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1 What Grows Well With Azaleas?
Whether designing a painting, | a building or a landscape, the principles of design remain consistent. Colors and lines should lead the eye from one place to another, balance should be achieved whether through symmetry or asymmetry, and the design should be visually pleasing or meaningful. Gardeners who wish to landscape with azaleas (Rhododendron spp.) must take into consideration aspects of color, form and texture to create a space of harmony and beauty.
Azalea bushes can be as short as 2 feet tall with a mounding habit or as large as 8 feet tall with an 8-foot spread. Use larger plants to form the sides of your garden. Push these plants against the boundaries of your property, use them to hide unsightly garden walls, and have them create natural borders between your property and the property of your neighbors. Medium-sized azaleas are best used to create transitions between large shrubs and small shrubs. Midsized plants are also useful for creating natural islands of foliage in |
Debbie Hendrix Thornton, 58, of Lakeland, Florida (formerly of LaFayette) passed away on Monday, October 16, 2017 | .
Prior to her move to Florida, she was a member of the Community Baptist Church on Lee Mason Road. Debbie had a passion for music and a love of helping others and was active in many outreach ministries throughout her life.
She is survived by her daughter, Renee (David) Griffin of LaFayette; sons, Robert Thornton and Jamie Thornton both of LaFayette; grandchildren, Nicholas, Olivia, Jazmyn, Abigail, Georgia, Morgan, and Megan; parents, Robert “Shot” Thornton of LaFayette and Nelva Allmon of Lakeland, Fla.; sisters, Sherri Dampier and Vicki Foreman both of Lakeland, Fl.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21, in the Wilbanks Memorial Chapel with Pastor Matthew Gilmore officiating.
Memorial contributions may be made in her memory to the ministry of your |
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I am a coach, a writer | , a program creator, an instructor for other coaches, a speaker and a leader with 20+ years of experience in Relationship Coaching, ADHD Coaching, and Friendship Coaching. I work with people in all kinds of relationships, whether it is marriage, courtship, dating, friendship, work, parenting, or young adults getting established on their own. I have am the lead instructor for Relationship Coaching Institute – Singles programs and the Lead instructor and program developer for Impact Coaching Academy for ADHD Coaching. I am currently developing programs of my own that will roll out this summer.
I offer webinars, workshops, coaching teams, group coaching, and individual coaching. My goal is to provide my clients with what they need to succeed in life and love, and to do so in an affordable way. There are many options to work with me with different price points.
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This part one explains how government is flying blind - deeply invested in internal functions that each speak their own language, and are thus unintelligible to | one another. The web increasingly demands a wholesale shift in operating model – away from managing functions, to assembling chains of standard capabilities to deliver service outcomes, but this is currently hard to achieve.
During a Policy Exchange fringe event at the recent Conservative Party conference, former Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude observed that there is no constitutional requirement for government departments - statutory responsibility rests with secretaries of state who are free, in theory, to deliver services using the most appropriate means.
Put another way, there is no inevitability about vertically-organised departments - they are merely an entrenched convention. There is no reason why government should not run itself much more simply, efficiently and cheaply using a better operating model if it can – providing, of course, we end up with better services, easily available to those who need them.
It’s the services that count, not the departments. The trouble is, the interests of the departments are not always aligned with those of the citizens consuming their services. Digital |
Dish Network, while hawking a $40 digital-to-analog box, is now trying to upsell analog-only TV owners | to a low-cost version of its service.
The satellite provider has been pitching the TR-40 CRA, an entry-level, digital-to-analog converter box, nationwide at TR40CRA.com, by phone order or via participating Dish Network retailers.
On Wednesday, Dish said consumers can also opt to sign up for new American or Latino Welcome Packs, featuring 20 popular channels for less than $10 per month.
The TR-40 CRA qualifies for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s TV Converter Box Coupon Program. The box, available for a limited time only while supplies last, is priced at $40 and is free when a government coupon is applied.
"We made a commitment to sell a $40 coupon-eligible converter box -- making it free when a government coupon is applied -- and are delivering on that commitment with our entry-level TR-40 CRA," Tom Stingley, Dish Network’s executive vice president of sales and |
NANTES, France (Reuters) - Researchers have unveiled what they billed as the world’s first 3D-printed house to serve | as a home in the French city of Nantes, with the first tenants due to move in by June.
Academics at the University of Nantes who led the project said it was the first house built in situ for human habitation using a robot 3D-printer.
The robot, known as BatiPrint3D, uses a special polymer material that should keep the building insulated effectively for a century.
It took BatiPrint3D around 18 days to complete its part of the work on the house - creating hollow walls that were subsequently filled with concrete for insulation.
“Is this the future? It’s a solution and a constructive principle that is interesting because we create the house directly on site and in addition thanks to the robot, we are able to create walls with complex shapes,” said Benoit Furet, a professor who worked on the project.
The 95 square meter (1000 square feet), five-room house will be |
Please join us for a free webinar to discuss the petrochemical market post-US election. We will discuss the potential effect not only on | the US, but also worldwide.
What will be the trade impact on the polymer market? What effect will taxes, minimum wages, and duties have?
How will the election shape trade in the petrochemical market?
How effectively will the new president change policy?
What is the outlook for US/Latin America petrochemical trade?
Joseph Chang is Global Editor of ICIS Chemical Business, a weekly publication focused on making sense of chemical prices worldwide. This includes macro factors and trends impacting the supply chain such as global trade and arbitrage, project activity, and mergers and acquisitions.
He has been with ICIS and one of its predecessor publications for over 19 years, specializing in coverage of financial topics. Joseph has a B.S. degree in Finance and International Business from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
George Martin has extensive experience in documentation of technological products, with emphasis on petrochemical and refinery equipment, offshore drilling and production equipment. He |
Her rock star-chic look shines on the busy streets of Santa Monica.
Alessandra Ambrosio proves that she’s | a model on and off the runway when she strutted her stuff all over Santa Monica, CA on Tuesday afternoon, November 13. She werked the streets like they were her own personal catwalk in a vintage look that made everyone turn heads. Keep reading to see her cool look.
The Brazilian beauty was on her way to lunch in the breezy California weather. She was dressed to impress in her '90s-inspired lewk.
She modeled a black leather jacket, a graphic tee with a picture of Michael Jackson on it from his 1982 "Thriller" album cover, baggy distressed ripped jeans and black leather ankle boots.
The 36-year-old also sported a shiny black leather Louis Vuitton tote back draped on her arm and black aviators.
The mother of two sat out the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show on Thursday November 8 for the first time since 2000.
The retired angel decided to stop walking to spend more time with her family |
WASHINGTON (CN) – Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will advise President-elect Donald Trump on cybersecurity developments, Trump’s transition team | announced Thursday.
Giuliani was once a candidate for secretary of state in the incoming Trump administration, but withdrew his name in late November. At the time Trump said Giuliani removed himself from consideration for all positions in the administration, though he would “call upon him for advice” at a later date.
The former mayor currently runs a security consulting firm and chairs the global cybersecurity practice at Greenberg Traurig, according to the transition team new release.
Giuliani’s business experience was seen as a hindrance to his secretary of state candidacy, as his company had deals with the government of Qatar as well as with an Iranian opposition group that until 2012 was on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.
In the release announcing Giuliani’s role, Trump’s transition team said Giuliani will help start a conference of tech experts in the private sector to help the government respond to emerging cyberthreats.
“Mr. Giuliani was asked |
Alvin Joiner, a.k.a. Xzibit, a.k.a. recursive Internet meme guy, owes nearly | $1 million in delinquent federal taxes. His excuse for not paying them? The cancellation of Pimp My Ride. Seriously.
The rapper-turned-actor-turned-host-turned-tax-evader has declared bankruptcy twice since 2009 and had both bankruptcies dismissed according to Tax Watchdog. Halfway through last year he had assets of approximately $739,433 but owed more than $1.4 million.
His claim that cancellation of the show that made him famous is behind his financial problems doesn't appear to be entirely untrue, as his records indicate he made $497,175 for headlining Pimp My Ride in 2007 and the next year, after the show was canceled, only made a paltry $67,510.
The most interesting revelation from his tax records? He didn't own a car while hosting the show. He was leasing a 2006 Range Rover for $2,230 a month. Bad Xzibit, imagine what the guys in the |
Not planning to sleep during the Republican and Democratic National Conventions? Neither is CNN. The network’s plans for the upcoming spectacles will | span all the hours in a day, and the next day, and the next day–you understand how this pattern works.
Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Jake Tapper, Dana Bash and Chris Cuomo will be the weeknight anchors for evening convention programming, dubbed America’s Choice 2016, and Don Lemon gets the anchor late shift.
And there will be enough anchors, analysts and reporters on site that, if it wanted to, CNN could create multiple baseball teams. But it won’t, because everyone will be in convention mode the whole time. And that time begins not on Sunday, but the Saturday before each convention begins.
Coverage will be available on CNN, CNN International, CNN en Español and CNN Digital as well as Snapchat and Facebook live. CNN International, CNN en Español and CNN Digital will provide channel/platform-specific original programming and reporting.
And in addition to its multiple locations within the convention halls, the network is |
PARIS: Mischa Zverev overcame a mid-match blip to defeat Canadian teenager Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-2 | 6-7(4) 6-1 and reach the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Sunday. German Zverev converted six out of 14 break points against the world number 176 to prevail in two hours 34 minutes and set up a meeting with French seventh seed Lucas Pouille. Earlier, Karen Khachanov beat Australian wild card Thanasi Kokkinakis 7-5 6-4 to advance. The Russian 21-year-old could face Gilles Simon or 16th seed Adrian Mannarino next.
Former world number one Novak Djokovic, who is struggling to return to his best form since having elbow surgery earlier this year, takes on Serbian compatriot Dusan Lajovic on Monday. The 12-times grand slam winner ended his collaboration with head coach Andre Agassi and coach Radek Stepanek earlier this month. World number one Rafa Nadal, who returned to action from a leg injury in Spain’s Davis Cup |
MINNEAPOLIS — Lance Lynn made this start harder on himself with five walks and one hit Cleveland batter.
The recently revived Minnesota lineup | made it a lot easier.
Eddie Rosario hit a two-run homer and Brian Dozier drove in two runs to support Lynn’s third straight victory, leading the Twins past the Indians 7-1 on Saturday.
In his first season with the Twins after waiting a month into spring training to sign a one-year $12 million contract, Lynn has looked miserable on the mound in much of his time with the new team. Part of that is his ultra-competitive nature, but he had an awful April and a couple of rough appearances in May, too. Over his last three starts, Lynn (4-4) has allowed only three runs over 18 2/3 innings to lower his ERA from 7.47 to 5.46.
The same goes for the Twins offence, with 30 runs over the last four games. Rosario has been the steadiest of all, with a team-leading 36 RBIs headlining a strong case to become a first |
This year, some child in my neighborhood will leave my house on Halloween with nothing but a lesson in money management and gambling.
I doubt they | will appreciate it, but I hope they enjoy the experience enough not to trick out my house with eggs or toilet paper.
It’s the latest twist in my personal effort to do something different with Halloween, giving the children an experience they can talk about that might help them learn a lesson about finances.
I’m telling you about it now in the hope that maybe you will either follow my lead or come up with your own program to make Halloween something other than a gluttonous candy-fest. I have been doing this for three years now, my own spin on the “Cash for Candy” campaign that the National Financial Educators Council started in 2016.
I’m not interested in being a spoilsport, or even a killjoy trying to “improve” a great holiday tradition. I love living in a neighborhood that will send 80 to 100 costumed children to my door on Halloween night and I am happy to give them candy.
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Teva, the world's biggest maker of generic drugs, last week offered $82 per share in cash and stock for smaller rival Mylan. |
Mylan NV (MYL.O) rejected Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd's (TEVA.TA) unsolicited $40 billion takeover offer on Monday, saying it was too low and calling Teva stock an "unacceptable" currency.
Mylan, which is pursuing its own takeover of Perrigo Co Plc (PRGO.N), had been expected to reject the offer after having indicated that such a combination would not be a good fit.
In response to the Mylan rejection, Teva said it was standing by its cash and stock offer.
Mylan shares fell 3.48 percent to $73.44 on Nasdaq, and Teva fell 2.3 percent to $62.91 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Mylan Executive Chairman Rob Coury said in a lengthy letter to Teva released on Monday that Mylan would not consider any discussions unless "the starting point" was "significantly in excess of $100 per share."
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What drives ad decisions at 1 Hacker Way?
Facebook vice president of ad products Rob Goldman shed some light on the principles behind the company’ | s decisions regarding advertising on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram.
We don’t sell your data.
Advertising should be safe and civil; it should not divide or discriminate.
We’re always improving our advertising.
On the principle of “people first,” Goldman wrote that Facebook aims to make ads “as relevant and useful” to people as the other posts they see, adding that businesses are helped by this, as well, since people will most likely not respond to “irrelevant or annoying” ads. He said the social network’s auction system prioritizes ads that are most relevant to users over how much money the company will make.
Goldman also stressed that personal information including names, Facebook posts, email addresses and phone numbers are never sold to anyone, with the information only being used by the social network itself to serve “relevant and useful” ads.
He also reminded Facebook users that they can click on |
Conservatism necessarily involves compromise. That’s why it is such a precarious endeavor. You could say — as the dairyman Tev | ye does in Fiddler on the Roof — that it’s like a “fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck.” In the Off Broadway production of the musical by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Tevye (played by Steven Skybell) doesn’t say that exactly. As I probably should have guessed, the sell-out production is in Yiddish.
Joel Grey’s lively revival of this classic is a delight. Fortunately, non-Yiddish-speaking audience members (like me) can follow along with English and Russian surtitles projected on the side of the stage. Grey’s is a modest production. But it brims with character and humor while remaining faithful to the story’s message. The show is doing great — much better than critics thought it would — and has been extended till September.
Fiddler on the Roof tells |
WHEN: Preparation and setup begins at 9 a.m. today; meal served at 11 a.m.
WHAT: Gardena | Seventh-day Adventist Church’s “Seeds of Truth” Revival.
WHERE: 16113 S. Denker Ave., Gardena.
WHAT: Baha’i of Manhattan Beach continues its adult classes titled “Law for a New Age,” a Baha’i perspective. Guest speaker will be Anthony Lee.
WHERE: 826 Dianthus St., Manhattan Beach.
WHEN: 10 a.m. Sunday and May 18. Continental breakfast at 9:30 a.m.
INFORMATION: No donations requested or accepted. Call 310-372-5501 or 310-798-9777 or visit www.bahai.org.
WHERE: 112 E. Grand Ave., El Segundo.
WHAT: Open registration for Calvary Chapel South Bay’s Bible College – Summer Semester for ages 18 and up.
WHERE: 19300 S. Vermont Ave., Gardena.
WHEN: |
Syracuse, N.Y. -- John Spatola grew up playing video games and loved them so much, he wrote a tank | battle game on the computer and a home run derby game on his Texas Instruments calculator while studying mechanical engineering at Syracuse University.
After a brief career working on a military radar system for Lockheed Martin, Spatola decided to launch his own game studio in Syracuse and hit it big with his second game “Trigger Fist,” a shooter for the iPhone that has been downloaded 23 million times since its release in 2012.
Seven years later, the small studio, Lake Effect Applications has launched “Trigger First: Global Operations Assault Team” (“G.O.A.T.” for short) on Apple’s iTunes App Store.
The game is the culmination of six years of work by 15 software engineers and artists at Lake Effect’s offices in the Syracuse Technology Garden, the downtown business incubator operated by CenterState CEO.
For Spatola, 33, the game comes with some risk because its free to download and play. Lake Effect hopes |
The money will be used for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the hospital’s music therapy program.
MizzouThon | announced a $1.3 million pledge to the Women's and Children's Hospital on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018 in the MU student center.
Chancellor Alexander Cartwright announced MizzouThon’s new five-year pledge of $1.3 million to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital on Tuesday, Dec. 4.
MizzouThon is a Children’s Miracle Network Dance Marathon that started in 2008. Since then, the organization has raised over $1.6 million. According to Cartwright, it is the largest student-run philanthropy on campus. This past year was its 10-year anniversary and members raised over $300,000, allowing them to reach the last pledge amount of $1 million one year early.
The funds will be used to expand and renovate the neonatal intensive care unit and to support the music therapy program at the hospital.
Keri Simon, executive director of the Women� |
The nation's second largest mobile carrier, AT&T, went on the offensive Wednesday, claiming it would not be breaching so-called net neutrality | rules by limiting the iPhone's FaceTime video calling on cellular networks to users with new, shared data plans.
AT&T will make the video-chat service available on its cellular network for those with generally more expensive, shared data plans, which the company unveiled last month. (There are some configurations where the shared plan is less expensive for the same service for individuals).
To date, Apple's FaceTime has worked only over Wi-Fi, but Apple is changing that, opening the Skype-like service to function over cellular connections. The change comes when Apple's newest mobile-phone operating system debuts in September, likely the same time the next generation of the iPhone lands.
An AT&T spokeswoman, speaking on background, disputed it was using cellular FaceTime as a "premium" feature, but acknowledged the company was using it as a lever to get users to switch over to the new plans which charge for data usage in tiers.
Bob Quinn, an AT&T |
ATLANTA, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Philadelphia got another huge performance from lefthander Randy Wolf Tuesday night when he and | Jose Mesa combined on a three-hitter and Bobby Abreu and Scott Rolen homered as the Phillies stunned the Atlanta Braves in the opener of their critical series, 3-1.
The Phillies closed within one game of the Braves in the National League East. The teams play two more games at Turner Field, but this might have been the most difficult pitching matchup for Philadelphia as they went with Wolf against four-time Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux.
Banished from the rotation at midseason, Wolf missed nearly the entire month of August with a sprained left ankle. But in his last seven starts, Wolf is 4-1 with a 1.68 ERA.
His latest outing was a gem in which he bested the pitcher with the most wins in the major leagues since 1991. Wolf allowed an unearned run, three singles and a walk. He struck out five and took a 2-1 lead into the ninth.
After Rolen homered in the |
EA Sports have released four phenomenal Ultimate Team Icon cards but you'll be lucky to earn any of them.
Every Icon has three cards and the | 'prime' cards are the ones with the highest rating. The prime Icons for Thierry Henry, Rio Ferdinand, Roberto Carlos and Gheorghe Hagi are now available in packs and in new, permanent Squad Builder Challenges.
However, the requirements for these challenges are ridiculous and the if you are somehow able to earn the card, it will be untradeable.
Apart from Hagi, the new Squad Builder Challenges require you to trade in a different icon as one of the many challenges. All of the Squad Builder Challenges include the requirement to trade in squads with a rating of 87 however, Henry also requires an 88 and 89 rated squad on top.
It's going to take a lot of work (or money spent on packs) if you want to get your hands on that glorious, 93-rated Henry card. If you want to buy him straight up on the market he will cost you a preposterous 6million coins!
Unsurprisingly, Romanian legend Hagi |
Then tragedy struck. Mac unexpectedly died only a month before the store’s 10th anniversary last June, on the last day of their one | -week vacation.
Despite her grief and fear of facing the future without her life partner, Mary continued on.
Miraculously she and a former math student, Jessica, promoted to store manager, made it work. They were ready in the fall for the next semester’s book-buying rush. Mary never considered closing the business — she felt she owed it to Mac to keep the shop going, continuing his dream.
It all paid off June 4 when Campus Books was honored with a Small Business of the Year Award. Mary accepted in tears.
The perseverance and sheer guts it takes to make a small business successful was evident in many of the finalists and award winners. If they faced an obstacle, they found a way around it. If their efforts failed, they came up with new ideas. They made it work.
And so did the 13 public and private companies in Manatee and Sarasota counties listed in the just-released list of top companies in the |
Fishing at Pyramid is better from a boat or tube.
FRENCHMAN LAKE: Lake is fully open. Mountain Hardware, Tru | ckee 530-587-4844.
LAKE DAVIS: The lake is 95 percent full and fully open. No ice. Fly-fishing at Coot Bay produced seven fish in an hour using Copper John under indicator 2 feet. Grasshopper Cove should be fishing good as well. Lightning Tree boat ramp is accessible and useable. Coot Bay and Mallard Cove are accessible, but watch out for the tire eating potholes at Mallard Cove. Mountain Hardware, Truckee 530-587-4844.
TRUCKEE RIVER: The Truckee is running hard with flows coming out of Lake Tahoe at 895 CFS. By the time it gets to Boca Bridge it is 2,600 CFS and on the Nevada side in Reno it is 2,500 CFS. These flows are way too high for most anglers to have any success on the river and it can be dangerous to try and wade in these conditions. Reno |
Struggling Devils goalie Cory Schneider is expected to be back in action this week after a long layoff with an injury.
NEWARK | -- Cory Schneider, a diehard Boston sports fan, would rather talk about the Super Bowl than having reporters ask him for maybe the millionth time in the last year how his body feels.
For the record, Schneider said he feels great physically after returning from an abdominal strain.
Schneider returned to Newark after at the conclusion of an American Hockey League conditioning assignment with a guarantee that he will make a start in at least one of the Devils’ four home games this week.
It’s been a long road back for Schneider, who is having the worst season of his career and trying to reestablish himself after offseason hip surgery and now the ab injury. It’s unclear whether or not the ab injury stemmed from the hip injury, but what is clear is that Schneider, who is 0-7-1 in nine games this season with a.852 save percentage and a 4.66 GAA, is ready to prove he’s still capable of winning |
From top: Carlos Gonzalez Jr., Isaac Jauregui-Ramos and Andres Valdez.
A Hailey man who was stabbed Monday | evening in Hailey has been released from a Boise hospital. Meanwhile, Hailey police are keeping a close watch on the Balmoral apartment complex in the Woodside neighborhood because of the possibility of further violence between feuding neighbors.
Hailey Police Chief Jeff Gunter said stabbing victim 26-year-old Christian Aguirre was back in Hailey on Wednesday, where he was interviewed by police regarding the Monday night incident in a parking lot and commons area at Balmoral. Aguirre, who suffered a knife wound in the lower back, was flown by air ambulance to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise following the incident that occurred shortly before 9 p.m.
Gunter said police have been to the apartment complex several times since the incident. On Tuesday evening, they investigated a complaint from 26-year-old Kimberly Martinez, a woman who police reports describe as Aguirre’s “significant other.” Gunter said Martinez, fearing possible reprisal, |
Towson area residents filled the seats – and the aisles – of the Sheppard Pratt Conference Center on May 8 during a community input | meeting to discuss the development of a Royal Farms that has been proposed for the corner of York Road and Bosley Avenue.
The proposed development would be located at the former Towson Fire Station and would include a convenience store, a gas station with 12 pumps and two retail and restaurant buildings.
Community members in attendance raised questions and concerns about the project to representatives from the Baltimore County government and the property’s developers, Caves Valley Partners.
The Baltimore County Council passed a resolution approving a Planned Unit Development (PUD) last December, allowing the developers to build a gas station on the property.
Prior to the approval of the PUD, zoning prohibited the construction of gas pumps at the site.
The council approved the PUD in exchange for $50,000 to be used for “community benefits” including improvements to the West Towson Trail, tree planting throughout the West Towson community and two solar-powered speed display signs in the area. However, many residents |
The Obama administration pursuit of the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers is akin to McCarthyism at its worst or Richard Nixon’s enemies list, former | Solicitor General Theodore Olson has charged.
And it’s all because Charles and David Koch are an attractive punching bag for the left due to their public stances promoting liberty and free enterprise, Olson said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed article.
“How would you feel if aides to the president of the United States singled you out by name for attack, and if you were featured prominently in the president's re-election campaign as an enemy of the people?” Olson asked.
Olson said government attacks on private citizens should be resisted by all. “If a journalist, labor-union leader or community organizer on the left can be targeted today, an academic or business person on the right can be the target tomorrow.
“If we fail to stand up against oppression from one direction, we abdicate the moral authority to challenge it when it comes from another.
“The misuse of government power to damage or demean one's political enemies |
The advance tax for heavy vehicles in Jaipur for the year 2018-19 will be deposited online until March 25, an official said on Wednesday | .
“For the first time, advance tax for heavy vehicles will be deposited online,” said Jaipur regional transport officer Kalpana Agarwal.
The advance tax for heavy vehicles contribute more than ₹100 crore to the department, which is around 59% of the target for the month of March that is ₹ 170 crore, and more than 11% of the annual target of the Jaipur regional transport office of ₹869 crore for 2017-18, she said.
She further said that until last year, the advance tax was being deposited manually due to which there were a number of problems.
If truck driver deposited the advance tax and lost the receipt then he had to get the details from where he had deposited the tax, due which lot of time and manpower is wasted, she said.
Now, by depositing the advance tax online, the tax will automatically show in the account of the vehicle owners and amount will get |
If you've got a well-organised contacts book, our hats are tipped in your direction. Keeping track of hundreds of people across dozens of | sites and services is no easy task, and it seems strange that no one's quite cracked the formula for getting all this information sorted out. Here are four apps taking on the challenge.
Most of the places that store contacts — Google, iCloud, Outlook — let you import and export them, so there is the option of cobbling together one master list from all your different platforms. However, here we've focused on apps that do a lot of the hard work for you and offer some level of cross-platform sync to keep everything in order.
FullContact promises that "all your contacts are in one place and automatically up to date" — which sounds good to us — and you can sign in with a Google account if a lot of your contacts are already stored there (you can also use an email address to register).
Once you're in, you get the option to add all of your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn contacts to the mix as well — that will either terrify you or |
Add strong and gusty winds to the list of wild weather conditions impacting the London region lately.
After days of Londoners dealing with a deep | freeze, a record high-tying for the warmest Feb. 4 in history and freezing rain – all within a two-week span – Environment Canada has now issued a special weather statement Friday, warning of strong winds gusting up to 80 km/h.
These winds, expected to diminish Friday afternoon, can cause minor tree damage and a few local power outages, Environment Canada said.
The weather statement now in effect covers London and large portions of Middlesex County, including Parkhill, Strathroy and Komoka.
After a relatively balmy Thursday, which saw a high of 11 C near midnight, temperatures are expected to drop on Friday, with a daytime high of –5 C. The wind chill effect will make it feel more like –11 in the morning and –17 in the afternoon.
Friday night, the national weather agency is forecasting a low of –13 C, feeling more like –22 C overnight.
The forecast also calls for a chilly weekend, |
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Doug Martin was drafted in the first round to replace LeGarrette Bl | ount as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' featured back. Most NFL observers expect Martin to be atop the depth chart sooner rather than later.
It's worth noting that sooner hasn't happened yet. With organized team activities and minicamp drawing to a close, PewterReport.com notes that Blount has taken the majority of reps with the first team all offseason. Blount has worked on the parts of his game that are most lacking: pass protection and receiving. Just like Blount said, he's the starter until told otherwise.
Bucs coach Greg Schiano lauded Blount's hands, although he wouldn't make any promises for what that means in the Bucs offense.
We trust game film and what happens during the regular season more than any offseason storyline. Martin was drafted for a reason. If Blount improves the weak parts of his game, Schiano will have a good problem on his hand.
But we still think it's Martin's job to lose, no matter how |
For me the odometer rolls over in December. I'll turn 65 then. I've been fortunate all my life where health care is concerned. | As a kid, in my parents' home, I was unconscious of how the medical bills got paid. Those were simpler times, before the corporations ran rough-shod over public and private life, before our national leaders had devolved to a gang of thugs in the pay of corporate masters, before a privileged upper middle-class dominated policy development at the behest of these same corporations. When I was a child the perpetual proletariat of today, informed by propagandists aping the exercise of free speech, had not yet come to dominate political discussion, to drown out informed debate. When I was a child the vicious forces of rapacious greed were hidden in an emerging consumer society, their presence only hinted at by the chimera of a communist menace invoked by heroes and fools alike. From Winston Churchill to Joseph McCarthy there was a unity of opinion regarding our freedom, our way of life, and the challenges and dangers that a nebulous "other," the red menace, posed to peace and prosperity.
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A local wrestler is working toward his goal before heading to college next year.
CLEAR LAKE, Iowa – For our Student-Ath | lete of the Week, KIMT searches for students who are not only motivated on the playing surface but also in the classroom. One local wrestler has that drive, desire, and determination – leading us to Eric Faught of Clear Lake.
One thing that Eric Faught continues to stay dedicated to is his studies, knowing that good grades can lead to a great future.
“I’m working on my grades and I’m getting some college credits in at the same time, just do my best and be ready for the next step,” said Faught.
Before the next step, Faught has some goals he wants to accomplish as he enters the season ranked number one in the 132-pound wight class.
“Finish the job, get a state title, do what I’ve been trying to the past three years, and hopefully, finally get it done this year,” added Faught.
Coach Lester says Eric is more |
The Brakpan woman standing trial for the murder of her husband told the Pretoria High Court that she was tired of constant sexual harassment.
| On Monday she sought to unravel a deadly web of murder‚ divorce and perjury. This led to alleged revelations of horrifying sexual abuse since she was a little girl.
Cathy van Oudtshoorn‚ 31‚ is accused of murder‚ robbery‚ possession of a firearm‚ unlawful possession of ammunition‚ and having intentionally defeated or obstructed the course of justice. This is after she allegedly shot her husband - who was also her foster parent.
Chris van Oudtshoorn‚ 58‚ was killed in April 2016 while watching television.
In a statement read out by her Legal Aid lawyer‚ Thembi Bokako‚ Cathy claimed that Chris had sexually abused and made her life a living hell.
“I have never had parents; I did not know what it’s like to have a loving family‚” she said.
She submitted that although she had shot him‚ it was out of temporary |
Liverpool are monitoring Southampton's Jay Rodriguez, 24, but Arsenal are also said to be impressed by the striker, who was called into the England squad | this week.
Tottenham will make a move for Manchester United's 25-year-old striker Javier Hernandez in January if they can transfer 29-year-old Emmanuel Adebayor.
Arsenal are considering making a £22m bid for Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, 25, after fears that the Spanish giants will pip them to the £50m signing of Liverpool striker Luis Suarez, 26.
Belgian side Anderlecht are considering a loan move for Chelsea midfielder Kevin de Bruyne, 22, in the January transfer window.
Stoke City boss Mark Hughes is keen to reunite with Manchester City defender Joleon Lescott, 31, who he signed while he was manager at the Etihad Stadium in 2009.
Newcastle are keen on PSV Eindhoven midfielder Ola Toivonen and could make a cut-price £2.5m bid if the 27-year-old Swede fails to sign a new deal for the Dutch |
This is the scene of this morning's rocket attacks on a five-storey, dilapidated apartment block, that killed three people as they | ate their breakfast.
The kitchen sink in the flat that suffered the direct hit is filled with the usual pots and pans, sitting in a masses of broken crockery and chunks of plaster that was blown over.
An upside down kettle lies beneath what looks like a broken part of a kitchen cupboard. A fridge lies overturned on its side, covered in rubble. If you stumbled across the room by accident, you would be forgiven for thinking that it had been abandoned for months, and not just since a fatal breakfast meeting that morning.
Thick grey dust covers everything except for the odd flash of a yellow dustpan, or a red cerial box.
In a room that resembles a bedroom, the mattresses are turned on their sides, springs are poking out and the legs of the bed base point sharply upwards at odd angles. The overhead lights have been blown off and are now swinging slowly on a flimsy wire from the ceiling.
The walls are cracked and are splashed in |
A pregnant Colorado mother who was killed with her two children made a poignant Facebook post about protecting her daughter just days before they were killed.
Sh | anann Watts’ husband Chris Watt’s has been arrested on suspicion of allegedly killing his 34-year-old wife and their two daughters - four-year-old Bella and three-year-old Celeste.
Just a fortnight ago, Ms Watt’s posted a photo on Facebook of her daughter Celeste playing happily on the beach.
Alongside the photo she wrote: "The older she gets the more scared I am to let her out into the real world. The world of evil, the world of hate, the world of bullying!"
"I was reading a post the other day where a kid was being bullied at school because of his nut allergies and a kid put a peanut in his drink as a joke! He could of died!
"The world is a scary place. I will do everything in my power to teach her right and to protect her, advocate, stand up for her and defend her! I pray everyday that she never feels any less |
Below is a compilation of independent polls assessing voter preferences in the June 26 Democratic primary for Maryland governor. The April Goucher Poll gauged how Democratic | candidates would fare against Republican Gov. Larry Hogan in the Nov. 6 general election.
~Kevin Kamenetz died of cardiac arrest on May 10, 2018. His former running mate, Valerie Ervin, ran in his place before suspending her campaign on June 13. Gonzales included Kamenetz in the poll to reflect what voters will see on the official ballot.
From June 4-10 landline and cellphone poll of likely Democratic voters. Margin of error: ±4.5% View the full results and methodology.
From May 29-June 6 landline and cellphone poll of likely Democratic voters. Margin of error: ±4.4% View the full results.
From May 29-June 3 landline and cellphone poll of likely Democratic voters. Margin of error: ±6% View the full results and methodology.
^Kevin Kamenetz died of cardiac arrest on May 10, 2018. His former running mate, Valerie Ervin, ran in his place |
As soon as he came out on stage, we knew we were in for a treat. When Charles Ross in “One Man Star Wars� | � began to mime the words that fly across the screen in Episode IV and hum the theme song, the audience immediately warmed up. Over the course of an hour, Ross acts out the entire original Star Wars trilogy, with aid from nothing except knee pads, a bottle of Poland Springs, and some creative lighting. I knew something of what to expect from this show because I saw Ross do “One Man Lord of the Rings” last year, but even still I was blown away by his energy, creativity, and vocal range.
Ross plays the scenes where Darth Vader intimidates and kills various Empire generals well. One would think it would be distracting to have a guy playing many characters at once, but with a radical change in voice, blocking, and posture with each switch, one could mostly keep track of what was going on. That said, this play is not for someone who hasn’t seen “Star Wars.” I had trouble following at times because I don |
It’s been a year of extremes for science and technology. From camera footage of the deepest living fish, swimming some 5 miles beneath the | surface of the Pacific ocean, to the creation of the smoothest ever surface – a lead and silicon film.
Here are eight more extremes that New Scientist brought you in 2008.
In July, an international team of craftsmen unveiled an unusual pair of balls – believed to be the roundest objects in the world. “If you were to blow up our spheres to the size of the Earth, you would see a variation of only 3 to 5 metres in the roundness,” said optical engineer Achim Leistner. The silicon balls are designed to each contain a near-identical number of silicon atoms, and become a new way to define the kilogram.
The shortest ever pulse of light – just 80 attoseconds (billionths of a billionth of a second) long – was created in June. That’s short enough to act like a kind of superfast flashgun to study the movement of electrons around large atoms. But there’s |
It might have been the most widely advertised coup in history. Rumors and warnings had begun as early as the summer of 1990. According to British | intelligence, elements of the Soviet army and KGB actually rehearsed a coup (under the guise of a countercoup) in February of this year. June brought what was soon called the "constitutional-coup attempt." Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov asked the Supreme Soviet for the authority to issue decrees without Mikhail Gorbachev's knowledge, but was rebuffed. In late July hard- liners published an announcement appealing for "those who recognize the terrible plight into which our country has fallen" to support dramatic action to end disorder. They might as well have put up billboards shouting COUP!
In hindsight, even the timing seems screamingly obvious. Gorbachev had designated Tuesday, Aug. 20, for the ceremonial signing of a new union treaty with the presidents of the Russian and Kazakh republics; other republics were expected to sign later. The treaty would transfer so many powers -- over taxes, natural resources, even the state security apparatus -- to the republics as to make restoring |
Update: Microsoft also reportedly has deals in place with Facebok and MySpace which will see these social networks integrated with Outlook as well.
| Original Article: Email and social media continue to get closer together in a variety of ways. Google launched Google Buzz in Gmail, Mozilla has Raindrop, and Facebook is said to be working on its own web mail service. MySpace already created one. These are a few examples.Today, LinkedIn announced a partnership with Microsoft that will put LinkedIn user networks in directly in their Microsoft Outlook inboxes.
"At LinkedIn, we believe every professional is more productive when their professional network is close at hand and available wherever they spend their professional time," says LinkedIn Director of Product Management, Elliot Shmukler. If users spend that time in Outlook, this should help.
LinkedIn for Outlook is still in beta, and may require some tweaks before it’s perfect, but LinkedIn is actively encouraging feedback, so users can voice their concerns easily.
Not only do moves like this reinforce how important social media has become to business, but they also reinforce the staying power of email. There has been a |
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, questions witnesses during a Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren will take a seat | next year on the Senate Armed Services Committee, a move that will allow her to burnish her foreign policy credentials in areas ranging from defense spending to Russia’s global ambitions.
With the new posting, the Massachusetts senator has decided to follow the path of other Senators, who have used the committee as a stepping stone to a run for national office.
Warren considered running for president in 2016 and is seen as potential contender in 2020. The seat on the Armed Services Committee will put Warren at the center of debates over defense policy, military spending and weapons research, areas in which Warren is not known for her expertise. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, another possible Democratic presidential contender, announced he would be joining the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next year.
After joining the Senate, Hillary Clinton took a posting on the committee before her 2008 presidential campaign. Joe Lieberman, the former senator from Connecticut, served on the committee before joining Vice President Al Gore’s Democratic ticket in 2000 and attempting his own |
MUMBAI, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Shares in India’s top three oil marketing companies surged on Wednesday, as investors cheered | the slump in global crude oil prices that bode well for the profitability of Indian refiners.
India’s biggest state-owned refiner Indian Oil Corp was up 7.81 percent on the National Stock Exchange, while Bharat Petroleum Corp and Hindustan Petroleum Corp rose 7.44 percent and 8.57 percent, respectively.
International benchmark Brent crude oil futures struggle to claw back after plunging 7 percent on Tuesday, over concerns of a potential supply glut in 2019.
The sharp drop came after the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) said late Tuesday that crude oil output from seven major shale basins in the country was expected to hit a record of 7.94 million barrels per day (bpd) in December.
This coincided with a monthly report from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) that the market would see a lower demand than expected in 2019.
A low crude oil price is a boost |
As promised, Monday morning brought us an extended new feature on the inarguable influence of Virgil Abloh that includes legacy insight from the | man himself and an assortment of his peers and admirers.
The inspiring GQ Style piece is divided into chapters, starting with an exploration of Abloh's artistic foundation in architecture. From there, we're given behind-the-scenes recalls of key Abloh moments of art victory ranging from a certain iconic PFW photo to the moment his own design prowess started to truly take flight circa Watch the Throne.
"I often reference the 17-year-old version of myself, because I'm doing in large part the same thing today," Abloh told writer Thom Bettridge.
Don C, who first met Abloh when he was working at Chicago screen-printing shop Custom Kings, noted the instant vibing that occurred just prior to Abloh joining the West team. "When I first met him, we vibed right away because we could talk about ideas," C said. "And at |
Young Israel thanks Trump, Haley, Pompeo for walking away from UN Human Rights Council.
The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI | ) on Wednesday responded to the United States' announcement that it was withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
Explaining the US decision, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said the Council is "not worthy of its name" and cited its "perpetual prejudice against Israel."
"If the Human Rights Council is going to attack countries that uphold human rights and attack those that abuse human rights, then the US should not provide it with credibility," Haley said. "We are withdrawing from the UNHRC, an organization that is not worthy of its name."
"After years of perpetual prejudice against Israel and its continuous attempts to vilify Israel, the UN Human Rights Council exhausted any degree of credibility it may have had, and the United States’ decision to withdraw from this body and hold it accountable for its innate bias and anti-Israel animus underscores just how far it has strayed from its mission," the NCYI statement said.
"Rather |
The 1st Crawley Scouts have been gifted £250 by Taylor Wimpey South Thames as part of the donation box scheme which is running at | its Forge Wood development in Crawley.
Visitors to the development’s Sales Information Centre are encouraged to vote for one of three local causes to receive a donation from Taylor Wimpey and 1st Crawley Scouts have been announced as the latest winners after receiving the most votes from the local community in September.
Based at the Scout Hut on Oak Road in Southgate, 1st Crawley Scouts cater for children from age six to fourteen and run sessions for Beavers, Cubs, and Scouts every week.
A range of activities including crafts, outdoor learning, singing, exploring nature, storytelling and learning how to be safe in the community, are offered to provide young people with valuable experiences and to encourage social interaction.
Commenting on Taylor Wimpey’s donation Dr Andy Hibberd, Scouter-In-Charge at 1st Crawley Scouts, said: “We cannot thank Taylor Wimpey enough for this donation. We rely on the support of goodwill |
The decision of a federal court to order the creation of an investigative commission for truth and justice in the Ayotzinapa case is an important precedent | which could, subject to certain conditions, bring about a substantial change in the way in which serious human rights violations in Mexico are investigated, Amnesty International said today.
“Following four years of continuous failings in the investigation of the case, this decision represents an important advance in the search for truth, justice and reparation for the 43 students who were forcibly disappeared on the night of 26 September 2014,” said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas Director at Amnesty International.
The ruling of the First Collegiate Court of the Nineteenth District in Tamaulipas, made public on 4 June, acknowledges that in Mexico there is no independent public prosecution service, and that the investigation into the enforced disappearance of the 43 students has been deeply flawed and has not taken the pertinent lines of investigation into consideration.
Among the failings in the investigation by Mexico’s Federal Attorney General’s office (PGR), the court highlighted the consistent and repeated allegations of torture, |
Jaiprakash Associates Limited owes its lenders over Rs 30,000 crore and the sale of its cement assets is a vital component of its debt | reduction strategy.
NEW DELHI: ICICI Bank, the lead banker for Jaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL), has invoked the strategic debt restructuring (SDR) provision, setting in play the process that could pave the way for the lenders cumulatively taking over the company. The development comes amid uncertainty over the sale of JAL’s cement assets to Kumar Mangalam Birla-owned UltraTech Cement.
According to people familiar with the development, UltraTech wants to reduce the ticket size of the Rs 15,900-crore transaction by cherrypicking only some of the assets, now possible under the recently amended Mines and Minerals Development and Regulation (MMDR) Act.
Sensing trouble, JAL and its lenders have sent feelers to other potential suitors, including JSW Group, some private equity firms such as KKR, and special situation funds scouting for large distressed opportunities in India.
The Aditya Birla |
As an official report into the 2011 London riots is released, an angry, troubled generation is being ignored.
London, United Kingdom - Daniel, | an 18-year-old from Newham, in London's east end, has one regret.
"I wish there was more time. More time to have shown them what I really could do."
I asked him: "And what exactly did you do?"
"Enough," he says slowly. "I did enough in what time I had."
I ask again: "What did you do that was enough?"
"I'm not giving you exact details," he says.
"Because I'm not," he says. "If I tell you exactly what I did, they'll get me for it, and they're never going to get me. But I can tell you I didn't loot a thing. I wasn't out to nick a pair of trainers or a telly - it wasn't about that. But put it this way, I went to bed happy that night. I slept well."
Daniel, of course, isn't his real name. He eventually |
In Shanghai, angry, middle-class protesters say a high-speed train will wreck their quality of life. This new form of dissent could be | one of the biggest challenges China will face.
Shanghai's People's Square has been the site of vigorous middle-class protests over the impact of a high-speed maglev train on local quality of life.
Shanghai is famous for many things, from its eye-catching architecture to its historic role linking China to the world. But within the People’s Republic of China, the city also is revered for its central role in twentieth-century protests.
In the early 1900s, Shanghai workers staged some of China’s first strikes. The Cultural Revolution began in Beijing in 1966 with the Red Guards but peaked in the Shanghai uprising of 1967, when revolutionary groups, modeling themselves after the Paris Commune, took over the city government and the Communist Party Committee. And though the great upheaval of 1989’s Beijing Spring is rightly associated with Tiananmen Square, the student-led protests that paved the way for that epochal struggle took place two and a half |
As the Senate geared up for a debate on the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill (McFein for short), which bans soft | money, Democratic Senator Robert Torricelli was again grumbling about how the bill is flawed because it doesn’t close down the issue-ad loophole. He’s essentially right, but that’s no reason to vote against McFein, which does close another big loophole. If McFein passes, some soft money might be diverted to issue ads, but some would not, its sponsors believe. Sparking more valid concerns is a provision in the bill that bars corporations and unions from spending money on issue ads within sixty days of an election. That worries labor because the plan does nothing to curb individual spending on such ads. There are plenty of wealthy people with pro-corporate axes to grind. So even if corporate funding of issue ads is banned, the pro-business message will flood out in ads paid for by well-heeled individuals. Labor has few individual supporters with such deep pockets. The unions also oppose raising the $1,000 cap on hard money. |
RICHLAND -- The Falcons couldn't rally past the Grizzlies in CBBN 3A action.
Trailing 19-10 heading into the fourth | quarter, Hanford's Cameron Wagar caught a 38-yard touchdown pass from Riley Shintaffer, but that was as close as the Falcons would get.
Shintaffer threw for 130 yards and two touchdowns, while Wagar rushed 16 times for 105 yards.
Hanford hosts Walla Walla at 7 p.m. Friday in a crossover game.
Han--Matt Jones 61 pass from Riley Shintaffer (Pete Hanson kick).
Sun--Rafael Salmeron 14 pass from Andrew Daley (kick failed).
Sun--Steven Monterrey 14 run (pass failed).
Sun--Monterrey 1 run (kick good).
Han--Cameron Wagar 38 pass from Shintaffer (kick failed).
RUSHING--S, Monterrey 33-194, Jacob Ross 4-1, Fernando Madrigal 2-7, Daley 7-(-23); H, Wagar 16-105, Shintaffer 3 |
A Bel Air man died after being shot Saturday by a Harford County deputy who was responding to a domestic dispute, a police spokeswoman said. Lt | . Christina Presberry said the Harford County Sheriff's Department received a call about noon for a domestic argument in the 1000 block of Ellicott Drive in Bel Air. The suspect, a 23-year-old man, threatened a responding police officer with a knife. The officer felt his life was threatened and fired at the suspect, police said. The suspect was taken to Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, where he died Saturday afternoon. The officer, who has served in the sheriff's office for five years, was not injured. Police declined to identify the officer or the suspect.
Two city firefighters were injured during a two-alarm fire Saturday morning in Charles Village. Fire Department spokesman Capt. Roman Clark said firefighters responded to a blaze in two structures in the 2500 block of N. Charles St., including one restaurant, at 7:40 a.m. Saturday. Heavy smoke was also pouring from an adjacent building. Fire officials said that the properties appeared to be vacant. One of the injured |
ESPN.com’s Eamonn Brennan has a nice Wichita State tribute story on the website today. He writes how the Shockers redeemed | their undefeated season with their only loss in the classic NCAA tournament matchup with Kentucky. At the end of the piece, Brennan looks ahead to next season, predicting dominance again from WSU in the Missouri Valley.
What we expect to see: Another Wichita State hegemon.
That’s the No. 1 thing to expect. Even without Early and fellow seniors Nick Wiggins and Chadrack Lufile, Wichita State will have Ron Baker and VanVleet, the reigning MVC player of the year, back next year. Another crop of juco big men join them, as do starters Darius Carter and Tekele Cotton. There is no reason to expect anything but another dominant Shockers campaign — especially relative to competition.
How good will that competition be? Northern Iowa will have just about everyone back, most notably junior forward Seth Tuttle — the only non-Shocker to crack the stats-based Pomeroy all-conference list. Indiana State will likely take a step |
The Vice Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Professor Eyitope Ogun | bodede in this interview with Funmi Ogundare, explained why universities in the country must be repositioned, contribute meaningfully to governance and solve some of the challenges confronting it, saying the move will oblige government to assist them.
You graduated from OAU, how has it been transiting from being a student to becoming VC?
I was a student on this campus, had my Masters on Dental surgery, then I joined the university as a medical training fellow and became a professor in 2000. I was Dean of the faculty of Dentistry and also Provost of the health sciences from 2007 to 2009 and also served as a member of the council of OAU between 2007 and 2009. There is a little deference between a student and a professor in a university because you are reading all the time. As the students are reading, you must also read ahead of them.
In terms of your day-to- day routine, its almost the same, but you are |
The former Viking star is the leading scorer at NCAA Division III Wisconsin Eau Claire, in the town his father's family is from.
If | you are wondering what happened to Cole Rabedeaux, the 6-foot guard who lit up local basketball courts with his high-scoring performances for North Kitsap, we have found him.
Rabedeaux, the second athletic son of Stephanie Kunold – Beau is the oldest – is in his junior year at NCAA Division III Wisconsin Eau Claire and doing quite well for the Blugolds. He’s the starting two-guard, is the team’s leading scorer at 17.1 points and is shooting 45 percent from the three-point line (42-93).
He was named Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) athlete of the week in early January for his impressive performance during the Music City Tournament in Nashville, Tenn. In the Blugolds' two games, Rabedeaux went off for 74 points, scoring 30 in an 80-77 overtime loss to Bridgewater State of Massachusetts and a career-high 44 the next night in an 81 |
Newton North's Ezra Pemstein (30) and Ethan Wright (14) put the defensive squeeze on Brookline& | apos;s Blake Burke (11) in Tuesday night’s Bay State Conference clash.
The top-ranked Newton North boys’ basketball team often follows the lead of star senior Ethan Wright, but the Tigers are not a one-man band.
On Tuesday afternoon, Newton North wrapped up its 13th consecutive win against Eastern Mass. competition by pulling away from Bay State Conference rival Brookline for an 80-69 road victory.
While Wright had his usual standout effort with 34 points — on 15 of 34 shooting from the field — he struggled to find his offense as Brookline (10-5, 5-3) took a 27-16 lead early in the second quarter.
In stepped Aaron Cooley to spark the Tigers.
The 6-foot-5-inch sophomore led a 12-2 run in the second quarter, trimming the deficit to 36-32 by halftime.
Then Cooley helped Newton North (14-3, 7-1) |
Saudi Arabia is using cash recovered from officials and princes arrested in a corruption crackdown to ease the pain of austerity.
The kingdom says it has lost | at least $100 billion to corruption, and some of that is now being handed back to the government as part of settlements agreed with suspects.
"We have received some money in the bank," Saudi finance minister Mohammed Al Jadaan told CNNMoney's Richard Quest on Thursday. "But most of the assets are unlikely to be in cash. As you can imagine it is in assets, real estate -- it is going to take some time to be liquidated."
Speaking earlier at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Al Jadaan said some of the cash recovered will be used to fund handouts for the 70% of Saudi nationals who are state employees.
At a cost of about 50 billion riyals ($13 billion), the government earlier this month announced an annual bonus for all state employees, and a monthly allowance of 1,000 riyals ($266) for government employees for a year. There was also a 10% stipend increase for students, a bonus |
Crunch time: It's just one day before the midterm election. The polls, at least in everything besides the U.S. Senate race, | are close. Are you ready?
Get ready: Kyle Kondik, the political analyst for the University of Virginia and Ohio native, is the guest on the latest episode of Ohio Matters, the cleveland.com politics podcast. If you don't subscribe yet, you should. You can sign up on iTunes or Google Play, just to name a couple of options.
Legendary: Musician John Legend on Sunday made campaign appearances in Cincinnati and Cleveland, where he shared the stage with Democratic governor candidate Richard Corday and Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. Legend closed the Cleveland rally by singing a song from his Grammy-award winning song, "Glory," writes cleveland.com's Hannah Drown. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez also was on hand for the Cincinnati and Dayton events.
Republican governor candidate Mike DeWine had a busy weekend of campaign stops, including appearances in Cleveland, Geauga County and Toledo. U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci, the Republican |
The Bank of England looks set to raise interest rates on Thursday (2 August) to their highest level since the financial crisis, defying warnings that | it is taking a gamble ahead of Brexit, the terms of which remain unclear.
The Bank of England said a transition period after the Britain leaves the European Union would give banks more time to make orderly changes as Brexit poses risks to financial stability.
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney called today (7 April) for Britain and the EU to reach a sweeping deal to recognise each other’s bank rules after Brexit or risk a potentially damaging hit to financial services across Europe.
The Brexit vote has shaken the City of London but will not destroy it despite creating uncertainty, the newly-installed Lord Mayor of the financial hub told AFP.
British retail spending bounced back in July as sales promotions and good weather outweighed any immediate concern about the consequences of Britain's decision to leave the European Union, a survey showed on Tuesday (8 August).
The Bank of England on Thursday slashed interest rates to a record low 0.25 percent and announced a vast stimulus package to combat economic fallout from Britain's looming |
Fears of a double dip recession were revived today as shock figures showed an economic decline of 0.5 per cent for the end of last year | .
The Government blamed the unexpected plunge between October and December - which ended 12 months of growth - on the big freeze and refused to change course.
But experts insisted it was not solely to blame and raised serious concerns about the strength of the economy to withstand the coalition's drastic spending cuts.
The fall in GDP - the first since the third quarter of 2009 - was driven by a 0.5 per cent drop in the key services sector which makes up more than 75 per cent of the economy.
Taking the drop into account, the total growth for 2010 stands at 1.4 per cent which is well below analysts' forecasts.
The figures, from the Office for National Statistics, are preliminary estimates and subject to revision but will spark fresh questions about the Government's approach.
The City responded with alarm with the FTSE-100 in the red and Sterling falling.
They also pile pressure onto Bank of England governor Mervyn King who is tasked with taming inflation and supporting |
Jacques Maghoma's late goal for Birmingham City earned the Championship's bottom side victory over in-form Leeds United.
The midfielder smashed | the ball in from close range after Jota's shot was parried by Felix Wiedwald to give Blues their first victory in eight games.
David Davis almost opened the scoring but his low shot was saved by Wiedwald.
Leeds' best chance saw Pablo Hernandez's strike palmed onto the top of the crossbar by David Stockdale.
In a match which was low on quality until the final 15 minutes, Birmingham looked to be heading for a 15th game of the campaign without scoring.
But having enjoyed better spells of possession against a below-par Leeds side, Steve Cotterill's team were finally rewarded when Congolese midfielder Maghoma followed up in the box ruthlessly.
Thomas Christiansen's Leeds had won four-straight matches before their visit to the West Midlands but failed to create any clear cut opportunities until Hernandez was sent through by Samu Saiz.
The Spaniard could not capitalise and Birmingham went on to record just their fifth win |
“Mr. Jones, I think I’m going to go to my death bed wondering what happened to you,” said S | oto, the chief judge of Miami’s 11th circuit.
Because of current legal questions involving Florida’s juvenile sentencing structure — Bowen and Jones were both minors at the time of the murder — Soto’s options were limited.
Originally, Soto told lawyers Wednesday, she planned to give Jones 40 years in prison. But a recent appeals court decision seemingly revived the long-abolished parole system — but just for juvenile defendants like Jones.
So in the end, saying her hands were tied, Soto sentenced Jones to life in prison, but with the possibility of parole after 25 years.
A Miami-Dade jury convicted Bowen and Jones last year in the December 2008 murder of infant Derrick Days and another man, Pierre Roche, 26.
Prosecutors say Bowen and Jones, members of the New Moneii gang, targeted Roche in a dispute over drug turf.
On the day of the killings, Bowen saw Roche outside the Annie Coleman housing project playing dom |
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has revealed the initial list of those who are vying for national and local positions in the coming May elections | .
According to the poll body, the list is still subject for verification and editing as the outcome of the various disqualification cases filed against presidential, vice presidential and senatorial bets could still trim the number of candidates.
On the list are eight people who are seeking the presidency—almost six percent of the 130 aspirants who filed their certificates of candidacy last October.
Poe and Duterte are both facing disqualification cases while Valencia has a pending motion for reconsideration before the full commission to appeal the petition declaring him as a nuisance bet.
Earlier reports stated that Mendoza, who is allied with the PMP, was fielded to supposedly secure a slot for Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada’s third run for the presidential race. However, the rumors were quelled after Estrada filed his COC for a second term as the mayor of the country’s capital.
Meanwhile, there are six people running for vice president: Senators Alan Peter Cayetano, Francis |
It's hard to believe, but just ten years ago $2 per thousand cubic feet (mcf) was a pretty good natural gas price. |
Shale gas changed everything. Using hydraulic fracturing technology, North American gas producers over the past decade have unlocked trillions of cubic feet of new, unconventional gas reserves from shale.
It's no secret that Canadian gas prices are low now, but few investors realize how low it is compared to the U.S.
Financial guru Carmel Daniele is none too concerned with the euro debt crisis, hemorrhaging oil in the Gulf or depressed natural gas. She's too busy making money.
One of the "insiders" in the fracking fluid industry said that his company - along with entire industry - is still needing to get completely green.
The buy totals approximately 80 separate contiguous claims in this prime lithium-mining region.
Petromanas has also closed a private placement of 100,000,000 units at a price of $0.25 per unit for gross proceeds of $25,000,000.
The companys say they have identified that their silver assets are undervalued |
If your company never seems to have enough cash on hand, the problem may not be a lack of sales. It could be delayed collections. When | customers don't get their payments to you on time, you have to pay your bills and expenses out of company reserves. Those reserves can dwindle and disappear if customers regularly pay late. Companies have found useful techniques for reducing the collection period and improving cash flow.
When a company waits for the post office to deliver payments to the door, it can lose one to three days in collecting payments. You can avoid this wait time by using a postal box and giving your mail pick-up personnel a key to the box and authority to make deposits in your bank. You not only avoid office delivery, you save time by having the deposits made on the same trip as when the mail gets picked up.
You can calculate how many days your vendors, lenders, utility providers and leaseholders give you to pay your bills. Then look at how long you give your customers to pay their bills. If you have to pay your expenses before you receive money from customers, that period is called a "float." The |
Housebound seniors need to get goods delivered. Businesses, however, might not have the resources — vehicles, workers and money — to provide this | service at low or no cost.
Based on a request from a housebound elder, I asked if any readers had experiences with businesses that delivered goods for free, or a reasonable rate, and were discreet about it. She apparently had a nosy neighbor.
Limited information surfaced. Plus, businesses that do deliver usually arrive in marked vehicles.
I did hear from more seniors looking for food delivery services to help bridge the gap between cooking at home and ordering Meals on Wheels.
One reader living south of 441 was frustrated that some Appleton restaurants won’t deliver past the highway.
Not all restaurants have $25 minimums for food delivery. Each one has different delivery requirements, minimums or fees. Driver tips are in addition to those costs.
The Bar locations in Appleton and Grand Chute, for example, have a $15 minimum food order and $2 delivery charge.
Muncheez Pizzeria in downtown Appleton has free delivery of pizza |
Misery loves comfort, and with approximately 50 million Americans plagued by seasonal allergies, there are plenty of people feeling miserable and seeking comfort when pollen is | in the air.
But in an attempt to relieve their sneezing, stuffy or runny noses, and itchy eyes, allergy sufferers might make a few mistakes.
The good news is that "seasonal allergies are totally treatable," said Dr. Clifford Bassett, medical director of Allergy and Asthma Care of New York. "The key is to have a plan in place."
Bassett described seven common mistakes that people with seasonal allergies make, so you can know to avoid them.
"Wind is not a good friend to people with seasonal allergies," Bassett told Live Science.But when the weather gets warm, it's tempting to let fresh air and cool breezes into your home or car. "This is a big mistake for people with seasonal allergies because this allows pollens to visit," Bassett said. He recommends keeping windows shut, running the air conditioner to recirculate inside air and using HEPA (high-efficiency particulate |
As China rises, it is cementing relations with the rest of the region.
Warming relations with Myanmar were underlined on September 8 when | Myanmar’s junta leader, Than Shwe, visited Beijing, marking the 60th anniversary of cooperation between the two nations. Official Chinese data says the two countries did $2.9 billion in business last year, but analysts believe the actual figures are higher.
Beijing’s investment in Myanmar, which is centered on the country’s energy resources, sharply outweighs trade between the two countries, but China’s interest in Myanmar goes beyond resources. Beijing is developing numerous ports along the Myanmar coast in the Bay of Bengal, which affords Chinese access to the Indian Ocean and extends its naval capability.
In September, China and Russia also joined forces with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in joint military exercises. A major 16-day affair in Kazakhstan, “Peace Mission 2010” was officially labeled a counterterrorism drill, but its scale—it involved around 5,000 troops, 1,600 armed vehicles, 100 cannons and mortars, |
A Colorado teen has been sentenced to 36 years in prison for his role in the death of a 7-year-old girl during an apparent imitation | of the "Mortal Kombat" video game.
Lamar Roberts was sentenced Friday in Greeley's Weld County District Court. The 18-year-old pleaded guilty last month to knowingly or recklessly causing a death through child abuse.
Prosecutors say Roberts and 17-year-old Heather Trujillo were baby-sitting Zoe Garcia on Dec. 6, 2007. They say the two kicked, hit and slammed Trujillo's half-sister to the floor.
According to arrest affidavits, Trujillo and Roberts were baby-sitting Zoe and her twin, 3-year-old sisters, who were sleeping in another room, while Trujillo's mother worked at a nearby bar.
"Trujillo said they were acting out the video game 'Mortal Combat' [sic] by savagely hitting and kicking Zoe, even dropping her on her side, which broke her wrist. Roberts, who claimed to be a martial-arts expert with |
Postmasters have voted to reject An Post proposals on the future of post offices citing anger at the company’s attitude to changes in the business | .
At a meeting in Athlone, Co Westmeath, on Sunday members of the Irish Postmasters’ Union (IPU) said An Post had written to them in the last two weeks threatening to terminate their contracts if they did not attend training on handling new current accounts.
An Post chief executive David McRedmond has already told workers the company would make a loss again next year despite the 28 cent rise in the cost of a stamp unless action was taken. Part of that action is the operation of a new current account for customers, in a move designed to offer competition to the banks.
IPU general secretary Ned O’Hara said members should not co-operate with the roll-out of the new Smart account. He said the union had twice voted at its annual conference not to co-operate on the training of postmasters to operate the new account, without an agreement on the future structure of the post office network.
The IPU is |
The former partner of the late Jade Goody has revealed the heartbreaking story behind his youngest son’s decision to spend Christmas with his granny | .
Jeff Brazier shares two sons with Jade, who passed away from cervical cancer in 2009, and explained to his Twitter followers on Christmas Day it would just be him and his other son, Bobby, 14, spending the day together.
Now TV personality revealed Freddie’s asked to spend Christmas with his gran a week before the big day.
He spoke to Mirror about his youngest heading over to Jade’s mother Jackiey’s house to keep her company and, well, pass the tissues.
He said: ‘Freddie is very big-hearted. He didn’t want his grandma to be on her own so it was the two of them together.
‘It was really beautiful of him and I could see it meant the universe to his gran.
Jeff recently told Fabulous magazine about the efforts he goes to to keep Jade’s memory alive.
He said: ‘We’ll talk about our day and then |
The Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C. has exploded with growth over the past 20 years, with restaurants springing up alongside shops, | high-end condos and arts venues. While there are no purely vegetarian restaurants in this part of town, a variety of quality establishments have several dining options for those avoiding meat.
Tapas restaurants are characterized by their "small plates" offerings, allowing diners to sample diminished portions of many different dishes. Zaytinya (zaytinya.com) brings this concept to Turkish, Greek and Lebanese cuisine, with such offerings as Ottoman-style roasted eggplant stuffed with onions and tomatoes and veggie classics like spanakopita and fattoush. There are enough vegetarian options here to satisfy any palate. The establishment is owned by celebrity Chef Jose Andres, who also owns Jaleo (jaleo.com), just up the street.
Jaleo serves up Spanish tapas, with small plates such as endives with goat cheese, oranges and almonds and sautéed spinach, pine nuts, raisins and apples. Both restaurants get very crowded during |
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will begin a visit to Britain on March 7 which will include talks with Prime Minister Theresa May on topics such as extremism | and societal reform, May’s spokesman said on Tuesday.
“The visit will usher in a new era in bilateral relations focused on a partnership that delivers wide-ranging benefits for both the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” the spokesman said.
May discussed the visit with her cabinet earlier on Tuesday, including the much anticipated stock market listing of state oil company Saudi Aramco - potentially the biggest listing in history and the subject of a high-profile tug-of-war between Britain and the United States.
“The fact that there is a potential listing of Saudi Aramco was discussed, but in no more terms than that,” the spokesman said.
In a separate statement issued after the meeting with her cabinet, May said the crown prince’s visit - his first since his appointment in June 2017 - would allow Britain to talk “frankly and constructively” about areas of concern like Yemen and security in the Middle East. |
when your therapist started sexualizing your therapy, were there some days when everything felt almosy totally normal and professional and other days when some things | felt wrong and the normal days made it easy to explain away the weird moments from other days?
What you really should be thinking is - There's a shark circling me and I need to get out of the water right now.
Free advice, take it or leave it: Go have a consultation with another therapist. One session, explain what's happening and see what they say. I would do it on your own, not through your current T.
that’s good advice. i’m very confused and am questioning myself. i go from thinking, this definitely isn’t happening to this is happening, from week to week.
I've never had a T that sexualized my therapy (had one who did a lot of gaslighting in other ways). But based on my experiences in other relationships that were not supposed to have anything sexual/romantic, where people did this, it was exactly like you describe in the OP. I would say that if you have |
Star Trek: Discovery may be stealthily telling the origin story of the Borg through Control. The Borg are, of course, one of the most | iconic races in all of Star Trek; introduced in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Borg are a race of relentless, hive mind cyborgs that seek to assimilate all life in the universe into its collective, wiping out countless lives in the process. Their wildly advanced technology and single-minded goal made them the Federation's most dangerous adversary for a decade, highlighted in classic TNG episodes like "The Best of Both Worlds," where Captain Jean-Luc Picard himself is assimilated into the collective. They headlined the second (and best) The Next Generation movie Star Trek: First Contact, and played a major role in Star Trek: Voyager's overarching plot.
And yet we still don't know much about the Borg's origins. There have been hints along the way that they were once a purely organic race, but their transition into the terrifying space zombies fans love to hate has never been explained in any real detail. However, it's possible Star Trek: Discovery is about |
Garrett Camp has abruptly stepped down as CEO of StumbleUpon, the link-sharing service he started 10 years ago.
The company is | searching for a replacement. Camp will still be the company's chairman. Cofounder and CTO Geoff Smith is staying on.
StumbleUpon, which was bought by eBay in 2007 for $75 million and then spun out as an independent company in 2009, specializes in the now-hot field of "social discovery"—helping people find interesting links. In part because its product deliberately aims to drive users to other websites rather than keeping them on the site, it's become a very effective driver of traffic to news and entertainment sites.
By some measures, it's better than Facebook at generating traffic.
According to StumbleUpon spokesman Mike Mayzel, Camp has been talking to the board about making this change for a year.
Over that time, Camp has done a pretty good job as CEO. StumbleUpon raised $17 million in March 2011 and has.grown its registered user base from 14 million to 25 million.
But with Camp ready to exit the CEO role, |
Recent polls in Germany show Chancellor Angela Merkel leading in her bid for reelection on September 22.
Roughly three-in-four Germans ( | 74%) think Merkel has done a good job dealing with the euro crisis, according to a March 2013 Pew Research Center survey. This may be one reason she leads her chief rival Social Democratic chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück.
In other European countries, Merkel also gets high marks for her handling of the crisis, except for those that have been hard hit with austerity measures. In France, 73% of the public says she has done a good job handling the region’s economic troubles, far more than the 33% of the French who laud their President Francois Hollande for his economic management.
Roughly seven-in-ten Poles (72%) approve of Merkel’s handling of the economy, while only 26% think their Prime Minister Donald Tusk has done a good job. And even 56% of the British give Merkel high marks in economics, a much better grade than they give their own Prime Minister David Cameron (37%).
However, not everyone in Europe admires Merkel |
Demanding action: Borough President Adams, left, Councilman Mark Treyger (D–Coney Island), center, and Councilman Alan Ma | isel (D–Marine Park) warn residents about fraudulent engineering evaluations that were used to deny insurance claims at a press conference in Gerritsen Beach on March 1.
Revelations that systemic fraud cheated thousands of Hurricane Sandy victims out of insurance claims unleashed a storm of anger and calls for justice in hard-hit Southern Brooklyn.
Federal officials admitted over the weekend that engineering reports showing flood damage were altered so that insurance companies could deny claims, and said the government is working to settle hundreds of resulting lawsuits.
One Gerritsen Beach couple whose claim was denied based on an altered report was fortunate enough to have gotten evidence of the original determination, according to the couple’s lawyer.
“He was smart enough to take a picture with his iPhone,” said Benjamin Pinczewski, who represents Vincent and Terri Ann Carrozza — whose flood insurance company claimed the damage to their home after the superstorm wasn’t from the flooding but was “ |
After our son grew up and moved away, my husband and I celebrated Easter quietly the next several years. There were no children to surprise with Easter | baskets, no little ones to engage in an egg hunt. Often, there were only two of us at the table.
That all changed when our son married and started a family of his own. Last year, he invited us to Boston, a short drive from our small New England town, to celebrate Easter with his wife and their new baby girl.
Yours truly, who takes grandparenting seriously, devoted a morning to assembling an Easter basket and combed countless toy stores in search of a fuzzy bunny for our granddaughter. When I offered to help prepare Easter lunch, though, our son, a talented amateur cook, insisted that he plan the meal.
This year, I suggested that our Boston crew drive to our house for Easter. I’m planning an easy menu for this day when so many attend church services before gathering at the table. Salmon and asparagus, two harbingers of spring, are to be the centerpiece and will be conveniently roasted together, although on |
Leather Lobby Keychain, $13.60 with code EXTRA20 (was $24.50) I was going to make fun of | this by saying something like “even your keys can dress funny” but now I kind of want it.
Izola Maritime Soap Set, $11.25 with code SHOPTOIT (was$18) The description for this item claims it is “handcrafted in the style of 18th-century toiletries” which sounds... sketchy. Weren’t they still battling the bubonic plague in the 1700s? Where my historians at?
Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics “In Your Face” Set, $23 (was $47.50/$67 value) From the reviews: “I’m glad I just finally went with my gut because some of the reviews here about this set were so negative and let me just say FLAT OUT WRONG bc this has been one of my favorite purchases of the year.” Whoa.
Crystal Mosaic Pumps, $180 (were $325) |
Manifest is looking to hire an Editor in our Washington, D.C. Studio, for one of our largest and fastest growing accounts. In | this role, you’ll write and edit B2B technology content for the education sector, collaborating with a smart and dedicated team at Manifest for one of the largest technology solutions and services providers in the country. You’ll also work with the clients as projects require and will pitch your stories directly to them.
Develop and publish engaging and compelling content for a multi-channel program.
In keeping with client brand parameters, support editorial calendar development, content creation and content editing on a variety of content projects.
Participate in cross-team brainstorming sessions.
Collaborate with analytics, audience engagement and performance marketing to support content strategy with data-driven creative ideas.
Assign stories to and work closely with freelance writers as needed.
Attend and cover industry events as needed.
6+ years of experience as a journalist and/or editor.
Sharp writing and editing skills and ability to craft compelling narrative.
Experience with content management systems, HTML and CSS. |
The 2013 Miss Emancipation pageant is billed for Sunday, August 11 at the National Cultural Centre at 8 pm.
Formerly the Miss | Guyana African Queen pageant, it has been re-launched under a new name and seeks to promote the education and empowerment of African women, according to its director Shabakie Fernandes. The pageant seeks to place and even greater emphasis on promoting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), particularly to girls in the African nation of Mali, where education for them is not free, Fernandes said.
“The Miss Emancipation Pageant through the Guyanese Girls Unite Project will give these girls the much needed facilities to explore their senses and skills and most importantly get an education that let them know not even the sky is the limit,” Fernandes said.
The show will feature various segments such as the evening wear, business wear and talent pieces. This year in keeping with the United Nations Day of the Woman, contestants will be required to choose a strong woman of African descent to speak on as their platform.
The winner will go home with $ |
P.E.I. has announced it will create a child advocate position, becoming the last province in Canada to do so.
P. | E.I. has announced it will create a child advocate position.
The announcement was made Friday by Premier Wade MacLauchlan in Charlottetown.
Michele Dorsey was named the children's commissioner and advocate, effective Jan. 1, 2019. She'll work through a new government entity, the Office for Children and Youth.
"The new children's commissioner and advocate and the Office for Children and Youth is a significant cross-governmental undertaking to build a bright, healthy, prosperous future for young Islanders," said MacLauchlan in a written release.
The Office for Children and Youth will be responsible for championing the rights of children, ensuring the voice of children and youth are represented in policy and programs, supporting families navigating programs and services and more, the release said.
"A focused government-community approach to children's healthy development will support healthier and safer environments for Island families," said Family and Human Services Minister Tina Mundy.
The initial |
All, right. Well, listen, thank you, Dr. Ronis – appreciate it. Good evening, everyone. What a terrific video about | our honorees, and I'm honored to be here to, in turn, honor them.
It’s good to be with all of you, a lot of colleagues past and present, servicemembers, friends. General Selva, Paul, are you out there? Paul, Ricky, nice to be with you, as always. Thanks for holding down the fort while I was away. I’m also glad Norm Augustine is here with his wife Meg. Norm, good to see you and Meg, always, always…and also to learn that the men and women of the defense industry of the United States are also being honored this evening – more about that later. Norm and I have known each other for decades – decades now, Norm. And I remain, for one here, a devoted reader of Augustine’s Laws.
Norm and I attended the so-called “Last Supper” in 1993 when the Pentagon and industry set the course for |
A Jewish truck that was attacked by Arab irregulars on the main road to Jerusalem, 1948. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
JNS.org | – Four decades after they vanished without a trace in the battles of Israel’s War of Independence, Maj. (res.) Sharon Maayan, a researcher in the IDF’s Missing Soldier Unit, helped find the remains of modern Israel’s first soldiers.
The 62-year-old father of three from Moshav Tzafririm in central Israel, told JNS about his extraordinary 29 years of service in the IDF, where he used new methods and recreated old battles to track down the remains of missing soldiers.
Last week, Israel marked the annual Memorial Day for the 173 soldiers whose burial place is unknown.
Maayan began his service as an Air Force cadet before continuing on to the Golani infantry brigade and 12 years of reserve service. He took part in the 1982 Lebanon War as a member of the reconnaissance company in the Armored Corps.
“After 12 years, I decided I wanted a change. This is part of my personality, |
J. David McSwane, the student editor of The Rocky Mountain Collegian, was looking forward to a quiet spring semester at the Colorado State | University after drawing global attention last fall for a four-word editorial criticizing President Bush.
What he got instead was another storm.
On the first day of classes in January, Mr. McSwane learned that the university president was meeting with representatives from the local daily, The Fort Collins Coloradoan, which is owned by Gannett, to discuss a potential “partnership” with the student newspaper.
The Collegian, now worried about its future as an independent student newspaper, is planning to fight any possible takeover by a media company. And Gannett and The Coloradoan have become targets for harsh criticism from college newsrooms and journalism departments across the country, who portray Gannett as a “dark lord” that wants to rein in student press freedom.
“If The Coloradoan were to take over The Collegian, only Gannett would win,” The Daily Nebraskan, the campus newspaper at the University of Nebraska- |
At an idyllic, quiet, tranquil patch of fen and prairie in Oakland County's Springfield Township, a tragedy is unfolding.
| It's there that Michigan's most endangered species, the Poweshiek skipperling butterfly, flutters away what may be its last days on Earth.
The brownish-orange, thumbnail-sized butterfly, with a wingspan of only an inch or so, once was fairly common on the North American plains. Now, it's precariously close to extinction: Fewer than 200 are known to remain — in one tiny pocket of the Canadian province of Manitoba, in a solitary area of Wisconsin and the largest remaining number, fewer than 70, in Oakland County, particularly at the Shiawassee Basin Preserve in Springfield Township.
Not long ago, "it was probably the most frequently encountered prairie skipper, a type of butterfly," said Tam Smith, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Minnesota-Wisconsin field office.
"When folks went out doing surveys for butterflies in the Midwest, they would see the Poweshiek skipper |
Maple-marinated feta with dehydrated black olives and sourdough focaccia at Ellē.
The bar-sn | acks menu at this opulent French restaurant near the White House holds many (relatively) affordable treasures. Perhaps none is more innovative, more delicious—and more evocative of chef Keith Bombaugh’s Alinea training—than these foie-gras-stuffed “tacos” served in a shell of dehydrated bananas. The presentation, over a bed of roasted pistachios, isn’t just for show—it’s two bar snacks for the price of one. 900 16th St., NW.
What’s a creamy smoked-fish spread fit for a Jewish deli doing on chef Tae Strain’s nouveau Korean/American menu? “I always think of bagels and smoked fish—it’s so delicious,” Strain shrugs. The dip is made with double-smoked Carolina trout plus cream cheese, sour cream, crème fraîche, and |
The Suomi NPP satellite caught this image of Hurricane Sandy yesterday morning (Oct. 25), just as the cyclone passed over Cuba.
| As Hurricane Sandy barrels toward the U.S. East Coast, NASA is battening the hatches at its Virginia coast launch and flight testing grounds to prepare for a literal wallop from the oncoming "Frankenstorm." A private rocket is on a launch pad at the site awaiting its maiden flight, and must also be protected.
The space agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va., is bracing for potential flooding and high winds from Sandy when it arrives early next week. The storm, currently a Category 1 hurricane, is expected to merge with cold weather fronts early next week to become a more powerful storm.
"We're watching it closely," Wallops spokesman Keith Koehler told SPACE.com Friday (Oct. 26). "We've started preparations like putting aircraft into hangars and clearing those hangars as best we can, just taking the appropriate precautions."
The Wallops Flight Facility is the center of NASA's suborbital research projects and oversees balloon |
Officials in Houston, Texas, say three people have been injured in a shootout on a college campus. Two men drew arms in an argument, wounding | each other and a passerby. This is the fifth school shooting to date in the US since the beginning of 2013.
Lone Star College's North Harris campus has been on lockdown Tuesday after a gunfight broke out between two individuals, both of whom have been apprehended by police.
Authorities were alerted by a 911 call at 12:31 pm local time and descended on the school, detaining one suspect, reported by police to be a student. The other person of interest, a black male estimated to be between 18 and 20 years old, was seen fleeing the area before eventually being apprehended.
Obviously fearing another campus massacre like the one claiming 26 lives just over a month ago at a Connecticut elementary school, the school affiliated with the North Harris campus ordered students to be locked up in the classrooms or wherever they were at the time.
As a precaution, other schools in the area have also been locked down.
Sheriff's Office of the Harris County has issued a statement in which it |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) -- Feeding Florida's newest initiative provides affordable and accessible fresh local produce to low income | families.
The Frenchtown Farmers Market is the first in Tallahassee to provide "Fresh Access Bucks" to the community. For KaShauna Davis, a SNAP recipient, every dollar she spends on local produce is matched.
She says, "Instead of going to the grocery store, to get food for the kids, when I come here I can also use my SNAP benefits and they give me an additional amount of money."
The money that is spent can be doubled up to $40, which is used to buy healthy food.
"When you go to the grocery store, you really don't know where the food is coming from. But here, you know where the food is coming from. It's local, you're helping the community, it's just great," states Davis.
That win-win situation is what Robin Safley from Feeding Florida says the company strives for, "Community is important, especially in today's world. Feeling connected, but also incub |
This combination of pictures created on Nov. 12, 2018 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during the Inter-Korean summit in the Peace | House building on the southern side of the truce village of Panmunjom on April 27, 2018, and President Donald Trump during a post-election press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Nov. 7, 2018.
The White House announced on Friday that Trump would meet Kim in late February, following a 90-minute meeting between the president and Kim Yong Chol, one of the North Korean leader’s top aides. The pair discussed denuclearization and a second summit, the White House said at the time. Kim Yong Chol also met Friday with Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.
Trump and Kim held their first meeting in Singapore in June.
The February summit is likely to take place in Hanoi, the capital, but Danang, site of the 2017 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, and Ho Chi Minh City in the country’s south have also been discussed as possible venues.
Neither the administration nor the |
Benjamin Netanyahu’s former chief of staff is reportedly in negotiations to become a state witness – which would make him the second prominent figure to | do so – in a series of police investigations into the Israeli prime minister and his inner circle.
According to widespread reports in the Hebrew media, Ari Harow, for years one of Netanyahu’s closest political associates, is in talks with police to give evidence, allegedly in exchange for a lesser sentence over accusations of wrongdoing in the sale of his consulting company.
Last week Mickey Ganor, a businessman and key player in an allegedly corrupt deal to buy submarines from Germany, struck a deal with authorities to become a state witness.
Netanyahu has strenuously denied wrongdoing in relation to any of the cases, and is not a suspect in the submarine case. However, a series of high-profile investigations have in recent months inched ever nearer to his closest circles, touching on everything from allegations of corruption in arms purchases, to the prime minister’s attempts to control the Israeli media, and on gifts to him and his family from wealthy benefactors.
David Shimron, Netanyahu |
The worst political blunder of all time, according to scientist Freeman Dyson, was the decision of the emperor of China in 1433 to cut | off his country from the outside world. In the wake of that decision, China lost its position in the forefront of human achievements and fell behind, over the centuries, to become a Third World country.
Before the end of this month, the United States of America may break that record for the worst political blunder of all time. Professor Dyson attributed the Chinese emperor's blunder to "powerful people pursuing partisan squabbles and neglecting the long-range interests of the empire." That can be our path to disaster as well.
After the results of "Super Tuesday," we find ourselves with front-runners in their respective parties who each could, as President of the United States, take the decline of America under the Obama administration, even further down, to a point of no return.
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was in charge of the foreign policy that destroyed governments in Egypt and Libya that were no threat to America's interests or allies, and plunged both countries into a turmoil |
Illustrator Adam Ellis says he’s being haunted by a child ghost. Twitter is lapping it up.
Since the inception of | Twitter, the microblogging platform has mainly been used for instantaneous coverage of current events and pithy commentary that relies on punch ahead of depth. That’s not to say more expansive uses for the format haven’t been deployed, but up until recently, its potential for deep, longform narrative writing hasn’t been its killer selling point. In the past week, however, a particularly ingenious ghost story has shown some of what Twitter could be capable of as a storytelling media.
It all began when Adam Ellis began telling the story of Dear David, a stirring and occasionally heart-stopping tale, in a series of tweeted plotpoints spanning the past three weeks. Like all gripping yarns, it’s best read in its uncut form – with some judiciously selected mood lighting perhaps – but for the unitiated, a précis runs as follows.
Ellis awakes one morning to tweet a description of a recurring dream he’ |
"Over-reliance on reservoirs increases vulnerability, and therefore increases the potential damage caused by droughts," researchers wrote in their paper.
| Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Dams and reservoirs are supposed to solve the problem of water shortages, but new research suggests their unintended effects can worsen water crises in the long run.
In a new paper published in the journal Nature Sustainability, scientists describe two phenomena, or effects, can undermine the benefits of dam and reservoir construction and expansion: the supply-demand cycle and the reservoir effect.
The first phenomena is a principle of environmental economics, whereby supply begets demand. As the water supply is increased, demand rises, putting new pressures on a finite resource. Often, water shortages motivate the expansion of reservoirs, allowing for an even larger water supply and further increased demand.
The supply-demand cycle ensures water crises get worse and worse over time, as pressure on the region's natural water supply yields increasing levels of environmental degradation.
According to the new research, the vicious cycle can "quickly offset the initial benefits of reservoirs."
The reservoir effect describes an over- |
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