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“Iran’s Alvand and Bushehr warships have been dispatched to the Gulf of Aden to protect trade vessels from piracy,�
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� Tasnim reported.
The US military strikes were in response to failed missile attacks this week on a US Navy destroyer, officials said.
Iran’s 44th flotilla, comprising Alvand destroyer and Bushehr logistic warship, has been dispatched to the Gulf of Aden and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to protect the country’s trade vessels against piracy in the unsafe zone, the agency said.
It added that the Iranian fleet would head to waters near Somalia and Tanzania and through the Indian Ocean.
After making a port call in Tanzania, the 44th fleet will sail along the eastern coasts of Africa if the weather holds out, and is scheduled to sail for the western coasts of South Africa, in the South Atlantic Ocean.
The presence of the Iranian fleet in the Gulf of Aden comes after with the Pentagon announced late on Wednesday that it struck and destroyed three radar sites controlled by the Houthi militias in Yemen.
On Thursday, the US
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Whether considering our highly educated workforce, robust payroll numbers, jobs, or employers, the 495/MetroWest region continues to offer a high return
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on investment for the commonwealth, employers, and residents; a vibrant and diverse employment base; and an excellent quality of life," the report concludes.
BOSTON - Communities west of Boston and near Interstate 495 continue to enjoy commercial rents and home prices well below averages in the metropolitan Boston area despite steady population growth, according to a new report.
The 495/MetroWest Partnership's Economic and Commercial Real Estate Report, released Tuesday at the Statehouse, found an increasing gap in affordability between properties in Boston and those in the partnership's region. Lower costs, coupled with availability of real estate and below-average unemployment, indicate a strong economic climate in the MetroWest area, the report concluded.
Municipal officials, business executives and legislators from the region — which encompasses 35 communities along Interstate 495, as far north as Westford and as far south as Foxborough — gathered Tuesday for the group's annual advocacy day. Senate President Karen Spilka of Ashland, who delivered
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In an interview, Kuldeep Yadav talked about the incident when the then skipper MS Dhoni got angry with him during a match.
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Former India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has gained the reputation of being “Captain Cool” because of his calm and composed behaviour on the field, even in tense situations. The 37-year old had led India to three ICC trophies over the years as captain and his ability to keep things cool has been regarded as the reason for the success. But, chinaman Kuldeep Yadav, in an interview, revealed that the wicketkeeper-batsman has an angry side as well.
Speaking to Vikram Sathaye in the web series What The Duck, the left-arm spinner revealed an incident when Dhoni lost his cool with him in the middle of the match. Yadav, who attended the show with fellow spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, narrated the incident which took place during the second T20I between India and Sri Lanka in Indore in December 2017.
“Wherever I pitched the ball, it went for six
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"The student left an In-School Suspension room without permission and entered the cafeteria yelling comments toward the other students," police wrote.
The
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words and actions of a 14-year-old Cedar Crest High School Student caused "great alarm" and an evacuation of the school's cafeteria during school hours on Feb. 20.
"School Officials contacted the police department after the student left an In-School Suspension room without permission and entered the cafeteria yelling comments toward the other students," South Lebanon Township Police wrote. "The student's actions caused great alarm to the students, staff and parents."
The unnamed boy was charged with terroristic threats and disorderly conduct, police said.
Amy Wissinger, the Cornwall Lebanon School District's community relations coordinator, clarified that some students evacuated the cafeteria but the building was not evacuated.
"The situation was quickly brought under control by high school administration and law enforcement. Some students left the cafeteria/evacuated the area (not the building) because people were in a highly anxious state following the events at the high school in Parkland (Florida)," Wissinger wrote in an email.
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The defendant and the victim were both in jail and available for trial, but five prosecution witnesses failed to show Tuesday in Washington County Circuit Court, delaying
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for two months the trial of a 16-year-old city teen charged with attempted murder.
Maurice Davoughn McMillan, of 623 N. Locust St. in Hagerstown is charged with second-degree attempted murder, first- and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment in the Oct. 9, 2011, stabbing of Jarvel Fostion.
Fostion, 18, of 106 W. Bethel St., Apt. B, Hagerstown, was stabbed five times in the torso, according to city police charging documents.
Fostion was jailed April 20, 2012, for allegedly pulling a handgun on a Hagerstown police officer.
Assistant State’s Attorney Michele Hansen requested a continuance from Judge Donald E. Beachley because five state witnesses, all of whom had been subpoenaed, were not in court.
Beachley granted the motion and rescheduled the trial for July 5.
The missing
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Idealists like to say that money doesn’t decide elections, but the truth is, it usually does, said Don Dugi,
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a political scientist at Transylvania University in Lexington.
This isn’t news to Sellus Wilder, a Frankfort Democrat clobbered in this year’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary by millionaire Lexington Mayor Jim Gray, who was much better-financed. Wilder is now managing Kemper’s 6th District House campaign.
Money allows a candidate to hire campaign staff to reach voters on a personal basis across a large area, and it lets her promote her ideas through broadcast and digital advertising and social media, he said.
“And it’s the metric by which you’re deemed credible, or not, by everyone else — the news media, the party, other politicians, the donors. If you have some money, it’s easier to be taken seriously so that you can raise more money. But the reverse also is true if you don’t have very much,” Wilder said.
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Singers Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island perform onstage during the 63rd Annual Prim
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etime Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre in L.A. Sunday night.
Jane Lynch became only the third woman to fly solo as host of the Emmys, serving with distinction as the MC of what was a mostly successful broadcast loaded with great bits, some potential drama that failed to heat up and, inevitably some low points. Here's a quick recap of the 2011 Emmys hits, misses and WTFs.
She was great. From her bit in the opening number when she discovered the joys of laugh tracks to her "gay agenda"—involving calling Rachel Maddow and changing her oil--to her skit as Donatella the Jersey housewife behind "The Jersey Shore" and 113 other TV shows, Lynch's jokes were tight and her timing was on point. But having the show's host be a nominee in the show's first category felt really awkward. Not her fault, but someone should've said something.
Baldwin had a joke about the News
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I find it interesting that history has made it necessary for governments to bind their mouths shut during an election so as not to influence the course of the
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election while the politicians themselves make all sorts of promises.
What it does is stop the politicians from making use of public servants to help with their campaigns – once the writ has been dropped. Of course up until that moment, they can do just about whatever they want that looks like something the government might have done anyway – announce grants mostly.
My mother always told me to disbelieve 99% of what I heard and a percentage of what I saw with my own eyes as well. Doesn’t that just give you a warm fuzzy feeling about how much trust there is in the world?
With all due respect to our MLA, Premier and all those other people out there, I find it difficult to believe anything I hear at all. Reminds me of the old, old, old joke – How can you tell when a politician isn’t lying? His (or her) lips aren’t moving.
It’s enough to make me wish there was a
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Saboba (NR), Jan. 13, GNA - Mr Joseph Bukari Nikpe, Member of Parliament (MP) for Saboba,
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has advised the youth of the National Democrati= c Congress (NDC) to unite and embark on programmes that would win more votes for the party to retain power in 2012.
He expressed regret that vandalism, unnecessary agitations against District Chief Executives (DCEs) and other negative attitudes had become common acts among NDC youth and called for unity, togetherness and the zeal to help achieve the 93Better Ghana Agenda" to win the confidence of Ghanaians.
Mr Nikpe gave the advice at separate functions on Thursday when he toured some communities in his constituency for interactions and to explain the government's agenda to the people, as well as solicit their support t= o retain him and return the NDC to power in the 2012 polls.
Some of the communities the MP visited included Samboli, Kpalba, Nakpando, Labaldo, Nambiri and Tombu. The rest are Nanlindo, Jijado, Konli, Liwal
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MARTIN O’NEILL has dismissed any suggestion he does not have the fight to guide Sunderland out of the relegation zone, insisting there
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is still plenty of fire in his belly.
O’Neill is involved in his first relegation scrap at any level since becoming a manager at non-League Grantham Town in 1987.
It is uncharted territory for the Ulsterman, who has enjoyed almost three decades of success in a management career that has also taken him to Wycombe, Leicester, Celtic and Aston Villa.
But he now finds his team deep in the mire following a run of seven games without a win, and with Manchester United the next visitors to the Stadium of Light tomorrow.
The 61-year-old has been criticised in recent weeks by Sunderland fans, who have suggested his famed leadership powers may be dwindling.
But yesterday O’Neill dismissed any notion that he is on the wane having met supporters at a fans’ forum on Wednesday night.
“Am I still as determined and enthused about the game? I don’t think I analyse this every day but
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LinkedIn has responded to criticism of its "social ads" feature over its use of members' names and photos in advertisements on its website.
Many
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LinkedIn members have complained that the use of their details in this way constitutes a violation of privacy, particularly as they have to opt out of the feature rather than opt in.
Ryan Roslansky, director of product marketing at the professional networking site has conceded in a blog post that LinkedIn could have communicated its intentions around social ads more clearly.
While pointing out that members were notified via the official blog and banner ads on the site as early as June, he said the company had since learned that although members are happy to have their actions, such as recommendations, visible to their network as a public action, some of those same members may not be comfortable with the use of their names and photos associated with those actions used in ads served to their network.
Roslansky has promised that LinkedIn will be changing the look of social advertisements so that names and photos of members are not included. Instead, the ads will in future include a link to others in a users' network who follow the advertiser on
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(CNN) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidelines for the first time on treating children with concussions, saying they will provide
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doctors with the “tools they need to ensure the best outcomes for their young patients” with mild traumatic brain injury.
More than 800,000 children seek treatment for traumatic brain injury every year, according to Dr. Debra Houry, director of the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The issue has become more pressing as youth sports have grown in popularity and because research has shown that repeated blows to the head, such as from playing football or heading a soccer ball, can lead to long-term memory loss, dementia and other serious health issues.
The CDC said its guidelines were based on the “most comprehensive review of the science” over the past 25 years related concussions, which doctors and researchers refer to as mild traumatic brain injury, or mTBI.
Do not routinely image pediatric patients to diagnose a mild traumatic brain injury.
Use validated, age-appropriate symptom scales to diagnose a concussion.
Assess for risk factors for prolonged
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Samsung Electronics reported its lowest annual profit since 2011 during its earnings call today as its smartphone sales continue to suffer from increasing competition. In 2014, the
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company’s profit was 25 trillion won, a 32 percent drop from a high of 36.8 trillion won in 2013.
Its 4Q2014 net profit fell 27 percent to 5.3 trillion won year-over-year, in-line with Samsung’s earning guidance earlier this month.
The Korean tech giant reported that its mobile unit’s earnings dropped 64 percent year-over-year to 1.96 trillion won, marketing its fifth quarterly decline in a row. Mobile sales accounted for just 58 percent of Samsung’s total operating profit last year, a significant decrease from 70 percent in 2013. The company said smartphone shipments fell in 4Q2014 and will continue to decline this quarter.
Samsung’s semiconductor business helped buoy up its profits, even though it didn’t make up for shortfalls in its mobile unit’s performance. The unit posted 4Q2014 operating profit of 5.3 trillion won and said its performance will continue
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Mariemont has won a $400,000 matching-funds state grant to build an addition to village hall that will include a Native
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American Cultural Center.
MARIEMONT – Construction has begun on an $800,000 addition to Mariemont Village Hall that will include a cultural center displaying Native American artifacts unearthed in the town.
The Mariemont Native American Cultural Center initially will exhibit artifacts it has on hand from digs at the Madisonville Site in Dogwood Park and the Wynema Village Site in the South 80 Gardens and Walking Trails Park.
But Mariemont officials later will ask organizations that have artifacts from the village – such as the Cincinnati Museum Center, Harvard University‘s Peabody Museum and the Smithsonian Institution – to return them.
“We will try to get some of the Madisonville Site artifacts back from those other places as soon as the cultural center is completely set up here,” Mariemont Mayor Dan Policastro said.
Mariemont is building a two-floor, 2,200-square-foot addition to the northeast side of its village hall at
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Fans of Latin sounds will have plenty of reasons to mambo, samba and smile this week and beyond, as a season of music festivities gets
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under way with two noteworthy events.
In Grant Park this weekend, the Viva! Chicago Latin Music Festival kicks off its 18th year, with 14 hours of live entertainment ready to go Saturday and Sunday at the Petrillo Music Shell--and more music slated for a side stage.
Alacranes Musical (the Musical Scorpions) closes Viva! Chicago Sunday. Hailing from the Mexican state of Durango, the members ply a frenetic style known as Duranguense--which, despite its name, has roots right here. Think polka gone mad with synthesized tubas, techno beats and electronically altered vocals, and you'll get an idea what's in store.
- Viva! Chicago Latin Music Festival, 2:15 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Grant Park (Petrillo Band Shell), 300 S. Columbus Drive. Charanga America is 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Alacranes Musical is 8:
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Issues of cooperation in the fight against terrorism, separatism and extremism discussed at a meeting of Regional Anti-Terrorist Structures of the Shanghai
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Cooperation Organization (SCO RATS), on Friday in Tashkent.
At the meeting of the RATS, which was represented by China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, were approved the joint action of the competent authorities of SCO member states to counter recruitment in terrorist and extremist organizations of persons serving sentences in prisons member states, said in the announcement issued by the end of the meeting.
A single register of measures to combat terrorism, separatism and extremism, regulations, training materials and literature in the field of counter-terrorism was approved, as well as the accounting of explosives, arms, ammunition, and other toxic substances used by terrorist organizations.
In addition, plans of the experts on border issues and coordinate joint action against international terrorist organizations were approved.
The draft of the protocol between the RATS SCO and CIS Anti-Terrorist Centre of the organization of cooperation in the security of major international events held in the territories of
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Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show took a turn for the worst during its scripted, fifth anniversary special that featured guests
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such as Tina Fey and Robert Irwin.
The special featured a new format that was inspired by The Larry Sanders Show which starred late comedian Garry Shandling.
Fallon was featured as a disgruntled late-night host who grows frustrated with constant production issues and guests that hate him. Normal Tonight Show segments were intersected with behind-the-scenes moments and private conversations Fallon has with his guests and production crew when cameras are not rolling.
Fallon was first joined by Ben Stiller, who was unhappy about dressing up as Hashtag the Panda and who had trouble finding the exit backstage.
Tina Fey then appeared and whispered into Fallon's ear that he is a terrible person before she sat down for her interview. Fey and Fallon kept it professional until they given a private moment while a clip from her new Netflix comedy Wine Country played for the live audience.
"You know what you did," Fey says when Fallon asks what's wrong. "Trump got elected because of you," she says
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Remember when you were a kid and your dad deliberately drove over one your favourite toys because “you never let me play with it!”
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Well, that’s not the only way toys can inflict pain. Shares of toy maker Spin Master skidded after the company unveiled fourth-quarter results well below estimates, hit by the U.S. bankruptcy of Toys "R" Us and a big drop in sales of Hatchimals. With Spin Master expecting weakness to continue into 2019, investors are finished playing with this stock.
Current events quiz! The Canadian dollar tumbled this week after: a) China issued a news release mocking the currency as “the overvalued loonie poonie woonie”; b) Former attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould testified that she had been under pressure to talk up the dollar to cut SNC-Lavalin’s costs on foreign purchases; c) Citing a “more pronounced and widespread” slowdown in the global economy and expectations for a weak first half in Canada, the Bank of Canada held interest rates steady. Answer
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The US has to stand up to China's abusive trade practices like intellectual property theft. And we won't leave farmers to face Chinese bullying alone.
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In 2011, a group of Chinese nationals dug up genetically engineered seeds from an Iowa corn field and planned to steal and send them back to China, so they could be reverse engineered. Those seeds, the result of years of research and millions of dollars of American investment, now stand as one of countless pieces of evidence in the case against China for intellectual property theft and unfair trade practices.
Now, President Donald Trump is standing up to China, which wrongly believes it can bully our farmers to get America to back away from defending our national interests. The president understands that our farmers feed, fuel and clothe this nation and the world, and he will not allow U.S. agriculture to bear the brunt of China’s retaliatory tactics.
American producers have benefited from the policies of the Trump administration, including historic tax reforms and reduced regulations. And farmers know that 20 cents of every dollar of their income relies on trade, which is why they are watching the situation with China closely. The
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Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka starring Drashti Dhami, Shakti Arora and Aditi Sharma is a Hindi
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TV series is about infidelity. Kunal and Mauli are leading a happy and love filled life when her best friend Nandini re-enters her life. Nandini and Kunal fall in love with each other leaving Mauli betrayed and hurt. The show also focussed on domestic violence but the focus has shifted to the love triangle.
Participating in dance reality show to hosting a cookery show, with a lot of daily soaps thrown in for good measure, Shakti Arora has been there, done that.
The recent episode of Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka starts with Ishaan delaying the engagement ceremony and waiting for a special person who is most important to him.
In the latest episode of Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka, Kunal is waiting for the lift and it is shown that Mauli and her family are leaving for her engagement.
The episode of Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka
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We heard about National Cheesecake Day -- that would be July 30th -- not only from the Cheesecake Factory -- this must be like
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the company's national holiday -- but from the OC Super Fair and other sweet-minded sources around Web World. Which says to us that this thing has gone wide, gone big, is larger than most official "let's-celebrate-a-particular-food" days.
With frosting and whipped cream on top, to boot. We could spend the next six months writing a three-part study on why National Cheesecake Day has come up several times throughout our morning, or we could say this in two seconds: people love the stuff. Phew. Time saved.
The Cheesecake Factory is marking the grand occasion with a "Any Slice, Half Price" deal. Find a Cheesecake Factory -- there are 146 of 'em -- who knew? -- we suppose they knew -- and dine there (no taking-away-ing) on Thursday, July 30th. Any slice you'd like will be half off.
Any slice. Strawberry?
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ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of the Group of 20
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summit in Argentina next week, a spokesman said on Thursday (Nov 22), amid tensions over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
Such a meeting would be the first face-to-face encounter between Erdogan and the crown prince since the grisly killing in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last month, which has tainted the image of the kingdom's de facto ruler.
"There could be" a meeting, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said.
"We're looking at the programme," Kalin said, according to state news agency Anadolu.
Seeking to rally support from Arab allies ahead of the summit, Prince Mohammed on Thursday embarked on a regional tour starting with the United Arab Emirates, his first official trip abroad since Khashoggi's murder tipped the kingdom into crisis.
The former court insider and Washington Post contributor was killed and dismembered in what Saudi Arabia said was a "rogue" operation, but CIA analysis leaked to the US media pointed
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Beijing Jury President Rob Minkoff: "Film Brings Us Together"
With the U.S.-China trade war looming in the
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background, the Beijing festival's international jury members emphasized the value of cross-border ties and collaboration in today's film industry.
The U.S.-China trade war may be raging unabated, but the international jury at the 9th Beijing Film Festival struck a distinctly globalist tone Thursday when meeting the media for the first time.
Jury president Rob Minkoff, best known for co-directing Disney's The Lion King, noted that the fest was established a decade ago with the primary goal of bringing attention to China's growing film industry, but that the event has "a very global vision."
"What's interesting is that this is an international competition with films from all over the world, from filmmakers with very different concerns and sensibilities," said Minkoff. "Film is something that ties all of us together, and to have the opportunity to celebrate that here in this city, which is the heart of the Chinese film industry, is a wonderful opportunity."
A total of
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UCLA researchers and colleagues have designed a new device that creates electricity from falling snow. The first of its kind, this device is inexpensive, small
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, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic.
The researchers call it a snow-based triboelectric nanogenerator, or snow TENG. A triboelectric nanogenerator, which generates charge through static electricity, produces energy from the exchange of electrons.
Findings about the device are published in the journal Nano Energy.
Snow is positively charged and gives up electrons. Silicone — a synthetic rubber-like material that is composed of silicon atoms and oxygen atoms, combined with carbon, hydrogen and other elements — is negatively charged. When falling snow contacts the surface of silicone, that produces a charge that the device captures, creating electricity.
“Snow is already charged, so we thought, why not bring another material with the opposite charge and extract the charge to create electricity?” said co-author Maher El-Kady, a UCLA assistant researcher of chemistry and biochemistry.
About 30 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by
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The Flinch author Julien Smith is giving his book away for free. Something for nothing? That's the idea. The co-author of
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the 2009 book Trust Agents is so intent on sharing his work that he wants readers to access it as soon as they unwrap their new holiday Kindles.
The Flinch will be available for free via Amazon until the end of June 2012. A print version will follow - for a price - but Smith, 32, said he's more focused on getting his words out than on making a buck or two. He hopes this short work will help readers overcome their primitive instinct to flinch when a risky opportunity presents itself.
In an interview with International Business Times, Smith discussed his new book, overcoming inhibitions, and the prospect of (eventually) turning a profit after giving his intellectual property away for free.
Your marketing strategy for this book is...unusual. Do you have a background in business?
Actually, I work in online media. I've worked and written some of the earliest work on social media and building platforms, like blogs. I've been in the social media space
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“The Unruly Mystic: John Muir” explores the remarkable life and influential works of a patron saint of environmental activism. This inspirational
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documentary examines the connection nature and spirituality, using the life and wisdom of John Muir, ecological preservationist and founder of Yosemite National Park, as a catalyst for how being outside in nature affects the lives of everyday people right now. Muir’s writings have profoundly shaped the ways in which we understand and envision our relationship with the natural world today, and his work has become a personal guide for exploring nature for countless individuals. The film interviews noted psychiatrists, therapists, theologians, writers, and every day people, and asks them to discuss their relationship with nature and its transformative effect in their lives.
If you’re looking for even more Earth Day-based movie events, Guild Cinema (3405 Central NE) is bringing back the documentary The Unruly Mystic: John Muir on Monday, April 22 (Earth Day itself). The films screens at 3:30, 5:45 and 8pm. Directed by Michael Conti, The Unruly Mystic explores the remarkable life and
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LOEB-Henry A. The officers, Board of Directors, and staff of UJA-Federation of New York express our deep sorrow upon
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the death of Henry A. Loeb, noted philanthropist, who leaves a legacy of compassion and caring for the community. As chair of the 1964-65 fund-raising campaign of our predecessor organization, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, and as a very significant leader for many years, he improved the quality of life for thousands of people in New York City. He has left a rich legacy. His devotion to children was reflected in his service as a Trustee of Ramapo Anchorage Camp, a UJA-Federation beneficiary. A leader committed to the concept of reaching out to the less fortunate as a private and public duty, he fulfilled the spirit of the teaching: ''As previous generations planted for me, so do I plant for the future.'' His dedication to these principles is carried on through the exemplary activities of his daughter, Betty Levin, a former member of the UJA-Federation Board of Directors and the founding chair of our Building Arts Committee. We express our
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ADRIEN RABIOT will not feature for Paris Saint-Germain in Tuesday's Champions League clash against Manchester United despite an injury crisis
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crippling the French champions.
The midfielder remains frozen out of the squad after he refused to sign a contract extension with the Parisians.
Rabiot has not played since December 11 and, according to L'Equipe, that will not change on Tuesday night when PSG face Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's United at Old Trafford.
The 23-year-old midfielder hoped his stand-off with the club would end after he was included in the French champs' squad for the Champions League knockout stages.
But PSG chief Thomas Tuchel left Rabiot in Paris - despite his side being decimated by injuries with Neymar, Edinson Cavani and Thomas Mounier all sidelined for Tuesday's tie.
Rabiot is planning to leave Parc des Princes on a free transfer in the summer as several Premier League sides are competing for his signature with Barcelona.
But the midfielder's decision to see his contract out backlashed as Rabiot has been
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So you're renting a car? It's no big deal, unless something goes wrong. Here's a checklist based on our own experiences and on
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the rental cars we've seen in our shop lately.
Have all your IDs with you. This includes drivers license and the credit card you used to make the reservation. Check cards are dead on arrival. You say you're well-to-do and don't carry a major credit card with you? BIG MISTAKE. You will not be rented a vehicle if you do not have one. Too bad if you are a millionaire, ALL of the rental companies are very strict on this.
Read your automobile insurance policy before you rent, paying special attention to any sections pertaining to rental vehicles. Bring your insurance card in case you're asked to prove you have insurance.
Read your credit card documentation. Most cards provide some kind of insurance on rental cars when charged to their card. Check limits and exclusions. If in doubt pay for the additional insurance. I know of one driver who owes $10,000 for a wrecked rental auto when on vacation in Alaska, with no valid insurance coverage
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Ashleigh Stone are favoured with instructions for this fantastic and recently modernised four bedroom town house situated a stone's throw from the beach and enjoying the
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most fantastic views of the Estuary from all three floors. The Master bedroom suite occupying the whole third floor and includes a decked balcony with glass balustrade and built in hot tub all with stunning Estuary views. The property also comes with an additional balcony to lounge and its own double garage and off street parking to the front.
This Marine residence now comes with a stunning master suite with a decked balcony with a glass balustrade incorporating a hot tub all with stunning panoramic views. The open planing living area is perfect for entertaining and again has a decked balcony over looking the Estuary.
Modern entrance door, radiator, stairs rising to first floor with storage cupboard under and doors off.
Chrome pedestal wash hand basin, low level WC, shower cubicle, radiator and wood flooring.
Entered from the landing via wooden double doors, this room has a set of bi fold doors that offer an outstanding view of the Estuary that will make
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Nicole Kidman wears the Duet Pinky Ring while accepting her Emmy award last night.
Last night's Emmy Awards were a triumph for
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diversity and inclusiveness. Awards went to the likes of Riz Ahmed, who won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series, making him the first South Asian man in Emmy's 69-year history to win for acting. Or Lena Waithe, who is the first African American woman to win for comedic writing.
There was one message, though, that was quietly making a statement without saying a word.
Two Hollywood stars who were also winners last night, Nicole Kidman and Shailene Woodley, were both spotted wearing Duet Pink Rings by the company dedicated to creating a "supportive, powerful network for the women in its tribe," Shiffon Co.
A close-up of the Duet Pinky Ring on Actress, Shailene Woodley, at the 69th Annual Emmy Awards.
The adjustable pinky ring that coils around the finger and ends with two stones (a sapphire and diamond, or diamond and diamond) represents a pinky promise
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The PPP model has been made mandatory in metro rail projects, but it has not been successful in at least three cities – Delhi, Mumbai and
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Hyderabad.
The cabinet chaired by prime minister Narendra Modi approved a new Metro Rail Policy that makes PPP component mandatory for availing central assistance of new metro projects. Private investment and other innovative forms of financing of metro projects have been made compulsory to meet the huge resource demand for capital intensive high capacity metro projects.
“Private participation either for complete provision of metro rail or for some unbundled components (like Automatic Fare Collection, Operation & Maintenance of services etc) will form an essential requirement for all metro rail projects seeking central financial assistance,” says the policy, to capitalize on private resources, expertise and entrepreneurship.
“Nobody will come forward for construction of Metro rail as it has never been a profitable investment. Private players will look at least 12-15% return while no Metro project has ever yielded an investment return of over 2-3%. It’s the most disastrous and retrograde urban transport policy,” Sreedharan told the Indian Express.
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I’ve always had an interest in colour. Coming from Scotland, where the weather often turns everything grey, I used to love how the
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landscape would transform when the sun came out. I had a view of the Ochil hills from my bedroom window which became an ever-changing kaleidoscope of colours through the seasons.
It was this blend of colours in nature that gave me my first introduction into colour harmony. In the world around us colours juxtapose with one another all the time, but the very fact that they do means it’s often easy to take the striking harmonies they produce for granted. Think about an inky grey sky against a wet green hill, or a bright orange beak against a blackbird’s feathers. Even the bright red poppy, which brightens yellow and green fields around the country, is made redder and more distinctive by the green stem and leaves which support it. Of course, there’s no real need to understand how colour works (unless, like me, you have to!). But just as learning the musical structure of a favourite song or finding out the backstory
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When Rick Gates turned against his former boss, he described a parallel ethical universe where lying and cheating were as comfortable as a well-tailored ostr
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ich suit.
You know what would be surprising? If Rick Gates and Paul Manafort had suddenly suspended their apparently deeply ingrained habits of fraudulence and thievery during the three months they ran the Donald Trump campaign.
Other chapters of their recent history—the chapters bracketing the campaign—include alleged episodes of witness tampering, lying to federal prosecutors, bank and tax fraud, as well as the failure to register as agents of a foreign government. Therefore, given all that has emerged about their shared ethical framework, it’s hard to imagine that the public has received the exhaustive account of those months.
To understand just how ingrained their slippery habits had become, consider a defining moment from Monday’s proceedings of the Manafort trial. In the course of turning state’s witness against his old boss, Gates, a former lobbyist, admitted to the court that he had repeatedly defrauded Manafort by inflating the expense reports he submitted to him. It wasn’t a trivial sum
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At one point during an episode of the CW's mystery series Cult, one of the characters makes another the impassioned promise that "There will
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be an answer!" Given the show's intense love affair with metafiction, I wondered if the line might be a winking acknowledgement that it's only the latest in a long line of post-Lost series that revolves around a slowly unfolding puzzle, a subgenre that from its progenitor on has been long on teases and short on actual answers. I also thought to myself, they better give us that answer in season one because there's no way this thing's going to get picked up again. The end seems to have come sooner than I expected. Yesterday, the CW announced that its slot for the next three Fridays will be filled by reruns of The Carrie Diaries.
Cult's incredibly convoluted central conceit is that in the fictional Cult universe there is a show called Cult about a police officer on a mission to take down Billy Grimm, the charismatic leader of the highly unorthodox religious sect that she was raised in, and that it's spawned a massive, intensely obsessive fan base
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French president Emmanuel Macron is expected this week to announce his conclusions after three months of nationwide debate aimed at placating violent protests against his reformist agenda
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As Mr Macron prepares to announce his five-point plan, protesters have taken to the streets for the 22nd consecutive weekend of mobilisation.
A rally called for by the gilet jaunes in Toulouse, the capital of France’s southern Occitan region, drew over 31,000 protesters – up from last week’s 22,300 participants.
Eight hundred policemen were deployed to the area to contain the protesters, who built barricades and attempted to push through to the city centre. Police forces responded with teargas, stun grenades and water cannons to disperse the crowd.
The government’s refusal to authorise protests in Paris did not prevent the gilets jaunes from pouring into the Champs-Elysées, the upper-class shopping quarter that has been the theatre of violent clashes.
According to the interior ministry, at least 5,000 people took to the streets of Paris despite the lack of authorisation.
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Is This the 'Next Generation Firework Show'?
I don't know. It might work. Look at electric cars. People thought they'd
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be boring and now the technology has advanced to being one of the best means of transportation around. Of course this will never fly for people who like sudden loud noises.
For all you folks WHINING about replacing "real fireworks" with alternatives (drones and laser light shows), I suggest you move to any of the areas in drought then rethink that position. In Colorado, we are in a drought over much of the state - and HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ACRES ARE BURNING FROM WILDFIRES. About 40 "real fireworks" shows were cancelled or replaced (out of about 120 statewide), there were a couple of drone shows and couple of laser light shows as well as "real fireworks". Guess which kind caused BRUSH FIRES (and the worst was a result of one of the "professional shows" while some smaller fires were the result of ID10TS who didn't take weather and dryness conditions into consideration). Frankly, I hope that
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Anton Yelchin's first film role came in 2000, when the actor was a mere 11 years old. Since then, he has had roles
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in 42 movies as well as multiple television appearances. Sadly, it's been reported that the actor has passed away at the age of 27.
Though he's starred in a number of films, Yelchin is best known for his role as Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek reboot films. He brought a sense of fun to the role while also showing off the character's intelligence, breathing life into a supporting character who was often overlooked in favor of characters like Kirk, Spock and Bones. This was part of Yelchin's magic; he was charismatic and gave viewers a reason to care about his characters.
According to Yelchin's publicist, he passed away early on the 19th after what has been referred to as a "fatal traffic collision." TMZ reported further details, claiming that he had been pinned against a brick mailbox attached to a security gate by his own car; it is suggested that he got out of the car for an unknown reason before leaving for a rehearsal, and the car rolled
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Editor’s note: This story was originally published on July 19, 2016.
Have you ever wondered why rocks margaritas tasted more
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alcoholic than frozen margaritas? Or whether one had more overall ice and water than the other?
Like many restaurants in Austin, El Mercado serves margaritas both on the rocks (poured over cubes of ice) and frozen. We talked with a chemist at the University of Texas about the scientific differences between the two types of cocktails. Photo by Deborah Cannon for the Austin American-Statesman.
Kate Biberdorf let me ask her all kinds of questions about ice shape and size, ethanol and heat, and her answers are in this story that is running in tomorrow’s paper.
You’ll note that the rocks margarita has double the alcohol per serving. If you poured that much booze into a frozen margarita, all the ice crystals would melt even faster than they already do.
For more nerdy stuff like that, check out the main story.
For the recipes, from Austin’s David Alan and Joe Eiffler
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It's crunch time for England as they take on a confident Ukraine side in a must-not-lose World Cup qualifier on Tuesday night.
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Following Friday's results, Mykhaylo Fomenko's team have suddenly emerged as England's prinicpal challengers in Group H, an impression that will only be enhanced if they win at the Olympic Stadium.
Never an easy team to beat anyway, the mood in Ukraine at the moment is bullish, with the public, pundits and ex-pros united in praise for a technically-gifted and hard-working team.
Sportsmail's Jamie Redknapp revealed in his column last week that he had enjoyed a round of golf with perhaps the most famous Ukrainian export, Andriy Shevchenko.
'The former Chelsea and Milan striker says they will be more than a match for England in Kiev and that doesn't make me feel comfortable,' Redknapp wrote.
But what should we expect from the Ukraine team and how frightened should we be?
Pyatov took over the keeping duties when veteran Oleksandr Shovkovskiy retired from international duties last
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What are the lessons we can draw from the removal of leavened foods, and the bland crackers we eat for a full week?
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Sometimes those challenging moments, when we feel that we have been flattened and held against the ropes, are the very moments that make us stronger, better and crunchier.
There are other components to the human diet, and technically we can subsist on other foods. But there is something about bread which marks it as the quintessential food, and as the metaphor for all that nourishes our existence.
Jews are strictly forbidden to eat any leavened foods on Passover. Bread is replaced by Matzah – flat baked wafers made only of flour and water. Jews all over the world, take scrupulous care to avoid eating even the smallest particle of Chametz.
The relationship, from its very inception, has been plagued by a quarrel between the spouses. As is common with many couples, they find themselves continuously and constantly arguing the same argument.
It contains no oil or honey, nuts or fruit, not even a coating of egg and poppy seeds... How did
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What's More Important: Your Product Or Proof-Of-Concept?
I have had the luxury of meeting over 500 startups at Red Rocket
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Ventures over the last three years. And, typically, most of them approach me at the same point in their startup development. They have just finished building their new product, whether it be a website or mobile app or whatever, and they are seeking venture capital to assist them with sales and marketing to bring in new users. It is typically then, when I ask them "do you have any current users and how quickly are you growing" to point to a proof-of-concept around your startup. Which is typically followed by, "I don't have a material user base yet, that is why I need the venture capital". Then I shrug, and have to be the "bad guy" of telling them they are not ready to raise professional venture capital. A sad and familiar story, as without this round of capital, the startup will most likely go out of business, as they lack other sources.
But, why is this the same old story? In my opinion, it is because entrepreneurs
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Potsdam, Germany-(ENEWSPF)- An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Andrea Kunder of the Leibniz
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Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany and Dr. R. Michael Rich of UCLA has discovered that the central 2000 light years within the Milky Way Galaxy hosts an ancient population of stars. These stars are more than 10 billion years old and their orbits in space preserve the early history of the formation of the Milky Way.
For the first time the team kinematically disentangled this ancient component from the stellar population that currently dominates the mass of the central Galaxy. The astronomers used the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo Australian Telescope near Siding Spring, Australia, and focussed on a well-known and ancient class of stars, called RR Lyrae variables. These stars pulsate in brightness roughly once a day, which make them more challenging to study than their static counterparts, but they have the advantage of being “standard candles”. RR Lyrae stars allow exact distance estimations and are found only in stellar populations more than 10 billion
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Mike Tyson is historically attributed the observation along the lines of ‘everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth’.
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thought of this nature may have occurred to one or two home spectators on Saturday during East Kilbride Rugby Club’s rout of Cambuslang at Coats Park.
When the sides met at Torrance House on the season’s opening day, a missed conversion with the last play of the game cost Cambus victory, and they must have fair fancied their barra with home advantage.
Unfortunately for optimistic home supporters, and despite a heavyweight scrum putting significant pressure on their visitors, EK were a class above, running in ten tries in a dominant performance.
Coach Allan Steel was able to put out a strong side despite the absence of key tight forwards Eddie Beaton and Ally Dalgleish.
There was a return to starting colours for Evan Middleton at the base of the scrum while Scott Aitken took a place on the bench, having been out for over a year.
Losing the heft of Beaton and Dalgleish
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Two homegrown musicals symbolize opposite ends of theater here. Andrew Lloyd Webber - the world's most bankable composer - has opened "The
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Woman in White," drawn from a novel of Victorian morality. By contrast, the most talked-about production, "Jerry Springer - The Opera," offers up a gleefully amoral celebration of tell-all television.
London has played host to Webber extravanganzas for more than 30 years, with "The Phantom of the Opera" running since 1986. Sir Andrew has not produced a mega success for more than a decade, and many fans were eagerly awaiting "Woman," which revisits the formula that made most of his previous musicals such commercial hits.
"Jerry Springer - The Opera" abandons any formula, reveling instead in the fictitious "guests" on Springer's show who can't wait to air their salacious tales of infidelity, scatological habits, and blasphemous jokes. The musical - with its lyrics laced with four-letter words - has also drawn younger audiences who would never buy tickets to "Phantom."
The "Jerry Springer
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Does your primary PC or laptop run off an HDD or SSD?
my primary PC has an SSD.
enough RAM and an SSD are the
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starting points of any build.
Took a while, but I am running close to 100% on SSD as a primary drive on all my machines. Laptop came preconfigured with SSD and everything else but my FreeNAS server is now running off some sort of SSD. Technically the FreeNAS runs off a USB stick, but all the drives are spinning platters.
Spinning drive for everything. I would like a SSD though.
It's a must for games. It's not just loading times for the OS, everything loads faster from disk to memory.
120 gb SSD with HDD external for large storage. Benefit of speed and space. 120gb SSD now floating around the net for around R 600. Well worth it for the performance boost.
SSD is the way to go. Running a nice Samsung 960 Evo in my primary laptop, with a 1tb HDD secondary drive, and work upgraded us all the SSDs about a year ago.
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Following a weekend of uncertainty, frantic negotiations and enough finger pointing and partisan recriminations to last us through the middle of the century, the U
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.S. Senate on Monday voted 81-18 to approve a temporary funding measure, ending the government shutdown, which began at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.
The House of Representatives quickly followed suit, and President Donald Trump signed the bill into law later the same day.
The temporary measure — which will fund the federal government through Feb. 8 — was the result of a Senate compromise. By terms of the compromise, Democrats agreed to back the three-week extension in exchange for assurances from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he will use that extra three weeks to negotiate an agreement securing the future of the so-called “dreamers,” undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and whose fate was the source of much of the disagreement that led to the shutdown in the first place.
While I’m happy Congress troubled itself to hammer out a solution and get the government running again, I still have to ask: What changed so drastically between late Friday
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The Amici Singers and the Ensemble of Friends held a Remembrance Day concert at St Mary’s Church, Potton, in
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commemoration of the end of the First World War, presented by Douglas Coombes MBE.
The programme included war poems read by Rev Gill Smith and choir members and a selection of well-known music from the era.
The highlight was a suite of music by Douglas Coombes called Anthems for Doomed Youth, which included a piece written to the poem Anthem for Doomed Youth by the poet Wilfred Owen, accompanied on the trumpet by Thomas Fountain, who also played the Elegy from Anthems for Doomed Youth, with Trevor Hughes.
At the end of the final movement, The Last Post was played by Thomas Fountain.
Movingly, Rev Gill Smith read out the names of all the young soldiers from Potton while the choirs softly hummed Deep Peace.
Four flag bearers from local uniformed groups lowered the flags during the singing and raised them again during the last hymn.
The retiring collection raised over £500 for Help For
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The star of the South African movies Spud and Spud: The Madness Continues, Troye Sivan, has told the world in a
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YouTube video he’s gay.
The star of the South African movies Spud and Spud: The Madness Continues, Troye Sivan (18), has told the world in a YouTube video he’s gay.
“I’ve never been so nervous in my life,” Troyes says in the video. “It feels strange announcing [it] on the internet like this, but... it’s something I’m not ashamed of, and no one has to be ashamed of it, so why can’t I share it with all of you?” Troye’s YouTube channel, where the video appeared last week, has more than half a million subscribers.
The Spud star’s fans showed their support on his Facebook page. Hundreds of people congratulated him and said they were proud of his decision to come out. More than 760 000 people have viewed the video, which was downloaded
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Can A 6th Gear Fix The 2014 Honda CB1100?
Here's the world-first review of the 2014 Honda CB1100 Deluxe.
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Not because we tried all that hard to scoop it, but because everyone else really is just that lazy.
Full Disclosure: Honda wanted me to ride the new CB1100 so bad, they agreed to let me borrow it after I phoned up and asked politely.
I love the CB1100. Its smooth character, handsome looks and surprising performance just combine to create a modest, but capable motorcycle that has all the charm of a classic bike and all the speed, handling and convenience of a modern one.
How's that for a good-looking motorcycle, eh?
For 2014, it's switched from a 5- to a 6-speed gearbox and this new Deluxe model gains half a gallon of fuel capacity, a 4-into-2 exhaust and a quilt-pattern seat. ABS used to be a cost option, but is now standard on the $11,899 Deluxe model. Oddly, it's no longer an option on the standard, $10,399 bike.
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Nayeem was also involved in over 20 murders, dozens of extortions and attacks.
Hyderabad: An ex-member of
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CPI (M-L) People's War Group (PWG), 45-year-old Nayeemuddin aka Nayeem aka Balanna was an accused in the murder of IPS officer N.S. Vyas who had founded the Greyhounds. Nayeem was also involved in over 20 murders, dozens of extortions and attacks.
Nayeem was on the radar of TS police in connection with the murder of TRS leader K. Ramulu, who was shot by him in 2014, and the recent extortion case filed by realtor Kurapati Gangadhar in Nizamabad. Nayeem had surrendered to the police and faced the trial. However, in March 2007, he escaped while appearing before court. He reportedly told the police that he wanted to go and answer nature’s call and disappeared. Since then, he has been one of the most wanted fugitives in the state.
Hailing from Bhongir in Nalgonda district,
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This Is What It's Like To Be A Syrian Refugee Child In Lebanon.
I asked 12 young aspiring journalists who have fled the war in Syria
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three different questions about what their life is like now. They were given pen, paper and a camera. These are their answers: in their own words, as seen through their own eyes. Warning: May restore faith in humanity.
What makes you feel safe?
What do you hate most about camp life?
"There are two problems here: the garbage and sewage. They are everywhere and they cause diseases, and not just in humans. With awareness and collaboration, we will solve these two problems." Zohour Haidar, 13.
What do you think people don't know about life in the camp?
Waad and his 11 classmates are all part of a Youth Press Club run by local NGO Beyond Association that is funded by UNICEF Lebanon. The Press Club gives young Syrian refugees from informal tented settlements in the Zahle area of Lebanon a chance to talk about the daily issues they face while learning valuable photography and writing skills. To find out how else UNICE
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Google is drawing the curtains on 32-bit only apps from 1 August 2019, as new applications or updates to existing applications that do not support 64
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-bit processors will not be allowed on the Play Store from that date.
It’s important to make the distinction here that 32-bit versions of apps will still be available, but they must also have a 64-bit version to accompany them. Google is steadily moving towards a model where Android devices will only support 64-bit code in the next couple of years – rather than attempting to directly stop 32-bit app production, Google is depreciating their value and incentivising developers to focus on 64-bit programs instead.
There is an exception to this rule regarding games developed using Unity 5.6 or older, which will still be able to receive 32-bit updates all the way up to August 2021. You will also still be able to download older versions of 32-bit applications if you so wish.
The timeline above shows Google’s plans regarding its movement towards a 64-bit only future, in August of 2021 users with 64-bit capable devices simply won
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LOVE Island star, Hannah Elizabeth, has debuted a dramatic new hairstyle.
Love Island star, Hannah Elizabeth has wowed fans with a
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dramatic new look.
The 2015 contestant, and The Only Way Is Essex star Jon Clark's ex fiancee, changed her trademark bouncy blow-dry for a sleeker look, and shared the results with her 320k fans on Instagram.
Posting a shot from Chloe's Beauty Bar – run by Jon's ex, Chloe Sims – the star of the popular TV show pouted and stared into the distance as she showed off her new look.
Her bleached blonde tresses were styled in a straight blunt cut which was styled in a chic middle parting and swept out her face.
And while the Love Island beauty's hair looked natural, she confessed in the caption that she was actually wearing a wig.
"New wig by the Amazing talented Hair king that is @joel_mag21," she wrote.
"Thank you @millionaire_hair_extensions for the fab hair @chloesbeautybaressex #platinum#blonde #wig".
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America's political history has been written in the fierce narrative of war -- not only our country's many military clashes with foreign nations, but also our
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own unending war for democracy in the U.S.
Generation after generation of moneyed elites have persisted in trying to take wealth and power from the workaday majority and concentrate both of those things in their wealthy hands to establish a de facto American aristocracy. Every time, the people have rebelled in organized mass struggles against the monopolist and financial royalists -- literally battling for a little more economic fairness, social justice, and equal opportunity. And now, the time of rebellion is upon us again, for We the People are suddenly in the grip of a brutish level of monopolistic power.
Corporate concentration of markets, profits, workplace decision-making, political influence and our nation's total wealth is surpassing that of the infamous era of robber barons. Apple, which just became the first U.S. corporation to reach a stock value of a trillion dollars, is now larger than Bank of America, Boeing, Disney, Ford, Volkswagon and 20 other brand-name
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Image: Autonomous Solutions Inc.,/CNH Industrial/Case IH.
Agricultural equipment manufacturer Case IH, a unit of
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CNH Industrial, just unveiled a seriously intimidating-looking tractor at the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa. Called the Autonomous Concept Vehicle, the robotic tractor can be programmed using a tablet computer.
This futuristic piece of agricultural equipment is drawing crowds at the annual Iowa farm show, and for good reason. Unlike conventional tractors, it has no cabin for a driver. Instead, it utilizes cameras, radar, and GPS, which allows farmers to remotely control and monitor the machine with an app on a tablet computer. The machine can operate day or night and is designed to plant seeds and harvest crops, among other tasks.
Path planning technology developed by Case IH will allow farmers to manage their fields and oversee the overall operation of multiple vehicles simultaneously. The ACV is also capable of obstacle detection to prevent mishaps.
After the farmer triggers a command, the autonomous tractor can drive from a parking area along a private road to a field where it can commence its agricultural duties without any further human
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Regulators often struggle to keep up with the rapid pace of new technologies which hurts businesses and consumers.
Whether it’s a cutting-
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edge gadget, an exciting software platform, or an advanced appliance, the latest technologies to hit the market can create a consumer and business buying frenzy. They can fully meet with expectations and they can turn out to be a passing fad, but on occasion, they can also present possible dangers, particularly if they bypass strict health and safety regulations for the country in which they are being sold.
Where technology is concerned, the speed of development is rapid. Consumers are reliant on manufacturers to work within product safety guidelines and they trust them to do that before bringing a product to market. However, we have all heard the horror stories when technology goes wrong and in an effort to apply exemplary customer relationship management, each stage in the supply chain from retailers and distributors through to manufacturers becomes involved in a highly visible, sometimes damaging product recall.
One of the issues with fast moving tech innovation is that regulations can struggle to keep up. Drones, for example, are frequently used for surveillance purposes and like any other surveillance
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At the Bhubaneshwar Art Trail, curated by the brilliant Jagannath Panda and the enigmatic Premjish Achari, we have
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a French and an American artist presenting a unique and engaging dialogue between representation and abstraction. Both artists create works that draw our gaze inward as their installations speak of elegance and enigma even as they create a new signature in the dialectics of the environment and the large theories that are ingrained in us.
Tucked away on the terrace of an abandoned temple in Bhubaneswar with the sound of ducks quacking, the sculptural installation looks as if it’s an extension of an old tree. Brooklyn artist Markus Baenziger’s green leaves created by fabric and wire is a veritable treat and it speaks to us about the power of minimalism and the elegance of creating a work that can speak of itself even as it echoes an ecological evanescence amidst its own grace-filled gravitas.
Baenziger’s sculptures in the past have integrated his love of nature with his immersion in a gritty, imperfect and industrialised world. His installation at a tang
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It’s been 50 years since the world’s longest surviving kidney transplant patient had his operation.
Harry Turner, now 70,
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has smashed life expectancy rates after he was predicted to only live a further 16 years.
He had received a kidney from older brother Victor in 1969.
Sadly Victor passed away when he was just 39 from a heart attack but Harry said he would always be grateful to his sibling.
Harry said: ‘I was 20 when I had my transplant.
‘My two kidneys had packed up and were diseased. My weight had gone up to almost 20 stone because I was full of fluid.
‘My brother, Victor, kindly gave me his kidney and it has worked ever since..
Grandfather-of-three Harry, who worked in construction until I was 58, said the transplant allowed him to live a full life.
He still has to go for check-ups but is doing well.
Harry has been honoured with an NHS award after surviving for so long and he took the opportunity to thank Preston Hospital for his treatment.
He added: ‘I�
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A Somerset County man convicted of stealing electric utility wires with his wife was sentenced to serve three years in jail by an Accomack County judge.
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Darek Snyder, 37, and his wife, Amanda Grover-Snyder, both of Westover, had both pleaded guilty to theft of copper wires from A&N electric company’s power lines in Accomack and Northampton counties between July and October last year.
The pair was caught in October last year and made full confessions to the police after their arrest.
Both admitted they were addicted to heroin and were selling the wire to make money to support their habits.
Snyder has a lengthy criminal history, mostly involving the theft of electrical wire, said Commonwealth’s Attorney Spencer Morgan.
On the witness stand at his April 11 sentencing, Snyder testified about the couple’s long history of drug abuse.
He said their two-year-long heroin habit “cost $40 or $50 a day” in the beginning, then escalated to $200 to $300 a day by the time they were arrested.
“I started
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This year, at least three major long-awaited virtual reality headsets will go on sale: the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive, and Sony's
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PlayStation VR.
But Facebook-owned Oculus VR already has a huge advantage over those rival products and companies: awareness.
Take a look at this chart provided by Google Trends, which measures the popularity of search terms on Google.
As you can see, the Oculus Rift is far and away the most popular virtual reality headset on Google, at least in terms of search volume.
Sony's PlayStation VR headset, formerly called "Project Morpheus," and HTC's Vive headset, are some of the lesser-searched headsets on Google — in fact, people apparently search for the Oculus Rift about 7.5 times more than the HTC Vive or the PlayStation VR. This is somewhat surprising, considering the overwhelmingly positive reviews for the HTC Vive and the massive popularity of Sony's PlayStation 4 game console, which will support PlayStation VR.
Obviously, this chart isn't an indicator of quality or potential sales. In fact, only one of these headsets — the Gear VR, which is super cheap to begin
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The prolonged oil slump has led to losses at energy companies and oil-producing countries alike.
While it might have left countries like Venezuela close to
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economic collapse, it's also left gaping holes in the national budgets of oil-dependent Gulf states.
Those deficits will have to be filled by borrowing, but as HSBC analysts led by economist Simon Williams note, their ability to do this cheaply will be complicated by the need to refinance existing debt that matures this year and next year.
As we have noted at length in previous reports, the slump in oil prices looks set to leave the GCC oil producers with aggregate fiscal and current account shortfalls of USD260bn and USD135bn over 2016-17 respectively, the equivalent of 8.7% and 4.5% of GDP.
We remain confident that these funding gaps will be covered. However, expectations that they will be part financed through the sale of sovereign US dollar debt (in some cases for the first time) will complicate efforts to refinance existing paper that matures over 2016-17.
And there's a lot of existing debt that needs refinancing over the next few
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Legislators are considering the establishment of a strategic environmental assessment system to evaluate the consequences of governmental policies and planning on the environment and to ensure sustainable
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development in the country.
Such a system will be legalized by a draft law on environmental consequence assessments which was debated by legislators attending the 19th session of the Ninth National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee on December 27.
Environmental consequence assessment refers to the analysis, anticipation and evaluation of possible consequences that certain policies, planning and projects will have on the environment. It also encompasses solutions to prevent negative impacts upon the environment and methods for follow-up inspections.
The draft law states that governments at and above city level should organize environmental consequence assessments and submit reports on them before making regional exploitation, industrial development and natural resource exploitation policies or plans that might bring about negative environmental consequences.
Under the same scrutiny will come land use schemes, city planning projects and other specific industrial, agricultural, forestry, energy, water resource, communication and tourism plans, as well as construction.
The 1979 Environmental Protection Law legalized environmental consequence assessments on construction projects. Consequently over 90 percent of projects constructed between
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President Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt has broken all relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen.
He has ordered their diplomats
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to leave Egypt within 24 hours and recalled his envoys from the countries.
The move is in retaliation to the four nations and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation signing the Declaration of Tripoli.
The document is an official pledge to "freeze" relations with the Egyptian Government.
Hostilities have been growing between Egypt and her former allies in the region after Mr Sadat visited Israel last month and became the first Arab leader to recognise the state.
The agreement in Tripoli is said to have formed a unified military front against Egypt which includes sanctions against any Egyptian company or individual doing business with Israel.
The coalition is also considering moving the headquarters of the Arab League from Cairo.
It called on all Arab states to give full financial, political and military assistance to Syria as the main confrontation state and it condemned Mr Sadat's visit to Israel as "high treason".
Egypt is now expected to expel an estimated 200 diplomats with the Syrians leaving first.
It is not yet known if Egypt will take any
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The European Union won’t require its member countries to ban Huawei from their wireless networks, despite the U.S.’s warning
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that the Chinese tech giant poses an intelligence threat. Cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright reacts to the EU’s decision.
A U.K. watchdog is raising concerns that the use of Huawei Technologies equipment in the country’s telecom network could pose long-term national security risks, according to a report published Thursday.
Huawei – one of the world’s largest telecommunications firms -- has faced international scrutiny over its close ties to the Chinese government. The Trump administration is seeking to persuade allies to block the use of the company’s equipment in pending fifth-generation wireless networks.
While some, like Australia, have implemented measures to ban Huawei, others -- including the U.K. and Germany -- are still weighing whether to take action. The new analysis from the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre’s Huawei Oversight Board, however, could renew calls for the government to take action.
“Even this limited assurance is possible only on the
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Nights with Steve Price reviews the day’s news and current affairs and follows the breaking news of the night.
Every night the program
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features one of the country’s most popular columnists, Rita Panahi, discussing the news and politics of the day.
Listen to the full show podcast of Nights with Steve Price for Thursday April 18.
Dr Harry Nespolon talks the College’s election campaign.
The Australian’s John Lethlean talks the week in his culinary adventures.
Rita Panahi & Steve Price talk the day’s politics.
Listen to the full show podcast of Nights with Steve Price for Wednesday April 17.
Andrew Bolt & Steve Price talk the day’s politics.
Andrew Clennell joins Steve Price to discuss the latest in politics.
Every Tuesday night Steve Price is joined by Brett Stene from Jacaranda Financial Planning to answer all your financial questions.
Dr Larry Benge from the Malo Clinic Sydney joins Steve Price each Wednesday night at 9.45pm for the 2GB Dental Health Show. The Dental Health show provides a
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Instagram accounts for 8% of social media posts about fall TV but 70% of the engagement, according to a new report by Nielsen via its
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Social Content Ratings service.
As social media continues to grow in importance as a tool for building awareness for TV shows, networks are looking for the best ways to deploy resources across social platforms. Nielsen is increasing its capabilities for measuring what it calls Owned Content Performance across social media.
As evidence of the need, the company sifted through social data from a three-week period ahead of the fall TV season. The total added up to 142,000 pieces of content on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram generating more than 154 million engagements (likes, comments, re-posts, etc.).
The numbers on Instagram were particularly revealing. While the Facebook-owned platform had just 8% of all posts, it had a 70% share of engagement.
Nielsen began accounting for social media in its measurement in 2016, adding Instagram last January.
While text-only posts remain the most common media type created by owned accounts, with 35% of the owned content total, they captured only 8%
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ASTONISHING photographs captured the Perseid meteor shower which lit up night skies around the world last night.
The annual event is caused by
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the Earth crossing the debris from the tail of the Swift-Tuttle comet.
Dust and rock jettisoned from comet burn up as they enter our atmosphere, appearing as shining lights shooting across the night sky.
The shower appears to come from the direction of the Perseus constellation from which it gets its name.
It technically began on July 17 but reached its most spectacular stage last night when up to 80 meteors an hour rained down on earth - double what was experienced last year.
Jane Houston Jones from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said: "The famous and reliably active Perseid meteor shower peaks in the morning hours of August 12th.
"The moon, which paired up so nicely with Mars and Saturn on the 11th, is bright enough to blot out some of the meteors, but-lucky for you it sets about 1 a.m. on the morning of the 12th, just at the peak time for the best Perseid viewing."
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Twitter just officially launched its “retweet with comment” feature, which it began testing last summer.
“Retweet with comment
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” allows users to embed a tweet in their own tweets, which lets them get around Twitter’s 140-character limit when they write their own commentary. The feature is now available on Twitter’s site and iPhone app and will be available on its Android app soon.
Twitter previously let users embed quoted tweets by cutting-and-pasting its URL, but “retweet and comment” lets you do that by just pressing a button. The feature’s arrival has been heralded with much (somewhat ironic) rejoicing by Twitter users. Unfortunately, you can’t embed the full retweet and comment, as I just found out to my disconcertment while preparing this post (click on the embedded tweets to see how they look in the wild).
As my colleague Sarah Perez pointed out last year, however, the feature serves a serious purpose. For one thing, it allows people to share and comment on tweets without having to shorten the original
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The story isn't over for babies who suffered at the hands of abortionist Kermit Gosnell.
The Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office could retain
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their bodies for up to 10 years. Protesters on August 26 again called attention to the babies murdered by Gosnell, and noted that city officials may take their time in disposing the bodies.
The rally, preceded by a vigil the evening before, was phase two of "A Cry For Dignity." During the event, protesters carried signs with names assigned to the some 45 babies brutalized by Gosnell, who was convicted of murdering three babies in May. The protestors are calling for "a proper and dignified funeral and burial service."
Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins bashed the City of Philadelphia, arguing, "Can you imagine if they did that -- if I died today and the City of Philadelphia said they weren't going to release my body for 10 years? We would say that's inhumane. We would say that's barbaric."
Hawkins concluded, "I think what they're trying to do is kind of hold them hostage a little bit and threaten us. But we
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WASHINGTON, July 31 (AP) —The Government charged the Armco Steel Corporation today with using illegal reciprocalpurchase arrangements with suppliers and customers.
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The Middletown, Ohio, concern, which is the United States’ fifth‐largest steel producer, was named in a civil antitrust suit and accompanying consent order filed by the Justice Department in Federal District Court in Cincinnati.
Attorney General John N. Mitchell, who announced the actions in Washington, said the suit alleged that Armco had had reciprocal agreements with customers and suppliers since 1958. Such agreements are illegal under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
As a result of the alleged agreements, Armco's competi tors have been closed off from selling substantial quantities of goods and services to Armco's customers and rival suppliers have been prevented from selling goods and services to Arm co, the suit alleged.
Armco is the fourth large steel concern to be cited by the Justice Department for alleged reciprocal buying‐selling agreements. Similar suits have been filed within the last year against the United States Steel Corporation, the Illland Steel Company and the Republic Steel Corporation.
The proposed consent judgement
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Trade turnover between Russia and its second largest trade partner, Germany, increased 8.4 percent and reached nearly €62 billion ($70 billion) in
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2018 compared to previous year, according to the German trade lobby.
Year-on-year imports from Russia to Germany expanded 14.7 percent, amounting to €36 billion ($40 billion). Export to Russia rose by 0.6 percent to €25.9 billion ($29 billion), the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce, which represents over 800 German firms, reported on Monday citing the Federal Statistical Office.
This is despite sanctions against Moscow and threats from the US to penalize German companies involved in the Russia-led Nord Stream 2 pipeline project.
“German business has successfully increased exports to Russia despite the market difficulties, sanctions and counter-sanctions. This has also improved our expectations for 2019,” the chairman of the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce, Matthias Schepp, said in a statement.
At the end of last year, Schepp said German firms boosted their investment in the Russian economy in spite of economic sanctions, adding such an investment volume has rarely
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The cloud-based accounting platform's growth continued, with 193,000 new subscribers added in the half. But it came at a cost, with
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net losses widening.
US private equity firm KKR has sweetened its bid for accounting software platform MYOB to $3.77 a share, valuing the company at $2.2 billion.
The barbarians are at the MYOB gates. Chairman Justin Milne and the board will have to decide whether to let them inside the building.
Founder Rod Drury has stepped back to ensure a smooth succession for chief executive Steve Vamos.
Businesses are scrambling to digitise their wage systems as the Tax Office rolls out Single Touch Payroll.
Xero board member Craig Winkler has sold a whopping $120 million worth of the company's shares since May last year.
JP Morgan chairman Rob Priestley takes his Banking and Finance Oath very seriously.
Move over, pavlova, Australia is quickly laying claim to another Kiwi icon.
Steve Vamos will take over as chief executive of the accounting software company.
Cloud accounting software provider Xero
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In the San Antonio Independent School District, the focus is on breaking down - school size that is, as the Texas city seeks to turn its eight
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large public high schools (average enrollment: 2,000) into clusters of small academies or magnet schools with between 400 to 600 students each.
The city hopes to find a way to weave together some of the best of the small-school experience with certain benefits of large schools. The small schools within each large school plan to continue to support one large football team and one large marching band.
"People want to keep the advantages of the big institutions," says Tom Gregory, professor of education at Indiana University in Bloomington. "They want that broad-based curriculum and that big football team."
In some Indianapolis suburbs, says Dr. Gregory, efforts to break down large schools have caused parental unhappiness. "They say the community is now less united and there are no more top-flight orchestras."
At the 125-pupil Heath Elementary School in Heath, Mass., principal Philip O'Reilly says small schools have their pros and cons.
On the plus side: "
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Brighton UK 28th April 2015 - Runners enjoy the sunny Spring weather on the South Downs Way at Ditchling Beacon just north of Brighton
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this morning.Photograph taken by Simon Dack..
ROBERT Halfon MP recently publicised the issue of elderly residents from his Essex constituency ringing his office for news updates because their local paper is no longer available in printed format.
This clearly makes an argument for people to support papers such as this.
However, beyond the issue of how valuable The Argus and many other Sussex papers that are published mostly on a weekly routine are is a more important message that emerges in between the lines.
I read about Halfon’s comments from a news piece on the BBC website which explains that according to the Government a quarter of all regional and local newspapers (about 320) have closed in the past ten years.
The Government has commissioned an independent review into finding a sustainable future for journalism, chaired by Frances Cairncross who has worked for The Times, Guardian and Observer. Whatever the outcome of the review, the fact that the Government has committed so much time to developing online
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A high-risk traffic stop that took place downtown on Tuesday afternoon ended with a 24-year-old woman in police custody and three young children
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being cared for by Mobile Crisis Services.
The woman has been charged with attempted robbery, robbery, possession of stolen property over $5,000, carrying a weapon dangerous to the public and assault with a weapon — many of the charges stemming from two incidents that took place just after 8 a.m. in the College Park and Grosvenor Park neighbourhoods.
During the arrest, which took place just after 1 p.m. north of the intersection of 2nd Avenue North and 23rd Street East, officers located three young children inside the vehicle and called Mobile Crisis Services to care for them.
According to a police news release, police first responded to two reports that a woman armed with a knife and driving a Ford Escape — which officers discovered had also been stolen — between 8 and 8:30 a.m. In the first incident the suspect attempted to rob a woman of her belongings but was unsuccessful. In the second incident the suspect stole another woman’s purse.
Neither
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In this photo taken President Barack Obama rides in his limousine as he arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Md. Joint Base Andrews tweets that the
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base is on lockdown due to a report of an active shooter. The tweet sent Thursday instructs all personnel at the base in Washington’s Maryland suburbs to shelter in place and says more information will be released as it comes.
People with arms raised people are lead out of the Malcolm Grow Medical facility on Andrews AFB in Morningside, Md., when the base wasplaced on lockdown after an active shooter was reported, Thursday. Officials say reports of an active shooter at the military post stemmed from someone who made a distress call Thursday after seeing security forces doing a routine inspection.
JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. >> The military base outside Washington where the presidential plane Air Force One is stationed was temporarily locked down Thursday after an “active shooter” report that turned out to be a false alarm.
The report stemmed from someone who made a distress call after seeing security forces doing a routine inspection. The confusion was heightened by a planned active shooter drill at Joint Base Andrews that had
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The body representing judges in Chile has made an unprecedented apology for the actions of its members under military rule in the 1970s and 1980s.
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In a statement, it said the judiciary at the time had abandoned its role as protector of basic rights.
“The time has come to ask for the forgiveness of victims… and of Chilean society,” said the judges.
BBC reports that more than 3,000 people were killed under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet between 1973 and 1990.
The statement by the National Association of Magistrates of the Judiciary comes a week before the 40th anniversary of the coup that brought Gen. Pinochet to power.
It said its members, and in particular the Supreme Court, had failed in its duty to protect victims of state abuse.
The magistrates’ association acknowledged that the Chilean judiciary could and should have done much more to safeguard the rights of those persecuted by the dictatorship.
It said the judges had ignored the plight of victims who had demanded their intervention.
Chilean courts rejected about 5,000 cases seeking help on locating missing loved ones abducted or killed
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As David Terenzoni, director at Public Services moves to head the Water Department, the search is on for a new director.
The
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Public Services director has lots of responsibility in a city of 53,000 residents, with paving, plowing, and potholes just the tip of the iceberg.
The City Council approved upping the maximum salary for the position to $135,000 a year, up from $119,000 at the request of the mayor.
By upping the maximum salary, Bettencourt said the city can ensure it attracts qualified candidates for the job. While the maximum salary for the director is $119,000, Terenzoni’s salary is $114,000.
The new Public Services director would not necessarily be hired at $135,000, but raising the upper limit gives the city flexibility, the mayor said. The position is scheduled to be advertised today.
Councilor-at-Large Anne Manning-Martin supports the mayor’s request. But she suggested the educational requirements be raised so a Bachelor’s degree would be required and a Master’
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How interesting are you? As in, if you’re stuck in a room with someone for an hour, are you able to carry on
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an informative and entertaining discussion or is it just 60 minutes of awkward smiling? The reality is probably somewhere in the middle, but there’s always a whiff of paranoia it might be more of the latter. And that’s where The Economist comes in.
In its new ad by agency eyeball, we see a man getting on the elevator, waiting to exhale after a stressful meeting, when in walks Google executive chairman–and Economist board member–Eric Schmidt. You can practically hear the poor guy’s flop sweats starting. But if he had read The Economist, he’d be able to wax academic on things like the Japanese prime minister’s economic plan or tax reform in India. Or at least the ability to move beyond mind-numbing small talk.
The ad’s a remake of a 1996 spot with the same premise, except, it was on an airplane with former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Chances are
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Watch for European leaders to make moves to — hopefully, in their minds — charm and disarm Trump during his consequential visits to the NATO summit and to
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the United Kingdom for his first visit there.
Another storyline: German Chancellor Angela Merkel mentioned several times last week that German defense spending levels need to go up. Watch for her to make a good faith statement at NATO along similar lines.
The Brits have arranged Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom with the apparent goal of keeping him as far as possible from the massive protests against him being planned in central London.
London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, has approved a giant blimp, depicting Trump as an angry baby, to fly over Parliament during Trump's U.K. visit.
Meanwhile, British officials will host Trump at events far away from 10 Downing Street and Buckingham Palace. Sources familiar with the planning tell me they want Trump out of sight and earshot of the protesters.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will host the president and first lady for a black-tie dinner at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. It's the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill, and
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Having publicly argued the church case in recent national debates on euthanasia and stem cells as well as on Aboriginal and refugee rights, I hope I can
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be seen as one with a consistent life ethic and a consistent approach on the primacy of the formed and informed conscience. In light of my experience as a participant in the national debate on embryonic stem cell research, let me offer some constructive and respectful reflections on the happenings here in Sydney this last fortnight.
The public consternation has focussed on the comments of Cardinal Pell and the reaction of the politicians to his initial press conference. So that will be my focus, but with a view to drawing some general conclusions applicable to all pastors and church leaders in relation to all issues debated in the public square.
Over the last couple of weeks, I have gone to some pains to avoid the Murdoch press’s initial depiction of a conflict between Cardinal Pell and myself as “divisions between church heavyweights over the primacy of conscience”. I am pleased to note that the Murdoch press then reported under the headline “Jesuit priest raps cardinal’s critics”
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jerry Reed, a popular country singer and movie actor whose larger-than-life storytelling and flashy guitar work vividly
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evoked Southern life, died early Monday morning at his home here. He was 71.
The cause was emphysema, said Butch Baker, Reed”s friend and song publisher.
Best known in later years for his role in the movie “The Waterboy,” starring Adam Sandler, and in the three “Smokey and the Bandit” adventures of the late ”70s and early ”80s, in which he played Burt Reynolds” gear-shifting sidekick the Snowman, Reed was first and foremost a musician.
Reed accompanied himself on the three dozen Top 40 country hits he recorded under his own name from 1967 to 1983.
“Amos Moses” earned Reed a 1971 Grammy nomination for best male country vocal performance, an award that he won the following year with “When You”re Hot, You”re Hot.” He and the producer and guitarist
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For the Rangers, Monday’s six-hour flight to Vancouver should be a pleasant one.
The Blueshirts, coming off a
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1-4-1 skid, rode a two-goal night from center Derick Brassard and toppled the Ottawa Senators, 4-1, Sunday night at Madison Square Garden.
With the Rangers leading 2-1 in the third period, Brassard raced ahead of the field to collect a bouncing pass, fired from the top of the left circle and beat goalie Craig Anderson at 10:08.
It certainly qualified as a breakout evening for Brassard, who had only one goal in the previous nine games.
Jesper Fast added an empty-netter with 1:31 left.
Defenseman Ryan McDonagh also had a big night offensively with a goal and two assists, which tied a career high.
The Rangers (18-7-3) tightened their defense in the third, allowing Ottawa only three shots on Henrik Lundqvist in the final 20 minutes.
The Rangers are 12-4-1 at home but play the next three on the road in
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Cardiff striker Fraizer Campbell marked his home debut with two goals as the npower Championship leaders moved 11 points clear at the top with a 2
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-1 win over Bristol City.
The home side's first-half dominance was rewarded in added time when the January acquisition from Sunderland clipped Tommy Smith's clever through ball past former Bluebird Tom Heaton.
And 12 minutes into the second half the full debutant scored his third for the club, more than he managed in the whole of last season for Sunderland, after a mammoth long throw from Aron Gunnarsson. A bizarre own goal from Ben Nugent reduced the deficit in added time but it was too little too late for the struggling Robins.
Bristol City, backed by 2,200 vocal travelling fans, had a chance in the 18th minute when Steven Davies' clipped cross found Jon Stead and his volley flew over the crossbar.
After Heaton did well to smother Craig Bellamy's low cross the keeper was just a spectator as Bellamy fired in a thumping 30-yard free-kick that clipped the bar.
Heaton then received the
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First, and most basic, what exactly is US policy in Syria? President Donald Trump said just two weeks ago in a speech in Ohio that the
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US would "be coming out of Syria like very soon." Now, Trump has presided over a large-scale bombing operation aimed at three chemical weapons production and storage targets in Syria, including in Damascus, the Syrian capital.
So what is the Trump administration policy? Is it that Syrian leader Bashar al Assad must go, which has been the stated policy of the United States going back to the early days of the Syrian civil war under President Barack Obama? Or is there simply just a red line on Assad's use of chemical weapons, but not much more?
The answer is far from clear. When President Trump announced the US-led strikes on Friday he emphasized the latter, while his own ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said earlier this week that there is no political solution in Syria with Assad still in power.
Second, beyond responding to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons, does the Trump administration have a plan to protect Syrian civilians in the war that has destroyed much of their country
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President Donald Trump’s travel ban could exacerbate a looming shortage of primary care doctors in the United States, which may hit the Dayton area harder
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than other regions because of its high concentration of medically under-served areas that have historically attracted foreign-born doctors.
One in 10 Dayton-area residents lives in a Health Professional Shortage Area — designated as having shortages of primary medical care, dental or mental health providers, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Foreign-born doctors have flocked to these areas to complete their graduate medical training because it allows them to stay in the U.S. if they commit to working there for a certain period. And many medical schools offer free or discounted tuition on the same basis.
Britta Hakkila, who will graduate next month from the international medical school at St. George’s University in Grenada, West Indies, has already been selected for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine. But some of her classmates have been rejected for similar assignments in the United States, which she attributes
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No American concession ever empties President Obama’s appeasement reservoir or satisfies Iran’s appetite. So on drone the negotiations toward
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a disastrous deal that would end sanctions against the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism while paving its way to a nuclear-weapons arsenal.
In that connection, as Patrick Brennan noted on the Corner Friday, Senator Ben Sasse has penned a letter to the president that makes a compelling case against a key aspect of the contemplated Iran deal.
Specifically, on the critical matter of establishing violations by Iran that would theoretically trigger reinstatement of the sanctions, Senator Sasse objects that Obama is foolishly shifting the burden of persuasion. The deal, he argues, would require the United States to prove Iranian violations rather than forcing Iran to prove it is in compliance.
So here’s my problem: Since the obviously perspicacious senator grasps how critical the burden of persuasion is, why did he support the Corker bill? That legislation, co-sponsored by Sasse and enacted as the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, shifts the burden of persuasion away from President Obama and onto opponents
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New Craiglist ads are now offering the services of Pokemon trainers who will help level up players willing to pay around $20 per hour.
Too
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busy with your real life to play the hit augmented reality game Pokemon Go? For a price, some entrepreneurs will play the game for you.
New ads are popping up on Craigslist nearly every day from people who say they will log on to your Pokemon Go account and effectively run up your score while you are stuck at work or sitting in class.
On a recent July afternoon, two 24-year-old Pokemon trainers, Lewis Gutierrez and Jordan Clark, walked through Brooklyn's Prospect Park with their eyes glued to their phones, tapping and swiping away to catch virtual Pokemon for clients paying about $20 per hour for the service.
Gutierrez, who described himself as a welder and writer, said he began by helping relatives with the game after it was released in the U.S. in early July. Then he put a post on Craigslist advertising his services professionally.
He said he was immediately inundated with requests from potential customers and had to recruit Clark, a part-time wine
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A dying man in Nebraska was comforted by 3,500 strangers he never knew as his family kicked off the #SkyBluePink campaign after he
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was diagnosed with lung cancer.
Brian Curtis decided to forgo chemotherapy, as he also suffered from Parkinson’s disease, and doctors gave him about a year to live.
His son Brandon, 30 started the #SkyBluePink campaign to bring comfort to Brian during his last very painful days and he got an incredible response. Sky Blue Pink is a color Brian Curtis’ mother used to describe the way the sky looked during a sunrise or sunset.
Brandon lives in Los Angeles and traveled for business frequently. When Brian was first diagnosed he came home to spend time with his dying father, but encouraged by him decided to go back to his normal life.
Communication between the two was frequent, via Skype, after dad found out the grim news on April 24, 2012 during a business trip in Austria.
At that point the dying man had six months to live. This was not the first family member was lost because of a deadly disease.
Brandon and the rest of the family
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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. To mark the occasion, PBS is
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airing a remastered edition of Ken Burns' landmark documentary series "The Civil War."
The nine-part series will air on five consecutive nights, from Sept. 7-11, the month that will mark the 25th anniversary of the series' first airing on PBS.
The new version of the series has been scanned frame-by-frame for a new high-definition print, which is touted as the first time viewers will get to see the series the way Burns originally shot it.
Burns was an established and Oscar-nominated documentarian when "The Civil War" first aired in 1990, but that series made him a household name. The first episode set a ratings record for PBS, with an approximate 38.9 million people tuning in. It went on to win a total of 40 awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Peabody and the Lincoln Prize.
This is the second time the series has been remastered. It was previously digitally touched
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Chesters Dancing Academy back in 1997.
A well-known Fleetwood dance school celebrates its 80th anniversary this year.
And Christine Che
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eseman, principal of Chesters Dancing Academy, is hoping former members can help make the celebrations extra special.
When Chesters stages its latest dance spectacular at Thornton Little Theatre on May 8 and 9, Christine hopes to have a montage of vintage photographs and programmes of the dance school on display.
She said: “We do not seem to have a great many photographs of the earlier decades and we would love to have some on display. We are hoping former members can let us borrow some we can copy.
Chesters has helped train more than 1,000 young dancers since it was founded eight decades ago.
It was established by dancer and pantomime performer Chic Chester in 1935, and its first panto, Red Riding Hood, was staged at the Marine Hall in January 1936.
Chic’s husband, Fred Nielson, was producer, with Chic playing the Principal boy and the couple’s daughter, under the stage name Hazel Doreen, playing
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In protest of the brutal tactics of Syria’s government, members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous have defaced the website of the Middle
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Eastern country’s Ministry of Defense, causing the site to completely shutdown on Monday.
“To the Syrian people: The world stands with you against the brutal regime of Bashar Al-Assad. Know that time and history are on your side – tyrants use violence because they have nothing else, and the more violent they are, the more fragile they become. We salute your determination to be non-violent in the face of the regime’s brutality, and admire your willingness to pursue justice, not mere revenge. All tyrants will fall, and thanks to your bravery Bashar Al-Assad is next.
Anonymous also replaced the official homepage with one featuring the group’s logo, along with images that link to videos of Syrian police and military brutalities and examples of citizen unrest that continues to enveloped the oppressed country. At the bottom of the page, Anonymous provided links to its various Facebook pages and Twitter profiles.
As The Next Web reports, the source code for the
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Lesley Turner, general manager of Cote, Alison Shaw and Stephanie Kerr, of BID Leamington.
Love will be in the
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air for visitors to Leamington’s town centre shops and restaurants this month.
The town’s retailers and restaurateurs have teamed up to support BID Leamington’s annual Love Leam month - which showcases Leamington and all it has to offer - and this year the challenge is to be the kindest town in the country.
Inspired by the random acts of kindness movement, which encourages people to perform selfless acts to brighten others’ days, traders are basing this year’s extravaganza around spreading goodwill.
To help things along they will be donating meal and drink vouchers, chocolates, surprise prizes and flowers to give to people at random.
So far around 20 businesses are contributing to the campaign, including Côte, a newly opened French bistro based in Regent Court, and Neal’s Yard, an organic health and beauty store in Regent Street which will be offering free
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Prime Minister John Key saying the death of a New Zealand soldier in Afghanistan affected the handling of the limousine controversy is "repugnant",
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Labour leader Phil Goff says.
"The BMW saga was in the news well before the soldier's tragic death," he said.
Mr Key today told NewstalkZB the Government did not handle the BMW limos issue well because it was preoccupied by the death of Private Kirifi Mila and the visit of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei said the "excuse" was new low for Mr Key.
"New Zealanders deserve more than feeble excuses from a prime minister who is prepared to be so extravagant," she said.
"And if he is going to be so extravagant and benefit his ministers with brand new limos, then he needs to be up front about that. Not hide behind other issues, certainly not hide behind the death of a New Zealand soldier."
A decision to replace the Government's 34 three-year-old BMW limos with new ones sparked anger last week, with the move seen
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The Severn Crossing tolls will be abolished in December. From December 13 all vehicles using the bridges will be able to travel for free.
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The change marks Prince Charles being bestowed with the title 60 years ago along with his 70th birthday.
The M48 bridge over the River Severn will be closed for maintenance this weekend due to roadworks between Junction 1 A403 (Aust) and Junction 2 A466 Wye Valley Link Road (Chepstow).
The closure will be in place from 4am on Saturday 12 August until 10pm on Sunday 13 August.
The Severn Crossing tolls will be abolished next year, the government has said. Currently cars are charged £6.70 for a return journey.
There are currently no trains running between Bristol Temple Meads and Severn Beach due to a train striking a wheel barrow.
Tickets being accepted on local bus routes.
One lane is closed and traffic is slow due to a broken down vehicle on the Eastbound M4 between J22 for the M49 and J21 for the M48.
Police are on the scene and recovery is underway.
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The Narendra Modi government scored a century on the foreign policy front in the first year as bilateral contacts at the top level were established with 101 countries.
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In the second year, the most important engagement for the Modi government would be the Africa summit in October which for the first time heads 54 African nations would be invited. The prime minister is also slated to travel to Israel – first by an Indian Prime Minister – but the dates are yet to be fixed. Asked about the outcomes of bilateral meetings with the leaders of 101 countries, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said the foreign direct investment increased by 39 per cent between April 2013 and February 2014. “In absolute number it is $28.81 billion of FDI inflow,” she said on Sunday.
While the prime minister undertook 18 visits, Swaraj travelled to 21 countries and her deputy Gen V K Singh (rtd) went to 17 nations. Rest of the bilateral meetings took place on the sidelines of the multilateral summits all over the world.
Swaraj confirmed that Modi would be the first Indian Prime Minister to travel to Israel, but that
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Remnants of bloody rule echo throughout Indonesian archipelago.
As Indonesia marks the death of its former president, survivors of Soeharto
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's military backed government - from East Timor to Aceh and the Javanese countryside - have sparked a debate about whether the former leader should be forgiven.
The five-star former general, who died on Sunday afternoon, took over Indonesia in 1966, exploiting an alleged coup to purge Indonesia of the world's largest communist party outside China and sideline Indonesia's first president Sukarno.
Between half a million to a million people were killed as the army organised Muslim groups and ordinary citizens to take their revenge on the Indonesian Communist party.
Hundreds of thousands of others were jailed, killed or simply disappeared as Soeharto cracked down on opponents and stamped Indonesia's rule on territories as far apart as Aceh in the west to Timor and Papua in the east.
With the blood of as many as one and a half million people on his hands, and allegedly billions of dollars of state funds in his bank accounts, the wily former dictator has never faced court or had to account for
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Beantown Bedding cofounders Kirsten Lambert and Joan Ripple.
College students can find time for all sorts of activities, but
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one chore that always seems to drop off the bottom of their to-do list is washing the sheets.
Two Hingham entrepreneurs have come up with a solution: linens made from a fiber called Tencel, derived from Eucalyptus trees, which you can simply toss into a compost bin or trash can when they’re dirty. The sheets from their start-up, Beantown Bedding, are both compostable and biodegradable. A set that includes a fitted sheet, flat sheet, and pillowcase costs $25.
They started developing the concept of disposable sheets last year, got their first wholesale orders at a trade show in March, and received their first inventory in June.
Heather Henriksen, director of the office of sustainability at Harvard University, said she thought the concept of compostable sheets might have merits in places where there isn’t sufficient water to regularly wash linens, like a disaster relief camp.
But
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KPH Dream Cricket,owner of IPL franchisee Kings XI Punjab,has narrowed down losses sharply by 95%.
KPH Dream Cricket,
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the owner of IPL franchisee Kings XI Punjab,has narrowed down its losses sharply by 95 per cent to Rs 1.52 crore in 2011-12 financial year from a loss of Rs 35.26 crore in 2010-11. According to the shareholding pattern in the company,actress Preity Zinta and industrialist Ness Wadia have 23 per cent stake each while rest is owned by another industrialist Mohit Burman,Karan Paul Chairman of Apeejay-Surrendra Group among others.
The loss of Rs 35.26 crore for 2010-11 was the highest ever loss suffered by the company since the commencement of IPL in 2008,according to financial documents,including profit and loss account,of the company filed with Registrars of Companies here.
It reported net loss of Rs 11.03 crore and Rs 21.55 crore in financial year 2009-10 and 2008-09 respectively.
Notably,IPL franchisee Kings XI Punjab was
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