerful and dangerous.
As the series nears its endgame, there are few women with children left to raise | .
Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister and Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones.
Game of Thrones, which returns for its final season on Sunday, has always been obsessed with the question of power—how you get it, how you wield it, how you hold onto it. And even in the violent patriarchy of Thrones, which kind of makes our own medieval times look like a Renaissance faire, a tremendous amount of that power is wielded by mothers.
Because Westeros is a primogeniture society where heirs—and daughters who marry heirs in order to cement alliances—are essential, having a child is one of the central ways women gain power. The way mothers end up using that power, and how those decisions reverberate for them and their children, has been a riveting and troubling theme for seven seasons because no amount of power, no willingness to do terrible things, actually keeps anyone’s children safe. Thrones amplifies the |
The team logos for the Plano West Wolves and the Allen Eagles.
ALLEN - Scoring touchdowns on six of its seven first-half | possessions, Allen rolled to a 42-0 halftime lead and coasted to a 63-7 win over Plano West to complete a perfect run through District 9-6A Thursday at Eagle Stadium. Allen concluded its sixth consecutive undefeated regular season.
Allen (10-0, 7-0 in 9-6A) - the top-ranked team in The Dallas Morning News' Class 6A area poll and the Associated Press state poll - has won 65 consecutive regular-season games and 55 straight district contests. Allen will host the loser of Friday's District 10-6A game between Rowlett and Sachse in a Class 6A Division I bi-district playoff next Friday at Eagle Stadium. Plano West (0-10, 0-7 in 9-6A) ended its second straight winless campaign, extending its current losing streak to 26 games.
A fumble recovery by Jaden Healy set up Allen's first score, an 11-yard touchdown pass from Grant T |
She wore many hats: A hotelier, animal lover — and the first female mayor of West Palm Beach. Helen Wilkes died Wednesday. She | was 88.
"She was a really beautiful lady with a big heart," said her husband, Hector Rodriguez. "She wanted to help everybody."
Mrs. Wilkes came to West Palm Beach form Fort Valley, Ga. as a young nurse.
According to a Sun Sentinel article published in 1988, Mrs. Wilkes moved to Florida in 1952. She took a job as a registered nurse at St. Mary's Hospital, earning $175 a month. After saving up, she invested $3,500 in a house in Lake Park, which she converted into a nine-bed nursing home.
She told a reporter, "For seven years, I worked without a day off. I had a dream and I wanted to fulfill it."
When she sold the Helen Wilkes Nursing Home for $3.36 million in the late 80s, it had grown to 85 beds.
The nursing home wasn't the only real estate investment Mrs. Wilkes made. In the 1970s |
The victim of an illegal Security Intelligence Service breakin, whose legal case has sparked two amendments to the Security Intelligence Service Act is throughly unimp | ressed by the latest version of the SIS Amendment (no 2) Bill expected to be debated and passed in Parliament this week.
“Having read the latest version of the bill, it’s clear the SIS has not been reined in by any of the recent legislative amendments. Quite the opposite - these law changes are designed to expand, not limit, the powers of the SIS. Try as she might to reassure people that critics of APEC will not be subject to SIS snooping, Jenny Shipley cannot hide the fact that both amendment bills have been rushed through explicitly in order to legitimate further SIS break-ins before September’s Leaders Summit. And it was the Prime Minister herself, and various National, Labour, and ACT MPs who first linked the perceived need to legalise SIS break-ins to APEC in parliamentary debates and in the media, not me, GATT Watchdog, the APEC Monitoring Group or our allies. When the |
Nicole Arteaga posted on Facebook about her encounter at an Arizona Walgreens.
A Walgreens pharmacist in Arizona denied miscarriage | medicine to a pregnant mom who was told by her doctor that she was going to lose the baby.
Nicole Arteaga was two months into her pregnancy when she was told that the baby’s development had stopped and would end in a miscarriage, she wrote in a social media post on Friday. She was given the choice of prescription medication or a hospital procedure to terminate the pregnancy, and she chose to go to a drugstore in Peoria.
“I stood at the mercy of this pharmacist explaining my situation in front of my 7-year-old, and five customers standing behind only to be denied because of his ethical beliefs,” she said.
She said she has endured the pain of a miscarriage before.
Arteaga later received an email that her prescription was ready at a location across town. She said she picked it up from the other Walgreens without incident.
She filed a complaint with the Arizona Board of Pharmacy.
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It might be too late in the day now, but anger in the city centre salons has gone from simmering to boiling point at the permission | granted to the St James Centre plans.
A petition has raised hundreds of signatures and their views articulated by newspaper articles and letters from the likes of David Black, the former chair of the Southside Association and publisher Hugh Andrew.
The decisions are further examples of wanton civic vandalism; the sky, it would seem, is falling in.
Black has rehashed his argument that World Heritage status is a waste of time because it does not stop the kind of developments he doesn’t like, which is a very particular way of looking at it.
What these critics are failing to do is examine the reasons for their failure or in any way apply the analysis to which they subject the decisions to their own processes. If so many decisions are so obviously wrong then why do opponents keep losing? The black-and-white-hat, goodies-and-baddies script which seems to be in vogue is far too simplistic to be credible.
The argument seems to be that rap |
The San Jose Sharks took one on the chin Monday night at SAP Center, suffering a 7-3 loss to their Pacific division rival, the Vegas | Golden Knights.
The showdown was billed as a hard-hitting matchup and boy, it didn’t disappoint. Unfortunately, things did not swing in the home team’s favor.
Struggles without Joe Pavelski: San Jose was without their captain for the first time this season, as was sidelined with an undisclosed injury. With their top goal-scorer out, the Sharks needed all their skaters to step up to the challenge and make up for his absence. While they scored three good-looking goals -- two of those markers coming from Logan Couture -- and made a really nice push late in the game, not enough of their grade-A chances found the back of the net.
The Sharks also got into a lot of penalty trouble. Vegas is the type of team that is really good at making their opponents pay for making little mistakes, and they were able to wear San Jose down by sending them to the penalty box six times in the first two periods alone. |
The toll — and legacy — of the Great War.
Today, we celebrate Memorial Day. In the light of this commemoration, we might | once again consider World War I and its legacy. As chroniclers of the period have noted, in addition to our political inheritance from the Great War — including the present-day Middle East — that war yielded one of the highest death tolls in history. It also yielded some extraordinary British poetry, even as many of its creators would number among the dead. To bring that war out of the shadow of forgetfulness in which it is sometimes shrouded and to help recall the lost promise of almost an entire generation, Guy Cuthbertson’s biography Wilfred Owen is to be highly recommended. Cuthbertson provides a fresh and insightful portrait of one of the most famous British war poets and corrects some false impressions that have become attached to him.
As war broke out across Europe, in the luminous, still summer of 1914, England mobilized its equally luminous youth. During the course of the war, the British Empire deployed approximately 5.4 million men to fight on the |
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, one of India’s biggest stock market investors, advised caution ahead of Lok Sabha elections even | as he said that the ruling government is likely to come back to power.
He was speaking on a day when the market hit new highs with a little over a month to go before election results. He was part of a panel discussion marking the launch of the latest entrant in the mutual fund industry -- the Sun Pharmaceutical Industries copromoter Sudhir Valia-backed ITI Mutual Fund. Others on the panel were Ramesh Damani, member, Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE); Nimesh Shah, Managing Director and chief executive officer at ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company; and George Heber Joseph, chief executive officer and chief investment officer at ITI Mutual Fund.
Both the benchmark indices closed at all-time highs on Tuesday -- the S&P BSE Sensex closed at 39,275.64 while the National Stock Exchange's Nifty 50 ended at 11,787.15.
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The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis return | to Hill Auditorium on Wednesday.
Last winter, when the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra was booked to play in Ann Arbor, a blizzard prevented them from traveling to town. The way the weather’s been this year, the group, led by Wynton Marsalis, will probably make it here just fine, and they’ll have something more to celebrate than just their successful arrival.
The acclaimed, 15-member jazz ensemble is touring to mark Marsalis’ 50th birthday with a program that showcases a retrospective of Marsalis’ music written for big band. The group will perform Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Hill Auditorium under the auspices of the University Musical Society. This concert marks Marsalis’ 14th UMS performance.
Goines has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993. Currently, he is the director of Jazz Studies/professor of music at Northwestern |
Apple is opening a new training camp designed to address the technology industry's scarcity of women in executive and computer programming jobs.
Apple has been trying | to lessen its dependence on men in high-paying programming jobs.
Apple is launching a new program designed to address the technology industry’s scarcity of women in executive and computer programming jobs. Under the initiative announced Monday, female entrepreneurs and programmers will attend two-week tutorial sessions at the company’s Cupertino, California, headquarters. The camps will be held every three months beginning in January. For each round, Apple will accept up to 20 app makers founded or led by a woman. The app maker must have at least one female programmer in its ranks to qualify. Apple will cover travel expenses for up to three workers from each accepted company.
Like other major tech companies, Apple has been trying to lessen its dependence on men in high-paying programming jobs. Women filled just 23 per cent of Apple’s technology jobs in 2017, according to the company’s latest breakdown. That’s only a slight improvement from 20 per cent in 2014, despite the company |
Documentary maker Ed Prosser was behind the whole thing, and he was fun to work with. I really like the way he’ | s cut it together so that you can see parallels between our experiences—especially the way the fear of hell played a role in all our experiences. You’ll also learn how listening to Def Leppard helped me become an atheist, although strangely this experience was not mirrored by the other speakers.
In a half hour documentary, you don’t get to hear anything like the whole story. Part of my story, which I never say explicitly, was the realisation that there were real Muslims and Hindus who were just as devout as me. I think this documentary would have been a very helpful thing to hear when I was 16 or 17. I grew up believing the ‘problem’ with the world was that not enough people had heard the Gospel. When I realised that hearing the Gospel would not make any difference to them, for the same reasons that hearing about the Qu’ran made no difference to me, it was a pivotal moment. This documentary makes that point nicely without anyone |
Turkey's Gamze Bulut will not be awarded the London 2012 Olympic gold medal she was in line to receive from compatriot Aslı � | �akır Alptekin after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) annulled her results from 2011 onwards.
The IAAF announced today that Bulut, second in the notorious 1,500 metres race at London 2012, will also lose the European title she won in Helsinki in 2012 as a result of an "athlete biological passport (ABP) case".
Bulut's team-mate Elvan Abeylegesse is also set to be stripped of the two silver medals she claimed at the Beijing 2008 Olympics over 5,000m and 10,000m.
She was banned for two years last year by the Turkish Athletics Federation after being revealed as one of 28 athletes for whom adverse findings were revealed by the IAAF.
This followed re-testing of samples from the 2005 and 2007 World Championships with the 34-year-old Ethiopian-born runner also relinquishing her 10,000m silver medal from the 2007 World Championships in Osaka.
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The cloud continued its march, the cybersecurity game changed, Apple sputtered, government cuts faced the music, and the PC zombie reanimated. | Learn why 2016 was beautiful and terrible in tech.
Every week, we sound off on the most important technology trends in our Monday Morning Opener. Looking back on 2016, we've identified the five tectonic plate shifts that have made the biggest impact on the industry and our readers who use these tools to drive the progress of the planet.
It's almost a cop out to declare 2016 the year of the data breach since you could say something similar each year since 2000 or so. But 2016 brought maturity to data breaches and a marketplace where attacks from years ago still deliver value for cybercriminals. Yahoo closed out the year by disclosing 1 billion accounts were breached and that incident was separate from a previous attack that compromised 500 million folks. Yahoo takes the cybersecurity whipping boy prize for 2016.
Yahoo disclosed an attack that compromised 1 billion accounts.
Yahoo had 500 million names swiped just as Verizon was about to close an acquisition of the company.
Oracle's Micros unit had its |
Nearly one-third of Arizona hospitals rated in the federal government's latest quality ratings received low scores of one or two stars out of five.
| Eighteen Arizona hospitals had low scores of one or two stars out of five, according to new federal ratings intended to gauge patient safety and quality.
One- and two-star rated Arizona hospitals represented nearly one-third of all hospitals in the state that were included in the star ratings, a recently updated federal ratings system that relied on data submitted by hospitals to the federal government. The national and state average was three stars.
The overall star ratings, released by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, mark the first update in nearly 15 months.
Of the 3,724 U.S. hospitals that received a star rating in the latest data release, 7.6 percent earned one star, an Arizona Republic analysis found.
In Arizona, two hospitals received that worst-level one-star rating: Canyon Vista Medical Center in Sierra Vista and Western Arizona Regional Medical Center in Bullhead City.
Four Arizona hospitals were among 293 hospitals nationwide to receive the best, five |
Boil with no toil Changing the degree to which a surface repels water can alter how violently water boils, report researchers, a finding that | could help improve the efficiency of heating.
Professor Derek Chan of the University of Melbourne and colleagues report their findings today in the journal Nature.
One of the factors determining the efficiency of heating water is the contact that the water has with the heating surface.
The problem is the hotter a surface gets, the more likely it is that efficiency will suffer due to a phenomenon known as the Leidenfrost effect.
A common demonstration of this phenomenon is when drops of water skitter across a hot barbeque plate without evaporating.
The drops don't evaporate because the extreme heat causes an insulating layer of vapour to form between the water drops and the hot surface.
The insulation slows heat transfer and that can be a problem in some situations if you want to heat water quickly, for example in a power station.
"If you want efficient heating you do not want to form a Leidenfrost layer," says Chan.
Chan and colleagues, including Dr Ivan V |
Regina Jacobs thought she was set to run the 1,500 meters at the Olympics after winning that event at the U.S. Olympic track | and field trials last Sunday.
Her husband and coach, Tom Craig, said Jacobs could run the 5,000 instead after she won that race at the Olympic trials Friday.
That was a surprise to Jacobs, even if she had just broken her U.S. record for the 5,000 with a winning time of 14 minutes 45.35 seconds. She set the old mark of 14:52.49 in 1998.
"There goes our marital bliss," she said. "I'm going to have to call the hotel and have our keys changed. There obviously are going to be many days of discussion."
Craig wants to wait at least until a 3,000-meter race Aug. 11 in Zurich to make a decision. Jacobs expects to meet the world's top 5,000 runners, including Gabriela Szabo of Romania, Gete Wami of Ethiopia and Sonia O'Sullivan of Ireland, in that race.
The only sure thing is that Jacobs will not double |
PARIS (Reuters) – Thierry Henry’s Monaco stretched their winless run in Ligue 1 to four games as they drew | 1-1 with Patrick Vieira’s Nice on Wednesday as the two former Arsenal greats did battle in the dugout.
Former France internationals Henry and Vieira played 313 games together at Arsenal, under the Premier League club’s former boss Arsene Wenger, and with Les Bleus, but their former loyalties were put to one side as Monaco chased a first league win since Dec. 4.
The result left Monaco second from bottom with 15 points from 20 games while Nice, who played the second half with 10 men following Ihsan Sacko’s red card, stayed sixth on 30 points.
Olympique Lyonnais edged closer to second-placed Lille as Nabil Fekir’s late strike salvaged a 2-2 draw at Toulouse in one of five rescheduled matches while Olympique de Marseille’s winless streak stretched to five games in a 2-1 defeat at St Etienne |
New Orleans' massive education gamble has paid off in higher test scores, according to Tulane University's Education Research Alliance for New Orleans.
" | The reforms produced large academic improvements," alliance Director Doug Harris said. He presented his team's work Friday and Saturday (June 19-20) at the alliance's Katrina + 10 conference that examined the last decade and opened the door to the next.
After the storm, the state Recovery School District took over more than 100 long-struggling public schools. Many closed; almost all that still exist became independently run charters that enroll students from all over the city. The change has been central to the city in its recovery and inspired educators and policymakers nationwide. One can only imagine the economic impact of all the researchers, consultants, politicians and journalists who have showed up in New Orleans to see the reforms for themselves.
The result, among elementary and middle school students through 2012: Test score gains of eight to 13 percentile points, Harris said. A child who once scored in the 40th percentile is now just about average.
That may not sound like much, but it's "very rare to |
After Donald Trump sniped back at LeBron James' suggestion that he fuels American racial divides, support has flooded in for the NBA great -- including from | the US president's own wife, Melania.
In an interview on Tuesday -- also broadcast late Friday -- Los Angeles Lakers player and philanthropist James told CNN he believed Trump "is kind of trying to divide us."
"He's kind of used sport to... divide us and that's something I can't relate to, because I know that sport was the first time I ever was around someone white. You know?" said James, who on Monday opened an elementary school for at-risk youth in his native Akron, Ohio.
For the rest of the week, Trump was uncharacteristically silent -- until Friday night, when he finally shot back.
"Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, (CNN presenter) Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn't easy to do," the president tweeted.
Stephanie Grisham was quoted by CNN as saying James appeared to be "working to do good things on behalf of |
A delegation of pro-Israel MPs visited Hevron for the first time while in Israel to support Jewish rights to the land.
A delegation | of 18 parliamentarians from around the world visited Hevron today, alongside the thousands of other visitors who came to the city's holy sites over the Intermediate Days of Sukkot.
The MPs, all members of their local Israel Allies Caucuses, visited the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the Hevron Museum in Hadassah house and the Tel Rumeida lookout point.
This tour was the first of its kind. Never before have so many parliamentarians from around the world come to Hevron.
They came to show their support for the residents of Hevron and to experience the holy sites.
The MPs came to Israel to participate in the 5th annual Israel Allies Foundation Jerusalem Chairman’s Conference at the Mamilla Hotel in Jerusalem, and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Israel's capital.
During the conference the MPs agreed to work towards the passing of resolutions recognizing Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel in their home countries |
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Family caregivers have a huge responsibility, and on January 1, 2017, a new law takes effect that will make life a little bit easier for them | .
November is National Family Caregiver's Month.
Nearly 600,000 Minnesotans care for older parents, spouses or loved ones, helping them to live independently in their own homes. These family caregivers have a huge responsibility, and on January 1, 2017, a new law takes effect that will make life a little bit easier for them.
Provide your loved one the opportunity to designate a family caregiver in the medical record.
Notify the family caregiver when your loved one is to be discharged to another facility or back home.
Give description and instruction of the medical tasks that the family caregiver will need to perform at home.
Download the CARE Act wallet card. Keep it in your wallet, clipped to your insurance card, so you have important information about the CARE Act when you need it most.
AARP Minnesota fought for the CARE Act because supporting caregivers is a top priority for all of us. We hope you will save this article in case your |
Repairs to the Larrywaug Bridge on Route 183 in Stockbridge are being backed by a grant through a state program created in 2016.
| Berkshire County leaders are welcoming new state aid to fix deteriorating small bridges ineligible for federal funding. But the money won’t solve the problem.
The county has 109 small bridges that aren’t eligible for federal funding.
“I think that [the program] could be a tremendous help. I wish the state would put a lot more money into it,” said David Turocy, commissioner of public services for the city of Pittsfield.
Small bridges are the responsibility of the towns, which don’t have the funding to pay for needed repairs and replacement.
“[Small bridges] are on the town’s dime, and they don’t have the dime to do it,” said Clete Kus, transportation program manager for the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission.
Enter the Municipal Small Bridge Program, a five-year, $50 million life raft signed into law last year. After a Charlemont woman contacted |
If you know you could or should be saving more but don't know where or how to start, consider this your crash course.
Each edition | of this Women Entrepreneur series, Behind the Numbers, presents a stat about a disadvantage women face at work and in business, examines the dynamics at play and provides guidance to help women overcome obstacles.
The gender pay gap is an issue that comes up often, but the gender savings gap is just as troubling. Women are less likely than men to participate in their workplace 401(k) plans, and those who do tend to save less than their male counterparts, a T. Rowe Price survey found.
The average woman’s 401(k) balance among those surveyed was $38,000, while the average man’s was $74,000. Women contributed an average of 7.2 percent of their annual salary to these retirement plans, compared to men at 8.4 percent.
T. Rowe Price found that both men and women who were eligible to save but opted out of their 401(k) made less money and had more student debt -- and that women made up |
A woman who went on an intense grapefruit-based diet developed a blood clot in her leg and risked losing the limb, US doctors have reported | .
The unusual case, written up in the Lancet medical journal, occurred in Washington state in November last year.
Medics concluded grapefruit had affected the way the 42-year-old's body processed her contraceptive pill.
A UK expert stressed this was an unusual case, but said extreme diets may have "unpredictable consequences".
In November 2008, the woman came to the casualty department of the Providence St Peter Hospital in Olympia, Washington state.
The day before, she had gone on a long car journey, after which she felt pain radiating from her lower back down to her left ankle.
When she arrived at the hospital she was experiencing difficulty walking, shortness of breath, and light-headedness.
By the next day her left leg had turned purple.
The woman was generally in good health but was slightly overweight and had decided to diet.
Three days before falling ill, she had begun a crash diet which included eating 225g of grapefruit |
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Hunting is on the decline in Michigan, but Ernie Nostrant is still going strong.
A 96-year-old World War II | veteran is getting a swell of social media attention after he bagged an eight-point buck with one shot.
Ernie Nostrant, who is reportedly from Grand Ledge in Michigan's Eaton County, was out crossbow hunting on Nov. 5 when he managed to kill the deer from about 15 yards away.
His friend, Greg Schaible, was stunned after seeing the photo that Nostrant's grandson posted, said TV station Fox 17 (Grand Rapids). He shared a photo himself and received a shower of congratulations on behalf of Nostrant.
"A lot of people don't know that hunting is a lot more than just walking out in the woods and just shooting something. There's a lot of physical work involved," Schaible told Fox.
Nostrant told the outlet he's bagged about 150 bucks since 1990.
Hunting is on the decline in Michigan, as white male baby boomers, who have driven the sport, fall off the map. Since 1998, the |
The Reading High baseball team exacted some revenge on Wednesday when they defeated a talented Arlington squad, edging the Spy Ponders, 2-1 | , in Arlington.
Earlier in the season, the Spy Ponders went to Reading and bested the Rockets by a 2-0 score. Once again, this was another good high school baseball contest.
The defeat dropped the Spy Ponders to 8-5 overall.
AHS pitcher Jay Masci threw well in the loss, rarely getting into trouble. Unfortunately for Arlington, Reading took advantage of the very few mistakes the team made.
In that same inning, Masci allowed a single to left field, which plated the eventual winning run for the Rockets.
The Arlington offense struggled at the plate for most of the day and really only had two opportunities to score. In the bottom of the second, the Spy Ponders put runners on second and third but could not capitalize. In the fifth, AHS again put runners on second and third again, this time with no outs.
With Reading’s infield playing in, Masci blasted a low, line drive at the |
Although the bulk of that money has gone to colleges and universities, precollegiate education's share has increased by almost 50 percent during the same | period, from 6 percent of the total to nearly 9 percent, says Paul Miller, vice president of the council. The increased corporate interest in elementary and secondary education can also be seen in grants to colleges to improve teacher training, he notes.
The Coca-Cola Foundation will award grants totaling at least $4 million to precollegiate and postsecondary programs selected on an annual basis. In addition, the foundation will commit to education all of the money generated by its endowment, which represents another $10 million a year. The grants will focus on literacy programs, minority education and faculty development, and leadership training for teachers.
The Coca-Cola Company historically has allocated about one-third of its annual charitable giving for education. The new commitment, however, represents "more than half of our total giving,'' Preisinger notes.
Although the company has not determined how much of its annual contribution will go to precollegiate education, several of the first grants announced will go to public |
The number of projects completed increased manifold showing progress in one year what had not been achieved in the two years previous to it.
The worth of | projects grounded or completed stood at Rs 19,041 crore in January 2018. This increased by 319 per cent to Rs 79,780 crore in February 2019.
Ahead of the parliamentary elections, the Modi government’s ambitious flagship programme to “smarten” up 100 cities is finally showing some tangible results. Overseen by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and meticulously monitored through a scientifically devised system by the housing and urban affairs ministry, the Smart City Mission has achieved in one year what it had not over the previous two years put together.
As per official data of the ministry of housing and urban affairs accessed by ET, between January 2016 (when the first batch of 20 smart cities were chosen through a competitive process) and January 2018, projects worth Rs 33,970 crore were tendered. This grew by 270% in a year to Rs 1,26,000 crore by February 2019. Even the number of projects completed increased manifold showing progress in one year |
GRAND HAVEN, MI – When Jesse White picked up the phone on a day last week, the last thing he expected was news about | a long lost family member.
, 6130 Airline Road in Fruitport, was a good one – the staff had found Cory, the Whites' medium-haired gray-and-white cat who had been missing for more than a year.
"I was like 'Wow.' I didn't really believe it," he said.
Cory went missing from the family's Grand Haven home in January last year, he said, after she darted out a door left open by one of the family's young daughters. The family went looking for the cat and even put up fliers and checked with the humane society, but she was nowhere to be found, White said.
The loss was especially hard on his daughters, who are now 2 and 4 years old, he said.
"They were very sad and they just kept asking about her every day and wanting to go and look for her," White said.
Cory found a new home in August that same year, when |
February 14 -- Valentine's Day -- is a day to honour love and honour those loved ones who have passed onto the Spirit world.
It can | be a painful time filled with memories and grief, but also a time to unite together to demonstrate how much we honour the presence of others in our lives -- even if they no longer alive.
So on this day to honour love, marches were held across Canada -- Vancouver, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, London and Montreal -- on the national day of action for justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women. A national day of action which -- to quote Che Guevera -- is driven by a state of love for our community's women and all the caring and wisdom they represent.
First Nations communities across Canada have been carrying the burden of this sadness for generations as they have walked this trail of grief. They are stepping out of the shadows and coming forward. First Nation communities and the allies demand that these murders and the disappearances stop.
According to research conducted under the Native Women Association of Canada's (NWAC) Sisters in Spirit program, over 580 Indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing |
US Presidents often reverse foreign policy; how will Trump handle setbacks?
Midnight on Sunday will mark a dividing line in the world of oil. | Beyond that point, anyone unloading a tanker from Iran risks the full wrath of the US government.
While the US softened its crackdown on the Middle East’s third-biggest oil producer on Friday, allowing some trade to continue, exports are already slumping. Shipments have plunged 37 per cent since President Donald Trump announced that he’d reimpose sanctions, and once those penalties kick in on November 5, the overall supply disruption could become the biggest since Libya, erupted in civil war at the start of the decade.
“Iran’s oil exports are falling rapidly, and perhaps more and more in the weeks to come,” Fatih Birol, executive director at the International Energy Agency, said in a Bloomberg television interview.
The US will grant partial exemptions, known as waivers, to eight governments on condition that any purchases from Iran are at “greatly reduced levels,” Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said on Friday. But the Trump |
After Bhaag Milkha Bhaag and Mary Kom, get ready for yet another biopic on a sports person.
The first look | of M S Dhoni is out, and Sushant Singh Rajput will play the celebrated cricketer.
Directed by Neeraj Pandey, the biopic will release next year.
The auspicious festival begins today and Amitabh Bachchan took to Twitter to wish his fans.
'Happy Navratri.. the shraad period is over and now time to celebrate 9 days of gaiety and dance,' Bachchan tweeted.
Sunny Leone has wrapped up the first shooting schedule of her upcoming film Mastizaade.
The film will also star Vir Das and Tusshar Kapoor.
Akshay Kumar, who recently finished shooting for Baby in Dubai, returned to Mumbai for his daughter's birthday.
'My favourite bald man @AnupamPkher and me on the plane rushing from the sandy desert in Abu Dhabi where the secrets of #Baby have been unravelled to our homes in Bombay so I can celebrate my daughter's |
As the industry gathers at Advertising Week to compare notes on the latest industry developments, the 500-pound gorilla overshadowing the Manhattan event will, of | course, be the troubled economy.
The bottom line for marketers and advertisers? Despite a few bright spots—including robust growth in ad spending in the BRIC countries and “Next 11” emerging markets—the outlook remains uncertain.
The most current numbers come today, when ZenithOptimedia releases its latest data about ad spending at the Advertising Week Financial Forecast session at noon. The Publicis media network found marketers are still spending—but not as strongly as could be expected after an economic downturn.
Indeed, even last year’s silver lining—Western companies avoiding capital expansion and added fixed costs, and investing in brand building—has reversed course. Ad spending, according to numbers from Jon Swallen, svp, research, Kantar Media North America, which did relatively well in 2010—up 5.1 percent in Q1, 5.4 percent in the Q2, 8.7 percent in Q3, and 7 percent in Q4—is seeing |
Above: You can use your fingerprint to unlock Benjilock.
Fingerprint sensors are spreading into more products, including the traditional pad | lock. BenjiLock is a new padlock that you can unlock with your fingerprint.
Los Angeles-based startup BenjiLock, which uses fingerprint recognition technology from partners, is an offline product. Robbie Cabral, CEO and founder of BenjiLock, said there’s no need to connect the lock to the internet. The fingerprint reader can store your print in its memory and recall it for recognition purposes. It’s a good example of how just the right amount of technology can make something more convenient for consumers without adding a ton of cost.
Cabral and his wife, Brach Cabral, have been working on the technology for a while. The lock will come in a variety of colors, like black, copper brass, and stainless steel.
What happens if you lose your finger? Well, you’ll have bigger problems, but you can open the lock with a fingerprint or a traditional key. It will come out in the third quarter of this year |
The NBA Finals will take action Thursday night as the two-time defending champions Miami Heat take on the San Antonio Spurs.
San Antonio Spurs' | top scoring guard Tony Parker will see action in crucial Game 5 despite hamstring injury against Miami Heat Sunday in San Antonio, Texas.
Memphis - A Memphis restaurant owner insists it's not what it looks like when it comes to the Spurs star point guard being denied service.
San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker was not only at the Soho night club in New York with singer Chris Brown and friends when a brawl broke out with friends of singer Drake, but his eye was hurt in the melee.
Denver - With both teams coming off road losses against Western Conference foes, the Denver Nuggets hosted San Antonio on Thursday night and discovered why the hottest team in the NBA is the Spurs, who cruised to a 114-99 win in the Mile High City.
Salt Lake City - Hosting the Spurs on Monday, the Utah Jazz became the latest victim in San Antonio’s current string of last-second dramatics, a 106-102 affair which stretched the visitors win streak to |
Calling all High School Musical fans!
You may get the chance to attend the world premiere of High School Musical 3: Senior Year!
On | Tuesday Disney.com announced an online promotion sweepstakes that will give fans the opportunity to attend the world premiere of High School Musical 3: Senior Year and meet the Disney stars.
Beginning today through Sept. 1, the promotion–called U Rock the Summer on Disney.com– encourages visitors to download song clips and create videos to popular songs from top Disney artists including The Jonas Brothers, Jordan Pruitt, and The Cheetah Girls.
To win, fans must post their videos on the U Rock Web Site, www.Disney.com/URock to win.
Other prizes include meeting the Jonas Brothers and the Cheetah Girls and attending their concerts.
"With ‘U Rock the Summer’ we’re not just bringing great new video entertainment to Disney.com, we’re asking our millions of fans to become a part of our entertainment," said Paul Yanover, executive vice president and managing director, Disney Online.
"And we’re thrilled |
Mizzou ends TD drought, but can’t keep up with Prescott in 31-13 loss to Mississippi St.
COLUMBI | A, Mo. (AP) — Dak Prescott threw four touchdown passes and No. 24 Mississippi State got 100-yard receiving games from De’Runnya Wilson and Fred Ross in a rain-soaked 31-13 victory over Missouri on Thursday night.
The Bulldogs kicked it into gear after a heavy downpour stopped at halftime, turning a one-point game into a runaway with a 17-point third quarter that included two of Prescott’s TD throws.
Wilson had two touchdown receptions and Ross and Fred Brown had one each for Mississippi State (7-2, 3-2 Southeastern Conference), which has won four in a row to stay in contention in the SEC West. The Bulldogs pulled away without left tackle Rufus Warren, who injured his left leg late in the first half.
Prescott became the 10th player in SEC history with 10,000 yards of total offense after entering the game needing just 65. He was 27 for 40 for 303 yards and |
North Stander: Will lessons now be learned by Evans and his colleagues?
Relegation has been inevitable for a long time, but the | awful reality is still utterly gut-wrenching.
Without doubt the lowest point in our club’s rich and glorious history.
I know there are no guarantees in football, but how can Ipswich Town be facing football in the third tier?
It’s simply not right – but it has happened, and now we all have to hope that painful lessons have been learned.
As we know, our current miserable plight is the legacy of a disastrous combination of a lack of investment by Marcus Evans and what many view as mistakes by the club’s hierarchy over a number of years.
I won’t go through the list – there are far too many blunders and missed opportunities.
The result is that we face third tier football for the first time in most fans’ lives.
But, I repeat the question, will lessons now be learned by Evans and his colleagues?
You would hope so, because the awful evidence of cause and effect is |
Daranie Ounchaidee, a student at Ivy Tech Community College.
Like many friends from her graduating class, Daranie O | unchaidee attended a community college not far from their Indianapolis high school. In the corridors, the classmates often stopped to commiserate about the twists, turns, and missteps they had already taken on their paths to associate’s degrees.
But Ounchaidee is no longer among them. As part of a select group of 40 students from low-income families in which they were the first to go to college, Ounchaidee just received her two-year associate’s degree from Ivy Tech Community College in only 11 months.
These students are among the pioneers of a new movement to speed up the ever-slowing pace at which students get through college, from two years to one for associate’s degrees and four years to three for bachelor’s degrees, saving them and taxpayers money and improving low graduation rates. That’s because the longer it takes students to reach the finish line, the less likely they ever will.
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In the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, the case of the 13 Iranian Jews and eight Muslims accused of spying for Israel has aroused widespread concern among | western governments and human rights groups.
It has also focused attention on the Jewish community in Iran, the oldest and biggest in the Middle East outside Israel.
In the heart of the Islamic Republic, Jews gather in a synagogue to recite their evening prayers, as they have done for centuries.
The Jews have a history in Iran which goes back more than 2,500 years.
Despite the Islamic Republic's bitter hostility to Israel, the Jewish community has clung on and survived.
Since the Islamic Revolution, it has dwindled from an estimated 80,000 souls, to perhaps only around 30,000.
Miss Hassidim is a 25-year-old worshipper and is one of the few young people not trying to emigrate.
"A lot of my friends and family left this country during these years," she says.
"Every year, the number of people coming to this synagogue is less and less."
In the early years of the Islamic Republic, many Jews |
More than 110 million boys have been Boy Scouts. Less than 400 have achieved the same honor.
For any Boy Scout, achieving the rank of | Eagle Scout is a lofty goal. Only two percent of scouts ever earn the distinction.
However, after Thomas Farner did it at age 13, he set his sights on something even more impossible.
For most scouts, earning all 138 merit badges is a pipe dream. Over the past century, more than 110 million kids have been part of Boy Scouts, and less than 400 of them — roughly 0.000003 percent — have ever earned every badge.
He was able to knock out some of the easy ones, like climbing and hiking, pretty quickly.
But there were challenges. After all, not everyone can get their hands on surveying equipment, but Thomas did.
He's gone SCUBA diving, performed search and rescue and even made pottery until finally, just before turning 18, he got badge number 138: public health.
It's a goal that may have seemed impossible if not for the lessons he learned along the way.
“Even if other people |
OSLO, March 27 (Reuters) - Telenor has sold 100 million shares in Veon for net proceeds of $213 million as it | continues a gradual exit from its Netherlands-based telecoms peer, the Norwegian company said on Wednesday.
After losing a battle for control over Veon, formerly known as Vimpelcom, in a power struggle with Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman, Telenor decided in 2015 to divest its 33 percent ownership.
Following Wednesday’s sale, which corresponded to a stake of 5.7 percent, Telenor now owns 9 percent of Veon, it said in a statement.
“The offering results in net proceeds to Telenor of around $213 million,” the Oslo-based company added.
Telenor’s sale, in the form of American Depository Shares (ADS), was made at $2.16 each, a discount of 8.1 percent to Tuesday’s close of Veon’s ADS at $2.35 on Wall Street.
J.P. Morgan and Citigroup were joint global coordin |
Chick-fil-A®, Inc. has selected West Monroe resident Shelby Cunningham as a recipient of the chain’s $1,000 | Leadership Scholarship.
Cunningham was nominated by franchised Operator David Benson at the Chick-fil-A restaurant located at 203 Thomas Road, West Monroe La. Cunningham has worked for Chick-fil-A for 4 years. She will graduate from University of Louisiana at Monroe in May 2018 with a Masters in English. Cunningham has been actively involved in theatre and performed in several musicals while attending ULM. She has served as Parliamentarian and Treasurer of Chi Tau Epsilon Honor Society. She also volunteers as Children’s Church Director at West Monroe Church of God.
Chick-fil-A’s franchised Operators make an effort to create a working environment that provides leadership opportunities among team members as well as character development that will help them excel in school, home and in their communities. These Operators, many of whom are Leadership Scholarship and S. Truett Cathy Scholar Award recipients themselves, serve as mentors in promoting the development of restaurant team members in the areas of goal |
LONDON — The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a healthy baby boy, Kensington Palace tweeted Monay morning.
Her Royal Highness | The Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 1101hrs.
The baby weighs 8lbs 7oz.
The Duke of Cambridge was present for the birth.
Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well.
The former Kate Middleton entered a London hospital earlier Monday in labor with what is the third child for her and husband Prince William.
Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge was admitted to St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London earlier this morning in the early stages of labour.
The Duchess travelled by car from Kensington Palace to the Lindo Wing at St. Mary’s Hospital with The Duke of Cambridge.
William and Kate married in 2011 and have two other children: Prince George, 4, and Princess Charlotte, who turns 3 next month. Both were born at the same hospital, as were William and his younger brother Prince Harry.
The baby, whose gender has not been announced, will be Queen |
Turkish authorities have included eight rules to existing regulations to increase maritime safety in the Bosphorus and Çanakkale straits, one | of the busiest and most challenging waterways of the world, Vatan newspaper reported on Sept. 3.
According to some of the new rules, units from the General Directorate of Coastal Safety will intervene when a vessel is grounded. Under the existing regulations, authorities wait for rescue plans from the captain of the grounded vessel and the captain is given a time between six to 48 hours.
New regulations also stipulate that units from the General Directorate of Coastal Safety will prepare a report in the event of grounding and carry out a rescue operation. The rescued vessel will not be allowed to sail again until an investigation is concluded and the rescue costs are paid.
The ships that will go through the straits will be required to inform the Istanbul and Çanakkale port authorities regarding the security and technical equipment on board as they approach the waterways by 3.2 kilometers.
Cruise ships and container ships longer than 300 meters will be required to notify local authorities 10 days before they enter the straits. |
Buy something on Black Friday? Here’s how to return it if needs be.
WITH MANY OF the world’s | biggest brands opting to jump onboard the Black Friday/Cyber Monday bandwagon, it’s never been a more popular time to shop online.
Although it means that we can conveniently make purchases from almost anywhere in the world at any time, it also minimises the ability to see, touch, and try on our purchases before we buy.
So when things go wrong in a digital store, where does that leave us? Are we doomed to accept something bought in a sale? Should we have to pay the return postage?
We spoke to Áine Carroll, Director of Communications and Market Insights at the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) to clarify our online shopping rights once and for all.
Your rights under EU law are very strong. If it’s bought from a website in the EU, you have a 14-day window to change your mind and ‘cancel’ the order. Then you have 14 days to return it. As for a |
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A legal challenge by a Washington-based testing company may halt a controversial assessment exam in | New Mexico and could tangle up other states using the same test.
A Santa Fe judge is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in an appeal by the American Institutes for Research who wants to limit a potentially multi-year contract given to Pearson for Common Core testing.
Last year, the London-based Pearson was awarded a contact given out by states belonging to a consortium for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers exam, or PARCC.
According to court documents filed in Santa Fe District Court, the New Mexico Public Education Department’s requirements “unlawfully restricted competition by including a number of specifications that heavily favored one particular vendor and effectively precluded competition by requiring the use of one vendor’s propriety system” among other limitations.
New Mexico is a member of a PARCC consortium that originally included 11 other states and the District of Columbia.
That consortium, court documents say, “had an irreparable conflict of interest” in |
Two weeks into the 2019 season, pitching has been a weakness at times for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Milwaukee has allowed 5+ runs in five | of 13 games so far this season, and its 5.45 ERA ranks 24th in MLB.
But one thing the Brewers pitchers have excelled at, and it should come as no surprise, is strikeouts. Milwaukee’s staff has produced 127 Ks and ranks second in strikeout percentage (25.8%), meaning the Brewers whiff just over a quarter of opposing hitters.
Pittsburgh ranks first on that chart with a staff K% of 28.
The Brewers are led, of course, by left-handed reliever Josh Hader, who has fanned 13 of the 25 hitters he’s faced this season.
Don’t forget about starting pitcher Corbin Burnes. Burnes has struggled on the mound at times, allowing a league-high six homers in 10 innings of work. But when he’s not giving up the long ball, Burnes has been sending hitters back to the dugout. His 18 strikeouts through two starts rank third all- |
The study marks the first time the researchers have quantified the national reduction in costs and injuries following the implementation of 2000’s Needlestick | Safety and Prevention Act, a law UVA helped champion.
The Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act required employers to provide safer devices (such as safety syringes), review exposure-control plans annually and maintain logs of all injuries by sharp items. It also gave healthcare workers who use the devices a greater role in selecting those devices.
To assess the nationwide effect of the legislation, the UVA researchers reviewed injury data collected from 85 hospitals in 10 states between 1995 and 2005. This work was conducted under the auspices of the International Healthcare Worker Safety Center, Janine Jagger, PhD, MPH, director. The law, the researchers found, reduced accidental healthcare injuries by more than a third following its implementation in 2000. Based on those figures, the researchers have calculated the nationwide reduction in needlestick injuries at more than 100,000 a year and the annual cost savings at $69 million to $415 million.
The findings have been published online by the journal Infection Control and Hospital |
Zimbabwe has experienced improved economic growth rates in the past three years, rising from a negative GDP of 5.7% between 2001–2006 to | 5.4% in 2009 and 9.3% in 2011. However, this has not translated to growth in productive employment and hence poverty reduction. This is likely due to weak connections between the growth sectors and other sectors of the economy.
In 2011, 72.3% of all Zimbabweans were considered poor, whilst 62.6% of the households in Zimbabwe are deemed poor. Poverty is more prevalent in rural areas compared to urban areas with about 76% of the rural households considered poor compared to 38.2% of urban households.
Individual poverty prevalence is 84.3% in rural areas compared to 46.5% in urban areas, while extreme poverty is 30.3% in rural areas compared to only 5.6% in urban areas.
The decline in formal employment, with many workers engaged in poorly remunerated informal jobs, has a direct bearing on both poverty and hunger. In 2011, 94% of paid employees received an income equal to or below the total consumption |
The slide at Stamford Bridge play area.
A slide at a village in the Pocklington area has been cordoned off after parents highlighted | a problem with the equipment.
Concerned parents in Stanford Bridge contacted a local councillor to air their fears over a ‘dangerous’ slide in the play park.
Some children have managed to get their feet stuck in the grooves on the slide which has led to some bumps and bruises.
Parents asked Pocklington Ward Councillor Andy Strangeway to look into the situation before a child is seriously hurt. He acted on their behalf and the council has sealed off the area.
Cllr Strangeway was shocked to hear that incidents of children getting their feet stuck in the grooves go back at least two years.
Cllr Strangeway said: “I did not find out about the problem until last week and basically the slide has been like this for at least for two years.
“Kiddies have been getting their feet trapped in it as they go down.
“They slide down and get their feet wedged in |
Eddie Glaude & Son: Leave Ballots Blank, Because Voting for the Status Quo Threatens Our Lives | Democracy Now! |
Does it stink like rotten meat?
EDDIE GLAUDE: Yeah, you know, I mean, part of what I’ve tried to do with my son over the course of—the hardest thing that I’ve ever done is to try to raise a child—and I say “try”—is to give him access to this wonderful tradition, that informs how we see ourselves and how we see ourselves in the world. And what I’m most proud about is that when we were deciding to write this letter, you know, I remember Langston telling me, “Dad, I don’t want to be the poster child of a pity party.” Right? “I don’t want to be the excuse for white sentimentality.” Right? Sounding like Richard Wright, right? What he wanted to do was to provide an occasion—I shouldn’t speak for you, L—but |
Sporting Kansas City hosts the Houston Dynamo at 8:00 p.m. CT on Wednesday at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park in the decisive | second leg of the Eastern Conference Semifinals in the2012 MLS Cup Playoffs. Standing-room only tickets for the match are on sale now and a limited number of seats are available online at Ticketmaster.com or at the LSP Box Offices.
The match, sponsored by Budweiser, will be broadcast locally on KSMO-TV with Callum Williams and Jake Yadrich on air beginning at 7:00 p.m. CT from LSP. The game will also be streamed online at MLSSoccer.com.
Sports Radio 810 WHB will carry the match and will go live from the LSP Members’ Club with Todd Leabo and Nate Bukaty from 2:00 – 6:00 p.m. CT during Between the Lines with Kevin Kietzman. The official radio home of Sporting Kansas City, the station will dedicate four hours of coverage for the Conference Semifinal starting at 7:00 p.m. CT and concluding with |
Robert Wagner to Play Murder Suspect on "NCIS"
Actor Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood were married twice in their tempestuous relationship. |
Robert Wagner isn't a murder suspect, but he's about to play one on TV.
The 81-year-old actor has been in the news lately, as the 30-year-old death of his wife Natalie Wood has been reopened as a homicide investigation. Authorities have said he is not currently a suspect in Wood's death, which occurred on his yacht. But now, Wagner is set to play a suspected killer on the CBS drama "NCIS."
In the episode "Sins of the Father," which airs Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET, Wagner plays the father of Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo Jr. In a clip from the “Sins of the Father” episode, the elder DiNozzo is arrested after a body is found in the trunk of his car.
“I have no recollection of what happened,” DiNozzo tells police.
Wood died on Nov. 29, 1981 in what has long been classified an accidental |
You may think the drivers where you live are the sorriest in the nation, but then you’ve probably never been to Baltimore, | MD. The “Charm City” has the dubious distinction of being home to the worst drivers in America. That’s according to the annual Best Driver’s Report just issued by Allstate Insurance.
On the other hand, if you’re looking for vehicular nirvana head for bucolic Brownsville, TX, where you’ll find the most cautious drivers in the country, Motorists there get into crashes only once every 13.6 years, which is 26.3 percent below the national average.
Allstate defines a crash as any auto collision that results in a property damage claim. Rankings are based on claims reported during a two-year period that extended between January 2015 and December 2016.
Among the winners and losers in Allstate’s 2018 report, Miami motorists appear to be the most improved in the U.S., with the city jumping 37 spots on the list up to number 86, with an 8.5- |
CHICAGO - Han, Luke and Leia will always be “Star Wars” legends, but “The Rise of Skywalker� | � wraps up the current trilogy with another iconic trio by emphasizing their team spirit.
In “The Force Awakens,” youngsters Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega) had instant chemistry from meeting on Jakku and being blasted into an intergalactic war between the Resistance and the First Order, and obviously there was the cool bromance between Finn and X-Wing pilot extraordinaire Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac). But “The Last Jedi” mostly had them on separate missions: Rey going off to find Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Finn teaming with Resistance mechanic Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), and Poe pretty much going rogue against Resistance leadership.
“The Rise of Skywalker” (in theaters Dec. 20) takes place some time after “The Last Jedi” ended, but during a panel at Star Wars Celebration, director J.J. Abrams revealed that the new movie would have the good guys on |
Drew Brees and the Saints are perfect at home, half the battle for a sure-fire playoff push.
You may have heard me mention | this before, but I’ve always used a very simple formula to structure a path to the postseason. Win at home and split on the road. Looking specifically at this week in the NFL, only the Redskins and the Steelers lost while every other home team held serve. At 5-8, the Steelers are all but eliminated from the playoffs. The Redskins lost their chances at the postseason in Week 13, so it is no wonder that they are the only two outliers.
Of the 14 teams that defended their home turf, the Bengals, Eagles, Saints and 49ers did so against teams that would be in the playoffs if the season were to end right now.
Unsurprisingly, the Bengals started the game against the Colts with three unanswered touchdowns and held a 21-point lead midway through the third quarter. Andrew Luck and the Colts mounted a mini-comeback but ultimately couldn’t overcome another poor first-half performance and fell 42-28. In the last six games, |
Saturday play at the 3 Irish Open at Baltray has resumed after a five-hour delay caused by strong winds that made the course unplay | able.
In other Saturday news, shin splints have forced Graeme McDowell to pull out of the tournament. The Portrush man was half way through his third round when he pulled up just before 10am local time.
22 year-old Irish amateur star Shane Lowry is leading the 3 Irish Open after second round play, while three time major champion Padraig Harrington failed to make the cut.
Lowry shot a ten-under-par 62 to go 15 under par for the tournament, while Graeme McDowell shot a 61 at the County Louth golf course at Baltray on Friday.
However, pre-tournament favorites Padraig Harrington and John Daly both failed to make the cut and will not be around for the weekend.
Other highlights from Friday's play included a €40,000 hole-in-one for Paul Lawrie on the 17th. The 1999 British Open winner went on to have a 66 to go 13 under for the tournament, |
A few more Stars Hollow citizens will be returning for the Gilmore Girls revival.
Sally Struthers and Michael Winters will reprise their | roles for the upcoming Netflix series, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
Struthers plays Lorelai's cat-loving next door neighbor, Babette Dell, and Winters plays the uptight grocer Taylor Doose.
The duo join previously announced returning stars Alexis Bledel (Rory) Lauren Graham (Lorelai), Jared Padalecki (Dean), David Sutcliffe (Christopher), Milo Ventimiglia (Jess), Matt Czuchry (Logan), Liza Weil(Paris), Kelly Bishop (Emily), Sean Gunn (Kirk), Scott Patterson (Luke), Keiko Agena (Lane), Danny Strong(Doyle), Vanessa Marano (April), Emily Kuroda (Mrs. Kim) and Yanic Truesdale (Michel).
Sutton Foster, who starred on Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino's short-lived series Bunheads, has also joined the cast in an unknown role. But sadly, |
Things are looking sunnier than ever for Reading Rainbow.
After the show's Kickstarter hit its $1 million goal in just 11 hours, | the creators set their sights on a new butterfly in the sky: $5 million. With one week left, the Kickstarter is currently at $4 million in pledges from more than 83,000 backers.
We caught up with Reading Rainbow co-founder and CEO Mark Wolfe (who wrote and directed the Kickstarter video) and chief marketing advisor Teri Rousseau to find out how they've remained authentic to their brand while reinventing Reading Rainbow for a new generation of digital natives.
AdFreak: Tell me a bit about the brand after Reading Rainbow left public television.
Rousseau: The original mission when LeVar and Mark formed RR Kids was to bring back Reading Rainbow for this generation and LeVar very much felt that the way to bring that back was through digital technology. Our original app was for the Kindle Fire and iPad, and it went really well. We had kids reading over 150,000 books a week. It was a top-downloaded app.
Wolfe: I |
One of the great mysteries of art is why it exists. Although our desire to create and enjoy art is so widespread that it appears as natural as | eating or reproducing -– nearly every culture draws, dances, sings, recites poetry and tells stories -– the origins of human aesthetics are not clear-cut. What’s peculiar is that from a biological point of view art appears to serve no adaptive advantages whatsoever. Why, for instance, would our prehistoric ancestors spend time painting or decorating instead of hunting and gathering? And it seems unlikely that poetry ever helped anyone eat or reproduce. Our brain demands about 20 percent of our metabolic energy and 40 percent of our blood glucose even though it makes up only 2 percent of our body weight. It’s a costly organ, so why waste it on peripheral interests like art?
The impassioned orator, bard, or musician, when with his varied tones and cadences he excites the strongest emotions in his hearers, little suspects that he uses the same means by which his half-human ancestors long ago aroused each other's ardent passions, during their courtship and |
Iqbal Habib, Member Secretary, Urbanisation & Governance Programme, Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (Bapa), talks to Naz | nin Tithi of The Daily Star about why lack of coordination among the agencies concerned is the main barrier to solving Dhaka's waterlogging.
Dhaka has been plagued with severe waterlogging for the past few years. Although research and studies have been done on this and several projects have been undertaken by the government to solve this problem, no palpable improvement is in sight. Where are the gaps that still paralyse this city every time it rains?
Dhaka's waterlogging problem cannot be solved through any isolated project. If the government is really sincere about reducing Dhaka's waterlogging, it needs to make a well-coordinated and comprehensive plan. Any project that is taken whimsically without considering all the factors contributing to the problem is destined to fail. Many such projects had been taken in the past and a large amount of money had been spent, but we have hardly seen any improvement of the situation.
Dhaka once had at least 52 canals |
Jack in the Box climbs after the burger chain beats Wall Street's fiscal first-quarter earnings expectations.
Jack in the Box Inc. (NAS | DAQ: JACK) today reported financial results for the first quarter ended January 20, 2019.
Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Jack in the Box, Inc., where a total volume of 2,383 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 238,300 underlying shares (given that every 1 contract represents 100 underlying shares).
A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that Jack in the Box, Inc. is the #49 broker analyst pick among those stocks screened by The Online Investor for strong stock buyback activity.
Johnson & Johnson, Goldman Sachs and Jack in the Box are some of the top stories on TheStreet.
Jack in the Box shares are rising after the company says it's exploring a potential sale.
Jack in the Box Inc. (NASDAQ:JACK) today announced that its Board of Directors and management team, with the support of legal and |
That's a whole lotta airspace.
Any ideas what you'll be getting for the holidays? According to the FAA, about 1 million of | you will be getting drones, whether that's a high-end quadcopter or low-end $20 knockoffs from Walmart. Regardless, the FAA is very, very worried about what happens when 1 million new aircraft enter the airspace.
As reported by Aviation Week, the FAA's Rich Swayze put it this way while speaking at the Airlines for America (A4A) Commercial Aviation Industry Summit: "A lot of people who don't have a pilot background are operating these things in the airspace."
"UAVs a very serious issue and there's considerable concern that it's going to end in tears."
Hawaiian Airlines CEO Mark Dunkerley was more blunt. "From an operating perspective, [small UAVs are] a very serious issue and there's considerable concern that it's going to end in tears," he said. "It's not just in and around airports where drones present a danger to the traveling public. There are many areas outside of 5 |
Can Abbasi leave a lasting impression?
Operating like a hands-on chief executive officer, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is | leaving a mark on government functioning within the short span of a couple of weeks, sometimes with mixed signals towards long-term economic governance.
He was quick to reconstitute all economic decision-making committees of the cabinet and become their head himself, directly getting control of important sectors and reconsolidating the centralised position of the prime minister’s office on economic issues, once enjoyed, a decade ago, by former prime minister Shaukat Aziz.
This was a departure from recent examples when former rulers of PPP and PML-N had devolved economic decision-making to finance ministers who virtually acted and behaved like deputy prime ministers.
Mr Abbasi highlighted challenges of a narrow tax base in his maiden speech and saw to it that the first meeting of the federal cabinet took a serious briefing from the Federal Board of Revenue even in the absence of the minister for finance and revenue, Ishaq Dar, who had air-dashed to the UAE on an unannounced visit |
Before Patrick Stewart got a Twitter account and taught the world how to really use social media, he was known around the world as Captain Jean-Luc | Picard. Under the guise of this character, Patrick Stewart starred in 176 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and four Star Trek films. And now he’s suggesting that he’d like to return for another film.
"Absolutely … if it were a really good script. But, the poor soul is getting old and long in the tooth. He would probably need some help mounting his horse unlike the youthful captain of 30 years ago."
But would anyone really like to see Patrick Stewart portraying Captain Jean-Luc Picard once again? Sorry, that’s the stupidest question that I’ve ever written. Patrick Stewart instantly makes anything umpteen times better with his presence. Just look at him. He’s godlike. In fact, I seriously think that it’s impossible to hate Patrick Stewart even a smidgen. Not only does he deliver wonderfully poetic answers to hypothetical questions, but he’s also responsible for the greatest series of |
For many, it may be hard to envision such a job, where one feels inspired to go to work each day, and in earlier years, | I have had my share of monotonous, uninspiring jobs, too. We have all likely had such jobs that were necessary to pay the bills. Those experiences hold important lessons too, but I did not realize until I was in college that there was another kind of job — or that education could truly expand my opportunities.
As a child, the adults I knew were clock punchers, and my parents lived for 5:00, for the weekend, for paid vacation days. At the end of the work day, they came home exhausted from the monotony and self-sacrifice, collapsing into recliners or bed. In those days, it seemed to me that work was something one “had to do” just to pay bills, and I was thankful that my parents had steady employment.
My parents came from small, rural communities and had limited educational opportunities. What schooling they did have revolved around planting and harvesting seasons. They missed countless days of school because they |
Regarding an editorial in The Record ("State must pump out a solution," last Tuesday), let me add perspective on what the state is doing to assure | environmental safeguards for Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta fish while providing water to 25 million Californian consumers and farmers.
Department of Water Resources officials appealed an Alameda County court order to shut down State Water Project pumps unless additional authorization was received for the "incidental take" of Delta smelt and chinook salmon.
Our position is that the state historically has been in compliance with endangered species law, a position we feel will be vindicated on appeal.
However, recognizing changing conditions and new science on the Delta ecosystem, our department is working with state and federal wildlife agencies on an updated biological opinion that will be used to guide future decisions on Delta water operations.
In the meantime, we voluntarily will take action to reduce impacts to fish from water-project operations.
It should be noted that the department has been taking aggressive actions to help protect Delta smelt and so far this year hasn't taken any Delta smelt at its pumping plant.
While pumping is a factor in the changing Delta |
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