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MOVIES SOUTH BEND-MISHAWAKA ELKHART -ENCORE PARK 14: An American Haunting, | 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30. Hoot, 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45. Mission Impossible III, 12:30, 1, 1:30, 3:10, 4, 4:30, 5:50, 7, 7:15, 8:30, 9:40, 10. Akeelah and the Bee, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10. R.V., 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10. United 93, 1:30, 4, 7, 9:45. Silent Hill, 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10. Stick It, 1:30, 4, 7, 9:30. Scary Movie IV, 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:15. |
What does it mean when you have a cold nose?
It is normal for the hands, feet, nose, and ears to feel cold before | other parts of the body. This is because it usually takes longer for blood to circulate to these extremities, especially in cold temperatures.
A person can have a cold nose for several reasons besides. Often, it is not a cause for worry. But, in some cases, it may be a sign of an underlying health condition.
What causes a cold nose?
The nose does not have a lot of insulating fat and will be one of the first body parts that feels cold.
The body conserves heat and energy by reducing blood flow to the extremities in cold temperatures or weather. Instead, the blood is directed toward the vital organs to keep them warm and to allow them to function properly.
The reduced blood flow to the hands, feet, ears, and nose causes them to feel cooler than, for example, the stomach or chest, as a result.
The nose is likely to feel cold first when temperatures dip because it is composed mainly of cartilage tissue and does |
Whatever else is said about malware authors, it’s becoming clearer and clearer of late that they are learning from their mistakes and adapting to new | defensive tactics at an increasingly rapid rate. The latest example of this is a recently discovered version of the Carberp malware, which now includes a new encryption scheme and improved administrative capabilities.
Carberp is a somewhat obscure piece of malware–at least relative to media darlings such as Zeus and Clampi. But the authors behind Carberp have been tweaking and refining the capabilities of the malware in recent months, and a new version of the Trojan has appeared that makes it more difficult for users to defend against it. The original version of Carberp was just a typical Trojan designed to steal users’ sensitive data, such as online banking credentials or usernames and passwords for other high-value sites. All of the traffic sent back to the command-and-control server was in the clear. Simple and straightforward.
But as the malware’s creators learned what worked and what didn’t, they adjusted their tactics, according to an analysis by researchers at |
When Malala left Mingora it was with a Taliban bullet wound to her head. On Saturday she returned as a Nobel Prize winner.
When | Malala Yousufzai left her hometown in 2012 it was with a Taliban bullet wound to her head.
But the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner was greeted with cheers and tears on Saturday as she finally returned to Mingora despite the ongoing threat to her life.
The 20-year-old global advocate for girls' education arrived with her family in the Swat Valley town in a helicopter provided by the Pakistani military.
It is part of her first return visit to Pakistan; she flew into the capital, Islamabad, before dawn on Thursday flanked by heavy security and plans to return on Monday to Britain where she has been receiving long-term treatment and education.
Malala won international acclaim after she was shot by the Taliban for her campaign to improve education for women. She was riding home in her school van.
On Saturday, she returned to her childhood home accompanied by her father, mother and younger brother. She sobbed upon entering the home where relatives, former classmates and friends |
Lord Mayor hopeful Nic Frances..
Nic Frances Gilley is running for Lord Mayor.
And the former priest, who’s also worked | in juvenile justice, came armed with a five-point plan for Melbourne when interviewed by Tom Elliott on Friday.
We want our Indigenous culture at the heart of our City: for sake of our Indigenous people, the rest of our citizens, and our visitors.
We want Melbourne to actually utilise the current environmental policy (Energy Upgrade Agreements) that we do have to create thousands of jobs in this sector, to extend this to domestic households, and to become the world’s leading sustainable city.
Homelessness has become a significant issue in Melbourne. We plan for immediate short-term solutions and longer-term engagement with all stakeholders to ensure the situation is completely turned around.
Improving tourism, education, and business opportunities for our Asian neighbours with stronger engagement than we use right now, so our city benefits from the extraordinary growth in this region.
Our campaign is using a deliberative democracy platform to provide an example of how Council can involve all citizens in the decision-making |
Srjdan, our Serbian innkeeper, is a perfect host. Knowing that we are bound to lose ourselves in the streets of Somb | or, a Serbian town near the Hungarian border where the night before we had checked into his bed and breakfast with its opulent furnishings and paintings of lush Italianate beauties, he leads us to a dusty crossroads and points in the direction of Rastina, a tiny village where the road peters into a dusty track by a rickety watchtower. From here we can see the sparkling fence built by Hungary as it marches across vast acres of newly harvested fields of corn. We make our way toward the fence—a formidable ten-foot-high structure with double coils of razor wire affixed to metal posts sunk deep in the ground—and follow it for half a mile or more in the direction of a ruined farmhouse surrounded by bushes.
There are signs of activity on the Hungarian side—diggers and tractors creating clouds of dust as a second layer of fence is prepared. A police car draws up on the other side, and seeing our camera and tripod, an officer |
Milwaukee diners feasting at Sanford Restaurant.
The city's seen an explosion of new, widely-recognized restaurants over the last 40 | years, and its residents' palettes are maturing alongside them.
"Milwaukee is in its early 20s as far as if it were a person," says "Wisconsin Foodie" host Kyle Cherek. "We know who we are, we're not scared about talking about our culinary scene anymore. We're starting to move into some dining trends and claim our own identity as a city of both chefs and eaters."
Cherek says this new dining enthusiasm had him thinking about how Milwaukee's dining scene developed since the 1970s. Back then, Milwaukee had a few fine dining restaurants based on the Escoffier/French style of fine cuisine.
But Cherek says the city lacked, what he called, "really engaging, inventive, terrific dining."
"We sort of did it with a few bright lights, but nothing amazing, and then our German trumped everything except the Germans," he says.
Then came Sanford D'Amato. He |
INDIANOLA, Iowa -- After years of budget battles and failed votes, Warren County will finally be getting a new courthouse and jail, but | Tuesday’s special election victory isn't the end of the story.
The Warren County Board of Supervisors’ proposal to bond for under 30 million dollars worked. The measure passed with nearly 70% support. However, the 29.9 million-dollar proposal is less than the initial estimates for what the courthouse would cost to build.
Now there's a question of where they make up the difference.
“The board of supervisors has committed $1.2 million, so that makes $31.1 million that is devoted to this. So where is the $1.9 million that's going to be needed to make it to the $33 million and that's not including the steel tariffs that may affect this price” said County Supervisor Crystal McIntyre.
Aside from making it less of a burden on tax payers, McIntyre says staying under 30 million dollars was a sticking point for board chair Doug Shull. The question now will be whether to make up the |
Millions of families will take off this week to do something Americans do less than almost any other country -- go on vacation. If you plan on | spending lots of money, you're probably doing it right.
Vacations are expensive. You know that already. Traveling costs money. Hotels cost money. Being pampered costs money. How much? Travel surveys by Visa, AAA, and Money Magazine have all put the median cost somewhere around $1,600. It should be much more.
Our brains are hard-wired to think we need to spend a lot on summer vacations to be happy. But underneath what you might call biases and miscalculations, there is a good deal of wisdom. The fact is that economic and psychological research suggests we would be happier if we devoted more of our time to buying brief experiences on vacation rather than buying even durable stuff to wear and keep around us.
There are at least three reasons why families with means are already likely to spend considerable sums on their brief vacations, already. The first reason is in that adjective, brief: Americans don't go on vacation that often compared with |
Udupi/M’Belle, 13 April 2018: The Heath Commission and Women’s Commission of St. Lawrence Parish, | Moodubelle along with Mayor Polaris Company conducted two days long Bone Density and Obesity Checkup Camp at the Church Aided Higher Primary School Hall on 12 and 13 April 2018.
The Bone Density and Obesity Checkup Camp was inaugurated on Thursday, 12 April 2018 at 9.30 am. Fr. Lawrence Cutinha, Assistant Parish Priest presided over the inaugural function. Prakash Andrade-Convener of Health Commission of Mother of Sorrows Church, Udupi who helped in organizing the camp, Madhav Upadhyaya-Sales Representative of Mayor Polaris Company, Mrs. Monica D’Souza-Coordinator of 18 Commissions of St. Lawrence Parish, Moodubelle, Mrs. Precilla Alva-Convener of Health Commission and Mrs. Gretta Fernandes-Convener of Women’s Commission were on the dais.
The camp was formally inaugurated by the dignitaries on the |
Children born abroad to Danish jihadists will no longer receive Danish citizenship, the minority government announced Thursday after striking a deal with its populist ally the Danish People | 's Party.
"Contrary to current rules, children who will be born in regions prohibited to Danes... will not automatically receive Danish nationality," the immigration ministry said in a statement.
"As their parents have turned their back on Denmark, there is no reason for the children to become Danish citizens," Immigration Minister Inger Stojberg was quoted as saying in the statement.
The proposal must still go through parliament. No date has been set for the vote but it is expected to pass.
The fate of foreign fighters with the Islamic State group and their families has become a major international headache since the fall of the last vestige of its so-called caliphate in Syria.
Since 2016, it has been a criminal offence under Danish law to have fought in conflict zones for a terrorist group.
The courts have already convicted 13 people for having joined or tried to join a terrorist organisation.
Nine of those were stripped of their Danish nationality and expelled from the country. The others could |
French riot police now using semiautomatic weapons, live ammo against protesters. UPDATE: Full auto?
Last week, when we looked at | the French government’s plans to “crack down” on the yellow vest protesters and rioters, it sounded like they were just passing new laws to allow for jail time for unauthorized marches. While a bit on the heavy-handed side, it still sounded like typical law enforcement in a more socialist-style government. But now the concept of a “crackdown” has definitely been taken to the next level. The riot control officers are breaking out the semiautomatic rifles and issuing live ammunition to deal with the crowds. (Daily Mail) See update at the end of the article.
French riot police have deployed semi-automatic weapons with live ammunition against Yellow Vest protestors for the first time.
Officers were filmed brandishing Heckler & Koch G36 weapons by the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Saturday afternoon. The presence of semi-automatic rifles at a demonstration by unarmed French citizens shows how President Emmanuel Macron’s law and order crisis spir |
Italy's first World Cup of Golf as Molinaris edge out McIlroy and Stenson in China.
Brothers Francesco and Ed | oardo Molinari won a dramatic three-way final round tussle with Sweden and Ireland to claim a first World Cup of Golf for Italy by one stroke.
The duo found their putting touch on the back nine as their rivals faltered to finish with a four-under-par 68 for a total of 29-under for the $5.5million tournament at Mission Hills in China.
Ireland's Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell, who had led all week after an opening 58, carded an error-strewn 70 to share second with defending champion Swedes Henrik Stenson and Robert Karlsson, who shot a 69.
Edoardo leapt around the 18th green after securing victory with a two-foot par putt before embracing his younger brother – becoming the first siblings to lift the John Jay Hopkins trophy in the 55 versions of the event.
"It's amazing, we don't really have any words," 27-year-old Frances |
Transit-oriented developments typically go up next to, well, transit stations. Not this one near the Newton-Needham line.
North | land Investment Corp. wants its 1.4-million-square-foot, mixed-use project on busy Needham Street to be a transit hub — even though its nearly 23-acre site is a mile away from the nearest T stop.
To pull it off, Northland would pay for shuttle buses to bring residents of the complex to nearby train stations, and even to Boston and Cambridge. The big twist: The public, not just tenants, would be able to hop on board.
Northland will likely need to prove to Newton city councilors that it can solve the site’s traffic challenges to win approval for the project — one that calls for 800-plus apartments, stores, restaurants, and offices, and more than 1,900 parking spaces.
And its unusual approach could also serve as an intriguing model for other developers eager to strike gold with properties in Greater Boston that aren’t on the T. Much of the prime land within Route 128 is spoken for already |
Middleweight champion Robert Whittaker (19-4) of New Zealand takes on Cuba’s Yoel Romero (13-2) | on Saturday night in the main event at UFC 225 at the United Center in Chicago. The belt will not be on the line after Romero missed two chances to make weight. Rafael dos Anjos (28-9) and Colby Covington (13-1) will be featured in the co-main event with the interim welterweight belt on the line. Former champion Holly Holm (11-4) will battle Megan Anderson (8-2) in a women’s featherweight bout, while former professional wrestling superstar CM Punk (0-1) takes on Mike Jackson (0-1).
Jun. 9, 2018, 9:37 p.m.
This was originally scheduled to be for the UFC middleweight title, but Romero missed weight by 1/5 of a pound. That’s the second straight fight Romero missed weight for. Whittaker and Romero fought last year, and Whittaker won via decision. Whittaker is a |
Finding humor in stressful situations at times can be a healthy response. Here are some observations compiled by reporter Jennifer Liebrum from the field over the | last 10 days while covering the Beaver Creek Fire.
The Sasquatch expert who visited the Ketchum library last month spoke of numerous reports of sightings coming from Forest Service employees, too afraid of mockery to tell what they saw.
Former team leader and Fire Information Officer Wayne Patterson said a former employee came off a fire in Mount Hebo shaken to the core by a monkey creature he said he had seen on the edge of the forest.
Fire Information Officer Rudy Evenson said he had a buddy who swore Bigfoot was striding beside his truck as he fled an area.
Fire information officers puzzled aloud about the art of AK-47s and prayer flags on the east side of Highway 75 near The Meadows.
Final interpretation? Guns and llamas?
One Elkhorn resident said his evacuation plan, if the fire came over Dollar Mountain, was to grab his cat and his money and jump into one of the pools. A neighbor replied that he had his eye on one pool in |
I’m so surprised that so many people are convinced that monogamy—heterosexual, human monogamy, in particular—is some type | of biological default.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been hearing quite a bit about monogamy—especially within the context of human marriage and what is supposedly “natural.” I use the quotes intentionally. Mostly because I’m so surprised that so many people are convinced that monogamy—heterosexual, human monogamy, in particular—is some type of biological default.
Science doesn’t quite back up that notion. (Though, admittedly, it has not been studied as in-depth as many would have you believe).
Let me explain. Only about 3% of mammalian species demonstrate monogamous behavior. 3%. That’s a pretty paltry number. And those few animals that do exhibit monogamous behaviors only demonstrate what scientists call socially monogamous behavior. The modifier is important, and I’ll get to that in a moment.
Prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) might well be |
When the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee met in mid-March, it had a lot of new developments to consider. Since it had met in | January, unrest erupted in the Middle East. Oil and food prices had begun rising quite rapidly. A devastating earthquake hit Japan that shook Asian markets. Finally, the unemployment rate appeared to be declining significantly, while rising consumer confidence continued to boost spending. How do economists synthesize all of these contradictory signals? The FOMC's meeting minutes show the nation's top central bankers citing increased uncertainty, which led to differing views of what the future holds.
Some debate appears to have broken out about inflation. While most Americans probably believe prices are rising, based on gasoline and food prices, the consensus view at the Fed is that these changes won't lead to higher overall inflation in the long-term. Most Fed economists believe that commodities have increased in price just temporarily. Those rising prices have shifted some shorter-term inflation expectations in the market, but longer-term expectations remained stable.
A number of participants noted that, with significant slack in resource utilization and with longer-term inflation expectations stable, underlying inflation |
Alexander Fiske-Harrison’s book on bullfighting has been nominated for the William Hill Sports Book Of The Year Award, announced | on Monday. But can it even be called a sport and is it as cruel as we assume?
When my publisher told me that my book had been longlisted for a sports writing prize sponsored by William Hill – the Bookie Prize as it is known – I smiled cynically. The announcement came less than a week after Catalonia banned bullfighting and the Barcelona bullring hosted its last ever fight. This was reported here as “Bullfighting Dies In Spain” – even though of the thousand bullfights a year, less than a dozen were held in Barcelona.
In Spain bullfighting is written about in the cultural pages of newspapers, not the sports section. This year in France it was placed on a list of “cultural patrimonies” making it effectively unbannable. (French bullfights are mainly in the south, most notably in the restored Roman colisea of Arles and Nîmes.) Even Hemingway in Death In The Afternoon wrote that |
PARIS -- France said on Wednesday it was boosting intelligence ties with Nigeria and sending security service agents there to tackle Boko Haram after more than 200 girls | were kidnapped by the Islamist group.
President Francois Hollande's office said he spoke by telephone with Nigerian leader Goodluck Jonathan and that Paris would dispatch a specialized team to Abuja to help find the girls. With more than 4,000 troops operating between Mali to the west and Central African Republic to the east, Paris has a major interest in preventing Nigeria's security from deteriorating and has voiced concern Boko Haram could spread north into the Sahel.
Having ousted al Qaeda-linked militants from Mali last year, France is planning to redeploy its forces across West Africa this summer to target Islamist groups taking advantage of porous borders between southern Libya, northern Chad and Niger.
"The president expressed his desire to increase intelligence cooperation with Nigeria, involving all regional countries, so that this terrorist group can no longer carry out such acts," a statement on the telephone conversation said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told lawmakers: "In the face of such ignominy, France must react. This |
"Burke said the access problems are a result of the bank taking measures to manage traffic volume during peak use."
Which, interestingly, could | be a euphemistic way of rephrasing "fighting DoS attacks".
If it isn't related to the new fees, or certain protests, it's certainly a pretty coincidental coincidence.
"Bank of America spokeswoman Tara Burke declined to discuss the underlying cause of the outages except to say it isn't related to hacking, denial-of-service attacks, or other incidents related to security."
Well, she would say that, wouldn't she?
>> "There's no compromised customer information."
Note to PR twonks : Nobody believes a word you say anymore, we have been lied to so much!
>> Burke said the access problems are a result of the bank taking measures to manage traffic volume during peak use.
LOL seriously? "We are busy, go away".
Perhaps they just fired, laid off, or out sourced too many people in their IT department.
Care to define Majority, Tara?
"The majority of our customers are |
Letters respond to Jill Lepore’s piece on the state of journalism and Joshua Rothman’s exploration of the art of decision | -making.
Jill Lepore, in her insightful piece on journalism in the age of social media and fake news, writes, “Speculation is that BuzzFeed is trying to dump” BuzzFeed News (“Hard News,” January 28th). This speculation is incorrect. Whatever challenges we face in this difficult environment for digital media, BuzzFeed News remains a key part of the future of BuzzFeed. Its investigative reporting has freed men from prison, changed the way sexual assault is handled in Congress, given the public incredible insight into the Mueller investigation, and detailed Donald Trump’s business dealings in Russia during the 2016 campaign. I’m excited to see what our journalists do in the years to come.
Lepore gets a lot right about the many challenges, and a few of the threats, facing journalism today. But the grim picture that she paints of HuffPost underestimates its commitment not just to journalism but to the journalists who produce excellent, agenda-setting reporting each day |
Before Tommy MacDonald hosted his public television show “Rough Cut – Woodworking with Tommy Mac,” he had an alter ego.
| Before Tommy MacDonald hosted his public television show “Rough Cut – Woodworking with Tommy Mac,” he had an alter ego. He was T-Chisel, who made videos of himself as he built a copy of an antique secretary desk.
On Saturday’s third episode of Season 4, viewers will see the photogenic, matter-of-fact MacDonald showing Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis – and a national television audience – how to make a white oak memory box, with walnut dovetail and an inlay of the blue and yellow Boston Strong ribbon. In the show, MacDonald placed in the box a photo of his late mother, Mildred, who raised nine children, and his late sister, whose slaying remains unsolved.
Now working on the show’s fifth season, MacDonald still marvels at his unlikely television popularity, where he is watched weekly by 750,000 people. The show received Emmy nominations for both Outstanding Lifestyle Program and Outstanding Directing |
On Cameroon, ICP Asked UN of Biya Calling Secessionists Terrorists, Now He Orders "Relocations"
UNITED NATIONS | , December 1 – A week after UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres accepted a golden statue from Cameroon's 35-year president Paul Biya in Biya's palace in Yaounde, there were threats of prosecution against people who refuse to celebrate Biya's 35 years in power. Photo of letter here. So is this was Guterres celebrates, under the Guterres Doctrine? What is the relation to the illegal lumber exports signed off on by Guterres' Deputy, Amina J. Mohammed in the #RosewoodRacket? There were threats to Inner City Press' accreditation at the UN, here. Now upon Paul Biya's return from the African Union - EU summit in Abidjan he has "declared war" on what he calls secessionist terrorists in Ambazonia or Southern Cameroons. Inner City Press asked the UN about it and UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric only said they are "still looking at" or studying what Biya said |
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and their would-be partners, the Social Democrats (SPD), have made | major progress in talks on forming a coalition government but remain at odds on issues like labor rules, a senior SPD member said on Friday.
“But we also saw that we have differences on some topics,” he said.
Senior conservative Peter Altmaier said Friday’s talks had been good and the parties were optimistic but a “very tough stretch of road” lay ahead.
The parties became embroiled in another dispute over migration on Friday, with some SPD members saying they wanted to revisit January’s coalition blueprint that said the parties did not expect annual migration to exceed 220,000 per year because they were annoyed that Merkel’s CSU Bavarian allies seemed to be considering this as an upper limit.
But SPD deputy Ralf Stegner later said the parties had reached a deal. In an apparent defeat for the SPD, the wording of that migration prediction remained the same - as pushed for by the CSU, which calls for a migrant cap |
Ohio Supreme Court Justice addresses Stark County Honor Court.
CANTON Timothy Spickler stood between his two Honor Court mentors, each one compliment | ing his perseverance for overcoming a felony charge and other struggles.
The 63-year-old Vietnam Veteran was among the five men marking the 26th graduation ceremony in Stark County Honor Court. Spickler stood in front of a courtroom packed with those who assist with the program and family members of the recent graduates.
Also at Friday's ceremony was Ohio Supreme Court Justice Sharon Kennedy, who spoke in recognition of the upcoming Veterans Day as well as the success and effectiveness of the specialized treatment court docket.
The Stark County Veterans Service Commission presented special pins to all veterans in attendance.
Following the ceremony, Spickler said that he had hit rock bottom personally before he regained control of his life with the support of Honor Court.
"It helped me find out who I really was in my inner-core, and it helped me find out who I am now and who I was before," he said. "It gave me my life back, my freedom back, it made me a |
Everything that needs to be said of Steve Jobs has already been written. Here’s the most meta version of the story you will read online | , offline, and everywhere else.
If you read only one story about Steve Jobs today (yeah, right) make it this one. Why? Because his story has already been written–over and over and over again, as the link explosion below makes clear. Also, this will save you a lot of time.
I knew the day would come when Steve Jobs would retire… but I didn’t expect to cry. We could all see this was coming–but it is a shock. The resignation of Apple Inc.’s chief executive Steve Jobs marks the end of an era. He was that rarest of birds: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company’s fortunes… [and] genuinely earned the label of superstar. Jobs is often identified as the singular face of Apple–the man who is the energy and creative spirit behind the company. But Apple is much more than just Steve Jobs. With tens of billions of cash |
Workers with the air traffic control towers in Yellowknife and Whitehorse treated controllers in Juneau and Fairbanks, Alaska, to some Italian fare | .
Air traffic controllers in Yellowknife and Whitehorse have joined their colleagues across Canada in sending pizzas to their counterparts over the border.
Workers with the air traffic control towers in Whitehorse and Yellowknife treated controllers in Fairbanks and Juneau, Alaska, respectively, to some Italian fare a sign of solidarity.
The United States federal employees are currently working without pay during the government shutdown, which is now the longest in U.S. history.
"We just wanted to do our part for another Northern community." said Ryan Mannen, unit operations specialist for air traffic control at Erik Nielsen Whitehore International Airport. "It's the least we could do."
He said they ordered a dozen pizzas from a restaurant right across the street from the Fairbanks tower and left it up to the workers to decide what toppings they wanted — but the classic Canadian pizza and the controversial pineapple topping weren't on the menu.
"I found that to be kind of weird but |
In four of the losses, three different Marlins relievers were tagged for homers that dictated the outcomes. Dunn made it a trio Sunday when Utley | hit a 1-0 pitch into the bleachers in right.
“He was sitting on a slider, and he wasn’t fooled,” Dunn said of the pitch that the red-hot Utley, who has 20 hits in 40 at-bats this season, hit out.
Carlos Marmol and Dan Jennings also gave up late-inning homers during a week gone bad for the Marlins.
The Marlins’ bullpen had an ERA of 7.36 on the trip.
But Redmond said the bullpen is hardly the only area that needs to improve.
Nothing seemed to go right for the Marlins all week. They lost starting pitcher Jacob Turner to a shoulder injury at the start of the week, which caused the Marlins to move Brad Hand out of the bullpen and into a starting role. That caused a chain reaction that ended up taxing the bullpen.
• Marlins hitters went just 7 for 47 on the road trip with runners in scoring position.
• As a |
THEATRE stalwart Alan Abbott has become the first president of Concordia Amateur Operatic Society on his retirement after 42 years as treasurer.
| He announced his resignation at the annual meeting when chairman Will Hare announced the committee’s decision to create the post and presented Mr Abbott with a National Operatic and Drama Association president’s badge.
His successor is Jack Staniforth who had prepared the latest balance sheet.
A keen cricketer who played for Hinckley Grammar School, he was playing for the county at 19 and resisted all cajoling from his brother Derek and Roy Hewitt in favour of sport until the society staged Oklahoma!, a show he had enjoyed in the West End, and an appearance that led to many more as he became more involved.
He took over as treasurer in 1967 and was advised by a friend who worked at Sketchleys and kept the same system throughout, going back to it after a brief attempt at computerisation.
Now the last surviving trustee, Mr Abbott was one of the group of pioneers who first saw the former hosiery factory and were inspired by Fred Rowbottom� |
Iceberg dead ahead! Iceberg dead ahead!
Amid yawning imbalances undermining every realm of the national economy, Pakistan Tehreek | -e-Insaf- (PTI) led regime, with all its tardy actions on monetary and exchange rate fronts, has only so far tried to tinker with the tip of the iceberg of the economic mess.
There is so much that is yet to be done to bring order into the financial chaos various sectors of the national economy are mired from top to bottom.
On the external front, the government has somewhat decelerated the current account deficit through import compression but so far Islamabad has not been unable to achieve quantum leap for boosting the country’s dwindling exports.
The real challenge lying ahead for this regime in the upcoming budget will be taking steps on fiscal front as the heavy taxation will be required to jack up Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) tax collection as well as they will have to find out innovative ideas to increase non tax revenues to improve rapidly deteriorating fiscal position of the Center in the wake of last NFC Award.
So difficult time is |
Rio Rancho-La Cueva seemed like an inevitable state championship pair in Class 6A girls soccer, and the Rams and Bears will reach | the finish line together today.
Rio Rancho outlasted Cibola in PKs, while La Cueva edged Volcano Vista in Friday’s semifinals at the APS Complex.
The top two seeds collide at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. They split two regular-season games.
No. 1 RIO RANCHO 1, No. 5 CIBOLA 0 (Rams won 5-3 in PKs): The Rams (19-3) reached their first state final in seven years, going 5-for-5 in the shootout against the Cougars (14-5-2).
“We were hoping for (penalties),” Rio Rancho coach Uwe Balzis said.
He knew, he said, that he had the right five shooters lined up after neither side could score during 100 minutes of regulation and overtime.
And one by one, they applied pressure to Cibola by going first. Che |
Over the last year I have been focused on helping students get better grades. What I found isn’t surprising – good lecture notes are the | best way for students to succeed. Using my research I created a powerful new way for students to easily take great notes and get better grades – combining lecture note taking with the multimedia capability of the iPhone.
LectureMonkey is a simple note taking system based on extensive academic research and field-testing with college students. LectureMonkey harnesses the power of the iPhone by using image processing and audio enhancement to automatically record multimedia summaries of classes, ensuring you have the material you need, when you need it – before midterms and finals. LectureMonkey’s blended lecture note taking system automatically combines lecture material (presentation, boards and audio) with interactive, collaborative class comments.
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are you speaking on behalf of virgin media jb66??
are you speaking on behalf of Virgin Media? Rikaka85?
A VM | Staff person will pick this thread up in due course and sort you out. They do it chronologically starting with the oldest first. Every time you (or me!) reply to this thread it moves it back to the bottom of the list.
I am afraid that once the installation is complete, a relocation of the equipment would be chargeable at £99.00.
We do not supply splitters for the equipment but if you were to require one, they are available via third parties.
Coax splutters are around the £5 mark, but the cable virgin use is not standard coax it is low loss cable typically WF100 cable that works outs about 50p per meter and connectors £1 to £2 each.
Add on the cable clips, properly terminating the cables, your time to run the cable, it is a lot easier to shell out the £100 to get a Virgin engineer to do the work.
You might save £40 or so doing the job yourself, |
Cockroaches crawling on the wall in the main dining area of one Dublin eatery were among the reasons for enforcement orders served by the Food | Safety Authority of Ireland last month.
The authority issued seven closure orders and one prohibition order on businesses after inspections, including three in Dublin.
Among them was Tasty Hut on Dorset Street in Dublin where there was widespread evidence of a cockroach infestation, live cockroaches under and behind a drinks fridge and on the wall of the main dining area.
Inspectors at Mi Thai restaurant on Manor Street in Stoneybatter, Dublin found there was insufficient food preparation space which actively resulted in raw meats being prepared and handled in the same space as high risk ready to eat foods. It found the chopping boards in the kitchen were “filthy” and “ingrained with dirt” with black mould.
At the Diner Thai and Chinese takeaway in Ongar, Dublin 15 inspectors found no running hot water to wash hands or for equipment washing or cleaning. Cleaning was poor throughout the premises and they were unable to identify appropriate cleaning products for sanitising surfaces |
The county would have to allow the developer to change an agreement to build rentals rather than owner-occupied homes.
A developer wants to put up | an apartment complex on Bayshore Drive and rent out nearly half of its units as affordable housing.
The property, a vacant lot at the northeast corner of Bayshore and Thomasson drives, has been slated for affordable housing since 2005. But it has always been the county's plan for the East Naples site that the housing on it — either condominiums or single family homes — would be owned and not rented.
In a 2005 agreement with the owners of the property, called the Cirrus Pointe Planned Unit Development, the county gave developers permission to build more units than is typically allowed in exchange for keeping 44 of those condos or homes affordable.
But the property was never developed. Now more than a decade later, a new developer has offered to buy the land if county commissioners change the original agreement to allow the housing to be rented rather than owned.
There is a need here for more rentals, said Karen Bishop, who spoke on behalf of developer Vestcor Inc |
What will Sochi do with its infrastructure?
An incomplete corner of a hotel is seen at Gorky Gorod 900 prior to the Sochi 2014 Winter | Olympics.
Editor's Note: The following piece is from the perspective of Metro World News reporterAlexey Shunaev.
My elevator shuddered twice when I was going down to have breakfast. The light went off for a moment, the elevator stopped and the doors opened. I took one step out and suddenly I found myself almost doing the splits. The shiny tiled ground was bizarrely awash with water. I thought to myself, "Am I on the right hotel floor?"
With the wadding gait of a penguin, I crossed the pool and got out of the building, tiptoeing past half a dozen women drying the floor with big duster cloths.I asked the handyman about the faulty elevator, wondering if its woes were caused by the lake in the lobby.
“Listen, you got a bit of a shake, but not by the electricity, right? So don't worry. The elevator will behave like that until April, then |
A senior European Union official on Monday called on Israel to end its policy of targeted assassinations of Palestinian fighters, calling the move "counter-productive | ".
to move forward with the "road map"
EU Commissioner Chris Patten said Israel has carried out this policy for a number of years.
Patten, who is in charge of the EU's external relations, said Israel needed to be careful "that extra-judicial killings don't make it much more difficult for the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority to get an agreement on a ceasefire with Hamas".
Patten was referring to Palestinian Premier Mahmoud Abbas, who has been meeting Palestinian political groups in an effort to end the armed resistance against Israel's occupation.
Israel defiantly defended its assassination of top Hamas leader Abd Allah Qawasmeh, who was considered the top Hamas official in the occupied West Bank, in Hebron on Sunday.
Israel's killing of Qawasmeh prompted US Secretary of State Colin Powell to express concern.
"I regret we had an incident that could be an impediment to progress," said Powell, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum |
Sgt. Andrew Parmley couldn’t see who was firing at him and his platoon, but he’d been in Iraq long | enough to know the AK-47 bullets whizzing around him weren’t just special effects.
“The only cover was a grove of date trees,” he said.
Parmley and his buddies scrambled behind the tree trunks for cover, and started returning fire in the general direction of the attack. They had no easy escape route.
“We had to stop the shooting before we could move,” he said.
Armed with an M-4 rifle, Parmley got on one knee beside a date palm and opened fire.
As the barrage continued, he felt his body forced backward and his left arm go numb.
His weapon remained strapped to his chest in firing position, but in a split second, Parmley’s role had shifted from fighting soldier and combat medic to battlefield casualty.
He looked down at his useless left arm.
“My whole sleeve was bloody,” he said.
It wasn |
Fourth Grade "A" Honor Roll: Christian Lasher, Alonzo Miles, Brady Neville, Elizabeth Rapp, Kennedy Shelton, Morgan Sp | iers, Alicia Thomas, Daisha Wyatt.
Fifth Grade "A" Honor Roll: Hatcher Bain, Ashley Eubank, Breanne Gill, Vadaysha Jefferson, Alexandra Stone, Caroline Webb.
Fourth Grade "A-B" Honor Roll: Brendan Bishop, Kayla Boothe, Blake Cadnum, Katie Chappell, Neal Chappell, Nash Costley, Cheyeanne Cousins, Rachel Eubank, Ky'Eisha Fields, Dylan Grindle, Ethan Jensen, Miranda Kaufman, Taylor McMahon, NyAjah Robinson, Jiren Roselle, Shafeeq Spence, Kya Taylor, Alexis Thomas, Dalton Tucker, Rachael Tucker, Jaylen Williams.
Fifth Grade "A-B" Honor Roll: Caleb Caudle, Jaylyn Cherry, Lauren Christopher, Kendaz Clanton, Kaytlin Durham, Ashley Fitts, James Herrin, Charlie Morgan, Josiah Roselle, Austin Smith |
Khabib Nurmagomedov isn’t happy with the UFC.
WITH UFC star Khabib Nurmagomedov's | future hanging in the balance, he is claiming to have been approached by World Wrestling Entertainment.
The world's largest wrestling promotion has wasted no time in going after the in-demand Russian and wants him to become the latest UFC star to make the switch.
He would join Ronda Rousey and Brock Lesnar as fighters who have made the shock decision to change allegiances.
And he appeared to immediately set his sights on former UFC heavyweight king and ex-WWE Universal champion Lesnar.
Lesnar is one of the biggest drawcards in both UFC and WWE, but Nurmagomedov wants a piece of the man known as "The Beast Incarnate".
Lesnar is expected to return to the Octagon in 2019, after a much-hyped fight with current UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier later this year fell through.
Conor McGregor, beaten by Nurmagomedov last Sunday, has spoken of WWE's interest before and upset a series of the organisation's superst |
A grand jury also secretly indicted a Chillicothe woman in a separate incident where she allegedly tried to hit two people with a car.
CH | ILLICOTHE - A Jefferson Avenue woman was arrested this week on secret indictments related to a downtown arson fire last year and a separate incident where she allegedly tried to hit two people with a car.
Ashley B. Gibson, 33, is facing one count of aggravated arson and two counts of felonious assault, all second-degree felonies, after a grand jury secretly indicted her on Friday.
The arson charge relates to a Nov. 21, 2017, fire at 23 S. Paint St. which housed Paint. The Art of Hair and two apartments. There were people in the salon and in one apartment when the fire was set, but all were able to escape uninjured.
"(Investigators) basically had someone come forward and say Ashley was bragging about setting this fire," said Todd Bost, an investigator with the Ross County Prosecutors Office.
Gibson was identified as a potential suspect early on because her ex-boyfriend lived in one of the apartments and a neighbor |
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan prosecutors and a United Nations-backed anti-graft commission sought for a third time Friday to have | President Jimmy Morales' immunity of office lifted so they can investigate him for possible illicit electoral financing.
Maria Consuelo Porras, chief prosecutor and head of the Public Ministry, said the request was in relation to Morales' time as secretary-general of his political party, before his election in 2016.
Morales, who is suspected of receiving at least $1 million in undeclared campaign contributions from business interests in 2015, has denied wrongdoing in the past and said attempts to investigate him are politically motivated.
In a statement, his office said the president respects the rule of law and "reiterates his commitment to institutions in the country, to legal order and due process."
Twice last year prosecutors tried without success to have the president's immunity lifted. The first time, the Supreme Court allowed the request to progress to the congress where there were not sufficient votes to lift Morales' immunity. The second time, the court did not allow it to progress that far.
Those attempts |
Andy Van Slyke had words of praise for Cincinnati`s Paul O`Neill during the Pirates` brief workout here Saturday. Players from rival clubs | , more often than not, have a healthy respect for each other, so Van Slyke`s laudatory comments about O`Neill were not unusual.
It was a pivotal play for the Reds and helped blunt a budding, sixth-inning Pittsburgh rally. Van Slyke had opened with a single to deep right, stopped at second on Bobby Bonilla`s single to left and then tagged up and tried to advance on Barry Bonds` fly to O`Neill.
Play doesn`t resume here with Game 3 until Monday afternoon. This best-of-seven series is tied at 1. It figured to be close, with neither team having a decisve edge. Still, it is somewhat remarkable that each team has scored the same number of runs-five. The Reds hit a collective.175 in the first two games, the Pirates.210.
Van Slyke made it clear he expects the Pirates` bats will come alive.
Insofar as contributing, the Reds` so |
Beck performs at Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco.
Jack White, Beck and Bon Iver will headline the 11th annual Sasquatch Music | Festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington this Memorial Day Weekend. The festival will also include performances by the Shins, Feist, the Roots, Tune-Yards, Wild Flag, Spiritualized, St. Vincent, the Walkmen, Girl Talk, Tenacious D, Explosions in the Sky, Gary Clark Jr., Beirut, the Joy Formidable, the Civil Wars, Silversun Pickups, M. Ward and Blitzen Trapper. In addition to these and many other bands, the weekend will also feature comedy performances by the cast of Portlandia, Todd Barry, John Mulaney, Nick Kroll, Rob Delaney and others.
Beck’s appearance at the top of the bill will come as a surprise to many fans of the alt-rock icon, who has been almost entirely absent from the stage since 2009. This could be an indication that the songwriter is working on new material, which would be his first since Modern Guilt came out |
The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements said, that Israel is planning to implement a new settlement bloc project in the center of | the West Bank toward Palestinian Valleys. The national bureau added that as the Israeli elections are taking place next April, Israeli parties began issuing racist statements, harming the Palestinian people in order to gain the satisfaction of settlers at the expense of the rights of the Palestinian people, of which most recently the call made by Israeli Minister of Science and Technology, Ophir Akunis to impose Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank, to accelerating the pace of settlement construction in the West Bank and to increase the budget of the Israeli security forces operating in there. He pointed out that security and construction would bring more Jews to settle in the West Bank. Knowing that last year, the Likud Party approved by a large majority a draft resolution to impose Israeli law on settlements in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, and to annex them under the Israeli sovereignty.
Within this context, the planning and building committees in the military government approved a project to expand several settlements in the West Bank to form a settlement bloc that |
Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal both bounced back from demoralising defeats to enjoy wins on New Year’s Day, with Spurs cruising to a | 3-0 victory at Cardiff and the Gunners beating Fulham 4-1 at the Emirates.
Jamie Vardy was on target for Leicester City, who picked up an impressive 1-0 away win at Everton on Tuesday.
Tottenham had a point to prove after their title credentials were undermined by a poor home loss to Wolves on Saturday, and they delivered a composed display in South Wales to move back into second place in the Premier League.
Mauricio Pochettino's side took just three minutes to get in front when Harry Kane launched an attack, surging from deep, Kieran Trippier crossed, and the England forward had a simple tap-in after the ball ricocheted off Cardiff defender Sean Morrison.
Christian Eriksen made it 2-0 nine minutes later with a well-placed shot from the edge of the box after the Cardiff defenders had given him far too much room.
Spurs had firm control in the 26th minute when South Korean winger Son |
Amazon.com’s third quarter financial results are out and it’s not looking good for the Seattle retailer.
The company said | net sales rose 27 percent to $13.81 billion in the third quarter. However, Amazon posted a net loss of $274 million, or a loss of 60 cents per share. That compared to analyst expectations of a loss of 8 cents per share.
A large chunk of the loss, about $169 million or 37 cents per share, was due to losses experienced by LivingSocial, the daily deals service in which Amazon is an investor. Amazon invested $175 million in the Groupon competitor in December 2010. A 2011 filing showed $558 million in losses for LivingSocial.
Amazon’s stock is down five percent in after hours trading. The company posted profits in the three previous quarters.
CFO Tom Szkutak spoke on a conference call shortly after the earnings were released and said the losses can be attributed to investments in new geographical locations, new fulfillment centers and the Kindle business.
“We like the idea of selling our Kindle Fire and then being rewarded through purchases |
Veteran Fatah Central Committee member openly says his faction murdered Henkins in front of their children, as terror praise pours in.
The | "armed wing" of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction initially claimed responsibility for Thursday night's brutal murder of a young couple right in front of their four children, but now a senior Fatah official has confirmed that claim.
Senior Fatah official Mahmoud Al-Aloul, who is a member of the Fatah Central Committee, was revealed by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) as having announcing responsibility the night before on Facebook for the murder of Rabbi Eitam and Naama Henkin outside Itamar in Samaria.
"The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement Fatah, accepted responsibility for the Itamar operation (i.e. the murder - ed.) carried out against settlers, leading to their deaths," wrote Al-Aloul in an open admission.
Al-Aloul is a senior Fatah figure; he was the PA governor of Shechem (Nablus) from |
We saw it last year, for example, with revelations of John Della Bosca’s affair with 26 year old Kate Neill. | Della Bosca resigned as NSW Health Minister. And then of course, there was the not so private life of Tiger Woods. Campbell, Della Bosca and Woods betrayed their marriage vows but then, that’s a matter for their conscience and families, no one else.
You could say with politicians, it’s about betraying trust but that might be pushing it. After all, there has been no shortage of politicians, including Prime Ministers, who have been notorious pants men. Everyone knew it and it didn’t hurt their political careers. The interesting question is whether this is part of a more general trend where the line between what is public and what’s private are blurring.
Why are private lives turning public? No doubt a lot of it is because of the growth of media. Add to that sites like Facebook and Twitter, YouTube and reality TV. The lines are blurring because they can be blurred.
All this leaves me wondering about how |
Wolves boss Mick McCarthy praised the fighting qualities of his players as they twice came from behind to rescue a precious point in a 2-2 home | draw with Norwich.
The Canaries led through former Wolves player Andrew Surman and then substitute Simeon Jackson, but goals from Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Ronald Zubar levelled matters for Mick McCarthy's side.
McCarthy said: "To come from behind twice, and the response they gave, I thought the players were great."
He added: "No-one has left anything on the pitch. They are a great bunch and we will march on and see what happens.
"We got off to the worse possible start, conceding a goal. They started well and had a couple more chances.
"When we got back into the game, we were on top at the end of the first half and continued that second half.
"They scored against the run of play and then at the end of it all, it was a bit crazy."
McCarthy took the bold decision to drop striker Kevin Doyle but Ebanks-Blake responded to his |
John Oswald and Walt Churchill will swap places on Monday and Tuesday to promote local businesses and help Food for Thought charity.
TOLEDO ( | WTOL) - Appliance Center, now open for over 55 years in the local area, and Walt Churchill’s Market, which recently celebrated 100 years of business in Toledo, have teamed up for a charitable event unlike any other.
“It’s a partnership over 55 years in the making,” said John Oswald, president of Appliance Center.
“We have sold some pretty crazy stuff at Appliance Center over the years but this will be my first endeavor with groceries and I’m looking forward to it,” said John.
“I have shopped at Appliance Center for many years and I love the people there, I just hope John doesn’t try to get me to jump into any swimming pools like he does in his commercials,” said Walt Churchill.
They are doing this not only to promote local business but also to raise money for a local charity, Food For Thought. Everyone who comes in to see |
Ade Edmondson has reportedly joined Star Wars 8.
You read that right. The British comedian is said to have landed a part after | impressing director Rian Johnson and The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams.
The Sun say although his role is being kept under wraps, we should expect it to be an ‘eccentric’ part given his comedy background.
And the move has already been called ‘one of the most unlikely castings in Star Wars history’ by film industry insiders.
Ade, who appeared in War And Peace earlier this year, is said to be keen on getting back to acting after being involved with a lot of reality TV.
A source said: ‘Ade is one of the most-loved comedy stars in the UK but even he would admit Star Wars is a surprise move for him.
‘While JJ Abrams isn’t directing, he is still heavily involved and he is really keen on British talent.
While the report is certainly surprising, Edmondson isn’t the first unusual bit of casting. Remember Daniel Craig’s cameo |
WEST HAM Boss Sam Allardyce has confirmed he was on a scouting mission last weekend to check on the development of Swiss striker Josip Dr | mic.
The Hammers boss attended Wolfsburg's 4-1 win over Nuremberg, with the 21-year-old forward understood to be a target for the Upton Park outfit this summer.
But Allardyce revealed the flow of the game against the Old Master's meant his scouting mission didn't go quite according to plan.
"I was at Nuremberg versus Wolfsburg. The sausages were great!" joked Allardyce.
"They got beat quite comfortably so in terms of that particular player [Drmic], you wouldn't be able to judge him on that particular game because they got battered."
West Ham's Premier League rivals Everton and Liverpool are also interested in the starlet, who's scored 16 goals so far this term.
Drmic, a versatile forward who can play through the middle or out wide, is a man in demand after a brilliant first season in the Bundesliga.
He has carried Nuremberg and is the main reason they |
Thornley won the women's single scull 5km trials race in Boston, Lincolnshire in November, but there are doubts over her double | sculls place.
She has been competing alongside Scotland's Katherine Grainger, having been in the women's eight at London 2012.
They are regarded as the fastest individuals, but questions have been raised over their double sculls combination, with the pair only finishing sixth at the World Championships in Aiguebelette this year.
Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, who won GB's first gold at London 2012, will continue in the pair for Rio.
However, Thornley believes continuing to impress in the build-up to the Games can secure her a place in Brazil.
"I will want to be in the boat with the best chance of winning a medal," she said.
"I was really pleased with the weekend. I won the trial in November so wanted to keep myself at the top of the team in the singles results.
"I did that and had a good margin over the second place."
She added: "Fundamentally it comes down |
Antoine Fuqua, the director of the remake of The Magnificent Seven, says he insisted on Denzel Washington playing the lead character in an | attempt to present a more diverse and accurate view of America's cowboy past.
Oscar-winner Washington, 61, is one of Hollywood's most successful black actors and in the remake of the classic western he plays Sam Chisolm, a bounty hunter, and the leader of the Seven. Fuqua, 50, who directed Washington in Training Day, is in post-production for the hotly-anticipated film, which will be released in September.
Fuqua told AFP: "I said it needs to be an event and it needs to be something we haven't seen – and more diverse. I said Denzel should play the lead role."
Fuqua's film is a re-imagining of the 1960 western starring Steve McQueen and James Coburn – which in turn was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Japanese-language epic Seven Samurai. The new version stars Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke, along with South Korea's Lee Byung-hun as Billy Rocks, one of |
The festive season is upon us.
Now is a good time to start reflecting on what the family will be feasting on during the many celebrations | . This time reminds me of family, especially my favourite aunt - when all the women gather to prepare food for the occasion, usually to make the umqombothi and peel and chop the vegetables.
My favourite aunt would have same carrot in hand for at least three hours, animatedly sharing the latest (and heavily embellished) story of her exciting life, with us hanging on her every word. Between her and the scones and gemmer, we couldn't be more entertained.
In a pot dissolve the sugar with 2 cups of the water. Simmer the ginger, raisins, cream of tartar, pineapple skin and the rest of the water. Allow the pot to cool for an hour and add the yeast. Leave to stand overnight. Strain into a bottle and chill before serving.
Preheat oven to 180ºC and grease an oven tray. In a large bowl, sift flour, salt and baking powder. Using your hands, rub in the butter |
Joseph Awuah-Darko sits on a stool at one of the world’s largest electronic waste dumps, watching polystyrene and | insulation cables burn on the blackened ground.
the 21-year-old British-born Ghanaian, surveying the stretch of wasteland around him as dense plumes of smoke rise into the air.
Awuah-Darko and his university friends have ambitious plans for the sprawling Agbogbloshie dumping ground in Ghana’s capital, Accra.
“We are suffering here because the heat is there, the smoke, too, it disturbs us. If we find a good work we will go and join it and leave this place,” Mohammed Abdul Rahim, a dump site worker said.
Awuah-Darko’s first upcycled work is a grandfather clock, made from a galvanized car axle, aluminium and part of a discarded wall clock.
Two high-end hotels in Accra are currently vying to buy the unusual timepiece, he said, and with such interest he has plans to create more and expand |
The Ponton Plod is a challenge for both walkers and runners over either 12, 17 or 27 miles which starts and finishes at Great Pont | on Village Hall.
All routes use footpaths, bridleways, tracks and minor roads towards the Vale of Belvoir, the longer routes passing through several picturesque villages including Harlaxton, Wyville and Harston. The 10th running of this event raised funds for CASY and the Besso Children’s Home in Hosur, India.
Grantham Running Club had a stellar line-up of endurance athletes for the longest event, leading the way despite it being his first attempt on this route was serial marathon runner Adam Wasiolka.
Although Adam has competed in almost 100 full marathons and regularly does a 26-mile workout along the canal, he was not as familiar with the route as his fellow runners in the lead pack and must have clocked up quite a few miles in excess of the planned 27.8 miles as he put speed in front of map reading. His time of 4hr 42min is sure to be bettered |
A beauty blogger from Sheffield, has shared her story of receiving negative comments about her disability, as part of a global campaign aimed at combating the issue | of beauty cyberbullying.
Tess Daly from Sheffield Lane Top was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2 at 18 months old, meaning she has to use a motorised wheelchair on a daily basis as she cannot walk or stand.
However, the fashion-mad beauty blogger has not let this hold her back, going on to build a ‘great community’ of nearly 150,000 followers who keep up to date with her on Instagram.
Despite this, she admits to facing hate comments linked to her disability, but thanks her parents and a great network of friends, who have helped her develop a thick skin from an early age.
She said: “At one point I filtered out words I didn’t want to see, ones that were consistent on my posts. It used to be more frequent, but personally I feel like people are becoming a lot more kinder.
“If I have a hate comment, I have people that will |
BEIJING—China owes a great debt to the African continent. This cannot be denied.
In 1971, when the People’s | Republic of China’s United Nations status was put to a vote, it was newly independent African countries that provided the crucial majority and ensured China was able to take its rightful seat on the UN Security Council. Thanks to the goodwill of its “African brothers,” as Chairman Mao Zedong called them, China could finally join the global family of nations. With that vote, an unbreakable bond between China and Africa was forged.
And while there have been rocky moments over the decades since—the less said about alignment with U.S. forces in Angola and elsewhere, the better—relations between Africa and China have remained fundamentally strong. Which is why it should come as no surprise the continent plays an important role in China’s Belt and Road Initiative. This enormous project includes $60 billion in development aid, geared toward sorely needed infrastructure. The aim of the BRI is to give a leg up to historically exploited regions of the world and bring them into the global economy through |
The FlyAway airport shuttle started making stops again at the original Union Station stop in the Patsaouras Bus Plaza, after the stop was | relocated to make way for renovation work.
The plaza will be reopening with some changes, according to a spokesman. Cars will no longer be allowed in the plaza area with the buses, and are restricted to a separate underground garage that can be entered on Vignes Street.
The Union Station FlyAway shuttle operates every 20 minutes from 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., every half hour from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., and hourly from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m.
One-way fares are $9, with free admission for up to two children ages five and younger. Union Station garage parking is $8 per day, up to a maximum stay of 30 days.
FlyAway shuttles also pick-up and drop-off LAX passengers at stops in Hollywood, Long Beach, Metro Orange Line station in the San Fernando Valley, Van Nuys, and West |
More than a million people were driven off the road last year by the cost of fuel and the recession, a study claims.
Some 1. | 3 million people have given up driving over the past 12 months, research by Sainsbury's Car Insurance claims.
The average car owner is spending around £1,720 per year to fuel their vehicle, which is almost a third increase on the year before.
Three-quarters of motorists have changed their driving habits in the past 12 months, including driving more slowly.
The research comes amid challenging conditions for consumers as the rising cost of living and muted wage growth stifle spending power. The average cost of petrol is 136p a litre, according to the AA, down 0.86p on the mid-May average but higher than the 135.75p a litre figure on June 5.
Elsewhere, households are feeling the pressure from rising food prices and utility bill increases.
Some changes to motoring habits identified by the research include stopping filling up tanks fully, which 26 per cent admit to doing, and purchasing specific values of fuel.
Some 45 per cent of motorists |
CorePower Yoga founder Trevor Tice, who helped bring fitness-oriented yoga to the masses, was found dead Monday in his San Diego home. |
Police say the 48-year-old entrepreneur’s death is considered suspicious, but have provided few details.
CorePower Yoga founder, Trevor Tice.
Tice, a Telluride native, was found dead about 12:15 p.m. Monday by San Diego police officers. They were called to the yoga pioneer’s expansive home in the city’s posh Sunset Cliffs neighborhood by a friend who had gone to the house earlier to check on Tice because he wasn’t answering his phone. Police said the friend looked inside and found what they described as concerning circumstances.
Tice got hooked on yoga after a serious climbing accident left him with six permanent screws in his shattered ankle, according to a CorePower biography.
“Traveling for his technology business, Trevor practiced a variety of yoga disciplines at yoga studios across the country and found an opportunity to make yoga dynamic, challenging and convenient,” the biography reads.
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Lena Dunham heads to Iowa in "Girls" season 4.
In the newly released trailer for the hit HBO series, Dunham's character, | Hannah Horvath, begins a new life away from her New York City friends and boyfriend, Adam Sackler, played by Adam Driver.
"I'm telling you, Iowa's incredible," she tells Marnie Michaels (Allison Williams) during a video chat at the beginning of the nearly two-minute clip. "We should all move here and start the revolution."
"No one is moving to Iowa ever, but I'm so, so glad you're happy," Michaels responds.
But while she's no longer in the same area code as her crew, Hannah remains intertwined in a world filled with discovery, new beginnings and old ways.
"You don't even have the bravery to break up with Adam," Jessa Johnson, played by Jemima Kirke, tells Hannah over the phone.
At the end of season three, Hannah's relationship with Adam was left with a questionable conclusion as to what their future would be like.
He stayed in the Big Apple to |
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Spokane 7, Everett 3: Curtis Terry and Jax Big | gers hit two-run home runs and the Indians (11-8) beat the visiting AquaSox (9-10).
Tri-City 4, Vancouver 1: Dwanya Williams-Sutton homered and the visiting Dust Devils (7-12) defeated the Canadians (12-7). Henry Henry gave up one run on five hits with no walks and four strikeouts for Tr-City.
Boise 9, Salem-Keizer 5: LJ Hatch went 3 for 5 with two RBIs and the Hawks (7-12) outlasted the visiting Volcanoes (9-10). Cade Harris homered and walked three times for Boise, while Hidekel Gonzalez drove in three.
Hillsboro 6, Eugene 4: Andy Yerzy hit a three-run triple in the seventh and the visiting Hops (12-7) topped the Emeralds (9-10). William Gorman added a solo home run for Hillsboro.
Top 30 prospect |
Representatives of the youth wings of the opposition parties held a special press conference at Tbilisi Marriott Hotel on Monday. Their spokesman Melor V | achnadze said that the deadline for freeing all political prisoners detained after the November 7, 2007 rallies given in a previous ultimatum was July 15. He once again called on the Government to release the detainees. He also demanded that people participating in raids on opposition rallies be punished.
The young opposition activists, who have already campaigned in Kakheti, will be holding meetings in the Samegrelo and Adjara regions. Their organisers say that the screening of a documentary showing Government oppression of opposition members and supporters from November 7, 2007 to date is also planned. After two days in the regions the young activists will start a continual rally in front of the Georgian Parliament. About 200 people will participate in this rally, which according to the organisers will not stop until their demands are met.
The ‘radical’ opposition leaders are also promising to hold a mass rally at the end of July, on the day of US Vice President Joe Biden’s arrival in Tbil |
Fighting for the first time inside a cage, Frenchman Gael Grimaud used a superior ground game to topple “Ice Viking” Arni Is | aksson and claim the vacant Cage Warriors Fighting Championship welterweight title last Thursday in Amman, Jordan.
The main event of CWFC “Fight Night 2” at the Al-Hussein Youth City Boxing Arena saw Grimaud and Isaksson vie for the belt previously held by current UFC signee Pascal Krauss. The pair went back and forth in a topsy-turvy opening round with both men finding back-mount and hunting for submission attempts, but it was the second half of the frame -- when Grimaud secured a body-triangle and fired off hard punches -- which forecasted the ending.
Two minutes into the second period, Grimaud reversed an inside trip attempt from Isaksson and leapt into full mount. As the Icelander tried to roll free, Grimaud cinched up another rear-mounted triangle to bomb away with punches and particularly damaging elbows. When it became clear that Isaksson had no escape, referee Mark Goddard stepped |
Naan bread on the barbecue. Pretty sure at least one of these was drenched in melted butter and devoured shortly after this photo was taken | .
In the spirit of foodie sharing, I made the most amazing naan bread this weekend. It was soft, tender, and perfectly grilled on the barbecue; I slathered it in melted butter before using it to sop up the sauce from a chickpea curry. What could be better?
Thanks to the huge range of sauces and pastes sold in jars from the likes of Patak’s and Sharwood’s, it’s never been easier to make Indian curries at home without spending hours grinding spices and simmering pots on a hot stove. But what about the naan?
I’ve never met a supermarket naan bread that comes even close to the real thing from a good Indian restaurant. The packaged stuff is always too puffy, dry and flavourless. And bad naan, well … it can ruin an otherwise tasty Indian meal, and who’d want that? I long ago realised that if I wanted to |
The biggest challenge in front of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) when it was voted to power in 2015 with a “sc | ary mandate” was healthcare. Improving the health system and making it affordable was one of its key poll promises and after more than two years of governing the capital, it continues to come up with schemes to take healthcare to the masses.
For many, the healthcare system of Delhi has gone through a transformation like never before. This is seen firsthand in the state’s budget allocation. While the central government has assigned a little over two percent of the 2017-18 union budget to healthcare, the capital received an allocation of nearly 12 percent, at Rs 5,736 crore.
In July, the Delhi government announced a free surgery scheme, in which the state will bear the cost of surgery of patients at private hospitals if the government hospitals were unable to operate within a month. The scheme is applicable for Delhi residents from any income group who are undergoing treatment at one of the 24 specified government hospitals and are allotted a date of surgery after 30 days of diagnosis or if the specified surgery is not performed |
Armenia’s macroeconomic performance has been satisfactory, and the financial system has been stable, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) | says.
“Armenia’s banking sector has weathered the 2014 economic slowdown, aided by additional capital injected by shareholders, several mergers, and improved regulation and supervision. At present, financial soundness indicators show signs of improvement,” the IMF said Executive Board concluded during a November 30th discussed the Financial System Stability Assessment (FSSA) of Armenia.
“Bank profitability has gradually recovered, although it is still below pre-crisis levels. Nonperforming loans (NPLs) have fallen, of which a substantial proportion is covered by provisions, although NPL ratios are still high in a few banks,” the IMF said.
It added that since the 2012 FSAP the Central Bank of Armenia has made progress in strengthening Armenia’s financial system. The CBA has adopted measures to mitigate risks from dollarization.
“Higher risk-weights and provisioning were imposed on dollar assets to absorb the credit risk due to unhedged |
The Cops Almost Killed Ving Rhames For Going Into His Own House!
Ving Rhames appeared on Sirius XM recently and spoke | about an incident between him and the police.
(AllHipHop Rumors)Ving Rhames is known for his work in classic films such as "Pulp Fiction." This Friday he caused a stir after revealing some personal information on SiriusXM’s The Clay Cane Show.
Rhames would appear on the show and there he discussed many things. One of those things was race relations.
Ving Rhames would then recall a time he had the police called on him by a neighbor. The neighbors thought he broke into his home.
“This happened this year. I open the door and there is a red dot pointed at my face from a 9-mm, and they say, ‘Put up your hands.’ Literally.," said Rhames.
Police would later end the situation after one of the officers realized Rhames' son played basketball on his son's team.
"What if it was my son and he had a video game remote |
Managing editor at Facebook, early luncher.
Congratulations, finalists in today’s Scripps National Spelling Bee! Just try | not to do this.
With a cell phone and Ustream channel, protester turned independent journalist Tim Pool is your window into Occupy Wall Street.
In a testament to just how far Steve Jobs’ influence reached, notables from politicians to athletes to technology executives have issued statements on the Apple founder’s passing.
Though NewsFeed’s childhood would suggest that cookies taste better with burnt fingers, society seems to have come to an impasse with dangerous kiddie cooking.
In the situation room Sunday, President Obama waited to hear if Geronimo was dead. Then word came. “We’ve IDed Geronimo,” said a voice.
For the seventh annual TIME 100 Gala, honorees gathered Tuesday at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Bryan Wright hates Naked Lunch. So why did he read it? We told him to.
Suddenly, Ken Carson is the comeback |
Prior to retiring following a tough and protracted working life (he left school at 14), my Dad spent almost thirty years working for a very well- | known car manufacturer. From almost his first day, he maintained that vehicles rolling off the production line could, at negligible cost, have been greatly improved, both in terms of performance and reliability.
For years, however, the industry’s cut-throat economic realities ensured that cars were sold to unsuspecting motorists with one additional feature they would have preferred to do without: built-in obsolescence.
Referring to one of his employer’s best-selling UK-manufactured vehicles (now, ironically, much sought-after by classic car collectors) as a “tin can on wheels”, my Dad knew what he was talking about: you rarely saw one on the road that was more than five years old.
inclined to change them as frequently as they once did. It might sound harsh today, but this economic reality kept thousands of people, including my Dad, gainfully employed for decades.
Unwittingly or otherwise, many, many |
WASHINGTON — Now that special counsel Robert Mueller has said President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort is lying to federal investigators, the only thing that can | keep the 69-year-old from spending the rest of his life in prison is a pardon from Mr. Trump.
That action is something White House press secretary Sarah Sanders dismissed Tuesday.
"I'm not aware of any conversations for anyone's pardon," Sanders said at a press briefing.
Adding to Manafort's troubles, The Guardian reported Manafort held secret meetings with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, including one in 2016, just months before WikiLeaks released a trove of stolen Democratic emails. Manafort and Assange say the article is false and have threatened legal action over the story.
In September, Manafort agreed to cooperate with the special counsel in exchange for other charges being dismissed. It was Mueller's biggest victory to date, since Manafort could provide valuable information about any cooperation between the Trump campaign and Russia.
In a court filing Monday night, prosecutors did not reveal what Manafort lied about, but promised to issue a report detailing Manafort's "crimes and lies."
His lawyer |
Director Ryan Coogler’s 2015 reboot of the Rocky franchise, Creed, is not only getting a sequel, it’s also | getting a rematch of sorts. The first trailer for Creed II offers a preview of the impending clash between the heirs to the legacies of two of the franchise’s most famous characters.
Romanian boxer Florian “Big Nasty” Munteanu was cast in Creed II as the son of Ivan Drago, the Russian boxer who killed Apollo Creed in the ring during the events of Rocky IV, only to be defeated by Rocky Balboa in a climactic international match. As the trailer confirms, Munteanu’s character will challenge Creed star Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis Creed, the son of Apollo Creed, who came into his own after being trained by Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) in the 2015 film.
Scheduled to hit theaters November 21, 2018, Creed II will be directed by Steven Caple Jr. (The Land) from a script by Stallone and Cheo Hodari Coker (Luke Cage). Cap |
As Ohio State cornerback Bradley Roby stepped to the start line for the 40-yard dash Tuesday at the NFL Scouting Combine, draft analyst Mike May | ock told NFL Network�s television audience how much was at stake.
Then Roby did exactly what he needed to do during the final day of the combine. He posted an official time of 4.39 seconds in the 40, ranking fourth among all defensive backs.
NFLDraftScout.com projects Roby as a second-round pick in May�s draft.
If the Browns want to upgrade their starting cornerback spot opposite Pro Bowler Joe Haden, who served as a guest analyst for NFL Network on Tuesday while the defensive backs worked out at the combine, they could target Roby.
The Browns have an early second-round pick (No. 35 overall), and their depth at the cornerback position is suspect. Buster Skrine proved to be a decent starter alongside Haden last season, but rookie Leon McFadden struggled mightily once he finally received playing time as a nickel corner late in the season.
Roby was considered the top-rated cornerback prospect in college football |
BEIJING — China forced a New York Times reporter to leave the country Thursday, the latest in a series of government actions targeting journalists.
| Austin Ramzy, who previously worked for six years in China for Time magazine, has not been given a journalist visa since he moved to the newspaper last year.With his temporary visa expiring, he boarded a flight to Taipei, Taiwan, on Thursday afternoon.
Ramzy’s forced departure will result in the first full-time Times correspondent in memory being stationed on Taiwan, an island China considers a rebellious province to be reunified with the mainland, by force if necessary.
Journalists with the Times and Bloomberg News have encountered visa problems since those organizations published articles about wealth and corruption among Communist Party leaders. The huge wealth acquired by “princelings” — relatives of elite government figures — is considered a particularly sensitive issue by the government.
Last month, as visas were due to expire for journalists at the Times, Bloomberg News and other media organizations, the government refused to process their applications until the last moment. The government relented after a personal appeal by Vice President |
Apple has failed to disclose the sales figures for its new iPhone for the first time since 2009, sending fanbois and investors into a spiral of | doubt and fear.
The fruity firm normally thrusts upon the world a boastful press release announcing how many gazillions of new iMobes ordered even before the things have hit the shelves. But following the announcement of the iPhone 5s and 5c, Apple has failed to reveal these numbers.
The higher-end 5s can't be ordered in advance of going on sale, a decision that sparked concerns Apple may not have managed to build up a decent supply level, but the position on the iPhone 5c is unclear.
Apple has given absolutely no indication of how many orders it has received for the 5c – a cheaper, plastic-coated version of the iOS Jesus phone which could be ordered on Friday, 13 September, and will go on general sale next Monday.
The stock markets took Apple's sealed lips as a bad sign, with shares down $14.79 – 3.2 per cent – to $450 at the end of Monday trading.
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Last year, I took at look at a Darpa proposal to keep an entire city under watch. The idea was to network together surveillance cameras | , and use computer algorithms to watch out for suspicious behavior.But it looks like the city of Chicago may beat Darpa to the punch. "A highly advanced system of video surveillance that Chicago officials plan to install by 2006 will make people here some of the most closely observed in the world," the Times says."Cameras are the equivalent of hundreds of sets of eyes," Mr. Daley said when he unveiled the new project this month. "They're the next best thing to having police officers stationed at every potential trouble spot."Police specialists here can already monitor live footage from about 2,000 surveillance cameras around the city, so the addition of 250 cameras under the mayor's new plan is not a great jump. The way these cameras will be used, however, is an extraordinary technological leap.Sophisticated new computer programs will immediately alert the police whenever anyone viewed by any of the cameras placed at buildings and other structures considered terrorist targets wanders aimlessly in circles, lingers outside |
These hard-to-avoid spots are breeding grounds for illness-causing bacteria.
Research shows that public places like the gym are teeming | with bacteria. Photograph via Shutterstock.
With changing weather and the end of daylight savings time comes another hallmark of fall and winter: cold and flu season. And if you find yourself succumbing to illness year after year, some surprising culprits could be to blame. Here are five of the top germ-infested public places to be extra wary of this flu season.
Fitness centers are well-known breeding grounds for germs that might lead to infections or athlete’s foot. A study found high levels of body contamination on door handles, shower floors, free-weight benches and bars, and dumbbells. And don’t forget to give your yoga mat a wipe-down before you roll it up to prevent bacteria from growing.
DC’s Wheaton Metro station boasts the Western Hemisphere’s longest set of single-span escalators. But you may want to avoid holding onto the rails, despite what the safety rules tell you. A study that looked |
I didn’t find a lot surprises in the Academy Award nominations this week. Sure, 13 for Shape of Water seems excessive, but Dunk | irk, Three Billboards, Lady Bird and others got appropriate recognition. Not so for In the Fade, though. (See below). And why 7 nominations for films from Netflix? Isn’t it sort of a TV service? Isn’t it partly responsible for the severe decline in attendance at actual movie theatres last year? Once again though, I’m happy that The Boss Baby was recognized. It won’t win but it’s a contender.
IN THE FADE: The film won a Golden Globe a couple of weeks ago and Diane Kruger won best actress at Cannes. Sadly, they weren’t even nominated for Academy Awards. That’s a gross oversight because this is a powerful and timely film anchored by her electric performance. She exudes grief and then anger building to resolve to get revenge. All that without ever overdoing the emotional outpouring. She makes it feel stark and genuine.
MAZE RUNNER: THE |
We came out very well of the 2007-08 crisis but we were affected in 2011-12 because we were the largest bank in the Eurozone | during the sovereign debt crisis there.
Joris Dierckx has been in charge of French lender BNP Paribas in India since July 2015. During this period he has overseen the bank's shift in strategy to diversify into growing markets like India even as many European peers have retreated back into their home markets. Last year, BNP Paribas completed the acquisition of local brokerage Sharekhan, which it plans to develop as a digital financial services platform. In an interview to MC Govardhana Rangan & Joel Rebello, Dierckx details the bank's plans in the country.
How did you grow your business?
The advantage that BNP Paribas has is that the performance of our group is quite strong, which means we can continue to invest in the growth of our businesses to go into new businesses and to take market share. From 2013 to 2016, our plan for Asia Pacific was a switch from an ECB strategy to an onshore model, |
The crowd of activists, celebrities, and donors laughed appreciatively. These are good times for the environmental movement, even if they’re lousy | for everyone else. Two years ago, this event felt like a gathering of the French Resistance. This year, with Obama in the White House, the NRDC’s only fear was that it might somehow fail to capitalize on this tantalizingly opportune moment and tackle everything from climate change to landfill management.
As Baldwin put it, “Even Rush Limbaugh is recycling his old arguments.”The giddy mood was reflected in the choice of honorees: David Zaslav, the appealingly nerdy C.E.O. of Discovery channel, who was fêted with a video montage that featured footage of Man vs. Wild host Bear Grylls biting into a gigantic pus-filled worm (please tell us those were special effects, guys), and fur-and-leather-free fashion designer Stella McCartney, who was introduced by her dad, the one and only Sir Paul.
No bearded forest gnomes chained to old-growth redwoods |
It’s August 12th, and we’re celebrating Vinyl Record Day. Vinyl has come back in a big way over the last | decade. But collectors already own classics such as Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. Record collectors have been clamoring for something more. One of the best feelings in the world is discovering that hard to find original score at your local record store that you had no idea was even released. Well, our friends at Ship to Shore Media excel in every way in this medium. Their releases are obscure, but they are inviting in the most fun way possible.
Here I list eleven of my favorite cult albums from Ship to Shore Media and show off some gorgeous album artwork in the process. I trust you will find something you dig.
After the George A. Romero’s passing, I (like a lot of you) reminisced over George’s plethora of work. The Dead films come straight to mind, but it was Martin that stuck out for me. The soundtrack was composed by Donald Rubinstein who worked closely with Romero on |
EAST Lothian Council workers who live in the countryside are being advised to set aside their holidays to cover absences from work or face losing | pay if another Beast from the East hits.
A revised staffing policy for severe weather absences warns East Lothian Council will continue to dock the pay of workers who cannot get to work if storms hit.
However the council’s chief executive Angela Leitch told councillors that if staff could not fulfill their contract the council “could not pay them”.
While other local authorities, such as City of Edinburgh Council, took to social media to assure staff they would be paid if they were unable to work during the Wednesday and Thursday of the red weather warnings last March, East Lothian Council repeated its advice that workers should report to work if it was “safe to do so”, or attend the nearest council office or suitable premises, or work from home or other suitable locations.
Following a review of its actions, wages were reinstated for those who missed work during red weather warnings and the policy was reviewed.
However the revised policy, which was approved by Cabinet |
Drought conditions may have leveled off across California, but nearly 100% of the state remains in the third-harshest category for dryness | , according to the latest measurements.
For the past two weeks, California's drought picture has remained the same, halting a steady march toward worse. But the breather has allowed the state to recover only ever so slightly.
In May, 100% of California was experiencing "severe" drought -- the third harshest on a five-level scale -- but since things have leveled off, that figure has only improved to 99.8%, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor report.
Meanwhile, nearly 82% of California continues to suffer "extreme" drought, and within that area, more than half the state is under the driest "exceptional" drought category.
The figures comes as the state Water Resources Control Board authorized strict fines for water wasters in July as part of the latest conservation effort.
As cities across California start enforcing penalties with renewed gusto for over-watering, residents have felt the consequences -- some incurring huge fines, others annoyed with brown |
The Federal Reserve told the 31 largest U.S. banks to test their loan portfolios and trading books against a deep recession and a European market shock | .
The test’s severest point will assume a 13 percent jobless rate and an 8 percent decline in U.S. gross domestic product. Bank holding companies with assets of $50 billion or more are being asked as part of their 2012 capital plan review to project revenues, losses and capital positions through the end of 2013 using four different scenarios, two provided by the Fed and two defined by the banks.
The Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review is a centerpiece of the U.S. central bank’s heightened oversight of the largest lenders. It is also an exam of decision-making by the firms’ management and boards. The Fed is assessing how well they understand their risks and demands on earnings and capital from new standards coming from both international accords and the Dodd-Frank act in the U.S.
The aim “is to ensure that institutions have robust, forward-looking capital planning processes that account for their unique risks, and to help ensure that institutions |
If MySpace and the U.S. government want to protect kids, they shouldn't be turning to email. They should be using IP addresses | .
Last week, the social networking giant--clearly prodded by government pressure--announced its latest safety efforts, created alongside attorneys general of 49 states. A critical part of those efforts is centered on email.
MySpace plans to let parents submit their kids' email addresses; MySpace will then block those address users from setting up MySpace profiles. If young kids can't create MySpace profiles, the argument goes, they'll be safe from those MySpacers who use kids' MySpace pages to harm them.
But the plan has a critical flaw--it's extremely easy for kids to set up free email accounts. And so even if parents submit what they believe to be their kids' sole email address, there's little to keep kids from signing up for a new address without their parents' knowledge. And once kids have a secret email address, there's little to keep them from setting up a secret MySpace profile.
That's where IP addresses come in. My |
By W. Gardner Selby on Thursday, December 21st, 2017 at 7:18 p.m.
Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Lupe Vald | ez, shown here at a January 2017 Texas Tribune event, said unauthorized immigrants account for 1.6 percent of crime--a claim we rated HALF TRUE (Reshma Kirpalani/Austin American-Statesman photo).
Long before Democrat Lupe Valdez declared her candidacy for governor, she differed with Republican incumbent Greg Abbott over the change in law put in place by Texas lawmakers this year to bar local communities from harboring immigrants living in the country illegally.
The state’s sanctuary cities bar, which as of December 2017 remained partially blocked by a federal judge’s ruling under state appeal, empowers local police officers to inquire into a person’s immigration status during routine encounters such as traffic stops. The law also requires local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration agents and to go along with detention requests placed on inmates suspected of illegal immigration. Senate Bill 4 imposes stiff fines and criminal charges on government officials who choose to ignore it.
In July 2017, according to a |
WASHINGTON -- The Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) and the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Environmental Awards were presented June 5, | in two different ceremonies at the U.S. Navy Memorial and Naval Heritage Center here.
The SECNAV and CNO Environmental Awards program recognizes Navy and Marine Corps personnel, installations and ships for their exceptional environmental stewardship.
The CNO Environmental Award winners were presented first, and SECNAV winners were announced in a following ceremony.
Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mark Ferguson presented the CNO the Environmental Awards on behalf of the Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert.
"I am ever mindful that the strength of this great Navy does not rest with technology or platforms alone--the real capability resides in the people serving and their extraordinary hard work and dedication," said Ferguson. "The exceptional men and women - Sailors, civilians, and government contractors - receiving awards today seized the opportunity when given to them, and went the extra mile in protecting our environment.
"Over the past several years, the Navy has greatly expanded efforts to make our ships, aircraft, and |
Former Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) head Mzwanele Manyi asked that a member of the Zondo commission’ | s legal team recuse himself on Tuesday.
Manyi was expected to conclude his evidence on Tuesday, but before proceedings could get underway, he accused evidence leader Vincent Maleka SC of treating him unfairly the previous day, asking that the advocate recuse himself.
Manyi later backtracked, saying that he did not want to frustrate the work of the commission.
Manyi told the commission — chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo — that he had written a letter pointing out that Maleka may be conflicted as he had previously been involved in legal matters against him. Manyi called Maleka’s cross-examination of him “prosecutorial”.
On Monday, Manyi argued that The New Age (TNA) had not received nearly as much money from GCIS as it has been made out in testimonies provided by previous witnesses.
In August 2017, a company owned by Manyi forked out R450-million to buy TNA Media and |
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Ant and Dec dropped by Suzuki following drink-driving charge | HELLO!
Suzuki has withdrawn its endorsement deal with Ant and Dec, | following Ant McPartlin's horrific road collision last week. Ant was charged with drink-driving, which has resulted in the car company dropping its advertising campaign, reported to be worth £20million, on the presenters' Saturday Night Takeaway show. Suzuki GB Plc said in a statement: "Suzuki are withdrawing their advertising campaign with Ant & Dec. No further material featuring the duo will be aired and Suzuki's endorsement deal with the pair has come to an end."
It continued: "We agree with ITV and Ant & Dec that it was the correct decision not to broadcast Saturday Night Takeaway this weekend. As a car brand we recognise the seriousness of Ant's charge. We completely support Ant's decision to seek treatment.
"Suzuki will however continue to sponsor the last two episodes of this series of Saturday Night Takeaway with our current idents. Suzuki very much supports Dec and ITV's decision to broadcast the shows and as headline sponsors we also want to support the |
Mary Hodgson, Natalie Beadle and Helen Ockenden.
Two members of Lancaster and Morecambe Athletics Club were selected to | represent the Lancashire and four Cumbria at the English Schools Cross Country on Saturday at Witton Park, Blackburn.
First to race were the Inter-girls from school years 10 and 11 with Cumbria’s 15-year-old Scarlet Dale, Queen Elizabeth School, Kirby Lonsdale, finishing 21st.
Also running for Cumbria Heidi Murray, Queen Katherine School, Kendal, finished 174th.
In the Junior Girls’ race, years 8 and 9, Emma Whitaker, Queen Elizabeth School, Kirby Lonsdale, finished 62nd as part of the Cumbrian team.
Lancaster Girls Grammar School provided three of the seven Lancashire Senior Girls.
On Sunday, Lancaster and Morecambe athlete Isabelle Woodman was in action at the National Prep Schools’ Cross Country Championships were she finished sixth in the U13 Girls’ race representing Rossall School.
This fixture marked the end of the cross |
Perhaps you, like everyone else on the planet, heard that Amazon and Alexa can now let delivery people into your home while you're away. If | the idea gives you the heebie-jeebies, how about using a Cloud Cam to monitor your home's furry inhabitants while you're out? With these four midweek deals from our friends at TechBargains, finding out if Fido is taking over the world, or just the couch, is easier than ever.
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WINNIPEG — Winners of six of their last seven coming in, the Winnipeg Jets suffered a letdown on Tuesday night at the MTS | Centre, losing 4-3 to the Nashville Predators.
As a battle between two divisional rivals fighting for points in the Western Conference playoff bubble, as well as a game against a physical Barry Trotz-coached team, the game was truly won and lost along the boards, or “in the trenches” as Jets head coach Paul Maurice dubbed it earlier in the day.
Nashville opened and closed periods well, scoring all their goals in the first or last four minutes of periods. The game-winner came 42 seconds into the third, as Mike Fisher was the beneficiary of a scrum in front of the Winnipeg goal — his punch-in was his 14th goal of the season.
The Predators also got goals from Seth Jones, Nick Spaling and Roman Josi. Winnipeg got an outstanding effort from young gun Mark Scheifele, who scored a goal, assisted on another, posted a +3, and generally was outstanding with the puck in just over 18 minutes |
This is how long it took (in minutes and seconds) for the head of the Böögg - a fireworks-stuffed effig | y that looks like a snowman - to explode during Zurich's traditional end-of-winter festival. It apparently means that the coming summer months will be mild but not exceptional.
The Swiss justice ministry says it has returned to Brazil CHF365 million ($365 million) in seized assets from a corporate corruption scandal. But some CHF330 million remains blocked as Brazil is trying to get to the bottom of the Petrobras-Odebrecht case.
Switzerland spent 0.44% of its Gross National Income on development assistance in 2018. That slightly down on the previous year and below the UN target of 0.7%.
Bankruptcies in Switzerland reached a record number last year, according to official statistics. The nearly 14,000 cases translate to overall financial losses of some CHF2 billion ($2 billion).
More than seven weeks ahead of a nationwide vote on Swiss gun laws, opponents clearly lag behind those who support the legal amendment, according to an opinion poll. |
The biggest players in Canada's oil and gas industry are urging Alberta's government to step up its environmental policies and introduce a carbon tax.
Albert | a already has carbon pricing, but the program is limited and it will expire in the next few months.
Suncor CEO Steve Williams told a crowd in downtown Calgary on Friday that change is needed in Alberta to improve Canada's global reputation.
"We're trying to move Canada to a position of leadership, that's not how we are viewed around the world at the moment. We are viewed to be quite the opposite," said Williams.
Suncor, along with fellow Canadian energy company Cenovus, says the time is right for Alberta to address its environmental policies. But they also say if the province adopts a carbon tax, it should be broad based and apply to everyone.
That includes consumers. The idea is that industry will pay a carbon tax, but so too will the average person. That would include having to pay extra at the pumps and on their natural gas and electricity utility bills.
"Absolutely," said Williams. "A realization by the consumer is really important because |
ATLANTA, Sporting Alert — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 33 points, Khris Middleton added 27 and the Milwaukee Bucks | beat the Atlanta Hawks 117-106 on Sunday.
Antetokounmpo, who is averaging over 37 points in wins this season, shot 14 of 21 from the field, grabbed 11 rebounds and five assists for the Bucks (4-2), who bounced back from the 96-89 defeat against the Boston Celtics.
Antetokounmpo, who leads the NBA in scoring this season with a 34.7 average, scored 13 of Milwaukee’s first 20 points.
According ESPN’s Stats and Information, Antetokounmpo entered the game with 175 points, 53 rebounds and 28 assists, which is the best start by a player in NBA history through the first five contest.
Middleton also had nine assists, seven rebounds and two steals, while Malcolm Brogdon finished with 16 points in the win.
John Henson had 12 points and nine rebounds and Rashad Vaughn scored 12 off the bench for Milwaukee, which shot 54.3 percent |
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