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Banks are so excited about Apple Pay they've been advertising it heavily across the web. Here's the home page from the New York Times yesterday | .
When you look at your smartphone, you probably don't spend much time thinking about the poor calculator, day planner and digital camera it helped send to the dustbin of history. But starting today, that same phone is taking aim at another victim: your wallet and the credit cards you carry in it. Both are on "deathwatch" as Apple rolls out Apple Pay for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. While the impact of the new software will be limited at first, it will usher in a new era of convenience and security that will ultimately bring benefits to everyone -- whether or not they are iPhone users. Here's what you need to know.
I'm still not sure what Apple Pay really is. Can you help?
Apple Pay is really two ways to pay rolled into one. The most visible of those will be using your iPhone to pay in retail stores, verifying your ID with the fingerprint sensor. That version of Apple Pay will replace the traditional credit-card swipe. The other |
Singer Kaya Jones describes the scene when a gunman opened fire during an open-air concert on the Las Vegas strip.
Singer K | aya Jones was on stage moments before a gunman opened fire during the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday night. The assailant attacked concertgoers from the 32nd floor of a nearby hotel, killing at least 50 people and injuring more than 400 others, in the deadliest shooting in United States history.
“We left got onto the bus, arrived at the next stop which was their bar that’s local for a quick after performance—as we got there the guys jumped on stage, we started to get information that there was an active shooter that people were hit on stage, I think Jason [Aldean] was three songs in when it began-- so we were moments away from that—he could have picked at any moment to shoot,” Jones told The FOX Business’ Stuart Varney on “Varney & Co.” on Monday.
The gunman, who killed himself as police raided the hotel room, has been identified as 64-year |
Tuesday’s hearing was the last before Greider will sentence Damas on Friday, either to life in prison or to death.
Ra | ising his head from the defense table, Mesac Damas, who pleaded guilty last month to killing his wife and five children, wrote a note on lined yellow paper to Collier Circuit Judge Christine Greider on Tuesday morning.
“Go ahead, continue your work, may my blood be upon your shoulders,” he wrote, signing the note “COG” — Child of God.
Tuesday’s hearing was the last before Greider will sentence Damas on Friday, either to life in prison or to death. Damas waived his right to a jury when he pleaded guilty to six counts of first-degree murder in September.
As he has done on occasion, Damas refused to talk or really participate in any way as prosecutors and his defense attorneys made their closing arguments. And he refused to talk when asked repeatedly by Greider to clarify whether he wanted her to consider the mitigating evidence and testimony presented in his favor Monday by his court-appointed lawyers.
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It's not often that comments made by Whoopi Goldberg on a national TV show have direct relevance to something here in the city of Boulder, | but in a roundabout way the dressing down that Goldberg gave New York Mayor Bill de Blasio does.
On Jan. 16, Goldberg in a now famous rant ripped de Blasio on the subject of bike lanes in the city. Among other choice comments, she told the mayor that he had "screwed the city up." His offense? Under his watch New York City had built or converted from auto traffic lanes another 83 miles of protected bike lanes. These were in addition to the 113 miles his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, had added. Goldberg evidently was fed up with the increased traffic congestion on her commute to work, congestion that had been made significantly worse as a result of her route being "road dieted" down from six lanes to two and a half.
The attack by Goldberg about a subject near and dear to the hearts of liberals, multi-modal transportation, stunned de Blasio. The next day in a press conference de Blasio remarked that he "didn't expect, in the context of |
Pacific Northwest readers ought to become more acquainted with the writings of Bette Lynch Husted. Too often her valuable books have been overlooked.
Her | first book, "Above the Clearwater: Living on Stolen Land" (2004), an autobiographical volume, traces Husted's life from a dysfunctional family in backcountry Idaho to graduate school and teaching in eastern Oregon. Next came "At This Distance" (2010), a collection of poems overflowing with reflections on human-landscape connections. Then, "Lessons from the Borderlands" (2012), another memoir provocatively detailing the author's personal, family and teaching experiences.
Now, "All Coyote's Children" (Oregon State University Press, 237 pages, $18.95), Husted's debut novel. This lyrically written work of contemporary fiction focuses on the much-challenged life of Annie Fallon, a recently widowed farm wife and teacher in eastern Oregon. She has mysteriously lost her husband, Jack, who disappeared into the mountains searching for their troubled son, Riley. These traumatic tests prove too much for Annie, and she is committed to rehabilitation before the novel opens |
LEUSDEN, Netherlands — The shouts of schoolchildren playing outside echoed through the gymnasium where an obstacle course was being set up.
| They were not for the children, though, but for a class where the students ranged in age from 65 to 94. The obstacle course was clinically devised to teach them how to navigate treacherous ground without having to worry about falling, and how to fall if they did.
“It’s not a bad thing to be afraid of falling, but it puts you at higher risk of falling,” said Diedeke van Wijk, a physiotherapist who runs WIJKfysio and teaches the course three times a year in Leusden, a bedroom community just outside Amersfoort, in the center of the country.
The Dutch, like many elsewhere, are living longer than in previous generations, often alone. As they do, courses that teach them not only how to avoid falling, but how to fall correctly, are gaining popularity.
This one, called Vallen Verleden Tijd course, roughly translates as “Falling is in |
It’s not news that OTT video presents a disruptive threat to traditional pay-TV businesses. But is that true specifically in Africa, | where internet connectivity still isn’t ubiquitous and the cost of data is restrictive?
Can pay-TV operators on the continent rest easy and keep partying like it’s 1999? Clearly not. OTT video is taking off in Africa, and while far from the juggernaut seen in other parts of the world, it’ll only get bigger. So if you’re an African pay-TV operator, what’s the plan?
At the risk of stating the obvious, the first step is to embrace the change. To that end, we’ve launched two OTT products, DStv Now (TV Everywhere service, free to DStv customers) and Showmax (SVOD). We also set up a separate unit, MultiChoice Connected Video, to manage and develop them because OTT requires different tools and metrics, and arguably a different mindset to traditional pay-TV.
How are we doing? At the current run-rate |
Hark! [Author's note: Just like Paul Bettany in real life, Vision is forever saying things like "Hark!"] Bec | alm yourselves and heed me, for though you be but mortal folk, you are my allies and have shown me friendship, even though my origin story basically seems to have been "we ran Shaquille O'Neal through a ‘Consider the Lobster' simulator and came out with a Tilda Swinton parody of Orlando Bloom." Hark again! Our strength invites challenge, and challenge invites conflict, and just going by recent developments here, conflict seems to invite kind of a ton of wrecked airports and knocked-over skyscrapers, and I wonder, O my friends, if some of that is -- ahem -- on us?
Watching this scene, I couldn't help but flash back to a similar moment in last month's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, when Batman and Superman stage an extended debate over issues of power, oversight, and responsibility, conducted in director Zack Snyder's trademark style of rapid-fire dialogue.
OK, I'm kidding -- only 800 doves |
Haringey Council is committed to ensuring that all children and young people, whatever their circumstances, will achieve to the best of their abilities and we | are looking for someone equally passionate to help ensure this becomes, and remains, the reality across our SEND and AP service offer.
As the lead commissioner for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) support, placements and provision you will lead on all aspects of the Service including planning, commissioning, procurement and contract management; quality assuring all services to ensure that children receive access to high quality SEND and AP education and appropriate support of the highest quality, in line with value for money.
You will be an excellent manager, capable of providing strategic leadership for the Haringey Council AP and SEND Commissioning Team as well as working with a wide range of partners and stakeholders. With a proven record of partnership working you will lead the development of effective arrangements for collaborative working with Headteachers, Governors, AP lead professionals, SENCOs and other colleagues.
Accountable for the one of the Council's most critical and high-profile budgets, |
Pads in India. Not iPads.
After headlines across the globe quoted a disturbing U.N. report published in April that revealed India has | more cell phones available per capita than toilets, there is finally better sanitary news coming out of India. The government announced last week that it will be offering highly subsidized sanitary napkins to adolescent girls in rural India, a plan that will benefit 15 million girls in the first phase of the roll-out. Girls below the poverty line will now only need to pay 2 cents for a packet of six pads and will also be taught about personal hygiene in group meetings run by social-health activists who will be implementing the plan.
While we in the West snickered at Apple’s unfortunate choice of the name iPad and discussed the shocking absence of women in the upper echelons of Apple’s marketing machines, our sanitary needs are met by a wide range of products, including the eco-friendly mooncup. Not so in India. Rural Indian women not only face the risk of infections due to their reliance on cotton rags, but many are losing up to a week of |
For the first time in 22 years, the FDA has approved a drug for ALS, giving hope to some of those suffering from the illness.
| ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a rare disease, affecting 12,000 to 15,000 Americans, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It attacks and kills the nerve cells that control voluntary muscles. Over time, patients with ALS have difficulty chewing, walking, breathing and talking. Most die from respiratory failure within three to five years.
The drug, Radicava, while not a cure, is a step in the right direction, say experts, and is giving hope to some patients.
Clay Ahrens was diagnosed with the ALS over three years ago.
"I am very, very excited about this new approval," he told CBS Minnesota. "This is the most exciting and optimistic news we've had in a long, long time in ALS."
The new drug (generic name: edaravone) is taken intravenously for 14 days, then a patient goes off the drug for 14 |
It’s hard to think about climate change while most of the country is in a deep freeze. But while this part of the planet is | freezing, other parts are baking, which is why climate change requires a global perspective.
It’s hard to think about climate change while most of the country is in a deep freeze – the Great Lakes are almost entirely frozen over and people on the East Coast are tunnelling out of their homes. But while this part of the planet is freezing, other parts are baking, which is why climate change requires a global perspective.
A snowball was thrown in the U.S. Senate this week by Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), a vocal climate change denier, in an attempt to show that the unseasonably cold weather outside is proof that humans are not making the planet warmer. What he was really showing is his ignorance about the difference between weather and climate.
The phrase “Climate is what you expect; weather is what you get,” invoked by climate scientists, means that the weather we see happening outside our windows is a short-term effect |
Does the city listen to public input?
Yes, I feel my input matters.
Too much so; officials are too often swayed by those | who show up at city hall.
There are times when facts matter more than “opinions.” City officials act accordingly and I value that.
Robert01 summed it up beautifully - "Their decisions are NOT transparent and they are NOT fiscally responsible."
The City Council seems to listen to the City manager and the individual who controls the budget.Their decisions are not transparent and they are not fiscally responsible.
They have already MADE UP THEIR MIND " on pre-briefed, new, controversial issue prior to disclosure to the public. They promoted themselves as being the " voice of the people " but instead have become jaded and opinionated. They look at the voters as " uninformed idiots". They have sadly become " The Bully Pulpit".
lwmjr -- Is not "talking the talk, but not walking the walk" the natural and normal characteristic of ANY so-to-speak "successful" elected Pol?? |
The legislation would declare that audio, video and transcripts of 911 calls involving injured people are confidential medical records.
The Iowa Legislature is reviving a | bill that would limit the public's access to many 911 calls.
The Republican-controlled Iowa Senate put the measure on hold last year after concerns were raised about its far-reaching implications for accessing records. More than eight weeks into the session, a three-person panel is scheduled Tuesday to review it.
The legislation, House File 571, would declare that audio, video and transcripts of 911 calls involving injured people are confidential medical records and exempt from Iowa's open records law. If enacted, authorities' initial response to shootings, stabbings and many other incidents could face less public scrutiny. Another provision would make calls involving minors automatically confidential.
The GOP-controlled Iowa House passed the bill last year with unanimous bipartisan support and no debate. Some Democrats in the House later acknowledged they didn't realize the scope of the legislation, in part because it was framed as a measure about protecting children's privacy.
Sen. Dan Dawson, a Council Bluffs Republican who will oversee the upcoming subcommittee meeting |
GM is posting huge gains in truck sales while Ford continues to struggle with short supplies of its new F-150.
Chevy Silverado sales | rose 24% in February. Premium trim lines like this High Country model helped boost average transaction prices, too. Source: General Motors.
General Motors (NYSE:GM) had some happy news to report on Tuesday: Sales of its Chevy Silverado pickup rose 24% last month.
Sales of GM's trucks, including SUVs, vans, and pickups, were up 36% in February. That's a great result that should help drive strong first-quarter profits for GM.
But a lot of that gain is coming at rival Ford's (NYSE:F) expense.
The story here is that Ford is working to ramp up production of its all-new 2015 F-150. The new Ford has aluminum body panels, and the company has had to make extensive changes to its two truck factories in order to build it.
One of those factories, in Dearborn, Michigan, is already up and running: It began building the new F-150 in late November. But work |
BEIJING — An American woman detained in China for more than a year has been indicted by prosecutors on charges of spying, a court confirmed Tuesday | .
The Nanning Intermediate People's Court in southern China accepted the case against Phan "Sandy" Phan-Gillis on July 11, and no date has been set yet for a hearing, said a court official who gave only her surname, Chen.
Authorities detained the international business consultant in March 2015 when she visited China as part of an American trade delegation that was promoting business opportunities in her hometown of Houston, Texas.
Phan-Gillis' husband, Jeff Gillis, said Monday that her lawyer received the indictment "weeks after it was issued to the court."
He said in a statement that she is charged with being a spy for a foreign government from 1996 to 1998, and that the charges are "absolutely false."
Spying convictions carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
A U.N. panel ruled in June that China was arbitrarily detaining Phan-Gillis, 56, in violation of international human rights norms because she |
Two weeks after a Special Committee set up to investigate unprecedented violence and raucous behaviour in Parliament in November last year presented a damning report, Speaker | Karu Jayasuriya has forwarded the findings to the Attorney General for observations and decisions on whether to file legal action against lawmakers who have been found to be in breach of the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Act.
The Privileges Committee, chaired by Speaker Jayasuriya has decided to forward the report to the AG to initiate legal action against the offenders, a spokesman for the Speaker’s Office said. According to the Speaker’s media unit, the report will be forwarded to the Attorney General’s Department in the coming weeks.
The Privileges’ Committee recommended last Friday that legal action should be initiated against seven parliamentarians in connection with their unruly behaviour on November 14, 15 and 16 last year.
Action will be taken against members Johnston Fernando, Prasanna Ranaweera and Padma Udaya Shantha for obstructing the duty of the police, attacking police officers with a chair and causing injuries and for the chilli |
A red Cape Cod house on Bentley Street in the Staten Island neighborhood of Tottenville once had a backyard, but no longer. Where once was | a lawn there now are two new two-family homes, bringing four new families to the neighborhood.
This scene, reported by the Staten Island Advance is being repeated throughout Staten Island, and through the rest of the city, in places like Bayside in Queens and Throgs Neck in the Bronx, where residents believe that an explosion of poorly planned, badly constructed, ugly housing developments threaten their attractive neighborhoods.
Old single-family houses have been torn down to make way for rows of flat-roofed, wooden townhouses in Staten Island and bulky brick apartment buildings in Queens. Developers have demolished bungalows in Throgs Neck and replaced them with as many as six attached houses. Few of the new developments offer open space, parks or play areas. Some have no trees or landscaping.
All of this construction adds to the number of people in the neighborhood. But the city has not increased basic services enough to accommodate the new people. The result is new burdens on the |
As soon as he hung up, the Managing Director of the Newspaper (Thisday), Eniola Bello, popularly known as Eni- | B, called to reinforce the earlier message.
I quickly called my wife, Khadija, and told her to prepare my luggage. I was traveling to Sokoto. I guessed she wasn’t less shocked than I.
But there was another snag, as it was already getting late. Kano to Sokoto is a journey of over 500 kilometers, and the road was notoriously bad. So I was pretty sure that it was going to be a rough, uneasy drive to my destination.
I, however, quickly came up with an idea: splitting the journey into two by taking myself to as close to Sokoto as possible. I actually didn’t have to sleep in seat of the caliphate that very night since I could stop over in Gusau, the capital of Zamfara State and start afresh first thing in the morning.
That’s what I did as I took my younger brother with me, Kabiru Gedu.
As |
Armando had been expected to break the previous record of 376,000 Euros paid for a pigeon called Nadine -- but not by such a | wide margin.
Earlier this week it became clear that Armando would be the most expensive pigeon ever sold in an online auction, wrote the specialist website PigeonParadise (Pipa.be).
However, no one expected that the magical cap of a million Euros would be pulverized, it added. The final amount was 1,252,000 Euros.
Local pigeon fancying association president Fred Vancaillie told Belgian broadcaster RTBF that Armando was one of the best in the history of the sport and called him the Lewis Hamilton of pigeons.
Verschoot's stable of pigeons is based in Ingelmunster, in the west of Belgium, and his online auction of his pigeons has been open for several weeks. By Sunday, the family had sold 178 pigeons for around two million Euros.
Homing pigeons are raced by releasing them sometimes hundreds of kilometers from home |
Donald Trump Says Heidi Klum 'Is No Longer a 10' -- See Her Amazing Response!
Although Donald Trump got into plenty of hot | water for his comments about Megyn Kelly earlier this month, apparently, that hasn't stopped the 69-year-old Republican presidential hopeful from being as candid as ever about sensitive topics.
This time, the aim is 42-year-old supermodel Heidi Klum.
In an interview with The New York Times, Trump takes it upon himself to randomly rank the America's Got Talent judge's looks.
"Sometimes I do go a little bit far," he prefaces the diss. "Heidi Klum. Sadly, she's no longer a 10."
We, however, beg to differ. Check out Klum looking amazing just last Tuesday at a taping of her hit NBC show in New York City.
And of course, let's not forget her spectacular bikini bod she showed off this summer with her 29-year-old boyfriend, Vito Schnabel.
Klum responded on Monday via Twitter, with this hilarious video. "#TrumpHasSpoken #s |
Peace. Solitude. Beauty. It's all for sale within the city limits of Olympia.
OLYMPIA — If your dream is | to live on your own private island, we know someone who can make it come true.
“Dollar Island is just shy of four acres and it's got tons of old growth,” said real estate agent Courtney Drannon.
The island can be part of a package deal. The family who owns Dollar Island is also willing to part with a 1947 cottage on the shore of Olympia's Lake St. Clair.
“The cabin itself is just 800 feet. They kept a lot of the pine that is in the home. It's one bedroom, one bath, but it's got this nice open living space and dining space."
Of course the main selling point is right outside: an island just 100 yards away.
In one minute, by kayak or motorboat, you can leave your crazy life behind and strand yourself on your own heavily wooded sanctuary.
“There's deer that swim across from the mainland,” said Drannon.
The |
With Sarkozy & Juppe Voted Out, Araud & Allies to Cling On at UN?
UNITED NATIONS, May | 7 -- The morning after Nicolas Sarkozy and thus his foreign minister Alain Juppe were voted out by French voters, despite or because of a plea for support from National Front militants, at the UN many asked: when will French Permanent Representative Araud and his allies be leaving?
But the answer, surprising to some in contrast to the "Arab Spring" and French statements about it, appeared to be that Araud will "not necessarily" leave.
The argument seems to be that Araud was not actually aligned with Sarkozy and Juppe, and / or that he has been doing a good job.
As previously noted, Araud has been the least transparent of all Permanent Five members of the Security Council's Permanent Representatives. During his Presidency of the Council in May 2011, Araud hit a new low with only three media stakeouts.
At one of the stakeouts, Araud refused to take any questions, by reading his statement in French then leaving while an aide |
When stopped by the police, the GJM supporters turned violent and pelted stones.
Darjeeling: Gorkhaland supporters today pelted | stones at the police in various parts of Darjeeling as they were stopped from enforcing their shutdown in many government offices in the hills, where their indefinite bandh entered its second day.
Police pickets and barricades were put up in front of the government and Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) offices and various entry and exit points of the hills while Rapid Action Force (RAF) and a sizable number of women police personnel were also deployed.
"The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supporters pelted stones at police forces in various parts of Darjeeling as they were stopped by the forces from enforcing shutdown in government offices. After we chased them, they ran away," a senior police official said.
At around 10 am, a huge GJM procession chanting slogans against the state government and demanding separate Gorkhaland marched to various government offices in Chowkbazar area to stop people from reporting for work.
When stopped by the police, the GJM supporters turned |
Donna Kathryn Riggs Kopach, 79, of Evansville, Indiana and Lake Havasu City, Arizona, passed away Saturday, November 3 | , 2018, at Deaconess Gateway Hospital. She was born on May 19, 1939, in East Liverpool, Ohio, to the late Melvin Ireadous and Wilma Bernadine (McCullough) Riggs.
Donna attended Garfield and Wayne Town High Schools where she graduated. She then attended Indiana State University where she earned a BA in Physical Science, General Education, and Health and later earned her Master's. She taught school for about 50 years in Southern Indiana, Southern Illinois, Newberry, South Carolina, and Arizona. She also taught at Earl C. Clements Job Corps Center in Morganfield, Kentucky. Donna was a member of the Eastern Star, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and Grace Episcopal Church in Arizona, where she was in the Lake Havasu Community Choir and Director of Colomonde Chorus. She was a Girl Scout Camp Director, Girl Scout Leader and member of Southern Hollow dulcimer and folk group of Evansville, Indiana. |
The NFL is expected to consider allowing limited coaches’ challenges for judgment calls, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. It would include a penalty | or time run off if the coach is wrong to discourage abuse of the challenge.
The addendum is designed to get those against the use of coaches’ challenges for judgment calls on board, per Schefter.
This goes against what Competition Committee members John Elway and Stephen Jones have said publicly. Both expressed skepticism in allowing review of penalties.
But Sean Payton also is a member of the Competition Committee and is pushing for change. He said again Wednesday that he hopes the mistake in the NFC Championship Game leads to a rules fix.
Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman hit Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis before the ball arrived, with officials missing both the interference penalty and the hit on a defenseless receiver.
Officials did not penalize Robey-Coleman, but the league docked him $26,739 for an illegal hit.
The play and aftermath will take center stage this afternoon at Commissioner Roger Goodell’s state of the league address.
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September 24, 2015 children, events.
Even though Charlotte has not yet seen an episode, “Sesame Street is already big in our | house,” Clinton said in a phone interview Thursday.
Charlotte is part of the inspiration behind Clinton’s new book “It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!” — a book to encourage kids and teens to become informed about the issues facing their communities and their world, as well as to get them active in creating solutions. Clinton will be at BookPeople Oct. 8 reading and signing from her book.
She says she had been thinking about “It’s Your World” before she became pregnant, but the pregnancy and motherhood added more attentiveness to the project. “I felt even more inspired and enthusiastic about trying to write (It’s Your World),” she says.
“I hope ‘It’s Your World’ impacts one kid the same way ’50 Simple Things’ impacted me,” she says.
Clinton continues to volunteer |
Finding that the police used ilegal wiretaps, a Supreme Court, justice has ordered a new trial for three men who got terms up to | 25 years on charges of bribery and of oper ating a heroin processing “fac tory” in the Bronx.
The reversal culminates a three‐year legal battle by Her bert S. Siegal, defense attorney.
According to Mr. Siegal, the police lied in alleging that their case was built on information from an informer rather than from weeks of unauthorized wiretapping.
Harold Munger, 1311 Burke Avenue; Gerald Hartley; 2332 Tiebout Avenue, and Saint Julian Harrison, 1000 East 215th Street.
A United States Supreme Court ruling a few years ago knocked the main props from under the state's wiretapping law. Legal sources said yester day that the taps in the Bronx case were illegal primarily be cause no “probable cause of crime being committed” had been established prior to their use.
The so‐called heroin “factory” was in a three‐and‐a‐half room apartment |
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Much has been written about the centre of the | world's economic gravity shifting to our region, but no strong narrative about our place in the Asian Century has yet engaged Australians. A new debate about the republic will help, because any narrative for the Asian Century needs to be about us, our confidence in Australia, its national values, character and spirit. We can play to these strengths and take advantage of our unique position in the world. The Asian Century can be the century in which Australia comes of age.
There is an economic imperative for us to stop looking at the world through the lens of the past and to work out how to negotiate Australia's national interest in a different future. Our economy is more tied to China than it has been to any economy since its old imperial links to Britain early in the last century, and more integrated with other Asian economies than most in the region. But our Asian engagement has been narrowly based, primarily in the resources sector. It has not touched most people in the suburbs where we live. We haven't grasped that |
HONESDALE - The Cooperage Project has announced that they have a special model walking their runway during Main Wear Expo: A Fashion Show Fund | raiser on Sunday April 7, Honesdale native Brian Balthazar.
Brian Balthazar is a television personality and executive producer frequently seen on the Today show with Kathie Lee and Hoda, The Wendy Williams Show, Page Six TV and The Talk.
He can be seen hosting the upcoming digital series Christina On The Coast: Unfiltered for HGTV and is a regular contributor on the French news program Inside50. As an executive producer and development consultant, he leads the creative direction of shows including Flip or Flop, Love It Or List It, the upcoming docu-series Christina On The Coast and more.
Previously, he launched the premiere season of Today with Kathie Lee And Hoda and served as co-executive producer of The View.
Cooperage models will be walking the runway to singing siren Veronica Daub. This show is curated by Alessandra Iavarone of the Velvet Maple Lifestyle Shoppe. This year will feature |
Summer Day" (oil on canvas, 361⁄8 x 321⁄8 in.), painted in 1911 by Frank Weston Benson (1862 | - 1951), exemplifies a late flowering of American Impressionism. It is also a highly personal expression of a time, place and quality of life that only existed for a passing moment and for a privileged few. The painting portrays a lingering vestige of belle époque luxury, casual elegance, and repose as experienced by a newly prosperous upper middle class that included the artist. The first decades of the 20th century were a time shaped by the rising aspirations of a nation that had achieved mercantile and industrial preeminence; a robust optimism that would be challenged by the outbreak of World War I in Europe in 1914; and subsequent carnage that deeply affected an entire generation, including artists. In Benson's painting, however, it is still high summer in Maine and America.
"Summer people," as they are still called by natives and year-round residents of Maine, began populating the midcoast region of the state in the last decades of the 19th century, building |
A handful of California families will find it hard to celebrate the holidays this year because they lost their fathers and brothers to senseless violence.
On Oct | . 19, Modoc County Sheriff’s Deputy Jack Hopkins responded to a disturbance call and was shot and killed in the line of duty. He was only 31. On Oct. 6, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sgt. Steve Owen was shot dead responding to a burglary. The two deaths are a somber reminder that for our peace officers, their lives are on the line every time they are on patrol.
Each of these losses, hundreds of miles apart in our vast state, was a tragedy. But the same month, something far more sinister played out here, showing that America and our law enforcement have entered a new, more dangerous and shameful era that threatens the foundation of the society we enjoy.
Two Palm Springs police officers, Lesley Zerebny, 27, and Jose “Gil” Vega, 63, were murdered in a planned attack committed by John Hernandez Felix. These deaths did not occur during the commission of another crime; they were the crime. |
Jock Lawrie reviews the Equal Pay Amendment Bill, Parliament’s latest initiative to finally address the longstanding claims of the early suffragists | — 125 years after women won the right to vote.
As we get ready for the thrills and (hopefully minor) spills of the upcoming festive season, it’s natural to look back and take stock of the preceding year. As we do so it’s heartening to think that, in at least one area, there is a growing mood for change to remedy a longstanding social injustice.
During the 2018 commemorations to mark the 125th anniversary of women winning the right to vote, some observers noted that the early suffragists’ call for ‘‘‘equal pay’’ had yet to be answered.
While legislation had long since prohibited express and lower female rates of pay in employment agreements, the concept of ‘‘pay equity’’ — equal pay for work of equal value — had been largely ignored by Parliament for over 40 years. Campaigners continued to highlight a persistent wage differential of 10%-12% between |
Dubai: As the death toll from protests in Iran climbs, Iranian authorities are concerned the nationwide unrest will undermine the clerical establishment, senior government | officials say. But the person with the most to lose is President Hassan Rouhani.
While several senior officials said there was concern that prolonged unrest would damage the legitimacy and influence of the country's religious leaders, few insiders see the unrest as an existential threat to that leadership, which has ruled since the 1979 revolution and is now controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the ultimate authority in Iran's system of dual clerical and republican rule.
The biggest loser, they say, is likely to be Rouhani, who is much more closely tied to the country's economic policies.
"Of course Rouhani and his government will have less power afterwards, especially because his economic policy was criticised during the unrest," said political analyst Hamid Farahvashian.
"He will be a lame-duck president and Khamenei will have more power."
Much of the protesters' anger has focused on what Rouhani and his government have failed to deliver: an economic boom promised as the payoff for |
"If the club had faith in me, I feel like I'd be the guy after I came back from the concussion," QB says. " | That hasn't happened."
Perhaps the problem is the Alouettes, in the words of Johnny Manziel, “traded half of an organization” to secure his services. Put that on general manager Kavis Reed.
This organization has been sending mixed signals to Manziel, the former Heisman Trophy winner and first-round NFL draft choice, since he arrived on July 23. He thought he was the guy and, given the carousel of quarterbacks this franchise has gone through since Anthony Calvillo’s retirement in 2013, Manziel should have been the guy.
Instead, he’s been a victim of circumstance.
He played before he was ready — even his agent said as much — was thrown to the wolves in a marketing ploy to sell tickets and was intercepted four times by Hamilton, the team that traded him to Montreal. The Als lost by 39 points. Then they lost again the next week at Ottawa, but Manziel passed for 168 yards and wasn’t |
The September 29, 2012 opening of the Green Music Center (GMC) at Sonoma State University (SSU) was nothing less than a | grand celebration of wealth and privilege. Beaded dresses, tuxedos, and political elites blended in a glorious aristocratic coming out. The ceremonious inauguration was a joining of the regional symphonic upper elites in delusional expectations of continuing high-class cultural immersions.
Built in a time of an economic recession and including $47 million in public bonds, the $150 million GMC represents one of the most opulent expensive building projects in the history of Sonoma County. The website for the GMC claims it is “Destined to become one of the most sought-after music and arts venues in the world.” “All three floors of Weill Hall are filled with handcrafted, European steamed beech maple seats, which remain acoustically neutral whether occupied or empty.” An A level seat for the first eight concerts costs $626 and B level concerts are $459 for the same. A single ticket for the first concert was $81 |
Published February 26, 2019 at 9:02 a.m.
Driving past, the building that houses MPS’ Alliance High School | , 850 W. Walnut St., doesn’t really look like much. But you get the sense that there’s more than meets the eye at this place that looks, from the side that we can see from the street, sort of like a school and sort of like an industrial building.
After years of wondering, I decided to find out more. When art teacher Jill Engel-Miller invited me in for a tour, I realized that simply approaching from the west already offers a whole new perspective. That was – and still is – the main entrance and the side everyone was meant to see when the building was erected in 1914 as the social center for the new Lapham Park.
At that time, North 9th Street was still open and the west facade was more elaborately decorated. What we see as the "front" now – that is, what we see from Walnut Street – is actually the side of the building.
You can see how the original features interact |
Chinese artist Kong Ning in a performance on the dangers of smog.
People living in Beijing may have thought that pollution was bad already, but | it seems worse is still possible. The city’s authorities have issued a “red alert” for the next three days, commencing at 7am local time on Dec. 8.
Beijing was placed in November on orange alert, one level below red in a four-tier system, and, as the BBC reported, pollution readings today (Dec. 7) were actually slightly lower than in previous days.
But the new red alert means more serious actions will have to be taken—all with implications for the city’s productivity, as well as its people’s health. Schools will be forced to close. Outdoor construction work will halt.
Policemen in protective masks at Tiananmen Square.
The cloud is choking the city. The big problem is particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter, which is capable of entering the lungs and even the bloodstream and causing serious health effects.
The particulates, which reached “ |
Charleston police chief Greg Mullen declared that the shooting of nine African-Americans in Emanuel AME Church on Wednesday was a “hate crime | ” even before we learned anything about what may have motivated the attack. As it became increasingly clear on Thursday that alleged shooter Dylann Roof is a white supremacist who wanted to terrorize the black community, many asked why journalists and law enforcement were sticking with the milder term rather than calling the shooting an act of domestic terrorism.
On the journalism site Poynter, Al Tompkins argued that the media “should remain factual and focused on truth-telling, not guessing” in times like these.
Who was the shooter referring to? Church members? Christians? Or black people?
Is this shooting in Charleston, South Carolina an act of terrorism? We don’t know yet. My advice to Matt [Jaworowski, a digital content producer] was to stick to the facts, publish as much information as possible to catch the killer, then we can begin to understand why he did what he did.
… it is important to use the term |
Stormy Daniels Suing Donald Trump’s Lawyer Michael Cohen For Defamation — Should POTUS Be Worried?
Congrats, | Star Jones! The former ‘The View’ co-host looked stunning as she wed Ricardo Lugo on a cruise ship on March 25. See her dress and bridal beauty below!
Star Jones, a lawyer, author, and former co-host on The View, married lawyer Ricardo Lugo on Sunday! This wasn’t a regular wedding, it was a cool wedding — it took place on a Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship! The Anthem of the Seas was re-named the Anthem To Love! Star celebrated her 56th birthday on Saturday on the ship with close family and friends, and on Sunday, March 25, she got hitched! Beyonce‘s mom Tina Knowles posted a photo on Instagram on March 26, writing: “Congratulations Star and Ricardo Lugo!! The wedding was one of the most beautiful weddings i’ve attended! There was not a dry eye in the joint. Much love from here until eternity Star And Ricardo.” So |
Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel in space, has died at 61.
Ride had been fighting pancreatic cancer for 17 | months and died peacefully, her company Sally Ride Science announced today (July 23). When she was 32, Ride blasted off on the STS-7 mission of the space shuttle Challenger, breaking through the highest glass ceiling for U.S. women to date.
During her historic mission, which deployed two communications satellites, Ride also became the first woman to use the shuttle's robotic arm in space.
Ride is survived by Tam O'Shaughnessy, her partner of 27 years, who also serves as chief operating officer and executive vice president of Sally Ride Science, a science outreach company Ride founded in 2001.
"Sally lived her life to the fullest, with boundless energy, curiosity, intelligence, passion, commitment, and love," Sally Ride Science officials said in statement. "Her integrity was absolute; her spirit was immeasurable; her approach to life was fearless."
Ride was the third woman to travel to space, following Soviet cosmonauts Valentina |
And we must not forget that this huge building project in Jerusalem [Ramat Shlomo] is for Jews only; not one Palestinian neighborhood has | been built in 43 years of occupation. Should that not be called apartheid?
Should it not be called apartheid to prohibit Jews from building in certain neighborhoods, as Levy would like?
This "committee" is nothing close to "accurate reporting," and to claim such nonsense on your part is simple ludicrous. Gideon Levy is by no means far from the right, but regardless, this statement is preposterous! I am an Arab from East Jerusalem, if you look at the growth rate of Jewish housing versus that of Arab housing and compare them to population growth in the city you will see explicit inequalities. And the creation of "one type" only neighborhoods such as these Jewish only neighborhoods exemplifies the opposite of what liberal democracy stands for. There is no equality in restricting residency requirements to the ethnic background of the family. If that is not apartheid, than most certainly that is segregation, both of which must end before either people can truly declare their societies as free.
According to Israel Kimhi, |
Prosecutors charged three men with stealing millions from an offshore investment fund that is under investigation by the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Manhattan | district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, said yesterday.
The charges relate to Evergreen Securities, a $218 million fund that filed for Chapter 11 protection in January in Orlando, Fla.
Investigators charged the company's owner, William J. Zylka; his lawyer, James P. Conroy; and the fund manager, Martin W. Boelens Jr., with grand larceny.
Beginning in 1992, customers invested in Evergreen based on promises of government and mortgage-backed securities, interest rates of 9 to 12 percent and the privacy of an offshore account, prosecutors said.
Evergreen was registered in the British Virgin Islands, was based in Nassau, Bahamas, and was managed in Orlando. Prosecutors have described Evergreen as having used money from new investors to make interest payments to earlier investors.
New York investigators arrested Mr. Zylka, 64, and Mr. Conroy, 61, yesterday in New Jersey. The two were charged with stealing $ |
An Oregon couple discovered an unexpected benefit of being a Wii gamer earlier this week: When your drunken girlfriend hurls the console in your face, | it does less damage than an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.
According to her boyfriend, 31-year-old Rebecca Varina Sloskowski was intoxicated on the evening of January 10, so he left her apartment between the hours of 7PM and 11PM to let her cool off.
This never works, incidentally. Leaving an angry female to cool off only gives them more time to think up horrible things to do to you in response, like throwing video game consoles.
Upon returning to his girlfriend's apartment, Sloskowski allegedly became violent, picking up various objects and throwing them at him until she finally hurled the four pound gaming console, hitting him square in the face. The victim suffered a swollen lip and two chipped teeth.
Police were called to the scene, and Sloskowski was arrested and charged with second degree assault.
I'm guessing the charge would have been the same no matter what video game console she threw in his face. I bet she's kicking herself right |
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- It's official. Overland Park residents can now pack heat, openly, in the city. The city council | voting 11 to 1 Monday.
City leaders said they were forced to change the ordinance to come into compliance with an opinion by the Kansas attorney general. But the decision didn't come without debate. Council members went back and forth on what one called a charged issue.
The ordinance said an individual is allowed to openly carry a handgun on public property as long as he or she legally obtained it. But they must keep it in a holster with a safety engaged and must keep their weapon in their control at all times.
City leaders said public buildings can prohibit open carry as it has a gun buster sign posted.
The city passed an ordinance prohibiting the open carry of firearms in 2007. That happened before the Kansas legislature passed a statute that same year saying cities could not prohibit open carry.
An attorney for the city said the city would've had to settle this in court eventually if they went another direction.
Council member Paul Lyons was the only one who voted down the ordinance.
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SAN ANTONIO, April 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital of San Antonio is helping stroke and spinal | cord injury patients stand and relearn to walk, while gaining confidence and freedom, with the EksoGT™ robotic exoskeleton. The hospital uses the wearable device, which is the first exoskeleton approved for use in stroke and spinal cord injury rehabilitation, to mobilize patients earlier in their rehabilitation for optimal outcomes.
Each year, as many as 15 million individuals suffer a stroke and 500,000 experience a spinal cord injury. This cutting-edge exoskeleton technology helps patient get back on their feet earlier to re-learn correct step patterns, weight shifting and posture. Clinical evidence suggests that including EksoGT™ gait training in inpatient rehabilitation for stroke improves independence in functional mobility, according to Misty Campbell, the hospital's director of rehabilitation.
"The EksoGT offers many unique benefits to our patients who are relearning to walk after a spinal cord injury or stroke, as the device promotes early mobilization and can help improve gait speed and distance, which are critical factors for optimal |
Analysis: Why not hold Boston students to state standards?
Here’s a common-sense way to better prepare Boston public school students for | college: Require them to take the same basic courses as other students around Massachusetts.
Ninety to 100 percent of graduates at most other high schools statewide meet the minimum number of courses in English, math, science, and other core subjects that state guidelines call for. That includes 100 percent of graduates from urban schools in Chelsea and Lawrence. But the Boston public school system has largely ignored those guidelines, called MassCore.
Instead, officials have opted to keep lower standards for earning a diploma, helping to push high school graduation rates to historic highs. Today, for example, Boston requires only three years of math instead of the four required at schools following MassCore.
Lower standards have consequences: In 2017, only 31 percent of Boston high school graduates met the state’s MassCore guidelines, according to state data, putting the rest behind their peers at other Massachusetts schools.
In Boston, there are plenty of reasons for urgency: Almost half of Boston high school graduates who enroll in college fail |
NEW HAVEN -- Federal prosecutors disclosed that "one or more" of their "prospective witnesses" against James Botti may have been given | immunity against prosecution for a crime they committed.
Additionally, the prosecution admits that some of the evidence includes "tape-recorded conversations."
The two disclosures are the first made by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Richard Schechter and Rahul Kale regarding witnesses and evidence they may use in the corruption case against Botti, a 46-year-old Shelton developer. The disclosures are contained in a document recorded Tuesday in the federal court case against Botti.
Botti was indicted last November for allegedly bribing Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti and members of Shelton land-use commissions to push through his projects.
However, despite a five-and-a-half-year investigation by the FBI and IRS which included at least two wiretaps and as many as five cooperating witnesses wearing recording devices, only Botti and his father have been charged with federal crimes.
Lauretti, who is campaigning for a 10th term in office, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and |
David Bustillos died on June 27, 2016, at 55. He was found unresponsive on the roof of Arizona Mills Mall, where he | worked in maintenance.
David and Rachel Bustillos fell in love and eloped to Las Vegas in the same, dizzying year.
They met in 1990 while they were working at an air conditioning company. He left love notes on her car’s dashboard and roses on her desk; it was a romantic streak he kept going through 26 years of marriage.
Around the day he died, the high temperature in Phoenix was 110 degrees. The cause of death, according to the Maricopa County Medical Examiner, was environmental heat exposure. Diabetes played a contributing role in his death.
Rachel Bustillos has three children. They were not David’s biological children, but he was like a father to them. Andrea Ruiz, one of those children, is forever grateful for the practical lessons she learned from David: how to change the oil in her car, replace her own spark plugs and change a tire.
But the “family man,” as Rachel Bust |
Your mission: Help locals seeking information about cancer treatment and resources.
What you'll do: Volunteers will be trained to assist cancer patients, their | families and caregivers with the latest in cancer-related information and connect them to needed resources. They will also provide information on community programs and services, along with dates and times for local American Cancer Society events and programs.
Where: Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center's American Cancer Society Cancer Resource Center, 1978 Industrial Blvd., Houma.
How long you're needed: The center is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. Officials say whatever time you can donate is appreciated.
What's in it for you: You'll receive all the training you need to help patients, and you'll be rewarded by helping people in need get connected with the American Cancer Society's local resources, said Shea Austin, health initiative representative with the American Cancer Society.
Who to contact: Call the American Cancer Society office at 851-7776.
Your mission: Work in the Bayou Area Habitat for Humanity ReStore.
What you'll |
I don’t know how Brad Pitt really has time to schedule anything of late, but evidently he’s trying to get The Hat | fields and the McCoys made at Warner Bros. The film would cover the legendary American family feud, and now has Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper attached to direct.
Jeff Wells got this info from Robert Duvall, with whom he spoke at the junket for Get Low, which took place as part of the Tribeca Film Fest. Duvall says that Eric Roth has written “an excellent script” (those are Jeff Wells’ words, though perhaps an indirect quote from Duvall) and that Pitt’s Plan B would produce at Warner Bros. with Pitt playing the lead role. Duvall would co-star.
The Hatfields and the McCoys were in the first wave of settlers in Tug Valley, with the McCoys living on the Kentucky side and the Hatfields on the West Virginia side. The wealthy Hatfields largely fought for the Confederacy, while the McCoys fought with the Union in the Civil War.
The roots of the feud |
An Uzbek jihadist group known as the Imam Bukhari Jamaat released a video of its training camp in Syria. It is the latest video by jihadist | groups that shows fighters going through training at camps inside Syria.
The video, which was produced by Al Fath Studios and released in late May, was obtained by From Chechnya to Syria, a website that tracks fighters from the Russian Caucasus and Central Asia who are fighting in Syria.
The Imam Bukhari Jamaat group is named after an Uzbek cleric who authored a collection of hadith, or traditions of the Prophet Mohammad, that are considered to be among the most authentic. The group is allied with the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s official branch in Syria, and Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar, a jihadist group led by fighters from the Islamic Caucasus Emirate.
In the video of the Imam Bukhari Jamaat’s training camp, 31 trainees, who are dressed in identical uniforms and whose faces are covered, march in a double-file formation around the parade ground carrying assault weapons and other various arms. One trainee |
Last Saturday, more than a thousand Chichester University students lined the streets of Bognor Regis in wild fancy dress outfits for their charity | Rag Race.
Rag Race is an annual event where pubs from the seaside resort come together in aid of supporting a nominated ‘Charity of the Year’ from the University of Chichester's Student’s Union.
The 'Raising and Giving' event is a safely observed pub crawl, and is anything but a race, and has become a favourite of past and present students.
It's estimated that up to £1500 was raised in this year’s event for nominated charity Challengers, a charity that delivers inclusive fun for disabled children and young people aged two to 25 years old.
Those funds will be enough to provide up to 100 hours of play for local disabled young people.
Outfits this year, pictured by Neil Cooper, included a large group of jockeys, a homage to the Grand National that also took place on Saturday, various Toy Story characters, and the Super Mario Bros family.
Rag Race dates back to the 1970 |
It's 10 days until Pippa Middleton's wedding to her fiance James Matthews and the most surprising rumour yet to percolate about | the event has seeped through Twitter and into our feeds.
According to the social media rumour mill yesterday guests at the Duchess of Cambridge's sister's wedding have been asked to bring a second outfit for the reception. "Is this a trend?" many asked.
Whether or not the request is true, it has certainly kicked off more questions than answers about the merits of multiple outfit changes at nuptials. While it isn't unusual for brides to change into something more comfortable later, most agree that it "a tad ridiculous and over the top" to ask guests to think about a second tier ensemble too.
And, when you consider it's hard enough to nail the perfect ONE outfit for a high profile society wedding, if all of Pippa's 150 guests have been asked to bring a change of clothes for later, there are a few more questions we'd like answered too.
Where to get changed? Behind the marquee, in the portaloos, in a nearby |
NEW YORK – With crude oil prices already near record levels, Hurricane Katrina (search) targeted the heart of America's oil and | refinery operations Sunday, shutting down an estimated 1 million barrels of refining capacity and sharply curbing offshore production in the region.
It is an area crucial to the nation's energy infrastructure — offshore oil and gas production, import terminals, pipeline networks and numerous refining operations throughout southern Louisiana and Mississippi.
The impact was immediate Sunday night when electronic trading resumed on the New York Mercantile Exchange (search), as crude oil futures spiked $4.50 per barrel, putting the cost above $70 for the first time since oil began trading there in 1983.
The Category 5 storm was still churning in the Gulf of Mexico but was on a path to hit New Orleans early Monday.
Last September, Hurricane Ivan (search) also swept across the region causing heavy damage and reducing the region's output for months.
Oil companies evacuated workers and shut down more than 600,000 barrels of daily production in the Gulf. Refiners closed down more than 1 million barrels |
BATON ROUGE, La. – Across this city, shocked residents have gathered in churches and at community vigils to pray for the law | enforcement community and the three officers who were slain in an ambush by a gunman.
Arrangements for 45-year-old Brad Garafola, an East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy and a father of four, have not been made public.
The officers lived in the area of Denham Springs, a quiet bedroom community across the Amite River from Baton Rouge, which has been in turmoil for two weeks. Tensions rose sharply after the death of Alton Sterling, 37, a black man killed by white Baton Rouge officers after a scuffle at a convenience store. The killing was captured on cellphone video.
As the nation debates race and policing, this community of about 10,000 is mourning three of its sons — all husbands and fathers described by friends as being committed to protecting and serving the public.
Garafola and Gerald were white. Jackson was black, as was the gunman. Three other officers were wounded. One of them, Deputy Nicholas T |
Handlers of the national Under 17 soccer team, the Black Starlets are reeling under intense pressure from all manner of scouts, guardians, parents as | well as football agents seeking places in the team for their wards and players.
The lobbying for places, now almost a daily affair, has so overwhelmed the handlers that head coach David Duncan yesterday instituted measures to stem the heckling, and as he put it, "enable the technical team build a strong team."
He told the Soccer Express yesterday that henceforth, his team would not entertain any advances from any quarters seeking to foist any player on the Starlets. Duncan said even though major exercises to recruit the best of talents into the Starlets have been completed, there could be other equally good potentials yet to be spotted and as such would keep the doors to the Starlets camp open to accommodate them.
However, he said the only way such players would be observed for consideration would be by a standard procedure where videotapes of those players featuring in competitive matches would be forwarded to the Starlets camp and lodged with Mr. Richard Asare, the Welfare Officer.
The tape must be |
Veronica Burton attacks the basket. The freshman guard struggled in NU’s loss Thursday.
With just over two minutes remaining in the | first quarter, junior forward Abi Scheid hit her first basket of the game. Unfortunately for Northwestern, the shot was its first basket of the game as well.
Scheid’s basket cut No. 10 Maryland’s lead to 15-5 but, before that, the Wildcats (14-9, 7-5 Big Ten) were 0-for-12 from the field and their only points came from three free throws from senior center Pallas Kuniayi-Akpanah.
Following the titanic struggles of the offense, NU lost 72-57 to the Terrapins (21-2, 10-2) on Thursday.
By the end of the first half, the team had shot 6-for-30 from the field and had as many made free throws as field goals. The second half was a different story offensively for the Cats, but Maryland and its steady offensive attack pulled away for the decisive victory.
The Terrapins and |
Alvin Vitug scores to lead NHA to a huge win over Judiciary, 73-68, in the UNTV Cup held Sunday at the | Pasig City Sports Center.
Renzo Subido has always been told to keep on shooting.
And shoot, he did. Even when the 22-year-old couldn’t find the bottom of the net, UST mentor Aldin Ayo wouldn’t bat an eyelash knowing that when his young gun’s shots finally drop, only good things could happen for the Growling Tigers.
Those are the kinds of risks you make when you look at this UAAP Season 81 as a rebuilding year.
It wouldn’t hurt, too, if that gamble nets UST victories, just like how it did this past week in a 76-74 shocker over playoff hopeful FEU for its first win in the tourney.
And in the middle of that conquest? No one else but Subido, who went on a 4-of-9 shooting from downtown to lead the Growling Tigers with 18 points, two rebounds, and an assist in |
The Tampa Bay Rays chose not to tender outfielder Sam Fuld and reliever Wesley Wright before Monday’s deadline, making them free agents. The | team also announced it signed catcher Jose Molina to a two-year, $4.5 million deal.
In addition, the Rays tendered contracts to their other arbitration-eligible players: left-hander David Price, right-hander Jeremy Hellickson, catcher Jose Lobaton, outfielder Matt Joyce, infielder/outfielder Sean Rodriguez and relievers Jake McGee and Cesar Ramos.
Fuld, 32, joined the Rays before the 2011 campaign after spending three seasons with the Chicago Cubs. He hit.230 with five home runs and 49 RBI during the regular season in his time with Tampa Bay.
Affectionately known as “Super Sam” Fuld, he was known for his versatility and quality clubhouse presence. He hit.199 with two home runs and 17 RBI in 176 at-bats last season.
Wright, 28, was claimed off waivers from the Houston Astros on Aug. 12 to bolster the Rays’ bullpen. A six-year veteran, |
The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the death sentence passed on a farmer and father of five, James Afolabi.
Afolabi, who | hails from Kogi State, was earlier convicted and sentenced to death by a High Court in the state capital, Lokoja, in 2012 for the murder of a Fulani man, Abubakar Mohammed.
The court relied on Afolabi’s confessional statement to the police, where he claimed to have shot Mohammed on the chest for straying into his yam and cassava plantation on February 27, 2009.
The Court of Appeal, Abuja on March 22, 2012, dismissed Afolabi’s appeal and upheld the High Court judgement.
On Friday, a five-man bench of the apex court unanimously dismissed a further appeal by the convict, holding that there was no basis to disturb the concurrent findings of the trial and appeal court.
He added, “And in any case, this court held in Mohammed v State (2007) 11 NWLR (pt 1045) 303 at 230 paragraph F that where an accused person confesses to |
Did he speak up at all against the shameful posthumous baptism of Holocaust victims?
Ah yes. Those dirty Mormons are daring to make Dead | Jews Mormons, so let’s get insulted.
Now, as a “Gentile” ( the Mormons use this for those not a member of their church) it’s not exactly my place to argue either way.
Yet as a doctor who has worked with people of many religions (and none) I’m wondering if Rosenbaum understands why this is being done.
Early Christians worried that those good pagans who died before Christ would go to hell, so started ceremonies to baptise their dead ancestors. Paul sort of frowned on this, and later Catholics just decided they had “Baptism of desire” and would make the cut if they lived a good life, but later reformers went back to those literal passages implying no baptism, no heaven, even for babies.
In 1840, the LDS church reestablished the practice.
The LDS Church teaches that performing baptisms for the dead allows this saving ordinance to be offered to those who |
For over a decade, claims have been made that vitamin and mineral supplements may improve the symptoms of autism in a natural way. While not all researchers | agree about whether these therapies are scientifically proven, many parents and an increasing number of physicians report improvement in people with ASD when using individual or combined nutritional supplements.
Malabsorption problems and nutritional deficiencies have been addressed in several as-of-yet unreplicated studies. A few studies suggest that intestinal disorders and chronic gastrointestinal inflammation may reduce the absorption of essential nutrients and cause disruptions in immune and general metabolic functions that are dependent upon these essential vitamins.
Other studies have shown that some children on the autism spectrum may have low levels of vitamins A, B1, B3, and B5, as well as biotin, selenium, zinc, and magnesium; while others may have an elevated serum copper to plasma zinc ratio, suggesting that they may benefit by avoiding copper and taking extra zinc to boost their immune system. Other studies have indicated a need for more calcium. There are several laboratories that test for nutritional deficiencies, but many insurance companies will not pay for these tests.
Perhaps the most |
When historians write the political obituary for the Republican Party, they will surely include the $1.5 trillion tax bill, which was rail | roaded through Congress this week, as a sign of everything anathema to what conservatives once stood for.
With the bill’s passage, as Frank Bruni brilliantly noted in a Times column, the Democrats have become the party that stands for fiscal austerity, family values, safety nets, fairness, decency, modesty, and the rule of law — as opposed to the greed, corruption, plunder, racism and sexism the Republicans are now known for. The GOP’s pillars are falling. They’re up for grabs, or so it would seem.
But between now and the time the GOP is ousted, what role will political landmarks, such as its only legislative victory under President Trump, a tax-based upward transfer of wealth, play in the governing and electoral arena heading into 2018’s midterms and 2020’s presidential election? Will it become a rallying cry for Democrats to regain federal power in 2018, just as the passage of Obamacare in 2010 fueled the |
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) The Kansas Organization of State Employees is demanding active shooter training for all state employees following the | shooting of Cortney Holloway at the Wichita Department of Revenue office.
The letter, written by KOSE President Lisa Ochs, demands a security review of all state government buildings, public or privately owned, to ensure all employees are protected.
"Sadly, all indications are that the private building that houses the Department of Revenue offices where Cortney Holloway was shot lacked security measures that might have prevented this incident," the letter reads.
KOSE recommends metal detectors or armed guards as options for the buildings.
KDOR Secretary Sam Williams told Eyewitness News after the shooting, he ordered a top to bottom review of those safety procedures.
Now, KOSE is also asking for active shooter training, which doesn't read as a suggestion.
"We believe any solution must include on-site active shooter training for all public employees," the letter reads.
Though the shooting at the Department of Revenue office happened less than a month ago, the KOSE Union writes, "Long |
Even before Red Bulls fans revolted over the firing of coach Mike Petke, their oldest gripe was the club’s supposed disinterest | in the US Open Cup. When the team accepted an invite to the International Champions Cup – creating a conflict with a potential US Open quarterfinal – the angst got even angrier.
At Tuesday’s ICC press conference, his Red Bulls were drawn to host English Premier League leader Chelsea on July 22. According to US Soccer, the quarterfinals of the Open Cup — a tournament open to American teams at all levels, from MLS down to semi-pro — are set for July 21 and 22.
But Red Bulls sporting director Ali Curtis claimed whatever that narrative was in the past, it couldn’t be further from the truth at present. He insisted the Red Bulls, from the top on down, want to win the US Open Cup.
Curtis has to understand, with the Red Bulls and their supporters, there are no forgone conclusions. Well, other than drama. But despite their supporters’ heartache, this is a particularly raw wound with this fan base. |
While information technology has come to play a crucial role inside firms, we look at whether IT leaders' stock has risen in turn.
In today | 's internet-centric world, IT is fundamental to the success of business.
But while information technology has come to play a central role inside firms, that doesn't mean the CIO is equally indispensable.
Rather than necessarily elevating the importance of the CIO, the rising relevance of IT has resulted in some technology spending decisions being taken by a broader range of people within organisations.
Today the CIO is expected to play more of a collaborative role on many IT spending decisions, helping guide projects where technology is key to improving customer service, getting products to market quicker and launching new services.
"Under that much broader and inclusive IT perspective, it is difficult to talk about an exclusive IT budget, and it makes more sense to talk about IT-related expenditures in each and every business initiatives and respective budgets," says the Gartner report How CIOs influence decisions when every budget is an IT budget.
Despite these changes, across most firms there is still a broad pattern for how most |
A memorial gift is a meaningful way to remember someone important to you. These gifts help keep the memory of your loved one alive and have lasting impact | on the broader community.
It can be printed on programs, shared in online tribute sites, or shared by email.
An honorary gift is a powerful way to express your appreciation for someone and make a difference. These gifts can be in honor of a birthday, anniversary, or graduation—or just to thank a special friend. You also can honor your physician, nurse, or caregiver to show your gratitude for the care you, or someone you love, received at Stanford.
If you are arranging a funeral or a memorial service, you may want to ask people to donate to Stanford instead of giving flowers. We can provide ‘in memory’ donation envelopes that can be placed at the funeral or memorial service. Those who would like to make a gift can then send any donations to our office at their convenience.
Please make out your check to Stanford University, and write on the memo line of the check the desired fund allocation. You may also indicate on the memo line whether the |
HBO subscribers who catch the Bill Simmons-produced “Andre the Giant” documentary tonight are in for a lot of tall tales (and | hey, here are two bonus stories that didn’t make the final cut!).
With so many incredible anecdotes about the professional wrestling icon, it is hard to know which ones to believe and what to dismiss — even for doc director Jason Hehir.
For example, most people — Hehir included — will tell you that Andre probably wasn’t very close to his billed height and weight of 7’4” and 500 lbs.
But, “I do believe that he was far more powerful and far more intimidating and daunting than anybody else in wrestling in that time,” he added.
We agree. Hogan was so well-spoken and invested, Hehir nearly opened the whole film on Terry Bollea talking about the time he saw Andre the Giant wrestle live, which pushed the eventual “Rocky III” star into pro wrestling.
Though that original edit of “Andre” was scrapped, Hogan’s contribution |
The Monroe Pain Center, which was raided by federal agents last week, is allowed to remain open, officials said, because the target of the investigation | is Dr. Oscar Linares? not clinic.
The Monroe Pain Center, which was raided by federal agents last week, is allowed to remain open, officials said, because the target of the investigation is Dr. Oscar Linares — not clinic.
On Wednesday, people could be seen entering the building at the LaPlaisance Rd. strip mall, but the number of patients was dramatically diminished. The windows and doors remain covered with white blinds and the clinic's name has been removed from the building front.
Richard Isaacson, a spokesman with the Drug Enforcement Agency, said Dr. Linares was targeted in the raid last week, not the clinic.
"We did not shut them down," Mr. Isaacson said. "We never closed them down."
Mr. Isaacson would not comment on whether the clinic is under investigation at this time. Dr. Linares, under terms of his bond conditions, is not allowed to prescribe narcotics. He told |
A Soviet-era craft that took a dog into orbit could fetch $10 million.
A SOVIET space capsule stands ready for launch | in the lobby of Sotheby's New York headquarters.
The Vostok 3KA-2, a giant rusty ball, orbited the Earth on March 25, 1961. It carried a life-size cosmonaut mannequin and a live dog, and landed two hours after launch in a snow-blanketed field about 1100 kilometres from Moscow.
Three weeks later, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin climbed into an identical vehicle and became the first human to travel into outer space.
The test capsule could fetch as much as $US10 million when auctioned on April 12, the 50th anniversary of Gagarin's voyage.
Scorched and scratched on the outside, the ball looks cramped on the inside. Most of the interior is taken up by an ejection seat.
The architect of the Soviet space program, Sergei Korolev, tested five Vostok capsules before sending Gagarin. The four-legged cosmonaut on 3KA |
Is'red' the same to all creatures?
(CNN) -- Violets are blue and roses are red, but maybe those colors | are all in your head.
What does it mean for an object to be "red"? Is the way you perceive blueness the same as your neighbor? Your cousin? What about your dog?
Many scientists believe that humans have color vision that is generally consistent across populations and cultures, and that there are evolutionary reasons behind that constancy.
"Color vision is all about emotions and moods, and it has much deeper and richer connections to the rest of our perceptual worlds," said Mark Changizi, a cognitive scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
But some people really don't see the color red in the way that most do. About 8 percent of men have trouble differentiating between certain colors; less than 0.5 percent of women have this problem, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Color vision is based on photoreceptors in the eye called cones, of which there are about 6 million to 7 million |
SANTA FE — New Mexico colleges and universities will get their state money next year.
But Gov. Susana Martinez and the Legislature remain dead | locked over how to stabilize state finances in the long run.
That much was clear in a flurry of activity late Friday as Martinez signed legislation that ensures continued state funding for higher education — after a previous veto had put colleges and universities in limbo — while vetoing a variety of tax increases passed by lawmakers.
Martinez, a Republican, praised the spending plan as a “bipartisan agreement.” But she reacted with scorn to the proposed tax hikes endorsed by the Legislature, where Democrats hold majorities in each chamber.
“The ability of the Legislature to in one breath decry the financial inequities in our state and in the next seek to take more from the pockets of New Mexicans is remarkable,” Martinez said in a veto message to lawmakers.
Democratic legislative leaders, in turn, said the governor’s vetoes will leave the state without the sustained revenue needed to ensure it can continue paying bills and protect its credit rating from further damage.
They expressed serious |
With the iPhone 7 at $649, along with the price of the wireless AirPods, new buyers will be looking at about $810 plus | tax just for the package.
As it does every September prior to holiday season, Apple introduced the latest versions of its already highly popular products at a major media event. This time it was Sept. 7 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in downtown San Francisco.
As expected, the world's richest and most successful consumer IT company showed off its iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, an updated and completely waterproof version of the Apple watch, wireless ear buds called AirPods and several other items.
For the second consecutive year, no totally new products were unveiled. The last time Apple showcased an entirely new product was in 2014, when it introduced the Apple Watch. Before that, the new product was the iPad in 2010.
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller spent an inordinate amount of time describing the new iPhone's new colors and exterior finish, dubbed jet black and just plain black. But the main reasons for someone wanting to upgrade to the new phone would have to be its |
Chris Van Vliet joined WSVN in January 2015 as Deco Drive’s entertainment reporter. A 3-time Emmy Award winner | , Chris will also serve as fill in host for Deco Drive and cover entertainment stories for 7 NEWS.
Prior to joining WSVN, Chris was the entertainment reporter at WOIO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, a radio personality on WDOK and also a writer for Cleveland Magazine. He is a voting member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and has reported from the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Cannes Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival.
In 2011, Chris was named Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Bachelor of the Year and donated the $10,000 prize money to The Boys and Girls Clubs of Cleveland. He was also awarded the “Personality of the Year” honor from the Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2012.
Chris got his feet wet in the world of broadcasting working behind the scenes at Rogers Community Television and AM570-News in Kitchener, Ontario before landing his first on-air job as a news reporter and videographer for CH |
My husband sat in his usual chair, interrogating the contents of his whisky glass with his old, tired nose. In 20 years’ time | that sentence may seem normal. To me it seems at best whimsical, perhaps arch.
There’s a lot of interrogating at the moment, quite apart from the traditional kind by unpleasant policemen. Jay Rayner, in the Observer, said that he saw some people in a restaurant interrogate their plates. In the Guardian someone suggested we should ‘interrogate the things that make us want to drink too much’. In the Guardian again someone else declared: ‘It’s important to challenge and interrogate sexist beauty ideals, of course.’ Of course.
These examples take up different aspects of the normal meaning of interrogate and use them metaphorically. The plates are not so much questioned as examined. The things that make us want to drink are examined too, and perhaps analysed. Sexist ideals may be questioned.
The metaphor can drift into cliché. In the Guardian, someone wrote about the need to ‘interrogate the question of |
Lizzie Armanto is the first female skater to complete the gravity-defying stunt.
Twenty years ago legendary skateboarder Tony | Hawk completed a gravity-defying 360-degree ramp – The Loop.
The Loop is infamous for its difficulty and the 50-year-old has praised it as a “badge of honour in the skate world”.
Now that badge has just been earned for the first time by a female skater, Lizzie Armanto – take a look.
If that spectacular trick wasn’t impressive enough, in the next video posted by Hawk he explains some of the history behind The Loop, which he first came across from pictures of failed attempts in a magazine.
Hawk himself hasn’t completed The Loop for 15 years, last doing so on tour in 2003, and has injured himself many times trying it, once breaking his pelvis.
“It’s hard to explain it,” Hawk said. “If you’ve done it, you’ve checked it off the list. I’m not going |
The medical device and services company is scheduled to report earnings on Wednesday, July 20.
Natus Medical (NASDAQ:BABY) will | report second-quarter earnings on Wednesday. Beyond the usual revenue, margins, and earnings numbers, here are three things investors should be watching as the healthcare company gives its mid-year update.
Last quarter, Natus Medical adjusted its 2016 guidance to remove revenue from the large contract to sell medical supplies to the government of Venezuela that was announced late last year.
"While the agreement remains in place, the Ministry of Health has not made the required pre-payments. Given the uncertainty resulting from the current political and economic situation in Venezuela, the Company will no longer include revenue or earnings from the agreement in its guidance until there is more clarity as to the expected performance under the agreement."
While the announcement caused a strong decline in the stock price in April, Natus Medical has fully recovered, making it somewhat difficult to gauge investors' expectations on when -- or if -- sales to Venezuela will materialize. It should be noted that the stock still trades off the price before the announcement was made, |
Just because a town is off the beaten path, that doesn’t mean that it lacks unique qualities perfect for new adventures and fun. Sol | ana Beach is one of those places. A beach town that is often overlooked in the shadows of La Jolla and Pacific Beach, Solana Beach is full of golden beaches and tons of exciting things to explore. A stunning four square miles by the sea, Solana Beach is a strikingly beautiful area. Most residents who live there live the coastal lifestyle where time goes slow.
As the day goes on in Solana Beach, you can find all kinds of activity going on at Fletcher Cove. A popular place for picnics and pickup games, it’s also a great place to bring the kids to enjoy a day in the sun. When the sun gets low, people gather cliffside to enjoy one of the signature San Diego sunsets as surfers make their final attempts to catch the last rides of the day.
Tide Beach Park sits on the northern end of Solana Beach and requires you to hike down a long set of stairs. While the trek there can be a little tough |
Few people would want to relive tragedy, but that’s exactly what some Torontonians did to mark the centenary of the | Titanic’s sinking.
A hundred years after the doomed ocean liner hit an iceberg and sank into frigid waters off the coast of Newfoundland, venues across the city recreated that fateful night on April 15, 1912.
With its chandeliers and high ceilings, the opulent Windsor Arms Hotel commemorated the anniversary by offering afternoon tea similar to what the Titanic’s first class guests would have had, including full-service dining and a selection of scones and éclairs for 100 people.
For Heather Graham, whose grandfather’s uncle, Hudson Allison, perished on the Titanic, the tribute is personal.
First-class passenger Allison, his wife Bess and daughter Lorraine died, while son Hudson Trevor survived.
From stateroom to steerage, The Ceili Cottage in Leslieville created a special third-class menu, available only on Friday and Saturday, featuring barley broth and beef and kidney pie.
“You can tell it� |
Monique Kilkenny and Associate Professor Dominique Cadilhac of Monash University’s Stroke and Ageing Research Centre ( | STARC), and staff from the National Stroke Foundation examined data from the 2009 National Stroke Audit of acute services. Hospitals treating Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients were included in the analysis.
The results, published in the International Journal of Stroke indicated that, within the same hospitals, there was less adherence to most evidence-based, recommended processes for treatment of stroke for Indigenous compared to non-Indigenous patients.
Specialist treatment administered in stroke units has been shown to be associated with a 22 per cent reduction in death or disability for stroke patients. The study showed that Indigenous Australians were less likely to receive this and other forms of care, including timely assessments in hospital.
Ms Kilkenny said that although further research was needed to ascertain what led to the disparity in care, the implications of the study were clear.
“Our previous research has shown that care quality in hospitals influences the likelihood of recovery after stroke. The most important thing is that all patients get access to |
Sainsbury’s has changed the name of their tiger bread to giraffe bread after a suggestion from a three-year-old girl | .
Lily Robinson wrote a letter to the supermarket chain telling bosses their patterned loaf should be renamed giraffe bread.
The letter, sent in May 2011, was received by Sainsbury’s customer manager Chris King, who loved Lily’s ideas.
He replied: ‘Renaming tiger bread giraffe bread is a brilliant idea – it looks much more like the blotches on a giraffe than the stripes on a tiger, doesn’t it?
Mr King also enclosed a £3 voucher ‘to buy some tiger bread (and maybe if mum and dad say it is OK you can get some sweeties too!)’, signing his letter ‘Chris King (age 27 & 1/3)’.
Lily’s mother posted the letters on her blog and this week the exchange went viral after being posted on a number of social networks.
Sainsbury’s was then bombarded with messages from customers |
Tara brings a copy editor's eye to her role as a digital producer. She started as an editing intern at The Dallas Morning News in 2015 | . Now, she curates dallasnews.com, posts on DMN social media and writes daily newsletters. Tara has a degree in journalism from the University of Kansas.
Like the rest of Dallas, we went straight to Twitter for information on the cause of the malfunction. Along with some valuable updates from officials, we found some priceless reactions.
The only way to beat Golden State? It's to be Golden State.
Jan. 1 is National Bloody Mary Day — fitting, right, considering all the hangovers that New Year's Eve revelers will be nursing. Here are five places in North Texas you can find a rejuvenating cocktail that will provide both your buzz and daily dose of vegetables.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The commandant of the Marine Corps has recommended that women be excluded from competing for certain front-line combat jobs, U. S. officials said Friday, as the Corps distanced itself from the other military services that are expected to allow women to serve in battlefield |
After disclosing that bankruptcy was on the table, shares of the offshore driller have fallen to penny-stock territory. The question investors must answer is | whether they're willing to lose everything on the chance that doesn't happen.
Discussions with the banks, potential new money investors, the advisors to the ad hoc committee of bondholders and Hemen Holdings Ltd. continue. Given timing, however, it will be challenging for the Company to finalize a fully consensual agreement before 30 April 2017... In the event a consensual restructuring agreement is not concluded or an agreement to an extension is not reached, we are also preparing various contingency plans, including potential schemes of arrangement or chapter 11 proceedings.
That's what Seadrill LTD (NYSE:SDRL) did on February 28, sending its stock price down by one-third within days, and putting it on the cusp of falling below $1 per share as recently as March 7. And the reality is, shareholders who have sold in the past 10 days have exited for good reason. There's significant risk of permanent capital losses for anyone who continues to hold Seadrill stock.
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The Left government, in power in the state for 25 years, was routed by the BJP that earlier had less than a 2 per cent vote share | in Tripura.
New Delhi: An internal debate in the CPI(M) on the political line the party has to follow has become even more shrill after its crushing defeat in Tripura, with the camp supporting general secretary Sitaram Yechury blaming the former party boss Prakash Karat for not adapting to changing scenarios in the country.
The incumbent Left government, in power in the state for 25 years, was routed by the BJP that earlier had less than a 2 per cent vote share in Tripura.
"The issue will now be debated in our party congress (to be held in April). I will not be able to say anything now as the final decision will be taken there," Mr Yechury told news agency PTI.
Though the general secretary was tight-lipped, it has become amply clear that party leaders supporting his line will now strongly push for having an understanding with all anti-BJP forces as against Mr Karat's policy of |
Drivetime's Della Kilroy reports from the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition taking place this week in Dublin's RDS.
Mary Lou | McDonald, Sinn Féin President, speaks to Philip after meeting with the EU's Chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier in Brussels.
Rory Hearne, Lecturer in social housing policy at Maynooth University, and Tom Parlon, Director General of the Construction Industry Federation, discuss the suggestion made by Brendan Kenny, the Deputy Chief Executive of Dublin City Council, that the government should incentivise private developers to build residential properties again.
Drivetime's John Cooke reports from Ballinrobe, Co.Mayo, on the government's new pilot project to rejuvenate rural town centres.
Cathy Davey, singer songwriter and co-founder of My Lovely Horse Rescue charity, speaks to Colette Kinsella about the positive impact that animals and nature have on her own mental health.
Síle Nic Chonaonaigh, presenter of 'An Balla', new TG4 series on walls and borders around the world, talks to Philip about the iconic walls they visited |
The classic characters of the Peanuts comic strip will come to life on the stage of Irving A. Robbins Middle School in Farmington.
The | students will present their take on You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, with three shows on March 29 and March 30. The shows are directed by Penelope Sanborn, produced by Leslie Flowers, and musically directed by Karla McClain.
The students are looking forward to taking the iconic characters of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang and reintroducing them to the audience through what they think is a story with a message that remains relevant to this day.
Some of the actors are finding a way to relate to their own characters and are using that in their performances.
It all comes with a lot of humor and fun moments, they said, but the classic characters they’re playing are the best part of the show because of the way the on-stage performance brings forth the feeling of a comic strip.
The student actors give a lot of credit to the students who are working hard behind the scenes. The school uses |
Verizon Communications—responding to consumers who are giving up their landlines and using wireless as their primary voice service—rolled out a new double | -play offer that combines broadband Internet and wireless on one bill.
The telco’s Flex Double Play bundle consists of any national Verizon Wireless calling plan of 450 minutes or greater and a FiOS Internet or DSL Internet service at 3 Megabits per second.
FiOS TV service, if available, can also be added to create a triple-play bundle. Verizon offers DSL in 26 states and Washington, D.C. FiOS Internet is available in 17 states, and FiOS TV is available in 13.
Verizon's One Bill system must be used with all Flex bundles, and consumers must commit to a one- or two-year contract depending on the package. Verizon Wireless is a joint venture between Verizon and Vodafone.
According to Verizon, customers can save money with the bundles.
For example, a 450-minute Verizon Wireless nationwide calling plan can be combined with a mid-tier FiOS Internet plan for a Flex double play |
French opposition MPs and senators claimed a victory for democracy Wednesday after using a little-known constitutional article to try to trigger a referendum on the government's | controversial plans to privatise Paris' airports.
In a rare display of non-partisanship, lawmakers straddling the spectrum from the far left to the right banded together Tuesday to propose a "referendum d'initiative populaire" (RIP) on the privatisation of Aeroports de Paris, operator of Charles de Gaulle, Orly and Le Bourget airports.
This is the first time ever that opposition lawmakers have come together to try force a referendum on an issue, using a measure introduced by former president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008 to boost participatory democracy.
Socialist Party spokesman Boris Vallaud told France 2 broadcaster on Wednesday that MPs were determined to block a "major strategic error, because Aeroports de Paris is not just a regular company".
Referendums are rare in France, with the last one dating to 2005 when voters rejected a new European constitution.
Some of the "yellow vests" protesters behind five months |
LITTLE EGG HARBOR - One township man is dead and another facing murder charges after a fight, stabbing and death at a Maple | wood Drive home Wednesday night, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office.
Township police found 28-year-old Richard Pone unreponsive with a stab wound to his chest in a second-floor bedroom after going to 21 Maplewood Drive around 8:15 p.m., according to a statement Thursday from Al Della Fave, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.
Kendrick Coley, 25, is facing murder charges in the death of Richard Pone, 28.
A 911 call reported "a male within the residence with a knife," Della Fave said.
Police arriving at the house found 25-year-old Kendrick Coley "in the garage area of the residence and immediately took control of him in order to ascertain what took place at the residence," Della Fave said. A woman at the scene directed officers to the bedroom, where they found Pone, who "was pronounced dead at the scene 8:42 p. |
Sensex and Nifty remained under pressure for the fourth consecutive week this month, losing 1.67% and 1.91% respectively, amid | a weak rupee, higher crude prices and persistent outflow of foreign funds.
Sensex and Nifty remained under pressure for the fourth consecutive week this month.
Sensex and Nifty remained under pressure for the fourth consecutive week this month, losing 1.67% and 1.91% respectively, amid a weak rupee, higher crude prices and persistent outflow of foreign funds. The benchmark stock market indices had their worst month in over two and a half years, with the BSE Sensex shedding over 6% and the NSE Nifty falling nearly 7% in the month of September alone.
“Both the Sensex and the Nifty have fallen the most in any month since February 2016. The Bank Nifty has fallen 10.48% this month — the highest monthly fall since 2013,” VK Sharma, Head Private Client Group & Capital Market Strategy at HDFC Securities, told FE Online. Yes Bank remained the top loser month-to-month on both |
Neither Keith Richard nor ULM’s basketball program are in a position to turn their collective nose up at a win.
With that being | said, that doesn’t mean Richard was going to overlook his team’s performance down the stretch in a crucial home matchup with Little Rock.
The Warhawks (12-12, 8-5) were able to hold on and beat the top-ranked team in the Sun Belt standings 86-82, but they made it interesting in the final two minutes when a combination of turnovers and defensive lapses allowed the Trojans (21-3, 11-2) to cut a double-digit lead to just three points.
While Richard’s demeanor from the coach’s box grew more and more animated with each mistake, the Warhawks didn’t share his sense of dread and put the game away late at the free-throw line.
Deng and senior guard Justin Roberson each scored a game-high 23 points while ULM received 11-point efforts from junior point guard Nick Coppola and freshman forward Travis Munnings.
Richard |
To develop and expand basic knowledge regarding the design of environments and objects of the human environment in the areas of interior architecture and furnishings, textiles | and clothing, and visual communication. The program emphasizes environmental and socially responsible design through processes and solutions that promote resource sustainability and creative reuse of materials.
The Design Program has nine faculty and one replacement position being held by the chancellor. Seven are ladder faculty and two are lecturers SOE. Five have 70/30 experiment station appointments. Three or four retirements will probably occur within the next five years.
Projected development efforts will link each of the areas more closely with the professional and industrial partners in the state, nationally and internationally. Industries producing professionally designed, resource-using products include textiles for clothing and environmental uses, furnishings and home products, and building products. Stronger links with print and electronic communication media also fit within this agenda. Collaborative projects and internships will be proposed to develop program funding and technological support.
Design also proposes continued links with the public around topics of health education, cultural education and social diversity, and socially responsible planning and design. One faculty member is |
Do you need to block your ex from social media?
Have you ever seen the film 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'?
| In it, a couple played by Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet are so traumatised by the end of their relationship that they decide to have all their memories of one another wiped from their brains. The pain is so great post break-up that neither can bear it.
Brilliantly capturing the feeling of limbo and all the hurt involved in a break-up, the film had many people wishing they could do the same thing. But it was made in 2004, long before social media took hold on the world we now live in, and perhaps the filmmakers couldn't have imagined that in 2016, more than a decade later, we'd all be so utterly digitally connected.
These days, it's simply not enough to erase your ex from your memory. Many people are also choosing to remove former lovers from their digital memory, so as not to get hurt all over again by news of new relationships, or simply by photos of them having a fantastic time post-split.
It's |
A Colorado man was sentenced Monday to life in prison for killing his pregnant wife and their two young daughters and dumping their bodies on an oil work site | .
Prosecutors have said they agreed not to seek the death penalty in exchange for Christopher Watts' guilty plea, after seeking approval from Shanann Watts' family.
A friend asked police to check on Shanann Watts on Aug. 13 after not being able to reach her and growing concerned that the 34-year-old expectant mother had missed a doctor's appointment. Officers initially handled the search and soon sought support from Colorado investigators and the FBI.
Meanwhile, Christopher Watts spoke to local television reporters from the front porch of the family's home in Frederick, a small town on the plains north of Denver where drilling rigs and oil wells surround booming subdivisions. Watts pleaded for his family’s safe return, telling reporters their house felt empty without 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste watching cartoons or running to greet him at the door.
Court records revealed that Watts acknowledged to police that he killed his wife. Watts told investigators that he strangled her in " |
“Flowerball” is part of Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg at the Modern.
| Almost 20 years ago, Takashi Murakami coined the term “superflat” to describe Japanese art, in terms of both its emphasis on surface (spurred by traditional painting as well as anime and manga) and how the end of World War II had leveled class differences in Japan and given rise to a culture with little difference between high and low. This aesthetic has gotten him all manner of showcases outside the walls of museums, designing Louis Vuitton bags and Kanye West album covers. Now, his blockbuster show Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg comes to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth after successful stops in Chicago and Vancouver.
The show includes his early, dark, monochromatic paintings from the 1980s, but splashier items are on display as well, such as his murals featuring brightly colored grotesque monsters, large canvases festooned with gold and platinum, and wallpaper depicting flowers with smiley faces. The show takes its name |
Surely Heiner Gärtner is one of the only farmers in Germany, if not most of Europe, who greets the dawn | of yet another cloudless day with anticipation rather than angst. On Mr. Gärtner's 200-acre farm the fields are covered with 10,050 solar panels, which soak up the sunshine and convert it into electricity. The ambient hum in the air is not the sound of insects but of transformers carrying a high-voltage current to the villages nearby. "We've had so much sun," said Mr. Gärtner, 34, a wide-brimmed hat shielding his face from the rays. "It would be better if we could have this much sun with less heat. But you can't have everything." Extreme heat actually reduces the efficiency of the solar panels, he said, pointing to a dial that showed the plant was running at 83 percent of its capacity. On cooler days, the panels operate at full capacity.Even so, this is shaping up as a thriving summer for Mr. Gärtner — vindicating his decision |
We gold star families would like to ask people to begin educating themselves on the history of Memorial Day.
I did not have the opportunity to teach | this person and her husband the definition of gold star families who have suffered the death of a loved one like our son, who took a bullet through the neck and back in Baghdad while saving the lives of his commanding officer, first sergeant and eight other comrades.
We gold star families would also like to ask people to begin educating themselves on the history of Memorial Day, originally Decoration Day, to decorate the gravesites of those who died in war beginning after the Civil War. We also ask for people not to say �Happy Memorial Day� to those still serving because they are suffering anxiety from a day called to remember comrades they saw die.
We saw and heard so much about the living on Memorial Day, but no one calling the names of �dead� warriors or �veterans.� �Memorial� means serving as a remembrance of a person. There is Armed Forces Day and Veterans Day. Why can�t Memorial Day be remembered for its accurate history and honor those like our son |
VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) Tyreke Key had a career-high 32 points as Indiana State edged past Valparais | o 87-82 in overtime on Wednesday night.
Key hit 15 of 17 foul shots. He added six steals.
Key made two free throws to tie the game at 71 with 33 seconds left in regulation then Valparaiso worked the shot clock for one last possession. After Bakari Evelyn missed a 3-pointer with 3 seconds left, Javon Freeman grabbed the offensive rebound and missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer. Indiana State took a 79-72 lead early in overtime and Valparaiso did not threaten.
Cooper Neese had 13 points for Indiana State (13-12, 5-8 Missouri Valley Conference), which ended its four-game road losing streak. Bronson Kessinger added 12 points. Jordan Barnes had 11 points for the visiting team.
The Sycamores forced a season-high 21 turnovers.
Derrik Smits tied a career high with 23 points and had 11 rebounds for the Crusaders (13-13, 6 |
The gun issue is a classic example of how what I call the Dirt Gap divides up the U.S. into thinly populated Red Regions and densely | populated Blue Regions. I wrote in The American Conservative back in 2004 in "Baby Gap:"
The endless gun-control brouhaha, which on the surface appears to be a bitter battle between liberal and conservative whites, also features a cryptic racial angle. What blue-region white liberals actually want is for the government to disarm the dangerous urban minorities that threaten their children’s safety. Red-region white conservatives, insulated by distance from the Crips and the Bloods, don’t care that white liberals’ kids are in peril. Besides, in sparsely populated Republican areas, where police response times are slow and the chances of drilling an innocent bystander are slim, guns make more sense for self-defense than in the cities and suburbs.
White liberals, angered by white conservatives’ lack of racial solidarity with them, yet bereft of any vocabulary for expressing such a verboten concept, pretend that they need gun control to protect them from gun-crazy |
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