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ALASTAIR COOK spoke of his pride at joining Test cricket’s all-time batting greats after he broke the 10, | 000-run barrier in England’s nine-wicket win over Sri Lanka at Chester-le-Street.
Cook became the first Englishman to score 10,000 Test runs as his unbeaten 47 helped England claim an unassailable 2-0 lead in their opening series of the summer.
The England skipper is one of only 12 players in the history of Test cricket to have achieved the landmark, and having managed just 31 runs in his first two innings of the summer, he admits reaching the seven-figure mark had been preying on his mind.
He broke into a broad grin as he flicked Nuwan Pradeep into the leg-side, before raising his bat to his family and friends who were gathered in the Don Robson Pavilion.
“It was a feeling of satisfaction,” said Cook, who also broke Mike Atherton’s record for the highest number of runs scored as England captain. “Clearly everyone has been talking |
Ravindra Deo pays special attention to the BRS and expanded withdrawal options.
The nation's largest retirement plan is only getting larger | .
The Thrift Savings Plan, Washington, the retirement system for 5.4 million federal employees and members of the uniformed services, saw its assets climb 8.9% year-over-year to $578.8 billion as of Sept. 30. That's up from $375.1 billion in 2013 and $210.6 billion in 2008.
Two recent pieces of legislation likely will ensure that growth continues.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, which was passed in 2015, created a Blended Retirement System within the TSP for all uniformed services members who enter service on Jan. 1, 2018, or later. As of Jan. 23, the BRS has more than 408,000 participants, according to Kim Weaver, director of external affairs.
Moreover, following the passage of the TSP Modernization Act in 2017, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which administers the TSP, will implement what Ms. Weaver called its "add |
Crew members of a US F-15E Strike Eagle were "momentarily disoriented" by a laser beam directed at the fighter jet as | it was preparing to land at RAF Lakenheath in England, posing a "serious risk" to flight safety, Air Force officials said.
"On Wednesday evening, our aircrew were momentarily disoriented when a laser was directed at their F-15E Strike Eagle while on approach to land at RAF Lakenheath," a spokeswoman for the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath, told British media. The laser was not flashed into the pilot's eyes and the plane landed safely.
The aircrew saw what they recognized to be a laser reflecting off the aircraft," the spokeswoman said. "If you can imagine a laser pointer, that's what our aircrew saw, only it was amplified in intensity and size."
The British Defense Ministry was notified and a patrol was dispatched to the location, the Eastern Daily Press and Cambridge News reported Friday.
"Aiming a laser at an aircraft is a serious risk to flight safety. Many high-powered lasers can completely incapac |
There are conflicting reports today regarding the condition of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. A spokesperson for the military hospital treating him said in the evening that | Arafat’s condition had been stable for the past twenty-four hours, declaring “the state of health of president Arafat has not worsened.” Palestinian envoy to France Leila Shahid denied Arafat was brain dead and said he is in a reversible coma. Arafat has not named a successor, but some of his powers over security and financing have been transferred to Prime Minister Ahmed Quriea.
The number of people without jobs in Americas rose slightly in October to 5.5 percent. Aliya Shahid reports from Washington DC.
The ACLU says it will sue to stop California from implementing an initiative that would allow the state to take DNA samples of who have not been charged with a crime. Kellia Ramares has more from Berkeley.
Nearly one hundred students staged an overnight sit down protest at Boulder High school in Colorado last night. Maeve Conran reports from affiliate station KGNU.
Renewed War in Cote D’ivo |
Care2 Causes | What Is The Zika Virus And Why Is The U.S. Government Restricting Travel To South America?
What Is The | Zika Virus And Why Is The U.S. Government Restricting Travel To South America?
The U.S. government last week advised pregnant women not to travel to Central or South America on account of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
The message was that pregnant women, or women considering becoming pregnant, should exercise “enhanced precautions” when traveling to these places: Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
The virus was discovered in 1947 in the Zika forest of Uganda; although common in Africa, it had not been recorded in the Western Hemisphere until last May, when an outbreak occurred in Brazil. With no immune defenses against this brand new virus in the West, it has been spreading rapidly.
Zika is an infection transmitted by mosquitoes, which is exactly how malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, ch |
BNP reiterates its allegation that the government is plotting with the administration and law enforcers to reclaim power through a lopsided election. |
BNP alleges that'state-sponsored' verdicts were given in the August 21 grenade attack cases, aiming to destroy BNP in a planned way.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed alleges that the government is trying to influence the verdict in the August 21 grenade attack case.
BNP yesterday urged the government to engage in talks with the party with an open mind over the next general election.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been harassed both mentally and physically in the name of treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), party's Senior Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed alleges.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police allows BNP to hold its planned rally at the Institution of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB) in the capital on March 30.
The label of developed country is meaningless when democracy is absent in Bangladesh, BNP Standing Committee Member Moudud Ahmed says.
The hope to get justice is getting diminished |
July 24, 2017 Alex Acosta, Ben Carson, Donald Trump, George Bennett, Mar-a-Lago, Rudy Giuliani, Uncategorized | , Wilbur Ross.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at Donald Trump’s election night celebration.
President Donald Trump‘s Cabinet already has a distinctive Palm Beach flavor.
Rudy Giuliani with friend and former Palm Beach Town Councilman Bill Diamond outside Palm Beach Town Hall in 2015.
Trump, the part-time Palm Beacher who visited his Mar-a-Lago estate seven times in his first 100 days as president, has already tapped Palm Beach neighbor Wilbur Ross for Commerce secretary and Palm Beach resident Robert Lighthizer for the Cabinet-level post of U.S. trade representative.
Palm Beach Gardens resident Ben Carson is secretary of Housing and Urban Development. And Labor Secretary Alex Acosta is a Miami resident who made headlines overseeing corruption probes in Palm Beach County as a federal prosecutor.
Now that Trump has made his irritation with Attorney General Jeff Sessions clear, Axios.com is reporting that the president is considering longtime ally Rudy Giuliani to replace Sessions. |
WGN-Ch. 9's Joanie Lum surveys the bewildering world of shopping in this column, which runs here on the second and fourth | Fridays of each month. The week of each column, Joanie will have more on Thursday's "WGN News at Nine" and Friday's "WGN Morning News.
Mary Poppins sang about them. Ben Franklin performed scientific experiments with them. Charlie Brown got wrapped up in them, literally.
Kites are possibly the least expensive sports equipment for an afternoon of tranquil entertainment.
The simplest ones are made of paper and string. Maybe that's why kite flying has been around for more than 2,000 years. Kites range in size from a postage stamp to 150-foot-long Asian dragons. They can cost pennies or hundreds of dollars.
David Zavelle, manager of Kite Harbor (Chicago and Oak Park), is an expert stunt kite flyer. For beginners, he recommends flying the Delta kite ($4.99-$35). It's a bat-shaped kite that launches the first time it's tossed into the wind -- no running |
Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper coach Brian Baloyi is leaving the Naturena club.
Kaizer Chiefs have announced that club legend Brian Baloyi | has been released from his contract and will leave the club at the end of the month.
The 44 year-old returned to Chiefs two seasons ago and played a role as assistant to the late goalkeeper coach Alex Revoredo.
Baloyi remained active in the club's goalkeeping structures after Revoredo's death last year but questions were raised about his role after Chiefs appointed Lee Baxter, the son of Bafana Bafana head coach, as head of goalkeeping in February.
Chiefs boss Kaizer Motaung announced on Tuesday that Baloyi's contract will expire at the end of the month and it will not be renewed.
"I wish to thank Brian for his contribution during his return to the club which is his home‚" said Motaung.
"When we brought Brian back in the fold we had intentions to have a longer engagement‚ but he recently indicated a willingness to pursue other ventures.
"We gave him our blessings and |
The owner of a trucking company and a former bank executive have both been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for their roles in an elaborate check | -kiting scheme that defrauded a Minnesota bank of nearly $1.5 million.
In April, a federal jury found George L. Wintz, Jr., 72 – owner of Triangle Warehouse Inc., McCallum Transfer Inc. and Cue Properties LLC – guilty of two counts of bank fraud and one count of embezzlement from Triangle’s 401(k) plan.
John A. Markert, 58, of Mendota Heights, MN, former bank president at Pinehurst Bank of St. Paul, was found guilty on five counts of misapplication of bank funds.
According to court documents, Markert allegedly aided Wintz, a customer of his bank. The check-kiting scheme, as well as a series of five fraudulent loans totaling $1.9 million, was designed to hide approximately $1.85 million in bad checks written from accounts controlled by Wintz from March 2009 to January 2010.
Another bank discovered the scheme in |
All-flash storage has become increasingly popular in data centers as a means of much faster data access than traditional hard disk, but its growth has been | impeded by cost and storage density. There was too much of the former and too little of the latter.
Every memory, storage and server vendor is working full out to address that issue, and it has turned into quite an arms race, which benefits the customer. So much so that Gartner predicts that within the next 12 months, solid-state arrays will improve in performance by a factor of 10 while doubling in density and cost-effectiveness.
IBM has just made its contribution to that growth. It has announced advances in flash storage that it claims will provide a three-fold increase in density in the same physical space for its FlashSystem 900 flash arrays, while reducing data capacity costs by 60 percent.
IBM used Micron’s newest 3D stacking memory to achieve this density. A few years back, NAND flash memory hit a wall at around 16nm, where it became impossible to shrink the memory cells any smaller. That stopped the growth of memory density |
Self-driving taxis can take you where you want to go.
It might not be flying taxis, but self-driving taxis on the road | started test runs in Dubai on Sunday.
At the technology show, GITEX Technology Week, Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority, or RTA, showed off its autonomous taxi service.
The driverless car service kicked off at the show and will run for the next three months in select parts of the city, according to transportation officials.
The cars are intended to connect passengers during the "first and last mile" to get from existing transportation systems to, say, a shopping mall or movie theater or other venue or to get back home.
An autonomous taxi will take passengers around Dubai.
The RTA said the cars go up about 20 mph and fit four passengers. Up front is a safety driver who can take over the car if needed. In promotional materials the cars are depicted without anyone in the front seat for a truly driverless experience, hinting at what the transportation agency could introduce later. The cars are modified Mercedes-Benz sedans with cameras, sensors, and LiD |
CHESTER -- A Chester plant that produced raw material for the glass industry is being sold less than three years after breaking ground.
Miner | als Technologies, the New York-based company that owns the facility, opted to close plant on Dec. 31 because of a lack of demand for the product the plant manufactured, said spokesman Rick Honey.
Located on a 15-acre site at the intersection of Ecology Lane and Beltline Road, the plant was designed to produce about 200,000 tons of Synsil Products per year.
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LADSON -- A Ladson company that makes armored military vehicles has received two new international contracts worth $123 million.
Force Protection says one contract worth $115 million calls for building 174 of the company's Cougar Mastiff vehicles for the United |
LONDON — It weighs in at more than 130 pounds, but the authoritative guide to the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, may eventually slim | down to nothing.
Oxford University Press, the publisher, said Sunday so many people prefer to look up words using its online product that it’s uncertain whether the 126-year-old dictionary’s next edition will be printed on paper at all.
The digital version of the Oxford English Dictionary now gets 2 million hits a month from subscribers, who pay $295 a year for the service in the U.S. In contrast, the current printed edition — a 20-volume, 750-pound ($1,165) set published in 1989 — has sold about 30,000 sets in total.
It’s just one more sign that the speed and ease of using Internet reference sites — and their ability to be quickly updated — are phasing out printed reference books. Google and Wikipedia are much more popular research tools than the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and dozens of free online dictionaries offer word meanings at the click of a mouse. Dictionary.com even offers |
“Westworld Mobile” will be available for download on Thursday, according to a tweet from the App store that was retweeted from the | official Twitter handle of the game.
Players take the role of a new Delos employee in the upcoming “Westworld Mobile.” Players can manage the park from the hit HBO series “Westworld” and all of its locations, such as Sweetwater, Escalante, and Las Mudas.
Managing the hosts is a big part of the job too, and players can even customize the hosts props, appearances, and even their reveries— gestures that hosts develop in spite of their memories being wiped, a key feature noted in the first season of the TV series.
Players can also match hosts to guests, determining which hosts will best meet the needs whether that means fulfilling their sense of adventure or, erm, other desires.
Players can also interact with familiar characters from the television series such as Dolores, Bernard, Dr. Ford, and Maeve, among others.
“Westworld Mobile” will be available for download on the App |
Bon-Ton files for bankruptcy. What does that mean for Younkers?
Younkers' parent company has filed for bankruptcy. What | will happen to Des Moines stores?
Younkers department stores will remain open as its parent company, Bon-Ton Stores Inc., works through bankruptcy with the aim of restructuring the company or selling it.
Bon-Ton has filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in Delaware bankruptcy court.
The company will continue with previously announced plans to close 47 of its 260 stores, including Younkers stores in Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids.
Bon-Ton has 15 additional Younkers stores in Iowa, including four in the Des Moines metro. It also owns a Herberger's store in Ottumwa. It’s unclear whether more stores will be shuttered as part of the restructuring.
Randy Tennison, general manager of Jordan Creek Town Center, said he had no information how the bankruptcy would affect the Younkers store at the West Des Moines mall.
"We don't think ours is on the closing list," he said.
There are Younkers stores at Valley |
Survey rates well-being in all 50 states. Here's a look at the rankings.
Below, a look at how state rankings have | shifted from 2011 to 2012 in the annual Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. The survey is based on residents' responses about physical health, job satisfaction and other factors that affect quality of life.
For many people a vacation in Hawaii would be a dream, but living there might be even better. Hawaiians agree.
Hawaii ranks No. 1 for the fourth year in a row as the state where residents report the best sense of overall well-being, based on physical health, outlook on life, job satisfaction and other factors that affect quality of life, according to the annual Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, released Wednesday.
Other states that have consistently ranked in the top 10 on the well-being index every year from 2008 to 2012 include Utah, Minnesota, Colorado and Montana.
Folks in these states tend to have lower rates of obesity and fewer medical problems such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, chronic pain. They also report enjoying their jobs more, |
Do superstitions actually do any good?
Obviously, crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, stockpiling four-leaf clovers, and avoiding | ladders and/or black cats has no effect on the world, tangible or otherwise. But if superstitions are all in our heads, then how do superstitions affect our minds?
You could quite easily build a convincing case for or against the psychological effects of superstitious beliefs and whether those beliefs provide any benefits. On the one hand, superstitions are fundamentally irrational and require turning over some control of our lives over to unseen forces – it's not particularly hard to see how that mindset might translate to reduced performance of tasks and activities.
Then again, you could just as easily argue that believing you've successfully navigated these superstitious influences can provide tremendous confidence. What's more, a belief that you're not totally in control could serve to take the pressure off and relax you, which means you end up performing better than you otherwise would have.
Experiments 1 through 4 show that activating good-luck-related superstitions via a common saying or action (e.g., "break |
The Motorola Moto Z3 with the aging Snapdragon 835 SoC might be one of the more underwhelming phones released it 2018, but it does | support the upcoming 5G Moto Mod. That makes it is the first smart phone on the market that is up-gradable to 5G. So, if you want to be the among the first to enjoy the faster speeds and lower latencies of Verizon 5G this device might be appealing to you. We got a chance to see the Moto Z3 running on the Verizon 5G network at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit and wanted to share with you want we experienced.
Just like other Moto Mods on the market, you simply snap this 5G Moto Mod at the back of the smartphone and you are up and running.
. For the live demonstration, the company had the Moto Z3 with the 5G Moto Mod.. For the live demonstration, the company had the Moto Z3 with the 5G Moto Mod.
Inside the 5G Moto Mod are 10 antenna modules. Four of them are Qualcomm’s QTM052 antenna modules for mmWave functionality, two of them are sub- |
State-owned oil giant Rosneft and businessman Roman Trotsenko's airport investment company, Novaport, could purchase Moscow's second- | largest airport, Domodedovo, Prime reported Monday, citing sources at the airport, Novaport and in the government.
The parties are discussing an acquisition deal worth $4.7 billion. Of this, $2.5 billion concerns Domodedovo's refueling complex, which will be snapped up by Rosneft. The rest of the assets will pass to Novaport, which owns and runs a number of airports in regional Russian cities.
The parties signed a memorandum agreeing the sale two months ago, Itar-Tass reported. An airport industry source told Interfax that the companies are now finalizing the price, the memorandum having been concluded one month ago.
Negotiations over the sale of Domodedovo have been ongoing since shortly after a terrorist incident at the airport in 2011, Prime reported. The government, seeking to place responsibility on the airport's ownership in the aftermath of the incident, found itself unable to identify the beneficiary shareholder.
The name of the |
Dickens' inspiration in the churchyard at Cooling.
It's to North Kent for Helen this week, to the Hoo Peninsula, fr | inged by the Thames to the north and the Medway to the south - an area shortlisted by the government for airport development. While supporters of the plan say it will bring jobs and money to the area, Helen hears the local voices raised in opposition to the very idea of an airport, and finds out which weapons are being used to drive home the 'No Airport at Cliffe' message.
She begins her visit standing in the churchyard which inspired the opening of Great Expectations - St James, in the village of Cooling. Dickens lived nearby and was very familiar with the marshlands of the peninsula - and his association with the area is proving to be useful ammunition for local people fighting proposals to build an airport there. To some eyes, it's a bleak landscape, to others, a beautiful one. Amongst the latter is Jeremy Clarke, for whom the countryside - a series of "horizontal lines", in Dickens words - is inextricably linked with the author and his characters |
At Briarwood Christian High School, the boys’ bathrooms smell like blueberries. Many of the Birmingham, Ala., school’s | students have taken up electronic cigarettes, which come in a variety of fruity flavors, and they decamp to the restroom to get their necessary nicotine hit between classes. Emphasis on the electronic here–Molly Lattner, a 17-year-old senior at Briarwood, says she’s never seen a person her age smoking a regular tobacco cigarette.
It’s a classic form of youthful rebellion with a modern twist, and in many ways it encapsulates how the teens today are not so different from the ones profiled by TIME in a 1965 cover story on the state of American teenagers. They’re still looking for ways to assert their individual identities, but it might happen on Snapchat instead of in the class yearbook. They’re still anxious about college, but they may be applying to five schools instead of one.
This new generation has been shaped by the events of the no-longer-new millennium. The youngest teenagers were not alive |
There is a tried-and-true Jewish method in Europe to garner instant media coverage and awards of recognition: Scream the trendy anti-Israeli slogans | equating the Jewish state with Nazi Germany and the former apartheid regime in South Africa, while highlighting one's background as a Holocaust survivor. According to seasoned media observers in Germany, the formula of Shoah survivor coupled with anti-Israeli activism helps to explain the public relations coup of Hedy Epstein, an anti-Zionist 85-year-old German Jew who fled the Nazis in 1939, and is now promoting her hunger strike in Egypt to advance the so-called "Free Gaza Movement." Epstein declared her hunger strike on Monday, as part of a campaign involving 1,400 activists from 42 countries in Egypt hoping to enter Gaza, in a bid to compel Israel to end its restrictions on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. She has attracted widespread press coverage in Europe. Prompting the activists, many of whom are from organizations affiliated with Hamas, to march into Gaza, is the one-year anniversary of the start of Operation Cast Lead to stop Hamas rocket attacks on Israel's southern periphery. The European |
The global anti-Uber alliance is growing.
Today US-based Lyft said it was allying itself with Asia-based ride-hailing | companies Didi Kuaidi, GrabTaxi, and Ola. Together, the alliance will reach nearly 50 percent of the world’s population, Lyft said.
"We’re excited to join with Didi, Grab, and Ola to make global travel simpler for passengers," Lyft co-founder and president John Zimmer said. "This isn’t solely a partnership of four companies, but also an opportunity to have a greater impact on the future of our cities worldwide."
Ola is the leading ride-hail company in India. GrabTaxi, meanwhile, offers services in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand. Each of the companies says it receives more than a million booking requests a day. Together, they make a seemingly formidable force. Each provides the other an apparently easy way to make inroads in new countries where a preferred service already exists, and quickly achieve scale.
In doing so, the alliance would also seem to |
Tennessee’s massive automotive industry is at the center of a Washington drama playing out over the nation’s $200 billion worth of | auto-related imports.
Sen. Lamar Alexander unveiled a bipartisan bill Wednesday in his effort to fend off a proposed federal tax known as a tariff on imports of vehicles and auto parts.
Sen. Bob Corker earlier signed on to a separate proposal meant to push back against tariffs the White House says can lift the nation’s manufacturing industry.
Both of the Tennessee Republicans have sided with automotive executives who contend President Donald Trump’s plan to curtail imports as a national security measure would trigger manufacturing layoffs.
Trump has proposed a 25 percent tax on vehicles and auto parts entering the United States.
Alexander and Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, together introduced the Automotive Jobs Act of 2018. It would require a comprehensive study of the U.S. auto industry's vitality before tariffs were applied.
Trump did not immediately respond to the action.
In Washington, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an array of industry leaders have urged Trump to back off on tariffs. |
Newly renovated and mint condition, high floor, large one bedroom residence located in the heart of Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side. Featuring a | modern kitchen and a beautiful Calcutta gold marble bathroom, this spacious apartment is a perfect place to call home. Just steps away from Lincoln Center, the residence features a large living room as well as a separate area for dining. Facing south and west, the apartment gets an abundance of natural light and has great storage space throughout plus a stackable washer/dryer in-unit. This full service building is pet-friendly and has a very high tax deductibility of 72%. The building offers a live-in resident manager, 24-hour doorman, and porter staff. There is a gorgeous, newly renovated 360 degree large terrace (with city/river views), storage units available for rent, bike storage, and an additional laundry facility with commercial sized washer/dryers. The building is located in prime UWS; just a few short blocks from the 1/2/3/B/C trains, cross town buses, Central Park, Riverside Park, Trader Joe |
VLC can play various media formats within PowerPoint.
The VLC media player includes an ActiveX control that you can embed into your PowerPoint presentations | . PowerPoint natively supports certain video and audio formats, but VLC can play many other formats that PowerPoint cannot, including the FLV video format. With the VLC ActiveX control, you can add more uncommon video and audio formats to your business presentations without converting them into other media formats. The video can be set to play automatically or play when you click it.
Install VLC on your computer. Make sure that the ActiveX Plugin check box is enabled during installation. If this option wasn’t selected when VLC was installed, the VLC ActiveX Control will not be available in PowerPoint.
Launch PowerPoint, click the “File” menu and select “Options” to open the Options window.
Open a presentation in PowerPoint and navigate to the slide in which you want to insert the VLC player.
Click the “Developer” tab on the ribbon and click the “More Controls” button at the bottom right corner of the Controls |
Minister of Labour and Social Security Shahine Robinson (second left) and permanent secretary in the ministry, Colette Roberts Risden (second | right), assist parent Jody Thomas with placing her son, David Forrest, behind his new special-needs walker on Tuesday at the Early Stimulation Programme’s offices in downtown Kingston. Sharing the moment is Deputy Head of Mission in the Embassy of Japan Shinichi Yamanaka.
Eighty special-needs children have been given equipment to deal with their circumstance by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security in partnership with the World Bank and the Japanese Embassy.
The handover of wheelchairs, hearing aids and walkers to parents and guardians took place at the Early Stimulation Programme location on Hanover Street in downtown Kingston on Tuesday.
Minister of Labour and Social Security Shahine Robinson said the assistive aids will go a far way in allowing the recipients and their parents to focus on their abilities.
“Our goal as a country is to empower persons with disabilities and to have that inclusive society for all,” she said.
The minister also thanked the partners for offering |
"Their actions were not only reprehensible but in violation of federal law," said FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Thomas Chadwick.
Four members | of a militant white supremacist group who engaged in "street battle" at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville last year were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the violent marches, according to federal prosecutors.
The men, all part of the Rise Above Movement, or RAM, according to a criminal complaint, who flew from California to Virginia to take part in the rally, "assaulted an African-American man, two females and a minister wearing a clerical collar," among others, said the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, Thomas T. Cullen.
The four men — Benjamin Daley, 25, and Thomas Gillen, 34, both of Redondo Beach, California; Michael Miselis, 29, of Lawndale, California; and Cole White, 24, of Clayton, California — have each been charged with one count of conspiracy to violate the federal riots statute and one count of violating the statute.
"Their actions were not only reprehensible but |
Can Breshad Perriman replace Torrey Smith in the Ravens' offense?
After weeks of insisting that they didn� | �t feel pressure to add a wide receiver, the Ravens couldn’t resist adding another target for quarterback Joe Flacco.
Ten years since last picking a wide receiver in the first round of the NFl draft, the Ravens used the 26th pick on Central Florida’s Breshad Perriman, considered one of the fastest players in the draft.
Perriman, 21, didn’t work out at the NFL scouting combine because of a hamstring injury, but he ran a 4.22 in the 40-yard-dash during his pro day. That elevated his draft status to the point where it wasn’t clear if Perriman would even be available when the Ravens were on the clock.
Perriman worked out with the Ravens before the draft and called it his best visit with an NFL team.
Perriman certainly adds much-needed outside speed to a team that lost Torrey Smith (San Francisco 49ers) and Jacoby |
She's a favorite of the under 20 set.
But Bella Thorne fans won't see the actress/singer on the red carpet of | the Teen Choice Awards Sunday.
The Famous In Love starlet, 20, revealed some weeks ago that she was 'boycotting' the ceremony at The Forum in Inglewood, California calling the event 'gross' and 'rigged' on social media.
Back on July 24, the former Disney darling tweeted her disdain for the Teen Choice Awards.
'Teen choice is gross,' she tweeted wrote.
She took particular issue with the 'Choice hottie' categories for being shallow.
'Vote for the hottest is so gross How about smartest? Or a charity category? How about we hype people up for doing good things not being hot,' she added.
Though she won't be in attendance Thorne could still take home several trophies.
She's nominated for Choice TV Actress: Drama/Action Adventure for Famous In Love, Choice Movie Actress: Drama for Midnight Sun, and Choice Movie Ship with Patrick Schwarzenegger for Midnight Sun.
Before this Bella was somewhat of a |
When you're feeling crabby, nothing can compare to pulling a trap filled with Dungeness crabs up from the briny deep — unless it | 's breaking open a steaming hot, just-cooked crab, dipping it in buttery lemon-garlic sauce and devouring it.
Crabbing is one of the charms of the Oregon coast, a place as well known for its seafood as for its surf and sand. You can fish almost anywhere. Or you can get down and dirty and play in the mud; a shovelful can hold clams, shrimp and other tasty surprises.
I visited Oregon last month, driving the dramatic Pacific Coast Scenic Byway, U.S. 101, with my friend Wendi, who not only loves fresh fish but also owns a seafood restaurant and fish market in Los Alamitos. I wanted to see great scenery; she wanted to check out great seafood at its source. Both were easy tasks on the Oregon coast.
First, we learned that all the cool kids call it the Coast. Not the Beach, as we do in California. Oregonians will know you're a tourist |
The Heritage Academy girls basketball team used its full-court press for two minutes Tuesday night - the final two minutes of the first half against Grace Academy | .
That was enough for the Eagles to force five turnovers and rip off a 10-0 run to end the half with a 25-8 lead before coasting to a 50-35 victory in the Knights' gym in a Mason Dixon Christian Conference game.
"We normally score a lot off of our defense," Heritage coach Ed Dorsey said. "That's what happened late in the second quarter."
"They are by far a faster team than we are," Grace coach Curtis Litten said. "The problem is, we're young... and their speed is much more than we can handle."
The Heritage boys used a hot-shooting first half and 17 Grace turnovers to race to a 38-12 halftime lead on the way to a 64-41 victory in the nightcap of the MDCC doubleheader.
In the girls game, Morgan McIntire scored Heritage's first 13 points over the first 13 minutes of the game, giving the Eagles (8-4, 5 |
Washington, DC - Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the number of persons under the supervision of adult correctional systems in the United States has fallen to | its lowest level since 2003. This finding is highlighted in a study to be released today by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Sacramento, California - A northern California man was sentenced Thursday to 101 months in prison for trafficking methamphetamine, following a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations and the Manteca Police Department.
Washington, DC - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has transformed the detainee health recordkeeping system into one of the largest and most robust medical systems in the federal government.
Washington, DC - As part of Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson’s effort to enhance the manner in which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) collects and reports statistics, today DHS released its fiscal year (FY) 2014 enforcement statistics from the DHS Office of Immigration Statistics, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In a continued |
If people aren't being breath tested, they'll fall back into habits of not watching what they're drinking when they drive, National's police spokesman | Chris Bishop says.
There has been a sharp decline in roadside breath tests, at the same time as the road toll climbs in New Zealand.
In 2013, there were 3 million breath tests completed, but last year the number had dropped to 1.4 million - less than half the total of five years earlier.
"I think Kiwis will be concerned about that [number]," Mr Bishop said. "People really do notice it and I think over time it does change people's behaviour because when people know that there's a chance they're going to be breath tested they do think about what they're drinking.
"At the moment it's basically impossible to get stopped because the police aren't doing the tests."
Police have said they are being more strategic, more targeted, using evidence and targeting high risk areas, which all sounded good, Mr Bishop said, but it was the areas which didn't show up as high risk, which people still drove home on after having a few drinks |
Me, I was raised a fundamentalist Baptist. We thought Southern Baptists were dangerously liberal. And, most in our crowd knew Northern or American Bapt | ists weren’t really Christian.
My lasting take away from this childhood is a certain discomfort with my body and a deep and abiding understanding of shame.
The narrative is a pretty straight forward Zen presentation.
First a couple of thoughts about the set up. The student presents a nicely poetic version of the perennial question for those of us on the way. What about awakening? When you strip away the pretty words, what is it about?
And here we get the first shame.
Now, I understand we children of the West, Europeans and particularly Americans, are supposed to come from a guilt-based culture, as opposed to a shame-based one. I’ve never fully understood what is being pointed to in that regard, as I have understandings of shame that run to the very core of my being.
What I would suggest is that Huguo, who first mastered the arcane philosophical systems of the Tentai traditions before undergoing Zen training, that, in the best |
At some point in time, we all face new and challenging responsibilities. It may be for work, for our family, or even for the sake | of living on this planet with 7 billion other people.
These responsibilities can encompass small everyday things — brushing our teeth, putting on clean clothes, taking showers, or eating dinner — or special occasions — buying gifts and sending thank you notes to loved ones on their birthdays. They can be boring and tedious like finishing up a report for work or attending that meeting that you really don’t want to go to.
The point is we all face responsibilities we’d rather not. The alarm goes off in the morning and we’re filled with hesitation.
I recently got a new writing gig that requires essays that are larger in scope and more exhausting for me to write than what I’m accustomed to. This has been causing me undue stress. I’m excited to feel it out because it could mean a bigger pay day than I’ve had in a long time.
It seems huge and daunting at first, as a lot of things do when you |
State-of-the-art firewalls prevent the exploitation of Web application holes.
With a pressing need to do more to protect Web | applications from attack, IT staff can turn to a new class of specialized firewalls that do a great deal to protect Web servers, Web applications, and connected internal servers and databases from attack.
Each of the three Web application firewalls eWEEK Labs reviews here—Kavado Inc.s InterDo 3.0, Sanctum Inc.s AppShield 4.0 and Teros Inc.s Teros-100 APS (Application Protection System) 2.1.1—provides next-generation attack defense through a deep understanding of how HTML applications function.
All three products go through an HTML parsing phase where they learn the form field, application structure and cookie usage for each Web page. The firewalls use this information to dynamically inspect all incoming requests. They can therefore block requests that modify hidden fields or cookies or submit malformed requests, such as very long parameters or parameters containing script or SQL commands.
Teros-100 APS goes further yet— |
At Phocuswright, Tinyclues will showcase in the Launch Program against 13 other travel technology providers with their breakthrough, AI-first targeting and | campaign planning solution.
Tinyclues, provider of a leading artificial intelligence (AI)-first marketing solution, announced today their sponsorship of Phocuswright, taking place in Los Angeles, CA November 13-15th.
Phocuswright’s focus for this year’s conference is the ways in which travel industry giants are able to adapt, grow, scale, and innovate. Marketing technology based in deep learning, like what is seen in the Tinyclues solution, is one way in which it is believed that travel brands can stay competitive and evolve in the rapidly maturing, increasingly demanding landscape.
At Phocuswright, travel leaders and marketers from several hundred brands will have an opportunity to learn more about Tinyclues’ revolutionary solution during the “Launch” program. Tinyclues’ founder and CEO, David Bessis, will be presenting on Tuesday, November 13th at 4:30 pm in the Platinum Ballroom. Tinyclues plans |
I am fortunate enough to have been enjoying a week at the beach. The weather has been great and the fishing has been wonderful. It has been | a needed time to recharge the system. I even had my best friend say she would marry me on this trip. It has been a great week. It is always at the time you least expect it that an event will occur, creating an inspiration for a new post.
Today, I was relaxing in the beach house when my fiancé called to say that something was on fire a street over from our house. Naturally, I went to investigate. I found commercial dumpster against a home under construction with structural building materials burning within. Luckily, the beach winds were headed away from the home, or there would have likely been an exposure issue. The local fire department arrived and pulled a 1.5” trash line. Line deployment went well. A volunteer arrived and fought the fire in boat shoes, shorts, and a tee shirt. That’s when the writing bug bit me. With all off the cancer causing chemicals such as hydrogen cyanide in today’s building materials, gl |
YouTube has taken another step toward reinstalling online internet star Logan Paul since he posted video of a suicide victim, for which he was widely criticized | . After being on hold for 10 months, “The Thinning: New World Order,” which stars Paul, is now streaming on YouTube’s subscription-based video on-demand service (SVOD).
YouTube delayed the release of the film back in January when Paul came under fire for filming and then posting to YouTube a video of a suicide victim. The YouTube sensation filmed video of a deceased body while walking through Aokigahara forest in Japan, a location that has come to be known as the “Suicide Forest” due to the high number of people who go to the forest to take their own lives.
However, Paul is now in “good standing,” in line with YouTube policies, a person familiar with the situation told TheWrap, citing Paul’s good behavior. As a result, the Google-owned company has decided to stream the film on its $11.99 per month streaming service, YouTube Premium. |
Bureaucracies can handle themselves. They don’t need me to defend them. But this would be the same California Air Resources Board | that presides over the nation’s strictest smog program and the toughest regime to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Without such programs, there would be no market for the $100,000 electric vehicles produced in Fremont.
The air board oversees a rebate program by which purchasers of cars deemed to be zero-emission can collect $1,500-$3,000 checks, courtesy of taxpayers. Because of that rebate program, 25,120 Tesla buyers have received $63 million in rebates. And owners of zero-emission vehicles receive stickers so they can zip along in carpool lanes.
Then there’s the real money: zero-emission vehicle credits. By law, Chevy, Ford, Toyota and all other automakers face a mandate to make and sell zero-emission vehicles. Many do. However, Tesla sells nothing but zero-emission vehicles, and, under the rules of the regulatory road, Tesla receives valuable credits for each car it sells. |
CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Zoo reopened its gorilla exhibit Tuesday with a higher, reinforced barrier installed after a young boy got | into the exhibit and was dragged by a 400-pound gorilla, which was then shot and killed.
The exhibit's reopening came a day after Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said he would not bring charges against the boy's mother, who was tending to another child when her 3-year-old "just scampered off," as children sometimes do.
The barrier, which had passed repeated inspections by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, will now be 42 inches high — a half-foot taller than before — with solid wood beams at the top and bottom, plus knotted rope netting at the bottom, the zoo said. Surveillance cameras also were added.
Director Thane Maynard said the exhibit had been safe for 38 years, but the new barrier helps to reassure guests and protect everyone on both sides of it henceforward.
It "redoubles our effort to make sure that our animals are safe and that our visitors are as well," Maynard said. |
President-elect Donald Trump hasn't even picked a transition team, but that hasn't stopped those in his proposed administration from looking for loopholes to avoid | getting congressional approval on the construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexican border.
And that isn't all. Trump has also been seeking advice from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, "an architect of anti-immigration efforts," on a possible Muslim registry, Reuters reports.
Kobach, reportedly a key member of Trump's transition team, was instrumental in writing tough immigration laws in Arizona and has been working with Trump immigration advisers for months.
Trump campaigned on the promise of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border if elected president. He also said that he supports “extreme vetting” of Muslims entering the United States as a national security measure, Reuters reports.
Kobach told Reuters that the team has already begun looking at drafting executive orders for both the wall and possibly a Muslim registry for immigrants from Muslim countries "so that Trump and the Department of Homeland Security hit the ground running."
Kobach added that Trump's immigration advisers |
The Massey Mustangs ran to another cross-country title on Saturday.
The Mustangs made it back-to-back senior boys� | � titles with a comfortable win at the OFSAA cross-country championships in Hamilton.
Costa and Chase Canty led the way for the Massey at least year’s championship and guided the way for this year’s squad on Saturday.
Canty finished sixth overall in a field of 281 runners over a 6.25km course as he improved on his 20th-place finish a year ago in a time of 20 minutes and 5.7 seconds. Costa came in 34th in 21:01.3.
Matthew Matos was Massey’s third finisher in 71st in a time of 21:43.5 while Max Fazecash, who was part of Massey’s bronze-medal winning junior team a year ago, rounded out the Mustangs scoring four runners with a 79th-place finish in 21:49.8.
“It was really good to see because we lost a lot of good guys |
Candy cap mushroom French toast, anyone? Proving that he really does have a passion for foraging fungi, that’s one of | the dishes Todd Humphries has created for his new brunch service, debuting tomorrow at Kitchen Door in Napa’s Oxbow Public Market.
The menu, offered Saturdays and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., features some products foraged from his neighbors, too, including corned beef hash made with meat from Oxbow tenant Five Dot Ranch, tossed with potatoes, onions and peppers over poached eggs, while the buttermilk pancakes arrive topped in Silverado strawberry compote and whipped cream.
Other breakfast-y type eats include Aquavit cured salmon gravlax flatbread from the wood burning oven, and “fold and eat” huevos rancheros with scrambled eggs, chile sauce, refried beans, avocado, sour cream and cilantro.
To drink, how about a Valrhona hot chocolate dunked with churros, or a “Bloody Beer” instead of a Bloody Mary?
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Thomson Reuters this morning announced that it has identified “the world’s 100 most innovative organizations today” through a proprietary program. |
I wouldn’t normally give such a list much attention, but when I was glancing at the top 100 list, I recognized many of the usual suspects on there, such as Apple, Intel, HP, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Sony, Xerox and Alcatel-Lucent.
One notable name that I think everyone in this business would expect on the list was missing, though. Did good old Google really lose that much of its edge of late?
Thomson Reuters looked at all organizations with 100 or more “innovative” patents, and how many of them were granted, over the past three years, and also how often they get cited in other patent filings. They also looked at how many ‘major world markets’ their patents were protected in, ruling out a bunch of innovative companies that don’t have the resources to do this on a global scale (yet).
Now, I’m not an expert, but I dares |
L-Tron Corporation has released a brand-new, purpose-built magnetic mount to use to secure the 4910LR Driver's License Reader | in the squad car.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - June 7, 2018 - PRLog -- L-Tron Corporation is pleased to announce the release of a new magnetic-style mount for its 4910LR Driver's License Reader. Designed to limit distractions and keep officers safe while on patrol, the Magnetic Mount was built from the voice of law enforcement. The 4910LR Driver's License Reader is widely used in thousands of municipalities across the U.S., as a more efficient way to complete citations during traffic stops, motor vehicle collisions, and incident reporting. The 4910LR-MM is an accessory. The Magnetic Mount enables officers to quickly and easily stow the 4910LR between scans.
The Magnetic Mount was built to withstand dirt, spills, impacts and more in the patrol car environment. You don't have to treat it with care or worry about the 4910LR going airborne. In fact, the Magnetic Mount is rated for up to 70 lbs of force |
Hastings United Football Club suffered its first home defeat of the season this afternoon (Saturday).
Chris Agutter’s side lost 4 | -2 against Whyteleafe in the Buildbase FA Trophy preliminary round after conceding three times in 17 second half minutes.
It was a highly disappointing afternoon for Hastings, who shipped some soft goals and missed a second half penalty in a clash between two teams in the Bostik League South East Division’s top five.
Hastings threw new signing Youssuf Bamba straight into the starting line-up on the left of the front three and it was he had the game’s first real attempt at goal, showing great feet to work space for a shot which was well saved by the feet of Whyteleafe goalkeeper Tyler McCarthy.
Sam Adams’ deflected shot from 25 yards was gathered by McCarthy at the second attempt moments before Whyteleafe took a 19th minute lead.
A loose pass from a free kick by Hastings left-back Sam Cruttwell was seized upon by Bryan Akongo, who curled a delightful first time shot into the corner |
Sixty-seven percent of all highly-targeted attacks are carried out against 'lower-level employees' such as customer service representatives.
| Lower-level workers and contributors are the employees most at risk for cyberattacks, according to digital marketing agency Reboot.
To understand who is most at risk, Reboot checked enterprise security firm Proofpoint's latest quarterly analysis of highly-targeted cyberattacks. They found that 67 percent of all highly-targeted attacks are carried out against "lower-level employees" such as customer service representatives.
As you can see in their infographic below, contributors are also common targets, followed by management and upper management, those in operations and production positions, and executives.
"However, given that upper management accounts for a smaller proportion of businesses, it suggests that those in C-level positions, directors, and department managers may be targeted disproportionately more often," Reboot wrote in a news release.
Interestingly, nearly 20 percent of all phishing and malware attacks target employees in public relations, marketing, and human resource positions, Reboot found.
Breaking it down by industry, pharmaceutical drug manufacturers are the most heavily |
Gone are the days when Big K.R.I.T. would hint at his supremacy using the gold coronal logo, his acronym | (King Remembered In Time), or song and mixtape titles littered with the word “king.” With the release of his sophomore album, Cadillactica, insinuations are left in the dust as he peels out in his drop top spaceship bellowing “King of the South” in no uncertain terms. The Def Jam MC makes a strong case for the crown this time around, doling out aggressively cerebral bars over plush production to construct an 808-incepted rap dreamscape.
While K.R.I.T.’s first major label release, Live From The Underground, garnered its fair share of critical acclaim, the rapper acknowledged frustration with the lack of production and structural freedom that he enjoyed as a mixtape rapper. Cadillactica seems to be his answer to that, leaving our stratosphere behind to find some breathing room. He pulled in more outside producers than ever to assist with the beats, which, as an almost exclusively self |
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson meets with protestors at an anti-President Bush rally Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006, in Salt Lake City. |
As evidenced by his speech at the demonstration, Anderson is not subtle. His words and actions incite plenty of hate mail and nasty letters to the editor. Days before the rally, his office was flooded with emails and calls; three temporary workers had to be hired when Republican-sponsored radio ads urged listeners to voice their displeasure. Most of his critics live outside the relatively liberal "island" of Salt Lake City, and they resent the fact that, though he is not their representative, his actions influence how outsiders see their state.
"He embarrassed himself, the city, and the entire state," says Todd Weiler, the chairman of the Republican Party in Davis County. "Instead of acting as an ambassador, he chose to shout and shake his fist at the President." Weiler also fears that Anderson's actions could hurt Utah's convention and tourism industry if Anderson's antics spark some sort of economic boycott of Utah.
"His narcissism and rush to be in the public eye on President Bush |
This is the heroic moment a coastguard helicopter crew winched two fishermen to safety after their boat capsized.
Four fishermen were rescued yesterday in | near gale force conditions in the Dover Strait after their boat capsized in the English Channel.
HM Coastguard scrambled units to the south west lane following a sighting of two people sitting on the boat's hull and another two in the water, shortly before 4pm.
Two men were winched to safety before another two men were rescued by a merchant vessel before they were reunited in Dover.
Kaimes Beasley, HM Coastguard controller said all men were rescued safe and well.
"This was a very successful outcome to what could have been a tragic one.
"There was a huge effort to rescue these four men in near gale force conditions in the English Channel," he said.
"Thankfully, all four fishermen have been picked up and despite being cold and wet are otherwise safe and well."
Following the emergency call from those on-board a merchant ship, a mayday call alerted all nearby boats to assist with the rescue.
Many vessels responded to the broadcast and |
Palestinian Authority security forces “assaulted” Hamas-affiliated protesters in Ramallah Monday evening, the Islamist movement said.
Hamas said | it had organized a protest in support of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners and that PA forces who were trying to prevent the rally assaulted Hamas leader Hassan Yousef, among other protesters.
Additionally, three Palestinian journalists who were covering the rally were also targeted by PA forces.
As the security forces attempted to disperse the rally, brawls broke out, leading to injuries among protesters.
Hamas condemned the forces’ actions and demanded that the PA be held responsible.
Assaults by the security forces “poison the atmosphere of the reconciliation,” said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zahri.
The clashes come as thousands of public sector workers await their salaries following the closure of banks by Hamas security forces in Gaza.
Police officers of the former Hamas-run government in Gaza have been stationed at banks and preventing PA employees from withdrawing their wages.
Employees of the previous government see it as Ramallah’s responsibility to pay their salaries, a point of contention |
So, a couple weeks ago, we reached out to the goodly and inquisitive people of the internet, with an unrefusable offer | : Send us your questions for Jacques Berlinerblau—eminent educator and scholar of education, genial cut-up, erstwhile vibraharpist, and author of Campus Confidential: How College Works, or Doesn’t, for Professors, Parents, and Students—and he’ll answer them. And you did, and he has. So without further ado, here are Jacques’s answers to our favorites of the questions you submitted. Spoiler alert: This is great stuff. Other spoiler alert: The American system of higher education is in something like trouble.
Maybe in a way this has already happened. So many elite students from socioeconomically non-elite families attend a local and relatively inexpensive school. Or forgo college altogether.
Compared to what I, or the typical Professor/Fuddy Duddy (NB I, too, am a Fuddy Duddy), does to write a scholarly book or article, the research was easy. |
What possible scenarios might happen in the light of Theresa May’s Brexit deal?
May faces an enormous task to win parliamentary approval, given | that Labour, the SNP, the DUP and 51 Tories have said they will not vote for it.
If the remaining 27 EU member states sign off the draft agreement on 25 November, the government will have to win over MPs at a crucial vote in early December.
If May loses the vote, she has 21 days to put forward a new plan. If she wins, she is safe for now.
The prime minister could decide that she will not get the draft agreement through parliament and could seek to renegotiate with the EU.
This would anger Tory backbenchers and Brussels and would be seen as a humiliation for her government. It might spark a leadership contest too.
May could ask the European council to extend article 50, giving her more time to come up with a deal that could be passed by parliament – at present, the UK will leave on 29 March 2019.
Such a request would not necessarily be granted. Some EU governments are under pressure from populist parties to get the UK |
The bodies of three men who committed suicide at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre have been sent home, according to US officials.
A commercial charter jet | transported the bodies from the camp in Cuba to Yemen and Saudi Arabia, Navy Lieutenant Commander Jeffrey Gordon, a defence department spokesman, said on Friday.
Funeral rites were administered at Guantanamo by a Muslim imam assisted by Muslim personnel at the base, Gordon said. "The remains of the deceased detainees were treated with the utmost respect."
The two Saudis and one Yemeni hanged themselves with clothes and bedsheets in maximum security cells on June 10.
The US military identified the three men as Ali Abdullah Ahmed of Yemen, and Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi al-Utaybi and Yassar Talal al-Zahrani, from Saudi Arabia. They were the first inmates to die at the camp since it opened in 2002 at a US naval base in Cuba.
The families of the three have questioned the circumstances of the deaths, saying the men would not have committed suicide as they were devout Muslims.
Gordon said there had not been any disturbances involving detainees at |
The walkway in front of the Student Union at Nicholls State University was transformed into a dance floor Thursday as Grammy Award-winning Chubby Carrier | and the Bayou Swamp Band blasted their Zydeco music.
The infectious rattling of the washboard and hollering of the accordion proved irresistible to a crowd of onlookers, especially once New Orleans-based Zydeco dance teachers Glenn and Lori Laigast started showing off the steps.
Within minutes, both passing students and curious locals were stepping, sliding and spinning to the beat.
Thursday's performance kicked off this weekend's Swamp Stomp, an annual festival held in and around the school's football stadium that spotlights local musicians, food and art.
Almost a dozen Cajun musicians and bands, including Carrier, Treater, and several other local favorites will play on two different stages. Many of the bands have won numerous awards for their work; several have been nominated for Grammys.
Booths throughout the grounds will feature homemade crafts from hand-painted wooden birds to bullet-casing jewelry.
For detailed lists of what bands, crafts and |
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Abortion opponents notched another victory Monday when the Kentucky Senate passed a bill requiring doctors to perform | ultrasounds prior to abortions and to describe what’s seen to the pregnant woman.
It’s part of a series of measures being pushed by abortion foes to impose conditions before abortions.
One measure already signed into law by Republican Gov. Matt Bevin updates the informed consent law requiring women seeking abortions be told of medical risks and benefits at least 24 hours beforehand. That bill gives patients and doctors the option of consultations in person or through real-time video. Its supporters say some doctors had patients listen to a recorded message on the phone with no interaction.
The ultrasound bill cleared the Republican-controlled Senate on a 32-4 vote and goes to the House next.
In past years, abortion-related bills often stalled in the Democratic-led House, but Republicans have been more forceful this election year in using procedural motions to try to force votes on some abortion legislation.
The ultrasound bill would require doctors to display the images so the pregnant woman may view them. The woman could |
Japan's population is falling faster than ever before.
Burdened by a low fertility rate and widespread aging, Japan is losing its young people | who can perform everyday jobs.
Economists call situations like these "demographic time bombs," since they create vicious cycles of economic downturn and population loss.
Japan's demographic time bomb has forced the country to get creative in how it stays afloat in the global economy — here are some of its strategies.
The federal government is hosting speed dating events.
For the past two years, Japan's government has sponsored speed dating events around the country. People are encouraged to go on multiple dates in the hopes they'll eventually get hitched and have kids.
If the conversation gets too awkward, a "marriage promotion committee" will step in to smooth things along.
In Japanese, the practice is known as konkatsu, or "marriage hunting."
Couples can project their faces onto a virtual-reality baby to feel like parents.
At this year's SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference, Motherboard's Marissa Clifford tested out a virtual-reality game in which her own |
What is the Jaguar E-Type Concept Zero that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle drove following the Royal Wedding?
PRINCE Harry drove | his new bride Meghan Markle away in an iconic Jaguar E-Type, here's all the info on the British sports car.
The car was built between 1961 and 1975 with Enzo Ferrari calling it "the most beautiful car ever made".
What is the Jaguar E-Type Concept Zero?
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle drove off in a 1968 silver blue E-Type although the Concept Zero version is an adapted version to make it electric, which Jaguar Land Rover converted last year.
The couple used it to get to Frogmore House for the after-party.
Prince William and Kate Middleton left Buckingham Palace after their wedding in 2011 in a vintage Aston Martin DB6.
Last year Pippa Middleton and hubby James Matthews sped off in Britain's oldest surviving Jaguar E-Type following their wedding ceremony at St Mark's Church in Englefield, Berks.
It is still a high performance sports car, capable of doing 0-60mph in 5 |
A group of women are hoping they get one of 25 spots in a pre-apprenticeship program after they complete a 40-hour workshop that | helps prepare them for a career in the skilled trades.
A group of 40 women are hoping to write a new chapter in their life by getting into one of 25 spots in a pre-apprenticeship program offered through St. Clair College.
And to prepare for the test and interview to snag a spot, they are attending a 40-hour workshop that exposes them to a variety of different skilled trades and even math classes.
"We're a wealth of knowledge pouring it on them for a whole 40 hours," said Terry Weymouth, coordinator for the women of skilled trades from Unifor.
The Local 444 Unifor has developed the workshop and is offering it with Women's Enterprise Skills Training in Windsor, with funding support from the Ontario government.
The idea of the workshop is to give the women a taste of what working in skilled trades is like before they commit to a lengthier program, Weymouth said.
The pre-apprenticeship program has free tuition |
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For Syrian students now living in Turkey, the path through higher education is far from smooth.
ISTANBUL—In the middle of a | crowded flea market bustling with shoppers and aromas of fresh produce and spices, Khaled Al-Asas stands at his booth selling smartphone accessories: selfie sticks, chargers, headphones, and so on. It has been three years since Khaled arrived in Istanbul with his family. They fled from Syria to Yemen, and then to Turkey—the only country that would welcome them and allow them to work.
Khaled’s story of disrupted education is the story of more than 30,000 university-age Syrians living in Turkey. And while data on the number of Syrians seeking postsecondary degrees in the country vary significantly—from 600 to 5,600, depending on the source—it's clear that the vast majority of college-age Syrian refugees have had to discontinue their educations. Of those Syrian students attending universities, the Turkish Disaster and Management Authority reported in May that 1,080 of them were receiving government financial aid.
“The increase [of Syrian university students in |
The nutrients in bacon and eggs comprise more than just saturated fat and cholesterol. A bacon and egg sandwich contains a powerful portion of protein. It also | has a sufficient amount of calories that provide your body with energy that keeps you feeling satisfied for hours after eating.
Eggs are the main source of protein in a bacon and egg sandwich. They offer a high biological value protein, which is more easily used by the body. On average, eggs provide 6.3 grams of protein per large egg. Depending on the size of the egg the protein content will vary; you'll get 7.03 grams in an extra large egg and 7.91 grams in a jumbo egg. If you only use egg whites to make your sandwich, you'll get 3.6 grams of protein per large egg white. Egg substitutes contain 6 grams of protein per quarter cup.
One slice of cooked pork bacon provides 3 grams of protein per slice, and grilled Canadian bacon has 2 grams of protein per slice. A 1-ounce slice of cooked turkey bacon contains 4.74 grams of protein. There is more protein in turkey bacon since it contains less fat. |
Ed Halter's From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006) opens with a description of the | invasion of 2003. No, not that invasion.
At the 2003 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), U.S. Army troops infiltrated the Los AngelesConvention Center. Special Forces officers, clad in fatigues and carrying machine guns, descended from Black Hawk helicopters and stormed the front doors. Traffic stopped. Civilians fled. And yet, somehow, the incident went relatively unnoticed by the mainstream press.
The invasion was not, in fact, a terrorist cell bust-up, but instead an elaborate promotion for America's Army, the official Army videogame released in 2002. As Halter explains, this E3 publicity stunt profoundly illustrates a fusion of war and gaming. But the relationship, sometimes called "the military-entertainment complex," is really nothing new.
From Sun Tzu to Xbox traces the evolution of war gaming throughout history, from its roots in board games like chess and go, to the Cold War-era battle simulations built by the Department of Defense, to modern day |
"Do My Part For the Sake of All Life Including Mankind"
Mankind and All Wildlife Our Earth Sustains are approaching a catastrophic | convergence of global resource exhaustions in the range of 2025 to 2050. Earth cannot sustain the growing human population nor the already-declining wildlife population if rampant greed and ignorance continue devouring the resources needed to sustain life at the rate they are today. Earth will be forced to begin purging billions in our children's lifetime if we do not change course. I'm speaking on the basis not of crazed doom-saying emotion but inarguable and documented facts available to all but seldom put together so one can see the forest for the trees. I'm the Co-Founder of Sustainability Education Network, Chairman of Green Education Network, and a Director of Greenhouse Neutral Foundation. Working fulltime unpaid with GNF's Suzanne Sparling, we've Co-Founded the launch of a website inspired by Care2 friends that asks all who care about earth's life to Boycott Corporate Greed, to Pledge themselves to act to SUSTAIN the resources on which all life depends, |
Dove Medical Supply LLC,* Summerfield, North Carolina, has been awarded a maximum $49,000,000 fixed-price with economic | -price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for various commercial laboratory supplies under the electronic catalog laboratory program. This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(1). This is a one-year base contract with four one-year option periods. Maximum dollar value is for the life of the contract. Location of performance is North Carolina, with a Sept. 13, 2022, performance completion date. Using customers are Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and federal civilian agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2017 through 2022 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (SPE2DE-17-D-0018).
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December 26, 2017 (Washington D.C.) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded on Obama-administration guideline that | advised local courts against imposing excessive fines and fees on poor people.
December 19, 2017 (El Cajon) – El Cajon Police have arrested two adults and a juvenile in connection with the December 12th stabbing death of Kyle Khamphan and the attempted murder of a juvenile victim, says Lt. Rob Rainsweier, public information officer for ECPC.
November 24, 2017 (San Diego) – San Diego County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Fischer has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation of complaints filed by several women alleging sexual misconduct including sexual assaults.
By Ken Stone, Times of San Diego, a member of the San Diego Online News Association.
November 23, 2017 (San Diego) - Sheriff Bill Gore recalls sitting at work this summer, listening to Carl DeMaio on his KOGO radio talk show.
Even though the former San Diego City Council member was an early endorser of Gore for sheriff in 2010, DeMaio “really |
Eight weeks into the legislative session, the Alaska House and Senate are poised to take up two pivotal bills: one to use permanent fund earnings to pay | for state services and another to approve spending for next year’s state operating budget. Lengthy debate is expected on both measures.
On Monday, the Alaska Senate took up Senate Bill 26 to use the permanent fund as an endowment for state government. The bill specifies a $1,000 dividend for Alaskans over the next three years, while drawing 5.25 percent of the fund’s annual market value to help pay for the state budget. It also caps state spending at $4.1 billion. Debate on the bill will be taken up Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the House majority – a coalition of 17 Democrats, three Republicans, and two independents – will defend its work on the state operating budget from minority budget amendments, most of which call for more reductions.
Seaton added that his caucus believes it has now found the right size of government.
The House majority budget increases spending from what Gov. Bill Walker proposed, adding $1.2 million for pre |
Radical Iraqi Shia leader Moqtada al-Sadr has said he would present a joint list of candidates with Sunni Arabs in the volatile al | -Anbar governorate to contest the 15 December legislative elections.
Sadr's organisation on Wednesday said it decided to ally itself with the Sunnis due to "the difficult situation facing the country, to prevent the occupier and enemies of Iraq from attaining their goals, to consolidate national identity and to reaffirm its unity".
Sadr and his followers vehemently oppose the US-led occupation of Iraq, and have aligned with Sunni Arabs who are believed to form the backbone of the persistent anti-US street war in Iraq.
Al-Anbar is the most volatile province in Iraq and includes the Iraqi fighters' strongholds of Ramadi and Fallujah, which overwhelmingly rejected the Iraqi constitution that was approved by referendum on 15 October.
Sadr's office, in a statement released in the Shia holy city of Najaf south of Baghdad, said: "The deputy Fattah al-Sheikh has been designated to form a list in al-Anbar for the elections."
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TiE Silicon Valley, the not-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering tech entrepreneurship, has its annual flagship conference, TiEcon, coming | up on May 5th and 6th.
This year’s speakers include Tim Draper of DFJ, biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, Dave McClure of 500 Startups, Bonny Simi of JetBlue Technology Ventures, Mohit Aron of Cohesity, Florian Leibert of Mesosphere, Sheng Liang of Rancher Labs, Estonia CIO Siim Sikkut, and more.
In addition, Jyoti Bansal of AppDynamics will be sharing his entrepreneurial journey on starting the company as an engineer and exiting as one of largest enterprise software acquisitions by Cisco for $4.7B. He will be receiving TiE Silicon Valley’s inaugural Entrepreneur of the Year award on Saturday, May 6th.
Supplementing the inspirational speaking sessions, TiEcon is introducing two programs: a mentoring session called Words of Wisdom and a one-day International Startup Bootcamp for entrepreneurs the day before the conference. |
Insurance, medical care, and healthcare costs vary around the world.
Lawmakers in the United States spent the past few months trying and failing | to roll back some health-insurance requirements, but much of the rest of the worldhas been living under universal healthcare for decades. Nearly all developed nations provide insurance or require their citizens to buy a policy.
But how those programs work and how much people pay varies widely. In some cases, patients would leave the hospital with no bill at all. In others, they'd owe lots of money.
Business Insider has 14 editions around the world, so we asked our international colleagues what would happen if they were to break an arm in their countries.
You can also go to a local emergency unit, also known as a walk-in center, for which there are both private (for-profit) and public (nonprofit) options. Doctor's offices and primary care units do not provide urgent care.
How long would it take to get there and to get treatment once you're there?
Most Swedes live within an hour's drive from the nearest hospital or local emergency unit. |
In recognition of Peace Officers Memorial Day, Gov. Neil Abercrombie has ordered that all State of Hawaii flags be flown at half-staff | alongside the flags of the United States at state offices and agencies as well as the Hawaii National Guard from sunrise to sunset Wednesday, May 15, 2013.
The President also called upon all governors of the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, officials of the other territories subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and appropriate officials of all units of government, to direct that the U.S. flag be flown at half-staff on Peace Officers Memorial Day, and encouraged all Americans to display the flag at half-staff from their homes and businesses on that day.
Day after day, police officers in every corner of America suit up, put on the badge, and carry out their sworn duty to protect and serve. They step out the door every morning without considering bravery or heroics. They stay focused on meeting their responsibilities. They concentrate on keeping their neighborhoods safe and doing right by their fellow officers. And with quiet courage, they help fulfill the demanding yet vital task of shielding our people from |
Independent candidate fears threat to her life, accuses govt of posting cops in plain clothes.
Bengaluru: In a stinging complaint | to the Election Commission, independent candidate Mrs Sumalatha Ambareesh on Monday feared a threat to her life, and accused the state government of eves dropping on conversations over her phones as well as posting policemen in plain clothes outside her residence to report on visitors to her residence.
In the complaint she said these policemen in plain clothes were clicking pictures of visitors to her place since a month, but refused to speak up when confronted by her. Besides, tapping of her telephone was gross misuse of government machinery and therefore the Election Commission should initiate appropriate action against the accused.
She said she feared threat to her life in the wake of an attack by miscreants on the residence of actor Darshan after he extended support to her and participated in rallies which she addressed in Mandya constituency.
Quoting her supporters, she complained that leaders of JD (S) offered Rs 1000 to each house in the district plus Rs 500 for every individual to attend today's rally held after Mr Nikhil |
For years, thousands of residents of New Providence’s eastern district piled into cars and trucks to trek west as more and more restaurants opened miles | away from the oldest established residential district in New Providence.
During the first quarter of this year, two experienced restaurateurs are opening Billfish Grill at Palm Cay, bringing a convenient feast in the east to the area’s close-to-home, dine out-deprived populations.
For chef Lise Watson-Russell and Peter Rounce, of Graycliff Bahamas, Billfish Grill is an opportunity to do what they both label as novel – create a casual dining experience with exceptional food inside a residential community known for its active social calendar, lifestyle and marina.
“We are creating a restaurant inside a residential enclave with a large (194-slip) marina. It’s a far cry from designing a restaurant that caters to corporate clients, business lunches or dinner meetings,” says Mr. Rounce.
Mrs. Russell and Mr. Rounce agree all the elements are in place.
Taking a break to talk about their |
Their ranks torn by infighting, their U.S. support long gone, their leadership coopted by the Turks, fighters who once thought they | ’d overthrow Assad have no hope left.
Following weeks of battles and bombardment, the Syrian opposition forces in the city of Daraa and surrounding countryside agreed to withdraw and surrender their weapons to the Assad regime at the end of June. The birthplace of the Syrian war, Daraa was both symbolically and, because of its proximity to the Jordanian border, strategically important.
Indeed, the war is winding down, and some of the biggest losers are the rebels the Americans once thought of as, relatively speaking, the good guys. These were the men fighting the Assad regime while remaining hostile to the burgeoning local al Qaeda affiliate and the so-called Islamic State.
Raed is one of thousands of opposition fighters in northwestern Syria mulling his future as the Russian and Iranian-backed forces of Bashar al-Assad capture opposition-held territory piece by piece. He is currently with the Syrian Liberation Front, although he’s bounced around among several groups over the years.
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Conflicting events often prevent us from doing everything we'd like to do.
That''s what happened to me a few weeks ago. | Because of another commitment, I wasn't able to attend Connie Barnard's Multiple Sclerosis fund-raiser in Bruch Fellowship Hall of First Presbyterian Church in Wooster.
Later I learned that Barnard's "Friends Lunching with Friends" was so successful the Wooster resident was able to take $7,000 to the recent MS Walk in Cleveland.
The local organizer and her daughter, Brooke (who suffers from MS), are extremely grateful to the 160 men and women who attended and supported this first fund-raising effort.
"The cause of MS remains a mystery," said Barnard. "The cure is still unknown, but what a wonderful gift my friends and their friends gave towards research programming and support."
During the recent Relay for Life auction at Memories Party Center, Jo Howey told me she was pleased that Wayne County Sheriff Tom Maurer has adopted the "Popcorn Friday" tradition started by her late husband, Jamie... only it's being called "Popcorn |
Watch out potholes, Google is coming for you!
Potholes that spoil a day out in the car are being targeted by a | new patent filed by Google in the US.
The solution contains two sensors that are used to automatically detect bumps in the road before generating a 'health report' that is broadcast into the cloud for further inspection.
Inside the solution is a GPS sensor and vertical accelerator. The latter records how bad the pothole is before the GPS sensor tags it with the vehicle location before uploading all of this information to the cloud.
Specialised software then goes through this to delete any duplicate reports or anomalies. Only then can the so-called health report for individual roads be created and it's so far unclear how this will be used to help repair the roads in question.
Google is by no means the first to the punch with this system. Street Bump, in Boston, uploads accelerometer and GPS smartphone data to a server and sends out alerts to drivers using roads that are affected. Unlike Google, that system is not completely automatic and trips need to be logged into it manually.
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There is some debate over exactly when the first Thanksgiving was celebrated on our soil. Many trace it to a 1621 celebration in Plymouth in present- | day Massachusetts. That feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. It was, according to historians, actually celebrated between the Pilgrims and Indians.
It’s been going on ever since. The message is timeless: giving thanks for an array of reasons. And it isn’t just good harvests that are celebrated nowadays. We celebrate family and friends. We celebrate the kindness of strangers. We celebrate small and big things that occur in our lives. We celebrate smiles and sometimes even frowns. Whom do you wish to say “thanks” to? Think about it and then do it. Don’t assume they already know that you are grateful. Sometimes it ends up being too late. And, doesn’t it always feels good to be thanked? If you have to look around to think of someone or something to be thankful for today, c’mon, take the blinders off and open your range. It is out there |
There was a 3 p.m. Nov. 15 deadline to finish a statewide machine recount of more than 8 million ballots in Senate, governor, | agriculture commission races.
The state-mandated recount of more than 8 million ballots showed little change in three contested statewide races.
The U.S. Senate and agriculture commissioner's race are now headed toward hand recounts. The race for governor is all but over unless courts intervene.
While the numbers of votes changed slightly, the percentage margins remained the same as Saturday's first unofficial statewide tally. The new results do not include results from Palm Beach County, which did not complete its recount by the 3 p.m. deadline.
Nor did it include Broward County, which completed the recount on time but was two minutes too late filing results with the state.
By law, the numbers both counties filed with the state Saturday stand.
Nelson's lawyer filed a lawsuit in Leon County asking that all of the 600,000 ballots in Palm Beach be recounted by hand.
With the governor's margin outside the 0.25 percentage point margin needed for a hand recount, that race is |
The Pistol Annies -- the country trio comprised of Ashley Monroe, Angaleena Presley and Miranda Lambert -- include plenty of heartbreak on their | third studio album, Interstate Gospel. However, they take a lighter look at a breakup with the uptempo "Got My Name Changed Back," the project's single.
The Annies know a little something about love and loss: Collectively, the bandmates have four marriages and two divorces under their belts. As Monroe explains to The Boot, the song is an important moment of levity on an album that often delves into the lowest points of losing a relationship. Read on to learn the story behind "Got My Name Changed Back," and why it was so important to the Annies to include the track on their third album.
We wrote that at Miranda's farm. We wrote a lot of our songs out there, and then we also wrote some of them on the road with her, but I have no idea what started ["Got My Name Changed Back"].
Angaleena always says that this song is about absolutely no one in our band! But seriously, we know |
That was a major departure from his previous calls for mass deportation of all 11 million undocumented immigrants. It was a sign that Trump — who is trailing | badly in the polls — may be willing to accept a path to legalization for some, even as he continues stirring up his audiences with vows to build a wall with Mexico.
But that’s not the main reason why Trump is softening his immigration rhetoric — because he surely knows that he has near zero chances of significantly raising his support among Hispanics.
Latinos won’t forget that Trump started his campaign with a June 16, 2015, speech in which he claimed that most Mexican undocumented immigrants are criminals and rapists.
Latinos won’t forget that Trump has forcefully called for a “deportation force” to expel the 11 million undocumented immigrants, even if that means separating parents from their young children.
Latinos won’t forget that Trump has disqualified U.S. Judge Gonzalo Curiel because “he’s Mexican,” despite the fact that Curiel was born in Indiana.
And if some Latino voters forget about Trump |
League added that the company, which this spring joined Publicis Groupe, the third largest communications group in the world, is committed to operating | in the county and bringing additional head-of-household jobs.
Level now operates as Level, a Rosetta Co., after being acquired last year by Rosetta, one of the nation’s top interactive advertising agencies. Rosetta, along with Level, later joined Publicis Groupe as an autonomous, independent brand.
“(They) will be a broad range of creative, technical and more on the program and project management sides,” she said of the new positions.
League said the ability to attract talent is one reason why the company is based in San Luis Obispo.
San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Adam Hill said the commitment of Level to expand locally falls in line with the county’s economic strategy of retaining and attracting new businesses to the area, businesses that bring high-paying jobs.
The Economic Vitality Corp. of San Luis Obispo County has been managing the county’s first economic strategy project, designed |
Onlookers watch as a wildfire burns Wednesday near Lake Elsinore, Calif. Evacuations have been ordered for several small mountain communities near | where a forest fire continues to grow in Southern California.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A dull haze and the faint smell of smoke from distant blazes have blanketed many California cities for two weeks, forcing summer campers to stay inside, obscuring normally bright skylines and leaving cars covered with ash.
Kaela Baylis of Sacramento used to take her nearly 2-year-old son outside twice a day, but only has gone in the morning the last 10 days.
Two major wildfires – one called the Mendocino Complex Fire that is the largest in California history – are burning more than 100 miles north of Sacramento and another huge fire near Yosemite National Park is a little farther to the southeast.
Firefighters made significant progress against the Mendocino Complex for the first time Wednesday but said the blazes likely will persist through September.
The fires have combined to produce unhealthy air that has drifted as far east as Salt Lake City, 450 miles away. |
Connecticut Open House Day on Saturday is the perfect time to explore local tourist attractions. Here are more ideas for things to do this weekend.
| On Saturday and Sunday, the annual Pirates Day Weekend at Fowler Pavilion in Milford will feature a variety of pirate-themed activities for children and their families. Find out more.
After years of renovations and upgrades, the Norwalk Historical Society will celebrate the grand re-opening of the Mill Hill Historic Park on Saturday. Find out more.
Singer Neil Diamond will perform onstage at the Mohegan Sun Arena on Sunday. Find out more.
World Gin Day is Saturday, and to celebrate Hartford will hold the first ever GinFest at The Society Room. Find out more.
Neil Simon’s iconic Broadway musical, “Sweet Charity,” is on stage at the Kweskin Theatre in Stamford through June 24. Find out more.
Killam & Bassette Farmstead in Glastonbury invites the whole family to a Fresh From the Farm tasting event on Sunday. Find out more.
Dramatic comedy “Body Awareness” is on stage at Ridge |
How Far is Atul Blue Sapphire?
Atul Projects India Ltd. (APIL) is a prominent player in real-estate construction and | leasing. The Company started out under the entrepreneurial leadership of Mr. Nathalal Delvadia in 1970, and has been creating landmarks ever since. Under the leadership of its current CMD, Mr. Atul Patel, Atul Projects India Ltd. has been continuing to scale impressive heights.
The Company is dedicated to creating upgraded lifestyles with high-quality, yet – high value-for-money properties. Towards this end, APIL has completed over two hundred landmark projects spanning the arenas of residential, office, retail and hospitality spaces across Mumbai, and a few projects in Pune, Rajkot and Dubai. The Company also leases out commercial properties, from individual units to large corporate buildings for multi-national conglomerates.
APIL is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company. Our team of qualified and skilled architects, designers, management team, consultants and workers helps meet the high standards we set.
We avoid the use of energy intensive materials, and make structures that facilitate rain |
If you felt depressed at the end of December, you might feel better knowing you were not alone. Last week, Barron's gave its accounting of | how its nine Round Table, big-name, money managers did with their picks in 2018. Their results were far from pretty.
Scott Black selected four losers out of five picks. Those who invested equal dollar amounts in all of them saw average total return losses of (-25.68%). Ouch.
Abbey Joseph Cohen didn't even manage one winner out of five -- but she did, at least, manage to show average total return losses of just (-11.86%).
Henry Ellenbogen, a man I'd never heard of, earned the silver medal of this group, with five out of six winners, an 83.3% success rate. Owning all his selections would have garnered an average 5.43% gain. That modest figure was actually pretty impressive, considering the way the year ended.
Mario Gabelli gets a lot of face time on CNBC and in print media. His 3 out of 10 success rate was unimpressive, though, as was his average |
In December 1960, more than 100 UT students lined up outside the Texas Theatre to purchase tickets. According to an article published in the The Daily Tex | an, the students began their first of many peaceful protests by repeating the same mantra as each approached the ticket booth.
“I would like to buy a ticket if everybody is being admitted,” the students said.
Ticket sellers denied the request repeatedly, and the group of African-American and white students would return to the end of the line only to try again.
In response to the policy they deemed unfair, a group of people came together to protest in December 1960. Despite inclement weather and the Texas Theatre manager’s efforts to keep them at bay, the students were persistent in their efforts to make a change.
The “stand-ins,” which continued through May 1961, lasted anywhere from one to four hours. In response to the demonstrations, theater manager Leonard Masters moved the ticket selling operation indoors.
In light of the stand-ins, UT student Gwen Jordan spoke to the Texan about student life as an African-American.
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STRONG FUNDAMENTALS: The strong demand from India and China are still supportive of log prices, despite having eased by US$15 | to US$20 per cubic metre recently, due to improving log production in Sarawak.
KUCHING: Malaysia’s timber sector recieves a favourable outlook given its robust near-term earnings growth due to strong log prices owing to huge demand from India and China as well as the strong plywood prices due to increased demand from Japan for reconstruction.
According to the latest ‘Japan Lumber Report’, there has been a build-up of imported plywood inventory in Japan due to the arrivals of orders placed after the earthquake disaster. The rise in inventory was mainly for thick plywood such as concrete plywood (CP) and structural plywood (SP), which were mainly used in construction activities.
As a result, prices for CP and SP reported by timber companies had weakened recently from its peak of US$630 per cubic metre in May/June to between US$540 and US$560 per cubic metre. “We do not think there will be |
I just returned from Tallahassee where I visited my daughter, Dee, her husband, Ed, and their six children.
They were | on a TV fast for 40 days, so I thought I would die of TV starvation, as I am such an addict.
However, we played a lot of card games. With at least six people in the house at all times, there was always someone ready to play.
I taught them a game I had played when I was a teenager and had them addicted to it when I left.
The game rules are simple: Play solitaire the regular way, but play with three or more people. Put your aces in the middle of the table, and let everyone play on them. If you run out of plays, move a card (or cards) off one of your stacks at the same time as the other players move off theirs. This keeps the game going. I call it "Cutthroat Solitaire." It beats the reruns on TV any day.
My other big excitements were eating at The Melting Pot and going to the LeRoy Collins Public Library. |
Mr. and Mrs. Austin and Nancy Allen of Lubbock, a boy weighing 7 pounds, 15 ounces at 3:26 p.m | . July 16 at Covenant Women’s and Children’s.
Mr. and Mrs. Brandon and Jeannie Salinas of Lubbock, a girl weighing 6 pounds at 10:10 p.m. July 28 at Covenant Women’s and Children’s.
Mr. Paul Arguello and Ms. Cassie Herrera of Lubbock, a girl weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces at 9:20 a.m. Aug. 19 at University Medical Center.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland and Roxann Valdez of Lubbock, a girl weighing 7 pounds, 5 ounces at 10:01 p.m. Aug. 19 at University Medical Center.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Christopher Stewart of Lubbock, a boy weighing 7 pounds, 6 ounces at 10:54 a.m. Aug. 20 at University Medical Center.
Ms. Octavia Revilla of Lubbock, a girl weighing 7 pounds, 2 ounces |
There aren’t many ways 2018 could have gone worse for the tech industry. It felt like every week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and friends | were apologizing for some major privacy blunder or platform manipulation. Self-driving cars proved they weren’t ready to hit the road and Elon Musk nearly self-destructed on Twitter. Electric scooters swarmed cities only to be vandalized in droves. Tech-stock peaks gave way to market tumbles.
The coming year brings the cleanup and a return to the optimism that technology is really good for the world. By that of course we mean finally playing the much hyped, much delayed Harry Potter augmented-reality game. Also eagerly awaited: 5G arriving in cities, Apple’s iOS getting a facelift and Disney launching its own streaming service. We’re predicting a year of fulfilled promises—including a possibly forced change in companies’ data-collection practices.
Here’s our annual roundup of the tech that will affect us in the year ahead. Our track record is pretty good, so you’ll want to pay attention.
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Cloud hosting is a huge business internationally, largely dominated by big players, however a local player is rapidly changing the scene with a growing list of law | firms embracing the new, cloud-based solution.
Resolve Technology’s success is due to founder and managing director Simon Falconer, an energetic and highly motivated young entrepreneur who saw a gap in the market when trying to solve an IT problem for a friend’s business.
Simon went on to develop a Deloitte 500 “Fastest Grower” company with clients across the country and a growing rolodex of satisfied law firms.
Resolve’s “secret” is to be both a home-grown legal practice hosting and support solution that recognises the particular requirements of New Zealand law firms, but they’ve also taken advantage of a changing scene in service provision to legal practices, which no longer enjoys the maintenance-based revenue streams that many suppliers relied upon.
“We are not wedded to the ‘break fix’ model which depended upon malfunctioning IT systems for revenues,” says Simon.
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Transcend keeps pushing genres with the PF730. Like the earlier Transcend 720, the PF730 ($100, as of 11/25/ | 09) is not only a digital photo frame, but also a video player, an alarm clock, a calendar, and an MP3 player.
The PF730 is quite stylish with its embossed (white or black) frame, and has a bit more of a sophisticated look than the Transcend 720. You might set the PF730 out, say, on the sofa end table, whereas the 720 (which somewhat resembles a radio) would look more at home in the bedroom or on your dorm room desk. The PF730 lacks the FM audio option of the 720, but still has 2GB of internal memory (which could be quite adequate for your entire slideshow collection).
This frame is simple to use: Just plug in your SD, MMC, or MS card, or a USB flash drive; or transfer images from your PC to the frame's internal memory. The unit's remote is large and readable, and the frame is highly responsive to it. The remote covers it all: |
Ryan Seacrest (left) and Simon Cowell at the Kids' Choice Awards in 2005.
With L.A. Reid and Brit | ney Spears exiting their judges posts, Cowell says “we’d be crazy” not to have the teen pop star return.
Season three of X Factor quickly is approaching, with the first round of auditions kicking off March 6 in Los Angeles. So far, replacements have not been named for exiting judges L.A. Reid and Britney Spears, nor have co-hosts Mario Lopez and Khloe Kardashian been confirmed to return.
“We’re talking to people all the time, and hopefully within a couple of weeks we might announce the first two,” said Cowell of the judges panel.
And while Seacrest is committed to Idol for at least one more season after its current cycle wraps, he is hoping for an onscreen reunion with the Brit that hired him for Idol’s 2002 U.S. debut.
“Would you allow me to guest-host one live X Factor?” he proposed to Cow |
The free summer concert season that WNY is known for it heating up early this year. WNY'ers scouring the net to find out | who is going to be popping in to places like downtown Lockport and Artpark in Lewiston. One popular site (WNYorker.com) has a full listing of rumors and confirmed shows, adding more each day.
So far the Molson Canal Concert Series in Lockport, NY is being very tight lipped about it's lineup. WNYorker has managed to leak some information though, this is how the lineup looks so far.
NYPA Greenway Fund to Hold Open Meeting to Review Projects Submitted for Funding.
The Buffalo and Erie County Greenway Fund Standing Committee will hold a meeting on Tuesday, March 1, at 4:30 p.m. at the Marcy Casino, Hoyt Lake at Delaware Park in Buffalo. The meeting is open to the public and the agenda will include the review of projects that have been submitted for funding.
Representatives for each project will be given the opportunity to make a short presentation, however, there will not be |
LA CA¿ADA — Many of the members of the La Cañada High boys' soccer team left the field Friday satisfied following the conclusion | of the first week of Rio Hondo League competition.
The Spartans, who shared the league title last season, began league pitted against worthy opponents South Pasadena and Monrovia. La Cañada picked up four out of a possible six points.
La Cañada got a huge performance from senior goalkeeper Graham Labran-Boyd, who finished with 10 saves in a 1-1 tie against visiting Monrovia on Friday.
La Cañada, ranked eighth in the latest CIF Southern Section Division V poll, improved to 8-2-5, 1-0-1 in league. Monrovia is 10-3-4, 1-0-1.
“This was another barnburner,” said La Cañada Coach Alex Harrison, whose team rallied to pick up a 2-1 home victory against South Pasadena on Wednesday. “Graham showed why he's among the top goalkeepers in our league by making some real big saves and |
Her story underscores the challenge in finding a balance in efforts to rein in the excessive costs associated with no-fault insurance without shredding a valuable | safety net for the injured.
After a horrific car crash left Ashley Hogan paralyzed from the waist down at age 22, she thought she would be living with her parents for the rest of her life, relying on them for everything.
But thanks to Michigan's no-fault system and its unlimited lifetime benefits, today she has her own wheelchair-accessible house in Midland, about eight hours of daily attendant care and has been able to return to work.
"It’s a great program. Without it, I don’t know where I would be, probably in a nursing home somewhere living off the state," said Hogan, now 26, who broke her back and severed her spine in the September 2013 Jeep accident. “I never thought that I’d be able to take care of myself the way I've been able to."
FREE PRESS SPECIAL REPORT: How aggressive lawyers, costly lawsuits and runaway medical bills make Detroit car insurance unaffordable.
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VNRs, b-roll, and other broadcast PR content can also go to traditional media sites.
A decade ago, perhaps one in | 50 Americans sought their news online. Today, that number has grown to almost 30% of Americans, according to the Pew Research Center, a DC-based research group that studies media trends.
As a result, PR pros today need to not only be effective producing and pitching video for traditional broadcast media, but also must pay attention to their online progeny.
"Clients ask if they should also be developing content for the Web," says Larry Thomas, COO of Medialink. "We respond that if you're doing one and not the other, you are not doing enough."
Developing video packages for Web media is similar in nature to doing so for broadcast, with a few minor differences.
"If reporters were able to go out and grab shots on their own, they'd go," Thomas says. "Where you offer value is when they don't have access or don't have it in a timely manner. It's the same for broadcast and Web."
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