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LONDON: Olympic gold medalists Alistair Brownlee and Nick Skelton expressed their surprise British athletics legend Mo Farah was again sn | ubbed by the public for the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
For Murray — who garnered almost 250,000 votes over double the total of Brownlee — it was a historic third BBC award.
Farah — despite emulating Finnish icon Lasse Viren (1972/76) as the only athlete to do the Olympic distance double twice (5000/10000 metres) — finished way behind in terms of the popular vote in fourth.
Skelton — whose sport gets barely any mainstream coverage apart from the Olympics — received just over 109,000 votes with the much higher profile Farah getting only 54,476.
“I’m not sure why that is that he hasn’t made the top three,” said Brownlee.
Farah’s best finish is third in the 2011 poll. He has filled fourth spot on two other occasions — including 2012 when he lit up the track in London to secure his first Olympic double — and |
Human remains and helicopter parts were recovered Wednesday after seven Marines and four soldiers crashed in heavy fog during military training in Florida.
All 11 service members | were presumed dead after the the Army National Guard's UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter went down offshore, a Pentagon official said.
Kim Urr, 62, who works at the nearby Navarre Beach campground, said she heard a strange sound, followed by two explosions around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
President Barack Obama spoke with the military leaders involved and expressed his condolences to the families before saying he's confident of a detailed and thorough investigation, said his spokesman, Josh Earnest.
The Black Hawk crashed as Marines and National Guardsmen practiced "insertion and extraction missions," using small boats and helicopters to get troops into and out of a target site, said Capt. Barry Morris, spokesman for the Marine Corps Special Operations Command at Camp Lejeune.
Fog had reduced visibility to less than two miles at the time, according to the National Weather Service. Another helicopter participating in the training returned undamaged, authorities said.
Despite the human remains washing ashore |
Treatment wetlands clean water naturally and provide valuable habitat for wildlife, says company.
Our region is home to some of the most wonderful wildlife, | and at Anglian Water, we want to make sure that their habitats and environments are not only protected, but improved and allowed to thrive in an increasingly harsh global climate.
We already protect important habitats and species at 47 Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) across our region, and as part of our business plan from 2020, our promise is to do even more. We’re proposing £800 million worth of environmental investment as part of our plans. This investment is more than double that of the previous five years and will help to protect and enhance the region’s environment.
This proposed investment still needs to be approved by our industry regulator, Ofwat, as part of our wider business plan which totals £6.5 billion for the whole region between 2020 and 2025.
But the proof is in the pudding. Earlier this year, we unveiled our very first treatment wetland site which signalled the start of our future environmental intentions. If we are successful with our |
The shabu shabu trend continues at Shabu Shabu Bangkok on Kapahulu Avenue, where owner Keo Sanan | ikone has blended his famous Thai cuisine with this hot pot craze.
The Vegetable Combo ($14.95) showcases a variety of tofu, mushrooms and freshly mixed vegetables.
The Panang Curry may be ordered with shrimp and scallops ($15.95).
A tasty dessert features ube, coconut and mango ice cream ($6.95).
The restaurant opened its doors last September in Kapahulu, and Sananikone says shabu shabu is the perfect choice for those who are health conscious.
Whether it’s chicken, beef, vegetarian or Tom Yum (Thai lemon grass) broth, a foundation of delicious items has been laid out for Shabu Shabu Bangkok’s valued customers. Diners can select from an array of shabu shabu dishes, including the Vegetable Combo ($14.95), Seafood Combo ($19.95) and Meat Combo ($17.95). According to |
First news roundup of May. Some good, some bad.
The Building Indicator Project database -- created and compiled by our friends at the University | Neighborhood Housing Program (UNHP) -- is being hailed by city officials and advocates as a huge step in helping housing agencies identify problem buildings. According to the database, the number of financially and/or physically distressed buildings is up 19% from last year. Subscriptions to the database should be available in June.
A nice story by the Daily News' Wayne Coffey about a 25-year-old Lehman College baseball player, named Alberto Alicea, who has endured through a rough upbringing and the battlefields in Iraq to find peace on the ball field.
The Bronx's Bangladeshi community is banding together to combat what they say is becoming a wave of hate crimes against them.
The contest to name the Bronx Zoo's new lion cubs is turning a "battle of the boroughs."
A Mott Haven father who was shot in twice in the chest, allegedly by his wife's former lover, is going to live.
In six city school districts with minority |
True story: A few years ago I was so over dating that I forgot it was Valentine's Day until I decided to go see a movie alone | .
Only after a sea of couples confronted me in the lobby of AMC at the Levee did I remember. I also became painfully aware of just how "single" I was.
"Who goes to see a movie alone on Valentine's Day?" I thought.
I then put on a brave face, bought a single ticket for some horrible action movie and ordered a trashcan-sized tub of popcorn so I could sit in a mostly-empty theater for an hour and a half eating my feelings. They were salty.
I also set a smartphone reminder for Valentine's Day the next year.
Because of this, I also feel it's my civic duty to offer the following suggestions for single people who either want to avoid the holiday, watch it burn in effigy or just go out and have some fun this Thursday.
Find strength in numbers with these anti-Valentine events.
Singles Awareness Day: 5-10 p.m. Thursday. 3 Points |
Disabled people and their families are challenging the government's decision to cut housing benefit for recipients living in properties deemed too large.
Lawyers for | 10 families are at the High Court arguing the move - dubbed a "bedroom tax" by critics - will force them from their homes.
They say the changes discriminate against them because they need extra rooms to cope with their disability.
Ministers say their changes are legal and bring back fairness to the system.
About 660,000 working-age social housing households judged to have too many bedrooms have lost an average of £14 per week since their benefit was cut at the beginning of April.
The 10 families, all disabled or the parents of disabled children, are challenging the changes during a three-day hearing.
Lawyers for one London family say they live in a damp, one-bedroom flat infested with mice. One son has autism, the other has Down Syndrome.
The child with autism sleeps in the bedroom while his mother, father and brother sleep on the floor in the living room.
Due to the changes, they say they cannot afford to move to the larger property |
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSFA) - Alabama’s only Democratic representative in the U.S. House is taking on another | duty after her party gained control of the chamber in the most recent election cycle.
Wednesday, Rep. Terri Sewell, D-District 7, was appointed to lead the House Subcommittee on Defense and Warfighter Support. She’ll also serve on the Subcommittee on Intelligence Modernization and Readiness.
Sewell’s office released descriptions on both posts.
The Subcommittee on Defense Intelligence and Warfighter Support oversees policies and programs focused on providing the nation’s warfighters accurate, timely and relevant intelligence in support of military operations. This subcommittee will foster greater awareness, collaboration and more effective deployment of resources across the Intelligence Committee related to the collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination of strategic and tactical intelligence.
The Subcommittee on Intelligence Modernization and Readiness oversees policies and programs focused on ensuring that the intelligence enterprise is staffed, trained and equipped to advance its mission and that all 17 members of the I have the workforce, infrastructure and services they need to succeed, while leveraging the |
Microsoft Corp. today pushed out software updates to plug at least 11 separate security holes in its Windows operating system and other software.
Windows users can | grab the updates via the Microsoft Update Web site, through Automatic Updates, or download individual patches from the Microsoft Download Center.
Four of the vulnerabilities earned a "critical" rating from Redmond, its most severe. Microsoft labels flaws "critical" if they can be exploited remotely with little if any help from the user.
Updates are available for most versions of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Microsoft Office.
Four of the flaws reside in Office, from Office 2000 all the way up to the latest -- Office 2007. Office patches also are available through Microsoft Update, unless you're an Office 2000 user, in which case you'll need to pay a visit to the Office Update site to complete this month's patch cycle. Office 2000 users also may need to have their Office installation CD handy to finish the installation.
One interesting vulnerability patched today stems from a problem with the firewall built into Windows Vista PCs. From the advisory, there is an "information disclosure vulnerability in Windows Vista |
It might be said that Filipino cuisine is a culinary anthropologist’s playground.
With about 144 distinct ethnolinguistic groups throughout more | than 7,000 islands of the Philippine archipelago, there are infinite flavors to be explored.
Quite a few of these flavors can be found throughout Max’s of Manila’s menu. In fact, starting this month, customers can try variations of a delicious traditional soup called bulalo. Believed to have originated in Southern Luzon, in the Philippines’ famed cattle country, bulalo begins with a beef broth rich with fat and collagen.
According to general manager Maly San Luis, Max’s now offers a quartet of bulalo dishes at its two Oahu locations. “The main ingredient is a cross-cut beef shank simmered for hours to achieve tenderness and flavor,” notes San Luis.
Nilagang Bulalo (Osso Buco Soup), at $16.95, has a subtly complex natural flavor from the shank. It’s loaded with corn, bok choy and cabbage |
BENGALURU: Due to landslides at many locations between Donigal - Yedekumeri - Kadagara Valli - | Shribagilu block section of Sakleshpur - Subrahmanya Road Ghat sections over Mysuru division, railways have partially cancelled/ diverted some of the trains.
The Yesvantpur - Mangalore Jn Express journey commencing on August 23, 26, 28 and 30 will be partially cancelled between Hassan- Mangalore Jn.
Similarly, Yesvantpur - Karwar Express journey commencing on August 24, 27, 29 and 31 will be partially cancelled between Hassan -Karwar.
The journey of Karwar - Yesvantpur express commencing on August 24,27 29 and 31will be partially cancelled between Karwar - Hassan.
In the same way, Karwar - Yesvantpur Express journey commencing on August 23, 25., 28, 30 and September 1,2018 will be partially cancelled between Karwar - Hassan.
In view of this, KSR Bengaluru – Kannur/Karwar Express journey commencing on August 22., |
Nearly 20 years later, JonBenet Ramsey's family is still addressing rumors surrounding her murder.
In new clips released from Dr. Phil's | three-part interview with JonBenet's brother, Burke, and father, John, the two speak out on the suspicions that their family was involved in her death, with Burke giving his first interview since his 6-year-old sister was found dead in the basement of their Colorado home on Dec. 26, 1996.
"I know we were suspects," Burke tells Dr. Phil in a new clip, before taking a look at a copy of the ransom note supposedly left by JonBenet's kidnappers.
According to the testimony of JonBenet's mother, Patsy Ramsey -- who died of ovarian cancer in 2006 -- she discovered a two-and-a-half page ransom letter demanding $118,000 for her daughter's safe return on the kitchen staircase, which some speculate was actually written in Patsy's handwriting.
"I've never really looked at it closely, because you see it, and you kind of get taken aback," Burke, who was nine years old |
U.S. President Barack Obama has appointed Todd Park as the new CTO for the U.S. government.
Park, who has | served as CTO at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services since August 2009, cofounded health IT company Athenahealth in 1997. Before Athenahealth, he was a management consultant, focusing on health care and technology, with Booz Allen & Hamilton, and volunteered as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he focused on health IT and health reform policy.
He has also served as a senior health care advisor to Ashoka, a global incubator of social entrepreneurs, where he helped start a venture to bring affordable health services and clean water to rural India, according to his biography at HHS.gov. Park graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics.
At HHS, Park "was a hugely energetic force for positive change," John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, wrote in a blog post Friday.
Park led the development of HealthCare.gov, the first website to provide consumers with an inventory of public and |
As the race for the Republican presidential nomination heats up, Americans are hearing from 15 people who desperately want the public to believe President Obama has ruined the | economy.
Reality keeps getting in the way.
The U.S. economy grew almost 4% in the second quarter, powered by higher consumer spending and a bit stronger business investment than previously reported, revised figures show.
Gross domestic product – the value of everything a nation produces – rose at a 3.9% annual rate from April to June, according to the government’s second update of how fast the nation’s economy expanded during the spring. Previously the Commerce Department had said GDP increased 3.7%. The figures get revised as the government gets more data on how the economy performed.
As 2015 got underway, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) argued that Republicans deserve credit for the nation’s improved economic conditions. They hadn’t actually done anything, McConnell conceded, but Americans were just so darn excited about a GOP-dominated Congress that it gave the whole economy a boost.
With that in mind, I’d |
SCARLETT Moffatt has been tipped to be the host of a revamped version of Blind Date.
Since winning I’m A | Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Scarlett’s been inundated with offers of work – with potential earnings of £1 million.
According to PR expert Mark Borkowski, the former Gogglebox star would be a perfect fit for the show which was made famous by Cilla Black.
Speaking about the possibility of Scarlett taking up the challenge, Mark said: “She's set to make millions and be one of our biggest stars.
Although Scarlett’s not yet confirmed what she’s planning, the Daily Star claim she’s excited about the idea.
Since leaving the jungle, the 24-year-old has been having some downtime – partying with her family and friends in her local pub to celebrate her jungle win.
It’s thought she’s now weighing up the many options on the table, including the possibility of a reality show with her boyfriend Luke Crodden.
A source told Closer magazine: “Scarlett |
Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini denied he was under increasing pressure after his expensively-assembled side crashed out of the FA Cup at Stoke. |
City paid the price for Emmanuel Adebayor's sending off as they were overpowered 3-1 by the Potters in extra time at the Britannia Stadium. The result effectively ended City's hopes of winning silverware this season and left them to concentrate on their attempts to break into the top four of the Barclays Premier League.
The Italian has won just two of his last eight matches in all competitions but he insists he is not feeling the heat, saying: "No, no, absolutely not. I'm disappointed because we lost. We had a good chance to go to the next round and the final, but this is football, we must improve."
City forced extra time after Craig Bellamy struck immediately to cancel out Dave Kitson's 79th-minute opener.
But the game turned after Adebayor was dismissed for raising his arms in an attempt to fend off Ryan Shawcross.
Shawcross then headed the Potters ahead five minutes into extra time and Tun |
Global markets roiled afterChina announced retaliatory measures against US tariffs on Tuesday evening.
State TV in China reports that Beijing plans to levy tariffs | on more than 100 products traded with the US.
Planned measures include 25% tariffs on soybeans, automobiles, and chemicals, according to reports.
US stock futures have plunged, while several European indexes lost more than 1% in Wednesday-morning trade.
President Donald Trump responded to China's announcement by tweeting that the US was "not in a trade war with China."
Global markets were diving Wednesday morning following reports that China planned to retaliate against the US in an escalating trade conflict between the two nations.
China plans to impose tariffs on more than 100 American products with a combined trading value of over $50 billion, swiftly firing back at the US just hours after the Trump administration made similar proposals on Chinese products.
According to Bloomberg, 106 US products are affected, including proposed 25% tariffs on soybeans, automobiles, and chemicals.
China's government had effectively preannounced the measures earlier Tuesday, with China's Commerce Ministry saying in a statement that it would "soon take measures |
With the approval of a new budget, tuition increases need to be used to benefit students and faculty.
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler� | �s fiscal year 2019 budget was approved by the Board of Regents earlier this month. Meaning, in-state tuition at the Twin Cities campus will increase by 2 percent, with non-resident tuition rates having been increased by 15 percent in December. The decision was met with opposition, and the board has subsequently voted to tighten the professor hiring process in order to control costs. However, it’s uncertain the extent to which the University putting new tenure-track hires under extra scrutiny will put more pressure onto non-tenured faculty and teaching staff, who have faced a profound lack of solidarity from their institution over recent years.
Considering the fact that the University is seeking to increase enrollment by 3,000 students, the needs of non-tenured and tenure-track teaching staff have to be addressed. The University has increasingly relied on non-tenured faculty and instructional staff, with compensation and working conditions for these instructors being unsatisfactory. Earlier this year, the unionization attempt among University faculty |
Xiaolin Dang of Beijing Sanyou explained that filings of IP rights in China continue to increase, including copyright filings which he described as | “very, very important”. Litigation is also on the up, he said, though about 98% or 99% involves Chinese parties (including Chinese subsidiaries of multinationals). This is driving the government to improve the IP system, he said.
When it comes to litigation, Dang described China as pro-patentee: costs are low (less than $150,000), cases are quick, the risk of losing is low and injunctions are “almost automatic”. Attorney fees are recoverable.
While it is true that damages awards are low, he said that there have been some higher awards recently, including one of Rmb50 million and one of Rmb91 million.
From 2013 to 2016, the win rate for foreign plaintiffs in the Beijing IP Court was 100% (there were 65 cases).
Yang Li of Lung Tin discussed the patent amendments that came into effect on April 1, and in particular the impact on software and business method patents |
What is your favorite holiday memory?
I kept up the traditional mega-dinner when my ex-wife and were together out here in Hawaii | , except I would cook. We'd invite lots of people including people with no place to go or "strays," as I like to call them. It's a little sad that I have become a "stray," but okay I suppose. I have great memories of Christmas past!
(Wife) Mine was when my Dad came home from Vietnam. We were living in New Jersey and it was cold. My Dad was singing "White Christmas"...(Daughter) Mine was when we were living in CT with Grandma while Dad was stationed overseas with the Marines. It was cold and snowing in the hills. (Son) Mine was a Christmas when I was 7 years old. We had a really big tree and helped decorate it. The kittens kept climbing up in the tree. (Husband) Mine was when I was only 4 years old. My oldest brother carried me out to the living room as I was not fully awake. There were gifts for all and the |
The documents at the centre of the row had been published by The Hindu newspaper in February, and one of these had also been released by the AN | I news agency. The Supreme Court order mentioned that The Wire digital magazine too had carried one of the documents.
In a setback for the Centre, the Supreme Court Wednesday allowed three documents relied upon by petitioners seeking a review of its December 14, 2018 judgment in the Rafale aircraft deal matter, and dismissed the government’s preliminary objection on the maintainability of the review petitions and claim of privilege over these documents.
In two separate but concurring rulings — one by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justice S K Kaul, and the second by Justice K M Joseph — the bench, which went into contentions raised by Attorney General K K Venugopal on behalf of the government, said “we deem it proper to dismiss the preliminary objections raised by the Union of India questioning the maintainability of the review petitions and we hold and affirm that the review petitions will have to be adjudicated on their own merit by taking into account the relevance of the contents of the |
There weren't any naked protesters rushing the stage, or thousands marching in the streets, like there were at previous World Water Forums, but activists haven | 't wavered in their conviction that the triennial event is an "elitist," "undemocratic," and "illegitimate" venue for addressing the planet's urgent water problems.
On Monday, opening day of the 5th World Water Forum here in Istanbul, an estimated 150 to 300 people protesting outside the event venue were met by police wielding tear gas and (a bit ironically) water cannons. A few hours later, two staff members from the Berkeley-based environmental group International Rivers held up a banner reading "No Risky Dams" at the opening ceremony and were quickly detained and deported back to their home countries.
Activists' opposition to the World Water Forum essentially centers on two issues: who's behind it and what they believe the organizers represent. "The World Water Council is an illegitimate body to be holding a ministerial on water," says Wenonah Hauter, the executive director of Food & Water Watch. "We want the U.N. to take |
Mourners carry a victim of the shootings for burial at a Christchurch cemetery. Islamic tradition calls for bodies to be buried as soon as possible | .
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced an immediate ban Thursday on semi-automatic and automatic weapons like the ones used in the attacks on two mosques in Christchurch that killed 50 worshippers.
The man charged in the attack had purchased his weapons legally using a standard firearms license and enhanced their capacity by using 30-round magazines “done easily through a simple online purchase,” she said.
Ardern’s announcement comes less than a week after the killings, as more of the dead were being buried. At least six funerals took place Thursday, including for a teenager, a youth soccer coach and a Muslim convert who loved connecting with other women at the mosque.
Cashmere High School student Sayyad Ahmad Milne, 14, was known as an outgoing boy and the school’s futsal goalkeeper. Tariq Rashid Omar, 24, graduated from the same school, played soccer in the |
"If you love something, set it free" sounds nice in theory, but in practice can lead to disaster.
If you don't believe | me, try it the next time you are pet-sitting a friend's parakeet, goldfish or 18-foot emotional support anaconda.
People must really love their cars because they're constantly releasing them to the wild.
Not long ago I saw a woman pull into a convenience store to get gas, walk inside to pay and leave her keys in the ignition. An enterprising youth set her ride free in seconds.
It happened again Tuesday morning when car thieves (plural) targeted a day care center. The victims? Two moms who left their unlocked cars running when they went inside, including one who had a 6-year-old kid in her back seat.
The thieves released the child and it walked back to the day care center unharmed, police say. The vehicle containing the child, a Hyundai Santa Fe, was located about a mile away.
A Georgia State Patrol trooper pulled over the second stolen car, a Chrysler 300, Wednesday morning near |
The UAE's Nayla Al Khaja tells Madeleine Collins that the local film industry has got a long way to go.
She may | be known as the UAE's most prominent female filmmaker, but Nayla Al Khaja tells Madeleine Collins that the local film industry has got a long way to go.
Nayla Al Khaja's huge brown eyes flash excitement as she describes the latest film she is screening at her pioneering Dubai film forum, The Scene Club: "A bunch of young boys travel from Saudi to Bahrain to go to the theatre because they don't have cinemas where they come from," she explains of the Saudi Arabian documentary Cinema 500km.
"A culture that has no cinemas, so what do they do to watch a movie?" she exclaims. "Imagine driving a whole day to watch a movie and then drive all the way back to your country. That's ridiculous!"
Immediately upon meeting the woman lauded as the ‘UAE's first national female independent filmmaker' however, it is clear that she is someone for whom little falls into the category of ridiculous when it comes to pursuing |
Supermarkets throughout the Chicago area are routinely selling seafood highly contaminated with mercury, a toxic metal that can cause learning disabilities in children and neurological problems in | adults, a Tribune investigation has found.
In one of the nation's most comprehensive studies of mercury in commercial fish, testing by the newspaper showed that a variety of popular seafood was so tainted that federal regulators could confiscate the fish for violating food safety rules.
The testing also showed that mercury is more pervasive in fish than what the government has told the public, making it difficult for consumers to avoid the problem, no matter where they shop.
It is not by happenstance that contaminated fish can be found on shelves and at seafood counters throughout the region, from small neighborhood shops on the South Side to sprawling supermarket chain stores in the northwest suburbs.
The Tribune's investigation reveals a decades-long pattern of the U.S. government knowingly allowing millions of Americans to eat seafood with unsafe levels of mercury.
Regulators have repeatedly downplayed the hazards, failed to take basic steps to protect public health and misled consumers about the true dangers, documents and interviews show.
The government does not |
Leggett & Platt's Board of Directors announced a dividend of $.38 per share for the second quarter, an increase of $. | 02 per share or 5.6% versus the dividend declared in the second quarter of 2017. The dividend will be paid on July 13, 2018 to shareholders of record on June 15, 2018. A member of Standard & Poor's Dividend Aristocrats, Leggett & Platt has increased its annual dividend for 47 consecutive years, a record that only ten S&P 500 companies currently exceed. At an annual indicated dividend of $1.52 per share, the yield is 3.6%, based upon yesterday's closing stock price of $41.75 per share. Accordingly, Leggett & Platt possesses one of the highest dividend yields among the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats.
Vermilion Energy is pleased to announce a cash dividend of $0.23 CDN per share payable on June 15, 2018 to all shareholders of record on May 31, 2018. The ex-dividend date for this payment is May 30, 2018.
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Anthony Smith, who was wounded while serving in Iraq, will participate in the Ironman 70.3 Kansas with help from Operation Rebound.
| • Established by the Challenged Athletes Foundation in 2004 to assist U.S. service members and first responders who have sustained physical injuries in the line of duty.
• Provides support in athletic events and endeavors, including triathlons, surfing, martial arts and weightlifting, among others.
• Seeks to provide a support system for injured veterans during their recovery.
• Worked with 80 athletes in 2008 and has assisted 45 so far in 2009.
The Ironman 70.3 Kansas is an event in the Ironman triathlon series. It is known as a half-Ironman because athletes will swim 1.2 miles at Clinton Lake, bike 56 miles in Douglas County, and run 13.1 miles on the course, totaling 70.3 miles. A full Ironman competition has a 2.4-mile swim, 112 miles on the bike and a 26.2-mile run.
The event is June 14.
For athletes who compete in extreme |
NASA released a series of images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) this week showing movement of sand dunes over a 2- | 4 year period. Yesterday afternoon, the editor here at Wired Science, Betsy Mason, posted a gallery of the animated GIF images, including the one above. These images are a simple and effective way to highlight change over time as documented by repeat photography.
The image above very nicely highlights the process of grain flow on a slip face of the dune. Note how most of the change between static images is in the upper left part of the dune. It’s a bit difficult to see on this dark and low-contrast image so below is a non-animated image that I tweaked in Photoshop and annotated.
Sand dunes are topographic features that interact with and influence the wind patterns that create them. Sand grains are transported up the dune (in this case, from lower right to upper left) very close to the surface of the dune through a combination of rolling and short-hop bounces. When they reach the crest of the dune they will avalanche down |
ift/GHT International, 18 April I9&8 591 BRITISH EAGLE'S CHAIRMAN INTERVIEWED [ | On the occasion of British Eagle's twentieth anniversary,! David Woolley took the opportunity to put some questions [tothe airline's chairman and managing director, Mr Harold Bamberg. \Ur Bamberg, is British Eagle likely to be the first British I independent to become a public company? I do not know the detailed plans of other UK independent Lirlines. It seems to me that we have a long way to go in j Britain before we have created the right conditions under which I it is possible to attract public investment on a long-term basis I and on the scale required. British Eagle has proved its ability as an airline operator; it has a high standard and operates at a low cost with reasonable profitability. I would like to see British Eagle go public at the right time, but we have other objectives as well; for instance, we are seeking to internationalise our activities—hence our interest in a new Swiss company recently formed. We seek to broaden the basis of our activities to |
At a pivotal point in the administration's Afghanistan strategy, President Obama and his top Afghan war commander met privately aboard Air Force One Friday for a talk | the White House described as productive.
The 25-minute meeting with Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, aboard Air Force One as it waited to carry the president home from Denmark, gave Obama a chance to step outside the circle of advisers he has convened to study the problem of Afghanistan. His war council has been sharing differing opinions on whether the United States should send thousands more troops to tamp down the Taliban, or shift to a narrower focus on al Qaeda in neighboring Pakistan.
The Copenhagen meeting was an extension of those war council sessions "as we reassess and re-evaluate moving forward in Afghanistan," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said afterward.
Obama was in the Danish capital to pitch Chicago's bid to host the 2016 Olympic games, and McChrystal was summoned there from London, where he gave a speech on Thursday warning that insurgents are gaining strength in Afghanistan and the United States needs to increase its efforts there.
At issue is Obama's looming decision on whether to stick with |
An inspiration to a whole generation of musicians and music fans, Joe Strummer was truly a renaissance man; punk, film score composer, actor and | even BBC broadcaster.
Ten years on and Strummer’s star burns as brightly as ever, from the charity set up in his name – Strummerville – to a host of contemporary musicians including Emmy The Great and Frank Turner citing him as an influence.
To mark the tenth anniversary of his death we want you to help us create the Ultimate Joe Strummer Playlist for this very special Now Playing.
You need to tell us what to play so leave a comment on our Facebook page or this blog, Tweet #Strummer6Music, send us an e-mail or drag a track onto our Spotify playlist.
And remember, if you’re a Joe Strummer fan, tune in on Sunday at 6pm.
Strummer/Jones were the greatest of song writing collaborators. But when the Clash did a cover version the made it their own, so somewhere tonight honor Joe with the Clash's quite frankly astonishing version on "Wrong 'Em Boyo". |
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George Budwell (Altria Group): American tobacco titan Altria Group has had a rough 2018. Thanks to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) multipronged initiative to lower tobacco use in the U.S., the company's shares have lost nearly a quarter of their value this year.
On the bright side, Altria's sharp downturn this year has caused its dividend yield to hit a remarkable 6 |
CALGARY -- More than an hour before the puck dropped between the Calgary Flames and the Montreal Canadiens at the 2011 Tim Horton's Heritage Classic | , Kelby Devers was sitting in his seat in the chilling cold with a big smile on his face.
Draped in a Carey Price jersey, Devers sat perched in row 37 taking the atmosphere in as the crowd filed into the stadium after making a 12-hour drive from the relatively balmy climes of Vancouver.
"Because it's a great rivalry and the Canadiens are the best," shrugged Devers, asked what prompted him to pack up his truck and make the trek through the mountains to Calgary.
Devers, 29, made the same long journey in 2003, flying in to attend the original Heritage Classic between the Canadiens and Edmonton Oilers at Commonwealth Stadium.
"That day was a lot colder than this," Devers said of the game in Edmonton. "This is nothing. It was so cold, it was hard to watch, but it was still worth it."
Down in the concourse of McMahon Stadium before the teams took the ice for the warm-up, |
Should You Care About SodaStream's Latest Earnings Beat?
Shares of SodaStream fell Wednesday after the company beat earnings estimates, then popped Thursday | when the market changed its mind. What gives?
Mr. Market is putting his wild mood swings on full display this week with shares of SodaStream (NASDAQ:SODA), after the at-home carbonation specialist posted better-than-expected earnings.
Naturally, the Israel-based company fell as much as 4% Wednesday on the beat, before closing down a little more than 2% for the day.
Investors seem to have changed their minds on Thursday, however, and the stock is currently up more than 8% during intraday trading as of this writing.
Let's peer through the smoke and mirrors, then, and see how the company really fared last quarter.
First quarter revenue grew 34% year over year, to $117.6 million, besting the analysts who hoped for sales of $113.11 million. GAAP diluted earnings per share rose 18.8% from the first quarter of 2012, to $0.57, also |
University of California, Santa Barbara Professor Darby Feldwinn is currently involved in two educational outreach programs: SciTrek and the Fifth Grade Chemistry | Outreach program. These programs aim to change the way young students learn science subjects.
“My primary research focus is on undergrad education with an emphasis on encouraging students to consider careers as secondary school math or science teachers,” her website reads.
Doctor Feldwinn earned her Ph.D in Physical Chemistry at UC San Diego, and became interested in teaching during her years as a graduate student.
SciTrek, aimed at second through fifth graders, was started about four years ago in collaboration with fellow chemistry professor Norbert Reich. Schools that sign up will receive about 15 hours of programming in the form of science modules.
“We give them a problem to solve, and their goal is to explain the phenomenon,” Feldwinn said.
An example module involves a piece of paper with a black dot in the center that is then soaked in a solution. The dot slowly spreads into a multi-colored splotch on the paper, and then the |
PAUL INCE has urged Fabio Capello to hand Stephen Warnock a shock England call-up.
The Blackburn star has been a | revelation in midfield in recent weeks after switching from his normal role at left-back.
He has been asked to cover for the injured duo of David Dunn and Steven Reid, and has responded with some man-of-the-match performances.
Ince, whose side travel to West Brom today, believes Warnock outshone England regular Gareth Barry against Aston Villa in midweek.
Now he reckons Warnock should be given another chance to shine on the biggest stage of all and be included in England boss Capello’s plans.
Ince said: “Stephen has been unbelievable for us recently. He’s given me a massive dilemma now after doing so well in midfield.
“I knew he could do that role but he’s been a total revelation. If I knew how good he was going to be in midfield I might have been able to save a few quid in the transfer market!
“He can run, pass, |
The Cleveland Browns have signed former Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt to a one-year contract that could potentially be worth over $1M | barring a suspension from the NFL.
Hunt was released from the Chiefs last season after this video surfaced of him shoving and kicking a woman via TMZ.
He's an explosive player who was drafted in the third round of the 2017 NFL Draft by the Chiefs, he's just 23 years old and has appeared in 27 games in his young career. He's been exceptional running the football as he's rushed for 2,151 yards on 453 attempts (4.7 average) to go along with 15 touchdowns. Hunt is also a threat catching the ball out of the backfield as he's added 79 receptions for 833 yards with 10 touchdowns.
Hopefully, everything both of these men are saying publicly they really mean and follow through on it. A lot of things are easier said than done, some people can say the right things but then their actions don't reflect their words. Let's hope that's not the case in this situation.
Now, with Hunt signed the Browns can pair him with |
Australia made a slow but steady start to reach 57 for 2 from 27 overs at lunch on day two of the first Test against India here on Friday | .
At the break, Usman Khawaja was unbeaten on 21 runs (off 86 balls), while Shaun Marsh was batting on 1. Australia still trail by 193 runs.
Mohammed Shami (6) showed no patience at all, and went after a short delivery from Josh Hazlewood (3/52) only to be caught behind down leg side, as India's first innings came to a quick end.
Thereafter, Australia did not have the best of starts as Ishant Sharma (1/9) bowled Aaron Finch (0) with a fuller, inswinging delivery on only the third ball of their innings.
It was a hectic start to the day's play, but Khawaja and debutant opener Marcus Harris (26) settled down to provide a solid start for the hosts.
Indian pacers bowled with fiery pace, with Jasprit Bumrah (0/24) even breaching the 150km/hr mark at one |
Drew Brees became the NFL's all-time passing leader in the Saints' win over the Redskins on Monday night, a remarkable distinction when you | consider Brees isn't necessarily a lock to be considered one of the top three quarterbacks of his era. Brees, 39, has won a Super Bowl MVP, was twice the NFL Offensive Player of the Year, and now has thrown for more yards than any player in history, but when it comes time to put Brees' career in context, it's not so simple, as our weekly text exchange with NFL Network's Ian Rapoport can attest.
Indeed, while the 39-year-old Brees' record is at least in part a reflection of his longevity, it also could be a function of the NFL continuing to tilt its playing field in the favor of quarterbacks. We've discussed with Rapoport already the controversy that has arisen from the surplus of early season penalties for roughing the passer, which has made life tough on defenders, and presumably opened the field up for QBs like Brees.
Incidentally, with a 9 handicap, Brees made Golf Digest's ranking of the top athlete |
The federal government says it will respond to pleas for help from northern Quebec, where a spate of suicides in Inuit communities this year has created what | officials are calling a crisis.
"As a government, it's truly a priority of ours that we put in place the support that people need," Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor said Monday. She added that any loss of life by suicide "is just tragic."
Heath authorities in Nunavik, the Quebec region that is home to the province's Inuit communities, have already sent extra mental-health resources to one hard hit village, Puvirnituq.
"This is considered a crisis situation," Fabien Pernet, assistant to the executive director of the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services, said in a recent interview.
The head of the school board serving the region said last week that two students have died by suicide since the beginning of the school year in mid-August, and three other young adults have taken their lives in the past month.
In an Oct. 12 letter, the head of the region's council of school |
Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said the Government had "one shot" to get it right on the night of the bank guarantee.
| The Fianna Fail politician has been giving evidence at the Banking Inquiry this morning and has defended the guarantee as the most decisive step the government could have taken on the night to deal with the problem.
"It was clear we were on our own on the night of guarantee," Cowen said. "We had one shot at it, or Ireland could have been set back 25 years."
Mr Cowen apologised to the Irish people for the hardship caused as a result of guarantee.
"I accept full and complete responsibility for my role and our response to that crisis," he said.
He was sorry that the necessary measures "brought with it hardship and distress to many people" and said "the human cost was the most difficult aspect of the decisions we had to make".
The former Finance Minister stressed that he wanted to make it clear from the beginning that nothing he said to the Inquiry "should be interpreted in any way as an attempt to pass the buck to anyone else".
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Aboriginal midfielder Fred Agius has been given a chance to play his way to the Olympic Games as part of Frank Farina's O | lyroos squad, less than a year after playing in an Australian rules premiership team.
The talented youngster is the sole newcomer in the under-23 squad announced by Farina yesterday for next week's match against Tunisia, a country that has also qualified for the Athens tournament.
Agius, a South Australian who played for Adelaide United in the recently concluded NSL season, has veered between soccer and Australian rules.
National youth team coach Ange Postecoglou took him to Trinidad and Tobago in 2001 as part of the Joeys squad that played in the under-17 World Cup. On his return, he signed for Sydney Olympic, but things didn't work out for him in NSW.
On his return to South Australia, he switched codes to the oval ball and joined SANFL side Central District. Agius took out a championship medal last year when the Bulldogs' reserve side won its premiership.
Agius is one of eight NSL players named in the 19 |
For years, 3D-printing technology has been employed primarily for its rapid prototyping abilities. For miniature models of eventual solutions, it was | great. For actual implementation and long-term use, not so much.
In 2016, that began to change. Over the last 12 months, 3D printing has found a host of new applications, particularly in the medical field. For the next 12 months, Formlabs’ David Lakatos told us we can expect more of this innovation. We sat down with the 3D printing company’s chief product officer at the 2017 CES show to learn more about what is next for Formlabs and the 3D-printing industry as a whole.
Last year, the Boston-based startup turned its attention not just upon more advanced 3D printers, but also on more advanced materials and software. After all, it’s only with these additional innovations, Lakatos pointed out, that 3D-printed objects can be put to further use. Formlabs came out with a total of 10 new 3D printing materials, including flexible materials and those that could withstand high |
Johannesburg – The so-called fourth industrial revolution can only succeed if all sectors are involved in its approach, says academic and former | deputy prime minister of Zimbabwe Professor Arthur Mutambara.
“The fourth industrial revolution (FIR) is a global, all-embracing, technological transformation that will radically and fundamentally alter the way individuals, institutions, businesses, communities, and countries operate, work, organise, relate, and innovate; primarily because of the scale, scope, speed, and complexity of the changes,” Mutambara said in a public lecture at the University of Johannesburg.
The robotics and mechatronics professor said the FIR required new and different skills, such as “critical thinking, how to think, problem solving, interdisciplinary approach, emotional intelligence (EQ), cultural intelligence (CQ), judgement, negotiation, cognitive capacity, flexibility, knowledge production, knowledge management, and knowledge ownership”.
The key drivers of the FIR included “artificial intelligence, intelligent algorithms, augmented reality, human augmentation, big data, internet of things (IoT), internet of |
While Prime Minister Theresa May continues to stand by her Chequers proposals as the basis for the UK’s post-Brexit relationship with the | European Union, it is becoming increasingly hard to see a way in which the controversial plan will become a political reality with opponents on all sides.
Former Brexit secretary David Davis has confirmed he would vote against the Chequers plan in any Commons vote and described its proposals for the UK to continue to follow EU rules in areas like manufactured goods and agri-foods while having no say over them as “actually almost worse than being in” the Union.
Will Theresa May's Chequers deal survive?
At the same time, former minister and high-profile Conservative MP Nick Boles, who backed Remain at the referendum, has come out against the Chequers deal, warning the UK faces “the humiliation of a deal dictated by Brussels”, which is treating the Chequers proposals as an “opening bid”.
Across the Channel, the European Commission’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier is reported to have told a German newspaper he is � |
There’s a number of reasons why cryptocurrencies are so inherently popular. They are safe, anonymous and utterly decentralized. Unlike conventional currency, they | are not controlled or regulated by some singular authority, their flow is determined entirely by market demand. They are also nigh impossible to counterfeit, thanks to the paranoidly complicated code system that encrypts each and every transfer, ensuring complete anonymity and utter safety to each and every user. They even make for a genuinely rewarding, if risky, investment endeavor, despite the fact that any financial advisor in their right mind will caution you against them. Therefore, despite the admittedly high stakes that this sort of dealing entails, not to mention the lack of any government agency to lend credence to them, cryptocurrencies can only thrive and multiply.
If I were to tell you of the history of cryptocurrencies, I would have to begin with cryptographer David Chaum, who in the 1980s devised an extraordinarily secure algorithm that allowed for the kind of encryption required in electronic fund transfers. Chaum’s “blinding algorithm” laid the groundwork for the future development of all types of digitalized currency transactions, |
Ivy grows rampant in Seattle, where roughly 10 percent of public land is infested with the plant.
Ivy is perfectly picturesque when | growing in the English countryside or climbing the hallowed walls of Cambridge.
But here in the Pacific Northwest, ivy is a bully. A tree-killing, rat-infested, bird-poop-traveling bully.
KUOW listener Emma Johnson wanted to know: "What would Seattle look like if English ivy was left to grow without check? Would any trees survive? And how did ivy get here?"
We asked Nelson Salisbury, an ecologist at the conservation group EarthCorps, which regularly coordinates volunteer ivy-pulls around Seattle. He said English ivy—and the Irish or Atlantic ivy varietal to an even greater extent—has grown into a huge problem for the region. The invasive plants suffocate and weigh down trees. They squelch young plant life by blocking the sunlight from reaching the ground. And if left unencumbered, they create ivy deserts—where no other plant life thrives.
So what would |
Punctuated with thrilling chases and shoot-outs in the crowded by-lanes of Delhi, Shagird is another interesting film from | maverick director Tigmanshu Dhulia.
Story: Hanumant Singh (Nana Patekar) is the quirky cop in the police department. He is a man of action who delivers most of the time but he has unusual ways to accomplish his mission. More importantly, he doesn't think twice before hobnobbing with corrupt politicians (Zakir Hussain) and gangsters (Anurag Kashyap) and taking bribes for services rendered. Trouble begins when a new and seemingly honest recruit (Mohit Ahlawat) joins his team.
Movie Review: Watch the film for its topicality. Shagird holds up a hard-hitting mirror on India: corrupt to the core, India: permanently scarred by the unholy nexus between tainted politicians, ruthless gangsters and dishonest cops.
Nana Patekar and his gang of uniformed men are completely amorphous. You never know which side of the law they are on, crossing thresholds swiftly, |
(a) The newly appointed Personal Humanitarian Envoy of the Secretary-General, former WFP Executive Director Catherine Bertini, travelled to the | region to assess the nature and scale of the humanitarian crisis facing the population of the West Bank and Gaza, and to review humanitarian needs in light of recent developments. Heads of UN Agencies in Jerusalem met with Ms. Bertini and her team to brief them on each agencies' activities and Ms. Bertini visited several project sites, including WFP operations.
(b) The curfew regime in the West Bank has now been enforced for a total of seven weeks paralyzing the civilian population and severely hampering the distribution of humanitarian aid and implementation of development projects, such as infrastructure repairs. New checkpoints have hampered the ability of beneficiaries to reach the distribution point.
(c) WFP emergency food assistance is targeting a total of 500,000 people from among the non-refugee population of the West Bank and Gaza. In Gaza, while the target population is already identified by MSA and NGOs partners, WFP Food Monitors are in the process of accessing and assessing areas and communities extremely exposed |
Hatfields & McCoys & Democrats & Republicans - This Can't Be Happening!
Neither the Hatfields nor the McCoys were led by | sociopaths. They were cult-like families led by the foremost of the true believers who didn’t care that much about money and power. They cared about being right and were willing to kill for it. The only sociopath in the mini-series was Bad Frank Phillips, a tough-talking hired killer who went into law enforcement. Bad Frank Phillips is pretty much everyone at the top of both political parties, although Bad Frank Phillips was man enough to kill by his own hand and not with predator drones. Bad Frank Phillips did not pose as a tough guy. He was a tough guy. Barack Obama is Bad Frank without courage.
Law enforcement was biased, corrupt and subject to manipulation, then as now.
While the Hatfields and McCoys did hate each other, they were in complete agreement that violence was a great way to solve problems and therefore had everything in common, just like Democrats and Republicans. The guy who most annoyed both sides was Johnse Hatfield, who didn� |
The Hathras police on Thursday night booked about 60 unidentified persons on charges of rioting, following violence that broke out after the death of an eight | -month pregnant woman and her three-year-old child in a road accident.
AGRA: The Hathras police on Thursday night booked about 60 unidentified persons on charges of rioting, following violence that broke out after the death of an eight-month pregnant woman and her three-year-old child in a road accident.
The mishap reportedly occurred on Wednesday night near village Kunwarpur in Hathras, when the driver of the bus, carrying pilgrims from Shivpuri, MP, lost control while saving cattle. The bus turned turtle, crushing a motorcycle on which the family of Ravi Kumar was travelling.
While Ravi miraculously survived with grievous injuries, his wife Aarti, who was eight months pregnant, and 3-year-old daughter, Gungi, were killed on the spot. Around 20 pilgrims who were on the bus also injured in the accident.
Following the incident, agitated residents of the area vandalised police vehicles and ambulance to |
Leaders of the UPS aircraft mechanics union are declaring victory in securing a tentative new contract that they say will deliver the country's best pay and benefits | .
The pact "sets a new bar for aircraft mechanics in the U.S. airline industry, with pay rates and benefits that surpass those at FedEx and all other major U.S.-based carriers," the union said in an announcement early Tuesday. "Upon ratification of the new contract, Local 2727 members will become the highest paid aviation mechanics in the country by a wide margin."
If ratified as expected, the 1,300 members of the Louisville-based union would receive raises of about 16 percent now with 3-percent annual pay hikes.
That means nearly 31 percent in increases over the five-year contract. Along with an increase in pension contributions and enhanced health care benefits, UPS agreed to pay retroactive hourly compensation calculated from the end of the last agreement in November 2013 that could gross aircraft maintenance technicians $25,000 to $65,000 and about half that range for utility helpers.
The aircraft mechanics, who are represented by Teamsters Local 2727, have aggressively accused |
BOSTON, Feb 16 – A closely tracked asteroid, about 150-feet (45-meters) wide, whizzed safely past Earth | on Friday, the same day a much smaller, previously undetected meteor hit Russia, injuring nearly 1,000 people.
Live images from a telescope at the Gingin Observatory in western Australia showed the asteroid looking like a white streak, moving across against a backdrop of black sky.
Astronomers said the object’s speed and proximity made it a challenge to track, because telescopes had to be aimed precisely or risked missing it.
The asteroid, dubbed 2012 DA 14, passed around 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers) above the Earth at the time of closest approach, about 2:25 pm EST (1925 GMT), NASA said.
The asteroid isn’t nearly as large as the 10-kilometer (six-mile) wide object that took out the dinosaurs, but astronomers said it was large enough that, had it struck the Earth’s surface, it could wipe out a large urban area.
However, the asteroid’s path kept |
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PAULA HUSTON: I was probably in my late thirties at that | time, and for the previous 20 years I had been completely away from faith and really felt myself to be an atheist. I don’t think I’d ever even talked to a priest before, much less seen a monk, and here were these monks, and they were dressed in their interesting and strange white robes, and it just struck me so hard that this was really a radically alternative way to live.
KATE OLSON, correspondent: Meeting the monks of New Camaldoli Hermitage for the first time 30 years ago was a life-changing experience for Paula Huston, who taught writing at California State University in San Luis Obispo.
HUSTON: I think I was really struck by the gentleness, the quiet, the kindness. After having gone through a divorce and divorce court, I was used to a much different attitude from people in my life at that point. It was also the first time I had time to look inside of myself— |
D.C. Council approved a plan Tuesday to close the large and aging D.C. General homeless shelter and open new sites in almost every | ward.
The plan would house homeless people in new family shelters built in almost every ward on public-owned land.
Re: tweet about Bowser yelling at Mendo, let's be fair: things sometimes get heated between adversarial branches. Not the end of the world.
Mayor Muriel Bowser had originially proposed closing D.C. General and building shelters on privately owned land. Council changed the plan to build the new shelters on land that was owned by the city; that could save taxpayers more than $100 million, according to D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson.
But the mayor has contended it will delay closure of D.C. General.
The change led to a heated battle that included the mayor cursing at the council chair, a WAMU reporter Martin Austermuhle had reported.
"You're a f---ing liar! You know it can't close in!" the mayor shouted, according to a tweet from Austermuhle. |
An increased incidence of brain and heart tumors was seen in rats.
It’s the moment we’ve all been dreading. | Initial findings from a massive federal study, released on Thursday, suggest that radio-frequency (RF) radiation, the type emitted by cellphones, can cause cancer.
The findings from a $25 million study, conducted over two and a half years by the National Toxicology Program (NTP), showed that male rats exposed to two types of RF radiation were significantly more likely than unexposed rats to develop a type of brain cancer called a glioma, and also had a higher chance of developing the rare, malignant form of tumor known as a schwannoma of the heart. The effect was not seen in females.
The radiation level the rats received was “not very different” from what humans are exposed to.
The radiation level the rats received was “not very different” from what humans are exposed to when they use cellphones, said Chris Portier, a former associate director of the NTP who commissioned the study.
As the intensity of the |
Chelsea stars Jorginho and Emerson toasted their side's 2-0 win over West Ham on Monday night by having dinner with Real Madrid | legend Roberto Carlos.
Eden Hazard scored twice as Maurizio Sarri's side moved into the Champions League places with a victory over their London rivals at Stamford Bridge.
Jorginho and Emerson celebrated moving into the top four by heading out for dinner to Gola in Fulham with the 45-year-old legend.
Carlos, who won seven major honours during his spell with Real Madrid as well as the World Cup with Brazil in 2002, posed for several pictures with Jorginho and Emerson after they ate their Italian meal.
He thanked owner Aaron Rutigliano, writing alongside one picture: 'Thanks @golarestaurant for all the love @aaronrutigliano and of course @emersonpalmieri33 for everything'.
Jorginho also paid tribute to Carlos, posting: 'What a fantastic surprise to find this idol!'.
Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri branded Hazard irreplaceable on Monday night after |
ALMATY, Aug 14 (Reuters) - The Uzbek sum has gained about 9 percent against the dollar on the Central Asian nation’s | black market over the past seven days, as a full-scale exchange rate liberalisation appears imminent.
The former Soviet republic this month abolished mandatory sales by exporters of a quarter of their foreign currency revenue, after earlier allowing a limited number of banks and companies to deviate from the official exchange rate in deals.
The final steps would be allowing full convertibility of the currency, aligning the official and market rates and lifting restrictions that force ordinary Uzbek to buy foreign currency from the black market rather than from banks.
It is not clear when the authorities plan to formalise the reform, but the black market rate has already started adjusting.
According to websites such as dollaruz.net which publish black market quotes, the sum has jumped to 7,400-7,500 per dollar on Monday from 8,100-8,200 a week earlier.
Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s most populous nation and second-biggest economy, has until this month required exporters |
The French-American Cultural Foundation’s glitzy fundraiser shared a venue with the more serious Intelligence and National Security Alliance gala.
| Seasons restaurant set up to serve 14 wines to guests. Photographs by Carol Ross Joynt.
Four Seasons Hotel manager Dirk Burghartz had a big smile on his face Wednesday night, and for good reason: His biggest party rooms were rocking. Upstairs, in Seasons, the French and their American friends partied extravagantly, paying $1,000 a person for a five-course dinner that started with flutes of Louis Roederer Cristal at the opening reception, followed by another 14 stellar vintage wines and a cognac. Downstairs in the packed ballroom, representatives from the defense and intelligence industries honored young achievers and heard warnings about the real world, battling cyber threats in and out of the US. They, too, ate and drank well, beginning with a boisterous two-hour cocktail reception.
The French dinner, which went on ’til close to midnight, was to raise money for the French-American Cultural Foundation, which is celebrating its 15 |
Places of Worship in DarabToday we will be heading to the province of Fars in Iran and to the city of Darab to | take a look at a couple of its religious monuments.
Bushehr PortsBushehr which is connected to major sea lines through the Persian Gulf is one of the most important commercial ports in Iran.
Qashqayee TribeThis is a brief glimpse into one of Iran’s most famous nomadic tribes, the Qashqaiee tribe.
Natanz MuseumsMost of us have been to different museums in different cities, but there are always exceptional museums that we have to go and see for ourselves.
Parvar Region in SemnanOne of the regions in Iran with a large variety of animals is the protected area of Parvar.
Bandar Abbas HandicraftsThe wonderland of handicrafts is quite dazzling, wouldn’t you agree? Every year hundreds and hundreds of tourists come to Iran and head straight to its southern shores, to the province of Hormozgan that’s on the northern fringe of the Persian Gulf.
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Britney Spears’ new single, Work B**ch, went to work a full day ahead of its official release date!
The banging | club anthem? that will feature on her next album and was written by Willi.i.am and Swedish DJ Sebastian Ingorsso’s protégé, DJ Otto Jettman, among others? was leaked online over the weekend.
The 31-year-old pop star was said to be incredibly upset by the low-quality version released prior to her official version which she seemed to be pretty amped about on social media over the past few weeks.
In response to the leaked version of Britney’s new hit from her currently untitled album, her management team quickly released an official track.
The song is Britney’s way of giving her fans the secret to her success. She coos the opening lyrics (in a rather English accent),"You want a hot body? You want a Bugatti? You want a Maserati? You better work, b**ch! You want a Lamborghini? Sip martinis? Look |
LIVERPOOL could be prompted to re-sign former midfielder Xabi Alonso after it emerged that he is unlikely to extend his contract at Real | Madrid.
According to Spanish TV show Punto Pelota, the Spaniard has made the decision not to extend his deal at the Bernabeu beyond its current 2014 expiration.
Journalist Josep Pedrerol claims that Alonso will run down his contract at Madrid until next summer, when he would be free to move on a Bosman transfer, potentially paving the way for a return to Liverpool.
"Xabi Alonso has decided not to renew with Real Madrid. [His current deal] ends in June 2014 and his contract will not be renewed."
Real Madrid are reportedly aware of the situation, and while they are willing to offer the 31-year-old fresh terms, they will not stand in his way should he want to leave.
Alonso will be approaching 33 years of age by the time his current deal with Madrid expires, and has previously stated that he would prefer to play regularly elsewhere than be a 'burden' to Los Blancos.
The former Reds midfielder |
IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is taken out of a New York police station on May 15, 2011.
Dominque Strauss- | Kahn, the Chief of the International Monetary Fund, is jailed in New York City today on charges he sexually assaulted a hotel maid over the weekend. Strauss-Kahn, of France, was removed from an Air France plane on Saturday afternoon just as it was preparing to leave Kennedy International Airport for Paris, according to the New York Times. He'll appear in court today.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has opened nine bays of the Morganza Spillway, according to the New Orleans Times Picayune. This will ease the backed up Mississippi River and prevent heavy flooding downstream in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. But it will inundate the surrounding river plain, and force up to 25,000 people to evacuate, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Israeli security forces remain on high alert a day after protesters surged across the border from Syria, Lebanon and Gaza. It was a response to Israel's birthday, which Palestinians mourn. CBS says at least 15 people were killed |
The University of California, Davis, has begun the next phase of preparation of a new Long Range Development Plan, inviting public comments on the scope of | the environmental impact report that will be prepared for the plan.
In accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act, the university has released a formal “Notice of Preparation” of the EIR, and that notice is available for review online and on paper. Comments are welcome until Feb. 17, providing more than the 30-day minimum public review period. See below for more information on public review and comment.
In addition, UC Davis has scheduled an open house to address the EIR’s scope and content, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, in Ballroom A at the UC Davis Conference Center (on Alumni Lane). Campus planners will be available to discuss the EIR process, and the university will accept written comments during the open house.
The updated Long Range Development Plan, or LRDP, will guide the campus through projected growth in the numbers of students, faculty and staff, allowing for expansion of existing programs |
Congress ordered disability reviews after thousands of service members who were medically separated from service were low-balled on their benefits.
Hardeep G | rewal was a 29-year-old Air Force computer operations specialist suffering a mild case of pneumonia when he deployed to Saudi Arabia and a series of other Southwest Asian countries in 2003.
The staff sergeant stayed ill and returned to the United States “looking like a scarecrow,” he said. He was diagnosed with asthma, which would require two medications daily for the rest of his life. By December 2004, Grewal was medically discharged with a 10 percent disability rating and a small severance payment.
The Air Force physical evaluation board “low-balled me,” he recalled in a phone conversation Wednesday from his Northern Virginia home. “They were trying to get rid of people” from a specialty that, after offering an attractive reenlistment bonus, quickly became overmanned.
Grewal promptly applied to the Department of Veterans Affairs for disability compensation and his initial VA rating was set at 30 percent. Full VA payments were delayed until G |
The number of people using European airports set a record last year but growth slowed compared with 2017, the Airports Council International Europe (ACI) | said Wednesday.
The total number of passengers at European airports reached 2.34 billion according to the group, which represents more than 500 airports in 45 countries.
The number of passengers grew by 6.1 percent, down from an 8.5-percent rise in 2017, a statement said.
Europe's five biggest airports added 16.5 million passengers, but faced "capacity limitations, intensifying hub competition and hub by-pass developments as well as airline strikes," the ACI said.
"Managing such growth has been quite a challenge and the strain on airport facilities and staff is real. Capacity and quality are now major issues for an increasing number of airports," ACI director general Olivier Jankovec said.
London Heathrow was again the top airport in Europe with 80.12 million passengers, followed by Paris-Charles de Gaulle with 72.22 million and Amsterdam-Schiphol with 71.05 million.
Frankfurt, which was number four with 69 |
BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Halfpenny Technologies Inc. and Pulse8, Inc. announced today that they | have signed a partnership agreement that will enable the delivery of seamless care coordination and clinical data exchange to enable improved quality measures and risk score accuracy.
The combined solution will streamline and automate the collection of clinical data to improve patient outcomes by enabling broader and deeper analysis of patient-level medical data. Patient chart information is typically difficult and expensive to access and retrieve. Halfpenny Technologies applies advanced data acquisition algorithms to securely access and transmit data to Pulse8 for improved risk adjustment and quality analytics, resulting in the transmission of actionable data back to participating providers in order to better document the risk factors of their patient population, demonstrate the quality outcomes of their practice, and ultimately support the delivery of improved patient care.
“We are pleased to announce our partnership with Pulse8 for use of Halfpenny Technologies’ industry-leading Clinical Data Exchange Solutions. We feel our strategic partnership will rapidly accelerate the expansion of Health Plans and Providers into deeper analytics never before possible. This will help to improve patient |
Expressing grief over the loss of party veteran Vidya Charan Shukla, Congress MP Raj Babbar on Tuesday condoled the former's | demise, and said his death is not only a loss to Chhattisgarh Congress but to the entire country.
"He breathed his last today after being critically injured in the 25th May Maoists attack. I am personally grieved and I pray to God that his soul rests in peace and also give enough strength to his family to face this sad news," he said.
"They don't want to understand democratic values and avenge everything with the barrel of a gun, they want to reply with bullets. In the all party meet, the Prime Minister and the government have clearly stated that if any faction would resort to the use of arms, then stern action will be taken against them," he added.
Shukla, 84, breathed his last at the Medanta Medicity Hospital in Gurgaon this afternoon after battling the bullet injuries that he sustained in the Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh last month.
Shukla, who was critically injured in the |
Google has given its Chromecast streaming dongle yet another accessibility boost by optimising Google Play Movies and Play Music for casting from the web. |
A huge Chromecast update earlier this week brought support for 10 apps and services, enabling users to cast content to their television like action sports, news and music videos. Now, after, its latest upgrade, you can visit play.google.com and cast (also known as stream) your Google Play music, movies and shows to your television directly from the web.
Before this new functionality, you could cast Google Play Movies and Music through Chromecast, but the option and process was much more complex. Google has recently reworked the set-up, placing a button along the bottom side of your Google Play web player. Just click on the Chromecast icon in the web player, then choose where you want to cast, and your movie or song will quickly start to play.
You'll need to have the Google Cast extension installed on your Chrome web browser, naturally. Once you have, you can access new movie releases, next-day TV shows, and more than 20 million songs straight |
Secretary of State George Shultz told openly skeptical Africans Saturday that the U.S. policy of constructive engagement toward South Africa calls for contacts with black | nationalist groups as well as that country's white-led minority government.
At a press conference after his talks with Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi, Shultz was challenged to say if "constructive engagement is still your policy."
Shultz did not flinch, although most U.S. officials try to avoid the term, coined to describe the Reagan administration's attempt to influence the South African government through diplomacy instead of confrontation.
"The way to implement policies is, you are there. You don't just throw up your hands, you stay there," he said. "You are, if I may use the term, engaged. We try to be engaged with everybody."
Shultz, who plans to meet later this month in Washington with Oliver Tambo, leader of the African National Congress, said the United States hopes to be engaged with black nationalist groups such as the ANC, mixed-race Coloreds and Indians. Almost as an afterthought, he concluded his list |
You won’t be surprised that the Pew Research Center, in a survey released today, found that atheism is still the biggest political liability a | candidate could have.
What may be surprising is that the candidate deemed as the least religious is the Republican frontrunner.
So while Bernie Sanders explicitly says he’s “not actively involved with organized religion,” it’s Trump with his blatant attempts to convince people he’s Christian who is thought of as the least religious. So much for authenticity.
60% of voters surveyed said they didn’t think of Trump as religious while only 35% said the same thing of Sanders.
The only upside to that is that the 51% who despise atheists that much is the lowest such percentage we’ve ever seen.
With younger people becoming increasingly non-religious, this trend is bound to continue in the right direction.
Also, in the least surprising news of all, a majority of Americans without any religion affiliation think Sanders would make an excellent president. Only 15% of the Nones — presumably not the atheists — think the same way about Ted Cruz |
At our last annual general meeting, one of the candidates for the board withdrew his nomination and transferred all of his votes to another candidate who was then | elected. Was this legal?
No. If proxy forms completed by owners instructed their proxies to vote for a candidate, that candidate could not instruct the proxies to cast their votes for someone else. Owners attending the meeting can vote for any candidate. But the candidate for whom they voted could not instruct the scrutineers that votes for him are to be treated as votes for anyone else.
The property manager is asking me to provide a copy of my lease agreement with my tenant. I think this is a private matter. Is there any legal reason that I have to comply?
Section 83 of the Condominium Act provides that within 30 days of leasing the owner’s unit, the owner must notify the corporation that it is leased. The owner must also provide the corporation with the lessee’s name, the owner’s address and a copy of the lease or the prescribed summary form of lease. The lessee must, in turn, be provided with copies of the declaration, |
Not everyone can afford the latest smartphones from the likes of Apple and Samsung, but luckily on the Android platform at least, more affordable handsets are | readily available, and now the BLU Life Series of handsets have been announced that have great specs at an affordable price.
Only last month the US based company revealed a number of handsets that are powered by the Tegra 3 processor, and now the company has revealed three new models that make up the Life Series of handsets.
All three of the handsets have the quad core MediaTek MT6589 processor clocked at 1.2GHz under the hood, with a PowerVR Series5XT GPU and 1GB of RAM, and another nice feature is that all three models will come running the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system with dual SIM support.
The BLU Life View has a 5.7-inch IPS 720p touchscreen display with 257ppi pixel density, and also features a 12-megapixel camera on the back and a 5-megaipxiel on the front. There is 16GB of onboard storage that is expandable via a micro |
Ismail Haniya, the Palestinian Prime Minister, renewed his invitation to former President Jimmy Carter to visit Gaza to see for himself the magnitude of | the tragedy experienced by its people, expressing hope that Egypt would secure his arrival in the Gaza Strip after Israel refused to allow him to visit it.
Carter is expected to meet with a Hamas delegation from the Gaza Strip in Cairo.
Before leaving Gaza on his way to Cairo, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a prominent Hamas leader, praised the initiative taken by Carter to meet with Hamas leaders and said that this should serve as a message to those who choose to ignore the legislative elections results and raise doubts about the legitimacy of Hamas.
The former American president had supervised the legislative elections in 2006 and expressed respect for the results after Hamas won a landslide victory.
Dr. Zahar said that he and Said Seyam, the head of the Hamas parliamentary bloc, would meet during their presence in Cairo a number of Egyptian officials to discuss with them all outstanding issues especially the opening of the Rafah border crossing.
Meanwhile, Ismail Haniya expressed hope that the Hamas delegation's visit |
OTSEGO COUNTY - The Otsego County Road Commissioners approved their $6.9 million, 2005 operating budget, with the understanding that it | may increase by another $1.2 million pending approval of a project on Old 27, according to Managing Director Mike Roper.
"I have to include all money spent on roads, whether that comes from the federal, state or local governments," Roper explained, noting the budget is $300,000 higher than last year. "If we get approval for the Old 27 project, then I will have to amend the budget to reflect that $1.2 million to this years budget. Our budgets change all the time in proportion to the money received for funding."
That project, if approved by the Community Development Block Grant Administration, represents a partnership with that organization and Corwith Township, the village of Vanderbilt, and the road commission to conduct a crush and shape repaving project on a 4.24 mile stretch of Old 27, north of Winters Road to Thumb Lake Road.
Roper also confirmed work to be done on a three-quarter-of-a-mile stretch |
PARIS (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce company JD.com is folding its high-end Toplife venture into fashion retailer Farfetch | ’s business in China, hoping to expand in the luxury goods market where it is vying with Alibaba to attract shoppers.
The companies, already partners in areas such as logistics, said on Thursday that Toplife - which has brands like Kering’s Saint Laurent and Balenciaga on its platform - would merge into Farfetch China.
The deal raises the stakes in a battle to corner China’s burgeoning online luxury goods world, where Alibaba has already teamed up with Cartier-owner Richemont and its Yoox Net-A-Porter online retailer to create new applications.
Chinese consumers make up a third of luxury goods purchases worldwide, and more of that spending is shifting away from European shopping capitals to mainland China, and onto the Internet.
Foreign brands have struggled to crack China’s fast-moving online world alone, which has pushed them to try out partnerships with local players.
Chinese e-commerce firms, meanwhile, lack the luxury |
I recently had a fresh cultural shock here in China: seven to 10-year-old kids, at the primary school I sometimes teach at, | who have a fondness for running up and touching my backside. Including in class. I tried to understand the reason why. I think it’s because Westerners, by and large (forgive the pun), actually have butts. There is a certain saucy roundness to most of our behinds that is sorely lacking in the average Han Chinese posterior.
To wit, the sad sight of Chinese lasses in tight leather pants. The legs are pleasantly chiseled in the smooth leather, but there is a disappointing sag in the area of the bottom. That’s because where there should be a proud female posterior, there just ain’t. It must be a tad painful to sit for long periods on those boney butts because of the lack of cushioning. It is just so nice to plump down and spread out a bit to cushion the weight of the rest of our bodies.
So. That’s my explanation for the fascination |
Hartland's Brenden Tulpa has four game-winning goals vs. Brighton.
When a big goal needed to be scored in a hockey | game between Hartland and Brighton, of course it was Brenden Tulpa who found a way to make it happen.
Tulpa’s goal just 13 seconds into the second period broke a scoreless deadlock and propelled Hartland to its seventh straight victory in the rivalry, 4-0, Wednesday night at Hartland Sports Center.
With Brett Tome posting the shutout, the first goal held up as Tulpa’s fourth game-winner in five career games against Brighton.
The first time Tulpa faced the Bulldogs as a sophomore, he scored a late game-tying goal, then popped in the overtime winner. He broke a 1-1 tie with 4:33 left in a 2-1 victory in the teams’ first meeting last season, then broke a 2-2 tie in the second period of a 4-2 victory in the rematch between two teams that would ultimately win state championships in their respective divisions.
Tulpa has plenty to |
Everyone agrees that financial inclusion offers a way out of poverty for those at the bottom of society. So why is it proving so difficult to achieve? |
Latin America is the continent with the most inequality in the world, according to the UN’s development programme. But could having access to financial services, such as a bank account, credit and budgeting advice, help empower those at the bottom of the pyramid?
Sixty million people have gained access to such services in Latin America in the past four years, according to the World Bank’s recent Findex paper, but 200 million people remain unbanked, making the bank’s target of universal access to financial services by 2020 rather ambitious.
Cecilia Toscana Rodriguez, corporate sustainability coordinator from Cemaco, a chain of department stores, said the retail sector’s interest in financial inclusion is growing as shops look to offer 21st century services. But potential customers are left behind as they can’t pay online unless they have a debit or credit card. She said that Guatemalan workers in the US are often concerned about what happens to the rem |
After a working lunch at a workshop, a senior IT manager at a global telecommunications company approached me with a problem. Over the course of several mer | gers, acquisitions and reorgs, his firm now had three work-order processing systems. His boss had told him to get it down to one over the next six months. He wanted advice.
So I asked, which system did the users seem to like best and why? He said he didn't know. I suggested he organize a meeting between the three user groups to thrash out which one made the most sense for the most people. Make them pick. He hadn't thought of that. Unfortunately, his firm's IT culture had IT, not users, "owning" systems consolidation after reorgs. Baby-sitting interdepartmental user meetings was frowned on, he asserted.
I couldn't help myself: I told him he was setting himself up to fail. If he unilaterally imposed a system, he would tick off the two groups whose systems lost out. Even if he were able to sell his choice internally, he'd have to understand the ins, outs and |
Recent news coverage of the war in Afghanistan has zeroed in on the fact that as U.S. force draw down there and shift to advising | roles, Afghan forces have been engaged in heavy combat with the Taliban.
U.S. commanders have acknowledged several times that Afghan forces have taken heavy losses as a result, but rarely have provided numbers that clarify how serious the situation is. There’s no doubt after Wednesday, however: they’re losing dozens of troops each week, including 104 in one week recently, said Gen. Joseph Dunford, the top U.S. commander, to reporters in Belgium on Wednesday.
Dunford said the casualties have been “an issue,” but that Afghan forces will still assume full control of security in Afghanistan in June, with the coalition purely in a supporting role afterward.
“I would tell you this, in terms of how they’re doing, the Taliban came out and they’re doing exactly what they said they would do, high-profile attacks, attempting insider attacks against the Afghans, and then fear, murder and intimidation,” Dun |
Brexit: What next for UK?
Once Article 50 has been triggered the UK has just two years to negotiate its exit from the EU. No | country has ever tried this before. It’s a very complicated process: first the European Council, which is made up of the EU’s 27 leaders, agrees guidelines for the negotiations. Then the European Commission then negotiates with the UK on behalf of the EU. Together they will need to unpick 43 years of treaties and agreements.
Given what's unfolding in Syria - you might be surprised to hear the country still has a national football team, competing for a place in next year's World Cup. For obvious reasons - they can't play on home soil, but they're still giving many Syrians a reason to come together. Last week they were in Malaysia, preparing for a World Cup qualifier against Uzbekistan, and they’ve just been in Seoul for their match against South Korea.
Here is the new pound coin, and it does have some special security features, apart from being twelve-sided and two-coloured, it's got very small writing on it, |
One of Wall Street's best experts puts four bank players under the spotlight.
As interest rates soar, pop goes loan yields.
Now is | prime time to capitalize. With economic growth recovering, loan losses are getting narrower in the process. In other words, the banking sector is a savvy bet these days.
Which stocks are the sector's brightest? Vining Sparks' Marty Mosby shines a lens on four banking giants with room to run.
Turning to TipRanks' Top 25 Wall Street Analysts tool, we can see Mosby is ranked #22 out of over 4,8000 analysts we cover. Mosby specializes in the financial sector with a 76% success rate.
Here are his top three picks.
Banking giant JP Morgan Chase (JPM - Get Report) is a force to be reckoned with as it's the biggest bank by assets in the U.S. JPMorgan boasts a monster $388.9 billion market cap, and shares have vaulted almost 9% just this year.
Not only is Mosby positive on the stock, he calls the name a "Strong Buy." The analyst sets |
Buncombe County is one step closer to recouping the money it claims was misappropriated by former County Manager Wanda Greene and her | son, Michael Greene, who served as a county employee until August 2017.
County commissioners approved a more than $2 million settlement from Guardian Life Insurance Co. during a special meeting on July 17. Greene allegedly purchased whole-life insurance policies from Guardian for herself, her son, and eight other county employees using about $2.3 million of county funds. An annuity was purchased for an additional employee.
Board Chair Brownie Newman says Buncombe County did not file a lawsuit against the company and its brokers as it did against Wanda and Michael Greene. But because the company sold the policies to Wanda Greene, the county reached a negotiated settlement through its attorney, Ron Payne.
The exact settlement offered by the company is $2,081,686.37. The Board of Commissioners said in early June that two policies worth $143,000 are still outstanding in Michael Greene’s name. Payne said the company is paying the county for those policies, but as part |
Zolani and Tumi's wedding on The River looked so real.
No matter what drama lurks in the background, weddings are always | beautiful to watch and the viewers of The River were treated to one of the most beautiful weddings on TV. Ever!
Tumi and Zolani's wedding had all the frills and trimmings and tweeps couldn't help but feel like they were part of the wedding, which many said was one of the best productions they had ever seen in soapie.
More than the beautiful outfits, celebrity cameos and drunk uncles, the wedding displayed two worlds coming together.
Tumi, a humble girl who grew up in a shack and Zolani,a rough boy from a rich family, brought their families together in a heart warming way.
Of course, what's a wedding without drama? Zolani slept with a random girl a day before his wedding and Zolani's aunt killed Tumi's father for a diamond he found at the river. Oh, and there's a high possibility that Tumi and Zolani are cousins.
The wedding was just |
Christmas season is "supposed to take us through any of the lean months," says Science, Art and More owner Doug Livingston, of the store | he's closing after 12 years.
To his dismay, Seattle shop owner Doug Livingston saw his busiest shopping day in months last Tuesday -- the day after he announced that his store was liquidating. His business, Science, Art and More, did not make enough money over the holiday season to cover rent and the light bill for 2009.
"Christmas for us was 50 percent down, and for a retail store that's huge," Livingston said. "Usually the Christmas season is where we make what profit we do. It's supposed to take us through any of the lean months."
Retailers in December encountered a "perfect storm" of housing woes, rising unemployment, declining wealth and bad weather, retail analyst Amy Noblin said. "Even the best bargains we have seen in decades did little to stimulate conversion," she said.
The effects of the just-passed holiday shopping season will resonate throughout the first six months of 2009. As many as 73,000 retail outlets could close |
When sheets of rain descended on Deltona and DeBary last week, it was a prophetic reminder that the area isn't out of the | water yet when it comes to flooding problems.
It's true that a drive around southwest Volusia County now might lead the cynic to question the wisdom of DeBary and Deltona officials, who are considering spending millions of dollars to combat flooding.
As of now, lakes and other waterways appear to the casual observer to be at low-to-moderate levels.
That, however, is largely a function of the dry year we have had prior to last week's deluge.
St. Johns River Water Management District rainfall data - gathered at gauges from Daytona Beach to Sanford - show the year-to-date amounts through May 31 at roughly 2 to 3 inches below normal, depending on the location.
That wasn't the case a year ago, however, when DeBary and Deltona officials separately began examining their community flooding problems.
Rainfall through May 31, 1996, was 7 to 8 inches above the 30-year normal for the five- |
If last night was any guide, New York Magazine got it right when it reported yesterday that Fox is “finished with Rubio."
Host Sean | Hannity seemed to be trying to thread the needle by suggesting that Rubio has been brainwashed or bribed by the Republican establishment.
HANNITY: I went on radio and I said that this is not the Marco Rubio I have known all these years. You know, how many times in his interview with Bret Baier last night and Megyn Kelly last night can he say "con artist" and "fraud" and “won't denounce the KKK” and “hired illegal immigrants” and misspelled words and the size of his hands?
And that's not Marco. To me, it seems like the establishment is putting all this in his head. He's regurgitating it and being somebody that he's not! That's my take on it.
But Rivera – who first bragged about his big hands – went right after Rubio.
RIVERA: I'm not a shrink. I don't care. I only know what I see. Marco |
A man was arrested after police say he hid a surveillance camera in the bathroom of a dentist office in Phoenix. ABC15's Zach Crenshaw | has the story.
PHOENIX — A man was arrested after police say he hid a surveillance camera in the bathroom of a dentist office in Phoenix.
According to court documents, on December 6 the Phoenix Police Department was contacted by a representative for a west Phoenix based dental office in regards to a hidden surveillance camera that was found in the public bathroom of the facility used by both employees and patients.
The weeks-long investigation determined that 27-year-old Innocent Bradley, who became a patient in October, had planted the camera in a pipe sleeve under the sink.
Court documents show that an office employee told police on October 30 Bradley had a scheduled appointment, and after his arrival at the office, was unable to be found to be treated. About an hour after Bradley's scheduled appointment, staff discovered that someone had been in the bathroom for 45 minutes.
When staff knocked on the door, Bradley opened the door and said he needed a few more minutes and then closed the door. |
A California hospital sent a warning to 200 people who may have been exposed to measles in the waiting room of its emergency department.
Add Meas | les as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Measles news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
A patient who was diagnosed with measles was treated at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California, on March 17, according to a statement from Dean A. Blumberg, the chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital.
Blumberg said the hospital “took appropriate precautions in the areas the patient had visited” and that the patient was the only measles case the hospital had.
“In an abundance of caution, we’ve notified the 200 or so patients who we know may have been in the vicinity” of the patient, Blumberg said, adding that no other measles cases have emerged so far.
The patient diagnosed with measles was an unvaccinated child from Calaveras County, California, who developed the disease after returning from international travel, according to the Calaveras Health and Human |
“I was extremely terrified. I was afraid if I didn’t comply, something was going to happen to me," Glen Grays | said.
A postal worker who was arrested by NYPD officers while on duty two weeks ago is breaking his silence after video of his detainment was widely distributed on the internet.
Glen Grays told CBS This Morning that the camera footage of his disturbing arrest is what saved him.
“The only thing that I think saved me was that it was on videotape,” Grays said.
The use of cell phone cameras has arguably changed how police interact with citizens. In many cases of police abuse or brutality, camera footage often corroborates the witnesses’ story.
WATCH Roland Martin and NewsOne Now’s coverage of the controversial arrest in the video clip below.
The encounter began when an unmarked police car sideswiped Grays as he walked across President Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Grays, who was attempting to deliver a package on his route, told officers they almost hit him, prompting the plainclothes cops to surround the 27-year- |
We know that Bruce Springsteen was “Born in the USA.” But the rocker apparently needs to brush up on his geography. |
His shout-out received a less than enthusiastic reception.
The 60-year-old singer referred to Ohio several times during the concert.
Finally, E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt whispered the location of the concert into Springsteen’s ear.
Maybe his band mates can chip in and buy the Boss a GPS smart phone.
Republicans are taking advantage of a scandal that involves the former and future Democratic candidate for governor of California, Jerry Brown.
A former aide of current Attorney General Brown admitted that he illegally secretly recorded phone calls with journalists. The aide in question, Scott Gerber, recorded six interviews before he was forced to resign.
In damage control mode following the resignation of the staffer, Brown pledged to fully investigate the matter.
One problem, though, is that the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in the Golden State is investigating himself as he gears up for a run for gov.
Dane Gillette, Brown's chief assistant attorney general |
At first, Tracy Kennedy thought it was a hoax.
Kennedy, a single mother of two children, one of whom is enrolled in the | Alexandria City Public Schools district,was livid after the district announced the planned closure on Monday.
The single-day protest, staged by the organizers of the January Women’s March on Washington, coincided with International Women’s Day, an annual celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women,” according to the group’s website.
Participants were encouraged to stay home from work, patronize women and minority-owned businesses, or wear red to show solidarity with the movement if they could not afford to take a day off.
The Alexandria school district announced that its schools would be closed Wednesday after more than 300 staff members asked to take the day off.
“The decision was not made lightly,” Helen Lloyd, a spokesperson for the school district, wrote in an email. Lloyd added that it was “not based on a political stance or position.” Free breakfast and lunch was also offered for all students at six |
I just read your column on the three things a CEO should do to be successful (What a Good CEO Does: Three Things). Would you agree | that, in most cases, the company could fire the CEO and hire someone young, smart, and hungry at 1/10 the salary/perks/bonuses who would achieve the same performance?
Now, I do try to respond to reader emails - even the really disturbing ones - so I gave it some thought and replied, "No." I mean, he didn't ask what I thought, just if I agreed with him. And, well, I didn't.
In case you're wondering what led to that answer, it was a simple calculation. Using my salary and bonus as CEO of a venture-backed company some years back, the reader was asking if I thought the board could have hired someone of my caliber for around $30K a year. Sort of a no-brainer.
That said, I think "Are CEOs Worth It?" is a very intriguing question. And since most people don't have a clue what a CEO actually does or how much the average CEO |
Super Bowl I, Jan. 15, 1967. Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10.
Max McGee might have started off life in | football as a punter, but he’ll forever be remembered as the man who scored the first-ever touchdown in a Super Bowl. His spectacular one-handed grab of a 37-yard pass from Green Bay quarterback Bart Starr gave the Packers the early lead in their eventual 35-10 win over the Kansas City Chiefs. McGee had caught only four passes all season but snared seven for 138 yards and two TDs in the Super Bowl. Funnily enough, because McGee didn’t expect to start the game, he violated the team’s curfew policy and spent the previous night out on the town. The next morning, he told starting receiver Boyd Dowler, “I hope you don’t get hurt. I’m not in very good shape,” which pretty much screamed hangover to anyone paying attention. Dowler went down with a separated shoulder on the Packers’ second drive, and McGee, who then had to borrow a teammate’ |
Celebrate the festive season on the shore of glistening Lake Como, in a comfortable hotel situated across the water from beautiful Bellagio | . Enjoy all-inclusive full-board accommodation, with music each evening and a splendid six-course Christmas Day feast, and discover one of Europe's most scenic corners on some wonderful included and optional excursions.
Fly to Milan, and transfer by coach to your hotel.
Your first unforgettable full day begins with a boat trip across the water to Como's most sparkling settlement, stunning Bellagio, often described as Italy's most beautiful town. Step ashore for a short walking tour and time to explore, before returning across the water for lunch at the hotel.
Later, we'll journey by coach to Como Town, where the lakeside Piazza Cavour and nearby Via Plinio, beneath the majestic cathedral, are home to a colourful Christmas Market selling local produce and wares. After dark, a dazzling Magic Light Festival illuminates the historic buildings. Soak up the festive atmosphere before returning to the hotel in time for dinner.
Spend Christmas Eve relaxing |
March 16, 2019 — The Lady Vikings opened the softball season with a pair of home stands, beginning Wednesday with a match-up against Harris | burg originally scheduled as a road game in the Eagles’ nest.
A combination of a fiery Harrisburg offense and a series of Siuslaw errors that resulted in the Lady Eagles picking up their second win of the week after slamming 12 hits and 13 runs against Siuslaw.
In the meantime, the Vikings battled, led at the plate by freshman Bailey Overton, who had two RBIs, 2 runs scored and a double. Senior catcher Lexi Smith also crossed the plate for the Viks after stealing a base.
From the pitcher’s circle, junior Nina Aaron struck out 6 Eagles batters and gave up only 5 earned runs — with Siuslaw’s 7 team errors contributing to Harrisburg’s scoring run.
“We have to work at not beating ourselves and staying present with the play that’s in front of us,” said coach Sean O’Mara. “But I feel we played well for our first |
With the air balmy and the skies sunny, it's time to take an art stroll. Here's a look at three galleries all in the | 100 block of East Sixth Street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues.
Rosanna Marmont traded the green rural landscapes of her New Zealand childhood for the dry vistas of the American Southwest.
After spending her teenage years in Canada and studying art at Concordia University in Montreal, Marmont decamped to Tucson, where she's been painting Arizona landscapes.
Her big oils on wood, now on view at the year-old Gallery 2 Sun, seem at first to check off all the boxes in conventional Western landscapes.
In "Looking North," for example, a brand new oil on maple, she paints big skies, vast spaces and brilliant sun. Her wooden "canvas"—a long horizontal almost 7 feet long—seems as sweeping as the land itself.
But Marmont more often subverts the landscape genre, adding in the real-life encroachments that we prefer to "edit out" of our wilderness, as she puts in in an artist's statement.
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Amnesty International is calling on UK ministers to urge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to lift the blockade on Gaza when the Israeli leader makes a state visit | to Britain this week.
Mr Netanyahu, who is set to meet David Cameron, other senior politicians and diplomats during his two-day visit beginning today, has defended the eight-year-long blockade of Gaza on the grounds that it prevents weapons being smuggled into the Palestinian territory. However, the crippling blockade includes bans - or severe restrictions - on the import and export of fuel, food, building materials and other essential goods into Gaza.
It also prevents the vast majority of Gaza’s 1.8 million population from travelling to the occupied West Bank or abroad, including those requiring urgent medical treatment. Such restrictions amount to collective punishment and Amnesty is calling for the blockade to be lifted permanently, Last week the United Nations warned that Gaza could become uninhabitable within five years because of “de-development” through the blockade as well as repeated military conflicts.
During last year’s 50-day Israel/Gaza conflict, some 1,500 civilians in Gaza were killed - including |
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