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Two weeks ago, George “Super Bunnyhop” Weidman published a YouTube video alleging he had information about the ongoing tension between Konami | and Hideo Kojima. Now, it’s offline.
The video was always a little bit suspect, since Weidman admitted he could not verify the source who claimed to have this information, and, as pointed out below, Weidman didn’t necessarily believe all of the source’s claims. Nevertheless, he published the video and it spurred a huge amount of discussion, especially since Konami and Kojima have been relatively silent lately.
If this was all true, it would make the situation sound really nasty.
There are two ways for a video to disappear from YouTube that doesn’t involve the creator deleting the video.
One, there’s YouTube’s Content ID system, which scans videos for copyrighted material. Content ID, however, typically kicks in as soon as the video is uploaded, and wouldn’t normally bring a video down from the service two weeks later. It’s possible but unlikely, as |
President Trump will hold a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Feb. 27 and 28 in Vietnam, the president announced Tuesday night | .
During his State of the Union address, Mr. Trump said his administration has made great progress in nuclear negotiations with the reclusive state and said a second meeting offers a chance to move forward toward a lasting denuclearization agreement.
“Much work remains to be done, but my relationship with Kim Jong-un is a good one. And Chairman Kim and I will meet again on February 27 and 28 in Vietnam,” the president said.
Mr. Trump first met with Mr. Kim last summer in Singapore in a historic meeting that the White House cast as a pivotal moment in the relationship between the two nations.
The announcement of a second summit comes as top U.S. and North Korean officials negotiate behind the scenes toward a deal. While Mr. Trump has claimed great progress — he claimed in the immediate aftermath of the first meeting with Mr. Kim that North Korea was no longer a nuclear threat — regional analysts and international watchdogs have said Pyongyang has done little to actually |
The Clinton Foundation’s Too Small to Fail is joining forces with pediatricians and others in a literacy push aimed at low-income families: | prescribed reading.
Protesting commencement speakers: What happened to free speech on campus?
Several high-profile commencement speakers have withdrawn or been ‘disinvited’ because of protests. Free-speech advocates worry that today’s students only want speech they like.
The school discipline guidelines are a response to a growing body of statistics showing both the costs of harsh disciplinary policies and the frequent inequities in how they’re applied.
Sen. Rand Paul (R) of Kentucky, widely viewed as a presidential prospect in 2016, said through a spokesman that he will be more careful in the future in attributing sources for his speeches.
Senate leaders said Monday that they were optimistic that they would reach a deal to end the government shutdown and raise the debt limit. But time is short, and the House is a wild card.
After ousting two state senators last month for backing gun-control legislation, activists aim to recall Sen. Evie Hudak. If the |
America's Quest for Global Dominance.
Henry Holt & Company. $22.
''9-11,'' a slight collection of interviews ( | largely conducted via e-mail), was published in 26 countries and translated into 23 languages, finding its way onto best-seller lists in the United States, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Japan and New Zealand. And at home, as mainstream dissent dissipated in the wake of 9/11, a new generation of disgruntled critics has turned to Chomsky for guidance.
Chomsky finds the Bush administration new in only two ways: the crassness of its motives is far more transparent, and it is now playing for far higher stakes. ''Over the years, tactics have been refined and modified,'' Chomsky writes, ''progressively ratcheting up the means of violence and driving our endangered species closer to the edge of catastrophe.'' Unless American statesmen stop ranking hegemony above survival, he says, our 100,000-year-old experiment in human life may well be doomed.
For Chomsky, the world is divided into oppressor and oppressed. America, the prime oppressor, can |
This week we’re celebrating Christmas the only way we know how: Chinese food and a movie. Plus a bunch of amazing guests!
| We’re joined by Marc Tracy, a former Tablet staffer who now covers sports for The New York Times. He tells us about two of his most memorable Tablet articles—about the tradition of Jews eating Chinese food on Christmas and the Jewish songwriters behind some of the most well-known Christmas songs. Jessica Grose, the editor of Lenny, an email newsletter from Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, tells us why it’s OK for Jews to have a Christmas tree. Film critic Jordan Hoffman shares his favorite Christmas movies—and one classic he’s not so into. Librarian Rachel Kamin talks about a No Good Very Bad children’s Hanukkah book (and recommends a few good ones), writer and activist Robin Rice tells us about her latest project, Your Holiday Mom, and Natasha Zaretsky explains why Soviet Jews have New Years trees.
Wishing you and your loved ones, pets, and frenemies a wonderful, meaningful, and delicious |
When suicide comes up as a policy issue, as it does today in assisted-dying debates like the recently defeated referendum in Massachusetts, we tend | to think of it as chiefly a private matter - a tragic but personal choice whose impact is limited to circles of family and friends.
But suicide hasn't always been seen that way. In his book "We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States," University of Maryland historian Richard Bell argues that suicide was a public preoccupation in the early Republic, where acts of self-destruction were viewed as a threat to the stability of the wobbly union. In a recent interview with the history journal Common-Place, Bell quotes an article in the Pennsylvania Herald, June 1785, which worried, “Suicide is making a most alarming progress in these states.� He goes on to note a number of news reports from the era that claimed suicides rates had tripled or more since independence.
Suicide is not illegal anymore. Most state laws were repealed beginning in the 1960s and today the act has been completely decriminalized. |
The makers of Vegemite have bowed to intense pressure from the public and canned their new iSnack 2.0 product branding.
The | new name has been ridiculed Australia-wide since it was revealed last Saturday during the AFL grand final.
Kraft chose the name iSnack 2.0 from over 48,000 entries in Australia and New Zealand in a competition that was launched in July this year.
But today, Kraft has admitted that while Aussies are buying the new product, they just aren't buying the new name.
Head of Corporate Affairs Simon Talbot said in a statement they are going to give the public another shot at coming up with a better name.
"The new name has simply not resonated with Australians. Particularly the modern technical aspects associated with it," he said.
"Our Kraft Foods storeroom currently has thousands of jars of the iSnack2.0 named Vegemite. This product will be distributed around Australia, and will continue to be sold in supermarkets for months to come - until Australia decides upon a new name."
ABC News Online readers mocked the new name earlier this |
After years of persistent public opposition, recent polls show an uptick of support for President Barack Obama’s health care scheme. The truth is that | the plan was as ruinous as most thought, but some of us have forgotten why.
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak weighed in on a controversial policy, stating he supports the push to expand access to short-term health plans.
Some Medicaid expansion supporters are hopeful Virginia's approval will shift the conversation in Oklahoma, but top Republicans said that is unlikely.
A proposed plan would charge a fee on some health care plan providers that would amount to about $60 per year for more than 1 million Oklahomans.
Americans aren't enthralled with "Obamacare" and they definitely don't like the Republican plans offered in Congress, so what does the public want the government to do about health care?
A health care proposal from Senate conservatives would let insurers sell skimpy policies provided they also offer a comprehensive plan. It's being billed as pro-consumer, allowing freedom of choice and potential savings for many.
Senate GOP leaders abruptly shelved their long-sought health |
Nearly 153 years ago, a five-hour battle in Franklin became one of the bloodiest in the western theater of the Civil War.
A | five-hour battle in Franklin became one of the bloodiest in the western theater of the Civil War nearly 153 years ago.
It is now known as the Battle of Franklin. Union and Confederate soldiers fought in the southern portion of the city on Nov. 30, 1864. The battlefield spans both directions up and down Columbia Avenue, where thousands fell as a result of the carnage.
To commemorate the battle, 10,000 luminaries, representing the casualties, will be lit at dusk Thursday on the recently reclaimed battlefield around the Carter House.
The ceremony starts at 4 p.m. at the Carter House. Additionally, Carter House and Carnton will be open for free walk-through tours 5-7 p.m.
Those interested in volunteering at the event should contact Jayde Jacobs at jayde@boft.org or 615-794-0903.
Here are five things to know about that day and its influence.
According to historian and Battle of Franklin |
Plaintiffs attorney in Olivia Y foster care case says the state will be in violation of settlement agreement if agency delays reforms.
The plaintiffs' | attorney in the long-running Olivia Y federal case over Mississippi's foster care system says the state could violate a court order if the Department of Child Protection Services implements a hiring freeze and delays a software upgrade to wipe out an unexpected budget deficit.
Marcia Lowry of New York-based A Better Childhood said Friday she has requested a meeting with Gov. Phil Bryant and Attorney General Jim Hood.
"If they go ahead with adoption of this plan, they will be in contempt of a court order," said Lowry, attorney for the plaintiffs in the case initially filed in 2004. "We don't understand what is happening with the agency."
Lowry said Friday by telephone that she hadn't received a response from Bryant or Hood to her meeting request.
"Gov. Bryant is confident in the leadership at CPS and does not believe the agency’s budgetary plan violates the settlement agreement. He has no plans to meet with Ms. Lowry," Bryant spokesman Clay Chandler said Friday.
CPS Commissioner |
MSNBC's liberal crusader abruptly resigned on air Friday, ending a provocative eight-year run. Howard Kurtz on Olbermann's career | highlights and his clashes with network brass.
MSNBC's liberal crusader abruptly resigned on air Friday, ending a provocative eight-year run. Howard Kurtz on Olbermann's career highlights and his clashes with network brass. Plus, watch Olbermann’s signoff below and seven memorable Keith Olbermann videos.
Keith Olbermann, the liberal crusader whose combative style put him increasingly at odds with his network bosses, resigned abruptly from MSNBC Friday.
The cable channel confirmed his unexpected departure as Olbermann was rather calmly announcing the demise of Countdown after an eight-year run that included a bitter feud with Bill O’Reilly, fiery denunciations of Republicans and occasional acknowledgements that he had gone too far.
Olbermann said he had been “told that this is the last edition of your show” and thanked his audience, saying: “My gratitude to you is boundless.” He also thanked a list of people |
It�ll be a time to honor the past, celebrate the present and look to the future.
Bell Fork Church of Christ will celebrate its | 60th anniversary with events and revival services throughout the weekend. Ricardo Morgan, chairman of the church�s anniversary committee and life long member of the church, said the ceremonies will offer historical perspective as well as a look into the church�s future.
One aspect of the church�s past that will be celebrated is the late Matthew Moore, who served as the church�s minister for more than 15 years in the 1970s and 1980s. Moore is credited in his obituary with starting the first meals on wheels campaign in the Jacksonville area. Morgan said Moore is a �legend� in Jacksonville who practiced what he preached.
Those sentiments were echoed by the church�s current minister, Luis Lugo. Lugo, who has been the church�s minister since 2008, met Moore late in his life and called him an �uncommon� man that loved his church and his community. Moore died in 2010.
Lugo, a reformed Philadelphia gang member, said he |
L.A. floats its future on the Soylent buoyancy of recycled imagination, but did you know the plastic fantasy of yesterday's Tomorrow | land actually sells today for $.15 cents a pound?
For those about to shop, we salute you. For those about to nap, here are a few alternatives to fill the hours of festive, digestive distress known as Black Friday.
Fiona Apple wrote an open letter to explain that she's stopping her tour to care for her dying dog Janet, a pitbull she rescued almost 14 years ago in Echo Park.
Every camera in Disneyland was focused on Mitt Romney when he stopped into Orange County's Magic Kingdom on Tuesday.
California raisin concerns are headed to the Supreme Court by way of Horne v. U.S. Department of Agriculture, justices said Tuesday.
The amazing trace is underway! With Thanksgiving on the brain and markers in hand, 'hand turkey' artists everywhere are getting competitive.
L.A. Galaxy heads to the MLS Cup for the second year in a row as Snoop Dogg tells a Scottish newspaper he'd like a stake in Celtic F. |
President Donald Trump may want Americans to think that Democrats are the ones holding up an immigration deal to protect DACA beneficiaries — but Republican partisanship is the | real culprit.
House Republicans may have a bill — sponsored by Virginia Rep. Chairman Bob Goodlatte — ready to go to address Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals beneficiaries; his proposal is being pushed by many powerful House Republicans. According to the bill, which is unlikely to receive any Democratic support, according to Politico, was developed by GOP members of Congress from a number of factions within the party, including House Freedom Caucus conservative Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas and Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., who's running for Sen. Jeff Flake's seat later this year.
The Goodlatte version of the bill would increase border security and immigration enforcement as well as require verification of workers, according to CNN. It would even more conservative than the Senate version of the bill supported by Republicans John Cornyn of Texas, and Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa. The Senate bill would replace the visa lottery program with |
(CNS): Despite the damning public criticism of the members of the Constitutional Commission by the country’s leader, the commissioners will be going | ahead with their public meetings in order to continue their research into how government and the constitution are working, how politicians are advised and what changes people want to see, if any, to the constitution to achieve the goal of good governance. Although Premier McKeeva Bush, derided comments made by Wil Pineau and Julene Banks about the advisory district council law and the current North Side advisory council, the teamis starting its public meetings in that district as planned, unperturbed by the comments.
Speaking in the Legislative Assembly last month, Bush said their poor performance was embarrassing as they had “gotten so far adrift” from their “real role”. He accused them of misusing their position and trying to influence public opinion.
I was at the meeting in North Sidelast night.
The members of the Constitutional Commision were very professional with providing for this important forum for education about our Contitution. Especially in seeking input from the audience and providing answers to questions |
Here’s Rep. Chris Lee (D) from Hawaii standing in front of a camera and making an announcement about steps being taken to combat | the “predatory behavior” of video game publishers, with particular emphasis given to Electronic Arts and its inclusion of loot boxes within Battlefront II.
And I mean particular emphasis: the video is titled “EA predatory behavior announcement”, and Lee specifically calls out Battlefront II, labelling it a “Star Wars-themed online casino, designed to lure kids into spending money”.
People are more powerful than they think. While we are stepping up to act in Hawaii, we have also been in discussions with our counterparts in a number of other states who are also considering how to address this issue. Change is difficult at the federal level, but states can and are taking action.
Even so, elected officials can’t do it alone. They need your support and you can compel action wherever you live by calling and emailing your own state legislators and asking them to act. But don’t stop there. Call your allies. Call your pastors and |
A small, subdued house in Minneapolis here has won resounding applause from students of Prairie School architecture. The Purcell-Cutts House opened to | the public this fall after four years of restoration by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the architectural firm of MacDonald & Mack.
"The spaces of that house, particularly the living room, I consider to be the epitome of the Prairie movement," said David Gebhard, a professor of architectural history at the University of California in at Santa Barbara.
The house was designed in 1913 by two ardent and prolific practitioners of the Prairie style, William Gray Purcell of Chicago and his Scottish-born partner, George Grant Elmslie, who were colleagues of Frank Lloyd Wright. "Purcell was a delightfully whimsical man," Dr. Gebhard said. Without taking itself too seriously, the Purcell-Cutts House is a little sermon on the Prairie style, reaching its ideological climax in the living room and dining room. In this 50-foot-long split-level space, the dining room is poised over the sunken living room like the prow of a boat.
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The first tech event of 2017 is also the year's biggest: CES arrives the first week of January, and like a tardy Santa Claus, | it bestows the world with the gift of new consumer tech of every kind — phones, cars, TVs, drones, VR — you name it.
Looked at another way, CES tends to catapult new devices and technologies at the world like enormous gobs of spaghetti. The thing about spaghetti, though, is not much of it will stick. A large portion of the gadgets, gear and concepts shown at CES will never make it to store shelves, as cool as some of them may be.
Still, while many of the devices and gear on display may be suspect on an individual basis, taken in aggregate, they point the way for the industry (and its many sub-industries). CES doesn't create tech trends on its own, but it solidifies existing ones and focuses them by refracting them through a common lens: the consumer.
The rewards of Amazon's early lead in the smart-home war will become apparent at CES 2017 as companies announce several products with Alexa integration |
LiAngelo Ball will try to break into the NBA after a tumultuous season in which he was suspended by the UCLA basketball team for a shoplifting incident | in China, left the program and played professionally in Lithuania.
LiAngelo Ball has submitted the necessary paperwork to become eligible for the 2018 NBA draft, his agent, Harrison Gaines, confirmed to USA TODAY Sports' Jeff Zillgitt on Tuesday.
Ball will attempt to join his older brother, Los Angeles Lakers point guard Lonzo, in the league after a tumultuous season in which he was suspended by the UCLA basketball team for an international shoplifting incident, left the program and played professionally in Lithuania.
Ball is expected to participate in the Professional Basketball Combine May 22-23 at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. That is a secondary event for players showcasing their skills in front of NBA, G-League and international executives and scouts, and it follows the NBA-sponsored draft combine May 16-20 in Chicago.
Ball has averaged 15.7 points and 2.9 rebounds in nine league games for Lithuanian team Vytautas Prienu this season while playing alongside |
BP Plc, seeking to avoid paying what it says would be billions of dollars in unjustified claims, will ask the U.S. Supreme | Court to review a court order on a settlement tied to its 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
“No company would agree to pay for losses that it did not cause, and BP certainly did not when it entered into this settlement,” the company said in a statement announcing its intention to appeal an order forcing it to pay what it calls fictitious claims of spill-related damage.
The company asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans yesterday to freeze the disputed payments while an appeal of the claims process is pending. The court yesterday lifted an earlier halt on payments. BP said it could be “irreparably harmed” if payments were made before final resolution of the dispute.
BP settled with most private-party plaintiffs in 2012, initially estimating the cost of the agreement at $7.8 billion. The company contends a flawed interpretation by the claims administrator has raised the price to $9.2 billion or more.
The New Orleans appeals court this |
Rediff.com » Movies » Is Ash more beautiful than the Mona Lisa?
Is Ash more beautiful than the Mona Lisa?
| It seems Ram Gopal Varma is very impressed with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's beauty. The director compared Aishwarya with Mona Lisa. 'I think Aishwarya rai is a thousand times more beautiful than Mona lisa,' he tweeted.
Hubby Abhishek Bachchan was quick to reply. '@RGVzoomin guess what???? Me too!' he tweeted back.
Bollywood stars are shocked with the murder of veteran crime journalist Jyotindra Dey on Saturday. The stars used twitter to condemn the murder.
Celina Jaitly was also shocked. 'A senior crime reporter shot dead in Mumbai by underworld. What is the city coming to?' she posted.
Madhur Bhandarkar was stunned. 'I'm stunned and benumbed by the sad demise of J Dey a courageous crime journalist.. R.I.P,' he posted.
It has been pouring for days |
Shares of coffee retailer Starbucks are trading lower on Friday after the company reported weaker-than-expected revenue for its second fiscal quarter of 2016. Revenue | was up 9.4% compared to the year-ago quarter, reaching $4.99 billion. This was just barely shy of a consensus analyst estimate for revenue of $5.03 billion. Shares are down about 6% at the time of this writing.
But is the market overreacting? Here are 10 reasons why the company's results looked solid despite the market's pessimistic reaction.
9%: Starbucks' 9% year-over-year revenue growth wasn't slow by any means. Sure, it's slower than the company's nearly 14% year-over-year growth in the trailing 12 months before Q2, but in a market where many restaurants and retailers are struggling to grow revenue, it's still impressive.
18%: It's easier to forgive Starbucks' slight miss on its top line when you |
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When meeting with clients, many competent financial planners include four words in their discussion that might cause many people to | cringe. Initially, clients hear the four words and assume the insurance product the words describe is not for them. This conclusion is often founded on historical perceptions that might not be completely accurate.
There are many benefits associated with the purchase of the insurance product described by the four words. Some benefits are underwritten by an insurance company and other benefits are ancillary to the product. In my opinion, the most important reason to purchase the product is because of the options available to you, the insured. Yes, there is an insurance product that can provide options because of the resources available to the insured under the terms of the contract.
The four dreaded words that many ignore until it is too late are "long-term care insurance."
For most people, thinking about the reasons for needing this product are not pleasant. The reasons may be disheartening, but if and when the risks become reality, most people would prefer to have options to manage their health care.
Typically, the benefits available |
About 20 survivors gathered at Pearl Harbor on Friday to pay tribute to the thousands of men lost in the Japanese attack 77 years ago.
They joined | dignitaries, active duty troops and members of the public in observing a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the time the bombing began on Dec. 7, 1941.
John Mathrusse was an 18-year-old seaman second class walking out of the chow hall on Ford Island to see a friend on the USS West Virginia when the bombing began.
"The guys were getting hurt, bombs and shells going off in the water. I helped the ones that couldn't swim, who were too badly injured or whatever and helped them to shore," said Mathrusse, now 95.
Mathrusse, who traveled to Hawaii for the event from Mountain View, California, remembers carrying injured people to the mess hall and setting them on mattresses grabbed from the barracks above.
Robert Fernandez, who was assigned to the USS Curtiss, recalls being petrified.
"I was kind of nervous too. I was scared. I was 17. I went |
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger fears UEFA could be "scared" to force clubs to comply with the new financial fair play regulations.
UEFA | are due to implement the system for the 2013-14 season, which will give them the right to ban teams from Champions League or Europa League participation if they continue to spend more than they earn.
With the Court of Arbitration for Sport set to hear the dispute between UEFA and Swiss club FC Sion, who responded to their exclusion from the Europa League by mounting a civil action, Wenger believes such litigation could eventually soften the stance of the European governing body, saying: "I am less optimistic about that than I was a year ago about it coming in."
He added: "When it comes in, it depends on with what kind of rules. I am not sure completely that UEFA has completely worked out all the rules that will make it work.
"UEFA has been challenged by the Sion case when they excluded them and it looks like they are scared they could be challenged by the big clubs if they bring it in by force.
"I am not sure they will be capable |
The floor plans for the presidential palace, the interior ministry and Paris' police headquarters were stolen.
The floor plans for the French president's Elys | ée Palace, the country's interior ministry and the Paris police headquarters were recently stolen from a contractor's car in Paris.
"The plans on a USB drive and discs had been given to a building contractor hired to install fibre optic cabling for video surveillance in the sensitive sites," writes The Telegraph's Henry Samuel. "Thieves made off with the plans after the contractor left them in his vehicle when he briefly parked it at the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris to pick up a friend. Despite their sensitive nature, none of the blueprints were encrypted, making them easy to read or copy by any user."
"A statement from the Interior Ministry admitted that the information included layout plans for the Elysée, the ministry itself and several large companies," The Connexion reports. "Le Parisien, which revealed the theft, said that information on more than 9,000 buildings was included on the memory stick and hard drives. "
"Those plans are now in the hands of thieves |
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said he was not one of the two individuals in a yearbook photograph showing one person in blackface and another wearing | a Ku Klux Klan robe.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam denied on Saturday that he was one of the two individuals in a yearbook photograph showing one person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe.
Northam was sure, he said, because he'd remembered darkening his face on another occasion in his 20s.
During his Saturday news conference to address the growing controversy over the racist photograph, which was listed beneath his name in the 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook, Northam detailed using shoe polish to make his face darker during a dance contest where he dressed up as Michael Jackson.
"My belief that I did not wear that costume or attend that party stems in part from my clear memory of other mistakes that I made in the same period of my life," Northam explained. "That same year, I did participate in a dance contest in San Antonio in which I darkened my face as part of a Michael Jackson costume."
Northam said looking back, |
Britain rejected Venezuela’s request to withdraw $1.2bn in gold stored in the UK, according to reports. It was enough for | the self-declared and US-backed ‘president’, Juan Guaido, to support the alleged move.
The Bank of England blocked Venezuela’s attempts to retrieve $1.2 billion worth of gold stored as the nation’s foreign reserves in Britain, sources told Bloomberg on Friday.
According to the media outlet, officials in Caracas have for weeks been trying to withdraw the gold, with Calixto Ortega, the head of Venezuela’s central bank, traveling to London in mid-December to seek access to the nation’s assets.
The talks were “unsuccessful,” as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the national security advisor to President Donald Trump, John Bolton, pressured their British counterparts to freeze the Venezuelan assets, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
By some estimates, Venezuela holds more than $8 billion in foreign reserves. According to earlier reports, the amount of Venezuelan gold kept |
Digital Shoreditch 2013: London's Tech City is the UK's "economy of tomorrow"
Digital Shoreditch, a celebration of | the creative, entrepreneurial, and technological talent in East London's Tech City, kicked off this morning at Shoreditch Town Hall with an opening keynote from Hackney councillor Guy Nicholson.
Nicholson delivered his remarks in the venue's main assembly hall, which was colourfully decked out and resembled the main stage of a music festival more than it did a traditional tech conference. Focusing on the future of Tech City, Nicholson said that the rapid development of the technology sector represented the biggest economic change in the UK since the rise of industry in the 1700s.
"We are in the process of seeing a new economy emerge – an economy which, if one really does look quite hard at it, is the economy of tomorrow, as we move out of an industrial era and into a tech era," he commented.
According to the Labour counsellor, the government's role is to ensure that London's tech economy has the support it needs to continue to grow. He pointed to the tax exemptions |
Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is a problem affecting millions of individuals, with a prevalence rate of 28% to 30% for women ( | Cobia, Sobansky, & Ingram, 2004) and 14% for men (Breire & Elliott, 2003). Because of the psychological trauma associated with CSA and the potential impact on the survivor’s sexuality, a couple’s relationship satisfaction may be reduced and survivors may experience difficulty in maintaining healthy intimate relationships. How CSA impacts an individual has been studied extensively, but its effect on committed couple relationships has received much less attention in the literature. Additionally, very few studies have incorporated the non-abused partner’s perspective in the relationship and no current research has been reported on healthy couples with a history of CSA. The following is a qualitative research study exploring how eight couples reporting average to above average dyadic functioning and a history of CSA with one partner, show resiliency in overriding the potential negative impacts of CSA on their relationship. The experiences of healthy couples were studied through a phenomenological approach, gathering data from both partners using dyadic interviews in a |
CHIANG MAI, THAILAND — A 25-year-old Canadian tourist in Thailand suffered a fatal accident after his zip line | snapped causing him to drop 12 meters and fall down a hill, according to The Bangkok..
Students at a Queens elementary school will be greeted by grief counselors Thursday after a tragic accident took the life of one of their classmates. CBS2's Aundrea Cline-Thomas reports from Queens.
Lyft shares have fallen 30% since the stock first hit the market in late March, and they've fallen 11% from the company's first closing price. But this kind of volatile trading isn't uncommon for newly..
Lyft shares have fallen 30% since the stock first hit the market in late March. Business Insider reports the company's fallen 11% from the company's first closing price. Volatile trading isn't uncommon..
Winona Ryder and John Turturro and five others were cast in David Simon’s upcoming HBO miniseries, “The Plot Against America.” Simon and Ed Burns are adapting the six-part miniseries from the..
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Even before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured last Friday, people have been quick to assign blame for the explosions in Boston, assuaging their | fears by holding someone responsible.
The goal was to eschew radicalism by pointing out that “Muslims view ‘Islamic extremists’ the same way most Christians view the Westboro Baptist Church.” However, Muslims abroad and at home were also worried that Islamic involvement would incite the waves of Islamophobic attacks we saw after Park51, the community center in Lower Manhattan, was announced.
They wouldn't have to wait long for an answer. The day after the attack professional Islamophobe Pamela Geller was already trying to pin Boston on Muslims, labelling the act one of violent “jihad.” When @EliClifton attempted to call her out for being a bigot, Geller tweeted back that the “blood [is] on your hands.” According to Geller, anyone who tries to defend Muslims is as responsible as they are.
Sadly, her logic reflected the harsh reality of police profiling after the Boston attacks |
Natural gas consumption is starting to decline in residential and commercial sectors in the United States, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
| Gas leaks have also declined in past years, but an explosion in East Harlem Wednesday that caused two buildings to collapse, seven fatalities, and many more injured or missing had residents concerned.
Authorities have said the cause of the explosion–which occurred right before investigators from Con Edison and firefighters got on scene–was likely due to a gas leak. There are reports of nearby residents who say they’ve been smelling gas for weeks, but no calls were made to Con Edison, 311, or 911 in that time period.
Recent reports released this year have pointed to the aging infrastructure and use of cast iron pipe mains as a problem. Authorities have not yet been able to pinpoint the cause of the the explosion.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said in an update to the incident noon Thursday that aging infrastructure is a challenge. “We know this is a fundamental challenge of New York City or any older city,” de Blasio said.
Natural gas is odorless, but companies like Con Edison |
FRESHMAN BASEBALL.- Practice on Soldiers Field at 4 sharp.
CAMERA CLUB.- There will be a meeting in Sever 6 | , tonight, at 7 o'clock. A full attendance is requested, as important business is to be attended to.
D. U. PLAY.- Rehearsal Acts I and II this evening at 8.
HARVARD FORUM.- An important business meeting will be held this evening in Sever 11 at 6.45. All members are urged to be present. Joint meeting will be held immediately after.
CHESS CLUB.- Meeting tonight at 7.30 in club rooms.
'VARSITY MANDOLIN CLUB.- Rehearsal this afternoon at 4.45 in L. S. S. 1.
'VARSITY BANJO CLUB.- Rehearsal tonight at 7 sharp.
'99, 1st at 5.00; 2nd at 4.30.
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FRESHMAN BANJO CLUB.- Rehearsal |
DENVER – Prosecutors in Colorado late on Monday formally identified the Idaho nurse charged in the disappearance of Woodland Park mother Kelsey Berreth and said | she had been charged with one felony count of tampering with physical evidence in the case.
Fourth Judicial District Court Judge Scott A. Sells on Monday issued a summons for Krystal Jean Kenney Lee, 32, of Hanson, Idaho to appear in a Teller County Combined Court room for a first appearance on one count of tampering with physical evidence, a class 6 felony.
According to ABC News, who spoke with two of her relatives, Lee is expected to plead guilty in the case on Friday. The relatives said she has been cooperating with investigators in the case.
It’s unclear to which charge she could plead guilty, but multiple authorities told ABC News that Lee is suspected to driving Berreth’s phone to Idaho to dispose of it.
The criminal complaint against Lee says the alleged tampering with evidence occurred on either Nov. 24 or 25, or both.
“Between and including November 24, 2018 and November 25, 2018, Krystal Jean Lee Kenney, |
And where to go when you can’t get in.
CAN’T GET INTO THIS ONE?
“My favorite place | to eat,” says Hilda Hoy, editor at e-mail magazine Sugarhigh. The farm-to-table American spot, which looks “like a cross between a farmhouse and the hold of a ship,” opened last summer after a yearlong stint as an apartment supper club.
Like Reinstoff, it is located in the back of an anonymous building. “They give you a whole smorgasbord of splendid appetizers,” says Hoy. “It’s really popular, but so off-the-beaten-path that it still feels like a secret.” Plus it’s cheap: Four courses, with wine, runs €39.
You are: A beer-obsessed middle-aged accountant from Moabit who makes weekly trips to the Brewbaker brewpub (Arminiusstrasse 2-4).
You’re drinking: Brewbaker Imperial Stout, a gloriously |
So, I'm at the opening of the fancy new Apple Store on Manhattan's Upper West Side. They're talking about how awesome their retail is | and whatnot. I'll have pictures up shortly. But for now, digits.
• They hit 170 million visitors this year, and 10 million people hit Genius Bars for personal training.
• Sales per store — $US26 million, which is just below what Macy's, Target and Best Buy make per store. But, if you look at the real estate, it's a slightly different picture. Apple Stores do sales of $US4300 per square foot which is five times the $US872 per square foot Best Buy does.
• Wow — over 100,000 applicants on file for jobs at the Apple Store worldwide, 10,000 people submitted applications for the new Upper West Side store. Just over 200 got a job.
• Apple realised they were going too small with their stores, so now all of their stores will be at least "three tables wide". In other words, they're going to be bigger. They're also going to be opening more stores next year |
People with children love to talk about shows for kids that are also secretly aimed at adults, as if they’re constantly blaring the opposite | of those high-pitched noises that scare away teenagers and they have jokes that only adults can hear. “I know Yo Gabba Gabba is about dancing and being a good friend,” they claim, “but the music is actually really good. Of Montreal was on it once!” Yep, uh huh. Sure. We’ll check it out someday.
One of the biggest names in the “My kid loves it, but I also love it” genre is Disney’s Phineas And Ferb, a show about two stepbrothers who go on wacky adventures in their backyard. For its upcoming Halloween special, though, Phineas And Ferb isn’t even going to pretend that it’s not secretly pandering to adults. According to IGN, the special will feature Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reprising their roles as Shaun and Ed from Edgar Wright’s Shaun Of The Dead.
Obviously |
After spectacularly losing a local spelling bee as a youngster, the now 40-year-old Guy Trilby is determined to go back and | change it. Having developed his spelling ability substantially over the decades, he decides to enter the National Quill Spelling Bee after discovering a loophole which states that anyone past the 8th grade cannot compete. Having given up on academic achievement before he passed 8th grade, the contest's judges struggle to deny him the opportunity to compete despite arrant fury from parents of potential winners who believe that his age now gives him an advantage. Initially rude and insulting towards his pre-pubescent competitors, he soon starts to develop a friendship with Chaitainya; an enthusiastic young boy with no friends who Guy takes under his wing. However, not everyone's happy with what Guy ends up teaching Chaitainya about the world.
Guy Trilby is a 40-year-old man who dropped out of high school as a young boy and remains bitter about losing a spelling bee. Thus, now older and wiser, he finds a way to enter the National Quill Spelling Bee by abusing a loophole |
Augusta Read Thomas is championing an expansive new composition center at the University of Chicago.
When composer and University of Chicago professor Augusta Read Thomas | launched the well-titled Ear Taxi Festival here, in 2016, she appeared to have reached a personal high point.
For during six intensely packed days and nights, 500 Chicago-area musicians performed music by 87 living composers, including 54 world premieres, and more.
How could anyone soon top that galvanizing experience?
• The Grossman Ensemble, a newly created band of 13 new-music specialists performing three concerts at the university’s Logan Center for the Arts (Dec. 7; March 15; June 7). Repertoire will include 12 world premieres, including seven commissioned works. Each concert will be preceded by eight rehearsals, some open to the public.
• An experimental music series at the Logan Center Performance Penthouse featuring MacArthur Fellow Tyshawn Sorey leading his trio (Nov. 8) and CHIMEfest 2019: Live Electronics Symposium (May 2 and 3).
• Spektral +1, Plus One, |
A Recipe for Mexican Hot Chocolate Instead of adding hot water to brown dust with freeze-dried marshmallows, NPR's Steve Inskeep decided | to learn how to do hot chocolate right. Pastry chef David Guas walks Inskeep through his recipe for Mexican hot chocolate, which features vanilla beans, almond extract and cinnamon.
Below is David Guas' recipe for Mexican hot chocolate. Guas is the executive pastry chef for Ceiba Restaurant in Washington, D.C.
Combine milk, cream, cinnamon sticks and vanilla in a 1 quart stainless steel pot and bring mixture to a boil. Have prepared chocolate in a mixing bowl. Allow the heated liquid to steep (rest off the heat) for 5 minutes, then pour over the top of the chopped chocolate. Stir the chocolate mixture until the chocolate is completely melted and smooth.
Pour the warm mixture through a strainer and it is ready to serve. Serve immediately or refrigerate. To reheat, place chocolate mixture in a 2 quart stainless steel pot on low heat -- do not let sit, or it will burn. Stir mixture until warm. Immediately serve and place in |
An Indian-American Muslim raised in Texas, Hussain is a deputy associate White House counsel who was also closely involved in shaping the major address the president | delivered in Cairo last June, explaining Obama’s views to the Muslim world. In announcing Hussain’s appointment last week as the U.S. envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the president called Hussain “an accomplished lawyer and a close and trusted member of my White House staff.” Hussain traveled to Saudi Arabia and Qatar earlier this week with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Hussain’s allies have defended him against claims that he is soft on terror by pointing to a think tank study he co-wrote arguing that U.S. policy should emphasize that terrorism is antithetical to the teachings of Islam.
At the time Hussain spoke in 2004, the government's treatment of Sami Al-Arian was a cause celebre among Arab-American and Muslim activists, as well as many civil libertarians generally. Al-Arian was accused of raising funds for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but his trial in 2005 ended with some acquittals and a hung |
You've probably seen, or at least heard of, Nancy Meyer's latest film The Intern. Starring Anne Hathaway and Robert DeNiro | , it follows a 70-something man attempting to reenter the workforce. When the retired widower has difficulty finding employment, he opts for a senior internship at a digital fashion startup.
"That movie was kind of an aha moment for us," explains Dara Kaplan, president and partner of a New York City-based p.r. firm called Wunderlich Kaplan Communications (WKC). "How many times have we witnessed our friends, unable to dive back into the workforce after several years at home? Women over 40 shouldn't be cast aside for Millennials."
Wunderlich, Kaplan and their enterns.
Inspired, Kaplan and WKC's CEO, Gwen Wunderlich, started The Enternship. The four week program, which launched this summer, aims to help women over 40 reenter the workforce by teaching them practical p.r. and digital communications skills. Eight interns in their 40s, 50s and 60s are currently participating, |
April 16, 2015 Lifestyles, Uncategorized.
A homeless man sleeps on a West Palm Beach bench.
Note: A rainy | forecast has moved the SleepOut from the Meyer Ampitheatre to the United Methodist Church of the Palm Beaches, off Palm Beach Lakes Blvd. and Village Blvd.
A sleeping bag, backpack and maybe a pillow.
It’s all many homeless people can call their own.
It’s also all you’ll need for tomorrow night’s SleepOut to support The Lord’s Place, a nonprofit which combats homelessness in Palm Beach County.
The SleepOut is designed to dramatize the plight of the estimated 3,200 homeless people in Palm Beach County.
Or, participants can donate and sleep in their own beds.
After nearly 30 years of living on the street, The Lord’s Place helped James Dixon move into the nonprofit’s first group home called Graduate House.
On Sunday in The Palm Beach Post’s Accent section, read the inspiring story of James Dixon, who stepped “out of |
Another shortage threatens to threaten Americans' sense of wellbeing and security.
This time it's a shortage of SUVs.
The reason? When | gas prices rose, Ford closed a truck plant and began assembling smaller cars. Now there are plenty of small Fords available, but Navigators, Expeditions and premium F-series trucks are scarce on the ground.
"It's one of those things that kept Ford out of the situation where they have to get government bailout money,” says Ford dealer Bob Utter.
"(But) all of a sudden we were right in the middle of the summer selling season, and we couldn't sell trucks in Sherman, Texas and this is a big truck market."
Under the terms of recently passed federal legislation, owners of sport-utility vehicles, pickups or minivans getting 18 mpg or less could receive a voucher for $3,500 if their new truck or SUV gets at least 2 mpg more than their old vehicle, provided they have owned the newer vehicle for at least a year.
The voucher could be up to $4,500 if the mileage of the |
A former policeman smothered his elderly and frail mother because he saw her as "a burden whose lingering existence was ruining his life", a court | has heard.
John Stephen Green, 65, was said to be unable to wait any longer for his 88-year-old mother Bernadette to die so he murdered her.
The elderly woman's emaciated body was found at their family home in Aston-in-Ribble in May.
The Crown say his motive for the alleged killing was revealed in a series of text messages he sent to his daughter in the months leading up to Mrs Green's death on May 18.
Green "dehumanised" his mother, referring to her as "it" and and the month before stated he was looking after a "stinking corpse", jurors at Preston Crown Court were told.
Francis McEntee, prosecuting, said the defendant had lived with his mother at his former childhood home in Inkerman Street since 2009 after the failure of his marriage.
Neighbours thought they enjoyed a normal mother and son relationship as Mrs Green came increasingly to rely upon her son after she |
Marvin Fong, The Plain DealerFormer Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora is on trial in Akron on federal racketeering charges. |
AKRON, Ohio -- A retired Cuyahoga County employee took the stand late this afternoon in the Jimmy Dimora federal racketeering trial, telling a jury that the hiring of employees in the engineer's office, especially interns, was done for political purposes.
Patricia Gouker retired Dec. 31, 2009, after more than 32 years with the county. About 29 years were spent at the county engineer's office, where she rose from typist to director of human resources for that office.
She said this afternoon that "many of the students were political hires," but that a woman named Dana Rybak was selected for an internship in the sanitary engineer's office in 2008 "because we knew her parents."
was business manager and financial secretary for Journeymen Plumbers Local 55. He was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison on Jan. 20, 2011. He had pleaded guilty to stealing from the union and tampering with a witness. Dana Rybak's mother, Linda |
If past years are any indication, losing weight is probably the most popular New Year's resolution. To improve our (collective) chances of success | this time around, we can utilize the power of technology to make our goals a reality. Two popular apps aim to help, but which is the better-designed product?
The first app to consider is the aptly named Lose It! It's available for both iPhones and Androids.
You can even use this app when you are not internet connected, a major advantage if you are relying on WiFi. Lose It! got an average of 4.7 out of 5 stars from Amazon reviewers and it is super easy to use. You can also add new foods and new exercises to their database, as well as set up new recipes for complicated foods. Logged it, you can back up your data, share your data with friends and tie in with your Fitbit.
A similar product, the MyFitnessPal app, received 4.8 out of 5 stars from Amazon reviewers.
Both apps allow you to scan the barcodes of packaged foods to input calories, and both have a database |
PHILADELPHIA — The Rev. Al Sharpton and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich don’t agree on much, but a | meeting with a group of inner-city charter school students on Tuesday left them with the same impression: There is hope for improving the U.S. education system.
Sharpton, a liberal Democrat, and Gingrich, a conservative Republican, joined Education Secretary Arne Duncan on the first stop of a “listening and learning” tour to find out which school strategies are working and why.
The odd couple of Gingrich and Sharpton found common ground in the concept that education is the new frontier on civil rights. President Barack Obama has a goal of turning around 5,000 failing schools across the U.S. in the next five years.
At Mastery, the trio met with about a dozen 11th graders who attended the school four years earlier when it was under district management. At that time, students said, kids ran wild, expectations were low and teachers didn’t care about the students — or even about teaching.
“It was horrible,” 17 |
The government was making baseless accusations against the UNP, after assuring the United Nations Human Rights Commission that war crimes allegations against the security forces would | be investigated and those found guilty punished, General Secretary of the UNP Tissa Attanayake said yesterday.
He told a news conference in Colombo that when President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his ministers go abroad, they play a completely different tune to the one they are used to while in Sri Lanka.
It was the External Affairs Minister G. L. Pieris and former Attorney General Mohan Pieris, who had requested time from the UNHRC to probe the actions of the security forces during the last stages of the war against the LTTE, while assuring it of instituting legal action against those who had violated the law, Attanayake said.
He said that the UNP was not interested in protecting the Rajapaksa regime, but was deeply concerned about the repercussions on the Sri Lankan people due to the inability of the "clique that calls the shots" to stomach their pride and behave in a manner that would not attract further international |
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Men, this is how you can fight infertility! |
Here are a few essential tips for men to fight infertility.
Infertility, for long has been primarily considered as a problem faced by only women.
But, many researches have been conducted to prove that men are equally responsible for being infertile.
In the contemporary society, one's profession and lifestyle plays a vital role in determining how fertile one is.
If one sits on a chair for longer duration, it can overheat their testicles.
Keeping a laptop on the lap for a prolonged period can result in a low sperm count.
Wearing tight pants can damage one's testicles and also cause infertility.
Smoking and excessive alcohol consumption can also result in infertility.
Stress and anxiety also affects one's sperm count.
The harmful ingredients in tobacco smoking can kill sperm cells. On the other hand, alcohol does no good either.
Excessive alcohol consumption can reduce libido and also destroy the quality and structure of the sperm.
To combat |
Rupert Murdoch has never been a man to let details get in the way of a good headline. This week he accepted the accolade of being | the most influential Australian of all time, even though by his own admission there were others on the shortlist who'd done a lot more to make the world a better place.
Surely he should be stripped of his title without further ceremony - and not because of the inconvenient little fact that he's been an American citizen for the past 21 years. His editors insist that he never influences the way they produce their papers. The politicians maintain that, for their part, they act in the best interests of the country, not those of Rupert Murdoch.
He may carry some clout in the boardroom, but in the cabinet room? Mr Murdoch should throw up his hands, give back the award and admit that he has no more influence over government policy than you or me. Less, in fact. At least we have a vote in this country.
In my spin-doctoring days I might have tried an argument like that, although not without that tell-tale flicker of a smile. It |
Former Chief Election Commissioner T S Krishnamurthy Monday termed as 'unreasonable' opposition parties' demand to verify at least 50 per cent of | the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines with the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
He reiterated that EVMs are credible even without VVPAT.
"And this has been confirmed not by me, but by technical experts, and nobody has still been able to find out any fault; there can be human errors in operating machines," Krishnamurthy, who oversaw the 2004 general elections, told PTI.
Demanding 50 per cent paper trail verification, particularly in the light of the Supreme Court judgement, is unreasonable, according to him.
Krishnamurthy was referring to the SC earlier this month directing the Election Commission to increase random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs from one polling booth to five booths in every Assembly segment.
"As far as VVPAT is concerned, the opposition, particularly if they lose elections, will say even 50 per cent is not adequate, and say 100 per cent is required", he said.
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More than 700 homes lying empty for more than six months were brought back into use across Scotland last year.
The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership helped local | authorities and others bring 742 long-term empty private homes back into use – more than two every day.
Since 2010/11, 3,216 of these properties have been brought back into use through the partnership, with an average total market value of around £500 million.
However, 37,135 private homes in Scotland are still empty and have been so for more than six months.
In its annual report, the partnership, funded by the Scottish Government and hosted by housing and homelessness charity Shelter Scotland, praised the progress so far, but said much more needs to be done.
The report makes a series of recommendations, including calling for a compulsory sale order power for vacant and derelict land and buildings, and a £3m, three-year empty homes feasibility fund to help owners assess project feasibility.
Other recommendations include all councils having an empty homes strategy and local authorities earmarking part of the Vacant Dwelling Council Tax Levy to fund an empty homes service.
The |
A US judge last week denied police a warrant to unlock a number of devices using biometrics identifiers like fingerprints and faces, extending more privacy to | device owners than previous recent cases.
The order comes from Northern California Federal District Judge Kandis Westmore in response to a request by the government to search and seize the devices found at a premises in Oakland, California, connected to two suspects.
The suspects are believed to be involved an attempt to extort payment from a victim through Facebook Messenger by threatening to release an embarrassing video.
Judge Westmore in her order found authorities did have probable cause to apply for search warrant but denied the request because it was overly broad for not being restricted to the two individuals under investigation.
Instead, the warrant would have allowed authorities to seize and search any device found at the location in question, and to force the unlocking of said devices – no matter who they belonged to – by compelled use of biometric controls. In this case applying the owner's finger to a fingerprint sensor if present or holding the device up to owner's face if it relies on a system like Apple's Face ID or Samsung's iris |
Proceeds from the 2016 edition of ETV's annual charity telethon "Jõulutunnel" will go to support | the improvement of fitness opportunities for persons with mobility impairments, for whom two dedicated fitness centers outfitted with specialized equipment will be built in Tallinn and Tartu.
"Opportunities for movement and fitness are very important for all of us," said Estonian Union of Persons with Mobility Impairment (ELIL) rehabilitation center director Piret Vahula. "That is true for people with mobility impairments as well. Unfortunately their fitness opportunities are limited. It isn't possible to use regular gym equipment in a wheelchair, and there is no way to train with very small loads, as these people often need."
All of the equipment to be purchased with the money raised is specially developed and constructed with the particular needs of special needs and rehabilitation in mind, including those of wheelchair users.
The fitness centers will be available for use by people of all ages who may need it — whether they have suffered from a heart attack, stroke, neurological disorder, multiple sclerosis, back or brain |
It is Friday night. I’m 30 years old, alone on a fake-fur blanket in the back of a cold Transit van. | Most of my generation are out there in pubs, or indoors by the telly, canoodling, arguing or cooking, or going across to the thermostat to turn the heating up. I’m parked on a Cornish industrial estate with no warmth except the tiny, wavering plume of heat that rises out of my lantern. This place is so lonesome that even the doggers, boy-racers and stoners have spurned it. I curse myself silently. You’re not a Traveller, my mate, you’re a div. What sort of Traveller would come and sleep here on their own? I have covered thousands of miles in my van in a bid to uncover the history of Gypsy Britain. But the road is proving tough.
Gypsy reality is partly composed of fairgrounds and showgrounds, picturesque lakeside halts, sheltered commons, bright heaths. But it also comprised frozen copses and |
Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge is set to miss Sunday's match at Hull after sustaining a sprained ankle.
The 24-year-old, | who has scored nine goals already this season, limped out of training with the problem.
Press Association Sport understand Liverpool's medical team are still assessing the extent of the problem but the England international will not be fit for the trip to the KC Stadium.
Sturridge's injury could not have been more unfortunately timed after manager Brendan Rodgers praised his attitude in training over the last week after dropping the forward for last weekend's Merseyside derby.
The Reds boss felt the player, who had been affected by a dead leg for a couple of weeks, was not fully fit after 90 minutes for England in the friendly against Germany.
However, he was pleased with the reaction Sturridge's omission against Everton had provoked.
"Players will react differently. You will find some players, if they are not in the team, they just shrivel and die and have no fight," he said.
"The top players when they don't play they show you every single day what they can do |
As you may know, through the work of the Government Digital Service (GDS), part of the Cabinet Office, the UK Government is hoping to | save money for taxpayers and make services clearer by moving them online.
GOV.UK was launched out of beta last month to replace Businesslink and Direct.gov to consolidate the services and information that people in the UK need to find. The push has been in the pipelines for some time and the process means refreshing published material for users, fixing citizen’s online transactions and aligning legacy systems along the way.
Today the idea of the government being digital by default has taken another step with the publication of the Government Digital Strategy and Digital Efficiency reports by the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude. The Cabinet office says that the Digital Strategy fulfils a commitment outlined in June’s Civil Service Reform Plan.
The Digital Strategy sets out how the Government can make up to £1.2 billion worth of savings by 2015 simply by making everyday transactions digital.
According to the BBC, a study of local councils showed that face-to-face transactions cost £8.62 |
To avoid fees tied to 'contamination' of loads, residents will have to drop off and sort materials at a Waterville site.
WIN | SLOW — Changes to the town’s recycling system are afoot. Starting Dec. 1, Winslow residents and businesses will no longer bring their recycling to the library, but to I Recycle in Waterville.
The Town Council unanimously approved the decision at its meeting last week.
Town Manager Mike Heavener said that mixed-use loads had been contaminated with nonrecyclable materials “very frequently” and that the system was no longer cost-effective.
“We’re paying more in an effort to try to recycle, but we can’t recycle because of what’s being thrown into the bins,” Heavener said.
The town’s recycling is ultimately transported to ecomaine in Portland for processing. Ecomaine charges extra fees if deliveries contain over 5 percent of nonrecyclable material or contamination. Global buyers of ecomaine’s recyclables – mostly China – once accepted contamination rates of |
Update November 14, 2018: Updated information from Cal Fire indicates there are now at least 48 people confirmed killed in the Camp Fire, with over 100 | still missing.
Photo, left: U.S. Forest Service has 250 firefighters helping to battle the Camp Fire.
November 11, 2018 (San Diego’s East County) – A red flag warning for San Diego County and much of Southern California has been extended through Tuesday as three major wildfires continue to scorch the state. Terrified evacuees posted videos such as this one, shot by a woman escaping through tunnels of fire along a freeway north of Los Angeles: https://twitter.com/i/status/1061430443134734339.
October 13, 2018 (San Diego) – Santa Ana winds gusting into our region, along with falling humidty, have prompted the National Weather Service to issue a red flag warning for high fire danger from 3 a.m. Monday to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
December 13, 2017 (San Diego's East County) - A red flag warning for high fire danger is in effect today through Thursday. |
If there’s a teaching equivalent to bungee jumping off a cliff, the educators in this special section have done it. They’ | ve walked away from locker-lined schools, classrooms of their own, and departmental meetings. They’ve left behind 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. schedules, playground duty, teachers’ editions of textbooks—in some cases, textbooks themselves. Their common tether: a belief that learning can occur any time, any place—and that it should. Then they’ve leapt into the unknown.
Polar Attraction: Science teacher Kevin Lavigne experiences professional development in Antarctica.
The Idealist: In a dusty Dominican village, Peace Corps volunteer David Smith is on a mission to undo the digital divide.
The Healer: Responsible for educating kids who are battling cancer, Dennis Medford actually goes one step further—he offers comfort.
The Advocate: While many would like to lock her students up and throw away the keys, Julie Campoverde is working hard to provide second chances.
The Roadie: One-night stays, noisy |
Nearly seven months after its much-heralded relaunch, The New York Times Magazine is changing yet again. Ana Marie Cox has been named | its new Talk interviewer, conducting weekly question-and-answers in the back of the book, and Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor of philosophy and law at New York University, will take over as the magazine’s sole Ethicist.
Mr. Appiah had been doing the Ethicists feature, a sort of glorified philosophical-advice column, with two others: the constitutional lawyer Kenji Yoshino and the novelist Amy Bloom. (Mr. Appiah replaced Jack Shafer, a senior media writer at Politico, in April.) Their conversation, an edited version of which was published in print, also went out as a podcast. But according to Jake Silverstein, the magazine’s editor, the podcast didn’t attract a large enough audience.
“Trying out a new format for a long-running column was a bit of an experiment,” Mr. Silverstein said in a statement. And so the column, which was |
Editor’s Note: This post was published on August 11, 2016, shortly before the Drug Enforcement Administration published its announcement regarding marijuana policy in | the federal register.
Today the Drug Enforcement Administration is expected to announce its decision on a five-year-old marijuana rescheduling petition. After a long wait and amid wild speculation about the agency’s intentions, DEA has decided to keep marijuana as a Schedule I substance, but to take the unexpected step of ending the monopoly on the production of research grade marijuana.
This move will certainly disappoint many in the marijuana reform community who hoped that DEA would change marijuana’s status. Under current policy—and now continuing policy—marijuana is categorized along with heroin and LSD as a substance that has no medical value and that has a high potential for abuse. Reformers hoped that the administration would accept the claim that marijuana has medical benefit and can be used safely in treatment. Today, it is opting not to do so.
However, DEA, in a clear sign of the growing political complexity around cannabis policy in the United States, will strike a balance. Rather than wholly maintaining the current |
People who drink diet soft drinks don't lose weight. In fact, they gain weight, a new study shows.
The findings come from eight | years of data collected by Sharon P. Fowler, MPH, and colleagues at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Fowler reported the data at this week's annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San Diego.
"What didn't surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked to overweight and obesity," Fowler tells WebMD. "What was surprising was when we looked at people only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was even higher."
In fact, when the researchers took a closer look at their data, they found that nearly all the obesity risk from soft drinks came from diet sodas.
"There was a 41 percent increase in risk of being overweight for every can or bottle of diet soft drink a person consumes each day," Fowler says.
Fowler's team looked at seven to eight years of data on 1,550 Mexican-American and non-Hispanic white Americans aged 25 to 64. Of the 622 study participants who were of normal weight at |
The women of Kountze, Texas, have been fighting for four years to put Bible verses on their banners. Their case is a look at | what's ahead for religious-liberty conflicts in America.
Keke Moffett, a former cheerleader at Kountze High School in Texas, poses in front of the stands at her old school in March 2016.Michael Starghill Jr.
Ever since, they have been embroiled in the high-profile legal battle those banners sparked. Early in the 2012 season, the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter to the Kountze Independent School District’s superintendent alleging that the district was violating the Constitution by allowing a student group to hold up religious messages at a school-sponsored event. After consulting counsel, the superintendent told the town’s high-school principal to shut down the Bible-verse banners. Some of the girls and their parents decided to sue the district and won a temporary injunction. Since then, the case has been bouncing around the Texas state-court system, mostly on a series of procedural claims. The Texas Supreme Court heard the case and sent it back to |
RALEIGH, N.C., June 1, 2017 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Sokal Media Group announces signing of | McKinney Dodge RAM Chrysler Jeep & McKinney Mazda. McKinney has been an enterprising automotive influence over the past 18 years, serving the South Carolina Upstate area. Over the years the group has grown to offer 6 major brands including Dodge, Ram, Chrysler, Jeep, and Mazda.
With a growing business comes the need to help manage all aspects of marketing, advertising, and public image. That’s why in June of this year, McKinney hired Sokal Media Group as its agency of record. Beginning in June 2017 Sokal Media will launch new websites for this store, create new and engaging advertising campaigns, and assist in many other areas of dealership business.
With headquarters in Raleigh, N.C. and offices in Morrisville, N.C., Sokal Media Group is the area’s largest advertising agency focusing on automotive advertising. Sokal Media Group is dedicated to growing business for their clientele through multiple marketing and advertising services.
As a full service agency |
Chameleons in Madagascar previously thought to all belong to a single species have actually turned out to be 11 separate ones.
Chamele | ons are famous for their ability to disguise themselves, adapting their hue through nanocrystals in their skin, actively tuning to reflect light differently. One of the most famous masters of this disguise is the panther chameleon, first described in 1829, and native only to Madagascar.
According to research published over the weekend in the journal Molecular Ecology, this chameleon has kept another trick in its skin. It's not a single species of chameleon. It's 11.
A team led by Professor Michel Milinkovitch of the University of Geneva, in collaboration with Professor Achille Raselimanana of the University of Antananarivo, wasn't looking for new species. Instead, the team was looking for genetic keys that might indicate how the panther chameleon achieves its extraordinarily broad colour palette.
They were basing the research on the notion that colour variations in panther chameleons seem to be based on location: some panther chamele |
Telegraph journalist Chris Knapman heads to Sweden where he learns how to drift a Corvette supercar in the snow.
In 2004, Michael | Schumacher took his Ferrari Formula One car around the famous tarmac of Silverstone in a record time of 1min 18.739sec. Fast forward eight years, substitute Schumacher for me, the F1 car for a 500bhp Corvette and the tarmac for a frozen lake, and what time passes as acceptable?
Four minutes and 15sec apparently. Or at least, that's according to Mattieu Perot, who has been given the unenviable task of tutoring me in the ways of driving a high performance car around Silverstone on ice.
Perot is an instructor with Laponie Ice Driving in Arjeplog, Sweden, a place that brings a whole new meaning to the term “snowdrift”. Our playground is a vast frozen lake located about 50 miles from the Arctic Circle, which every winter is converted into a series of high octane tracks by Perot’s boss, Eric Gallardo.
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(HawaiiNewsNow) - Homeowners and building professionals are invited to learn more about what makes a home green at the Windward High Performance | Building Green Expo Saturday, May 12 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ko'olau Ballrooms in Kaneohe.
Sponsored by RevoluSun, Mokulua Woodworking and Archipelago Hawaii, the free expo in the ballroom features more than 30 green building vendors who will educate homeowners on different products and services that can be used to create a high-performance home.
Meanwhile, homeowners can pay for six workshop presentations focusing on design, building, solar energy, landscaping, LEED certification and National Green Building Standards (NGBS) certification. Tickets for the workshops with lunch included are $20 presale, or $25 at the door. For tickets, call 808-263-8891 or visit their website.
Mike Fairall, Principal RME of MOKULUA High Performance Builder (HPB), said "high performance home building is more than greening your home, it's a combination of sustainability |
Rasmus Kofoed in the garden.
Will King-Smith and liquid nitrogen.
Will King-Smith making dill rocks | .
Rasmus Kofoed and table-side plating.
The Restaurant at Meadowood’s annual 12 Days of Christmas guest chef series is winding down. Here at Inside Scoop, we’re reviving our own tradition of individually tracking each night’s charity dinner — and the exploration of cuisine from the chefs from around the world, through their words and their food. You can check out past years here: 2012, 2011 and 2010. And catch up on this year’s prior dinners here.
It was fitting that on the same day that the American team for the 2015 Bocuse d’Or was revealed to be coming from the French Laundry, just a few short miles from Thomas Keller’s flagship, Rasmus Kofoed cooked dinner at the Restaurant at Meadowood.
Kofoed is the chef and owner of Geranium in Copenhagen, which sits at #45 on the World’s |
To resolve the water shortage in cities is an imperative task that affects economic and social development, daily life, as well as the country's modernization drive | and long-term development, said Vice-Premier Wen Jiabao.
The vice-premier made the remark at a national conference on water supply, water conservation and water pollution, which was convened by the State Council in the nation's capital from September 25-26.
Wen urged local governments at different levels to recognize the importance of the issue and to ensure that cities achieve sustainable development through the sustainable utilization of water resources.
China is short of water resources, with its per-capita water resources accounting for one fourth of the world's average, according to Wen. Water shortage has hampered the development of many Chinese cities, he said.
He urged people to give top priority to saving water by readjusting the industrial structure, by promoting water-conservation technology, by strengthening water usage controls and pushing forward the reform of water pricing.
He also called for resolute measures to control water pollution, while making greater efforts to increase channels of water supply for cities in |
The country's telecoms agency announced a set of measures around the implementation of the new Internet protocol.
The Brazilian telecommunications agency Anatel announced that | Internet operators will provide IPv6 addresses to consumers from 1 July as part of a set of initiatives to move faster to the new standard.
With the depletion of IPv4 addresses in Brazil announced last June, local policymakers have increased the pressure on network operators to migrate quickly to IPv6, the next-generation protocol for Internet networking.
The adoption of the new protocol in Brazil will take place in a way that is "transparent to the user" and the two protocols will still coexist, Anatel said. The agency has also put together a working group to oversee the migration.
From July, all new users must have an IPv6 address provided by Internet operators. Those still using IPv4 devices will also be entitled to apply for a public IP that isn't shared with other users.
As well as solving the issue of IPv4 address exhaustion, IPv6 adds a number of additional features in areas such as mobility, auto-configuration and overall extensibility, supporting a much wider |
Happy Data Privacy Day! Are you doing anything special to keep the sensitive information stored on your computers safe and sound?
Do you know what sensitive | information is maintained by your company, where it is stored and how it is kept secure?
Do you have an incident response team in place ready to respond 24/7?
Are management teams aware of security, privacy and regulatory requirements related specifically to your business?
Have you completed a privacy and security audit of all data collection activities, including cloud services, mobile devices and outsourced services?
Are you prepared to communicate to customers, partners and stockholders in the event of a breach or data loss incident?
I believe I know which one they would take (backed up by research, albeit with a small sample size), which makes me think that data breaches are just like cockroaches. If you see one, there are bound to be hundreds lurking around somewhere where you can't see them.
So, while there's not a whole lot I can do about the cockroaches, there is something we can do about the data breaches. We can force them out of those comfy |
A three-year-old girl of Egyptian nationality plunged to her death from the fifth floor of a building located at Airport Road in Abu Dhabi. |
The girl fell from the balcony of the living room of her family flat when her aunt was sleeping in the other room.
It is reported that the same child was rescued in December when Abu Dhabi police received a call that a child was about to fall from the window of her parents flat.
The Abu Dhabi police team rushed to the flat and broke the main door and rescued the girl before falling in the street.
They also discovered that she was alone in the flat and her parents were at work.
The baby girl identified as Maryam, is the only baby of her parents, reported Emarat Al Youm.
Meanwhile the Major General Nasser Lakhraibani Al-Nuaimi the secretary-general of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Chairman of the Higher Committee for Child Protection in the Ministry of Interior expressed his sadness and added it was an unfortunate incidents.
He stressed that Abu Dhabi Police is confronting this phenomenon, by giving priority to |
New Core i7 models incl. i7-2960XM Extreme Edition coming Q4.
Doing what they do best, CPU World | has fished out some fresh details on an expansion to Intel's range of mobile processor offerings. A new ULV (ultra low voltage) 32nm Celeron M model has just been released, The Celeron 787, and also four new Core i7 chips.
The Celeron 787 is just a little single core chip which clocks in at 1.30GHz with a single thread, 1MB of L3 cache, a 17W TDP and carrying a price of $107.
As for the four new Core i7s, these are scheduled to debut in Q4, comprising three quad-core variants and a dual-core one. The quad core models include the i7-2960XM Extreme Edition, i7-2860QM and i7-2760QM, with the dual-core being the i7-2640M.
Looking at individual specs, the i7-2960XM EE runs at 2. |
NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Cornerstone Capital Group ("Cornerstone"), an SEC-registered investment | advisor that pursues financial returns alongside social impact by incorporating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) analysis into portfolio design, today announced the appointment of Kristin Frank to its Board of Directors. Frank, recently named President and Board Director at AdPredictive, a software company delivering the industry's first outcomes-driven customer marketing intelligence platform, is a highly seasoned industry thought leader and transformational executive who brings with her more than 20 years of global business experience.
"We are absolutely delighted to have Kristin Frank joining our Board. Kristin's exceptional leadership in the media industry, her deep expertise in digital media, and her innovative excellence in technology and distribution will add tremendous value to our organization," said Erika Karp, Founder and CEO of Cornerstone. "At Cornerstone, as we strive to optimize both financial and social impact, we know that Kristin will set a high bar for the stewardship and scaling of the company."
Frank has built, transformed, led and |
These words came from one of the captivating speakers at a seminar about exoneration of the wrongly convicted ring true.
Because we do live in | a nation where the fundamental rights of individuals are paramount, where every individual serving a prison sentence either plead guilty or was found guilty by a jury of ordinary citizens.
These fundamental rights include the right to receive all favorable evidence in advance of the trial, to confront and cross examine all witnesses, and to be represented by counsel throughout all proceedings, including appointed legal counsel at no charge if the defendant can’t afford one.
The profound sense of fairness, wisdom and enlightenment of our nation’s forefathers who crafted the framework for this system was remarkable, making us unique among all nations.
Still we know, despite all the safeguards and procedures in place designed for fundamental fairness in the administration of criminal justice, our system is not perfect, nor will it, nor any other system in the world, ever be.
The outstanding work of the non-profit Innocence Project has confirmed this in recent years.
Founded in 1992 at the Yeshiva University School of Law |
Blue bottle jellyfish, which is also known as the Portuguese man-of-war, spotted across the beaches of Mumbai attacked more than 150 people | . The floating terror created panic and fear among the people at Girgaum Chowpatty, Aksa and Juhu beaches in Mumbai, India in the last few days.
What Makes the Beautiful Blue Bottle Jellyfish Scary?
Blue bottle jellyfish is a venomous marine creature that has long tentacles, and if it comes in contact with humans can deliver a sting that can be extremely painful.
Many people were injured and left in pain after the deadly jellyfish attacked them. The venomous sting can kill fish, but not humans.
The Portuguese Man-of-War (blue bottle jellyfish) belongs to the Physaliidae family and is usually found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. These toxic creatures float on the surface of the ocean, therefore, during strong winds, they are easily driven onto the shores.
How Can We Spot these Deadly Blue Bottle Jellyfish?
These toxic blue bottle jellyfish can be spotted on shores during monso |
The bombs start again. Israel, as if on a timer, begins to pulverize Gaza. The bombs strike from one end of the country | to another, a warning against the protests that have been ongoing for a year. There is a shudder from Gaza, phone calls to friends who say that they are fearful that this bombing run will escalate. Nothing is beyond Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, who will use these bombs as an advertisement for his campaign to be reelected as Israel goes to the polls on April 9. The phone lines carry the sound of scared children and anxious adults, a building demolished, the warplanes shrieking overhead.
In January of last year, the Palestinian journalist Ahmed Abu Artema sat at his computer in his home in Rafah (Gaza, Palestine). He had just returned home from a walk in this 365-square-kilometer (141-square-mile) enclave that sits on the Mediterranean Sea. There is a hint of paradise in Gaza -- the sea on one side, the citrus groves on the other. But the entire piece of land -- populated by 2.2 million Palestinians -- is hemmed in by |
Most of the state was expected to have drier than normal conditions this season, with drought possible.
YAKIMA, Wash. ( | AP) — Irrigation districts in the upper Yakima Basin — where a drought has been declared — are hoping for enough mountain precipitation this spring to stave off any serious water rationing.
Gov. Jay Inslee issued a drought emergency for the upper basin after the Bureau of Reclamation reported a water forecast of only 74 percent supply in that area this season, one percentage point below the 75 percent that triggers such a declaration. The declaration allows irrigation districts and biologists to seek funds for closer monitoring and quicker initiation of drought relief programs.
The latest forecast drastically contrasts with early March, when this year's basinwide supply was predicted to be 90 percent of normal — an amount that hardly would have impacted farmers and fish.
But expected mountain precipitation didn't arrive in March, which caused the snowpack to fall further behind what is considered normal this time of year in the upper basin, said Chuck Garner, river operations supervisor for the Bureau of Reclamation.
"We had projected to get 80 |
London mayoral candidates, from left, Roger Caranci, Joe Swan and Matt Brown.
Judging by the questions posed at Wednesday night� | �s mayoral debate at King’s University College, what matters to Western University students is what matters to other Londoners, too.
Thirteen of the 14 candidates for the city’s top office fielded questions about jobs, development, the police budget, food banks and accessibility for the disabled during the debate, the format of which left little room for spontaneous outbursts.
Dark-horse candidate Paul Cheng repeated his well-worn message that city hall should be run like a business. “It’s not black magic. It’s no different from any other organization around the world,” he said during the introductory round, when each candidate was asked to enumerate the qualities setting them apart from the pack.
Noting the capacity crowd of 425 made the debate the best-attended so far, Ward 7 Coun. Matt Brown emphasized his plan for the Forest City’s future. “I have a vision that’s a 20 |
The time-share hotel-apartment building proposed in the Burns Square area is not a hotel after all.
The city ruled today that a | time-share hotel-apartment building proposed in the Burns Square area is not a hotel after all, so developer Al Hochstadt is going to have to come up with something else to build there.
It is a victory for neighbors who opposed the project, and were angry that a clause in the city�s downtown plan meant that the five-story building would not require a vote from the City Commission.
In a letter sent to Hochstadt Friday afternoon, Timothy Litchet, the city�s planning and building director, wrote that the project was an ever evolving concept, and it was difficult for city planners to understand what the developer was trying to build.
In April, the developer changed plans, stating that he intended to sell ownership interest of each of the 173 units. As a result, the city ruled the project was no longer a hotel.
�You represented that each unit would be for the exclusive use of a miniumum of 26 families,� Litchet wrote |
Rheinhold Rau, a German-born taxidermist who regarded it as his moral duty to reverse the extinction of the quag | ga, a zebra-like animal, has died. He was 73.
The South African Museum, where Rau worked for more than four decades and well into his retirement, confirmed his February 11 death but gave no cause.
Hamish Robertson, director of natural history at the museum, said that the efforts inspired by Rau to breed the quagga back into existence would continue thanks to support from the South African National Parks board.
Rau came from Germany to Cape Town to work as a taxidermist at the museum in 1959.
His fascination with the quagga started after he remounted a stuffed specimen at the museum.
While removing the skin, Rau discovered dried blood and muscle tissue—material that preserved DNA, the genetic blueprint for life.
The quagga—whose name was adapted from an imitation of the animal’s call—inhabited South Africa’s Karoo desert until well into the second half of the 19 |
Soldiers from the Aviation Captains Career Course here traveled to Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. to visit the training site of the historic D | oolittle Raiders of World War II as part of their course curriculum Feb. 15.
Fifty-eight Soldiers prepared in advance to present their research on various topics to the group during the "staff ride," as they toured points of interest at Wagner Field, Eglin Air Force Base, and the US Air Force Armament Museum.
While previous staff rides involved an infantry museum, Ken Tilley, historian for the US Army Aviation Center of Excellence planned this event to focus more on Aviation history, and the students rose to the occasion with the quality of the research they presented, he said.
"The students teach it, I facilitate," Tilley said. "They did a fantastic job, better than I expected."
Staff rides are intended to "take students to a battlefield where Soldiers can portray the roles of all the major players, walk the terrain, tactics, maneuver--all the things that you learn in the military, and look at a previous battle and see how it was done," |
Call it a humanitarian battle of the bands.
First, the British billionaire Richard Branson said last week that he would organize an aid concert for | Venezuela this Friday night — on the Colombian side of a border bridge where urgently needed supplies are being blocked by shipping containers on the orders of Venezuela’s embattled president, Nicolás Maduro.
Then Mr. Maduro’s government said on Monday that it would stage rival concerts over the weekend on the Venezuelan side of a different border bridge, where thousands of desperate Venezuelans have recently crossed into Colombia to escape the economic and political crisis at home. Venezuelan officials also promised to deliver 20,000 boxes of government-subsidized food to Cúcuta, the Colombian city that for most of the migrants is the start of a long and uncertain journey by foot.
The rival events further complicate a tense scene at the border that may have significant implications for the future of Venezuela, where two men are claiming the presidency simultaneously.
On the Venezuelan side, there are soldiers, militiamen and missiles sent by forces loyal to Mr. Maduro, whose legitimacy was challenged in January when the opposition leader |
Pop star Prince did not leave a will, his sister has revealed in court documents.
The papers, filed in state court in Minnesota, show | Tyka Nelson has petitioned for a special administrator to oversee the star's estate.
The rock legend, aged 57, was found dead in an elevator at his Paisley Park Studios compound in a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota last Thursday.
The size of Prince's fortune is unclear but includes $27m (£18m) in property.
Nelson is Prince's only surviving full sibling and stated in the papers that immediate action was necessary to manage her brother's business interests.
Prince is on course to dominate the UK charts this week, as mourning fans rush to buy his music, while the Hollywood Reporter claimed over three million of his songs and albums had been bought in the US since his death.
A private memorial service was held for the rock star on Saturday, attended by about 20 of his closest friends and family.
Following the service, drummer and frequent Prince collaborator Sheila E confirmed there were plans to turn Paisley Park into a museum, akin to Elvis's Graceland |
In the wake of a sudden rise in child begging in the recent past, especially in the city of Colombo and its suburbs, the police have | decided to initiate special raids to arrest those who forced children into begging, the Police Headquarters announced yesterday.
Police Media Spokesman DIG Priyantha Jayakody said during 14 raids conducted during the last three months, 18 children were taken into custody and produced in courts.
“Eleven boys, seven girls who were engaged in begging were arrested during the raids. Four of them were sent to children's probation homes. The remaining 14 were handed over to their parents on a Court bond,” he said.
I can remember making same statement years ago.Nothing happened so far. We are not consistent in any regulations. This will survive on for two weeks and then back to square one. Wait and see.
All forms of begging should be banned. Specially near traffic lights and public conveyances. Some of the beggars are disabled or feeble to avoid accidents and the driver gets into trouble for no fault of his. This was proposed earlier and as usual no action has |
The results are clear despite the smoke: junk food sales go up when pot’s legal.
Potato chip, cookie and ice cream | sales all increased in Colorado, Oregon and Washington as recreational marijuana became legal in those states, according to a recent study.
Specifically, chip sales increased 5.3%, while cookie sales climbed 4.1% and ice cream purchases increased 3.1% in the aftermath of legalization, professors from the University of Connecticut and Georgia State University determined using monthly retail scanner data from 2006 to 2016.
“The increase in sales starts at the time of the legislation becomes effective,” said the findings, published in Social Science Research Network. Afterwards, the snacking spurt decreased slightly for ice cream and chips, but not for cookies, according to the results.
“A widespread urban myth is that marijuana consumption is associated with the so-called munchies, namely an irresistible urge to consume large amounts of snack or junk food, such as ice cream, cookies, candies, and the like,” the researchers wrote.
A widespread urban myth is that marijuana consumption is associated |
The Majestic Star Casino docked along Lake Michigan in Gary.
Proponents of a bill that would allow a Gary casino to move to a | land-based location lauded the proposal for its economic development potential but opponents say it would “destabilize” the Northwest Indiana’s gaming industry.
The Indiana House of Representatives’ Public Policy Committee heard testimony on the first of two bills that would allow one of Gary’s casinos to move to a site near the Borman Expressway and shift a second gaming license to Terre Haute, allowing the city to redevelop the Buffington Harbor area.
Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson said every day she hears about potholes, vacant buildings, crime and a need for jobs — and what’s needed to deal with those issues is resources. Freeman-Wilson said the proposed bill would not just create new revenue and economic development opportunities around a new land-based casino, but also from the proposed redevelopment of Buffington Harbor.
Gary “misplaced” its casino operations, Freeman-Wilson said.
“This is not the highest and best |
Momentum seems to be building among House Democrats to raise questions regarding the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) proposed | fiduciary rule.
A letter circulated last week asks the DOL to make what the Democrats call “improvements” to the rule. Originally signed by nine House Democrats, that number has since grown to 90 lawmakers, Eric Harris, press secretary for Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., said today. Moore has spearheaded the effort.
The DOL is accepting comments until the end of the day Thursday, and expects to publish a final rule likely early in 2016, observers have said.
Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America, which supports a tougher rule, said several of the letter signers have outright opposed a fiduciary-only rule in the past. She said the suggestions proposed in the Democrats’ letter could be easily adapted by the DOL.
Thus far, the fiduciary-only fight has pitted Republicans against the DOL and the White House, which claims retirement investment advice is costing Americans $ |
The Volunteer Center Serving Howard County, a member of the Community Emergency Response Network (CERN), will hold a volunteer mobilization center exercise from 1 p | .m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the central library, 10375 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia.
The exercise will test plans to process members of the community who may want to volunteer after a disaster and refer them to agencies and organizations in need of assistance.
About 90 people have been trained to help in this process, but more are needed.
The exercise is being conducted in cooperation with CERN, the Governor's Office on Service and Volunteerism, the Maryland Emergency Management Agency, the Howard County Library and organizations to be activated in case of disaster.
Help is needed with "haunting" presentations in the house and the field.
Volunteers are also needed to staff a help line and to assist at events.
More than 100 health fair volunteers are needed to help with flu shots and balloons at Cafe 50+ and with the speaker series, exhibitor check-in, transportation, elevators, cleanup and other tasks. A free lunch is included. |
Netanyahu apparently calculated that the electoral upside from the speech outweighed the diplomatic fallout. Friday an Israeli official said Boehner's invitation had been regarded as | bipartisan.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits at a military outpost during a visit at Mount Hermon in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights overlooking the Israel-Syria border on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be flying into a stiff political headwind next month when he lands in Washington to address a special joint session of Congress on Iran.
Political commentary in the US media has been especially critical, and some Democrats are hinting they’ll boycott the March 3 speech by the Israeli leader. At home, his political rivals in an election to be held two weeks after the address are accusing him of trashing US-Israeli diplomatic relations by siding with the Republican-controlled Congress against the Obama administration.
But Mr. Netanyahu has been undaunted, insisting Thursday that it’s his duty to travel anywhere to sound the alarm over a nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran.
So was his acceptance of an invitation from US House Speaker John Boehner, |
But lately, that hasn’t been Tri-City. The Dust Devils (6-12) suffered their eighth loss in the last 10 | games and fourth in a row at home.
Spokane gradually built its lead, starting with a run in the top of the third. Brandon Garcia doubled to lead off the third. One batter later, Garcia scored on a bouncing single up the middle to make it 1-0.
The Indians pushed that lead to 2-0 two innings later, as Janluis Castro hit a leadoff single in the fifth. Garcia drew a one-out walk, and Saquan Johnson hit into a fielder’s choice, forcing Castro at third. Garcia advanced to second on the play and scored on Chris Garia’s slow single to right field.
Tri-City starter Johendi Jiminian was haunted by the leadoff batter all night, allowing the lead man to reach base in five of his six innings he began. Two of those came in to score as Jiminian fell to 0-2, giving up three earned runs on eight hits.
Yohander Mend |
We're fans of this fresh and fun zip-up iPad sleeve.
If you consider your MacBook a modern-age typewriter, this dec | al is perfect for you.
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This canvas messenger bag is the perfect size for your laptop and a few other essential items.
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Suitable for smaller laptops, this cover will protect your device while making it look very cool indeed.
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On this day in 1868 American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes patented the "Type-Writer." |
Thread: Whats the best Socket 939 mainboard?
Perfeably a newer model board and I'll need SLI.
Re: Whats | the best Socket 939 mainboard?
The DFI LanParty ULTRA-D SLI is the best board for overclocking with the widest array of options. It is not an easy board to set up, but when set up properly, it is amazing.
In my opinion, the MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum SLI is the easiest board to setup and run and more user friendly than the DFI. However, the DFI will overclock a little higher than the MSI.
I would call the MSI board the best beginner's board and the DFI the best advanced user's board. If you know your stuff, then DFI is most certainly the best way to go.
Last edited by casecutter; 11-11-2005 at 06:23 AM.
The DFI LanParty ULTRA-D SLI.
They also have a newer "Infinity" Model, to my knowledge, just missing al the "bling" and some minor features |
The new season of tvN’s variety show “Sound of Grazing Grass” is returning on Monday at 8:10 | p.m.
The autumn edition of the show is joined by popular comedian Park Na-rae and Hwang Chan-sung from the boy band 2PM, as well as a young farmer Han Tae-woong, who is a 16-year-old but carries himself more like a 61-year-old.
Han’s mature mannerisms lightened the mood during the showcase Monday, which was held at CJ E&M Center in western Seoul.
Han sang a trot song, a genre mostly for older people in South Korea, and told the press that he had not known about the group 2PM until the filming of the show.
Comedian Park who newly joined the show said she is familiar with the farm life as she grew up with her grandmother on a farm in South Jeolla Province up until the age of 8.
On a lighter note, Park revealed she cannot stand chickens, drawing laughter during the showcase.
Hwang, who |
Germany is a country in central-western Europe. It is a federal parliamentary republic with a population of 82 million people – the most populated country in | the European Union.
The loosely connected German states, which were part of the Holy Roman Empire, were unified in 1815 after the establishment of the German Confederation. And later became a nation state under the Prussian German Empire, which was replaced by the democratic Weimar Republic after its defeat in the First World War. In 1933, the Nazi Party seized control in Germany and came under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, and resulted in the Holocaust.
Following the Second World War, Germany was divided into four zones, controlled by the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union. Three of these merged in 1949 to for, the democratic West Germany, while the Soviet zone became the socialist East Germany. In 1961, they were divided by the Berlin Wall, but after the collapse of the Communist government of East Germany, the two were officially united in 1990.
The Reparations Agreement was signed between Germany and Israel in 1952. Under this, Germany acknowledged its responsibility for the Holocaust and agreed to compensate |
Our devices have a never-ending hunger for power – it’s their single greatest failing, in a time when they can do incredible things | but still only last around a day of solid use in the best-case scenario. But Mophie has made a name for itself providing extra juice for your devices, and now they’ve got a new Powerstation XL model that packs a crazy 12,000 mAh, which can charge some smartphones up to eight times over.
Mophie’s Powerstation XL isn’t reinventing the wheel, it’s just making the wheel a lot bigger. Even design-wise, it resembles previous Mophie power pack devices, with a rubberized black top and bottom ‘sandwiching’ a silver wraparound rim. A button on the side will light up an LED indicator to tell you how much juice is remaining (to the nearest quarter), and two USB 2.0 ports on the top can charge up to two devices simultaneously, while a micro USB input is used to fill it back up once it’s empty.
The |
Shazam! Story: Street-smart Billy Batson (Asher Angel) runs away from one foster home to the next, in search | of his birth mother. Along the way, he encounters a mysterious wizard (Djimon Hounsou) who gives him the ability to transform into an adult with superpowers (Zachary Levi) by merely saying the word ‘Shazam’.
Shazam! Review: From its opening frames, ‘Shazam!’ sets out to address the origin tale pitfalls inherent to the superhero genre. It quickly establishes a comical, yet sensitive tonality which allows the audience to get on-board with an otherwise outlandish premise. Director David F. Sandberg captures the imagination, enthusiasm, and pure glee of a little kid playing with his/ her toys. He maintains an irreverent and exuberant approach throughout. But that sentiment wouldn’t translate if it wasn’t conveyed so well by the cast. Under Sandberg’s direction, they give their characters the right amount of self-awareness without veering too far |
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