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Budget allocations on the Centre’s social sector flagship programmes such as the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS | ) are not likely to be cut in the ensuing financial year 2012-13 despite pressure on the government to control spending.
Budgetary allocation for key rural development programmes largely remained unchanged in the last financial year, too, with a total allocation of Rs 74,143 crore, out of which the MNREGS got the bulk of Rs 40,000 crore.
“There will be no scaling down in the momentum of government’s productive social sector expenditure,” a senior government official told Deccan Herald. The official, however, stopped short of elaborating individual social sectors programmes as comments on budget related issues in the run-up to its presentation is traditionally not announced.
Besides, three more phases of polling in election-bound Uttar Pradesh are still due. Analysts are of the view that the government can do with a cut in the MNREGS allocation as it goes into fiscal consolidation mode next year. The official, however, said the government has allowed the use |
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I’m reminded of this anecdote as I read a steady | stream of media reports that describe how a majority of working Americans are not saving (and investing) enough of their income to maintain their standard of living in retirement. Mere mortals are not wired like Warren Buffett, but unfortunately even many adult Americans do not seem to comprehend compound interest, which is what Albert Einstein called the “eighth wonder of the world.” The physicist added: “He who understands it [compound interest], earns it…he who doesn’t…pays it.” I’ll provide a vivid example of the importance of saving soon and saving often, but before that let me briefly summarize the lamentable findings of a few recent national savings studies.
The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) survey in 2012 concluded that 60% of workers 55 and older have less than $100,000 socked away for retirement (excluding home equity and defined benefit plans) and 59% of workers age 35-44 have never even bothered to calculate |
A doctor who helps screen pilots for health and safety issues is accused of illegally selling drugs like oxycodone out of his offices at John F. | Kennedy airport and another location in New York, officials said.
Gerald Surya, an internist and senior aviation medical examiner, was arrested Thursday at his New Hyde Park home by Drug Enforcement Administration agents and investigators from the New York Special Narcotics Prosecutors office. NYPD assisted in the investigation.
Surya pleaded not guilty to 26 state charges of criminal sale of a controlled substance in Manhattan court Thursday afternoon.
Surya has practiced in New York for more than 19 years, including doing in-person exams with pilots to certify their medical and mental well-being. Officials did not say if he was dealing drugs directly to pilots he was supposed to be reviewing for certification –- only that he was allegedly selling prescription drugs for cash to "a select group of patients."
Law enforcement sources say the investigation is ongoing into whether he sold drugs to pilots.
Investigators allege Surya has been selling illegal prescriptions since at least 2013, allegedly charging $60 to $100 each from his |
Published: Feb. 14, 2019 at 03:52 p.m.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2019 at 05:01 p. | m.
The fantasy tight end spot was still brutal overall this past season. Only seven players at the position scored more than 150 PPR points, a list that includes Travis Kelce, George Kittle, Zach Ertz, Eric Ebron, Jared Cook, Austin Hooper and Kyle Rudolph. That is the fewest tight ends to hit that mark since 2008, when only six players reached 150 PPR points.
On a positive note, three tight ends (Kelce, Ertz, Kittle) topped 250 PPR points this season. That's the most players at the position to hit that mark in a single season in NFL history.
So, who were the best players when it came to putting up solid totals on a regular basis, and who was more name than numbers? Here's a look at the tight ends who finished in the top 10 most often last season (minimum eight games), along with some interesting notes on players to watch in 2019.
1. Travis |
BOSTON -- Road games in the NHL can be unforgiving, with the pound of travel and the buzz of foreign buildings and the opportunities for inconsistencies | . The Stars entered Monday night's eventual 2-1 overtime loss at Boston on a three-game wave of victories in a variety of ways.
In Montreal, they won despite a massive shot-attempt differential and because of huge efforts from Devin Shore and Ben Bishop. In Toronto, Anton Khudobin shined early and he shined late as the Stars held on tightly for a win. In Washington, they capitalized on turnovers and Jason Dickinson's overtime winner.
Boston offered a new way to win: not with forgiveness, but with fortune. The Stars couldn't, but picked up a point in the standings despite largely being outplayed by the Bruins.
Dallas finishes a season-long, six-game road trip on Tuesday night in Columbus. The Stars are 3-1-1 on the trip, already above the.500 record that Montgomery said the team needed before they left Texas.
But how to they bounce back against the Blue Jackets after looking flat in Boston?
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HOUSTON (CN) – One year for a Zika vaccine is the goal of a partnership signed by a University of Texas research hospital and Brazil, | its health minister announced Thursday.
Marcelo Castro said his government will invest $1.9 billion in the partnership between the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and an institute in Brazil.
As evidence mounts that the virus is causing birth defects and other serious health problems in Latin America, both the United States and Brazil are now fighting back with their checkbooks.
In Bethesda, Maryland last week the National Institutes of Health announced it is funding research to establish conclusively whether Zika causes microcephaly, a birth defect of the head.
A spokeswoman for UTMB Galveston said the staff is too busy this week to interview. She said they were working on proposals for the National Institutes of Health competitive grant.
President Barack Obama on Monday called on Congress to authorize $1.8 billion in emergency funding to boost vaccine research, educate doctors and pregnant women and help the dozens of nations with active Zika cases fight the Aedes mosquito, the species that transmitsthe |
Cameras installed high in a tree in the US state of Iowa have made an internet sensation of a family of bald eagles, whose nest | is streamed online day and night.
"Why viral, I'm not really sure," Bob Anderson, director of the Raptor Resource Project, said of the success of the eagle webcam.
"The world just likes to hear something good instead of negative," he said. "This is all positive; this makes people feel good."
Mr Anderson had been transmitting live images of the nest, 24 metres high in Docorah, Iowa, mainly for schools and universities.
But this year, using a new site, UStream, the eagles are challenging the likes of troubled actor Charlie Sheen for internet popularity. There have been 11 million online views, the project's website says.
About 150,000 viewers at a time check out the live action, captured by two cameras installed on branches 1.5 metres above the nest.
The male and female eagles have been together since the winter of 2007-08, the project's website explained. They have successfully hatched and fledged eag |
YANNICK BOLASIE must be feeling a little sad when he should be happy right now.
It was his substitution on Boxing Day | that turned Crystal Palace fans against manager Neil Warnock and almost certainly got him the sack.
Warnock’s explanation afterwards was that the Congo winger’s baby was now overdue and he was a bit weary.
Sounded strange, but when Bolasie’s wife does give birth he probably won’t feel like celebrating as much as he might have done following the demise of a manager who showed more faith in him than most.
But there again, if you needed any proof that football is a funny old game, Palace is the place to be.
After sacking Warnock yesterday, trigger-happy bosses there must now appoint a new manager.
Tony Pulis saved them last season, but there aren’t too many miracle workers around.
It's all in the melting pot now, but Palace are going to have to do a lot better to survive. At the moment they’re 13/8 favourites to go down – and |
St. John Neumann-Good Shepherd Parish, Lords Valley, has announced a gala celebration to be held on Sunday, July 10, at | the Riverview Inn, Matamoras, from 1 - 5 p.m.
This event commemorates several special parish milestones, mainly the 35th Anniversary of the founding of the parish, the 30th Anniversary of the Church dedication and also the 20th Anniversary of the ordination of our pastor, Fr. Thomas Major.
Invitations to this festivity have been distributed throughout the parish. A special Mass will be celebrated in St. John Neumann Church at 10:30am, Sunday, July 10th, followed by an hors d'oeuvres hour and dinner at the Riverview Inn. There will be music and several guest speakers. This promises to be a very special day for our parish and our pastor. The cost of the dinner is $50 per person, with a choice of entree.
The Knights of Columbus, Chapter 12571, is preparing a commemorative journal to be distributed in recognition of this event. If you or your business would like to take an ad |
TORONTO – Canadians tend to be more positive on Twitter than their American counterparts, according to a new study from an Ontario university that suggests the | language we use may help explain the national stereotypes we hold to be true.
But the McMaster University study cautions people against believing that Canadians are actually nicer than their neighbours to the south, saying that stereotype is not backed up by any hard data.
Researchers at the Hamilton university analyzed 40 million tweets and isolated the words, emoticons and emojis used most disproportionately on the social media platform by individuals from each country.
The study’s lead author said the team of linguists analyzing the tweets were trying to address a question that has long plagued social psychologists — where do national stereotypes come from?
“Why do we think that there’s a French personality or a Canadian personality or an American personality, and why do we think these are different from each other?” said Bryor Snefjella.
He noted that previous studies have shown that while Canadians and Americans don’t have particularly different personalities, people in the two countries tend to strongly believe that |
What’s Been the Effect of Western Sanctions on Russia?
When Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine last March, the United States and European | Union responded with an economic weapon — sanctions.
The first few rounds, applied in March and April of 2014, targeted Russian and Crimean officials, as well as businessmen seen to have close ties to President Vladimir Putin — his “inner circle” — with travel bans and asset freezes.
Since then, the West has steadily expanded its sanctions against Russian entities, targeting major businesses and parts of Russia’s financial, energy and military industries.
FRONTLINE talked to Anders Åslund, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, on Jan. 8, 2015 about the effects and consequences of Western sanctions on the Russian economy. Åslund served as an economic adviser to the Russian and Ukrainian governments in the 1990s.
Which round of sanctions do you think really had an effect on the Russian economy? How would you measure that?
The sanctions the U.S. imposed came in two big chunks. The first concerned Crimea, and they were only personal |
The Professional Footballers' Association says it stands "shoulder to shoulder" with Raheem Sterling and believes he is singled out for negative media | coverage.
The Manchester City forward was subject to alleged racist abuse during Saturday's Premier League game at Chelsea.
Television footage showed a group of home supporters screaming abuse - alleged to be racist in nature - at Sterling as he retrieved the ball from behind the goal during Saturday's match.
Chelsea said it has now suspended four people from attending matches pending further investigations, adding it is "fully supporting the police investigation".
The Metropolitan Police are investigating the incident, and Chelsea said it would "fully support" any criminal prosecutions.
Sterling, 24, responded to the incident on social media by accusing the British newspapers of helping to "fuel racism" by their portrayal of young, black footballers.
He shared two headlines from the same newspaper, comparing the way the white and black subjects of the stories were portrayed.
Meanwhile a number of footballing figures have been weighing in on the issue.
Jurgen Klopp, the manager of Sterling's former club Liverpool, commended the |
The Health for Animals and Livelihood Improvement (HALI) Project is a collaborative research and capacity building program investigating health at human-animal- | environment interfaces in Tanzania.
Recently, I was privileged to be an invited speaker at the American Veterinary Medical Association’s Global Food Security Summit: Understanding the Role of Animal Health and Well Being in Washington D.C. The summit participants included a diverse group of organizations discussing the positive benefits of public and private stakeholder partnerships and the veterinary community to promote and enhance global food security. Among other goals, the summit defined the role of animal source foods in enhancing global food security and described ways to improve animal health to create a more secure, sustainable, safe, and nutritious food supply in areas of global food insecurity.
Participants of the summit were made aware of the stark reality that approximately 75 percent of the world’s poorest people get their food and income by farming small plots of land, and the critical role of animal-sourced proteins in the first 1000 days of life to prevent malnutrition and childhood stunting. It is relatively easy to lose perspective for the plight of the world’ |
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It was a wasted start for Luongo, who was peppered with 40 shots and surrendered two goals.
“We had some chances, we just didn’t do anything with them,” said Jaromir Jagr, part of a Panthers team that mustered just 14 shots on goal in the first two periods and 24 overall.
Anaheim, which took all four available points from the Panthers in the two meetings this month, played big up front and clogged things up for a Florida team coach Gerard Gallant said “wanted no part” of the Ducks’ physical style.
Luongo faced 30 shots in a scoreless game before Anaheim’s Cam Fowler sent a shot that squeezed its way through Luongo’s skates for a 1-0 lead with 3:21 |
This weekend marks a meeting of one of the most storied series in the NCAA as Notre Dame and Navy will take the field for the 92nd | -consecutive time Saturday, this time in San Diego.
The No. 3 Irish (7-0) hold a 75-13-1 lead in the series over the Midshipmen (2-5, 1-3 AAC) and defeated them at home last season on Senior Day. However, the Midshipmen were able to grab a victory the last time the two teams were on the road, when they played in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2016.
With Notre Dame heavily immersed the College Football Playoff picture at the moment, Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo knows that taking down the squad at a neutral site will be a tough task. But he also feels the Midshipmen have been on the up and up in the last few weeks and hopes they will be up to the challenge.
Irish junior receiver Chase Claypool makes a diving catch in front of his Pittsburgh defender during Notre Dame’s 19-14 win over the Panthers on Oct. |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Fidelity National Financial, Inc. today announced that its | Board of Directors has approved a new FNF Group (NYSE: FNF) three-year stock repurchase program, effective August 1, 2015, under which the company may repurchase up to 25 million shares of FNF common stock. Purchases may be made from time to time by the company in the open market at prevailing market prices or in privately negotiated transactions through July 31, 2018. Under its previous three-year repurchase program, which expires on July 31, 2015, the company repurchased a total of 3.4 million shares of common stock.
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. is organized into two groups, FNF Group (NYSE: FNF) and FNFV Group (NYSE: FNFV). FNF is a leading provider of title insurance, technology and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries. FNF is the nation's largest title insurance company through its title insurance underwriters - Fidelity National Title, Chicago Title, Commonwealth Land Title, |
Published: July 24, 2013 at 04:53 p.m.
Updated: July 25, 2013 at 01:40 a.m. |
Miami Dolphins rookie defensive end Dion Jordan hasn't been on the field a lot as a professional. He missed much of the offseason because of NFL rules and a nagging shoulder injury, then briefly was on the non-football injury list to start training camp.
Jordan is back on the practice field now, but he hasn't been cleared for full contact in training camp. That's expected to happen in the next few days. Speaking to NFL Network's Warren Sapp live on "Inside Training Camp" on Wednesday, Jordan said he'll be ready for Week 1. And he plans on starting.
"Oh yeah, yes, sir," Jordan told Sapp. "I can handle it. I'll be ready to go."
» Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid told NFL Network's Steve Wyche that No. 1 overall draft pick Eric Fisher's contract "will get done." The Chiefs aren't worried that Fisher is missing a few days with his fellow rookies. It sounds like the team expects Fisher |
Some commonly used antidepressants may increase certain patients' risk of developing mania or bipolar disorder, a large study suggests.
The strongest link was for | depressed patients prescribed Effexor (venlafaxine) or antidepressants called serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), the British study found. SSRIs include citalopram (Celexa), escitalopram (Lexapro), fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil) and sertraline (Zoloft).
However, many patients who developed mania or bipolar symptoms likely had underlying bipolar disorder or a predisposition because of family history or other factors, the researchers believe.
Also, the study was observational, and "we did not demonstrate a causal association between antidepressants and mania and bipolar disorder," said lead researcher Dr. Rashmi Patel, of the department of psychosis studies at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.
Still, the findings highlight the need to consider risk factors for bipolar disorder in people treated for major depression, Patel said.
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A Cambuslang gran, who has fostered more than 40 children in 25 years, admits it breaks her heart every time she has to wave | off a child to embark on their new life.
Liz King’s warmth, patience and, ultimately love, has transformed the lives of youngsters whose own parents have lost their way.
Liz was a 35-year-old lone parent bringing up two daughters back in 1993 when she asked her mum why a neighbour always seemed to have different children.
When it was explained that the neighbour was a foster carer, it prompted Liz to respond to an advert in the Rutherglen Reformer appealing for people to come forward to foster and adopt.
After going through the application process, Liz welcomed into the family home a four-year-old boy – a departure from normal family life which her daughters Angela, then 11, and nine-year-old Michelle took in their stride.
“It was nerve-racking, because he was my first and you know he is not yours and you wonder how you’ll manage,” remembers Liz.
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Golfing great Tiger Woods is off to a strong start at this week's Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Consider this MNST bullishly biased | vertical call spread expiring in June.
The price run-up from $56 looks like the pole of a bull flag formation.
Pepsico shares are up 5% since the start of the year, while Coca-Cola's stock are up 8.7%.
After trading sideways for 2 years, beverage company is back to the top of its range.
Shares of the energy-drink company are poised for an upside breakout.
Try this call spread in MNST, but don't chase on this thin trading day.
What Makes for a Truly Great Stock?
This century's best-performing names offer some clues.
Action may be mixed, but there's a strategy worth considering buried in the numbers.
Are Monster Beverage's Charts Scary Post-Halloween?
It might take a couple of closes above $165 to signal a breakout on the upside, or $120 on the downside.
The beverage and snack giant just can't seem to |
The Bank of Butterfield announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2017.
Net income for the year ended December 31 | , 2017 was $153.3 million, or $2.76 per diluted common share, compared to $115.9 million or $1.18 per common share for the year ended December 31, 2016.
Core net income1 for the year ended December 31, 2017 was $158.9 million, or $2.86 per diluted common share, compared to $138.6 million, or $2.48 per diluted common share, for the year ended December 31, 2016.
The core return on average tangible common equity for the year ended December 31, 2017 was 22.4%, up from 20.5% for the year ended December 31, 2016. The core efficiency ratio1for the year ended December 31, 2017 was 64.3%, compared with 63.8% in the previous year.
“I am pleased to report that Butterfield achieved record profits in 2017,” said Michael Collins, Butterfield’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. |
Barton Rovers retained the Beds County Cup by beating AFC Dunstable 2-1 in the final at Kenilworth Road on Tuesday evening | .
Both teams sounded each other out for the first 10 minutes as Barton almost struck first, but Jordan Davis’ effort was blocked by Newman Carney.
AFC then started to gain the upper hand and were in front on 12 minutes when Carney’s corner was headed home by Nathan Frater.
Looking for a second, AFC thought they had it when Christie unleashed a shot that seemed destined for the top corner only for Kyle Forster to pull off a wonder save and somehow deny him.
Forster was again to frustrate Christie midway through the half when he saved well from a low shot.
It seemed it would only be a matter of time before AFC got their second, only to hit the self destruct button on 37 minutes as former player James Bishop slotted home from close range.
After the break, both sides began by cancelling each other out as Forster stood firm for Barton.
With 20 minutes to go, Josh Humbert had the chance to put |
Even though many groups of environmentalists might not warm up to President-elect Donald Trump regarding environmental issues, the National Mining Association is more than pleased with | his choice for interior secretary.
Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R-Wash.) has been chosen to be Interior Secretary in the Trump administration. As one of the highest-ranking female Republicans in the United States Congress, McMorris-Rodgers is also a member of what is known as the Western Caucus.
Luke Popovich of the National Mining Association gives accolades to Trump for deciding on McMorris-Rodgers.
"We think it's a very good choice for a number of reasons," Popovich pointed out. "She is very familiar with all the land-use issues that we're concerned about as a mining industry. And then don't forget she's from the eastern part of Washington state – the Spokane area – which is one of the most mineral rich, resource rich sections of the entire country."
Seeing things differently, the Sierra Club stated in a press release that McMorris-Rodgers the wrong choice for America's public lands and |
Actress Thandie Newton has revealed an awkward conversation between her and Victoria Beckham where VB mistook her for pregnant Guardians of the Galaxy star | , Zoe Salanda, despite the fact Thandie had given birth months before.
In a tale that carefully manicured Victoria may not want revealing to the public, Thandie - who stars in dystopian robot based series, Westworld - said the fashion designer had been left ‘mortified’ after the cringe-worthy chat.
The British actress bumped into Posh at a spin class in Los Angeles, and, having met her a few times before, the pair started talking.
But part way through the conversation, Thandie, 45, started to realise Vicky thought she was speaking to someone else.
I said, 'I actually had my baby a couple of months ago'."
But as the conversation got more awkward, Thandie finally twigged what was going on.
"We carried on chatting and it was obvious she thought I was someone else so I said, 'Do you think I am Zoe Saldana?'" she shared, adding that |
A Sydney magistrate has criticised a drink driver who attended court in tiny denim shorts.
THE right to bare legs has been cut off by a Sydney | magistrate after a woman charged with driving at more than double the legal blood alcohol limit appeared in court wearing thigh-high denim shorts.
Sutherland Local Court Magistrate Jayeann Carney asked Barbara Diana Vasconcello Cardenas, 37, if she had a jumper she could tie around her waist to supplement her tiny denim shorts during her court appearance.
"What I'm going to say is it is completely inappropriate to wear cut off denim shorts up to your thighs in court," Ms Carney told Vasconcello Cardenas through a Spanish interpreter.
"I'm very tolerant to all types of attire but this is beach attire, what you're wearing.
"This is a court. Do you appreciate what I've said?"
Barbara Diana Vasconcello Cardenas fronted court wearing tiny denim shorts.
The Peakhurst resident caught officers' attention on December 22 because she was driving with her lights out on Belmore Rd in Riverwood.
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Nominations will be accepted from the floor.
The municipal election will be held in November.
"Volunteers for town boards and | commissions are the life-blood of small towns," said committee vice chairman Karen Casey.
"The challenge lies in finding the right people to serve in positions such as treasurer, Board of Finance, Board of Education, Planning and Zoning and the like," she said.
For the past several elections, Republicans have endorsed incumbent tax collector Deborah Devaux, a Democrat.
In 2005, both parties endorsed Tanya Horgan, an unaffiliated voter, to serve as town treasurer.
Mrs. Horgan has decided to step down in order to devote more time to her business.
Nick Downes, a member of Planning and Zoning who is now seeking the office of first selectman, and incumbent Selectman Vincent LaFontan have announced their candidacies for the top spots last month.
Kent GOP chairman Tony DiPentima describes the two as "men with strong leadership experience."
Republicans and unaffiliated voters who would like to serve in any office of the town are asked to |
Neighborhood-based social network Nextdoor has named Sarah Friar as its new chief executive officer. Friar previously worked at Square, the | payments technology company founded by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
Over the past year, Nextdoor — a social network for people who live in the same community to privately discuss local issues — has begun offering a listing search feature and home valuations that put it in competition with Zillow. Its former CEO, Nirav Tolia, announced he was leaving in July and has spent the time since then helping find his replacement.
But now, Friar — who studied engineering at Oxford and spent more than a year at Goldman Sachs — is set to take over the company in December. Friar joined payment company Square in 2012 and has helped steer it in going public with an IPO in 2015. It has enjoyed success as a business-to-business company through its Square Reader point-of-sale devices and tablets.
Square’s stocks also dropped by more than 8 percent after the news of Friar’s upcoming departure broke, according to CNBC.
Still, most analysts have |
Dex Frier told BuzzFeed News he felt "suppressed" by his school's insistence that he had to run on the prom queen ballot — or | not at all.
A 17-year-old senior at Johnson High School in Gainesville, Georgia, says he is being forced to run as a candidate for prom queen, despite being nominated by several of his peers for prom king.
Dex Frier, who identifies as male, told BuzzFeed News his school is giving him one of two options ahead of prom on Saturday: Either run on the prom queen ballot, or not at all.
Last Friday, Frier said he was pulled into a meeting with the principal and a school supervisor where they delivered the message.
Frier said the news was "upsetting" and that he felt "suppressed" by officials at his school — especially after feeling excited and celebrated upon learning he'd been nominated for prom king by several classmates two weeks ago.
"The announcement came on [and] I was one of six prom king candidates, which is insane. I was one among some of the most popular kids at school," he added. |
The former secretary of state leads the popular former Florida governor by two points in the state, a new Quinnipiac University poll shows.
Former | secretary of state Hillary Clinton has a narrow 2-point edge over former Florida governor Jeb Bush in a hypothetical 2016 presidential election matchup in the Sunshine State, a new Quinnipiac University poll says.
In a head-to-head contest, the Democrat gets the support of 47 percent of Florida voters while the Republican receives 45 percent, the poll out Friday shows.
The poll also reveals that the two politicians are the early leaders in their parties’ potential presidential primaries in Florida – with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio lagging behind them.
Bush, a former two-term governor, has 22 percent support in a hypothetical Republican Party primary, topping Rubio with 18 percent, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie with 14 percent and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz with 12 percent. No other candidate was in double figures.
Clinton enjoys a large theoretical lead on the Democratic side, with 70 percent of Florida voters supporting her, compared to just 9 percent who are backing Vice President Joe Biden.
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The longest-tenured Jets player may be sticking around for at least another season.
The Jets are considering re-signing free-agent | outside linebacker Bryan Thomas, according to two sources.
Thomas missed most of the 2011 season with a torn left Achilles tendon, but he has been rehabilitating the injury and expects to be 100 percent for next season.
The Jets selected Thomas, 32, in the first round of the 2002 NFL Draft. When they let go defensive end Shaun Ellis last summer, Thomas became the longest-tenured Jet. Thomas’ 145 games played are the fourth-most for a linebacker in team history.
He suffered the season-ending injury on Oct. 2 in a 34-17 loss to the Ravens. Many in the organization felt the loss of Thomas severely hindered the team’s defense, and the team never found a stable replacement for him. Jamaal Westerman, Garrett McIntyre, Josh Mauga and Aaron Maybin all spent time in Thomas’ spot.
Thomas spent the rest of the season working out at the Jets’ training center, so the team’s doctors |
The sixth annual Native American Friendship Pow Wow at the College of DuPage attracted dancers, drummers and vendors from throughout the Midwest.
It also | brought out spectators such as Mary Grach of Naperville who wanted good seats for her den of 5th-grade Cub Scouts from Ellsworth Elementary School.
"Everyone said to sit close to the drums," she said. "Boy Scouting has Indian folklore woven throughout it, and I thought it would be good for them to see authentic dancing."
Saturday's event, a friendship powwow, differs from a competitive event, in which dancers perform for prize money, explained Jim Frank, coordinator of the college's Native American Studies Program, which sponsored the powwow.
"It's a social gathering to keep the culture alive in songs and dance, and to renew friendships," Frank said. Among the Native Americans participating in the event, he said, several were from Chicago's Northwest Side.
The powwow featured two opening ceremonies at 1 and 6 p.m., complete with a parade, prayer, singing, drumming and dancing.
"The drummers honor the feminine, which is the |
Quinn called Vallejo police March 23 to report Huskins’ kidnapping from their Mare Island home. He told investigators they were awakened at | gunpoint and drugged. He said he woke to find Huskins gone. He said he received several texts and emails from the kidnappers requesting a ransom of $17,000, split into two payments, the claim said.
Huskins, 30, was held hostage in a small room, drugged and raped, the claim said.
Two days later, Huskins was dropped off at her family's home in Huntington Beach. In a March 25 press release, the police department suggested the kidnapping was a hoax.
“Today, there is no evidence to support the claims that this was a stranger abduction or an abduction at all. Given the facts that have been presented thus far, this event appears to be an orchestrated event and not a kidnapping,” it read.
In a subsequent press conference, department officials described the search effort as “wasted” resources.
“Mr. Quinn and Ms. Huskins have plundered valuable resources away from |
Manulife Financial Corp. says it has won its legal battle with hedge fund Mosten Investments over universal life insurance products.
Saskatchewan | Court of Queen's Bench ruled Friday that the fund cannot deposit an unlimited amount of money in these contracts to get a guaranteed return of four per cent.
Mosten Investment LP had sued Manulife, Industrial Alliance and BMO Life over the policies. Similar suits by Ituna Investment LP and Atwater Investment LP also were dismissed.
Mosten which holds one such insurance policy dating from 1997 had argued it should be allowed to deposit unlimited amounts of capital and earn the guaranteed rate. It planned to sell partnerships in the policy.
Prominent short-seller Muddy Waters had warned that could cripple Manulife financially and shorted the stock..
Universal life policies, sold more than two decades ago when interest rates were higher, allowed holders to invest their surplus funds into side accounts with guaranteed rates of at least four per cent.
In a statement released Monday Manulife says the ruling in Saskatchewan court found the policy "does not provide for unlimited stand-alone investment opportunities within the |
The first time you watch Insidious, the bloodless, old-school scare show from Saw director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell | , the most likely reaction is unnerved fear, mixed with the exhilaration of realizing you've actually watched a genuinely scary movie—the total opposite of Hollywood's horror output in recent years. But it's not until the second or third time that one sits with Insidious that Wan's low-budget remixing of old-school haunted house movie tropes really earns its stripes.
In ways similar to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (which, of course, is superior—relax, purists), Insidious maintains its scariness upon repeat viewings. Credit the slow, methodical pacing, which allows the film's well-timed jump scares to impact greatly (you'll never look at a baby's crib the same again), and Whannell's knack for creepily iconic imagery, such as a spirit that looks like Ozzy Osbourne in drag, malevolent ghouls that resemble those in the slept-on horror gem Carnival Of Souls, and a final shot reminiscent of Donald Sutherland's |
If you've ever tried to game on PC using that pathetic piece of DRM crap known as Games for Windows Live, then you already know how much | of a piece of crap that piece of crap is. And let's be honest, I'm being extremely nice about it. Well, for all of you out there who absolutely abhor GFWL (and I've never met anyone who uses it regularly and actually thinks it's okay) then you will be glad to know that Max Payne 3 will not support Games For Windows Live. Sound a horn and a blow a trumpet.
For those of you who have never experienced the horrors of GFWL, imagine a retarded, autistic version of Xbox Live but without half the updates and absolutely zero support. To make it worse is that GFWL does not only work as pseudo-DRM but it also works to manage your "online profile" which can be attached to your Xbox Live account, and keeps all your saved games stored on the profile. The good part is that you can have shared achievements, score, rankings, saved games, etc., etc,. and it seems cool at first but then |
Someone thought the Nathanael Greene monument in Savannah, Georgia, needed a makeover.
On Thursday, the 50-foot white marble ob | elisk was defaced with none other than googly eyes, which added a comical flare to the statue. But city officials didn't find the stunt funny.
"Who did this?! Someone placed googly eyes on our historic #NathanaelGreene statue in #JohnsonSquare. It may look funny but harming our historic monuments and public property is no laughing matter, in fact, it's a crime," the Savannah city government said on its Facebook page Thursday.
The city's post was shared more than 29,000 times and more than 8,000 people commented on it. Commenters posted memes of the googly eyed Greene with captions like "What are those pigeons doing?" as well as pictures of inanimate objects like trees and doors with googly eyes. Someone even posted a link to a site selling T-shirts with the googly eyed statue.
"The eyes were quickly removed and did not appear to do any damage to the statue," said Greene -- |
In the not-so-distant past, news generally tended to travel in a few well-worn paths. It was reported by a newspaper | , it appeared on television at noon or 6 p.m. or it was mentioned on a drive-time radio show — and those involved usually had plenty of time to report it and produce it. The arrival of CNN and 24-hour news changed all of that, however, and Twitter and Facebook have changed it again: Now the news is just as likely to appear in a tweet or to be posted as a status update by someone who is directly involved in the event. In a nutshell, this means that the value of a simple “scoop” or breaking news report is declining rapidly — and that might just be a good thing.
Whenever there is a news event like Houston’s death, someone inevitably points out that Twitter also routinely reports things that aren’t true, including the deaths of innumerable celebrities who later turn out to be perfectly healthy. And they note that new-media sources — such as the student-run blog network that mistakenly reported Penn State football |
In Indian Wells, Calif., K.J. Choi (right) overcame the nerves of playing in his first LG Skins Game by using a | precise short game and key putts to take the first-day lead in the 26th annual event yesterday.
* In Singapore, Annika Sorenstam, playing her second-to-last event before retiring, holed a 45-foot pitch for eagle on the par-5 18th hole to give herself and Suzann Pettersen a 1-up victory over Inbee Park and Eun Hee Ji in the Lexus Cup.
* In Shenzen, China, Brendan Jones made a 4-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole, giving Australia a 9-under 63 and a share of the lead with Spain after the third round of the World Cup of Golf.
* In Melbourne, Australia, Robert Allenby holed a 3-wood shot for a double eagle on the par-5 seventh and finished with a 5-under 67 for a share of the third-round lead in the Australian Masters with Michael Sim.
The Bears placed Nathan |
European Daily Catch: Retail Sales Stabilizing?
Today's real retail sales gave the ECB and EU heads of state another reason to keep their | fingers crossed for stability of the Euro area economy (.pdf of release). In January, volume adjusted retail sales increased 0.3% in the Euro area (EA) and broke a 4-month trend downward. On a 3-month annualized basis, though, real retail sales are falling at a 2.2% pace. Therefore, on a trended basis the second derivative may be stabilizing but the first derivative remains conspicuously negative.
I suppose that the ECB and EU heads of state will take this month of reprieve to pat themselves on the back for policy well done. However, in looking at the cross section of the monthly gains, France was the primary driver of the regional improvement, +2.1% over the month. We're not out of the woods yet.
Greece, Spain, and Italy haven't reported for January, so we'll have to wait on the over or under regarding revisions. I'll take the under, however, given that Spanish and |
Firefighters right the fallen digger, a hire bobcat.
1.10pm: A 74-year-old man has been freed | from underneath a digger outside a home at Woonona.
The man has suffered a crushing injury to his right foot and will be transported to Wollongong Hospital.
Senior Constable Jason Huggins, from Wollongong police, said the man had been working on the small excavator – a hire bobcat – in his front yard.
“The excavator’s tipped over and trapped his right foot,” Sen Con Huggins said.
“It was a mini excavator, which is quite heavy.
It is understood the man’s foot is not broken. His injuries are not life-threatening.
Sen Con Huggins said it appeared the man was home alone at the time.
“If you’re working with this kind of equipment it is dangerous and unpredictable, so have someone help you out,” he said.
Greg Shepherd, Wollongong Fire Station commander, said the |
ONE of the country’s most prolific sci-fi directors rode his Tardis into Caernarfon last week as part of the | highly anticipated Celtic Media Festival.
Former Llanrug resident Euros Lyn was part of a five strong panel of behind the scenes figures from the cult TV series Doctor Who to speak about the show at an event in the Galeri.
The 38-year-old, who has directed episodes for the hit show since it returned to British screens in 2005, said he was overjoyed when he found out he had bagged his “dream job”.
“I remember I was in Russia at the time I heard that they were going to relaunch Doctor Who,” said the former Ysgol Gynradd Llanrug pupil.
“I wrote a letter to Russell T Davies (writer) and Julie Gardner (executive producer) begging them to consider me for the directing job.
Although Euros didn’t hear back from them for a little while, eventually he got the news he had been waiting for.
Since landing the top job four |
Scientists have described a way to convert human skin cells directly into a specific type of brain cell affected by Huntington's disease, an ultimately fatal neurodeg | enerative disorder. Unlike other techniques that turn one cell type into another, this new process does not pass through a stem cell phase, avoiding the production of multiple cell types, the study's authors report.
The researchers, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, demonstrated that these converted cells survived at least six months after injection into the brains of mice and behaved similarly to native cells in the brain.
"Not only did these transplanted cells survive in the mouse brain, they showed functional properties similar to those of native cells," said senior author Andrew S. Yoo, PhD, assistant professor of developmental biology. "These cells are known to extend projections into certain brain regions. And we found the human transplanted cells also connected to these distant targets in the mouse brain. That's a landmark point about this paper."
The work appears Oct. 22 in the journal Neuron.
The investigators produced a specific type of brain cell called medium spiny neurons, which are important for |
Jesus loved to use stories to illustrate profound, life-transforming concepts. He loved to use real and genuine settings, characters, and ideas that | apply to all of us to reveal God’s heart of pursuit and love. This week we’re going to spend time allowing the parables of Jesus to speak directly to our situations, mindsets, and core beliefs about who God is. Open your heart and mind to be transformed by the powerful and captivating stories of Jesus.
Jesus tells a beautiful parable of the kingdom of God in Matthew 12:31-32. He teaches, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” Trees are beautiful pictures of God’s ability to take what we view as weak or insignificant, a seed, and make a magnificent and life-giving creation out of it. And Matthew 12 reveals how |
MANILA, Jan. 14 (PIA) -- The energy sector is eyeing to increase the country's biomass capacity by an additional 277 megawatts | biomass by the year 2015.
To achieve this target, 25 biomass projects will be implemented nationwide, said Marriz Agbon, President of the Philippine Agricultural Development and Commercial Corporation (PADCC).
During the 1st Philippine International BioEnergy Conference held Jan. 12-13 at the Manila Hotel, Agbon cited a study conducted by the United States- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (US NREL) which shows that the Philippines has a potential output of 235.7 megawatts for biomass (bagasse only).
To maximize these potentials, the Biofuels Act of 2006 and the Renewable Energy Act of 2008 were enacted.
The Biofuels Act mandates a ten percent ethanol blend for gasoline and two percent biodiesel blend for diesel. On the other hand, the Renewable Energy Act was enacted "to accelerate the exploration and development of renewable energy resources," Agbon said.
In accordance with these laws, 18 ethanol distilleries with an annual capacity of 30 million lit |
On April 3, community leaders and elected officials assembled at a town hall meeting to discuss proposals to reform the United States immigration laws.
Approximately | 200 community members came to discuss the debate taking place in Washington surrounding the immigration system and the role individuals can play in ensuring the passage of fair immigration reform.
The meeting convened in the auditorium of PS 19Q, located at 98-02 Roosevelt Ave. The key speakers at the town hall included U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-Jackson Heights), U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Bayside), Jose Tejada, executive director of Dominico-American Society of Queens; Jose Calderon, president of the Hispanic Federation and Julio Hernandez, a member of the Dominico-American Society of Queens.
Aside from the key panelists, members of the community spoke about their personal experiences of working illegally and struggling after a member of their family is deported back to their homeland. A young girl came close to tears as she pleaded to see her father come back to the U.S. and reunite with her family.
The topics highlighted during the |
DECATUR, Ga. - May 24, 2018 - PRLog -- Estate & Asset Protection Attorney, Victoria Collier recognizes that for prospective clients | it may be difficult to decide between Asset Protection and Elder Care Attorneys.
DECATUR, GA, May 24, 2018: Victoria L. Collier, founder of The Estate & Asset Protection Law Firm, has posted a new blog on her law firm's website entitled "Elder Care Attorney Or Estate Planning Attorney." Ms. Collier acknowledges that it could be either or if the attorney is good and well versed in both areas.
As Collier points out, "Getting older comes with its own unique set of legal issues, especially if we, or a loved one, are not able to care for ourselves." She continues, "If no arrangements have been made earlier, it can be emotionally difficult watching a loved one struggle with health and financial difficulties."
"It is during times like these that one is faced with how to best solve the issues," Collier writes, adding, "Sometimes it is not clear to whom we should turn for help."
According to Collier, |
A small colony of nightingales could scupper plans for a major housing development in Medway. This report from Tom Savvides includes interviews | with Paul Outwaite from the RSPB and councillor Jane Chitty.
After very careful consideration of all the evidence by Natural England, it became clear that the area is of special interest for grassland, woodland and nightingales, which represent 1.3 per cent of the bird’s national population. It is one of the most important sites for nightingales in the UK. Natural England’s executive board therefore has a legal duty to designate it as a SSSI.
This involves the existing SSSI at Chattenden Woods being extended to incorporate the land at Lodge Hill. Letters of notification have been sent to relevant parties. They will have four months in which to make objections and representations about notification. Any such points which remain unresolved will then be considered by the Natural England Board which has nine months to decide whether to confirm or withdraw the SSSI notification.
This decision does not determine whether or not development can go ahead at the site; this |
When writer/actor B.J. Novak leaves “The Office”, it will leave the beloved sitcom with just a handful of | its original cast members. Truthfully, I gave up on the show quite a few seasons ago, and strongly feel that it probably should have closed for business when Steve Carell decided to ride off into the sunset. Still, the program has somehow managed to hang on despite all of its problems. However, with writer and co-star Mindy Kaling leaving for her own sitcom, and Rainn Wilson trotting off to do his own spin-off show, there’s very little hope for the show after this season ends.
Of course, that’s not to say Novak is gone for good. The guy will still serve as a consulting producer on the show, and will more than likely return every once in a while for a guest spot for two. Jon Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, and Ed Helms, meanwhile, are still on-board for another season, though I’d say their days are probably numbered at this point.
In addition |
MUSKEGON, Mich.—In honor of Michigan’s Public Health Week, Public Health Muskegon County will address community trends | in communicable diseases this Thursday, April 24.
The free information session is 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Youngberg Auditorium on the Mercy Health Hackley Campus. The event is meant to raise awareness and help control the spread of infectious diseases within the county. No registration is required.
Muskegon, MI – In honor of Michigan Public Health Week, April 21-25, 2014, Public Health – Muskegon County will be presenting a one-hour free seminar on Thursday, April 24 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Mercy Health Hackley Campus Youngberg Auditorium titled Working Together to Control the Emergence and Spread of Infectious Diseases in Muskegon County.
The event will consist of a review of Muskegon County trends in infectious diseases that are required to be reported to the local health department. Public Health staff will also share their experiences with infectious disease control from the public health point of |
(CNN) -- Former Enron Corp. chief Jeffrey Skilling, convicted three years ago of fraud, is scheduled to be resentenced Thursday after | a federal appeals court vacated his 24-year sentence earlier this year.
Jeffrey Skilling, 55, is being held in a low-security prison in Englewood, Colorado.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana, affirmed Skilling's conviction in January but dumped the sentence handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Sim Lake in Houston, Texas.
Skilling was sentenced to 24 years and 4 months in jail for deceiving investors and employees about Enron's fiscal health. The appeals court found that Lake was wrong in saying Skilling had endangered a financial institution -- a finding that prompted Lake to impose a harsher sentence.
The appeals court's action lowers the guideline range to between 188 months and 235 months in prison, according to Cliff Stricklin, a former prosecutor in the Enron case and an attorney with the Denver law firm of Holme, Roberts & Owen.
"If I were a |
A top-secret Pentagon report to assess the damage to national security from the leak of classified National Security Agency documents by Edward Snowden concluded that "the | scope of the compromised knowledge related to US intelligence capabilities is staggering".
The Guardian has obtained a copy of the Defense Intelligence Agency's classified damage assessment in response to a Freedom of Information Act (Foia) lawsuit filed against the Defense Department earlier this year. The heavily redacted 39-page report was prepared in December and is titled "DoD Information Review Task Force-2: Initial Assessment, Impacts Resulting from the Compromise of Classified Material by a Former NSA Contractor."
But while the DIA report describes the damage to US intelligence capabilities as "grave", the government still refuses to release any specific details to support this conclusion. The entire impact assessment was redacted from the material released to the Guardian under a presidential order that protects classified information and several other Foia exemptions.
Only 12 pages of the report were declassified by DIA and released. A Justice Department attorney said DIA would continue to process other internal documents that refer to the DIA report for possible release later |
Krishna Bose, widow of Netaji's nephew Sisir Kumar, said that there would not have been speculations if those files | were brought out earlier.
KOLKATA: Expressing happiness over the de-classification of 100 files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, his relative Krishna Bose on Saturday said that there would not have been speculations (regarding Netaji's disappearance) if those files were brought out earlier.
"We are happy. If the files were de-classified earlier, there would not have been speculations. Both Narendra Modi and Mamata Banerjee have done good work (by declassifying Netaji files), Krishna, widow of Netaji's nephew Sisir Kumar Bose, said.
Stating that she could not go through the files de-classified during the day, Krishna supported the report of plane crash in August 1945 saying, "There were eyewitness accounts regarding the plane crash. It is unfortunate that we had lost a great leader. We did not get any proof saying that the plane crash did not take place. If we get any such proof we |
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All of Avalon is buses (7:30pm) at least 10 buses stuck!
Thanks,just adding that above. Anywhere with even a slight hill is a place to avoid!
Please be aware route 21 is not running at all per Metro. They can’t get up the hill from Avalon. They’re being left where they get stuck there. Had a cold, wet walk home.
I’m assuming there’s no garbage pickup tomorrow for those of us who are scheduled for 2/12/19 pickup? It’s too much of a slushy mess to drag the cans to the curb.
Just tried to drive three blocks around Alaska Juction… nearly impossible. Slushmeggedon is now upon us!
Bus drama continues on California & Gen |
The Super Mega is getting roasted tonight!
AKA says he is at peace with himself.
As AKA prepares to be ripped to shred | s at his Comedy Central Roast tonight, the rapper tells TshisaLIVE he is not afraid of anything because of the peace and stability being reunited with his family has brought him.
AKA and his baby mama DJ Zinhle broke up in 2015 but several months ago sparked rumours of getting back together when they were spotted at a number of events getting cosy.
Although AKA has not officially confirmed that the pair are a couple again, he told TshisaLIVE that being reunited as a family has given him a new lease on life.
"I think that I am just a bit more calculated. I am in a happier place, on a personal level. I believe that my family has a lot to do with that, being together with my family again. It has given me stability and support. When you get that stability, it helps you focus on business and take better care of yourself. Also money! Making more money makes you happier," he said. |
UK Supermarket Chain Bans Aspartame From Own-Label Products; Japanese Manufacturer Ajinomoto Sues!
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Melrose Jewelers Launches its Rolex Watch Store with Mens Rolex & Lady Rolex Watches in UK.
Melrose Jewelers, a Used Rolex Dealer of Mens Rolex & Lady Rolex Presidential and Rolex Datejust Watches, Launches its Rolex Watch Store in the United Kingdom (U.K.).
As the number of sailing yachts continues to grow rapidly around the world, many new boat owners are finding that they lack the skills to safely sail their boats and are turning to specialised yacht delivery professionals for help.
The Rasmuson Gallery of Alaskan Artists officially opens Monday 12 May with a reception from 12pm - 3pm PST or SLT. Located on the University of Alaska Fairbanks sim Rhetorica, the project features a growing exhibit of art by artists based in Alaska.
Sharon and John had been a couple ever since college |
Every year when the NCAA tips off its men’s basketball tournament, Deadline launches its own tourney to ascertain which film from the previous calendar | year made the most money. The ticked for entry into Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is domestic gross. The tournament started with the same seeding as the NCAA, but unlike this year’s bracket busting upsets, the early rounds were too easy to forecast. The ranking has further evolved. We started with the top 20 grossing films, but now we’ve changed that too.
When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses, and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysterious end of the equation, Deadline uses data culled by seasoned and trusted sources.
This year, we’re changing it up, counting down from No. 10 all the way to crowning |
Two members of the U.S. Supreme Court indicated on Thursday night that the court will ultimately have to decide the legality of National Security Agency surveillance | activities.
The two justices, Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, made the comments during a public event at the National Press Club in Washington. They were responding to questions posed by journalist Marvin Kalb about whether the court would take up cases arising from the recent disclosures about NSA surveillance, most notably by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
The justices did not discuss specific NSA programs. There are various lawsuits pending around the country challenging the government's widespread collection of telephone records. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled in December that the program was probably unlawful, while a judge in New York held later that month that it was not. Both cases are now on appeal.
Scalia, a leading conservative justice, said the court was not the best body to decide major national security issues because of its lack of expertise. But he indicated that the court would likely decide the issue of whether widespread gathering of telecommunications data violates the Fourth Amendment, which bars unlawful searches and seizures.
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Above: Kano provides DIY hardware and free software to help teach kids to love coding.
“Oh my gosh, this computer actually | works!” exclaimed a nine-year-old boy when he booted up the Kano PC he’d just built himself. He’d been skeptical. This was not like the sleek, closed devices the boy has at home and at school; he had handled and assembled the actual components of this computer himself. Suddenly, motherboard, memory card, and the HDMI cable were no longer abstract objects.
For instance, a child might be curious about how often her dog drinks water. She can write code that would use a sensor and camera placed next to Fido’s water bowl to snap a digital photo every time the dog trips the sensor. Kano seems determined to help kids unleash their creativity — no matter how frivolous or serious the project — and is filling the gaps between different levels of coding.
Kano’s message has been well-received by students and educators, with more than 100,000 kits shipped to customers in 86 countries. The London-based |
LONDON, England - A British Airways plane with 75 passengers on board made an emergency landing at Heathrow airport today after one of its engines caught | fire.
LONDON, England – Delta Air Lines will significantly grow its presence at London’s Heathrow Airport when its partnership with Virgin Atlantic comes into force later this year.
TEMPE, Ariz. - US Airways today announced that service between the airline's largest hub in Charlotte, N.C. and London's preferred business airport, Heathrow, will start March 30, 2013.
TEMPE, Ariz. - US Airways today announced it has been awarded operating slots to inaugurate daily, non-stop service between its Charlotte, N.C.
LNDON, England - Over a third (34%) of tourism chiefs believe expanding Heathrow is the best way of solving the UK's airport capacity problems, according to a poll.
SOUTH NORWALK, Conn. - Virgin Atlantic has announced the launch of a new route between Vancouver and London Heathrow.
CRAWLEY, England - British Airways is increasing its services to Brazil by |
If you have been thinking about starting a diet, then you are going to want to stop what you’re doing, grab pen, paper | and read this article right away…..
According to the newest data on obesity released by Statistics Canada; Adult Canadians are becoming more obese. Now I am not sure if that surprises you but it does not surprise me for two reasons.
Reason 1: Did you know that if you type the words ‘weight loss diet’ in Google about 1,090,000,000 results will show up?
Reason 2: Did you also know that people have been inventing diets for over 150 years? One of the first diets was created in 1863 when William Banting invented the first low-carb diet. Let’s think about that for a moment. We have access to over 150 years’ worth of research and science at our fingertips about diets but we still haven’t figured out weight loss?
Weight loss is obviously a very confusing industry, full of gimmick diets such as all protein, all juice, no carbs, no food, magic pills, and a countless amount of |
Becky Lynch Comments On WrestleMania Main Event, Drew McIntyre, Elimination Chamber 2017 Full Match - Wrestling Inc.
- The entire WWE | Championship match from the 2017 Elimination Chamber PPV is available in the video above. The final two remaining men would be A.J. Styles and Bray Wyatt, with Wyatt using the Sister Abigail to become the WWE Championship.
McIntyre was live in attendance with his developmental cohorts to watch Edge and Undertaker main event WrestleMania XXIV in 2008.
Drew discusses the unforgettable street fight between Bret Hart and Stone Cold, and the iconic image that he will never forget.
McIntyre recalls the clash of styles between Shawn Michaels and Mankind, and the phenomenal match they had at Mind Games in 1996.
Drew recalls Triple H's rise up the ranks, and the brutal street fight with Cactus Jack that solidified Hunter's place in the main event.
McIntyre remembers jumping out of bed during this shocking Hell in a Cell match, and shares an interesting tidbit about The Undertaker.
Drew discusses the incredible crowd response to Rock vs. Hogan |
There’s a supreme irony in Obama quoting Thompson, whose truly stellar career ended in charges of antisemitism from Zionists, to a | crowd of journalists who quake in fear of having their careers destroyed by Israel supporters who more recently smeared Helen Thomas, Rick Sanchez, Octavia Nasr, and Jim Clancy for off-hand, ill-conceived remarks.
Thompson’s long life and career was documented in her biography, American Cassandra, by Peter Kurth. She was born in 1893, the daughter of an impoverished Methodist preacher. After graduating from Syracuse University, she became a major player in New York’s suffrage movement as an organizer and speaker. In 1920, Thompson went to Europe with a friend to pursue her journalism career. The ship was filled with Zionists heading to a conference in London and during the 12-day voyage she learned everything she could about Zionism, becoming a strong advocate for their cause.
In London, she convinced a paper to allow her to cover the Zionist conference as a free-lance journalist and later covered the Irish Rebellion. The popularity of her articles in the US led to further |
As Gigabit Ethernet pricing continues to free-fall, the technology is finding its way into corporate networks where 10M bit/sec hubs once might | have served small workgroups.
The LAN switch market is shrinking, but demand for products is higher than ever.
A flaw in Cisco Systems’ CatOS, which runs on Cisco Catalyst switches, could freeze TCP-based management services on the switch. A fix is available from Cisco’s Web site.
3Com can participate in a lawsuit filed by Cisco Systems against Huawei Technologies, a judge ruled this week.
Netgear next week is expected to jump into the Layer 3 Gigabit switch market with a 24-port box that can act as a hardware-based LAN router for small and mid-size nets.
Cisco Systems has announced modular and stackable switch gear aimed at bringing features such as advanced quality-of-service controls, voice over IP and security to small and mid-size businesses.
Everybody probably wishes they looked as good at 30 as Ethernet.
Users are beginning to wake up to the benefits of the latest generation of intelligent Layer 2 switches that provide |
Captain Sunil Chhetri stamped his class yet again as he scored the match-winner to fire India to a 1-0 win over Kyr | gyzstan in a fast-pace and entertaining Asian Cup qualifier match here today.
Chhetri drilled a low shot with his right foot off a fine pass from Jeje Lalpekhlua in the 69th minute to lead India to a crucial win in the home leg tie of the Group A third round qualifiers of the 2019 Asian Cup.
Chhetri, who scored his 54th goal in his 94th match, led from the front throughout the match. Playing behind the lone striker Jeje, he was in the thick of things, at times falling back deep to help the defenders, setting up his team-mates and also taking shots on his own.
With the win, India sat atop the group with six points -- from two wins -- ahead of Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar who both have three points from two matches. Macau is yet to open an account from their two matches.
All the four teams will play home and away matches and the two top sides will |
For cooking, forget the giant pumpkins that are meant for life as jack o’lanterns. The flat, lesser known heirl | oom variety called the Long Island cheese pumpkin is the prizewinner. This sweet, beige pumpkin gets its name from its resemblance to a wheel of cheese. Making pumpkin soup is a go-to way to prepare the fruit. As with any soup, the key is the quality of stock used. It should add flavor, but not too much or it will eclipse the taste of the pumpkin. Vegetable stock is the best choice here. Roasting the pumpkin with the seeds intact (except for a handful to be used as garnish) intensifies the flavor and adds a slight nuttiness to the soup. Adding sage and some raw apple brings aroma and acidity to the recipe. Finish with pumpkin oil for added richness.
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Remove about 1 cup of seeds from the pumpkin halves. Clean off any pumpkin meat from the seeds before setting them aside.
Rub the pumpkin halves with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and place them seed |
Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have bought equities worth $1.7 billion in the three months to June, the best inflows | in last five quarters, data compiled from Bloomberg showed.
The buying by foreign funds, supported by purchases of domestic funds, resulted in a smart rally in stocks with the Sensex putting on 6.5%.
However, while local funds have been buyers, the quantum of purchases of Rs 3,319 crore was the smallest in the last five quarters. In 2016 so far, Sensex has gained 4.02% or 1,049.33 points while the broader Nifty50 has added 4.90% or 389.60 points.
Thailand received the smallest foreign inflows at $494.53 million less than Brazil which pulled in $609 million.
Foreign fund flows during the same period in the corresponding year of 2015 were a much smaller $184 million, partly because investors were spooked by the prospect of GAAR (General Anti Avoidance Rules) being implemented with retrospective effect.
inflows into equity schemes, which include equity linked saving schemes (ELSS), stood |
Accra - AfroWomenPoetry is a project that portraits the female universe in a changing Africa and it’s an hymn to | the beauty and inner strength of the African women. With AfroWomenPoetry Antonella Sinopoli, an Italian journalist based in Ghana, founder of the project and editor in chief of Voci Globali, is giving voice to African female poets and room to their verses. “I’m black not because I’m African, black is what I feel” says Nana Nyarko Boateng, a Ghanaian female poet, when the video recorded by the Italian journalist to crowd found this project starts. “Poetry accounts for an important instrument, a free zone – Antonella Sinopoli says – that allows people to express themselves freely”. “AfroWomenPoetry” started three months ago in Ghana, a country where women hold an important role in society, politics and entrepreneurial activity. Yet cultural differences and the supremacy of sexist traditions restrict women’s emancipation and limit their chances of personal growth and free thinking. " |
PHILADELPHIA, June 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Econsult Solutions Inc. (ESI), a | global leader in economic forecasting, is partnering with Spectrum Gaming Sports Group, a unit of international gaming consultancy Spectrum Gaming Group, to assist governments and gaming operators in projecting the comprehensive economic impacts of legal sports betting.
ESI and New Jersey-based Spectrum, which have worked together on multiple economic impact studies, will combine their gaming and modeling expertise to measure the myriad impacts of sports betting, including gaming demand, revenue generation (gaming and non-gaming), tax generation (income, sales, property and other applicable), job creation (direct, indirect and induced), visitation and other aspects.
Spectrum, whose principals pioneered the study of gaming's impacts in markets throughout the world, views sports betting and other emerging forms of gaming as the tip of an economic spear that, if structured properly, can generate benefits far beyond the amounts directly wagered.
"All stakeholders must carefully assess and understand the full impacts of sports-betting policy before those policies are enacted," said Spectrum Managing Director Michael Pollock, |
In these very early episodes, Lorelai and Rory’s relationship has a volatility that doesn’t really stick around. Sure, | there’s many a mother/daughter fight in their futures, but it’s usually over big stuff. But here, as in the pilot (the Dean fight), we see Lorelai and Rory bickering over something minor (the theft and stretching out of sweaters) because Lorelai’s actually mad about Rory getting close with her grandparents. It’s not implausible, nor does it ring entirely false, but the show is obviously still working out the kinks, because the whole thing feels a little forced and on the nose.
“Kill Me Now” is written by Joanne Waters. The next episode is written by Jed Seidel. If those names are unfamiliar, well, they should be, since neither of those people ever wrote another Gilmore Girls episode. In fact, Waters has no more credits to her name, while Seidel has had a nice career on great shows like Veronica Marsand Terriers. I’m not |
The NFL’s investigation into how 11 of 12 New England Patriot footballs were under-inflated during the first half of this year | ’s AFC championship game just got a little bit more elaborate.
12 footballs in the bathroom… for science!
Will Femia, web producer for The Rachel Maddow Show, assists Rachel Maddow in a science experiment to determine whether it’s possible to deflate 11 footballs by two psi in a bathroom in 90 seconds.
Patriots coach Bill Belichick has previously alluded to “atmospheric” conditions likely causing the under-inflation. Meanwhile, Fox Sports and NBC Sports have cited unnamed sources who claim that an unidentified attendant who took 24 game balls into a bathroom before the game is being eyed as a person of interest in the scandal. NBC News has not confirmed these reports. However, msnbc’s Rachel Maddow attempted to show on Tuesday whether it was possible to under-inflate 11 footballs in under two minutes – a staff member from her program was able to take air out of eight balls.
NFL rules require that |
The Coalition’s entire infrastructure program could be subject to an independent investigation after the Labor party requested an audit into claims that the handling of Melbourne | ’s East West Link project reflected “systematic failures”.
Labor’s call follows a scathing report by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO), which found the Abbott government had inflated the deficit during its first year in power by transferring $1.5bn to Victoria for the now-scrapped tollway project despite “clear advice” that the payments were premature.
The party’s infrastructure spokesman, Anthony Albanese, wrote to the ANAO on Wednesday to ask for a review of problems with other big-ticket projects including “the collapse of the Perth Freight Link in the courts and the massive blowout on WestConnex [in Sydney] from $10bn to $16.8bn”.
Albanese, who successfully requested the earlier East West Link investigation, said a wider audit was needed because of a systematic failure with the infrastructure program announced in the Coalition government’s first budget.
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Abiy is the rock star, breaking all 1,000-years-old assumptions about what is possible in Ethiopia, driving through dizzying reforms | .
Diplomats say Uhuru is a “likeable guy at a personal level”, and that might have helped, but in fitting the above bill, a place was made for him at the global table.
Last week’s World Bank Ease of Doing Business report gave Kigali and Nairobi a lot to smile about.
Among the East African Community (EAC) countries, Rwanda was at the top of the tree and ranked 29th globally, from last year’s 41st position. Kenya recorded the biggest jump, from last year’s 80th to 61st this year. Though the government spin made too big a fist of it, still one couldn’t scoff at the ranking.
Uganda fell five places to 127 from 122; Tanzania slumped to 144 from 137; Burundi could barely manage 168th, and in an index measuring 190 countries, South Sudan was bottom feeder at 185.
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DESTIN - Alabama coach Nick Saban has a strong - and seemingly solitary - stance on the Southeastern Conference potentially moving to a nine-game | league schedule.
Others, including Georgia's Mark Richt, Vanderbilt's James Franklin and Ole Miss' Hugh Freeze, want to keep things status quo. The SEC currently plays eight conference games: six games against division opponents, one against a designated rival from the other division and one rotational game against the remaining six teams.
The SEC's 14 coaches spent Tuesday discussing the pros and cons of eight- and nine-game schedules. While most want to remain at eight games, some would like to see the 6-1-1 model switched to a 6-2 version that would eliminate cross-division fixed opponents. That would mean the end of annual rivalries like Alabama-Tennessee or Auburn-Georgia.
Coaches will vote and take the result to athletic directors Wednesday. The ADs will make a final suggestion to presidents and chancellors later in the week. The league is likely to make a decision on the 2014 schedule Friday but might not reach a final resolution regarding future schedules until |
Sioux Falls voters can do more than participate in democracy in today's elections. They can also score some deals.
Oh My Cupcakes! | main store — show your "I Voted" sticker for a free mini cupcake.
Bread & Circus Sandwich Kitchen — show your "I Voted" sticker and get 10 percent off your meal.
Remedy Brewing Co. — show your "I Voted" sticker and get $1 off pints.
Fernson on 8th — show your sticker and get $1 off all your beers.
CherryBerry — show your "I Voted" sticker and get 10 percent off your order.
Granite City — show your "I Voted" sticker and get $1 off your beer.
Shenanigans Sports Bar and Grill — show your "I Voted" sticker and get one free drink.
Fernson Brewing Co. — show your "I Voted" sticker at Fernson on 8th to get $1 off all beers for the whole night.
Potbelly Sandwich Shop — ask for a cookie today or Wednesday |
On Jan. 1 around 2:40 a.m., the Rainy River District OPP conducted a traffic stop near Portage Avenue and First | Street East.
After speaking with the driver, it was determined she had been drinking.
The driver, 31-year-old woman from Naicatchewenin First Nation, failed the roadside test and subsequently was arrested.
On Tuesday around 4:15 p.m., Rainy River District OPP officers responded to a call for service at the Emo Health Centre.
Upon arrival, officers located a 47-year-old female who had arrived at the hospital and was pronounced deceased.
Members of the Kenora OPP, Forensic Identification Unit, and Kenora Crime Unit are investigating a sudden death in Kenora.
On Friday, Nov. 27 shortly after 6 a.m., police received a report of a deceased male in the Norman area of Kenora.
The deceased has been identified at 84-year-old Douglas Quirk of Kenora.
The Rainy River District OPP is asking for help from the public.
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GALESBURG — On March 18, Galesburg’s Malik Andre Williams was one of 19 individuals who were named winners of | the Carnegie Hero Award. On June 6, 2017, Williams jumped into the Mississippi River, despite being unable to swim, in order to rescue his 6-year-old son. He succeeded, but he died in the attempt. Williams was 25 years old.
The first Galesburg resident to receive the honor was a 32-year-old housewife, Mrs. E. Gertrude Semon.
On Dec. 14, 1910, Mrs. Elizabeth King, 36, was a newly married woman. The former Elizabeth Cleary had married Bert King only a few weeks before. Mr. King had left for work at O.T. Johnson’s that morning. While either tending the furnace fire or while cooking, the edge of Elizabeth’s dress caught fire, without her noticing.
“She sat down to the table to drink a cup of coffee and it was then that she felt the warmth of the flames which were burning around the bottom of her skirt |
The U.S. allows citizens of 38 primarily-European countries to enter America without obtaining a visa. After the Paris and San Bernardino terror attacks | , however, President Barack Obama signed a new law barring some of those citizens from the waiver program, if they’re also citizens of Iran, Iraq, Syria or Sudan.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not provided details on how it will interpret and apply the dual national provision of the law, saying it wants to prevent malevolent actors from gaming the system.
“By failing to provide clarity in how the restrictions will be enforced, it further feeds people’s perception that they are being discriminated against and that they face increased risk of travel restrictions because of their family heritage,” Jamal Abdi of the National Iranian American Council, an Iranian-American activist group, told Politico.
Others are criticizing the provision because they say it doesn’t do enough to keep bad actors out, and can still be gamed easily. Enforcement of the dual national provision, for example, will require applicants to honestly and accurately assess whether they are citizens of one of |
COLONIAL HEIGHTS - Falling temperatures doesn't mean kids have to be left out in the cold to play.
MP, Bounce with Me | offers children a place to play in a climate-controlled area on giant, inflatable, play structures commonly seen at community events and birthday parties.
Owner Mike Daughtry was inspired to open the business, which bears the initials of his son Michael Powell, after a trip to the beach where thunderstorms curtailed a trip to the sand and surf.
Looking for something to do on a rainy afternoon while in Myrtle Beach, S.C., three years ago, Daughtry took his son to a mall where there was a business similar to what he now owns. It was a space filled with giant inflatable play structures.
"Family entertainment is what it's all about," Daughtry said.
For $8 on weekdays and $10 on weekends, children ages 5 and older can play on the inflatable structures. Daughtry said it's a great alternative when it is too hot or too cold out for kids to be on playgrounds. It also makes a |
Lubbock’s Class 5A volleyball teams were shut out of the playoffs the last two years, because they couldn’t claim | one of the top four spots in a 10-team district.
This year, before the District 2-5A campaign even starts, two of the three are guaranteed to get into the postseason.
“It takes a little pressure off,” said Coronado coach Chad Jones, whose Lady Mustangs (24-10) host Lubbock High (7-25) for a district opener at 7 p.m. today.
The district once again comprises five teams — Coronado, Lubbock High, Monterey, Amarillo and Tascosa — and all but one will qualify for the postseason. It’s a welcome development for Lubbock’s teams, and especially for the Lady Westerners and Lady Plainsmen.
possibly both, will be playing in November.
Along with having greater odds of reaching the playoffs, Jones, Leesman and Monterey coach Adrian Stein said there are other benefits to cutting 2-5A |
Zot is the new restaurant just off Head House Square. Sous chef Joseph Monczewski samples a house specialty: steamed mussels and | french fries.
He's installing a brasserie, which he says will be along the lines of New York's Balthazar. "Not a crazy bar," he says. "A restaurant with a bar." The space is at 700 S. Fifth St., occupied most recently by an Italian joint called Angelina's (which lasted like five minutes) after a series of Thai restaurants came and went.
Neff has no name or projected opening date yet.
Neff, who's owned Sansom Street Oyster House for seven years after a decent run with Cary (on 15th Street, where ¡Pasion! is now), has another project in the works: a baby due in a few months with wife Michelle.
in Olney, Md.) hope to raise the beer list to 500 bottles from the current 110 and boost the wine list to 200 bottles from the current 55. For now, Zot is open Wednesdays through Sundays from 5 p.m.
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Gold has been on the defensive but has so far held on to the 1,300 handle.
However, Sino/US trade headlines sent | a bid into the safe haven and bulls target the rising channel support line and 23.6% fibo upside target.
Gold prices turned south since topping out at the recent highs of $1,326.30 as markets priced in optimism over Sino/US trade.
White House Adviser Larry Kudlow said in an interview with Fox Business Network that a "sizable distance" remains between the U.S. and China in protracted trade negotiations. The news followed CNBC reporting, citing sources, that it is highly unlikely that a meeting betweenTrump and Chinese President Xi Jinping before the March 1 deadline for tariffs to increase on Chinese goods will take place.
Kudlow explained that previous talks covered "a tremendous amount of ground" but said enforcement would be very important, as well as technological and structural issues. This is of no news to investors, anticipating a bumpy road ahead, although the double whammy of news has dented a fragile risk-on bid in the market sending the |
By Brad Dokken on Mar 19, 2019 at 3:09 p.m.
A white-tailed deer found dead just south of | Williston in late February has been confirmed as testing positive for chronic wasting disease, the North Dakota Game and Fish Department said Tuesday.
"This is unfortunate news because it means CWD is much farther south than the positive deer harvested this past fall in the northwest corner of deer unit 3A1 in Divide County," said Dr. Charlie Bahnson, wildlife veterinarian for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department.
CWD is a fatal disease of deer, moose and elk that can cause long-term population declines if left unchecked. Since 2009, 14 other deer have tested positive for CWD in North Dakota — 13 from Grant and Sioux counties in hunting unit 3F2 in the southwest, and the other taken last fall from the northwest in Divide County.
The deer found near Williston is the first documented case of a mortality due to CWD in North Dakota.
"All 14 previous detections were perfectly healthy-looking deer that were hunter-harvested before they got |
Thor’s hammer, Mjölnir, is a weapon of honor and virtue, making it an appealing icon for American soldiers. | But its path to becoming an acceptable headstone symbol was anything but easy.
You’re probably already familiar with Thor, Marvel Comics’ weird pagan analog to D.C. Comics’ alien-born super messiah, the Man of Steel. As portrayed by Chris Hemsworth in the Thor and Avengers movies, Thor is a flagon of mead by day, bevy of wenches by night kind of guy–the sort of god whose love for ribald drunkenness is matched only by his love for cratering a frost giant’s face with his mystical hammer, Mjölnir.
The key word there is “worth.” Mjölnir is a weapon of honor and virtue, and a fitting symbol for any noble warrior. So it’s appropriate that American soldiers can now request the symbol for Thor’s Hammer be placed on their headstone if they die in the line of duty. But Mjö |
Minecraft Party Join us for a fun event to hang out, enjoy gaming, and learn about modding and programming for Minecraft! Activities Enjoy playing Minecraft | with other people at the event Learn how to create mods with Command Blocks Share your great creations with the class and parents Who Should Take This Class Age: 4th-8th gradePrerequisite: Familiarity with the PC version of Minecraft, using an Internet browser, and typing. Your Host The lead host will be Ryan Hunter, instructor and co-founder of TechWise Academy. What should I bring to the event? We have Coding Connector laptops for your use. All you need to bring is yourself! Who should I contact if I have questions about the event? Alexis Dishman at the Innovation Connector will be able to assist anyone who has questions. 765-285-4900 or akdishman@innovationconnector.com What is Coding Connector? Nearly half of the top jobs in demand in the United States are directly related to coding and programming and with an eye on the future of our community, the Innovation Connector launched the Coding Connect |
BRUSSELS - NATO has registered a first in its long history, with five women among the defense ministers who turned up Wednesday to attend a policy | -making meeting at the alliance's headquarters.
The latest woman to join the ministerial ranks was Italy's Roberta Pinotti, who was sworn in Saturday as her country's first female defense minister. The 52-year-old served as an undersecretary for defense in the just-ended government of Enrico Letta. First elected to Parliament in 2001, she is now a senator. She began her political career two decades ago as a lower-ranking official in what was then Italy's Communist Party.
Pinotti joined Albania's Mimi Kodheli, Germany's Ursula von der Leyen, Norway's Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide and Jeanine Hennis-Plasshaert of the Netherlands. A NATO official said the five constituted the largest number of women defense ministers to serve at one time since the 28-nation alliance was founded in 1949.
Before getting down to business with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and their other male colleagues |
Al Leiter got shelled by the Marlins last night; and while the 22,226 fans at Shea were sweating because of the 90-degree | heat, the Mets might be sweating after seeing their highly paid, 37-year-old starter fall even deeper into his extended funk.
Leiter lasted just 5 2/3innings, allowing eight hits and eight runs – seven of them earned. He’s still 8-4, but no numerical makeup could gloss over the way he’s been pitching of late.
Coming into the year, Leiter never had allowed more than eight runs in a game: Last night in an 8-4 loss to Florida, he coughed up eight for the third time in little over a month. After opening 3-0 with a 2.35 ERA, he’s 5-4 with a 7.01 ERA in his 11 starts since, lacking some of his trademark aggressiveness.
“I did find myself for a period working outside so much I did lose sight of my cutter,” Leiter said. “You get into a cat-and |
LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Neighbors who live along the hill that includes Cathedral of St. Mary, in a neighborhood just up | from downtown Lafayette that takes its name from the 152-year-old church, tell about the day in February 2017 when church officials invited them to sit down and see drawings of the congregation’s future.
The pictures, marked as a master plan and snapped into cellphones by St. Mary’s Neighborhood residents, showed a future parish office near the corner of Columbia and 11th streets; an addition to St. Mary School on the other side of the cathedral, along one full block of 13th Street; and a circle drive that would feed what is now the back of the elementary building, leading from Columbia Street.
Ivy Meyer, who lives across from the church on McGrath Street and who works at Northside Music Co. a block away, said several people asked about the house the church had owned since 2000 at 1014 South St. The two-story, red brick Italianate building was on the master plan drawings, too.
Meyer said she and |
Post-party: From left, Alex Bourne, Emma Francis-Snyder, Keenen Gittens, Nicholas Cummings, Andrew Gittens, | and Gordon Wilson say cops need to be held accountable for the melee that brought a July 4 barbecue to an abrupt end.
Cops brutally broke up a Fourth of July barbecue in Crown Heights last summer, busting into a house, spraying a crowd with Mace, and arresting four, according to revelers and neighbors who are now demanding justice.
The annual barbecue at the house on Eastern Parkway between Utica and Rochester avenues went sour just after midnight when cops swarmed the yard and then the house, cursing and yelling racial epithets, according to witnesses.
“The cops were yelling ‘get those monkeys’ and ‘get those m------------,’ ” said Gordon Wilson, who was arrested at the 71st precinct when he says he went to file a complaint. Wilson claimed that the collar came in late July but police records put it the night of the party, a half-hour after cops cuffed three others. One arrested reveler made a stop at |
Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was linked to behavioral problems in children. Research conducted by JAMA Pediatrics suggests the common analgesic may increase the | risk of behavioral issues, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, in children.
The research was conducted over a period of six years. The study began with 64,000 expectant mothers and continued to include their babies, who were monitored throughout early childhood. The study revealed that acetaminophen use during pregnancy increased the likelihood of numerous behavioral issues in children.
Expectant mothers who used the analgesic were 13 percent more likely to have children who have difficulty focusing and controlling their temper. The research suggests that in 50 percent of those children, the symptoms are severe enough to require medication.
The scientists discovered that the risk was increased when expectant mothers used acetaminophen repeatedly or for longer periods of time.
Dr. Jeff Chapa, with the Cleveland Clinic’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, said acetaminophen is commonly prescribed during pregnancy. Chapa said the analgesic is an effective treatment for numerous symptoms, including fever and pain. As reported by Yahoo |
Over these past days, I have been reminded again that at our best, to be human, and to be human community, is to live bet | wixt and between muddle and ambiguity. We are, unavoidably, marked by profound inconsistencies and misdirected hopes. We are an enigma—even, and perhaps especially, to ourselves.
Jason Goroncy is a pastor, theologian, and historian who teaches at Whitley College in Melbourne, Australia. He blogs at Per Crucem ad Lucem, part of the CCblogs network.
Certainly, the spirit of the age in which we live is characterized by efforts to entrench unquestionable power, power that makes unwelcome voices of dissent, and which feels little or no responsibility to those who do not serve its own proximate interests.
a deep unwillingness to have things said or shown that might profoundly challenge someone’s starting assumptions. If there is an answer to this curious contemporary neurosis, it is surely not to be found in the silencing of disagreement but rather in the education of speech: how is unwelcome truth to be told in ways that do not humili |
Union members protest against council cuts outside the City Chambers, Edinburgh. Ann Henderson, Assistant Secretary at the Scottish TUC.
LABOUR’ | S attempts to choose a candidate for a key city ward for this year’s council elections have run into trouble – again.
Party members in Morningside originally chose former MP and councillor Sheila Gilmore to stand for them in the May 4 poll – only to discover she was not eligible.
But when they re-ran the selection process to find a replacement, the vote was tied between the two would-be candidates.
Now a third attempt will be made at a meeting this week.
The contest is between STUC assistant secretary Ann Henderson, a long-standing Labour activist in Edinburgh South and a supporter of Momentum; and Mandy Watt, an accountant and treasurer of Edinburgh Central Labour Party.
Paul Godzik, the Labour councillor who currently represents Morningside along with one Tory, one Scottish Nationalist and one Green, is standing down at the election.
In a bid to achieve gender balance in its council group, Labour decided the selection in Morningside should be |
July 31 - Facebook gets back to IPO price and looks similar to another networking stock. Plus, Michael Dell's bid for Dell faces more hurdles. |
Mogul appears to mobile cheers. Basically it's finally broken through its IPO price of thirty dollars a share. Concerns about growing the business as users move to mobile devices now practically erased by its earnings out last week. Mobile advertising revenue shot up 75%. In the span of just three months try expectations. The stock gained about 25%. The day after its earnings and his client to ever spent. Topping the 38 dollar mark in the first few minutes of trading Wednesday before losing some ground. It's FaceBook about four and a half months to get back to its offer price hasn't -- seem to be believers and its mission. Other stocks had an easier ride like Google. Priced at 85 dollars in August of 2004. It closed at 100 the first day went sideways for a week and that soared fourteen and a half months later about 370. They got just the opposite. As -- gaming business suffered after going public it priced at ten dollars in late 2011 and and fourteen and a half months |
A United Nations international drug report says the world is facing an increase in the smuggling of both illegal and legal drugs through the international mail system.. |
The International Narcotics Control Board annual report warns that the smuggling of illicit and legal drugs by mail has become a major threat to law enforcement. The INCB called for greater screening of the mails - including mail sent by international courier.
The report estimated that the smuggling of legal drugs - especially tranquilizers ordered through the Internet and forwarded by mail - is worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Akira Fujino, the UN Office for Drugs and Crime representative in Asia, says the smuggling of illegal drugs is also growing.
"According to the board, almost all regions of the world have experienced an increase in the smuggling of drugs, both narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances - particularly psychotropic substances - and seizures are increasing."
The report says that in the United States, Mexico and Canada, the non-medical use of prescription drugs - such as the painkiller Oxycontin - rivals the abuse of all other drugs. It says Mexicans are abusing such drugs nearly as frequently as |
Throughout your career, you will participate in many, many job interviews. In all of these interviews, there are a few questions you will hear time | and time again. What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? Why should we hire you? Even though these questions are incredibly cliché, there's a reason so many interviewers rely on them.
Your answers to the cliché questions say a lot about you. They can make or break your chance at landing the job. It's essential to prepare original answers for the cliché questions you know you'll hear at your next job interview. The strongest answers are unique and will give you a leg up in the competition.
1. Tell me about yourself. Employers will often begin the interview with this one. Because it's so vague, this answer truly needs to be prepared ahead of time. You can answer using your elevator speech. Talk briefly about three areas of your career: job history, most impressive accomplishments, and relevant goals. Your interviewer already has your resume, so rather than memorizing your background, you need to expand on what makes you different and emphasize your passion. Remember to keep it |
Nope, and neither has anybody else. But Shyft, a logistics platform company based in San Francisco, is hoping to change that.
| Originally named Crater, the company announced today a re-brand of its name and mission to focus on helping improve the corporate relocation process for millions of movers per year. The company is bringing with it three years of experience developing software and technology to help moving companies provide better estimates and service to customers.
The process works two-fold. First, Shyft is continuing its partnerships with moving companies and selling its software to them in order to help update their portals and make the process as seamless as possible for their existing customers. As part of these partnerships, Shyft is able to create a reliable network of moving companies and services that it can utilize in the second part of its service — connecting with corporate Fortune 500 companies to help their transferees easily and intuitively complete their moving process.
Through the platform, employees planning a move can fill out information like how many boxes they’re moving, what their housing needs will be and even what kind of food they like and dietary restrictions they |
Ali Moore and co-host Neil Pigot speak to Alan Rhodes, Richelle Wathell and Ian Mannix.
Ali Moore and co- | host Neil Pigot were joined by Ian Mannix, Alan Rhodes and Richelle Wathell to chat about the upcoming fire season.
Ian Mannix heads ABC Local Radio's Emergency Services and Community Development team in Adelaide. He is responsible for the radio coverage of national disasters. He has been a journalist for 30 years and is the former station manager of 774 ABC Local Radio.
Alan Rhodes is responsible for CFA's community education and engagement programs including the joint agency Fire Ready Victoria strategy to increase community preparedness for bushfire. He is also responsible for CFA's community research and evaluation section and has conducted several studies of major bushfires throughout Australia. He recently appeared as an expert witness at the South Australian coronial inquest into the 2005 Eyre Peninsula bushfire. He is also a researcher with the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre working on the stay or go project and the evaluation of community safety programs.
Rachelle Wathall is a volunteer with the Lilydale Fire Brigade and has been |
When I first prized the FZ18 from its box, two things, the small size, and the rather uninspiring plastic build struck me | . Even turning the thing on, which is a fleet affair, takes less than a second and the enormous zoom range on offer does not make itself apparent at first. This is because the impressive lens only protrudes an inch at the full 504mm end of the zoom; at the wide end, the lens protrudes less than a quarter of an inch.
That lens also has a respectable maximum aperture range providing an F/2.8 to F/4.2 at the extremes of the zoom. This becomes important because you need as much light as you can get into the thing, as those zoom ratios increase, helping prevent camera shake (hand wobble) problems. But Panasonic has dealt with that too.
The FZ18 has OIS or Optical Image Stabilisation in two modes (and an off setting) that provide continuous stabilisation (mode 1) and stabilisation only when the shutter release is pressed (mode 2), which is actually the more effective of the two.
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Thinking the Twentieth Century lets us listen in on conversations between distinguished colleagues, the intellectual historian Tony Judt and the Eastern Europeanist Timothy | Snyder. It conveys the sort of conversation that two scholars may have when they share the same knowledge, references, and opinions.
I can think of older historians possessing a greater range of scholarship and biographies of more significance—among writers on modern Europe, Eric Hobsbawm or Peter Gay—whom one might want to hear from before Judt in this unusual format. But this book was motivated by tragic circumstances. Judt suffered from ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease. Snyder began his interviews after the point at which his senior colleague had lost the use of his hands and had begun to dictate rather than write.
Judt’s courage and clarity of mind were celebrated, as he continued to deliver important public addresses in the early stages of the disease and produced two more short books. One was an impassioned defense of the welfare state titled Ill Fares the Land (2010). The final book was a moving, short memoir in vignettes, The |
HMS Trincomalee staff Lorraine Fenwick, left, and Joanne Walker.
More film screenings could be on the way on | a historic ship after the success of a festive showing.
HMS Trincomalee held a Christmas Eve screening of Polar Express. It was the first time a film had been tried, and it worked wonders.
Children were encouraged to come along in their pyjamas, and bring their Teddy bears and blankets. As they got ready to watch the film, they were handed hot chocolate and cookies. After the film was over, they got a present from Santa Claus.
The debut event was a huge success and ship bosses are now considering more shows, especially as the ship’s projection system has also been recently upgraded.
This has already proven to be a very useful addition to the function of the professional sound system and the quality of film screenings that the HMS Trincomalee Trust is able to host on board ship.
The screening of Polar Express was held in the captain’s cabin using the new system, which attracted lots of favourable comments. As a result, further |
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