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LinkedIn is a helpful tool in your job search for both networking purposes and staying informed about current trends and issues in the field of education. Below are | a few suggestions to effectively utilize LinkedIn as you begin your job search.
Groups: Click on the Groups tab to instantly connect with thousands of passionate educators around the country! Some education-focused groups to consider include National Science Teachers Association, Kappa Delta Pi, National Education Association, National Association for Music Education, and Council for Advancement and Support of Education, among many others. Once you join the group, search through the Members section to identify professionals to contact in your target school or geographic location.
Alumni research: Visit www.linkedin.com/alumni to research your college or university alumni according to a specific school, district, or geographic location.
Follow schools or districts: Type a school or district name in the Companies tab to search for its profile page. Once you identify the organization's profile page, click the yellow Follow button in the upper right-hand corner. The organization's updates and job openings will now begin appearing in your news feed, providing instant updates about your |
TO a true wine enthusiast, the letters ABC have one meaning: anything but chardonnay. It's a polite way of indicating that a | strident minority are bored with America's favorite white wine and are looking for something new and different.
What's more, it doesn't take much time in a liquor store to discover that plenty of wine fans feel the same about the popular reds -- cabernet sauvignon, zinfandel and yes, even merlot.
There are plenty of substitutes, of course: pinot noir is on a roll; the Rhone grapes -- syrah, mourvedre, grenache -- are popular; white grapes like pinot blanc, pinot gris and that flashy newcomer viognier are all welcome at most people's tables. Even the much-maligned riesling has its champions.
Face it, however: This list is tame stuff. To the true adventurer, it offers little. Fortunately, there is another wine world out there, a place where genuine rarities exist, where there are wines guaranteed to vanquish enological en |
Kodak's ESP Office 2170 color inkjet multifunction printer (print, scan, copy, fax) aims at the home-office | market, highlighting its affordable ink and its very economical purchase price ($150 as of 09/16/2011). Unfortunately no perfect multifunction exists at this price point; the ESP Office 2170’s particular weaknesses are minimal features, slow performance, and mediocre output quality on plain paper.
To Kodak’s credit, the ESP Office 2170 is very easy to use. Installation via Wi-Fi or USB is straightforward, and the control panel’s labeled buttons are refreshing in their one-to-one functionality. The unit also features a readable, if small, 1.5-inch LCD screen. The software handles all multifunction chores ably.
Paper-handling features on the ESP Office 2170 are minimal. The only input is the vertical 150-sheet feed at the back of the unit, and duplex printing is manual only. The output tray pulls out the front of the unit and holds approximately 50 sheets. The flatbed scanner under the automatic document |
Alt Disney once wanted the image of Mickey Mouse to be everywhere. But it’s safe to say he never wanted the icon of his family | -friendly empire emblazoned on the chest of Azealia Banks.
In the video for her song “212,” the Harlem-born rapper wears a sweater with a smiling Mickey on the front. And if Uncle Walt could hear Banks’ sexually aggressive rhymes, he’d roll over in his frozen death chamber.
Banks, who turned 21 on Thursday, has become a darling of the hip-hop world, garnering shout-outs from the likes of Eve and Kanye West (who called her “the future of music”) thanks to the unprintably raunchy chorus of “212.” The ribald catchphrase has since been echoed on uncensored T-shirts, for sale via her Web site.
But the in-your-face rapper, who plays the Hot 97 Summer Jam today and Bowery Ballroom tonight, has more going for her than just a filthy mind.
As the music |
DENVER, CO, Oct. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - GrowGeneration Corp. (OTCQX: GR | WG), ("GrowGen USA" or the "Company") one of the largest specialty retail hydroponic and organic gardening stores, selling to both the commercial and home cannabis markets, with currently 19 locations, today announced Zacks Small-Cap Research Analyst Steven Ralston, C.F.A. has initiated coverage of GrowGeneration Corp. Zacks' $7.40 per-share price target is based on TTM sales through the just-completed third quarter of 2018 and predicated on attaining an 8.3 industry average P/S multiple. Darren Lampert and Michael Salaman are presenting speakers at the Dawson James Small-Cap Conference, on October 30, 2018, in Jupiter, Fla. A copy of the Zacks report and the Dawson James presentation are available on our website at www.GrowGeneration.com.
Generally, the appropriate valuation methodology for retailers is based on P/E (Price/Earnings), which is a reasonable valuation |
Levine thinks Barbie unfairly gets a bad rap. A doll is just a doll; it all depends on what you do with her.
Brad | ley Justice, a member of the club and owner of the Swell Doll Shop in Chapel Hill, said he thinks Barbie dolls have endured because they have changed through the decades, allowing children to see parts of their own culture in the dolls.
“For me, it’s that she’s always reflected the times,” he said.
Theresa Castro, a member of the club, was a 5-year-old when she received her first Barbie in 1965. Her doll was a model from two years earlier that took time to reach her home in Alaska.
Castro didn’t know quite what to make of the package that had showed up on her doorstep, but she quickly grew to love Barbies, particularly because the dolls offered a window into fashion. She learned to sew so she could make them clothes and is grateful they offered her a chance to be creative.
Erica Pettruci, 9, and Ashton Lawley, 9, both |
Yellowstone is a wild place of fire and ice. The first son of the United States national parks system, and the first national park in the | entire world, is a rich ecosystem of wild creatures and geothermal wonders. With snow capped peaks and alien-looking hot springs, Yellowstone’s diversity prompts millions to visit the high altitude Serengeti yearly.
While Old Faithful performs on schedule every hour or so, much of the park changes year over year. Hotbeds of geothermal activity spread and recede. The animals behave unpredictably, taking cues from weather, water level, and crowds. In one year a visitor may see only a handful of bison, but the next year, thousands may come into view at the same location on the same day. And the holy grail of Yellowstone, a bear sighting, is likely in some years and near impossible in others. (Check out these tips to safely exist among bears in the wild) This dynamism provides a unique experience even for repeat visitors.
From stopping at Bison traffic jams to kneeling quietly at a shady brook to watch a mossy antle |
Movies at AMC Theater (Platte River Mall) – “Captain Marvel” “Dumbo” “Shaz | am” “Us “ “Missing Link” “After” Schedule subject to change, see amctheaters.com.
Ongoing Prairie Arts Center (416 N. Jeffers) – The Art Guild/Platte Painters art show. Open Tues-Sat each week, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Sutherland School, north gym (401 Walnut) – ‘Slide into Spring’ fundraiser 5:30, Easter egg hunt 6:45 p.m. Hamburgers, hot dogs, potato soup, dessert, silent auction.
St. Pat’s Church Parish Hall (415 N. Chestnut) – Fish Fry. 7:30 p.m. $7/adults, $3/kids 10 & under.
Espresso Shop (419 N. Dewey) — Open Mic Nite, 7-9:30 p.m. Food and refreshments on |
REGIONAL law firm Andrew Jackson has recruited senior solicitor Joanne Brennan to its growing property department.
With more than 20 years’ specialist | experience covering both freehold and leasehold properties, Mrs Brennan will provide residential conveyancing services from the firm’s York office at York Science Park.
• ENGINEERING company Portasilo, which specialises in the design and manufacture of bulk material handling systems, has made two key appointments to strengthen its sales and project teams.
With almost 40 years’ experience of the industry, Kevin Storey joins the senior management team as head of sales.
The appointment marks a return to the Shepherd Group, which owns Portasilo, as Mr Storey started his career as an apprentice at Shepherd Engineering Services.
Also joining the company is Joe Ellerton who has been recruited to the drawing office as project engineering manager responsible for mechanical and electrical design.
• JANE TYLER, managing director of York-based RedBlack Software has joined the executive committee of the British Society of Baking (BSB).
RedBlack Software is the creator of the CyBake range of |
A view of tall trees and low walls encircling this oasis city is the first sign that the high-speed train has reached Hami | in the Gobi desert, in the east of the mostly-Muslim Xinjiang autonomous region.
Outside the sleek, white metal snake of a train, nature’s palette slowly changes from pale yellow loess soil to dark, almost black, terrain, as the train cuts through the desert at speeds of more than 200 km/h, halving the travel time between Urumqi, the region’s capital, and Hami, to three hours.
The 530km route marks the first completed stage in a projected 1,775km line between Urumqi and Lanzhou, the capital of next-door Gansu province, far closer to the Chinese heartland.
Once, Hami – known for its sweet melons that grow in the desert oasis – was a busy trading post along the ancient Silk Road linking Asia and Europe. Now it may be poised to retake that role, as a key point on a “New Silk Road” project, introduced |
The new Grousbeck Center for Students and Technology at Perkins School for the Blind.
WATERTOWN - I’m walking down | a corridor in a new building at the Perkins School for the Blind. With me are the architect, Graham Gund of Cambridge, and Steven Rothstein, the school’s president.
We’re used to thinking of architecture as a visual art, not something you listen to. But this is a school for the blind.
I step back and forth between the room and the corridor. Yes, I can hear the difference. The sound of our voices in the room is slightly less reverberant than it was in the corridor.
Gund and Rothstein point to the ceilings. They make the difference. The ceiling above the corridor is lower, and it’s made of a material that reflects sound rather than absorbing it.
A richly modeled panel on an interior wall.
This is a building you can understand and navigate with your ears.
The building is the Grousbeck Center for Students and Technology. It’s a place with many purposes. It� |
After opening to much fanfare three years ago, Coca-Cola is shutting down The Founders program, according to a published report in Innovation Leader. | Under this program, the company nurtured young startups, hoping to siphon some of that entrepreneurial energy and pass it along to the big lumbering corporation.
Over the last several years, companies have recognized the need to innovate, and the larger the company, the more difficult it is. David Butler, who, according to the report, has left the company, ran the program as VP of innovation. The company launched the program with the idea of giving startups with cool ideas some seed money — a million or less — along with access to the vast resources only a company the size of Coca-Cola could provide.
Butler would scout the startups, then connect the ones he liked with an advisor, who could help them navigate the big company. These types of programs have popped up at large companies over the last several years, including such well-known and varied brands as McDonald’s, CVS, Fidelity and GE.
As Butler told me a couple of years ago at Web |
A man has been arrested after allegedly attacking a woman with a biscuit in Nashville.
An affidavit from Metro Nashville Police said officers were called to | 2301 Murfreesboro Pike on Aug. 19 in response to a domestic disturbance. A Google Maps search shows a BP gas station at that address.
A woman told police that she was in the backseat of her boyfriend’s car when the suspect threw a biscuit that hit her in the face. The victim reported being in pain after the incident.
When they left the area, the suspect allegedly charged after her and punched the hood of the car, leaving a large dent. He then yelled, “I’ll kill you mother f***er,” the police report said.
The victim said she was “very much in fear” and believed she would have been hurt had her boyfriend and another person not intervened.
Police later arrested Jeffrey L. Tomerlin on a charge of public intoxication. Officers said he smelled of alcohol and his level of intoxication was so high that he may have been a danger to himself.
The affidavit also said |
A layer of salt covered Atlantic Avenue in Boston in preparation for this weekend’s storm.
Our weekend storm is still on track, and | Boston’s trend for less snow continues. I’m still thinking that the city will get just under 6 inches of snow with perhaps even less if the change-over occurs a little earlier. Notice that the 1- to 3-inch line isn’t too far away from Boston.
There could be a few snow showers Saturday afternoon as the winds turn easterly off the water. These showers won’t be the main event, but they could put a brief coating in a few spots right at the water’s edge.
Overnight, the snow will move into the area between 7 and 10 p.m. It will become steadier and heavier, falling quite hard around midnight with a rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour.
While that’s happening, warm air will be flooding northward at high levels in the atmosphere, changing the snow to sleet. The exact time of the changeover will determine how much snow falls. Since |
It's a rare occurrence indeed when a Maryland State Police Medevac lands in the middle of Bel Air, but that's exactly what happened around | noon Monday, when one of the sleek helicopters touched down in the middle of Shamrock Park.
That was a rousing start to the week for 32 children participating in the Bel Air Police Department's Youth Camp, who had an opportunity to see the helicopter up close and personal.
As the Medevac gently landed, most of the campers stood on the stage of the park's William A. Humbert Amphitheater, some waving amid the noise and updrafts from the rotors.
Once the rotors had stopped, the children and some parents with phones and cameras, as well as a few passersby, made a beeline for the helicopter.
The five-man crew, which included pilots and trooper medics, spent about one hour talking with the children and adults about the various missions the AgustaWestland AW139 aircraft is used for, the helicopter's capabilities, their jobs as pilots and medics and what type of training and education is required. |
GENEVA -- The United States and Russia say they have resolved a number of issues standing in the way of restoring a nationwide truce to Syria and opening | up aid deliveries, but were unable once again to forge a comprehensive agreement on stepping up cooperation to end the brutal war that has killed hundreds of thousands.
After meeting off-and-on for nearly 10 hours in Geneva on Friday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov could point to only incremental progress in filling in details of a broad understanding to boost joint efforts that was reached last month in Moscow.
Their failure to reach an overall deal highlighted the increasingly complex situation on the ground in Syria -- including new Russian-backed Syrian government attacks on opposition forces, the intermingling of some of those opposition forces with an al-Qaida affiliate not covered by the truce, and the surrender of a rebel-held suburb of Damascus -- as well as deep divisions and mistrust dividing Washington and Moscow.
The complexities have also grown with the increasing internationalization of what has largely become a proxy war between regional and world powers, highlighted by a move by Turkish troops across the Syrian |
Al Qaeda militants swept into the southern Yemeni town of Rada overnight and overran it within hours, in a key military advance by the Islamists, | local and tribal officials said on Monday.
The takeover of Rada, 130 kilometres (80 miles) southwest of Sanaa, was the latest in a series of southern towns and cities to fall as Al Qaeda takes advantage of a weakened central government reeling from months of protests.
Rada lies only 30 kilometres from the main highway connecting the capital Sanaa and Yemen's southern and southwestern regions.
"Al Qaeda has taken over the town and is now the de facto power there," a local official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"The government's security forces have retreated to their bases and militants are now manning the checkpoints in and out of the town," he added.
The official, a senior member of the local government, said the militants had also seized the town's central prison and police headquarters.
According to a local tribal chief, more than 100 prisoners were released, "including members of Al Qaeda." Two soldiers guarding the prison were killed, local officials said.
The |
DOVER TWP. - Fred Couples, a former Masters champion and a two-time PGA TOUR Player of the Year, will return | to the Treetops Resort to defend his title at the Tylenol Par-3 Shootout on Monday and Tuesday, June 30-July 1. Couples will face the fourth-ranked player in the world, Phil Mickelson; 2001 champion and $1 million hole-in-one winner Lee Trevino; and two-time major championship winner Fuzzy Zoeller at the spectacular Par-3 Threetops Course.
The event will be televised by ESPN on June 30 from 10 p.m.- midnight, and July 1 from 8-10 p.m.
The purse for the 18-hole tournament is $540,000 and an additional $1 million bonus is available for every hole-in-one. Each hole is worth $20,000, with a $10,000 bonus for the player hitting his shot closest to the pin. If the hole is not won, the money carries over to the next hole. If the hole is won, |
Before the Internet, editors compiled power lists using a complex system of favor-trading and slow-news-cycle holidays. Now, it's | done by algorithm! Anyone can indulge their narcissism and quantify their own "influence." But only one can be on top. Or several.
What's true for the Internet is true for Twitter: on the Internet, you can make your voice heard, if not necessarily listened to. Are men listened to more than women, as is often the case in previous public discourse? It depends which evidence you choose to read.
While women represent a greater portion of the overall Twitter population, men edged slightly ahead in terms of Twitter's top influencers. Yet that power balance shifts when looking at influence across the entire Twitterverse as women hold a higher level of influence within the general Twitter population.
Recently, Twitter Grader helpfully compiled a list of the top 100 female users. Sitting at the very top: a conservative woman named Jan Simpson.
She has 78,153 followers, though she follows even more than that. She tweets aggressively and sociably. Although her profile lists "Operation Rescue |
Tony Hoffman How to Catch a Glimpse of This Summer's Solar Eclipse Parts of Chile and Argentina, as well as a tiny Pacific island, | will briefly lie beneath the Moon's shadow during July 2's total solar eclipse. Here's what you need to know.
Parts of Chile and Argentina, as well as a tiny Pacific island, will briefly lie beneath the Moon's shadow during July 2's total solar eclipse. Here's what you need to know.
If you missed last August's solar eclipse, or caught it and are keen to repeat the experience, you will have another chance to spend some precious minutes under the totally eclipsed Sun this summer.
Granted, the eclipse of July 2 won't be nearly as conveniently placed for North Americans as last year's event, in which the Moon's shadow raced across the United States from Oregon to South Carolina. Most of the action this time will be in South America, namely Chile and Argentina, and no part of the US will witness even a partial eclipse. But it will give some intrepid souls a chance to witness one of nature's grandest spectacles from a distant part |
Interviews are on in Dublin at the end of March.
ONE OF CANADA’S hair salons is recruiting and they’ | re looking for Irish workers.
Diamond Global Recruitment needs to find 80 “outstanding, creative hair stylists to work in both men’s only and unisex salons”, mainly in Alberta.
Interviews will take place in Dublin on the 22nd and 23rd of this month, when candidates will get to show off their cutting and styling talents.
Diamond Global Recruitment are accepting applications now which can be posted directly on their website.
If you manage to impress and land the job, you’ll be starting in August or September this year.
As the jobs are skilled positions, the hairdressers will be eligible to apply for permanent residency after one year of their two year contract.
They can then bring over their families as spouses will be eligible to work as well.
Successful hairstylist applicants will get flexible working hours and excellent industry standard pay the equal of their Canadian colleagues, which is guaranteed by law. |
CES 2018 - MAINGEAR has unveiled their beautiful and beyond beasty new F131 Gaming Desktop with exclusive APEX Cooling, which looks | absolutely delicious.
The company has packed the new F131 gaming PC with some of the latest and greatest technology from Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and others. MAINGEAR has included support for the latest GPUs from both AMD and NVIDIA, while supporting AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper (up to 16C/32T) and Intel's best Core i9-7980XE with 18C/36T.
Don't worry if you're a multi-tasker or serious workstation user, MAINGEAR provides plenty of storage options alongside up to 64GB of DDR4 RAM.
But inside is where MAINGEAR has put a lot of its effort, which is their beautiful and unique APEX Cooling system which the company says is a self-contained and fully-integrated cooling system that was born out of a partnership with Bitspower. MAINGEAR's new APEX Cooling system sports dual pumps, pressure regulated parallel cooling, flow rate and temperature sensing, |
Urbana University, a branch campus of Franklin University will host a free 6-week Non-Violent Communication (NVC) Workshop beginning | Monday, Oct. 15. The free workshop, sponsored by the Alicia Titus Memorial Peace Fund, is open to all UU students, faculty, staff, alumni, high school students and community members. The workshop will be held on Mondays, Oct. 15 through Nov. 19, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Moore Conference Room on the lower level of the Urbana University Student Center.
This year’s offering marks the third 6-week Non-Violent Communication Workshop sponsored by the Alicia Titus Memorial Peace Fund, taught by NVC trained Diane Diller. The funds raised during the Alicia Titus Memorial Run for Peace and donations throughout the year help keep Alicia’s memory and spirit alive by providing programs and events for Urbana University and community that promote and support a culture of peace. Alicia longed for a world in which people would learn to get along with one another, and one of the first places we believe we must start is |
Christopher Cantwell, who talked tough in a Vice News documentary, whimpered in fear about getting arrested before turning himself over to authorities.
The | White nationalist featured in a documentary on the violence in Charlottesville surrendered Wednesday to Virginia authorities after they issued warrants for his arrest, the New York Times reports.
Christopher Cantwell participated in a torch-lit march at the University of Virginia on Aug. 11 and a White supremacist rally the next day, in which a 32-year-old female anti-racism activist was killed.
University of Virginia Police Department issued multiple charges against Cantwell, including two felony counts of illegal use of tear gas and one count of malicious bodily injury by means of a caustic substance. They said in a statement that the charges stem from an incident on the night of the march.
Cantwell told The Times last week that he believes the charges resulted from a photograph showing him pepper-spraying a counterprotester.
Cantwell, 36, portrayed himself in a Vice News documentary, viewed by millions, as a tough guy, spewing violent hatred for Black and Jews. He gained notoriety |
Havas Media Group has appointed Damien Terakes as client services director.
Following multiple new business wins and continued agency growth, the position will | see Terakes take on a senior management role across all Havas Media clients in Australia as well as several global accounts.
Terakes has built an impressive media career, with more than 30 years’ experience as a senior media professional.
Most recently coming from a client partner role that he held for the last four years, Terakes has established himself as a sought-after media leader.
He has led a multitude of large, industry-leading global clients and iconic Australian brands in the Automotive, Retail, Technology and Entertainment categories.
His award-winning work and experience in some of Australia’s leading media agencies will bring a wealth of experience to his new role.
Terakes said: “The role at Havas Media and to be a part of the Havas Group in Australia was an opportunity that I couldn’t pass up.
“Mike, Imogen and I share a common view that media is crucial to creating great communications and that intelligent and |
The school superintendent wants all three fired; the educators deny wrongdoing and seek School Board hearing.
Three Sparr Elementary School employees should be fired for | not stopping an 8-year-old special needs child from banging his head 30 times on a cabinet door, according to a School District administrative complaint.
Superintendent of Schools Heidi Maier’s complaint states that special needs paraprofessionals Brandi Stephens and Shivonne Bennett, and behavior technician Ronisha Johnson, should be fired for failing to protect the child during the March 14 incident.
“Video evidence was obtained showing the student was repeatedly banging his head on the cabinet door approximately 30 times and hitting his fist/hand approximately 32 times,” the complaint states.
According to documents submitted to the district, all three employees are seeking an administrative hearing before the School Board. All three employees’ attorneys dispute Maier’s allegation. The educators are suspended without pay pending those hearings.
Bennett is represented by David W. Glasser of Daytona Beach. In a letter, Glasser states that Bennett acted appropriately.
In Glasser’s lengthy |
The Politico may be right about the Democrats' failings, but it's wrong on the math.
We're usually right at the front of the | line when it comes to criticizing the Democratically controlled Congress for failing to do more to stop the war in Iraq, but the Politico's Jim VandeHei and John Harris jump ahead of us this morning: Adding up the math, they say that, "since taking the majority, Democrats have forced 40 votes on bills limiting President Bush's war policy. Not a single one has passed both chambers, even though both are run by Democrats."
It's a depressing number, one the Politico's Mike Allen is promoting as a "never-before-reported, debate-changing figure." Unless we're missing something, it's also wrong. In April, the House and the Senate both approved a bill that tied additional funding for the war to a timetable for ending it. The president vetoed it.
Update: We sent an email to VandeHei this morning pointing out the error, and he just responded with a message saying that he "agreed" and that the story has been "updated |
COLUMBUS — A steadily rising number of Lyme disease cases are being reported in Ohio transmitted by a tick that can be as small as a poppy | seed.
Every year since 2010, when Ohio’s first population of blacklegged deer ticks was discovered in Coshocton County, the number of people infected with Lyme disease has increased. Last year’s statewide total of 160 human cases of the disease is more than three and a half times the 2010 total.
Besides the increase in Lyme disease, more Ohioans are also reporting cases of other tick- related diseases, leading to concern about tick populations that used to be rare in the state.
Blacklegged deer ticks, which can transmit Lyme disease, are spreading, and one challenge in fending them off is that in their nymph stage, they’re easily overlooked, said Glen Needham, associate professor emeritus of entomology with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University.
The blacklegged deer tick has established populations in 30 to 40 counties in Ohio, primarily in the southern and eastern parts of the state, Need |
Microsoft’s Surface Pro with built-in LTE is now available online, one of a rare breed of Windows portables with integrated WWAN | connectivity. The Surface Pro with LTE Advanced was confirmed as in the pipeline back in September, a welcome return after Microsoft’s last cellularly-equipped Surface was discontinued several years ago.
Sales of the Surface Pro with LTE Advanced began for commercial customers in December of this year, though individual buyers were still out of luck. That changes today, with a listing for the tablet appearing on Microsoft’s online store.
For $1,449 you get a Core i5 based Surface Pro, with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of solid-state storage. It uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X16 LTE modem, though there’s a little disappointment there. Though the modem is theoretically capable of gigabit LTE speeds Microsoft has, according to Neowin, capped download rates at 450 Mbps.
If you’re willing to compromise on storage and RAM, meanwhile, there’ll eventually be a second configuration with LTE Advanced. Priced at $1,149 |
Nina Redenbacher, 91, the wife of popcorn entrepreneur Orville Redenbacher, died Wednesday in San Diego after a heart | attack. The Redenbachers moved to San Diego 15 years ago from Valparaiso, Ind., where they married in 1971. Mrs. Redenbacher frequently accompanied her husband on his promotional tours, but was never active on the business end of the popcorn operations.
John Gray Trezevant, 67, described as "the quintessential journalist" by former colleague Ann Landers, died Thursday in Tiburon, Calif. Mr. Trezevant, who began his career with the San Francisco Chronicle and later became an executive with the Field publishing organization in Chicago, died Thursday at Marin General Hospital after a short illness. The cause of death was not disclosed. Mr. Trezevant was on the editorial staff of the Chronicle from 1942 to 1955, and later was managing editor of Colliers magazine and an executive with the National Association of Broadcasters. He joined the Sun-Times in 1958 as the Sunday editor. He began editing the Ann Landers advice column while he |
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT, Philippines—A United States naval rescue and salvage ship docked in this freeport zone for repairs will | be sent to Masbate City on Tuesday to assist in the search and rescue operation for Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo and the two pilots of the light aircraft that crashed into the sea in that city on Saturday.
According to Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority Chairman Roberto Garcia, the USS Safeguard will leave the freeport for Masbate on Tuesday. “The ship will assist in the search for [Secretary] Robredo,” Garcia said in an interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The ship, at the Subic dry dock, a ship repair facility here, as of Monday night, has been in the freeport since August 2, workers there said.
“It came here for scheduled repairs. But we heard that it’s going to be [deployed to Masbate] to help in the search for Secretary Robredo,” said a worker in the facility.
The worker asked not to be named saying he has not been |
Clusters – or meteorites – of raisins, almonds and chocolate, these little gobbets are bite-sized confections the | Georgians were fond of. I first made them as a young apprentice chef at a small hotel just outside Dundee. Be sure to use the best chocolate, and the best nuts, you can find – if you’re short on time, slivered almonds will deliver a respectable result. Once made, it’s best to keep the chocolates away from heat as they might sulk into a great mass – something to be avoided at all costs, for this must then be scoffed and the cook will need to start all over again. Oh, what a shame that would be.
1 Set the oven to 180C/350F/gas 4. Line a tray or two with baking parchment.
2 Spread the almonds on another tray and roast for around 20 minutes, or until nut brown. Set aside until cool, then coarsely chop the almonds.
3 Put the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of simmering water. Do not be tempted to stir the |
LAS VEGAS — Minden industrialist Don Bently has been named a distinguished Nevadan by the University and Community College Board of Reg | ents.
Bently donated the 10-acre site for Western Nevada Community College’s Douglas campus.
The first building constructed on the campus, Bently Hall, is named after Bently.
He sold his company, Bently Nevada, to General Electric in January. Bently founded the company in 1961 with a workforce of three people.
When it sold, Bently employed more than 2,000 people worldwide, including 1,200 in the Carson Valley.
The company sponsored college scholarships for engineering students.
Bently served in the Pacific during World War II and worked on a farm before becoming a successful inventor.
Regents named Bently, Dr. Jesse Hall of Reno, James Edward and Alice Ray Smalley of Las Vegas, Dr. William Pearson of Las Vegas, J. Terrence Lanni of Las Vegas and former regent Tom Wiesner.
Each year, the Board of Regents select five Nevadans for the honor of being named |
A hit dog will always holler.
And right now, the Knicks are a whiny pack of canines.
People aren't really | fond of being exposed, and that's what LeBron James did on Saturday night when he commented on how good of a player Mavericks rookie point guard Dennis Smith Jr. is after the Cavaliers defeated Dallas, 111-104.
"The Knicks passed on a really good one," James said after Smith dropped 21 points, seven assists, two blocks and two steals on the Cavs. "Dallas got the diamond in the rough. He should be a Knick. That's gonna make some headlines but he should be a Knick. Dallas is definitely excited that he didn't go there."
Anybody who has any grasp of how to play basketball, or has seen Smith or Knicks rookie point guard Frank Ntilikina play, knows that Smith is better.
And the numbers don't lie.
Smith is currently averaging 14.8 points, along with 5.1 assists and 3.7 rebounds. Ntilikina is only averaging 4.4 points, five assists and 1.6 steals while |
The 55th Femina Miss India World 2018 winner is Anukreethy Vas from Tamil Nadu, while first runner-up is Meenak | shi Chaudhary from Haryana and Shreya Rao from Andhra Pradesh is the second runner-up.
Anukreethy Vas, a 19-year-old college student from Tamil Nadu, beat 29 other contestants from across India to win Femina Miss India 2018 on Tuesday after impressing judges, including former VJ Malaika Arora and cricketer Irfan Pathan. She was crowned by Miss World 2017 Manushi Chhillar.
Meenakshi Chaudhary, 21, from Harayana was declared the first runner-up, while Andhra Pradesh’s Shreya Rao Kamavarapu, 23, became the second runner-up in the annual beauty pageant.
Miss United Continents 2017 Sana Dua, and Miss Intercontinental 2017 Priyanka Kumari, crowned their respective successors.
Hosted by filmmaker Karan Johar and actor Ayushmann Kurrana, the glamourous ceremony |
Over the past two weeks, the law firm of Paul Hastings LLP has been probing allegations reported by Variety last month that Heather Parry, the head | of Live Nation Productions, had verbally abused employees and used offensive language in the workplace.
But the lead investigator, Elena Baca, seems to be just as interested in uncovering who leaked internal information, according to several sources who have spoken with the lawyer.
Parry was placed on leave on Dec. 21 in response to a Variety investigation of workplace abuse, which included allegations from 23 former employees of Live Nation and Happy Madison Productions, where she previously worked. The employees said she routinely denigrated her assistants and other staffers and spoke in offensive terms about women, gay people, and African-Americans.
Variety’s story included excerpts from an audio-taped meeting, in which Live Nation president Joe Berchtold and CFO Kathy Willard told employees that Parry was unlikely to significantly change her behavior, and that staffers should try to forgive her. Two days before the report was published, an anonymous person gained access to the Live Nations Prods.’ Twitter account and |
WASHINGTON—Iran’s foreign minister has denounced the partial reinstatement of U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban as a | “truly shameful exhibition of blind hostility to all Iranians” — and a measure that will prevent Iranian grandmothers from seeing their grandchildren in America.
Friday’s remarks by Mohammad Javad Zarif came after the Trump administration set criteria for visa applicants from the six Muslim-majority nations and all refugees that require a “close” family or business tie to the United States.
The guidelines sent to U.S. embassies and consulates initially said applicants must prove a relationship with a parent, spouse, child, adult son or daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law or sibling in the U.S. Later, the State Department and the Homeland Security Department added “fiancé” to that definition of “close familial relationship” — but not grandparents or grandchildren.
The scaled-back version of Trump’s travel ban is likely to generate a new round of court battles.
The new rules took effect Thursday evening |
From the Belfast News Letter of March 20 1738. This is in fact equivalent to March 31 1739 in the modern calendar, because there was | an 11-day time lag between the two calendars, and because the new year then began in late March, a few days after this edition.
We hear that the Malecontents of Corsica are charmed with the News they have received of the approaching arrival of the Lord Theodore their Sovereign, to whom they all declare, that they never had the least intention to sacrifice their integrity, in not acknowledging him as their Supreme, but reflect very much upon the imposition and cunning of France, by making them Hostages to that Kingdom, but laying that aside, are still resolved to maintain their Resolution, in not submitting in the least to the Genoese, &c/ to make an obstinate and vigorous Defence, and with Scorn have rejected the Regulation that was published against them; since which, Orders have been issued, that in case any of the Countrymen should for the Time to come, have in any Shape whatever, Correspondence with the Genoese, they shall suffer Death |
Despite the holiday-shortened trading week, the stock market has been pretty volatile to end the month of May. U.S. stocks are | under pressure Thursday amid renewed concerns over a global trade war. With that in mind, there were some winners and some losers making our top stock trades list.
Shares of Box Inc (NYSE:BOX) tanked about 9% despite beating on earnings per share and revenue estimates and providing guidance that was better than analysts’ estimates.
The pullback shouldn’t come as a surprise even with good numbers, as the stocks had a big rally from $18 in March to $28 this month.
I would have really loved to see Box retest the $24 level and show a violent rebound from there. Instead, it only got down to $24.50 before bouncing. At this point, it’s not clear if Thursday’s low is the short-term bottom or if it will ultimately retest $24. I happen to believe that BOX’s strong fundamentals and investors’ clear appetite for the stock will continue to drive it higher in 2018. |
April 27, 2016 Standards & Practices Editor Mark Memmott writes occasional notes about the issues journalists encounter and the way NPR handles them. | They often expand on topics covered in the Ethics Handbook.
April 25, 2016 Standards & Practices Editor Mark Memmott writes occasional notes about the issues journalists encounter and the way NPR handles them. They often expand on topics covered in the Ethics Handbook.
April 22, 2016 Standards & Practices Editor Mark Memmott writes occasional notes about the issues journalists encounter and the way NPR handles them. They often expand on topics covered in the Ethics Handbook.
April 20, 2016 Standards & Practices Editor Mark Memmott writes occasional notes about the issues journalists encounter and the way NPR handles them. They often expand on topics covered in the Ethics Handbook.
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Big week! Most of the top few shows we’ve seen data for already. The week was of course led by Nickelodeon� | �s iCarly: iFight Shelby Marx with nearly 7.9 million viewers. The summer/mid-season finale of Burn Notice was next with 7.59 million, followed by The Closer with 6.98 million and Royal Pains with 6.69 million.
The season premiere of the final season of Monk also made the top 20 (and the top 10) at number 6 with 5.14 million. Psych did not make the top 20, but by viewers it was tied for 25th with 3.979 million.
The impressive iCarly special only aired three times between Saturday and Sunday (the only days its aired so far that would be included for the week) and all three airings made the top 20. In addition to the top spot, it grabbed the 13th spot with 4.82 million and the 16th spot with 4.36 million. Additionally a 30 minute episode of iCarly that aired after the first airing of the special took the |
A bear became trapped in this vehicle. It was later determined to be totaled.
Purchase, store all trash in, and properly close bear- | resistant garbage containers.
Freeze strong-smelling leftovers, such as fish, until trash day to reduce the smell.
Wait to put trash out until the morning of collection day.
Keep garbage cans clean and deodorize them with bleach or ammonia.
Don’t leave trash, groceries, or animal feed in your car.
Refrain from putting out bird feeders from April through October.
Don’t leave any scented non-food products outside (or in your car), such as suntan lotion, lip balm, insect repellent, toothpaste, soap or candles.
Consider installing motion-activated outdoor lights, sprinklers and alarms, as well as electric fencing.
Harvest fruit off trees as soon as it is ripe, and promptly collect all fruit that falls.
Securely block access to potential hibernation sites, such as crawl spaces under decks and buildings.
Vegetable gardens, compost piles, or |
No, Democrats—the 25th Amendment won’t save you from Donald Trump.
And just like that, Trump is dispatched to Trump | Tower, or Mar-a-Lago, and Pence becomes acting president of the United States. Right?
Yes—assuming it’s a movie or a TV series or a Netflix or Amazon offering. This process, set down in Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, has been one of Hollywood’s favorite plot devices to spice up a political melodrama. As a real-life possibility, it requires a leap away from reality into a realm even Trump has delivered us; at least, not yet.
But it was the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 that spotlighted the need for a fix—in stark, almost morbid terms. When Lyndon B. Johnson took the rostrum in the House of Representatives on Nov. 27 to reassure a shaken nation, viewers were treated to distinctly unsettling sight. There was Johnson, who had barely survived a 1955 heart attack. Behind him sat John McCormack, the speaker of the House—a frail, almost |
Craig Levein will have to do without Ben Garuccio after losing him to a serious injury.
Hearts have lost left-back | Ben Garuccio to a long-term knee injury ahead of Saturday's Ladbrokes Premiership encounter with Aberdeen.
The Australian will miss 10 months of football after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament during Wednesday's training session this week.
With on-loan Manchester United defender Demetri Mitchell already sidelined for the rest of the campaign with a knee injury, it leaves Hearts manager Craig Levein light on options to fill in at left-back.
Levein said: “I was hoping it wasn’t going to be serious. There was nobody near him. He just twisted.
“Having experienced it myself, you just need to be in the wrong position and shift your weight.
"I feel really sorry for the boy. He had just got himself back in the team and was in a good place.
"When I found out, I was feeling a wee bit gutted for him to be |
KRYPTON an inert gas – is generally reluctant to enter into any kind of chemical relationship, either with itself or with another element. Now | , however, chemists at the University of Sussex have made ‘lumps’ or ‘clusters’ of krypton atoms that contain as many as 340 atoms.
Such clusters bridge the gap between the world of atoms and small molecules, and the world of bulk matter. Chemists are interested in such clusters because they are useful in the study of catalysts.
Paul Lethbridge and Tony Stace at the University of Sussex have carried out an investigation into how krypton clusters are formed and, subsequently, fall apart (Journal of Chemical Physics, vol 91, p 7685).
To create the clusters, the chemists passed gaseous krypton into a vacuum through a hole only 200 micrometres in diameter. This cooled the atoms, so that when they collided, the weak Van der Waals force between them was sufficient to hold them together (see New Scientist, Science, 4 November 1989).
Lethbridge and Stace used this |
In "Winterfell," the season eight premiere of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow had a big, death-defying moment with some dragons. | Yes, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) taught Jon Snow (Kit Harington) how to train her dragons. And by train, we mean she just told him to get on and hold on for dear life.
Jon did just that and soared around, flying for the first time. It was a spectacular scene, and one that required Harington to do quite a bit of rigging and greenscreen work, work typically reserved just for Clarke. It was work that almost ended Harington's life. Or so he says.
In "Game Revealed," a behind-the-scenes video released by HBO, Harington explained what happened to him when he got on the buck (which is basically like a mechanical bull).
"Buck work is not easy. I think what sums up the buck for me was there was a bit where Jon almost falls off," Harington said in the video below. "The dragon swings around really violently, like |
Canadians were furious last April over a decision by the country’s money laundering watchdog to impose an unprecedented $1.2-million | fine against a Canadian bank — and then refuse to name the bank, according to documents obtained by the National Observer and the Toronto Star.
“I am outraged that you would withhold the name of the bank you recently fined for failing to report suspicious transactions,” reads one public comment received by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) and obtained through an access to information request.
The agency tracked public reaction to the decision — internally and online — and noted nearly unanimous criticism from experts, journalists and the public.
The agency’s online announcement drew 548 page views on the first day — a 243-per-cent increase over traffic compared with typical penalty releases, the document says.
Even within government, officials were quietly worrying about FINTRAC’s refusal to name the bank, fearing it would cause all banks facing penalties to expect anonymity and could taint the entire financial industry with the actions of one institution.
Internal emails between officials |
The fossil record usually shows what adult animals looked like. But the appearance and lifestyle of juvenile animals often differ dramatically from those of the adults. A | classic example is provided by frogs and salamanders. New discoveries from Uppsala, Cambridge and Duke Universities, published in Science, show that some of the earliest backboned land animals also underwent such changes of lifestyle as they grew up.
Professor Per Ahlberg at the Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Uppsala University, together with Jennifer Clack, Cambridge University, and Viviane Callier, Duke University, have studied fossil upper arm bones from the two so-called "four-legged fishes", Ichthtyostega and Acanthostega, from Greenland. These animals, which lived during the Devonian period about 365 million years ago, were among the earliest vertebrates (backboned animals) with fore- and hindlimbs rather than paired fins. They belong to the common stem group of all living amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds.
The researchers have identified several half-grown, as well as fully grown, upper arm bones from |
Review: The rap-metal vets headlined Tuesday's grandstand concert, but it's hard to compete with a messiah-like actor.
| What an appropriate name for a concert at the Minnesota State Fair grandstand: The Carnivores Tour. Only problem was that the show’s most famous performer is well known to be a vegan.
Whether Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto managed to find something to eat amid the fair’s meaty, buttery, fatty offerings Tuesday, the “Dallas Buyers Club” star should have been happy about playing to his thickest Twin Cities crowd yet, after more than a decade of steady gigging here with his drama-heavy rock band 30 Seconds to Mars.
Leto’s group opened up for rap-rock kingpins and former arena headliners Linkin Park, and it was debatable which band had more appeal to the 14,454 fans. However, there wasn’t much debate over which group put on the more ecstatic, captivating, wow of a performance.
If God handed out job titles at birth, Leto’ |
Only difference this time i got the balls to tell them they dont care a bit about me. And i think this struck them, cause later, | the the T came to saying they do and i do not have to think the opposite.
Im at the last of my rope..
should i tell them i have means and intentions of harm myself or more, what would they do?
If you tell them, they will probably keep you IP longer, until the feelings dissipate. ((Hugs)) Stay Safe.
Wpuld they take away my things???
Probably, if you have them with you.
I told them and they did nothing. I met a nice person, but xcept for thst, im so free of falling down alone.
Ive been here a week. It helped with the urges during the day, but not with those at evening/night.
What am i supposed to do since doctors end their turns at evening and im left with nurses who dont know or understand? They give me a pill and it all should be gone for them.
Do you have an assigned nurse, in the |
The 49ers have lost four consecutive games and play again Monday at East Carolina.
“I’m still stunned, to be honest | ,” Price told the Observer. “I was called in (Thursday) morning and was told they were going to make a change.
“They said they didn’t like the direction of the program was taking and that I might have lost some of my players, which I don’t agree with. But we didn’t get quite as many wins as people wanted. That’s the reality of the business.
Price was hired to rebuild Charlotte’s program in 2015 after Alan Major’s five-year tenure.
Price came to the 49ers from the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets, where he was the team’s shooting coach. One of the top point guards in ACC (Georgia Tech) and NBA history, Price had no significant head coaching experience when he was hired by the 49ers to rebuild the program after Charlotte parted ways with Major after five seasons.
It wasn’t a long conversation. I obviously |
Veteran defense attorney Kirk McAllister is the go-to guy when people in the know get in trouble with the law.
A judge | who got caught driving drunk, custodial deputies accused of indiscretions with inmates, a city attorney who got in trouble over some bond sales in Waterford -- they all sought help from McAllister, who negotiated their plea deals.
He also is the guy Scott Peterson turned to while the world was looking for his wife, Laci, before celebrity attorney Mark Geragos of Los Angeles swept into town with his entourage.
Now, McAllister is giving legal insiders a peek at his playbook, for $249.95.
"Nobody has ever paid me to judge whether or not my client was guilty," McAllister said.
Attorney Kirk McAllister will host an e-book signing tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. at Tresetti's World Caffe, 927 11th St., Modesto. Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served. The e-book may be ordered at www.promakos.net or by calling 8 |
RUSH: We had this couple that called yesterday that said they are being asked by their church, who was asked by the Regime, to | house kids in their homes!
They were told, “Do not discuss this,” and they were so outraged by it, they called here and told me and you. I’m kind of surprised that didn’t get picked up anywhere. It did not get picked up anywhere. This is Bridenstine. He’s the Republican from Oklahoma who has been just outraged that you can’t get in to see these kids. I mean, they’re hiding them. They’re trying to shelter them.
BRIDENSTINE: That’s correct. The rules are very stringent. Number one: You can’t ask questions. Number two: There can be no recording devices. Number three: You can’t talk to any of the staff. You can’t talk to the children. You can’t talk to the medical personnel. And if you have questions, you can send an |
If there were a series called TV Show Police, I’m fairly certain E!’s trouble-filled Fashion Police would repeatedly serve | as the number one offender. The series has gone through its most tumultuous period yet in the last month – at least where the death of an icon isn’t concerned – and E! is packing it in for a while as Fashion Police is going on an extended hiatus.
Following the highly public exits of former co-hosts Kelly Osbourne and Kathy Griffin, NBCUniversal Lifestyle Networks Group president Frances Berwick has decided to pull up ties and toss out the remaining three Fashion Police episodes that were scheduled to shoot this spring. The play is to bring the show back this fall at some point, with a half-dozen or so episodes centering on different events, such as the Emmys and other award ceremonies.
This will also reportedly be a time of slight restructuring, according to THR, as Berwick did not take lightly to the harsh words used by Griffin in her self-lauding Twitter announcement, in which she backhandedly bashed the show for being too harsh to celebrities |
Marokopa, a female takahe, is released by Orokonui Ecosanctuary conservation manager Elton Smith yesterday. Photos | by Gerard O'Brien.
Two takahe arrived at Orokonui Ecosanctuary yesterday, one at a run and the other a bit more tentatively.
The breeding pair are Marokopa, the female, and Mohio, the male.
They arrived at Orokonui yesterday afternoon after a three-hour car ride from Burwood Bush, in Southland.
As soon as he was released, Mohio emerged at a run from the box he was transported in, quickly disappearing into the undergrowth and fog.
Marokopa came out a bit more hesitantly, peering around at her surroundings before wandering off.
Ecosanctuary conservation manager Elton Smith said that Marokopa had been raised at Burwood Bush, while Mohio was brought there after being bullied at Tiritiri Matangi, in the Hauraki Gulf.
"He was beaten up as a small bird, so they brought him down [to |
Moneybookers, the European PayPal alternative or “eWallet provider”, has announced that it is rebranding to Skrill. |
The new name, which will take over as the consumer-facing brand by the end of 2011, is said to better capture the “ease and functionality of the company’s online payment suite”. Of course, the word skrill (short for skrilla) is already a commonly used slang word for money or “dough”, according to the infamous Urban Dictionary, which definitely makes more sense.
Moneybookers Limited, which has been around for just under a decade, became the first e-money issuer to obtain an electronic money licence from the regulatory body the FSA and today claims over 15 million account holders and 70,000 merchants globally. While this year, Moneybookers was voted the UK’s fastest growing private-equity funded company by Deloitte and The Sunday Times. It’s apparently this “rapid growth” that has led Moneybookers to change its name.
Furthermore, Martin Ott, |
President Clinton told American business leaders today that corruption, environmental neglect, weak financial regulation and restrictive trade practices threaten China's growth and full entry into the | global economic system.
In an address to the American Chamber of Commerce here, Mr. Clinton said rapid economic growth has brought significant challenges to the Chinese Government and people.
He said the dynamic growth of the last 20 years and the rapid pace of reform have changed the lives of Chinese citizens, bringing more career choices and opportunities to run their own businesses, but also breaking the system of guaranteed lifetime employment as Beijing slashes payrolls at Government-owned enterprises.
''China's economy still is burdened with complicated and overlapping barriers,'' Mr. Clinton said in his 21-minute address at the Portman Ritz Carlton hotel. He said he hoped that Beijing would make the difficult decisions needed to bring China into the World Trade Organization on the same terms that govern the other members of the global trading body.
''China and, indeed, Shanghai, face major challenges in advancing economic progress beyond the present point,'' the President said.
He specifically cited the problems of inefficient state monopolies, weak legal |
You’ve got a powerful retirement savings vehicle in your 401(k) plan, which offers various investment options and the chance to accumulate tax | -deferred earnings.
But if you leave your job before you retire, what should you do with your 401(k)?
You have several choices — and it’s important that you understand them, because your decision can greatly affect the resources you’ll ultimately have available during your retirement years.
• You could leave the money in the company’s plan. Not all companies offer this option, but many do. If you like the investment choices available in your plan, leaving the money alone may not be a bad idea — you know where your money is going, and you can still benefit from potential tax-deferred growth. On the other hand, since you won’t be employed by the company, you might find it harder to keep up with changes to your 401(k), such as when investment options are added or dropped. Also, you no longer will receive your employer’s matching contribution, if one had been offered.
• You could |
Newswise — A diagnostic system developed at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology enables rapid and accurate customization of the antibiotic to the patient. | The system makes for faster diagnostics, earlier and more effective treatment of infectious bacteria, and improved patient recovery times. The findings were published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Antibiotics are one of the most effective ways to treat bacterial infections. However, the widespread use of antibiotics accelerates the development of bacterial strains that are resistant to specific antibiotics. In 2014, infections with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) claimed the lives of more than 700,000 people worldwide, in addition to a cumulative expenditure of $35 billion a year in the US alone.
For patients with threatening infections, urgent treatment is required for their health. According to established estimates, for every hour that effective antibiotic treatment is delayed, survival rates drop by ~7.6% for patients with septic shock. Therefore, in order not to leave the patient without adequate protection while awaiting the results, many doctors will prescribe an antibiotic with a broad spectrum of activity in large doses. This |
After months of intense neighborhood opposition, the developer of a proposed project for 50 single-family homes now plans to sell the roughly five-acre site | in Burbank's Rancho area to a private school for an undisclosed price.
The property, a former General Motors training facility on Riverside Drive now owned by New Urban West, is in escrow for a sale to Lycee International de Los Angeles, a college-preparatory school with a European curriculum, according to Tom Zanic, senior vice president of the development company.
The school approached Zanic in December about buying the facility.
“They thought the site and the building were perfect for their use,” Zanic said.
Its attractions include large classrooms, an auditorium and a full-service cafeteria, said Iain Whyte, a trustee and finance chair for the school.
“It's ready to move in, and that's a big deal,” Whyte said.
Lycee already has campuses in Pasadena, Los Feliz, Tarzana and Santa Ana.
Sixth through 12th grades will move from the |
The annual Microbrew Festival on the Pecos will return, from 4 to 8 p.m., Saturday at the Pecos River Village | Conference Center.
The microbrew industry began to ferment in Carlsbad in fall 2016 with the opening of Milton’s Brewing on Mermod Street.
Then, in January the city’s microbrew options grew to two with Guadalupe Mountain Brewing Company opening on National Parks Highway.
But Carlsbad’s brew IQ began to distill five years ago with the city’s first-ever microbrew festival.
And this weekend, the annual Microbrew Festival on the Pecos will return, from 4 to 8 p.m., Saturday at the Pecos River Village Conference Center.
Hosted by the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce, the festival offers samples from 10 New Mexican brewers, including the two locals.
Chamber CEO Robert Defer said the event to diversified the weekend activities available to Carlsbad residents and visitors.
He said about 1,000 people will likely show up to sample the offerings, and dine |
My neighbour, who doesn't have a VM email address, is receiving regular "delay" bounce-backs when she emails anyone with a virginmedia | or ntlworld email address. In one case, an email from this good lady to myself never arrived at all.
I could bore you with the rest of the incomprehensibility, but that would be pointless.
Is Virgin Media bouncing honest emails? And if so, why?
Yes I've read your thread.
But my neighbour is in her eighties. She is computer literate but the bounce-back messages she receives are incomprehensible.
I have spent over 40 years working in software engineering, but I too can't understand (from VM's numpty techies) what their problem is.
How about a rule, enforceable by law, that computer messages should be written in PLAIN ENGLISH. I still can't understand why my neighbour's emails are bouncing back. It only affects recipients who have VM or NTW email addresses.
Most people are incredibly tolerant, but I really understand my neighbour's frustration that she cannot rely on emails to VM's customers |
Alene MacDonald, 82 went to be with the Lord on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at the Bridge of Lake Pointe Landing.
Al | ene was born in Newark, NJ and grew up in East Orange, NJ. She spent many years of her married life in Colts Neck, NJ and has been a resident of Hendersonville since 1986. She was a member of First Alliance Church for many years and loved her church family very much.
In her younger years she was a sports car competitor and won many trophies. She also raised Cocker Spaniels and had two of them when she moved to Hendersonville. When her health declined she had a much loved cat. Her other interests were books and she was involved in church libraries and was an avid reader. She liked to play bridge and many other games. Alene had many friends and loved to entertain—she was a great listener and always showed compassion and was an encourager.
She was known for her quick wit and was fun to be with. She loved her friends at Heritage Hills and appreciated the care given her at the Bridge by her Hospice nurses.
She was preceded in |
Anne Hegerty becomes Ginger Spice.
We only ever see her in a grey suit with her hair slicked back, but for a special | celebrity Christmas episode of the Chase, we saw a whole new side to The Governess.
Anne Hegerty (Aka The Governess) left fans shocked after she debuted a dramatic makeover which transformed her into Ginger Spice.
She wore Ginger's iconic blue Union Jack dress, with a matching red lippy and smokey eye as well as a voluminous, ginger wig.
And her surprising new look - which was revealed in a teaser trailer - even appeared to leave host Bradley Walsh speechless... well, for about two seconds until he quickly joked about her costume.
"Never mind Ginger Spice you look like a Ginger Nut," he can be heard saying in the clip.
Previously, Anne has revealed that she is not a fan of her uniform on The Chase.
"You can't imagine how much I dislike the suit," the 59-year-old said. "That is not what I would have chosen to wear."
She also confessed that she wasn't |
Spring Branch Family Development Center, a family service center at 8575 Pitner, will receive one of two donated playgrounds to be built in the | Houston area.
The 24 Hour Fitness chain and KaBOOM!, a national nonprofit dedicated to bringing play back into the lives of children, teamed up to build new playgrounds in Houston communities impacted by Hurricane Ike.
Throughout October, 24 Hour Fitness donated $1 from the monthly dues of Houston-area members to KaBOOM! to help build the playgrounds.
24 Hour Fitness employees will join members and community volunteers to build the playground on Feb. 7, 2009.
“We are honored to have been selected as the playground site,” said Ricardo Barnes, MA, LPC, executive director of Spring Branch Family Development Center. “We serve 500 children every day, and they will love having a new play area.
“The excitement will begin in early December when we recruit 20 to 30 children and an equal number of adults to take part in Design Day. They will actually have a hand in selecting the elements of the play space.” The playground will |
U.S. stock-index futures climbed higher on Tuesday as traders parsed through a deluge of important economic reports.
As of 9: | 13 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures climbed 36 points to 15423, S&P 500 futures gained 3.5 points to 1691 and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 6 points to 3131.
After a quiet start to the week on Monday, traders had no lack of information to parse through on the day.
The Commerce Department said retail sales ticked higher by 0.2% in July from June, narrowly missing estimates of a 0.3% gain. Excluding the automobile component, sales climbed 0.5%, topping estimates of a 0.4% increase. There have been worries that stagnant wage growth and higher payroll taxes could weigh on consumers.
Meanwhile, The Labor Department reported import prices edged higher by 0.2% in July from June, shy of estimates of a 0.6% increase. Export prices dipped 0.1%, compared to forecasts of a 0.2% rise.
The Zew survey of German investor sentiment leapt higher to |
Cell Therapeutics isn’t going down without a fight. The Seattle-based biotech company (NASDAQ: CTIC) said today | that data from a clinical trial of Zevalin, its drug for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, along with an editorial by a leading lymphoma doc who urged his peers to “encourage wider appreciation and use” of drugs in its class.
This data, first presented at the American Society of Hematology meeting in Atlanta in December, clearly made an impression with peer reviewers. The study, sponsored by Bayer before Cell Therapeutics bought the drug in December, enrolled 414 patients getting first-line treatment for their slow-growing lymphoma. They hoped to see a benefit from Zevalin, which works by taking an antibody drug that seeks out cancer cells and attaching a small dose of radiation to give it extra tumor-killing punch. Patients on the drug were able to keep their cancer from spreading for a median time of 36.5 months, compared with 13.3 months in a control group |
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Citizenship policies are changing rapidly in the face of global migration trends and the inevitable ethnic and racial diversity that follows. The debates are fierce. | What should the requirements of citizenship be? How can multi-ethnic states forge a collective identity around a common set of values, beliefs and practices? What are appropriate criteria for admission and rights and duties of citizens? This book includes nine case studies that investigate immigration and citizenship in Australia, the Baltic States, Canada, the European Union, Israel, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and the United States. This complete collection of essays scrutinizes the concrete rules and policies by which states administer citizenship, and highlights similarities and differences in their policies. From Migrants to Citizens, the only comprehensive guide to citizenship policies in these liberal-democratic and emerging states, will be an invaluable reference for scholars in law, political science, and citizenship theory. Policymakers and government officials involved in managing citizenship policy in the United States and abroad will find this an excellent, accessible overview of the critical dilemmas that multi-ethnic societies face as a result of migration and global interdependencies at the end of the twentieth century.
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As a female science fiction writer, feminist and a member of this year's judging panel for the Clarke Awards, I find myself in the interesting position | of defending our choice of an all-male list. I'll start by saying that this was an outstanding year for submissions – 82 books in total, with some exceptional writing from authors of both genders from a variety of cultural backgrounds.
Much of this was quite some way into the "fantasy" bracket, but of the more SF-facing work, we found ourselves looking at a field dominated by big ideas, near – and far – future explorations of the solar system, and some very sharp takes on government intrusion into social affairs. I think the shortlist reflects the best of these three "themes" for 2012, demonstrating a return to both the "sensawunda" and to the critical thought that so many complain is lacking from contemporary SF.
As a feminist, I am opposed to including women writers in shortlists just because they are female: the work has got to hold its own in its field: we can discuss whether that field is a level one or not, but |
Oct. 8, 2018 1:31 PM PT2:31 PM MT3:31 PM CT4:31 PM ET20:31 GMT | 4:31 1:31 PM MST2:31 PM CST3:31 PM EST3:31 PM CT0:31 UAE (+1)16:31 ETNaN:� - Ajayi is done for the season due to a torn ACL.
Analysis: Ajayi, who was sidelined in Week 3 with a back injury, played nearly all of the Eagles' Weeek 5 loss to Minnesota. The Eagles have a quick turnaround with a game Thursday against the Giants, so it seems likely Wendell Smallwood will shoulder much of the running back responsibilities.
Oct. 7, 2018 3:43 PM PT4:43 PM MT5:43 PM CT6:43 PM ET22:43 GMT6:43 3:43 PM MST4:43 PM CST5:43 PM EST5:43 PM CT2:43 UAE (+1)18:43 ETNaN:� - Jay Ajayi ran for 29 yards on eight carries Sunday in |
A convicted criminal has moved in with a married couple against their wishes after giving their address in court as his home.
Shane Sims, 19 | , has spent the last few days living with Brenda and Robert Cole after he was sentenced to a week's curfew for breaching a supervision order.
But the couple claim the first they knew about it was when Sims, a friend of their daughter, moved in on Thursday - followed by security contractors who put a box in a bedroom to monitor his movements with an ankle tag.
Sims' tag keeps him indoors between 7pm and 7am much to the horror of the Coles, who both have learning difficulties.
Mrs Cole, 47, said: "It's turned our lives upside down.
"He's taken over the whole place. He sprawls across the sofa and he's always in the bathroom when you need it.
"It's an absolute disgrace. They've let a criminal come into our home and there is nothing we can do about it.
"How can he get away with giving false details? Can crooks pick anywhere they like and just move in? |
Star Wars movies have become part of our pop-culture DNA over the past 40 years, being loved by everyone — even really famous people.
| In honor of the 40th anniversary of George Lucas' original Star Wars, we asked a few movie luminaries about their first recollections of that famous galaxy far, far away.
"My first memories of it were probably getting some small toys. There was this Chewbacca toy — he has some belt thing he wears around his shoulder with small compartments on it, and in each of the compartments was a small Star Wars toy. My mom found one at a garage sale and bought it for me."
"Interviewing for the parts of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. It's on tape, it exists — anyone out there can go to YouTube and see it. I didn't have any idea what I was talking about, something about a Death Star and a Millennium Falcon. I was actually in the final running, but I needed to give an answer to ABC to do a Western show. I asked George, 'Do you think you're going to use me?' He said, ' |
Australian police will create a national photo database using existing identification records held by state authorities to identify terror suspects, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Thursday, | fanning privacy concerns among rights groups.
Turnbull said the database was intended to accelerate the process of identifying potential terror suspects, replacing a time-consuming system that could take up to a week when national authorities requested information from their state counterparts.
‘It shouldn't take seven days to be able to verify someone's identity or seek to match the photo of someone who is a person of interest,’ Turnbull told reporters in Canberra.
‘It should be done seamlessly and in real time,’ he said.
The biometric database stops short of enabling real-time detection of suspects by scanning large crowds and alerting authorities when people on a security watch list are identified, similar to a system in place in China.
China leads the world in the use of facial detection, even allowing education authorities to use the system to catch students cheating on exams, but Australia will limit the new database to police and intelligence agencies only.
Turnbull said the system would not be connected |
A sample of Novichok, the nerve agent allegedly used to poison the Skripals, was obtained by German intelligence back in the 1990s | , local media report. The substance has since been studied and produced by NATO countries.
Western countries, including the US and the UK, have long been aware of the chemical makeup of the nerve agent known as Novichok, a group of German media outlets reported following a joint investigation. The inquiry, based on anonymous sources, gives new insights into the issue of the nerve agent said to have been used in the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, UK, in March.
Western governments were able to lay their hands on the formula of what is described as “one of the deadliest chemical weapons ever developed” after the German foreign intelligence service, the BND, obtained a sample of the nerve agent from a Russian defector in the early 1990s.
A Russian scientist provided German intelligence with information on the development of Novichok for some time following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the German NDR and WDR broadcasters, |
Disclaimer: The message that follows may cause many readers to roll their eyes, gag, or even renounce The Daily as a publication out of pure | disgust. Nonetheless, the plight I hope to convey is one near and dear to my heart, and I hope you will hear me out.
With five seconds left on the clock in Super Bowl LIII, Los Angeles Rams kicker Greg “the Leg” Zuerlein lined up for a field goal that would cut the lead to a touchdown, leaving time for a potential onside kick recovery and Hail Mary attempt. My eyes glazed over the screen as I processed the result of the game. This kick didn’t really matter. The game was over; the Patriots had won their sixth Super Bowl championship in the eighteen years since my birth.
I knew we had won. I knew the Patriots had tied the record for Super Bowl championships by a franchise. I knew what this meant for the legacy of two men – Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. and Bill Belichick – whom I loved more than any other without the surname Tan. But I didn’t feel very excited. Sure |
(THE KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Among mouthwatering sweets, the jelly candies industry is thriving.
| The surging popularity has led to diverse forms of the chewy sweets, delighting South Korean consumers not only with their taste but also their low calories.
Soft and chewy jelly products that were once perceived as treats for young children have now become one of the most favoured types of sweets among adults.
The popularity of gummies can also be spotted on social media platforms.
On Instagram, more than 382,000 posts had the hashtag #Jelly in Korean, while the Facebook page “Group of Jellychungs” - jelly lovers - had more than 28,000 followers. As for ever-evolving “meokbang” clips or eating videos on YouTube, those featuring gummies are also favourites among viewers.
“Candies are too hard and their sweetness can get cloying. Chocolates are sticky and too sweet for me. As for jellies, you just cannot stop chewing them,” Hwangbo said.
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Earnhardt’s parents gave him free reign to explore nature during his boyhood in the 1950s spent in Thomasville and the family cabin | in Hickory Nut Gorge near Asheville.
Earnhardt’s father, who taught him how to fly fish, presented him with a fly tieing kit on his ninth birthday. When the fishing was slow, his dad, a textiles salesman, pointed out the bounties of nature. His mother supplied the books corresponding to his interests. Thus, the fire was ignited that has turned Earnhardt into one of the most respected and knowledgeable lovers of North Carolina’s natural world.
He is the writer, host and co-producer of public TV’s “Exploring North Carolina,” an Emmy-nominated series that has been on the air for 11 years. Earnhardt also has written two other books – “Fly Fishing the Tidewater” and “Boats for Fishermen.” A new book with the working title of “Native Intelligence” is expected in the next year or so.
Two men, the late William |
The 'geeks' on NHS Hack Day were given 24 hours to design a useful NHS app. The winner related to patient handover, a | critical area.
Earlier this year I asked: Where have all the IT champions gone? My grumble was that, on one side, geeks in NHS IT departments are not pushy enough and, on the other, clinicians and NHS bureaucrats who had in their youth been techie-minded, had lost the fire in their bellies. The result is that nobody in authority in the NHS pushes the self-evident benefits of digital healthcare. This is bad for patients.
To my delight, I find I was wrong. There are hundreds of potential champions lurking around out of sight: 120 of them came out of the woodwork two weekends ago for the NHS Hack Day. They were inspired by Dr Carl Reynolds, a clinical fellow at the Department of Health, who is "frustrated by the software I use at work".
I know what he means. The clinical-hostile software was probably written by some programming clone, working for what Frank Dobson once called "the inter |
East Lansing City Council voted Monday to bring an income tax, combined with a property tax cut, to the Aug. 7 ballot.
EAST | LANSING — City Council will go back to voters for approval of an income tax proposal in August after another version of the tax failed last year.
Council voted 5-0 Monday night to place a 12-year income tax proposal on the Aug. 7 ballot. The tax rate would be 1% for residents and 0.5% of non-residents who work in the city.
Approval of the income tax will trigger a 5-mill reduction in property taxes for city residents. The city anticipates the income tax, combined with a property tax reduction, will net $5 million annually.
Last November, 53% of city voters rejected that same income tax rate. That failed proposal, which was paired with a 5-mill property tax cut, did not include a time limit nor did it specify that revenue be dedicated to specific purposes.
Council members say the tax is necessary to offset a "financial crisis," fueled by factors including state funding cuts to local governments and nearly |
Yesterday, the NY Times discussed Senator Obama’s penchant for using a quirk of the Illinois Statehouse to sidestep contentious issues that | might jeopardize his reelection chances. Or, it’s simply a device that allows legislators there to voice legitimate concerns with a bill without voting either for or against it. You decide. It’s called voting “present,” as opposed to yea or nay, and it’s pretty confusing to figure out. Is it a dirty trick or a proof that he’s a smart cookie who simply knows how to be an effective politician?
In the end, Mr. Obama chose neither to vote for nor against the bill. He voted “present,” effectively sidestepping the issue, an option he invoked nearly 130 times as a state senator.
Obama got a pass when going after her on Kyl-Lieberman, even though he voted for similar legislation earlier in the year, but more importantly, skipped the vote that would have put him on the record. He also has the exact same votes as Clinton on Iraq, and when Senators Kerry and |
WAYNE ROONEY could be the latest character on Angry Birds - after the mobile app was unveiled as the club's sleeve sponsor.
The Premier | League began allowing sleeve sponsors this season and the Merseyside club struck a deal with the creators of the vastly-popular app over the summer.
And Rovio, the game's developers, have reportedly decided to make former Manchester United striker Rooney a character in their game.
According to the Press Association, Everton could feature in a new version of Angry Birds in the future.
Ville Heijari, Rovio Entertainment's chief marketing officer said: “We have a history of doing Angry Bird homages of real-life characters so obviously now we are in collaboration (with Everton) we can work together to bring interesting characters and profiles into the games.
“Potentially Wayne Rooney would be involved.
Everton's partnership with the Finnish company may have brought howls of derision from certain sections of the fanbase due to the game's main character being a red bird - the colour of cross-city rivals Liverpool - but Premier League boardrooms up and down the |
Nurses are lifelong learners – and you, being the ambitious professional you are, have decided to take your career to the next level.
Every | successful journey starts with a plan.
Whether you have set your sights on research or advanced practice, being both prepared and informed will help you more successfully navigate the graduate nursing admissions process. As the director of graduate student services at UB School of Nursing, I would like to offer a few tips about applying to a graduate nursing program.
Explore the different types of graduate nursing degrees and choose the path that is right for you and what you hope to accomplish.
Research the various fields of expertise and pursue your passion.
Find a mentor in your desired position or field of expertise and ask them for advice on effectively working toward that position.
Research schools to determine the best fit for you, personally and professionally. Factors to consider include program length, course offerings, cost, location, clinical placement sites, faculty engagement and research opportunities.
2. Build a relationship with the schools you are considering.
Ask about the qualities they seek in a candidate.
Ask specific, targeted questions that show that |
David Stevens – the former commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration and president of the Mortgage Bankers Association – has joined the board of directors at Dynex | Capital.
Dynex is a real estate investment trust that invests in mortgage-backed securities on a leveraged basis. Stevens will also sit on its investment committee, Dynex said.
Stevens served as MBA president for seven years before stepping down in September, citing the need to spend time with family and tend to his health after entering cancer remission.
He also served as FHA commissioner under the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2011, and worked previously as Long & Foster Companies, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and Freddie Mac.
“It is with great pleasure that we welcome David to the Board. He brings an important skill set to our Board with his broad and unique career experiences, combining significant knowledge of real estate finance, mortgage banking and public policy related to the U.S. housing finance system accrued over more than 35 years,” said Michael Hughes, Chairman of the Board.
Dynex President and CEO Byron Boston said Stevens' experience will be beneficial if the government reduces |
On the Cordoba front during the Spanish Civil War, a Loyalist fighter is killed in action in September 1936.
It's a rare picture | that encompasses an era; even the most justly famous photographs seldom manage the feat. Eisenstaedt's "V-J Day in Times Square," for instance, perfectly illustrated the rapturous mood of a nation — and much of the world — at the end of the Second World War, but no one would argue that the image somehow captured the five-year war itself. Bill Eppridge's haunting picture of Robert Kennedy's assassination in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen in June 1968 distilled the darkest, most murderous currents of the Age of Aquarius, but no one says of that one photograph: "That was the Sixties."
So, yes, it's phenomenally rare for a single photo to evoke both a discrete moment, and an epoch. But that is exactly what Robert Capa's now-iconic "Falling Soldier" manages to do; there, in one frame, in a picture made at the very moment a Loyalist fighter in Spain is shot and killed, one |
In this file image from Friday, March 1, 2019, photo signs for employment opportunities are posted at an exit ramp off of Interstate 79 in Zel | ienople, Pa.
Job creation posted a solid rebound in March, with nonfarm payrolls expanding by 196,000 and the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.8%, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report Friday.
That was better than the 175,000 Dow Jones estimate and comes after a dismal February that had economists wondering whether the decade-old economic expansion was nearing an end. The unemployment rate met expectations.
Wage gains fell off the recent strong pace, increasing just 0.14 percent for the month and 3.2 percent year over year, below expectations of the 3.4 percent pace from last month. The average work week increased by 0.1 hour to 34.5 hours.
A broader gauge of unemployment that also counts discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons also was unchanged at 7.3%. The measure, known as the “real unemployment rate” is down from 7.9% a year ago.
Job gains |
[prMac.com] Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Soluble Apps is thrilled to announce that "MailShot Pro", their unique | group emailing solution, is the only app to enable sending emails to large groups with Siri, just as easily as to a single contact.
Siri is amazing. You can use it to create and send emails to the contacts in your address book, just by asking. But this only works with the built-in apps that Apple provide, so if you wanted to use it to send email with a conventional group email app, for example, you'd be out of luck.
The unique way in which MailShot integrates with the apps on your device to provide group email everywhere, enables you to use Siri to send email to groups of friends or colleagues as easily as you would to a single contact. Just say "send email to groupname" and it creates an email to everyone in "groupname". Its as easy as that!
MailShot creates a special contact in your address book for each group- send an email to that contact and it gets sent to the whole group. This means |
OKLAHOMA CITY – Central Oklahoma residents won’t get a trial in September in a case against an oil company that allegedly triggered | earthquakes, damaging homes and buildings.
A Cleveland County judge outlined the rules for the class-action case brought by Jennifer Lin Cooper against New Dominion LLC. Judge Lori Walkley issued a journal entry on the limited class certification on July 13, allowing the defendant to begin the appeal process.
Surface and mineral owner attorney Terry Stowers, who is not affiliated with the case, said it’s a big deal any time a class is certified at trial court level. It shows the plaintiffs’ attorney Scott Poynter can establish liability against New Dominion and carry the burden of proof, Stowers said.
“A bunch of certified classes often settle because of the risk of liability and the risk of exposure,” he said.
Cooper’s house rattled and shook in early November 2011, as a swarm of strong earthquakes swept through nine counties over three days. The strongest was a magnitude 5.7 temblor with its epicenter in Prague, affecting 174 |
MLGW data shows that customers in large sections of North Memphis and South Memphis see significantly more power interruptions than other parts of Memphis.
Mem | phis has significant disparities in what parts of the city see the most power interruptions, according to data released by Memphis Light, Gas and Water this week.
A map showing customer minutes interrupted by ZIP code was released by utility officials this week, at the request of Councilman Martavius Jones.
"It told the story. I was ashamed," said Memphis City Councilwoman Patrice Robinson, the chair of the council's MLGW committee, of the map.
The city's Southwest corner, parts of North Memphis and parts of Shelby County north of the city are more heavily affected than other parts of the city, with ZIP codes in those areas seeing from 5,784,661 to 9,020,820 total customer minutes interrupted, based on data from the four-year period from 2014 to 2018.
Whitehaven and Frayser are among the most heavily-affected areas.
The ZIP codes that saw the fewest power interruptions during that time period had between 69,960 |
This year's AIPAC convention faced the growing divide between the traditional pro-Israel Democratic base, which is still in the majority, and its | growing anti-Israel wing.
If you thought the divisive battle between Republicans and Democrats over the JCPOA (Iran nuclear agreement) was over, think again. Democrats and Republicans are about to go at it again over Obama’s foreign policy legacy, concluded in 2015, and withdrawn by Trump three years later.
Since politics is going to force us to consider the merits and failings of the JCPOA again, its time for a refresher course in what makes the JCPOA so contentious.
• Despite President Barack Obama’s assurances that the JCPOA would only be about Iran’s nuclear aspirations – while sanctions for Iran’s missiles development, human rights abuses, and its state support of terrorism would be pursued independent of the nuclear deal – the administration chose not to pursue any new sanctions or hold Iran accountable for its continued malevolent behavior, especially as the primary patron of the genocidal regime in Syria.
• The JCPOA outsourced compliance |
People over 50 form a significant demographic that politicians would be remiss to overlook.
With the last gubernatorial debate having just taken place, Mainers | 50 and older, Maine’s most active voting demographic, are left with limited answers on the key issues of concern to them.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, turnout for Maine voters 45 and older in the last midterm election, in 2010, was among the highest in the country, with the numbers increasing significantly with age. Not surprisingly, in the 2012 election, the numbers were even higher. This is not the demographic to overlook in 2014.
Lori Parham, Ph.D., is state director of AARP Maine in Portland.
Yet the issues that are of paramount importance to Maine’s older residents were largely ignored in the debates.
Respondents to AARP Maine’s recent survey of Maine registered voters age 50 and older clearly indicated that candidates must address certain issues during the 2014 midterm election in order to win their votes. The respondents weighed in on issues important to them, which include financial security, consumer protections, age-friendly communities |
June 29-30 — Orange County Buddhist Church,909 S. Dale Ave., Anaheim, hosts its Obon Festival, from 2 to 9 p | .m. on Saturday, and 2 to 8:30 p.m. on Sunday. Bon odori dancing from 7 to 8:3o p.m. both nights. Daion Taiko performs at 6:30 p.m. both nights.
The traditional obon dance expresses joy for the teachings offered by the Buddha. The movements depict the livelihood of the villagers such as fishermen, coal miners, and farmers. Your participation with other temple dancers is welcome.
The bazaar-carnival will feature many games for the young and old. We will have handicrafts and farm fresh produce at bargain prices. Delicious Asian dishes such as beef and chicken teriyaki, sushi, udon (Japanese noodles), won ton, chow mein, corn, teriburgers, oriental chicken salad, Okinawa Dango (donuts), Imagawa Yaki (Sweet bean dessert), oden, soft drinks, snow cones and other treats will be available.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday dismissed Benjamin Netanyahu's outline of a peace deal as a non-starter and said he's now setting his sights on | U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state in the fall -- unless the Israeli prime minister softens his stance before then.
Despite strong U.S. objections, the Palestinians are counting on growing international support for bypassing Israel en route to statehood, saying Netanyahu's speech to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday showed he is not a partner for peace.
However, Palestinian leaders also want to avoid being blamed for the failure of U.S. mediation efforts, especially after President Barack Obama met a key Palestinian demand last week when he said border talks should be based on the pre-1967 war lines, with mutually agreed land swaps.
In an apparent attempt to show good faith, Palestinian officials said Wednesday they would ask the U.N. Security Council and the Quartet of Mideast mediators -- the U.S., the U.N., Europe and Russia -- to call for renewed negotiations based on Obama's border proposals with a September deadline for a deal.
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Including at 6.54 and 7.50 Travel news, What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit; Weather and | programme news at 6.55 and 7.55. At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50.
From time to time in every family there are jealousies, rows, conflicts of interest, problems of discipline, differences of opinion on responsibilities and obligations. Also, the pattern of family life is changing, bringing new freedoms and new stresses.
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
Rural Bliss? IAN HYAMS finds out what it's really like living in one of those idyllic holiday scenes.
How I started worrying about The Bomb - again!: MIKE hart -LEY-BREWER reports on the present state of our Civil Defence.
Back where I was born: HOPE |
Accra, June 21, GNA - Mr Kwamena Ahwoi, Research Director of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), on | Monday testified at the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) and stated that about 350 people were to be sent to the United States in the Michael Soussousidis affair in 1985. He said nobody was denaturalised, and Major Awuakye, who had alleged in evidence before the Commission that he had extradited him, had rather been grateful for the exit.
Major Awuakye had told the Commission that Mr Ahwoi had accused him of being a spy of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and had consequently extradited him along with others in 1985.
Mr Ahwoi, then Co-ordinator of the Revenue Commissioners, Investigations and Tribunals in the erstwhile government of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), was reacting to the evidence of Major Awuakye at a public hearing of the NRC in Accra. Mr Ahwoi, who was cross-examined by his is legal team |
CBD doesn't fall on anyone's desk, and the tiny Board of Pharmacy couldn't crack down, even if it wanted to.
| Because I was curious and because I could, I bought some cannabis the other day.
Me and everybody else in Minnesota, it seems.
While the politicians in St. Paul debate whether and when to legalize recreational marijuana, the rest of the state is getting into the cannabis business in a big, big way.
CBD, a cannabis extract that won’t get you high, is everywhere, ever since Congress legalized hemp late last year. Congress didn’t say anything about hemp extracts and marijuana extracts like CBD, but before anyone could object, retailers had slipped through the loophole and set up shop in a legal gray area.
You can buy CBD in grocery stores and pet stores and online and in mom-and-pop shops all over the state. Customers come looking for something to ease their aches and pains, anxieties and illnesses, and they leave with CBD oils, ointments and edibles. There’s talk of a CBD coffee shop in Dinky |
North High School graduate Leo Kowal and his wife Mary Rudakas beat more than 2,000 other businesses to win the audience choice award | in the Martha Stewart American Made contest this fall.
DOWNERS GROVE – North High School graduate Leo Kowal's crafty business beat more than 2,000 others to win the Martha Stewart American Made audience choice award this fall.
Kowal, his wife and business co-owner Mary Rudakas are in New York this week to meet Stewart and receive their $10,000 prize. The business also might appear in Stewart's magazine.
Their business, SVGCuts, sells downloadable designs for two-dimensional paper crafts like cards and scrapbooks in addition to three-dimensional paper projects that can be used for home decor or center pieces for events.
Users at home download the design templates and send the information to electronic paper cutters about the size of a printer. The machine cuts the pieces, which can then be assembled into striking designs, like a three-story haunted house – Kowal's favorite, or a mini hot air balloon, among others. The |
While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinch | oros, who lived on the north coast of what is now Chile, were embalming their dead as early as 5000 B.C.
Chinchoros embalmers disassembled their corpses, treated the internal organs to prevent decay, and then reassembled the pieces. They often added cane or wood supports along the spinal column, arms and legs, filled in the body cavity with fiber or feathers, and coated the exterior of the body with clay, on which they painted or sculpted. Infants, children and adults of both sexes were mummified, though some corpses received more attention than others.
Further north, another coastal group at Paloma were mummifying their dead as early as 4000 B.C. The Palomans used salt to stop decay and carefully positioned their dead with knees drawn to the chest and hands clasped. The bodies were then wrapped in reed matting and buried under the floor of their existing homes.
By the time of the Inca civilization |
An underlying social condition in Asbury Park is being exacerbated by a membership-based pool club on the land east of Ocean Avenue between Sixth and Seventh | avenues.
Waterfront developers iStar and Madison Marquette gained approval for the pool club through an outdated 2002 Waterfront Redevelopment Agreement and a 2004 dated CAFRA permit. The pool club parcel was not in the FEMA VE Zone when the permit was issued. It is now in a high flood area because of flooding caused by superstorm Sandy in 2012, and as recent as 2018 due to the effects of climate change.
The history of beach/swimming clubs shows racial segregation in Asbury Park and the nation. Even after Jim Crow laws were abolished, segregated swimming facilities remained in New Jersey until the 1970s. A membership-based beach club is an insult to the majority of our low-income year-round residents. The majority of Asbury Park’s year-round residents are African American or Hispanic/Latino.
More than 70 percent of them cannot afford daily or seasonal beach passes to swim in our ocean or sit and play on our public beaches. |
Myrtle Cottage is a charming period cottage built of Shaftesbury green sandstone with a slate roof which is very light and full | of period features. The current owners substantially extended the property about 10 years ago creating a large kitchen/dining room and boot room.
To the front of the house are the two reception rooms in the original part of the house. Both rooms have window seats, exposed beams and large fireplaces (one with an open fire and the other with a wood burner). To the rear of the house is the kitchen/dining room which overlooks the pretty gardens and fields beyond. There is a good range of bespoke wood units, a butler sink and underfloor heating. Bi-folding doors open to a terrace. There is also a study, boot room/utility and cloakroom.
On the first floor are four good size bedrooms and a family bathroom with separate shower.
Myrtle Cottage is situated towards the edge of the village of Semley with rural views to both the front and rear of the house. Semley is a pretty and sought after village and |
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