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Joining a new family after getting married can be stressful, not everyone gets along with their in-laws and you never know if the family dynamic | will work out. Luckily for Meghan Markle her father-in-law, Prince Charles, only has the nicest things to say about her. That comes on the heels of the Duchess’ own father embarrassing her through numerous unsanctioned interviews, so it’s good to know Meghan has a solid support system in place.
According to an insider, Meghan and Prince Charles have formed a good relationship. After all, Charles was the one that walked Meghan down the aisle on her wedding day. This is what the source said about what Charles thinks about his new daughter-in-law, according to Harper’s Bazaar.
That’s quite the compliment and Prince Harry is likely to agree with his Dad, considering he’s been looking mighty happy these days. And as for Prince Charles, it looks like he opened up to his daughter-in-law during the amazing royal wedding, which was a “turning point� |
Peter Chelsom is directing for Relativity Studios.
Asa Butterfield, who starred in Ender’s Game, will topl | ine Out of This World, a sci-fi adventure that Peter Chelsom is directing for Relativity Studios.
The story is set in motion when, during a mission to colonize Mars led by a billionaire entrepreneur, a female astronaut is found to be pregnant. After she dies during childbirth, her son is raised in secrecy on Mars. Sixteen years later, with the guidance of a mission specialist, the teen (Butterfield) connects with a young woman he’s been communicating with and embarks on a road trip across America in hopes of finding the father he never knew.
Allan Loeb (21, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps) wrote the screenplay, with revisions by Chelsom and Tinker Lindsay.
Relativity's Ryan Kavanaugh and Richard B. Lewis of Southpaw Entertainment, the latter a producing veteran whose credits range from Backdraft to August Rush, are producing.
Tucker Tooley, Loeb, Steven Pearl and Sasha Harari |
Annual online retail or “e-tail” sales now exceed $19 billion in Canada, AUS$21 billion in Australia, | US$410 billion in the United States, and US$1 trillion in China.
In the United States, conventional retail is growing but e-tail is growing four times as fast. Amazon already captures 43 per cent of American online retail sales, and it continues to expand into new retail categories, such as groceries, and new countries, including Australia. Other e-tailers such as Wish are also growing rapidly.
In response, brick-and-mortar retailers are enhancing their online offerings. For example, Walmart and Loblaws now allow customers to “click-and-collect” by buying online and picking up their purchases in-store.
But e-tail isn’t easy. One challenge is foreign competition. Statistics Canada reports that 40 per cent of Canadian online sales come from foreign sources. That could increase if the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement winds up raising online duty-free limits.
For e-tailers, growth is not simply |
Ruud van Nistelrooy has finally eclipsed Thierry Henry for one player of the year award.
Having seen his Arsenal | rival triumph in the Football Writers' and Professional Footballers' Association polls, van Nistelrooy has been rewarded for his 44 goals this season by being named Barclaycard Player of the Year.
Van Nistelrooy's goals guided Manchester United to the Premiership title and his 25 in the league - one more than nearest challenger Henry - also helped him to the Barclaycard Golden Boot.
The Dutchman's reward is £1,000 for every goal scored and he has donated that cash to charities in his homeland.
Van Nistelrooy said: "To win both the Barclaycard Golden Boot award and the Player of the Year rounds off a great season for me.
"There are so many great strikers in the Premiership with the likes of Henry, James Beattie and Alan Shearer, so it is a real honour to come top of the scorers league.
"I'm pleased with my form as a lot of my goals proved to |
Imagine, please, that you were counting down the minutes until your death. What would you do differently? Quit hitting that Twitter refresh button? Take | to the streets, rip off your shirt and demand everyone melts into a flabby mess of hedonistic love-making? It’s hard to say because, outside of the terminally ill, only a weirdo would count down the minutes to their death. I can’t comment on the character of Robert Holcomb from Philadelphia but I can tell you he guesstimates that he has 28,000 days to live, and believes he has to “make every second count”. Robert says this with a haunted look. He is one of four highly productive and unfathomably pressed time-saving individuals on Extreme Time Cheaters (Tuesday, 10pm, TLC).
Those who are already fans of the TLC network, like me, will have a sense of what’s up here. And for those who aren’t, just know that TLC is the home of such original programming as Cake Boss, My Strange Addiction, Say Yes To |
Cummins to Tom Curran, FOUR, Curran is havimg some fun here. The short ball and Curran is backing | away a long way. Cummins followed him and the batsman replied by heaving it over mid-wicket. Good shot!
to Khawaja, FOUR, that's a gift from the England skipper. Rank long hop and Khawaja accepts it with glee, rocks back and pumps the pull past mid-wicket, played all along the ground. Can he get to his 100?
Ali to Shaun Marsh, FOUR, these are buffet deliveries. Dragged down outside off, Marsh makes a bit of room and cracks the cut square on the off-side. The ball teases the point fielder before trickling into the fence. Can Shaun get to his hundred today?
Curran to Mitchell Marsh, FOUR, crunched! Nothing much wrong with the delivery, just that the length ball was outside off, Marsh leans forward and drives it square on the off-side.
to Shaun Marsh, FOUR, edged and through two fielders |
Residents struggling to heat their homes are being offered a helping hand to keep the winter chill at bay.
Waltham Forest Council and charity the | HEET project have been awarded £500,000 to tackle fuel poverty in the borough.
The award provided by Affordable Warmth Solutions' Warm Homes Fund will support up to 200 households who are experiencing fuel poverty providing first time gas central heating for residents who currently use electric heating or gas fires as well as fund a free gas connection to their property.
A 2018 report from the government found that nearly one in ten UK households experience fuel poverty.
Fuel poverty is classified as when a household needs to spend 10 per cent of its income on fuel to keep occupants warm and healthy.
The project will also allow residents to benefit from energy efficiency measures including loft and cavity wall insulation, free home energy checks, and advice on how to stay warm and save money on heating over the winter.
Cabinet Member for Housing Cllr Louise Mitchell said: "When people have a safe, decent roof over their head and warm house in which to live, they have the confidence and support they need to |
Central Florida Community Arts, the nonprofit that features a community choir, orchestra and school for children, has a full slate planned for its upcoming season. | Productions include cabaret-style concerts, a classical evening, children's shows and a high-energy production of "The Music Man."
For more information on the Orlando-based organization and its events, go to cfcarts.com or call 407-937-1800.
• THE MUSIC MAN: Sept. 4-5. Semi-staged version of the classic musical. Northland Church, 530 Dog Track Road, Longwood. $10-$25.
• SPOTLIGHT SERIES: Sept. 19-21. Cabaret. Central Christian Church, 250 S.W. Ivanhoe Blvd., Orlando. $12 online, $10 at the door.
• SPOTLIGHT SERIES: Oct. 10-12. Cabaret. Central Christian Church, 250 S.W. Ivanhoe Blvd., Orlando. $12 online, $10 at the door.
• UMBRA IN LUCEM: 7:30 p.m. |
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DIANA BOGGIA: Journey to a better mother-daughter relationship - In this series, Diana Boggia introduced the possibility that a child’s bad behavior was a result of sensory integration disorder, and offers advice to a mother on how to adapt to her 9-year-old daughter’s increased sensitivity to such things as air and water temperature. By Diana Boggia, Canton, Ohio.
JEFF VRABEL: Time for a Superpublican - BARACK OBAMA HAS FAILED, according to basically everyone whose cocktail money depends on squealing like a monkeyperson on television about how everyone currently in office has failed, preferably on a show that's on loud enough to prevent you from having to talk during dinner. By Jeff Vrabel, GHNS columnist.
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A new survey reports that most Silicon Valley startups pay their chief executives less than $50,000 a year.
The data, reported by the | Next Web, comes from a Compass survey of 11,160 global startups who use the company's data tools. It found that in the Silicon Valley, 75 percent of founders pay themselves less than $75,000, while 66 percent pay less than $50,000. India has the lowest pay at $30,208 with Australia has a high of $72,363.
While it's not known if lower-paid CEOs are good or bad for a company, angel investor Peter Thiel seemed to believe a low-paid CEO meant a more successful startup, according to the Next Web.
“The CEO’s salary sets a cap for everyone else. If it is set at a high level, you end up burning a whole lot more money. It aligns his interest with the equity holders. But [beyond that], it goes to whether the mission of the company is to build something new or just collect paychecks.
The survey does say that when the startup has a |
▪ Creating three new positions — including that of a behavior analyst — so more staff will be available to work with students who have autism and other | special needs. That could result in multiple people being hired, not just three.
▪ Partnering with a post-secondary institution — most likely the University of Kentucky — to create after-school programs and other services for students with autism and their families. Caulk recently visited a similar program at Western Kentucky University, which he gave high marks.
The new recommendations were discussed at Monday’s school board planning meeting.
“We want to be the best... we want to make sure we are providing the best care possible,” Caulk said. Families with children with autism move to Fayette County specifically to get the services offered by the district, he said.
The recommended changes follow several incidents in the school system with autistic students. A video of a teacher and a school nurse dragging a student at Tates Creek Middle School in September made national television news in October. The teacher involved in the incident has resigned, according to documents attached to a school board agenda |
Santana, Wyclef, Avicii & Alexandre Pires Selected For The Official Anthem Of The 2014 FIFA World Cup™ Ent | itled "Dar um Jeito (We Will Find A Way)"
NEW YORK, March 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- FIFA and Sony Music Entertainment announce today that the Official Anthem of the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ in Brazil is entitled "Dar um Jeito (We Will Find A Way)," and features a global superstar line-up including music legend Carlos Santana, Wyclef, Avicii and Alexandre Pires. The Anthem will be released late April and was produced by 2-time Grammy-nominated Ash Pournouri (PRMD Music), Carl Falk, Rami Yacoub and Wyclef Jean and recorded at PRMD Studios in Stockholm. "Dar um Jeito (We Will Find A Way)" will be performed at the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ Closing Ceremony on July 13 at the legendary Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. More information to be announced soon about the official 2014 FIFA World Cup™ Album.
Earlier this year, FIFA |
Aussie pop tart Kylie Minogue has joined the cast of the most hotly anticipated lesbian werewolf film of 2011.
Minogue plays a | tattooed lesbian alongside Juno Temple ("Year One") and Riley Keough (Elvis's granddaughter) in "Jack and Diane."
"Kylie does have one love scene where she kisses a girl. Her fans will be surprised to see her in this role, but her performance is good," a source told the New York Post.
Jack (Keough) and Diane (Temple), two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane's charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack's tough skinned heart. But, when Jack discovers that Diane is leaving the country in a week she tries to push her away. Diane must struggle to keep their love alive while hiding the secret that her newly awakened sexual desire is giving her werewolf-like visions.
We don't know if Minogue can act. Her last Hollywood film was "Moulin Rogue!" but she got her start on Australian TV and appeared in one of the greatest Agent Prov |
Which Consumer-Goods Stocks Have the Best Dividend?
Dividends play a key role in helping investors meet their financial needs | , and the stocks that provide healthy dividends are in high demand. The consumer goods sector tends to have a large number of solid dividend stocks, with mature companies that have well-established global businesses that generate huge amounts of cash flow to return to investors.
There are different ways of comparing dividend stocks, and reasonable people can differ about what exactly constitutes the best dividend in a given area. Current yield is important, but the stocks I respect the most are those that have been able to produce consistent dividend growth over long periods of time. Below are the consumer goods stocks that have provided the best balance of current yield and dividend growth for decades.
Procter & Gamble has developed a global empire of products that billions of people use every day. Tide laundry detergent, Crest toothpaste, and Pampers diapers are just a few of the billion-dollar brands that bring in reliable revenue for P&G year in and year out. The profits that these products generate has enabled Procter & Gamble |
Roberto Mancini would not be surprised if his fellow Italian Fabio Capello leaves England on a winning note.
The Manchester City manager | says Capello has what it takes to lead the nation to victory in the European Championships, despite a disappointing World Cup in South Africa.
"I think the national team has a fantastic manager. In the World Cup England were very unlucky," said Mancini. "The referee did not award a goal (for Frank Lampard's effort against Germany). It changed their World Cup but under Capello they have a chance to win the European Championship."
Mancini was delighted six City players finished the European qualifier against Switzerland in midweek.
Goalkeeper Joe Hart, Joleon Lescott, Gareth Barry, James Milner, Adam Johnson and Shaun-Wright Phillips all played a part in the 3-1 victory.
He added: "I was very proud. It is a fantastic thing for the club to have six players in the England team. It is an incredible situation for us.
"I think all our players did well and England played a good game against Switzerland. |
"I have never understood jihad to mean anti-Americanism or terrorism," Walker Lindh said during his sentencing hearing.
ALEXANDR | IA, Virginia (CNN) -- John Walker Lindh was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Friday after tearfully telling a courtroom that he made a mistake in joining the Taliban.
Walker Lindh, the so-called "Taliban American," told U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III that he "made a mistake by joining the Taliban" and "had I realized then what I know now about the Taliban I would never have joined them."
"Life is making choices and living with the consequences," Ellis said. "You made a bad choice to join the Taliban."
Walker Lindh sniffled, paused several times and nearly broke down during his 14-minute statement to the court before he was sentenced to spend two decades behind bars.
Lindh could get out of prison in less than 17 years. The judge gave him credit for the entire time he has been in custody, including the almost two months that he was in military custody, and good behavior could further |
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CES — ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today is excited to introduce | the new Strix XG HDR gaming monitor lineup, a trio of FreeSync 2 HDR monitors built for high-refresh rate and stutter-free gaming, and available in up to 4K resolution or 144Hz refresh rate in big-screen, super ultra-wide and curved formats.
AMD’s first-generation FreeSync introduced a variable refresh rate capability that eliminated the screen tearing and stuttering artifacts caused by turning v-sync off or on. Compatible monitors could match their refresh to the graphics card’s frame rate within a pre-defined range. Below the lower threshold of that range, however, v-sync kicked back in and caused judder.
FreeSync 2 HDR delivers smoother gameplay below the variable refresh range using a feature called Low Framerate Compensation. The LFC algorithm monitors performance and adaptively inserts frames to maintain fluid animation where v-sync would have caused choppy behavior. LFC is great to have, particularly at a demanding resolution like 4 |
The Smart ForTwo is about to get a whole lot bigger... or is it?
Cars as we know them have been increasing in size | for years, with popular midsize sedans now reaching sizes of large cars from 20 or more years ago. But what if a car that was based entirely around being small got super-sized too?
The creative minds at Smart pose a hypothetical situation leading up to the launch of the all new ForTwo, and spoiler alert: it’s hilarious! The ForTwo is the smallest new car you can buy right now, and if this video is to be believed (which it isn’t), it’s about to get a whole lot larger.
Smart has been putting out witty, self-aware, and chuckle-worthy videos for quite some time now. This latest installment is their biggest effort yet, pun intended. These clever ads aim to reinforce Smart’s image as a fun-loving brand that is not shy of the miniscule size of its products.
The all-new Smart ForTwo is set to be released this Wednesday at a press event in |
The software, called gRPC, handles remote procedure calls (RPC) between servers and clients, such as browsers or mobile applications. It | is based on HTTP/2, which was ratified as a standard earlier this month by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).
"gRPC is based on many years of experience in building distributed systems," wrote Mugur Marculescu, Google product manager, in a blog post announcing the code.
The gRPC framework powers most of Google's services today, fielding tens of billions of Web calls every second.
In development for a number of years, HTTP/2 could goose Web performance in a variety of ways, such as through header compression and the ability to send multiple requests at once over a single connection.
Based on Google's own Spdy protocol, HTTP/2 could speed web traffic as well as significantly reduce power consumption on battery-reliant mobile devices.
The gRPC platform can be integrated into multiple languages, including C, C++, Java, Go, Node.js, Python, and Ruby. Google is also working on libraries for |
Our first look at a power supply from Fractal Design leaves us rather impressed. If you're in the market for a mid-range PSU, | your wallet begs you to check this out.
Those who enjoy our case and cooling content will be familiar with Fractal Design and some of the products that they have to offer. Chad has always spoken highly of them with few complaints when writing about their products. So, I was quite interested in seeing what they had to offer when he told me they had power supplies. Fractal Design uses a minimalistic design approach where less is more, but do so without compromising the important factors of quality, functionality and pricing.
That philosophy can certainly be seen in today's product on the test bench, the Integra R2 750W power supply. Sometimes it is the subtle differences that you see right away in a product and that can be seen with the rounded edges on the power supply. On the surface, the Integra R2 is just a simple 750W unit without modular cabling, but there are a few details that help it stand out amongst the crowd of 80 PLUS Bronze units on the market |
Your preschool students may gleefully chime in when singing the "ABC Song," but may not know each and every letter yet. Roughly 60 | percent of 4-year-olds know half of the upper case letters and 30 percent can identify all of them, according to the PBS Parents website. You can help your preschoolers to build their letter identification skills through reading, playing naming games, using manipulatives such as puzzles and artsy activities.
Involve your preschoolers in the reading process, encouraging them to look at the books, point out the letters and talk about the pictures. Help alphabet identification with letter-themed books. Try a classic such as "Dr. Seuss's ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book!" Go with a character tale such as "Thomas' ABC Book" by Rev. W. Awdry or combine letter learning with another concept such as nutrition with Lois Ehlert's "Eating the Alphabet." Point out the letters in the books, asking the children to name them and make the sound out loud.
Play an entertaining, yet educational, game that encourages your preschool-aged students to pick out and |
Cameras usually have the primary function of taking pictures, but one, just released by Casio has the primary function of improving your golf swing | . Rather than holding your arms and talking about posture to you in the manner of a more traditional coach, the Exilim Hi-Speed EX-FS10 videos your swing and then analyses it.
Capturing up to 1000 frames a second, it gathers very detailed information about how you move, then using simple augmented reality graphics it layers lines on top of your image showing how you are and should be moving.
Playback can be super-slow allowing you to see what you couldn’t with the naked eye.
With an AV cable you can plug this into the TV and rewatch your golf swings there. You might get dumped if you do this too often, so think carefully about it.
Top Japanese players and coaches have contributed to the advice and analysis parts of the program, said to be ideal for beginners.
The Exilim has three video modes with the higher resolutions capturing fewer framer per second (fps), the three modes are: 224x64px at |
Ariana Grande is really in full-on sorry mode. The singer has apologized for a second time for licking donuts and saying “I | hate America.” In a video clip posted late Thursday, the 22-year-old said she’s “disgusted” with herself, adding that she didn’t clearly convey her true feelings in her first apology — a written statement in which she ranted about obesity in America.
“Seeing a video of yourself behaving poorly that you had no idea was taken is such a rude awakening. It’s like you don’t know what to do. I was so disgusted with myself, I wanted to shove my face in a pillow and just disappear,” she said, with puffy cheeks from recent oral surgery.
Her second apology had more than 1 million views on YouTube by Friday afternoon.
A New Zealand judge sentenced AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd to eight months of home detention on Thursday after the musician pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a man who used to work for him, along with possession of methamphetamine and marijuana. The Australian |
Travel insurance is a must-have. It is often left until the last minute, but don’t forget about it, because if you | suddenly have to cancel, you won’t be covered.
Check the exact wording of your policy. Don’t assume all holidays are covered: for example, if you’re going on a cruise you might need to pay extra because emergencies at sea cost more to resolve.
If your travel insurance comes with your bank account be aware most policies only cover holidays in Europe.
As with all things, be wary of any policy that seems to be a bargain.
Check to see if it covers all your costs if you need to cancel, provides you with at least £2million of medical cover, includes third-party liability protection and will pay to replace the contents of your suitcase if it goes missing — and make sure you don’t underestimate the value of your belongings.
Check your policy for age restrictions and be honest about medical treatments. If you’ve been referred to a consultant or are awaiting further tests then tell your insurer before you sign up.
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By mutual agreement, Inter Parfums SA and Balmain have decided to end their licensing agreement, initially set to last until 2024.
ON | THE SCENT: Balmain’s fragrance license could soon be up for grabs. By mutual agreement, Inter Parfums SA and Balmain have decided on an early termination of their licensing agreement, initially signed for 12 years starting from January 2012.
Despite the celebrity favorite being hot property in fashion land right now, thanks to creative director Olivier Rousteing, its fragrance sales have declined over the past two years, falling 21 percent to 3.8 million euros, or $4.2 million at average exchange, in 2016, and declining 5.8 percent the previous year.
Nevertheless, Philippe Benacin, chairman and chief executive officer of Inter Parfums SA, denied that the reason behind the early termination was its failure to gain traction in the category. “Balmain had an exit option from 2018 that was part of the contract when the license was initially signed,” he told WWD.
He said that at the time, Alain Hivelin — Bal |
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "GPS Tracking Device Market by Type ( | Standalone Tracker, OBD Device & Advance Tracker), Deployment Type (Commercial Vehicle, Cargo), Industry (Transportation & Logistics, Metals & Mining, & Construction) & Geography - Global Forecast to 2023" report to their offering.
The GPS tracking device market is expected to reach USD 2.89 Billion by 2023, at a CAGR of 12.91% between 2017 and 2023.
The key driving factors for the growth of the GPS tracking device market include the increase in sales of commercial vehicles, smaller size, affordable price, and high ROI. Moreover, the advent of cellular technology reduced the service cost, while the decline in GNSS/GPS IC makes inroads in cell phone that provide the scale of economies to GNSS/GPS module supplier.
GPS tracking device is widely used in commercial vehicles such as trucks, trailers, buses, and light commercial vehicles for tracking purposes. According to International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufact |
Here is food for thought: while economic pundits are talking about recoveries induced by stimulation packages, there will be no recovery.
In my article | 'Globilization is not the answer' ( http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8275 ) I saw the scraping of Bretton Woods as a way of removing control of the world economy away from America and getting rid of the IMF. I did not look deeply at what would replace it.
I would be interested in a more information of how you see a new Bretton Woods ageement operating. Would there be an overall world system apart from exchange rates, or would it be up to each country to manage it's own affairs in its own way?
'To look at finding a solution we need to correctly diagnose the disease."
Somewhere among Keynes' vast writings there is a comment that people will be trying to apply his Depression solutions when the problems are different.
I agree with your diagnosis but in 1972/3 Neil McInnes wrote a series published in the AFR, "What do we do with these worthless |
BERGER‐Dr. and Mrs. Dirk M. (nee Bran denburg) joyfully announce the birth of their son, Matthew Adam, | on Oct. 20, 1970. Proud grandparents are Mrs. Mat thew H. Brandenburg and Mr. and Mrs. Murray Berger of New York City and great‐grandmother, Mrs. Rose Cohen of Long Beach, N. Y.
BRESTIN‐Mr. and Mrs. Lewis R. announce the birth of their second daughter and fifth child, Helena Pearl, on Sept. 21, 1970.
COLEMAN‐Dr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Cole man (nee Barbara Baruch) of Brooklyn, N. Y., announce the birth of a daughter, Rebecca Lynn, on Oct. 19.
DUBIN‐Arthur and Pat (nee Richman) hap pily announce the birth of Matthew David's sister, Melissa Faith, on Oct. 26.
FEUERMAN‐Ricky and Carole (nee Acker man) joyfully announce the arrival or Lauren Stacy and Sari Kim's brother, Craig Robert, on Oct. 19. |
I’m not sure the team at Shopify’s experimental Garage product development group knows this, but their latest app is basically made | for me: It’s a package tracking tool called Arrive that consolidates all your consumer shopping shipments in one place and makes it easy to get updates on your status, and deal with customer service if you need to.
The Arrive app’s basic premise might be familiar if you’re already a fan of consolidating shipping info for your online purchases. I use Deliveries, for instance, the package tracking app by Junecloud that works with a companion desktop app for macOS and syncs your delivery status via iCloud. There are plenty of other options out there, too, for iOS and Android.
Arrive offers some features it hopes will help it make your go-to when it comes to purchase tracking, including email account integration so that it can automatically add your shipments to its list of tracked items. It also provides rich notifications, which give you insight into your shipment’s progress at every step of its journey so you basically don’t even have |
Any Russian who regularly watches television knows full well that this country is surrounded by enemies. That gives special relevance to former Soviet leader Josef Stalin's | bygone call to industrialize and step up military production, and his argument that "Either we do this, or they will crush us."
Heeding this sage utterance, the Kremlin decided in 2010 to spend more than 20 trillion rubles (then $650 billion) rearming Russia's military. And now, President Vladimir Putin announced this week that "the pace of implementing state defense orders as of the end of 2014 has exceeded planned targets."
The progress is apparently so great that, for some reason, Putin finds it necessary, every six months, to meet personally for several days at a time with defense industry chiefs responsible for fulfilling state contracts. Putin has also approved the creation of an interagency system for controlling the use of state funds during the allocation and implementation of state defense orders.
The authorities plan to create an extremely complex system coordinating the databases of the Russian Defense Ministry, Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, Federal Financial Monitoring Service and the Bank of Russia. That supervisory Medusa |
On June 23rd, a vote will be held in the United Kingdom to determine if Britain will stay in the European Union or not. This is | most commonly known as the “Brexit” vote, and that term was created by combining the words “Britain” and “exit”.
We just got more evidence that global trade is absolutely imploding. Chinese exports dropped 25.4 percent during the month of February compared to a year ago, and Chinese imports fell 13.8 percent compared to a year ago.
The 7th largest economy on the entire planet is completely imploding. I have written previously about the economic depression that is plaguing Brazil, but since my last article it has gotten much, much worse.
Guess What Happened The Last Time The Price Of Oil Plunged Below $38 Dollars A Barrel?
On Monday, the price of U.S. oil dropped below 38 dollars a barrel for the first time in six years. The last time the price of oil was this low, the global financial system was melting down and the U.S. economy was experiencing the worst recession |
Microsoft is now expanding the distribution of its Windows Phone 7.5 update to all eligible users, but some owners of phones including Samsung's Omnia | 7 will have to wait a bit longer.
The upgrade process has been running smoothly, with a few exceptions, some of which are now being sorted out, Microsoft said. It has now begun delivering the Windows Phone 7.5 update to LG Optimus 7 phones on Telefonica in Spain, and is also now scheduling it for Samsung Omnia 7 phones on Deutsche Telekom, Eric Hautala, general manager for customer experience engineering at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
At the beginning of October, the German operator said that Samsung was still working on some problems with the Mango update on the Omnia 7, and hinted that it would be ready by the end of the month. The distribution is now expected to start at the beginning of November, a spokeswoman said via email, so it looks like the wait for German, Dutch and U.K. T-Mobile subscribers that own the Samsung device will soon be over.
However, owners of the Omnia 7 |
NEW YORK (IDN) – China’s influence in Africa has some leaders trying hard to please their new, rich and seemingly generous foreign | partners.
Authorities said they considered Prof. Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, a Kenyan, a “security threat”.
Outrage was fast and furious from many directions.
“Zambia is about to pop off,” she continued. “There’s a revolution coming. It can’t be stopped. The government thought that Lumumba’s speech would just be that match stick that would make everything blow up.
Zambia’s main opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema, decried the decision to deny Lumumba entry as humiliating and irresponsible. He was echoed by the Council of Churches in Zambia whose general secretary called President Edgar Lungu “notorious for muzzling dissenting voices” in what was once a safe haven for peace in the region.
Earlier, the state-owned newspaper of Zambia caused social media outrage after it published a front page story in |
THURSDAY The city of Portland is small and manageable with European-size blocks and a great train service -- the Max -- that brings me | into the centre in 40 minutes for two bucks.
The streets have something of San Francisco's world-championship collection of homeless men, although less menacing. The city's signatures include its food carts, its bicycles and the best bookshop in the USA, Powell's. Oregonians are proud of how environmentally aware they are, so somebody got an entire hotel and recycled it. The Ace Hotel is now one of the trendiest in town, despite the fact that it looks as if it has been furnished out of a skip.
FRIDAY Oregon has had two inches more than its annual average rainfall already. The rivers are full. My cycle-tour guide asks me to lift my bike up to get on the floating bridge that has risen a foot above its access ramp.
I stop by the Crystal Hotel to meet Mike McMenamin, a hotelier and philanthropist with a Tyrone grandfather who owns 58 properties, 24 of which have their own brewery. He shows me the |
Whitney Dagg, of Dunedin, traverses the Harris Saddle during the annual Routeburn Classic on Saturday. Photo by MMPRO | PHOTOGRAPHY.
Bevan Stevens capitalised on perfect conditions to break a long-standing record in the Routeburn Classic on Saturday.
Stevens smashed multisport great Richard Ussher's record in the eighth running of the event.
The former New Zealand junior enjoyed the sun on his back and finished the rugged 32km course in 2hr 49min 37sec, more than 2min inside Ussher's mark.
Auckland's Nick Hirschfeld (2hr 52min 38sec) was second and defending champion Grant Guise (Christchurch, 2hr 55min 27sec) was third.
Dunedin's Whitney Dagg took the honours in the women's race, finishing in 3hr 34min 34sec, nearly 4min outside Elina Ussher's record.
Wanaka's Kristina Crane (3hr 35min 39sec) was second and Auckland's Leah Hirschfeld (3hr 38min 52sec) |
MANILA, February 11, 2005 (STAR) President Arroyo has named former labor and employment secretary Nieves Confesor as the new | chairwoman of the five-member panel negotiating peace with communist rebels.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said Mrs. Arroyo has also appointed two other women as negotiators after reorganizing the peace panel.
They are former presidential spokeswoman Annabelle Abaya and veteran journalist Paulyn Sicam.
Other panel members are lawyer Rene Sarmiento, who was retained as vice chairman, and Prof. Sedfrey Candelaria.
Mrs. Arroyo reorganized the peace panel upon recommendation of Teresita Deles, presidential adviser on the peace process, Ermita said.
Deles said the new panel members can each contribute distinct talents to the peace negotiations, having served in academe and in various fields of conflict resolution.
"The balance between three women and two men in the team is expected to provide important gender perspectives," she said.
"Being younger than previous panel members and coming from diverse background, they will be able to bridge very diver |
First of all, I want to assure all of you that little Booboo is OK. After the big excitement caused by that goofy family in | Fort Collins and their kid in the balloon, we decided it might be fun to try something like that with Booboo, so the whole family could get famous and be on TV.
Since we didn’t have a Flying Saucer/Balloon, we thought it would be just as good to use a kite, so we strapped ol’ Booboo to this huge paper kite and took it out and got a strong wind, and sure enough, ol’ Booboo was up there flyin’ in the sky just like Balloon Boy.
Only, as we know now, Balloon Boy wasn’t really in the balloon. But our little Booboo was on the kite, strapped up there with Duck Tape at about 500 feet and tryin’ to grab geese as they flew by.
Well, after about an hour, no news people came up to interview us, so we brought Booboo down, and except for |
The 2010 season shouldn’t be filled with lots of highlights for the Broncos’ Josh McDaniels, left, and the Redskins� | � Mike Shanahan.
Broncos coach Josh McDaniels has formally asked permission from the Buffalo Bills to interview their running game coordinator/running backs coach Eric Studesville.
Even though the Bills recently released their entire coaching staff, many assistants like Studesville are still under contract with the Bills and permission is still needed to interview.
Studesville would become only the Broncos’ second running backs coach in 16 years. Bobby Turner, the Broncos’ running backs coach for the previous 15 seasons, recently left to become associate head coach for the Washington Redskins and head coach Mike Shanahan.
Prior to his six seasons with the Bills, Studesville was the New York Giants’ running backs’ coach from 2001-03. His 1,000-yard runners include Tiki Barber, Willis McGahee, Marshawn Lynch and Fred Jackson, who has developed from an undrafted rookie from Division III Coe in 2003. Jackson spent two years playing in indoor football leagues, and a third |
When Zuma appointed Magashule as premier of the Free State, "King Ace" got unfettered access to the poor province's larg | esse, writes Adriaan Basson.
A character in Yewande Omotoso’s exquisite novel, The Woman Next Door, waxes lyrical about her 65-year-old maid, who has been pivotal in raising her children. She adds that she has reciprocated by sending the maid’s child to a good school and building her a house.
When I read that bit I threw the book across the room – because the anger expressed by the interlocutor, Hortensia James, resonated with me.
It called to mind recent occasions in which I had sat with white people who, upon introducing themselves to me, would immediately put their nonracial credentials on the table.
It is a mantra that has been wafting in the air for some time. But Steven Boykey Sidley has been brave enough to write an article in the Daily Maverick, asking: Are white people still welcome?
It is so crass and cheap, |
Amazon’s European originals chief Georgia Brown and Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio are among the A-list names added to Keshet� | �s INTV conference.
Ari Greenburg, President of WME, Steve Golin, founder and CEO of Anonymous Content and COO Matthew Velkes, Erin Keating, Senior Development Manager of Snap Originals, Liza Chasin, Founder of 3dot Productions, Jonathan Baruch, Founding Partner, Rain Management and Sally Riley, Head of Scripted, Australian Broadcasting Corporation have also been added to the line-up.
There will be a CBS panel – From the Good Wife to Star Trek – CBS Executives Discuss the Power of Programming in a Multi-Platform Universe – where David Stapf, President, CBS Television Studios, Julie McNamar, EVP, Original Content, CBS All Access and Deborah Barak, President, Business Operations, CBS Entertainment, CBS Television Studios and CBS News will talk to Deadline co-editor Nellie Andreeva, while co-editor Mike Fleming is talking to RBG director Julie Cohen and CNN Films chief Amy Entelis about |
Voices pro and con at Planning Commission Public Hearing.
Restonians fill the auditorium and side room for the County of Fairfax Planning Commission | Meeting Jan. 23. Photo by Mercia Hobson.
Dennis Hays: "The key for Reston's continued success is found in the guiding principles of the Reston Master Plan.” Hays said community participation had not been honored in the development of proposals.
Given the number of speakers at the County of Fairfax Planning Commission Meeting Jan. 23, 2019, Zoning Amendment-Article 6- Density Provisions for the Reston PRC District (Hunter Mill), here is just a sample of remarks by individuals who represented a cross-section of thoughts, ideas and concerns.
Mark Ingrao, President and CEO of the Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce (GRCC) said he supported the PRC Amendment and his remarks represented the 600-plus member companies that, through the chamber board, supported the PRC Amendment. "Once the Reston community went down the path of funding the Metrorail extension, the paradigm in Reston was going to change. |
July 5. 2011 (Alpine) -- On the morning of July 9th 2011 get rattlesnake aversion training for your dog in Alpine | at Natural Instincts Pet Store. Natural Instincts is partnering with High On Kennels to offer rattlesnake aversion training in Alpine. Besides the hiking trails, rattlesnakes are often found in backyards and even while out walking your dog.
July 2, 2011 (San Diego County) -- The owners of two pit bull dogs that attacked and seriously injured a 75-year-old woman were arrested this evening for owning dogs that caused serious bodily injury, a felony. Carla and Alba Cornelio (ages 19 and 39 respectively) were taken into custody after an arrest warrant was issued following an investigation by County animal control officers into the June 18 incident.
July 1, 2011 (La Mesa) – Two alleged gang members have been arrested and charged with attempted murder of a 16-year-old boy who was shot in the head while riding his skateboard in La Mesa. The youth, who was from Arizona, was robbed and shot around 1:49 a. |
He wants the City Council to invite Aquaria representatives and the city’s public works commissioner to a future meeting to discuss the desalination | plant’s efforts to find other water customers.
Almost three years after the Aquaria desalination plant came online, Brockton remains its only paying customer. The city is charged $5.02 million a year under contract, but has bought no Aquaria water since May.
Now, Councilor-at-large Thomas Brophy wants the council to invite Aquaria representatives and public works Commissioner Michael Thoreson to a future meeting to discuss the city’s plans for Aquaria water and Aquaria’s efforts to market itself to other communities.
John Condon, the city’s chief financial officer, said $5.02 million was budgeted for the fiscal year that began July 1 to pay the fixed costs in the Aquaria contract. Under the 20-year contract signed in 2002, the city must pay the fixed costs whether it buys water or not.
Another $546,850 was budgeted to pay for the actual purchase of water, |
Jackie Trahan, 46, passed away Sunday, Jan. 16 in Beaumont.
Services will be at 10 a.m., | Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 in the chapel at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Interment will follow at Autumn Oaks Cemetery.
A gathering of family and friends will be Tuesday from 4 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Jackie was born April 16, 1964 in Jacksonville, Ark. to Jack Ray Trahan, Sr. and Cynthia (Phillips) Trahan. He graduated from Lamar University in 1984 and worked for Xerox Corporation for 26 years. Being an outdoorsman, he really loved to hunt, fish and ride four-wheelers.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents, “Gramps” and Joseph W. Trahan and Jewel Phillips and aunt, Ginger Rigby.
Jackie is survived by his loving wife of 24 years, Johna Trahan of Brookeland; parents, Jack and Cynthia Trahan of Orange; son, Alex Trahan and daughter, Emily Trahan both of Brookeland. He is also |
Did readers actually read a story about reading?
The above graphic is the answer to a riddle for our digital times: Did readers actually read | a story about reading?
The story in question — about how scanning and skimming our way through the Internet appears to be messing with how we read deeper, longer works — went viral earlier this week, with insane numbers of page views, a gazillion tweets, and even a starring role in Craig Ferguson’s late-night TV monologue.
So we decided to actually test this. The good folks at Chartbeat, which tracks how people read digital content, performed an analysis and found that 25 percent of readers stopped reading this story before they even reached the article text. A smaller percentage of other readers dropped off somewhere toward the middle. And 31 percent made it all the way through. I have a lollipop for all of them.
As the writer, should I be happy about those numbers or deeply, deeply sad? I asked Josh Schwartz, Chartbeat’s chief data scientist. Then I held my breath.
“Anytime I talk to journalists they |
Avid users of Tweetdeck should log out and revoke access now, as an XSS exploit seems to have granted hackers access to the platform. |
Buffer is a small startup that began with the idea that users want to space out the publication of their tweets. Now it’s a profitable business that’s trying to become a solution for how people share to social media.
Tweetdeck has a new look, bringing it more in line with the rest of Twitter’s apps and brightening the overall visual appearance.
Twitter released updates to Tweetdeck on Tuesday allowing users greater flexibility in how they display content and media within Tweetdeck columns on web apps, demonstrating Twitter’s continued commitment to keeping Tweetdeck up and running.
Entrepreneur Bill Gross is launching a content-focused social network called Chime.in that will compete with Twitter, Facebook and Google+, as well as link-sharing sites like Digg. He says there is a need for a better way of filtering content, but the odds are stacked against him.
If you’re struggling to keep up with a noisy Twitter stream, you |
QUINCY — A Quincy man with a history of drug dealing charges is behind bars after police said they searched his girlfriend’s Quincy Center | home and seized more than $300,000 worth of drugs, including more than 50 pounds of marijuana and 4 pounds of cocaine.
Robert Cooley, 35, was arraigned Tuesday in Quincy District Court on 10 drug and firearms charges, including individual counts of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana trafficking. Judge John Stapleton set Cooley’s bail at $100,000 cash and revoked his bail in a pending cocaine distribution case out of Middlesex Superior Court. He is due back in court May 1.
Police said officers searched the Quarry Street home of Cooley’s girlfriend, Shamieh Wall, at about 11 p.m Monday and collected 77 individual bags of what they believed to be marijuana, more than 4 pounds of cocaine, more than half an ounce of methamphetamine and more than 500 cartridges filled with THC, a marijuana derivative. Police said they also seized a loaded pistol, 38 rounds of ammunition, $30,000 in cash and a collection of tools and material |
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. -- Students at Westmont Hilltop Middle School couldn't really focus on what their teachers were going over in class on | Tuesday. They couldn't keep their minds off the visitors scheduled for the end of the school day.
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Beau Bennett and Tampa Bay Lightning center Alex Killorn visited the school as part of the Kraft Hockeyville USA celebration prior to the preseason game between their teams at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena (7 p.m. ET, NBCSN).
The students piled into the gym, which was covered in signs made by students for the Penguins, and started chants well before anyone arrived.
"It was great. We had a page and a half of absentees this morning. They were all at the morning practices, but of course they all ran back to school to be here for the players," said Tom Callihan, the athletic director of the school.
Pittsburgh's mascot, Iceberg, and his Tampa Bay counterpart, Thunderbug, arrived first to pump up the kids and offer up a few dance moves. Once Bennett and Killorn arrived, the players |
Photo: Antigua and Barbuda’s prime minister, Gaston Browne, leads the CARICOM delegation on a tour of Barb | uda’s devastated capital, Codrington.
Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana – CARICOM’s chairman, Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell of Grenada, and Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque carried out a tour of hurricane-devastated islands Wednesday, indicating that arrangements are being made to convene an international donors conference to mobilise the “significant resources” required for the recovery effort.
The touring CARICOM delegation included Ronald Jackson, executive director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), which is the CARICOM Institution coordinating the regional hurricane disaster response; and Captain Errington Shurland, executive director of the Regional Security System (RSS).
Antigua and Barbuda’s prime minister, Gaston Browne, joined the delegation for the tour of Barbuda, where the government’s assessment shows more than 90 percent of the buildings on the island were destroyed. Browne confirmed that all Barb |
NEW YORK (AP) — Carmelo Anthony gave New Yorkers a salute, then a show.
He went to center court before the game to | thank fans for coming to Madison Square Garden, when even the Knicks themselves didn’t know if people were ready for sports yet.
Then he and his teammates provided a win for their city they know has lost so much.
Anthony had 30 points and 10 rebounds, and the Knicks gave suffering New Yorkers something to cheer with a 104-84 victory over the Miami Heat in their storm-delayed season opener Friday night.
In the first sporting event in New York since Superstorm Sandy, the Knicks dominated a game the Heat players weren’t sure should even be played with the region still so devastated. But the Knicks hoped they could provide a distraction for a few hours, and fans who were able to watch surely loved what they saw from a team that could barely compete with Miami last season.
Anthony noticed plenty of empty seats when he first came out to warm up, then saw they had almost all been taken by the time players returned for the opening tip.
Steve Novak |
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More than 10,000 people attended a vigil at Dr. Phillips Center in downtown Orlando to remember 49 people killed by a terrorist and murderer.
| The vigil lasted 2 hours and was filled with words of encouragement, support, and love for all humanity. Community leaders, pastors, members of the LGBT community took to the stage in front of a heartbroken community to echo words of support and healing.
“We are going to try and pull through, stick together and love one another and come together as a community like what's going on here,” Tony Caplick said.
Caplick was not at Pulse when the shooting started at 2:02 a.m. But, three of his friends were, and they did not make it out alive.
“Eddie Sotomayor, Eric Ortiz, and then…um sorry,” Caplick couldn’t say the last name.
Later that night all 49 names would be read out loud for the world to know that behind each body was a brother, sister, husband, wife, father, mother, and person who just wanted |
Toxic working environments get that way when one of three key components goes awry.
While plenty of job seekers are eager just to be considered | for a new position, it’s important to remember that not all work cultures are created equal. But in the hunt for a new job, it isn’t always easy to tell whether the company you’re considering might not be such a great place to work. In my research on broken work cultures, I’ve surveyed hundreds of employees and managers from a wide range of industries and sectors. And the evidence suggests that toxic working environments get that way when one of three key components go awry.
Unhealthy companies have policies and procedures that either aren’t well established or documented, or they just aren’t followed.
Sometimes that’s less a matter of insubordination than just poor communication. Many departments communicate only sporadically or share incomplete information. Other times there just isn’t a standardized way of doing things. That’s often the case in newer companies and startups, where procedures are still developing. But it |
With Creed II heading to theaters this week, the folks over at Honest Trailers have reached deep into their vault to pull out one of their classic | episodes from all the way back in 1985 when Rocky IV was all the rage. It was a different time, when America wasn’t going to put up with Russia bossing us around, and it was up to Rocky to teach the Soviet Union a lesson so that Russia would never mess with us again. That certainly worked out for us, right?
How many training montages does this movie have? Seriously, try to keep count. There’s almost a training montage in a training montage, even though this Honest Trailer comes from all the way back in 1985, before we had a word to easily describe something like that thanks to the vision of director Christopher Nolan. But I digress.
It’s kind of amazing that audiences were willing to let a movie about an up and coming boxer reach this level. It not only becomes comical because of how two-dimensional the new villain is, especially with only 46 words for Dolph Lundgren to say throughout the |
U.S. President Donald Trump has been promising to build a wall along the southern border of the United States since long before he became commander in | chief. It was his biggest campaign promise, which, at the time, he claimed Mexico would be paying for.
Somehow, things have gone very much the other way. Although Trump has not secured the funding he needs in order to build the whole wall just yet, there are parts of the wall that are under construction in some areas. Unfortunately, according to HuffPost, Mexicans have been making the most of this.
The border areas nearby Tijuana, Mexico, received a modicum of protection in November last year in the form of a fence, but between 15 and 20 sneaky individuals in Mexico have seen this as a prime opportunity. Mexican officials have come forward to say that this group of people has recently been arrested after they were found to be stealing concertina wire from the border site.
They have had good reason though: The thieves have been selling the wire to homeowners in Tijuana who have been wanting to beef up their home security against — ironically — other thieves who could be looking to |
A second Supreme Court seat is only part of White House counsel Don McGahn and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s push to transform the federal | courts.
As the fight over Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the US Supreme Court unfolded this summer, consuming most of the oxygen available for judge-related punditry and spurring millions of dollars in ad spending by outside groups, the Senate confirmed more than two dozen of President Donald Trump’s judicial picks to lifetime appointments with little fanfare.
Twenty-six federal appeals and district court judges secured seats on the federal bench in the two months since Trump announced Kavanaugh as his latest Supreme Court nominee. That’s more than the number of judges confirmed in the first half of the year, and more than the number of judges confirmed in all of 2017.
Getting a second justice confirmed to the Supreme Court is a legacy-defining priority for the Trump administration. That White House counsel Don McGahn and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell managed to also pick up the pace on lower court judges while shepherding through Kavanaugh’s high-profile and contentious nomination underscores their shared |
One of the best kept secrets about federal careers is that salaries for many federal jobs are negotiable. Even a modest salary increase may exceed tens | or even hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of a career.
In most cases, feds on the GS salary ladder must sequentially climb each grade without skipping any grades.
Feds on the GS salary ladder must usually fulfill a year-long waiting period to become eligible for each grade increase, as well as waiting periods for within-grade step increases.
These constraints serve as speed bumps on the climb up the GS salary ladder. Therefore, by negotiating the highest possible starting salary, a new fed may significantly quicken his rise up the GS salary ladder.
Another tip: Experienced new and returning feds should request to accrue vacation leave at the same rate as experienced feds rather than at the lower accrual rate for new feds.
If you’re a current fed, you should attempt to negotiate your salary: 1) If you move from a job on the GS salary scale to a federal job in your field that is on an alternative salary scale; 2) if |
Lead Talent is keen to find a Marketing Manager; working on a part time basis and to join an “up and coming” Recruit | ment brand in the UK.
2019 is shaping up to be a big year for this company in the UK… part of a Recruitment Group originating in France, with a strong European footprint and emerging presence in North America. It’s a global business but independently owned, with no plans to change.
Entering UK two years ago and now on the cusp of big things. With a clear sales plan for 2019, marketing will play a critical part to this sales success and beyond. This is where you come in… reporting to the Sales Director you will join at the start of their journey to help create this new function, all supported by a global brand, however, you’ll be able to add a local twist around the country. You’ll be part of big thinking company with a family feel.
Marketing collateral creation, the written content is created, it’s now about delivering and maintaining the artwork by utilising your graphic design skills (prof |
Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante has released the first in a series of television ads he is planning to run against Proposition 54, which would | bar the state from collecting racial data, using campaign contributions being investigated by the state's political watchdog.
Bustamante, the lone politically prominent Democratic replacement candidate in the election to recall Gov. Gray Davis, is paying for the ads' production and their airing with part of the $3.8 million he received from Indian tribes.
The money was pumped into the campaign treasury Bustamante had already established for his 2002 re-election campaign for lieutenant governor and, he argues, is not covered by the voter-approved Proposition 34 that subsequently capped contributions from individuals at $21,200 for statewide offices.
In a carefully worded letter to a Sacramento County Superior Court judge, who is scheduled to hear arguments today in a lawsuit filed against Bustamante's contributions, a lawyer for the Fair Political Practices Commission said it is "undertaking an investigation of the conduct in this case."
Luisa Menchaca, the commission's general counsel, was asked for background by Superior Court Judge |
More Georgia children than ever — about 95 percent — wore their seat belts or were strapped into carseats last year, but state and local public | safety officials are hoping to push that percentage higher during next week’s Child Passenger Safety Week. From Sept. 18-25, various local law enforcement and child welfare agencies across the state will host seat-belt checks and carseat installations.
Programs like these have increased safety belt and carseat use from 80 percent in 2000 to close to 100 percent in some parts of Georgia.
“We have so many partners in this — Department of Public Health, local law enforcement agencies and hospitals — just preaching (the importance of child restraints) as hard as they can out there,” said Harris Blackwood, director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety.
Winder Police Chief Dennis Dorsey wants to use the week to reward kids who are already buckling up and to thank parents who’ve kept their kids safe in the car.
During every traffic stop the Winder Police Department makes next week, officers will check to see if the children in the |
Grant Leadbitter has completed his move to Sunderland on a two-and-a-half-year deal.
Grant Leadbitter has | thanked Middlesbrough fans for their 'amazing' support following his return to boyhood club Sunderland.
The 33-year-old midfielder completed his move to the Stadium of Light on Tuesday following a six-and-a-half year spell at Boro.
Leadbitter signed for the Teessiders from Ipswich in 2012 and helped the club win promotion to the Premier League four years later, while making 500 appearances for the club.
But the midfielder has rarely featured for Boro in the Championship this campaign, hence his return to the Sunderland on a two-and-a-year deal.
Leadbitter, who came through Black Cats' academy, has taken a large wage cut to join the Wearsiders and said he couldn't turn down the opportunity.
And in a lengthy message on Middlesbrough's website, Leadbitter, who was a popular figure among Boro fans, thanked everyone at the club for their support.
"I couldn� |
Happy to be a part of those numbers, I set out to experience three restaurants on my first full day in Las Vegas. I made reservations for | breakfast at The Sugar Factory in Paris, lunch at Trevi in Caesar’s Palace and dinner at Crush in the MGM Grand. I’m going to throw in my next day’s lunch at Five50 too only because I don’t know where else to put it and because it was a big part of my days of decadence on The Strip.
Don’t try this at home kids. I’m a food professional.
Even I may have bitten off more than I can chew following a six-course meal the night before at the incomparable Joel Robuchon, which, by the way was preceded by appetizers at the standout Mexican restaurant Hecho. But what the heck, I don’t get to Vegas very often nor do I get to dine like this ever.
So away I went, up the strip from my digs at the MGM Grand to the Paris Hotel Casino and Resort and The Sugar Factory.
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Welsh is not physically imposing off the bus, and looks a bit out of place on an Iowa line filled with huge players. But his versatility | , toughness, and mobility earned him a starting role since his freshman season. Welsh started all 13 games in 2017, 10 at right guard and three at right tackle, to earn second-team All-Big Ten recognition. He was a second team USA Today All-American and third-team All-Conference honors as a junior, starting 12 games (11 at right guard, one at right tackle). Welsh started every game his sophomore season at left guard (12 games) or right tackle (two), and was voted honorable mention All-Big Ten by league coaches for his efforts. Even as a redshirt freshman Welsh earned honors, as the Big Ten Network's website gave him first-team freshman All-Big Ten accolades after he started nine of the 13 games in which he played (seven at left guard, two at right guard). Welsh worked out at center in the spring of 2016, his likely pro position, but moved back to guard to get the best five guys up front.
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Bhubaneswar: First time in Bhubaneswar a private organization, Bhubaneswar based digital marketing company CORPORATE MEDIA | organized a national level seminar on INDUSTRY CONNECT on 13th January 2017 at PRESS CLUB OF ODISHA, MASTER CANTEEN SQUARE, Bhubaneswar at 3 PM. Around 200 youth participants including industry experts, students, working professionals including faculty, management consultants attended the seminar. Sounik Kajal the Convener of the seminar told that Shri Parthasarathi Mishra (CHRM-OMQ, Tata Teel Ltd.), Shri V.V.Benugopal (President & CEO, Jindal Panther, OP Jindal Group), Shri Manoj Kumar Panda (Centre Head, Tata Consultancy Limited, Bhubaneswar), Shri Amlan Sahoo (Location Delivery Head, INFOSYS, Bhubaneswar), Shri Achyutananda Das, Retd. GM, Syndicate Bank have attended the program as Keynote Speaker. In this august ceremony Corporate Media created a platform where youth of Odisha |
It seems that hardly a month goes by these days without there being another account of a leading evangelical who has fallen. Perhaps someone has deserted a doctrine | traditionally held dear by fellow evangelicals. Or maybe they have had to resign their leadership in a storm of controversy about their leadership style, or because of a significant moral failure.
Then, of course, there is an increasingly hostile media and society. Evangelicals are branded as fundamentalists and claimed by some to be not too dissimilar from Islamic terrorists. We are “irrelevant,” “stuck in the past,” “on the wrong side of history,” “haters of gay people,” “anti-choice,” “anti-science,” “bigots,” “backwards,” and, in short, people who should not be tolerated because of our perceived intolerance. Sadly of course, some evangelicals definitely do act in a way that encourages this negative impression.
I am an evangelical because in the Bible I perceive an authority that demands to be heard and obeyed. When I read |
As it turns out, The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t think it’s racist that President Barack Obama has | been mistaken for a waiter and a valet, or that his wife, Michelle, has been solicited for help by a Target customer.
The actor and talk show host detailed how her mother used to get followed around in stores, but still didn’t view that as an act of racism.
“The issue is, you better look at each other as an individual,” she said.
Orange Is the New Black actress Laverne Cox, who was a guest on the show, reminded Goldberg about the implicit biases that people have and the system that America was built on to help create and sustain these biases.
“I’ve been black for 60 years,” Goldberg insisted. “For me, stupidity, dumb folks who just say dumb stuff because they’re not looking or paying attention to the person they’re talking to, which is why people could walk up to Obama and not look up at him and see that it� |
I’m at the KUHT studio for Houston Have Your Say along with Ree-C Murphy and Mizanur Rahman from the Chron | . We will not actually be on camera – we’re off on the side at the “bloggers table”, which suits us all just fine. There’s a number of distinguished-looking guests, fifty or so, and they are now being told what to expect. There will be three sections – economy and security issues, health care, and education. There will be a short video clip to start, then questions will be asked of the guests. Everyone has been told to play nice. We’ll see how long that lasts. Oh, and no mike-grabbing.
The blog for this event is here. I’m going to post what I can as I can, given the limits of my attention span and comprehension skills.
UPDATE: Among the distinguished and distinguished-looking guests: Harris County Treasurer Orlando Sanchez, and State Sen. Dan Patrick. No Democratic politicians that I have seen as yet.
UPDATE: Just got our hands |
Fighters from the Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group MUJWA, who are travelling with a convoy including Burkina Faso foreign minister Djibr | il Bassole, stand guard in Gao, northern Mali, August 7, 2012. Bassole, the lead mediator in regional efforts to end unrest in Mali, told rebels there that they had to cut ties to "terrorist movements" like al Qaeda before any peace talks could begin, when he travelled to the rebel-held north for the first time.
When a radical French Muslim cleric was arrested in Mali last month on his way to join Islamist rebels in the north, people in neighbouring Senegal were quick to notice a key detail. He was carrying fake Senegalese identity papers.
It heightened the worst fears of Mali's western neighbour: the spectre of terrorism spreading across the border into one of Africa's most peaceful countries.
Senegal and other neighbours might have to confront their fears soon. The United Nations Security Council voted on Thursday to approve a military intervention in Mali, led by African forces and backed by Western military trainers.
The intervention, aimed at recapturing the north |
Cooperation among selective schools would make students’ lives easier. It would also likely run afoul of federal antitrust law.
Year after year | , the admissions process at selective colleges seems to make high-schoolers and their parents only more anxious. The numbers are wild: Harvard admitted just 4.6 percent of its nearly 43,000 applicants for the class that begins this fall. Stanford accepted only 4.29 percent, and Princeton 5.5 percent. Although selective schools—those that accept fewer than half of applicants—enroll only about one-fifth of U.S. undergraduates, they account for more than one-third of applications each year.
Plenty of ideas to fix the system—to make it more bearable for students, parents, and even colleges themselves—have been floated in recent years, including restructuring the whole process to be a somewhat randomized lottery, or implementing a matching system akin to how medical-school graduates are placed in residencies. They are promising, but they have something problematic in common: In all likelihood, they’d be illegal.
That’s because, like nearly every |
Veronica Bassett again set the pace for Poudre School District’s first-year ski team at the state championships, finishing 28 | th in the 5-kilometer cross-country skate-style race Friday.
Bassett covered the course at Purgatory Resort near Durango in 22 minutes, 56.2 seconds. Vail Mountain’s Emma Blakslee was the winner in 19:30.7. Bassett was also PSD’s top finisher Thursday in the 5K classic-style cross-country race.
The PSD girls were 11th out of 14 teams in the race.
PSD’s Maddie Potter finished 59th in 27:50.4 and Claire Potter 62nd in 29:26.0. Each team is limited to a maximum of three racers per event.
The PSD boys were 12th in a 15-team field in the boys 5K cross-country skate-style race, with all three of their skiers finishing close together. Ryan Dowdy was 92nd in 23:57.7, Jack Canonico 93rd |
A unique study published in today's edition of the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care1, provides new evidence about the causal links between | restrictions to abortion policy and maternal mortality. The study demonstrates that limiting abortion does not prevent women from seeking pregnancy terminations but simply increases the risks they face.
The study reveals women's fertility rate and abortion rates before, during and after the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu outlawed abortion in 1966 until his death in 1989. Prior to Nicolae Ceausescu's rise to power, access to surgical abortions had been easily available under the Soviet regime. Within days of the dictator's fall, the anti-abortion law was abolished and abortion was made available again on request.
"Countries that increasingly seek to restrict access to abortion and contraception should look and learn from Romania's example... All legislators in Britain and elsewhere who really care about women's safety - and, indeed, women's lives - need to pay attention to these findings,"
Kate Guthrie, spokesperson for the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare said: "This study starkly demonstrates the risks, often with fatal consequences, |
Mayor Bloomberg moves to expand high-tech surveillance to midtown Manhattan. But civil liberties groups are concerned, and some security experts question its value. |
New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, left, and New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg stand by during a news conference at the Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center in New York on Sunday.
On the heels of breaking up an alleged bomb terror plot, New York is planning to place high-tech security cameras, license plate readers, and "weapons sensors" in midtown Manhattan.
Office workers and tourists – and possible terrorists – will have cameras watching their every move as they visit Macy's, shop for diamonds at Tiffany & Co., or gawk in Times Square. The apparatus, paid for by some $24 million in Department of Homeland Security funding, will expand a similar effort already underway in lower Manhattan where cameras focus on the Federal Reserve, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Brooklyn Bridge.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, announcing the program Sunday, said the goal is to detect terrorism threats and deter pre-operational surveillance. Sensors will try to detect chemical, biological, |
Japan is an exceedingly wealthy country with a large, robust, and technologically sophisticated shipbuilding industry. If it wants to supersede the Izumos | with larger, more capable carriers then it can do so; the only obstacles are political.
The only serious obstacles to Japan’s construction of fleet carriers are political.
Japan has decided to refit its Izumo-class light carriers to operate the F-35B stealth fighter. So modified, the Izumos will carry about a dozen F-35Bs each, giving the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force a small but significant aviation combat capability.
In 2006 Japan laid down the first of two fourteen-thousand-ton Hyuga-class helicopter destroyers at IHI Marine United Yokohama Shipyard. In 2012, Japan laid down the twenty-thousand-ton Izumo, a light carrier in all but name, followed shortly by her sister Kaga. While the Hyugas could conceivably operate the F-35B, there is no indication thus far that the JMSDF intends to retrofit them.
During the same period, China (Japan� |
KIEV (REUTERS) - A day after Ukraine's parliament voted to remove the president after three months of street protests, the whereabouts of | Mr Viktor Yanukovych remained unknown on Sunday.
Mr Yanukovych abandoned the capital to the opposition on Saturday and denounced what he described as a coup after several days of bloodshed this week that claimed 82 lives.
His precise whereabouts on Sunday were still unknown. But residents in the eastern town of Donetsk, his stronghold, said that security had been reinforced along the main approach road to his private home in the town, suggesting he might be there.
His arch-rival Yulia Tymoshenko on Saturday hailed opposition demonstrators as "heroes" in an emotional speech in Kiev after she was released from jail.
Supporters cheered the former prime minister as she left the hospital where she had been held. When she spoke later in Kiev, her reception was mixed.
Her release marks a radical transformation in the former Soviet republic of 46 million people. Removal of the pro-Russian Yanukovych should pull Ukraine away from Moscow's orbit and closer to Europe.
It is also a reversal for Russian President Vladimir Putin's dream of |
In celebration of launching an expanded Creative section, well-known video game streaming site Twitch kicked off an ultra-marathon of every episode of the | seminal American landscape painting instructional show ‘Joy of Painting’ with Bob Ross.
Perhaps it is a surprise to no one, but the archives of the late Ross — who sported an afro, rehabilitated injured squirrels and spoke often about “happy little trees” — did incredibly well on the site. So much so that the company announced today that it will stream ‘Joy of Painting’ weekly for charity.
The company will continue this momentum by showing one whole season of ‘Joy of Painting,’ in order, on the /bobross channel every Monday from 3pm PST to 9:30PM PST. ‘The Joy of Painting’ spans an astounding 31 seasons, so even with Twitch’s aggressive play schedule, the episodes will only recycle every 7 months.
Additionally, on October 29 — Ross’s birthday — the channel will run an all-episodes marathon.
Twitch broadcasters are also invited to participate |
A report into child abuse in the Dromore Diocese of the Catholic Church has found 35 allegations were levelled against 10 priests dating back to | 1975.
The report also revealed no convictions have been made, but the cases have been reported to the police and social services.
Bishop John McAreavey addressed Mass-goers at Newry Cathedral where he expressed his sorrow over the mistreatment of children and the Catholic Church's handling of the cases.
The report by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church said three of the accused priests had died.
Of the remaining seven, the report said all are "out of ministry", but added that three "exercise limited ministry under tightly controlled and restricted conditions and never to children or young people".
Bishop McAreavey told Mass-goers: "In the past generation we have lived through a time when trust between churchgoers and church leaders has been badly damaged.
"The disclosures in report after report that children and young people had been abused in our church and the inadequate response of church leaders have caused deep distress and dismay. My thoughts today are |
Turkish President argues that if Trump called him before recognizing Jerusalem, he would not have made the move.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday | that U.S. President Donald Trump should have called him before announcing his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
“We made our call to the U.S. and are continuing to. There’s no reason not to have a meeting with Trump. Of course, we will call again. I wish that Trump calls us too,” Erdogan said in Ankara, according to the Hurriyet daily newspaper.
“From the beginning, we actually waited for them to call us before declaring these decisions, as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation term president,” he added.
“Turkey is among the countries that should be sought in this regard. I believe this mistake would not have been made if Mr. Trump had made his consultation with us. We can call him. But there is not yet a decision made [on doing so],” Erdogan said.
Erdogan has been one of the most vocal critics of Trump’s |
I went to a cabin in the woods last week. After 14 years in the city, you need to get away from time to time — just | shut everything off to keep the world from closing in on you.
I promised myself I wouldn’t read any work email (I failed), wouldn’t tweet (failed) and wouldn’t bring along any homework — I failed there too, but that one I don’t actually feel bad about. We’ve been following the progress of Nura headphones since they were an unsightly jumble of wires, with an exterior control box that did most of the heavy lifting.
The product’s customized sound profiles were a compelling idea executed well, but frankly, I had my doubts that the Australian startup would be able to connect all the dots required to get the product to market.
Of course, $4.6 million in seed funding and a $1.8 million Kickstarter go a long way when you’re building a pair of headphones. Early last month, the company popped by our San Francisco office to show us the final, shipping |
On the sideline, the Bulldogs were ready.
“We’re locking arms right there, saying a few prayers, and seeing what | happens,” said quarterback Zach Kline, who started ahead of Chason Virgil and played the entire game.
Snap, hold, kick, block... loss; 14-13 Rainbow Warriors.
Interim coach Eric Kiesau dissected the play on Sunday morning, watching it on video.
Fresno State is averaging only 3.3 yards per rushing play this season and has only nine rushing touchdowns, tied with Miami (Ohio) for 124th of 128 in the nation.
How that happens with a chance to break the longest losing streak in school history is mystifying, but Hawaii defensive end Viane Moala got one earlier this season in a victory over San Jose State. He also is 6-foot-7 and 270 pounds, all of that playing into why and how he was able to knife his way four yards past the line of scrimmage and right into the Bulldogs’ hearts.
The reality is, it is not that field goal block that crushed the |
The Master Chief Collection's impending PC release is a massive undertaking, and Microsoft plans to hold tons of internal beta tests for the six-game Halo | anthology.
At the recent Halo Championships event, 343 Industries recently announced Halo Insider program, a new initiative for testing out new Halo games. The program offers fans across Xbox One and PC the chance to try out new games like Halo: Infinite and the hugely anticipated PC version of Master Chief Collection in their fledgling states, and shape them over time with valuable feedback. Users can even test out the Steam version of the Master Chief Collection.
"Halo Insiders who choose to opt in to console or PC flighting will be considered for early access play sessions with in-development Halo games," the announcement reads. "Every improvement to Halo: The Master Chief Collection over the past year was the direct result of Insiders participating in flights and sharing feedback to the development team. Each public flight has specific goals, meaning not all Insiders will be selected for every flight."
The testing phases should be quite expansive. All six Master Chief Collection games won't release at the same time--Microsoft is instead staggering |
Wall Street was looking for earnings of 29 cents per share on a revenue of $1.15 billion.
Juniper Networks reported first quarter earnings | after the bell on Tuesday.
Software defined networking: Hype or hope?
Sure, SDN is a great idea. But will it get industry support?
The networking equipment maker reported a net income of $110.6 million, or 22 cents per share (statement).
Non-GAAP earnings were 29 cents per share on a revenue of $1.17 billion, down eight percent sequentially but up 10 percent annually.
I am very pleased with the disciplined approach we have taken with our Integrated Operating Plan. We have sharpened our focus on Cloud-Builders and High IQ networks with the ensemble of our products in routing, switching, security, network management, control and analytics; we have implemented an optimized One-Juniper structure; and we introduced a robust capital allocation program. While there is still work to do, I am confident that we have the right strategy in place to drive profitable growth and deliver significant value to shareholders.
For the current quarter, Wall Street |
Meanwhile, Mrs Osei has sued the lawyer who is presenting the faceless petitioners.
“A declaration that the statements that Plaintiff � | �has constituted herself into the Commission’s Tender Review Committee contrary to the Procurement Act”, “unilaterally awarded a contract of about $25,000 to a South African company…to change and re-develop the Commission’s logo under the guise of rebranding…” set out in paragraphs 6, 18, 23, 27 of the petition attached to Defendant’s letter conveying the petition to His Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana are defamatory of Plaintiff.
“A declaration that the statements that Plaintiff nearly pushed Ghana “to the precipices” by her “political posture” prior to the conduct of the 2016 General Elections, has a political bias and prejudice against Ghanaians who support the New Patriotic Party (NPP) by antagonizing the “NPP prior to the 2016 general elections brought embarrassment to the Commission” through her arrogant posture set out in paragraphs 3, 4 |
They are the only known wild animal to show signs of this disease.
April 1, 2019, 2:08 p.m.
We | used to think only humans suffered from Alzheimer's disease, that debilitating neurological disorder that most often strikes people over the age of 65. But, it turns out, we aren't alone after all. Dolphins have now also been found dead with Alzheimer's-like plaques in their brains, strongly indicating that they likely beached themselves as a result of the disease, reports ScienceAlert.
The discovery is an ominous warning to us all, because it also hints at a potential cause for Alzheimer's: the environmental toxin BMAA.
Each of the dozen or so cases of Alzheimer's identified in dolphins so far has also been associated with BMAA, which is produced by blue-green algal blooms common in dolphin habitats. This neurotoxin is easily caught up in the ocean food web, which the dolphins rely on more directly than we do, but humans also rely on it and may be susceptible to the same concern.
"Dolphins are an excellent sentinel species for toxic exposures in the marine |
MANCHESTER UNITED are reportedly keeping tabs on Porto ace Eder Militao as Jose Mourinho bids to bring a new defender to Old | Trafford.
The Brazilian international has caught the attention of the Special One after impressing in his first season in Europe following a summer switch from Sao Paulo.
Militao, 20, has featured in 13 games in all competitions for Mourinho's former employers, where he has established himself as a key player under Sergio Conceicao.
Everton were linked with a move for him in September, but United look to sneak in front of the Merseyside club.
According to the Daily Record, the Red Devils have added the youngster to a list of possible recruits ahead of the New Year.
Militao - who can also operate as a defensive midfielder - is seen a cheaper alternative to United's desired targets.
Napoli star Kalidou Koulibaly is believed to be the number one target at the Theatre of Dreams, with reports suggesting United had a £77million offer knocked back by the Serie A side.
While Ajax starlet Matthijs de Ligt |
It was recently announced that GW Pharmaceuticals, the company responsible for the development of a drug called Epidiolex, has had much success during | the clinical trial phase of the FDA’s approval process. The medicine has been shown effective in reducing seizure frequency in test subjects suffering with a severe form of epilepsy called Lennox-Gasaut Syndrome.
Many of the respondents in the clinical trial had experienced lackluster results with other epilepsy medications, but 44 percent of the patients who used Epidiolex experienced fewer seizures, according to a report from the Washington Post.
Cannabidiol (CBD) is the non-intoxicating compound found in the cannabis plant. Several years ago, this component gained a lot of attention. A number of studies and personal trials show CBD to be a solid treatment for controlling seizures. Some lawmakers eventually began pushing for what is called “CBD-only” or “Low-THC” laws in order to give children from their respective states access this medicine. Several states have legalized marijuana in this manner. Meanwhile, GW Pharmaceuticals has been working with the United States government |
ST. LOUIS — One St. Louis-area police officer resigned and another retired in the continued fallout from questionable police actions in the days | after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.
The moves bring to three the number of police officers whose conduct was called into question after the August 9 fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an African-American teen shot multiple times by a white police officer.
The three officers are: Lt. Ray Albers, who threatened and pointed an assault rifle at protesters; Dan Page, an officer caught on camera pushing a CNN correspondent before a video surfaced of him ranting about the Supreme Court and Muslims; and Matthew Pappert, an officer fired after making what his chief called “very … inappropriate” Facebook comments about the protests in Ferguson.
Albers, a 20-year veteran of the St. Ann, Missouri, police department, resigned Thursday, according to City Administrator Matt Conley.
Albers stepped down after the city’s board of police commissioners recommended to the board of aldermen that he be fired or resign, St. Ann Police Chief |
Hinesburg Police searched the home of a 15 year-old Shelburne student after peers reported him on two occasions with concerns of school threats | .
Hinesburg Police searched the home of a male 15 year-old Champlain Valley Union High School student Thursday after peers reported he spoke about a school shooting, Hinesburg Police Chief Frank Koss said in a release Thursday afternoon.
"Based on the search conducted, there was nothing found to indicate any immediate means or documented intent to carry out any threat to CVU," Koss said. He added that several electronic devices were seized to look for any documents that would indicate a threat.
The district is off this week for a spring break.
The student, a Shelburne resident who was not identified by police, had been the subject of two reports. The first was made on Feb. 15, after a student told the administration the teen had sent a Snapchat indicating a possible school shooting. He was contacted by Shelburne Police the next morning and was temporarily suspended, Koss said.
The male student returned to school the following week and on Friday, Feb. |
I think that old line "You can't live with them, but you can't live without them" is really about IT vendors. We all | need them and these days IT seems more reliant on vendors than ever before, not just for equipment, but also for IT development, services and support.
But from my earliest days as an IT manager, my relations with vendors were difficult and reactive and I don't think that is unusual. My seniors took a hard-nosed approach. "Don't worry about the contract," they'd say. "If they don't perform, just nuke 'em and swap them out." Or maybe the equally tough, "Just hold their feet to the fire. That never fails to bring 'em around."
Nuking vendors didn't seem like the best approach to me, not least of all because of the legal complications that I foresaw as a result of actually carrying out such a plan. Instead, I was trusting. If a vendor's representatives told me they would deliver a service or product at a certain time for a certain price, I took him at his word and moved on to address |
Local miners fill bags with gravel extracted from holes dug by Chinese mining machines in Ngoe Ngoe, Cameroon, Feb. 15, 2018 | .
Sidonie Maboue pulled her hands out of the muddy water and sat down on a piece of fabric next to the bags of gravel that she and three of her 12 children filled that day.
"This gravel will be crushed, then sifted,” said the 45-year-old widow as she prepared to nurse her 8-month-old baby who had been strapped to her back. “If we’re lucky, we can find gold, but it's difficult."
In a good month, she earns around $2.80 for her efforts.
Maboue works in the Kaye quarry, a gold mine abandoned by Chinese miners in early 2017 after two years in operation. Around her, a hundred people noisily searched for the yellow metal in the pits in Ngoe Ngoe, a village in East Cameroon with about 2,600 inhabitants.
Women hauled the earth, crushed the gravel and tended to the mechan |
The rollout of click share can be seen as a follow up to the position metrics Google introduced last fall as average position has become less useful.
| Click share is rolling out for Search campaigns in Google Ads.
To help advertisers get a fuller sense of how their text ads are performing, Google is bringing the click share metric to Search campaigns.
Represented as a percentage, click share is an indication of how many clicks your ads received out of the total number of times Google estimates your ads could been clicked. It helps show how effectively your ads are engaging users compared to the competition. Impression share, on the other hand, shows how effective you’ve been at getting your ads shown to users.
Average position, however, has become less and less useful with the removal of right rail ads. Depending on the number of ad slots available, an average position of 2.5 might actually mean the majority of your ads displayed at the bottom of the search results page, for example.
You might recall, Google recently introduced four new ad position metrics to help bring more clarity to ad performance relative to the actual position ads appear on the |
Businesses with job openings in technology, agriculture and customer service will be participating in JobFest on Thursday at the Mojave Air & Space Port in | the Stuart O. Witt Event Center.
The job festival will be held from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Mojave JobFest: Thursday, March 8th at the Mojave Air & Space Port in the Stuart O. Witt Event Center, 1247 Poole St. in Mojave from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Bakersfield JobFest: Wednesday, March 14th at The Rabobank Convention Center, 1001 Truxtun Ave, Bakersfield, from 9:00 a.m. – Noon.
Lake Isabella JobFest: Thursday, March 29th from 9:00 a.m. – Noon at The Kern River Valley Veterans Hall, 6405 Lake Isabella Blvd.
Taft JobFest: Thursday, April 19th from 9:00 a.m. – Noon at The Historic Fort, 915 N. 10th Street, Taft.
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Airline frequent flyer miles can be used for future free travel. These programs are easy to join and make it simple to keep track of your total | miles.
Most airlines offer a frequent flyer program that allows travelers to accumulate air miles in a frequent flyer account. Miles can be earned both by flying and by participating in various other spending opportunities, such as renting a car or using a mileage credit card. The miles can be used to book travel or upgrade a seat on future flights. Airline miles are like a type of currency, although there's technically no monetary value to them. Many travelers pick a favorite airline and prefer to keep all their miles in one place to help earn airline status and get free flights.
If you are already a member of a frequent flyer program, like American Airlines' AAdvantage or United Airlines' MileagePlus, and you have been including your frequent flyer number on your travel reservation, log in to your account to see your total number of miles, available online or in the airline's app. When you visit an airline's website, look for the login tab or box to access your account. For example on |
Judith “Judy” (Jackson) Swick, 68, of Decatur, Illinois, and formerly of Jasper County, Illinois | , passed away at 5:05 p.m., Tuesday, December 18, 2018, at her home following a courageous battle with breast cancer.
Funeral services will be held at 12:00 p.m. (Noon), Saturday, December 29, 2018, at the Meyer Funeral Home in Newton, Illinois, with Mike Knepper officiating. Burial will be in the Chapel Cemetery near Falmouth, Illinois. Visitation will be held 2 hours before the service. The obituary can be viewed and condolences left at www.meyerfh.com.
Judith affectionately known as “Judy” was born on July 14, 1950, in Decatur, Illinois, the daughter of Donald E. Jackson and Lora L. (Camp) Jackson. She graduated from Newton Community High School in 1968, and later that year moved to Decatur and accepted a position as Secretary at Decatur House.
Judy married Russell “Russ� |
Nearly one in five female federal employees say they have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace within the last two years, according to a recent survey, a | figure that has dropped significantly over the last two decades.
Women were three times as likely to have experienced sexual harassment as men, according to the first survey of its kind from the Merit Systems Protection Board since 1994. In that year, 44 percent of women said they had experienced sexual harassment in the preceding two years, while 19 percent of men said the same. In 2016, the year in which MSPB conducted the most recent survey, those figures were 18 percent and 6 percent, respectively.
Female federal employees were most likely to have endured “unwelcome invasion of personal space,” with 12 percent of respondents indicating that had occurred. That is down from 24 percent in 1994. In that year, “unwelcome sexual teasing, jokes, comments or questions” was the most frequent form of harassment, with 37 percent of women saying they had experienced it. That dropped to 9 percent in 2016.
MSPB issued the results as part of its Merit |
We can't ask these communities to trade one crisis for another. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Joe Manchin of West Virginia can show us the | way forward.
In the past five years, we’ve experienced record temperatures, hurricanes, fires, floods, droughts, coastal erosion and escalating extinction threats to wildlife. How we respond to these cascading climate impacts will define our nation’s public health, public safety and economy for generations.
While the scientific consensus calls for dramatically reducing emissions in the next decade, bipartisan federal climate solutions have remained as elusive as the impacts are pervasive. We simply have no choice but make meaningful progress in Congress during this era of divided government. We need durable, climate solutions that work for all Americans.
This month, the Republican chair and the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, held the first Senate hearing in seven years that focused on climate solutions. This was significant and not just for the time lapse. These two senators represent states with economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel production and facing high unemployment. |
Wipro, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Infosys, Bajaj Finance and HDFC Bank were among the top losers in | the Nifty index.
NEW DELHI: Shares of RPG Life Sciences (down 5.67 per cent), Shriram EPC (down 4.88 per cent) and Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning India (down 4.73 per cent) plunged up to 5 per cent on NSE in morning trade on Monday in an otherwise positive market.
Shares of Info Edge (down 4.23 per cent), Godawari Power (down 3.76 per cent), Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) (down 3.70 per cent), JK Cement (down 3.70 per cent), S P Apparels (down 3.67 per cent), Indiabulls Ventures (down 3.37 per cent) and Dalmia Bharat (down 3.31 per cent) too declined significantly.
The NSE Nifty index was trading 24 points up at 11,302, while the BSE Sensex was up 98 points |
A new live-album series commemorates the eclectic roster of artists featured at NYC's the Bottom Line.
In January 1978, I moved to | New York from Philadelphia to work at a free Long Island weekly, Good Times. I soon hit the pavement for my first, long night of music in Manhattan with my new editor and immediate friend, future Rolling Stone and MTV journalist Kurt Loder. Our first stop was the midtown offices of Mercury Records. The label was throwing a party for the great roots-and-party band NRBQ and their latest album, At Yankee Stadium, actually a studio record. The cuisine was appropriate: hot dogs served from a Sabrett street cart.
Kurt and I finished the evening on the Bowery — at Great Gildersleeves, where we saw a flamboyant glam-prog act, Novac, a.k.a. Phantom of the Organ; and at CBGB, in time for very late sets by the Nails, four years ahead of their New Wave hit “88 Lines About 44 Women” and singer-songwriter Steve Forbert, |
Yesterday we ran a piece exposing the scare tactics media like to use when discussing video games and violence. Flashy edits, buzzwords, complete ignorance | , that sort of thing. Today Katie Couric, the host of the particular segment we analyzed, reached out to her Twitter followers to ask for the "positive side" of violent games.
Yesterday, Katie Couric did an hour-long exposé on the dangers of violent, addictive video games.
When I noticed her tweet, I went to look at the replies. Some were decent! Others...not so much. I decided it had to do with her particular brand of audience. She wasn't getting the full scope of the gamer audience, and that wouldn't be fair. So I retweeted her on Kotaku's official Twitter account. And boy, you guys did not disappoint.
It warms my heart to see so many people rally against the inexcusable ignorance in the media's coverage of video games. This will continue to be a thing if we don't speak up, so good on all of you who did.
And, of course, there were some |
Winds of change for Russia's Black Sea Fleet?
Only a few countries are capable of an amphibious assault, and Russia is one of | them. Therefore, one of the most impressive parts of the Black Sea Fleet’s training is a seaborne assault. This includes gunfire, air assault and a marines' attack.
Yet the Black Sea Fleet may be seeing its last decade in the Crimea.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and partition of the Navy, relations between Russia and Ukraine have deteriorated.
Marines seem uncomfortable talking on the subject, and almost any comment on the future of the Crimean fleet stirs up a verbal fight between the countries’ Foreign Ministries.
When the lease expires in ten years, Kiev wants the Russian Navy out. But Russia, as a founder of the Black Sea Fleet in the 18th century, wants to stay.
A commander says it is a political problem.
“The authorities of Novorossiysk understand how serious the situation is. In the future, their part of the Fleet may become the most vital on the south frontiers of Russia, |
Street lighting may soon become safer, less expensive and more energy efficient under a proposal to lease LED street lights to replace conventional bulbs throughout town.
| Department of Public Works Director Bill Chenard told selectmen this week that he is working with Arlington, Chelsea and possibly Woburn on a program to replace conventional bulbs with more efficient LEDs, or light-emitting diodes.
Natick would own the bulbs and be responsible for maintenance, but use the lease as a financing mechanism. The lease would allow workers to install the bulbs in 2,250 of the town’s 2,400 street lights by the end of the year, helping the town to secure a $143,000 grant from NStar that might expire if the lights are not installed, Chenard said.
Town Administrator Martha White said Thursday the town may eventually convert the 10-year lease to a bond, depending on interest rates.
White praised Chenard for being on the forefront of a movement toward LED technology, working with NStar to create a lower hourly charge for the LED street lights than for conventional lighting.
Chenard said the LEDs are estimated |
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