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GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump seems to subscribe to the theory that the more often you assert something, the more true it becomes. In various speeches and | interviews, he has claimed that two years before the 9/11 attacks, he warned that Osama bin Laden was a threat — going to “do damage” to the United States — and even predicted the rise of terrorism.
This claim rests on a few sentences in Trump’s 2000 book, “The America We Deserve.” Just about every word uttered by Trump needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Did Trump really suggest that bin Laden was going to attack the United States — and did he predict terrorism?
Trump’s book was issued in January 2000, when he was considering a presidential run. The book does include a chapter on terrorism (more on that below), but there is only a single, offhand reference to bin Laden.
Bin Laden was not at the training camp in Afghanistan attacked by the United States, so he escaped injury — a point that Trump raises in his solitary reference to bin Laden.
Even if they were true |
With Spring finally emerging the opportunity to get outside with your pet for some longer walks is one thats too good to miss.
With Spring finally emerging | from the frozen fingers of a bitterly cold Winter, the opportunity to get outside with your pet for some longer walks is one that’s too good to miss.
You can put the woolly hat and scarf away for a few months and bask in the sunshine – although a jumper and a rain jacket might still be a good idea in this part of the world!
Famous for the witch trails in the 17th Century, Pendle Hill has plenty of myth and legend attached to it.
If the changing of the season has inspired you to stretch your legs, we have come up with five of Lancashire’s best dog walks that all offer different attractions.
From stunning views to bracing sea air, there’s something for every man (and woman) and his dog to enjoy.
Jennifer Dean, animal expert for Lancashire-based dog food manufacturer Webbox Natural, said: “Regular exercise is vital to keeping your pet healthy and owners also |
LOS ANGELES — Californians aren't letting their water crisis go to waste.
After helplessly watching their mountain reservoirs sink into mud, many | like Raymond Lobjois have made drastic changes that will forever shrink their consumption. When Gov. Jerry Brown came calling for 25 percent emergency cutbacks statewide starting this summer, Lobjois was already there and beyond.
The 83-year-old retired pastry chef to the stars and cookie supplier to the airlines had the time, money and cresting sense of citizenship to get on his hands and knees and rip out nearly 5,000 square feet of his hilltop lawn.
He sawed Arizona sandstone slabs into a handsome pad overlooking the scrubby mountains where TV’s “M*A*S*H” was filmed. He planted 149 lavender tufts that smell nice and need the hose only twice a month.
The water supplier paid him $9,500 to rip out the turf, and that covered about half of his landscaping expense.
Lobjois still uses more water than most. He kept some grass out front and around his wife |
Houston has always been a contender in the race for better, faster, more: taller buildings, wider freeways, bigger profits.
But one | vestige of the city's history has survived the omnivorous quest for change. A century after the terminology slipped from the official lexicon, people still talk about the wards.
"When you ask me where I'm from, until the day I die I'll say I'm from the Fifth Ward," says Patricia Smith Prather, executive director of the Texas Trailblazer Preservation Association. "I'll never say Houston first."
It's a pride thing. And, loosely, a geography thing.
Most people here have heard of the Second Ward, the Third, Fourth and Fifth Wards — geographical designations based upon Houston's early form of municipal government. But few really know how they came to be or even where the boundaries are.
Nowadays, the wards are a social and cultural phenomenon, only loosely geographically defined and with no bearing on how our civic leaders are elected.
"It's becoming a source of pride for people now, to say they're from the wards |
They are one of the wealthiest families in Hollywood, so when the Kardashians vacation away from home they make sure to land in the lap of luxury | .
For the past week the family has been relaxing in the stunning tourist destination of Phuket, Thailand, enjoying the tropical weather and exotic locales.
And new inside photos of the clan's outrageous $150,000-per-week beachfront rental reveals a palatial wonderland replete with hot tubs in bedrooms and an infinity pool that brims over onto golden Thai sands.
The high-end rental - the Iniala Beach House - features a traditional teak frame exterior with modern amenities inside.
One of the bedrooms looks like a space age suite, featuring a hot tub, curtained bed, and a panoramic glass shower.
The futuristic sleeping quarter is walled by windows overlooking a beachfront paradise, with coconut palms swaying in the sea breeze.
The dining room has a long low table with throw pillows strewn around it for guests to dine seated cross-legged on the floor.
The outdoor deck surrounds a gorgeous infinity pool |
But while the Android/Windows mix is a compromise stemming from manufacturers' desperation to move beyond pure PCs, rather than an actual desire from everyday users | , a laptop that combined Chrome OS and Windows would be a downright drool-worthy combination. And that's despite the fact that most dual-booting devices are, well, almost appallingly awful.
Like many PC diehards, I was once a Chromebook skeptic. But web browsers are becoming so powerful—most of my work can be performed online now—and Google is packing much more offline utility into Chrome OS these days, that I've become a convert. It's easy now to get work done online and offline with a Chromebook.
In fact, I find myself picking up a Chromebook more often than a proper Windows laptop when I'm working from the couch, since Chromebooks boot like greased lightning and you never, ever have to fiddle with settings or security tools, or wait around for the system to update when you turn it on. Chromebooks are dead simple.
In other words: In many, many instances, a Chromebook lets me get to work far |
Donald Trump has emulated Savonarola’s success but he is also repeating his worst mistakes.
Donald Trump, false prophet. | By contemporary standards, his populist power-taking may seem like genius, but through a historical lens he is an obvious plagiarist. Trump has stolen his lines and stage directions from a playbook that is literally as old as print – and from which we can already read his ending.
The true genius of populist politics was Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498). Savonarola was a Dominican friar who, in 1490, made his way to Renaissance Florence. A mid-level preacher and political outsider, Savonarola stunned Europe by tearing Florence from the 60-year grip of the Medici family with an angry surge of populist strength – punctuated by his historic Bonfire of the Vanities.
The Age of Discovery Savonarola lived in – the age of da Vinci, Copernicus, Columbus and others – was turning old truths upside down. The times called for strong leadership, Savonarola proclaimed, in both Church and |
Wearing a black cowboy hat as he led graduates down the aisle, Paige Patterson set off laughter at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’ | s commencement when he joked about quarreling Baptists. Patterson’s advice to abused women not to divorce has set off a huge public backlash among evangelicals – but not at the conservative Texas seminary where the 75-year-old is president.
As some wondered this week whether the seminary trustees could remove its president, Patterson appeared to double down on Friday, saying in an interview that “allegations have been given on me all my life” and adding that he was being falsely accused but declining to provide examples. During the ceremony, Patterson sat front and center in a red velvet chair, casually twirling his black glasses before addressing the graduates without directly addressing the controversy.
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, numerous powerful men have come under scrutiny over sexist treatment of women. But Patterson, who has long held a special status within the nation’s largest Protestant denomination for his role in a conservative takeover of the convention going back decades, is known for |
A poster on the side of a bus stop in downtown Washington D.C. read: “Let 340B,” clearly a sign | of an organized campaign asking Congress not to interfere with the gravy train for some hospital systems that this obscure provision has become.
The safety net drug program, usually referred to as 340B for the section authorizing it in the Public Health Service Act, was created by Congress in 1992 to require pharmaceutical companies participating in Medicaid to provide their drugs at deeply discounted prices to hospitals and other facilities that serve a disproportionate number of indigent and uninsured patients.
The program has expanded dramatically over the last 26 years. It first applied to just a few hundred “health care entities”—charity hospitals and federally-qualified health centers. Since then, the program has grown substantially to more than 12,000 qualifying entities. The program’s growth accelerated when it was opened in 2010 to pharmacies that contract with 340B entities.
The safety net drug program initially provided drugs to hospitals serving a disproportionate number of lower-income, uninsured, and vulnerable patients. There was no requirement about how many patients they must |
“Today we have enough reason to celebrate,” the Head of the EU Delegation to Georgia Janos Herman stated at a press | conference regarding the European Commission’s positive report on Georgia’s visa-liberalization.
He emphasized that the European Comission will continue to monitor how Georgia performs the commitments under the Action Plan on Visa Liberalization.
Eu Ambassador Herman announced that the European Union (EU) will support Georgia in all its efforts related to visa liberalization.
“Let me say one thing – today we, including me, have enough reason to celebrate. For us, the EU Delegation, it is a great honor to be involved in this process. All EU member countries will also be happy and share this feeling. We all congratulate everyone who participated in this important success,” Herman stated.
He also named the approximate time for the introduction of visa-free travel for Georgian citizens.
“Given the experience of Moldova, the period that lasted from the progress report to the introduction of visa liberalization lasted 4-5 months. However, there might be a considerable |
Will Pyongyang succeed in widening the divide between Seoul and Washington?
Each year, Kim Jong Un gives an address on New Year’s day | . On the first day of 2017, Kim signaled the ICBM test that was to come. And on the first day of 2018, he hinted at the diplomatic thaw that would bring “love letters” and a finger-heart. So what does 2019 have in store for us?
Ultimately, there were few surprises in the speech. The first half of the speech was dedicated to the economy, just as much of North Korea’s propaganda has been since Singapore. (One interesting wrinkle is a renewed commitment to nuclear energy.) And when Kim turned to the issues of peace on the Korean peninsula and the stalled negotiations with the United States over denuclearization, he reiterated the line that we have seen from Pyongyang in recent months: Positive words about the transformation of relations with South Korea, but growing impatience with Trump.
This year, the address was delivered on television, apparently pre-recorded, with Kim sitting in a comfortable chair and speaking for about thirty minutes. A number |
Sinn Féin’s motion calls on the government to end the referral of jobseekers to JobPath.
Under the current system | labels of ‘Mother’ and ‘Father’ exist on birth certificates.
She said people on welfare payments were needlessly worried by news reports this morning.
The consultation process for the proposed automatic enrolment of all citizens into pension plans has now been launched and will last until 4 November.
A new law to require drivers to allow one metre when passing cyclists on roads was announced in February.
The minister gave a strong indication there will not be a repeat of the €5 increase in social welfare payments in the next Budget.
Regina Doherty acknowledged that there are issues with the childcare system in Ireland but argued that means testing is cumbersome.
Poll: Should paternity leave be mandatory?
The Irish Times reports today that the government is planning on introducing both two weeks’ paid parental leave and mandatory paternity leave.
Regina Doherty said there’d been a fourfold increase in the number of claims for free treatment benefits.
Minister for Social Protection |
PRIME Minister Theresa May could call a snap General Election in the new year to force Brexit through and defy Supreme Court judges.
A group of | advisers so secret that even the PM's cabinet is unaware of their existence is putting together a plan for an election to take advantage of Labour's complete disarray.
Is Theresa May hatching a plot to launch a snap election in the New Year?
The'mandate election' would allow to pose as the champion of 'the people versus the judges', according to Mail on Sunday sources.
May has said she wants to invoke Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty by the end of March, kicking off up to two years of exit negotiations.
But the High Court ruled last month that Article 50 cannot be triggered without parliament's assent.
That ruling is being challenged by the government in the Supreme Court.
A crushing victory in the Commons would give her the power to steamroller any challenge from the House of Lords.
So far Mrs May has insisted the next Election will go ahead as planned in 2020, but the opposition's woes and the recent Tory win in the Sleaf |
Investigators have concluded an area where acoustic signals were detected is not the final resting place.
Investigators searching for the missing Malaysian jet have concluded an area | where acoustic signals were detected is not the final resting place of the plane after an unmanned submersible found no trace of it, the search coordinator said Thursday.
The U.S. Navy’s Bluefin 21 finished its final underwater mission in the southern Indian Ocean on Wednesday after scouring 850 square kilometers (330 square miles), the Joint Agency Coordination Center said.
“The area can now be discounted as the final resting place” of the missing plane, the Australia-based center said in a statement.
The underwater search for the airliner, which vanished March 8 with 239 people on board en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, will be suspended for a couple months while more powerful sonar equipment is brought in to search a much wider area of 56,000 square kilometers (21,600 square miles), based on analysis of satellite data of the plane’s most likely course, the center said.
That analysis has led authorities to believe that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 |
Ten years ago, the Department of Workforce Development (DWD), introduced the Job Center of Wisconsin (JCW) website, an online labor | exchange to connect job seekers to employers with open positions. The new website was built to replace the former JobNet system, which was created in 1993. With the launch of JCW, making connections between candidates and employers became even easier. Job seekers were able to create and store resumes, cover letters and standardized work applications on the site. Employers could also now search for suitable job seekers using keywords. These innovative improvements demonstrated a commitment to keep pace with the needs of Wisconsin employers and jobseekers, a commitment that has been strengthened each year with continued upgrades and improvements.
The Job Center of Wisconsin website has come a long way since 2008, but its foundation has remained the same: exceptional customer service. "Since its launch, JCW has provided the public with free access to millions of job openings," Job Service Bureau Director Kristine Porter said. "JCW has also served hundreds of thousands of job seekers with resume assistance, skills matching and easy job searching tools over the past 10 years."
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NEW DELHI : The new year has arrived. From today, Star has 88 days before D-day dawns on April 1, 2003. | And in the run up to unveil a new-look and completely overhauled Star News channel, the Rupert Murdoch company has to work out various logistics, including obtaining various permissions from the Indian government which are yet to come through.
The Cabinet note on Star News proposal was circulated by the information and broadcasting ministry to some ministries concerned in December, but the feedback and comments are yet to arrive. Before that happens, information and broadcasting minister Sushma Swaraj would not like to take the proposal to the Cabinet for "collective guidance."
"We have sent reminders to the various ministries last Friday only on the Star News issue and are awaiting their response," a senior I&B ministry official told indiantelevision earlier today.
Asked when the ministry expects responses from other government departments, the official admitted, "We cannot hurry up other ministries on any issue. Especially this one as it is a sensitive issue and the (I&B) minister has made it clear that a thorough examination of |
There has obviously been a boat load of US dollars bought over the last four sessions. There are some preliminary technical signs that the near-term momentum | may have exhausted itself and short-term participants are better advised sell into a bounce rather than rush into it now.
Heavy selling failed to send the euro though the $1.3050 level and a bounce now could carry it up into the $1.3150-60 area. Sterling failed to make a new low in the North American morning and a bounce could see $1.5460-80.
The Australian dollar is perhaps the most interesting. It is recording an outside day, having traded on both sides of Friday's range. The new lows recorded earlier today corresponds to a 38.2% retracement of up trend off the 2008 lows. To solidify the expectation for a near-term bounce, it would be best, from a technical perspective for the Aussie to close the North American session today above Friday's high of roughly $0.9260. A short-term recovery can see $0.9350-$0.9400.
The yen does |
France's national health agency Anses says it has found chemicals in babies' nappies that exceed safety levels.
Tests found levels above | safety thresholds for substances potentially dangerous to human health, and lower levels of others including the controversial weedkiller glyphosate.
Anses said its nappy tests were the first of their kind in the world.
It has called for rapid action "considering the possible risks these chemicals may pose" to babies.
France's Health Minister Agnès Buzyn said there was "no serious or immediate risk" to babies' health.
"Obviously we should continue putting nappies on our babies. We've been doing that for at least 50 years," she told AFP.
But a joint statement by the health, finance and environment ministers said the government had given nappy manufacturers 15 days to come up with an action plan aimed at getting rid of the toxic substances.
Ms Buzyn said the government would accept a delay of up to six months for production methods to change.
The study was done on a number of different brands of single-use nappies available in the |
They call him the velvet hammer. He's the new Hamilton Jordan, the new H. R. Haldeman, the new White House chief | of staff.
He's the ultimate urban cowboy, a tall, twangy Texan who's going to be second in command to the next president of the United States, Ronald Reagan. But James Baker III, the Houston lawyer who rode shotgun for Jerry Ford, George Bush, and Ronald Reagan in their presidential campaigns, plans to keep a low profile in the White House. You won't see his Stetson showing over the rim of the hill too often.
Jim Baker is keenly aware that his two predecessors were moving targets in a high-powered world. But he is a vastly different from both of them -- from the authoritarian, "German shepherd" image H. R. Haldeman projected and from the anti-establishment, flamboyant, disorganized, and controversial Hamilton Jordan. It's highly improbable that Mr. Baker and top presidential adviser Edwin Meese, who will be the head honchos under Mr. Reagan in the White House, would ever pose dressed |
Bobby Petrino insists he’s a changed man.
Not the scoundrel who secretly interviewed for someone else’s coaching | job without telling his bosses, who abandoned the Atlanta Falcons with three games left in the season, who wrecked his motorcycle with his mistress aboard and lied about the sordid affair as long as he could.
We’re supposed to believe he’s not that guy anymore.
In the latest sign that college athletics spews a lot of high-minded malarkey but is never about anything more than wins and losses, Louisville re-introduced Petrino as its head coach this week — pairing him with another member of the Morally Bankrupt Hall of Fame — men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino. You remember, before the NCAA championship, the intimate relations with someone other than his wife on a restaurant table.
The news conference Thursday was downright sickening, with all the expected nonsense about Petrino suddenly turning into a decent human being and the Cardinals being persuaded that he’s just the right guy to turns boys into men.
After Charlie Strong took the |
The Victorian opposition has announced a promise to send teen thugs to a 12-week military style bootcamp under a “tough love” | program.
It’s just six days until Victorians find out who will govern them for the next four years and the major parties are in non-stop pledge-mode to win votes.
The Herald Sun reports that Liberal Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has promised to give magistrates the power to send nonviolent teens to a 12-week bootcamp instead of sentencing them to youth justice centres.
The “tough love” pilot program would be established under a Liberal-National government for lower-level offenders who are at a crossroads and need discipline.
He believes it would “break the cycle of repeat offending”.
Former police and military officials will help design and oversee the program, which would be for up to 50 children at a time, including at what age at-risk children should be eligible.
Offenders would have to grow food and cook meals, learn trades such as carpentry, and participate in team sports such as football and cricket.
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Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance James Donelon on the flood insurance crisis in the state.
Louisiana flood victims are discovering a new nightmare as | many residents who lack flood insurance coverage weren’t aware that they lived in a flood zone.
Insurance Commissioner of Louisiana Jim Donelan said there is assistance available for uninsured and underinsured properties owners through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program and FEMA’s National Insurance Program which aims to reduce the impact of flooding on private and public structures.
“Our take up in Louisiana at 21% is probably above the national average for residences insured for floods. The Baton Rouge area and Lafayette, both of which were devastated by these floods is below that state wide average for reasons that are understandable. They haven’t been flooded…in decades,” Donelan said on the FOX Business Network’s Intelligence Report.
Residents who live in a designated flood zone are required to have property flood insurance. An estimated 42% of homes in high-risk areas have flood insurance, according to FEMA.
According to Donelan, home owners with federally |
Novak Djokovic made a successful return to competitive tennis.
TENNIS: Novak Djokovic has made a stunning return to | tennis but he was hesitant to declare that his elbow is 100 per cent fit.
The 12-time grand slam winner - who had not played a competitive match in 182 days since he retired with the elbow issue at Wimbledon in July last year - demolished world No. 5 Dominic Thiem 6-1 6-4 in emphatic fashion at the Kooyong Classic on Wednesday.
It was the test he sorely needed, the 30-year-old said, and one he was pleased to pass with flying colours.
"It feels great. Obviously I was waiting for this moment for six months to get out on the court and play a match," Djokovic said.
"Also I got a great opponent - No. 5 in the world.
"It was a fantastic test for me to see where I am, to see what we have done as a team … and whether it works on the court. It worked pretty well."
His serve was particularly promising, the Serbian |
'Melinda and Melinda' is a tale about alternate realities.
"Melinda and Melinda" is the latest from Woody Allen, | whose career reminds me of the emperor's complaint in "Amadeus" that there are "too many notes" in Mozart's music.
Some feel Mr. Allen makes too many movies. As one critic put it, you know another Allen film is due when the quart of milk you bought on your way home from his last one is starting to smell funny in the fridge.
Every time Allen completes a new picture, moviegoers hope it will return him to the glory days of "Annie Hall" and "Zelig." But the results are usually disappointing ("Hollywood Ending,") or downright awful (like "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion").
Allen himself feels making a movie shouldn't be that big a deal - you write it, direct it, then hop along to the next one. But he'd have more consistent success if he spent more time refining his projects.
The good news about "Melinda and Melinda" is that it shows real reflection on Allen |
Stagecoach South is supporting Chichester City under-14s Whites girls’ team with a donation of £750 to enable to club | to purchase their 2018-19 kit.
The team, who play in the Sussex Women’s and Girls’ League, is formed of 15 girls from around the Chichester area, their home ground is based within Chichester College.
Stagecoach marketing manager Stacey Churton said: “It’s great to be supporting the girls’ team, helping to raise awareness of women’s football in the area and encourage more to the game.
Matt Wright, Chichester City Ladies youth chairman, said: “Stagecoach have been a fantastic supporter of Chichester City Ladies and Girls for the past few seasons. They truly embody the community spirit we try to engender throughout our club.
Another great performance by the Rockettes saw them secure three more valuable points.
Bognor started well and Isabelle Childs was a constant threat out wide.
The Bognor girls opened the scoring on 25 minutes when |
Los Angeles tweaked its defense with a championship in mind.
This was the purpose of all the wheeling, dealing and splash headlines: Super Bowl | or bust.
Now the Los Angeles Rams are 60 minutes away from that stage.
And how. After getting eliminated on their own turf in the wild-card round last season, the Rams won the offseason in convincing fashion. They signed centerpiece defensive tackle Aaron Donald and star running back Todd Gurley to mega-money extensions. Traded for cornerbacks Aqib Talib and Marcus Peters. Lured the signature presence of Ndamukong Suh. Dealt for big-play receiver Brandin Cooks. Franchise-tagged versatile safety Lamarcus Joyner.
Let the money talk. With the NFL’s biggest offseason spending spree, the Rams committed more than $200 million in guaranteed money from the deep pockets of team owner Stan Kroenke.
It’s time to cash in, folks.
Snead knows. As much as the Rams' foundation is built for long-term success with Donald, Gurley, franchise quarterback Jared Goff and wh |
ASCENSION PARISH, LA (WAFB) - An early morning shooting at a home in Prairieville has deputies trying to figure out | if it’s a case of self defense, which could mean no charges for the homeowner.
Wade Duty, lawyer and co-owner of Precision Firearms, says in this type of situation, there are two laws that apply to anyone in Louisiana.
“It’s not a hunting license, it is a legal status that you enjoy simply by lawfully occupying those three locations,” said Duty.
The three locations he’s referring to include a home anyone lawfully lives in, a business, and a vehicle.
Duty also teaches concealed carry classes in which he teaches the reasonable man standard and the castle doctrine.
“The reasonable man standard is kind of always available anywhere, but then there’s a more specific standard [castle doctrine] for dwellings, place of business, and vehicles, as long as you lawfully occupy them, you’re granted the presumption that lethal force is necessary to defend those locations,” said Duty.
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Though Ira Glass has had numerous solo shows throughout the years and has taken his radio hour This American Life into theaters twice, his latest live performance | may not seem an obvious choice to his fans.
"It's way more fun than being on the radio, [where] I sit in a soundproof room pretending I'm talking to someone even though I'm alone," Glass says. "Onstage at Royce Hall, it's an actual human exchange.... People laugh at funny lines, which is way more satisfying than saying something you hope is funny and thinking, 'Um, I guess that one went OK. I guess.'?"
According to Barnes, from the show's "real shticky" opening number onward, its framework is designed to echo vaudeville. "It embraces the fact that we just got into town yesterday and that we're headed off tomorrow," the dancer says. "That is the reality because, really, Ira has quite an important day job. He can't just go tour the country with a dance show."
The pair first crossed paths in 2011, when Barnes was a judge for a |
WCC earnings call for the period ending September 30, 2018.
Good day, everyone, and welcome to the WESCO Third Quarter 2018 Earn | ings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. (Operator Instructions) After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. (Operator Instructions) And please note that today's event is being recorded.
I would now like to turn the conference over to Will Ruthrauff, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Thank you, William. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining us for WESCO International's conference call to review our third quarter financial results. Joining me on today's call are John Engel, Chairman, President and CEO; and Dave Schulz, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
This conference call includes forward-looking statements, and therefore, actual results may differ materially from expectations. For additional information on WESCO International, please refer to the company's SEC filings, including the risk factors described therein. The following presentation includes a discussion of certain non-GAAP financial measures. Information required by |
After 13 years of war aimed at rooting out the Taliban, the Afghan president declared in Washington that torture and mistreatment only intensified resentment in some members | of the Taliban, so it's time to heal wounds and apologize.
Speaking during his first visit to Washington, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, who became president last year, said peace with the insurgents was "essential" and that some Taliban members suffered legitimate grievances.
"People were falsely imprisoned, people were tortured. They were tortured in private homes or private prisons," he said, Reuters reported.
"How do you tell these people that you are sorry?" he lamented.
In a speech to the US Congress on Wednesday Ghani said that Taliban members could even find their way back into Afghan society, if they agreed to respect the constitution.
The Taliban "members" said earlier this week they had no alternative but to continue its fight against the US. They made the statement after President Barack Obama delayed withdrawal of the American troops until the end of 2015.
"Obama's announcement to continue to keep troops in Afghanistan is a response to the peace efforts," spokesman Zabihullah Muja |
The BMC had twice in the past months sought approval from the irrigation department, which last month denied permission to use the reserve stock.
The civic | chief suspended then chief engineer roads Ashok Pawar, who is currently chief engineer of the building and maintenance department, and Chief Engineer of Vigilance Uday Murdudkar, who is already under suspension in the drain de-silting scam.
WITH MONSOON yet to the reach city, the civic corporation is now heavily relying on the irrigation department as its last resort. On Thursday, it wrote to the department yet again, asking for permission to use water from the reserve stock of dams. The current stock in Upper Vaitarna and Bhatsa dams will only last till the end of this month. Monsoon was expected to arrive in Mumbai last week.
“A letter had gone from Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta to the irrigation department last month and we have sent another letter on Thursday asking them to allow us to use 50 per cent of the reserve stock. We are expecting a reply in a week’s time,” said an official from the hydraulic |
ONS forecasts that service workers — chiefly waiters and waitresses, retail inventory restockers, and entry-level salespeople — will be disproportionately | affected; it reports that 25.3 percent of supermarket checkout jobs disappeared between 2011 and 2017. And it expects agricultural, automotive, and service industries won’t fare much better — they’ve seen a collective 15 percent decline in the same timeframe.
The U.K. isn’t the only country with a job market that’s being radically transformed by AI. In a report late last year, Forrester found that automation — specifically chatbot, internet-of-things (IoT) events, and analytics platforms — could eliminate 10 percent of U.S. jobs in the coming months as well. And the World Economic Forum, PricewaterhouseCoopers, McKinsey Global Institute, and Gartner have predicted that AI could make redundant as many as 75 million jobs by 2025, and depress the number of jobs requiring “low digital skills” to 30 percent in 2030 from the current 40 percent.
This past summer, a study published |
ST. LOUIS - Viewers have asked why a St. Louis police officer doesn`t face stiffer criminal charges in the shooting death | of his own colleague.
Defense attorney Paul E. Sims explained the burden of proof in the case of Officer Nathaniel Hendren.
Hendren faces charges of involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the shooting death of fallen officer Katlyn Alix. A judge recently said he had a problem calling the fatal shooting an accident and that`s led viewers to wonder why these charges aren`t stronger.
Katlyn Alix died January 25th after being shot in a duplex on Dover Place in South City. She was off duty there. Officer Nathaniel Hendren and his partner were on duty when they arrived during their shift to hang out. Though Sims says there may not be evidence of anger, the reported derelict behavior will make it easier to convince a jury the officer was reckless.
Sims said it`s tough to predict what a jury will do, but he said if prosecutors can prove'recklessness' they should get an involuntary manslaughter conviction.
March 4th is the |
Robert Perkins examines the delicate balance act of financing shale oil production in the US in this week’s Oilgram News column, Petrodoll | ars.
In this month’s highlight of material from Platts Energy Economist, managing editor Ross McCracken delves into the best places to sink capital in a time of low oil prices and whether recent investments have truly trickled through the industry yet.
It is not hard to find proponents of the view that the current clampdown on capital expenditure by oil and gas companies will cause a shortage of oil in the future. Weak investment now causes low production in years to come. At the same time, low prices prompt greater demand. As soon as these two processes become entrenched, oil traders will look ahead to the impending shortage and prices will rise. Boom time returns.
Shale oil’s investment cycle is shorter and its decline profile sharper than conventional oil production. Current indicators suggest legacy declines from shale will catch up fast with the industry. This points to a sharp deceleration in US shale oil output. But, while conventional oil takes time to slow down, it also takes |
A new council at the university of Papua New Guinea could soon be appointed, an academic who led last week's staff boycott says.
Linus | Digim'Rina, the head of the Division of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology, is a key member of the National Academic Staff Association (NASA).
Dr Digim'Rina said almost all university staff boycotted their duties for three days last week, following the suspension of the council in January.
Higher education minister Pila Niningi cited allegations of corruption and sexual misconduct against the council in his decision to install an interim body.
But the interim council's composition angered staff which led to the boycott, Dr Digim'Rina said.
"We avoided describing it as a strike action because there was no resolution from NASA... So it was a voluntary call on individual members of staff, everybody who are concerned about governance issues."
On Wednesday last week, the minister accompanied by the government's chief secretary, Isaac Lupari, met with university staff and undertook to take three actions, Dr Digim'Rina said.
"One, complete the process |
One area where cool people display great sensitivity is on the issue of gay rights. This holds especially for fashion and Hollywood luminaries — many of the | very types now sashaying through Havana. And as we’ve recently learned in the cases of Indiana and North Carolina, in the view of cool people, the very definition of gay rights can be pretty broad.
Whoops! Sorry! Seems I just described Castro’s Cuba, the world’s coolest place.
Women’s rights are also important for cool people. These rights — we’ve been given to understand by the ultra-cool Sandra Fluke — are extremely far-reaching and should include taxpayer-subsidized contraceptives for women.
Whoops! Sorry, again. Looks like I again described Castro’s Cuba, the world’s coolest place.
Cool people also make a big show of promoting peace. To hear them babble, armed conflict between nations has always been a historical abomination. So you definitely don’t want to be on record as being modern history’s scariest warmongers |
Cosmos' Ship of Imagination sails into the sunset (or is it just the sun?) this week, but not before plumbing the mysteries of | dark matter. Finn gives dating another try on Adventure Time, Increase Mather rocks Salem, and a new character in Orphan Black's conspiracy appears. See all the details and clips below!
After Vincent (Jay Ryan) is arrested for murder, Cat (Kristin Kreuk) and the team must work together at all costs to clear Vincent's name. When they discover who turned Vincent in, they realize they have a bigger enemy to handle.
Felicia Day stops by to goof about the latest geeky goings-on.
Clarke (Eliza Taylor) and Finn (Thomas McDonell) escape one dangerous situation only to find themselves faced with a new enemy. Bellamy (Bob Morley) makes a heroic move to save Jasper (Devon Bostick). Raven (Lindsey Morgan) faces a new danger, and Murphy (guest star Richard Harmon, "Bates Motel") finally gets his revenge. Meanwhile, those remaining on the Ark are coming to |
Marshall offers a classic look and the option of still using a headphone jack if you manage to burn through all that battery life.
The walls | haven't caved in since Apple released the iPhone 7 without a headphone jack, so it seems almost inevitable that other smartphones will follow. It could eventually be the case that the headphone jack is assigned to the history books. And while that's bad news for anyone with a set of wired headphones they love, it spells opportunity for manufacturers.
One of the key problems with removing a headphone jack is you inevitably introduce battery life into the music listening equation. All-day battery life is a must, and Marshall's latest set of wireless headphones aim to meet that demand and then some.
The Marshall Monitor Bluetooth headphones boast 30 hours of playback on a single charge combined with 30 feet of wireless range. That's thanks to a combination of Bluetooth and Qualcomm's aptX audio codec compression algorithms, allowing for high quality real-time streaming.
Although wireless, the Monitors include a headphone jack allowing a friend to plug in their headphones and listen with you. Marshall also embedded a multidirectional knob on |
THE first trailer for Marvel's star-studded Avengers: Infinity War has dropped, sending film fans into a tailspin of excitement on social | media.
The highly anticipated film brings together the major players in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), including the Avengers and Spider-Man, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, Thor and Black Panther, among others.
Infinity War, the 19th film in the MCU and a sequel to 2012's Marvel's The Avengers and 2015's Avengers: Age Of Ultron, has been described as an "unprecedented cinematic journey 10 years in the making" and "the deadliest showdown of all time".
In the trailer, the battle is on as the superheroes join forces to defeat intergalactic despot Thanos, played by Josh Brolin, whose goal is to collect the Infinity Stones in an evil bid to take over the world.
It's an epic, action-packed glimpse at the blockbuster effort, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo.
With an ensemble cast that reads like a who's who of Hollywood - including Robert Downey Jr, Benedict Cumberbatch, |
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary – will this mean a remake of a remake?
Sources suggest that Halo: The Master Chief Collection is this | year’s new Halo game, as a Modern Warfare remake is also rumoured.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection will be out in time for this Christmas and will contain Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo 4 – or at least that’s according to a rumour from Engadget.
For months now it’s been heavily rumoured that a remake of original Xbox game Halo 2 will be released this Christmas. But the announcement of Halo 5 last week seemed to suggest something else for this year’s Xbox One game.
A boxed set of remakes also doesn’t really fit the hints, but then it’s always hard to know how much companies are factoring in existing rumours into what they say.
As it it is though the rumours don’t have much meat on them, with nothing but speculation on the developer and no technical details. You’d assume that the Halo part |
In May the first showers sink heavy drops into the parched earth of Michoacan, Mexico. The wrinkled men of La Soledad | , a town of barely 700, look at the sky and wonder, as they always have, about the seeds they've placed in the ground. Around the same time, maybe a bit before, the letters come.
There is no questioning the importance of the envelopes, carrying stamps and seals from both sides of the border. United States Postal Service Registered Mail. $10.38. The return address is Nestle USA, 216 Morton Street, Morton, IL, an address that nearly any adult in La Soledad will recognize. It's la Nestle; or, to workers who've been around longer, la Libby's. To some it's the letter from la calabaza. Pumpkin.
Illinois is the top pumpkin-producing state in the nation, and Morton is the self-declared pumpkin capital of the world. La Soledad, Michoacan, helps make it that. On thousands of acres around the canning plant, contracted farmers plant the proprietary |
We look forward to launching the 53rd Annual CP24 CHUM Christmas Wish this holiday season!
The CP24 CHUM Christmas Wish program has | become one of the largest distributors of toys to children in need in the Greater Toronto Area. The program also provides financial assistance to hundreds of agencies, ensuring that hundreds of thousands of children across the GTA enjoy a holiday experience. With the help of The Royal Bank of Canada, LoyaltyOne, as well as the generous donations from our loyal viewers and listeners, the CP24 CHUM Christmas Wish in conjunction with Toronto Social Services assisted hundreds of thousands of people in need through toy and financial support.
The CP24 CHUM Christmas Wish was originally established in 1966 as CHUM’s Kid’s Crusade Foundation, for the purpose of assisting children in need and children’s charities. In 1973, the name was changed to the CHUM Charitable Foundation in order to broaden the scope of the foundation’s work, including the increase in requests for financial assistance from adults in need. In 2008, the program became known as the CP24 CHUM Christmas Wish.
The CP24 |
For Craig Carton's ticket resale fraud, the former WFAN and New Jersey 101.5 radio host should get up to seven years | in prison, prosecutors say.
Take a look at the photo gallery from when “Boomer and Carton” was a hit radio show.
NEW YORK - For Craig Carton's ticket resale Ponzi fraud, the former WFAN and New Jersey 101.5 radio host should get from five to seven years in prison, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Friday, according to a report.
“Carton was involved in all aspects of the scheme... His victims were people who believed they had formed a relationship with him. And his lies continued for months,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Brendan Quiqley wrote to Manhattan Federal Judge Colleen McMahon, according to another report.
But prosecutors said "Carton’s fraud was not the result of an isolated loss of impulse control or a one-time stumble," according to a report.
Watch Craig Carton break a two-month silence to talk about life since his arrest in the video |
Although scorned as irrational by academics, the felony murder doctrine persists as part of our law. It is therefore important that criminal law theory show how | the felony murder doctrine can be best justified, and confined within its justifying principles. To that end, this Article seeks to make the best of American felony murder laws by identifying a principle of justice that explains as much existing law as possible, and provides a criterion for reforming the rest. Drawing on the moral intuition that blame for harm is properly affected by the actor’s aims as well as the actor’s expectations, this Article proposes a dual culpability principle, which justifies imposing murder liability for killing negligently in the pursuit of an independent felonious purpose. A review of current felony murder rules reveals that most jurisdictions condition the offense on negligence through a combination of culpability requirements, dangerous felony limits, foreseeable causation requirements, and complicity standards. In addition, most jurisdictions require felonious motive through a combination of enumerated felonies, causation standards, and merger limitations. Thus, felony murder law more or less conforms to the dual culpability principle in most jurisdictions. This sufficiently validates the principle |
The girl's official cause of death remains under investigation by the Marion County Coroner.
An 8-year-old girl who died Sunday after | suffering apparent gunshot wounds has been identified as Kendrielle Brye.
According to the Marion County Coroner's Office, the girl's death remains under investigation, and the official cause of death is not available at this time.
According to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, officers were called to Indianapolis Fire Department Station 24 on East 38th Street shortly after 5:40 p.m. on a report of a shooting victim at the station.
Investigators were informed that a little girl with gunshot wounds had been brought to the station by her mother. Kendrielle was then transported to Riley Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
During the course of the investigation, detectives were led back to the Kendrielle's home in the 5600 block of Culver Street, police said. Investigators believe that is where the shooting took place.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for the home and are working to recover potential evidence with the assistance of the Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services Agency.
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I have a feeling that they go to separate moderators inboxes. Because when I had a question and PM'd them, the same one got back | to me.
Yes, we all have separate inboxes. There is no giant inbox where all messages to moderators go.
So if we either don't understand a PM we get from a mod or admin we're allowed to ask in PM?
Am I allowed to say I have a really hard time reading really long PMs? What I describe as motorway length PMs cause I get halfway then my brain turns it to word salad and goes into information overload?
Maybe you need to clarify the rule so not wrong things can be read into it.
I wish I had been that lucky. I always get anxiety when I get pm from a monitor.
Ok! I didn't know that!
Exactly I just discover this myself!
Don't let Turtleboy fool you! He's bad to the bone!
I know many on the boards here are very sensitive & struggle with anxiety, but everyone has a completely anonymous screen name. No one knows who "emgreen" |
Russell Westbrook could miss the start of the 2018-19 NBA season.
The Oklahoma City Thunder point guard underwent arthroscopic surgery on his | right knee Wednesday, the team announced in a press release. He will be re-evaluated in approximately four weeks, meaning he’ll likely miss the entire preseason and perhaps remain sidelined into the regular season.
The Thunder play their first preseason game Oct. 3 and their final one Oct. 9. They’re scheduled to begin the regular season against the Golden State Warriors on Oct. 16, approximately five weeks from Wednesday. Westbrook could be cutting it close, and it’s reasonable to think the Thunder will exercise caution with their franchise player.
Westbrook experienced inflammation in his knee over the weekend, which led to the procedure. The timing isn’t great, as OKC begins training camp Sept. 25, but taking care of the issue now could help Westbrook avoid additional problems throughout the season.
Westbrook, a seven-time All-Star, is coming off back-to-back seasons of averaging a triple-double. He won the NBA MVP Award |
Classical operas are being blasted out to a caravan of Australian camels, preparing them for a one-way trip to South Korea to star | in a lavish production of Verdi's opera Aida.
Six dromedaries will be flown from central Australia to Seoul later this month, but strict quarantine laws mean they will never return to their homeland and will devote the rest of their lives to South Korea's tourist industry, said camel handler Janet Geappen on Saturday.
"They're getting used to the Aida opera. I've been playing it to our camels here and I swear they're swinging their tails to the music, I think they like it," Geappen told Reuters.
"Camels adapt very, very quickly to new things and new environments. The only thing you can't get them used to is the amount of people in the crowd, but we'll be looking at that as well," the cameleer said from Broome in Western Australia.
The Australian camels will be ridden by opera singers for their brief stage appearance in the September performance which will also feature horses and elephants, she added |
Dragon Ball has got its convention circuit on lock, and it seems a recent gathering has got Goku fans feeling good. Over on Twitter, a video | has gone live from Kameha Con’s second year, and it turns out the event had a special panel is store for fans.
After all, five different Goku voice actors came together for a panel, and it ended with them doing a signature move.
Recently, a video from Kameha Con made its way online, and it features five familiar voices. A total of five actors from around the world came together to speak with fans, and they capped off the afternoon with a group Kamehameha.
So, if you thought one Goku was powerful, imagine the kind of damage five of them could do.
For those curious, the actors shown above are Kirby Morrow, Stephanie Nadolny, Peter Kelamis, Ian Corlett, Mario Cataneda. The group stood up after their joint panel ended, and they gave their go at Goku. Understandably, the crowd loved the group attack, and the only complaint surfacing from fans is the lack |
Millcreek woman says PennDOT should consider alternatives to tree clearing along the interstates.
A concerned citizen has launched an online petition calling | on the state to stop cutting down trees along Interstate 79 north of McKean and elsewhere.
The petition was started on the website www.ipetitions.com and is addressed to Gov. Tom Wolf and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation District 1 officials. It cites numerous reasons to end the tree cutting, including environmental and safety concerns.
"This is such a serious issue," said Diane Esser, of Millcreek Township. Esser is the founder of Plant It Forward: A Community Tree Planing Initiative and I Am A Planet Kid, an environmental education program for children. She also is a member of the Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Educators.
Esser started the petition this week. As of Friday afternoon, 150 people had signed it.
PennDOT, through a private contractor, began removing the trees north of McKean starting in August as part of a $6.2 million interstate paving project. The project includes $603,366 for tree trimming and removal. |
London — Vitol cemented its position as the world's largest oil trader in 2018 and said it saw oil demand rising for at least for another | 15 years before slowing amid global attempts to expand green energy.
The firm, run out of London, said its traded crude and products volumes rose to 7.4-million barrels a day (bpd) in 2018. In 2017, it said its volumes were 7.2-million bpd.
Total oil volume was 357-million tonnes, up slightly from 349-million tonnes the previous year, it said in a statement.
Crude continued to represent the bulk of those volumes, rising to 3.8-million bpd from 3.6-million in 2017. On the products side, petrol volume rebounded by 30% to 440-million tonnes while fuel oil and naphtha declined.
Its traded liquefied natural gas volume rose to 7.8-million tonnes in 2018, up from 7.4-million tonnes.
Turnover increased on the back of rising oil prices to $231bn in 2018, up from $181bn in 2017. V |
Warning of an "invasion," he pointed to the migrant caravan that had come out of Honduras and was wending its way through Mexico. He | then threatened to issue an executive order ending birthright citizenship.
This ignited the predictable hysteria of the media elite who decried his "racism," his "lying" and his "attack on the 14th Amendment." Trump, they railed, is sending more troops to the Mexican border than we have in Syria or Iraq.
Also, the 14th Amendment confers citizenship on those born in the U.S. and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." Children of foreign diplomats, though born here, are not citizens.
Nor is this a small matter.
The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that 6 percent of U.S. births (250,000 per year) are to undocumented immigrants.
Yet that 250,000 is a drop in the bucket compared to the total number of immigrants now coming. In 2016, President Obama's last full year, 1.75 million legal and illegal immigrants arrived, a record.
Of America's most populous states — California, Texas, Florida and |
Many educational institutions, places of worship and even towns currently pride themselves on their Fair Trade certification, but until recently, this has not been the case | for Cornell. It was student organizing that took Cornell from a 0 percent Fair Trade campus to a majority Fair Trade campus.
“[The Cornell Organization for Labor Action] was the first to go to Cornell with the idea of Fair Trade,” said COLA member Nina Hudson Fixell ’07.
Over time, Cornell Dining has worked with Seattle’s Best to add more varieties and to minimize any cost differential for Fair Trade coffee. Presently, Cornell Dining pays the same for Fair Trade coffee as it does for other coffee products.
According to Wright-Riva, Fair Trade coffee is currently available at all Cornell Dining locations across campus. Cornell has partnered with Pura Vida for coffee service at all eight residential dining halls and with Seattle’s Best for all retail dining locations or cafés.
“Currently, all coffee in dining halls is Fair Trade, all espresso drinks are made with Fair Trade, nearly all |
The father of 2-year-old Prince George and 8-month-old Princess Charlotte opened up about becoming a parent in a new ITV documentary | , When Ant and Dec Met the Prince: 40 Years of the Prince's Trust, which airs Monday night in the UK.
"I'm a lot more, um, I'm a lot more emotional that I used to be," the 33-year-old Duke of Cambridge explains. "Yeah, weirdly."
"I never used to really kind of sort of get too wound up or worried about things," he continued. "But now, the smallest little things, I can feel, you well up a little bit more and you get affected by the sort of things that happen around the world or whatever a lot more, I think, as a father, just because you realize how precious life is and it puts it all in perspective, the idea of not being around to see your children grow up."
From the birth of Princess Charlotte to Prince Harry’s claiming he was cooler than his older brother, 2015 was a big year for the royals. To see the family� |
Britain's railways have been judged worst for fares, efficiency and comfort in a study of rail services in Europe.
The report by the thinktank | Just Economics said UK rail services were less affordable, less comfortable, slower, more inefficient and more expensive than those in France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Frequency of trains was the only area in which the UK performed better.
"In terms of bang for buck, not only does the UK come bottom of the index of outcomes but it also spends a relatively large amount of money to achieve this woeful result. This means that it also comes bottom of the value for money league," said the report.
"Our under-performing railways carry a considerable cost both for passengers and for the public purse. Our calculations show that a more affordable, more comfortable and faster railway would generate a staggering £324bn in social value (£9.2bn a year) between now and 2050. This is the equivalent of £7 of value per average journey in that period.
"We also estimate that the social, economic and environmental benefits of achieving a modal shift from road to rail – in terms of |
Other NBA standouts in attendance were Otis Birdsong, Artis Gilmore and Michael Ray Richardson. They were joined by baseball’s Wade | Boggs and Hal McRae, and former NFL greats Bo Jackson, Billy Joe DuPree, Ed “Too Tall” Jones, AJ Duhe and Nat Moore.
Ironically, Barry, who was noted for criticizing officials during his playing days and later as a broadcaster, believes all the hoopla over the officiating has been overblown.
The 6-foot-7 Barry scored more than 25,000 points in his pro career and was an uncanny long-range shooter.
He led the nation in scoring his senior year at Miami (37.4 ppg), the NBA in 1967 (35.6 ppg) and the ABA in ’69 (34 ppg), and he led the NBA and ABA a combined nine times in free throw percentage.
Still, he can’t fathom how Boston’s Ray Allen sets a record with eight three-pointers in Game 2 and then misses 13 straight from beyond the arc over |
CBC has obtained internal RCMP emails showing that Commissioner Bob Paulson has banned all senior officers from meeting MPs and senators without clearance from his office.
| Internal emails obtained by CBC News show that RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson has ordered all senior Mounties to get clearance from his office before committing to any meetings with MPs or senators.
Specifically, they are to notify a liaison office that co-ordinates RCMP strategy with the office of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.
In an email dated March 22 from Paulson to more than 50 chief superintendents, assistant commissioners and deputy commissioners, the commissioner said that meetings or lunches with parliamentarians "can have unintended and/or negative consequences for the organization and the government. Therefore, should you or your staff receive such requests, I am directing that you advise my office and the chief strategic policy and planning officer."
A second email shows the effect of the new policy. It cancels a planned lunch between a senior Mountie and a parliamentarian because of "direction from Commissioner Paulson's office" that such meetings "have to first be approved by the minister's office. This email is to |
A Missouri House panel is looking at a proposal to restrict TV viewing in prisons to local over the air channels.
Currently, money from canteen | sales within correction centers is used to pay for cable or satellite service. Inmates use their stipend pay, often for work they perform within the prison, to make purchases at the canteen.
House Republican J. Eggelston who sponsored the measure, notes the money for the stipends originates from taxpayers. He says it would be better used on other inmate programs.
“That money that was going there could be redirected to things that would benefit the prisoners in an educational capacity to help them be not be as apt to recitivize when they get released” said Eggelston.
As an example of ways the money could be redirected, Eggelston points to education, and getting inmates the documents they would need to get a job upon being released, such as social security cards, birth certificates and driver’s licenses.
Eggelston says the amount currently spent on cable TV or satellite throughout the Missouri Prison system totals nearly $1 million.
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It's a case of the executive who came in from the cold at TZ Ltd.
Celebrity Apprentice boss/Yellow Brick Road executive | chairman Mark Bouris is stepping back from his executive duties at the smart locker maker and handing the business back to one of its founders, John Wilson.
"I'm satisfied that this is a good time to retire after eight years as the executive chairman of TZ Ltd and I am happy to say that the TZ business can now be ably run by a very good management team," said Bouris.
After accumulating $187 million worth of losses, the company is threatening to break even... some time soonish... with forecasts it will achieve EBITDA break even this year.
Bouris will become a non executive chairman – with his $440,000 a year salary taking a cut of more than 50 per cent, according to a spokesman.
If CBD recalls correctly, Wilson stepped down as chief executive in May 2012 after the failure to secure a lucrative new deal sent the share price plunging 43 per cent to below 16c. It was a big deal at the time. |
Joe Schmidt, Head Coach of Ireland.
We’ve grown so accustomed to heroics from Ireland’s rugby team in recent years | that their capitulation to England in Dublin was one – or rather 80 – of those rub-your-eyes moments in international sport.
Was this a one-off debacle for Joe Schmidt’s all-conquering troops of 2018? Did it offer evidence that the Irish can be knocked out of their rhythm and stride by the brutal physicality of opponents such as Mako and Billy Vunipola?
Or was it just a rare blip for the side which won the Grand Slam, the IRB’s World Team of the Year accolade and beat Australia in an away series and the mighty All Blacks at home during the last 12 months?
We’ll soon find out, because Ireland’s next challenge is against the Scots at Murrayfield on Saturday and the momentum shift on the opening weekend of the Six Nations Championship means that Gregor Townsend’s personnel now have a terrific opportunity to inflict fresh misery on Schmidt’s men.
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The Digital Watermarking Alliance, a group that encourages content owners to embed unique identifiers in media as a way to combat piracy and promote new distribution | models online, released a study this morning on the prevalence of illegal downloading and the motives behind it. (Download the.pdf here.) Done by market research firm Interpret, it used an online survey to gauge how many U.S. residents were downloading media legally and illegally. Then it did what amounted to a push poll of 996 downloaders (again, both legal and illegal) ages 13 to 49, exploring their behavior in more detail and measuring their reaction to watermarking technology. Not surprisingly, given who was paying for it, the survey found that embedding watermarks (called "digital serial numbers" in the survey) could deter people from sharing content online. In particular, a third of the downloaders said they definitely or probably wouldn't use file-sharing services to obtain content if watermarks were deployed, and half said the same thing about uploading.
The initial survey found that legal downloaders significantly outnumber illegal ones. Specifically, 75% of the teens and 53% of |
President Donald Trump told former FBI director James Comey that he had serious concerns about the judgment of his first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, according to | memos maintained by Mr Comey.
The 15 pages of documents, obtained by The Associated Press, contain new details about a series of interactions that Comey had with Mr Trump in the weeks before his May 2017 firing.
Those encounters include a White House dinner at which Mr Comey says Mr Trump asked him for his loyalty, and a meeting the following month in which he says the president asked him to end an investigation into Mr Flynn.
According to one memo, Mr Trump complained about Mr Flynn at a private January 2017 dinner with Mr Comey, saying "the guy has serious judgment issues". He then blamed Mr Flynn for a delay in returning the congratulatory call of an international leader.
"I did not comment at any point during this topic and there was no mention or acknowledgement of any FBI interest in or contact with General Flynn," Mr Comey wrote.
Mr Flynn was fired a month later after White House officials said he had misled about his Russian contacts during the transition period. In a separate memo, Mr |
NEW YORK (AP) — In just four years, Justin Bieber has gone from fielding innocuous questions about his haircut to denying that he's in desperate | need of rehab. Bieber's grown up and into tabloid territory, with his recent troubles making some question whether he's just the latest teen star gone wild.
In what could have been his worst week ever, the 19-year-old pop star struggled with his breathing and fainted backstage at a London show, was taken to a hospital and then was caught on camera clashing with a paparazzo. Days earlier, he was booed by his beloved fans when he showed up late to a concert.
Those incidents come after photos of Bieber appearing to smoke marijuana hit the Web, and some headlines have suggested that the ultra-popular star is going through a famous Britney Spears-style meltdown.
Others suggest he's struggling with a more common condition: being a teenager.
Donnie Wahlberg, who was just 14 when New Kids on the Block debuted on the music scene in the late 1980s to wild fan craze, said he remembers the pressure and hard times that |
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HARTFORD, Conn. – Some states are | taking advantage of a dispute between Georgia and Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines over the company’s decision to cut ties with the National Rifle Association, urging the airline to relocate.
Governors from Connecticut, New York and Virginia have pitched their states to the airline through letters and tweets.
“Hey (at)delta – Virginia is for lovers and airline hubs. You’re welcome here any time,” tweeted Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat.
The Republican-controlled Georgia Legislature approved a tax bill Thursday that eliminates a fuel tax break that primarily benefits Delta. Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, a Republican, had suggested removing the tax benefit as retribution for Delta’s decision after a deadly school shooting in Florida to stop offering discounted fares to NRA members.
The governor of New York, a congressman from Ohio and the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, have all reached out to Delta amid the NRA controversy in recent days.
Georgia lawmakers approved |
These are ideas to implement in the family on Holy Thursday. This is the day of fraternal charity, so there are suggestions to have acts of | charity for one another, such as washing each other's feet, doing humble works for family members, having a family feast and inviting other people for dinner. Holy Thursday is also the commemoration of the Last Supper, so here are some ideas on recreating the Last Supper at home.
This is the day of fraternal charity, and charity truly begins at home. The parents will take the lead in setting the example for this day. Every act will be more considerate, our voices will be moderated out of respect for one another. We show an extra willingness to give way to one another. We pass up opportunities for argument and criticism. We meditate on the truth that this is the day to commemorate the institution of the Eucharist, and we feel the excitement of the anniversary of a great event.
On this day our Lord washed the feet of His disciples, explaining his action by saying: "If I your Lord and Master have washed your feet, how much more |
When the inaugural Le Dîner en Blanc Dallas was announced back in July, the secrecy and global cache associated with the pop-up dinner whipped | Dallasites into a frenzy.
Securing an invite to the exclusive gathering quickly became the No. 1 priority for as many as 8,000 people, but only a lucky 1,600 were shuttled to the Continental Avenue Bridge on September 17 to dine in the shadow of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.
Guests rendezvoused at the Hilton Anatole and other locations throughout Dallas-Fort Worth before boarding buses, which whisked them to the pedestrian-friendly bridge. With the sun setting, the bridge looming, and the lights of the Dallas skyline sparkling, the effect was just as majestic as co-hosts Rachael Kissel, Marti Fox, and Karen Raehpour had hoped. Sponsors Southwest Airlines, Celebrity Cruises, and Apothic Wine, along with dozens of volunteers, helped ensure the night went off without a hitch.
To be part of the chic picnic, guests were required to bring with them a table, chairs, china, |
As a recently retired faculty member at the University of Minnesota, I was pleased to read the Sept. 4 article “For English departments, not | the best of times.” English majors or not, many of us will recognize the headline’s witty play on the opening line of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” — a tribute in itself to the power of literature and its enduring appeal.
Over the last year, I have been clearing out my office, a repository of my entire history at the U, beginning in 1971 and ending in 2017. In addition to my teaching notes, comments on students’ work, professional correspondence and service to the university, I have unearthed many documents that chart our progress as a department over time. I discovered, for instance, that we had a faculty of 52 members in 1982, whereas we numbered 33 in 2015-16 and have recently been “capped” at 31. Over the last 36 years, we have lost 40 percent of our faculty. However these statistics may be explained, I would describe this as a near-catastrophic loss.
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UK retail giant John Lewis is currently carrying out a consultation of its Computer Services division to discuss ‘proposed changes’ and has not denied | the possibility of job cuts going forward.
According to The Register, the company had started a 90-day consultation process for making staff redundant. It noted in its report that 90-day consultation processes are required in situations where companies plan to cut more than 100 staff.
However, when asked about possible job cuts, he said that John Lewis “cannot confirm anything regarding restructure, at present, as consultations with partners are ongoing”.
This news may come as a surprise to some, as John Lewis recently announed plans to hire more than 50 IT specialists this year in a bid to support increased investment in multi-channel customer service offerings. The roles will include project managers, business analysts, systems analysts and developers.
However, the current review of IT is for back-office and support staff operating out of the John Lewis Partnership. Whereas the new recruits will be driving innovation at the front end for such things as John Lewis online and its electronic point of sales systems, which |
In a National Hockey League stunner, Steve Yzerman will step down as Tampa Bay Lightning general manager just days before the start of training camp | , the team announced on Tuesday.
Yzerman will assume an advisory role while Julien BriseBois takes over the general manager post. BriseBois has been Tampa Bay's assistant GM for the past eight years and he's been with the organization since 2001, long touted as an up-and-comer in front-office circles. But Yzerman is widely considered to be the NHL's best general manager, making the abrupt change all the more shocking.
Yzerman reportedly has one year left on his contract, and he said a desire to spend more time with his family in Detroit, where Yzerman played his entire Hall-of-Fame career and captained three Stanley Cup teams with the Red Wings, is the reason he's stepping down. For eight years, he commuted between there and Tampa, and while he was able to still do his job effectively, Yzerman said that when he and owner Jeff Vinik started to discuss extending his |
A new study from MyVoucherCodes has uncovered the South East’s ultimate travel ‘bucket list’, allowing | people to compare their number one dream with the region’s favourite.
The discount and deals site asked people from across the UK to select their top 10 adventures from a bucket list compiled by the world’s top travel professionals, before producing a definitive list for each region.
Just under half (48 per cent) of all South Easterners surveyed selected seeing the Northern Lights as their top bucket list activity. Despite 15 per cent more females than men including the spectacle in their top 10, it was still a firm favourite with both genders.
Other popular choices included taking a wildlife safari in Africa (29 per cent), walking a stretch of the Great Wall of China (23 per cent) and visiting New Zealand’s South Island (21 per cent).
According to the research, people in the South East are more likely to want to experience Bali (12.5 per cent), visit the Amazon Rainforest (20.59 per cent) and discover the Australian Outback |
The continued presence of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in the West Wing constitutes both a legal liability and a political embarrassment for President Trump. The couple have | not a single identifiable accomplishment in office between the two of them. Ivanka Trump, however, has been on defense, whining about unfair expectations and trying to wiggle out of responsibility for failing to influence her father. Kushner wound up at odds with the State Department and was there to cheer on disastrous personnel decisions (e.g. hiring Paul Manafort during the campaign, firing former FBI director James B. Comey).
Trump would be wise to send them back home to New York to reside in the Trump empire.
Kushner, you will recall, has a host of potential legal problems stemming from participation in a meeting with Russian officials at Trump Tower during the campaign; a meeting with the head of a sanctioned Russian bank during the transition; encouragement for the president to fire Comey (an action that may be considered obstruction of justice) and failure to disclose all his foreign contacts on his security clearance forms.
"President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump re-routed their |
Disputes over property buyouts for a flood protection project have led to four recent lawsuits against the City of Minot.
Kenn and Lyn | ette Simensen filed two lawsuits last November after purchase negotiations broke down. One complaint relates to property at 210 7th Street NE, which largely had been leased to FedEx Freight. A second complaint relates to at 706 4th Ave. NE, which they leased to various tenants.
The properties flooded in 2011. The Simensens state they repaired the Seventh Street property and signed a new lease through 2017 with FedEx. In 2014, FedEx pulled out of the lease after learning from the city that the property was to be condemned for a flood protection project. The couple states the city didn’t inform them of the condemnation until 2016. They allege the city’s actions caused a devaluation of the property.
The Simensens also say the city failed to appraise the property in a timely manner, creating a situation where it is now difficult to adequately assess the property.
The Simensens state they rehabilitated the Fourth Avenue property and most tenants returned. By August 2014 |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals used their first pick, and the 18th overall, in the MLB Draft to select | a right-handed pitcher from the University of Florida.
Brady Singer was the No. 2 ranked prospect in the draft, according to MLB.com, and he was the third right-handed pitcher in the past four years the Royals have taken with their top pick.
Singer was drafted out of high school by the Toronto Blue Jays in the second round of the 2015 Draft, but opted to play for Florida instead.
The 21-year-old pitcher has a 95 mph fastball, and he’s a big reason why the Florida Gators were the overall No. 1 seed in this year’s NCAA Tournament. He was named the SEC Pitcher of the Year in 2018 and went 11-1 with a 2.27 ERA and 98 strikeouts in 14 starts.
With the 33rd pick in the compensatory first round, the Royals selected another right-handed pitcher from Florida. Jackson Kowar was 9-5 this past season with a 3.53 ERA over |
CHICAGO — You don't find many history lessons in a recording studio, but for a handful of South Side Chicago students, that's | exactly where it happened.
Working alongside Kroc Center Music Manager, Michael LaDisa, students intertwined their own words into speeches of Dr. King's.
"In the end we had a rap song that embodied not just the powerful voice of Dr. King Jr, but words relevant to young people today," LaDisa said.
"I never really thought about the meaning behind the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's speeches until we were challenged to put them into a song," student Tina Brook said.
For weeks they worked on the song in the recording studio at The Kroc Center at 119th Street.
"It was really fun to do it! I had never made a song before so this was special," Brook said.
Recently their song titled "My Dream, My Voice" was added as a single on iTunes.
"The girls went nuts when they found out," LaDisa said. "Absolutely screaming and shouting with their cell phones out. It |
When you enter the field, you will recognize instantly the baseball uniform of the players.
May 15, 2008 - PRLog -- When you enter | the field, you will recognize instantly the baseball uniform of the players. Baseball uniforms are like light bulb that will illuminate right away and inform you who belong to your team and who are the ones who belong in the rival team.
Baseball players do acknowledge that they are please and proud to see that other fans wear their jerseys. Accordingly, this is one effective way to which fans expresses their support.
Actually, seeing your favorite player wearing their baseball uniforms is a great feeling already. And for fans who wore a baseball jersey, the feeling of being united with other fans will bring more excitement as each share the pride with the whole team and other supporters.
But amidst for the identity and excitement of baseball game, have you wondered how baseball uniforms started?
Let’s travel down the lane to know the history of baseball uniforms.
Knickerbocker Baseball Club was characterized with white flannel shirt, wool pants and straw hat. It is common knowledge that this type of baseball uniform is |
Shirley Kathleen Kirk, born November 11th, 1919 to Albert and Eva Taylor, passed away peacefully at home on October 27th, 2014 | .
Shirley was preceded in death by her husband Sylvan F. Kirk. She is survived by 3 sons. Charles Kirk (Polly) Richard (Darlene) and Michael (Debbie). She had 10 Grandchildren and 9 Great-grandchildren. She is also survived by a sister Virginia Bates, a nephew(Jim) and a Niece(Sydney).
Shirley and her husband were owners of the old Kirk’s Feed Store located in Olde Burien for 37 years. Shirley was also a nurse in the Army and retired as a nurse from Boeing in 1985. After retirement she and her husband enjoyed traveling the world. She was very active in her church and different Bible studies. She was very well known in her community as a Prayer Warrior. She was an avid walker of 3 miles every day which she used in prayer. If you met her… you were immediately on her prayer list. She had a very strong personal relationship with her |
Zimbabwe's Mines minister Winston Chitando (file photo).
Mine workers and the Chamber of Mines have agreed to approach the government and table | a request for the sector to get at least 80% of their foreign currency earnings, businessdigest has learnt.
This comes at a time mine workers are demanding to be paid in foreign currency pointing out that their salaries in Real-Time Gross Settlement and bond notes have been seriously eroded amid price hikes of basic commodities.
Associated Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe president Tinago Ruzive told businessdigest on Wednesday that they had agreed with the Chamber of Mines to set up a meeting with Mines minister Winston Chitando to discuss the issue of forex retention.
"When we met the Chamber we agreed that we should team up and meet the minister and demand that the sector retains 80% of their forex earnings," Ruzive said. "If the government agrees to this, it means us as mine workers can be paid in forex."
The Chamber of Mines has told mine workers that employers will only pay them in forex if they can get forex retention of at least |
July 28, 2006 Some political observers see the Democratic primary race in Connecticut for Sen. Joe Lieberman's seat as a metaphor for a sch | ism within the party over the war in Iraq. But California's Barbara Boxer, one of the Senate's strongest opponents of the war, is helping bridge the divide by campaigning on Lieberman's behalf.
July 25, 2006 Former President Bill Clinton campaigned for Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) on Monday. Lieberman faces a strong primary challenge from a wealthy cable-TV entrepreneur, Ned Lamont. Polls show the race is a dead heat.
July 21, 2006 Earlier this week, both the House and the Senate voted in support of Israel's right to defend itself. But there are questions as to how much latitude Israel should have, and how the U.S. should respond diplomatically.
July 14, 2006 There is talk of a deal between Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) and President Bush over court review of the National Security Agency's domestic-eavesdropping program. Others in Congress have their own ideas about how to |
RFE/RL writer-at-large James Kirchick discusses Georgia’s alarming position wedged between its desire to join the West | and a fear of Russian encroachment.
"Letter From Tbilisi: Russia on their Mind"
On Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi's main drag, the Museum of the Soviet Occupation stands right across from Georgia's national parliament. Constructed in 2006, the museum takes visitors through the history of Georgia's encounter with the Soviet Union, from the Red Army's invasion in 1921, through the mass murder of the Georgian political and cultural leadership over the following decades, all the way up to the end of the Cold War and Georgia's declaration of independence in 1991. Not long after the museum opened, then Russian President Vladimir Putin complained about it directly to his Georgian counterpart, the young and exuberantly pro-Western Mikheil Saakashvili, protesting what he considered to be its anti-Russian tone. After all, he pointed out, some of the most ruthless figures in the Soviet hierarchy -- including Joseph Stalin and Lavrenty Beria -- were themselves Georgian |
Samresh Ramjith has been enabling great things within the IT security space for quite some time, translating his passion for his work into a successful | and rewarding career. After attaining a National Diploma in Electronic Engineering from the ML Sultan Technikon in Kwa Zulu Natal, Samresh started out as a systems engineer for Siemens South Africa. Since then, he has built an impressive, well-rounded CV displaying competencies in telecommunications, IT outsourcing and operations.
He joined Dimension Data in 2005 following a successful spell as a security technologist with the South African Reserve Bank, where he was responsible for the operation and management of the security management centre. Over the last seven years, he has advanced consistently through the ranks, from his initial role as a pre-sales consultant, to that of CTO and most recently, general manager for security technology and operations (technology director), South Africa.
In such a highly competitive and rapidly evolving industry, relevance is critical. Samresh is continually building on his formal education, acquiring numerous professional certifications through recognised industry leaders while keeping a keen edge to his skills set. In 2008 |
Mother of fair love, I look to you: Take into your Holy Family Church ministry: The Notre Dame du Lac Grotto Buy a Brick Program | is an ongoing project that will provide for completion, maintenance and improvement to the grotto. If interested in purchasing a brick in honor of a loved one, you can call the church office at 563-2325. Your support would be greatly appreciated.
Way of the Cross and all-day confessions: The Way of the Cross will be at 6 p.m. every Friday during Lent followed by Mass at 6:30 pm. Confession will be available as usual 30 minutes before each Mass, and the priest will also be available in the confessional most Saturdays of Lent from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Easter flowers: We are now accepting donations for Easter flowers in memory of loved ones.
Donation: The Holy Family St. Vincent de Paul (poor box) wishes to thank the people of our parish for making it possible during the year to meet some of the needs of our community/parishioners. Thanks also to all others who donate |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Britain's Prince Harry, on a lightning visit to the United States to promote the 2016 Invictus Games, was hosted | at the White House's Oval Office on Wednesday (Oct 29), after attending a basketball game with the First Lady.
Launched in London in 2014, the games for injured service personnel, founded by the British prince, hold their second edition in Orlando, Florida, in May next year.
The 31-year-old Prince Harry joined Mrs Michelle Obama and Mrs Jill Biden, the US Vice-President's wife, at the Fort Belvoir military installation in Virginia to meet injured troops - and together promote the event.
Sporting a blue suit - and beard - Prince Harry sat between the first and second lady through a game of wheelchair basketball, as Mrs Obama pumped up the room, saying: "It's a game, come on!"
Prince Harry promised next year's Games would be "four really intense days of sport", while Mrs Obama quipped she must "apologise to him in advance for all the gold medals America will win".
"I know everyone involved is working to |
Has Libya bucked the Islamist trend?
It is difficult to sum up the alliance of parties that has done so well in Libya's first elections | since the overthrow of Col Muammar Gaddafi.
The National Forces Alliance (NFA), led by ex-interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, gained more than double the seats of its Islamist rivals.
So should its MPs be described as secularist liberals or moderate modernists?
The reality is that those in the alliance are largely unknown, expect for Mr Jibril - whose face was one everyone recognised when they went to the polls.
When it comes to their politics, Libyans certainly believe that the NFA is "liberal", but the word "secular" is not used.
Mr Jibril himself has already declared that his party shall refer to Sharia for guidance in legislation.
So do these final preliminary results, pending a two-week window for any legal appeal, mean the conservative North African country is less religious than neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt, where Islamists did well in recent post-revolutionary elections?
Libyans do not need politicians to |
There's a growing number of online video-related gifts being touted for the holidays, and that could be a sign consumers are warming to the idea | that it's the way to go.
Visible Measures tabulated its list of 10 brands whose videos got the most views in 2013, a list that's different than Unruly's earlier list of the most shared video ads of the year.
Does the World Clamor for Katie Couric, Global Anchorwoman?
Katie Couric, Global Anchor, has a pretty cool ring to it, though what that job at Yahoo means still seems to be up in the air. But it buys Yahoo a lot more attention.
It's been a long time since sports reporting was a simple biz: Online video supplier CineSport just partnered with mega-powerful TLA so that sports rep firm's clients will work closely with CineSport; and Kaltura makes a better app.
Nielsen says 75% of smartphone and tablet users engage with second screen content once or more a month. But it seems more typically, second screen users are using the ancillary |
Exactly one century ago, the renowned British writer G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), called by his admirers the greatest | writer and thinker of the twentieth century, published a curious novel titled The Flying Inn. On the cusp of World War I, he imagined the Ottoman Empire conquering Great Britain and imposing Shari'a law.
Notoriously absentminded, G.K. Chesterton tended to do his writing wherever he found himself.
Chesterton rides this implausible scenario as a vehicle to ridicule progressivism – that same arrogant, "scientific," top-down, and leftist approach to government that characterizes the age of Obama. "The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes" Chesterton rightly explained, and The Flying Inn mordantly exposes their failings. Along the way, his vision of an Islamized sceptered isle has arresting features deserving celebration on its centenary.
Chesterton tells of a war in which "the greatest of the Turkish warriors, the terrifying Oman Pasha, equally famous for his courage in war and his cruelty in peace" wins a famous victory over British |
Follow the money. Kids may not realize a tweet or a meme (an image that goes viral) is actually an advertisement. But if it's | from a company, it's promotional. Ask kids about the tricks marketers use to disguise what are really ads – for example, tweets, memes, and filters on Snapchat that actually promote brands. Does it make a brand cool if it can fool you? Or does it make them seem desperate to seem like a cool kid?
Talk about age gates – and how easy it is to get around them. You're supposed to enter your birth date to see online content that's intended for adults, such as sites that sell vaping equipment. But age gates are easy to get around. Ask kids if they or their friends are more tempted to buy drug paraphernalia online because no one is checking their ages.
What's missing? From movies such as Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle to memes that treat marijuana as a joke, it's all fun and games until you overdose, have a bad experience, become demotivated, or hurt yourself. Talk about the real aftermath of getting high and how the |
Zürich Zoo is part of a European programme to save endangered species.
Two little golden lion tamarins, an endangered species of monkey | , have recently been born in Zürich Zoo, taking to 11 the number in the Swiss zoological park.
They were born on February 5 and follow their mother everywhere for the moment, clinging firmly to her back, the zoo said on Wednesday.
This endangered South American species lives in a family, feeding on insects, lizards, small amphibians, fruit, leaves or sap.
At the end of the 1960s there were some 600 individuals in their natural habitat in Brazil, but a few years later there were no more than 100 to 200.
Zürich Zoo is participating in a European animal conservation programme which helped reintroduce 146 golden lion tamarins into the Brazilian wild between 1984 and 2000. In 2005, the resulting population had grown to 589 individuals. In 2006 there were also some 220 other individuals resulting from transfers from an endangered natural habitat to a protected environment.
The endangered Asiatic lion is threatened by a contagious virus in India. In a worst- |
Kourtney Kardashian: Scott Disick Is PISSED I'm Dating Younes Bendjima!
by Tyler Johnson at January 18, | 2018 12:35 pm.
At this point, we're not even sure if Kourtney Kardashian is still dating Younes Bendjima, but for a long time, those two were inseparable.
Keeping Up With the Kardashians has a production lag-time of several months, so viewers are just now getting some insight into what Kourtney and Younes' relationship looked like.
And not surprisingly, Scott Disick isn't thrilled with the view.
Scott is dating Sofia Richie these days, but he still doesn't want baby mama Kourtney to move on.
Dude has the emotional maturity of a teenager, which is fitting since the father of three is currently dating a teenager.
Anyway, we've known for quite some time that Scott was not happy when he found out about Kourtney and Younes, but we're just now hearing the story from a firsthand source.
A preview from the upcoming episode of KUWTK shows K |
Keyshia Cole appears to be madly in love with her much younger boyfriend Niko Khalé.
Happy BDay to My libra | , I appreciate you, I love you, and thankful for your presence, Sooo So happy we were able to spend our BDays TOGETHER, You’ve also been inspiring me, to not give up on my music, in times of being discouraged, Your work ethic has been impeccable! Soo I gotta show Your new project, that you released TODAY, Some love!!!! Keep grinding Maaaa Doooooo!!!! It gets better!!! #ONMYOWN EP OUT NOW., By @nikokhale You guys check it out and let me kno what u think!?
The pair apparently hit a rough back in June, however, when Keyshia deleted all of her Instagram photos and made her account private and Niko deleted most of the pics and videos of Keyshia he had on his page as well.
At the time, Niko posted a photo of himself with the caption “What’s far fetched to a dog off the leash? |
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A single mother of eight young children was shot to death by an ex-boyfriend during an argument | over money for diapers and baby wipes, police said in a criminal complaint.
Markese Reese, 20, of Penn Hills, was arrested late Tuesday and jailed without bond on a charge of criminal homicide in the death of 28-year-old Marqua Wilson, of Pittsburgh.
Allegheny County court records show Wilson had obtained a protection-from-abuse order against Reese in 2013, identifying him as the father of one of her children and saying he had been physically abusive when they lived together in McKeesport, a Pittsburgh suburb. Reese was charged with violating that order in October 2014 by breaking into her home and throwing things, then stabbing her in the arm with a grill fork when she tried to leave.
Online court records show burglary and other charges filed in the 2014 incident were withdrawn, but it wasn't clear why. Courts were closed Wednesday for Veterans Day, and the actual documents could not be accessed.
Despite that history, Wilson allowed Reese to visit Sunday night into Monday, |
Dr. Crema completed his medical degree the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro School of Medicine, Uberaba-MG, Brazil. | Dr. Crema completed his training in Radiology at the Department of Radiology of Saint-Antoine Hospital, University Paris VI, Paris, France. He is a French and Brazilian board-certified radiologist. In addition to his academic position at Boston University, Dr. Crema is the section head of musculoskeletal radiology at HOME Hospital/FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Brasilia-DF, Brazil. He is Research Assistant Professor of Radiology at Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital in Doha, Qatar. He is also director of research of the Radiology Department at Hospital do Coração (HCor), São Paulo-SP, Brazil. Dr. Crema’s research interest includes imaging of musculoskeletal diseases, with a focus on osteoarthritis, cartilage, and sports medicine. He has presented several sports injury related educational exhibits and lectures at various international radiological conferences, including the International |
A year after Last Man Standing was canceled by ABC, the multi-camera comedy starring Tim Allen is plotting a comeback on a new network. Last | Man Standing producer 20th Century Fox TV is in talks with sibling Fox Broadcasting Co. for a new season of the series, which would be its seventh.
I hear star and executive producer Allen has closed a deal to return. 20th TV is currently in conversations with other cast members as well as members of the series’ creative team, including producers, to come back. Two of the key Last Man Standing series regulars, Nancy Travis and Hector Elizondo, are tied to other multi-camera comedies at the moment. Travis stars in the upcoming Netflix comedy series The Kominsky Method while Elizondo is a lead of the pilot Guess Who Died, which is in contention at NBC.
Insiders caution there are still many deals to close and the show’s return is by no means a sure thing but there are promising signs that a seventh season is possible. Fox and 20th TV declined comment.
Fox actually seriously considered rescuing Last Man Standing last May, following its surprise |
Professional news agencies should know better than to swipe a photo from Twitter without permission, critics say.
Let’s say you’re | an overworked journalist (is there any other kind?) on a tight deadline for a big story about a natural disaster. You find the perfect photo of said disaster on Twitter. Without asking the owner of said photo, you repost it to your news organization’s website, but you give the photographer full credit. No problem, right?
Not so fast. In a landmark copyright judgment on Monday, a Manhattan district judge ruled that two major news outlets infringed on the copyrights of Daniel Morel, the photographer whose horrific images of the 2010 Haiti earthquake were disseminated to various news organizations, without his permission, after he posted them on Twitter. The French newswire Agence France-Presse (AFP), which first obtained the photos from Twitter and shared them with the stock-photo service Getty Images, was cited in the judgment, along with the Washington Post.
The ruling brings a bit of closure to a highly watched three-year legal battle, one of the first to address |
In early discussions that began in the last several weeks that apparently included a face-to-face meeting last week, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and | Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer are finally talking about search and also advertising partnerships the companies could possibly strike, said several sources with knowledge of the situation.
According to a variety of sources, the talks between the pair (pictured here) and other execs at both companies are preliminary and wide-ranging, focused on what kind of commercial relationship Yahoo and Microsoft could have in the future.
But, cautioned sources close to Yahoo, the discussions are not about a renewed acquisition attempt by Microsoft and also might not result in any deal.
In any case, investors will likely cheer any kind of productive re-engagement between Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT), which has been lacking since a tense takeover effort by the software giant went south last year after an ugly battle that soured relations between the two companies.
Both Yahoo and Microsoft declined to comment about the talks.
The change in leadership at Yahoo has helped, especially since Bartz–a Silicon Valley veteran with much deal experience |
Sheboygan County prosecutors charged Jesse L. Lider Jr. with attempting to flee or elude an officer.
SHEBOYGAN | – A motorcyclist who police say popped a wheelie before leading an officer on a 60-plus-mph chase through residential Sheboygan neighborhoods this weekend is facing a felony.
Sheboygan County prosecutors charged Jesse L. Lider Jr. with attempting to flee or elude an officer on Monday, a day after police reported chasing him across the city’s north side. If convicted, the 26-year-old Sheboygan man could face up to 3½ years in prison and on extended supervision, along with as much as a $10,000 fine.
Lider, whose license police said was suspended at the time of the chase, could also face a 6-month revocation if convicted.
An officer first noticed the red-and-white Honda motorcycle traveling at an estimated 50 mph along the 1700 block of Martin Avenue on Sunday morning. Near the intersection of Martin Avenue and 18th Street, the officer said he saw the cyclist perform a wheelie, driving |
The author from Florida wants to encourage people to rise above their adversity and work towards their goals.
A book of quotations to jumpstart a positive | attitude.
Alene Sheffield knows what it’s like to grow up poor and in the ghetto. She also knows how to deal with the hardships and changes in life in a positive way. Learning from her experiences, she thrived and even went on to author a motivational book titled “If I Can, You Can Too: A Book of Inspirational Sayings” (Xlibris, 2018).
Though a well-written, illustrated biography could have served Sheffield’s noble purpose of inspiring others with her story, a book of motivational quotes will speak volumes. But unlike most quotation references, “If I Can, You Can Too” highlights not the quotes but the way she lived her life and the way she would handle life’s tough situations.
A compact book with a tremendous impact for anyone who will take the moment to reflect on the quotes and the reflections that accompany them and learn from the author’s examples, “If I |
GAINESVILLE �Given the Gators� rich draft history, last year�s dismal showing in the NFL Draft was equal parts stunning and revealing | .
GAINESVILLE � Given the Gators� rich draft history, last year�s dismal showing in the NFL Draft was equal parts stunning and revealing.
Florida had only two players taken: defensive tackle Jaye Howard in the fourth round; running back Chris Rainey in the fifth.
The same elite program that was the story of the draft only two years earlier � with three players going in the first round and nine overall � fell to irrelevant in 2012.
The Gators could have one player among the first three selected � defensive tackle Sharrif Floyd. Following Floyd, eight or nine more Gators could hear their names called in New York City.
Floyd might not be the only Gator taken in tonight�s first round. Safety Matt Elam�s stock has been rising over the past few weeks and some are projecting he�ll go late in the first round.
�Really, the only downside is his height, and there�s nothing you can do about that |
(dpa) - The US Justice Department Wednesday said it was convinced that a top government scientist who committed suicide last week was the sole person responsible | for the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks that terrified the nation.
Bruce Ivins was set to be indicted last week for the anthrax-laced mailings, sent only weeks after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The department earlier Wednesday unsealed hundreds of court documents it believed proved that Ivins had sent the letters.
"We believe that, based on the evidence we have collected, we could prove his guilt to a jury beyond reasonable doubt," said Jeffrey Taylor, US attorney for the District of Colombia.
Ivins, 62, worked as an anthrax researcher at the government's elite bio-defence laboratory in Fort Detrick, Maryland. He had never been officially named as a suspect, but the court documents reveal that search warrants for his property were issued as early as October 2007.
The documents provided extensive details of the growing case against Ivins, who died last week of an overdose of prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine.
"We were able |
Monica Popp just wants to win.
After more than a decade climbing the rungs of American politics, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn | ’s chief of staff said muscling legislation across the Senate floor is what gets her blood flowing.
Senate Republicans have a razor-thin majority. Popp — and Cornyn (R-Texas) — are charged with building internal coalitions to push legislation through the chamber. She started as Cornyn’s chief of staff almost three years ago, and her job is to understand what makes her conference’s members tick and what they want in a bill for them to vote for it.
Popp is the daughter of Portuguese immigrants and grew up in both New York and Shreveport, La. Early in her studies at Texas A&M, she wanted to be a doctor. She worked as a public-school math teacher for a year before moving to Washington, where she ended up working for then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s Washington office for a couple of years before “turning the lights off” at Health and Human Services at the end |
Charlottesville police say two men picked the wrong students to rob at gunpoint and are behind bars, badly beaten by their victims.
Charlottesville | police say two men picked the wrong students to rob at gunpoint. The robbery suspects are behind bars, badly beaten by their victims.
Both suspects have severe injuries to their faces, but the victims - we're told - are doing just fine. The pair who allegedly attempted an armed robbery had the tables turned on them Tuesday night, becoming victims themselves, so to speak.
Johnny Calderon Jr., 19, is facing four charges: two for attempted robbery, one for pointing a firearm and one for using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Calderon has a lot of bruising on his face, but he was not as badly injured as Gerald Allen. Allen's right eye is swollen shut. Allen, 18, is facing a pair of attempted robbery charges.
Police say the suspects, both from Charlottesville, had to be taken to the hospital before going to jail Tuesday night.
The robbery happened along the 2300 block of Fontaine |
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