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If Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert and Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley teamed up for a rockin' '90s revival, | but there were no iPhones in the audience to post the performance to YouTube, did it ever really happen?
Yes, it did! Praise Yeezus, because these clips have made. our. day.
WATCH: Dierks Bentley Flies on the Set of 'Say You Do' - Behind the Scenes!
Bentley called on some famous friends Wednesday night, as his '90s cover band (appropriately dubbed Hot Country Knights) took the stage at the 2015 Country Radio Seminar for a raucous set. Bentley's alter-ego Douglas "Big Rhythm Doug" Douglason hit the mic for a rousing rendition of Alan Jackson's 1993 hit "Chattahoochee," while Kelley (aka Ronnie Bunns) joined in for a cover of Brooks & Dunn's 1996 tune "My Maria."
Unsurprisingly, it was Shelby Shelton (aka Lambert) who stole the show with her take on Shania Twain's "Whose Bed Have Your |
Performing mobility exercises can help senior citizens retain their balance and leg strength or regain the ability to walk after being wheelchair-bound. Even senior citizens | who exercise daily by swimming or walking can benefit from warming up their muscles with mobility exercises before engaging in a more vigorous workout.
Start your exercise program sitting in a chair to keep your muscles from straining with your weight before they get warmed up. Perform 10 shoulder raises, shrugging both shoulders up towards your ears, to limber up your shoulders and back. Lift one leg at a time so that it's parallel to the floor to warm up your thigh muscles, doing 10 repetitions on each leg. Then, lift one leg and hold it straight in front of you. Holding it straight, lift your thigh off the chair 10 times to warm up your thigh muscles. Repeat with the other leg.
Stand facing a sturdy chair. Place both hands on the chair and push up to stand on your toes. Lower yourself back down so your feet are flat on the floor, then repeat the exercise for 10 repetitions. This works your calves and ankles, helping to increase your balance while exercising |
President Trump overruled intelligence officials last year who raised concerns about Jared Kushner’s security clearance, ordering former chief of staff John Kelly to give | top secret clearance to Kushner, the New York Times revealed in an explosive report on February 28.
The Times report was based on contemporaneous memos written by Kelly and former White House counsel Don McGahn. Kelly wrote that Trump had “ordered” him to give the high-level clearance to Kushner. McGahn wrote that the C.I.A. had raised concerns about Kushner, and that McGahn himself had advised against giving the clearance to Kushner.
Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Kushner’s lawyer Abbe Lowell have all said at various times that Trump was not involved in the process to award Kushner the clearance. The Times report does not detail what the intelligence community’s concerns about Kushner were, but says that they were related to contacts in Israel, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Kushner has been deeply involved with the Trump administration effort to develop a new Middle East peace plan. He is also reported to be close to Mohammad Bin Salman, the |
PHOTO BY JACOB GURNEY The band Dixie Peach performs at East Green Amphitheater, 167 E. Market St. Saturday | evening.
A band with local ties may have played their last show in Tiffin Saturday.
The band, Dixie Peach — now comprised of Ira Stanley on lead and slide guitars and vocals, Tony Paulus on keyboards and guitar, Mike Rousculp on bass, Steve Williams on keyboards and Steve Benson on drums — played a show at East Green Amphitheater, 167 E. Market St.
Stanley, who is from Dayton, said for nostalgia reasons, he kind of hates to see it end. Tiffin was chosen as a last place for a concert because two of the band’s members, Williams and Paulus, are from Tiffin, and it was one of the first places the band ever played in 1972, he said.
Paulus said the group doesn’t play much anymore because “everybody is getting up there” and the group hasn’t played in Tiffin for some time.
Stanley said Saturday� |
After rising at a hefty pace in recent times, the prices at which farmers sell their produce in wholesale mandis could grow slowly in the coming months | if past trends are an indication, an analysis presented in a Credit Suisse report has said.
This could spell trouble for the farm sector as wholesale food prices have remained tepid for a considerable period in the past couple of years. Research has also shown that a slowdown in the rate of rise in wholesale food prices also leads to a slowdown in rural wages, which could possibly add to worries.
Wholesale price index (WPI) food inflation rate was recorded at 4.3 per cent in February 2019. For the same month, the consumer price index (CPI) food deflation rate stood at 0.1 per cent. The gap between the two, at 4.4 percentage points, is the highest observed in the past decade, said the India Market Strategy report by the global brokerage.
In the past few instances when there was this huge a gap between the two inflation rates, it was the WPI which slowly "fell towards" CPI in subsequent months, and not the |
NEW YORK (WFAN/AP) — Jason Kidd mentoring Jeremy Lin was a nice story last week.
Then Kidd was arrested on a | drunken-driving charge, Lin’s departure from New York for a “ridiculous contract” in Houston became more realistic, and a position of strength suddenly was one of turbulence for the Knicks.
Kidd’s arrest came within hours of the Knicks agreeing to a trade for fellow point guard Raymond Felton, raising the possibility they will refuse to match Lin’s offer sheet with the Rockets.
Police said Kidd crashed his SUV into a telephone pole in the Hamptons on Sunday, days after signing with the Knicks.
Treated at a hospital for minor injuries after the crash, Kidd was arraigned on a misdemeanor driving-while-intoxicated charge and released without bail, Southampton Town police said.
An image published by TMZ.com reportedly showed Kidd being helped out of the East Hamptons nightclub SL East.
Phone and email messages were left seeking comment from Kidd’s agent. His attorney, Ed Burke Jr., said in a |
One company is hoping the promise of exotic vacations will lure the employees it needs for the holiday season.
JCPenney is looking for ways | to stand out from the crowd as a "war for talent" hits the retail sector.
On Tuesday, JCPenney hosted a nationwide hiring day where applicants were invited to come in to its stores and interview for jobs. To entice workers, it offered expensive prizes to eight lucky candidates.
According to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, there are 704,000 seasonal job openings for the holidays this year, which is the highest number reported since the company began recording the data in 2012.
As the "war for talent" intensifies with the beginning of the holiday-shopping season, JCPenney is doubling down on its efforts to entice workers.
On Tuesday, the department-store chain, which is on the hunt for 39,000 holiday workers, hosted a nationwide hiring day to aid in its search. Applicants were invited to come in to JCPenney's stores and interview for jobs, and offers were made on the spot. |
There are new allegations in the continuing court battle between Mac clone maker Psystar and Apple: the Cupertino company is now accusing its rival of | destruction of evidence: I’m still in shock that the battle has gone this long, but I do digress.
Specifically, Apple says Psystar erased “infringing versions of the software code used on computers sold to its customers.” According to Apple lawyers, during the discovery phase of the case it was found that prior versions of the software had been deleted off of its customer’s computers.
Apparently, these deleted files contained modifications to the Mac OS, which is the central complaint in Apple’s case against the company. Psystar has argued that it had no obligation to save these modifications.
Both Apple and Psystar are set to meet in San Francisco federal court in January of next year.
In related news, after Apple was able to question Psystar executives last week, Psystar has announced a list of nine Apple executives that it plans to question this month. While of course the company’s lawyers will have plenty of questions for these |
A Kenton man accused of breaking another man's jaw in jail earlier this week was among ten people indicted by a Marion County grand jury Wednesday. |
MARION - A Kenton man accused of breaking another man's jaw in jail earlier this week was among ten people indicted by a Marion County grand jury Wednesday.
Ronnie Harmon Jr., 21, was indicted on one count of felonious assault, a second-degree felony in Marion County Common Pleas Court.
The charge stems from an incident on Tuesday when officers were dispatched to OhioHealth Marion General Hospital for an assault that occurred at the Multi-County Correctional Center earlier that day.
The victim told officers that Harmon had hit him in the face one time, according to an affidavit filed in Marion Municipal Court and signed by Marion Police Detective Scott Sterling.
Doctors advised officers that the victim's jaw was broken. A video obtained from the jail showed Harmon going up a flight stairs and hitting the victim once before walking away, the affidavit says.
Harmon is also facing a charge of corruption of a minor, according to the Multi-County Correctional Center. His bond has |
The Nifty was down 1.2 per cent for the week, falling to an intra-week low of 5,791 on Thursday. | Higher Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) raised concerns about the extent of rate cut by the central bank in its monetary policy review next week. CPI climbed 10.9 per cent in February from a year earlier, compared with 10.8 per cent in January. Turnover in the Nifty index declined to Rs 29,925 crore compared with Rs 30,235 crore last week and the total number of shares of Nifty constituents declined by 11 per cent to 65 crore.
Traders can consider initiating a bear call spread in options of Nifty March series. This option strategy can be set by selling Nifty 5,900 call option and by buying Nifty 6,000 call options. These options were trading at around Rs 60.5 and Rs 23.3 at the end of Friday session. Since it is a bear call spread there will be an initial inflow which in our case comes at around Rs 37.2 (Rs 60.5 minus Rs 23.3). This will also |
Saturday, April 20 will mark 20 years since the Columbine Tragedy. While there is still a lot of hurt in the Columbine community | , there has also been a lot of healing over the past 20 years.
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. – Saturday, April 20 will mark 20 years since the Columbine Tragedy. While there is still a lot of hurt in the Columbine community, there has also been a lot of healing that has taken place over the past 20 years.
“There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about April 20, 1999,” former principal Frank DeAngelis told Denver7’s Anne Trujillo.
DeAngelis was the principal on the day of the shooting and stayed at the school until 2013, honoring a vow he made to the families touched by the tragedy that he would be at the school to keep watch over their kids.
“There’s nothing you can do to bring back the 13 but we could continue to make sure that they didn't lose their life in vain,” he said.
Because |
DENVER (CN) – Seven years after becoming the first U.S. state to legalize marijuana, Colorado continues to struggle with what to do | about old pot convictions.
“I’m running out of time,” said Pedro Ortiz, a New Jersey man who recently lost a job over a decade-old dime bag conviction in Colorado.
Ortiz moved to the Denver suburb of Aurora in 2008, taking a job as a cook. After a divorce and the death of his mother, Ortiz said he felt alone and fell on hard times.
He says things are different now.
It is now legal for adults aged 21 and over to possess up to an ounce of marijuana in Colorado. A 2017 law allows people with prior convictions for marijuana possession to seal their records in cases where what they were charged with is now legal. Denver and Boulder counties have set up legal clinics targeting the issue and waived the $65 filing fee for petitioners.
Colorado voters enacted Amendment 64 in 2012 legalizing recreational marijuana and eliminating one of the most prosecuted crimes from the legal system. According to a 2012 FBI report, 658,231 |
In the second excerpt from the John Pilger Special, to be exclusively broadcast by RT on Saturday, courtesy of Dartmouth Films, Julian Assange accuses Hillary | Clinton of misleading Americans about the true scope of Islamic State’s support from Washington’s Middle East allies.
“I think this is the most significant email in the whole collection,” Assange, whose whistleblowing site released three tranches of Clinton-related emails over the past year, told Pilger in an exclusive interview, courtesy of Dartmouth Films.
Assange and Pilger, who sat down for their 25-minute interview at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where the whistleblower has been a refugee since 2012, then talk about the conflict of interest between Clinton’s official post, which held throughout Obama’s first term, her husband’s nonprofit, and the Middle East officials, whose stated desire to fight terrorism may not have been sincere.
John Pilger: The Saudis, the Qataris, the Moroccans, the Bahrainis, particularly the first two, are giving all this money to the Clinton Foundation, while Hillary Clinton is secretary |
Nabisco threatens to sue a Canadian man who registered "oreos.com" for his home page with adult links.
"Oreos | .com" sat quietly on the Net for more than a year--however, it wasn't a hub to debate whether the cookie's crunchy chocolate outside is better than its creamy filling.
On the contrary, until today, "Oreos.com" was an Ontario man's personal Web page featuring links to some adult entertainment sites. While this may have been a treat for some, it is not exactly the one most people affiliate with Nabisco's famous sandwich cookie.
And so it was that Paul Figueiredo found himself in a legal dispute with one of the biggest food companies in the United States and Canada. Nabisco threatened a lawsuit if he didn't surrender the domain name by noon today.
Figueiredo is not the first private person to tangle with a corporation over a Net domain name, and he certainly won't be the last. For now, the nation's major domain name registry, Network Solutions, hands out Net site addresses on a first-come |
Something about the man in the banana costume appealed to Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga. Maybe it was the sign he wore that read, “ | A banana from my country can travel easier than me.” Maybe it was the fruit-wearer’s free-spiritedness as he paraded in his peel through public places. Or maybe it was the Latino roots they shared.
So when Mr. Zúñiga, 37, a graphic artist from Brooklyn who also works with new media, was looking through the portfolios of immigrant artists who were seeking mentors, he picked Hatuey Ramos-Fermín, 30, a conceptual artist from the Bronx who has made videos of himself playing Benito Banana, a character he created to reflect on migration.
The two have met at least 10 times, attending lectures and museum openings and discussing their work and the common themes within, like immigration and globalization. They are part of a mentoring program run by the New York Foundation for the Arts that helps artists from abroad gain a toehold in the city’s diverse arts community.
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Banks must always focus on innovation to remain competitive to take a leadership position because the future of banking relies on significant customer inspiring innovations. Sampath | Bank Senior Manager, Priam Kasturiratna said at the National Information Technology Conference 2011 recently.
He said if banks do not innovate, eventually someone else will innovate and enter into the bankers' market. Banking innovations must at least deliver basic services through all stable and popular channels and multiple technologies so that the customers will not be detached from their banks.
Kasturiratna said the banks also should recognize customer requirements and stay one step ahead of them focusing on customer experience. It is very important to recognize the fact that being innovative today will never be a final success destination, but just a status in a continuous mechanism of organisational success.
Referring to risks of decline in banking innovations he said a bank may have a well built infrastructure and good internal procedures but none of them would guarantee achievement of business goals and long-term sustainability unless correct strategic decisions are taken by the top management. Since none of the banks are enjoying the monopoly condition they need to compete among themselves and |
Doulas want some respect around here, and also they want more insurance reimbursements.
So says the New York Times, checking in on | the growing field. Not to be confused with midwives, who generally do more hands-on delivery work, doulas tend to serve more as advocates and assistants, and they don't have to be professionally certified. As one Brooklyn-based doula told the Times, "We're not there to change what the parents get," adding, "We're there to help get what they want."
Chances are you've already heard this—the piece certainly qualifies as a case of the New York Times being ON IT. The interesting part is the bit about the future of the discipline. Overall, doulas are still a small part of American birthing culture; in New York, they attend something like 5 percent of births. (And God knows, New Yorkers can't help but hop on the latest and greatest.) Many hospitals treat them more as friends-of-mom than health-care providers, and might require you to choose between having your sister or your doula in the room.
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Archaeologists working in Mexico have announced a discovery of 2,500-year-old chocolate. While the existence of chocolate is not surprising, | what did amaze researchers is that the traces of chocolate were found on a plate instead of a cup.
The discovery was made on Mexico's Yucatán peninsula.
According to NPR, archaeologists have concluded that ancient Mayans did not only drink chocolate flavored beverages, but also used it as a condiment or sauce on foods.
This changes earlier belief that chocolate was solely used as a beverage, typically for wealthy members of ancient societies in Mexico. The finding was made public by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.
"This is the first time it has been found on a plate used for serving food," archaeologist Tomas Gallareta said, reported the Associated Press. "It is unlikely that it was ground there (on the plate), because for that they probably used metates (grinding stones)."
Associated Press reported the plates examined date back to approximately 500 B.C.
These are not the oldest traces of chocolate located in Mexico, as older samples were found |
Starbucks' business continues to thrive, and management is making moves based on the very long term.
Tea sales grew over 17% at Starbucks | , the highest rate in over one year last quarter. Image source: Starbucks.
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) reported second-quarter earnings after market close on April 21, and early on April 22, the stock is trading down about 5.5%. So what happened? In short, Starbucks delivered another great quarter, with some metrics coming in a little softer than Wall Street analysts expected.
Here's a closer look at the company's financial results for the second quarter, as well as some key comments from management on the earnings call for added context of those results.
Revenue and operating income in millions. Data source: Starbucks.
For a little deeper context, Starbucks' comps numbers only measure company-owned stores. This is important for several reasons. First, this quarter was the first that included the 1,100 stores that Starbucks acquired from a Japanese licensee in 2015 in the comp numbers, making Japan -- not China -- the largest segment of the CAP comp base |
Citizens were very concerned about getting more of the derelict buildings in the city torn down, Beach said, and keeping buildings boarded up until they | are torn down.
“There was also substantial interest in how home improvement assistance works, and the need for assistance with emergency housing needs,” he said.
Sallie Hatter, 84, said she wants the city to use the money to “take down all of these old ugly houses and do better at keeping the city looking neat and clean.” She also wants the streets repaired.
At the top of her list, though, is getting something done to keep her house from sinking.
The county’s consolidated plan runs from Oct. 1, 2015 to Sept. 30, 2019, according to Beach, and the action plan runs from Oct. 1, 2015 to Sept. 30, 2016.
The county took over the city of East St. Louis’ CDBG program three years ago. It is the county’s job to manage East St. Louis’ money, but Beach said they are not authorized to tell city leaders where |
A Nichols School hockey player just helped Team USA win a gold medal in the U-18 IIFH World Championships in Russia.
BUFFAL | O, N.Y.-- This week's "Great Kid" is a Western New York hockey player who is watching the Winter Games in PyeongChang and hoping she'll her have her own shot at an Olympic gold one day.
Katy Knoll, 17, lives and breathes hockey. She often spends more time at the rink than at home, but that's just fine for the junior at Nichols. Playing hockey is all she's wanted to do from the moment she could walk.
"We knew when she would put her skates on walked around the house and go up and down the stairs at 2 and a half years old, she was ready to get on the ice with her siblings," said Danny Knoll, Katy's father.
Katy was one of the only girls on the boys hockey teams for the Wheatfield Blades. She also played for the Niagara Junior Purple Eagles and several other teams. Hockey may have been her hobby growing up, but now it's |
Two men who ran for spots on the Bonita Springs Utilities board of directors claim they lost because the not-for-profit water utility rigs elections | .
Two losing candidates for the Bonita Springs Utilities board of directors have sued the not-for-profit water utility in Lee County Circuit Court.
Jude Richvale and Edward FitzGerald, both of Bonita Springs, accuse BSU of rigging elections against them by fabricating votes.
In the lawsuit filed Monday, Nov. 26, Richvale and FitzGerald claim more ballots were counted by BSU than were sent through the U.S. Postal Service. The complaint points to mail records as proof and states that more than 500 votes were likely fabricated in the 2016 and 2017 elections.
"This is a very simple case," FitzGerald said in a phone call Tuesday. "Either the records are correct or there is something that went wrong."
BSU stated in a release that "independent election monitor" and the League of Women Voters handle the vote counts. The lawsuit has no merit, according to the BSU statement.
"We look forward to responding to |
When you think of a writer, do you imagine a person who is brilliant, eloquent and deeply philosophical? Someone who is charming and witty, | able to hold forth on any subject and illuminate the workings of the inner and outer worlds? Or perhaps you think of a writer as a genius who worships at the altar of words, who is never seen without a book in their hand, who looks at the world and never fails to find inspiration in it. If you believe any of this, chances are you have never met a real writer.
It may be hard to identify a writer-in-embryo: children are all delightfully weird in their own way, and that little kid who can’t make friends and lives with her nose in a book may not necessarily be preparing to win the Booker Prize; she might just be intelligent and bored. Similarly, a child who is overly talkative or displays a faculty with words beyond his or her peers might actually grow up to be a smooth-talking con artist instead of a writer. Most teenagers feel, at some point in their lives, that they don’t ‘ |
A CDOT snowplow goes to work on Interstate 70 Thursday morning near Dillon. Even though there was no snow or reported wrecks on I | -70 Sunday, the interstate still came to a crawl and crippled traffic on some Summit County highways and roads.
Some have blamed it on a fresh round of snow leading into beautiful weekend weather. Others think the hugely popular International Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge had something to do with it.
The mass of Colorado ski areas certainly owns a share of the responsibility for Summit County’s weekend traffic woes, as resort guests spilled out onto the roads and plugged up Interstate 70 across the mountain corridor Sunday afternoon.
With all the powder-seekers, the snow sculputures, ESPN’s X Games going off in Aspen, regular traffic from the Dillon Ice Castles and the usual mix of snowmobilers and hunters, navigating one’s way around Summit County was a lesson in frustration on Sunday, even though there wasn’t a single wreck reported on the interstate that day.
On a popular Facebook forum, one Summit County woman described the |
FILADELFIA, Paraguay – The Enlhet Indians of Paraguay’s Upper Chaco region have been the victims of the | Bolivian and Paraguayan armies’ repression during the 1932-1935 Chaco War, as well as of the expansion of cattle ranches, which have wiped out a good deal of the forests.
The Enlhet, one of the last surviving native communities in the Paraguayan Chaco, have lost 98 percent of their territory in the past nine decades because of atrocities during the war, which left 50,000 Bolivians and 40,000 Paraguayans dead, and the unrestricted settlement of Mennonites.
The Enlhet communities are located a few kilometers from Filadelfia, the main settlement of the Mennonities, a religious group that has focused on cattle ranching and farming since its arrival in Paraguay in the 1920s.
Since then, the stories of the Chaco Indians and the European migrants, who headed to the Americas fleeing religious persecution, have become entangled.
Hanes Kalisch, a German linguist who has been |
Creating a planning department that "starts with yes"
When Mayor Mike Duggan recruited Maurice Cox from New Orleans two years ago to become Detroit | 's new urban planner, the city planning department had six employees and was seen as a pass-through for developers.
"We hadn't had a world class planner in decades," Duggan said. "The planning department basically ran demolitions."
These days, Cox is focused on demolishing barriers in Detroit's Planning and Development Department. And he's pursuing a redevelopment strategy in the city's neighborhoods that reimagines vast tracts of vacant land where homes once stood.
In two years, Cox has hired 25 new planners and created teams with a city planner, urban designer, landscape architect and architectural historian to focus on four main regions in the city as well as big projects like the East Riverfront redevelopment and construction of Little Caesars Arena and the surrounding District Detroit.
Outside of the 7.2 square miles of downtown and Midtown, Cox is leading the charge for the development of "20 minute neighborhoods" where a resident can live, shop, dine and recreate within a 20- |
Live concert lineup for the week of March 24-30 including Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire: Heart & Soul Tour 2.0.
| Louisville Orchestra. Whitney Hall, Kentucky Center, 501 W. Main St., 8 p.m. Saturday. “Festival of American Music I”; Teddy Abrams, conductor and clarinet soloist; Aoife O’Donovan, vocalist. Part of the Classics Series. $26-$75. (502) 584-7777.
The Kody Norris Show, Gary Brewer & The Kentucky Ramblers. Shepherdsville Music Barn, 1833 Highway 44 W., Shepherdsville, 8 p.m. Friday. $12. (502) 541-2456; brewgrass.com.
University of Louisville Student Composers. Comstock Concert Hall, University of Louisville School of Music, First Street and Brandeis Avenue, 8 p.m. Thursday. Free.
“The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac The Blind.” Adath Jeshurun, 2401 Woodbourne Ave., 7 p.m |
It’s that time of year again, the reckoning for those baseball people whose transgressions against the game and others in the game have warranted | them a place on the Daily News Top Ten Turkeys List. Like always, there will be no pardoning these turkeys, just a synopsis of what earned them their rightful place on this list.
We won’t know for sure the extent of financial pain inflicted on the Yankee support people until the postseason shares are officially announced in two weeks, but Robertson, who chaired the shares meeting as the Yankee player rep, was the front man for what appears to be a shameful greed on behalf of the other players. It was reported that assistant hitting coach P.J. Pilittere was voted only a half share and the analytics liaison with the coaching staff, who traveled with the team all season, got nothing. According to sources, Robertson and his co-conspirators cut a wide swath through the entire Yankee support staff, stiffing trainers, clubhouse attendants, BP pitchers and the like. In addition, they also attempted to have the media’s pre-game clubhouse access in Boston |
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Asia Pacific Surgical Drains Wound Drainage Market (2018 - 2024)" | report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The Asia Pacific Surgical Drains Wound Drainage Market is expected to witness market growth of 5% CAGR during the forecast period 2018-2024.
The regular use of drains in surgical procedures has been diminishing over the years, as better radiological investigation and confidence in surgical techniques have limited the need for the same. With advancements in the field, it is found that drains could hinder recovery by acting as an 'anchor' and at the same time limiting mobility post-surgery. It is also found that the use of drains may lead to infections in the wound. Despite the case, the use of drains is inevitable in some cases.
The growing demand for advanced wound care products in several Asian countries, rising geriatric population, an increasing number of surgical procedures, rising prevalence of chronic as well as diabetic wounds, and product enhancements are some of the key factors driving the growth of the surgical drains market |
Irish-based health tech company, SilverCloud Health, has unveiled a new online therapy aimed at those caught up in financial difficulties and mental health challenges | .
The Space from Money Worries programme will be available the company’s NHS clients, which currently cover about 60 per cent of NHS mental healthcare trusts, as well as health insurance firms Bupa and Nuffield Health. SilverCloud also plans to offer the programme to financial institutions.
The programme works on a number of fronts, targeting links between finances and mental health, teaching users about avoidance behaviour, and providing them with tools and strategies to help them tackle their financial fears. It will also help tackle issues such as impulse buying.
SilverCloud chief executive Ken Cahill described the programme as groundbreaking. “Given the success we have seen with our mental health programmes, with recovery rates in line with face-to-face therapy, we know that technology can play a vital role in extending and scaling care while improving outcomes on both the mental health and the complex interwoven financial challenges that individuals struggling with debt face,” he said.
The programme was developed in collaboration |
Danté Xavier Voltaire writes: Is there a hidden dimension to the war posturing against Iran by the Western Alliance?
Mehran Tav | akoli Keshe, an Iranian born Nuclear Engineer, Inventor and Founder of The Keshe Foundation, based in Belgium, claims to have helped the Iranian Government develop a ‘superior’ space program based on his nuclear plasma technology. The Iranian Government openly promotes their space program and may have used a Keshe technology based ‘UFO’ style anti-gravity spaceship complete with tractor beams to capture the infamous US RQ170 Sentinel drone, an event which embarrassed the Obama administration and shook the CIA in December 2011.
Keshe, who some see as the ‘Tesla of Physics’ has been offering his technology free to any Government or scientist willing to listen for years, but claims he has been turned away first by Nasa in 1985 and subsequently by countless other organizations and Governments. Keshe asserts that only the Iranian Government were willing to co-develop the technology, but this, if true adds a potentially crazy twist to the unfolding Iran saga.
If Iran do |
JOHN Barnes reckons Liverpool today face the defining moment in their bid to end their 19-year title drought.
Kop idol Barnes is adamant | the league should be the only trophy that matters on Merseyside.
And he has warned boss Rafa Benitez that he has no choice but to rip up his Champions League plans and adopt a win-or-bust policy against Blackburn this lunchtime.
The former England winger claims the Reds’ reaction to Wednesday’s shock quarter-final first-leg defeat to Chelsea will determine whether they face another season as also-rans.
And he also believes Benitez will be making a huge mistake if he goes into the Rovers clash with one eye on next Tuesday’s return at Stamford Bridge.
Barnes – who was one of the stars of the Anfield side that last clinched the championship in 1990 – said: “It’s now a huge game against Blackburn.
“I think if they win the game they will be back on track because, looking at the fixtures, I can see them winning all their games.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved an immunotherapy drug for the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
| Keytruda (pembrolizumab) can be used to treat advanced non-small cell lung cancer in patients whose disease has progressed after previous treatments and who have tumors that express a protein called PD-L1, the agency said.
"Today's approval of Keytruda gives physicians the ability to target specific patients who may be most likely to benefit from this drug," Dr. Richard Pazdur, director of the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said in an agency news release.
The Merck & Co. drug was approved for use with a companion diagnostic test that is the first designed to detect PD-L1 expression in non-small cell lung tumors, the FDA said in the news release.
By blocking what is called the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway, Keytruda may help the immune system fight lung cancer cells. In 2014, the FDA approved Keytr |
HANCOCK? A group of five shaped a mound of snow, then began spraying on several different colors.
The result? A bright rainbow | .
Nearby, members of a Brownie troop carved out an American flag using cookie cutters to make the stars.
The entries in the snow sculpting contest were part of the Hancock Winter Festival held Saturday at Widmeyer Park.
The event, in its sixth year, was sponsored by the Hancock Arts Council.
Musician Michael Kligerman, a member of the council, said there were about 10 entries in the contest.
The council used a snow maker "several days and several nights" to create enough snow for the event, Kligerman said.
Hancock Town Councilman Sinclair Hamilton, also of the arts council, completed the task a couple of hours before the festival, he said.
"I think everybody is having a good time," Kligerman said.
Activities included ice carving, a hat parade, a cakewalk, a silent auction and a tug of war.
Proceeds will go toward the council's operating expenses, K |
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN(TOP): The House on Tuesday passed a bill to delay an Obama administration coal rule designed to protect | streams around mining operations.
Lawmakers approved Rep. Alex Mooney Alexander (Alex) Xavier MooneyThe Hill's 12:30 Report: State of the Union takeaways | Sights and sounds from the night | Virginia attorney general admits he wore blackface Key conservative presses for shield law after seizure of NYT reporter’s records May brings key primaries across nation MORE's (R-W.Va.) bill on a 235 to 188 vote.
The bill would block an Office of Surface Mining coal rule that enhances buffer zones around streams where coal mining and waste is prohibited.
Republicans say the rule will hamstring the coal industry and lead to further job losses among miners. Democrats say those concerns are exaggerated and that the rule would protect public health and water quality against the controversial mountaintop removal mining process. The White House has threatened to veto the bill.
"This [rule] would be devastating to states like my home state of West Virginia, which have already been hit hard by President Obama |
For Niloofar Rahmani, becoming Afghanistan’s first female air force pilot comes with a price.
Rahmani became the | first woman in her country to earn her wings three years ago. The 25-year-old fulfilled a lifelong dream in 2013 – it was a dream her father had also wanted to accomplish. Rahmani said she became a pilot to honor her father and to prove that Afghani women can do anything men can do.
"I always wanted to be a pilot," she said. "Being a pilot was my dad's dream."
Rahmani went on to fly more than 1,000 hours in the air fighting Islamic extremists in her country. She became a prized asset for her country’s military as much as she became a feminist symbol for Afghanistan’s women.
However, Islamic extremists do not take women’s rights well and her stature in the air force has forced her to plead for asylum in America.
"If she were to return to Afghanistan, she would be in fear of her safety," Motley, Rahmani’s lawyer, told CNN's |
Be prepared to pay more for mandarin oranges this Chinese New Year.
Fruit wholesalers said prices of the festive fruit are expected to | rise by 10 per cent to 20 per cent from that a year earlier due to a supply shortage from China caused by droughts.
Ms Xie Li Fen, who is in charge of sales at wholesaler Bee Seng Fruit Supply, said the price of a 20-piece pack of lukan oranges may go up from $12 to $14 this year. Her firm does not plan to import more oranges from other countries to make up the shortfall. The 39-year-old added: "This year, retailers had to place their orders with us earlier to ensure they can get the stocks."
Supermarket chain Sheng Siong said its supply is not affected though the Chinese harvest of the fruit is down slightly. "Prices for small oranges remain stable... but prices for big-sized oranges will increase this year by 5 per cent to 10 per cent."
The two main varieties imported from China are the swatow and lukan oranges. The former have a thicker skin |
In Brief: The specters of Max Fleischer, Tex Avery, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Jacques Tati hang heavily over Triplets | (there’s even a poster for Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday on the wall of an apartment); it’s the mixing of these elements that’s unique, and clearly Chomet’s vision. The director doesn’t merely copy his inspirations; he creates his own takes on them. Whether you’ll actually accept it on those terms is definitely a question of personal taste, but I doubt anyone will walk away from Triplets and not think they’ve really seen something different for a change. As a side-note to those of you who are allergic to subtitles, cheer up: There’s not a single one in sight; the story is told almost entirely in visuals and sound effects. What little intelligible dialogue the film contains — no more than a few lines — has been dubbed into English. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on March 17, 2004.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed defenseman Mark Eaton to a one-year contract, it was announced today by executive vice president and general manager Ray Shero | .
The deal has an average annual value of $725,000.
Eaton, 35, rejoins the Penguins for his second stint after previously playing four seasons with the team between 2006-10. He was a member of the Penguins’ 2009 Stanley Cup championship squad and he helped the team reach the ’08 Cup Final.
The 6-foot-1, 215-pound blueliner appeared in 218 regular-season games with Pittsburgh, tallying seven goals, 24 assists and 31 points with a plus-eight rating. He added 10 points (4G-6A) in 42 playoff contests.
A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Eaton spent time this season playing with the Penguins’ top minor-league affiliate, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL), collecting one assist in six games.
Eaton, who originally signed with Philadelphia as an undrafted free agent, has played 12 seasons in the NHL with the |
Texas fans are accustomed to drama. From Kody Clemens lighting up the Disch to Texas breaking Longhorn fans’ hearts after a double | -overtime loss to USC, the Longhorns’ 2017–2018 sports year provided nothing short of entertainment.
Repeat after me: Texas is a volleyball school.
After sweeping Texas A&M, 3-0, in College Station, all the Longhorns seemed to do was win. The match against the Aggies marked the first victory in a string of 21 straight wins. It was nearly a full three months before Texas’ winning streak came to an excruciating halt after a season-ending defeat at the hands of Stanford during the NCAA tournament on Dec. 9.
In week three of the college football season, Longhorn fans once again said “Texas is back,” and they were almost onto something. Almost. On Sept. 17, Texas took fourth-ranked USC to double overtime in freshman Sam Ehlinger’s second career start. Ehlinger marched the team 91 yards down the field in the final minutes of the fourth quarter, only to be stunned by |
Following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty on 1 December 2009, the EU is starting major preparations to successfully implement Europe's new competence on sport | and develop the bloc's first sports programme, to be launched in 2012.
The European Commission's July 2007 White Paper on Sport was the first 'comprehensive initiative' on sport in the EU.
Societal role of sport: Enhancing public health through physical activity, fighting doping, enhancing the role of sport in education, volunteer activities, social inclusion, fighting racism, sport as a tool for development.
Organisation of sport: The specific nature of sport, free movement, player transfers, players' agents, protection of minors, corruption and money laundering, licensing system for clubs, media rights.
The proposals are brought together in the 'Pierre de Coubertin' Action Plan, which details 53 concrete proposals for future EU action in these areas.
The proposed actions range from supporting an EU physical activity network to launching a study to assess the sector's contribution to the 'Lisbon Agenda' for growth and jobs in the EU. Others include the fight against corruption, an |
United Way of Henderson County is now accepting applications for the 2012-13 Rising Leaders Program.
This year-long program is designed to prepare young | professionals for leadership roles in local nonprofits. The goal of the program is to educate the next generation of community leaders and give them the tools and connections to become key volunteers with UWHC partner agencies and other nonprofits.
Thanks to sponsorship from Friday Staffing, the Rising Leaders Program is free of charge for all participants. Space is limited to 20 participants.
Participants will commit to attending an introductory session Sept. 15, as well as five of six informational sessions that will be at lunchtime throughout the year.
These interactive sessions will cover the fundamentals of board service and nonprofit management, and the essential knowledge and skills agency directors would like to see in their prospective board members.
Participants must complete at least 10 hours of community service in the county between September 2012 and June 2013.
"We have heard very positive feedback from local nonprofit agencies and from the graduates of our 2011-12 Pilot Program," said Graham Fields, UWHC Board member and chair of the Rising Leaders Committee.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada’s main stock index dropped to its lowest in more than a week on Wednesday as a U. | S. Federal Reserve report gave few new signals on the central bank’s plans for its monetary stimulus program.
Every major sector on the index ended in the red, and gold-mining shares showed one of the sharpest declines on the resource-heavy index, falling with bullion prices.
The market brushed aside figures showing U.S. home resales climbed in July to their highest level in more than three years, and trained its sights instead on the midafternoon release of minutes from the Fed’s last policy meeting.
The minutes showed that a few Fed officials thought last month that it would soon be time to slow the pace of the central bank’s stimulative bond-buying program “somewhat”, but others counseled patience.
“Investors are now worried about what will be cut back first: will it be mortgage-backed securities or the federal bonds?” said Sal Masionis, a stockbroker |
Revenue climbed, but firm still missed expectations.
Proto Labs Inc. shares fell 22 percent Thursday after the fast-growing company’ | s latest results missed lofty expectations.
The Maple Plain-based company, a provider of rapid prototyping and other services for manufacturers, said its per-share profit jumped 34 percent and revenue 20 percent in the last three months of 2018. But that was slower than growth in both measures for the full year.
“Proto Labs had another quarter of strong revenue growth, however, fourth quarter financial results were below our expectations,” Vicki Holt, the company’s chief executive, said in a statement.
The company’s shares fell to $101.58 a share on the Nasdaq exchange. They’re now down 38 percent from the record high of $165 reached in September.
Holt said Proto Labs had a strong start to the quarter but ended with weak sales in December. She said a company it bought in November 2017, a New Hampshire-based custom parts supplier called Rapid Manufacturing Group, did not meet sales and profit targets.
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Snowy conditions worsened enough late Saturday night to move Boone County to declare only essential travel as advised.
The county's Level 2 snow emergency declaration | shortly before 11 p.m. doesn't preclude people from going to work, according to a news release.
Road conditions are defined as "extremely hazardous" due to snow and ice in a Level 2 snow emergency.
Northern Kentucky counties and cities braced for ice and snow Saturday evening. Some called snow emergencies Saturday afternoon ahead of the cold weather as rain threatened to turn to freezing rain.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has warned drivers across the Commonwealth to be alert for wet roads that might freeze into ice overnight.
As of 9:30 p.m., there were about 200 people without power in Boone County. According to Duke Energy, there were 154 without power, with an additional 31 without power from Owen Electric. There are an additional 52 without power in Kenton County and 39 without power in Campbell County, according to Duke Energy.
Duke said power should be restored by 12:15 a.m., according to its website.
Boone County advised only essential travel by declaring |
If you've seen Furious 7 already, you will find it absolutely no surprise that the movie has pulled in a gigantic $384 million so far. | During its opening weekend in the US, Furious 7 bought in $143 million alone.
On top of the $143 million domestically, the movie has made over $240 million in the foreign market for a total of $384 million. This is a new record, with Furious 7 becoming the largest opening for any film in April, as well as being the largest opening for the franchise, and the ninth largest film opening in film history.
Box Office Mojo adds: "...That's without any help from China, Japan and Russia, where it will open in the next few weeks. So far, Furious 7 has earned $384 million worldwide, and is very likely on track to earn over $1 billion by the end of its run".
I've already seen the movie and loved it, with the way the producers and Paul Walker's family (not just his co-stars) gave him a very emotional send off. If you haven't seen it, you really should - it's a great |
NORMAN, Okla. - A Norman burglary leaves one mother pleading for what was inside of her stolen purse - her son’s co | chlear implants.
“Let’s be honest. They’re probably in a dumpster somewhere,” mom Kimberly Blodgett told KFOR.
Her 3-year- old son Albie’s cochlear implants were stolen Monday morning. She said while Albie is completely deaf, he lights up with his implants.
“If you see him and you put those on him you can tell a huge difference,” Blodgett sad.
Blodgett said the implants were inside her purse that she left in her car while dropping off her kids at a daycare. The daycare said they don’t have outside video cameras and unfortunately the car was left unlocked.
“In these instances, people move very quickly. They're looking for signs as well. They’re looking for maybe you didn’t have your car keys out. Maybe you didn’t lock your vehicle. |
U.S. drug regulators chided a Johnson & Johnson unit for not reporting or investigating customer complaints about O.B. Tampons or | personal lubricants similar to K-Y Jelly.
The Food and Drug Administration said the unit, McNeil-PPC Inc, did not properly follow up on complaints that included toxic shock syndrome from using the tampon, according to a warning letter posted on the FDA's website on Tuesday.
The company also did not investigate some complaints about the personal lubricant K-Y Liquibeads Vaginal Moisturizer, which in fact it never got permission to sell, the FDA said in the letter dated May 22.
J&J has recalled hundreds of millions of bottles and packages of its over-the-counter medicines in the past few years, such as the painkillers Tylenol and Motrin, due to quality lapses at its factories.
The FDA said McNeil-PPC never told regulators it planned to sell the K-Y Liquibeads, and made substantial changes to the lubricant compared with previous, similar products without |
Throw in a baker’s dozen of other judges and include some of the most highly regarded prosecutors and defense attorneys in the metropolitan area.
| In the 1980s and early 1990s, under Albert Riederer, the Jackson County prosecutor’s office was that law firm.
As a leader of and mentor to so many young lawyers who went on to stellar careers, Riederer, 67, arguably has had more influence on the legal community in Kansas City than any other person.
Kevin Regan certainly feels that way.
“Albert is a man of uncommon virtue who always taught us to do the right thing,” said Regan, now recognized as a premier defense attorney. As a young lawyer, Regan was hired by Riederer as an assistant prosecutor.
Riederer’s legal legacy came into sharp focus recently when he announced that he was retiring from law to devote his energy to fighting a cancer that has laid him low in recent months. Earlier this month, hundreds of friends and former employees gathered at the Uptown Theater to celebrate his career and life.
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It's been two months since Kylie Jenner and Tyga broke up, | and though the couple has parted ways several times before, this time was supposed to be different.
This time, Kylie and Tyga were supposed to be over with for good, having finally joined the rest of us in getting bored with the constant breakup, reconciliation, breakup cycle.
Unfortunately, Kylie is 19, which means that like every other 19-year-old on the planet, she has no idea what the hell she wants, and she's fully enslaved by her own emotions.
In recent weeks, Tyga has been spending time with his ex, Blac Chyna.
It's not an entirely unexpected move, as Tyga and Blac have a kid together, and as far as club appearances and other paid events go, they're worth more together than separately.
But the Blac-Tyga split wasn't exactly amicable, and at one point, the feud between Blac and Kylie was as intense as celebrity beefs get.
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Do you like the Audi A7? Do you like Cadillac’s current design language? If you answered ‘yes’ to both | , or maybe even just one, you’re probably going to love the Cadillac Escala concept.
Unveiled this evening at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, the Escala (Spanish for ‘scale’) joins a long list of gorgeous Caddy sedan concepts, and it even comes with a loose promise from CEO Johan de Nysschen that it’s being considered for production. Given its relatively reserved design compared to some previous concepts, there’s a good shot it’s more than just hollow promises this time.
“Depending on the development of market segment for large luxury sedans, Escala is a potential addition to our existing product plan,” de Nysschen said.
The Escala is based on the same platform as the Cadillac CT6, but is six inches longer, making it a few measurements and design lines closer to the glorious flagship Cadillac sedan we’ve been clamoring for |
Despite claims to the contrary, Israel wants its Arab population to be successful and happy. In line with that general policy, Israel's Ministry of Industry | , Trade and Labor and the government-owned telecom company Bezeq have launched a new initiative to get Bedouin Arab women into the workforce.
The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor identified Bedouin women as the sector of society least involved in the workforce. At the same time, Bezeq was looking to more to periphery communities for new call center customer support representatives, a position that traditionally sees a high turnover. The two joined forces and approached Bedouin communities in southern Israel about letting local women work.
It's not that many Bedouin women don't want to work. They do. Many have expressed a desire to contribute more financially to their large families. But community traditions prevent women from working outside the village, and opportunities within are largely confined to teaching.
Bezeq and the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor solved the problem by opening a new call center inside a local mosque. Now, dozens of women from one Bedouin town are earning a |
I love my fiancee and want to completely trust her, but she has in her contact list, on her cell phone, the numbers of three | previous love interests, and not just their cell numbers, but work and home, too.
She doesn't want to erase them, so I feel like she doesn't want to make a commitment. I know if I force the issue I would seriously damage our relationship, and I don't think it is worth that, but I can't be wondering, what if she is off with someone else? -- J.C.
Why limit it to her previous love interests? Why not worry that she's off with a colleague, or a neighbor, or some guy at the dog park, or that old friend of hers with whom there's no romantic history... yet?
You say you "want" to trust her completely. But that and a guy-free cell would provide only imaginary security, if that.
Wanting to trust someone has little to do with actually knowing how to trust someone. When you know how, you know that everyone has exes, and colleagues, and friends, |
In a year when college campuses were particularly visible as hotbeds of political activity, O’Keefe’s stunt didn’t | make much of a splash. The administrator in the clip seems confused and skeptical, like an actress flubbing her lines, while the real-life Vassar kids caught on camera look mildly inconvenienced rather than incensed. What stands out is that, in contrast to O’Keefe’s other provocations, the clip could have served a variety of political viewpoints. As a parody of campus life, it tapped into a broader suspicion, shared across the ideological spectrum—from right-wing watchdogs to high-minded progressives—that college students these days are absurdly thin-skinned, unduly obsessed with “safe spaces” and political correctness.
Why this surge of interest in campus life, especially as fodder for ridicule? What have college students come to represent to those who presume to inhabit the "real world" that awaits them? These reports and reactions arrive at a moment of heightened scrutiny concerning the usefulness of college itself, in an era of astoundingly high tu |
Poor weather drives down attendance at 43rd annual NSRA Street Rod Nationals South.
Jim Rowlett of the National Street Rod Association talks about the | 43rd annual street rod and custom car show in Chilhowee Park on Friday, May 5, 2017.
The 43rd annual NSRA Street Rod Nationals South drew thousands of people to Chilhowee Park on Friday and Saturday to see over 1,600 registered street rods being presented by members from across the region.
This year’s event marked the 34th time that the Street Rod Nationals South has been in Knoxville. According to NSRA Marketing Director Jim Rowlett, the event typically draws over 10,000 visitors and participants to the park, but Saturday’s cold, rainy weather drove attendance down significantly. Rowlett explained that the number of NSRA members registered for this year’s event was only slightly less than in 2016.
Rowlett explained that the NSRA hosts less than a dozen national street rod events across the country each year and that turnout for Saturday’s event had been great before the rain hit. Still, he said, Knox |
A recent posting on the Gazette’s Facebook pages of the 1st Cadet Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry marching along King Street, South | Shields, in 1958, followed by members of the Civil Defence and South Shields Police, struck a chord with a number of readers.
Back in 1989 pupils at a South Shields comprehensive took part in a live link-up with school children in France.
Carole Elms took to social media to say: “I marched on Good Fridays down Fowler Street then along King Street with The Glebe Methodist Church, banner flying.
Another photograph, this time from February 1989, showing pupils at a South Shields comprehensive school taking part in a live link-up with children in France, also brought back memories.
Anthony Spink posted: “A lot of familiar faces here”, something which Kirsty Rockett confirmed, by naming many of them – “Kirsty Rockett, Emma Rose, Gemma Laurie, Dave Ogle, Kirsty Elizabeth Galbraith, Aidan Lannen, Mark Young Lisa Gray, Kathryn Cowen and Stephen Shieber.
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Miami Horror Worried That Their New L.A.-Inspired Album Might Be "Too Happy"
It’s not a story new | to music: Band records solid debut album, gains traction in their hometown scene, moves to Los Angeles to pursue international superstardom, gets blissed out on SoCal’s slow-roll pace and perpetual sun, adopts corresponding laid-back attitude, and finds creativity levels compromised. The music suffers; the second album is weak; the band fades back into obscurity. The end.
Like many musicians before them, Melbourne, Australia-bred band Miami Horror has indeed found increased levels of personal contentment since posting up in L.A. a few years back. But the blue sky brightness of SoCal culture hasn't inspired a descent into blissed-out drivel, but rather an advancement of the breezy indie electronic sound first heard on their 2010 debut Illumination.
The album he’s referring to is All Possible Futures, Miami Horror's sophomore effort, released this past April. Travelers driving east on the 10 towards Palm Springs will see a billboard for the |
On a new episode of Tori's Trails The Now Bakersfield’s Tori Cooper stepped into Native American territory to explore the world | they left behind for hikers.
The Unal trail is an interpretive trail, meaning it's a moderate length trail with concentrated informational stops meant to inform visitors about what they are seeing. In this case the Unal Trail provides visitors with more awareness of the Native American heritage left behind in the Sequoia National Forest.
The Tubatulabel people are some of the first to call the Kern River Valley their home. In their native language Unal means,‘Trail of the Bear,’ so don’t be surprised if you see a bear along your route.
Members of the tribe, with ties to land associated with the trail also left behind numbered stops to ensure visitors walked away with something more than just a workout.
The Unal Trail was developed in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service and the local Tubatulabal to teach forest visitors not only about forest service management practices but also about the early Native Americans that lived in the area. |
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is set to meet with Hamas leaders Khaled Meshaal and Moussa Abu Marzouq in Cairo on Wednesday to | discuss an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza-based Palestinian resistance factions.
Abbas “wants a ceasefire to end the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip,” senior Fatah leader Nabil Shaath told a Wednesday press conference in Ramallah.
Abbas will spend three days in Cairo, and is scheduled to meet with Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry.
Hamas, which hold along with Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees said that it was excluded from the discussions surrounding a ceasefire, has yet to comment on Shaath’s remarks regarding the planned meeting.
“Abbas’ talks in Cairo will focus on a ceasefire and how to stop Israel’s barbaric attack on Gaza,” Shaath said.
“He will then travel to Turkey for a meeting with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan before heading |
A legal citizen from Togo was reportedly attacked in Maryland for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat on Saturday, as police have | taken two suspects into custody.
The man, who lives in Germantown, MD, was reportedly attacked in his neighborhood by two men because he was wearing the hat, in support of President Donald Trump. He was reportedly hit in the head and upper body, as the two suspects tried to steal his hat from him, according to ABC7.
The Montgomery County Police Department says the victim, “who was wearing a red, Make America Great Again hat, was approached by two men who began harassing the victim and asking why he was wearing the MAGA hat. The victim told the suspects that he was entitled to his own views and kept walking away from the suspects. The suspects began striking the victim and telling him to take the hat off. The victim continued to be struck by the suspects until he fell to the ground. The suspects then removed property from the victim, and destroyed items of value. The suspects then fled the scene,” in a Monday press release.
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Come May 25th of this year, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enters into force. How are multinational companies that | rely heavily on analytic software in their enterprise security and insider-threat mitigation programs ensuring they comply with the GDPR? The answer is that many are — or should be — making major adjustments in the types of software solutions they use to analyze personal data.
The GDPR is designed to strengthen security and privacy protections for data on the citizens of all 28 EU member states, including data held outside the EU by companies that count its citizens among their employees or customers. (Several non-EU countries are also adopting the GDPR.) This is the EU’s first significant regulatory refresh since its 1995 data protection directive, and the implications are profound.
Recital 71: The data subject should have "the right... to obtain an explanation of the decision reached... and to challenge the decision."
Article 13: The data controller must provide the subject, at the time his or her personal data is obtained, with “meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envis |
Brittany Smith became the first woman to be WISSOTA Auto Racing's Hornet national champion this year.
ST. CLOUD | — Brittany Smith grew up at the track.
And this year she left her mark there, as the first female national champion in WISSOTA Auto Racing.
"It was kind of unreal," Smith said about her big win.
The 20-year-old Apollo High School graduate raced in the Hornet division and finished as runner-up last year.
Smith had 15 feature wins this year and knew she had enough points to win the championship before the season ended in late October. WISSOTA’s membership includes about 50 race tracks in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Ontario, Alberta and Manitoba.
"I hope my accomplishments can show women that even though it's a male-dominated sport, anything and everything is possible," Smith said Wednesday.
Her family is a big part of her life on and off the track — and she credits her dad's pep talks with some of her success.
Smith's brother Jacob Smith is |
Chadwick Boseman took the Saturday Night Live stage over the weekend, where he brought out his Black Panther character, T'Challa | , for a new, brilliant installment in SNL's hilarious recurring "Black Jeopardy" sketch.
Decked out in his formal dignitary ensemble (instead of his iconic Black Panther armor) T'Challa's answers to the "Black Jeopardy" questions painted a really beautiful portrait of his home nation of Wakanda.
Host Darnell Hayes (played by Kenan Thompson) led the contestants through a series of questions regarding black culture in America -- from the categories "Grown A**," "Aw Hell Naw," "Fid’na," "Girl, Bye," "I Ain’t Got It," and "White People."
As it turns out T'Challa's experiences as the king of Wakanda have given him a remarkably different view of the world and his role, and America's cultural morays are very foreign to him.
After the category "Fid'na" was chosen, the contestant were asked, "This is |
For some parents, withdrawing a child from a private school is harder than getting in.
On November 10, 2017 Braeburn Group of International | Schools lost a seven-year-old protracted court battle with two parents whom it had accused of withdrawing their children out of the school without giving notice.
The court case serves as a lesson to Kenyan parents.
Buried in the school application forms that most parents passively sign, are clauses that can cost you dearly if you want to withdraw your child on short notice.
For most parents, getting a child into a new school is a moment of relief or joy, that they spend very little time reading through the admission letter. However, there are tiny clauses that can cost you millions of shillings if a school takes you to court.
The court case serves as a lesson to Kenyan parents. Buried in the school application forms that most parents passively sign, are clauses that can cost you dearly if you want to withdraw your child on short notice.
In the case of Braeburn, court documents show that the parents escaped liability on the grounds that the application form was not duly signed |
Founder of Facebook discussed the role of media in society with Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer publishing house.
Speaking | about the importance of journalism in society, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg mentioned two important moments in Slovakia. One was the work of reporter Ján Kuciak, who was killed along with his fiancée Martina Kušnírová last February. This, among other things, inspired Zuzana Čaputová to run for president and fight corruption in the country.
“One of the journalists who worked with Axel Springer undertook this incredibly important investigative journalism into issues of tax and fraud in Slovakia, which inspired a woman to run for president, and who I think just won, to go and campaign on a massive anti-corruption campaign,” Zuckerberg said at a discussion with Mathias Döpfner, CEO of the Axel Springer publishing house. In Slovakia Axel Springer runs the Aktuality.sk news website Kuciak worked for.
In his opinion, this symbolises the importance of the work journalists are doing.
The two met in Berlin. |
HERE in the home city of Albert Einstein Chelsea were left scratching their heads trying to solve another brain teaser.
What will life be like without | the three wise old men Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and John Terry, the latter suspended for the Champions League Final but still a major player?
As he chatted to his old England boss Fabio Capello before kick-off, high above their heads flew the blue banner ‘JT – captain, leader, legend’. Three lion-hearted words which sum up Terry’s value to his beloved club.
Stand-in skipper Lampard and Drogba are spoken of in the same revered tones by the faithful who will shed tears when they finally say adios to their three amigos.
First to go looks like match-winner Drogba – described by boss Roberto Di Matteo as one of the club’s greats.
Few words really sum up a true legend. Awesome, magnificent, moody, marvellous – you could go on about a beast of a man who says his heart will always be blue |
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellFormer Bush assistant: Mueller report makes Obama look 'just plain bad' 20 years | after Columbine, Dems bullish on gun reform Dem says marijuana banking bill will get House vote this spring MORE (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that the Senate won't take up a net neutrality bill currently before lawmakers in the House.
“Dead on arrival in the Senate,” McConnell told reporters about the fate of the House bill, which is expected to get a vote in that chamber this week.
The Obama-era rules prohibited internet service providers from blocking or throttling web content or from creating so-called internet fast lanes.
The bill is expected to easily pass the Democrat-controlled House despite a veto threat from the White House. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said the Trump administration “strongly opposes” the bill, dubbed the Save the Internet Act.
Republicans tried, without success, to amend the Democrats' bill in committee, including undercutting the FCC's authority to enforce the rules. They also called for Democrats to come up with a |
Europe is better positioned as a place to create Bitcoin-based startups than the US. That was the message coming out of Bitcoin London today, the | first major conference in London to address startups, investors and business models of the online currency. Covering the broad sweep of businesses, technologists and institutions involved in the Bitcoin space, the conference heard that the US may have made a fatal strategic mistake in classifying Bitcoin as if it were money so early on in its development.
What has emerged is that Bitcoin is being treated in many different ways: as money, as an asset class, as the first highly secure P2P global information exchange, as a technology platform and even as a if it were a startup entity in its own right.
Constance Choi, General Counsel with Payward sounded exasperated on stage at the conference: “Having to explain Bitcoin at Federal and State level is a nightmare.” She said the Treasury response was that the 50 State system is just “a fact of life”, a “a barrier to entry” and it up to the Bitcoin sector to survive.
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State Democratic chairman does not approve of effort, says Democrats should stay out of GOP primary.
A Democratic political operative says he is working with Mississippi | Conservatives PAC to drum up votes for U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran.
James "Scooby Doo" Warren said he has put together a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) plan and is "putting it in place across the whole state." Warren said he is not working with the Cochran campaign itself but for the PAC and Bishop Ronnie Crudup Sr.
Crudup is the pastor at New Horizon Church, which shares an address and chief financial officer with a newly formed super PAC that ran print advertising in the primary supporting Cochran.
When asked if he was getting any blow back for working in a Republican primary, Warren said he "got all that taken care of on the front end."
"I called D.C. and told them what was going on with the tea party," Warren said. "But I can't do anything after the 24th because I'm a Democrat... Whoever wins will have to deal with |
NEW ORLEANS – The first federal trial over Merck & Co.'s (MRK) withdrawn painkiller Vio | xx (search) is slated to begin here on Nov. 28 and concerns whether the drug caused the fatal heart attack of a 53-year-old Florida man.
U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon decided on Wednesday to make the case involving Richard Irvin Jr. the first to go to trial. Fallon is handling all pretrial proceedings for federal cases. Thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the company.
Irvin's wife, Evelyn Irvin Plunkett, filed the suit against Merck after her husband died of a heart attack in May 2001, one month after he started taking Vioxx for back pain. Plunkett blames her husband's death on Vioxx, saying that he was in "very good health" when he started taking the painkiller.
"This is clearly a case we can show that Vioxx caused this man's heart attack," said Andy Birchfield, Plunk |
Monday. South Lafourche vs. Terrebonne at Cut Off Youth Center.
Monday. H.L. Bourgeois vs. | Central Lafourche at Bayou Black Recreation District.
Monday. South Terrebonne vs. Thibodaux at East Houma Pool.
Monday. Ellender, Berwick, Patterson, Central Catholic-Morgan City at Morgan City Pool.
Today. Nicholls State at Southeastern Louisiana, 1 p.m.
Today. Knights of Columbus St. Eloi Council No. 8779 24th Annual Fishing Rodeo in Theriot.
Today. Football fans can enjoy food, football, and fun at Saints Sunday and 5K on Sunday at Southdown Museum, 1208 Museum Drive in Houma. The event will feature live, family-friendly music by Sheauxdown from noon to 3 p.m., food, drinks and kids’ activities and games. There will be a kids’ half-mile fun run at 1:30 p.m. and a 5K for walkers and runners at 2 p.m. The New Orleans Saints game |
(CNN) -- A few weeks ago, when violence and kidnappings along the U.S.-Mexico border were all over the news, Todd | Sotkiewicz took a group of high school students to Tijuana, Mexico.
Gary Arndt traveled to Cambodia to see a temple. He also found soldiers, but says he wasn't afraid.
The teens' parents had to be warned that the service-oriented spring break trip might go against a federal travel alert, he said. But, in his view, the value of the experience, which involved building homes for impoverished families, trumped any perceived threat.
"These poor families really needed these houses," said Sotkiewicz, a parent of one of the students and also the president of Lonely Planet in the Americas. "We went down there and we took the appropriate precautions like we all should."
While the H1N1 flu virus has stirred fears about international travel and has brought renewed attention to government travel advisories, there remains a hearty group of travelers who say such official advice doesn't dictate whether they will or won't take a trip.
For some |
(Washington, D.C.) — The Russian authorities must release all of the peaceful protesters detained over the weekend amid allegations of fraud in Sunday's | parliamentary elections, Amnesty International said today.
More than 300 opposition activists and bystanders were reportedly arrested by police in cities across Russia amid protests against alleged manipulation of votes by presidential candidate Vladimir Putin's United Russia party.
"These disgraceful detentions highlight once again the failure of the Russian government to respect its citizens' rights to freedom of expression and assembly," said Nicola Duckworth, director of Amnesty International's Europe and Central Asia program. "The vast majority of those arrested since Sunday have sought merely to peacefully express their protest. They are prisoners of conscience and they must be released immediately."
Across Russia police moved swiftly to pre-empt and disperse potential protests. In Moscow, opposition parties called for demonstrations against election fraud on Red Square and Triumfalnaya Square. Police responded by detaining potential demonstrators and onlookers.
Several well known opposition activists were detained at home or on their way to demonstrations, with some being sentenced to up to 10 days of administrative detention.
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Nobody wants to face an audit from the Internal Revenue Service. Luckily, the probability of being audited is quite small for the average taxpayer.
| It’s estimated that only 0.6 percent of taxpayers are likely to be audited. If you report zero gross adjusted income, the probability of being audited increases to just under 2.6 percent.
According to TurboTax, the red flags that increase the probability of being audited are: having a home business that loses money each year; taking a home office deduction, especially when you claim a high percentage of your living space is used for business; and claiming a high proportion of itemized deductions to income.
An example of the latter might be someone who takes deductions of $40,000 on an income of $60,000.
If you do prepare your tax return using TurboTax software, you can use their audit support options if you are audited.
As you would expect, if there are errors on your return, there is a higher probability of being audited. E-filing helps reduce error rates; the error rate for electronically filed returns is 0 |
With more than 70 events and concerts, the possibilities for fun are endless.
By offering more than 70 events and concerts, the Kentucky Derby Festival | has endless ways to live it up. By day you could enjoy an awe-inspiring airshow or historic steamboat racing. By night you can become a foodie, wine connoisseur or bourbon enthusiast. Since there are so many things to do, narrowing it down can be hard. That’s why we’ve put together a list of events perfect for every kind of experience.
Humana mini & Marathon & Relay – Run (or walk) like the wind in and around Louisville’s landmarks, parks and more.
PNC Tour de LouSM – On a 20-, 35- or 62.1-mile open course, pedal your way through downtown, the Highlands, the South End, Olmsted Parks and more.
Stock Yards Bank $1 Million Dollar Hole-in-One Golf ContestSM – From beginners to scratch golfers, anyone can swing their way to a bigger bank account.
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The Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) is currently enmeshed in a controversy that could rock its operations and that of Nigeriaâ | €™s electricity market, investigations by THISDAY have revealed.
According to industry sources, top officials in the agency and Ministry of Power, Works and Housing have made demands of its Managing Director, Dr. Marilyn Amobi, to approve a four per cent service charge that will accrue to them, following the federal government’s approval of NBET’s request of N701 billion from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for onward payment to power generation companies (Gencos).
The service charge, they said, was to cover for their so-called facilitation of the loan approval by the Federal Executive Council (FEC).
However, reliable sources in NBET and the ministry told THISDAY that everything that had to do with the facilitation of the loan was done by Amobi and her team.
An investment banker by training, Amobi was said to have turned down the offer to work as a consultant to NBET to help the agency make |
"Do as I say, not what I do" appears to be a character trait shared by several salt policy-makers in the Netherlands. According | to a study in the Christmas issue published on bmj.com, one hot meal in work canteens of salt policy-makers in the Netherlands contains more salt than the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of 6 grams.
Salt policy makers who eat in their work canteens consume roughly 15.4 grams of salt per day, say the team led by Dr. Lizzy Brewster at the University of Amsterdam. Compared with the recommended daily allowance this amount of salt equates to a 36% increase in premature death.
It is estimated that consuming too much salt causes 30% of all hypertension cases. In several countries programs have been established in order to encourage individuals to eat less salt.
The team concentrated on policy makers, as they believed they would be highly aware of the risk of excessive salt consumption.
The study analyzed 18 canteens at the Department of Health, the Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, the Health Council, university and non-university hospitals in |
The geography of West Asia today is under immense stress, with conflicts visible on most of the boundaries in the region. While on the face of it | much of the blame would point towards the Syrian war and the entry of the Islamic State (ISIS) into the jihadist discourse, it is in fact the increasingly confrontational rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran that is spreading a lot of discord around the region’s politics and the fragile sectarian environment that holds these states together.
The sultanate of Oman, the last stop of Prime Minister Modi’s tri-nation trip to the region covering Palestine (with Jordan facilitating the stopover to Ramallah) and UAE before he lands in Muscat, has been conflict-free since the Dhofar Rebellion which lasted from 1963 till 1976, leading to a radical modernisation of the previously downtrodden and impoverished Omani state. Amidst this political kerfuffle, then Omani Sultan Said bin Taimur (who gained his education from Mayo College, Rajputana—India, in the 1920s) was deposed in a coup by his son Qaboos Bin Said al Said |
Northwestern alumna Daphne Maxwell Reid. Reid was Northwestern’s first black homecoming queen, who went on to star as Aunt | Viv in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"
“AND is in our DNA” might be Northwestern’s latest catchphrase to showcase the breadth of talent across its student body, but Daphne Maxwell Reid (Weinberg ’70) needed no catchphrase to make history both on campus and beyond. While people may recognize Reid from her iconic role as Aunt Vivian in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” they may not know she’s a dedicated photographer, seamstress and former model who was also NU’s first black Homecoming Queen. This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
Reid: I had almost retired when I got “Fresh Prince.” I was asked in 1989 to audition for a show with a rapper, but I had just gotten through doing a bunch of back-to-back television series and my husband and I were planning to move to Virginia to breathe a |
Shortly after he was promoted to four stars, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey made a decision that spoke volumes about how he views the future of war | .
The Army had spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the previous decade on an annual war game designed to peer 15 to 20 years into the future and envision what kinds of technology and fighting concepts the military would need to prevail in the next major war. The game involved dozens of role players and an army of defense contractors waging computer-simulated battles.
Dempsey, whom President Obama will nominate on Monday to be chairman of the Joint chiefs of Staff, killed the war game in 2009. He replaced it the next year with a series of seminars devoted to producing more flexible and free-thinking officers at all levels.
Dempsey was sworn in as Army chief of staff only last month, but will give up that position in the fall when Adm. Mike Mullen, the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff retires. Gen. Ray Odierno, who commanded troops in Iraq from 2008 to 2010, is expected to take over as Army chief. Both positions require Senate confirmation. |
With its a state slogan of "Tennessee -- America at its Best," Tennessee offers a slice of Americana for every member of your family. | Enjoy rich musical culture from Appalachian bluegrass to Memphis blues and Nashville country. Civil War history buffs can explore the Antebellum Trail, connecting 55 historical sites, battlefields and plantations. No visit to Tennessee would be complete without a visit to the Great Smoky Mountains, which is just one area of the state where you can enjoy overnighting in a campground cabin.
Spend the night in a cabin that predates the Civil War at Donley Cabin in Cherokee National Forest in eastern Tennessee. The secluded one-room cabin sleeps six people, with two sets of bunk beds and a full-size metal bed. Plywood forms the base for your bedding, so you may want to bring a camping pad. Warm yourself by the fireplace and enjoy dining indoors at the kitchen table. Outside, you'll find a grill for cooking food and rocking chairs on the front porch. The cabin is a popular autumn getaway and has a three-day stay limit. There are no locks on |
Catching up with Blackhat over the weekend, I found myself reminded—and surprisingly often—of selections in this year's Onion City Experimental Film | and Video Festival, which I previewed for this week's issue of the Reader. Michael Mann's latest is, on one level, a catalogue of textures that can be achieved with digital video. According to IMDB, the filmmakers used no fewer than five different video cameras, ranging from professional-grade equipment to "prosumer" models you can find at Best Buy. In certain shots the camera's close enough to faces or objects to capture them in hard, ultraprecise detail; in others characters compete for the viewer's attention with painterly smears of color. Mann and cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh favor small, lightweight cameras during the action sequences so that any movement feels (as in Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel's acclaimed experimental documentary Leviathan) shaky, almost vertiginous. Moreover the editing moves unpredictably between these different types of images, resulting in something like a moving photo collage. Blackhat does have a story, but |
(FORTUNE Magazine) – DEALMAKER extraordinaire Michael Dingman stunned even the most jaded Wall Streeters last spring when | he raised a thumping $1.2 billion for a ragtag group of companies in the largest U.S. initial public offering ever. The money went to the Henley Group, a money-losing bunch of businesses that Allied-Signal didn't want and spun off to its shareholders in May. It wouldn't seem anyone's dream investment. Yet so formidable is Dingman's reputation on Wall Street that investors rushed to fill his billion-dollar-war chest, even though he will use most of it not to build up Henley but to make acquisitions -- and he'll decide on those later, thank you. Investors like his style. The 6-foot-4, balding Dingman, 55, exudes confidence and argues emphatically on any topic from sports to corporate takeovers. He can be blunt at one moment and easygoing at another. He hates bureaucracy and has few qualms about cutting staff and costs to the bone. Dingman's independence goes back to his college |
As the Sun journeys through Virgo the Cosmic Virgin, in the North we are harvesting our crops, preparing for Winter. We gather in our harvest | and see the fruits of our labor. In the South, the opposite is true--this is a time for planting, for something new to begin. Wheat and grains are being harvested now in some parts of the world while in other parts the seeds are being sown. (Since our global collective consciousness now operates on the northern model, I'll be speaking from that point of view. But in the southern lands, plant those seeds of life that you harvested last February!) Both things can occur simultaneously; the opposites are bound together.
Psychologically and symbolically, Autumn is a good time to look at our lives, to see the results of this year's transformation--how we've lived our lives and what our labors have created. We plant so that we may live, we reap for our sustenance. We bake for our nourishment--the bread of life. One part of life is the growing and another part is the creating. We are here on Earth to grow and create our |
Deadpool 2 has dropped a new poster, and it’s got the fun, wacky style you’d expect from the marketing | campaign that 20th Century Fox is clearly having a ball with. The Struzan-inspired art design is a nice touch, and it’s got fun gags including a literal kitchen sink, which ties in nicely to how the whole cast is presence…except one.
Look closely and you’ll see that T.J. Miller, who has been present in past advertising for the movie, is nowhere to be found. While he’s still listed in the credits (and presumably will be in the finished film), Fox has decided that it’s probably for the best not to include the face of a guy who was arrested for allegedly calling in a bomb threat to a train. Presumably if we ever get Deadpool 3 (and Ryan Reynolds thinks that X-Force is the future of the character for the time being), I seriously doubt they’ll bring back Miller.
Check out the Deadpool 2 poster below. The film opens May 18th and also stars Josh Bro |
Ninth-seeded Stanford men’s soccer (17-2-2) didn’t wait for penalties to decide the game | this time around against first-seeded Wake Forest (19-2-2) but instead goals by seniors defender Tomas Hilliard-Arce and midfielder Sam Werner propelled the Cardinal to 2-0 victory in Winston-Salem on Saturday afternoon.
The win sends Stanford to its third consecutive College Cup and the sixth one in the program’s history. The Cardinal will play fourth-seeded Akron in Philadelphia, which is a rematch of the 2015 semifinal.
The Cardinal have played Wake Forest in three consecutive postseason appearances (including this year) and the Deacons have been eliminated by Stanford each time.
In the 2015 quarterfinal, then-sophomore forward Foster Langsdorf headed home a goal in overtime to down Wake Forest.
Last season, the two teams clashed in the NCAA title game. After 110 minutes of physical and scoreless play, the game was decided on penalties where the Cardinal prevailed 5-4.
This game wasn’t as tight as |
A police dog stabbed while protecting his handler from an armed suspect has been named animal of the year.
German shepherd Finn was left fighting for his | life after being stabbed in Stevenage last year. Handler PC Dave Wardell sustained a minor hand injury.
The pair returned to duty 11 weeks later after a lengthy recovery.
The award was given by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) at a ceremony at the House of Lords.
PD (Police Dog) Finn and PC Wardell were attacked by a boy armed with a 30cm (12in) hunting knife in October 2016.
The wound came within an inch of the dog's heart and punctured a lung. Vets spent four hours saving his life.
A photograph of Finn's stomach wound, held together with 30 stitches, prompted an online campaign - championed by PC Wardell - for a change in the law regarding injuries to police support animals.
It became known as Finn's Law and culminated in a parliamentary debate which led to stricter sentencing guidelines.
Philip Mansbridge, UK director of IFAW, described Finn as a "remarkable dog" |
Whether you’ve been humming “Let It Snow” since summer or the mere thought of December has you craving a drink, NYC | ’s holiday pop-up pubs have something for you. Skip the sloppy disaster that is SantaCon (happening, regrettably, on Saturday) in favor of more dignified drinking at one of the city’s new, wintry watering holes. These merry boîtes are tapping into nostalgia, decking the hell out of their halls and raising New Yorkers’ holiday spirits with delicious — and inventive — holiday spirits.
Donner and Blitzen’s Reindeer Lounge, located in the No Malice Palace space in the East Village, is a jolly jumble of wrapping-paper-covered walls, cartoon reindeer and no fewer than three fake fireplaces. Open through Jan. 1, it’s the brainchild of bar manager and Christmas fanatic Anthony Serignese.
So she focused on the cocktail program. Her favorite is the Elf Nog ($13), a green glass of fernet, crème de ment |
Accused of kowtowing and spinelessness, the retiring House Speaker insists his conscience is clean knowing that things could have been worse— | much worse.
Paul Ryan talks to reporters following a GOP strategy session on Capitol Hill.
Paul Ryan’s roast of Donald Trump at last fall’s AI Smith dinner in New York may be the closest the Speaker has ever come to admitting his true feelings about the president. “Every morning, I wake up in my office and scroll Twitter to see which tweets I will have to pretend that I didn’t see later,” he told the audience. The remark was intended as a joke, but it hit uncomfortably close to home: Ryan seems visibly uncomfortable when asked to respond to the president’s positions or remarks, historically brushing aside questions with a trademark lipless grimace plastered to his face. Technically speaking, the guy ought to be happier: thanks to Trump, some of his lifelong policy goals have finally become reality. But as Speaker of the House, not to mention one of several Republicans who repeatedly scuttled away from Trump during the |
ElcomSoft, the employer of freed Russian software developer Dmitry Sklyarov, and federal authorities have squared up in court for the first time in | a case that will challenge America's controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
In a pre-trial hearing yesterday, lawyers for Moscow-based ElcomSoft argued that charges brought against it under the DMCA should be dismissed because the law is "too broad and vague". The criminal charges brought against ElcomSoft are likely to prove "unconstitutional", the company's lawyers told Judge Ronald Whyte of the Northern District of California Federal Court.
ElcomSoft is charged with supplying a tool that circumvents the copy protection in Adobe eBooks, which can be used in making audible copies of e-books for the blind, or copies of legitimately purchased electronic books. ElcomSoft's Advanced eBook Processor, which is legal in Russia, was sold over the Internet (though it has since been taken off the market).
The DCMA prohibits the creation and distribution of such tools.
In this David vs Goliath battle, federal prosecutors opposed ElcomSoft's motion and argued that the tool |
A lot of hot air comes out of Washington, but for now none of it will be inflating the surveillance blimp that the Pentagon has been | working on. Research has been halted on the Blue Devil Block 2 — but only after spending $140 million on it already.
At this rate, it looks like the Air Force’s 370-foot-long Blue Devil Block 2 will never get off the ground. The Pentagon has already spent millions of dollars on the massive aircraft, but with the price tag now expected to amount to a figure substantially larger than originally assumed, the latest budget figures reveal that the Air Force won’t be allocating any funds for further research.
Until now, the Blue Devil Block 2 blimp was slated for deployment on April 15. The plan was to put the big balloon over the skies of Afghanistan, where its DARPA-developed technology would allow the US Defense Department to scan 36 miles at a time from an elevation exceeding 20,000 feet from the ground. DefenseSystems.com reported last October that Air Force officials were weary that Congress wouldn’t cut them a check to keep the |
In the video above, correspondent Jon Wertheim asks Senator Ted Cruz and Congressman Beto O'Rourke about their possible plans for higher office | beyond 2018. Below is a transcript. For 60 Minutes' full report on the Senate race in Texas, click here.
JON WERTHEIM: You share the others seem to have that this race may have a rematch. And it may not be the in Texas Senate. That we may be witnessing two future presidential candidates here.
TED CRUZ: --all-- all-- clearly lookin' forward to that. Now, but listen, I'm-- I'm-- you know-- you know, that-- that there's the old line about glass houses. So I've-- I've run for Senate and then run for president. And I-- you know, if he wants to do that, that's-- he can do that.
JON WERTHEIM: We've heard a lotta people speculate that you and Sen. Cruz may face each other again, not in a Senate rematch but running for a higher office. What are your thoughts on-- on running |
The successful launch of the indigenously-developed cryogenic engine powered heavy-duty rocket GSLV Mk-III carrying a 3,136 kg | GSAT-19 communication satellite in the very first attempt should rightly be celebrated as a historic moment.
Fifteen years after the US and Europe blocked the transfer of cryogenic engine technology from Russia, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has made its mark with commitment, conviction and expertise in mastering the cryogenic engine that’s fuelled by solid and liquid fuels. In fact, it’s a new era for India’s space industry. The cryogenic engine C25 used in the maiden launch on Monday by India is, anyway, far ahead of the C20 deployed in September 2016 which marked the arrival of ISRO as a cost-effective, proficient and focused long-term deep space player.
With this achievement, ISRO will now have the kind of bragging rights that will enable it to sit at the high table with members of the big boys club — US, Japan, China and France that are, of course, far ahead in deep space exploration and commercial |
The Mastercard Foundation and African Leadership Academy (http://AfricanLeadershipAcademy.org) are thrilled to announce that 22-year- | old healthcare entrepreneur Melissa Bime has won the US$25,000 Grand Prize at the 8th annual Anzisha Prize awards gala. She is the founder of INFIUSS, an online blood bank and digital supply chain platform that ensures patients in 23 hospitals in Cameroon have life-saving blood when and where they need it. She is only the second woman to win the grand prize since Best Ayiorworth took it home in 2013.
Melissa was selected from among 20 finalists during a ceremony on 23 October that was live streamed to over 3,000 viewers and created a social media buzz across the continent.
Joan Nalubega, 21, was the second-runner up. She is the co-founder of Uganics, which produces mosquito-repellent soap to combat malaria in Uganda. With the US$12,500, she will conduct a certification study for the company’s products and prepare Uganics for export to neighboring countries which will help |
The Kenyan and Ugandan governments are working jointly to tarmac a highway linking the two countries.
Speaking in Trans Nzoia, Roads Cabinet | Secretary Michael Kamau said the two governments are in a joint project to have the highway from Kitale in Kenya to Kapchorwa in Uganda tarmacked.
“We are working with the African Development Bank to see to it that the highway, which is currently a rough road, is tarmacked,” Mr Kamau said in Kitale.
Trans Nzoia Governor Patrick Khaemba had earlier called for the tarmacking of the road to open up the Suam border that links Kenya and Uganda.
“Our plans to have 100 acres of the forest at the Kenya-Ugandan border in Suam converted into a market can only be successful if the highway is tarmacked,” said Governor Khaemba.
The Cabinet secretary also dismissed claims by the opposition that the government had favoured central Kenya in the construction of the road network.
Saboti MP David Wafula echoed his words, saying that the claims by the |
They explain how capitalism — with its notions of financial independence or a career for women is anti-women.
‘Students of AMU� | � putting up a purdah banner on Friday.
Women students in flowing burqas talk about how purdah is the “purest form of existence for a woman”. They explain how capitalism — with its notions of financial independence or a career for women — is anti-women.
Models are on display to help explain how purdah is to be observed.
And then, apparently in a concession to more “modern” views, the women also speak about dowry, foeticide, sexual violence and women’s health.
All this is part of a three-day exhibition that started on Friday at one of Aligarh Muslim University’s women’s hostels, Abdullah Hall, to — ironically — mark International Women’s Day.
The exhibition, which apparently has the permission of the vice-chancellor, has been organised by a students’ group named ‘Students of AMU� |
It used to be that developers built applications with long lead times and development cycles. There was always plenty of time to prepare, but in today� | �s continuous delivery/continuous deployment (CI/CD) world, new versions could be going out every day. That requires a CI/CD framework, and today at Google Next in San Francisco, the company announced Cloud Build, its new CI/CD framework.
Cloud Build works across a variety of environments including VMs, serverless, Kubernetes, or Firebase. What’s more it supports Docker containers and it gives developers or operations the flexibility to build, test and deploy in an increasingly automated fashion.
Google will allow you to use triggers to deploy, so that when certain conditions are met, the update will launch automatically. You can identify vulnerabilities in your packages before you deploy and you can build locally and deploy in the cloud if you so choose.
If there are problems, Cloud Build provides analytics and insights to let you debug via build errors and warnings and filter those warnings to easily identify slow builds or those with other issues you want to see before deploying live |
An explosion that killed two people in a Bangladeshi city was an accident and not an act of terrorism.
Police in north eastern Sylhet | had thought Sunday's explosion outside a cinema, was the result of a homemade bomb going off by accident.
But investigating officers said on Monday they now believed the explosion was caused by slum dwellers trying to extract lead to sell from a canister.
The dead were named by police as Anwar Husayn, 45, and his 14-year-old nephew Jalil. Seven others were injured including Husayn's pregnant wife.
"This was an accident not an act of terrorism," Deputy Inspector General of Police Mahfuzul Haq said.
"This man bought a canister from some children for 130 taka (2.16 US dollars) and he was trying to break it open with a hammer to take out the lead so he could sell it for a small profit; he was not a terrorist," he added.
It was not known what type of canister the dead man had been trying to open although unofficial sources said it might have been a mortar shell from |
Ekman-Larsson (knee) will join Team Sweden for the 2019 IIHF World Championship, Sebastian Noren of NHL. | com reports. Ekman-Larsson's status for Worlds was considered in doubt after the blueliner played through knee and ankle issues toward the end of the 2018-19 campaign. The defenseman put together his fifth 40-plus point campaign this year and nearly propelled the Coyotes into the postseason. It seems the 27-year-old will have plenty of time to heal up and be ready when the tournament kicks off May 10 in Slovakia.
General Manager John Chayka said Monday that Ekman-Larsson had been playing through knee and high-ankle injuries during the season, Craig Morgan of The Athletic reports. It's unclear when the injury occurred or how long he had been playing through it, but nonetheless Ekman-Larsson toughed it out. The 27-year-old had a solid season from a fantasy perspective, racking up 44 points in 81 games. Chayka neglected to mention whether Ekman-Larsson would need surgery and what the |
With Mumbai’s space constraints, cultivating a garden for pesticide-free vegetables and fruit may seem like a far-fetched idea. But growing | and owning an organic kitchen garden is actually utterly achievable.
Preeti Patil of Urban Leaves India — an NGO that promotes city farming — says it can be surprisingly simple. “The process is cost-effective, and low-maintenance. The only requirements are a lot of patience and perseverance,” says she.
At the outset, you don’t need to invest in fancy or earthen pots.
You can even make use of plastic bottles, buckets and bathtubs to grow vegetables. Take a medium sized bathtub; fill it with soil and home compost to grow cabbages, cauliflowers, capsicums, radish and onions.
The most important step in kitchen gardening is to make Amrut Mitti (nutrient-rich soil), which has abundant and diverse microbial life that support healthy plant growth. It is simple to prepare and the results are extremely effective. “Start with what you have. There� |
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